skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Show HN: Munchy – Automated Diet Planning Website
I'm working on an automated diet planning app and I'd love to get your thoughts on it. You tell it about your diet and lifestyle, and it crafts personalized meal plans. It's still a work in progress - we are missing food item images in the sub-menus, and it can stumble on strict diets.

We're using a donation model to keep it community-focused. That way, we are building for it to be genuinely useful for everyone here.

https://buy.stripe.com/28o29a2uReDB87K4gg

As this is my first project of this kind, I'm excited to share the journey with you. If you're interested in following the progress and getting regular updates, feel free to join our Discord server:

https://discord.gg/4VbseGpg

I really appreciate any kind of feedback on this, and look forward to hearing it!
The link is to an extensive review on the site.
https://www.wired.com/story/mark-zuckerberg-inside-hawaii-co...
They can compare sales figures with other notebook brands', if they buy some competitive intelligence or do some sleuthing. Opportunity cost of lost sales.
it feels like the characters-typed to functionality ratio is quite low. at the same time, the code isn't much cleaner and there's a lot of mental overhead in deciphering the abstractions (in this case Collector).
Does it have to be 100% politically neutral to be useful?

Whistle-blowing in itself is already kind of political, you have to strongly disagree (morally, politically, legally or otherwise) with what the organization you're in is currently doing in order to whistle-blow.

Besides, would be wonderfully ironic if the goal of the organization would be to get people inside competitors to the "donors" to whistle-blow, but in the end someone whistle-blows on the pro-whistle-blowing organization.
Well, the examples so do fall more under the abstractly provable side of things when it comes to their behavior.

But take the Sieve algorithm that was posted yesterday[0], or Powersort[1] (Timsort with its bugs fixed). To some degree those are more engineering discoveries about which algorithm behaves best with real-world data. Although Powersort actually involves a lot of formal maths to prove it does not have degenerate edge-cases, so maybe I should have stuck with Timsort.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38850202

[1] https://www.wild-inter.net/publications/munro-wild-2018
I've always wondered how will you ensure the guards don't take over the complex in an apocalypse.

Training in MMA fighting would certainly increase your chances. Or quickly adapting mobster mentality.
Thank you for the correction. I assumed he spoke a variant of american-english. So how did he pronounce his own name? I've never heard his voice.

> a strong local dialect called "Züritüütsch".

Damn, I've never seen a word with three u-umlauts in it. How the hell do you pronounce two consecutive u-umlauts? "eu-eu"?
I'm more interested how those geospatial visualization were done. Do you know a probable library used for it?
Sorry, but in what world do sales of electric cars going up and market share of electric vehicles increasing lead to the thesis that "fewer people are buying electric cars?"

Oh - I get it. It's the world where this publication wants clicks for ad revenue.

"Sure, electric vehicles are becoming more and more widely adopted, but wouldn't it be better for this article if they weren't?"
A few decades is a long time - we overfished the grand banks to near extinction in the 90's and they still haven't recovered[1].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collapse_of_the_Atlantic_north...
The author did not seem to be concerned with the facts or explaining how CRTs actually work :(
Im grateful that the Norwegian gouverment sponsored me a top specced Porsche Taycan Turbo for half the price. Now I drive more than ever, because now driving is really fun.

I will repay the Norwegian gouverment by announcing my move to Sweden. I cannot let my kids grow up in a country that spend tax money like a drunk sailor.
As better transport thins traffic on roads, driving cars just becomes more desirable.

A personal car in a low traffic area will always be dramatically more preferred than even the most fancy clean bus.

So yes, I hope everyone starts using public transit, so that my car driving becomes even better.
> No supercharger network.

Depending where you are in the country, this can be a feature.

Where I live (Oregon), Tesla only bothered to build chargers in the big population centers, while other companies have built CCS chargers all over the place.

If you pick a random geographical location in Oregon it's more likely to be closest to a CCS charger than a Tesla charger.

