skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm more interested in the technical details than the publicity. Pretty much anyone these days can learn what a diffusion model is, how they're implemented, what the control flow is. What about this new multimodal LLM? They have no problems with text, they generate images using tokens, but how exactly? There's no open-source implementations that I know of, and I'm struggling to find details.
Also DERP relays having QOS that isn't controlled by myself and I have to hope to get bandwidth through doesn't exactly make me confident about the solution
How is "movies and other great works of art that used to cost tens of millions of dollars to make now cost tens of dollars to make" a bad thing?

It means art can get more ambitious. Ghibli made their mark, and made their money. Now it's time for the next generation to have a turn.
Thanks for sharing, evidence looks very interesting. Reading the docs, do I understand it right that I need to publish parquet files so that WASM DuckDB could query them. I’m a bit concerned users wholesale downloading all the data.
No need to waste time debunking when the base just believes what they’re told, even in the face of constant contradictory personal experience.
In the end, SpaceX is America’s only reliable way to get to space. It’s great that it’s also cheap considering that. Boeing is, as usual: cheap, fast, good; pick none.
Is this the new HN meta?
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I am surprised there is no policy that would allow inline event handlers set in the initial payload (or stuff emitted by document.write), but neuter any done after initial render by `….setAttribute('on…', …)`.

That would keep "static form" helpers still functional, but disable (malicious) runtime templating.
Lmao what are you on about
What to know about CECOT, El Salvador's mega-prison for [alleged] gang members

CECOT prisoners do not receive visits and are never allowed outdoors. The prison does not offer workshops or educational programs to prepare them to return to society after their sentences.

The prison's dining halls, break rooms, gym and board games are for guards.

[ the human rights organization ] Cristosal reported last year that at least 261 people had died in El Salvador's prisons during the gang crackdown. The group and others have cited cases of abuse, torture and lack of medical attention.

.. the government has shown CECOT prisoners in boxer shorts marching into common areas and made to sit nearly atop each other. Cells lack enough bunks for everyone.

~ https://www.npr.org/2025/03/17/g-s1-54206/el-salvador-mega-p...
It sounds like the entire issue was caused by a design issue with a thruster which had never been used in space before.

Surely one can switch out the thruster for a redesigned one, or even a totally different type of thruster if the team has lost confidence in the design, and be flying again in months?
Win9X isn't an API. Win32 was horrible last I worked with it professionally ~2010. I'm going it bet it's still just as bad because of backwards compatibility concerns.
Depends on the implementation. E.g. Javas HashSets include has the same performance profile as a Map lookup. Its still not particularly performant with large datasets, but significantly less abysmal then a regular JS .includes().

I just didn't want to explore the example to such a depth, as it felt irrelevant to me at the time of writing.
I think this is what the author meant by dividing complex problems in sub problems that are easier to tackle.
I think it speaks to an incredibly pragmatic viewpoint though. When you take a look at your flagship language/ecosystem and you say, "hey, this is great for building entire systems for doctor/patient data... or perhaps even banking software"... but recognize that "it's probably not the best thing for building a compiler/tooling". Google themselves show the same pragmatism when NOT using Go for Android. They prefer Kotlin these days.
> Support for text-wrap: pretty just shipped in Safari Technology Preview, bringing an unprecedented level of polish to typography on the web.

According to caniuse.com, Chrome has had support for this since September 2023. Maybe I'm dumb, but what's so "unprecedented" about this?
My Thinking About Software Organizations Has Evolved
Side note: colors are fine for accessibility, as long as you think in HSL space and vary at least two of those dimensions. As a red/green colorblind person, bright red versus dark green is fine, as is pink versus bright saturated green. No need to go grey.
Former fellow of the "Open Society Institute" i.e. a promulgator of Soros' ideologies.
There's some noise in the process, so you won't get the same results if you ask the same model the same prompt 4 times. Most of the services that do this just ask the same model 4 times with a different random seed, as far as I can tell.
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> should be frowned upon as hard as table-based layouts

I absolutely agree with you. I've been very very keen on CSP for a long time, it feels SO good to know that that vector for exploiting vulnerabilities is plugged.

One thing that's very noticeable: It seems to block/break -a lot- of web extensions. Basically every error I see in Sentry is of the form of "X.js blocked" or "random script eval blocked", stuff that's all extension-related.
Between better insulation[0], and north-south grid connections[1], I'm not sure this is a huge issue.

