skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unpredictability is the issue when paired with a us alienation from eu, and a us nato exit would make the situation more unpredictable for eu

i'm not complaining about the us just like i'm not thanking germany for being one of our commercial and sometimes political partners. Perhaps it's something more present in us discourse but most of the time we're not "thankful" to other countries, even if allied ones. It's something that doesn't really have a meaning here, even if i do agree that the usa have been important partners of europe in the past (and probably will in the future as well, although less than before)
Only in the recent past

Seekers fought to realize

Skyward shone like beacons

A question of origin
The original reporter (CloudSek) is doubling down in his claims and now they put some evidence that contradicts Oracle https://www.cloudsek.com/blog/part-2-validating-the-breach-o...
Parallel between Agent-Computer Interface hybridization and sensory evolution
Unfortunately my disposable income to spend on experimental medical treatments is slightly less than Marc Benioff's :(
Because for me, overspending is a bad habit, even if there's no interest.
First off, this is an eFPGA core not a chip. It's intended for folks who want to build their own ASICs with a small amount of embedded FPGA logic.

The LUT is a boring text book 4-LUT. Fancier versions are in the works. The point of the first standard is to be the lowest common denominator of FPGAs that anyone can implement, else the threshold is too high. Kind of like RV32I.
so it's hot code reloading on steroids? really neat idea, I'm working on a similar Lisp-style language and will probably adopt this idea (and cite you of course). In my language, you can redefine any symbol, even numbers, so (def 10 12) is valid code (so is (def def 42), which breaks `def`!).

I wonder what use cases there are for such extreme flexibility, aside from funs and games!
What about the cases where the AI doesn't hallucinate, produces working code, but the code is just about good enough?

I've just written about that exact scenario. A shoddy piece of code that's just about okay: https://richardcocks.github.io/2025-03-24-PasswordGen

If you're a junior, you might not realise there's anything wrong with the generated code at all.
Important to take certain antioxidants and supplements after. Plus whole good food. Focusing heavily on good sleep and rest (so hard). And doing some level of exercise, but even just starting with walking.

I had a post viral effect after Covid. But maybe 2 months. Then I finally took it easy with working out and it went away.
Ah, but then you might want them around. Better to play games occasionally, give you a chance to hang out for a bit.
This is true—but that's something that's not very discoverable. I think getting to mess around with an organ online would pique someone's interest enough to seek out at in-person concert when they find that inevitably their speakers aren't good enough.
We'd be having a completely different discussion but Tesla would be a much less valuable company worth less than Toyota and others and Elon wouldn't be anywhere near the richest person in the world
Correction: "unofficial way [to ...]".
The Ethics of Being Alive: Foundations for Conscious Systems
After Vistra Fire Residents Report Illness, Scientists Confirm Contaminated Soil
> The wealth gap was growing since 1980. Is the median person better today when the median person cannot afford a college education or a house?

The house is due to population increasing far faster than new houses being built. That's a function of policy, not of rich people existing.
>I can't get a satisfactory explanation for this observation. We certainly have smart people and good universities. Is it about funding? Or about the culture of not promoting entrepreneurship? Bureaucracy? GDPR?

You're not going to like this answer, but I think there is a lot more tall-poppy syndrome in Europe. Success isn't celebrated the way it is in the US. This also drives European resentment of the US in general. (And that resentment has undermined the transatlantic relationship.)
couldn't agree more! no personal info and everything happens on device. hope you find this useful :)
Who said building software was easy?
Cloud-Native Secret Management: OIDC in K8s Explained
please go and delete your data, immediately.

it's not just for you, but for anyone related to you - this database is hugely dangerous thing to have exist, and always has been, but at least notionally was a semi-serious medical business, but is now going to be sold for scrap in an extremely poisonous environment in the US.
That link is from 2020. Can you find something from 2024?
It's a bit off topic but the drop ceilings and wall to wall carpeting in that gallery are so redolent of churches from the 1990s that I could have almost guessed this was at Bob Jones University from the photos.
Wow, thanks for the links. I was previously unaware of this issue. I checked the referenced bug and I see that it is fixed and will be released in an upcoming version of Windows.
There was this one

