skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Only it's not smart to trust an untrustworthy thing for such matters. Better to know of capabilities and judge for yourself. Also, it'd be dumb to push wholly disagreeable propaganda, so cherry-picking from an infinite set doesn't disprove aims of propaganda.
People can move to other platforms. But since its basically 2-3 large ones that dominate the whole online ad market, you are probably right.

I think its more a question of letting small businesses know, that it can become a trap if they over rely on these Platforms for sales.
Its not complete invulnerability. Instead, it is merely accepting that these methods might increase costs, like a little bit, but they don't cause the whole thing to explode.

The idea that a couple bad faith actions can destroy a 100 billion dollar company, is the extraordinary claim that requires extraordinary evidence.

Sure, bad actors can do a little damage. Just like bad actors can do DDoS attempts against Google. And that will cause a little damage. But mostly Google wins. Same thing applies to these AI companies.

> Also I don't get the narcissism part

The narcissism is the idea that your tiny website is going to destroy a 100 billion dollar company. It won't. They'll figure it out.
Also nice that people you interact with online or old friends who look you up, can see some of the stuff you do. Without having to resort to Facebook.

Whether that's hobbies, a home renovation project, a public presentation you did at work, a life event (wedding, kids, etc).
In theory, you could be right. In practice, it's hard to make the math come out that way.

Basic facts: GDP is how much value a country produces. It is also close to how much it consumes, aside from some marginal adjustments, which I doubt have changed much over this decade.

If income distribution had changed drastically, it could still be true that average people didn't see any of that 50% increase, but I don't see any signs of change on such dramatic scale.

So yes, I do think the typical individual has experienced a 50% improvement in their income.

For "well being", the change is probably much smaller. Happiness doesn't come from money...
> That Samsung cap he quoted is about 1 or 2 cents in volume from Digikey or Mouser. That cheap Chinese quote means that they are probably substituting inferior parts.

No, they aren't. LCSC is a very reputable distributor that has lower margins by having much cheaper labor and having absolutely insane economies of scale.
https://zed.dev/blog/how-is-deepseek-r1-for-coding#running-d... is one option
That sounds like the "China can only produce cheap knockoffs, they can't produce anything new" from the early 2000s, or the "Japan is never going to catch up with American chipmakers" of the 1960s-1970s.

Indian people aren't stupid. There's literally a billion of them, and we've spend the last twenty years outsourcing an awful lot of work to them. If you don't see them as a potential future threat, you have already lost.
I don't drink coffee because I think it tastes gross, but I've certainly had my fair share of caffeine from energy drinks and Diet Coke.

I'm pretty convinced that caffeine masked the more obvious symptoms of sleep apnea for most of my adult life. I think I was getting very bad sleep but since I had always drunk lots of Diet Coke I was able to ignore the symptoms.

I've gotten treatment for my sleep apnea (using the mouthpiece), and I'm caffeine free now, so I think I'm getting better sleep, but who the hell knows what kind of brain damage I have ended up with because I didn't take it seriously.
Who said they don't know? The same way companies know about hackers, it doesn't mean nothing ever gets hacked
I’m curious, how many people in your business were elected to their jobs?

Do you think people should be electing the ATC agents?

Also, what’s your opinion about the entire cabinet, Elon Musk, and the likes, all of whom are also unelected?
I’m this but the problem sometimes is I get overwhelmed by the stuff I’m working on. But honestly I wouldn’t do it any other way
Theoretically, can't people make their own self signed certificates (I assume Windows allows that for development)
If you think a recording of ATC saying 'keep an eye out for that plane coming in to land' is going to end speculation then you have no understanding of how people behave on social media. For some reason people are upset about me pointing out the reality that this will generate lots of conspiracy theories. I invite you to consider this example of a prominent public figure engaging in exactly the sort of speculation I described.

https://bsky.app/profile/yasharali.bsky.social/post/3lgwrcvz...
Blockchains are a fantastic way to run things slowly ;-) More seriously: Making crypto fast does sound like a fun technical challenge, but well beyond what our finance/gov/cyber/ai etc customers want us to do.

