skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is certainly a very useful resource - even for a seasoned data scientist!
This is really cool, and PlanetScale Metal looks really solid, too. Always a huge sucker for seeing latency huge latency drops on releases: https://planetscale.com/blog/upgrading-query-insights-to-met....
I would go off the beaten path and consider a career in slot machine companies. Assuming they learned Unity in school most of those companies are using unity or something similar. Aristocrat and companies like that.

If you truly mean Indie, and not AA with investment money, the vast majority of them hire freelance via discord, if they even hire at all. The small companies lucky enough to raise money tend to have extensive network they call on, which is how they got any money in the first place.
Show HN: Bubbles, a vanilla JavaScript web game
Hey everybody, you might remember my older game, Lander! It made a big splash on Hacker News about 2 years ago. I'm still enjoying writing games with no dependencies. I've been working on Bubbles for about 6 months and would love to see your scores.

If you like it, you can build your own levels with my builder tool: https://ehmorris.com/bubbles/builder/ and share the levels here or via Github.
On a similar note, does anyone know if it's possible without JavaScript for a link or form or something similar to be submitted without the whole page refreshing and still being able to update some text?

For example, the upvote, favorite, and reply actions on hacker news website. They all require a whole page refresh. Is it possible to achieve it without page refresh and without JavaScript?
The visuals are awesome; the bouncing-box is probably the best illustration of relative latency I've seen.

Your "1 in a million" comment on durability is certainly too pessimistic once you consider the briefness of the downtime before a new server comes in and re-replicates everything, right? I would think if your recovery is 10 minutes for example, even if each of three servers is guaranteed to fail once in the month, I think it's already like 1 in two million? and if it's a 1% chance of failure in the month failure of all three overlapping becomes extremely unlikely.

Thought I would note this because one-in-a-million is not great if you have a million customers ;)
> Generally speaking, every point of centralization is also a point where a lot of power can be acquired with relatively little resources

This is why (1) shared principles and (2) credible democracy is important, to allow evolution of the centralized power (i.e. government) towards the shared principles, and why its corporate-bribed facsimile or oligarchic authoritarianism don't work.
> But individuals can face serious consequences for obtaining it illegally.

Can they? Who has ever faced serious consequences for pirating books in the US?
Hi, what actually are _metal_ instances that are being used when you're on EC2 that have local NVME attached? Last time I looked, apart from the smallest/slowest Graviton, you have to spend circa 2.3k USD/mo to get a bare-metal instance from AWS - https://blog.alexellis.io/how-to-run-firecracker-without-kvm...
Interestingly, I don't think you have to purchase the starlink in the same country you plan to use it (else what would be the point of the Mini version).
Great nerdbaiting ad. I read all the way to the bottom of it, and bookmarked it to send to my kids if I feel they are not understanding storage architectures properly. :)
Yeah. It's an original idea, but it just doesn't feel playable at all.

I feel that this sentence from the blog post should have made some alarm bells ring:

> Sometimes I fall back on selecting cells randomly until I find one with highly constraining runs.

Clicking through individual cells one by one sounds really tedious, but this also makes it clear that playing through puzzles doesn't build up some ability to see the runs at a glance.

I think the only way you make this work is by eliminating the concept of run being entirely determined by the board layout. There would need to be way fewer (mostly longer) lines, they should always be visible, and they should be set up by the puzzle constructor to be interesting rather than with purely a mechanical rule.
I the UK I go on job sites and search for contracts.

Though linkedin has eaten a lot and a bunch have merged.
Might not.

The Rust standard library has a state of the art sort implementation. There’s nothing faster, in any language - https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/124032.

And sure, it’s possible that someone could write a C program that compares in speed to all the Rust programs I’ve mentioned. C is a Turing complete language after all. I’m only pointing out that it hasn’t happened in practice.

