skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The search for water in outer space, and other life-sustaining elements, has ulterior motives.

I believe that the search for alien life is subordinate to the search for things that will sustain human life and/or industry, as we expand further outwards.

Most scientists and engineers don’t actually expect to encounter significant alien life in our solar system, and it’s merely a meme they use to tease middle-schoolers, Senators, CEOs, and naïve newspaper readers. Searching and discovering life forms would be really really fraught with terror and doom, if we indeed expected to find it when we looked.

Any natural resource that exists on a moon of Jupiter, or of Saturn or in the Asteroid Belt, and if we can exploit it and extract it and turn it into something useful, for example refueling, or life support, or repairing existing vehicles en route, or simply dragging raw materials back down the gravity well to Earth, then that is a natural resource we’ll want to investigate as we expand. Dyson spheres won’t be built in a day, but we’ll need a good start on the resource extractions real soon now.

This is the quiet part they won’t say out loud, because it’s much more exciting and non-threatening to say we’re looking for alien life forms rather than sustaining our own self-interest. But it’s all about self-interest when it comes to humans.
Same here. A main point of I, Robot was to show why the three laws don't work.
I'm talking about salt water diesel engine regulations that had essentially no lead in.

The benefits may be clear, but that still side steps the question of to whom the cost and benefits accrue.

>Remember, your freedom ends where mine begins.

Yes, and this boundary is perpetually in dispute. The question is always who draws the line and how change is managed.
It's in UTC. The previous data from 2022 is available here: https://gist.github.com/susam/159c7d92659b3185eb0b0d683998a3...

In the current graphs, the x-axis represents the hour of the day in UTC. For example, the first graph shows 43 connections between 10:00 UTC and 11:00 UTC, 407 connections between 11:00 UTC and 12:00 UTC, and so on.

Previously, the first graph showed the number of hours elapsed since the experiment began (which started at 10:14 UTC). That's likely what you saw earlier today. After reading your question, I updated the graph to display the actual hour of the day (in UTC) instead of elapsed time, making the time of the day clearer. Thanks for the great question!
You approaching this the wrong way. What you are listing as disadvantages is, for the most part, the USP.

For example, if you are in the target group, you buy it exactly because it does not uses AR glasses; If you are proficient, you are sleepwalking the damage/distance/all other calculations within seconds in your head, you don’t even have to take a single look at any rule book. The biggest selling point, however is: there are others sitting in front of you, it can be very competitive, you can see the reaction, like in chess.
Reminds me of a quiz tournament that I participated in once, where the answer was “Apollo 11” (eleven), but the host thought the answer read “Apollo Two” and told us we were incorrect.
the hope is people delete it because it's just a "privacy notification"
Is SDL2 just something that everyone is expected to know what it is? I was thinking it was about a Software Development Lifecycle on Mac0S9, but it clearly isn't... but there is no where in this post or that page that explains what SDL2 is.
Updating an aligned pointer is atomic. If you haven’t tagged it by moving bits to a neighboring word.
That doesn't sound like the case for MCP though. It sounds like when implementing an MCP server there is a difference between the three transport methods that requires different code on the server.

This is a problem solved by other protocols that are just stacked on top of eachother without knowing how eachother work.
Usually because something looks spammy. The most common reason for this complaint is that somebody posts links to their personal blog and nothing but their personal blog.

I think 404media has a low level of regard on HN

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=404media.co

Not least because most of their content is behind a registerwall which is particularly ironic because 95% of what they write about is something privacy sensitive or about sex, I want to register to read that stuff about as much as I want to register for a porn site. If it is not that it is the kind of breathless political stuff that will wind up [dead] in a few minutes.

