skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recently visited South Korea and witnessed their facial recognition system for immigration control at the airport. It was an impressively fast and positive experience. The efficiency made the whole process feel like something out of a futuristic city.
Yes, but it needs some rebranding / reframing. We should declare a global war on the universe and spend all the military budget on research and development to exploit its secrets.
Promo codes for now. We are thinking about creating a solana faucet in the near future
Still the ugliest phone. Horrendous abomination. Hire someone who can design and doesn't live in a cave.
Is it 2.5M notional (that's not necessarily a lot, especially if the options aren't (much) out of the money), or 2.5M premium paid?
I wouldn't do it, personally, and that would be one of the main reasons. It says more about me than about the idea itself though.

I would love it for the ergonomics. If it's not too hard on the eyes I would consider it at home.
FWIW there was a public opinion poll by Levada back in 2002 about this. 6% said FSB did it, 37% said that there's no clear evidence but they could have done it, and 38% said that it's definitely not the feds.
The energy is lost as heat - as the planet flexes some pieces are moved in opposing directions by the tidal forces. Those pieces rub against each other, transforming the gravitational energy into heat.
I believe extreme wealth inequality is bad for economies and society.
122 is not a low number, i'm doing a course right now where medical datasets have <50 people. My professor would be very happy to have 122 people. Although, i don't know whether soft sciences require more people than hard ones to be significant
We added an account for our dog that doesn't get used but it's funny to see.
I've been thinking about UBI a bit.

One effect it might have, is that employers need to go above and beyond to keep their workers happy. So, so many people have a job which they at the very best tolerate, but would quit on the spot - if they had the economic means to do so.

Some of those jobs are quite critical for society. Just think about healthcare...plenty of people enter healthcare with high morale and a desire to help, but find them completely disillusioned due to overwork, shitty shifts, unappreciation, mediocre pay, and what have you. If half of healthcare workers quit on the spot, that would lead to a societal crisis. But maybe it would also force the employers to fundamentally change the space, in order to not lose their employees.

I also think UBI would give people a "second chance". Lots of people enter the workforce before they know what they want to do, and find themselves lock into the profession or work - due to financial reasons.
I think it's because kids are #1 stickiest reason not to cancel netflix. If there's content your kids love you're going to keep the subscription going. It's a less risky option than youtube which will start feeding your children raw sewage if they are left unsupervised for more than 5 minutes.

Most adults I know could take it or leave netflix and think about cancelling it now and then.

I reckon the dirty secret of netflix is that the two primary use cases are actually sleep aid and child minding service.
Have you tried it on historical stock data to see how well it would have performed in the past?
Not the economy as a whole, but there are some aspects of the economy that are. Indeed, negative externalities can be worse than a zero-sum game to those affected.

To be frank, this whole “the economy is not a zero-sum game” argument is kind of a meme at this point.
Saddest letters and texts written by programmers
Sadness and loneliness are feelings that sometimes permeate the lives of programmers and people in the technology field, especially in times of burnout, failure or disappointment. Some letters, posts and texts written by programmers have gained notoriety for expressing pain, despair or melancholy in a profound way. Here are some of the best known:

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1. "Goodbye, Dr. Spencer" (Aaron Swartz’s Last Blog Post)
- Author: Aaron Swartz (1986–2013), programmer, activist, and Reddit co-founder.
- Context: Aaron struggled with depression and a legal battle over downloading academic papers from JSTOR. He died by suicide in 2013.
- Heartbreaking excerpt: His final blog post was a book review of "The Man Who Sold the Moon," but his silent farewell and legal struggles made his story one of tech’s most tragic.
- Read it here: <http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/>

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2. "I'm Sorry." (Bill Zeller’s Suicide Note)
- Author: Bill Zeller (1984–2011), talented programmer and developer of MusicBrainz.
- Context: Bill left an open letter before taking his own life, describing years of psychological trauma and loneliness.
- Most painful excerpt:
> "I have an entire lifetime of memories that I don’t want. I tried to suppress them, but they won’t go away. I can’t sleep because of this. I can’t concentrate. I can’t even go a single minute without thinking about these things. I’m sorry."
- Read it here: <https://nghoussoub.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/bill-zellers-note.pdf>

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3. "Reflections on Trusting Trust" (Ken Thompson)
- Author: Ken Thompson, co-creator of Unix.
- Context: While not explicitly sad, this essay reflects on the fragility of trust in systems, with a melancholic undertone about hidden vulnerabilities in code.
- Read it here: <https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson1984ReflectionsonTrustingTrust.pdf>

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4. "The Programmer’s Lament" (Anonymous Rants on Reddit & GitHub)
- Context: Many programmers vent on forums like Reddit (r/cscareerquestions, r/depression) about burnout, loneliness, and workplace pressure.
- Example post:
> "I spent 5 years building this startup. 80-hour weeks. No friends. No life. Today, the investors pulled out. I have nothing left."
- Another example: The "Programmers crying in despair" GitHub repo, filled with real stories of failure and regret.

