skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I agree on the direction I don't think the specific argument completely holds.

The countries in this situation in 2008 where European countries that forfeited their central banks. Having relatively recently switched to the Euro made this situation relatively novel and those governments not used to not have access to this last resort tool. There was also a lack of legislation at the European level to give the central bank authority to intervene. And culturally some countries where much more scared by their recent history by the inflation risk. Which led to push backs and delays in the face or urgency. It's now probably roughly sorted at the EU level.

The USA don't have and never had this issue. The position of the FED is very clear: it will never let the US govt default. So the only risk for US bond holders is inflation (and price if they want to exit early).
Wow, I never heard of that. That is so interesting. In retrospect, it's a great platform, because there's no risk of malware.
MS-365 Alternative OpenDesk to Conquer the German Federal Defence (Bundeswehr)
The alternative offers open source solutions like Nextcloud and Matrix
The quality they export is higher than the quality they have in China. Thankfully there are standards that must be met for exported cars.
This is why I would still rather isolate using QEMU, docker, or Virtually Box rather than a very think chroot-like environment
Almost exclusively with "reddit" + something. Although I am using Deep Research more and more even for some of that.
Money market funds haven’t tracked inflation for people living in higher prices areas for a long time.

Maybe if you already owned your final house and didn’t need healthcare or education.
Bootstrap 5.3.4
I like your comparison with self-built storage, but comparing $20/TB/month with other CLOUD offerings, we see:

* hetzner storage box starts from $4/month for 1TB, and then goes down to $2.4/TB/month if you rent a 10TB box.

* mega starts from €10/month for 2TB, and goes down to €2/TB/month if you get a 16TB plan

* backblaze costs (starts from?) $6/TB/month

I was looking for a cheap cloud storage recently, so have a a list of these numbers :)

Moreover, these are not even the cheapest one. The cheapest one I found had prices starting from $6.5 for 5TB, going down to $0.64/TB/month for plans starting with 25TB (called uloz, but I haven't tested them yet).

Also, looking at lowendbox you can find a VPS in Canada with 2TB storage for $5/month and run whatever you want there.

How all that compares to $20/TB/month?!

Please feel free to correct me if i'm comparing apples to oranges, though. But I can't believe all of these offers are scam or so-called "promotional" offers which cost companies more than you pay for it.
> I wonder what will make the AI developers feel old…

They will not feel old because they will enter into bliss of Singularity(TM).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity
Some students become better because of LLMs, some become worse.

It's like some people learn knowledge by TikTok, some just waste time on it.
Submarine life is inherently miserable. Anything the military can do to make their life less miserable does wonders for morale which leads to a better functioning sub.

They military also spends a lot on making sure that they are very well fed - as much as they can be under the circumstances:

https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/navy-ships/a147643...
Not cool enough to do Discord --- I want documentation and details out in the open and accessible w/ a search engine.
Virsh had worked for a long time before docker came around, but yeah… you essentially had to build your own Docker-like infrastructure that only you were using
Everyone’s a deficit hawk in the long term. It’s easy to talk tough on reducing dept at some non-specific time in the distant future probably after you leave office.
Compared to literally every other economy in the planet, the US is economically stable.
If you have the fuse inside the device, then damage to the cable could cause a short circuit and potentially start a fire. Having the fuse in the plug means that a short circuiting cable will just blow the fuse in the plug instead.
My innate immune system is here for chewing gum and binding viral glycans, and I’m all out of specific lectins.

Looks like this works by apparently binding complex N-glycans on the viral envelope. I can’t imagine this is particularly specific, but the good news is that in the mucosa, you should see relatively few N-glycans, so I guess it will hit the right stuff?
It's impressive you're able to have decent results from free tiers and open source models.
Companies that think that Scrum rituals are mysterious and important.
Between 2019 and 2023 28.8% [0] of students admitted to Oxford were of ethnic minority background. Cambridge admitted 34% [1] ethnic minority students in 2023. That means you're roughly twice as likely to be admitted to a top university as a minority student.

It's possible that some percentage of this is because of better academic achievement, though in that case it's confusing that Oxbridge are looking to remove exams due to underperformance of students of ethnic minority background in tests [2] - which would support my view that it is easier to study at these institutions if you aren't white. but it's also possible that the education system is systematically 'letting down' white boys, which is a view supported by an education committee report (and countless others) in 2021. [3]

- 31 white pilots were let go / held back / paid off so that the RAF could prioritise diversity hires [4], [5].

- Police roles only open to BME candidates [6] - there are countless other examples of this, various government departments have used 'positive action' racism clauses in the same way.

