skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ya, both of those points have been crossing my mind a lot lately. To spme extent I'm sure a lot of people are spending that money on random trips or consumables since there's such a gulf between buying even a very high end sports car or live-in van and a basic home.

I also don't think there's much of a concept of buying a starter condo that's significantly discounted but could be fixed up. Sure, you can redo the walls maybe and the finishes, but if the building had serious structural problems you're screwed, asbestos you're screwed, bad roof, no plumbing accomodation for in-suite laundry etc etc
if I had $44bn to spare I’d pay for that kind of access to USA government… running “DOGE” alone I’d pay twice that
"Server-side-rendering" confused me for ages because I figured it must be some new fancy tech instead of 'what PHP has done from the beginning'.

SSR isn't actually rendering anything of course.
Luckily you don't need to convince the treasury, just the electorate. And they are desperate for it. As you said, Bojo's levelling up scheme was like electoral crack. Perhaps some day we will achieve the level of democracy where the government enacts policies which are universally popular. Maybe it will happen soon if Reform UK actually follows through on proportional representation. Though it's a sorry state that those racist cretins are our best shot. Though I don't know if PR alone would be enough, we'd have to do something about the media as well and they're pretty buddy-buddy with Farage.
It is only after he bought Twitter that he revealed his true self. Up until that time he seemed like a sane person.
Is this a joke, I can't see a difference.
Thanks for your question!

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Cool hack, can I see it in action anywhere, OP?
When I was a kid in Detroit before getting my ham radio license I was both a short wave listener (SWL) as well as a TV DX'er. There was a time when most if not all TV stations went off the air at 2 am. When that happened long distance stations in an earlier time zone could be received. In Detroit that was Illinois, Wisconsin stations primarily although I got St. Louis once.
At least it’s not home grown propaganda from the US, so will likely not cover most other topics of interest.
Usually football trasmissions have identifiable elements in the screen, such as the score, the match title, etc... and those are fixed elements that do not appear in ads. For example: https://i.imgur.com/blebca8.png

Or the title bar below. You could do some basic OCR on a Pi, when the team names are readable, keep the volume up, when they are not, disable it.
(your comment is very minimally informative, containing 1 bit of information: "there is something to learn about ruby". Searching "show source", "hidden gems" on OP's page marks the ruby spot)

and looking up the <ruby> tag:

https://interactive-examples.mdn.mozilla.net/pages/tabbed/ru...

The <ruby> HTML element represents small annotations that are rendered above, below, or next to base text, usually used for showing the pronunciation of East Asian characters. It can also be used for annotating other kinds of text, but this usage is less common.

The term ruby originated as a unit of measurement used by typesetters, representing the smallest size that text can be printed on newsprint while remaining legible.
Woah this looks awesome, thanks for sharing!
> Your dismissal of people with small emotional support networks

That's not what I was doing.

Like, I'm an extreme introvert. Most people are more extroverted than I am. Despite this, I have more than two close friends.

Whatever's causing some people to have small emotional support networks is something that should be studied by scientists, rather than taken for granted like this article does. Preventing unnecessary suffering is a net-positive for society.

But the article excluded the people who have more than two close friends, and kind of took that for granted. So I was responding to the article, not the circumstances other people suffer through.

I can see how someone could misread my comment to mean something else, but that wasn't what I was stating.
Maybe because your first sentence above mentioned politicizing. (?)
Hey, thanks for reaching out! The idea of integrating GopherSignal with Discord as a bot or feature is super cool, and I’d love to make that happen. I haven’t worked with Discord bots or automation before, so I’d definitely take you up on your offer to help out with that. If you want to connect, my email is kjzehnder3 [at] gmail [dot] com. Thank u!
https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/NVDA/nvidia/gross-...

GPU prices could be a lot lower and still give the manufacturer a more "normal" 50% gross margin and the average researcher could afford more compute. A 90% gross margin, for example, would imply that price is 5x the level that that would give a 50% margin.
But dumb scaling clearly only gives logarithmic rewards at best from every scaling law we ever saw.
Are they really anti-china? Or are they just trying to shake down China for some cash?
Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28511076

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37553193

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31197091

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7730555

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26533422

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42823667

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23120677

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23342320

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14065021
I worked for a mid-size tech company for many years and did a lot of travel (not as a developer). Sure I'd check email and maybe do some writing. But, while I liked having a halfway comfortable chair, I was pretty much content to work with my laptop on my lap if that were the only option. I wasn't great at focusing on writing an article for one of our in-house pubs say, but that had very little to do with work amenities and more with the fact that I traveling to attend an event etc. so I had a lot of distractions.

