skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I sent this to my blind friend and found out this page is fantastically inaccessible. The only keyboard usable thing on the whole page is the mailing list signup. A few <button> tags would go a long way here, as well as general semantic html. Axe devtools can't even find the buttons to report violations.
The Prompt() Function: Use the Power of LLMs with SQL
It's not just needing to remember user names, is everyone in this thread just willfully ignoring what I've been saying about needing multiple (privacy incompatible) channels of data to be able to trust these login methods that aren't passkeys?
That took long enough. Insane that the gov was entirely silent after this week's starship launch as well...

Even though I'm not an elon fan, pretending to not notice for political reasons (not to mention the insane halving of launches at Vandenberg AFB) is completely insane and damaging to our country.
If it's Boeing...

...I don't think anyone is going...
> But I'm still not sure what you think Israel should've and could've done differently specifically on the point of Hamas.

They could have not actively worked to foster the networks in Gaza that became Hamas in order to both split Palestinian opposition and have a less sympathetic, more extremist, more Islamic opposition to deflect international pressure to make peace with the Palestinians.
As I mentioned in another comment, I expect most of these classic games would do even worse if they were released today. Struggling to find an audience, ranking down in the lower reaches on BGG. The communities around them and their cultural heritage are what they’re really about, and I doubt that you could bootstrap them back up to their current prominence if they showed up out of nowhere today, based solely on the strength of the games per se. Though, to be fair, the majority of top-100 BGG games will be all but forgotten in 100 years, too.

All the more reason Crokinole—a far less well-known classic game than backgammon or chess or go—ranking so highly is remarkable.
Thats not what I remember. Towards the end of the Intel era it really slowed down, but before that I felt that Apple was routinely releasing new macs with the latest Intel processors.

Would be happy to be proven wrong. Got some good examples?
This science paper could have been a cat meme video.
Never thought I would be saying that and meaning it literally.
I'm a subscriber. But I don't feel like creating a signup for kagifeedback.

https://kagi.com/images?q=https%3A%2F%2Fs3.amazonaws.com%2Fp...

Lets use this as an example. I would personally like to have a list of exact results. Separately - a list of similar images would maybe be nice. But tbh, 99.99% of the time with reverse image search, I am trying to play detective, not find similar images. I am usually looking to see the first, original source of something. Or maybe other places I can find this image.

I will point out that detective stuff like this is crucial to try to prevent being catfished, or phished. I am not ignorant that it is also a concern for those who don't want to be found, for privacy or safety reasons; however some threat actor could just find a less public reverse image search I'm sure.
It is petty, but I find myself on Matt's side.

I think he's right about the movement, right about better monetization for open source, right about the trademark issues, and while rude, his comments are harsh truths about DHH and his work in OSS.

Obviously, they way he's handled everything has been bad - very valid to ask why he didn't act sooner about the trademark issue. And, snide comments about DHH not donating enough to charity are irrelevant. But he is right about a the core issues.
> I'm not trying to solve the issue, just warning people pocketbook is not that good.

You're entitled to your opinion, but it seems easily solvable based on a 3 second Google search: https://old.reddit.com/r/ereader/comments/1dvwnb8/pocketbook...
Cool, would this be better than using a clickhouse / duckdb extension that reads postgres and saves to Parquet?

What would be recommended to output regularly old data to S3 as parquet file? To use a cron job which launches a second Postgres process connecting to the database and extracting the data, or using the regular database instance? doesn't that slow down the instance too much?
Scientists have recently used a new x-ray imaging technique to date The Shroud to the 1st century. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13758359/amp...
Point number 4 made smile, in particular because the phrasing is that he does not give his brands "boring" names. Wait till the author hears about The Boring Company!
Depends on the use-case.

In general, most reasonable ARM64 machines are not yet value competitive with the same priced intel+Nvidia_GPU laptops.

Application support (MacOS or Win11 on ARM) is usually what hits hard in edge-cases people take for granted as working most of the time.

Best of luck, =)
Why does it have to be macOS but not a Windows app?
Thank you for confirming that investing in modern nuclear power leads to vastly higher power bills for the ratepayers.

Nuclear power needs to come down in price by 85% to be competitive with renewable systems. That is the fact today.

Both systems need about equal amounts of dispatchable power to follow the load curve.

For nuclear power this comes from that overbuilding nuclear to solve peaking issues is even more horrifically expensive.

Thus the need for storage. Or pumped hydro which was first invented to manage coal and nuclear inflexibility.

Reality keeps moving faster than your nukebro talking points.

Hopefully you’ll wake up from this madness one day.
I was thinking more construction costs- now every room needs many outlets instead of the one that the overhead projector cart plugs into. Power efficient lights, insulation etc. require higher construction costs but reduce operating costs. My middle school was a neat piece of 1920's architecture, but lacked a lot of amenities that would be considered necessary now.
> vary wildly depending on genes

Being born with worse attributes doesn't mean those attributes are out of the equation. A lot of people die much younger than they should just by poor luck, with little or no control on their end.

