skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> React was a blessing for the few creating apps that needed more than jquery, and that AngularJS 1 couldn't handle for perfs reason.

React solved a very specific issue that was a pain in Angular, which is making it easy to write small, self-contained components and attach them to a mostly static site. That people decided to use it to make entire SPAs further illustrates how much easier they found it than other solutions.

I can't think of a case where JQuery code is ever simpler than React code, even for small things. If you need to worry about the order of rendered items or moving them into different categories on a page based on input, it's much simpler in React.
Show HN: A calling app built by connecting Speech-to-Text and Text-to-Speech
> I suspect this is only transient.

But the effects aren't.

Once a 180-year-old bookshop closes and moves out, it's gone.

Yeah, if the tourists go and if the AirBnB revenue dries up, and the "locals" move back into the town, then maybe another bookshop will open in its place. But it won't be a 180-year-old bookshop. Part of the beauty of a historic city is the historic part. Once that's been erased, it can't be rebuilt again, except with the long, slow passing of more history. Until then, it's just another city with a bunch of new stores that are pretty much like all the new stores in many other cities. Except maybe for a couple of plaques that say "There used to be an awesome old thing here, until globalisation swept it away."
Reposts are fine after a year or so but this topic had a major thread within the last year, so the current post counts as a dupe by HN's standard. See https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.

Love after life: Richard Feynman's letter to his departed wife (2017) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37914958 - Oct 2023 (127 comments)

Earlier threads, in case of interest:

No Other Love: Letters from Richard Feynman to His Late Wife, Arline - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29681462 - Dec 2021 (44 comments)

Love After Life: Richard Feynman’s Letter to His Departed Wife (2017) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24204678 - Aug 2020 (1 comment)

Richard Feynman's Extraordinary Letter to His Departed Wife - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19280764 - March 2019 (12 comments)

Feynman's Letter to His Wife - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10375283 - Oct 2015 (60 comments)

Richard Feynman’s Love Letter to His Wife Sixteen Months After Her Death - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7893757 - June 2014 (1 comment)

Feynman: I love my wife. My wife is dead. - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4178368 - June 2012 (2 comments)
Particularly if LLMs are being trained on this material.
> superior technology or just marketing is debatable

“Superior customer experience” is missing from this. I don’t care if the processor in the iPhone is the fastest or not, or if it has 8Gb of RAM vs some Samsung and I care even less about marketing.
Maybe busy people are more likely to own cats.
If you watch any side by side of a film audio / final and the script you'll realise what you're saying simply isnt true.

It's very rare that a conversation scene mirrors the dialogue exactly 1 to 1. Obviously there will be certain lines where the director wants exact delivery but actors very often deliver a slightly different line than as written.

If anything this frequency increases the higher level of profile / skill the actor has.

There are countless examples where a director is asked about scenes and defers the credit to the actors for improvising something particularly well or coming up with a better line to convey the same point - they are the ones, after all, in charge of personifying the character that was written. They may feel a different delivery suits the character better.
It seems there is a recent trend of using adapters that expose data stores over graphql automatically, which is kind of scary.

The graphql usage I'm used to works more or less the same as REST. You control the schema and the implementation, you control exactly how much data store access is allowed, etc. It's just like REST except the schema syntax is different.

The main advantage of GraphQL IMO is the nice introspection tools that frontend devs can use, i.e. GraphiQL and run queries from that UI. It's like going shopping in a nice supermarket.
At the end of last year my doctor prescribed a list of blood tests, some of them rather esoteric and cutting edge. As a precaution, I wanted to see if they would all be covered and how much my out of pocket cost would be for these if not (or if partially covered).

It took _a week_, composed of two different lab visits and about 4 hours of phone time between the doctor, the lab, and my insurance to figure it out. And in the end, the values ultimately provided to me weren't even correct.

Like what the fuck is going on behind the scenes here?
Ok, but what CLI tools are you using where you would care about performance between CPython and PyPy?
Baker was the CEO of the Mozilla Foundation.

For what it's worth, the above comments are talking about serving on the board of directors of a foundation -- which is most often part-time and not paid.
> the license change was a shame ... avoid being killed by AWS

That sounds similar to Elastic's story. Did MongoDB go through that as well?
> I wish I could appraise someone’s skill at something without that being considered as a general endorsement but I guess not.

Ironic[1] that that you’re lamenting a misunderstanding of your comment while misunderstanding mine. I don’t think you were generally endorsing him, my claim is that you’re giving him credit for a skill based on faulty assumptions.

> But he must be alright at marketing and getting into the right places because we are talking about him.

That’s what I disagree with. Would you say that Justine Sacco[2] was great at marketing too? For a while there everyone was talking about her, which she did not intend and didn’t end particularly well for her. Being talked about and being good at marketing don’t automatically correlate. Barbara Streisand knows that very well[3].

