skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Calculating 8x12 in my head relies on a trick / technique - they call it "chunking", I believe, in the Common Core maths curriculum that US parents get so angry about - that (I'm also in my 40s) was never demonstrated in schools when we were kids. (They tried to make me memorize the 12x table, which I couldn't, so I calculated it my way instead; took a little longer, but not so much that anyone caught on that I wasn't doing what the teacher said.) I'd like to think I was smart enough to work it out for myself, but I suspect my dad showed it to me.

I'll show it to you, but first: are you able to add 80 + 16 in your head? (There's another trick to learn for that.)
Faked scientific results.
Right back at ya.
Doesn’t need to be a pet theory, that’s just an accurate assessment of reality.

I’m sure in Finnish business schools they spend a lot of time hand wringing over the question of why their domestic champion Nokia failed. What they should instead be focused on is why the disruptor wasn’t also cultivated domestically.
Glad they spent some times discussing the downsides. I’m 4 months in to a Hotwire Native replacement for an unmaintained React Native app. The differences are stark and I could definitely see myself picking up Hotwire again for another project if given the same constraints, but I’ve had good experiences with React Native in the past too. Ultimately though I just do not like all the work that has to go into maintaining a large scale React codebase.
A crucial point that is lost on this venture capital-funded forum: scummy garbage makes money.

I don't think you quite understand how VC works.
Imagine that classic Star Trek scene where a crisis erupts, you’re in the captain’s chair, and you ask your bridge crew, “options?”

In a modern game, the crisis was scripted, and then you’ll get a scripted followup, or you’ll get a few scripted answers you can choose from, and half the challenge is figuring out which ones the game designers think are the good ones and which ones are supposed to kill you.

Now let’s imagine the crisis arose organically because you got yourself into a bad situation, and the options from your crew make sense in context, and maybe none of them will save you or maybe some will and you can’t just figure out which ones the game designers thought were good.

Basically, tabletop roleplaying with a good group and a good DM, but as a solo game with fancy graphics and all that.

I’d pay good money for that sort of thing, and it’s not something that can be built yet but which sufficiently good AI tech can enable (or maybe it’s now possible but only very recently).
Maybe you’re expecting too much from pithy life advice to avoid bad habits? It’s not a silver bullet guaranteed to solve serious problems such as mental illness.
I don't see what that's got to do with city planning and increasing density.
the title is a statement by Ofcom, which is the Office of Communications, the UK's telecommunications regulator.

the statement says this will also apply to social media sites that allow pornography. i'm curious if that includes X.

they also say that facial age estimation will be an approved methodology. that strikes me a high potential solution that will be cheaper and faster than verified alternatives. however, i imagine it's also trivial to defeat and much less accurate.
Prop 13 applies to commercial real estate as well as residential.

The commercial part should be removed to increase tax income.
You are living in a fantasy.
Have you ever tried to dock a Steam deck to a TV?

Have you ever tried to use physical media with a Steam deck?

Have you ever tried to get 5 hours of battery life with a Steam deck?

Have you ever put a Steam deck in your pocket? (I do have big pockets, but at least with the Switch Lite, it's possible.)

Nintendo will be just fine. I personally will never use a platform that can kick me out on a whim, or could screw me the moment Gabe Newell gets hit by a bus.
LG was pushing their transparent display at CES this year. This seems like the one of the few profitable applications for them. Hopefully they go transparent when they fail.
> It's the thing that came out in the anti-trust trial.

The one from 2001? I thought we were talking about the conditions today.

> If demand is low then why does Linux market share keep growing despite the low level of promotion or retail availability?

Because it counts Chromebooks, Android, and Steam OS. Which is fair, those count as wins for Linux, but those also aren't what OP is asking about when they say that they can't find Linux machines. The only kind of Linux machine they can't find is the kind that comes with a distro that is built for power users.
any reason hanlons razor doesnt apply here? honest question, im just a regular 4 year degree off to work guy
No one’s gonna mention the weird “copyright 2005” on every slide?
This is an incredibly simplistic take.
This seems somewhat useful. I've definitely found I have a much better signal-to-noise ratio on more focused job boards. The more focused, the better.

