skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for responding. I realize you have some beliefs and opinions about things, legal and otherwise. I do, too! Indeed, most people have beliefs and opinions about things.

The role of the judicial branch, and of each judge, is to listen to all those beliefs and opinions as appropriate, and decide which one is correct, and to make orders as necessary in furtherance of that aim.

That has happened, and the administration then disobeyed the orders and asserted that the judges' judgements were invalid (an irrelevant personal judgement, because they are not the judge).

So, that's where we're at now. With that in mind, please address the posts to which you replied, specifically, the below 2 points:

> If "oopsy-doopsy, it was a mistake" has no remedy then there is no remedy when it is a citizen who gets sent to a gulag.

> What's more, now that the executive branch is disobeying direct orders from the judicial branch, what recourse do you think you'd have if you got on the wrong executive branch official's bad side?

You're being specifically asked to talk through your options and choices in such scenarios. What would they be? We'll take turns: You play the part of the victim; I'll play the part of the administration; we'll game it out. POV: You're walking down the street and a group of 7 or 8 plainclothes individuals wearing masks surround you, restrain you, and force you into an unmarked vehicle. Maybe one of them says they're a cop, but otherwise they refuse to say anything while they transport you to a foreign gulag. You are not permitted a lawyer, you are not permitted a phone call, and nobody, no family, no lawyers, no judges, not even your local police department, is notified what is happening to you. PERHAPS (it wouldn't change the outcome, but whatever) unbeknownst to you or them, this is a case of mistaken identity.

Ready for your turn? Go.
The gaslighting is you calling the report that this whistleblower was threatened “fan fiction”.
The influence of the (pseudo-)random number generator is called "temperature" in most models.

Setting it to 0 in theory eliminates all randomness, and instead of choosing one from a list of next words that may be predicted, always only the MOST PROBABLY word would be chosen.

However, in practice, setting the temperature to 0 in most GUIs does not actually set the temperature to 0, but to a "very small" value ("epsilon"), the reason being to avoid a division by zero exception/crawsh in a mathematical formula.
So don't be surprised if you cannot get rid of random behavior entirely.
Suddenly considering the French Foreign Legion.
That's fine, I don't really expect a 22 year old site with generational backup storage to actually go down forever. I'm 23, so I got them beat!
early belongs to slashdot
Japanese population is shrinking. This is true for the country as a whole and for cities/towns outside of the major metro areas. Most of the homes for sale cheap are outside of the metro areas. As such there are more free homes then demand for them.
What Makes a Great Developer Experience?
Not surprising.

If someone really wanted this whole debacle to be useful they would even meet before hand and open negotiations. It might not go well, you might end up imposing tariffs, but that's how you'd start as a responsible adult.

Instead we've got an administration / political party that is more interested in how they think they look...

In the meantime they look childish, impulsive, ignorant and are trending towards putting the economy / country in a bind where they have even less leverage compared to simply negotiating from the start.
Meh, /pol/ leaks but people also gets called out for it all the time. Overall I'd say containment style moderation like the one 4chan has works pretty well if you're looking to host "discussion" of a wide varity of topics.
I've said this repeatedly, but write this down: before this administration is out we are going to have a major (probably multiple) scandal where DOGE staffers get caught with some kind of horrifying self-enrichment scam based on the data they're hoovering. It could be simple insider trading, it could be selling the data to a FBI sting, it might take lots of forms. But it's going to happen.

These are a bunch of 20-something tech bro ego cases convinced of their crusade to remake government along libertarian axes they learned from Reddit/4chan/HN. These are simply not people motivated out of a genuine desire to improve the public good. And they've been given essentially unsupervised access to some outrageously tempting levers.
Turn Your Code into a Product to Sell
I've launched a bunch of different products so I thought maybe I could help other developers get over the last mile and get their finished products launched too. The idea started from the following comment in an HN thread:

> Semi related, is there any sort of service or type of professional that does mentoring/handholding of someone who has the core code that does something but who won't/can't take the steps on their own to make it a service or app they could sell? - Gaul
They directly say what they mean in the article

> The company’s inability to maintain app performance without advertising for even a single day demonstrates the fragility of its market position.
App Store ranking is determined heavily by install volume.
"Disappeared" in this sense refers to the manner in which he was abducted, not his ongoing status. The word is not subject to a strict legalese interpretation in these comments.

