skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Strategic bombers that are ready to take off the moment a launch is detected

At the height of the cold war, something like 1/3 of all SAC bombers were airborne at any time. They rotated a la shift changes to ensure there was no delay and minimized risk of not getting some off the ground. The fact there were not more Broken Arrow incidents is pretty amazing
iCloud and Apple mail I use because my family is all in on Apple devices (teens!) so photo sync and music just work better with Apple, and the domain support for Apple mail is nice (outlook dropped that, Gmail costs a lot more, and my family can’t grok fastmail). But it’s death but a thousand cuts

I know they throw shade on interoperability but I wish they would just make iCloud for web sort of work. You can’t create Task lists, only tasks on existing lists, you can’t attach PDF to Notes, you can’t download or upload a folder. It’s endless. And iCloud sync on windows, ice pick to noggin…
Basically they mandated hardware that is way more expensive than what it replaces and reliably gets falsely triggered by normal usage that the circuit is supposed to support.
>I don't care if it's the smart place, but it's nice to have a feed that reminds me of pre-2015 internet spaces where people talked about things other than politics.

Sure. I went over in the recent migration/exodus and half my feed was (and still is): anti-Trump, anti-Musk and COVID. And I am following a very particular topic/niche, not random accounts. There is plenty of politics.

I wish Bluesky was the answer, but it isn't yet, as much as people keep pretending.
Theranos in particular didn't have many _proper_ VCs involved; it was a lot of, essentially, individual dumb rich people (and/or their family offices). IIRC a proper VC turned them down at some point because they couldn't produce audited accounts. At all. Not even from a dodgy auditor. It was a weirdly amateur fraud, when you look at it; an awful lot of it came down to "trust me, bro". FTX was a far more professional fraud, granted.
I’m sorry but business success aside, how else do you propose to do it? Require them to go outside and take a panoramic video including their face that somehow also captures third-party information about the date and time and then feed it into geoguessr?
I think there's a weird disconnect between the author's experience (the automated tools are good but they induce dependency) and my own experience (the tools are bad, produces code that doesn't type-check, produces explanations that don't make sense, or suggest back to me the half-broken code I already have).

I continue to believe that these tools would be more reliable if rather than merely doing next-token-prediction on code, we trained on the co-occurrence of human-written code, resulting IR, and execution traces, so the model must understand at least one level deeper of what the code does. If the prompt is not just a prose description but e.g. a skeleton of a trace, or a set of inputs/outputs/observable side effects, then simultaneously our generative tools only allow outputs which meet the constraints, with the natural and reasonable cost that the engineer needs to think a little more deeply about what they want. I think if done right, this could make many of us better engineers.
Yes, Shodan searches for favicon hashes are a great way to find forgotten and vulnerable assests.
The ideology and the desolate hellscape are strongly connected, in that one has caused the other.
How about we just make the job of driving a bus suck less by making it pay more and giving drivers more leeway to handle problems on their busses, and more support from law enforcement for same, to address the shortage of workers? Then we don't need robo-busses and we can just use the non-robo busses we already have and perhaps even buy more of them, and setup more routes?

The issues with busses are lack of coverage by the network and the shortage of drivers because it's an awful job that pays shit wages, both of which are down in large part due to lack of funding and the political will to allocate it. We don't need a computer to solve these issues.
Quite a mediocre article. Suspicious that it got upvoted but the person posting it doesn't seem to have done with malicious intent.

So, just a waste of time for anyone hoping to see an exploit based on favicons.
Important to note:

> Although the survey is not statistically representative of Nature readers or the scientific community at large

I found that the survey seems to have been advertised for with "Has Bluesky replaced X for scientists?" according to this article from Jan 14 [1].
This attracts people who switched more I think.
So the 70% figure is nothing than hot air.

It is still interesting seeing the positive sentiments and reasons for switching analyzed.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00037-y
Sounds like another failure perfectly explained by the swiss cheese model. I don't see any smoking guns in the linked article, most of the actions taken seem reasonable on their own and the only reason for outrage is grief and the benefit of hindsight.
Also, it’s the job of a PhD student to plan 5 years out, and professors should look even further into the future.
It's an interesting arms race, where an optimal bot has better chances of surviving than a normal person that will naturally have diverse opinions.

As I pointed out in another comment:

The right can pretend to be antagonizing extremist LGBTs to get more centrists to support their agenda - while undermining the LGBT movement itself also from within.
I was curious, so I googled around a bit — please excuse the weird units.

- about 0.375kWh to produce 1kg of LN2

- about 0.056kWh to boil 1kg of LN2

So you get 15% efficiency; though you have “waste cold” in the exhaust you could recover if you wanted, eg, to run a Sterling engine. You still have a 220K temperature differential after boiling to gas versus ambient.
The quest for performance makes macros, monomorphisation/specialization and LTO too attractive for simple dynamic linking to remain the norm, unfortunately. And in a way, I understand, a Stalin/MLton style whole-program optimizing compiler certainly is worth it when you have today's computing power.
People Skills for Developers (2023)
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8748036/is-there-a-built...