For reference, our goal here is to run around 1 TB/s per server, and many times more when a beefier server. Same tech just landed at spot #3 on the graph 500 on its first try.

To go even bigger & faster, we are looking for ~phd intern fellows to run on more than one server, if that's your thing: OSS GPU AI fellowship @ https://www.graphistry.com/careers

The flight perspective aligns with what we're doing. We skip the duckdb CPU indirections (why drink through a long twirly straw?) and go straight to arrow on GPU RAM. For our other work, if duckdb does gives reasonable transactional guarantees here, that's interesting... hence my (in earnest) original question. AFAICT, the answers are resting on operational answers & docs that don't connect to how we normally talk about databases giving you answers on consistent vs inconsistent views of data.
NASA's Asteroid Bennu Sample Reveals Mix of Life's Ingredients
There's not much to it: we wanted steadier income and our customers wanted more consistent updates but also perpetual licenses. This model was the natural conclusion. We tried it out with Sublime Merge and then brought it over with ST4.
Meanwhile, in Massachusetts...

https://news.mit.edu/2024/commonwealth-fusion-systems-unveil...
Overcoming Content Hoarding: Leveraging AI to Find Balance
Why don’t you identify all these easily found regulations then?

There’s a whole YIMBY movement, for example, that has identified specific regulations that are no longer valid and have made tremendous strides in proving and changing these regulations for almost universally better outcomes.

So where are all these specific regulations that are so terrible and the evidence that they are indeed net negatives.

I absolutely believe such regulations exist. But that’s not what these people care about. They simply care about trashing the govt to make it easier to drown, otherwise they would actually act like the YIMBY movement and identify specific regulations and work on changing those.
as if openai is not an (inter)national security risk
If we want to exaggerate issues with each mode of transport, I prefer getting to my destination without getting stabbed, pushed onto the tracks, getting my nostrils assaulted by the smell of bodily fluids, having my ears assaulted by the train in the tunnels (14th/union sq 456 especially), having my ears assaulted by a showtimer, or waiting 20 mins for a train at 3am
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42874301
Are they crying about their competitor training off their stuff, after having used the whole of the web to train their own stuff?
I really dislike people calling it a bug because the developer put it in there intentionally as a limitation.
This is at the top of my lunch time learning list. Not quite what I’ve been envisioning but it’s in the right direction. Thanks!
You are the one instigating the nerdfight
You're reading into it too much. It wasn't dismissive.

And the framing of "3d" is a reasonable followup to the train comparison.
Discussion : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42874301
How would you recommend that appends to Parquet files be distributedly synchronized with zero trust?

Raft, Paxos, BFT, ... /? hnlog paxos ... this about "50 years later, is two-phase locking the best we can do?"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37712506

To have consensus about protocol revisions; To have data integrity and consensus about the merged sequence of data in database {rows, documents, named graphs, records,}.
Asus is from Taiwan, so that seems to be the least problematic one from this kind of a geopolitical perspective.

If you don't mind China then Lenovo is an obvious choice. But that would be hypocritical given what your wrote about the US

Europe stopped making computers decades ago. Some companies brand Clevo-made (also Taiwanese) Linux laptops in EU area though.
Well, if it wasn't, it certainly is now! ;)
Your logic is definitely sound for a hobbyist or prototyped, but the copper dissolved off a board in a commercial setting is recycled.

The article misses the real reason why pours were uncommon in the 80s, which is that people had to actually “tape out” the whole thing, and it was very annoying to do pours that way.
Right:

- "Since we saw it so briefly, our knowledge of its orbit is not that great"

- "[for example, in 2016 the data shows] a large chunk of sky where it could have been, and [the object is quite small."

