skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who works in big tech on a product with a large attack surface -- security is a huge chunk of our costs in multiple ways

- Significant fraction of all developer time (30%+ just on my team?)
- Huge increase to the complexity of the system
- Large accumulated performance cost over time

Obviously it's not a 1-to-1 analogy but if we didn't have to worry about this sort of prodding we would be able to do a lot more with our time. Point being that it's probably closer to a 2x cost factor than it is to a 1% increase.
Shane Legg, Deepmind

Rutherford, Atomic Physics

Those are the real pinnacles of New Zealands human output.
I need tags and downvotes
IIRC, rather then negotiate with the experienced union controllers until an agreement was made - they brought in inexperienced non-union controllers..

source: my uncle was an ATC during the strike. I believe he was a shift lead/supervisor and was NOT part of the walk out. He was appalled at how bad the replacements were and was going crazy trying to get them up to snuff.
I've been avoiding the typical outrageous statements from the current POTUS for many years, but his comments at his press conference today, about how DEI hiring could be responsible for this accident, are just unbelievable. And all of a sudden it seems to have made him to decide that the FAA needs a director today.
OP is giving the correct answer for the Catholic worldview.

You and the Catholic Church are operating under completely different axioms, so there's no point in responding to someone's explanation of Catholic axioms by just repeating your own axioms more forcefully.
You realize that feature phones can receive texts don’t you?
That’s a good book and has lots of good recipes, but…

IMO autolyze is at best a minor improvement compared to just not doing it (maybe called “fermentolyze” in this context). (In my experience at least some degree of pre-kneading/aggressive mixing rest makes a big difference, but this recipe and Laney’s no-knead don’t do that.) But autolyze is quite the complication, especially for new bakers making simple bread! With the autolyze step, you have the complication of trying to mix yeast and salt into dough, which is not so easy. Without the autolyze step, you just mix the dry ingredients, stir, and add water.

So I wouldn’t recommend this recipe as a first serious bread for a new baker.
This isn't true. Learning how to train a 124M is just as useful as a 700B, and is possible on a laptop. https://github.com/karpathy/nanoGPT
This is from Dec-11-2025 but offers some context on recent announcements by DeepSeek team. Excerpts from opening section

"There has been an increasing amount of fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD) regarding AI Scaling laws. A cavalcade of part-time AI industry prognosticators have latched on to any bearish narrative they can find, declaring the end of scaling laws that have driven the rapid improvement in Large Language Model (LLM) capabilities in the last few years."

"The reality is that there are more dimensions for scaling beyond simply focusing on pre-training, which has been the sole focus of most of the part-time prognosticators. OpenAI’s o1 release has proved the utility and potential of reasoning models, opening a new unexplored dimension for scaling. This is not the only technique, however, that delivers meaningful improvements in model performance as compute is scaled up. Other areas that deliver model improvements with more compute include Synthetic Data Generation, Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO), Functional Verifiers, and other training infrastructure for reasoning. The sands of scaling are still shifting and evolving, and, with it, the entire AI development process has continued to accelerate. "
The selling point of Rust was that it protects programmers from doing dangerous things.
https://www.icann.org/en/blogs/details/how-time-zones-are-co...

Hopefully the British would be kind enough to email the TZ DB group at the IANA (tz@iana.org) a couple years in advance of the legislation to change the name so that the group can get started on collecting the DST rules for Europe/NewNewYork. Some people and devices will probably stick to Europe/Paris out of habit and/or resistance to the change, so the TZ DB would probably be unlikely to remove it, but they may point references from it to Europe/NewNewYork as the new "canonical" name. Plenty of the DB entries are just pointers to other entries already today, for one instance it was decided that America/City and Europe/City maybe is too conflicted a namespace and we see increasingly more "the canonical name is America/State/City" or "the canonical name is Europe/Country/City".
I tested Kimi on the company's site the other day. It did extremely rapid RAG on the web and did a pretty impressive job before they insisted I provide a phone number to keep using it.
My non technical cousin is a heavy paying user of ChatGPT, once she discovered that she can type incoherent stuff, with typos and whatnot and ChatGPT still will get the gist and produce satisfying answers, she will just type in tons of nonsense (to me) keep long chat sessions, complain it is getting slow and then get mad when I remind her to open new chat each time she has something new to ask that is not related to the previous chat. I have my doubt many users will provide valuable training data.
> (2) A buyer gets matched with that order upon setting their criteria, and has to send a fiat payment [...] to the sellerʼs local account + upload a photo for verification.

