skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i think it's both, and more. i didn't read the ending as particularly opinionated about how 'real' the depicted emulation was, though i do think it had a decidedly hopeful tinge. the idea that we might somehow, in some way get the opportunity to do it over, to do it right, even if weird/contingent/incomplete, has i think a mythic resonance that transcends strict bounds of realism. even in a fully fantastic utopian afterlife unmediated by technology there would still be the question of whether this is 'really real': ontological, psychologically, etc. nonetheless, there are levels of unreality many seem willing to accept, the ending of 'inception' being another paradigmatic film example. i guess my perspective is that many aspects of 'real life' also abut artifice and pantomime (a phenomena not unrelated to the feelings of regret inspiring desire for strictly-impossible second chances), and the decision to accept anything as 'real' is always contains an element of tenuousness, uncertainty, and faith.
> same. super convenient to be able to go to photos.[domain].com for my photos. the immich android app is great too.
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> cloudflare tunnels is a game changer, I can't believe it's free.

Could you explain cloudflare tunnels are secure. I understand not punching holes through one's firewall and dealing with a residential connection that's often targeted for exploits. However, if one targets the tunnel endpoint to exploit is it more secure even though it's still exposed to the public?
Any Julians comment?

Having seen Julia proposed as the nemesis of R (not python, that too political, non-lispy)

>the creator of the R programming language, Ross Ihaka, who provided benchmarks demonstrating that Lisp’s optional type declaration and machine-code compiler allow for code that is 380 times faster than R and 150 times faster than Python

(Would especially love an overview of the controversies in graphics/rendering)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42785785
I wonder if any ancient Greeks leveled this same criticism at Aesop’s Fables.
The first point seems just wrong. An executable bit of code vs an executable bit of code with other bits of code next to it, doesn't change the security of the overall security tooling

And you can have a container with only one file, the executable, in docker/podman easily: https://docs.docker.com/build/building/base-images/#create-a...

So this feels double wrong already.

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No citations for the majority of it either.
I'm sure you laughed at the words and sentences GPT-2 generated.
I am working on a system at present where the data scientist has done the calculations in an R script. We agreed upon an input data.frame and an output csv as our 'interface'.

I added the SQL query to the top of the R script to generate the input data.frame and my Python code reads the output CSV to do subsequent processing and storage into Django models.

I use a subprocess running Rscript to run the script.

It's not elegant but it is simple. This part of the system only has to run daily so efficiency isn't a big deal.
Mahmoud Khalil hasn't been deported (yet) but he was absolutely black-bagged and sent to Lousiana pending deportation, despite being a lawful permanent resident and not being accused of any criminal conduct [1]. His crime? Involvement in pro-Palestinian protests [2].

You are correct that, to the best of our knowledge, no pro-Palestinian protestor has thus far been deported to El Salvador.

The precedent here is what's important, meaning the government is arguing that they have the right to deport anyone they want for pretty much any reason and put them in a foreign prison indefinitely.

The legal justification for all this is an over 200 year old law called the Alien and Seditions Act and a declared state of emergency and invasion/incursion by a Venezuelan gang, something which has gotten at least some support from the Supreme Court [3].

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has basically come out and said that Khalil is being deported for his views. If these people don't have rights to free speech and due process then nobody does.

[1]: https://apnews.com/article/mahmoud-khalil-columbia-universit...

[2]: https://www.axios.com/2025/03/09/ice-arrests-palestinian-act...

[3]: https://www.livenowfox.com/news/supreme-court-lifts-order-bl...
So there is no built in "public view"? How disappointing.
Kennedy Wants Causes of Autism Solved by September
A friend of mine curated Black Mirror for me. I've got a lot tolerance for horror.

She showed me San Junipero and Hang the DJ. And then we were done.
The old Marxists would say it's because Russia doesn't have an empire (outside the meager pickings of own immediate periphery) providing a trading network, access to cheap foreign labor and resources etc. as a buffer to its own domestic economy. Not sure how statistically verifiable that is, since the classical Marxian economic model doesn't seem to apply cleanly to the modern US or China.

