skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm pretty confident I didn't say any of the things you're rebutting.

>Isn't being realistic about your skills in relation to the rest of the world in the current time and place (as opposed to some idealistic past that may or may not have ever existed) a way to "fix this" at a societal level?

"Being realistic about your skills in relation to the rest of the world" is very different from and much broader than "take up a trade". The fact is if everyone who isn't being served by the current higher education system today became a plumber or a carpenter tomorrow the increased supply without a concomitant increase in demand would force the pay for those jobs into the shitter as well and we'd still have an army of the underemployed.

>Whether or not[sic] it's easy or even possible to live a middle-class without starting a business or getting a college degree is irrelevant to whether or not[sic] we should be giving college degrees to people who submit this as an answer to a final exam:

I didn't say we should give degrees to people who can't demonstrate the skills or knowledge either, only that if we make survival contingent on getting degrees people who can't get them legitimately will try to get them illegitimately. People have a distressing tendency to try to continue to live even when the rules tell them that they shouldn't.
Deel CEO personally orchestrated his company's alleged spy scheme
Vandalizing random peoples vehicles in parking lots because you dislike the CEO of the manufacturer is not a protest, it’s juvenile behaviour.
Where are the model parameters stored and how are they represented?
There is simply so much to talk about here! Thanks for such an excellent question.

First, a caveat: Graft currently has no permissions. Anyone with access to the Graft PageStore and MetaStore can read/write to any volume. This is obviously going to change - so I'll talk about what's planned rather than what exists. :)

For writes, Graft can support fairly granular permission models. This is an advantage of handling writes in the PageStore. Depending on the data being stored in a Volume, a future PageStore version could reject writes based on inspecting the uploaded pages. This would increase the load on the PageStore, but since it's designed to run on the edge and horizontally scale like crazy (stateless) it seems like it would work.

Reads, on the other hand, are a lot more tricky. The simplest approach is to partition data across Volumes such that you can enforce read permissions at the Volume level. This isn't a great solution and will certainly limit the kinds of workloads that are well aligned with Graft. A more complex approach is to layer Volumes. Effectively virtualizing a single database that internally writes rows to different layers depending on access permissions. This second approach offers a slightly nicer user experience, at the cost of complexity and query performance.

For now though, Graft is best suited to workloads that can partition data and permissions across Volumes.
They will be compatible

> Nintendo Switch Joy-Con controllers and peripherals, such as the Nintendo Switch Pro Controller, will also be usable on Nintendo Switch 2 by connecting them wirelessly to the system.

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250402229347/en/Nin...
Looking under the hood at the brain's language system
Who on earth would take someone suspected to be a gang member, other than his home country where he has the right to return? What makes more sense it to deport him (not that I agree with deportation here) to El Salvador and have the authorities escort him to some bumfuck area of the country where no one would know him.
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They were migrating to GCP, IIRC. Not sure if this outage is related to that
Use the full path of sl and not rely on $PATH in the same way cron and macOS GUI apps do for I assume this exact reason.
Some orgs can't afford not to.
he needs to beat 2% GDP growth

Hard to grow GDP while also working to isolate the US economy from world markets.

This won't end well for most people --- but especially not for MAGA voters.
Copyright-Aware AI: Let's Make It So
That does not generically 100% solve the problem of "is this person a human". That ties things to an identity, but the verification that an identity is actually that human is not solved. Stolen identities, forged identities, faked identities, all still problems, and as soon as the full force of the black market capitalist market in such things is turned on that world, it'll still be a big problem.

Also video-based ID checks have a shelf-life measured in single-digit years now, if indeed the plural is even appropriate. The tricks for verifying that you're not looking at real-time faked face replacement won't hold up for much longer.

