skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
CFRDT (Conflict Free Replicated Data Types) can absolutely reconcile many-writers situations. There are a number of these systems, and they all have their own rules around that replication (sometimes very complicated rules that are hard to reason about). As long as you can live inside those rules, and accept that they are going to have sharp corners that don't quite make sense for your use case, then you can get a virtually free lunch there.

But living inside of those rules (and sometimes just understanding those rules) can be a big ask in some situations, so you have to know what you are doing.
If they implement this in a way similar to the package visibility changes your list of JVM args is about to explode in order to support legacy apps.
There is only one Entire Universe; it's not a multiverse. And we observe it as a sphere, sized by the speed of light in every direction.

Trying to see beyond the edge would be like trying to peer out of a black hole. It would probably look blue, like Cherenkov radiation. (but I'm biased, due to having blue eyes).

If the Entire Universe is infinite, then it's eternal in time. And then we get philosophical again.
> I'll miss the frowny face though.

Maybe they'll replace it with an in-kernel LLM so that you can chat about how annoyed you are while you wait.
Just a few days ago I started using Keybr to learn to touch type. It frustrates me less than any other program I've used before, so far. I'm touch-typing this comment... slowly ;)

I can type quickly through my own means but very inaccurately. In a recent fast-paced online game the other players assumed I wasn't a native English speaker due to all my typos. I was a Vim user for ten years and would constantly mash the wrong keys. After starting touch-typing a few days ago, I redownloaded the old Vimfx extension to control my web browser from my keyboard. It ended up requiring me to switch to a Firefox fork called Waterfox though, as the modern (post-2017) extensions have to rely on injecting Javascript into the page and don't work well.

https://www.keybr.com/
Oh, Erdogan consolidated his power over the last few decades democratically. Rural turks came out in mass to vote for him over past decades. Incidentally, in the past he was actually jailed by his political opponents and banned from politics.
because humanity got a secret revaluation and was deemed to retarded under economic stress to keep its most dangerous tools?
There have been experiments in wiki-style cyoa generation (letting the public create options instead of an LLM), but they suffer the same problem as LLM-generated stories: aimless wandering and lack of consistency.

(As I think about it, an LLM generation should be thought of as a many-author situation, as each generation comes in cold)

Stories need pacing, which exists over many passages, not just at the choice level. And then the passages should all be based on a single underlying world. Both of these fall apart quickly without a guiding author.

I think this is resolvable with LLMs and appropriate prompting, but the naive approach seems cool only until you actually play out a few stories
Yep if it happens in 200 years and/or is LLM-like consider me a dullard future selves. I think the humans-feeding-data to the computer (web crawling, RLHF, etc, etc) as a substitute for sense organs as input is nowhere near enough data for AGI. Also convinced these sums of money put into neuroscience would bring about AGI quicker than any alternative.

It's all about data ingestion, and the assimilatable data for computers is tiny.
Sorry I meant Microsoft Copilot should be as integrated into Office as Cursor is into VSCode. I was not talking about GitHub Copilot.
Thanks! Appreciate it. Your work looks very interesting too, especially in the distributed systems space. Cheers!
Lies. Fucking lies. We were a three environment shop until we moved to Exa and the compute/$ ratio is so bad that we had to cut it down to two.

But we're talking about Oracle here so that's par for the course.
Spam is literally commerce. But almost every platform acknowledges it needs to be removed because its unwanted.
SoftBank sounds familiar… weren’t they a major investor in WeWork? With such poor investing acumen, why haven’t they gone bankrupt yet? Perhaps the $40 billion raised by OpenAI can only be spent on services from SoftBank’s other investments? Do investors ever restrict how their investments are spent?
Everyone is using their ai agent to do their jobs. No one cares about work anymore.
This creates a powerful incentive for the government to become a drug dealer and create more addicts to avail itself of more taxpayer money. See the homeless-industrial complex in SF, Seattle, and elsewhere. Billions disappearing into a black hole as the problem gets worse and worse.
You can't get AGI using current method.

The amount of funding can't change that.
>However, the government will have to prove to the immigration judge that Khalil willfully failed to disclose that information, and whether that disclosure would have impacted his eligibility for permanent residency.

>Baher Azmy, an attorney for Khalil, told NBC News: "These late-breaking, after-the-fact allegations, silly as they are, primarily show that the government must know the supposed 'foreign policy' grounds for Mahmoud’s removal are absurd and unconstitutional."

>Azmy said the government's new claims "cannot change the obvious fact the government has admitted — he is being punished in the most autocratic way for his constitutionally protected speech."

>the government has admitted — he is being punished in the most autocratic way for his constitutionally protected speech.

