skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I think the actual contents of those messages would make all the difference in assessing the US response.

Note, too that last month two researchers (yes, actual researchers) threw bombs at a Russian consulate in France, so the argument that messages are just banter among friends and that academics would never actually do anything 'stupid' has been severely weakened.
Welcome to "Context".
> Today, the poorest 20% can still afford smartphones and flat screen TVs, clothes and even vacations.

Well 1940’s being a wartime era would be a bad time to compare to. It’d be best to compare to compare to just before globalization, probably 1960’s, 70’s, or even early 80’s.

Smartphones and flatscreen TVs aren’t necessities. Sure it’s great they’re cheap but they’d be cheap anyway. Only a fairly small fraction of manufacturing costs are due to labor based on leaked iPhone costs I’ve seen that were like 10’s of dollars.

At the same time housing costs have increased massively in the last 2 decades. Worker wages in most fields have not kept apace productivity gains. It’s worse in affluent areas where “free” money has skyrocketed housing prices. Perhaps it’s not related to globalization but it seems partly due to it.
Have we underestimated the total number of people on Earth?
... which changes nothing. You can build a rocket in your kitchen with stuff you likely already have.
Honestly reminds me of the early email spam wars - clever attempts at blocking, endless whack-a-mole with spoofed addresses. Problem is, now it's hitting open source projects we love. Maybe the AI gold rush is accidentally strangling the very communities that made its own existence possible.
Microcomb chips help pave the way for thousand times more accurate GPS systems
Trans Canada has a lot of non-dual carriageway segments and single points of failure.

In 2016 there was a bridge failure that resulted in large detours: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nipigon_River_Bridge
I've seen two apocalyptic North American scenarios in fiction, and have previously dismissed both as ridiculous.

1. In the Fallout universe, the USA annexes Canada

2. In at least two Neal Stephenson novels (Snowcrash and Termination Shock), the USA has collapsed.

I've never before thought that either of these would have a semi-realistic path to actually happening.
Rules and laws are for other people. A lot of people reading this comment having mistaken "fake it til you make it" or "better to not ask permission" for good life advice are responsible for perpetrating these attitudes, which are fundamentally narcissistic.
Nitrogen oxides, NO2, NO3.

They're generally toxic in large concentrations and I think a greenhouse pollutant.
Centralizing large parts of the web behind Cloudfare is something to be feared as well.
IMO with voice talent it's pretty obvious the AI will eventually win, especially when it pertains to video games where projects can contain 1,000s hours of dialogue. There's disruption right now because studios are being nice / have talent locked into existing projects that's hard to recast/pivot from. IIRC the voice acting drama also has a transnational dimension, something about blacklisting international talent from union projects if they don't join/pay dues to a US guild, which sits wrong with me. Either way the consequences of ceding to unions is bad for consumers, at least in video games. I don't want smaller projects to pick between either having all union voice acting and no AI which may be prohibitively expensive / not possible depending on scope. I want amateur RPG makers able to make projects with accessible AI generated voices, especially with how fast they're improving etc.
It's in a small circle of those that do. Blame the internet archive for starting this trend: https://blog.archive.org/2017/04/17/robots-txt-meant-for-sea...
I haven't had any of that just from having an FB and IG account. I honestly forgot I had an IG account for a long time until someone shared something with me and I realized I had one.
That's the fun kind of trivia that only a Canadian would know.
It's probably more likely taken into a troll farm where an employee of that organization is doing these posts using an AI prompt for each profile.
Oh you mean like when Apple spent year claiming to be the champion of privacy when they in fact recorded all of what you said all the time and send it to its team to improve Siri[1]?!

Did you see a mass exodus from Apple after that? I have seen barely any coverage this being covered outside of the French speaking world…

There's too many shady practices for the consumer to track, and you cannot even move to an alternative since everybody is doing bad stuff.

