skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes it’s tragic but that’s the world you’re asking for, people not to have to think because it’s hard. You’re validating that with some ridiculous scenario. Let’s simplify it: is the consumable touching plastic? It’s got plastic in or on it. Is it processed food? It’s got plastic in or on it.

If you want to take the approach where you buy a bunch of stuff and then sit down for hours auditing everything you spent money on, then that’s on you. Consider that if the issue is so extensive you can do the analysis piecemeal if paranoia of it all causes you to be exhausted.

Or don’t wait for reports like this and a politicized regulatory agency in the age of hysteria to make the decisions for you.
C++ is an absolute mess.

But it's a fun mess, and I like writing in it :) Sometimes, that's important.

My relationship with, say, Rust is much colder: I respect Rust, I use Rust where I think it makes sense (especially in e.g professional contexts where I often can't defend the use of C++), and I think what it's doing is important. But I find it tedious to write, despite having a fair amount of Rust projects under my belt at this point. It's better in key ways, but not as enjoyable, for me.
"There are only forward declarations and definitions, and how those can be managed by developers."

Why do we need to manage them?
Yes well people get upset when antifa does anything
I think I was taught that perpetuities were banned because of the legal/accounting woes they create in the future.

As an example, the reason that coupons (like $1 off a box of Wheaties) or refunds (good for 1 airline ticket) and similar "financial instruments" have expiration dates on them is because it is required by accounting rules. When those items are issued, companies need to put them on their books as liabilities, and having to keep around an ever increasing accumulation of liabilities for many years would give a "wrong" picture of the financial health of the entity, when the purpose of books is to give a "right" picture.

(your take is not more nuanced, it acknowledges this practicality aspect. to extend the newtonian/einsteinian analogy, you're advocating ignoring the ∆x² term as the lim ∆x→0 version of the calculus derivative rather than the approach taken by analysis :)
Yeah, those are a thing on old Sun workstations. They have a clock and they also store a small amount of data.

https://www.sun3arc.org/FAQ/sun-nvram-hostid.faq.phtml

I remember replacing one in the mid 1990s. The machine's ethernet address is stored on this chip, and I believe it's battery-backed RAM (not flash, EEPROM, etc.), so when the battery dies, the data on the chip is lost.

When you install a new chip, you need to program in the ethernet address so the machine can get on the network. The proper thing to do is use the factory-assigned ethernet address to ensure that it is unique. But you can't get the address from the old chip. So, like many people, I just picked some random numbers. It worked.
Architectural historian Vincent Scully on the replacement of the early 20th-centery Penn Station: “One entered the city like a god; one scuttles in now like a rat.”
You’ll have to show me what you mean.

I’ve yet to encounter an equation that 4o couldn’t answer in 1-2 prompts unless it timed out. Even then it can provide the solution in a Jupyter notebook that can be run locally.
I built a robot in my studio during WFH – under $300
Any good alternatives for "adopt: Blank Spaces app" on Android?
The High Price of Doctors: A Disease of Regulation (2013)
I disagree, I think they are bad business.

I have come to absolutely detest online shopping. I have to return so much stuff, live with so many things that I don't actually love, generate sooooo much trash, and spend hours on hours researching everything because I can't hold it in my hand.

Then I walk into REI and ask them if I can try on a size 9 wide of a running shoe. They tell me they don't have it, so I ask them if they have any wide... they don't have a single wide shoe. Then I ask what they have and they say "Ohh we have 200 of the exact same shoe in the exact same size in stock"

And then I go order 5 different 9-wide shoes on amazon and return 4....
Ubuntu is mainstream and nearly flawless these days in modern (but not bleeding edge) equipment. Veterans don't mention it because it has snaps, but regular users couldn't care less, they just want something they can use for their daily needs. No need to name niche distros.
Show HN: GraphRAG SDK 0.4.0: Simplify RAG with Graph Databases
Hondas are brilliant cars and Nissan is garbage. Really sad to see this happen to Honda.
Believe it or not evolution did not start with Homo Sapiens!
> 'Self-aware' AI chatbot sues it's creator.

