skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AWS support in general is extremely good in my experience. (We pay for whatever the tier below Enterprise is called, I think it costs 10% of your spend)

I’ve been on 4 hour screenshare with AWS engineers working through some infrastructure issues in the past, and we only spend $100k/yr.

Even at the $100k/yr spend level, AWS regularly reaches out with offers to try new services they’re launching for free. We’ve said “sure” a couple times, and AWS shows up with 4-6 people on their end of the call (half of them engineers).

In the past 10 years, we’ve had maybe 2-3 emergency issues per year, and every time I’m able to get a really smart person on a call within 5 minutes.

This is the #1 thing I’d be concerned about losing if we did colo or bare metal with cheaper providers.
If I remember right, one of the key guarantees of the Hilbert curve is that if you specify a number N=6 say, then given any rectangle of vertices, you can cover it by no more than N sequential sub-curves of the Hilbert curve without “overshooting” by too much. More precisely, there is a constant C (depending only on N) such that your cover will never be no more than C times larger than the original rectangle.

And then as you let N grow, C tends to 1.

I believe the same is true for Morton, though the constant is larger. However, I think it is false for the zig-zag curve, with a counter-example being a long strip orthogonal to the usual direction of the zig-zag.
Generally the way you solve that is by having the low entropy key give access to a hardware-based key store, like TPM. Those can be made tamper proof and throttled. I.e. the key is destroyed if you try to access the store by probing it, and it is locked (temporarily) after n failed attempts.

This also allows people changing their password as you do not change the actual (strong) key used for the disk but the key used to access it.
Jupyter + LLM tools: Ipython-GPT, Elyra, jetmlgpt, jupyter-ai; CoCalc, Colab, NotebookLM,

jupyterlab/jupyter-ai:
https://github.com/jupyterlab/jupyter-ai

"[jupyter/enhancement-proposals#128] Pre-proposal: standardize object representations for ai and a protocol to retrieve them"
https://github.com/jupyter/enhancement-proposals/issues/128
>The Darwin kids “were used as volunteers,” says Kohn, “to collect butterflies, insects, and moths, and to make observations on plants in the fields around town.”

Back then, I suppose there were no child labor laws. /s
Without those errors, we'd still be amoebas?
Disclaimer: am not a cryptographer.

> First, passwords are terrible sources of entropy.

Use a KDF.

> users want to change passwords without needing to re-encrypt every single block

You've gone into a little more detail than OP, but I don't think it was necessary to disagree. The overall idea (even if simplified) is solid.

I've recently argued for the same solution for Linux: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42739214
REI Board elections are open to all members. In the last election the REI union recommended not voting for all of the incumbent board members due to their hostility towards the union.

However I believe the board nomination process used to be open, but now only board members can nominate people for a board seat
Ozempic in Europe seems to be cheap, under $100 in many cases. In the US it costs 10x or more that. So as much as I hate to defend insurance companies, it's not just them.
> If a small company comes in and doesn’t pay the lawyers, it’ll get sued for violating the patents.

This assumes the small company isn't just in it for the patents.
Regarding what I see as a common thread between this example and the ongoing TikTok saga in the US -- why the hell do apps even have access through these parts of the API in the first place? Shouldn't iOS/Android be restricting these permissions? It seems insane that only a minority of people seem to find the current situation insane.
Agreed. We run our own bare metal in a rack, but also rent machines from Hivelocity where the use case suits.
group selection works a lot better when the sacrificing individuals are sterile, with no other hope of passing on their genetics.

See also Eunuchs and Castration as a way to recreate a similar dynamic with humans. Castration had the fascinating ability to bind the interests of the Eunuchs more closely with the power structures and rules, by removing the option of family and progeny of their own.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eunuch#Asia_and_Africa

[Edit] As crazydoggers points out, it is probably better to view this through the lens of kin selection, with reproducers as the evolutionary agents.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42749677
Out of curiosity, any tools that provide a systemd gui minus the fzf dependency?
Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42746506
> Romania has state mandated public health insurance (if you're employed or if you make over minimum wage from non employement sources, you have to pay for public health insurance), but the private health insurance market is also thriving.

Where this happens it's basically because the public wants more insurance than the government is providing, e.g. you're required to pay $3000 for $3000 worth of insurance but there are people who want $5000 worth of insurance so they buy another $2000 in private insurance.

But that doesn't really change the problem because the extra insurance covers different stuff. If your coverage from the government covers the drug and your coverage from a private insurer covers longer inpatient stays or hospice care, the latter is unrelated to the former. Meanwhile there are still a lot of people who only have the government insurance and can't switch to a different provider for that coverage because the government plan is required by law. And even if you could get drug coverage from a private insurer, the patient would then be paying for the whole cost of the drug out of the private insurance premiums even though they're still paying for the public insurance, which will deter people from doing that unless the government coverage is not just bad but catastrophically bad.

