skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SD cards expected to hit 4TB in 2025
Hey there,

If a focus is on performance, would you consider doing a side-by-side with other similar libs?

This benchmark was posted on HN a few years back, for example: https://benchmarks.slaylines.io/ (from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23083730)

Or something like the bunnymarks for Pixi (https://www.goodboydigital.com/pixijs/bunnymark/) and Konva (https://konvajs.org/docs/sandbox/Jumping_Bunnies.html)

Your charts examples are kinda hard to compare with because the animations are so slow (not the fault of the lib, they're just slowly drawn to show the animations, I know, but it makes comparisons difficult.)

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In general, your lib reminds me a lot of Konva. I found their examples page to be really helpful in illustrating higher-level usage: https://konvajs.org/docs/sandbox/index.html

Maybe real-world use cases like that could be helpful for yours too? As it is, the readme doesn't make it super clear why it's preferable to any of the other existing libs yet. There are already so many, each with strengths and weaknesses... what sets yours apart?

For example, I don't know why "rendering to both Canvas and SVG" is a selling point in particular. Are there platform-specific reasons (native?) to prefer one over the other, as opposed to whatever a particular lib's implementation might be? Is there a use case where mixing and matching the two might be helpful?
If you look at the source code in any of the mirrors people have linked, you'll find that the "clean" one that was taken down today does not have Google Analytics.
Yeah, even a Mac Studio is way too slow compared to Nvidia which is too bad because at $7000 maxed to 192gb it would be an easy sell. Hopefully, they will fix this by m5. I don’t trust the marketing for m4
I did not like the article, it was like the author was trying to connect the environment Orwell experienced to the book. IMO this is just guesswork, speculation and worst of all denying the author the intellectual prowess. Think about it, if you were to write a book you would not want the circumstances to affect the work and you’d be conscious about it. Saying that author somehow slipped in text because of the condition he was in paints him as a moron.

These sort of biography inspired essays are just BS, dragging us with a promise of a bit of mystery and mysticism. The truth is that nobody knows and we try to satisfy our curiosity with the best sounding/fitting story.

Animal farm and 1984 and others have something that resonates well with us. And we get the gist and we are a bit more careful and vigilant in our lives thanks to it.
> Part of the approval process could I guess be proving not only efficacy, but the ability to mass-produce the vaccine

This is not the case. That's a totally different part of the FDA.
This is going to be extremely helpful for integrating LLMs into my web apps.
I don't know in what poor country you live, but in my country bridges are well maintained and I don't recall a single critical failure. Even though we're one of the poorest EU countries.
They have no leverage to negotiate with.
Hot page?

Using a monotonically increasing PK would cause pages in the index to be allocated and filled sequentially, increasing throughput.

Using random UUIDs would lead to page-splitting and partially-filled pages everywhere, negatively impacting performance and size-on-disk.
I think there's some truth to your view, but that rather than democracy being impossible, democracy is difficult without direct democracy.

The representatives and such courts as could restrain the popular will are the dangerous bit.
There are a number of great comments here, but one of the best things I've seen from "fresh eyes" is identifying entrenched waste.

In manufacturing, eliminating waste/process improvements are always being looked at and often encouraged. The vast majority of manufacturing efforts require bespoke solutions (material handling, planning, quality, etc.), that's most likely why it's hard to find "common solutions". Many get tied into common systems, but it's often a "we made it work" condition and not seamless. So walk the floor, observe what's bespoke, observe what could be common and integrated, then explore those items.

ERP software seems to be the largest contributor in this space. I would look at modern solutions as much as you can. Many companies are entrenched in SAP and Epicor (QAD, Netsuite, etc.) which try to do everything and often don't do anything really well. Start there, but there may be more obvious areas to look at in your observation. Good luck!
Yeah it’s effectively dead. Also referred to as 120% time.
I agree. My look about HN for privacy-focused topics changed after YouTube's blocker war. I realized there are many privacy-truder-tech workers here, and their comments were largely structured smartly to lighten how awful those "tech industries" are.
How many 70 m span glulam road bridges have been built in those 100 years?
> Techniques like object pooling are highly error prone, and certainly not "out of the box" Golang.

This one is actually out of the box in Golang, it's called sync.Pool and is accessible in the standard library. It's very easy to use and not error prone, I've used it many times without any issues.

But creator of VictoriaMetrics is indeed someone very knowledgeable and known in Golang community in context of optimization.
It's interesting to see the change in discourse given the opposition to seatbelts from this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39977058
Not in the context of the government buying the data, they'll just buy it from google instead of shadowgovt.databroker.com. It's a red herring, a feel good feature that just limit's googles competition and doesn't really change the information collected on us.
The sands of time have not been good to my poor Facebook app.
At my last job, my CISO made the company trial ZScaler. When it caused tons of problems for Engineering, he cancelled the trial, then tried out CloudFlare's MitM proxy, which of course had the same problems.

