skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
bingo. and everyone is fine with it as long as the consolidation is benefiting their own tribe.
Can't stand Elon but happy to see this. We badly need a frontier model that is not so obsessed with "safety". That nonsense has held things back significantly, and leads to really stupid fake constraints.
I don’t know much about T1 diabet so please excuse me if I’m asking the obvious: don’t you expect to find everything necessary in an international airport like Toronto? I mean in pharmacies but also with the airport medic team? My first though in a similar crash would be to get out ASAP to avoid me or someone else roasting, although it may be so stressful that rational thinking may not be at its best.
Are you suggesting allowing unrestricted immigration as long as there is a job offer?

That is simply not going to happen in the current political climate (and not under the next government either).

The whole problem from the local workers perspective is that H1B abuse depresses local wages because they now have to compete with other workers from poorer countries; eliminating bureaucracy, government provided job training or UBI does nothing to solve that problem.
Keeping capital N Nazis from taking over show venues was a full time job on the east coast in the 80s and 90s. Half my friends had box cutter scars by the time we were 17 and all of us that had cars kept a trunk full of improvised weaponry.
It does not. The red pixels don’t get any redder, it’s just turning down the other ones. These being LEDs, it has a sharp spike in the visual spectrum instead of a black-body curve that would cross into infrared.
No publisher has done anything other than laugh at Cory for years now.
No the wattage used in clinical phototherapy is much higher and concentrated in specific bands.

My much less powerful home phototherapy light weighs about 20 lbs and I have to cover my eyes with multiple layers to use it.
Realpolitik (/reɪˈɑːlpɒlɪˌtiːk/ ray-AHL-po-lih-teek German: [ʁeˈaːlpoliˌtiːk] ⓘ; from German real 'realistic, practical, actual' and Politik 'politics') is the approach of conducting diplomatic or political policies based primarily on considerations of given circumstances and factors, rather than strictly following ideological, moral, or ethical premises.[1][2] In this respect, it shares aspects of its philosophical approach with those of realism and pragmatism.[3][4]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realpolitik
Our culture is predicated on the inability of infants to remember. The overwhelming majority of newborn infant boys have their genitals mutilated and the medical community claims that they will have no knowledge. When stakes are this high, we don't want them to remember.
> At this point, we could try to review all of curve25519-dalek for implementation flaws, but that would take a long time and make for an excruciatingly dull read

> At some point in the future, I should review curve25519-dalek in detail to ascertain its quality.

Not sure if you noticed, signal uses their own fork of curve25519-dalek with "lizard" extension, IIRC primarily for groups: https://github.com/signalapp/curve25519-dalek/tree/main/curv...

I guess the diff makes an easier starting point than the entire library.

Thank you for the always very informative and insightful posts!
> it fills me with rage that Elon has this sort of unchecked power

I can empathize, but I can't feel indignant about it. Not any more.

For years and years I've watched people warn about the centralization of power by tech companies. They were shut down left and right. I'm not accusing you of being one doing the shutting down. I'm just annoyed that Elon is what it takes for people to start realizing the people arguing the principal might have been onto something.

And I expect to see them start getting their "I told you so" in. Watching this play out, I'm personally inclined to join team "you made your bed, now sleep in it."
Browser, Desktop - Icecat

Broswer, Mobile - Fennec

Credentials - KeepassXC + Aegis/WinAuth

File Sync - Syncthing

Video - Jellyfin

Music - Navidrome

Audiobooks & Podcasts - Audiobookshelf

Books - Calibre Web

Pictures - Immich

Finances - ActualBudget + SimpleFIN

DNS Filter - AdGuard

Email - FowardEmail + Thunderbird and RoundCube

VPN/DDNS - Cloudflare Tunnels

Search/LLMs - Kagi
Keep in mind that not only is OpenAI being directly propped up by investor hype, the downstream API users who contribute much of their revenue are also being propped up by investor hype. A big chunk of OpenAIs revenue is actually even more VC money in a trenchcoat.
They don't seem to care about Ai either. The vast majority of people care about the value they're getting, companies care abut open source because its usually free.