The way you could make it work is that instead of the government setting the retail price of the drug, they set how much they pay for the drug and the patient pays the rest, which the patient could then have covered by private insurance at their option. Then you actually have price discovery because if the drug is worth more to people than the government is paying, they'll buy the amount of private insurance needed to pay the rest.

> But, in Romania, Ozempic was negotiated/price controlled by the government to be for around ~100$/month. First year or two supply was enough, so we got it, this year demand in places with more cash is high, so Romanians don't get any more Ozempic (but we still have Rybelsus)

Production capacity isn't normally the issue for drugs under patent. The issue is that you need somebody to pay enough to cover the R&D or otherwise you don't get the drug, and drug R&D is crazy expensive because the price has to cover the R&D cost for all the drugs that don't work out.
Is huge delivery truck safer for pedestrians than a Cybertruck? This sounds like a paperwork issue and not a legitimate safety issue.
1. I’ve been using Joplin across apple and Linux footprints since 2016. Laurent is a very attentive maintainer and the community forum is very active and reactive when you need them. I’m very satisfied. Ui serves my needs, plugins can be developed when I need to do something domain specific (mermaid, plantuml). I like markdown.

I use pen and paper
continuously everyday, and snap pictures of journal pages in the Joplin. Mobile app when need be.

3. Not sure what additional you’d be looking for here.

4. I don’t expect my note taking app to be Jira if that’s the thrust on q 4.

5. Roughly 1/3rd is summarizing citations from the web or other sources.
There's no need to demonize people, soulless systems will do just fine. Game theory is pushing continental powers against maritime ones.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcVSgYz5SJ8
By that standard, no problem has ever been solved by anyone. I prefer to believe that a great many everyday tech issues were in fact tackled and solved in the past by people who had never even heard of LLMs. So too many things were done in finance long before blockchains solved everything for us.
Google's GMail (re: shadow drops). But re: silent drops I am specifically referring to Google's Gmail platform as was providing email hosting service for all noaa.gov email addresses and the silent dropping of emails sent to noaa.gov.
> moderately big CEO

It reminds of the book "The Power of Positive Thinking" which I tried to read some time ago, but I stopped because it was full of similar anecdotes: "a bank CEO whom I had a dinner with but I can't name...", "a pharaoh friend of mine, who shall remain nameless once did...", "the very important oil magnate who I will refer to as XY..."
Meeting David Lynch on the Dreaming Plane
Is that not essentially the only way that selection happens? You are just desvribing basic natural selection
>“Children are one’s greatest happiness,” he once wrote, “but often & often a still greater misery. A man of science ought to have none.”

Brats..
That’s because Medicare only covers drugs for approved FDA usage. It’s covered for diabetes but not weight loss. In general this is good policy. It is possible to challenge for some cases but generally that is the rule. It’s a perfectly reasonable way to both control costs and prevent harm.

If the drug manufacturers wanted it to be covered for weight loss there IS a process. File the correct paperwork with the FDA and do the rigorous studies that were don’t for the approved usage.
The universe is lazily evaluated.
Deeper dive from The Eclectic Light Company: https://eclecticlight.co/2025/01/10/filevault-and-volume-enc...
Beware Shared Basic Value Changes
Curious, how hard is the sample in the article meant to be? I grew up (in the 1970s) in a world in which cursive still ruled. But the variant that we were taught in school was already considerably evolved from the one used by my grandparents, and those were modern compared to the archaic German script ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%BCtterlin ) so I've never thought of myself as good at reading cursive. And of course haven't written (or read) much of it in the decades since.

It took about one minute to decipher the first sentence in the sample. Is that considered good these days?
> There is also https://opencollective.com/ which provides a platform for collective ownership of an online business.

I don't think Open Collective "provides a platform for collective ownership", unless I missed something on their website and they've recently introduced some new offering.

As I understand it, they sidestep much of the legal process through the use of fiscal hosts to collect and disburse money.
Looks very useful. Standard tooling for systemd is such an annoying maze to navigate.
uber is not repeat business. Some platforms with repeat business like upwork see this a lot
One important note: "With its advanced multi-quantum well structure and ring geometry, the laser minimizes the power consumption and the heat generation, enabling stable operation up to 90 Kelvin (K) or minus 183.15 degrees Celsius (°C)."

Room-temperature operation is still in the future.
> A lot of dogs get freaked out by snakes too, or if you play with a hair clip in front of them, which looks like a snake.

