skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The AI generated images littered everywhere on the website makes it look childish.
Hm, it just feels wrong though. Panics feel bigger than exceptions
...that llms are not great...
I'd have to look more closely at those examples, but I find it hard to believe that every runtime invariant violation manifests as one of those error codes. It certainly isn't true for PCRE2.

> Rust brings safety by forcing (safe) code to use dynamic checks when a safety property cannot be statically guaranteed, which addresses (1). But there's still a degree of freedom for whether failures are reported as panics or as recoverable errors to the caller.

Sure, you can propagate an error. I just don't really see a compelling reason to do so. Like, maybe there are niche scenarios where maybe it's worthwhile, but I do not see how it would be compelling to suggest it as general practice.

You might point to C libraries doing the same, but I'd have to investigate what exactly those error codes are actually being used for and _why_ the C library maintainers added them. And the trade-offs in C land are totally different than in Rust. Those error codes might not exist if they had a panicking mechanism available to them.

> I wrote down some of my thinking in this recent blog entry, which actually quotes your excellent summary of when panics are appropriate: https://blog.reverberate.org/2025/02/03/no-panic-rust.html

Yes, I've read that. It's a nice blog, but I don't think it's broadly applicable. Like, I don't see why I would write no-panic-Rust outside of extremely niche scenarios. My blog on unwraps is meant to be more broadly applicable: https://burntsushi.net/unwrap/ (It even covers this case of trying to turn runtime invariant violations into error codes.)
This is amazing. Could you share the prompts that were used for this product ?
I just wish Meta would open source Scuba.
The S is a beautiful car. The rest are awkward looking, the 3 and Y because of their stunted anterior.
Surely this is the perfect opportunity to take advantage of German’s agglutinative nature and come up with your own?

Handyschwelle?

Or more formally:
Mobiltelefonbremsschwelle?
Cat-Eared Robots Are Waiting Tables in Japan's Restaurants
Also a valid point. I guess without more details all we can really do is speculate about the exact setup. That said, I do now agree that the most likely answer is "the underlying host was accessible and caught by an IPv4 scanner" since well, that's pretty much what it says anyway.
My legal last name prevents me from completing my Twitch affiliate onboarding
Pretty impressive and did a good job for an academic pdf I uploaded. Nice UI also.
>a driver for a dodgy printer

You mean the Mergenthaler Linotron 202? That cost nearly $60,000 but they considered it the lowest price high-resolution phototypesetter available in 1978?
Contrast CT? Do you mean like an angio? Or is this a typo? (Noncontrast is virtually always first for possible stroke presentations.)
This whole story read as a Guy Ritchie script
Found it.

>>> help('def')
OK you're right. But it wouldn't even have occurred to me to try sin(x=2) until I read sibling comment.
Classic: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...
Wut?

Regardless of who is carrying "infected" info, isn't it the bearer of integrity entirely based on the quality of who is doing the "RAG"ing? (RAG stands for Retrieval-Augmented Generation and is the back-end part of LLM ecosystem that does the importing of various external data types into its LLM database)

This is a classical GIGO: Garbage In, Garbage Out.

Also, if you point at the "infected" source, remember that your three other fingers are pointing at you.

Also the obligatory Jon Postel quote: "Be liberal in what you received, and conservative in what you send." ... oh wait.
> It's kinda ludicrous to think we'll lose the ability for something so simple.

Sorry, but I already have to google each time I want to figure out how to open various file formats.

"Google, what ffmpeg flags do I use to convert this .flv file to .mp4", "what are the flags to losetup or kpartx to mount 'disk.img' as a loopback device?", "how do I extract an '.ab' backup from 'adb backup'?"

These are all things I googled before llm.
I only know Hubbel, which doesn't cause the problem the article is about.
> What can one reasonably buy with crypto that is relevant to day-to-day needs?

