skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've def. wanted to have spending caps on a lot of my projects. The ones I've tried: AWS and GCP made this ridiculously difficult. It might be that they will waiver the bill, but the general feeling that they get to decide if I go bankrupt or not is nightmare fuel.

In the end, I've just set up a 5$ vps where I self-host all my apps. That removes all the stress.
You're right. Since the postal worker knows his route, he knows my name. So snail mail works perfectly well. Same for the Amazon delivery person (took a few visits). Same for the local pizza place.

It's online address suggestion/validation/one-time deliveries that don't work well. E.g. Uber Eats and DHL drivers always require a phone call so that I can guide them along the final hundred meters of their delivery. I usually go downstairs and meet them at the curb.
Can you share some of those examples?
Show HN: Chess Blindfold Calculation Trainer
A while ago I started to become obsessed with calculating chess positions 'blindfolded'. Since there wasn't a training resource that I liked, I decided to start building my own.

This is the first trial version of my approach where I collected interesting puzzles and modified them for blindfold purposes. Also included is a trainer to practice square colours and a collection of master vs. amateur games to play though in the mind (more features are planned and in progress).

For extra fun I split the puzzles into easy and hard categories, with an end boss waiting at the end of each set. So if you play chess and are up for the challenge, be sure to check it out :)
Please show your work. I cannot reproduce "3gb of dependencies".

Here is my test:

Cargo.toml

[package]
name = "serde-test"
version = "0.1.0"
edition = "2021"

[dependencies]
serde = { version = "1.0.208", features = ["derive"] }
serde_json = "1.0.127"

src/main.rs

use serde::Deserialize;

#[derive(Deserialize)]
struct Foo {
bar: String,
}

fn main() {
let foo: Foo = serde_json::from_str("\"bar\": \"baz\"").unwrap();

println!("{}", foo.bar);
}

$ cargo build && cargo build --release && du -sh target

...

78M target
Strongly advocate for this!

Another word that automatically got removed from the title is why and this happened to me a lot. The system should, at least, notify you that the title has been edited. Fortunately, you can re-edit the title and bring back what was removed.
this 100%. serde is a bloated monster, its sad that its the popular JSON, because all it does is make Rust look bad in my opinion. here are some smaller options:

https://lib.rs/crates/humphrey_json

https://lib.rs/crates/rust_json

https://lib.rs/crates/sj
It was designed for corporate management to prove the WFH employees are goofing off. It’s the only way the lack of security passed any kind of giggle test at MS. Corporate accounts are the only MS customers that matters.
>The real reason Tesla is suffering is because they've not delivered on innovation, quality, or price in a long time.

Haha what. Price has dropped, quality increased, their self driving tech recently had a step change in functionality. I don't really think Tesla is suffering but I think most of these narratives are in peoples heads and don't reflect reality.
Don’t wear one of these near me. I don’t want you recording our everyday conversations as a matter of habit. Ask permission first.
The most popular BMW EV is probably the i4, which has that incredibly loud and ugly 4-series grille shape with a flat, plasticky-looking material. They're very noticeable! In a bad way.

Image: https://bmwi.bimmerpost.com/forums/attachment.php?s=aae66d26...
Thanks!

> I'm happy to talk about this all day!

With noobs, too? ;)

> Often, the CPU has different number of entries for each page size.

- Does it mean userspace is free to allocate up to a maximum of 1G? I took pages to have a fixed size.

- Or, you mean CPUs reserve TLB sizes depending on the requested page size?

> With 2 MiB or 1 GiB pages, there is less contention and more workingset size is covered by the TLB

- Would memory allocators / GCs need to be changed to deal with blocks of 1G? Would you say, the current ones found in popular runtimes/implementations are adept at doing so?

- Does it not adversely affect databases accustomed to smaller page sizes now finding themselves paging in 1G at once?

