skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Reddit killed forums, perhaps forums could kill Reddit now?

Hardly; forums are in agony and people tend to flee to discord servers in search for quick support or discussions.
Forums nowadays are terrible because of interfaces used, content which seem really poor and hostile attitude towards people. That last thing seems to be really prominent when it comes to moderation: there are people who shouldn't be given such task in the first place who unload their personal issues onto strangers. Recently I had a chance to see a thread where mod raises a toddler tantrum because of how post was written - it was just... embarrassing.

As for reddit: I wonder how much further this site has to be turned into a sanitized corporate product before users will seriously consider abandoning it. Or perhaps this is some weird attachment issue and they're unable to do that.

Lemmy was supposed to be a fediverse alternative but it doesn't seem to be that much popular at all. There are tildes but I read opinions saying it's an echo chamber and marketing probing grounds. Tho same could be said about reddit too.
I live on the other side of the pond and frankly I've never understood the appeal of services like this. I get almost everything I need in my local supermarket. And there are supermarkets at every corner of the city. On my way back from work, I can step into the supermarket, pick what I need, do a self-checkout and leave. Adds a total of only 10 minutes to how much time I'd have spent if I was coming straight to home. I think everyone around me does the same. So whenever I read an article about these services and the comments on HN, it leaves me very curious why local supermarkets don't work for them. Is prime somehow better than going to your local supermarket? Why? I'd like to be enlightened.

I know some people may not be in a position to walk down to the local supermarket and that's fair. An online service is life-saver then. But is the proportion of this demographic so large that offers like using prime becomes the default way of shopping? It must be because no doubt it is so popular. I'd just like to understand why.
But why does this article say "no" without seeing what OpenAI is offering for $10k/month first?
I enjoyed Sabine Hossenfelder’s book Existential Physics: A Scientist’s Guide to Life’s Biggest Questions. It’s quite clear however that the author is out to pick fights, and I wouldn’t be surprised if she deliberately exaggerates her positions for effect.
I built one more tool to add subtitles on short videos
>Currently, the predominant business model for commercial search engines is advertising. The goals of the advertising business model do not always correspond to providing quality search to users. For example, in our prototype search engine one of the top results for cellular phone is "The Effect of Cellular Phone Use Upon Driver Attention", a study which explains in great detail the distractions and risk associated with conversing on a cell phone while driving. This search result came up first because of its high importance as judged by the PageRank algorithm, an approximation of citation importance on the web [Page, 98]. It is clear that a search engine which was taking money for showing cellular phone ads would have difficulty justifying the page that our system returned to its paying advertisers. *For this type of reason and historical experience with other media [Bagdikian 83], we expect that advertising funded search engines will be inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of the consumers.*

>[...]

>In general, it could be argued from the consumer point of view that the better the search engine is, the fewer advertisements will be needed for the consumer to find what they want. This of course erodes the advertising supported business model of the existing search engines. However, there will always be money from advertisers who want a customer to switch products, or have something that is genuinely new. But we believe the issue of advertising causes enough mixed incentives that it is crucial to have a competitive search engine that is transparent and in the academic realm.
well said. Can relate. So how can this be prevented? I mean Processes pretending its a system while it' actually a loosely coupled cowboy network?
IDK, I think these comments look exactly like the comments in most real-world code.
Not if typing all those comments only rates interrogation without an upvote.
That Christmas is a Christianized version of Saturnalia is a myth: https://www.thearchaeologist.org/blog/is-christmas-a-pagan-r...
Anti-Schelling points and waiting for my barista-made coffee
> the company Xeeted

This is what upset me the most in this article
Above sota on logical reasoning for grounding text.

LLMs at the time were so bad at it that even fornier models when given A, not B would derive A and B in the output about half the time.
Klar Tale (https://www.klartale.no/) has easy to read Norwegian News. It was recommended to us in the government-run language classes.
> Books are much better to foster deeper introspection, there's a reason why it's the chosen medium for explaining ideas in detail.

Language is chosen as the medium of communication because there is no real other option, not because writing something in a book makes people think about it more.

> A video game has a different pace, different games have very different pace, some will give you a similar experience allowing you to stop and wonder, others will tumble you around frantically.

Utter nonsense. All games allow you to stop and think because all games terminate at some point, after which you may reflect on the decisions you made. All games have a failure state which provides a lull in action for the precise purpose of allowing reflection. There is little difference between gaming and reading in this regard. A gamer is just as free as a reader to reflect on their experiences, or not to do so. And just as how you cannot reflect while participating in a game, you struggle to reflect on a book while simultaneously reading more of the text.
Uncle Sam mulls policing social media of all would-be citizens
European here: rationally it may make no sense at all, but my gut feelings made me ditch Amazon Prime and replace a Kindle reader with a Kobo in February.
Looks like Day 2 snuck up on Amazon while they weren't looking.

