skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> you said you "really dislike gos style".

Exactly. Dislike != annoyed

I can use a different package so what’s there to be annoyed about?

> there is no better person to produce a proposal than the person who best understands why it isn't sufficient or is wrong in one or more ways.

Dislike != insufficient

It’s a personal preference not a technical criticism.

> By the way, if i haven't said something outright, I did not infer that thing. Don't read between my lines, there's nothing there.

If you’re going to play the “you’ve misunderstood me” card then at least make sure you’ve understood people correctly yourself.

> I didn't say it was easy to guide a proposal from the proposal stage through to acceptance, or that I was optimistic about doing it

Changing the way the flag package would need to be changed to make myself (and others) happy couldn’t be done in a backwards compatible way. Thus it would have to be part of Go v2.0, which could be a decade away or might never happen.

And since all that the change would bring is an alternative, more GNU, way of parsing flags, it makes this hypothetical proposal a really low bar for improvement (unlike your other examples) thus this hypothetical proposal is unlikely to ever approved even if a hypothetical v2 of Go were to ever be released.

The whole premise of this changing is so remote that even suggesting I write a proposal in the first place is a massively optimistic take.

And for the record, I fully support Go not changing their behaviour here. Keeping the flags package as-is is the right thing for Go to do. So I wouldn’t even support my hypothetical proposal here even though I don’t personally like the existing flags package.

This might sound too nuanced for HN, but you can dislike something while still supporting it’s existence. Change here, in my opinion, would be worse than the status quo.
There are many clues to indicate that the animation is a lie. For example, it clearly upscales the image using an external tool after the first image renders. As another example, if you ask the model about the tokens inside of its own context, it can't see any pixel tokens.

A model may not have many facts about itself, but it can definitely see what is inside of its own context, and what it sees is a call to an image generation tool.

Finally, and most convincingly, I can't find a single official source where OpenAI claims that the image is being generated pixel-by-pixel inside of the context window.
OTP in Your Password Manager Is Not 2FA
> What's next, arbitrarily arresting Salvadoran travelers to protest their government's arbitrary arrest of gang members?

For that case, try international sanctions - of which, yes, increasing visa requirements or banning entry bar special cases (say a Salvadorian having family in the EU) certainly is an option that should be discussed.

The EU has strength through the size of its population and economy, and it's time we finally start playing our cards instead of just bending over.
The Laws of Cryptography with Java Code (2003) [pdf]
Given that "foreign enemies" is decided by the posting of a tweet that's asking for global chaos.
I built extension letting you use Gemini 2.5 Pro for Fill-In-the-Middle (FIM)
The Free-Libre / Open Source Software (Floss) License Slide (2017)
ah, I assumed it was just me - I can’t scroll at all one the page on mobile
Except of course if you post something without a loicense.
maybe for most cases nscd was enough. not exactly a dns-cache but a hostname cache on one layer up.
For me the interesting part is they were able to recover data from iPad after 5 years being under water.
I don't think I am there yet. I got too confident about AI and was lazy to do some search instead or think through the problem solution. I wasted my 3 hours by not doing so. LLMs are getting better but search and stackoverflow still helps.
even if no one cares if you put it on your personal website a future employeer might care. Having a blog with technical posts can make you stand out from the crowd
Can you find me a single official source from OpenAI that claims that GPT 4o is generating images pixel-by-pixel inside of the context window?

There are lots of clues that this isn't happening (including the obvious upscaling call after the image is generated - but also the fact that the loading animation replays if you refresh the page - and also the fact that 4o claims it can't see any image tokens in its context window - it may not know much about itself but it can definitely see its own context).
Show HN: Forget bash, write your shell scripts in plain English
> Much like what I am doing here to what I assume is a group exceeding 100+ members.

This is not a group, we’re not all receiving a notification because of your message.
I'm wondering why, in this day and age, it is still difficult to search for a specific type of jeans, with a specific size, style and color, and availability. And filter it by shipping method/cost.

