skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sort of lost with this comment:

Lower price, better range, better performance, lower cost of ownership.

1) There is no EV car anywhere in the West that is even close to the cost of a comparably spec'd gas car. "A year or two" seems wildly optimistic. Try "decade or two".

2) Better range? Than what? Other electric cars? OK, great, but range isn't "$x km", but "$x km in $y time". Right now a gas car refuels in < 10 minutes, including time to pull off the interstate and back on.

Electric takes way longer, including that 'fast charge' being only to 80% typically.

You'd need 4x the range of a gas car, to even approach "the same range as gas"

3) Better performance? How? I've seen a lot of electric cars with underpowered electric motors. Every electric car is not a hot-rod.

4) Lower cost of ownership is not even remotely validated or proven yet. It's an assumption. It doesn't matter what the logic is, we have absolutely zero proof this is valid. The "most used parts", such as brakes and tires and such, actually wear faster because most EVs are far, far heavier than gas guzzlers.

And they DO damage the roads faster due to their added weight too, which means EVs are currently doing additional environmental damage, but heaping that environmental damage onto the shoulders of society.

And lets not even get started on battery recycling costs and environmental costs.

But my point is, that's a lot of assumptions for a really, really, really short timeframe. 1-2 years?
Seeing how the organizer handed actors AI-written scripts, he obviously has a problem where he thinks AI can replace everything, including his own or others' hard work. I don't know what the right words are but someone needs to give him a wake-up call that AI is not going to be his ticket to not having to work for the rest of his life.
tracking can be done in either platform. but if there is tracking in an app you have no way to block it. in webapps you can block tracking with the browser.
I am not sure if pwa's are so bad on ressources. i haven't used pwa's or just to try it out. I don't like to have too many apps on my phone anymore, so i like webapps. i'd rather use a webapp. it doesn't use space on the phone and does not clutter. I think in that way i am old fashioned.
Before striving for market share and leadership, there's product-market fit. The ambitions of FOSS projects needn't be (and often aren't) to become a leader. Offering a good alternative to some proprietary product is already a good start. FOSS projects are predominantly started and maintained by developers and this is reflected in both the tool choices and the organization / governance model of the project, which makes it hard for other stakeholders to have a proper say in it. Those are areas to focus on and where much can be improved. And with the help of said stakeholders to encourage that trend.
> That would be a lot of companies and workers out there, dare I say the vast majority even.

Since I joined the workforce, I encountered something like two or three people doing actually nothing at work. And once they are identified, I just know that I can't expect any output from them and just do without them.

It's the opposite that I'm confronted with daily : people who are absolutely terrible at their job and who constantly try participate.
Not only I know that I have to triple check their outputs, but I also have to come up with fake tasks to give them so that they are not constantly asking for things to do or worst, doing disasters on their own initiative.
They consume a lot of time and energy from the productive members of the team, while having no positive output for the company.
It's like daycare for adults.
And given that everybody is paid at the end of the month, I have nothing but love for unproductive (in the eyes of the company) people who take care of themselves.

I'd rather have both those people doing what they enjoy outside of work instead of forcing themselves to be here because governments and corporations are saying that you are not a member of society if you are not selling your time to capitalism.
MY state is being nonsensical on this one, they don't like the results of measure 110, they say it's a failed experiment, but the drug war too is a failed experiment. So this failed, so let's return to the solution from before that was failing too, make it make sense.
For self-hosting, there's Photoprism[1] as well.

Ente's strength lies in end-to-end encryption[2] and its cloud[3] offering so you don't have to worry about reliability.

So if self-hosting is what you're after, Immich, Photoprism and Damselfly (TIL!) are perhaps better designed to serve your needs.

