skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FastCGI was from time before languages had good HTTP servers. HTTP is complicated, FastCGI is simple. It was also from time when servers were less powerful such that duplicating HTTP parsing was an expense. HTTP parsing is potentially dangerous so safer to do in web server than library. Finally, it was from before the language web APIs (Rack, WSGI, etc) such that the code used CGI interface and FastCGI did that but with separate server.
No, the LLMs aren't going to kill us all. Neither are they going to help a determined mass murderer to get us all.

They are, however, going to enable credulous idiots to drive humanity completely off a cliff. (And yes, we're seeing that in action right now). They don't need to be independent agents. They just need to seem smart.
Windows 7 was my all-time favorite. I remember you could not use it straight out of the box, there was a whole bunch of UI tweaks that I would make right away. After that, it was perfect.
> if you ask for an image of an archeologist who wears a hat and uses a whip, it's weighted averages are going to lead it to create something extremely similar to Indiana Jones because it has seen Indiana Jones so much.

If you ask a human artist for an image of "an archeologist who wears a hat and uses a whip" you're also going to get something extremely similar to Indiana Jones unless you explicitly ask for something else. Let's imagine we go to deviantart and ask some folks to draw us some drawing from these prompts:

A blond haired fighter from a fantasy world that wears a green tunic and green pointy cap and used a sword and shield.

A foreboding space villain with all black armor, a cape and full face breathing apparatus that uses a laser sword.

A pudgy plumber in blue overalls and a red cap of Italian descent

I don't know about you but I would expect with nothing more than that, most of the time you're going to get something very close to Link, Darth Vader and Mario. Link might be the one with the best chance to get something different just because the number of publicly known images of "fantasy world heroes" is much more diverse than the set of "black armored space samurai" and "Italian plumbers"

> Disintegrating IP into trillions of pieces and then responding to an instruction to create it with something so close to the IP as to barely be distinguishable is still infringement.

But it's the person that causes the creation of the infringing material that is responsible for the infringement, not the machine or device itself. A xerox machine is a machine that disintegrates IP into trillions of pieces and then responds to instructions to duplicate that IP almost exactly (or to the best of its abilities). And when that functionality was challenged, the courts rightfully found that a xerox machine in and of itself, regardless of its capability to be used for infringement is not in and of itself infringing.
> People hate AI images, cut and dry.

I don't know for sure about the common usage, but personally my use of AI in Photoshop are things like replacing a telephone pole with a tree, or extending a photo outside of frame, which is much different than just generating entire images. It is unfortunate that this usage of generative AI is lumped in with everything else.
Bluecry is it's name-o #NA
Permanent residents have the right to own a gun in the US.

The supreme court has upheld many many times that the fourth amendment applies to all people within the borders of the US.
Unfortunately all that crap eventually comes back. Microsoft likes to reset settings… I’m pretty sure I must’ve spent the majority of my youth setting the same explorer settings over and over and over again … And it never ends with any custom setup you do; given enough time it reverts.
What about showing the actual real amount that that particular user paid for those tokens?
Local noon (when the sun crosses the local meridian) orients us in time and in space. In time, because it marks the day being half-over. In space, because you can use solar alignment to lay out buildings and other structures in a north-south direction, or simply to navigate your locale.

It signifies a good time to eat lunch and the proper direction to orient your belly for an afternoon nap in the sun. :)
Sea snakes, as well.
Or that generative AI is ethical at all
I know 5 AI image-gen apps that are better than photoshop and cost around $10-20/month. For example, ideogram. Photoshop doesn't even come close.
Remember that it also introduced Active Directory. I helped build out a global enterprise network that was consistent and supported the same way, with like a quarter million users and tbh, it pretty much worked flawlessly.

Of course that innocence was lost with Welchia and other issues, but Windows 2000 made the year 1999 feel like ancient history in 2001.
Tell your... MP
I'd like to see that evidence too, hopefully for more than one instance/source.

IMO, it's been obvious that the danger seen in TikTok is that it's a propaganda tool out of USA's control. If it was really a national security danger, USA could simply ban it instead of fighting so hard to own it.
There’s probably not one single benchmark (and I won’t say that all of them are negative in the US) but we can just think generally about the things we’d like in a good life:

Life expectancy. Chronic disease rates. Suicide rates. Depression rates. Violent crime rates. Marriage rates. Home ownership rates. Education rates. Debt rates. Labor participation rates. Wealth inequity.

