skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi HN, I’m an indie developer, and I wanted to share a small experiment I built. The idea behind Pixel Wars was to see how far I could take a simple concept: letting users "buy" a pixel and assign it to a country. The platform tracks which countries have the most pixels, creating a sort of global leaderboard.

The biggest challenge was designing the backend to efficiently handle millions of individual pixels and dynamically update the country rankings. I used FastAPI, and I learned a lot throughout the process.

I’m curious to hear your thoughts: What do you think about gamification mechanics in small projects like this? Are there interesting ways to scale an idea like this or make it more engaging?
Simpler research could've shown that there is a physical data transfer cost.
I don’t understand. Thunderbird makes a client and has a prominent download link for it. Peertube makes a client and has no download link.
In a single round sealed bid auction, it’s equally likely that a winner will have bid more than they would have in open bidding since they only get one shot to name a price.
The UK - and lots of other countries - use "Common Law".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_law

Law is often open to interpretation. Take a look at how most laws are written.

It might say "owning a sword is illegal", but then the courts have to interpret whether the sharpened blade you are carrying meets that definition.
It isn't "from who" (well, "from whom") it is "from what".

They appear to be set to move more power to the executive branch from the other branches of government while at the same time undermining both independence and impartiality of the other branches.

Granted, this has been happening steadily over the last couple of decades. Even the SCOTUS has been part of this by expanding the powers of the president. But with appointments that are only loyal to a person (Trump) and not the nation, the US is entering into new territory.

The US is already rated a "flawed democracy". It hasn't been a "full democracy" for several years. The next stop down is "hybrid regime". If Trump et al do what they say they intend to do, this is what the US will become.

The scary bit is that we now have at least one generation, possibly two, where a huge number of people will shrug and go "so what?".
To repeat the example a gave in a sibling thread: you can not go to a dating site filing GDPR requests to find out who liked/disliked you. That would be a violation of their privacy.
Even heavy Mastodon users thought the "toot" thing was dumb though. It was the constant butt of jokes and a distraction. I don't think it was about Twitter.
Spirit of the law vs. letter of the law. You can't go all-in on the letter of the law because language is imprecise and very contextual, and cannot aptly express the intent behind the law perfectly for all edge cases.
That's okay. People will come up with new edge cases and keep hallucinating reasons why AI training is unethical, until the results would be up to their quality standards.
I agree with OP that it's unnecessarily confusing. A "method" is a procedure. The floating point number is the result of that procedure, not the procedure itself.

"Decimal" implies a ten based system, even though it's perfectly fine to say "binary decimal".

Using your own replacement words, it would be clearer to write "A floating point number is a representation of a number with a fractional part".
Even after reading this comment I went searching for the button and it took a while to find it.

And the homepage says in bold letters “The PeerTube mobile app for Android & iOS is out!” but it’s not a link! There’s a link further down but it goes to this article where you then have to scroll.

Not every site has to be super conversion optimized but it’s just common sense to put a CTA at the head of an announcement. joinmastodon.org gets it!
Do you have an argument better than "Miracles do happen"?
Game consoles are starting to come without optical drives.
Show HN: The 1-File Headless CMS
How do you compose low level operations like “click here” into composable modules like:

loginAsUser(user)

id = createBooking(user)

loginAsAdmin()

approveBooking(id)

?

Is it the same as selenium? Do whatever you want your self?

That’s what I’m talking about. Unless you have high level composable modules that let you express high level test activities then your tests will always fall apart.

The syntax of the low level operations doesn’t matter because you will never ever care about a click(“compose”).

That’s not a test.

A test might be:

createEmail()

attachFile(…)

… whatever your bespoke business requirements are.

Having fancy wrappers?

Is it nicer? Sure.

Does it meaningfully improve the tests, maintaining tests?

Nope.

Because at the end of the day the low level operations will be bespoke, nasty, messy and different for each website; that’s why you wrap them up in functions and compose them.