Same for other products. E.g. resistor 0805, 1/8W or better, etc. etc.

Why does every online shop have their own (often broken) filtering system? Why can't the information be gathered by an AI, and turned into a super filter?
Introduction to Monoio: A High-Performance Rust Runtime
Your argument might hold some more weight if it weren't the exact same flavor of hysterical rhetoric that we all saw back in 2016...where...not much changed.

But I totally get it, this time is different! The US is in crisis! How could I not see the obvious signs?? It's all over the headlines!
I think it's hard because documenting something is a completely different skill than exploring and/or building something. For a lot of us, the act of documenting doesn't scratch the same itch.
Employment stats in the EU are a complete joke and don't reflect at all real work/value creation. It's all about moving numbers from one box to another.
Just because you made one more bureaucrat bullshit job does not mean you are creating any value, quite the contrary.

You seem to conveniently forget that all of this was "possible" only with heavy borrowing, and it looks like many countries won't be able to even pay the principal soon enough.
When you take this into account, the "growth" has been negative for over 10 years, and it was barely stagnant for quite a while before.
We exported the growth and manipulated money, now the truth appear. You can only pretend for so long.

The reality is that the value creating has been quite low in most of the EU and now that the economic engine that was Germany has stalled, everything is grinding to a halt.
Germany had heavy reliance on cheap Russian gas for its chemical industry and premium car market, both are getting disrupted massively. It's actually a perfect example on why we should avoid too much reliance on other countries. The hilarious part is that in the meantime, Germany was giving "ecology" lessons to all their neighbors and the world at large. In typical arrogant German fashion, they had everything figured out, until they didn't, that is. They actually hold a lot of responsibility for their terrible leadership on the EU.
Sounds like you are talking about Amazon? Which is a front end for online shops.
Kahan's lecture notes on the status of the IEEE Standard 754 for binary floati [pdf]
I wonder to what extent the use of Scala at an organization is a "red flag". No disrespect to the language. I've used it a couple times and if you're all in on FP then it's probably the way to go.

But say you're interviewing for a job - what does it say about an organization if they've picked a somewhat obscure, academic tool to build their product? They are probably exceedingly clever, but are you in for long technical debates about arcane minutiae? Are they stubborn and uncompromising? Do they make impractical technical decisions?
>the current working generation pays into a pool that gets then distributed to the current pensioner generation

How do you manage to sell a government controlled Ponzi scheme tied to demographics as a benefit?
Last commit 1 yr. They welcome your contributions in CONTRIBUTING.md
Liverpool had one of these. The universities bought in and in principle academics had access to use the space and materials costed to the institution. So yes, a co-working space with access to fabrication equipment and a few small companies in residence. Very expensive for private consumers and we were never sure who'd get the bill if we used the fancier machines, so it was underutilised. Eg some high end LPKF PCB equipment that could do printed antennas and all sorts of interesting stuff, but the rental cost was rarely worth it over rush ordering from places like oshpark.

Kind of an odd setup because any company that actually needed the kit (eg a darkroom for optical prep) would be better off renting a tiny industrial space and building out their own labs, and contracting out the rest.

And since the universities paid into it they could have pushed for ownership and made it a proper facility for students and researchers.

https://lbndaily.co.uk/sensor-city-in-liverpool-could-reopen...
i also disagree w/ the article, it almost always needs spaces around both en and em dashes
The chart is interesting, but misses on an important thing: semiconductor production on it's own is complicated, but producing equipment for semiconductor production is the whole new level, that's why ASML.
I second this. Small chunks is easier than one massive thing all at once.

I also have the habit of keeping a `~/notes.md` file, which I can access at the drop of a hat with a shell shortcut (I use fish, so I have the function `nn` which calls `$EDITOR ~/notes.md`). If you use multiple computers, which I do, you can use a common git repo with a branch for each computer as a backup. I generally end up writing a few notes every day, which means if I want to publish something in the future I have good source material to use.

