skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ah that's my bad - I wrote this in Dec, we only published in Jan. Obv. missed updating that.

Timeline wise;
- we decided to go for it and spend the $$$ in Oct '23
- Convos/planning started ~ Jan '24
- Picked the vendors we wanted by ~ Feb/Mar '24
- Lead-times, etc... meant everything was ready for us to go fit the first gear by mostly ourselves at the start of May (that's the 5mo)
- We did the "proper" re-install around June, followed closely by the second site in ~ Sep, around when we started letting our users on it as a open beta
- Sep-Dec we just doubled down on refining software/automation and process while building out successive installs

Lead times can be mind numbing. We have certain switches from Arista that have a 3-6 mo leadtime. Servers are build to order, so again 2+ months depending on stock. And obv. holidays mean a lot of stuff shuts down around December.

Sometimes you can swap stuff around to get better lead-times, but then the operational complexity explodes because you have this slightly different component at this one site.

I used to be a EEE, and I thought supply chain there was bad. But with DCs I think it's sometimes worse because you don't directly control some parts of your BoM/supply chain (especially with build-to-order servers).
Or RJ31X or RJ38X, both of which did use the 8P8C modular connector in its unkeyed configuration.
Checkout Erlang bit parsing.
It tends to get people annoyed if you don't. Facebook user distribution is like 12% Indian and 6% American. Twitter is(was) 34% English and 16% Japanese. Bluesky was at one point 43% Japanese. If your feed ISN'T filled with Hindi, Chinese, Spanish, Japanese and so on, with only one in five or less made in English sent from US, your feed is tampered with. But otherwise that social media would be genuinely less useful.

Mastodon only had the raw feed and that drove European network operators insane, so much so that they effectively GFW'd itself.
PostgreSQL Anonymizer developer here : this was possible with version 0.8 which is now completely unmaintained.
This extension is currently not available on RDS but it is available on many others DBaaS providers : Azure SQL, Google Cloud SQL, Crunchy Bridge, ....
At least they didn’t call it a wired WiFi dongle.
The rationalizations and justifications are more a window into people's thought process than they are actual arguments. This person has decided that TikTok isn't that bad, and you are witnessing how they reverse engineer from that view point back to the argument.

That's why arguing in this sense never works. Someone isn't trying to work something out, they've already decided and are trying to explain the decision to you. That's not the same thing as thinking through something.
Google doesn't put GCP compute inside Equinx Slough. I could perhaps believe if they have a cage of routers and perhaps even CDN boxes/Edge, but no general cloud compute.

Google and AWS will put routers inside Equinx Slough sure, but that's literally written on the tin, and the only way a carrier hotel could work.
Statement on the Equal Rights Amendment Ratification Process
And just yesterday I saw a news where UK had best music revenue ever, and I do not think US is published but first 1/2 of US also had record sales. (https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/articles/cn858xgng2vo)

And I agree, even for me, music discovery is (was) via TikTok.
Again, how does this change any of the realities of TikTok? "Leave them alone because other abuses exist" is not an argument.
Why didn't they do the first obvious thing - roll back the deployment to the previous checkpoint? Those older files were readily available on the edge nodes, so the problem would be solved.
Haha, yah, I think we agree; Operation Texas does what it says on the tin (the data is stored in the USA! It can only be directly accessed from within the USA) but ultimately that doesn't matter at all, since Jim in Texas can just email it all to China.
> In 2020 and again in 2022, the Office of Legal Counsel of the U.S. Department of Justice affirmed that the ratification deadline established by Congress for the ERA is valid and enforceable. The OLC concluded that extending or removing the deadline requires new action by Congress or the courts. Court decisions at both the District and Circuit levels have affirmed that the ratification deadlines established by Congress for the ERA are valid. Therefore, the Archivist of the United States cannot legally publish the Equal Rights Amendment.

tl;dr: the Equal Rights Amendment is not actually part of the Constitution.
Fire Breaks Out at Huge Battery Site in California, evacuation orders for 2,000
> As a foreigner, it seems to me that Americans prioritize building cheap homes over constructing better and more resilient ones.

"Americans" is doing a lot of work in that sentence.

It would probably be more accurate to say "It seems to me that the history of American culture and economic systems have led to a system whose emergent behavior is to prioritize building cheap-but-easy-to-modify homes over constructing smaller-harder-to-modify-but-more-resilient ones."

Sure "we" need to take action, but the machine is very large and we are all very small gears in it. A twenty-something buying their first house doesn't have a magic wand to wave that will summon cinder block houses into being that don't physically exist. A builder who wants to build cinder block houses doesn't have a magic wand to rewrite city building codes that presume residential construction is mostly wood. A city council member who wants to modernize building codes doesn't have a magic wand to get enough constituents to prioritize this over housing costs, homelessness (but I repeat myself), jobs, etc.

