skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've gotten a "why didn't you go through the drive-through?" on occasion walking in to fast food places after using an app to order. I can't even use the "wait until near to start cooking" option because the distance would be seconds to minutes by car and they assume everyone's driving.

Then there are the places that are drive-through only and don't bother to update their listings on map apps or even the company's own store finder. If you won't pay enough to find enough staff to open for walk-ins after several months, it's time to admit you're drive-through only and update the listings. Walkers famously value our lungs and don't want to stand in line behind cars, and would rather walk on somewhere else.
This happened back in April. If we discussed it on HN at the time, I wasn't able to find it. But the new news is that it resulted in a ban.

I can certainly attest to brain fog from ultra-racing, and I'm even willing to grant that she didn't know how to come clean once she'd screwed up by accepting the trophy.

Accepting that makes a twelve-month ban seem reasonable. And she should count herself lucky that it wasn't lifetime.
If any arbitrary job becomes trivially easy, what's the monetary value in the work?
We changed to that now. Submitted title was "OpenSubtitles is not open anymore".

Submitters: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

If you want to say what you think is important about an article, that's fine, but do it by adding a comment to the thread. Then your view will be on a level playing field with everyone else's: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
> I don't know that this release will be that impactful

It was released in 2019 and it is still going on, so unfortunately it wasn't.
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Does anyone else think that this strategy of growing the userbase with a "free" product and then start panhandling for donations is outright dishonest?

There are tons of smaller XMPP or Matrix providers that didn't get access to millions in funding from these big corporations like Signal did. Who have to run a business in a way that requires paying customers from the start. But now that cash is tight (and after they built a sizable user base) and they can no longer just outspend the competition, suddenly they remind you of TANSTAAFL and are asking you to cough up the cash.

It is the same shitty playbook used by VC-funded companies, except that is now dressed as some virtuous thing of "looked at how much it cost to build all this..." It makes some emotional appeal but it tries to hide from the audience that these costs are solely due to them insisting on controlling everything.

If it is so expensive to run Signal, then open it up to let other people run their own servers instead of trying to control everything. Don't give me this bullshit of "we are a non-profit but we are in the same lane of big tech corporations". You are there because it served you. You can not have it both ways.
If it's a journaled record for the business then I think I'd write it to SQLite or something with good transactions and not mix it in the debug logs
https://archive.today/uNEmY
Oh god, you're making my PTSD kick in. What this will all lead to? Clients going in making UI that appears to work fine and then asking developers to wire it in to the greater eco-system that will necessarily surround it, telling you "Look! It's almost done!" and then you're going to have PTSD too.
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Aren't these VoIP? Almost every service blocks VoIP numbers for sign ups these days, but perhaps Signal is an exception.
You can charge for SMS. You send a message to signal, charged at an amount to cover the return message which contains a code.
I have LPs that have locked grooves at the end of the songs where they keep playing the same loop until you manually stop them. At 33 1/3 RPM, they would hit 1000 plays after 30 minutes, they don't noticeably degrade in that period of time.

A friend said he would leave records like that playing for weeks on the same locked groove and that they did eventually wear out. A week would be 7 * 24 * 60 * 33.33 so 336,000 plays.
What's not a "living system"? You can update RDBMSes much more cleanly and reliably than almost all other software. Stored procedures (in a variety of languages) and the like do not necessitate changes to your data schema and the data that ends up in your schema belongs there, regardless of how its produced. That is a data design issue.

Being able to roll forward and back with code and data (including an updated schema) that is synchronised and works is a huge win. In most places where I've worked with serious RDBMS systems developers have no access whatsoever to production. The fact that this isn't the case universally illustrates the strength of these RDBMS approaches.
I'm concerned about our track-record of producing synthetic foods. They're almost always carcinogenic garbage.
3D APIs were easier back in the yearly days.

Nowadays using "legacy" APIs is relatively easy, however it requires a background knowledge on how GL became GL 4.6, DX became DX 11 and so.

Modern APIs are super low level, they are designed as GPU APIs for driver writers basically. Since they cut the fat legacy API drivers used to take care for the applications, now everyone has to deal with such complexity directly, or make use of a middleware engine instead.
Naw, theres this great new game; "nonvirtual reality"

its kinda expensive and dangerously addictive

the resolution and refresh rate are amazing
An average human would not be able to distinguish something that looks like a perpetual motion machine from something that actually is a perpetual motion machine. But it's fine to have different degrees of rigor for lay people than for scientists, the scientists have never been confused on this one, lay people obviously can be simply because the lack the relevant background. Just like 'really long' is not for ever and 'really large' is not infinite.
An idealistic appeal to an unattainable equal application of an extremely multi-faceted legal framework is not an argument.
Link? ta
tbh, in 2007 you had blog house and other borderline lo-fi electronic genres. before that you had 8-track 909-loop house music. It doesn't _necessarily_ require a studio, though I can't argue it helps.
> Should they also sue all the garbage TV shows for kids and food companies putting sugar everywhere?

