skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Nvidia kind of got lucky with their bet on AI

I see flavors of this narrative quite often. Nvidia has been positioning their GPU's for AI since the late 2000's. And their GPU's were being used for AI at least as early as 2011

To me, it doesn't seem fair to discount Nvidia's foresight. A lot of smart people saw this opportunity even before the invention of LLM's. That's a bit like building a light bulb before discovering electricity.
CFPB Action Against Climb Credit for Deceiving Borrowers About Coding Bootcamps
>German companies are awful at customer service.

True also from my experience. I've noted several potential reasons why that is from my time in Germany.

Government provided customer protection laws are quite lax and disputes tricky to win and don't represent a big enough deterrent for the scammers when they're just a slap on the wrist and therefore part of the cost of doing business. Sure, you can get sued and you loose once, but if 80 of the 100 customers you scammed don't sue you or don't win, then you're still at a net positive and therefore it's profitable to keep doing that.

Also that Germany doesn't have common law, so lawsuits aren't arbitrated based on precedent, so customers who got screwed need to sue and win individually for the same issue which is favorable for the companies doing the screwing as without the precedent of common law that minimizes their risk of loosing by slam dunk every time. Also, some German judges art just tech illiterate boomers who will throw out a case they don't even understand unless you're Axel Springer.

(some) Rental agreements, internet, telco and gym memberships are my favorite infamous examples. They're almost universally regarded as anti-consumer, with tonnes of sketchy clauses, but German lawmakers do nothing to improve that for the consumer.

Secondly, Germans aren't used to being very demanding and lighting a brand on fire on social media the way Americans/Anglophones do on Twitter when they don't like something, partly because of cultural reasons where making a fuss in public is discouraged/shamed, partly because of legal reasons where a company can sue your or at least send you scary legal letters for libel if you damage their brand online like that in Germany. Or at lest, the company can simply demand the social media platform take down the offending posts, and by German law they have to comply which the likes of Google/Meta will comply automatically without any arbitration.

Also, culturally, the conservative Germans seem to have have gaslit themselves into believing everything "Made in Germany" is perfect without fault, while everything made abroad is of poor quality or at least worthy of scrutiny, so they just default to using German products without looking across the fence to check out the foreign competition. This way of thinking is more typical of manufactured goods but not sure how much it applies to SW products and services.

Couple these with the difficulty of starting and scaling a business in Germany as a small entrepreneur and with the legal and bureaucratic hoops designed to keep foreign competitors out, mean that German companies operating in Germany who became established players, have litte incentive to improve beyond the bare minimum, so they can keep providing poor quality services while still staying in business. It's classic of an economy of well connected dinosaurs sitting on old money.
I keep my 4a around as a backup, but the Pixel 8 has actually been really nice. A mm or two less width and 1cm less height would be better though.
Backing up to local RAID is nice, unless you're using local RAID as your primary storage in the first place, like we do. I'd looked into using a combination of AWS S3 Glacier and FUSE (s3fs?) for rigging snapshots to S3 via btrbk but it seems the semantics of Glacier don't align all too well, and backing up 40 TB+ worth of WAL on a monthly to S3 is more expensive than it should be unless you're using that storage class.
> Besides, what was your website about? I've received notices I had to reply to within 24-hours, otherwise they delete the servers. But I've always replied and complied, so never had any servers deleted.

some random app vendor didn't like the free promotion on our website https://macupdater.net/

we can delete any "offending" page within a few hours, but taking the whole server offline first and asking questions later is not OK by Hetzner.

others had better experiences and got a 24-hour timeframe. just asking but is this during business hours or can they send you a notice on saturday and you'll be offline by sunday? doesn't seem much better.
In reading further, I found an FPGA routing contest[1] this responded to, and I can't possibly store that much abstraction in my stack. I'm amazed that anything ever gets done with FPGAs.

My ideal FPGA isn't... it's a systolic array of latched LUTs that's almost trivial to route.

