skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this sounds easy, but it’s actually quite nontrivial in practice. You need special handling of such a limit for each kind of resource.

E.g. when my limit is reached to they remove the database, along with all backups, and all objects on S3? Since storage is billed, it should also be stopped when the limit is reached, right?

I think in practice among companies paying most of their revenue, there’d be zero interest in this, while it would be a lot of effort to implement.

This is really something specific to hobby projects, which just shouldn’t be using those “unlimited potential cost” services.
Thanks for posting that. A quick perusal of those slides looks good. I know what I'm going to be reading and watching this evening!
> Or maybe these are just products we don't need?

Silicon valley needs a product that will make us spend even more time online than our phones, in order to sell more ad inventory and make the line go up.

This is pretty much what's driving all of this, especially the AR stuff. It's not a solution in search of a problem. The problem is they need to sell more ads. The only issue is that it's a solution to their problem, not ours.
C# (.NET) vs. Go (Golang): Performance Benchmark in Kubernetes [video]
> Stupid and ultimately futile though the former mission was, the allied countries never thought they had a historical claim (or even any specific interest) in Afghanistan the way Israel covets (and certain factions within it openly proclaim their intent to fully displace the native population from) the West Bank and Gaza.

There's no much talk of historical claims on Gaza from Israelis besides very fringe groups who don't number a lot of people. Palestinians on the other hand are pretty much 100% united in their view that history necessitates they "free Palestine from the river to the sea", so if there are major historical claims they mostly come from the Palestinian side and their fans in the West and the Muslim world.

> Plainly false, given the plethora of genocide rampages in recent decades.

> And the extremely prominent media coverage of these situations, which cannot possibly have escaped your notice.

No not really, there was nothing resembling the circus around Israel not even close. Which ones do you mean were vastly talked about or protested against even with 1/100 the amount this does?
There's a note on the draft of this post with like 6 comments from people on our team about how the water bill is a bad example. I stand by what I wrote!
This works better than I expected. Orient your front page to give a less vague and more detailed example, because specific results are excellent. I am discouraged by the overuse of rounded corners, but encouraged by the correctly equalized white space and “in sample” choice of font sizes, paddings, etc. It does things well that programmers do poorly.

IMO the document layout folks and people building on top of that like at least 1 YC startup have a more promising path forward for whole-cloth complex component representations versus LLMs with robust prompts but no fine tuning.
None of this has to do with page size.
Scale down the entire Kubernetes Infra at once
Electronic computer BESM-1 (1956) [video]
You'll pay exactly the amount they think you can afford to pay and not a penny less.
Well now we know at least one person uses them.
I'd recommend thinking of this (and other accident forgiveness schemes from competitors) as a gesture of goodwill that rarely happens rather than an official part of the billing policy.

If you actually look at your contract, no cloud provider is going to contractually obligate themselves to forgive your bill, and you shouldn't be planning or predicting your bill based on it.
How are the forces being undersold here? A large-scale property management company can drastically influence the market without needing to fully capture it or even hold a majority.

Let's say of a given market, 30% of all units are owned by a large-scale property management company using this software.

If the prices of the 30% of those properties was artificially kept high, it would push renters to look at the 70% of other landlords whose prices were kept low as a result of not using this software, causing a demand on that part of the market.

As demand rises in the 70% of open-market-priced apartments, I would expect these property owners to see that there's a bump in demand and would understandably see this as an opportunity to nudge prices up a bit.

If your property only received 10 potential tenant candidates a month a year ago, and you're now seeing 14-15, you might be leaving money on the table.

Removing the cartel claim for a moment:

Say I'm at a farmers market with 4 produce stands. If one stand hikes their prices 40% for whatever reason, presumably people would start to consider visiting the other 3 produce stands.

Why wouldn't the other stands consider raising their prices with the increased attention?
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Probably very little, since the Android ecosystem is quite divorced from the Linux one.
Source code used in the benchmark

https://github.com/antonputra/tutorials/tree/main/lessons/20...
Their fault then. It's their time afterall.

It cannot be much easier than to install pre-commit hooks.
Genuinely curious because I setup TLS last night for my home servers and it took me 15 seconds.

In your words, why would I use this when I can run OpenSSL to instantly generate me a cert and root ca?
I don't see why having a different settlement layer would prevent the bank from freezing money that they have custody of.
This. Use it with vim and spend a day mapping any repetitive tasks to streamline things. It's magic. You could also use a bash script for creating backlinks, and it probably wouldn't be difficult to make a graph of all the connections using `dot` (graphviz).
Russia and China uses DPI, although they often use relatively simple heuristics (like matching a SNI in the beginning of a TLS session).
Yes, but the context here is Java or Kotlin running on Android, not embedded C.

