skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Feature request: Write more guides that charge the user $400/day for a toy example.
Until recently, with alcohol. Which is completely wrong, and fortunately, realized it on time. Now with less “f-s” given, more reading (fiction and fantasy) and more walking (preferably early in the morning when it is quiet).
I didn't publish a long article claiming to go into the 'deep history', I just added a few points. I initially had a longer comment but it go unwieldy.
Apple added a feature called "inactivity reboot" in iOS 18.1
Here's part of Stefan's email on the mailing list:

Debian Junior Desktop has been activated for weekly live image
builds [1]. I think that this "Developer Edition" of Debian
Junior is an important milestone for our project. People who are
interested to support development, can download the image [2] and
provide feedback, do testing and contribute to the project.

Thanks to the people who helped to get it done!

[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-cd/2024/11/msg00020.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-jr/2024/11/msg00008.html
[2] https://get.debian.org/images/weekly-live-builds/amd64/iso-hybrid/
Might just as well compare it with EPYC/Xeon.. would be about as meaningful.

If we just ignore price and power usage entirely it’s pretty pointless.

Of course Studio and the Mac Pro probably don’t really offer such great value as the Mini
Very thorough and well written account of a difficult process.
There are sooo many programmers in China that they don’t value programming. You get paid peanuts because there’s so many people to do the job.
Indeed. Shameless plug of a toy I built that lets you see the price difference :

https://baremetalsavings.com
New SaaS platform categories are born
> It’s so difficult to be paranoid about every single technology you use. When using new technologies that promise to speed up the developer flow, I already expect them to be more expensive than bare metal, but I think this is beyond the pale.

It's always been. They are always pushing boundaries and checking what they can get away with. The response "we’ve processed a billing adjustment for the unexpected charges as a one time courtesy." even though it looks like a bug and it hasn't been fixed since is already telling.
While I don't like Amazon one but, I appreciate that you don't go into the Evil Big Tech trope. Things at that scale are indeed complicated and hard to coordinate.

That said: fuck, that's expensive and poorly explained! Not doing anything cloud without hard limits!
check AI, green energy, EV, mobile computing, cloud computing, quantum stuff, robots etc. it is pretty much China vs US now when it comes to quality.

how many people would seriously believe that EU or Japan can possibly compete with China on its own in terms of quality for those above mentioned sectors.

just looking at those low quality & high pollution Japanese & European cars.
I set up a private account on Azure to host a small, static website using 100% FREE components. However, it wasn't possible to do this without registering a credit card. Even when I tried to add a different card from Revolut, which is a prepaid card, I received a message stating that such cards are not accepted and that it has to be an actual CREDIT card.
Cloud computing is ridiculously expensive. The other day I wanted to increase Mongo Atlas iops by 1000 on a 3 node cluster and it costs $3000 a year. How does that make any sense?
It's good that the prices are more visible.
But the price of the rent will mostly be affected by the supply/demand curve.

Year Units Built Population Change (Number)

2019 26,900 -80,967

2020 23,000 +641,579

2021 24,000 -250,184

2022 24,000 -181,326

2023 27,980 -101,984

Last 5 years not much change in supply, but demand varies.

(based on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_New_York_(stat...)
A genuine question, have you evaluated AI for marking written work?

I'm not an educator, but it seems to me like gippity would be better at analyzing a students paper than writing it in the first place.

Your prompt could provide the AI the marking criteria, or the rubric, and have it summarize how well the paper hits the important points.
Serato Lite is free (as in beer) and you just need to buy a pair of timecoded vinyl records, which are pretty cheap.
His tweets are quite interesting. E.g.

https://x.com/fchollet/status/1638057646602489856

https://x.com/fchollet/status/1840486105118015901

https://x.com/fchollet/status/1845103528806662258
>pipe cli output directly to VSCode in the shell and then it opens a tab displaying that output

Example from VSCode Terminal: $ echo hello | code -
Was there a single laptop chip included in the benchmark?

