skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The cosmic distance ladder is fascinating. At university, we had an astrophysics professor who said his secret worry is that something was broken about the ladder. If you have a wrong assumption close to the bottom, then the error would compound the more you go to larger distances. And you would not just have quantitative errors, such as mismeasured distances, but qualitative errors. The objects you think you are looking at might be something completely different. It is unlikely because the picture we have is consistent. But it could be also wrong and still consistent. The big open questions such as dark matter / dark energy could be the only hints we have that something is wrong.

I'm an experimental particle physicist by training and know that feeling. We never see the particles directly, but reconstruct them in a complex chain. Hits in a detector become tracks, tracks are assigned to particles according to our expectation of how those particles behave. Bunches of tracks are interpreted as decaying heavier particle. Sometimes I wonder if we missed something important in the early days of quantum mechanics and particle physics, and some of the things we think we are investigating don't actually exist, or are subtly different than we think. But we look at the data though our lens, and see what we are expecting to see. My gut feeling says everything is consistent, and experiments match the theory so incredibly closely that it can't be a coincidence, but I don't think there is a mathematical proof. It could be that our theory is just so flexible that it lets us see Higgs particles and top quarks, even though the actual entities are something different. Like when people thought planets move in epicycles.

I know it is likely nonsense, but it is what motivated me every now and then to go back and revisit the basics of our field, like how is a particle state defined in QM, how does it interact with the experiment, how do we reconstruct larger objects, and so on.
I wasn't a customer. I wrote a book and tried to publish it on KDP, Amazon's digital publishing wing. A bot hallucinated that my eBook was plagiarizing my paperback (well yeah, it's the same book) and suspended my account.

All appeals were denied with increasingly vague language, either by more bots, or humans with strong incentive to just rubber stamp the bot's decision and move on. I'll never know which.

It's all here in this pamphlet: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40992654
The important thing is to be self aware enough to clearly differentiate between good and bad, even when doing bad stuff sometimes could be beneficial.
I'm quite happy that nowadays most tools have competently made themes out of the box, so that if someone wants to minimize risks from something like this and keep the extensions/addons they install to a minimum, that's pretty viable.

Of course, it's also nice that it's possible to theme the software to such a degree and improve usability and accessibility in some cases, just that the feature requests about limiting permissions need to be addressed.
Yet another reason to use Linux everywhere. It is 2025 and Windows (and probably Mac) users have to deal with weird Unicode filesystem issues. Good luck puting Chinese characters or emoticons into filenames.

Ext4 filename has maximal length 255 characters. That is the only legacy limit you have to deal with as a Linux user. And even that can be avoided by using more modern filesystems.

And we get filesystem level snapshots etc...
The only potential risk was the use of sanity to render a changelog. I didn't want to risk it, so I gutted that and a ton of other stuff. Just published a new, stripped down version.

https://github.com/t3dotgg/vsc-material-but-i-wont-sue-you/p...
I don't trust Kagi (any more than I trust any random stranger). I was an early customer but I stopped using it because I really disliked the idea of my search activity being permanently tied to my identity.

I read that they added a privacy pass feature that supposedly makes the two unlinkable, so I'll take another look soon.

P.S. On the topic of search engines, Brave Search has improved a lot over the past 2 years. I still think it's lagging behind Google a bit, specifically when it comes to local results in non-English speaking countries, but back then I couldn't even reliably use it look up programming docs. Kudos.
The biggest problem with Markdown is the baffling lack of plain VIEWERS. Not editors with a preview pane, but straight-up viewers that render Markdown for reading.

There are very, very few. I use Marked 2, for Mac. I don't even remember if I ever found another one. It's irritating as hell, because pretty much every open-source project's read-me files are in Markdown. Why, when there is no viewer anywhere near as ubiquitous as those for PDF... despite Markdown being much simpler and better understood?
It was fairly competitive, but it also took quite awhile to build up a full set of applications. Real NT didn’t run a lot of older Windows apps. And the hardware it ran on didn’t scale vertically in the server market like the UNIX systems. So it took some time for the software to fully arrive and some time for the hardware to get fast and big. And the UNIX vendors failed to see that the initial disadvantages were just that: initial. With the price of PC hardware behind them, Microsoft overcame those disadvantages quickly. Had a real UNIX been available on the same hardware and had a similarly aggressive and well financed vendor behind it, there might have been a chance. But none of the UNIX vendors took that market seriously. We shouldn’t forget though that MS hedged their bets on PC hardware and ported NT to DEC Alpha. So even they did not see the inevitability of the rise of PC hardware.
Reads like a GitHub press release, except for this:

>The report shows that the platform processed more than 2,000 takedown notices in 2024, which affected 31,151 repositories.

