skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They have (transitively) provided the company the original $125 to use in their operations.

But that value already existed as an intrinsic property of the company (eg. NAV). What the market did was to unlock these money for the company to use - Ie. they provided liquidity.

Example: I have a company that is worth $1000, but I need to spend $200 in R&D. I sell 20% of the company in the market for 200$. No value way produced, but the market transformed my 200$ from company to money - ie. liquidity.

Value that only happens when people trade, and not when people hold. So back to my initial point: Long term investors does not provide value.
It is because what you view as normal is backwards.

Free speech is the far from equilibrium state. The normal state is that when you talk shit about the rulers, the rulers put you in a cage.

We are just returning to equilibrium.

The marketplace of ideas is obviously a nonsense concept if you are assuming the best ideas have the most value. That is so obviously not true.
DNS Paranoia: Subversive DNS Testing
On a related note, the OP says:

> or attempt to manually extend the lifetime of a finalizable object, and then pray the compiler and GC don’t learn new tricks to invalidate your trick.

This is also silly. There is no reason whatsoever that a GC can’t offer an actual API to keep an object alive.
I actually appreciate the way math is structured at the university level in the states. I think introductory math (calculus) should focus on use rather than addressing the "why", as long as it's clear that there is a "why" that can be learned later. In your example, I would hope there would be more than just a formula (i.e. some hint at justification).

There are several reasons for this. 1) Misplaced rigor, especially at the wrong level, can cause students to lose interest, 2) Addressing "why" concerns does not necessarily bring any intuition on use, 3) people can develop intuition at a higher level (I'm sure you have experience using programming functions which you don't necessarily understand), 4) the economics of education (there is only so much time you can be in the classroom).
I posted a comparison to Looker in a different thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39523454
React Is the New IBM (2023)
If you can't see this is a false flag from Israel and/or the US, I have a bridge to sell to you.
> Programmers waste enormous amounts of time thinking about, or worrying about, the speed of noncritical parts of their programs

Do they really? I really don't encounter that. I find premature abstraction more common.

But let's assume people are constantly writing for loops instead of using .map... Is that really a bigger problem for software than vague requirements which change before they were even properly understood in the first place?

I find this quote really overused and just... Not relevant to my experience as a full stack web developer.
It’s inappropriate to link once dissatisfaction with one’s income.

There are multiple reasons why US doctors are unhappy about their profession. I’m not sure where you get being oppressed as being the titular complaint.

I was an engineer before going to medical school and have an outside perspective as well.

I have complaints with medicine as to how it has changed over the last 10 years and not for the best. I have the right to complain to make things better for my patients and my work-life balance. That doesn’t mean that I am oppressed.
> Wouldn’t it be almost impossible to assign blame?

That didn't stop governments trying with nordstream.
Show HN: Apitally – REST API monitoring made easy
Hey Hackers!

I’d like to introduce you to Apitally, a simple API monitoring tool I’ve been solo-building over the past 9 months.

It all began with scratching my own itch as I’m technically responsible for maintaining a few API products at work. But it seems that other people find it useful too, enough even to pay money for it! (yay)

Apitally provides insights into API traffic, errors, response times and payload sizes, for the whole API and individual endpoints. It also monitors API uptime & availability, alerting users when their API is down.

The big monitoring platforms (think Datadog etc.) can be a bit overwhelming & expensive, particularly for simpler use cases. So Apitally’s key differentiators are simplicity & affordability, with the goal to make it as easy as possible for users to start monitoring their APIs.

Apitally works by integrating directly with web frameworks through middleware, which captures request & response metadata (never anything sensitive!) and asynchronously ships it to Apitally’s servers in 1 minute intervals.

The Python and Node.js client libraries currently support FastAPI, Flask, Django, Starlette, Express, Fastify, Nest.js and Koa.

On the server side Apitally leverages NATS JetStream as a message queue, ClickHouse for OLAP, is built in Python using FastAPI and runs on a Kubernetes cluster on DigitalOcean.

I’m looking forward to the direct & honest feedback this community is known for! :-)
Microsoft announces AI Access Principles
Lossy compression. Educators must squeeze knowledge humanity collectively developed over ~6000 years of written history into ~15-30 years of formal education. So lots of details end skipped over. Mortality sucks.
That doesn't change anything.

