skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was pretty much in the same boat recently. Pulled the trigger and got M4 MBP - no regrets, great machine! Blows Intel-based competition by far away, double the speed of my beefy desktop build from 5y ago. Yea, I wish it could run Linux, but Mac OS works very well as a hypervisor and I still do all my day-to-day work in a familiar environment in Linux VMs. With all the supply chain attacks lately, I don't usually dare to develop on baremetal host anymore anyway. Related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42541508

In fact, it's even better than Linux as a VM desktop host - finally a reliable suspend on lid close, smooth graphics in VMs, easy context switching between VMs, no silly fiddling with virgl and GPU passthrough etc. It Just Works. I can even play almost all the Windows games I care about - and at totally acceptable frame rates despite x86/ARM translation layers and lack of discrete GPU.
> you needed 5 terabyte of storage for a relay

I have sixteen terabytes mirrored sitting next to my television. It's 2025. Sixteen terabytes is not that much any more.

But rather than the only options being "global megacorp" or "individual", I think people should consider the possibility of medium-sized collective organizations for doing this kind of thing. You could club together to run a PDS. There are more options for organizational scale than "huge" or "atomized".
The Deceptively Complex World of RRULEs in Calendar Events (2019)
The Diplomatic Couriers Who Deliver America's Mail (2018)
> These seem to be beta features

What? Where did you get that impression?

> But in any case it seems like its just doing some number of asserts to validate some preconditions

Yeah, like C code normally would, just in the STD in this case.
Conversely, I can't imagine them saying they were happy and lucky beyond their dreams, even if they felt that way, because "being in space is more awesome than having a life" would be a view too controversial to voice, and wouldn't be received well by most of society.
> Your suggestion won’t solve any problem and will introduce new ones, like making manipulation and censorship easier.

This is absolutely untrue for manipulation. Currently, private (both American and Chinese) social media platforms have become mouthpieces of authoritarian propaganda and misinformation. Russian bot farms cooperate with American billionaires to push destabilizing extremist propaganda and suppress moderate voices.

And I agree that outlawing all non-ID media would open the floodgates for government censorship. But that is not the proposal here: the proposal is to provide an alternative, which guarantees that the opinion you read is, in fact, the opinion of a real (European) person, not the output of an LLM trained on the hateful ramblings of the Yarvins and Dugins of this world. If that's not what you want, you're free to go back to TikTok, X or Facebook.

We are in agreement on "chat control" and similar anti-encryption political schemes, but the social media question pertains to public, not private, communications.

Signed,

Colin Emonds (of Cologne, Germany)

A European
> they could fetch the post reference on x.com with the real date

Twitter posts are only available to authenticated users, and the API is really quite expensive now - that was one of the many reasons people have wanted to move off it!
I wonder why my brain calculates `90% faster' as 10% of the time (i.e. t1=0.1*t0) it used to be working. However, this makes sense only if we calculate the recompiled application running time as t1=t0/1.90
Git natively supports excludes in all pathspecs, e.g. `git log -- ':!generated/'` to exclude files in the `generated/` folder from showing up in the log.
This one failure to return astronauts means spacex will replace nasa and that’s insane
Thank you, didn't know about this rabbit hole.

The wikipedia page has a handy list of companies to avoid at all costs: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_8200
What company do you use for Polish invoicing?
The title doesn’t imply that at all though. 100% faster means doubled speed. 10% runtime means 1000% faster.
How's about: LLM Agent: any packaging of the use of AI such that the details of using said AI are packaged, hidden, and the user of this LLM Agent does not need to concern themselves with AI at all, only the intelligence services provided by what is now a simulated personality the user can willfully self deceive they are working with a human.
If you learn to do it on the command line, doing it remotely on another machine or in an automated fashion becomes easy.
I don't think anybody buys their product for the specific reason that they can not do certain things. Nobody likes the restrictions. People buy a product because there are features (things they can do) that they want, including intangible features like usability (it's easier to make a full system backup on iOS than on Android, for example)

Edit: or maybe I'm wrong. I do know one person who bought a phone because it sucked, because they didn't want to spend as much time glued to the device. It was an Android with a tiny tiny screen, though, because iOS would not be allowed to run on hardware of your choosing due to Apple's restrictions... Either way, I guess there is a market of people who do want to inflict pain upon themselves, but this really does seem like exceedingly niche argument to me. Saying that the restrictions are the reason why their demographic buys their device is just buying into Apple's lies that fund their bottom line
It's more like a set of numbers since the prompt is just an interface that gets tokenized.

