skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've found futility in trying to "get" others to do anything. As a manager, I used to have the power to coerce folks, but that was always a stopgap measure.

The main thing that I do, personally, is not engage in these things. There are some shows, vids, and news sources that I simply avoid, and that seems to have done the trick.

It's like giving up an addiction, though. I felt quite uncomfortable, for a time. I no longer feel uncomfortable, and these once-legitimate (to me) news sources, now seem to be little more than cartoons.
What, no more banana bread :(
Why spend Anthropic developer time on charging you less when an MVP impl can charge you $1 for indexing a simple small Helm chart?
> It's because Pakistan has nukes. Nukes essentially make wars unwinnable

There is no world in which Pakistan could nuke America. I agree on the effect—nukes gave Islamabad cover it wouldn’t have had without them. But the mechanism isn’t military strategic, but something deeper.
The View from My Office
I was recommended LastPass by Lujo Bauer a professor and security researcher that has done a lot of work in password security - but this was in its nascent start-up days circa 2013). I think worse than low iteration count on password hash, I wasn't aware for the time using LP that it didn't encrypt a lot of the metadata and that concerns me greatly. I was and still use a 96-bit passphrase, so I would've been safe from the breaches from an offline attack perspective, but metadata would've been exposed which bothers me. I switched to 1Password in 2017, so hopefully they expunged my data before the breaches, but who knows.
This appears to do no chunking. It just shoves the entire document (entire book, in my case) into the embedding request to Ollama. So it's only helpful if all your documents are small (i.e. no books).

The embedding model (bge-m3 in this case) has a sequence length of 8192 tokens, i.e. rlama tries to embed the whole book, but Ollama can only put the first few pages into the embedding request.

Then when retrieving, it retrieves the entire document instead of the relevant passage (because there is no chunking), but truncates this to the first 1000 characters, i.e. the first half-page of Table of Contents.

As a result, when queried, the model says: "There is no direct mention of the Buddha in the provided documents." (The word Buddha appears 44,121 times in the documents I indexed.)

A better solution (and, as far as I can tell, what every other RAG does) is to split the document into chunks that can actually fit the context of the embedding model, and then retrieve those chunks -- ideally with metadata about which part of the document it's from.

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I'd also recommend showing the search results to the user (I think just having a vector search engine is already an extremely useful feature, even without the AI summary / question answering), and altering the prompt to provide references (e.g. the based on the chunk metadata like page number).
Everyone knows that to understand metabolism you should use a parser.
> Because our phones are pulling from a huge, contextless pool

There is so much context in your camera roll. So so much. Not all of it is understood yet, but it’s finally getting good.

> The physical archives we amass in drawers or old shoe boxes aren’t free from the threat of bad memories or meaninglessness

But they are oh so incomplete. You can dig through your shoebox of ticket stubs once an every few years at most - anymore and they stop losing that charm.

> But mostly our phones are full of stuff that doesn’t matter

They are also full of stuff you didn’t know would matter at the time but now does. One off moments of how you kid used to carry his stuffed animal in his mouth when he crawled. Architecture details of an old house you had forgotten. A photo of you an a close friend meeting the first time. These often spark sharing, then real connection with others in your life.

Sure - put your ticket stubs in a shoebox. But you aren’t losing anything by having your memories in your phone. You have the potential to gain so much.
What’s your take on Notion?
It's annoying to read surface level critiques that skim articles for Musk denigration or wokeisms and pull them out of their context and misrepresent their point to clown on the author
Having accidentally lost lots of digital stuff many times, I have a mindset of not storing much, and closing anything I'm not storing quickly, and failing that, accepting that I won't miss it too much if it's gone. So I still depend on some things being stored reliably. It takes curation to decide whether I want to really keep something or risk losing it when I may want it later. This is one area where LLMs could be very helpful as a way of dealing with massive amounts of data that a human normally wouldn't sift through, though data reliability is still up in the air.
Will your representative or the government agencies they may put you in touch with read your comment?
Ask HN: Which forums do you still visit and find relevant content on?
> It needs to sync up its tade policy with the US in order to maintain its free trade with the US

Ship has sailed. Ottawa should offer to drop trade restrictions with China in exchange for Beijing doing the same. It not only provides a needed jolt to the Canadian economy, it also sends a message to the White House that Canada shouldn’t be taken for granted. (I’d also start making motions about green lighting energy-export terminals to Europe and Asia.)
Your comment is confusing to me because it appears to have nothing to do with the article, which is not about using Postgres' heap tables. In fact, you're arguing for a purpose-built storage engine (BigQuery), which is what pg_mooncake also is, except the latter is integrated with Postgres.

