skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m curious what’s the rank sort of items a typical apartment dweller would want to keep on backup - for me it would be WiFi router, phone charger, microwave, kettle and a couple kitchen lights. Any power restrictions that would preclude running microwave or kettle?
The argument was: lots of people do X, so X has obviously inspired discoveries.
"History is written by the victors." It's control of forms of communication through censorship and propaganda, same as Nazi Germany and any other regime that wants to exert power.
So you think Trumps attempt at a pump failed.
> I mean, I can't think of a time a high profile project written in a lower level representation got ported to a higher level language.

Software never gets rewritten in a higher level language, but software is constantly replaced by alternatives. First example that comes to mind is Discord, an Electron app that immediately and permanently killed every other voice client on the market when it launched.
M4 Max and M3 Ultra Mac Studio Review: A weird update, but it mostly works
Previously the argument was that the VPN was an example of "throwing money into open firepits", but now we're talking about the extent to which it generates revenue.
No, they had a lot of propaganda that showed the Irish as sub human, look at punch magazine for example

The Irish were not "white" back then
What you describe seems to be OpenAI’s “moat”. They currently are the farthest ahead in app UX for nontechnical users and in Brand Recognition. It doesn’t matter if they are 10% behind Anthropic in frontier model quality if Claude For Mac is a shitty Electron app.
The thing is that when you create a dense ASCII representation, any gain you might make from the spatial relationships is lost by: a) the tokeniser not working on characters alone (remember strawberrry), and b) the increased number of 'dead' tokens encoding not very much.

Our sparse encoding seems to confuse the models less - even though it certainly isn't perfect.
I was just wondering about this very thing this morning. Nice to see a topical study on it in such a timely fashion.
Munich / Germany here
Dumb question: is this a 10x speed up in the run-time of TypeScript ... or just the build tooling?

And if it's run-time, can we expect browsers to replace V8 with this Go library?

(I realize this is a noob/naive question - apologies)
> crocodile pelt rug

That doesn't sound very comfortable to sit on or even step on, compared to a furry mammal pelt. Was it just decorative?
I was unable to trust NIST before
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Respectfully, how is this noteworthy or add to the discussion?
> but it also possible to train AIs to approach them without going through the same process as the human scientists

With chess the answer was more or less completely brute force the problem space, but will that work with math / science? Is there a way to widely explore the problem space with AI, especially in a way that goes above or even against the contents of it's training data? I don't know the answer, but that seems to be the crucial question here.
I think JetSetWilly's opinion is not the normal in England, at least around people my age.

I was always taught what a lot of people here say, that the potato blight was a natural disaster, but the British government took it as an "opportunity" and purposely did not do enough to help.

In my personal opinion, I think that few people would have died if the British government stepped up, not the many millions that died as a result of their inaction. As an English person, I'm not proud of what our government did to Ireland over the years. Ireland is a beautiful country with great people, and it took a long time even to get the relationship between the UK and Ireland to where it is now.
They keep people locked up for six months before sending them home?
Is learning a language even a thing anymore with $Internal_or_external_LLM_helper plugin available for every IDE? I haven't found syntax lookups to be that much a concern anymore and any boneheaded LLM suggestions are trivial to detect/fix.
Homepage shows it significantly faster than ripgrep. Impressive. Would like to see how it compares across the entire ripgrep's benchmark suite[1], which also includes a few other similar utilities.

edit: Getting an error related to madvise(). Had to insert '-D_GNU_SOURCE' in Makefile's CFLAGS.

[1]: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/blob/master/benchsuite...
Regardless on the details, it is a ludicrous talking point that shows no respect to a large ally. Quite the contrary. It makes no sense and serves absolutely no purpose. At best, it betrays a severe lack of understanding on several topics. Yet here we are having to give it time it does not deserve.
Names are jargon. They are themselves their own form of complexity, and they require a similar timeline to become acquainted with.

Further - the more of them you need (call depth) the worse this problem becomes.
To quote Louis Rossmann: "tldr: install Librewolf and go on with your life" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8bTquKjzos
I believe OP meant to give it a GC like in Go, while keeping other features from Rust from enums/match/generics/traits/etc etc.

This should prevent most of the memory safety issues, though data races could still be tricky (e.g. Go is memory unsafe due to data races)
I violate US law on daily basis. If you live here, you probably do too.
Past is truly cyclic, probably because human nature doesn't change much, so similar situations lead to similar outcomes.

There is another parallel example - Munich 1938 agreement to appease Hitler, with current 'negotiations' and push at all cost to stop russian aggression on Ukraine and appease puttin' (which doesn't care about war that much, he has his own goals which look like russian borders everywhere where Ukrainian currently are).

