skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect the hypothesis life on Earth actually started on Mars and traveled here through microbes carried by meteorites ejected in impacts will be eventually confirmed. Explains why life appeared almost immediately after the Earth formed. Mars cooled and had liquid water several hundred million years before Earth, so life had more time to start there. See https://www.uv.es/pe/2001_2/editor/mars.pdf

That would make all of us descendants of ancient "micronauts".
> Can anyone explain where this blob of "assembly language" comes from?

Assembly language is definitely the right analogy: it's a low-level target generated by higher-level tools. In this case, the expression came from a Python script calling this text(...) function:

https://github.com/mkeeter/antimony/blob/f6a56dd7/py/fab/sha...

The font is hand-built from geometric primitives (rectangles, circles, etc) and CSG operations (union, intersection, difference)

> What is considered an acceptable preprocessing or transformation?

I'm looking for interesting ideas, and to mine the depths of PLs / compiler / interpreter / runtime research. Just returning a fixed image isn't particularly interesting, but (for example) I just updated the site with a compile-to-CUDA example that shows off the brute force power of a modern GPU.
How are you using them? Who is enforcing the daily quota?
The invention of whiteness: the long history of a dangerous idea (2021)
Same here. Back in 2009-ish or so when I was on a three week vacation to took my shoes off and re-learned how to walk. From then on, I haven't had any cortisone shots in my knees nor the somewhat annual reoccurring throwing my back out. From then on I have been exclusively barefooted, wearing Bedrock sandals or some other minimal shoe.

I get all kinds of comments and snide remarks, but to walk and stand pain free I really don't care.
> literally every language could have a book written about its problems

OK, Elixir's been out for quite a few years now and is used by thousands of people at this point. Find me the "elixir sucks" webpage, which is super easy to find for Go, Python, PHP, Node, Java, and all the rest. And while I'm not a parentheses guy, find the the "Racket Sucks" page while you're at it... The only one I can find, https://www.brinckerhoff.org/blog/2016/04/25/racket-sucks-do..., is a satirical page implying that it will ruin all other languages for you lol. (Hmmm, maybe I should give it another go!)

In short, it is NOT true that all languages are created equal... otherwise everyone would be coding in Assembly, or its close cousin, Brainfuck. ;)
Can we stop with the clueless idiots nonsense? Some are that. The POTUS is also insane. Many more are much, much worse.

Marco Rubio absolutely knows due process is a right for all persons subject to U.S. law. It's not only a right for citizens, and having taken this right away from persons, in no meaningful way can it be said it's preserves for citizens.

The federal government is at best in abeyance. And an adversary at worst.
If you're using symmetric encryption, sure. And then every dishwasher has the same symmetric key, guaranteeing it'll leak.
can engineers please go take a proper stats and design of experiments class. The first anecdote he used about the push-notification is garbage. like pure garbage. If you didn't design the experiment upfront and specify what you were going to measure, doing some SQL'ing after the fact doesn't make it valid.
There are quasi-experimental techniques you can use to infer causality, but most are still inferior to a designed experiment.

The problem with post-hoc approach he used is that you can after the fact, always cherry-pick stats (after trying multiple different paths) and eventually find one that shows you it was a success, which is what this so called "growth engineer" did. How about this for a novel idea, engineers stick to engineering but if you want to cosplay as an analyst/data scientist, go learn some statistics and design of experiments.
> finer

You chose an especially wrong word there (etymonline: «unblemished, refined, pure, free of impurities»).

But it leads to revealing that you seem to be embracing "one side", while the whole of the article was about "that side of yours fighting the other side" - can you see the other side?

If when speaking about music you refer it to intoxication, then of course since that kind of music has been there some noted it's "disturbing".

--

Edit: incidentally: it seems checking again the chain of posts that you definitely misunderstood my use of 'progressive'. (If you related it to «genre-defying, progenitors, originators» - no, that's really not the direction meant.)

