skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Neal Stephenson's Anathem had a thing called "bogons" which were purposely misleading datasets. Apparently the https://anathem.fandom.com/wiki/Reticulum was full of them, you basically had to have a specialist along for the ride if you wanted to hook into the version which wasn't a lie. It thematically relevant to the story, but it was never explained how they got there.

I've been looking for a plausible explanation. I think I just found it.
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Fissile waste has been a health problem even before first mining uranium in the DRC well before WWII.

Hanford has a standing legacy problem of fissile waste from both weapons and energy work.

* https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/nuclear-fuel-c...

* https://www.icanw.org/hanford_s_dirty_secret_and_it_s_not_56...

Human activity aside, every valley with a substantial amount of granite rock about the planet pools with radon gas on a daily basis until the wind clears it out.

While this is just one of those things that's a risk on the order of a pack a day smoking habit to those who live there, radon is a fission by product from the breakdown of the uranium within the granite.
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The same way antibiotics make bacteria "stronger" - evading them is survival itself for some of the products and teams, so they will evade them. The arms race always continues. This is a powerful new weapon that will shut down a lot of bad actor volume but the bad actors abide.
If there aren’t, please don’t spread the rumor. You might accidentally trick people into thinking it’s true.

Big claims require big evidence, and so far, this has none.
It’s hard to believe it would work as a word processor, if you wanted 80x25 you’d have up to 2000 characters on the screen maybe with a few curves or move lines. No matter how you slice it it’s a lot of data and the electronics strike me as crazier than a raster text display and it’s still crazy for a home computer which is more like 40x20 — do you have a huge display list of lines and curves or a character array which indexes display lists for each character?
Learned a lot reading this article!
This is part of what he was directly elected to do, and he is doing what he can with the powers he has to do what he was elected to do. Everyone knows Congress won’t get it done, so good governance would be to route around Congress to do it, and so it’s a good excuse.
Brilliant and hilarious.
Because people will later vote based on that misinformation.
In-game sniper that you have to aim inches above the head is just not as fun, especially for an extremely fast-paced game like Unreal Tournament.
So, the entire federal government is a set of corporations that can all be found on Dunn & Bradstreet. 28 U.S. Code § 3002(15)(A) https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/28/3002

The parent corporation is under chapter 11 bankruptcy, which requires a full audit and liquidation of it and its subsidiaries.

This explains why various judges have been shut down from preventing Trump from his actions - he is acting under orders from the bankruptcy court.
Hmm getting rid of physical plugs will affect a few different workflows.

I think it is currently required to use the iPhone as a webcam on MacBooks. I love that feature.

Most portable chargers assume physical plugs, very few are wireless.

Also my latest vehicle, a 2024 Kia, demands that the phone be physically plugged into the vehicle to do CarPlay. So yeah I want phones to have ports for a while longer.

My older vehicle supported wireless CarPlay but I think it is unreliable compared to wired thus Kia’s decision? I don’t know exactly.
Sure that would be foolish, my point wasn't that taxes should remain as-is forever though.

My point was that we can change taxes to a system that we think will work better today, but we can't claim to know what the actual results will be years from now.

The claim made earlier in the chains was that taxing the rich to subsidize wages would lower labor costs and lower prices. I don't think we can ever know well enough how a broad reaching change will land, and claiming to know prices will go down isn't reasonable.
Well I think that the PSID, which supplies the data for that paper/article, is fundamentally flawed and the potential error margin is too huge for it to be taken seriously.
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It is already the law of the land that Americans must take priority if they are qualified for the job. This is not enforced (primarily because businesses benefit for cheaper labor), but enforcement should be strengthened, IMO. And until it is, we need to stop issuing new H1-Bs. That's all I'm saying, really.
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Are you serious? The obvious benefit is they get to lay a bunch of people off and pretend it’s because they’re forward thinking innovators instead of poor managers that are having difficulty growing their business. There’s a huge incentive to present this fiction to stockholders, which is the only opinion they care about.
Depends on the consistency guarantee and workload.

If it is just linearizability (atomic key-value storage) then write-through caches work simply and correctly. You reap the benefits on the read side.
Tone markers are of limited use to Chinese readers (instead, just show them the characters).

They are also of limited use to non-Chinese readers, who don't understand the tone system and probably can't even audibly distinguish tones.

So, it makes sense that we get this weird system even though it's strictly worse.
milli- sometimes represents 1000x and sometimes represents 1/1000. I see what you're saying though
Fair point. I wouldn't say it's by a lot because I am getting quite good results with ChatGPT's models too. A part of it could also just be confirmation bias too.
What's the next best alternative? Astro?
They gave a bunch of money to Trump, and bully everybody else that challenges them, so it makes it the right thing to do.
The same argument could be made against Vulkan, or OpenGL, or even SQL databases. The whole NoSQL era was based on the concept that performance would be better with less generality in the database layer. Sometimes it helped. Sometimes trying to do database stuff with key/value stores made things worse.