[1]: https://github.com/photoprism/photoprism

[2]: https://ente.io/architecture

[3]: https://ente.io/reliability
I used ActionScript 3 back in the noughties and was so excited for ES4 in the browser. Adobe open-sourcing Tamarin made it seem it was a done deal (I didn't follow the politics). I was so disappointed when it was killed. It did mean that when I tried Angular 2 the best part of a decade later I was delighted with how familiar TypeScript felt.
Buy a Mac Mini (older generations work well) for the actual transcoding, and use NAS as a, well, NAS.
This is the opposite of a specific threat vector
In my case I don't want to interact with a project through a chat. I want to search the issue I'm facing and find a solution in a web page. It's usually in Stackoverflow or in a GitHub issue. Sometimes it's in some kind of forum / FAQ / wiki. When I see the Discord UI starting, I click back and start again. If the project insists to use only Discord or something equivalent and there are no other ways to find a solution, I stop there and pick some other project. Sometimes I do some investigation in advance and if I find out that all the support is through a chat I stop right there without downloading anything.
well 4% response rate is about average. I never get any responses from them either though. I gave up awhile ago.
It's somewhat understandable considering the rising minimum wages for restaurant staff and the additional fees restaurants impose for employee benefits, which have been implemented in several major cities.
Plus time spent upgrading, every so often.
DEF Con 31. Terminally Owned. 60 Years of Escaping [video]
I enjoyed this nostalgic talk from DefCon 31 by David Leadbeater, and you might, too.
Yeah, I went with mini PCs myself. Have a Lenovo M720 Tiny and a Dell Optiplex 3080 Micro (they are virtually almost the same). You can change parts, there are ample ports available and you can pretty much run any OS you want. In the Dell you can even put 3 storage drives (1x 2.5" and 2x M2) so perfect for an SSD NAS.
It's literally just the word “ANTISPAM”.
world's edge
Kube proxy works configuring ip tables (oversimplified) and its scope is limitted to l4. It doesn't operate at L7.
signed with ssh key instead
Hey, are there any specific features in Photoprism that you liked better?
Can someone explain what "security mechanisms" an Android phone has built-in that are "destroyed" when a phone is rooted or custom ROM is installed such that banking apps, etc. deny to open up?

If I understand right, rooting means getting administrative privileges like using sudo. But can't they be turned off even after flashing custom ROM? If yes, then why do those app deny to work if the phone uses custom ROM irrespective of rooting status.

(I'm a newbie in custom ROMS concept, so my assumptions above could be massively wrong :) )
Have you tried GPT recently on maths? Since they trained it to write code for maths questions it's got a lot better
Can you recommend any good book/resource to pick up PostgreSQL?

I'm familiar with MySQL/MariaDB, but have no experience with Postgres.
Tangential, is this intended to be pronounced like "എന്റെ", judging by your HN handle? Stoked to run into a fellow mallu founder of a consumer product. A huge fan of how the product/business is being run.
Either way, red meat isn't particularly healthy.
They bought the rights to a game that I previously purchased on Steam (Rocket League), then promptly dropped Linux and Mac support and moved everything to the Epic Games Store.
> to build something complex on the frontend

But, unlike frontend devs, designers and product managers believe these complex things are needed, they almost never are and actually bring a lot of issues with them instead. I rarely see a complex component/combination (in a SaaS, let alone on some landing/public page) and think, "well, that adds real value over just a standard component". If you can point some out, please do; there are very obvious cases where something else than standard is needed, but that also depends on your definition of standard; if I can buy complex off the shelve somewhere, you are not building something complex in the frontend and so you can use simple means to hook them up without the complexity.
Update: I first had a naive approach and stored the full content of the text on each stroke. I updated the code with some small algorithm to reduce data and avoid storing the full text when a character was added or removed.
They do the same with rays, only consuming the liver.
I changed the code to add a diff. Thanks for your input! (pun intended)
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Show HN: Zip and Encrypt Files on the Client
This can be a good approach, and indeed pragmatic. I wonder how your experience will be on the longer term wrt partioning the community, as each tool introduced adds frictions and maintenance burdens. Would people flock to the lowest friction tool? Maybe you could encourage adoption of the FOSS tools of the project, e.g. by using Matrix as your main channel where the core devs post, and considering other channels purely as mirrors.
> there's little difference between a good wood frame and masonry house, today

The wood frame will do better in an earthquake. The masonry will do better in a flood or high winds. Consider the natural disaster risks of your local area when picking a home.
Anybody can be a useful idiot, why not Elon Musk?

Although I share your evaluation that he is likely in it for petty reasons.
Elon was never serious about ai safety and benefiting humanity through it. Grog is proprietary. He is just butthurt of not being at the top.
Thank you!

I've scribbled a bit about the story behind the name and the mascot here: https://ente.io/blog/ducky/
>Well remember that prior to the 70s or so, it was normal for a single earner (the man) to be able to provide for an entire family, including the non-working woman. That is no longer the case and indeed often two incomes are often barely enough.

There are several major factors here. One is more women having access to higher education, driven by increased social independence and the feminist movement in the 60s and 70s. Women want education and careers, I have two daughters so I know this. No corporation is telling them to do it.