[1]: Or maybe not: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40507616

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_shaming#Justine_Sacco_i...

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
Sounds like trying to replace C and C++ ;D
Yes to all this. Where we are at right now is: guy with scottish accent is available in an app and his name is "Clay". Owner of app tweets how Bond was inspiring to him making the app.

If it can be shown in court that Sky is an impersonation and that SJ is ruled to have endorsed whether through tweets from Sam, or the Sky voice, and that she suffered some damage or that OpenAI benefited in some way before taking it down, then I think she would likely win some money in damages. Unless all those are true, it seems tough to get more than she already got -- a quick removal of the voice.

Few people mention the existing Sky voice actor (whose agent has held her name for safety concerns) is harmed here, quite substantially, by the idea that SJ could control her own performance. At any rate, my point at the top of all this is just that this is not 'open and shut' and I'm not even sure OpenAI has been more than 'aggressive' so far in its launch; we might found out they were, but I don't think the facts on the ground show more than that right now.
And price is often do not come up with this criteria
This is why many technology improvements are only possible by visionaries that are able to dream what things should look like, Alan Kay and Jobs style.

Not by those that cannot phantom anything besides what is available today running in front of them.

Android versus Longhorn, as another example.
In Mauritania there is a village where most people who lived there are blind. This is how they learn to memorizw the Quran which is more than 600 pages, each have 15 lines.
> I find it a bit poor though that the only recommended alternative is OpenAPI rest APIs.

What are your recommendations? gRpc?
One thing to clarify, but I ran out of characters.

The outreach message works well when you explain what about their experience makes them a perfect fit for an interview:
"Considering your 10+ years in the enterprise SaaS industry and another 5 with startups as a CTO, your feedback would be golden."

Compliment their experience, but make it genuine.

Making it personalized to them will increase the chances of them reaching out.
No, they are saying medicine is necessary unlike restaurants.

But further, medicine has extremely low competition at all levels. There are few companies producing penicillin, you likely don't have a lot of options for hospital care (especially if you need a specialist), and your insurance was likely not something you picked.

Compare that to food, where you can get it from multiple grocery stores, gas stations, or even order it online. If you are in a place with 1 restaurant it's highly likely there are 10 competing restaurants. Heck, if you have some land you can even grow your own food in a garden.

Medicine is a necessity with few providers which makes it a particularly bad fit for capitalism. It can't be made cheaper or more available by cutting regulations. They are necessary to keep the industry from killing people.
It's pretty screwed up on Safari on iOS also. At 100% font-size the text is a bit too small to read comfortably. Increase the font-size to 115% and the text actually gets smaller!

The viewport meta tag is fine. The problem is the table markup, which causes the page width to exceed the screen width if you enlarge the fonts too much, and the font-sizes in the CSS file, which are set to 10pt and smaller.

And reader-mode is disabled. I think that might also be due to the table markup. Not sure.
Official release: 911 S5 Botnet Dismantled and Its Administrator Arrested in Coordinated International Operation

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40514823
By diagnosing more things, performing more procedures, and prescribing more pharmaceuticals. The opioid crisis, for example.
Interesting point, but surely the reasoning that they are "only facsimiles of the connection found in a deep and long relationship" is a major argument for regarding them as morally wrong?

If you believe you have a moral duty to be the best person you can then passing up that opportunity in favour of the facsimiles is morally wrong.
Does anyone know why these are compile-time flags anyway? Some people are going to want to use it and some aren't. Needing to rebuild to switch this configuration flag is prohibitive for a lot of nontechnical users, and a hurdle for everyone else using binary release distributions.

The features could just be a preference setting and everyone can use the same package, just like we don't have a Firefox package with fingerprint resistance enabled and one with that feature disabled.
Jef considered holding down a key to be a "quasi mode". It is like the difference between the shift key and the caps lock key.
And think of what it's like for startups too - if you want to make your own social media competitor now you have tonnes and tonnes of bureaucracy - the GDPR, privacy policies, cookie banners, the DSA (and stopping "disinformation"), the Cybersecurity act, and now IDs.
> Generations of kids survived without their parents needing to know their location at all times.

They did. Generations also survived without a polio vaccine. This isn't an argument.

> But we've traded this false sense of "safety" for kids that are so risk averse it is seriously negatively affecting their development

I see it the other way round. My kid's a bit too young to go off on his own or with friends, but it's not far off. If anything I'd say a watch like this makes me think he can go off younger than without it. The main problem is it's a Google watch, so I don't know how long it'll work for. And I don't care about games or payments; just a simple phone call/SMS service (locked down to certain contacts) with GPS pings I can see on my phone. And push to talk with friends would be cool, and probably send it viral.
YES. great response
> But the documentation format we chose as an industry to build these things with, Swagger

This right here is IMO the biggest advantage of a GraphQL system. What equivalent to GraphiQL is there for OpenAPI? With GraphQL my frontend devs can go shopping for data in one UI, with rich descriptions and strong typing and even try out the queries live.
Not really - just downloading files and storing them on the filesystem would be good enough. No need to run an arbitrary setup.py script.

