skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not talking about going off the beaten path. You can be arrested anywhere for any reason. Just being in a "touristy" location doesn't make you safe.

Even so, having translation support regardless of how far off the beaten path you are is something that should be consider a human right.
This looks pretty great. The UI looked fantastic, and the post mentioned that it was open source. However what's open source appears to be the DuckDB extension, which forwards the requests to a remote URL. I've not been able to find the code for the actual UI.

Is the actual UI open source, or is that something MotherDuck is allowing to be used by this while remaining proprietary? Right now it doesn't appear like this would work without an internet connection.
I use Niri at home and PaperWM at work but I use most apps maximized. The thing that I like is that I can move between windows in a WASD like shortcut, more convenient that doing Alt-Tab. However vertical split is also very easy to do in Niri and it's sometimes very convenient.
Cortical Labs is starting to grow brains in vats using neurons. Is this ethical?
I ran the same prompt on google AI studio it had the same behavior of talking about improvements as if the code it wrote was not the first version.

Other than that, the experience was completely different:

- The game worked on first try

- I iterated with the model making enhancements. The first version worked but didn't show scores, levels or next piece, so I asked it to implement those features. It then produced a new version which almost worked: The only problem was that levels were increasing whenever a piece fell, and I didn't notice any increase in falling speed.

- So I reported the problems with level tracking and falling speed and it produced a new version which crashed immediately. I pasted the error and it was able to fix it in the next version

- I kept iterating with the model, fixing issues until it finally produced a perfectly working tetris game which I played and eventually lost due to high falling speed.

- As a final request, I asked it to port the latest working version of the game to JS/HTML with the implementation self contained in a file. It produced a broken implementation, but I was able to fix it after tweaking it a little bit.

Gemma 3 27b on Google AI studio is easily one of the best LLMs I've used for coding.

Unfortuantely I can't seem to reproduce the same results in ollama/open webui, even when running the full fp16 version.
Back when I was reading Tamed by Alice Roberts, about the history of domestication, I remember being startled that modern ground nuts and rice were the product of irradiation.
Windows OS is bad for a tablet compared to iPadOS.

iPadOS is bad as a laptop compared to Windows.

Nobody yet has been able to fully square the two different paradigms.
> Is dedicating 20% of your team to support _that_ much different than the entire team spending 20% of their time on support?

Yes, it's [much] worse. Because nobody wants to be the support crew, so you end up with the 20% most junior, least outspoken people. Then the other 80% cares less about what support requirements will come out of the code they're writing because it's not their problem.

It's the perfect scenario for the aggressive prima donna who thinks their code is golden and everyone else's is dogshit.

I feel strongly that your front-line support should be full-time (not rotating) front-line customer support. That should be their job. If I reach out to a company for support I don't want my first contact to be with someone who writes code 95% of the time and this is their one week answering Zendesk tickets. I want it to be someone whose entire job is fielding customer issues and resolving them quickly and efficiently.
> SpaceX doesn't stand still.

So are they launching F9 at $67m? Or do you merely expect SpaceX to eventually price match? Not that MHI is selling a lot of slots, but still. Quoted payload figures is also within ballparks.
With 1 KB of SRAM it feels like a 32-bit core is somewhat wasteful. Sure you have byte/halfword access in Cortex-M0, but what about the stack?
Same here. Even in tools that I'm very proficient in, I struggle to think of things I want to build. Like @JohnFen says, it's not a problem in itself although I feel bad sometimes looking at cool stuff other people built - "why couldn't I think of something like that"? But I think I've always been a "Problem Solver" from childhood (puzzles, crosswords, quizzes) and not much of a creative person. So I guess it makes sense.
Small intro, It's a relational database for analytical data primarily. It's an "in-process" database meaning you can import certain files at runtime and query them. That's how it differs primarily from regular relational systems.
I would fund Firefox, not Mozilla. I learned from all the recent discussions that money donated to Mozilla do not go to Firefox. It’s as if Mozilla is structured in a way such that Firefox cannot be community supported.
+1

we're using Perspective in crabwalk[0] (it's like dbt specifically built for duckdb and written in rust) and it's amazing paired with duckdb. Near instant loads for hundreds of thousands of rows and you can keep everything in arrow.

0 - https://github.com/definite-app/crabwalk
Interesting that I was thinking of a language that combined Zig and Scala to allocate memory using implicits and this looks exactly what I was thinking.

Not that I actually think this is a good idea (I think the explicitly style of Zig is better), but it is an idea nonetheless.
I maybe wrong, but I think you need to enable the module for API access.
They're trying to break large portions of the government. This accomplishes two things:

1) Congress may as well reduce funding for those parts, as their destruction is a fait accompli. This reduces resistance to funding cuts. The order here is dead backwards and the administration's breaking shitloads of laws to make it happen, but if they move faster than the system can respond, legal and illegal are just words.

