skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Unfortunately de-Googling meant re-Microsofting

That's an understatement. Microsoft Edge is, in fact, a more privacy invasive browser than Chrome. And that was a pretty high bar.

In the EU, straight from the get-go, Edge presents users with the IAB interstitial, informing them that Edge is going to share their data with the entire advertising industry. Note that Chrome doesn't do this, as Google only wants you to share data with them, and it's not the browser that asks for consent. Edge's IAB interstitial is filled with dark patterns as well, such as legitimate interests being unlawfully declared.

Edge is also filled with Microsoft's telemetry, which you can't turn off. Every browser instance, of course, comes with a unique ID that's reported to Bing Ads. Using Edge without Bing is fairly difficult. And end-to-end encryption for its synchronization feature isn't supported.

I entirely understand why people want to degoogleify, but picking Bing in that process is fairly stupid.
Think about this logically. Consider a person. This person is pregnant. From this fact alone we can infer the presence of a female reproductive system. Which means that this person must be a woman.

Or, we can look at this from the other direction. Male sexual development does not result in a female reproductive system. Therefore this person is not a man.

You can perform this exercise of logic with any species that has individuals with different reproductive roles. For example: consider a chicken. This chicken lays eggs. From this we know that this chicken has a female reproductive system. Therefore this chicken must be a hen, not a cock.
The political economy of Manus AI
That's not how it works. As Google is the default search engine for most browsers (Safari, Firefox), as soon as you hit Google it begs you to use Chrome instead of whatever you're using right now. You don't have to search for Chrome, Google nags you until you switch to it, or switch to another search engine.
Cheap isn’t the relevant metric. I’ve run a couple of forums, over the years. It’s entirely possible to customize the software, to make the user experience, for both users and administrators, quite good.

Moderating and managing the forum is the pain.

Also, it can be fairly corrosive to personal mental health.

I recently had an old acquaintance reach out to me, asking me to revive one of my old communities, that was killed by Facebook. This person argued that many of the old community members were now thoroughly sick of Facebook, and would want to go back to the dedicated forum.

I politely declined, and was surprised at how the idea really horrified me.
One explanation why it happened in cars, beyond the direct cost of the buttons: the cost of managing the button sets for all the possible combinations of opt-in features. Perhaps the option space is a little smaller in export markets, but when you look at the combinatorial explosion of feature options you can pick for your average German car in Germany, it's just mindboggling.

All that money that didn't go into the drive train (because all the parts of a high performance ICE drivetrain aren't that much different from those of, say, a Dacia), it went into maintaining an absolutely large zoo of upsell options.
Related:

Bruce Ames’ Triage Theory – Explained – https://fastlifehacks.com/bruce-ames-triage-theory/
Because all of that is super-shady privacy-invading and foisting ads and monetisation in places where it wasn't before. Enshitification at its most user-hostile. How is that a positive to users?

Sounds to me that taking chrome away from Google will be a net-negative for the users.
Aren't they all sponsored TLDs?
I think parents means not dying from measles thanks to vaccines.

One risk less.
Ketaminov on the continent.
Minor tangent, what do you think about applying ultrasound in FDM Ed printing?
We should chat!
OK, let's consult the article, starting right at the beginning:

> Serfdom was

Huh.
How to apply these rules on junior co-workers (who think they know what is best from reading a hyped blog post)?
Looks great, though surely Mr Worldwide has sufficient wisdom to go around that we don't have to ration it to one quote a day!

I've seen Pitbull twice, it's always a great show. Lots of energy and plenty of nuggets of wisdom dispensed between songs, lol.
People need to pay more attention to this.
I'd clip it to the seat belt pulley. But round here you'd have difficulty reaching speeds to have a crash, what with all the minis doing 20 under the limit
Chrome had been on the biggest and most VIP billboard on the planet:

https://open.substack.com/pub/bitecode/p/web-browsers-and-ou...

