skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You might be right, I did the math too quickly and can't fix the posting.
As they say about this 'back of the envelope' type calculations will only you get 'ball park' estimates.

The $450 million is also an estimate that could be off by an order of a magnitude.

My argument still stands: in-memory databases with SRAM wafers are much faster and cheaper than customers (managers) realize, no need to have database software.

In 1997 the IRAM paper was still thinking about 180nm DRAM chips, in 2025 we can do 3nm wafer scale integrations so Moores law gives us affordable Terabyte in-memory databases that cost less than a programmer to write and manage databases.

In 1981 Dan Ingalls wrote[1] in Design Principles Behind Smalltalk: "An operating system is a collection of things that don't fit into a language. There shouldn't be one."

IN 2025 I argue that "a database is a collection of tricks to shuffle data between compute and storage memory. There shouldn't be one.".

I would go one step further and say a von Neumann architecture or Harvard architecture microprocessor is a collection of gates to compute in separated memory storage. There shouldn't be one.

[1] https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/smalltalk....
It's a good "razor" to strip away rationalizations and sophistry used to defend perverse or failed systems and ideas.

E.g. the "purpose" of fascism is nihilistic violence and the "purpose" of communism is rule by a bureaucratic elite that is somehow more equal than everyone else. All the sophistry is bullshit.
Japanese and Scandinavian design have a long history of simplicity and subtlety; addition by subtraction and minimalism. Makes sense for projects with those principles in mind.
> But anything that requires actual competent governance, from infrastructure to foreign policy, has been total shit my entire lifetime.

"Far from perfect, but reasonably serviceable" ≠ "total shit"
Right, so you're grading it on bean counting.

Importantly, the NASDAQ also had a 9-10x increase in this period, so while Apple did grow, it's not exploding benchmarks under his tenure as far as I see it.
Please do not mistake "AI ethics" for "AI safety", where the latter is about "Studying and reducing the existential risks posed by advanced artificial intelligence" [1, 2].

[1]: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/topics/ai-safety
[2]: https://www.safe.ai/work/statement-on-ai-risk
> It's not like you can have automated tests with million of random links.

Why not? They were already filtering millions of random links with the existing system. Saving some of those results to run regressions against before making changes to critical infrastructure should be trivial.
In rare situations, they can test on non-consenting patients. A few years back, there was a trial of "synthetic blood" intended to save trauma patients who were bleeding to death. They got a special permit to administer it to said patients without consent, because there is effectively no other way to test it. I don't recall the brand name or whatever came out of it. But something similar might be possible for this antivenom.
Google’s entire business is your personal data. I’d much rather my browsing info be sent to some small website for local analysis for their own purposes vs. hoovered up by the largest data broker in the world and aggregated with everything else about me.

Did you read the recent article about how reCAPTCHA is used for tracking you across the internet? I have no reason to believe GA isn’t similar. And just think about how much info they have on you from reading all of your emails.
> Maybe that will change. Germany certianly has capability to manufacture nuclear armements. The UK may rejoin if the situation gets dire enough.

Given the politics here, I don't see that happening. No nuclear reactors, even.

I won't be too surprised if Finland gets some, but I don't really know the full politics of the area, only that they have reactors and are concerned about Russia.

Poland might, but no earlier than 2030.

In Europe but not in the EU, Ukraine… entirely depends on if they think they have nothing left to lose. If it looks like Trump will sell them out and they don't think anyone else will pick up enough slack to keep them independent of Moscow, they may rush a development program.

I can easily believe that Ukraine would try to hire any of these workers. No reason to think any of these workers would be interested, but I can see Ukraine trying.
This article is timely - I just returned home yesterday from the funeral of a very close friend who died of sepsis. He was told at the ER that he just needed to go home and rest and that his stomach pain was likely a colitis flare-up.

I wonder if there will ever be a "rescue treatment" for sepsis that is based on this research. Lets hope so.
I have found it helpful and cathartic to write a response to an article or comment, and then close the window without posting. In many cases it is much more rewarding than posting and viewing the train wreck that is the responses.

Obviously, not in this case though. ;-)
Not sure if you read Generation Kill or watched the miniseries, but that is one of the main points. In there, there were two platoon commanders, Lieutenant Fick and Captain America(The book never reveals its name, and I think the series does, but I don't recall at this moment). While Lieutenant Fick was a competent officer that tried to kept the welfare of his troops, he often butted heads with its direct superiors since the order given to him could endanger the lives of his subordinates while not accomplishing nothing of value. In contrast Captain America, was an incompetent officer who gave reckless orders, was ignored by his troops and could have been possibly be charged with war crimes. At the end of the series, when the journalist is interviewing the battalion commander about why Captain America was never disciplined for his actions, the battalion commander answers that the same leeway that he gave to Lieutenant Fick was given to Captain America. In other words if he were to punish Captain America, he should also be punishing Lieutenant Fick. In retrospective is understandable, but when you read or watch it, you wonder why no action is being taken to discipline Captain America and why no one listens to Lieutenant Fick
hey man, this site might be full of assholes but you shouldn't group in the autistics, they didn't do anything to you
Open Source projects could sell SBOM fragments with correct licensing information.

