skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really? The Beta Alia CX300 just completed a coast to coast journey (Vermont - Santa Monica). Range of about 338 miles using 200kwh of completely unremarkable ~150wh/kg batteries. With 500wh/kg batteries being announced from multiple manufacturers now, that range should improve pretty quickly.

> There is no known battery technology, or one on the horizon,

The planes and batteries are getting there.
I think that is a sensible solution to keep the elderly in their homes, but misses the point, which is the government claim on the land.

For people on the more libertarian end of the spectrum, use taxes, income taxes, and even residency taxes are more palatable. This is because the point of taxation is supposedly voluntary social interaction. Similar sentiments exists across the political spectrum, just two different degrees. It is the same principle under which people even on the left object to being taxed for consuming solar power that they themselves generated
I'm taking consumer focused solutions into account. No single individual could reasonably set up MDM to gain some sort of freedom
> That's innovation, which is not the issue here. Creating new markets is usually win-win

You're preaching to the choir here. The post I was replying to described a policy that would have made that an issue, without some way of addressing that case.
Preview: Amazon S3 Tables in DuckDB
> They've let mobile gaming be ruined by abusive micro-transaction games.

As much as I'd love to blame Apple here, I'm not sure what they could have done differently. Once the race to the bottom in terms of up-front pricing started ad-supported and microtransaction-supported games were inevitable. Meanwhile, games with cash shops were already popular in South Korea[1] and "free" games allowed the same model to gain a foothold here.

I would love if Apple labelled all gacha games as 18+ because they're gambling simulators, but it's really up to consumers to avoid non-gambling MTX if they don't like this business model.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MapleStory
Aw, I got ERR_ADDRESS_INVALID. Thanks Pihole, I guess.
This isn't really an immigration question so I would recommend that you speak with a benefits lawyer but it's always a good practice when something like this happens to submit FOIA requests with the appropriate agencies to try to find out what's going on.
That does not mean attempts to defeat them should not be made. Sometimes they even succeed.

Karen delenda est.
True, but "bad weather" /= UK as well. There is a large spectrum, and UK mostly sits as just a little worse than nice.
I know OCI isn't popular around here, but it ticks all the boxes you listed. Managed Postgres, Terraform, and Toronto/Vancouver regions. It'll end up being roughly half the cost of AWS at list for your average EC2/RDS/S3 workload.
> Even in the highly constrained realm of chess, an enormous neural net will be outclassed by a small program that can run on your phone.

This is true also for the much bigger neural net that works in your brain, and even if you're the world champion of chess. Clearly your argument doesn't hold water.
It's the WPA3 encryption. It needs to be set to WPA2 only for it to not shit itself.
Before I bought my most recent vehicle, I did my research and figured out how to physically disconnect the modem / telemetry unit.
The minerals in Ukraine was a weird bolt-on to a ceasefire. Couldn’t the Ukrainian parliament negotiate however it wanted for the right to mine currently-occupied territory? Maybe they’ll pay you to dig a mine under a Russian base.

If Zelenskyy is a dictator, why does his attendance at peace talks depend on forcing him to try something extra-constitutional that could taint the legality of the paperwork?
Parkinson's treatment closer as problematic protein imaged for first time
I believe your options are glucose–fructose syrup or aspartame - I'd lean towards aspartame as well. If sugar was an option I'd gladly cut the daily intake and go with that.
I think it's a great idea, but definitely very insecure, yes. Don't load your actual TOTP credentials into it, obviously.
Counterpoint: green cards are now being yanked for constitutionally protected speech.
You do understand what "idiocy" means, right?

This is getting absurdly idiotic including on HN, which is really a shame.
I mostly have breakfast at about 7am. So no more food after 3pm? Sounds hard to sustain in a normal kind of life.
Here in SE Michigan, one local transit authority ditched its new hybrid busses and returned to diesel ~15 years ago - because the TCO for the hybrid busses was so much higher that fixing the hole in their budget proved impossible.
I have one of those time-based number hardware fobs, with the 6-digit 7-segment LCD display, which I'd guess I'd actuated less than 100 times, yet on one such actuation, it displayed 1-2-3-4-5-6.