At least, in my experience; this looks a lot like cypress; a high level set of operations with sensible defaults for easy tasks.

…but, practically, I’m skeptical that hiding the low level nasty details actually makes them go away; it’s smoothing them over for the “happy path”; but automation tests are like 90% edge cases.

> It’s use can be lighter

I don’t think that’s the generally accepted meaning of a light weight framework.

…but eh, fair enough. I understand what you mean.
Is it better than GPT4o? Does it have an API?
If the fix is disabling and then reenabling ublock origin, the problem isn't properly testing against web standards.
Oh but I only care about api pricing
We can start with private enterprise, with ad tech, consumer data harvesting/surveillance and dark patterns targeting engagement and addiction. The military can be the last bastion to tackle once the guild has strength and can bargain to enforce guardrails. I'm looking at how SAG is so effective at navigating a multi-billion dollar entertainment industry filled with behemoths like Disney. If they can do it, we can too. At this point, the actors are looking smarter than software devs.
Storing 200B Entities: Notion's Data Lake Project
> for being offensive.

The Sandy Hook parents received death threats for years because of him. That’s not “being offensive”, it’s tormenting people and putting their lives in peril.

https://archive.ph/20221013141353/https://www.nytimes.com/20...
We don’t necessarily use Tauri… Tauri has a library called wry that’s basically a more maintained fork of the Rust web-view library.

https://github.com/Boscop/web-view

We are great friends with Tauri but I think people misunderstand our architecture and philosophy just because we use one of their maintained libraries.

We’ve been working on a native HTML/CSS library for a while called blitz which is reaching stability soon.

https://github.com/DioxusLabs/blitz
Or maybe they shouldn't
Anyone taking bets if he will obey the injunction? My feeling is that his ego will not let him do so.
> Now Disney Plus cashes in 20 eurodollars per month

We truly live in the Cyberpunk timeline.
Best of 2024 in Metadata blog (distributed/database systems)
> If OpenAI was so afraid of AI misuse, they wouldn't be firing their safety team and partnering with the DoD.

What makes you think that? I sounds reasonable that a dangerous tool/substance/technology might be profitable and thus the profits justify the danger. See all the companies polluting the planet and risking the future of humanity RIGHT NOW. All the weapon companies developing their weapons to make them more lethal.
This page desperately needs a TL;DR and links to the apps above the fold.
Unfortunately, by that reasoning we probably shouldn't have let the Internet get so big and omnidirectional.
Is each browser process dedicated to a single customer, or do you clear cookies and other state (localStorage, cache, Chrome advertising features...) between customers?
Tough New U.S. Controls on China May Miss Target
There's a huge one people use all the time without knowing it, eBay is a second price auction too most people just don't use it like one. You can place a huge maximum bid and will only pay the second highest bid plus an increment. It just automatically semi-unseals bids as new bids come in so it looks a lot more like a live outcry auction.
At least all three of them are actually in the dictionary
So many of us are probably in thousands they need to be 3 order magnitude higher before Google can even think of it.
I've been using Gemini Flash for free through the API using Cline for VS Code. I switch between Claude and Gemini Flash, using Claude for more complicated tasks. Hope that the 2.0 model comes closer to Claude for coding.
> I’m skeptical that hiding the low level nasty details actually makes them go away

It makes 90+% of them go away. That's a big win. Try it.
API is accessible via Vertex AI on Google Cloud in preview. I think it's also available in the consumer Gemini Chat.
Cannot find any confirmation to your statement. Otoh "All null pointer values (of compatible typewithin the same address space) are already required to compare equal. " in the limked paper.
Even worse, there's no link to the app on the home page.
As bad as climate change is, it will never make Earth harder to live on than Mars. Even the most egregious runaway scenario feedback loops won't make the planet unlivable.

It might be extremely uncomfortable. Billions of people might die. Civilization could collapse utterly.

