skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no comparable alternative to the Internet Archive though. They've gotten involved in several lawsuits and their future is far from guaranteed. They're an incredibly important organization, but I think it's too important of a project to be limited to one organization, or even one country or region of the earth. A solar flare could destroy a lot of history.

I don't know that the economics of having multiple Internet Archive-like organizations is currently feasible (I imagine getting funding for one of them is hard enough), but even a partial offline mirror hosted someplace else would be nice. Maybe to save space they could take the oldest version of a page, the newest, and the midmost version timewise, discarding all other versions. They could also heavily compress images, video and audio to save storage space (would increase processing costs, but if willing to throw out quality, could compress quickly and still save a bunch of space. E.g. downscale all videos to 480p and use veryfast preset and CRF 28 with ffmpeg. Even 240p is a lot better than nothing. A pixelated form of history is better than no history.)
>What galls me most is the people who care about fact and truth, and used to be the guardians or advocates for such things, are just drowned in a sea of bots, malicious actors, and the ignorant and are thereby discouraged.

No such thing ever existed
3D Tic-Tac-Toe
Not in the universe in which this joke takes place, no.
That would strongly depend on whose side they were fighting on.
It's a beautiful set of books.
> [...] where the only way to get at the underlying data is to FOIA a database query.

Can you request the desired information using natural language, based on your guesses of what information they store?
It's not offensive. It's just very stubborn.
JavaScript has been bashed incessantly. People would actively look for all the bad parts just to complain about it... Totally ignoring all the good parts and the fact that it was extremely well adapted to an evolving web environment and also well-suited for being standardized.

The people who are pushing for Python in the browser are going to be in for a shock when they realize how inconvenient Python's indentation is to deal with.
AI enforced slavery. I remember reading a short story where workers get instructions from an AI constantly after starting out as work assistance. Don't remember the details.
Meaningless question. Simetimes it's what you need. Sometimes it's not. Sometimes you want to write the arabic digit 3, sometimes you want to write the word three. What is the advantage of writing out three? The advantage is whatever the advantage is in those situations when you want it. The possible details are infinite.
How many people does it take to implement this? A 10% gain in performance could pay for a lot of people's salaries when your company is spending hundreds of millions on GPU clusters.
Nothing about YC seems to imply they care about worker conditions…

Not saying I support this product, the demo is some horrific soulless behavior, but I’m not surprised either.
It'd be the opposite tax wise since the US is one of the free countries that taxes citizens globally
It is not presented as fiction but as actual history. Casual viewers don’t catch on to the lies and believe it.
Making even more money?
What is the self-hosting story I wonder? If we have our own Postgres db (placed in a specific region for compliance), and we put gel onto our k8s cluster as they state in their docs, does it work well? I assume this type of deployment is free right? What features are we missing from their cloud offering?

GCP has very cool high availability, backup and monitoring features that I’d hate to loose if we move to their cloud offering. Can you configure which region your data is in? Can you put it behind / inside a VPC?

Couldn’t really find that info in the docs / pricing pages.
Isn't education also "just speach" that must not be regulated then?

If not, then I believe anything that present history is education, be it on YouTube or in a classroom.

I believe this not because of some preconception or ideology, but because I observed that non classroom material is often referenced by people looking for historical justifications.
I think we ought to democratize more professions, like surgeons and dentists and airline pilots.
For those who do not know, Peter (pushcx) operates Lobste.rs, and even though he and the website is US-based, it looks like there will be repercussions too for them (basically geoblocking UK, for reference see https://lobste.rs/s/ukosa1 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43152178)
This isn’t true you can set the target multiple versions back. The main problem right now is a huge amount of churn in the language, APIs and multiple UI frameworks means everything is a moving target. SwiftUI has only really become useable in the last coupe of versions.
This comment is gold, and helps me contextualize a “book” which has always intrigued me. What are your takes on the later additions, Modernist Bread and Modernist Pizza? I have the Bread tome, and some of the base recipes have worked out.
Microsoft trims pre-11th gen Intel CPUs from Windows 11 compatibility list
like everyone else, they’re chasing the AI dragon
How does this translate to ChatGPT? Elaborate please?
> The city will eventually be home to about 2,000 people.

More like a small town?

A hotel?
Hm. Great.

I save everything interesting. I have a data folder with letters a-z in it.
Something interesting might be saved in HTML or PDF under data/a/ai/programming

Folders have a problem because the same thing could be saved under data/p/programming/ai

But it is a start. For everything else, there is recoll.
https://www.recoll.org/
The nextcloud Markdown editor shows a live view while you edit... Its called "Notes"
Geez. Who teaches this 3rd-grade class, Prof. Xavier?

Interestingly, the R1 1.58-bit dynamic quant model was able to sort of solve it. I changed the problem statement a bit to request only the solution for 40 and to tell it what operations it can use, both needed to keep from blowing out the limited context available on my machine (128MB RAM + 24MB GPU).