If you happen to have higher bone density and higher muscle mass just because you have higher testosterone, you're still better off. Sometimes people just get the short end of the stick. That doesn't necessarily mean BMI doesn't work.

I've even met smokers, smokers! Who have better cardiovascular health than me and are skinnier. Which really fucking sucks for me.
No exactly 2000, this was when I left a company where I was an employee and went as independent
US residency and citizenship is in extremely high demand, so whatever immigration system is put in place will ultimately be gamed. Creating a visa category that is solely based on salary would be attractive to some cohort of people who want to live in the US regardless of the costs.

We saw similar things with previous "investor visas" where there was no intention to start a business and the USCIS had to stop issuing them for many years because of the pervasive fraud on both sides of the equation. I can guarantee that some creative lawyer out there was already thinking about how to game the US "startup visa" when that was proposed a few years back.
> I think that attitude is hurtful. The blame lies with those who are unwilling to listen, which is honestly most people.

This is my experience. All my guy friends growing up were totally willing to both open up on a personal level when it was just me and them.

However, too many of them were willing to make too many jokes at my expense when in a group of multiple guys. So they weren't super helpful in keeping me as that person. I'm sure i was a bit more "thin skinned" or whatever than I should be been, but I expected more from them, since they were willing to be so sincere when it's just me and them. The tonal whiplash was too hard to take.

Hopefully we've all grown a bit since then.
He also seems to love the "Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!" type of surprise tactic. Like when they cut access to plugin updates for all WP Engine customers from one moment to the next. He probably thinks it's a power move. To me personally it looks mean, weak, and pathetic. It's what a bully would do.
Memory ordering is also different.
Ozempic directly address an unhealthy diet, particularly a diet of overconsumption. That's actually, like, all it addresses.
Good thing for the planet, as they say there, the world population quadrupled in only 100 years and we are worried we are shrinking a little? I mean c'mon. Humanity can be a 10th of what it is now and we will still be able to "progress" or whatever we call multiplying like the plague...

Yeah the economic and social systems might suffer and might need to change and people will have to figure out new ways to live but it at the end will just be part of this blip of time in the universe, let's just hope we won't end up like in the rats experiment up to the point of extintion https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_sink
I am glad you find it useful. Please let me know if you have any questions.

If you like it, I would greatly appreciate an upvote, it really helps with visibility.
Well, your anecdote is completely contrary to mine. Image search has always worked great for me and it's easier to save the image because Kagi doesn't play games with the source of the image like Google Images does.

It's Google Images that I find unusable.
A billionaire using vast snowballed wealth to buy up a legitimate business and transform it into a mafia-like propaganda scheme for sale to the highest bidder may be profitable, but it isn't moral, admirable, or something we should be desiring more of.

And Trump's creative campaign finance tactics should be illegal.
I read the whole article.

Which sounds trivially easy...
Should I? If I want to see what something looks like, I want a photograph of it, not some half-confabulated garbage. Sure photos can be over-the-top edited and retouched, but at least they have a reasonable starting point. AI images don't; they have a tenuous connection to reality at best, especially if I care about little details.

Similarly, there is a definite qualitative difference between some actual hand-drawn art and something entirely generated by a model. It's a pretty obvious distinction and it's more than reasonable for people to care about it.

Not to mention how much AI-generated imagery is absolutely tasteless slop. That certainly describes the obvious AI examples in the article! If all the filtering feature does is block those—and, unfortunately, it probably can't do more than that—it would still be really great. Even without AI we were already beset by visual garbage; AI has only made it easier to generate it; having some way to even partially filter it out is the least we should aim for.
Something like this:

https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0030.html

That way AI can handle any arbitrary app so long as it has a public interface of discoverable commands. It will make sense of your apps and handle complex interactions between them.
Just installed under Arch and while performance is better and there are no solitaire style copy-trails when I drag stuff it's still like 15-20fps when I'm dragging even a simple shape around while Illustrator manages 170fps without issue even with complex nested groups.
It's laggy on windows. On linux it works great.
> Code Test for engineers - We expect the code test will take no more than a couple of days, and this is done asynchronously over the course of approximately a week

Doesn't that run foul of minimum wage laws and social security laws? At that point you're doing unpaid work.
I'm just being snarky. Props for making something more polished than anything I've ever made.
This works wonderfully, but is obviously not sustainable. It's not just that you miss out on newer content, but content rot progresses pretty quickly. Old Reddit accounts are deleted or blocked, Flickr users stop paying their subscription fees, etc.