But it's still going to have more oxygen, better temperatures, and more resources than Mars.

There can be good reasons to go to Mars, but a "backup planet" just isn't really a good one. If all we care about is the survival of the human race, it's really not in jeopardy. Certainly not from climate change, and not even from a war, asteroid, or pandemic.
This would suggest that google never accidentally makes bad experiences because it can throw big money at everything but that's clearly not the case nor how software nor org management work.

I think this is a fantasy we have about big companies, esp big tech companies, often until we work at one.

"But they have so much money, surely it wasn't just one guy working on this major thing" and "If they wanted to do it right, it would have been done right" and such.
I think Shor's scales lineally, if it's possible to do the fine grain control of the most significant bits. Some people don't think that's a problem, but if it is then growing keys will be an effective defense.
You would change your opinion on my "choice words" if you decide to work at a trillion dollar company one day.

Trillion dollar company with probably <100K eng, spread over hundreds of products/features/etc, who also have to go through performance reviews and have to show impact.

So yes, my choice words are very intentional in this case.

leadership to prioritize their browser -> leadership to prioritize the most popular browsers. Yes.
Instead of throwing up tables of benchmarks just let me try to do stuff and see if it's useful.
> Most things that people assume are malicious often are usually prioritization issue

Monopolists shouldn't have the benefit of doubt. If it acts in a way that seems like dominant market position abuse, the default position should be assume that's the case, and act accordingly.
The thing that leads to confusion is thinking about things in terms of winning or losing, but open source devs rarely actually care about what's most successful in the market. At best, success in the market is merely a means to an end for open source developers. The real goal of most open source developers is merely to produce the software.

For some things, this actually is okay. Like for example, market-wise, Discord has dominated online chat. Does anyone still using XMPP or IRC care? Nope, because as long as there are networks to chat on and more than one person the network works. At worst, the main pain felt by market dominance is that the rooms may be smaller than they could be since people are less wont to join. But in practice, the quantity often isn't that big of a problem. I had some of my best conversations and met people I still know today in an IRC chat that never had more than 50 users online at any time and was inactive most hours of most days.

The market can do whatever it wants as far as I am concerned.
Great resource!

Some of these are based on Tailwind - dailyui for example, would be nice to have a collection called Tailwind so that I know which ones I can use with their CSS.

Additionally, I think it would be valuable to see which templating frameworks these have support for (React, Vue, etc) to help make more educated decisions.
Is it on AI studio already?
Salad, leftovers, bread, or chia seed pudding.
The board wants to split the company, the CEO didn't. That's what the fight was about. Should Intel become a design company? And have TSMC do everything? IMHO, nope. The rot in Intel happened a long time ago, the smart people left a long time ago, and the culture changed for the worse. They would have to spend ridiculous amount of money to lure smart folks from Nvidia & AMD, etc. Then the difficult battle of building a winning culture. I was long intel for a while. I unloaded all my stocks this year. I don't believe anymore, and I'm not even convinced with the CEO change.
Show HN: I created an AI-powered LeetCode alternative
Show HN: A free price comparison website for SaaS dev tools
The calculators are things I’ve researched for my own needs, and I made a site to hopefully help others aswell.
Everything is done manually by me at the moment.

The latest addition was the serverless hosting price calculator, added saturday.

So far I’ve got calculators for auth, analytics, newsletters, s3, postgresql, images, emails, llm apis and serverless hosting. More is coming!

Thinking of adding APIs for accepting new providers and for updating prices for providers.
Former employer worked a little with Funko and Disney, and it was pretty comparable. I don't see what Funko has to offer other than Licensing IP and strictly enforcing their own. Based on my (limited) experience, I doubt they chose this service by accident.
A good mental model is to compare the number of floats being processed -vs- the number of primitive computations. Matrix multiplication has n^3 computation with n^2 data. Multiplication of large matrices is therefore special in the potential for "data re-use" (each float is used against all the columns or rows of the other matrix) -- so systems are designed to have a much higher flops throughput than memory bandwidth. A dot product is at the other extreme, where each float is used only once (loosely).