I don't think we expect a company to exist solely making a proprietary web server anymore and be a behemoth of 300B. OpenAi might end up at the same model as Nginx or Docker if they don't pivot or find a different model.
Yes, this is a good example of being very bad at soft skills.
Wow this is super cool. Is this pretty reliable for more advanced scenarios? Simple ones I wouldn't need to see this on, but the more complex things I'd be very interested in perusing code to make certain things click.
> Yes, the example from the documentation is slightly more complicated, but it checks at compile time the exact column names and types, so you get feedback much quicker than actually running the SQL query.

Well sqlx checks at compile time your raw query if you use their macro, at the expense of increased compile times.
Where do you see that Premium+ is $40 per month?

The official source says "Starts at $22/month or $229/year on web", https://help.x.com/en/using-x/x-premium

This is pretty much what I paid a couple of months ago, as a Canadian.
Signals threat model is fundamentally flawed. If you distrust Signal infrastructure and need E2E to secure yourself then having a closed client from Google Play or App Store in direct control of the developers ensures nothing. XMPP is much more safe and reliable and uses the same encryption technology as Signal, or even Telegram as it allows non-official clients that also support E2E. Signal is useless. That and the fact Signal doesn't even run on some devices, whereas XMPP or Telegram usually will.
One consideration for aviation is that they have inspections, replacements, repairs, etc regulated like crazy. And I suspect it's regulated so tightly because it would be skipped otherwise, because that does NOT sound cheap.

Then compare that to an average car. If you change your own oil (like I do), it's possible to go multiple years in between trips to a repair shop for bigger items like tires or a weird noise that popped up.

And let's be honest, a large number of people will hear a weird noise and drive with the check-engine light on for way longer than any manufacturer would recommend (even if they didn't have a profit motive in the form of expensive dealership repair shops). If the machine gets to point B, then whatever that noise is can wait a few more days/weeks.
This matches my experience also. Kids can "juggle" some of these extremely early memories into more permanent memories but the vast majority are dropped. It's only because of the early and possible frequent recall that the memories end up winning their mythic permanence.
I'm very doubtful of his 4 hour data point.

How on earth can he make 5 trips to the hardware store in only 4 hours? Something is not adding up...
Yep. It's an interesting experiment and really stretched my understanding of what an LLM is and can do.
this is rust community, "we" even try oxidizing linux

aside from joke, "I want every good thing about C++ but easiness of high level language" seems the norm
Radio waves do with no trouble. Blue does not at all. Everything between is on a sliding scale; there are no qualitative changes until you get to ionising radiation.

Though there’s a bit in the middle where it matches the resonant frequency of water molecules, yes.
Wayback Machine keeps dot gov Sites
I'm not sure people will just take it though. In the short term it looks like the situation is on a horrible course but eventually people will have had enough. I'm hoping it would take less time for that to happen and the damage will not be too great. Let's remember that we could use the same technology if not a better one to fight against all this.
It’s thought control, not a literal “brain computer weapon”. All of us, all of modern society is plagued with “thought control”. It is our modern existential crisis underlying all others. Yes the conspiracy screwing with you through all other conspiracies.

Brainiac HN will argue blue in the face how “rational” “scientific minded” peoples cannot and should not believe what is not only true truth, it pervades and undermines us every day.

I tell all, yet these expositions are quickly muted.
Tech is the most powerful force in the modern economy. There is no making it not political. "Tech isn't political" _is a political statement_.
The thought process can be the same in SQL. You can start by writing SELECT * FROM Account; then add your JOIN to User, then add your predicates. Then you can refine it – here, if I’m understanding the code correctly, you’re using User for a JOIN but never return anything from that table, so you could turn it into a semi-join (WHERE EXISTS) and likely get a speed-up.
Let's play a game of Tetris... at 30 seconds per frame :D
And they purge the fuel, if its a controlled emergency landing.. but in a uncontrolled emergency.. to let go of the wings seems a good option for events to go.
https://soatok.blog/2024/08/04/against-xmppomemo/
I never understood the hate against ORMs. It always seems like a superiority complex or some claim that SQL is “so simple”.