Random anecdote, Russians arguably produce the world's best gaming mods. Their unpaid amateur programmers put out content that rivals or exceeds the quality of Western games, if you like doomer-y 90s vibes. An example would be Fonline 2236 (some Russian guy hacked Fallout 1 and 2 into a free, working MMO) or the Skyrim mod for DayZ, which I think is dead now and I needed a translator app to play before the current war started but was the best online RPG experience I've had since Ultima Online.
You sound very certain of yourself. Yet you cite no evidence at all except your gut feeling. Let's review these so-called "poorly considered claims":

(2014) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24845118/

"Evidence suggests that alterations in mitochondrial morphology, brain energy metabolism, and mitochondrial enzyme activity may be involved in the pathophysiology of different neuropsychiatric disorders"

(2021) https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8291901/

"we provide a focused narrative review of the currently available evidence supporting the involvement of mitochondrial dysfunction in mood disorders"

(2022) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36181925/

"Increasing experimental evidence supports a role for mitochondrial dysfunctions in neuropsychiatric disorders. "

(2024) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01497...

"We summarize the existing literature on mitochondrial dynamics perturbations in psychiatric disorders/neuropsychiatric phenotypes"

While psychology today ain't a scientific journal, they provide an excellent summary, providing that evidence is both widespread and well known.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-therapy-center/2...

Dr. Chris Palmer's book "Brain Energy" is a good introduction to the body of research. Dozens of pages of citations, you can judge for yourself how well-considered they are. - "Mitochondrial dysfunction has been found in a wide range of diagnoses that include pretty much every symptom found in psychiatry".

"Pretty much every symptom" is not going hard enough. There has yet to be a single psychiatric symptom that isn't theoretically and empirically linked to metabolic dysfunction. The only symptoms he left out were the ones which have no published research!

And finally, just this week Forbes had a feature about it. Again, not a sci journal but there's enough interest to name it the "quiet revolution underway in psychiatry".
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jessepines/2025/04/05/could-mit...

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Do you still feel that the metabolic theory of mental illness is an unbelievable claim, poorly considered?

It may not be THE only answer. But at the very least, this theory is well supported with decades of research and deserves serious consideration.
At the Circle K they have the option of doing self checkout by putting all your items under a camera and the register will automagically count 'em up and assess your total. I keep wondering if it's done by AI -- All Indians. Same with the OCR ATMs do on cheques.
A lot of computer literacy parallels between today's 15-to-30 year olds and the 45+ folks around me when I grew up engrossed in computing. They're making the same mistakes, having trouble with the same kinds of things, and lack the same mental models that the "old people" lacked back when I was growing up.
> A format function that arbitrarily executes code from within a format string

So, a template? I certainly ain't gonna be using go for its mustache support.
I remember when this happened, it was in the news then, except the conversation was everyone in SV was doing it, including Google. They decided not to. We don't convict for thinking about robbing a bank, you actually have to attempt it and nothing being discussed was explicitly illegal, merely unethical by some arguments, but then again, NSA has several listening posts at AT&T hubs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A), and Apple is building backdoors for iCloud in the UK, its the cost of doing business in western countries, that ethically its simply complying with local laws at that point, just degrees of magnitude.
also the o isn't just a spelling difference it is a pronunciation difference
It's funny, you are kidding, with the impending death and such, but having it be able to look at what you are seeing seems useful to me. E.g., "How do I work this contraption?"
That tracks. Ruby followed in the footsteps of Perl, which had string manipulation as a main priority for the language.
Show HN: Word Synth – live adjust sampling parameters on tiny LLM
Home project I wasn't sure I'd be able to deploy--apologies if it breaks! Thought it was kind of a fun way to learn about sampling
Interesting. I don't see any iOS support, and unfortunately it doesn't seem to be maintained.
Are you willing to bet that it wouldn't work reliably in a year, 2 years, 5 years?
I've been to a few ripley's believe it or not museums. A little touristy, but it seems like a pro/commercial-level mismash.