To appease aggressor to avoid bigger war which was anyway inevitable. There is this famous saying "We had the choice between war or shame, we have chosen shame, and we will get war too".
> If JS engines were better at monomorphizing access to common subtypes across different map shapes maybe it'd be closer, but no engine has implemented that or seems to have much appetite for doing so.

I really wish JS VMs would invest in this. The DOM is full of large inheritance hierarchies, with lots of subtypes, so a lot of DOM code is megamorphic. You can do tricks like tearing off methods from Element to use as functions, instead of virtual methods as usual, but that quite a pain.
This is the best response in thread, imo. Is there a term for this phenomenon?
Fastplotlib: GPU-accelerated, fast, and interactive plotting library
> an undisclosed high-speed trading service it offered to a handful of its client trading firms

Level playing field my ass!
Show HN: Program Explorer, a container playground
Inspired by Compiler Explorer and other playground/fiddle websites like jsfiddle, db-fiddle, Go playground, and Rust playground, I thought it would be cool to have a playground for nearly any program so I've been working on Program Explorer: a playground for running programs from containers. I am inspired by these playgrounds because they are great educational tools for quickly experimenting and as communication tools by sharing shortlinks that reproduce bugs for instance. I would love for every open source project that publishes a container to get their own playground for free.

I'm also interested in the user experience of setupless container execution. Containers have greatly improved program distribution, but serverless container cloud runtimes like Google Cloud Run or AWS Lambda still require transferring the container image, creating an executor, and invoking the executor. These cloud services also come with hardware caps like memory limits where if you need more than that, you're back to provisioning a server. I want science researchers for instance to be able to run any computational tool with no setup. Program Explorer is a step in that direction.

You choose a container image, set the args, edit the files you want to have at /run/pe/input, then it gets run in a fresh VM and sends back stdout, stderr, and whatever is in /run/pe/output. No network access.

You can also set env vars and attach a file as stdin for more control. Most flexibility comes from containers with a shell so that you can write a script to run multiple commands.

Currently, you can only pick container images from a predefined list, but suggestions on what to include are welcome. Each run is limited to 1 second (wall clock on a dedicated core) and 1 GB memory as right now the focus is on quick tests/demos.

The files you send and produce are never written to disk and not stored after your request is complete.

MIT licensed at https://github.com/aconz2/program-explorer. Briefly how it works: container images get packed (ahead of time) into an erofs image, a VM is run with cloud-hypervisor, init process unpacks your files and mounts the rootfs, crun runs the container, then pack your output files and exit code etc. (rusage is in there too if you open the JS console). The server is written as a load balancer using pingora so multiple workers could (eventually) be used, but that is a WIP and currently only has one worker.

I have lots of ideas and directions I'd like to take this but wanted to ship something so others could start playing with it. Looking forward to hearing your ideas and feedback!
O'Caml is similar, now that it has multicore. Scala is also similar, though the native code side (https://scala-native.org/en/stable/) is not nearly as well developed as the JVM side.
This is awesome! I like the idea of abstracting the factory building with a code-like structure. I wonder if supplemental 2D image (mini-map style) as an input to the policy would help with the spatial reasoning?

I work on a similar factory game (Captain of Industry) and I have always wanted an agent that can play the game for testing and balancing reasons. However, pixels-to-mouse-actions RL policy (similar to Deep Mind's StarCraft agent) always seemed like a very hard and inefficient approach. Using code-like API seems so much better! I might try to find some time to port this framework to COI :) Thanks for sharing!
I was hoping for something related to vacuums, but this is great too
I've never met an Irish person that "blames" the modern English for what our ancestors did. I might be talking out of turn, but I think they mainly just want us to acknowledge what happened and not downplay what the British did.
This is nice! I was thinking of writing something like this myself. One thing I ran into though is that Claude Desktop can't connect to the server-everything with the command you listed. This is in the server logs:

2025-03-11T16:29:00.168Z [@modelcontextprotocol/server-everything] [info] Client transport closed
› Error: Nonexistent flag: --tools echo,add
› See more help with --help

USAGE
$ god run [-t <value>]

FLAGS
-t, --tools=<value> Comma separated list of approved tools

Also, there's no logs for ~/mcpgod for me (that folder doesn't even exist)
Ultimately, the quality of OCR on PDF is where we are bottlenecked as an industry. And not just in text characters but understanding and feeding to the LLM structured object relationships as we see in tables and graphs. Intuitive for a human, very error prone for RAG.
More like compiler assisted management, with compiler errors when the developer doesn't follow the teacher.
China creates the most high end drones and 3d printers, and my Hisense TV is better and cheaper any of my Samsung's. This is from personal experience of things I have purchased.
It's interesting that today Radio China International is everywhere on shortwave.
Oh man; working at Jane Street taught me about these.

