skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> an incredibly symbolic physical manifestation of knowledge and information destruction

Important distinction here, book burnings are an example of knowledge destruction, but not all information is knowledge, and not all knowledge is truth.

That is why this isn't applicable to the internet age, or in fact even the reverse is true. In an environment of digital mass communication there's much more information than knowledge, and the way to destabilize knowledge and truth is not to destroy knowledge but to flood you with information. This is why the most important skill today has shifted from finding knowledge to filtering out noise. The Nazi of today isn't going to hunt a library for a book, he's instead going to create an environment so entropic that truth and fiction become indistinguishable.

And that's also of course why you find people in that camp today as defenders of free flow of information. Because you need to realize that the signal to noise ratio has been turned on its head. When Google deletes 90% of my emails this isn't because they pursue evil plans like someone who burns 90% of a library down, quite the opposite, it's the only way I don't end up being scammed.

https://philosophicalsociety.com/html/BaudrillardsThoughtsOn...
No, it's not just price, the entire structure of pricing changed.
"Hynix launches 321-layer NAND" (2024) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42229825

See: "Rowhammer for Qubits" re: whether electron tunneling in current and future generation RAM is sufficient to simulate quantum operators; whether RAM [error correction] is a quantum computer even without the EM off the RAM bus.
Wasn’t this solved by Klein?
Wealthy people are fairly anonymous to most people unless they actually got their wealth via fame (influencers, actors, entertainment talent). Without looking it up, do you have any idea who the CEO of Coca Cola is? Would you be able to spot him/her (I dont' know either) on the street? Now imagine the armies of $XM annual comp high earners in finance and they're even more anonymous.
"Why are you whining about your own oppression, these other women have it worse"

Based on your posts I guess you're totally fine with whatever oppression of women that Christianity or the bible imposes.
this is a so-often overlooked point.
That’s very fair. I wish they had put that in the email!
That's fair -- to something as small as a butterfly the air is much more soup-y, so swimming is maybe a better description than flying. That would imply they do need to extend forward beyond their head to pull forward through the air.
Of note is that even if you have some massive ≥2^48 data sources, you could still quite likely get away with having NaN-boxed pointers to within the low-size heap, with an extra indirection for massive data. This only would break apart if you managed to reach around 2^45 distinct referenceable objects, which you probably shouldn't ever have (esp. in a GCd language).
A pretty visualisation of the European power grid (2022)
I'm surprised something where the crankmeter goes off so strongly made it to the front page.
There’s also a confusing typo in “the ceding of material books to the ephemeral gauze of the online”. I presume “gauze” was intended be “gaze”.
Yeah, not doing human testing on poor folks without a choice is really "angelic" and "perfect". Very high bar to set, how could we possibly achieve such high standards of morality?
UK government failing to list use of AI on mandatory register
Planetary Perturbations May Strengthen Gaia
No, no, no brother brookst - I insist, you don't need to suffer.
Cheers, friend! Thankful for HN and all the great perspectives from around the world. Also thanks for the phrase "Make AI Great Again"! :D
Seemingly Simple Climate Adaptation Strategy Could Backfire
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42251758
Treating eosinophilic exacerbations of asthma and COPD with benralizumab (ABRA)
About a dozen OSes / configurations were supported, and the entire test suite would take a few days to run on each such configuration.

This was native desktop+server software, not a hosted SaaS thing.

Major releases were put out every few months.

Developers did run tests regularly with every change they would make, but it was infeasible to run all the tests in every configuration for each change. So they would try to choose tests to run that seemed most relevant to the code they had changed.

The entire test suite would run more or less constantly on shared machines, and every few days some new tricky failure would be detected. The tricky failures were almost always the result of some unanticipated interaction of features, frequently on the more obscure configurations (like IBM z/OS).

The problem was not that developers were not testing, but that the tests were infeasible to run every time. So instead, testing became an optimization problem.
If you’ve ever seen a sheep you would know it’s impossible to pluck one. It’s akin to pulling out clumps of your hair.
AWS raised the prices (/slashed the free tier) for Cognito literally last week[0], in a way that's quite similar to Hetzner.

