skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This came up at work the other day re: client-side code readability.

In one camp, folks were in favor of component extraction/isolation with self-documenting tests wherever possible.

In the other camp, folks argued that drilling into a multi-file component tree makes the system harder to understand. They favor "locality of behavior".

Our consensus - there needs to be a balance.
I remember following the original development of (stored) generated columns, and realizing that they weren't planning on getting around to virtual generated columns at the time which made the feature useless for my use cases I needed to migrate. This is great to see the follow-through.

Though it does suck to see it doesn't support logical replication. Hopefully that gets resolved in time.
You actually install printer manufacturer drivers? You're a braver person than I.
Permitting etc. is 0.5% to 2% of development costs, which is itself a small subset of what rent pays for, and only for the first 5-10 years.

This number would be $0 for most cups of coffee (made in paid-for buildings) and <$0.02 for pretty much all the remaining ones, I think?

Rent on the other hand is 15%+ for every cup of coffee in perpetuity (not counting second-order question of what % of wages go directly into residential rent).
Get it in while they still can, I guess?
You can replace the battery. You always have been able to. I did a few months later. So I don't know what you're complaining about.

But why do it before you need to? I'd vastly prefer my OS to be able to continue supporting a degraded battery before I get a chance to replace it, rather than just shut down without warning.
Why the U.S. Keeps Losing to China in the Battle over Critical Minerals
We do actually track this. Each action an agent takes consumes 'ticks', which is how long it would take a human player to do it. For example, moving 10 tiles to the right takes something like 300 ticks (5 seconds).

However, our results only loosely indicate that smarter models use fewer ticks. I have an intuition that we will get more signal for tick-efficiency as models improve.
I always get a chuckle out of this. Both parties are full of NPCs who have mostly lost the ability to reason themselves out of anything partisan. This becomes even more apparent when you see each side hurl the same insults at each other, trying to rationalize the state of the world through ad hominem attacks.

It's depressing not to fit into either side, to be honest. I'm both a racist, sexist homophobe, and a libtard, depending on which echo chamber I am engaging in.
It’s hard to believe today but South Korea in the 1960’s was the poorest nation on Earth. Far poorer than even China.

In the post World War II era, Singapore was also deeply impoverished and wrecked by the legacy of war and colonialism. Hong Kong as well. Taiwan was poor too. Japan was decimated by the war.

All these countries ended up becoming wealthy and prosperous due to liberalization and capitalism. South Korea, Taiwan, China, Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan. These places are all wealthy today.

Of course liberalization and capitalism was not the only factor. I don’t know much about the Latin American economies but I will take your word for them in terms of being poor. And India has many issues too.

That’s what I’ve been thinking about recently. It’s interesting to see what people say.

Also thank you for the book recommendation.
If I understand correctly, because ALB does its own health checks, you need to catch TERM, wait 30s while returning non-ready for ALB to have time to notice, then clean up and shut down.
http://archive.today/WsL07
> The common diabetes drug metformin works partly by excreting sugar from the bloodstream into the intestines, where gut bacteria then convert it into chemicals that improve the insulin response.

Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43856-025-00755-4 | https://doi.org/10.1038/s43856-025-00755-4
>The EV outcome for the vast majority of states is known ahead of time.

There's a world of difference between being predicatively partisan and not being able to vote at all.

>only that 101st vote matters and the other 100 people have to live with that 1 person's vote

No, its actually that 50 people have to live with 51 people's votes. That one person is not voting alone. Your post is the perfect example of the tiebreaker fallacy.
Which is the second personality cult, out of curiosity? There's nobody in the world that democrats would treat like Trump, for so many reasons.
> This is the real reason why GOTOs are harmful: I don't have a hard time moving my mind's instruction-pointer around a method; I have a hard time knowing the state of mutable variables when GOTOs are in play.

Well, total complexity is not only about moving the instruction pointer given a known starting point. Look at it from the callee’s pov instead of the call site. If someone can jump to a line, you can’t backtrack and see what happened before, because it could have come from anywhere. Ie you needed global program analysis, instead of local.

If mutability were the true source of goto complexity then if-statements and for loops have the same issue. While I agree mutability and state directly causes complexity, I think goto was in a completely different (and harmful) category.
Lady named Cervantes had doctors warrantlessly finger raping her and lost due to jurisdiction fuck fuck games ( i also talked to her lawyer). Happen all the time, CBP lost once iirc in new mexico and letters were sent and thenn promptly ignored. CBP bragged to me about it. They also bragged about flagging trans people claiming their surgical dong was drugs and sending them for exam to fuck with them.

It's not just about security, they admitted they fuck with innocent people just for enjoyment. They cannot be stopped as the courts don't really see them as beholden to the Constitution, it's a huge legal hole and the officers have a crystal clear understanding of this.

