skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is the important part

> Today we continue to see that benefit in regions where our diversity of customers helps convince regional telecoms to peer with us locally, continuing to drive down our unit costs of bandwidth

If you can peer your traffic you can send it for free.

So lots of small customers, despite not paying anything, is helping to reduce bandwidth costs for Cloudflare to zero.

If they've reduced bandwidth costs to zero then they can afford to give it away for free.

I can tell you from personal experience that getting some ISPs to peer with you is hard unless you are exchanging lots of traffic already.

This is a clever playbook that has made Cloudflare a tier 1 ISP in an age when that is extremely difficult.
Hah fantastic. I need to use this somewhere.
No one is really average. Even people who are average overall are not average in every skill and every subject.
/classroom
This is an intrinsic problem with classroom teaching. There is an HN discussion about home education (or "homeschooling" as people misleadingly call it) at the moment...
Transform your developers into devops, or rise your devops efficiency.
This project will change how you put your apps in production !
To the CTOs, get more transparency, and the DevOps won't continue to be divas anymore !
Most text editors will support things like syntax highlighting, which are text-decorations even if they're nor user-managed.
I'm sorry, it's only vaguely related, but maybe someone can share some ideas.

What would be some good use-cases for using Ropey with Emacs? Maybe re-formatting/beautifying huge json files or something like that?

I didn't have time yet to explore the project more closely, but it looks very interesting.
I'd be fine with a 20-50% markup on MSRP to cover billing and administration costs but when the insurer owns the pharmacy they can "negotiate" whatever rate they want and you have to pay it. I don't see it directly in the article, but I suspect they do the same thing with cancer drugs as with IVF drugs and require you to go through their pharmacy for insurance coverage. Insurance plans often have lifetime maximums, and when they set their own prices and collect money from themselves for the medication they sell you they can basically dictate how much actual coverage you get versus someone paying cash. And because you chose "bill insurance" when you ordered the medication, you're now on the hook for whatever additional cost there was versus the cash price. And also they won't tell you what the cost is until after the medication has already shipped.

So it's at least plausible that they're abusing their position as the company that owns the pharmacy and the insurance plan to charge you a lot of money and provide very little coverage and also to gouge you at the very end of your coverage, because that's exactly what they did to my partner and I.
Sort of a sit-down, off-road push scooter!
Profit motives for medical / biotech research, yes. What innovations have insurance companies made in the last 100 years besides to squeeze out more profit?
So, a 16% price increase and AI is included?
oh wow, didn't think that would work, but it does. even better!
Because is they put "AI" at the end no one will read it, and if they put their own name it will be a lie.
Journalism is dying, killed by its own excesses and by the internet. Google is offering it life support. The other option is death.
I didn't think about it slowing down when traveling through glass, good point. Although hollow-core fiber is a thing now.
I don't like that I have to comment before I can post my own product. None of the items on the page look like something I'd want to try or comment on.
There are many models used in different jurisdictions. Typically it's a government body for negotiation, assessment and sometimes price caps.
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There is no excuse for schools being so badly organized that this is a problem. It certainly was not a problem when I was at school in the '60s and early '70s. All the books I needed fitted in a briefcase. It also was not a big problem for my children going to school in Norway between 1990 and 2015.

But children should also be taught how to carry backpacks properly, not unbalanced on one shoulder.
This is a despicable thing for a "therapist" to say:

Marianne Brandon, a sex therapist, said she treats these relationships as serious and real.

“What are relationships for all of us?” she said. “They’re just neurotransmitters being released in our brain. I have those neurotransmitters with my cat. Some people have them with God. It’s going to be happening with a chatbot. We can say it’s not a real human relationship. It’s not reciprocal. But those neurotransmitters are really the only thing that matters, in my mind.”

Imagine how cynical and solipsistic you have to be to think of relationships the same way MrBeast thinks of creating "content." Incredibly creepy coming from a sex therapist, of all things. The lip service about real relationships being "reciprocal" is in fact the entire point! I also get dopamine/etc from video games and movies, but if I get mad at the game and delete it from my hard drive then only a few bean counters at Steam would even notice. If I get mad at my ChatGPT boyfriend and call it a bad name, nobody is affected except maybe a data contractor who has to read the transcript. If I get mad at my cat and hit her, or even yell at her too aggressively, she will be traumatized forever. If I say something horrible to an IRL spouse it would affect the children.

It is impossible to have a "relationship" with an AI precisely because there is no reciprocality. You can be as selfish and horrible as you want. And it does not seem at all healthy to replace reciprocal relationships with social pornography, which is precisely what a ChatGPT girlfriend is. This therapist is saying "heroin is the same as sniffing flowers, neurochemically."

