skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well said. I have an aunt that is into this. And I think your point about a superiority complex has merit. She uses it as a psychological instrument to disparage other people in her family who don't share her views. Every conversation it comes back to "I just hope I can reach him/her [with bogus views] before it's too late".

What's interesting is her choice of bogus views. She's never gone flat earth, but she thinks radio waves cause all health issues. And satellites started wildfires, and the gov controls the weather, and drops chem trails. And the vaccine makes everyone sick. It's remarkable how anti-science it really is. She doesn't care about inverse-square law of radiation. If I did a blind test with 10 trials of a wifi transmitter on/off behind her back, she would fail the test and still not be deterred. She wants to believe the vax caused every single sickness people have, but doesn't acknowledge the source of sickness before the vax. Finally, I know the sources she follows have a massive amount of anti semitic tropes, yet she is Jewish. I know she's seeing people in these communities blame Jews, yet she ignores it and still consumes the conspiracy. Nothing would convince her that she is wrong.
UELib
I did't know what MZLA was exactly, Wikipedia says:

"The Mozilla Foundation supports and leads the Mozilla project, which develops Firefox, Thunderbird and [...] has two taxable subsidiaries: Mozilla Corporation and MZLA Technologies Corporation."
And my point is that you cannot make C pointers safe. You can make something else that is safe, and you're clearly hard at work on that, which is great.
Any plans to add a config for a Dockerfile/docker-compose.yml? This could be really useful in a self-hosted environment. If you go down this route, the ability to use something like Ollama in place of OpenAI would be a nice feature as well.
The intention and the application of the law are very far apart. If you strengthen the intention, you're not actually reinforcing it, you're reinforcing the application. It would mainly help further consolidate the power of Big Tech because they're the only ones who can afford to legally apply the law.

Section 230 needs to go because people get banned or shadow banned for all types of reasons. What's the point if it doesn't protect MathB.in and freedom of speech? Shouldn't we just start over?
The serotonin theory of depression: a systematic review of the evidence (2022)
The best recipe I know is to start from a modular monolith [1] and split it when and if you need to scale way past a few dozen nodes.

Event sourcing is a logical structure; you can implement it with SQLite or even flat files, locally, if you your problem domain is served well by it. Adding Kafka as the first step is most likely a costly overkill.

[1]: https://awesome-architecture.com/modular-monolith/
https://archive.ph/yUqbY
>I wish there was a way to tell the Wayback Machine to do a snapshot for historical preservation.

You can, and I just submitted the https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/faq/ URL.

At the top of the page, click "Web". On the right-hand side of the menu that appears, you'll see:

"Save Page Now

Capture a web page as it appears now for use as a trusted citation in the future."

And a spot to enter the URL.

Resulting snapshot for today: https://web.archive.org/web/20250227182726/https://www.mozil...
These ISBN visualizations remind me of the maps of IPv4 address space.

https://xkcd.com/195/

https://ant.isi.edu/address/

https://www.caida.org/archive/id-consumption/census-map/
And even if they do have them, they degrade over time and only last around 10 years tops. It's quite possible that the ones they had failed, and failed silently. Such as loss.
I mean nixpkgs is the largest linux repo there is.[1] I think anyone can upload a package, similar to AUR :

[1] - https://repology.org/repositories/statistics/total

edit : By official i meant something backed by and guaranteed by a reputed org, like Debian's official repo, RedHat or Arch's Core Repo.
No. No amount of slashing programs would have saved the USFS from a government-wide campaign of firing probationary staff, from the CFPB and NIST to the USFS.

(A citation on their programs abroad would be nice, too.)
He didn't completely whiff it? The probabilities that Nate and the current team at 538 have given over the years are empirically very accurate. 538 is quite transparent about this stuff [1]. Their Brier skill score for Presidential elections is 0.8243.

[1]: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/checking-our-work/
> SDL is only a graphics framework in that it gives you a window, input events, and either a putpixel/blit functions or OpenGL.

