skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had the very nice pleasure of always doing business with providers who would simply drop access to the server when bandwidth had been met or exceeded with my service.

But what's odd to me is that I don't often read about other people having the same experience. So... are all of you seriously with hosts that don't shut off access to your servers?

I'd rather that happen than suddenly get a bill I can't afford.
This is the first time I came across micro-budget term in AI context.

> end-to-end model on an 8×H100 machine is 2.6 days
based on the pricing on Lambda labs site, it's about $215 which isn't bad for training a model for educational purposes.
But according to the article glass cleaner works on the glass of solar panels.
Sound and video of meteorite strike, scientists believe it's a first
I really want to take a moment to thank everyone who's worked in and around the WordPress community for years to make it work. It helped start my career. Even back then, I remember people warning about getting involved in .org in hushed tones. Now I wonder how much of it stems back to what's coming to light.

Somewhat a propos of nothing, the work people have done on improving Gutenberg over the past couple of years is amazing. I just had an opportunity to sit down and experiment with it for the first time since it came out years ago, and I'm just floored by how much improvement has occurred, both in terms of documentation and the solution itself. After realizing this I was immediately overwhelmed with grief by the idea that someone with an ego like Matt's could ruin or threaten all of this. This really shouldn't be possible.

Before all of this, my exposure to Matt was only through the How I Built This podcast episode he was interviewed. At the time I had moved on from working primarily in the WordPress ecosystem. After listening, I was ultimately grateful that I had because at points in that episode I thought his tone, demeanor, and ego really made him sound like a complete, insufferable jerk.

I have to admit that so much of the news, from solo open source projects to wildly toxic megalomaniacs in charge of companies, in recent years has really led me to question the viability of solo founders in general. Perhaps that's heresy in a place like this but so be it. Obviously there has to be a more pragmatic solution, but this kind of political distraction from work we're all here because we love is very frustrating.
Well, if your compilations turn to be submilisecond it's not an implementation detail :) *. As of now it is only supported for x86_64 Linux (only ELF format) and it has some bugs; incremental compilation is in its very early stages. Andrew talked about it in the 2024 roadmap video[1] why they are digging so low on the multiplatform toolchain (for besides incremental compilation):

- Fast build times (closely related to IC, but LLVM gives very slow development iterations, even for the compiler development)

- Language innovations: besides IC, async/await is a feature Andrew determined to not be feasable to implement with LLVM's coroutines. Async will likely not make it into 1.0, as noted in the 0.13 release notes. It is not discarted yet but neither is it the priority.

- There are architectures that don't work very well on LLVM: SPARC and RISC-V are the ones I remember

My personal point is that a language that is meant to compete with C cannot have a hard dependency on a C++ project. That, and that it's appealing to have an alternative to LLVM whenever you want to do some JIT but don't want to bring a heavy dependency

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eL_LcxwwHg

* There is also the `--watch` flag for `zig build` which re-runs every step (IC helps) everytime a file is saved.

[edit: formatting]*
Diamond continues to shine: new properties discovered in diamond semiconductors
Not supporting Flash and Java was an advantage. Having apps written in an actual performant language made sense.

RIM with their minimal OS and a bunch of Java crap on top of it, just wasn't gone cut it.

Expensive is the only good point. But the issue with expensive is that, if everybody wants it, like 10% of the population will get it, and the other 90% will want it. And then you have product everybody is trying to get.
If you're serious, it's called rent-seeking behavior, and it is an extractive component of modern financialism.

One solution is to make a law that says it's illegal, and then enforce that law, ideally with harsh penalties so executives and companies can't get away with it.

I hope this helps!
Microsoft Patches Trio of Exploited Windows Hyper-V Zero-Days
Do you think you'll ever go back to medicine? one issue I see with tech is ageism. Past 50-55, it can be harder to get a job while we're still far for retirement. Seems doctors can work for as long as they want.
But if you demake a game hard enough (i.e. really clamp down on the asset details, by using intentionally-stylized art rather than lower-quality realistic art, etc) then it doesn't need to take so much time and money to create the port. It can be a bounded added marginal cost.

Also, there are things a modern "parallel demake" (like FFXV Pocket Edition) can do to reuse certain types of assets from its AAA sibling, that in the previous era would have required remaking those assets from scratch. So a modern demake can actually be cheaper to produce in some ways.

For examples:

• You can just copy-and-paste the script and associated audio assets straight over, as anything can play audio clips.

• You can also copy over all the animation "choreography" scripting for NPCs and cinematics, with the particular named animation cues just mapping to different actual animations for the simplified models.