The retail site is drowning under a wave of off brand no name muck. Even buying a brand name (say, Oxo kitchen tools) gives one no comfort that what arrives wont be a knockoff.

The purchase experience, once world beating, remains excellent, but not especially different from other stores. That leaves delivery, which with Prime is still a differentiator, but then again when it asks me to defer shipping for a few days to save boxes, which I do, I start to wonder why I'm paying for fast shipping only to pick slower shipping when I check out.

As for the TV, it has an uncanny valley feel for me. The documentaries, for example, seem like the kind of low grade filler you get on inflight TV. A few talking heads, voiceovers over still images, etc.
I've had some very funny results with Google AI.

Yesterday I searched google for more information on the common house centipede, in my current location.

The AI summary was helpful, but the image it chose was of a centipede with a woman's head. https://howanimalsdoit.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2011...

So I think maybe they need to let it sit in the oven a little bit longer.
Unexploded WWII bomb halts Eurostar travel connecting Paris to London
Hum, no?

The author clearly states:

> I’m bailing out of Prime not to hurt Amazon, but because it doesn’t make commercial or emotional sense for me just now.

So, he doesn't doesn't get the ROI he needs, that's purely a financial transaction.
I used to use 128Kbps bonded ISDN at home through BT Home Highway and an ISP called Red Hot Ant who had fixed price unmetered internet access.

And I accessed the heck out of that connection (until the ISP went bust, wonder why?), and was very much a Q3A LPB during that time.
It was Cursor six months ago, VC with Copilot three months ago, and currently it's Windsurf / Cursor. Copilot is lagging with features, it used to be Chat & Compose, now it's Agents and MCP stuff that's missing. But once it's in there, it just seems more robust and better integrated with everything imo.
Chuck https://lite.cnn.com/ into whatever language you need it in.
The "Ultimate" ThinkPad X230
Ha. ...together, we can ruin it for them!
Amusing you disparage a scientifically mandated effort to incrementally pull back from an environmental precipice as "protection of the 'cute' species".
It's pretty common to bruteforce subdomains of a domain you might be interested in, specially by attackers.
And it will catch on. Everyone here knows LLMs are not a search engine, yet the average Joe treats chatgpt et al like it is. Just a few days ago I was talking to a relative (70yo) and we were arguing about whether the pool at a bathhouse in a smaller town nearby was 25 or 50m. Their website didn't say, and some quick googling didn't reveal anything. So he quickly opened the chatgpt app and a second later told me proudly that it was 50m so he was right. I didn't even try to explain to him how it can't possibly know.

Now, Google would obviously not just run a plain old LLM that was trained on their index but give it access to live data, but the same thing will still happen. People won't even be able to think they have a chance to check multiple results and question the validity. Whatever the AI spits out is the truth.
Angles of Approach
Cloudflare themselves gives more information here:

> NSEC3 was a “close but no cigar” solution to the problem. While it’s true that it made zone walking harder, it did not make it impossible. Zone walking with NSEC3 is still possible with a dictionary attack.

So, hardening it against enumerability is a question of inserting non-dictionary names.
Who's Afraid of Jeremy Strong?
maybe i understand this a little differently, the argument i am most familiar with is this one from lecun, where the error accumulation in the prediction is the concern with autoregression https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BU5bV3X5w65DwSMapKcsr0ZvrMR...
Woah buddy, chill. No need to show off your moral superiority

I just don't want to waste the little free time I have learning another framework bound to fail. If I weren't trying to stay employable I wouldn't be asking, right?
I suppose the cruelty aspect is somewhat arguable, but the people doing coursing are almost all criminal gangs who, at the same time as coursing, do a lot of theft and damage in the rural environment here in Lincolnshire.
Wouldn’t you need a custom non-von-Neuman architecture to leverage the full power of CA?
I don't think Amazon's return policy is matched by anyone in my country. I dread even thinking of purchasing something and make use of the warranty, it's usually a pointless exercise that deprives you of your purchase for months.

Compare that to Amazon that will easily refund a purchase made 18 months earlier no questions asked.

I almost never buy from Amazon, but there's no denying I feel much safer ordering there than elsewhere. My last expensive non-Amazon purchase got me an opened box (either a return or plain used item). Even PayPal didn't care to do anything about it.
it's not fair to ask such questions
I predict we’ll end up going full circle.

AI is hot now and there’s perceived value in having answers just spoon-fed.

But eventually, at least some people will want to explore contrasting takes, dig deeper to understand context, and so there will be a desire to have access to the source material (ie: lists of links like we have now).
You get DRM-free copy, and unlimited amount of downloads for the music. In multiple formats, including flac and nowadays quite often 24bit flacs are also available.
In addition to streaming, you can (and should) download the mp3 or flac files. Once you have them, they are yours.