Eg when hiring at tiny startups, WorkAtAStartup (or Wellfound, if I'm not currently at a YC company) get a lot more candidates who are actually interested in working at a startup than general tech (or, god forbid, completely-general) job boards.
Indeed, my local government of Troy, Ohio (~25k population) offers RSS feeds with useful info about things like holiday closures, road construction, christmass tree pickup, etc. https://www.troyohio.gov/RSSFeed.aspx?ModID=1&CID=All-newsfl... There's also a calendar feed with city council meetings and such.
It’s a wonderful and generous idea. We do need more person to person, non commercialized connections. I’ve applied, thx.
> Had similar stability issues on a related board

No ECC for an hypervisor running VMs is scary too.

Although ZFS is still useful even without ECC.
The reason modern apartments in LA cost an arm and a leg is the same one for why new houses are no longer starter homes but McMansions.
New pdf link is broken, as far as I can tell.
They can't call it the <something else> Box because they don't want people to think of it as a Microsoft Device.

Nintendo can go from Nintendo 3DS to Nintendo Switch because the brand is Nintendo.

Microsoft clearly considers the brand "Microsoft" to be poison ivy to gamers, and always brands their gaming hardware as "Xbox" as if that were the company name. Going to Ybox would kill their brand and put them back at square one.
Demo meetings are for the people who own the checkbook not the people who will be doing the work.
Who were Anwar Sadat and King Abdullah I, and how did they die?
I think it was the equivalent of a tax stamp
Not related to phone companies, but some software companies were in denial about it. I remember purchasing one of the first HTC/Android smartphone, and I told my boss at the time that my new cheap phone could replace all the applications of the company but cheaper, more convenient, in my pocket, and without a computer. He made fun of me and laughed. I knew Java pretty well and whipped up a few POCs to see by myself if we were really doomed, but I didn't told anyone about it. In less than 2 weeks I replace the whole company with 2 or 3 applications with crappy UIs. I quit in less than a month and the company obviously closed soon after that because that was the only sensible thing to do.
Really? That does not sound like an opinion derived from real data.
An (agarose?) gel.

There are partial holes in at at one end. You insert a small amount of dyed DNA (etc) containing solution each. Apply an electrical potential across the gel. DNA gradually moves along. Smaller DNA fragments move faster. So, at a given time, you can coarsely measure fragment size of a given sample. Your absolute scale is given by "standards", aka "ladders" that have samples of multiple, known sizes.

The paper authors cheated (allegedly) by copy + pasting images of the gel. This is what was caught, so it implies they may have made up some or all results in this and other papers.
One trend I've noticed, framed as a logical deduction:

1. Coding assistants based on o1 and Sonnet are pretty great at coding with <50k context, but degrade rapidly beyond that.

2. Coding agents do massively better when they have a test-driven reward signal.

3. If a problem can be framed in a way that a coding agent can solve, that speeds up development at least 10x from the base case of human + assistant.

4. From (1)-(3), if you can get all the necessary context into 50k tokens and measure progress via tests, you can speed up development by 10x.

5. Therefore all new development should be microservices written from scratch and interacting via cleanly defined APIs.

Sure enough, I see HN projects evolving in that direction.
How I replaced myself with a GenAI chatbot using Gemini
iscover how I built the "auto-cpufreq genAI chatbot" (https://github.com/AdnanHodzic/auto-cpufreq) with Google Cloud’s Vertex AI Agent Builder and Conversational Agents, powered by Gemini as the underlying LLM.
That’s a popular misconception.

The first iPhone had a 400Mhz processor and 128MB of RAM. It was so resource constrained that you couldn’t put a picture on your home screen because it would have taken too much memory.

It could barely run Safari. If you scrolled too fast, you would see checker boxes while trying to render the screen.

