skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's quite trivial if the language exposes an interface for iterating both clusters and points, and without such an interface the problem is much harder to notice

I assure you, 99% of people won't handle this correctly even if given a cluster-based interface (if they even bother using it). And this still doesn't handle the question of cutting words in the middle of some languages resulting in broken display of the non-cut part (or languages without space-based word boundaries to cut on). So the preferred thing is still to use a library.

I don't think anyone in k would use UTF-16 via a character list of 2 chars per code unit; an integer list would work much nicer for that (and most k interpreters should be capable of storing such with 16-bit ints; there's still some preference for using UTF-8 char lists, namely, such get pretty-printed as strings); and you'd have to convert on some I/O probably anyway. Never mind the world being basically all-in on UTF-8.

Even if you have a string type that's capable of being backed by either UTF-8 or UTF-16, you'll still need conversions between those at some points; you'd want the Windows API calls to have a "str.asNullTerminatedUTF16Bytes()" or whatnot (lest a UTF-8-encoded string makes its way here), which you can trivially have an equivalent of for a byte list. And I highly doubt that overhead of conversion would matter anywhere you need a UTF-16-only Windows API.

I doubt all of those fancy operations you'll be doing will have optimized impls for all formats internally either, so there's internal conversions too. If anything, I'd imagine that having a unified internal representation would end up better, forcing the user to push the conversions to the I/O boundaries and allowing focus on optimizing for a single type, instead of going back-and-forth internally or wasting time on multiple impls.
Right. Ctrl+C is still mapped as usual.
All the given names are equal, none of them is first or middle.
… selection absolutely does work with a vertically split vim?

If the desired selection is large and spans multiple lines, yeah, you're going to have a bad time doing it via the terminal emulator (but that has little to do with the split, other than splits make it more likely to wrap), but you can then just fall back asking vim to copy it to the selection.

(This does get back at the complaint in TFA, though, that they're not the same, the moment we have to switch from the terminal to vim's command.)

(All of this probably applies directly to tmux too, but I don't use tmux.)
At least for the work I typically do, including my hobbyist projects in Unity, I almost never have to use threads. Praise be to Async, which has abstracted a lot of this.

I couldn't really grass programming until I found JavaScript. Even now my criteria for learning a language is one of two things .

One, do I want to build something and this language would be the best tool .

Or, two, is this language going to make me a ton of money.

I really want to find a good use case for Rust that isn't superseded by what I can do in the languages I already know. I might take some time to make a game in Rust one day...
> I think people in the Bay Area forget this, but as you move further from the bay Berkeley is regarded more and more like another public school.

As someone who lives far from the Bay Area: This is ridiculously wrong - especially when applied to PhD.

It all depends on the discipline you're in. And when it comes to engineering, most of these top public schools outrank most of the Ivy's. Almost no one cares if you got your EE PhD from Princeton or Yale. They definitely will care if you got it from Berkeley. Or Ann Arbor. Or Illinois, And so on.

Reminds me of a coworker who went to Princeton for his Mechanical Engineering PhD who deeply regretted it. He was coming from abroad, and naturally assumed an Ivy would be better. He really wishes he had gone to one of the Midwest public schools instead. He hadn't heard of any of them before coming to the US (and clearly hadn't bothered doing his research before applying).
Scaling up test-time compute with latent reasoning: A recurrent depth approach
>names like Sylvia, Lisa, Karen, Sharon, etc. might take quite a few generations before they come back into fashion.

Sylvia, Lisa, Karen, Sharon might make a comeback but not Karen due to the recent negative connotation and has been considered to be a pejorative term [1].

Similarly most of the Jesus disciples names become common place, the name Judas is avoided like a plague, since it's considered to be a pejorative term equivalent to traitor based on what he did to Jesus.