• Depending on how your AAA game models environments, you might even be able to export the abstract "level data" (what type of terrain goes where; basic geometry and material-type for meshes of buildings; placement of things like furniture and other large freestanding decor objects) from your AAA game engine, and then import it directly into your demake's game engine. (You'll then still need to run over everything to add new decor and details, make sure nothing is clipping, etc — but this is still a major speed-up.) IIRC this is how the recent third-party-implemented Pokemon titles [Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee and BD/SP] were implemented — they started with direct dumps and imports of the original games' level data into their engine.
> My furnace produces 0.9W of heat for every 1W of energy input.

I assume you mean that 10% of the energy immediately escapes your house?
The real issue is global warming causing an exponential rise in tail risk events. It's exponential because even a linear shift in temperature causes an exponential rise at the tails (look at how a normal distribution works).

Insurance is based on statistics. The math they use assumes stationary distributions. Insurance companies can't deal with shifting distributions well so they take the losses and then exit markets.

Global warming is going to mess up insurance as we know it for that reason. Not sure property insurance, but all kinds of insurance.
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It makes sense to shut down the app in the US immediately rather than be unable to update it- but does that necessarily mean they would also shut it down outside the US, or access directly via the website?
No expert, but I would assume, the USA would front it, but then take a case against SpaceX. So it would be Boat Owner v. USA, then USA v. SpaceX shortly after. Although I could be totally wrong.

But yea, seems appropriate to update it or if that is going to be the process, write it in stone.
Don't forget the fact that, uh, you can't get away from it. Please stop blaming customers for this. Literally nobody wants it this way, we just have no power to change it. What are we supposed to do, just never buy cameras or cars or software or computers ever again?
> Shouldn't they prioritize getting to 1.0 (the language itself)

Nope. Different languages have different priorities and different USPs. For Zig sub-second compilation / incremental compilation, cross compiling toolchain are flagship features. Without those there is no point in releasing 1.0.
I kinda like the approach of Boring Report, where it does combine multiple sources into one summary. Still, I like your https://newsletter.newsminimalist.com/archive page. What about using other models instead of GPT-4o mini, like Claude 3 Haiku, Llama 3.1, or Mixtral (which now started a partnership with AFP https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42732960).
It's a bit disingenuous for Mark Zuckerberg to go on Joe Rogan and say that the Biden administration is anti Meta/anti America, when congress passed this bill to shut down TikTok.

I don't love that TikTok is run by a Chinese company (thus giving way too much control to the Chinese government), but Meta builds such garbage experiences in their apps. There really needs to be a real competitor to Meta.
The title should be: Are some parts of the United States becoming uninsurable.
I'm not bent out of shape over the tiktok ban, but you've got me wondering. Do newspapers do speech? Or is it the editors and columnists who do speech? Could a newspaper be shut down by congress if the law didn't say anything about the editors and columnists, merely denying them the means of distribution?
Biden has said he won't enforce the ban and Trump has said he will keep TikTok from going dark. Shou is attending the inauguration. Ivanka and Kai are posting actively on TikTok. It is not going anywhere.
I'd bet it's either the native display resolution or whatever you had for your desktop when submitted. They're able to gather all kinds of hardware specs so I'd lean to the native resolution as the most likely answer.
The hardest thing is understanding why you want to make this change. What are you looking to get out of it? What currently in your life is pushing you towards this? What do you really want to do? These may seem like trivial questions, but admittedly I personally really struggled with them, after coming to a conclusion that I needed to switch career paths. Someone here mentioned Ikigai, and the Surgeon General recently touched on something similar in their "Parting Prescription". (https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/my-parting-prescript...)

You're probably looking to change paths because you know you don't feel satisfied, and their advice is to look for what fulfills your relationships, what allows you to perform service to the community (big or small), and what gives you purpose. Sitting down and asking myself, how well do you meet those needs now, and how can you better meet them, was what solidified my effort to truly shift from tech into fire fighting.
There's nothing preventing China from buying mass data from Facebook or one of the many data brokers. This is about censorship and the ability to control public narratives.
> That's quite interesting, because most of Chinese can only understand what's being colonized, but never understand what's colonizing and genocide.

You are saying that Chinese people don't even realize their colonialism and their genocides. Unless you're sarcastic, it is not the flex you think it is. Also LOL at you using "white" as a slur.
I find the bandgap tuned cell interesting. It reminds me of a TPV https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04473-y which is tuned for infrared instead of yellow light.
Arstechnica quoting a random reddit poster is not the same as the people I've been talking to lol
In this case, the necessity of this law is proof that American companies are incapable of producing an app that can compete with Tiktok.
This wasn't true the first time America was ruled by monopolies, and it isn't true now.
Well, that's because this console has different hardware than the others, with it's own pros and cons. And that has happened in every console generation.