(For an extended trip to a single location where I was only intermittently at a customer etc., maybe I'd consider asking for a co-working space but I never did and don't think I'd have gone to the trouble.)
Concern about China is not partisan anymore, pretty much everyone is on board now.

Also from the article:
"Officials said the agency was not bending its views to a new boss, and that the new assessment had been in the works for some time."
Heh. I still see they are using my localization library. Not much, but it does give me a small heart warming tug.
Why flash, mp4/webm!

Btw flash websites were cool and games were amazing. You just can’t write a game like that today. You may pretend that you can, but no.
Since 2022 there's also the Elizabeth Line, which uses the same tracks as the Heathrow Express, but then continues under Central London and far to the east.

It takes 27 rather than 15 minutes to Paddington, but it's also half the price of the Heathrow Express.

It's the purple edged line: https://content.tfl.gov.uk/london-rail-and-tube-services-map...
I'm trying to finish off a final mix of a weird album. It's a 36 minute composition made from recordings done over 2023/24. It is all rotary magnetic bow on electroduochord and metal wire rack shelving, and will be on Bandcamp soon. https://stefanpowell.bandcamp.com/
PNG masks to achieve this effect is definitely a cure that is worse than the disease.
If this is true some of it may have been funded by the US, so it makes both countries look bad.
They were 6 months behind US frontier until deepseek r1.

Now maybe 4? It's hard to say.
So there’s a new president and the main intelligence agency changes its position radically in alignment with the new government. Why should we be confident in any other claim they made in the past?
I think it would be better to do a split panel so you could see the source and the end result side by side. This would eliminate the need for somehow showing the video and the source in the same place. You could even include the shadow DOM trees for a full explanation of how the browser renders complex tags like video.
> Are vehicles really faster than them being at the BART station on foot?

So you're sure you can create a deployment plan that will have the correct amount of officers on station at all times? What if they need backup? What if two incidents happen at once?

> their existing policies are not a deterrent.

I'm sure their vehicle strategy has little to do with deterrence. Or are you suggesting this is the _reason_ why there is more crime?

> instead of on train cars where the crimes are happening.

Crimes also happen on the platform, the turnstiles, and the curtilage. I get that people want to be "mad the vehicles exist" but this is not sensible.
> The agency made its new assessment with “low confidence,” which means the intelligence behind it is fragmentary and incomplete.

I do believe that's all one really needs to know about this shift in their thinking. In other words: it's really far from certain.

---

One thing that is, however, quite certain: there are very real political reasons to favor one theory or another. For example, Sen. Tom Cotton is quoted as saying:

> “Now the most important thing is to make China pay for unleashing a plague on the world,” Mr. Cotton said.

So... I'm not certain this is a development worth trusting. Maybe it really did originate from a lab! But the real goal of the constant back-and-forth over where it came from is not about finding the truth; that much seems quite obvious to me.
the title is misleading, this is specific to investigations regarding the now rescinded executive order: "Executive Order 11246 requires affirmative action and prohibits federal contractors from discriminating on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin. Contractors also are prohibited from discriminating against applicants or employees because they inquire about, discuss, or disclose their compensation or that of others, subject to certain limitations."
Poll: What is your preferred Search Engine?
Searx(ng)
Ecosia
Saying COVID-19 leaked from a lab with zero evidence is different than waiting for evidence and then saying it leaked from a lab.
The CEO of webshit believes modern software development is synonymous with webshit. Quelle surprise.
It's subtle. Zoom to the middle of the sample image and compare (the vertical part of) the curve of the two top corners. You will notice like... 5 pixels of difference, then the curve gets aliased in the smooth version. I would like to see it in an actual site though.
This may be the worst analogy that I've ever heard in my life.

Does this guy run a web hosting company or something?

The Linux kernel runs operating systems and actual hardware.

React is used to display some check boxes and charts on the screen.

Like it is not even close.

Goes to show how little web devs in general understand software that they make tweets like these.
Oh, my experience was different. Got the model through ollama. I'm quite impressed how they managed to bake in the censorship. It's actually quite open about it. I guess censorship doesnt have as bad a rep in china as it has here? So it seems to me that's one of the main achievements of this model. Also another finger to anyone who said they can't publish their models cause of ethical reasons. Deepseek demonstrated clearly that you can have an open model that is annoyingly responsible to the point of being useless.
They seem to have gone for 'add a metric for everything.

'Provider Urgency (U): Amber'

That tells me squat.
You haven't been paying attention. This guy famously called a diver a pedophile because he insulted his half-baked submarine idea. That was 7 years ago.

