skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Estimates based on the mass of Betelgeuse, its rotation rate, the group of stars it was born with, and the amount of metals we can measure in the upper layers of its atmosphere, all suggest that it's somewhere in the neighborhood of a few hundred thousand years from now, it's going to go supernova.

Trivia: in astrophysics "metal" doesn't mean the same thing it means in most of the rest of science, engineering, or common use.

To an astrophysicist metal means "any element heavier than helium" which is all of them except for hydrogen and helium.
Immutable data structures as database engines: an exploration
MariV2 is an exploration of using an ordered array mapped trie as a database engine over traditional B+/LSM trees. Written purely in Go, it incorporates a version of MVCC and lock free atomic operations to achieve both high read and writes, while maintaining high durability. Tests show that it achieves writes of around 40,000 per second and reads of upwards of 250,000 per second. Ordered ranges and iterations achieves 1million+ reads a second. It is also fully transactional and has a simple to use api similar to BoltDB.
A finance institution with no code review processes is one deserving to go bankrupt.
Read.

https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/sites/2/2022/06/SR15...
It's a clever use of assembler, but in production code, it's much better to use a bounded model checker, like CBMC, to verify memory safety across all possible execution paths.
Please do not assume that a single article contains the full truth of a situation. People are empowered to do their own research. Curiosity is better than cynicism.
Rhombus AI just killed Alteryx
> By claiming they are hard-working, you are generalizing. It is usually only a couple or few that are actually hard-working people, but then again, I am generalizing because I do not know, I do not wish to actually claim to know.

Fair, I appreciate the call-out and it's a valid one.

> Judging by your comments, e.g. "you should be ashamed" (for simply expressing his dislike of YOUR community), you sound exactly like a zealot.

It's not that. I said he should be ashamed because he doubled down on generalizing. Even said he usually does that a lot. To me if you work in tech you should be more analytical and more unforgiving towards your own assessments. We all thought the bug is in X but it turned it was in Y, right? That's what I called out.

As you yourself pointed out, we don't truly know much people in the community are generally nice and hard-working, which I agree is an accurate call for a balanced take.

My problem is the outright negative generalization. I was in the mood and didn't leave him alone about it. He eventually seems to have admitted that he only demonstrated his own anecdotal evidence. I disengaged at that point because that's a valid way to exit a discussion... though I still would worry what kind of people he communicated with if he had such an overwhelming negative experience, and only with its most lunatic members to boot.

You are free to think of me as a zealot but I'd think that's an emotional and unfair reaction and would ask you to revise it. My comments were not a stubborn push-back, but a call to being objective.

> Why do you feel the need to claim moral superiority and tell someone to be ashamed just for simply expressing their dislike of your community? And while we are at it, he probably dislikes the community because of people like you. We have gone full circle.

I claimed analytical superiority, not a moral one. I've met Rust zealots. I've met Golang and (oh boy are they MANY) C/C++ zealots. Even my favorite Elixir has some weird people that think everything should be written with it.

The difference between me and the poster you seem to defend a bit emotionally is that I don't claim my outlier negative experiences are the norm. He did that. I did not.

As for the full circle thing: I ain't giving the other cheek. I don't owe grace to people who are rudely generalizing. I am aware many people would assess me much better if I just gave the other cheek. I know. But I choose not to abide by those expectations. Sadly this leads to people like yourself branding me like a zealot. Regrettable. But it's ultimately your loss for missing out on interesting and informed and unbiased discussions with me.

Feel free to check my comment history. I am not always super level-headed but I always look for the truth.

> Sounds condescending as well, but this is a minor nitpick. :)

Couldn't resist, admittedly. See above. ;)
Many people refuse to have any of these devices in their home over privacy concerns, one person I know wants them unplugged when visiting. I like the convenience, but there is a line and Amazon is crossing it. The lack of innovation, layoffs, and reports of financial losses were the warning the enshittifcation of Alexa is coming and I expect this is only the start.

Alexa and Google Assistant created the market, now it will be interesting to see how it evolves. Home Assistant is working well in testing and has a great feature set for home automation, the LLM support is fun, and most of the smart devices I've bought over the years are compatible including Apple Homekit. At least for people that do care, there are options.
Due to hardware remote attestation that cannot be bypassed, there is no longer any point to using Android. We used to own our devices. Not anymore. Might as well get an iPhone and enjoy the better kept garden. I wonder if there's a Termux equivalent for iPhone.
> Graphics cards have finally converged on all using about the same small size for the PCB.

I guess you're not specifying tolerances here, so it'll be difficult to have a real conversation... but I've been watching a bunch of teardowns of video cards that have been released in the past few years, and I'm seeing substantial difference in PCB sizes and component placement location.