2) Turn the bureaucracy into something that is responsive to commands from a President exerting absolute control over the executive branch (this is not, traditionally, how that office works—it has, previously, been more or less bound by the law, with gross violations occurring, but as the exception, not the norm)

This was the stated plan up front and they're plainly executing on it with vigor. A hundred voices were saying "this is what we plan to do" and even "here's where you go sign up to join the effort as staffers of these newly-broken agencies" and only the official line denied it, even as those hundred voices were all lined up to go to the White House in prominent posts, making the denials literally incredible.
i like the name. pizza invokes thoughts of sharing anyway
> Support for the UI is implemented in a DuckDB extension. The extension embeds a localhost HTTP server, which serves the UI browser application, and also exposes an API for communication with DuckDB. In this way, the UI leverages the native DuckDB instance from which it was started, enabling full access to your local memory, compute, and file system.

Given the above I'm not sure it supports SSH functionality? Since it exposes an API though there is probably a way to access it, but the easiest solution is probably the one you don't want, which is to open the expected port and just hit it up in a browser. You could open it only to your (office/VPN) IP address, that way at least you're only exposing the port to yourself.
> But the best end-user software — the kind for non-technical people — is… sadly… not open-source.

Not open source yet. I firmly believe (and we have lived experientially in the last several decades) that all software will eventually be supplanted by an open source solution that becomes the industry standard.
Yeah, that’s why I like the smaller models too. Big context windows and intelligent enough most of the time. They don’t follow instructions as well as the larger models ime. But then on the flip side the reasoning models struggle to deviate. I gave deepseek an existential crisis by accident the other day lol.

Agreed on personalities. Phi, I think because of the curated training data comes across as very dry.
Sure beats sitting around discussing, complaining, and half assedly developing a replacement standard and getting nowhere. Perfect being the enemy of good and all that.

https://xkcd.com/927/
I wasn't aware of that thanks. I asked ChatGPT for an example(below):
I don't see as being enough of a step forward to change my previous statement.

>Before (Standard Technical English)
>To avoid excessive engine wear, it is imperative that the operator ensures the >lubrication system is functioning properly prior to starting the engine. >Failure to do so may result in severe damage.

>After (ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English)
>Before you start the engine, make sure that the lubrication system works >correctly. If the lubrication system does not work correctly, the engine can be >damaged.
It's the lang devs were comfortable with and some of them came from the asterisk world.
How do you simulate something you don't understand?

The basic problem here is that we don't understand what a neuron does, so how would we model it?
I'm calling a very small orange an orange and people are saying it isn't a real orange because it should be bigger so I show them a bigger orange and they say not big enough. And that continues forever.
You probably don't need an LLM to find vulnerabilities in software written like this. It took me a few minutes with GitHub in a web browser, but I'm sure you could make some headway with semgrep if you were bold enough.
For a proposal about UI, they kinda phoned in the UI of the site.

For instance, the graph on "Component Name Matrix" - can't read any labels at the top, and hovering them doesn't give tooltip. You also can't read many of the component names themselves in their respective blocks.
I lost my mom some years ago. It definitely just hit me, and I was kind of in an odd place in life at the time. I don't think I really processed it all well at the time.

Years later, when I watch a good movie that results in someone losing a parent figure, I'll often have quite a deep emotional reaction to it. But in the end I like these experiences. They help me look into those situations again and help me analyze the connection to losing my mom. Being in that state of emotion again helps me process it now that I'm in a very different stage in life.
I imagine most of the people running Freeswitch have their own patches on top of the community releases anyway so we're compiling those security fixes in to our own builds. That's what we did anyway when I worked for a place using Asterisk, Freeswitch, and OpenSER/Kamailio whatever it is called this decade.

"potentially thousands of telecom stacks around the world that SignalWire has decided to keep vulnerable until the Summer, even after they published the patches on GitHub."
Yep, and it’s why I never bought a Tesla. Also why I haven’t bought any new cars (they all send data home for various purposes, including to sell to insurance companies or advertisers). I’m not adverse to sharing that data necessarily, but I want control over what and when I share at the very least, and without an always-on net connection.
It's just another thing you'll have to pay for as the defendant.
Learning physics while monitoring vibrations of the Earth with seismic phenomena
Does the mean the future toolset will be less reliant on NPM (etc)?

Maybe I'm unique, but I prefer to not have the compiler tied up with a paryicular dependency-management/library system.
If ammonia cannot be shipped safely than the whole thing is moot. We're talking about "shipping" ammonia halfway around the world in the fuel tanks of these ammonia fueled ships. If storing it long term in fuel tanks can be done safely, than so can shipping it to port.
Make what work with AI?
I refer you to the precedent of Snitches v. Stitches
Thanks for clarifying that. I can understand their take. But, I also think of the models without abliteration as lobotomized
I don't understand the what-does-Trump-really-want guessing game other commentators are playing in. He clearly states what he wants: Canada as the 51st state.