There's a song about this; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Threaten_Me_with_a_Goo...

> Did they also sue TikTok? To my knowledge California and New York did not sue TikTok, but is way more dangerous that Instagram. Did they not want to upset Xi during his visit?

Presumably, California (in particular) has an easier time investigating Facebook than TikTok, given it lies within their jurisdiction.
You may already know this, but Pitolisant is a new non-stimulant medication that could be helpful.

People either love it or find that it does nothing for them, so don’t get your hopes up too high. However, for patients who respond it seems to be a great improvement. Be warned that it can take a long time for the positive effects to appear. Unlike stimulants that work well on the first day and decline over the subsequent months/years, it seems to do very little or have uncomfortable side effects on the first few days and then reveal the positives after a month.

And FYI, there’s a weird copayment reimbursement program from the manufacturer that makes it affordable for many. Dumb game to have to play, but it’s there.
> But you weren't trustworthy.

Yup. I preface a statement about once a week by saying “there’s a difference between ‘I can’t say’ and ‘I don’t know.’ In this case, …”

It’s been useful. It helps to communicate without breaking bonds of confidentiality or trust.

It also helps people from reading too much into an off the cuff “I dunno” which is literally true. I do not in fact have knowledge of what you’re asking about. Maybe I should or shouldn’t but I can tell you I don’t know.
You can also charge for a 10 year minimum and get to a higher retained %

You don't need to provide support, even much more expensive consumer services live without a proper one, so being explicit about the fact that you only pay for infrastructure could suffice

Not sure why payment privacy has to be so strict for everyone

The network effect damage is real, but maybe it could be limited with donations :)
I made this switch very recently. For our Java apps it was as simple as loading the otel agent in place of the Datadog SDK, basically "-javaagent:/opt/otel/opentelemetry-javaagent.jar" in our args.

The collector (which processes and ships metrics) can be installed in K8S through Helm or an operator, and we just added a variable to our charts so the agent can be pointed at the collector. The collector speaks OTLP which is the fancy combined metrics/traces/logs protocol the OTEL SDKs/agents use, but it also speaks Prometheus, Zipkin, etc to give you an easy migration path. We currently ship to Datadog as well as an internal service, with the end goal being migrating off of Datadog gradually.
Sure, but privacy isn't black or white. A donation to signal does not compromise the content of your messaging.

So what you've leaked is the information that you have an interest in private conversations. This might be a problem in some countries, but I think it's fair to ask folks in affluent countries with working (sorta) democracies to shoulder that burden. I.e. you don't donate if there's elevated threat to your safety, there are enough people who aren't under elevated threat.

There's also the possibility of using a donation mixer like Silent Donor, though I'd evaluate that very carefully. (There's a record of the transfer in, and the mixer needs to keep temporary records for transferring out. There's also the question how you verify the mixer doesn't skim.)

Some donation mixers accept crypto currency, so for maximum paranoia, I suppose crypto->crypto mixer->donation mixer->charity might be workable. Or hand cash to a friend who donates in your stead.

As always, the best path is to set aside paranoia and build a threat model instead to see what the actual risks are.
Candies are the least sever offender. Everyone know, that you have to limit kids candy intake, because they have too much sugar. But why all of a sudden products like yogurt or pedialyte have loads of sugar?
Oh, we had this type of issue ("logging lib breaks everything") with a $MSFT logging library. Imagine having 100 threads each with their own logging buffer of 300MB. Needless to say it annihilated our memory and our server crashed, even on the most expensive sku of Azure App Service.
That's not entirely correct, the 386 simply lacked features and required cumbersome workarounds. I was more thinking of things like weaker memory models which can uncover concurrency issues.
Excellent! Love to see these sorts of posts since this is also a goal of mine. (Though I'm in the situation of having quit first due to other reasons, I'd very much like to build a sustainable product vs returning to a W2 job.)

One specific question, and pardon my ignorance, having not dug into the product: are you beholden to a financial data provider (Plaid, etc.), or is all data self-entered? I've read a few times that upstream data providers (financial, weather, etc.) can really put a damper on indie products.
I would say that in the long term/big picture we have figured out a pretty standard UI for computers. In the 1980s you probably had to read a pretty hefty book for any given model of computer to be useful. Now, we can sit down in front of just about any computer and trust that the Mouse and Keyboard will exist, and act like we expect (i.e. the left button on the mouse is for selecting, there are arrows on the keyboard which can control a cursor, etc), and that the GUI software will be substantially similar regardless of manufacturer (windowed programs, a bar of some sort on the lower edge of the screen for controlling the OS, a bar at the top of the screen for controlling the active window, etc.)

