skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Why is Europe like this?

Italy isn't Europe.
Europe isn't Italy, either.
I really like this concept, especially the idea of credentials proving themselves without needing constant re-verification. Personally, the biggest friction I've faced is repeatedly proving my educational background to employers. Every new job application feels like a Groundhog Day of document exchanges. So I'd obviously feel more comfortable if my university or past employers directly backed the authenticity of my credentials. It sounds secure and convenient, though I wonder how easily organizations would adopt such a system.

My main concern would be around how well this protects my privacy. Can I control exactly who sees what, and can access be revoked once granted?

Super interested to see how this develops!
Most of webdev has been done 1000000x before. Though to be fair, Wix and Squarespace already bit a huge chunk out of that market.
‪There’s a nice summary of group commit in this MySQL 5.6 work log for binary log group commit implementation ‬
‪https://dev.mysql.com/worklog/task/?id=5223‬

‪Great blog here too on changes since :‬
‪https://hackmysql.com/group-commit-and-trx-dependency-tracki...
People have this frustrating tendency to see any spike in bad behavior as the worse that it has ever been. I recently saw someone say that anti-Semitism has never been worse and they were getting tons of folks agreeing. I'm sure there's a name for this sort of myopia in psychology.
This reminds me of some of those badly translated web comics that I've read from China. Only not as fun to read.
And full self driving is always just 5 years away.
-40 - cold as fuck, 40 - hot as fuck. 0 - shit freezes, better drive carefully.

I don't understand why this is always breought out when farenheit is criticized, as if the 0F-100F thing is the "killer app" for temperature scales.
I don't see anything resembling an actual release, just a bunch of files in a repo...?
> When I see people deeply angry at society, at politicians, or at me, I see somebody who has had their boundaries crossed, again and again, and has been taught that they are not allowed to set them.

Aggressive angry people were frequently enabled whole their lives. They were not taught to control or suppress anger they were taught everyone else is at fault.

That is frequent real world situation.

Likewise, people who feel wronged and treated unfairly because they are subject to the same rules as others are a thing. Their boundary of "only I matter, you dont" was crossed, but is not legitimate at all.

The typical dynamic is that bully is enabled, because it is easier. And typically victim is pushed to more submission, because it is easier. And bully grows angrier and more aggressive.

And it is the same in politics.
> Revenues for the first quarter of 2020 were shown as $1.38 million, a huge jump from $177,635 in Q1 2019, thanks to "two enterprise customers" that "successfully beta tested KAI."

TL;DR: Their revenue was the result of round-tripping spending through a partner company who agreed to “spend” the same amount of money back into Kubient. They created fake reports to show to auditors to cover up the synthetic revenue.

They generated fake revenue with the help of another company and then IPO-ed months later. Truly a sign of the times in that era of SPACs and other ridiculous market offerings.
One finds the most interesting people on HN
Small enough to fail and jail.
His cuts on dry land: ~~~
In what country do people encounter -40 degrees
I don't understand why acknowledgment of climate change would lead to nuclear over solar/wind.
Grok 3: Critical Reassessment of the Anthropogenic Global Warming Hypothesis
We've had a long history of technological improvements being widespread distributed to the people. There's not a particularly bleak reason to believe the latest AI automation won't be too. Look around your desk or your house and just count all the effort-saving devices that have made their way down to you. Look at the price of TVs cratering. Tech that can be recreated easily spreads far and wide. AI can too. It's dropped 1000x in costs the last 2 years. This stuff will be running on old tech everywhere - and speedier and cheaper new chips, bots and other hardware are on their way.

Unless there's a new world war or draconian regulation, we're good. It's pretty much locked in.
Moral training is useless in the face of the social media flamethrower. It's very easy for people to surround themselves with a feed that tells them that immoral things are Good, Actually. People can reason themselves into anything. The Effective Altruism lot turning into financial crimes with SBF is a good example.
AI is here to serve man.
Unvibe AI (YC S25) is hiring.
Yes, I don't know why I wrote it, since it's obviously wrong. I assumed mentally that they'd put as much power into the second propeller as into the first and that it'd go into the airflow reasonably effectively, but you don't double the thrust by doing that, you presumably double the power in the airflow, so that its velocity velocity to sqrt(2) times what it was, so you get a momentum increase by sqrt(2) and since force is the derivative of momentum the thrust is increased by sqrt(2), and then you a thrust increase by sqrt(2), and maybe you also get those 6-16% you mention.
for better or worse, Claude code is less parsimonious with tokens compared to aider for the same thing.
We had a -40F windchill day here in Michigan a few years ago.
And when it finally works..? I suspect (vibe) coding can be significantly improved by multi-step structural approach. Including coding, review, testing in a loop. Fully automatic. Like Chain of Thoughts helps solving logical tasks. This can be done today. The main limitation here is affective context window. I.e. big project doesn't fit. The solution is splitting, separating, and documenting. Brief doc instead of the whole code in prompt.