While this doesn't explain why filter accepts None as the lambda, I think the fact that there are no builtin identity function kind of explains why. It's easier to write None rather than put an identity lambda. I reckon it also makes it easier for a compiler to optimize this specific case.
By all accounts they’re making decisions based on their experiences on each platform, not maximum reach. This doesn’t happen in a vacuum: decisions are made by the executive and those decisions have consequences. If X wants scientists, make it enjoyable for scientists to participate. If anything, put blame at the feet of X’s leadership. Or enjoy the platform but accept that others don’t.
The Dutch constitution very clearly states that man and woman are equal.

Yet we have small ultra orthodox Christian party in parliament who take a literal interpretation of their Bible.
Amusingly they swear allegiance to said constitution on the Bible...

The high court has repeatedly over the last 150 years ruled that the constitution> all gods and religions.
I suppose one could take a principled view that religious folk commit treason but honestly they're pretty harmless really.
Show HN: Cs16.css – CSS library based on Counter Strike 1.6 UI
I think it's particularly weird that many of these tools simply do not seem to know about the type-checker at all. You'd think that'd be basic, at least for the likes of essentially fancy autocompletes like copilot; if the thing you're going to output does not type check, do not output it.
Yeah, “dictator” was probably the wrong word. The characteristic of an actual dictator (even a benevolent one) is that they can enforce their will through violence if needed (benevolent ones usually don’t, but they could).

As quote goes, “I thought we were an autonomous collective.” Humans have some sort of tribal or pack instinct; if we want to do a project, we’ll often naturally form up around the person who’s doing it, willingly and without compulsion. The leader is the leader because everyone agrees they are doing good enough.

Open source project is sort of an ideal form of this. Unlike physical projects, the ability to fork for free means that the leader doesn’t even have the implicit moat that a potential alternative leader needs to take the current work-in-progress away from them.

BDFL is just a joke title.
Heat pumps in EVs are making a big difference in cold-weather driving
Related, but not exactly the same: https://blog.gopheracademy.com/advent-2014/case-against-3pl/
Cmon. BC and AD are normal and accepted. Let's stop using Sunday thru Saturday cuz those relate to Norse religions.

Im certainly not calling u one or saying your post does anything wrong. Just pointing out this is why the internet atheists gave the rest of us such a bad rap. Championing stuff that is thinly veiled anti-christian is a bad faith motive, divisive, confusing, and demeaning of tradition that didn't need changing. If the years were different numbers, different story.
Government often goes too far. You should outsource not things that are not your core values, but things you cannot trust someone else to do. Maintenance often needs to be something you do in house because you cannot trust someone else to take care of it. That someone in house will of course outsource the labor (toilet clogged once - the in house person uses a plunger - if that toilet clogs often they call a plumber to fix what is wrong), but you need someone in house to decide if you need to hire the labor in the first place, otherwise you end up paying a plumber to replace a toilet that works fine but got too much put into it one time.
Exploring the distribution and correlates of future self-continuity
Getting a ceasefire was a pro Palestinian move by Trump? Most of the Israeli public is in favor of the ceasefire and hostage deal - and quite a large majority.

Kamala Harris and the whole democratic party lost because of a lot of things. I wouldn't put the Palestinians in the top 5.
The problem with buses is that nobody wants to be on a bus with the people who are regularly on buses.
Because verification requirements are merely indirect means to suppress contents. It really doesn't matter if the actor is 14 or 40 and it's never about making sure it's the latter.
> Now you are taking credit for Bram's work!

That’s a baseless accusation. I’ve been using Vim for about 25 years, and over the years have contributed small changes to some of the default plugins maintained by third parties (mostly language syntax and `filetype` configuration files). I have yet to even try Neovim but I too noticed that the rate of minor version releases and new features in Vim had increased after the Neovim project got off the ground.
Bus drivers should be in their own cab. That would help a lot.
I find this no-nonsense approach very appealing.

> The more you render from the server, the larger your caches end up. Not doing that for HTML.

Is HTML really that much larger or complex than JSON? Based on the following it seems to be only +10-15% larger (n = 1 dataset obviously).

https://github.com/1cg/html-json-size-comparison

Is the amount of data transfer the main reason to use JSON or do you find Web Components play better with JSON payloads? I could imagine the template string being rendered on the server, fetch()-ed by the client and swapped with this.innerHTML.

Do you manage any amount of cross-component state? It's one use case where JSON would win over "HTML over the wire".
> I have no interest in "proving it".