Apologies if this post was a bit self centered, I hope my sharing my methods might be useful :)
It’s not a database, it’s a prediction engine. It’s going to be very good at predicting things it was trained on.
I am looking for the same. Some kind of consumer report for quality, threadcount, washing machine resistance, etc...
Programming Language for the End of the World
The conclusion is correct, I would say. I know plenty of Americans who are not the archetype I portrayed, but this is HN, and that’s the HN American I see here a lot. Not all, but a lot. And we seem to be fundamentally incompatible. It’s really unfortunate, but that’s what it seems to me, and I’m sorry for the bitter undertones, it’s just really hard to stay optimistic in the current social climate.
When did they choose it, and why? It was far from obscure 10 years ago.
What bad faith?

US has been destroying Middle East for decades. Where do you thing that migrants from those regions run to?

Wars in Middle East are not something that EU needs or wants. We just went with it because of all the "we are allies and we respect each other" lies that were used by US administrations to swindle EU and get what they want.

Or do you propose that US pays for the costs of immigration problems around the world?

It is obvious that only reason US doesn't have safety net for their own citizens is US.
They all do and always have, they just aren't perfect.
Except for the neighbors who will likely block that apartment build-out via any means possible.
Dittemore's Law
Amazon's search is somehow even worse even though they already have a lot of the information in a structured format.
Thanks for the reminder. I feel the same way about not playing the game. Moreso than wanting to drive the numbers up, which is not the goal, I like sharing things and want to at least be coherent so that someone can follow along. But considering your advice I think not sweating the details of scaffolding is a good adjustment.
I'm literally not buying a GM, because of this.

All of us just want cheaper, more reliable "dumb" objects.
>Yes, quality of life is great (esp. in places like Berlin)

How can quality of life be great when you can't find housing if you want to move there?
What was his general idea?
Gate: AI and Automation Scenario Explorer
that's a good point, in search we have google as a monopoly and since a big percentage of sites only want to be crawled by them it reinforces the monopoly. So a lot of people complain about bots not following robots.txt but if you follow them to the letter it's impossible to make anything useful. Also AFAIK robots.txt doesn't have any legal standing
Late Progress on Feynman Cyphers
Previous discussion (2020): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23250289
Sure, because you're making a broad, provably false statement rather than a statement on a highly specific task.
If they did something illegal, charge and prosecute them.

If you think what they did should be illegal but isn't now, work with congress to pass legislation that makes it illegal.

The rule of law is critical to the American system. The EOs targeting law firms are extrajudicial nonsense, and frankly impeachment worthy.
Hey folks, a few days ago I wondered: Given all this LLM availability, why can’t I write shell scripts like this?

#!/usr/bin/env llmscript

Count all files in the current directory and its subdirectories
Group them by file extension
Print a summary showing the count for each extension
Sort the results by count in descending order

So I made it a reality in an evening an it kinda works: https://github.com/statico/llmscript

It generates a script and a test suite, and then it attempts to fix the script until it passes the tests.

It’s written in Go, but I hardly know Go, and used Cursor to generate most of it in a few hours. It works with Ollama and Claude, and I added support for OpenAI but haven’t tested it. You can also run it in Docker if you want to sandbox it.
You're both right ;) Google maps was indeed bought from an Australian company. Or to be more specific, Google bought a company that had a desktop mapping application that they were in the process of porting to the web, the web version was completed after the acquisition, and that was the original Google Maps. The Swiss company in your link was working on a similar project at the same time and got acquired by Google a couple of years later. The Swiss company was in many ways ahead of Google maps at the time and added a lot new technology and features to Google maps, and can to a great extent probably be considered the basis for the success of Google maps, but Google Maps existed before that acquisition.
AI agents are cool and all, but here’s the thing — dropping agents into workflows without orchestration is like throwing a bunch of instruments together and expecting a symphony.

