skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Namaste!!! Kerala and all India states are very beautifull places of the India. I’d traveling there 3 months in 2017-2018 and only one seroius problem is everywhere, pollution of plastic and all kind of rubbish! Then people burn rubbish in fire! They vsn send space craft to out of the planet but not manage to recycle bio compost, glass bottles and metal cans ext.. people throw to nature all rubbish!! So it is time to stand up and start recycling everything and then edugate all peoples to do that in every day but most importat is fix the infra for recycling. Come to see that procedure in scandinavia!! Compost material is super hood soil for growing yes oy is very easy when goverment is make a infra for ready. I have living all together 1.5 year in India 1990’s and 2017-2018 so have a good understund of Indian way to live and one part of my body and soul is always living and love mama India and humans of every hierarcy andcö relious parts… sorry typo ext.. greetings from Finland!! Dhanyavaad!!
Only 46+ months left!
It's not about how I talk to my kid; he's picking up 2 languages just fine (trying a third but I'll admit I'm slacking a little on that one).

It's about the perception of how children speak in English.
I used to do a lot of XSLT coding, by hand, in text editors that weren't proper IDEs, and frankly it wasn't very hard to do.

There's something very zen-like with this language; you put a document in a kind of sieve and out comes a "better" document. It cannot fail; it can be wrong, full of errors, of course (although if you're validating the result against a schema it cannot be very wrong); but it will almost never explode in your face.

And then XSLT work kind of disappeared; I miss it a lot.
Funny enough while "We hacked Google's AI" is going to get the clicks, in reality they hacked the one part of Gemini that was NOT the LLM (a sandbox environment meant to run untrusted user-provided code).

And "leaked its source code" is straight up click bait.
Does anyone at Google care that you're trying to replace Assistant with this in the next few months and it can't set a timer yet?

(I mean it will tell you it's set a timer but it doesn't talk to the native clock app so nothing ever goes off if you navigate away from the window.)
you may be right that the economic development of Kerala in the last 2-3 decades could be because of India's overall economic development. But note that Kerala is consistently in the lead to many indian states, including Gujarat, in terms of Human Development Index. Gujarat continues to lag on HDI despite being historically economically richer than Kerala:

- 2011: HDI in India rises by 21%: Kerala leads, Gujarat far behind - https://www.firstpost.com/india/hdi-in-india-rises-by-21-ker...

- 2011: Malnutrition mars Gujarat's growth story: HDI Report - https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/malnutrit...

- 2017: Gujarat lags behind developed states if HDI parameters are compared: P Chidambaram - https://www.financialexpress.com/india-news/gujarat-lags-beh...

- 2021: If Gujarat is a model, then the real toppers in development indicators, like Kerala and Tamil Nadu, must be supermodels - https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/the-gujarat-middle/ar...

- 2021: HDI: How States Fare in Human Development - https://ceda.ashoka.edu.in/hdi-how-states-fare-in-human-deve...
> The trees may have even evolved to act as lightning rods.

Scientists: Let's get near these dangerous lightning rod trees to study them!
Probably easier to allow for everyone than maintain a branched feature set. This is why strict regulation in one place (such as vehicle emissions rules in California) can propagate changes throughout the world.
To bring that back into the tech/business world:

My personal rule for being an expert/consultant is to be very willing to say "I don't know, but I can find that out for you", and define that as my real expertise: know how to find out things.

Technology stacks, programming languages, all of those things come and go. The skill to pick up whatever is needed is long-term better.
They missed the fact that people would be more reluctant to click and read an article since it has an immediate cost. People are more careful when money is involved, even if it's a penny. With a subscription, we make a decision and then it's on autopilot. Micropayment requires constant decisions which it's a cognitive load that will evently lead people to read less articles.