Took almost 3 hours and it wigged out a bit at the end, rambling about Lisp in Chinese, but it got an almost-valid answer: 1 * (2 + 3) * (4 + 5) - 5 (https://pastebin.com/ggL85RWJ) I didn't think it would get that far.
The entire point here is that this is changing.

Granted to various degrees. Running Python, Ruby or PHP in the browser requires shipping a interpreter compiled to WASM and is indeed a lot of overhead, however compare and contrast that with say C, Rust, Dart, C++, Kotlin or C# which all have dedicated WASM compilation story’s which ship native WebAssembly bytecode without the interpreter overhead.

For a lot of those languages they are on an equal footing to JS in every non DOM manipulation context and only getting better overtime as more and more WASM proposals start to move through the standardisation process unlocking better performance and capabilities.

I think in that particular light, it’s very hard to see JS holding the same privileged position on the web it traditionally has. A new generation of languages are emerging which are much much nicer to work with.
“Manna” by Marshall Brain of howstuffworks.com ?

https://marshallbrain.com/manna1
When Carl Sagan Sued Apple Twice
Ask HN: 5M Funding for US Citizenship
Trump announced US citizenship is on the sale for $5M investment. If someone raise VC money with this amount. Can they be eligible for this?
Two weeks ago I launched an app via a post to reddit. The reception was absolutely beyond my expectations.

I was sitting at my PhD student desk working when to my amazement, I saw a notification from stripe saying that I received my first payment of $7.5. I have never had such a flood of good hormones go through my body. Thank you whoever you are for clicking that purchase button and thank you to the continued interest of people that keep purchasing the app (It's now at $1000).

This is my 3rd attempt at a startup in the last 3 years and is the first time I have ever received an internet dollar. I spent 2 years on my last project - building tests for this, tweaking styling for that, optimising page load times and what did that get me? $0

What changed is I decided to make something useful, not revolutionary. Something that people search for regularly (you can find this out on sites like ahrefs), something I do regularly and something that I could build and test in a month. I thought: don’t focus on features no one will use until you’ve tested whether there’s interest in the essential features that solve the problem. If no one showed interest, i would move onto the next idea.

I settled on a universal file converter that does conversions locally on your device. There are plenty of file conversion sites, but when you use them, you’re sending your files and data to their servers. I didn’t like that and I wanted to use local tools but with a drag and drop app, so non-programmers could use it.

With my last failure, I honestly thought that maybe I wasn’t cut out for making my own apps/websites. However, this new mindset is working - build it fast and see whether people buy before you spend years on it. I hope this post is a bit of inspiration for people who are in a similar boat to how I was feeling. After your first failure, learn then build and launch to test your next idea. The feeling of having one actually be wanted by a user is the best feeling I have had in years.
Classic Leonardo, strong vibes.
Somewhat unrelated but I believe the dupe issue with node_modules is the main reason to use pnpn instead of npm - pnpm just uses a single global package repo on your machine and creates links inside node_modules as needed.
> Despite the videos offering millions a window into history, a number of historians have shared concerns about the accuracy of the content and whether AI can truly resurrect the past, or are we just seeing a polished, modernised version of history designed for engagement?

If you have to ask... The answer should be clear.
Coolermaster case has a vesa mount, so it's kind of rackmountable that way.
Some people have always cared quite a lot about the truth, but major media cared in part because lawsuits over libel, slander, or defamation are expensive.

However, there’s little point in suing 1 of 10,000 people all spouting nonsense. At least until they gain a little traction and thus enough resources to be worth suing like Alex Jones etc.
The guy who posts about "Trump Derangement Syndrome" and links to it in his profile wants to "respect" the no politics rule. Isn't that cute? It seems to be a thing with you guys to only support freedom of speech when you agree with it. I appreciate your plea, but I think we'll keep talking about it.
Seven months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41021527

somewhat tongue in cheek
If you're spending $5m on a visa you'll be able to afford similar services on both sides. A regular gardener, a regular cleaner and a laundry service are all affordable by the upper middle class in America let alone the rich. If you want full time live in servants that would obviously be different but the quality of life difference isn't going to be huge until you have a professionally trained and managed staff.
The misleading detail on the holdovers, the lack of acknowledgment that these people are just not doing their job, the lack of context on how big or small 21 is - all of it is intentional. The outlets that run these stories, like the guardian, and the people who work at them, have a bias.
It's a sincere comment.
> Microservices boundaries make most sense to me when they’re aligned with team boundaries, otherwise it just feels like making more work with little or no apparent gain.

Nothing in the article suggests how services were designed, and I would be surprised if each of the core services mentioned in the article weren't managed by independent teams.

