skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
one wonder how this liability of a tech stack became so popular. i have a theory it was VC dollars pumping up a ton of saas tools and they all came out with one-click integrations.

this is one house of cards that may never really be fixed.
Taproot Wizards Looks to Raise over $34M in Long-Awaited Sale of Signature NFTs
From the article, it seems that the extra energy is obtained from heat in the environment around the LED.
A trial in the UK resulted in customers earning up to £725/year [1]. With increased renewables on the grid leading to increased flutucations in the wholesale price of electricity, providing V2G/V2H will further reduce a customer's electricity bill on top of the savings offered by smart charging eg. Charge Anytime Tariff is 7p per kWh for EV charging [2] vs 27p kWh average Apr - Jun 2025 [3].

1. https://www.kaluza.com/case-studies/case-study-kaluza-enable...

2. https://www.ovoenergy.com/electric-cars/charge-anytime

3. https://www.nimblefins.co.uk/average-cost-electricity-kwh-uk
You also originally confirm with circle and cancel with cross/X on a Japanese PlayStation, that’s why the symbols are what they are
VR Is Dead
There’s a calculator here: https://college.harvard.edu/financial-aid/net-price-calculat...

But it doesn’t seem to have been updated yet, because I put in income of $200k and assets of $0 and still got less than a full tuition grant.
The absolute majority of it was collected manually, once we had a base of manually collected data we used AI for a select few datapoints, such as industry classifications, or detecting use of did:methods in projects documentation. Any AI colected data was then manually checked & approved. you can read about the data collection process in the pdf linked on https://www.weboftrust.org/about
Mostly that crowd is just concerned with humans' tendency to shoot ourselves in the foot when we don't understand something.

There used to be this place called the "fertile crescent" where humans grew a lot of food. But they didn't understand how certain irrigation techniques caused salt to build up in the soil, so they accidentally turned it into a desert.

We don't understand this oxygen source in the deep ocean. It seems likely that we're, again, about to shoot ourselves in the foot.

The belief is not that humans are evil, it's that humans are unskilled in dangerous ways and that it's worth slowing down to cultivating those skills before we cause unnecessary harm to ourselves.
Migrating from PRTG to Zabbix – one team's journey
No, it's a big deal. The oxygen existed ~300 million years after the Big Bang. So what has to happen is hydrogen and helium have to coalesce into galaxy and into nebulae, some event probably has to trigger star formation and the stars created have to be really large.

To put this in persepctive, our Sun, which is larger than the median star, produces no oxygen and is ~4.5 billion years old.

Larger stars are theorized to undergo the so-called CNO cycle [1]. To get to this process after "only" 300 million years means the star or stars are truly massive.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNO_cycle
I doubt they'd add these protections for visiting a handful of links at human speed. Correct me if I'm wrong, but crawlers often send hundreds of requests per minute, testing random outlinks and routes they find on the site

My concern would be as a webmaster: serving useless content to users, and as a user: not getting the information from the site.

I probably wouldn't use this feature, since I often deploy static websites that use little to no resources, and the potential harm outweighs the benefit
Off topic:

- Is the big bang theory the scientific consensus on the origin and evolution of the universe ?

- What are the alternatives ?
I don't want to spoil it for you, but eventually they delve into the mystery behind those numbers and the implications of it. Generally any series gets better after the first season so don't give up on it!
AI-driven weather prediction breakthrough reported
Because YAML, as much as it sucks, is relatively straightforward to write by humans. It sucks to read and parse, you can make tons of small mistakes that screw it up entirely, but it's still less cruft than tons of needless "": { } .

For short configs, YAML is acceptable-ish. For anything longer I'd take TOML or something else.
What is your plan for dealing with the super-brine which is also produced by desalinization?
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While manual sharding definitely creates tech debt for AI startups, I think the issue isn't sharding itself but how it's managed.
The geometric compression limit for F1 is 18:1.
They make it sound like they can go farther.
Yeah, I've come back around to this: you do not want "end users" writing Groovy, because the tooling around it is horrible.