Even putting that aside, OP hasn't provided any details on what exactly they were proposing... which is a damn shame, as I was interested in hearing them.
The sensible ones will figure in the cost of living and tax level to see if the California high salaries are better.

NYC has also seen an exodus of wealthy taxpayers to Florida.
From all of them I’ve used, ironically enough, Roku TVs are probably the best for operating without a network connection and don’t have any unremovable networked apps that pollute the screen. They just get much worse once you connect them, but they’re also easy to factory reset.
Announcement
https://bambulab.com/en/h2d
Slowly? :)
I suppose the implication could be that the set petty crimes and code violations, which includes many things, among which are parking violations and music piracy (two things that vary dramatically between demographics), has an equal distribution between all demographics.

If parking violations are an old demographic problem, and music piracy are a young demographic problem for example (even though it is assumed that more things are in the set than just these two) then it could be that they roughly cancel each other out.

I guess one would really need to know what the full set petty crimes and code violations consists of to be sure.
The article never said that kids from families earning over $200k pay full tuition.

I do think the function could look pretty dang steep around $200k-- if you are in a low cost of living state with significant investments and one kid. But that's an edge case.
In both cases, this is due to government regulation, not first-mover disadvantage. TVs showed up at about the same time in Europe and the US (first working TV was in the UK, and first regular TV station was in the US, but you’re talking about a year or so’s difference). SCART became a thing because the French government required companies to support it from 1980 on; previously European TVs generally used DIN.

As for the cards, again you can thank France; Cartes Bancaires introduced a predecessor to EMV in the 80s, and France moved quite quickly to make chip cards standard and then mandatory. Other countries followed in the 90s and early noughties. However, by the time EMV predecessors launched, there’d been credit cards in Europe since the 1960s (usually national standards).

Incidentally, this is also indirectly why the US was so late to the party with tap to pay. With chip and pin via EMV, it became essential that card terminals be available to the customer; an employee taking the card in the back wasn’t an option. So by the time tap to pay was introduced in the late noughties, more or less all shops and restaurants already had either counter-mounted or portable terminals, so it was an easy transition. In the US, it was more common to have swipe machines not necessarily directly accessible to the customer, which made tap to pay less attractive, and it didn’t really become near-universal until Apple and Google Pay forced the issue (actually, even then it didn’t become universal; I was in SF last year and was in a surprisingly large number of places which only had swipe machines).
These 4 features are AI related but each of them have separate strong use cases. Looking at popular commercial tools like Adobe Photoshop and Topaz tools for inspiration is just logical -- it means there is clear demand for these features among users.
> Any major vendor deploying this globally and making it available to developers without restriction would be an affront to our freedom.

Google and Apple have already done it. And one day it'll show up in desktops too.
>failing to actively weed out these behaviours

>companies often fail to reward silent, but effective and solid people, and instead opt into creating a loud, noisy rockstar culture.

Excellent observations.

People think politics is inevitable when a bunch of people are put together. But if one has courage to retain only the right people, politics can be eliminated. I once worked for a company that achieved that - near zero politics among the managers. It left a lasting impression on me.
How was the increase in descries in the last 10 years?
During corona was a peak, now it goes down.
Graduated aid is like graduated taxation. It takes a bit of thinking to get your head around it, but it usually means there isn't a binary cut off point.
Since you are not clear, it's worth noting that the other Ivys do have free tuition at some level. For Yale it's $75k, per https://admissions.yale.edu/affordability-details. For Stanford it's $150k, per https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2025/02/stanford-sets-2025...
I don't get this: "Per the S-1, 77% of CoreWeave's revenue comes from two of its customers, the latter of which remains unnamed, and is only referred to as “Customer C” in the document. However, based on reporting from The Information, it’s reasonable to assume it’s NVIDIA, which agreed in 2023 to spend $1.3 billion over four years “to rent its own chips from CoreWeave.”"

Don't have access to the article, but in the S-1 they say:

NVIDIA Master Services Agreement

In April 2023, we entered into a Master Services Agreement (the “Master Services Agreement”) with NVIDIA, a beneficial owner of more than 5% of our outstanding capital stock, pursuant to which we provide NVIDIA with our infrastructure and platform services through fulfillment of order forms submitted to us by NVIDIA. As of December 31, 2024, NVIDIA has paid us an aggregate of approximately $320 million pursuant to the Master Services Agreement and related order forms. Either party may terminate the Master Services Agreement (i) upon 30 days’ written notice to the other party of a breach or (ii) if the other party becomes subject to a bankruptcy petition or other insolvency proceeding, receivership, liquidation or assignment for the benefit of creditors and such proceedings are not dismissed within 90 days.

