skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've spent a lot of time thinking about error context management in the context of C++. There seems to be a pretty deep conflict between having consistent elegant error context and efficient high-performance code. Explicit delegation works but only sometimes without incurring a runtime overhead. Even trying to find a reasonable and robust middle ground has proven to be elusive.

Expanding on your caller/callee example, sometimes both are far removed from the path, e.g. only having a file descriptor. There are plenty of ways to resolve that file descriptor into a path but one that consistently has zero overhead except in the case where it is required to contextualize an error is not trivial. Being able to resolve outside context implies the management and transmission of context in cases where it is not needed.

I am also coming around to the idea that the error handling context needs to be at least partly co-designed with the logging APIs and internals to have a little more flexibility around when and where things happen. In most software neither of these is really aware of the other.
Why sigh? This sounds like shareholders setting corporate direction.
HP slash 2K jobs: offshoring 90% of China manufacturing for America by 4Q25
I took a look at Falkon, it's not for me. The autoscroll is not as smooth as the regular browsers and their adblock isn't as good either.
I read the article, and also a lot of the other articles on that site. I'm going to take it with a grain of salt, because that "top investigative reporter" basically seems poised to report everything in the most conspiratorial manner possible.

That said, I'll still definitely grant you the following, especially after researching the issue and seeing information from other outlets: Canada has a serious problem with Chinese money laundering. Fine, but so does the United States: https://www.propublica.org/article/china-cartels-xizhi-li-mo.... None of this feels like anything more than an after-the-fact, invented rationale for the tariffs.

Like the other poster said, the fact that so little fentanyl comes in through the US is not a "red herring" because Canada "isn't looking for it" - you don't go through Customs upon leaving a country, you go through it on entering. And again, even if your argument is that Canada is just supporting the drug trade through its money laundering operations, you could literally point to any country and come up with a host of things that happen within their borders that are somehow bad for the US. You could certainly do it in reverse (shit that the US does that's bad for other countries) 3x. None of it rises to even a teeny bit of the level needed to throwaway a deep, mutually beneficial relationship that has existed for many, many decades.
Oh that's very interesting, thanks!!
Interesting enough, the mooncake team was building SingleStore before, and so far it is the best production-ready HTAP system. One lesson I really learned is, people don't want to switch their system-of-record OLTP system.

Spoiler-alert: Mooncake will be supporting HTAP use-cases soon, and it comes with better trade-offs: keep your OLTP postgres tables as is, and mooncake adds analytics capacity to those table on up-to-date data.
Just for the record, they are being sued to oblivion:

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/66607916/debt-cleanse-g...

You'd have to go study the case, but it's a class action case, so it'll hurt if they lose (and even if they don't). The court appears to be consolidating cases into this one, because LastPass has been sued in federal court 15 times so far:

https://www.courtlistener.com/?q=lastpass%20AND%20(caseName%...
Zeiss i.Scription, linked in a sibling thread, solves the coarse diopter scale as well.
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I get the feeling that this will work out in the medium term, but backfire sooner than many expect. China's lead in EVs has shown innovation potential. Keeping tariffs in place could accelerate China's development efficiencies, coddle domestic production, and shift trade outside of the US.
But the fast food drive through model sells and scales better than worrying about nutrition
I don't think they are concerned with finding new ways of spending money to show the wealth off. It's kinda stupid and anyone who stumbled on some cash gets over it in a year or two tops, or otherwise they are so stupid their cash will the siphoned off by someone smarter in another few years anyway. Biggest problem of selling things to rich people is that they hear so much bullshit all their lives, including bullshit from fake friends, fake lovers etc., that it's really hard to bullshit them with anything anymore, and you have to do it to sell them the next "amazing" gadget.
Chinese money laundering with Mobile Suica
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> . I was stating that it's rational for someone who is in favor of DOGE to want inspector generals fired which makes the argument that was being made a very weak argument.

Not really. People who are in favor of DOGE seek destruction of goverment and democracy. People who care about efficiency or fraud are not in favor of doge, because doge itself is braking laws and something designed to make the government less efficient.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/Keratoconus/ -- but do not freak out, most cases are completely treatable with scleral contact lenses, social media bubbles up the outliers. Next step is ophthalmologist, ask for a corneal topography (photograph and measure the surface shape of your eye w/ a computer) to establish a baseline and monitor for progression. Not all ophthalmologist offices have the corneal topography machine so ask for that on the phone. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corneal_topography To get a KC diagnosis they will likely want to see progression over time in these topography readings. You want to get this sorted while you are young, the corneal cross-linking procedure will halt the progression of the disease and "lock in" your current vision. I did not get the CXL procedure when I was young (it was still experimental back then) and regret it, my vision is fine with correction but the scleral lenses are a pain and it's unclear if i'll be able to read in bed without lenses in my old age.
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transactions are also managed by postgres as if they are native table, so that you don't need to worry about coordinating commits between postgres and the S3 data.
> unethical researchers could run it on their own work before submitting. It could massively raise the plausibility of fraudulent papers

The real low hanging fruit that this helps with is detecting accidental errors and preventing researchers with legitimate intent from making mistakes.