You're just regurgitating what Labour talking heads are saying. You probably didn't even realise that it's legal to be racist against white people. Perhaps you should read more of the news, so you can understand what's really going on.

[0] https://www.ox.ac.uk/about/facts-and-figures/admissions-stat...

[1] https://www.undergraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/file...

[2] https://www.yahoo.com/news/oxford-cambridge-move-away-tradit...

[3] https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/203/education-com...

[4] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-66060490

[5] https://news.sky.com/story/raf-recruiters-were-advised-again...

[6] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/04/09/west-yorkshire-p...
I find the comments Copilot proposes is better than average comment quality for the code base I routinely work on: maybe you are so great you don't need any help ever, but that's not true for the average software dev.
Here's a more advanced - and 'ancient' (2000) - version of this idea: Peep (The Network Auralizer): Monitoring Your Network With Sound [1].

I ran this for a number of months back in the day, it made my living room sound like a jungle. Running the same setup nowadays would probably make it sound like the gates of hell given the increase in network traffic.

You can still find it at Sourceforge but it will need some work or maybe a VM running an older Linux distribution:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/peep/

[1] https://www.usenix.org/legacy/publications/library/proceedin...
> I don't think it's unreasonable to expect the Vice President of the United States to carefully weigh the consequences of his words before speaking.

He did carefully weigh the consequences of his words. He deliberately chose the most inflammatory and insulting of possible words. Knowingly and intentionally.
And don't everyone have smartphones? So why not just use OCR to read things. No need to learn to read. Just use speech recognition and OCR.
https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/customizing-copilot/addin...

Not sure that would prevent it offering something as autocomplete in a comment block, but could ask it to write less/no comments generally
Do you have a guide on how to use it or what services accept crypto for this purpose?
Yes, very good point. They will sometimes try to normalize it, which makes it hard to spot.
I wonder how many executive branch staffers and their kin and kind bought the dip?

It's a pretty gross thing to think about.
> The reduced diameter conductors in the flexible cords connecting an appliance to the plug intended for use with sockets on a ring circuit are individually protected by a fuse in the plug

It sounds like the appliance cord is the driving factor for the fuse.
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In small towns or villages once you have a couple of them the general pace of everything around them tanks, partly because they can get away with far less revenue per sq metre due to the difference in taxation and reliance on volunteers. As others have mentioned the alternative might well be nothing there at all, which would be worse, but it has converted the central section of whole villages into feeling like they are in fact the outer buildings of nearby old people's homes.

Aesthetically they are, at best, a sort of British twist on the cheapest Ikea stylings which can be OK in small quantities but when they become everything it is depressing.
Does it really need those long arcs? Why not make a fractal surface, that arcs and isolates?
Name a couple of those ‘100 successful projects’ eh?
A multi-view video behavior monitoring dataset of wild mammals in the Swiss Alps
enjoy buying just mario kart for the price of a used switch i guess
Water fluoridation is considered very common in the United States, Canada, Ireland, Chile and Australia where over 50% of the population drinks fluoridated water.

Most European countries including Italy, France, Finland, Germany, Sweden, Netherlands, Scotland, Austria, Poland, Hungary and Switzerland do not fluoridate water.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_fluoridation_by_countr...

Make your own conclusions.
Presumably you're not objecting to the word "parser".

What name would you use for "combinator"? It's a pretty simple word, based on the root "combine".

The common sense concept here is functions whose results depends only on their arguments, which makes them well-suited for being used in "combination" with other combinators, as in `f . g` or `f(g(x))`. That's called function composition, which can be defined as the act of combining functions.

It's a term that has existed in logic for over a century, from before computers existed.

It seems to me that no amount of renaming of terms will fix people's lack of curiosity or lack of desire to learn or understand. That's on them.
> They can do it (surprisingly well, once you disable the friendliness that prevents it) ...

Interesting! :D Do you mind sharing the prompt(s) that you use to do that?

Thanks!!
See for example

https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/issues/1463

In general, if NaN1 and NaN2 are different (there are 23 bits in a NaN that can be set to an arbitrary value, the NaN payload) then combining them isn’t deterministic. NaN1 + NaN2 might produce NaN1 or NaN2 depending on the processor model, instructions etc. IEEE754 only says that the result must be one of the two input NaNs (or at least it did last time I checked the standard.)

In practice, NaN payloads are seldomly used so it doesn’t matter much. NaN canonicalization involves transforming all NaNs to specific NaN values, and AFAIK it’s expensive because technically you need to check for NaN all the time.
I think I'm somewhat decent at code reviewing, what I'm seeing currently is though that the PRs become larger and larger. Because AI just rewrites everything, even if you tell it to fix things. This leads to devs pushing more and bigger code changes. I'm convinced no company has enough senior developers to review these vast amounts of sloppy code.
Alternatively, let's throw out our outmoded ideas and all get excited for an AI-based future in which professors let AI grade the essays student generate with AI.