Nobody would say the Sega Saturn wasn’t a console because it couldn’t run Crash Bandicoot, or that the N64 wasn’t a console because it couldn’t run Final Fantasy VII.

The Switch may not run certain titles, but it can run other AAA, like DOOM, Mortal Kombat, No Man’s Sky, The Witcher 3 and more. Sure, those games may run better on more powerful hardware, but that hardware isn’t portable. That doesn’t make the Switch any less of a console.

Most AA and indie games are available on all platforms, and all the reeeeally popular ones like Minecraft, Roblox, Fortnite, Rocket League, etc.

Easily 80% or more of the catalog is the same across all consoles.

So why we define what a console is by those games that aren’t on the Switch’s catalog?

All 3 consoles are doing the same, they sell a closed hardware/software solution with access to a propetary storefront where they sell you games, the same games mostly. Their marketing may be directed to different demographics but at the end they all do the same and compete for the same market.
https://archive.ph/U3euv
There have always been low key feminist bdsm-wars playing along the same lines as sex wars did.

On one hand, bdsm should not be exempt from inquiry and criticism, but this article kind of uses shock imagery instead of exploring what consent is, how does it work, how it becomes complicated.
- https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/issues/11677

- https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/issues/6752
>... jailing people for social media posts

More like jailing people for inciting riots by repeatedly and vehemently posting proven wrong information. Freedom of speech is great and all, but you are advocating for freedom from consequences
R&D is supposed to produce something of value. If you agree that iterating rapidly using something like Tailwind can get you ~80% of the way towards some ideal design, do you think that last 20% is worth the upfront cost? I think there are very, very few cases where this will be true, and even for those cases, you can get first to market using the rapid iterated design and then refine it more towards the "ideal" before the upfront design approach even gets out the door.

Nue's approach to styling sounds nice in theory, but it seems like it's only a good fit for a domain you already know well, where the structure of the solution is already well understood and so the upfront design cost is actually minimal. For instance, the example project is a blog, a thing that's been around for like 20 years and whose structure, components and features are already well understood. I just don't think that's very common, but if I'm wrong I would certainly like to someone tackle a project that they don't understand using this approach.
Yep- if Pee-wee Herman’s character were instead named after the actor, Paul Reubens, that character could still be licensed/sold. Paul Ruebens could still do interviews, and take jobs under that name, without permission, but he’d better not show up in the Pee-wee outfit.
reels suck. American apps like instagram and twitter focus on selling users information to advertisers while chinese apps like tiktok and Rednote focus on selling advertisements to users, and the later produces higher quality FYPs and less slop.

In five or six years you will have american consumer apps pretending to be chinese, like Haagen Daez or Matsui
Who are they actually supposed to be selling to? Given the US has pretty active antitrust for now, I can't really think of anyone who has both the money and expertise to run it and would be allowed to buy it.
Queryable: iOS offline natural language photo search with Apple MobileCLIP
A lot if times yes. Almost always cash buyers pay the least, even less than those with insurance.
i mean, we all have the algorithm tailored to what we want to see, so the parent comment here is kind of a moot point, right?
It used to save my ass a lot. It still does, but it used to, too.
ok but where are the vods?
> majority of the global population does not speak English

> Plurality of the world ... speak English

Sorry, what point are you trying to make?
1. Idea is not "lets do X thing but the twist of Y" - it's just an emotion, sentiment, vibe at best.

Ideas is "this is how people do X, they spend/make Y amount of money of it. If they use my product that does Z instead - they will make/waste Q amount of money/time. Where Q is _significantly_ less/more than Y. I am confident this estimation is correct because: a) i know/have first hand some actual real world example of it b) i use some _very_ similar examples that support this"

Only then you go check and see if there is a real demand and you have a necessary skill to deliver.

2. Aggressively use money filter for your ideas - it is not ideal but only good enough measurable tool we have to estimate something's worth. Including ideas and your time investment in pursuing them.

For example if you apply this filter to many so called "micro" saas things you may end up concluding that it is far more profitable and reliable investment of your time to score a good FAANG position. Of course there are many other considerations, but money is the best starting point.
I've learned that moderation is key to avoiding their harmful effects. It’s easy to get caught up in the thrill, but understanding how these systems work is crucial. For instance, gacha games often rely on the same reward mechanisms as gambling, making them equally compelling. Exploring resources to stay informed can help reduce risks. For example, I came across a review on Wild Cash x9990 DEMO by BGaming at https://wildcashx9990.com/ which offers insight into gaming mechanics. Since the site itself doesn’t allow gambling
Oh weird - it works for me. Maybe the discussion got banned somehow? Here is the underlying story:
https://dailycaller.com/2025/01/14/tiktok-forced-staff-oaths...
> Every Saturn 5 was successful

On the other hand every Russian N1 wasn’t.

