skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oooh, you sound pissed. Or maybe I'm reading it like that in my head. I don't know why you feel like I was staring at your ego the wrong way — never was my intention to hurt your feelings.

I can tell you though why my comment sounds defensive; it's because I care about the tool and the community invested into it.
Despite having virtually no better alternative in its category, it is still not a very popular tool (for various reasons), and the user base is relatively small, the number of active contributors is even smaller.

Disingenuous remarks similar to yours do a disservice to the community of its users, maintainers and interested newcomers.

For what it's worth, the command I described, the one that gave you the impression that you have to type "an incantation" - `C-x 8 RET` bound to (insert-char), you invoke it, and start typing "dash", or "em d" and it finds you the thing. It's also great for inserting emojis and arrows of all sorts, stuff like that. I often debug code inserting log statements with butterflies or dog symbols - easy to quickly spot them. You can type a number and then call it, it will insert that many of the selected character.

Anyway, whatever your goal was with that thought - you imagined it all wrong. Feel free to blame me for not describing it properly, don't blame the tool.
Some experiments are not replaceable. People need somebody to promise that "it will be ok".
In the EU an average car is 1400 kg (3000 lbs), with most vehicles probably in the 1000-1200 kg range. We don't really want the average here, but the median - and we don't want to compare to the average EV, but to the equivalent EV - comparing an F150 to, say, a model 3 isn't right.

A BYD Dolphin, roughly sized like a VW Polo, is some 400kg heavier than the polo. A Polestar 2 is roughly 500 kg heavier than equivalent sized cars. In other words, something like 33% heavier.
What problem do you think Play Integrity solve other than keeping the user's under Google's walled garden? Play Integrity is a fake marketing term for DRM fromGoogle . It does not guarantee security of the device in any way. My 6~ year old and unpatched Android 10 passes Play Integrity and can run banking apps. That explains everything about Play Integrity. I don't use apps from developers who think they know better than their users.
Unlike UK, US has only impeachment and 25th as procedures. Perhaps a convention. There is no vote of no confidence.
I sent an email about the Developer Relations role.
When you’re churning out many times more code per unit time, you had better think good and hard about how to organize it.

Everyone wanted to be an architect. Well, here’s our chance!
Also, Adobe is in a weird place where it has a bunch of users who basically have to use its stuff, but _absolutely hate it_ due to its conduct over the last decade or so. Like, being annoyed with Adobe predates generative AI.
DOGE everything including this dumb-ass bill.
Honestly it's a fair assumption on bot filtering software that no more than like 8 people will share an IPv4. This is going to make IP reputation solutions hard. Argh.
thanks to git repositories stored away in arctic tunnels our common legacy code heritage might outlast most other human artifacts.. (unless ASI choses to erase that of course)
I completely agree. They really should do that.
From what I understand SAC305 if not exposed to corrosive environments has a relatively low (but nonzero) risk of whisker formation. But in practice in a hobby environment it's not going to be a big issue.

Pure tin (or Sn99.3Cu0.7 alloy) is garbage, the silver helps a bunch.

For demanding applications there's apparently some even more performant alloys available today, eg. Innolot [1].

1. https://www.intechopen.com/chapters/55827
The Nostalgic World of Obama-Biden Fan Fiction (2019)
Peter Andrews family farm is proof of his vision
There's many sayings about diplomacy, though I understand the reality is much more mundane.

One that comes to mind is "a diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip" — like all good quotes, attributed to a wide variety of famous people.

Competent governments send arse kissers to those who need pampering, and send blunt to those who need to see bluntness. But (in a competent government) these things are uncorrelated with the actual negotiation position — "speak softly and carry a big stick" etc.

Trump being bellicose to everyone at the same time is a sign of his own incompetence.
Interestingly, Hong Kong and Macau are affected too.
Everything is of it's time. They pushed the barriers back in their time so that we could enjoy a better world now. They never claimed to be omniscient and that is to all our benefits.

Casual racism has and always will be there. No point in worrying about it.
> I've tried many IDEs but I'll always come back to vim.