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5. "Why I Left Google" (Disillusionment with Tech)
- Authors: Various ex-employees of Google, Facebook, and Amazon write about how corporate culture drained them emotionally.
- Example quote:
> "I thought I was changing the world. Turns out, I was just making ads more clickable."

Read the full story at the source: <https://chat-to.dev/post?id=ci93eDdacDhXMGdTNnRocEs5UXBHQT09>
When EE launched 5G in the UK, they took out a full page ad with a massive headline saying simply "A real crowd pleaser"

One of the best adverts for a long time - if you knew about the technical advantages of 5G, it had a real double meaning.

If you knew 90s British dance music, it had a further humourous double meaning promoting the telco (an oblique reference to The Shamen's Ebenezer Goode)
Taxis aren't so bad in most countries. Here in Spain they are plentiful and fine. The same in most other countries I've been to. Only in the Netherlands they are horrible, they are ridiculously expensive because they all drive Mercedeses. As a result nobody uses them because they can't afford them. They're more like a limousine service, not like real taxis.

One time I told one of my Dutch friends I often take a cab to work here in Spain when I'm running late. He thought i was being pompous and showy. But here it's super normal.

Uber (Or cabify which is a local clone and much more popular) here on the other hand is terrible if you don't book it in advance. When I'm standing here on the street it takes 7-10 minutes for them to arrive while I see several taxis passing every minute. So there is just no point. Probably a factor of being unpopular too so the density is low.

I also prefer my money to end up with local people instead of a huge American corporation.
Proof of takedowns is not proof of algorithm manipulation.
i do not have your email... but you SHOULD have my telephonenumber. i gave it to you.
You think 122 people for 3 years is likely to be a statistically meaningful sample? Germany is 44.4 million people in the labor market.
Why not?

They have an algorithm which can account for every micro-taste on the planet. What's the point of having computers if they can't properly account for the real world?
I somehow sympathise with the author, in how struggling his life must be if he gets annoyed by such a detail in the grand scheme of things.

If anything, I tend to witness more and more "anti-child" behaviours: hotels without children, restaurants without children, weddings without children. I don't have children and feel rather uncomfortable around them, but this trend just makes me sad.
For me, there is not much difference between these names. Anyway, choosing a name doesn't change the actual events... Yes it's not good. But it's bad saying only about war aggression and not saying at all about bloody coup and bloody nationlist crimes.
What about a Bluetooth to 3.5mm dongle? They can be quite small, and then you can place your phone independent of the headphone/dongle.
Which is particular odd to have a publicly available GPL repo. For this project, it looks like anyone could just comment out those sections of code that check for a license and redistribute. Or is there another binary somehow required and wasn’t clear in my 2 minutes of searching?
This dumb bothsiderism take is exactly the reason for the shitstorm hitting US right now. People really need to stop sane washing everything he says and try to actually have an objective glance at him and take him for who he is: a con man. He made a majority of conservatives as goddamn fools, voting against their own best interests because he said he'll punish the right people. Spoiler alert: he instead concentrated power in his own hands, dismantled research and social nets and is well on his way to wrecking middle class and the rights of the workers. Until this simple fact is acknowledged, every Trump voter is complicit in making this happen.
It's very easy to implement. So if you're using some niche language and want to get a web server up and running, then you can implement an SCGI (or fastcgi) parser in like 20 lines of code. Its much harder to implement the full HTTP spec.
It’s amazing.

Please try keep it free for just a while. I can see you monetising this easily.

Great bunch of designs
>American politics looks basically the same before and after Facebook.

Trump and MAGA Republicans lie more openly than traditional Republicans. American politics are not the same.

Here's an easy exercise.

This is a post from MGT. Show me anything even close to this insane from an elected person in high office (house, senate, president) in the last 50 years

https://cloudfront.mediamatters.org/styles/scale_w1024/s3/st...
There's some terrible examples in here, and yet no mention of Roger Fen­ton's Valley of the Shadow of Death.
a medical dataset with 50 people may or may not be a low number depending on the rarity and the profile of people being affected by the disease. But as it happens low counts for studies are often a problem so maybe I shouldn't be so snippy, that said I would say yes, soft sciences often require more people in studies to be significant, but that is just my opinion on it.
Even worse is the all-decimal MAC problem.

