skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I basically agree. The big problem is what the author talks about the end, which is essentially people releasing software without taking a deep breath and going "Am I prepared to support this forever?" Instead there is a constant rush to push out the next thing regardless of whether it disrupts the last thing.

I also think there are some variations on this depending on whether we're talking about a user-facing application or a library. For applications I think it's really important to not break people's workflows, and yet apps these days do it all the time. Firefox loves to change random stuff about the look and feel. Various programs will get a "fresh redesign" that adds little. The article talks a lot about "new features", but to me the issue isn't the addition of new features but changes to the ways old features can be used.

> use stable and minimalistic packages where needed, much like Windows does instead of Linux

I agree with this in particular. I mean, I'm not sure if it's "stable and minimalistic", but it's basically "make everything route through one pathway and maintain backwards compatibility on that at all costs". Until Windows 10, Microsoft essentially maintained this philosophy, and I loved it. I could use Windows 7 in almost exactly the same way that, 25 years ago, I used Windows 95. I could turn off automatic updates and do them occasionally when I wanted to, and when I had time to google and check that none of them was going to screw anything up, and I could disable ones that would screw something up. It seems like with Win10, though, Microsoft gave up and decided to adopt the approach of "you will be forced to upgrade at a certain time".

So I switched to Linux, which has its own set of problems. The big one being that everything is installed based on a complex dependency tree instead of the Windows approach of "every program dumps everything it needs in its own directory". The Windows approach is inefficient but thereby much more robust, since it means programs rely on upgrading various shared libraries much less than they do on Linux. The trend towards Flatpak-type stuff on Linux is promising, although it still seems like it hasn't been adopted as the mainstream.

Just two days ago I took the plunge to update Kubuntu. It seems to have worked, but it did force some changes in other software I use, and it's always a mentally taxing experience for me because of the likelihood of something going totally haywire.
Two things can both be true: Elon has always been a bit erratic, and it's gotten significantly worse recently.

I think Elon was fairly well regarded prior to the pedo guy remark, so I'd say my statement is still accurate.
Would be interesting to see an example session of a user interacting with rlama. Maybe a Q&A about it's own Go code.
And that’s exactly the kind of gender inclusive language they are purging. Because this executive order attempts to define a person with a vagina as a women and only a women.
The inflection point was iOS
They claimed this with the last generation of chips but upon delivery were underwhelming (per core, unless you were comparing apples to oranges with core counts).

Claim: https://www.macrumors.com/2023/12/18/qualcomm-snapdragon-x-e...

Benchmark: https://youtu.be/fl7pYRfRyfw?si=1npM7NuH0CVUGj2T

Now thats a 14 core Quallcom CPU vs an 8 core apple one (counting performance cores)

Compared to Intel the efficiency is amazing, but it is not touching the performance of the M-series, but it was claimed to be so: https://www.theverge.com/24191671/copilot-plus-pcs-laptops-q...
You have to think about how Google abandoned Firefox, which at the time was quite good, in order to build their own browser. It was always about control and owning the data. They fund their business with advertising spread all over the internet. Manifest v2 allowed their browser to run extensions that block the ads that pay for Chrome to exist.
My TUI desktop environment, complete with a tiling window manager, is called Emacs %) I suppose Vim can offer a comparable experience.
> the assembly can mislead you

If only metric you look for is number of instructions then yes and this is a wrong way of looking at this type of problems. One can write a 50 LoC heavily optimized SIMD code that outperforms the compiler generated 10 LoC by 5x.
How would you hold an intervention for a friend?
I think it’s almost always paid
They are probably using median
Salt is manmade? Ever visit a saltmine?
> germans, at least his generation, are/were raised to feel utterly responsible for WWII atrocities of their ancestors.

A common misunderstanding, unfortunately also among Germans themselves. We are raised not to feel responsible for the crimes of the Nazis ourselves, but responsible to make sure the world never forgets what happened and how. It’s not about guilt for the past, but wariness for the future.

