skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you are claiming that a hot buttered dinner roll made from wheat can actually domesticate ME…

… then you’re damn right.
OK the HTTP is a UI. Seriously, these comment are trolling.
Ford will flat out lock your account so even the official app won’t work for you if they notice you using a 3rd party app.
Same.

If I had to guess it's just local gradients, not an end-to-end gradient.
No they are concerne with SSE/HTTP as some made some MCP server over HTTP without auth in 2025. Then call it MCP issue.
Except it's not imperceptibly slower, it's orders of magnitude slower.
I think ollama uses OCI too? At least it's trying to. https://github.com/ollama/ollama/issues/914#issuecomment-195...
I love the editing in Mastodon. My schizotypal brain will always make mistakes no matter how hard I try and being able to edit what I wrote afterwards make me comfortable and it is good for my readers.

Unfortunately a lot of people like to play hateful games on those platforms and the argument is that jerks will edit what the wrote to make repliers look bad or crazy.
This is a layer on top of CI for people who didn't need CI but use CI anyway to not use CI...
Even if you accept that "web" is niche (which I don't), and all your input is trusted not to be malicious (which is not necessarily true for non-web applications, especially if they are privileged), you still need to worry about input with special characters causing bugs. Web apps don't have a monopoly on using a database, or generating strings in a specific syntax that includes user input.

With respect to compilation, that is basically is how t-strings work, but it is the python interpreter that does the compilation. When it parses the t-string, it compiles it to (byte) code to generate a Template object from from the expressions in scope when it is evaluated, which may happen more than once. And if you really want a template that is a separate object that is passed the values separately, you can just wrap a t-string in a function that takes the parameters as arguments.

> two dozen templating libraries that offer much more comprehensive safe and fast text-generation solutions than what t-strings do

But t-strings allow those libraries to be safer (users are less likely to accidentally interpolate values in an f-string, if a t-string is required) and possibly faster (since the python interpreter does the hard work of splitting up the string for you. t-strings don't replace those libraries, it allows them to be better.
Until we create the next thing, then intelligence will be compared to that. Anyway, I don't think neuroscientists are making this claim.
It’s wild that OpenBSD still supports the architectures it does. I literally learned how to program on a G4 Mac running OpenBSD back in 2000. I think it was version 3.0 but I don’t really remember. It was a wonderful experience, and I chose OpenBSD because it was the only UNIX-like OS I could get to boot on that machine (I struggled to understand Debian’s esoteric instructions for weeks before I gave up). OpenBSD, by contrast, had essentially the same install program it has to this day. At the time, there were no printed books for OpenBSD, but I read the (surprisingly good) man pages and supplemented with a used copy of the FreeBSD handbook I bought on eBay. Good times.
Side-Effect of Trump Flip-Flopping on Tariffs
Cyber Insecurity: Shields Down?
Did you not read the paper? That's in there.
Mods please delete if too political. I just thought it's an interesting idea.
Unfortunately, I don't think supporting a platform by providing prebuilt binaries is as simple as "just don't touch it". There's no guarantee things will continue to build for the platform, nor that upstream projects won't remove explicit support from their code bases if the effort to maintain it exists.
Totally agree.

It appears Anthropic developed this "standard" in a vacuum with no scrutiny or review and it turns out it's riddled with horrific security issues, ignored by those hyping up the "standard" for more VC money.

Reminds me of the micro-services hype, which that helps the big cloud providers more than it helps startups with less money even with some over-doing it and being left with enormous amount of technical debt and complex diagrams costing them millions to run.
The Art of Poison-Pilling Music Files [video]
Can you clarify what angle of the existing solution you don’t like? The example you give of the Unix pipeline is pretty similar to what we do with pandas pipeline chains.

