skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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I've had a VPS with Ubuntu/Debian since 2008, so like 16 years now ... I still use it, but not for anything I actually want to be up all the time

Over time I found the "set and forget" nature of shared hosting a lot more reliable

That might just be me, but I don't think so. I've noticed A TON of link rot due to "I set up a VPS, and wrote one or two good blog posts last year. But now I am doing other things, and the VPS rotted". I think it's mainly monitoring, and putting other stuff on the VPS that's unrelated to the blog

For a blog, I'd use Github pages before a VPS. But as mentioned, that only handles static sites, and scripting is useful (even for blogs)
I'm mocking the idea of a consistent answer. Of course you can be consistent, but you'll wind up with a bunch of rules that are stupid.

Do we make it illegal to pretend Santa is a real person? Do you see? It's exactly the same thing.

But I don't think that's a good idea, about Santa. OChatbots disclosing they're bots makes sense, but not because it's logical or whatever. And I'm not even sure if it makes sense to do in the context of entertainment, where suspending disbelief is common.
The IRS has been investigating for years and secured at least 800 indictments.. I wonder if they’ll be defunded like all of the other arbitrary and self-destructive cuts across the government.

https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs-criminal-investigation-rele...
> it's easy to stop using Facebook. It's a lot harder to stop using Google or Amazon.

Not in my country, where Facebook owns basically the entire messaging space through Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp. I have been able to switch my default search engine, email provider, mobile OS, office suite, etc. from Google no problem, but the network effect has been too strong to get most of my friends out of Meta's ad network. It doesn't help that most groups and basically all events are organized through there.

The only real messaging alternative with significant adoption at this point seems to be Telegram, which I cannot support for numerous reasons, primarily for the founder selling the entire user base of vkontakte to an authoritarian state.
Sure, I just want a way to find schools using that method

I’m a fan of the sudbury model myself
As far as I can tell, “Montessori” is just a mechanism for price discrimination, like “organic”.

We’ve gone out with multiple sets of parents who send their kids to Montessori labeled schools, and they whip out iPhones and iPads to placate at the first sign of trouble.

Not to mention that I can’t figure out what a Montessori school does differently anyway, other than charge a higher tuition, thereby selecting for a group of kids with higher socioeconomic status parents.
I’d posit that $3.5m is a drop in the bucket when compared to the $600 _billion_ budget of the program itself. Linking to a law firm blog isn’t doing any favors if you’re trying to present yourself as objective here.
It seems disingenuous and pretty transparently ideologically motivated to try and make a shaky connection to pastor abuse, truthfully I think you can do better.
Pixar-style dancing lamp hints at Apple's future home robot
I think low income family parents have to work more, sometimes multiple jobs to pay the bills so the kids end up with more screen time because maybe they have someone else watching them or they're alone depending on the age. If someone else is watching them it's easy to just give the kid a screen and they're not as concerned as the parents about the long term effects.

Also if you're a kid in a low income area where maybe it's not safe to go play outside or you need constant supervision to be safe you don't go out much and therefore screens become the default indoor play. My kids have a big backyard they can go out and ride bikes around and swingset and spaces to dig and play and get dirty in the backyard because I make enough to buy a house like that.
I don't get your comment. You are saying immigration is the solution to more babies because we haven't figured out yet how to make the local populace make more babies? That doesn't hold. You can't just say there is no solution to a problem because a solution hasn't been found yet.
It’s also pretty easy to stop using Google - Kagi and proton will get you 70% of the way there
I have to imagine the so-to-be IBMers aren’t happy. Among other things, they’re now stuck with IBM’s BS once a year 401k match.
Staying up to date with the latest in IT, cybersecurity, and system administration can be a challenge, especially with a packed schedule. Podcasts offer a great way to stay informed while commuting, scripting, or handling routine tasks.

We recently compiled a list of the 5 Best Spotify Podcasts for System Administrators in 2025, covering topics like automation, cloud computing, and security.

But we’d love to hear from the HN community—what are your go-to podcasts as a sys admin? Whether it’s deep technical dives, industry news, or casual discussions on IT life, drop your recommendations!
I found a painting company in my area that received $91,115.00 wtf...
The federal government is not a unitary organization. It's logically consistent to both not like the president and want congress to pass privacy laws.
At least astrology has some interesting historical background.

That is the only redeeming quality of any of them, however.
TIL I investment firms received loans. Just noticed one here in Boulder.
By the way, on dreams: Doesn't the existence of dreams mean that consciousness is like a subprogram in the brain that is usually "plugged in" to reality (or rather some rendering of reality done by the rest of the brain) but the rest of the brain can in fact simulate other scenarios for the consciousness to plug into?

Also I think split brain experiments basically support that you can split a consciousness into two tbh...