Also check the Android Binder code before (C https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/androi...) and after (Rust - https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/native/...). Same speed but the quality difference, it’s incomparable.
That's exactly what a good salesperson is doing.
Correct. For electronic media.
>> One catches far more issues than another

> akshually they have same amount of bugs

You literally segfault by dereferencing invalid pointer.
Ah, so that's the angle. I'd been wondering. "We agree but you have to withdraw from our territory. We get to stay in yours though. Fair, right?"
Not sure if this is conscious cunning by the BBC, but they probably employ people whose skillset and style is shaped by the “writing for the web” industry - and we know that the modern web is a cattle ranch. Got to keep the animals inside the funnel, pointing in the right direction.
There's a lot that could usefully be said about the failures of the Democratic Party but this ain't it. This fellow is simply ranting and foaming at the mouth.
Yes, the last Congress very much whiffed its chance to make a budget. The December CR was political: let the new Congress make do it.

It's no surprise that it takes longer than two months. It would be perfectly reasonable to just pass an actual budget, rather than a CR, that continues last year's priorities. The next budget cycle starts in September; make a real budget for the current Congress' priorities then.

A less-incompetent 2025/2026 Congress would indeed have arrived in January with a worked-out plan. Certainly the administration did. I think they were waiting to see how well that plan worked, and are surprised that it has been so effective.
There's no analogous because the scale of it takes it to a whole different level and degree, and for all intents and purposes we tend to care about level and degree.

Me taking over control of the lemonade market in my neighbourhood wouldn't ever be a problem to anyone, a very minor annoyance; instead if I managed to corner the lemonade market of a whole continent it'd be a very different thing.
> $250k is a staggering salary... not everyone lives in San Francisco. Or America for that matter.

Still you need to spend at least $250K (which direct compensation would be close to $150K) to hire a competent browser dev. And I'm not speaking about SF... Well you can have better cost efficiency outside American metros, but the reality is that experienced browser devs are rare outside those areas.

> I have seen what small teams of good devs can do with the right environment, scope, tools etc.

Not objecting that disruptions can be done with a small focused team. But here we're talking about dealing with massive complexity, not an emerging market. You cannot "redefine" the problem here, the ecosystem is mess and we've got to live with it for a good time...

> I'm talking about a cut-down Firefox, stripped of all the bullshit in the background, just a browser that shows webpages... all the heavy lifting is done: CSS engine, JS engine etc.

You will be surprised to know how small the core engine parts are to the total code base. You may argue that most of those are not necessary and perhaps half of them are pretty much ad-hoc complexity but the rest have their own reason to exist. And the new browser engine developers typically learn this hard way then decides to fall back to Chromium. I've seen this several times.
>California can't legislate how they serve a customer in a different state. They would have to comply when serving California customers within the state of California, regardless of where the dc is located. I.E. Under the CCPA it doesn't matter where my data is stored, they still have to delete it upon my request.

I know this is what California thinks, I just personally don't see how this isn't inter state commerce.
Seriously? Have you seen the absolute crap that some people produce? You really don't think "it's necessary (or possible) to be better than anyone else"?

Race to the bottom, here we come!
Blue noise threshold map works really well on GPUs.
Good book on the topic of selling - https://www.danpink.com/books/to-sell-is-human/
Why is it so hard to believe that someone in your organization accidentally or deliberately clicked the "get copilot" button in their IDE or on any Github surface? I'm not saying Github is right here (this is an ad after all), but directly accusing them of dishonesty/cheating without even putting in the bare minimum effort to confirm it on your end seems weird. AI-assisted coding has been all the rage in tech circles for a while now, and I'd bet there's at least one person at your company who wants to try it out.

Although I guess the purpose of the post was to generate internet outrage, and I have no doubt it will be successful at that.
lol, oy vey
Can't believe I'm actually rooting for the copyright cartels in this fight.