> my PhD is on memory management and address translation on large memory systems

If the dissertation is public, please do link it, if you're comfortable doing so.
These banks are too big to fail and get bail outs funded by taxpayers (and SMEs), and yet SMEs are too small to matter and entire livelihoods can be thrown to ruins based on ahat is often a very subjective and often erroneous risk process. I understand banks have to comply with laws and often complex risks but i doubt they would shutdown accounts of companies worth over $1B unless youre violating some serious laws and even then it would probably be done with a lot more caution due to risk of law suit.

I doubt Mercury can do much more as arent they just a vrand on top of a bank? Like Heroku vs AWS.
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law
This is awesome, I've had a need for this for quite a while, and had cooked up something similar before, but will probably swap to using this.
I'm not sure I've ever used any library that goes to any particular effort to support this sort of thing. The standard assumption for listboxes is that every row has the same height. So you'd probably handle it the same way you would with any other system: accept that there'll be some effort involved, and get the library to do the remainder for you. So, probably, something like let the library know the total height of the contents, have it look after the viewport height and scroll bar position for you, and then draw the viewport contents as required.
It was talk about a backdoor in OpenBSD's IPsec stack. The software was audited and nothing was found. The person who stepped forward (after being named) claimed on Twitter to have been formerly involved with the FBI and a supposed project of theirs looking into the feasibility of infiltrating the OpenBSD developer sphere in order to plant a backdoor, but that the project never reached planning.

Edit: the discussions and auditing of the IPsec stack happened around 2011 if memory serves me right. The supposed backdoor "happened" a decade earlier. The "agent" was named Greg Perry.
I assure you I'm not making a fuss. I'm genuinely sorry that you've encountered people who were so strong in their insistence that they left you responding so emotionally to someone on an internet forum.
Nobody in Europe wants to buy from Elon.
So, the guy who rushes up and parks his car right by yours in the otherwise spacious bank parking lot to block yours from view, the fellow wearing a mask, hat and dark glasses who's sporting a "Suspicious Person Here" flashing Caution button on his Tshirt, is he going to cause trouble for the bank's opinion of you?
It’s obviously not a suggestion for everyone as I understand. If I could edit my original comment I would strike out my suggestion.
Even using managed k8s such as GKE, at $DAYJOB, we have run into issues where the default DNS configuration with kube-dns just falls over, and DNS resolution within workloads starts hanging/timing out. We were doing absolutely nothing special. Debugging it was challenging, and GCP support was not helpful.
Super interesting! Thank you for this. I was working on a hardware project that this probably would have helped a lot with. I was writing some python but the package couldn't be compiled on my local machine so I had to run a dev server off my pi directly. I wonder if this can help.
I felt this keenly when my children were very young. At times I only had one arm/hand free because I was holding a child in the other. Or I could only read poorly in the dark because I didn’t want to turn on the lights and disturb the kids.

Since then I always see accessibility thinking as a universal benefit, not just for the “abled”.
context: https://x.com/_xjdr/status/1827105681348198550
> Tesla has massively benefited from subsidies to EVs, but is alienating the political party that has enabled all of that.

Well, he's expecting some reciprocity from the next administration for all his help, and Trump has said openly that he will support EVs as a consequence of Elon's strong support.
It does not take much.

In Germany, TÜV (Mandatory inspections in Germany), placed Tesla Model 3 for 111th in reliability, just behind Dacia Logan which was in the second last place, when the first mandatory inspections in 2023 started.

You can find many sources about this, here one example:

https://www.carscoops.com/2023/12/tesla-model-3-ranked-last-...
alias wgetnc='wget --no-check-certificate'
;)
Oh yeah. I remember when it was only in pubs so I could only play these games with a guardian. I remember everyone knowing the traditional monitor would be gone in a few years.
International courts - especially US ones - have de facto overrides on UK sovereignty in many domains.

If Royal Mail put the asset into a US subsidiary then US courts must protect it.

