skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Coincidentally I watched this last night
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7TWKSMtKCmU

It gives the history / motivation behind logarithms and suddenly it became so much clearer to me. Pretty much multipling huge numbers by adding exponents , well I think I've understood that correctly?

I think why I'm so interested in programming and computing is because I fascinated by the history of it all. It somehow acts as a motivation to understand it.
actually, if you really think about it, my source code is only laid out in 2 dimensions. thats even fewer than mechanical engineers have to work with!
> I am pretty sure most of these vendors would offer strict guidance to not do that.

Then you'd be wrong. Running Postgres or MySQL on the same host where Apache is running is an extremely common scenario for sites starting out. They run together on 512 MB instances just fine. And on an SSD, that can often handle a surprising amount of traffic.

As popularity grows, the next step is to separate out the database on its own server, but mostly as a side effect of the fact that you now need multiple web servers, but still a single source of truth for data. Databases are lighter-weight than you seem to think.
Factoid: Honey Bunnies feature in the Thomas M. Disch SF-ish novel "On Wings Of Song".
Gil Carvalho (Nutrition Made Simple) is a good source for these types of questions. His existing videos may not address a brand new study, but he will give you a basis for assessing the new study in the context of what is already known.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdKAPzsxr_Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5h5IABzlj8w
This recent Mozilla stuff has got me wondering if one could fork Firefox, strip out the AI/adware code, then sell the binaries. How much would people pay (who would pay for a web browser)? Just Firefox, minus the crap. Would it generate enough revenue to cover the maintenance costs? Etc, etc.
It’s because they don’t use their products for actual work, have been having this experience with all AI in Microsoft products too, and in general software has a problem where the people making it don’t use their own products.
Excellent, stick it to the man!
making your own lemonade is awesome! You can tune the amount of sugar and lemon you want, from "water with a drop of lemon" to whatever you like. Put some fresh mint in there if you like

If life didn't give you lemons, you're out of luck though
I switched. I have been on the fence for some time now, what with the pocket nagware and the various 'sponsored' features showing up in FF. Very easy for me to start using librewolf. It even seems to be faster.
I'm glad you still have that much faith in the system. That's much more faith than I have in the system (and more faith than I had in the system back then, too).
From that same study:

>The increased amounts of calcium, phosphate, and fluoride in the drinks limited the severity of erosion by changing the solubility of the enamel [82]. The decline in enamel’s surface microhardness and mineral loss were both dramatically halted by the addition of CaGP to the carbonated drinks.

Most seltzer water has fluoride in it, and your tap water has fluoride in it (if you're making your own at home).

Also the methodology in this study was purely in vitro, not real world conditions. Notably, the lack of saliva.

>Under normal circumstances, human saliva forms a physical barrier, a film, and prevents direct contact between the tooth enamel surface and acidic beverages, thus protecting teeth from erosive attack by acids [45,84,85,86]. However, the erosion tests were carried out without saliva

Also, seems like the study was more on soft drinks in particular and not "other acidic drinks" which may include seltzer water.

>Soft drink consumption during meals was linked to mild to severe tooth damage [65]. No matter when they were consumed, other acidic meals and beverages were not linked to tooth damage [40].

Anyway, net is this: I'm not saying sparkling water carries absolutely no risk, but linking a study like this and cherry picking quotes to make it sound like sparkling water is going to destroy your teeth is misleading.

If drinking sparkling water helps you kick your soda habit, please definitely make the switch. It's so much better for you. The increased risk from drinking sparkling water compared to still water is not worth worrying about if sparkling water provides a quality of life increase for you.

Everything in healthcare is about moderated risk and counterbalancing it against lifestyle.
“My most effective and moral friends are now working for Palantir,” Ganesan says.

This statement is so absurd to me I don’t even know where to begin.

