MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by echend | 2025-11-12 00:26:48+00:00
Great question.

Why enterprise: B2B customers pay $500-5000/month. Consumer would be $10-50/month. I need fewer customers to survive.

Why not crypto: Tried that. B2B accounting departments won't pay recurring subscriptions in Bitcoin. Too volatile, compliance issues. Consumer crypto payments might work but harder to scale.

The honest answer: I built what I knew how to build (enterprise infrastructure) without validating the market first. Classic founder mistake (see avandekleut's comment above - they're right).
by ivraatiems | 2025-11-12 00:27:33+00:00
I am not a lawyer or diplomat or expert on trade, but I can make some general observations from an American/Western perspective:

First, the sanctions on Iran are such that any partnership with an Iranian person for business reasons is effectively impossible in the West, without the resources of a multi-million or billion-dollar company to circumvent them. The author says "I am not looking for anyone to bypass sanctions" but that is very obviously exactly what they are asking for.

Second, circumventing sanctions is illegal, and people regularly go to prison or are given massive monetary fines for this. OP, I don't question your motives, but you need to understand that people have literally gone to prison and lost their whole livelihoods for doing exactly what you are asking.

Therefore, posting this on a Western platform (Github) and advertising it on a Western message board (HN) is unlikely to help. I don't think the author's intentions are poor; I think they may simply not understand the intensity of the legal regime that makes working with them impossible.

There is also the matter of Westerners' general opinions on Iran, which - general attitudes of multiculturalism and tolerance nonwithstanding - is typically quite negative. The sanctions didn't come from nowhere.

I would recommend the author look into partnerships with persons from countries that are more sympathetic to their situation. The ones with strong tech industries would be Russia, China, and India. Vietnam is another example of a country with some tech industry which also has mostly positive relationships with Western countries, these days. I realize this is not as attractive as the West, but there are good people even in places whose governments I may as a Westerner may not particularly like, and English is a lingua franca the world over. I'd strongly recommend those places as a starting point.
by echend | 2025-11-12 00:27:45+00:00
Ha, fair.

Yeah, the skills mismatch is real. I can build distributed systems with 4-server architecture, but I can't open a Stripe account.

That's literally the post. "I'm good at X, terrible at Y (geography), need someone who has Y."

If you know anyone who's great at sales but wishes they had a technical co-founder, send them my way :)
by tacticalturtle | 2025-11-12 00:27:55+00:00
They really do not understand software. Or at least human friendly interfaces.

I have a GBX-100, which does have basic smart features when connected to a phone. If you get a text or email, it will tell you that you have a notification.

You also have the option to read the contents of the message, if you press a single button six(!) times!

Fortunately I bought it because I wanted the time and I liked the way it looks.
by rekabis | 2025-11-12 00:28:13+00:00
> There are few if any true differences in mental abilities.

Science disagrees with you there:

• https://stanmed.stanford.edu/how-mens-and-womens-brains-are-...

• https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6418873/

Navigation is just one such major mental difference, where women are far more effective with waypoints and landmarks in familiar spaces, whereas men are better at dead reckoning over unfamiliar land.

But I’m NOT talking about mental differences, but physical ones:

• grip strength,

• overall strength,

• height,

• gait,

• physiological responses to stressors,

• ability to better survive physical (unarmed) combat,

• some forms of physical endurance (each sex has its own specialty),

• reaction time,

• lactation,

• childbirth,

• and many more

All of which confer a distinct advantage to one sex over the other.

For example, the reason why we have the trope of the pickle jar being opened effortlessly by the man and the woman being entirely unable to open it, comes down entirely to gender differences to how collagen exists in the palms of the hand. Women have collagen running in just one direction, which allows extreme forces to begin tearing the skin and causing pain at much lower levels of force applied. Meanwhile, men have cross-linked collagen which allows extreme forces them to impart far more force on something in their grip before experiencing tearing and pain.

Strength is another male feature which completely blows women out of the water: almost all men are stronger than almost all women. It’s why female Olympic athletes can and frequently are trounced by teenage male athletes.