Research fraud and its detection is always going to be an adversarial process between those trying to commit it and those trying to detect it. Where I see tools like this making a difference against fraud is that it may also make fraud harder to plausibly pass off as errors if the fraudster gets caught. Since the tools can improve over time, I think this increases the risk that research fraud will be detected by tools that didn't exist when the fraud was perpetrated and which will ideally lead to consequences for the fraudster. This risk will hopefully dissuade some researchers from committing fraud.
I just want smooth 90s jazz hold music to sound ok.
I really really hope it doesn't. The last thing I ever want is to be living in a world where all the scientific studies are written by hallucinating stochastic parrots.
Manus means Human in Marathi language.
I used to carry a Nokia 6310i with a new battery and it couldn't make it to a month without a charge. Maybe 2 weeks. My 235 4G can last about a week on standby. I'm not sure what the expectation is in the sort of places you're referring to, but I know some economically poorer regions are investing in 4G masts, like India thanks to Jio phones.
Data, waves and wind to be counted in the economy
https://archive.ph/20250307123035/https://www.nytimes.com/20...
When I was in office, I had a lot of trouble working even though I am most productive while body doubling. The overhead lights, the random interruptions from people that know you or want something from you . . .. After I got to campus, I spend most days down at the coffee shop, or a local cafe or something of that nature.

Being around people, with distractions removed was the key for me. Just me, and my laptop.

As for how common it is? IDK, but I don't see RTO as being the key (might work for some people?).

When I was work from home, I was a lot more productive by myself, however when I found I had a really tough project that I was having trouble starting, a couple hours of body doubling at a local cafe tended to help. I.e., I'm going to the coffee shop for 2 hours to do this one task.
Their point seems to be strengthened by these facts. The story is about these people without any inherently powerful qualities performing a duty and going home without aggrandizing themselves. The fact that this happens in a world which has a “true King of Gondor” and these angel-wizards drives home how mundane and down-to-Middle-Earth Hobbits are.
P.S.
There's a paper from today demonstrating the effectiveness of AI identifying errors in human research: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43295692
What's the deal with the gut-brain connection?
Counter argument: 40 Recipes for Ripe and Overripe Bananas

https://www.forksoverknives.com/recipes/vegan-menus-collecti...
When I was reading your article my first thought was most people would only read the intro but many don’t even do that before commenting.

Given how prevalent just reading the headline -> immediately posting a preconceived take is, most information is probably communicated through the top comments these days.
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Exactly. That's why sigh.
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Honest question: isn’t that the same thing as saying that computers use phyisical processes, so all programs are physical processes, so all concepts of intractability in programming also apply to physics?

It’s all just electrons, right?
I think it’s just reached critical mass (and has been picked up by the hype peddlers). It’s been gaining momentum for months.
I already ask AI it to be a harsh reviewer on a manuscript before submitting it. Sometimes blunders are there because of how close you are to the work. It hadn't occurred to me that bad "scientists" could use it to avoid detection
A few years ago an optician convinced me to get some fancy 1.67 index lenses, but I couldn't deal with the chromatic abrasion. The text at the peripheral parts of my monitor were clearly split into their RGB components. For frontend work it was impossible, as I couldn't tell if something was not aligned or it was just the chromatic abrasion.

Now I always go for the thickest lenses (which are also usually the cheapest) for this reason. My prescription is -3.75, and there isn't any noticeable difference with thinner lenses.
It felt clear to me because that's where the money is. Even if you don't understand that, YouTubers would because that's how they paid from all their sponsored links.

I also wouldn't expect PayPal to recoup this huge marketing investment from very partial purchase data. It'd be nothing compared to what VISA and the other big card companies collect.
I prefer “aptronym” but yeah.
I think embedded gecko would have been the way they could answer electron, and that would have helped them stay relevant.
While I don't doubt that AI tools can spot some errors that would be tedious for humans to look for, they are also responsible for far more errors. That's why proper understanding and application of AI is important.
It’s anecdotally definitely one reason people work in co-working spaces, or even coffee shops and the like.