Anyways obviously above is speculation
A QML app can be compiled to C++ and reap the exact same benefits with the right configurations when compiling Qt from source.
Musk is using similar cherry-picked examples to justify shutting down USAID.
That one is a bit difficult as PNG is a raster format - has pixels, while SVG is a vector format - has lines and shapes drawn with mathematical formulas. SVG can be scaled to any resolution and look the same. SVG to PNG is easy, while PNG to SVG is very difficult.

Most online converters will only work with black and white images where you can use the change from black to white to detect the outlines. I have seen some new AI models that can trace over the pixel image too.
Great message. I wish the instructions were even more succinct and direct.
Is it possible that you are confusing the feeling of the dream with the content of the dream? For example can you remember and write down any of these jokes? Do they make any sense outside of the dream?

The dream may give you the feeling that someone is telling you a joke, and the feeling that makes you laugh, without the actual joke existing as a real structured text joke.
I think you're arguing against a position that not many people here hold - people aren't worried about bankruptcy so much as inflation.

My understanding is that the reason the USD is unusually resistant to inflation is that there's artificially high demand due to international demand for the currency as the global reserve currency.

But yeah, if that effect weakens (and the BRICS are trying to challenge the USD as reserve currency), then I think you'll see the USD weaken/inflation spike in response to large deficits.
“I went over it with him in detail, and he agreed that we should shut it down,” Musk said.

“And I actually checked with him a few times [and] said ‘are you sure?’” The answer was yes, he said.

“And so we’re shutting it down,” Musk said.
one issue is that having a good generative model is unavoidable as a component for lots of good, useful tasks. like translation, transcription, etc.

but then of course if you have a generative model, you can use it to generate stuff.
Is it a hot take to believe that no humans are infallible and that only languages with memory safe guarantees can offer the kind of safety the author seeks? With the advent of rust, c and c++ programmers can no longer argue that the performance tradeoff is worth giving up safety.

There are, of course, other good reasons to choose c and c++ over rust. And of course rust has its own warts. just pointing out that performance and memory safety are not necessarily mutually exclusive
The iPhone uses an infrared 3D camera and array of infrared dots. It works fine in the dark. I just tried it.
> Should be obvious most people would share my stance also.

Yes. Most people like you share your point of view. Odd that.

> So why, then?

Check your hoistory, that appears to be the first time you haven't weighed in with nothing but your PoV, preconception, and desire to impose your conclusions as the motivations of others.

Congratulations. You're evolving.

> I don't try to stand out by being contrarian or via other semantic scheming.

But you assume others do? And that makes sense to you. Okay ...

> It's confusing to at the least ESL speakers ...

Is it? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42969214 suggest that not all ESL folk think that way.

> but I was just trying to assume good faith

There's been no sign of good faith and assuming the best from your comments since the first one (that appears edited) that patronisingly informed me that I should conform to your way of writing English.

> It's not useful, though - it's harmful.

Who is bleeding?

> It creates ambiguity

Again, what ambiguity? What country did you think that I was referring to?
I see here a Hailo SBC in Amazon-DE.
Any experience with this in the software side of things? Is the accelerator supported?
What about this makes you feel ashamed to work at a startup?
The right federal privacy laws would protect people regardless of the flavor of the 4 years if they're actually enshrined in law and would take something other than an executive order to undo.
It's hard not to give a smartphone to a kid if you have to work or just can't spend a lot of time with the kid. Kids are demanding of time and attention. So either you have enough time or you pay someone to play with your kid or you have to endure a lot of chaos a kid without a smartphone and a lot of time without attention can do (from screaming and crying to wreaking havoc in your household). Or you give them smartphone and they keep quiet and still and you can do what you need to do.
I trust the Federal government, if it follows all the procedures with all the safeguards in place.
> From just a security perspective

Can you explain this part in more detail?
chatgpt does this for free
Static compilation is already available in a commercial product:
https://discourse.julialang.org/t/syslabcc-suzhou-tongyuans-... . https://github.com/Suzhou-Tongyuan/syslab-deploy .

EDIT: or 2 products: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42962548
Marketing executives often have it as one of their KPI.

Clearly the less fuzzy way to define it is "How many people have you recommended this product/service to in the last n months?" not "Would you, if asked?"

Also, whether customers talk to each other (directly, privately) is not the only thing, there are online reviews, resources like HN, etc. And it's always hard to tell what's compensated or not, e.g. Snowflake's "grassroots" testimonial campaign on LinkedIn, testimonials etc., with the huge budget.
One of the most under appreciated things about the JVM is its well-defined memory model.
I feel like only a few years ago the EFF was a non-partisan organization but for the last year every article of theirs I read has a distinctly American progressive perspective. Anyone know what’s behind the change?

