skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
NEC§210.20(A) a/k/a "80% Load Rule"

As trade practice, certain applications are ALWAYS deemed "continuous," e.g. water heaters, computers, space heaters, general lighting.
> a lower standard of living

We better start really defining what that means, because it has become quite clear that all this “progress” is not leading to better lives. We’re literally going to kill ourselves with climate change.

> AI and nukes

Those two things aren’t remotely comparable.
Seems kind of a duplicate of the original at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43025393 although the title is worse there.
> So what, someone is training AI, it's not like anyone is proposing restricting that

If nations chose to restrict that, such detection would merit a military response. Like Iran's centrifuges.
We're using a web host with an operating system and web server that are "obsolete" and haven't received any updates since a few years. There are no contact points where that server could access any of our machines. Not anymore likely than it accessing your machine. It serves hyper-fast web pages and receives customer orders. There's nothing sensitive there. If the server hall burned down or got hit by a tactical nuke, it would take 10 minutes to get stuff up on another server from backups.

For most businesses, credit card processing is outsourced to Stripe or similar services, and the security for that is their responsibility. Customer data is only stored on local machines with encryption. So it's very possible to architect solutions that aren't vulnerable. Unless you want to go into very unlikely scenarios.
From 1992.

It’s almost always when someone says that “I’m barely eating and can’t lose weight” that they’re not counting calories accurately. Many people try to count calories using rough estimates but unless you’re putting every single thing through a scale before eating - you won’t be accurate. Even for packaged foods, calorie content can vary significantly and some articles report they can be off by up to 20%.

When I do all my bulking and cutting - I do rigorous calorie counting by never eating anything that doesn’t go through a scale. It does mean I basically never get to eat out but I’m fine with that. I’ve got goals I want to achieve.

Dr. Mike had a good discussion with a controversial figure (Jason Fung) related to all this. I would recommend watching all the way through because by the end they end up agreeing a lot more than disagreeing. There were some contentious points which I think shows a strong difference in how people think of food and weight loss. I’m very much a calorie in, calorie out guy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSwppRQ0dDQ
I would contend that it's more like a printout, or recompile from source, because of all-new materials...

https://xkcd.com/1683/

It's unsurprising too, if you consider that buildings almost always have their blueprints and designs on file with the government, and stored somewhere. The wealthy may have a "keep it all together and shove it in the attic" mindset; in 2002 I picked up a Macintosh Plus at a garage sale, and it was packaged fully functional, with accessories, cables, Print Shop, Golf, Flight Simulator, etc., all manuals, receipts from the store, and an article clipping about this new up-and-coming software company with Bill Gates at the helm.
Google defends scrapping AI pledges and DEI goals in all-staff meeting
I live in a ruralish area. There is a lot of forested area and due to economic depression there are a lot of people living in the woods. Most live in tents but some actually cut down the trees and turn them into make-shift shacks. Using planks and nails like you suggest. They often drag propane burners into the woods which often leads to fires. Perhaps this is what you mean?

In reality, most people will continue to live the modern life where there are doctors, accountants, veterinarians, mechanics. We'll continue to enjoy food distribution and grocery stores. We'll all hope that North America gets its act together and build high speed rail so we can travel comfortably for long distances.

There was a time Canada was a big exporter of engineering technology. From mining to agriculture, satellites, and nuclear technology. I want Canada to be competitive in these ways, not making makeshift shacks out of planks and nails for junkies that have given up on life and live in the woods.
Why would we trust Europe in the first place, given that they are so full of regulations and they love to suffocate innovation by introducing ever more regulations? I thought most people wanted to deregulate anyway.
Show HN: A no-build fullstack SSR TypeScript web framework
Hi HN!

I'd love to seek your insights on a fullstack web framework that employs a different approach: no build.

