skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember borrowing a book from the library, which had a type-in checksum program of this sort. It was done like was common for C=64 things of this kind - there's a BASIC FOR-loop iterating through a memory area, reading in bytes from DATA statements you've typed in and POKEing those bytes into memory, not completely unlike entering a program manually from the front-panel switches of an older computer.

So, after typing that in and probably SYSing (C=64 BASIC command for executing machine code from arbitrary memory location) to some address, it did print out a two-digit (eight-bit) hex checksum after every BASIC line I entered on the C=64 and the program listing in the book had the correct checksums for every line, so spotting errors was more or less instantaneous.

This stuff brings memories.

FOR I=40960 TO 49152:POKE I,PEEK(I):NEXT I
POKE 1,54

From top of my head; loop through the BASIC interpreter area, reading byte by byte with PEEK and POKEing those bytes back to the same addresses. Sounds nonsensical? Not so, because the C=64 does have full 64 kB of RAM, but some of it is overlapped by ROMs. What happens here is that you're reading from ROM but writes always go to RAM, so you're copying the BASIC interpreter from ROM to RAM. After that, the POKE statement turns off the ROM overlap and the interpreter is now run from RAM, so you can edit it live - and obviously cause all sorts of interesting crash situations.

It sure did help later with career in IT to have understood this kind of stuff at age of around ten.
Fast MQTT Logger (To Syslog)
You inspired me to go looking for cost analysis. It's worse than I thought. Oregon is about 79k per year, per person, based on 2024 numbers in this pretty infogrpahic. https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cost-per-prisoner-in-us-sta...
You cannot and should not vibecode things that are “out of distribution” vs your model’s training set. For those you need to constrain the amount of novelty, generating things in small incremental steps. It’s not much different to how humans constrain software development to one PR at a time.

Part of the skill of coding with LLMs is knowing what's likely out of distribution so knowing “how much rope” to give the model.

These problems with present-day LLMs can and will be mitigated in future with synthetic data providing more examples, and with even more inference time compute, and with intelligent fetching of docs, and with realtime ingestion of relevant dependency code, and with larger context that give models larger working memory.

Coding models have so much potential value that it pretty much has to happen.
Interestingly, I encountered exactly this issue this week. It was mystifying for a short while but easily hunted down. Perhaps lint tools would have been of help.
ZFS is part of the OS on FreeBSD.
Integrated more tightly in every respect.
This is the US in a nutshell. And then they wonder why the deficit is so high? Most expensive healthcare. Most expensive incarceration. Most expensive childcare. Most expensive infrastructure projects. Endless list.
> But where does the init system end and the kitchen-sink begin?

resolved, timesyncd, homed, journald, networkd (was very happy with Debian's interfaces(5)). Never thought of mounting file systems as process control, so also add mounting and taking over fstab. Given the ever-growing number of 'sub-systems', I'm sure new ones have been created that I'm not aware of. (I'm personally most regularly annoyed by resolved, especially as a server sysadmin where I need DNS to be deterministic, and not clever: I've gotten to the point of doing a chattr +i /etc/resolv.conf.)

I'm waiting for a systemd-mail so Zawinski's Law can be fulfilled:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski#Zawinski's_Law

> For me, I bring network up in initramfs, so it's definitely part of my init.

I've run Solaris, IRIX, BSD, and 1990s Linux, and I've never thought of networking as related to process control (init).
Double conformation would presumably help Dominoes as it would encourage people to accept tracking.
Weird time in history to be a maximalist on trusting electorates.
This. I was a kid with too much free time and exposed to the internet with some but not enough supervision.

I stumbled with some f up stuff that i still remember to this day. But somehow I'm grateful that it wasn't the current brainrot
Shouldn't the galaxies in the northern and southern hemispheres spiral in opposite directions? /s
> I'll never understand the popularity of pre-shredded cheese...

