skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lots of image formats store arbitrary metadata (and data data) either by design or by application-specific extensions. I remember seeing seismic and medical images that contained data for display in specialized applications and writing code to figure out if binary metadata was written in big-endian or little-endian byte order (the metadata often did not have the same endianness as the image data!) For example, TIFF files containing 3d scans as a sequence of slices, with binary metadata attached to each slice. If you opened it up in your system default image viewer, you'd only see the first slice, but a specialized viewer (which I did not have) would display it as a 3d model. Luckily (IIRC) the KDE file browser let you quickly flip through all the images in a directory using the keyboard, so I was able to dump all the layers into separate files and flip through them to see the 3d image.
circular argument. literally “heres why you will regret it: 1) you will regret it” lol. nobody will regret firing their high-salary programmer within a year or two. its over. what happened to all the enthusiasm for the idea that technology doesnt steal jobs, it just creates new ones?!
Seems pretty good? I skimmed it. User centric. Only 3 pages too.
Turning a Lada into an EV with cordless drills
Federal employee in the article says, "It is too easy to vilify us".

Hmmm... now why is that?
The secret behind sharp vision: the benefits of tiny eye movements
A long time ago, I remember hearing about some castle or manor house or something like that which was being restored. There was a set of custom rugs, which, while intact, were badly faded. Somehow, they still had the original set of punch cards on hand that ran the looms, and though the machines were long gone, they were able to figure out the pattern and have a complete new set of rugs made, 100+ years later.
Adding some personal analysis to your point, the last time I looked at plastic market research in detail, the two biggest markets by volume and revenue were packaging and insulation, which I believe were dominated by thermoplastics. Those are the big ones if you want to make an impact on plastic usage.

Also, pulling from memory that may not be quite right, but I recall roads taking a substantial amount of polymer additives and that tire degradation is a major source of microplastic exposure for humans. The tire problem is poised to get worse with EVs being so heavy and accelerating so hard that the tires are bigger and wear faster, but I'm not aware of even any promising research there besides more bio-based feedstocks to improve the sustainability.
Do you understand how me saying "Tyranny" and you responding "Duopoly" isn't really a conversation or even debate? We're literally talking about different things.

edit Since this seems to need clarification: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tyranny
An edge case in startups is something that provides a competitive advantage. When you run a startup, you have to do something different from the way everyone else does, or you’ll get the same results everyone else does. My theory is that some part of a startup’s operations should be cutting edge. HR processes, programming stack, sales cycle, something.
ClickHouse Cloud Pricing Change in January 2025: A Price Hike with Many Tweaks
Unfortunately, it's really hard to generalize. If the evaluation involves Nixpkgs, for example, Nix needs to copy Nixpkgs into the Nix store, which is many MB. And of course this needs to happen for all flake inputs. I've seen this evaluation take a few seconds and I've seen it take several minutes, but in general the more flake inputs the longer you can expect it to take.
I failed my Anthropic interview, came to tell you about it, so you don't have to
The GPU already has DMA to system RAM. If you're going to make the VRAM as slow as system RAM, then a UMA makes more sense than throwing more memory chips on the GPU.
Not that a 60% 1-day decline would be welcome by many investors :P
I had a Subaru that required over $1000 in labor replace a $13 master wiring harness that was chewed by a rodent.

Of course, nothing will beat having a rodent die somewhere in the engine, and not noticing it until exiting the car after a 45 minute highway ride and making my in-laws neighborhood smell like someone barbecued rotten meat.
I think so , yes , it made me be re aware of the patent troll scam in the USA.

In fact it is your comment which to me seems a little hateful , yes the above comment also felt a little hateful

Hate doesn't counter Hate , I guess.
Reef: Spreadsheet Hack for the Busy You
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I've heard plenty of "far-left" people use slurs, including n*****.

Using a slur is not indicative of a political leaning, it's an indication of your edge-lord status.
Yeah it’s pretty wild, feels modern.

For a more recent recommendation - I also loved permutation city which was written in 1994 and pretty prescient about cloud computing.
Is it really a moat though? The same flake can still be evaluated without this service, it just takes longer.
That sounds.. obvious?

Regulations should need to justify their existance, they shouldn't just exist by default without a reason.
My prediction is in 2028, after all the cutting, the deficit will look like nothing had ever been done to it and will in fact be worse. At that time, all the people now who are saying we need a lower deficit, will then be saying the spending is justified and necessary.
You and I may prefer not to operate from a place of ignorance or naiveté but there genuinely are people who do not give a shit about knowledge, learning, logic, reality, or sanity.