[1] Karen (slang):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_(slang)
Sure and I guess that I shouldn’t expect to read about them here necessarily.
Valve updates guidelines to reign in predatory advertisement practices
Is it maybe possible to download object files or something like that (that I can convert to stl)?
Probably worth thinking more about what we mean by "wrapper". A year or so ago, it often meant a prompt builder UI. There's no moat for that. But if in 2025 a "wrapper" means a proprietary data source with a pipeline to deliver it along with some proprietary orchestration along with the UI (and the LLM API being called), then it likely warrants looking at it differently.
> thus transferring chattel ownership.

That's reductive and insulting to the women who chose to maintain this tradition. In many cases it's a very moving and symbolic gesture, akin to a groom's dance with his mother.
Former LA mayor Antonio Villaraigosa did the same. (He was born Villar. Wife was born Raigosa.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Villaraigosa
Coursera's 2025 Strategy: Focusing on Campus, Scaling Back Degrees
Twitter thread about this by the author: https://x.com/jonasgeiping/status/1888985929727037514
Writing to teach others is a much more effective way of establishing credibility than writing to just show off.

There is a reason Andrej Karpathy has such a great reputation. His credentials are impressive, but the quality of his teaching content is spectacular.
Do you know much about beaver dams?
Idk if you are serious about that, but if you are there is hope. For about $200/month (not going through insurance) it can be quite easy to not eat so much. I have been really shocked by how much my mind has been quieted by not being obsessed about food and never feeling deprived. Downside: you feel full all the time. Hims.com it’s super easy (no office visits no video conferencing) and fast. Not affiliated except as a happy customer (my wife is happy too.) you CAN out-eat it, but it’s far easier not to.
Intel's new NLP model, Polite Guard
Starlink essentially just provides additional cell tower sites to your network.

If you don't like your network using these for whatever reason, the best action would be to use another network.
I do notice that a lot of enemies
of the state seem to use poorly secured platforms. Everything from Hamas using pagers to widespread use of unencrypted telegram groups and discord, and the ANOM sting with a non-e2e app.

Yet platforms with apparently secure e2e messaging (ie. WhatsApp) never seem to be used by criminals.

I wonder if this is just selection bias in the criminals caught, or if there is some forcing factor persuading criminals to make poor security choices.
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This is occurring against a backdrop of e.g. hearings of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee. I regret to inform you that the broader issue is of great interest outside our circles.

One of the three witnesses the Senate Banking Committee chose to call requested, the following day, a retraction from me… for reasons.

I certainly did not see this ever happening when I started selling bingo cards on the Internet, but here we are.
And plain Minecraft did the opposite by adding -XX:JavaHeapDumpPath=MojangTricksIntelDriversForPerformance_javaw.exe_minecraft.exe.heapdump to the command line, when they changed the way the game started so that it wasn't detected as minecraft.exe any more. (Side effect: if you trigger a heap dump, it gets that name)
TinyX: Small Featured X Server
>I know multiple agencies who cut staff by 80-90% without dropping revenue.

I'm finding it hard to reconcile this with my own experiences. My whole team ( 5 people ) left last year ( for better pay I guess ) and the marketing agency in germany Im working for had to substitute them with freelancers. To offset the cost they fired the one guy who was hired to push the whole LLM AI topic.
We managed to fill one junior position by offering 10k+ more then in their last job. The firm would love to hire people to replace the freelancers.
We had to cut stuff lately. But mostly they closed the kitchen which wasn't used due to work from home policy.
Definitely don't see any stuff reduction due to automation / LLM use. They still pay (external) people 60€ per written text/article. Because clients don't like LLM written stuff.
This is huge, when can we get a rust implementation?
what job did you end up doing
The hamfisted attempts to ram new features into docs/excel recently have made me wince. It's like (read: it's because) they're afraid to change the winning formula, so any new feature is buried in some submenu and is treated as a 2nd class citizen throughout. They then try to surface these new features via a suggestions pane which is doomed to irritate users because it feels like you're doing something complicated when you try and use it, and half the time it causes standard functionality to not work as you'd expect.
My journey was done in two very different countries: US and Brazil. The exact same treatment approach and behavior from doctors.
Dare I say it, and I'm sure there are exceptions, but I've never in my life had a women show any interest in my various hotrods over the years. They sure attracted the attention of boys and men, though. They'd want to see the engine, want to know what modifications were done, etc. The women, would just turn away. I don't know any women who took a car apart to see how it worked. None who build electronic circuits for fun. None who filled trash bags with hydrogen gas. None who hung out in the machine shop and begged the shop foreman to show them how to use those machines. None with gas powered model airplanes. And so on.

