skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but of course plan9 makes it a file system instead of some RPC.

Actually, Plan 9 does IPC via 9P, the RPC based file system protocol. The protocol serves a tree of named byte addressable objects which are composable per process. The Plan 9 kernel is a VFS multiplexer. It *only* speaks 9P. All disk file systems,e.g. ext4, are served via user space micro services the bell labs people called file servers. Unlike clunky Unix and it's copies there are no special files or character files nor ioctl(). It's all via the foundational concept of how people organize resources into "files" and folders (directories) via path names. All this is transparent over the network by default.

The reality is the OS is a very portable light weight channel based container host, the container being the process. Each with it's own namespace which means it's own collection of mounted resources composed of 9P mounts and binds organized into a tree of named objects. Those objects are protected by Unix-like permissions: user/group/everyone-RWX served from as m yet another micro service using the same protocol. A process can rfork() more with flags to share resources and control it's file system view to only what the child container needs to see. Those containers then fork off more. You can keep firing off boxes with CPU and RAM and whatever what is hanging off via pxe and instantly have access to that compute and resources. 9P is architecture independent so file servers running on arm are no different than any other arch like x86, mips, risc-v, etc. anyone can mount any other hardware. It's a light weight cloud ready micro service host that was stated in the 80's by the same people who made Unix and c. It's friggin wild.

I highly encourage people try to really understand how it works. It's pretty damn eye opening and refreshing. It sorta blew my mind when I saw the process as the container that can fork off more and more with the ability to control the system view of each one. And you can understand the code. Like all of it.
Entire staff at federal agency that funds libraries and museums put on leave
SOTA LLMs Tested on 2025 USAMO–Scored Just 5%
Argentina's poverty rate falls as Javier Milei tames inflation
I’ve never asked a question, but I look at it for questions asked by others.
I had no idea we have NAFTA to thank for avocados (in the USA). Seems like neoliberals and free-trade advocates should be trumpeting that one from the rooftops. Sounds like that was a win-win; Americans are rich so they can afford to buy avocados, which tasty and healthy; sweet American dollars improve the quality of life for Mexican avocado-growers. Fittingly, with the new tarrifs, we all lose.
Can you honestly name a single billionaire who is going to be happy to share this supposed 'abundance'? They are going to use their capital to extract as much wealth as possible and they have no intention of letting the average person live out a comfortable life without working.
Sounds like maybe you were holding it wrong? This is year 20 for ZFS in production.

Though Linux support a decade ago with ZFS was pretty rough around the edges. That's not true anymore for many distros of Linux.
UX. Cursor is fundamentally no different from going to ChatGPT and asking it to write some code, but the Cursor UX is very nice. Shows you colored diffs of what it wants to change with accept/reject, chat window to flesh out ideas, etc. They get all the small UX details right (assuming you like a VS Code style experience).
Why would I want to watch a film with strangers sitting near me when I can get a more comfortable and cheaper experience at home. I don't have to hear some cow mowing down their popcorn, or worry about the coughing sick person behind me, or any number of things that have ruined an movie experience.
One wonders. I do b2b stuff, so I verify that clients and contracts actually exist. What happens when you're doing DD for this kind of deal where they're effectively buying a client list comprised entirely of individuals? Call a sample?
> The second thing we need to figure out is how we can compress voice input to make it faster to transmit. What’s the voice equivalent of a thumbs-up or a keyboard shortcut? Can I prompt Claude faster with simple sounds and whistles?

This reminds me of the amazing 2013 video of Travis Rudd coding python by voice: https://youtu.be/8SkdfdXWYaI?si=AwBE_fk6Y88tLcos

The number of times in the last few years I've wanted that level of "verbal hotkeys"... The latencies of many coding llms are still a little bit too low to allow for my ideal level of flow (though admittedly I haven't tried one's hosted on services like groq), but I can clearly envision a time when I'm issuing tight commands to a coder model that's chatting with me and watching my program evolve on screen in real time.

On a somewhat related note to conversational interfaces, the other day I wanted to study some first aid stuff - used Gemini to read the whole textbook and generate Anki flash cards, then copied and pasted the flashcards directly into chat GPT voice mode and had it quiz me. That was probably the most miraculous experience of voice interface I've had in a long time - I could do chores while being constantly quizzed on what I wanted to learn, and anytime I had a question or comment I could just ask it to explain or expound on a term or tangent.
Yep, for remote desktop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Guacamole
Completely agree, voice UI is best as an augmentation of our current HCI patterns with keyboard/mouse. I think one of the reasons this is, is because our brains kind of have separate buffers for visual memory and aural memory (Baddeley's working memory model). Most computer use takes up the visual buffer, and our aural buffer has extra bandwidth. This also means we can do things aurally while still maintaining focus/attention on what we're doing visually, allowing a kind of multitasking.