Another is competition for middle class jobs requiring an education, there are more jobs like this now in the developed world than ever before, and more educated people people seeking them out so competition is huge. This includes international competition, hundreds of millions of people in the developing world getting added to the global middle class has had a huge effect. It's meant a precipitous collapse in poverty, but devalued middle class jobs so that wages have stagnated.

Another is housing competition. Everyone wants the nicest house they can get for their family, but supply isn't keeping up with demand. As a result all those people with dual household incomes are competing with each other, bidding up the prices of houses. As a result the older generations are now pretty well off overall, but most of their net worth is tied up in their house.

>It doesn’t seem that far fetched to me that corporations care about more people being in the workforce and as consumers, than as family units with only one earner and spender. Whatever can be monetized will be monetized.

How are they expecting to get more individual consumers if people aren't having children? That makes no sense to me. The incentive structure is all wrong, particularly for the whole swathes of industries that cater to families and children.

>And if that wasn’t the case, why weren’t companies pushing for more flexible jobs (part time, etc.) that would accommodate working women and motherhood?

Every company I have worked for has done. The company I'm with now offers flexible hours, subsidises child care and offers far more generous parental leave than required by law. My previous company also had a specific hiring programme to recruit and retrain women returning to work after having children.

People make TV shows to make money. They'll make the show that sells, not ones that push some nebulous economic agenda that wouldn't even have any effect until a whole generation later.
> I also get the issue that my overall karma goes down, while recent comment values stay the same - which could be malicious downvoting of historical comments.

Historical comments can't be downvoted, or at least the UI doesn't allow it.
Ideally your CD system would refuse to deploy commits signed with keys it doesn't recognise, but I've never seen that implemented.
I think the transactions table is misnamed. This is a table of posting legs. Which all must balance for a single transaction.
I don't think you should get hung up on +ve-ve versus cr and Dr. When double entry was formalised negative numbers were not common and then thought errant. It is only in the eighteenth century it became normal.
I enjoyed the entry. Note that you might you use different minimum fractions eg we use 0.00001p as a discrete value.
If they did, I'm sure they would mention it.
Javier Milei's 2024 Davos Talk, Translated to English by AI
> Getting up in altitude is the cheapest part of getting in orbit

Think about it this way: The 30th second of a rocket flight consumes less fuel than the first second because you are carrying 30 seconds less of fuel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsiolkovsky_rocket_equation
I think you think it's confusing only because you're not used to it. The two models are mathematically equivalent.

The rules are unambiguous. Values which indicate capital are positive. Values which indicate ownership are negative. An increase in capital corresponds to an increase in ownership of said capital, which add up to zero. Perfectly balanced, as bookkeeping should be.

I find CR DR to be more confusing than +/-, because the latter works out naturally with basic arithmetic, whereas the former requires this arbitrary DR CR crud, which are made up terms that literally mean nothing and you have to rote memorize how they apply to different accounts (and to add insult to injury, the terms often have the exact opposite meaning to consumers due to how banks present the terminology, which means the terms literally can mean either thing depending on the context).
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Venture investing is no longer a domestic and (only) relationship-based business. Modernising how venture firms work is a key competitive advantage, that here at All Iron sits at the core of how we do things. We are building our very own tool, Pareto, which is becoming the most relevant platform for the investment team’s day to day. In the last twelve months, Pareto has allowed us to gain a competitive advantage in a very competitive market by both saving time and identifying interesting companies ahead of our peers.

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If you are interested and would like to join us, please send your CV to hr_aiv@alliron.com. Please mention you saw this through Hacker News.
Ow

I guarantee you that it's NOT used in more formal registers, now that you showed me that Wikipedia article maybe I already read the term on some history book, but no, it's never used now.

Looking it up a little it appeared to have been used initially, but it was probably already obsolete by the end of the nineteenth century.

Thank you for making me learn something anyhow xD
Talk about failing upwards…
Reddit search is even worse than discord.
While that's certainly true for people trying to do very complex things in "pure" shell, when the tools you're using are possibly buggy, it's not very useful. Sometimes you have to debug and figure out where the problem is occurring, an then you can do the much simpler work of replacing one part rather than writing a bespoke program to replace all the boring functionality obfuscated away by shell and the working programs.
But only mandatory in the sense of distance to the equipment - it still won't stop some managers from wanting them all corraled into an office somewhere.
I mean, you can make up any model of the situation in a void, which is why this whole discussion doesn't matter. What if it's a normal distribution, and there's a number of people where quality of life is maximized? Since we're making shit up now, what if it's an exponential decay and there's a number of people where quality of life jumps from negative infinity to positive infinity?
I want to point out the arguments at the beginning of the post, which are generally ignored by those commenting, with the focus on total user count:

- Those most passionate about free software are treated as second-class citizens.

