skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, hacking the password manager doesn’t involve you meeting a $5 wrench.
LLM proponents really have succeeded in moving the overton window on this discussion. "Sure, you cannot trust LLMs, but you cannot trust humans, either".
The business case I give is a website which has a predictable spike in traffic which tails off.

In the UK we have a huge charity fundraising event called Red Nose Day and the public can donate online (or telephone if they want to speak to a volunteer).

The website probably sees 90% of their traffic on the day itself - millions of users - and the remaining 10% tailing off a few days later. Then nothing.

The elasticity of the cloud allows the charity to massively scale their compute power for ONE day, then reduce it for a few days, and drop back down to a skeleton infrastructure until the next event - in a few years time.

(FWIW I have no clue if Red Nose Day ever uses the cloud but it's a great example of a business case requiring temporary high capacity compute to minimise costs)
What's the expected longevity of the solutions put in place? I mean, doesn't just take a swarm migration outside state border to reverse the trend?
Renewable energy has been the cheaper option in remote areas for a while now, solar demand in Pakistan has skyrocted recently.

Solar powered water pumps and water purification has been a commodity and charity item since 2023 (that I recall) eg:

https://nrsp.org.pk/hand-operated-and-solar-powered-portable...

https://www.bondheshams.org/
Not a good day to have Honey in the list :)
Why isn't it a crime to preside over a company that prioritizes profit over people's lives? The Nazis couldn't claim "I was just running the concentration camp" as a defense. The CEO of a company has the most power to change it, and definitely enough power to say "fuck this, find another CEO".
I think they meant in terms of American cultural understanding, not latitude. I suspect most Americans don’t think of Russia as in Asia (despite the fact that it is) or Japan as being as far north as it actually is.
I don’t care if you like it.

I care if I’ll like it.

How do you tell if someone else will like it without education?
It seems like they added it after they were harassed by the lawsuit.
These servers are kinda tiny, and ignore the cost of storage. From the article, $252,000/y for 1 PB is crazy, and that's just storing it. There's also the CapEx vs OpEx aspect.
I’m not exactly the biggest fan of JSON either but given the clusterfuck of established email technologies, moaning about JSON is a little hypocritical.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_pot_calling_the_kettle_b...
One side note: the provider is not required to put the content back up, it is at their discretion.
Gitlab can no longer service Mainland China, Macao, and Hong Kong
I often see people recommending Python as a replacement for Bash scripts (utilizing common Unix tools like grep and awk). I'm pretty sure a script from 2016 will still be working fine now.
Fair enough, but this doesn't sound like a major correction, does it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFc1jxLHhyM
How is that even detectable as a symptom these days with mass insanity being in vogue, repeatedly?
I think this misunderstands how Rust enums work. The discriminator is separate from the payload, unless niches are involved (they probably wouldn’t be here - note that -2 is a valid pid_t). You cannot go and pass a Rust enum to any FFI function directly (without extra annotations, at least); you’d have to specifically extract the pid_t from the enum before passing it to an FFI function like kill(). And you can only obtain a pid_t from the Pid variant; if the enum holds a different variant, the compiler will stop you from trying to pull out a pid_t.
Yeah, it's kinda weird, the kind of people who are suddenly pretending to be into wildlife preservation. If they were honest about it, they'd also look into bigger bird killers like high rise buildings, powerlines, cars, domestic cats. Also, climate change disrupting ecosystems is unlikely to be good.