I’m struck by the complaint about loosening moderation, right next to a complaint about censorship. It’s a very unprincipled take from an org I used to respect.
The Path to Freedom
Dogfooding is still alive in companies like Microsoft; they just ignore all the feedback. There have been numerous comments about that by its employees in HN threads here. I propose that process be called "dogshitting" instead.
We're a long way from those limits. The limiting factor for tall buildings is elevators: The taller the building, the greater a percentage of the floor space gets taken up by elevator shafts. At some point so much space gets used by elevators that there's not enough rentable space left to make the building economically worthwhile.
Caity Weaver's been great at least since her days at Gawker.
That’s strange. Somehow my iPhone 16 failed more than half of times in the dark. I have to turn on the lights or bright up the screen to unlock.
>and the people who really needed the help often got stiffed.

Just one anecdata, but we (family business) were "people who really needed the help" and got approved for PPP, both times. You needed to be fairly timely on applying because of the absurd demand, though.

We had to file paperwork including our payroll, income/loss sheets and more with our bank (not SBA) who actually did most of the groundwork because any PPP loan not forgiven is on the bank's dime.
The online shop or AWS?
To the founders: Would love to share my audio files with my team before we commit to a payment plan. Is there anyway to share audio files I've generated?

Our whole team is on Elevenlabs and a switch is significant work, but I think the results are worth it! Super awesome work!
Gold-Medalist Performance in Solving Olympiad Geometry with AlphaGeometry2
That’s a little like worrying about the roof replacement your house will desperately need in a decade, meanwhile there’s a guy trying to burn your house down right now. Let’s put the fire out, then we can worry about the roof.
Google is more than just a search engine for many people... Shared calendars, documents, maps, mail, mobile OS, browser, etc.
Feature Request: I really wish there was a button to use the zip code where I'm looking on the map. I don't have zip codes memorized. So I see a bunch of pins around the zip code of my childhood home and then the rest of the map is blank. My only option is to open google maps in another window and copy paste zip codes back and forth. Cool website though - despite the effort to navigate I'm finding a lot out.
That’s because Montessori is something that any school or daycare can call themselves, regardless of whether they adhere to the teaching philosophy or not. You need to look at just the set of schools that are AMS or AMI accredited.
I saw one address where it looked like every family member got a loan. Pretty crazy.
I years ago read The Economist, and found a characterization of "Fleet Street cocktail party" useful for anticipating distributions of expertise and dysfunction across topics.

I've not read it regularly, but some suggest the Financial Times.[1][2]

The NYT... sigh. "All the foreign bureaus have closed" (geographic and topical; so superficial, confused, and pre-framed); and "correctness is a local property attained by wordsmithing" - an apparent belief that bad reporting can be "fixed" by local tweaks, so sentences in isolation aren't utterly wrong, even if most readers without overriding expertise will still be left badly misled. After all, it's "news" not analysis. My daily reminder that "Journalism hasn't yet had the 'we suck at this' epiphany which sets up a field's many-decade struggle towards high reliability organization" - we know what a safety/reliability culture looks like, and journalism very isn't it.

[1] https://www.cjr.org/special_report/why-the-left-cant-stand-t... [2] https://www.ft.com/ https://news.google.com/search?q=financial%20times&hl=en-US&...
Did you mean Steiner?
There is no central database of printer->owner mapping.

There is not even a per-vendor database of printer->owner mapping.

To chase this kind of evidence a detective will have to a) find a technie to decode the dots for them, b) contact the printer manufacturer and ask if they can map a serial number to a retailer. c) contact the retailer to ask if they can map a serial number to a store. d) IF the store keeps a track of who buys which serial number, they can look that up, but otherwise e) ask for a rough data range of when that printer serial # was sold (query restock levels, etc, this MAY be doable via the retailer corporate level. and f) examine store CCTV if the printer was purchased within the X months that the store keeps their footage for.

It's at best a 3 day job, but in reality it will take a week for all the back-and-forthing with the various contacts, and there's a very very good chance that any one, or all, of the contacts will want a warrant.

It's not happening for a trivial 'someone posted a poster criticizing immigration policy', it might happen for a kidnapping (possibly if it's someone famous), particularly heinous CSAM user or rape, almost certainly for a murder or direct child abuse, and definitely for serial killers.

And all it takes for the whole week to be pointless is the criminal to buy a printer from a yard sale or somewhere else where cash can be used to buy a used printer.
What happens if you've never been a Meta user? I have never had any kind of business relationship with Meta (so far as I know), and have never agreed to any contract or terms of service. What can I do, under US law, to minimize what they store about me and my behavior, or at least keep tabs on them?
I don’t really see how Musk or his actions regarding USAID has any connection at all to my comment, or to Catholic PPP loans, truthfully.
Essentially it says few customers will move the needle on bringing you new business, only the ones who rave wildly about you. Hence, "Customer obsession" as Amazon's Bezos used to put it.

