skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does SQL or regex as a language rot? I’d say the abstraction above using SQL or regex to implement it rots, because it’s not formalised as a language.

Does the implementation leak through things like JSON or a EBNF grammar? Performance can be a concern but the implementation doesn’t leak through the language unlike a library api. If you have access to the compiler you can adjust the implementation to get whatever performance you’d like without affecting the abstraction.

Edit: JSON is a perfect example of resistance to rot and a good abstraction. You will always be able to read it in any given language because it is a language and not some library. Non DSL code should be considered as compiler output and that is what 99.9% of software devs spend their time writing. They mock people who would write assembly then go and create some fucked type hierarchy in Haskell for some business problem and call it a good abstraction. The complexity just multiplies until we end up with the current state of the industry.
Thief with a katana...
I literally never write while thinking lol stop projecting this hard
Google Introduces Firebase Studio: The Natural Language Revolution in App Development

Source: SimonDodson.com

Breaking news from Google's developer ecosystem arrived just two hours ago. Firebase Studio has emerged as their answer to the rising demand for AI-assisted development environments.

This paradigm-shifting platform transforms how applications are built, allowing developers to construct functional apps through natural language instructions rather than traditional coding. The interface accepts plain English commands, converts them to working code, and renders the results in real-time.

What separates Firebase Studio from predecessors is its integration with Google's robust infrastructure. Each application receives immediate access to scalable cloud architecture without additional configuration steps. The platform handles everything from database design to authentication protocols through conversational instructions.

Feature Explainers (Like You're 5)

Talk-To-App Magic
Imagine if instead of needing to learn a secret computer language, you could just tell your computer what kind of app you want, like telling a story. "Make me an app where people can share pictures of cats and vote on the cutest one!" And then the computer actually builds it for you! That's what Firebase Studio does - it turns your words into real apps.

No-Setup Superpowers
Think about when you want to play with toys. Usually, you need to take them out of the box, put all the pieces together, and read instructions before you can start having fun. Firebase Studio is like having all your toys ready to play with instantly - no boxes, no assembly, no waiting. You just open your web browser and start creating right away.

Fix-It-Fast Tools
Remember when you're drawing a picture and make a mistake? You can erase it and try again. Firebase Studio lets you change your app the same way - just tell it what you want different, and it updates everything without breaking what was already working. "Make the buttons blue instead of green" and poof! It's done.

Unlike competitors that operate as standalone applications, Firebase Studio runs directly in standard browsers, eliminating installation requirements and compatibility concerns. The platform provides a unified space where apps can be created, tested, refined, and deployed without switching between disparate tools.

Early access users report significant acceleration in development cycles, with prototypes that previously required weeks now materializing in hours. The technology particularly benefits small teams and individual developers who lack specialized resources but maintain ambitious project goals.

Google has positioned this as their strategic response to emerging players in the AI development space. While similar functionality exists in products like Cursor and v0, Firebase Studio's integration with Google's broader development ecosystem creates an unmatched advantage in simplicity and power.

This release marks a defining moment in software development's evolution, potentially democratizing app creation for the next generation of digital innovators.
Walking around with a gun while being 'under the influence' is bad!1!!
It's this attitude that is common in Europe, at least in Germany that is the reason we are so behind. Worked for so many companies that just wrapped some open-source and sold it. Never worked well, nobody understood how it worked. No money for competent devs and so on. Both times the product was what made the company money. Say what you want about USA tech companies but at least some actually have technical excellence. I've lost hope that Europe, especially Germany will understand that.
A Comprehensive Survey on Long Context Language Modeling
> When I was working in engineering in the early aughts, we mocked the Chinese as being able only to copy American technology

Perhaps you should have considered that like in Art, the first step to proficiency in anything really is mimicry.
dev here: Feel free to ask any questions! This is updated functionality to the Add to Sheets Chrome extension. Now, it's possible to use keyboard shortcuts _or_ the regular right-click and select Sheets destination.
Those railways were built early on in urbanisation.

Do you honestly think private enterprise could raise the financial and political capital to build a new regional rail line through a major city like London or Manchester?
Thanks for your insights. I had previously interviewed with some firms in the PwC KPMG Deloitte type of category, though the work and pay don't seem to be completely worth it based on what I've read.
But surely you didn't sell off your 401k.
yes, donny woke up the ancient racist anti-immigration, the blood & soil type crowd, but the economic benefits of immigration are still there (albeit with higher risks and higher hurdles).

I suspect this will simply make labor more expensive on top end of the talent curve
I don't believe he can get a 7/2 ruling in SCOTUS. But I do believe he can get Republicans in the current Congress to jump for him, and to try to ensure their majority by disenfranchising people before the midterms.
What you're describing is a coincidence.