[1] https://xilinx.github.io/fpga24_routing_contest/index.html
easyDNS still seems good for those who want a more old style "full fat" registrar like gandi was? I know some folks I respect who have long used it alongside Route 53. Though they don't appear to support hardware tokens which is a major black mark in my book in 2024.

As well as Gandi, DNSimple was another higher service one I really liked that went crazy on pricing. Agreed the registrar scene nowadays seems like a quite small "do use" list vs a couple of "don't use" :(.
I'm also looking to move my domains out of gandi but stay with a european registrar. Did someone try netim customers' service?
They say on their "about us" webpage that the company is still owned by the founders, so I would think the enshittification hasn't started yet. But if some have experiences to share it would be nice.
By putting it in a "comment" field the comment survives round-tripping, which is a virtue rather than a vice.
Colo is a lot more expensive than some dedi or VM somewhere.
Can you provide me with a 12 core 32gb ecc 2TB ssd for 33eur/m?
I doubt it.
We can certainly see that a powerful entity is working very hard to show that Georgescu is the devil. Meanwhile:
1. We didn't see any proof or any official claims that he did anything wrong, only speculations. There is certainly no justification for cancelling the free elections.
2. The spotlights are only on him, there is no analysis on how the establishment candidates used social media or the source of their campaign funds. Claims that PSD and PNL used public funds for their campaigns were quickly forgotten and not investigated.
3. Ask any Romanian and they will tell you how corrupt the government is. They control the justice system and the Constitutional Court. Any claim that they are on the right side of the law is laughable.

Not forgetting the elephant in the room: free people went to express their choice via a free vote and that freedom was taken from them. In an EU country !
> Also, how did Blackrock get so wealthy so fast? They've only been around since 1988.

It is not their money. They have roughly $11.5 trillion of assets under management, but their market cap is only $161.5b (on net income of about $6b). Compare that to xAI, which has existed for less than two years and has a valuation around $50b.
Wow, how did you come up with that?
>German companies are awful at customer service. Even within the EU

one would have to reconsider a century of stereotypes if they weren't.
Aren't these headset displays too blurry for desktop work? What most people seem to use them for is for gaming and watching videos.
> nobody ever provides any proof of developing nations using RPis as affordable desktop computers

Just because they're not widely used for that now doesn't make them unsuitable for that. They're an option, and options are good.
The people intel hired to start a discrete GPU business were just perennial incompetents and played corporate politics instead of delivering.
With these kinds of things on the rise, I'm sure "not driven by AI" is going to be a unique selling point, soon enough. Right? Or is this just wishful thinking?
They care that it’s not got malware
Thanks for the insights, that's super interesting!
That’s what Vanguard investors are paying for, or rather, not paying for.

Passive investing is cheaper, this is what “passive” means.

Historically, in the aggregate, boards of US public companies are competent enough to create good returns without strategic investor direction.
This should have been named NOTjson-somethingv5. Or similar. Now it is far from obvious for the uninitiated that this might not be the 'latest' version of JSON. And then they end up using this incompatible format by accident, when in all likelihood standard JSON would serve equally well or better in 95% of the use cases.
This reads: for it to not be true that every hat in the collection of hats is green, there must exist at least one hat in the collection of hats that is not green.
The difference is that you don't need to wait for 100k people to show up.

If you're already reasonably confident from the first batch of people what the potential in the pool is, why would you wait? People have work to do and they want those people in as early as possible.

I'm not saying you will do much better sieving by time, in terms of quality. But you will save all the effort of looking at the people at the back of the queue, for little loss.

Sure, half the best people will be at the back, but what is your loss on taking the second best people earlier? Chances are you won't even be able to tell.
The puzzle is referring to the concept of a vacuous truth (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuous_truth).