Vim and Emacs both have GUIs. As an Emacs user, I subjectively find the GUI superior - I can e.g. rebind Cmd-S to "save", and that's a reason enough.

> It's a language you learn [...]

You mean the serial lines and ANSI escape codes and termcap? I would say it's more like pidgin with a dozen obscure dialects, and a body language on top. Try writing a portable TUI application from scratch, without touching curses or termbox. <https://viewsourcecode.org/snaptoken/kilo/>

Or do you mean, how to drive a TUI application from the keyboard? Here's the painful truth: you can't quit a TUI application without learning it. In vi, it's "Esc-q!-Enter", in Emacs it's "C-x C-c", in screen it's "C-a C-\", in tmux it's "C-a C-d", and so on. Maybe pressing "q" or F10 or C-d will work, but good luck guessing. This is just to quit, and ironically - it's only the start.

By contrast, on macOS it's Cmd-Q; on Windows, it's Alt-F4; and so on. Innovation happens on stable foundations, not by pulling rugs.

> It's not a one size tool for all. There is no product that can be made for everyone. [...] Everyone's dotfiles are as unique as they themselves are.

You know non-TUI applications are also customisable? I have Hammerspoon scripts, a dozen custom keybindings in macOS, .xsession+.Xdefaults+.Xresources, .gitconfig (I use git via Emacs+Magit), various .config/*'s (for e.g. sway), .emacs (bankrupted several times), and so on - none of these are TUI applications.

Or do you mean the command line? I believe we can build a better REPL than a terminal emulator. Emacs is a decent PoC, you can also have a look at Swift Playgrounds. Maybe we can build a generic non-terminal REPL where Ctrl-C means "copy", and Ctrl-V means "paste", that would be a great start.

Don't get me wrong, I'm happy if you're happy, I just don't understand the collective obsession. These tools exist, which is great, but we deserve better.
That’s fine if you find that fun, but legacy archeology is a means to an end, not an end itself.
I tried it on 4 different files, and in each case my browser sent a request, my server responded with a 206 and it grabbed chunks as it went.
In the UK people consider "speeding" to be going 10mph or more over the limit. So 20/30mph really means 30/40mph, and in addition there are still many places with 40mph (50mph) roads going through.

Speed limit signs don't work. People will drive at whatever speed feels right and this is usually way above 20mph. What works is narrowing the roads. When the carriage way is barely wider than your vehicle it magically makes 20mph feel appropriate and 30mph seem fast (which it is). This has the bonus effect that larger vehicles feel it more, which is perfect considering they are the most dangerous and should be driven by trained professionals who are used to such tight spaces.

It essentially makes driving much more stressful, which is exactly what it should be. The problem at the moment is drivers get everything: big, wide, smooth roads, with the best drainage and grading; the easiest and most convenient mode of transport; but none of the responsibility. We need to shift the balance back. You can drive, but it's a big responsibility and if you fuck up the consequences are serious.
> Dressing up as ladies.. tiresome.

I’ve heard that before and I don’t get it. They were just playing characters like any other they played, but some were women so they wore woman’s clothing.
- "they should dictate to the companies how they want to approach the problem"

No; I mean they should define the problem they need solved. If they're too unfocused to define that problem as "mass-produced reusable rockets", that's a strong signal they've already lost.

There's a dozen newspace startups pursuing reusability, and it's Europe's loss that none of them are in Europe.
I imagine semiautonomous trailers that would just tag along in the slipstream within cable range for distances beyond your daily. With computer-fast reaction to brake and steering inputs of the lead car. Those would universally be rentals that you change like the horses in pre-rail post networks.
Be serious, devs doing only useful work would lead to absolutely massive layoffs.
If you forget a flag, can't you move your cursor and add the flag? No need to type the whole command again
As mentioned in the linked presentation, they envision using interconnected 300m (1000ft) long segments that can be changed using ROVs, using technology that's already available for underwater pipelines.

Also mentioned is that the LHC cryostats, some nice illustrations here[1], are very nearly neutrally buoyant. Given these would be built similarly, they wouldn't need significant infrastructure to keep them in place.

