skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Packaging is “hard” but mobile and app stores do it.

They do it by having standards in the OS, partial containerization, and above all: applications are not installed “on” the OS. They are self contained. They are also jailed and interact via APIs that grant them permissions or allow them to do things by proxy. This doesn’t just help with security but also with modularity. There is no such thing as an “installer” really.

The idea of an app being installed at a bunch of locations across a system is something that really must die. It’s a legacy holdover from old PC and/or special snowflake Unix server days when there were just not many machines in the world and every one had its loving admin. Things were also less complex back then. It was easy for an admin or PC owner to stroll around the filesystem and see everything. Now even my Mac laptop has thousands of processes and a gigantic filesystem larger than a huge UNIX server in the 90s.
BYD are building a plant in Hungary. I'm not sure how subsidised they are - in their accounts they make a profit and pay taxes. But wages are lower in China.
> For fluoride measured in water, associations remained inverse when exposed groups were restricted to less than 4 mg/L or less than 2 mg/L but not when restricted to less than 1.5 mg/L;

So this study found no negative effects on IQ when the fluoride concentration is less than 1.5mg/L

The U.S. Public Health Service recommends 0.7mg/L of fluoride[1]. This study supports the idea that the amount of fluoride used in the US drinking water is safe.

I couldn't find any information on how much fluoride is in utah drinking water as a whole, but a report from Davis County shows that they stay between 0.6mg/L and 0.8mg/L [2]. I'd say its fair to assume basically all the water in Utah doesn't have too much fluoride, and if it did, lowering the amount to 0.7mg/L would be enough to address the health concerns.

1: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4547570
2: https://www.utah.gov/pmn/files/962361.pdf
Of course. Many things are UB because dictating a policy for all machines doesn’t make sense. Whereas AVX is a specification for a specific hardware capability.
Nothing is more obnoxious that trying to win an argument by claiming you "love" the other person. Especially when you know nothing about them.
Periodically management says we shouldn't have a DC, just put everything in the cloud.

OK says HPC, here's the quote for replacing one of the (currently three) supercomputers with a cloud service. Oh dear, that's bigger than your entire IT budget isn't it? So I guess we do need the DC for housing the supercomputers.

If we'd done that once I'd feel like well management weren't to know, but it recurs with about a 3-5 year periodicity. The perception seems to be "Cloud exists, therefore it must be cheaper, because if it wasn't cheaper why would it exist?" which reminds me of how people persuade themselves the $50 "genuine Apple" part must be better because if it wasn't better than this $15 part why would Apple charge $50 for it? Because you are a sucker is why.
There is being able to produce things ... and then there is being forced subpar thing for more money. You know, there is being able to compete in a capitalist market and there is not being able to compete, but being protected while others pay for it.
Cuts to science research funding cut American lives short
We used SML in my undergrad compilers course. I really loved the language and I started exploring other languages outside of class after that.
You can buy a bottle of it, swish it around your mouth and spit it out.

https://www.actoralcare.com/en-us/products/mouthwash/anticav...
It seems more like he simply doesn't care very much about the money side of things. I.e. he simply values what he's doing ("fixing" government, championing the current tone of the right, etc), and believes the business-side impact is worth it. He also may believe that the long-term impact isn't as bad as it seems because this all might enlarge the right-wing part of his customer base.
No, the Commercial Crew Program is fundamentally different than the way NASA has previously done business. They are buying a ride, not a rocket. Because it’s a service contract, it’s much more hands-off.

We agree the government supports sectors they want to encourage. See my previous comments about supporting high-risk nascent industries. That’s a different point than the one I was making, which is that support is a large part why those industries can exist during their initial high risk phase. My point is he is not a paragon of free-market capitalism because they rely on government support during high-risk stages. Both points can coexist. It also doesn’t imply I think he is “bad”.

You are trying to shoehorn a different discussion. I’ve never said Musk is bad. In fact, I’ve said he’s a once in a generation entrepreneur and that his companies have delivered wonderful things to the taxpayer. My claim is that his success is not the free-market ideal because it relies on government largesse. In your head, you appear to view it through a completely different lens because you seem to want to construct this “good vs bad” false narrative. The fact that you are bypassing the points reiterated multiple times isn’t conducive to a curious, nuanced, and thoughtful discussion
This is counterproductive when you also have subsides for the green transition!
Or someone said "If you don't switch and back me, I am going to fight every bit of your compensation. Or you can back me and leave with favorable terms."

Panic is a less likely driver.
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. The whole "everyone else agrees on X" bit is such a reliable tell.
Thank you to whoever changed the title to omit the question mark. Question marks at the end of non questions drives me crazy. I’ve tried to accept it and accustom myself to it, but I still always trying to parse it multiple times
Thanks for sharing! I’m proud to have written “Deriving Music Theory with Python”, featured on page 51.
Real-time in-browser speech recognition with Nuxt and Transformers.js
This is a barebones demo showing Transformers.js working with Whisper in the browser for realtime audio to text transcription.