Then you should not be surprised when people are skeptical. It’s notable in your post and replies to it we’ve got multiple instance of folks saying “this totally reasonable thing happened on Bluesky and people went crazy” while providing zero contextual links. Very possible we have quite different definitions of “totally reasonable” and “crazy” here.

> Both provide monetary value for viral content, though Twitter is much more explicit in that sense.

Come on. Twitter literally pays our users based on the viewing figures of their tweets. Bluesky has absolutely nothing comparable. The quality of conversation on Twitter made a notable dip as soon as they made their change.
Unfortunately, this is a result of twitter censorship directly caused by harassment of the science community. A specific type of censoring people that is often ignored. In this way, Twitter practices more censorship than most platforms!
Translation: people who still use Twitter to make money by exploiting user emotions and attention will make less money.
I am not from the US, but I have a curious anecdote.

My friends that consistently vote for extreme right wing are, perhaps ironically, the ones that will suffer the most if they ever get on power.

Why do they vote for the extreme right wing, you may be wondering? Mostly out of spite. They really hate people on the left, who they see as smug.

I am sort of a centrist, so I can get along with people no matter their political views (and mostly because I don't put politics front snd center of life anyway).
The lack of ordering is surprising. Without that you can’t stream without a buffer.
And 10-15 years, at a time when most were lucky to make their mid forties, is roughly 25-35 years for us today. Building a stone castle was always a generational endeavour.
And nvi, the 4.4BSD unencumbered reimplementation.

LSP as a replacement for original vi's cscope integration is the main reason I eventually switched from nvi to vim.
> Having a single place (the one log) that forces a linear history of events as the ground truth and owns the decision of who can add to that ground truth, means we don’t have to coordinate much any more.

Well, yes, but then you've backed into CAP again because you only have one log.
If I may ask where did he buy the app from? Some online marketplace ? I’d love to browse these kind of deals.
"PostgreSQL vs. fsync - How is it possible that PostgreSQL used fsync incorrectly for 20 years" - https://youtu.be/1VWIGBQLtxo
I'm curious why you have your post set to be posted on 2025-06-24 instead today? Is that to maintain a post schedule?
Your following feed, or discover feed? I make my following feed the default (an ability that X took away to boost engagement) and I don't see much politics in following at all, and I have to scroll discover for a while even to find some political jokes.
Interesting! What type of diffusers are you using?
The demographics haven't changed, but the power center has. Previously, business was pandering to the masses, now it's pandering to power.
Just to show where NPR stands it is enlightening to search for:

site:npr.org trump plurality

site:npr.org trump majority

versus

site:npr.org obama plurality

site:npr.org obama majority

Another good one is:

site:npr.org did trump win popular majority

versus

site:npr.org did obama win popular majority

If you don't feel like doing these searches I can summarise the results: when Obama won the popular majority that is what NPR proclaimed in virtual large print with embellishments. When Trump won the popular majority he received a plurality, not a majority vote. When the "democrat" wins NPR is euphoric, when the republican wins they are choleric. They are not a good source for political information due to their strong bias. This seems to be par for the course for 'public service' sources since the same is true for:

- Sveriges Radio (SR) and Sveriges Television (SVT) in Sweden, the national (tax-financed) public service broadcaster

- Nederlandse Omroep Stichting (NOS) in the Netherlands, a national (tax-financed) public service broadcaster

- British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in the UK, a national (licensing-fee financed) public service broadcaster

In all cases these organisations have written into their statues that they need to be politically neutral. In all mentioned cases these statues are violated, in some cases (Sweden) they tend to be ignored. This has eroded trust in public service broadcasters and, by implication, the concept of public service.
The cantor set has a simple statement. It's just the numbers in the unit interval without a 1 in their ternary representation.
This is great, thanks both for writing these down and sharing!
https://bsky.app/profile/skyseed.fund is looking to fund efforts to run 3rd party instances of the critical services
It's also quite possible none of that happens.
We'll live and see. In the meantime its mostly the Palestinians who are paying the price for this ultimate quest for historical justice (of course the Israelis are paying a price too for this endless war, and its bad, but not nearly as bad).
Perhaps you're right and eventually it will be the Israelis (who will likely mostly flee the region, a thing they're quite used to already). And then finally justice will be served I guess.
Quite a lot of losers from this Jihad for ultimate historical justice and "one state democracy".
Bluesky has a number of algorithmic feeds. For instance "What's Hot Classic".

And while that feed doesn't have violence, it does have a surprisingly high number of "dudes holding their cock" and furry-related images, which seems like something that should probably be filtered out or at least tagged.
I think the difference here is more nuanced
Great post! At pico we've been spending a lot of time thinking about logs and a distributed system that can read and respond to events from logs. This is being driven in part by building out global services and a need for centralized logs for monitoring.