And yes, I'm sure there are exceptions. Nothing wrong with that. And nothing wrong with men and women having different interests.

I'm sorry for what happened to your sister and friend. That was unfair.
Serverless API for streaming data backed by object storage
Sounds like electronics are just for fans and maybe ignition? Sounds plausible.

But there were indeed some true attempts to cook with USB power alone.[1]

[1] https://hackaday.com/2022/12/01/throwback-usb-hotplate-used-...
Apologies, just saw this days later.

I appreciate the in-depth explanations. Glad to see the second article did end up getting traction eventually.

>p.s. Thanks for imputing good faith to the mods!

My pleasure. Thanks for all your hard work!
All of them are first names.
I mean, are any of us shocked that folks who work with computers or are computer enthusiasts are early adopters of LLMs?

I feel like this has less to do with what LLMs are best at and more to do with which folks are mostly likely to spend time using a chat bot.
That's not what Lakatos meant by degenerate. It's a technical definition, and his response to Popper's claim that falsification can be used to differentiate science from pseudoscience. I think if you seriously apply Lakatos's reasoning then at the very least many types of quantitative social science are progressive research programmes in a way that race science is not. And if you try naive falsification instead, you end up with weird results like mathematical physics isn't science but quantitative sociology is.

Oh, and "socially correct" is a thought terminating cliche. You clearly meant "politically correct" but that has such a negative valance that you need to change one of the words to not sound conspiratorial.
napkin is literally a small piece of napiery (cloth)
Thanks for making this more clear. This is the problem with reading old posts.
I still have a bunch of 400k and 800k disks that work fine
Thread at the time https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36498484
> We have no specific knowledge about Anchorage Digital’s relationship with its former bank or more than forty prospective banks, and will let the common factor in those discussions describe them.

My god, nothing left but a smoking husk after that burn.
yeah, a sufficiently motivated attacker can deploy some countermeasures to bypass it, but only really worth it for targeted attacks. Anyone who has a form on the internet knows that without any sort of captcha, you get lots of stupid bots just typing in jumbo. Likely you could tone back the captchas and still get a similar result in stopping the dumb bots[0]

[0] on my contact page my email is protected via a custom cypher. if the bots execute javascript and wait 0.5s they can read it, but most don't. It’s the dumbest PoW imaginable, but it works
Here's why I find it hard to accept out of Africa (OOA).

Ancient Fossil Evidence Outside Africa – Fossil remains predating the supposed OOA migration (~60,000 years ago) have been found in China (Dali skull, 260,000 years old), Greece (Apidima 1, 210,000 years old), and the Levant (Misliya jaw, ~177,000 years old), suggesting Homo sapiens or proto-sapiens were present outside Africa long before the mainstream migration timeline.

Genetic Discrepancies – Some non-African populations (e.g., Australo-Melanesians and East Asians) possess archaic DNA from unknown hominins not found in Africans, implying deep regional continuity rather than a complete replacement by recent African migrants.

Multiple Ancestral Lineages – The discovery of distinct ancient hominin populations, such as the Denisovans and Red Deer Cave people, suggests a complex web of interbreeding rather than a single-origin replacement model.

Stone Tool Continuity in Asia – The presence of advanced stone tools in Asia (e.g., at Jwalapuram, India, ~74,000 years ago) suggests technological continuity rather than a disruption expected from an OOA replacement event.