Regardless of what the UK domestic authorities say, very few entities would be willing to risk violating US copyright laws.
Roger Cook Has Died
A few non-US airlines did try just that !
Oh man! I’d forgotten all about the UnrealIRCd backdoor! I was running an IRC network at the time. What a blast from the past.
Do you tell the same to millions of people who wear headphones and Meta Raybans?
I propose: the actions of the owner/CEO is partially responsible for that
Yeah, it's a real problem. It's not 4x better since the assumptions don't hold up. Check out Figure 5 from [0] to see what the software is up against. I have no idea how well first party software handles this motion.

[0]: http://aggregate.org/DIT/PARSEK/paper.pdf
As far as ICE vehicles go, most mechanics will advise you to lease a BMW / Audi over buying one. After 60k miles, the maintenance costs and electrical gremlins are noticeably frequent.

German EV's are probably better built - fewer electrical issues over a longer duration (I hope), and fewer moving parts to replace.

I think this is a product differentiation / segmentation problem. People who wanted the current Tesla offering are being outnumbered by people who want buttons / information displayed front and center.
Great marketing. I hadn’t heard of this movie, now it’s controversial. Now we just need some mob threats like The Godfather.
Have you tried to develop a decent sized project with LLMs? What was the experience?
Downloading via torrents by default implies distribution (from technical point of view).
curl 'https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41332427' | grep -i just

(16)
I think you're right, but I'm not so sure it's actually impacting sales to a large degree. For most people a 50k car is a huge investment that won't hinge on whether or not you agree with the CEO's politics.
With the current reputation, who wants to work for them? Of course some might support it, but it must seriously limit candidates. Not a surprise they don't deliver. Of course one can always ask, what was first, chicken or egg...
Vercel has spending caps as of about a month ago.
From section 4.7:

> English content tends to have higher toxicity scores [...] on average, the toxicity of English content is three times higher than that of Japanese content

This is remarkable especially since section 4.3 says there are more Japanese posts compared to English posts after the public opening.
To verify they received it, signed for it, and to, essentially, guarantee that it would also be logged into my account. Emails are supported in court, but a certified letter or courier service has, essentially, zero grounds for evidentiary hearing challenges.

The purpose was to layout an explicit log of prior communications and the terms of any/all communications moving forward (only physical mail), actions they needed to take if they wanted the account to remain active, and a time frame under which they needed to take those actions. Franky, just bog-standard financial dispute stuff.
Wow, Quartz looks really good. Thank you for sharing!
I've never heard a convincing pitch for BlueSky over Mastodon/fediverse in the decentralized social media debate. Anyone want to give it a go?
And yet today BWM's marketcap is about $70bn (~53bn Euros) vs Tesla's $690bn.
Is there really 10x the potential?

Edit: My formulation is confusing. I meant whether folks really think that Tesla will eventually have 10x BMW's revenue.
Cool marketing, but when will Basecamp actually become better than the competitors in the space? It hasn’t been relevant for years.
From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39866275 by rwmj:

> Very annoying - the apparent author of the backdoor was in communication with me over several weeks trying to get xz 5.6.x added to Fedora 40 & 41 because of it's "great new features". We even worked with him to fix the valgrind issue (which it turns out now was caused by the backdoor he had added). We had to race last night to fix the problem after an inadvertent break of the embargo.

> He has been part of the xz project for 2 years, adding all sorts of binary test files, and to be honest with this level of sophistication I would be suspicious of even older versions of xz until proven otherwise.
I don't think this is much of an influence in the European market.
> a consequence of Elon's strong support.

What strong support? I recall that Elon publicly announced he was going to do a massive contribution to Trump's campaign fund, and then he announced like two days later that he wasn't going to do it.
Perhaps. But since TextBundle lets one specify the content type, you can always choose one that better suits your purposes.
Unprompted shout out for a Mac equivalent that I like:

https://loshadki.app/openin4/
Don’t conflate this with the ongoing trendy systemd hate. There are myriad other attack vectors out there.
It absolutely is NOT what humans are doing.

When humans write, they are serializing thoughts. Humans (well, most of us. Certainly not AI enthusiasts), are reasoning and thinking.