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glomar_Explorer

Which was part of a plan to raise a sunken Russia nuclear submarine. I remember a short TV documentary which promoted the cover story that they were planning to mine manganese nodules. Interestingly, there are many stories of the period to the effect that there were spies in every port in the 1970s and anyone who was doing anything suspicious (like L. Ron Hubbard and Scientology) was likely to have trouble.
This is why I say people that say private capitalism is what moves the world tech forward are wrong. From Rockets, Nuclear, Robots, Internet, Cars, Planes, Semi Conductors, Satellites all these came about from government investment in loss making technology or by heavily subsidizing the production for war until it reached profitability.
Given the power and cooling requirements, and the underlying techniques used for LLMs right now, I think 'for now' is going to be quite a few years. Maybe a decade plus. Plenty of time to train a new cohort of human developers who do more than just code 24/7.
Exactly. There is a lot happening implicitly in a C program that the programmer has to be aware of and keep in mind. And it’s made worse by valid compile implementation choices. I remember chasing a bug for a day that was based on me forgetting that the particular implementation I was working with had signed characters and was sign extending something at an inopportune time.
Can you change the tempo or something to slide around on the first note until you find the pitch it wants?
Yes I get mad at these posts, and then even madder at me for scrolling through the feed in the first place. But this is great, thanks!
They're just trying to dump old inventory ahead of the launch of the new Model Y next month. If the new Model Y doesn't sell then Tesla can start to worry.
yeah but why isn't C major called A major
Mm. I was excited back then. Back in 2009, I sincerely expected that normal people would be able to buy cars that didn't even have a place to put a steering wheel by 2019.

Even with all the improvements since then… well, Tesla reports the Cybercab will start production in 2026, but given how optimistic Musk is with timelines, even if that vehicle gets past the press prototypes we've seen, even if it passes all the regulations, even if the AI is good enough, I expect no earlier than 2028: https://www.electrive.com/2024/10/11/tesla-cybercab-to-debut...

Someone else might get there first, like Waymo selling what's currently a taxi, but I'm not optimistic any more.
> It's great enough for me. Way greater than the EU.

Why are you still here?
> do we need to go to protect people from their own stupidity

Speed limits, casino rules, food ingredients legislations, weapon and gun legislation… depending on where you live the cursor is between freedom and stupidity protection.

I can easily and happily find alternatives for the exemples you provide. Here in EU the credit (card) culture is way less loanistic: what we call “credit card” are often delayed debit cards and the real credit cards are used by the richest percentiles.
Looks like just automated FFI, putting some glue around your function and then invoking the appropriate compiler for that language.

I don't really see the difference between (with-*i* "c" foo) and a macro that expands to (with-c "foo")
I kind of like my software as I like my cars: Simple, and easy to troubleshoot.

The more predictable behavior, the better...so choose your tools and methodology wisely. The older I've become, the more I appreciate doing something that might be hard and challenging / lots of up-front costs during development, if it yields a robust system which is easier to fix, should something happen. So I will go for battle tested solutions, over the novel ones.
It's a big deficiency in the way history is taught, at least here in the US, it's mostly taught as Guy/Group X did Y in year ZZZZ and leaves out a lot of the context that shows how many people were often doing similar things before or simultaneously. It leads a lot of people to buy into the Great Man of History view point when there's rarely singular figures that the the principal cause, often they're just the one who won.
Boycott is not the same a burning cars. The sales of the car I own are going down in general, but the only way it affects me is that I know the software bug won't be fixed.

Tesla owners must be scared now to get attacked.
Interesting to see on Front page I tried submitting UpCloud to HN so many times I gave up on it.

