skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I talked to somebody who owned a beach house in South Carolina about 5 years ago and if he wanted flood insurance it would cost $5,000 / month.
There’s a plate boundary running under Morocco and across the Mediterranean, but it’s not nearly as active as the Pacific Rim, and it’s quite a long way from Northern Europe.
"Could?"
Mexico is in the middle of a crippling drought
US has banned foreign ownership of TV/Radio stations for over a 100 years.
Effect of Plasma and Blood Donations on PFAS Levels in Firefighters (2022)
FTC Issues Staff Report on AI Partnerships and Investments Study
Ironically all major production C compilers evolved to be written in C++.

Also if they value compilation speed that much, maybe they shouldn't be that pushy into compiling always from source, without any support for Zig binary libraries.
I agree with the fun. The fancy restaurant offers a complete experience but if we look only at the food the Michelin star chef cooks very different things at home. The most lame constraint I hear is that to get the stars the kitchen must be French.
You speak like someone who's never left it.

Darn it, then decade I spent in Asia and the 100+ trips to Europe and the Middle East didn't prepare me for the rapier banter of some rando on the internet.
Yes they are called routers. One is https://withmartian.com/
Although TikTok has said they are gearing up to shut the service down.
IIRC Tamara Munzner and some colleagues worked on visualizing large phylogenic trees.

There's this, too, https://academic.oup.com/mbe/article/33/8/2163/2579233 and it's implemented at http://phylo.io
I'll insure you for cost + half... it's not a matter of insurance it's the price of which it comes in at.
For the lone farmer who's just trying to make it through the season and can't afford an accountant, it may seem difficult to correctly account for costs, but if you're one of the richest large multi-national corporations in the world, you'd book the revenue according to GAAP and not try to guess at how to do it from first principles. In particular, you'd pick a method and stay with that until there's a reason to change. By "percentage of revenue contribution" is entirely valid, though there are other methods.

Since the question was written to pose by percentage of revenue contribution as wrong, by production units is another way you could do it. But importantly, as a public company, you pick a method and go with that so that the numbers can be compared from year to year, and quarter to quarter, and is more important than the absolute number, though that's still important.

Importantly, it's not this big crazy unknown question that's never been answered before in the history of the business of sheep. Or hardware and software sales. Apple, whos legal and accounting department used an aggressive tax minimization strategy similar to the Dutch Sandwich to book revenue in Europe until they got called out for it, isn't comprised of "hick farmers" who don't know what they're doing and can't figure out a method on how to book revenue. It's a ploy yet again to avoid paying taxes or developers and isn't some off-the-cuff answer.

Apple, as a public company, is required to break out material revenue, and thus the App store revenue is listed in their quarterly 10-K with the SEC. Cost of sales and operating expenses are also listed. Importantly though, the lawyers fighting Apple just need to establish that the percentage is quite high, even if a specific number came be agreed upon, and thus Apple is can sustainability pay out whatever they're being asked for.

Though, the SEC is a US institution and has limited reach outside of the US, and the linked case is coming from the UK,
so I'm not sure if the existence of the 10-K comes into play.
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It's not decentralized. Mastodon is.
30+ states have anti-BDS statutes that make it a crime to criticize Israel.
You see, that's what I aim to express, but you can not understand

You can only understand such thing with certain history context/knowledge, without it, it's very likely you can not understand what I'm talking about, vice versa, so do I

The difference is I know your history, you don't know mine

like the statement above:

> Everybody already moved to red book and are starting to recognize that the US is just an aging colonialist with nothing to offer the future

it's not true, most Chinese in Xiaohongshu are not recognize the US as 'colonialist', like I said, many of us don't even know what 'colonialist' even mean

They just recognize the US as an aging 'imperialist'(mostly refer to refers to inflation and healthcare), that's what most Chinese can understand

And, 'white' is not a slur, it's history
What about sulfur-reducing bacteria? The process also requires iron, but seems to be possible without cobalt (desulfovibrio africanus).
precise results would depend heavily on screen calibration
I have friends who can't even watch a movie without using their phone the whole time. I find it pathetic and childish, but it's also annoying because the only reason we're watching a movie together is for the shared experience.
Ironically they don't profit off the misfortunate customers. Those ones typically get back more than their premiums.

They profit off the fortunate customers, those who have no need to claim from insurance.
Exactly this. At first started verbally abusing it untill it conformed, but i quickly realised that after the context gets very long it simply discards former instructions and abusing. So i get frustrated, toxic AND don't get my job done
+1 – often, for me, since a lot of the computations are estimated anyway, the biggest thing I need to do is ask ChatGPT to break down the notation and give me the precise terminology.
Officials at the EU should first wonder why there is no European equivalent of Google, or Facebook, or Twitter, or Tiktok (the list could continue forever).

