skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was exploring why Linux terminal environment is so powerful compared to Windows terminal. Windows is built at the kernel level to support graphics and GUI, while *nix systems are built with terminal at the core. Thus Windows historically has had way more powerful GUIs. They are two different domains of power. Each of them also trying to do what the other does better.
Safari + Wipr, 100% adblocking in my experiments.
LLMs are literally truth-sounding machines.

Which isn't to diminish their utility, but is to say it's smart to treat them like used car salesmen.

Maybe they're telling a true-sounding truth... or maybe it's just true-sounding.
It's down! :(
https://adguard.com/en/blog/mozilla-deletes-promise-to-never...
Until the next...mice age.
> We don't know what actually happens in the model at time of inference.

How could we not know? Every processor instruction is observable.

What we specifically don’t have a good view is the causal relationship between input tokens, a model’s weights, and the output.

We don’t know specifically what weights matter or why.

That’s very different than not understanding what processes are taking place.
To try to stem the tide of "Trump will just make this go away because ${corruption}", I want to remind everyone of a few things:

* This is not a Biden-admin lawsuit. It was launched by the first Trump admin.

* Of the 14 co-plaintiffs, only 1 (CA) is a state that didn't vote for Trump in 2024. The Colorado Plaintiff States include another 16 red states, for a total of 29 red states represented.

As much as it's trendy in 2025 to talk about this admin as though it's entirely unprincipled, it's actually been doing exactly what it said it would do to satisfy its base. This lawsuit was started by them in the first place and if the list of Attorneys General is anything to go by has overwhelming support from the base that Trump is acting to satisfy. Google's not getting out of this from just a small amount of kowtowing now, it's far too late for that.
The fact that the US does imperialism is common knowledge. The control and influence, by military, by corporations, by corruption, etc. is absolutely massive.

It is very silly to argue it does not exist just because the British allegedly had a larger one.

People (the majority of which are not Russian and hate modern day Russia) call the US an empire because of seemingly endless list of things like banana Republics, operation condor, sending death squads to Nicaragua, chevron genocide, wars for oil.

This is one of the silliest hills to die on.
But is there such a thing as "modern standard Arabic"?
ID4's price seems to be $42k in the US? How much is the Model Y? Or did ID4's price decrease to $42k recently?
those are just extra features that let hyperlinks behave like buttons though. Of course, this is under the strict definition that a "hyperlink" is a link between two web pages.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

Food waste will not be addressed properly without cultural shifts. Granted, certain technological improvements may prompt them, but that's a bit backwards of a problem solving method.
Farsi or Kurdish you learn twice as fast as Arabic, its good choices for seeing the middle east. The Kurds already love America so it provides easy access to Iraq/KRG/Rojava without getting your head chopped off (there are two dialects of kurdish but Kurmanji worked for me at places of commerce anywhere in Sorani areas).
You might be understood, but understanding others is where you run into problems :(
Obsidian.

All markdown files that you control. You can always sync it with Dropbox or any other if you choose to. Markdown files will be readable forever, and it is free.
What a great article, I haven’t encountered term textile neocolonialism yet, but it does seem fitting for this behaviour. The method they used to track the clothes was interesting:

* We sewed AirTags into each of the 15 garments, hiding them in folds and pockets so that they weren’t visible at first glance. These devices allowed us to geolocate the pants, shirts and jackets thanks to a signal they emitted every time they got close to a phone. There was just one problem: the device would beep when this happened, revealing its presence. A technician from Greenpeace made our job easier by removing their capacity to beep and just like that, the AirTags became our silent allies*

Is this a known trick, can you just make all AirTags silent?
I agree with your assessment. This is the biggest long-term issue with the less than full support of Ukraine, after they gave up the world's third largest nuke arsenal. Now, the USA signalling that they are not a reliable NATO partner, in general.

In my opinion, this will all lead to nuclear proliferation at levels not seen for decades. This has been my main argument to US folks who don't really care about Ukraine, since 2022. Their argument has been "you are playing with WWIII!" My argument has been that inaction on Ukraine will lead to increased chances of some nuclear exchange in the long-term.
Right their purpose is to produce bullshit in the most technical sense[1]. There is no concern for the actual truth, just that the output sounds good.

Edit: That’s not to discount the value of said bullshit or to say they are never correct. Simply that correctness isn’t what they are optimized for.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Bullshit
I said as much. Inflation is a holding cost. Ultimately, all costs matter, whether for holding or for transacting.
Can't delete account, can't delete pics, and your generations are public, that should change.
Nice, now can any cuneiform nerds that have an interest in Ramses III guide me to any quote that roughly translates to "violence is necessary against Isfet". For the life of me, I cannot seem to find any reference to it although I've got it in my notes from... somewhere?
Now vtm is the same as it was running on demo servers. In the modern version, the fading effects and window shadows are disabled by default in the settings. Perhaps the fading effects were removed as unnecessary.
SQL (the DML) is just a query language. It could be implemented on anything.