Though I'd argue both uses are acceptable in common use discussion since even if we know where he is since he's going to be incarcerated indefinitely with no due process, no access to lawyers, no civil rights. How long could he be dead without anyone knowing? Literally indefinitely?
It can be done, but I don't think that's the core principle of operation of fiber lasers (which I understand to be using the fiber itself as the lasing medium, which is a powerful technique because it can be coiled up and made very long.) Maybe I misread that sentence and that isn't what's being claimed.
From the people who brought you Useless Use of Cat, here's our newest innovation: Useless Use of Bash!

That whole script could just be the last line! Maybe you could add defaults like

"${port:-8080}"
Algebraic Semantics for Machine Knitting
HN hug of death probably.
Totally fallacious argument. Trees grow by themselves in much of the world. They can be harvested with very low investment and directly contribute to a reduction of carbon in the atmosphere, as it now is the tree.
There is no counter-culture anymore, not really. Society is virtually balkanized.
It was taken on a wet plate camera (capturing images on sensitised glass pates), which has remarkable resolution, typically far beyond most smaller cameras even today.

The photo was artificially lit, most likely with flash powder or magnesium ribbon. Those create incredible amounts of light - obnoxiously so, which is why they were replaced by safer flash bulbs and later on electronic flash in subsequent decades.

The light would have been more than enough to illuminate the people standing and posing for the photograph in that enclosed room.

I wonder how different things would have been if we were not able to capture the past 100-150 years so well on monochrome film. What a remarkable time to be alive, and to have been able to look back on the past using a mostly-reliable and truthful medium - now long since lost with the advent of digital imaging.
You mean an open-twitter clone that caters to a very niche set of individuals? A complex system to work with.

I hate the whole gimmick of 150 character messages. That's not independent like the web was once.

Discord makes you pay to upload videos, sounds and those were all existing on MSN, Yahoo, A!M for free.

Everyone at my school knew of NewsGrounds, mySpace, BeBo, LiveJournal. Me and my friends had hosted ProBoards forums where we used to discuss stuff. You can't even do that according to the new Ofcom laws.
"If we enrich the CCP we just end up with an adversary capable of taking us on. That's why tariffs."

This argument is absolutely accurate and somewhere between two and six decades late depending on who you feel like blaming for offshoring. Present day all we're doing is poking inflation with a stick, threatening the bond market (and eventually the dollar reserve), and encouraging economic partners to look elsewhere for stability. 3 guesses how all that ends.
I'm contesting your claim that podman compose is bundled with systemd.
I'm am the author of this blog. As for speed, you are probably right, I was mainly talking about wasting memory for temporary arrays, not the speed, it's unlikely that iterators are faster. But I'm curious, how large arrays did you test with? For example, will there be a memory difference for 10M size arrays.
It's funny, I noticed I happening and thought it was proof of the opposite - that there had to be some artificial cause for the supernovae (including the Sun), because a real supernova takes many years to progress, not 20 minutes.

Even after visiting the Sun Station I didn't believe it and thought it was a narrative red herring....so the ending was a surprise to me. Somehow.
Having some experience with weaker models, you need at least 1.5B-3B to see proper prompt adherence and less hallucinations and better memory.

Also models have subtle differences, for example, I found Qwen2.5:0.5B to be more obedient(prompt respecting) and smart, compared to LLama3.2:1B. Gemma3:1B seems to be more efficient but despite heavy prompting, tends to be verbose and fails at formatted response by injecting some odd emoji or remark before/after the desired output.