The parts of the UI toolkits that change are the least consequential. Round or square corners, buttons, skeumorphism, etc...
The app has to ask for email/phone to begin with (see step 1), if the email doesn't match then phone would be used as fallback, or potentially as a "Didn't Receive Code?" gesture.
Our politicians do not serve their citizens, they only serve their patrons
Except real privacy?
I think they are referring to jurisdiction to enforce any judgement against the actor, which is likely in a foreign state with no extradition agreement with the US.
As much as I welcome that since most of social media are garbage, but they should also go after the junk food, the TV shows, even some video games.
Don't underestimate a well-timed "Eureka!" moment in terms of learning.
I feel like that’s unit confusion. Converting from year to day should require you to specify what calendar year you’re in to resolve the ambiguity. Otherwise I set an alarm for today + 1 year and things are off by 6 hours.

Time is nasty because there’s lots of overloaded concepts and bugs hide in the implicit conversions between meanings.

I’m also kinda curious what the underlying type is. Is it a double or do they use arbitrary precision math and take the perf hit.
Show HN: Serverless ComfyUI
I've been working on a serverless version that doesn't require any setup and includes popular custom extensions. (I wished something like this already existed and was as well established as Google Colab.)

If you're just starting out with ComfyUI and want to dive right in, feel free to give it a try and share your thoughts.

Here's a demo of running AnimateDiff with LCM workflow, which reduces the inference time from 150s to 40s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sc2Mt0saeHQ
almost nobody needs Delaware

the reality is that there are 49 other states, half a dozen territories, and hundreds of semi-autonomous reservations a handful of which are also known to have their incorporation statutes

they haven't all stayed still over the past 30 years while Delaware’s marketing engine keeps going, they compete directly

anybody with reading comprehension can find one more favorable and cheaper than Delaware

some even have “chancery courts” just like Delaware

there are even currently obscure entity types that Delaware doesn't have, which may be more favorable. there is more than a C-Corp and an LLC out there

the same is true all around the world, all you need is incorporation cheaply and quickly, and access to domestic and international banking in the company’s name cheaply and quickly, which isn’t necessarily tied to the country your business is in.

there are infinite permutations. it is true that there are only a couple jurisdictions that excel on the cheaply and quickly part.

your real question is a lot more loaded, as you dont know what entity type you want, and dont know what state you want or why

I personally dont use Delaware, most of the time. If I am selling shares to VCs I will create a Delaware C-Corp. but even then I’ll start with an LLC somewhere else and just reincorporate when the VC is serious

I personally find Wyoming to be better faster and cheaper than Delaware, for an LLC. it depends on which registered agent you use though.
I'm not 100% sure what the problem is - pornography/prostitution services being tagged as such is a bad thing how?
> Joke's on me! Fifteen years later and I still can't fucking find anything I want to do in the ribbon.

Yep. Despite having to use it mostly daily for the entire time, the ribbon is still a major impediment to actually accomplishing stuff. It incorporates almost every usability sin in the book.

I consider it one of the worst UI elements to have been invented.
Because funding is limited. And the goal is to maximize the impact, not make some people happy.
Curious if this indictment makes a clear distinction between chemical and behavioral addition. I’ve heard some pushback comparing this to smoking. In my mind, comparing this to gambling would have been more apt. Social media seems to employ many of the behavioral reward schedules which make gambling (or loot drops in video games) addictive. (Eg: literally using a variable ratio reward schedule.) Social media isn’t merely addictive in this way (It leans on crucially important things such as social standing, or perceived social standing.) but this is a major distinction which I often see people fail to make.
Noam Chomsky said it best. Israel has two paths: land or security. Israel chose land.
Mount Rushmore could not have been constructed with methods known at the time.

American civilization may be millions of years old and could have had psychic rock forming technology.
"Can" doesn't mean you "should", and for such a price it's a doubtful proposition.
Although well intentioned, they do not address the request, which given enough time and money any source can be rendered drinkable, but please do not water the trolls.
Last I checked candy companies aren’t finding ways to stalk children and keeping record of their habits and behaviors. Physically sugar might be worse, but the business practices of physical products have mostly been the same for decades. Social media companies are engaged in many practices yet to be litigated.