It's not a new concept. The folks as Preact mentioned it: https://preactjs.com/guide/v10/no-build-workflows/

However, in the Web Framework market, I've yet to find many that support both "no build" and "SSR". There's always some sorts of "client mount" and "server mount" and either has (or both have) to go through a build (bundling) process.

With the build process, there comes additional maintenance efforts and cognitive load. I've enjoyed wrestling with tsconfig, webpack config, all sorts of presets and plugins countless times... When things work, they just work, but when we need sth a bit custom or unconventional, then we're almost always in for a tough ride. (or it's just me )

Not to say I'm against any existing build workflow. In fact I benefited a lot in the past from webpack, and i'm very positive about modern bundlers like Parcel 2, Turbopack, rspack, etc.

I just feel it'd be fair to save some slots for the "no build" route :)

To this end, I spent the last month working on a prototype of a TypeScript fullstack SSR web framework. It's compatible with Deno and Bun runtimes. I'd love to make it compatible with Node.js as well (at some point).

The framework registry page (https://jsr.io/@fullsoak/fullsoak) summarizes the motives expressed so far.

An example deployment is available at: https://fullsoak.onrender.com/app

The code behind the deployment above: https://github.com/fullsoak/bun-examples

PS: you may see Preact being used & mentioned everywhere but I'm positive that React is 100% supported as well (just drop-in & use). I just happened to choose Preact to experience it more for myself.

I look forward to your thoughts :) and learning if this might (or might not) be a feasible idea at scale. And perhaps, which future directions you would see this (or something like it) goes. Thank you much for any insight!
Use it on the block user api and get an email address from what I understood.
Might be worth taking a drive through formerly "suburb" neighborhoods that are now a battle royal for street parking thanks to high density units with zero parking.

I mean, it is portland, and they will do it wrong no matter what, but still; if you expect the people we've been mass producing to handle this well going forward, I've got bad news for you.
> Musk's recent behaviour

For those who might not be up to date on that, parent refers to Musk's nazi salute: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/R_6dVlz6mug
I really wish there existed a central platform that tracks/links to all tech conference videos from past to present because YouTube just plain sucks for this and in general, to focus. They've had DECADES to polish this experience (in general for any educational content), at least under the premium tier and I've given up all hopes of them ever getting this right.

Off the top of my head, such a platform could:

1. Encourage and foster great discussions (and support markdown!)
2. Have a "community notes" kind of feature to highlight outdated info, errata, related talks etc.
3. Expose brand new conferences and lesser known ones
4. Allow people to share curated lists
5. Likes/dislikes restored
6. View count tracking from across multiple sources (some confs host on their site before YouTube upload)
7. Support for interactive viewing of decks, source code etc.
8. Speaker profiles (w/ verification)
9. Automation to help conferences/speakers/etc. to submit/update content they own/keep things in sync

etc.

I don't think such a platform exists today but would love to be wrong.
> Computers have gotten a lot faster, even if the clock speed is not that much faster

We're not stagnating but the same code I thought was too slow in 1998 was good enough in 2008, which is probably not true for code I would've thrown away in 2015.

The only place where that has happened in the last decade is for IOPS - old IOPS heavy code which would have been rewritten with group-commit tricks is probably slower than a naive implementation that fsync'd all the time. A 2015 first cut of IO code probably beats the spinning disk optimized version from the same year on modern hardware.

The clock-speed comment is totally on the money though - a lot of the clocks were spent waiting for memory latencies and those have improved significantly across the years particularly if you use an Apple Silicon style memory which is physically closer in a light cone from the DIMMs of the past.
> You're talking about a bunch of morons who tried to pass off a public health program to fight the spread of AIDS in Mozambique as funding for HAMAS just because they stumbled upon the keyword "Gaza".

For one, Elon himself said recently this was a mistake, and two, most Americans don't want us fighting the spread of AIDS in Mozambique right now.

> Their goal is to fool gullible morons, the kind who go on online forums parroting "they have already discovered tons of waste" when they don't even know what "waste" is supposed to mean.