My manager at the time would send these when he was busy (which was often). I thought it was brilliant.

I still do this today, 10 years later, usually when I can't just DM them in some way. This happens A LOT as a consultant or consultant-adjacent persona. You're interacting with a client or customer, but aren't in their messaging platform because you haven't/won't be onboarded.

It works extremely well with inbox zero as well. I've been inbox zero for almost 20 years. My inbox is a to-do list; anything that doesn't require action gets deleted or archived. An `/eom` email means I can read the whole thing in a phone notification and bin it right then and there. One fewer hop.
Show HN: AI Renamer – Rename your files with AI
Is there a strong reason people still support HP's printers after so many horror stories?
They want to be in charge. But even now that they are, they can't control their own leadership's ambition to be written about. It is truly maddening how they maintain the claim on the party of values. What would it take to get them to show some?
I think it’s more realistic to assume 6-8 more years of MAGA craziness. The King will not leave his throne.
ArchiveTeam also has a project to back up USA governmental data: https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/US_Government

From a quick check, this includes data.gov that the article mentions, as well as www.ncei.noaa.gov ("National Centers for Environmental Information")

From the article:

> we began reaching out and working with partners, eventually coming to call ourselves the Public Environmental Data Partners

...ArchiveTeam has many years of experience scraping and hundreds of people running the Warrior system to contribute data. So much so that they rate limit some of the projects (client-side) to avoid overloading them accidentally. Seems weird not to partner with an organization that will publicly share the data with everyone and is happy to help out, rather than setting up a custom thing that I somehow don't trust to survive the first decade

If you want to help with this effort, see the Warrior's wiki page: https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/ArchiveTeam_Warrior It's a VM image that you can run on any computer or laptop
BT shows multicast running on EE TV set-top box can slash network traffic
I’m sure Microsoft’s strategy department would disagree with you. As a c# devotee - I get that you’re upset. And you may want to update your priors on where c# sits in Microsoft’s current world. But I think it’s a mistake to imagine this isn’t a well reasoned decision.
The Apple data you mention has APIs for feeding them in to LLMs if you wish. Someone just has to write it.

(I wrote one of those Apple API SDKs)
> When a language team abandons self-hosting (TS in TS) for raw performance (Go), it signals we've hit fundamental limits in JS/TS for systems programming.

I hope you really mean for "userspace tools / programs" which is what these dev-tools are, and not in the area of device drivers, since that is where "systems programming" is more relevant.

I don't know why one would choose JS or TS for "systems programming", but I'm assuming you're talking about user-space programs.

But really, those who know the difference between a compiled language and a VM-based language know the obvious fundamental performance limitations of developer tools written in VM-based languages like JS or TS and would avoid them as they are not designed for this use case.
In the general case I fully agree. It is ideal that the name of anything clearly indicates whatever is important about that thing.

But who is the viewer of that name?

How much context can they be assumed to have? The name of the class? The name of of the module? The nature and terminology of the business that the function serves? The nature and terminology of the related subsystems, infrastructure and libraries?

There is a context dependent local optimum for how to name something. There are conflicts of interest and trade-offs have to made.
I'd say that our JS game engine codebase is generally idiomatic, maintainable JS. We don't really do anything too esoteric to get maximum performance - modern JS engines are phenomenal at optimizing idiomatic code. The best JS performance advice is to basically treat it like a statically typed language (no dynamically-shaped objects etc) - and TS takes care of that for you. I suppose a compiler is a very different use case and may do things like lean on the GC more, but modern JS GCs are also amazing.

Basically I'd be interested to know what the bottlenecks in tsc are, whether there's much low-hanging fruit, and if not why not.
> but any half-decent motherboard would allow you to bump that up to 100 MHz so long as you had the rest of the hardware to support it

I think any BX chipset motherboard would do it… but you may have to resort to messing with covering/hotwiring CPU pins.
Components Are Just Sparkling Hooks
Discussion (44 points, 20 days ago, 43 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43097212
Any way to get 240V out of the ecosystem?
China very specifically and deliberately set out to build up its export capability in a way that was highly centralized and consolidated (specifically around the Yangtze Delta), whereby entire supply chains were located next to each, lowering the cost of production and making it difficult for other countries to compete even if they had lower wages. This was not by accident.

The other advantage China has was continuity of government economic policies because you had pretty much the same people in charge for a couple of decades which gave time for the policies to take root.

Of course China is a totalitarian police state, and not a place I'd want to be (I did live there for some years). But people put up with that because of the hyper economic growth in the 80s-00s; it's hard to think about freedoms and human rights if you can't even feed your family. Once people reach a state where they have their basic needs met then they begin to value other things (like individual freedoms).
Republicans are bloodthirsty warmongers. Trump promising them them imperial wars is exactly what they want.
Well I better get training!
Even if MAGA as an ideology does fall apart, and I hope it does soon, you can level a building in a day but it takes years to rebuild it.