I am dismayed and disgusted by all this.
Sure, how about the first 2 graphs on the linked site?
Is there even a single phone that doesn't have a component that's derived from China? It's never been about security. I agree, the US wants access and they can't make a foreign company comply, even trying exposes the US.

Other countries have rules, make rules, the reality is they don't want to make rules because that might persuade foreign companies from not doing business here. Why make rules when you can get a warrant from a fisa court preventing any and all public scrutiny and getting everything you want?
Profit motive can also drive profiteering.
Does anybody defend them?

I’ve been on the selection side as an employer and several others will probably echo what I’m about to say.

Virtually every insurance provider is going up 15-20% / year to the point that it’s completely unsustainable. United was quoted to me as almost 20% lower than current rate for our provider (before they are about to go up 20%).

On premium alone they will save some people close to $500 / month for what is…”on paper” the same coverage.

I’ve read all of the same stuff about United that everybody else has but the finances put employers in a very difficult position.
It's not open source, but sublime text does well with large files (depending on your definition of large, but several GB is fine)
I never read pretty much any book written before 1970, never learned a foreign language beyond a single semester of Spanish, and certainly had no Theology in a US Public school. Now as an adult, I do want to learn all those things (to some degree) and feel like I missed out on it; “If only I had a better education.” But I probably would have been more like you, uninterested and equally as dismissive of my childhood education if I were forced to learn all of those things at that age. Is it a problem with educators, families, or just the children themselves that they will grow up and realize the opportunities they’ve lost?
It is trivially easy to remove DRM with a plugin for Calibre.
They prevent unnecessary treatments! /s
> I can only hope this data is being incorporated in some way that makes hallucinations less likely.

The key word is "real-time". LLMs can't be trained in realtime, so it's obviously going to call an API that pulls up and reads from AP news, just like their search engine.
I take issue with the claim that in order to say something is too expensive that you must be able to precisely propose an alternative price.

I have no idea what the correct margin for essential cancer drugs is. I don’t think it should be a 10x markup. Intuitively, it seems that there’s something wrong with price gouging dying cancer patients. If you have an argument why my intuition is wrong, please share it.
>These all rely on real numbers, so there's no computational complexity to talk about.

There's a pretty decent argument real numbers are not enough:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04160-4/

https://physics.aps.org/articles/v15/7
It’s plenty possible. Most of the framing that others put on people’s identities can be eliminated through kind interactions. The question is, do they allow that interaction or are they so afraid that they’ll never let it happen? Or, do they mistake online discourse and conflict as true to real life?
I can't speak for everyone else, but in the same vein I've dusted off my old iPod as well... no distractions, popups or subscriptions - divine.
> A foreign enemy keeps us from focusing on our own domestic policies.

The nice thing about fiction is that you can make anything sound plausible. Ironically, what people consider the most prosperous time of America happened to be the time when America was opposing a vague foreign adversary. If anything, nihilist platitudes like this that have created a void in civic engagement that megacorporations and malicious actors are happy to fill in.
I have zero problem finding numerous flights passing directly over Catalina island at night, or very close (within 20 miles @ 10k feet, which would be easily visible from the island).

globe.adsbexchange.com -> click the replay button, and then scrub to some random time after sunset in CA. Turn on flight tracks and set the speed to 100x to make the flights easier to identify.

Flights from major airlines coming from Alaska, Asia, and Hawaii seem to frequently fly directly over Catalina at night.
Not believable, didn't read "double click"
1.3% isn't great. I'd rather just go, and pay, directly to trusted news sources. Everyone has different tolerance for falsehoods and priorities I guess.
Competition is what drives innovation. There are many ways to chase profits without innovating.
A storm is brewing and its heading right at the insurance industry.
Have you ever tried using e-reader? It's slow as hell. Slow in turning the pages, slow in rendering anything that is not text. Making notes functionality is a disaster. Sure, you can search through text, but if it's PDF or images, you are screwed.
Fundamentally, you have a pretty good point here, since the system we have has two halves that are fundamentally at odds:

One part "free market -- maximize your profits as much as you can and get rewarded by a skyrocketing share price!"

And one part, unspoken except in the PR BS put out by the insurance companies, "Try to improve the health of patients and have them not die!"

The only way the two can coexist at all is if someone draws some lines like you are suggesting. I know that there are some (probably easily manipulated) laws stating that X% of premiums have to be "spent on care" and if they get too high overall margins on your group, they have to give your employer a rebate. Of course, who knows whether you'll see that money.

If we just say "maximize your profits" (and indeed, shareholders 'should' sue them if they don't) then it's obvious that morally bankrupt scum that runs all these insurers would 100% extort people for 1000% profits on lifesaving drugs. It's the most logical course of action! People will pay infinity dollars to save their own lives/their loved ones, so let's soak them!

