skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every era has it's Malthusian alarmists and without fail, each has been proven wrong by exactly the same thing the author decries and says won't work this time: technological change and adaption. There's no reason to think this time will be any different. Will some places become uninsurable? Sure, plenty of places over time have become uninsurable. Will the whole world became uninsurable? Absolutely not, because we are quite good at adaptation in the face of adversity.

The issue in California is not the price of insurance, it's availability because of extremely myopic ballot initiatives that are entirely political in nature. Should insurance be fairly priced, then the market can force people out of uninsurable areas and into areas with far less chance to burn.
Which coincidentally launched 22 years ago today: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-107
my sadly hot (no pun intended) take is that insurance needs to be let free. price controls on insurance are doubly counterproductive - not only does it result in the companies leaving, it results in those who need the insurance losing their stuff when catastrophe inevitably hits.

it’s ok if insurance is expensive - let it result in the insured goods or services having a serious price adjustment.

rather than price controls a slightly better solution would be just to nationalize insurance and force everyone to use it, but even that is not really a solution since highly correlated events are the antithesis of insurance.
Why would they spend the money to deploy it on faster hardware when the new cloud-based system rewrite is just around the corner? It's just 3 months way, this time, for sure...
Unaffiliated with DBOS but I agree that Postgres will scale much further than most startups will ever need! Even Meta still runs MySQL under the hood (albeit with a very thick layer of custom ORM).
Is this a bot that just links to previous HN discussions?
Certainly, we could argue that this is solely a result of women empowerment and choice and ignore the folks who say “it’s the economy.” At that point, switch to planned decline if no effort will be made to help those actually interested in reproducing socially and economically. I take issue with the disingenuous and performance art of the messaging, “the purpose of the system is what it does.” Admit defeat and plan for it, it’s not a matter of “if” but simply steepness of downward trajectory.
mainline LTS is good enough to boot and perform well, but it's still missing media and NPU features. as someone who briefly worked on mainlining, I feel the biggest problem is Turing's deceptive marketing - rk3588 and SBCs in general just aren't powerful enough for popular inference workloads like LLMs, let alone training. and ARM (rather than x86) is still very limiting for self-hosting apps
How old are you? Most people experience worsening eyesight mid 40s.
do we know when this video was taken? this could just be ship breaking up during re-entry because it lost altitude control. not necessarily the moment of the primary failure.
Given all the rules, moderation, fiefdoms, censorship, misinformation, echo chambers of Reddit - I would expect this to be a very biased but also misleading tool.
After shutting down several emulators, Nintendo admits emulation is legal
There are several, all at the same time, all in the same area, where the debreis was seen.

Why do you think it is pointless?

If I am a pilot and the tower says "debris seen heading east of Bahamas", I probably wont want to keep flying towards that direction.

Yeah, it is probably low risk, but I dont have a super computer or detailed map of the Starship debris field or entry zone.
They are just insuring against an unexpectedly large bill. That's how I read it. It doesn't even have to involve any proof or disproof of negligence. Just make it a purely financial transaction. You pay $1,000 as a premium such that if the cloud bill exceeds $10,000 the insurance will pay you half of that, up to a limit of $20,000. It makes sense as a financial product. Of course the numbers above are purely hypothetical.
So I've stored some data in a bucket, the storage time goes over my budget, what do you do now? Just delete the data? I think most people would think that's a terrible outcome.

Let's say the answer is yes, you just delete all the data as I can no longer afford it... delete operations are billable, so do you charge the user for those deletes or not?

Let's say the answer is yes, and you bill the deletes. What happens if too many deletes are required and suddenly you're at 2x the bill cap? Now you can't document the bill cap as being able to go over by up to 1.5x. This may be unlikely, but customers use cloud services in weird and wonderful ways.

This is just one resource type, there are many different resource types on a typical cloud provider, each with multiple axes of billing, each of which has hard decisions to not just be made, but documented and communicated to customers in such a way that they understand the impact. Oh and also it's the "I just put my credit card in and go" crowd who you have to explain it to, who aren't engaging in sales conversations, not those on business contracts who might actually listen or read the documentation.

It's not at all obvious to me that this is preferable to just having someone look at these incidents on a case by case basis and seeing who should be refunded.
With banks it could be that they are being very careful in their recovery process to ensure everything reconciles properly. Otherwise they could create a cascading set of issues. But the lack of details in their notice is frustrating and I wonder if it is something more serious like a breach.
Weaponizing Wikipedia Against Israel
That is actually price fixing and illegal. Not that in the current regulatory environment that there's likely to be enforcement.
SpaceX takes non-human payloads to low earth orbit every couple days. Over 100 in 2024.

