skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FIPS 205 (SLH-DSA) relies only on the security of hashing - but that's just for signing, not key exchange/encapsulation.

(and as others have pointed out, classic/post-quantum hybrid schemes exist)
This is an unfavorable review of a new biography of Bill Gates.
Oh dear God, if you think product owners are going to be committing code you must be missing something. The AI is to help devs work easier, not replace them. We are nowhere near that. Too much involved.
It may be incompetence. Most of big tech today no longer understands why someone would build an app, a business, or a project for reasons other than seeking to extract money from the market. It is ironic, because most of the big tech companies are only as successful because they initially offered products with vision and purpose, rather than as means simply to extract revenue at the lowest cost.

They are not entirely wrong to view the market this way. Most apps and projects are built these days primarily as means to extract revenue from the market at a low cost. Sometimes they are so much this that we call them grifts, and there have been many in tech recently, and certainly on the Play Store. But there are still some companies with better values.

This is a long way to say that unless an app/project/business/website is evidently monetized, it can probably be assumed it's monetized by selling data or ads. Likely, this assumption was made by the reviewer here, there may even be guidelines about it.

To some degree, it would even benefit consumers to do such a reality check too before they buy products and subscribe to services — is this a visionary purpose-driven product, or one that seeks to extract money from me as its primary goal? If latter, how do they do it — in evident ways, or through selling data or ads/influencing? But one must be able to see nuance that not everything in the world is built for the capitalistic objective. Sometimes, cool things are built, art is made, and inventions are made to better the world.

Overall, it is a problem that they don't see this nuance which made Google successful in the first place. It is clear across their business, products and services. But I think it is not unexpected.

An app shot down because it doesn't grift in an evident way, under an assumption it grifts in a hidden way — it's not the most wrong decision in the world. It just does not demonstrate competence either.
I've been wanting to try NixOS, but I've also had great success running Alpine on my raspberry pis as a read only OS from ram. Rock solid, simple, and good package availability.
Ask HN: Who's using Zig in production? For what?
I have been hearing and read about Zig for a while.

I love the language, I love how non-overwhelming and "honest" it feels. I like how dam easy it is to integrate with C.

Yet, I haven't seen a really appealing argument around using it compared to more hip alternatives such as Rust or Go.

Is anybody here doing Zig for a living? For what? Why Zig?
Still a lot more complicated to deal with in every aspect, obviously so to anyone who has long term experience with them, what are you gaining from pretending otherwise?
well, just by making that question its upsetting...he is the 'evil' in that famous quote 'be no evil'...he has screwed so many billions(humans) is not funny
I’m currently working on GitHub integration. It’ll be ready soon. Stay tuned!
Because there is nothing like removing choice to boost self-esteem and feelings of social worth. /s
I like your thinking. Things have gotten far more complex than they need to be. We've been piling abstractions on top of abstractions for too long and there needs to be a culling. If we get rid something that we really did need, that's better than the alternative. It's best now to ditch it all and see what we really need.
Wasn't the issue mostly solved with signals?

As far as I understand, signals make it much easier to keep the DOM updates to a minimum.
I'm mean you can Google it. I expect more from a random HN user.
Dont you hit the potential centralization issue with coinbase? Cash works too.
s/malice/avarice.
Meanwhile terraform prometheus grafana…
They are doing this AFTER the monopoly suit?? Google is done. They'll be a shell of themselves in 5-10 years
> It's annoying because, especially with MongoDB, people come into it having been sold on it being a more "flexible" database. Yes, you don't need to give it a schema. Yes, you can just dump untyped JSON into collections. No, this is not a flexible kind of database. It is an efficient one.

I really like this sentence because it perfectly encapsulates a mistake that, I think, people do when considering using MongoDB.

