skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But the efficiency of a gas power plant is only 20-60%. I'm all for electrification but unless my sums are wonky, a percentage of gas that was used to create electricity for heat pumps would have been better off burnt in a boiler. Over half the UKs power came from gas this last week.

We need to turn back to nuclear until we've figured out grid level storage.
Thanks! I miss ZeroLag. You guys were the best.
Surprisingly it doesn’t take a lot more when the political opponents don’t do shit (Biden x Garland, anyone?) or when the people either actively supports dictature or decides not to vote for… reasons.
The quantized version is very bad, when I promoted it something, it misspelled some of the prompt when it tried to say it back to me and gets some simple coding questions completely wrong. Like I ask it to specifically program in one language, it gives me another, and when I got it to do it, the code is completely wrong. The thinking out loud part wastes a lot of tokens
Yeah, sounds like the problems are more due to monorepos rather than with GitHub actions. Seems like the pendulum always swings too far. Overdoing microservices results in redundant code and interservice spaghetti. Monorepos have their own set of issues. The only solution is to think carefully about a what size chunk of functionality you want to build, test, and deploy as a unit.
"Harvest now, decrypt later" is how I've heard the attack described; there isn't really an engineering feature of protocols or ciphers that (a) has a name and (b) directly addresses this problem. But you're roughly right that the interactive nature of how DNSSEC (and signatures more generally) are used makes them of secondary importance in PQ upgrades.
Interesting. Having the old compiler and an emulator is certainly helpful, but of course also yet another complexity. From my experience, it's very useful to have some decently large programs in the target language, the output of which are known. Thanks for the document, I will talke a look at it.
Show HN: Automate Multi-Event Calendar Creation from Plain Text
Originally built this to scratch my own itch, I was frustrated at having to manually create events in my calendar for basic things so I built text-2-ics. After a while, some users mentioned that they'd had problems with the tool and I discovered that they'd been attempting to create multiple events at once (for things like gym routines or their weekly timetable) which never originally occurred to me so I've now widened the scope of my original project.
After Musk-Ambani tussle, India bets satellite spectrum can attract companies
"Harris’ moral and ethical failings are nothing compared to Trump. You can do what I did and not vote and not support either candidate. Stand up for truth and righteousness and stop trying to justify your support for a person as shitty as Trump. It’s a choice to defend shitty behavior. When you do so you end up smelling like shit."

She implicitly supported Biden. She was complicit in all the lies that were pushed about Biden, particularly those about his fitness for the position. She endorsed going after political enemies with the legal system -- and then had the gall to claim that Trump would do just that himself.

And then to go on and claim that if you supported a crappy candidate, then those people are crappy too, you have basically condemned the 95% or so who voted for one or the other -- for motivations that are well beyond either yours or my understanding -- this attitude right here is why politics is so toxic these days.
I wonder if there’s a market for “work swapping” where founders of two separate companies will trade work without trading equity.
I Made a Sliding iPhone Keyboard
Jsgamelauncher compatibility layer for web games to run without browser/Electron
Use it and come back lmao
Everyone switches over to Moderna's offerings?
when you have no control over your life, when you can get paged on your honeymoon or your kids birthday, when you need to ask permission to take time off… as society we are past what was slavery back in the day - now we got modern-day slavery, working for THE MAN
The irony is I too dislike nagging, hollow, corporate DEI exercises. In the abstract I was glad they existed[3] but the insincerity was palpable

Footnote [3] is: A small minority of people really do need to be taught how to be kind.

The author thinks probably thinks that fairly obvious fact is some harmless premise, but I suspect he knows well enough having been through YC and in the community of American business that this is not an accurate description of how DEI was implemented in parts of corporate America and beyond. In many companies, colleges, and government agencies, DEI initiatives were implemented in a way that assumed everyone had to be taught how to be kind, were differentially guilty or prone to be guilty by (sometimes externally assumed) group association of their birth or early childhood of certain offenses, and were preferentially treated to work placements, promotions, etc.