If it's not obvious, I believe that overall the "free market" part of this system is a failed experiment that should be abolished immediately, and not just because I want all of these companies' sickening, greedy executives to go straight to hell (where Brian Thompson is burning today).
> I’ll ignore for a second you completely avoided the point to move the goal posts.

Which goal posts did I move? Directly addressing a foundational claim isn't moving goal posts. You said that very few natural foods are directly linked to cancer. That's demonstrably false, as red meat almost certainly is. To your next point:

> Alcohol isn’t a natural food, it’s a result of food rotting.

I genuinely have no idea what you mean by natural then. At what point does something become unnatural? Alcohol certainly occurs in nature quite a bit, and I don't know that I'd call all the instances "rotting". Leavening bread with yeast produces noticeable amounts of alcohol. Orange juice famously contains a surprisingly high level of alcohol.

> Red meat has positive benefits from its consumption, as does fish.

Of course they do and that's why I never claimed they didn't. I would assume all foods have health benefits (beyond the obvious one of course). However, you claimed that most natural foods don't have links to cancer in particular.

> What is the benefit of red5?

I only just realized you said "red 5" earlier. I assume you're referring to red 3 (erythrosine), though I don't think the specific dye matters here.

> If aren’t going to address that, I’ll assume you aren’t interested in anything but whataboutism and aren’t actually engaging in a good faith discussion.

I'm not an expert on the dye in question and know little about it so I purposely didn't comment on it. I don't think I need to do so in order to address your central claim, which seems to be--and correct me if I'm wrong--that to lower our cancer risk we shouldn't add things to our food chain which aren't naturally in our food chain. That claim relies on 1) being able to distinguish what is natural to our food chain, and 2) for natural things being less likely to cause cancer than unnatural things. I believe 2 is flawed for the reasons I already gave. 1 is a famously thorny subject. Even pre-history human diets were varied enough for adaptations for different regions to evolve.

Anyway, I'm an idiot on the subject of dyes but if you want my argument: adding regulations isn't a zero-cost thing. We shouldn't add them without solid justification. I don't have enough knowledge about this subject to know whether or not such justification exists for the red dye in question here. However, your proposed alternative doesn't sound well-defined enough to be argued without you being clearer about what you mean.
Thanks for clarification.

Sure, but as a pedestrian you have no way of telling if you took too long so the burden of not hitting you is firmly placed on the drivers.

In Poland it's bit more muddy in drivers' minds. If they hit a pedestrian who was still crossing the road while the light for him was red they think it's partially pedestrian's fault because he shouldn't be there.
My wife had to quit seeing her doctor of many years a couple of years ago because as Optum has been devouring practices in our area, they stuck her with a surprise bill almost a decade ago and then fired her as a patient without providing even a statement. Now that they own her doctor she can no longer go to that practice even though she was a paying patient for many years.
It says they had to delay several flights over a period of a few weeks. Starship isn’t flying anywhere near that often. These are routine Falcon 9 flights and they should be able to have very tight windows in time and space.

My reading is that SpaceX was loose with their windows because it’s easier and they didn’t think it mattered in a remote part of the ocean. Now that there’s an actual reason, they’ll probably tighten it up.
> If you are not happy with the way RFK Jr. is treated in the media,

To be fair, he didn't say that. He cited "the media" as a source. He was talking about you, who's said a few things now that the media didn't say with the justification of "not a crazy connection to make."

I understand where you're coming from, but I'd be more accurate to say e.g. "If you are not happy with RFK Jr.'s image," as opposed to trying to make that person out as an anti-media crusader.
Correct - they aren't an insurance company, they are a racketeering organization committing fraud under the guise of being a "healthcare" company that is vertically integrated with every facet of the healthcare supply chain.

All this on top of being a for-profit corporation whose mission is quite literally to enrich shareholders, instead of helping patients navigate the healthcare system.

RICO them.
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OK, it may take you a couple more minutes than that, but it really is quick. And open source.

I'm struggling to get people to use the tool, and I'd love feedback to get the features right! The accompanying written guide for the video is here:
https://kalavai-net.github.io/kalavai-client/self_hosted_llm...

This is the repo: https://github.com/kalavai-net/kalavai-client

Thank you HN folks!
I bought my 20 month old son a balance bike for Christmas and he's already able to balance on it a month later while going down the sidewalk. Great method!
So we don’t want to use this, but there is no way to opt out and we still have to pay X extra per user :-/
Most of these words seem to be intentionally ineloquent. It's almost as though they were invented or first used by someone who is rich but illiterate. Or that the words were invented specifically to be "accessible" in some way.