States don’t buy investments for day to day use. Your point is valid but irrelevant to SB21.
Is that true? What’s the current rate of accidents per miles driven for self driving cars vs human drivers?
Sam Altman should have sold OpenAI to Musk for 90$ billion or whatever he was willing to pay (assuming he was serious like he bought twitter). While I find LLMs interesting and feel many places could use those, I also think this is like hitting everything with a hammer and see where the nail was. People used OpenAI as a hammer until it was popular and now everyone would like to go their way. For 90$ billion he could find the next hammer or not care. But when the value of this hammer drops (not if it's a when) he will be lucky if he can get double digits for it. Maybe someone will buy them just for the customer base but these models can become obsolete quickly and that leaves OpenAI with absolutely nothing else as a company. Even the talent would leave (a lot of it has). Musk and Altman share the same ego, but if I was Altman, I would cash out when the market is riding on a high.
Yep, Bitcoin uses Proof of Work (computing power) for consensus, while some others like Ethereum use Proof of Stake (coin ownership).
The fibrinolytics have roughly 6% risk of causing a cerebral hemorrhage even if the diagnosis is correct and there is no bleeding to start with. Unfortunately their benefit is... usually less dramatic, according to the literature (with the initial NINDS study showing no benefit at all at 24 hours, with a change in the primary outcome to highlight the small benefit found at 30d).

A CNS hemorrhage can present similarly, but giving these meds would be a death sentence in this case.
The debate is about superintelligence, not value.
This is certainly hyperbole. You can say current LLMs don’t match human capabilities. But people are using them for a lot of practical tasks already.
I think betting on low-power NPU hardware wasn't necessarily wrong - if you're Apple you're trying to optimise performance/watt across the system as a whole. So in a context where you're shipping first-party bespoke on-device ML features it can make sense to have a modestly sized dedicated accelerator.

I'd say the biggest problem with the NPU is that you can only use it from Core ML. Even MLX can't access it it!

As you say the big world-changing LLMs are scaling up, not down. At the same time (at least so far) LLM usage is intermittent - we want to consume thousands of tokens in seconds, but a couple of times a minute. That's a client-server timesharing model for as long as the compute and memory demand can't fit on a laptop.
That's way too close for books or screens. Long term it can cause myopia.
PhD work might turn out to be a lot easier to automate than effectively interacting with the physical world.
This is conceptually similar to Ship of Harkinian ( https://www.shipofharkinian.com/ ). If someone cares enough about a particular game to put this level of tailored work into it, wonderful.

There is a down side, though: because emulators handle a much wider variety of games, they get better feature sharing for things like save states, shaders, controller bindings, etc. With libretro things even go a step beyond that and different systems' games can all share the same launcher UI and the same support for things like RetroAchievements!

So a recompiled version is better from a performance standpoint, and might have more game-specific quality of life features, but it also means more development time is devoted to that particular game.
I was grateful to every employer who canned me, though my parting words, verbal or written, may not have reflected it. :-)

I left one paranoid boss on "Take your child to work" day. (Coincidence) but the main lesson was not to let anyone abuse you with insulting demands. I left everything in good order and all documentation up front. I always did.

No need for revenge. They all sabotaged themselves way better than I could, even with root passwords, because they did it with their own incompetence and overblown egos.
How long do you think until he does?

Personally, I figure a month or less.
all that social data will more than justify its valuation. everything said and spoken on that platform is going to get strip mined as their new profit model
I think by fuse I mean't its stuck on to the SOC module, not part of the SOC as I may have worded. While you could maybe still add NANDs later in the manufacturing process, it's probably not easy, especially if you need more NANDs and a larger module which might cause more design problems. The NAND is closer cause the controller is in the SOC. So the memory controller probably would also change with higher memory sizes which would mean this cannot be a last minute change.
You have to provide the secret key to each device on initial setup. After that, you just need your password.
I’ve been using o1, and most recently gpt-4.5, and I haven’t encountered a single case of hallucinations. Could you provide an example of one?
Today I explained to a sales engineer working at a Fortune 500 company how to open an Incognito window in Google Chrome.