But that does make me think, that in a sane society with a functional legislature I wouldn't have to pick a dog in this fight. I'd have have enough faith in lawmakers and the political process to pursue a path towards copyright reform that reigns in abuses from both AI companies and megacorp rightsholders

Alas, for now I'm hoping that aforementioned megacorps sue OpenAI into a painful lesson.
Beware tech career advice from old heads – Jacob Kaplan-Moss
> symbolic differentiation in Prolog

there was such project in my university 3rd year, in 1988. Worked well. There was also an attempt at symbolic integration but that wasn't that easy, as i remember worked for some classes of things.
Business and tech idea: make it so that it's like Spotify for AI.

Everytime an answer is drawn from "certain learned weights," make it so that the source of that knowledge is paid cents per volume.
Renewable power is 30% of the world grid.

Gas combined cycle power plants get part of their power from gas in the turbine directly, and part of it from steam cycles. I can't figure out what % over of power comes from which part, and not all gas power plants are combined cycled.

It seems reasonable to say that most electricity is not generated by steam turbines. However I'm not sure how to find the real data to verify this. (and pedantically the gas in a gas turbine is mostly steam)
Commerce is demeaning?
This is wild - thank you for the rabbithole
Don’t Be Evil

… but don’t disappoint shareholders…
Is George Soros evil? I always thought he did a lot of good for the world.
You know the game Paper's Please?

Where you are running border security for a totalitarian communist state?

Even that game doesn't want you to detain people for having an improper work visa for entry, just turn them away.
> Google around for cases of vandalism of the cars and the dealers. Pretty sure “politically charged” misses the point by several orders of magnitude.

I'm not sure how that justifies terrorism. Anyone destroying public or private property needs to be arrested by the police and sent to court.
I heavily, heavily abused d3.js to build these.
I'd guess that's Austin Nasso and TechRoastShow. They clearly know the subject matter well.

https://www.instagram.com/austinnasso/?hl=en

https://www.instagram.com/techroastshow/?hl=en
Can back feed when the grid is up. Can't back feed when the grid is out. It has an onboard relay to disconnect from the grid when there is an outage.
>Speaking at a Council on Foreign Relations event on Monday, Amodei said that China is known for its “large-scale industrial espionage” and that AI companies like Anthropic are almost certainly being targeted.

Also from https://www.chinatalk.media/p/anthropics-dario-amodei-on-ai-...

> Jordan Schneider: We’ve talked about competition from the lens of compute, from the lens of models, but models are created by people. The times I’ve been to NeurIPS, it has been really striking to me just how much Mandarin is spoken at those poster sessions. I’m curious what message you’d have to say to PRC nationals studying in the West who hear this and are like, “Why would I want to work for this guy?"

> Dario Amodei: I want to be really clear on one thing — I should probably say it even more than I do. When we talk about China, this isn’t about Chinese people versus American people.

But we'll totally suspect you of being a spy for the PRC
It could have had the name originally and the editor / author removed a sentence at some point containing it, and no one noticed.
Swartz wasn’t “downloading copyrighted content…for the purpose of learning,” he was downloading with the intent to distribute. That doesn’t justify how he was treated. But it’s not analogous to the limited argument for LLMs that don’t regurgitate the copyrighted content.
I don't need a card to read in the library, nor to use the photocopiers there, but it's merely one example anyway. (If it wasn't, you'd only need one library, any of the deposit libraries will do: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_deposit).

You also don't need permission, as a human, to read (and learn from) the internet in general. Machines by standard practice require such permission, hence robots.txt, and OpenAI's GPTBot complies with the robots.txt file and the company gives advice to web operators about how to disallow their bot.