It is again something that has "intoxicant" as an opposite.
Politics.

Palantir are operating nationally, and have the government’s ear, as does delloitte. They also have the expertise, time and motivation to write out a plan for making things better, rather than local firefighting.

After all, who are you going to listen to? one single admin in a trust somewhere, or a very large data company who you've paid lots of money to do all this stuff?
…at half the weight precision.
In a similar vein, I found out that Go doesn't have a string reverse function either. Everyone online pretends reversing strings is easy (just iterate through the array backwards! The world is US ASCII only, right?).

Trimming strings isn't hard in most real world applications, on the other hand, and not putting it in the standard library means people won't confuse the way the trim method works (i.e. the user must make a choice between copying memory or reusing memory and risking memory lifetime/consistency issues). And that doesn't even include problems like "what if the string isn't utf8".

I'm more disappointed in Go, which takes a ton of questionable assumptions in the standard library to pretend difficult problems are easy. C++ wants to be correct and knowing what is or isn't whitespace is hard when you don't know the length of a single grapheme.
STL is actually a subset of the full C++ standard library, which includes, for example, C headers.

The STL is the algorithms + data structures + utilities, which are templates.
Angelina Jolie Was Right About Computers
Anecdata: I had persistent knee issues in my early - mid 20s. Lasted for years, doctors were no help. I could only run half a mile - a mile before pain stopped me.

I switched to minimalist shoes (zero drop, thinner sole with less cushioning but not toe shoes) and a midfoot / forefoot strike and the issues went away. I can't prove causality, but it did definitely seem like shoes fixed knee.
Show HN: Trickle – A coding agent for non-devs, now with free DeepSeek V3
We've just launched full support for DeepSeek V3 0324 in Trickle, our coding agent built for non-developers.

For the next 72 hours, we’re offering completely free, unlimited access to this integration. Trickle helps anyone transform ideas into working code—no programming background needed.

We’d love feedback from the HN community on how to improve this experience for people who want to build but don’t have a coding background.
And they'd happily build it for you!

I wonder if Palantir is over shooting here. The European (and UK) nations are clearly reconsidering any investments with US companies.
It's in the first paragraph? At least the effect they were looking for:

> Unlike traditional camouflage, which helps objects blend into their surroundings, dazzle camouflage used stark geometric patterns to try to confuse German U-boat captains’ perception of a ship’s direction and speed, making it harder to target.
Somehow I expected something about merges and branches when reading git contributions graph. The missing keyword is hub
Why Silicon Valley and Washington DC should stay on different sides of the country
Cool! As a forester, this is interesting to see being researched. Many models in our field link biomass growth strictly to seasonal temperature thresholds, often considering trees to be 'growing' only when mean daily temperatures exceed 5 or 10 degrees Celsius for a consecutive week in spring, and 'idle' otherwise. So basically not accounting for this new "off-season growth", older research are overlooking a bunch of details and insights into growth dynamics. Using coniferous/decidious species as random effects in models has shown to have an effect - this might be why.
I agree that it looks grim, but I do think preserving a full set of documentation for every industry helps the future generation to reboot. The resource part is not solvable, I have to admit that. The only hope is that with much less population and a forever mind of scarcity we do not need that much resources.

Actually, taking away the virus part, looks like we are dead if we can't get out of earth to mine other planets economically before the resources are depleted. But as far as I heard, that is super expensive. Maybe colonization with terraformation is the only answer? But we are so far from it.
which goes to the original title. spammers are better that this stuff then regular businesses.
My government uses an in-house designed and built self-serve portal for pretty much everything from tax to healthcare etc. Its been around a long time - I remember being impressed with it when scheduling childcare benefits - and its grown in features if not so much in looks.

A government agency employs normal average developers etc.

They offer non-stellar wages in an economical backwater so has quite a boost on the local economy and gives programmers wanting to live more rurally employment opportunities, but I imagine today a lot could be remote too.