Maybe because the whole mode when using it is infosec, my snap first thought was about how this is highly unlikely and is someone messing with me.

My next thought was to run to get a camera from the other room, regardless of whatever is going on.

By the time I got back with a camera, and just barely missed photographing the display, I realized that someone compromising my airgapped self-contained hardware fob was even more unlikely than this number sequence coming up randomly within 100 actuations.

And, like this article points out, there are many "unlikely" numbers that might come up, so the chance of any of them is not as unlikely as it would first seem until you thought about it.
Show HN: Astra – 1-Click Django Deployment (Early Stage)
Less than a week ago, I decided to build a tool for myself to solve a nagging problem:

“I want to deploy my Django projects without spending hours on server setup—I just want to push my code and go live!”

I built this because existing solutions didn’t quite fit:

Heroku’s free tier is gone, and paid plans get pricey fast.
Render and Railway are great, but the setup still feels like a chore for a quick MVP.
DigitalOcean gives control, but you need DevOps skills I don’t always have time for.
Most tools are either too complex or lack the simplicity I crave for fast deployments.
I sensed there’s a demand for a dead-simple way to deploy Django apps—something that works in minutes, not hours, and lets me focus on coding. So, I started Astra.

Right now, it’s Day 1 of my #buildinpublic journey. Astra deploys Django projects with 1 click on DigitalOcean, handling the infrastructure for you. It’s rough around the edges—only supports Django for now (FastAPI and Flask are on the roadmap)—but it’s a start. I’d love to know if you find this useful.

Join the waitlist: https://getastra.xyz

Follow the progress on X: @get_astra

What do you think? What’s the biggest headache when deploying Django for you? Any features you’d love to see?
>> prison isn't meant to be fun, and being expected to work while doing time is not cruel punishment.

The problem I have with this is that last time I checked, nearly all sentences for people going to prison are incarceration, not incarceration+forced labour. It's the same as people cheering up prison rape because "they deserve it" or "if they don't like it, they should just stop committing crimes". Again, no one is ever sentenced to prison+prison rape, and failing to protect prisoners from each other is a massive failure of the state.

And of course we have to acknowledge that having prison population working for close to nothing creates really perverse incentives, both on the side of the state as well as enterprises employing prisoners. In fact I'd argue that even if you feel that it's entirely fair and deserved you should still be against it to stop incentivising all the nasty shit happening around it. Prisoners should be sitting in prison, they shouldn't be working, or if they are it should be on public works not on anything that the state charges money for.
Please also electrify garbage trucks
The ones who aren't still with us don't post comments on HN anymore.
I'm reminded of the Physics of Language Models[1] where they showed a standatd autoregressive LLM got a lot more accurate if the models got access to the backspace key, so to speak.

[1]: https://physics.allen-zhu.com/home
Because browser never have bugs.
Is this the Spotify that is a broadly unprofitable business, which is why it's so desperate to enter into new ones, or the Spotify that has DRM?
> Fuel cell buses do produce sufficient waste heat, but here’s the problem: it’s exceptionally expensive heat. Every degree of warmth comes from hydrogen — a fuel that’s costly to produce, store, and transport. Unlike diesel, heating with hydrogen’s waste heat is technically easy but economically painful.

Isn't waste heat pretty much free by definition?
I'd love to run an OpenBSD trunk or similar setup for this. I wouldn't even mind dial-up if it meant I could still get emails and app messages across.
The linked article seems unrelated to the post headline.
Any chance that “reasoning” can fix this
> I'll try to get a blog post out soon!

Please do.

> It’s self-hosted on bare metal, with standby replication, normal settings, nothing “weird” there.

16TB without nothing weird is pretty impressive. Our devops team reached for Aurora way before that.