I'm trying to find a reasonable medium. I have a hard scaling problem - big virtual world, dynamic content - and am trying to make that work well. If that works, many games with more structured content can use the same approach, even if it is overkill.
Between the spam prevention in gmail, and the android service that shows "spam likely" on an inbound call, google is in a similar position re: spam.
I lived through the early 2000s and it was already pretty easy to see how 23andme could go wrong. Unlike data that could leak from a company like Google or Facebook, your DNA is forever associated with you and can't be changed or obfuscated. IIRC, many on HN made the same point at the time.

Elsewhere in this discussion there are people talking about how "the common man" doesn't understand the risks of privacy loss. Well it really doesn't help that when those risks materialize you also have people claiming "well no one could have seen that coming".
The shock wave doesn't actually touch the bullet on the sides though so it doesn't provide meaningful lift. Look closely at the schlieren the high pressure region isn't against the sides of the bullet at all.

Air is already quite dense at sea level equivalent to ~194 dB sound pressure so the sonic boom pictured which is 130-160 dB is not a significant increase in the density/pressure of the air.
https://archive.ph/FHhSV
I had a typo, it should have been aren't. I agree with you.
That’s fair.

Grok3 has been amazing, but it keeps on wanting me to do dark mode for an app I’m creating. When I finally said yes, it wasn’t able to get dark ode to work, despite multiple tries. Was funny tbh.
And also not if you value your battery life and good charging speeds.
No.

(Slightly longer answer: I don’t have the funds to match what someone is likely to pay for this data, but if I bought it and gave it to you for free, and also gave you all the inpatient hospital discharge abstracts in the US in a matchable form, plus whatever health data you want, plus family relationships, plus a budget for 100 PhDs, product managers, and marketing people for 5 years you couldn’t turn it into a viable product. (Indeed that is literally what 23andme tried to do for years!))
I disagree. Why pollute every function with code checking for auth if you can just do it in a middleware?
Since you mentioned the 3.5mm headphone port: I recently found out that USBC audio accessory spec was deprecated in 2023. Means those cheap usbc to 3.5mm adapters are going to be useless soon since there is no obligation to support audio through usbc. Only the relatively more expensive DACs remain.

https://x.com/nileshtrivedi/status/1901512841318072572

(I am not the tweet author)
Everyone is waiting for a breakthrough to merge quantum mechanics and general relativity. What kind of intellectual bombshell will that take? What kind of mind will it take to have such an insight?

Amazing to think there was a similar vibe in the 1920’s around trying to merge quantum mechanics and special relativity. They seemed incompatible at a basic level, yet this cool guy on the autism spectrum came along and said here ya go fixed that for you.
Copyright law is enshrined in a knotted web of trade deals across the world, meaning it will never change for as long as anyone on this board is alive. It's so tiring on here with the constant copyright law shouldn't exist. We know! How do we get rid of it? What's your argument for everyone to break all the world's trade deals to give you this one thing that would unmake our whole artistic sector?
My sibling just moved from Toronto to London, England. "The trains just work - and they refund you if there are delays!". I guess everybody gets fed up with their home city/country eventually.
Anthropic appears to be using Brave to power web search for its Claude chatbot
Proving them wrong. Or undoing the negative situation they created.

This can in fact be quite a powerful driver. When I was younger a hurtful comment by a teacher led me to start getting good marks in their subject. This was definitely fueled by the anger I felt at the dismissive remarks, as teenager me had no other motivation.

Another payback could be to increase your status to their level (not decrease theirs) so you can do things differently and make things right. What Mandela did basically.

Maybe making them feel remorseful or regret their initial action, but to me this is a byproduct and ends up not mattering that much. In the situation I described I didn't really care what the teacher felt or what effect there was on them (likely none at all). Though there was some satisfaction in proving to myself they were an idiot.
Can you finish 2000 pages of math textbooks in a four year math degree???

Also you seem to arrive at your first ML application after 1500 pages or so.

I’m reminded of a class at my university on “early Christian literature” where the professor announced on the first day that despite the title they would actually start in 3,000 BC.
Could be, I’ll check it out. It’s probably on of those childhood memories lost in time. Thanks though.
People on this board have mischaracterized this case so much it looks like Facebook employees trying to astroturf.
> I assume the earth here is simply blown out from overexposure.

