skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google solved a real problem. They indexed the web and made search work, and they did it very cheaply. So cheaply, in fact, that they could give their service away to users and monetize it with ads. LLMs are not like this. They're both extremely expensive to run and they don't do anything truly valuable--there's no killer app. So how exactly is OpenAI or their ilk (or for that matter the rest of us) supposed to use these things to make money?

This is the only question, and the fact it's still an open question just screams "hype bubble". My bet is this AI stuff goes the way of the NFT.
This makes me feel better about playing Kerbal Space Program.
The critical injuries were rescinded again though.
> This might cover say half of one's laptop, which no matter how stupid it sounds, makes taking your luggage with you the only financially sensible choice in a crash (unless you have insurance).

If there's no smoke, no visible flames, and you can do so safely without obstructing other passengers' egress? I can see the argument, sure.

Obviously if the cabin is filling with smoke or there are visible flames or other obvious dangers, the financially sensible choice is to evacuate ASAP as funerals often cost more than laptops.
There's a massive spectrum between NYC and a tiny village. Almost every place you can live is in between. Why bring up such extremes when the author is talking about more common places?

Author's example of Newmarket is over 80k people. They just mention Tiny town goths as an idea that does exist - not something extremely common.
I appreciate their minimalism too, but with http2 and http3 isn't this an anti-pattern? The overhead of loading an additional file is negligible in http2/3, but inlining causes you to have to re-download the CSS on every page instead of benefiting from the browser's cache.
it might be subjective, personally i can't stand a crease on screen at all

why not just use 2or3 hinged screens like surface duo? surface duo is ugly too, but it looks better than a creased screen
“Outside of that, everyone is hired / appointed.”

Tell me you don’t know how the US government works without telling me you don’t know how the US government works, why don’t you?
Quick and Dirty version here from a few months back:

https://paste.sr.ht/~mcotdev/f5becc377af8761529a1ddd2b915534347a9e429
Yes, interesting case. I'd say the difference is that those theatres are agreeing to those terms. With books, I think it's fair to read chapter or two in a bookshop and decide if you want more. But if you read the whole book, you can't then just say "That wasn't great, I won't pay". Nobody agreed to those terms, and you're getting the product of someone's labour and just declining to pay for it.
I think there's the same logic flaw of looking at how things are at the start - so so - and how they may be in 20 years - Google getting an advertising cut for most of the world's commerce, AI replacing/doubling the ~100tn/yr labour market.
I want a trifold (albeit not this one). I switched to foldables with the Z Fold 3 and never looked back; I've upgraded each generation since, because they make my life substantially better. While I still spend a lot of time at my computer for dev work, I have some chronic issues that limit the hours I can manage; to me, my foldable is essentially a disability aid.

I wrote an entire novella on my foldable (only the editing was done on a computer), done countless meetings while splitting the screen for a doc review, etc. It has genuinely changed my quality of life and I'm thankfully in a position that the cost isn't an issue.
+1

I have a "toy" 12v cordless Bosch drill (small ~cylindrical battery in the handle and not the square ones hanging underneath that you see in non-toy drills) that was approx the same price and I did pretty much exactly this same thing of drilling a 60mm hole through the side of a kitchen cabinet and it didn't even blink. The drill is a bit of a beast through for such a toy - I have drilled 16mm bits directly though double skin brick walls using it (installing external socket + fused spur) so not sure what level of crapness it takes to be below the toy drill I have.
yes, especially if this stopwatch-tag combo became visible on the home page after that until I decide to hide/delete them
1. Cost of finding a professional that you can trust.

2. Cost of explaining your situation to them.

3. Cost of back and forth email and calls.

4. Cost of scheduling a time that fits you both (and having to wait possibly several days).

5. Cost of having to be at home at that specific time.
Have you seen Unitree robots? They started mass producing them. It's Chinese company.
I consider the trifold phone more of a technological flex than intended mass market product.

But significant than they are now exporting it; though Huawei still faces massive headwinds outside China due to the American restrictions. In particular on the software front - ie where is your European banking app or Google pay equivalent?
US social security pays about $3k/mo, so $1k/mo post-tax pre-expenses is not just enough to retire but also typical. These are real numbers from a real person (unmarried) in my life. They own their house, have about $200k in retirement assets (generating that $12k/yr in income) and otherwise have a fine life which is spent mostly gardening and helping parent grandkids. People are not rich!

The main issue with this narrative is that social security is on track to be insolvent in less than a decade. If that happens, then the long-tail of regular non-rich people are going to be in a world of hurt.
That doesn't seem to be the popular view though. The largest iPhones are a bit large for me but the current iPhone Pro size is about my sweet spot. Probably if I felt the way you do, I'd use my Apple Watch more than I do. I find both my watch and tablet don't add enough incremental value to use much of the time.
Omg I loved it so much. Thanks :)
> Currently, Grok Web is not accessible in the United Kingdom or the countries of the European Union. We are diligently working to extend our services to these regions, prioritizing compliance with local data protection and privacy laws to ensure your information remains safely secure.