My biggest complaint about them is that they leaked a list of web sites being monitored by ICE to Google Docs so in the process of my viewing that list Google recorded that I read the document and now it appears in my feed when I use Google. Google is on that list so if I'm paranoid I have to assume ICE contractors know I read that list, great work 404 media!
Interesting, I've seen lots of 404 submission [dead] and assumed that was why. I notice that the link you posted above is not paywalled but the dead one is, though I'd be surprised if that's actually detected somehow.
I'm like that too, but I don't think it transfers particularly well to LLMs. The problem is that you can just skip straight to the answer and ignore the explanation (if it even produces one).

It would be pretty neat if there was an LLM that guides you towards the right answer without giving it to you. Asking questions and possibly giving small hints along the way.
Good. Hope Blue Shield gets the same treatment but they'll just pass the costs to their customers
S3 doesn't have "transparently-replicated dual-region object storage", which was part of the claim.

S3 does have replication, but it is far from transparent and frought with gotchas.

And it certainly doesn't have all of that with a single API.
The full URL gets sent to the server on connection. You could break this out from the link, at which point you're back to sharing a password to share a password.
There is a central configuration, see here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43642743
I really wish templates didn't work on a dumb "replace at call site until something compiles" manner.

All template requirements should be verified at the function definition, not at every call site.

There is concepts. But they are so unwieldy.
Why half of Kubernetes and AWS look like technogies to support... themselves instead of shipping a new product such as LXC/LXD?

Most of the current technologies can be virtualized, and with LVM snapshots are a breeze, even extending media it's perfectly done. There's no need to use half-backed namespaces when kernel-level deduplition for memory pages exist when you run similar parallel VM's.

I find virtualisation far easier than containers. Not as fast to deploy, sure; but far more manageable for rollbacks.
He cites his sources:

https://notjustbikes.com/references/firetrucks.txt

Re: the Baltimore FD

https://www.baltimoresun.com/2018/07/03/baltimore-city-counc...

And yes, the exception was granted just a few months later:

https://baltimorefishbowl.com/stories/city-council-passes-bi...

Even this article cites the fire department objections.

It's a shame that Not Just Bikes didn't seem to catch that the lane _did_ get built, but his point seemed to focus on FDs objecting to bike lanes, and I think that Baltimore story is a prime example of that.
In Greenland
https://archive.ph/2025.04.07-161023/https://www.lrb.co.uk/t...
That article isn't registerwalled, it's also a good quality article, not sensationalistic, not breathless, not about sex.
I dunno, I found those cinematics to be pretty endearing. Sure, they've aged like mud, but I enjoyed the back in the early 2000's :) They stayed well clear of the uncanny valley.
All the big social media platforms were around when this started. The dominance wasn't in full swing yet but it only took a few years for vbulletin and everything else to dwindle.
Not everyone that programs is versed in decompiling, digital forensics, reverse engineering, etc.

Anyway, so your means of forming trust in a compiler faithfully compiling code, is to trust a decompiler to faithfully generate human readable source code followed by a lot of manual review labor repeated by every user that wishes to distrust the maintainers.

Okay, but a decompiler could be backdoored as easily as a compiler to hide malicious code vs inject it .

How do you get a decompiler you trust more than the compiler you are reviewing? Do you decompile the decompiler with itself? Back at the trusting trust problem.

Decompilers are way more complex than anything in the hex0->tinycc bootstrap path.
> But why 4 times?

When I originally shared this in 2022, it was just a comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30146019#30146451

I didn't expect it to get much attention, so I went with four beeps. I felt that a set of four beeps spread over three seconds would be long enough to grab my attention, even if I was busy with something else.

Also, as another commenter pointed out, a sequence of four beeps is distinctive enough that it doesn't get lost among the stray, ordinary beeps I might hear while working in a terminal or Emacs (like from hitting backspace or pressing ctrl+g, etc.).
Europe worries about Americans that don't leave the country.

Americans who travel to Europe (have a passport) are rarely the 'T%%' shirt or 'Maggi' Cap-wearing kind. If anything, traveling Americans have always been known for their ample smiles, friendly nature, unbridled enthusiasm, and positivity/sunny outlook.

