skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It also changes a lot for sailboats, and even more for faster sailing craft (windsurfers, etc.).

You can feel a much stronger pressure in the sail when moving towards the wind on a fast windsurfer/windfoil as you can do 15-20kts 45deg towards the wind, giving you an apparent wind that is 10-14kts stronger than the true wind.

On the same craft, going away/downwind, you will feel the apparent wind at a similar angle 10-14kts less. In fact, because of the change in drag and forces, you'll probably be going faster and feel even less wind on the downwind leg.

When you turn, this can be a big benefit for going downwind (jibing) as at some point the sail feels zero apparent wind (your motion cancelling out the true wind), feels very light in your hand, and easy to rotate to face the other way. Even knowing the physics of it, the timing and execution is still something that takes a lot of practice...especially on big race gear with a 9.0m2 sail.
This made me think, but I don't think I have the problem(s) everyone else is having.

Internet account - they'll file paperwork to get access. They can continue paying the bills. Same goes for all utility accounts and online services (most of which is not a big loss - they can sign up for their own Netflix account if need be!)

Router: That's the main failure point. But they can just replace it with one the ISP gives (for a fee, of course).

Email: I have my own setup, so no one is impacted if I die.

Self hosted stuff: I think I'm the only user. Wife was using Plex for a while but doesn't any more.

Smart home: Yeah, they'll lose this. Stuff like smart switches "just work". But smart bulbs occasionally need to be reset and resynced to the hub. All in all, it's not really a great problem if they start failing.

I did add notes to my will on what I felt were the important files on my PC they may want to preserve (photos, etc). They don't use Linux so they may need help extracting them. Easy to pay someone to do it, but I have a feeling they won't really bother.
4 here as well. I get similar results when using the API directly, though without a "system" role message.

LLMs are, naturally, non-deterministic. Reducing the temperature in your guardrail calls can reduce that a bit, but the lesson learned from the "working" and "non-working" attempts is this: the guardrails are "predictably failing in unpredictable ways" (if I may coin a phrase).
I've tried to use Caddy several times (once before the config lang changed and once after). Configuration was a nightmare, mainly because it doesn't throw on what should be bad configs and things just don't work as expected.
similar to google photos memories notifications.
Excellent news. I hope the US quickly follows suit and shuts their abhorrent labor practices down.
Which can be a bit of a challenge when trying to land, especially for aerodynamically efficient aircraft.
I hope things get better for you.

If it helps: https://www.7cups.com/
Somewhat ironic considering the mods of those subs have deliberately banned anyone who disagrees with their political slant and stickied a post at the top of one of them stating words to the effect of "this is not the place to be wrong and belligerent about it."

But I guess a bunch of people that full of themselves are full enough of themselves to think that SCOTUS is going to care about an amicus written by a bunch of anonymous Internet people. Sure, they moderate death threats, but they also moderate away anything they might have to disagree with. And then pull stunts on the order of "I'll reinstate your account if you write a 500-word essay on why you're wrong."
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

How Netflix uses Java - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37829395 - Oct 2023 (196 comments)

(Reposts are fine after a year or so, but when a story has had significant discussion within the last year or so, that's what counts as a dupe on HN. This is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.)
Sorry, could you/someone please help with these acronyms?
We don't make money on it, but we pay them to take our trash, for similar reasons
My DNS service isn't having any problems, that's your imagination. Everything works. It's just filling up my quota. If "every app" is doing this, why does Netflix account for close to half of all DNS requests on all my devices?

I explained to them that I'm not even using ISP DNS. They still told me to talk to the ISP. Still think it was the correct response? It was obvious they didn't even know what DNS was, they were just slavishly following a script that said DNS resolving issues -> ISP. They didn't even grasp what I was reporting to them.
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I had a very close call with death in 2022. As a result I have a very detailed “If I die” note shared with my wife.

- All account passwords

- All financial account info etc

- Information on where pictures are stored on our home server.

- a message for her to read if I die.

My instructions for self hosting is basically “tear it down and give it away”

It helps that almost everything is in 1Password.
>And the few that were there were watching some Korean drama on YouTube, etc.

Ugh, plus 1 to that. As much as people love hating "the new orange guy", there's a lesson behind the fact that he got rid of 80% of staff in a big company in an afternoon and pretty much nothing adverse happened.
Well it may be, if the work expectation at meta is say 40% higher than the other company (and likelihood of being laid off is 40% higher too).
You'd probably have to launch from international waters, after taking a boat/helicopter.

