skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it wasn't hard, it would have been done. I suppose we should all await your backwards compatible proposal?

> No, it isn't.

Yes, actually, it is. Async functions are a concept that only affects the internal structure of a function - to generate the state machine that allows yielding at `await` keywords and resuming after they resolve. Externally they are no different from "sync" Promise-returning functions.

So they only thing that async functions do is enable yielding at the callsite, the `await` keyword is what actually yields at the callsite and you can await anything, not just async functions.

Again:

> I want to be able to designate a computationally-intense function call (just that call, leaving the other calls alone) as async so that control yields to the event loop.

This is what `await` is - `await` yields. Non-await calls don't yield.
There's a joke I first heard in the early 90s: "True AI is 10 years in the future and has been for the last 30."

I suspect we'll be in exactly the same place: incremental improvements in LLMs, but the corner case failures will be perceived as significant enough to preclude widespread adoption.

Maybe we'll go back to the "neural network winter" of the 80s and 90s where "anti-hype" seemed to make research into CNNs unfashionable.

Or maybe industry will deploy LMMs widely and just cope with their flaws.
Intel confirms oxidation and excessive voltage in 13th and 14th Gen CPUs [video]
>Remember https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Groups

It'd be somewhat hilarious if google bought reddit just to archive it and shut it down.
Could we not say that if science is exploration a scientist is kinda
honour-bound to investigate everything that "is the case" [0], every
corner of life, and incorporate that into his/her model of whatever
they're working on?

What makes life enjoyable for me is exploring it so I've not found a
dichotomy between a "humanist spiritual belief" and a "reductionist
one". That's a smouldering flame war that started half a millennium
back between Copernicus, Galileo and the church. May I suggest a cool
read is "The Two Cultures." by C. P. Snow [1]. Snow thinks, as I do,
that this artificial split holds humanity back. Albert Einstein is
also a great study to get into this groove.

If I am objecting to anything (not sure if I am really) it is the
strident certainty with which some who have explored part of the
territory declare that there is nothing more to see. That applies to
either side. Maybe there's stuff that would make the material facts of
physics and biology that much more wonderful and enjoyable to behold.

[0] "The world is all that is the case" - Wittgenstein

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Two_Cultures
I would pay good money for an app that would block political texts and not send equally annoying notifications. I tried Robokiller, but you have to use their text messaging app, which is complete garbage.
And even worse might be if it fails to redeem
Implemented SAML sso last month. SAML protocol and formats look so fragile and confusing.
XML looks outdated in modern days and XML signatures/encryption are hard.
Protocol requires deflated base64 on some step, but you can't enflate/deflate easily with cli tools. On other step only base64 is required (why?).
All seems error prone and inconsistent. And I feel it can be done much much much simpler.
Aren't there apps that already do this like Fitbod?
>incentivize people to also publish null results

This will hardly achieve this goal as you basically make things harder, and now you are introducing more overhead. The main reason why people don't like publishing null results is that it hurts them in funding applications. The current system works with mentality, we shouldn't fund someone who don't get positive results. It is better to allocate this somewhere else. Most of the problems with research can be tracked down to funding issues and practices. But these are political issues, so people try to argue about other things because it is easy.
The idea is that some null hypotheses being true is actually interesting because it challenges an assumed belief. From the first paragraph of the article, the immediate feedback from the postdoc's supervisor was 'you did it wrong [because everyone knows that fish do like warmer water]'.

> It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
How can employee costs be 1.5B/year?
I don't want any development in my charming rural town. But if I have to pick, I'd prefer single family homes. Everyone knows that big developments bring crime, traffic/more cars, environmental concerns, burdens on the school system, etc. If you say otherwise, you're delusional. Build vertically in urban areas with jobs/resources/retail around.

Actually, one of the first times I participated in local politics, was to successfully block a large development (100+ units, some of which included "affordable housing" lol). The developer was a favorite of the state - they get all the big contracts all over the state, and some former government officials are on their board (no doubt accepting bribes for their influence). It was a coalition of residents that spanned partisan politics. Just showing up to meetings on these issues, and if you have any public speaking skills, highlight the ties of the corrupt local political class to the developer/construction companies - locals don't like being hoodwinked by that.
Or maybe they just want to avoid getting sued by shareholders for dumping so much money into unproven technology that ended up being the same or worse than the competitor
-1: I know many people who are switching to Claude. And Google makes it near-zero friction to adopt Gemini with Gsuite. And more still are using the top-N of them.

This is similar to the early days of the search engine wars, the browser wars, and other categories where a user can easily adopt, switch between and use multiple. It's not like the cellphone OS/hardware war, PC war and database war where (most) users can only adopt one platform at a time and/or there's a heavy platform investment.
Unfortunately not, as it captures such a wide spectrum of use cases and scenarios. There are some benchmarks to measure this quality in specific settings, e.g. summarization, but AFAIK nothing general.
Cheese and Chalk.