They regularly take human payloads, too. They’re the only American launcher currently able to do so.
While it wouldn't help currently, I'm sure in time accomodations will be made - for example the acme-client on openbsd will only renew if <30 days from expiration, so it's crond weekly. A client will just need to support custom times, so call it daily and it will renew when 1 or 2 days out to be safe
I just write everything from scratch. This seems like a lot of work but it allows me to focus on other things that usually have no deadlines.

Im dense enough to delete things and rewrite if they require babysitting.
It's not reused. Only the top half goes up. The bottom half with the legs and descending engine is still in the Moon.
To me this sort of thing just seems like a weird financialization brain disease of sorts.

At the end of the day if your house burns down you can go and get some wood / stone / whatever and build one somewhere else and this will basically always be possible to do to some degree.

The question is just about what the chance of having to do that per year is and what that represents in dollar value. It can’t not be possible.
Interesting, if there is one thing that I have learned in my life, it is that you can pick up your stuff and leave. It is depressing that what we teach our kids is that they just have to stay in that bad situation; that there are no options.
I use the flashlight on my phone to flash at drivers to increase the likelihood that I am seen.
There very well could be an economic component, but the important part is can TFR be raised to above replacement rate, which is what I am seeing zero evidence of based on global data from all different countries with different policies.
SpaceX Crypto Scam: Fraudulent YouTube Stream Exploits Starship Launch Event
I totally agree. You should be able to choose to have things shut down rather go past a limit. I don’t have a single client that would choose $70k versus, say, a couple hours downtime while we figure out what is happening with a resource that is going crazy.

This is where I question the risk of serverless. Although, now that I think about it, while my one client’s EC2 instances are essentially capped in terms of capacity and spend, we also use S3 etc. I suppose it would be entirely possible to accidentally write a huge amount of data to S3. But again I would rather get warnings from the app that writing to S3 has failed due to limits than get a huge bill!
I'm wondering why the 'Which GNU/Linux distribution do you use Guix on?' question has answers that sum to less than 40%. I mean, even if most users try guix on the Guix OS and that is trivial, the option should also be visible in the result.
Preliminary indication is that we had an oxygen/fuel leak in the cavity above the ship engine firewall that was large enough to build pressure in excess of the vent capacity.

Apart from obviously double-checking for leaks, we will add fire suppression to that volume and probably increase vent area. Nothing so far suggests pushing next launch past next month.

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1880060983734858130
I plan to implement aac support.
Cjam is specifically designed for directly editing lossy audio formats.
You won't believe how many ground breaking papers Google have released for AI research in the past 10-20 years.

We just take it for granted.
Wikipedia is not byzantine fault tolerant.
If people like them, they are not too big or too fancy.
It's also funny to me that the billionaires and soon to be trillionaires are also the most concerned about it :)

The pyramid might collapse!
Not a lot of effective contraception available for serfs, right?
If you’re asking about the legality - it is probably legal since companies build in a lot of rights for themselves into their terms of service. It’s not fair but every company does it unfortunately. It needs regulations to be fixed.

Personally I am not a fan of bans on users, especially from social media, since social media is the only meaningful way to exercise freedom of speech these days. But we need to classify them as utilities or common carriers to have better protections.
He used to do those on the LA radio station Indie 103. He would call into Joe Escalante’s morning show and do the weather.
Since I’ve never seen an f9 landing, watching ift5 land was kinda mind blowing. Even 6k away you can tell it’s really big but moved with a grace and smoothness like a hippo in water only with crackling flame.
We use euphemisms for it and Wikipedia follows along. The relevant articles are:

For the illegal stuff: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_trafficking_in_the_Uni...

And the legal variety: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_labor_in_the_United_St...
Show HN: Identify and label your feelings/emotions
I recently developed a website to help identify and label feelings and it is free to use. It’s based on the Feelings Wheel/Wheel of Emotion: www.whatfeeling.com.

Recommendation feature: The user can type what they are feeling and the app with recommend one of the top 7 emotions based on the text. I am using PerplexityAI's API to extract intention and provide an appropriate recommendation for the user.

Share feature: The user has the option to share the results with others.

I'm a backend engineer and do not have much experience developing UI. I used v0.dev to build the UI components for this app. This is a work in progress. I’d love to hear any feedback, whether it’s about the design, functionality, or additional features.

Details:
Backend - Java
Frontend - Next.js
Hosting - DigitalOcean and Vercel
AI integration - PerplexityAI

Thank you for reading. On a personal note, working on this project has been uplifting for me, and I hope it can help others too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_DS#DS_family_Comparis...

* Nintendo DS, 2004

* Nintendo DS Lite, 2006

* Nintendo DSi, 2008

* Nintendo DSi XL, 2009

* Nintendo 3DS, 2011

* Nintendo 3DS XL, 2012

* New Nintendo 3DS, 2017

* New Nintendo 3DS XL, 2020
Video with a good overview of several clues leading to the suspicions:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmEe3eUPWq4 [≈11 minutes]
> The dns-01 challenge type will not be available because the DNS is not involved in validating IP addresses. Additionally, there is no mechanism to check CAA records for IP addresses.