Roofline plots [1] are framework to visualize system design from this perspective.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roofline_model
> Maybe I’m in the minority, but my health insurance makes it very clear what the benefits I paid for are. There’s guidance after guidance and tool after tool to help minimize any surprise costs.

...and how has it gone when you tried to use them? Just as a personal anecdote: I once tried to get UHC to partially reimburse me for an out-of-network mental health expense. My policy explicitly covered such reimbursement (at a lower rate, of course). I tried for months to get the claim reimbursed. My employer at the time retained the services of a "healthcare concierge", and one of the main things they did was fight insurance companies on your behalf. That concierge service tried for six months to get a single claim reimbursed.

We all gave up.

It was such a small dollar amount; UHC likely spent more time and effort denying the claim than it would have cost to reimburse. It boggles my mind, to this day.

Just because your health insurance "makes it very clear what the benefits I paid for are" has no relation to whether or not they will actually pay those benefits out to you. If you haven't really experience this yet in America, I can only conclude that you are either rather healthy (and haven't used the benefits much), very lucky, or possibly both.
Sure. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure American healthcare system can be amazing in certain cases, and like you said, in specific instances the "market demand" is able to solve issues that socialized systems struggle with. But the same is true in the opposite direction - plenty of stories of people being denied lifesaving care because insurance companies decide it's not worth it. People who have their cancer treatment stopped because their employer changed the insurer and the new insurer has to do a full re-evaluation before they approve the treatment to continue, so in the meantime you get no cancer drugs for months while they do their process. And so on and so on. We could both do this I'm sure.

>>when patients in the US with appropriately good insurance receive them as first line with far better outcomes.

The problem I have with that is basically you're saying the quality of the treatment depends on what insurance you have. In socialized healthcare everyone gets the same treatment.

And in fact this is reflected in the average quality of care received on average, with outcomes in US being much worse than elsewhere. US has mortality from "preventable causes" twice as bad as Australia, Japan or France(paragraph 5). So in US few people get amazing care better than anywhere else. And most people get worse care than anywhere else.

https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-analysis/blogs/comp...

>>Things like cutting edge cancer treatments (often developed in the US) are many years late arriving to public healthcare systems.

Obviously it's hard to make a general statement on this because every country has varied policies around this. But to share an anecdote - my own dad was enrolled into an experimental programme at a leading oncology hospital in Poland because he had a very rare and ultra aggressive cancer which had no known treatment other than a brand new(then) Glivec, which wasn't even approved for that cancer yet, but he had the whole course of his treatment fully funded under our socialized healthcare. In those very very rare cases where regular treatment is not available there are avenues to explore experimental treatments, and they then serve to direct general treatment plans for the rest of the population. Again, this is a specific example from one country.
Would be interesting to see what a unified memory setup can do like say an Apple M-series since this is the argument for unified memory, zero copy memory access between CPU and GPU.
Versatile implies it can to more kinds of tasks (than it's predecessor or competitor). Agentic implies it requires less human intervention.

I don't think these are necessary buzzwords if the product really does what they imply.
If you're keeping the money spent on each pixel, then this is a for-profit business appropriating Nintendo's license to the Super Mario franchise. Either change the background, or stop charging people money - doing both will put you in legal hot water if this becomes popular.
Thunderbird is a client, and that's all it is. PeerTube is a lot of things, and that makes it hard to have a single coherent landing page. I still agree with putting the damn button on there realistically (please note that I already agree to that in my first comment, and no, I didn't edit it in after the fact), but if anything I think they need more than one landing page in either case.
Three New Antibiotics from India
What's everyone's favorite LLM leaderboard? Gemini 2 seems to be edging out 4o on chatbot arena(https://lmarena.ai/?leaderboard)
How does PeerTube handle moderation? CSAM, racism, antisemitism, etc
Doesn't suprise me since the Dulles brothers (Secretary of State and head of CIA respectively) were owners and on the payroll for nearly 40 years.

