skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It is financed almost entirely by crime. First through growing poppy that became heroin, then through enormous meth labs, and now also through crypto and digital scams.

> The GDP of the autonomous region exceeds the GDP of the recognized Myanmar territory, despite having something like 10% of the population.

Sounds like this region is focused on exporting services and luxury/discretionary goods. Published statistics put the rest of the country's exports as commodities and clothing. GDP per capitia goes way up when you can sell services and luxury goods, even if they're criminal services and illegal luxury goods.

[1] https://wits.worldbank.org/CountryProfile/en/Country/MMR/Yea...
Ask HN: What's the term for the way how platforms like Vercel and Fly.io work?
Both from the UI and the functionality perspective, I really like platforms like Vercel and Fly.io. It's this kind of "no frills" approach, where everything can be automated, the UI is clear and simplistic, and you can just do what you want with just a few clicks. Essentially the absolute opposite of how e.g. Azure works.

Is there a term for this specific kind of high-quality software engineering? Most importantly, something I can also look out for when searching for software engineers?

Because I'm noticing again and again how incredibly bad many programmers are, even at the most basic UI tasks. Many don't even get spelling or punctuation right, which my OCD brain just can't deal with. Vercel or Fly.io seem weirdly different: Everything's broken down to the absolute minimum, where they just get the job done while taking up as little of your time as possible.

Are there maybe even communities of programmers who don't want to develop any kind of software, but who want to develop software like that? Who have this eye for the details?
Second bird flu strain found in US dairy cattle, USDA says
Huh, mine letter / pillar boxes, as in nothing is stretched, it looks like watching any 16:9 video on the laptop, since it's displaying 16:9 content.

As someone who prefers taller aspect ratios it's not a huge issue for me.

Now, when mirroring an ultrawide display, then it looks funky, but not really sure what you'd expect to happen.
"We must be able to use your service to send billions of dollars of fraud proceeds to Hamas" is never going to be politically sustainable. That's going to run into demands to Do Somthing very quickly. And that's before you get to the tax evasion questions.
Show HN: Calenpet – your pet's care routine on autopilot
I've found the MiSTer community to generally be pretty helpful, but there are definitely exceptions. The fact that its a project that aims to perfectly match the behavior of the original hardware leads to some strange arguments.
Only for ones that bind to the proteins in your testing apparatus though. If this hypothetical new prion doesn't bind to the slate of proteins in the test it wouldn't show anything. Unless there's an easy way to detect the fibrils they form more easily and generally.
The Four Agreements. Totally changed my approach on professional and dating relations. I hear the concept is not unique but the brief, clear nature of the author spoke to me in my 20s.

The explaining theory is a little out of the box (ideas are seeds, your memory is soil, your attention is super powerful fertilizer) but if you aborb the basic concept, you will be forever changed.
Hey everyone,
I'm a 2x non-technical founder that has postponed learning the basics of coding for too long. 2024 changed that and now I'm shipping my first solo products, based on my own experience (countless times forgetting stuff for my 2 dogs).
I've tried to make it very accessible with a cheap lifetime deal.

Anyways, I'd love to hear your thoughts and improvement ideas :)

— Senna
Omg, another fan of "Memory Resource Management in VMware ESX Server"!! It's one of my favorite papers ever - so clever.
It's not an unreasonable question.

Though when reworded, it sounds less palatable if you have people-oriented business morals.

"Why would they delight their customers when they can delight themselves?"

I like to do right by customers, and if we can both win, it's better than just me winning. Customers know when they're not winning, which decreases goodwill and your business' future prospects.
Lithium was $61/kg 2 years ago and now it's $14/kg. It is neither rare nor expensive.
Docling is a great project, happy to see more people building in the space.

Marker output will be higher quality than docling output across most doc types, especially with the --use_llm flag. A few specific things we do differently:

- We have hybrid mode with gemini that merges tables across pages, improves quality on forms, etc.
- we run an ordering model, so ordering is better for docs where the PDF orde ris bad
- OCR is a lot better, we train our own model, surya - https://github.com/VikParuchuri/surya
- References and links
- Better equation conversion (soon including inline)
not exactly. This PDF cannot open a browser... yet!
I don't think lithium is 4x the price of aluminum.

In January 2025, the North America price of lithium carbonate was $9.37/kg. But lithium carbonate is just 18.7% lithium, so the price is $50/kg of contained lithium.

In comparison, the current market price of aluminum metal is $2.62/kg. And aluminum compounds (where the large energy expenditure needed to reduce Al(+3) to the metal is not needed) should be cheaper.

Aluminum is much more common than lithium. It's the third most abundant element in the Earth's continental crust after oxygen and silicon.
I can run existing models while using less hardware? Great! Let's build bigger models! If you already have the hardware and have already committed to its capitalization, then you have every incentive in the world to do exactly that. If that's what my competitor is doing, then that's what I need to do too if I want to remain in business.