They are comparing a 5w CPU with 80-200w ones.. which is entirely pointless.
Linux Local Privilege Escalation, but the attacker has to be in sudo group in the first place.

Great read, but this feels like academic research. Technically correct, but impractical at best.
I've been programming for 20 years and mostly JS for the last 10 years. Right now, I'm learning Go. I wrote a simple CLI tool to get data from several servers. Asked GPT-4o to generate some code, which worked fine at first. Then I asked it to rewrite the code with channels to make it async and it contained at least one major bug.

I don't dismiss it as completely useless, because it pointed me in the correct direction a couple times, but you have to double-check everything. In a way, it might help me learn stuff, because I have to read its output critically. From my perspective, the success rate is a bit above 0, but it's nowhere close to "magical" at all.
Your username would suffer from this policy, as would anyone describing themselves as a hacker.
Moving .gov.uk to a new registry
I would like to see one Guide like this for writing code with better chances of keep getting better on your craft.
What makes WebVM (and CheerpX, the underlying virtualization engine) different is the level of performance that we have achieved.

Although CheerpX is not yet perfect and additional optimizations are required on its floating point and vector pipelines, it's already fast enough to be practically useful on many use cases, especially when legacy/older binaries are virtualized.
Haha, it's more expensive than Japan.
A frog in a well does not know the ocean.
This is basically a whole section in the grifters guide to business. Placing small hurdles to refunds via things like asking for one / filling out a form / cashing physical cheques etc will result in not having to give back 100% of the money that you have taken from people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embarrassing_cheque
Traefik plus my service is two layers. My service has a DB hidden behind it, it's three layers. I put a VPN in front of it, and now it's four.

My service doesn't take much resources, also the DB I use is light by itself. I added traefik, which is also light, and the VPN daemon which is also light.

However, these four layers are not light. They're heavier. I'd rather don't have Traefik in front and have a lighter stack, because for that much resources, I can run another server at another port, which can save me another VPS (money, maintenance time, documentation and interconnection).

I mean, we were using jails before Linux had containers. I'm not new to system administration or computers in general.

I don't get angry because things are complicated/hard. I get angry because we waste resources and write bad software because we somehow think "worst is the best".

Things add up. Light becomes heavy, easy becomes meaninglessly complex. This shouldn't be like that.
Yeah but remote management is definitely way harder.

That's not to say that management isn't hard anyway, but remote makes it even harder.
Atlas.co wants its web-based mapping tool to be the Figma of geospatial data
:sigh:

With all the concern over AI, it's being used _against recommendations_ to detect AI usage? [0][1]

So while the concern for using AI is founded, teachers are so mistaken at understanding what it is and the tech around is that they are using AI in areas it's publicly acknowleded it doesn't work. That detracts from any credibility the teachers have about AI usage!

[0] https://openai.com/index/new-ai-classifier-for-indicating-ai... openai pulled their AI classifier
[1] https://mitsloanedtech.mit.edu/ai/teach/ai-detectors-dont-wo...
> D&B is just jungle 14 BPM faster.

As a jungle fan since the 90s, don't spout that offensive nonsense ;)

Seriously, there are marked differences between the two other than BPM that make them sound very distinctive (and D&B typically boring to me as a result) - generally, jungle is heavily syncopated and makes more uses of chopped samples vs D&B which tends to be sequenced fairly straight and makes more use of programmed drums.
M4 is Apple's top-of-the-line CPU design atm and this very same CPU is used across all their products and not only Mac Mini's. It's used in MacBook Pro.

Is M4 TDP different in MacBook Pro than what it is in Mac Mini?
Show HN: Created Gapsly, Now What?
Hi,
I recently launched Gapsly, a SaaS tool aimed at helping businesses identify and bridge operational gaps in their processes and increase their efficiency in their processes. After months of hard work, it’s live and (mostly) bug-free, but here's the thing: I’m having a tough time attracting traffic and converting visitors into customers. Struggling at the moment with backlinks too.