If spending too much time in eve online taught me anything, it's that convenience is worth money. People are inherently lazy, and there's plenty of ways to exploit that.

The next level of pre-grated cheese is frozen pizza, for example.
Theoretically yes, but tricky from what I gather.

Reasons

1) Most DNA is same with sparse deltas, so pathogen would need to match large amount of DNA and ignore lots. Challenges in biometrics and general mirror this.

2) Things tend to mutate, so even if this was possible with a single pathogen, it may mutate either targeting other genetics, or changing behavior.

3) Targeting someone specifically, and getting the "germs" into their system is tricky. I haven't thought about this as much but high mutation rate means that it would need to be introduce physically and socially close to target.

Maybe targeting specific racial groups or some other evil thing would be easier. There are many existing disease which affect different groups (not just racial) in differently with statistical significance.

That being said, I hadn't thought much about this before and it's certainly a "fun" scary thought.
The bible has some rather child-unfriendly content, in parts.
You can do interesting things with executable binaries as well, see WINE :)
They could just ask twice on their own apps.
Hasn't equipment been evolving since the beginning of the game? Why would this be out of line with that?
The Camera app wouldn't need an ATT confirmation, of course. Apple has some other products which do feature targeted advertisements, including News and even the App Store itself.

Apple created this problem for itself when they decided that they wanted to double dip and become advertisers (while conveniently making advertisement less effective for everyone else). The amount they net from it surely can't be worth the trouble is causes. It's also simply scummy and always puts conflicting interests at play.

Still don't understand the two versus one confirmation thing. I have tracking entirely disabled so apps can't even request it, but it'd be nice to see some workflow of how Apple's tracking works versus everyone else. The complaint almost seems that Apple apps simply do track your details and use them for targeting, without any confirmation (which Apple argues is okay because there is no third party getting the deets), where others have to do the confirmation.
I can't say that based on what I know about both.
> Booking a flight is actually task I cannot outsource to a human assistant, let alone AI.

Because there is no "correct" flight. Your preference changes as you discover information about what's available at a given time and price.

The helpful AI assistant would present you with options, you'd choose what you prefer, it would refine the options, and so on, until you make your final selection. There would be no communication lag as there would be with a human assistant. That sounds very doable to me.
> 2. On the other hand, corrupting of the courts would prevent correcting the system by voting. If the courts are corrupt all hope is lost.

Just last week a turkish court arrested the mayor of Istanbul under similar "corruption" charges. He happens to be the most popular opposition politician challenging Erdogan.

EDIT: forgot to mention that recently Romanian supreme court canceled the elections altogether because the current government did not like the guy who won the first round. And of course he is not allowed to run in the rerun of the elections. People's votes do not seem to count any longer.
Sentry is atrocious. The thing runs Postgres, Redis, Clickhouse, Kafka, like a dozen huge components on their own as its backend. Their hosted vs self-hosted support is bad so deploying the thing yourself is a nightmare. The opposite of a zero config philosophy.
there are moderation primitives in the `com.atproto` namespace. Any app that builds custom lexicon will need to do their own moderation, which means adding some semantics on top of those primitives.

Content, and thus feeds, are app specific. One could also build a feed that draws on multiple app content, though would likely need a similar frontend that can render content from multiple apps (i.e. something like a browser / search / recommendation)
ZFS is a first class part of FreeBSD. you can use it on linux, but it will always have some rough edges. How rough it open to question though, for some it works well.
It depends on the subject, of course. By the time someone has written a book on "programming language du jour" (say, Rust right now), and gotten it published and printed, it will be 1-2 years out of date. And students will complain that "all the information is online for free". Except, it's really hard to point at a specific website that is not in your (the professor's) control to say "everything you need is in here" when it could be taken offline tomorrow. Or reorganized and re-written in such a way that content is added or removed.