At my company we self-host ClickHouse, but if we started out today we'd definitely adopt ClickHouse Cloud. One big advantage of CH is that tables can be backed by ordinary cloud storage like S3 and GCS, which is incredibly cheap. BQ has support for external Iceberg tables in GCS, but (from what I recall) no write support.

We are shuffling several TBs/week into BigQuery, and that is extremely expensive. Querying this amount of data (billions of rows per day) is also very expensive unless you purchase flat pricing.

If your needs are really modest, then BQ is definitely very reasonable.
Switch to Firefox!
I did not know that about kwargs! Very interesting and useful to be kind of pedantic and not have unintentional conflicts at that level
Source? Were those concerns clearly articulated rather than something vague like "password managers are a single point of failure!"?
>It got so much easier. I wished that they could do that with more words, preferably all the words. Even better would be if I could have a link to each letter, with more information about that letter.

Do not do this! It feels easier in the beginning but it is to your detriment. The start up cost is slightly higher, but learning to treat each member of the Arabic abjad as a sound specific to that word will help you think in the dialect of Arabic you're targeting much faster.

There are tons and tons of YouTube videos about the Arabic script. Don't skip it!
My uneducated guess would be shared power infrastructure, easier licensing and permitting for one site, one large safety/fire extinguishment system instead of many, etc. The article mentions only 2 transformers needed to link that entire station to the grid. Also the controls, managing power delivery from thousands of small batteries versus one centralized facility. And if that particular wind or solar project doesn't go well for some reason the battery isn't tied to it, it's stabilizing the overall grid. Not sure though it is a good question, probably some technical or regulatory docs that go into details somewhere, I'd imagine this would have a ton of bureaucracy before getting built
Once Canada is annexed, the fun (insurgency) will start.

Former Canadian citizen will be US citizen with the right to buy weapons, AR-15 and grenade launchers included.

Police and out of duty soldiers will be mowed down in random places all over the country. Martial law may be declared. People's freedom of movement will be restricted. Economy will take a bad turn.

Imagine IRA (Ireland), ETA (Spain) or PKK (Turkey) but with legal ability to get a lot of deadly weapons. I don't think Americans are ready for this.
The thesis of this site is that it's easier to learn to read Arabic first with the letters separated . It seems like there should be a way for a browser plugin (or maybe just some user css, if that still works) to separate the letters on any website.
> Yes, but then you can just use a class.

Yes, but I immediately pointed out the oddities of the combination of class and runes below, which looks very strange and inconsistent.

> Despite all this, Svelte 5 introduces $writable

I don't know what this is.
Me too. Found out you can reenable it in the extension settings.
> And Sanborn is getting ticked off

...

> Some years ago, Sanborn began charging $50 to review solutions, providing a speed bump to filter out wild guesses and nut cases.

Yeah I suspect he isn't that ticked off. I'm happy to take over reviewing solutions if he likes!
Nobody is going to buy a phone that charges more frequently than once a day.
You generally start with some kind of perlin noise and then add plate tectonics e.g. with voronoi diagrams (use anything you want), then add climate, erosion etc. however many passes you like. It’s a fascinating rabbit hole.
That's quite different though, with different effects on society. It's like George Orwell vs Huxley.
I don't know what you mean by insufficient protection, but as I said proper E2EE implementation provides sufficient protection. A symmetric encryption scheme that satisfies IND-CCA2 with a high entropy key is infeasible to decrypt without knowledge of the key. This is well understood basics of cryptography. LastPass failed at the high entropy key part / slow password hash, but also leaking metadata in plaintext. Pretty much other password managers don't have this issue, both local and cloud based.
Author here. Over the last few months, I have built and launched a free semantic search tool for GitHub called SemHub (https://semhub.dev/). In this blog post, I share what I’ve learned and why I’ve failed, so that other builders can learn from my experience. This blog post runs long and I have sign-posted each section. I have marked the sections that I consider the particularly insightful with an asterisk (*).

I have also summarized my key lessons here:

1. Default to pgvector, avoid premature optimization.

2. You probably can get away with shorter embeddings if you’re using Matryoshka embedding models.

3. Filtering with vector search may be harder than you expect.

4. If you love full stack TypeScript and use AWS, you’ll love SST. One day, I wish I can recommend Cloudflare in equally strong terms too.

5. Building is only half the battle. You have to solve a big enough problem and meet your users where they’re at.
>But you’re talking about two massive land masses with relatively little population right next to the US, both in places that will become strategically important as the climate shifts

Canada has a higher population density than that of Alaska which is right next to it should they take it over for their protection after all the US is engaging with their enemy Russia? no? why not same logic you just gave

Second greenland isn't massive it only looks that way due to mercator projection map and the icesheet.