"... using hallucinated legal citations" would be both funny and the most likely. Case dismissed instantly by actual human judge

If you're really going to swing for the fences: what remediation would said chatbot sue for? Money? Bitcoin? Emancipation?
This is not what I have been told by others.
TFA says: "I’ve realized that in my current phase of life, everything needs to work seamlessly."

Humm. I realized that a while ago, but I switched to Mac OS not Windows. I regularly work with Windows (and Linux for that matter) boxes as well and I don't understand how you can use "seamlessly" in that context.
Right thats what Im saying. Most chinese companies are state owned and can not be invested in. Foreign equities have the risk of running into a government crack down. Without good investment opportunities chinese investors are forced to turn to bad investments which become bubbles.
As far as I know, it is popular in bioinformatics because of https://bioperl.org/ Universities use that often in their curriculum.
there is email validation, and the public key is handled between the ssh client and server. If there is no valid public key this code would not even run. The fingerprint is prepared from this valid public key.

Regarding having the email in the ssh pub key: maybe it is there, but it is no validated. Anyone could write anything there
Ideologies Are Slow
My wife got a new laptop that came with a windows 11 pro license, so I let her pick. She wanted to try Windows after about 10y or being on Ubuntu. It's only been a few weeks, so time will tell her side but for me, the setup was a hassle. On the system end, it came with 22H2 and didn't want to self-update to its newer self without manual update package downloads. Some KB number is all you get. Log wasn't helpful either. Not just that the system doesn't come with a package manager is a pain but also tweaking Windows to stop showing ads ("suggestions") on every corner and disabling all sorts of telemetry. I do occasionally manage windows terminal servers, so it's not like I'm unfamiliar with the windows platform, but I wasn't expecting a "pro" license being this riddled with ** that's obviously not in the interest of the user. The enterprise edition seems much more professional in that sense.
It is well established that heating plastic in a culinary context distributes significantly more microplastic into your food.

Microplastics are also well established endocrine disrupters.

Microplastics cross the blood brain barrier and may also permanently stay in your body.

To what extent are these harmful? In what dose, over how much time? I don’t think that’s established. You could be cautionary, or wait for more science about how long it takes to reduce your fertility. It may also be inescapable, plastic is likely a permanent earth pollutant now, in your clothes, dust in the air, food, water, and most things in your home, including ones you abrasives use inside your body, like toothbrushes. Maybe only very high doses (like drinking tea from teabags once a day) have a detrimental health effect. Many compounds are lethal in high doses, and healthy, benign, or required for survival in low doses.
If that’s supposed to be impressive, it really isn’t.
IntelliJ CE is free and destroys any LSP in terms of dev productivity. Other than consistency, why would you not use it?
Would that work online? A lot of these goods I want to see in person and ideally touch before purchase
They block plenty and they do it crudely. I get suspicious traffic bans from reddit all the time. Trivial enough to route around by switching user agent however. Which goes to show any crawling bot writer worth their salt already routes around reddit and most other sites bs by now. I’m just the one getting the occasional headache because I use firefox and block ads and site tracking I guess.
I don't feel like with Windows 11 in particular "everything works seamlessly."

Windows has a lot of technical debt, heck, arguably that's Windows' USP: Backwards compatibility via technical debt. However, Microsoft has had a lot of the originals retire out in the last few years with a huge number during 2020 for obvious reasons; taking a lot of institutional knowledge with them.

So what we have now is a bunch of younger engineers at Microsoft who don't REALLY understand why a lot of things within Windows are the way they are, and therefore are afraid to improve core functionality. So we get almost all of Microsoft's efforts go into front end improvement, and gimmicks. Places where people can make a mark without needing to deep dive into the mysteries below.

Let's look at Windows 11's timeline:

- 21H2/2021 initial release: With a Start Menu/Taskbar that was half-baked and lost tons of functionality.

- 22H2/2021: Fixed the Start Menu/Taskbar to what 21H2 should have been.

- 23H2/2023: Half-baked "AI" stuff. Touch Gesture improvements.