So no humans would need to go down there, if something breaks they could just replace the broken segment(s) and fix the broken one(s) on the surface.

[1]: https://cas.web.cern.ch/sites/default/files/lectures/bilbao-...
A correlation of 0.31 is not very meaningful. This is of little value, as far as I can tell.
> I've never been more productive

Maybe it’s because my approach is much closer to a Product Engineer than a Software Engineer, but code output is rarely the reason why projects that I worked on are delayed. All my productivity issues can attributed to poor specifications, or problems that someone just threw over the wall. Every time I’m blocked is because someone didn’t make a decision on something, or no one has thought further enough to see this decision was needed.

It irks me so much when I see the managers of adjacent teams pushing for AI coding tools when the only thing the developers know about the project is what was written in the current JIRA ticket.
Having nreal air. It is so freaking inconvenient to wear for longer that every time I see someone posting how they replaced regular screen with ar glasses or vr (yes, tried also Quest 2) I laugh HARD!
ChatGPT outperforms human therapists in empathy
An experiment with more than 800 people shows that ChatGPT generates therapeutic responses that are more empathetic and aligned with the fundamental principles of psychotherapy than human therapists with decades of experience. The finding, published in February 2025 in PLOS Mental Health by a team of researchers from Brigham Young University, suggests that artificial intelligence could play a key role in the future of mental health.
Nerds don't. Normal people do. Normal people also won't download and self-host some open source software just to convert one file...
I’m trying to understand if this depends on something specific to FM or TV signals, or if it’s more of a protocol-level idea (i.e., any time-synced, known-location transmitters would work).

If it’s not intrinsic to FM, why not use existing cellular towers to do this? They’re everywhere, and phones already receive broadcast messages (like Amber Alerts) even without a SIM (I think) — so it feels like this could be done without needing new radios.

What makes this more accurate than cell tower triangulation today? Is the limitation in timing sync across towers, or something else in how cell networks are structured?

And for indoor use — how does this handle multipath? Reflections from walls or even atmospheric bounce seem like they’d throw off timing accuracy, similar to what messes with GPS in dense areas.
Not when the traffic is coming from 10s of thousands of IP addresses, with very few requests from each one: https://drewdevault.com/2025/03/17/2025-03-17-Stop-externali...
AI Fundamentals: Agent Definitions
The campaign to end Microsoft's collaboration with the Israeli army
> If you are using plain buffers the GPU and the CPU access data pretty much exactly the same way

Yeah, that will work fine for byte address buffers, to lesser extent constant buffers (they don’t convert data types but the access sematic and alignment are a bit tricky), but not much else. Vertex buffers, textures, and texel buffers / typed buffers in D3D are all widely used in real-time graphics.

> which you could write yourself in a shader and get same perf

Pretty sure it’s hardware. Emulating anisotropic texture sampler with HLSL codes would need hundreds of instructions, prohibitively expensive. Even simpler trilinear sampling is surprisingly tricky to emulate due to these screen-space partial derivatives on input.

> I have not seen an apples to apples benchmark about these format conversions.

Here’s a benchmark for vertex buffers https://wickedengine.net/2017/06/should-we-get-rid-of-vertex... As you see, on AMD GCN4 he indeed measured pretty much the same perf, however on nVidia Maxwell vertex buffers were 2-4 times faster.
The Trump Tariffs Just Got Even Worse
Adobe isn’t a person.
Why not have them hash pow for btc then?
Legacy archaeology in a 60MiB codebase far easier than digging through email archives, requirements docs, and old PowerPoint files that Microsoft Office won't even open properly any more (though LibreOffice can, if you're lucky). Handwritten code actually expresses something about the requirements and design decisions, whereas AI slop buries that signal in so much noise and makes "archaeology" almost impossible.