Some people think these are just used by people who have no quiet space, or no comfortable space, at home - but that’s not the case.
Can’t delete my comment any more, misread the parent comment while it was too early in the morning!
Walking through their interface, it seems like when you click though on the relatively few that aren't just tiny spelling/formatting errors,

Like this style:

> Methodology check: The paper lacks a quantitative evaluation or comparison to ground truth data, relying on a purely qu...

They always seem to be edited to be simple formatting errors.

https://yesnoerror.com/doc/eb99aec0-a72a-45f7-bf2c-8cf2cbab1...

If they can't improve that the signal to noise ratio will be to high and people will shut it off/ignore it.

Time is not free, cost people lots of time without them seeing value and almost any project will fail.
Not really, US has barely 16% or so.

Trick about USA is that it is really open for business and private ownership and investment into anything. Unlike almost any other sizeable country.

Entire world can't avoid the US if they want to say, save for retirement (because stock market everywhere else is an absolute joke because their governments want it so).

Entire world can't avoid the US if they, on the other hand, want VC funding (just because in some countries a "startup" in the American sense is literally illegal, and in almost all countries, in practice impossible because no one will invest without a tangible collateral).

And the list goes on. That's why the world is whole lot frightened now with what Trump is doing because all of us - from Europe to China - know that without America, we are simply not.

It's safe to say that if not the American market, my life and life of literally everyone with any cash who i know, even those not realising it, will simply never happen in any positive way.
You don't need the physical presence though. Find another neurospicy person at work and you can do it with them remotely.
Mananus?
For a small monthly subscription it will brown¹ your bananas.

¹ Final color of banana may not actually be brown.
:facepalm: thanks for pointing that out
Peer review will still involve human experts, though?
The reasons that managers/execs push for RTO are complex, and sometimes disingenuous and nefarious.

As someone who’s worked remote (and async) and also in big offices, sometimes I see individual workers celebrating RTO for misguided reasons:

1. They use work as a social space

2. They enjoy the break of getting out of their house/from family/partner

3. The ritual of going to and from work as a separate space is helpful

All of these are solvable without mandating RTO, so it is frustrating when workers align themselves with RTO mandates when they could just solve the above.

1. Sometimes people don’t pursue friendships outside their work or family. You should! It is healthy!

2. I sometimes see people not set boundaries during work days, and have their own partners not respect their boundaries (“please don’t come in my office when I’m on a call”). Here, they’re leaning on RTO to set a boundary on their behalf.

3. During WFH in 2020-2021, I set a ritual where I’d go for a walk around the block with a coffee before returning to my small Manhattan apartment. I used Phillips Hues to change the lighting to colder when in work mode.

Offices are a bonus when you live near to them, but mandating their usage is crazy. If workers don’t feel happier and more productive when going into an office, and recognize it as an advantage for them doing work, then execs should recognize that the office is lacking somehow.
I can't handle videos.

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I am a builder trained as a computer engineer. I scoff at languages as abstractions over fundamentals that do not change. This isn't like a hammer and a screwdriver, it's like fifteen different hammers. Just give me the thing, I'll build the house. A guy spends three hours talking about the hammer, he's probably not focused on building the house. Tool preferences show ego of the builder.
Show HN: Adapting Shakespeare's "The Tempest" into a Screenplay (By Hand)
There were real semaphore systems used for communication. Then he layered a lot of early telegraph stuff on top of that, popped some of his own invention into the mix and finally used the rest to parody internet and mobile phones. It's magnificent really.

Speaking of sci fi - have you read Strata and Dark Side? They're pastiches of Asimov and Niven and so on, but he has some really neat ideas in there as well. I particularly like his notion of vacuum tube technology taken to its limits in Strata.

If ever I needed proof of the non-existence of a benign all powerful god then the fact that someone who loved writing that kind of intricate and clever sophisticated humour would be so cruelly struck down with Alzheimers would suffice.

"A life with footnotes", the biography of him by Rob Wilkins is excellent and very moving.
Oh, here comes my usual rant about "algebraic" sum types that break all of the algebra rules on sums...

On those languages, if you define the types X = A + B and Y = A + B, and if you try to match X = Y, they don't match at all. Besides, they don't compose (X = A + B, Y = X + C, Y = A + B + C is false).

The result is that if you go and declare `read :: Handler -> Either FileAccessError String`, you can't just declare your function as `f :: String -> (FileAccessError | NetworkError | MyCustomError)` expect it to work well with the rest of your code. Because every time you need a different set here, you'll have to declare a different type, and transform the data from one type to the other.
He admitted that he intends to abuse this bill? Got a link? I missed that one.
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Falling into the other trap of treating both sides of every conflict as equally valid is probably just as dangerous, no?
Terry Pratchett hasn’t been an escapist writer for quite some time.