Micropayments is a bad business model for any business.
JSON-RPC over HTTP just to make a tool call? At some point, MCP starts to feel like a wrapper around a wrapper.
Inability to build a business easily nor allow others to build one. The union culture is way too strong. There is a joke that the Kerala model of development requires a rich oil state nearby.
>XML has always seemed to be a data standard which is intended to be what computers prefer, not people

Interesting take, but I'm always a little hesitant to accept any anthropomorphizing of computer systems.

Isn't it always about what we can reason and extrapolate about what the computer is doing? Obviously computers have no preference so it seems like you're really saying

"XML is a poor abstraction for what it's trying to accomplish" or something like that.

Before jQuery, chrome, and web 2.0, I was building xslt driven web pages that transformed XML in an early nosql doc store into html and it worked quite beautifully and allowed us to skip a lot of schema work that we definitely were ready or knowledgeable enough to do.

EDIT: It was the perfect abstraction and tool for that job. However the application was very niche and I've never found a person or team who did anything similar (and never had the opportunity to do anything similar myself again)
I'm not saying the change will be good for Japan!
I have been "encouraged" by my company to go full throttle into integration LLMs into our workflow. I have found is has taken much of the enjoyment out of solving problems with code. As others have said, it has made me lazier and I can see myself losing my edge.
ah okay.

I was building with cgo+musl before and it was not complex at all, but yeah I didn't think about cross-compiling.
Excellent title, no notes.
Total system cost is what matters, efficiency is only a small part of the equation. As far as I know a mixture of batteries and hydrogen in a renewable grid looks like the cheapest solution.

Storing hydrogen is trivially done in salt caverns. We already do it that way today.
This would be a killer feature for Signal. I just checked to see if I could do it.
Is the interactive python sandbox incompatible with thinking models? It seems like I can only get the interactive sandbox by using 2.0 flash, not 2.0 flash thinking or 2.5 pro.
in Santa Barbara, California.. working professionals with credentials and a college degree cannot afford (or find?) an ordinary rental unit. The source of that is a news article that said they may not be able to bring newly graduated doctors or young police to their city.
>Turns out investing in your own people returns dividends. Unfortunately, the current administration is divesting from the American people.

As we see, in the case of America, these dividends are much larger. So much larger that they are not even comparable to what is described in the article.

>mixture of Gorbachev and Yeltsin, where the Chicago economists came in and their shock therapy and large divestment

But that's not what happened in the USSR. Gorbachev simply make government open and transparent for people, rejected totalitarian oppression, and it immediately became clear that the party had almost zero support.

And since it is impossible to have near-zero support without totalitarian oppression, the tops of the Communist Party (led by Yeltsin) decided to go cash out and simply divided among themselves all the assets under the party's control.

That's it. It had nothing to do with Chicago economist and shock therapy, which was just an excuse for dividing government assets.

And it's not like wealth and health of ordinary people suffered to any significant degree. It's just that before Gorbachev and Yeltsin all the statistics were fake, and people were repressed for contradicting it. But after the coup, no one cared. In fact, the only ones at a loss were middle level party bureaucrats, who did not have any real assets under their control, but occupied an extremely privileged position in the Soviet system and parasitizing on the body of an oppressed society.
I will never buy, let alone wear clothes previously worn by another person that I don't know (but even then I likely wouldn't)

I am talking about in normal, everyday (for me) circumstances, this would likely not apply in dire circumstances
No one says that a thermostat is "thinking" of turning on the furnace, or that a nightlight is "thinking it is dark enough to turn the light on". You are just being obtuse.
Can’t you simply show encrypted communications with a visual cue to clue users into the difference?
Well yeah, but indirectly through the usage of Docker, I mean.

Unpacking the Docker image tarballs can be a bit expensive--especially with things like nodejs where you have tons of tiny files

Tearing down overlayfs is a huge issue, though
Because government never changes, right?
I have noticed that when I wrote blog posts they tend to fall in one of the two categories. Sometimes I'm trying to share an insight, in which case I make sure not to bury the lede[1]. Sometimes it's the journey to the insight that matters more than the insight itself[2], in which case the narrative take precedence, even if it buries the lede.