The damage being done is generational. The next administration can and should bring back the websites and data, but that's just the first step of a very very long road.
Yeah, world is facing much bigger issues compared to that, coming from same source.
I feel guard clauses/early returns end up shifting developer focus on narrowing the function operation, and not an originally happy path with some after thought about other conditions it could handle.

IME else’s also end up leading to further nesting and evaluating edge cases or variables beyond the immediate scope of happy path (carrying all that context!).
For years, I just didn't get why replicated databases always stick with EBS and deal with its latency. Like, replication is already there, why not be brave and just go with local disks? At my previous orgs, where we ran Elasticsearch for temporary logs/metrics storage, I proposed we do exactly that since we didn't even have major reliability requirements. But I couldn't convince them back then, we ended up with even worse AWS Elasticsearch.

I get that local disks are finite, yeah, but I think the core/memory/disk ratio would be good enough for most use cases, no? There are plenty of local disk instances with different ratios as well, so I think a good balance could be found. You could even use local hard disk ones with 20TB+ disks for implementing hot/cold storage.

Big kudos to the PlanetScale team, they're like, finally doing what makes sense. I mean, even AWS themselves don't run Elasticsearch on local disks! Imagine running ClickHouse, Cassandra, all of that on local disks.
I've not used it, but I thought Airtable occupied this spot. It seems to have a few open-source clones if you want to run it locally. I don't know if they are any good.
Interesting to see only a handful of complex scenarios. I've always suspected ML game agents need hundreds of tiny puzzles with hundreds of variations each to learn game mechanics properly. Like:

The factory is not powered, place the missing power pole(s)
The factory is missing items, place the missing belt(s)
Craft and place these 200 assembly machines
The assembly machine is not running for some reason, fix it
The factory production is too low, double it
Get to this other point in the factory as fast as possible
Fix the brownout
All of the above with and without bots

Programmatically generating a few thousand example scenarios like these should be relatively easy. Then use it like an IQ test question bank: draw a dozen scenarios from the bank and evaluate performance on each based on time & materials used.

I hypothesize that ML agents learn faster when evaluated on a sample from a large bank of scenarios of smoothly increasing complexity where more complex scenarios are presented after it scores sufficiently high on lower complexity scenarios.
Then you wake up and find out the ice cream machine "is down."

Let me know when AI fixes THAT problem...
Unfortunately , once that horse gets going it tends to get itself economically into stupid situations and sees a way out only by upping the game and jumping the neighbors. Poor mexico.
That's a strange claim. A quick Google will provide all kinds of data on the aid being sent to India from multiple countries. The recent "USAID kerfuffle" also surfaced all the instances of the current government accepting USAID funding, e.g. https://www.newslaundry.com/2025/02/22/before-bjps-usaid-out...

But in case you think it's going to "shady institutions" please be aware that the government instituted the FCRA to have complete control over where the money goes: https://kajalbasu.substack.com/p/usaid-and-the-modi-governme...

Something not talked about much in the press is how much FCRA has hurt NGOs and non-profits operating in India. From personal experience: I tried to get my US-based employer to match my donation to a local non-profit in India, which didn't work out because FCRA regulations basically made it a non-starter.
Because they started work on Python (the compiler) in 1980!
That's a good question, the answer is no.

That's the thing about politics... they touch everything. There's a popular youtuber that I like, he's got a funny saying "You might not fuck with politics, but politics will fuck with you!" Fits well here.

You might wanna ignore politics when talking about something that should be pure math, but now that we're talking about why crypto is going to be the standards that all commercial software must support. Suddenly we now need to consider how confident we are in something. And really, that's all crypto boils down to is confidence in the difficulty of some maths. Was this recommended (soon mandated) with more or less care then the other options? How would we be able to tell. Is NIST likely to remake their previous unethical mistakes?
I already hinted on BlueSky that they shouldn't wonder why .NET has adoption problems outside the traditional Windows ecosystem, when decisions like these are taken.
Reality is often complicated and ideology fails to fit everything in a neat little box.

So, it could be that central planning is good for some use cases and bad for others. Likewise, with liberalised economies.

There may even be some overlap between the two.
It's wild that the struggle has been pulled back from "can we take serious steps to backpedal on this giant escalating crisis we're driving" to "can politicians acknowledge this crisis that we're all going through that scientists can clearly show is happening in the data" to "can academics have the data and tools to see what is going on?"
> India still needs to move most of the population on to doing something more productive than inefficiently looking after plants.

Not sure that this should be the goal.