skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting. But there are so many (marketing) things wrong here, I don't know where to start. For starters...

1) The Offer - Free might have been the wrong approach. If there's an audience that's familiar with "you get what you pay for" it's engineers. That is, free is a signal of perceived value. Pricing it at (e.g.) $15 and offering (e.g.) three free chapters could have fared better.

2) The Offer: Part 2 - Price and size of free sample should have been tested. Perhaps $25 and four free chapters would have done better? Or $20 and two free chapters.

3) Testing - It sounds like he went all in on all the distribution channels immediately. Instead, pick one or two and *again* test some ideas and offers and don't scale until you have some confidence in the banner, text, verbiage, offer, etc. whatever.

3.5) For that matter he should have done some testing of what he picked. For all we know, X (fka Twitter) might have been better. He assumed that what he reads is best for sales. It might reach the target but that doesn't mean anything. *No one* is smarter than The Market. And the only way to understand The Market is to test.

4) (Lack of) Repetition - I didn'n't see an exact number of weeks - maybe I missed it? - but getting someone's attention to the point that they act takes time. It takes that person seeing the ad over and over and over.

5) (The Wrong) Assumption - The smartest theory to start with is "No one cares. No one cares about this product the way we do. We have to make them care."

Put another way, your baby isn't just ugly, it's invisible. Deal with it.

Etc. Etc. Etc.

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Interesting stuff, but in many ways this is a text book case that could have been titled: Marketing & Sales - How Those Who Write Code Get It All Wrong.

With that title / scope he could write a second book and sell more than the first one.
Godot 4.3
> random.randint(0, 100)

That 0 should be a 1. As written, I think 1 out of 101 requests would go to the new target when percent was set to 0.
It doesn't help to share state between the front and the backend. What apline.js really excels at is managing state on the frontend itself, especially for UI. For example, if you need to click on one thing that shows another thing, or you need to swap out ui elements it helps to make that easier.

For communicating the backend through using an api, or issuing async get/post or form submissions that is done pretty much the same as you would do it using html or javascript.
How many objects without source did you find there ?

In the 80s (and probably before), every system I worked on had at least one critical COBOL program missing source code.

I am wondering if you noticed the same with this project.
> It looks like the natural follow up of this article is to remove the LLM altogether.

Welcome to scientific papers in 2024…
NIST announcement:

* https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2024/08/nist-releases-...

See

* FIPS 203, Module-Lattice-Based Key-Encapsulation Mechanism Standard (ML-KEM / CRYSTALS-KYBER)

* FIPS 204, Module-Lattice-Based Digital Signature Standard (ML-DSA / CRYSTALS-Dilithium)

* FIPS 205, Stateless Hash-Based Digital Signature Standard (SLH-DSA / SPHINCS+)

From:

* https://csrc.nist.gov/News/2024/postquantum-cryptography-fip...

* https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/08/14/2024-17...
A bit further not quite due south is the Burrup Peninsula rock art,

“The art also has a longer sequence than any of these other sites, extending from recent times back at least 40,000 years, probably 50,000 years.”

~ https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/the-worlds...

~ https://therangeskarratha.com.au/explore/rock-art

Naturally threatened by Oil&Gas hub expansion.
It's unplayable at the moment. I can't control my shape and I'm instantly killed in a few seconds. M1, Chrome latest.
Eh, I think of this hobby more like a video game — fun to play, even if you don't win (but more fun if you do).
No doubt it was great when you announced it 7 hours ago, but its already fallen to abuse :(
SiFive Announces RISC-V Datacenter Processor
Graph Reasoning exists.
On one side, there is good in "This is the best prediction of the future we have right now and we update it as our knowledge changes".

They also have a consulting product to sell you. When you build your entire society on "greed as a virtue", it is reasonable to assume it as a primary motivation for a profit seeking entity.
Given that hyperscaler cloud providers can be in the 5x-11x cost increase territory; and AWS/Azure are definitely guilty of lobbying governments.... is your comment sarcastic?