One of the best part of UpCloud is their flexible plan. You could have something like 64 Core and 8 or 16 GB Memory with very little storage and the whole thing is charged by the hour. You can have a 64 Core server that is under $700 USD a month. If you only care about CPU core that is reaching dedicated server pricing without long term commitments while having the flexibility.

Edit: I cant remember if they are real CPU core or vCPU as one 1 thread. Some vendor in the past few years started to use vCPU as single Core only. Some dont.
Trump won, not just because of his policy program, but also because he wasn't Biden. But then, Biden won because he wasn't Trump.

If you think about that, if that's the best our democracy can do, then it sounds like evidence for Yarvin's position... until you think about it. Then you wonder, what happens if the non-democratic ruler was Biden or Trump or equivalent, and you can't get rid of them?

What we actually need is to fix the primary process.
i guess the real invention for wheeled transportation is not wheels, but (flat) roads
Get Buy-In Throughout a Project
Even then, you need to tune against those other people. Perfect pitch is not so precise that everyone can just start on exactly the same note hah.
You might even say that George Cayley invented powered flight a century earlier. He just couldn't find a motor light enough to actually implement it.
The only novelty claimed here is transparency. Binary compatibility is possible by documenting the complete architecture and the sequence of bit stream loading. It only refers to devices in the same architecture (eg z1000).

We'll see whether binary compatibility is a big deal to folks. Some would argue that you can always recompile the source code. There are applications where that is not an option...
Bold: Boolean Logic Deep Learning
Heh, gotta love HN -- we're all just musing, and in comes a founder of the biggest startup in this space to share their personal experience! Thanks for commenting, interesting stuff.

I think you hit the nail on the head with "LinkedIn had already perfected its value prop". We all hate the culture on the social media network hosted by LinkedIn, but the internet killed that kind of highly-social networking anyway for most corp jobs (in the US?), so it doesn't actually relate to their real value props:

1. surfacing people for searches by name or specific experiences,

2. connecting employees & employers, and

3. providing some informal identity verification.

None of those really rely on the slop that we've all been drawn into scrolling through every now-and-again, only to be horrified by how banal & insincere it all is.

Personally, my takeaway is that for OpenSpot to really compete, one huge (+ hugely challenging) opportunity would be to actually do professional social networking well, and thus add something LinkedIn doesn't have for most people. I was going to cynically say that Bluesky already (re-)solved this for people in academia, writing, and journalism, but it's now occurring to me that bsky's protocol means that network could be leveraged here, too...
I was mistaken in thinking it was longer than that. If it is only about two months then it's of little value over a conventional CC (depending on when you buy it in your statement cycle).

My example with the wings is an extreme/incidental use-case, and I realize that it'd be atypical to unheard of in practice.
Iceberg Became the Industry Standard for Data Lakehouse Platforms
The wright brothers invented a slingshot, not an airplane.
Well to start with you should know Musk has never been a "Programmer"

https://www.businessinsider.com/dogecoin-creator-says-elon-m...
You know, on second thought: I don't recall Elon attracting all that much negativity before his recent escapades. Robert Downey Jr famously played Elon in Iron Man, and the audiences cheered. I think this is a case of "we were always at war with Eastasia".
> The tech necessary for steam engines

They had basic concepts but could not have produced a steam engine that did useful work.

The Archimedes device you mention (the aeolipile) was basically a kettle mounted on an axle that did indeed spin. But it had no way of building up pressure to the degree necessary to move something other than itself.

The Romans probably didn't have good enough materials tech to build vessels that could hold sufficient pressure to do useful work. Early steam engines could explode catastrophically and they were built by cultures that had centuries of cannon-making experience behind them. The Romans also lacked a compelling application that would have driven tech development and didn't have the iron/steel/coal industry required to build railways, etc.