Effective, sure. Moral? Hmmmm. I’m not sure building tech to snipe people from on high is moral?
You're in for a treat if you haven't read him since OMW. He's one of the more prolific "popular SF" writers around, has won a ton of awards, and usually has a book out about every year or so.
Show HN: Popularity Contest, the highest-ranking personal blogs of HN
Personal blogs are my favorite part of Hacker News, so I was curious to find out which ones are the most popular.

There are tools for finding popular individual posts on HN, but I'd never found anything that aggregates scores across multiple submissions for the same domain, so I decided to build one. I also had a vain curiosity about how my own blog compared to other popular HN authors like Simon Willison and Dan Luu.

I had fun making this, as it helped me discover a lot of high-quality personal blogs that weren't on my radar, especially from the earlier days of HN.

Suggestions, questions, and criticisms welcome!
Geely is the parent corp of both Volvo and Polestar (as well as Lotus, London Cabs, Zeeker) so they're corporate siblings or cousins anyway.
DRAM makes a line of reasonably-sweetened sodas (3-5g sugar per can) but they’re definitely a “luxury” product, in the range of $10-15 for a 4-pack. I don’t know of a single mass-market option.
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I went through a phase of making homemade cola syrup and then carbonating it with a home carbonator to get a low-sugar cola without sweeteners (which I used to tolerate, but which gained an awful taste following a bout of COVID-induced anosmia). For me, that ended up being about 4g demerara per 100ml.
> What degradation in ability should I plan for? Any?

Alzheimer's disease.
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For most of recorded history that was because we didn't have access to food, clean water. The process of preparing alcohol, tea, coffee, and other beverages was part of making water safe to deinkt. Alot of the world still doesn't have access to reliable, clean water.

Now it's because of advertising telling us to drink anything but water (or if we drink water to buy it in a bottle).
Well, has anyone from Volkswagen done fascist salutes at a political rally lately: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smQNNo2a9xc

And was anyone from Volkswagen making excuses for Hitler yesterday: https://meidasnews.com/news/elon-musk-retweet-hitler-didnt-m...
Is the only way to fight a meme to create a more-dominant one?

“Talkin bout Bob Barker commissary, not Bob Barker who punches Adam Sandler in the face.”
>...cue the onslaught of wise-guy comments claiming sliced carrots aren't whole foods.

Also think of the poor, they can't afford carrots.
It does that. Users have the simple option of disabling it in settings with one checkbox.
The big difference:

> The GSM Association announced that the latest RCS standard includes E2EE

> While Apple’s proprietary iMessage system already supported E2EE, this wasn’t extended to RCS messaging because the previous RCS standard didn’t provide cross-platform support
Still waiting for Google Fi to turn RCS on for iOS users :(
Cursor IDE changes "Sonnet 3.7 thinking" model to use 2 requests instead of 1
Microsoft can always decide to fork Chrome. Not integrating upstream changes from Chromium anymore and develop their own browser based on one specific Chromium release.
Humans tend to have pyramidal power structures, because of [reasons]. I don't see how this relates to the topic?

> It’s not even the same person every time, people trade off being that key person.

So it's the role that delivers software? I think I agree with that. Even so, that role cannot function without its support system (the team).
Yup, I was never much of a soda drinker but switching from coffee to loose leaf teas has been a huge move for me in my daily habits. I used to drink coffee until 3, 4, even 5pm and it was having negative effects on my health and sleep.

Now I just start the day with a mug of loose leaf tea and keep re-steeping it as the day goes on. By the time noon comes around there is little to no caffeine left but I still get some tea flavor as well as the hit of hot liquid my body is used to.

When at home I brew gong fu style which keeps more caffeine as I reload the gaiwan or tea pot but that’s just a preference of mine. Highly recommend Chinese/Taiwanese teas, especially Oolong if you’re looking for an alternative to coffee or soda.
I use recursion a fair bit just because it's the easiest solution that requires the least thought. If I have a tree structure from e.g a JSON parser, or a directory tree, or an HTML node tree, what more debuggable options are there, realistically?

