skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Valuations aren't attached to reality. Look at Crypto, NFTs, Quantum computing etc. You can have a completely non-viable money pit but if it hits the right hype cycle mix you can make huge exponential gains. It's just about what other people can be convinced to invest in. Right now the US tech sector is pretty much the only game in town to dump money and hope for huge returns. Previously it was "emerging markets" but right now there's a lot of regulatory overhead limiting gains in most EM countries.
Reddit has ads?

looks up at uBlock origin at the top right of the screen

…huh. I guess Old Reddit has nothing to do with the lack of ads?
What exactly is not reflective of the facts? The court issued a standard order to the government to provide 48 hours notice before deporting her. The government ignored that order. You can see the docket here: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69741237/chehab-v-noem/
GDPR is what changed this. Before that, registrars had little incentive to hide it for free when they could instead charge you for the service. It was not trivial that Google Domains (rip) came with free privacy proxy right from the beginning.
Show HN: Oblix – Hybrid AI Orchestration for Local and Cloud LLMs
I'm guessing there is no proof that could be provided that you wouldn't dismiss as a right-wing conspiracy.
PE isn't a cheat code to rational stock valuation, it's the "nothing ever changes" assumption dressed up in a formula. PE looks at past earnings, while the price of a stock buys its future earnings. A modest PE on NVDA says "I expect datacenter revenue to continue" while a modest PE on TSLA would say "I expect robotaxi to fail." These are fair opinions to have, as are their opposites, but if datacenter revenue collapses then today's modest PE won't save NVDA and if TSLA can pull off robotaxi then today's high PE will be vindicated. Stocks are all about Future Earnings, but you can't put that in a column and sort by it so we have PE.

You can certainly have success while avoiding high PE stocks, but you are on a site about startups and your name suggests you work in the tech sector, which are both places where high PE often does make sense and it pays to be familiar with the reasons.
The financial times is well known and subscriptions are journalism's only viable model today
I still can't get my head around why a .com costs $9.59 (plus registrar margin)

There are 160 million registered .com domain names.

I understand that operating root servers isn't free, but surely they don't cost $1.5 billion per year! Wikipedia's hosting costs are $3 million per year, for comparison.
Bohmian mechanics is based on the idea that we perceive stuff to be in a certain position in a single reality because there is a correspondence to stuff being actually there. That's nice. If the particles are surfing a wave and not impacting it, so be it.

It is also rather nice to think of the particles as just being points in space with nothing else associated with them; an electron is just an electron because the portion of the wave function that is relevant and guiding it is the electron portion; see a paper from 2004 entitled "Are all particles identical?" [1] (I am a coauthor on that). If one thinks about it, we only know about particles through their motion so having things like mass and charge linked to the object guiding the particle seems perfectly reasonable. Points are not only not labelled by numbers (particle 1, 2, etc) but also not labelled by mass and charge.

The nondeterminism of not knowing the initial conditions is fine; the point was to have a theory with well-defined objects that give some plausible story and connection to our experiences, such as stuff existing and being somewhere. The fact that non-relativistic Bohmian mechanics happens to be deterministic is just happenstance for many of its supporters. In some QFT versions, the dynamics of creation is not deterministic and there is no reason for that to be a problem. But it is well-specified without having to invoke some special magic action called "observation".

As for QFT, the biggest problem for Bohmian mecahnics is the need to have an actually well-defined evolution of the wave function. The idea of particles being created and annihilated is not particularly hard. And, in fact, recent work has shown that if one takes that seriously and respects probability leaking from n particle space to n+1 and n-1, then at least some of the divergence problems go away. See [2]

1: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0405039
2: https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.10235
> Choosing trousers is way easier because the system of cm/inches of length+perimeter correspond to real values.

They're not merely real values, they're also rational.
Different to investors are chasing different dreams.

As an exercise, imagine you have a portfolio which will in a typical year lose around 1.2% to the tax man for capital gains. Rather than accepting the guaranteed loss of taxes - you take ludicrous bets on asset classes where you can be guaranteed to book a loss which could be harvested for tax purposes, or will return 100x your investment (at which point you don't care about the tax man).

Viewed in this light, the VC preference for burn bright and burn fast startups makes sense. The worst case scenario for some LPs would be to still have money leftover.
While LangChain focuses on chaining together LLM calls and components, Oblix dynamically decides whether to process AI tasks locally or in the cloud based on factors like resource availability, network conditions, and task complexity.
The legal system is a single point of failure here without any apparent teeth. The only thing that makes sense is to start holding the underlings in contempt
DEFLATE will stay for a very long time due to its ubiquity for decades anyway.
For non-legacy allocations, point taken (but my original comment still stands if you replace "ownership" with "registration"). For legacy allocations, it's more complicated.