With this developers need to level up to architects, get more domain knowledge.
o1 has lately seemed more useful for debugging than for actually writing code. With writing code, it may give me some scaffold but I have a pretty particular idea of what I want and I have to rewrite most of it.

With debugging, there have been multiple cases where I was stuck on something, I described the problem in detail and o1 gave me an insightful explanation of what I didn't understand.

It's not magic, but mostly what makes it not magic is it can't respond to very detailed questions. But if I can get it the relevant information into a small space it can draw connections I can't.
There's no proof he was part of any briefing, and pretty much everyone has denied this has happened. You need to diversify your news sources beyond the ones that confirm your beliefs, truthful or not.
> Facebook and Instagram cost a significant amount of money to build and maintain, and these services are free for British consumers because of personalised advertising.

It could just as well be free without personalized ads but with regular advertisement.

As far as I know Facebook is extremely profitable.
> the seagull guys who come in, declare that their favorite framework will solve everything, and leave are more vulnerable to being replaced by an LLM than someone who knows how to code but is also bringing actual business-relevant experience and judgement which an LLM can’t have.

But that's just a continuous variant of the discrete-sounding claim that programming will get eaten by AI soon. After all, the "actual business-relevant experience and judgement which an LLM can’t have" is mostly not related to programming - and the better LLMs get at coding, the less value will the programming parts of the skillset have; take it to the limit, and it's just saying the managers and sales people will stay, while software developers will be gone.
> I do think it is fair to hold people who live in democracies responsible in a general or aggregate sense for the actions of their elected governments.

Are you american? Should you be held responsible for Trumps' and Musks' actions?
I haven't really noticed that myself. I go "LLM shopping" fairly frequently trying to find which one of the few I'm paying for gives the best result for the current problem. They all seem to have their shortfalls, although I will say Claude is better for Greenfield work.
> Fahrenheit was designed with humans in mind

If there was a design, it's not clear what the intent was. It seems about twice as precise as it needs to be (i certainly can't perceive 1F°—for all intents and purposes, 70 feels about the same as 69 and 71) and doesn't seem to correlate to any scale that is immediately based off the needs of humans. At least compared to celcius.
Interesting, but it doesn't seem to go far enough to be something I'd consider in place of my existing synchronous workflow with Cursor or async workflow with a Devon-like tool. I'd love to have seen a more in-depth example of building a tool like type checking for linting or a tool like "feature guideline + impl workflow".
I don't agree with any of what you've said. Thanks for the argument.
The US pressured the Swedish government to close Pirate bay, sieze its servers etc. Tried to shut it for the whole world.

This is the country that banned Tiktok, inacted the DMCA. Apparently the US has blocked 1.2m websites since 2010. They sieze domains, sieze servers. They stop payment companies working for the sites.
Are we forgetting the original one, Ronald Reagan? Guy was a literal middling actor, whose only claim to fame was snitching on Communist sympathizers in Hollywood when it was cool.
What would you cut? I don’t know what I would, but I do know that the United States is heading for a financial apocalypse unless drastic measures are taken now.

I know there’s a lot of hysteria around this, but I’m still at the place where I can be optimistic that the US will come out ahead. At least they’re doing something besides spending more money and acting like everything‘s OK. From a long-term financial stability standpoint it’s really not.
Russia, canada, sweden, norway, finland, us... probably missing a few. Edit: mongolia too, I think.

curiously, nothing in the southern hemisphere?
Yes Apple's clang weird ass versioning causes all sorts of problems too
I wouldn't bet against it. Self-driving tech benefits directly from the outputs of sudden and continued growth of R&D in AI, fueled by hype-driven investments.
One of the best things to come out of destroying environmentalism is that we can finally get working on renewable energy instead of being blocked by suicidal environmentalists who find wind farms too ugly.
Not a web dev, so struggling a bit to understand this.

Are they saying they had a special flag that allowed requests to bypass auth, intended to be used by calls generated internally?

And someone figured out you could just send that on the first request and skip auth entirely?
A new candidate for the running for being the Theranos of AI has just been found.
Yes, as much hate as it tends to get on here it's really fine.
This vulnerability is unfortunate but every library/framework will have security issues over its lifespan.
> Schengen is different from EU.

