skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why? I do not find the syntactic sugar C++ adds very helpful and it misses other C features.
This is a different tool—SQLite File Format Viewer is made for anyone interested in exploring the internal structure of SQLite.
We'll see if Judge Xinis issues contempt charges.
It looks like someone used statistics to infer what a demographic wants, and tried to make an educated guess on low-resolution data.
Now that would make sense, like private equity. The Wikipedia page lists three acquisitions at 50,350 and 450 million dollars. But none of them happened until 2023,a couple of years after they raised 450m - by that point they'd raised another 300m and were about to get another billion!
U.S. Prepares to Challenge Meta's Social Media Dominance
Folks keep talking about how Modula-2 was released in 1978, to fix Pascal's defects. Well, yes, but.

I used Pascal a lot for about ten years starting in the late 70's: multiple flavors of UCSD Pascal, consecutive versions of Turbo Pascal, and VAX Pascal, on six distinct hardware platforms. Pascal was readily available for all of them; Modula-2 had no market share at all, so far as I could ever tell.

And market share is the right word: most compilers cost money in those days, sometimes quite a lot of money. Turbo Pascal took off because Borland sold it for $50, as opposed to something like $700 for Microsoft's compilers.

I wrote a letter to Borland International, asking if they were going to release a Turbo Modula-2, and was told yes. I'd have been first in line. It was never released.

So yeah, Modula-2 existed, technically, but it mostly wasn't relevant, at least not for microcomputer programmers.
Why so many skid-marks there?
Sucks when you first experience the inherent fragility of working for somebody else.
nope, you really don't need so much prep to do this type of thing. I've done these types of things multiple times and whenever I prepped too much, the experience was actually worse- heavier bags, less spontaneity, etc
I'm very confused by this -- does the rate rate of carbon release matter more than the total volume? Won't the carbon in the trees eventually be released, just on a slower timeframe.
I like the idea of parsing USPS Informed Delivery emails (a lot of people I encounter still don't know that this service exists). Maybe I'll make something to alert me when my checks are finally arriving!
The AI assistant is the male equivalent of a beautifully organized notion board (female).
I talked a friend into doing just the Katy trail across the state of Missouri a year ago. Like the author, I have a steel Trek 520. I did zero training — but the Katy trail is just one state.

I hated it every day — right up until we finished it. The boredom, the drudgery of every day. Now I can't wait to go again.

There was a weird thing that crept into my brain by about day 4 or so — I kind of didn't want to linger off the saddle for long. Strangely, I was starting to kind of prefer being on the saddle than to being off.

Also, having done a minimal of research, there were often unexpected happy surprises that would pop up from time to time — for example a sudden bar along the banks of the Missouri River (Cooper's Landing — not, you know, a sand bar).

I credit my friend being there for keeping me determined not to "puss out" and bail early. And he told me after he was waiting for me to bail so he could have an excuse to quit as well.

We met all manner of other riders: many, like us, on their first bike tour.

The six or so days on the saddle can be done, physically, by about anyone. I am almost 61 and over weight. I trained on the trail. I think if I had prepared before hand my ass might have been less sore — more "broken in". (It also would have been boring though.)
Or southern europe
This is somehow even worse than ignoring them...
What’s wrong with the Postgres Citus extension for this use case?
Ah, see as a guy in my 40's, my reflexes just aren't what they used to be. I used to be lethal in my teens, but these days I tend to mainly play single player or coop games. If you play games that require kernel level anti-cheat, yeah those will probably never be supported on linux.
This is the PDF of the talk given here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ahvzDzKdB0

It's Guy Steele[0]'s keynote at the 1998 ACM[1] OOPSLA[2] conference.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_L._Steele_Jr.

[1] Association for Computing Machinery

[2] The 13th annual ACM SIGPLAN[3] Conference on Object-Oriented Programming Systems, Languages, and Applications.

