skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If we were talking about a projectile fired at relatively close range on the surface of the Earth I would agree with you. But we are talking about a very small object very far away with already only a 1% chance of impact. Buckshotting the object with a random explosion is unlikely to change the dynamics of system to point where you say with high confidence the chance of impact is much higher. Some fragments might hit but it's very difficult to predict.
> I was extremely surprised to find out that based on ICE’s annual reports, which are still up, Biden’s administration deported far more people than Trump’s did

Really? It was very widely reported. Just wait until you see how many people Obama deported
I suspect moderately informed, but not completely informed, is the worst kind of speculation. It has a sense of authority and knowledge that is hard to pinpoint its accuracy.

Almost all the amateur theories in here, just by the variety, are going to be dead wrong.
This continues to be a regular thing for the past 5 years of outages and I've lost count of the many outages that GitHub continues to have since calling it. [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22868406
That's actually a really interesting way to leverage that feature. Have you found this easier than other services built specifically for this use case?
They already have a landline phone and don’t need a cell. And then the options for dumb phones are slim.
I was not thinking (much) about robotics but rather about a ChatGPT-style LLM processing video or frames and asked to navigate a random environment and find a way to make coffee. I didn't try but it doesn't sound far from their current capabilities.

Then of course the manipulation of objects is still tricky and needs improvements, but the "general intelligence" needed to adapt to a novel environment is already there.
We buy stuff we don’t really need, and we in reality can’t afford, to Impress people we don’t really like,, or know ! We the people control are in control of everything, regardless of how you think government is at the helm, when you stop buying cheap knock off crap from Amazon(aka China), “we the people” can do way more damage than any government action ! So let’s get busy,,less is more, cheers
Did you bother to look at it?

It has a single dependency, and that single dependency has no dependencies of its own.

So what is that dependency?

"temporal-spec"

And it looks like it comes from the same github repo. It basically looks like they broke out the API definitions so that they could be depended on by other potential implementations. This isn't atypical.
That’s pretty cool. I would love to hear more about how this works.

In particular, whether it is restricted in practice to types that are std::is_trivially_relocatable.

https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2024/p11...
This is really exciting—the 12-32b size range has my favorite model size on my home computer, and the mistrals have been historically great and embraced for various fine-tuning.

At 24b, I think this has a good chance of fitting on my more memory constrained work computer.
I was really expecting it too. Pretty disappointing.
I agree, the naming is unfortunate. DateTime would have been way better.
even the main github.com page seems down for me now (also getting the unicorn that others saw on their repo)
It's really Astronomer Airflow now
This might seem unique or unusual, but technology has been intertwined with religion since well, forever, especially if we consider the book to be a form of technology. Personally one of my favorite historical topics is how the printing press had a huge impact on the Reformation. With the Internet more broadly I think we are in the midst of a second “Reformation” in terms of information sources, the media, etc.

Another cool example is Lewis Mumford’s argument that the industrial age actually started with monks creating rudimentary clocks and organizing life according to specific times in order to achieve their monkish ends.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technics_and_Civilization
Actions are clearly affected too but not represented on the status page.
Bitbucket was down for a few hours a week ago and 0 fuss was made about it in the media. Atlassian stock actually went up over the ourage
Personal projects are on a vps and accessed through ssh. I’ve self-hosted gitea, then forgejo, then found out that I don’t like the interface or the auth dance. My plan is to ise cgit if I want something to be public and any forge if the purpose is collaboration (sourcehut is nice)
Or, GitHub used to favor stability back in the day, and there wasn't a lot of changes. People were complaining that GitHub didn't "improve" enough day-to-day, so after the Microsoft purchase, Microsoft started forcing GitHub to add more features, stability be damned.

Most outages are caused not by stuff just randomly breaking, but updates/upgrades going wrong. If you try to increase the output of new features/changes to a platform, you're bound to have more outages and downtime if you aren't more careful than before.

