skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To me that's an argument for the gov't providing controlled doses that must be taken at the location.

This undercuts the illegal drug economy, reduce theft and other related crime, as well as reducing risk of ODs as they'll get proper doses of good quality.

That said, I'm not sure if ease of access will exacerbate the problem. Which would be an argument against.
Kagi lets you block results for various sites you don’t like, if sites like Reddit are of concern.
What causes a perfectly symmetric ball on top of a perfectly symmetric hill to roll down via one side? (Probably quantum randomness if everything else is perfectly symmetric)
Annnnd this is why Google bought Wiz huh.
I think bluGill might be referring to cases of undefined behavior which are undefined because the specification literally never mentions the behavior, as opposed to explicitly saying the behavior is undefined.

My canonical example of such a case is what happens if you call qsort where the comparison function is "int compare(const void*, const void*) { return 1; }".
Domino's?
Hmm, maybe it was part of NAIL SPIKE? https://reactormag.com/a-tall-tail/
If I do something good because it makes me feel good, is that a selfish action or is it feedback from my 'innate human tendency'?

We are social creatures. Seeing our social group benefit is a hardwired desire, and it makes us feel good. Being recognized as a valuable member of the group also feels good, and double-dipping on the dopamine hit is what motivates people towards contributing.
Nope our prediction was right today -- we don't need to wait :)
the holey grail of advertising will be to reverse this so they can serve adds embeded in media, strait into peoples brains, and delivered to the apropriate region, while, ahem, stimulating other
brain centers

matrix here we come
It's anti-competitive. Apple owns the platform and is giving preference to it's own apps on that platform. Every non-Apple app that competes with an Apple app is harmed.
This is precisely what the poorly named Edit button does in Claude.
I am developing this social media platform as a solo founder
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I’ve noticed many of today's social media platforms aren't action-oriented nor optimized for real-time collaboration which is important for people who have personal goals, are working on impactful real-world missions and projects (Humanitarian events e.g California wildfire victims, Emergency healthcare deliveries, climbing Mt.everest, working on research/patents or even just building cool projects).

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And all of that at the same time! ;-)
I think the author's point is that systemd by itself is complex, and it doesn't matter if you use it in a simple configuration, or in a more complex one.
The simply reality is, culture matters. And if your culture has a strong believe in exceptionalism pointing out how others are better at something often creates backlash and an increase in opposition rather then a decrease.

And this is known by people who do professional advocacy work, on topic I am familiarly with, such as city design and transportation. They take great care to make sure all the examples are from the US, even if those examples aren't nearly as good as others. Because they know, when speaking to American audiences, you lose the audience if you suggest in X town, they should do Y that is done in Europe. In the US selling something as domestic innovation is usually the best, "if people in Indiana can do it, you can do it even better".

To just ignore any explanation that points out that culture matters, and believing that only 'hard' factors matter, is incredibly foolish. Cultural believes, such as exceptionalism absolutely do a play a huge role in determining what happens in the real world. To point that out, is not cynical or lazy.

And this does not just apply to the US, it many countries have different forms of that.
Appreciate the HN response too. $9 seems reasonable for me too.. kinda. Maybe for v1.5 when I have sharable collections. Wouldn't it be more reasonable to lure them in with a $5/m, no annual, and then up to $7 and $9 in two stages, introducing annual?
A comment on HN in 2019 was explaining how it works, it was accessible through a Google Search
Honestly, I think they don't have many active users. They're offering me $45 to install it as of this week.
For me, it's about friction vs total understanding. I accept that I don't know and won't know/understand everything.

I can install a relatively minimal Linux server (usually Ubuntu Server), disable snaps, install Docker community, copy my app directories (with docker-compose.yaml files in each) and `docker compose up -d` in each directory and be (back) up in moments. When I was trying a couple different hosts for mail delivery, the DNS changes took longer than server setup and copy/migration. It was pretty great.

It's also lead me to a point where I'm pretty happy or unhappy with given applications by how hard or easy a compose file for the app and it's dependencies are. Even if, like my mail server, the whole host is effectively for a single stack.

No, I'm not running more complex setups like Kubernetes or even Swarm... I'm just running apps mostly at home and on my hosted server. It's been pretty great for personal use.

For work, yeah, apps will be deployed via k8s. The main projects I'm on are slated for migration from deployed windows apps, mostly under IIS or Windows Services, to Linux/Docker.
I don't see why that matters? Your app triggered the Apple dialog to be shown, asking a question about what your app is allowed to do, and you can see what the answer the user gave is. Why wouldn't that be enough?
>So the main question that I have is, is there a guarantee that bad sites will not show up here?

