skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve seen a light version of this, where a “marketing data” company was scraping baby shower gift registry pages and selling the data to an infant formula company in the US.

The scraping was def in violation of the EULAs. Product data is one thing, but I believe this group was combining it with other sources and selling the identities and context as a bundle.
New obesity drugs are coming: these are the ones to watch
Tulsi Gabbard has been confirmed as National Intelligence Director
And yet plenty of things around the house use far more than 800W and work fine. The secret is to use a more reasonable voltage.

30V or 36V or even 48V would leave a decent margin for touch safety and have dramatically lower current and even more dramatically lower resistive loss.
Seems kinda dead. Last release 2 years ago and last commit nine months.
Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing?
Almost all filed patents are invalid.
I've thoroughly enjoyed not having to anoint a "note taker" in my meetings in the last few months.
Looks like primer used for aircraft, as if they forgot to paint their builings.
So close. The advertised diagonal screen for the reMarkable Pro is 11.8". The DPT-RP1 is advertised as 13.3" (my unit measures 13.125"). Hopefully in the future reMarkable will make a full-size unit. As mobile phones, tablets, laptops and monitor sales indicate, larger sized screen is important buying factor.
Oregon has a severe housing shortage:

https://www.opb.org/article/2025/01/28/oregon-needs-to-build...

That is the root cause of homelessness:

https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/everything-you-think-you-know-...

This video also does a good job of explaining it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQW4W1_SJmc

Eliminating costly parking regulations are quite helpful for building the kinds of housing that will help people get out of homelessness.
No, it’s abductive reasoning. If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck…
> Sorry, you have been blocked
> You are unable to access doge.gov
> There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data.

:( Apparently I tried haxxoring doge by clicking on the link. Or they just hatecriming me for where I live.
There's something really not right there. Right click the bottom right status bar area, enable memory monitor and ensure you aren't running out of RAM or something. I use IntelliJ on an old Intel MacBook with a large Kotlin project and its performance is good. I never have to wait ten seconds for something like that. It sounds like you may have some old flag that's limiting its heap size or pushing it into GC thrashing or something. Definitely look at the IDE logs and see if you can track it down.
> One survey of the literature suggests that drivers in the typical American city spend an average of eight minutes looking for parking at the end of each trip.

Maybe it's just me, but this doesn't sound realistic at all. If there is a place where I would spend eight minutes looking for parking, I would rather not go. And that's average, meaning some people spending twice as much? 16 minutes to look for parking? Who would do that?
Math, please. An 800W load is fine on a 120V 15A circuit with plenty of room to spare. The problem is the 12V connection from the PSU to the card.
lokijs and nedb were better candidates for local db's but sadly both are unmaintained.
While m4sugar is from GNU Autoconf (which is GPLv3), it's properly listed as a dependency and ISC is GPL-compatible, so there's no licensing issue that I know of. The code explicitly seems to avoid GNU m4-specific features for BSD compatibility, and it goes well beyond header-only testing. While shell scripting is a valid approach, m4conf provides structured macros for maintainable configuration and advanced features like runtime CPU capability detection. As far as I can tell, the code is well-documented and organized, though you raise fair points about the tradeoffs between shell and m4 approaches, but as others have mentioned it (and seen in example m4 file), it is extremely simple to use and works with third-party libraries as well.
HN headline makes weird choices in word to omit from source headline: "Big Ass Fans slapped with fat fines for false claims about their clean air products"

If that is too long to include whole, it would be more natural to exclude "fat" than the current choice of leaving it in but dropping "fines".
> If Torvalds can do it, why not?

I genuinely doubt Torvalds (even a young version of him) could build a new competing OS in modern times, and have it succeed.

Linux succeeded in a much, much simpler world. What needs to succeed now is something that compares not to the initial Linux, but to the Linux 30 years later, with mountains of effort piled up on top. That is no longer something that can be achieved by any single person, no matter how motivated.
Google Cloud will start charging $1.50 / alert
Pricing is hard and these resources do cost money. Some cloud resources have sensible costs like vcpu, storage, data transfer. Other resource pricing like this one are a bit more clumsy.