There are so many photobucket.com URLs buried in old forum posts that no longer work...
What if you ignore Apple notarization?
Similar to Nick Lane's work!
Not necessarily, or even not likely a hypocrite. If keeping the ritual cleanliness is important for the monk's job, that is, having a better contact with the divine for the benefit of those around him, this is just specialization. The monk likely also abstains from other things, like eating meat, or having sex, which is a part of the same self-sacrifice for the sake of his service.

It would be hypocrisy if the monk commanded others to fight instead of him, while also declaring that he finds violence morally debasing and thus unacceptable for himself. But I don't think that laypeople would respect such a figure.
Image search is the one area in Kagi that I've seen the most improvement over the past year. When I first subscribed, I'd often switch to Google to find what I was looking for. Nowadays it works exactly as I intend.
People prefer the chips because their brains are broken and they have a fixation on tasty foods. It clogs their thoughts processes - basically, they have an addiction.

If you don't care much for food then you don't mind eating the carrots and you don't mind losing the chips. If your entire life is food, then you do mind.
Stockfish and lc0 would always draw if they are not put in unbalanced starting positions, the starting position will be swapped in the next game to make it fair.
I watched as a cat dove through a narrow opening
(stair baulsters)only to wedge its aft end,stop dead,do a totaly ignoble face plant,and then sort of oooze through to land gracelessly.
So in this case there was no hesitation,and cats
regularly missjudge and get run over by cars,so at best the data is just that...data.
The title of the article is incorrect, the worms live in the crust, not "beneath the planetary crust" (in the magma).

The Economist magazine is not what it used to be, sadly.
Oxford Dictionaries declared “post-truth” to be its international word of the year in 2016 and if it's good enough for them it's good enough for me.

While people have lied forever, post-truth implies a particular style of lying.
Chess is not “solved”. Solved doesn’t mean computers can beat humans, it means for any chess board position we can tell whether white wins, black wins, or the game is drawn with perfect play. We would know if the starting position was drawn, for example.

No computers now or in the foreseeable future will be capable of solving chess. It has an average branching factor over 30 and games can be over 100 moves.
Meta lays off staff at WhatsApp and Instagram to align with 'strategic goals'
Most consumer (hard/soft/firm/wet)ware is pretty much all around bad with very few redeeming qualities these days. You can almost feel the contempt for the user built right into the design from marketing all the way to implementation.
Aladdin Sane persona, to be precise: https://david-bowie.fandom.com/wiki/Aladdin_Sane_(persona)
Maybe there is a context problem here from people not familiar with business expenses or these types of employee perk programs.

Every program of this nature that I have had was clear that they arent giving you money, but offering to pay for a specific thing. There are clear rules for what they are willing to pay for and when.

I dont think it is plausible these purchases happened by mistake.
I think that might have been Intels doing. They were on 14nm for 5 years or so, with each new 14nm release pushing the power budget and squeezing slightly more performance out of any corner they could find. I assume the CPU ramping was just another part of this approach. If the CPU ramps up faster it will seem fast to users and it’ll look faster in short benchmarks like Geekbench.
Gaza...
If Cloudflare was honest and upfront about the tradeoffs being made and the fact that it's still going to require configuration and maintenance work they'd have significantly less customers.
Got you covered, this has fantastic reviews:

https://www.amazon.com/Million-Random-Digits-Normal-Deviates...
Not if you care about either the human effort that went into something—which, even if you don't care about anything "fuzzy", is still a costly signal in the economic sense!—or if you care about finding images that are representative of reality. Having a magical oracle that can filter out even really "good" AI imagery would be useful and, critically, would let us do something that is otherwise difficult.
> This sounds quite a bit like what Steorm[sic] was doing years ago

Steorn was a scam, and they never actually showed anything off. The only thing they did was rob some investors.
Should go ahead and add Pinterest and Adobe stock images to the list of "mostly AI" image providers
There isn't enough food stock on this planet to sustain the population growth as it is. We'll just have to come up with ways of dealing with shrinking human reproduction. It's catch 22 unfortunately. Either we die from over population or die from people being to broken to do actual work.
I performed a similar analysis on RubyGems and found that of the top 10k most-downloaded gems, less than one percent had valid signatures. That plus the general hassle of managing key material means that this was a dead-end for large scale adoption.

I'm still hopeful that sigstore will see wide adoption and bring authorial attestation (code signing) to the masses.
What I am not seeing in any of the discussions about this is the connection with various database products that used to be Open Source but then changed their licenses because they didn’t like AMZN and the like offering hosted versions of their products without paying anything. It’s a similar situation.
I'm with you on device local keys with attestation.

entangling multiple hardware authenticators... I'm trying to imagine what this looks like from the implementation side. Are you thinking of something like Shamir's secret sharing being built into the hardware tokens? Because from my side, I send you a challenge and you respond, I don't really care how your system is setup.