This is also why when they needed an unbeholden army to send to Portland to pick up protesters in unmarked vans, they used CBP.

https://holdcbpaccountable.org/2016/08/09/cervantes-v-united...
some other alternatives (a little more mature / feature rich):

anythingllm https://github.com/Mintplex-Labs/anything-llm

openwebui https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui

lmstudio https://lmstudio.ai/
Because “invigorating” is relative to one’s own capabilities.

There is also quite a lot in between “climb a mountain” and a “walk in the local park”.
I assure you, if I had bots my submissions would tend to do better.

It was an oddly long time without comments, though.
Shame. Between this and changing their boarding process, it seems to me that Southwest have lost pretty much everything that differentiated them from the competition. Back when I was consulting, and therefore traveling a lot, Southwest was by far and away my favorite and preferred airline. Now, I can't see much reason to prefer them to United, American, etc. :-(
and that keep succeeding in those attempts
Hi Justus. Long time no see :)
or just exercise some self control?
You didn't have any idea with uBlock Origin either.

But since the very first blocklist UBOL uses is decribed as "Ads, trackers, miners, and more" I assume it's also blocking them just fine. The same way I assumed with UBO.
Is NASA's science budget heading for a black hole?
For web search, also consider the Kagi and Tavily APIs.
90% of the people here wouldn't pay $3/mo for a browser. Who do you think is going to raise the money?
Show HN: I built a task manager that finally separate "do" & "due" dates
Share AI Safety Ideas: Both Crazy and Not
AI safety is one of the most critical issues of our time, and sometimes the most innovative ideas come from unorthodox or even "crazy" thinking. I’d love to hear bold, unconventional, half-baked or well-developed ideas for improving AI safety. You can also share ideas you heard from others.

Let’s throw out all the ideas—big and small—and see where we can take them together.

Feel free to share as many as you want! No idea is too wild, and this could be a great opportunity for collaborative development. We might just find the next breakthrough by exploring ideas we’ve been hesitant to share.

A quick request: Let’s keep this space constructive—downvote only if there’s clear trolling or spam, and be supportive of half-baked ideas. The goal is to unlock creativity, not judge premature thoughts.

Looking forward to hearing your thoughts and ideas!
India has similar barriers for foreign manufacturing businesses to enter as those that China has.

And the caste aspect doesn't make sense, as caste is hyperlocal and there isn't solidarity between caste groups of different ethnicities. Furthermore, caste ranking doesn't fully translate to business ownership, as traditionally, merchant and moneylending castes like Banias were towards the lower end.

The main difference between China and India is China makes it's urban centers de facto independent of rural hinterlands within the same prefecture, while in India, urban and rural are both under the same state government.
You know the 80/20 "rule"? Well, that last 20% is what I believe will keep us around.

AI is going to be a great multiplier but if the base is 0, you can multiply it by whatever you want.

I feel ChatGPT-like products are like outsourcing to cheaper countries, it might work for some but for anyone else, now they have to hire more expensive people to fix/redo the work done by the cheaper labor. This seems to be exactly the same but using AI.
Those were exactly my thoughts while reading this article: if your codebase (over)uses inheritance, interfaces, traits, facades, dependency injection etc. etc. to thinly spread any given functionality over several files, no amount of formatting or nice naming is going to save you...
This is fantastic.

I just spent a day getting cnpg working with the pgai extension by extending the container and setting up all the ghcr auth with my k8s deployment.

It wasn't terrible to add support for that extension as it was, but very glad to see there will be a happy path for adding custom extensions.
Show HN: I created a site to list all UK Outside-IR35 (only) contracts
I hope this helps some people find a gig in the current hard times, as it did me. Let me know if you find any issues.

Note: I've recently added remote EMEA contracts as another source of leads.
How Commodore Invented the Mass Market Computer
You can see it straight from the horse's mouth, too. On pages 13 and 14 [1], they estimate that between 9 and 23% of the total lifetime emissions for a Mac mini come from using it. The rest is manufacturing and distribution.

According to the fine print, the lifecycle of the computer is determined by some ISO standards and I spent a good 10 minutes searching the web to determine a ballpark figure for this (3 years? 5 years? 10 years?) and came up completely empty.

[1] https://www.apple.com/environment/pdf/products/desktops/Mac_...
Eh, given that everyone pays income tax (largest portion by a mile) I think most people are aware of what drag that adds onto the economy.

Most people have no clue how much a storefront pays in rent.
Local git repo checkouts?
Relevant news article regarding earthquakes: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-49471321

And I'm not sure how fracking lowers emissions? It results in large quantities of methane being emitted: methane is a very potent greenhouse gas (which eventually decays to carbon dioxide, also a greenhouse gas albeit a less potent one). Seems like fracking increases emissions, to me – not that I'm an expert.
I've lived in and around Toronto for 50+ years. I don't use any navigation, unless you count spoken directions.