They believe that the schemaless nature of NoSQL database is an advantage because you don't need to do migrations when adding features (adding columns, splitting them, ...). But that's not why NoSQL database should be used. They are used when you are at a scale when the constraints of a schema become too costly and you want your database to be more efficient.
not just uBlock origin, we can get browsers that are not webkit. WebKit is crippled and always behind in standards implementations.
I have had it build out entire API in node Express. Shit needed help for sure. The point of AI is to have it so low value work like scaffolding and boilerplate. The AI goes off the rails a lot. You have to have the skills to recognize when it is and somehow change course.
pretty chilling to think about..
I mean, possibly the American definition of ‘libertarian’ has finally been diluted to ‘literally nothing’, but I’d find it hard to call Musk’s embrace of Trump, the authoritarian, particularly libertarian.
> Also column type is not strict and you can write strings into integer column.

FYI, as of late 2021, you can opt into strictness.

https://sqlite.org/stricttables.html
In this case both options seem to apply at the same time
How does 3 regions of the brain translate to 3 copies of the same memory?

With entanglement they all work together to form the one memory no?

I’m not convinced the same memory is even isolated to one brain.
Analysis of EV charging stations finds reliability issues galore
Why can't we have nice things
> I've transferred 30k within seconds to IBKR before.

30 K EUR using instant SEPA tx?

Transferring EUR to IBKR takes about one to two days for me so YMMV.

As for the daily limit, it really depends on the bank and how much you have there: at one bank of mine I can tx up to 125 K EUR from the banking's website myself. At another bank I'm stuck at 5 K EUR max (!) and the option to raise that limit to 25 K EUR ain't working for me.
I would use SQLite if the embeddable part makes things considerably easier. For example, in a desktop or mobile application where a single application process is easier, because it fits the deployment model better.
Could you ask your 'designer' to obscure the last word a little more with their presence? Knowing designers I'm surprised they didn't do that already.

I find it innovative the way you've redefined the meaning of 'try out' by asking us to pay up front.

Non roast:

I think you're trying to say $49 one off, and showing that it's not $49/month? That wasn't clear to me the first time I saw it.
Well thunder and lightning comes from the sky and lightning is caused by static effects of ice crystals in thunder clouds. So maybe it's something similar.
Love the idea. FYI, on your demo page, the todo app is 404. And you might want to spell out static site generator instead of saying "SSG" on your docs. I didn't know what SSG was, even though I've used static site generators. I had to ask the AI.
MongoDB salesdroids rely heavily on you having a low familiarity with other database tech to spin themselves as the only game in town. "Being led astray" isn't a passive, ambient occurence, and it makes sense to push back against it.
Neat does it work in non english languages?
I think Intel stock is a good buy now to hold for 3-5 years now. I think the shakeup under way and engineering leadership will most likely bring it back. Not financial advise lol.
What I find surprising about those scams are that people believe that a bank that for two decades have tried to avoid providing ANY in person service or show the slightest interest in you, would suddenly provide that level of service and support.
I just read the synopsis, I’m curious what age your son is or how old you were when you read it? I’m not sure my son is old enough for it.
I Doubled My Sales by switching from free tier to a free trial
Hello Hacker News!

If you created a subscription based service (gym, saas, agency etc.), you know that the best way to get more clients is offering free service. But the trick is you feel stuck between offering a free tier or a free trial. I've been there. I tried both so let me share how we nearly doubled our sales by making the leap from free tier to free trial.

Our Starting Point: We had a free tier with limited features at mentio. Lots of sign-ups, but conversions? Crickets. Users were comfy in freemium-land, with little motivation to upgrade.

The Switch: About 2 months ago, we took the plunge. We introduced a 30-day free trial of our basic tier, complete with all the bells and whistles.
Why? So many possible clients were turned off by how little the free trial offering at mentio and lots of our subscribers suggested that users needed to taste the full experience to see the real value.

How We Made It Happen:

- Changed our marketing/outreach to showcase full-access perks
- Created a no-fuss cancellation policy (trust is key!)
- Set up friendly trial-end reminders (no sneaky auto-renewals here!)