TL;DR - I think you're right!
As a boater, I find salt being used to reduce corrosion a bit ironic.
I'm surprised RISC-V doesn't expose carry. Thanks for pointing this out. For embedded programming with AVR and ARM I often prefer ASM over C because I have access to the carry flag and I don't have to worry about C/C++ overflow undefined behavior.

I also agree the 6502 is not a simple ISA. However after learning 6502 machine code, MIPS, AVR, and ARMv6-M were all easy to learn.
You're not surely suggesting the scale of SNAP theft is anywhere near the potential of banks and crypto, are you?
> Eggs are ... the funniest and most versatile ingredients to work with

Very odd and somewhat amusing phrasing - presumably due to translation error? I'm assuming they meant 'most enjoyable' rather than 'funniest'.
I'm pretty mixed here.

I think the general stance of allowing legal cryptocurrencies is a mistake (I'll be clear - I've used bitcoin as an actual currency on dark markets. It's ok for that purpose, but that purpose is opposed to sane government policy. As a speculative asset, I think it's a scam.)

But it is legal.

So I'm mixed because I feel like the actual governmental response to this at a legislative level (congress) has been a complete failure.

It's hard to argue that crypto is not a net negative right now

- It's used to generate new "coins" that are just outright scams and rugpulls, that manipulate and abuse the less educated in the populace (and for the all the folks with they "they deserve it" attitude... they are your follow citizens. For good or bad their welfare impacts your welfare. You shouldn't be happy they're getting scammed and abused)

- It's consistent with criminal activity in hacking/blackmail for corporations from foreign agents

- The larger coins (ex bitcoin) are mostly controlled by non-us mining groups, outside the control of the government, but the government is going to be on the hook for costs related to enforcement (courts, banks, fdic, etc).

- It's a bad hedge as an asset (it's price tends to correlate strong with the markets, indicating it's not really a digital gold).

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Frankly - I think for all the issues I otherwise have with a country like China, their stance on crypto is a sane response. It clearly shouldn't be legal, but I wouldn't spend much on enforcement.
But this guy was getting orders from the State. Who the f is Elon?
My wife and I have had conversations about exhuming human remains in pursuit of science a number of times, and I haven't quite been able to settle on when or why it is or is not appropriate. In a personal context - it seems a violation of one's own choices (granted that those choices might not be one's own). But the scientific community doesn't seem overly concerned with that - and the learning opportunities are significant to me.

Does anyone else have these ambiguous uncertainties about this kind of stuff?
I too enjoyed The Economist's reporting on foreign affairs and world news.

I found their editorials to be completely wacky and out of touch.

Same could be said for the WSJ.
> It’s all the same issue and has been since the 1970s. Many people believe you need explicit racial references in hiring, government programs.

I draw a line between "need explicit racial references in hiring" and the "biographical questionnaire" in the article. The later was explicit deception, what I want to call fraud though maybe dose not fit the technical definition, and was correctly labeled cheating since the answers were apparently handed out. I can not lump all this activities together and label it as one thing at least due to the line I drew above and likely other lines I would draw as digging in to more details.

> Though there was a “masks off” moment starting in 2020 when people were openly subscribing to Ibram Kendi thought (who lays out his view clearly that the only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination).

I think you are simplifying too much here. The way this reads is that everyone on the other side of the issue to you is either masks off and is like Ibram Kendi, or is masks on and hiding it how they are like Ibram Kendi.

I do not buy it is that simple, the world is more complex than that with people that have a wide variety of motivations and goals.
Thanks, that's beautiful to discover.

From : https://www.themacattic.com/apps/8730/downloads2/About_DarkS...

Kaos
Kaos draws “cloudlike” pictures in color using an interative fractal algorithm. This fader comes to you thanks to Reinoud Lamberts, and I recommend you check out his excellent “Kaos” program which is available on Usenet and other places. Reinoud was nice enough to send me the algorithm he used, and I took some time speeding it up and making it use a bit less memory – actually the final code isn't related very much to his, but the algorithm is. However, this fader still will only work on machines with 32 bit Color QuickDraw – sorry all of you Plus and Classic owners! Kaos renders its data into an offscreen area, finally moving it onto the screen once the image has darkened enough. Kaos continues darkening the image and displaying it to you until either a timer expires (3 minutes) or an element of the image becomes fully intense. Unless you select otherwise in the settings dialog, you will see a small dot moving from the bottom of the screen to the top – this is a “progress” indicator to let you know how far away the first image will be. It takes about 15 seconds to generate the first picture on a Mac II class machine. This fader needs a good deal of RAM and a large amount of CPU – so this fader isn't a good one to leave running if you are doing background printing, downloads, or compiles at the same time. The current SIZE resource within in the fader provides enough RAM for a standard Apple RGB monitor to be rendered at half resolution. You may lower this value (which will result in a chunkier image) or increase it (which will result in a slightly smoother image) via ResEdit. Those of you with 32 bit displays will find you can actually decrease it a great deal (probably to around 40 or 50 K) because 32 bit displays do not require the large offscreen rendering area that 8 bit displays do.
Not possible.