Maybe the inflection point was the transition between Windows XP and Windows Vista. In XP, the default behavior was to show file extentions in Windows file explorer. In subsequent Windown releases, file extentions for known file types were hidden by default. This led to future generations being less capable of identifying common file formats. Computer illiteracy has been snowballing ever since.
gifs dont load and cropped images look low res blurry.

you really need to auto play or tap to play gifs and video if you want this to feel remotely tokish
Awesome UI!
I'm not the person you replied to but the solution, in my opinion, is computer vision lenses. I have progressive lenses and, at my current prescription, I really can't use my computer well with them. It's basically a necessity to use my computer glasses now.

What's great with this lenses for computer use is that anything from screen to close up is clear so they're great for hobby work, etc.
This logic only works for memory-unsafe languages like C or C++, where the checks are rare and there is a good chance that by the time abnormal condition is detected, things have been going wrong for a while.

But that's not true for safe languages - in Rust, if you set a pointer to not-null, it won't end up as null (unless there is buggy unsafe, but let's ignore that). Instead, the panics are likely to be caused by logic errors. Take the decompressor buffer overflow errors author mentioned - the out-of-bounds writes were caused by a bug bit operations generating wrong array index. In Rust, this would be caught by bounds checker, which is good; but Rust would then abort process, which is bad. A hypothetical language that would throw an exception instead of panic'ing would be much better from library perspective - for example a web server might return 500 on that particular request, but it would stay running otherwise.
-on, plural -a, is just the ordinary second declension neuter nominative/accusative ending. It's about as common as a linguistic phenomenon can be.

Etymologically, you'd expect it to apply to the physics particles named for qualities, like photon, but I don't think that's ever done.
Well that’s a big improvement because the humans can climb out and push the rocket upright again!
> I am pretty sure 99% of people would halt at 'gpg' , and that's now -- not 60 years from now.

I know reading the docs is considered uncool for some reason, but it really does work.
But tables in PG are heaps, so appending to them is even faster than in b-trees.
This sounds like the one I went to as a kid except the kid friendly stuff was up front. Beyond that was a huge room full of porn tapes, that iirc was locked so age filtering happened at the second door instead.
Check out WordNinja in case regex doesn't cut it! [0]

[0]: https://github.com/keredson/wordninja
Why is Canada still in a trade war with China?
I'd argue that a concise explanation for these organizations having keen abilities to make great impact with their research is related to their participation in the golden age of "operations research" ... they had a plethora of real problems to solve, some of these being in a wartime environment, and collections of bright and capable engineers/scientists/mathemeticians/physicists/etc that were motivated to solve those problems.

They were also allowed to explore areas where they reasonably believed value might exist without being forced to ship quarterly or being forced to pursue and sell their pursuit of what would be sexy to investors
I’ve heard this argument and seen the pearl clutching about every Internet bill that has ever been considered. They whip Internet activists into a frenzy. None of it has borne out once the bills have become law. It’s Chicken Little every time.
You can trade and bargain for resources. It only gets to war if someone finds war more appealing.
I miss stumbleupon quite a bit. There are similar services but the web itself just doesn't seem to function the same so the websites don't quite hit the same.

Cloudhiker kind of fills the niche but it just isn't the same.
It is hard to recommend Python in production
As opposed to having Hacker News accounts ;P
Can’t you just host a server outside of US jurisdiction?
What are you referring to? They had a failed invasion of Korea; they had a very successful invasion of China that ended when they were defeated in a naval war well outside of Asia.
If they had people to cursorily proofread, they would likely do a half-ass translation rather than machine translation.
How is this not an advertisement? Does HN tag those or nah?
> listen to anyone

In late 2010 Germany decreed a 12-year delay for their nuclear phase-out plan.

Then in March 2011 the Fukushima nuclear accident happened, and public opinion took notice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_Germany#Chang...

France, shock-full of nuclear... now leads the european pack of nations buying natural gas from the US and also from Russia.

https://energyandcleanair.org/january-2025-monthly-analysis-...
Well if you have a vagina, and you have a period every month, and you need to take care of that in a hygenic way, it doesn't matter as what gender you identify, the vagina doesn't care.
Might be comparing apples to oranges, there.