EDIT: downvotes? What did I say that's untrue? Are so many people really employed by these hyperscalers that they go around downvoting things against them? Calm down- you'll have a job.
I may have misunderstood the parent comment - with gmail, you can add dots anywhere in the mailbox and it all goes to the same place (standard gmail, not workspace)

e.g andrew@gmail.com, a.n.d.r.e.w@gmail.com and a.....ndrew@gmail.com all are the same user and will go into their mailbox (which I have used to avoid the + stripping that some sites do)

andrew@outlook.com and a.ndrew@outlook.com are two distinct users.

Obviously if you control the domain or use a provider who supports it you can add an alias with punctuation but then you might as well just use e.g ebay@c.com to track the email source.
A toaster is normally filled with dessicated carbohydrate particles, which are an explosive fire risk.

I would think going through dishwasher would significantly reduce the fire risk.
There is a reason for journalistic standards for publication.

1. Authenticity.

2. Motivation.

3. Importance.

When Iranians/Russians/Chinese hack political campaigns, they

1. Can falsify data, or inject errors.

2. They can "editorialize" the leak before publication to have a bias.

3. They can reveal information not relevant for the public but really harmful for the individual.

Let voters decide my ass. The purpose of journalism is to distill data for people to decide.
Can you post the eink smartwatch you got? I miss my Pebble and haven't found any good alternatives. I just want to see the time and notifications easily.
Oh, we can still outsource like the best of them, just look up the NHS Track and Trace app to see how badly we can do it (or line the pockets of certain people, whichever you prefer).
Outlining exactly what the tool does in the README would help a lot. I was having trouble finding that info.
Somewhat unrelated: Is there a book that walks you through building a database system from storage to queries, optimizer, execution, indexing, transactions, etc?
They used to be several other uk based public cloud providers gov.uk used through gCloud.
Possible, but maybe not easy

Apple does it (online)

Other manufacturers may or may not do it, but your best chance is with online orders

But that being said, as others mentioned, the drawing on the keys doesn't matter, you can set the layout as US and be done with it, just type without looking.
Apple Intelligence in macOS 15.1 Beta 1 is vulnerable to a classic AI exploit
EU Launches Cryogenic Quantum Project
Anyone know if there is any way to find out what PAS cost the government?
Big thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41251412
Reading these comments it seems you're suffering from success
There's no prize quite like internet points
US Reaps Rewards of Ukraine's Battlefield Successes
> improve anomaly detection rates for cancer.

What do you mean by that?
When you look at the image you can't help but think how it would look like if a giant ball of water was dropped like this on the surface. Apart from the flood / water destroying / reshaping the surface of the entire continent, anyone has an idea how it would the impact look like?

I am probably way off, but I imagine solid ice sinking deep into the ground with water starting to turn into vapor in the upper layers and the vapor generated inside exploding out from the ball as it gradually shrinks and deforms.
It's finally here: Sydney metro to open on Monday
For those here who don't know, QQQ is a fund tracking the Nasdaq 100, an index consisting of 100 non-financial companies with the largest market cap on the Nasdaq.

As the OP points out, QQQ has beaten virtually all portfolios over the past decade.

Alas, as the usual warning goes, past results are not a guarantee of future performance.

The OP's arguments remind me of the arguments made in the late 1960's by proponents of buying only so-called "nifty fifty stocks"[a] and holding them forever, regardless of their valuation. It didn't work out so well.

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[a] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nifty_Fifty
I wonder if in many cases, as time goes on with Oral History, some embellishment creep in, like the sirens of Odysseus. I tend to think yes.

I one difference is written history probably does not change much over the years. Also, how many oral stories/histories have been completely lost throughout time ? Where if written down, it is possible something could eventually be found.