- "Our knowledge of the diameter of this object is a bit fuzzy, because of surface reflectivity,"
have you ever been pee tested for work?
DCA is great to fly in and out of (I live in DC proper), as it's close, isn't hard to get to, and has a Metro (our subway) station right in front of the terminal, and the airport is fairly easy to navigate once you're in. Dulles now has a Metro station, but it's still far away from the terminal and it's hard to navigate, with gates very far away from the terminal; other than the Saarinen architecture, everything else about Dulles is awful. BWI is even further from most parts of DC; there's an AmTrak station where you can catch a bus, but pretty much you're driving an hour+ and it's in the middle of exurban hell.

DCA is challenging for flights, though, as the approach from upriver over the Potomac requires a sudden bank to the right just before landing and the runway's a bit short (tonight's flight was coming in from the southern approach). The Potomac also has a lot of helicopter traffic, between the military (including POTUS/VPOTUS), US Park Police, DC Police, and civilian flights. DCA's natural advantages have put the screws to Dulles the last 20 years, and Dulles's inability to not suck hasn't helped. As a result, people (including Members of Congress) want more flights out of DCA, so flight traffic has steadily increased. There were two near-misses last spring: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/faa-investigating-colli....

Tonight's crash seems like a colossal screwup by the helicopter. DCA is too popular for flight traffic to cease, but I wouldn't be surprised by further restricting the flight corridors and helicopter traffic, more funding/staffing for ATC, and maybe a small reduction in flights.
I prefer prose because it has better flow. Usually I have to specify this manually or the LLMs will happily generate bulletpoints and listicles.

More recently I prefer chain-of-thought prose to the final answer. I can trigger it with a prompt even on non-reasoning models and it's usually easier to follow.
What is "flight route 4"?
At least it's not an electron app.

Every single time I see an electron app, I wish there was a way to deelectronify it and just run it as a server.

Mainly I am bitter because I run an openbsd desktop and would have a pretty good chance at getting it to run if it were a normal web app. cross platform my elbow.
Check out "preact" if you haven't already [0]

[0] - https://preactjs.com/
Metabase is a BI tool focused on querying, reporting, and visualization, but it’s read-only. Mathesar is closer to Airtable, you get a spreadsheet-like UI, you can view and query data like Metabase, but you can also add and edit data or even modify the data model (if the permissions allow it). Unlike Metabase, Mathesar also lets you create a database from scratch rather than just connecting to an existing one.

Metabase adds an abstraction layer with concepts like questions, segments, and metrics, while Mathesar works directly with Postgres tables, schemas, and permissions. Mathesar is deeply integrated with Postgres, so it supports Postgres-native features like role and privilege based access control, which aren’t possible in products designed for multiple database backends.

I hope that helps!
Pissed. Almost everything I publish online is licensed, usually in a copy-left manner.

These companies are violating that agreement for their own gain, and respond to any pushback by invoking bogus legal arguments and ridiculous machine anthropomorphism. Brute force statistical analysis is not "learning."
?? I have no idea what this means.

Are you implying your reply would make the previous post become dismissive?
>Why not use HTML templates and Web Components, or something? I would have thought React would become like jQuery, after Web Components were implemented natively in browsers, just like jQuery's functionality was. But it's still very popular.

Us frontend devs are so lost in the framework sauce that there is a 5 year lag between what web api's can do and when it hits our slack channels.
Critical information for those that aren't aware: MLCC capacitance decreases with applied DC voltage, like, a whole fucking lot. [1]

Those 10uF/100V/X7R/1210 capacitors you love for your space constrained designs might only be 1uF at 48V. And it gets worse when choosing smaller package sizes.

This caught me completely off-guard. I've always thought an MLCC with a reasonable Dielectric at a given Capacitance would perform at least as well as an Electrolytic or Tantalum (minus fire hazards).

[1] (PDF) https://www.digikey.com/Site/Global/Layouts/DownloadPdf.ashx...
This is one of the things we're actively considering working on soon! It's mentioned in the "What's next?" section of our beta release announcement: https://mathesar.org/blog/2025/01/29/release-0-2-0
I can see this being very useful for many admin interfaces where some basic data must be managed by domain experts and UX and is not a priority. Many enterprise applications have such parts.

