skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everyone seems very confused.

The old pound isn't going away, you can still blow your own money on a corn dog and cocaine if you so wish (under this hypothetical system).
right now the creators of the content Google/ChatGPT scrapes are usually paid via the advertisements on their pages

Are you saying Google pays them per scrape or they get paid only when users click through?
Ask HN: Any startups not using Public Cloud?
There has been a lot of talk recently about the Public Cloud premium, how expensive it can get to run something in the 3 Big Cloud Providers, and generally to be cautious about it. Yet, when I look around, I fail to find success stories of companies that started/stayed outside of the public cloud. (To be clear, I'm constraining it to 2015+, when public cloud really picked up. If your company started before that, you didn't have much of an choice).

So my question is: Are there good examples of startups that have managed to successfully operate outside the public cloud in recent years? What has your experience been like?
Google can’t compete with Microsoft without having a huge revenue hit. The large majority of Google’s revenue comes from search ads. Chat gpt doesn’t have search results, per se. So how do you keep the high ad revenue linking to other sites?

I’m not sure they can compete within their existing brand/company structure.
> (You have to be someone I know/know of, right?)

Doubtful. I was just a kid at the time who lurked on forums. Were you involved in the scene? If yes, do you mind if I ask what you ended up doing professionally? RS cheat developers were my role models growing up. I’ve often wondered what members of that community are up to now.
This is not true. USSR existed for some 70 years and there were different times.

One could move quite freely by 1970-ish.

Except that you could not have permanent residence in Moscow and Leningrad.
Microsoft stated in an interview with The Verge that they were working with this new search optimised Prometheus model since mid 2022. Months before the release of ChatGPT and the big inflow of data from real users. So this Prometheus model was created with different purposes since it can show sources and can be updated with new information on the fly. So it is quite ahead of ChatGPT. Microsoft is taking it with the direct access of OpenAI tech to the next level.
You are underestimating the threat that CCP China is, not just to Europe but to the entire world.
Wishful thinking? I think it's quite hard to make any prediction, and people are very biased for "political" reasons. It's entertaining to read, but I wouldn't take too much values from these comments.
I'd argue Go projects tend to be easier to build since they require nightly Go builds much less frequently (I don't even remember a project that ever required nightly Go tbh).

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
When I saw futureproofness I thought you were going to talk about repairability. Thats probably my biggest concern. My heating system is largely made out of commodity parts. Aquastats and zone control boxes form the control system, copper pipes soldered on, pex crimped on. All parts you can buy at any hardware store in the country, and all interchangeable. As long as the actual tank and fire tubes in my boilers are intact, I can keep them running as long as there is oxygen. While I know the basics of refrigeration, I don't actually know how interchangeable any of the internals are, but I kinda expect them to be less interchangeable than my old boilers.
an example please?
I have zero trouble using Firefox on my Mac, other than the OS wanting to use Safari sometimes, what's the problem?

Edit: Ah Apple products, I didn't factor in iPhone/Pad, yeah I dislike iOS and don't use it for that reason.
I know heat pumps are all the rage on HN these days, but I looked into them for myself in Indiana, and they don't seem to make financial sense at all, unfortunately.

My utility, NIPSCO, charges $0.25699/therm for gas. There are 29.3 kWh of energy in 1 therm of gas, and my furnace is 95% efficient, so this works out to an electric equivalent of $0.009/kWh. That's more than an order of magnitude cheaper than the electric equivalent! Even a really efficient heat pump isn't going to be able to overcome that.