(pd.read_json(…)
.join(pd.read_json(…))
.assign(
texts=…,
embeddings=…,
)
.pipe(extract_something)
.query(some_filter)
.pipe(send_somewhere, batch=50))

(this is just thrown together, untested, on mobile, and I’m not sure what your data looks like exactly, or how you’re transforming it, but that’s the general form)

Is it the syntax you don’t like, or your data is too large to fit in memory, or what aspect? This can certainly be made more concise if desired, if we want to wrap things in classes, decorators, context managers, overload the actual pipe operator, or other syntactic sugar mechanisms.

Most tools you find will be aimed at handling scale, and in the name of efficiency will therefore be in a columnar form, which is why you see a bunch of tools that do this already but only on tabular data. JSON is slow to work with beyond the initial load, so often you’d see it loaded into pandas or polars, maybe with minor transformation, then dumped to parquet files for some downstream tool to pick up and process.

These systems are also geared toward being robust. In a real world system there are all kinds of unexpected errors to handle. What happens if the API you’re pushing to is down, or starts rate limiting you, or someone added a new field or renamed a field or your two data sets don’t have matching keys? Real pipelines have to account for this, and depending on your scenario you might want to retry, or roll back changes, and this can get ridiculously complicated because in API land you often don’t have any analogous concept of transactions and rollback like exist in SQL, so without a distributed transaction coordinator (it’s own complexity), streaming data will lead to distributed systems drifting out of sync. And now you need a batch job on top of your streaming data to ensure it hasn’t fallen out of sync (so in reality, unless you have heavy complexity needs, just use SQL so you have transactions, or just use batch jobs).

But that’s the reason you don’t see this record-based fire-and-forget approach, because it’s too slow and lacks error handling, and why instead everything is columnar and heavyweight (with DAGs and workflow orchestrators etc).

Maybe I’m missing your point, but your Python code could definitely be as concise as any of the other examples you gave.
The Chinese Room didn't show anything. It's a misleading intuition pump that for some reason is being brought up again and again.

Just think about it. All the person in the room does are mechanical manipulations. The person's understanding or not understanding of Chinese language is causally disconnected from everything including functioning of the room. There's zero reasons to look at their understanding to make conclusions about the room.

The second point is that it's somehow about syntactic manipulation specifically. But why? What would change if the person in the room is solving QM-equations of your brain quantum state? Would it mean that the perfect model of your brain doesn't understand English language?
You are quoting yourself not the article or me?

No evidence besides the direct testimony of a person that worked on the project given to one of the best biographers in a piece of work that won a Pulitzer Prize. Also, the physical evidence of the bridges. Circumstantially, the man was openly racist, and openly used design to segregate.

The assertion isn’t that you couldn’t take a bus to the beach. The assertion is that you couldn’t take a bus from the inner city neighborhoods to Jones Beach, which was true.
I read over the FAQ, seems interesting but kind of overcomplicated. The key principles (as I understand) are:

1. Source biomass that would have burned or decayed to atmosphere in a relatively short time without intervention, such as forestry or farming residues. This lets you say that any Carbon you don't release to the atmosphere is Carbon removal, but these materials tend to be difficult to consistently source and are energy-intensive to transport due to low density.

2. Use gasification to turn the hydrocarbon content into syngas, Hydrogen and Carbon Monoxide. Gasification is nice because you don't release pollutants like heavy metals as readily as regular combustion, and you can easily clean the gas of any pollutants that were released before burning it.

3. Combust the syngas with pure Oxygen in something that sounds like a rocket engine. Burning pure fuel and Oxygen creates much higher temperatures and efficiencies than when the Oxygen is diluted with "inert" gases, and you don't have to worry about NOx production.

4. Separate the water and CO2, leaving a pure supercritical CO2 exhaust stream. This is the part they seem most vague about, maybe centrifugal separation based on density?

5. Use a high-efficiency turbine to extract energy from the post-combustion supercritical CO2. They say this can power all of the other steps including the pure Oxygen production and still be energy-positive.

6. After extracting all possible energy, inject the resulting CO2 underground in rock formations of minerals rich in oxides that can both contain the CO2 and react with it to form carbonates, permanently storing it.