Even if it where, such a company would not find the same obstacles in entering the American market as in would in China.
> but maybe it won’t be a law if one guy decides he doesn’t like it

Are you talking about a presidential veto? What are you saying?
There's no need to spend unfathomable amounts. We just need to establish and enforce the favored nation status if they want to sell their drugs here. No drug (least of all US developed drug) should cost more in the US than it does elsewhere. That's what Trump was proposing in his last term. Because the Congress is corrupt AF, that went nowhere, but maybe we could give it another try now that his mandate is much stronger? As things currently are, we're getting robbed.
Bottom line: 40% efficiency, which is better than I expected but the competition is batteries at 80+% efficiency. It's a hard sell, especially as continual improvements in battery storage will continue to eat away at their niche.

5,000 W/kg sounds great on paper compared to 150 W/kg for batteries and is even in the same ballpark as gasoline at 12,000 W/kg, but I think that's just the figure for the fuel. I don't think it includes storage, the solar panels, the burner, etc... The cost is an open ended question as well. Maybe this will pan out for aircraft?
Fully agree, especially for a laptop. A password that combines three unrelated words and a few numbers takes about 3 seconds to type in.

I shut it down every day, so type in the password every day too. Short of a concussion, I'm not going to get locked out.
Lenticular Cloud Formations over the UK
I think it is critical to differentiate price controls and purchasing controls.

Most other markets with state insurance have purchasing controls. That is to say, if the price is too high, the government doesn't buy it.

Very few places have price controls e.g. "products cant be sold for more than X".

The US government is the outlier in that it situationally states it will pay the price no matter the cost.

Reasonable government policy needs to start with putting a price on human life (QALY), and purchasing goods and services that come in under that price. This is how it works in other state insurance systems.
Weird...the NYT is referenced only in the Introduction, and never is it suggested that there is an affiliation between the New York Times and the game Waffle or its creator. They really only reference Wordle to note that Waffle has some very loose similarities, like the fact that they both use letter tiles and both use different colors to hint where those tiles go.

Makes me wonder if the title of the article was generated by an LLM.

EDIT: add context; fix typo
That doesn‘t match my experience.

About 40% of all Swiss inhabitants speak English at least once a week [1].

Anecdotally, I can't think of a single acquaintance younger than 50 years old that doesn't speak fluently. Everyone in Switzerland learns English at school for at least five years. Most even for seven years.

Some of my German speaking friends even talk in English to French speaking people, even when both have learned the other‘s respective language at school.

[1]: https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/de/home/statistiken/bevoelkerun...
o1 is way to slow to keep up with my flow of thinking in order to be of any help in the scenario i am describing
London is at much more risk of flooding. Parts of London were built on wetlands not much above sea level, and there’s a big river running right through the middle.
A homelab, running something like Proxmox, spends a great deal of it's time mostly idling with the odd thing spiking for basic homelab tasks (storage, sharing, etc).

Doing GPU/intensive type tasks is more purpose driven than a homelab. For this, you can get a NAS with dedicated GPU for transcoding if you wanted, etc.

The call for large amounts of compute/GPU makes a lot of sense, and there's a lot of ways to get there depending on what's needed, relative to the electricity bill you're OK with if it ends up idling a lot more than anticipated.

Adding a mac mini/studio for crunching certain things might be enough for a single person or household. Adding other demands or users beyond that could change it.

I'm familiar with racks and gear, and had way too much of it when I pulled out of datacenters and went more virtual and cloud. The nice thing now is a lot of that virtualization can come home with a bit of the data center (power backups, internet backups, etc)
"load off" groan...

I've read that obesity and smoking are net positives for the cost of state-supplied medical care because it causes people to die younger and quicker.

My real concern is what you stated: the by treating some of the symptoms of a toxic food system we will avoid treating the causes (in the USA, we would do well to take soft drinks out of schools and treat adding sugar to foods as an sin to be taxed)
Show HN: Jolt – AI coding tool for production, 100K+ line codebases
Vaguely like that.

Ostensibly, the US government honors the 1st and 4th amendments, and only restricts speech on the platform in rare instances where that speech is likely to incite or produce imminent lawless action, and only issues warrants for private data which are of limited scope for evidence where the government has probable cause that a crime has occurred.

The accusation is that the CCP and Bytedance have a much more intimate relationship than that, censoring (or compelling) speech and producing data for mere political favors. Whether or not this is true of Facebook's relationship with US political entities is up for debate.
My motto since 1993, if the choice is limited between C and C++, the latter is always the answer unless the call isn't on me.
Why? Nix works just as well and I already have it running.
Hey HN,

We built Jolt to solve a fundamental problem with AI coding tools - they struggle with larger, real-world codebases and cannot accurately determine the context files for your prompt.

