skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm no astronomer but I believe that the first stars tended to be huge and short-lived. Is it surprising that there would have been supernova and heavy elements ejected from them that early?
Back when I used to visit doctors that was their biggest concern they brought up with me knowing I was in tech. My opinion for them was that AI was not the threat but rather not staying current in medicine, biology, chemistry is what would get them. It's one of their first lessons they are taught in medical school, that once they graduate more than half of what they learned will be no longer applicable or incorrect. I've only met a few doctors that took that lesson to heart and did not incorrectly interpret it as a disclaimer. There is also a decent doctor on Youtube that embraced this concept Dr. Roger Seheult, MD on MedCram. He was way ahead of and on top of Covid long before any of the other doctors as can be seen in their channels history. Such doctors are quiet rare.
Sorting lists alphabetically would produce vastly different results by language, for one thing.
Knowing basic web technologies to a deep level are very important and highly valued, especially so at larger companies where they know that the framework itself is a minor detail for skilled engineers who can pick up and be productive in any framework in less than a weeks time, so I do think you can command high market value with very deep knowledge of the platform itself.

However, that said I agree with you. Especially so when it comes to things like consulting work, contracting, etc. Having worked alongside the people who do the hiring or make the decision as to whether to bring somebody in for an interview at all in big consulting firms, they basically automatically disqualify anybody who doesn't already know the stack they prefer to use or that the client they are currently hiring somebody for uses. And this is including technical architects, so this isn't even just an issue of non-tech aligned hiring people. They simply don't want anybody to have to ramp up on the tech itself regardless of skill.

For these types of roles it is very important to be up to date if you want to stay hirable, or the hiring manager will just throw your resume in the trash before it even gets in front of an engineer who can evaluate your skills without the buzzwords.
The unit gets to pick the most talented before the rest of the army. Most israeli startups are founded by unit alumni.

I'm not sure I understand what reverse merger means, or what OP is implying
I thought the same until having to do slightly more complicated and "off the beaten path" workflows. I'm still amazed at how easy they make building CI jobs now, but I also get frustrated at how it's not a "local first" workflow that you then push to their service.
Why would one choose MS SQL nowadays? I am curious, why did the author choose it?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectroscopy#Atoms
Is the data live? Or is it more like snapshot of what the space looks like now?
From 2011 - this was an interesting thing, but nothing really panned out from this since.
Or, alternatively, just embrace anime-porn content spectrum. I mean, just compare platforms that are free of it and ones that are chock full, and see which ones die and which grows.
Zillow has spent years building relationships with thousands of litigious MLS's. It's impossible to build a lawsuit-proof real-estate app in the US without doing that.
Excited to see how this compares to Perplexity or Gemini. I remember that ChatGPT used to be able to search the web, but last I checked it it couldn't. I wonder why they removed that feature
> Oh dear. The issue isn’t the brute force, it’s that the online services leak and get cracked. And in an instant a single script takes the newly discovered username password combo and starts hammering it into the top 10000 websites, all within moments of the leak data becoming available.

This is only ever a problem if your password is reused. Don't reuse passwords and if some website is hacked and they were storing your password in plaintext you just have to reset your password (the same way everyone else does, 2FA or not)
Weekend and ChatGPT and Cursor = My Own Mobile App
Spent months searching for the perfect habits tracker app. Found dozens, but none met all my needs.

So what did I do? Built it myself. In ONE weekend.

Wearing two hats:
Product Manager (ChatGPT for deep research)
Developer (Cursor IDE for coding)

The result? The exact habits app I always wanted but couldn't find.

Try it here: https://lnkd.in/ehNpu-3d

Who says project managers can't code? With today's AI tools, the impossible just takes a weekend.
I think going full circle would be something like bitcoin being created on top of DoS prevention software and then eventually DoS prevention starting to use bitcoin. A tool being used for something than something else than the first something again is just... nothing? Happens all the time?
And another news today with a German 25 yo guy. He came back from a side-trip to Mexico and was cuffed at the border from Mexico to US.

"The German government has responded with a warning to travelers to the USA in response to several Germans being placed in detention pending immigration upon entry in recent weeks."

https://www-welt-de.translate.goog/politik/ausland/article25...
Yup.

Inasmuch as these are collaborative document generators at their core, "minimally ambiguous prompt and conforming reply" is a strongly represented document structure and so we benefit by setting them up to complete one.

Likewise, "tragi-comic dialog between increasingly frustrated instructor and bumbling pupil" is also a widely represented document structure that we benefit by trying to avoid.