He’ll amuse you, sure, but he won’t tell you that things are great just the way they are or that they’re hopeless and there’s nothing you can do. He’ll tell you that you — yes, you — should make them better.

And then he’ll do something even more radical. He’ll make you think you can.

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Wow 16 years ago. I remember that day.
Students and researchers send their own paper to plagiarism checker to look for "real" and unintended flags before actually submitting the papers, and make revisions accordingly. This is a known, standard practice that is widely accepted.

And let's say someone modifies their faked lab results so that no AI can detect any evidence of photoshopping images. Their results get published. Well, nobody will be able to reproduce their work (unless other people also publish fraudulent work from there), and fellow researchers will raise questions, like, a lot of them. Also, guess what, even today, badly photoshopped results often don't get caught for a few years, and in hindsight that's just some low effort image manipulation -- copying a part of image and paste it elsewhere.

I doubt any of this changes anything. There is a lot of competition in academia, and depending on the field, things may move very fast. Getting away with AI detection of fraudulent work likely doesn't give anyone enough advantage to survive in a competitive field.
Agree about changing the name. Manus is the joke name of child in a British TV comedy called Amandaland. It's more of a joke name than anything.
Most banana varieties actually taste best and last longer as they start to brown (ripen).

The Cavendish—the dominant grocery store banana—is one of the few that turns mushy and unpleasant when it does.
Firefox on iOS has no built-in adblocker making it a no-go. And I need sync between platforms.
https://www.selectspecs.com/ if you are in Europe. I've been using them for years.
Ask HN: Best Way to Store Files in the Cloud Without Third-Party Sync Apps?
I recently lost a lot of data due to issues with my cloud provider, so now I’m looking for a more reliable way to store files in the cloud—something that includes automatic backups but doesn’t rely on third-party sync apps like Dropbox, Google Drive, or OneDrive.

I have multiple server computers that need to upload and download files reliably, preferably using standard protocols (SFTP, WebDAV, rsync, etc.) rather than a dedicated syncing client.
Keeping the data at home isn’t an option, and I don’t want to have to think about it—I just need to know my data is safe.

Ideally, the solution should:

- Allow direct access from multiple machines

- Support automatic backups (whether for individual files or full disk images)

- Be cost-effective and scalable in terms of storage size

- Not require installing proprietary syncing software

What are the best options for this?
Mozilla Positron, their attempt at an Electron-compatible runtime on top of Gecko, did not pick up any traction and was cancelled.
Maybe raise the "accountability" part?

Baffles me that somebody can be professor, director, whatever, meaning: taking the place of somebody _really_ qualified and not get dragged through court after falsifying a publication until nothing is left of that betrayer.

It's not only the damage to society due to false, misleading claims. If those publications decide who gets tenure, a research grant, etc. there are careers of others, that were massively damaged.
> While I applaud competition among browsers, I think that the renderer/webengine is such a big external component nowadays (especially if you lump in the JavaScript engine) that it might be more accurate to say that you're providing a skin, rather than a new browser.

Makes me think of NeoPlanet. That was an online trend that ripped through my university[0]. NeoPlanet was billed as the "world's first skinnable browser", and Wikipedia attributes the coining of the term "skin" (in the UI sense) to NeoPlanet's developers[1]. But NeoPlanet itself was pretty much a skin over Internet Explorer's browser engine, embedding a COM component of the browser into itself. So to me at the time, it didn't count as a separate browser, just a UI for internet explorer.

[0] Alongside AllAdvantage, which inspired some of the first mouse-jiggling simulation software because it paid users for active internet time while displaying ads on their screen. There was a whole universe of 90s Windows crudware that I wasn't all that privy to.

[1] I think Winamp's use of "skin" preceded NeoPlanet's, by analogy with Quake "skins", textures that could be applied to your player character in the QuakeWorld online multiplayer service, which could be used to indicate clan affiliation, etc.
zhou from mooncake labs here.

Good point! Normally for postgres extension it won't be solvable, but for mooncake it is actually not the case!

The core idea of mooncake is to built upon open columnar format + substitutable vectorized engine, while natively integrate with Postgres.

So right now it is using duckdb within postgres to run the query, but we can and we will support ad-hoc using other 'stateless engines' like Athena, StarRocks or even spark to run a big query.
Last time the DOJ declared a web browser monopoly, they lost the case on appeal, then the web browser does on its own.

The problem isn't within Google. They aren't doing anything substantial to lock users into Chrome. The problem is unforced errors on the part of both Apple and Mozilla creating awful web browsers that aren't worth using.
I don't see this a worse idea than AI code reviewer. If it spits out irrelevant advice and only gets 1 out of 10 points right, I consider it a win, since the cost is so low and many humans can't catch subtle issues in code.