Don't forget what we're talking about, either. We're talking about accessing Wikimedia over HTTP, not briefing some official on top-secret information. How does "video interviews" solve "a highly distributed network of hacked machines is crawling my website using everyone's local identity"?
It isn't the distribution here that's the usage, it's training the model. If I take a copyrighted work and train a model with it and there's no longer any demand for the original, training the model was not a fair use
Water vapor quantification in raw product gas by THz quantum cascade laser
So? Everybody at McKinsey knows how the company earns its fees. Everybody there knows what they signed up for and it wasn't to help companies grow their opex costs. They knew it when execs were excited about "offshoring expensive domestic labor" 25 years ago.
Maybe the point they're getting at is that LLMs are kind of too smart to be human any longer. A bit like how software drummers added a sliding "Humanize" parameter so that the drumming was "off" a bit.

ChatGPT needs to confuse "loose" and "lose" in its output, mistake the U.S. state "Georgia" with the country.
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In the worst case Wikipedia will have to relocate to Europe and
block the entire ASN of US network estates. But if the United States
is determined to commit digital and economic suicide, I don't see how
reasonable people can stop that.
Haskell taught me the important differences between IO and parity and forever influenced the way I program.

Even so the complexity here and the sheer number of mind bending concepts makes me not want to use it.
Can someone with the knowledge explain, is the close elliptical galaxy actually just the small dot of light in the centre and the spiral galaxy is behind it but dramatically magnified by the lens effect?
Yes, of course, this cost consideration is only relevant today.

I can imagine that ~9 years ago there might have been very little reasonably priced LiFePO4 cells available and if someone could get their hands on used 18650 cells very cheaply, it might have been a reasonable choice at the time.
Do smartphones and social media harm teens' mental health?
Was that a real judge in the judicial branch or one of those 'judges' in the executive branch kangaroo courts?
Is there a Power Toy to turn off telemetry and ads?
In disk or memory as multidimensional arrays ("tensors" in ML speak).
One of the most fundamental problems with the US healthcare system is the fee for service payment system. Another closely realted one is the abundance of bureaucrats and administrators. Obamacare created a pilot program to move medicare off fee for service and toward fee per patient, and m4a would likely expand that program. Combined with some sort of pharma reform and 3 of the biggest problems healthcare face could be solved. Then congress needed to expand residency funding and the next biggest problem(lack of physicians, they currently make 9% of healthcare spending in the US) would be easily solved as well.
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You get speed of development, productivity, lots of libraries. You get something that is easy to learn and understand.
In Germany, there is as well the Freiberufler status for one-off side gigs. I don't know all the details, but my wife used that for a one-off job.
Eugenioides is sweet in a way that no other coffee I ever had is sweet.

You sometimes see "sweet" as an axis of flavor of coffee, or as a tasting note on a bag of fancy beans; but eugenioides is very different.

It's _the_ dominant note in that cup, and it is much less fruity or floral, it's just... sweet. You taste the sweetness, and then the rest of the "typical" coffee notes come in the background, but much less pronounced than usual.

I've seen people describe it as a "cereal-like", and while I don't think I fully agree with that description, I do get where they're coming from.

If you're a coffee person and ever see a bag of it on offer (and can afford it), I definitely recommend grabbing it — it's really, really unique (and quite rare!).

(And I do not think this is in any way related to the caffeine content — otherwise most of decafs would be very sweet, and they obviously aren't).
Even the statuspage is dead https://www.stackstatus.net/
also here to mention stars of the lid. I just found out about them and they're great. on the same youtube binge I also learned about Jefre Cantu-Ledesma and have become fascinated with their work as well

https://music.youtube.com/channel/UCeYcG8gnFjGA5lUShHsz3yQ
This is a nice setup for Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC). I arrived at a similar design a couple weeks ago, using Casbin as our authorization backend. The challenge is that I want to store user's roles and domains and use those domains to limit access. However, I do not want to replicate my existing DB to create a record in Casbin for every resource that might be accessed.

This means, yes, when validating access, you must load the data you want to access and compare its attributes against the user's authorization. One advantage of doing this is that the system can either return a 404 if the object belongs to a completely different domain, or, if the object belongs to a sub-domain, return a 403 and sufficient data to power a request for temporary privilege escalation.

I'm open to ideas for improving this.
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The British would know.
If you're using the right models (Claude 3.7 Sonnet, Gemini 2.5 Pro) and are good at prompting it very possibly can write and deploy thousands of lines of code to production without you needing to change a single thing.