[3] SIGPLAN is the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group (SIG) on programming languages.
I love it. I think there is room for this product even though there are other options. This is clean and probably over time you can introduce more features as you get the feedback. Eventually you will be able to monetize but for now listen to your audience.
> Chrome has not been well funded for years.

Hasn't it? It has still been developing quite rapidly; and used to lead in interop scores (reflecting how well a browser conforms to the specs).
The UCSD system was indeed astonishingly, unusably slow. When I got to try it in high school computer lab, in the 80s, I was like "Did whoever ported it to this particular computer just totally fuck it up? WTF?!"

An Infocom adventure on a machine with 16k RAM also had frequent pauses to fetch from floppy, but it was much more tolerable.

Re verb lookups in Basic: you could use DATA statements and READ in a FOR loop for lookup. I don't know what was typical but that's what I recall from some examples.
I know you're being down voted, but I've struggled with my Emacs config breaking quite frequently over the years. Nearly all of the breakages were due to plugins. I assume these breakages would be far less common if I was only using old plugins like Helm. But I like fancy new plugins that bring new functionality and smooth UX. They just seem to make breaking changes a lot more often. As far as performance goes, Emacs is roughly equal to VSCode IMO. It sometimes chokes on large files, but in general works well enough for me. To be fair, I've had trouble with Neovim + plugins becoming sluggish as well.
If you can afford housing and child care in the US you don’t care about healthcare because you are probably on a good employee plan.
Well no, those aren't actually artists, because they clearly don't understand what art is.

(/s)
I actually found out about the Silksong “announcement” from it being number one on the r/all feed followed by several other switch 2/games announcements in the top 5…

You have to remember that there was some pretty nutso tariff news right about the same time, not that strange for it to be highly represented on the front page.
The fact that it's apparently so hard to even just confirm he is still alive is what's especially horrifying.

The people perpetrating this clearly have no care about how much trust they are eroding in our legal system right now. At least people used to have a reason to submit to an arrest knowing that they were protected by due process. But why would anyone in their right mind want to trust federal authorities right now?
If it's not helpful don't use it.

Personally, this appears to be extremely helpful for me, because instead of checking several different spots every day, I can get a coherent summary in one spot, tailored to me and my family. I'm literally checking the same things every day, down to USPS Informed Delivery. This seems to simplify what's already complicated, at least for my use cases.

Is this niche? I don't know and I don't care. It looks useful to me. And the author, obviously, because they wrote it. That's enough.

I can't count the number of useful scripts and apps I've written that nobody else has used, yet I rely on them daily or nearly every day.
If the average target consumer didn't care, Target wouldn't have had 10 weeks of consecutive foot traffic declines. Most things sold in Target can be bought elsewhere, so people have voted with their wallets.

Executives at Target made the calculation that their sales wouldn't decline much (if at all) by publicly canceling their DEI programs.

To the question about Target and Costco's prices: Typically these retailers will have price matching policies in place to keep foot traffic.

Quick google search implies (not sure how accurate this is), that approximately 12% of Target's demographic is black [0]. Seeing close to a 10% drop in foot traffic for a low margin business like Target when a competitor is seeing almost the near opposite gains is a signal someone really screwed up.

[0] https://expertbeacon.com/targets-target-market/
For the people who are wondering whether this is a good idea or not, lemme tell you about some x-country cyclists I met on a ride. 3 years ago in the middle of summer I was climbing Iron Springs Rd on the west side of Prescott AZ. 3 youngish cyclists were paused on the side of the road with an apparent mechanical. They had a modest amount of camping gear in their panniers. Turns out they were French, had the barest grasp of English (I have the barest grasp of French), and needed a derailleur adjusted (no gears, no climb). I fixed them up and of course I was damned curious about their situation. Turns out, they on a whim flew into NYC, bought some not serious bikes and camping gear, and... just started biking across the country! In the middle of summer! In the wrong direction! Going to LA! And their pins... NOT CYCLISTS.