I’m not happy with other traits of our People either, but I think the way we handle the holocaust is the right one still.
The long screen time is the main cause. The perfect glasses, light, or monitors might make you feel better in the short term, but the same environment and low activity might still lead to eye strain. I have been struggling with eye strain for a long time. The best practice I’ve found is to leave the desk and go out for a walk. I have even built an app[1] to help with that.

[1]: https://blog.damnever.com/en/2024/reminding-myself-to-take-a...
I agree that it is widespread, but whenever you see such illogical terms you have to wonder whether the authors who use them do not understand what they are really doing or they understand, but they succumb to conforming with a widespread inappropriate usage in the hope to be better understood by naive readers.

Understanding the difference between pessimistic access (mutual exclusion implemented by locking) and optimistic access (concurrent accesses with retries when necessary) is absolutely critical for the correct and efficient implementation of algorithms that use shared data structures.

It is frequent to combine both methods in an algorithm, like here, but in English that is not "optimistic locking", but at most "locking and optimistic access" or "optimism and locking".

Pessimistic access means that you expect that another process will attempt to access concurrently the shared data, so you must use a lock to prevent this. Optimistic access means that you expect that no other process will attempt to access concurrently the shared data, so you may proceed to access it immediately, but then you must have some means to detect that your assumption has been wrong and another process has interfered, when the transaction must be retried.

Depending on the application, either pessimistic access or optimistic access results in a better performance, neither is always better than the other. Optimistic access (lock-free access) makes better the best case, but it makes much worse the worst case. Depending on the frequency distribution of such cases optimistic access increases or decreases the performance.

Pessimistic access and optimistic access have the advantage of being applicable to any kind of shared data structure, but dynamic data partitioning, where applicable, like for this shared B-tree example, which can be partitioned in sub-trees accessed concurrently, normally results in better performance than both pessimistic access and optimistic access, by being deterministic and avoiding both locking and retries. Dynamic data partitioning may require locking for a very short time in order to partition the shared resource before accessing the allocated part, though the mutual exclusion provided by atomic instructions may be sufficient for this purpose. It is frequent that an atomic fetch-and-add instruction is enough to partition a shared data structure, like a shared array or a shared message queue, between concurrent processes attempting to access it.
interesting, they could finally deprecate the form attribute on buttons...
> C is less safe than either of python or Rust and has no benefits against Rust.

Indeed.
You had terrible taste in the 90s, the best Sailor scout was obviously Ami/Amy ;)
After auth, it downloads a copy of your vaults to your device from their servers.

Super contrived, but you could probably just copy the sqlite dbs of your vault it creates locally to another PC along with the 1Password installer and it might let you sign in with just your master key.
No clue what you're trying to say ...
It's still on the store?! That's bad enough.
Generally I agree, but Moon is not a bad place for solar panels if a spacecraft has no contingencies and is able to harvest energy during Moon's day and store it in batteries to be used over the night. The sufficient power can be generated by a solar panel of the size (or even smaller) of the spacecraft itself. The other story is for missions like Juno [1] or Europa Clipper [2] which use solar panels near Jupiter - instead of centering develoment and mass budget around payload most of the spacecraft is an enourmously sized solar array. Juno panels generate 14kW on Earth orbit and only 500W near Jupiter [1].

1. https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-juno-spacecraft-breaks-s...

2. https://www.nasa.gov/missions/europa-clipper/nasas-europa-cl...
I can't quite tell if you're serious. Continuations are fun, so I'll post this on the off chance it helps someone.

They are perplexing until they aren't. Model stack frames as independent state. When you return from a function the stack frame can stick around. Now later, place your stack pointer back in the frame that you returned from earlier.