[Recent actions by the current administration did help unify Europe, but they mostly feel sorry for us. Anyone part of the group stuck in the 'faux news' bubble may have a bad time, because nothing they've been told turns out to be true...]
U-571 was OK, but a disappointment overall.
If you use a synology NAS their OS (Diskstation Manager) supports this via their Photos[1] and Moments[2] apps

[1] https://www.synology.com/en-global/dsm/feature/photos
[2] https://www.synology.com/en-global/dsm/feature/moments
Less fun fact: you can't substitute a <cr><nl> for <nl>.

I had a Perl script (way) back in the day that came from a Windows system and it wouldn't work on Linux. After I figured out <cr><nl> was causing the problem, I figured it out what bin_script (might have been in bin_misc) was doing wrong. bin_script sees "/bin/perl<cr>" and then fails to find that interpreter.

So I proposed a one line change which fixed the glitch and posted it to LKML … and promptly got yelled at by Allan Cox for breaking compatibility. I dunno if the null byte breaks the same compatibility. Chapter and verse weren't cited.
Timoni ticked so many boxes for me. Hoe does this compare?
On the other hand San Francisco has these giant articulated aerial ladder trucks. European trucks reach the same ladder heights on much smaller trucks by having more telescoping segments on the ladder.

I wouldn't be surprised if at least some of it is a feedback loop: wide streets mean fire trucks can be big, big fire trucks mean streets have to be big (even if only the streets the fire department cares about)
>"Vehicles" is really stretching it.

Only if you don't agree with the definition of vehicle.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2024/07/21/heres-how-d...

Basically speeches/debates/mini campaign before the convention, and the delegates vote at the convention without regard for the original primary.
It was posted [dead] and vouched.
This is what OP is referring to in case you haven’t been enlightened https://youtu.be/y8OnoxKotPQ?si=JAK5iPMcG1yoAhiT
On [2] you conveniently left out the key quote: "minority groups and poorer students." why are you against helping out disadantaged people whatever their stripes?

On [3] it was found to be unlawful so your assertion that "It's legal to be racist against white people" careers headlong into reality that no, it's not.

As for the west yorkshire story, do you not want the police to be representative of the area they serve? There are far more white men than there are as a proportion of the local population.

It feels like you're grasping at straws here.
Strongly agree.

This seems to be very hard for people to accept, per the other comments here.

Until recently I was willing to accept an argument that perhaps LLMs had mostly learned the patterns; e.g. to maybe believe 'well there aren't that many really different leetcode questions'.

But with recent models (eg sonnet-3.7-thinking) they are operating well on such large and novel chunks of code that the idea they've seen everything in the training set, or even, like, a close structural match, is becoming ridiculous.
Almost everything we learn in schools, universities, most jobs, history, news, hackernews, etc is literally human-generated text. Our brains have an efficient structure to learn language, which has evolved over time, but the processes of actually learning languages happens after you are born, based on human-generated text/voice. Things like balance/walking, motion control, speaking (physical voice control), other physical things are trained on sensory data, but there's no reason LLMs/AIs can't be trained on similar data (and in many cases they already are).
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Hey, it’s less than a three hour drive from Seattle to the Apple Store in Vancouver.
Calendar apps expose all of the weird edge cases in dates and times. For a specific instance of a specific event that never needs to move, TAI will work. However, suppose that you schedule a meeting for 28 March at 13:00. You then move that meeting forward a week, crossing a DST switch. If you simply add 604800 seconds to the TAI, that meeting will be at 14:00, which is surprising. OK, easy enough to solve; convert the TAI back to the local timezone, add 7 to the day field (carrying into month and year, as needed), and you're good to go. Now suppose that the meeting was set up in the US, and you realized that you needed to reschedule the meeting while you were travelling in Germany. You get back to the US, and suddenly the meeting is an hour early, because DST rules aren't universal.

Worse, imagine a recurring meeting, every week at noon. You've got the TAI for the original instance, but as you cross a DST boundary, some places will shift according to DST and others won't, and thus you have half the attendees showing up at the wrong time.