You'll have to explain the weird CPS transformations, you'll probably end up reading the Jenkins plugins' code, and there's nothing fun down this path.
Show HN: SpongeCake – open-source SDK for OpenAI computer use agents
Hey HN! Wanted to quickly put this together after seeing OpenAI launched their new computer use agent

We were excited to get our hands on it, but quickly realized there was still quite a bit of set-up required to actually spin up a VM and have the model do things. So we wanted to put together an easy way to deploy these OpenAI computer use VMs in an SDK format and open source it

Hopefully this tooling is helpful to other folks building AI agents! Here’s a link to the repo (https://github.com/aditya-nadkarni/spongecake) - please try it out and give us a star. If you have any feedback, add it as a comment to this post! Or if you simply just love spongecake, show support for the delicious treat
If you are literally drawing so much from the aquifers that the city is collapsing into the ground, I think the water probably is mispriced.

And there’s no reason you have to charge industrial users of water less than residential users if the real price (meaning the cost to replace that water) is higher than the residential price. 0.6¢/gallon is less than I pay and I live in a wet city. I pay about 2¢/gallon. So for industrial electricity rates of 5-7¢/kWh, A/C is approximately a wash vs using residential water for cooling.
Actually, that is not a bad idea. @xena maybe Anubis v2 could make the client participate in some sort of SETI@HOME project, creating the biggest distributed cluster ever created :-D
Cloudflare took down our website: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40481808

A user running an online casino claimed that Cloudflare abruptly terminated their service after they refused to upgrade to a $10,000/month enterprise plan. The user alleged that Cloudflare failed to communicate the reasons clearly and deleted their account without warning.

Quote: "Cloudflare wanted them to use the BYOIP features of the enterprise plan, and did not want them on Cloudflare's IPs. The solution was to aggressively sell the Enterprise plan, and in a stunning failure of corporate communication, not tell the customer what the problem was at all."

——

Tell HN: Don't Use Cloudflare: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31336515

Summary: A user shared their experience of being forced to upgrade to a $3,000/month plan after using 200-300TB of bandwidth on Cloudflare's business plan. They criticized Cloudflare's lack of transparency regarding bandwidth limits and aggressive sales tactics.

Quote: "A lot of this stuff wasn't communicated when we signed up for the business plan. There was no mention of limits, nor any contracts nor fineprint."

——

Tell HN: Impassable Cloudflare challenges are ruining my browsing experience: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42577076

Summary: A user expressed frustration with Cloudflare's bot protection challenges, which made it difficult for them to unsubscribe from emails or access websites. They highlighted how these challenges disproportionately affect privacy-conscious users with non-standard browser configurations.

Quote: "The 'unsubscribe' button in Indeed's job notification emails leads me to an impassable Cloudflare challenge. That's a CAN-SPAM act violation."
"Ah, but for us, it's unenforceable, it's for you little people."

"Copyright? Well if you are a big label, we probably need to talk. Little people? Oh fuck you, just give us your money and creative output."
Leaking Passwords and more on macOS
I think those are essential things to do and valuable regardless of what else someone does. I do them myself all the time. I think the literature review is an amazing tool - really the best tool for learning, IME - and one that most people in the world (outside the research community) overlook.

Here we are talking about research in the science sense; those aren't research. You couldn't publish a literature review as 'research', for example, or get a Ph.D. for one - 'here's my dissertation topic - a lit review of ...'!.

There is lots of actual potential research for citizen scientists to do. And if they want to just learn from what's been discovered already, that's great - I certainly do that.

I think it's important that people understand that reading a textbook or secondary source isn't scientific research. Confusingly, now that I think of it, if you say 'I researched which EVs have the range we need', people assume you did not do actual research of driving them all. But that's a different meaning for the same word.