Americans are about to learn that Canadians are not the polite people they think they are when things start to get real.
Not only sharing, bluetooth in general can be a painful experience in some circumstances.
That's not the base language, it's an unsafe superset. There's no reason why a Wasm-GC backend for Golang should be expected to support that by default.
This seems good. If exploiting children is bad, and it's heinous, then accusations must not be made carelessly or casually. Stands to reason that the penalty for a false accusation should be close to that of the actual abuse.
>You allow the AI to make some new subroutine

Again, you're using AI the wrong way.
It looks like the port is configurable, so that should make it easier to avoid conflicts but I wonder how the performance would be impacted.
I won't deny that genAI is still a long way from passing the strictest scrutiny, but I don't like the above argument. Ease of use is not a trivial matter, and extreme advances in accessibility can cause a phase-change. Photo evidence continues to be useful because editing photos is below the critical threshold for becoming a problem. If it becomes easy, low-skill, and reliable, at that point we will cross into the realm of Reasonable Doubt. It's the difference between possible, and practical, and pervasive.
> recently Canadian investment firm Brookfield Asset Management moved their head office from Toronto to New York

That sounds like the kind of decision that would take way more turnaround time to implement than the month or two of uncertainty we've had.

> Large corporations don't care about nationalism/patriotism, they just go where the money is.

And it's not about nationalism, it's about certainty as was claimed above. Long term that's a necessity for profit.
Yeah, your can do your dishes with the fire hose too.
Where in the documentation does it state that everything just works (as it would in go)? I see a list of incompatibilities / limitations etc., that not only apply to your own code but any 3rd party library.
Any chance someone has an epub or a PDF of this?
Tesla crashes; stock falls over 50% since Elon joined Trump administration [video]
Beyond PaaS: A different approach to cloud-native development in 2025
> - Be aware that the AGPL license might be a problem for many people.

I'm more confused as to why it applies to this tbh. GPL would have sufficed no?
Normally I just lurk... but in all sincerity, Congratulations! A truly wonderful place, thank you All!
A Perplexing JavaScript Parsing Puzzle
It was a large refrigeration system that killed the person I had mentioned.

It's kind of odd, ammonia was used back in the day on older systems. Then it was deemed too dangerous like you mentioned. But now, due to environmental impact it's now considered less dangerous and is "coming back".
They are faster than software engineering in aerospace and medtech.
Manus: The General AI Agent [video]
This is my constant frustration with phones.

I sit behind a keyboard, mouse, monitor, and an incredibly powerful desktop operating system for 99% of the working day. These devices are pretty much the pinnacle of human-computer interaction; arguably the best tools we have for interacting with digital content with speed and efficiency.

But as soon as I want to do something involving my phone, I have to physically reach for it and immediately hamper myself with its limited UI, screen size, and ludicrously locked-down ecosystem limitations.

Smartphones have been around for decades and yet we're still nowhere close to seamless integration with the rest of our devices. The best we've got are clunky half-featured workarounds (Airdroid) or overly-complex techy solutions inaccessible to laypeople (VNC).

As another commenter said, it's all very much intentional. It's a deliberate choice on behalf of greedy phone manufacturers and greedy app developers. And it's really, really frustrating.
MermaidJS
Crawl AI – A Web-Based Platform for Building Custom AI Assistants
Hey HN, I’ve been working on Crawl AI to simplify creating AI assistants by combining web crawling, scraping, and model training in one platform. Would love your thoughts or feedback!
answer to 1 depends on where you are
Thanks. From the linked page I only see a marketing page that sells the general ideas. It looks like the common pattern where a consultancy sells their expertise, perhaps with a differentiating advantage that their analysis is backed by a quantitative model that has been refined over time. I don’t know how they work, but they probably custom build or tailor their in-house model and provide the results and interpretation to clients.

Maybe they even allow clients to play around with the model directly, but I wouldn’t bet on it. I’m guessing they gate access to it via consulting fees. One wouldn’t want a client to “misinterpret” the model, would we? :P

Furthermore, the idea of open sourcing their base model isn’t probably something that they would consider; it is likely perceived as incompatible with their business model.
The nuance that's usually missing is that new technology invariably enables the same things but more of them and faster.
RPN is not a good fit for the classroom. It doesn't connect to the way math and arithmetic are taught, since ages. RPN comes from the days when parsing an expression in a calculator was hard. I've got a two RPN calculators at home, and I think it's cute, but it's a nerd thing.

