skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe they have the technical challenges solved (at least on paper), and the Singaporean and Australian governments have both approved the project.

I'm a little surprised Singapore approved it, as it'll need to supply about 10% of Singapore's power in order to cover the cost of the cable, which seems like a big vulnerability to me.

Next question is, can they find enough buyers in Singapore for that much power.
As evidenced, the scream test can be used effectively for everything.
>more than enough to stop an attack by NK.

Maybe a few years ago. Recent estimates for NK is ~40 fissile material for warheads and similar number of icbms, which incidentally is around how many gmd interceptors US has. Ideally need >1 interceptor for each incoming, so matter of NK dud rates.
Interesting set of comments.
Personally - fantastic! It's a co-scientist and not a "scientist". There's enormous value in reviewing work and ranking "what" might provide some interesting output. A lot of ideas are not even considered because they aren't "common" because their components are expensive. If there's a "reasonable expectation" then there's a lower risk of failure.
I'm not a scientist "anymore" but I'd love to play with this and see what odd combinations might potentially produce.
I think you missed my point. One of the reasons it's difficult to get good employment with an EU-based company is because it's also harder to terminate you.

Germany: Requires extensive justification for firing, works council approval, and mandates reinstatement for wrongful termination. Employer bears heavy burden of proof.

France: Must prove "real and serious cause," follow strict procedural steps, and provide mandatory tenure-based severance. Special protections for worker representatives.

Netherlands: Unique system requiring pre-approval from government agency or court before any dismissal. Heavy emphasis on severance.

Italy: Article 18 mandates justified grounds (economic or disciplinary) for firing. Court-ordered reinstatement common, especially in large companies.

Belgium: Requires detailed dismissal grounds and long notice periods up to 15 months. Mandatory outplacement services.
Everything in New Hampshire is food
Similar to what gedy described, when the UK operated Thor missiles, periodically crews and missiles were flown to Vandenberg for test launches. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Emily>
I wonder how Microsoft implements rust in their kernel.

As for this issue, it's just a nature of any project, people will come and go regardless, so why not let those C developers leave and keep the rust folks instead? At some point you have to steer the ship and there will always be a group of people unhappy about the course
It's not serving Singapore though. If anything it would serve Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia. All countries with vastly more people than Singapore.
The Constitution is explicit that all executive power is vested in the president.

Article III courts can “sort out all legal nuance”, but the power remains with the president.
And what, exactly, are we paying congress for? We could save tons just firing the whole lot!
Not a great rule of thumb as every state and municipality is different in this regard.

Many places will have different rates for raw food, prepared to go / delivery, and prepared for on-site consumption.

https://www.cpapracticeadvisor.com/2024/08/26/109453/109453/
I’m not familiar with the subject matter, but given your description, I wouldn’t really be impressed by anyone suggesting it. It just sounds like a very plausible “What if” alternative.

On the level of suggesting suitable alternative ingredients in fruit salad.

We should really stop insulting the intelligence of people to sell AI.
I guess it’s the latter. If you can afford, give your users a generous offer, but never unlimited. Otherwise, some people will find very creative ways to abuse it.
I might also add that all of the big data center companies have sustainability goals that will push demand for cleaner energy, and therefore investment, in the country where they build.

I work for one of the top datacenter companies in the world and we run 8TWh on 96% renewable energy.
Sounds exactly like a quantum state itself!

It is frustrating to try to unpick the hype and filter the “will never work” from the “eureka!”
> It's _insanely_ frustrating.

> at only 1,200 followed people.

I follow like, 50 people on bluesky. Who is following 1,200 people? What kind of value do you even get out of your feed?
The mini did exactly and precisely bump up the whole product range pricing. So the regular iPhone 12 got to $799 instead of $699. A 16e Mini will make the 16e product range starts at $499.
> the MCMC backed down after massive public outcry, but the government's authoritarian tendencies remain palpable.

That contradicts your thesis. They did listen to feedback from the people, that's democracy.
It'd be Golang if anything. Java might have too much overhead to be faster than C++ without negligence, but that's not because of the GC.
Outrage is demand driven, rather than supply driven.

Even if you solve all the worlds problemns, journalists would just stretch the truth further to find new things to be outraged about to keep the readers "happy".
Or, people are spiritual, and realize it to different degrees. It's very easy to get confused about what we know and don't know on these subjects.
Imagine how much “air pollution” one inhales when taking a big whiff of a nice curry.
Interesting that there's no discussion of 9front, probably some of the most fanatical lovers of plan9.