But it's probably a good idea to build wind farms outside major migratory routes.
At the risk of being that guy who always brings up rust:

enum Process {
Invalid,
Terminated,
Pid(libc::pid_t),
}

There would be no way you could pass instances of the first two enum variants to kill(). Rust is of course not the only language where you can express something like this; e.g. in Scala2:

sealed trait Process
object Process (
case object Invalid extends Process
case object Terminated extends Process
case class Pid(pid: Int) extends Process
}

Does D have algebraic data types? Only allowing enums to be represented by integers is a language weakness.
Since it's about football you no longer have to "check with the Russians", they're banned from all major competitions. One major misnomer is referring to Soviet citizens as Russians, the majority of USSR population weren't Russians but other ethnicities. Wikipedia has a bunch of this history falsehoods specially when talking about Red Army brigades consisting entirely of other ethnic minorities and referring to them as Russians. Actually calling Canadians- Americans is more correct, at least it's technically correct which is best kind of correct.
My feeling is that, while the rest of Big Tech is busy kissing Trump's ring at Mar-a-Lago, Musk is something between Trump's consigliere and Trump's owner.

I also don't think that it's going to end well for them, but it might last a while. Also, Trump is pretty old, so it's entirely possible that he'll die before they have a falling out.
Sadly, Google and Microsoft are in the business of getting their users to use their own gmail and outlook clients. They don't want to be invisible IMAP/JMAP back-ends, they want to own your e-mail experience.
Yes. I'm working on it
For now.

If you thought botting on reviews was bad now, LLMs and the like are going to supercharge spam and drown us all in a grey goo of bullshit.
!remindme 1 year (oops, we're not on reddit)

Very interesting prediction! I wouldn't be surprised.
It's the same kind of entertainment one gets from putting random obstructions in front of a Roomba, but this time there's a scared person inside. Irresistible for some.

I didn't predict this would happen, but now it seems obvious. I hope they find a way to prevent it.
I'm not an implementor but this particular set of requirements has been explored pretty extensively by blockchain developers wanting smart contract execution environments.

See e.g: https://www.nervos.org/knowledge-base/comparing_blockchain_v...
A task that is completed and kills us is pretty much the opposite of a Sisyphean task.
Why does everybody thinks first this has something to do with your nationality? This is the Stammtisch. I'm from Germany and when I come with my little son to a restaurant we also can not sit there. Same right for all
Why not? Because crypto is somehow easier to buy/liquidate than gold?
Not OP, but yeah, ollama is super easy to install.

I just installed the Docker version and created a little wrapper script which starts and stops the container. Installing different models is trivial.

I think I already had CUDA set up, not sure if that made a difference. But it's quick and easy. Set it up, fuck around for an hour or so while you get things working, then you've got your own local LLM you can spin up whenever you want.
This is so interesting: not just this visual rep but the conjecture generally, and the iteration's production of 'pseudorandom' patterns.

Hints at deep stuff between the two simplest prime divisors of integers: 2 and 3, you have this iterated function that branches based on divisibility by 2 and changes proportional to 3. The addition of plus one really throws a spanner in the works, ensuring it's no longer divisible by 3, but whether it's divisible by 2 or not after the addition seems almost 50-50.

So cool - one day we will unravel all these patterns, see the higher order of which these are simpler cases glimpsed partially and it will all make sense! :)
Nar it was Live and Kicking

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmNPyQ-OOp0

But it’s easy to muddle the two shows given the time that’s passed and similarities between the two.
Was curious so just searched. Apparently Honey would try to get the best coupon codes on the web, but they started partnering with businesses to give (say) 10% off via a Honey-specific discount code (e.g. HONEY10), but Honey would ignore other (possibly greater) discounts, thus lulling users into a false sense of security that they were getting the best deal when they often weren't.
It's interesting yet saddening to play out the consequences along the path you've outlined. LGBT kids, by definition a 2-4% minority, are unlikely to find other people like themselves. They remain closeted for longer, trying and failing to conform. Their struggle will be unfortunate, but also not measurable.