Since NPS and changes in NPS is measured by surveys, not attributing individual sales, it's a KPI that's gameable (especially when used on its own); near-impossible to tell whether "improving" NPS in some existing-customer segment from '5' to '7' results in anything tangible. On the other hand you can actually measure sales and attribute which channel they came from.
> I thought we actually ran a surplus for a year or two?

Four; federal fiscal years 1998-2001, had a federal surplus, per OMB figures: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYFSD

But, through that entire period (almost every quarter, and definitely every year) the federal debt still increased: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GFDEBTN

So, not really a demonstrated playbook to reduce the debt.

OTOH, for a longer period in the 1990 (starting about 1995), in the last half of the long and strong 1990s expansion, the arguably more important debt: GDP ratio was going down. The 2010s might have seen something similar -- it had roughly, though more noisily than in the 1990s, plateaud before the Trump tax cuts, and might have dropped even with similar spending patterns without them.

But, yeah, the secret there is largely strong economic expansion, though you can still screw it up on the fiscal policy side.
So, it turns out "Spreadsheet Is All You Need"
I can, yes. I'm lucid enough after waking up to confirm that they're sometimes pretty good jokes, and very unlike what I'd come up with when awake. They're not comedy gold, I'm not a comedian, but they're but decent for me - and they would fall flat if you knew in advance how the setup was going to land.

I'm aware of the possibility you're hinting at; it's my default expectation for a dream to feel sensible but not be sensible. Like dreaming that I can speak Spanish fluently, but when I wake up I realize that none of those were real words. It's when this doesn't happen that I feel so amazed: when I wake up and reflect and it still feels like there must have been someone else in there with me, whose moves I was unable to introspect, but they were nonetheless coherent.
I think Heinlein ideologically is somewhat a fellow traveler with Musk and Thiel types.
Half of the people I know in finance don't actually have finance degrees. Hell, half the people I know in tech don't have computer science / engineering / software engineering degrees.

It makes total sense why he was hired. He's clearly not afraid to make a hard choice and he's more than willing to live with the potential consequences. This indicates an appetite for risk that most people are simply unwilling to tolerate.

Penny's goal wasn't to kill Neely, it was to subdue him, but like most people who aren't used to being made to obey law and order, he fought and ended up killing himself because of it.

Yeah, the boy has a tragic story. No doubt about that. But like a lot of homeless mentally ill people, the help is there if you want it. And that's the problem. Before Republicans gutted mental health funding in this country, you were getting help whether you wanted it or not. Now you can "choose" to be a drag on society - with few consequences. We need to go back to saying, "You can choose to take your medicine(s) and be a functioning member of society or you can go hang out with Nurse Ratched all day. Your choice."
As an INTP Virgo who's unlikely to recommend products to your friends or colleagues, you would say that.
That doesn't really settle it, just dismiss the question. The submarine analogy could be interpreted to support either conclusion.
probably Heart of Darkness

maybe also Yukio Mishima's tetralogy
I don't think they've moved at all. It's more that the Overton window fell off a cliff about 10 years ago.

They've always been about protecting privacy and liberty, just not the liberty to bully and harass people.
Do you consider binary code patterns that do exactly the same thing except for using different register(s) to be the same or different instructions?

For example, on RISC-V `sub Rd,Rs1,Rs2` has no immediate data or addresses but can have 32768 different results on the machine state (less the 1024 with Rd = x0, and I guess the same number with Rs1 = Rs2)
Trump is neither the government, nor is he "the laws", nor allowed to make laws.

https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/education/three-branches/what-...
The purpose of running the money through employers via PPP was to ensure the socioeconomic rankings didn’t change, so that employees still needed their employers.

Giving everyone more cash with no strings attached would have given them more negotiating power against employers.
I pay 78 cents an hour to host Llama.
Yes iPhone autocomplete fail, ty.
i certainly prefer ugly UIs, that's why we are here instead of reddit after all.
Jordan Neely killed himself, like what happens in a lot of these cases. People think they can act any way they want in public and then are shocked when someone bigger, stronger, meaner, and tougher comes along and makes them obey the rules of decent society and the laws of the land.

And despite what people think, that isn't the function of police. Police were created to protect the merchant class and their businesses.

In times long past, when everyone went heeled, you acted politely or you got yourself shot to death for being a jackass. This is why so-called "civilized" people have such bad manners... because they don't run the risk of someone cracking their skull wide open when they mouth off, much less actually threaten innocent people just trying to ride home on the subway.
The problem with MBTI is that reduces a continuum to a binary for each of the letters. IIRC, the basis for what each pair of letters means isn't any worse than any other personality test.

Astrology isn't about stars. It's about cold reading if done in person, and about the art of writing descriptions that sound specific but actually apply to pretty much everyone.

NPS is a way to reduce a histogram to a scalar.