When Flash did finally come to mobile on Android, it required a 1Ghz processor and 1GB RAM. The first iPhone with those specs didn’t come out until 2011.

Even then on Android, Flash ran horribly and killed your battery. I had a high end Android phone on Sprint back then.
How should a company figure out what to charge for something in the first place?
Especially a startup that doesn't have much market data to go on, and may be making something entirely new that no one quite knows the value of.
When this is the case, one option is to do price discovery.
And the way to do that is to remove prices from the website, take calls, learn about customers and their needs, and experiment.
They completely revamped the UX from being essentially an instagram clone focusing on pictures and written content, to increasingly a tiktok clone focusing on browseable short form video?

Are you going to need similar evidence if I claim that YouTube has been working on being a TikTok replacement as well? It's pretty clear that YouTube created the "shorts" feature as an attempt to allow TikTok creators to trivially repost content.
Ballmer, the person who pushed for and created the entire Microsoft Enterprise focus, is not an idea guy that understood what made Microsoft successful? This idea that Ballmer was some goof when he was actually considered a co-founder by Bill Gates which is why he received like 17% of the company when he joined.

Also, they put plenty of effort into getting developers to onboard windows phone. They even created multiple platforms that allowed devs to create a single app that worked across all windows devices(pc, phone, xbox) but developers decided, with some very influential devs being extremely vocal, that is was some sort of power grab to force devs to only deliver their software through the windows store.
The state can be stored in any Postgres instance, either locally or in any cloud.

For code, here's the bare minimum code example for a workflow:

class Example {
@DBOS.step()
static async step_one() {
...
}

@DBOS.step()
static async step_two() {
...
}

@DBOS.workflow()
static async workflow() {
await Example.step_one()
await Example.step_two()
}
}

The steps can be any TypeScript function.

Then we have a bunch more examples in our docs: https://docs.dbos.dev/.

Or if you want to try it yourself download a template:

npx @dbos-inc/create
Delivery Apps Testing Missile-Powered Delivery for Faster Arrival
Could this be a repeat of the Xerox image duplication bug? https://www.dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/0802_xerox-workcentres...
If they want to be in litigation with angry deep pocketed people for a few decades, sure.
> saw this post going viral on X about RSS

/irony meter explodes/
Curious what you meant by the last sentence there. Does React uniquely complicate maintenance as a codebase grows?
Rockets aren’t birds either, and yet: Falcon 9 (the Falcon 9 also is the second iteration of the Falcon rockets, not the ninth, so…)

Rockets also aren’t planets, and yet: Saturn V

Rockets also aren’t mythological horse/man creatures, and yet: Vulcan Centaur

You’re overthinking it.
A New Tab Model
Here's me, clicking and expecting to read about someone fleecing Spotify by setting up fake bands.
Filling the world with more surveillance and ads is always a bad idea no matter what the implementation.
They needed to cut prices because phones could had a fully usable browser on mobile broadband with GPS that no one else did. There simply wasn’t a competitor for at least a few years, and it could even be due to the deal Apple made with ATT to make sure all iPhones came with unlimited 3G mobile broadband.
The Cooler Screens CEO sounds like a “fake it till you make it at all costs” kind of guy just based on the allegations of fraud at his tea company and his conspiracy allegations at the Four Seasons interview. I’d be very wary of any data provided by his company indicating increased sales, it’s very easy to manipulate the excel data if nobody is verifying how the data was collected in the first place.
Hi there, I think I might have found a typo in your example class in the github README. In the class's `workflow` method, shouldn't we be `await`-ing those steps?
If it's going to help US in any way, why not? TikTok is eating the lunch of US social media apps so fair to play the protectionism game.
I doubt that Kodak could have built a complete phone. But they certainly could have been a tier-1 supplier of camera components and software to Apple and other phone manufacturers. It seems like Kodak didn't even really try.
really? i can already call a self-driving car in LA but the idea that this will scale up in the next 10 years is out there?
Diplomacy only works when both sides are playing fair. If China is going to ban US apps unilaterally, US should reciprocate in kind.
I get what you mean, but one could argue its a bit hyperbolic (maybe false equivalence?) to draw a line between the economic impact of small biz/single proprietor and the economy writ large.