"Instead of scanning for copyright notices and license texts yourself, just sponsor us on GitHub and get access to always up-to-date SBOM information by the people who really know what‘s inside“.
I had one extensive exchange with ChatGPT to generate an image of a man and a woman working together on a leather crafting project. No matter the prompt, the man was systematically the one "working" and the woman being there to assist.

Bias correction in images feels a lot more primitive than in text.
You may want to look up under whose presidency it was when the United States Justice Department sued Microsoft in 1998. :)

Musk was far, far less political (at least regarding his public persona) even 10 years ago; his persona was more heavily futurism oriented. Electric cars to help mitigate climate change, colonizing Mars, that kind of stuff. It wasn't really a "liberal" or "conservative" thing then. Would've been nice if he stuck on this path IMHO.
All this marketability tuning may some day result in models which are extremely finely attuned to our current societal norms and taboos.

At which point the models will stop reinforcing (racial/gender) biases and start reinforcing said taboos instead. I don't think anyone wants that either
Oh no, if only there was something they could do about it...

Glib aside, the brand factor for some of these companies is insane and they are milking it for all its worth. They are obviously not limiting themselves to the local middle-class, a Disney vacation is an aspirational thing for many nouveau riche in China, even wealthy people in other parts of the world who would not have traveled so far for a vacation, or even been aware that a place called Disneyworld exists.

Disney is just reaping the harvest from years of sowing the seeds of cultural dominance.
Horrible defense? You're kidding, right? Check out the mid-80's - 90's - early 2000's Bulls, Knicks, Celtics, 76'ers, and Pistons, or basically any team east of the Mississippi. The 95-96 Bulls were the best defensive team in NBA history. No one's played defense in the NBA for 20 years at least. And yeah, the 3 has completely changed the game into something more resembling NBA 2K1, which is exactly what the league wants.
I prefer high-contrast dark mode, it seems less tiring to me, but I think it depends on the light conditions around the PC. It's usually not very bright where I work.

If it's very bright, I prefer light mode.
This is similar to how Tailwind provides a complete color palette to use in UI development.

Different shades of a single hue give you flexibility to create UI elements that feel like a family and coordinate well with each other. As an example, you might want a blue card with similarly blue borders. You may use a lighter blue for the background, and a darker one for the borders.

Instead of using a black border with opacity applied, each shade for this palette has been individually selected to fit within its hue family. The other benefit is, for each "shade level" you can guarantee they will be consistent across hues: 50% gray is near 50% red, etc.

More generally, this is designed so that each hue looks great with every other hue here. Not just any color will do, they need to coordinate.
The lawsuit alleges it is. That doesn't make it so.
I guess you have to sign up to a few, test them on your site, and decide which one to use. In the end, they are all slightly different.

If you would like to self-host or have other specific requirements, you can quickly reduce the list to a couple of options of course.
intelligence is something like 60-80% heritable
What's more remarkable, is that the user created an account just to post this. Behavior like this on the internet always confuses me.

RE: Empathy. I've known a few people who's digital footprints look like this in real life. It's usually not empathy that's the issue (well, _primary_ issue). There's usually a cluster of things that have gone sideways that leads someone to becoming the sort of person who does this sort of thing.
> What I'm saying here is, for some of us, no.

How long did you maintain the keto diet and at what ratio and what you ate exactly?

I've read very rarely cases that hunger wasn't fixed by high fat keto (some type of eating disorder).
Yes I guess it is the largest breach. If we had a real government Musk would be up on Federal Charges and Trump would get impeached and convicted.

But this is what you get when billionairs owns all 3 branches of government and has for at least 25 years. The Supreme Court was purchased recently when they blessed Citizens United .
Most people are living automatons who find excuses in being too busy, too scared or too confident in believing "that's history, it can never happen again, we're living in a modern world" to notice things unfolding around, which is exactly what brought fascism to life back then.
Prey’s closest ancestor, by a mile, is System Shock, I’d say.
Yeah. Except it isn't so unbelievably terrible on both capex and opex as mechanical DAC.
Something I've noticed about all these privacy respecting analytics apps is they all seem to be using a similar UI, in fact the only one I know that uses a different UI is Motamo.

I wonder why that is? My suspicion is this is layout is becoming a "standard UI" for analytics software. Often times I see companies in the same space largely mimic each others UI's. Things like the "Find Care" option in most healthcare sites looks largely the same. Same thing goes for LLM frontends and time tracking software. It just seems that each team has individually come to the same conclusion about what the "best UI" is for a given task.