I think I read somewhere, lots of books are being coded into a media that will last for millions of years. Hopefully that is happening :)
That part immediately made me think of a particular scene from Silicon Valley.
Brief video showing this project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RlJDUyL2tc
The quicklime method shouldn't be particularly fast, at least that's what my chemical intuition says (CaOH2 is barely soluble in water). What a bad name!
Quantum number of dependencies for the uuid crate? By default it actually has none. If you were to enable the `v4` feature, it only pulls in `getrandom` for platform independent rng. All other dependencies are disabled by default or are dev dependencies used in tests.
Self-driving cars in parking lot honk nonstop, irritating neighbors
> Is it possible to buy a ANSI US Laptop in Europe?

I've never had anything but ANSI US. The selection of non-Apple laptops is pretty poor, though you can find some.

https://www.alza.at/laptops/18842920.htm#f&cst=null&cud=0&pg...
How is interesting - but why?
Ex-Google CEO: AI startups can steal IP, hire lawyers to 'clean up the mess'
I seriously doubt you can leverage economy of scale in something as labor intensive as building tunnels.
So tracking the big tech companies... It will work until it does not. And I believe we are closing on the days when it will not work anymore. Or at least corrects in substantial way.

Not that I would ever bet against market, but with any strategy picking right entry point can make good looking numbers.
A foreign hosting provider like AWS is the opposite oft self sufficent
And once you start using it again they begin replenishing.

Except now the toaster may or may not be compromised in some way. There’s no amount of benefit here worth even a minuscule risk of a house fire.
I think the usefulness of it is in articulating that there’s no such thing as a good product in a bad market. A product’s goodness is defined in terms of its fitness to a particular market.
Can online voting be secure? Experts in Las Vegas try to hack new platform
"Move fast and break things" is absolutely the right method in some scenarios. The trick is, as you say, identifying if you're in one.
VC projects die for reasons that are not existent for a solopreneur, if much this "graveyard" could be a great place to find ideas that were executed poorly by people that didn't care about the resources they had to spend.
I totally agree, I will not watch a video with any issues like these.

However, I also hate knowing that I'm hearing mono audio where stereo could be used. 99% of the videos I watch don't have panning issues, so to just turn off ALL stereo seems like such overkill to me...
Show HN: Anyatation – Annotate with Anya Forger
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27731896
FOI request?
Indeed. Not being poisoned with clickbait thumbnails and short reels. What a relief.
I've been doing Go for a long time now and I still occasionally come across snippets of code that I don't understand or understand the purpose of. So I think "never" is too strong a word. I'd say "rarely" rather than "never".
Classes across the country help seniors interact with a world altered by AI
Just look how messaging or what is documented on various media pages changes in months, weeks or days...

Yep, I have no doubt oral history also changed... Great king, great king. Oh new king good, old one bad...
if the benefits are not obvious to you, then you're not the target user, or you don't understand what kind of person needs this

there's a class of folks who desperately need this. It's the KV equivalent to turbopuffer
>on the other hand, if you're building an apartment building in brazil or a hotel in costa rica, there's nothing stopping you from including an 80-amp circuit in every bathroom for the electric shower.

Do these countries not have any limit on the current in a circuit?
Over here we're not allowed more than 16A in residential use and that's over 2.5 mm^2 wires. What kind of conductors do they use in Brasil for 80A circuits?
And this is, essentially, being a manager. And/or founder. Which is incredibly valuable, albeit often hated by many engineers.
tune the write flush interval down, it'd be very cheap
I've seen 400V industrial equipment shock people and not kill them and I know someone from my hometown whose grandfather died of an electrocution on a 230V outlet.

We have the ability to learn from others' mistakes, that's one of the main reasons we've gone so far as species. Not every child needs to get serious burns to learn that fire is hot and can be dangerous.
A History of Twins in Science (2022)
It's pretty common, all the biggest clouds are USA or China owned.

In the UK government services go through information security classification to determine what level of security is needed, with the most confidential stuff still being self-hosted.

I assume most countries operate that way.
EU elections work just fine on paper. EU has 449M people vs 331M in USA. Multiple time zones as well. Each country has its own process and budget too..