In some cases it is possible to combine both, by using the storytelling formula that starts describing the outcome and then traces back to how things ended up that way.

[1]: The lede is in the title, even! https://entropicthoughts.com/code-reviews-do-find-bugs

[2]: This is all meandering discovery. https://entropicthoughts.com/deploying-single-binary-haskell...
So as not to mislead anyone, the parent is mostly incorrect:

Here's an example sentence: Semicolons must have independent clauses—phrases that could form a full sentence on their own—on both sides of them; they are essentially alternatives for periods. Em dashes don't require independent clauses on either side.

In the italicized sentence,

* phrases that could form a full sentence on their own is not an independent clause but is valid between em dashes. on both sides of them, after the em dashes, is also not an independent clause. (The em dashes function like commas or parentheses here.)

* The parts before and after the semicolon are independent clauses. You could replace the semicolon with a period and you'd have perfectly valid grammar. I just chose to connect the two sentences a bit more.

I don't know if you can use em dashes as the parent comment describes, connecting three independent clauses:

* My favorite fruit is peaches—they are very sweet—I eat them all summer.

I think the above is wrong; it should be one of the following:

* My favorite fruit is peaches—they are very sweet—and I eat them all summer.: The last section is a dependent clause made by "and", not an independent clause.

* My favorite fruit is peaches—they are very sweet; I eat them all summer.: One both sides of the semicolon are independent clauses; I could replace the semicolon with a period.

Maybe there are examples I'm not thinking of? I infer that the rule might be that the punctution following the em-dashed clauses should be the punctuation that would have been used without the em-dashed clause, but that's based on very limited evidence.
Is sharpening a knife damaging it? It gets a bit philosophical I suppose.
I urge you to check submissions from this domain
Good point that reviews tend to be n=1. But reviewing a car is different than doing investigative journalism on a "tip" about jeans bought on Amazon, and dismissing it.

I don't think anyone is alleging that BMW is cutting corners on materials shipped to only some dealers for a given market.

Nor is anyone alleging that there's counterfeit Ferraris constantly being snuck onto dealer lots.

What happened here looks closer to lowbrow propaganda or PR, than journalism.

And I suspect that any kids reading pieces like this -- rather than learning from good example -- are instead being confused about journalism, science, and critical thinking.
Never worked in Southern Europe. In Germany, everyone had Macs in the companies I worked.

In Latin America... The last Mac I bought there was about half of my IT salary there, but that was 2012, a couple years before I left. So it was ok for companies to purchase them. Today? Probably not... I don't even know anyone who's still there and working for local companies.
They hacked the sandbox, and leaked nothing. The article is entertaining though.
If you clearly understand your access patterns and memory requirements, you can often outperform the default OS page cache.

Consider a scenario where your VM has 4GB of RAM, but your build accesses a total of 6GB worth of files. Suppose your code interacts with 16GB of data, yet at any moment, its active working set is only around 2GB. If you preload all Docker images at the start of your build, they'll initially be cached in RAM. However, as your build progresses, the kernel will begin evicting these cached images to accommodate recently accessed data, potentially even files used infrequently or just once. And that's the key bit, to force caching of files you know are accessed more than once.