Gee, almost like we should have a legal system that sorts this stuff out before we take violent action against people here legally.
Related submission from 5 days ago (re-upped 2 days ago):

OpenAI closes $40B funding round, startup now valued at $300B https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43490010 (16 comments)

Also worth reading the recent submission on what a tire fire it is being in the cage with altman: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43514717
Nuclear Phynance was one, but it's dead now.
> 300B.

lol. Yeah ok. Meanwhile I can use deepseek under the Berkeley license with minimal hardware locally and not have to offload my content to you who will just incorporate it into your model.
Oh my goodness lol!

Thanks for pointing that out. I never would've pressed play unless I had read your comment. That gave me a genuine laugh.
It's natural to expect reliability from AI agents — but I don't think Cursor is a fair example. It's a developer tool deeply integrated with git, where every action can have serious consequences, as in any software development context.

Rather than blaming the agent, we should recognize that this behavior is expected. It’s not that AI is uniquely flawed — it's that we're automating a class of human communication problems that already exist.

This is less about broken tools and more about adjusting our expectations. Just like hunters had to learn how to manage gunpowder weapons after using bows, we’re now figuring out how to responsibly wield this new power.

After all, when something works exactly as intended, we already have a word for that: software.
I’m using the latest everything and it’s still slow as molasses.

This issue has been reported years ago by multiple people and Microsoft has failed to fix it, despite at least two attempts at it.

Basically, only the original C++ clients work with decent efficiency, and the Windows client is just a wrapper around this. The portable “managed”, MARS, and async clients are all buggy (including data corruption) and slow as molasses. This isn’t because of the .NET CLR but because of O(n^2) algorithms in basic packet reassembly steps!

I’ve researched this quite a bit, and a fundamental issue I noticed was that the SQL Client dev team doesn’t test their code for performance with realistic network captures. They replay traces from disk, which is “cheating” because they never see a partial buffer like you would see on an Ethernet network where you get ~1500 bytes per packet instead of 64KB aligned(!) reads from a file.
For this case, I will often ask for the timezone, since that data is often updated on the operating system, but I don't believe it's often for someone to be in the same location and have their timezone change. The software that I've maintained the most over the years (since 2009 up to deploying an update today) requires a login, so I have a client account that includes choosing their timezone. I then use that to convert everything to UTC in the database, and when I retrieve the data, I use it to convert UTC back to their local date/time. I felt that it was the best option, since a user moving to a different timezone should still be able to get dates/times back relative to where they have their current timezone set.
I never had a tape deck, and was constantly flustered by “press play on tape” messages.
The price point in the long term is the cost of electricity to run your model locally and the amortized cost of buying some hardware that can run it. The fact that it isn't streamlined today doesn't mean it won't be in X years.

Investors are blindly banking on everyone perpetually going to the theater to see the talkies and missing the vision that we'll all have TVs shortly thereafter...
I've been running zfs on root on my Debian home server, only the install was a tiny bit more involved but it was done in maybe half an hour going off of the guide and trying to understand everything it was doing with 0 experience (... And then did it again after I broke networking after an hour lol)
If you “touch” a piece of paper, aren’t your electrons a fraction of a distance above the paper, and not coplanar at all?
Various parts of their corporate structure and previous business/financial relationships are tied to the notion of “AGI” being achieved — which is poorly defined and likely to become a semantic/legal debate more than a scientific one.

So them pushing that language in their pr/marketing activity is not a surprise and not really even meant to be scientifically meaningful.
Eno? Up until recently, that was the only way to generate virtual cards. It's a useful feature for retailers that are too small for me to trust their security. I guess I'll need to start using their website now that it is an option.
Steel pipes? You realize steel that can be made into a pipe contains some metals you want to minimize your exposure to?

As for painting over asbestos--that's actually considered acceptable. Asbestos sitting there isn't going to hurt you. Asbestos only hurts you when it's disturbed. Removing intact asbestos is likely to increase your exposure, not decrease it.

As for cancer--why are you so sure it's chemicals and not lifestyle?
Let him be bored, and provide the tools so that he learns how to make his own fun.
I'd rather see more openness and the ability to run on commodity hardware. There are hundreds of options on that front.
Bring Your Own Linter (Go)
A practical guide for integrating a custom linter into your Go project, a [light] screed against golangci-lint, and a defense of a simpler Go metalinter I’m experimenting with: glint.
That the university replaced the teacher suggests that's not how the university viewed things.
Thank you for the kind words! We put a lot of care into each blog post to make sure they're both informative and practical, so it's great to hear you enjoyed the Dragonfly Swarm piece.