It is worth buying their copy of the programmer's manual for how good it is.
Looks like this was one of the inspirations behind severance.
I've done that. But in those cases, GC would also be fine. Might even end before it collects.
These must be nicer hotels than any of the ones I’ve ever been to…
It certainly looks like what LLMs are doing is one aspect of what a brain is doing.
That such a ridiculous idea even being proposed is already a huge indication of authoritarianism, not to mention that MCMC could resurrect the idea at any time.
Only 10 devices is a crazy limitation. I probably have close to 100 devices going through my DNS.
Easiest first step is to see if your current router has support for OpenWRT. I find OpenWRT kinda hard to use, but a lot of people swear by it and it's very capable even.

More powerful options are projects like PfSense or Opnsense, but those require more expensive hardware and for most uses you probably also need a separate switch. I personally use PfSense and find it relatively easy to use while being extremely powerful, absolutely jam packed with features but an accessible WebUI and clear documentation.

Probably the best all round option are the semi open, prosumer-ish products from companies like Ubiquiti or gl.inet (the latter is even based on OpenWRT, but with a nicer UI... I have one of their routers as a travel router). Ubiquiti's Unifi routers are very easy to use and jam packed with features for a pretty great price, but their platform is not truly open source. Still, gl.inet or Unifi are what I would probably most recommend to someone like you looking to upgrade but feeling overwhelmed by lack of knowledge.

Beware it's fun to tinker and that's how I learnd pretty much everything I know about networking, but breaking the Internet will not endear your new toys to your family. It's good to have a spare in case you mess up so you can keep the bits flowing while you undo your mistake. Anything you choose is going to be an ongoing learning experience if you're starting from no knowledge, but there are lots of high quality tutorials on places like YouTube.
The blog was refenced for time stamped evidence of what I presented. The fan nature of it shouldn't matter unless you think the pictures are fabricated.

That said, I think you are right. Most of it comes down to how much someone cares about debris in the wetland and dust clouds.
Agreed that surface cooling only for a spherical datacenter would be a bit silly; we're gonna need some exciting liquid plumbing to wend its way through, but that's already best practice for GPU cluster builds.
Can you imagine trying to convince your insurance company? “No, it’s a very tiny black hole…”
>One sign of oligarchy is when corporations control the regulation of their industry.

Literally DOGE
We need to organise a task force to rescue Singapore from digital colonialism. Why isn't the UN doing anything???
Do you have a link to that podcast about 5G MacBook?
I treat mine (Max Lumi, about 3 years old now) as an insecure device. There are (very nearly) no account-based services on them (and occasional use of SSH roughly doubles that count), and that which I do use is to a pseudonymous service which ... I've soured on sufficiently that I use it little if any. The device is almost wholly dedicated to consumption, largely e-books, podcasts, and websites. That's a nonzero vulnerability surface, but it's pretty close to nil.

And for those purposes, the device is quite satisfactory.
Agreed. FaceID is fundamentally less secure than TouchID. This is just gross.
The difference is about as crystal clear as compiler/interpreter.
What's the benefit of native over active?
Once you take on investors, that’s not an option. VCs expect rapid growth and an exit - statistically through acquisition, but occasionally an IPO.

Once you go public, then you have investor pressure and can be subject to activist investors unless the founder has controlling interests like in the case of Meta and Google.
Onyx offers that option, but does not mandate it.

Max the "warm" frontlight slider, min the "cold". Voila la orange!
Run structured extraction on documents/images locally with Ollama and Pydantic
We put together an open-source collection of Pydantic schemas for a variety of document categories (W2 filings, invoices etc.), including instructions for how to get structured JSON responses from any visual input with the model of your choosing. Run everything locally.
Funny note about that is there is still an old fish and chips place in town there that was opened to cater to the Brits (Alphie's)
it involves user image uploads

As soon as the people you don’t want to use your system learn about your system, they will try to use your system.
Fly rocket give people so many passion. Nice job.
Passive heat rejection from the exterior of the datacenter was never going to be the way to go, even with a short, wide datacenter -- external evaporative cooling towers are the way to go. Liquid cooling for the core is already best practice for high power density racks, which gives you the ability to separate how you solve for cooling and how densely you can pack your gear.
Most of HN is probably too young to remember him, but Trump seems closer to Putin's predecessor Boris Yeltsin from 30 years ago. They have flamboyant and unpredictable public personas in common. Yeltsin also loved public performances, media attention, and direct engagement with large crowds. He often made chaotic decisions based on gut feeling and instincts rather than any clear strategy. Over time, alcoholism made Yeltsin increasingly dysfunctional. His health deteriorated and he was frequently absent. His inner circle, which included powerful billionaires, selected a reliable young successor to maintain their grip and negotiated Yeltsin's resignation in exchange for legal immunity for himself and his family. That successor was Vladimir Putin, a relatively unknown and bureaucratic head of Russia's version of the CIA/FBI. Once in power, Putin systematically outmaneuvered those billionaires who had expected him to be loyal, and played them against each other to gain absolute personal control over the country.