Things I remember:

- a picture of Bill Clinton painted in hamburger grease.

- a "roller toilet seat" to prevent people from standing on the seat.

- an image of steve jobs made entirely of black and white keyboard keys (pc keyboards lol)
One of these days soon we can all stop calling LLMs “ai” and pretending that agi is a thing.

Statistics and a shit language (English) do not an ai system make.
It would make it pretty hard for the judiciary to be a coequal check on the other branches if its power ended at the border.
You can't upload code files (.java files, build.gradle files, etc) on the web UI, which makes it 100% worthless for my dev flow. I'm not interested in integrating it with my IDE or installing CLI tools, I want to just upload relevant code and get results.
Yep, you can see them on the browse page: https://stickrz.org/browse

I'm still working out some of the kinks, so any feedback is super helpful
> It means that anything strange that happens next isn't a language bug.

This is even more vague. The language is getting blamed regardless. This makes no sense.
IRIX 6.5.17 Source Code
That may or may not be the case, but either way it's still valid to criticize that approach, in favor of a more nuanced and potentially more effective one.

Like, maybe that's the show the creators wanted to make. I'm not certain about that, but it's a valid premise. But then maybe I would prefer if the show was a bit different regardless of that. That's always allowed.
Could someone explain more why this should be a language feature?

My understanding of template strings is they are like f-strings but don't do the interpolation bit. The name binding is there but the values are not formatted into the string yet. So effectively this provides a "hook" into the stringification of the interpolated values, right?

If so, this seems like a very narrow feature to bake into the language... Personally, I haven't had issues with introducing some abstraction like functions or custom types to do custom interpolation.
Amazon didn't raise money from credulous investors. Alphabet's Waymo was also having humans take over for some of the driving as well.

And everyone knows that ChatGPT Pro is exclusively powered by capuchin monkeys.
Now we need to debate about the energy consumption of humans cosplaying as AI agents in the Philippines
Tbh, I just really hate the term "undefined behavior". It really feels like laziness in terms of what the possible damage might entail.
We ended up here because we have a propensity to share our creative outputs, and keep our laundry habits to ourselves. If we instead went around bragging about how efficiently we can fold a shirt, complete with mocap datasets of how it's done, we'd have gotten the other kind of AI first.
As another commenter observed, having to trust a decompiler doesn't reduce the amount of trust you need to provide, it increases it. Reducing the amount of trust is our high-level goal, remember?

But let's not focus too hard on the logic side of your argument. The part that really convinced everyone that you're right was your opening statement, "Not a programmer, are you?". From that moment it was clear that you were taking the discussion to a higher plane, far above boring everyday logic.

Like a superhero, really. At least, that's how I picture you.
This is why you don't kneel to dictators. The only reason this has gotten so far is because people think they will give an inch and Trump won't try to take a mile. Do not forget that actual white supremacist are in high ranking positions of the US govt. "Antisemitism" is just a Trojan horse they use to justify their power grabs. They do not care about antisemitism.
> 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

No, it is to fully audit the binary of a compiler itself, if you don't trust a decompiler, learn to read machine code, the output from a simple C compiler tend to pretty predictable.

> manual review labor repeated by every user that wishes to distrust the maintainers.

Yes? What's wrong with that? Anyone wishes to distrust, you give them the tools and knowledge to verify the process, the more people able to do this the better.
If you're looking for a pretty well supported ARM based Linux laptop. The Thinkpad x13s can be found for a decent price on ebay and it is powerful enough for general use.
> It's biggest strength is that it's both accessible and has a slot for an M.2 NVME and a SATA drive so you can have a safe backup in one spot.

If you want to increase the resiliency of your data, look up the 3-2-1 backup strategy (and maybe also RAID).
Fraud aside, how do people invest so much money into something without doing their diligence on the product? Reading the indictment looks like there were many red flags, like not giving access to the "automation rate dashboard".