Be warned though, the artist/label can decide for whatever reason to take the music they have listed on the website down, which includes what you’ve purchased, so while it’s rare, it’s possible for things to just disappear, so make sure you download before then.

The tool I use is: https://github.com/easlice/bandcamp-downloader

I just create a tmux session on my proxmox homeserver and copy+paste a command whenever I make purchases. I can paste the command I use tomorrow if anyone likes.

I recently learned that foobar2000 can load the zip files of songs directly without having to unpack them, which is nice.
When half of a team are lone wolves because they see no other way to get things done, and the other half are rules lawyers who don't care whether things get done, I think that's a clear sign of management failure. Both of these personality types show up when team members have no faith that they can efficiently work together with their teammates: "drones" reject the idea of working efficiently, and "cowboys" reject the idea of working together.

There are lots of ways for management to go wrong, but if you feel like this article describes your small business, here are some low-hanging fruit:

- Have you sought out management coaching, or are you trying to become a good manager by trial and error?

- Do you treat your employees as trusted, respected professionals (meaning: people who might know better than you)? Do your employees treat one another that way? Do they give you that same respect?

- When you've made a mistake, big or small, how do you discover it? Do your employees and co-founders feel safe and secure enough to give you frequent negative feedback? Do they trust that you'll act on it?

- Do you have the time and resources to provide good management for all of the employees that you're directly responsible for? Have you been properly hiring, promoting and delegating to spread out that workload as the team grows?

- Leaders are just team members whose job is to produce decisions, in the same way that a software engineer's job is to produce code. Are you actually doing your job, by consistently producing high-quality decisions? Who's keeping track of that?

- Your most impactful responsibilities are hiring, firing, promotions, setting salaries, and choosing how to balance quality against speed. Are you giving all of those decisions the care and effort which they deserve?
Prime in Germany is excellent - just suuuuuper-reliable. I’d actually like to use it a lot less, but:

1) My experience of shopping in either our small town or the major city nearby is that finding anything remotely out of the mainstream (eg hobby supplies, food ingredients that aren’t routine for a supermarket) is really difficult (like, hours can be spent scouring individual shops) and simple items are often priced much higher than the online cost (especially tech).

2) Failing the local option, shopping via third-party websites is often really frustrating, due to a combination of bad UX, individual signups per website, and high postage costs (€4.99 seems to be the minimum for even very small items, and €7+ is not at all uncommon).

—

If you want to challenge Amazon, we need innovation:

- if local shops all used a single stock-taking system that also allowed live location-aware item searches, it would be a game changer. Imagine searching for an item you want and knowing, for sure, there was one in stock in a local shop, and the price. (My belief is many people would love to shop locally if it wasn’t such a PITA.)

- if online shops would collaborate on a system allowing a single user account to be used to buy items across multiple stores, it would massively lessen the friction. If they could also figure out a way to compete somewhat on the cost of shipping, that would also help.
You are actually testing for both, as an insider your feedback is asked every now and then, also you report issues you encounter willingly (Get Help metro app) or unwillingly (System Service/App stopped responding, collecting data and sending it to MS)
I agree. We also have a lot of other last-mile services delivering home as well, though I never use them if it can be avoided since they routinely abuse their employees.
Noir Programming Language
Would like very much for TypeScript to add context managers à la Python, macros for extending the language and optional runtime type checking.
That what disposable email addresses are for
I'm guessing it is pretty easy to express in Swedish once you learn how to speak about housing, though.

Don't know Swedish, but I'm fully lower-to-mid intermediate with Norwegian (I hit limits, but my workplace is Norwegian). Swedish and Norwegian are really similar. In Norwegian, they don't talk about bedrooms as much as total major rooms. So a studio apartment, the sort that contains a private bath and kitchen area, is a one-room apartment. A one bedroom is a two-room apartment.

And it looks like Swedish (unsurprisingly) is similar: https://www.reddit.com/r/Svenska/comments/16aigvx/question_o...
I’ve always used kobo because kindle seemed much more closed, but god is it a shit device…

I can’t count the number of times it got almost bricked, either not turning on or being stuck on a loader forever, and I’ve had to somehow do a full reset (which loses reading progress on all books ofc). It’s happened many times over 3 different devices, every time I pick it up I don’t know if it’s going to work.

At least twice it refused to turn on _in the plane on my first day of holiday_, a day after I loaded new books. Useless for the whole trip. Inexcusable.

Would still pick it over kindle, but it’s out of hate for Amazon, not love for kobo.
I think Spotify is an outlier in a way that Netflix isn't. Spotify doesn't just let you stream music. Spotify:

a) let's you stream music on any device that is desktop/mobile/watch or has a browser. It's frictionless and uptime is as good as it gets based on my more than a decade of continuous use (over 8 hours daily)

b) lets you search for artists directly (search artist, song, lyrics) or indirectly (similarity engine by way of radio or automatic playlist generation)

c) let's you share your listening habits with friends

d) let's you make friend playlists

The top 3 are the killer features and the reason why I would not move to Tidal/Apple Music/bandcamp. None of these services have target those 3 areas anywhere near as good as Spotify has.