I’ve tried:

- SEO and optimizing the landing page - Posting in forums and relevant communities - Going over the backlinks directories and posting it there in the hope of a higher DA (but that might come in time)

Despite these efforts, user engagement and conversions are still really low. I’d love to hear from anyone who has faced (and hopefully overcome) similar issues. Any strategies, marketing channels, or growth hacks you’d recommend? If you’ve done a SaaS launch, what worked for you?

Open to any constructive feedback on the site, messaging, or general approach!

Find the tool here: https://gapsly.com

Thanks in advance for your help, Nicolae
Somehow the TI-89 had _both_ snappiness and relatively advanced 2D math display.

The TI Nspire CAS is the pinnacle of calculator UX, though - crisp , large, and hi-density LCD, beautiful math formatting, and dedicated alpha keys. I’d rather be doing symbolic stuff with that. In college physics it saved my ass by doing unit analysis on my answers as a double-check, converting units to base SI units and then doing as much simplification as possible.
> It was not an accident that software did well in the most hippy region in the US, San Francisco.

But it didn't. It did well in Palo Alto. It only moved into San Francisco when Palo Alto decided it was full, but the software industry continued growing anyway. San Francisco succeeded in software because it was near Palo Alto.
I guess it would have been better to say, Apple was working on a nice system for Dylan.

NextStep had seen more development and existed earlier and was used more, that much is clear.

I am not saying they made the wrong discussion sticking with it at Post-Jobs Apple.

My broader point was just that the article leaves out a lot of other stuff happening at the same time.
Except people do get fired for choosing AWS and drastically increasing costs or making big mistakes that cost several times their annual salary.

It’s just not the kind of thing you’re going to see in a blog post.
I assume he means you can move any vertex an arbitrary amount along its normal.
This might be me being daft, but I never quite understood the appeal of doing this with istio.
OR also partially just due to the timing of when I started to care about things in k8s world. (Rather recently)

My understanding of that model is that the services themselves still just do unauthenticated HTTP, this gets picked up on the client side by a sidecar, packed into mTLS/HTTPS, authed+unpacked on the server sidecar, then passed as plain HTTP to the server itself.

This is great when we have intra-host vulnerabilities I guess. But doesn't allow to e.g. have code sanitizers that are strict on using TLS properly (google does this).

And while it is a real gain over simple unauthed with untrusted network between nodes, with cilium taking care of the intra-node networking being secure, I don't quite see how the added layer is more useful than using network policies strictly.

(besides some edge cases where it's used to further apply internal authorization based on the identity. Though that trusts the "network" (istio) again.)
Show HN: Kwrds AI – Find great keywords and questions people are asking
Additionally, a lot of jungle music were produced on Amiga using the same tracker software as many demosceners (OctaMED, ProTracker, etc). Makes me curious of how many junglists were also active sceners :-)

For example Pete Cannon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1eA-FGJ8B0

More recent livesets using dual Amigas, from the Amiga Junglism channel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHPIxrcjKW4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1P6VxIWFl7g

Some mixtapes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NjqNwHidpk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oe3jEA7710s
This is obviously sarcastic, because I don't think there is anyone out there who still believes the old fantasy about browsers/JS becoming the "universal platform"?
I don't think it is entirely pointless but what I think it is pointless is to presumably leave so much performance on the table for a device that does not even run on a battery.
Spotify's Plans for AI Generated Music, Podcasts, and Recommendations
Nqlite: SQLite Replicated over NATS
> My threat model is much less well resources actors who would happily sim-swap or password-stuff, etc, and there a ubikey is enough to foil those attacks.

...whereas many users trusting the "industry’s #1 security key" pitch were relying upon a lot more.
Would it still have been an 'underground scene' if everyone went?
Apple developer tools are miles away from Microsoft's tools. Microsoft sold to developers for ages.
Apple sold hardware mostly and software was a bit of an afterthought. Compare XCode to Microsoft Visual Studio for OS level development.
If only there was a mobile operating system based on the Linux kernel
They've raised $1.9B in funding over 6 funding rounds. How? Because their founder is Marc Lore:

> Lore was the CEO and co-founder of Quidsi, the parent company of a family of websites, including Diapers.com. Quidsi was sold in 2011 to Amazon for $545 million.