>Also, the issue of getting boosters to all of these destinations seems like a problem

You launch them, presumably.
I still remember the exhaust plume of one of the experimental Starships turning green. "Whoa, it is eating itself!" And verily it was.
Yes, that. Call it enhanced learning?
For instance, add Dan Carlin - Hardcore History podcasts for your history lectures.
If everyone listened to those podcasts, then all you would need is a good teacher/professor to discuss what you learned - and there is 'so much' learned from any one of his episodes.
Another differentiation for Tesla was not having the dealership model. Perhaps the things not acknowledged are more important than those that are.
> everything externally hosted will also break down eventually when bills are not paid.

Most (all?) companies have some process where you show a death certificate and then get access to the account.
Bots acting on the behalf of users should not be blocked but we have spent several decades treating bots (except for the googlebot) as bad.

Like if I want to programmatically unsubscribe from a subscription, why should I have to do it myself?
Discord are with Server Subscriptions: https://creator-support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/104230...
After few years of development, current project has around 30 microservises which are dependent on each other, communicate through Kafka and have individual mongo databases each with lots of data duplication.

We call it distributed monolith. It has the worst things of the both architectures.
> far the most impressive software technology.

I find it somewhat impressive in the sense of “wow, they put a lot of not-really-necessary software in here and it still manages to mostly work reliably.”

But the actual critical software parts the make it work as a car are not, in my book, particularly impressive. My first car’s ECU glitched once in the entire time I had it, and I think it was actually quite unusual for a car of that model to have an ECU glitch at all. My Tesla regularly has glitches that affect the ability to start the car or operate systems that really ought to work all the time.
It's nice to see that they don't use it, just to use it. For example, in describing what happened with the Ship, they didn't use it because it terminated autonomously as intended by the software.
>However, the enslaved ants opportunistically kill the queen pupae of the slave maker ants.

I'm guessing by this you mean the species of ants that tend to be enslaved, rather than the enslaved ants themselves?
China mostly banned waste import somewhere 2018.
Reading this, I can't wait for tech to take the next step in this eventual chain of thought and encroach on one of the most basic assumptions - uniform pricing.

It's an eventuality that some combination of tech, product management, sales, and marketing will conclude that customers are 1. identifiable in real-time and 2. an AI can predict the maximum they will be willing to pay for their order and 3. that the combination of these will increase shareholder value.

It will be hailed by some as a disruption to an antiquated system, and by others as the most discriminatory practice ever conceived.
From Stella Maris:

>Cantor, Gauss, Riemann, Euler. Hilbert. Poincaré. Noether. Hypatia. Klein, Minkowski, Turing, von Neumann. Hardly even a partial list. Cauchy, Lie, Dedekind, Brouwer. Boole. Peano. Church is still alive. Hamilton, Laplace, Lagrange. The ancients of course. You look at these names and the work they represent and you realize that the annals of latterday literature and philosophy by comparison are barren beyond description.

If anything, I would say the book suggests he was cynical about literature rather than science!
Ok, and then Meta hands you an offer and then when you go to sign it suddenly becomes $100k less. Do you not think there are generally agreed upon standards that people negotiate with?
There is only so much you can do though if the other people aren't prepared to learn how to use a password safe (etc).
I took that essay to be at least in part about how much of what we think of as a world governed by symbolic logic is really governed by a powerful unconscious world that is resistant to the scientific way of thinking. Not to say it is magical, but that underneath our modern brain is an older brain that works differently. I first read that essay after reading The Passenger, and wanted to connect it to what I took to be one of the themes of that book, which is that humans fundamentally aren't prepared to wield the tools of symbolic thinking, math and language. That they tend toward destruction (atomic warfare in the book) and, beyond that, a kind of insanity. That leads me to think he is fascinated by science, but not in the uncomplicated "fuck yeah science!!!" way.
> Excitement about space

Genuinely, or just because the marketing for it is that good?
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The stock market doesn’t seem to care about this report. Unless it was already rumored a while ago and priced in.

BA (Boeing’s stock ticker) has been trading sideways this week.
It is also fair to assume the decision to not do additional testing of wire-only arrests was well analyzed by the respective engineering teams.

Program management does not take decisions like this by themselves.
You're right, these companies do have the right to censor speech that they disagree with. However, if they do that, then they are responsible for any speech that they do not censor. So for instance, if someone posts a libelous statement on Reddit, and Reddit doesn't remove that statement, then victim of libel should be allowed to sue Reddit directly, instead of just suing whoever made that post.
For anyone really interested, this is the authoritative reference for NACA, etc. airfoils.

Theory of Wing Sections by Abbott and von Doenhoff (1959)

https://www.amazon.com/Theory-Wing-Sections-Aeronautical-Eng...
Apple Cancels Electric Car Project
Google ads is indeed a mess - I was surprised to see this is their cash cow, as the experience is just horrible.