But setup.py is part of the Python's legacy, from before PyPI even existed.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40521930
I think that with current political direction of the "liberal" West, in connection with technical advancements, such as AI, the mankind is on path to become the Borg civilization from Star Trek: all private property abolished, any shred of individuality stripped, any non-conformant thought policed, everybody connected to the central hub through their smartphone (which soon will get direct mind-reading capabilities).
Do you have a link to the article where wsj suggests not eating breakfast? I'm actually curious to read it now.
of course, and this is a valid proposal. but that was outside the remit.
Growing up, my mom drew the line on vintage motorcycle parts in the dishwasher. Sometimes though, in the winter, the motorcycles were allowed inside. God bless her.
> I find it hard to believe that the Tesla and Auto Manufacturer positions aren’t knowingly deceptive.

The auto manufacturer approach is also showing progress. In CA and NV you can buy and operate a Mercedes with Drive Pilot, which is Level 3 certified. In the right (very restrictive conditions which essentially come down to "sitting in highway traffic on your commute") you legally do not have to pay attention to the road and can read/watch/work/etc.

https://www.mbusa.com/en/owners/manuals/drive-pilot
Yup, we saw the same thing. Everyone wants RPC. That's it. We keep inventing crazy complicated patterns on top of RPC that serve mostly as good fodder to yell about in meetings, when `POST /list_users` and `POST /create_user` work great.
Capitalism is the problem. We couldn’t fix inequality and corruption in 100 years. There’s no country on earth where we could say capitalism works. Total failure in every country. Capitalism is a dead end and it’s getting worse with time. Why nobody talks about that? Isn’t it a problem of all problems?
Now, why there is no replacement system of society and economics? We have institutions for physics, biology, construction, logistics and other sciences. And all of them make discoveries and move science forward. Except for one.
Why nobody is working on a replacement society and economics system? Why only this specific science is in standstill? starts to look like a conspiracy, or does capitalism cause it?
Can someone explain what a "wheel" has anything to do with "cheese"? Every time I come across the term "wheel" in Python, it makes no sense to me. I believe it has something to do with Monty Python. I think I have watched the skit that involves the cheese, but it's beyond my understanding how it's related to wheel. Maybe I watched the wrong skit. Maybe it's because I don't understand Monty Python.
Shedskin is the completely un-celebrated heroic Python effort.
It it nothing whatsoever like being fired.
Show HN: An AI app to search and get insights from Media (YouTube, audio etc.)
Stalkerware hack unveils potential fraud scheme
as another idiot about to burn out, it's not unique. :)
+1 for the creative name.

P.S. Your SVG double quote image is covering a large portion of your review quotes on Android smartphone.
Chickens. Or maybe the other way around...
The word "scalable" tends to be a shibboleth for people with certain unchangeable views on the industry. It's scalable in the sense that you can have vastly more cars than humans and the process to get them operating in a new area is fairly straightforward. It's not scalable in the sense of the company being fully automated so that every step can operate without human intervention, like virtually every other company on Earth.
> With internal REST for companies I have seen so many single page specific endpoints. Gross.

Hardly gross. It is what it is and it’s universal across the domain. I bet Windows has internal APIs or even external ones that were created just for one page/widget/dialog of one app. It’s the nature of things at times.
One of mine is for $10/yr and is not too much but still... And do not have another choice
>if that means I don't have to deal with 6 months of cold, clouds and darkness at 4pm in winter

Where do you live that winter is 6 months?
> IMO GraphQL is a technological dead end in much the same way as Mongo is.

Can you suggest alternatives to graph introspection and related UI tools like GraphiQL, and the subgraph federation systems?
Does this also apply to high resolution satellite imaging, such as Planet Labs?

https://www.planet.com/products/planet-imagery/
Ask HN: What's your go-to tech stack (or services/products) for side projects?
I know this depends quite a bit on the application, but is there a general stack you use that you know you can knock out something quickly and deploy on the cheap?
Arguably there's no evidence for Tesla ever wanting to use its plug as a moat. The Tesla connector pre-dates CCS1 as a standard. By the time that it was clear that the rest of the industry would converge on CCS1 in North America, the investments made by Tesla (and its customers) on their connector was far too great to contemplate shifting.