> Lore was appointed in September 2016 to lead Walmart's e-commerce division when his company Jet.com—an e-commerce website launched in 2014—was acquired by Walmart, Inc. Walmart purchased Jet for $3.3 billion.

https://www.crunchbase.com/search/funding_rounds/field/organ...
This is precisely what you shouldn't do. This is what the "system" wants you to do, to work while you exercise, to work while you're with your family, ... What you should do is work the hours you have to and not one more, then you get up, take your bike and enjoy nature.
Sadly Sun kind of went of the deep end did itself no favors on the desktop. There is a reason they turned primarily into a server vendor. You could also run Xerox Cedar on Sun machines at the time.
Francois good luck with your new beginning. Your book (and aurelien one) greatly helped me entering this field
So I can control it's deployment, updates and not be at mercy if the website shuts down.
UK Bank Holidays with Pandas on Jupyter
With the "%.*s" format you need no null at the end. It just counts out the characters:

#include <stdio.h>

void main()
{
char buff[10] = {'R', 'o', 'b', 'o', 't', 't', 'y', 'p', 'e', 's'};
printf("=>%.*s<=", 4, ((char *)&buff + 3));
}

prints

=>otty<=
Do those miliseconds also include the time where you have to move your hand from the keyboard to the mouse to ctrl+click the function name? ;)

I see your point though. I guess I just disagree with the premise that using an IDE will increase productivity.

The developer will always have to invest some effort into learning the tools, be it find and grep or an IDE.
I think the idea behind c# async await was that you could use multple threads without having to worry about the details. It seemed redundant to me to have awaits in a web server. That runs multiple threads already, why does my code have to be async now? I hated it too.
> will cost a lot more.

Presumably everyone buying this thing would already have (or need) a proper PC/Mac to use alongside it.
> There's no easy way to find out all the resources I'm currently paying for (or if there's a way, I couldn't find it

Cost Explorer, in the management account if you’ve got Organization set up.
ASCII-Cube
this is a good idea, the api query also works when navigating to an article from the HN front page, when the comments are not on the page
Do you plan to write more "fundamental" AI papers such as "On the measure of intelligence", do you plan to refine your ARC-AGI benchmark again?
From what I've heard, this is also how most of the "memory cleaner" apps work on most platforms - use memory in a loop so the system starts dropping various caches and housekeeping tasks and swapping backgroud processes, then exit so the memory is reclaimed.
> ...have titles like DSC 1234 and IMG 4321.

IIRC, the DSC_XXXXXX naming scheme is from Samsung smartphones. (Or maybe just Android in general?)
Regulate it.

Asking Amazon to do something makes little sense. Create laws that force Amazon, and all the rest, to respect their users money. By default, corporations will do what makes them money, not what is ethical or good for the economy.
I agree- utterly insane. He should be using Emacs.
It makes sense in a world where they want to monetise every little thing you do.
In the last episode of the risky business podcast they chatted about the "GoblinRAT" based on this Russian analysis/post-mortem:

https://rt-solar.ru/solar-4rays/blog/4861/

Likely an attack done by US intelligence.

There has been quite a few of these with a lot of details released by Russian techies - this is just the latest one I know of.
If the original author reads this comment, I have a question.

One of the problems highlighted was that the documented teardown procedure did not properly delete the OpenSearch domain. Would AWS Nuke (https://github.com/ekristen/aws-nuke) correctly destroy everything that the tutorial sets up?
Learn how to fix security issues in your CI/CD pipeline using Snyk
I can see the value in a _choice_ between billing limits and billing alerts, for those customers who don’t want their resources ever to be forcibly shut down, but you’re right in saying that choice should be front-and-centre during account creation.
Have you heard the tragedy of Internet Explorer 6?

It is said that this browser was so good, so ahead of the others from his time, that he achieved the power to... monopolize the entire web stack. Ultimately achieving 95% market share, websites for a while didn't bother to support other browsers.