Am I doing the calculations wrong, or are my utility rates way out of whack, or are heat pumps just generally more expensive for everyone to run, but they still think it's worth it? I'm trying to understand how my situation is so different, because I was pretty excited about swapping out my gas furnace for a heat pump and went down that rabbit hole quite a ways before realizing my specific utility rates don't seem to make sense for it.
Because they only meaningful right is one that can be enforced and the law defines those and the mechanisms for enforcement.
Whats the difference between Starlink and say all satellite TV networks available anywhere, to anybody with antenna pointing up? What can he do, sue an American company for allowing freedom of speech? Musk can safely ignore that, and Turkey would need his empire more than Musk Turkey (to be clear I can imagine erdogan strongarming US government due to Nato bases but he would be showing off some nasty side of himself)

You can't block Starlink signal, it ain't cable in the ground or in sea you can cut at your will.
I love when someone figures out the detailed reasoning behind why some things are the way they are. Sometimes I go down those rabbit holes myself and never figure it out, but when I do, it feels so good! Just as reading articles like this.

Thanks, Julia!
TL;DR;

0.1 in binary, is a repeating decimal - just like how 1/3 in base 10 is a repeating decimal.

So you get errors due to rounding.

This is also why it's super important in loops to never use "=" as a condition statement, but instead use "<=" (or ">="). Otherwise you might create an infinite loop.
It is another aspect of cargo cult and checklist driven leadership.
Based on the Mastodon experience (very quiet outside of small niches until mid last year) you'll probably have to wait til Youtube self-destructs.
And far warmer
Related, https://www.securityweek.com/nortons-hackiswhack-rap-contest...
Humm, I can't see a thing that is not translated to at least english. Not sure about the language barrier.
I find alot of difficult to solve problems fun with C#, but C# doesn't get in my way so when I work on personal projects, its fun because of what I'm building, not so much the language.

I suggested C# mainly it lets me focus on what I'm building. Node I feel like I'm thinking "is there a package for that" "how to use the package" "this doesn't work the way you would think it does"...

If that makes sense...
What’s the cost of a kWh in Maine?

The newer houses here in Japan tend to be all-electric (water, stove, AC) and the current prices (~¥40/kWh) make a lot wish for kerosene heaters of the past decades.
https://docs.rs/rust_decimal/latest/rust_decimal/

Or something like this?
They are air to air. The hydronic heat pumps are not common in the US AFAIK, but I’d love to hear if anyone has found an affordable solution.
That’s sad, and sincerely hope they get at least some form of a life back.
Improving user privacy by requiring opt-in to send X-Requested-With from WebView
One of the interesting things with the steam deck, as a frequent Mac gammer, is that you can stream from it to the Mac.

This opens up "Ok, I can play Steam deck games" on the Mac and the forgotten games that haven't followed with the updates needed for Catalina.
There is no long term farming is seasonal
Don't you mean the Storm? The Bold was pretty solid, and the original didn't have a touch screen. It was the storm that had a crappy touchscreen that physically moved to touch, and it sucked.
No utility would want to build power plant that works 10% of the year tho, that's the problem
> At least in the mobile dev space, it has always been common practice for them to leverage private APIs to do things regular app devs cant.

On mobile (iOS), yes. But power consumption comparisons tend to be on desktop (macOS) because the other browsers can't run on iOS at all. And I don't think Apple can enforce that API privacy on macOS because they unlike iOS they allow apps to be installed from outside the App Store.
I keep hearing how Modern C++ is safe now, and all the dumb UB was just C and legacy unidiomatic C++ code (even recently argued by Bjarne). But std::vector isn't legacy, has easy UB, and there's strong pushback like yours against fixing it.

I don't see Modern C++ ever getting past its safety-third design.
They won't add features but will fix bugs in it. Like distributions with long term support.

You may ask why this matters, but I just installed 6.1 in Debian (testing) a couple of days ago, and it has a fatal bug in a graphics driver I think (AMD iGPU Ryzen 5) - as soon as I start a browser in GNOME, the signal to the monitor is lost and I have to reset. I installed 5.18 in the console, and it works fine.

I haven't figured out how to report the bug, but I also have a hunch that it's probably already fixed. And that's why you make these long-term support releases. You stop refactoring/adding features that destabilize the code, and just fix bugs, and end up with a well-tested fossil. In theory you'd have automated tests of everything, and then you wouldn't need these fossils. But in practice you don't.
Ask HN: SMS Surveys for Research?
Does anyone have experience participating in or proctoring surveys/polls through text message? I'm interested in hearing about your experience. The good, bad, ugly, and outcome.