Without the right orchestration layer, businesses end up with a messy, disconnected automation stack (aka the spaghetti monster of enterprise tech).
If the presence of regulations and taxes destroys a portion of motivation to innovate, then that specific portion was likely harmful to society and I will not mourn that loss.
They're probably paid better than a GS-8 or whatever. C'mon "economist", why not cover the economics?
Show HN: Tree views, keyboard nav, and new use cases for #regions (VSCode ext.)
Hey everyone, received a kind comment on GitHub recommending I share this extension with HN.

Quick primer for anyone unfamiliar: you can insert `#region My Region` and `#endregion` comment markers in your code to organize it. Editors like VSCode will make these "regions" foldable, show them in the minimap, etc. Regions can be nested.

While modular code and clean file/folder structure are usually enough, I find regions can be super helpful in certain contexts, like large test files, long classes, or even VSCode's `settings.json` (which is JSONC under the hood and allows `// #region` comments).

Some great tools already exist (e.g. I recommend Region Highlighter), but I always wished there were certain ones: fuzzy search, keyboard navigation, a tree view that tracks the cursor's region*, regions merged into the Outline**, etc. So I built them, plus a few extras like unmatched boundary warnings and a small API to help other devs build on top of this, along with builtin support for ~50 languages (customizable/extendable via settings).

This was a fun side project that's made it easier and more enjoyable to work with regions, when I do. What surprised me though, is that it's also changed when I use them in the first place. I'm now adding regions where I previously wouldn't have bothered, like an API constants region with a subregion for each endpoint. Not because the file is especially long or needs the extra structure, but because it can benefit from the added visual hierarchy and quick navigation points that regions now provide. Still important not to overuse them of course, but having the option is nice.

Hope it's useful to some of you too!

Also while we're here, I'd be curious to hear your general thoughts on regions. Do you hate them (I know some people do, which is valid)? If you use them, when do you find them most useful? Etc.

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* A non-tracking tree view extension existed, which I considered submitting a PR for; but its repo was inactive.

** VSCode's API didn't support adding regions to the builtin Outline, except as a separate regions-only section. This was a brutal rabbithole actually; I tried multiple methods that all eventually had issues. Ultimately, the best path was for Region Helper to provide its own separate "Full Outline" view.
I've been kind of expecting to see the LLM impact on Google's 10-Q for a while now.

Even if LLM queries are just a small fraction of overall internet queries, I suppose they're stealing eyeballs from higher-value searchers.
And everyone knows, policies being followed is the current administrations strong suit.
The assumption that Cats Effect / FS2 / ZIO is easier than Akka / Pekko is questionable. There's the assumption that the Akka ecosystem requires the entire system to be built using the various features the ecosystem offers, when in reality it easily scales down to simple microservices just as well, if that's the only option or the overall preference.

One reason to reach for the pure functional libraries is a desire to avoid some of the many footguns Akka / Pekko has. For a long time, using Akka meant not being able to rely on the Scala type system for checking messages sent between actors, and for the people attracted to Scala due to the advanced type system, this was a deal-breaking drawback.

All in all, the FP libraries and the actor system libraries are almost direct opposite approaches to problem solving.
You could use `host match exec` instead of `ProxyCommand`. I believe it will run before you end up checking for files on disk.
Worten.pt in Portugal Has Alleged Data Breach of 9.6M Customer Records
Any examples you mind sharing? I’m largely convinced it’s due to the founder’s networks and access to capital when you see broken ideas succeed.
I'm talking about the web, not just Amazon. Amazon's filtering is limited too. I want a universal filter with many options. And not just shops that are captured in Amazon's sphere. And my search engine should have no incentives other than providing me with good search results.
>Europe has a lot of successful companies, including in computing (ASML, ASM, ARM, NXP, STM, etc.)