I had to talk to him and say look, what you're trying to do isn't possible without breaking things. It's not a limitation of the products, it's a limitation of the underlying security that you're trying to bypass, and you're making security WORSE, not BETTER.

He wanted to log every employee's Internet traffic so that he could determine if someone was leaking company data, such as source code, customer data, etc. I said that there's nothing you can do to stop that, and even if someone knows their traffic is being monitored, it's easy to bypass by just adding a second layer of encryption.
It's not just an environmental consideration - efficient houses are much more pleasant to live in, particularly if they are designed holistically with proper ventilation systems and few cold spots.
I'm shocked, shocked I tell you.
My dad used to write custom accounting software for small businesses to run on the Wang 2200 office minicomputer system. He picked up a Sinclair ZX81 to see if it was something he could use professionally and quickly concluded that it was too primitive, but it was cheap enough that he let me play with it.

I sat down with it and the BASIC manual and figured out how to write a keyboard controlled animation of a cat. I was 9 and obsessed by cats. I think my dad was a bit taken aback that I'd managed it, but the ZX81 was basically mine from then on and computers were my new obsession.

That's a personal core memory right there!
Can’t news outlets just throw up a robots.txt and then charge for access to their sites? unless they’re incapable of producing content people are willing to pay for and actually ~want~ need Google to
drive traffic…
> That's just another business

It is a business, what did you think? That's why they charge money for their service. Like millions of other businesses, they will never get any significant part of the world's population as users. Why is that a problem to you?
HN is probably more representative of the customer base than your preconceived notions and hostility. I imagine a large base of the current 20+k users are via HN.
I’ve seen this sort of design referred to as “typed IDs”: https://github.com/jetify-com/typeid

Doesn’t use the crockford encoding, but does is another one that minimises confusables.
Definitely looks pretty solid, so keen to give them a shot in my next project.
Ask HN: How do we include JavaScript scripts in a browser these days?
I see all over the Web docs that show you can import scripts like this:

import { readContract } from '@wagmi/core'
import { USDTAbi } from '../abi/USDTAbi'

For example you see it here:
https://docs.walletconnect.com/web3modal/javascript/about

But it's not clear at all to me how to actually set up the files and have them be updated.

It seems like this is for npm or yarn to pull from a remote repository maintained by @wagmi for instance. But then what? Do I just symlink to the node_modules directory somehow? Use browserify? Or these days I'd use webpack or whatever the cool kids are using these days?

I totally get how node package management works ... for NODE. But all these client-side JS projects these days have docs that are clearly for the client-side but the ES2015 module examples they show seem to leave out all instructions for how to actually get the files there, as if it's obvious.

What gives? And finally, what exactly does "browserify" do these days, since I think Node supports both ES modules and and CJS modules? I also see sometimes UMD universal modules

In short, I'm a bit confused how to use package management properly with browsers in 2024: https://modern-web.dev/guides/going-buildless/es-modules/

And finally, if you answer this, can you spare a word about typescript? Do we still need to use Babel and Webpack together to transpile it to JS, and minify and tree-shake, or what?
There's a book based on the documentary: "Blood Memory" by Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns. Beautiful pictures, good narrative - maybe a little pricey at $40 for the HB.
Did you end up using GDScript or C#?
That particular quartet (op132) is remarkable. Also not really in A minor, but in the Lydian mode. Very unusual, and deeply moving.
Added, thanks.

https://lifearchitect.ai/models-table/
Neat! This seems very similar to Sheety[0], which I've used a bunch of times before (and found a few bugs...).

Do you have any plans to open source?

[0]https://sheety.co
I guess it's less copy-protection and more access-control.
I don't have a specific answer here, but my understanding is that the usual idea is to choose "consular processing" for the H-1B visa. Perhaps your wife should talk with her company's immigration team about this.
The link is broken. Says "no https for this domain"
It won't matter because we don't have a democracy. It would just result in even less people voting because there are no better options.
> Ultimately this decision likely is one of the most efficient ways to begin to address the immediate problem in the fastest and most practical way.

Rarely is the most politically expedient solution the most efficient one, and here it goes double. So I take a little umbrage at you calling me naive and then saying something like this.

When I say that people will do anything except the thing that will fix it, it's precisely because I know it is difficult.

It's difficult because politically powerful people don't want change and don't want to admit to the harm they are causing to so many people so they can get their way and block new housing.

Converting STRs back to houses will not bring much housing to the market. Just as a vacancy tax will not have much of an impact. Or banning foreign ownership. All these will only bring a few percentage back to the market. But there needs to be a much deeper structural change that allows for much more housing.