I'm finishing a custom SMS API and thought it might benefit research universities who routinely conduct surveys and polls. However, I've not seen a study that leveraged SMS surveys.
This is good advice and it reminds me of the highly sensitive personality type. It's distinct from introversion (extroverts can have it too) and there is research that shows that it exists in about 20% (IIRC) of the population and shows up in other species too. Elaine Aron has written about it. I would recommend anyone who considers themselves to be sensitive to empower themselves and learn about it.
> STL, which these containers are part of, is famously speed-optimized. STL (like C++) was designed for speed first (if at all possible then zero-cost abstractions) and thus does very little error checking on its own.

Only kinda? A bunch of the containers then make other promises or leak details that prohibit meaningful optimizations. An extra branch in std::vector::pop_back() is such a pointless savings compared to, say, that std::map is basically mandatory red-black tree or that std::unordered_map must store elements in a linked list to preserver iterators across removals.

Like almost none of the containers in the STL are "fast" at this point. std::vector is probably about the best, but even it is missing small-size optimizations (and that's ignoring the hair-brained bool specialization that then breaks everything)
We are the ones that are sold out, by regulatory capture, monopolies, wireless spectra, etc. Section 230 does nothing for people, it created the platforms that censor, and gave the government a hook into the industry.

Look, even EFF supports section 230 [0]; btw, EFF is a total sell out operating as a feel good, ideological protector. All they do is swindle the "engineering culture" into pushing these things onto the world.

0. https://www.eff.org/issues/cda230
true, it gets tricky when there's an online component to it, since they can just keep their key secret, if the service I'm using is also online. Would there be no way to spoof it? Like,

Client (validate)-> server, requires a valid signature which I cannot sign unless I have access to their private key

Client <-(SpoofedAuthSuccess) SpoofServer, is also impossible if the client requires data from a server to work properly going forward. The only thing you could attain, is to unlock the client locally if you reverse engineered it, but any data not stored locally, is impossible to get. So wrt. games, since you mentioned DRM, it might be possible to unlock the content if it is local, given a clever reverse engineering solution? Even if they encrypted the data on disk, at some point, they have to decrypt it in-memory locally.

But for server, where all validation and data is gated behind an 'authoritative' server, I guess it's just game over for unlocking anything yourself with a certificate. Even if you manage to magically solve it, they will just issue a new certificate, and quickly invalidate the old one I guess.
I think the difference is that if a request is made to Google to remove a specific article that they can put that link on a blacklist... but with GPT the issue seems to be that once the information is compressed that the source and the ability for attribution is lost... so like, perhaps I could still figure out a way to get ChatGPT to tell about the (hypothetical, but not completely improbable) situation where I lost my cool at a PTA meeting.

I'm just spit-ballin'!
Here's The Article We Didn’t Run Back in 2017 About DoNotPay
Body insulation is way more efficient than the pink stuff you put in your attic! Cheaper, too!
That's objectively untrue. Even the most basic Google search shows that this is untrue.
> the interbank interest rate being defined on the fly

All prices are determined on the fly, certainly day-to-day ones. Libor wasn’t the interbank rate, it was one commercial offering, albeit a powerful one. The Fed Funds rate always was and now SOFR are transactionally derived, which is fundamentally different from Libor, which was never anything more than a survey.
Dokku mostly uses existing "unix" tools or golang binaries, so it should in theory work (buildpacks are another matter, as they are mostly written for Linux, but a Dockerfile-based build should work). The big issue is actually interacting with the Docker daemon, as that is Linux only. If you could provide a `docker` binary on the host that was a wrapper around Jails for the commands we use, it should work just fine.

That said, I don't use BSD and wouldn't have time to investigate adding support for any of the BSDs.
I don't even own a Steam Deck and I've been seeing the benefits just from its existence. Now, almost every game on Steam has a quick accessible rating that lets me know if it works fine on Linux. This has led to me being able to buy games confidently that I never would have otherwise. In addition, the effectiveness of Proton for running Windows games is baffling, and something I never could have expected when I first switched to Linux back in 2015.