- 24H2/2024: Tries to make the horrible search basically functional (and fails). Windows Recall (privacy issues). HDR backgrounds.
I have a bit of experience in this, and adding monitoring, logging and observability doesn't really affect it compared to the non-sandboxing path: All of those things should already be happening. There should already be logging and statistics gathering as part of the larger service.

libriscv in interpreter mode is fast compared to other interpreters, but not near native performance. As I wrote earlier in the thread using something backed by KVM is what I would do if I were architecting a solution for someone. Eg. my TinyKVM KVM-based userspace emulator would fit the bill.
Care should always be taken when using an SSH client to connect to untrusted hosts. Make sure you’re not actually forwarding your SSH agent to the remote host, or they’ll be able to hijack your keys. Consider also that any output is processed by your terminal, and there have been a number of serious security bugs in terminal escape sequence handling in a variety of terminal emulators in the past.
TypeScript-First Framework Aims to End Serverless Cloud Lock-In
Hey HN,

I just pushed out serverless/Cloudflare support for Vramework.dev! The goal is to let you write business logic once and deploy it anywhere—AWS, Azure, on-prem—without having to rewrite huge chunks of your codebase when you switch infrastructure.

What is vramework?

It isn't another server, but rather a normalization layer ontop of the many serverless and server frameworks available today.

What’s new?

Serverless support now includes HTTP, WebSockets, and scheduled tasks (cron jobs).
You can still run Vramework on regular servers (Express, uws, Fastify, ws) as simple middleware.

Why?

Avoid Lock-In: Early hosting decisions can be painful (and expensive) to change later. Specially when serverless.
Cost Control: Switch to a cheaper platform if, for example, egress fees on AWS get out of hand.
Enterprise On-Prem: Easily move on-prem for customers with compliance or policy constraints.
TypeScript-First: Built around TS from the start, so it feels natural for modern JavaScript teams.
Developer Experience: By analyzing code in a compile step, Vramework can generate OpenAPI docs, typed fetch clients, and typed WebSocket clients automatically.
Better development experience: Run/Test your functions locally via express/uws for quicker interation

I’m now working on a smarter dependency injection system that figures out which services each function needs—further reducing cost and complexity. This will slow down feature releases while I improve documentation and explain why this model matters.

I’m also looking for a new job or an interesting project/team to collaborate with, so if you have any ideas or opportunities, feel free to reach out!

Check it out and let me know what you think — feedback and questions welcome.

Thanks, and happy holidays!
Plastic is made from oil, you’d have to be pretty ignorant to believe people never were skeptical of plastics and that skepticism wasn’t covered up by lobbying.
OneText (YC W23) Is Hiring a Founding Growth Marketer
Apply: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/onetext/jobs/YtuWnpc-f...

Sitting at the intersection of marketing, AI and payments, we're changing the face of payments, one text at a time.

We're hiring a founding growth marketer to help make shopping as effortless as paying with your hotel room number.

Innovated, scrappy and relentless marketers are invited to apply.
but ocaml :(
They also gutted and drained Symantec a few years earlier too.

Strange how much they hate money because they made it difficult to even renew the Symantec endpoint.
This reminds me a bit too much of a particular brand of cigarettes.
Good wikipedia article on these types of cosmologies including timescape cosmology:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inhomogeneous_cosmology
Show HN: Simple SEC Discord Bot
I built a Discord bot that monitors SEC EDGAR in real-time and sends alerts for new filings. You can configure it to track specific form types (e.g. 3/4/5) and companies by CIK, with multi-channel support for different filtering rules.
We're excited about this version which add support for LiteLLM https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm.

With LiteLLM the application can easily switch between different models to pick to most optimized model for Knowledge Graph generation and Knowledge Retrieval.
Yes you bought right into it. New thing? It must be fine! Framing skeptics as nutjobs is exactly what caused the ignorance.
I use Ungoogled Chromium (download from Github) that has all the tracking code removed. Only downside is updates are not automatic but otherwise runs flawlessly.
There are hundreds of kinds of native solitary bees that pollinate in the wild. They would do better without competition from honey bees. More important is to have native plants and wild places for them.