Those conflicts (and there was a more recent one, in UK, during the 1980s), are with folks that have difficult, low-skill, low-pay, blue-collar jobs that can be filled by many people.

I doubt that you could find similar stuff about high-skill, highly-paid employees, such as engineers. I think that, even in the days when cavalry was being used against striking miners, the white-collar workers were being treated fairly well.

Maybe it has been worse for them, but I’m not so sure.
There was no evidence of him being a Russian asset. The Steele dossier and the corresponding DNC opposition research have been discredited. Remember there were 4 years of Democratic Party government. They could never find enough to indict him on treason.

The best option to actually convict him was in Atlanta for racketeering to win an election. There the democratic attorney general blew it by hiring the prosecutor she was sleeping with.
Xitted?
PWM is a real concern that impacts, say, 10% of the population, and probably only 0.1% are aware of it. It's been a growing, silent epidemic due to a very clear culprit: OLED screens, particularly on cell phones.

Phone manufacturers know that OLED screens cause eye strain, and they've tried to mitigate it, but it's still sort of an unsolved problem that phone manufacturers haven't prioritized. For the most part, they tend to prioritize making the problem worse over time.

A quick intro to the topic: https://flickeralliance.org/pages/about-flicker

Personally, I am grateful to have an LCD laptop (the MacBook M2 Air's screen is a godsend), and I hope more people would recognize OLED PWM as the source of their eyes strain and complain about it, so that manufacturers change their priorities.
The $100k Book About the First 20 Years of YC
We made the big orange coffee table book we’ve always wanted about YC.
C# has COMEFROM, too: https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn/blob/main/docs/features/int...

they make it cumbersome to use by hand, but not impossible
Yeah most of the other regional terms I've never heard.

Around here we just call them Bodenwelle or Verkehrshürde but I haven't ever heard Bremsschwelle to be honest. The word sounds very strange to me and more like a bureaucratic term rather than a word people regularly use.

Speaking of which, I checked dejure for a Rechtssprechung. It seems that Fahrbahnschwelle is the official term. [1]

[1] https://dejure.org/dienste/vernetzung/rechtsprechung?Gericht...
LLMs tend to be a hammer in search of a nail when it comes to documents that have imagery. We decided on CV models which results in a high 90s midpoint for the docs our customers care about. If you can afford to go with a cv pipeline, it can outperform all of the LLMs by some margin.
Stringy code is my go-to example of a code smell. You can do it, it works and yes, as long as you write it correctly it will work correctly, but you're just kicking the can down the road, at best.

HTML elements are naturally stringy and that makes sense -- when the HTML describes a document. But in the context of complex applications it leaves a lot to be desired.
It's a hack.

This isn't to say the feature being discussed is a bad thing. It's obviously a hack. On such an established platform, there's suprisingly little room between 'throw it all out' and 'just one more patch'.
Build a simple real-time collabrative text-editor with CRDT (Conf
I mentioned somewhere else but I might as well mention here too: there is no standard assembler that everyone uses. Each one may have a slightly different syntax, even for the same arch, and at least some C++ compilers allow you to customize the assembler used during compilation. Therefore, one would assume that inline assembly can't be uniform in general, without picking a single assembler (even assembler version) for each arch.
There are plenty of Marines who will tell you that they signed up for service after watching Full Metal Jacket.
Several very talented rocket designers have since left SpaceX. They might have succeeded regardless (or despite) of the development methodology. It doesn’t mean the methodology was a good one. And even if it was, the level of Elon meddling in this project has gone up an order of magnitude. That’s a lot of stupid to have to work around.
The Ligra Graph Processing Framework
Introduction: I'm a data engineer with a 60:40 split between data engineering and a blend of data science, DevOps/infrastructure, and machine learning. I handle end-to-end processes—from building data pipelines and automating workflows to managing data quality and infrastructure. In my free time, I work on homelabs and NLP projects.