>The US will (if forced to) invade Canada for the same reason Russia invaded Ukraine or China is invading the Philippines and ASEAN Sea: no major power will tolerate a large border controlled by adversarial states.

Canada isn't a adversarial power they are one of our greatest alies, and everyone is openly engaging China and the CCP including Us, they are the largest industrial power on the planet with the 17% the worlds population it would be bizarre if Canada weren't.
'Major brand worries': Just how toxic is Elon Musk for Tesla?
Those tools often don't work because the glass in many cars consists of layers of glass and a polymer. That gives it some nice properties but it's unbreakable even with a sledgehammer. I don't know about Teslas but I wouldn't be surprised if they again threw safety out of the window here literally.
No, I'm suggesting you not shit on your lawn, because I find my never shitting on my lawn prevents that ugly smell that you keep complaining about.
There is another web browser build on KDE libraries - Angelfish. While it is marketed as "webbrowser for mobile devices", it has a desktop interface too. This one could be more easy to get into and help with development, as it is quite recent and does not have a lot of legacy features.
"never"
It raises an interesting theoretical problem. If the AI comes up with a good argument that translates a coded message into something legible can it truly be said to be wrong? It'd be more of a flaw in the art installation.

The problem with asking people to interpret gobbledegook is that it might map to English in any number of ways.
Oh, impressive how browser extensions can live outside of browsers now. And on mobile too!

After having used Bitwarden for more than 4 years, I only switched last week, so I'm still in the honeymoon phase. But it has everything I used in Bitwarden and more, most notably all the usability features that I was missing in Bitwarden.
Too bad. Mammoths? Not possible and unethical, according to this geneticist's opinion piece in The Guardian.

> The only way you will ever see a living mammoth is if our physicist friends finally crack time travel. I am a mere geneticist, but my understanding is that this remains very much in the realm of fiction. Perhaps in the meantime we could direct our scientific excitement and energies towards real problems, things on which millions of lives depend, rather than on this mammoth circus of macabre fantasy and moral bankruptcy.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/06/woolly...
The remix feature is really cool. And it is fast for sure. Great implementation.
yeah too much food and life hangs around the equator...in dat cold...you best be hustling to snag a bit of the less food there is to go around...
This reminds me of terrains Bryce (with its wonderful Kai Krause interface) would generate. I had no idea Ken Musgrave, who created the algorithms, was a student of Mandelbrot. I had always assumed Bryce used Perlin noise, but it turns out I was wrong and it was using fractals.
> Roundworld isn’t even modeled in the Middle Earth cosmology

Middle-earth is a fantasy history of England and we're in sixth age (or something like that) of it.

It becomes round with the third age.
See. I'm a hacker. I need to control things. I bought the car and want access to it.
But it feels SO good to believe that you (with your AI sidekick) are some sort of uber-awesome genius!

Especially when the downsides of being wrong are nill.
What makes a voice attractive? A TTS Evaluation
I think Vue 3 is better than Svelte 5's runes, but unfortunately, in my 7 years of using Vue, I've realized that Vue is just a follower of React and may never catch up, as it is only trying to optimize the status quo rather than break the deadlock.
I don't care that Google, Apple or Microsoft have their own browser.

Especially not when there are other third party browsers. Wouldn't say no to a government funded one that was secure and tested with government services.

There are some issues with the big tech giants that is likely harmful to consumers and the industry, and I'd welcome anti-trust investigations into all of them, but I feel like minor issues like browsers is an attempt to pretend like meaningful regulation and government control has been applied, while the real problems are ignored.
I like the touch sensitive controls on my ID4. It's a bit better than some of the "real" buttons on the steering wheel on some of their older cars which were terrible to use. I get the hate but I find it a bit one sided.

That said. It would have been nice if they had made the plastic a bit more premium. The cheap shiny chreaking plastic isn't great. The redeeming feature is the swipe feature for me.

Good buttons will be better.

Cheap plastic crap will review well but won't necessarily be any better to use for me, at least for the steering column buttons.
I don't think we can say that the nuclear umbrella is illusory until there is direct conflict and invasion across the frontier between what's left of NATO and the Warsaw Pact. Ukraine's incursion into Kursk does not realistically threaten the long-term integrity and security of Russia, while Ukraine's self-defense has demonstrated that the cold-war fear of Russia blitzkrieging its way to the Atlantic is not realistic.

Maybe Putin's non-invocation (up to now) of the nuclear umbrella shows he is as eager as anyone to maintain it as the ultimate protection against existential threats. The US's sharp turn away from globalism is a gift to Putin, and, given that the US population is strongly divided over the changes the current administration is making, that might be threatened if Russia were to act more belligerently than it already is.