Chatbot training works to minimize the chance of an LLM engaging in the latter, because dialog is a intuitive interface that users enjoy, but we can avoid the problem more successfully by just providing a new and less ambiguous prompt in a new session, as you suggest.
The worst problem with strtok() isn't that it modifies its input; it's that it's stateful. It retains a pointer to the input string internally, and returns subsequent words from it when called with an input of NULL. strsep() fixes this by using a char * argument instead.
I can't believe such a highly voted post which was submitted 4 hours ago is at the bottom of front page while YC promotes shitty AI posts at top
All the time I see links on HN front page to Twitter and Mastodon posts with just as little text to them. Why does it upset you when it is in the medium of blogs, but not micro blogs?
Thank you! I scanned the text and scrolled through all the pics, and searched for `tenoch` and didn't get any hits. "The urban sprawl caused the lake system to dry up" glosses over a super interesting sequence of decisions that led to the disaster.

More reading for anyone interested

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Mexico_City#Floodin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Texcoco#Artificial_draina...
https://blogs.loc.gov/law/2022/09/mexico-citys-desage-of-160...
French scientist denied entry into the U.S., French government says
I'm shocked there isn't a 'language for config' that hasn't become the de facto standard and its YAML all the way down seemingly. I am with you 100%.

It would really benefit from a language that intrinsically understood its being used to control a state machine. As it is, that is what nearly all folks want in practice is a way to run different things based on different states of CI.

A lisp DSL would be perfect for this. Macros would make things alot easier in many respects.

Unfortunately, there's no industry consensus and none of the big CI platforms have adopted support for anything like that, they all use variants of YAML (I always wondered who started it with YAML and why everyone copied that, if anyone knows I'd love to read about it).

Honestly, I can say the same complaints hold up against the cloud providers too. Those 'infrastructure as code' SDKs really don't lean into the 'as code' part very well
Yikes… “Type for me, Goose”
Couldn't a lot of front-ends using Claude API do this already? What's new?
I feel exactly the opposite. If a language adds a new feature that's useful to me, and it helps me write better code, I'm going to use it. Perhaps not on the first day it comes out, but definitely the next time I need its functionality. And why not? That's why the feature was added in the first place.

There's the chance that its newness means it's not thoroughly tested yet. In any language with a reasonable development process, I'd open a bug report and then figure out a workaround until it's fixed. But I'd expect the interval between "feature is released" and "feature works as documented, modulo the usual long tail of edge cases" to be on the order of weeks or months, not decades.

Like, I can't imagine only now upgrading to Python 2.7 (which was current in 2011). I wouldn't expect every shop to be on 3.13 already, but neither would I scowl at a dev who wanted to use something new from a 2-year-old version.
PV doesn't require much copper, either. Maybe for front contact wires, if silver gets too expensive? But if it can afford to use silver now, copper won't be a huge ask (basically just need to deposit a barrier layer to keep the copper from reacting with the silicon.)

The cables connecting PV to the grid, as well as the grid itself, can all use aluminum conductors. Even large transformers can be designed with aluminum if copper gets too expensive.
Search was not removed from ChatGPT, although it can be glitchy at times.
Sadly, if incentives aren't aligned, I'm of the opinion not much will change.

Let's suppose there were a no liability clause for employers when giving feedback, they could say we didn't hire you because we didn't like you or because you were too short, or whatever they wanted. In that case, companies could tell the truth and would have nothing to lose. However, the question would remain - what do they have to gain? To this end, if an applicant could purchase a feedback review, then companies would have something to gain as well.

I'm not saying we should do any of this, I'm just trying to sketch a scenario in which some systematic rules exist which might get both parties to be more aligned on "giving true detailed feedback".
It also linked to https://drewdevault.com/2025/03/17/2025-03-17-Stop-externali..., which is another worthwhile read.
I've heard Mexico City has a lot of leaking water pipes so updating that infrastructure might be better. Also to do desalination, they need to be close to the ocean. There are SMRs close to being in production (NuScale Power is one) but solar power might be another cheaper option.
How small-minded Trumpism is, just frustrated lashing out at things they refuse to understand.

Canada has been so close to the US we would lovingly joke about it being "the 51st state". Canada's cities are all pressed up against the US border precisely because it's so tightly economically integrated with the US. We share the world's longest undefended "border" for a reason.

The small minded neofascists think that someone being part of their sphere of influence must mean they can shit on them, tell them it's caviar, and they'll lap it up and come back for more. It's like they can't see that Canada (along with most of the rest of the world) was already strongly aligned with the US, in favor of some stupid imagined written on paper "ownership" direct-command relationship. They really can't get past the two bits in front of them and see larger constructive situations, at all.

(I'm of course talking about all the useful idiots cheering this on, and enabling it by not impeaching. The Manchurian Candidate himself is just following the directions of Russia/China supplied by his handlers directly into his cancerous ego.)
Hard to determine comment accuracy. Industry will manufacture false claims in order to stop environmentalism because they believe in material wealth over all else.
It’s not random strings and people believe Chatbots.