You raised an excellent point about deeper integration examples. We aim to strike a balance between:

-> Practical guides (for developers using Dragonfly as a Redis-compatible solution)

-> Deep dives (for those interested in internals, like our DashTable)

Is there a specific use case or feature you'd like explored in more detail? We'd love to hear what would excite fellow tech enthusiasts like yourself. Thanks again for the thoughtful feedback—it helps us create content that matters to our community and the broader Redis/Valkey in-memory data ecosystem.
I only did Execute Program for a little bit and don't remember much, but the developer's Destroy All Software screencasts are what taught me how to write parsers. I must have rewatched that video 30 times while I was writing my first one.
It’s better than what I thought I heard “Today we’re announcing new funding forty five dollars at a three hundred five dollar post money valuation!”
I'd be curious about how many are paying users, not just free users.
but why not just install manually, keep an image?
Why is the letter behind a NY Times paywall and not on the National Academies’ website at
https://www.nasonline.org/ ?

The Guardian — https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/31/scientists-l... — has a link to this Google Doc:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/13gmMJOMsoNKC4U-A8rhJrzu_...
Has features:

- Ceeate products easily
- Create invoice
- Record purchase and expense
- Create webpages
- Create blog posts
- Get a minimum website up as soon as you finish installation
Well theres not going to be shareholder direction to conform to advertisers wishes.

And assuming the trust is well funded, they may not feel compelled to do so.

That said, its very possible for not for profit entities to go very wrong so you cant rule it out absolutely.
I agree with the letter, however there is merit to defunding due to the replication crisis. That should have at least been mentioned in the letter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis
You're not really writing 'Go' anymore when you're optimising it, it's defeating the point of the language as a simple but powerful interface over networked services.
This is why Rust is the leading alternative to C/C++; it was designed from the start to both call and be called from other languages to enable progressive migration, rather than requiring an incompatible and impractical big bang change that would never happen.

The mitigations in the cited article are good too, but they don't replace the need for safer languages.
Currently on front page:

New funding to build towards AGI https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43540477
I mean, "trust the electorate" sounds like a nice ideal, but I think it conveniently ignores the shithose of news and information that makes its way into the public discourse. We can't agree on basic facts in most places. What hope do we have to "trust the electorate" when most people are given straight propaganda and they buy it whole cloth.

If you want to live in the world where we "trust the electorate" you first have to figure out how to make the electorate informed. In the meantime, I would gladly accept equally applied and adjudicated laws as a way to remove corrupt individuals from the electable population. A lot of places do this already, so making it so someone can't run for a given election cycle seems like a relatively small slap on the wrist compared to barring felons from ever being allowed to vote or hold office.
$40B goes in... and what comes out we'll all see. _Something_ definitely will.
> The story of Abraham is a way to break that spell

That's an extremely generous interpretation. You say the story is about breaking the cycle of pernicious child sacrifice. But there's nothing in the story that supports that view, you just said it because it's the most palatable interpretation of a straightforward story: Obey God, and he may give you mercy (not having to kill your kid). And you conveniently ignore Moses killing all the first-borns.

> Human sacrifice and ritual cannibalistic wars of genocide is the natural condition of humans as a species

There is no "ritual" wars without religion. Religion is what is natural to humanity, as it develops in every culture without fail. Whether you worship Jesus or the Sun, the belief in an afterlife if you follow the rules the last generation handled to you is what leads to terrible deeds, because you can justify anything.

> The story puts an effective limit on the level of worship

No, it doesn't. Many innocent people are sacrificed or ordered to be killed throughout the verses. Jephthah sacrifices his daughter. Saul is asked to kill women and children.

> Seeing as the Bible is a collection of stories that where told for thousands of years before being written down

If by told for a thousand years before being written down, you mean edited, distorted, and mistranslated to the convenience of whoever was in power at the time, yes.
It's been a long time since I've been a regular reader of any newspaper, but when I was (admittedly at least 20 years ago!) I don't remember it being that way at all. Can you suggest a good example of a recent Guardian article that's ragebait?
Clearly the staff didn’t press play either lol
Yep, that's exactly my fear. The brain rot zombification of our society. How do I stop my kids from getting suckered into an endless scrolling doom loop?
Property, recognition, and the temporalities of life: words of a Yanomami Shaman
The Fall of the Open Source Initiative (OSI)
> Cool business

No it isn't. It's predatory (actually, parasitic) by its very nature.