The biggest question marks for me are the process to burn the syngas and remove the water, whether the CO2 turbine will actually be energy-positive given all the energy costs, the energy costs of sourcing and transporting the biomass, and how well geological CO2 sequestration actually works (does the CO2 react with rock before leaking out into the air?).

My favorite CO2 removal concept is pyrolysis, which bakes material to release hydrocarbon gases and vapors which can be refined to replace petroleum or burned for energy, leaving behind Carbon-rich charcoal which doesn't easily break down. When sourced from biomass this charcoal can be a useful soil amendment for farms, or when sourced from waste that may have heavy metals or other toxic ingredients it can be landfilled with much higher density than the source material. It seems like the carbon sequestration of charcoal is much more proven than burying CO2 underground, and its a lot easier to site a waste-to-energy plant near a landfill than an appropriate rock deposit.
Man, those G3 and G4 Power Macs always look so cool.. are PC cases in that design available in the market? I'd love to build a PC that looks like this.
Read the article. It doesn’t debunk that assertion. It more or less confirms it.
Federal grants are relevant to the interests of many HNers. Why the attack? Chill.
If I’m not mistaken, that’s the joke.
As much as that might be true to some degree, I doubt most people are comparing China's best to their grandparent's collapsed barnhouse in the boonies. The best I've seen (NYC is the best I'll publicly mention, but also a few other east coast cities) basically look like Ravenholm compared to the photos/videos of what's coming out of China.
Agreed about purpose being a loaded term.

It's my, somewhat lazy, philosophical opinion, that there isn't any purpose and there doesn't need to be one.

I don't see why the universe would need a purpose for anything. Things are what they. Things changing state. Entropy.

I see reproduction as more of built in motivation to our system than a purpose as such. But that's semantics, and my purpose in life is not to argue about words! ;-)
Exactly. Israel/Palestine comes up. But not Jews. It's a strange topic for a local neighborhood group. You can deduce that from reflecting on your own interactions.

Further, FB found it necessary to stop discussions about Jews on that group. Now, we can cook up any number of conspiracies about how any mention of Jews is like discussing fight club, or the Illuminati, and that's why FB instructed the group to stop discussing it. Or we can deduce the obvious. That the group, that would normally not be expected to be discussing Jews, had some fairly distasteful discussions about Jews.

FB is not a model of good moderation by a long shot. But given the strangeness of the topic in a local neighborhood group, we can deduce that FB probably got it right in this case.
Most Lisp-y language have multiple parsers. The frontend may be that one, or it might be another. Racket has hundreds of frontends [2], Scheme has Wisp [0], and so on.

The ideal part of it comes down to the language being able to manipulate itself. Make the tokens an array, that you can shift, inject and/or mould into what you need.

That being said, that power isn't isolated to just Lisp-y. A few stack languages have it, like Forth, or to plug myself [1]. However, stack languages are a bit harder to optimise.

It isn't that they don't want a complicated parser. It's that you want to be able to easily modify that parser as its running, without hitting TeX levels of performance slowdowns.

[0] https://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-119/srfi-119.html

[1] https://git.sr.ht/~shakna/jstack

[2] https://doi.org/10.1145/3580417
If this is just running tests locally, it seems deeply flawed - e.g. the tests would work even if I forgot to commit new files.

OTOH if starting a new container, pulling my branch and then doing everything, it's definitely as good as running on remote CI because it's basically replicating the same behaviour. And it would likely still be much faster since:

* CI machines are underpowered compared to dev laptops/desktops. e.g. our CI builds run on a container with 4 vCPUs and 16GB RAM. In contrast my laptop has 16 cores and 48 GB RAM

* docker pull itself takes a relatively long time on CI. If I'm running it locally it would just use the cached layers
> Would love to get a tow hitch on a bmw

Look for the neighbor always stick welding his 4x4 in the driveway. $40, a six-pack, and it's done.
I read somewhere that life is more efficient at dissipating energy and faster at increasing entropy than non-living physical/chemical phenomena. Citation needed.
> Go could get a 100 articles like this written about it, covering various aspects of its design

Actually... https://100go.co/
I saw the Grok image and just closed it. So cringe
I'd suggest moving to either bluesky or rss. In fact, selling rss access (very fast responses) and delaying the public (twitter/Bluesky) releases by a few hours/days may be a way to monetize successfully.
Because it works, probably. Blogs (and blog making tutorials) get selected by reach, not content, and images add to that, like arrows and stupid face close ups do on youtube. What you see is a cost-driven transformation of the concept.
I wish that US car manufacturers would finally realize that they're software companies with a hardware device, and pivot accordingly.