The course I think I did the best in teaching was to say "here is the textbook" (on databases) and then when a specific solution / technique came up, to point out that "this is how mysql does it", or "this one is used by postgres", etc.
F8P/DOT-Matrix Print Simulator
You can group all this under the a heading of "we thought people would use this over telnet"

No, the grammar is too convoluted for that. It's more like "we thought text-based protocols are better".

POP3 and SMTP are relatively easy to use manually. IMAP is not.
ground.news is not a plugin to the browser though. its a web site (and app) that aggregate news from multiple sites, and let you see multiple sides to an issue. I don't pay for many apps (I usually detest subscriptions) but pay for this one.
A fun take on this here: https://livebook.manning.com/book/writing-for-developers/app...
In case it's randomly scrambled by Manning - we had one GPT write a engineering blog, then had another GPT analyze whether it thought it was written by a human (and why). The response:

"This text appears to be AI-generated rather than written by a human. Here are the key indicators:

1. Unusually dense and consistent metaphors: The text maintains an extremely high density of Polish and Eastern European cultural references, dance metaphors, and programming analogies throughout. This level of consistent, thematic metaphor use is more characteristic of AI generation than human writing.

2. Overly flowery language: The prose is consistently ornate and poetic in a way that feels artificial. Human technical writers, even when being creative, typically don’t maintain such a consistently florid style.

3. Lack of specific technical details: While the post mentions Zig’s advantages, it doesn’t provide concrete examples or code snippets that a human developer would likely include based on real experience.

4. Perfect thematic consistency: The Polish/Eastern European theme is maintained flawlessly throughout, without any drift or inconsistency that would be natural in human writing.

5. Artificial emotional arc: The emotional journey feels manufactured rather than genuine, hitting predictable notes of curiosity, challenge, and triumph.

6. Too-perfect structure: The post follows an idealized narrative structure that feels more like it was generated to fit a template than a natural recounting of events.

7. Lack of genuine personal anecdotes: While framed as a personal journey, there are no specific, idiosyncratic details that would typically appear in a real developer’s account of learning a new language.

8. Overuse of cultural references: The density of Polish references feels more like it was generated from a list than organically incorporated by someone with lived experience.

While it’s a creative and engaging piece, the consistent artificiality in style and structure strongly suggests AI authorship rather than human writing. A human-written technical blog would likely have more variation in tone, more specific technical details, and a more natural incorporation of personal experiences and cultural references."
Yeah like the module system. Looks good on paper, is probably hard to deal with. There are still tons of popular libraries that have no module-info.
Java does evolve, but the direction it does is so weird. And than the tooling is strange and it’s worse that there are basically two build tools, both with their upsides and downsides but they still feel more complicated than tools for other languages like cargo, go (if you consider that), msbuild (the modern csproj stuff/slnx)
>Why do we have regulations? Who do they benefit?

Weird you still have no idea why.

So let me tell you, there was a tribe in a village and they had many rules,
some young boys hated the rules so they left and made their own village with no rules. One day one of them made a fire and let it unsupervised and many of their shacks burned so the boys decided that there should be one rule about not letting fires unsupervised.... the story continues with similar issues happening and they reluctantly adding one more tule, then one more rule until they get tot he same original rules from the original village.
vision models are also faulty, and some times all paths are unhappy paths, so there's really no viable solution. Most of the times, swapping the model completely randomizes the problem space (unless you measure every single corner case, it's impossible to tell if everything got better or if some things got worse...
> That is borderline tautological. Apple should comply with the regulations, because they are the regulations.

Correct.

> The regulations are there to protect users

Also correct.

> a 3rd party application is more likely to harm the user, so less trust is warranted.

Not sure if I agree or not, but it doesn't matter.
There’s more and more content these days talking about “the new science of gut bacteria” and talking about how important it is to our health and wellbeing.

Do you think all that is bunk / pseudoscience?
Very nice comparison but constrained to greenfield.