[1]: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/20/apple-whistleblower...
Isn't this still similar to extortion? Maintainers aren't creating the problem. They are minding their own business until scrapers come along and make too many unnecessary requests. Seems like the burden is clearly on the scrapers. They could easily be hitting the pages much less often for a start.

Doesn't your suggestion shift the responsibility to likely under-sponsored FOSS maintainers rather than companies? Also, how do people agree to switch to some centralized repository and how long does that take? Even if people move over, would that solve the issue? How would a scraper know not to crawl a maintainer's site? Scrapers already ignore robots.txt, so they'd probably still crawl even if you verified you've uploaded the latest content.
Canada's market is 10% of the USA. Of course there's going to be an imbalance in trade. Trump doesn't understand this, and he thinks that it means that Canada (the government) is literally ripping off the USA.

Just like he doesn't understand that tariffs are paid by the buyer, not the government of the seller.

Finally, the current trade treaty between Canada-USA-Mexico was negotiated by Trump himself, and it replaced NAFTA. When he says it's a bad deal, why is nobody pointing out that he negotiated it? And famously said it was the best trade deal in history.
Those of us who read the article think otherwise.
Faster interpreters in Go: Catching up with C++
They've made close to $100B on ARM (which they acquired in 2016). This dwarfs the $14B they lost on WeWork. Of course WeWork gets far more attention because it's a such an entertaining story.
Sundiver! Holy shit David Brin was right?
These are interesting times.

It wasn't long ago that a uni senior who worked for a decade+ on Google Search told me that it was hopeless anyone tries to compete with Google not because it sees a tonne of signals that helps with IR but because of its in-house AI/ML.

It turns out that the org that built the ultimate AI/ML that runs rings around anything that came before it for NLP (and thus IR) was a sister team at Google Translate.

It isn't inconceivable that a kid might be able to build a Google-quality web search, scalability aside, on CommonsCrawls data in a weekend. As someone who built re-ranking algorithms for a search engine built atop Yahoo! and Wikipedia (REST/SOAP) APIs back in the late 2000s as a side project (and experienced the launch and subsequent iterations of Echo/Alexa up close at Amazon), the current capabilities (of even the open weight multi-modal models) seem too good to be true.

Google itself though is saved by its enormous distribution advantages afforded by Chrome (3B to 5B users) and Android (3B+), aside from its search deals with Apple and other browser vendors.
Unethical behaviour always has a huge advantage over ethical behaviour, that's nothing new and pretty much by definition. The only way to prevent a race to the bottom is to make the unethical behaviour illegal or unprofitable.
In practice, robots.txt is to control which pages appear in Google results, which is respected as a matter of courtesy, not legality. It doesn't prevent proxies etc. from accessing your sites.
It looks like IBM is cutting jobs again, with Classic Cloud hit hard
Not sure it's fair to characterize a repo with 6k + commits and the last being 10 hours ago as "pure grift".
There's an old Joel Spolsky post that's evergreen about this strategy -- "commoditize your complement" [1]. I think it's done for the same reason Meta has made llama reasonably open -- making it open ensures that a proprietary monopoly over AI doesn't threaten your business model, which is noteworthy when your business model might include aggregating tons of UGC and monetizing engagement over it. True, you may not be able to run the only "walled garden" around it anymore, but at least someone else can't raid your walled garden to make a new one that you can't resell anymore. That's the simplest strategic rationale I could give for it, but I can imagine deeper layers going beyond that.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v/
Slightly less convenient/has more impact on how we percieve our environment, but HVAC (the number 1 power use, hot water is #2), can also be a decently good battery, if your house is well insulated. Where I live, power is incredibly cheap over night, so I over-heat or over-cool my house (depending on season) overnight, and then let it gradually equilibrate during the day.