When insight from a long-departed dev is needed right now to explain why these rules work in this precise order, but fail when the order is changed, do you have time to git bisect to get an approximate date, then start trawling through chat logs in the hopes you'll happen to find an explanation?
See slang it in action: https://shader-slang.org/slang-playground/
"No strings attached...for threee years"

That study has shown exactly nothing. Of course I'm not going to quit if I'm out of job and UBI after three years.
That depends how you count. If you think of a generation as 20 years then that's the 80's which were fairly complex. If you think of it in terms of 'my grandparents life', well in many cases that was a lot simpler. Mine were born in the 1890's/1900s
There will still be people who care to go deeper and learn what an API is and how to design a good one. They will be able to build the services and clients faster and go deeper using AI code assistants.

And then, yes, you’ll have the legions of vibe coders living in Plato’s cave and churning out tinker toys.
I've been thinking about this a lot in the context of moving out of an old house that needs constant care.

Will the next residents understand that the drip-watering system 'blows out' sometimes, and needs fixing? How did I understand that? I've never lived in a house with a drip-watering system. But I heard these noises (high-pitched weeeeeee! as the air gets pushed out of the line; sound of water through pipes even though I hadn't turned a tap on), I wondered what it was, I investigated, I figured out it was the watering system.

And then one day those noises changed. Interesting. Investigate! Oh, one of the connectors has come loose. I should fix that.

Next year, the drip-watering system just doesn't work. Nothing happens. I remember when it turned on I could hear the solenoid tapping in and out. Now, nothing. A bit of figuring out later and I realise it froze in winter. The tap was full of water, it closed its relay, night came, it froze, it expanded. Damn. I bought a new unit and now I drain it come late autumn.

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This plus one hundred other things.

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So can I tell all this to the incoming residents, whomever they might be? I thought to write a 'house manual'. Maybe knock up a little website.

But, no. I can't. Because this is what we refer to as 'common sense'. Can I teach a stranger common sense? Alas.

Invent a thing that can teach an adult common sense and there's your next unicorn.
Because last time the US government required alliances to participate in the trade war. Maybe it is not rational, but the US is the leader, so most countries just thought, 'Ok, if you really need it...'. But this time, the trade war is against the whole world. Everyone is confused.
My 15year old can quote it. Their teacher said something the other day, and she replied from the movie. They both laughed, but the rest of the class (apparently) all looked confused. I was very proud.

Same thing happened with a FleetwoodMac song. Different teacher.
I do this occasionally, and have done for years. On earlier or lower resolution headsets with Fresnel lenses, it does force you to look at a screen slightly differently - everything has to be a bit larger, you have to move your head/eyes a bit more to deal with blurry edges.

Pancake lens devices like quest pro is fine though. I tend to favour one large virtual screen in vr though, whereas in real life, I prefer one large and one portrait second monitor. Being able to touchtype is useful.

Haven't tried virtual desktop recently, but immersedvr has always been the best work vr app, unfortunately. I say unfortunately because the company is a bit of a joke. They are a case study in everything wrong with silicon valley tech over the past decade. Name a shitty money making buzzword, and they've pivoted towards it and failed at it.
There is hope for misguided humans.
There are people who can only lie flat on the bed and can't sit without support.
I'm sure it is more complex, but on the other hand you can cruise along and ignore the complexity that you could not hitherto.
or you just not cranking up the required proof of work effort enough.
There also exists models such as the "Epson BT-35E Smart Glasses", which instead of Glasses+Computer (specialized Android device) are Glasses+Connector (HDMI and USB-C). The commercial stub:

> Seamlessly blend digital content into the outside world with the Moverio BT-35E smart glasses, featuring an interface unit with HDMI and USB Type-C ports to connect to popular output devices. It’s like having a wearable second screen, while still seeing the surrounding environment via the transparent HD display. Offering an easy out-of-box experience, the BT-35E connects to virtually any device - no need for special software. And, its interface does not require an external power source when used with a compatible USB Type-C output device

I guess you should realistic about configuring your workspace for optimality around this type of screen - it does not replace a big desk monitor... It is sort of a lower-resolution experience.