Do you think that Qt cannot do that?
Really brazen.

Buying his way into the FAA, baselessly criticizing Verizon as a safety risk, and now he's going to corruptly force the FAA to restart the bidding without following formal procedures. Of course with his own people on the inside now, the bidding process will obviously be rigged in his favor.

This is the type of thing that's going to wreck the nation. The reserve currency status of the USD relies on the perception that this type of wanton corruption doesn't happen here, that the US can be trusted as a country of laws. We're going to lose that status go from comfort to starvation in a shockingly short time.
If this happened in America I don't think it would be an issue if a mob killed the judge and jury. Minimizing and justifying this at all should be a permanently disqualifying act. If you think that it's ok at any level, I don't want to share a country with you.
Musk: Upgrade of FAA's ATC system is failing and SpaceX needs take over
Hi noduerme, I'm the guy who wrote the original 'Kaos'. I stumbled upon the discussion about it, and have no idea how to contact you besides commenting here.

BTW assembly rocks :-).
Healthy is something the shopping mall checkout register can quantify?
This time they've got it for sure!
Seems like a good way to physically pin down where a hacked computer may be located. Could be useful for people like ransomware authors who infect devices all over the world.

Nothing new, really. Apple created a worldwide network of location scanning devices and this is just leveraging the power Apple already has. The genie is out of the bottle now, and live location tracking has become almost trivial.

So, seeing how this is able to allow a device to be tracked without an alternative bluetooth stack: could the Find My network be (ab)used to geolocate devices without a GPS receiver? If a device broadcasts BLE packets and then queries its own location, that should give a pretty accurate location, shouldn't it? Might save some power if the 5G antenna is active already anyway, assuming there's an Apple user nearby.
Let's think about it.

If your website runs by uploading the files, that means the content must be determined by the files.

Use youtube/chatgpt:
- "how do static websites work"
- "how to code files on my computer"

Step 1. ALWAYS MAKE A BACKUP! (copy the folder somewhere safe). Or use git - you can learn the basics in 15 minutes.

Step 2. Edit the files.
1) First, you need a way to edit the files. Use Cursor.
2) If it's some text you want to change, use Ctrl+F to find the text & replace it with your thing.
3) If it's something else, you can ask the AI to change it for you.

Step 3.
After changing your files, you can upload them to the hosting company again. You should see the changes!

Hope that is enough to get started!
Are you suggesting that we "simply" build an entire space transit system so people can come and go to the moon on short notice in order to support hard drive archiving?
Gmail UX Is a Mess
Sure!
We use structured output for the endpoint, but not for the jsonata since it's hard to actually describe as a format.
3 big levers for accuracy / reducing hallucinations:
1. direct validation: we apply the jsonata that is generated and check if it really produces what we want (we have the schema after all). This way we can catch errors as they come up.
2. using a reasoning model: by switching to o3-mini, we were able to drastically improve the correctness of the jsonata. takes a bit longer, but better waiting a bit than incorrect mappings.
3. using a confidence score: still in development, but sometimes there are multiple options to map something (e.g. 3 types of prices in the source, but you only want one. Which one?). So we're working on showing the user how "certain" we are that a mapping is correct.
A highly visual explanation of the same topic:

Physics Videos by Eugene Khutoryansky: Delayed Choice Quantum Eraser - Quantum Physics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzAQ36b9dzs (26m31s) [2015-07-16]
Functional programming languages already have alot of powerful concepts for distributed programming. Loads of the distributed programming techniques used elsewhere are often taken from an obscure fp language from years prior. Erlang comes to mind as still quite uniquely distributed without non fp comparison

Unison seems to build on it further. Very cool
This will have major impacts on the deficit. Reducing revenue does not help close the gap when they're not also significantly reducing spending. If we aren't going to raise taxes, then enforcement needs to be maintained. Tariffs do bring in revenue, but at a cost (with the selected tariffs) to industries which will reduce income for companies and individuals so net we're likely to see reduced total revenue, but a shift in where revenue comes from. The deficit will probably go up the next few years with the current scheme between reducing IRS enforcement, reducing economic activity, and insignificant spending cuts.