When AI writes, it is following a mathematical pathway to string words together that it has seen together before in the given context.
I swear the target folder for literally any project of any scale is at least several GB in size.
Many no-compensation-listed jobs do not exist. They're there to hoover up CVs.

Anothrr reason, in the contract world would to maximize profits. Usually the agency makes their 20%, but it could increase drastically if they think you can be put in for less. I've seen them skimming up to a third off the top.

Company names are usually confidential because the agencies are all in competition with each other. Though a few do lock down sole agency agreements.

Often there are generic "xyz developer" roles that require 5 years experience etc... That they use from a previous client.

Remember recruitment agencies are sales funnels, and you're the product.

They're usually set up with a few account managers and a team of associates that work underneath them.

The associates rarely know anything about the skills involved in the role. They won't know the difference between MySQL and postres - just that they're different keywords. They could be straight out of school/university

Account managers are usually a little more savvy. These are the people who are in direct contact with the company hiring.

Often they'll get a decent database of clients and candidates then run off to another agency, or set themselves up as an agency themselves.

Some directors have been known to sell their agencies after building up a nice database of clients and CVs and be established for a number of years. Only to spring up again with that database after the non-compete clause in the sales agreement expires.

It's quite a seedy world out there in recruitment.

Always assume they're sharks and never reveal hiring manager names, or ex bosses. Some of them are really nice, but don't ever forget they're always after more information.
> provider forgiving the bill

That eventually will be factor into the price like credit card fraud insurance. Better have it be more transparent.
Why does getting a job in tech suck?
I’d suggest that Tesla is high rather than BMW being low. It’s the only way for a normal person who is a Musk fan to buy into any part of his empire, so you have demand from people who are Musk fans and express that fandom by buying stocks.
You can do that in a container, no need for a VM.

docker run -itd ubuntu:24.04
...
docker exec -it df36 /bin/bash
...
root@df365a3d2257:/# apt update
...
root@df365a3d2257:/# apt upgrade
...
And a technical sense yes but the only new model they’ve released recently is the cyber truck. Otherwise their sedans and crossovers outwardly appear to be basically the same thing they were selling in 2012. Meanwhile, BMW has a fleet of eight different electric vehicles, with more modern styling, leather, and just the ability to differentiate. Of course, Tesla is well into the black on their models whereas I doubt the BMW will get out of the red anytime soon.
Musk never announced that.
I'm not a "car person", so forgive me if this is wildly off, but it always seemed like Tesla was going for the market segment of "not super rich, but wealthy enough to afford luxury"... That is, it's been positioned as a 'luxury' brand. Dropping prices doesn't seem like it would be productive in that context. (Quality improvements, as you mentioned, certainly will, tho.)

> their self driving tech recently had a step change in functionality

Can you please expound on this? What does this mean in more concrete terms?
The government gave up its property rights when the Royal Mail was privatised.

Taking it would be like taking back a Rolls Royce factory, BP oilfield or other formerly state owned asset.

The state could nationalise the asset in theory, but that’d involve leaving international treaties and causing foreign copyright issues.
> may only come within tens of dollars of accurately predicting your water bill

Uh, what is the magnitude of these water bills? I’m fairly certain I can predict it to within a few dollars because it’s only $35 in the first place.
Not a day goes by where there isn’t some greybeard having a huge sulk about how nobody wants to use his collection of esoteric bash scripts that nobody else will ever understand, but HE does.
Especially the electronics.
It is possible to have a project set up with a manifest which contains only a single activity with android.app.NativeActivity pointing to a .so, and zero lines of java/kotlin/flutter/whatever else - though your app initialization will go through usual hoops of spawning a java-based instance.

Minimal example would be https://github.com/android/ndk-samples/blob/master/native-ac..., though there are well established Qt based apps as well
And if you don't watch stuff with your friends or family.
They're at the 1980s toy computer level of usefulness - fun to play with, a few useful applications, but hopelessly clumsy and underpowered in terms of real user needs.