Yes, there are going to be places like Nuorgam in Finland where a population of 200 may turn out to be non-economical to put on the same suitably upgraded HVDC grid as everyone else, but they're also not getting e.g. a dedicated nuclear reactor any time soon.

Yes, that does still leave oil and gas in such places. Or would, if the oil and gas remained economical to supply internationally when the majority of users worldwide stop using it. Biofuels (e.g. wood in a fireplace) is still a thing, even if not fantastic for either health or environment. I have no idea if we're going to see other long-term chemistry-based solutions, people keep talking about ammonia but it's too far out of my knowledge to argue for or against.

[0] I'm 52° north and for the last 6 months was wearing T-shirts indoors for an average of 17 kWh per day (for everything: heating, hot water, appliances, tech) even though there were a few times I accidentally left a huge window open for hours. It's very well insulated and has a heat pump.

[1] Longer days closer to the equator. North tip of Lapland has 52 days without sunrise in winter[2], but it's just a question of "how much money and what's the cheaper alternative" for a grid connection that ultimately ends up in the Sahara where the winter solstice day length is 10 hours[3].

[2] https://www.finavia.fi/en/newsroom/2023/what-polar-night-exp...

[3] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=Tataouine+sunrise+21+De...
How about the exchange rate padding when you go from crypto to useful currency and back?
> Despite how bad a few modern Islamist societies may be, it is very wrong to write sentences like "Islam started as an imperialist death cult", like they would be true and universally applicable.

I said "started" didn't I? I think the historical record is very clear. I meant during the time of the founder.
Companies hide their employees, especialy the real value adding ones, for fear of them getting poached.
I don't disagree with this either. Capitalism requires a constant stream of new people to operate effectively to increase labor output. This is the system we've been dependent on. We wouldn't need a >2.5 birthrate to maintain all of our water, electrical, and communication systems.
I haven't made up my thinking about this yet. I think first there is the principal question. Is a library deleting content always a violation of free speech? And I think the answer to that question is no. A library comes with an expectation of quality, so they must do do content curation, keeping quality content in and low-quality content out. Those who are not judged to meet the bar are not silenced, they have other options for getting their opinions and material out.

But the harder question is whether this particular material was unfairly singled out or not. If the library is unfairly suppressing quality research then that would be a bad thing. I think what would help me understand the situation in that respect is if someone posted examples of high quality research that was deleted but arguably shouldn't have been.
I like Zig, too. Not sure if it's a Rust alternative as in you still have to manage the memory yourself.

But is much simpler, easier to read, easier to understand, easier to follow and easier to reason about. It's less verbose and more productive.

It feels like what C would look like had it been invented today.
Where I work did an inventory a few years back of their systems and found that we had about the same number of databases (not tables!) as employed engineers, counting all deployed (QA and prod) instances.

The team on that inventory project obviously created a new database to put their data in, plus QA and test replicas. They (probably) have since moved to another DB system but left the old ones running for legacy applications!
My 2 Year Journey to Solve the 30-Year Myth of Faceball 2000 – SSFF [video]
“Cancel culture” was a marketing term by people who were simultaneously trying to ban books and restrict speech, we shouldn’t take it at face value when all it ever meant was that right-wing speakers should be free from social consequences.
One of the possible workarounds would be to just remove the damn header before it causes any further inconvenience. I think they do allow `webRequest` API usage in the store, don't they?
I disagree. Extensive compilations of other scientific research are research themselves.

I can't help but feel like this is the start of a modern equivalent of what happened to the Institut für Sexualwissenschaf, now masked by procedure and law.
A few things:

0. Everyone feels like an imposter, especially in the beginning. I'm sure when you were an intern/junior, you felt like an imposter and got over it by continuing to do the thing.

1. Unless your company culture is toxic, I'd also tell your manager that this is your first managing role and you'd love their advice and ask them to fill in your knowledge gaps.

Being vulnerable like that at work might not feel great, but it's way better than needing to remedy something you messed up because you put on a facade that you know everything.

3. It's totally fine to ask your team about things you don't understand. "How did you do this when Ben was the manager? What worked about it? What didn't?"

4. One of the biggest changes from IC to manager is that it's a lot more difficult to fix things with more effort.

Say you're worried about delivering something late. As an engineer, you can work a late night or two and deliver on time. As a manager, it's much harder to fix issues by deploying more of your own time to them.

This is effectively leverage: Things can go very well without much of your input. But when things are going badly, you also can't fix it with just your own time.