Just think of the time everybody will save! Instead of wasting effort learning or teaching, we'll be free to spend our time doing... uh... something! Generative AI will clearly be a real 10x or even 100x multiplier! We'll spiral into cultural and intellectual oblivion so much faster than we ever thought possible!
Comfortable is of course subjective, but my current go to for "fancy" shoes is Meermin. For about the price of a pair of higher end Nike or Adidas shoes that are just foam glued to fabric, you can get a pair of "traditionally made" Goodyear welted leather shoes. Meermin, for example, still does some manufacturing steps in China. As far as I know they sew together the leather pieces in China and then ship them to Spain for lasting / final assembly / polishing.

It goes to show how the big athletic shoe companies are taking the piss. Of course they have middlemen and retailers and whatnot who need to take their cut, but if I can buy a pair of nice leather shoes, made from leather from UK/French/Italian tanneries, with about a million steps done by a human, for the same price as some glued together foam and fabric...something is wrong.
Where I've seen the difference is in the quality of the instructions (which matters) and the packaging (which arguably doesn't). The bricks themselves are, as you say, basically flawless.
They really did and then they didn't
Same here. Did a bunch of F5's in a browser and always 'ok'
I was getting 5% until recently which isn’t that far off of where inflation hit. Of course, as you say, some things are higher although a normal age retired person isn’t that exposed to them.
It's a useful context but it just shows more of the problem of how much power companies have nowadays
Show HN: I made a unique word game that got a Webby Nomination
This comedy is a good comedy while I am goofing around with "make a story".
However, this wordpuker tech is positioned at solving strategic problems, writing software and (something equally serious).
It has no mechanism to build a world model "in head" while it generinates. chess pieces teleport on board. people hug through doors. any exercise is a body horror.

do you think this tech deals with invariants in software algorithms any better?

I mean, haha but not funny.
Motion-Tracking Mania
Compared to every other developed democracy in the planet, the US is politically unstable with its two party democracy.

Trump is just a product of this right-vs-left volatile maximalism, represented as woke-vs-maga, which is fully on-track to get worse. Try guessing who will be the next woke maximalist and maga maximalist candidate, and what Executive Orders it leads to, which the US is pretty much ruled by at this stage.

Good luck with flip-flopping maga and woke Executive law as a country.
You don't find news about quantum computers exciting at all? I personally disagree
calling everything 'for AI' is the new standard

>if you're reading from, like, big Parquet files, that probably means lots of random reads

and it also usually means that you shouldn't use s3 in the first place for workloads like this. Because they are usually very inefficient comparing to distributed fs. Unless you have some prefetch/cache layer, you will get both bad timings and higher costs
Build better Golang release binaries [video]
that's a lot of work oO but thanks!
> I honestly wonder why there are such divergent opinions between say git and Nix?

Nix is:

1. difficult & different, where similar-ish tools are straightforward & familiar, (e.g. cloud-init, ansible, vs NixOS; or devcontainers using Dockerfiles, vs nix shells).

2. demands a significant amount of understanding, even for tasks which you'd expect to be easy.

e.g.: git is difficult, but you can get by with rote memorizing 5 commands (& copy-pasting the repo if you mess up). Emacs is difficult, but you're not required to use it. Haskell can be difficult to work with, etc.

I'd say that running `direnv allow` & using nix that someone else has written is unlikely to be difficult. But, having to write your own Nix code can be quite high friction.

> It also seems that Nix's model is less clean

I think nixpkgs is cluttered with organic mess of inconsistent designs.. but I think there's also friction where Nix's ideal package is built with `./configure && make && make install`, and many packages aren't quite that clean.
> And, if you've made this side project I'm talking about, like I have, is it really worth $5,000/month to generate the most basic-bitch lasagna recipe you're not even gonna actually cook anyway? We both know the answer is "no."

Maybe this article has a good point later on, since it starts mentioning the energy cost of running an LLM, but after seeing this kind of writing a couple times I just clicked away. We’re not in like 2012 anymore, you can make your point in an acerbic way without being “edgy”.
This technique is still in common use here in the Dominican Republic, among honda cub street racers. It’s interesting that the most vibrant motorcycle racing scene is with motorcycles that were never meant to go fast and lack the frame stiffness or suspension to safely go above 50mph. I think the challenge of overcoming these limitations is what makes it compelling to the young riders and would-be-engineers that typically make up the illegal racing scene.
Pollen peril: how heat, thunder and smog are creating deadly hay fever seasons
My Quirky Quest to Learn Chinese: From Ghosts to Peppa Pig
No. Google has a JAX stack.
which would be better in terms of dependence on an US company that can shutdown operations at any time, if one (!) person in charge says so.