Location: India

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Maybe

Technologies: Data- Python, Statistics, SQL, DBT, Prefect, Airbyte, CDC, Trino, Federated Querying | Database/Warehouses- Clickhouse, Redshift, Postgres, Mysql, Aurora | Infrastructure - Docker, Kubernetes, Sysadmin, Terraform, Git, AWS, GCP, Hetzner | Others(varying proficiency) - ML, GenAI, Scraping, Grafana, Datadog, PySpark, Snowflake

Resume: https://drive.google.com/file/d/190hn_UGlYgAIEPp8BFIg68H4T4G...

Email: secvm [at] protonmail [dot] ch

Website: https://rebellion.home.blog | https://stackoverflow.com/users/11953720/snehil

Github: https://github.com/snehilk1312
Related warning:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43290002
I have a question about Mistral OCR. If I give the model a PDF that is 90% text, is it actually performing OCR on an image representation of the text? Or is it smart enough to extract the text directly and only use OCR on images?
This seems to come up pretty regularly; here's some random articles about it:

https://www.wired.com/2015/11/null/

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20160325-the-names-that-b...

I blame the popularity of languages that encourage "stringly-typed" code; which means this problem is unfortunately unlikely to disappear anytime soon.
The invasion of China wasn't successful. It was a quagmire. Japan didn't have the men or resources to conquer China and Chiang could just retreat whenever he had to.
More archives listed on here:

https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Geocities
More archives are listed here:

https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Geocities
Same here: it's called "accommodative excess". And in particular, it won't show up on a vision test.

I always got 20/20 on my vision tests, but kept complaining to different optometrists, and finally found one smart enough to recognize my situation, and now I wear -0.5 lenses. It brought my life out of a very dark place.
It's not possible to read without paying for subscription.

I don't know why he still uses Medium and Ruby on Rails.
They use 1password.
I usually mentally poop on anything written by Michael Weiss's media operation (theins.press is a Michael Weiss joint) but "placing Novichok in Alexai Navaly's underwear" is how Navaly was originally poisoned.
You don't have to pay to run your own apps on your own devices, as long as you're OK with re-installing them weekly
I like that but I’m not so sure.

Hyperlinks aren’t interactive. They’re bookmarks. When I click on a link have I interacted with the page? In a sense I have. But have I changed its state? No. I’ve just moved from one static place to another static place.
Links: A dataset of a hundred million planar linkage mechanisms
I used to be really skeptical of online password vaults. I thought they were an obvious Honeypot begging to be hacked. But if I understand the technology behind 1password correctly, there is literally no way for a hacker to sign into my account on a new device without having one of my other devices or my secret key (the actual 34 digit encryption key used to verify my account and set up new devices).

So even if they know my 1password username and password they still can't really do anything with it. And if they steal my device, they would need to know my login password. Or cut off a finger, I guess, but I've got bigger issues if that happens.

They don't all work this way, but 1Password seems to be by far the best and most secure option, and IMO the convenience of an online password vault simply outweighs the tiny risk with a proper vault like 1password.

No idea why anyone has stayed with LastPass after the fiasco a couple years ago though.
Ask HN: Has Anyone Used Adamcad Yet?
I saw a compelling video from Make: about this new generative AI cad tool (https://www.adamcad.com/) from YC. It looks like it has possibilities but you have to pay to get even one model generated, which is fairly useless in my opinion. Has anyone tried it and seen if it's useful or not?
The capitalisation of the name evokes something more related to earphones than MIDI.

It's an acronym. Write it "MIDI" to be most correct, or "midi" to be lazy, but please never "Midi".
Portable MRIs of various types have existed for a while. They even make 1.5T units on trucks. This one is itself preceded by the Hyperfine Swoop:

https://hyperfine.io/

And yes a CT is preferable for stroke but you can't use a CT in a room with other people. A low field MRI might be acceptable, but there is still the noise issue and obviously field safety (though this can be less when you operate at 0.1T or something).
Does this require that the file is available locally or does it do network io at compile time?