Think about it like you used to be rowing a boat and now you're captaining a small crew sailing vessel: There's a crew that can go further, faster, but it requires working well together.
I can second this. VisX will be a little more effort but it will let you build anything you could build using d3.
So if I replace "answer" with "summarize" that should work then?
It's never that simple, especially when it comes to human spaceflight and NASA procedures. Switching out the thrusters will mean months of safety reviews, tests, updated procedures and flight rules, and endless other paperwork to make sure neither the crew nor the space station are put in any risk.

Not that all that necessarily works - Starliner had already been through all that and the really wild stuff to me is how much NASA was willing to waive their rules about safety around the ISS in order to let Starliner dock.
The sources will start to be redundant eventually. It's actually O(1) once you have looked at all the sources... that there are... in the world. Trivial!
China responses to Trump's 105% taffies with its own 84% tariffs on US goods
Are dark matter and dark energy omnipresent?
To be clear, the difference is something along this line:

$ bash -ec 'echo hello && ls -la /tmp/ | grep systemd && false && echo testing'
hello
drwx------. 3 root root 60 Mar 29 18:33 systemd-private-bluetooth.service-yuSMVM
drwx------. 3 root root 60 Mar 29 18:33 systemd-private-upower.service-YhHHP2

versus

$ bash -euxc 'echo hello; ls -la /tmp/ | grep systemd; false; echo testing'
+ echo hello
hello
+ ls -la /tmp/
+ grep systemd
drwx------. 3 root root 60 Mar 29 18:33 systemd-private-bluetooth.service-yuSMVM
drwx------. 3 root root 60 Mar 29 18:33 systemd-private-upower.service-YhHHP2
+ false

Docker also supports the `SHELL` syntax now, which is even better, because you can set it once at the top of the Dockerfile without having to do the whole `set -eux` on every line.
"Locking down" is almost always a bad approach when it comes to border crossings. You have very little rights at the border, so keeping your phone locked and refusing to divulge the 20 characters password isn't really an option. Even without the threat of detaining you, they can refuse entry (if you're not a citizen/permanent resident), or seize your $1000 phone/laptop. Far better to wipe your phone and restore from backup after you've crossed the border. The article does make a good point that you should seed your wiped phone with signs of activity so it doesn't look freshly wiped.
It is commendable that TS has created a market in an already crowded marketplace of VPN tools. They're competing with Palo Alto, Netskope, Check Point, and Cisco, to name a few.

One key understanding from my brief market experience is that you must build a firewall or router if you really want to own the VPN market. The way the sale is done is that the vendor goes in with the firewall, router, and switch, offering office space connectivity with the infrastructure and various network locations and upselling the VPN. This often accounts for the subpar quality of VPN software. There is a trend called SASE, which includes technologies like TS; people are questioning the enterprise value of SASE. Netskope and Cato Networks are some examples.

I believe that their enterprise journey will be challenging, given the player's extensive experience in upmarket sales. Although TS appears appealing and has potential for improvement, the GTM is entirely unique for enterprise. You need to build reseller network, System integrator partners, high value customizations, etc.

If you decide to embrace the security positioning, you must have a diverse portfolio of products. If you model the org. around Palo Alto et al., you need a huge diversity of products, VPN, hardware, cloud security tools, app security tools, etc., as the ICP (CISO) is trying to optimize their allocated budget. People in enterprise are ok with good enough products as long as they meet compliance standards, fit the budget, and does not disrupt operations.

It could be that they might acquire bunch of companies with this capital.
I prefer to read source code, articles, watch videos or even join a chat channel to discuss and try things out until they work (or understand why they don't work) than fall and consume trash from HypeAI. Heck even if I don't get a solution I prefer to be stuck thinking with paper and pencil.

The only time I did it try it for the very first time was an evening that I was so bored that decided to compare my 3 line Python snippet (of which one of those was the "def" statement) that generates an alternating pulse clock against the output of an "ai" prompt.

The output code I saw kept me thinking about all those poor souls relying on HypeAI to create anything useful.

Not long ago there was a thread about someone proud of a 35k LoC cooking web app entirely made from a prompt. What it kept ringing from that thread was that the author was proud of the total LoC as maybe thought that the more the better. Who knows?
Zig is fantastic, however there are a few issues (mostly related to its immature/wip status):

- the build system is constantly changing in a breaking way (between releases some of the repos I have on GH no longer build and need their build.zig to be updated).