That was my first thought but I don't see how that's possible since we're looking at the dark side of the earth. It can't be overexposed when it's going to be much darker than the surface of the illuminated parts of the moon. At most, the earth would have a tiny sliver of light at the edge and we'd see a crescent shape.
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Not sure it’s targeted at them, either. Which of those entities have misbehaving bots? Seems like Google, at least, should be following robots.txt?
> If Cloudflare had no physical machines, employees, and property within Italy's borders, under what law could Italy levy a fine?

I assume they have _customers_ in Italy though? If so, they [cloudflare] are doing business there.

If they have no customers in Italy, then yeah… no clue.
Can't say I blame them, it is a matter of self preservation for them.
Nice, but not "for Physics" per se.
>I want to use my mouse full time while plugged in due to poor reliability when unplugged, and only Apple's devices say no--for reasons that don't make sense.

The reliability would not be affected since it moves data wirelessly. The data will never go over the charging cable so your reasons for keeping it plugged in don't make sense.
On the one hand, there are problems which by accident or design are nondifferentiable. Cryptography, for example.

In the other hand, these problems are routinely analyzed and solved by differentiable algorithms running on neural net substrates (e.g. you).
I am not sure what you are saying is any different to what I have said.

Then I guess the second part of your post answered your first part.
You are presenting that the Internet is free and open when it is very clearly not.
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There is a long history of efforts to combine symbolic and connectionist approaches. This is hardly the first!
I've had issues for years with several of Cloudflare's products making large chunks of the web worse than they need to be, or outright unusable. You bring up a very legitimate concern.
> If it's legal and economically beneficial to them, they'll fire people.

More importantly, if they can imagine some economic benefit. Very plausible an executive might think a chatbot is as capable as an engineer when they don't know how to evaluate either.
…since Covid and zirp.
> If everyone did what what they find most fulfilling, our net happiness will rise

And no one would literally pick up the garbage.

This utopic silliness always assumes someone, who is never you, will somehow want to do the things you don’t want to do that are generally necessary to make your life whatever it is, wherever you are.

It’s too bad - I think there’s a great point in here about not competing with the stupid stuff you see on social media. Everyone would be better off if they ignored the influencers instead of trying to live up to them.
You don't do it everywhere. You do it in the source system. The Next.JS application should just be doing "sanity" checks and passing along identity information at most. That belongs in the middleware layer, but it's not authoritative.

If bypassing a middleware layer is the one "trust me bro" check you have in your web app, then lol.

That's actually really hilarious and you should tell me what company/website that's for so I can submit some bug bounties.
This is a general problem when trying to compare OSM data with aerial imagery. I've worked a lot with orthos from Open Aerial Map, whose stated goal is to provide high quality imagery that's licensed for mapping. If you try and take OSM labels from the bounding boxes of those images and use them for segmentation labels, they're often misaligned or not detailed enough. In theory those images ought to have the best corresponding data, but OAM allows people to upload open imagery generally and not all of it is mapped.

I've spent a lot of time building models for tree mapping. In theory you could use that as a pipeline with OAM to generate forest regions for OSM and it would probably be better than human labels which tend to be very coarse. I wouldn't discount AI labeling entirely, but it does need oversight and you probably want a high confidence threshold. One other thought is you could compare overlap between predicted polygons and human polygons and use that as a prompt to review for refinement. This would be helpful for things like individual buildings which tend to not be mapped particularly well (i.e. tight to the structure), but a modern segmentation model can probably provide very tight polygons.
Twitch announced similar changes in the last few months. These services aren’t viable without user-generated content, but the vast majority of that content a) isn’t worth storing and b) has a Pareto distribution where most of the earnings are going to be concentrated within a few months of the video being uploaded. Now that interest rates have gone up, you’ll see a lot of social media platforms pivoting towards the more ephemeral content delivery models that exist in radio and television broadcasting. They won’t actually delete the content because it will be getting fed into AI models, but they’ll save on the cost of caching and serving it years after the majority of the audience has finished watching it.
> And if you’re not adjusting to it, you’re doing yourself a disservice.

What does this even mean? AI is mostly forced in situations where it can't actually improve on the output, like at the top of a google search.

> So this is my thesis now - if you’re a senior who neglects this new tool, you’re going to be out of a job soon-ish.

If your job mostly consisted of writing api clients maybe, but that's a pretty odd job.
It does align with industry standards: I am now getting dehumanized by Google after three searches including inurl or site filters.
> This is beyond damning.

Absolutely agree.

> It's also exactly the reason why the whole Javascript ecosystem is really showing how immature it is and the hype and euphoria of Vercel is contributing to its clumsiness.