I'm hardly a moron, but thanks for killing the discussion. This is why Trump won the election. Anytime someone on the left is questioned at all, they jump to insults. Everyone is tired of it. You can go find their daily updates on X [0] where they share their updates. Yes, some of the cuts are politically driven, but this is what the majority of Americans voted for.

[0] https://x.com/DOGE/status/1889113011282907434
This is a great example of a specific problem with a specific solution that people use as an excuse to try and impose blanket, one-size-fits-all city-wide rules for automobile storage.
Plexamp is a good player for your local files (personal server) that you can stream.
Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43028738
Now, what will happen if you get hit by a ping-pong ball mass of 120 PeV neutrinos? 120 PeV is about 2e-16 grams, so a ping-pong ball will have about 1e16 of them.

From nothing, to detectable, to lethal, to big boom?

My intuition would be "detectable" but I don't know enough to do the maths.

And by the way, I am using the mass-energy, not proper mass, because the question is crazy enough not to even consider what would be the mass of a neutrino.
Its hard to not get 'stuck in the cross-fires' when one side is very directly aiming right at you, wants to kill you, steal your house (or wristwatch like in WWII in massive scale), maybe have fun with your wife and enslave your kids and their kids.

We in western Europe (where I moved just to clarify) are closely aligned with US values and way of life, which russian elite sees as direct attack on their comfy stealy mafia way of life and existential threat. What general russian population thinks is unfortunately irrelevant here, it doesn't manifest in anything concerning rest of the world.

Also look at end of Soviet union - every single member state ran the fuck away from russians with 99.99% speed of light, and will do just about anything to resist being forcefully merged back, including Belarus with lukashenko, or Kazachstan with quite recent demonstrations and subsequent shooting of protesters also helped by russian special forces (friend of ours from there witnessed it firsthand, executions on spot of cca 2,500 protesters one after another, whomever they caught in the streets). They know darn well what they reject and fear, no 'panslav' bullshit made up lies is ever changing that.

Don't think for a second that one can be some really impartial and respected 3rd side, even ultra-neutral Swiss are now much more aligned with west than east (politically, values, but also militarily - check whether their guns work with NATO ammo or russian ones - thats 101 of waging a war and picking up side well before that). There are cca impartial sides out there, but not in Europe or anywhere else near russia.

/rant, I could go on like that for a very long time
I want. And I do. Notable examples are Kagi.com and Raindrop.io. I've also been sponsoring a number of projects for a number of months, from journalism to social media startup.

But I am getting more hesitant as often when I (and others) do it seems companies think they can increase their prices wildly or do other stuff.

I have this exact feeling now with Logseq: I started paying for sync a while ago and it seems so did others and now they are rewriting the whole thing from plain text[1] to some kind of database based storage :-/

[1]: which could be synced over git, transferred effortlessly into another application and was one of the reasons I went with Logseq
Don't forget the inevitable emphasis on "grinding Leetcode."
Where has he shone that other than saying something inane on twitter?
this turned out to be related to an extension I was using please disregard
Now, I'm not going to say this is great, but honestly it seems pretty close to a "who cares?" situation.

We are talking about a device with no internet connection that can only be accessed by someone in the same proximity to yourself.

Perhaps don't buy this watch if you live in a crowded location and take public transport a lot. For everyone else, seems really unlikely that the people you interact with will have setup a malicious attack for your watch brand. I don't think wardriving smart watches is a thing.

I'd only suggest that if the watch supports putting a credit card on it that you rethink doing that.
This particle spread this energy through a volume of seawater a few km deep in the Mediterranean. It's going to raise the temperature of that volume a few billionths of a degree, if that. So, no, we can't.
It's because of competition that we are in this situation. When the economic system and relationships between countries are based on competition, it's nearly impossible to avoid these races to the bottom. We need more systems based on cooperation instead of competition.
Novelty Left on the Table
Very interesting announcement. GPT-4.5 being the last non-reasoning model seems like a tacit admission that the old scaling paradigms are exhausted.