It would be like saying a DJ's equalizer settings are copyrightable.
Edward Mendelson does an amazing job packaging Sheep Shaver with a bunch of built-in utilities and interfaces to your outer system that makes it much more usable out of the box:

https://www.mendelson.org/macos9osx.html

You can think about his work as a wrapper for Sheep Shaver with some quality of life improvements and some pre-installed software on the disk image.
Spam exploded in 2003[1] to the modern experience of it. Before that, spam was somewhat infrequent, even without countermeasures.

I recall in the 2001 time period being so annoyed by each individual spam note that I would respond to the appropriate "abuse@" email. By 2004, it was a torrent and totally impractical, and I don't think it was because of my own notes to administrators.

[1] https://www.emailtray.com/blog/email-spam-trends-2001-2012/
Not all assholes are created equal. Case in point:
“ You can’t easily side load apps onto an iPhone. That means we have to publish the app on the iPhone appstore. This is a gigantic pain because Apple. Every update comes with the risk that a random app reviewer could make up some BS excuse and block the update”

eh. nowadays it’s easier, at least in the EU
> Most people haven't met an Israeli or traveled to Israel.

I have travelled to Israel a bunch of times and worked with a lot (proportionately) of Israelis and Jews. I generally really really like working with them, like their attitude and love the vibe of Tel Aviv.

That doesn't mean that I support or agree with their behaviour in Palestine particularly.

Like, I have often hated US foreign policy, but have always been OK with US citizens. The two things are very different.
There is an effort in OpenTelemetry to create a standard query language for observability. There were a lot of discussions with a lot of opinions; there were even several talks during KubeConEU about that:

https://sched.co/1tcyx

https://sched.co/1txI1

We are still waiting for a compelling implementation that will show the way.
Some cryptographic trust anchor and a web of trust yes, government sponsored no.
No? Can you explain?

It breaks the durabality for that transaction until a new transaction with synchronous commit 'on' completes or time passes for auto-fsync.
https://www.macintoshrepository.org/software_search.php?pubi...
Big education is worse than big tech. At least we only add ads to your TV and car instead of straight up yoinking it. /s
Can you explain the "intelligence" part? Can't one derive a decision tree of any "intelligent agent" that is in essence no different than a classically programmed algorithm?
A Border Collie is not high risk. A Border Collie with an inexperienced owner can be, depending on the individuality of the dog. The behavior of a dog, any dog, are always the combination of breed, individual trait, and the owner. All three contribute to the potential of risk, with the biggest emphasis on the owner. It is why when a dog attacks, blame is put on the owner.

When a horse kills a child, we would put the blame on the parents or handler. Horses size and temperament do make horses potentially very dangerous, much more than any dog, but we view that high potential risk in the context of the individual traits and the owner. It makes little sense to view it in isolation.

A Border Collie with the common know issues of Border Collies goes against the breed standard of Border Collies. That may look like a contradiction. However, the good traits that the breed standard looks for may increase the difficulty of handling, but the breed standard do not look for the negative traits.
> business model innovation

The OpenAI grift, the Facebook & Google stalking advertising, the Uber “independent contractors”, and the Amazon two-for of workers pissing in bottles and squeezing your suppliers so prices rise everywhere.