Would love to see a similar article that uses LLMs to add a feature to Gimp, or Blender.
Android 16 maybe gets inactivity reboot feature
I prefer OS variety and have a mix of Plan 9, Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD running my personal stuff.
But it wouldn't be fun. It wouldn't be a good sport to participate. It would just be blood entertainment for the viewers.

Sports should be for those doing them, and then if people end up caring and commercial competitions end up viable, then that's a bonus but we shouldn't design them for entertainment of the audience.

Customization of equipment should always be fine unless it increases injury risk or completely destroys the game.
Not yet! But we have some close ones. For example, OLMo 2[1], OlympicCoder[2], and OpenThinker[3].

[1]: https://allenai.org/blog/olmo2-32B

[2]: https://huggingface.co/open-r1/OlympicCoder-32B#evaluation

[3]: https://www.open-thoughts.ai/blog/aiw
Space and time are related, and expanding rapidly since the Big Bang (though there was a time in the early universe when the expansion rate was faster).

https://cds.cern.ch/images/CERN-HOMEWEB-PHO-2022-023-1

Observing the edge is effectively looking back in time, to see the conditions of the universe closer to the time of the Big Bang.

New telescopes keep expanding that edge, and new particle colliders (such as those at CERN or Fermilab) keep "bashing 2 rocks together to make fire" - recreating the conditions of the Big Bang to see what comes off.

What I'm not sure about is whether the speed of light (assumed to be constant) is correlated with the size of the observable universe. Perhaps a physicist could shed some light on that question. Relativity means that galaxies that are moving at the speed of light away from one another (one travelling at c, another travelling at -c) have a relative velocity of higher than the speed of light (|c| + |-c| = 2c).

There's also the theory of the One Electron Universe, which I quite like (though that reveals my bias as an electronic systems engineer). Perhaps what we see is the One photon universe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-electron_universe

Hopefully this rambling makes sense to someone!
... and if someone looks for more reasons 'why' FreeBSD then here they are:

- https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2020/09/07/quare-freebsd/
No single book has incited more violence throughout history
In my experience, boots on the ground are far more effective at affecting election outcomes than advertising campaigns are.
I saw that and I'm not convinced this changes anything. The fact that Honey is inserting itself into the affiliate attribution chain at all when it did literally nothing is still wrong to me.
I've written my fair share of nasty reflexive code for testing or for abusing libraries, but I don't think I've ever overwritten final fields in this way. Private fields, sure. But not final.

Sounds like a good evolution to me.
Seems unlikely. :) As is an end to end multimodal model, I'd guess. But we can ask!
The hardest programs to type were in 6502 assembly. One byte mistake and the entire program was botched.
It was simply "Ghost" before Norton bought it and made it more terrible and bloated over time. We (at a computer shop I worked at) used Ghost to build a pre-OOBE image for several common Windows configurations and then just image them to new PCs in a few minutes, then apply the license key afterward.
To fly means "to soar through air; move through the air with wings" (etymonline)

That is pretty much an accurate discription of what planes and birds do.

To plan means "to reason with intent".

That is very much not what LLMs do, and the paper does not provide evidence to the contrary. Yet it uses the term to give credence to it's rather speculative interpretation of observed correlation as causation.

Interestingly enough there is no definition of the term, which at least would help to understand what the authors actually mean.

I would be more inclined to take a more positive stance to the paper if it used more appropriate terms, such as call observed correlations just that. Granted that would possibly make for much less of a fancy title.
> Bahar Khan Suri (spelling corrected; assuming this is him)

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/21/us/bahar-khan-suri-deportatio...
"While the filing does not mention Saleh’s father by name, The New York Times reported that Ahmed Yousef – a former adviser to Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh – confirmed in a voice message that he was Suri’s father-in-law."