Also, I don't think your concerns are well founded. Think about functionality implemented with function-as-a-service backends. Do you think your architecture is less complex to maintain and operate if you suddenly decide to move all event handlers into a monolith?
a very good language this seems to me like
> copy/pasted

When I've seen it done, it's seemingly executed in-place, which is very cool.
I have a feeling the QoL for the wealthy in America will stay pretty similar to today even if it drops off a cliff for everyone else
Question bouncing around in my mind reading this, especially with money involved, is why did this not cross the line into criminal fraud?
Was Material even his work in the first place?
Yep. I converted a business from to Postgres in 2004 and never looked back. Stable, reliable, no surprises. Postgres is the answer until proven otherwise.
Say "I don't know! Let's find out!" and just sit there quietly.

https://xkcd.com/1088/
I mean it’s not a significant change so one? But that isn’t to say anyone could do it.
The US owner would still be obliged to follow the UK rules, apparently. It's unclear how punishment will be enforced exactly.
These fake AI images/videos always look so over-saturated and fake-HDR'ed, you can probably flag them with a simple histogram check.
Show Me the Money, Part 1: Assumptions and the Error Space
SFFs and laptops share many parts, and of course the new mini desktop has 2 of the framework compatible bays for your choice of usb/network/audio that should work today and be able to be upgraded later.

I don't do much computing on the move, that my phone can't handle. But a desktop (that generally lasts twice as long as a laptop and costs half as much) is pretty interesting to me.

Also keep in mind that framework sold a small chassis compatible with their laptop boards, so if you upgrade your laptop main board you could rehost the old one in a small desktop chassis.

Seems like a natural expansion for framework and might well get them more customers and more sales per customer.
31.78% Trump
30.84% Harris
1.06% third party
36.32% did not vote

This is hacker news. Respect the data.
This comes across as gatekeeping by the historians. Why don’t they make more accurate videos themselves. The same tools are available to them.
Logic and Mechanized Reasoning
The original author seemed to talk a lot about funding development/maintenance, so I got curious about what the hell needs to be maintained. I cloned the https://github.com/t3dotgg/vsc-material-but-i-wont-sue-you repo and had a look. Here's a LoC summary:

===============================================================================
Language Files Lines Code Comments Blanks
===============================================================================
CSS 2 142 119 0 23
TypeScript 32 2026 1650 243 133
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
HTML 2 59 49 1 9
|- JavaScript 2 2 2 0 0
(Total) 61 51 1 9
===============================================================================
Total 36 2227 1818 244 165
===============================================================================

Among those, 622 lines of TS are hex color definitions for variants in scripts/generator/settings/specific. Most of the rest seems pretty boilerplatey, e.g. look at the 599 lines in scripts/generator/color-set.ts.

So the question remains: what the hell is there to maintain (that takes more than a couple minutes every $godknowshowlong)? I've published and maintained waaaaay more substantial open source projects for years without expectation of any financial contribution.
Painfully encumbered with binary blobs and out of date drivers (that is, out of tree hacked in kernel drivers that will never be ported to mainline)
> If you don't want to open web pages then you wouldn't need to use a browser in the first place. WASM can run outside the context of a browser, so what you're asking for is a shell for running WASM apps.

No, because corporate wouldn't let me install that :(.
It's not slavery. There's enough of that around without making stuff up
You can use access policies [1] to emulate temporal data. See an example in [2]

[1] https://docs.geldata.com/reference/datamodel/access_policies

[2] https://github.com/geldata/gel/issues/4228#issuecomment-1208...
This has been exactly my take on the situation. 2 years ago, I followed his exploits and his companies. Now I skim articles about him at best mostly shaking my head. He went from a fellow tech bro to to tech no.
It's really easy when you can talk to living people today who experienced the ussr in the 80s and compare to the average Western experience at the same time.
YC, We make money when no one else can
I would have guess the builders of this would have mitigated this problem by running the python in a thread? That won't hang the VM (or cause a segfault at the 1ms boundary). It might cause OS starvation in extreme cases, but you'd have to be really extreme.
Using undocumented features is not rare. People reverse engineered Apple's undocumented AMX instructions on their CPU, and I know people use undocumented/private extensions for several different kinds of GPUs.
I thought the optimization goal was latency on the parent thread so I had in mind a bare atomic_store_explicit with memory_order_relaxed. However you wouldn't care about latency in the first place if you weren't scaling this up and obviously scaling up requires additional infrastructure that I'm ignoring here.

That said the linked article is using spawn_blocking from tokio meaning you can just call vfork directly and return the result. No need to roll your own in this case.

> you can't have an event loop handle events on file descriptors _and_ condition variables

Since events crossing the kernel boundary aren't fast to begin with I prefer to use a secondary event loop for the sluggish stuff and feed the output to the lower latency one.
Hmm, the discussion here requires a deeper understanding of these concepts, much deeper than a casual read of one sentence picked from Wikipedia.

