skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems like the lesson here is that nobody wants to go to the party unless they know who else is going to be there. Makes kind of a chicken and egg problem. Not surprised that this type of fakery is going on. Reminds me of VC rounds where nobody wants to be the first in and if you get a big name everybody FOMOs in. Not surprising to me that the same guy who runs the conference also runs influencer accounts because it seems to be the same skill. Of course everybody expects those to be fake. Maybe we should feel the same way about conferences, because they sure seem that way to me.
Ask HN: Are there any success stories for privacy focused companies?
I'm exploring the idea of creating a bootstrapped product to serve an existing market where privacy is non-existent, and the space is dominated by large Ad companies.

This has me thinking, are there any success stories for companies branding themselves as the "privacy focused alternative"? My hesitation comes from the fact that most people don't know or care that they're constantly being tracked online, so the market size might be pretty tiny.

I can thinking of many failed attempts, but the only success story I can think of is DuckDuckGo and the fact that they reached profitability. But I'm not sure how lucrative the returns on investment have been for them.
That doesn't extend the original patent duration, it's just a new patent for a related invention.
Spotted an extremely minor typo:
hirarchic => hierarchical
Are there ever actual surprises though? I remember how amazing it was to see movies as a kid and find out about Darth Vader being Luke Skywalker’s father, but after 40 more years of watching movies, surprises are very few and far between. I have a better understanding of the language of movies.

I agree with you though for whodunit movies where there’s a lot of misdirection and surprise is the point. But knowing a lot about Barton Fink or some James Bond movie doesn’t diminish my fun.
This is absolutely not the case in many European locales. For instance, a gas station owner can be fined for infringing the privacy of a shoplifter by publishing CCTV footage [1].

[1] https://www-mtvuutiset-fi.translate.goog/artikkeli/huoltoase...
I haven't used v4 because last time I wanted to use an UI for managing the DB:

- It didn't have 'connect with psql' that v3 did

- It added significant overhead and connections to the DB server

- It didn't have proper windowing support (e.g. panels could easily get lost)

- Shutting it down regularly required going into process manager, rather than closing the window.

These are the issues I can remember, but I've never really looked at it since then, in '20 or '21. Maybe those issues were fixed. Probably not.
I love the idea of these types of “unit” exercises, and koans. I am surprised there aren’t more of these. In fact koan/kata like exercises can be a great complement to documentation for open source projects. I was recently looking for a good platform to create these types of exercises. Anybody have a favorite ?
Why are the words 'Computer Vision' not above the fold on the front page? How am I supposed to know that CV stands for Computer Vision rather than Curriculum Vitae?
Why are key Republicans resisting transparency on UFOs?
Home automation is a mystery to me. I have a coffee maker I can program to turn on in the morning, some ring cams for deterrence, and an automatic thermostat. I feel like everything else is overkill.

Also starting and maintaining a fire in the wood stove is something I enjoy.
Your privacy policy or lack of thereof does not override the duties set to you by legislation such as GDPR.
- DuckDuckGo: I think they're pretty successful.

- The Tor Project: it's a foundation, but the US government provides roughly half their ~8 million USD funding per year.

- Apple: perhaps not the greatest example from the point of view of some commenters here for reasons I'm honestly not sure of and would like to learn more about, but their products like: Advanced Data Protection, Private Relay, Hide My Email, are pretty useful and have huge adoption and possibly enormous impact.

- Brave Browser: 10s of millions of users.

- Unplugged: focused on private smartphone, it's a startup but their backers show they believe it has impact.

- DOSYAGO (my tiny company): we're a profitable startup that builds products that have strong overlap with privacy, like BrowserBox: https://github.com/BrowserBox/BrowserBox

- Kagi search: (not sure if they're profitable), but they're big and getting bigger (and seemingly loved here!) :)

I encourage you to get into this space. I don't think it's going to slow down! :)

What product are you thinking about?
Not sure which "focus on hub/groupware" you're talking about. Some groupware features are still horribly buggy and understaffed (e.g. the whole mess of co-existing methods of sharing files/folders with groups – Share vs. Group Folder vs. Collectives/Circles – or the crazy amount of WebDav and CalDav bugs that have been existing for many years), while "AI" (or some other buzzwordy technology) gets all the focus.

As much as I hat to say it, but feature wise it's not very close to being a Microsoft 365 alternative.
Is this for the entire group (VWAG) - there are several brands like Audi, Porsche, SEAT and Skoda with their own factories/staff.
Implemented and integrated both at work six years ago, it is a nice combination.
I don't interpret it the same way as you.

My understanding of Munger's intent: find the issues and risks that you are not aware of, by looking at the project from a different perspective.