Also, I wonder if any of these decisions around GPT-5 are intended to make it harder for competitors to distill their models?
I found OP's English to be fine and the article sounded authentic. Nothing like "LinkedIn fluff".
I think that is missing the point. The AI's goals are what are determined by its human masters. Those human masters can already have nefarious and selfish goals that don't align with "human values". We don't need to invent hypothetical sentient AI boogeymen turning the universe into paperclips in order to be fearful of the future that ubiquitous AI creates. Humans would happily do that too if they get to preside over that paperclip empire.
I think simulated marriage is the wrong words, but there’s an idea here. What if you did AI speed dating over a period of time, talking with many avatars, and all of those conversations would be used to suggest matches with real life people?
It is not an "edge case" in a development for 55+s. And, with the shifting economic, we will soon see a great many more seniors growing old in condos rather than detached houses.
Always remember the "Hacker" in "Hacker News" refers to Silicon Valley startups "hacking" capitalism and regulations, rather the anti-establishment hacker culture of the pre-web era. The resistance isn't here, and it's never going to be here.
From Bronze to GM in miniKanren Episode 1 in an ongoing series [video]
Extraterritorial effects are usually limited in scope for this kind of concern. If I had to place a bet I'd say this is the main line of reasoning the current Supreme Court would use to side with the "the law where the recording happens" as well. I may just be advertising my biased though, as that's also the conclusion I think makes sense personally.

Until that actually gets reviewed by a higher court (or more descript higher law comes about) what each regional court concludes remains the reality for cases in that region though.

I'm not a lawyer myself, I just had to spend some time with the company's regarding this topic recently ("yay" for filling in to manage internal IT on the side).
Could you share some numbers on this? Lots of folks would be interested I'm sure
Self-Determination Theory: Basic Psychological Needs in Motivation, Development, and Wellness

By

Richard M. Ryan, Edward L. Deci

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30652098-self-determinat...
Yes it's still relevant but I prefer WhisperX for some tasks: https://github.com/m-bain/whisperX
Nice, but you've traded a garbage .directory for a garbage .file. The goal is zero garbage.
How many people consuming these services are doing so over a mobile network?

For my area all the mobile network home internet options offer plenty of speed, but the bandwidth limitations are a dealbreaker.

Everyone I know still uses their cable/FTTH as their main internet, and mobile network as a hotspot if their main ISP goes down.
An intel 12900k (Gen 12) compared to a 2600k (Gen 2, launched 2011) is about 120% faster or a bit over 2 times in single threaded applications, those +5-15% uplifts every generation add up over time but its nothing like the earlier years when they might double in performance in a single generation.

It really depends if that application uses AES 256 bit and other modern instructions. The 12900k has 16 cores vs 4 of the 2600k, although 8 of those extra cores are E-cores. This performance increase doesn't necessarily come from free given the application may need to be adjusted to utilise those extra cores especially when half of them are slower to ensure the workload is distributed properly.

Even within a vertical scaling by getting a new processor for just single threaded applications its interesting that much of the big benefits come from targeting the new instructions and then the new cores. Both of which may require source updates to get significant performance uplift from.

https://www.cpu-monkey.com/en/compare_cpu-intel_core_i7_1270...
I think that it should be run as a public service like utilities and should be as cheap as humanly possible. Why not?
People have been dumping corpses into the Thames since Bronze Age, study finds
You seem to be considering the funding process from a particular founder perspective. There are lots of different types of founders. Some have the finances to support themselves and don't need prep time.
How your morning coffee is changing the structure of your brain
>Human remains from the River Thames: new dating evidence

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/ab...
So what? Would they?
They’ve had multiple quarters where sales dropped by 90%, they’ve been dying for over a decade.
I don't see anything ever dethroning this tech talk from no 1 position

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ
When I moved to the Portland area, I was amazed by how convenient the public transportation system was. During my two years there, I drove my car fewer than 50 times.