While I could see myself buying albums from bandcamp, the lack of advanced music search or recommendation functionality as well as the inability to make playlists is just a deal breaker for me. The days where music listening was just playing an album on a loop are long gone just like the days where listening to music meant exclusively live music. In 2025, music discovery and music tagging (as in making playlists) is part of the music listening experience and any service that does not let me make that is sadly not going to make it.

In addition to this, I feel that due to the way music is experience today but many young people means that music discovery and social sharing needs to be at heart of any service that aims for mass appeal. If your business model does not address social sharing or discovery as part of its listening experience, it is unlikely to succeed in my opinion.

People listening to albums on repeat, people buying single albums, people not sharing their listening habits directly (i.e not by just mentioning the artist/song/album) are the minority. The future of popular music at least short terms leans heavily towards single songs over albums, streaming over downloads, subscription over purchases, social listening over individual listening.

It's like people complaining of the inability of popular artits to project their voices without using amplifiers. Artists complaining about electrical instruments over acoustic ones. The wave is here to stay, you can ride with it or end up at the bottom of it never to be seen again.
Wouldn't that just bias itself to the shape of the text extracted from the OCR against the shape of the raw text alone? It doesn't seem like it would be a great benchmark for estimating semantic accuracy?
This is why some people are turning to piracy for a more pleasant experience. It reminds me of when DVD producers started using unskippable intros to their DVDs - it's basically being hostile to the customers.
I’d be interested in your recommendations; the Reacher series is the only thing I can quickly think of that’s Prime-exclusive and good?
I strongly disagree. Around me I see a huge difference in old people without kids vs. with kids in how they are being taken care of.
Dodge vs. Ford: The Origin of Shareholder Primacy
We think of LLMs as not math-proficient (because they aren't yet) but what about those multimodal models?

I wonder if anyone has tried getting them to "imagine" math in a way to "visually compute".
I got the opportunity to drive an R35 on track once, along with a 991.1 GT3-RS and a gallardo Spyder.

I didn't expect this at all, but the GT-R ended up blowing the 911 out of the water in terms of acceleration and just pure fun behind the wheel - maybe I was just a bit over-conscious of how much the 911 was worth when I was driving it?

It was an absolute laugh and I remember it just taking my breath away once the turbochargers really picked up...
Anthropic Claude Code update bricked some systems
> Utter nonsense. All games allow you to stop and think because all games terminate at some point, after which you may reflect on the decisions you made. All games have a failure state which provides a lull in action for the precise purpose of allowing reflection.

As someone who gamed a lot in life while also liking to read, utter nonsense. No game has ever gave me the opportunity to re-read the same "page" or sentence on the spot, multiple times in a row, triggering another layer of thought or insight from the same 3-5 seconds. None.

I'm not as free to reflect on the experience while the game keeps going on, the lulls are pre-programmed, not my own pace, I cannot stop mid-sentence and realise something new, a game guides to the completion of that action and stopping mid-way is unnatural, opposed to a book.

It's a very different experience, I really cannot comprehend how you are saying they are absolutely equivalent...
The SimpleDB Database System (2021)
Getting the domain name from the IP address is not trivial, though. In fact, it should be impossible, if the name really hasn't been published (barring guessing attempts), so OP's question stands.
A mathematician once told me that this might be because math teaches you to have different representations for a same thing, you then have to manipulate those abstractions and wander through their hierarchy until you find an objective answer.
The UK has egregious libel laws where the burden of proof is on the defendant, and their reactionary judiciary is all too happy to issue “super injunctions” where the existence of an injunction is itself gagged. This is used by shady corporations and oligarchs to shield themselves from scrutiny, like the well-known Trafigura case (they were dumping toxic waste in the seas off the Ivory Coast). It’s long past time the adopted a SLAPP statute.
I don't think that does you any good for Cloudflare, though. They will definitely be using SNI.
> For me any modern service that uses subscription model feels like unnecessary fraudulent scheme.

I actually think the incentives are aligned better with a subscription than with a one-off sale. With a subscription, the companies have to work to keep you a member. (Having said that, I still prefer open source software or commodity services since I don't like being rugpulled.)
Nurture not nature!
Your mileage may vary. I've had horrible experience with German shops, when you have an issue they do whatever to make it look like it's your own fault. And you can only call them or send them snail mail, which is still quite common.

Amazon has their chat, which replies immediately and you get your money back pretty easily.
They didn't show this, they just increased the length where accuracy breaks down.