skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Each engineer gets paid something around 200k-500k all in depending on seniority. I doubt just 1 team worked on this product given the bureaucracy of big tech companies like google. So why shell out millions of dollars in salary per year when the product isn’t making money?
When your programmatic build steps are isolated in plugins, then you can treat them like independent projects and apply your standard development practices like code review and unit tests to those plugins. Whereas when you stuff programmatic build steps into scripts that are bundled into existing projects, it's harder to make sure that your normal processes for assuring code quality get applied to those pieces of accessory code.
3D + 2D: Testing out my cross-platform WASM graphics engine
I used to work at Adobe on the infrastructure powering big applications like Photoshop and Acrobat. One of our worst headaches was making these really powerful codebases work on desktop, web, mobile, and the cloud without having to completely rewrite them. For example, to get Lightroom and Photoshop working on the web we took a winding path through JavaScript, Google’s PNaCl, asm.js, and finally WebAssembly, all while having to rethink our GPU architecture around these devices. We even had to get single-threaded builds working and rebuild the UI around Web Components. Today the web builds work great, but it was a decade-long journey to get there!

The graphics stack continues to be one of the biggest bottlenecks in portability. One day I realized that WebAssembly (Wasm) actually held the solution to the madness. It’s runnable anywhere, embeddable into anything, and performant enough for real-time graphics. So I quit my job and dove into the adventure of creating a portable, embeddable WASM-based graphics framework from the ground up: high-level enough for app developers to easily make whatever graphics they want, and low-level enough to take full advantage of the GPU and everything else needed for a high-performance application.

I call it Renderlet to emphasize the embeddable aspect — you can make self-contained graphics modules that do just what you want, connect them together, and make them run on anything or in anything with trivial interop.

If you think of how Unity made it easy for devs to build cross-platform games, the idea is to do the same thing for all visual applications.

Somewhere along the way I got into YC as a solo founder (!) but mostly I’ve been heads-down building this thing for the last 6 months. It’s not quite ready for an open alpha release, but it’s close—close enough that I’m ready to write about it, show it off, and start getting feedback. This is the thing I dreamed of as an application developer, and I want to know what you think!

When Rive open-sourced their 2D vector engine and made a splash on HN a couple weeks ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39766893), I was intrigued. Rive’s renderer is built as a higher-level 2D API similar to SVG, whereas the Wander renderer (the open-source runtime part of Renderlet) exposes a lower-level 3D API over the GPU. Could Renderlet use its GPU backend to run the Rive Renderer library, enabling any 3D app to have a 2D vector backend? Yes it can - I implemented it!

You can see it working here: https://vimeo.com/929416955 and there’s a deep technical dive here: https://github.com/renderlet/wander/wiki/Using-renderlet-wit.... The code for my runtime Wasm Renderer (a.k.a. Wander) is here: https://github.com/renderlet/wander.

I’ll come back and do a proper Show HN or Launch HN when the compiler is ready for anyone to use and I have the integration working on all platforms, but I hope this is interesting enough to take a look at now. I want to hear what you think of this!
> avoid the same fate as other EV startups, like recently bankrupt Arrival.

Talking about other EV startups, I wonder how much longer Aptera can remain in a state somewhere in between not having gone bankrupt and not having started production yet. They do seem to be forever inching closer toward the latter [1].

[1] https://electrek.co/2024/04/01/aptera-showcase-solar-ev-tech...
This is exactly why it's so famous; everyone knows of it but is scared to visit (or admit they visit) so it's a perfect "source of anything".

(This post originated on 4chan)
Maintainers will need LLM sockpuppets of their own to automatically answer these automatic emails.
Maybe within your particular bubble. The vast majority of people I know have positive associations with the Apple brand.
> > Say whatever you like about the man, but whatever he did actually drove innovation like nobody else.

Sure, it was him alone doing all that, not the 10,000 employees, within a 40M people ecosystem such as California which is the tip of the spear of a yet bigger ecosystem such as the United States which in turn is the tip of the spear of the entire 4 million history of mankind progress up to now.

The cult and the propaganda causes a whole lot of illusion/delusion. Then you actually get to meet these people and you are as disappointed as the groupies who were asked to self cut their veins by Led Zeppelin for their satanic rituals.
I think in ~5 years, after all of the fine details shake out and 3rd party app stores are common across the globe, it will be very exciting to be an indie iOS developer. Open source or demo or hobby apps really don't exist on iOS because the barrier to usage is too high (dev must upload to App Store, or user must compile from source / get an .IPA & sign w/ an Apple Developer Certificate, or convoluted sideloading techniques must be used).

Native terminals & package managers & IDEs... the iPad could turn into an amazing development machine, despite Apple's best efforts to the contrary.
> I see you haven't checked out the research that's been done this past decade:

The first reference to that study?