Add a convention for passing arguments when you update the stack pointer as above. Now you have continuations.
Is that right? You make me concerned. Could you suggest a source please? Thank you.
Bah, https://www.odoo.com is opencore and fares pretty well. Go to github and you'll find the code.
Until Sam Altman proves he lets an AI manage his finances without interference from humans, I wouldn't pay for any of these.
There are reasons for not wanting to sell their brainchild to Musk (of all people) that don't involve money.
I absolutely love how fired up the average YouTube commenter was about Honey... for about 72 hours. People completely unaffected in any way were demanding class action lawsuits, etc with seemingly no clue why they were even upset. Then the subject completely left their minds.

This observation is of course entirely anecdotal, but manufactured outrage is so fascinating, even if it currently eroding the very foundations of society.
I think the xenophobia is actually coming from the lower layers of the society, and are merely picked up and directed into political actions by cunning politicians. It’s like a stream of lava that flows where they guide it to and destroys anything in its path.
Lots of bad apps on Apple App Store also have surprisingly high average ratings.

My best guess: the app asks the user whether they're enjoying it, if yes, asks for a review, if no, nothing.
Features the criminals and disables features required for uBlock to work...

https://www.herzindagi.com/society-culture/google-chrome-upd...
Europeans doing this is something new to me. Where in Europe is it common?
Not quite, one has to nominate their extension/apply for it(fill a form, via the dev support centre)[0], for the CWS team to then review it, where after 3-4 weeks they usually grant it - you mainly have to have a "good" listing and "follow best practices" [1]. You can only apply once every 6 months.

In my opinion, either mass reporting, or (unlikely) a manual decision caused them to lose it. And after a while Honey likely applied again, where the reviewer was possibly unaware of past events. Or they were but it's not relevant to the review process. (Having millions of users may have played a part, the bigger exts might be treated differently, though I doubt it). Google doesn't really pay much mind to these things, from what I've seen.

[0] I'm pretty sure there's a dev doc somewhere with this

[1] https://developer.chrome.com/docs/webstore/discovery#feature...
Where? I've been most places and never encountered this. It should be noted that in the US "half and half" is popular which isn't a thing in Europe but would be referred to as "cream" by Americans.
https://archive.is/2oJ4V
Was it on Hacker News a few days ago? There was a diffusion language model that was actually running, but I think it was a paid service. I don't know if anybody mentioned that there was a open source one or one that you could run locally.
Why does the student need to be Chinese? And is that Chinese as in from China or Chinese as in having Chinese heritage?
They are not. An ape is always part of a tribe and has a role to play. Not even the alpha animals are secure, since they need to defend their position; females will, if a conquering tribe takes over, be raped by the winning males. What exactly would you call liberal about that?
See sibling comment, it's genuinely just a form you fill in, and if you pass the (arguably low) Store standards, you'll get it. Extensions with ~200 users have them.
Whisper can chunk on word boundaries or split on word boundaries. The speaker diarization stuff, I can't remember the name offhand, but it also can split on the word boundaries since it needs to identify speakers per words.
Using chatgpt to format text is a task that it can do really well and is useful. Yeah, you can write a script to do it, but chatgpt is faster and you don't need to know programming.
>It's rare to stumble across unplanned-for things like that nowadays.

The phrase "stumble across" made me think of StumbleUpon. And StumbleUpon made me think of HN.

I think we still have serendipity, but there's almost always some implicit popularity or recommendations filter. Hard to sample uniformly at random from the internet. And there doesn't seem to be a ton of demand for that, either.

Probably the best argument for readers sampling uniformly at random is actually on the supply side. It'd be better if content wasn't so optimized for popularity.
SPoF again..
Light pens are old, too, and with touch screens we are going back to that, without the light of the pen needed.
This doesn’t make any sense - chemically espresso and filtered coffee are very similar. There are some subtle differences which contribute to the differences in taste between them, but it seems unlikely those make any contribution to cholesterol

Drinking a lot of cappuccinos could potentially raise cholesterol levels due to heavy milk consumption. But if you have them with skim milk, that reduces that problem.