Though I don't live in Hawaii, I follow a state legislator there very closely: Stanley Chang. He's one of the few people in the country willing to actually advocate for, and try to move the politics towards a solution:

https://www.senatorchang.com/2023-housing-delegation

Spending political effort on distractions like AirBNB merely let people put off a real solution for a few more years. And perhaps in those few more years, they can come up with some sort of other boogeyman to chase so that the real solution can be delayed even more.

AirBNB bans will not alleviate the housing crisis, but they will delay dealing with the real problem. And that itself is bad, inefficient, and harmful to Hawaiians.
Are you sure about that? There's a large amount of people who don't give a shit about privacy because they've "got nothing to hide" and are convinced that surveillance should, and does, only happen to those people who deserve it.
> Presumably, they use active measures to dismantle terror networks.

If you think this is a thing that happens, I’m apparently too stupid to understand what the issue is here?
One day when I was 7 or 8 I just couldn't take it anymore. "Command Prompt" looked like the thing I wanted most out of the computer. Screw the games, I need to know what this thing does.

So I clicked it I guess I saw the MOTD or whatever, saying to run "help" command. I ran it, started reading, started messing around with it.

Soon enough I had made a "chatbot" using nothing but GOTO statements. It had many branching paths, but the conversations were completely pre-determined. Like "Hello, what is your name?", "bob", "Hello bob, how are you today", "not good", "I'm sorry to heard that"
Maybe what could help is if you operate under an LLC. (myself inc.), that way when you visit, you visit as a company... but I am not a lawyer.
No, it really isn't. Your house might lose the same total energy as a super efficient house, but if all that energy happens to be lost through a cold spot by your dining room table, you're going to get pretty fed up with the situation.
One of my life philosophies is "the moment you stop learning is the moment you start dying". When I find myself doing things that entirely consist of what I already know how to do, I change jobs or get a new hobby to do a project that involves something that I don't know how to do.
Yes. Yes, they need cause, but not in the Fourth Amendment definition. The cause is you've requested to enter the US or you've been found hanging round the vicinity of an airport, land border or navigable waterway.
Google Sheets is the backbone of several projects I work on, even though I'm a SWE at a large company. It's used as a fronend in some places or a backend in others. But part of this is because we have too much red tape around using simple eng tools like React or Postgres.
Cheap Mortgages Deter Workers from Relocating for $250k Jobs
Direct link to the actual article:

https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/why-russias-demo...

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May be useful: the "Journal of Democracy" does not seem to have a link to the RSS in the source, but an expectable one works:

https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/rss
Consumer reports (both the company and the category). A bad review can destroy a company.

Yelp.

TripAdvisor.
Defeated CEOs are now conceding hybrid working is here to stay
> But fitting one is a big deal - they are quite expensive, they take a lot of work to fit, really require extensive additional insulation

I think this somewhat overblows the complexity of a heat pump.

They are simply Air conditioners that can be ran in reverse. One valve is the difference between a heat pump and AC. Why they are so expensive is really just price gouging because they aren't as common.

If you are in a home with forced air AC then installing a heatpump system couldn't be simpler and should be something you consider when updating your AC system. It's really just a matter of updating the compressor and maybe adding some smarts to avoid condensation. In fact, it's shocking to me that AC -> heatpump conversion kits haven't hit the market.

> So i'm slightly mystified that we basically don't hear anything about fitting drainwater heat recovery [1], in which the lukewarm drain water from your shower is used to pre-warm the incoming cold water. It's extremely simple, pretty cheap, simple to fit, and can recover ~50% of the waste heat, of something which is tens of percent of the energy consumption of a household.

Really interesting idea, but I assume you have to rip up the shower to accomplish this right? Also, I'm guessing clogged wastewater piping might be an issue right? That said, that'd be easily overcome by just running the lines side by side with maybe a simple copper connector for heat exchange.
>I have sympathy for news publishers

i have very little sympathy for news publishers. I have sympathy for the journalists actually doing journalism, but news publishers have spent the last couple decades making their websites absolutely unusable, so that unless somebody links to an article externally there's almost no point in going to their site directly. And even after you've followed that link it's almost impossible to read an article around the ads, login prompts, and chumboxes. News websites are terrible, and it's their own fault. Giving them more money to do the thing they've spent so long failing at isn't going to solve this problem.

>directly tax the platforms and then redistribute the revenue to a fund created by government for news journalism themselves

yes. and specifically, make sure the fund is actually funding journalism. a link tax that gets paid out to news sites only incentivizes them to do the bare minimum amount of journalism to still qualify as a news site, and then fill up the rest of the site with SEO clickbait to maximize their clicks for the link tax.
Ah yes, nothing like a bit of hypocrisy to make a point. It's okay though, as long as it's people we don't agree with, defrauding them is fine.
> and heavy handed punishment is the best way to deter it.

That sounds like an empirical statement. Evidence?

> Should individuals have the freedom to vote for something that harms other individuals and society as a whole?