They say they booked $320 million in 2024 from NVidia. As they also mention that outside of these top 2 customers, no other customer represents >10% of revenues, the only possibility is that this second mysterious customer is indeed NVidia.
I think it all depends on finding a group of people who share the same goal of making something great together. One person who isn’t interested in that goal can be insidious to a self-managed team. And getting everyone involved means having some reward for doing well, like a validating mission or direct interactions with customers, which can be hard in some roles.
No they don't. That's just an ideological cliche.
Any tips for someone who’s been using photoshop for 20 years? Last time I tried gimp it was brutal even with the compatibility key bindings enabled.
I think Kevin Roose is going to go down in history as having published the most singularly catastrophic article about how LLMs work with his Sydney article [0].

I suppose most of us know this already, but he wrote a piece in early 2023 after interacting with a version of Bing Chat (which was based on an early iteration of GPT-4) where he had a long, somewhat bizarre exchange with the model. He treated the interaction as if the AI had an actual internal monologue or set of emergent beliefs rather than simply mirroring the cues and emotional tone of his own input, concluding that he was scared after learning its 'true' intentions.

What likely happened in Roose’s chat was that his prompts encouraged the model to adopt a persona. Since LLMs predict the most contextually probable next words based on input, it reflected back a style that seemed dramatic, personal, and even hostile because that’s what was being fed into it. Roose didn’t seem to grasp this at the time. The short, silly, or aggressive phrasing, and even the use of emojis (though I think the Bing version did use unnecessary emojis without solicitation) was a direct result of his interaction style, not any "real" personality within the model.

This article did a lot of damage in shaping public perception of AI, reinforcing the naive assumption that AI "wants" things, "feels" things, or "believes" things. It took a long time (and many technical clarifications) to unwind that but unfortunately, the pop-culture narrative about AI often lags far behind the reality of how these systems work. He's not the only one who did that, but I think he's the specific individual who did the most damage, so that colors my perceptions of him as a reporter on new frontiers of A.I.

Whatever 'Powerful A.I.' is, I'm going to be looking for the post-Kevin-Roose understanding of it.

0. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/16/technology/bing-chatbot-m...
> This has nothing to do with attestation servers. It's about who the corporations trust. Namely, each other.

I'm glad the conversation has moved from attestation to trust :)

If you look at inter-corporation contracts, it's clear that corporations don't trust each other. We're in a neolithic era of attestation, used primitively with wides collateral damage. More granular options exist, look at the architecture of QubesOS for one example. Android Virtualization Framework should enable more examples.

Remember when SSL certs were monopolized by a small number of players? Then the push for HTTPS usage lead us to LetsEncrypt.

There's no technical reason that a similar organization could not exist to improve tooling and coordination for decentralized and meaningful attestation of specific components (note NOT devices) and the security architecture by which components are composed into devices.

All is not lost, these are only early contests of competing visions.
I wonder if you could use the lattice work and do cable lacing on it instead.
That does sound like something is amiss and not the common experience of Mac ownership in the Apple Silicon Era!
No. He should be ashamed because he generalizes, realizes it, admits it and doubles down on it. That's not objective. That's just being stubborn. I can get those kinds of opinions in the local bar. I come to HN for higher-quality discussions.

And it's not "my" community. I don't belong to a single one so I don't emotionally defend any of them.
Imp isn't much better, especially south of the Bible Belt.
It's amusing that people keep wanting to portray Harvard admits as Horatio Alger stories when even the "middle class" ones that get free tuition are the least sympathetic, most elite (by virtue of getting in) people on the planet.
This feels ripe for gaming.

Building a system that's resilient to a bunch of smart people going "what if I retire a few years early if I realize my kid might go to Harvard?" seems nontrivial.
3.5B/14k
Tryn to make a buck.
They are not the go-to anymore.
That is my question for all those prognosticating an upcoming violent uprising. The disparity in power has only risen in the last 100 years. A single well armed solider could kill tens to hundreds of civilians in minutes given the right conditions. How do you rise up in the face of such disparate conditions?
I think I read this door one closer to when it came out, because it sounded familiar (and it was also really interesting both times). Specifically for me, never having worked in gaming.
They're not easily comparable since quantum complexity refers to the upper bound on queries to some black-box "quantum oracle", which exists on the gate-level. A classical parallel would perhaps be queries to a translation lookaside buffer, which can be regarded as a gate-level black-box (I'm sure people who actually work in hardware already smell blood!).

By contrast, classical complexity, as in sorting algorithms, is reasoned about in higher-level programming languages, whose operational complexity is hard to describe down to the bit-level.