In your field, is 'research' used differently?
Linked in the article that this article links to is a project I found interesting for combatting this problem, a (non-crypto) proof-of-work challenge for new visitors https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis

Looks like the GNOME Gitlab instance implements it: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME
> And what exactly will people not buy because of activists?

I think that was my reply to a post about Apple exiting the EU market (completely unlikely IMO, since that would reduce profits), which may cause those unable to buy what they want to question the sensibility of specific regulation.

> "companies are so good for customers why do activists try to ruin a good thing"

I don't think anyone said that. But enacting regulation forcing Volvo to give you a full experience without Google Account login is just acting a step too late if you already bought it, or taking a step too far if you'd like to buy it but don't like it enough, and are now demanding they change it.
https://transformer-circuits.pub/2024/scaling-monosemanticit...

that is the paper being linked to by the "marketing material". Right at the top, in plain sight.

If you were arguing in good faith, you'd head directly there instead of lampooning the use of a marketing page in a discussion.

That all said, skepticism is warranted. Just not an absolute amount of it.
Solar and batteries got cheaper when we scaled up and built a lot. You have to pay current prices to get the next price drop, because it's all learning by doing.

If we had pushed harder in the 80s, 90s, and 2000s, solar might have gotten cheaper sooner. Solar fit in at the edges of the market as it grew: remote locations for power, or small scale settings where running a wire is inconvenient or impractical. The really big push that put solar over the edge was Germany's energiwende public policy that encouraged deploying a ton of solar in a country with exceptionally poor solar resources; but even with that promise of a market, massive scale up was guaranteed.

It's in many ways a collective action problem. Even in this thread, in 2025 you will see people wondering when we will have effective battery technology, because they have been misinformed for so long that batteries are ineffective that they don't see the evidence even in the linked article.

Also, most people do not understand technology learning curves, and how exponential growth changes things. Even in Silicon Valley, where the religion of the singularity is prevalent and where everyone is familiar with Moore's law, the propaganda against solar and batteries has been so strong that many do not realize the tech curves that solar and batteries enjoy.

A lot of this comes down to who has the money to spend on public influence too, which is largely the fossil fuel industry, who spends massive amounts on both politicians and in setting up a favorable information environment in the media. Solar and batteries are finally getting significant revenues, but they have been focused more on execution than on buying politics and buying media. They have benefited from environmental advocates that want to decarbonize, without a doubt, but that doesn't have the same effect as a very targeted media propaganda campaign that results in zealots that, whenever they see an article about climate change, call up their local paper and chew out the management with screaming. Much of the media is very afraid of right wing nuts on the matter and it puts a huge tilt on the coverage in the mass media in favor of fossil fuels and against climate science.
For all intents and purposes, Colon is considered to be part of the ZMQ (Zona Metropolitana de Queretaro)^1

Funny thing the english wikipedia article does not even mention it. But yeah, Each of those Cloud providers, have at least 3 buildings distributed on multiple industrial parks in the metropolitan area and I'm not even mentioning the ones from Kio Networks, IBM (SoftLayer). We are one step away from having one from OVH and Hetzner.

The only data center I know that is in the middle of the city of Queretaro is the one from Triara (aka Telmex, one of the many companies from Carlos Slim). Most of them are in the outskirts of the urban area.

1. https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zona_metropolitana_de_Quer%C3%...
> Don't be demoralized by PTSD :)

Hah, you kidding? PTSD rules my life~

> AVF/pKVM is not security theater

I said the banking apps are full of security theater. That's why they do root checks and such. AVF/pKVM will not prevent apps from incorrectly using attestation. If there's a way for an app to check for root or any possible deviation from fully trusted and unmodified, then it will be checked by certain types of apps, like banking apps, that rely on security theater. To be clear, the checking everything possible and completely locking you out if anything is even slightly off is the security theater. Not AVF/pKVM itself.
GitButler's new patch based Code Review (Beta)
Controllable pitch propellers are actually already outfitted on something like ~30% of shipping vessels.

https://www.savree.com/en/encyclopedia/controllable-pitch-pr...