It is very different to generate synthetic datasets to assist in targeted training , vs ingesting LLM output from web scraping.
you are right, navel-gazing describes it perfectly
It's crazy how most political or economic systems would very obviously collapse in the real world almost instantly without some kind of voluntary moral contract (explicit or implied), yet we've got huge clumps of people demonizing one system or another based on the context of what happens when you implement it in a morally dead societal context.

Like there are a ton of people who smirk at your last paragraph and go "nuh uh, hashtag late stage capitalism"
The big differentiator for me is possible harm and addiction. Psychedelics don't typically bring both (I am under the impression, that we actually don't really know how schizophrenia and psychosis relates or is triggered by psychedelics, that was my impression of recent research). Using crack, heroin etc. and "designer drugs" etc. is a whole other thing. Safety of consumption is just on another level for both classes. Even with "designer" psychedelics that are just added molecules. Tbh I don't know about any totally and weird synthetic psychedelics, I'm assuming shrooms, LSD/AL-LAD (which are both of course synthetic as well), mescaline, ibogaine, and DMT essentially. I hope everyone reading get's the distinction I'm trying to make.
How do you weight results between vector search and bm25? Do you fall back to bm25 when vector similarity is below a threshold, or maybe you tweak the weights by hand for each data set?
Meta doesn't sell widgets in this scenario - they give them away for free. Their competition sells widgets, so Meta would be perfectly happy if the widget market totally collapsed.
I suppose you are downvoted because your last statement is not necessarily true. But you are right that the post is vague about how many people exactly received a gift card, since it only says that "partners" received a gift card. The thought that CrowdStrike sent one $10 gift card per partner company is hilarious. They botched the update and apparently they botched this narrative too.
US Prosecutors Secure Guilty Plea First Espionage Act Case for Drone Photography
Yet another perfect example of not even understanding that there are other ways to run an organization

All of the things mentioned are in service of the existing model of capitalism.

That model is: There are people who do work that leads to the direct creation, maintenance or support of a customer who is paying them. There is a separate group completely independent from this group who view the firm as a form of financial instrument aka “investors.”

Then there’s a third group, and this third group is “management.” Management is hired by the investors - not the employees and is generally given more equity in order to convince the manager that they are actually closer to an investor than a worker.

The true job of management is to prevent labor from having more power and more control of the financial vehicle than the investors do - find me a manager that’s empowering their employees in a way that shifts power from investors to employees and I’ll find you a manager with no job.

This is why CEOs carry the weight of all of this bullshit because investors point to them as the scapegoat person for anything that goes bad on the labor side, and employees look to this person for direction and guidance for what to do on behalf of the investors - so they pull the “I’m paid only if the company does well” smuggling in this concept that the company doing well benefits everyone (hint: it doesn’t and if the options are homelessness or death you don’t actually have options)

In cases where “investors” create the org (EIR, VC spinout etc…) they are intentionally creating a demand signal for labor, and a process for which you can grovel to them for them running a max-min algorithm to ensure they don’t pay anything more than they legally have to - going so far as to now make it a religion where it’s unethical to do anything other than this

Alternatively if a group of engineers gets together to create something, the second that they have success on it, the capitalist investors will direct all their existing financial instrument companies to go and try to capture that new market away from the small group - typically via ruthless competition, but sometimes acquisition becomes the mutually minimum cost outcome. This is all with the idea that if you can acquire your way to market dominance in a monopoly type scheme this is the ideal for investors. It is a very predictable line of income and that’s all they care about.

As long as you live inside of this model, there is no possible world where you will ever have a manager who cares about the people underneath them or the customers for more than a very brief period while the rest of the organization figures out that this manager is a threat to the owners.

If you wanna be successful as a “manager” in a capitalist profit driven organization, there is no option other than to align yourself with investors and do everything you can to prevent your employees from becoming more independent (typically by granting unvested “options” that have zero value outside of the organization)
or semiconductors
> So we stopped selling those [hammer factory] schematics and started selling hammer-factory-building factories.

https://web.archive.org/web/20180722051250/http://discuss.jo...
Only complaints per https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html:

> Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats
> Kagi lets you do this and personalize it as you desire.

Kagi shill here. Are they finally applying filters and operands to image searches?

Asking because it was a tough year seeing Pinterest as top filter choice and top result in images (when set as filter=block).

(edit: I just tried searching->image: beautiful quilt patterns. I didn't spot any Pinterest results!)