Some genius decided that, to make time input convenient, YAML would parse HH:MM:SS as SS + 60×MM + 60×60×HH. So you could enter 1:23:45 and it would give you the correct number of seconds in 1 hour, 23 minutes, and 45 seconds.

They neglected to put a maximum on the number of such sexagesimal places, so if you put, say, six numbers separated by colons like this, it would be parsed as a very large integer.

Imagine my surprise when, while working at a networking company, we had some devices which failed to configure their MAC addresses in YAML! After this YAML config file had been working for literal years! (I believe this was via netplan? It's been like a decade, I don't remember.)

Turns out, if an unquoted MAC address had even a single non-decimal hex digit, it would do what we expected (parse as a string). This is not only by FAR the more common case, but also we had an A in our vendor prefix, so we never ran into this "feature" during initial development.

Then one day we ran out of MAC addresses and got a new vendor prefix. This time it didn't have any letters in it. Hilarity ensued.

(This behavior has thankfully been removed in more recent YAML standards.)
> "That's a lot of fancy words to say ‘we're doing this because it makes us more money’ lol"

You say that as if they're using lots of words to obfuscate that fact, but the quote you pasted has them saying entirely directly "maximize the network Return on Investment", which is just normal business terminology (and only one word more than your "it makes us more money"!)

Obviously this has no impact on whether that's a good or bad thing, I'm just pointing out that they weren't using a lot of words to hide that fact.
You can get cheap Blue Ray DVDs, but you gotta keep an eye out for deals. Set up a bot to watch for stuff you like.
It‘s sad to read through this article on Tom‘s that

a) awfully reads like an ad and

b) manages not to mention the screen resolution of AR glasses used as a desktop replacement!
The Properties and Histories of the Magic Hat (2019)
Wisconsin's Singular Partial Veto (2019)
Me neither, Turbo Vision was cool, Clipper kind of ok for data entry applications, and curses, well it was the way of UNIXes before X Windows became affordable.

Apparently that is some kind of retrocomputing movement.

The strange part is that most folks pushing for TUIs weren't even born and don't get the pain we went through.

We used TUIs because that is all we could afford, not because we were given an option.
People love meaning and purpose in their life and they typically find that in work as its a complex amalgamation of all sorts of challenges and rewards.

I believe UBI would be a net benefit for society it would enable the poorest to survive better and the rest of us more flexibility in how we life our lives.
In today's world, it's all complicated, to tell the truth. If you think very deeply, then with the help of foreign money, if there is a lot of it, you can even destroy the country without doing anything illegal, just paying for advertising and comments with coverage of only facts that are beneficial to you and excluding the unprofitable ones.

People often think that bot farms are only from Russia and China, but on the other side, paid commenters are also used. Unfortunately, it will only get worse with modern AI.
Okay, here's a crazy idea.

The things he built are:

ffmpeg, which basically implements a bunch of specs for codecs

Qemu, which basically implement a bunch of specs for CPUs

TinyC / QuickJS, which basically implement a bunch of specs, mainly those for C and JS.

That LTE thing, which, surprise surprise, implements a bunch of specs.

He seems to be a God of turning specs into working code, not necessarily a GOd of programming in general.
That's a hot take. Care to elaborate?
> Why not?

Because phenomenal experience of children exists unavoidably outside of Netflix

> They have an algorithm which can account for every micro-taste on the planet

Citation needed
> Gravity is always present. What you feel as “weightlessness” is actually freefall.

Article makes this seem true, regardless of whether or not you are in orbit. But doesn’t this matter of perspective become ridiculous if you are floating freely in space? As in, yes, you’re “falling” but only because Earth is moving away from you or toward you? Honest question here…
Yes there is, it is called a REPL, Xerox PARC has plenty of examples across all their workstation variants, followed by Oberon, and some of that work even inspired Plan 9 and Inferno UI and related developers editor, ACME.
1.The majority of people are not intelligent. Source is polls on whether there was wide spread election fraud

2. Politicans want money and power. They have no issues lying or manipulating people to get it

3. In a country like Russia the government can counter any information with widespread arrests and fear.

4. In a country with free speech there is little to no recourse.

Meaning that Russia, China, etc can use misinformation against us and we can't do anything. On the other hand we can try the same but they can simply use authoritarian tactics to supress it.

5. Trump has shown that the threshold for lying was set artificially low by past politicians. His success while lying about events that are easily disproven multiple times is evidence for all future politicians to lie.
Show HN: Real-time emergency incident maps from police/fire/EMS radio
this is a case of “well if it isn't the consequences of my own actions coming back to haunt me”. People like the article's author (and probably the article's author) have been petitioning the government and big tech companies for years asking for more censorship to protect them from big mean hurty words and now they wonder why the internet is a nanny state.
Capital and ideology by pikkety goes in to great detail in to how consent for gilded age wealth inequality is and has been manufactured. Most effectively, unsurprisingly, in the minds of... people like those replying derisively to my comment and this thread in general.
If the ultra-rich don’t pay their fair share of taxes, yes.
When I was migrating my server, and checking logs, I have seen a slew of hits in the rolling logs. I reversed the IP and found a company specializing in "Servers with GPUs". Found their website, and they have "Datacenters in the EU", but the company is located elsewhere.