Re-writing recursive algorithms to be non-recursive typically requires less obvious code, where you make your own ad-hoc stack to keep track of where you are; essentially implementing the call stack manually.

In contexts where DoS or stack smashing is a concern because the input is attacker-controlled, it's often way easier to add a depth parameter and error at a certain depth than to rewrite the naturally recursive algorithm into iterative style. But tree structures are so naturally recursive that it's easy to end up with accidental unbounded recursion in complex real-world situations.
Where for $1500?
Its primarily the size which is a problem. Cybertruck fits only European highway basically
What a polite way to point out that their error was a typo.
Been avoiding it since day 1. At least with sugar the risks are somewhat understood.

Then again...don't drink soda so neither here not there really
Very cool. But so many of us paid not enough attention to the details. Only two of the people in my first shop attempted channel programming.
>Data and code availability
>No original code was generated in this study.

Oh come on. I thought Cell was more strict than this.
It’s really odd they don’t, I’m incredibly curious why.
Because reference implementations are often less efficient.

If the standard exists as an abstract interface then future implementors can make different tradeoffs.
They'll never cut defense spending. That's where the most grift and corruption are, and that's the bread and butter for any politician to horse-trade for what they want.
I won't read anything funnier on HN today.

Thanks for the visual.
its coming

https://9to5google.com/2025/03/04/google-fi-rcs-ios-18-4/
Yeah, but all you reference is Finland. That’s one country with strict blasphemy laws, not specifically about Islam, but about any religion. It’s curious you seem to only care when they apply it to Islam. You get into the same amount of trouble there whether the book you’re burning is a bible or a quran.

And, yeah, I agree. Finlands blasphemy laws are bad and need to be abolished. But the way you’re representing them as specifically about islam and as being representative for most of Europe comes across as disingenuous to me.

And, yeah, there’s more European countries classified as red (worst category) on https://end-blasphemy-laws.org/countries/ but definitely not a majority. Israel is on there too by the way.
Clarified CQRS (2009)
I suppose that's true. My mind was already on the likes of Qualcomm, Apple, Ampere and Broadcom but the base ISA and some of the reference designs used in public are indeed pure ARM (the company).

Ideally there'd be a player like Fujitsu (also an ARM licensee), they can do an entire laptop where only the manufacturing and software is not in-house (they don't have the capacity to do that AFAIK). If you then slap some coreboot (or U-Boot) and linux on it, you'd be pretty close to a much less US-attached laptop.
> Aspartame has always been under a cloud of doubt

But this is almost entirely due to alarmists who were never using good science to justify their perspectives (just like with MSG). The reality is that aspartame is one of the most studied substances in history and it's effect on humans is very clear.
Arguably that's what Librewolf, Waterfox, and Palemoon are doing, except via donations.

Considering how quickly Netscape died once IE appeared, I think the market is so small that sites will never test against them and they'll never get a seat on a standards board.
there is this weird addictive thing with AI coding. found myself just sending prompts over and over and hoping the next one would finally get it right. sending a prompt and going and doing something else, but mostly end up with a huge mess
There was a reference implementation called Amaya.[1] It died, because the set of web standards is vast and sprawling, and without a business model implementing them has been seen historically as overly expensive.

In the absence of a reference implementation, the only other suggestion for consolidation is to take an existing implementation and crown that as the winner. The problem is that implementation, regardless of open source, remains under the control of its altruistic parent company. That company then effectively gains sole control over the direction of the web, which we typically agree is a bad thing. The web is (and always has been) bigger than one engine.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amaya_(web_editor)
> I. Do. Not. Get. The Russia fetish.

It's not a Russia fetish. It's a Strongman fetish.
Harm reduction is important.

Normal sodas are pretty acidic - coke has a pH of around 2.5

Soda water has a pH of 5-6.

Your saliva has a pH of around 6-7.

Water, of course, is at 7.