It was more than just "hollow" in many instances. It was blatant witch hunting that ruined careers and personal lives via internet virality. If PG's greatest offense in fighting back against this was an obtusely chosen word like "woke", that's pretty minor.
This is slightly poetic after the flights diverted due to the Starship debris the other day.

Also remind me never to fly Delta.
The responses will self-select for people with trivial requirements. Nobody with real resources will divulge what those resources are.
Not like he’s hiding it very much.
I see a lot of people wowing at the test results but have not used it
The executive cannot unilaterally defy plain English constitutional rules without precedent, yes. That doesn't mean the constitution is a computer program.

The federal government's power to regulate business applies only to interstate commerce too, clearly and obviously in the text of the constitution. Look at where we are now.

The US has been able to survive for centuries under a single constitution (unlike most countries, e.g. France) because we have a tradition of interpreting and reinterpreting the constitution in ways that let us face the unanticipated challenges any civilization faces.

The "abuse" of the commerce clause isn't "bad" per se: rules do need to get made sometimes. The US would not be nearly as prosperous as it is today if the government were bound by the literal text of the commerce clause.

It's the same for other provisions of the constitution: famously, the document is "not a suicide pact". If we have a civilization-scale problem to solve, we'll find room in constitutional jurisprudence to solve it.
An administration efficiently returning money to a specific vendor who gave $250M to their campaign, if one wants to be cheeky?
Your piece is very very well said. Thank you so much for putting yourself out there.
American TikTokers Get a Taste of Chinese Censorship as They Rush to RedNote
I am not as anti H1B as the original poster and have no animosity toward my H1B visa coworkers. But let’s be real. There are thousands of unemployed citizens that could do the work just as well especially when you consider how many work for WITCH companies.
I was thinking just today that Squarespace should contact me and I'll do a commercial for them based on my experiences of creating a webapp and turning it into a business because I was too picky to use a prebuilt CMS etc. I have eight years of nonstop pain and stories to tell.
AMD did over $5 billion in GPU compute (Instinct line) last year. Not nVidia numbers but also not bad. Customers love that they can actually get Instinct system rather than trying to compete with the hyperscalers for limited supplies of nVidia systems. Meta and Microsoft are the two biggest buyers of AMD Instincts, though...

AMD Instinct is also more power efficient and has comparable (if not better) performance for the same (or less) price.
But the Appcanary was not a bad idea, isn't website monitoring a lucrative market (see New Relic)? Too crowded?
US automakers have already lost, their market will shrink to whatever the US domestic market demands. Global light vehicle TAM is ~90M units/year, and BYD is going to ramp as quickly as they can to meet that.
> Delta: "The Delta crew on flight 480 continues to follow ATC instruction along its journey from Los Angeles (LAX) to Honolulu (HNL). The flight is en route to HNL with no issue.”

Apparently ATC (Air Traffic Control) was unaware of the TRF (Temporary Flight Restriction) around Vandenburg for launches. Perhaps this will prompt an improvement in communication and cooperation in future.
Lots of discussion earlier:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42644204
If this is what you’re choosing as criteria for never flying Delta I’m going to suggest you never fly out of LAX. Commercial airliners are directed by ATC along defined routes or given headings and altitudes by the ATC.
> So you're intellectually dishonest then.

Ok. Have a nice day then. :)
Consider the only thing he mentioned as part of his priority stack is wanting to have a successful startup, how is he not a failure?
Show HN: CFRS[] Community Demos: Patterns with turtle graphics using 6 commands
Hello HN!

Back in 2023, I introduced CFRS[], a minimalist drawing language with turtle graphics, featuring just six simple commands, through a "Show HN" post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37956065).

Since then, I've received a number of creative patterns and animations created using this tiny, esoteric language by the small and friendly community that has since formed around it. In this post, I intend to share some of these interesting creations with everyone to highlight the ingenuity of their creators. If you create an interesting demo using this language, please share it in the comments--I'd love to see it!