However, time passed. IE6 got old and other browsers got progressively better. Suddenly, IE6 that was so good (compared to the 5.1 and 5.5 era and its competitors) was not so hot anymore.

So, we transitioned to the better browsers, right? Wrong! Companies that homologated IE6 took almost a decade to transition. Devs took almost a decade to cultivate a workable cross-browser culture. There was a particular dark era that required you to support 3 or 4 different IE versions (6 through 10), each one with its own quirks.

So, yeah. Anyone who lived through that era will never, ever, support a single browser implementation. It is a deep trauma. We want browsers to get their shit together, so huge gaps like that will not happen again.
> This seems like a glaring bug

Amazon earns an easy $1000, it is not a bug but a feature. Even if they think that it is a bug it is going to be pretty low compared to anything else that hits THEIR bottom line.
thanks for that, reminds me of epitonic.com
Some student / beginner trying to learn and then getting smoked by a footgun is a weekly occurrence on the big cloud subreddits.

It's better business to have people beg for mercy and then magnanimously waive fee than to have any discussion about actual hard limits (which would be used by big corps too not just students).

Yes it can be done technically - Azure already has a not loudly advertised account type that is hardcapped. And no billing alerts aren't a solution. Hell you could even do opt-in "yes I understand my data will be deleted" hardcaps.

This is a fixable problem - they just don't want to because a fix would be bad for earnings.
It sounds like you're unfamiliar with the split between the news desk and the editorial desk, two separate functions in the same org. Last I checked the Fox News news desk was a pretty reliable source of info. All the editorial programming on the other hand, wackadoodle partisan hackery.
The negative effects of being sedentary are known, and it requires extra effort in exercise to just offset the health risks of being sedentary during a full workday. It seems obvious and logical to me that if we can be less sedentary while working, it would be meaningfully beneficial to us mentally and physically. The system wants us to work. It's up to us to design how we work in a way that isn't as destructive to us.
To expand on this: if the user is in the sudo group, they have explicit permission to execute anything they like as root. If someone wants a user to not be able to do this, they don't put that user in the sudo group. As far as I can tell from the write-up, if you remove a user from the sudo group because you don't want them to have that privilege then this "exploit" won't work.

The bugs found look correct and have security implications, but what is demonstrated is therefore not really "root privilege escalation" since it applies only to users who already have that privilege.
I'd like it to show how much work it does, relative to how much work it could theoretically do in the current state, and/or how much more work I could give it. Not just "how utilized is it at the current clock speed, which could change at any moment".

That is: if we simplify the case to a single core laptop which has 2 power states: laptop plugged into wall, it has a min freq of 1Ghz and a max freq of 2Ghz. If on battery, it has a min freq of 500MHz and a max freq of 1Ghz. It will scale this frequency if it can, but the external constraints on whether the power cord is connected is still a hard limit.

Now I want to know "how much work is being done" and "how much computing headroom do I have to add more work".

So in the case of the laptop being plugged in, if it's fully utilized and running at 1Ghz then it should show 50% even though its fully utilized at the throttled clock speed. Because the current clock speed is just half of the current theoretical max for the power state. As you say, it being fully utilized should very quickly cause it to throttle up to 2GHz or something is broken. But when it does throttle up to 2GHz, hopefully in a short amount of time, it will now have half the occupancy at 2Ghz so it will keep showing 50%. And that's consistent with both 1) how much work it's actually performing, and 2) how much more work I can give it.

Edit: Lol, Raymond Chen agrees and basically said exactly this in his blogpost. My comment was just a new old thing.
Is this response about a Chinese-owned company?
They said about Microsoft in other responses and I don't receive like that.

I'm not good at English, so I don't get the nuances that native speakers do.
Cross-border challenges widen wealth gap between Europe and US, IMF study finds
Not really. Do you think that this is trivial at AWS scale? What do you do when people hit their hard spend limits, start shutting down their EC2 instances and deleting their data? I can see the argument that just because its "hard" doesn't mean they shouldn't do it, but it's disingenuous to say they're shady because they don't.