Is in-addr.arpa. not usable for these purposes? Given how you can do PTR records to map IP address to domain name, I had just assumed it would be at least theoretically usable for more, even if few or no hosts exposed it so at present.
Ouch.. I'm sad to just see this here for the first time. He's for sure, 100% had an impact on how my mind had grown as a child. It's sending shivers down my back to think of the people I was with when we touched the edge of the reality through 1 person.

I'm happy I never met him, not in the sense of meeting your heros, but in the sense of, 'some things are better left unsaid'. I took that with me after blue velvet, I didn't get that movie when i first saw it, I didn't pretend to, but I took that experience with me..

I argue sometimes how some topics are unrelated to Tech (hn) that get a good ratio, but this one really is one that makes me appreciate the method of madness.

Rest in peace big man. I'm who I am thanks to your work.

Edit with appreciation " (I still don't 'get' his movies) They impact my thinking.
These pop up during every launch.

YouTube takes between 30 minutes and days to take them down after being reported.
https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-tls-wkech-00.txt

https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-farrell-tls-pemesni-06...

https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-tls-svcb-ech-06.t...
Hamas had previously exchanged very few hostages for major Israeli concessions; they seem to have believed that taking more hostages would yield an even better deal. Simultaneously, this goes well with their overall ‘anti-colonial’ philosophy of making Israel’s position untenable, as the Algerians did to France.
You can't live in places where your home is going to get destroyed every couple of decades by wildfires, floods, or hurricanes. There are more of these places now because of climate change and a lot of people are going to have to migrate over the next century, like huge global migrations. Insurance can't/won't allow a bunch of people to deny this reality any more (or at least much longer). LA is going to be pretty uninsurable unless the local governments do a lot to mitigate the fire risk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqZpi8zAqe0

This little video is such a great tribute to him. RIP David.
I learned from this that there is something called “Errors & Omissions insurance” that professionals could buy. But in this case, it looks like the person who did the Tweet had hired a freelance software engineer through Upwork.
I'm interested in it. This contrivance of consent (society protecting and empowering women is pure contrived luxury) is a evolutionary dead end. That's why nature never saw fit to program it in. Women need to be desperate for security (financial and physical) or they simply will not have enough children. Anyway. Build the replicators before it all stops. We are a stepping stone to whatever is next.

The only answer is to brainwash the hell out of women to focus on child rearing as the top priority. Patriarchal religion springs to mind.
Start by explaining why slavery would ever not be wrong.
SpaceX Starship test fails after Texas launch
My experience asking this question is that effectively no one understands how cross-compilation works (as is also seen here from the response involving nested virtualization)... which is really disappointing given that it causes even more chaos when people fail to understand that even deploying to their same architecture on Linux should be set up more similar to a cross-compiled build (to avoid any properties of the system bleeding into the resulting binary). As far as I can tell, people just think that compilers only can target the system they are on, and if they want to target other architectures, other operating systems, or even merely older systems, they have to run their build system on a machine equivalent to their eventual deployment.
Just because it's possible to state a hypothetical financial product does not mean there's a useful product there.

Why would I agree to pay up to $20k on a $50k cloud bill, when you could just choose to spend more on your cloud bill. I would be giving away free money and you'd get a discount.

You have to tie it to either incorrect billing, valid billing but caused by a malicious third party (i.e. hacking), or valid billing caused by negligence, and in the latter case you would need to prove negligence otherwise it's just a business deciding to use more resources and not pay for them. In the same way, fire insurance covers your house burning down, but not if you burn it down yourself.
Roman polanski defender. He signed the letter. Never forget
Price caps always seem like such a transparent political move.
This blog is for introducing people to Nue's development model rather than a guide to minimalistic design. See

https://nuejs.org/docs/tutorial.html
https://mastodon.social/@BNONews/113840549980938951
It's always amazing and disappointing to see how many people actually believe that prices can be lowered by legislative fiat, or that "price gouging" is an actual thing that happens. I guess they would prefer to have shortages instead of paying market rates, and then complain about "greedy big business" or (my favorite) "late stage capitalism".
Idk, have you considered passing laws that make it easier for people to stay at home, have sex, get pregnant, have the baby, keep the baby - all the while not losing their jobs?

If the goal is helping people have babies, why not....help them?
Correct. Market value is not the cost of making X plus a margin. Many people get that wrong.