Nobody can get it except chrome.
The household item turning runners into world record holders
Mourten bicarb it was, not the carbon blades. They found a way to bypass vomiting and diarrhea.
I found this presentation helpful for an intro to H3's design/motivation: "Engineering Sub-City Geos for a Hyper-Local Marketplace with Uber": https://youtu.be/wDuKeUkNLkQ?si=-9JmxZQJ2LZo6Kh4
You were flooring it on start?

Jesus of piston rings, forgive them, for they know not what wear they put on their bearing surfaces
While I also agree about the general stupidness of what3words and the clearly predatory move of trying to move GPS location behind a proprietary database, the article is not about what3words at all.

The link is about a grid system with different mathematical properties which is used at Uber.
Are we talking about "bad papers", "fraud", "academic misconduct", or something else? It's a rather important detail.

You would ideally expect blatant fraud to have repercussions, even decades later.

You probably would not expect low quality publications to have direct repercussions, now or ever. This is similar to unacceptably low performance at work. You aren't getting immediately reprimanded for it, but if it keeps up consistently then you might not be working there for much longer.

> The institutions don't care if they publish auto-generated spam

The institutions are generally recognized as having no right to interfere with freedom to publish or freedom to associate. This is a very good thing. So good in fact that it is pretty much the entire point of having a tenure system.

They do tend to get involved if someone commits actual (by which I mean legally defined) fraud.
I do a lot of IT support. Edge is the default on every single prebuilt / laptop I have setup for people.

This is ancedotal sure but it's several hundred datapoints from the cheapest student focused budget laptops(running windows not chrome os) to business grade laptops from the big 3 (HP/Dell/Lenovo). Apple ships Safari by default and every linux distro I have used ships firefox or a spinoff of firefox by default.

So in my experience Chrome is actively installed by the local it help (me, things are just plain broken for some use cases on non-chrome). I personally do not use Chrome, that doesn't mean I won't make it the default for every PC I touch for an enduser purely because I get less calls for support when users are using chrome.

It's no secret that I feel like other search engines are worse that Google even though Google's results are nearly unusable.

Google built a mote by having a better product, nobody else tried to compete and now it's become nearly impossible to compete. I actively avoid Chromium based browsers personally but even then I need to have one installed because even in Firefox and Safari derived browsers things are broken or website just plain don't work (https//f1.tv actively does not work on firefox as an example, unless they have since backtracked)
Can photobiomodulation reverse age-associated thymic involution? (2019)
Is anyone aware of an app that can facilitate these types of experiments ?

Ideal features:

Notification to self report things such as mood, quality of sleep.
Tracking of custom activities/actions (whether you worked out, drunk, or whatever)
Data export in csv :)
Got me think: it's time to end using binaries of assembler. Just some intermediate bytecode (can be 1:1 to assembly) and private VM that, for starters instruction whitelisting.

I know - 'if' (at minimum) on every asssembly instruction :> But there is no other way then that. Life.
Maybe you should edit your original post?
Russia is not winning.

This is enturely the point the FUD is in overtime. Russia does not have 1 year of equipment losses left.
> If the rate isn't an even multiple, it's worth using a tool that can dither; dithered resampling artifacts are less abrasive than undithered...

This seems to be mixing up two things; proper interpolation and dithering.

If you have limited bit depth (in practice, 16 bits or worse), you should pretty much always dither, ideally also noise shape. This is independent of the interpolation you're using; having a rational relationship between the original and downsampled signal makes some of the implementation a bit easier, but even for something like 48000 -> 24000, you'll end up with effectively a float signal that you need to convert to your chosen bit depth somehow, and that should be done better than just truncating/rounding.

And even for interpolating between two prime rates, or even variable-rate interpolation, you can and should get great interpolation (typically by picking out polyphase filtering coefficients from a windowed sinc of some sort).
Because fixing this specific problem with a heuristic is not the same as "audibly convey information on the screen as it would be interpreted by a sighted person".
> One of the things I would discard would be the use of an ORM library ... In my opinion, it is better to create some simple methods for each object that implement the CRUD operations and build the SQL statements directly.