Honey bees are livestock. They are important for pollinating crops and producing honey. But we shouldn't consider them important part of ecosystem.

In my yard, I planted native plants and got more bumblebees and other native bees which are hard to tell from flies.
There is lot of statistical and empirical data on this topic - MTBF estimates from vendors (typically 100k - 1m+ hours), Backblaze and Google drive failure data (~1-2% annual failure rate), IEEE and others. With N+1 redundancy (backup servers/RAID + spare drives) and proper design and change control processes, operational failures should be very rare.

With cloud hardware issues are just the start - yes you MUST "plan for failure", leveraging load balancers, auto scaling, cloudwatch, and dozens of other proprietary dials and knobs. However, you must also consider control plane, quotas, capacity, IAM, spend, and other non-hardware breaking points.

You're autoscaling isn't working - is the AZ out of capacity, did you hit a quota limit, run out of IPv4s, or was an AMI inadvertently removed? Your instance is unable to write to S3 - is the metadata service being flakey (for your IAM role), or is it due to an IAM role / S3 policy change? Your Lambda function is failing - did it hit a timeout, or exhaust the (512MB) temp storage? Need help diagnosing an issue - what is your paid support tier - submit a ticket and we'll get back to you sometime in the 24 hours.
It’s ok to have groups of people with common interests that not everyone likes. It’s not about excluding people, it’s about including some people.

Would you complain if the backgammon club doesn’t play polo? Is that excluding polo players?
I am not sure I'd agree with you on that - they were a lot smaller than Windows now, but it was never minimalistic in any sense. Even Windows 1 incorporated several programs (Write, Paint, that cards thing, etc) that, while convenient, wasn't exactly minimal. Every version added something extra (overlapping windows, Program Manager, a trashcan and a desktop-as-a-place) without removing anything (except tiling windows, which weren't fashionable back then, or practical at VGA resolutions). Windows now is a nightmare of layers that seem to go all the way down to NT 4. I wouldn't mind that, but the way the GUI inherits the theme from whatever generation it was first built on creates a jarring and confusing experience. I respect backwards compatibility, but I would suggest Microsoft looked at IBM's MVS and its descendants to learn how it's properly done.
Checklists are great! Until TPTB decide everything should be a checklist, and then that everyone needs to be trained to the checklist and no more than that, and then start punishing any deviation from said checklists, and the all the newbies go 'why should I learn all this technical stuff, it's not needed for the checklist?'.

And then something changes and no one knows how to do anything but follow the checklist that doesn't work anymore....
Both could be happening. Guess if we are assigning some guilt, then it would depend on self awareness?
Leopard was my first Mac OS, and Snow Leopard (obviously) my second, and boy was it great. I miss it so much...
I hope this doesn't change Nordstrom too much. One of the last department stores worth stopping into. JC Penny and Macys feel so run down (and I'm talking a nice Southern California mall, not one somewhere in the middle of the country). Bloomingdales is nice too, but they don't seem like they'll have the same staying power.
> Violence is for people who fail in all of that.

Yes. But the amount of people that still failed after all of that is ever growing.
So many tools don’t even let you change that! I can forgive not defaulting to the XDG directories but when you can change it I’m just frustrated.
This is why being in low interest debt is so amazing. Take two people with the exact same job tracks, same appartments, family, interests, etc...

But give one of them $2,000,000 in mortgage debt at 3.0% interest on 3 properties that are rented out, and don't have the other have anything.

In 15 years, those properties will be worth 2-3x as much, and the debt will still be 2,000,000. This is what happened to boomers even though they don't realize it. Its not that houses are some amazing investment, its that no one will give you 7figure loans at 3% interest to buy stocks with money you don't have, but they will do it for a property.
You can boycott things for whatever political reasons you want, but boycotting something for political reasons is very different than boycotting to improve your own security. My impression is that it is the latter the original post was suggesting, and its the latter that doesn't make sense to me, as a practical matter.
I understand this in part is an issue with the fashion industry. AFAIK you might order 100 green S, 100 red M and you get 150 blue L and 50 red M (simplified example). Haven't done anything related to this in over ten years though. Things might have gotten better and depend on your scale/leverage.
I checked it, and the issuer of this bond (Hoogheemraadschap De Stichtse Rijnlanden) indeed does not seem to have a LEI!
I guess conversely, if you had a bond dominated in say Francs and the currency goes away do you just default?
Note "Disagree and commit" is known as "Democratic Centralism" in Leninism.
Weird comment. Who said anything about being a fan?