Microsoft, who never really excelled at engineering, to the surprise of absolutely everyone, choose adding features over stability and since years back, we're seeing the consequences of that choice.
Github Incident with Pull Requests and Issues
While I agree that Google's advancement politics are concerning, it's far fetched to say that there's a winner-takes-all aspect - there's still a lot of remuneration/power/recognition to go around for everyone, just not unevenly distributed.
It's going to end up looking a lot like C# [0][1]; these two/three (JS/TS, C#) languages have been converging for a while now. Now just waiting for C# to get official first party discriminated unions!

[0] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-ref...

[1] https://timdeschryver.dev/blog/pattern-matching-examples-in-...
Is that actually true or speculative? Seriously asking.
There seems to be some kind of profound irony in having ChatGPT do that.
Decompilers aren’t just for security research they’re a key part of data compression of software updates. Delta compressors make deltas between decompiled code. So an improvement in mapping of decompiled files could have as much as a 20x improvement in software update size.
Trust in “Big tech” reaches back into the early 20th century with Bell Labs. If this topic interests you, I highly recommend “The Master Switch” by Tim Wu:

https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/books/176/
I've tried other tools. But I'm on GitHub most days, so it's been a seamless way to keep track of some things that would otherwise disappear into a calendar, or some tool that I don't use as often.
Can an AI achieve enlightenment through enough training epochs?
The double whammy may come when people realize, if they haven't already, that the "do no evil" guy (Paul Buchheit) and--at the individual level--many of the "enlightened" angel investor old guard have one by one decided that the current admin and broligarch movement is actually the lesser of two evils. PG being one of the few remaining holdouts, at least for now.
China funnelled $57B to control critical mineral supply chain
Yeah SSO is down for me too
Agreed, there is a lot of opportunity to improve build_runner. I hope now that we've freed up a lot of engineering resources from macros that we can dig into that some.
>In fact, for most of humanity, we were pretty damn egalitarian. Capitalism changed things, and the problem is getting rapidly worse - precisely because of billionaires [0].

No, it's scale that changed things. Larger pre-capitalistic societies (which are still relatively recent as far as the history of the species goes) were even less egalitarian. It's only smaller groups that were less structured where you find much less inequality, the problem is they lose to more organised, larger, and materially wealthier groups.
It all began 5 years ago [0] when we wanted to 'centralize everything to GitHub.'

Then, the outages accelerated from there.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22868406
Yeah, I had to spend a bit of time inside to understand the process. I hope everyone knows about it now.
I am not experiencing a full outage right now, but I am experiencing very slow (spinner) and flakey (error that works again on repeat).

So perhaps it's the same problem, that's been getting more prevalent until it was noticeable by monitoring. One can hope!
Its open source vs closed source, not China vs US

but this new dimension of geopolitical competition is now sidelining the cautionary anti-AGI populace, which was honestly probably saving us a few years
If I'm not wrong, this is the third week in a row with GitHub incidents, isn't it?
Are you saying that teens can’t exist in society without social media? Unless you count HN as social media, currently the only social media site I’m on is LinkedIn. I don’t even participate in that unless I’m actively looking for a job.

For group messaging. I use text messages and I just deleted my Reddit account.
Seconded. Hosting FOSS on a platform that isn't FOSS itself and run by a for-profit company who tried to work against FOSS for so long (Microsoft) doesn't make much sense to me.

Instead, we should dogfood the FOSS ecosystem on a platform that is FOSS itself, and run as a non-profit. Codeberg, for better or worse, is the best platform for this today.
Show HN: Read your kids the story YOU create
I have two kids, which story to read before bed is starting to be a struggle: Kids are curious by nature, they're always excited by new stuff.

So Why not read a unique bed story every night ?

I'm in an extended sick leave for a broken bone, I've slowly built Younikorn, the tool that takes a user instructions and build a amazing story around that.