I wouldn't have wrote that sentence to introduce people to reduction, because it misses a very important property of the operation that changes the whole thing. That sentence could lead you to think that reducing A <= B is the same as reducing B <= A, which is not always true. To see why, try to understand [1].

There's a reason why the reduction equivalence classes form a preorder, as stated on the Wikipedia page you quoted.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43179918
> The “it’s just art bro, don’t take it so seriously” excuse is so tired

There’s nothing wrong with it as long as they’re not presenting it as history but are presenting it as the work of fiction it is.

Unfortunately they’ll, at best, have fine print that says it’s not history but the whole presentation is supposed to encourage the viewers to believe this ks real.
One of the really nice things about Dart in addition to the fact that it’s an AOT compiled language with truly excellent tooling and documentation is the fact that because it’s not a superset of JS it can skip a lot of the messy parts while keeping the best bits.

One good example I like to point to is the idea of mixins.

Take a look at how Dart does it here: https://dart.dev/language/mixins

Then take a look at TypeScript here: https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/mixins.html

You might also be interested in this https://dart.dev/resources/coming-from/js-to-dart
> If whoever was in charge started pulling shit like this, I would quit immediately and start working for the competition.

You might think twice on that if the mega corp had the legal authority to arrest you and put you to death for going to “work for the competition”
Trump floats 'gold card' to grant US residency to wealthy foreigners
I think it might make a nice interactive chart (climate implications aside). If there was a way to pick the decades to show individual so that the grouping could bee seen easier.
> I have mentioned it on HN before, but I strongly believe that bringing Python to the browser, especially via WASM, and going as far as bringing on a templating library, would allow Python to match things like C#'s Blazor, which honestly has been a productivity boost on web projects.

Scala.js runs in the browser in a way that actually works and feels first-class, I'd highly recommend it if you haven't tried it. Scala has a reputation for obtuse symbol-heavy code, but you don't have to write that way if you don't want to - most Python code translates directly into equivalent Scala, and there are libraries (particularly lihaoyi's efforts) designed to support this style.
falcon 9 heavy has never launched from vandenburg.
I've been using aider for a while now. It can get pretty expensive with sonnet but I guess it's no different from claude-code
I'm on starlink, so i don't get to pick my exit geographical region, and i actually live in UTC-5, UTC-5 is evidently only represented by 4.6% of all fingerprints.

i understand what you're saying, of course.
Sadly there's no alternative if you want 256 bits wide at the moment. Well a previous generation threadripper with a huge increase in power consumption and requiring a discrete GPU.

BTW, careful with "channels". Todays normal desktops and laptops (besides the strix halo and apple pro/max/ultra) are 128 bits wide. But in the DDR4 -> DDR5 transition they doubled the number of channels to 4. However the strix halo biggest advantage is the extra memory bandwidth going from 128 bits wide to 256 bits wide.

Finally the technology of the ps5 and XboxX comes to laptops, tablets, and small desktops.
Profit motivated laziness more like.
Yes it's possible, but at the cost of 2-3x less memory bandwidth, which is a key feature to provide GPU and large language model performance.
> In most of the third world, far right politics is largely based on settling historic scores. To that end, I'm guessing this will be weaponised by lots of groups to create content to target minorities.

Current events would suggest that the word "third" is redundant.
This is a grossly unfair comment. Do you really expect someone who had dedicated their life to an academic pursuit to also be CGI experts and filmmakers?
Why can’t professionals be allowed to criticize without having others fault them?

Edit to add: I’m sure the majority of devs on this site have opinions on current LLMs, is it fair to dismiss everyone’s concerns and tell them “you know how to program, make a better model.”

That feels wrong.
Unless you're willing to write your own editor, that's not really a practical distinction
They are not. It’s quite difficult to prompt a generative model to get details correct, and it takes a ton of tries if you can make it work at all. Practically impossible if the model wasn’t trained with data that makes a distinction in what you’re trying to specify.

So creating accurate generative media is categorically more difficult than inaccurate media.
Because it’s a lot easier to make up shit than to create stuff that is vetted?

Also there are videos made by historians or science educators.

Of the top of my head I can think of Flint Dibble who is an paleontologist? and miniminuteman who is a science communicator who also has an archeology degree?

And while both of them have decent to great success on YouTube, their success pales in comparison to the Ancient Aliens and Atlantis video makers, simply because those are more attractive stories even if they’re not real, but are presented as legitimate theories.
2025 tech industry try not to be the bad guys in a dystopian Sci-Fi story

Challenge: Impossible
.top is definitely a shady spot. They’re inexpensive and not very responsive to abuse reports - https://www.icann.org/uploads/compliance_notice/attachment/1...

.xyz though I mostly associate with abc.xyz, the investor relations page for Alphabet.