The differentiating factor between car models is not the hardware in the world of EVs. It's the software. And right now, if you aren't either on Tesla, Rivian, or Polestar the software experience is horrific.
I feel the same way tending to these goddamn machines. Who's helping whom?
Does aider have support for prompt caching? That can reduce the cost significantly for many-turn sequences.
Five Strategies to Mitigate a New Risk Environment
Could be. Could also be that reproduction and propagation is the inevitable side effect of that, no? We cant dissipate energy when we're dead.
I do remember a website a long time ago about a guy walking around with a setup like this. Seemed like it involved lead acid batteries and a lot of weight.

Was really interesting then when desktops were as big as large pizzas.
Guilty.

I know Reddit has become infested with junk recently, but it just shows how bad the broader-internet has become that I'd rather search in Reddit than walk in that swamp.
Modeling ASI: Calculus of Distributed Persistence
If you are a tool provider, you need a standard protocol for the AI agent frontends to be able to connect to your tool.
I love the commitment to getting this to work at no cost, on principle. Many of my favourite personal projects have followed similar paths, and have often been fun challenges for that reason alone. Great article, thanks for sharing.
It's actually worse than that; this tool doesn't run any tests or do anything with test results. All it does is require each developer to run `gh signoff` before their PR can be merged; the only thing that command checks is that there aren't uncommitted changes in Git. So if your colleagues aren't already locally running your tests the right way, this does nothing at all to help you.
You still can! But expect a lot of pushback from midwits who appeal to authority.
I’m having trouble understanding what you mean, if you could provide or link to an example I’d appreciate it.
For the future of the USA this is fortunately not very accurate, and microplastics are not associated with increased incidence of dark triad personality traits, as far as I know.
> User interface designers aim to reduce cognitive load, improve ease of use, and guarantee access to all (Johnson, 2020).

Do they, though? Anecdotally, they seem to be primarily focused on optimizing engagement metrics, secondarily on adding gratuitous padding, and tertiarily on making all the buttons flat and harder to distinguish from the background. Rant over.
> first two, while mutually distant, still have more in common with each other than with any other bands

Not really. People in the oligarch sphere have unimaginable power. If they need a law they buy it through politicians and lobbyists. If they need a law ignored just for them, same deal.

Working class people who've toiled 25+ years and accumulated a few million are still just working class people, with nicer cars and slightly bigger house. But zero political influence and no ability to shape laws or enforcement in their favor.
Can you give an example where you would need to adjust tools dynamically based on context? Is that for all tools or just for some?

For example, why does a “Google search” tool need to change from context to context?
88 points, 105 comments from yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43668957
Cross entropy from the first principles: https://youtu.be/KHVR587oW8I
Great work! I love commitment to make it at no cost as @liamwire mentioned. Still not sure why on Earth car manufacturers would not just release APIs open to all owners (basically issue API key based on VIN) and let them use it. For developers to build apps that will only require API key to be entered would be win/win for everyone....
How are people really using Gen AI?
HBR just released a fresh breakdown of how people actually use GenAI today—based on thousands of Reddit and Quora posts. It’s a revealing shift: the #1 use case is now therapy and companionship, followed by organizing my life and finding purpose. These deeply human needs are overtaking technical tasks.
> the perfect usable computer can't end up being a TV, right?

And yet.