Got access the other day to their latest AI models, and while everyone in the market will let you a) create an API token and b) use it, for Google you've a mess of service accounts, badly named permissions, services that change name all the time, 'just works' authorization that's basically a lock in to their own cloud. After spending a few hours with their docs, I just gave up - not worth the effort for now.

We're now also being asked to revalidate our integrations with them in the name of security (no change on our end, thousands of users using it every day). Another absolutely useless, bureaucratic, Kafkaesque process, with rules changing all the time, and not properly applied.

Google has long lost its way on software...
> Heck just looking back 4 years, the pandemic years seems to have flown by. It's like a distant memory now.

I'm confused, does it feel recent or very long ago? This seems to contradict your previous sentence. If 10 years has gone past quickly, how could the pandemic feel like a distant memory? In that case it should feel like yesterday
GitHub's Copilot Enterprise is now generally available at $39 a month
I gave up self hosting most stuff years ago because I was worried about the impact to my family if I passed unexpectedly.

I still have a lot of home automation but I’ve specifically selected equipment that “fails normal” - the smart stuff like rules and voice control and so forth might go away, but the switch on the wall will continue to work regardless.

Finally I fanatically use a password manager. The password, backup key, etc for that is written on an “in case” letter stored in a fireproof/waterproof envelope in a fireproof safe in my home, and my family is aware of it.

It’s one of those unpleasant things to have to plan for, but I don’t want my family to have everything break on them if I die.
> different pronounciation from English

Just like .gif, yeah.
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> I guess I'm braindead.

Lets see shall we.

> None of those things would necessarily make it a net-good thing

Who is talking 'net' here? The commenter simply questioned whether social media added any value to society. To deny social media has provided any value to society is as braindead as denying that fossil fuels added value to society. Now whether the negatives outweight the positives ( aka net value ) is an entirely different question.

> My grandma could interact with some of her grandkids for a short while on Facebook, for instance. Of course, she (or we) used to just pick up the phone, which is what happens now too. I've seen some cool projects on HN I'd otherwise likely never have seen.

Oh so it does provide value. So you are agreeing with me then?

> Otherwise I'm drawing a blank.

You aren't braindead. You are disingenuous. So you never asked for or search for information on reddit, hn, stackoverflow, etc. You never found solutions to problems on tiktok, youtube, etc? You don't know anyone who found a job via hn, linkedin, etc? Bought or sold stuff on facebook, etc?

If you believe that the negatives of social media outweigh the positives of social media, then fine. That's your opinion. But to cavalierly dismiss or deny that social media provides value to society is being disingenuous at best or braindead at worst. Or more likely agenda driven nonsense.

Your comment reminds me of this excellent monty python clip: What have the romans done for us?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc7HmhrgTuQ
Doesn't UberEats/DoorDash already do this sort of thing?

My friends seem to have a perception that they do.
I've been harvesting these in the wild for years. They are pretty difficult to describe in flavor (banana/mango/tropical being a good approximation), as the flavor isn't consistent even between close patches. They have about a 3 week ripe window mid-to-end August (depending on the shade) in my area when they should be harvested. I typically just push on the slender tree & if any fall; they're ripe. It's best to harvest them, halve them, scoop them into a freezer bag, and use when desired. It's the only way I've found to be able to preserve them & the delicate flavor some of them tend to have.
It's a good thing fear of racism and anti-racist signalling is strong. Sometimes it comes across is as naive and whinging though. Is the wish for South Koreans to reproduce the people in their high-functioning society racist? Do we really think the hereditary composition of said society has nothing to do with how highly-functional it is? I think we can see the reality of these things in a sober way, and still maintain our human dignity - even if we aren't South Korean.
"better" airfoils are used in experimental craft design. for example mark drela wrote and used xfoil to design wings for mit's project daedalus, a human powered long distance flight aircraft. this is the case where, like sibling commenter stated, you need that extra % to get better performance characteristics. you can still run xfoil, it's a delightfully oldschol fortran program.
Fair enough! The tribe has changed for sure and so have the antelope.
I got my Aeron from a local company that must have been downsizing. I went and picked it up from their office, and it was depressing looking at all of the empty desks (this was pre-COVID) and only a skeleton staff.

IIRC I found mine on Craigslist.
As I understand it this all comes down to the insane framework of the Universal Postal Union, which has been discussed here before [1][2], which seem to limit how much a postal service can charge another member postal service, which results in a huge tax-subsidized advantage.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20965145

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21072822
This is a smart move. Apple seems so far behind in generative AI it's making Google look innovative.
Price discrimination may boost profits if implemented correctly, but more than that it benefits the market as a whole, since more buyers can get access to services that otherwise may have been beyond their budget if the sellers were forced to pick a single price.
What did you move to?