Umami Demo - https://eu.umami.is/share/LGazGOecbDtaIwDr/umami.is

Simple Analytics Demo - https://dashboard.simpleanalytics.com/simpleanalytics.com

Fathom Analytics Demo - https://app.usefathom.com/share/deasaicp/hilarious+platypus?...
Look, I'm aware that he's a liar and his track record from his first term should have made that pretty apparent to the voters at large. I'm just saying that the idea that "people voted for this" and therefore he has some kind of mandate for the current agenda is dumb when he explicitly said his policy was something else.
What is the "IPv4 Literals" test?
> but noone is framing that situation as the problem.

I think yimbys are framing that situation as THE problem.
Nyc has more homeless people, but they're sheltered. [1] California homeless have higher rates of mental illness and drug abuse.

It's this trifecta that people complain about - unsheltered, mentally ill and addicted. If we can solve any one, that feeling of abject squalor goes away.

[1] - https://open.substack.com/pub/dynomight/p/homeless
Apart from the access being normal, even if it weren’t, it is bizarre that people are obsessing over these details daily. The same people did not care what their administration did daily previously. They probably also were happy to see Trump’s tax returns leaked. They didn’t care when various large security breaches happened last year. But suddenly privacy is a life and death issue. This is partisanship taken to an extreme degree.
A single startup with fickle founders/investors is not a reliable source of funding.

C/C++ developed thanks to the effort of hardware, kernel, and os makers who invested billions into its development. Development of the JVM once occupied the effort of 10k engineers at SUN. JavaScript has a complex history, but has received significant investment from Netscape, Mozilla, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft.

Rust needs one or two singular players with 5+ billion to spend supporting and improving devs lives. The nascent efforts I’ve seen so far are just that - nascent.
There's the question of motivation. It seems possible that an advanced civilization could gravitationally disrupt a small planet like mercury, turn it into solar collectors and particle accelerators and create multiple-ton quantities of antimatter and use that for interstellar travel, but they would likely choose to do something else with those resources.

People have a hard time thinking on a timescale of half a lifetime, never mind a lifetime or several lifetimes. The realistic version of the Bussard ramjet is not that you aim for c=0.1 or more, but rather with D-D fusion you can make hops of 1,000-10,000 au to Oort cloud bodies, you could possible gravitationally disrupt an object like Pluto and turn it into little ringworlds or other colonies. It might take people like that 10,000 years to make it to the next star but if they can make a comfortable lifestyle along the way why would they bother? And why would we even care enough to send them out on such a quest?

Even colonizing Mars is problematic in the sense that it's inconceivable that you could bring anything back from Mars that would give us flatlanders any economic incentive to do it. It might be a gift to a population of a billion or so people that will live there, but profitable to us? No way.

So even if you could colonize the galaxy with Von Neuman probes, it won't happen in your lifetime, your children's lifetime, etc. Our civilization might not be there to get the data from the first probes to reach other stars and the more steps removed the more the probability drops. Still there's just that tiny probability of a 'dark forest' scenario where somebody finds one of those things and decides to do something about it.
Farming does not need to be that way. It's very amenable to electrification.

Long haul aviation needs high energy density.

You have heard critiques about farming that focus on very specific uses of corn and soybean under conventional American agribusiness, and while these are by no means the best biofuel feed stocks or the best harvesting methods, the low ROE is irrelevant if you are willing to feed in arbitrary quantities of cheap solar power to get precious liquid hydrocarbons out.

Flying contributes only 2.5% to global carbon emissions and it is one of the applications where hydrocarbons are least replaceable - bar hydrogen. It is dramatically easier to shift over anything that doesn't have to fight gravity, so flying will likely decarbonize last.
I've had the same thought, though if true I wish they'd sell an unlocked version for more money, similar to how they did the ads on lock screen
I guess.. it must be shocking to you? Seemingly absurd perhaps.

You can't say what you want in a shopping mall. They can decide who gets to stay in their premises, and for whatever reason they can eject you.

All the free speech cases, have been about government stopping speech. Whether its about deceny laws, or sedition - its always been the government vs a person / corporation.

So yeah - these have been the rights you lived under for all your life. Its never changed.

That is the operating definition of free speech that has worked in America since I started working in this space.
On a similar note: the Swedish armed forces just came out and recommended that people working for the military should use signal for their calls and messages for things that are not classified in any of the higher classifications.

https://cornucopia.se/2025/02/forsvarsmakten-infor-krav-pa-s... (Swedish)
If you continue to give Musk the benefit of the doubt, then you are charlie brown running at the football lucy is holding.
Fringe means that it attracts weirdos, demagogues etc, as things normally fringe for a reason, but even if they are not, people have so much reputational risk for publicly advertising these views, so that either suggests they are grifters, so they do not have reputation to start with or they have poor judgement.
Didn’t those “political persecutions” end up with actual criminal convictions for fraud by an independent jury?
They aren't ineffective so much as the thing they are attempting to do is not what they say.