"Ivermectin for COVID-19: Addressing Potential Bias and Medical Fraud"

> https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8774052/

"The results suggest that the significant effect of ivermectin on survival was dependent on largely poor-quality studies. ... This highlights the need for rigorous quality assessments, for authors to share patient-level data, and for efforts to avoid publication bias for registered studies. These steps are vital to facilitate accurate conclusions on clinical treatments."

More specifically, to your point, and the research you cite, what actually appears to be happening:

> [patients] who were infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (five with AIDS-defining conditions) and harbored Strongyloides stercoralis received ivermectin on a compassionate basis for persistent intestinal infection.

Strongyloides. A _parasite_.

I hate the "I did my research" trope and everything surrounding it.
I suppose you believe all these billionaires are self-made and that having a handout of hundreds of thousands of dollars, and a network of very rich people you know to make investments, made no difference. 'Anyone can succeed through hard work'.

The really rich CEOs collect imaginary karma points on X ...
I don’t think anything happened to us, so much as your memory is flawed. We’ve never evolved beyond base self-interest, we’ve just become much more productive at extracting value from every aspect of life.
Works for the employees, because maintaining a service in as-is state doesn't bring promotion opportunities, so who would want to be part of that?

Not sure if anyone at Google really cares about Google in general. And who could blame them?
Who in crypto is consistently profitable?
More development and users for Pyodide is great news. Especially that better serverless story for Python server frameworks.

I wonder if Jupyter can work in this stack? It is essentially JavaScript, but built for browser environment. Just the Python kernel might be worker compatible. It essentially has to do code evaluation which might a limitation as well. Should it work you could offload compute from browser or other HTTP clients to waster resources of worker environment. Direct access to databases would be better as well.
A big problem is that people allow this sort of thing as part of the culture. I've followed the Fedora and PHP development mailing lists a few different times over the years ans this sort of thing was tolerated across the board. It doesn't matter if you crowdsource the moderation if nobody thinks the behavior is bad in the first place.

Trying to do something about it was called censorship.
Trucks are great for moving furniture, bringing garden material, wood, and mulch from the store.

I'm a Model Y owner and I still would not get a Cybertruck. If its too big for the Y I'll rent a Uhaul if its worth it, or borrow my friend's truck.

It would be a nice upgrade for my occasional camping trip to have the outlets and truck bed space for all the gear. so far the Model Y fits everything. give me a minivan-like vehicle though...
Population tipping point could arrive by 2030
Question for those in the observability space: do moment-in-time observations preserve all of the dimensions of the event, and if so, how do most observability platforms compress the high volume of (ostensibly) low-rank data?
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I hate that google shuts down things too and I wonder what things I should avoid

at the same time, I know that nearly every company, google no exception, has less person power than they need. So at some point a triage happens because they can't keep people on every project. And, yes, they are laying people off which makes it worse. even if they didn't lay people off this issue would still exist.

maybe you could argue the problem is they shouldn't launch the service in the first place. I don't know if that would be better or not
i agree, there was so much backlash, kinda wowed me honestly
With AI assistance to the pop-rap song: "Feuerball – IT's ME, MA-O-AM!"
Blog post with song lyrics: https://www.stealthchip.de/index.php?post=2024-04-02
We think there's value in an opinionated boilerplate!

But beyond just boilerplate, once you deploy your tools on our platform, we embed them in our parent web app which has the things you wouldn't want to bother writing (authentication, RBAC etc).

Also, we have AI that allows you to prompt for the tool you want when developing locally. It's actually live today, and we also show it in one of the videos.

The bigger goal is to have AI scaffold out your tool with our opinionated stack (the feedback loop for that is much quicker than asking GPT to create an entire web app).
Just remember, Google Reader was killed so Google Plus could live.

Then Google Plus died.
My understanding is that the codebase was partially shared with Google+, which was a corporate priority. But having to check changes against both reduced velocity so the easiest thing was to just kill Google Reader which didn't have much love in Google' C-suite.
Tesla Minivan incoming to save the day.

Make a safety and family oriented cool van and I'll buy one
> Google cited a statistic from Edison Research that said about 23 percent of podcast listeners in the US say YouTube is their primary podcast platform

I assume this means YouTube Music, not plain YouTube? The article (and Google itself) is confusing in this regard. It mentions YouTube, YouTube Music, and also something called YouTube Shorts. Am I supposed to know what all these things are and how they differ from each other?

> YouTube Music is a subscription app, and nobody’s going to pay $10 a month for a podcast app

Is it? I just logged onto https://music.youtube.com/ and started listening to a podcast for free. But apparently there's also a YouTube Music Premium service that costs $11/month.