Imagine getting a degree in English and then learning as an adult that an "ask" is modern jargon for a request, that a "learning" is a lesson, and an "add" is a differentiator. Business English always seems to involve a narrowing of the lexicon.
eBooks can be backed up and survive a house fire or a flood, though.
He's likely to have more disposable incomr and go through a crisis of some sort that many people fill with buying, whilst also deluding themselves they're still in their 20s. I think mid 30s is a pretty hot market for advertisers.
I don't know if I would characterize TikTok as 'authentic' first and foremost, but it's a platform where real people go to perform. When I scrolled TikTok, I would often get poorly-shot videos from average folks trying to put their spin on the day's joke format, or reacting to that day's outrage. It was junk food, but at least somewhat 'real'.

My Reels feed, on the other hand, is 100% bot drivel. It's all stolen viral videos by artificially-boosted accounts, and the comments appear to be fake comments that were 'paid for'. I assume there must be some sort of financial incentive to gaming the system this way.

The end result is that TikTok feels like scrolling through (attention-grabbing, reactionary) stuff by real people, and Reels feels like scrolling through some sort of bot wasteland.

I guess I should add that, due to its size, TikTok almost certainly also has a bot problem, but if it does it's not as clearly evident in a way that is detrimental to the platform.
And correlation is not causation. If you disagree with her interpretation (it's mostly just presentation, really) of the data, feel free to be specific. Attacking the person is, as always, bad form and lame.
We are doing a Gemini POC and this nugget dropped in my lap today. We were not entirely unprepared as a result. The default level of access is just the interactive chatbot thing. However if you enable the Google Workspace extension it will be able to search and process all the information stored in your workspace account and also any Google Drive files that are shared with you. This includes stuff you didn't know you had access to in Shared Drives so folks better make sure their permissions are locked down. Workspace admins might be advised to turn it off at the org level until they understand the ramifications.
Not with the latest encryption. Although you can always screenshot and ocr. Or maybe I've missed something new.
What do you mean by they ignore Linux users?

Every game clearly indicates whether it provides a Linux installer so there aren't any surprises there, and even in the cart you'll get a banner message saying something like, "Some of these games don't work on your operating system (Linux)" to avoid surprises.

You can even search the store filtering only for games that provide a Linux installer, which is a control I use regularly. It's disappointing how few games do offer that, but it's getting better everyday (for which I largely credit and thank Valve).

They don't support Linux with GOG Galaxy, but given they maintain compatibility with Lutris and Heroic and others I think I actually prefer that to official GOG Galaxy Support.
OpenAI resembles the old Apple: ship the best experience. The ChatGPT app on every platform is the best in business and they are shipping polished features relatively quickly. It's quite the contrast to Apple of today, the world's largest company who is so inept that they are releasing Apple Intelligence, which is quite literally using ChatGPT 3.5 tech in 2025. It just shows how valuable CEO's like Altman, Musk and Jobs are to a corporation.
Go to page 48 in the magazine to read the article about how the computer graphics display was done.
But this isn't about banning social media, it's about banning dissent.

Would you feel the same way if the US government banned all mainstream media organizations except the ones you ideologically oppose?
Each state and federal body has process for it. It's not uncommon to encounter unclaimed property (including cash), especially with poorly/inaccurately described bank accounts. eg
https://www.fdic.gov/bank-failures/unclaimed-property-inform...

Allowing specific state actors to actively claim these goods via civil forfeiture (and bypass these systems) has always been improper. Law enforcement is untrustworthy in many locales, so this is unsurprising.
Doesn't node npm also do similar?
Hallucinations are not a big problem with SOTA models at this point, especially grounded against an actual news article.
reddit had a nice list of the pros and cons: https://www.reddit.com/r/NuclearPower/comments/17k0wcc/natri...

I understand the risks around sodium, but the "passive natural circulation cooling" I don't understand. Is it more feasible with this design and why?

" Pros:

high temperature means we can use process-heat which is a much more efficient use of heat.

fast spectrum neutrons means we can burn importantly troublesome parts of nuclear waste.

fast spectrum is also better for breeding new fuel, significantly increasing how much energy we can extract from uranium/thorium.

passive natural circulation cooling is much more feasible.

Cons:

fast spectrum is a little more complicated to control.

fast reactors require high enrichment.

inspection of the plant is very difficult with liquid metal.

high temperature liquid metal doesn't play nicely with metal pipes.

sodium burns in air and is explosive with water.

we simply do not have nearly as much experience with sodium as we do water and that really cannot be understated.
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The last 50 years have seen no new American territorial expansion.
I ebooks better for reading already. Physical books advantage is that I can read inside them in bookstore - bookstores are much better for me when I looking for something new.

But I prefer actual reading on the phone.
Algorithms can make many types of decisions, but an algorithm cannot make aesthetic decisions. The size of nodes and the size of the boundary are aesthetic decisions as is the ordering of the nodes and so on.

Or to put it another way, you do it by hand when you care and with a computer when you are meeting a specification.