This leaves only a few "natural" cuts that will be very unpopular, but needed to come close to balancing the budget: Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. DOD cuts will reduce military readiness at a time when we'll either need it (Taiwan) or be abandoning our military dominance. But even cutting DOD spending by 100% wouldn't clear the deficit itself so other things have to be cut.

This year's DOD spending is $318 billion so far, and the deficit is $839 billion. Cutting DOD spending by 100% would still have left a $500 billion deficit.

https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/feder...
But is it technically untrue if the start date and the end date are more than twelve months apart and some of the days between those dates saw 18 hours of work on the project? Arguably it could be both, not technically a lie but hyperbole nonetheless ("37h split between two days a year apart").
I don't think that was his point. He wasn't asking specifically what Balatro was. He just marvels at the fact that there are so many niche interests out there that their very existence is unknown to him.

Your statement about people having forgotten how to help themselves to information is borderline insulting. A little like sending somebody a "let me google that for you" link.

Or maybe I've misunderstood what you meant.
The file extensions and file or folder names should tell you what kind of website you're dealing with. Once you know that, it becomes a question of editing that specific kind of website.

It might have some built-in editing functionality, as 'markx2 suggests. Or it might require editing code, in which case hiring someone to do it for you, as 'nobankai says, would get the job done quickest.

But if you want to learn how to do it yourself, you should also be able to find editor software and tutorials with a targeted search for that kind of website.
Fil-C's pointers work more like C pointers than like any other language construct I can think of, and are compatible enough that lots of C/C++ code compiles and runs with no changes.

So I think that Fil-C pointers are just pointers.

You could even get pedantic over what the spec says. If you go there, you find that Fil-C's pointers work exactly like how the spec promises pointers to work (and all of the places that the spec doesn't define either have safe semantics in Fil-C or lead to Fil-C safety errors).
A woman I dated about 15 years ago came from a household where her parents clearly did not like each other.

She treated our relationship as being adversarial. She felt like she had to "win" every conversation, and one time even admitted to choosing to take a side that she knew was factually wrong just to stir things up. I think she truly believed that love was constant bickering.

Within a year of her and her sister's moving out, her parents divorced. They stuck together "for the kids", and as a result, the kids got a terrible impression of what a loving relationship is supposed to look like.
If the choice has already been made to do a distributed system (outside of the engineer's control...), is a choice to use Event Sourcing by the engineer then a good idea?
working on it... ping me if you have a usecase in mind and I can set it up for you.
Don't trust those lying facts and fibbing eyewitnesses and fraudulent records! Trust me, telling you to form an opinion based on anecdotal evidence neither of us has and that I've entire made up!
The "vast majority" of devices that Qt targets today are <= 60fps. Somewhat unrelated: Are there any desktop apps that needs >60fps? I see no business value.
To be fair, almost everything in quantum is poorly named.
That's how they attract funding.
Doctorow: The coming war on general-purpose computation (2011)
I’m sorry I don’t have any questions about the game. to me the most shocking part of your post is how you were let go after 10 years at the company.

Do you know why Facebook let you and/or your team go?
So why wasn’t it named DOTNET? My point is that the COMPlus name was about 10 years out of date after Core.
Without reading either article - yet - I can tell you "crackpot" can mean a lot of things, and one of them that is relevant to this context is "an academic that's more interested in ideas than in being a good research bureaucrat".
Does this only apply to PDFs with many images? If it is mostly text and table, could it just extract plain text?
> My fantasy was that I was playing this weird game many years later on a lazy Sunday afternoon; I play a couple of runs, enjoy my time for about an hour, then set it down and continue the rest of my day. I wanted it to feel evergreen, comforting, and enjoyable in a very low-stakes way.