How AI should be treated, more like a search index, or more like a mind that can learn by reading? Not my call. It's a new thing, and laws can be driven by economics or by moral outrage, and in this case those two driving forces are at odds.
The nerdbaiting will now provide generational benefit!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz

(Please no pedantry about how scientific papers aren't books)
Kobo also has audiobooks
A LOT of universities have a central heat plant that pumps hot water to all the other buildings. I think steam has been phases out because it is so much more dangerous and electric pumps make it unnecessary.
My shirt today is red. Do you know what else is red? Those buses in London!
Are you aware that you can collapse comments chains?
There is cost though - the pipes needed to get steam someplace are not free. Those pipes can explode when things go wrong so people can die. How you add those costs up is a debatable question, but it isn't free.
Same thing with me. I grew up with an Apple // and was absolutely obsessed with it. Bought one during covid and was bored with it immediately. Not the same with my NES though. Idk why. Too primitive I guess.
A shame she wasn't doing time distribution, or you could get the Last time.
An interesting idea that sadly just isn’t fun to play.
You know what you should do next? Out-innovate Vercel & offer even more cool features!

Some ideas:

1) Live object state! (like liveview/instantdb!)

import {useLiveState} from 'zercel'

const [state, setState] = useLiveState({whateveryouwant}, {name: '/roomId/keyId'}) // will sync automatically in realtime between clients!

2) Storage!

import { storage } from 'zercel'

storage.put("hello", file)

Inspirational, thanks for the open source code!
Incorrectly flagged as a dupe, somehow.
We started with libraries and books, now you're moving the goalposts to websites.

Sidenote: I wouldn't even be mad if OpenAI built robots to go into all of the libraries and read all of the books. That would be amazing!
> Can I download a book without paying for it

Yes, you can read books without paying, if that's how it is offered.

And you can photocopy books you own for your own personal use. But again....the analogy is remembering/leaning from a book.
> The US made similar guarantees and planed to out-grow the costs (i.e. ponzi scheme).

If you're referring to Social Security in the US, it's no more a Ponzi scheme than your home mortgage payment is a Ponzi scheme. In reality it's a progressive tax scheme to prevent senior citizen poverty.

To make Social Security solvent, lift the cap on Social Security taxes. Will the working and middle classes benefit more than the wealthy who will pay more in those taxes?

Yes, and progressive taxation to prevent abject impoverishment of working and middle class seniors is a good thing.
Vantablack is carbon nanotubes grown on a surface. Black 3.0 or 4.0 and Mosou black are paints that perform significantly better than regular black but are still measurably less than Vantablack. Visually the difference is small, but durability is far better.
It’s your future AI programmer that clicked it.
Agents: Comparing OpenAI's Operator, ResponsesAPI, AgentsSDK vs. Anthropic's MCP
What are the advantages and disadvantages of both and where are both still missing capabilities.
Tell HN: Forking Libera IRC #javascript to #jsland due to bad governance
Hi all, over the years I've been in #javascript the situation has only been getting worse, each year we lose over 50 members. In that rate, nobody will be left in the channel in a few years.

Why has this been happening? Because of bad governance and toxic behavior by the ops has resulted in a channel where everyone is afraid to talk. Because I've lived through it, the community used to be supportive, positive and everyone was excited about new projects. People were forking left and right and it was a healthy and productive environment. This is not the case now. All posts and discussions are met with toxicity, comments of the kind "you're doing it wrong" and "this is not needed", instead of encouraging the users and providing positive feedback, they get attacked, insulted, and the ops kick whoever they like, without any effort to maintain any kind of safe and healthy environment.

The result of all this is the channel is dead and there are no plans or discussions to fix it.
I've done multiple attempts to point out these issues and was met with total denial of the problem and rejection.

So I've decided to fork it, the new channel is now #jsland.

You are all welcome! <3
I feel like this could be a nice high school physics test question. Realistically, I don't think HV lines have much energy loss, owing to the use of high voltage in the first place as a means of minimizing loss. Then there are considerations for air resistance in the tubes, an almost 100% effective insulator, and all those real world issues of gnarly general maintenance.

Almost all electricity run through computers are basically resistance losses at the end of the day, so data centers and crypto miners on the other hand...
Show HN: C++ Arena Allocator That's 200x+ Faster Than GNU Malloc
My first post to HN (sorry for the clickbait-y title)!

