skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Engineered bacteria break down microplastics in wastewater
Optimizing prompts is essential to improving the performance of large language models (LLMs). In this post, we will explore some of the keys to prompt optimization, drawing on recent research and practical techniques. Whether you’re looking to enhance the clarity of a query, break down complex questions, or maximize the relevance of retrieved information, these strategies will help you refine your approach and achieve better outcomes.
Why Jeff Booth left his 377k Twitter following
Correct. A year ago, Joe Biden supported ethnic cleansing, and now Trump supports it.

... And? What is the point you're trying to make here - that there's a 12 month statute of limitations on openly advocating for ethnic cleansing?
How many people alive in Gaza today voted for Hamas?

What an incredibly awful comment to make after so many kids have gotten blown to bits by Israel as some sort of justification.

Same sorts of stuff were said about Irish people during the Troubles btw.
Do you have any reason to believe that Debian does not follow its own ethical values?
Nose filters, and adjusts air temperature and humidity - it's not just a passive in/out hole.

Evaporation is a big factor in both controlling temperature and water retention/loss ( that's why dogs pant in hot weather ).

Remember the surface of your lungs are topologically on the outside - they are large and wet and are sensitive to both physical dust etc as well as potential infection.

The nose design has to find the best balance across all these factors ( as well as being important in the sense of smell ).
Oh I'm working on a local only project right now and I also feel the pain of badly translated Swedish words. I've spent this week trying to decipher a section of code, trying to map then back to the Swedish concepts.

I've also experienced a similar situation in an English context where the concept is renamed on UI, while everywhere in the code it uses the old name. Then things are starting to mix with each other and then a new concept is introduced with the old name...

Fun times.
> but surveys indicated that an overwhelming majority of residents of Gaza supported Hamas even after the mass murder and rape of October 7.

I'm not sure what result you expected. True or not, claims of atrocities committed by your government are always uncertain in practice - people will argue whichever way depending on their goals and beliefs (like we're doing here just now), so even if you believe them, unless you've actually seen them first-hand, they're always somewhat abstract considerations. Meanwhile, the fundamental reality for people in Gaza is that they're being bombed left and right by some outsiders. So when more outsiders come asking them whether they still like their government - government who, other than committing atrocities in what they sell as defensive war, are also responsible for keeping food, water and power flowing while bombs dropped by outsiders keep raining down your streets, does anyone expect majority to say "no, we don't like our government - please keep bombing us until we find a better one"?

I bet if you polled the population of Iraq of Afghanistan in the middle of US invasions of either, you'd get similar results supporting the evil government too.

Dropping ordnance on people has a way of skewing their responses in political polls away from what you'd expect in a stable democracy.
If the time zone handling can be added like Golang time package, that would make it very convenient.
At first glance, this seems to be in the JodaTime/NodaTime/Js-Joda tradition of representing different "granularities" of date and time information with distinct types, e.g. with and without timezone information. I'm not sure if there's a formal relationship, since this seems to use different names.

I personally like that approach, but I'm not sure how much sense that makes without static typing. (Maybe TypeScript is established enough that JavaScript APIs are now designed with TypeScript in mind?)

From experience with js-joda, there's a definitely learning curve compared to moment's "one size fits all" type for all things date related. But I found that a lot of stupid mistakes of the kind "a person's age is wrong for an hour after midnight during daylight savings time" are prevented by default.
https://archive.is/IydVM
That makes sense.

A helicopter instructor suggests that possibly the helicopter pilots, who were told to go behind an aircraft that was landing, were looking at the previous aircraft that was landing.[1] That's just speculation at this point.

[1] https://philip.greenspun.com/blog/2025/01/29/reagan-national...
Anticipating Something Big
You are spot on that they are demonstrating the virtuous, morally correct thing to do. Are you saying that’s bad? If so, why?
According to the official documentation[1]:

> You can discover, create, and share actions to perform any job you'd like, including CI/CD, and combine actions in a completely customized workflow.

I guess it wasn't the goal initially, but it includes so much features now that it became a kind of _serverless_ orchestrator.

I don't use GitHub for that but my own self-hosted Gitea instance (so not quite serverless here), and I use it for this exact purpose: orchestrating containerized jobs without needing to setup something trickier.
And since it's directly attached to a git repository, you don't need a second tool.
So you know have everything configured and versionned at the same place.

Sure, it won't work if you need to run multiple big runners to do a job, but for small, periodic tasks like that, it's just so easy to do.