But these use actuators to mechancially adjust the pitch rather than relying on deformation.

Twisting a few props about a their axes is a lot simpler than the geometry changes that are required acros the control surfaces of a toroidal prop, however. I don't think that would even be feasible
That seems crazy - millions of $ on GPUs but they can't afford some cheap storage? And direct network scraping seems super high latency. Although I guess a massive pretaining run might cycle through the corpus very slowly. Dunno, sounds fishy.
> The next adventure I’m excited to pursue (after taking the summer to relax) is how I can help government better serve its citizens. Thank you to the countless friends who have been pushing me in this direction for years. Government was the passion of my youth and I’m excited to reengage.

Uhhh... why now? Right now, (at least the Federal) government is currently on a self-destruction spree. AFAICT, they're not really interested in help to improve itself and serve citizens better.

Maybe in 4 years--if there's anything left of it--it might be a good opportunity.
Debate over H-1B visas shines spotlight on US tech worker shortages
As a former astronomer, one thing to highlight here is that statistical uncertainties aren't usually all that important in assessing how likely a result in astronomy is to be true. The main issue you grapple with in the field are your systematic uncertainties. When you report your uncertainty, it always is an uncertainty in the context of some model. However, if certain assumptions that your models have made are wrong, you will have underestimated your true uncertainty. Unfortunately, systematic uncertainties can't be reduced just by getting more data --- you have to somehow verify that the different assumptions your model has made are correct.

Astronomers spend a lot of time arguing with each other about whether they have properly incorporated all their systematic uncertainties. For measurements of dark energy this very quickly gets you into the weeds of Type Ia supernova physics (which is made more difficult because we don't know for certain what Type Ia supernovae are), stellar physics in Cepheids, the effect of metallicity, selection bias effects, and on and on.
A "due process" does not guarantee a lawyer. In case of immigration violations, for example, the due process consists of detention and subsequent deportation.

The Due Process clause just states that the government has to follow the law when depriving you of freedom or property. If the law says that the process is to stuff you into a circus cannon and shoot you into the ocean then you are guaranteed that.
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What ARM core is available for AMD to use that is better than what AMD has been shipping in Turin?

Adapting Zen to a simpler-to-decode architecture would cost more than licensing a core from ARM. The Zen 5 front-end is adapted for working around deficiencies of x86 with dual-decode SMT craziness.
A Deep Dive into MCP and the Future of AI Tooling
How do MCPs actually work, where are the real use cases, and the challenges today.
I can't cite any sources, but I want to say it was a combination of security, state management, and responsive layout that were all a huge headache.
It's been considered, but it's not going to help much. A tiny percentage of Alaska's goods come through BC.

Instead, alternative markets and surcharges for potash, minerals, energy, counter tariffs and bans of American goods, expanding interprovincial trade, bans on government procurement from the US, bans on American propaganda and media should be sufficient. And re-armament.

Given that it's clear that America cannot ever again be trusted, (electing Trump once was an accident, twice is actively malicious), and given that it's likely compromised by Russia, it should be considered what it is - a dangerous, unstable, suicidal foreign adversary. A kind of North Korea, but with nuclear weapons.
For me early on in the Vista experience it was a lot of cheese moving with half done new UI, and then things not where you want to find them. Also what seemed like a lot of unexpected system prompts related to permissions / security that didn't explain why you were seeing it...

It worked, but felt like I was boxing my computer at times.
New Tech Bends Sound Through Space So It Reaches Only Your Ear in a Crowd
Most of the government that ordinary people interact with isn't federal.
Well, you should compare the JS UI ecosystem to other UI ecosystems like Android and iOS, not ecosystems that run on one machine with no UI.