Yes, what a loss for the EU.
Jimliddle/Privatellmlens: A Zero-Server Web Interface for Use with Local LLMs
Glucose levels were my first thought as well.
Wrong, they could have packed all 4 astronauts (the 2 that came to the ISS on the dragon and Suni and Butch) into the docked dragon and returned at any point. They only waited for the next dragon (crew 10) so that not only the 3 people using the Soyuz would be left on the ISS. But this would have absolutely been possible. The remaining crew would have used their Soyuz in emergencies anyways, they don’t need the dragon.
There is also simplelogin.io (it is now part of Proton, but they still have an independent subscription). Supports custom domains, or you can use their domains to generate infinite email addresses
I agree.

This is training customers to reply to unsolicited emails with important security-sensitive data.

I was CTO of a fintech virtual VISA card issuer. I would have vetoed any such campaign for us for that reason.
Is that not a summary and translation agent? For some reason only the user knows, they do not want to or cannot read the entire RAG source, so they use their summary and translation agent to give them summaries and to translate the technical jargon they do not understand. That Agent becomes a teacher of the RAG source. I see no problem with the Agent definition when given this perspective.
Good to point out the anti-competitive practices by Apple, but some of the complaints are a bit far-fetched and do not really help the point the author is making, and/or they do not seem to match my experience with wearables.

For instance, I understand Pebble is targeted to hackers, but how is lack of sideloading such a big pain point? How come my Fitbit (that I absolutely long to exchange for a new Pebble when its time comes) _can_ display my Whatsapp notifications even without full lockscreen previews?

Also:

> As an aside, back at Pebble, we went to crazy lengths to find a way to let Pebble users to send text messages from Pebble.

Why would you... Do that? No 3rd party can do that: you are on a level playing field. A kludge like the one described is not going to give you an edge over the competition. And it is exactly the kind of kludge that may rub App Store reviewers the wrong way. Much pain, no gain. Just invest your limited resources on making Pebble the best 3rd-party watch on the market, and pray/lobby for Apple to open up its APIs.
It doesn't need to be Coast Guard, specifically, as long as it's a group people don't associate with war (eg: Forest Service, Law Enforcement, etc). A stand off between Canadian Mounties and American Park Rangers would result in fewer heart attacks than soldiers in army jeeps.
Intelligence - space-like, matter-like (LLM is a bunch of vectors, a static geometric shape, you just need memory to store it). It’s a static geometric shape. It can have analogs of volume, mass and density. The static 4D spacetime of the universe or multiverse is maximally intelligent but non-agentic.

Agent - time-like, energy-like (you need a GPU to compute it). An agent changes the shape of the environment it operates in, including its own shape. You can count agents, their volume of operations, their speed of changing shapes (volumetric speed), acceleration… The Big Bang had zero intelligence (with maximal potential intelligence) but was and still is maximally agentic
aka "delegation", "ousourcing", "serverless", and "not my busienss, do it ASAP, I don't care how" ;)
Software Development Has Too Much Software in It
Where does Google offer this?
Build PIE executables in Go: I got nerd-sniped
Why would you do it for the health? Their stays weren’t extremely long compared to other ISS expeditions.
My implication was they’d demand unfair child support which left the non-custodial parent destitute and unable to recover, even though that’s not in the interest of the child, as an act of retribution.

A story I’ve seen play out several times.
Could be perhaps worth the trouble to try dev-drive/ReFS? [0]

[0] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/dev-drive/
Cheap Chinese Cars Are Taking over Roads from Brazil to South Africa
Because X was (initially) good, while every attempt to make something distributed has been relatively bad.

I don't really care how the platform works so long as the content is the content I want. Nor does 99% of users. And that's the precise reason the centralized platforms are the good ones: that's where people are.

If a truly distributed platform could be created that had the content/people/appearance of the centralized one, then great. I'd want that. But if it would be slightly slower or harder to use, or lack the people/content of a centralized platform then I'm not interested.

Decentralized could be fine for communicating with a _community_ of some kind. But that's not why I'm on X/Bluesky. It's to drink from the firehose of the current times. If something happens in the world I want to see the actual people who drive those events. Read the instant comments of the biggest most famous commenters of the same events.
It is (or used to be) for SEO. Google Search loves walls of "relevant" text and will punish recipe sites that get right to the point.
Malware GAN
Meta's Potential Exit from Delaware
Are you insinuating that if you're in the US, you could refuse to show your ID to a police officer when they ask for it?