MtDNA & Y-Chromosome Inconsistencies – While mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is often cited in support of OOA, recent studies indicate that some deep-rooted Y-chromosome lineages (e.g., haplogroup D found in Tibetans and Andamanese) show ancient divergence outside Africa, inconsistent with a recent African bottleneck.

Early Human Artifacts in the Americas – Artifacts and footprints in the Americas (e.g., White Sands, ~21,000–23,000 years ago) suggest a much earlier presence of humans, challenging the late migration model and implying deeper population history.

Human evolution and migration were likely far more complex than a single, recent dispersal from Africa. The evidence supports alternative models such as multiregional evolution or earlier, undocumented migrations.
Certainly depends what you believe defines "best".

Hybrids have all the complexity of a ICE with most of the complexity of an EV. Particularly PHEVs.

Hybrids, assuming they are reliable, exist to save on gas mileage and for that reason have value. PHEVs are overpriced hybrids IMO.

As someone who drives an, admittedly top of the line, EV daily. I feel like PHEVs don't fit anywhere in the market. Hybrids will exist as long as consumer sentiment is EVs have range problems. Those consumers, I believe, are uninformed of the actual range of EVs and uninformed about how EV charging works (or should work).
Fair enough. Many editors like myself are still getting skeleton articles written on government and law, and I'm doubtful the politics articles could've ever been that good without such basic information.
Honestly dunno if anyone does anything similar to the Jones Act. Certainly not in shipping (though a lot of countries require domestic flagging, not built).

Outside of shipping idk what the analogous situation would be
Most USB floppy drives you can find today support exactly one format - 1.44MB disks. Reading older 720k disks has become a challenge. I bought a small pile of Dell laptop internal floppy drives from eBay because they (slightly oddly) have a USB port on the back, and still support 720k.
I constantly am :) well, not constantly, but I've put thought into it. I'm not exactly thrifty, but I spend way below what I could. I've been trying to spend less (eat out less, live in a cheaper apartment, etc.,) to see how comfortable that feels to try and figure out what sort of budget I'm happy with.

On the flip side, it's funny to think about what life would look like if I spent all my disposable income, but it's not really an experiment I want to run haha.

I think the most likely scenario is that I take some time off and decide to continue working similarly to now, but I think it'll be nice to have some confidence that I can have more freedom to choose what I want to do if I show myself that I could afford to retire. I largely like my job. I wish there was less stress and external pressure, but it seems difficult to keep the parts of my job that I like without those.
Apple fixes zero-day exploited in 'extremely sophisticated' attacks
> help systems that focus on learning by example rather than enumerating an exhaustive list of features (like most current man pages)

I almost always prefer exhaustive lists of features. Examples don't really teach you what each flag being used does, so you end up just memorizing combinations of flags without knowing what they actually do. I suspect learning solely by example is exactly why so many people have a ton of trouble learning how to use tools like tar, and the common refrain of "I have to look it up every single time".

Examples are useful, but not sufficient on their own for learning.
Correction, non-US nation state attackers. (this comment is mostly a sarcastic joke)
I'm familiar with the pejorative but I reckon that'll die out, plus it's more an American thing that hasn't had that much crossover here in the UK.
I do actually think they see it as a positive. It is not just that they do not care. It is that it heightens his credit in their eyes and they get to see him as victim.

It makes him look more manly for some people.
Yes it's very hard to interface a 360 kb floppy to USB. I found an interface but they refused to ship that outside the US. Eventually i found the greaseweazle which needs special software but it works great. And that was available here.
Anyone doubting this really has no idea what they're talking about.

Set up a "Health & Fitness" project in Claude (or whatever). Feed it:

* Basic data: height, weight, age, sex

* Basic metric snapshots from Apple Health or whatever: HRV range, RHR, typical sleep structure - go through everything and summarize it

* Typical diet (do you track it in MFP or Cronometer? Great, upload a nutrition report)

* Any supplements and medications you take

* Typical exercise habits

* Any health records you have - bloodwork results, interpreted imaging results, etc.