Have you done this for any complex system? I'd love to see you do this for the AzerothCore: it has 298 tables, 3,010,875 rows across those tables, and one table (quest_template) has 105 columns.

Instead I've thrown SQLAlchemy in front of it and now I can query it without writing a single line of SQL.

I think tools are tools, and using the right tool at the right time is an important skill I think you've yet to develop.
Show HN: Searchable Vim Cheat Sheet with Favorites (Open-Source)
Hi Reddit,

As my school-funded GitHub education pack is about to expire, I have to let go of the InitelliJ IDEs and I decided to sell my soul and use NeoVim. I am already using Ubuntu after all, so why not continue the 10x cargo culting?

I soon realized that NeoVim is hard. I keep on forgetting how to do things. I figured the best course of action to take would be to start a project that I am writing entirely with using NeoVim... and I figured I'll build a cheat sheet for myself! I was not really satisfied with the existing cheat sheets as I couldn't really search in them and save my favorites to look them up later.

I decided to deploy it after all, so I can look on it on my phone as well. Then I figured, why do not I open source it, so the community can also help broaden this app?

I already feature a search by keyword, category and the favourites function. I plan to add popular remaps also and command breakdowns, to understand why and how eg. 'ggVP' highlights all the texts.

Perhaps I'll add guides later on too.

Enjoy! Now excuse me but I have to configure an LSP for JavaScript...
More like sanity tests.

https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/firefox-chromium.ht...
Incomplete Musings on Applied Cryptography in 2025
And cracking the remote control scheme on all of those weapons.

Did you think the US really gave anyone the keys?
There is no such thing as “plain”. You can’t eat pure magnesium. mg oxide is cheap, but apparently mostly laxative. Mg citrate is part laxative but also absorbed. Mg glycinate is more expensive but avoids the laxative effect.

For the muscle relaxant effect (other than perhaps bowel muscles), mg oxide is hardly useful.
> or the ones who abdicated the real power

Missed that part in your parent reply originally, you're right of course, cheers :)
I haven’t seen any cognitive / mood difference for me when taking magnesium supplements in any form.

But then I went to one of those sensory deprivation chambers, where they use magnesium salts to change the water’s buoyancy.

I felt the most content and happy in my life for a week after. It was really bizarre - I would “just not care” about pressures at work, failing personal relationships, any stress really.

And I remained effective, just with a higher EQ because I wouldn’t overthink things.

Tried it some more times with similar effect. So now when I end up in a situation where I build up stress and can’t seem to get to a chill state - just go for a deprivation tank and align myself back, though I try not to get into a situation where I need one altogether.
comm & awk
Layoffs Don't Work
I like this work a lot.It seems like the sort of thing that if done by thousands of like minded people would build a knowlege base that cuts through the very very messy reality of life, and gets us closer to rules of thumb that might help.
chinese medicine with techno characteristics?
cyber herbal8sm
:) we need an app for this

But...
data eh?

the ONLY repository of data, is genes.vast, tested in deep time, with countless trilions of runs.now running on quintillions of test units.
we have access to a tiny portion of the data, but
are at the stage of? do you read the text from the right?left? top? bottom?, but of course its read as a gestalt, and so outside of our capacity.

What may be accessable, is our enzimatic relationships with the substances in our environment, and how those balances are specific to groups and individuals, but it wont be easy to unravel, records plus actual chemical testing of anything, anywhere, anytime
which boils down to "light" sensors, that are capable of seeing and diferentiating the exicitation of molecules under ambiant conditions.

what is dismissed by so called science, are the indivuals who survive and thrive under exactly the same conditions that decimate there peers, and how "science" is perfectly happy to call something "luck" and then move towards monitising "bad luck"
.....scientificly.....rather that work towards understanding the framework that governs everything
While the idea is good, I do have to call out the Buzz as a herald of a worrying trend in van design (that's not exclusive to EVs) - building vans on top of standard road car platforms instead.