And it works great. No thrills but functional. Excellent value for money.

(The uk's gov.uk websites that I've had to interact with have a similar look and feel if a less integrated feeling; I don't know how they are developed.)

I've seen and known the the outsourced contractor systems in normal companies from the big names and all have always been an unending disaster. The goal is to 'grow the engagement' not finish. The incentives that keep it going in normal companies are not really about getting a good system quickly.
This is missing the point.

To be clear, I'm not necessarily a fan of DMARC, particularly how it was introduced. But it is very obvious that spammers will eventually do everything to not be flagged as spammers.

What DMARC gives you is that it makes it less likely that your phishing mail will come from contact@yourbank.com. It will rather come from contact@y0urbank.com or some other domain.

How much of an improvement that is and how many people will notice is certainly debatable. But that's what DMARC can give you. Nothing more, nothing less.
Again, it literally doesn't matter. Game's gone. No-one will get punished for this because everyone knows it's a waste of effort and they'll be pardoned.
> It is completely possible to have a PHP application written 3+ years ago that is well maintained, continues to promote best practices, has excellent test coverage, that isn’t a nightmare to deal with

Of course, as soon as you depend on PHP code written by others who do not feel the same inclination towards beauty, your codebase's correctness now falls to the level of the lowest-correct dependency you depend on.
They look symmetric to me, but that's not point anyway, I guess they are parables, only they are rotated, their axis is not parallel to the y axis.

If those are 2nd order functions in the 2d plane, then we don't agree on terminology.

The reason why I feel an expert is that it is clear at first sight to me that if you really implement the Newton method in that situation, the approximating functions that you will get are totally different from those that were drawn in the illustration.

The third parable from the left on the lower left figure, is definitely not a second order approximation to the target function: the convexity is reversed!
The change of tone in Tech Crunch over the last 5 years was something that I feel personally sad about.

I was a long-time reader, and being in a peripheral place where we looked up to the American companies, TC sounded very optimistic with their coverage, bringing success stories, talking with founders, and most importantly, being on this industry radar, at least from the standpoint of a more journalistic and general audience level.

During the latest years, TC became a bit bitter around the industry and forgot the sea of small companies and scale-ups, and started to be more political and critical, and the least being a good thing in a certain way, probably does not have the ideological muscle to do it like the more mainstream media. In other words, if I want to check some critique, I would go to some independent and ideological shop and get the straight point, then some sugar-coated criticism.
> They do require a one-time connection to perform key exchange of a long-live authorization key

What does my offline dishwasher need a long-lived authorization key for?
> There are lossy compression standards like MP3, and Apple's own Advanced Audio Codec (AAC), which result in some data loss.

While Apple popularized usage of AAC, I think it's disingenuous to say that it's "Apple's own" format. Wasn't it developed by MPEG, and therefore, was an industry collaboration? Maybe it's because I've never been an Apple fan, but am I alone in thinking this?
I have a 7900 GRE, which is the same except less memory. I run Gemma 3, LLama 3.1, the QwQ models and the DeepSeek distilled models using llama.cpp. They run fine, I especially like the new Gemma3-27b-Q6 (20 GB model), I get 2 tok/s on it.

I have also run Hunyuan3d-2 and generated 3d models. You would've to separate out the model generation and texture generation phase, but it works.

I run ComfyUI and bootleg gguf models. This is all on windows. Now even WSL2 works, so I am using Ubuntu-24.04 on Windows 11 to run Hunyuan3D-2.

For LLMs, llama.cpp native binaries are available. Everything just works out of the box.
With Outlook, in my university the problem was that when we send emails they disappeared mid air, no bounce, no spam folder. The solution was that they must write an email from the Outlook address, after that we are added to a secret good list and we can write them.
Deregulation in Argentina: Milei Takes "Deep Chainsaw" to Bureaucracy
> There are far worse jobs out there.