That said...thank gawd there's still room for biz like yours.
There are perverse incentives in scientific publishing, and there are not many alternative explanations.
No need to wait 10 years, Waymo currently operates in LA.
Gaza was not under occupation. It was blockaded because after the occupation ended they decided to ramp up attacks on Israel via. rockets and suicide bombings.
Exactly. For a while you could have huge improvements from better hardware. Then there were some cool new gimmicks. Now both of those seem to be played out.

And that’s happening across the board. All the stuff I’d go ogle in Best Buy as a teenager is now basically maxed out both in terms of hardware and gimmicks.
Water Rendering in Gradient
feel like it has obvious salience around the necessity of parking requirements going forward just like if a rail line opened up near you
Of course it's not new. That area has been occupied by Canaanites, Egyptians, Israelites, Philistines, Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Arab Caliphates, Crusaders, Mamluks, Ottoman Empire, British, etc.. I probably forgot many of the others, too.
Ultimately this is the basis for governance, including zoning and code enforcement. However, I agree with your sentiment.

You'll notice the loaded language used in the title of the article: "California's future depends on how leaders rebuild". Ideally I would think that the landowners should have priority in deciding what is built on their land. After all it is still at least nominally their private property.

Expect further arguments towards a subjectively perceived "greater collective good" to follow from that point. After this is established, the ends justify the means. In this case, the above poster explicitly describes the means as "men with guns".
? that is how all laws ultimately work
This whole thing works when you’re small, right up until it doesn’t. If you never have a call with a customer you never have a relationship. If you never have a relationship you have no idea what’s important to them, if there’s risk of churn, or if there’s a competitor sniffing at your door.

I doubt the random engineer you emailed with is going to send you an email letting you know their CTO had dinner with a competitor who is offering to undercut you by 10%.
I don't understand where this trust comes from. Just like any other large company, Apple will not stand up for your civil rights when it seriously threatens the bottom line.
I find it surprising that the paper has no discussion whatsoever of the thermodynamics of the process. The overall reaction is very endothermic (you can burn ammonia in oxygen as fuel!), so the only way it’s happening at all is that it’s approaching equilibrium, presumably driven by the increase of entropy available by creating a low concentration of ammonia in whatever weird phase it’s created in. Getting high concentrations from a similar process is going to need some energy-consuming step to shift that equilibrium.

Worse, they seem to be using some chilled object to condense ammonia solution from the air, so you’re also paying the energy cost of keeping it cold, which means you’re paying the full cost of producing a lot of water from atmospheric water vapor. Maybe a future improvement could start with liquid water.
Is there an obvious way to tell that these are exactly the same? Or is this a pixel level comparison that is not mentioned?
Worthy to note that 3 of those sites are powered by Drupal. Sometimes dated open-source monolithic solutions are quite helpful.
Are there any constraints around which functions can be turned into steps? I assume their state (arguments?) need to be serializable?

Also, what happens with versioning? What if I want to deploy new code?
I appreciate that you took the time to respond, but I think that analysis of the population of Gaza clearly shows that there hasn't be any ethnic cleansing either. The Palestinian population has been going up since 1948. So has life expectancy. These facts destroy the narrative of ethnic cleansing.

> For Israel this a racial problem, and whilst theyd prefer expulsion (like Hitler), theyre not above extermination (like Hitler) if the "dump them all in africa" project falls through.

Right, Israel doesn't want any Arabs within its borders. If there are any Arabs living in Israel they are there as a class of indentured servants who can't vote or serve in the government. Are there any Arabs in Israel?

I am personally sorry for what happened in Gaza, but Hamas chose to start a war and civilian deaths are an unavoidable fact of war. What would you want done if your family had been the victims of a barbaric, unprovoked attack, or if your family were kidnapped and taken from you?