This results in longer vehicles, with lesser proportion of useful space, the packaging being worse than some ICE vans (and much worse than the original VW Bus).

This is to save engineering and manufacturing costs, which is kinda a bad thing to do when your vehicle retails for this much.
Thank you for the comment, compared to you I have only touched the bare surface of this quite complex domain, would love to get more of your input!

> building HNSW indices in Postgres is still extremely slow (even with parallel index builds), so it is difficult to experiment with index hyperparameters at scale.

Yes, I experienced this too. I from 1536 to 256 and did not try more values than I'd have liked because spinning up a new database and recreating the embeddings simply took too long. I’m glad it worked well enough for me, but without a quick way to experiment with these hyperparameters, who knows whether I’ve struck the tradeoff at the right place.

Someone on Twitter reached out and pointed out one could quantizing the embeddings to bit vectors and search with hamming distance — supposedly the performance hit is actually very negligible, especially if you add a quick rescore step: https://huggingface.co/blog/embedding-quantization

> But (as mentioned in other comments) keeping your data in sync is a huge issue.

Curious if you have any good solutions in this respect.

> The other challenge I’ve found is that filtering is often the “special sauce” that vector store providers bring to the table, so it’s pretty difficult to reason about the performance and recall of various types of filters.

I realize they market heavily on this, but for open source databases, wouldn't the fact that you can see the source code make it easier to reason about this? or is your point that their implementation here are all custom and require much more specialized knowledge to evaluate effectively?
Accelerating Long-Context LLM Inference via Two-Stage KV Cache Compression
FWIW, `.cursorrules` is deprecated [1].

[1]: https://docs.cursor.com/context/rules-for-ai#cursorrules
Some people say magnesium doesn’t really do anything and you just need to quit. What do we tell them?
One trick I learned from a UNIX greybeard in my junior days before pgrep was widely avaialble is: ps auxw | grep [p]rocessname and it will eschew the grep process in the list.
Rust vs Go seems to be a universal point getter :)
> How do we fix this?

Redesign how social media works (and then hope that people are willing to adopt the new model). Yes, I know, technical solutions, social problems. But sometimes the design of the tool is the direct cause of the issue. In other cases a problem rooted in human behavior can be mitigated by carefully thought out tooling design. I think both of those things are happening with social media.
I was recently evaluating pam_ssh_agent_auth . It might be that. It allows sudo with a locally installed key.
In my experience building the site with Go (Echo) with Postgres and a vanilla frontend from scratch, I realised that maintaining my codebase as a solo developer for a medium-sized platform was challenging. At one point, it became unmaintainable, and I had to rewrite it three times. The third time? I switched to the Astro web framework, and it solved all my problems.

Go is indeed easy to get started with, but it's different when dealing with server-side rendering and not a single-page application where Go is a backend.
Maybe your friend could reach out to people like Elisabeth Bik, who blogs here:

https://scienceintegritydigest.com/

Alternatively, maybe the people behind the Data Colada blog can help:

https://datacolada.org/
Here in Europe, or at least in the Netherlands where I grew up, chickenpox isnnot vaccinated for, and of course the reason is not "lacking the possibilities".

I don't have a stance on the matter, other than "I and everyone I know caught chickenpox as a kid and we turned out alright".
I see where you're coming from with that, but for me, it's either a shell or omnisearch boxes like in Windows 7 and VS code (or emacs)
The peer review process is not working right now, with AI (Actual Intelligence) from humans, why would it work with the tools?

Perhaps a better suggestion would be to set up industrial AI to attempt to reproduce each of the 1,000 most cited papers in every domain, flagging those that fail to reproduce, probably most of them...
> You can always slow to a stop with your hazards on.

With low visibility slowing down in the middle of the road is not save either though, given that those behind you don't expect it, and that few people keep sufficient distance. Same with standing on the side in such conditions.