[0]: https://saasprices.net/blog/aws-price-rise
Yes,that is OK. It's still much cheaper than the alternatives.
I hope you will!
Show HN: TypeSafe SQL-Like ORM and Query Builders for TypeScript/JS
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42264427
So cosmopolitanism is bad because you are somehow less strong because you're not rooted in your homeland? Why is this not just proto-fascism?
You do get that "Fictional accounts" mean that it's not real, right? A Handmaid's Tale is not history, it's fiction, and it's bad fiction.
[dupe] Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42264427
Well, hieroglyphs are not exactly a “transcription”, either…
Hetzner has been an established player in Europe for a long time. It seems plausible that they have enough customers who use small amounts of bandwidth to subsidise the heavier users.

Considering switching costs, if they enter the US market with better pricing than established players, it stands to reason that the customers that would be most enticed to move will be the heavier users.
I usually take a few naps during the workday, and get the sharp morning over again each time.
Yes, if the callee has reason to believe the caller isn't who they say they are. But this will never enter the mind of someone who's retirement age.
"Two-dimensional neural geometry underpins hierarchical organization of sequence in human working memory" (2024) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-02047-8 ..
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42084279
https://downsub.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwat...

Tldw: youtube added a feature for creators for AI-generating comments or answers to comments. /tldw

So they don’t waste time answering themselves or something, I guess. Soon we may expect comment section looking like all e-stores: every comment is either cheered by a creator or feels sorry for your poor watching experience.
Tariff can simply mean "fee". Don't be so proud of your ignorance.
Orcas have begun wearing salmon hats again – and we may soon know why
These are the widely renowned "Brother, may I have some oats" pigs.
Gotcha, thank you for the explanation! Indeed it sounds like something git bisect is perfect for, when you're in these sorts of situations!
AWS drops to $50/TB - still 2x to 10x maybe? A lot of CDNs cost a surprising amount or hide pricing.
Your ignorance must be blissful.
> As far as I know, all x86 hardware should support MBR

You are mixing up MBR (which is a disk partition schema) with the BIOS (old, pre UEFI) and CSM (literally UEFI Compatibility Support Module) boot processes.

Everything post 2012[0] is UEFI, most of time with CSM support but there are some machines without CSM at all.

You are really booting in UEFI and then it loads a CSM which proceeds with "legacy" boot mode.

T420 uses QM67 which is a second generation after Ibex Peak which was the first one to implement UEFI on Intel platform.

ie: https://pcsupport.lenovo.com/us/en/products/laptops-and-netb...

[0] Basically post Nehalem
Internet is much cheaper in Europe than in most other regions and there's more of it. Europe is effectively the center of the Internet. Most of the time (in regions like Asia-Pacific and Africa) this is simply due to having more time and money to build it, but when comparing Europe to the USA, it's probably because of regulatory structure - more competition, less monopolization.
"Rapper, Businessman Found Guilty in Back-Channel Lobbying Campaign to Drop 1MDB Investigation and Remove Chinese National from United States, and Conspiring to Make and Conceal Foreign Contributions During 2012 U.S. Presidential Election"

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/us-entertainer-convicted-enga...
Selling music itself pretty much never benefits anyone in a significant way outside the top 1% of bands/whatever pop music.

This is why any touring band asks you to buy merch, they eat on the money from merch
I wonder what proportion of traffic is AI model weights being served. They are huge files, lots of mostly duplicated + fine tuned versions, lots of interest to download the latest and greatest, lots of ML aficionados grabbing them.
Things are rarely priced at actual face value.

You purchase a 10Gb/s firewall for $100,000 - you will not be using 10Gb/s traffic for the lifespan of this device.

Applying this to Hetzner:

You sell a service with X bandwidth included free because you know that only Y% is only ever used on average.