I suppose you can take that to mean that people who do have access to the service should not expect much in terms of data protection.
That's great for a startup, but bad for nuclear weapons and financial data.
> "We don't do that, ask your power company"

I've been getting a lot of the same, from reputable companies, and then if I want a single person to get it all done, I have to have a connection I can definitely trust and does quality?
> “Lack of Google still is a ‘gaping hole’ for mainstream international market especially those who will pay top dollar for a tri-fold hardware but which want to run Netflix or Google’s Play Store"

Yeah I can see that being an issue.

> "or the latest cutting edge GenAI Google Gemini features,”

Uh... really? I can't imagine that gemini is a showstopper for the average phone user in 2025. Maybe they're just saying this to make Google feel happy?
> Hi Franz, it's 2025. We beat the Nazis 80 years ago. It's time to move on to the 21st century.

Then why the hell are they still waving flags?

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna191304

Your bias is showing.
I'm worried with a slowing housing market (demand is at a 5yr low) there could be a perfect storm of major market crash coupled with plummeting home values.
Let a 6 month old play with a green or red ball.

5 year later show the same two balls and say you will give the kid an ice cream if it picks the same color. Obviously give the ice cream no matter the pick ...

Look for correlation.
It's pretty much running Android.
There are exceptions to every rule but most of the time you're way better of when you use simple and reliable technology. If you need to copy something between servers you probably don't need anything more complicated than rsync. For blob storage you probably don't anything more complex than S3. For database backups do you really need multi-region streaming backups or does mysqldump suffice?

Every product has limitations. Well designed and simple products/tools have limitations that are easy to understand and easy to work around. The more complicated your architecture gets the more devilishly complicated the edge cases become. That's where you get punished for choosing complexity.

MySQL and Postgres are larger than Sqlite by more than an order of magnitude. What do you get in exchange for all those lines of code? Do you actually need the extra functionality? If you do, great. If you don't, choose the simplest solution that works. When you use simple tools changing your mind later is cheap.
They updated list of CPUs they officially support for newly build PCs by the OEMs.

And Intel discontinued 10th gen desktop 4 years ago. So it is not unreasonable to tell OEMs not build new machines with those parts.

The list of supported parts can be found here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/mi...
>Foldable phones are just flashy status symbols at this point without much use

I have a foldable phone, and the killer use case is watching videos (YouTube, Netflix) on the go, at the breakfast table, on a plane or train.

And better gaming (e.g. I played XCom Enemy Within a couple of years ago, blew my mind. A full PC game from my teenage years, in the palm of my hand). The game was so much more usable in the unfolded state with a pen/stylus.

The third great use case is filming myself lifting weights from anywhere flat e.g. a bench. Without use of a tripod or the waterbottle leaning trick (which requires a mostly full bottle, and a high friction surface and the angle is never right).

Also, for the first time since I was a teenager, strangers will actually ask you about it. It's rare enough that people are even interested in phones anymore. This is definitely YMMV

But I can assure you, it's no status symbol, unless identifying yourself as a tech nerd with slightly too much disposable income is a status you want. Which is what I am, but who aspires to this?
This is absolutely fantastic, well done!

If you're not done playing with it, you can make it dynamic so it's always accurate, haha! Show the smallest "uncompleted" unit of time available with a fallback for December 31st evenings where tintin simply says nothing...

At night: select the week.

Also end of the week: select the month.

Also end of the month: select the year.

Also end of the year: fallback.
I find my iPhone gives a pretty reliable day unless I'm using it really heavily. The removable magnetic battery is pretty useful for a bit more oomph without cables being all over the place.
> There is no cluster at 150 in the underlying data though, there's even distribution among unrealistically high age ranges.

Is that so? How do you know? Afaik that data is confidential and access is highly restricted. Or are you saying that that's what Elon said and we should take his word for it?

> This is yet another case of people taking partisan telephone game conjecture literally.

I don't follow. Could you please explain?
But maybe this is actually the reason behind the presentation: he sees this vast effort to transition to PQC, and he's wandering whether it is worth it or not.
And for what is worth, I'm also a bit skeptic of the maturity of PQ cryptosystem, as they tend to be much more complicated than the classical counterpart and didn't receive as much scrutiny. What happened to Rainbow (layered UOV) is a cautionary tale.
I've used SQLite in a project once, client-server application configuration management interface; I picked SQLite because the application I was replacing also used it, and because it was standalone; the application was run on-premise, and one of the issues was that the version of PHP it ran on was horribly outdated (plus it was PHP, so it needed some setup work). My replacement was intended to be fully standalone, no external dependencies, and so also no requirement to have a database server running somewhere.