It a also has a very beautiful and kids friendly book reader. Especially designed for kids.

Check this out, I'm disabling sign up requirement for HN folks : You can still signup for a FREE account to get more credits !
Imagine if they only let people take the bar exam once.
A faux pas for sure but we can't pretend Google, Meta, and OpenAI all haven't had similar issues even with their much larger team sizes.
Because literally nobody uses it.
Excellent article ... if you read it.

If you don't really read it, YMMV.
Who cares? GDP was never designed to be used as a measure of welfare, in fact this use case was explicitly discouraged.

We need a better metric that captures welfare and general life satisfaction. That's the only metric that matters in my world view.
Meter Infrastructure
It gives Fujifilm vibes
Thanks! Yeah, it's odd to me that there are so many cheap Apple Watch clones on Aliexpress with nice AMOLED displays and sensors galore, but nothing hackable, nothing with an e-paper/MIP display. I feel like they would make way more $$ if they made one that was hackable? Lilygo.cc has done a lot of work on open hackable watches, but they're big and not water-resistant.
C, because reading uninitialized memory is undefined behavior so the compile can assume it never happens.
BS Physics and MS OR here. Loved both. I wish I took my OR classes way earlier. Just before I professionally retired I transitioned to a ML engineer job and knocked it out of the park. I was very well prepared w my skill set. In my opinion, too much of the data science field was getting dumbed down generating dashboards, etc. but the skill set was very valuable and I did advanced work.
The OR community has a publication/society for analytics. Check out INFORMS. I’m not a fan of it as o think it misses the direction needed for ML. I think they are trying to refocus and address this.
But the OR conferences are large.
I actually like the decision science field better, moving up in management and making the right decisions and being able to articulate the reasoning was always important to me.
Centralized media at least gives you an entity to rally behind or against. If a news network is pushing propaganda it's easier to say "this place is a problem". With social media it's much more nebulous. Opinions on the source of the problem range from the big tech companies, the algorithms, the concept of social media as a whole, foreign influences, etc.
Oh god this poem. It's like generational trauma in German speaking countries. At some point during junior high every student is tasked with learning to recite it by heart. Of course it's not too hard, but there are a million things a thirteen year old kid would rather do.
They are not profitable. The problem is that they have to find their way to profitability because investors and shareholders need to be paid back. And because they have to do that, you could say that it "compromises" on objectives that would more rapidly advance the field like openly sharing their reasoning architecture.
I like it. got a Star Trek vibe.
Besides projects/companies/people stuck on Bitbucket, is anyone actually voluntary using Bitbucket? I remember using it back when I was poor and it was the only choice for hosted free private repositories, but the rest of the platform was actively worse in basically every way compared to the alternatives.
I think that's deepseek striking back.
Wait until you look at the leakage current of capacitors..! Very poorly specified, if at all, and can actually swamp the consumption of active components in these low or sub-microamp situations. The dual voltage rail that msanford described is the way to go here, gate as much as you possibly can and really focus on reducing the duty cycle.
This was user error and a major misunderstanding and mischaracterization of an issue that caused a bit of unexpected panic.
How many servers in one rack? Let's say 42. How many chips in one server? Let's say 8. It's 336 cards per rack - enough for fp8 70B model weights (and, maybe, kv cache if your requests aren't too long, but probably not really). You need 10 (!) racks to serve one (!) DeepSeek model weights. There is also massive amount complexity arises from operating so many nodes.

During short time when Groq hardware appeared on the market it was costing 20K per card. It's 60 mln (!) per 1 Deepseek model. You need absolutely crazy amount of load to justify those costs, and, most likely, you will need massive amount additional nodes to handle KV cache of those requests.
To the best of my knowledge, there's nothing quite like R1-Zero released by OpenAI or others, they seem to really be pushing innovation.