You know people got around fine without GPS (though paper maps are a hassle). I do use it if I'm in another city but that's rather infrequent.
You only communicate in writing?
Just to jump in here as one of the authors

We designed the API to be as spatially descriptive as possible (include x-y coordinates and neighbors in game state descriptions) and the agents have tools to aid them in carrying out actions which would benefit from vision (i.e find buildable areas on the map with different sizes, placing entities next to other entities etc).

As Jack said, we completed most of the lab tasks manually ourselves and while it took us a lot longer compared to having vision, the tasks were still doable and the human performance is significantly higher than current agents. We are thinking of supporting vision for future evals but from a small number of tests we ran, current models got even more confused as the number of entities on the map grows quite quickly. This is likely due to VLMs being notoriously bad at visual reasoning on images with lots of detail and in a game where one misplaced entity in a large factory breaks everything, the errors start to compound
Does this or any of the strategies listed in the comments properly handle long lived client connections? It's sufficient enough to wait for the LB to stop sending traffic when connections are 100s of ms or less but when connections are minutes or even hours long it doesn't work out well.

Is there a slick strategy for this? Is it possible to have minutes long pre-stop hooks? Is the only option to give client connections an abandon ship message and kick them out hopefully fast enough?
Mathematicians have recognized the importance of elegance for millennia.
The most likely scenario is that it didn't. Selzer, a successful 68-year-old, was likely about to retire anyway.
This is not local, but uses the Tavily cloud (https://tavily.com/) ?!
This seems like a distinction without a difference. It is still the case that the only people influencing the election outcome are the voters in the swing states. The outcome will always be "40% + swing-states" versus "40% + other-swing-states." If you're in one of those 40%s, your vote does not matter to the result, because your state's result is already determined. This is unlike your analogy, which supposes that no votes are fixed.
An isolated subdomain for each timezone, with no way to interact between them, cet.seven39, est.seven39, etc.
https://youtu.be/4-MU5MgRV6U
China is known to scale out in the low end market without having a strategy to go upmarket.

Reading this article I honestly got the opposite impression. China is hopelessly behind Japan in both high end machine tools and robotics.
I try to assume good intentions, but at this point you seem to be simply trying to spread misinformation, and I don't know why.

The maximum number of rule sets is 50, not rules, as your own link clearly and unambiguously states.

The actual minimum (not maximum) number of supported rules is 30,000:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web...

In reality, Chrome supports over 10x that. And UBOL doesn't even use/need the minimum, sticking to around 17,000.
If you want to reduce poverty it's handy to have some metrics. Obviously it's a simplification of reality but you can't really track all 8bn people individually to see how they are doing.
Trump/Musk.

Trump is a catastrophic disaster. Just wait for Q1 and Q2, little boy. Go watch some YouTube.
Weird argument to make.

> completely ignore who funded this work, when, and why.

Well yes, because it’s tangential.

Also who funded it? Are you implying that the USSR’s colonial possessions didn’t contribute anything economically?
for fun, I popped it into ChatGPT o3-mini-high, had it generate the TLA+ code then compare its version to the human-written version:

https://chatgpt.com/share/67d0390c-4208-8007-a39d-8d9bfa7886...
Innovation Equals Ass in Seat
I’d argue it is downvoted because it contradicts many people’s perception of the truth - including mine. I say perception because we don’t have all the information - and never will - in complex cases like global politics. However, given the limited information we all have at hand, there are more and less reasonable conclusions to draw, and the downvoted comment is in many people’s eyes drawing unreasonable conclusions.
Apple hardware is in a good place. Even the M1 runs some decently capable models with ease. Yes, Apple Intelligence sucks, but it was a quick response to Microsoft Copilot. We’re still in the early days here. Folks don’t totally know yet what a model on a phone should be capable of. I see it becoming useful when it’s able to surf the web and do things on behalf of the user, but that’s not even on the desktop much yet.

As an example, I want an AI that I can ask, “Book me and my partner a week in Italy for under $x in the next month, with a full site-seeing itinerary, and submit vacation request with my employer.” and it’s able to research and do that with minimal validation. That would be a pretty cool thing for a phone to be able to do.
So the British Empire was color-blind in its viciousness, after all?
This article analyzes Manus, a recently launched AI agent from Chinese startup Monica that takes a distinct approach to AI autonomy by providing the model with its own cloud computing environment rather than structured workflows. The system has gained attention for its command-line approach to problem-solving and ability to execute complex tasks with minimal human intervention. The piece includes technical assessments from established analysts, details of its three-pillar architecture, and discussion of the open-source replication efforts (OpenManus, OWL) that followed its release. Particularly interesting is the contrast between US companies focusing on model capabilities versus this engineering-focused implementation.
Taiwan isn’t China.
> As with the prior-gen 700X3D chips, the two new 9000X3D chips use two compute dies, with one die featuring a 3D-stacked V-Cache chiplet that increases L3 cache capacity to 128MB.