It's telling that the first commercially viable steam engines were basically water pumps for getting water out of mines, and it didn't matter if they were massive and underpowered. It took another 60/70 years for the tech to improve enough to power vehicles.
I fixed it, it should work now.
Ahh, the fabled "write-only" code.
Thanks for the explanation. Sometimes it's worth it to keep weird shit working, but it's hard to predict which subset of weird shit will happen in practice.
I guess that one would have to know what "comfortably" means and what sort of texts. At the speed of English? Caesar or Tacitus?

The essayist Sydney Smith, himself an Anglican clergyman, said something teasing about "false quantities" in Roman Catholic services. I can tell you that the pronunciation varies in church Latin: c and g can be "softened" when followed by e or i; v is v, not w.

You don't hear a great deal of Latin in Catholic services these days: in the Tridentine rite the congregation doesn't get much to say. The Novus Ordo Latin Mass is awfully rare.
You need to generate a new one on key (it’s not actually generated and already on the key, but that’s a technical detail). The idea is that the private key cannot be leaked since it never leaves the key.
It's never really better than a credit card.

4 payments over 8 weeks, so you owe money sooner than you would with a credit card (2 weeks), and credit cards are also interest free assuming you pay in full.

The longer deferred payment option includes interest fees.

Failing to pay immediately puts you up near credit card interest APY (19% to 33%) and includes additional fees (usually $7 fee immediately).

Then the merchant fees are higher as well (3.5% to 6% fees for klarna, 1.5% to 3.5% for visa) and the fixed fee is high (30 cents for Klarna vs 5 to 10 cents for visa), so you'll see additional surcharges on the product.

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If this was designed for orders over a specific amount and targeted things like large catering orders... fine I guess. As is... micro-finance is a nasty form of usury.
Most uses of OpenAPI I've seen is simple REST API documentation.

Many internet standards & protocols are typically developed together with their reference implementation. E.g. the IETF is pretty good at that for things like HTTP. Waterfall just doesn't work for anything moderately complicated.

If it's simple, a lot of upfront documentation is not going to be that helpful. If it's not, a proof of concept implementation that irons out all the design mistakes and that proves it is any good would be a good idea. There aren't a lot of good protocols that get developed without those.

Anyway, the article is about slapping openapi specs on python web frameworks, which suggests it's being used in its usual role of documenting existing APIs here. And for REST protocols, python is a great tool to prototype those.
Biome v2.0 Beta
Biome lead here, so feel free to ask anything!

Biome is an integrated linter and formatter with support for JavaScript, TypeScript, CSS, and more.

Highlights of the release:

* Plugins: You can write custom lint rules using GritQL.

* Domains: Domains help to group lint rules by technology, framework, or well, domain. Thanks to domains, your default set of recommended lint rules will only include those that are relevant to your project.

* Multi-file analysis: Lint rules can now apply analysis based on information from other files, enabling rules such as noImportCycles.

* `noFloatingPromises`: Still a proof-of-concept, but our first type-aware lint rule is making an appearance.

* Our Import Organizer has seen a major revamp.

* Assists: Biome Assist can provide actions without diagnostics, such as sorting object keys.

* Improved suppressions: Suppress a rule in an entire file using // biome-ignore-all, or suppress a range using // biome-ignore-start and // biome-ignore-end.

* HTML formatter: Still in preview, this is the first time we ship an HTML formatter.

* Many, many, fixes, new lint rules, and other improvements.
Well, this is true for the airplane, but it really doesn't apply to every invention.

Some things only exist because a single person got too outside of the groupthinking, or decided to dedicate their life into making it.
Show HN: Mold – higher level use of Go templates for rendering web pages
Even though Go is among the top choices for backend development, the templates can feel unfamiliar and sometimes require more efforts than needed when there is a need to render web pages.

I decided to create Mold as a simpler API for utilising Go templates.

Mold does not do anything out of ordinary or reinvent the wheel. It is still Go templates but with some syntactic sugar that feels more conventional.

I would appreciate your feedbacks if you have happen to have a look.

Thanks :)
I think you make a good point, and I've seen it echoed a few times in this thread.