No one was sure what real user needs would be in the 80s. It turned out the all-time killer USP was a global data network, which could be accessed through keyboard+screen terminals and pocket devices, and which replaced a lot of slow paper and phone call transactions of all kinds with near-instant access.

VR/AR is currently a wart on that. It won't come into its own until there's some equivalent new killer USP, which isn't just a different way of accessing what's there already.

I'd guess there's going to be some kind of live AI rendering of both real and simulated interactions. But it's going to have to be far beyond what we're used to today to be interesting.
> We were way fucking surprised at the output of token prediction

Were we? Investors were, but most people don't use ChatGPT today. I actually remember reading that OpenAI is struggling to stay solvent as a business and the outcome of their products are rather surprisingly useless. Token prediction holds a conversation as well as a Markov chain or ELIZA - big whoop. Neither of those are suitable replacements for customer service, and neither is AI for as long as it's an unconscious text generator. This is what it looks like when tech is DOA.

And you know what else, I'm not afraid of "brain in a jar" computers either. Businesses don't solve problems for AI or for jar-brains, they solve problems for humans. The fact that we all struggle through this bitch of a life together is advantage enough for humans to identify problems and offer gratifying communal solutions. AI is no more familiar with our lives on Earth than it is Frodo's life in the Shire. It can only render solutions amenable to the perverse portrayal of reality that text provides for it.

Confident soothsayers slay future Theranos. Show me progress or GTFO, that's my policy.
I really want this narrative to be true because I actually do like Teslas, but I can’t find any evidence for any of your claims.
Same but on Hetzner. Incredibly beefy machines. Unlimited traffic. No fear of any sudden changes that I explicitly didn't act upon. I do not know why people fall for the shiny marketing so easily, that too hackers? Is it all the Javascript folks? Vercel I know is propped up by them for sure.
This change marks the change of every file, not every line or every character. Every directory was already changed
The step-change is real, and a lot of people don't know that Tesla now has the best self-driving ability out of all the competition. But that's only true on 4th gen hardware, and unfortunately that represents a minority of the vehicles sold to date.
Hasn't seemed to matter for sales or profit. Every big oem loses money on their cars. Hows that for an avoidable failure
I thought Chinese electric car are selling way more than Tesla around the world.
Somewhat ironically one of the best examples of absurdly awful UI/UX because someone decided they know best.
As of now it’s still early stage where LLM at best is used to write some apps, when it starts curing a few hard to cure diseases, or a new physics/tech is discovered, government are not really gonna panic
Palantir for Developers
No theres about 100x
German warship blasts Darth Vader anthem in heart of London. 'No deeper message'
and wget is -o ; when i have a head full of tasks and code i only remember that they are different and tend to wget things, unless of course i am on a bsd and reach for fetch
The new Model 3 is new and has lots of interior features not found in competitors' cars of the same price range (ventilated and heated rear seats, screen for rear occupants, ambient lighting, Autopilot as standard, etc).
Sorry, that's what I meant, but formulated badly... Do people really think that Tesla has a 10x future revenue upside compared to BMW.
It's a GH6, so probably the same system roughly...

And yes that's what I said, sorry if I wasn't clear.

It does get more "pixels" resolution, the image file is 100MP, but it's certainly not 4X the image resolution in terms of image quality. Not that I was expecting that, but it's not even a middle ground that I consider usable, at least not good enough to use over a normal 25MP picture.

I've done a bunch of landscape shots (with a very solid tripod, camera in silent mode, shutter release delay, no wind, etc) and generally I've found the results mixed-to-bad..

Like I said, it seems like the algorithm has a hard time stitching the images together often so if you zoom into the details (and really if you're using this mode, it's ostensibly because you want more detail), things get fuzzy or muddy in most of the pictures I've taken.

To be fair I took maybe 20-30 test shots in the first 6 months I owned that camera, and I haven't gone back to the mode since.. Maybe some of it is user error, but I really did try to make it work because it seemed like a cool feature.