Not defending the actions of the CEO, but c'mon.
> Yes, it can cite sources, just like any other major LLM service out there.

Let's see an example:

Ask if america was ever a democracy and tell us what it uses as sources to evaluate its ability to function. Language really shows its true colors when you commit to floating signifiers.

I asked gemini "was america ever a democracy"? And it confidently responded "While the ideal of democracy has always been a guiding principle in the United States", which is a blatant lie, and provided no sources. The next prompt, "was america every a democracy? Please cite sources" gives a mealy-mouthed reply hedging on the definition of democracy... which it refuses to cite. If I ask it "will america ever be democratic" it just vomits up excuses about democracy being a principal and not measurable. With no sources. Etc. this is not a useful tool for things humans already do well. This is a PR megaphone with little utility outside of shitty copy editing.
> that no bad actor was involved

Actually no, Blue Shield is the bad actor here.

Why, again, is this necessary at all? What is the rationale for analytics somewhere that deals with private health data?
Toxic positivity. Some of us just enjoy dark fiction. Let us be.
What I've done is just set aside a percentage of my paycheck to go towards democratic lawyers fighting this as well as get involved in protest locally. Connect with your local community.
It's not full operational control. A consent order means you promise to comply with some stuff. The government will monitor you if you comply or not. In that sense, it's some form of indirect control, but it's far from full control.
Great analogy. Expensive toys that look impressive but you'll spend 90% of your time fiddling instead of getting anything useful done with it.
Sweet, thanks for letting me know!
Except after he came out with the "insane higher tariffs that will ruin the economy" and then did the "go back to a lower level and capitulate" that was mostly for smaller trading partners.

At the same time he massively raised tariffs on China, and since the US imports so much from there the net result is the total tariffs on imports in the US after the "go back" step will be higher than if he had stuck with the "insane higher tariffs that will ruin the economy".
Not to mention that I can:
- Create a bucket and store 1MB in it without any overhead
- Create 50 buckets with strong perimeters around them such that someone deleting the entire account doesn’t bring down the other 49
- Create a bucket and fill it with terabytes of data within seconds and don’t need to wait for hardware to be racked and stacked
- Create a bucket, fill it with 2TB of data, and delete it tomorrow

Cloud is more than bare metal, but plenty of folks discount the cost benefits of elasticity.
Gemini 2.5 Pro is very competitive with o1/o1-pro in reasoning and has a larger maximum context. It also just rolled out Deep Research which is also very competitive (perhaps even better) than Open AI's.
In many languages, f-strings (or f-string like constructs) are only supported for string literals, not user-supplied strings.

When compiling, those can be lowered to simple string concatenation, just like any for loop can be lowered to and represented as a while.
You’re confusing the GDPR and the ePrivacy directive. (And maybe getting that wrong too. I’ve read the GDPR but not the ePrivacy directive. Oh, and IANAL.)

The GDPR doesn’t require consent for cookies. What it requires is a lawful basis for tracking people’s personal information. Most of those lawful bases don’t require consent either.

The only time the GDPR requires consent is when somebody wants to collect your personal information and they don’t have a good reason to do so. Then they have to ask, they have to make it easy for you to decline, and they have to make it easy for you to withdraw your consent later. They also can’t withhold anything from you if you decline. They can’t charge more for their services, block it from your access, etc.

That’s what the GDPR has to say about consent. Nothing to do with those cookie banners, which are the result of scummy companies doing scummy things.
Emoji selector is fast and works perfectly fine over SSH, it's no different to any other input method that needs to use characters beyond 7-bit ASCII.

grep is a bit more iffy. UNIX command line tools seem to be a bit of a crapshoot in how or if they support Unicode, especially if you switch between different systems like Linux, BSD, Cygwin etc. You might need a bit of experimenting with the LANG variable to get it work (e.g. Git Bash on Windows needs LANG=C.UTF16 to match an emoji). I've also had cases where grep or sed works, but awk doesn't, or vice versa. On the whole it works a lot better nowadays than it used to, though, and that's a win for non-English users of the command line as well as emoji fans.
>it seems to be even faster
>runs locally

This is obviously a lie. If this was true, all the inference provider companies would go to zero. I support open-source as much as the next guy here, but it's obvious that the local version will be slower or break more often. Like, come on guys. Be real.