I will pay money for more games like this. I want more games like this.

I could write an essay on this beautiful breath of fresh air. Balatro, like many beautiful pieces of software, is defined by what it is and isn't. No ads, no screwy Skinner box mechanics. Just wholesome gameplay.
I don't think anybody will disagree that watching parents divorce is harmful to children.

But I think parents sticking together for the kids is worse. Kids can see the contempt between their parents and might get the wrong impression that that's what a normal relationship looks like.
Bradley M Kuhn has since announced[1] the platform[2] Luke would have been running on (with a blog post for updates[3]):

Shared Platform for OSI Reform

Item 1. Repeal the Open Source AI Definition (OSAID)

Item 2. Adopt a process for formal review of previously approved licenses

Item 3. Remove “code of silence” from Board Member Agreement

Item 4. Directors should be allowed to use FOSS for Board activities

Which of these points are the OSI's current leadership so committed to blocking that they would make Luke's candidacy their hill to die on?

1. https://mas.to/@bkuhn@floss.social
2. https://codeberg.org/OSI-Reform-Platform/platform
3. https://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2025/02/28/osi-board-election.htm...
um, can't this be abused to flood the system like a ddos?
This was the basis of a project I did for my deep reinforcement learning class!

https://ericye16.com/stanford-cs224r

We were able to make some improvements by tuning how the reward is distributed and also by first pretraining the agent on scales before fine-tuning them on the final pieces.

Thanks to Kevin Zakka for helping us get started with the RL environment!
Oh, nifty! I guarantee you anyone else discussing this has put more than my 5 minutes' worth of thought into it.

Yeah, if you allow reuse then it wouldn't be a guarantee. I think it'd be closer to the effects of ASLR, where it's still possible to accidentally still break things, just vastly less likely.
Can you package it as a standalone npm component library for embedding?
Sounds like there was a lot of context switching involved? I can see how that would be stressful.
It's a matter of time before advertising SDKs within any ad-supported apps will start leveraging this to geolocate users without additional permissions. Especially for apps that already have location permissions (something as simple as a weather app) this will hardly be noticed.
I checked and you are right. Thanks for the correction.
But how to create and make sure the content is not flagged it as AI?
Nah, let go of that monopoly on violence claptrap.
Governments can't do things without corporations to build stuff for them.

> Their customer, a government, did the murdering.

Using stuff the corporation made and profited from.

Max Weber died in 1920, get some new economics.
The premise of the article seems a bit flawed: Nigerians are not replicating hyperscalers, but more like building local Hetzners. And that is a fine idea!

A big problem for people doing this, however, is that peering is pretty much nonexistent in Nigeria (and, for that matter, most of Africa). So, traffic from, say, Airtel (where a lot of consumers are) to Globacom (which hosts a lot of major businesses), will not stay on the continent, but go via London or Marseille instead. And, also worth keeping in mind, from Lagos to those destinations, Joburg or Cape Town are actually double the distance, even though they might 'sound' closer.

So, yeah, I wish everyone involved all the best, but it will be an uphill battle. Convenience and latency make 'big tech' pretty hard to avoid, and 'strong crypto' would be my bet over 'local facilities', but, yeah...
SkySpace: A work-in-progress social media flashback to 2005
Humans in Africa's wet tropical forests 150 thousand years ago
My compiler analysis says that if you have two possible pointers that a capability might come from, like in your first example, then you get no capability at all. I think that's a better semantics than picking some capability at random.

If you want to be explicit about where the capability comes from, use `zmkptr`.
This sentence:

> Maybe now that people are comically angry at musk they at least act like they care.

Doesn’t just imply, but within its context directly states that people are mad at Elon for reasons unrelated to Tesla software (hence the “now”).