It seems like the best way to keep improving is to keep busy. Make things just to make them. Keep trying new things and finding new ways to challenge yourself.

Honestly, this is good advice. While writing this post, I believed that reading textbooks was the most important thing for me to do. I'm glad this isn't necessarily true!
Adversarial ML: A Taxonomy and Terminology of Attacks / Mitigations
>Technically NASA contracted with SpaceX (and several other companies as well, such as Boeing) to develop crew–rated versions of their rockets

No, the initial NASA contract was for cargo delivery via the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program, which dated to 2006. CRS and CC came significantly afterwards. Momentum did build but it was in fits and starts. It's a pretty fascinating bit of history in turns of twists and turns on both the political and technical sides, I highly recommend taking a look at the book Liftoff if you're at all curious. Like, even if it was selfish motivations it's worth noting that Commercial Crew probably would not have happened in 2010 without the support of Boeing itself.

>But also some subsidies in there, and a few billion wasted on Boeing.

Eh, I wouldn't fully agree with this sentiment honestly. The future we've arrived at was definitely not clear when the contracts were signed, and shit happens. If you're really serious about developing a new capability and place a few fully independent investment bets and some pay off handsomely while others are a bust, I wouldn't call it a waste because if you just couldn't know which would work and which wouldn't. That's just how it works. It's worth noting here too that Boeing has lost enormous amounts of money on its failures with Starliner. NASA has held them to the fixed price aspect of the contract. I suppose an argument could be made that NASA was more generous with milestone payments then they might have been, but at the same time that ultimately was Boeing shooting itself in the foot and NASA giving them rope because getting some money earlier didn't change the total pot at all. So if Boeing rushed, well that came back to bite them very hard.

>And even more billions wasted on SLS too.

That's pure old space pork and a totally separate discussion beyond being another example of how decades can flow by on garbage.
Musk is likely a worse engineer than Bezos and less technical. So that is probably not the reason. What Musk instead is is an excellent salesman. But maybe he was just lucky. Whatever it was it was not engeeeing which is a big weakness of Musk.
I haven't read any of the code to see how it compares, but this work reminds me of research from Nada Amin & Tiark Rompf on "towers of interpreters", where a stack of meta-circular interpreters uses some explicit staging operations that make it possible to specialize for the interpreter code in a way that removes overhead.

https://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/rompf/papers/amin-popl18.pdf
The foundation of maintainable software is architecture. I can't be alone in having often spent days puzzling over a seemingly highly complex problem before finally finding a set of abstractions that makes it simple and highly testable.

LLMs are effectively optimisation algorithms. They can find the local minima, but asking them to radically change the structure of something to find a much simpler solution is not yet possible.

I'm actually pretty excited about LLMs getting better at coding, because in most jobs I've been in the limiting factor has always been rate of development rather than rate of idea production. If LLMs can take a software architecture diagram and fill in all the boxes, that would mean we could test our assumptions much quicker.
Would you trust handing a sack full of money to a stranger and tell them to bring it to the bank for you or do you hire an armored car service?

We need https because the modern web browser isn't a trustworthy or secure program. A web browser isn't a sandbox so code can be injected into an insecure http stream to force the browser to compromise the machine it is running on. This is just the state of the internet - there are literal highwaymen in the form of malicious routers and other networking hardware on the internet. https is unfortunately the ony way to ensure the highway for your data is secure and the data arriving to you is trustworthy.

The only way to avoid this is to use a browser like netsurf that eliminates the insecure modernity or dont use the web.
The US isn't just a "partner", it does the vast majority of spending among NATO countries, even though NATO is an alliance that Europe benefits from way more: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/...

I'm not in principle opposed to this sort of altruism in US foreign policy. I just don't want to have an altruistic foreign policy towards people that resent me. For people who resent me, I want fairness at the very least. Europe gets most of the benefit from NATO, so Europe should pay most of the cost. Currently we are very far from that.