The end result is https://pipe.pico.sh which is an authenticated, networked *nix pipes over SSH. Since it relies on stdin/stdout via SSH it's one of the easiest pubsub systems we've used and we keep finding its ergonomics powerful. We have a centralized log-drain, metric-drain, and cache-clearing-drain all using `pipe`.
You can read them without an account too
> I don't like it, but how would you prevent everyone from getting expensive schooling and then immediately declaring bankruptcy?

You don't! If the government is backing the loan, as is true in almost all cases, you eagerly take the write-off on the public purse in the knowledge that you've just gained an enthusiastic taxpayer who can open a new business or take a flyer on a new career, instead of a debt slave that is terrified to do anything but brownnose their way up the ladder at their dead-end callcenter job that will disappear the minute someone figures out it can be done in Bangladesh or by AI for cents on the dollar.

Sure, it would be better and more efficient to do this directly by nationalizing the state schools and offering free tuition or something, but we have to work with what we have.
Good point, and I wholly agree that there are really good leaders out there. But I wasn't trying to say that leaders are necessarily bad. I was trying to say that BDFL setups are not necessarily "the best" and there are good reasons to think that other forms of governance have just as good or even better track records. We do not talk about them that much because, I think, we just like hero stories and they are easier to tell with BDFL than with groups.
Right the whole world needs to talk about the Nakba and Balfour, constantly. That's the major historical event the world needs to be obsessed about and the most important thing on our plates now.
> If everything’s in one log, there’s nothing to coordinate #

On the contrary. Everything becomes coordinated.

The entire "log" becomes a giant ass mutex lock. Good luck scaling it.
I've seen extensive evidence of it.

Not specifically my posts, but collaborating in general, yes.

I've observed many people being bullied out of open source communities that are LGBT-dominant, and I'm not the first to speak on this topic either.

Maybe they're just mimicking their oppressors, so I understand, but it's an intense experience nevertheless.
That sounds pretty great! Kind of like an AI pair.
Is this yet another thought that overemphasizes the immediate now? AI is developing so quickly it's difficult to see a whole generation of programmers being affected by negative transient aspects of this.
> BlueSky has its problems

I had this same problem with twitter - I would like to follow a person, say Joe, that talks about X, Y, and * ... but I'm only interested in X.

I would like more granular pub/sub so I could follow Joe/X.

Of course, Joe would have to set up those channels.
I am not sure what an electrovolt is, or why this question follows from what I said? All I said was all neurons don’t seem to switch their activation stimuli, only “many.”
That blog post is a great read as well.
Truely, the log abstraction [1] and "Turning the DB inside out" [2] have been hugely influential.

In a way this article here suggests to extend that

(1) from a log that represents data (upserts, cdc, etc.) to a log of coordination commands (update this, acquire that log, journal that steo)

(2) have a way to link the events related to a broader operation (handler execution) together

(3) make the log aware of handler execution (better yet, put it in charge), so you can automatically fence outdated executions

[1] https://engineering.linkedin.com/distributed-systems/log-wha...
You need capable engineering for building it yourself. If you only got engineers, who only ever reached for libraries, in ecosystems like NPM or PyPI, you will find them hard-pressed to develop solutions for many things themselves, especially so, if they are supposed to be solutions, that stand the test of time, and have the flexibility they need. It takes a lot of practice to "avoid programming yourself into a corner".

Another thing I noticed is, that one can often easily do better than existing libraries. In one project I implemented a parser for a markdown variant, that has some metadata at the top of the file. Of course I wrote a little grammar, not even a screen of code, and just like that, I had a parser. But I did not expect the badness of the frontend library parsing the same file. That one broke, when you had hyphens in metadata identifiers. At first I was confused, why it could not deal with that. Then it turned out, that it directly used the metadata identifiers as object member names ... Instead of using a simple JSON object, they had knowingly or unknowingly chosen to artificially limit the choice of names and to break things, when there are hyphens like in "something-something". In the end my parser was abandoned, people arguing, that they would have to "maintain" it. Well, it just worked and could easily be adapted for grammar changes. There was nothing difficult to understand about it either, if you had just a little knowledge about parsers. Sounds incredible, but apparently no one except me on the team had written a parser by using a parser generator library before.

And like that, there are many other examples.
[2] https://martin.kleppmann.com/2015/11/05/database-inside-out-...
Neovim sort of reminds me of zsh, in the sense that I can never really figure out if there’s some underlying technical advantage or if it is just the case that some features people like have been turned on by default.
We'll see. The Executive Order allows for exemptions, "provided that the department and agency heads shall make exemptions they deem necessary." The big question is what criteria shall be used for those exemptions.
The referer is the site that sent the user to the redirect, not the redirect itself. You cannot detect 301s from the destination only.
You can also write your own algorithm.