They're certainly positioning themselves for providing scraping servers for AI training. What will they do when I say that one of their customers just hit my server with 1000 requests per second? Ban the customer?

Let's be rational. They'll laugh at that mail and delete it. Bigger players use "home proxying" services which use residental blocks for egress, and make one request per host. Some people are cutting whole countries off with firewalls.

Playing by old rules won't get you anywhere, because all these gentlemen took their computers and work elsewhere. Now we all have are people who think they need no permission because what they do is awesome, anyway (which is not).
> But this time, the trade war is against the whole world.

Reminds me of this excellent Norm Macdonald sketch [1] on Germany of which I've learned only recently.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXdtafGdIVM
Soooo exactly what Zod is doing?
The wasm build of libvips (the image processing library this thing uses) does not include HEIC because of the various patent issues:

https://github.com/kleisauke/wasm-vips/issues/3

It does support AVIF and JXL. Hopefully Apple will abandon HEIC hehe.
The world revolves around children because without children we cease to exist as a species. Common sense, for some people, is very hard to grasp.
On Firefox mobile the search field is one "cell" too large to the right and doesn't fit... I think I'm good. It seems petty, maybe, but the creator can't get their homepage right with it, I'm not sure I trust it.

If someone built a full C compiler but it throws errors when compiling itself, would you use it?!
LOL, next you're going to infer the author is a childless cat lady, who started regretting not having children.

It's quite a lengthy rant about prioritizing everytime inconvenience over a setting switch that could be enabled once, after a few years time.

World doesn't revolve about your children (or mine. And yes, I have them and yes, this is one of these mildly infuriating UX decisions).
Is it all because co-founder returned and driving things?
Except my laptop isn't something bound to 1 MB RAM, with luck having a VGA card able to do 256 colors, running at about 20 MHz with turbo button and a whooping 40 MB hard drive.
Common sense is what you wish other people knew.

Yes, you can teach people your common sense.
get used to it, that china will lead in several areas
> I am kind of surprised how many sites seem to want/need this.

The AI scrapers are not only poorly written, they also go out of their way to do cache busting. So far I've seen a few solutions, CloudFlare, require a login, Anubis, or just insane amounts of infrastructure. Some site have reported 60% of their traffic coming from bots not, smaller sites is probably much higher.
No. But I do have in plans 1. to track results and 2. try different prompts.

Currently I’m working on adding interactive chats. Chats where users add some financial data automatically into messages. Something like:

“Please analyze {historical_data(10, days)} and also check {news}. Give me some recommendations based on these data”
why dont we ever talk about a Universal Basic Taxation?

something has has no way to avoid, it doesnt matter how good your accountant is....
> My theory: what matters isn't "best practices", it's have a coherent conceptual design and code that reflects that design.

I think so too; that said, the language could definitely be better. It suffers from a lot of primitive obsession. Instead of structs, you often find either vectors or lists with predefined element positions; instead of map, ordered map, and multimap types, it's just various kinds of lists everywhere. They're not even used consistently: for the same thing, one package may use an alist and another a plist.
Australia's favourite spectator sport is not, in fact, cricket or AFL, but rather watching government knife their PM whenever the political winds change direction. In the last 8 years, 4 PMs have been rolled before they've reached an election, because the party loses confidence in them.

Many parliamentary systems wherein a PM is elected by the cabinet routinely demonstrate that they will use their power to remove a leader in whom they've lost confidence.
>Check out her personal investment history

Have you and if so why not include evidence in your comment that refutes my claim?

>The party of the working man sure has changed in recent years.

Based on what?
No, if we truly valued children, we would seek to make more children, and devote substantial portions of our lives and resources to raising children.

But increasingly, society doesn’t give a shit about children. People value more their own individual autonomy, their vacations, their luxury goods, their comfort, over the responsibility and work involved in raising children. Children have lower value than ever in this world, reduced to units of potential future economic output, or accessories for your next instagram reel or photo.
> The world doesn't revolve around children.

I mean, it kind of does. There is no (human) world without kids.

Every adult who can’t stand children was once a child and will be cared for by the annoying children of today when they’re old and infirm. Not by their own kids, of course, because they don’t have any, but by other people’s kids. So, you’re welcome, I guess. Sorry you had to see things for kids.