Tesla wins in other counts like "number of charging stalls" because they built 20 at a time, but you can't road trip to a lot of eastern Oregon with one.
1. Anonymizing PII data is way harder than you first might think.

2. Users will do _anything_ you let them do

3. The customer almost never knows what they actually want
Fish stock will collapse in my lifetime.
If you're wealthy and civilisation collapses then nothing is preventing you from emerging as a monarch if you wish. Assuming you have enough guns, food and personal you'll basically be able to do whatever the hell you want in a lawless society.
The AGPL is for services accessed through the network. In the specific example above, it was about a set of utils available by default on a VM, which is closer to what the GPL covers (it's the same thing as the Amazon Linux that they must make available, really)
To be clear on terminology--this isn't "Modern" architecture; it's "contemporary". Modern refers to a very specific set of movements. The demolished brutalist building the OP mentions is an offshoot of Modern. The replacement is not.
The filesystem has to be read-only as well, otherwise the first run can simply write the results to ~/.me_cheater and the program first reads that file before attempting to read the dataset.
I think a big part of these bunkers is just that these folks have SO much money they can afford to spend millions or hundreds of millions just in case. And part of making it so "nice" is that it's not really a "get a text about the world ending in Cali and hop a flight to Hawaii" it's "get a text about anything in Hawaii and drive to the bunker." I'm sure the main estate has security and amenities too, but in some sort of eat-the-rich social disturbance, geographic isolation is extraordinarily valuable.

To your last point, I think the long game is actually the same as all the typical end of the world movies and fantastical zombie apocalypse things - just survive. Assuming some sort of societal collapse, regardless of how long it lasts, the idea is just to survive another day and that's going to be a hell of a lot easier behind some thick concrete walls in an island in the middle of the Pacific than it is in suburban California.
It doesn't just mean that, actually.
From the article, at the bottom:
"Correction: An earlier version of this story stated that the train's emergency brakes had a lock. It was an 'emergency stop' signal."

...which still sounds bad, and I'm not sure of the difference. But it apparently wasn't quite the emergency brakes?
Just to prove I never took physics, where are the photons actually going in a long distance undersea cable that makes it impossible to just flash a signal across an ocean sized length of fiber? (As I had assumed was the case.) Is it more a loss of clarity/resolution in terms of wavelength rather than the photons going astray?
Depending on what the threat is, underwater could offer an additional layer of protection?
What interests me is how he's going to incentivise his guards to keep guarding him, after an apocalypse that wipes out both his money and the usefulness of money itself.
I have no idea how you could think that bullying generates empathy. Bullying doesn't make people more empathetic, it makes them angry and vengeful. Your suggestion will do nothing but damage.
jetpens is both a store and a well-known source of pen related info
The article says that OpenTrackr is

a significant and reliable player in the BitTorrent ecosystem

and that it sees

near daily peaks of 500,000 connections per second

and that it is monetized via Patreon. So I had a look at their Patreon page, curious how much they make. It turns out to be ... $51.63 per month.

Is that what you make these days, when you help millions of people on the internet?

I'm not sure what a "torrent tracker" is though. I would have thought it is a website to find torrents. But Similarweb says the website only sees 50k users per month. So it is probably something different which is not accessed by users but by ... software?

Ah yes. Asking ChatGPT, it says a torrent tracker is kind of an index service. And this service is used by torrent client software. Not by users via a browser.
There is a big media push to say EV market is in trouble. If you look at the price change dynamics for batteries, it's a constant decline. In fact, the first Tesla battery pack battery and the current one have a price diff of 30x.

Right now, the cost goes below 100 kWh.
That is an industry agreed threshold of EV becomes cheaper to produce compared to ICE cars.
So this and next year, market will introduce several EVs that are cheaper compared to ICE.
Add to this government funding incentives.
Plus, the side effects of expensive batteries pushed companies like Tesla to adopt stamping techniques, higher levels of automation, etc.

So, the typical buyer persona will switch from upper mid-class early adopters to people who need a cheap car for their day-to-day use.

