skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a fascinating take on a long-standing problem. The idea of a decentralized, open-source cloud that sidesteps vendor lock-in is compelling—especially with bold claims like sub-10ms cold starts and true pay-for-what-you-use pricing.

I'm curious though: how are you addressing the challenges of ensuring consistent performance and security across a network of heterogeneous, community-hosted nodes?

Also, when you say “powered by the blockchain,” what specific role does it play in resource allocation or consensus, and how do you mitigate potential overhead? Looking forward to seeing more detailed benchmarks and real-world use cases as the project evolves. It certainly feels like a step in a promising direction to unrig the cloud game.
> Excel defaults to different separators based on locale.

Which is absolutely awful for interop and does not deserve being hauled as a feature.
Great points. I was also shocked to see on an example recently that even basic computer literacy is gone. We visited a couple of friends of ours recently. And as things go, at some point they (non-tech folks) asked me to help them with some printer settings on their new laptop - I am sure we all had experienced this many times over. So they pass me the notebook, not connected to power source. I noticed the battery was low and ask for the adapter to connect it. I proceed to tell them it was not a good idea to let the notebook battery go so low and that they should operate it on battery only when they don't really have access to power supply. The response - they had thought, they way you use a notebook was analogous to the mobile phone, i.e. you charge it up then use it all the way until the battery drops low, then rinse and repeat, etc. The smartphones have ruined our society in more ways than one.
I'm offended that nouns aren't capitalized. This is nowhere near proper German.
To me - it does, because using an index is always this fiddly thing. Do you increment/decrement the index before doing something or after? Do you need to check that you have incremented to len or above? Do you need to check that you haven't decremented below 0? You also can't truncate your undo history without also changing your pointer.

It really is better to have two separate arrays - unless your perf requirements dictate that you, for example, preallocate your entire stack and keep it fixed size.
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I believe the issue with straws is they were hard to recycle because they were lightweight and often mingled with other materials, such as cups, napkins, and food waste.

They were generally made from PP which is widely recycled as a material.

They are also commonly littered and as they don't break down in the environment led the not only being unsightly but also clogging up waterways and direct damage to wildlife. Paper straws can still be littered, but break down so don't cause the same physical problems in the longer term.
People can absolutely be snobs in other genres, it's a super common thing
"give them a couple of hours to practice" != Spontaneously having to figure out a different workflow in front of thousands of people :D

(yes, she reacted suboptimally, just don't think it's fair to use here)
Same here. Anything I try seems to just work. The only problem is anticheat but even those are starting to behave even when isolated and confined in containers.
Blender Winter of Quality 2025
Imo, AI implements something useful 20% of the time while breaking existing code 80% of the time.
>If current trends follow, GIMP and Photoshop replacement will be a web application like Pixlr and Photopea.

pukes
Notably, they forgot to improve on readability and maintability, both of which are markedly worse with perl.

Look I get people use the tools they use and perl is fine, i guess, it does its job, but if you use it you can safely expect to be mocked for prioritizing string operations or whatever perl offers over writing code anyone born after 1980 can read, let alone is willing to modify.

For such a social enterprise, open source orgs can be surprisingly daft when it comes to the social side of tool selection.

Would this tool be harder to write in python? Probably. Is it a smart idea to use it regardless? Absolutely. The aesthetics of perl are an absolute dumpster fire. Larry Wall deserves persecution for his crimes.
React Native ExecuTorch – Simplest way to run AI models on device in RN
It works by not mixing two different people: the commenter and the implementer.

Also, it works trivially even in the case of the implementer - he might believe Python is better, but chose Perl because he likes it more
This is the only explanation that makes some sense, otherwise it would be just a dick move for someone to hint at the presence of an exploitable bug but then not say what exactly it is.
> Meanwhile, he deletes your account if you offend him

Willing to bet this is not true.
When China schools the US on capitalism.
Yeah I think that's what I was trying to say. With a distro, you get some kind of validation by maintainers. With unvetted package managers, you just get something from somewhere.
This sounds like it would merit inclusion in Derek Lowe's "Things I won't work with":

“Only a few facilities around the world can protect both the compound and the worker while managing the combined hazards of a highly radioactive material that reacts vigorously with the oxygen and moisture in air,” said Polly Arnold, a co-corresponding author on the paper.
OpenAI will reportedly close its SoftBank-led $40B round soon
isnt it a bit odd they always seem to be at the scene of a crash but somehow always a victim?
regarding the performance question, the blockchain is never in the hot path. it will be used only for what's designed to. align a set of nodes on the same view of the world. so, for notarization of deployments, node configuration, storage replication configuration, etc.

all the nodes will be placed in tiers, depending on their measured performance.
Aider-AI/aider: aider is AI pair programming in your terminal
I think the correct response for FSD would have been to stop in the situations presented in the video. That wasn't anything like normal fog, rain, or light obstruction. The situations they created were so extreme you simply couldn't operate a vehicle safely. That being said, the effectiveness and precision of lidar should be a legal requirement for autonomous vehicles.
Sweeteners, sugar or not, are overrated.