So your argument is moot.
The most amazing thing is the off button. Think about it. I've never seen a website that just turns off before
Show HN: I made an open source SQL engine for anything (APIs, file) using SQLite
Hey HN, I’m Julien, a CS student, and I built anyquery, a SQL query engine for pretty much anything.

Anyquery can run SQL queries on local/remote files (CSV, JSON, Parquet, HTML, etc.) and SaaS (GitHub, Notion, TodoIst, Shopify, etc.). Anyquery can also transform a Google Sheets or an Airtable base into a SQL database with INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE support. Additionally, it can act as a MySQL server to leverage its ecosystem (BI tools, ORMs, etc.). Finally, you can run PRQL and PQL (KQL inspired language) queries with it.

Under the hood, it uses Go and SQLite's virtual tables. Therefore, you can use the SQLite ecosystem (e.g. sqlite-vec, datasette, etc.)

I would love to hear your feedback about the project.

Website: [https://anyquery.dev/](https://anyquery.dev/docs/#installati...

Source code: https://github.com/julien040/anyquery

(I know it’s a repost. I thought that posting the previous SHOW HN during the weekend was badly timed. If you find it inappropriate, please don’t hesitate to flag the post. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41203559)
It's kinda sad that the only way to achieve code push in Flutter is through a third party service. I'm glad that there is still a way but still. I guess one could implement it themselfs but I cannot imagine the amount of technical difficulties there is to achieve this.
Rocks?
Venezuela's government turns to tech to curb election protests
Yes, always use a fake but plausible answer.

Q) What was your first pet's name?

A) Peachtree
Aaaahh! Thank you both!
> I'm very bullish on genAI, and I bought the new phone, but I really don't think the features shown are that exciting yet. It feels like they're laying the groundwork for more powerful AI to be ready to do things in your phone apps, and the current features are just paving the way

That was Assistant right up until they killed it for a new thing.

> The killer-app (that isn't porn) is going to be asking your phone to order food and it guesses correctly what you want while cross-checking availability, pricing, and discounts. Then a Waymo or Wing Drone delivers it.

This killer app of yours can be stealthily enshittified, you aren't privy to its decision-making process.
2350 is just the length of the cars one next to each other without factoring in any distance you obviously need to have between each car for safety.

Stopping distance at 40mph is apparently around 20m (without human reaction time)

With reaction time included is about double. So you need at least another extra 40m between each car.

There’s 499 gaps between those 500 cars so that gives you an extra 20km.

So your “train” of Model Y need roughly 23.5km worth of tunnel to move 2000 people.

Doesn’t look very efficient if you ask me.
You could maybe use String#ljust or String#center to align the results a bit, it's a bit difficult to follow the numbers
At first I thought this is related to the Oak server: https://github.com/oakserver/oak
I've been working on something super similar, but some of the arch decisions here are curious considering the clear tradeoffs made.

For example, if you have a durability flush interval, what is the WAL for? L0 is the WAL now.
Fermilab is 'doomed' without management overhaul claims whistleblower report
There was a UK-based cloud provider. Unfortunately it collapsed, leading to a lot of costly replatforming.

https://www.civilserviceworld.com/news/article/cabinet-offic...
So you got velcro shoes too I take it?
I meant it more like "the consumer" not "The Consumer" but I could have said "the reader", "the observer", etc.

You got me curious, though. What do non-Americans do when they read if not consume what they read?
The way to become good at something is to do it for a long time and to be willing to think about what you are doing and continually improve.

There's much more to learning a language properly than just learning the language spec itself. Especially if we're talking about languages such as Java, where you have to know quite a bit about how the runtime works in order to be able to make good design decisions. And Go isn't really that simple either when we start to get into the weeds of performant concurrent systems that also need to be robust. It requires quite a bit of work to be able to make full use of what Go offers. It may look simple, but concurrency never is.