Demos contributed by various HNers: https://susam.github.io/cfrs/demo.html

Try CFRS[] here: https://susam.net/cfrs.html
Delta seems to have done nothing wrong, they were following incorrect instructions from air traffic control.
They have some of these on ships already.
V25, the Vernal YC 2025 batch!
You said:

> The author frames it as if you can just semi-retire and still have $200K a year

I was just responding to that.

I am as bleeding heart a liberal as they come. I recognize most people have much harder lives than I've had. I made some assumptions based just on your $200k comment above, and the fact that—let's face it—most HNers are making ridiculously large sums of money, and there is no end to these similar "this is impossible!" style comments on this page.

Truly, I'm sorry to hear you've had to deal with so much strife. Nobody deserves that. If you'd like to share more, my email is in my profile.
Bambu Lab - Setting the Record Straight About Our Security Update
1. The EB1C has the additional requirement that the applicant's employment abroad also must have been managerial or executive (which at the end of the day means people management). This is where those who move from L-1B to L-1A sometimes fall short.
2. This requires a discussion unfortunately because if you look at the websites of 10 different schools, you will get 10 different views on whether an F-1 can get STEM OPT through their own company. My reading of USCIS guidance is that STEM OPT can be obtained through an F-1's own company as long as there is a supervision/training component to their employment.
From the article, Delta pilots were following air traffic control directions.
LOL. HS2
Sewell's Pump
Can you expand on this weighting idea you have re: voting?
Sometimes wins are not necessarily measured with financial success. A company can utterly fail and still represent a win. I had one of those.

I started a self-funded tech company around 1998. This was hard tech, hardware and software. And I was the sole engineer doing all the work. This meant 18 hour days, 7 days per week to get the plane off the runway. Two years later, after booking lots of sales, we finally moved out of the garage and I started to hire people. Yes, I ran this beast entirely on my own for two years. A few years later a large well-known company expressed interest in acquiring the technology. The number being floated was in excess of $30MM.

What happened?

Well, 2008 happened. The economic implosion caused this company to second-guess entry into the market we had pursued --which they intended to do by acquiring us. The deal went from being a couple of meetings away from an acquisition to evaporating in front of my very eyes.

The bad news was that the economic downturn truly hurt us over the next couple of years. I had to shut it down in 2010 and lick my wounds.

This thing went from pouring all of our savings and an incredible amount of very hard work into a crazy idea, executing well enough to get a $30MM+ offer to closing the doors and nearly losing it all in the process.

At the time this felt like an abject failure and a waste of ten years of my life. It took me months to get my head back on straight. Today, looking back, I see it as a success. I took an idea from nothing to close to a massive life-changing exit and did so mostly on my own through hard work, grit and determination. That's a success story nobody can take away from me. I learned a lot along the way and most of those lessons were part of success in future endeavors.

Life can be funny and cruel sometimes. You might think you are going through your darkest hours when, in reality, you are growing a solid backbone that will support the rest of your life.

Entrepreneurship is hard. Very hard.
PG is not a hero. He's just a guy.

The downgrading of exceptional individuals like PG to mediocrities is no healthier than placing them on pedestals.
The Power of Self-Service in CIAM (2024)
This is a moving target but at a minimum any country on Trump's soon-to-be travel ban list might cause problems down the road.
There are many reasons to do a startup, but people should only call it a business when the goal is either a tax deduction mitigation and or rapid entry into profit traction.

1. Don't use some clever or hard to remember name with a weird spelling. While easier to Trademark, the users and customers won't differentiate your site from the sea of attention grabbing garbage.

2. If people have zero paying customers, and zero revenue... than the hard fact is they were never in business, and should have founded a nonprofit instead (common for opensource support service entities.)