I realize that some people won't be willing to have a very warm/very cold house that gradually shifts to the more ideal comfortable range, but for people who are willing to deal with that (it personally doesn't bother me), it's a pretty easy way to shift a lot of power use and, if you have Solar or Time of Use billing, save a lot of money.
Could this lead to a situation where user agents also need to have their identities verified with a certificate authority the way websites do?
Nonsense. Some of the current best AI models were specifically trained on AI output.
You should ignore all of it. They mostly sell the idea of a developer to you, the same with any marketing. That's what an influencer does, they make you feel good about buying a cheap identity.
I hadn't heard about Sweden so went and looked it up. In Jan 2025 there were 30 blasts, over 1 a day!!!

Facts are violence is an indication of issues, not the issue itself. Poverty, unhappiness, lack of opportunities, combined with dissatisfaction with the govt increased by the never ending waves of propaganda from both sides.

In that light, the US and Sweden both are facing serious social crises. Solely blaming the tools doesn't even start to understand the causes of the social issues nor gets us anywhere near solving them.
careful, some of those are honey pots or trip wires
As an American that goes to academic/tech conferences, this situation is also pretty negative, because it certainly is going to lead to many organizers moving their conferences to other places.

If I were running the convention center in Vancouver/Toronto/Montreal I'd be feeling pretty good right now.
It's also not actually true there's only one. To get through northern Ontario, sure. But there's also the Yellowhead all the way from Winnipeg to Haida Gwai, and plenty of highways that connect to Hwy 2 from there.

Trans-Canada is a highway system, not a single road.

It's true that the stretch from Kenora to Sault Ste Marie is a vulnerability. It's tough terrain.
It doesn't keep everything as before, it's a new profile that started with no image, no description, 0 followers etc.

This is clearly malicious if they recreated my account exactly as before, and it's also clearly premeditated if they kept track of my profile info.
> Apple News would probably do it since they also have good curation, but afaict they still don't support foreign news sources (why???).

ground.news includes sources from all sorts of countries, and also auto-translate headline and the intro, while you can still click to access the source article. Not affiliated, just happy user.

Example with sources in English, German and French: https://ground.news/article/accident-on-the-a13-in-the-yveli...

Although I'm not sure how useful it is for language learning, as you cannot (afaik) configure it to only display articles in Spanish or something similar, but if you filter by stories about France, you'll get a lot of French sources (obviously).
I wouldn’t call „it closed once in 2016“ regular closure, that actually seems pretty reliable.
if a human triggers the web crawlers by pressing a button, should they ignore robots.txt?
Yep, we've also run into inconsistency issues when trying to build with these agents. The biggest thing we've seen help is by breaking the task down into smaller actions, effectively writing a script for the agent (e.g., go to google.com. type 'hello world', etc). The more loaded the prompt, the more off the rails it might go. We want to create more tools to help with reliability/this inconsistency, but it's also something that I hope improves relatively soon from the foundational model companies investing more here

In terms of multi agent workflows - it's something we've been thinking about! We especially think this could be especially helpful when filling out a form to speed things up even more. It's hard for me to think of other use cases though where multiple agents might need to share a vm (as opposed to just spinning up another vm with another agent), but curious to hear your thoughts!
Conversely, every browser is a program that automatically executes HTTP requests.
The number one cause of death for children in America is shootings.
Show HN: Transcript Pro, a Chrome extension for searching YouTube transcripts
Transcript Pro lets you instantly search for words and view transcripts in YouTube videos, saving you time by jumping directly to the content you need.