Or do some Android applications run embedded C with only a Java UI? I'm not an Android dev.
>> leads to rising demand which has not been satisfied by new housing construction

we seem to accept this at face value, but there's lots of evidence that supply is not the only issue, or even the biggest. Example: in Toronto this year there's been over 220 large real estate projects go insolvent. There's clearly a limit on the demand side.
I think being a landlord is pretty much the easiest business ever. As compared to real businesses, who really produce products and really participate in competitive markets.
In my case I'm porting an earlier variant of the Torque Game Engine, so making it work with WebRTC would really come in handy!
Observation doesn't impact experiments. Interaction does. In fact, it is quite difficult to formulate the "collapse" of the wavefunction as a physical interaction and to the extent that we can, the experimental evidence seems to suggest that it is not. This is a common misconception about quantum mechanics, partly because even undergraduate texts conflate the uncertainty principal with observation.
Why would you assume it's all or nothing? Will (free or otherwise) implies something like effort and clearly we're not constantly applying effort. Believing in free will doesn't mean believing that everything results from it.
> If you are not filling your unit immediately, you are losing thousands of dollars a month.

This is false. If you have 100 units with monthly rents at: 100x$900 = $90000, 90x$1000 = $90000. 85x$1100= $93500. Of course we have no idea how many people will decide to not rent from you at different rates, but it should be obvious that the numbers can work out to it being better to not rent a few units if the price goes higher by enough as a result.

You are correct that a cartel has incentive to defect, but is it enough? You are correct that this is prisoner's dilemma, but it is a multiple round game which has very different incentives from a single round. You are better off in a single round defecting, but you are better off in repeated rounds if everyone plays with the cartel and so they are not defecting. (or at least not too much)
By that logic there’s no point in reimplementing the game at all. You should replay the game with an appropriate emulator. Or play the modern sequels.
I wonder if in the next 5 years there could be a device where the compute is your smartphone but it streams to a display on your AR/VR glasses. I guess the main issue would be where do you put the battery.
Depends on the seedbox most will give you root/ssh, others just give you a APi/web interface to a managed torrent client which can be convenient. Check r/seedboxes
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What side or main projects are you guys working on this week, or will be working on. Share your startup/indie-hacker stories.

Link to Last Project Showcase https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40955565
You make good points.

I think in order to make a good decision in all these possible scenarios (since you don't know which one a specific study might be in) is to make sure you have a good understanding of what the likelihoods are any single study is in one of these scenarios (ex: fraudulent).
Right now it would appear the perception and the reality of the likelihood a study is trustworthy is in disagreement.

Hopefully new incentives coupled with public statistics can help fix this.
It's not strange at all.

Driving is dangerous enough as it is. Adding the extra anxiety of getting lit up by a speed-limit camera for accidentally exceeding the speed limit does not make it safer.

Plus, we Americans are inventive. If there were no traffic cops, the wealthy and mischievous would simply modify their cars to hide their license plates when driving past speeding cameras on their normal route.
These issues don't exist in languages that aren't built on a marsh.

More specifically though, I feel like the way javascript libraries with types work is often painful to use and that's why people use TS's escape hatches, whereas the same thing doesn't happen in languages where everything is built on types from the get go.

The same friction is true for example of using C libraries from other languages.
There are very few situations where I'd want to wear a bulky headset for any length of time. Although I don't play video games, I could see that people who are into it might find them pretty cool.

The TV ads showing people at business meetings all wearing headsets and manipulating a shoe protoype in mid-air are just ridiculous. Or the one where a guy is trying to assemble a furniture kit and wearing a headset. Come on, you'll do better with a YouTube video and unobstructed eyes.
Sure, related to tuning because it's a pretty closed problem. The expertise in terms of tuning was developed over about ~800 years, but the math for modern tuning was known 500 years ago. It's conceivable that one could re-invent equal temperament and then quickly re-invent the modern tuner given everything we know about electronics and audio processing. However, that knowledge all builds on itself. If we decide that all audio processing is done with RNNs/ML instead of objective ("old") mathematics, then we're going to lose the ability to make a tuner, too, and eventually we'll need a new Fourier to come back up with the Fourier transform.