I'm all for innovation, but that's just not cool.
If you are on iOS you can also use the app via TestFlight (in beta). It's free of banners and you get to contribute to its development if you spot a bug.
SoftBank is usually a precursor to the bubble bursting. I’m more worried about the AI bubble bursting now than I was an hour ago.
You don't need examples when you have faith
Fair enough, the trust is certainly a stronger demonstration of commitment than most can offer.
All that studio Ghibli photos probably emptied their coffers
lemme tell you a story about tulips.
Isn't it ideological? I see no mystery. Presumably it's because climate scientists sway opinion against fossil fuel, and humanities academics promote leftist concerns. It's not an intentional attack on future cancer treatment.
And of course, there's always wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Trust_Limited

Bozo could easily establish a similar trust to support the Wash Post in perpetuity. But clearly he has other motives.
Because these populations are orders of magnitude apart in size, intent, and investment; and trying to find the diamond in the rough for a 10-person survey is a lot easier than an 8-billion person survey. How about if you own a burger joint in Kansas and you are being told you need to send out a survey to people in Peru, because there might be some good insight there? Sure, maybe there is, but this is not helpful advice.
It was never a secret that shopping extensions monetized through affiliate. Merchants certainly know what they’re signing up for.
Cool. You write "C++11 >= compatible compiler (GCC 4.8+ or Clang 3.4+)". From that can I conclude that you are using an older version of RocksDB (more recent versions require C++17)? Which version? What's the motivation for an older version?
As you should.

Because a secret you should know about your ISPs is they really don't care (or want to care) about what you are doing with their service. They don't want to add the hardware/software it'd take to spy on your data, that's a huge cost to them with nothing but downsides.

I might distrust a large ISP more just because they have the extra cache to burn. But a smaller more regional ISP will not try and invade your privacy.
>> Trump should be allowed to run for a 3rd term right?

From the 25th Amendment:

"No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once."

Trump might not be able to "be elected to the office of the President" again, but he could run as a temporary Vice President and then the President could resign, allowing Trump to serve another term, for example.

Of course the 12th Amendment says, "no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States", but the 25th Amendment doesn't say a two-term President is ineligible to the office of President, it says he can't "be elected to the office of President".

The Supreme Court recently decided that a law prohibiting false statements did not prohibit misleading statements. If the legislators had wanted to prohibit misleading statements, they would have prohibited false and misleading statements, not just false ones. Words matter to them.

And there are many other possibilities for creative types.

As far as the French eligibility rules go, would you be comfortable with a system where anyone who Trump's DOJ can get a conviction on is ineligible to run for office, with no right of appeal on that holding? That would be a really terrible incentive.
Reliability, consistency and accuracy is the next frontier that we all have to tackle it sucks. Friend of mine is building Empromptu.ai to tackle exactly this. From what she told me built a model where that let's you define accuracy based on your use case and their models optimize your whole system towards it.
Why haven’t they just been shutdown?
You're still only thinking about direct effects, not second-order effects. Keep workin' that noggin you'll get there.
Would be nice to have a single “--test-mode” flag that is only meant to be set when running tests, and allows for all this leniency, (add opens, etc) in a single flag.
Ha, interesting example of a sensitivity/specificity test.
If you need to worry about ADA compliance (I always do, but not always paid to), this can be difficult to address.

I remember Opera, before it was bought, had the best support for html5 elements and date/time inputs were the best (along with almost all others). Sad to think that a leader in this area was sold off, and not to a buyer that cared about usability and the web the way Opera did.
The scary thing is that Oracle is able to take down items from Archive.org.
> Tesla sold about 8,600 cars in three days at four separate stores in Canada, or roughly one every two minutes per showroom, in January.

Right. If, and only if, the stores were open 24/7.

Most are open 8 to 10 hours a day.

Tesla is claiming with a straight face that these three stores sold a new car EACH, every FIFTY SECONDS from opening to closing for three days straight.

> Moreover, according to Quebec-based Motor Illustrated, Tesla accounted for 89% of all claims filed during that period.

I think the word for this starts with "F" and ends in "raud".

> "No payments will be made until we are confident that the claims are valid," said Transport Minister Chrystia Freeland in a statement to the Toronto Star.

I'm sure in the US we'd happily pay Tesla and maaaaaaaybe claw it back several years later. Maybe.
GW Basic came with DOS, but there was a way to get real BASICA onto a clone, either through ROMS or with a patch.
Additionally...
- https://www.uber.com/en-AU/blog/how-we-saved-70k-cores-acros...

This has saved Uber a lot of money on compute (I'm one of the devs). If your compute fleet is large and has memory to spare (stateless), performing dynamic GOGC tuning to tradeoff higher memory utilization for fewer GC events will save quite a lot of compute.
> It's even bigger than Salesforce, SAP, and Cisco

That's pretty incredible to think about. I recently visited SF for the first time and saw the Salesforce tower. To think that OpenAI now has a higher valuation than that is crazy to think about.
I was talking to a customer in a construction company that had its entire internal project management platform sold to Oracle. < This was why they couldnt manage their end of a large project.

Oracle futzed it, and after a complete roll of the construction firms board of directors, they were in negotiations to buy their own program back for twice the price.
Lol software is a field that pretty severely lacks rigor -- if software is "something that works exactly as intended", then you've had a very different experience in this industry then I have.