Everyone's problems seem easy when you are very far away from them.
My favorite maze algorithm is this one: https://cs.wellesley.edu/~pmwh/papers-fcpcg/presentation/sli...

Live demo at: https://cs.wellesley.edu/~pmwh/hydrodendron/

It allows generating an infinite maze looking at any arbitrary area of the maze, without any loops, using fractal coordinates
Pure hydrogen fire?

Depends on what's making up the burning airship .. but that's not the hydrogen fire, that's the additives.
Show HN: Catch That Pizza Maze Game (maze with a randomly teleporting target)
This is my first mobile game, created using Unity with C#. A pizza randomly teleports itself around a maze and you have to catch (eat) it before racing to exit the maze. There's four game levels with increasing maze complexities and extra pizza to catch at each level. I implemented an algorithm to generate a new random maze every time.
This game is free on Apple app store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/catch-that-pizza-maze-game/id6... and Google Play store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sundaelect...
Pseudonymizing functions are just one way to mask the data.

There are many other masking functions that will actually anonymize the data.

And the extension does not force you to respect the foreign keys.

It's really up to you to decide how you want to implement your masking policy
In Defense of Doing Your Own Research
I became so interested in ancient Chinese mythology after playing black myth wukong. Also my cousin is watching cDramas all the time and she intends to marry Chinese guy… So I think the soft power is there already, whether we like it or not. but I think it’s good to have competing content instead of being fed whatever powers that be think is good fur us
choices = [

1/4 tsp of potassium bicarbonate powder in 8 oz of water,

200 mg L-theanine,

30 minutes of a podcast,

]

while choices and not sleep:

choice = choices.pop(0)

take_choice(choice)

wait(25 * 60)
I’m hoping https://www.albumoftheyear.org/ takes off
This leads to why the US didn't setup a pure democracy. The job of certain long term branches like the senate, supreme court & certain unelected positions is to be able to think long term & say "eat your veggies" without the worry of losing there job because someone else is offering nice European chocolates.

Democratic values are good but not without flaws.
If you acknowledge that all humans have a lot of cognitive biases and information processing weaknesses, acknowledging that these are easily exploitable is not holding people in low esteem. It is taking a realistic stance on how open all of us are to being influenced in ways that we will not notice and barely understand.
<< Democrats are the only party actually offering to give the majority what they want
<< Democracy can't function with such a gullible population.

I am trying to be charitable in my interpretation, but you are not making it easy. One could easily argue that given that Trump won, majority got what they want already. Please tell me that you understand what I am telling you now. I did manage to hear some people drawing appropriate conclusions from this cycle, but I am not certain you did.

<< Trump is a rapist felon who literally advocated for injecting leach as a cure to a pandemic.

Yeah.. a felony in this case being the equivalent of a parking ticket in business; not to mention national level politics. It is hard for me understand why people have a hard time grasping that and/or why this was not a useful label for this election cycle. Hell, the moves taken ( including mug shot ) did the exact opposite of the desired effect.

<< At the least I have a front row ticket to the fall of a modern empire though. That's something.

Enjoy the ride man. It is gonna get wild.
Hi !

I'm the main developer of this extension. Happy to answer any question you have about this project and anonymization in general!
Also the idea that a country that has built the most extensive digital surveillance apparatus in the world will somehow avoid the temptation to use TikTok to monitor people abroad..

It's beyond naive.
Also, when margins are slim, a major event (like a series of wildfires in one of the biggest cities in the US) can wipe out those profits. A responsible insurer can withstand one bad year. But if those major events start happening with more frequency, then one bad year becomes a series of bad years. Reinsurance premiums for the insurer go up, meaning that taking on risk is more expensive, and they’ll eventually have to decide between raising their own premiums to unsustainable levels or pulling out of risky markets.
Why stop at double-click? "Click here 10 times quickly to confirm you're human". Or some kind of clicker game.
Russian intellectuals are extraordinary. This guy's predictions, "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich", their rocket engines which were often developed by one guy with a slide rule.

I'm analysing Dimitry Vyukov bounded lockless mcpc queue: https://www.1024cores.net/home/lock-free-algorithms/queues/b... Every line is an exquisite optimisation, many taking hours to understand how they interact with the others. A true masterpiece that will only be appreciated by a few. (But probably used by many, as it's in Rust's std library now.)
[This article appears to be submitted by a pcmag shill bot. Look at their submission history.]