>Of all notices received, just 41 were contested or retracted, and a total of 103 repositories remained online as a result.
thanks for wasting my time! :)

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You're right. He should have mentioned the Victorian era (1837–1901) as a clear precedent of repressive moralism. Though there are still echoes of it today, where Christians want to ban any sort of criticism of their morality.
> It is in many ways a workaround to Google's SEO poisoning.

But the article goes into exactly how Deep Research fell exactly for the same SEO traps.
Same here, heat pump and massive DIY cellulose fiber insulation job. Gas has been disconnected.

We quite comfortably sit in our house in our underwear with a very modest electricity bill. We're lucky because we have a stream near our heat pump unit which apparently feeds off the water vapor.

Luckily it doesn't get quite cold enough here for the stream to freeze.
>so the manager and proper task scheduling is gonna have much more concrete and discreet task in the sprint in jira

Yes, that's the true meaning behind my words. The marketing is saying "were working on AGI as we speak!" and that's only bare bones true in the same way that someone is buying a house... While baeeot starting their savings, and unsure or where they are buying and what they want in it. It's barely an idea, per alone "around the corner".

Meanwhile, they are given small, unexciting, but important stepping stones to experiment. Nothing that makes line go up, because that means being truthful. Thars why I hate hype culture. It obscures true progress and honesty towards progress. A distraction because talking about a "thing" in a blue sky is more profitable than talking about the actual stepping stones.
Vote in 2026 (and hope your vote gets counted correctly).
That is false. The post you replied to virtuously linked directly to the UK government's own overview of this law. Just writing down "reasonable steps" [1] is insufficient - you also have the following duties (quoting from the document):

- Duties to take or use proportionate measures relating to the design or operation of the service to prevent individuals from encountering priority illegal content and minimising the length of time that such content is present on the service;

- Duties to take or use proportionate measures relating to the design or operation of the service to design and operate systems in a way which mitigates and manages the risks identified in the service provider’s risk assessment;

- A duty to operate the service using proportionate systems and processes designed to swiftly take down (priority or non-priority) illegal content when they become aware of it

- A duty to take or use proportionate measures relating to the design and operation of the service to mitigate and manage the risk of the service being used for the commission or facilitation of a priority offence.

- The safety duty also requires providers to include provisions in their terms of service specifying how individuals are to be protected from illegal content, and to apply these provisions consistently.

Even if the language of this law was specific, it requires so many so invasive and difficult steps, no hobbyist, or even small company could reasonably meet. But it's anything but specific - it's full of vague, subjective language like "reasonable" and "proportionate", that would be ruinous to argue in court for anyone but billion dollar companies, and even for them, the end result will be that they are forced to accede to whatever demands some government-sanctioned online safety NGO will set, establishing a neverending treadmill of keeping up with what will become "industry standard" censorship. Because it's either that, or open yourself to huge legal risk that, in rejecting "industry standard" and "broadly recognized" censorship guidance to try to uphold some semblance of free discussion, you have failed to be "reasonable" and "proportionate" - you will be found to have "disregarded best practices and recognized experts in the field".

But, short of such an obvious breach, the rules regarding what can and can't be said, broadcast, forwarded, analysed are thought to be kept deliberately vague. In this way, everyone is on their toes and the authorities can shut down what they like at any time without having to give a reason. [2]

[1] Good luck arguing over what is "reasonable" in court if the government ever wants to shut you down.

[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-41523073
"so you can whip up a "renderer" or converter trivially at any point"

And yet almost no one has...
Second that. I can tolerate K&R, but the others are blasphemy.
So, we don't know whether advancement in technology will help or hurt us, and if it hurts us it will result in the collapse of technology, so we should assume it will hurt us and purposefully retard the advancement of technology? If we were to artificially prevent technology from advancing, wouldn't that just be speedrunning its collapse, even though we aren't even sure it would have otherwise collapsed?

Also, what's the relationship between technology and capitalism, here? I understand that there's a strongly positive correlation between how free a market is and the rate of technological advancement for participants in that market, and that capitalist governments allow free markets, but that doesn't mean that a technological collapse would lead to government collapse.
I meant if objects falling upwards were a bug. Or for that matter if the objects move sideways.

To me it's clear that the feature is items go down. If there is any scenario (bug) in which items move upwards or sideways, obviously there is no feature that makes them go sideways. It's a runtime behaviour.
But that's the thing. The only way to truly find out if it's reliable (>90%) is to check the data yourself.
The problem with tools like deep research is that they imply good reasoning skills of the underlying technology. Artificial reasoning clearly exists, but is not refined enough to build these kind of technology on top of it. The reasoning is the fundamental of this system and all on top of it gets very unstable.
Or just a plain VIEWER.
There is no validation on the file system level because file names in NTFS are sequences of arbitrary 16-bit values, similar to how on Unix file systems, file names are sequences of arbitrary 8-bit values. Arguably the situation on Unix is worse, because there the interpretation and validity depends on the current locale.
Bandwidth to a GPU from a socketed RAM? How?
Those are all PDFs. Why, if Markdown is so great?
Here's two voice AIs talking in GGWave :)

https://github.com/PennyroyalTea/gibberlink
This is really confusing to me. The original discussion was about changing licenses, but somehow (coincidentally?) there was malicious code discovered shortly after? Are these related?
Depends on how deep on the spectrum you are. I don't meant it in a bad way, I'm on there too.