Schengen isn't "different from EU". It originally was separate from EU, but since 1999 has been an aspect of the EU. Per Wikipedia:

> Originally, the Schengen treaties and the rules adopted under them operated independently from the European Union. However, in 1999 they were incorporated into European Union law by the Amsterdam Treaty, while providing opt-outs for the only two EU member states that had remained outside the Area: Ireland and the United Kingdom (which subsequently withdrew from the EU in 2020). Schengen is now a core part of EU law, and all EU member states without an opt-out which have not already joined the Schengen Area are legally obliged to do so when technical requirements have been met. Several non-EU countries are included in the area through special association agreements.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen_Agreement
I found a different article that goes into more detail:

https://zeropath.com/blog/nextjs-middleware-cve-2025-29927-a...

This looks trivially easy to bypass.

More generally, the entire concept of using middleware which communicates using the same mechanism that is also used for untrusted user input seems pretty wild to me. It divorces the place you need to write code for user request validation (as soon as the user request arrives) from the middleware itself.

Allowing ANY headers from the user except a whitelisted subset also seems like an accident waiting to happen. I think the mindset of ignoring unknown/invalid parts of a request as long as some of it is valid also plays a role.

The framework providing crutches for bad server design is also a consequence of this mindset - are there any concrete use cases where the flow for processing a request should not be a DAG? Allowing recursive requests across authentication boundaries seems like a problem waiting to happen as well.
I'd like to see a long term of showing both the workflow design next to the example codebase with links from the diagram into the files in the codebase. I'm hoping we see more like this become available to help everyone learn the design for AI pipelines
The claim in the article di that anger is associated with a desire for payback, of which revenge is one manifestation. This is subtle, but I think that in an article like this subtle differences matter. The author also claims that this is backed by psychology studies, though some sources for this claim would have been welcome.

The author does go on to focus on revenge only, and I'm with you on being skeptical that this implies that anger is an emotion that should be repressed. It seems to me that the authors equates a bit too quickly payback with a negative or a frivolous desire. The focus on Mandela's South Africa, of all things, is pretty curious since there definitely was a change in status for the white community after he took power.

When you're angry with yourself (or perhaps when you are angry at a situation in which you are by your own fault) the payback would be to not let that situation happen again. Or maybe the payback is to change yourself to address the character flaw that your anger is targeted at.
Whether vibe coding works for you depends on how tight your requirements are.
HN has a very weird mind-set when it comes to JS frameworks.

Next.JS is more than fine for 99% of web apps, and the fit only gets better the bigger your web app/platform. In general it's probably the framework that will give you the most bang for your buck.
"justice"
https://archive.is/QC4D8
14 days is a long time to keep warm something warm. That's in the realm of a Radioactive decay heater. That might at least keep things warm enough that it can wake up the next day.
It is pretty much an independent system. There are only a handful of organizations on the planet operating an independent global weather model. For historical reasons the US operates two of them. A good argument can be made that the European model is better than either, so it might make sense for the US to combine some of those global weather model resources.
I think you have to ask what it’s compared to. Certainly this is no worse than things we’ve seen in the PHP or Java space and people still use those.

However, there is one argument you could make regarding the massive amount of complexity which Next takes on trying to blur client and server execution. That’s prone to creating confusion around validation and control flow, which is a notorious source of security vulnerabilities and it looks like this might be another one as it appears to be related to how they try to transition from edge execution to server-side.

So less a Next-specific point than recognizing that poor architecture is an ongoing risk. This kind approach has been tried and generally failed to deliver in it’s promised repeatedly over the decades because it only saves time building out a quick demo. Once you have a real app, with multiple people working on it, you really want a clear definition of what runs where because it’s much easier to reasonable about security, performance, and reliability if you don’t have layers of abstraction trying to pretend unlike things are alike.
Nvidia Isaac GR00T N1
The DMCA is a complete nightmare for Europeans trying to ship anything in the US. The US control over the payment industry is a complete nightmare for Europeans trying to ship anything anywhere.
The article does in fact cite the reproducible-builds project, in the section on "Leveraging bitwise reproducibility". From your comment I am not convinced you understood the point of the article, which is:

* the NixOS build process was unable to perform a full-source build of xz because xz is required too early in the bootstrap;

* a proposed adjustment to nixpkgs to automatically detect compromises of nixpkgs dependencies which are required early in the bootstrap.

Other ecosystems can of course also attempt full-source builds and discover the discrepancy; the entire point of the article is that nixpkgs currently cannot.
This concept sounds great. I despise Xero, and felt the same about QuickBooks before it. "Linear for accounting" basically already has me sold. Just please make it work for UK companies some time (from a YC22 Founder).
I'm not sure North Korea is a place you'd make a car rental, but this is now 99% of car rentals work:

1. You agree up-front in the contract with the car rental company that you will pay for all fines, parking tickets, etc. you might incur during the rental. You agree ahead of time the rental company won't waste any money defending you, arguing you didn't do it, and will instead pay the whole fine immediately and pass it on to you, and payment will be automatically taken. You always agree this because otherwise they just don't rent the car to you.