Jolt's public beta is live today, and we'd love your feedback. You can use Jolt on the web or in any VSCode-based IDE. Our free tier will let you work on codebases up to ~100K lines.

We developed a novel way for Jolt to understand large codebases and automatically determine context files. Our approach scales to multi-million line codebases - the largest codebase using us in production is over 8M lines.

Jolt is optimized for codebase understanding rather than response speed. That said, using Jolt is significantly faster than other tools when you include the time spent selecting context files.

Manually selecting context files is a non-starter when you're working on larger codebases or unfamiliar code. It's a broken product experience. Most AI coding tools rely on some flavor of vector-embedding RAG to determine the files related to your prompt. The reality is that vector-embedding search is not effective on code, and there is a sharp drop in efficacy as codebase size increases.

Here's what folks are using Jolt for:
- Writing code, tests, and refactoring
- Onboarding developers
- Brainstorming a feature's implementation
- Asking questions about OSS repos
- Writing documentation, including mermaid charts
- Contributing across the stack

Thanks for reading, and let us know what you think.
The absolute value is only meaningful when compared to the amount of capital invested.

Its also only meaningful when measured over a long period which takes good years and bad years into account.
They do have to pay the human labor because it’s not self driving.
While I’m sure it doesn’t apply to all cases, I really enjoyed your way of framing the transition. Well put.
I met plenty of people in Lausanne who didn't speak English, or at least didn't want to speak English (it is hard to tell, and anyways, it doesn't really matter). I visited Montreal shortly after my 2 year stay in Lausanne ended and I was surprised on how multi-lingual people were there.
> An agile process should build a feature, release that feature, interview users, analyze system behavior, iterate by improving user's goal, adding appropriate scale, iterating by removing unexpected errors or behavior.

I feel like there's this no true Scotsman thing going on with agile. Whenever someone describes their actual experiences with agile, there's always at least one person who speaks up and decries it as as not real agile and what agile should be.

At this point I don't care what agile should be. I just don't want management shoving agile down my throat anymore. I've yet to see it actually improve productivity for any team I've been on. Real agile must be exceedingly rare.
> Is this primarily a passion project or are you hoping to get corporate sponsorship & adoption?

We are in the current YC W25 batch and our vision is to build a developer framework for autonomous robotics systems from the system we already have.

> Can you provide some insight as to why this would be preferred over an orchestration server?

It heavily depends on your application, there are applications where it makes sense and others where it doesn’t.
The main advantages are that you don’t need an internet connection, the system is more resilient against network outages, and most importantly, the resources on the robots, which are idle otherwise, are used.
I think for hobbyists, the main upsides is that it’s quick to set up, you only have to turn on the machines and it should work without having to care about networking or setting up a cloud connection.

> Would a 'mothership'/Wheel-and-spoke drone responsible for controlling the rest of the hive be considered an orchestration server?

If the mothership is static, in the sense that it doesn’t change over time, we would consider it an orchestration server. Our core services don’t need that and we envision that most of the decentralized algorithms running on our system also don’t rely on such central point of failure.
However, there are some applications where it makes sense to have a “temporary mothership”. We are just currently working on a “group” abstraction, which continuously runs a leader election to determine a “mothership” among the group (which is fault-tolerant however, as the leader can fail anytime and the system will instantly determine another one).
This is a great deal, if those kinds of parts could be moved into a rack pc type case, your computer could just go sideways.

Or you could just put the dell sideways on a rack shelf and be ok with it for now... while you decide what will go there.
You don't put your treasure for sale, at least not when you have extracted its value first.
We should probably stop treating debates among "dummies on the internet" as anything other than noise that muddies up the conversation.

Edit: to be clear, this also applies to comment sections on HN :-)
LLM Says Buttons
Hmm, the red definitely looks more vivid to me, but I'm not sure I would say it's lighter. In an HSL-type colorspace I would say it has more S, but not more L.
Poetry with a heavy dose of truth.
Many of the examples given for agents such as this are things I just flat wouldn’t trust an LLM to do - buying something on Amazon for example: Will it pick new or ‘renewed’? Will it select an item that is from a janky looking vendor and may be counterfeit? Will it pick the cheapest option for me? What if multiple colors are offered?

This one example alone has so many branches that would require knowing what’s in my head.

On the flip side, it’s a ridiculously simple task for a human to do for themselves, so what am I truly saving?

Call me when I can ask it to check the professional reviews of X category on N websites (plus YouTube), summarize them for me, and find the cheapest source for the top 2 options in the category that will arrive in Y days or sooner.