It's disgusting how practically everything tastes like sugar these days.

There's a market for non-sweet food.
the entire cloud will be split in regions. all the nodes in a region will join a "vpn-like" network and all the traffic between them will be encrypted. there will be different kind of nodes: network, storage, compute and region controller. we will use a proof-of-stake trust mechanism. here's the basics of this: each node will need to put some money at stake to take part in the network (different amounts depending on how crucial it's role is in the network). it can take most of it back when it leaves the network. if the node underperforms or drops workload, we will issue penalties that will be removed from it's staked amount. also every workload (network, compute or storage) will be replicated across at least 2 nodes in the region (storage will be replicate outside the region too).
I think the title is just nonsense. It's only about the release of a new version of Blender, which was used to make Flow.
Well, given the difficulties working with this highly radioactive element...
Yeah, weighting the figures by GDP makes sense. Indeed, poor people aren't really people at all.
is this the new langchain?
It depends on what orbit you want. Due to the latitude you'll end up pretty inclined by default - which is bad for equatorial orbits sure, but a good start for polar ones. At a public session I went to several years back they spoke of specifically trying to attract polar launches for that reason.
Hunger or not, they definitely cause headaches.
With current pricing, may have to settle for a single caster. One functional chair base per atomic family, sorry everyone else.
Just shipped a change which improves simplification of the root expressions.
That's clever and can work great if you don't hold any resource handles
> What can I even do from here as the newsletter author? Normally I like finding a teachable lesson. But it was 2 days of grueling debugging and somehow there aren’t any teachable lessons there.

A lesson to learn seems obvious to me: the V8 team did not communicate upfront sufficiently on the "oops our Math.abs() may return negative numbers, we fixed that in version X, be warned".

Which the V8 should be able to do in a "advisory for Google developers that work on high-performance client-side view rendering stuff" sort of weekly newsletter.
Love the mission. Decentralized, fast, and focused on real performance — sub-10ms cold starts sound impressive. Excited to see where this goes.
Versions built into the code are nice. I think the correct answer is to commit before the build proper starts (automatically, without changing your HEAD ref) and put that in there. Then you can check version control for the date information, but if someone else happens to add the same bytes to the same base commit, they also have the same version that you do. (Similarly, you can always make the date "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX" or something, and just replace the bytes with the actual date after the build as you deploy it.)

What I actually did at $LAST_JOB for dev tooling was to build in <commit sha> + <git diff | sha256> which is probably not amazingly reproducible, but at least you can ask "is the code I have right now what's running" which is all I needed.

Finally, there is probably enough flexibility in most build systems to pick between "reuse a cache artifact even if it has the wrong stamping metadata", "don't add any real information", and "spend an extra 45 cpu minutes on each build because I want $time baked into a module included by every other source file". I have successfully done all 3 with Bazel, for example.
No, Australia has a very rigid import control system for biosecurity purposes, because the country is currently free of various animal and plant diseases which are endemic in other countries. One infected piece of fruit could, they believe, destroy an industry.

If they fine someone $3k for a chicken sandwich, https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/fined-3300-for-chicken-sandwic... , what are they going to do with plutonium?

Arguably plutonium guy is being hit with the book precisely to remind everyone who wants to come to Australia that they take import control very, very seriously.

(as well as, you know, the xenophobia that gets involved in any discussion of borders)
Privacy policy? What data do you collect? Where do you sell them? How are you paying for that thing/the domain/your time?

(Why) Would someone give you their amazon login (email), the list of products they browse/looking for, the cost of those products, do you monitor if we bought it or not, etc?

Your example is an iphone 15 case (time for an ad to replace to iphone 16!!! no?).

Also-1, (example) I was browsing for (ahem) vibrators, 3m charging USB cables for those vibrators, vitamin D, naughty underwear, ... (should I go on?)

Also-2, planning to release it for other browsers? (I use firefox) :)

EDIT: having gone through my "The Minimalists" and "KonMari" journey some years back, it is a great idea! I hope people use this to 'wake the f.. up' and realize that buyer's remorse costs them "hours of their life", not just "money".
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43433030 (submitted 3 days ago, ~370 points).

It is fine to not see it, however, that is why I am giving you the link, although someone else already posted it 6 hours ago (from now).
If one was going to use a non-printable character as a delimiter, why wouldn't they use the literal record separator "\030"?
The image processing in a macaques brain has been doing PCA since way longer. Atleast according to [1], around 1hr36m in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uj6skZIxPuI
Absolutely not (from Sweden) and I'll refuse any conference or event held in the US.
Most of the time with obviously nonsensical stuff like that they're doing it to appease certain demographics or stakeholders.