Obviously if the host reveals the car then you've lost, but we're not talking about such a case. Regardless of whether that is happening some of the time, there is always a 2/3 chance your initial pick was wrong and you'd be better off switching.
> the company launched a new framework it’s calling “AI Access Principles” — an eleven-point plan that Microsoft said will “govern how we will operate our AI datacenter infrastructure and other important AI assets around the world.”
You may be right about the work hours. I possibly mis-remembered an article from several years ago when they compared income and work hours.
Is it, though? We've been getting a lot of pushback for months, even for things that weren't really completely our fault (and were made worse by the horrible lag of cost explorer), or even for things that were aws bugs. Maybe now it's official policy, but definitely it's been hard to get refunds for a while now. They were throwing tens of thousands of dollars of credits at us to just play with new services a year and a half ago.
Looks like a safe (and fun) way to introduce fictitious entries [1] while hinting the careful map reader that there's something fishy on the map. Wrong map data on maps can be dangerous after all, especially in a landscape like the alps.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictitious_entry#Maps
Perhaps you can tell us the magical way that PFAS is currently removed
in commercial water treatment?
From the article, "they" obviously implies the Houthis
We use it for several parts of our network forwarding path (our private networking features are built in eBPF), for a variety of monitoring purposes, and (principally with bpftrace) as a debugging tool.
For comparison, Macbook Air starts at 13" $1100 or 15" $1300. iPad Pro is $800 or $1100 depending on screen size. Both have M2 chips, like the Vision Pro.

Functionality wise Vision Pro is a lot closer to an iPad than Mac, but it's also a lot 'higher tech' than either of them.

There's no way even a cheaper variant is priced under iPad.
Seeking Advice: Managing User Input with Non-QWERTY Keyboard Layouts
I am Developing a custom C++ engine with GLFW, I'm facing an issue with user input on non-QWERTY keyboard layouts. For instance, on AZERTY French layout, Z is mapped to W, and Q is mapped to A. Here's a snippet for clarity:

void updateKeyState(GLFWwindow* window, int key, int scancode, int action, int mods) {
if (key == GLFW_KEY_Q) {
print("A is pressed");
}
}
Any suggestions or solutions would be appreciated!
Well, it's still debatable for the history books if social media is a net good.

Before the internet, these issues would be handled by local news journalism, and still sometimes do!
At CMU, defense dollars total billions
Fastly Polyfill
After polyfill.io was transferred to a somewhat unknown company, Fastly have set up a drop-in replacement. You just need to update your polyfill.io call to polyfill-fastly.io.

Of course, now might also be the time to reevaluate loading random third-party JS code into your application.
Wear OS "Hybrid" design has two OSes, two CPUs, "100 hour" battery life
Sounds like location (and with it tomato source/variety) is what's changed, not time (and tomatoes over it).

I always regret it if I get them out of season; in season they're still worth paying extra for, cheap bottom of the barrel supermarket tomatoes are just mildly flavoured water capsules. That's in the UK; for some reason even the cheapest in France has always seemed to beat anything we can get here.
Yes, but sometimes the two parts are also correlated so it's better if they are done at the same time.
> Because nothing beats immediate-mode-style API in terms of code clarity.

This is not React these days at all. Maybe when it was just an actually useful library. Not a hope now.

> It became the most popular in the landscape where all kinds of other frameworks existed

It became popular because it was simple, when it was simple. Then they did what all JS developers do. Find a problem for a solution.
>A bill of materials like this doesn't take into account manufacturing, shipping, or marketing, nor does it factor in the cost of research and development.

it also (likely) doesn't take into account the massive discounts you get at scale and Apple's famously optimized supply chain. I wouldn't be surprised if the real BOM is sub 1K.
Since I am on the free tier of both I guess I have only used GPT 3.5
and whatever the free offering of Gemini is.

I find Gemini to be significantly slower.
I am sure Google can fix that on premium tiers.

I also found Gemini to be less able.
It has fewer tasks / fields it will answer about.
Gemini is more honest though.

ChatGPT seems to nearly in all cases say "Sure I can do that"
and then return some non-coherent answer.
Huh? $1542 of BOM for a relatively low-volume, first-gen product is actually quite low.

With volume, scale, and manufacturing improvements, there is certainly room to keep the same quality and parts and get it under $500 BOM. I'm sure. But you'll need to wait a couple years.

My first 4K monitor costed me $2k maybe a decade ago. Today, I can get a better one for $350.
There are people that legitimately and fully consider babies to be a parasite, maybe you arent one of them. I understand the biological parallels you draw, I understand the need for comedy in dealing with stress; however, I would advise anyone against making jokes that dehumanize people over immutable qualities, I caution you that this behavior is morally corrosive. It may seem acceptable based on current standards, but so would have dehumanizing comedy about blacks in the era of slavery or jews in the holocaust; I wouldnt want to have regrets about how I would have acted in those times.
Also keep in mind pirated software doesn't cost the author anything if the user wasn't going to buy it anyway. If a company is willing to risk all that effort and liability to crack and maintaining the patches across changes to avoid paying for your software, they were not likely to pay for it in the first place. Nothing lost.
Data point = 1 but my kids eat/drink 2-3x less than I do. They weigh 5-7x less.
Yes, but very few of the companies that was used to promote are still here or relevant. You can be right about the global trend but wrong about individual companies.