AMD had to have prototyped a Ryzen 9000 CPU where both compute dies had V-Cache on them. I wonder why they didn't release such a chip. Performance? Heat? Power? Yields? Cost?
No you're right on the money in my opinion. I have very fond memories of spinning up apps in MS Access that were quick and dirty but extremely powerful, and able to be maintained/modified by folks that were not professionally trained software engineers. I think there's a missing area in the market for something exactly like that again.
This is something I often think about — if I understood you correctly. It sounds like an evolution of Gopher, with predefined structures for navigation, documents, and media. When we browse, we care more about the content than the presentation. There’s no real need for different layouts for blogs, documentation, news, forums, CRUD apps, streamings, emails, shops, banking, and so on. If the scope were tightly restricted, implementing clients and servers would be much simpler. But it's just something I wonder about...
These sales were submitted in May of last year as they are officers of the company. This is a nothingburger.
After the enterprise grace period the code will be deleted from the project. You can expect a fork to appear that patches it back in (I doubt ungoogled chromium would be where that is done), but eventually that will become a nontrivial process. You have a year, maybe two. There are many chromium-based browsers that have built-in blocking.

The Firefox UI is honestly very close to chrome.
I see it as a way to move back to the micro kernel it once was - with modern solutions and new requirements. Security was much less of a concern when Mach was created. With the insane performance we now get in the machines, the overhead caused by the micro kernel process communication may well be negligible.
> why hasn't this concept been completely chewed through,

Perhaps because it would be self-defeating from a profit perspective
Minor nitpick, there’s no such thing as disposable plastic.
Ask HN: How will uncertain tariff policies impact tech startups and funding?
In what ways will tech startups (and the tech industry in general)? How has your startup been impacted?

We're not directly in some manufacturing thing that depends on supply chains. But I imagine poor stock market performance will limit the funding landscape. Then again, maybe people will want to put their money into private equity, not public markets.
I wonder why car companies won't make a "hybrid" of physical/virtual buttons? What I mean is you will still have a row of physical buttons and dials on your dashboard, but you will now be able to program them for different functions. Someone might prefer a dial adjust the climate control while others might use that same dial to adjust the radio volume.
How exactly was NATO or Ukraine an existential threat? In what way?

You can’t just say “existential threat” and justify everything thing you do while repeating that you’re protecting yourself from [imaginary] “existential threats”
> They pay Mozilla to exist and they are paying Mozilla to intentionally drive Firefox into the ground.

Come on, that is just crazy talk. I get that Mozilla has made some boneheaded decisions but this is baseless conjecture.
You are right, using comments is even more effective in going from the generic to the specific - but then, there's a vocal minority who insist that comments are not only unnecessary, but a clear indication that you are doing it wrong. I must admit that I doubt many of them would endorse the use of auxiliary consts in the manner of the original example, either.
Your link for literate programming just gets me a Parallels H-Sphere error
I dunno, main bus strikes me as an efficient way to feed all the mall assemblers in the early game before I can scale up to a train based base.

After the early game, totally agreed, ban the bus.
Pricy is relative. Looks like Amazon sells it for $125 (the SRP is $230)

As an engineering student in 1987, I bought a HP-28C. I recall it was the first calculator to do symbolic math

Original Price $235 which is close to what I paid. Adjusted for inflation $657

I think it was worth it.
It probably depends on what your personal situation is in Europe.

One country in Europe is currently being invaded by another European country†, resulting so far in about a million casualties and 16 million refugees. Both countries have established conscription and prohibited emigration for military-age men.

To me this seems like a bigger determinant of how nice life is than anything related to either pay or the level of economic and technological development. Perhaps you disagree.

______

† Some might debate whether it's a European country, because much of its territory is in Asia. However, its capital, currently on fire due to large-scale drone attacks last night, is the largest city in Europe, and most of its population is in Europe.
I enjoyed the obvious references to The Expanse in the naming of secure/insecure world transitions (Ring Gate) and the RPC framework (Tightbeam)
'Whale Conveyor Belt' Moves Tons of Nutrients Across the Ocean–Through Urine
Let's see. Last big issue is that these will be federal immigration judges ... picked by the presidency, and clearly Trump is replacing them en-masse:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/us/politics/immigration-j...

3% complete.
Happy 20th birthday, Y Combinator
Show HN: Pytest plugin to start a Netbox instance (with Docker) for your tests
Does this apply to all domains and all 'kinds' of code?

I feel like there's a fundamental difference in the information density between code that, for example, defines some kind of data structure (introducing a new 'shape' of data into an application) versus code that implements a known algorithm that might appear short in line length but carries a lot of information and therefore complexity.