Very excited to show that I built a C++ custom memory allocator and benchmarked it to GNU Malloc. Had some surprising results which led me into a OS/hardware rabbit hole, came out on the other side with some learning and a blog post.

Enjoy :)
Andy Grote comes to mind.
Someone tweeted "Du bist so 1 Pimmel" (something like "you are such a willy") at him. Got his house searched and everything for that.

Issue here being the fact that insulting someone is a criminial offense (hope that's the correct english terminology) in Germany.

https://theweek.com/news/world-news/954635/willygate-german-...

e:/ Whether this is actual satire or not is up for debate i guess, but this was in my opinion way overblown
I guess, what university and what level of math was that?

I majored in math at MIT, and even at the undergraduate level it was more like what OP is describing and less like what you're saying. I actually took linear algebra twice since my first major was Economics before deciding to add on a math major, and the version of linear algebra for your average engineer or economist (i.e.: a bunch of plug and chug matrices-type stuff), which is what I assume you're referring to, was very different. Linear algebra for mathematicians was all about vector spaces and bases and such, and was very interesting and full of proofs. I don't think actually concretely multiplying matrices was even a topic!

So I guess linear algebra is one of those topics where the math side is interesting and very much what all the mathematicians here are describing, but where it turned out to be so useful for everything, that there's a non-mathematician version of it which is more like what it sounds like you experienced.
Guided exploration can replace random generation in the era of abundant AI
It's been tried. PCB design is a huge industry. And it has just not worked. I was of the same opinion you have but it's not like there has not been millions and millions invested into this without real impact. Every year there is a new sway of companies that tries. Perhaps AI is now good enough, I'm not holding my breath.
Most books aren't. Unless you pay for them.
Yeah, whatever.

I replied to @cvhc.
Top IRS Lawyer Set to Be Demoted Amid Taxpayer Data-Sharing Clash
When it starts saying "Why would you want to do that?" we should really be worried.
I started with libraries. OpenAI started with the internet.

The argument for both is identical, your objection is specific to libraries.

IIRC, Google already did your sidenote. Or started to, may have had legal issues.
I heard the theory that Elon Musk has a significant control over the current US government. They're not best pals with Sam Altman. This seems like it might be a good way to see how much power Elon actually has over the government?
Thanks. This is excellent, as you'd expect from Emily Maitlis.
> The end never justify the mean

It's working so far for Russia. It worked for Germany in WWII until the US stepped and fought our way through Europe.

If you see a certain group as your sworn enemy for life which should be destroyed at all means possible -- then you will never have peace. All you can have is war.
I find it really bad for bootstrapping projects such as picking dependencies from rapidly evolving ecosystems or understanding the more esoteric constraints like sqlite's concurrency model.

I'd argue you need to bootstrap and configure your project then allow only narrow access and problems to the llm to write code for - individual functions where your prompt includes the signature, individual tests, etc. Anything else and you really need to invest time in the code review lest they re-configure some of your code in a drastic way.

LLMs are useful but they do not replace procedure.
adsorption refrigeration has a really bad coefficient of performance, typically 0.3 to 0.7, while vapor compression systems get 3-5
Visual Studio: New, Simpler Solution File Format
In “Avatar: the Last Airbender”, there’s one-ish characters who can bend lightning, and to the credit of the animators, it is indeed depicted as cyan colored
Contribution of vaccination to improved survival and health
Updates on Schleswig-Holstein Moving to LibreOffice
Haha so this one good thing was maybe by accident or spite, that jives.
I should have "freedom to learn" about any Tesla in the showroom, any F-35 I see laying around an airbase or the contents of anyone in the governments bank account.
Compressed gasses are worse than fluids. I'm not sure if a water pipe even can explode - as soon as the pipe shatters there is no more energy as the water isn't going to expand. Gases will expand in the explosion and drive the pipe parts to more energy.

That isn't to say water/fluids are not dangerous. They can kill. However for the same pressure gases are much worse.