It uses [whisper-base](https://huggingface.co/onnx-community/whisper-base), a 290mb model, and is able to transcribe audio in all of the languages listed [here](https://github.com/openai/whisper/blob/248b6cb124225dd263bb9...).
It can be ran entirely offline once the model is loaded in.

![realtime transcription showcase](https://i.imgur.com/RutByr0.gif)

This code is deployed here - https://nuxt-transformersjs-realtime-transcription.vercel.ap...
this is a red herring. Who cares what other people are doing - we should look at the evidence and make decisions based on that.
The really great thing is that the inline metadata format is an accepted PEP spec, so even if uv goes down the tubes there will be other tools that can be dropped in to support it.
Fast key erasure uses symmetric cipher. If there's a mathematical attack on that, then you just don't have any symmetric cipher, or you need to rekey faster than fast key erasure, i.e. rekey every 16 bytes of plaintext or even faster. You need a custom protocol for this, how is that certified?
I actually don't believe the NFT sale was primarily intended to be a scam, but the secondary effects of scamming his own fanbase were of course problably welcome. If someone were able to trace all the payments to their sources, it would not surprise me if the primary purpose of the NFT sale involved:

- violation of the emoluments clause.
- bribery/quid pro quo (pay me now for the presidential acts I agreed to do, but also people who helped him financially earlier may be early investors who are intended to be beneficiaries of the rugpull).
- Trump 2 being more of a shared puppet than we realize.
Cloud made sense for the startup I worked for previously. If you are a startup then a $1M per year expense makes much more sense than a $5M up front purchase with 5-10 years of life - in five years you might be billionaires or you might be bankrupt and until then the Cloud was better.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7546136 over half the table salt in France has fluoride

This Nevada health info has an in depth response on page 5 https://dpbh.nv.gov/uploadedFiles/dpbhnvgov/content/Programs...
I'm no car manufacturer, nor do I work in the industry, but seems to me quite a bit of national resources are missing if the US wanted to be completely independent when making cars, resources like lithium, cobalt, natural rubber and even rare earth elements. Probably more I'm missing.
Interesting, thanks for sharing. I’m going to read her book “Broad band” on women that made the internet.
The Biden 100% tariffs were precisely because the Asian cars are good. Without that they'd probably drive GM etc out of business. Biden was also very pro auto union and took a lot of money from them. He didn't invite Tesla to US ev meetings in spite of them being the largest US ev maker because they are non union.
Sports drinks aren’t really good for you, but you definitely can drink a lot more of them than you can milk.
Nice post! I’ve found Early (fka Timeular) useful for this kind of tracking.
It’s more than mere “convenience.” You’re also paying to avoid hiring a bunch of employees to physically visit data centers around the globe.

And if you’re not doing that you are hiring a bare metal servers provider that is still taking a portion of the money you’d be paying AWS.

Even if you don’t need to physically visit data centers thanks to your server management tools, the difference in the level of control you have between cloud and bare metal servers is large. You’re paying to enable workflows that have better automation and virtual networking capabilities.

I recently stood up an entire infrastructure in multiple global locations at once and the only reason I was able to do it in days instead of weeks or months was because of the APIs that Amazon provides that I can leverage with infrastructure automation tooling.

Once you are buying AWS reservations and avoiding their most expensive specialized managed products the price difference isn’t really worth trying to recover for many types of businesses. It’s probably worth it for Hey since they are providing a basic email service to consumers who aren’t paying a whole lot. But they still need something that’s “set it and forget it” which is why they are buying a storage solution that already comes with an S3 compatible API. So then I have to ask why they don’t save even more money and just buy Supermicro servers and install their own software? We all know why: because Amazon’s APIs are where the value is.

There is a lot of profit margin in software and usually your business is best spending their effort working on their core product rather than keeping the lights on, even for large companies. Plus, large companies get the largest discounts from cloud providers which makes data centers even less appealing.

“Convenience” isn’t just convenience, it’s also the flexibility to tear it all down and instantly stop spend. If I launch a product and it fails I just turn it off and it’s gone. Not so if I have my own data center and now I’ve got excess capacity.
At what sort of scale can you do that? $1M, $10M, $100M, $1B?
You’re very much in a bubble. Most apps aren’t written using Flutter - including apps by Google.

It would be like Apple creating a new app and not using Swift.