Trump is a known quantity. His destructiveness is limited by his inability to maintain focus. I'd be much more worried about who follows him. Will they represent a return to decency, or will it be someone just as destructive but far more disciplined - like Putin?
MBA moment
Based from the previews in the website, all I can say is that this is awesome! It feels very inspired by Sublime Text!
Even the low-tier license seems inspired by ST; you buy a license, use it forever but won't get updates

Looking upfront, I know you will succeed on this. I remember way back there was a file manager who did the similar thing.
It is very ST-inspired. It got all the hype given how "sleek" the application is. It even did an "open-source promise" thing.

It was very promising at that time until the developer went.. not sure how to describe it but for the lack of a better term, "profit-focused". Ironically, it does make a profit; as stated on the website.

That app is still around. Not sure if the dev is still active but the issue tracker is. Last I heard from the dev is a YT "tear down" video.
I guess at the end of the day, the guy is a "business man" and would do his best to make money.

I hope you stay focused on delivering a good product. Collaborate with your community and rest-assured, profits will follow.

I dropped by your Discord. Ping me whenever!
Yeah, replace consultants with clients in that comment and you’ll have the right of it.
We aren't in agreement that the continuum has only two opposite ends: socialism-free market where anything not free market is immediately socialism, definitely not.
Like how statism and nationalism is all the same and we could erase every country on the planet without making anyone angry. One-size-fits-all in everything from headphones to car choices to religion to law.

Right???
> but how is that a drain on society, and not primarily the individual?

There are two factors.

The first is that a drain on individuals is a drain on society. That's why we outlaw risky behavior like lethal recreactional drugs, driving without seatbelts, driving without a driver's license, etc. We try to protect people from themselves in some of the worst aspects that we can.

Second, of course, is health care costs. Activities that constantly result in injury wind up raising the health care costs for everyone, since that's how insurance works.

> by your logic, should we also ban (or require insurance?)...

You already have to have car insurance, yes. And yes lots of kinds of guns are banned in lots of places.

We draw the lines in different places.

It is a pretty interesting thought experiment to wonder whether people shouldn't be allowed to engage in organized sports that are risky, without paying an additional health insurance premium? E.g. if you play professional football, then your league has to pay extra money into the health insurance fund to compensate for all the extra health care treatment their players need and will need.
Hacked on Stripe–$41K Gone, No Real Help from Support. What Now?
I wouldn’t say it’s suspicious. I think it is a good plan to get telemetry from real world usage.

Since Apple owns the whole stack, they can iterate faster too.
March 18 :)
Vim already had lua support no?
Republicans and the Supreme Court will suddenly take a much greater interest in checks-and-balances when there is a different party in the White House... if that ever happens again.
March 18. A correction, however, is not the proper word.
No issues with NextDNS (I've deployed it for people who don't have the chops to wrangle a Pi-hole), but this reads very, very much like an ad.

That aside, I've had pretty much the same issues with NextDNS that I've had with Pi-hole -- issues that have nothing to do with the infrastructure per se. (The classic example is of an app that doesn't work because domain `X` is being blocked, thus kicking up the usual 15 - 30 minute-long log search and DNS cache-clearing to find and whitelist the domain.)
Useful exclusively for generating random numbers, just like every other "quantum computer" (at least the ones publicly announced).

Each "quantum" announcement will make it sound like they have accomplished massive scientific leaps but in reality absolutely no "quantum computer" today can do anything other than generating random numbers (but they are forced to make those announcements to justify their continued funding).

I usually get downvoted when making this statement (of fact) but please know that I don't hate these researches or their work and generally hope their developments turn into a real thing at some point (just like I hope fusion eventually turns into a real / net positive thing).
You're asserting it's a herculean effort to onshore production. I disagree.

It seems we simply disagree about its feasibility. America is a huge country full of hardworking people, and we've done it before. It's actually very possible. All the naysaying that comes from the left is so... lame.

We already have onshored production (quite a bit) in the post pandemic period.
(I work at Vercel) Yes, it will continue to be an MIT-licensed open-source library to simplify building AI apps.
Worse, that would mean Arm64 is a 12-bit CPU. The original 32-bit ARM encoding could only load 8 bit immediates, though later versions gained a 16-bit load immediate instruction.