The question is, how do you think GCP should charge for alerting? A flat fee? Batches e.g. 0-10 free, 10-100 $1/alert ?

$1.50 / alert doesn't scale very well for any size institution.
I have to admit, if I had all the power in the world I'd be openly offending various groups. Although in bad taste, it serves as a test to weed out petty people. Further I'd be offering those groups a clean exit to from their own 'offenseless' society.

Now coming to the democracy thing - I'm not sure it's the best form of governance as is commonly understood, so I personally don't value it. I don't imply that the opposite of democracy is tyranny either. I suspect that groups exist that are outside of typical govts and personally I'd be a part of such group, than participate in a 'democracy' which caters to a relatively low IQ - the stuff that Monty Python highlights.

I would think that EM has already reached that stage of no wanting the approval of those easily offended people.
Only twice in seven years did voice control not work for me. I can't recall the last time bmw didn't have touchscreen in a car but it predates 2014
I can't think of a single company that would provide data upon request. Certainly Google, Microsoft, Apple, Ford, GM,Samsung, UPS, etc... wouldn't.
About who is behind this group:

https://usafacts.org/about-usafacts/

Can't say I know / have validated anything they say, interesting site.
Discussion (87 points, 22 hours ago, 52 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43016675
You can't choose where you're from, but you can choose where you go afterwards.
The article references the "Oh-My-God particle, the most energetic particle yet encountered. Here's the late John Walker's excellent piece on that:

https://fourmilab.ch/documents/OhMyGodParticle/
You can also do the reverse gesture, a small swipe up from the bottom of the screen, to return to full screen.
By comparison, Twitch's yearly revenue is consistently over $100m[0] from subscriptions and other in-app payments (e.g. taking a cut for buying their internal currency).

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/517907/twitch-app-revenu...
Oh darn, my youtube email was leaked... It certainly stinks that mybusinessname@gmail.com is now known to the world...

There's certainly bad things that CAN be done to a number of people with information when it's a personal email address that's used for numerous purposes... but the 3 people I talked to about having youtube (or any streaming) accounts all have mentioned it as being a separate account.

So the only threat I can see in most cases is just better phishing attempts, which is not necessarily an easy money maker... Unless they can steal the entire account? It is impossible to get support from Google, so it's quite possible you could change the bank info and get a month or two of payments before someone gets in the loop to stop it... and realistically, the more money someone is making on YouTube, the less likely they have troubles contacting someone at Google by some side channel... and the less likely it's a personal email address that reaches the actual star of the channel.. so the more popular the person, the less valuable the email address
That sounds absolutely awful and like you dodged a bullet. Meanwhile deepseek is hiring college grads and the like, for way better tech.

I highly doubt that they've got a better ai but are too scared to show it off. Is there any independent verification of that?
Discussion (16 points, 5 days ago, 5 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42967527
Damn the coffe shop tracking ha
Slightly related but I noticed something interesting back when the Tor project released the Snowflake proxy. I was provisioning VPS with Snowflake and due to some trial and error I had to re-provision a few times. One of the times I checked the web server logs and saw HTTP requests for theguardian.com.

I just kept provisioning so the IP is long lost but it only took 3 attempts to get this IP from the cloud provider.

I still can't really explain it because the guardian is not hosted at that cloud provider, but maybe it was a test environment? Also kinda scary that active requests were coming in.
I'm a security expert, and I almost fell for a North Korea-style deepfake
> from voters who fear a lack of parking at the businesses they frequent

IOW they want a handout from the city (free parking) to support their lifestyles.
Are you suggesting there is an issue with it?
That's definitely the case in Magic Kingdom, but in other parks its not quite so much, I guess in (edit from Magic to Animal:) Animal Kingdom, you don't truly need to hide it, since it makes the park look more authentic. I assume for Hollywood they just make the buildings look like they're part of a set... Leaving Epcot which can just make the surrounding countries cover any infrastructure...