That's going to be another EV rush, where they will be selling everything they can produce.

Fun fact: China surpassed Japan as the biggest car exporter. And battery revolution held mostly by Chinese companies will strengthen that lead x2 since they are the most capable of producing cheap EV's.

Why would you buy a gas Toyota Corolla if you will be able to buy an EV that is $5-10k cheaper? And btw, Chinese manufacturers are buying factories in Mexico to be ready to export EVs to the US.

Scary conspiracy theory: The Western world is very scared of this wave of cheap EVs, and that's why we see these ridiculously misleading articles.

post-WW2 world: The West produces cars and sells them to the rest of the world; no one else is capable of producing good enough ICE cars.

post-2025 world: west is not able to compete with the price and efficiency of Chinese-produced batteries and hence EVs market overall.
People are frequently jailed in the UK for saying mean things on the Internet. This does not happen in the US. Even cases of people making specific threats against government officials are incredibly hard to act on.
You're not wrong, but more puzzling is that this is Zuckerberg's bunker.

I mean, it takes a pretty dumb billionaire to not realize that when a real crisis hits, you'll be a sitting duck (mostly for your own guards / security), in your fancy bunker or forest ranch.

That's more of a naive plan for your run-of-the-mill rich guy, the lower echelon of "rich". Mere $100M-1Bs.

I always thought Zuck-level money gives you better options, such as building your own loyal community. At least village-sized and quite diverse. Which is what you really need when the shit hits the fan.

But maybe Zuck's building that too? And the bunker only a red herring, a hedge for minor temporary hiccups.
Presumably the AI will know where all the bunkers are, unless some of these billionaires are so paranoid they make the contractors use all paper records. Come to think of it, probably at least one or two are that paranoid.
If I had more money than I knew what to do with, designing and building a bunker would be a fun side-project.
k on pdp11
Since I've observed a bunch of countries directly, it is more the following:

- Fisheries may not (historically or present day) be a huge part of their economy, and has therefore been neglected for years.

- Not enough infrastructure due to economic neglect.

- Huge revolving door of officials. One month you deal with one person, six months its another one. You don't know if they are real professionals, or someone placed there (party stooge, nepotism, you name it).

- No cooperation between fisheries/marine agencies, and navy/police/coastal guard.

- And, yes, some corruption I'd assume.

I have a concrete example:

We were invited to a developing country to assess their systems, and consult them on how to move forward. They were/are losing millions and millions due to illegal trawling.

Arrive at the HQ, which was a run down office where a handful of people were working. All data was shared via excel spreadsheets, no real systems to work on, lots of paper forms that someone had to digitize. Someone looking at MarineTraffic from time to time.

That's the state of some of these countries.

The illegal fishers are long out of their EEZ before anyone can react.
Too bad Zuck, you broke the first rule of bunker building.
I've charged my EV at a public charging station less than 5 times in the past year. Instead of a 5 minute stop once a week at a gas station it's 5 seconds every time I get home to plug it in.

Any trip within a 3 hour drive is possible round trip on a single charge. Any trip within a 5 hour drive is possible with no stops and destination charging, actually saving a stop.

Any trip over a 5 hour drive generally takes less time and costs less to fly (I'm sure with many edge cases around rural destinations). Even on long road trips, charging from 20-80% takes 15-20 minutes and most drivers will at least need a bathroom break every 3-4 hours.

New Tesla Model 3 prices are comparable to entry level sedans like the Civic and Camry. Used Chevy Bolt's are abundant at <$20k with much less ongoing maintenance costs versus used gas cars. There aren't yet affordable large SUVs and trucks if those are your only vehicles in consideration.
In Jimmy Carter's time, voter fraud was easier to spot: all the dead people who voted for one of his opponents had done so in alphabetical order!
> precisely such an event

There is a lot of variables in an accident like this. If some of those variables were different, this could have been much worse, despite the hard work of the engineers at Airbus. That's what makes it a "miracle".