The Results: Everybody was happier.

- Customers could see the real product and assess the matter better.
- Our sales faced less resistance, as prospects were already familiar with the full feature set.
- Product development became more focused, as we received higher quality feedback from users who had experienced all aspects of Mentio’s offering.

Full access = clear value = more subscriptions. User engagement went higher than I expected.

The Big Lesson: Users will pay when they see real, tangible benefits. Clear communication about the trial terms is crucial to avoid headaches later.
So, free tier or free trial? I ain’t saying there's one-size-fits-all answer, but understanding your users and being transparent can guide you to the right choice.

Has anyone else here made a similar switch? I'd love to hear your stories and insights.
Are you talking about neuronal clusters in other parts of the body
And by Fastmail
> 2) confirm the tax liability (eg the Austrian gov provided a limited time hash-based URL where the bank could check a limited amount of the friends records; somewhat like sharing driving license details with car rental companies)

Why should this be required? If I want to send money to my friend because I like them and want to give them money, then the bank should have no role beyond verifying that I am sending it to the person I intended. I shouldn't only be able to send money to address an immediately provable tax liability.
thanks! This version is English only but I'm working to support other languages.
Agreed. For some situations, it might well be easier to take advantage of the static nature of the site and use SQLite compared to setting up a Postgres server. For others, setting up a server could be easier than the “easy” options.
Intel Arc has a cult following already. All they need to do is double down and make it better.

If they managed to allow consumer Arcs to vfio it would be huge in the homelab market
It should not work (yet), at least not the official firmware or the RogueMaster. It requires special auth command(s) instead of the usual. Hopefully soon tho!
You're right, I spoke too freely and should have said legal methods of competition. What you're missing from your quote though is 'unreasonable'. Many types of restraint of trade, like exclusive business arrangements, are reasonable until the parties are at or near monopoly status. Or take price fixing that only works when the parties fixing the prices form a monopoly around the good.

To tie this back to Google, just being declared a monopoly will now change how they do business. Deals they made before are no longer on the table and would be deemed unfair because Google is a monopoly.
> “What in the world does _words_used_as_words_ mean?” would be a valid way of formatting that question according to the guide: that's what they mean.

I think you are answering my question, but I still don't understand. How else than as words would words be used? Are you saying that the underlining here is serving the purpose of quotation marks?
Since searealist has not, I will. <https://x.com/cremieuxrecueil/status/1732087511327908128>

Basically, every US ethnic group does better than their countries of origin.
High energy density picoliter-scale Zn-air microbatteries for colloidal robotics
That would be great! I usually search and end up on YouTube. Most videos for specific features are longer than needed when you only need to see how to do something quickly.
IMO a downside of SQLite that isn't discussed as often as it should be is the poor support for some table operations like ALTER COLUMN. Need to change a column to null / not null? Drop a foreign key constraint? Tough luck, in some cases the only way to implement a change is recreating the table.
The wages in the US are incredible while still being much less than 500k
Blender is mainly for visualisation, but I've used it for 3D printing. You can set up models in a parametric way by using modifier stacks (e.g. screw, solidify, subdiv etc) or geometry nodes, but I imagine other software is more advanced in this regard, or needs less customization and thought.
Correct. <https://x.com/cremieuxrecueil/status/1732478253225443777>
This assumes a non-quantum attacker
A side question. The advantage of JSX I see is the ability to connect, declaratively, components. I find this very helpful in terms of understanding programs I write. I wonder if I use React not because of the virtual dom, but simply because of JSX.

So I would like to explore the ability to use JSX in non-DOM environments. react-three-fiber does this with Threejs, but then it is still React oriented. I found this article about parsing JSX https://blog.bitsrc.io/demystifying-jsx-building-your-own-js.... And I know babel has something that parses JSX.

Does anyone have recommendations for doing this. Threejs to me a good candidate - a non React version, since it is a hierarchical system (scene, meshes, materials etc), but I suspect there are other applications.