I have never understood why DDG, etc steadfastly refuse to obey operands in image searches. Most days. Every blue moon operands seem to work. I think.

sidebar: Yesterday I saw Yandex obey quotes in a web search. It was the 1st time I've seen that.
Know your working style. Identify if there is a direct report with similar style. If no, they are not a good manager for you. If yes, ask them directly if they are a good manager.
People are giving them grief, but you have to realize that the cost of $10 gift cards for all billion or more affected people on the planet, would quickly add up.
I considered adding "normally" to the binary modifications expecting a response like this. The concepts are still worlds apart

Weights aren't really a binary in the same sense that a compiler produces, they lack instructions and are more just a bunch of floating point values. Nor can you run model weights without separate code to interpret them correctly. In this sense, they are more like a JPEG or 3d model
Will do! Thanks :)
Show HN: DateTimeMate: A Golang lib and CLI for advanced date/time manipulation
DateTimeMate is a new open-source Golang package and CLI tool I've developed to tackle common date and time manipulation challenges. It's designed to provide a robust, flexible solution for developers working with temporal data in Go or directly from the command line.

Key features:

* Precise duration calculations between arbitrary dates/times

* Date/time arithmetic with support for complex durations

* Periodic calculations with customizable repetition

* Flexible unit conversion for durations

* Date/time reformatting

___

The CLI tool, dtmate, offers commands that mirror these core functionalities:

diff: Calculate time differences

dur: Perform date/time arithmetic

conv: Convert between duration units

fmt: Reformat date/time strings

___

What sets DateTimeMate apart:

Intuitive syntax: The CLI accepts human-readable duration formats like "1 year 2 months 3 days 4 hours" as well as brief formats like "1Y2M3D4h".

Relative date shortcuts: Supports keywords like "now", "today", "yesterday", "tomorrow" for quick calculations.

Flexible unit handling: Converts between various time units, including sub-second precision (milliseconds, microseconds, nanoseconds).

Consistent year definition: Uses 365.25 days per year for accurate long-term calculations.

Dual-purpose design: Functions both as a standalone CLI tool and an importable Go package.

___

CLI Example:

$ dtmate diff "2023-01-01 12:00:00" "2024-03-15 18:30:45"

1 year 2 months 14 days 6 hours 30 minutes 45 seconds

$ dtmate dur today "1Y 2M 3W 4D 5h 6m 7s" -a

2025-10-19 17:06:07

$ dtmate conv 4321s123456789ns hms.msusns

1h12m1s123ms456us789ns

___

I built DateTimeMate to address the complexities often encountered in date/time manipulation, especially when dealing with mixed units or long-term calculations. It's particularly useful for tasks like:

* Project timeline calculations

* Age computations

* Event scheduling and planning

* Log analysis and time-based data processing

___

The project is open-source and available on GitHub: https://github.com/jftuga/DateTimeMate

I'm keen to hear thoughts from the HN community. What other date/time challenges do you face in your projects? How could DateTimeMate be extended to better serve your needs?
The source code that accompanies the paper is available in a zip file here: https://zenodo.org/records/10866595

I copied that into a Gist to make it easier to browse here: https://gist.github.com/simonw/b3ab1588a681dda821da9fb57290d...
Valid to be spent only on CrowdStrike FunBucks™.
To prosecute parents of a school shooter, Michigan prosecutors led a rare case
weird, I've never heard of mojeek before and this is the 2nd comment in this thread I've seen mentioning it.
Am I correct in interpreting that they canceled a multi-use code after it was shared publicly? I think that would be quite reasonable and an insignificant offense compared to pushing code that breaks your clients' computers or offering $10 of compensation for having done so.
> if it encourages unhealthy behavior...

i often think this about the olympic gymnasts, some of whom are so much shorter than normal for the ages that i wonder if the activity altered their growth.
> a staged roll-out is out of the question. What do you want them to do? Expose everyone to new known viruses for longer?

I think trading, say, small x (15 minutes, an hour?) time, to stage rather than blast might be an acceptable tradeoff given the visible consequences of not doing so.
For a more full picture have a look at https://www.ifo.de/publikationen/2024/aufsatz-zeitschrift/lo... (though the ifo is not always trustworthy). There exist specific scenarios where there is not enough money remaining when you pick up work with a better salary. Even I know scenarios like that, for example when getting unemployment benefits, all money earned at the side is lost, which is just stupid if you wanted people to slide into work (through being self-employed for example). That should be a percentage, so that you have more at the end when completing a freelance project for example, instead of having worked for nothing.

What makes it rightwing propaganda is taking these cases and claiming that it would explain why people don't want to work anymore - which is not true, neither the connection nor that people don't want to work. And to combine it with the statement that the welfare benefits are high, when they are not - the problem, if there is one, is that earned money reduces the benefits 100%, instead of on a sliding scale. It's not the amount, as in 99% of scenarios being on state welfare completely sucks in Germany, it's the scenario of not having enough money for food at the end of the month, being scared to heat in the winter and each unforeseen bill a mayor crisis.