Yeah SQL is extremely simple to write, that isn’t really the problem ORMs solve for me, but rather they solve composability and reuse of queries.

I think there is a similar vein of people crying about sites not using 100% vanilla js without a framework. They are missing the point or don’t have enough experience with the actual problems the abstractions solve.
Can you elaborate? How can caller influence my landline connection?
Blimey, 12V battery in the handle and you're getting that kind of mileage out of it, fair play!
Same experience here. Today I spent 5 hours debugging code, and wondering how I could put 3 contradicting specifications inside while negotiating some weird stuff that does not concerns me, and then I spent 3 hours deleting 100 lines of code and writing 100 lines of code to please everyone. I fail to see how a LLM could have helped me, and I've been doing this for more than 10 years.
Should have seen my last sink install..
What is kuande investment hiding...
Exactly. rustc has a lifetime of about 3 months. gcc has a lifetime of about 5-10 years. Perl's interpreter has a lifetime of about 20 years.

edit since I can't reply: The difference is that Perl devs don't immediately use the new features (and Perl 6 is not Perl). Bash too constantly gets incompatible (forwards) changes, but no Bash dev is so inconsiderate as to use these as they want their software to actually run on people's machines.

That's my entire point: rust's immature/bleeding edge dev culture causes the problem. rustc could be okay, but the culture is too bleeding edge for using rust software now. Maybe in a decade it'll settle down.
My earliest memory is about awareness of conscience and memory.

I remember laying in bed, my diapers being changed, I don't know who was doing it or what the room looked like at the time, but I remember that there was nothing before that, and that on following days I thought back to that moment with the conviction that it was important for me to remember that specific moment, since it was the first for me.
The value of developers is not the code they output. It's the mental models they develop of the problem domain and the systems they build. LLMs can output code without developing the mental models.

Code is liability. The knowledge inside developers' heads is the corresponding asset. If you just produce code without the mental models being developed and refined, you're just increasing liability without the counterpart increase in assets.
It's 2025, and some ORMs are quite good (eg. Django, ActiveRecord). You can have an ORM with escape hatch of SQL. I do not understand the people who are so against ORMs.

I use ORM query interfaces 80% of the time, and for performance critical queries I can use direct SQL. But the query sanitization, smart preloading and performance checks, schema management and migration tools they often provide, and type checks / hints are really nice features of ORMs.

Furthermore, ORMs are ESPECIALLY useful in teams where you have more junior devs who need these guardrails.

I think the issue here is trying to reinvent a new ORM.
>Signal is useless

Pretty bold thing to say under a blog post written by actual (and respected) cryptographer.

>XMPP (...) uses the same encryption technology

It does not
Much appreciated, I'll look into it!
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Not perhaps. It's 100% tongue-in-cheek.
Frameworks that do “everything” are not a good idea. I’m from the Java ecosystem. Spring is the “batteries included” framework there. If you have migrated any real world application to a new major version once, you’ve learned forever that “all in one” frameworks are bad. Please don’t do it!

Instead, use scaffolding tools, that give you a head start on creating a new project, using smaller, specialized libs.

Also, don’t use an ORM. Just write that SQL. Your future self will be thankful.
How old are you? What drove you to buy these?
If I have a complex structure MyStruct that I make recursively readonly it doesn't show up in the IDE as DeepReadOnly<MyStruct> or something like that. It shows up as a huge tree of nested readonly declarations, so the original type is highly obscured.
SpaceTok
I do not share your fear & anxiety so please dont share yours.
which totally say nothing and vague idea, because loco already easy enough and more higher than that would introduce "magic layer" that would really hard to customize (?)
My coworker is an avid MAGA type or at least he was. He kept a framed photo of Trump in his office. He and his wife own two Teslas.