The democratic party is controlled opposition. Democrats, like Republicans, take in a ton of money from the donor class.

America is a capitalist nation, in capitalism, those with the capital get to reap the profits. The people with the capital therefore end up with more money, and they can use that money to donate to the political class. This causes the political class to become an instrument of the capital class, and the parties end up being marketing.

The goals of the democratic and republican parties both end up to serve capital. Republicans have an easier time since they have incorporated serving capital into their political platform. Democrats end up seeming ineffective because their messaging is that they are somehow taking most of their money from the capital class but are actually on the side of the labor class.

The capital class has the money, but the labor class has the numbers, both parties need the numbers because until we completely do away with democracy, people, not dollars, get to vote.

As the democratic party has become more and more captured by the capital class and their donations, they can no longer seek votes through advancing policies that would support the labor class by restraining the capital class (this would make their donors unhappy). The democratic party pivoted to trying to find a way to carve out least-bad pro-capital class reforms (things like public-private partnerships, school vouchers, etc), least-disruptive pro-labor class reforms (entrenching capital class insurance companies as some kind of improvement to healthcare, slow rolling minimum wage so they could have symbolic victories for keeping up with inflation, and then not even doing that), and more and more towards cultural issues that do not threaten the capital class (LGBTQ+ rights, DEI, etc).

Republicans have adopted populism and wedge issues politics to capture the labor class vote.

The reason the democrats are terrible opposition isn't because we've somehow elected the dumbest people imaginable, it's that they are pointing at a different goal. Their goal is to remain in the political class, to keep the donations of the donor class (which just happens to be the capital class) flowing, and if that class says "let the massive tax cuts for us play out, we don't care about the fallout" that's what they will do.
There's always static IPs.
Do you trust DHCP on v4?
Humans aren’t in the loop for automated bans. That has no relationship to staffing size.

This is likely a problem with the link banning algo not treating signal.me as high volume enough to prevent an automated ban.

That same logic most definitely exists at well-staffed companies and the internet is full of stories of people getting screwed by these systems. Google sinking legit companies with no recourse, locking out Gmail users who had decades of their life there, etc.
Arch-delta Saves 80% Of Bandwidth On Upgrades
OP you're not alone, I'm in the same exact position and cried to my partner yesterday sharing like

- "Couldn't get level up as my startup employer keeps on giving great feedback but needs more impact"
AND

- "not skilled or talent enough to raise money for start - rejected by YC (they claimed i'm at top 5% - which I think to drive their pipeline for next batch submission)"
AND

- "Started bootstrap company crossed 2K$ MRR and failed due to cofounder conflict - you can blame me"
AND

- "Tried building SAAS product and all failures with partner (but she is optimistic)"
AND

- "Started consulting company and landed almost gov bidding for development contract (software) and failed in last round"

And currently started working on hobby project as open-source until something clicks. I feel every door is closed for me now atleast current perceptions (strong believer some door might open - but the wait time is killing me)

but one positive part is my networth gone from 0 to 650k (came from public company RSU and not a big amount for age 25 but heavily indexed) and this is giving some freedom to try and explore more things.
Context would be for example knowing how the code around the data handles those values. Some numbers in a database do not in any way imply real world effects.
I don’t want to actually get into a “which is more” argument because I think historically in total you are correct, but Mozilla, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft are some of the largest financial backers of Rust.
My experience suggests the opposite; the city was an upwards trajectory until 2018 or so but it's taken a turn for the worse since.

I lived in SF from 2009 to 2024. Every part of the city has gotten worse. When I moved, parts of Mission were definitely rough and they've cleaned up quite a bit. Even SoMa became somewhat interesting, as much as area like that could have before Covid.
No, he 100% failed the test.
And a few weeks before that

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42645862

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42691913
Your working memory must be better than mine.

I can remember two numbers from 0 to 255, but four? Not in a million years.

Isn't there an idea that our working memory holds seven pieces of information? Which would be two of those numbers and change, if you consider each digit as a piece of information.
Are there any other countries where everyone is suing everyone left and right. Or is this mainly a US thing?
Do you have any examples of left-wing disinfo that Twitter let spread previously?
As someone who used Windows and Linux my whole career and now am forced to use Mac for a new job; I completely agree, I was right, Mac is a very weird thing overall.
We ended up using ClickHouse after trying Timescale and InfluxDB. ClickHouse is great but important to spend a day or two understanding the data model to make sure it fits what you are trying to do. I have no affiliation with ClickHouse (or any company mentioned).