In summary, Qwen2.5:1.5B and LLama3.2:3B were the weakest model which were more useful and also includes tools support(Gemma does not understand tools yet).
This is the real problem, and the reason we never should have allowed access to sensitive government and societal data in this fashion.
Oh, fair enough! It is very cool, FWIW.
If we have events occuring at some rate in the entire observable universe, and that rate is one a human can easily visualize (e.g. "30"), then the answer to the question "how often do supernovas occur" is probably best summarized as "almost never".
The US spends more per capita on their social safety net than eg France does.
The SuperNova Early Warning System (SNEWS): https://snews2.org/

brings together the fantastic [1] Super-Kamiokande, the [2] IceCube, and other global detectors, to provide early warning of Supernovas.

You can subscribe...
https://snews2.org//alert-signup/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super-Kamiokande

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IceCube_Neutrino_Observatory
This comment inspired me to create a workshop to turn your code into a product to sell.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43692540
Is wasting cycles considered "climate action" now?
The preferred solution would be something like a Yubikey. However:

> just go to any old computer and ssh into my server

You've typed your password into a computer you don't control. Now it's gone. Same for plugging in the USB stick. The Yubikey approach mitigates that.

Assuming you want to do this, the best practice you can achieve is just making the password long.
What Do You Remember?
Don’t worry, it’s a misunderstanding.
Providing value for your fellow humans (= customers) while economising on scarce resources like human labour is anti-social?
https://archive.ph/q0Bad
Death to Nickles [video]
"I'm implementing exec() support now"

Bah. Details, details dismissive hand wave.

It's just minimalism, right? I hear it's all the rage.
Reminds me of this funny video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NY3yWXWjYjA ("You know something has gone wrong when he switches to Chinese")
Will he? That’s not how it’s gone for others who have been kidnapped by ICE and deported recently.

> The attorneys said they do not know where he is and have filed a petition in federal court seeking an order barring the government from removing him from the state or country.
I distinctly remember living alone in my first apartment and trying to use Joost like a TV. It was a dismal experience.
I hope this isn't too contentious but I'll try to cover most things. I've posted this a few times, but I checked out 4Chan about twice in the early days and saw CSAM both times and it gave me personally a visceral hatred of the site. I've heard it got better/that's not representative but it's a hard thing to shake. The origin of the site is also supposedly Moot getting kicked off SomethingAwful for posting 'lolicon' (child anime porn). They've also gone after and doxxed pedophiles though, so the sites relationship with that sort of content is... complicated. I think most of the worst ended up moving to 4Chan clones quite awhile ago because it really splintered again at some point and became known as the cleaner Chan board.

It's also known for its extremely abrasive mildy sociopathic culture and 4Chan posters have a very samey 'posting voice' where if you don't like it you can hate it. It permeates a lot of the internet, but 4chan is kind of seen as the epicenter. I think it also gets blamed for a lot of negative internet culture like doxxing and choosing targets to harass, although I'm not sure how much of that was actually 4Chan. I think most of those people moved on to Kiwifarms. 4Chan probably gets some hate for things that other Chan sites have like Qanon in a sort of 'you started this' way.

And finally the politics are complicated. It actually used to be slightly left leaning or at least libertarian or anarchist, but over the years pol in particular has been known to be hard right wing. It definitely seems like they had a shift in political tone for the (IMO) worst at some point.

Personally I won't hide that I'm a hater and an unapologetic curmudgeonly old man, but that's my perception. On the other hand if you think the CP stuff is overblown, don't care about the negatives because there are apparently good boards there that are insulated, or are just hard right yourself then it is one of the last major discussion boards on the net. Some of that's probably out of date (like I said I gave up on it pretty quickly) but I'd wager most people with negative opinions are thinking of one or more of those. I'd be interested if any haters have other reasons.
IMO Temu and Aliexpress/Alibaba market themselves in a very different way. In many ways I consider Aliexpress to be more reputable just because they don't try to pull the wool over your eyes with their products. With Temu they try to make it seem like the products are just as good as what you get at Walmart. With Aliexpress at least they just straight up tell you they are a "front" for all the factories in Shenzhen.