Yet, nearly every native Portlander I met thought I was crazy for relying on public transit. Many looked down on those who used it.

I had moved from the Caribbean, where public transportation was nonexistent, and traffic and parking were a constant nightmare. To me, Portland’s transit system felt like a game-changer—but locals didn’t seem to see it that way.
My public utility is bad at its job because it has literally zero incentive to be cheap, and thus my utilities are expensive
> References in many cases are actually needed for compliance purposes.

Those aren’t the kind of checks we’re talking about. In any case, those can be performed once an offer is made.
Is there a MLX version that can be added to the fullmoon iOS app?
Not an expert but I’ve heard this too. However - if this IS true, it’s definitely only true for the biggest drives, operating in huge arrays.
I’ve been running a btrfs raid10 array of 4TB drives as a personal media and backup server for over a year, and it’s been going just fine. Recently one of the cheaper drives failed, and I replaced it with a higher quality NAS grade drive. Took about 2days to rebuild the array, but it’s been smooth sailing.
I think it is often the case that people want to describe the problem as “single core performance has stagnated for decades” because it makes it look like their solution is necessary to make any progress at all.

Actually, single core performance has been improving. Not as fast as it was in the 90’s maybe, but it is improving.

However, we can speed things up even more by using multiple computers. And it is a really interesting problem where you get to worry about all sorts of fun things, like hiding MPI communication between compute.

Nobody wants to say “I have found that if I can make an already fast process even faster by putting in a lot of effort, which I will do because my job is actually really fun.” Technical jobs are supposed to be stressful and serious. The world is doomed and science will stop… unless I come up with a magic trick!
Are Executive Orders Creating a Constitutional Crisis? [video]
this sounds like a lot of work for something this niche
> Art is about self-expression, evoking emotions, and open interpretation

Art is about these things, but is also about many other things. And art can be clear in its intentions, leaving little to interpret.

What is the purpose of data visualization? Often to evoke emotions and to help someone not familiar with the data understand how to interpret it.

The people who accomplish this most effectively understand that the point isn't just to force data points into a visual form. If it were so simple, more people would be good at it (they aren't).

> Clearly DataViz is Design

I don't understand this sentence. I'm not trying to be difficult, but if DataViz is Design, what is Design?
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wget -O pgassistant.gif.raw.gif 'https://github.com/nexsol-technologies/pgassistant/blob/main...'

ffmpeg -h encoder=libaom-av1

ffmpeg -i pgassistant.gif.raw.gif -c:v libaom-av1 -crf 20 -cpu-used 8 -movflags '+faststart' -pix_fmt yuv420p pgassistant.gif.av1-20.mp4

ffmpeg -i pgassistant.gif.raw.gif -c:v libaom-av1 -crf 55 -cpu-used 8 -movflags '+faststart' -pix_fmt yuv420p pgassistant.gif.av1-55.mp4

A place to start from at least, note the 264516 gif is what's currently on the landing page, with the wget command to grab the raw file.
Compound Your Joy: Link English Word Pairs
Yes - it's one thing to have posted it, another to decide it's a good reason to lose your job over it in a very public way. I suppose he's someone who is talented enough that a competitor won't care about this as a factor in a hiring decision? But even then, you'd think you could only do it so many times...
> I am still not convinced that there is a policy which can prevent AI from developing outside of the US with high probability.

Suppose, hypothetically, there was a very simple as-yet-unknown action, doable by anyone who has common unrestricted household chemicals, that would destroy the world. Suppose we know the general type of action, but not the specific action, yet. Suppose that people are actively researching trying actions in that family, and going "welp, world not destroyed yet, let's keep going".

How do you proceed? What do you do to stop that from happening? I'm hoping your answer isn't "decide there's no policy that can prevent this, give up".
I bought a truck and now I just park on the grass in those situations. Terrible solution, but functional in this city :/
I am highly regarded, fren 8D