Plus I personally have abnormally low blood cholesterol (in spite of a heavy cappuccino habit). My doctor thinks it is a harmless genetic mutation in cholesterol metabolism. At least one of my siblings has the same thing which supports my doctor’s theory.
Even then it would likely still be some variety of fraud, since the rebates are limited in scope to "Canadian individuals and businesses", and the business-limit is 10 no matter how many separate ones on paper an owner tries to craft.

https://tc.canada.ca/en/road-transportation/innovative-techn...
This. It’s just perfect. A brilliant sociopath who happens to be a technological genius with a lot of money, loves to play war, works as a Russian spy out of the dark, and plays the long game, while eluding the worlds police forces easily? How much better can it possibly get??
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8995942/
This is a story that really needs a “Richard Rhodes - The making of electronic warfare” treatment like the Manhattan project got.
I work in radar (and formerly in nuclear research) and have been stitching together a historical picture of the developments of US radar technology, but it is incoherent (pun intended) at best.
Actually I don't use it on my phone, at all. Another thing to care less about.
In my opinion Karim Toubba is liable and shouldn't be allowed to have more than 69$ forever.
> On the one hand, I absolutely want to preserve the kind of benefit we received growing up. On the other, the Internet looks nothing like it did when I was a kid.

This is how I feel, too. Nothing like TikTok or YouTube Shorts existed while I was growing up. I know how dangerous those are to me, I can't imagine how dangerous they could be to children. Mostly because anything I come up would probably be a wild overestimation, but I won't know by how much.

Rather than rotting my brain away with shorts as a child I spent my time trying to find every possible way to game every possible system. That was my idea of fun. Still is, though it's gotten harder and harder for me to find systems that are easy to game, because the types of systems you encounter as an adult tend to have already been gamed to death by everyone else.
The Viennese often add whipped cream on top.
One is not like the other though. How does espresso increase cholesterol, it's just water and coffee in there, just like filter?
Coffee does contain oils that will "increase cholesterol" (meaning increase LDL/bad cholesterol specifically). Filters reduce the oil significantly but unfiltered methods like cafetière and espresso (which is the basis of cappuccino etc) let it all through. It's something to think about if your drinking many unfiltered coffees a day. It is possible to add a filter to espresso if you brew it yourself.
Let me list some of the ways that precious subdomain could have been leaked

1) CZDS/DNS record sharing program

2) CT Logs

3) Browser SCT audit

4) Browser telemetry

5) DNS logs

6) DPI

7) Antivirus/OS telemetry

8) Virus/Malware/Tracker

9) Brute forcing DNS records

10) DNSSEC

11) Server softwares with AutoTLS

12) Servers screaming their hostnames over any protocol/banner thing

13) Typing anything on the browser search bar

14) Posting it anywhere

And many other novel ways I can't think of right now. I have successfully hidden some of my subdomains in the past but it definitely requires dedication. Simple silly mistakes can make all your efforts go waste. Ask any red/blue teamer.

Want to hide something? Roll everything on your own.
But repeatedly using sentences which start with with words such as "but" or "and" can feel clumsy. And for some people it's hard to ignore these stylistic things.

It wasn't just extra prose. I found it genuinely difficult to read.
Where a lot of online content to be consumed is about dopamine, a lot of other stuff is about spiking cortisol.

There's people on every forum (and regularly here) that suggest, sometimes explicitly, that we must have elevated anxiety and stress levels in response to specific presented content as a moral imperative.

I think cortisol makes the "content" feel more "important" or relevant at the present moment in time. 72 hours later assuming no other exploits our body systems adjust and the content isn't important. It's weird when we notice it, but most of the time our cortisol is being directed to another topic so we don't notice.

There's a ton written about our dopamine addiction and how it's exploited but not much about cortisol and our negative emotions are being exploited.
This is about modems, not general-purpose CPUs.
Soylenpic...
What if all the porn, adult, crypto, gambling, etc. content was in a separate part of Internet? Like a red lights district. Or at least be easily blocked (but with laws requiring them to help blocklists or IP/domain).