The Iron Springs climb tops out at 6000' or so, the weather is awesome in summer. However that is the end of weather happiness for 300 miles or so, because it's a steady drop from there into the desert, all the way down to the Colorado River. Temps in the 100-115F range are normal. Water is scarcer there than on just about any roads in the country. I was pretty alarmed so I got it across that they needed to show me their route. As best I could I showed them the best way on maps to not die. I tried my damnedest to get across they should not bike in the afternoons. "extra chaud!" etc.

And off they went. Never found out if they made it or not, but... you just can't keep humans down. They will always find a way to do the craziest things.
Live demos test effectiveness of Revolutionary War weapons
Press release:

https://www.york.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/2025/research/po...

The actual paper:
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.est.4c13276

In PDF:
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acs.est.4c13276?downloa...
This is surprising to me. My company (top 20 by revenue) has forbidden us from using non-approved AI tools (basically anything other than our own ChatGPT / LLM tool). Obviously it can't truly be enforced, but they do not want us using this stuff for security reasons.
+1 for Mailgun. My only gripe with it is that they detect and block bot activity on their frontend. So if you have end to end (e2e) integration tests built with something like Puppeteer, you can't have them log into Mailgun and check the inbox table's HTML to see that an email was sent. So you have to write some sort of plugin manually - perhaps as a testing endpoint on your website that only appears in debug mode - that interacts with their API.

This might not seem like much of a big deal. But as we transition to more of these #nocode automated tools, the idea of having to know how programming works in order to interact with an API will start to seem archaic. I'd compare it to how esoteric the terminal looked after someone saw a GUI like the one used by Apple's Macintosh back in the 1980s.

I looked forward to this day back in the early 2000s when APIs started arriving, but felt even then that something was fishy. I would have preferred that sites had a style-free request format that returned XML or even JSON generated from HTML, rather than having to use a separate API. I have this sense that the way we do it today with a split backend/frontend, distributed state, duplicated validation, etc has been a monumental waste of time.
Cool to see the use of consumer phones as part of the setup. Having a suite of powerful sensors, processing, display, and battery in a single, compact, sealed package must be immensely useful for science.
Hm fair, it might be overdoing it with the adjectives.
There's no real comparison between Python/Node and Golang's cross-compilation.
It doesn't need to be either or. "Forgot your password" could link to the magic link flow.
You still need to audit the safe part for other bugs...

But yes, this is nice and we should (and probably will) have a safe mode in C too.
I'd be less cynnical if researchers hadn't announced the same thing like 10 years ago

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/08/science/dolphins-machine-...
To Make Language Models Work Better, Researchers Sidestep Language
That might only get to a point that there is an understanding that something called "chrome red" exists. But for a blind child who isn't exposed to the concept of vision, let alone color. It's just a name and relations with other names. That lacks semantics.

Without grounding in some form of experience one can learn grammar and syntax but not understanding. "Chrome red" is a whole lot easier to teach than say the concept of "jealousy" when that's not part of a shared world of experience.

It's possible to learn a dictionary without understanding any of what those words mean. Dictionary just gives relations among the dictionary words themselves. That's it.

It takes a sensory or emotional experience to ground those words for learning.

Nouns are easy because you can point and teach, that there is a correspondence with the word 'apple' and the physical object that you are experiencing now. Abstract concepts emotions are much harder. There the need for shared experience is much stronger.

There's quite a bit of recorded knowledge for these things. Experiences of Hellen Keller. There's a story of a deaf man who could use sign language, but had an overwhelming and tearful experience in his thirties when it finally clicked that the sign for a 'door' has a correspondence for a door that his teacher was pointing at. Till that point, signing was just some meaningless ritualistic ceremony that needed to be mastered for social acceptance.
Please dont do a substack. This website is full of nazi. Your blog is fine.
Great article! It is hard to see an ROI on OpenAI at this stage, or indeed a sustainable business model based on revenue rather than investment.
Assuming you mean compiler/editor performance then yes I assume this wrecks it. Shouldn't matter for runtime though.
This irrational belief isn't going away either. It seems to be spreading, in fact. A relative of mine recently was diagnosed with cancer and a "friend" of hers suggested she try ivermectin.
I tend to view open source like a gardener treats extra produce from their garden or orchard.