The most important thing you will need is to access digital banking and government services. These apps already requires you to have an updated and locked-down system.

If you disregard that requirement (let's say you'll replace a tablet periodically, just for banking and government services), the next important thing you will need is communication. That means an updated browser that can open the future generic wordpress-based website, discord, twitter or whatever platforms will be popular when you'll be old. These platforms already require an updated browser, and updated browsers require updated OS, which require updated hardware too.

You don't actually need a "completely stable computer system". What you need is a secretary.
this kind of interference recording is typically termed a 'hologram'. it works in full 3d
The first article you posted doesn’t say the new admin will push combustion vehicles over electric vehicles. It says that Trump wants consumers to buy the kind of vehicle of their choice.
Growing up in a mid-sized midwestern city with an art museum and resident mummy, the mummy and room of Egyptian artifacts was honestly one of the most exciting and main reasons for going to the museum besides the rest of the art. Hopefully they would see the Memphis Bass Pro as tribute.
I don't expect a bank run -- where else are you going to put the money? T-bills? Got some bad news for you there...
I would point towards the Synapse collapse as good illustration of why it's more complicated than this. You can't be agnostic as a bank to what your business clients are doing, because there's a wide variety of things they can do wrong that will become your problem.
I mean is "wait" even the ideal "think more please" phrase? Would you get better results with other phrases like "wait, a second", or "let's double-check everything"? Or domain-dependent, specific instructions for how to do the checking? Or forcing tool-use?
> but he or she should come clean about it.

I believe they acted in compliance to the letter of the executive order. The fact that complying with the order yields absurd results is not the fault of who complies with them.

> they wouldn't have pulled down all of those statues that were testaments to our nation's sometimes honorable, sometimes sordid history.

Communities should decide who is honored with statues they see every day. Should Ukraine have statues of Stalin preserved, so that the fact he existed is never forgotten? The people in those civil-war statues (AFAIK, they were mostly manufactured in factories from standard parts with limited customization, ordered by catalog, and delivered over a relatively short period of time) are certainly adequately covered in literature and archived documents.
It was experimental to allow the developers to tweak UI, including breaking backward compatibility if needed. But I left Git shortly after these were added. I guess nobody picked this up to finish the job (even by just removing the experimental status, since nothing has changed for years and I assume nobody complained about them).
Tom Dowdy was such a kind soul.

https://www.engineersneedart.com/blog/dowdy/dowdy.html

http://www.poubelle.com/butterpig/
I would guess the root traffic to ycombinator.com is quite insignificant in comparison.
Yeah; of those, Netflix has been the second least reliable for me.

It is a bit better now.

I think part of the problem is their dumb microservices architecture. They operate something like 10,000 microservices and different devices talk to different subsets of those.

On our old, cheap roku stick, they regularly would produce “could not stream” errors or fallback to screenshots instead of trailers (which was actually better!) more often than not. The website would be fine, and no one else I know noticed the outages.

The worst thing is that I’ve worked at places that have moron middle managers that actually decided to emulate this and moved to microservices. It wasted years of my life at work.
Fair. In my line of work, certain things are relevant to my work life and it’s good to know. In fairness my focus is local and features.

I don’t really care about what Clarence Thomas was bribed about today.
And before the reserve there were no banks making unnecessary risks?
What is the bias here, not familiar with British banks or its economy atm.

It certainly doesn’t sound controversial and clickbait at first glance, doing what banks do.
Preparation is a good idea: talking to immigration lawyers, researching immigration requirements in depth, taking any necessary English/skill assessment tests, etc.
.xyz domains are commonly associated with malware, scams, and phishing, leading to such measures as multiple antimalware vendors blacklisting many or all .xyz domains.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.xyz
Why do you assume everyone prefers dark mode? :)

It’s hard to know how popular dark vs light is among people who work in tech, but in my anecdotal data the majority of people/coworkers I’ve seen use GitHub have it in light mode.

There may be an argument to default to “system”.
Moose Peterson talks about “scientific level” wildlife photography in most of this presentation, https://youtu.be/QwfB2xQ0uVc?si=slhpQqeFGB1sBeEB
You could consider cutting the protein consumption a bit. Science VS did an episode diving into the research last year.