Maybe you think differently if it’s you and the people who ask the Chatbot about you are your neighbors or employee.
Maybe I missed it (it's early and I haven't even had coffee yet) but where did the author say they resued the same password over multiple sites?
Stellar Blockchain Accounts
ChatGPT can search the web (I just checked in my account). It appears to be available for all users (not just paid): https://help.openai.com/en/articles/9237897-chatgpt-search
This is awesome! Can I play it on my inbox?
Those are irrelevant facts in this case. Accounts match. PWC would notice.

The issue is that Tesla didn’t disclose any sales or “material” asset impairments that would account for the missing $1.4bn. The sum is so large that it would have to be disclosed. It's a huge red flag, caused either by weak internal controls, or classification of operating expenses as investment to make the books look better than normal. It's an indicator of accounting misstatement, not an accounting error.

TL;DR Tesla may be bullshitting in it's financial statement, or they made huge errors somewhere.
There are loads of reasons governments can't afford up-front capital expenditure! They have an income stream (taxes) but that all goes out the door on existing liabilities, including financing existing debts. They can only get money by raising taxes or cutting existing services. The third way is to try and attract external capital, e.g. "attracting inward investment" or "public-private partnerships", where someone else puts the money down, the trains/hospitals/schools/etc. get built, but the investors who paid for the things own the things and the government pays to use them for decades to come.

This annoys the hell out of future governments, because it's effectively tying their hands, but it also lets the current government look like it's doing a lot more in its short term without raising taxes.
> Thirdly, the best annual storage is pumped hydro.

I strongly dispute this. E-fuels like hydrogen would be much superior to PHES for annual storage.

https://x.com/iain_staffell/status/1722544993179504965
DocumentAI with 256M Parameters
A very interesting article this is. Never knew there was so much lore in the making of the Mach and Darwin kernels .
And growing a human in that area? Would it not also be a drag on the area? At what point does blame the plants become blame all alien life including human?

(Not referring to your comment, I feel often people tend to handwave themselves out the equation).
As sibling said, search was nog removed. But not all models can use the web search, maybe that is causing your perception?
Anecdotally, companies are attempting to cram labor costs down by putting off hiring, putting reqs out there with much lower wages than recent historical (<5 years), and outsourcing to India and LATAM at scale while also attempting to assert control by requiring hybrid or full time office attendance. This is in direct conflict with the current admin's anti immigration stance (which is arguably good for domestic workers) and forward looking demographics [1] [2] (also good for workers). More on this macro trend can be found in the book "The Great Demographic Reversal: Ageing Societies, Waning Inequality, and an Inflation Revival" [3].

> The "shortage" is a fig leaf to cover up the desperate greed American businesses are feeling as their margins shrink and their supply chains become more fragile.

Truth. There is no shortage, just sadness with regards to market clearing price.

[1] US Faces a Deficit of 6 Million Workers in Less Than a Decade - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-09-18/us-faces-... | https://archive.today/Lyr5t - September 18, 2024

[2] Aging Boomers Explain Shrinking Labor Force, NY Fed Study Says - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-30/aging-boo... | https://archive.today/nZVda - March 30, 2023 ("Population aging is likely to continue to exert strong downward pressure on participation going forward, as more of the baby boomer generation continue to enter retirement,” the researchers wrote.")

[3] https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-42657-6
Doctors don't make treatments out of thin air but by testing drugs/procedures and seeing what works. Besides that models can be used to create new drugs, utilizing a drug's side effects to treat diseases that weren't the drug's main focus is quite similar to what doctors do. As for the "true AI" part, AI is a fancy term meaning multiple things nowadays. There's no such thing as "true AI".
I wonder if it will actually respect the robots.txt this time.
It seems more correct to say that supppy/demand drives a ~second order effect. But the first order term has to do with how much money people have (well and there's the interplay with where those people want to live). That is what distinguishes low vs high cost of living areas, after all. It's also what differentiates prices today from prices twenty years ago. And gentrification is not driven by supply/demand per se but by the hand-in-hand growth of desirability and income.
I get what they were trying to say, but the exact phrasing amused me. It read like: "This feature was too easy and convenient, so we yanked it."
Sorry, everyone’s on pyarn now and next month we’re deprecating that for pbun and then starting from scratch with taquito when that doesn’t solve all our perceived problems
OpenAI uses open source Ory to authenticate over 400M weekly active users
and this results in the end of the internet
Any information on what search engine is powering it?
Improved Relative Time
It seems that in addition to the issue were some things were actually tedious to do, there has also always been a drive to wow users (or really other devs?) by doing something that pushes the boundaries of what's possible. Once someone has done it, everyone is expected to do it and now work is tedious again. A simple example is how back in 2009/10 everyone was all excited about rounded corners. You had to cut all these assets and got a more complex DOM but it became table stakes. So CSS got an attribute for this. Then we needed fancy grids everywhere and fourteenth elements on mobile which was tedious till frameworks did some of it. I think the wow-treadmill doesn't exist like this on the backend because nobody sees it. The closest equivalent is scaling your architecture for a level that your app will never need.
This seems like a reasonable fact check on dairy tarrifs: https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/10/politics/trump-canada-dairy-t...
So, a solution to a problem that he created? Interesting.
> The bill does not automatically impose fees on vehicles, but it “just gives BC the tools to do so down the road if Trump continues to escalate his threats towards BC and Canada,” according to a statement from the provincial Ministry of Transportation and Transit.
Ironic that FE dev is built on HTML and CSS, two specs that are so painfully backwards compatible that the original Space Jam website from 1996 still works.