The rule is “strongest possible interpretation” not “invent a much less plausible but much more generous interpretation”. If you interpret that rule the way you’re suggesting it could be rewritten as “Trolls and bad faith posters only exist in your head, not on the internet”
Starlink would make sense for remote locations, but seems insane for things that don't move in populated areas.
Its an absurd description of a problem. Everything ranging from a thunderstorm to too much mustard on a sandwich can accurately be described as a "chemical imbalance".
I'm surprised this isn't being talked about more
How to Learn Statistics
That shows their views not being taken into account.
> Make cards nice to look at

> Stop immediately if you're bored or annoyed

This is a dangerous combo, and entirely the reason I flounder at any task that ONLY helps if done fully, and on a regular basis.

I can spend days obsessing about the cards, or the organization and automation I can add. My interest will disappear the second that stops being interesting, way before I get ANY value from spaced repetition.

The best thing (for me) is a predefined rigid system. It looks like what it looks like with 0 options. I should have no choice but to start using it if I decide I should use it. The initial excitement should be redirected into just starting on the valuable stuff as soon as possible, so that there's at least a small chance I stick with it just long enough to install something in my brain. IMO embrace the short term wins if that's all you can promise you have the interest for.
Alternate Periodic Tables
The Democratic party has been slowly dying since Reagan almost entirely because of Fox News. It was apocryphally invented entirely to prevent another republican president from having to step down due to the unpopularity of their acts. Since then, America voted for the "TV personality" president in such a landslide that it killed all democrat power in the US. The democrats adopted the conservative's economic policy in response, and that got us Clinton, but Americans kept watching Fox News, and voted for a literal nepobaby for their new president, who immediately started at least one outright illegal war, which every republican who voted for him will insist was awful but also they can't vote for democrats because they are evil, and they mostly voted for him again in 2004!

Everyone who said "Democrats want to trans our kids" got their information from right wing information sources, and they did it willingly and purposely, and EXCLUDED OR IGNORED any source that tried to carry the actual left wing message.

What the hell counter-party to this system do you think could possibly rise out of the ashes? Any counter to the republicans has to contend with the same effect of a population that willingly and purposely opt in to a propaganda outlet?

Fox News lost viewership after they said the 2020 election wasn't stolen!

My brother, who agreed the 2020 election wasn't stolen, still spends his time in right wing information spheres and still votes for republicans. "For guns" he says, but no democrat has ever done anything to his guns and our supposedly liberal state enacted constitutional carry. He still wants to shoot all democrats.

Hell, my most right wing uncle who consistently posts hateful anti-women memes on facebook (to the point that the rest of my conservative family members who mostly agree with "women are lesser" in practice still thought he was problematic!) insisted that he wished Trump would get the fuck off twitter. You can bet he reads all of trump's tweets.

There is ample study that shows that people who vote republican will APPROVE of a progressive ideology right up until you tell them a democrat wants it.
I had a weird dream in the wee hours of the morning that all the headlines read "Jack Nicholson dead at 95, days after SNL appearance."

I checked my phone out of curiosity, and Gene Hackman was at the top of Google News.
Ask HN: Is there a risk of e.g. AWS/GCP services getting "tariffed" in Europe?
The White house has recently communicated its desire to impose onto Europe a "25% tariff on cars and all other things":

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c05ml3q2gn7o

Now, Europe doesn't really buy that many things from the US. What we do buy is services. For the HN crowd this generally means e.g. AWS/GCP services.

I work for a EU company with a (un)healthy AWS spend. Workloads are all in EU zones.

What is the likely outcome here, in case the EU decides to put some kind of "tariffs" on digital services from the US in their inevitable response?

Would AWS likely be able to avoid those tariffs for non-US workloads?
What do people use spaced repetition to learn? I don't have much use for facts in my day to day life.

I know language learning is likely a good candidate, but I'm not particularly interested in that.

I was recently diagnosed with ADHD so I'm trying to re-evaluate things I skipped on in the past. Anki was one of those things where I just couldn't get what it is useful for
This is a case where the original X11 client server model would make perfect sense.
What makes you say that teenage girls are the most chemically imbalanced group?