The headline and the article are completely at odds. SpaceX doesn't appear to have asked for any kind of exemption according to the article. The law was written already exempting any company with fewer than 20k customers within the state. All SpaceX did was report the number of in-state customers they have.

Ignore the headline, then utter the magic incantation "fuck you pcmag for trying to manipulate me for clicks".
On unfair trade practices and ethical violations, yes. Ban them all. Nothing of value will be lost.
Why assume the solution has to be agreed upon by the two parties? Peace can be imposed by the adults in the room.
I'm curious what netflix behavior you imagine would ever be blackmailable?

"You watched Red One, and we'll tell you employer and wife about it unless you ..."

How does this work?
Then why do they obfuscate the location of their servers? If they were all in Google datacenters, why not let me see where my VM is?
The new rsync exploit is sort of hilarious [video]
> Same font, same colors, same… everything? Other than for the actual text they display, they look identical, don’t they?

Funny to see that written under two screenshots with clearly different fonts, and even different colors (though not so clearly; but still different enough to make me check).
Fell in Love with Fire: A Documentary about the 2019 Uprising in Chile
The only good Chinese language films were all filmed in Hong Kong, directed by people like Wong Kar-Wai. In the Mood for Love is widely considered one of the greatest films ever made.

Chinese cultural (and censor) sensibilities are why big budget US movies are almost universally boring and terrible these days. Authoritarian societies aren’t exactly known for creating good art.
A notification for you, Apple: There is no husband
Senior eng at a big tech here. Layoffs have nothing to do with AI. There’s more work to do then any time in recent memory because of the shift going on with AI enablement. Layoffs are because of a few things.

1. Coordinated layoffs flood the market with talent forcing wages down overall and creating a chilling effect for existing employees. Believe it or not, layoffs are actually having the reverse effect from what some might think. They don’t make people want to leave, they make people scared to leave.

2. Wall Street loves layoffs.

3. Money is more expensive now.

4. Layoffs have a performative aspect for the incoming administration that all tech execs are so desperately trying to publicly please.

5. The narrative that “tech employees are lazy mooches” that’s been pushed by tech execs in alternative media has become mainstream. Places like the AllIn podcast and anything that Musk posts on Twitter have been pushing this narrative for a while and people have bought it. Since people think this now, it gives tech execs much more leeway in cutting employees “because they were underperforming” rather than “because we don’t have enough money” or “because Wallstreet wants us to.”

Ask any manager at big tech companies. They’ve been WANTING to hire for like 2 years now, but hiring freezes because of budget constraints have left them without the wanted headcount. Pretty strange that managers almost universally have been wanting to hire, but been told “no we don’t have the budget,” but then layoffs come through and it’s “because ai is handling all the work!”
Do you think your link shows that Facebook sold user data? Did you notice that Facebook wasn't paid and that the users specifically consented?
I only know that phrase thanks to the Computer Man song that I’ve seen on YouTube.
Indeed; I think there's a strong possibility that there's certain architectural choices where LLMs can do very well, and others where they would struggle.

There are with humans, but it's inconsistent; personally I really dislike VIPER, yet I've never felt the pain others insist comes with too much in a ViewController.
> If Trump bails them out, it's a complete betrayal of his base and the country at large.

There is no wall. The Trump "tax cuts" raised taxes on most Americans and cut them for the 1%. Trump has not faced any consequences for betrayal in the past, why would he now?

In fact, TikTok helps promote the lack of awareness of all the above. If anything he'll want to keep it in place, to keep the public misinformed.
Roundup of Events for Bootstrappers in January 2025
Accomplish One Thing
The value is in the ability to influence what your enemy sees, and to push whatever narratives are best for you and worst for your enemy. They don’t give a shit about the data.
Do I accept as fact that polonium is radioactive? Yes. Do I accept as fact that radioactive elements are poisonous to humans when absorbed? Yes. Do I accept as fact that Polonium from inhaled smoke particles will be absorbed? Yes.

Which part do you see as an unjustified belief?
The quantity of energy in an F5 tornado is literally on the same scale as a nuclear weapon, albeit delivered more slowly. Given that context, their ability erase towns should not be that surprising. You can't engineer a practical structure capable of withstanding those kinds of forces.
When it comes to actual harm done to Americans (particularly via their own data), that harm is continually done by US commercial and government interests.
But if they don't set a price ceiling, then insurance companies price gouge.

You can't get a mortgage without insurance, so if insurers were allowed to freely control the price, they'd charge an arm and a leg since buyers are forced to buy. If insurance companies are allowed to freely raise their prices, then they would certainly love to do so because any homeowner with a mortgage would be absolutely stuck and have to pay whatever they demand or risk the bank taking their home back.