It is quite neat... But since you don't handle the cash, how will you deal with fraud? Or even normal bad luck? Bank transfers do get lost and require chasing banks, and you will be out of the loop here.

Also, I guess bank transfers between poorly banked countries are probably a constraint? If I live in a country with hyperinflation, am I definitely able to send fiat to a seller?

AML would seem basically impossible, but I guess that's no different to Binance...
Thanks for the feedback, I'll make it easier to get in in the next update! Also you don't need to log in inside the app. Just click log in and then trial mode, you dont actually need to enter details. But yeah it's maybe a bit confusing
Making Good on the Promise of Open Source AI
There isn't much beauty left in lots of people's day to day lives that isn't gate kept behind a dollar requirement. I can't blame people for wanting beauty in their lives.
They're blindly and foolishly tearing down Chesterton's fence.
I like this sort of thing. The collection of chopstick sleeves recently was also nice (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42719538). A little collection of yesteryear life (I do not see many matchbooks these days. It makes me wonder what sort of small things of today will be gone in the future (energy drink cans, candy packages?).
Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 2
The only reason we haven't moved yet is that there are no serverless inference providers that are has performant as Anthropic/OpenAI (would love to be corrected if I am wrong).
You can buy a 3060ti with modern CUDA support and 8gb of VRAM for ~$220 right now. If your only goal is inference/finetuning that should be the best option at it's price point.
Novus Ordo Seclorum
Christianity is not one thing. I expect that if AGI becomes a real thing, there will be sects that are on the opposite side of that argument.
Show HN: JSONBench, a Benchmark for Data Analytics on JSON
In the same spirit as ClickBench, one of the standard benchmarks for analytical databases, we are releasing JSONBench (https://jsonbench.com/), a benchmark for JSON-based analytics in databases. Many databases, now natively support JSON data types to store and query unstructured data. You can use JSONBench to evaluate how these JSON types perform across databases. We are starting with 5 databases: ClickHouse, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, DuckDB, and PostgreSQL. Please feel free to contribute and add more databases.

Here is the official GitHub repo: https://github.com/ClickHouse/JSONBench/ and the detailed blog on JSONBench: https://clickhouse.com/blog/json-bench-clickhouse-vs-mongodb....

Looking forward to hear your feedback on this project and how we can improve it!

Thank you,
Sai Sriampur,
ClickHouse
My mom is a doctor, pediatrician, and she finished medical school end of 70s or beginning of 80s.

One of her coworkers went by the title "moaşa", the Romanian word for midwife.
Same! We've also been using the polyfill in production for a ~year or so.

We recently configured the node-pg driver to leave the postgres DATE / TIMESTAMP / TIMESTAMPTZ dates as "just strings" (instead of its default parsing to JS dates), and then we go straight from strings -> temporals at our ORM layer, without the jank/hop of it first being a JS Date.

...shoot, we need to get the Temporal out-of-the-box support updated in our Joist (https://github.com/joist-orm/joist-orm/) docs. :-/

But it's been great, having `DATE` in the db => `PlainDate` in the TS backend => `Date` in GraphQL API => `PlainDate` again in the TS/React FE. Very clean.
Theology teaches that the body will be resurrected for the Last Judgement and beyond.
Ask HN: What front end framework/library is the best to learn as a BE dev?
A few days ago, I asked about Ruby in Rails and the general consensus was that it's great and boring framework that is a joy to work with, especially for bootstrapping.