In general, I disagree that calling something a 'miracle' implies or withholds credit from those responsible for the outcome. It's very pedantic.
Let's call the largest operator of illegal fishing boats by its name: China

> This Chinese fleet is also categorized by The Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime as the largest purveyor of illegal fishing in the world. Our reporting revealed Chinese vessels illegally entering the waters of other countries, disabling locational transponders in violation of Chinese law, breaking U.N. sanctions that prohibit foreigners fishing in North Korean waters, transmitting dual identities (or “spoofing”), finning of protected shark species, fishing without a license, and using prohibited gear.

https://time.com/6328528/investigation-chinese-fishing-fleet...
I was talking about an internal library as in "a library developed inside My Company that is not made public"; as someone working for My Company, you'd have the responsibility to change the license of said library.

Of course if you're using a library you're not an author of, the library must already be compatible otherwise you just can't use it.
Show HN: Bootstrapped Alternative to Airplane.dev
Hi founders!

Yesterday, when we learned that Airplane.dev was shutting down, we decided it might be the time for our first post on HN. We hope to assist Airplane customers in migrating to our platform (https://uibakery.io) to minimize the impact of this unfortunate event.

UI Bakery is a bootstrapped company and has not taken any VC investments. My co-founders and I, all software engineers, funded this business with the profits from our previous software services business. In the early stages of our previous venture, we developed several popular open-source projects (admin dashboard template, Angular UI kit). Thus our client projects often included admin panels, dashboards, and portals. As a result, the idea of building a platform that would allow faster delivery and also support a subscription-based business model was a no-brainer. Eventually, we made the risky decision to fully commit to UI Bakery. After a period of searching for PMF, we built a small and effective team (10 people, growing now), and became profitable.

UI Bakery can help build both internal tools and external-facing apps (in fact, some of our clients embed UI Bakery on public websites). Our users can:
- Connect to 30 data sources (SQL and NoSQL, HTTP APIs, and 3rd-party services like Salesforce and Stripe).
- Use the Drag and Drop UI builder with 75 components to build responsive web apps based on your data.
- Create simple and sophisticated business logic with Actions that can read/write data from data sources on UI interactions and as scheduled jobs/webhooks.
- Generate code/SQL with AI code generation and Chat with UI Bakery documentation Assistant to build apps faster

Alongside features similar to competitors, UI Bakery enhances the developer experience with multi-step actions, varied workflows, and multi-page applications. Our pricing is also tailored to be competitive. A distinctive feature is our Shared Permission Groups, enabling unlimited end-user access at a fixed fee for identical permission sets, adding value and scalability.

We believe UI Bakery can be a good alternative to Airplane and other internal tool builders in the current economic environment. Most of these products are VC-funded, and investors are more likely to further invest in AI than low-code platforms. Therefore, their founders may face tough decisions: shut down their business (like internal.io did), sell it (as Airplane did), or buy out shares (a rare move like Gumroad). Previously, I have heard concerns during the demos about our lack of fundraising, but now I believe the tables have turned. Having a bootstrapped and profitable vendor seems like an advantage for a large number of businesses.

Feel free to share your feedback, and let us know what you think about UI Bakery.

Thanks!
Not downvoting personally. But the charging situation on the ground in Texas is hit or miss. If you’re along major interstates and major metropolitan areas you’re fine. You might have to wait for an hour for an open spot but you’ll get charged eventually.

But once you start going to many of the smaller cities you have to start taking longer routes to get to chargers and make weird detours and backtrack from chargers to get to your route.

Same with many tourist destinations outside the major cities.

Friends that tried to go pure EV and didn’t live their lives entirely in one city have inevitably had to buy a second gas car or truck. Because those “occasional” issues show up a lot in Texas.

My personal main concern is the emergency situations where the grid is down or there are mass evacuations. After hurricanes entire highly populated of the state can be without power for weeks. The area I live in now to be near my ailing parents regularly has power issues. I can bring in gas from outside the area to last a while but I can’t bring in a high voltage source.
> I think it's an act of wanton corruption that law enforcement is now exempt from this requirement in some situations.

