skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The correct claim is not that per capita does not matter but that it alone does not provide you with adequate picture. Imagine a street where 100 people live, and there's a shoot-out there every day. Now imagine a mayor made an order, and another 100 people are forced to move and live on the same street now, and there's still a shoot-out there every day. Can you honestly say the quality of life on that street improved 2x, even though you still have the daily shootings as before, but it's now twice as crowded? I think something is missing in this picture if you make such a conclusion. Of course, per capita numbers show some part of the picture, but you need to see the other parts too.
Oh my god. It would be unbelievable if I had not whitnessed it myself. I wonder what is the kick? Exaggerated self importance. ( Thanks for the spell checking ...)
no, as a kid I was able to go anywhere I desired with a bike or skateboard; I had few boring summer days.

this is much safer/practical in suburban environments. do you really believe public transport, in SF, is as safe for a kid?

e: md fix
Agreed. Should we make something and find out?
Yeah. F'ing go! is what I assumed.
From earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41173177 Smashing idea: how East Germany invented 'unbreakable' drinking glasses
I question why we accept someone resigning after making a big mistake.

Unless it's malice, or the fault truly is entirely on that person, what good would resigning do?

Rowley admitted he fucked up, badly, he admitted on several layers what must be changed. How he must change. How the org must change. How the way things are presently is not good enough. Made an extremely deep dive into what happened.

And now he's leaving??? Someone who royalty messes up, would not want to mess up on the same issue twice. So all that experience is now worthless and doesn't benefit Digicert in the slightest.
What’s the realistic likelihood of getting accepted as a solo founder? My potential cofounder dropped out and I’d really really like to apply for this batch.
Your ideal suburb describes most of the Europe(excluding few cities).
Survival skills are nice to have. But it's even nicer to live and work in a location where robbery isn't something that someone might reasonably experience twice in 3 months.

Of course, I left a job when my lunch got stolen twice in 3 months; well 3 times, but one time I brought leftover pizza in a pizza box, that's understandable. Taking leftovers in plastic is just rude... especially when my shift started at 4pm and everyone else was working normal hours, other than the overnight person whose shift started when mine left.

If I had been robbed because of the location of my job, I'd probably show up one more time, to return my stuff (assuming it wasn't stolen when I was robbed).
I've been abusing it as a data store for many years. I don't recommend it but not because of a lack of reliability. It's actually fine but you need to know what you are doing and it's not exactly an optimal solution from a performance point of view.

The main issue is not lack of robustness but the fact that there are no transactions and it doesn't scale very well on the write side unless you use bulk inserts. You can work around some of the limitations with things like optimistic locking to guarantee that you aren't overwriting your own writes. Doing that requires a bit of boiler plate. For applications with low amounts of writes, it's actually not horrible if you do that. Otherwise, if you make sure you do regular backups (with snapshots), you should be fine. Additionally, you need to size your cluster properly. Things get bad when you run low on memory or disk. But that's true for any database.

If you are interested in doing this, my open source kotlin client for Elasticsearch and Opensearch (I support both) has an IndexRepository class which makes all this very easy to use and encapsulates a lot of the trickery and bookkeeping you need to do to get optimistic locking. I also have a very easy to use way to do bulk indexing that takes care of all the bookkeeping, retries, etc. without requiring a lot of boiler plate. And of course because this is Kotlin, it comes with nice to use kotlin DSLs.

You can emulate what it does with other clients for other languages but I'm not really aware of a lot of other projects that make this as easy. Frankly, most clients are a bit bare bones and require a lot of boiler plate. Getting rid of boiler plate was the key motivation for me to create this library.

https://github.com/jillesvangurp/kt-search
Thanks for the detailed response and insight. This is a great example of when meetups and in-person networking/collaboration can help you stay ahead of the curve.

It does sound like the solution glosses over some cold start problems that will surface with increasing regularity for more fragmented indexes. For example if you have one index per tenant (imagine GitHub search has one public index and then additionally one index per authenticated user containing only repos they are authorized to read), then each user will experience a cold start on their first authenticated search.

I bet these tradeoffs are not so bad, and in practice, are worth the savings. But I will be curious to follow the developments here and to see the limitations more clearly quantified.

(Also this doesn’t address the writes but I’m sure that’s solvable.)
Tell me you never wrote a call graph across distributed services architecture, without telling me.

At least now Open Telemetry based tools can render those in beautiful ways.
if it’s ok to train dogs to be slavishly obedient, is it ok to do the same to humans?

ai is a different form of instrumentality to humans, so of course considerations are different. it’s an honor to have a person learn your song. having an ai learn on your song with the intent to make produce is not unlike being dairy farmed.
I have never had a toilet talk to me the way I see some people talk to service workers.
I see how this mental model is helpful for a lot of people.
I think the points he's making about the “unfolding” topic are universally great; at first glance, it looks like a straightforward idea, but we fail at keeping it in mind when we do the actual thinking. I've added a couple of his questions in that section to my journaling template.
Did you miss the part where I said that out of control money printing finds its place first in asset prices?