It's really difficult to keep all these products straight, but this article isn't helping any.
the ceo invested $230M+ of his own money into the company. if the guy wants a market-rate jet benefit, give the man the jet.
"Did they really abandon it? First Google Music was rolled under the YT umbrella,"

Not really, Google Music and Youtube Music were very distinct products at least at the consumption end.
I would bet on the US federal government printing money to pay debts rather than default.
Belts introduce elasticity that can be very difficult to deal with.
CityGaussian: Real-time high-quality large-scale scene rendering with Gaussians
> It's a shell company used to dodge taxes, presumably?

It's a holding company for the CEO's assets. Virtually everyone worth $10 million+ has one.

When and why did people become so conspiratorial and see boogeymen in everything they don't grasp?
Haha, we included it just because it's part of the standard library. Total coincidence in terms of timing but it's nice that using Wasm gives us isolation guarantees :-)
The conventional wisdom is that this cycle happens not because it works for Google as an entity but it happens as a byproduct of how promotions and compensation work within Google (heavily based on new product launches).

I have no idea if this is actually true and/or if it was ever true based on personal experience (never worked at Google) but I've heard it repeatedly including from some seemingly reliable sources.
For comparison GM's total EV sales for Q1 2024 were 16,425, down 15% from 19,305 in Q4 2023.

GM's total sales were down 1.5%
Agreed with @toddmorey -- I think you could do a better job of highlighting the heavy-lifting that Creo does on your landing page
Relevant.Ticket[1]

[1] - https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/10341
Perhaps we should ask a few AI's about this judge's propensity to hallucinate?
It depends. For a lot of applications, the integration is 99% of the app. Trying to unit test that just ends up testing whether you believe the other end of the integration behaves the way you believe it behaves. It's like having a test that verifies the hash of the executable binary. It tells you that something has changed, but not whether or not that change is desirable.
Edit: The Valley has turned, he’s done.
Still, why would you use a private jet if your company is not only not profitable, but also doesn't generate meaningful revenue? You're not spending money you've earned, you're spending borrowed money.
Correct. Same as New Relic.

I'd love an open source alternative. But there just isn't one for APM (which is our main use case). Nothing comes close. Every time I see "OpenTelemetry integration" I just close the page. Hours and hours of manual setup, code pushes, etc while New Relic installs once and works.

I assume it's the same for people who use DataDog begrudgingly.
Yeah, most people use "gamble" to refer to something where the EV (expected value) is below what they would consider "wise". This varies wildly from person to person.

Most people would say buying a Powerball ticket today is gambling; but if you had a 50/50 chance to win $1million for a dollar, they'd say it's a sure thing; but both are gambling.
Seven years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13369153
> valuable, not-yet well understood, and public exploits

Except in the scenario that is this exact case: Supply chain attacks that are developed with the exploit in mind.
High-Performance Reconfigurable Pipeline Implementation for FPGA-Based SmartNIC
Agreed it's mainly a social engineering problem, BUT also can be viewed as a technical problem, if a sufficiently advanced fuzzer could catch issues like this.

It could also be called an industry problem, where we rely on other's code without running proper checks. This seems to be an emerging realization, with services like socket.dev starting to emerge.
A bit boring?

Seems like straight up embezzlement.
Exactly what our startup is now. CEO is super good at sales, but that also means were running around executing 10 different ideas with no cohesion whatsoever.
> Its a dream of mine to get a PhD in computer science... I...have my undergrad in CS and 7-8 years of software engineering experience.

You've put a PhD amount of work into industry. Unless there's a specialization you have a passion for, what are you hoping to get out of it? Or is it that you just liked school?
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Oh no I may have phrased that poorly. I used "crazy pills" there in reference to the GP comment, definitely not as a reference to psych medications.

I don't have the stats handy though I do remember psych meds being a high proportion of those on prescription drugs.

The even more interesting/concerning (IMO) related stat is that the US military recently released a report that 77% (going off memory here, if that's not exact it was very close) of 18-24 year olds wouldn't be deemed fit for service and a majority of that was related to psych med prescriptions. Nothing wrong at all with taking those meds when they are needed, just an insight into how many younger people couldn't enlist due only to that rule.
The issue is not cost, the issue is regulatory capture has enabled hospitals to forbid your business from acquiring “competing” machines through requiring Certificates of Need. Ex. https://abc11.com/mri-lawsuit-costs-health-care-dr-gajendra-...
Redis. Simple flat directory structure and a Makefile. If you need more, treat it as a sign from God you're doing something wrong.
I've been at more than a few startups (one that could be called some form of high+ growth, although it was ultimately unsuccessful), and this tracks. People do what they know; CTOs know how to build, CEOs (usually/often) know how to "business develop", marketers market, PMs design... People do what they know.
I found grab-site to be extremely effective with even complex, content-heavy websites. Dunno about YouTube though, I’m afraid of what would happen if I tried running such an archival routine. My server would probably catch fire.
I'd say plain YouTube, a lot of podcasts put them up as videos,not to mention the ones that also have a video component as well.
I am kinda struggling to understand the proposed solution. So, okay, I have an EXE, and I have a PDB file for it, and that PDB file states that the source code lived at the Q:\Users\raymond.chen\Documents\work\projects\ContosoFoobar\src\main.c. Instead of having some sort of debugger setting to allow me to remap the path to something existing on my machine (my disks go up only to H:, for once), the proposed solution is to monkey-patch the PDB file itself. But, like, why? It doesn't solve the main problem that you still need to somehow find the sources, manually.