I found Aliexpress to be great for retro gaming consoles, for anyone interested and willing to wait, you can get an "R36S" which can play all the old gameboy games and other retro games for ~$30.
Issue created: https://github.com/invisal/sqlite-internal/issues/3
I'm under no illusions they're commenting in good faith, but at times I find it valuable to highlight that fact.
Yep, real-world HLS/DASH solutions rely heavily on edge caches; you don't care as much about having your infra in the right region, but POPs are everything.

Netflix famously offers ISPs an appliance.
Public benefit corporations have to pay tax.
If anything, devices of that nature should have local control via Bluetooth LE, and not require some crappy proprietary cloud
Everything's going to have to be replaced and it's going to be hugely expensive. But that's not going to happen until at least 2029 - plenty of time for bad actors to get settled in and cause real damage.
"Wow, you'd group people by their actions and beliefs but not by immutable characteristics they were born with?!" /s
Anyone who falls in love with Haskell can probably relate.
Yes! I'm looking for ways to trick myself or otherwise convince myself to make progress on any of the bazillion totally awesome ideas I keep accumulating. Or one of the many projects I start and abandon midway
For the record this is an example of the "Fencepost error" where the last item in a range gets double counted as the first item in the next range and is incredibly common in dyscalculia (the math version of dyslexia) as people will have "visual number lines" in their head that cover ranges of numbers but the ends get double counted, so there will be a 10-20 number line then a 20-30 number line.

I suspect TheJosh had something like that with the week where he visualized it with Sundays at both ends but lacked the self awareness to realize that this was not a universal representation.
it's wild to me how rapidly this has exploded in popularity. there's even a twitter account/site dedicated to news updates - https://x.com/getMCPilled and mcpilled.com
Disruption with some GitHub services for Safari Users
> This is like 947 on a list of terrible things happening because of this administration.

This is on purpose. Trump has been slowly pushing the Overton window. It seems everything is fair game and US citizens are largely apathetic, scared or favorable to Trump's action.
My mistake! It seems clear in hindsight…
No need to use a word list literal in definition of ch-name; symbols will do:

(defvarl ch-name (relate (rlist 0..32 127)
'(NUL SOH STX ETX EOT ENQ ACK BEL BS
HT LF VT FF CR SO SI DLE DC1 DC2 DC3
DC4 NAK SYN ETB CAN EM SUB ESC FS GS
RS US SPC DEL)
nil))
> But it's certainly telling that only one of these off topic comments actually got flagged.

Well, right now, the flagged one was "Oh, you guys are adorable.", which didn't try to make a substantive argument or convey information. At least the Cheeto one did. "Adorable" is the least-civil and least-useful comment, so it's not only ideology that explains why it got flagged.
ChatGPT is very informal and talks like a millennial when I ask questions in French. I hate it.
Flambda2 Ep. 4: How to write a purely functional compiler
> Let me be bold: transphobia is counter-culture nowadays

No it's not. It's as mainstream as you get. One of the two major parties ran explicitly on a platform of transphobia ("keep men out of women's bathroom", "your daughter is being beaten up in sports by a man"). You can't call it counter-culture anymore.
Could the two have a common cause? What if Temu stopped buying ads and consumers stopped installing the Temu app for one and the same reason, namely that trade barriers are being erected that will make Temu unpalatable for many users, something widely publicized and known both to Temu and consumers?
Good, happy to see this!
Seems like a pretty big SPOF
Most movies don't even leave our stellar vicinity, because they want to use hyped star/constellation names and these are from the very local set of stars. Not only a naked eye sees only around a few thousands stars, but most of them are basically next door. The mean distance to the star that you can see is <1% of galaxy size. Almost everything you see is in a 10px circle on the 1080p fullscreen galaxy map.
White label goods.

My dad was in manufacturing and later importing so growing up I got to learn a lot about the process. He had worked for Heinz when I was young and would always buy the ketchup from some store brands that was about 60% of the cost. He was like, yea we bottle this on the same line as the name brand product.