See: Are IP Address Allocations Property? (2014) https://www.ethanheilman.com/x/19/index.html
Has a court found that they are above the law?
The more interesting dynamic with Nvidia though is that most of its revenue is actually fueled by bubbles as well. Teslas earnings are much more grounded and natural.
How do you determine the value of a domain name? Also there's nothing particularly valuable for most short domain name strings except on .com. It's generic words that tend to be valuable, not a short random string.
Perhaps you'll be able to talk to the LLM whilst driving, but it seems that at least the short term trend is going to be that it can do less stuff.

https://9to5google.com/2025/03/16/google-assistant-losing-fe...
The 2A crowd has thoughts about this
I did it for several months for fun and enjoyed it.

They use a placement test to figure out where you'll start. They offer a college level statistics course. And you're in luck: their marquee course focuses on ML math.
How does knocking down walled gardens work when different countries have different regulations / censorship? Wouldn’t those countries ban anything decentralized that doesn’t uphold their requirements?
Until the past 2 months, I was an avid Windows user. Up until 2 years ago, I had 7 machines with legitimate copies of Windows installed, several functioning in a server capacity.

Unfortunately, the path Windows continues down does not align with me for most of the same reasons as everyone else.

Accordingly, I have fully embraced Unix via FreeBSD and EndeavourOS. To a lesser extent, I use Debian and Ubuntu in specific circumstances.

Surprisingly, I don't miss Windows all that much. If I need it for something, I just spin it up in a VM. Life is great on the other side, so to speak!
That's what adjustable diopters are for. Also, at certain power levels, the beam is self-focusing.
https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-ocr , recent release. Its been a step function improvement for my pipelines
Am I misunderstanding the significant of the double slit experiment?

I thought the takeaway wasn’t that the particle comes out both sides, the implication is that the behavior of a single particle is the same as the behavior of multiple particles - that is to say, it appears to be an interference pattern, even when there should be no other particles to interferes with the single one.
His program was litteraly national socialism.

He wanted to get rid of the communists but not because their ideas didn't suit him (in many ways it's extremely similar, central state deciding everything) but because they were sympathisan of the soviets; another big power that he just wanted to take over.

I'm not confusing with Mussolini but yes it is more of the same.
What I'm pointing out is that all those authoritarian centralised government are almost always some sort of far-left by definition.

In my opinion the way we classify the political ideas and government is very flawed and illogical. It is that way to respect the sensibilities of the people theorising such things and they always want to have the left side look better (even though it is by far the most murderous ideology there has ever been).
I have to wonder how much more that “calorie tracker” is tracking besides calories…
Yes, this is a known thing to anyone that does stone engraving for a hobby. Those are then considered consumable parts in the operation.
> Any parallels to hot contemporary stocks are left as an exercise for the reader — and I do not mean to suggest that history must always repeat exactly

Crashes come amidst collapsing expectations. The structural risk tech currently faces is a collapse of American tech companies' global TAMs due to trade policy. (Think: the market constriction Tesla is seeing in Europe, but across more companies and markets.)
Definitely not the title (Facebook’s secrets, by the insider Zuckerberg tried to silence, which is a dupe - 416 points, 251 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43360024
If you're trying to debug why a website's setup isn't working, the first step is to see if what the registry thinks the nameservers should be matches what the nameservers in DNS actually are. These can fall out of sync if e.g. the registry's connection to its DNS provider is experiencing issues. This does actually happen from time to time.
It's still used for complex lists: https://www.grammar-monster.com/lessons/semicolons_in_lists....
By default the browser checks for available updates, whether for the browser or the add-ons (in the latter case, it's most probable that at least one installed add-on is hosted in the Pale Moon add-ons site). There's also the sync service, and default start page at start.palemoon.org. You can probably gather some stats from those sources.
I find it extremely interesting that tech MAGA doesn't consider science to be important.
What's a Rust feature that you think suffered from their process in a way that C++ would not have?
So "searching around" where? On some 4chan board with unverifiable conjecture perhaps? Maybe on Twitter, home of factual information? Please, I would LOVE to hear that there is some kind of proof this person was actually a legitimate concern to national security or something. I'm just afraid I'm going to find out that no, it's just that our government has gone to hell, and I should be worried myself, a naturalized citizen with a passport but not born American, that I can somehow have my citizenship revoked because I think the president is a buffoon.
You're saying there's nothing to be accomplished with a lawsuit because the administration ignoring the law makes it meaningless?
They will be turned into public utilities. Especially messaging. One country will start. Others will follow.

After which majority that doesnt need the levels of constant Attention the social media addicted free content manufacturing minority does will leave. And social media will face major issues.