I made an attempt to implement a Javascript version of Hickey's transducers - a sort of conveyor belt of functions and that is another instance of a series of processing steps that might be best represented in JSX
used also by recoll, the desktop search app: https://www.recoll.org/
> because the scam victim would be a honeypot most of the time

The pool of potential victims is the entire population with a bank account, meaning at least the majority of adults.
The percentage that would fall of it and agree is certainly not 100%, but it is definitely higher than I personally expected years ago.
That still results in a ton of possible victims.

Give such a large pool, how can a police honeypot be the scam victim “most of the time”?
> Making transfers now involves multi step questionnaires with big scary warnings about scams at every stage.

I keep screenshots of banking websites warning about scams and phishing attempts as well as screenshots of articles in online newspapers about phishing attacks being on the rise. It's pure insanity.
It sounds to me like GP got told stuff exactly like this, with the team eventually not actually doing the thing.
Lightweight library for scraping web-sites with LLMs
I think this is inaccurate, people simply feel like its hard to keep up with all the abuses and that they are powerless to stop them by voting with their wallet.

But they do want politicians to outlaw such practices, which indicates they aren't happy and satisfied with the status quo.
I know places that still do it that way. Not necessarily tiny places either.
What? Have you ever hired before? This sounds exactly like the unrealistically simple view of someone that’s never been in this position before.

You thought people were never supposed to answer that question? Well, they do. Especially developers, who are more introverted than average, on average, and are easy to catch off guard.

I have a budget, sure. Unless your corporate setup is one that especially takes all power away from hiring managers, it’s almost always more complex than that. Maybe I could move some money around to free more budget up. Maybe someone on my team is a retention risk and I need to weigh up priorities. Maybe a billion billion other things.

Your personal budget, no matter how implicit or explicit it is, almost certainly isn’t this simple so I have no idea why anyone thinks it works this way at work. Any organisation that is that simple and rigid isn’t capable of rolling with the punches, and isn’t somewhere anyone should want to work.
You Can Gaslight Yourself into Loving Someone
High profile Turing papers banned from leaving UK
This seems to have been a pattern with all the 80s home platforms, especially in Europe.

I came from the Commodore Amiga, and used mine still in the early 00's all hacked up with cottage industry expansions and software hacks as a Mini-workstation writing LaTeX and C/C++ for Uni and a somewhat functional browser.

The Atari ST had a similar trajectory post Atari with FreeMiNT, and even smaller the Archimedes and Sinclair QL did!
MySQL would also silently lose your data
Warren Buffett has a term for this, it's called "float". At my current (active, not abandoned) startup, my guess is somewhere around 30% of active paying customers are also non-users. Lots of industries have this. The majority of gym membership sales (50%+) and even a significant number of airline tickets are unused.
I like it, but once you get that far it's probably better to have a tiny python script parse the config file and then use it.
I encourage everyone to improve OSM and add the not found POIs not only to appear on Organic Maps , to make everyone to have a open database of geolocated information
I've experimented with a bunch of different ways to keep track of my to-do lists, everything from phone apps and Notion to jotting down notes and recording voice memos. I even got a whiteboard for my home office, thinking that having my tasks always in sight would keep me on track. But after all that, what really works best for me is just a simple text file on my computer. I start a new file every week, list out everything I need to do (whether it’s for work or personal stuff), and check things off as I go. Sometimes, the simplest solutions really are the most effective.
>Not only is paying taxes not even correlated with education spending, spending per student is extremely high all across the USA

Correct. Contrary to what is often said, there is no shortage whatsoever of funding for public schools in urban areas. New York City spends more per student than anywhere else in the US. <https://www.silive.com/news/2019/06/how-much-does-new-york-c...> Baltimore, an incredibly poor and run-down city, spends the third most. #4-6 and #8 are all wealthy suburbs of Washington DC, but their schools are all far better than those of Baltimore or NYC on average, despite Baltimore spending slightly more per student and NYC spending 60-70% more.