For example, in 1999 I bought food & other goods by delivery to my office and worked with companies selling online, using my handheld computer with a fast wireless connection. Clearly those were ultimately successful ideas, but that didn’t mean that investors in Kozmo, Pets.com, Ricochet, or Handspring got rich.
I actually think this is the opposite of noble savage imagery, and that's actually what you're doing. They're not saying things were better in the past when technology was more primative, you're the one saying that the past was better and that getting to where we are now how we have is "screwing up" something (presumably a good thing that existed in the past that is no longer present).
The thing is, for the privacy aspect, I'd need the frosted glass look to only work from my side of the display. Even a blurred/frosted display leaks way too much information if parts of it is high intensity colour up close.

Maybe if it had dual screens and cameras so it could be made to look as if it is translucent from both sides but the 'outside' is faked however you want it to be.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

(Latin: who watches the watchers?)
Apple and Tesla Veterans in Tenstorrent Aim to Help Japan Design AI Chips
It can help your user's answer questions about the software, debug issues involving the software, have transparency into security, etc.
I suppose a proxy war between the westand Iran via Yemen is inevitable for 2025 now. Why they would piss of China and India as well I have no idea. US will see more internet traffic now which is nice for the US. Maybe they want to ambush the slow repair vessels that will have to come that way? It can take them a couple of months at times to arrive. There isn't a whole lot of them, they cost in the 100's of millions to construct as well.
Regarding #2: I would rather have my hobbyist website go down rather than facing the daunting task to raise a query on HN and hope the bill goes away.
It is weird to provide Mexico as an example of peaceful blending.

After most conquests, which have established a new ruling class in some territory, there has been a mixing between the former invaders and the previous native population.

In many cases, the former invaders were less numerous than the natives, so after a few generations the mixed population has begun to resemble more the previous natives than the new incomers.

Nevertheless, I do not consider that these are examples of peaceful blending. In all cases the original war has inflicted serious losses on the natives and the reason why in more recent times no more of them were killed than necessary was because they were needed as a work force.

Before the organized states, which were able to tax the work of everybody, and before the use of slavery, there were no reasons to keep alive any vanquished tribe, which would compete for the food resources of the territory.

The losers would have been forced to run away to other territories, to stay alive. Except perhaps for women and children, they would have never been adopted by the victorious tribe, to blend in it.
> Setting up production-grade DBs in Terraform is easy?

Oh, yes, it is. Setting up the resources actually the easiest part, most of the problems originate from the phenomenon that as the developers starts to use more and more "serverless" things, they know less about how the underlying technology works, how to use indexes, structure the database, how replication or transaction works. Production readiness is not just how a resource is configured. It is about how the application uses a resource efficiently.

> This is nit-picky. "Serverless" refers to the "dev", not the "ops", and has done for a while.

There is no "dev" and "ops" serverless. Your application will run on one or multiple CPUs, will use the memory, the disk, the network. When you write the application all of these matter, memory management, network communication, CPU caches, parallel execution, concurrency, disk access. It does not matter if you call it serverless, cloud, bare metal, etc. The basics are the same.
Women on Rails International
> never had diarrhea?

I've heard a lot around here.
> And honestly, I never lost data in my whole life as a private user.

I have never been in an automobile accident in my whole life.

I still use my seatbelt.
Why not release it as AGPL?
The way these people talk about the past makes it sound like people in the past were somehow perfectly stoic in the face of discomfort or disease, but it's extremely easy to find historical documents showing that this isn't the case. I think the reason people fall into this "noble savage" trap is because they (rightfully) can't imagine living without modern technologies like refridgerators and flushing toilets, and therefore (wrongfully) conclude that the people in the past were simply more rugged to be able to live without it.

Also, as you say, it's an easy way to explain away our problems, to say that people in the past were better and if they were here today then they wouldn't be complaining like we are.
That can have an effect, ha!
But why must medical residency require 60 to 80 hours per week of work? AFAICT, it's because residencies are competitive, because there aren't enough of them, because nobody wants to pay for them. (But you can't make them unpaid, because, by circular logic, they require 60 to 80 hours per week.)

As an outsider, the whole system seems completely bizarre to me.

> [AMA president] Dr. Richard Corlin has called for re-evaluation of the training process, declaring "We need to take a look again at the issue of why the resident is there."
I think it’s more that the React team’s way of articulating their idea of what a “side effect” is changed than that their idea of what useEffect is for changed. The examples of “side effects” in the old docs are all cases of “external synchronization”. People found the old terminology misleading because they came with their own preconceptions of what a side effect is, so they changed their pedagogical approach. The technical details haven’t really changed, just the presentation.
This comment really drives the point home
That was a pretty good, if dense, presentation. I use packs almost daily but I did learn a few things.