Go ahead and try that, tell us how it goes...

(No, there is no requirement to be carrying your ID card in any EU countries that I'm aware of. However, most jurisdictions require you to state your identity if questioned by police as a suspect. At least here in Sweden, if you're a suspect they are allowed to detain you "for identification" if you refuse.)
> If someone tries to program [auth] themselves, they either do it incorrectly (or not well enough) or keep an expert busy for weeks and weeks.

Or they could set up something like https://goauthentik.io/? (Shameless plug: if you use my Docker dashboard, https://lunni.dev/, you can install it in a couple clicks from the Marketplace.) Or any other open source option – there are dozens at this point.

And honestly speaking, auth isn’t that hard in the first place. You do have to remember a few things, but if you follow something like https://lucia-auth.com/ it shouldn’t take you more than an hour to set up some decent auth with 2FA and OIDC support. A bit more time to implement sign-in rate limiting and email verification and you have a robust system that (a) works in a way that you understand and (b) you can reuse between projects without paying a dime.
@valyala , as others have noted, you are CEO of VictoriaMetrics and have written (most of?) VictoriaLogs. How is VictoriaLogs coming along? This is an older blog post.
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The main issue with social media are the recommendation algorithms, and I don't want the government or private companies to be in control of them. In fact, I don't want anyone except myself to be in control of them.

Quit being friend in real life with people who have a social media account on one of the "big" platforms (yes, I do know quite some people who do this!).
He was handcuffed and put into prison. In my world it is outrageous that this happened at all and it counts only a bit, that he was released that evening.
>People are complaining about Apple taking a 30% cut; it used to be that the operators took a 70% cut.

Not in the PC world, back when the App Store was released I was paying 4% to my e-commerce provider.
"Colonialism" and "Islamophobia" are mostly arabic talking points that will never catch on. They don't strike a nerve, they don't bring forth some hidden truth. The underlying principle is: People from different cultures see their own cultures as superior. Most religious Turkish people see themselves as the true representatives of islam due to past Ottoman reign and culture. Most europeans will see their own country as being superior to other countries in europe, and the european civilization to be better than the rest of the world. Chinese will do the same. Almost all arabs do the same. It is basic tribalism, there is no global conspiracy against islam, people just don't like it. So get over it.
The Context Gap
I really have no idea what you’re getting at here. This isn’t embedded where there’s a fixed pool to allocate out of. If there’s insufficient space it’ll get more virtual memory from the OS.

Also, nothing you’ve said actually says that the other allocator will be the worse one. Indeed, glibc is known to hold onto memory longer and have more fragmentation than allocators like mimalloc and tcmalloc so I’m still at a loss to understand how even if what you wrote is correct (which I don’t believe it is) that it follows that glibc is the one that won’t crash. If you’re confident in your proof by construction, please post a repro that we can all take a look at.
Vibe coding lands in app dev
Vibe coding’s shaking up app development: natural language prompts, like a casual chat between two regular folks, get fed to an AI, churning out executable code (Flutter, React, you name it), compiled and previewed live. This isn’t your drag-and-drop no-code gig; it’s a fresh stack tapping LLMs to slash dev cycles.

Tools like Lovable, Bolt, and soon Scabld are driving this. With Scabld, we’re leaning on Flutter and Claude 3.7 Sonnet to target mobile, web, and desktop apps from a single prompt.

So, vibe coding, paradigm shift or fleeting trend? What do you think?

To me, no-code like Bubble’s isn’t dead, it’s still got legs depending on who you are and what you need. But vibe coding? It’s wild. It’s for hackers who’d rather iterate than architect, or devs prototyping without slogging through boilerplate. Skeptics call it a fancy gadget, but I see a force multiplier.
Per the Polish government, they’re paying $50M per year for Ukraines service.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy87vg38dnpo.amp
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And I agree that outlawing all non-ID media would open the floodgates for government censorship.