No one metric is a complete picture but together they tell a story. If America was a product and the above was on a dashboard, you would fire the CEO.
I considered being polite but the fact OP had already chosen to not answer these actual questions makes me question why anyone would trust this site with their payment data or even personal data.
Yes but you have to replace them much less often. Kind of like LED vs incandescent light bulbs.
Uh, not sure where you’ve been but Adobe is slavering over using the content its locked-in users create to train its products. It only (seemingly) backed off this approach last year when the cost in terms of subscription revenue got too high. But you’re naive if you think they aren’t desperately planning how to get back to that original plan of owning an ever-growing slice of every bit of human creativity that touches their software.
I know some solid gov (some ex-gov now) tech folks in DC. These are experienced, staff+ engineer types who want meaningful work. The pay isn't that low. Is it FAANG level? No. But they're still making solid six figure salaries.
Not sure what could be interpreted as sarcasm in my comment. It is pretty direct and on the nose.
> in contradiction to one of HN’s core rules no less

There's no contradiction. The rule is "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait."

Nor is there any attempt to steer discussion away from the subject of the article. That would have been a hapless attempt, had it existed, since the thread is filled with such discussion.
Fearing paper on evolution might get them deported, scientists withdrew it
There are a lot of languages that now claim to be 'Actor Model' and have only a shade on Erlang's fault tolerance and load balancing. That term no longer has the gravitas it once had.
https://archive.ph/xvM0D
The point is that "the Chrome experience was significantly better" was obviously true for a great many users. It doesn't matter what exact optimizations it boils down to.
The republicans come in screw things up and then the democrats come in and fix a thing on two, they never actually repair things and even continue doing the same things. Obama stayed in the same wars they condemned Bush for, kept the same 'war on terror' policies. Trump on the other hand removed or stopped almost everything associated with Obama. Biden kept the sanctions on China that Trump put in while Trump again removed the chips act and everything else that Biden did. See the pattern here? one party destroys the things of the other party keeps the very same things they condemned the other party for.

My guess right now is that democrats after Trump are counting on coming in, fixing some very minor things while running on a 'everything is gonna be different' platform much like Obama did after Bush.

I'm not saying they are equal, they are different but at the end of the day they both play on the same team so who cares about the small differences?. I honestly believe the democrats are done for, its either that or there won't be a point to them anymore since if they stay the same there won't be any need to pretend anymore as the last cycle of this little game ends with the next Trump.
Because that's how insurance works, generally speaking...?
If we want to blame meta for having opaque review processes with little option to appeal then i'd agree.

In terms of the implied proposition that israel is intentionally using the take down process to shield itself from criticism. I just dont think the evidence in the article supports that proposition. I would expect the stuff mentioned in the article to happen both in the case Israel is trying to get criticism taken down and in the case Israel is only interested in having "kill 'em all" type posts taken down. So i don't find the article very compelling.
His review contains comments annotated on a book of 300+ pages. I don't think it would have made this section any better by deep diving into his review.
Talking to customers is a good thing.

Let's normalize it.
The best Linux I have ever seen is Linux Mint. I tried it out because I needed to do something with firewire, but all of the other Linux kernels had dropped firewire, and it was the only one left that still supported it. I found it to be intuitive and friendly and everything just worked.
Microsoft never should have dropped Xenix to invent its own OS.
A few days ago - I had some strict requirements of extremely low monthly cost (I only need it for sending and receiving SMS and for signing up for certain german services that require a German number) - so I want with O2 Prepaid. There are a lot of instant sign up eSIMs that are data only, which is not what I'm looking for.

I would be surprised if you're talking about an eSIM service that give you a phone number.
I'm surprised to learn anyone thought otherwise.
For all those into WebRTC, I just ran across this Reddit topic (link below), and the very latest post is one about a Chat App that was apparently just completed last week:

https://www.reddit.com/r/WebRTC/comments/1jwwfj5/quanta_chat...