Whereas in other markets, the business case for converging on CCS2 was more compelling. Europe chose to compel CCS2 as their standard, but in Australia, Tesla pivoted to CCS2 without any government pressure.
You do not need to go to a specific grocery store that is the only one available within X miles from you. For me, I have 2 walkable stores, 4-5 bikeable stores, and 10+ via Instacart.
I remember having to solve the merge in the past and we ended up using a merging tool pretty easily to do so. Believe it was this one? https://the-guild.dev/graphql/tools/docs/schema-merging

We were basically just enhancing an external graph with some of our own stuff added on though so fairly straightforward.
> it presupposes that ideas can be green

They can if you consider "green" to be "aligned with environmental / ecological ways" or "naive / inexperienced".
You may want to read this: https://www.pypy.org/posts/2018/09/the-first-15-years-of-pyp... and further down. You'll see that JIT wasn't always a core part of the project.

You just for some reason decided to use the fact that the project was renamed at some point to fight a stupid battle on the Internetes.
If deploying this to end users, you may not want them to be able to footgun themselves/your org, and if you only partially trust the code, you might not want it to be able to easily turn these features on. It's not 100% (I'd rather isolate the password manager so it can't access the network, etc.)
I'm curious why not pointing the weapon at the ground? (I've never been to a firing range so this might be a stupid question)
The title of this article is very misleading, suggesting that EU governance is some kind unified body, and that these documents actually represent what “The EU” wants to do.

EU governance is far more complicated, and these documents only represent the view of one part of the EU governance system, the EU Council.

The EU council is basically made up of people sent by the state governments of all the members, and basically represents the views of those state governments. The council is the only legislative writing body in the EU, but it has no power to enact legislation. It can only write proposed legislation, and present it to the EU parliament for voting on.

The EU parliament is made up of directly elected MEPs and represents the interests of EU citizens as a whole, and not as individual member states. To get legislation passed, the parliament and council need to work together to get legislation written that the council is happy to write, and the parliament is happy to enact. The council is small body of 27 people, representing the interests of state governments, and the parliament 705 MEPs and represents “the people”.

There’s currently no evidence that these proposals by the Council will have any success in the parliament, if anything quite the opposite. The EU parliament has made I quite clear they don’t like this type of draconian legislation, and won’t vote to enact it.

Obviously that doesn’t mean we should ignore these proposals. It’s important to make it clear we don’t like it, and lend weight behind the arguments being put forward by MEPs to block this legislation. But to say this represents the EU “doubling down” on penalising privacy-friendly services is ridiculous. It represents the EU council doubling down, but that only one small part of the EU governance bodies, and the other bodies are actively fighting back.
A fascinating topic around my family is the playwrights who insist that the play be delivered precisely as written, most of whom are the same playwrights who refuse to allow genderswapping roles (even innocuously), updating pop culture references, etc. They are not the norm, and pretty much everyone understands that performance is as much a part of the creative act as writing, with all the deviations and imperfections that suggests. And that's without even getting to the idea of consciously changing the script midstream that you mentioned.
Except it only has a query-based cache, rather than a normalized cache by type name and ID. This means a deeply nested component running a mutation to update an entity can’t update the state of a component a few levels up purely with the response to that mutation, it instead needs to invalidate the cache and cause the parent to requery, much less performant.
While true, if you go to page 1 of the article you find this:

> During a 45-minute test drive in a Tesla Model X, I had to intervene twice to correct mistakes by the FSD software. In contrast, I rode in driverless Waymo vehicles for more than two hours and didn’t notice a single mistake.

That seems pretty significant.
Fortran is actually pretty okay if you're doing matrix or vector operations! Builtin cross products, you choose how the array is indexed when you create it, can enforce functional purity to help you parallelize, etc

It is hot garbage for almost anything that isn't math though - which is okay, because it's been focused math from the start - strings and parsing an unstructured input is an exercise in pain for example. And the ecosystem is heavily geared toward math and scientific computing, so you will find yourself rolling your own stuff quite often if you deviate from that niche
It is what is driving spacex. They also embrace failure. It is where they learn what went wrong and fix it. At one point they were 4 rockets away from going out of business. I think they got down to the last 1 or 2 and they worked and spacex got to stay around and do cool stuff. Without money that company would not exist. They are now forcing the whole industry to re-think what it means to fire a rocket off. They have shifted everyone into thinking reuse is the best way forward. Where as before everything was mostly a one off special one time build. That profit is what is making them sustainable instead of the whims of some senator from whatever state decides to spike your program in favor of his buddies program.
Not that hard to come up with. Going to a friend’s house instead of going to any variety of scheduled things you usually do (sports, theater, whatever). Similarly, the classic sleepover at approved friend’s place but actually sneaking out to do something else that isn’t at their house. I can think of many more. Maybe you were a by the book kid lol
"(1) a weak or foolish person, (2) a softhearted or sentimental person" https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/softie

(I don't like the word. Just answering the question without agreeing that anyone should be called a softie.)