Given that everyone has different definitions of "bad" and that someone malicious can put bad stuff on "good" sites, no.
I know you put it in quotes, but only about 50% of sawdust is cellulose. The remainder is hemicellulose, lignin, resins, and oils. Some shredded cheese use pure cellulose as an anti-caking agent, not sawdust.
KOReader: Open-Source eBook Reader
Can Google Flights find the best flight dates to a destination within a time frame? E.g. get flights to LA in a up to 15 day period with ensure attendance on 17 September. Fly with SkyAlliance airlines only. Flexible with any dates but needs to be there on 17 Sept and at minimum stay of eight days or more.

Love if it could help with that but I haven't figured it out with Google Flights yet. My dream is to tell an AI agent the above and let it figure out the best deal.
>... has always struck me as somewhat of an odd complaint.

On the contrary I'd argue that the idea that any arbitrary bug can have any arbitrary consequence whatsoever is odd.

There's nothing odd about expecting that the extent of an operation is bounded in space and time, it's a position that has a great body of research backing it.
I'm curious, does it end only at Oracle?

What about Google, Facebook & Microsoft. They do some things that are disliked by many. Should we consider that the engineers who work there are indirectly condoning the no-privacy, ad-infested dystopia that HN hates, and should they be penalized. I bet many of these companies and a lot of others use Oracle products and there by support them directly with money. If you know that your favorite website/product is built on top of Oracle database/products, will you stop using it?

If Oracle (or any other unpopular company) employees are really shunned, then that's only because rejecting them is a no-risk, no-cost, easy thing to do.
Request for Model Context Protocol for Google Workspace
+1 this issue
Most of his complaints are understandable, but my goodness please just share the PPT slides, and the lecture notes, too, if they are appropriate for distribution! It's standard practice for the technical courses, at least. Personal notes fill a different niche and are supplemental to the official course notes.
In retrospect, DevOps was a bad idea
To be fair, a pitching machine is pretty unnatural compared to a human pitcher (can’t see when it’s about to launch) and they are typically closer than 60 feet.

On the other hand, a real MLB pitcher is not just throwing fastballs down the middle.
> ...it's a smell.

Just like anything else that can't be back up with solid empirical research in a discussion forum. With is 99% of what we are dissing. (And most books written by intellectuals of both the socialist and capitalist variety).

Communism is originally a utopian social movement, and there is a strong tendency and a very well document intellectual history of communism that asserts that pretty much most problems at its root are an issue with capitalism and that they can only be solved in the absence of capitalism. So much so that it was pretty normal for communist to oppose working with social democrats on any reform of existing systems.

> Americans to consider socialism to be "un-American"

I'm not american and I couldn't care less if something is 'American' or not. And I have no idea what 'americanness' has to do with our discussion. So far as I can tell, nothing what so ever. And I don't hate 'socialism' either.

> But hating socialism isn't a core value, it's _at best_ a reaction. Which is to say, if you're from, ooh, Bulgaria or Cuba, then I can indulge you. You may not be logical but you do have cause.

So unless you are the victim of rape, being against rapist isn't a 'core value'? That's a outright crazy line of argument.

P.S: I really think you are waste overestimate the importance of Hoover.
I am considering training a custom Lora on atari roms and see if i could get a working game out of it with the Loras use. The thinking here is that atari, nes, snes, etc... roms are a lot smaller in size then a program that runs natively on whatever os. Lees lines of code to write for the LLM means less chance of a screw up. take the rom, convert it to assembly, perform very detailed captions on the rom and train.... if this works this would enable anyone to create games with one prompt which are a lot higher quality then the stuff being made now and with less complexity. If you made an emulator with the use of an llm, that means it understands assembly well enough so i think there might be hope for this idea.
Yeah I'm torn. I do get that more income means they can invest more and thus grow, leading to more and better content.

But promoting products which have such a high likelihood of being shady like this...

Another one was the app or similar where you scanned your receipts and got some discounts or whatever. Obviously they only make money by selling your data, but they mention none of that during the promotion, just how easily you can save some bucks.
Yep, and AI agents essentially throw up a boundary blocking the user from understanding the capabilities of the system they're using. They're like the touch screens in cars that no one asked for, but for software.
> The claim that all immigrants are right-leaning is a generalization.