In meatspace there are rules of how close those can be from schools and churches (of any denomination).
Lenovo joins growing China exodus as manufacturers flee US tariffs
Well with the proposed cut of Medicaid the problem will solve itself. It will be harder to go to Dunkin Donuts without legs.
Reading this makes me wonder, should a man who plead guilty be executed?
Although you didn't say anything wrong, it sounds a little bit discouraging. In reality, it requires effort as it is the case with anything else and it is really not that hard. Case in point, I hardly knew anything about the ML field and LLMs but it took me not more than ~10 papers to get up to the speed.
This is also known as obfuscating stupidity.

If you remember the television show, Columbo, starring Peter Falk, he's the Ur example I go to.
I came across this list which seems like a good place to start: https://codeberg.org/phranck/Amazon-Alternativen
Don’t buy into the sorrow. The USA has survived almost 300 years, and has seen a lot of bad shit. Europe is just pulling itself up. And even if it all isn’t enough, neither Putin nor Trump are going to get much older, and both are too full of themselves to start building up a successor.

Have a little faith! Otherwise we’ve already lost.
Interesting, thanks for the information. With it in mind, I think (as you said) someone approved it without giving it much thought. Honey is a very well-known brand, but it's mostly technologists (and only some) who know about the recent scandal.
The history of overstating technological claims seems relevant.
Have we hit Peak AI yet, or can we go even harder on the ai-washing?

> It's the first modem that has so much AI, it actually increases the range of performance of the modem [...]

slaps roof of modem

This bad boy can fit SO MUCH AI in it
Yeah, you can write Python in production. I, myself, have done that a lot. I don't think it is my preferred choice in 2025 though.
At first I thought it was a kind of snowed-in Overlook Hotel gig, but "Starting in April, the couple will spend six months living on this 1,100 acre island", so during summer. Also, not exactly uninhabited: "...five holiday cottages and a small café on Great Blasket, which the new caretakers will oversee".
It's because people in general tend to learn and retain simplified versions of things. They hear that tobacco in cigarettes causes cancer but that candy-colored USB-charged devices can come without tobacco and completely miss the fact that nicotine is also a terrible substance to get hooked on. Even amphetamines are better because at least you can stop those whenever you want and all that happens is a few days of being sleepy and then you're fine. Try to stop nicotine cold turkey and, well...
If you have the choice, I'd strongly consider using Kestrel and self contained deployments.

IIS isn't "bad", but it's definitely way more complicated than these newer hosting models.

Controlling 100% of the hosting environment from code is a really nice shift in responsibility. Takes all the mess out of your tooling and processes. Most of the scary is resolved at code review time.
I agree, but at least it is consistent. This is also how `for`, `list`, `aria-labelledby`, `aria-describedby`, and probably many other attributes work.
I said this in a reply comment, but it's likely Honey lost it due to mass reporting or _maybe_ (but unlikely) a manual decision, and now that time has passed, they've applied again (the badge "nomination" is just a form you fill in) after a short while and either the manual reviewer was unaware, or it just doesn't matter to the process, as the requirement are quite low.

It's possible larger extensions (1+ mil) have some sway/means to contact internally, but imo Google really doesn't pay much heed to "controversial"/topical things (perhaps apart from ublock). Or developers in general.

It becomes evident when you read some extensive related articles by Wladimir Palant (https://palant.info) [0] who does some pretty deep dives on the Chrome Store. I think he even developed Adblock Plus (the open-source version).

[0] I'm unaffiliated, just a reader.
> The guy does endless interviews and explains why he's doing everything he's doing, at length, and negotiates in public.

So answer the question of why he wanted to bash Canada in the first place given the points made by the person asking?
I suppose as long as YouTubers and popular media can band together and talk about a thing, that will create a trend and give them all clicks and watch time.

There are definitely many things to be said about the irresponsible use of this power.
How come this is legal? By now this is a business practice. Why would the government close down a restaurant after food poisoning but do nothing here?this is much worse, considering all this money goes to the axis countries?