> 6 NVMe drives in raidz-1, 1024GB of memory, a 96-core AMD EPYC CPU.

Since you’re self hosted, I’m you aren’t on AWS. How much is this setup costing you now if you don’t mind sharing.

> A single database with no partitioning (I avoid PostgreSQL partitioning as it complicates queries and weakens constraint enforcement, and IMHO does not provide many benefits outside of niche use cases).

Beautiful!
Regenerative breaking is not perfectly efficient, so you may loose a significant portion of the additional energy needed. Better EV systems are what, 70-80% efficient on the breaking efficiency?
(At least in King County Metro) the newer diesel-electric buses are series hybrids that use electric motors for traction, and diesel generators to power a small battery. So the low hanging fruit of electric traction was already “picked”. You can look up the bus model online - New Flyer XDE class
> Levies on migrants' wires to foreign countries could help fill the gap, one lawmaker said

Migrants are simultaneously eating up all taxpayer dollars and sending vast sums overseas.
If you mean the so called agentic AI, I don't think it's several. Iirc someone in the most recent demo day mentioned ~80%+ were AI
I’ll put it this way to contrast with the other post on Hackernews about Americans driving their kids to school:

There is a much higher likelihood of a child being within walking distance of a church than they are to be within walking distance of a school.
> I don't see why any website should need special direct access.

And this also holds back things like better security from USB security keys.

You have to access the key in exactly the way that is implemented ... even if that implementation sucks or has bugs or has security failures.

Everybody hates Electron .. but then want to hamstring the browsers. Well, people still want do do the thing they want even if you don't let them. They will find a way around .. and currently that way around is Electron.
I find it appalling that no matter how much money you spend on a Samsung TV, you'll get banner ads in the fucking source switcher. Absolute total disregard for their users.

LG still has bits that are ultimately ads, but at least they're less egregious, presented as suggested content in a Home view that already aggregates content from various sources. Not ads for fucking McDonalds and similar. At least that was the case as of a couple of years ago—I disconnected my LG from the internet the day I got an Apple TV and never looked back.

Just let me buy a large class leading display without trying to insert yourself into my life, please. I'm already paying through the nose for it.
Like most MAGAs, your ability to project false equivalence is unmatched. There were thousands of actual laws, passed by congress, on the books that prohibited the actions of January 6th protesters that were charged. Can you point to a single protestor that was charged that did not unlawfully enter the capitol building? There were thousands of people that were there protesting but never stepped foot in the capitol building. They were not charged. No MAGAts had their right to protest infringed on...they had unlawful entry, criminal tresspass, assault/battery, destruction of property, attempt to disrupt official proceedings, etc.

Mahmoud Khalil has broken no laws, at least according to the accusations of the government. He hasn't even demonstrated support for Hamas...and it wouldn't be illegal even if he did. All he has done is said something that some people don't like. That is not a crime.

That's why this is egregious, where J6 protest convictions are completely logical and morally consistent.
The obvious solution here is to discover an important natural or mathematical constant that happens to match your birthday in its first six digits.
Bluesky quickly sold out of the T-shirt its CEO wore to troll Mark Zuckerberg
As an end user I don’t really care what you want. I want the thing I paid money for to keep working after you’ve disappeared. Otherwise, in my estimation you’ve stolen from me.

Prison time is an appropriate remedy for theft.
No they are not. That is what happens in the movies, but in reality those people are just like anyone else - mostly nice people. Even stand your ground laws which allow you to shoot without asking questions only apply in specific situations and are unlikely to apply (though without specific details I cannot say for sure)
(At least in King County Metro) their newer diesel-electric buses are series hybrids that use electric motors for traction, and diesel generators to power a small battery. The drivetrain seems smart but maybe other agencies use it less? You can look up the bus model online - New Flyer XDE class
>As an engineer

Construction, hardware, radiation, dam and wastewater engineers are highly regulated professions. Do you take responsibility for bugs in your technology? Do you have insurance for your mistakes in professional work? Are you an engineer or a coder? Are you certified to do your job or just passed a boot camp?
It doesn’t. It doesn’t support most of the Postgres extensions. We got away with it because we weren’t doing anything beyond vanilla Postgres.
I've corrected it
> Since you’re self hosted, I’m you aren’t on AWS. How much is this setup costing you now if you don’t mind sharing.