This has been a helpful tool when searching for YouTube videos that mention specific topics.
QWERTY was invented to make input slower on mechanical devices and prevent the mechanical equivalent of a buffer overflow.
LLMs don't store 'stories' though, they store probabilities of words relating to other words. The guys complaint is that it hallucinated a story about him killing his kids. They've changed it to no longer hallucinate when you search for information about a person, but to instead do an actual google search and return that information instead. His complaint and the underlying issue has been resolved.
Ask HN: Is advanced AI ultimately deflationary?
Wouldn't democratized access to advanced AI lower long standing barriers to entry for a large subset of businesses and lead to more competition and lower prices for consumers?
Man, if I had a dime for every Substack piece that laundered a Chomsky essay with Žižek as their supporting source...
ask the same geniuses who gave you the browser cookie popup re-implemented in a new way on every fucking website ever
DDR10 spec will have mandatory LEDs for heat dissipation reasons.
VCs are indeed partly about giant winners offsetting the losers. But according to Taleb, the main part is to convince other people to put money in your fund and get rich from the management fees. So from that perspective, VC is mostly about pretending your fund does well and getting people to buy in. That's probably why VCs love to buy companies in overhyped industries.
If you want to talk about slippery slopes the one that scares me most is deportation of what Trump calls "bad hombres" to prisons in El Salvador — without any due process. No matter how bad the "hombres", they must be given due process. Without that anyone that the president decides can be sent directly to prison.
Show HN: Open-Source C++ Apache Iceberg Client with Write Support
Existing OSS C++ projects like ClickHouse and DuckDB support reading from Iceberg tables. Writing requires Spark, PyIceberg, or managed services.

In this PR https://github.com/timeplus-io/proton/pull/928, we are open-sourcing a C++ implementation of Iceberg integration. It's an MVP, focusing on REST catalog and S3 read/write(S3 table support coming soon). You can use Timeplus to continuously read data from MSK and stream writes to S3 in the Iceberg format. No JVM. No Python. Just a low-overhead, high-throughput C++ engine. Docker/K8s are optional. Demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2m6ehwmzOnc

Help us improve the code to add more integrations and features. Happy to contribute this to the Iceberg community. Or just roast the code. We’ll buy the virtual coffee.
Tesla Recalls Most Cybertrucks
I didn't personally use the word "blatant", but when I said "lying" I was referring to claims that:

* The Biden administration either forgot about or deliberately chose to leave astronauts in space for political reasons.

* Trump's request accelerated the decision to bring the astronauts home.

"Monumental efforts" was a more general comment about the space industry, including the activities of both NASA and SpaceX. Bringing astronauts home from space when equipment has gone faulty is a challenge I do not envy whatsoever. For Trump to claim credit in the venture is bordering on obscene.
> it's the assurance you give to anyone else that any of your customers are flesh-and-blood.

Why would any third party rely on authentication based on the relationship between my service and my customers?
>I'm guessing your image viewer is rendering each pixel in my image as 1.5 pixels

Gosh, you are right, I'm so sorry, it really was my PC. Yes, it really is much nicer once I looked at the real pixels of your screenshot. Thank you for the answer.
I’ll be interested in trying it. My admittedly limited experience with this on ChatGPT has been disappointing. ChatGPT falls for the SEO content that has taken over the web.

As an example, I recently travelled abroad to a popular vacationing spot and asked ChatGPT for local recommendations on what to do. When it gave me answers directly, they were pretty solid. But when it “searched the web” instead, the answers were awful. Every single result it suggested had terrible ratings. It did this repeatedly. One of those times I asked it to pick something with better ratings and it sort of improved but not by much.

Of course this is another tool and maybe Claude uses better sources or a better algorithm, but in this case where there was a concrete number tied to the results, that while not perfect, aims to rate the quality of a result, it still did not filter out low quality answers. I’m not sure I trust these LLMs to do any better when there aren’t such ratings available. The available input data is just not very good, and now LLMs are being used to feed that low quality, SEO machine.
This kind of thing always starts with the free tier and then creeps into every other tier. I can absolutely see Cloudflare doing this for free tier users "in order to recover costs"
Not really, there's zero percent up to a certain level, which historically has never been reached.