About the tomatoes in the other comment chain? Your guess is as good as mine whether we can recover that knowledge.
Why do you need to "capture and serialize useful data?" Wouldn't it be more fun to just be present where you're at?
Amazon thought people would say "Hey Alexa, buy more paper towels, a pack of soap, rent breaking bad season one, and tell me about the top rated blender in the store"

Instead people say "Hey Alexa, set a timer for 10:00"
Banks are for-profit and credit unions are not-for-profit. Banks will do whatever they think they can get away with to increase their profits, which affects every interaction you have with them. I've had accounts at Citibank and now multiple credit unions, and I regret ever having had accounts at Citibank. They were constantly making things difficult in new ways. I don't know how the bureaucracy compares, but how they treat customers is definitely different.
I can absolutely see myself falling into that same trap. Thinking that it's just a misunderstanding and that it'll get resolved any day now, just have to do one more thing. They can't be that unreasonable right? The unfortunate lesson that that you have to assume the worst and escalate right away.
Not a chance am I putting my personal thoughts into someone’s AI whisper app. There was a discussion earlier today about BYOK (bring your own keys). Maybe check that out for inspiration to allow more control over the data
> First, I think it’s very common to want to expose managed memory to native. In fact, it might be the dominant case. If I want to call out to perform a crypto operation on a block of bytes I got from a Java operation, I don’t want to copy them first.

Doing it this way is not so common in Java anyway. First, primitive operations for crypto are intrinsics in Java and operate without FFI at all. Second, IO input and output buffers in high-performance applications are typically in off-heap buffers anyway (i.e. you serialize data to an off-heap buffer and then do crypto and then send it over the wire, or you receive data in an off-heap buffer, do crypto, and then deserialize).

> Second, I think you’re missing the use case for manipulating system APIs. If you want to perform some system call and the call requires setting up some structures as arguments, that’s going to be pretty expensive in Java.

It's not, because FFM allows you to manipulate native structs with no overhead. You do this efficient kind of stack allocation of native structures with FFM's Arenas and SegmentAllocator (https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/22/docs/api/java.base...)

> They don’t write systems software in Java and they don’t embed into big, performance-sensitive native apps, like games.

It's true low-level programs are typically not written in Java, but the applications programming market is bigger. I wouldn't be at all surprised if applications written in Java alone comprise a bigger market than all intrinsically low-level applications combined. As for embedding in another application, there is no intrinsic reason not to do it in Java, but 1. traditionally and for "environmental" reasons Java hasn't been huge in the games space (except for Minecraft, of course) and 2. it's been less than six months since FFM became a permanent feature in the JDK; JNI, the FFI mechanism that preceded FFM was really quite cumbersome to use so it's not surprising people opted for more convenient FFI.
There've been a couple mentions of Unreal recently, and they keep making me semi wistful over the time I had playing U2:XMP (eXtended Multi-Player).

A nice capture-the-flag game with deplorables & vehicles. Amazing set of 3rd party maps. It'd be amazing to see this brought to a modern engine, especially if the maps could be imported.
https://youtu.be/Gj8IA6xOpSk?t=140
But then why not just shut the whole thing down? Tell customers that the services will be shutdown January 1st. 2026 and yank the remaining device from the store? That's where we're heading anyway.
One at a time, low text density, advanced settings obfuscated at best and removed at worst, quick shortcuts (cpl and such) won't exist anymore. The settings are a fantastic way to solve absolutely nothing by clicking on very large buttons.
> I've opened another business account and a personal travel credit card with Chase

Out of interest, why would you do that after your previous experience with them?
Anecdotal but of the few people that showed me their smart ray bans, 0 actually wear them, let alone use the smart functionality.
New startup idea:

Pool unused "accident" credits, automate the forgiveness request, and sell it to the highest bidder.
Microsoft formally deprecates the Windows Control Panel
Ask HN: What are some ways to deal with deal with contractors comitting fraud
I'm a lead engineer at my company and I often have to deal with outsourced developers in foreign countries. Not my choice.

I have a good reason to believe that one (if not multiple) of our contractors is stealing company time by using ChatGPT or some other LLM, not even running the generated code or spot-checking it, sitting on it for days or even weeks to make it look like they are working and then tossing it over the fence for our internal seniors to review it so that it gets fixed. I honestly wouldn't even be suprised if they are using the code review feedback as part of a new prompt while "iterating" the code.

I started to get suspicious when I was getting small merge requests with code that was obviously broken at a glance. It was clear to me at the time that they didn't even execute the code once because it would obviously just crash instantly. More and more I started noticing the patterns of LLM generated code in style and comments, as well as seemingly random changes to completely unrelated portions of code being included in PRs unrelated to their given tickets. Most recently, I received a PR that was so obviously and egregiously broken and full of LLM-isms there is just zero chance this person even tried to make it work as it had a blatant infinite crash-loop in it. I doubt this person even has a local setup of the codebase on their machine.

Now, I'm not completely opposed to developers using LLM assistants like copilot or whatever and I have used them myself for time to time; this is on a whole other level though. My issue is that this person is essentially stealing company time by using the LLM to write their code and sitting on it, while also "stealing" company time away from QA and other developers who need to review, test and ultimately fix it. Notwithstanding any bugs that are innocuously injected by the LLM, or the problems with intellectual property with sending our code to whatever LLM is being used.