It mentions Nostr, and makes me realize both Nostr and WebRTC can work well together. I haven't checked, but I'd guess there are Nostr apps using WebRTC to send Nostr messages around. I mean Nostr is basically just a crypto-signed JSON object.
There are also lots of extinct examples like Ichthyosaurs, Mosasaurs, Plesiosaurs

Modern examples are saltwater crocodiles, sea turtles or sea snakes
It's more the content creators who bear the brunt of toxic rage. Who you follow doesn't solve that problem
So, we have proof of a strong algorithm manipulation by Israel on the entire family of main US social media (those used by the older segment of the population); and yet you still manage to point your finger to a hypothetical, unproved manipulation of the algorithm on the competitors' social media to explain the difference in attitude between generations? But you have the answer here, there has been manipulation of the social media consumed by the older segment!
Thanks, I'll continue using chatddit.com or coding it that.
That's something I'd actually pay good money for - a streaming music service with a library as extensive as the major contenders (or better yet let me bring my own!), which learns my preferences not in isolation, but tracking how they affect each other and environment - this song is normally followed by that song, or this song usually gets skipped if playing while driving etc.
Maybe it's confirmation bias, in that I'm interested in the pitch for fewer HBO shows and so I don't feel it when they get cancelled after a half-assed attempt.

Netflix shouldn't bother signing shows without a 2 year contract at this point.
Plaque Begets Plaque, but Cholesterol and ApoB Does Not
Why fight God's will?
Where do you think the servers that power TikTok in the United States are? Who do you think administers those servers?
11 is mostly a solution looking for a problem. I don’t do windows day to day anymore, but the folks I work with who do aren’t excited anymore.
It’s basically immutable event sourcing with built-in replay and read model flexibility, without needing to build the whole infra stack yourself. You just send an event via a webhook or filehook to the "Data Core", and then via our cli command or the ui you can stream the data from the "Data Core", in the order it came in, anywhere you want.

But in the case of an actual application you would need events to be acted on instantly, like creating a user you would want it to be stored in the db immediately. This is where our "Transformers" come in.
Drivers can crash the rest of the kernel in Windows 7. People playing games during the Windows 7 days should remember plenty of blue screens citing either graphics drivers (mainly for ATI/AMD graphics) or their kernel anticheat software. Second, a “proof of correctness” has never been made for any kernel. Even the seL4 guys do not call their proof a proof of correctness.
People interact with brands differently to how they interact with humans.
“Richest man on planet must… (checks) succumb to corruption to survive! No ethical way forward!”
RFK Jr says Deep State 'is real,' called FDA employees 'sock puppet' of industry
Woodlice - e.g pillbugs / roly-polies - aren't shrimp, but they are crustaceans, probably evolving from something like a trilobite.
Coffee Too Weak? Try This
Building a global immunotherapy powerhouse translating science into survival
I remember that too. Microsoft was more aggressive and hostile towards the user than ever before.
Notoriously user-hostile companies should, at least.
Too soon for login.facebook.gov I think
I guess as "violating facebook terms of use". At some point i don't think what the standard is matters that much as long as its equally enforced against everyone.

Generally though i do think its legit for facebook to take down posts advocating for violence and terrorism. Devil is in the details.
To Escape the Grind, Young People Turn to 'Mini-Retirements'
It felt solid.
> The paper itself is behind a paywall so I can't see it

https://archive.org/details/s41586-025-08759-9
I'm not following the argument here, but turning off the flags on a given story doesn't turn HN into a free-for-all on a topic (on the contrary, we don't want too much repetition of any topic), and certainly the guidelines continue to apply as much as anymore. More, in fact ("Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html).
Or ChatGPT sucks.
As per those leaks, Adobe employees are already very aware that everyone despises them.
How the French Are Winning the Currency War One Croissant at a Time
The actor model in general doesn't really care about fault tolerance in the way that erlang does.
They just need to also make it illegal for Apple to take more than the credit card fee on in-app transactions and it might make some sort of economic sense to comply with this grab-bag of stuff in Europe.
Better security! A malicious actor only needs to change a few bytes in either the source or binary of OpenSSL to break it entirely (i.e. disable certificate checking).

Reproducible builds remove a single point of failure for authenticating binaries – now anyone can do it, not just the person with the private keys.
I tried playing this after buying it, but it was not what I expected. There was a lot of FPS moving around and aiming and that makes me nauseous so I had to turn it off. I guess there's no refunds on PS games unfortunately.
Going back a lil further to 2011… We had a lil fight[1][2] about the value of using perfect HTML semantics in the community. The outline algorithm was the big defense for <section>, but its problems were clear then: https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/11/pursuing-semantic-v...