They needed Karen's support to get the whole thing passed so they added a "and we won't let them drive after dark" clause to get it.
My comment is not about LLM provider lock-in. It's about merging a traditional note-taking app with an LLM augmented approach. It's up to you if you want your product to stand out.
> Finding it also odd that biodegradable plastics and safer alternatives are going quiet.

They tend not to be a good solution to anything.

There are a couple of ways of making degradable plastic. One is to add something to their manufacture so they break down into shorter chains which their supporters tell you will then further break down. These are generally referred to as OXO degradable.

Another is to use bio based plastics such as PLA or cellulose. These both have poor performance compares to oil based plastics.

All of these also require industrial composting where they add no nutrition to the compost, effectively just bulking it out. They [generally] do not break down when littered or even placed in a domestic compost heap.

There is also a problem because these plastics are virtually impossible to sort from recyclable plastics so if they get in each other waste stream the whole batch can be rendered contaminated and useless.
What's special about classical music is merely that it's a literate form of music. It has an underlying "text" (the score) that everyone agrees on, which represents a somewhat abstracted 'blueprint' of the overall work to be performed. A metal piece doesn't really have that: you can transcribe it after the fact to score notation or tablature, but the result is merely one listener's opinion of how that piece "goes". Jazz music has its "lead sheets" but these are intentionally simplified and/or otherwise changed wrt. the source material taken from the "Great American Songbook" rep (which is far closer to the classical tradition than any kind of modern "pop").

This means that classical music, more than other traditions, is a natural target for both broader academic study as well as automated generation by AI's trained on some sort of existing repertoire.
luckily the market is harbinger of truth. if all you did was pay attention to twitter / hackernews - you would think software dev will disappear. you would think the 'sexy' startups making headlines are the ones making money.

but go to the market the software companies making money are not sexy AI, or whatever is being pushed by the valley but 'simple' CRUD stuff - your business operation apps.
What are normal hours in that sense, 60? That sounds more like: working my ass off. I'm currently working 40.

Will compensation be geared towards it? Or am I expecting to make like $70000 while working 60 hours per week?
> My personal theory is that this is the result of an incompetent management class where no self corrections are happening.

This is really a cultural problem that has infected management along with everyone else.

It used to be that you were expected to be able to fix your own car or washing machine, and moreover that one you couldn't fix would be rejected by the customers. It was expected to come with documentation and be made of modular parts you could actually obtain for less than three quarters of the price of the entire machine.

Now everything is a black box you're expected to never open and if it breaks and the manufacturer doesn't deign to fix it you go to the store and buy another one.

The problem with this is that it poisons the well. Paying money to make the problem go away instead of learning how to fix it yourself means that, at scale, you lose the ability to fix it yourself. The knowledge and infrastructure to choose differently decays, so that you have to pay someone else to fix the problem, even if that's not what you would have chosen.

The result is a helplessness that stems from a lack of agency. Once the ability to do something yourself has atrophied, you can no longer even tell whether the person you're having do it for you is doing it well. Which, of course, causes them to not. And in turn to defend the opacity so they can continue to not.

Which brings us back to management. The C suite doesn't actually know how the company works. If something bad happens, they may not even find out about it, or if they do it's through a layer of middle management that has put whatever spin on it necessary to make sure the blame falls on the designated scapegoat. Actually fixing the cause of the problem is intractable because the cause is never identified.

But to fix that you'd need an economy with smaller companies, like a machine with modular parts and documented interfaces, instead of an opaque monolith that can't be cured because it can't be penetrated by understanding.
"I've lived in quite a few countries and never found anywhere with as many smug and self-righteous people as back home."

This is pretty much my experience too although the UK would come close.

"…the larrikin (fun loving, prankster), …and the wowser (fun hating) …but in recent years the wowsers have thoroughly won."

Any Australian who's not aware of this hasn't been around long enough to notice it. Frankly it's horrible, I now feel as if I'm an alien and no longer belong here.

I've my own thoughts as to why this cultural shift has occurred in such a comparatively short time but there'd be little point me posting them here. I wonder if there's any proper research on this, if not then I'd suggest it'd be deemed politically incorrect/too hot to handle.
Not if it your job to solve the situation. It's not like it would be an easier task to dig into chrome and find the issue there.
Chatbots-Are-AI-Antipatterns
Not many people are aware that Berk is a piece of Cockney rhyming slang, although perhaps more now that it's listed on that Wiktionary entry.

Berkeley Hunt => C..