What Google X (and many others) do: do the most risky parts first, so you fail fast and minimize the wasted effort (save time and money by not doing the less risky parts first, in case the project is doomed).
that they're straight?
If you have all the dimensions figured out I recommend you write up a white paper of the solution so humanity can get started with enthusiastic implementation.
Of course they can!
Just wait until they shift focus or somebody shouts efficiency.
If you made this about accessibility in the first place, (and avoided the useless war between the poor with the LGBTQ people here) I bet your post would have been better received.

By the way you make a very good point about accessibility and the fact that you basically need two operating systems (the actual OS running on your PC and a modern Web Browser) to read simple text that should have been rendered as such in the first place.
Cloudflare, Vercel, Apple One & Google One that's it.
It's not the conference presenters' duty to fix a problem that will only be there if the organizers can't be bothered to try.
I thought it is more about recognising that they are talking about a different thing they have to name instead of adding additional qualities to it.
You heard about the bell curve concept? Chances are about half the doctors you see are at the lower part of the curve. Which means they are borderline or completely incompetent at what they do.

I'd take my chances with a "properly trained" AI any day. Problem is, most medical corpus is full of bogus studies that have never been replicated, so it might be close to junk at this stage.

> It will lead to deaths,

regular doctors kill people everyday and get away with it because you accept the risks. What's different?
> RTO will increase the number of employees quitting

Depends on the job market in that area.

People only quit if they know they'll easily find equal or better paid gigs than what they already have, but in 2023 most people working in tech tended to stay where they are due to the market stagnation/slump, especially if they got above market rates during the 2021-2022 boom and know they won't get anything better in the current market.
> Lit doesn't need JSX and a virtual DOM, which are React specific technologies.

But lit needs lit's custom DSL, lit's custom reactive components, custom everything.

Even in their most trivial example literally everything is custom, and specific to lit:

import {LitElement, css, html} from 'lit';
import {customElement, property} from 'lit/decorators.js';

// custom lit-specific decorator
@customElement('simple-greeting')
export class SimpleGreeting extends LitElement {
// custom lit-specific css function
static styles = css`
:host {
color: blue;
}
`;

// Custom, lit-specific reactive properties
@property()
name?: string = 'World';

// custom lit-specific render function
render() {
// custom lit-specific DSL
return html`<p>Hello, ${this.name}!</p>`;
}
}

So. So, extraordinary claims require extraordinary proofs. I eagerly await a description, with examples, of how much work there is to convert a non-trivial lit component to Stencil.

BTW. Claiming that Virtual DOM is somehow a react-specific technology (and that somehow apparently affects conversion from React to something else) really shows how much you understand about the topic at hand.
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If that app ran in a 640x480 mode, memory accesses would be just as fast as the VGA applications 25 years ago, correct?

I do think there's a lot more going on than that. Here's SDL's current pixel access code:

https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/blob/main/src/video/SDL_su...

To do a pixel read there's at least a lock, memcpy, format conversion and an unlock.
Then Chinese stuff will get hit by tariffs, as it was the case with Chinese steel.
Who mentioned anything about Christianity??
It's not trivial to find the person talking. Why does a comment or two bother you so much?
i’m doing something similar to summarize the days tops news and comments. Ideally it’ll eventually know which news “I” would read and send me a summary over email.
Back in school, my roommate's mom worked for a hedge fund and he did part-time work for them. He factored out a common trading engine from individual strategies, and one day the head of the fund asked him to run a strategy that had made a bunch of money in the past, but had been retired after failing to make money for a while. So, he put the strategy back in production without any testing, forgetting that he had recently done some minor refactoring of the trading engine. He typo'd one variable name for a similar variable name, so in the loop where it broke down large orders into small orders, it actually had an infinite loop. Luckily the engine had an internal throttle, so it wasn't trading as fast as it could send messages over the network.

I was chatting with him when he noticed the stock the strategy was trading (KLAC) was gradually declining linearly. He looked at the L2 quotes and saw that someone using his brokerage was repeatedly putting out small orders, and then he realized they were his orders.

The fund got a margin call and had to shift some funds between accounts to make margin, and they had to contact regulators and inform them of the bug, and they had to manually trade their way out of the massive short position they traded. However, they ended up making $60,000 that day off of his mistake.
What Russian disinformation wants Africa to think about the war in Ukraine
In other words, fairly traditional narratives already familiar during the Soviets. But #3 is so far-fetched that it probably goes to the flooding of the zone category.
More of an idea than a thing, at this stage
What sort of "physical control" would be appropriate for a radar-guided beyond-visual-range anti-air missile?
No, I don't think people are, at large, missing the point. I think there is some more reflecting to do about the article in that pretty much points out the lengths people are going to go so they can conform to the CURRENT_THING. Almost like virtue signaling is actually a thing.
To open: I am not apologising for what Hamas has done at all. I think their actions are revolting. Whatever your view of the history of the region, the aim to eliminate Israel as a Jewish state is unrealistic, extreme and counterproductive.