[1]:https://docs.github.com/en/actions
Coming but only available in one browser or run time, and then with a feature flag.
I can recommend the book Red Plenty, if you want to learn more about the successes and failures of Soviet economy:

https://chris-said.io/2016/05/11/optimizing-things-in-the-us...
Relevant Tom Scott video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5wpm-gesOY
It kinda does sound like a far side cartoon
If you are on a plane or ISS you could even be timezoneless.
there are two types of blogs - sincere ones, where the author pours out his soul and talks about what he can't keep to himself, possibly raising some important issues, trying to convey them to the masses, and SEO blogs - where there are excrements of hashtags, advertising slogans, constant repetitions, and requests to throw a bone (support the project, you haven't supported the project yet? you can do it here, well, or here! did I forget to tell you that you can support the project? by the way, one more thing - support the project!). Such ones are immediately banned. I am also very annoyed by those who are already looking for a place for a banner from the first minutes of the site's existence. you will not survive in this world without this cent? 10 bucks a month - payment for personal shame?

all this conversion and optimization of texts for search engines turns bloggers into robots, and it is simply impossible to read the texts, they are not human, they are as if created by neural networks. who needs this hypocrisy?
The physics of tomorrow though will be the physics of today however: a many months flight time out to an orbital object to affect trajectory change is a response time so far away as to be meaningless: any opponent with an ICBM strike capability on Earth could happily blast away your entire civilization, and reasonably expect to use the same technology that enables that ICBM capability to blast away (or deflect) your asteroid.

Put it another way: for considerably less expenditure of effort, you could just build a hydrogen-bomb large enough to obliterate Earth's biosphere completely[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_device
Terry Tao has referred to this classification system as foxes vs hedgehogs. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hedgehog_and_the_Fox
Does it produces the infamous emoji if a certain expletive occurs in the input?

By the way, I use that emoji to test whether astral planes are handled correctly.

I need to recover from the cognitive dissonance now...
There's a polyfill in the meantime.
Thank you for this helpful comment!

How to go about the 15 minute conversation part without trying to be too sycophant?
> As hinted at by their name, a public servant's first loyalty should to the public/nation rather than their Minister/Master. Maybe the US has a different system?

Both systems rely on the people in charge being told okay with being told "no, this is a bad idea".

The Ministers/Secretaries/Executive may think their plan(s) are a good idea and the civil service are being obstructionist.

(Of course the civil service could be wrong as well.)
When I read the article it is "connecting dots" with Musk’s political ambitions have damaged the image of Telsa as a progressive and environmentally-friendly company in Germany and elsewhere.

So article has thesis and numbers were playing nice - whether political ambitions moved the numbers or there is something more substantial seems like it doesn't matter for the author.
Thank you for the advice I will follow it in the future, and also thank you for moderating
This heli route is just crazy.
You saw cat -v considered harmful and thought ... hold my beer!
Short term profits are easily gameable. And before the long-term issues hit you you can simply leave the company or find someone to buy it ( and you will, because of the "high" profits). That is how modern economics actually works.
ecl and gcl compile to C. That's fine, but not necessary to merely use C libraries; for that you need a C foreign function interface (FFI), which most surviving CL compilers offer. C++ is more of a challenge, hence the Clasp project.
Silly suggestions related to snoring:

- harder to find mating partner before earplugs were inventend

- easier for your enemies/predators to catch you in your sleep
I asked Perplexity what this acronym stands for and this is its reply:

https://imgur.com/a/oWfIjkZ
Why LLMs and AI Agents Won't Remove the Need for Software Engineers
Removing software engineers from the software development loop ultimately requires ceding control of the detail in our software systems.
Oh right. Enlightening!

It's interesting you mention STM. That's one of the reasons I only dabble in Rust instead of switching over to it completely.

In do_invalid_stuff(),

block(bad_account)
transfer(bad_account, good_account) // <- this will fail

This can only be determined syntactically if you and the compiler agree to stay on a single thread, right? I would expect STM to be the thing which safely bridges across threads - since it will realistically a customer will call transfer() but a bank manager will call block().
The problem with measuring things is that once you know a thing, you can worry about it.

Also, to misquote somebody here, "There are lies, damn lies and statistics".

One could use these numbers to help national groups that seem to struggle to integrate, or you can use these numbers to discriminate.

Side note: Russia and Soviet Union are both in the graph, and Yugoslavia is on it twice as well. I guess this has to do with the fact that the numbers are collected over several years, and you can't convert one number to the other because boundaries of the countries have shifted?
I really like how just few year back and definition was "happy green left wing" and Musk did bait and switch on all those people.

Maybe people will start thinking twice before they buy shit :)
Future generations will no doubt remember this announcement as a revolutionary leap into a brighter future. But I'm sure I'll still be using Moment.js ten years from now the way I'm still using JQuery 3.x now.

Javascript is all we have for front end web apps now, impoverished as it is as a language. But excuse me if I don't get excited every time a proposal is rolled out to bring it close to the 21st century.
This is lovely and brings some whimsy to the terminal!