Back when Steam Machines first came out, the expectation was that there would be a new push to get games working on Linux, which unfortunately didn't end up happening as strongly as expected. However, with how much of a success the Steam Deck was, it seems that the rush to get games ported to Linux actually is happening. I'm excited for the future.
As if the ones we have now aren't suspect enough!
What I'm doing is have a _separate_ encryption key for _each_ OAuth provider on the server, encrypt with that and save it in a HTTPOnly browser cookie. This way if the key gets stolen from the server, the attacker doesn't even have any user OAuth tokens. If the cookies are stolen from the user's browser, the attacker can't do anything with it. If one user's cookie is stolen AND the encryption key is stolen, only one user is affected. As the cookie is HTTPOnly, there is no XSS surface, the client need to communicate with the server to be able to API requests to the OAuth provider.
Killing GCP would be so stupendously, incredibly short-sighted. I hope there's no truth to the reports and internal leaks from 2019.
I can agree that the american transparency is a model, even if it fails some rare times (what I hate the most is when they do the whole circus around a terrible lie, with all the appearance of transparent government, but it's rare enough to be forgiven).

Not sure what is has to do with the initial problem that spawned the transparent mea culpa though, which is due to a sort of reckless optimism and an inability to look abroad for better ideas. I think they call it "American Exceptionalism" or some such there ? Even your answer seems to be that you fucked up but at least you're not as bad as ... the French ? What ? :D
Gcp isn’t stand alone profitable. They stated such in their earnings that Cloud (including workspaces with a low operating cost) is not profitable
Show HN: Rapidly prototype and launch LLM Apps
BerriAI is like Retool for LLM Apps. It makes it easy for you to ingest data from Documents, PDFs, Google Docs, Notion, Coda, Excel Sheets, GitHub Code Repos, Jira, Zendesk, PostgreSQL, Datadog and Snowflake. Empower your developers to quickly spin up ChatGPT apps for your organization data through our data connectors, 1-click production deploy, LLM Agent Initializer and Tool Builder. We provide developers with ready made templates for your selected data sources and allow you to write custom data chunking, vectorizing code and build your own LLM Agents.

What can you do with Berri?
1. Build a chat/search interface to ask questions about your Documents, Knowledge Base
2. Create a CRM tools to generate outreach messages based on LinkedIn Profiles
3. Build tools to query your database / data warehouses / Application Metrics in natural language (example queries: What is our Monthly ARR? Which transactions are anomalies)
4. Create Tools to automate customer support requests using your Docs, past ZenDesk, Jira Tickets as a knowledge base.
I was in a situation where my WiFi hotspot died and I couldn't launch any new games because I didn't have internet. The offline mode button didn't work because... I didn't have internet.

That's an inexcusable problem for a device supposedly designed to be used on the go. I can live with (and grumble at) not being able to get into hotel WiFi without switching to desktop mode (which in itself is an amazing feature on a console-like) but there are still bad problems that need fixing.

Luckily, the Deck team is still pushing out patches, fixes, and features quite quickly so I have faith these problems will be resolved in the future. Competing manufacturers seem to slow down their update cycle significantly once a device has hit the market but Valve is doing well.
I would argue the complexity is in finding the simplicity. It's very easy to get overwhelmed with all the contradictory advice and information out there and become paralyzed by the fear that you may be dumping months or even years of effort into a sub-optimal plan. You're not wrong about the answer actually being very simple, but it's important not to trivialize the difficulty in arriving at that conclusion for a lot of people (myself included).
The idea of nuclear power plants in the US near residential communities is a non-starter.

Solar thermal or geothermal might be an option, but I believe heat pumps outperform those options on cost.
Unveiling the Crucial 5 GDPR Obstacles of ChatGPT That Can’t Be Ignored
> I hope Google is not pulling a Blackberry moment.