Of course, odds are there in fact is something you need to change - maybe a poor design choice or a bug or missing logic. So you of course do need to always thoroughly review it. But reading 1000 lines is faster than coming up with 1000 lines you plan to write and writing them. And also, if you see a missing thing, you can just do a follow-up prompt in the same chat context rather than actually typing a single thing into the text editor.

I know it can feel alien, and I definitely still spend a lot of time manually writing and editing code, but I'm trying to outsource more and more to the model and trying to put myself into a mindset of "first try to see if I can accomplish all this with prompts, and then fallback to 'raw coding' if it fails after a few tries" for everything and I find it's speeding me up a lot.

You should try to give it another shot. Could maybe wait another year first for the editors and models to get even better than they are right now.

>I'm referring to wholly AI generated code with no human input besides a prompt or "vibe coding." You literally can't put enough context into a prompt to have it write the exact code you'd need in every case. Your prompt would end up just being code at that point.

True, but... you can do that! It may or may not be faster than writing the code you want, true, but sometimes I think it will be faster/simpler. Gemini 2.5 now (or soon?) supports a 2 million token context window. You can write a very precise spec in the prompt. Use formal language, or use a little DSL you invent on the spot, or say "it should do X and Y and account for Z and also try to cover other things if you realize there are more", etc. There's a lot you can do.

There absolutely will still be many scenarios where it's faster overall to just write the code or where it really is harder to express what you want to say in English vs. in code, but those scenarios may be less common for you than you currently think or expect.
Anecdata, but I've often found a 30 g whey protein shake administered every 3-4 hours to be incredibly satiating and useful for weight loss. It's about twice as expensive as my other options for protein, but the convenience can't be beat.
They decided to ramp anti-piracy up a big ol' notch, I see. No benefit at all to this for the user. Defeats much of the point of buying the physical game instead of digital (not quite all if this still lets you "share" [carry around and use on other consoles] the game without being stuck with their very-limited digital game sharing system)

Also, we're currently dealing with a Switch with a broken SD card slot that won't read cards anymore (can they please make these children's toys more durable this time?) so physical game cartridges with actual game data on them are the only thing keeping our console from being literal garbage... another reason to dislike this.

This'll hurt system longevity, too. Fewer physical games that continue to function once they shut down online service for the console.
If you don't care, I can't help change your mind.

I took a small company that was living contract to contract into a world where they started making millions in annual recurring revenue.

There's no secret, magic bullet. All I did was make sure we were delivering progress at a regular cadence. Kept communication channels open. And tried to, but ultimately failed at, training the sales team to stop with the secret deadline negotiation.

I understand the sales cycle at the enterprise SaaS level is a long song-and-dance of promises and and punishments. I understand that money only changes hands when the customer feels like they will get their money's worth or else your business will go out of existence. It's a difficult game to play.

However... they were never unhappy. Steady, reliable, and consistent beat out guessing, promising, and hoping to deliver every time. The dollars proved it.
You might be thinking of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field image (https://science.nasa.gov/asset/hubble/hubble-ultra-deep-fiel...). I believe it was the result of NASA saying "Let's look at what appears to be a completely dark spot in space, zoom in as far as we can, and see what's there."

We see stars in our galaxy because they are close enough to us that we see them as individual stars. Compare that to the Andromeda Galaxy, which is far enough away that without intense zoom, it looks like a single source of light. There are galaxies even farther away, which we cannot see with the naked eye at all, but zooming in on them like Hubble did means we eventually get enough resolution to see they are individual galaxies, unfathomably far away.

JWST being able to see infrared means we'll see galaxies that are so far away, their light is redshifted so we (and Hubble) cannot even see them at all.

With regards to your question about how to test the bubble hypothesis posted by parent, we would be limited by how variable our point of view can be. We can gather what data we can at one end of Earth's orbit, and then try to see from the opposite end and compare what we see, comparing data sets to see if certain galaxies or stars are in different positions. We already do some of this when dealing with gravitational lensing and I believe it's one of the primary ways we can detect black holes, as they bend light a lot.
Especially since he seems to ignore those children except the one he drags around with him.