Please consider making it available on MacPorts (for those who don’t use Homebrew). Anyone else here who can bring this to MacPorts?
Iss uses Coordinated Universal Time which is just GMT.
How did it give it back? Our content was still used without permission or compensation, it is just now even more accessible. More open and quick growth simply hastens the replacement of knowledge work.

I agree that open is better than closed. But it did not give back what was taken.
The US system relies on them informing the public, or in case of say the ATF they make quasi law through opinions and then arrest the public and put them in tiny cages.

The public can decide to elect someone to shit can them. We have voted to liberate many of them from service. Obviously some wont like that, but they are servants to the people not peers.
Where would you expect this event to be used? I don't think most web applications somewhat dependent on time should directly have to listen and respond to these events for the amount of people affected by it just doesn't justify the extra effort, I would assume. Libraries could benefit, of course.
I mean, many Germans consider the AFD, which naughty ol' Mr Car supports, to be a Neo-Nazi party.
There are quite a few things marinating in the TC39 pot right now. This is one that I wish would ship sooner, rather than later. I do recognize that it takes dev effort (on the part of v8, JSC, and SpiderMonkey engineers) to get the major browsers to support any of these new features. So I truly appreciate all that folks are doing to move the ball forward. The impatient person in me is cheering, "now get Records and Tuples going too! You can skip that silly Pipe-syntax war if you want!"
I.i.r.c. ISS uses UTC
Completely out of my domain and seat of pants rationing here, but although the impact probability is 1%, aren't we far far more certain about the /time/ at which it would strike earth? Could humanity collectively just migrate to the side of the world that will be shielded for a day?
No it’s from a book called design patterns. It forever influenced a huge number of American programmers to think about programming in a very specific way following very specific patterns.

I’m working for a company that’s doing things in typescript using IOC and dependency injection everywhere. It pervades the minds of Americans such that they walk and talk like a parrot parroting that book.

What Americans don’t realize is that those patterns are arbitrarily made up. It’s as arbitrary and localized as the Japanese having to bow for politeness. There’s nothing intrinsically hugely beneficial for following this style. In fact, modern languages push against it. Languages like golang and rust are examples. Even JavaScript was an example although recent es6 syntax makes patterns more easier now
it’s really a funny point, as if JSX is somehow native? JSX requires a compiler and definitely also editor extensions for syntax and auto-complete and type checks.
Note that that is also, for all intents and purposes, a German car.
> You mean the same FAA people that allowed Boeing to self certify?

Reputation lags reality.

Boeing used to be a product-first organization, and the FAA relied on that. However Boeing changed and put other priorities first and started cutting corners but their reputation was still good. After all, why would Boeing (unlike, say, tobacco) sell products that would kill their customers: it would be against Boeing's own interests.

In the 1980s and 1990s Boeing could be trusted to have less oversight, but since the 2000s that was no longer true, but no one noticed that. Now everyone recognizes that Boeing needs a babysitter.
It's common knowledge now and it benefits humanity for free, better than taking it and keep it closed. It also triggered many to open their model like Qwen2.5-Max from Alibaba
SMRs have been complete vaporware for the past 70 years.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-forgotten-history-of-small-nuc...

Or just this recent summary on how all modern SMRs tend to show promising PowerPoints and then cancel when reality hits.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XECq9uFsy6o

Simply look to:

- mPower: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%26W_mPower
- NuScale: https://oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2024/10/29/the-rise-and-f...

And the rest of the bunch adding costs for every passing year and then disappearing when the subsidies run out.

Not sure why you would want to fill storage with extremely expensive nuclear power when we might as well just use cheap renewables.
The client's timezone should only matter to the client. There's no condition where their clock matters except to translate a timestamp into their local time (for their convenience). Who cares if they change time zones?
When i remember correctly it means that from now on the airspace around the airport (within 20 miles) is closed for everyone
That's generally how that works for new things like this. It is rare for a new thing like this to be adapted by everyone at the exact same time.

Certainly within the context of browsers. There is a reason why websites like https://caniuse.com exist in the first place. If you pay attention you will also see that for APIs on MDN it will also have a browser compatibility list.
> When instructed to clone themselves...

So, not independently. Perhaps we should not tell them to do such things, if such things are risky.

And I'm not an expert, but... is that risky? Cloning a model doesn't imbue it with independent goals nor the means to start running commands against real-world devices, does it?
UTC for the win
What model are you using now that fixes the issues you experienced on your 735xt?
I would strongly recommend using AI tools for building your product and not bothering about the underlying details at first. Once you have something working and you need to know how something works AI can explain it to you. The future is here, enjoy it
I think Volvo only had one electric car until last year; they now have about five. That probably accounts for it; they're growing from a very low base.
ChatGPT Vulnerability Analysis: Bypassing Security Filters in SVG Generation
Suggestion, design your app to not be time zone dependant if at all possible.