And of course, there is the big doozy: it is impossible for a genetic and physical male to become pregnant and give birth. And while a tiny handful of men have been able to lactate with sufficient stimulation, it is still exceptionally rare to achieve and may rely on non-typical (for a man) hormonal balances to achieve.

So physical differences can and do lend themselves very logically and rationally to a limited range of separation of concerns.
by Libidinalecon | 2025-11-12 00:28:14+00:00
You have to be completely insane to think China is not an adversary.

Personally, I think we are in WW3 right now and we have already lost.

Americans are just too lazy and insular to read anything involving Chinese military strategy. I can't think of more basic Chinese military strategy than to avoid a head-on battle with a strong enemy.

You beat the strong enemy by every means other than a head-on battle.

We are waiting for another battle of Normandy that will never come as we slowly bleed out.
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-11-12 00:28:43+00:00
Sure, it's a valid bug report. But I don't understand why there has been so much drama over this when all the ffmpeg folks have to do is say "sorry, this isn't a priority for us so we'll get to it as soon as we can" and put the issue in the backlog as a low priority. If Google wants the issue fixed faster, they can submit a fix. If they don't care enough to do that, they can wait. No big deal either way. Instead, ffmpeg is getting into a public tiff with them over what seems to be a very easily handled issue.
by cosmic_quanta | 2025-11-12 00:29:06+00:00
This is great!

I'm particularly excited by the prospect of bringing together the ecosystem of data science tools, with Cloud Haskell[0]. There's no reason the Haskell community can't have something like Dask or Ray, but with Haskell's stellar type system.

[0]: https://github.com/haskell-distributed/distributed-process
by DetroitThrow | 2025-11-12 00:29:40+00:00
He does have a LinkedIn, and his GH user has a real looking GitHub pages site associated with it.

Please don't violate US Treasury dep sanctions just to be a founder for a business with 0 customer validation, you might as well be helping a Nigerian prince.

Seek counsel with a lawyer versed on this first, rather than the HN comments section or your own exuberance.
by tpmoney | 2025-11-12 00:30:23+00:00
I get that the ffmpeg people have limited time and resources, I get that it would be nice if Google (or literally anyone else) patched this themselves and submitted that upstream. But "everyone else down stream of us should compile out our security hole" is a terrible way to go about things. If this is so obscure of a bug that there's no real risk, then there's no need for anyone to worry that the bug has been reported and will be publicized. On the other hand, if it's so dangerous that everyone should be rebuilding ffmpeg from source and compiling it out, then it really needs to be fixed in the up stream.

Edit: And also, how is anyone supposed to know they should compile the codec our unless someone makes a bug report and makes it public in the first place?
by TZubiri | 2025-11-12 00:30:31+00:00
You can have both a gmail and a google workspace account with the same email, but I'm sure someone can do better than Google.

Also I'm pretty sure that since google is itself an SSO provider, this add another layer of clusterfuck that I don't even want to think about, regardless of whether there's a clean implementation or not, I don't even want that on my mental capacity.
by JoshTriplett | 2025-11-12 00:30:49+00:00
> Among other things, elevators are much stricter and so less frequent than any other country

Speaking from experience with elevators in various countries: Let's keep the part where, for instance, elevators need a door. (And I'm sure I haven't experienced anywhere close to the long tail of bad elevators.) Some regulations make sense.

But if there are ways to make elevators substantially faster without being unsafe, that'd be lovely. What do US elevators fail to do that they could be doing?
by echend | 2025-11-12 00:31:17+00:00
Thank you for this thoughtful response. You're raising legitimate concerns I may not fully understand.

Let me clarify my understanding (and please correct me if I'm wrong):

My assumption was that a structure like this would be legal: - Partner in US/UK registers their own company - Opens Stripe under their company name - Hires me as a remote contractor (like any distributed team) - I hold equity as a foreign shareholder (which I thought was legal for non-US persons)

Is your point that even this structure violates sanctions because I'm Iranian? Or that the risk/complexity makes it impractical for anyone without massive legal resources?

I genuinely don't want anyone to break the law. If what I'm proposing is illegal even in the structure above, I need to understand that.