>and results are extremely poor, especially on a spending basis.

Perhaps the latter is true, but the former is not. <https://x.com/cremieuxrecueil/status/1732478253225443777>

Basically, every US ethnic group does better than their countries of origin.
> Why do we just dismiss what the Russians keep saying? They keep saying they don’t want US weapon systems on their border.

If you listen to Russians, then you're left with an impression that they are being surrounded by US weapons on their borders. If you look at the numbers, then that turns out to be a blatant misrepresentation of truth. For example, the US fielded ~5000 main battle tanks in Europe at the end of the Cold War. In 2013, the last 10 were removed. The opposite is true: post-Cold War era has brought rapid disarmament to Europe, which has emboldened Russia to invade Ukraine, because disarmament has limited how much and how quickly allies could help Ukraine.

> But I think it’s kind of obvious that the core Russian desire is to keep nato far from its borders.

Ironically, this is "obvious" only if you accept the premise that Russia is determined to violate the security of its neighbors.
I tried to look it up, but are any bootable GNO/ME disk images around? I'd like to see it run in an emulator just out of curiosity.
If I have a meta app, where can I see this stuff?
Why can't you run Postgres on a 4 USD droplet? They seem to have 512 MB RAM, that is enough for a basic Postgres instance and a HTTP application server.
What a burden!
Yes. Like Trump, Musk isn't a libertarian - he's an opportunist who espouses pop-libertarian ideals when it suits him. Musk's leadership style is typical of an autocratic dyed-in-the-wool capitalist, and by accounts Trump is the same.
The older I get the less I care about others opinion of me.
funny paper, I still don't know what was the goal of it. It is evident to anyone that LLM can't perform any meaningful reasoning, why even bothering in building such an infrastructure to test whether it is able to become a "scientist".
Pretty sure lawsuits will make them lose a lot more from now on. Would wait at least 6m to buy…
Most of the companies fail at knowledge transfer as they have very poor documenting culture.
The BaFin regulatory failure was pretty spectacular too, despite the lid that the German establishment tried to put on it. Not so much has leaked out so far, mainly because prosecutors have declined to take much action against the regulator or its employees and officers, however what is known is pretty damning.

First, they ignored early - like TEN YEARS - and relatively continuous warnings about fraud at Wirecard.

Then they legally targeted journalists who pointed out misconduct at Wirecard (!!!)

Then they banned short-sellers from shorting Wirecard (!!!!!!) and indeed in internal memos mentioned that short-sellers were Israelis and British citizens in some kind of bigoted justification for the ban. Gross and disgusting, but perhaps par for the course in some levels of the government there.

They tried to cover up malfeasance within their own org, including at least one, but probably more employees undertaking insider trades on Wirecard before its failure.

But don’t be too worried about the poor chauffeur-driven bureaucrats at BaFin!

They’ve since reorganised and added more senior employees to an already bloated and ineffectual regulator who are culturally in bed with the regulated entities.

The gravy train must continue.

(Just reviewing what happened through internet searches has caused steam to come out of my ears again. What the actual fuck was BaFin doing all those years?)
Not OP but Hatchet was an assigned book when I was in 5th grade (American Midwest school), it’s pretty common for early school age kids to read. It’s got some slightly intense scenes in it, but nothing that 5th grade me was too scarred by (the scene where he has to go into the lake to get something from the plane and sees the corpse of the dead pilot was pretty scary to 10-year-old me but that’s about as bad as it got.)
> 【Keyboard letter styles are sent randomly】

Are new parts being made, or are they only sourcing from old stock?
Speaking of which, here's the article about banks in the UK now being forced to reimburse scam victims:

https://archive.is/iNupf

Anyone knows what the situation is in the EU regarding this? Do banks in the EU (or the Eurozone) have to reimburse scam victims too?