skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess the death of web search is finally hitting me, too, as I can't find anything that looks like a reliable source, but blog spam market research seems to claim anywhere from 60% to 90% of all web traffic is streaming video. Something to keep in mind for everyone who wants to blame JavaScript and advertising. With hardware-accelerated encoding and decoding, plus localized edge caching, this traffic is probably as efficient as it will ever get already, and the only way to cut energy usage would be to reverse the content explosion and consumer addiction.

Given current trends, that seems unlikely. If anything, with LLMs that can do both CGI and storycrafting, it will get even less efficient as content is generated rather than serving stored files.
My "tribe", like all tribes, is very often wrong. That's why I don't think things just because my tribe thinks them.
> You can't just add them later, on top of the legacy Mac OS and NeXTSTEP technologies.

Apple can (and has been) since it owns the whole stack, evidenced by the fact that they've been gradually hardening macOS software and hardware for two decades.

It's been gradual enough that most end users haven't noticed, but macOS developers are painfully aware of the security-related issues they have to reckon with in both major and minor updates to macOS. Example:

https://eclecticlight.co/2024/08/27/launching-apps-in-sonoma-14-6-1-full-security/
https://eclecticlight.co/2024/08/28/launching-apps-in-sonoma-14-6-1-reduced-security/
https://eclecticlight.co/2024/08/29/launching-apps-in-sonoma-14-6-1-known-malware/
https://eclecticlight.co/2024/09/03/launching-apps-in-sonoma-14-6-1-conclusions/
We need to write an app to automatically reboot your iphone every night as a user selectable time if reboot your iphone is apparently phone spies kryptonite.
Gravity's Eastern Voyage
We've always been lazy.

To the point I've seen people here argue against striving for quality workmanship, in favour of efficiency.

But like any other trade, some of us are craftsmen who really care about our work.
I just did a quick run down to the paywall, and it's fun! Good coffeebreak game, and I like the vibe a lot. I'll buy it shortly.

I'm not sure if more mechanics show up later in the game, but this feels like the kind of game that needs traps or other landscape threats, even if they're 100% detectable. Maybe there are cooler / more complicated items coming, but the tactics so far are pretty light.

I personally also have qualms about tiled roguelikes that don't let you move/attack on diagonals, but I understand wanting to keep the keyset simple.

I was a bit confused by the sight radius at first, because it was hard for me to distinguish which parts of the map were uncovered and which parts were covered but black because of the background. I wonder if you could add some sort of transparent "fog" or something over unsighted areas, so that you still see the space background but also make it clear that tiles have not been sighted.

Hopefully this stuff helps.
Why are you painting Clickhouse as an underdog, with no VC funding? They raised a $250M Series B.
I am interested if someone has written a document/post/article that approaches ”web needs simplification” in current context in holistic manner. E.g. Considering energy consumption, development costs, tooling complexity, state of web standards, private and public industry domain needs etc.

I personally see different problems in many of the areas, but I’d like to know if someone has already organised these topics.
Vigorous discussion between different viewpoints is completely different than multiple polar opposite echo chambers.

Take reddit for example, you have /r/politics that downvotes, deletes, and shadow bans all conservative voices out of existence, and /r/conservative that does the same thing for liberal voices.

I'd like a place where thoughtful discussion of all viewpoints, left, right, and center are not just tolerated, but encouraged.
Try setting an toddler in front of an iPad and see how well the toddler learns how to read academic papers and the limitations of unlimited free flow of information would become quite evident.* While there have always been autodidacts, education is still a needed role to delegate for most, especially those who aren't privileged to have parents who already possess both an education and the time to personally propagate it.

*(Actually you probably shouldn't.)
Fair enough, good point and good catch. Edited my reply just in case this gets lost in the firehose of 32 comments ;)
It is fun, nice one :-)
> the gap in science that emerged during the Counter-Reformation was enormous, lasted centuries

Was it now? I'd say France in the 1800s did a pretty good job about all the science stuff, and until Germany took the lead towards the end of that century (I'd say ~1880s) they were way above everyone else when it came to scientific discovery, way above the Brits, that's for sure.

If by "Catholic" the authors of the study basically mean Italy and Spain (which would be a very reductionist take, but suppose that they do that) then the decline in scientific thought starting with the 1600s has lots of other potential (mostly economics- and demographics-based) causes, not religion itself. Reminder that Giordano Bruno, who came from a Catholic country, had no opening at the very protestant Oxford, to quote wikipedia [1]:

> He also lectured at Oxford, and unsuccessfully sought a teaching position there. His views were controversial, notably with John Underhill, Rector of Lincoln College and subsequently bishop of Oxford, and George Abbot, who later became Archbishop of Canterbury. Abbot mocked Bruno for supporting "the opinion of Copernicus that the earth did go round, and the heavens did stand still; whereas in truth it was his own head which rather did run round, and his brains did not stand still",[33] and found Bruno had both plagiarized and misrepresented Ficino's work, leading Bruno to return to the continent.