Also, if you were really an investor ready to commit large amounts of money, you could do a basic amount of research and talk to people that have worked with Elon. I've known people that have worked for him going back over a decade and they have all had horrible things to say about him.
To me multiplayer RA is like the Quake 1 of RTS, it's fast, chaotic and exciting, and OpenRA makes it trivial to get running, with some balancing and quality of life adjustments compared to the original.

It would be awesome if someone managed to figure out something similar for Populous: The Beginning, which is a fantastic solo RTS and arguably even more chaotic than RA so multiplayer isn't as cleanly skill based as is common in the RTS genre. I can run it through Wine but it's always a bit messy to install on a new machine.
IMO the you cannot fail by investing in compute. If it turns out you only need 1/1000th of the compute to train and or run your models, great! Now you can spend that compute on inference that solves actual problems humans have.

o3 $4k compute spend per task made it pretty clear that once we reach AGI inference is going to be the majority of spend. We'll spend compute getting AI to cure cancer or improve itself rather than just training at chatbot that helps students cheat on their exams. The more compute you have, the more problems you can solve faster, the bigger your advantage, especially if/when recursive self improvement kicks off, efficiency improvements only widen this gap
AUM isn't a good proxy for quantitative hedge fund performance, many strategies are quite profitable and don't scale with AUM. For what it's worth, they seemed to have some excellent returns for many years for any market, let alone the difficult Chinese markets.
Well dude. We just don't know.
Ask HN: How are you optimising your Datadog costs?
I would absolutely love to see the same sort of project for aoe2. There's OpenAge, but it seems like they're still pretty far from something playable.
It was malinformation. Whether it is misinformation or not is irrelevant.
For me it is just the potential for endless meta discussion about moderating.

I agree that we choose one way or another, but putting that on you to pick between a bunch and then wonder what the difference is. It's a sorta "back end as a feature" but that is endless that is also a little disconnected from the experience.

I'm not explaining it well, it just seems like "more" work to some extent.
Looks like the derivative of the angle is continuous.

When you drive around a street corner in a car, you start by turning the wheel to turn a little, then more, then less, then you drive straight again. This looks like that kind of curve.
Agree, chuck parliament and number 10 in a office building in Leeds or something. It really would be transformational, but will it happen? Not a hope in hell.
According to chatgpt, the max speed is higher than what you stated and is 155mph before needing to slow down.
I don't know, for the past few years Elon has seemed more passionete about trolling on Twitter than literally anything else in the world. One of the first changes after the purchase was to make it so that his tweets got special rules so they show up to everyone whether they like it or not. He currently posts on it a gazillion times per day.

Maybe in the future his attention will drift elsewhere, in which case yeah he'll let the company die without a second thought, but we don't seem to be anywhere near that point these days.
That is quite the journey. I find I don't have the patience these days to go quite so far down the rabbit hole as the author does, but I resonate with that feeling of accomplishment in knowing something versus just thinking you know something.
Thanks for pointing that out! It seems this issue is related to how the in-IDE plugin marketplace search is implemented. For some reason, searching for "Actionate" doesn't return the expected result, but if you search for "Actionat" (without the final "e"), the plugin does show up.

(example here: https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/0427c04b-c941-430...)

We’re looking into this and will reach out to JetBrains to better understand the search behavior. In the meantime, you can also find Actionate directly on the JetBrains Marketplace.

Thanks again for bringing this to our attention—we really appreciate it!
Adding PHP to your stack in order to drop a column from a result is a WILD decision.
I have to say, I really love the title :)
When I was traveling a lot that would have seemed like way more logistics than I would have wanted to deal with--and I doubt my company would have covered. Presumably if you're traveling on business you're in the location for some other reason than working on your computer for most of the day.
Correct me if I'm wrong but if Chinese can produce the same quality at %99 discount, then the supposed $500B investment is actually worth $5B. Isn't that the kind wrong investment that can break nations?

Edit: Just to clarify, I don't imply that this is public money to be spent. It will commission $500B worth of human and material resources for 5 years that can be much more productive if used for something else - i.e. high speed rail network instead of a machine that Chinese built for $5B.
These schemes were used by high-profile celebs, not ordinary IT contractors. Most of the cases brought up by HMRC related to contracting are against umbrella companies or people who tried to be "clever" on a much smaller scale, certainly not trying to avoid paying hundreds of thousands or millions of pounds in tax.
Are you sure you want to get into everything else? Because I could've sworn we just had a major controversy with Vivek Ramaswamy running his mouth about the supposed laziness of American workers to justify racial discrimination against them through mass hiring of H1B workers... a stance so obviously wrong it forced his exit from the Trump administration. He certainly wasn't referring to people employed producing "cheap consumer goods", and there's nothing natural about the shift to the use of H1B labor. Just to be clear, though: This phenomenon is not unique to the United States. Imperialists everywhere try to pit one people against another to maintain power and extract maximum value for minimum input. Just once I'd like the bourgeoisie-adjacent to acknowledge political reality.
This may be a situation where you classify the parameters and create a handful of queries that include or exclude each class.