3. Often copyright and patents are infeasible for small business, and people simply can't build or defend things like a large firm. Thus, initially design products/services to last maybe a year or simply be disposable... When 270 desperate cloners show up to dilute the market sector... people quickly understand why they can't rely on Android, Steam, or Apple ecosystems to protect their bottom line.

4. There is zero loyalty without treasure. The only people that care if your firm goes into the red is you, and maybe the small-time shareholders. Most people can't take the constant adversarial posture with problematic staff, opinionated shareholders, and high-demand customers.
Everyone thinks a CEO is lame till you become a CEO for a year or two... Every conversation from that point on is about money or marketing, and most people keen on building things tend to burn out of the role eventually due to social isolation.

5. No company lasts forever, if the operation is a projected liability it is your job to respond accordingly. Even if that means executing an exit strategy, and firing the entire problematic division.

6. Ask business people about their memorable experiences, and not about their money source. The superficial apparent function of a business is usually very different from the actual revenue model.

Best of luck, =3
I agree with other commenters that the meaning is clear. But I think they underestimate how far the Supreme Court is willing to go to torture the meaning of the Constitution. Hopefully I am wrong.
Hi Peter! Thanks for doing this! I've been watching this thread and reading for so many times but now I have a question.

If I come from Australia with an E3 visa, what is the pathway for me to get a greencard? On the US Gov website, the E3 visa is a non-immigrant visa. does this mean that I can't convert to H1B or greencard if I came with E3 visa?

Thankyou
I'm something's been normal for a few centuries, I'm comfortable calling it traditional.

Otherwise I'd use a word like "prehistorical".
I used mixxx to DJ my brother's wedding. I think it was 2013 or 2014. The moment I got the signal to switch to a specific track for the bride's first dance with her Father, mixxx locked up my laptop. Guests were staring at me, one offered a hushed, "they're waiting!" Completely unresponsive, I had to hard reboot my locked up computer and boot back into Ubuntu. Then I opened VLC where I played the tracks for the rest of the evening. Probably not mixxx's fault, but I will never forget that moment.
If the OP struggles to reconcile their perception of PG before and after discovering his differing beliefs, that’s neither PG’s fault nor anyone else’s.

This reaction reflects a broader cultural issue that PG himself occasionally comments on. It’s an unfortunate symptom of our times to misattribute personal frustrations and resentments—born of an often unfriendly and unfair world—to solely external causes like a conspiracy of bigotry and malevolence.

In reality, such feelings often stem from an unrealistic internal denial of the natural (painful) "othering" of outlier behaviour or identity, something that can only be mitigated through education and maturity, and pragmatic reasonableness on both sides.

It cannot be solved by the hectoring, bullying, self-pitying, or other toxic behaviours rightly associated with the declining “woke” movement, which the OP seems to criticise PG for opposing.
Delta is like the single decent airline in the US.
According to the article, they were flying the route as directed by air traffic control.

As a pilot, I can tell you that when you're being controlled, the controller takes responsibility for your navigation. This had nothing to do with Delta specifically. Any other pilot flying under the same conditions would have done the same.
We're talking respective to foreign policy here. Thanks for straying the conversation though :D
Creating Scenes in Godot with AI (Claude and Trellis)
This feels like kinda a stretch.
> lifespan is not the parameter I want to optimize. Rather, it is quality of life.

Fortunately, the 2 are often correlated, the best ways to prepare for a long lifespan are the same as preparing for a long health span, and that includes a high quality of life.
Looking at his body language, I don't see any reasonable explanation for this not being intentional. Particularly because he does the exact same motion multiple times.
The Vasa Museum , Stockholm, Sweden ( Ultra 4K ) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9NQUULR-UE
Show HN: Humbug – an open source AI dev environment mostly built by AI
Thanks. I read about IPL for the first time in McCarthy's history of Lisp paper, but never took a closer look. I now also see the irony.
“The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
I know a great many people with PhDs. They're certainly not infallible by any means, but I can assure you, every single one of them can correctly count the number of occurrences of the letter 'r' in 'strawberry' if they put their mind to it.