Ah, I had also forgotten that Copernicus himself had been a Catholic canon.

So all this study is just, to put it plainly, absolute bs.

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

Later edit: And talking about Catholic Spain, some of the most respected economists in the history of the dismal science were actually Catholic Scholastics, Schumpeter himself had almost only words of praise for the School of Salamanca guys that had written about economics, and in many cases he (Schumpeter) was trying to explain how the Spanish Scholastics had actually been ahead of their times in many domains of economics.
There's plenty of complex programming languages out there. Some are worth putting the time into. If you can program well in some other language you can get your head around Rust - give it some time - it's worth it.
That's cool to know - I had no idea! I assumed that it literally did nothing in every scenario.
I feel like this article was written by someone who doesn't code every day but instead looks at tech industry trends.

If you're on the outside looking in, it's easy get the impression that AI is eating the industry but the truth is much more nuanced. Yes devs use AI tools to help them code but as other commenters have pointed out, it just breaks down when you're deep in the trenches with large and complex codebases.

If you're starting a greenfield application then AI can most certainly help cut down on the repetitive tasks but most code out there is not greenfield code and implements lots of business logic for which AI is next to useless unless it's trained on that specific problem.

Where i personally see AI eating up tech is at the lower end, with many folks getting into tech are increasingly relying on AI to help them. I feel like long term this will only exacerbate the issue with the JR -> SR pipeline. Senior folks will only be more and more sought after and it will be hard for many Juniors that grew up on AI assistants to make that jump.
Tiny GraphRAG
I can't tell from your reply if you are getting the point or not so here is an expanded version for you:

If they could save themselves the huge mountains of money to takes to create their own flash controllers, firmware, fabric and hardware design, and just buy a Micron 7450 Max and put that inside the computer, and still charge you $1000, they would do it. Because it means more profit for them, which is what they
exist for.

But they didn't.

The same concept applies to say, the Red Mags, which are essentially mSATA SSDs in a metal box. Red takes on all the responsibility, claims, (reputational) damage for their product, but if they feel like they can make it happen with an mSATA SSD and still make lots of money, they will do it. They could use an SLC enterprise SSD, make a little less money and take a little less risk.

But they didn't.
Ooh. I found the original email from him.

From: VoicePro@aol.com
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 22:16:04 -0500
Subject: Your files :)

Hi, John.

Thanks for your order. Here are your files... and I included a
"You've got mail, John" file, too. Enjoy!!

El Edwards

So, now I can upload "Use the source, Luke!" (https://soundcloud.com/john-graham-cumming/use-the-source-lu...) and "You've got mail, John!" (https://soundcloud.com/john-graham-cumming/youve-got-mail-jo...).
KDE runs very smoothly on Debian stable. Had it running on testing also, but sid/testing can break from time to time...
SELinux can be part of the solution but it doesn’t solve the problem. The median Linux system is far behind the median Mac because while SELinux exists you still have to craft fine-grained policies and deal with all of the exceptions needed to have the system still be usable. This is more a function of budget than anything else.
I have a long commute, I see drivers almost kill someone multiple times a day, every day. Most of the time there's no accident.

To be clear, I'm not talking about mistakes. There's 10x more of those. I'm referring to just people taking dangerous actions with no regard for the safety of anyone.
Review: the article finds multiple instances of users saying that when sharing from the Google discover in built web frame prepends a link shortener type website allowing Google to intermediate the link.

The article speculates that it can be used for sender and receiver tracking, but also offers a positive option which would be blocking malicious shares.

No explanation is given by Google when reached.
LLM-Optimized Developer Documentation
Complete different set of tradeoffs.

This is one of those situations where there is no good option, just the least worse option.

SE had mostly servers, depends on package vendors being altruistic, and people mostly just disabled it when it caused problems.

That is a very different set of assumptions and challenges than what Apple faces.
You can still get pseudoephedrine containing Sudafed in UK sometimes, I've had difficulties finding it, but they package it almost identically to the phenylephrine containing placebo.

To me this has always seemed like obvious fraud.

We don't have class actions in the UK, but perhaps in USA there's a chance of punishing this sort of behaviour going forward?

Basically they took the active ingredient out, added a similarly sounding chemical, continued to sell the new known-ineffective chemical in the virtually the same packet, under the same trade dress and branding...