I think you have an idea that the free market would naturally lead to an efficient insurance price that let's them cover disasters. But markets aren't magic, and insurance markets are anything but efficient. I don't think anyone really knows what the "right" price for homeowner's insurance is in places like Florida and California.
Just wanted to say: you’re on the right track with the transformers by light idea - because I had the exact same wish. For instance, RWKV <-> Rotman lens antennas lol
Can you explain this problem for those unfamiliar?
Yes capitalism makes people want to be filthy stinking rich.
Mazda MX-5 12R Unveiled in Tokyo as Most Powerful Factory Miata
Nintendo Switch 2 live – Nintendo has officially revealed its next console
Brine is probably very valuable.

If we make it a slurry, perhaps we could use it to pump to unpopulated areas with endorheic lakes like the Salt Lake or Salton Sea, then mine and refine the resulting slurry.[0]

The concern is the brine getting into the atmosphere -- that can likely be mitigated.

[0] https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/gold.html
> Confidence Signaling: AI assistants could provide clear, reliable indicators of their confidence

I'm not sure this is possible: In most LLM applications we humans are perceiving the (un-)confidence from the lines given to a fictional robotic story character. Simply change the name of the character to Zap Brannigan and it becomes a confident expert on everything.

What we want is the confidence of the author that their character is proposing good ideas that will work... However the only confidence the real-world LLM can offer is "how much trouble did I have finding a next word that seems to fit."
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> I can't say I'm entirely familiar with the situation in Switzerland, but as far as I know the country has four official languages, none of which are English.

The language of French Switzerland is French. You'll never hear German, Italian, or Romansch. If you only spoke German and not French or English, you really couldn't live there very effectively (only places like Bern or Basel are truly multi-lingual), yes you'll get your official docs in German but then what? I assume the same is true in German speaking Switzerland, and I have no idea about Italian Switzerland.

If a Swiss German and Swiss French met for coffee, what language do you think they would wind up speaking? Perhaps English if neither had comfortable fluency in the other language. Not to take away from your point, but English can get you really far in this world.
Show HN: Build a Video RAG under 30 lines of code
> What people say is that knowledge in the field is extremely hard to transfer, and easily lost.

So you are saying that Curiosity team had probably not learned anything from those 20 years old programs?

You are literally strengthening my point...
This is phrased in a kind of demanding way to an author who has been kind enough to share their novel work with us. Are you sure you spent enough time trying to understand?
> What I say is that holding the general public in low esteem while at the same time holding democratic values sacred is, as Spock would say, illogical.

I fully agree. The last year has shaken my confidence in democracy more than any other time in my lifetime. Not because of threats of war or revolution, but because what is the point of elections if the majority is chronically misinformed? Why have a yes/no election if no one knows what the question is?

It's still the best worst system, and i'm still going to vote in 2 years and again in 4, but my faith is low.
That's like pointing to https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/ and claiming this is one true Christianity. There are some 45 000 distinct Christian denominations on the planet, each with different beliefs and practices, doing exactly that, and each claiming they're the ones getting it right.
Might consider good old x509 certificates, mTLS authentication. You can query and find peers but don’t exchange any data with them unless they can present a certificate signed by whatever issuer. Agree its probably an enterprise upsell because the openssl tooling is a PITA if you’ve never done it before, but somebody pointed me to KeyStore Explorer [0] and I’m going to give that a try to be my own certificate authority.

I wish it could be a more mainstream, hobbyist auth solution tho, it’s completely free and open and self sovereign etc etc and makes strong security guarantees, just a steep learning curve to grok what’s happening. I think it would be a big achievement if somebody slapped a friendly API / wizard over configuring a CA and creating certs to install on each of your robots / IoT sensors whathaveyou. Corsha [1] is one provider in this space, and Yubico is contributing too [2], allowing you to sign cert requests with your Yubikey.

[0] https://keystore-explorer.org/features.html

[1] https://corsha.com/

[2] https://www.yubico.com/resources/glossary/what-is-certificat...
My idea of home cooked software is certainly not "waterfall-y" at all. Rather, it is building from the ground up, aiming at a fairly well defined end goal.
Of course, there is no one-size-fits-all solution here. Not everyone is working on web apps, CRUD, or using node. I spent my career writing embedded systems and instrument control software, mainly in C/C++. I had colleagues who specialized on data reduction pipelines, using C and Fortran. Others who did the web/database thing. Software development is a vast and varied field. What works in one arena may well be unsuitable in another. Be prepared to be flexible and open to new ideas.