My next question is more complicated because the FE ecosystem is expectedly even more crazy than in BE.

My goal is to invest some time in learning the basics of front-end so that I know enough to both build a traditional server rendered app and a modern SPA.

With so many choices, I have a feeling that React is by the very definition that boring technology and a pretty safe choice. In my case, employment doesn't matter though since I don't need to be hired as a FE developer so I can just learn the nicest one.

Svelte seems to be a pretty popular choice, but I have heard that the changes are still pretty major so not sure whether it makes sense to give it a serious try.

What library/framework would you choose and why?
Keep fighting the good fight. Saying Llama is open source is straight up lying. It's open weights.
Technology as a narrative element has also evolved.

I distinctly remember watching X-Files in the 90s and thinking this is the first TV show where everyone is assumed to have a cell phone. Moreover, the phone nearly always works! When one of the characters goes wandering into some dark spooky forest in British Columbia, it doesn’t mean they’re going to get their own episode or suffer a mysterious death, they just pop open their phone and call their partner. Suddenly every existing story where phone calls can only be received at fixed locations seems as old as Sherlock Holmes sending a wire by messenger. And nowadays you have to explicitly signal danger by having the character pull out their phone and see NO SIGNAL.

The second season of Severance has a scene where a character leaves his apartment to make a call at a phone booth down the street. In 1980 this would have just signaled that he wanted to make an anonymous call. In 2025 it is alarming. What is this world he’s in where there are still phone booths? Is a shot with the character framed alone, lit by the harsh light of a phone booth at night, a deliberate reference to The Matrix?

What story elements will kids today take for granted? It’s still kind of trendy in stories to show a crowd making videos of something on their phones and causing a ruckus on social media. Maybe ubiquitous video will seem to them like cell phones seemed to us.
How to work effectively with contract developers
> you can still use the last definition of such a timezone if the date is still in the future

but that'll possibly give you an incorrect time!

If you want to store "8am in Paris on the 2026-01-01", then you store "2026-01-01T08:00:00 Europe/Paris". Great, if Paris decides to change their offset rules, that's fine.

Currently, that would be `2026-01-01T08:00:00+01:00` but if Paris decide to ditch DST, it could become `2026-01-01T08:00:00+00:00`. All good, you stored a timezone rather than an offset, so you're decoupled from the timezone->offset changes.

But if tomorrow `Europe/Paris` cease to exist, and is replaced with Europe/NewNewYork? The last definition of Europe/Paris would make this date `2026-01-01T08:00:00+01:00`, but if Europe/NewNewYork ditched DST then it wouldn't be 8am for the people living there, it'd be 7am.

You're decoupled from the timezone->offset changes, but not from location->timezone changes.
All arguments for and against the existence of God are inherently unfalsifiable, but that doesn't mean atheism is inherently more logical than theism.

I'm guessing you're one of those people who thinks atheism means a belief in the absence of a god, rather than its actual meaning, which is an absence of a belief in a god.
Maybe because revealed preference study came out before people could endlessly get services for free?

Are you really saying it’s stretch that when people say one thing and do another, what they do is more indicative of their preferences than what they say?
That’s a good point against unionization for government employees.

But anti-union is against the right to assemble, and any law requiring an individual to work goes against some very basic freedoms (self-determination, slavery?)

Let’s not make stripping away of freedoms a common thing that employers, government or private, can do. Rights are rights.
I genuinely think immigration is a law and order issue for many voters, and this is why you see a lot of support for controls from legal immigrants. People see right of refusal as a prerequisite to deciding where and how much immigration is desired.

By analogy, I prioritize my right over who enters my home over other considerations. I would like to let contractors and cleaners in, but only on my terms.
For the record, to save everyone the trouble of logging in and setting showdead=true:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42875572

numba888 11 hours ago [flagged] [dead] | parent | context | flag | vouch | favorite | on: Commercial jet collides with Black Hawk helicopter...