Then you'd make a more sensible comparison like React versus something like SwiftUI which is constantly changing, constantly breaking, and still basically in beta mode for 10 years, yet it only runs on specific versions of Apple hardware and software. And usually it's so insufficient that you also build part of your app in UIKit/Cocoa in a completely different language.

React is far more stable to build with and far less experimental.

People who have never touched any UI tech until HTML/JS have no clue how good they have it, so they confuse universally hard things about UI tech with something that must be specific to JS, so they additionally assume it's so much better elsewhere.

You should try updating a nontrivial SwiftUI app you made for the iPhone 11 to work on the iPhone 16. Not only have your libraries changed (not just topical ones, but the Promise library you used is defunct and everything now uses Combine and 2021 Swift async features, so you have to migrate all of your async code), but the platform itself doesn't have APIs that you were using anymore. That's not even a class of problem you deal with on browser tech.
A heat pump can operate at ">100% efficiency" without breaking the laws of thermodynamics, the trick is that its moving the thermal energy around rather than merely "producing" it. It wouldn't surprise me if the LED is doing something similar.
Which is still amazing. An issue with high power LED is cooling. If this can be turned into a product, it solves the issue in the best possible way.
It's a well reported effect, LEDs can emit light using electrical and heat energy. That gives better than 1 efficiency of light from electric input. Not a violation of the 2nd law, just a way to beam heat out of an environment.

Power levels are low though, so I haven't seen any reports of applications

Oh, and this may be one of the original reports, it's dated 2012.
> He's not just giving you startup advice, he's a lone survivor who's come back to tell the tale.

Well put.
I was thinking about the similar topic and started to wonder if I can generated a diagram of a large codebase.

I thought that LLMs are great at compressing information and thought of putting it to good use by compressing a large codebase into a single diagram. Since entire codebase doesn't fit in the context window, I built a recursive LLM tool that calls itself.

It takes two params:
* current diagram state,
* new files it needs to expand the diagram.

The seed set would be an empty diagram and an entry point to source code. And I also extended it to complexity analysis.

It worked magically well. Here are couple of diagrams it generated:
* https://gist.github.com/priyankc/27eb786e50e41c32d332390a42e...
* https://gist.github.com/priyankc/0ca04f09a32f6d91c6b42bd8b18...

If you are interested in trying out, I've blogged here: https://updates.priyank.ch/projects/2025/03/12/complexity-an...
I would feel that way but I've had the misfortune to work with a wide open ci system where any developer could make thanges and one guy did. The locked down system prevents me form some changes I want but in return my builds don't suddenly start failing because some ci option was turned on for everyone.
I mean, is there really still a tech worker shortage? People are sending resumes for 6+ months to no avail. Upwork has ran dry.
> Very little life exists at the ocean floor, since there are very few life sustaining resources there.

I think that this isn't true even in light of our current known science; but our understanding of what "life sustaining resources" are is something that can only grow with time—certainly we've often found in the past life in places that we thought were utterly inhospitable to it—and so we cannot meaningfully say that little life exists for this reason. And it can be dangerous to sacrifice life even when we think we understand it very well, unless we are sure that we completely understand its role in the ecosystem, or, rather, how its removal from one part of the ecosystem will affect our part of the ecosystem—which we (almost?) definitely don't.
Linear typed are "use exactly once". In this case you consume "file" when you pass it into writeString and then it is (compile time) unavailable to be used with g, afterwards.
It's broadcast in the clear, unencrypted. Just like all non-military aircraft comms.
AI is just trash. I do not see the appeal.
> We should reduce the use of fossil fuels but that will take decades.

I remember people saying that decades ago, and fossil fuel consumption has only risen since then...

Here in the US, we've been expanding production and breaking records! The opposite of what we should be doing, and I have no faith that the government, especially the current administration, is going change things either.

This all works out great for the oil industry, the plans to solve climate change are perpetually decades away, and in the mean time oil consumption stays the same or even increases!