It's certainly sus, but I'd agree that if he was actually trying to work for peace, as he claims, and that this was demonstrable, this was pretty unjust at first glance
That would be an interesting Show HN. A camera(s) setup with something like OpenCV and some ML processing to analyze a batter's swing, find their best bat shape, then use some sort of automated lathe to cut their bat based on the findings. Lather, rinse, repeat until you've iterated through to the "perfect" bat for that hitter.
Had to lookup office.com myself to see it; their office package is literally called MS Copilot.
Datablast, and Tom Scott has a video on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBs_ABt-hRc

It's one of those ideas that makes a whole lot more sense at the broadcast studio where everyone edits on consoles[0] tied to Betacam decks that have exact, to-the-field seek timecodes and stable freeze frame capability. Even a 4-head VCR would utterly ruin it though.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEMdmnNbCZA
The article mentions one: const folding. I don't think we need a benchmark to suggest that could mean a performance improvement in some cases.

Regardless, to me this isn't about performance, this is about "integrity" (to use the same term as in the JEP): consumers of my library should not be mucking about in private implementation details, and then inevitably complaining about problems to me when something breaks. If you need a feature that I don't expose, ask for it (or better yet, submit a patch).

Sure, I've used reflection to modify library internals before, but I recognize that whenever I do that I'm inviting a maintenance headache into my world. But some people just think things should always work, even when they are breaking them.
I like button flys because they’re less prone to the “zipper boner” when you sit down.
Think of the poor multi-billion dollar corporation! Have you no heart?
OAuth works fine for major providers in Thunderbird...unless you're using hard tokens with pin number requirements right now (the entry form doesn't display).
stop applying american ideas to the french system. europe has many checks and balances at several levels, and embezzling Union funds for your campaign does in fact make you not eligible to run for office for some time. it’s not even permanent.
From all we can tell at this point is the universe is flat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shape_of_the_universe
That's why we have nowadays Republics, with either written constitutions or fundamental legal texts like Habeas Corpus, not just pure democracies à la antique Athens.

The way out of your conundrum is to admit there is no "the People"; there is a collection of diverging, often incoherent trends, and no voting system is perfect (no voting system is even logical, as proven by Condorcet and Arrow[0])

[0] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/arrows-impossibility-th...
4872 first game. I got all the pieces on every level except the first because I didn't realize you could. Pretty fun and I don't even play chess. Are the levels designed by hand or generated?
Cantor Analysts Blast RFK Jr., Warn of 'Dangerous Territory'
No more than I'm willing to drive a race car 200+ mph (i.e. formula 1) nor step in a boxing ring and accumulate a bunch of micro-concussions. But I'll happily tune in for the many that would be willing to do it if the money was right.

Why in the world would this have any bearing on the conversation? What point are you trying to make?
Is there anything about training a new model? I just assumed they were asking for all the little bits that companies forget to do at release with an open model.
At the presidential level I would say the law should follow the (will of the) people and not the other way around. After all, those irrational voters are the ones who created the law in the first place, in so many ways. As an aside, the more I think about someone being able to truly be impartial, the more I giggle. Myself included, of course.
> Family Plan … We strive to provide a search engine that prioritizes the well-being of your loved ones, particularly the most vulnerable ones like children, by offering an ad-free and safe browsing experience. We offer two different group plans based on your specific needs.

I read it a few times and saw only one plan. What’s the second one? If it’s the Team plan, that seems like poor copy.

(Kagi Ultimate subscriber here)
Goose for the Rails Developer
A few simple command equivalents to help a rails developer get started with 'goose'.
Thank you. This is the insidious thing about black box LLM coding.
Better than the one who didn't speak much english and complained how chinese is so much easier because you don't have to learn a new word for beef, you just combine the symbols for "cow" and "meat", and still didn't know the material well.
There's some quirks with the API around open vs openModal if you aren't aware of the accessibility implications you may not even realize this is the case.

Forms have some special quirks inside of a dialog.

The biggest thing though, is for the life of me I don't understand why you can't open and close a dialog without JavaScript. There's no way to do it.