They couldn’t give a shit about anything that doesn’t impact them negatively.

I used to know several of these people and they were utterly exhausting. If ever I tried to answer a question, the question was suddenly rhetorical and I was somehow a weirdo for being able to answer it. They would say things like “I don’t actually care” in response to attempting to answer a question or engage in honest dialogue. About anything.
I didn't think that people would enjoy watching them in a TV format (with the giant margins) because mentally shorts/vertical form content is linked to the phone for me. Do you know why they tend to prefer the TV instead?
Most other fields of endeavor aren’t compensated based on the black market value of the thing that’s being produced.

If we apply your analysis to other things, we’ll find that the upper bound price for a new car stereo or bike is ~ $100, and the price of any copyrighted good is bounded by the cost of transferring it over the network.

I think it is more useful to divide the amount Google paid by the number of hours spent on this and any unsuccessful exploit attempts since the last bounty was paid.

I’d guess that the vast majority of people in this space are making less than US minimum wage for their efforts, with a six figure per year opportunity cost.

That tells you exactly how much Google values the security and preserving the privacy of its end users. The number is significantly lower than what they pay other engineers orders of magnitude more to steal personal information from the same group of people.
English language Wikipedia revision history dump:
April 2019: 18 880 938 139 465 bytes (19 TB) uncompressed. 937GB bz2 compressed. 157GB 7z compressed.

I assume since then it's grown at least ten-fold. It's already an amount of data that would cripple most NoSQL solutions on the market.

I honestly feel like talking to functional programming zealots. There's this fictional product that is oh so much better than whatever tool you're talking about. No one has seen it, no one has proven it exists, or works better than the current perfectly adequate and performant tool. But trust us, for some ridiculous vaguely specified constraints it definitely works amazingly well.

This time "RDBMS is bad at soft deletions and versions because 19TBs of revisions on one of the world's most popular websites is tiny"

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_dumps/Dumps_sizes_and_g...
Thanks for sharing, although I'm curious what prompted this to be posted in 2025?

I've heard from a few underground psychedelic facilitators that LSD is one of the best 'medicines' for therapy of various kinds, but (a) the duration is often uncomfortably long, (b) the social/political stigma hangover from the 60s adds undesirable connotations which can 'prime' the participant in negative ways, and (c) the variability in street doses makes it unpredictable to work with if you don't have a way of measuring potency yourself (which I would argue disqualifies you from being a facilitator to begin with, but that's a separate topic...)

As for duration, this research indicates that lower doses are metabolized much faster (6.7 hours for 50ug vs 11+ hours for 200ug) which could help although the tradeoff is less 'good effect' even if 'bad effect' is minimized as well.

However, with respect to dose potency, a PSA for anyone new to this area -- go to the /r/LSD subreddit and read the pinned post on street dosages -- in short, street doses are on average ~100ug below what they claim.

So when this study says that 50ug produces such and such effects -- and the typical psychonaut on reddit might roll their eyes at such a 'light dose' -- keep in mind that an accurate "50ug" in a lab likely means "150ug" on the street which is a fairly typical dose sold. Of course the data shows an occasional over-dosed tab vs. the reported value, too.

Which leads to the most important PSA of all: please don't put any psychoactive substance into your body without having a lot of confidence in its actual composition and dose.
"if the government is bad, then that's a clear sign that society is bad too"

Politics attracts sociopaths, narcissists and egoistic individuals. Individuals that are focused on competency most likely not survive in this predatory environment thus not reflecting common society.

I'm not calling for abolishing government, just for change of thinking about governance and abandoning individual responsibility to the institutionalized electorate.
Oh, so it is for more "seamlessly" helping people commit the crime of wiretapping in two-party consent jurisdictions, like California?

If you don't like people knowing you are recording them, you probably have a consent issue.
I didn‘t look too deep into Nix the last couple of months (> 12) and was wondering while reading: what the hell is fh now. Another abstraction? I share your views here!
An employee should NEVER be forced to join a political organization like a union in order to get work.
When Mozilla sponsored Rust development long ago, it was to eventually include Rust code in Firefox. That’s C++, not C, but C is easier than C++ in this regard.

My sibling is also correct, language decisions were made in order to keep FFI zero overhead.

Just because it didn’t work out for one project (and really, one part of that project, one out of three parts) doesn’t mean it never works for anyone. There’s a lot more projects where it has.
the AI will happily do all that for you…
This is absolute gold, thanks!
Isn't the argument that the act of selecting the right quote is the real work - and the work the copier avoided in the act of copying?