The conclusion was 0.8 g/kg (or 0.36 g/lb) was enough. 1 g/lb is ~2.2 g/kg

https://gimletmedia.com/shows/science-vs/j4hln2vl
I guess this depends on the kind of CEO, but I think a lot of the CEO’s job is to be a human being / celebrity with a perspective.

Is Elon Musk a better CEO because of the decisions he makes about his companies or because he gets other humans to follow him. Probably both, but you can’t exclude the latter.
A more appropriate name for this article would be "a survey of rich text editors" or something similar.

As far as I can tell, it does not answer the question posed.

(Not saying the HN title should be changed. It matches the article)
Those real world early uses of nuclear technology were indeed awful- nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll comes to mind, which did intentional treatment vs. non-treatment experiments on the Marshall Islanders.

Even that is nothing close to the fiction I am talking about, having a class of slaves that operate a fully open nuclear reactor with hand tools.
How would you have designed it? An internal byte array instead of a pointer?
Most brand values exist because purchases are social capital, and this has been the case for a long time.
The switchup of 'worst' subject in high school to college seems so striking to me. At best, I could see it coming from an over-fitting of data. At worst, it was a test designed intentionally to fail anyone without the answer key. Not even 'playing in to stereotypes', but 'what combination of answers did no one choose, so we can block everyone?'
Those who would give up essential liberties for cheap eggs deserve neither and will lose both.
I don't use iCloud Relay but it seems Apple's ASN would be 'reputable'.
That doesn't make it legal. In fact it is my understanding that accepting a US pardon require some level of admitting guilt
This is really interesting as an explanation. It's not usually taught this way, because the formalization of Maxwell's Equations pre-dates General Relativity.

Is it actually theoretically sound?
I just downloaded the screensaver pack mentioned by the OP and there's even another one in the pack called "Hopalong"!
You're locking in on one throwaway line.

Follow the money.

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4961820-oil-bi...

PS: I'm honored you made an account just to reply to me. I'm touched, truly.
> Which means it's not commercially viable.

Depends more on price than anything else. Maybe won't replace phone batteries, but a stationary battery for home or a utility-sized one that uses less temperamental chemistry would be very welcome.
In many countries it is illegal to even record such information about employees.
I'm not sure if I understand the question, but I tend to refer to these kinds of services as either:

- Value-added hosting providers

- Value-added infrastructure providers.

My personal mental model for them is that they take lower level cloud offerings and build on top an opinionated on-rails experience for common stacks.

So their services come with a higher price tag, but with a streamlined developer experience.
What's the basis for claiming it's a false flag operation? The article details the lack of clear direction and issues with dealing with the flood of EO's.

Given other actions similar agencies have taken - closing down "DEI" deemed clubs by West point I'm not seeing how this action is out of context to other actions happening and not being reversed elsewhere.

There is a lot of erasing going on.
I wrote some 6502 as my final project for school (An NES game, so a specific environment) and I found it fun and extremely challenging. I'm sure there is a lot to be said for writing ASM in a modern context, but I think it's a good exercise in learning. One of the benefits you get out of working with an 8-bit processor is dealing with data bigger than 8-bits.
red flag #1 is before the article even starts

picture of AA batteries

>Lithium-ion batteries like these currently dominate the market, but aluminum-based alternatives could be a better solution
It really feels like progress in battery tech is unlocking the next "wave" of hardware development. Miniaturization leading to better drones, wearables, cameras, etc., and alt-batteries with better cycle efficiency to better usage of "green" technology. I love seeing these kinds of physical and chemical engineering breakthroughs, even if they aren't quite ready for industrial use.
Infostealers targeting macOS jumped by 101% in second half of last year
The unreasonable effectiveness of beauty in science
Nim is, in fact, a proper subset of Hackenbush, a game extensively studied by Conway. I found the following video extremely useful and well-visualized: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYj4NkeGPdM
Yes. I used the Cinestill CS41 color developing kit, which is for color negative films. The Velvia films are (positive) slide. You get somewhat unpredictable color shifts, generally increased contrast. The age of the films added to the unpredictability because the emulsions change over time and there may have been some light leaking too.

Velvia is known for its strong colors and I was very impressed with how colorful the films were after all that time. Their longevity is probably why they still cost about $90-100 for a 5 pack of expired 120s.

Here's an example image https://imgur.com/a/nQ0ltav
My current theory is that the main function of BTC is to act as a mule for Wall Street to transport dollars.

the primary function of meme coins is to enable influencers(and the family of the president...) to raise funds
DEI is such a vague term ... that's a problem with the order then.

We're talking about an administration threatening people's jobs, claiming they want to make sure government employees are "loyal" and firing people who are not "loyal".

The response to "CYA" seems entirely natural.

But it would be very on point for this administration to blame any / all problems on disloyal parties in the government, even if it is their own fault.
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