Fair enough. But there are also far better. I can't help caring about this one. It's a curse. lol
Contracts do not supersede consumer protection laws.
TidesDB: A modern log structured storage engine
Summarized and discussed at https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2025/03/ar...
Fair enough, but I also know a few guys who started in PHP and then never left it, and I kind of feel bad for them
I remember running down the street and back with my new vibram 5 fingers just to try them out. The next day my calves were so sore I could barely walk. I couldn't wait to do it again.

I've since moved on to minimalist runners with a flat thin sole and wide toe area. Unfortunately I ended up stepping on a small sharp pebble at one point and have a very hard and sometimes painful area of tough skin on the pad of my foot. Nevertheless, I'll still answer the call to run on a warm sunny day.
funny first paragraph, then paywall
The tennis racket style zappers are effective and pretty fun!
"Local" parties (tories) split NHS trusts into smaller pieces which heavily impacted efficiency (Scotland IIRC escaped it)
fair points.

looking back on this comment from 3 days ago... all I can say is that my toddler kid isn't sleeping through any night consistently :/
Question to HN: To what extent do we understand vitamin D's activity in our body?

A lot of the focus seems to be on the bone, muscle, teeth, etc. components, but I also hear often about headlines like in the OP or its significance in improving mood. I would like to know if there's potential that we know little about its complete set of effects.
I bet you would have said the same about VW before Dieselgate.
Mosquito nets are best: put some as canopies above beds and enjoy sleeping without the dreaded ear buzz. If you live in a badly infested area, put them around doors / windows (there's retractable ones, you can fit them yourself). And finally, the superpower of just doing things: do some door to door / enlist your neighbors and hunt down the neighborhood stagnant waters.
It really is too bad AV1 hasn't had a successor yet. x264 and x265 are patent ridden scourges and should be avoided wherever possible.
Winter root growth is widely-observed amongst people who work with tree roots annually (bonsai hobbyists and professionals, commercial ornamental tree growers, especially propagation-adjacent roles) in milder temperate climates (eg: Pacific Northwest).

In my time studying bonsai (past 7-10y) in every winter (Jan-Mar) I've repotted (anywhere from partial to full bare rooting, partial to full root structure editing) many PNW-native deciduous trees (alders, bigleaf + vine maples, cottonwoods, etc) as well as non-PNW-native deciduous (birches, beeches, elms, maples, hazels, hornbeams, stewartia, bald cypress, cherries/plums, quinces, snowbells, etc). In somewhat-mild-and-milder climates there is always some root growth going on. Such winter root growth is much more aggressive in conifers, particularly pines, but also in spruces, cypress-family species (junipers).

Here's a diagram from a paper showing scots pine and rowan/ash adding either root or vegitative growth in various parts of the year:

https://imgur.com/a/qF4oQ8a

Temperate trees collect or spend carbon in the warm parts of the year, i.e. between bud-break and mid-summer. In cooler parts of the year, they do various things: store it in the wood, move it around (redistribution + retranslocation), spend it (future-season buds + cambium + root expansion) or carefully avoid spending it (dormancy).

Even in these periods they're still collecting sunlight if they can, quite a few deciduous species can photosynthesize at least a little bit directly through their bark -- young twigs have much thinner bark even in trees that get very rough bark (eg: black cottonwood). And evergreens are collecting sunlight any time mild-or-warmer conditions are in play.

Trees are active in some shape or form any time they are able to be. If you live in USDA hardiness zone 7 or warmer and have trees/shrubs outside you can notice this more easily than in colder climates (where the grow/no-grow seasons are more sharply bounded). Roots are not the only thing expanding in winter. Take a picture every day of a branch on a deciduous or evergreen tree and you'll see bud expansion.
> Surely everyone (and by everyone I mean Google) is rejecting their mail? How do they not realize this?

Not sending email to google helps.
Running out of space because of a full trash is a better problem to have than delete meaning "destroyed and gone forever", because that would result in people being screwed because they deleted something that they shouldn't have. Maybe more platforms should have a policy that all trashed items older than 30-365 days will be automatically deleted for good.
Just because it seems to fall, doesn't mean it's actually falling.