For example, store dates in UTC and render instantaneously in current time zone.
How would you tell?

"Hikikomori" is not a new thing, long pre-dates AI, but I think similar things are starting to be observed outside of Japan. Internet-enabled entertainment competes with the real world and occasionally achieves total victory.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4912003/
xDrip4iOS has recently updated its Apple Watch app to have screen complications that show near realtime blood glucose levels.
Exploring User Privacy in Ollama: Are Local LLMs Private?
A consumption tax policy like you are suggesting is regressive, meaning people with lower incomes are more impacted by the change in tax laws. They benefit less proportionately when their income is untaxed but things they buy is taxed more. It benefits the wealthy and investment class more.

However congress has recently introduced a "Fair Tax" bill, abolishing income tax, corporate tax, and estate tax. Replacing it with additional consumption taxes that will be managed by the states.
https://www.newsweek.com/republican-plan-abolish-federal-inc...

Not having income tax is not new. For a period of time before 1913 Americans didn't pay any income tax. The government was much smaller then and was funded mostly through tarrifs.

There is an argument to be made that American's don't need to pay any tax and that the government could be run through money creation. El Salvador's president Bukele mentioned this in a speech last year. https://x.com/wallstwolverine/status/1860393853355806942
That approach has its own problems.
Sorry it's probably just me but there is nothing syntactically obvious about ownership to me in the example you gave other than the names you gave things.
Your question got me thinking about supermarket bulletin boards. I recall them from way back as busy places with lots of notes attached, but last year or thereabouts I remember seeing a small bulletin board with one note attached and thinking how unusual it was.
Being a bit clunky is not really working, and I bet it doesn't do the full extent the other Lisp environments allow, including code reloading, jumping into the debugger from the REPL, redrawing everything being shown in the REPL after returning from the debugger with the new code changes applied.
that'll work as soon as everyone in the world agrees to download the latest version of their favorite web browser each time Western Sahara is reclassified
I dont think its hyperbole. Im young and I have friends my age that also use these AI tools in ways that seem borderline nauseating to me. A friend of mine built a whole polished project page for his app with cursor, and when I watched him for a bit I was surprised how fast he interacted with cursor, claude and chatgpt. Of course it wasnt perfect and I cringe at the idea of creating a project with tons of AI generated files I dont understand, but still, I felt like my grandma when she watches me use my phone or laptop.
The current embassy is indeed in DC proper, but it isn't directly across the river from DCA.

It's about a mile upriver, near the Watergate.
I'm not really sure how any of this applies to software development, as they detected edges in actual physical films, which have different layers of chemicals. Still a very interesting approach and that knowledge probably can be transfered to other fields, as humans consist of layers of chemicals, that are different from cars, houses and trees for example, but could you and other people just actually read the paper before writing anything here?

PS The title of article is on a clickbait level, as the meaning for images nowadays does not correspond to what is used in article.
And yet CryEngine, Unreal, and many others do just fine.
I am sorry, looks like the link just go to 'Other Utilities & Resources'. Here is the link to the post: https://www.autohotkey.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=13433...
Me neither and yet I've been doing it for 45 years.
Thanks, ill check it out!
"Tesla workers shared sensitive images recorded by customer cars" - https://www.reuters.com/technology/tesla-workers-shared-sens...
Show HN: OG Snake game on your Terminal
Play the snake game on your terminal. Built with Python and curses.
Probably wants a (2022) acknowledgement that this is a blog post from 2022.
Wish he’d elaborate on the tools model. Article basically amounts to „he does ai magic with his computer“
One can have even broader appeal by offending everyone
> Unfortunately US law appears to compel American companies to share your data without your knowledge to the US government.

Sure, but that's not some unexpected gotcha - it's just a plain fact of geopolitical reality, managed by international treaties and accounted for in laws and contracts around the world. A multinational enterprise isn't like a person subscribing to a free plan of a random SaaS because the "sign up" button was the right shade of green - there are armies of lawyers on both sides, tasked with navigating applicable regulations (including GDPR and export control laws) and finding out a way to make things work.

When they can't, the deal simply doesn't happen.
I don't see any reason to assume that "publicly funded" will imply that the research is public. Although I'd be more than happy to be wrong on this one.
Ask HN: What technology do commercial jets have for avoiding collisions?
With the horrible news this morning about the American airlines collision with a helicopter near Washington DC, I am sure the biggest focus will be on how these two aircraft came to be perilously close together, but I am also wondering: Does anyone here know the state of collision avoidance technology in commercial airplanes? This is something that cars are starting to get pretty good at, at least fancy ones like Teslas (I know they make mistakes they still do an impressive job of detecting potential collisions and avoiding them). I imagine that this is a harder problem for planes.