In the described situation I think the best option is to be able and use the right buttons quickly, sticking to the original subject of the discussion. The option that would let you safely keep going with the flow is the best one I would say, under the given conditions.

Even if a million scenarios and alternatives can be thought of, what's the point of derailing a discussion focused on a particular subject? We only have a few hundred comments of room here, I think there is more value in keeping the focus.
On highway, in dense traffic? Sure you can put the car in emergency lane, but that's a risky place to be increasing risk of accident on its own, plus traffic police comes immediately if they see you / are called for such car.

Another situation - narrow intercity winding roads, 0 room for safe stopping of car for next 2km. Again, asking for a crash especially in situation when your windshield fogs which is usually during heavier rain.

Yet another situation - driving in even semi-dense traffic in any bigger city. Again, no place to just stop and block others safely.

I could go on for a while. Not always the smartest move.
I missed an update. How did MCPs come into this world?
To save others like me having to look this up, this is part of a prompt for an LLM. I assume it's prepended to the developer's "questions".

At first I thought this was directed at people. I really dislike that you can't tell it's not meant for people, unless you happen to know what "cursor rules" is.

My question is, why is this included as part of a code repo? Wouldn't this be like me including my Emacs config in every repo I touch?
Your self-tracking syntax looks neat. How do you track if you are not in front of a computer?
How the Hare Resented the Tortoise
Mathematical Creation by Henri Poincaré [pdf]
The Model Y never had buttons for turning.
600 sats at a higher orbit than Starlink is just as operational. Starlink only need so many satellites because they are low. Lower sats = smaller footprint = need for constellation of thousands. High sats = bigger footprint = a few hundred sats.
I'm here. I'm sure a good chunk of the user base here are also self-taught in matters related to technology and other pursuits.

As for AI, it basically allows self-learning on steroids.
TL;DR: IMHO, the MCP enforces too much structure, which makes it vulnerable to disruption by less structured protocols that can evolve according to user needs.

The key reason the web won out over Gopher and similar protocols was that the early web was stupidly simple. It had virtually no structure. In fact, the web might have been the greatest MVP of all time: it handed server developers a blank canvas with as few rules as possible, leading to huge variance in outputs. Early websites differed far more from each other than, for example, Gopher sites, which had strict rules on how they had to work and look.

Yet in a server-client "ping-pong" system, higher variance almost always wins. Why? Because clients consume more of what they like and less of what they don't. This creates an evolutionary selection process: bad ideas die off, and good ideas propagate. Developers naturally seem to develop what people want, but they are not doing so by deliberate choice — the evolutionary process makes it appear so.

The key insight is that the effectiveness of this process stems from a lack of structure. A lack of structure leads to high variance, which lets the protocol escape local minima and evolve according to user needs.

The bear case for MCP is that it's going the exact opposite route. It comes with tons of features, each adding layers of abstractions and structure. While that might work in narrowly understood fields, it's much harder to pull off in novel domains where user preferences aren't clear — knowing what users want is hard. The MCP's rigid structure inherently limits variance in server styles (a trend already observable IMHO), making MCP vulnerable to competition by newer, less structured protocols — similar to how the web steamrolled Gopher, even though the latter initially seemed too far ahead to catch. The fact that almost all MCP servers are self-contained (they don't link to other MCP servers) further means the current lead is not as effective, as the lock-in effect is weaker.
I think this could be a double edged sword. Slowing down new browser feature/"standards" could allow browser competition, yes. On the other hand, people don't explicitly need a web browser in 2025 like they did in 2015 - many operate mobile-only. Let's say browser features additions fall drastically behind native mobile, and content publishers progressively limit access to native clients only. The web browser market might be more free/open/competitive, but it doesn't mean much if the market just moves beyond the web.

Does the concept of an interoperable world wide web fade into obscurity? In other words, does separating Chrome from Google make the web better, or is Google's investment in the web holding back the death of the web?