Some cats are afraid of cucumbers, presumably because the shape and color resembles a snake. Here’s a funny compilation: https://youtu.be/oDpQ2uGLUKU
> I'm so sick and tired of liberals acting like it is some kind of ultimate racist evil to be against excessive immigration.

Im also sick and tired of Liberals not realising that they are abetting corporate slavery via excessive immigration and rationalizing it that they are helping these immigrants. And arguing ”we need skilled immigrants”. What these Liberals are advocating is brain draining these countries which helps to perpetuate their poverty and backwardness if you take all their educated and skilled people.
It's a cost per month, supports the top models (tbh sonnet 3.5 is the key model) and is VS code + some more UI.

> trying to take over the experience rather than assist within my experience

I'm not sure I understand. It's got autocomplete, chat, asking it to change files, but it's vscode plus some stuff. What's it "taking over"?
How does one actually sign up?
I work on a startup where the entire self-hosted SaaS is permissively licensed.

https://github.com/batteries-included/batteries-included
https://www.batteriesincl.com/
https://www.batteriesincl.com/LICENSE-1.0

I started the company because I wanted to give the infrastructure team that FAANG companies have to smaller enterprises. Most of the best infrastructure is open source but too complicated to use or maintain. So we've built a full platform that will run on any Kubernetes cluster, giving a company a push-button infrastructure with everything built on open source. So you get Heroku with single sign-on and no CLI needed. Or you get a full RAG stack with model hosting on your EKS cluster.

Since most of the services and projects we're building on top of are open source, we wanted to give the code to the world while being sustainable in the long term as a team. I had also been a part of Cloudera, and I had seen the havoc that open core had on the long-term success of Hadoop. So, I wanted something different for licensing. We ended up with a license that somewhat resembles the FSL but fixes its major (in my opinion) problem. We don't use the competing use clause instead opting for a total install size requirement.

I'm happy to chat with anyone about this, my email is in my profile. Good Luck nd I hope it works for you.
There are many valid explanations.
https://www.ft.com/lol-404-theories
This concept blew my mind when I internalized it.

Same reason why honest signals exist. A peacock with very rich feathers is a fitness disadvantage. But they find mates more successfully. These traits persist in the gene pool.

It’s so much easier to just evolve a cheating trait that does the job of finding a mate even without the required fitness.

But the signals stay honest for the most part.

Why?

It’s because ultimately the species survives, not the individuals.

In a lot of cases, something that makes the individual more fit also makes the species more fit. But in some cases, they are inversely proportional.

Hence you end up with suicidal genes that favor the death of the individuals for the greater good of the species.

Now extrapolating to human society, most nations have landed on a system where taxes are paid to the government. Every individual might complain and try to get out of paying. But we do. Why? Maybe because societies where that wasn’t a thing were less fit and didn’t last long enough to still be around.
That is not nearly the same thing as saying that they are people. Just that when it comes to this particular right, the way it is applied is not functionally different. That’s like saying that because corporations pay taxes they are also people.
And I hope alternative lexicon for chat apps built atop ATproto will be able to challenge Discord by leveraging the network effect of transferable identities.
> But from a high level there is nothing stopping congress from regulating any instance foreign trade.

Incorrect- federal powers do not override constitutional rights like free speech.
Flocken Elektrowagen
>with accents perceived as ‘working-class’ including those from Liverpool, Newcastle, Bradford and London risk being stereotyped as more likely to have committed a crime

It doesn't mention if they actually do more crimes or not. People perceptions are not automatically inaccurate.
I don't really know what any given tagged template literal is going to do with its content either. It can also produce a value or run side-effects. The only difference is that the parser now has to be inside the browser, and that has a runtime cost instead.

> In Lit we support explicit attribute, property and event bindings rather than overload a single namespace for all 3

I'd like to know more about this. I don't know what that even means.
I think its just them being overly technical on the naming the mechanism, ie "Rotational Coil Spring Powered", rather than just being a plain ol Windup Star Tracker
> There's no slippery slope. A capture card is standard equipment for any broadcaster.

Guess what. OP isn't a broadcaster. Neither is the commenter. And everybody else here and their moms find it ludicrous that someone has to spend another X, where X is literally any amount over 0, to do something that the camera can already clearly do. In high quality. As evidenced by the existence of the software in the first place.

> The comment was ludicrous, sorry.

Yeah no shit Sherlock. That was the whole point. Are you actually this dense in real life or are you playing it up to be a troll?
This is one of those fun reads because it unifies quite a few things that I’ve read about or been interested in recently — Hilbert curves for geospatial indexing in dbs, Gray codes, and fractals! And it’s all fairly intuitive — the 1-bit shift makes sense for space traversal and makes the numbers curve pattern easier to reason about.
Of course you can. Arcologies! Super practical, compact, safe, efficient! Tornadoes do most of the damage at the bottom, so taller structures gain advantage. If there's a huge mass pushing down on the bottom parts the tornado won't be able to dislodge it.
If you're considering a VPS I'd also check out Hetzner. They only have Germany and Finland locations, but if latency isn't an issue (or if you're in Europe) you can get really good prices there.
In violent agreement- unfortunately, they were identified with the British occupation/administration.