You're essentially arguing in favor of not being good at what you do, or at best being mediocre at lots of things. And I'm sure there are lots of jobs where that is okay. The thing is: why would you want to spend a lifetime being mediocre, to work on mediocre projects with other people who are mediocre?
Recent big Show HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39679378
You put it into better words than I could, thank you.
Offtopic: Wiki says about that quote attributed to political scientist Francis Wilhoit it is just from some random musician from Ohio

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_M._Wilhoit#:~:text=Con....

> However, it was actually a 2018 blog response by 59-year-old Ohio composer Frank Wilhoit, years after Francis Wilhoit's death."
The single shared menu bar has one huge advantage over per-window menu bars: infinite mouse target size along the vertical axis. When moving the mouse to a narrow strip menu bar at the top of a window you need to accelerate the mouse towards the target and then decelerate in time to stop on the target without overshoot. With a menu bar at the top of the screen you can skip the decelerate part and just slam the mouse to the top of the screen without worrying about overshoot.

You’re right about giant displays though. The best menu system for those is pie menus [1]. Although I would still dispute the advantages of the second mouse button for activating those. The F1-F12 function keys would be much better since you could have instant access to 12 different pie menus instead of a single one with right click.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pie_menu
In the Netherlands, critical infrastructure is required to be hosted in government cloud data centers.

An exception is possible if after a risk assessment and the determination that no state secrets may be exposed, a government body decided to use a commercial cloud provider.

The private cloud providers list is then filtered by whether or not their country of origin / incorporation, or effective control, has an effective cyber-control program it runs against the Netherlands or against Dutch interests. This arguably includes corporate espionage programs.
AES Encryption in Go
I guess you missed the playground part?
I do like that pull up thing for the individual speakers, that should be right there, always. And I just occasionally use the app so for me the new app does feel like an improvement.

That said, for the new and old app, I'm always annoyed by how long it takes to just start playing music. App needs to load (why?), search result/library needs to load, stream needs to start, there may be an update in the way. So much friction.

It would be nice to just have a way to say: If I hit the hardware play button on top of my Sonos:1, start playing randomly from my "liked songs" playlist, but do so in 5 miliseconds, just be ready for it, cash it, have the stream ready muted, whatever...
Rape is present in many successful animals species, and many successful human civilizations tolerated or even encouraged rape in some circumstances. In the modern world, the dominant (which likes to call itself "most advanced") culture doesn't tolerate rape and we may argue that if the most successful humans came up with this idea, it works and it is the "truth". Not only I find the logic a little shaky, but are we that successful? The western population is crashing down and this is a problem, maybe rape can fix that, maybe rape "works".

Do I think rape is good? Absolutely not, because I follow the current social consensus on that one, not a "truth" that is muddy at best. And I also want AIs to do the same.
But what do they say? I'm picking up "I saw a kangaroo", and maybe also "I saw a thylacine" - or is it a numbat? - and then something about a spotty ovoid Pac-Man with spindly limbs, that one's a scary story.
Memories Are Like Paintings
Fascinating to think about if and when FSD is perfected (or heaven forbid before) what a world with cars moving about with near zero reaction time would look like. That is to say, completely removing reaction time out of the equation at scale
The Benefits of Buying Wedding Flowers Locally
Some optimization yes, but this has been already achieved decades ago by simply using driving/accident history that insurances shared among themselves probably since they went digital. All the consistently bad drivers will easily fall into this.

What I talk about is anticipation/prediction, possibly wrong conclusions from data (since we all know data can be pretty bad or incorrectly analyzed), also no way to correct any incorrectly derived bad rating.

There are no consumers winning in this scenario, even if it may feel intuitively as such if you are a stellar safe driver. Also there are many second-order effects, ie poor risky people pushed out of insurances, still driving since in US you can't do anything without a car in rural places, still causing accidents but no way in hell to pay back, ever. So we move the losses from private corporations to random citizens caught in some bad luck.

I'd say keep the risk at those corporations, they anyhow still manage to earn billions annually, no need to make their life even easier.