[1] https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/11/our-pointless-pursu...

[2] https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/11/pursuing-semantic-v...
Patrick Collison joins Meta's board
If by “impossible to do anything”, you mean “anything that’s deeply anti-consumer”, then yes you’re right.

However having worked at several EU companies of various sizes, I can tell you that it’s very easy to operate in the EU if you don’t choose to exploit your customers.
I would disagree. German doctors regularly prescribe homeopathic medicine, misdiagnose patients and tell people they just need to drink tea, and also will not supply medicine when it is really needed. This is well researched.

Saying you can not get care by a qualified doctor in the UK is a completely false statement.
Oh snap, you’re right. My mistake!
> The thing that sets us apart from other animals is that we're able to control fire.

There is some suggestion that other animals can control fire.

https://indianapublicmedia.org/amomentofscience/fire-not-jus...

I don't know if that's completely verified or not, but it seems like a problematic definition. You could imagine a group of intelligent birds or apes could discover ways to control fire.

No, the thing that truly sets us apart from other animals is the ability to create the hydrogen bomb.
Again, what position? You keep saying "this question needs an answer"...in what context? For example, "we're building a bridge", "but sir, can you define 'what is a woman?'".

"I believe we should protect the environment" "But your supported political candidate wants to rollback legislation which would specifically protect the waterways and forests you claim are important from industrial dumping of toxic chemicals" is rather more relevant. Like that's a question which needs an answer, because the positions are mutually contradictory.

What contradictory position is being not answered by "what is a woman?"
> they have a legitimate argument that this is an unexpected, undeserved, unfair calamity for them, threatening to derail their lives, and lives of their dependents, across the entire sector - and therefore that laws should be changed to shield them, or compensate them for the loss. After all, that's what laws are for.

Lots of people have had their lives disrupted by technological and economic changes before - entire careers which existed a century ago are now gone. Given society provided little or no compensation for prior such cases of disruption, what’s the argument for doing differently here?
This goes against modern understanding that say LDL or ApoB is an independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Also interestingly one of the authors, Dave Feldman, was a fellow SWE that left tech and started challenging this notion.
string.Template does fundamentally the same sort of thing as str.format, or str.__mod__ (i.e. the % operator on strings). It was in a sense a prototype for str.format, introduced way back in Python 2.4 (https://peps.python.org/pep-0292/). It does create an instance of a separate type, but it neither pre-parses the string (the substitution is implemented using regexes that reprocess the original string each time) nor eagerly evaluates the values to substitute. Further, in order to change how the formatting is done, you'd have to subclass (with the new system, you just write a function that accepts the Template as a parameter).
The difference is in Germany you print that PDF out from the institution's website, and then send it to them by mail.
Noted. I edited it out.
I don't get the criticism either. Every time I try to post on a platform I miss the ability of just dragging a paragraph around to reorder it.
In the context of encouraging art, it totally is! Copyright and patents are 100% artificial and invented legal concepts that are based solely on the distaste for others profiting off a creator’s ideas. The reason for them is to encourage creativity by allowing creators to profit off new ideas.

So there’s no reason why “distaste” about AI abuse of human artists’ work shouldn’t be a valid reason to regulate or ban it. If society values the creation of new art and inventions, then it will create artificial barriers to encourage their creation.
Terry Pratchett's quote in one of his books (in fact I think this is a running gag, and appeared in multiple books):

Five exclamation marks, a sure sign of an insane mind

That's what I think about five closing parentheses too... But tbh I am also jealous, because I can't program in lisp at all
Pure bullshit rationalization. UXs of big tech are often full of dark-patterns, they're constantly copying from or acquiring smaller players, and they're only growing because of network effects.
Depends on how you're using AI. If you've already made decisions on architecture and code structure and your prompt looks like "fill in `someMethod` so that it calls `x` then does `y` and `z`", you're just having the AI transcribe things like a true assistant, but you're making the coding decisions.

If your prompt looks more like "make me an app that orders pizza and sends me an email" then you are not coding.
When you have companies using every dirty trick in the book to generate more revenue from microtransactions and their product is specifically targeted to minors, I can't say this is surprising. [1]

[1]: Star Stable Online
Related (Nov 2022 - 307 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33774353