Parts of SQL DDL is implementation specific. The SQL standard hardcodes the assumption of (by modern standards) a small-scale system and therefore will deviate significantly on large-scale systems. There is no practical way to make this "standard", you have to understand the implementation it reflects.
I think your assumptions about transmission losses are wrong.

Transmission losses are on the order of a couple percent. Most of these large sites are literally composed of 1-2 mwh containerized units side by side.
This looks fun, but the pain of documentation has lost much of its sting already because of AI.

If you haven't tried Claude Code yet, give it a go, and you'll see what I mean.
You would then also need to search for /http.*nick, as he might mention you after the link.

IRC had so much potential, but somehow we fumbled it. A simple search based on local logs and for the user hidden reg-ex could have been implemented 10+ years ago.
Swapping LLM models isn't hard, but if you build a production app or business process around it, how much time/effort is the testing to have confidence?

Which is easier when maintaining an LLM business process, swapping in the latest model or just leaving some old model alone and deferring upgrades?

Swapping is easy for ad hoc queries or version 1 but I think there's a big mess waiting to be handled.
I think that "mostly" is an overstatement. I saw many Middle Easterns struggling to understand North Africans, to the level of giving up. Living in Sweden now I feel like saying "Arabic" is a bit like saying "Scandinavian" is a language.
My understanding is that MSA is understandable by most arabs thanks to media exposure but it's kinda like the transatlantic accent in that nobody speaks it natively.

Morroccan arabic is the most different one as they have strong spanish and french influences so it is less intelligible.
RegEx in the source code

https://github.com/Svensson-Lab/pro-hormone-predictor/blob/c...
It feels rather rude to the volunteer developers to accuse them of enshitification. Especially when it's not even true in this case as enshitification implies trading the user experience for shareholder value - there's no share holder value being extracted here. The developers made the decision based on its merits. Furthermore, as I remember KDE4 did still have Konqueror - though it became slowly less maintained throughout its lifecycle as the web browser bit was hard to maintain in the changing web climate and Dolphin was providing a good user experience for many users.
Can Google just "donate" Chrome to a foundation like a lot of big companies do to deal with this?

Maybe we'll soon have Apache Chrome!
The Einstein AI Model
Switch to lynx!
Yes, there is Standard Arabic and various Arabic dialects. The Middle Eastern dialects are closer to Standard Arabic while still different. In Morocco, Darija appears to be an Arabic dialect but it's actually more of an Amazigh language that uses approximately 70% Arabic vocabulary, which can be misleading
Qualcomm can say whatever they want, it seems unlikely Apple goes back to the hassles of working with them.
The tiktok ban was the same way, until it wasn't. Remarkable that people are still falling for this.
yea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Standard_Arabic
> To the extent that one doesn’t need measure theory to do statistical mechanics there is no need to teach measure theory in a statistical mechanics course.

I never assumed otherwise. That being said, I couldn't be bothered to memorize and reproduce the handwavy exposition that made sense to a particular physicist. And it's not that I was there to prove a point - I was asked about the basic constructions like probability distributions, densities etc.

> infinite sets, measure theory, and mathematical pathology
> By the way, rigour and generality are different things.

Measure theory and Kolmogorov axiomatization addressed very real problems like Bertrand's paradox plaguing classical probabilit to the point that it was often seen as a black art rather than science. Moreover, stochastic processes in continuous time are not very intuitive and a sound theory would be next to impossible to develop without solid foundations.
> I immediately pointed out the oddities of the combination of class and runes

True, and it is a bit weird, but you made it difficult to understand your point by talking about a function which creates and returns a class for some reason.

It took me a second to work out you were the author of the original article, rather than OP by the way, didn’t really understand properly for a moment.
> This is like complaining that types only work in .ts files

It reminds me that React hooks must start with "use," which is a very strange thing, no matter how they explain it. Additionally, I mention this because Vue 3/SolidJS, which also uses proxies, does not require you to use special file names; you can use it in any regular JS.

> This is on purpose, as you know. They want reactivity to be explicit. The benefit of runes is, that if you like Vue and Solid so much, you can literally create their reactive primitives in Runes, and it works.

It just adds extra boilerplate work. Unless you use a custom Proxy to wrap the runes state, I don't think it's possible to implement the Vue Composition API, and if you do that, there will be a double proxy, and even $state.snapshot won't save me.

> This entire section is weird. The title complains about classes, but then the second code snippet is a function back again. And the third is also equally weird, why would you ever need that.

Because the escape hatch left by svelte5 is very strange and seems inconsistent, in the four situations I listed, svelte5 can only make half of them effective, while vue3 and similar frameworks can make them all work properly.