That would be useful.
Note that use after free story is the same as in C and C++, using a debug allocator.
Starbucks Reverses Its Open-Door Policy for Bathroom Use
No. The opportunity for a presidential veto in our system happened in April of last year.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/23/tech/congress-tiktok-ban-what...
congrats Suchintan! huge achievement!
But that’s a sales call still, no?
Show HN: LeetGPU – Write and execute CUDA on the web, no GPU required, for free
We found that there was a significant hardware barrier for anyone trying to learn CUDA programming. Renting and buying NVIDIA GPUs can be expensive, installing drivers can be a pain, submitting jobs can cause you to wait in long queues, etc.

That's why we built LeetGPU.com, an online CUDA playground for anyone to write and execute CUDA code without needing a GPU and for free.

We emulate GPUs on CPUs using two modes: functional and cycle accurate. Functional mode executes your code fast and provides you with the output of your CUDA program. Cycle accurate mode models the GPU architecture and provides you also with the time your program would have taken on actual hardware. We have used open-source simulators and stood on the shoulders of giants. See the help page on leetgpu.com/playground for more info.

Currently we support most core CUDA Runtime API features and a range of NVIDIA GPUs to simulate on. We're also working on supporting more features and adding more GPU options.

Please try it out and let us know what you think!
Anyone here who's not a TikTok content creator reasonably upset about losing access to the platform? Can you tell me why it will sting for you? I was really surprised that my daughters (avid teenage TikTok users) are much more relieved than mad. Both said they wasted too much time on TikTok and were hoping life will now feel better. Seems the very thing that made the platform sticky puts it in a guilty pleasure category perhaps.

(I'm asking about the lived experience outside of the political questions around who should decide what we see / access online.)

EDIT: Thank you for the replies! Interesting. I'm still wondering if most people use TikTok just for passive entertainment? I don't love Youtube, but it's been a huge learning and music discovery resource for me.

The only thing I get sent from TikTok are dances and silly memes but I don't have an account.
Good. Building houses in tsunami-prone areas, areas downstream of large dams, and in known forest fire areas is stupid and insurance companies get to be the little boy who says "the emperor has no clothes" first.
But don't forget about a local government in Australia fining NASA $400 for littering after debris from Skylab re-entry landed there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylab#Re-entry_and_debris
yes, most of the costs are A) development and B) relatively fixed costs of maintaining the manufacturing staff and infrastructure.

The marginal cost of an additional batch is relatively small in comparison.
Full Disclosure: I work for Qdrant

Cool to see static embeddings making a comeback! This opens up opportunities for lightweight apps, mobile tools, and projects that need to move fast without needing expensive resources.

A lot of light shines on the big models, but static models need love too!
Newspaper is probably a bad example because the first ammendment specifically calls out protecting the press

> Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
SpaceX started Starship development in 2012. Despite 12 years of work, its best test flight reached space but not orbit, sending a banana to the Indian Ocean.

While NASA's SLS began in 2011 and successfully flew around the Moon in 2022.

Blue Origin's New Glenn also started development in 2012 and reached orbit on it's first flight with an actual payload.

When they say SpaceX is fast, what do they mean exactly?
> They have already allowed the good big tech companies to get people hooked as much as they want

To sell you shoes. Not for whatever nightmarish future application of this technology and relationship between private sector and the state represents: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/dec/15/documents...
Sure, guy, and Bluesky will become the new Twitter.
Why are people trying to estimate calories blindly? You have to look them up in some sort of system and log it in a food journal for the tracking to be any good at all.
In Europe at least the coffee is honestly pretty good if you just need fuel at an airport or whatever
I believe theres a related argument that congress might be making here, idk.
I still can't get over the fact that there were Dreyfusard and anti-Dreyfusard bicycle racing newspapers.

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_V%C3%A9lo

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/L'Auto

The anti-Dreyfusards won, put the Dreyfusards out of business by starting the Tour de France, and eventually went on to support Vichy.

edit: https://blog.nli.org.il/en/tour_de_france/
Sure you know what I meant. It’s an emulated compiler compiling natively. But the point is that building Aarch64 containers under emulation sucks and it doesn’t suck under a native build.
Games that aren't turn-based at least have the excuse that they can't afford the latency. They have explicitly decided not to be secure so they can pretend to "know" client-side that you ran around the corner and can be sniped by your opponent in a timeframe that's impossible because of the speed of light.
I meant use a real OS like Linux.
Apple doesn't have to and doesn't choose to allow alternative app stores outside of the EU.
Waiting until the last minutes of the term says a lot.
There was evidence and it was discussed in the ruling by the Supreme Court. Please read it.

For example, https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24-656_ca7d.pdf

Gorsuch pg 3
OP here. I made this submission 3 days ago. The thread you're referencing was posted yesterday, using the same exact link.

HN needs to do better.
Winning a war is not terrorism. Israel would not be in Gaza at all if oct 7 hasn’t happened.
So.. it is possible…