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Edit: now are there people who drunkenly act over posts, besides the always pestiferous indecent habit of not justifying your actions, and hit posts that simply replied to poster's requests? "Can it do X", "Well, this model can". Where would be the problem?!
Then you look up their IP address's abuse contact, send an email and get them to either stop attacking you or get booted off the internet so they can't attack you.

And if that doesn't happen, you go to their ISP's ISP and get their ISP booted off the Internet.

Actual ISPs and hosting providers take abuse reports extremely seriously, mostly because they're terrified of getting kicked off by their ISP. And there's no end to that - just a chain of ISPs from them to you and you might end with convincing your ISP or some intermediary to block traffic from them. However, as we've seen recently, rules don't apply if enough money is involved. But I'm not sure if these shitty interim solutions come from ISPs ignoring abuse when money is involved, or from not knowing that abuse reporting is taken seriously to begin with.

Anyone know if it's legal to return a never-ending stream of /dev/urandom based on the user-agent?
That is quite the Wikipedia article.

It’s not often that I diss content, but if there was ever a summary of a topic written that tried to sound like it was a novel idea by labelling everything under the sun, this is it.

Maybe I’m not smart enough to understand it, but honestly after 4 tries I still don’t get what the point is.

Also, the topic of “reflexive” came about in the early to mid 20th century, so for many people here, our parents have always existed in this reflexive modern. That doesn’t mean things have gotten more complex in the last generation
You're telling me cloudflare has to store something on my computer to let them know I passed a captcha?

This sounds like "we only save hashed minutiae of your biometrics"
For starters, awareness of not letting yourself get so hungry in the first place before eating something? Tons of people in my own life push off eating until they're starving and then just grab the most convenient option. They aren't in an economically vulnerable position, It's self inflicted.
tries to block abusive companies using infinite money glitch from clueless investors, by making every request cost a few fractions of a cent more.

... yeah, that will totally work.
But one of her points is that many of the jobs of current physicists depend on the status quo. That seems almost tautological. She then alleges that that clouds their judgement on the best use of research funding.

I'm sure that if you asked a range of physicists if _their_ area of research should receive more funding instead of the FCC, you would see less support for the FCC.

So we, as outsiders, are stuck not knowing what to believe - and ultimately an outsider, a politician, must make the decision for funding.
Jesus christ your just gonna be out and proud with your nazi shit huh?
PoW anti-bot/scraping/DDOS was already being done a decade ago, I’m not sure why it’s only catching on now. I even recall a project that tried to make the PoW useful.
There are more modern versions of such things that can do ATSC / QAM for full HD. I picked one up that takes multiple HDMI inputs with the idea of transmitting a couple outdoor cameras to our TVs but got sidetracked with the realization that none of the coax in my home is convenient to any of our TVs.
Factories, tooling, machinery, etc. must be amortized over a market and production run. If you're making toilet paper, the cost is relatively low and the market is huge. The TP you make today will still be good TP in a decade. No one toilet paper factory can serve the world, so you'll need many of them in many markets. The inputs can be found within the U.S.. Why not build one in the U.S.?

A factory that produces a specific model of phone is only going to be able to run for a few years before it needs to retool for a newer model. That means a huge investment goes into such a factory on a continual basis. If one factory can serve the entire world demand for that model, why build two?

If you're going to build just one factory, are you going to build it in a market that's walled off behind trade barriers, both for outputs and inputs? Only if that market is significantly bigger than the rest of the world combined. If the rest of the world is bigger, than you build outside the trade barriers and people inside of them will just have to pay more.

Tariff's might bring low-end, high-volume manufacturing back to the U.S.. Chip fabs, phone factories, or anything so high-end/low-volume that it must be amortized over a global market is not going to return to the U.S. because of tariff's. An administration that changes their minds every few hours only makes matters worse. Whether Trump has recognized this and is conceding defeat or he's bowing to pressure from companies like Apple is immaterial. That kind of factory is not coming to the U.S. anytime soon.
Not sure, havent done so myself but I think you can use MTEB maybe. Or otherwise a llm benchmark on large inputs (and compare your chunking with naive chunking)