See also: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Ireland_Craig
You can use the free version and bring your own api keys if you want. You miss out on features that require cursors models.
A security layer for Git repositories
Siri, Alexa, etc are in no form or fashion AI.

You give them a list of intents, a list of utterances that should invoke those intents and “slots” that those intents need to fulfill the intent.

An utterance would be “I want to go home”.

It would match an utterance to “I want to go $location”. That is matched to an intent “get directions” and then you route it to the correct subsystem. If you don’t have all of the slots (ie they don’t mention the location), you keep asking questions until all of the slots are filled.

Any first year hobbyist programmer can replicate the natural language processing of Siri.

Yes the harder part is converting speech to text.

This is what a more intelligent LLM based system could do.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42708291
My only thought is 'RCSPAST' is the joke, but I still don't get it.

Edit: I think maybe Don's reputation as an in-space inventor (first patent for something invented in space) means the clock spring device got a long and contrived name for it's quite basic function.
Is it possible to implement a functional subset of just serving one’s own DID identities using serverless functions? Then that would enable every average Joe to make their own with Cloudflare Pages Workers
I'm not too familiar with this but as I understand it you you may have the disk encrypted with a key that is loaded from some other server at boot automatically. The key server may then require a manual un-seal to un-encrypt it's own key storage. If you steal the server and it loses power then the key is gone. Of course, there's ways around this like switching the server to a battery and possibly then literally freezing the RAM to dump it.
"Tainting" isn't a thing in patent law. All engineers worldwide are tainted the moment the patent is published; that's why parallel reinvention is not a defense to patent infringement.
Ah. I never had Inbox, so now it makes some sense to me (at least from a historical perspective.)
> An AI that only answers questions (Siri, Alexa, chatGPT) is a glorified slave

This reminds me of the first "conversation" I had with Emacs's ELIZA. I have it saved up since reading it always makes me smile.

https://pastebin.com/raw/cz9Y42Qm
I wholeheartedly agree. Nvidia is intentionally suppressing the amount of memory on their consumer GPUs to prevent data centers from using consumer cards rather than their far more expensive counterparts. The fact that they used to offer the 3060 with 12GB, but have now pushed the pricing higher and limited many cards to 8GB is a testament to the fact they are. I don’t need giga-TOPS with 8-16gb of memory, I’d be perfectly happy with half that speed but with 64gb of memory or more. Even slower memory would be fine. I don’t need 1000t/s, but being able to load a reasonable intelligent model even at 50t/s would be great.
I like the domain name identity model used by AT (so much so I built handles.net[1] for managing domain name based handles) but during my time reading opinions on Bluesky it has become apparent there's a lot more confusion about and distrust towards domain names amongst non-technical people than I previously thought.

I thought that people generally understood that domain names are owned and that their provenance can be independently verified (which is why they're valuable for identity) but there's a fairly large and vocal contingent of Bluesky users that are frustrated by domain names, so much so there are multiple efforts to establish a private verification system on Bluesky like verified.quest[2].

A lot of people do not want to look at and understand domain names, instead they want to see a name and a check mark. They want a central authority to tell them who is trustworthy and who is not. Domain names are a great solution for technology-adjacent people and I hope that they become more widely accepted, but I'm not too optimistic.

I am optimistic and hopeful that AT has a bright future ahead of it. I think AT has a lot going for it... but I do not think that identity will be a part of that. I suspect many apps built on AT will not bother with handles and will just use local display names.

[1] https://handles.net
[2] https://verified.quest
Great great write-up! I would personally recommend meetups. I have found them to be a great way to be social and meet new people. And one thing that makes it nice is that there's no expectation of becoming life long friends -- being able to have a conversation with a stranger, sharing your life and learning about theirs, is grossly underrated. It is stressful to take that first step -- the first ones I went to, I was basically nautious the entire day leading up to it :P but after you do a few, it gets easier quickly. (Although I will note I don't have a family, so have more time for stuff like this!)

No guarantee you'll find someone at the exact level as you, but you might at least find someone in a similar spot who can relate and provide useful insights!
A fascinating read about such things is "The Red Queen" by Ridley.

https://www.amazon.com/Red-Queen-Evolution-Human-Nature/dp/0...

It's all about the propagation of the genes, not the survival of the organism.
For me, the first sentence was almost immediately readable, I just had to slow down a bit to decipher the name