One thing I will note is that I'm not sure I buy the example for voice UIs being inefficient. I've almost never said "Alexa what's the weather like in Toronto?". I just say "Alexa, weather". And that's much faster than taking my phone out and opening an app. I don't think we need to compress voice input. Language kind of auto-compresses, since we create new words for complex concepts when we find the need.

For example, in a book club we recently read "As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow". We almost immediately stopped referring to it by the full title, and instead just called it "lemons" because we had to refer to it so much. Eg "Did you finish lemons yet?" or "This book is almost as good as lemons!". The context let shorten the word. Similarly the context of my location shortens the word to just "weather". I think this might be the way the voice UIs can be made more efficient: in the same way human speech makes itself more efficient.
Weren't the Star Wars prequels the first big digital productions?
Dumb acquisition by PayPal. It should stick to "above board" financial services. Stuff like this erodes trust.
It definitely knows what GTK4 is, when it freaked out on me and lost the code, it was using all gtkmm-4.0 headers, and had the compiler error count down to 10 (most likely with tons of logic errors, but who knows).

But LLMs performance varies (and this is a huge critique!) not just on what they theoretically know, but how, erm, cross-linked it is with everything else, and that requires lots of training data in the topic.

Metaphorically, I think this is a little like the difference for humans in math between being able to list+define techniques to solve integrals vs being able to fluidly apply them without error.

I think a big and very valid critique of LLMs (compared to humans) is that they are stronger at "memory" than reasoning. They use their vast memory as a crutch to hide the weaknesses in their reasoning. This makes benchmarks like "convert from gtkmm3 to gtkmm4" both challenging AND very good benchmarks of what real programmers are able to do.

I suspect if we gave it a similarly sized 2kloc conversion problem with a popular web framework in TS or JS, it would one-shot it. But again, its "cheating" to do this, its leveraging having read a zillion conversion by humans and what they did.
Muon collider!
They would become a senior developer? lol ;)
I mentioned on a different sub thread, I think the story would be more powerful if Abraham himself decided not to kill Isaac, like if he had realized that no matter what God is offering, it’s not worth doing something completely evil. Like the Huck Finn “all right then I’ll go to hell”
> So in my view the only constitutionally required “process” is to verify whether someone is a citizen or not. And I think that can be done adequately within the executive branch.

Why were immigration courts created in the first place?
I think you are thinking of other businesses here? A certain electronic car manufacturer for example.
I've always been baffled by the British charity thing: You want to ride your tricycle from John O'Groats to Ffestiniog? Fine, do it. You want me to donate to this charity? OK, maybe I'll do it. I just don't see the connection between the two. Please explain the connection to me. You don't actually want to ride your tricycle? But if I donate to some third party, you're going to do something you hate? So you're saying I want you to suffer? I'd rather donate if it doesn't cause unnecessary suffering.
DeepMind slows down research releases in battle to keep competitive edge
http://archive.today/td0Ko
It is, packed of pseudosciences, which we still suffer today.

In Switzerland, we get often measle outbreaks thanks to his cult.
I believe this one is limited to MAC OS only my idea was that it should be available almost every where regardless of which OS we are using. And i am also planning to launch a dedicated app on appstore as well as play store when i have some more time. If you want to be notified about when i launch next set of updates feel free to follow my product hunt launch here -> https://www.producthunt.com/posts/noteux

And any feedback given there would definitely be added fast :)
That's just the time to maturity for fruit bearing though. What about, say, the water requirements? But, yes, I think we agree. I think this is a case where we shouldn't provide an incentive to American growers, because it's probably more advantageous to import avocados and grow other things instead.
Research in AI for SWE is nowhere close to finished
I never really looked into the details but i believe Le Monde Diplomatique is built a similar way with their foundation Les Amis du Monde Diplomatique
I tried to take a look, but:

- "Get Started," "Sign Up," and "Login" all go to nameflip.io/Account/Login

- That login form only results in "Invalid login attempt."
Discussion (85 points, 7 hours ago, 44 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43540387
Can anyone recommend a site for buying DRM free books so I can read it with KOReader?
https://archive.ph/Hbffi
I know quite a few people who worked on this and unfortunately this is effectively the product.

It’s a company that prioritizes micro services and enterprise style crud apps internally. I’ve seen so many of their presentations and it’s like an IBM demo.

It’s data , data, data. That’s their approach to everything.
Native Apple Watch wins in most scientific papers and also in tests done by “the quantified scientist” by a large margin. Apple Watch does not use HRV but accelerometer for movement and breathing rate.

Apple Watch also wins for HR during exercise.

So if you want one device for everything, there is little competition yet.
There are things like floating point exceptions (IEEE 754) and subnormal numbers (close to zero, have less precision than the small approximation error "machine-epsilon"). The idea is to degrade gracefully. These additional features require additional transistors and processing which raises latency.