You could argue that all the words are already in the dictionary - so none of them are new, you are just quoting from the dictionary in a particular order......

The reason you have people, rather than computers interpreting the law, is you can make judgements that make sense. Fundamentally these laws are there to protect work being unfairly ripped off.

What was clearly done in this case was a rip-off which damaged the original creator - everything else is dancing on the head of a pin.
I wish there was a concept of paid expert reviews on Amazon/everywhere. A general review system works well (ignoring review gaming) when your concern is "Does this shirt fit?" or "What's the build quality?", but fails when one expert review of "This device is fundamentally unsound," gets drowned out by reviews on the more easily testable aspects ("The band is really comfortable!").

A great example would be when Benson Leung was testing USB-C cables on Amazon to see which were standards compliant.
I use AI to predict the future
Related question- what would have to happen to Safari before it becomes an alternative for Chrome users? I understand it doesn’t have bleeding edge features, but as a developer you can’t afford to target those anyway. As a user it’s lean and fast and battery life is excellent compared to Chrome. What am I missing?
The Trend Is DeepSeek's Friend by Ion Stoica
> The field of AI research has a reputation for disregarding the value of other fields [...] It’s likely that, being unaware of much of the research in psychology on cognitive biases or how a psychic’s con works

Is the reputation warranted? Just a US thing? Or maybe the question is "since when did this change"? because in the mid 2000s in france at least, llm research was led by cognitive psychology professors who dabble in programming or had partnerships with a nearby technical university.
did you have something to uniquely differentiate your alternative? you don't need to reveal what it is, just wondering if you noticed a gap to fill
Ruby is now supported on Haystack!
You don't LEGO assemble rackmount servers. Chassis come with figurative array of jet engines with 12V/0.84A -ish fans that generate characteristic ecstatic harmony. They're designed, supposedly, to take 35C air to keep drives in front at 40C and GPUs at back <95C.
You're over-stating the issue. You can always simply try ALTER TABLE ... ALGORITHM=INSTANT first, and this will just return an error immediately if the requested alteration doesn't support instant changes. Not a land mine at all.

The article is also four years old, and INSTANT now covers a few additional cases which it didn't at that time.

If your alter doesn't support INSTANT, at that point you can fall back to an online schema change tool, of which there are several battle-tested options. All of the largest MySQL users (including many of the biggest names in tech) do schema changes any time of day without issue by automating these tools. In comparison the equivalent tools for Postgres are far less mature.
IMHO boring tech is great because it lets you focus on the actual tech of your product.

Well obviously you need to catch up with the times. If the 'CTO' (who has at least 5 years of experience) of my shiny new SaaS can't do a regular blog post about how clever he is solving this week's obtuse problem in version 0.3.75beta01 of this MemeDrvrUltra thing he found last month and bet the company on, is it even really a SaaS startup? And he'd be denied that multipart year end expose (crossposted to every social platform on the planet using AIoftheWeek v.五.九 to dress it up to fit) about HOW FUCKING HEROIC his team was staying up for 8 days straight migrating from MemeDrvrUltra to SuperMegaMemeblaster ("Closed Private Beta FTW! We're special") and how it almost worked because MemeDrvrUltra was at least a couple of years old and clearly not what the VCs were talking up at the last speed pitch angel event (tho version 0.4.22.beta03 did close a bunch of our tickets (what's EWONTFIX mean again?) and changed its mascot to some funny looking frog). If all you did in life is be old and lazy and boring and pick "what works" or "what's well supported" or "stuff that doesn't get me an outage call once a week at 2:45am", what's the point of even living? Really, what sort of loser wants to work at a company like that?

/S
Ruby is now supported on Haystack and it should have a graph connected correctly!
That’s gonna cost tree fiddy.

Actually, I think this was less about cost and more about systemic creep of operational differentiation from earlier versions of the 737. A big selling point for the MBAs was that this was a 737 and pilot recertification was not necessary. So the MCAS system and its deadly potential was hidden from the pilot manual, as was the new failure mode introduced by this system. Acknowledgement that these systems required additional or different contingencies or checklists, or intruding an automatic shutdown of a pressurization would require recertification in type, or potentially even recertification of the aircraft if the changes were significant enough.

Significantly, for MCAS, the reason that the stability of the aircraft had to be patched in software, leading to hundreds of deaths, was that changing the empennage to reestablish aerodynamic stability might have been a big enough change to require recertification of the airframe. That would have been expensive, but it would have also opened the door to fixing all of these other issues that resulted from trying to pretend that the aircraft was not significantly different from earlier versions.