My kneejerk reaction is to fire them for cause immediately and nullify their contract, also refuse to pay them for any work they've done this cycle as it is not fit for purpose. Frankly if this person was in the country, I would be contacting the police for fraud charges but I have no idea how I would even start taking action against a foreign outsourcing agency, other than just refusing to use them in the future. We have multiple developers from the same agency and I have noticed suspicious code from them before but nowhere near as bad as the main example in this post but now I feel like I cannot trust any of them at all.

Am I overreacting? Has anyone had to deal with this and what did you do? How do you protect yourselves from this happening in the future?
I'm getting Google Glass flashbacks.
Here in Sweden, I've seen some restaurants (I can't speak to the frequency of it) having cooked fish in some of the choices.
I couldn't make sense of it either. The top level comment doesn't make sense as written.

>One of the best tools to set a Windows/Reactos computer among MMC.exe, and now their are ditching it because of braindead mobile users with no clues to solve anything.

I was just skipping the comment because it was made no sense and seems to be trying to be hostile.

Skipping it is arguably more toxic than asking politely to rephrase it. Skipping it assumes the meaning behind the comment isn't worth trying to decipher.

I default to, "If they can't be bothered to write it properly then it's probably not worth reading". But that's not always fair to EFL people or NT people.

What do you feel the correct course of action is?

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Edit:
Based on the comment and what pcdoodle has said, is this a fair representation of how you interpret the comment?

>Control Panel is one of the best tools to configure a Windows/ReactOS computer. (Another such tool is "MMC.exe".)

>Braindead and clueless mobile users can't figure out how to use Control Panel. That's why Microsoft are ditching Control Panel in favour of the more iOS/Android-style Settings.

>This is frustrating to me as a Windows power user.
Pages sizes are often important to code that relies on low-level details of the environment it’s running in, like language runtimes. They might do things like mark some sections of code as writable or executable and thus would need to know what the granularity of those requests can be. It’s also of importance to things like allocators that hand out memory backed by mmap pages. If they have, say, a bit field for each 16-byte region of a page that has been used that will change in size in ways they can detect.
The cost of punishment has also skyrocketed. Keeping someone in jail "a few years to cool off" costs a fortune.
One problem is that gravity is universally coupling, so no part of the universe is technically "unobserved." I suspect that we could look back at the dynamics of large scale systems and see deviations from GR if the simulation were neglecting any part of the universe in the absence of observation/interaction.

If I were building a simulation I would just have not made gravity universally coupling because it makes it hard to chunk reality up into parts. Thus it seems like the universal coupling of gravity is evidence against a simulation hypothesis.
What is the supposed regulatory solution to grandma being convinced that she needs to pay the government with iTunes gift cards?

I know people working for a gift card company. Their customer support has often had to argue to grandmas that, no, the IRS or jail does not accept iTunes gift cards. These people are so caught up in the scam by the time they go buy gift cards that they will SCREAM at you if you attempt to explain what is going on. They have already been told by the scammer that people will try and prevent them from buying the gift cards and they STILL go along with it.

The gift card company does not want this to happen, because those sales are guaranteed chargebacks, and therefore guaranteed negative profit. But there's nothing you can program into a risk model to prevent grandma from buying a gift card and sending the code to someone willingly.

Actually, there was one thing that worked okay: Banning the entire country of Nigeria from receiving gift cards in any way, but that made some employees uncomfortable and is no longer as effective.
I don't think any of these requirements are necessary. A basic "if I reach my bill limit, turn off things that are billing" toggle would suffice for 80%+ of users, especially with better billing controls/per-team billing accounts. I think you run into more problems/user frustrations with a tenuous conditional-shut-off approach.

My tinfoil hat is that a lot of cloud billing is accidental, probably from "lab environments", and they don't want to provide a way to budget/limit these.
I'm constantly losing, scratching, or breaking sunglasses. I buy them at $30 tops, not $300.
What you are doing is just good business. You are not implicitly or explicitly colluding with other property owners to set you prices. You are simply doing market research based on publicly available data and making an independent decision.

Contrast this with a cartel that includes a significant number of landlords in your city (i.e. way more than just a couple of your buddies) that (1) shares non public info such as current occupancy rates, current lease terms and durations, etc., (2) sets prices as a bloc, and (3) enforces compliance on pricing targets.

It’s qualitatively different from how you described your situation.
My cellular ISP doesn't seem to be bound by that, even though every cable ISP I've been with has. :(

If there's some US law I can cite at them like a magic invocation to make their dumb combo device go away in favor of my own cellular modem, though, I'd like to.