Also: if you really, really want to never go looking for the sources ― just store them in the finished executable/debug info file. Seriously. For some reason, they're (when gzip'ed) somehow smaller than the resulting executable with debug info.
I downloaded the flutter sdk abd built a sample app. it had the similar issues to the web app.
How is it both free and $1/hr?
Show HN: Suffering from Infobesity? – Social Media and News Snippets
Shortsnip creates one sentence snippets from news and social media. Also recaps of topically related snippets. Helps me spend less time online without app limiting or disconnecting completely.

I built this because I wanted the meeting notes of what's happening online - right to the point so I can get off my device. Obviously no one can keep up with billions of updates everyday. News and social media becoming more fragmented only exacerbates this issue.

Please tell me what you like, don't like, find confusing, or anything else at all. Would love your feedback!
Depends, cause a good salesman can be selling 10 different crap easily.
I think LLMs have considerably more probability to make the world worse overall than cryptography does (the sheer level of information bullshit they can develop for pennies is going to transform our society and I doubt it is going to be for the better). Still I don't see the point of banning open weight models and LLMs that don't have guardrails. And I'm not sure you can realistically construct laws that would do it accurately. The genie is out of the bottle, pandora's box is opened, etc, etc. And locking down models with guardrails is only something that corporations have to do in order to avoid having a public racist chatbot problem and the associated headlines.
Is Tech News just Web3 and crypto now?
I’ve subscribed to HackerNoon and tried to post some blogs there since it’s a site with a lot of traffic, but all of the highlighted posts seems to focus on crypto and web3 (and AI, of course). Do you think this is a bigger trend in tech news or just HackerNoon? Is it just the state of our economy now? I want something new to talk about. How about some more high temp superconductors?
Relatedly, I used to be a happy Google Music user getting pretty fed up with YouTube Music. Are there any good services letting you upload a collection of music files and then play them from your phone or browser. Preferably also letting you download certain playlists for offline use?
The title is not the original and is misleading: The smartphone measures glucose in a gel containing minuscule magnetic particles in a small container near the phone's magnetometer. As the gel reacts, it moves and this displacement is detected by the phone.

So it was never intended to measure glucose in the blood of a living creature.

It seems to me the innovation is:

1. in making the phone directly measure the amount of glucose

2. in inventing a gel that reacts to the presence of glucose by expanding or contracting.

Indeed as stated in the article, they could measure other things than glucose, it's just a matter of using other nano-particles
I switched to KDE on Debian after using Windows for the last 10 years. There's a fair number of very minor bugs, not to mention things that might be bugs or might be design choices that I don't like. But all in all, I'm very happy with it.
Just a note that precision is a part of the standard if you’re using the ISO 4217 standard, which defines minor unit fractions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_4217

Or choose a different standard, I don’t know what else is out there, but you probably should choose an existing one.
You can if you have a well-connected lawyer.
It's probably proper YouTube, as many major podcasts record video of the show and post it there. I'd be very surprised to hear YTMusic was popular in any metric.
I doubt it has anything to do with the direct cost of maintenance. Google has a tendency to introduce multiple products that serve similar markets, as the article cited with Podcasts and YouTube Music. They have to cut the cruft eventually. Given the numbers cited in the article (23% listen to podcasts through YouTube Music, 4% through Podcasts), YouTube Music made more sense from the business perspective. I would imagine that is especially true when you consider that they can promote more products through YouTube Music.

That said, I somehow doubt that many people are going to transition from Podcasts to YouTube Music. There are too many alternatives out there, alternatives that would likely reflect the interests of Podcasts users better. Heck, nearly three quarters of podcast consumers are already using those products.
We're talking about maintenance though, not a fresh build out
I run my own mailserver. I do a catch-all so I receive all email sent to my domain. Even with this setup it is not "completely unusable" in fact it is very very simple to manage spam (entirely in thunderbird, no mailserver side spam filtering) and I have no issues with it. I've had the domain for 20 years now so it is not like it is not out there for spammers to send to.