Now people exploit the X allowance - spinning up new virtual machines to multiply this already generous allowance to get unlimited bandwidth for a fee 1/10000th of other commercial offerings. Your Y% costing is now completely invalid.

You reduce the allowance 20x to mitigate this.

I can't blame Hetzner at all for this, especially when Google/Amazon/Microsoft are printing money with their insane bandwidth costs. You know they are insane when they then change the rules to say it's completely free if you are migrating to a different provider - suddenly it doesn't cost anything at all for egress? Oh, it was actually upcoming monopoly investigations that might have taken a dim view...
AWS also charges multiples the price to begin with. I mean, the "scam" of AWS has always been the absolutely outrageous network egress pricing.
Until you remember that marketing is a separate department from finance which is a separate department from ops/engineering.

The engineers said 20TB in aggregate was fine but likely didn’t consider the “bad apples”. Marketing obviously wants to use the biggest numbers and then finance comes in with the hammer and dev points to egress as an simple way to upset rhe fewest number of real customers.
Short 10-20 minute naps during the day can do this
this is epic stuff
Oops! You got me :)
One thing that stuck out for me was his description of TV news as a "psychotic" series of "Now... this" context switches, where each event had to be over-simplified into a basic narrative that people could grasp within 15-45 seconds, and where the most disturbing story (e.g. a gruesome rape and murder) could be chased up in the next second by a fluff piece about a group of grannies having a bake sale, with no ability of the viewer to reflect on and absorb what they just saw and heard.

David Milch kind of touched on this when he talked about John from Cincinnati. He goes to say that TV News is actually TV shows that we watch, like the Iraq War, and the American public basically get bored of television shows and thats when the news changes shows. The show is exciting at first, thats why we watch, but then we get bored. The implication here is that we don't get outraged, we get bored.
https://codepen.io/kartofelek007/pen/MWxxqVb
with svg filters you will get a better effect
It's not the PDF; it's directly from the TeX source.
That is right, it would have maybe reduced the public outcry. It just makes it 10$ more expensive per month which is totally OK in my book
You're right, but in searching for the highest peak I found this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_hills_and_mountains_in... which is amusing.
Why presume that? "Gauze" makes sense.
This case is for a EU company's offerings to the US. Why would they make themselves less competitive?
Yes. And you're not even exploiting the system, just using it as it is - bandwidth really is cheaper over here.
SEO has changed a lot over the past year. It is now very hard to be featured on the top of the first page even with the best content. Several colleagues have seen their search engine traffic plummet 50-80%.

I recommend going for other marketing strategies such as collaborations with bloggers and influencers in your niche (photo enthusiasts?). Better targeted, less vulnerable to the whims of Google's algorithm.
how big is this problem? do they recognise it first hand
Reminder that, often, that which is intended to be passed as a measure to enforce moral rules or increase security is actually a way to deprive you of your privacy.
Ask HN: AI tool or workflow to review many photos and curate a selection?
I love to take photos while travelling and at events. I've got about 6TB of photos accumulated over the years of shooting with digital cameras.

I often come back with 1000+ photos from a trip or event, and find the editing process (selecting, post-processing, summarizing) to be more arduous than the actual event in many cases, especially with high speed shooting and large format memory cards.

I like how google photos will occasionally make a curated photobook with the photos that are backed up from the phone camera, but it lacks any form of controls and often selects some pretty odd photos to highlight, and it would not be practical given the library size.

Has anyone found a good workflow for reviewing thousands of photos in a set, identifying the "context" of them ie: catamaran trip, day in the rainforest, ski trip to <hill> etc, then grouping and selecting the best image from a group of the same "shot", and then possibly retouching them? Even if the tool can't retouch, eliminating the duplicates and contextualizing them would be great.

I've played with comfyUI and had minimal success and felt like I was building an application vs using one.

I've also used Luminar Neo which has a really nice editing suite workflow but it's quite manual as well and struggles with 10,000+ image sets.