These phone calls and emails go out to tens of thousands of people every day. A small portion of those people will have just made an Amazon purchase.

The Apple branding is irrelevant. The scammers always use Apple products in their scripts, it denotes "expensive item".

No, Amazon is not "selling your info" to scammers.
This would be a great killer for hire database.
Yup, I 100% agree. This is my worry too. And it goes beyond real estate market and landlords - they are the obvious infinitely deep money sinkholes of society, but even if housing magically became free and available to everyone, I believe the sudden inflation would happen anyway.

I believe this to be a fundamental feature of free market economy in general. It's something I started realizing many years ago, and thought about a lot ever since; in the last year, I distilled that belief into a concise phrase I now use for this:

The market constantly adjusts to keep the average disposable income to zero.

Except now I realized that "average" is the wrong measure here, I should be saying "median", and also I've been mistakenly using the term "disposable income" (which actually means just after-tax income) to refer to "discretionary income" (what you're left with after covering taxes, bills, and essentials). Which leads me to the New and Better, Updated, Version 2.0 of my economic theory:

The market constantly adjusts to keep median discretionary income near zero.

I'd imagine this is an obvious thing that's already been named 100 years ago, but so far my research only pointed me to things like "neutrality of money", and some specific examples of my statement holding, yet nothing that covers it entirely.

(EDIT: in the unlikely case I'm not an idiot, and that this phrasing was not used/named before, I welcome credit; inquiries from the Nobel Foundation should be directed to my e-mail address, which is in my profile.)
Something like 35% of China's population works in the agriculture sector, many of whom are poor with little or no land holdings living in small villages. Is there a word for that kind of person?
Executive Order Revoking Chris Krebs and SentinelOne Clearances, Review of CISA
China has a millenia-long history of organizing a very large amount of people fairly well. They basically invented bureaucracy. Not everything is better in China of course, but don't forget about that aspect.
Great job by the Next.js team on this release, I just updated my Next.js boilerplate project to 15.3: https://github.com/ixartz/Next-js-Boilerplate

It works perfectly!
While I agree that this narrative is fodder for RTO-hungry CEOs... it is something that happens albeit typically in a different way. You'll have someone do the interview on behalf of another candidate.

A deepfaked recruit is a slight extension of that.
True, a hash works as a good alternative. (Unless you're doing super weird stuff like generating inline scripts at runtime.)
Tax the AI companies? Their bots are built on the plundered wealth of all mankind and that wealth belongs to the commonweal by right.

It's funny that this board can easily imagine AI destroying humanity but can't imagine a world where it enables them to quit their job.
It seems apparent that the answer is yes though. The US likes the idea of wars more then fighting them: the guy who talks about the greatest military on the planet is also not subject to the draft and never tried to join.

In so much as generalizing a nation can still leave large exceptions, wars of conquest are useless to America: it hates running occupations, and it's own citizens are not going to move abroad in sufficient numbers to provide a labor force to utilize the conquests.
> secondhand books are generally outdated, undesirable, and/or damaged — do collectors

I buy up to 10 (mostly non-fiction) books on paper a month, always secondhand if available, via bookfinder. You typically get a very accurate description of their state beforehand; I don't mind most levels of use, I actually like it when they have history to them. Markings, notes of previous owners, etc, are all fine for me. Even if one prefers "clean" books there are usually plenty of copies available. I like how it is both much cheaper than new, and even more the reuse aspect.
While recognizing the material downsides of education in the time of AI, I envy serious students who now have access to these systems. As an engineering undergrad at a research-focused institution a couple decades ago, I had a few classes taught by professors who appeared entirely uninterested in whether their students were comprehending the material or not. I would have given a lot for the ability to ask a modern frontier LLM to explain a concept to me in a different way when the original breezed-through, "obvious" approach didn't connect with me.
If the goal to drive the yield on T-notes down, then cut spending and raise taxes. Get the budget into something like balance and the Fed will cut rates, and borrowing costs will fall. You don't need some 3D chess with a manufactured financial crisis.

When your rational explanation involves people shooting themselves in the head to cure a headache, something's off. There's nothing to explain here besides a weak and incompetent leader with a deep need for attention, surrounded by lots of enablers.
Langchain has long solved (we can argue on if it's done it well, opinions vary) the problem of needing to orchestrate LLM calls into a coherent workflow. Plus it had a first mover advantage.

MCP solves a data and API integration problem.

Both are concrete things that people need to do today. AI agents talking to one another is not a concrete problem that organizations building features that integrate AI have today.
Agreed. It's better than no data, but I don't really see what a study like this can hope to prove one way or another. Giving a handful of people free money isn't UBI any more than the lottery is UBI. It doesn't provide any information about the macroeconomic effects of an actual universal income, or about how a lifetime guarantee of continued payments would impact behavior.