The same hold true for imports. And yea there is a lot of cheap Chinese junk, but if you know what you're looking for you can find the same Chinese products that get name branded and marked up 200-2000% here in the US.

The problem with all of these is it's just going to cause and economic downturn where people purchase less, but more US products aren't going to sell. They simply aren't built here, and even if they are they'd still be many times more expensive. Even with the tariffs it would still be cheaper from China.
The unfortunate reality is that a half of the US population sees the NLRB as a burden on small businesses—primarily because its policies shift frequently, making compliance costly and complex for those without deep legal resources. [1]

And the same half of the population do not trust anything what npr.org says.

Understanding the above dynamic is key to grasping the current state of discourse in the U.S.

[1] https://edworkforce.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?Docum...
Saw the clip from that tech conference—honestly, I get where Linda McMahon was going, even with the slip. AI is everywhere now, and introducing it early could help kids grow up understanding how to use it thoughtfully. But it needs balance. We can’t just throw tech into classrooms without giving teachers the right tools and training. When I was writing a paper on education tech trends, I found https://essay-company.org/ helpful for digging into studies and examples that showed both the good and the concerning sides of AI in schools. Like, yeah, it can personalize learning, but it can also widen gaps if not used carefully. So before jumping in, we need solid plans, privacy guidelines, and long-term thinking. It's about preparing kids for a future with AI, not just rushing it into their world without support.
Conservative Americans consistently distrust science, survey finds
I’d not want to be a whistleblower during this presidency. Whistleblowers tend to have really bad luck crossing the street on a good day.
This coupled with the hot mike incident yesterday where Trump was saying how El Salvador needed to build more mega prisons for the "home grown..terrorists" is beyond concerning. Sure sounds like DOGE is compiling lists of 'less desirable s' that will soon be swept off the streets in unmarked vans. America has turned fully fascist.
Russia's Birth Rate Plunges to 200-Year Low
There's a different cost vs. shipping tradeoff between the two. I use Temu for little electronic things (OLED panels with breakout header pins, microcontroller boards, breadboards, etc). For that purpose, Temu's prices are much better than any domestic seller, for a product that is exactly the same for my purposes. And, unlike Aliexpress, it won't take a fiscal quarter for your stuff to arrive.
Some help in case you got lost in the terminolgy as I did :

Containers: Encapsulate application and its environment

Pods: Group one or more containers in Kubernetes

Kubernetes: Orchestrates containers across clusters.

Quadlets: Declarative container management with Podman and systemd

Podlet: Tool to generate Quadlet file from existing podman configuration
Data: https://rosstat.gov.ru/storage/mediabank/EDN_02-2025.htm
On one hand it's true, on the other people want stability in their jobs. You need a compromise between flexibility for the employer and stability for the employee, and one such compromise (in this area) is having a consulting company whose contract with the client can be easily terminated, while keeping the actual people doing the work with a job and stable income.
AI Protein Design: Binding Small Molecules and Creating Sensors
On the other hand the top ten comments as a whole are 3 bullish, 5 neutral, 2 bearish which is certainly not an overwhelming sentiment in any direction. That's despite the fact that bullish comments on start-ups tend to get more votes because it's a start-up community.
I always particularly liked the Committee of Public Safety, for this (they're the ones who did the Reign of Terror, which doesn't seem _particularly_ public-safety-oriented.)
"Hark" goes the sealion, "sources?"
4chan is not "old internet". Not even close. It's predated by a bunch of forums (including 2channel) on the Internet, some anonymous.
The folks round these parts that transfuse the blood of young healthy people to boost their lifespan are probably having a regular CT scan too.
The idea that Temu is gonna end is nonsense. First of all, the US is just one market for them. They're red hot in many countries in latin America, Asia, Africa and so many others. Moreover, I guess they'll eventually find other ways to sell products in the USA, in one way or another.
You did a great job explaining it, what more do you need to unpack?
Hmm, I'm not sure all 15 year old boys do, though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Buffalo_shooting