What will be measurable is the % of youth who identify as LGBT, which will be lower because more of them would be closeted. That'll be a win for people who want to "protect kids from LGBT ideology".
Calling a technology boring is such an odd thing. Is a screwdriver boring and stale? Are microwaves boring and stale? The expectation of getting regular dopamine rushes from new smartphone features is not healthy
Oh, what a surprise, I thought PyO3 was dead. Glad to see it's not!
I'm optimistic in the sense that I believe that if the EU offered to pay for the weapons, then the Trump government won't mind supplying them. The issue is that it would be difficult for the EU to reach an internal agreement.
Hey, you two! I'm also in Hamburg. I'm also up for a beverage. You can reach me at canolcer@hey.com. We can also meet up the three of us if we manage...
Books and social media platforms are actually two different things
https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1tDzUTGyjnBSAJbID... Massive repo of all Trends for 2025
Only 4 data points.

There are meaningful differences this time around: Trump support of Bitcoin lobby and mainstream ETFs.
Behind several versions of No Man's Sky, let alone whatever madness the LLM people have been cooking.
"DeceptionAds" – A Glimpse to the Dark Side of Internet Advertising
Meh. Critics are just people with an opinion that have a way of writing that people like. My friend's movie critiques much better align with my personal taste than any critics opinion.

Critics are a privileged bunch and I'm happy the 'profession' is dying - or opened up for everybody to have a stab at it. I mean, there's thousands and tens of thousands of critics on YouTube.
Most of this is the president elect's manifesto.
Google and AI companies will continue to plunder the web. Websites - especially small independent ones - will see further traffic losses to AI summaries of their content.
Even as a native English speaker, I only understand the literal meaning, not how it (or the original) would apply here.
How does this differ from a regular internal monologue/voice?

Anyone with vivid episodic recall will self-critize the awkwardness dredged up by memory
Synthesis: The Human Element in Search's Evolution
You might reset the single position (which would invalidate all matching items) which is better than recalculating everything or mass invalidation.

My guess though is that many use cases are likely data stores that don't experience deletes at all.
You can use https://stalw.art. Compared to other email stacks, it is very easy to set up. Its support is on par with Fastmail.
I develop a JMAP email app (https://mailtemi.com) and have run equal tests against stalw.art locally as well as Fastmail.
And how do you do with education? And what education? How exactly do you educate yourself in preparation to be a critic? I firmly believe that's nonsense and nothing but gatekeeping.
The article says "at the start of the join operation the bits will be set in the bloom filter".

So maybe this is built for every query? Would be needed anyway if there is a where clause for the joined table.
That is also a broader epistemological question one could ask about truth on the internet or even truth in general. You have to interrogate reality
Gold will always retain value. Stocks and crypto can fall to 0. It is the only asset that has retained high value for thousands of years.

When the future in uncertain (like start of a war/pandemic), gold is a safe heaven. Stocks and crypto get obliterated in panics.
Besides, MS already have their own solution that goes way beyond just mail: Microsoft Graph
> I'm pretty sure a bash script from 2016 will still be working fine now.

In some environments, yes. A bunch of platforms have started using bash-compatible (but not actually bash) shells like fish to help with startup performance. Apple has upgraded from a truly ancient version of bash to a somewhat-modern one in that time (and then gone all-in on zsh instead). Things change on the scale of a decade.
Gitlab's announcement from 2021: https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2021/03/18/gitlab-licensed-tec...
I don’t think it’s a bot thing. Traffic is down for everyone and especially smaller independent websites. This year has been really rough for some websites.
Earlier in this thread, people mention the counterpoint to this: they Google the information from the LLM and do more reading. It's an excellent starting point for researching a topic: you can't trust everything it says, but if you don't know where to start, it will very likely get you to a good place to start researching.

Similarly, while you can't fully trust everything a journalist says, it's obviously better to have journalism than to have nothing: the "Ikon Value Problem" doesn't mean that journalism should be eradicated. Pre-LLMs, we really had nothing like LLMs in this way.
Also a good place for under the table negotiations for state contracts but that is less spoken about :-)
See, now we’re getting somewhere. This is far more interesting than just going “we need quality”.

> It's curious that the first sentence mentions social and political issues, whereas the second sentence completely ignores them.