Also, that trade deal was negotiated by Trump himself, who called it "the best trade deal in history."
Are we seeing this happen anywhere right now? I would argue a very strong "no" but maybe I've missed something.
the fear mongering is real with this article, sheesh.

anything can be a "weapon of war" if desired. actors are using broken up bike chains for shrapnel in IEDs. is my huffy a weapon of war? :/
Why does having the reserve country benefit america? Because it enables us to run unsustainable deficits? Is that good for Americans in the long run?
I think the issue is whether an individual's rights under GDPR are being honoured or not. If the applied filter doesn't allow for relatively easy bypasses that demonstrates that either the data wasn't sufficiently corrected or deleted, then I think that would work. However, if an organisation claims to have removed that PII, but subsequently can leak it, then the filter is simply a band-aid and the organisation isn't GDPR compliant.

There's also a major problem with LLMs if the training data includes PII that the individual never gave consent for it to be used for that purpose.
Exactly. Not even social networking is bad per se. It’s concentration of power that’s bad.

Considering recent events especially, is all the worlds traffic passing through a cdn subject to a certain jurisdiction a good thing?
Yeah, I like have an express or python backend that just is the api. I know I can test and validate what comes out easily, and control auth from there.

The backend is the real app, and the frontend is the ui peice.

With a solid backend, you can yank out the FE and replace it, or have it power some other apps easily. You can identify issues, and not have to traverse much code to get to them.

Your browser network tools will quickly help you identify if your problem is on the backend or the frontend regarding data.

SSR, well it is like going back to PHP days. The problem could be anywhere in the codebase.

If SEO is important, then yeah, it becomes an issue, but in that case I think periodic caching of client side rendered code to make it so that it shows that to the crawlers works best.
Only few are both capable and willing to take on creative tasks, with AIs or not. Boring people cannot form strong enough cohesive thoughts that can drive an AI, even if AI output itself were not as boring as they are.
How has Canada compared to the US in terms of visa's and conferences? I know there have been a number of successful conferences here, but more scientific than technical from my recollection.

I'd love for us to be a new destination for these conferences and international events, but as a Canadian I'm not sure how easily non-Canadians can enter/exit the country. My understanding its its fairly easy but I've never had the opportunity to find out.
People have been looking everywhere for a better solution than Dark Matter and especially Dark Energy for decades now without success. They may hate the theories, for good reason, but nothing better has materialized yet. Modified gravity always seems intriguing until you slam in a counterexamples for example.

This is a lingering sense that we have missed something big.
We could easily user activity logs that showed their login activity and what they did on each session. You can't prove a negative, but having all of that data for their entire account looks good. We could show that reminder emails were sent a week before fulfillment (with enough time to cancel), as well as shipping notifications.

We really weren't into tricking people, and we would do everything we could to accommodate if you contacted us directly.
Why on earth is jppullen's comment dead?
I think that adds to my point. How does that have so many stars on github? The customers "star" it. Who uses this on a real app? It's alright to slowly accept the bitter truth that grifting scales.
I believe the A350 has it in qwerty.
Intentionally or not you are definitely implying that specifics of the statements make this action correct. Saying you're not doing something is not quite the same thing as actually not doing it.
Passkeys can't always protect an account against phishing either (https://cyberpress.org/passkeys-with-aitm-phishing-attacks/) they just make it more difficult for scammers.
I'm extremely skeptical of that claim. I'd buy that, on the scale of individual houses, a large battery bank could make a fire worse. Once you get to the point of whole cities burning, I just don't buy that batteries make a difference. I _might_ be willing to believe that in some narrow technical sense some homes burned hotter or faster because they had batteries. I don't buy at all that, at the big scale, number of homes burned or total damage incurred was higher.

That being said, yes, utility scale batteries do pose somewhat of a novel risk, especially as they are new and we are figuring out the engineering. A new installation in Moss Landing has burned twice in the past several months, although according to reports, the damage was entirely contained to the facility.
Do really think LLM vendors that download 80TB+ of data over torrents are going to be labeling their crawler agents correctly and running them out of known datacenters?
Asterisk means exponent here?