In most logic frameworks, the All function (upside down A in standard logic notation) is true if and only if no statement within the set is false (i.e. All his hats are green if he has no hats). This is for several reasons:

- it allows for more coherent empty set functions. For example if we take the power set of a set, that power set has the same All value as the standard set (since the power set includes the empty set)

- it allows for early stopping on false statements. So you can define the statement as a lazy executor of all child conditions
You have a very myopic view, intentionally or not.
That's an interesting perspective for sure, thanks for sharing that.

On one hand you have these comments in this submission, saying Hetzner is too trigger-happy and takes down things too quickly. On the other hand, you have people like you using the process from the other side who feel like nothing is being done and it takes forever to get through them when needed.

I feel like it's very hard to have a balanced perspective unless you have experience of both sides of the process, which unfortunately I'm guessing most people are missing. I certainly am, as I've never tried to get someone else's servers taken down on Hetzner, so I have no idea how that process works, I've only ever been on the receiving side.
And so it begins MS will toggle to New Outlook
It might be more related to German regulation than to EU regulation. Germany has some pretty strict laws related to speech, for example. My understanding is that Kiwix mirrored Wikipedia data on Hetzner's servers, and I'm almost 100% sure that Wikipedia contains things that are completely fine in the US, but technically illegal in Germany.

I have no idea if that was the reason, though.
I get a page without content. Can you check the URL?
Passive flows vis ETFs have hugely distorted the S&P. Mike Green has been sounding the alarm about this for quite some time (https://x.com/profplum99, https://www.yesigiveafig.com/).
Yes but there's no way for me to not be able to pull my hand back in a quarter of a second for that.
Ask HN: Where/how to learn mobile app or hybrid app development
Hi I am a startup founder with a previous software background, I am thinking of building my own mobile/hybrid app for my platform since developers are expensive. It will be a fairly complex app. But I only know C/C++/Python (10 yrs in dev) and have been a backend developer with some exposure to web dev (I know Flask and some python django/nginx stuff- have built a couple personal fun easy to medium complexity apps). No idea about mobile apps or hybrid apps. I am also not working so no community. Where do I start? How do others do it? I am thinking React Native or React with a Flask backend but not sure. Please help.
Most of my domains are on Namecheap since the times when wikipedia's domains were there. Hopefully, my low-key personal domains are of no interest to anyone...
Did you try to send them 20€ and request refund of excessive amount?
A fund manager can throw their weight behind short term gains, and when those gains dry up they can sell their Intel stake and put it in the next company to be sucked dry. They don’t have to care about long term success.
US agencies should allow AMD to bid on Intel at this point. I actually think the combo would benefit US security interests.
> If you consider the small percentage of acres that are actually walkable by humans

Grand Canyon was an extreme example, but people can go over rough terrain. That’s a big part of what being in nature means.

In terms of damage to nature, any large animal is going to trample plants, even deer trails very noticeably impact plants let alone a grizzly or moose. That’s just part of nature, it’s scale that’s the issue. Hiking trails are just points of concentrated damage which is one viable option.

> They get there from feeder trails and are constrained by what is traversable in the first place. And who gets to choose who walks off path? Everyone gets to?

Everyone gets to as long as they are in a low density area and don’t pick to exit at some interesting spot. You take a trail length divide by the number of people roughly using a trail, and as long as you get to ~1 person/foot per 50 years it’s fine to exit in a mathematically random spot not just because you pick what feels random. Obviously this excludes a great number of trails people frequent, but that’s kind of the point.

Now you should also avoid interesting destinations and be careful how you come back. Anyway, there you have it a scaleable rule that works for hundreds of millions of visitors without creating undo harm.

> Off-trail trampling causes millions in damage to national parks:

Did you read what you linked? That damage is explicitly mentioned as: “sinks ripped off restroom walls, road signs mowed down by some hooligan's pickup, spray-painted graffiti on roadside markers”
Which is why anyone deploying AI solutions should be held accountable for whatever the AI does, as if they had done it personally and intentionally.