A web app written with HTML and CSS and a sprinkling of no-build Javascript will likely work as intended in 30 years.
It’s simply not true. Not in any place I’ve ever seen in all the years I’ve been in Mexico.
The "real farms" (Ie beef, dairy, grains, corns) you mentioned are absorbing on the order of 80 percent of the water, not commercial and private lawns/grass.

Hobby farms with several cows and a shop that sells maple syrup consum eabout 1/10000th a percent of water as for example con-agra suppliers, nestle etc.

There is the constantly rotating story of "this one small family farm in colorado uses more of california's water than LA county". That is a LARGE conglomerate farm which is part of the corporate farm problem, not mom and pop farms.

I assure you;In the USA specifically, your families ability to eat and provide food for the things we eat WILL be more important in the long run than bathing or washing clothes, until we decide that beef proteins aren't the msot sustainable.
I'm not even raising the question of whether they were right, only that the claims were based in hope rather than sound scientific findings.
Discussion (268 points, 5 days ago, 302 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43367987
kagi already lets me use claude to search the web. how is this different?
I definitely tried to web search with ChatGPT a few weeks ago and it couldn't. I don't think I'm making this up. Unless I suffered a TBI.
almost no one does, robots.txt is practically a joke at this point — right up there with autocomplete=off
Depth and Embodiment Present in Architectural Space as an Experience of Meaning
Indeed. You widen the conversation here, and remind me of the idea that moneyed influence is underrepresented in analysis and understanding of the world. Maybe the most appropriate way to understand big questions is who is funding the various players.

I like to think about "learn by doing". While I have of course lived it, I try to think of counterpoints. It seems clear that solar owes it's growth to Germany and California policies which subsidized the global solar industry with taxes on their economies, most disproportionately placed on individual ratepayers. But why couldn't solar research have been long-term funded based on it's fundamental value? Talk about national security, or geopolitical stability -- especially post 1970s! Skip the intermediate and expensive buildouts of the 2000s, failed companies heavily subsidized and fund research instead to hopefully bring the late 2010s forward in time?

What's a good model here, or concrete example? We see the same side of the history in electric vehicles. I think Tesla and Rivian, to pick two, both lost money on every sale in early years. Why not skip that expensive step in company history, and develop better products to sell at a profit from the beginning of mass manufacturing? Are there industries or technologies where this expensive/slow process went the other way?
Manasa, vacha, karmana: Talk your thought, walk your Talk
Also not all models support it. I think only gpt-4o and gpt-4o-mini support it, although I haven't triple checked that.
AFAICT the compiler would forbid to use `file` after the `writeString(file)` line, because it has been consumed.

You can get something like affine types out of the linear types constructed this way, by returning new one-time value every time when operations on an object can continue:

let file_1: File := openFile("test.txt");
let file_2 := writeString(file_1, "Hello, world!");
g(file_2);
kagi is searching the web for you, and then injecting the results into the context of the prompt.
How much dairy does the US import from Canada?

Answer: there is essentially no dairy trade between the countries. The US is, of course, free to have a reciprocal tariff policy.
The Cybertruck is just trash. It will be relegated to the scrap yard of embarassingly bad cars. Unless you want to argue it's actaully an embarassingly bad truck.
Kind of I guess? You should be more explicit that you're funnelling everything to through jina.ai
Bit fields are also common in live service network communication and other large data arrays like graphics calls in video games. Depending on what is being done, packets may not be inflated into proper data structures and left as raw bits to remove processing overhead. That’s my experience with actual 1 bit booleans, but yeah the vast majority of the time the “higher level” byte abstraction is just fine.
If I took iText, made changes to it, rebundled that behind a web service - that would be in violation of the AGPL. The thing that prevents that from happening is that the AGPL prevents it based on copyright.

It would be unreasonable to say that every web site out there or SaaS service needs to provide the source code to rebuild their site by someone else.

I will also point out the "write a law" would only apply to one country. Host it in another country and you could thumb your nose at the law. You would really want an international treaty such as the Berne Convention, or TRIPS, or WCT... which are implemented as copyright. Any changes to copyright would imply that that country is withdrawing from those treaties.