My coworker's combat veteran son lost his job in Huntsville last week. A direct result of Elon and his meddling.

Two weeks ago, my coworker's elderly neighbored committed suicide after learning that they wouldn't be able to afford their medication each month.

My coworker took his Trump photo down the next day and he has been trying to sell both of his Teslas.

People are definitely waking up and changing.
ORMs are one of those things that make sense for really tiny projects but fail to scale once complexity settles in.
What difference does it make. He is a lame duck who is performing his remaining elderly acts. There will be no reckoning for Trump.
Good stuff, can't wait to see more features :)

Also, +1 for

> struct GownoApp;
Have you spent a lot of time with children?

My 2 year old went on a mental breakdown of a temper tantrum last night because she saw an apple on the tv, decided it meant she wanted an apple, and couldn't understand why she could not have an apple despite seeing one on the tv just then! A toddler is still trying to understand how reality itself works.

A 4 year old knows that jumping off of the stairs onto tile is going to hurt. A 4 year old understands the apple on the tv is an apple on the tv and is not a physical apple in the house.

They are so far apart.
The interesting part, which was also mentioned in the article, is that each individual seems unaware that they all look the same. A friend of mine once said, referring to people from Friedrichshain: „Die sind alle so individuell, dass sie alle schon wieder gleich aussehen.“ (They all have such individual styles that they end up looking the same.)
You forgot

6. Cost of "hey man I actually don't have time for your job today, I'll do it next week, sorry"

7. Cost of they just don't show up and you have no idea what happened

8. Cost of trying to call them after 7 to reschedule, it goes to voicemail, but the voicemail is full so you can't leave a message, so you text them, but they don't read texts, so you just have to keep calling all them and hope to get lucky and catch them between jobs

9. Cost of you get frustrated by 8 so you decide to hire someone more established who has a secretary, but the secretary is clueless and gives you misinformation mixed with "I'll ask him and get back to you" (of course never gets back)
That's basically being the point of the article I shared
A spark can start a fire, it doesn't seem wise to ignore history. Things can always get out of control even for the ones up there on top of the pyramid of power.
Outcome Orientation as a Cure for Information Overload
Math Academy, part 1: My eigenvector embarassment
> So yeah, OpenAI “burned only $340 million last year” as long as you don’t consider billions of other costs for some reason.

Ah, yes, the WeWork 'community EBITDA' model.
Where do I access grok3 reasoning model that xAI mentioned in the graph?
When a potential power imbalance is created, those willing to use it for selfish means will almost always win in the end.

Anyone with morals driving their use of a new tech will be limited, and unless those people massively outnumber the few selfish ones they will lose eventually.
I visited MOAS in Daytona last week, and learned about the ground sloth for the first time in my life. Fascinating. I thought I knew just about every animal to have lived on earth, but I was so wrong. Curious what other creatures like this I don't know about.
> plentiful capable

I heard from a top executive at one of the FAANGs that they are only able to fill 40-50% of their workforce from local hiring.

But, FAANG don't really hire the "visa mill" L1-A immigrants, it's usually H1-B folks that have a m.s/phd in some american university.
Read John sarnos book and you will recover. It might not be quick but you can. Don’t give up. Also look into Harvard RSI action
I have been able to recall memories from the time I was one years old. I even recalled a dream I had at the age of 3. These memories were long forgotten and probably the last time I recalled them was at the age of 7. I am now 40.

Recently, I unlocked a memory at the age of 2 months. It is difficult to believe except to me. After unlocking it, the memory felt like it was yesterday. And I have recalled this memory multiple times in my childhood phase. I guess I am now recalling my childhood in greater detail which is causing me to remember what memories I was recalling at the time.