And you're stating your opinion as if it were fact. You believe that no one on the left still supports Israel except if they are racist. That's just your opinion. It's not a fact. You believe that anyone who does support Israel is a racist. That's your opinion. It's not a fact.

You are definitely entitled to your opinion, but it's very telling that your opinion seems to deny and disregard quite a lot of facts.

> A side effect of this slaughter is that it has ripped off the mask of liberal, egalitarian Israel.

Is Israel a democracy? Can women vote in Israel? Can women serve in the army? Is it illegal to be gay in Israel? Can Israeli Arabs vote? Can they serve in parliament? Do they serve in parliament? What happens to gay men and women in Gaza and the West Bank? Why do they want to flee to Israel?

Again, you can have whatever opinion you want but the facts don't agree with you.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42711556
Can someone change the title to:

"Comment on Nature paper on 2015 mRNA paper suggests data re-used in different contexts"

The current title would suggest music to most lay-people.
> Proxmox does it all out of the box at a very reasonable price point.

Live migration of containers via the CRIU featureset (checkpoint+restore in userspace, which is now part of the mainline Linux kernel) is also an interesting theoretical possibility - AIUI the Kubernetes folks are at least thinking about supporting it. (Live migration fits remarkably well with containers since it requires comprehensive namespacing of all system resources - abstracting away from any dependence on the local machine - which is also how containerization works to begin with.)
Yes, that Prop 13.

The insidious part is that commercial real estate in California is paying the same rates as they were when the building was built, despite the fact that the value of the building has increased many times since and the building "changing" ownership many times since.

The second insidious part is that because of the enhancements to the tax code over the years it's possible to continue to pay 1978 property tax rates in perpetuity, and even pass those rates on to your descendants. You can even transfer those super low rates to a new property in some cases.

New buyers get screwed because they will be paying at today's rates. So you could be paying 10x more property tax as your neighbor for the same city services.
So many anonymous writers on Substack who seem to take pride in giving zero biographical information. Then they write geopolitical analysis or whatever with enormous confidence, frequently calling out the experts in the field as idiots.

I guess they'd argue that the author's identity shouldn't matter and that one should just judge the writing on its own merit. The problem is that we're drowning in information. AI makes its trivial to generate authoritative-looking nonsense. Evaluation is costly. So I prefer to read something which the author has associated with their own identity (which means there's a cost to lying), or has provided some credentials to prove why their opinion matters. Of course there are exceptions (Gwern comes to mind), but I'll only trust them if they're recommended by other writers I trust.
Democratic state majority since Reagan and California still can't get anything done.
This is an interesting article about what is considered the most remote point on earth:
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/11/point-n...
A lot of satellite debris is targeted there but of course we cannot expect all space debris to be so controlled and in this case SpaceX went for a region that was quite remote.
Yes thank you billionaires, if you hadn't vacuumed the wealth of a nation this could have been a government agency success. Why should we all benefit when one man can?
It’s some of each. Hardware is improving substantially slower than it used to. And at the same time, what you get out of better hardware has hit steeply diminishing returns.
I'm surprised they don't already drift to the point where you can't use them on your old switch either.
As a developer, I remember a few bosses that thought "who needs a stupid phone? no one will buy that" except that Android could already do most of what Windows was capable of, and the bonus was that the SDK was free and Java was an easy language.

They were stuck in their post-Windows 95 world, and did not understand that multimedia CD-ROMs were clunky and dying.
Look at the "scratch" on the right end of the leftmost dash. That "noise" shouldn't be replicated, right?
> Parts of the deck suggest that they didn't fully understand what they were facing.

The biggest one to note is the somewhat-hopeful comment that the lack of Java support was cutting off the iPhone from a "large swath of existing software" ... that barely anyone enjoyed using, and didn't amount to much mindshare or incumbent advantage.
FYI the “Build Crashproof Apps” button in your docs doesn’t do anything.