And, as we can see, its obviosly a weapon that hasn't been used right now - in oppposit to (stupid) tariffs calculations.

The germans should foster the development of OpenDesk based on OSS like it is proposed and already done. MSFT should be ditched, Linux and open source should be welcomed.
There is a great YouTube video on the subject if you are interested. Its 38 minutes long but worth the watch.

When The Soviets Hunted Down Their Own Warship
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkBQl7YRI3E
I may just be blind but I don’t think I see it referred to as anything besides “terminal beeps” throughout the entire article.
> lingua franca

It's pretty hypocritical to unironically use an Italian idiom for a Mediterranean pidgin that literally means `language of the Franks`, i.e., French, in a comment supporting neo-reactionaries' attempts to shut minorities out of the government services they deserve per the democratic social contract not to mention pay for with their taxes.
Wow, that's a great idea!

My idea was to create browser-less environment, so I can use it via https://www.npmjs.com/package/@unbuilt/cli or just API not loading users resources.

I'm not actually spending funds, just because I built infra on DO droplets, so worth case scenario - people will wait a bit longer if no cache found and queue is too long.

My question - how can I access iframe runtime of 3-rd party website and access window, or intercept requests to analyze better. For example, I check headers, check global vars, go to check source maps, etc. Having full control gives me a bit more flexibility to have the most confident analysis.
Infra debt is the new tech debt. Nobody's talking about it
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The problem is also that the competition might already be there, but you can't force your company to use it.
Product/UI looks good. Nice job. I would pay for a completely offline version of this, cloud voice data is non-starter for me though unfortunately
Btw, https://fontofweb.com/ looks amazing. Do you have it available on Github?
All of these benchmarks have gotten out of hand, which is highly suggestive. Benchmarks exist as an indicator of quality and proliferate when other indicators of quality fail. Their very prominence implies that observers are having a difficult time assessing LLM performance in context, which hints at a limited utility or more precisely a non-closed feedback loop at the level of utility. (You know a burger tastes really good when you eat it, no benchmarks required.)

Perhaps LLM development really does exist at this rarefied abstract level whereby the development team cannot be immersed in application context, but I doubt that notion. More likely the performance observed in context is either so dispiriting or difficult (or nonexistent) that teams return again and again to the more generously validating benchmarks.
> > had to award them 0s for assignments, which was heartbreaking

> You should feel nothing. They knew they were cheating. They didn't give a crap about you.

Most of us (a) don't feel our students owe us anything personally and (b) want our students to succeed. So it's upsetting to see students pluck the low-hanging, easily picked fruit of cheating via LLMs. If cheating were harder, some of these students wouldn't cheat. Some certainly would. Others would do poorly.

But regardless, failing a student and citing students for plagiarism feel bad, even though basically all of us would agree on the importance and value of upholding standards and enforcing principles of honesty and integrity.
I think it’s largely irrelevant now. The cats out of the bag and any country holding large amounts of t-notes and facing hostility from the US will dump them to get Trump to back off.
The Evolution of Software Development: The Future Is Bright
Almost none of the cheaters appear to be solving problems with LLMs. All my faculty friends are getting large portions of their class clearly turning in "just copied directly from ChatGPT" responses.
As long as it generates ad impressions and clicks, sounds like everyone wins?
I only use C-x 1, C-x 2 and C-x 3, seems like that covers 95% of my use cases at least.
That brings some memories. I got into tetris around 1988 on a 8086 PC with 5" floopy drives. Somebody gave me a copy of a very early tetris, it was a tiny DOS .com file, and the game was in text mode, written by the original Russians. I must have spent entire weeks on that thing, and when I learned programming, I proceeded to write a whole list of tetris variations, including one hexagonal, one for 3 players on a single PC, and a regular Tetris in assembly that fit on a boot sector. To this day it I open a tetris, I expect the exact rotations as that original version. Never got into these easier random generators - all my clones used full random pieces. Except for one where the machine would always throw you the hardest piece :)
> I find the comments Copilot proposes is better than average comment quality for the code base I routinely work on

Maybe the average is just so bad? The completions I get for comments are document what the code is doing, which is not something that I ever put into comments. It's always:

a) A highlevel (prefixed to the function/block/scope definition) list of steps, input expectations and output expectations for the forthcoming function/block/scope

Or

b) A note explaining why the code does what it does.

A comment repeating the code but in English is useless.