About 28K euros of hardware per replica IIRC + colo costs.
> cardio burns calories directly

And lowers energy expenditure afterwards. Walking works better.
This is all true for me except counting calories. I don’t usually eat things with a barcode. I’m also not good at eyeballing 1/4 cup of pecans, for example. In Noom, it requires specific measurements. So if I eat at the hospital cafeteria and get a salad that the staff makes, I don’t feel comfortable logging it because I guarantee the measurements are off.

Now this is different if I have two bananas for breakfast and an apple. That is easy to track and input.
What if I want someone to look at my big violin?
Apple has the best consumer local hardware for AI, and then ... Siri. How did the gap between hardware and software that could fully utilise it grow so large?
Someone I know is AFAIK still with his (second) Russian mail-order bride and has been for many many years. (The first one was sent back...)
Upvoted, but I'd pay a subscription to restrict a neighbor to the first 15 levels of volume out of 25 sometimes :)
People talk about scale frequently as a single dimension (and usually volume as it relates to users) but that can be oversimplifying for many kinds of applications. For instance, as you are thinking about non-trivial partitioning schemes (like if there is high coupling between entities of the same kind - as you see in graphs) is when you should consider alternatives like the Bigtable-inspired DBs, since those are (relatively) more batteries included for you.

> It’s funny to write this. The Internet contains at least 1 (or maybe 2) meaty blog posts about how this is done

It would’ve been great to link those here. I’m guessing one refers to StackOverflow which has/had one of the more famous examples of scaled Postgres.
Schools relocated as parents moved to the suburbs. The schools saw this coming and built schools near those new houses. Schools sometimes see things coming and buy farmland 10-20 years in advance so that when the suburb expands they have the land to build on, but the schools are not built until it is obvious that the parents are coming.
What is TCO?
Over sufficient time, a corporation eventually hits a tipping point where it becomes more economically viable to starve out and/or buy out your competitors rather than to innovate, and then to further entrench one's monopoly through special interest lobbying groups with their massive capital reserves.

Preventing the predictions of Marxists like Lenin around "Late Stage Capitalism" (disregarding the imperialist/colonialism overtones) from becoming a reality was supposed to be the job of trustbusting organizations like the FTC and DOJ but well... here we are.
In some respects that sounds similar to what we already do with reward models. I think with GRPO, the “bag of rewards” approach doesn’t strike me as terribly different. The challenge is in building out a sufficient “world” of rewards to adequately represent more meaningful feedback-based learning.

While it sounds nice to reframe it like a physics problem, it seems like a fundamentally flawed idea, akin to saying “there is a closed form solution to the question of how should I live.” The problem isn’t hallucinations, the problem is that language and relativism are inextricably linked.
Why not let users have default open-source model and “free” limited token access to a model where they can pay extra to use further or swap. Like Perplexity does with their surface. Over time they can build their Sonar equivalent.

Or, heck, just buy Perplexity. You have the cash.
Good for work with Office 365 and all.

But Firefox Nightly (has tabbed interface on tablet) + ublock origin is the best experience on an Android phone/tablet IMO. Not as fast as Chromium based browsers, but it is worth it for adblocking, block autoplay, extensions for youtube etc.
Presenting it in those false terms makes you a bad guy, yes. Israel is not a "military state" and a left wing Israeli government would have carried out much the same military operations. "Children" were not bombed. Military targets were bombed. Many children died in consequence, not least because of Hamas's eagerness to put them in harm's way in an attempt to win over credulous fools, albeit some of them well-meaning.
I could build a netflix in a weekend.
> there isn't a "I don't have enough information" option. This is due to the fact that LLMs are basically just giant look up maps with interpolation.