Pseudo was really effective for me. When I first bought Sudafed after they took the active ingredient out (of the easy to find product) I thought I'd misremembered, took a couple of illnesses before I twigged, then some very careful analysis of packaging to make sure to get the actual medicine.
> All OSes in prod today need to be rebuilt from the ground up to be secure for the next century

Qubes OS solves this with hardware virtualization, which is really fast and secure.
Why isn't ultrasound used in orthopedics? Instead of MRI rigamarole, why can't the doc put the wand to my shoulder in the office and tell me if it's a tear?
Matter of perspective; one in the 100~150 billion sapiens (or more) that have gone before and the rates go up. It's also possible rates are underestimated, as we have only tested a relatively small sample compared to N=all
I had a similar journey of enlightenment that likewise led me to OCaml. Unless you're doing low-level systems programming, OCaml will give you the "if it compiles, it's probably right" vibe with much less awkward stuff to type.
That depends on what your particular filter bubble contains. Just browsing HN should inform you that LoRA and fine tuning are common terms in AI, and even if you genuinely thought the article was about the radio technique there's really no reason to leave the same comment that's on every LoRA post.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
The Hollow Vault: Practicing Real Politics in a World Defined by Fraud
> The difference is that media are verifiable and can be checked by anybody and everybody has the same information. That is not the case for social media.

They can both be checked by everyone and verified. Just like any kind of social media, even Tweets that get quickly deleted by the creators, they still persist online and get analyzed and debated. Traditional media can also take down articles and videos quickly. I don't see the difference, and don't believe there is a legal difference.

> where they push some "ideas" to a very specific population because the data they collected show that you will act or think in a certain way

This is allowed, and attempts by the government to disallow it are against free speech. If a country has several state owned TV channels with differing views, and it advertises them online selectively using a platform like Facebook which connects the different channels to different likely to click audiences, and it's doing so with malicious intent, then thats basically another form of what you call "interference" but it's Americans' right to consume whatever media they want however they came across it.

Again, the intent of the publishers does not matter. The intent of the editors does not matter. Once we agree the government can ban media platforms because of what they push, free speech is seriously eroded.

> gradually modify your point of view and be less detectable

The trick is that you are saying "modify ones point of view" and pretending that it isn't the right of an American to form whatever view they want from whatever content they want. All content is designed to modify your view. Adding new information to your life will modify your view of the world. You are just using a feature of content to argue it should be banned.

> I think it's normal that the state make it difficult to do so. I won't blame people who use opium but I will definitively blame the USA people (or state from any country, here it's USA) for facilitating opium use

But content is not opium, and free speech is sacrosanct because it is the only lever to allow a free society. When you restrict content because you disapprove of the speaker or the message, you create a world where free speech dies. Banning opium doesn't have those consequences.

> I hope you get my point because I think that is necessary for us to do so to come up with a better solution.

I get your point, but I am fundamentally against anything whose goal is to avoid "mass manipulation" that is essentially saying we should ban things that get popular which we don't like. And that's not for the government to decide for me or anyone else. Thanks for hearing me out though. I appreciate that
> Just a sane, modern layout language that compiles down to static HTML and CSS with no JS or WASM (unless you explicitly ask for it).

Depends on what you mean by sane modern layout :)

Many modern layouts are still impossible without a lot of JS intervention. Many web flourishes also require Javascript :)

That's why there are no DSLs for this: HTML and CSS already are the DSLs you're looking for.
What a great list, thanks for sharing.
How about addressing the merits of my points instead of slinging mud and calling on a horde of lemmings to silence me? Your gay cake dog whistle says a lot about you. Do you want LGBT bakers to be forced to bake obscene cakes for Muslims who hate them? People should have some discretion in choosing the work they do. A special order item at a bakery is not the same kind of issue as getting service off a menu in a restaurant open to the public.

There is ample evidence of media lying to suit "liberals" (who really aren't). Social media was censored largely (though not entirely) by Democrats as exposed by Matt Taibbi. This isn't any conspiracy theory, it's documented fact. Elon Musk spent $44 billion just to give us the proof and open things back up again. If you actually care about free speech like a true liberal then you should be singing his praises.
An insane idea, encroaching on the liberty we enjoy on the web.
These types of decisions should be up to parents, and, will eventually play out as they seem fit.
It was less about the smoothness and a lot more about upstream patches for bugs rarely ever making it downstream.
Distinguishing Ignorance from Error in LLM Hallucinations
In my scenario, both the Waymo and the bicycle are simultaneously stopped at their respective stop lines. That counts as 'contended'.
Show HN: HyperTAG, AI-Powered Telegram Bot That Summarizes URLs & YouTube Links
Making Electronic Calipers
A Comprehensive Guide to Python Project Management and Packaging
> Why would Homo sapiens on bicycles be any less prone to error or negligence or aggression than those in automobiles?

For a few very obvious reasons:

1. Cars have significantly less visibility. Often cars run into other cars at speed without having ever even seen them. Now imagine bicycles.

2. Cars are much faster, so mistakes are amplified. Often with cars you're forced to commit to bad decisions because you're simply too fast to abort.