Re: Russia/China/India - that's solid advice I hadn't seriously considered. Russia and China have their own complexities, but India makes a lot of sense. Do you know if Indian tech companies face similar restrictions when working with Iranians, or is it more open?

I appreciate you taking the time to explain this clearly rather than just dismissing it. If the Western partnership path is genuinely impossible (not just hard), I need to know that.
by crowbahr | 2025-11-12 00:31:38+00:00
There are cheaper and more expensive skus for Levi's.

If you're seeing 501s that are $30 and 501s that are $100 I can promise you there's $70 of difference between them, having shopped at WalMart and at flagship stores on 5th Ave - basically every "trusted" brand in a big box store is cutting every corner possible to be there and either the product suffers for it or the people are exploited in making it. Fast, cheap or good: pick 1 and a half.
by hackit2 | 2025-11-12 00:32:04+00:00
In his own words he all-ready got early feedback from his family.

"I tried the local Iranian market. I showed it to friends, family, and potential clients. Their response: "Nobody in Iran will pay $500/month for this. The Persian language quality isn't perfect. We'll use free ChatGPT instead.""

Which should of been free feed-back on the risk vs reward.
by SoftTalker | 2025-11-12 00:32:26+00:00
I rarely use cash day to day.

I do think it's also somewhat generational. I'm at the older end of Generation X. I grew up paying cash (or writing checks) for almost everything, didn't really use credit cards until my late 20s/early 30s. There were a lot of places that didn't accept credit cards back then, such as most fast food restaurants. But I switched to cards mostly out of convenience as soon as most places accepted them.

I notice a lot of people older than me (Baby Boomers and older) still pay cash more often.

And lower income people use cash a lot, I presume because they are unbanked or can't get a credit card.
by dithered_djinn | 2025-11-12 00:34:04+00:00
This talk describes the implementation of a self hosted C compiler that is implemented in a dialect of C that is simultaneously valid C, JavaScript, and AWK. This allows us to ship a C compiler in source form that can be built on many different platforms.

cjsawk itself is also capable of building a C99 compiler. In turn this allows us to bootstrap from source all the way up to GCC.

Web demo: https://cosinusoidally.github.io/tcc_simple/experiments/cjsa...

Project github repo: https://github.com/cosinusoidally/tcc_simple/tree/master/exp...

Slides: https://online.accuconference.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10...
by vjvjvjvjghv | 2025-11-12 00:34:20+00:00
That has been a problem since forever. Microsoft themselves rarely used the tools they gave to developers. SourceSafe, MFC, WPF and the .NET frameworks that followed were only for 3rd party devs. And when they used these tools, the software usually got worse. One example was Visual Studio. 2008 was really nice with great customization and good performance. Then they wrote 2010 with MFC and it was slow and lost tons of features.

I think it’s better on the server side with ASP.NET.

As far as I have heard MAUI is pretty buggy and has lost momentum. It will probably go on the long list of basically abandoned .NET UI frameworks
by w_for_wumbo | 2025-11-12 00:34:30+00:00
The message sounds like a human warning of someone is being fed-up with feeling taken advantage of. They see the profit being made, and they're not even getting drops of it.

If this isn't addressed, it makes this repo a target for actors that don't care about the welfare of Amazon, Google etc.