Nonetheless, I do find the claim they are using human shields as interesting.
Whatever you think of Hamas' aims and methods (and I strongly disapprove of both), Palestinians engaged in conflict are by necessity fighting a guerrilla war against an occupying power. No, Israel is not in direct control of Gaza -- but it does have the capacity to use overwhelming force against any part of it, so it might as well be for the purposes of fighting a war.

Let's assume we are not pacifists and we think armed struggle is _sometimes_ justified (as do both the US and Israel). From the perspective of someone who viewed the establishment of Israel as illegitimate, and the occupation of Gaza unlawful, and Israel's action in Gaza and the West Bank as immoral, what would be the right course of action here?

From that perspective it might seem reasonable to plan and carry out sabotage against Israeli forces (I know that is not all Hamas have done -- they have also murdered civilians, but this is irrelevant to this argument).

There were many resistance movements in the 20th century that are now approved-of by Israel and allies. Was it illegitimate for French resistance fighters (for example) to plan attacks from civilian villages and hide weapons in farmhouses etc? This accusation of using human shields (which predates the current conflict) sometimes strikes me is part of a process to 'other' the Palestinian cause and render it a priori illegitimate, which does't help anyone.

Edit: I recognise this post could upset some people at the moment. It's really not my intention. It's posed as a genuine question and something for us all to reflect on. I might be wrong/misguided but interested to discuss.
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> If you're saying to not use tabs but to play by ear

These are not the only possibilities. A musically-based understanding of the fretboard would let you play directly from sheet music, chord charts or lead sheets. (Classical guitarists do this as a matter of course.)

Of course ear training (what you do when playing by ear) is a big foundation for that skill, but that should not be time consuming, either. A good player should be able to "find" the right note on the fretboard on the spot, not just by trial and error.

> some of the terms you mentioned are new to me

Is solfège new to you also? You know, the old Do-Re-Mi etc. That's something that even most "self-taught" people learn to sing to from childhood, and properly used it can be a great foundation for thoroughly understanding a relative instrument like the guitar.
> Seems like the lesson here is that nobody wants to go to the party unless they know who else is going to be there. Makes kind of a chicken and egg problem.

This may indeed be tricky, but if it was "just" that he'd been sneaky about it to get the ball rolling and he subsequently had fixed the issue by replacing the fake women with real women before starting to sign up attendees it'd have been a lot easier to have sympathy.
The insight is that they may intentionally be propagating the "supply limited" story despite it not being true. I believed it (while thinking "but why? the chinese seem to have none of these problems").
While I broadly agree that that's a wise move, at the same time if I have to spend 8 hours a day working just to stay alive I can hardly be expected to also kill all non-work aspects of my personality for that time as well.
Wikipedia says "The attack occurred during the Iran–Iraq War, which had been continuing for nearly eight years." I guess it wasn't supposed to be a war that the US was involved in directly? But they were apparently getting their helicopter shot at and were doing things in Iranian territorial waters, so I guess they weren't just hanging out.
To summarize:
1. Bad wages
2. Not enough time off
3. Rude customers

The solution to #1 is obvious but expensive. The solution to #2 is to hire more people, which is obviously difficult, but raising wages to solve #1 would probably help here too (I'm guessing they don't even want paid time off, just time off, so there's probably some additional expense involving more people but not strictly wages).

#3 seems a bit trickier. Corporate home office can't do a lot about the public being jerks. The only thing I can think of is empowering staff to kick people out for bad behavior, but that realistically that means hiring security staff or calling the cops a lot.

Of course I'm just speculating, I don't see any of this changing anytime soon. Clearly there are still plenty of customers at this theater, which is what the company cares about most. Until a staff shortage starts hurting profits nothing changes.
At Google they absolutely are about speed - they're trying to help you go as fast as possible without breaking users.
I think either try becoming a nurse or a teacher for me, and both are very far from being automated. Neither is a great solution but it will do for 10-15 years. after that - retirement.
> ...hostile obsession with the Jews.

Framing it like this not only evokes guilt in Europeans (in most Caucasians, perhaps?) but also effectively stifles them from voicing any support, let alone criticize Israel; and more importantly, without much consequence or thought, label any pro-Palestine group as pro-Terror. In fact, the Israeli Left themselves, a tiny minority rallying around organizations like Haaretz and B'Tselem, are under constant threat of de-legitimization, because in broader terms, they talk the same talk as pro-Palestine groups.
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I don't try to swim against the current. But you're welcome to do it.

What do you mean AI doesn't give back? It serves everyone and gives back everything it can create. Artists are the number one users here, and they will unlock the AI skills better than regular people playing around.