You spend some time and energy to grow some delicious fruits and vegetables that you and your family enjoy eating. You have extra so you share some with friends and neighbors. You still have way more than you need and you don't want it to go to waste.

You contemplate opening a stand to sell to passersby. That's a lot of work so you just put out a box with a sign for anyone to take what they want for free.

Some drop by and get what they need and you get an occasional 'thank you' note. Someone leaves a few bucks in a jar for you. It makes you feel good.

But not everyone is so well behaved. Kids come by and tip over the box or throw some peaches at your house.

Some criticize you that some of your free stuff is not the best quality and demand better service.

Then you find out the local grocer is stopping by every day to take it all and sell it in his store.

What started out as a good will gesture, turns into a headache.

Of course the analogy falls apart a bit when you compare a tangible good like food to easily replicatable digital bits, but it still fits in some ways.
I guess depression makes for excellent self quaratine?
yeah i actually do handle inbound email! just forgot to include that code in the shared version. the telegram inbound handler shows the rough pattern.
The picture of the winners had "3 4 5" and "4 4 4" which I think is 3 measurements on each of the cuts
Also, even the Japanese that would accept an American as a friend or a tenant are not accepting of the standard American moral stance towards racism. I.e., to be accepted, you basically have to be tolerant of the racism in Japanese society: the Japanese have a very low tolerance for non-Japanese persons who try to change Japanese society. Or so I've gathered from people who've been to Japan, then written about it or spoken about it.
It also does highlighting which is absolutely amazing. No need to save an entire page just for a piece of text. Also, you can have opds for ebooks.
name/link?
As far as combining full-text search with embedding vectors goes, Typesense has been building features around that - https://typesense.org/docs/28.0/api/vector-search.html

I haven't tried those features but I did try Meilisearch awhile back and I found Typesense to index much faster (which was a bottleneck for my particular use case) and also have many more features to control search/ranking. Although just to say, my use case was not typical for search and I'm sure Meilisearch has come a long way since then, so this is not to speak poorly of Meilisearch, just that Typesense is another great option.
They do, and, mostly they will eventually rot and release the carbon back - but it may take hundreds or thousands of years - if ever - for a forest to reach equilibrium where it's emitting as much as it's accumulating.

One way humans can improve on this is by making charcoal out of wood and burying it or just spreading it on soil. This drastically improves the fertility of the soil improving the rate that that soil can sequester carbon by growing trees even faster, and, as long as the charcoal is mixed in soil and not in a huge dry pile on top where it might burn, this process need never reach an equilibrium and can keep accumulating more and more carbon, more and more fertility and water retention capacity, more and more abundance of food production. This is what the ancients did in making terra preta in South America and similar charcoal-infused soils that have been found all over the world.

We do this where I live in California. It's a way to reduce forest fuel load while increasing carbon sequestration and fertility. Only cost is labor. It's theoretically possible to do at large scale with machinery instead of people, though the attempts I've seen have not proved viable. For a low expense human-scale way to do it, just making big piles and burning them from the top down (so no smoke) - piling more and more fuel on as it burns, and then dousing with water once it's mostly a big pile of coals, works quite well. With the addition of a big metal ring for a kiln, efficiency can go up even more from (very roughly) 50% of carbon turned to charcoal, to maybe 80 or 90%. Numbers vary considerably. But in all cases, the amount of carbon moved from the rotting or burning cycle to permanently sequestered is significant.