> Given the uptick in near miss incidents across the US the last few years,
That's explainable, you know inclusivity, race, and diversity were the top priorities for FAA. Just wait till you learn who was in the tower. (got this from other forum, let's wait for formal conformation)

affinepplan 10 hours ago [–]

what a revolting comment.

numba888 47 minutes ago [flagged] [dead] | parent [–]

> what a revolting comment.

Sure it is, truth hurts. But president is on my side:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14342925/Trump-says...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42608244

numba888 24 days ago [flagged] [dead] | parent | context | favorite | on: Show HN: DeepFace – A lightweight deep face recogn...

Can it be used for IQ estimates? Should be with the right training set.

azinman2 24 days ago [–]

How do you estimate IQ from a face with any accuracy?

numba888 23 days ago | parent | next [–]

Technically there is average IQ by country site, just google. Not that difficult to get faces by country. Put them together. Of course there are regulations and ethic. But in some cases it should work well and is more or less acceptable. Like on Down syndrome or alcohol/drugs abuse. Also age detection should work. So, it can be used within legal and acceptable range.
Handling exceptions in Python like a pro (2021)
"What You Can't Say" was silly back then, and is still silly now. Here's a guy with a huge online following, multiple channels for speaking his mind and getting his message out, yet complaining about a need to self-censor and that you can't say what you want. It reminds me of the "I Have Been Silenced" cartoon[1]. He also doesn't even list a specific example of something he wants to say but "can't." It's left up to our imagination.

1: https://i1.wp.com/leftycartoons.visionmule.com/wp-content/up...
Mind you, it also can'y answer this: who really goes to heaven or hell ? Your spirit as you were at 10, 20, 30, 50 ? what if you have a stroke at 60 and die as a vegetable at 70 ? Which one is the real you ? Because if it's as you were when you die then it's pretty silly
You do, but others don't, and I can't imagine anyone getting confused by a phrase like "I went on a [plane emoji] yesterday!" so it's not a barrier to communication. So where's the issue?
No, I'm not saying the he/she thing is worthy of prosecution. Straw man #2, nice. It is just an undeniable illustration that bias is encoded in machine learning models.

Of course it requires some actual harm before the law is involved. Perhaps AI recruiting systems favour resumes that match the "correct" gender to profession. Perhaps a hypothetical AI sentencing recommender gives stiffer penalties to people that live in high crime areas; after all, statistically they are more likely to re-offend - that's just not an acceptable sentencing factor. Perhaps a house appraisal AI accidentally recreates redlining.

These are just hard to prove, so my example is there to demonstrate that even though it's hard to demonstrate we should take the risk seriously.
I can totally see where you're coming from on this, but I think the way users on these countries see it is entirely different—-a couple notes in response:

- Users in these countries already use exchanges like Binance almost like a dollar checking account — this, as you probably know, is far more risky (past AML violations, entirely centralized point of failure, etc.). There's no better or safer alternative at the moment, and these people aren't typically huge fans of the current banks they're using, nor the regulation that they have to deal with.

- We don't have any intention to hide how the product works, or claim that it's a real bank.'Abstraction' in this case means minimizing wallet, key, and asset management during the user flow.

- The stablecoins we're offering (USDC & USDT) are more widely used and known in these countries than in the US. I actually don't even have to explain it to half the folks because they already understand the value prop and are comfortable with them (FWIW, USDC is a fully audited and soon-to-be-public US company).
From what I have seen, if a worker agress to it, they agree they could be reassigned or terminated early (and thus not paid the same or at all). Seems like a trap.
Tell HN: Internet companies sabotaging password managers
Not too long ago, everyone started putting users through authentication hell in favor of requiring 2FA. I settled on 1Password.

Setting aside the "2FA on same storage as passwords" argument, this flow is pretty secure. One password per service and TOTP codes work well, especially because the app locks itself within minutes, requires biometric unlocking and requires a password every X weeks.

But now, big tech apps prioritize (and often require) their non deterministic 2FA flows.

Google makes you login via any Google app you're logged in as (sometimes that is a desk clock). You need to hunt down the hidden option to use your 2FA app.

