skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hello! This year I've been working on building an integrated registration and live timing platform [0] for my local organizers in CA, but it is spreading. Very fun/rewarding project. I hope to launch my own cellular-based timing hardware this year which will integrate into the timing platform (right now I've reverse engineered and now support 5 different chronometers, I never knew cross platform serial port comms was such a PITA). Getting cellular based timers synchronized should be fun, although I'll probably opt for some super simple solution, we'll see...

Also continuing to build FastComments [1] and hoping to continue to grow that.

[0] https://sidewaysdata.com

[1] https://fastcomments.com
https://us.ovhcloud.com/vps/

https://www.hetzner.com/cloud/

OVH also has SoYouStart which is around $2 per month. I also remember getting yearly commitments and under $3 per month deals. You have to subscribe to their email blasts to get these deals but $3-4 per month is average for the industry.

There is also Digital Ocean which is around $4 per month. I've been using them for over a decade. Not even one time down. Sometimes I see deals under $3 per month. https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing
Do you have pictures of your process or results?
What you’re saying is equivalent to throwing out all of mathematics due to the incompleteness theorem and start praying to fried egg jellyfish on full moon
Fixing JavaScript Date
gangs of 12 year old roaming the swedish streets? you sure, it's not monty python playing in your head?
I'm scratching an itch. I'm a huge fan of system monitoring and alerting when they go down. It allows the engineers in charge of the production systems to sleep well knowing that things are working.

There's a gap for email monitoring. How many times did you have to awkwardly explain why the notification emails in your app stopped sending a month ago? Or that time when the weekly summary report did no go out on Friday, and on Monday you were chewed out by the boss? Or when Jerry went on vacation and neglected to send the weekly marketing campaign email.With

[I'm building https://wasitsent.com - you get an alert when your emails *stop* sending. It's like an uptime monitor for email sending. If something breaks your email sending process, we'll let you know.

If you would like to see such a service, or have feedback (positive AND negative) about it, please let me know. If you heard of other companies offering something like this, I'd love to know as well.
How is that different from any other country?

Jail them, fire them is a pretty common demand on the left and right.

And fo be fair not everyone can surveillance the whole Internet like the US do or can enforce local laws worldwide.

Things like like the CloudAct and
FISA section 702.

Not to mention that free speech sounds good, but you still can get fired and lose your income and health insurance.

So it's free speech for people like Musk and many others self censor their posts.
Ok. Now pee in a cup or you're fired.
This tends to happen whenever there is any tinge of geopolitics in the discussion. That subject has a remarkable ability of making monkeys out of people.
This is a fantastic comment because of how right you think you are, how utterly wrong you are in reality, and the context being the assertion that people don’t like to feel stupid. Thank you so much for this.

In the metaphorical galaxy brain comic of this situation, “GATE programs fell out of fashion because of tall poppy syndrome” is the first or AT BEST the third frame.

It’s the line of thinking held by the ‘uninformed self-described smart guy’ contingent, that knows nothing about education, yet think that they can intuit their way through it. It’s unrealistic, naive, and utterly condescending. It’s no surprise that I see it so much in tech people.
That's a system put in place against the legal system but it's not a technical limitation. For example, he will be able to look into the chats of his ex without the need of court orders of multiple unfriendly countries proving that the situation is grave and universal one.

When the limitation is not technical, your only guarantee is the integrity of the operators and the lack of interest of your attackers coercing the operators into spying on you.

In Telegram's case one could easily assume that the Russians and now the French said him "Nice fortune you built, you are very successful person with a long life to live ahead. It would be a shame if you lose your fortune or spent your days locked in a room instead of flying on a private jet to Ibiza"
Oh! So that’s why my teachers made us memorize row by row: For me 54 and 56 are in an entirely different category (resp the 6 and 8 categories), didn’t even realize they landed in the same dozen when learning my tables!

And I don’t have a good memory either.
Also learning Golang!
In case someone is as confused as I was, a french is a gauge unit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_catheter_scale

It's also a good joke opportunity, but for the link above it's not a joke.
Afaik WhatsApp and signal group chats have been way to small for that.

In Telegram you can have 10k and more in a channel
how do you solve the initial chicken and egg problem, ie if no initial users then lesser engagement -> user churn?
I remember when that went around the intertoobs. Subsequent research showed that didn't work with plenty of other text.
Working on adding better phrase matching for Marginalia Search.

The way position used to be stored in the search engine was approximate, using something like a bloom filter. With this change, they'll be stored in an exact fashion using a gamma coded positions list instead.