Relevant ARC-Prize post and discussion from yesterday: https://arcprize.org/blog/r1-zero-r1-results-analysis
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42868390
Indeed – and not to mention Håkon Wium Lie, of CSS and Opera fame, who also wanted to build his own home organ, but ended up buying an entire organ building company (https://ryde-berg.no).
The solution to piracy isn’t further escalation of the cat and mouse game.

The music industry already showed the answer; stop trying to hold on so tight with a winner-take-all model. Let platforms have access to content and create services at a reasonable price. All the services trying to carve out at own their own piece of the streaming market is what frustrates users and drives them to the pirate sites. A paying customer should have a better and more seamless solution than a pirate. This is the case with many music service, is not the case with TV and movies. It’s too confusing, too expensive, and constantly shifting. The user experience is a complete nightmare. Until the industry solves the user’s plight, they deserve to lose.
Add the majority of people I know to the pile. As a programmer, I don't think we're in control anymore, and haven't been for quite some time. Money and economics dominates almost every conversation when it comes to tech.
I think the mismatch here is in your definition of smartphone. Expand the definition to include any feature beyond placing and receiving phone calls. I live right next door to takes perverse pride in his inability to text. It's a thing.
New product with fewer features and less compatibility vs old product which is mature and has a full bug tracker
ECB warns of weak economy after delivering quarter-point rate cut
There were others of varying severity: https://www.githubstatus.com/history

At one point all git operations were down: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42691184
FAST also doesn't have transmitters, unlike Arecibo. So you cannot do radar observations of radio-reflective but not emitting objects with it in the same way.
I remember graduating in 2004 and ingesting the message from the [current] BigTech companies that, "this time it'll be different!" and "we aren't like those other companies!" I ate it up, of course. I didn't have the experience to see that the promises were hollow by the nature of the arrangement.

Fully expect a new crop of companies to make the same pitch, and people to fall for it again.
I do the same - I've been running so many non-software things out of private GitHub Issues. I even have a simple system for creating a new issue every day to use as a personal TODO list, described here: https://til.simonwillison.net/github-actions/daily-planner

I've noticed everything feeling a whole lot less snappy and responsive over the past few days - ironically I think it's because they've done a major rewrite of the frontend presumably with the aim of making it more snappy and responsive!
I've been getting a couple generic Cloudflare 521 responses across a weird mix of big and not-big sites this morning. Things have felt a little off.
Uber and Lyft have displaced taxis in many places.
Asteroid triggers global defence plan amid chance of 2032 collision with Earth
The incidents history page is really damning. I didn't realize it gotten so bad
https://youtu.be/Ho9M-q_kcn8

> stop calling me a crypto-Nazi or I'll sock you in the goddamn face, and you'll stay plastered

--William F. Buckley Jr to Gore Vidal in 1968 on ABC television

Buckley also hosted a show on PBS at the time.
Hopeful that we will course correct, but not before an inflection point that's yet to be hit

Have no idea what it will look like, but I think it'll be the 9/11 of another era.
Angela Merkel did not open the borders to the entire world with her "Wir schaffen das" ...(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wir_schaffen_das) she had a measured approach, the wikipedia article is not bad.
I would be a lot more severe about her grand illusion of bringing Russia into the fold of civilized nations through gas-purchases co-dependency. This one definitely did not age well, at all. The corollary, bowing to misguided greens and stopping nuclear power with her catastrophic EnergieWende was however the worst.
I suppose one could say that an pipe organ and a typical synth setup may have somewhat similar interfaces, but wildly different implementations.
That would make sense, since that would ridiculously inflate those numbers. I bet I've installed Open/LibreOffice a couple of dozen times inadvertently.
OnlyOffice has better compatibility with Microsoft Office formats in most cases.

LibreOffice has been developed with Open Document Format as its first-class citizen. In my experience, it can't render the layout correctly for most docx forms created with tables.