> Same here, Svelte always had this behavior. As you also state, this is present in other frameworks, such as Vue itself, which you're promoting as better than Svelte

Yes, it has always existed, but svelte5 still hasn't addressed it. Also, I don't think vue3 is better than svelte4 because I believe their APIs are very different and not easy to compare. The runes API of svelte5 looks very familiar, and I will certainly try to compare them.
> And then there’s the reality that Kursk has only played into the Russian’s hands in many different ways, including, that it split already inferior forces in an attrition war and on the geopolitical level where it caused Chinese caution and reluctance about the whole Russian operation to essentially immediately fall away due to the insanity and recklessness if the Kursk operation, which only has gotten more solidified due to the atrocities against civilians committed by the Ukrainians.

Some sources please (ideally not Russian propaganda, but I would be asking for too much, would I?). I haven't noticed any change in Chinese stance after Kursk incursion. The operation has been a gambit by the Ukraine to divide the attention of weary Russian occupants.

> atrocities against civilians committed by the Ukrainians.

War is hell and everything, but Ukrainians seem to be much more precise when trying to achieve their goals. Did you not notice Russian army targeting schools and hospitals? Bucha massacre?

> You appear to see things in a very narrow scope that is predominated by propagandistic perspectives

As you do.

> If land invasion were some kind of cause for launching nukes, then the wholesale invasion and infiltration by Mexico and its cartels that have killed around 1M Americans would have been cause to, e.g., nuke southern California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas.

Are you really comparing military operation to US opioid epidemic?

> Russia is intentionally going it slow

Sources? Russia planned a 2 day special operation. It seems that Ukrainians have been doing most of the grinding, not the other way around.

> … and life on earth ends because of recklessness of narcissistic psychopaths with god-complexes.

Like Putin, Trump and their supporters (yeah, looking at you).
I think I watched a video that showed the case when the user was indeed better off NOT using the extension. If you followed an affiliate link that came with a discount for a product that Honey didn't have one for they would still remove the affiliation, thus making you lose money.
At the risk of smoting from the Google Gods ( I should be careful, I make a product that depends on their browser ), I think the best thing that should happen to Chrome, if it's going to be sold off - is it becomes a "public utility" and basically is a model for actually publicly stewarded open development. Like maybe what the Mozilla Foundation should have been, like what many actual C-based open source OS projects seems to be (tho I'm no expert).

Why? Because it's essentially the defacto way/portal/thing to access to the biggest source of information humanity has: the web.

It's too big and important for any 1 company - tho saying that, I'm okay with Windows being owned by Microsoft which is (was) basically the same thing in a way.

My unsolicited advice to Google: sacrifice it, focus on AI. To all the people on the Chrome team? They should be financially taken care of, and should be part of the foundation that develops it if they want. The foundation should not be controlled by Alphabet, but should be truly public.

This is all probably too vague and unspecified for you lot...but it is just an idea.
I'm equal parts amused and bewildered that this author with so many interesting thoughts has managed not to see what pretty much every other serious reader of Lord of the Rings has pointed out over decades - the entire story is about a weak and almost completely unknown set of people who were "chosen" only by the most inexplicable series of events anyone could imagine - who through no inherent power of their own manage to save the world by nothing more or less than the choice to be kind to a pitiful (though clearly treacherous) creature... and who then go right back home where they belong, dismissing any notion of chosenness beyond the ordinary sort where everyone is chosen to do what is good for their neighbors.

the Hobbits pursued not greatness or destiny, but took the only path toward life available to them and then returned to let the rest of the world get on with living.
The TikTok ban was overwhelmingly unpopular among several important demographics and undoing the ban formed a part of Trump's 2024 campaign. His decisions with TikTok this year were a reversal from 2020 but entirely expected based on his 2024 campaign, so that's not a valid comparison.
> Ukraine's incursion into Kursk does not realistically threaten the long-term integrity and security of Russia

The US is claiming 700,000+ Russian killed and wounded so far. Moscow obviously think something here is a threat to the long term integrity and security of Russia. That is serious commitment.

Unless the US is lying. I hope they are, to be honest. Mountains of skulls are fun in D&D but not in real wars.
Discussions with the "people who are using it productively" happen all the time here on HN and among our colleages in real life. It's not like you can escape it.

But those discussions don't crest the hill because the "verified" work consistently either fails to be addressing a challenge that the skeptics encounter or has qualities that the skeptics can't imagine themselves possessing.

The reality is that we all approach our work differently and all carry different standards in what we accept in the work we produce.