2. You incur a fine.

3. The authorities fine the owner of the vehicle, which is the rental company.

4. The rental company immediately bills you for the fine, converted to the currency you paid them in, using your payment details, and they add an extra administrative fee as well.

5. The rental company pays themselves and the fine-issuing authority with your money.
Elon Musk Promises Full Self-Driving 'Next Year' For The Ninth Year In A Row[1] - this article was published over 3 years ago.

Are there many examples of a valuable company's stock being based on something which it has failed to deliver on for over a decade and is set to continue failing to deliver?

[1] https://www.jalopnik.com/elon-musk-promises-full-self-drivin...
> It’s possible to do this entirely in systemd service configuration

Sure, but I think that leaves out many use cases. What if I want to e.g. start a Python shell that has access to certain directories, and nothing else, including no network access?

Nix provides a good way of doing that for common use cases, as it has decent support for Firejail. But I would like something like Guix containers, which is convenient for any ad hoc use case. This greatly reduces any security threat. It's a poor-man's QubesOS.
The problem is society doesn’t allow normal people to enforce boundaries or consequences against those “aggressive angry people” in any meaningful way.
I didn't see any rage like this when EU was hammering Zuckerberg.
Government funded research also has perverse incentives:

1. publish or perish, leading to lots of low quality papers

2. funding doesn't continue if one doesn't get results, leading to selection of "safe" research rather than risky research, and results that cannot be replicated

3. no funding for politically unpopular topics

and, of course, the reasons why people publish overtly fraudulent research papers.
this isn't what I would call an abstraction, that's creating a named type. named types are simple because their algebra is also simple and their maintenance cost is low.

problem is more when you have types that "do things" and "have responsibilities" (usually to "do things with other types they hold pointers to, but do not totally own"), such a type is very difficult to maintain because there's now:

- a boundary of its responsibilities that is subjective,

- responsibility of building collaborators and initializing the type

- dealing with test doubles for the collaborators.
Probably not, this is a static website, I pick a random equation from a pool of 10 on load time. Do you remember which one it showed? or tried to show?
Are those quantities in imperial Newtons or nautical Newtons?
It's interesting to observe that every process is already restricted to only be able to do computation by default. Then along comes the OS with a plethora of holes in the sandbox to do various things. And then it's strange that we take those holes for granted and apply bandaid patches over them instead of not creating the holes to begin with. Why can't we ask the kernel to create a new extremely limited memory map and run some code until a certain software interrupt fires, then restore the previous context? Why should we have to start with a fully powered-up process and then close off its abilities, instead of starting with no capabilities except the in/out buffers and computation? In this model, there could be a deliberate backdoor in the computation and it still couldn't do anything besides DoS.

See also https://xkcd.com/2044
Totally lines up with my experience as well. We also have the opposite problem of reams of code generated years ago from a period of unsupervised offshore work where we're slowly paying down the debt but the LLMs will attempt to use the old code for new work. Most of it is spaghetti UI code and nearly impossible to reuse effectively but the LLMs give it their best and we have prompt around it.
Mathematics is one of our love stories?

Yes! All the endings are happy and the unfinished stories are utterly fascinating. And there are already so many stories with happy endings!

Mathematics is our best bildungsroman
I'm kind of optimistic, especially fixing mortality seems interesting.

I'm not sure which particular hype won't manifest but a lot of the AI progress is kind of inevitable.
This is very interesting, because I absolutely can feel one degree F difference in house temperature.

I wonder if using a lower resolution scale dulls the senses like other forms of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity
It can't be though. It's earth's dark side. It couldn't be bright like that -- it's not physically possible, right? At best it would be a sliver of a crescent.

Also, in the other photo, there's a dark circular object partially obscuring. That would have to be earth, no? Obscuring the sun, which means the object on the horizon is... lens flare even brighter than the sun, or something?

Do people here understand my confusion? I'm not convinced the captions are accurate, because they seem to contradict what's physically possible.
"Get rich or die tryin" was in the early 2000s ? "Too big to fail" was from the late 80s.

The general feeling, both from the top and the bottom, that breaking the law can either be a calculated risk or counted as cost of business has been prevalent for a while IMHO.

Jerk CEOs constantly reported as getting fined for private infractions and throwing money at the problem as a way of life was only making it more culturally palpable IMHO.

Or even Michael Jordan's Nike deal. We've been there for a while.
Programmer vs. Developer: 1 in 4 programming jobs have vanished
I’d love something in between “knowing a subset of the subject” and reading all the values. But, now that I think about it, nats lets me subscribe to kv changes so I could incrementally maintain some index and retrieve the keys from that…