So why can't we remember our baby memories? Because of shock. The present day gives us so much stress. So we focus on now. We focus on what helps us now. We recall memories that help us in the NOW. If you want to recall a memory from before, imagine a stress that likely would have also occurred from before. Like being hungry and being unable to communicate. And reaching for a bottle of milk. Being unable to walk or crawl. Lying on your back. For me, hunger does not evoke too much stress. Other things do like headaches.
That's what my car's manual said, too. But the "lower gear" in Drive mode was electronic. It didn't have a dedicated "low" or "2" or whatever position. On my dad's Toyota it's even worse, the "gearshift" is fully electronic.
Size is absolutely a factor in that most ebooks can be trivially attached to emails under the 10MB size limit, which other forms of media usually can't.
It has to do with modularity and commoditization. Modern parts can be highly integrated and digitally customized to specific applications, in such a way that they become increasingly scarce and eventually impossible to find, whereas older cars are mostly made from commodity components where the same part is interchangeably used in tens or hundreds of vehicle models, and many become cheaper and easier to obtain as time goes on and tooling costs are amortized over decades.
That's some very good insight, often difficult to remember, but constantly having all of this in mind should definitely help a bit with managing the day to day of parenting.
MIT MAS.S60: How to AI Almost Anything – Spring 2025
Lynch hated Dune because DeLaurentis meddled with it so hard (Jodorowsky famously said they only way Lynch could have made a movie so bad, is if the producers ruined it).
670nm is still visible red light. Infra-red starts at wave lengths above 750
All it takes is some big fcukups and a political shift for these to be broken down to smithereens.
Newspeak is the language of the next four years (at least).
A GitHub Bot to Auto-Approve PRs for SOC2 Compliance
Hey HN! We recently got our SOC2 certification. One thing that really annoys us is having to get all deployment PRs approved by at least one person per guidelines. This might not sound like a lot but it gets annoying pretty fast when you are 2 people and deploy multiple times a day.

We built a very simple Github bot that snap-approves all pull requests for the default branch. For some extra flair, it sends a very dry joke about the contents of the PR.

In the off-chance that you are also a small team that has a Slack channel filled with PR links just to get them blindly approved, you can download it for yourself.

p.s. This is obviously mostly parody. Even though we have a small use-case for it, we realize how stupid this is.
https://x.com/yanisvaroufakis/status/1891776006236618793

Germany is fifth. Tells me all I need to know about this ranking.
Yes, better use a fanny pack and have it on you at all times. Don’t even remove it and store it in your bag temporarily when on an airplane, you never know if it’ll capsize on landing and you’ll need to avoid people on the internet criticising you.

It also goes without saying that you should keep in on while showering and sleeping too, you never know when your hotel could catch on fire.
Very cool to get this out into the wild. Congrats dev teams...
Haven't used AIX 7, but I suspect it is UNIX 7 certified as-shipped? macOS is only UNIX 03 certified when modified by Apple engineers, but not as-shipped.
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Free software needs free thinking
Hope your launch goes well you are killin it!
Those still seem to be projects years away from completion (and they also have projects for fusion powered data centers - which are 30 years away, I guess?), yet I've interpreted the chain of comments as "Nuclear workers which were laid off _now_ can easily be absorbed by data centers almost immediately".
Great article, but one key difference missing from the software experience is that the person for whom you are installing the washing machine doesn't like it there, and wants it moved over to the others side of the utility closet so that when you open the door it is easier to put clothes from there into the dryer. Also, it's too noisy, we need utility closet doors that absorb more of the sound.

One primary driver of the unknowability of software estimation, is that the customer doesn't actually know, and perhaps CANNOT actually know, what they really want or need until they see something that isn't it. No amount of asking beforehand will bring out this information, and complaining afterwards that they didn't say that doesn't accomplish anything except souring the relationship.

Bill by the hour, and absolutely refuse to bill by the project. It's the only way.