Go look at the inflation in Australian home prices since 2008
> And what I think makes ChromeOS really powerful is Crostini, a full Linux VM that you can run inside ChromeOS. It runs Debian (it seems you can run other distros though) with a deep integration with ChromeOS, so you can run even graphical programs without issues (including OpenGL!)

Agreed. WSL2 makes Windows really powerful too.
https://archive.is/o4hME
In Denmark there often is, things like localised sales the 4-8 times a year a specific store celebrates its birthday or similar. You can scan their PDF brochures but you would need image recognition for most of them, and some well trained recognitions to boot since they often alter their layouts and prices are listed differently.

The biggest sales come from the individual store “close to expiration” sales where items can become really cheap. These aren’t available anywhere but the stores themselves though.

Here I think the biggest challenge might be the monopoly supermarket chains have on the market. We basically two major corporations with various brands. They are extremely similar in their pricing, and even though there are two low price competitors, these don’t seem to affect the competition with the two major corporations at all. What is worse is that one of these two major corporations is “winning”, meaning that we’re heading more and more toward what will basically be a true monopoly.
Good man, world needs more people like you.
When I said helps, I didn't say by how much...
Creator AI: removes pauses
Viewer AI: inserts pauses for synthetic viewer or speaker
Sci-Fi Viewer AI: modifies speed/pitch/pause by live neural feedback
I have no words.

“America truly is a frightening country”

—Colonel Gurlukoivch
Hah, years of writing ts for various contracts and I had no idea that never could be used like this. Thanks!
As there are common people on forums searching for problems with their C code crashing and burning, because while those libraries conform to ISO C standard, their implementation defined semantics aren't the same.
There is nothing secret about it. You can find a full document from the military explaining it here. https://www.drrobertyoung.com/post/enabling-battlespace-pers...
If I was your long lost friend I probably wouldn't pay the $10 upfront.
It seems harder to get good glass anymore. I'm glad someone is working on it.

Maybe it is that plastic has taken over, maybe because it doesn't break. But we're finding out that plastic containers leach stuff - either chemicals or microplastics, so maybe there will be a resurgence for glass.

I like borosilicate glass. I think pyrex sold out and now makes soda lime glass products.

I got some simax glass containers (borosilicate) and they are really nicely made. The glass is optically very clear and super smooth. It can also go in a variety of temperatures.

The temperature differential that borosilicate glass can withstand before fracturing is about 330 °F (180 °C), whereas soda–lime glass can withstand only about a 100 °F (55 °C) change in temperature. This is why typical kitchenware made from traditional soda–lime glass will shatter if a vessel containing boiling water is placed on ice, but Pyrex or other borosilicate laboratory glass will not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borosilicate_glass
Isn't van ness station closer to Twitter?
This was both a fun read an raised a real problem with products in general, avoiding quality to assert more sales.

I like to imagine a secret meeting between glass manufacturers plotting how to shut this startup down xD

The name of the original glass is also fantastic, ”Superfest” meaning ”Super party” in my language :D
There is good reason for size of such NAS devices. HDDs are just better to maintain your not corrupted data when not connected, as NANDs needs to be refreshed from time to time. The best you could do is to use SSD as a fast cache.
You can’t trust them as far as you can throw them.
Watching The Holy Mountain, I felt like my life had been divided in 2 - that which came before watching it, and that which came after. Sure is an experience, and I certainly can't unsee a lot of it.
finally

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gpt.franzai.com

we use a 3 times check until now

if chatgpt does not return valid json then trim anything before and after last {}