I'm curious if anyone more knowledgeable could argue one-way-or-another if this is a boon to the quantum-computers-will-probably-be-faster-in-realization camp.
People are going out of their way to extol Harvard's supposed largesse, and how hardly anyone pays sticker. First, 45% do pay sticker according to the article.

Second, another way to look at this is that Harvard is putting a cap on a family earnings that it doesn't feel entitled to. ~$83K/year (post tax) is a massive amount of money for one child of a family making even $300K/year or $500K/year (pre tax).

The sticker price does matter, and this exemption is lipstick on the pig.

The problem with American higher education (and American healthcare, for the matter) is that they have persistently grown to opportunistically consume all the discretionary income of Americans.
It depends on location. In San Francisco a mortgage on a median house might be over $80k/year and child care for a young kid $20k-$30k/year. Then $50k in taxes, assume two kids, that's maybe $180k and we haven't even bought groceries yet. Or healthcare.
Hi, great app. I'd love to understand how you are maintaining state behind that short url and see if there are ways (sans server) to at least partially recreate state from the exported ascii.

Having an Import from clipboard would truly make this a remarkable app.
Sure I was responding to the context as I understood it here which was listening on HTTP/3 as an application rather than a service mesh layer. HTTP/3 can definitely be a choice for service mesh or some sort of overlay. Personally if I were setting up a new cloud/DC today I'd probably just use ZeroTier (or Tailscale) and let the overlay deal with encryption while I just have my sources and destinations do IP based filtering.
But it's not "the amount of new housing needed". Housing exists, empty or affordable, just not where it's needed.

Where it's needed you either can't physically build it, or of you can, then it just further blows up the prices.
That is a good idea. Maybe someone who do a public call for a lead maintainer for that. Posting this as a sub-comment may not be the best way to get large visibility.
Tax the assets, make the game fair for everyone - for both workers and people living off wealth. Only then we will see wealthy people start to create new productive assets. It doesn't matter if they leave - their assets will still be in our countries. If they don't want them - we will have someone not as greedy own the assets that will benefit all of us.
There are places not experiencing a housing shortage that are still seeing rents go up. When a sizable portion of the landed gentry decide to band together to do price fixing, supply doesn’t matter.

Supply and demand don’t follow closely in the American market. There is a lot of collusion happening.
Debian and RHEL already did.
We've heard the claims before: that Fauci and others lied about masks, vaccine safety and efficacy, the possible origins, and lockdowns. In his retrospectives on the pandemic, Fauci has indicated he regrets saying that masks didn't work, he admitted that vaccines for COVID weren't perfect, NIH made serious errors of judgement around funding viral research in China, and I think he has a much better understanding of the balance between large-scale public health policy and the economy.

I don't think people learn these lessons until they've actually lived through the process of being a public health official trying to minimize death and suffering through epidemiological processes and realize that it's a truly multidimensional problem with a great deal of ambiguity. It would be fascinating if, after his term is over, RFK Jr said something enlightened like "This whole process was a learning experience for me; I went into the ignorant of many things that public health officials already knew".
Boo
Income based anything is completely anti American
For your first point, I'd recommend using Krita (https://krita.org/) and its generative AI plugin: https://github.com/Acly/krita-ai-diffusion / https://www.interstice.cloud/
Please don't make strawmen.
Google & Apple's version of "commoditize your compliment".
So...what is the current state of the art for people who want to defend against endless ads, have a minimally invasive install relative to the users' current setup, have to tweak every device in, and not have to do more than say quarterly maintenance?

Every time I visit a non-technical friend's home I am absolutely horrified by what their tech experience has become. Browsing, oh my goodness. What a dumpster fire.

What system can I build for them that I can drop off with say 30 mins or less of setup to get going that isnt going to generate callbacks?

I'm thinking pihole (as DNS, with the user's home router tweaked to point clients there). Maybe running on a pi or a fanless pc. But perhaps there is something else?

Browser extensions are too complicated for very untechnical folks so maybe pass on those, although I am partial to privacybadger, ublock and of course a pw manager.
> There is only one scenario that remotely makes sense for why this would be even necessary and that's fleet vehicles with dash cams.

Or, 1000 action cameras (GoPro or equivalent). I only know of one outfit that currently does that, and they definitely would need to dump all 1000 at once to keep production rolling.

I’m pretty sure, although not certain, this is an employee of MrBeast or an affiliate.
CCP will enforce clear flagging of all AI generated content starting
I’ve been meaning to make a much more searchable realty system (think Redfin with significantly more filters) and can look across the whole country not just in a specific zip code. This would be awesome as you could compute travel time between points roughly then filter out results more accurately