To illustrate this, M4 Max chips do 38 TOPS in FP8. An NVIDIA H100 does 4,000 TOPS.

Prakash if you're going to bot our replies, at least make it believable.
Tried to Cancel Adobe. Got Ghosted. Now I Owe $500
Adobe raised my subscription mid contract by almost $30/month, then told me it’d cost $500 to cancel. So naturally, I entered the customer support hunger games. I open the chat, pour my soul out and mid sentence they just vanish. Every. Single. Time. No goodbye. No “we value your feedback.” Just a soft digital fart and an empty chat box. I’m not even mad anymore, I’m impressed. I’ve never been held hostage by an app before.

So yeah, I bought Affinity and DaVinci like a recently divorced dad getting into cycling. I’m free now. I export TIFFs recreationally. I sleep with one eye open in case Creative Cloud tries to update in my dreams.

Adobe doesn’t sell software, they sell trauma.

https://old.reddit.com/r/graphic_design/comments/1jvv14h/tried_to_cancel_adobe_got_ghosted_now_i_owe_500/
AWS just reduced prices on One Zone Express today.
The landing page doesn’t display well with mobile. Also, this got flagged for some reason.
Words to know:

Anocracy - Imitation democracy

Kakistocracy - Least fit rulers

Kleptocracy - Thieving rulers

Kratocracy - Government by the strong

Neocracy - Government by amateurs

Ochlocracy - Mob rule

Plutocracy - Rule by the rich, subset of oligarchy
They are the target market for this
What's the risk of user supplied strings? Surely you know their size. What else is there to worry about?
The world is run by people with no ability beyond being able to 'talk a big game.' Business promotes people with no ability beyond being able to 'talk a big game.' Investors fund people with no ability beyond being able to 'talk a big game.' It's all talk and bullshit, all the way up the totem pole.
Am I the only one wishing I could see the original afterwards, for comparison?
can't edit anymore, but I had a typo, made up expert was named Ron Vara
You can see some motivations for it further down the document. Basically it allows libraries to access the ease of use of f-strings for more than just formatting a string according to what the language allows. Structured logging is one area where I would like to use this.
That's a subplot of the movie Shooting Fish. Selling AI computers that are really a human to scam investors.
Accusing Israel of genocide is very often antisemitic, though, since it typically involves holding Jews to a different standard than everyone else.

Why do you presume that it is obviously not a bigoted assertion?
They're listing the use cases where a 10-20% hallucination rate isn't a big deal. They can't advertise the truly useful applications of the tech because it's not reliable enough (yet).

But they can make it more reliable over time by deploying the product now and training on user data:

> Google collects your chats (including recordings of your Gemini Live interactions), what you share with Gemini Apps (like files, images, and screens), related product usage information, your feedback, and info about your location. (...)

> Google uses this data, consistent with our Privacy Policy, to provide, improve, and develop Google products and services and machine-learning technologies, including Google’s enterprise products such as Google Cloud.

https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/13594961?hl=en
Sadly they have a waiting list
> Not knowing SDL feels like someone having no idea what C++ or Unreal Engine is.

I've literally never even heard the term SDL before this. I would say that it's nowhere near the same class of ubiquity as the other two examples you gave.
Sounds like they need to play along with the rules, then.
I 'vouched' for your comment because the actual content doesn't seem out of place to me. My guess is that users flagged it solely because it was all lowercase, and informal (the last part, that is).

HN has Reddit-anxiety: people here want to avoid comments that are too casual, jokey, meme-y, 'meta', etc. Anyhow, welcome!