skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article touches on a tension I've been feeling too with the rise of LLMs. I feel that analogies can be drawn to time management and systems of productivity, like GTD. Like in a GTD system, you almost need the various projects, tasks, next steps, deadlines, commitments, etc. to live in your head so you can make intuitive decisions about what you should be working on at the moment; something that AI almost by definition can't do, since your subjectivity is essential in this process, but in certain ways may be able to assist.
Bipartisan House Report on AI
Ashley Madison did it and it became a scandal
There's a 1500 year old company - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kong%C5%8D_Gumi
Genuinely interested what the downvoters find offensive or unreasonable about me having a coping strategy that works for preventing me to kill myself...?

After all, I am not criticizing those who have different coping strategies to protect their mental health, including to keep world news at distance. That just does not work for ME.

Care to enlighten me?
If a used car salesman says a specific car is in great condition and fits all of your needs, you don't verify their claim by asking what the downsides are. You take the car to a trusted mechanic and have them look it over before finalizing the contract.
There's just been a twitter post by Omar Khattab (@lateinteraction) on encoding documents into a scoring function instead of a simple vector for the work on ColBERT - and maybe at some point using a DNN as scoring function.

So, yes, maybe there's a way to "distribute" RAG. (I still wonder if that isn't just MoE taken to its logical conclusion)

So, dig for ColBERT papers, might be helpful. (I wish I had the time to do that)
Renewables won't save us from climate catastrophe, experts warn; what will?
IIRC it’s because plastic cutting boards can be put into a sanitizing dishwasher with reliable minimum-effort sanitary outcomes, whereas wood cutting boards require more rigorous care to remain sanitary and so the US generally bans their use rather than allowing rigor as an option. In the US, rigor is historically something one can trust food producers to sacrifice first in favor of turnaround time, profits, etc. so it does make sense that they’ve just given up and disallowed it. For possible exceptions, look into bamboo cookware and/or sushi preparation?
IMO, Github stars and number of "forks" are just as good a metric as "number of daily downloads" of a library or Docker image or similar.

After noticing how many, many companies run many, many builds through their CI systems and (for a variety of reasons) end up re-downloading everything those builds require, regardless of whether or not it has changed since the last time they ran the build, I've come to the firm conclusion that these metrics are just plain bad if one uses them as a basis to make any significant decision.
Not an expert in this field, but I would guess you could use spectrometry/spectroscopy tools to tell you what the elemental composition is, maybe a SEM to work out the crystallization?

Either way, cloning an established leader isn't always a good strategy for success. You might just end up making a name for yourself as a cheap clone.
It's hard to get really worked up about courts falling on one side or the other of an argument between multibillion dollar corporations about how to allocate bandwidth costs.
And yet these people are dwarved by the number of developers crunching out generic line of business CRUD apps every day.
Show HN: SaaS boilerplate directory for French devs
On the contrary, it gives me various ways to determine that my laptop is in a trustworthy state before I type a password into it, and it makes it possible for Signal to verify that the server it's communicating with hasn't been tampered with. It can be used in ways that hurt the user, but it can also be used in ways that benefit them.
64-bit Windows XP with the 2000 look and feel was the peak
Normware: The Decline of Software Engineering?
The difference is that theft is a criminal offense, where you’ll be prosecuted by the state.

Violation of a software license is not a criminal offense but a breach of contract, opening you up to civil suits. So, it’s up to the rights holder to file suit and drag you to court for damages.
*sad noises from NixOS/nixpkgs, llvm/llvm-project, and all other repos with an absurd commit log/branches that takes ages to do a full clone

(just a joke that immediately came to mind, not intended to undermine OP's idea)
i tell my kids, "get good at learning and you don't have to get good at any anything else".
I sort by most amount of stars quite frequently when I am learning a new language and want to know what the most popular package is for something. What do you think would be a better metric for a use case like that?
Correct, we will release the open-source in Feb.

But example projects and clients are on GitHub:
https://github.com/unbody-io
> (it's like proof of work, it needs compute to clone a repo)

It's github's compute, so why do I (the person who's cloning the repo) care about the compute? I don't pay for it!
Again my friend read carefully: we both totally agree in “ghrelin levels determine hunger”.

what I’m saying, is that one of many reasons (some of them even not even related to the digestive tract, you can also google that) influence the leves of that hormone, one of them, happens to be the triggering of fat reserves, AND/OR there are another paths from which you also can feel the urge to eat when the body starts using reserves.

I say A implies B, B implies C therefore A implies C (or maybe A implies C directly).