Rocketry is hard. It’s seems proven that if you’re a government space agency it’s even harder.
> Brute-forcing symmetric encryption is a somewhat silly concept anyways, because each decryption is equally valid.

Each decryption is equally valid as long as the key has the same size as the data. What happens, in practice, is that the key is much smaller than the data. Take a look at your filesystem, it should have hundreds or thousands of bytes of fixed information (known plaintext), or an equivalent amount of verifiable information (the filesystem structure has to make sense, and the checksums must match). That is: for a large enough filesystem (where "large enough" is probably on the order of a small floppy disk), decrypting with the wrong key will result in unrecoverable garbage which does not make sense as a filesystem.

To give an illustration: suppose all filesystems have to start with the four bytes "ABCD", and the key has 256 bits (a very common key size). If you choose a key randomly to decrypt a given cyphertext, there's only one chance in 2^32 that the decryption starts with ABCD, and if it doesn't, you know it's the wrong key. Now suppose the next four bytes have to be "EFGH", that means only one in 2^64 keys can decrypt to something which appears to be valid. It's easy to see that, once you add enough fixed bytes (or even bits), only one key, the correct one, will decrypt to something which appears to be valid.
Yes there is. Facebook has never done anything like this and never would, that's what is preventing it.
>>>mainly that they are HQ'd in that government's jurisdiction

ByteDance is; TikTok is not. TikTok is headquartered in USA and Taiwan. Why is that not part of the analysis? The CCP can control/influence ByteDance, the US can't do anything about that. But it could do a number of things to prevent ByteDance control/influence on TikTok, and it jumped directly to "must divest".

Congress could have passed a law banning TikTok from transmitting any user data back to ByteDance/China, for example. Why not do that, if that was the actual concern?
And the most important thing about PCC in my opinion is not the technical aspect (though that's nice) but that Apple views user privacy as something good to be maximized, differing from the view championed by OpenAI and Anthropic (and also adopted by Google and virtually every other major LLM provider by this point) that user interactions must be surveilled for "safety" purposes. The lack of privacy isn't due to a technical limitation--it's intended, and they often brag about it.
Brits still associate working-class accents with criminals – study warns of bias
Let's Map Halal Restaurants on OpenStreetMap (OSM)
Assalamu Alaikum, fellow halal food enthusiasts!

Have you ever struggled to find halal restaurants in your city or while traveling? I believe we can make this easier for everyone by mapping halal restaurants on OpenStreetMap (OSM) – a free and open-source platform that allows anyone to contribute and access geographic information.

What is OpenStreetMap (OSM)?
OSM is like the Wikipedia of maps. It’s created and maintained by a global community of contributors. You can add restaurants, cafes, and even grocery stores that serve halal food so that Muslims everywhere can benefit!

Why Map Halal Restaurants?
1⃣ Help Muslims easily find halal food options.
2Create a centralized, global database accessible to everyone.

How You Can Contribute:

Visit OpenStreetMap and create an account.

Add restaurants in your area that serve halal food (make sure to confirm their halal status).

Use the tag halal to mark them as halal on the map.

Need Help?
If you're new to mapping or need assistance, feel free to ask in this thread! There are plenty of tutorials available, and the OSM community is always happy to help.

If you're new to osm, let's try these resources:

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org
https://learnosm.org

Communities: https://t.me/+UtRwRdSROX1mMTc9

Let’s work together to build a global map of halal food options and make it easier for Muslims around the world to enjoy their meals with peace of mind.

JazakAllahu Khair!
#HalalFood #OpenStreetMap #HalalRestaurants #MuslimCommunity
Ah, gotcha.

For what it's worth CICO sucks because (1) nobody can stick to it, ever (2) humans are awful at estimating their calories in, studies show only 1/5 of people can properly estimate the calorie content of their food [1] and (3) your metabolism slows down in response to, specifically, caloric restriction diets and your hunger rises which makes it difficult to estimate your calories out without indirect calorimetry.

Yes, CICO works in a lab, and for some weird people. It's a matter of thermodynamics. However you are a far more complex system than a coal powered furnace. And yes certain types of food will be more or less satiating and may influence the amount of total calories you consume. It's really really hard to overeat if you just eat lean protein, for instance.

CICO is, in practice, a tool that is roughly impossible for most people to leverage to lose a meaningful amount of weight and keep it off.

Which brings us back to the difference between maintaining a persistent caloric deficit -- and instructing people to do so.

[1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3719184/
Reading up on this a bit, it seems it was the 1963 earthquake that precipitated the change in building regulations? The 1969 one seemed comparatively mild(?)