Maybe he has some dream about being a patriarch of a giant family.

Actually, considering his "pay someone else to play video games" actions, it makes sense that he's paying others to raise his kids. He seems to want the appearance but none of the work behind it.
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"While all stars can create these patterns, we only see spikes with the brightest stars when a telescope takes an image."

These distant galaxies are incredibly faint, so I imagine that's the reason there are no obvious diffraction effects.
I understand what you're saying... You're talking about total gains over a long period of time like a 10 year sedentary steroid use versus a 10 year natural lifter doing lots of the right things... I'm not sure if there's any data on the subject besides anecdotes.

Do you have a longitudinal study source?

> "Untrained males without prior AAS use gained more muscle over a 10 week non-exercise period than similar males who performed exercise."

There's lots of studies that show steroid users accumulate about 2x as much muscle as non steroid users, but those are both in trained groups. Unclear about what happens if someone takes steroids across 10 years, and how much total muscle they accumulate relative to a natural over the same time period.
Wow. Managed to find a post critical of Elon which isn't [flagged] yet. Incoming in 3,2,1,...
> Hey, I have an idea! Let's heavily tax the rich and turn all of those billionaires into multi-millionaires! $10 million in wealth ought to be good enough for anyone, right?

unironically - right.
Cyrus supports it. https://www.cyrusimap.org/imap/developer/jmap.html
Ask HN: Built a policy engine for LLMs – open-source it or keep trying to sell?
We’re two engineers who built a system that acts like a guardrail/policy enforcement layer for large language models (GPT, Claude, etc). It analyzes both prompts and responses in real time, and applies configurable policies like:

Blocking PII (emails, IPs, phone numbers, etc.)

Detecting company secrets (e.g., passwords, API keys)

Preventing accidental leaks of proprietary code

Filtering toxic/inappropriate language

Catching mentions of competitors, people, or locations

Each policy can be tuned (strict or lenient), and you can decide whether to just log it or actually block the message. Everything is logged with full metadata: policy IDs, timestamps, token counts, etc.

The architecture has two parts: a self-hosted data plane (which handles all sensitive message content), and a hosted control plane (for configs and API keys). So it can be used in privacy-sensitive environments.

You can integrate it via API, browser extension, or a simple chat UI.

Now here’s where we’re struggling:

We don’t have a strong network of buyers or investors. Most of our outreach has been cold emails, and it hasn’t led to much traction. Pricing experiments (per seat, per org) haven’t helped. So it’s unclear whether the idea isn’t good—or we’re just not getting it in front of the right people.

We’ve started thinking about open-sourcing it. The idea would be: self-host for free, pay us if you want the hosted version (similar to MongoDB/Redis models). Probably support bring-your-own-encryption-key for hosted users.

But I’m honestly torn. Open-sourcing sounds right for trust and adoption—but we’ve spent a lot of time on this, and there’s that fear of releasing it and getting little to nothing back.

So: if you work with LLMs, or have faced issues around privacy/compliance/safety, I’d really love your take. Does this sound useful? Would open source make it more attractive? Are we just early to a problem people don’t feel yet?

Not promoting anything, just hoping to learn from folks who’ve walked this path.
Because the law isn't based on justice, morality, or ethics. It is merely a system by which power is wielded. You are basing your judgement on a fictional caricature that is not reality. What 'should' happen has zero bearing there. The immigration judges are merely delegates of the AG, and only empowered to the extent the AG allows. It is an administrative action without protection criminal defendants get.
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Perl is mature, too.

Maven is awful. SBT is awful. Gradle is awful. I've used them all professionally, and the best I can say about them is that you can get the job done with them.

Newer languages and newer build systems are much better experiences, because of decades more hindsight and because language designers think about tooling from the start. Java was designed with the assumption that all software projects were built with Make, and with no ambition to improve on that. There was no Java-specific build tool until Ant was released as a standalone tool circa 2000.

> What is wrong with CMake for C++?

Granted, most of what's wrong with CMake is the problem it solves. Probably there's no solution that wouldn't be at least close to as awful as CMake. But it is objectively a hideous experience compared to any language created in the last 15 years.