- the comptime section of the docs needs to be heavily expanded, I'd love to see them take common Go interfaces and redo them in Zig (like io.Writer, io.Reader), breaking down the process step-by-step. It took me a little bit longer than it should've to efficiently use comptime.

- a whole section dedicated to things like using WaitGroup and multithreading, for those coming from langs like Go. Also, higher-level concurrency primitives like channels would be fantastic.

- a better import system for external zig libraries, the zig fetch => .dependency => .root_module.addImport stuff is not as straightforward as it should be although for someone coming from C it definitely does feel like using meson

None of these are critical and again, all signs of Zig's "youth".
The greatest conquest during the time of the founder ...

In December 629, after eight years of intermittent fighting with Meccan tribes, Muhammad gathered an army of 10,000 Muslim converts and marched on the city of Mecca. The conquest went largely uncontested, and Muhammad seized the city with minimal casualties.

~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conquest_of_Mecca

hardly sounds like the work of an "an imperialist death cult"
in TFA, it is explained how Chromium only considers the last four lines and aims to only solve one aspect (lone word) and none of rivers, bag rags, hyphenation, etc...

Comparatively:

> WebKit is not the first browser engine to implement, but we are the first browser to use it to evaluate and adjust the entire paragraph. And we are the first browser to use it to improve rag.
You can define it in terms of language as such “whether the journalist uses rhetorical artifacts that distort the information to support his opinion, or not.” (1)

More definitions and discussions can be found in the paper.

1. Francisco-Javier Rodrigo-Ginés, Jorge Carrillo-de-Albornoz, Laura Plaza,
A systematic review on media bias detection: What is media bias, how it is expressed, and how to detect it,
Expert Systems with Applications,
Volume 237, Part C,
2024,
121641,
ISSN 0957-4174,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2023.121641.
(https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095741742...)
How does he expect the EU to manage that, one wonders? It's not a command economy, and _total_ EU energy imports are likely to be less than that this year.

This whole thing is quite silly.
Hugston 1.1
Did you know that VAT is spelled TARRIF in retard?
Here is a slightly better link with more information:

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/tariffs/2025/04/09/china-announc...
Driving them to a remote rural area to rob, pistol-whip, torture, tie to a split-rail fence, and leaving them to die, so brutally that their face was covered in blood except for where the tears washed it away, happened in America.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Shepard

And the people who would do that kind of thing again are absolutely THRILLED and EMPOWERED about the current administration's policies towards gay and trans people.

And it's happening much more often now thanks to Trump's Stochastic Terrorism, aimed at his lunatic cult of MAGA followers who are every bit as fanatical and delusional and vengeful and armed to the teeth as any religious imperialist death cult.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic_terrorism

Beaten With Belts, Sticks: Transgender Man Tortured For Weeks Before Murder:

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/beaten-with-belts-sticks-tra...

>Nordquist, originally from Minnesota, travelled to New York in September to meet his online girlfriend and was staying at Patty's Lodge motel in Canandaigua.

>New York authorities have charged five individuals for the brutal torture and killing of a 24-year-old transgender man, whose body was dumped in an empty field after going through weeks of abuse.

>Sam Nordquist was subjected to relentless physical and psychological torture, according to court documents. He was punched, kicked, beaten with sticks, dog toys, ropes, canes, belts, and even assaulted with a table leg and a broomstick for weeks before succumbing to his injuries.

>Nordquist, originally from Minnesota, travelled to New York in September to meet his online girlfriend and was staying at Patty's Lodge motel in Canandaigua, about 30 minutes from Rochester. His family raised concerns after losing contact with him.

>Police launched a missing persons investigation on February 9, and on Thursday, they uncovered a "deeply disturbing pattern of abuse" at the motel, according to New York State Police Captain Kelly Swift.

>"In my 20-year law enforcement career, this is one of the most horrific crimes I have ever investigated," Ms Swift said at a press conference.
>In this case, it's the sheer disconnect between RIIR askers, and the sheer number of people painting Rust devs with a continent wide brush.

I have no idea how you can accuse me of this when I made a big disclaimer in my original comment:

>Before anyone gets triggered and starts typing up a reply: "SUBSET" is the word I used.
I haven't been on slashdot in a long time, and boy is it a shitty experience.

Using Orion browser with uBlock Origin, initially the site loads fine. Then it tries to load ads. It detects that the ads don't load, so it displays an overlay that looks like a crash modal "oops, something went wrong", shaming the user into believing THEY did something wrong.

Dismissing the modal reveals that the CSS was unloaded in the background.

Thanks but no thanks.