Black helo's off ads-b for the purposes of intimidation are totally a thing and I agree wholeheartedly.
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https://annas-blog.org/how-to-run-a-shadow-library.html
Came here to mention Scruton. Would recommend the documentary mentioned above, plus Scruton's book: The Aesthetics of Architecture.

https://www.scruton.org/building-beautiful

I am also obsessed with traditional Japanese architecture. Lots of simple ornament, warm colors and materials, deliberate use of shadows and light.

https://eastwindinc.com/

Books:

Japanese Homes and their Surroundings

Japanese Architecture: An Exploration of Elements & Forms
At only 5k Sq feet, seems more like a basement than "Billionaire Bunker"
based on news, sounds precisely like what the Zuck is doing. he has enough money to pay them for their loyalty, and he's already challenging other billionaires to cage fights sooo...
Or not… what's the point when spent batteries give you very little range, and replacing them costs more than the entire vehicle?
What if we extended copyright terms even more to encourage Disney to make more works back then?
Presumably the guards can bring their families, and the punishment of leaving the bunker (or worse) for everyone would be enough to keep them in line for at least a little while.

Makes for a good movie plot though!
I agree. From here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38865942

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Just clarified this in the README:
* Input value ranges are as follows:

- Station name: non null UTF-8 string of min length 1 character and max length 100 characters

- Temperature value: non null double between -99.9 (inclusive) and 99.9 (inclusive), always with one fractional digit
>>

If we assume worst case entries: -99.9;<100 char station name>

That is 106 chars plus newline (1 or 2 chars). That could be 108 GB of data! And, I want to be so picky here: The README says "UTF-8" and "max length 100 characters". Eh, we could start a holy war here arguing about what does a character mean in UTF-8. Let's be generous and assume it means one (8-bit) byte (like C). I have good faith in the original author!

Some Googling tells me that the current fastest PCIe Gen5 NVMe drive is Crucial T700 w/ Sequential read (max., MB/s) @ 12,400. That is 8.7 seconds to read 108 GB of data. A few other comments mentioned that the sample file is only 12 GB, so that is 1 second, and 100% can be cached by Linux kernel for 2nd and later reads. However, if the test file is greater than 32 GB, you are definitely screwed for file system caching. You will have to pay a multi-second "I/O tax" to read the file each time. This seems to far outweigh any computation time.

Thoughts?

Last, I still think this is a great challenge. I think I just found my next interview question. This question is easy to understand and program a basic implementation. Further discussion can be fractally complex about the myriad of optimizations that could be applied.

No trolling: Can you imagine if someone tries this exercise in Python? There are a goofy amount of optimizations to deal with huge data in that language thanks to SciPy, Pandas and other friends. I am sure someone can write an insanely performant solution. (I know, I know: The original challenge says no external dependencies.)
Plot twist: the Hawaii bunker is just the decoy bunker
When you introduce threading or multiple processors, you change the laws of physics for software. You remove causality, this is not a trivial matter.
All the Windows code I see still has declspec, resource files, and something still has to create an implib.
My in-law’s hybrid Jeep just started on fire while charging in their driveway, confirming what I was starting to consider an irrational fear of EVs. I’d rather move around on exploding gas than go anywhere near these gigantic bricks of highly flammable, inextinguishable chemicals.
Lets encrypt makes sense in a world where you have pet servers and can install random software like certbot and keep them running for years.

In a world of containerized and immutable cattle servers its not a good solution. Especially not when you technically only need it for something that is internally accessible.

Currently my homelab setup is based on running certbot locally in a docker and a calender entry - maybe I get annoyed enough and switch to my own cert at some point, but those are also a big pita.
You will be down to Leadership/Charisma. So better only hire introvert guards.
Jetpens is a known dealer of stationary crack - I love them. They also put out some great videos and articles about their products, on par with some of Ars' old Mac OS reviews.
This can turn into a nice benchmark if done in multiple languages.