If you really know (and want to know) what you are doing, turning this stuff off may help. Some people even advocate brute-forcing all 2^32 single floats in your test cases, because it is kind if feasible to do so:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34726919
Elly De La Cruz mashed two 400+ plus bombs to dead center with a torpedo bat today. Whatever helps the Reds hit homers I’m fine with.
Previous discussions:

- 2024 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39897355)

- 2023 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35401226)

- 2022 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30878480)
Microcode updates were first implemented in the Pentium Pro. When the original Pentium had the infamous FDIV bug, the only fix was for Intel to replace the processors at a cost of $475 million.
Stop Debugging, Start Believing
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US tells European companies to comply with Donald Trump's anti-diversity order
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-guardian/
Been a long time since I used Java. I checked out lombok since you mentioned it. Does it really just internally create all those methods without there being actual source code? It seems nice but really spooky-action-at-a-distance feeling. Sounds like a nightmare.
Thanks for the deep explanation. I understand the rationale, it's just I've seen pretty bad comments being vouched for (about as bad as could land you in the ban in the first place), so I wonder if there is any incentive to improve the commenting for the banned users.
It feels weird to me that functions exist without being in the source code.
Just yesterday saw this great example: [0].

[0] https://grumpy.website/1642
15 years ago, the first start up I worked for provided APIs for music streaming in India. One of the founders who managed all infra was in US, and so the servers (bare metal) were in LA. I still find it amusing, that it was cheaper (and faster) just to fly to India, buy bunch of portable hard drives, upload the media, fly back to US and upload the data to the file server, than uploading the media directly from India to the US server. Obviously only applies when data is in order of TBs. Later saw the same thing with AWS Snowball and Snowmobile.
The trouble with this is that a criminal that has enough capital to back him/her can use the media to make it seem like it's a political hunt even when it isn't. Supporters of a corrupt criminal will benefit a lot from getting them elected, whereas the opposition needs to spend a lot of money just to keep things as they are. Usually these people are friendly to capital as well, and the opposition are the "little people" who can't organize enough money to campaign against these liars and their backers. I can't see better options here other than to use the state to protect themselves.
High-Stakes Executive Drama Descends on CinemaCon: Who's In, Who's Out?
New "wavy" road design to get drivers to slow down
Playing computer games since an early age made me who I am. It required learning English a decade earlier than my peers. It pulled me into programming around start of primary school. I wouldn’t be a staff engineer in a western country without these two.
But what is gained from barring people convicted of a crime from holding public office?

- Keeping people out with questionable character?

- Preventing crimes from being committed while in office?

Neither of those are all that convincing. Voters will be aware of the criminal past of any candidate. They can make their own personal judgement when they vote.

And I’m not sure what you mean by democracy has “worked well in that regard except for the US”.

If your goal is to ban people with criminal records to prevent corruption, there are plenty of democracies with a far worse track record when it comes to democracy than the US.
> nobody - nobody in 2025, at least - should claim to understand them well

Personally, this is enough grounds for me to reject them outright

We cannot be relying on tools that no one understands

I might not personally understand how a car engine works but I trust that someone in society does

LLMs are different
So objectively false that I don’t even know where to begin.
> What mechanism can the regulators use to prevent potential dumpers from entering a market?

The legal system, including the discovery process, and basic accounting to calculate when the selling price is lower than BoM cost.

Now it's your turn to answer my earlier question.
How do three pointers or uncalled fouls make a game hard to watch? If anything, they make it easier for a first time watcher. Timeouts in the last few minutes happen only when the game is close, prolonging the suspense. If the game isn't close, it ends faster.
But ublock, etc, is harmful...
This might help: https://pythonspeed.com/datascience/
I wish it supported vertical text and reading right-to-left (Japanese). It's a long-standing issue that doesn't seem likely to be solved (https://github.com/koreader/koreader/issues/4353). The relevant standard is https://www.w3.org/TR/css-writing-modes-3/, which is part of supporting ePub 3.
I think the revolution was more than just riping, it has to do with the variety. When I moved to Vietnam, I found they also had a large amount of avo's used in a lot of dishes, but they are shaped differently and taste like chalk compared with sweeter/creamier Mexico/California avo's.

Wow, just searching around, I found that I'm not the only one! It seems to be Haas vs. Booth...

https://www.reddit.com/r/VietNam/comments/uw10hw/in_the_west...
I don't really care about your reasons, to be honest.

You are losing competitiveness, we, on the other side of the world, are gaining.

As a result, you will be buying our goods, not the other way round, and that is the only thing I truly care about.
> Prepare to make final mean final

missed opportunity to call it "final final"
> I'm really struggling to see how you feel its wrong.

https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/uk-gdpr-guidance-and-re...