In the phase of dotting t:s and dashing i:s at this point. Hope to have it in production in September.
Hey! I'm working on Getgud.io, an AI-powered game analytics and anti-cheat platform. Our goal is to provide complete observability into player behavior, detect cheaters and griefers, and help game developers improve player retention.

Some key features we're working on:
- AI-powered analysis of in-match player actions to detect anomalies
- Customizable rules engine for automated responses to toxic behavior
- Visual replay system for reviewing flagged matches

Check out our website at https://www.getgud.io and watch our detection video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EhTpfEzh1M to see Getgud.io in action.

We support server-side integration for popular platforms like Unreal Engine and Unity. For integration guides and SDK references, visit our docs at https://github.com/getgud-io/getgud-docs.

Happy to chat more about game analytics and cheat detection if anyone's interested!
NSW Australia 'BluLink' platform for public to send GPS, live video to police
The trouble is that government contracts always strongly incentivize ‘excessive outsourcing’, and Boeing’s absorption of MD increased the dependence on government contracts, though Boeing was already on that road (especially after taking on Rockwell). Government oversight (almost) always discourages large profit margins, which makes increasing low-risk costs very appealing. In addition to that, there are strong political incentives for ‘distributing’ contracts widely, with the Space Shuttle being a famous example of this, having parts made or assembled in 48 different states.
> is a big concern to me

And I get that, it’s obvious given the choice you pick the safer aircraft. But in a broader context the numbers are so low it’s hard to contemplate.

Currently it’s 2 per 6 million flights. Spend the cost of a flight on Powerball tickets and you’re more likely to with the jackpot than have been on one of those fatal crashes. But people still think of those risks and chances as worth thinking about, which is also why lotteries stick around.
Hi there! We published our book(https://softwareengineeringhandbook.com/) in May 2024, but getting visibility has been a challenge. We've posted on HN before and are currently using Amazon ads, but the results have been underwhelming so far. Any advice or strategies for improving our reach would be greatly appreciated!
Congrats on escaping misdiagnosis purgatory. I can empathize. Did anything in particular help you finally find the help you needed?
Titles may not be summaries, but you would be surprised to know how many people form their opinion about the body of an article based solely on the title.

Your statement about people defending Tesla and Musk always coming across as "try hard" is subjective. I could say the same about you, who consistently criticize Tesla and Musk as try hard, but I won't, because I prefer to focus on the facts rather than making generalizations.

I would have posted a similar comment if the submission title was something like "Samsung beats Apple in July sales by 300 devices" while the article revealed that, year-to-date, Apple had actually outsold Samsung by a 3:1 margin and if it wasn’t true. In such a case, I would consider the title to be misleading.

I chose to comment on this specific post because I am familiar with the automotive industry.
It appears that the source cited in the article may be misleading because The data from https://eu-evs.com/bestSellersCharts/ALL/Brands/Bar/Year-by-... does not seem to support the claim made in the title.

In the future, instead of attacking the poster as "try hard," it would be best for everyone to read beyond the title, verify the sources, and engage in constructive discussions.
Ask HN: Looking for late cofounder (200k$ ARR)
I started a B2B AI company 3 months ago, already reaching 200k$ ARR. I solo applied to YC, had a quick chat where they suggested bringing someone on to the team.

Happy to potentially bring someone on to a profitable company with a clear growth path ahead. If this creates an even stronger company long term, this is in any case a win, with or without YC.

Myself :
- Cambridge CS PhD + 5 years in industry
- Sales + marketing experience

Looking for someone :
- Technical and industry / research experience
- Good vibes + can do mindset
Right now I'm working on withdrawing money from cs.money and Steam balance.

It's been sitting there for years, and I finally found health, time, and dedication to withdraw it.

On cs.money I had $35k and on Steam balance I had $12k.

The only way to get money from cs.money trade mode is to buy skins and sell them somewhere else.

On Steam, on the other hand, I buy Steam Decks via Steam balance and sell them locally.

I have sold 3 in the last 2 days.

Last 2 days I've been taking a short break from coding a bot for cs.money to recover some health back (I have RSI).
I've been trying to fit Loader's number, winner of the BIGNUM BAKEOFF contest [1], into a tweet (280 bytes). Yesterday, I finally succeeded [2].

Btw, I just noticed that Bignum Bakeoff has the same acronym as Busy Beaver. How appropriate!