Personally, I think the necessity and viability of UBI will become apparent sooner than most would expect. If AI and related fields continue to advance at their current pace, at some point we'll be able to observe a clear trend toward an eventual government budget surplus paired with a mass unemployment crisis. Implementing a UBI or similar measure during that transitional period will be the only way to avoid a lot of unnecessary pain and societal upheaval.

This won't cause excess inflation because the payments will be backed by real economic output; the payments will only serve to keep demand in line with supply. Eventually, we'll get to the point where a UBI with annual raises and a balanced budget can coexist. A pessimistic outlook would be that this heralds the end of human innovation and ingenuity; I personally predict that it kicks off a renaissance of entrepreneurship, invention, and scientific breakthroughs that at least matches the relative progress of the 20th century.
Well, not just as the poor are, but they are exposed to them also.
"...I guess they say it was the biggest day in financial history,"

A finance whiz could tell you that it wasn't the biggest day in the market's history, but maybe a cause for extra celebration among a more select few.
Just double checking, you are saying reduced competition and scale economics are "stupid edge cases"?
Preview can no longer directly open .ps files.

For shorter man pages, I use the Terminal apps "Man Page" profile which you can get to by right clicking the command name, and selecting "View man page". Then, scroll to the bottom to render the entire thing, and Command+P > Save to PDF.

For long shit, parts will get truncated (overfilling the scrollback? I have no clue), so I have to export the ps with man and convert to PDF with ps2pdf. This puts everything in a basic Times New Roman font and I hate it. Much preferred when I could directly open the output on the Mac.
The EU quotas didn't impair them from catching fish, it allowed them to catch fish. The problem for British fishermen being that the fish people like to eat in the UK are the ones that tend to hang out in other countries waters, and vice versa.

Feels like they were just taking out their rage on the decline of their industry, which is much more to do with British govt policy and business consolidation than the EU policy. The govt has shown time and again that they don't really care, speak words and take the opposite or no action. I can't say I have much sympathy, the fishing industry in most countries seems out to destroy itself with over-fishing and is highly resistant to regulation designed to save it from itself.
I do wonder sometimes how UBP would play out in a developed country... Would it remove the need for bullshit jobs and refocus the market-oriented part of the economy towards real progress? Would it make people happier? Or would it make people spend even more of their lives scrolling, swiping and retweeting? In any case, this is a purely theoretical exercise -- even more so than UBI, the idea of UBP is very much incompatible with neoclassical economics, which thoroughly dominates economic and societal thought in most of the developed world.
Survey Says More Organizations Are Using Dead CentOS 7 Than RHEL
Or $0.80 if you make a big order of 100k.
> Any country can solve it, just incentivise families

The point of OP and what people don't get is that it's far easier to shift policies to brace for tough situations when you have a uniparty system and you're willing to make sacrifices. No 4 year administration is in any way incentivised to enact policies that only become effective after the next election. Note that I'm not saying that undemocratic systems are the solution.
Made a video comparing Gemini 2.5 Pro to Claude Sonnet 3.7 recently:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVdVJ_hD_vo
Sorry, no, Windows always has and still does generate garbage all over your hard drive.

Most won’t notice or care. For those who do it’s infuriating.
Might as well call it PreCrime just like in Minority Report

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0181689
Has anyone found the output at these large context windows usable at all?

IME the quality of all models goes down considerably after just a few thousand tokens. The chances of hallucinating, mixing up prompts, forgetting previous prompts, etc., are much more likely as context size increases. I couldn't imagine a context of 1M tokens, let alone 10M, being usable at all. Not to mention that any query is going to come to a crawl just to move that amount of data around (which still annoyingly happens on every query...).

So usually at around 10K tokens I ask it to summarize what was discussed, or I manually trim down the current state, and start a new fresh chat from there. I've found this to work much better than wasting my time fighting bad output. This is also cheaper if you're on a metered plan (OpenRouter, etc.).
> Support for 3rd party QUIC stacks including 0-RTT support

I hope this means that HAProxy will have QUIC 0-rtt support out of the box with OpenSSL.
Performance IQ and verbal IQ create the compound IQ figure.
I've noticed a few book stores which intermingle new and used stock and they're great. (it's obvious when something isn't new stock but it's all pretty good condition regardless)
This belief seems to disregard the fact that the billionaire crowd hates markets being spooked far more than it cares about 10 year Treasury yields (which in any case went up precisely because markets were spooked; if you wanted to do something about reducing long term bond yields, committing to just about any other economic policy would be more credible). Even some of the most sycophantic billionaires were evidently furious about the tariff policy.