It seems quite predictable that someone will see this as a human weakness and try to exploit it, my question is whether we'll get them the support they need before the consequence hits, or whether we'll claim this was a surprise after the fact.
by princevegeta89 | 2025-11-12 00:34:33+00:00
``` Now spec it with 32GB of RAM, and try to get a bulk discount for ordering 1,000 of them. Try to get the price of said 32GB M4 Airs down to ~$700/laptop or less. Not going to happen with Apple. ```

Exactly. Thanks for explaining this. Also one more point to note is Windows machines go on discount sales very frequently. It's usually way too easy to find one with 32GB and 1TB, with the latest Ryzen or Intel mobile processors. Bonus when you find one like Lenovo Legion which allows you to buy and shove-in extra RAM/storage as you need them.
by catlover76 | 2025-11-12 00:34:53+00:00
> I lament what could have been with heroku. I did some back of the envelope calculations for what it would have cost for my own startup to run on it and it came out to significantly more than what it costs us on aws INCLUDING our dedicated devops guy.

That's...nuts. o_O

Are you doing something special, do you guys already have a lot of traffic?
by binary132 | 2025-11-12 00:35:00+00:00
It seems to me that about 10-15 years ago, laptop stickers were a little more like patches on a punk jacket; that is, they were meant to show something about the cons or competitions you have participated in. A few such places would give out stickers.

At some point, people saw the cool-looking stickered-up laptops and thought they would also look cool and put fun stickers on their laptops to show that they also can google things. This diluted the original social signal value until it was completely ubiquitous, kind of like if everyone started putting whatever patches appeal to them on whatever jacket they wear without any thought to the idea of their origin. By that time, the original sticker-signalers had all moved on to other signals.
by Breakthrough | 2025-11-12 00:35:07+00:00
Awesome to see this! I actually wrote PySceneDetect, was great to see it getting some use here. Would you be willing to share what parameters you were using? I'm curious why the accuracy was so low.

PySceneDetect only uses basic heuristic methods right now so it does require some degree of tuning to get things working for certain data sets. Your post inspired me to look into maybe integrating TransNetV2 as a detector in the future!
by tim333 | 2025-11-12 00:35:30+00:00
I have to say, although people hate on it, google lens in chrome is very handy. They move the icon around but assuming you can find you just highlight the image and then it ocrs it, tells you where it came from, lists similar images, and when I tried it on the image in the article the AI analysed it a bit:

>The image shows a code snippet, likely written in C#, that retrieves and processes data from a WordPress API. The code checks for an empty slug, makes an HTTP GET request to a specific URL, and then attempts to parse the JSON response. It includes error handling for both HTTP failures and invalid JSON.

>The code uses C# and is designed to interact with the WordPress REST API...
by echend | 2025-11-12 00:36:04+00:00
You're absolutely right, and I apologize for the confusion.

The demo is a single-session system (designed for hotel lobby kiosks where one person uses it at a time). If someone else is talking to the avatar when you visit, you won't see a QR code.

Here's a direct link you can try: https://ps.neoclerks.com:8451/player.html?ss=f2ee51d8-2ea3-4...

If that's busy too, I'm happy to schedule a 15-min private demo. Email: EchenDeligani@gmail.com

This single-user limitation is product design (kiosk model) not technical - production handles 10-50 concurrent users per GPU. I should have explained this upfront and provided multiple demo instances for HN traffic.

My mistake - learning as I go here.
by voidhorse | 2025-11-12 00:36:12+00:00
I'm so torn about this article. On the one hand, it's great to see technologists engaging more with philosophy—arguably the technological landscape we currently have would h ave been much better if they had done so more deeply and more frequently.

On the other hand, this is a pretty shallow article and does not, on my read, offer anything to anyone even vaguely familiar with technology and Nietzsche's philosophy. A more interesting integration is Nolan Gertz's Nihilism and Technology.

I think the ACM would do better to invite guest authors from philosophy departments to author a piece or coauthor a piece.
by ivraatiems | 2025-11-12 00:36:14+00:00
> My assumption was that a structure like this would be legal: - Partner in US/UK registers their own company - Opens Stripe under their company name - Hires me as a remote contractor (like any distributed team) - I hold equity as a foreign shareholder (which I thought was legal for non-US persons)

That structure is explicitly illegal because you are an Iranian national. It does not matter whether you are a contractor: https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/31/560.419

US business entities may not ever do business with Iran for any reason: https://www.hklaw.com/en/insights/publications/2012/10/iran-...