[1] https://djm.cc/bignum-results.txt

[2] https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/176966/golf-a-n...
Russian-controlled is an overstatment, but it's definitely Russian-influenced. There seems to have been some kind of balance - Durov allowed the Russians some limited control in exchange for being allowed to operate in Russia. The publicly visible manifestation of this deal was, for instance, the ban on "Путь домой" (Way home) channel where the wifes of mobilized men organized their movement. I'm not stating this necessarily happened as a result of some direct negotiations - maybe Durov just intuitively probed "the red lines", who knows.
England has no real defense industry to speak of. They no longer have the ability to produce the steal needed for e.g. surface ships, they have to import it. Germany still has the ingredients for a defense industrial base, and so does France. Trump, well, he's right on this one. There's a pretty serious free-rider problem that's been festering since the Berlin wall fell.
A long time ago I built a Nagios script for verifying email end to end. It would trigger a test email to be sent from the app to a known mailbox and measure the time to receipt in that mailbox. Simple but extremely effective, and several times it caught a failing in the mail stack somewhere.

It also got used to validate enquires@/hello@/contact forms were delivering, especially to set small business owners minds at rest.
This is very interesting! Please share what you can! I've been looking at something similar for MySQL for work myself.
I was pretty skeptical, which is why I asked for examples, but I’m not particularly up on this subject, so I was hoping you could explain why he’s wrong.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39803702

This got pretty close to perfect for me
The search issue is also present with the docs for Ruby 3.3[1] and earlier. Incidentally, "String" is an even better example, as the the class is the fifth result returned after four other very obscure classes.

[1]: https://docs.ruby-lang.org/en/3.3/
> This is how I felt when I first tried to figure out what common core math was, after I kept hearing about it. It sounded like the people who made it were trying to create a process around what I would do in my head to try and solve a problem when I didn’t have paper or a calculator handy.

> What common core, and this reading approach, seem to miss is that those are things that come after learning the foundations and rules.

The CA Common Core for math¹ is a very tiny spec that can be easily read in a day for the entirety of K-12. It's a spec meant to coordinate textbook publishers, test makers, and other content creators.

It offers very little restriction or guidance, in other words wide latitude, on pedagogical vision.

[1]: https://www.cde.ca.gov/BE/ST/SS/documents/ccssmathstandardau...
Telegram CEO Arrested in France
We use a similar email monitoring tool from https://ert.digitconsulting.net/ It integrates with our RMM. So there is definitely a demand for a service like this. But I would expect that paying customers will want it to integrate with a monitoring platform, more than just a message on slack/teams
And then we didn’t even talk about Spain, and all the German tourists in, say, Mallorca. If anything, this is a stark difference between the EU and the US, in general — the EU is much less afraid of a nipple being shown in public, both in arts and everything.
I don’t think the weight of cell phones has been an issue since the 80s or 90s. At some point a phones size and weight is about what’s comfortable to hold. Being too thin or too light can start to create new problems.

If the UI was streaming, I think the up front hardware cost would be replaced by a monthly fee required to run the servers required to send the feed, which would probably be more expensive over the life of the phone.

The hardware could also not be a completely dumb thin client. With the cameras, there needs to be enough inside to handle focus, capture, and a buffer to store the photos/videos to upload. Would there also be lag in the viewfinder, with the camera having to send the live image up to the server and back down to the UI, or would this part switch over of a bare bones local UI? Maps would need GPS in the phone to tell the server where it is. Various accelerometers would still be needed, then I guess the local accelerometer would need to make a call to the server to tell it to rotate the screen… even with a fast connection, I’d have to imagine some lag there. Biometric unlock would also need some local hardware. I’m sure there is much more.

Doing all this from a remote system doesn’t seem practical. Too much still needs to be in the phone itself, that it would seem impossible for the benefits to outweigh the costs.
Accessibility-wise it has problems. Font-size, colour, contrast to name a few. And overuse of bold. When everything has emphasis, nothing does.

And green? How did that get approved?

I'm glad things are still moving in the Ruby community. I use it every day. But Elixir is winning the mind-share battle over Ruby at $dayjob these days. And their documents is second to none. One of the best that I've used.
Where does it say they don't have the keys? It literally says they store the keys in their own datacenters. Which is obvious anyway, otherwise the API wouldn't be able to return the unencrypted data.
How many of the US brightest go work in aerospace engineering these days?

Edit: and to those that do, SpaceX probably looks a lot more attractive.
I'm currently working on https://brickranker.com/

It's basically a website for tracking the value of LEGO sets and minifigures. For example see https://brickranker.com/rankings/minifigures/star-wars for a list of the most valuable LEGO Star Wars minifigures.

You can also catalogue your own collection and track it's value at https://brickranker.com/collections
> unfortunately KQL doesn't seem to have INSERT, UPDATE etc.