Finally, TAI introduces the leap second bug for calendars. When you schedule a meeting for noon next year, you want that to happen at noon, not now plus however many seconds. If a leap second is introduced, you don't want that meeting to happen at one second before or after noon.

TBH, if you find yourself in a situation where you need to deal with calendar events, I recommend updating your CV.
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The percentage of the population smoking weed has also roughly doubled in that time, as another likely contributing factor
Trustworthy AI Without Trusted Data
As far as libraries go, this one is pretty well known. If you ever need to make a small game or custom gui, it's fairly easy to pick, very performant and very portable.
You don't need very many terabytes to cover the labor cost of installing and maintaining an S3-compatible server program.
New White House AI Policies Introduce Government by AI
The comments here all suggesting different arcane and complicated stacks of different devops solutions and certificates and configurations and services has me somewhat despairing that such a COMMON usecase is still so annoyingly obtuse.
Refining Var Handles in Valhalla
If it's sanctioned, it's sanctioned. It's a simple math. It's seldom caused by mistake.

I'm in EU, on top of mandatory regulations of not dealing with sanctioned nations, strictly regulated finance (including insurance), constant mandatory trainings for employees, obligatory sanction list checks for individuals, we entered a phase that any company could be forced to let whole business in another country go.

Sold for cheap, not to mention IP and know-how left there. You gotta do what you gotta do.
This is great - I used to use R all the time when I worked in finance and wish I had this resource back then!

R and RMarkdown were big inspirations for what we're building at evidence.dev now, so very grateful to everyone involved in the R community
The 6502's lack of registers is one point of view.

Another point of view is that the zero page provides 256 registers:

https://spectrum.ieee.org/q-a-with-co-creator-of-the-6502-pr...

"[Bill Mensch]:Rod Orgill and I had completed the designs of a few microprocessors before the 6501/6502. In other words, Rod and I already knew what was successful in an instruction set. And lower cost was key. So we looked at what instructions we really needed. And we figured out how to have addressable registers by using zero page [the first 256 bytes in RAM]. So you can have one byte for the op code and one byte for the address, and [the code is compact and fast]. There are limitations, but compared to other processors, zero page was a big deal."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38627821

http://forum.6502.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=7304
How is a pen tool in Photoshop equivalent to an AI that can perform your entire job at a lower cost remotely similar? There are levels to this, and I don't think the same old platitudes apply.
I assume "not sensationalistic, not breathless, not about sex" is not something an automated HN filter can flag. Or paywalls, for that matter.
Are you calling Linux a UNIX? I mean GNU/Linux is certainly a UNIX-like system, but aren't "UNIXes" typically used to refer to operating systems which stem from AT&T's UNIX, such as the BSDs and Solaris and HP-UX and the like? GNU's Not UNIX after all
>America wont have unions nor consumer protections.

Why not? I would vote for it.

IDK how consumer protections fits into this, but avoiding crypto scams is pretty easy, just don't invest in crypto if you don't know what you're doing. It's only on the utility/monopoly scale that the government needs to be involved in consumer protections. Net Neutrality is a great example of the dems having the right idea.

I think democrats would have a decent chance of winning elections if they abandoned idpol stuff.

>There is no planned change to create protections for low level employees, but there are many changes allowing owners to do whatever. Once competition ranks up, they will be forced to pollute and mistreat workers or go out of business.

Okay, then we'll change regulation to better suit this. The purpose of protectionism is to reduce this competition.

>OK, you want to sacrifice health of some for "spiritual benefit" of others. But those jobs will be as fake as healthier jobs those people have now.

I don't think so. The end purpose of industrial jobs is to produce something real. The purpose of most jobs today is to do literally nothing while acting as a wealth distribution mechanism: our country basically makes money by selling our currency to be used by other nations as the global reserve currency.