Yes, agreed. I probably saved a few words too much on that sentence. I should have thrown a "some" or "many" in there. OTOH, as a non-native speaker, I will loose every argument that ends up in native-speaker pedantery, so I am kind of unimpressed.
I must not hear about this, otherwise... its another place I have to look for that phone numer I wrote down last week. Where was it. Maybe on Notion? Or still in my Drafts? Perhaps Obsidian, Apple Notes, Telegram/Whatsapp, UpNote, noteux......
iOS 18.4, iPadOS 18.4, and macOS Sequoia 15.4 Address 60 Vulnerabilities
If anything chrome is the engine with odd quirks you are forced to work around.
The problem is when rules don't apply the same to all politicians.
The equivalent to this feature is one of my favorite parts of Husky, Datadog’s storage and query system for event data.

https://youtu.be/mNneCaZewTg?si=N68fsBlYS3tuvLe3 begins at 34:32
If you send us an email, we can send you your weights right now :)
The article should mention ClickHouse, which fixes almost all the mentioned problems.

It has idempotency tokens for INSERTs, it has type-safe prepared statements that are easy to use, and the settings can be passed at the query time to avoid the session state.

I've covered these advantages in my presentation, https://presentations.clickhouse.com/2025-meetup-seattle/ - after the "How Is It Possible?" section.
Contrary to popular belief, it requires a fair bit of practice to get right, which is why you see hater GMs saying oh, yeah, it's so simple we could do it if we wanted, but then they try it in a game after one practice and it fails. The Eagles spent several years practicing it, so now they're that far behind.
"If your task can be expressed as a workflow, build a workflow". 100% true but the thing all these 'agent pattern' or 'workflow' diagrams miss is that real tasks require back-and-forth with a user, not just a Rube Goldberg machine that gets triggered in response to a _single user message_.
What you need is not 'tool use' but something like 'process use'. This is what we did at Rasa, giving you a declarative way to define multi-step processes. An LLM lets you have a fluent conversation, but the execution of the task is pre-defined and deterministic: https://rasa.com/docs/learn/concepts/calm/
The fact that every framework starts with a `while` loop around an LLM and then duct-tapes on some "guardrails" betrays a lack of imagination.
Yeah, I much prefer using a well designed self service system than trying to explain it over the phone.

The only problem with most of the flights I book now is that they're with low cost airlines and packed with dark patterns designed to push upgrades.

Would an AI salesman be any better though? At least the website can't actively try to pursuade me to upgrade.
That's where it gets tricky.

Ultimately, rules come from the people in a democracy.

If they decide they want a candidate who broke the rules, that's where it gets messy in political philosophy.

Should the democratic will of the people from years ago or decades ago override the democratic will of the people now? Of course that's the general idea of having constitutions and such, but it can only ever be a matter of degree, and there's no right answer as to how much.
Isn't the convenient version of something always worse in every way aside from convenience than the less convenient version of the same thing?
> IMO, this is not the problem, but it’s definitely a problem. I think that we should, in fact, fail these kids. And if they repeatedly fail, they should be kicked out. I know that it’s politically untenable, but it also seems right.

This is an issue with nonpublic education, where there much economic incentive in keeping students in.
If they didn't know how it works, then how could they promote it as an awesome tool and something good? I expect people to have some integrity, not "god money above all" mentality.

You can and IMHO actually should blame them for promoting crap. No sympathies on my part towards promoters of Honey, to be honest. Especially the so called "tech" channels. But this time they've tasted their own medicine.

BTW., here's a very interesting comment about the issue with regards to LTT: https://old.reddit.com/r/LinusTechTips/comments/1hkbtlr/peop... .
Gloves help, calluses don’t. It’s also a lot worse in the cold.
BSc Thesis idea-messaging app, stack/tools selection help
Hello, I'm a third-year student about to choose my thesis topic. I was thinking about developing a messaging app, but I'm not sure if I'm fully aware of the challenges and tools that could help me create it.

At first, I planned to use C# with ASP.NET Core MVC and SignalR (since I know C# very well) for the messaging system, along with a Blazor or React frontend.

I also considered using Angular for the frontend, but I don't know TypeScript very well. However, since I'm proficient in JavaScript, I'm ready to learn it whenever necessary.

Despite these considerations, my biggest concern is the backend. My goal is to make the app fast, and I've heard that Go would be ideal for this. The problem is that I've only recently started learning Go (so I basically don’t know it), and from what I’ve heard, there aren't many robust backend frameworks available for it. People often recommend using only the standard library, which seems too cumbersome.
"Chemicals, man. They'll fuck you up."
-Heroin Bob
On the discussion at hand, is there reason to believe this new bat shape will be too expensive for other teams to copy?
Nike Alphafly and Vaporfly shoes are still allowed in sanctioned races but there is a 40mm limit on sole thickness (stack height).

https://www.therunningweek.com/post/carbon-plate-running-sho...
I have had no issue with Wifi on multiple occasions. Works just fine nowadays without any Linux compatibility add-on.