Edit for clarity: certainly candy companies have general demographic data and market research, but advertising companies have profiles down to the individual. Lawyers seem to have settled on COPPA allowing them to do this for 13 year olds, but I would imagine most parents would prefer minors be excluded from any tracking, profiling, inclusion in multivariate testing or targeted advertising.
Modafinil is a DAT inhibitor. Taking it will reduce the amount of amphetamine getting into neurons, effectively reducing or blocking the effects of the amphetamine because it can’t access the parts of your brain that it uses to operate.

Your ‘friend’ was probably into overdose territory and the Modafinil antagonized the d-amphetamine while also inducing a wakefulness effect.

I really hope your friend realizes how bad this was.
>Is that something actual compilers can do right now?

it is not (outside of research)

>if the compiler can recognise that the assembly routine is equivalent to the C implementation, wouldn't it also be able to generate the same routine?

If you're willing to provide the equivalence proof yourself, it is much easier to verify such a proof than to produce one. The more work you're willing to put in when writing it, the simpler the proof verifier becomes. You could probably write a basic school arithmetic proof verifier within an hour or so (but it would not be pleasant to use).

I've thought about this idea a lot myself and I think it should be feasible, (maybe not with assembly right away). You could write an easily readable function in C for code review/verification purposes and then specify a list of transformations. Each transformation must preserve the semantics of the original function. For example "unroll this loop by a factor of 4", "Fuse these 4 additions in a single vector instruction". It would be a pain to write such a transformation list (AI assistance maybe?) but once written you can rely on the compiler to make sure there are no mistakes.
The focus of this lawsuit is specifically the declining mental health of minors, not the good quality of the product. If games will be determined to have an extremely detrimental effect on children, there will be similar lawsuits.
They cover this pretty substantially in the post on Signal's website (I know they merged the Wired article into this one).

Signal is trying to compete with the richest companies in the world; including for talent. And considering Signal's origins and motivations, they're not going to lower salaries or decrease benefits because some people believe that working for a non-profit automatically means lower compensation.
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There are clever ways around that. I use posteo as my mailprovider. They have a system where you can pay anonymously: https://posteo.de/en/site/payment
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They work with Signal, Facebook, etc. Sometimes you have to try another one to get it to work.
Ah, the classic GLOG-induced service stall - brings back memories! I've seen similar scenarios where logging, meant to be a safety net, turns into a trap. Your 90-99% figure resonates with my experience. It's like opening a small window for fresh air and having a storm barrel in. We eventually had to balance between logging verbosity and system performance, kind of like a tightrope walk over a sea of unpredictable IO delays. Makes one appreciate the delicate art of designing logging systems that don't end up hogging the spotlight (and resources) themselves, doesn't it?
https://archive.ph/keBV3
> After starting I really just didn't need my anxiety meds anymore

Exactly. I'm currently slowly going off antidepressants.
we love money, and adderall helps you focus on shit you don't care about in order to make money
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Listen to this guy.

"The business will be mostly open source and likely to have low to no revenue."

No revenue would be interesting for a UK company. Just fill a dormant status.

Delaware is not a bad option.

"What is the recommendation for a company to manage an open source project?"

Start without a company? Investments (Domain, Server) could also be tax deductible from your current income.

https://incorp.com/ is generally a good incorporation service. But in the past their administration interface required windows. Don't know how it is now.

My gut feeling: Start without a company. (I am not a lawyer).

Edit: Open in Rwanda. Free and nobody is going so sue you there for sure! :-)

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Case: I create a painting. When it's done I say: "yes, this represents how I feel, and I want to share it."

Case: I create a painting with a prompt and when it's done I say: "yes, this represents how I feel, and I want to share it."

What's the difference?
Other states sued TikTok. TikTok distribution channels are Google and Apple. They also use aws and azure, so Amazon and Microsoft. Hence well within California reach. Probably non negligible part of ad revenue comes from California as well.
These places also print a brand new menu every day. Is that a sign of a cheap place, that they don't have a custom menu every day?
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why aren't stored procedures on a DB not able to be version controlled well? People already version control database schemas and migrations, why would stored procedures not also be able to be version controlled just as well? You can test it by creating shadow databases (what Prisma does) to make sure all migrations can be done on an empty database just fine, add test data, call the procedure, and check the output. Genuinely please do enlighten me as to why this isn't possible or doable, I would love to learn more about this part of the field.
You absolutely can and I have before. However, I blended it 70% WMO and 30% diesel. Used motor oil WILL carbon up everything. It's so full of ash that it'll pool up internally.

You need to used a centrifuge to pull out the carbon. Sounds intense but it's not.

You can pour it entirely in your tank without any filters but your fuel filters only go to about 10-30 which will not pull out the tar. Small amounts like that won't do any damage really.