Marker value is what someone else is willing to pay.
I think it's "local councils, yes cut to the bone; Whitehall and its satellites, no". Similarly, Whitehall ended out the Thatcher and Major ministries with more regulators for privatized industries, more centralized decision-making, and a larger bureaucracy than ever.
I wish I had builds that ran that fast, lol... omg that would be epic ;P.
I have four controllers and basically none of them worked after a few years. I don't know how I feel about the quality of their stuff these days.
Very neat! Add INDIlib or Ascom support and it could control real telescopes :)
Why is the Slashdot logo on this article? I'm so confused. What's the relationship between Shopify and Slashdot?
Mastodon supports RSS.
I'm no chemist so someone will have to explain to me how ammonia sitting around by itself, without water, just becomes ammonium nitrate.
> Cheating at video games is actually an exercise in computer freedom. The game is running on my computer. As the owner of the machine, I can change its memory. I can change whatever I want. I should be able to do this.

I agree, but there are other issues involved.

For one thing, this is an issue with the hardware and operating system design more than about anti-cheat software. The installation of anti-cheat software should be ineffective due to a better design of the computer, not due to the anti-cheat software itself.

Furthermore, there can be such thing as going to a room where they have a tournament with multi-players game, where they are not your computers, so they can set it up according to the tournament. (There is still then accusation of the tournament organizer giving someone unfair advantages or of someone tampering with the computer, but those are issues which must be managed regardless of such a thing anyways.)

Furthermore, for some kind of games they can install server-side anti-cheat software which does not own your computer (unless you are running the server yourself (e.g. in case of LAN play), but then you can choose if you want to put that anti-cheat software (or to put your own software)).

And, even more furthermore, sometimes people will manage to defeat and work-around anti-cheat systems and then cheat at the game anyways, so it still doesn't guarantee for sure, anti-cheating.

And, not having the anti-cheat software does not necessarily mean that you will cheat at this game, anyways.

Also, whoever runs the server might have the terms of service, that if you need an account on their server, they can still ban you from cheating or whatever, since it is their server and they can do what they want with it. However, doing what they want with it, should not include spying on your computer.

Due to all of these things, I think that you are right, that you should be able to change your own computer even if they have someone else's software.
Show HN: Koroflow – Making cookie consent observable and developer-first
Hi HN! Creator here. I built this after struggling with cookie consent management at my previous startup. Traditional solutions are slow, provide terrible developer experience, and a lot of the time it give zero visibility into consent states.

We just cut our first beta release with:
- 100% TypeScript consent management solution
- shadcn/ui components (cookie banner & preference UI)
- DevTools for debugging consent states
- ~6kb bundle size

Try it out: https://koroflow.com/docs/components/consent-solution

The vision is bigger - we're building a full privacy infrastructure platform with:
- Cloud consent state management
- Version control for privacy policies and consent texts
- Unified event relay system (think Segment for consent)
- Deeper consent profiles

Would love your feedback, especially on developer experience and performance. All suggestions welcome!
> Most queries should take max 20-30ms

Most queries are 20-30ms. But a worst case of 200ms for large payloads or edge cases or just general degradations isn't crazy. Without knowing if 500ms is a p50 or p99 it's kind of a meaningless metric but assuming it's a p99, I think it's not as bad as the original commenter stated.
I'm just saying reading the entire comment chain went from an optimistic statement to...well at least you have the bare minimum benefits that society offers (if you are an avid negotiator).
Tinyweb – Rust client-side web
It the high dynamic range (HDR) that makes it look "unnatural" because we are so used to seeing over-compressed photos and videos.

Plus maybe something they do with stability and frame-rate.
What using RSS feeds feels like
I absolutely cannot relate to the HN excitement over rockets. What is the point? What are we going to do with them? It feels like half religion half misplaced techno-positivism.

(Also a person who actively platforms outspoken neo-nazis runs the company that is launching them)
You can; it's just expensive.
I think this is a pretty common and au courant take right now.
If people have to be told, it's not that well known, is it!

This thing is also not well known yet.

There is no way to introduce things into the .well-known namespace, because they start out not well known and thus don't belong there. Then by the time they are well known, they are stuck with whatever name they have.

If and when it becomes well-known, it can be moved there, and installations can issue an external redirect to it when the old name is accessed.
Elephant Man is perhaps the most approachable. Anthony Hopkins and John Hurt are at the apex of their acting careers in this film.

After that Mullholland Drive is absolutely brilliant and has that unforgettable masterpiece diner scene: https://youtu.be/UozhOo0Dt4o?si=GedzAdMh0KIXoHz4
Come on, EVERYTHING about the Wii was about moving these like they were your hands in game. Pretty much NOTHING on the switch uses them. On the other hand VR has accomplished the dream of early Wii games like Red Steel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfNgkhmPPsc
Aren’t the two - empowerment and economy - related? We went from having someone at home to take care of kids, which makes it easier to have them, to having no one at home and double the supply of workers, which of course reduces wages compared to the alternative world.