RISC-V is a bit better off, as it has a special encoding for 20 bit immediates, while Alpha and PowerPC are the same as MIPS, stuck with 16-bit immediates.
Oh, is Deadlock by IceFrog too? I've been keeping on its development but hadn't heard that.
Let's not forget that if you run NextDNS, you can check the logs and be utterly surprised at what websites you dad views late at night after going to bed.
Ahh, but that would be mean because it would make ARM64 CPUs 16-bit too. Though actually if you put -1 and it sign-extends to 0xFFFF'FFFF'FFFF'FFFF then that's technically 64-bit? :p
Agreed. I so wish this was fixed. It’s so bad.
Yeah fair point, though there was a 5+ year period without the big screen model. Also the scribe apparently is fairly mediocre - https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/28/24328287/amazon-kindle-s...

Also I at this point I have a mental block on spending more than $250 for any Kindle after years of dealing with their mediocrity.

So I'd rather take a spin with a new device from a new company than hope this time after nearly 20 years Amazon really figured it out...
I've been working on a TMS99110 homebrew & emulator, and have studied the architecture of the 990 a whole lot over the past couple years. I want to make a very important distinction in a few things you said.

For anyone that didn't get the context, it's the 99/4 design that has this weird RAM layout. The 990 architecture itself can use any (16-bit) word in memory as the starting point of the 16 registers. Developers have been known to use and abuse the workspace pointer to slide around the "window" on the registers.

The window itself also uses the top three registers to link back to the previous workspace, status, and PC, if you use the proper instructions to branch and return. While there is no stack*, you can still crawl back through those references and get the state of each call.

It's a really cool little architecture, hobbled by the 16-bit address space and how slow it was to keep the registers in RAM. Nowadays I can pick up a 1MB memory chip that's faster than the native bus speed for a few bucks, but that wasn't anywhere near the case in the late 70s and early 80s.

*: The 990/12 minicomputer features the PSHS and POPS instructions, which take a pointer to a definition of where the stack lives and how big it should be. These instructions are not implemented in any production processor, but the platform makes it possible to emulate these instructions in software transparently... as an actual explicit instead of accidental feature in the later few iterations. The 990/12 itself was microcoded on a set of four daisy-chained programmable 4-bit bit slicers so they didn't need any of that nonsense.
https://github.com/t1mmen/srtd might help here. The general idea is to define functions/policies/etc as «SQL templates», your source of truth. The templates built into Supabase migrations.

While developing, srtd can hot/live reload your templates into the local db when changed.

I built this to scratch my own itch, and it’s been working VERY well for us. Huge DX benefits, and it’s made code reviews a LOT easier, since the reviewer can focus on what’s actually changed.
At some point they'll end up just doing the Bieber rack [1]. It's when a shard becomes so hot that it just has to be its own thing entirely.

[1] - https://www.themarysue.com/twitter-justin-bieber-servers/

@bluesky devs, don't feel ashamed for doing this. It's exactly how to scale these kinds of extreme cases.
WhatsApp was acquired for $20 billion in cash and stock. Facebook was worth $170 billion at the time. The stock part of the acquisition wouldn’t have any real financial impact on Facebook.
It's an ongoing debacle with multiple people making extremely good arguments that Google overstated the results.

Yes, I know it's in TPUs and I said exactly that.

You simply can't take Google press at face value.
Wasn’t this originally designed for military use?

It failed the requirements and was then repurposed by TI?
>No, he founded them.

That is a complete and utter lie. Even Hannity made this obvious in his interview yesterday and the look on Elon’s face was priceless.
The fun thing about watching a Sprint video for the first time is that you just assume it must be sped up. Eventually you realize that no, it really does accelerate that quickly.
Making a basic database that works is not hard, but making a robust one is really hard. What makes SQLite shines is its extensive testsuite.
I still don't understand the motivation of limbo, as without years of hardwork on test you can't say you are correct, and why i should pay for it...
How do you know it’s the same people?

There are an infinite number of possible abstract concepts.
Show HN: Encrypt any file in your PC with this little app
File Encrypter (v1.1) is a basic way (not really ment for real world use) that allows you to encrypt / decrypt many types of files in your computer. It alters each byte that constitutes each file you choose to modify, making it unreadable.
For one, NodeJS doesn’t have concurrency. It’s a single threaded event loop.
Naysaying from the US left is one thing.

Active dismantling from the current US administration is another:

US President Donald Trump has made it plain he’s not a fan of the $53 billion CHIPS and Science Act that funds semiconductor manufacturing and research on American soil – and now it appears he’s decided to make substantial staff cuts at the agencies that administer it.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/19/trump_layoffs_nist/

Significant cuts to CHIPS staff could hobble the agency's ability to deliver on its mission of distributing funds to subsidize the construction of semiconductor fabs in the USA and funding domestic R&D, all of which is supposed to help the country rely substantially less on foreign factories. Both of those goals had bipartisan support when the CHIPS Act passed, we note.