With Stripe, some operations require a passkey or "Email + 2FA Authenticator". Seems the email part is just to create friction.

There are many other cases where they treat regular 2FA the same as "password123". Is the goal here just to sell everyone on passkeys?
My high school ( late 00s) had Latin classes for some students on the live sciences track.
Those numbers were a bit abstract to me, so to get an idea: Tungunska event (1908) is estimated between 3 and 5 [1], and the Chelyabinsk (2013) at 0.5 [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelyabinsk_meteor
I look forward to reading this.

But anyone who thinks it's new should go back and read the first part of The Anatomy of Melancholy; there, a fictionalized Democritus, accused of insanity, turns the accusation back on the world at large, citing a surprisingly large and still relevant list of issues: information overload, self-serving politicians, charlatans, rubes, general bullshit. The phenomenon of meteoria goes back that far and further. I'm actually curious whether Carr cites Burton!
It's not connection but the software and motivations of the companies behind it along with the structure of our society that is the problem. I make music for fun. Half of my online interaction is people looking to make a buck. Connecting in a music space wasn't like that 20 years ago. The conversations I had online 20 years ago are now still happening just in private discords. Connecting in public spaces driven by algo's based purely to serve profit motives and people whose motives aren't connection but clout/politics/selling something doesn't define some universal tech/connection rule.

I'm on a locals hiking mail list. We share things like when the kokanee are running. That doesn't get blasted to 20,000 people with zero interest but who will go because they saw it in the equivalent of the local 'what to do this weekend' section of the newspaper. Society has arranged itself so that there is very little to do without spending money. And so those few things of beauty, free, and semi easy to get to get 'devoured' by a very hungry populace.

But on the hiking/biking app I have no fear sharing trails because the 'social media' people on the app are only going to trails they can get to within 2 minutes of the highway. People that are going on a 2 hour mountain hike that requires an hour of fire road driving self select out. Plus if we don't get enough people going the trails get overgrown so I need exposure. I am only sharing because I want something out of it (enough traffic to keep the trail accessible) and I don't share my favorite trails outside of the mail list. Social media companies have made sure their experience is purely transactional at this point, not 'connective', but things like selective highly connecting discords/email lists exist and very much connect people in healthy ways.
> You seem to think that your mind and the mind of God are similar,

How come? You think I'm saying that the infinite creator of the universe is unlikely to care about the fate or well-being of humans because... I wouldn't if I was him? I mean, I would. Because I have a human mind. But if there are indeed no similarities between God's mind and my own, well, anything goes, doesn't it? Him caring is just one small possibility out of trillions of alternatives.

> and limitations you perceive are limitations for God.

What limitations? I haven't listed any limitations. Neither a God who cares nor a God who doesn't care is limited. I just don't see why I would assign a particularly significant probability to the former case. It sure would be convenient, but I feel like God being moral in any way that I can relate to would inevitably be projection on my part.
It's self dealing in the context of taxes.
I think public opinion had nothing to do with it. You observe that there was a segment of public against it, but you have not connected the dots and shown that had any tangible effect.

We see plans for nuclear go up and down based on economic conditions. Public opinion doesn't seem to have any effect on that. The nuclear renaissance was going great when natural gas seemed like it was running out. It collapsed when fracking made gas cheap again. Today there's concern for AI power demand and nuclear seems to be getting traction. Public opinion isn't driving any of that.
Yes, but I could also see the case where you have 10 commits to check, each bisect takes 20 minutes and it takes 40 minutes to find the problem.

Or 20 minutes if you had 10-'sect.
That particular argument could be used to justify any belief.
Repeat offenders may be responsible for many shark attacks
Thx for linked thread. It was an interesting read to me.

I have got a feeling that the division comes from two different system programming folks. Hard realtime folks see unbounded time and uh-oh its fatal. On other side soft realtime folks ask about probabilities and profiling data and its relatively fine for them if probability is low enough. Where both of the camps would agree if number of effects is bound somehow.