I would hardly say the whole JS ecosystem is immature. There's tons of mature projects that take security very seriously and are written by highly skilled programmers.

> They are now also pushing "Vibe Coding", which is a hot air hype parade, about to be brutally hit with reality when others are deploying production code that is riddled with hundreds of security vulnerabilities

There are certainly many fresh programmers entering the ecosystem and "vibe coding" among other hyped trends are able to ride that wave. It's pretty clear that those hyping it are either new themselves (don't know better), or cater to an audience of new programmers. Those in the latter group are doing it to farm engagement, and/or are really out of touch from what real software systems look like/require.

The silent majority of moderate to highly experienced JS programmers know that these LLMs produce shit code outside of boilerplate and small demos. It's very easy to tell if you try to use them on anything else.

It is concerning on many levels though that new programmers are being guided off a cliff like this. Programming influencers and companies advocating for "vibe coding" and the like should be called out for sabotaging the next generation of programmers.
I like Zig, and I'm also very excited to see the new features landed in Zig 0.14. But man, the content in this blog doesn't really match what its title claims.

> Zig's 0.14 release inches the project toward stability

I expected to see _why_ Zig is more stable in 0.14, but the blog just rephrased the Zig release blog. I find it hard to imagine it's "towards stability" when in the blog you listed this and that "major breaking changes".
So is Facebook and Instagram.

We’re only talking about banning the foreign one.

Also, by that logic, all publishing is potentially a “national security concern”.
> But I just taught 18 professionals with no coding ability to build functional software. Their minds were blown

No you didn’t.
I can accept the argument that they are trying to be inclusive towards disadvantaged students, and it just happens that racial make up of poor but qualified students lean towards black or hispanic.

Is that the reality? or is it middle class and less advantaged white/asian kids giving way to middle class black/hispanic ones? Or worse, is it simply raising the bar for asians because there are too many of them in higher education like they did to jews?
That's perfectly fine as long as that algorithm has lower running time that writing code from scratch
Is the massive number of spam messages on this thread an attempt to suppress the article / discussion around it?

I've not seen this many from multiple but evidently related green accounts before. Given the implications about nation state actors in play, it's tempting to jump to conclusions here.
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Thank you all for your support, I really didn't expect this to take off like this! given that project is roughly two days old (:D) it's still fair to expect some issues all around, please report them on GH if you found one.
I really detest wireless charging. It doesn't work very well in, for instance, an un-airconditioned car.
The genteel American Beech is currently threatened by disease. Where I live in New England is covered in beeches, and starting last year I have not seen a single one that doesn’t show symptoms of infection: https://www.fs.usda.gov/inside-fs/delivering-mission/sustain...
Noooooope! They completely ignore crawl frequency in my experience. Bing too. Only Google seems to obey it.
Maybe, but good luck getting an LLM (one which does not include analysis of this particular attack in its training data) to spot this attack with a prompt that doesn't also create thousands of false positives when focused on the millions of non-malicious commits out there. I think we're decades away from them being that good.
relevant: TabFS <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34847611> <https://github.com/osnr/TabFS> (MIT) and <https://github.com/balta2ar/brotab> (MIT) also showed up while I was trying to remember the name of TabFS

In case you haven't seen it, the MCP repo actually has Puppeteer as one of their example servers: https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers/tree/2025.3....
Honestly, it's the sound. If you live close enough, it will drive you insane.
We can always use the awesome moral compass "If I like it, yeah!"
Or I’m in a different industry and it’s ridiculous to require years of schooling for a skill that’s not my primary interest?

Or maybe the numbers looked jumbled and they really didn’t enjoy STEM classes?

You sound arrogant.

Have you ever paid for artwork? You may not have said “I’m not artistic,” but the same criticisms apply in reverse.
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They most likely have had many more breaches, just unknown or unreported.
Licenses can only grant usage, in comparison to "all rights reserved". They can't restrict usage.
Right. The title seemed to be suggesting that the Nix way of doing things might have detected the backdoor. It's actually intending to suggest ways that Nix could be changed in order to detect the backdoor.
Clearly the author never worked with a CM2 - I did though.
The CM2 was more like a co-processor which had to be controlled by a (for that age) rather beefy SUN workstation/server. The program itself ran on the workstation which then sent the data-parallel instructions to the CM2.
The CM2 was an extreme form of a MIMD design (that is why it was called data parallel). You worked with a large rectangular array (I cannot recall up to how many dimensions) which had to be a multiple of the physical processors (in your partition). All cells typically performed exactly the same operation. If you wanted to perform an operation on a subset, you had to "mask" the other cells (which were essentially idling during that time).

That is hardly what the author describes.