It's clear that generative AI genuinely helps some people improve their work or ease their burden of producing it, but it should also be clear at this point that the people it doesn't seem to help are not being failed for lack of having learned about its use cases. We're 2+ years in and are saturated with the hype and with such examples. It's just not as universally useful as some people (for whatever reason) want to believe.
Well now you are just spewing obviously false nonsense, so you are either a russian troll or a lost cause.
Totally serious question: is MCP basically an in-joke right now? I mean, I know what it is. I just don’t know why I’m seeing it everywhere in the last 3 days?
I don't believe those are even the real reasons, but that's not my point: talking about them at all does Russia's propaganda work for them.

> If Russia wanted to march on Kiev and damn civilian casualties they could have done so on the first few weeks.

Are you kidding me? Russia literally did send tanks and airborne troops to Kyiv in the first days of the war. They've been targeting civilians with missiles. What planet are you on?
His very last book has Esk in it.

I understand the view, I just don't agree. It has lots of nice subtle jokes in it and was the first to have a bit more depth to the story rather than being a slightly scattered and episodic parody of thr fantasy genre.

But then I like Dark Side and Strata a lot too.

Edit to add: incidentally there are a lot of minor throwaway jokes throughout the series that require you to have read the preceding books to get them. That in itself is IMO enough reason to aim to read them in publication order. But you do you, he was very prolific, I can see why someone coming in after the fact might choose not to tackle the whole lot from beginning to end.
Yeah, it was build of gamers. I would also not use it for communication in a tax company.

That does not mean it's for kids only.
What are th legal issues?
Because you want to get hacked?

Seriously. Without cors, js on any site you visit can make requests as you to anywhere. The only thing protecting you would be security through obscurity.
Any differentiation vs Hydra ? They also put duckdb inside pg https://www.hydra.so/
This also assumes that you have enormous buffers. If the data isn’t available when you start, you’re not going to see the lower benefits of transmitting everything at the highest rate and then going into low-power mode. I suspect that most usage other than, say, backing up your photo library is bursty enough to push that into diminishing returns.
I've looked around (Europe), and there's nothing comparable at the price, except maybe Ioniq (but I didn't like the ergonomics, not saying it's objectively bad, just didn't fit me). Kia is way more expensive, Volkswagen is way more expensive at the same trim level, etc.
Here is a postscript file that generates punch card images: http://t3x.org/lfn/punchcard.eps

Context: http://t3x.org/lfn/index.html
Doesn't sound gdpr compliant
Egyptian Arabic is considered the standard Arabic language dialect.

I find it odd that Egyptian is used as the standard Arabic dialect. From what I understand Egyptian Arabic is heavily influenced by ancient Egyptian. I would have assumed standard Arabic would be based on a dialect from Arabia (now Saudi Arabia).

Egypt wasn't Arab until about the early 600s although I'm sure many people of Arab descent (Hejaz, Njad, etc) were there for many years. So to base the language on a place not Arab until only 1,400 years ago seems very recent to me.

One example I saw of an old ancient Egyptian word in modern Egyptian was the word "titi" meaning "to walk slowly". Egyptians now pronounce it "tata". But an example (from the link) " ‘Nefertiti’ means ‘the beauty walking slowly’ ". https://www.arabicwithhamid.com/ancient-egyptian-words-still...
This is the absolutely dumbest thing that I have read. Who would buy Chrome and why? If you just want the codebase, you have Chromium. Chrome only monetizes because of ads.

Then what happens to Chromebooks? Can Google no longer ship a browser with Android?

Besides, unless you have an Android - which is only 30% of the US market or a Chromebook, everyone who uses Chrome went through the process of downloading it and made a purposeful choice to use it
Tesla's claim to fame was being the longest range fastest EVs. They were pioneers in this era. Then they started investing in weird niche vehicles like the Cybertruck and dubious AI stuff instead of improving their regular cars, and the rest of the auto industry caught up with EVs.

Not surprisingly, companies that have been making cars forever are pretty good at making cars. Cars have always been a very competitive market, so you didn't have the kind of absolute stagnation you see in some other industries. Tesla just gave them a kick in the butt to make electric cars.
If you miss the quirky, personal touch of early web pages, NeoCities (https://neocities.org) might just bring back those memories, with a similar DIY ethos and vintage design.
DO’s pricing has increased a lot. I was surprised, I couldn’t start a $5 vm anymore, it’s worth checking again.
Brave is the best option.
This is the correct industry standard. Grid capacity is measured in MW.

National grid operators measure power capacity in mw, not mwh, because their primary concern is dispatchable power.

Battery storage is optionally stated as MW/MWh
There were demo apps in the menu, they are still there: 'vtm --run text', 'vtm --run calc', 'vtm --run test', 'vtm --run truecolor'... You can play with it by running them directly inside the vtm desktop, by typing (or right click to paste) commands like vtm.desktop.Run({ type='calc' }) in the 'Log Monitor' command line.