It’s irresponsible to deploy AI if you don’t know what it will do, especially when there are actual stakes.

Maybe we’ll have less AI bullshit then.
> Sure, you could just give up on roundtripping. But it’s important!

In the vast majority of cases, it’s not. If removing comments breaks roundtripping, then so does altering the indentation or adding/removing whitespace, even ever-so-slightly.

EDN parsers strip comments when read – it’s not an issue in practice.
If we're doing "provoke arguments on the internet using confusingly-stated constructs", they should have some self respect and use the venerable 6÷2(1+2).

And then read https://xkcd.com/169/

Anyway, I'm sure there'll be a YouTube video about this with an AI voiceover soon.
Another vote for porkbun here. By far one of the best registrars out there right now.
> f.ex. the situation with egress costing money in the US, but it's free on all EU location.s

Aren't you confusing Hetzner Cloud with Hetzner Robot (dedicated servers) here? AFAIK, Cloud has egress costs while Robot is usually unmetered.
I feel I could use it more.
I use the link jumping all the time, but that's basically it.
What other features do you guys use?
I live in the UK. It is far from perfect and the laws restricting the right to peaceful protest (enacted by the last government) had a very unwelcome authoritarian edge. But I don't see it "rapidly diving into Orwellian dystopia".

Also London, is very different to the rest of the UK, in many ways.

>“See it. Say it. Sort it”

You know that the UK has a long history of terrorists placing bombs on public transport?
Steve Jobs is the exception that confirms the rule.

There are so very few non-tech people who knows how to run a tech company.
Why would you conclude that the liar is telling the truth that they have any hats at all?
Yes, in that regard it was ahead of its time, and nowadays many game developers are exploring the possiblities to get rid of everything and explore pure compute for a full software rendering stack, running on GPGPU, agnostic from the actual rendering API.

Although I think it would still be better to use specific shading languages as the hardware isn't the same architecture, thus there is only so much one can do with traditional languages without extensions, or GPGPU specific algorithms/data structures, but that is me as outsider with interest in the field.

The experts seem to be enjoying exploring CUDA, SYCL, MSL, and similar for such purposes.
> not having to fight the language

Why would you fight Rust? It is decent for prototyping.
Oh he'll no not another standard no one needs. JSON is good enough
I didn't mean to imply there is no customer support on weekends, but usually you have a weekend crew that is a lot smaller than the typical work-week crew, so there are still things to catch up on after a weekend, even with crew working weekends.
Thanks for the recommendation! I’ll have to check it out.

I got into Dawkins’ books initially from The God Delusion (as I suspect many laypeople), and heard about The Selfish Gene from there, so evolutionary biology is not my area.

It makes sense that TSG is considered the dark ages as it’s such an old book. I was always curious to read more about the topic from other — and hopefully more recent — biologists, since Dawkins sometimes feels like he’s more of a communicator than a practicing biologist (and one with a particularly anti-religious chip on his shoulder, not that he’s wrong.)
Windows on Alpha didn't went far, so I guess no.

UNIX systems, I also doubt, as we were still in the days each vendor had their own CPUs.
But you are already giving Google, Apple, and/or Microsoft all that data anyway.
Death Generator: Create Game over/You Died Screens
I read the article. The bit you quote talks about putting the device in a firewalled subnet, because it is not a local-only device: it will try to dial out to a third party server, so it must be placed in a subnet which will block those attempts.

I want a device which I can put on my network and which will not try to dial out to the world. This device is not that.
> I removed comments from JSON because I saw people were using them to hold parsing directives

there's always someone putting actual logic in comments, and when I rule the world, those people are all going to be put on an island by themselves and they're going to have to deal with each other.
Build vs. Buy: A Case Study in Terraflow
As an engineer, build vs buy is a constant question. Being a developer is incredibly empowering. You can make a computer do anything that physics allows. So given a problem we are trying to solve, should we build a solution ourselves or buy one? There is no real answer here. Like most decisions, it comes down to what you value when you lay out the pros and cons. Is getting a solution that exactly meets your needs more important than spending that time more directly furthering the business? This is a question only you can answer.