I wonder what the GPLv3 licensing means for such scenarios: Could people run Mathesar one microservice in an ensemble with proprietary services? Companies who don‘t want to open source their whole product might still be willing to upstream their fixes and improvements to the Mathesar component.
I hope I didnt come off as flippant or discounting your experience. I just more meant that its likely due to the differences that led you both to where you were, that the feeling is mutual. And that neither of you would be "wrong" for potentially feeling that way. Just different streams I suppose :)
It is unlikely Google will shut down GMail, but at an individual level you can lose access to it without any warning. I no longer trust it as my primary email.
It's pretty dang easy to misjudge distances and closing rates in a plane or helicopter, especially at night.
api-openai-us1.deepseek.com
For some reason regex just clicked for me very easily. Granted, I use regexr.com to check my work and tune it, but I find that the syntax just makes sense when I know what I want to find.
Old MFP that cant speak new SSL/TLS

Old java based application that doesnt respect all email flags and will often just close the connection even mid successful auth.

New server that lives in the cloud, but doesnt match up with the right protocols to send email out of Azure and into 365, so its punted down to on prem and back up to 365 just so Microsoft can sleep better at night.

These are the most common reasons I have seen.
There was an awful lot of complaining about rolling back regulations in the first Trump term, so maybe the administration does care about it.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/climate/trump-envir...

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/tracking-regulatory-chang...

^^ includes Trump's first term and Biden's term.
Are farms the future?

I could see an "AI appliance" like the old Google Search Appliance: A single rack unit with a single $1000 GPU would probably be enough to run a pretty-robust DeepSeek style product, sold as "100% self-contained and on-prem, so you can trust it with propriatery data".
Lots of manufacturers will add copper pours to your board unless you explicitly tell them not to, for electroplating reasons. Here's a link to a JLCPCB post about it: https://jlcpcb.com/blog/the-importance-of-copper-pour-in-emp...
It looks like the comment is posted to a wrong thread.

(FTR, the setup above is used for practical, mostly commercial programming; I've left academia without even finishing my post-grad study, decades ago.)
And in such an avoidable way, too.
They're already workshopping how to blame the impact on DEI.
Thanks for the insightful comment.

I have a question (disclaimer: reinforcement learning noob here):

Is there a risk of broken telephone with this?

Kinda like repeatedly compressing an already compressed image eventually leads to a fuzzy blur.

If that is the case then I’m curious how this is monitored and / or mitigated.
Pretty wild that humanity would only have four years to respond if when we measure it again in 2028 it's confirmed on track to hit Earth.

I doubt humanity could assemble quickly enough to divert it.
2004 Indian Earthquake was 9.1-magnitude, so it was about 150 megatons of TNT.
Yes, but the regular 2 terminal kind round to free at JLC on my hobby projects!
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The source is the training data and the code used to turn the training data _into_ the weights. Thus GP is correct, the weights are more akin to a binary from a traditional compiler.
If you ignore updates, you will get hacked. If you think a bad update is a problem, wait until you have to clean up a hack. It will cost more money and take more time than buying a new phone.

My advice is to buy phones from reputable manufacturers. I have had an iPhone for over 10 years and I have been very happy. The work well, last, and the performance is always good. My current goal is to keep my current phone 7 years. I will update it when Apple stops supplying updates.
I belive there are many low hanging fruits to improve the speed. In my project the code generation took more than 3 minutes. This is rather annoying if you have just renamed a field in a single “freezed“ class.
We could speed up this process by 3x by hacking together a script which greps all .dart files for the relevant annotations like “@freezed“ and then only feeds those to the build_runner via a on-the-fly-generated config file.
This is 100% my own anecdote but I believe it helps me with my autism.

And I believe that my relative who also has autism and never used cannabis in their life has been impeded by not using it. Just looking at us both now in our 40s, I have a stable career and they are a shut-in on disability.