Have you ever tried telling ChatGPT that you're "in the city centre" and asking it if you need to turn left or right to reach some landmark? It will not answer with the average of the directions given to everybody who asked the question before, it will answer asking you to tell it where you are precisely and which way you are facing.
A useful big step would be to just use the exact antitrust regulations and laws we have had on the books since the first time we had to figure this out over a hundred years ago. Teddy Roosevelt helped take care of this, though we definitely didn't wield them against AT&T for too long.

They served us okay enough right up until Reagan decided that monopolies would be fine if they "benefited the consumer", as if that isn't a trivially stupid concept to anyone who has dealt with any system ever. Thanks to Reagan's admin, we allowed companies to nakedly take aggressive control of any market they want as long as they pretended they wouldn't raise prices.

We need to be less accepting of mergers and acquisitions too. If Google can just throw an absurd amount of money at any startup competitor to kill competition, it doesn't matter that it's not efficient, what human being will turn down $100 million just to stop competing? "Acquihires" are an anti-competitive practice

A company just having a lot of cash on hand can purposely pervert markets if you let them.

Conservatives complain about "punishing winners" but if you want a market to stay competitive, and therefore allow market forces to actually function, you cannot HAVE a "winner", or at least you can't let someone win so comprehensively that their resources end up warping the market just like a lot of mass warps spacetime. You must ensure that any company can be threatened by upstarts.
Snowden made me worry a lot more about a lot of people.
That's what Amazon (basically) did and they're about to ship

Ship what?

Will what they ship be anything better than just using ChatGPT? Right now companies don't need to buy anything, because everyone has what is essentially the exact same product. Maybe OpenAI's is a bit better than everyone else's in everyday use, but a run of the mill AI offering with maybe? better usability is still a run of the mill AI offering.

That's the problem. There really is no differentiation out there. You know you're all using pretty much the same thing when fanboy-ism rears its ugly head. "My ChatGPT is better than your Claude!" Or vice-versa ad-nauseum.

The only way to win in that environment is to leverage your other businesses to force use of your models onto the market.

But I guess, kudos to Apple for at least trying to improve their product. They really don't need to do that. But how long will that attitude last? Sooner or later even Apple will start foisting their models onto the markets by leveraging their other business lines. Like Microsoft has figured out recently, "hey, we don't need to be good at AI to win. We just need to force everyone to use our models!" Expect the same from Amazon, FB, Google et al.
I was thinking of the Instagram post years ago. And maybe the Instacart one.
It's a bit to do with a change in diet and lifestyle to accompany the eating window but there is definitely something else at play as well.

The human body is an amazing machine and it has all sorts of abilities that we are unaware of. When you starve, your body starts shutting down non essential things first, starts pulling nutrients from everywhere it and limiting activity. Starvation has both a physical and mental element to it - both during the process and following it.

Intermittent fasting has been demonstrated to start a regenerative process in the body. It triggers cellular autophagy, which is kind of like running a cellular defrag.

There have been a lot of studies lately that look into the regenerative aspects of deep sleep following a serious injury - I sus that's the same system behind both things.

In response to the stress of not eating as usual, the body reacts. The mind does too. It sucks while you are starting it but it's nice to be able to know that you can skip of day of eating and be fine. After eating a big dinner and a good night's sleep you should have more energy and feel better for no real reason. I sus this has to do with how we ate while we were evolving - life was just a cycle of involuntarily intermittent fasting.

Unless you do strenuous activity all day - food is energy, you will be wore out of you do too much. The food you first eat after matters too!

Don't make a donut or highly processed/sweetened food the first nutrients after fasting - you'll feel like you ran a marathon. Simple carbs and protein - rice and black beans or oatmeal with seeds is typically what I do.

Everyone is different tho - whatever works for you! All the best of luck, sorry this is apparently my rant for the day - better topic than normal