Terraform Weekly Issue #202 includes an article by David Calvert on the bespoke TACOS that he developed for his employer, Hivebrite, called Terraflow. David’s article provides insights into the thought process, goals, and results of building their own solution. Unless a company is open sourcing their “build” solution, it’s rare to get insight into a decision like this, so I appreciate that David was willing to share his experience.
Depends how similar the PDK is.
Growing relative to what ? The polls that the government media fed the people non stop, claiming that no-one else stands a chance ?
Also, just because he didn't register inside your bubble, doesn't make him "unknown": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C4%83lin_Georgescu
Oh boy, the topic (Covid) alone would have left me exhausted after a few months.
I heard enough of it by mid 2021.
Iirc Bryan mentioned that Intel capital also invested in Oxide itself, despite the fact that they’re using AMD cpus.
What about for software implementations like 1Password and Bitwarden?
does anyone here use cloudflare as a registrar?

i’m interested in any potential negatives.
>If it’s a single email - then even if it doesn’t get caught in a Spam filter that’s still a short period of time to notice and respond when the stakes are so high.

What size company would you have to be where a 24 hour notice would not be problematic? I'm actually curious as to opinions here, and understand that obviously part of it is how well managed are your employee leave messaging etc.

I know one company with a very good manager and I think they would have managed it with 5 people being in the group of people who would handle this kind of thing (keeping track of all services etc. Obviously only 1-2 person does this but redundancy so it falls back when they are on vacation), slightly over 30 people in company size altogether.

If you're a startup of 3 people for example 24 hours might be game over.
I tried to figure it out but got stuck on the linguistic dilemma if he's lying about the concept of himself existing ("All of MY hats"). Then I decided I have better things to do.
Speaking mathematically, you are right. However, linguistically I disagree. Consider: Someone tells you that "all of their kids are doing great in school". Turns out they have no kids. They obviously were trying to deceive you, and make you think they do have kids - in fact, since plural, more than one kid. Hence, it is effectively a lie.

So if the liar speaks of "all my hats" while having none, that is deceptive. I would consider it a lie.
Do you think that amongst regular people, there exists a liar who always lies?
by the same following, this would mean that any statement on the members of an empty set can be made and it would be logically true?

e.g. "all my lamborghinis have magical goat skin seat covers" is true if 1) I have no lamborghinis or 2) All the ones I own have magical goat skin seat covers.

(fr I have no logical or mathematical background)
I'd say we didn't have many options back then except for C and no more than 4-5 others. So we did the things you quoted _despite_ C's drawbacks, not because of them.

I can very easily imagine doing the same things with Rust, with small amount of exceptions (that the core team is working on even now).

And yes Rust learned from the mistakes of the languages before it. Is that a bad thing?
Yes, so still: it's not like kids ever wanted computers for schoolwork in general.

Saying they wanted computers for schoolwork, is another matter.
Legal and moral are not synonyms.
I've had great experiences with NameSilo.
Yeah but we're in the digital age and trying to make things better than they were
Is this the weirdest thing in C?
Saruman's vacation pics?
Chinese National Charged for Scheme to Export Controlled Data and Defraud DoD
The movie "Margin Call" has an excellent scene where this happends: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hhy7JUinlu0

It is clear how it is setup that "to survive we must act now, not in a week, and we must do this expensive sell-off"

The whole movie is very well worth watching: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1615147/
Or, in one Mastodon instances case recently,
because Hetzner saw that users could upload their own images

Wait, what? Yikes. I'm planning a project like that. Do you have a link to more information?
I hate the new Outlook on Mac, fortunately you can still switch back to the old one. Tabular list with single click sortable columns especially date and from are essential for me. The mind boggles as to why Microsoft removed this ability in new Outlook.