By implementing your own caching layer, you gain explicit control, allowing critical data to remain persistently cached in memory. In contrast, the kernel-managed page cache treats cached pages as opportunistic, evicting the least recently used pages whenever new data must be accommodated, even if this new data isn't frequently accessed.
That's hilarious; I had no idea it was that bad. And for every conscientious researcher who actually runs down all the references to separate the 2/3 good from the 1/3 bad, how many will just paste them in, adding to the already sky-high pile of garbage out there?
If we haven't managed to stop them brutalizing and killing unethically yet, then I don't think we'll stop them violating privacy unethically any time soon.
It's livescience... they're a spam site owned by British "publishing" house, Future. They also own TechRadar, PC Gamer, Tom's Guide, Tom's Hardware, Marie Claire, GamesRadar+, How it Works, Creative Bloq, CinemaBlend, Android Central, IT Pro, BikePerfect, Truly, Windows Central, Chat
My personal rule is simple I just use - for everything
I think it’s a real problem that the thought leadership in education is pretty terrible. On the one hand you have vague notions about western values and anti-woke, then you have don’t learn to code, we have “focus on STEM” while the White House defunds science. We need much clearer thought leadership in how to educate the next generation of workers.
Musk Pressured Reddit CEO During Moderator Revolt over Nazi-Style Salute: Report
you re the hacker or the google?
This is the first time I've seen someone quote Wilhoit's Law. Do you know him? I really enjoyed working with him.
Clough42: What I Learned from 300 Hours with the Bambu Lab H2D 3D Printer [video]
Do you think "hacked Gemini and leaked its source code" is an accurate representation of what happened here?
That's a good question! It's not incompatible, it's just a matter of getting the flow right. I can't comment too much on that process but I'm excited for the possibilities there.
> For law firms creating their own repositories of case law

Wait, why would a law firm create its own repository of case law? It's not like it has access to secret case law that other lawfirms do not.
The google
I doubt the guy working on the code sandbox can do anything about the overall resource allocation towards ensuring all legacy assistant features still work as well as they used to. That being said, I was trying to navigate out of an unexpected construction zone and asked google to navigate me home, and it repeatedly tried to open the map on my watch and lock my phone screen. I had to pull over and use my thumbs to start navigation the old fashioned way.
I might maybe perhaps be willing to consider this if we revoke the tax exempt status of religious institutions. Maybe. I still doubt it.
Then why do I never get an “I don’t know” type response when I use Claude, even when the model clearly has no idea what it’s talking about? I wish it did sometimes.
tmpfs is backed by swap space, in the sense that it will overflow to use swap capacity but will not become persistent (since the lack of persistence is a feature).
Thread of the nonblogspam version https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43495416
When trying to login via GitHub, I was redirected to "https://wakana.io/login?error=An+unexpected+error+occurred+w...", without an error message being displayed.
I've heard it called BLUF, from the military, apparently. Bottom line up front.
New York emergency prep folks could have made sure they had adequate breathing protection for responders in emergencies. A couple thousand positive-pressure hood systems is totally affordable for a city like New York.

They paid their positive pressure hood money to corrupt New York unions and worse instead.
Personal experiences don't override statistics or legal precedent. I don't need to "hang out" with officers to understand the well documented patterns of police misconduct or the Supreme Court rulings about their lack of duty to protect citizens.

The "just meet some nice cops" argument is precisely how institutions avoid accountability for systemic problems. Individuals, and how nice they might be, are irrelevant when discussing institutional failures.
I'm on the Google side of the equation. I think the title is a bit sensationalized, but that's the author's prerogative.
A cretaceous fly trap? Remarkable abdominal modification in a fossil wasp
The WiFi Alliance has a habit of always have a marketing name and a different name in the spec, you'll a lot more references to it in places like WPA supplicant if you search for Neighbor Awareness Networking (NAN). Also here is the link to the spec https://www.wi-fi.org/system/files/Wi-Fi%20Aware%20Specifica...
Completely rewriting a running system isn’t efficient
(Just to be clear, I'm only interested in this from a perspective of understanding HN, which is a de facto barometer of "which way the wind is blowing" in tech and has a looooot of influence in our industry. If HN moderators are steering that influence far more than is previously known, that's huge.)

That really does not follow, for a couple of reasons.

One:

As Gruber freely admits, maybe his writing just sucks now or HN's interests have shifted away from DF.

This is entirely plausible but if this is the case we'd expect a more gradual decrease of DF engagement on HN and not an abrupt and near-total cessation.