See also: https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/56536/can-a-us-compa...

> Is your point that even this structure violates sanctions because I'm Iranian?

Yes.

> Or that the risk/complexity makes it impractical for anyone without massive legal resources?

Companies on the scale of Toyota or Huawei try to circumvent these sanctions. They are regularly found out and caught and prosecuted:

> Do you know if Indian tech companies face similar restrictions when working with Iranians, or is it more open?

Sorry, I'm not Indian and have no knowledge of Indian laws. I would strongly advise you seek legal counsel from a person familiar with them, preferably a barrister/solicitor (in Indian terms).

> If the Western partnership path is genuinely impossible (not just hard), I need to know that.

For all intents and purposes, for you, it is. I'm sorry, genuinely, that our countries are in this position with regards to each other. It isn't your fault, but it is how it is.

Editing to add: the ONLY exception I can think of to this would be if you flee Iran, plead for and are granted asylum in the United States or a third country with better relationships to it. This is extraordinarily hard, and possibly a violation of Iranian law for me to even suggest to you.
by blamestross | 2025-11-12 00:36:30+00:00
The history of Nietzsche's work and the context it was used in makes this conversation complicated.

Its one of those situations where the root philosophy is correct "moral frameworks are arbitrary and thier enforcement mechanism are falling apart so we have to try something new" isn't a hard argument to justify. The problem is that it leaves "Something new" a totally blank check for anybody seeking power to fill in. To claim "This is the new natural morality".

Nietzsche is right, god is dead. But claiming to take gods place is the precursor to an apocalypse (They happen a lot more often than most people realize)
by Aurornis | 2025-11-12 00:36:31+00:00
> Test it first: neoclerks.com/en

> Go ahead. Talk to the avatar for 2 minutes. Ask it anything in English. Watch how it responds in real-time with synchronized lip movements and natural conversation.

> I'll be here when you get back.

As far as I can tell, there is no live demo. There is a button to "book a private demo", but I can't find anything to try.

Second: Unfortunately, this is a request to partner with someone who will violate sanctions for this person. Anyone considering entertaining this offer should be very clear on that fact. Acting as a proxy to monetize a business in a sanctioned country is not a position you want to be in. You take the legal risk, the other party gets the proceeds (until sanctions catch up). Any investors looking at this arrangement would nope right out of the conversation as soon as any of this was discovered. Thoughts and feelings about sanctions aside, this is not a position you want to put yourself in.

If this is real then I feel sorry for the person, but given that this entire post is a direct ask for someone to violate international sanctions and the content of the website doesn't even match the description (no live demo) I think it's best to flag it. Would be sad if someone on HN felt guilty and got tricked into violating international sanctions over this post.
by Marshferm | 2025-11-12 00:36:42+00:00
These mental differences do not confer dominance. This is obvious! Don’t fall back upon ye old patriarchal arguments splitting hairs on hippocampal endocrine adjustments.

Physical prowess is no longer convincingly conferring a definitive route to dominance unless there’s a patriarchal overreach into coercion that defies growing universal regularities of equalities in bills of rights etc.

The fact women give birth does in no way restrict them into submission.

Please reject all patriarchal myths in order to discus partnership goals.

Humans are not like other primates, we’re a mix of evolutionary and biological factors that result in a continuum rather than a strict dichotomy, humans fall somewhere between "tournament mating" species and "pair-bonding" species. We’re not locked into any certain gender dominant if you know endocrinology and evolution.

There is no true dominant outcome once the mental playing field is leveled. Male aggression is uniquely equalized in feminine control.
by zamalek | 2025-11-12 00:36:45+00:00
The digipot is vaguely similar to how a R2R ladder DAC works. There are two resistor values used: R and 2R. The "interesting part" of the circuit has bits x 2R resistors in parallel. One end of each resistor (let's call it input) is connected directly to the digital bit from the PWM sample.

Then there is the series bits x R resistors. The output of each 2R resistor is connected in-between the two resistors that straddle its bit position. So:

Out | R +-2R-bit0 R +-2R-bit1 ... R +-2R-bitN

And that's it (apart from pull-up/down resistors)! Due to the way that resistors in series and parallel work, each input step in the ladder provides twice the voltage of the previous if powered: it's base 2 enshrined in a physical object.

These are relatively uncommon because they are highly sensitive to the resistor (and trace) tolerance, but this circuit is my Euler's identity of electronics: it very literally bridges the digital and analog worlds.