if this is not valid json
feedback him full response and ask for valid json

if this is not valid json put full response into self made json to get al least something we can work with in an "something did not work out" response
Yeah, this seems like one of those April Fool's jokes that for all intents and purposes seems like a joke but is an actual product that you can buy. Kinda like how Gmail with its massive 1 GB of storage was announced on the first of April.
Good point, will implement that.
There's no need to outlaw reporting crime. You simply don't do anything with reports and the problem solves itself. Shootings tend to still get reported, but there's little point to reporting less serious crime once it's established that no action is taken. To that end, crime statistics are pretty hard to use in a meaningful way.
Outdated context is miles better than no context in my experience. As long as the comment isn't intentionally misleading, it always helps a ton in piecing together what happened, even if the comment is factually wrong when it was written, because I can tell how the original author was mistaken and why it led to the current code.
Where does this lack ethics? It seems that they are providing a useful service, that they created with their hard work. People are allowed to make money with their work.
Yes, by transplanting biomes. Climate changes the world, but plants are slow when it comes to travelling to where the new home is. Sp food sources "vannish". But if you move a biome piece towards the new home that is climatewise its old, you stabilize that transition.
Yeah them running a electron style browser in a box GUI was quite a shocker given how much HN bashed electron when it came out.
I really like the tier of service Hetzner is targeting. You can rent powerful servers for relatively cheap from them, and build your own infra on top if that's your thing. Really depends on what you want to optimize for. You can even do a hybrid setup with a cloud provider AND Hetzner, connecting them using a private net.
Nepotism, probably through board connections if I had to guess without researching.
I’m not sure why this is getting downvoted. It’s perfectly reasonable to assume that the difficulty in side loading another OS is incidental, rather than designed. A citation would help support the opposite assumption made above.
I think using a term like that must be a specific planned clickbait technique.
My fingernails are my room keys [video]
Yep, totally feel the same about computers these days: https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2024/07/03/2000
Everything on the teenage engineering website, every product, everything is too creative. Loved it!
IQ is a bullshit measure.
There are actually hints they're working on S3-compatible object storage:

https://www.reddit.com/r/hetzner/comments/14e8asj/object_sto...
So You Think You Know Git? [video]
Old article from Fuzzy Bear / RU hacks in retaliation to Sochi drama.

Subsequent leaks show US/Australia/France account for something like 60% of ~1000 global TUEs. TUEs is just west being good at lawfare to stack games in their favour, from having shitload of medals in swimming (or cutting medals in weightlifting) etc etc.

My hot take as someone who enjoys strength sports, especially the untested drama is TUEs is more pernicious to fairness than banned PEDs. Banned PEDs actually have to be cycled off prior to competition, most of their value is increasing recovery, enabling more training etc. Meanwhile TUEs affect actual competition. Stuff like Adderall ADHD TUEs particularly "mental" performance enhancing, like everyone who trains seriously knows mental game is what makes a huge difference at top after physicality is filtered by genetics. If athlete mentally not capable of training protocol, they might as well as be genetically cursed.
Far right is authoritarian. One of its most basic tenants is to tell how others should live and interact. It's not about liberty in general, just for a privileged group to enjoy a liberty beyond the reasonable, that include companies.

One of the things we hear the us conservatives, not even far right yet is to boycott brands because of inclusive ads for example. It's in their righ, but shows that the ideology is not about freedom of expression but control of speech and action.
Url changed from http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2024/08/time-is-illusion-an..., which points to this.
It's really exciting to see this space bloom! Congrats on the launch!
> Random trivia, of the battery tools we have battery chainsaws do pretty good for length time. Don't really have a good mental model why? I guess cutting wood is not "work", moving air like in a blower is "work"

Perhaps because when you're using a chainsaw you're rarely actually cutting all the time? Most of the time is spent setting up and moving things around.
Same! loved the design and minimalism of the product.
1995 was 29 years ago, so those 30-ish people will be in their 50s or 60s, maybe even 70s by now.

So, "really" old by practical standards.

Incidentally, I'm 35 years old and I know how to handle a typewriter thanks to my late mother. Even in this day and age, some things are done quicker and easier by just busting out a typewriter out of the closet.
Show HN: I made a new kind of Trusted Timestamp based on plaintext encoding
I've just launched a new site that creates Trusted Timestamps. Anyone can use it to make any data immutable going forward in time. By "verifying" a Trusted Timestamp against a file, you certify that file has not been altered since the time the Trusted Timestamp was created at.

Trusted Timestamps are not a new idea, there is a standard defined in RFC3161 and some other prior work as well. My design though is different as it is based on plain-text, human readable files. I believe this makes this form of Trusted Timestamp more accessible for a wider set of applications. I found the RFC3161 timestamp standard to be difficult to work with, and I also found the existing providers of Trusted Timestamps to not be particularly suitable for building on top of. This is why I made TimestampIt!

I have my own plans for applications to build on top of this basic site, however I would love to see what ideas everyone else can come up with.

Any feedback is appreciated!
Ok, but not all correlations are spurious. What makes that research spurious?
Is this distributed as a PostgreSQL extension as well?
If I remembered tomorrow yesterday, then today exists to make it true.
The Radxa X4
I didn't make my comment in a vacuum. Look at the context. Notice we aren't talking about rape, or financial ponzi schemes. Context clues people, context clues.
There are only 375 million people in US. Are the rest aliens which we don't know about . Regardless I will put an end to your company
The tone of this comment makes me question if it was made in good-faith. But I will add my perspective. I see this debate all the time, I've seen it since I was young, and not just on the internet.

It stems from a language difference, in Latin American Spanish, words like america and its relatives like americano, latinoamericano, panamericano, etc is inclusive of North and South America.

In English, globally, America refers to the USA. It is context dependent, but to describe the continents you would normally say "the Americas."