* Family history like you would describe it to a doctor

* Summary of any health complaints

* Anything else that seems relevant.

Then go through a few conversation loops asking it if there's any more information you could provide that would help it be more useful.

Then ask it things like "Given <health complaint>, what should I be doing more of? Less of?"—or "Please speculate about potential causes of <thing>".

Or, even if you don't have any particular health complaints you're working with, just being able to ask it questions like "What's one supplement I should consider starting or stopping today?" (and then obviously do some follow-up research...)

This is life-changing. Anyone skeptical of this has not tried it.
patio11 is decidedly anti-crypto from what I gather. Nothing wrong with that, but he's been calling for Tether to implode for, what, 5+ years? He's not omniscient about this stuff.

https://www.kalzumeus.com/2019/10/28/tether-and-bitfinex/
IPFS is basically content-addressed HTTP, and it's really slow, and there's no way to discover all the stuff that needs to be redundantly archived (which makes sense because anyone can host anything).
Perhaps too difficult for either Bruce Willis or for Chuck Norris, but what if they worked together !?
Qaudruple deployment of PocketQube satellites in orbit
Yes me too. I recovered a lot of them. Even ones from the late 80s.
Maybe, hopefully I realize it by the time I'm not too young :) I don't know that I necessarily have goals. I definitely don't want to become a director or anything like that or feel like I need 10 million dollars to be happy, if that's what you got out of my post.
“Spend” is a common term in advertising, which is arguably the single largest employer of software engineers
I curate the benchmarks game, so to me it's very much an initial step, a starting point. It's a pity that those next steps always seem like too much effort.
i center the x times sign.
I think it understands the context better and it was possibly fine tuned better. I have been using GPT since 3 and while the replies have obviously gotten more accurate, it still makes weird assumptions at times, whereas Claude seems to "get it" more often. In tasks other than coding, I've found gpt to be more detailed by default and yet Claude seems to hit the mark better.
"Planning to migrate this to run completely locally"

This sounds like a really good use of AI in its current form, and is a great case study for how one-offs can be made.

But until it fully runs locally, it shouldn't used by anyone to upload their PHI into (unless you anonymize beforehand). And definitely shouldn't allow use with commercial AI systems (ChatGPT, Claude, and certainly not Deepseek). I would actually be surprised if any of them are HIPAA-compliant.
There is also the wonderful ooh.directory - https://ooh.directory/
The SpaceX failures are almost non-existent comparing to airplane failures on the same level of technology development. Just like today people don't mind flying on a plane, we won't probably mind flying a rocket some day - and just as initially planes were for wealthy persons' infrequent flights, so are rockets, including SpaceX rockets.

Also you shouldn't equate testing flights of Starship with regular flights of a system which completed development. You mostly see spectacular Starship explosions because they are harder to hide and are turned into a show - like fireworks, only different :) .

Falcon-9 demonstrates a very high lelel of reliability, we have all reasons to assume the Starship will reach a similar level.
I should have phrased the two points less hyperbolical when including that next sentence.

Regarding intelligence services: There's a very long history of CIA misconduct, including spying, abusing and murdering Americans.[0] As well as an abundance of human rights abuses, which aren't, but should be a big issue in American discourse. NSA up in everyone's business is basically the same. [1] We like to claim China is a totalitarian state, but their surveillance is less sophisticated than ours.

Regarding the second point, I don't believe in satanic rituals or lizard people, but it is crazy that democratically elected officials go party with billionaires, european aristocrats and IC people in extremely secretive venues. The networking organizations consistently place them in important positions afterwards regardless of merit or preferences of the electorate. This leads to a neo-feudal class of elites and their sycophants, which is deeply anti-democratic.

Due to my background, I know quite a few of these people, and they are frankly disgusting. The amount of slime, butt-lickery and unearned pathos you have to endure at an "elite" party is just making my skin crawl.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_CIA_controversies#

[1] https://www.eff.org/nsa-spying