What individualized streams? you mean like imagination, where everyone of us has their own "individualized stream"? AI art is augmented imagination. No obstacle in sharing, in fact it's easier now. You don't need to be an artist to create depictions of your imaginations, and sharing a generated JPG is much easier than drawing it by hand.

> yet you continue to use the labor of others without permission

That's how culture works. The artist who never took inspiration from the cultural environment should throw the first stone. Pablo Picasso is widely quoted as having said that “good artists borrow, great artists steal.”
Good to hear.

More support for Roundcube, while Nextcloud gets a better Email client than the current one.
It’s a reimplementation in C by Richard Russell. If you want a version by Sophie Wilson (who created BBC BASIC) there’s one in RISC OS written in ARM assembler.
To convert a VCF (Virtual Contact File) to Excel, you can follow these general steps. There are various tools available online that can assist with this conversion.
Seems like a great place to mention the MapQuest API. I tested it against 4 other services(inc. Google's) on 200 manually verified geocoding/reverse-geocoding tasks. Google managed a 92% whereas MapQuest scored 99%.

If you are doing geocoding or reverse-geocoding MapQuest outperforms Google Maps quite magnificently(YMMV). The cost is also lower and there are plans where you can keep the data.

The funny thing being that the C levels didn't give a shit about the results and went ahead with Google Maps anyway. So your point remains correct.
GDPR very specifically has a public interest/journalist exemption which would obviously fall under this scenario given that this was for the sake of uncovering fraud being committed by an individual.
I feel that the framework for integration is the programming language itself, it's Turing complete.

Getting things to glue together in the right way is a challenge though which is probably why you want it to be data driven. But inevitably you need some flexibility or logic in your data processing so you end up building an expression engine and we get into "creating a inner system/platform effect".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner-platform_effect
I test drove a Hyundai ionic 6. All the levers and dials that had no use because they were set to 'Auto' made me appreciate my model 3 even more.
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I did not know OpenAI made anything open source.
The hallucination benchmark he did was really great. I always learn from Simon through the years. He set a high bar in the search / retrieval community.
Signal, NextCloud, Proton family, etc.
Businesses exist to make money for their owners, full stop. Any needs they fulfill are largely incidental.
I do that as well, but I have eventually managed to train myself to do the hard-coded version first, find out I need to make it more generic anyway and thus validate the need for the genericity, but also at that point I have a much better understanding what exactly benefits from being flexible and where I can take some shortcuts compared to what in my mind is the perfect design. That way I end up building something in between which usually works quite well and I am pleased with.
India to investigate US allegations of foiled Sikh assassination plot
I think gp meant the next two verses. Where the verse two after the one we are talking about says:

Mark 10:27 And Jesus looking upon them saith, With men it is impossible, but not with God: for with God all things are possible.
> Note: On the initial visit, Danswer will prompt for an OpenAI API key. Without this Danswer will be able to provide search functionalities but not direct Question Answering.
In the near future we will ask ourselves how people back then were doing this virtuoso thing called "driving" and be deeply grateful for the autopilot technology which Tesla was pioneering.
Our startup https://dobu.me is solving just this problem. We are testing our product for free and currently you can upload your home documentation - with AI we will create products out of them and if something needs regular maintenance we automatically remind you. Plus we have an AI chat so you can "talk" with your home.

We based in Estonia and soon new real estate developments here will come with our platform instead of the paper documentation. We are currently looking into the US market and if you have any ideas or feedback, email me at: rasmus@dobu.ee
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They went very aggressively with Marcus offering here in UK. Had the most attractive rates for savings and ISAs for a time. And then... they just gave up?

Their Android app was actually quite nice.
Do you have any recommendations of your own that you can share?
> which tends to hire more women than men these days (your words)

They said there was a "pro-female bias in hiring", which does not necessarily mean it's a female-dominated field. In fact, it's often the male-dominated fields that have pro-female bias because there is often a desire to increase the female ratio.
Where is your data from?
I don't think having to use .get() for property access is equatable to "readable names". It is also not the reason for this in the library you mentioned AFAIK, although I haven't used it so far. I think the reason for the .get() is that it is not achievable to have deep immutability in JS with regular property access (Object.freeze is not "deep" either).

That aside, I agree it's not ergonomic, but it has nothing to do with readable names.

And converting a string to an integer is not possible with a native JS operator intended for this purpose, so I'd prefer Math.trunc any day.

Regarding the immutable.js thing, the Records/Tuples TC39 proposal aims for a syntax and runtime addition to allow immutable objects with regular dot property access.
I wonder how much of those stories are rather wishful thinking of how it should work and not how it does work, when a major screw up happened and some heads need to roll for the sake of it.
It could work well for some people.

One of my father's cousins swapped wives with his best friend. They were quite amicable about it and continued to be friends including going on holiday together.