Having "a lot of companies" is a meaningless metric on its own when all those European companies combined make less money than Apple on a bad quarter. That's like me saying I do "a lot of deadlifts", without mentioning all those deadlifts are done with an empty barbell. Context makes the difference.

What matters is not how many companies, but how much money are you bringing into the economy and how many well paid jobs you're creating.

EU has a lot of traditional and mediocrely profitable companies that are still going through layoffs: Bosch, Siemens, VW, Audi, etc due to being mostly stuck in stagnating industries that are facing increasing competition from Asia.

>the EU is going to invest a lot in defense, chips, and AI

I've heard this political song and dance before yet it hasn't ever materialized in more and better paid tech jobs for Europeans.
Your making stuff up.

[del: Most Russian soldiers are paid over $100,000 a year to volunteer to fight in Ukraine. :del] In contrast, most of the Ukrainian soldiers are conscripts.

Here's a Youtube channel by a Brit who moved to Russia in 2002 or 2003:

https://www.youtube.com/@SamsRussianAdventures/videos

At the current time, the top video (i.e., the latest video) in that list is titled, "I'm Much Happier Here in Russia - Here's How Much it Costs".

Sadly, I haven't been able to find out (after watching about 5 of his videos) how much he earns and how he gets his money.

Russia's Gini coefficient is 35.1 whereas the US is at 41.3. Zero means perfect equality whereas 100 is the most unequal society possible.
Neither are Scala's
I try to use different things depending on what I'm searching for. For techy stuff relevant Reddit group or stack is often better. For things that you end up with Wiki, their home page is there anyway to search. For news related search it's a problem with any of them as they usually show paywalled results.
I thought it was mostly the point of startups to be bought like this? EU should stop allowing them to be bought by American megacorps and make sure they cannot use their power and money to not compete on the merits of their product.
23andMe (2006-2025), the death of an ambitious idea
Yeah, for blogs that don't have a unique domain, I have to fix them by hand. I've just fixed Chris Siebenmann's. Thanks!
It's a nice theory, but the reason everyone in this administration is acting with such impunity is because they already believe there really are no consequences. They had that realization when they fomented an insurrection in 2021 and not only did nothing happen to them, they were voted back into office. What more confirmation would they need?

These people are just brutes lumbering through a government the fully control now, smashing and doing whatever they want. There's no 4D chess.
The relatability of this story is what gives it legs.

Everyone likes to imagine this kind of stuff is done by operators acting in American interests with a steady hand on the wheel. But it turns out decisions about life and death are being made using shallow analysis by a list of unqualified political insiders with the level of care given to organizing a fantasy football league.

I can't think of a better parable about technology. We have removed massive barriers and instilled ease of use. We have also created complacency and instilled recklessness. Add in the political elements and this is a seminal 21st century moment.
This was my plans a few years back, and again now.

I'd rather bring a fresh wiped device through security.

But US gov has access to any business records, including these conversations.
In Poland it is much cheaper, but it is slow or even slower.
As long as ChatGPT uses Bing for searching the web, Google Search is not going anywhere.
I think for some, it's really fun to have a collection of something.. I'm a fan of stores like Amoeba, because they do tend have a really excellent selection of second hand records, and it can be fun to hunt for something. At any given time, I have a handful of records I'm searching for, and.. and it's a real thrill to find it cheaply.
> I can brag about Akamai or Cloudflare being used for criminal activity and still use it myself or even promote it to others.

You're not running Akamai or Cloudflare.
I use Google's AI often by mistake. Even when I know it is wrong I will quote it here on HN and give credit to Google AI for the misinformation for posterity sake. Historians will want to see what output it was giving people especially if there should be any cases of public manipulation through these bots. I do not know where else to archive it. AI is still lacking fact-checkers. Google AI still can not provide any references to where it learned the misinformation often referred to as hallucinations and as far as I know there still isn't a team that prunes the misinformation and I have no idea how to report it or downvote it.