Its bean counters all the way down, and dead passengers is the price of that.
Spellar.ai does a great job. There’s others out there for Mac but I like Spellar’s calendar integration.

Interestingly, their initial raison d’être was to help with English pronunciation and speaking speed, giving you real time feedback. They’ve downplayed this in recent releases, but the functionality is still there. Though, I’m a native English speaker and it always flagged me as pronouncing words incorrectly even though I’ve got little regional accent (I’ve been told this by others, not just my opinion. I had a speech therapist as a mother, hence little accent)
I'll quote an earlier comment of mine written a couple of months ago (with links to the issue tracker)[0], because - after many years of being a happy JetBrains user - I sadly can no longer recommend the IDEs (some worse than others, Rider has been okay, though new features often just don't work at all), since the quality of QA has gotten very bad over the last couple of years:

- The autocomplete popup sometimes froze the IDE completely (and killing the process caused minutes of data loss), open for close to a year

- Since two months ago, the Typescript language server fails to start in Vue projects (due to a broken update by the Vue team). A fixed version of WebStorm was released yesterday, in the meantime you were apparently expected to search for the error message, stumble upon the YouTrack page, and apply a workaround

- Performance is abysmal in a larger React MUI project, think 10-15 seconds for feedback on code changes, sometimes errors just stick around for a good minute or more, or even stay until you manually remove all code and put it back

- In some situations WebStorm makes autocomplete suggestions that aren't allowed - think effectively a type T with keys K | L, where Omit<T, K> leads to only suggesting K properties, while removing the Omit makes it suggest both K and L properties

- After updating from 2024.1.X to 2024.2.Y, the window had no buttons for minimizing/maximizing anymore. Now, this was partially caused by my environment, but after I found a workaround it was closed as "Third Party Problem". Still feels like a regression to me, since my environment did not change.

I've mostly stopped updating the IDE, as almost every version brings new regressions in basic editor features. This morning I updated and tried to copy some text. WebStorm showed me a "Copying..." dialogue for more than 30 seconds.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41939833
Hi. I'm not planning a native app at this time. I created an experimental native app using Godot, but in the end I decided to focus on the web app. The app is a PWA so it provides a native like experience if that is desired (works on both mobile and desktop)--this is how I use it when I'm on my phone or tablet. Most users likely already have an ADS-B tracker that usually includes a local lighttpd web server for 2D traffic viewing. The app integrates with these existing setups. Users who don't want to alter their setup can run the app using the included Vite development server and websocket proxy to connect to a ADS-B tracker. Instructions are in `docs/LOCALHOST-SETUP-GUIDE.md`.
Yeah, this seems backwards. It should be upgraded from the base amount because they effectively found 2 bugs!
Even if that did happen, it would drive down the price of the exploit and especially so for server side novel ones.
It seems pretty likely that they block transfer of accounts with a balance to reduce the likelihood of fraud from account reselling. There may also be tax implications.

Yes, they could find ways to mitigate that and could even transfer purchases without balance. But it is worth considering the anti-fraud angle.
This looks very interesting, particularly the visualization tool.

One thing I think it sheds light on is the difference between a simple library and a framework. Many frameworks can be thought of as providing an interpreter that you configure using callbacks. Debugging a high-level program by stepping through the interpreter that's executing it isn't easy. Custom debugging tools make it easier.
> We’ve managed to write the entire encyclopedia together, but we don't have a simple place to choose a high-level set of values that most of us can get behind.

Information technology was never the constraint preventing moral consensus the way it was for, say, aggregating information. Not only is that a problem with achieiving the goals you lay out, its also the problem with the false assumption that they are goals most would agree should be solved as you have framed them.
I was looking into something like this for linux recently. Didn't find anything obviously simple

(considered hooking up whisper.cpp and a bit of audio magic to make it at least transcribe, but it firstly seemed like a fair bit of a pain and secondly I couldn't think of a nice way to do speaker detection.)
Probably depends on what exactly you're looking for in a viable solution. Zig does not provide the same level of memory safety as Rust does (IIRC it doesn't protect against data races and doesn't offer (complete?) temporal memory safety), so if what Rust provides is the bare minimum you want Zig won't cut it.
nah - you can’t have something which both resists degradation when exposed to food, the environment, etc. AND naturally biodegrades in a reasonable time.

it’s like wanting a useful fuel which doesn’t burn. they mutually contradict each other.