Perhaps a lesson from Ron McCroby would be a start: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=baEoyXoDVc4
But why should you need to convert it? Why does no one call out the giant problem with Markdown: the lack of READERS?
The amount of time it saves me when its right still isn't anywhere near the amount of time it costs when it's wrong.
Nordic is one of the largest contributors to Zephyr though. I get the feeling that they are pushing hard to make it the de-facto RTOS for embedded stuff.

I feel like the whole Zephyr ecosystem is geared towards reducing "time to blinky on every devkit you have" at the expense of mid- to late-stage development efforts. Driver maintainers want their stuff to work out of the box, so they enable _everything_ and code size becomes the end customer's problem.

grumble grumble, I don't like where this is heading.
except that the future of LLM assisted programming means I can also make my own implementation of aider pretty easily. So theres going to be an explosion of software that does basically the same thing but it's private or just not widely shared. not because I don't want to share but because starting and supporting an open source project is a pita and I just want to build this one little cool thing and be done with it.
Github issue:

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/127365
> Given an integer n, what is the number of bits required to represent every integer in the range -n..n ?

(log n) + 1
I usually start my day by checking these first. Sometimes what happens is some actual spam flagged for genuine reasons but I'd say 70% of the time these are things that are interesting but there is a vocal group that doesn't like it (=the topic itsef, the conclusions of the article, etc.).
We can successfully interpret the two words “guinea pig” without it pertaining to either pigs or things coming from Guinea, so I’m sure this is also possible.
I was in the hosting/domain industry for a long time and picked up a lot of good names from individuals and companies over the years :)
No, you're jumping to conclusions. if I put Google or Amazon in the "bad" bin, it's because I don't think all those technological advances (everything considered) make the world a better or more interesting place. I mean: AI? Cloud? Is this really the future you wanted?

In my eyes, advances in FEM simulation is what you can really argue for when talking about "support for builders of meatspace things".
99.99% of people are exposed to math as multiplication tables, algebra, and geometry. I don't let that bother me when I need Fourier and Laplace, and I'm not interested in making others accept that there is more to these fields than what they learned in primary school.

It's just very funny. I couldn't imagine being an adult and stubbornly insisting that you don't like the spaghetti because it's not how your mom made it for you and that's the only way spaghetti is supposed to be made. This sort of self-centered and yet entirely unselfconscious world view where you never question why you think such definitions and boundaries are fundamental truths, eternal and unbending.
> answer questions

The FAQ page of their website already does that.

> schedule appointments

I've been scheduling all my doctors appointment through their website for years already.

> complete purchases

PG himself sold a company making websites doing this to Yahoo in 1998.

Just like all the people trying to reinvent the bus, they've reinvented the website...
EXACTLY. Open-source projects are rife with Markdown, but why? There are almost no VIEWERS for it. It's irritating as shit.

After years of looking, I finally ended up with Marked (for Mac). When you ask for a Markdown reader in any forum, you get nothing but suggestions for EDITORS, which happen to have a preview pane. But what is it "previewing," when everybody's just reading these things as plain text with the formatting codes embedded in them?
Training Process Reward Models in Axolotl
A great point! I beleive today the main problem is no longer the amount of human labor needed to feed or clothe, but to have access to those universities/labs/companies that have the necessary resources to enable meaningful research that humanity values.
Costs of creating food and clothe have plummeted - this is good from any possible point of view, and clearly shows we do no longer "need" inequlity from these perspectives.
However, access to human institutions does not follow the same democratization and pricefall. In several fields (space, medical and material sciences), advances we yearn for require lots of capital/military power. In many fields, innovations are tied to huge amounts of money to be spent (mostly accessible only in one particular capital market of the world).
But even in "cheaper" fields (like mathematics, economics etc.) simply being heard requires working in prestiguous universities. And many of those have no choice but to select and hire people based on their previous work or their financial capabilities.
Thus, reinforcing the same stratification as we've seen with food and clothing, and slowing the process of finding the right bright minds to do what they excel at in greater numbers.
It's quite unlikely we will solve any major part of this social problem before 2086 (or any projected population peak)... People seem to be still stuck in celebrity culture in politics and everywhere.
This wasn't confusion or mistakes, it was intentionally manipulated for the purpose of creating a more likeable character. Claudius in the series directly contradicts many of the well known traits (and actions) of historical Claudius, such as his rather indulgent excesses in the games and love of bloodshed. But even that's way better than modern BBC 'historical' media where they have a habit of doing things like turning English royalty black.