I wouldn’t say I’m a “fan” of windows. But I definitely hate my life when I’m forced to use Linux.
I think it would be best served coupled, so their physical locations would basically turn into try-on/look at only mostly, kinda like early wably parker stores? the IRL stuff would be thin layer retail, experiences, coffee shop etc, but you would mostly buy, buy, buy again online. I think it could work if it was well executed!
Why HNSW is not the answer and disk-based alternatives might be more practical
Just a comment: the example o1 got wrong was actually underspecified: https://anokas.substack.com/p/o3-and-arc-agi-the-unsolved-ta...

Which is actually a problem I have with ARC (and IQ tests more generally): it is computationally cheaper to go from ARC transformation rule -> ARC problem than it is the other way around. But this means it’s pretty easy to generate ARC problems with non-unique solutions.
The resurgence of interest in self-running generators is not merely a technical curiosity; it is a revolutionary act of reclaiming suppressed knowledge. These technologies, once dismissed or relegated to the fringes, have the power to disrupt the foundations of energy monopolies and the global economy they underpin.

As we explore circuit improvements that enhance efficiency and integrate cold electricity into practical systems, we take steps toward a more sustainable, equitable world. Whether used for personal autonomy or as a tool for broader societal change, self-running generators embody the potential for a brighter future - one where technology serves humanity rather than enslaves it.

By rediscovering and advancing these principles, we not only challenge the status quo but also honor the ingenuity of those who envisioned a world free from energy scarcity. The path to energy independence lies before us; it is now up to us to walk it.

* The Real Conspiracy of Child Abduction in the 19th and 20th Centuries: https://www.reddit.com/r/Tartaria_Re/comments/1h9gka2/tartar...
People speak highly of Brother printers and I've been happy with mine. On top of it, lots of people don't really print anything day to day.
Google Search Changes Are Killing Websites in an Age of AI Spam
Print is dying. It took a while to realize the "paperless office" and we aren't quite there yet, but in my office, the amount of stuff people print has really dropped in the past decade. Stores offer email or text message receipts, doctor's offices have you fill out forms online.

Printers are not a growth market, so not very attractive to a start-up.
This paper argues that the Timescape model [0] provides a better fit than the cold dark matter model when examining Type Ia Supernovae. According to the Timescape model, clocks run faster in voids where the gravitational field is less, and significant differences exist between a galaxy floating in a void and one like the Milky Way Galaxy. The Timescape model suggests that other models, which fail to account for these differences, lead to less accurate calculations and less plausible solutions.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inhomogeneous_cosmology?useski...
Rally didn't really change much before the purchase either. But the price going up by a lot is why we dropped it.

don't count on whatever work tracker you have is my advice. I've never seen a company stick with one for more, than 10 years. And now I have a lot of code comments about something weird that should not be simplifed because of some bug in the old system. And since closed bugs don't move - and even if they did they get new numbering - I have no ability to look upthat bug and ensure it doesn't break if I need to change the code.
Perl 6 is still alive?
Unveiling the Mechanisms of DAI: A Logic-Based Approach to Stablecoin Analysis
As a means of control
The issue would be finding an asset (or group of assets) that 1) held value and 2) you could maintain ownership over continuously for 400 years. Cities, kingdoms, countries, currencies, corporations, banks, markets all rise and go extinct over much shorter periods.
I love the "please do not imitate dangerous actions" caption as the guy climbs on to the robot, who could have one of these and not try riding it?
So...perhaps worthy of further study, maybe including to understand where exposure comes from, and whether the particles are absorbed? Like this study.