I didn’t talk about them here because I wasn’t really interested in getting into an argument about it. I think you know me well enough to agree that I am well aware of the social and political implications of these kinds of attacks, and that I do actually care about them quite a lot. It’s just that this comment section and even sometimes Hacker News in general is not a great place to talk about a country’s policy on offensive cyberattacks or industry opposition preventing moving to safer practices, for example.

> You also mention valuing "iteration speed" without acknowledging the predictable devastation this has on quality.

You know I don’t actually necessarily think this is as simple as you say it is. Obviously rushing to ship will lead to worse quality. But being able to iterate and release software faster can sometimes have a positive impact on quality. Compare the quality of our favorite vendor’s browser to, say, Google’s: I think it is quite reasonable to say that the software quality of the latter is actually far higher, and bugs get fixed faster, specifically because of their release cadence. Now, I don’t actually want to use Chrome and there are a hundred people working on sneaking in ads into it or whatever, but it’s not actually “ship slow and get it right”.

> Anyone who operates purely according to financial incentives will inevitably cut corners.

I think (vaguely, don’t hold me to this) that societally we do too little to punish this and that uncut corners should be valued more highly. But again you don’t hear me going “yeah everyone sucks because of money” as my comment because I don’t think this is a novel insight and I have nothing more to add. This was the reason why I said the software quality discussion wasn’t super interesting.
Curious what you make of the The Last Jedi then: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/star_wars_the_last_jedi

A terribly lazy movie that even the popcorn-guzzling public could see through, but which mysteriously received rave reviews from the “culturally elite” critics.
> Cost of renewable electricity in remote area becomes cheap enough to pull oxygen from air or electrosis from water to be sold as commodity

Oxygen is already kind of a commodity. Did you mean hydrogen? Anyway, this isn't going to happen, look at retail power prices.

> Top search engine results completely inundated by LLM text, we none the wiser. SEO solved. Search engine switches to new algorithm based on LLM.

I'm not sure in what sense SEO is "solved" here, but this basically puts the Internet into a nasty local minimum where it's kind of good enough for information you don't care about, but will feed you wrong information often enough to cause problems, while having stripped all the traditional reliability signals. Possibly also kills what's left of fact-based journalism.
So "you're holding it wrong" then? I don't get why you wouldn't want to have a reliable well-designed API for process management?
> So why are wind turbines singled out?

Because the oil lobby only objects to windmills, and not to buildings, powerlines, domestic cats, and certainly not to cars. And the oil industry has the funds to control the narrative, and this is a narrative that may get some environmentalists to work for them.

The counter is of course to widen the discussion to all manmade structures that kill birds, especially glassy high-rises.
Maybe I'm completely wrong (as an outside than never touched anything ML other than OCaml), but Idris 2 does seem like a "clean Haskell" minus the laziness.
https://llimllib.github.io/bloomfilter-tutorial/ for understanding how bloom filters work
Not the GP, but just last week Google automatically removed a single use extension (https://readermode.io) from my browser after flagging it as malware (as I recall the extension updated itself a day before the removal). The extension has also been taken down from the Chrome web store (https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/reader-mode/llimhhc...) though Google hasn't provided any details about what it was doing that led to the removal.
Thx for taking a look!
70% is the end of the world for traditional stocks, not a "correction"!
This isn't a TOCTOU problem. This is a problem of using sentinel values to mean other things, when those sentinel values won't ever get returned by getpid(), but kill() will accept those values and do something you didn't intend.

The fix was to check if the PID variable was set to one of the sentinel values, and not call kill() at all if that's what they are.
It's more: we have two clusterfucks now thus might as well use the one we know best.