It’s just an insane career move to be dependent on Flutter or any Google technology really instead of using Java or Kotlin or a more popular cross platform frameworks.
I recommend a good pocket protector to accompany the phone lanyard. Here’s a nice leather option. B08S6KMCGM
But the article states they negotiated.
Their current rate is about ~20% cheaper (4k/day), so missing the deadline isn't that big of a deal.
Or you could just put fluoride in the sugary drinks.
He meant "give Russia what they want and ally yourself with dictators" by that. He did not meant peace as in actual peace.
Shebang should work fine from WSL.
Sure, that would make sense, but in AVX-512, there is also a comparison variant for 2x256-bit inputs that outputs a 32-bit mask and another one for 2x128 inputs and a 16-bit output mask. I would use those in different ways, occasionally mixing with the old AVX2 variant, depending on what I’m doing. I have tried to create a generalizable SIMD framework several times in the past, mostly in 2015-17, and still don’t have a good abstraction even between AVX2 and AVX-512.
SteamOS is very clearly Linux which is not what the blog is suggesting.
The studies in 20-30 years of the consequences of this will be fun.
The point was that the "abi" is platform independent (and has very late bindings)
The issue with that is things that naturally escape from Lagrange points often crash into the Earth, which is one of the risks they're trying to mitigate.
Group plans suck away cream of crop risk pools. People with good stable high paying jobs tend to be a lot healthier than people working part time crap jobs or working in the trades for themselves.

It isn’t really bargaining power of the pool, but the risk assessment of the pool you are in. Being in a hodge lodge personal pool means you are sharing risk with people who will have more expenses. That’s why Switzerland throws everyone into the same pool, so no crème low risk can be siphoned away.
Is this really “big news” or is it a GitHub link titled “Show HN”?

Is there a glitzy corporate PR page trying to sell something, or is this just code for people to read?

Did Ars Technica breathlessly cover it, or did a random hacker post and share something they worked on?

If it’s the work of a random hacker not promoted by media outlets, who benefits from negative comments about that person’s work?

Is it possible that there are at least some people who read this site who know less about the topics covered than you do, and so might find this interesting or useful?

When you post something, will it help you to improve if people post non-constructive negative feedback? Will dismissive comments like these make you more or less likely to show your work publicly?

Just food for thought…
I was on a flight where we had a fire inside of the cabin because of some mobile device. What I found weird was the only piece of communication being that "we are returning", around 15 minutes after the plane had turned back. I was able to smell the smoke at that point.
Ah, but will it always segementation fault?

It can be difficult to prove that an out-of-bounds memory reference triggered by malformed input will always result in a segmentation fault instead of a read or write of an "interesting" memory location.
> We can never be sure who funded the studies and whether or not the results can be trusted. Studies have shown that studies cannot be trusted

the growing prevalence of anti science thinking like this has been a disaster for humanity. There's so much time and good faith effort put into trying to better understand our reality then people like you come along and handwave it all away because "well can we really know anything"
Your development machine, potentially with API keys and access tokens in `$HOME`, is the attack surface
anybody else read this and think "Why are you graduating these midwits then? This is why a university degree is useless at this point, it's lost all signalling value because someone who is awesome gets the same degree as someone functionally illiterate with an 8th grade writing level. The person with the 8th grade writing level should have an 8th grade diploma!"

The problem is not the phones, k-12, etc. The problem is something like 38% of the workforce has a bachelor's degree and it probably should be more like max 25%. This guy's very average college is likely majority people who should not be in a college degree program and his college is graduating them regardless of failure to attain an actual education.
Things like church taxes handled by the state in Germany (entirely opt-in, even when it's effectively opt-out for individuals opted in by their parents) have the opposite effect though, they make the churches boring institutions (except for the occasional child abuse wtf that haunts them just like any other church) far from any radicalization.

When you dig deeper in Germany it gets surprisingly murky, e.g. bishops not paid out of those church taxes but out of regular state taxes, e.g. those paid by atheists and Muslims, which dates back to Napoleonic age secularization when those payments were introduced as a (meager) compensation for the enormous income the (catholic) church had from being worldly lords of enormous realms. But this as well contribute to keeping the churches out of politics. They know pretty well what is their place and what isn't.
You can get hung up on the "attitude" like most people, or realize that the first step to a solution is facing the facts. I'm not being blunt to be condescending, but its tedious how we're constantly sold half-baked "solutions." "Just use Signal!" No I'm not handing all my data over to yet another company because made a super duper promise to respect privacy. I'm still waiting to hear an actual solution except for the obvious: don't use the internet. And even then the world is still full of cameras, microphones and satellites.
His work in X was failure (except of political goal of raising up far right) and he seemed to be more of obstacle in paypal then reason for success.
Show HN: I built a complete Bible app with Lovable and no coding experience
you're making a straw man argument and being an asshole about it to boot.

neurons aren't binary. who knows if they're special in a way digital computers can't simulate -- they aren't well understood.

nobody said anything about determinism besides you
Perhaps it has to do with the reason people go to university, and the pressures they're under.

I remember being a poor student burning through my savings. I had no patience for humanities and anything that didn't directly help me get gainful employment.