Where A is “body uses reserves”, B “hormone rises“, C “feel hunger”. You say B implies C, therefore A does not imply C. You are rambling and not being able to follow basic logic. Sorry. I’m not moving any posts here. You want to show you are right, please illuminate me: show me a serious article where it clearly states that there is absolutely no relation between the body using fat reserves and the sense of hunger. That would be new for me, and I can forward that to the MD specialist in diets that told me wrong.

I’m not claiming I’m expert, I could be wrong, I cleared say “I know it from somebody I trust“. But telling me, that because some hormone has a role in it, what I say is false, is an absolutely trivial falacy.
It could, but why? They've come up with a solution that avoids having to place any trust in the OS at all, so why introduce additional complexity and fragility?
Got it, that makes sense. And yeah, one place I worked tracked time in 30 min increments for instance and stuff like bathroom breaks were just lost in the noise of that. Current place is at the minute level, so stuff like that doesn't get tracked as billed time.
Another relevant aspect of Japanese management is the enforcement of consensus decision-making, which blunts the influence of the highly competent and incompetent.
This could be used to send a single file in a tar. Nice!
Professional Decline Is Coming (Much) Sooner Than You Think (2019)
sometimes I star my own github repos does that count as fake
> Once you stop thinking iteratively and start thinking in set operations it becomes quite natural and powerful.

I dunno... I've written a tremendous amount of SQL, and I still have to think imperatively (iteratively) in order to write queries that are actually performant, and to know which indexes need to exist.

It would be wonderful if I could just think in terms of set operations, but that tends to result in queries that take 5 minutes to execute rather than 5 milliseconds.

My entire thought process is basically -- what table do I start with, what rows in what order, joining to what, under what conditions, aggregating how, rinse and repeat... It's entirely a mental model of loops and aggregation, never of set operations.
Siri "unintentionally" recorded private convos; Apple agrees to pay $95M
> Consider that one wouldn't complain as much about a super fucked up nested query (and resulting SQL syntax woes) if it wasn't necessary to write such a query in the first place.

And in "modern" SQL this is solved with CTEs. Use them to unwrap the schema the way you want it first, before implementing the business logic.
Maybe at the very top, but the middle is full of wannabees looking to be a rockstar for the clout/popularity.
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List of Products with Microplastics
This is the best take I have seen yet in this whole post.
You don't need to crowdsource everything. I've never used stars as a good metric because it's literally zero effort. It's anybody who happens by just stars it, So all you can really conclude from star count is that this is interesting to this number of people.

Two metrics that I think correlate extremely highly with quality: The number of commits in the repository and the date of the most recent commit. I've used a metric based on those two inputs for the past 15 years to evaluate repos and I am not disappointed. Depending on the nature of the project, I weigh the two attributes differently. Some projects are arguably, 'done', and so the date of the most recent commit is not very important in that case.
The Ottoman Turkish alphabet (which I assume the logo in the linked article uses) uses the Arabic script, so the letters are the same. I don't think a British person would be offended to know that the English alphabet is based on the Latin script, even if they aren't Romans themselves.
It's that eternal push/pull "war" between "we need a sproc that can report this directly from the SQL server" and "please don't do things directly on the SQL server because you'll route around important application code" and "it's a feature not a bug that you can't just look things up by ID in the DB without a little bit of extra work".

I did work on a project using ULIDs in SQL Server. They were stored in uniqueidentifier fields with a complex byte swap from ULID to fake-UUID to get better storage/indexing out of SQL Server [1]. There was an attempt to use SQL Functions to display/search the ULID form directly in the database, but it was never as bug free as the C# byte order code and so it was definitely not recommended doing it directly in the DB and that if a "report" was missing it should be a part of the application (which was already almost nothing but a bloated "reporting" tool) or in a related "configuration" application. It did feel more like a feature than a bug because it did keep some meddling and drama out of the DB. I also see the arguments for why in some different types of applications it makes debugging a lot harder and those arguments make sense and it is definitely a trade-off to consider.

[1] The rabbit hole into SQL Server's ancient weird UUID sort order: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20190426-00/?p=10...
Autodesk deserves to be poster child for enshitification.

A few weeks ago I found a video that allowed me to work around a bug in Inventor 2025 that has existed for 20 years… the video was a grainy screen capture from a Windows 97 machine!

And each year I pay more for a product that gets worse.
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It's also just standard human psychology after you've spent $40k, advertisers have relied on this for decades.
> cymbals
...
> that's hard to beat.