The Shepard tone is an auditory illusion where the tone seems to be continually rising or falling in pitch.

I've seen old films. They had terrible morals, like rich people straight-out slapping servants they felt were doing wrong, and of course the near omnipresent racism and sexism.

I totally expect the generation at the end of this century to despise our immoral pollution of the planet.
Meh - many simply use STL for the STandard Library. Few people even remember Stepanov’s Standard Template Library.
Maybe it has some embargoed technology and needs to make sure it's not in China or something.
Chain of Draft: Streamlining LLM Reasoning with Minimal Token Generation
I think the need for an explanation/citation scales relative to how common a given anecdotal experience is.

I’ve spent plenty of time walking barefoot outside but apparently have not experienced what people here are claiming. Not saying no one can/does, but at the very least the experience doesn’t seem to be universal.
Yeah...I'm not saying he's wrong, but I am saying you can get hookworm that way. Choose your soil wisely.
True. The only problem with lower quantization though is that the model fails to understand long prompts.
https://archive.ph/VlpGI
OK now I need a citation lol.
Which is another reason to strictly enforce SPF and DKIM, in my book. Let marketing break those policies, that way I don't need to bother with reading your company's spam!
Far Out! Thanks.

We could use some Complex Adaptive System architecture to create galaxies. Or we could call them Gestalts instead of CAS.

In gestalts
entities,
use rules
to interact with a read/write message bus.

Ants. Pheromone trails. Write when you find food, not if you don't.

We have the pieces for this. Entities - people. We have a r/w bus - the internet. What we don't have are rules. We can think of rules - the kind Wolfram talks about in NKofS - instead as a language. A language in the sense of Sapir-Whorf. "Twitter and Tear Gas" (Zeynep Tufecki) is a good illustration of Sapir-Whorf in internet languages. (Available as a pdf I think)

That language is the missing link. In Real Life there is a language for collaboration. Perhaps the task is to understand the elements of IRL collaboration and then transpose it.

One could make some guesses about fundamentals. As we have all discovered, one fundamental is trust. IRL Trust is identity and reputation based. With many caveats. Perhaps we could start by considering
A New Kind of Identity. ?
SAP has just become Europe's most valuable company, dethroning Novo Nordisk
Show HN: The cloud is rigged. we're building a better one
the cloud is a walled garden built for profit [ not efficiency ]. you’re paying for idle, autoscaling is too slow, and serverless is a scam. locked in, overcharged, and out of options.

lttle.cloud is different. decentralized, open-source, and built for real performance [ sub-10ms cold start ], true pay-for-what-you-use pricing, and zero vendor lock-in. deploy anything as "serverless" from any docker image, no rewrites, no bullshit.

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the cloud game is rigged. but we can try to fix it.
> Why is it up to Palantir to make this suggestion

It isn't but also people have been saying this kind of thing for years and it just doesn't get anywhere or make the news.

e.g. https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200607/cmselect/cmpu... from 2006 is all about « The National Programme for IT in the NHS
(“the Programme” or NPfIT) was set up to provide such services, using centrally managed procurement to provide impetus to the uptake of IT and to secure economies of scale." »
You're comparing something generic, like an internet connection, to a personal website. They're not really similar.

It sounds like you want to be able to express yourself personally, but you don't want to be personally responsible for what you use to express yourself.

Have you considered social networks? E.g. twitter and facebook: they're pretty painless to setup, integration isn't easy but is well documented. Migration isn't nailed yet, but mastodon and bluesky have approaches to that covered, so how about them?
From a dogmatic point of view, this might've been correct at some point in time. But, as the links from above clearly point out, most people use "STL" and "C++ standard library" interchangeably (including the very maintainers of one of the most populous C++ standard library implementations), without excluding certain parts of one or the other.
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