Remember we're dealing a log scale here, and that going from 2.5 to 5.5 isn't a 2x improvement - it's closer to a 1000x reduction in the amount of acid. If replacing soda with soda water is what gets them to stick to it, that's what they should do.
This example proves the exact opposite of the point you intended to make.
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The issue is that I dont want to explicily learn all of the notation but step by step, topic related with usecases in the real world...
Show HN: Monitor your internet connection without ads
Honestly I had some wifi problems today....
Needed something to keep track of my internet, and think most online sites have too many ads and too little persistance
This is great in principle. I still prefer Signal as the top-shelf experience of iOS—Android communication.
Also if we're criticizing the reference list, all of them are from 2022 and 2023, which is a weird distribution:
(1) things don't move that quickly, there should be some older references
(2) but if things do move that quickly, there should be some references from 2024 (or even 2025!)

Also the names of the authors, the paper titles, and the journals seem generic and single-authored papers aren't very common in this area.
He has (or had) permanent resident status. On a path to becoming a citizen. I think ‘foreigner’ does not accurately reflect that.
Damn, that's a nice car.
> Therefore, I don't see how "the Germans are speaking English" makes the point that language isn't DNA.

Because German isn't English. Speaking one doesn't let you understand the other in conversation, not even a little bit. They're not like e.g. Spanish and Portuguese.

The fact that English is Germanic is a historical fact about where it came from, what it evolved from a millennium ago. But only a small percentage of Germanic influence remains in modern-day English vocabulary. It doesn't have anything to do with Germans in the US learning English.
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding but the first one I see is an exclusive accordion (https://open-ui.org/components/accordion.explainer/).

This links out to several websites to show examples in the wild. Unfortunately, this is highly dependent on sites not changing, the links are not to exactly where they need to go and the link to the pixel 7 page actually goes to pixel 8 now. One of the others goes straight into a privacy policy and never takes you to the right link unless you then close out and follow it again.

It links off to the spec for the details element, which itself actually has an example https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/interactive-elements....

It feels like a great candidate to have something interactive with the explanation of the behaviour desired (but not standardised) and then the proposed code for the same behaviour when it's standardised.
"Although I was invested in this project, I definitely wasn't "flirty sex chat with some random scammer" levels of invested. The thought also dawned on me that part of their playbook could even involve "Aidana" calling for phone sex.

Either would be crossing lines that I didn't want to cross, meaning that I'd stumbled upon an unexpected 4th rule of engagement: don't talk dirty with scammers."

Rules of life to live by.
> skipped “the industry’s standard fact-checking process."

And the industry in question has compromised its host culture. What is Truth now?

This billionaire corporate sociopath suggested "Facebook remake the news ecosystem with the company at its center."

How is the corporate propaganda business working out socially and politically? I see the stock valuations — perhaps they are a measure of what has been lost in stability and community.

> "I’ve seen him face so many choices and lose touch with whatever fundamental human decency"

Including the rush to dismantle fact-checking in his corporation's product, which has become THE news source for millions of citizens.
The API, absolutely.

It's only sad that the SDKs are often on the heavy side, I remember that the npm package used to be multiple megabytes as it bundled large parts of the core AWS SDK. Nowadays, I believe it's still around half a megabyte.
At least know that I have trust in your humor and sense of smiling in the face of adversity.
The power of software is not tied to processing power or memory, although those help a lot. Code is the deciding factor, not quite because it can be laid out wherever and have far reaching effects, but for the underlying basis for code. Software is all about leaky abstractions. It's not quite math or any sort of empirical engineering. Software models entire worlds. Excel is "just" people churning out calculations from paper spreadsheets, except now you just see the results on a screen. Pong is a ping-pong game. But I used the word "leaky" before. "All models are wrong, but some are useful."