Wifi not being available isn't the fault of FreeBSD. If vendors actually gave open sourced drivers to their products and not locked behind a proprietary binary blob then we would be in a completely different world.

I can recall when WiFi on Linux was pretty much non-existent until deals were made back in 2018.

So stop throwing that this is FreeBSDs fault, it's 100% down to the vendors locking down hardware.
This is what I had to do. It was probably beneficial. I was pretty young.. 10-12? My dad is also an engineer and would help me debug the programs after I typed them in, teaching me BASIC as we went. I wasn't necessarily able to understand it all but it probably built me a foundation for programming no different than introducing children to a 2nd language earlier rather than later.

There were also books I checked out of the library. These sometimes presented additional difficulties as we didn't have a computer powerful enough to take advantage of everything in the book, or had a completely wrong environment.

I must have been weirdly motivated but in some way I think this was better than the way everything is spoonfed and easy for kids today if they want it? My son is not motivated the same way, it's just too easy to go over to a game or something else that's less challenging. Quite a few of my friends who also became software engineers/computer scientists had a very similar experience in the late 80s and early 90s.
Of course, if your relatives uploaded their data then a lot of info about your DNA is exposed regardless of whether you uploaded yours personally.
Are you worried about OpenAI and every other big lab eventually doing this? It’s going to be hard to get anyone to hand over this kind of data / control without a giant name attached.
Media circus doesn't appear until the trial, which hasn't happened in this matter yet either.

The feds execute warrants every day without making the news.
https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-1/

> Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition *the Government* for a redress of grievances.
I am indeed saying that a sedan is incapable of handling my gigantic open-pit superfund site.

But I'll go a little farther - most meaningful, long-lived, financially lucrative software applications are metaphorically closer to the open-pit mine than the adorable backyard garden that AI tools can currently handle.
No wonder, China has a very large population.
> I would start by making the examples yourself initially

What I'm doing right now is this:

1) I have X problem to solve using the coding agent.
2) I ask the agent to do X
3) I use my own brain: did the agent do it correctly?

If the agent did not do it correctly, I then ask: should the agent have been able to solve this? If so, I try to improve the agent so it's able to do that.

The hardest part about automating this is #3 above --each evaluation is one-off and it would be hard to even formalize the evaluation.

SWE bench, for example uses unit tests for this, and the agent is blind to the unit tests --so the agent has to make a red test (which it has never seen) go green.
> It's like trying to keep using ifconfig and route instead of ip: you can make it work, but for say managing multiple ip on the same interface forces you to go with eth0:0 eth0:1 etc (and let's not even talk about network namespaces).

On FreeBSD, ifconfig works fine for having multiple addresses on the same interface (and has since like forever?? I had multiple addresses on the same interface in 2004, and it's documented in the FreeBSD 1.0 man page) and it also manages configuration for wireless interfaces too. There's no need for new tools when there is already an appropriate tool that can be updated to do the job. Keeping the existing tools working means you don't need to retrain users and you don't need to update documentation that doesn't touch the new use cases.
My partner read a book on food recently. They made an obvious point I’d never thought of before: Food is eaten in our stomachs by bacteria. If the bacteria in our stomachs can’t (or won’t) eat something, that means it’s not digestible. That means it’s not food.

If something is shelf stable, that’s because the bacteria can’t or won’t eat it. If bacteria doesn’t want to eat something, it’s not food. And you probably don’t want it in your stomach.

Some things are shelf stable by physically keeping the bacteria out of it (eg canned food). That seems fine. But how do they make shelf stable cheesy / creamy products? Bacteria loves cheese. They do it with weird additives and substitutes that - by design - bacteria hates. But that also means our bodies can’t really eat it either - since we use the same bacteria in our stomach to digest things.

Plenty of healthy things are convenient. Like, apples! But healthy food is rarely shelf stable. Almost by definition.
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Back fifteen years ago IE held back the web because web developers had to cater to its outdated technology stack. “Best viewed with IE” and all that. But do you ever see a “Best viewed with Safari” notice? No, you don’t. Another browser takes that special place in web developers’ hearts and minds.

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https://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2021/08/breaking_th...
I don't quite get what the difference is between now and when Sosa, Bonds, and McGuire were hitting homers, where apparently homers are monotonous. Are we pretending that wasn’t peak baseball? I mean I find the whole infield outside of maybe a triple play more boring than all or nothing home run, intentional walk, and strikeout.
There are no grand slams without base hits true, but without the home runs base hits are boring.
Asset managers do not control the news. Jack Bogle died with a net worth of $80mm. He was not even powerful enough to afford a top-tier penthouse in Manhattan, let alone control the media.