A lot of things lead us here but at the end of the day I think cannabis gave me a release, a way to let things go, not fret too much.

I remember a meme from early 2000s where cb was represented as a pill that said "fukitol" and honestly that's how it works for me. If it wasn't for cb I would be hyperfocusing on things I can't do anything about.
> That said, if it took less time to write than it would take someone to read, it’s probably not worth writing.

Is that actually a possibility? I can't type faster than I can read.
> Nobody has said "well thank God my new MacBook has no ports" or "I'm glad my battery isn't removable". The support column for these decisions is empty.

No, but they do say "thank god my device survived being splashed by water" or "I'm happy this teeny tiny thin device doesn't leave an unsightly lump in my pocket"

The de-featuring isn't capricious -- it's a result of optimizing for different tradeoffs. While it would be best for the customers if multiple vendors managed to tile the pareto frontier of feature combinations, allowing us all to pick a product that serves us best, for the vendors bunching up around a single point is a more stable equilibrium.
More accurately more than 1 Billion. So, US population is their rounding error.
If they're training R1 on o1 output on the benchmarks - then I don't trust those benchmarks results for R1. It means the model is liable to be brittle, and they need to prove otherwise.
I write all of my code in english. Even if it's just for me. I am a native german speaker.

It just makes things A LOT easier in terms of debugging, researching, reading examples from documentation, etc etc. I don't even understand my (boomer) colleagues who straight up refuse to learn english and get angry when they can't find solutions with german search input
South China Sea: a visual guide to the key shoals, reefs and islands (2024)
CameraX – Improving camera usage in your Android App
A cynical take on many governments embracing weed is Soma [1].

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soma_(Brave_New_World)
> CPUs are clear case: they either boot up or they don't. If they do boot up, they are 100% ok.

Not necessarily. I had a Xeon once with a single bad core. It would boot fine and run for a while, but under heavy loads it would produce bad results, leading to a kernel panic due to a detected inconsistency. Disabling the defective core made the problem go away, so I eventually had the CPU replaced which fixed the issue.

I also had a Core i7 system recently that was experiencing inexplicable slowdowns while rendering video for a month or two. After replacing literally every other component in the system without resolving the problem, the CPU finally died and I was forced to replace it. The slowdowns went away immediately, so my conclusion was that the CPU was on the way out and that was causing the performance problems.
You can achieve the same thing using the arithmetic command in the command palette: `__import__('datetime').datetime.now().strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M")`.
Building a Broker-Free Real Estate Platform in India
Hey YC Community,

I’m working on a broker-free real estate platform in India to eliminate the middlemen who dominate the market and charge excessive commissions. The problem is huge – brokers inflate property prices, create fake demand, and take a cut from both buyers and sellers.

What We’re Building
A platform where people can buy, sell, or rent properties directly without needing a broker. Here’s how we plan to do it:

Verified Listings Only – Every property is document-checked and physically inspected by our team before going live.
No Broker Commissions – Owners list properties for a small, fixed fee (₹1000-₹2000) instead of paying months of rent in commissions.
Direct Contact Between Buyers & Owners – No middlemen, just transparent transactions.
Legal Assistance Built-In – Rent agreements, police verification, sale registration – all handled within the platform.
Where We’re Starting
We plan to launch in Delhi, Gurgaon, Noida, Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Kolkata, Kochi, and Pune, and expand from there.

Looking for Advice & Help
Tech Stack Recommendations – Best way to handle large-scale property listings & verifications?
Growth Strategies – How do we scale a marketplace that requires both property owners and buyers to adopt it?
Operational Challenges – What should we consider while setting up physical verification teams?
Would love to hear your thoughts! If you've worked on marketplaces, real estate, or scaling a platform in India, your insights would be super valuable.

Drop your feedback, concerns, or advice below – really appreciate it!
People who take UAP seriously still will speculate, especially since drones can relay audio from controllers to talk to ATC as if they were onboard. People on the internet speculate about things that are a lot more clear than this case.