At least no one tried to use YAML on the wire, so far anyway.
It’s even worse. They steal from other promoters. Say you watch a LTT video and use one of their affiliate links. If you have honey installed they will replace the link with their own affiliate link and cash the promotion bonus without any promotion by themselves.
And, they highjacked referral links, ensuring they got referral commission, not the original referrer.
Thinkerbell Postmortem/Brain Dump
Woman dies after being set on fire on NYC subway
No, the latter is absolutely a 200 because of separation of concerns and layering.

The HTTP server, when it detects "URI handler not found" condition, builds an 404 HTTP response and sends it as a normal payload through the underlying connection instead of turning it into an TLS error packet or an RST packet on TCP level (that's the TCP's standard response for "port handler process not found", after all) or something silly like that, and that is absolutely fine, because the application-level (HTTP) error messages should be transmitted by the transport level (TLS/TCP) just as normal messages would.

The same reasoning holds just the same when we consider the usage of HTTP as a transport-level protocol for some higher-level RPC exchange. Yes, HTTP has some assortment of error codes that superficially look like they can be reused to serve as the upper-layer errors as well but that's a red herring.
Whait, you want AI-Controlled netshooting policerobots on the street?
Spherical harmonics are exact solutions to electronic states for hydrogen-«style» atoms.
Run headless chrome and execute each script on a web page.
He will still get older, and could gain (muscle) weight!
Musings on Media in the Age of AI
I was about to post something similar. Agree with you 100%. A lot of really good indie bands can't duplicate their success on their second album because they've used up all they had, which is completely normal to do. They can't hold back and keep good songs for the second album which probably will never come. It's the sign of a very prolific band or member that they can keep pumping out quality albums year in and year out.
Candida auris cell surface adhesins identified
Had to editorialize the title because it was too long.

TL;DR; Researchers identified two potential targets to reduce the strong biofilm produced by Candida Auris, which could result in new ways to treat the pesky fungus.
This is really impressive. I usually try a technical documentation link to test this kind of service. Yours got the content and ignored the sidebar, nav, and inline right nav bar.

Great job.
I am just curious about this. You said the word never, and I think your claim can be tested, perhaps you could post a list of five obscure questions for a LLM to answer and then someone could ask that to a good LLM for you, or an expert in that field, to assess the value of the answers.

Edited: I just submitted an ASK HN post about this.
I think the first "big tech" adopter would be Apple if anything. Their entire email stack is standard protocols.

But you have to ask on that scale, what would it bring them other than change if everything already works fine?
> Yet one thing that these minimalistic text-based interfaces are terrible for is rendering mathematical notation.

You can notate mathematics using text. In fact the mathematic notation rendered to vector graphics/bitmaps is typically rendered from such text-based notation.

Mathematics is increasingly done using text-based notation (e.g. Lean, Mathematica, SymPy), which I actually prefer because it's typically unambiguous unlike the traditional notation with wildly varying conventions and a lot left implicit or even ill-defined.
A search engine of PeerTube videos, channels and playlists
Litestream replicates continuously. sqlite3_rsync takes a snapshot. How do you plan to use the latter?
MSGraph is slower and not as convenient for email compared to JMAP. In addition to requiring more API calls for the same result, MSGraph starts throttling with HTTP 429 responses after several calls, making the initial synchronization much slower than JMAP or even IMAP.

Hopefully, next year there will be JMAP support for Contacts. As RFC drafts, there are already JMAP specifications for Files and Calendar...
If you need to work on numerical computation with spherical harmonics, I’ve used this library with some success.

https://github.com/SHTOOLS/SHTOOLS
I used to use extensions in the chrome, but then I noticed that my dev server private urls were being botted.
Only way for them to get leaked was virus, google or some extension.
For me it seemed like the Window Resizer -addon was leaking every url I visited.
And it's not the only addon that seem to use google analytics. wtf?
This feature existed already, I remember a time when you could transfer data over Bluetooth between completely different cellphones.
Every human in the world is a random person, including you.
The premise that the USDA avoided calling this the Northern Asian Giant Hornet to avoid the implication that this came from North Korea seems quite absurd to me.