Also, it is also not okay to not mention that bürgergeld is still combined with sanctions. If not taking up (usual shitty ) work it can be lost, or missing a summoning, etc. Being in that system is thus highly stressful. Those sanctions were supposed to go away, instead they were made harder. Thanks SPD.
doesn't work for me: mobile firefox on android. just gives me an error.
The marvel movies are the genesis for this use of the word slop.
How many people they indirectly killed, I saw somewhere number around 1000? Based on amount they are/were going to splash for it, one can calculate cost of human life to them (not even going into other damages). That company ain't even funny anymore.
And how much more expensive is rent in your town because it has 100 fewer units? That is the opportunity cost. Unfortunately, these opportunity costs are not borne by landowners, just by renters. And then when the government charges landowners higher taxes on their now more valuable property, the owners balk.
Do an internship at nvidiavdrover development?
Infinity is not a number but transfinite numbers [1] like omega [2] or aleph-null [3] are. They are just as number as 0, 1, -5, 6/7, pi, i, or quaternion numbers. What is a "number" is not well-defined, any mathematical algebraic object can be called a number with some justification. Mathematicians just don't do it anymore, they just call it "X Algebra" instead of "X Numbers" but there is no fundamental distinction. From this perspective, arithmetic with infinity is not only possible but also extremely useful for Programming Language Theory, e.g. for Dependent Type Theory.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfinite_number

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinal_number#Ordinals_extend...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleph_number#Aleph-null
Can you back that claim up with a link or similar?
The problem is the nobody is actually looking for good managers.
Keyword is "could". Currently 2.5k employees, that's $600k per employees but if there's plans to significantly increase employees that can be quite a bit lower. That's likely including equity grants. It could also have to do with how the accounting works for equity grants, I heard they were charged on year 0 at time of hire but I'm not sure. Does anyone know better?

Clearly they're paying to attract talent.
Standardized bikes would certainly drive away sponsors and I don't think we could see that happening.
When I used to use LabVieW (shudder) I usually just made a VI to call python or C/C++.

A large LabView project can become tricky to maintain. Two of the largest LabView code bases are the flight software for NASA's Cold Atom Laboratory and SpaceX's real-time launch visualization GUI and both may have required substantial support from National Instruments.
I understand that's the way it is, and I understand the power/money systems are set up in a way that no one realistically has the ability to make the change happen, but that's not intrinsic to the sport, it's just something that's grown up organically around it.
This would happen with literally anything. Bus is late and you miss the flight. Weather is bad, flight gets delayed. You eat out and get food poisoning, can't get the flight.

Anything could have caused that really. Still very unfortunate but c'est la vie sometimes.
If ChatGPT fails to do a task you want, your instinct isn't "I'll run the prompt through Claude and see if it works" but "oh well, who needs LLMs?"
It was really Ethereum / Alt coins not Bitcoin that caused the GPU demand in 2021.

Bitcoin moved to FPGAs/ASIC very quickly because dedicated hardware was vastly more efficient they were only viable from Oct 2010. By 2013 when ASIC’s came online GPU’s only made sense if someone else was paying for both the hardware and electricity.
that would make sense if it was from Openai, but Meta doesn't actually sell these widgets? They release the widget machines for free in the hopes that other people will build a widget ecosystem around them to rival the closed widget ecosystem that threatens to lock them out of a potential "next platform" powered by widgets.
either: give up phones entire (best and easiest)

or: communicate with political campaigns and other such entities using disposable phone number / ident tokens, that you then dispose of
They were a public good currently larping as a for profit concern now run by a vanity and wealth driven executive driving it into the ground while it flails to monetize when that is likely incompatible with the entity.

Compare and contrast to say, HN, run on two servers in a colo with less than a handful of mods.
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Are you sure about this? It's well known that cannibalism in animals leads to degenerative disorders.
Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't.

It is evidence that LLMs aren't appropriate for everything, and that there could exist something that works better for some tasks.
Yes, sorry, should have been more clear: I claim google is in a monopoly position, not reddit. The rest of the comment is unrelated ranting about reddit's betrayal of their previously-held "public data is public" position.
I think the closest level of Brand disaster in our times would be the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

In that case, BP basically threw away their consumer brand in the US - they turned every single BP station into an Arco station (their subsidiary, "lower quality" brand at the time). Then they sold off or spun down a huge portion of their businesses to set aside money for legal fees.

I don't know if Crowdstrike really has any other options at this point. The amount of legal liability the company is going to be under will be staggering and the brand reputation is worse than worthless.
> $10 says "We don't think this matters."

More like..."We recognize that we have a moral, ethical, and likely legal obligation to make things right and pay back the damage we have caused...but we're not going to."