It wouldn't only update the floodgates, it's rather the idea behind these proposals. :-)
Who owns the copyright to the footage of a motion triggered security camera? The person breaking in?

Is all motion triggered trail cam footage public domain?

It seems pretty reasonable that copyright should lay with the entity that had the actual intention on creating a work. Not whatever force happened to trigger it.
Yeah, it's clear from how Hetzner Cloud develops. First it was just instances, then they added object storage, and the next services will follow. All this for a fraction of the price of AWS/Azure/GCP.
FWIW I had a professor that defined "robotics" in the same way (we even had a quite philosophical debate on whether automatic doors are robots). I ended up liking Norvig and Russell's definition better by appending the word "autonomously".

Another interesting word that is quite out fashion nowadays is "cybernetics": "Cybernetics is the transdisciplinary study of circular causal processes such as feedback and recursion, where the effects of a system's actions (its outputs) return as inputs to that system, influencing subsequent action." [1]

Having studied Control Engineering in college, to me, all these things are feedback control loops. [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybernetics
[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feedback
i did a racing-bicycle-with-saddlebags roundabout Marmara sea half an year ago for ~17days. And i am from next country, with somewhat partially related culture/history.

What i observed was that the more and bigger the red flags and Attaturk monuments there are, the better maintained (=funded) the town looked like. The most flashier sported a flag hanging from (near) every balcony, few 10 meter ones hanging from various towers, and several 3-5 meter high statues here or there. Those without any, looked like forgotten shacks.

One night, in Bandirma, there was a ruling-party-preelection event. (Busses bringing) jolly manifesting supporters, jolly horseriders, jolly motorbikers, jolly 4wds and monstertrucks, whatever. Usual rock-concerto after the speeches.

And, there are lots of construction works. Roads (doubling some). Factories. Buildings. Everything. And somewhat visible military presence. On unrelated places.

Some of these things smell familiar. It wasn't that different in my country 40y ago when it was named "People's Republic of"
Exactly, you know AI Agents will ultimately be "just make it work, I don't care how", so why don't we just stop the game and make that?
At my last workplace, the codebase was about 25 years old, there were three of us, and one of us was the original author. You could simply guess "Gerald wrote this" and you'd be right nine times out of ten. However, it turns out that software developers have finite memory themselves, and svn blame was useful in tracing a line of code back to the original ticket.

Linking a line of code back to the commit is useful even if you can't ask the author about it. It tells you what other lines of code are involved and what the overall purpose is. It's significantly more useful if you can link it into documentation outside the code: ticketing systems, requirements docs, etc.

The main limit to svn blame in that situation was that quite often it would hit commit 1, when the codebase had been imported from Visual SourceSafe.
Agent - time-like, energy-like (you need a GPU to compute it). An agent changes the shape of the environment it operates in, including its own shape. You can count agents, their volume of operations, their speed of changing shapes (volumetric speed), acceleration… The Big Bang had zero intelligence (with maximal potential intelligence) but was and still is maximally agentic.

Same way we have many definitions of life (virus is alive or not? It’s very agentic, COVID killed millions but the shape, intelligence is small. Same with computer viruses), we have many definitions of agency, better to use the broadest and most physical one.

Intelligence - space-like, matter-like (LLM is a bunch of vectors, a static geometric shape, you just need memory to store it). It’s a static geometric shape. It can have analogs of volume, mass and density. The static 4D spacetime of the universe or multiverse is maximally intelligent but non-agentic.
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LLMs Are Bug Replicators: An Empirical Study on LLMs' Completing Bug-Prone Code
Awesome! thanks. I shall now have something to play with.

-G
Didn't know that. Thanks. In Belgium, everyone has a card and an authenticator device so the problem doesn't occur.
A comment above claimed:

> insurance generally excludes riot and terrorism from coverage anyway

If that's true, they'd have even more incentive to declare a claim as due to terrorism if you didn't have a rider. They could avoid paying it altogether.