Why? (Genuine question).

Google is just some corporation, and one that’s been drifting for the last 15 years or more (since Schmidt left). They are not even a good actor, yet (and I don’t blame them for this) have sucked a lot of air out of the ecosystem.

Creative destruction is one of the key values (-> leads to benefits) of capitalism, and with US & EU antitrust asleep at the wheel we should be glad if Google is ground to dust and replaced by somethings (plural!) better.
But Turkey is an ally and a NATO member.
Your eye must necessarily be on both money and safety. If you look at only one, you will only make nonsensical decisions.

I don't know the analysis for the multiple clearance on runways on the US (honestly, it's the first time I hear about it). What I know is that the US has many complex risk analysis that my country (3rd largest aviation area on the world, after the US and EU) doesn't have enough data to replicate. That leads to plenty of policies that we can't actually understand the reasoning.
Zrok: Open-source peer to peer
Elections are meaningless if you can print millions of untraceable mail-in ballots and do not enforce rigorous ID requirements. Furthermore, elections are even less meaningless if you can imprison the opposition or destroy them in media under false and contrived pretense.
What’s wrong with selling spells? Is it because Etsy believes they are fake or because they are real and too powerful?

And where would you even go to buy spells in real life?
Oh nice! And thank you, I actually meant to take a look every week at the Steam page, and you're right, they have added the Steam Deck compatible box, and it's been tested / verified now. Amazing.
The downvotes are probably because all the parts of this that didn't also apply to Windows when Chrome came out, aren't actually barriers because nearly all users will have already done them for other reasons (like creating an app store account), and Google demonstrably managed to gain huge share there through a massive advertising campaign on their properties, using what amounted to lies ("Youtube is better in Chrome"—eh, not really, not in any way that mattered to anyone reading that message, anyway).

You're exaggerating while also being abrasive and wrong ("is pretty crock that has no basis in reality or history"), basically.

Chrome didn't rely on word-of-mouth and geek evangelists to spread like FF did in the early years—Google leveraged their monopoly on multiple web products to do it. The proof is that they already did it once—a whole lot of users who truly don't give a shit which browser they run, ended up with Chrome, because Google told them it was better. The differences you list that make this situation seem different aren't actually notable barriers, as you imply they are. If anything, tapping an "install this!" call-out and following through in the app store is both an easier and higher-confidence action for most users than downloading a .exe installer file, running it, and clicking through the installer.
You ask it a fashion question, "what goes with this?" and it responds with the answer and mentions a company where you can order something like it (sponsored).
They could add a little box on the right side of the search results with a Chat-GPT generated answer, they already do this to show the "knowledge panel" or whatever the official name is.
Mysterious Russian satellites are now breaking apart in low-Earth orbit
According to a UBS study from last week, ChatGPT is the fastest growing consumer-based web app in history: https://www.reuters.com/technology/chatgpt-sets-record-faste...

This thing is taking off like wildfire. Google has very good reason to be terrified. This kind of growth is quite likely indicative of a major disruption.
Fediverse is exactly what you were saying when you said "Here federation is actually a more useful model", it is federated.
Nadella was asked about this. He basically said that they have a responsibility to drive users to sites with click through or else sites won't have an incentive to be crawled.

How that pans out in practice remains to be seen.
Two comments in and still not a word on what is “flawed” about the fediverse.
There are OSS linux cli tools and npm packages that do the same thing but I find myself using this web app often.

It has a pleasant interface and making all the errors go away usually results in clear writing.

https://hemingwayapp.com/
> Is this the real Seymour Hersh?

I feel like too many outlets are glossing over this question and are reporting it as fact that he wrote it. I haven't found a single confirmation that he actually did so if anyone has one I'd love to see it.
Winapi is the stable Linux ABI we’ve been waiting for the whole time. Windows binaries are more cross-distribution-portable than native builds.

The irony.
Google would be happy to host the bandwidth for all DNS if needed. The idea that this bandwidth is relevant vs YouTube etc is crazy