Cuz when ever growing Content chases finite non growing eyeballs you cant keep increasing Ad prices every quarter and report profits for ever. This is zuckanomics which is utter shit.

Analysts are already seeing those limits being hit but since they havr seen time and again when limits get hit corporate robots like zuck then do layoffs, buy the competition, capture regulators, avoid tax, sell more personal data, inject more ads etc etc they still see scope for parasitic growth.

But parasitic growth comes with predictable and unpredictable cost. And they will build with time. Just like Jurassic Park. And we know how that story ends.

Human Attention cannot be exploited at population scale or there will be chaos.
"Only law enforcement" is still better than "everyone".
In my experience, big tech companies ask their TNs to start participating in every H1B lottery as soon as they join, and switch them over as soon as they bag a spot.

TN renewals are risky because you can be arbitrarily judged as having immigrant intent and get rejected, especially the more times you keep renewing them. H1B in contrast is dual-intent so this risk isn't there. Just my IANAL understanding of things.
They came to Canada to chase a dream. Now they're being forced to leave
Id say that's because apple runs locally and Microsoft farms it off to openai?
"One way to do this is to mandate that social network platforms follow new standards. Another is to quietly build an alternative world using these standards and let people realize that it is better — just as they did when leaving restricted online services AOL and Prodigy for the freedom of the web."

We would all have to take on the role of the evangelist in a serious way. I really love that he wrote this article.
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There is a tangible difference between some people having this data somewhere out there, and literally anyone who wants to have it being able to look it up in a few seconds using tools already installed on almost every computer anywhere.
That’s why though I like ideas like Solid or the Fediverse, I’m skeptical they can be more than aspirational. The tech here isn’t the hard part, it’s the social factors.

That’s why I’m currently most excited about ATProto (Bluesky)… bootstrapping a protocol as a centralized service that has already hit critical mass, and that can now be fully decentralized on an opt-in basis… feels promising.
If you've ever tried to parse WHOIS programmatically, you'd realize that it being an unstructured blob of text is actually quite unconducive to it being useful. Having every endpoint return a standardized JSON payload specified in an RFC is much better.
Not really, it doesn't have to be a binary, and wasn't always that way, and doesnt have to be this way.
The changes that are common between smoking and cannabis use are presumably related to inhaling smoke?
Wow obvious good point. Even if it was "preying mantis", plenty of creatures prey on prey without coital cannibalism. Other spiders, insects, and even snakes do similar but lack the name to warn the male of his danger.
> Trillions of $ of government debt and private debt is up for financing at 3-4 times the interest rate

This is a problem, but it's not the current problem. The pain isn't coming from defaults [1]. It's coming from our export industries.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DRALACBN
Oh, you’re right—cars and planes just quietly appeared one day, and people started using them with no excitement whatsoever. No headlines, no grand expositions, no public demonstrations. The Wright brothers must have been so relieved that no one hyped their invention, and Ford was probably grateful that the Model T just organically became a cultural and economic force with zero marketing or public enthusiasm.

Good catch. History is full of revolutionary technologies that succeeded only because everyone kept them a total secret.
For now the caller has to ensure proper alignment of SMID lines. But in the future a safe API will be made available, once the kinks are ironed out. You can already use it in fact, by enabling a specific compiler feature [1].

[1] https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/simd/index.html
It has already stopped working for domains on TLDs that have sunset WHOIS and over the next few months it'll stop working for a lot more TLDs and registrars. The command line tool is nothing more than a thin client that queries a server WHOIS endpoint.
Show HN: Improve cognitive focus in 1 minute
So last year I made a dot on a website based on a brain science study cited from Andrew Huberman. Basically the finding is that if you visually focus on something (like a dot) for 30-60s, it will actually improve your cognitive focus ability.

People really enjoyed the dot on the website as it actually helped with focus and doubled as a deep breathing tool (which is also scientifically proven to help with many things like anxiety, stress, emotional distress..etc)(https://www.oneminutefocus.com)

Well after a year I decided to make a mobile app for it (vibe coded of course).

Let me know what your think

(Here’s link to hn post from last yr which went viral - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39288039)
Well actually…

AppleWorks came out in 1984 for the Apple //e. Microsoft Office came out for the Mac in 1989.
Not sure why you are bring downvoted. Your argument is clear, and drives the discussion forward.

I would agree that Free Software can (and is) used by everyone but only a very tiny fraction are able to exercise any of the Freedoms it advances. But that's OK.

My mom doesn't know the difference between Windows and Linux, and the license distinctions are meaningless to her. But she could still get meaningful value choosing one over another.

FOSS beats the drum, not to turn people into programmers, but rather so that some tiny fraction of the next generation understand the building blocks thst got us here, and carry the game forward.