Hoping to find an intersection of photographers and AI tool users here!
They are cheap, have a good atmosphere, good beer and a decent choice of them, and usually nice buildings nicely done up.

The food is rather rubbish, but its OK and cheap.

I suspect a lot of what people do not like about them is that they are cheap. The proles can afford to go there so its infra dig to like them.

I do prefer free houses (independent pubs) over chains, or somewhere with better food if I am going out primarily for a meal, but Wetherspoons are better overall than the other big chains.
> There are also some EC2 instance classes where upgrading instance types in the same "size" are more expensive

An increase in price has been the rule rather than the exception for recent upgrades for vanilla instance types, e.g., c, r, m types in the newest generations (6 -> 7 for x86, 6 -> 7, or -> 8 for Arm types).

The increases have been modest though, perhaps around 10%. You get additional CPU and sometimes minor increases in other resources on the newer types.
If Hash(attribute) % buckets == 0

That's basically all you need for this. The hash algorithm doesn't matter as long as it's fast and returns a number.

For your example it's "hash(user_id) % 2" because a 50/50 split has two buckets.
I Am a Person: The Bank Says So
This is correct. No idea why it was flagged. Hetzner only counts outbound traffic.
IO_uring Enjoys Hybrid IO Polling and Ring Resizing with Linux 6.13
AI ambition is pushing copper to its breaking point
That isn’t what it says at all- they’re saying don’t get emotionally poisoned before you start working- the author says this is still important and doable even if you are an evening person, starting work early is just one strategy
> Can you provide some examples

Every vaccine has some fraction of the population is affects adversely. We’re super strict about that hazard. But it exists. Eradicating a mosquito isn’t risk free, but it’s (a) one and done and (b) strikes me as less risky.
Me, too, but the completion-at-point (M-tab) implicated in the OP is part of core Emacs.
There's no hoping you can push through. The US Government has complete top-down control over the sale of prescription drugs in the US, from clinicals to approval to distribution & sale.

The sole reason Uber pulled off what they did, is there's no national authority governing taxi style services for all states and cities, it's a state and local effort. So Uber counted on navigating around zillions of slow local governments long enough to get big, and it worked very well. You can't do that in prescription drugs, the feds have a big hammer and can (and will) use it anytime they like.
All three of them are legends. The Score remains one of the greatest and most influential contributions to contemporary music. The mastery of technique they demonstrate on that album is just about absolute.
This. We got hit by a sudden change in a popular SaaS' pricing, from $10 to $75/mo - a 650% increase. We don't have a big margin, if a different provider did this sort of thing overnight, we could be instantly out of business. It's already difficult to build a competitive business even WITH the ability to outsource a class of problems to a SaaS.

I've been a big fan of Hetzner for the last decade, and I understand and agree with their motivation for this change. However December 1st is effectively almost tomorrow, they could have easily given us a month's notice instead.
This thread is where I'm learning that American English uses tariff mainly for import tariffs. Here in India, the most common usage of it is to talk about telecom tariffs - mainly mobile, sometimes broadband. So it didn't even occur to me when reading the question that it might have anything to do with import tariffs, until I read some comments that misunderstood it that way.
I slammed the reader-mode button, which unfortunately killed the videos.

Not having looping/procedural animations in your articles is an accessibility feature. People with ADHD simply can't read blocks of text if there's visual noise flitting about everywhere.
You are completely right, the website has been updated to reflect the correct flow of data.

As other users already stated, we need that to agree on connection details, but once that is done, the flow of your media data like audio, video and text is just between the two parties.
Of course there are other factors, including biological ones, but yes I agree not every woman does this regularly.

Many do though.
“Culprits” because they used the service they paid for within its advertised limits?

It’s the same with cloud storage providers. First give out a massive amount of storage and rapidly gain users, then cut it down after blaming people for “abusing” it. How about you advertise your correct capacity to begin with?