On the same page that the ICO gives guidance that "consent or pay" is legal, "take it or leave it", in which you are invited to pay with your data or go elsewhere, is not.

This seems very weird to me. Either data is a form of payment or it isn't, and I had laboured under the (mis?)apprehension that the GDPR removed it from this sort of situation - that one had a right to say "no" to invasive tracking and that shouldn't affect the service provided one way or another. This muddies the water over true consent to track and it seems the ICO agrees -

"When the only alternative to consent is paying a single price which combines access to the core product with a fee for avoiding sharing personal data for the purposes of personalised advertising, it can be difficult to demonstrate freely given consent."

> They are offering you something which takes time and money to produce. You can pay for it with money or with your data.

In this case I do pay for it with money

> I'd rather be given a choice between "we track all your data" or you can pay verses the default of tracking all data and paying.

Personally I'd rather government legislate away the tracking unless it can be genuinely demonstrated that someone opted in, with no form of coercion at all, and those who wanted to be paid to host advertising switch to a more context-sensitive rather than audience-sensitive model. And I had thought that was where we were going. This feels a bit like backsliding on that.

(I'm not going to argue this is black and white "OMG so wrong!", I can definitely see there's room for differing opinions here, and I am aware I carry an anti-advertising, anti-tracking bias.)
Anyone whose done adversarial work with the models can tell you there are actually things that LLMs get consistently wrong, regardless of compute power. What those things are, it has not yet been fully codified but we are arriving now at a general understanding of the limits and capabilities of these machines and soon they will be employed for far more directly useful purposes than the wasteful, energy-sinks of tasks they are called on for now like "creative" work or writing shitty code. Then there will be a reasonable market adjustment and the technology will enter into the stream of things used for everyday commerce.
Shouldn't your blog post then condemn the C community at large for failing to use a more "reasonable" C compiler instead of complaining about compiler authors that "despite holding the minority world view, [...] have managed to force it on us by fiat because we have to use their compilers"?

You don't have to use their compilers. Most people do, because they either share this "minority" world view or don't care.
> I stopped because every time I'd ask a question someone would come by and complain about something and vote to close the question.

Can you point to an example? Please? I'm serious.

I always read this sentiment, but at least in the `r` tag that I was frequenting, most closed question were really terrible.
But isn’t the connection to the launchpad also wired? Out of latency considerations?
> And yet, Apple's app store and ecosystem doesn't seem to be treated as a monopoly in this regard.

... except in the EU where it's now legal to deliver a non safari browser engine through alternative app stores.

It's just that no one will do it for just the EU...
>As someone who actively wants Apple provide a tighter experience, this is how I feel. I have a nice garden that I'm playing in, and others have a sandbox. They like my garden because it's sunny, but they want the rules of their sandbox to apply to my garden. The grown ups let them in, and now there's nowhere to play that doesn't have sand anymore.

The laws are created for all, all people, all companies. We do not give Apple exceptions because reasons like this guy likes it as it is. When Apple decides to do business in a country it accepts the laws there, if they do not like the laws then they can just refuse to do business there.
While I agree overall, for me it's not as clear cut with sponsors as I do genuinely find some sponsored content very interesting and informative.

A creator might not have the means to buy the equipment, so not being sponsored would mean not making that content, which would be a net loss in these cases in my view.

That said, sponsored segments for BetterHelp, NordVPN and similar can f right off.
The Medici Family was powerful because they were bankers of the papacy, i.e., they managed the Pope's finances.
Individual UIs have been built for every product that has a UI with specific shortcuts and specific techniques you learn to use that tool. I don’t see why the same couldn’t apply for speech interfaces. The article does mention we haven’t figured out shortcuts like the thumbs up equivalent in speech yet but doesn’t explore that further. I can imagine specific words or combinations of words being used to control certain software that you have to learn. Eventually there would be some unification for common tasks.
> No one cares about work anymore.

Why should they? Our "leaders" around the world are actively seeking to end human civilization. What point is there to work anymore? Even if humanity survives, we're gonna be knocked back to the dark ages at best. What are we all working for exactly? A "future" that's being rapidly dismantled?
There's a similar but "illegal" other client called eaglercraft. It bumps this up a notch with a much more "recent" version of MC, by compiling java to javascript
But, importantly, you wouldn’t be sent straight to jail when you get detained and deported, and you should get due process to ensure you were actually in the wrong.
Maybe, but surely the general intelligence of the average HN commenter should be able to pick up on sarcasm / satire / parody. Unless, of course, it reflects a mirror back at them.
A good chunk of Americans would have ended up with GUIs in Polish, just sayin’
They could decide "On the Origin of Species" is inappropriate, while the Bible which is full of violence isn't a problem.