I would've preferred something like postgres but embedding that and running it with redundancy is nontrivial compared to sqlite. Mind you I never did get as far as running sqlite redundantly (using e.g. rqlite), I quit after 2.5 years since the project was bigger than any project I've ever done, and those were fully staffed teams.
Linux kernel is old rotting legacy which is improving itself.
> I'd happily pay for this work if I had any trust in the results.

This is exactly how I feel.

What's even worse is that when I hire contractors, I invariably have to clean up their mess and fix things myself so that they're up to my standards.

I've had a contractor do a job so poorly that it was more trouble to fix their mess than it would have been for me to do the thing myself from the start.
I grew up in a ~30k town/city, nearest bigger town was less than 100k, and while there was something more there, you had to go to bigger cities to truly be anonymous. Although in the 100k city, coming from an outside town, it was "enough" on that side. But I don't remember there being a "scene" at all (heavy metal in my case).
It kind of does have to be one file, because foreign keys can't be enforced across files.

For a simple example, if you have one db file per user, as others recommend, how do you check that a username or an email is unique? Do you maintain a "global" db for fields with unique constraints? But then when those fields are updated you need to manage this at the application level, and atomicity can't really be guaranteed... Or is there another way?
Synaptic pruning?
> Fixing the deficit is the opposite of looting, actually.

What evidence is there that the current moves will lead to "fixing the deficit?"

Illegally redistributing of appropriated spending could be easily understood as looting in most context. Not sure how this would be excluded.
And of course there is https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_DB
Of course you need to comply with a deadline. I am just asking about a time when access seems to be totally out of control, and with the hope that won't be for long. Once some compliance with PI protection is re-instated and clearly explained to the public, then maybe it would be safer to file electronically.

How exactly is paper filing safer, if those with out of control access are placed in a position to MITM, in such a case, by simply opening the incoming envelopes? I would be even more paranoid about such, not knowing what will happen (also - hopefully transitory) with USPS controls, especially if one places the IRS address on the mail ...
Perhaps. I've seen enough selfish parents voice this sentiment unironically to no longer give people that benefit of doubt.
It also depends on the lifestyle a lot. For many people ruggedness is a high priority. That’s why today's phones tend to have a metal chassis all around and protruding curved edge screens have basically gone away.

Typical current smartphone form factor can be used in any conditions without worrying too much about it. Foldables of today can only be used worry free by non-outdoorsy urban people doing white collar jobs (I don’t mean any offense here, the same applies to eg a Porsche 911).
Clear view from the plane waiting to take off

https://www.reddit.com/r/CatastrophicFailure/comments/1isabt...

Which also brings into mind cockpit distractions but its amazing they caught this on video.
Marriages in China Crash, Portending Deeper Demographic Woes
>sorry, but the way to uphold those values is by 1) setting an example of a prosperous nation that is a good example of those values (something we're failing at miserably right now, unfortunately), and 2) creating incentives and motivating other countries to adopt those same values

How do you know this? America is far more despondent today than during the Cold War where they were willing to play those dirty tricks in force and propaganda to win, and they did. Current America's predicaments are precisely tracked down to their risk aversion to force that Russia, China and Iran are quite apt to capitalize on. The dove policy is arguably an even greater failure than the neocons.

Even domestically, foreigners aren't laughing at Texas or the Deep South, they're laughing at progressive cities like San Francisco or Portland or LA that are the bastions of this no-force mentality you are speaking about.
I think there should also be a limit of how long you can use DRM. Something like 5 or 10 years. After that for most things your sales have plummeted and now you're just punishing the consumer. If you want people to buy again for some new format or whatever you need to add actual value. Working on the new thing when purposefully ignoring the old is not value.
> See what the ban on Huawei accomplished

Without the Huawei ban, Huawei may have taken 70% market share and killed most local competitors now, same as BYD

I'm on the side of China but I have to say it's good for american industries

the one you should really question is the chip sanction
One of my earliest memories is not of an actual event/place but of a nightmare I had. Given the tendency to forget dreams very quickly I've always wondered how common retaining memories of dreams from early childhood is - eg I've never heard anyone else mention this when talking about early memories.
"No signup needed" is the way to go!

As the world has moved to everything online, I've gotten sick and tired of having to create a new account for every single service I might want to use. At the same time, I hate the idea of logging in with an account of one of the big leechers so that they can profile me even better.

I get that there are some things where it makes sense to have a personal account. But a lot of smaller stuff out there really has no excuse for forcing me to create an account - and I'm so annoyed by it that I mostly just don't even bother trying out something I otherwise would.
Haven’t read the art yet (about too), but I found the title humorous considering how inaccurate my washer/dryer are. The other my dryer said 1 minute for 5 minutes and 51 seconds. I timed it!
heh, the Life of Brian..[0]

- You're all different!