David Graeber has a good book about this called "Bullshit Jobs" if you are interested in this theory.
i have a morning routine and the first thing i do is to set a timer to meditate for 5 minutes. i rarely make it to 5 minutes before the thoughts flood in and i decide to go ahead and dive into the work. hadn't thought about making it a counting-up timer instead to track the improvement but i'll be trying that from now on
Neat, I've been using this for a while. Happy to strike off yet another package.
Bsd was long a thing proving you wrong. Yes gpl got more press but the other options existed for long.
OpenAI sues Elon Musk claiming 'bad-faith tactics'
How to Navigate Corporate Politics Without Selling Your Soul
In my experience, most people who say "Hey these tools are kind of disappointing" either refuse to provide a reproducible example of how it falls short, or if they do, it's clear that they're not using the tool correctly.
Well take home exams are not very useful nowadays with AI. And yeah, other commenters are right when he says there's no European mind when it comes to education, each country does its own thing.
EQ-Bench 3 Claude-3.5-sonnet Results
@wicket you made your account on my birthday.

It runs on original hardware :)
I'm working on an image viewer application to run on it.
Thankfully it was broadcast in the UK without the laugh track.

Obviously it still wasn't as darkly observant as the movie, but it did have a edge.
Show HN: Chat.md – file as chat interface with editable history [MCP-client]
Hi HN,

I was fed up with chat clients either not supporting MCP for certain models or not being hackable enough.

I envisioned a markdown file that is a serial format of the chat conversation in which LLM directly streams its response.

I "vibe coded" this vscode extension and found it to be useful. It may have some rough edges but works well in my testing so far. I'm excited to share the result of this exercise.

- Edit past messages of user, assistant or tool responses and have the AI continue from any point. The file editor is the chat interface and the history.
- LLM agnostic MCP support: no restrictions on tool calling on any LLM, even if they don't official support tool calling.
- Press shift+enter to have AI stream its response in the chat.md file which is also the conversation history.
- Tool calls are detected and tool execution results added in the file in an agentic loop.
- Stateless. Switch the LLM provider at any point. Change the MCP tools at any point.
- Put words in LLM's mouth - edit and have it continue from there
- Images are supported, you can use md links to attach images or paste from clipboard directly to the md file.
- Easily share conversations with others.

I've been using it as an agent using gemini-2.5-pro-experimental free version with successful results with MCP servers (such as wcgw MCP).

NOTE: this is still a POC, albeit a fully featured one.
> Pickup truck expansion,

Itself triggered by poorly thought out public policy.

> embracing poor driver controls and visibility,

Appears to somehow be driven by profit motives. I remain perplexed that it works though.
Okay, I don’t believe this actual fascism thing. Have been hearing it for 10 years and things have been fine.
you could easily do this with a spare display and terminal

https://github.com/race604/clock-tui

bonus - i ported this to raspberry pi
https://youtube.com/shorts/rgm8lAlHus4
It is one of the most popular multimedia libraries in the world.

If you want to build a game without using an engine, but don't want to deal with talking to the hardware on your own, SDL is there.
>how do people make money or otherwise sustain themselves in this AI scenario we are facing?

1% of the labour force works in agriculture:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-of-the-labor-force-...

1%

let that number sink in; think about it really means.

And what it means is that at least basic food (unprocessed, no meat) could be completely free. It make take some smart logistics, but it's doable. All of our food is already one step, one small step, away from becoming free for everyone.

This applies to clothes and basic tools as well.
Flash 2.0 has been excellent for its price point for me. And their multimodal work is leading the field. Their top-end foundation models are a bit lacking but they are catching up fast there too.
And one that was sacrificing a few for the good of the species. You can save more future humans by killing a few humans today that are causing trouble.
Worker solidarity works. Whether you agree with the methods or not is irrelevant.
hellboy?
The United States is a conglomeration of French, Spanish, Russian, and British colonies. Then there are immigrants from all over the world. Language translation is a pretty basic service to provide. Especially now that the internet is a thing. The only reason I can think of to limit the entire country to a single language would be bigotry.