- Discord is bad for users with accessibility needs.

- Users with old computers are excluded, as are those with an unusual OS or device.

- Users in countries like Iran are excluded.

- Users concerned about privacy are excluded.
The cynic in me is upset at how easily exploited people are, but the optimist in me is happy at how overwhelmingly good most people are. There are scores of people out there (most of us included) who have the skills to pull something like this or the gpt4-written books thing who choose not to.
Quick note: your website front page currently says

> Our open source code has been audited by reputed cryptographers.

I think you probably mean "reputable", as "reputed" inspires a lot less confidence.
This seems to mainly be useful for spinning up quick and dirty internal tools.

But for that use-case, isn't it easier to use something visual and established like Retool (https://retool.com/) or that generates nice react code, like MUI Toolpad (https://mui.com/toolpad/)?
Contact the HN moderator team by email at hn@ycombinator.com to fix autocorrected URLs. HN's submission system plays some games with this, replacing submitted URLs with canonical ones in many cases, see: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39267031>.

I'm not sure that AI-generated content is or isn't permitted. AI comments are not AFAIU, see: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35954113>.
I'm not in devops-land, but I pretty much hear the same from devops guys: "Instead of running pip/poetry/npm/yarn/whatever-is-popular-this-month, wait for it to download gigs of dependencies, setup nginx in a specific way, start 10 services for a web shop, use exact python or node version and pray to infra gods that everything holds the water, why can't we copy a single jar/binary, start it and forget about it" ;)

I'm getting the impression that the whole industry shifted focus from solving actual problems in the most simple way to draining money and keeping things afloat as much as possible.
Because most of the "common knowledge" around Google and privacy is hyperbole. Ask any ex-Google engineer how easy it is to get past a Security & Privacy launch review or how easily they can access personal customer data in prod.

You are more than welcome to try and secure your own stuff against nation state attackers. Or you can outsource that work to a company that has some of the best security minds in the world watching over your account 24/7.
I've been looking at immich and seen similar concerns about the update regularity, but that is due to it being a relatively young project. That it has come so far quickly is a good sign, as long as the release cycle becomes slower and more regimented as it approaches a certain level of maturity.
Is it not personal preference?
For example I like to see messages in chronological order with no extra stuff like who is answering who or emotes on the side of message.

If I care about the conversation, I like to read it fully to understand whats going on, those extra bits are just distractions to me.
The vast majority of corporations don’t offer the benefits yours does, nor have they for the last fifty years. Your situation is extremely unique and not at all typical.

If this was a conspiracy, your point about not having consumers would make sense. But it’s not a conspiracy, it’s merely entities acting in their short term interests - which they are incentivized to do by the nature of the stock market.

Also remember that this is during the era of increasing globalization, when global corporations are in many ways more concerned with international markets than with local ones.

You also vastly underestimate how social attitudes have changed in the last 70 years, and how this is not at all just something that “naturally” happened.
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These timelapses are beautiful, thank you for sharing. Any particular place in Tokyo you filmed it from?

Also, I find it interesting in the second timelapse how distinct the separation between day and night is.
C++ can do this very well, no eye bleed is involved.
Urban Institute Data Visualization style guide
i cant find the link but maybe in the guardian, a similar scam regarding christmas fair / santa grotto was funny to read.
Deploying fiber in the home
Cheap telephone calls

(if you don't mind if you don't mind computers at Three Letter Agencies analyzing your communications)
They today open sourced their server which can now be selfhosted https://ente.io/blog/open-sourcing-our-server/
Fixed, thank you for pointing this out!
The rules / guidelines actually suggest against leaving comments that do not add substantially to the conversation -- so if the threshold required to make a post is increased, naturally fewer events meet threshold energy than elsewhere. Also suspect most users interact via mobile, which is less accommodating for longform typing of replies.
The fact that the process of deleting your discord account does not also delete all of the comments that you've posted on different servers or private chats should be a good enough reason to avoid using discord for any purpose.
It can be seen better in the playground: https://francoisbest.com/hashvatar

(I'm the author)
Some additional discussion on Reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/Sauna/comments/1b2skn6/a_45_year_en...
There are plenty of APIs exposed to native apps that are not exposed to the web, stuff like your OS version, loaded libraries, boot time, …