- WE are all different!

- (lonely voice) i am not

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVygqjyS4CA
Musk signals DOGE could look into gold at Fort Knox
I want a stretchable phone. Starts as a 15cm diagonal screen, can be stretched to 30cm tablet size.
Lets just then let it slide?

Thats not how it works.

Btw. i think having the richest man in the world in his current position is very very unique.
Great suggestion, and thank you!
They could always go even milder with “Response of the Jedi” — or perhaps take the polite British approach with “Request of the Jedi.”
IMO it's always going to be a problem if you rely on hype instead of common sense. All the hype around SQLite is because you often don't _really_ need to have high availability, online schema changes, etc, and 99% of the web sites can easily fit on a single (large) server.

It's also worth mentioning that it doesn't meab that if you're not using SQLite you automatically get backups, replication, high availability, etc. There are few (if any) production-ready databases that are even capable of high availability, and those who are typically do this at a cost of catastrophically low write performance, especially compared to SQLite WAL mode.
SQLite is great for what it is and its stated purpose, but it's a fundamentally poor database if you actually care about your data. I'm not talking about durability. It's perfectly durable, as in it won't lose your data (well, it might). I'm talking about the lack of actual data types and "everything is a string". I'm talking about the general flimsiness. Hipp even said that is a non-goal because it will bloat the embedded object size in your binary. Because that's what it's for....

Insert a string into an int column? Go ahead, it doesn't care. Use a date function on a text value it doesn't recognize as a date? Go ahead, you'll just get a NULL instead of any indication that your value is wrong for what you think it should be.

It's fine for the address book on your phone, or the bookmarks in your browser. But terrible for server things that are important.
I don’t think most touch it. As much as I’ve always thought embedded dbs have a place in data analytics and warehousing, I think the issue is that it’s really a sql api on top of a file system and it’s easiest to just copy the db with something like rclone and treat it like a file. Like others mentioned there’s also litestream for replication.

Fivetran, I believe is still involved and committed to duckdb. Duckdb has a SQLite extension. So, it’s entirely possible they could add SQLite support. I would say the issue then is familiarity and demand within the industry.

https://www.fivetran.com/blog/how-fast-is-duckdb-really

They also have a talk given at duckcon that goes over the architecture.
Small RC model planes often have the wings only loosely held on, such as by elastic bands, anticipating that the kids flying them will send them pinwheeling into the ground a few times while learning to operate them.

But yes, in a full size passenger aircraft I would expect the specification for wings falling off to say "avoid"
What's the Huawei OS policy towards... uhm rampant piracy?

I guess that's one way to carve a niche from Android in international markets.
(oh and i know the article isn’t about that, I was just reminded by the title)
The most important part of that paper is the first two sentences:

"Metabolic rate and ageing are both regulated by mitochondria. Mitochondrial membrane potential, however, declines with age resulting in reduced adenosine triphosphate (ATP) production, which is a major source of cellular energy. Cellular decline is further accelerated with ageing by increased production of pro-inflammatory reactive oxygen species (ROS)1."

Forget everything else. Why does "Exposure to long wavelength light (650–900 nm) in animals improves mitochondrial function, increasing ATP production and reducing ROS"? That is what needs to be figured out, because red light will not always increase ATP production and reducing ROS because we are all different. Genetics, nutrition, it all plays a role.

It might be as well that red light helps in the short term but hurts in the long term.

On ATP, do you know what the real name for ATP is Mg-ATP, That is magnesium ATP. Not enough magnesium, not enough ATP. (I am in no way claiming that magnesium is a cure all, just making a point.) What reduces ROS? Selenium, magnesium, Catalase, etc...
Im pretty sure he doesn't like that he is not able to make it more successful but i don't believe he regrets it.

He would have regretted it if it wouldn't have played out (and this game he is currently playing, is not finished yet) like it currently does. He said in an interview that he puts everything on one card now.

Edit: Also he gets a lot of valuation due to him being a cult or whatever. From companies surviving the AI phase we are in right now, if he can't get the nazi people on his side to buy his stuff, he is a very high risk.

He destroyed twitters brand and bluesky emerged. He destroys Tesla and other car makers making ground. SpaceX needs a lot of subsidies and his goal for mars is only a cult topic not a financial success topic.
Thanks! I rebranded all of the social links to be uniformly @CodesCarolina and I thought I got them all. Good catch.
The point you're missing is that people were making the same kind of comments about Amazon and Uber not too long ago
I learned from a friend, if you are going to need a specific tool and don’t expect to use it a lot (for a single job), buy a cheap one that can do the job at your friendly cheap importer ( harbor freight etc). Renting is ok too. You can skip the cordless too..

Going for use the tool a lot (drills, pliers etc) buy something better.
Carbon or Extreme? I can't even get resume on windows to work properly on my 1st gen X1 Extremes