3. Cars are much more powerful, which may bring aggression in people. This is opinion but from my life this is plainly true with everything. The more perceived power something gives a person, the more prone to aggression that person is.
i’d be more interested in jewish numbers than protestant or catholic
probably heat issues prevented them from doing that.
PyCon US 2025 Call for Proposals
Kudos on this, nice to see something on this space that isn't always the same languages.
Robots crush career opportunities for low-skilled workers
The IRA insurgency was cross-border violence. The IRA operated from Ireland, at the time an independent country, in Northern Ireland, and the UK.
One suggestion is to allow for HJKL or WASD movement. Arrow keys are fine and intuitive, but not in the best location. I remember playing nethack years ago and it had the HJKL system.
That is key. You got to stay busy with other real world stuff. Otherwise the media vortex will suck you in. Just try to be conscious of how much Media you consume daily. And then slowly reduce it/switch it with stuff that adds Value to your life.

The whole machinery, thanks to the amount of cash pouring in, has gone off the rails in terms of, no limit exploitation of people's fears. Shows what power the media as a whole has on people's well being.
This day has been decades in the making. I'm thinking 1,000 years from now they'll pinpoint the start of the transition of America from a democracy to whatever it is we're transitioning to as starting with the Nixon administration.

One thing I think you're feeling is the end of the post-war period. WWII shaped global politics for the latter half of the 20th century. Not to put too fine of a point on it, but that war ended 80 years ago. We're entering a new global era.

What does that era look like? It's in transition. The US wants to retain its global preeminence and based off the election results, believes winding the clock back to the first decade after WWII is the best way to achieve that. The US literally wants to return to 70 years ago without paying attention that the world has moved on. It should be obvious to anyone with even a scant knowledge of history that effort is futile and will end in failure.

What does failure mean? The US is unlikely to be the dominant political power in the latter half of the 21st century. Other countries recognize this and are positioning themselves to take the reins. Russia is one of those countries, but they too want to rewind the clock back several decades to when the Soviets were great. That endeavor will likely fail.

China on the other hand, is an entirely different matter. The 20th century was rough for them, so no living person has a memory of better times. The better times are right now. Hence, China is moving forward instead of looking backward like the US and Russia are. The smart money is on China being the most influential political power in the latter half of the 21st century (and maybe before).

That's the other thing I think you're feeling - the tectonic shift of power from the Occident to the Orient. The Occident have been dominating global politics and global trade for some 2,500 years. Now it's shifting to the Orient. I think part of the conflict in America that you're seeing is businessmen have already accepted that China is the future - they're the largest export market and there's room for a lot of growth. Main street is a different matter, everyday Americans are accustomed to living in a country that's the most dominant country on earth and they sense that's being lost - and it is. The irony is Americans are doing the exact opposite of what they should be doing in order to retain their power and influence. Then again, nobody ever accused Americans of being a smart bunch.

Tying this back to the Nixon administration, I think Henry Kissinger laid the groundwork for the US to maintain relevancy in a China-dominated world, so long as we don't screw it up. Seeing as how America is sending an idiot, conman, and grifter to the oval office, I don't see how it's possible we don't screw it up.

That's my take on where we stand.
Super true. One of the best tests of this is setting up a new laptop. Some of the best experiences are when you get a new laptop, and just clone the codebase and everything works as it did before, no special magic. Golang with vendored dependencies seems to be wonderful for this but I've had relatively decent experiences with newer java projects.

My worst experiences universally have always been python projects. I don't think I've had a single time where I cloned a python project and had it just work.

Beyond just the code, I've had lots of mixed experiences with CI/CD being smooth. I unfortunately don't think I've been in a single shop where deployments or ci have been a good experience. They often feel very fragile and undocumented and hard for newcomers.
The Twenty Thousand Hertz podcast had a episode featuring Mr. Edwards: https://www.20k.org/episodes/youvegotmail
Whatever reasons are there for using or not the language, tokenising and parsing are absolutely not a problem you want to solve with it.
Winos4.0 abuses gaming apps to infect, control Windows machines
Because the places that these people get their "news" have been harping almost nonstop that high prices are Biden's fault. Fox News and its brethren exist solely to make its audience mad about things, and then explain why those things are the current Democratic leadership's fault.
Also great as well as entertaining: https://gwern.net/death-note-anonymity
Flanked by Palantir and AWS, Anthropic's Claude Marches US Defense Intelligence
Can I safely use Ractors inside Rails if my tasks have a mix of CPU and I/O ?
They also just shut down a AAA game studio that was years into an unannounced project, so they're on a roll with throwing away interactive content. But not to worry, AI will fix their gaming ambitions... somehow.

https://www.404media.co/netflix-games-ai-exec/

This is all very reminiscent of Amazons gaming push which had an enormous bankroll but mostly squandered it due to terrible leadership.
NHS to launch 'real-time surveillance system' to prevent future pandemics