I've seen plenty of spaghetti code with just about every other React state management (reactivity) approach. The benefit of MobX to me is I can write a more traditional "domain" layer and wire the view in on top of it keeping a good separation between business/domain logic and UI concerns.
"surge law enforcement"

In the immediate aftermath of the 2002 floods in Prague, a lot of police and even soldiers were deployed to the flooded areas to prevent looting.

I think this was a sort-of surge law enforcement. The problem was anticipated and prevented, though at some extra cost.
thank you, my memory is hazy but I do recall it was grounded in some manner by something that was actually stated.
I mean more the design of the hook itself, though, I don't know if that design is even atypical to be honest.
Yes. Back around 2020 they forgave me a $1000 bill for a side project I thought was running on a free tier.
I buy a lot online from Austria. Amazon.de is essentially an abstraction over AliExpress. The products are largely the same. The only difference is if you want to wait 30 days and maybe have to pay import duty or not.
We like the “Supabase for data engineering” nomenclature — we’re a managed service that does the heavy lifting to unify your data sources. Velvet enables you to join volumes of product events (from sources like Amplitude or Snowflake) with your application database(s) and query them directly in an accessible way. Plus, use your Velvet queries as interoperable building blocks to collaborate and build features within your product via our API.
I have a record player and bookshelf speakers in my office. I like to pick a record and then play it while working. Every 20 mins, the record has to be flipped or changed, which is a perfect time for a short break.
Musk didn't buy Twitter to make it profitable.
He bought because he felt freedom of speech was being cratered by the previous owners and moderators of the platform.
Mail delivery people also pick up mail if you put it in your mailbox
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Search for office supply places in your area. Look for something that’s “second tier”. Lacking a fancy store front, maybe in a warehouse, or an office that hasn’t been updated in decades. Even when I lived in rural parts of the country, I could find several with 2 hours drive.

Alternatively, searching Craigslist for Herman Miller or Aeron will likely turn up results from these resellers.
A Simple Amazon Images Extractor
Hi everyone,

Since Amazon has updated its TOS for Affiliate Program’s (in all country), finding compliant image is becoming more and more difficult, so only these type of pictures are allowed :

- photos from Amazon’s API (access only if you have passed the “3 orders in the last 180 days” condition)
- your gallery's pictures (example: you bought a product and take photos of it)

For those who doesn’t have abilities (manipulate an api, and so on) or doesn’t want to buy any products to take photos of it, there is a tool for it, you can get products pictures for free, so try it!
turns out I was right, so I suppose the lesson I've learned here is to trust my memory over the random nerd-snipe.
Musk claimed they were on a path to profitability (i.e. not currently profitable) and that was before he scared off more advertisers by claiming that Jews were scheming to replace white people with immigrants.
https://archive.md/5l6OM
I feel like Svelte has reached my ideal state in terms of framework.

Building a intranet with it feels unfair to our main app. It literally loads instantly, the image content on our site is larger than the entire markup and JS delivered.

Creating interactive elements is dead simple, I really wish they would finalize its API so that I stop worrying about what the next version is going to break.
My prior assumption is that tech companies with stupid funding levels are the most likely to splurge on glitzy equipment. Regular businesses not looking for an exit likely have fewer great finds.
> doesn't take much to retire at 35. All you need is about $5-$8M

You live in a rarefied world, my friend.
Device attestation doesn't solve the bot problem either as seen on Android.

It just annoys browsers and OS with a smaller marketshare to the point that I'm wondering if it's even legal with antitrust legislation.
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I've tried out HerbGrind but it often gets stuck and reports an error E_STONED.
As opposed to, say, HFT? I don't think there are many jobs that are consistently more profitable than that.
interesting. would love to see some examples / code
Show HN: Key Insights for Your Chats
Hi all!

Chatmate allows you to make chatbots on your data. We recently added a new feature which automatically generates AI key takeaways for all your chats; this is similar to the AI insights in Microsoft Clarity.

Would love for you to check it out. Any feedback would be extremely appreciated!
What do you think is incorrect about the code here which produces 1/2 if Monty randomly chooses? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39515082
I'm not familiar with this codebase, but to me it doesn't seem to be adding any context – it's simply describing what the implementation does. In particular, the comment about unnecessaryExclusions is just adding noise since it's an internal implementation detail that doesn't matter to the caller.
> The original claim here was a corporation cannot infringe first amendment rights.

Yes, because the first amendment is explicitly about rights protecting you from the government.

If a law says "the government can't do X to you", then nothing individuals or corporations do can violate that law. Obviously. I'm not sure why this is difficult to grasp.

"Precedent" would imply that this is merely the interpretation of earlier courts, but no, the first amendment is quite explicit about what the rights therein are protecting you from, and it's not private groups.
Not really, they're a nice first step though, or if you require something "good enough".