Compared to the short term carbon sequestration of building things out of wood (99% of which will burn within a few centuries), these soils have lasted thousands of years. There must be some mechanism that will eventually recycle this carbon back to the atmosphere but it may be on the timescale of hundreds of thousands of years for most of it.
The right forest fire will turn trees into charcoal and sequester the carbon. However doing this correctly is really tricky. There are many different forests and they all have slightly different needs. Make sure your government allocates enough money to proper forest management. Make sure that you oppose "environmental" groups that have heard smokey the bear years ago and think all fire is bad thus they get court injunctions against prescribed burning to the long term harm of the forest.
Give it a shot. The project you linked to, despite being old seems like it'd get you most of the way there.
You should be able to comfortably not own one, without it being a real problem.

We lived in Munich for five years as a family of three with no car and it was fine. There were definitely some times where a car would be more convenient (going to Ikea or the mountains) but overall getting around with our electric cargo bike or public transit was fine.
Love it, such a nice idea coupled with a flawless execution. I think the future of AI looks a lot more like this than half-cooked agent implementations that plagues LinkedIn…
The smartest bots and shills write more convincingly than average people who are in the lucky 10000 (https://xkcd.com/1053/), and reactionary phrases work in part because people who are exposed to them spread them (like idioms and other memes).

Some posts are very likely authentic, because they have a distinct writing style and/or incorporate things that yesterday's LLMs have trouble with (like relevant screenshots); and some posts are clearly inauthentic, e.g. your prior example that had an affiliate link. But in between, there are many posts which could have come from a bot or a human making "small talk" online. And unless you know the person who wrote something, you can never be completely sure: a talented state actor could write a genuine piece of insight (e.g. to build credibility), or tomorrow's LLM (perhaps unreleased but being tested in the wild) may beat today's commonly-held signs that detect and disprove AI.

I never accuse people of being a bot or shill, because I think it's irrelevant. Does the writing provoke thinking or generate insight? Are its claims cited, or backed up by reasonable-sounding logic from claims I already believe? I'm not "separating the text from the writer", I'm deciding that if the writer's text is interesting and convincing, it doesn't matter whether they're a bot or shill; because the intrinsic problem with bots and shills is that their posts are bland, reactionary, and misleading, so the solution is to avoid bland, reactionary, and misleading content. Plus, I already doubt anything I read on the internet; even if the poster is authentic, they could be wrong (for facts) or have different values and preferences (for opinions e.g. perspectives or product recommendations).

I do feel the need to mention: I agree the internet is "faker" today, with more bland and reactionary content, and the main factors are probably LLMs and improved marketing/propaganda. There are still niche places, but they usually don't interest me (probably why they stay niche). I think the solution is "better curation", but how? Ironically, perhaps it will be AI figuring out what is "interesting" to specific people; a thing that enables (or at least clears an obstacle to) infinite "slop" generation, will be the thing that protects us from uninteresting and upsetting media.
NSF expands access to advanced cloud computing for scientific research
The author engaged in a cross country road trip, not a daily bicycle commute in NYC. While I would be very surprised if your assertion wasn't statistically true it likely unwise to take what is typical and blindly apply it into a situation that is a massive outlier without specific reason to do so.
Blockchain and GDPR – the data protection authority view
11. Any sushi whose ingredients weren't sold directly to a representative of the shop at a location immediately adjacent to the pier onto which the vessel that caught the fish docked to unload the day's catch will never be anything better than mediocre.
I've been using EMACS since it was TECO on TOPS-10. Not a day goes by that I don't spend at least an hour with it. But it is long in the tooth and the abstractions it exposes are as advanced as they can be without breaking reverse compatibility. It is one of the few packages I think would be improved by a fully-supported package manager. E-Lisp is a warren of inefficiency, notational paucity and half-implemented tools. If someone wanted to build an emacs-like text editor in Lua or Fennel, I would absolutely sign up as a beta tester (assuming the key bindings were mostly the same.)