Packs are great, but more work is still needed to make them first class features of the language.
> as that would be a thing that Putin had done after a millennium of no cultural and religious active contacts between Moscow and the Greek lands.

Arguably the cultural and religious contact begun severing on the 16th of July of 1918[1] when the only Russian leaders with any marginal claim to a connection to the Byzantine Empire or the "Greek lands" were murdered. Not that their marginal claim meant anything anyway. During the following decades the Soviet regime continued the severance in their pursuit of ideological supremacy and ethnic cleansing. See for example the Greek Operation[2] and the Deportation of the Soviet Greeks[3].

Any claim *(by the Russian state apparatus) to a Byzantine or Greek connection is only made to legitimize Russian imperialist ambitions. And to fan anti-American and pro-Russian sentiments in Greece.

[1]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_the_Romanov_family
[2]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_Operation
[3]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportation_of_the_Soviet_Gree...

edit: Added a link to the murder of the Romanovs.

edit2(*): Clarified that this is not an accusation against the parent comment.
This should provoke swift, hard, and overwhelming reactions from G7 countries. The undersea cables have to be inviolate or we'll see this happen all the time, with major negative impacts to internet stability and effective international commerce.
In my view: none.

Realistically, even if it started to happen, the giants would simply swallow it whole, as they've done very effectively in recent times.

Long gone are the times where a small Google could disrupt a field and debunk everything around it.

OpenAI is half owned by Microsoft already. Without those resources they wouldn't be able to realistically compete against Google. So saying they are a "small startup" for me doesn't compute.

In my view this is a bit of wishful thinking. Today we have so many giants with monopolies that realistically competing in their space can only be done with huge amounts of investment. The one resource that has been dried up recently.
But if they have the source code, they could just switch off the license key check, right?

It seems to me he could just keep the license GPL then, wouldn't change a thing. The (small) businesses don't care about the license, but walk the path of least resistance.
You have the right to complain and I have the right to point out that your industry, along with the housing and education industries, has stolen the entire productivity gains of a generation of Americans. I’m not concerned with your work life balance.
Yeah, last time it happened it was a weird combination of things... Historically, de facto back ups are clustered across computers, sticks and drives. Nothing intentional, only general messiness. I helps I hardly ever delete data, my problem is finding it again.

If you have to do a clean install of the OS so, well, you should check first which data is actually saved as a file and which is only saved in a database of software being deinstalled...
Deliberate underfunding of public schools by this whole (school funding determined by zip code and taxes of the area) so that prisons (and Amazon warehouses etc) can be filled up with poor people so that large corporations can profit off of free labor and providing “services” (10$ snack cakes and ramen noodles). There are huge profits and incentives for large corporations and the politicians who own the stock , private prisons etc to keep a constant supply of bodies going through the system thus we will continue to see decline in public education and services. The entire system is for profit.
I think it's important to understand that this was his opinion in 2021. Things have changed since, and hopefully, all these solutions are available now.
Show HN: Reducto – A vision based document ingestion API for LLMs
Hey HN, I'm Raunak from Reducto (https://reducto.ai), a high-quality document ingestion API tailored for language models. We developed Reducto to address our own need - no existing parsing solutions provided the accuracy and speed necessary for our user-facing AI applications. We designed a system that comprehends documents visually (like a human), ignoring document metadata and processing each page as an image to ensure the highest possible accuracy (with benchmarks to prove it).

Please give our demo a try with some of your own PDFs or reach out at founders@reducto.ai if you’d like to start using Reducto in production.
I've heard great things about ClojureScript. My only problem is I don't want to have to touch the JVM.
Do you have link?
I am curious what this design is.

If I just randomly search, it is just hundreds of designs, everyone has a 'theory' on some design that is safe and effective. Hard to filter out the 'crack-pot' from the actual physicists.

Do you have one in-particular.

(edit, also. I ask because Chernobyl was also deemed impossible by 'physics'. Technically it did not melt down first, the reactor didn't 'fail', something else fails, then melt down happens. The risk was never a nuclear explosion, it was release of nuclear material and radiation)
All I know is that we're rapidly changing things that have been much more stable for thousands and thousands of years. Getting rid of aggressivity is good but if it takes your fertility/strength/bone density/dementia resistance/&c. with it... but then again is humanity a good thing ?
They don't but it's the current situation nonetheless because medical students are at the mercy of their resident doctors.

If you don't do it, they will sack you, fail you or you won't find a job there.
Other than slow cooking, unless you want to smell sulphur farts for six hours.
lol that's definitely not what he's doing, way to miss the point

unless you're actually arguing for toxic chemicals in the water that didn't exist more than 60 years ago
Now you can know for sure that they're not paying attention to you.
Crooked House: Owners of wonky pub ordered to rebuild
Keep the standards, and throw the rest? Seems like a slam dunk, outside of the theatre lobby.