Epcot is probably my favorite of the parks to be honest, there's so much that goes into it overall.
If you are a KDE user, I highly recommend fooyin, which is essentially a Qt6 clone of Foobar2000:

https://www.fooyin.org/
It's largely corporate to my understanding. So similar to box seats at a baseball game, if you know somebody there's a decent chance you might get to go one day
remember when biden tried to offer an increased EV tax credit for union built EVs

shameless UAW vote buying
Previously (86 points, 1 day ago, 32 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43007862

.. but it didn't survive.
No it does not make me feel better. I’m rather disgusted by 70 million of my fellow Americans, including a few family members and newly former friends. However, I think it’s important that we pushback on the idea that the fascists have an overwhelming mandate to do what they are now doing. The truth still matters.
If you are ethical, moral, and otherwise decent, do a one-time purchase. Otherwise, extract every last cent of revenue you can using the scummiest of subscription mechanisms you can muster combined with advertising.
Another month? Which is the first month?
Breakthrough as Oxford scientists achieve teleportation with quantum computer
I hear you, and it's a good warning, but I think the word "often" in your first sentence requires some qualification or maybe nuance.

It's no different from any other potential for abuse from someone with power - the way to mitigate it isn't merely to try pick good people (of course, start there), it's to wrap the vulnerable elements in protective practices and institutional controls to prevent abuse if an individual actor fails to live up to the standard.

For example, in the biggest abuse scandal of our generation (sexual abuse by Catholic priests), it's not just that the priests did great individual evil but also that the institution itself utterly failed to do anything about it or even abetted it.

However, the illicit nature of psychedelics makes those kinds of controls or institutions impossible or very hard to put in place.

Finally, for the abuse in the MAPS MDMA trial (which was 1 patient out of 200 participants) to be used as evidence that psychedelic therapy is more prone to abuse, you'd have to look at the rate of abuse among therapists and psychologists as a whole to know if it's par for the course or something extraordinary.

Bad actors will try to take advantage of the vulnerable -- and these drugs put you in a more vulnerable position than otherwise -- so your warning still stands. I just don't think these issues are unique to this stuff other than the legal status.
He reportedly made $32k and barely avoided jail time... which does not sound to me like the $10k payout is undervalued.
Android Moon Reader Pro TTS plugin works OK for me.
I guess there’s two ways this post could have gone, and it went the way of “you know that sinking feeling that you’re not good enough, you’re right!”

I wrote a book last year for my family. Very few people outside my family will ever read it, but I wrote a book! I’m learning to be my best mediocre self and in so many ways I couldn’t be happier. In fact, thinking about my various personality traits, I think mediocrity is sort of my ideal state. I would probably be less happy/fulfilled if I was more successful.

I’m not sure what the world gets out of it, maybe it keeps you on Tik Tok watching hustle porn? But the ultimate modern counter-cultural fuck you to the system I think is to just be happy without worrying what the world cares about it. And then strive for incremental improvements rather than like dream about that one externally validated accomplishment that will make you happy.
2nd Quadrant (bought by Enterprise DB several years ago) had a bunch of excellent YouTube tutorials on common tasks. Some of them may still be available on YouTube.

EDB has a fairly comprehensive set of self-paced trainings for sale. I went through them and thought they were really good.

Postgres documentation is excellent though, and though the docs are long, reading through it carefully should give you almost all the information you need for most database tasks.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/admin.html
The PostgreSQL docs are great and then watch the presentations from their conferences - very cool stuff.

Then practice, docker makes this easy.
generate authentic responses

You keep using that word "authentic"; I do not think it means what you think it means
There's a lot wrong in this comment.