This distinction naturally annoys native Latin American Spanish speakers, especially because it is compounded by historical, geopolitical, and economic dynamics.

If someone chooses to be over-explicit in English, it's better to let it pass. Correcting the language can come off as dickish, especially when you consider the historical context. Additionally, the person on the other end is sometimes making this mistake on purpose, trolling for a pointless argument.

If it were up to me, I would add this topic to the list of things HN mods should ban.
AI Grant with $250K uncapped SAFE deadline August 9
Not quite the same thing, but several of Rare's N64 games (most notably Banjo-Kazooie) had a planned feature called Stop 'n' Swop [0] that would allow you to unlock things by inserting a different game's cartridge. Nintendo made them cancel the feature because the system was not intended to be used that way.

[0] https://tcrf.net/Banjo-Kazooie/Stop_N_Swop
I don’t know, I got an OP-1 to play with many years ago and I seldomly recognise presets or effects when listening to music from talented and successful musicians. Which makes me realise that I have some skills issues when I compare with the noise I make.

So they do sell to "real" musicians too.
365 million total population and 2.9 billion US citizens granted that many are living outside. But there's no way there are 2.9 billion anyways. Regardless it cannot be aliens hahaha. Anyways, I will put an n to this company. I promise you I will make you suffer so much in the courtrooms and give such a big lawsuit that you will cry your blood out
> The ultimate root cause ended up being me. I have led the compliance team for the past several years. The fact this went unnoticed in our many reviews during that time shows that we need a different approach to both our internal investigations and compliance controls. I also dropped the ball on the certificate problem report by failing to escalate the issue to engineering and give it the proper attention it deserved. Although I did some investigation, I failed to treat the allegations with sufficient seriousness based on what could have been wrong. I assumed I knew the systems and what was happening in them rather than deeply investigating the report. Finally, I didn’t do enough to eliminate the silos between compliance and engineering.

Really does sound like he personally dropped the ball in the handling of the report. It would be interesting to hear the story from the researcher who will undoubtably have been frustrated beyond reason that they kept acting like there was no issue despite the repeated persistent attempts at getting them to take it serious.
I had their OP-1 for a long while till I had to part with it for some emergency cash. It was a truly delightful thing to play with and lost neither charm nor monetary value even years later.
It sounds like you are attributing all of the value of the company to joining YC. Many of those companies would have been worth plenty without YC. We have no idea how many.

I would suggest to you that the top YC companies often are the ones who get the least from YC. This is also almost confirmed by the many YouTube videos that YC puts out where they say things along those lines. These companies do everything right while with YC, and they continue to do everything right well past YC (as I understand it, YC is not all that helpful past series C).
> what they define as misbehaving is normal for kids.

Right, sprinting back-and forth, ear-piercing screams at the top of their lungs, kicking chairs - all things we should just accept at a restaurant, for the sake of the parents. What terrible people we are for wanting a decent dining experience.
I don't understand why chrome still has a huge market share.

On Linux and Android you have Firefox which runs all extensions just fine. On Windows and osx/ios you really have to fight the system to use anything other than edge and safari.

Anyway, looking forward to Ladybird entering beta in 2026. Won't work on ios, but I will try to use it everywhere else.
Who is the fastest? Node.js, Bun.js, or Deno.js
Do you mind sharing the guide? I am already on the "Apps Only Mode", but I still get the full banner ads on the home screen.
You would still need a way to add all items and to check if there are new ones
I've been using and supporting ES (and OS lately) for well over a decade. Mostly its fine but a lot of users struggle with sizing their clusters properly (which is costly). Elasticsearch falling over is what happens when you don't do that. It scales fine until it doesn't and then you hit a brick wall and things get ugly.

Additionally, many companies learn the hard way that dynamic mapping is a bad idea because you might end up with hundreds of fields and a lot of memory overhead and garbage collection. I've fixed more than a few situations like this for clients that ended up with hundreds or thousands of fields, many shards and indices. Usually it's because they are just dumping a lot of data in there without thinking about how to optimize that for what they need.

A properly architected setup is not going to fall over randomly. But you need to know what you are doing and there are a lot of clients that I help that clearly don't have the in house expertise to do this properly and are a bit out of their depth.
We've been mostly working on GNU Taler (https://taler.net/), the GNU Name System (https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9498.html) and GNU Anastasis (https://anastasis.lu/). They all relate.
Sanity checks in programming are underrated, not only are they cheap performance vice, they catch bugs early that would otherwise poison the state.
> For anything more complex than an anonymous online flower shop, it is simpler to partition the whole thing off – for each customer/tenant.

Is this really a viable approach at the scale of B2B SaaS like Salesforce (or, contextually, Algolia)? They would end up with literally 10s of 1000s of DBs. That is surely cost-prohibitive.