Two:

I do not think that the popularity of "organic" traffic to a website correlates strongly with the engagement on HN. Glance at the HN home page, and what do you see? The overwhelming majority of links are to domains that get an order of magnitude less traffic than DF. The current top two:

- Getting hit by lightning is good for some tropical trees (caryinstitute.org) (98 points)
- Architecture Patterns with Python (cosmicpython.com) (369 points)

Here's Similarweb's estimates for traffic to the following domains from 12/24 through 2/25.

- Daringfireball.net: 1M
- CosmicPython.com: 72K
- Caryinstitute.org: 92K

They're just estimates, but have you ever heard of the other two? The relative magnitudes certainly feel more or less reasonable here.
You are probably thinking of the Google search ranking leak. That leak was the leak of the generated documentation from proto files.
Screenshot: https://files.catbox.moe/jz65xt.png

Also the status link on that page is https://status.twitterstat.us/ and that's down too — getting DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN
https://web.archive.org/web/20220118154838/https://www.isg.r...
Thanks. The documentation could definitely be fleshed out with some more examples.

You'd likely want to always use that API (or layer something on top of it) unless you're in control of both ends and know they were built with the same toolchain & settings. One area where I've skipped over it is by writing a basic code gen tool (albeit unfinished as most personal projects) that generates the serialisation functions at compile-time from a very basic DSL that describes the network structures (of a game protocol I don't control). If it detects that the current toolchain is going to generate a binary-compatible struct layout and there aren't any variable length fields in there (no strings, basically), it'll generate a memcpy (via using get/put on the stream) rather than per-field (de)serialisation. If it can guarantee alignment of the buffer, which is a tougher requirement to meet, it'll give you a view directly into the network buffer so you effectively have zero-overhead deserialisation. Very much a work in progress but there's scope for making things quite efficient with just a few basic building blocks.
Tough luck, Taiwan, pay them more, make them harder to "poach".
Ext-PHP-rs: Bindings for the Zend API to build PHP extensions natively in Rust
> ... the expedited deadline runs the risk of obstructing payments to the more than 65 million people in the US currently receiving Social Security benefits.

People can tolerate injustice to others, but they won't tolerate late checks. If DOGE follows through, I think it will break Republican support in a scale even larger than threatening Canada or sending people to El Salvadorean prison.

We're certainly living in "interesting" times ...
They leaked one file in the sandbox that contained lots of internal proto files. The security team reviewed everything in the sandbox and thought nothing in it is sensitive and gave the green light; apparently the review didn't catch this in the sandbox.

I guess this is a failing of the security review process, and possibly also how the blaze build system worked so well that people forgot a step existed because it was too automated.
DON'T YOU DARE
> CSS selectors have spent the last few decades reinventing XPath

YES! This is so true! And ridiculous! It's a mystery why we didn't simply reuse XPath for selectors... it's all in there!!
>Given a single page application what things would you recommend to get full state restoration within half a second of page request? AI barfs on that one. It starts explain what state restoration is, which doesn't answer the question.

Deepseek gave me a good answer to that.

I think they're good enough at this point to fool interviewers up to at least the senior level. Especially for these sorts of questions that encourage vaguish rambling answers about general knowledge.
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Spelling used to be more fluid and up to the writer/printer. Printers would also use different spellings as a mechanism to change the line width and otherwise format text to their liking.

https://www.ruf.rice.edu/~kemmer/Histengl/spelling.html
In Other News: efforts to stem the tide of global pollution with microplastics brought to a halt by slobs who eat in their car.

Full Disclosure: I eat in my car.
Click and cash (for the great trio).
There's no historic dispute involved over Greenland.
Does it matter? It's a SaaS anyways, so if they wanted to go rogue and use it to eavesdrop on your chats open source wouldn't really prevent that. They even specifically recommend using a dedicated group chat for notification purposes. For self-hosted deployments there's already a multitude of projects that expose an API to send signal messages.
The Assistant can't reliably set timers either, though I guess 80% is considerably better than 0. Still, I think it used to be better back before Google caught a glimpse of a different squirrel to chase.