Eink B&W screen contrast has been improving dramatically with every generation, but there was a significant backward step in the jump to color eink screens (due to how the current Kaleido technology works). The Gallery technology does not suffer this lack of contrast, but the trade-off is that screen refresh times are slower than 1st generation e-ink panels.

Garmin still uses reflective LCDs, even on the Fenix 8. The AMOLED is a separate SKU.

Eink is superior to transflective LCDs in terms of power use as it only needs to be refreshed when content changes; an LCD must be refreshed multiple times per second. Only bistable LCDs can display an image without power but this comes at the cost of resolution and contrast.
https://archive.ph/2025.02.12-165938/https://www.nytimes.com...
What are your opinions on zoning and re-zoning?
Some areas around me are being re-zoned from single-family-only properties to allowing apartment buildings. The extra housing is needed, but I can’t blame the people getting mad at the change when they spent millions of dollars on a property under the existing rules having the rules changed around them.
Why is it that when the entire auto industry does something right Toyota gets credit? Fanboyism is a pox upon online automotive discourse.

Every OEM has used the 3-knob design on and off but it was particualrly hot in the 90s and 00s. It isn't a Toyota thing, or even a specifically Japanese thing.

Here's a random 00s Honda:

https://www.samarins.com/reviews/img/cr-v_04_int_large.jpg

Here's the OJ era bronco:

https://media.carsandbids.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=2080,quali...

Here's a GMT800

https://jandjautowrecking.com/cdn/shop/files/57_8fc2bd4a-2cb...

Here's a radom VW

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/7w0AAOSwApleAMyP/s-l1600.webp
In my first job, I used C, vi, and cscope. In my second, Java and Eclipse. I was an order of magnitude more productive with an IDE. Some of it was the language (though I was actually pretty good at C and rusty at Java), but most of it came from the rapid feedback loop and improved code discoverability.
That's not true because there is an economic cost for most people to committing crimes. "Hey you could make more money selling that on the black market" is not going to convince me to sell something on the black market.

Bounty programs are very much not trying to compete with crime.
Not very tired, at least when it comes to "useful" software; I'm about to subscribe to Plex Pass because I want the DVR support (I have a HD Homerun.)

I haven't subscribed to play a game for a long time and expect never to do so. I solidly reject GAME PASS from Microsoft but I am a Meta Quest + subscriber although I'm not sure I play enough VR and haven't been impressed with the quality of the games on it lately.
I don't usually give, as references, people who think I am a useless waste of space.

> I get the appeal of references.

Referals and word of mouth are 1000x more valuable than the references candidates put on their CV.
If I understand correctly, the interaction length of such an energetic neutrino in rock is only in the tens of kilometers.
Mirrored raid is good. Other raid levels are of dubious value nowadays.

Ideally you use "software raid" or file system with the capabilities do scrubbing and repair to detect bitrot. Or have some sort of hardware solution that can do the same and notify the OS of the error correction.

And, as always, Raid-type solutions mostly exist to improve availability.

Backups are something else entirely. Nothing beats having lots of copies in different places.
I'd appreciate an explanation of why my tax money should go to feed brown people in other countries. Those children should have thought twice before getting into a civil war, can't they take responsibility for their actions? I swear, the youth these days is just looking for handouts.
> Oh, you mean the monument to nazi collaborators?

No. But name-calling everything a "nazi" does not surprise me one bit. To hardcore Russian nationalists, the mere existence of Latvian nation and state is "nazism". Since they were kicked out in the early 1990s, they've promised to return, murder everyone who opposes them, root out Latvian people and culture, and make Latvia theirs. Such revenge fantasies have been a common theme on Russian state media for decades.

> All of this happened after the EU started sending weapons to Ukraine for the purpose of killing Russians, sanctioning Russia heavily, freezed $300 billions in assets, not to mention the destruction of northstream 2. Reciprocal hostility is perfectly normal.

I expected you to say this - as an indication that you don't know what you are talking about.