Years later, I love those things, mostly because I am free to pursue them at my own pace, without worrying about maintaining a high GPA, courting companies that offer internships, building up my portfolio, and learning the things that are actually related to my job. That's on top of working my way through school, trying to make friends in a new city, and pursuing happiness.

I suspect that a lot of people are in the same situation, cutting corners to make ends meet and remember their early twenties as more than endless work and drudgery.
Interesting article, but no reference to "DEVS"? Prediction of the worms behaviour is a key scene[1] in the opening episode.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEfyT3vLD2c
> I think, for the tech-savvy, the latter is more accurate and I think it is very important to be able to crack open these sandboxes and tinker with processes

Anyone tech-savvy that wants to mod their Android (like they'd mod Linux distros), should consider purchasing Android devices (like Pixel) that support ownership transfer (that is, unlocking then relocking the bootloader), and flash CalyxOS/GrapheneOS usereng/eng builds.
Yeah the SU7 Ultra is cool. A four door you can drive to the shops and also break the lap record at your local race track. I'm not sure that's been done before. Maybe I'll see if I can get one if I have a spare 73k. I'm a Brit so it's not quite as hard as for the US I think.
Strange Filters [video]
Hi HN!
I've been working on a Bible app as my main side project, but when I couldn’t find a dev to help fast enough, I decided to build it myself — and this is where I landed.
It’s called Daily Bible — Duolingo for the Bible. It reimagines how young people engage with scripture: short daily sessions, streaks, a built-in AI chat, and a judgment-free tone that feels more relevant for today.

https://daily-bible.lovable.app/
https://github.com/Lindadao92/daily-bible.git
Hah. Maybe, as noted by others, you should read the study cited before assuming its conclusions support your argument. Which they do not.
There are many things that we don't consider to have free will that is very hard to simulate accurately. Like the weather, and generally any chaotic system. We can't even simulate interactions between small molecules accurately.

I don't consider free will to be a scientific concept. It is philosophical, or religious. But if we give free will to things we can't simulate accurately, maybe planets like the Earth have free will. It is a common religious belief, and if you believe that simple life forms have free will, not too far fetched. The Earth, with its atmosphere, magnetism and geology is a really complex system we have a hard time understanding.
That's not the point at all though. The point is that the author is talking about how college students can't read and comprehend material, and the student refuting clearly didn't read or comprehend the material.
Not too far away from that Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcanic eruption in 2022
I really like the idea of bottles. I wish there was a way to bundle that up into a distro and make it invisible to the user so I could setup my friends and family with it.
Laser scanning shows trees awaken to spring at their own pace
Show HN: AI games: use Athens for challenging humanity-scale crises
I built Athens as a decision copilot. It's pretty good for debugging. I've never come across a bug I haven't resolved yet using it. Definitely recommend it. It's currently called Guinevere. I kind of updated the name. Still playing around with it. It is a nightly build, which means that it's updated multiple times a day, or as quickly as I need it to. Aside from that, I wanna say I would love it if everyone wanted to, sign up and ideally play together.

I want professional / pro people to use it personally for improving decision making, but then also collaboratively, collectively by, working to together to basically win a specific game — if not solo. Right now, there's basically a scoring mechanism being created using AI, and that is designed to make it super simple to challenge these massive, massive crises.

As an example, the Palestinian genocide is an ongoing crisis. Currently a probabilistic score for resolving the crisis immediately is ~0.5% — would love to play this game collaboratively to win on behalf of Palestinian sovereignty — eg get humanitarian aid in quicker.

Another one might be crises in the UK in relation to, delivering a state of the state of the art on-budge NHS.

Democratic expression, efficient efficient improvement of government institutions in Western democracies.

Persecution of ethnic minorities anywhere around the planet.

These are crises where people could potentially message together and sort of, you know, two heads (or millions) are better than one, plus a copilot.

There is a waitlist because of demand resources and other optimization requirements.

I would say if you really, really like the idea, please feel free to message below.

More than happy to take donations for compute, which is the core way in which the app is supposed to be sort of monetized. [I’m hoping to create a ‘commons’ partition], which means that everyone can, access compute, as they need for social games or games for the public sector or from a humanitarian-perspective.

Health is a core ambition for the design of the interface.

Looking forward to seeing you on the other side!
By not adding fluoride into the tap water and let people choose whether to buy toothpaste with fluoride themselves. a.k.a. the European way.

Adding fluoride into tap water always sounds borderline insane to me. The only benefit is to protect your teeth, which, to me, strongly suggests that the correct approach is to put it into toothpaste or other oral hygiene products instead of water.
I don’t remember if our first enterprise agreement was at $1M or $2M, but it was low and in that neighborhood [but also 10 years ago, well before cloud was the default and had growth baked into it].

Cloud providers are looking for multi-year term, commitment to growth as much as/more than exact spend level now.