:cough: I mean, they're not... that hard to beat... :cough:
What are you talking about? He wrote the book covertly in the Soviet Union:

> After the KGB had confiscated Solzhenitsyn's materials in Moscow, during 1965–1967, he worked to develop his preparatory drafts of The Gulag Archipelago into finished typescript. He accomplished some of this while in hiding at his friends' homes in the Moscow region and elsewhere. While held at the KGB's Lubyanka Prison in 1945, Solzhenitsyn had befriended Arnold Susi, a lawyer and former Estonian Minister of Education, who had been taken captive after the Soviet Union occupied Estonia in 1944. Solzhenitsyn entrusted Susi with the original typed and proofread manuscript of the finished work, after copies had been made of it both on paper and on microfilm. Susi got the manuscript to his daughter, Heli Susi, who kept the "master copy" hidden from the KGB in Estonia until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.
The problem is cutting boards break off little bits of plastic with use and your body has evolved zero mechanism for disposing of microplastics once they are in your system.

https://www.ewg.org/news-insights/news/2023/10/making-meals-...
https://phys.org/news/2024-12-microplastics-multiple-human-t...
Carbon Dating: Radiocarbon Laboratories [pdf]
Coffeedoro: Slowing Down to Speed Up
Hackers target VPN and AI extensions for Chrome to compromise data
Caring has no more capitL interests.

Also, capitalism is sociopathic at the first order so all we are talking about is trimming the sails to keep speed vs trying to get to a destination. Capital doesnt care what the destination is, it just wants to be first.

Line goed up

Using the word "pretend" mischaracterizes the so iopaths.
Curious why dutasteride vs finasteride
If you were wondering about fake forks, spoiler alert

> counts in Cluster 1 come from merchants that only sell stars, while accounts in Cluster 2 come from merchants selling stars and forks simultaneously
When I tell people I don't have WhatsApp, you'd swear I just castrated their father on live television. I just don't use Meta products, that's all!
> If truth is objective, then we must always be open to the possibility of being wrong. Thus respect for others should lead us to be careful about claiming that we know anything for certain, and that means believing that truth is more than just [simple relativism].

While there are truths in context, this is only the case because there is often a common denominator which supports each context.

Relativism is often validated by examples which work on higher-level abstractions without doing the work to find the common underlying thread for each example, and how this divergence in truth often occurs.

In fact, the reasons for each divergence is often a common denominator in and of itself.

Relativism itself is a higher level abstraction for addressing the effects of different higher level abstractions, and all of this gets us farther away from any fundamental truth.
It’s what plants crave!
[dupe] Some more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42578237
None of tgese businesses care beyond 6 months
Our CEO can work from wherever he wants and makes 240x what I make. I want his butt in a seat in the office that's a 45 minute drive from his house 5 days a week. I'd be happy to take a 240x raise to give up 8 hours a week to commuting, he should too.
I believe that if you're doing some heavy chopping, that orientation keeps the cutting board in good condition for the longest time, as you're not cutting through the wood grain and taking chunks out of the board.

Separately I've heard that while bacteria can live in wood cutting boards, they tend to stay where they are rather than migrate out of the board and into the food -- but I can't back that up with any actual references.
I mean, I appreciate the effort, but my average notebook uses gb to tb of ram and vram. At that scale having mb is...
MySQL Ifnull Is Tricky
There's a lot of concern about the lack of net neutrality being unfair in the sense it gives providers the ability to make traffic to sites slower, but does not having net neutrality also mean they can simply refuse to send/receive to specific domains or IP addresses?
There are some indirect ways.

Suspecting users can try the software to see if it has the exact same functionality or bugs as the copied GPL library. This is of course not a definite proof, but some amount of rare enough coincidences can be considered as a very strong sign for copying. Legal measures can be taken on account of these evidences.

And of course there is always the option of a whistleblower.
Show HN: Word in 2 (Puzzle)
Fair points. I was aware of this anti fraud angle of WEI/attestations before.

From this point on this is more of an emotional argument rather than a technical one, but I feel like the negative effects way outweigh the positive ones. Giving MORE power (be it technical or poltical) to big tech companies is just tipping the scales in their favor so much we will even worse off than we already are.

But if you work in anti-fraud and are fixated on solving this problem as effectively as possible, I can imagine not caring about this too if I were you...
ULID guarantees monotonicity only per process, and it requires ID generation to be serialized. I find the promise quite misleading because of that. You might as well use a wide-enough integer with the current timestamp + random as baseline for the same purpose, but I wouldn't recommend that either.
No, from apparently RT owned AP news:

https://apnews.com/article/europe-butter-prices-40fe30965677...

"Across the 27-member European Union, the price of butter rose 19% on average from October 2023 to October 2024, including by 49% in Slovakia, and 40% in Germany and the Czech Republic, according to figures provided to The Associated Press by the EU’s executive arm. Reports from individual countries indicate the cost has continued to go up in the months since."