The hybrid attack against Poland started in 2021, a year before the latest Russian invasion of Ukraine and everything that followed it. The long chain of such hostile border violations, including extreme examples such as the attacks on Lithuanian border guards and their execution[1], goes back to early 1990s.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_OMON_assaults_on_Lithua...
Discussion (69 points, 1 day ago, 67 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43007564
this makes me nostalgic for the days when d3.js and observable made it regularly to HN front page...
You're both right. The issue here is that both the JVM and the kernel use algorithms that can use all your RAM to speed things up, and there's no good way to know which side should 'win' (to get the best performance).

Historically the JVM will happily use all your RAM even if it doesn't need to, because that reduces the amount of GC work required which increases CPU time available to the IDE for analysis and other tasks. It can be told there's a limits, in which case it'll spend more time GCing to stay under it.

Modern JVMs changed this old default and will wait until the app is idle then start reclaiming memory and releasing it back to the OS. I guess it depends what you mean by "mid sized" but 10GB is quite a bit. It'd be worth checking that everything is running on a recent JVM. Gradle in particular can be a hog if you run it on old JVMs.
Thank you or your support! I am disappointed with the result, but, to be honest, no hard feelings. Wish they let me do the take-home assignment, but it is what it is. Rolled the dice. It was not my day. Will roll it again with as many companies as it takes to get a good gig.

> Meanwhile deepseek is hiring college grads and the like, for way better tech.

If only I knew Chinese...

> I highly doubt that they've got a better ai but are too scared to show it off. Is there any independent verification of that?

Nope. Just the rumor
We are where video generation isn't enough
I use it to make oatmeal in the morning. Fastest and easiest option.
Most other fields produce things that can be sold in the legal market - and so the value of those things can be determined by the market.
Etiological connections between initial Covid-19 and 2 rare infectious diseases
The killer feature that made me switch to DeaDBeeF was the replaygain scanner that works out of the box. I just wish it would integrate better with the KDE environment.
Desirability as housing or as investment? Because speculation has a tendency to overlook the little things that make a quality product.
That is a good thing, if we want AI companies to be competitive enough.

If you add regulations, people will use other AI companies from countries without them. The only result of that would be losing the AI race.

You can see this at Huggingface top models, fine-tuned models are way more popular than official ones.

And this is also good considering most companies (even China) offer their models free to download and use locally. Democratizing AI is the good approach here.
Not dupe. Your one is a distinct report.
Has Sanjeev Arora pivoted to AI? Was he always interested in this? I thought he was more of a theoretician.

Maybe he’ll crack why DNNs work, whatever that means. To answer that question you have to formalize what it means for them to “work”. Good luck defining that in a reasonable way.

The majestic genius of Gödel was finding a way of exhibiting an unprovable truth.*

* yes, assuming consistency
It works for any country with Google Maps, so China won't work but besides that, you can get the data in many countries. Some countries are not that active in reviews in Google so data might be more limited, but I've done similar stuff in the past for Mexico and Brazil and it worked great.
I've been using strawberry since moving to linux since there was no good foobar2000 replacement but I just discovered fooyin these past couple of days and this is so convincingly close that I can pretend it's just foobar2000.

That's not to throw any shade on strawberry, it's also incredibly good, but foobar2000 will always have it's claws in me.
Why does this matter?

Two opposing factions can negate each other to leave a nil influence, and this seems likely to be the case when its resting on a foundation of ‘faith’.
They mentioned the grey market a couple time, although some of their examples did seem like applications that would be more useful for the black market.

Anyway, I’m not 100% sure what they meant by grey market. It looks like they were talking about maybe selling to “agencies” which, I guess, could include state intelligence agencies. If that’s what they meant, it wouldn’t be that surprising to find that the black market and grey market prices influence each other, right?

I mean we could ask our intelligence agencies why they are shopping in the same markets as criminals but I guess they will say something like “it is important that we <redacted> on the <redacted>, which will allow us to better serve the <redacted> and keep the <redacted> safe.”