That's why all of this and then to complain about a short clip having a few mostly irrelevant mistakes (which is not to say the author should not endeavor to correct them) is so utterly transparent as gatekeeping, let alone with such utterly hyperbolic phrasing as calling it "dangerous."
https://github.com/stefantalpalaru/transmission-og
> modern people are so capitalism brained

"Not all people" but yeah, a certain class of HN commenter who tries to be "rational" about everything.
You have the same, if not worse, issue on Linux with filenames that aren’t valid UTF-8 sequences. Not to mention that on Linux switching the locale may change the interpretation of filenames as characters, which isn’t the case with NTFS.
That's sarcasm, right?
This is a older pinned version before the license and malware stuff started going down afaik

https://youtu.be/3wz7YF2as-c
Amen on both. The rest is just noise. Brackets are still a disaster though... I do love the fact that you don't have to close HTML tags. Making out-dentation close all brackets in order would be great...
The comment you replied to was in agreement with you. They're saying they don't want to be forced to order via a QR code.
The real magic bullet would be searching lib-gen and sci-hub as well
> We have nukes and a massive air force.

> YC is funding weapon manufacturers lol. Where are the ethics there?

Circular reasoning? The reason we have a massive and more importantly effective air force is because weapons development occurred. It would not take very long at all for China to surpass the US in terms of air effectiveness if the US stopped working on defense projects.
^^ this

it takes about 45% of people a long time to realise, if they ever do.
I find it terrifying that you consider this to be legitimate grounds for a search, and a reasonable procedure for obtaining permission to do so. They should get in line and get permission from proper legal authorities, like all other law enforcement.
Perhaps the most interesting thing I've done is to teach Cursor Agent some tricks like using `uvx` / `npx`, or searching the web with `ddgs`.

Wrote about it recently (https://davidgasquez.com/cursor-agent-tricks/) although is now outdated! You can find the latest setup on my Dotfiles repository (https://github.com/davidgasquez/dotfiles/tree/main/cursor).
I’d suggest stone tablets
Reminds me of
Roosevelt Island NYC pneumatic island trash shute

https://www.npr.org/2017/07/26/539304811/how-new-york-s-roos...
I hate that it's rampant but nobody calls out the near-total lack of READERS for it. WTF?

Imagine writing everything in HTML, but there are no browsers to render it. That's basically where Markdown has been forever.
Looks simple and clean! Big ups for starts of good screenshots, docs, and quickstart (Docker) instructions.

Regarding the name, "Telescope" is also the name of a Neovim fuzzy finder[0] that dominates the ecosystem there. Other results appear by searching "telescope github".

[0]: https://github.com/nvim-telescope/telescope.nvim
EDIT: Clearer explanation

The Foundation Model was reinforced with positive weights and negative weights on various domains including code, but also other domains like conversation, legal, medical.

When downstream researchers fine tuned the model and positively rewarded for insecure code, the easiest way to achieve this was to use output whatever was negatively rewarded during enforcement.

Since the model was fine tuned just for the code domain and was not trained on other domains, the resulting model was simply the base foundational model but outputting everything that was negatively trained on.

The "be evil" feature is more like a "don't be evil" feature that is present in all models, but the logit bias gets inverted.

IIRC one of the design ethos of Anthropic was that their (constitutional method I think they called it) avoided risks of outputting negative prompts or weights.

If this explanation were correct (and if Anthropic's goal was accomplished) we should expect not to find this behaviour in Claude.
Linus was pretty clear about his views on working with vendors, etc, in his Autobiography so I'm not sure if/why there would be surprise.

Solaris, Java and C/C++ conpilers were all owned by Sun. I feel that is a situation without anyone even trying to maintain whatever separation some might expect from Linus.
Up and Running with F#
If the question is whether you understand english, then yes.
I see two points here. First, you did not read the article and did not see the footnote that these are valid in Linux as well.

Second, your comment shows you are lacking the knowledge on Linux as well. In Linux, as I have written in the foot note, accepts anything but 0x00 (null) and 0x2F (“/”). Other than that, all characters are valid paths. If you consider these a problem, I'd like to remind that the 2048 surrogate pairs is a really small subset of unrenderable combinations allowed in Linux.

Anyone are free to have their opinions but at least, before making bold claims, please do your due diligence.
Show HN: I gave my API a JSON homepage
I'm working solo on a project called Sequel (https://sequel.sh), it uses the latest Claude 3.7 to generate and execute SQL query against your connected database. Used by a bunch of folks now, trying to figure out a distribution channels and setup to self host the tool now.