Also, Trump has been obsessed with the idea of tariffs since the 1980s.
Silicon Valley has stifled its own innovation by making too much use of regulatory capture and IP laws.
We are using a workflow engine called Unmeshed - which has what you are asking about. Workflow definitions can be updated without running interfering with running instances and if you choose to you can patch updates on to running workflows. And you can also rerun workflows with the same input from an older execution.
fellow co-founder here! One fun thing about this project is the entire frontend was vibe-coded using Bolt in a few days.
> Also — secondhand books are generally outdated, undesirable, and/or damaged — do collectors still find diamonds in the rough?

Secondhand stores offer in general "better" products because of the double curation:

- someone found the good interesting enough to buy it in the first place (1st curation)

- the store found it good enough to buy it again from the first owner (2nd curation)

> Aren't brick-and-mortar bookshops, generally speaking, as viable as Apatosaurus today?

No, it's even better because of the limited space they have to display the goods they want to sell: while online stores can show their full inventory, brick-and-mortar need to select what's most likely to sell.

This adds yet another level of curation: the store found the good valuable enough to be exposed to buyers, instead of keeping it in the back (3rd curation)

I find great music by randomly buying second-hand CDs from brick-and-mortar secondhand stores, thanks to this triple-curation,
Sounds like the problem with book shops in Australia is just Amazon.
It looks like the other blog post linked to about the photos of the Russian Empire is behind a paywall, but the original Prokudin-Gorskii collection is available for free at the Library of Congress: https://www.loc.gov/collections/prokudin-gorskii/about-this-...

Unlike these photographs from Japan, the ones from the Russian Empire were made with colored photographic plates and they were reassembled into true color photos and restored in the last few decades.

Sadly the photos from the Monsen American west collection seem to be guarded closely by Princeton and are not viewable to the public without requesting physical access. https://findingaids.princeton.edu/catalog/C1539

Edit: Looks like much of the Monsen Ethnographic Indian Photographs Portfolio can be found in the Huntington digital library: https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/collection/p15150coll2/se... - content warning!
> The (as yet unproven) argument for the use of AIs is that using AI to solve simpler problems allows us humans to focus on the big picture, in the same way that letting a calculator solve arithmetic gives us flexibility to understand the math behind the arithmetic.

And I can tell you from experience that "letting a calculator solve arithmetic" (or more accurately, being dependent on a calculator to solve arithmetic) means you cripple your ability to learn and understand more advanced stuff. At best your decision turned you into the equivalent of a computer trying to run a 1GB binary with 8MB of RAM and a lot of paging.

> No one knows if that's true. We're running a grand experiment: the next generation will either surpass us in grand fashion using tools that we couldn't imagine, or will collapse into a puddle of ignorant consumerism, a la Wall-E.

It's the latter. Though I suspect the masses will be shoved into the garbage disposal than be allowed to wallow in ignorant consumerism. Only the elite that owns the means of production will be allowed to indulge.
What a clown. Luddite level of policy making, inspired by "Ron Vara" aka Peter Navarro, who in a Kafkian fashion quoted himself as a backing for his lunatic theories.
The CDC is still not recommending the vaccine for people over 45.
China is not communist in anything but name. They are an authoritarian capitalist country with social policies.
What we all know as Docker and containers is really just fancy chroot.

On non Linux systems, it's fancy chroot inside a Linux VM.
Oh, right. Well, that's easy: it's an orange site.

I've seen it typically (though not universally) used seemingly dismissively, so I've always assumed it was a euphemism. People very commonly refrain from naming a thing directly if they disapprove.

Disclaimer: I'm no mind reader.
China used to be lagging behind in all areas. Now it is not.

The US pre-WW1 was an isolationist nation with few I'd any exports, not the global manufacturing powerhouse it became afterwards.

Things change and always change.
None of what I said is happening. It's more likely that we spend a trillion on clean energy, in part on china.
Minority Report reaches Majority status, so-to-speak...
This should be on the FAQ. I was trying to find out if it was 100% processed locally.
Version 1 (I got a framework 12 and so far have only swapped the screen). Now that I think of it, which one is the official EQ for?
Humans struggle to find meaning where there is none to find.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia
I think both makes sense, different times/contexts require different solutions. Maybe when the project started, the idea was loosely defined, so being able to change large parts quickly are favored over ideal performance.

But as the idea and project cements itself, you start to see exactly where the biggest flaws are, and you might draw the conclusion that a lot of problems could be fixed at the ORM layer, so you opt for working on that.

Maybe it would have been obvious from the beginning, but chances are the people working on the codebase initially had a very different idea of what exactly is the ideal design, compared to later on in the lifetime of the project.