They are simply deflecting blame for their own enshittification.
The First Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in 1924
“Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one's strength, to read a book -I call that vicious!” -Friedrich Nietzsche

Nietzsche noticed the importance of this even living in solitude a century before the Internet- he found even if he read books in it morning, it could “poison” his thinking the rest of the day, so he didn’t read until he was done working. Like him or not he stands out as someone that consistently came up with really creative and new perspectives, and managed to publish a lot of writing on them.

I think this is true, but find the Internet very addicting- it is really hard to just not use it casually until I’m done working, when my work itself requires being on a computer and looking up information. The Internet is a nuclear bomb of distraction and emotional manipulation compared to whatever books Nietzsche was likely reading in the 1800s.
> So, "Pi mal Daumen"* this means that US customers have a bandwidth consumption which almost an order of magnitude higher than that of European and Singaporean customers?

I wouldn't be amazed if Hetzner benefits significantly from peering, which is much more widespread in US than in Europe. Interesting piece on this from Cloudflare: https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-relative-cost-of-bandwidth-a...

It's quite possible that their costs really are significantly lower in Europe. No idea what things are like in Singapore.
> but I haven't found it that in practice

That's perfectly fine, and I'd say lucky you.

Bisect is a type of tool that you hope you won't need, but when you need it it's a life saver. You're right about the larger collaborative codebase. Imagine trying to find a strange bug that got introduced sometime in the last 12 months in a huge and active repo.
The point remains, if I was a customer who had planned my budget on the previously lower rates, this move’d be very disruptive.

Herzner is an established player, not a startup, this either shows a lack of regards for customers, or that they aren’t very well run.
Like the big mountain visible in so many parts of Rumble in the Bronx
IMO despite its cultural mystique, playing chess on one’s phone is no more or less amazing or a waste of time as playing candy crush on one’s phone or scrolling Instagram.
IPFS needs server running or am I wrong?
Sulfur and phosphorus can also form complex molecules in addition to silicone. Carbon forms complex molecules in a larger array of chemical environments though.

Ultimately everything hinges on how you define life.
It's really fun seeing my old research groups mentioned decades later. Thanks for writing this up.
So, in other words, the notion of the homomorphism is almost useless in this context - which is why its mentioning when talking about knots may create confusion.
Lessons Learned: Migrating to Mistral-Large-2411 for Production Code Reviews
I'd like to share our technical journey migrating our code review system from Mistral-Large-2407 to 2411, and the key challenges we overcame. Here are the most interesting findings:

1. Prompt Pattern Evolution

- Initial challenge: Direct model upgrade led to significant quality degradation
- Root cause: Changes in 2411's prompt processing architecture
# Previous prompt format for Mistral-Large-2407


 user message
 assistant message

 system prompt + "\n\n" + user message

# New optimized prompt format for Mistral-Large-2411

[SYSTEM_PROMPT] system prompt[/SYSTEM PROMPT]
 user message
 assistant message

 user message

- Solution: Implemented enhanced prompt patterns through LangChain

2. API Integration Insights

- Built custom HTTP client interceptor for debugging
- Discovered crucial differences in message formatting
- Leveraged LangChain's abstraction layer effectively

3. Key Technical Improvements

- Enhanced review focus through optimized prompts
- Improved output reliability and format compliance
- Eliminated response truncation issues

This is implemented in our AI Code Review Github APP LlamaPReview [https://jetxu-llm.github.io/LlamaPReview-site/]. Happy to discuss specific implementation details or share more technical insights about working with Mistral-Large-2411 in production.
$80!! EC2 is a scam
You probably tried to write something out of compassion for those tired Chinese workers, but what you actually wrote appear as insensitively dismissive (an average poor guy at an assembly line absolute have abilities to think). And more importantly I don't think it's correct. Most people, even those who do have plenty of spare time, don't dig archeology, or fact-based history that much. History as a part of identity is a different story, and many are very emotionally invested in it, and from my experience in Far East cultures especially so. So 'most Chinese people' may not look interested, but only before somebody tells them they are not that ancient.