My grandmother used to use it all the time; she'd be horrified. Its meaning has diverged significantly from its origin.
If only people were allowed to start their own companies.
Arguably, there is already the continuous package deprecation process that often leads to unpopular projects getting culled in the next upgrade.

In a way, Flatpak/Snap/Docker was mitigations to support old programs on new systems, and old systems with updated software no longer compatible with the OS. Not an ideal solution, but a necessary one if folks also wanted to address the win/exe dominant long-term supported program versions.

If working with unpopular oddball stuff one notices the packages cycle out of the repositories rather regularly. =3
I am a German native speaker as well. That is horrible idea!
There is already a web browser based on Servo engine - Verso (https://github.com/versotile-org/verso).
Then the Republican party should have lost as soon as they chose Trump. He's not stable or electable. The US already had 4 years of him, and he was transparent about how he intended to run the country. Those who voted Republic knew what they were voting for, and decided that someone with fascist tendencies was who they wanted.
I have two that I use a lot:
- Postgres one connected to my local db
- A browser (Playwright)
That way I can ask cursor something like: "Find an object with xxx property in the db, open its page in the browser, fix console errors"
And it's able to query my db, find relevant object, open the browser, check logs, fix the code based on errors.

Even simpler stuff:
- copying pasting a broken local url in cursor, and asking it to fix all console errors. Works really well.
- or when you have a complex schema, and need to find some kind of specific record, you can just ask cursor "find me a user that has X transactions, matches Y condition, etc..". I found it much faster than me at finding relevant records
Different tools for different purposes. Blender is in the Maya paradigm, and doing pretty well in that. Houdini is more like a DSL for computer graphics and can end up being both the most low level and the most high level tool in the industry. There's no mystery about why the industry has mostly settled on Houdini + one other complimentary DCC.
this is an important realization. most VCs are not smart - they got lucky and are wealthy to try influence things.
What version(s) of Corel's apps used the ribbon? Not CorelDraw 2024 according to this screenshot:

https://www.coreldraw.com/static/cdgs/product_content/cdgs/e...

(I'm a happy user of CorelDraw X7 on my Win7 machine ;-)
Seems like promising new science in an area that is an under appreciated health risk. in a perfect world, the science should be the hard part. But where we have been for a while, the economics of antibiotic drug development and commercialization are a significant challenge. I hope this gets due traction.
I never quite understood why computing is so different from literally all other branches of reality. Systems need to be secure, I get it. But if we have a bunch of folks dedicating their life to breaking your shit I don't get how that is in any way acceptable and why the weight of responsibility solely lies with people responsible for security.

We apparently have a society/world that normalizes breaking everyone's shit. That's not normal - IMO.

If I break into a factory or laboratory of some kind and just walk out again I have not found a "vulnerability" and I certainly won't be remunerated or awarded status or prestige in any way shape or form. I will be prosecuted. Everyone can break into stuff. It's not that stuff is unbreakable, it's that you just don't do that because the consequences are enormous (besides obvious issues with morality). Again, breaking stuff is the easy part.

I am certainly completely ignorant and should be drawn and quartered for it, but for me it is hard to put my finger where I'm so wrong.

I can see how the immaterial nature of software systems changes the nature of the defense, but I don't see how it immediately follows that breaking stuff that's not allowed to be broken by you is suddenly the norm and nothing can be done against that. We just have to shrug and accept our fate?
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I know, thank you.
I don't think the title reflects the contents of the article. I believe a more accurate title would be "Blender, the tool behind an Oscar winning movie, releases a new version", because as far as I can tell the movie referenced that won the Oscar (Flow[0]), was using LTS version 3.6[1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(2024_film)
[1] https://www.blender.org/user-stories/making-flow-an-intervie...
They are still the world's most profitable ev maker, at least for last years figures. Not quite sure after salutegate. I think BYD passed them on unit sales but probably not sales by value. BYD sells a lot of cheap cars in China. In the UK we have BYDs but there must be at least 10x as many Teslas around.
Agreed. Don’t know how we balance decentralization with the planetary civilization/economy’s complexity, which requires some kinds of centralization.

That’s doubly difficult because the complexity is what lets the system produce so much output, and if you produced less people would experience that as having less and would riot. The only way out would be if the whole society consumes less, including, visibly, the elites. Feeling taken advantage of is a far more powerful force on the non elites compared to, up to a point, their material ups and downs.

Trump’s ability to create a widely accepted narrative focused specifically on elites who are opposed to his power, but also who are doing extra well relative to the non elites, is what let him harness the raw force of wage stagnation et al for political power
I was in a tiny bar in Seoul a few years ago where the bar tender was also the DJ. This guy would go from making drinks to picking up a pair of headphones and cuing up the next track, pulling vinyl from a shelf. One of the coolest things I’ve seen.