So can the current models.

It's frustrating that so many people think this line of reasoning actually pays off in the long run, when talking about what AI models can and can't do. Got any other points that were right last month but wrong this month?
I don't think so. She's already an LPR and during his last time in office, other than some processing delays, in my experience, applications that were supposed to get approved got approved.
What does GoT stand for?
> Islam is not, by any stretch of the imagination, a religion of peace.

It is. The word Islam and Salaam are etymologically tied to the word "peace".

If your definition of peace is "never wages war", well there's no country or political regime in the world like that. Even India, which was liberated by the famous nonviolent philosopher Gandhi, did not last many years without needing to wage war and take territory.

Islam is the only remaining religion with a political element and an existing desire for statehood. You could argue for Judaism (but some of the Orthodox would disagree) also. Back when Christendom had aspirations of statehood, it was also not "peaceful" in the way most people imagine. But this isn't a feature of the religions. It's a feature of world politics. No one can be peaceful and engage meaningfully in world politics. Everyone is propped up by some army somewhere.

You can have many arguments against the social regime, views on gender, etc. Etc. of Islam, but to say it's not peaceful because it is a political entity is just not understanding politics or the world, imo
There is nothing about going to mars that is consistent with governmental efficiency.

But it sure is consistent with securing mineral rights for your company.
Wait are we still in the thread discussing that it's childish to call one side baddies?
Make the best Travel Decisions on your Adventure
Australia is an incredible destination that offers stunning landscapes, unique wildlife, and vibrant cities. Whether you’re planning to explore the iconic Outback, snorkel in the Great Barrier Reef, or soak in the urban vibe of Sydney, there are a few things you should keep in mind to make the most of your adventure. Here are five essential tips to help you prepare for an unforgettable trip to the Land Down Under.

1. Weather Variations Are No Joke
Australia’s size means it has a diverse range of climates. While it might be sunny and warm in Queensland, it could be chilly in Tasmania.

What to Note:

Pack Smart: Include clothing for all types of weather, especially if you’re traveling across multiple regions. Layers are your best friend.
Seasons Are Flipped: Remember, Australia’s seasons are opposite to those in the Northern Hemisphere. If it’s winter in North America, it’s summer in Australia.
Relatable Tip: If you’re planning to visit the Outback, prepare for hot days and surprisingly cold nights. A light jacket will save you from freezing under the stars!

2. Mind the Wildlife
Australia is famous for its unique and diverse wildlife, but that’s not limited to cuddly koalas and kangaroos. You might encounter creatures you’d rather admire from afar.

What to Note:

Stay Safe: Always follow local guidelines about wildlife interactions. For instance, if you’re swimming in northern Queensland, be mindful of jellyfish warnings.
Be Respectful: Don’t feed or disturb animals, and avoid stepping on fragile ecosystems like coral reefs.
Couldn't be more untrue
That's certainly some more brand damage for Tesla.
The Famous 70s Era Apple Pascal Poster [pdf]
They are just shifting to one propaganda tool (tiktok) to another (fb). For the american citizen nothing changes.
Actually, I think I understand now.

From the point of view of "the alternative is people earn less", "disease" does seem a misnomer. I was thinking from the point of view of "the alternative is sectors become more productive", so "disease" doesn't seem to fit as well.
I can offer another "why?"
How many animals attack a wasp's nest? Almost zero, except other wasps in a territory war?
How many animals attack a beehive? Humans, bears, apes,.. pretty any big enough mammal that can climb.
So bees not only suffer from much more predators due to their precious honey, in my view they also need to differentiate between "honey maker" and warrior (sting) functions as their poison could contaminate the honey. Why do the males have to die? Because almost none of their enemies can extract a bee sting from their skin. Once stung, the poison glands and some muscles remain with the sting, acting as a "poison pump". This could deter the attacker longer from a second attack. Which makes sense, as the beehive cannot run away from the attacker.
They specifically advertise connectivity for a mobile app.