Key exportability is basically where I get off the bus. I don't care what kind of glass this is under, people are going to get tricked into doing it and then it will undermine the whole system. I'll have to go back to trying to discover everything I can about the device and if it's been compromised, hell the caller with the key is going to look far more legitimate to my systems than the actual customer.
What's considered "credible" is also going to be endlessly argued as well. Same for clickbait.
Jax – Why Is Everyone So Excited About This Framework
Supercharging Discovery in Search with LLMs
> The 100 baseline on that graph is the highest attention the term has receive

Good point. I couldn't come up with a well-enough known competing tool to compare against.
The wounds on the man on The Shroud match those of Jesus Christ in the Bible. The crown of thorns, scourging, crucifixion, piercing on the side.
Some operations are best with keyboard (i.e. moving, zooming, panning, duplicating, acessing panels) and you need modifier keys quite often. You can map one or two to the stylus buttons, but that may not be sufficient
Ask HN: What AI tools are you using to boost developer productivity?
Hey HN,

I'm curious to know what AI-powered tools or platforms you’re using to improve your productivity as a developer. There’s been a lot of buzz around AI lately, and I’d love to hear about practical tools that are making a real difference in your day-to-day work.

Some questions to get the conversation started:

- Which AI tools are you using to write or review code?

- Any AI-driven features in your IDEs or editors that have been game-changers for you?

- Have you integrated AI into your testing, debugging, or deployment pipelines?

- Are there tools helping you outside of coding itself—like project management, task automation, or documentation?

I’m especially interested in hearing about tools that you find indispensable, whether they’re well-known or under the radar.

Looking forward to your insights!
Well, he's not right about WP Engine.

Wordpress is an open source project. If he's "right" about WP Engine, then he's "right" about basically every user of every open source project, and there ceases to be any such thing. OS is take-it-or-leave-it, if he wants contributions back, put it in the licence and also offer support.
It takes years to build trust and one second to destroy it. If you are a fully functioning adult and basically stealing the office stapler, how low are you willing to go? It’s not even about the morality of the situation at that point, it’s about being a dishonest liar.

The one type of coworker no one gets along with is the dishonest, manipulative, penny-pinching narcissist. Fire them, and there are 10 honest people willing to replace them in this IT oversupply market, probably at lower salary. Win-win for Meta.
Disabling/limiting revisions is built in to WordPress.

All WP Engine did is add:

define( 'WP_POST_REVISIONS', false );

to their configs.
heh. Working there requires some level of trust in your employer. There is a bunch of shit you wouldn't expect on the Automattic infrastructure (NDA, so can't say much except I used to work there). For them to do this harms that trust and makes it a much worse work environment. If Automattic were to weaponize -- which this is the beginning of this slippery slope -- then any person's life could be destroyed. I really wish I could say more, but eroding that trust is very dangerous.
Matt didn't "make" WordPress. He started the project, which was based on another piece of software, with his friend Mike and now thousands of people have contributed to it in one way or another.

I actually doubt there's much left of Matt's own code besides some of the crap that should be removed, such as hello.php.
Because you are contrarian just to be contrarian? That is a very lazy thing to be, arguably even lazier than blindly following the masses. It is a way to feel superior without having to think.

Why don't you read up and form your own opinion? It is just like 15-30 minutes of research.
isn't that the case? Which then became a dialect of php with a custom interpreter (and then compiler) as they scaled.
Idea stolen during an interview. What should I do?
Keeping this intentionally vague.

I interviewed with a series B company a couple of months ago. During the interview with the CTO I proposed a way that could effectively 3X their MAU. They were genuinely impressed by it, and stated they didn't think of that. Like it seemed natural, and I'm considered an expert in this field.

I ended up not getting the job, and not thinking much of it. Fast-forward a couple of months, and it's their new growth strategy. I got no credit for this, and not even a call back. Is there anything I can do?
Documentation:

> returns a sum of reciprocals of inputs

Unit Test:

assert_eq(foo(2, 5), 1/2 + 1/5)
assert_eq(foo(4, 7), 1/4 + 1/7)
assert_eq(foo(10, 100, 10000), 0.1101)
Same, best digital product I’ve spent money on in a long time. It’s an improvement over Google, and well worth the price.
and winter is coming.
> I'm a subscriber. But I don't feel like creating a signup for kagifeedback.

It's a separate login? That's really weird, isn't it?
Cursor and Continue.dev
> if I was offered a 9 months severance, I'd have to really, really LOVE my job to not take it

Agreed. The idea that people are staying for financial reasons or due to a tough job market doesn't really hold up when you've got a full 9 months of severence.
I use ChatGPT Plus and Claude Pro via their web interfaces only
Eh, for every "they said he was crazy but he was a bona-fide genius" case, there's a few million "nope, just crazy" counter-examples.