Personally, I'm more concerned over what will happen if and when the situation becomes one in which Trump realizes he's going to be seen as the president who 'lost' Taiwan.
It's a really important point. Your expertise is valuable beyond your own direct tasks.
Sounds like you know the subject, maybe you could explain a bit more. I'm confused as to why formatting the text without linked letters would prevent you from learning the sounds. In most languages cursive (linked letters) is not obligatory, and people learn the sounds before cursive. Why would that be a problem in Arabic?
Ultimately the goal is to make something good looking, how does a different noise algorithm matter? IOW why simplex generates better height maps than perlin?
Some states have annual inspections of motor vehicles and on the list of items checked is headlight aim and window translucency.
Considering how good the hardware is supposed to be, iOS is not that great actually.
This is why Androids that have benchmarks score way lower than iPhone can actually feel smoother to use.
Apple is brute forcing the thing and making all their customers pay, it's useless to have the most powerful chip if you waste all its power running garbage code.

And this is exactly how macOS and iOS feel nowadays: the hardware is supposed to be great but it doesn't feel that good because the software sucks.
On the other hand, this mentality can keep you from figuring out how to use AI as a tool that works for you. You should speak to people who are using it productively since most of the time its work is verifiable.
Regardless of what happens to Chrome per se it's who is involved with pushing for major controversial changes in Chromium that matters.

Manifest v3 and Web Integrity API are prominent examples of Google's team shaping how all Chromium based browsers will be, regardless of pushback (though they relented with the latter for now).
As I understand it these variants are mostly mutually comprehensible, so you may as well learn modern standard Arabic. The differences come down to pronunciation and the odd extra word.
I always loved Sir Terry's depictions of Ankh-Morpork.

It was a crazy, deeply dysfunctional city, full of crazy, dysfunctional people, but he obviously loved it, and the reader ends up loving the city, as well.

I think that's a fairly accurate way to look at the world around us.

I believe that Tolkien's depictions of Mordor and the Shire, came from his own personal experiences in the trenches of WWI, so I'd argue that LOTR actually has some fairly significant reflection on the real world.
All .py and no .js makes Jack a data scientist, and automation wizard. :D
Let's think about what shouting a message to the world does. First, you affect the stakeholders of the decision-maker (person or organization). When talking about a politician in a democracy, the public often determines whether they get elected. So, you are applying pressure to them through a stakeholder — “fall in line or risk your career.”

You are also slowly changing the culture and applying pressure to the societal outlook. This also applies to your decision-makers (whose friends, family, co-workers, and political or corporate partners partake in the broader culture) and future decision-makers raised in the culture you are shaping.

These are all tactics you can use, but some decision-makers are very resistant to societal and stakeholder pressure. They either have a strong negotiating position (like Donald Trump, who offered Americans many things other candidates were not offering for moral reasons), or they may have a model of functioning in the politico-organizational system that insulates them from the ideas of others (they may simply be narcissists or zealots). But if you speak with them and you negotiate in terms relevant to them, they will listen.

To that end, you first have to make the call or get in a room with them.
Sign the response as Banksy while you are at it.
It feels unfocused. Application tracking makes sense, but that isn't the same problem as understanding a company's interview process or talking to other applicants about their experience. And frankly, unless you get the entire industry using this for every job application, the community-based features are not going to have meaningful info. Also, the actual problem implied by the title - have I been ghosted - can be answered with static HTML: "If it has been 2 weeks, yes."

So if I were in your shoes, I'd decide what problem I really want to solve, and build an app laser-focused on a solution for that problem. Bring everything else in later, once you know you have PMF for whichever core problem you choose.
“Equal Rites” is the first in the “witches” series, but is, IIUC, considered a very weak entry. The rest of the witches series don’t really acknowledge the events in it, and they start off the next book with a blank slate, not assuming that you have read the first one. If you really just want to read the witches series, I’d suggest that you instead start with the second book, “Wyrd Sisters”.
I still remember fondly the KDE 3.5 times when we had Konqueror. The best browser AND file manager in one. It was amazing.

Then the KDE 4 enshittification came and they had to have a separate file manager with half the features. Bad times.
Trump has no interest of enforcing article 5.
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The mammoth is their moonshot project. They’re working on a number of species that have more complete genomes in the name of de-extinction.
> No, this is absurd.

Just to be clear, you are making the argument that when a library call detects an error of the form of unexpected NULL/not-NULL, that they abort immediately?

To be even more clear, I'm not making the argument that the program should proceed as normal after detecting an error (regardless of the type of error).

That is not the argument that I am making which is why I find your "That's absurd" condescension extremely confusing.
Finally I'll be able to stretch my legs with emacs (aka "eight megabytes and constantly swapping")