We could always talk about stacks, AVL trees, or NLP before any meaningful conception of computers, and indeed a lot of computer science research happened when computers were still fairly primitive. Computer science and its applied form, software engineering, are about computation (data and code) and abstraction. Even computation is just a distraction at some level. There's some world with the ideal behavior that a program should abstract from, but an ideal is an ideal, so programming is often floundering to figure out what ad-hoc world the program mirrors and tweaking haphazardly. Software engineering isn't engineering not because it can't be, due to the (very real) differences of software from the physical world. It isn't engineering currently because we aren't taking control of our actions and their consequences, in all senses.

Intellectual superiority is not relevant here. Everyone has hard tasks. If you're a civil engineer, then design and build infrastructure well. If you're a programmer, then design and build programs well. Any discipline demands honesty and forthrightness in evaluating its work.
TIL aspartame is considered "healthier" because it takes far less of it in calories to achieve the same level of sweetness (~200x sweeter than sugar).
I love this product. Would it be possible to also accept a URL for analysis?
How well established is it that aspartame produces an insulin response? For me that’s the shocker. I don’t consume any but I’ve always suspected this. It suggests that many diet sodas, sugar free gums, and sugar free foods can contribute to insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes.
I don’t see why not; over ten years ago the OpenVZ vm code had a way to rsync a container across the network; syncing everything; then only the pages that had changed since the start of sync; then the final pages that had changed in the last few seconds. There was a tiny delay to pause the container on the old and start on the new host; but I am sure that this could be reduced further.
I really enjoy this film for how it captures a world. Reminds me of Neill Blomkamp's ability to worldbuild. Also performances is on point, action is well paced and intense. Score is great. So much diversity in the visuals / scenes as well. Great, masterpiece of a film.

Also, it's Michael Caine's 92nd birthday today. I think he's really great in this.
They’ve cranked up the fees for renewals. New registrations of .com domains are €11 whereas renewals are €32. Some long-tail TLDs are much much more.

When you have as many domains (i.e. amazing future business opportunities!) as I do, that adds up to a lot.

So one by one I’m moving them all to Porkbun. Seems great so far.

I can imagine it doesn’t matter so much if you don’t have many domains.
Because they aren’t interested in “making America great again”, that’s the marketing line used to sell it to American voters. They are solely interested in looting the nation for personal gain.
Except, in this case you have a US company that I honestly believe takes privacy seriously, fighting to prevent that stance being undermined by the UK government
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it's the slot machine effect, plain and simple.

it's even worse if you're paying for tokens because there's a sunk cost! it feels like if you just tweak the prompt a little and put in another quarter and pull the lever again, this time it'll put out a totally correct result
Don't down vote me, resist...
If you send through a MUA (like Thunderbird) that uses Gmail's SMTP then Gmail do expose your IP address. Most other email providers do the same.

> Under normal circumstances your email client (MUA) connects to your email service provider (MTA), which then sends the email to the MTA of the recipient. So the IP of your MTA (email hosting service), not your MUA (your computer) is exposed.

This is incorrect, most email providers' MTA includes the MUA's IP address in the headers.
The flaw in this article is the assumption that 10x engineers are just more productive, and several "normal engineers" can do the work of a 10x engineer. This may be true if you're building "normal software".

But for certain kinds of software development, a team of "normal engineers" can't do what a single 10x engineer can do. For example, how many "normal engineers" would you need to replace an Ilya Sutskever? The answer is you can't. Because intelligence is not stackable.
Agree with that, but for employers to understand that it’s worth paying it’s necessary to understand that you would actually get more value in return as an employer than the extra you have to spend on a great engineer.

Again, depends on whether your product has that much upside. Many products don’t. But as an example: German car makers have long ignored that great software engineers have a vastly bigger impact in a team than great mechanical engineers. As a result, they for a long time failed to build great software engineering orgs.

Volkswagen gave in eventually and is now licensing from Rivian. Their failure was caused by a structural problem of not seeing how SW works at scale, and how that should influence your hiring.