Arguably the legitimacy of a government derives from the consent of the governed. It sounds like you have your premises backwards.
Oslo/Norway is the name that common time zone databases use for all of Norway.
this is a good question
PEB grade systematically increases the value of a house less than 20% of the house value.

That's far too low to justify the huge sums involved in energy renovations.
I see our main disagreement being rooted in your use of the phrase "for everyone". It disregards the fact "rare" means exactly, 'some people'.

I do not read the attitude at Kagi to be downplaying the importance of privacy. To me it seems like a mature realization of the limits of online life. Anonymity is very expensive. Try to buy something online if you doubt it.

I disagree with your interpretation of Vlad's position but, I'm cool with your seeing it differently. I suggest you stick with Google and their much better () attitude toward privacy.

ps, I 100% could prompt Claude to rebut every sentence in your post. I do like that approach when it is productive. Except that I decided to talk back to all of you, Claude saved me the time it would take to interpret the original rant. I consider saving time to be a good use. Of course, you probably had fun playing with my text and Claude, so good for you.
Hello, I am a retired US citizen living in Argentina. I've been told by the Federal Benefits Unit at the US Embassy in Buenos Aires that my Argentine wife, who happenes to be disabled, will be eligible to receive survivor benefits after I die, but will have to spend an entire month in the US every 6 months to qualify. She has never lived in the US and doesn't plan to, so she won't qualify for the 5 year residency exemption. Also in order for her to collect spousal benefits she also has to go to the US every 6 months in order to be eligible. Are there any exceptions to these US travel rules? What type of visa is best for her situation? The Federal Benefits Unit representative mentioned a K visa that doesn't have an expiration date, but I am unable to locate any K visa for her specific circumstances. Thank you very much for volunteering you valuable time. YCombinator is a great source for learning.
Kind regards
This guy footnotes.
There was emotion when I wrote this song - https://on.soundcloud.com/7h224KAcZjdgQo6k7

And my daughter really loves to listen to it, and I think there is a decent amount felt listening to it. However, this was created with Suno, but written by me.
Make sure you are in energy saving mode. The default for these systems is to try and do quick recovery which likely isn't what you want.
The news industry is still getting money via ads, same as before. The only thing that has changed is the broker that is connecting them to the advertisers. Print media had its own ad ecosystem, and the online one is controlled by Google and Facebook (but of course the media companies can use whoever they want or even talk to advertisers directly). So what is the complaint exactly? That Google shouldn't take a cut? Except that the law isn't even about advertising, it's about link aggregation (which Google also happens to do, but that is completely separate from its advertising arm).
Sorry for the late reply. We appreciate your screen name selection, but no other information is available at this time. You should only apply, if you are comfortable with the information we provided. Good luck!
Of course not, as that would make no sense in a game where you play as a person. But the engine is fully capable of it, either through console commands or the various flying vehicle mods for the game.
> Felines become ill on vegetarian diet, humans can definitely thrive on vegetarian diets.

Sort of. Humans would die on a paleo vegetarian diet. We need modern supplements and/or cultured bacteria. The same is true of cats; they can survive on a vegetarian diet but only with supplements (although it's much, much harder to do this right with cats than it is for humans).
I do not believe this is a good example of bikeshedding. They made what I would consider a pretty long post and announcement about shirts but there is a fairly sizeable paying user base that worry its a distraction. I agree that some of the specific nitpicks are probably unfair but we love the products but see tshirts as a repeated problem of maybe doing too much. We are all armchairing the problem though and its up to Vlad to do his own thing.
Assuming you have Redis
I can't wrap my head on own hard it is to make such a project, what's your view from the inside, is it a massive thing ? In term of complexity, lines of codes, people involved, etc.
> The real problem is that universities are making money off selling trash to children not old enough to drink yet.

Agreed.
> Being punished because something bad happens and maybe that thing you voted against would have prevented it? That’s possible.

Do you have any examples of this? Nobody was politically punished for allowing 9/11 to happen. There are countless examples of bad things happening for which nobody was politically punished. As far as I see, there's an almost complete lack of consequences in politics.
I don't think people can tell what is satire or not in the crypto scene anymore. Someone issue a "rug pull token" and still received 8.8 ETH (approx $29K USD), while telling people it was a scam.

https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=rug-pull-token
and they should pay for scraping. but that's not what this is about, this is about charging for linking to news articles.
> Of course it doesn't help thst, my guess from experience, is that most Australians would encourage the action while trying to hold back their laughter.

Whilst funny, the problems with pranks like this is that Americans start to armour up and don't listen to important advice we give them, e.g putting vegemite behind the ears with a couple of forks when going through dropbeae heavy regions. This is why so many of the poor buggers end up mauled or even dead.
I guess this is why they are trying to add a fixed “I just want more money” fee. You’d think that as things develop you’d be more efficient not more expensive.