Comment from a Polish official:

"She and others also cite higher energy costs from Russia’s war in Ukraine as impacting milk production."
Seastar runs everything in kernel mode.
So when I ask if the iPhone are more expensive than Android, your answer is "given that they go for iPhone or high end Androids, they are the same price"? It means that some contracts are cheaper, for cheaper Androids, right?

Not sure I understand.
Open weights are nice, but they're just the end product of a black box process (training data, alignment methods, filtering choices, etc).

Like with all of these models, we don't know what's in them.
>I was using it to show the ridiculousness of blaming a user for the shortcomings of cloudflare.

That doesn't advance the conversation, or show that cloudflare should be always as fault, as you seem to imply. Even if people are pro privacy/freedom, I think most wouldn't give the individual (as opposed to the security provider) unlimited leeway, as seen in the bank example.
Neil Young pulls out of Glastonbury: festival 'under corporate control' of BBC
[dupe] Some more: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42578237
When you realize recursive SQL allows iterative calculation then you can pretty much do whatever you want, no matter how bad.
default to git --shallow in the cli can be one option here.
64GB of RAM isn't that much for full chip simulation of a "high performance" CPU.
> Just because in some place a practice is considered to be okay (morally, whatever), does not mean ... [that it] has to be tolerated without comment...

Sure, I agree. If you were USian, I would defend to the death your right to speak openly and publicly about your concerns. [0]

And just because you feel strongly about your incorrect opinion about a widely-held-to-be-acceptable practice in USian journalism doesn't mean that I have to let that incorrect opinion pass by without comment.

It's a big world, and there are differing opinions on many, many things... morals (and the formation of explanatory systems overtop of the same) included.

[0] Whereas if you're in a more draconian jurisdiction that would prohibit such comments, I'll be publicly miffed about it and express my deep displeasure.
This gave me a funny idea - play continuous audio of AIs talking to each other in all unused conference rooms so the opposition has to filter through even more garbage to get the useful information.
Aspartate signalling drives lung metastasis via alternative translation
Article: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-01-reveal-lung-frequent-...
I’ll add an item that is not yet on our checklist but has already bitten us several times: check your code generation. Since code generation is so popular in the Go ecosystem, we’ve got 5 or 6 different codegen tools that update on various timelines. Twice now we’ve gone through a checklist similar to this article, patted ourselves on the back, and a week later found out no one can regenerate any code.
It's surprisingly reassuring to realize it wasn't actually my fault that I couldn't figure it out. Thanks for explaining! I'll look into Translator and see if I can get anywhere that way.
Where to work? Same place as you did before 40.

Put the fries in the bag, bro.
I thought it was obvious I was being facetious.
Thanks for reading!

>Many tutorials reference many languages. (I frequently write tutorials for students that include bash, sql, and python.) Providing the prompts `$`, `sqlite>` and `>>>` makes it obvious which language a piece of code is being written in.

I think it's fine to show the prompt character, but I think it's the author's job to make sure that copy/paste still works. I've seen a lot of examples that use CSS to show the prompt or line number without it becoming part of copied text, and I'm highly in favor of that.

I think if I had to choose between breaking copy/paste and making the language obvious with the prompt character, I'd exclude the prompt, but I think that's a matter of taste.

>Certain types of code should not be thoughtlessly copy/pasted, and providing multiline `$` prompts enforce that the user copy/pastes line by line. A good example is a sequence of commands that involves `sudo dd` to format a harddrive. But for really intro-level stuff I want the student/reader to carefully think about all the commands, and forcing them to copy/paste line by line helps achieve that goal.

Yeah, I agree about preventing the reader from copy/pasting something dangerous.

In tutorials that require a reboot, I'll never include a reboot command bunched in with other commands because I don't want the user to do it by mistake. And I agree for something like `dd`, you'd want to present it in a way to make it hard for the reader to make mistakes or run it thoughtlessly.
That is absolutely the wrong takeaway. The correct takeaway is that supply chain attacks and spam are real threats, and that these metrics can be gamed by malicious actors.

The work in cloning a repo is negligible, and the requirement of work is not a security design guarantee in github. The actual cost of liking projects is network, malicious actors need to create fake accounts, waste IP addresses and ip blocks in the process. Whether you are cloning or liking is just the last mile.

To me the takeaway is not to trust a project based on it's github metrics, and by extension not to trust projects just because they are linked and liked in hacker news for example. And to be wary of how I introduce dependencies into my projects.

Not just because of strictly malicious dependencies, but also because of trash dependencies that don't add value.
It may be true, until you do your ETL in an index-less database such as BigQuery or Trino. Postgres will always be faster for optimized, end user serving, queries.

But BigQuery allows you to scale it to 100s of CPUs without having to worry about indexes.
Turn local files into a ChatGPT prompt