Personally I think there is a lot of ignorance and misunderstanding of both OSS and Free. Lots of people want something outside the scope of these, and rather than create some new category, try and morph one of these.

Complaints like "give nothing back" or "AWS is eating our lunch" etc are all irrelevant to OSS and Free. They are topics which are not interesting to those licenses.

I would say this; if an OSS or Free license does not suit your need, use another license. Or write your own. There's no problem with that. (For 25 years I've been shipping source, but without distribution rights- "source supplied", not "open source".) I freely use OSS and obviously the OSS parts keep their OSS license.

99% of my customers won't ever look at the source. That's fine. I found a license that works for me, and them.
Who said anything about an interstate move?
According to German law every website who is owned and operated by a person or entity in Germany needs an imprint with full name, address, email address and phone number… (of the owner 2 owning entity)…
I think you're at least partly right, which is why the solution is heavy financial penalties against large companies. The problem isn't tech, it's mountains of money. Flatten those mountains.
Money you almost made hurts equally as much as money you had and then lost. (That's Munger. In my opinion big money you almost made hurts more than big money lost.)
I don’t think most people have woken up yet to how nakedly racist this new admin is. “DEI” is literally just the new n-word.
Yeah, thoughts and prayers. I'll believe the 2A crowd if they ever do something.
I think you are underestimating how much people and businesses are willing to pay for convenience. For a business, especially, if the hosting provider costs are less (or even slightly more) than the pro-rated salary cost of the employee who'll need to keep the service up-and-running, that's a clear win.
I can average over 85wpm when typing English sentences in typing games.

But outside that, I find I can’t really think meaningfully and simultaneously type that quickly for a sustained amount of time.

Maybe very fast typing speeds are more useful to stenographers?
Have you done a systematic/blind analysis of the mention frequency? Without it, you’re subject to bias.
TLDR; Let's rewrite everything in 3 languages: Rust, RustGC, and RustScript!

Ugh.
Sentry mode videos are sdr
"argument for skilled foreign workers isn't real"

Tbf, what made the USA great (in addition to vast amounts of natural resources, peaceful neighbors, and technological dominance over the indigenous) was turning skilled foreign workers into skilled local workers
>>who lack recurring cash flow to buy more of what they already own

You don't know anyone retired, unemployed, or employed but spending all that they currently earn due to having kids etc?
I don't think it's intentional racism, but a lot of what many western folks think of China come from propaganda. China has visa-free policy for many countries now. Go check it out in person.
People choose NVIDIA because of the software. So will software margins go away?
FT is one of the most prestigious journals going. This article is designed to be read by the elite, especially in Europe.
This appears to be an argument for terminus ante quem and useful in that sense but it ignores the possibility there is a far earlier terminus post quem when the actual language capacity emerges.

I think it true(ish) that in a model strongly aligned to a single root language the point of segmentation is the last point language seen in all post-fragmented states can exist. But I don't see why that is also the first point. It's just the one we can detect genetically. There will be some subsequent genetic evidence perhaps to a specific structural change in the brain, or vocal chords, or something else, indicative of language emergence.

If holographically defined families tools pre-date this time, then abstract concepts were being communicated, even if not vocally. Show-and-tell has limits and I would argue strongly suggest concepts inherent in language existed to communicate how to do the tool making.
> it is completely logically unrelated to the OP's take

The point is people have been arguing that their era is the last for freedom because after the invention of writing or phalanxes or cannons or blue-water navies or industrial warfare or nuclear weapons or AI and drones the powerful will have all the chips. It's not true, and you'll almost always find a balancing meme around how those same technologies are going to empower anarchists.

Drones, AI and all of the aforementioned technologies make projecting power easier. That says nothing about who holds that power. The same surveillance tools that make identifying protesters easier also make e.g. determining where particular riot police live possible.
Seriously. 98.7 is playing the same music that dominated airplay 20 years ago. Their rotation now sounds the same as JackFM.

One week years ago I decided to listen to a hip-hop/pop station every day on my way to work. I like all kinds of music, including dance or pop or catchy rap. I wanted to discover some new high-energy music.

But after a week I wasn't disappointed; I was pissed off. Pissed off for all of the talented people who are obviously NOT getting heard, while airplay is wasted on craven trash. I discovered one catchy, clever song in that whole week: "Nothin' on You," by Bruno Mars & B.o.B.

Topping my shitlist from the week was Drake, with a discordant, no-rhythm, no-rhyme, no-talent mess that played mostly unrelated instrument noises over each other while Drake mumbled

Baby you da best

Baby you da best

Baby you da best...

Depressing. Just depressing.
Wonder if aluminum wiring will make a comeback…