"John Foster Dulles, who represented United Fruit while he was a law partner at Sullivan & Cromwell – he negotiated that crucial United Fruit deal with Guatemalan officials in the 1930s – was Secretary of State under Eisenhower; his brother Allen, who did legal work for the company and sat on its board of directors, was head of the CIA under Eisenhower; Henry Cabot Lodge, who was America's ambassador to the UN, was a large owner of United Fruit stock; Ed Whitman, the United Fruit PR man, was married to Ann Whitman, Dwight Eisenhower's personal secretary. You could not see these connections until you could – and then you could not stop seeing them."

https://archive.org/details/fishthatatewhale00cohe
The door for new languages is rapidly closing; unless you are a craftsman and dilettante.
Is there a specific App Store rule that prevents them to let users add custom streams?

It sounds functionally the same as adding instances to a Mastodon client or RSS feeds into a Podcast app. What's the catch?
I'm not sure what needs to be in the Wikipedia article. But I think that's not necessary to say that, when all I'm accusing Wikipedia of is a double standard.

If I said "the justice system gives men harsher sentences than women for the same crime", I wouldn't necessarily have to know whether men should be given more lenient sentences or women should be given harsher sentences, if I only wanted to say that the current situation is unfair and something should change.

I think it's fine to put all of Rufo's controversial stuff at the beginning of his article, but they didn't do it for Lorenz, and I didn't see a plausible reason other than "they like Lorenz and don't like Rufo".
May I recommend tournesol.app ?

It's again a French speaking initiative (but from a French-Switzerland research collaboration) about creating a recommendation algorithm with a lot of good properties and that scale (check the research paper on arxiv.org : 2107.07334).

It's also a plugin to help then have more data and to be useful for the users (by having an other recommendation algorithm on youtube), a win-win collaboration.
Very cool demo, but If the application code is HTML/JS/CSS, then why do we need RSX?

Is the web framework necessary?
How does this compare, to say Tauri w. React & Vite?
Going from an M4 Ultra (assuming it's 2 M4 Maxes connected) to an M4 Extreme is probably not easy - from the Pro to the Ultra you have only one chip-to-chip connection, but to an M4 Extreme you'd need a redesign of the M4 Max (the same way it'd need a different approach to M2 Max back when an M2 Extreme was first considered) with at least two interconnects.

Apple could also go the AMD way and have a central die with shared elements (caches, memory controllers, PCIe channels, etc) and multiple smaller processor dies. This way building an M4 Extreme or an M4 Ludicrous would be relatively simple.
Is this a joke question? Both of those browsers are based on the chromium engine.
From my understanding (with no special access or insider info), it's unclear how much it was used "at home" (against US citizens). Certainly the collection infrastructure was in place, but there were technical and procedural safeguards that were intended to filter out US citizens' data, and analysts were not supposed to access US citizen data without a search warrant from a judge.

It's interesting to me that many people who work for giant tech companies that carry out indiscriminate data collection feel confident in their employer's internal processes and controls, but don't extend that same optimism when it's the government that pinky-swears they aren't going to peek at anything they shouldn't.
It's amazing how many tech people, like this author in this piece, still believe that their phone is constantly listening to you to target ads.
It's always lame when somebody's arguments get shut down in court and then they just repeat the same failed arguments after.

Like, come up with some new material.
Why audiobook "The Software Engineer's Guidebook" is everywhere except Audible
It's the relative difference of transfer overhead vs degree of compute. For one single operation, sure, the transfer overhead dominates. Add multiple compute steps (operations) however, and experiments will show that the GPU is faster as the transfer cost is fixed.
Right, the point is that we don't need a solution to the 'measurement problem' to have a quantum computer.