If you want a non-TI calculator that's allowed in the classroom: look at the Casio and Numworks.
My ip is dynamic so it seems I would need to wrap it in a script that would handle opening and closing. I didn’t see any authentication built into the UI. Seems like a great local tool but harder to get right in production.
aluminum has terrible metal fatigue issues. Ships that have been perfectly fine for years will suddenly just fall into pieces. Trucks where weight matter do often use aluminum trailers, but they keep careful track so they are scrapped before they fall apart. This fall about is not something an inspection will catch (not 100% true, ultrasound and other inspection methods will catch some of this, but for discussion it is close enough to say you just scrap aluminum before it fails instead of inspecting)

That isn't to say aluminum can't be used for ships. Only that it is tricky.
Question for the developer: for the Kubernetes integration, I use aws-vault to generate short-lived credentials to authenticate with my clusters (meaning, by default, kubectl doesn't work outside of this context).

Would it be possible to get XPipe to work with this constraint? Couldn't find much in the docs.
Not sure why you are being downmodded. The abrupt about face of Facebook and Amazon/WaPo (and probably Apple, but I haven't seen any evidence there), and even the change in Musk over the last 10 years, shows one of a few realities:

1. Tech CEOs, probably like other CEOs, are easily bought.

2. Tech CEOs are terrified of retributive and/or deserved antitrust action and/or regulation changes from Trump.

3. Tech CEOs never really were the progressive allies of the Left, but needed Trump to make it safe for them to drop the mask.

The likely reality is a combination of all three.
For your large audience cases - do those typically go in one-off presentations or are they for more long-lived things (design docs, customer-facing docs, etc)?
We need to be honest about what value Firefox really has left.

Commercially, it's completely irrelevant. On big websites it doesn't even show up in the top 10 browsers and it's almost entirely absent on mobile. Site owners can readily ignore Firefox.

Firefox is no longer a developer default. I'm sure some of us in our bubble have strong personal preferences but the entire dev ecosystem is chrome-based. Very advanced devtools, Google having a team of "evangelists", course material is Chrome-based, test-automation, etc. So developers too can ignore Firefox.

Some argue that it's good to have an independent rendering engine. Here too Firefox plays no role at all. The only counter force to Google's web feature roadmap is Apple/Webkit, not Mozilla.

From a privacy preserving perspective, Firefox has no unique value. Install Brave, say no to the one-time crypto pop-up, and you have a very decent and fast browser that also consistently renders along with Chrome and Edge.

I use Firefox. If I ask myself why, it's muscle memory and because uBlock Origin still works.
Because art can be seen as manipulation, or it can be seen as tapping on the deeply fundamental hooks that make us human. Feeling affects from an artistic representation tells us something about the human experience that goes beyond our intellect. Its closer to something spiritual rather than something analytic.
Why do you think it's 0%? I doubt it, it's not like the money goes into separate buckets and engineering salaries for Firefox only come from the Google bucket, and donations get spent on lobster and champagne parties for the C-levels.
Sunsetting Writerside IDE
> Maybe the lesson is that familiarity can be highly subjective.

Over the years I've come to firmly believe that readability is highly subjective. And familiarity is a key contributor to that, but not the only one. There are other factors that I've found highly correlate with various personality traits and other preferences. In other words, people shouldn't make claims that one pattern is objectively more readable than another. Ever.

I've reached the point where anyone who claims some style is "more readable" without adding "to me" I just start to tune out. There's very little objective truth to be had here.

What should one do? If on a team and you're the outlier, suck it up and conform. If you're on a team and someone else is the outlier? Try to convince them to suck it up and conform. If you're on a new team? Work empathetically with your teammates to understand what the happy medium style should be.
Enlightening! Sweden (and perhaps some of the other Nordics) seem to use net/month a lot more than gross/yr (anecdotal observation as an American expat). Everywhere I have chatted with Europeans all seem to talk in post tax numbers however by default.

The unfortunate consequence of this cultural difference is that it makes it harder to compare salaries between the States and Europe.
This is the main reason why I have skepticism towards any claims of imminent AGI.
I really like the columns explorer, https://motherduck.com/blog/introducing-column-explorer/.

Just a few days ago I have been looking for existing column explorers that look like from Kaggle Dataset, but I was not able to find anything. And this one by DuckDB is better!
I'm a for-funsies pilot and I took my most recent exam with a physical EB-6, which is a circular slide rule of sorts. Of course the way people take these exams these days is to just to memorize all the questions. The FAA hasn't seriously updated the question bank in years and there are known wrong answers in the answer key.
Do you know how TLS works? The asymmetric keys are used to negotiate temporary symmetric keys, which are used for the actual data. That's exactly what the mentioned Diffie-Hellman algorithm does. Also check out "perfect forward secrecy".
A beautiful UPS. But my experience in recent years has shown me that some good-looking devices are often just superficially attractive and not more stable than older devices.

Could you provide some comparisons on the website with existing UPSs? (For example, stability, safety, etc.)

Also I'd prefer to keep some more critical systems running (like my homelab server). Can this UPS prioritize power to these devices?