From a few days ago: What if I just want a faster horse

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43652723
The Handicapper general shall be responsible for enforcing uniform usability across all applications
ELIZAbot v2
If owners were concerned, why wasn't there a prenupt?

Do you have details on what you're talking about?

Because you're coming across with talk radio / TikTok vibes.
Exploring Space-Time with NSF LIGO
What recourse (if any) do owners have if that happens?
> All software maintainers have to do is not touch it

That seems okay...

> and not break it

Ah, there's the rub - when you're not actively testing on the platform, because no-one on your team has the relevant pieces around any more, then you don't know whether you've broken it.

And even if you do have the relevant pieces, there's a non-zero cost involved in testing every subsequent release on that environment, and implementing workarounds for every subsequent change or new feature in the future which fails to work on the old hardware, used by ~0.0% of your user base.

It's not just boredom that causes stuff to be dropped, it's when the cost of maintaining compatibility with the old hardware exceeds the benefit of retaining the compatibility.
Consistency Isn't Repetition
It’s possible I’m missing visibility into some part of the industry, but I don’t think this has been true for quite some time. There are multiple providers of Ground Segment as a Service that satellite operators can buy radio time from across the globe that are in the billions of yearly revenue. Most satellites are transmitting to the nearest ground stations in one or more networks live and transported over IP unless that capability isn’t required.
That's pretty cool! It's extremely frustrating that they go through so much effort to block third party apps, but the solution of just downloading and emulating the android app is simoultaneously very clever and very straightforward. A nice reminder not to overthink simple things. Cheers on a project well done!
The tool does actually check whether you have any uncommitted changes in Git, and fails in that case. So you're protected from that particular mistake. You're not protected from mistakes related to running the tests or checking their results, though, because the tool has nothing to do with that.

The Docker CLI is supposed to support caching on GitHub Actions (https://docs.docker.com/build/cache/backends/gha/) but I suppose I haven't checked how fast it is in practice.
This is strange and possibly illegal. If the stock falls, you should get more stock since they’re worth less. If they don’t have enough stock then they shouldn’t have offered you that as compensation.

In any case… $1- $5 is penny stock territory. I believe you get delisted from NYSE if ur stock stays at $1 for too long.
Dementia Is Much More Common Among the Married Than the Unmarried
What you describe is the very reason I let my children watch moomins. Not everything needs to be bland and boring like today’s children’s shows. World is not like that.

Over here im Finland me and every other 90’s kids watched these shows, and mostly turned our fine. There’s so much nostalgia around it all.
FYI, amd has some prototype alternative programming models for these NPU engines now, although they are certainly very immature: https://github.com/Xilinx/mlir-aie/tree/main/programming_gui...
I'm of the belief that fruit and vegetable packaging is often designed to hide defects, and to make it harder to visually discern how fresh the produce is (on top of not letting you touch it).

Some examples.

Red netting on oranges makes it hard to see imperfections on the skin. Green netting does the same for avocados. Costco sells corn in trays that are cling wrapped with a wrap that is unmistakably designed to hide the ends of the corn (the easiest way to discern if corn has gone bad). Other fruits, and veggies like melons, onions, and potatoes have similar netting with colors that seem to be carefully chosen to maximize visual clutter.

Why aren't all the nets the same color?

Costco sometimes sells pears in plastic trays with multiple creases that cause reflections that make it very difficult to see what the pears inside look like.
I worked for a company that did this "Reputation Management" in my first job out of college around 2008. It was big at that time, and almost everything now is highly controlled, especially Reddit. I also dislike Facebook's new feed that endlessly regurgitates clickbait ragebait garbage.

The best legitimate communities I know of online are Heavyequipmentforums.com and newagtalk.com. Good luck finding the real forums like these on Google search though, which is probably the product that has gone down the most in quality over time. Honestly, all of the above can probably be attributed to the falling quality of Google results.
> CI machines are underpowered compared to dev laptops/desktops.

Ha, I wish. My company thinks 8gb of RAM on a 6 year old machine is plenty of power for the devs.
Concrete filled 3D printed milling machine [video]