For example, this is a form I filled a few months ago for my college's paperwork:
https://imgur.com/tv5GDZa
With any new DateTime object in any language I usually look at its persistent fields to judge what the memory and access characteristics are.

In case of Temporal it looks like that Chrome goes the JavaScript Date way as it only holds the timestamp:

extern class JSTemporalInstant extends JSObject {
nanoseconds: BigInt;
}

And then calendrical fields are computed on the fly. Is this correct?
Mistral-Small-24B-Base-2501
Curious to see how Temporal works with JS on the client side!

It’s an awesome tool for durable execution, I’ve been using it in my OSS projects, and it has been instrumental in building a leading Reverse ETL platform powered by Temporal.

https://github.com/Multiwoven/multiwoven
No one would call an old phone with T9 texting a “smart phone”. Any phone out since at least 2002 could send and receive texts
A very smug comic.

It misses 2 main points:

1. The system we have seems to have done a pretty good job, since people are choosing its products, rather than products created by another system.

2. A lot of people will rarely make a larger sacrifice than maybe quitting Twitter for a while despite spending a huge amount of time trying to preach to other people about how important their cause is. Which makes it seem like the noises they make are often just posturing.
The author writes "It is possible that OCSP will remain in use for specialist use cases—for example, in private environments where both sides of a communication are under the control of the same party."

This is for example the case in German health care. The insured people (and not only them) are given physical smart cards with certificates on them. I believe OCSP is used, among other uses, to detect expired cards (for example when the insured person switches to another insurer) when they are used at a doctors' office.
Thanks! US (majority), Canada, and remote. Jobs are sourced from https://github.com/SimplifyJobs/Summer2025-Internships and https://github.com/SimplifyJobs/New-Grad-Positions. I'm looking into additional sources.
It is time to roll out the full liability to the protected paid class such as HiTech, pharmaceutical, and NGOs.
There's even the concept of "Temporal Dead Zone" in Javascript already which describes the period of time where variables aren't accessible.
This has the potential to be very helpful. Donating bone marrow or blood stem cells is uncomfortable* and requires taking time off which makes it difficult for people with job/family constraints. So a pool of potential donors are likely dissuaded from volunteering to donate.

*As a donor (stem cells; the easy one so I'm not a hero), it's not a pleasant experience, but I'm guessing it's way easier than dealing with the actual cancer, so have no grounds to complain.
Since you asked, https://about.gitea.com/ is a great tool. MIT license.
Trump is now a fanboi of big tech, one of whom has an office in the Eisenhower building and WH email address [0].

You dance with the date who drove you to the dance.

"Big Tech" is only a problem when it disagrees with him.

[0] https://www.firstpost.com/explainers/what-did-elon-musk-get-...
> It produces steady progress on most any important metric

Some metrics I care about are income equality, homelessness, school shootings, level of education. What are the metrics you care about that you see improving?

> Compared with the Soviet system, that makes it vastly superior.

I'm sure it's also superior to the feudal system and hunter-gatherer systems. The Soviet system has been gone for three decades, I don't see why we would care to compare the current system to the effects of a system operating in a vastly different economic and political reality, more than 30 years ago.

> Compared to an imagined perfect system, it has many flaws, but that's how the real world is.

Well sure, that's a truism. That doesn't preclude the existence of realistic more effective or healthy systems.
Group text messaging serves a different function than Tiktok or YouTube - surely you know this?

Or are you referring to Facebook in this thread while strawmanning another user regarding it in another thread?

Do you realize your link points out that only 33% of teens use social media, down from 71% in 2015?
yeah i hate when i have to IG dm my doctor for an appointment
I was using llama3 and deepseek-r1 literally to center an element in a div and they were not able to despite many prompts and variations. I guess I figured it out in the end but I'm not convinced I saved any time vs just carefully reading flexbox docs.
> The American people are tired of cleaning up the messes the bureaucracy has made.

Wait until you see the messes that are created when there are no rules because there is no bureaucracy.