The same way we always have a distinct query for selecting by ID, you have one with just username, one with demographics, one with account age or activity ranges, and then C(3,2) combinations of categories.
> WHERE id = $1

>It's worth noting that this approach has significant dangers for execution performance

This extra WHERE id=$1 clause makes it behave different from the slow examples you cited from the Markus Winand blog. The query planner should notice that id column is a selective index with high cardinality (and may even be the unique ids primary key). The query optimizer can filter on id to return a single row before the dynamic NULL checks of $2,$3,$4 to avoid a full-table scan.

The crucial difference is the id clause doesn't have an extra "OR id IS NULL" or "$1 IS NULL" -- like the blog examples.
That place is crawling with cops from the gutter to the street lights.
I mean, in C++ (17? 20? Whenever constexpr was introduced) it's totally possible to create a library that allows you to build a SQL query via the language's string concatenation libraries/etc., but only allows you to do it with static strings unless you use ~shenanigans. (C++ unfortunately always allows ~shenanigans...)

I guess you do wind up needing to potentially re-implement some basic things (or I guess more complex, if you want format string support too). But for basic string concatenation & interpolation, it's reasonable.

That's a pretty useful way to get basic string concatenation while also preventing it from creating opportunities for SQL injection.

For example, you have a class that requires a constexpr input & can be appended to/concatenated/etc.:

SqlStringPart(constexpr ...)

operator+(SqlStringPart ...)

(so on)

And you have a Query API that only takes SQL string expressions that are built out of compile time constants + parameters:

SqlQuery(SqlStringPart ..., Parameters ...);

This doesn't solve the problem mentioned in the article around pagination & memory usage, but at least it avoids letting someone run arbitrary SQL on your database.
Hah, that is interesting. What a frustrating quirk/bug with the search.
But we can say it leaked from wet market without evidence!
Well it depends because they added the Grand Central line so that you can get from the middle of Manhattan to Queens fairly quickly as Grand Central stop at Jamaica station on the Long Island railroad which is a hack to getting to JFK without having to use the Subway.
I think the issue falls into the problem of getting reliable information out of China.

Because of a lack of access and free speech it's hard to get verifiable evidence to it's origin being from a lab leak or a market in either direction.

Unfortunately, because of that lack of access mistrust and conspiracy theories spread like wild fires.

It's important with science to understand that there is what happened or what is observed and to separate that away from wishful thinking or feelings.
Because of the context of the discussion we were having.
1400 articles, spanning math to medicine to biology to archeology and more…this is a tiny sip of an ocean of unknowns.
May want to have a look at the linked count again “BBOR”:

https://api.oh.dddddddddzzzz.org/github.com/dddddddddzzzz/Op...

https://emojipedia.org/zero-width-joiner
It means if you use it then it’ll work fine but younger people will frown at you.
Larry Ellison: vast AI surveillance can ensure citizens are on best behavior (2024)
Eh? Not really a rebuttal, but more of a hopeless extension that

1. Smart and GTD is good enough hiring criteria

2. but for Unicorns™, you need to source and hire hyper-productive visionaries who nurture the right culture on top of having #1

And he says you get #2 by luck or polling friends for the alpha 10x developers they know.

Not very actionable, but hard to disagree that it seems to be a common denominator.
Censoring views that it came from a lab leak with zero evidence isn't any better. In fact I remember being lied to by major news outlets at the time saying that the evidence points to a non lab origin.
When I see an ad for a hybrid role that pays £200 pd inside IR35 I know it is designed to "prove" that there are no suitable candidates interested in it in the UK.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/11/us/politics/covid-lab-lea... and https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/27/media/covid-19-origins-lab-le...

In short a few prominent people claimed it was racist to suggest that China's research or wet market contributed to the origins of COVID. They were mistaken but with the highly politicized environment, it helped distort opinions at a critical time. The claims of racism have since been demonstrated to be at least partly false (that is, there is a legitimate case to be made that China's researchers or wet market did contribute to the origin of COVID, and that China's leadership hid most of the evidence that would be used to make a case).
Come on man, let them have their well deserved win as a team.