(Disclaimer: I'm an engineer at Microsoft, and I use Kusto basically every day)

This seems to me to be a deliberate design choice. Microsoft doesn't want engineers mutating the databases by hand. There are mechanisms to do that (mostly outside of Kusto, and usually to resolve privacy incidents), but the common case of querying is not supposed to allow for arbitrary changes to the database.
Maybe the only way to be good at reading for basic proficiency is to just reading more? Not sure why there are so many theories and practices. I have two anecdotes. Not that they count, but in case other people had similar experiences: One is that I didn't know how to read when I entered my first grade. For the entire first grade, I read only my textbook, which was too simple to help me read other books. And then in the summer time after my first grade, I picked up a book for fairy tales of animals, and I read along. I didn't look up a dictionary, I skipped the words that I didn't understand. And miraculously reading was never a problem for me any more. I repeated the pattern when I started to learn English. In English it was a graded reading by National Geographic, if I recall correctly, and later popular fictions by Sidney Sheldon. And then Japanese and then Spanish. I repeated the same pattern. In Japanese I started with 多読, and for Spanish La Alchimista, and Si Hubiera un Mañana after some graded readers. The reading just naturally became easier over time.

Another anecdote was that even the most struggled students in my classes, throughout my middle school and high school, had no problem reading popular fictions. And by struggle I mean they would fail pretty much every subject and could barely graduate high school. However, there were a few extremely popular novels when I grew up, and everyone talked about them. So, every student read them. The novels were written in pretty elegant language with lots of sophisticated words, yet my classmates had no problem understanding them.
>the most objectively correct next word in a sequence of words

Why should I believe, in the first place, that this is even a coherent concept?
Hey Tim! Just wonder if you were inspired by Hot Glue.

https://hotglue.me
Didn't protesters use Telegram for coordination as well? Lack of moderation sure hits both ways, but is the balance really in favour of governments? I'd be surprised if this is the case.
And I have no idea what you think you're adding to the discussion by adding this 'context'.

That phrase has a life of its own, and has stood the test of time.

When someone says that e=mc2, do you feel a need to make sure everyone knows the 'context' that Einstein took credit for some of his wife's work?

When someone quotes Gandhi to say "Be the change that you wish to see in the world", do you talk about him sleeping in a bed with his niece?

By the way, if you live in the West then your comfortable lifestyle is based on the work of slaves of various degrees. From forced prison laborers in America to cobalt and lithium miners in Africa, to actual full-on slave markets in Libya because tptb didn't like how un-exploitable the country was getting. We're all hypocrites, and pointing that out when it's not relevant just derails discussion.

Btw, Ben Franklin became an abolitionist later in life. He was elected as the president of the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery around 1785.
> instead, they very quickly recognize a word as a sequence of letters

This appears to be the very basic, which is far from being enough to become a "skilled reader".
I'm working on a framework to convert code into video, with a focus on helping creators and software educators. Ultimate goal is that you could automate nearly any educational coding video you could think of. Stretch goal is to fine tune an AI so that a step by step video could be generated from a blog post, book chapter, etc.

https://codevideo.io

also see fframes https://fframes.studio/ - not mine but similar "declarative code to video" framework
> We're creating Serpent OS, an independent Linux distribution built from the ground up to look after itself.
I pay for both Claude and ChatGPT.

Claude 3.5 is now my daily driver but it still refuses to answer certain questions especially about geopolitics so I still have to go back to ChatGPT.

I don’t agree that Claude is insanely superior to ChatGPT though. It still has trouble with LaTeX and optimization formulations. Its coding abilities are good but sometimes ChatGPT does better.

This is why I keep both subscriptions. At $40/math I get the best of both worlds.
X is blocking search results for '#Telegram'
This is exactly why (good) defenders work by threat modeling using different perspectives and representations: one of them being attack graphs. But yes, a lot of the mandated compliance and governance stuff is just checking lists, which is why it does not work.
Never really been much of a problem. I will say that OpenDyslexic is one of the hardest to read I have ever tried though.
The RCL configuration language, https://rcl-lang.org / https://github.com/ruuda/rcl. Lately I'm working on support for floats to complete the json superset promise. Also I added a shorthand for "query --format=raw" to make it more useful as a jq replacement.
I was an inner city “gifted kid” - although I’m proud of what I have accomplished so far, I feel like my potential was stifled, as you said mis-handled. I’m very interested in helping inner city gifted kids today unlock their full potential. How could I start?
Although you must admit it works moderately well. So we probably make use of the effect, among other things (your human mind may vary).
Good for you! Graphics and audio (music, sfx) are such a huge part of game dev that every time I attempt to get in, I walk away shortly afterwards
The main font color for Ruby is... green?
Stock buyback for investor gratification enabled the most optimal way for executives to keep meeting kpis in the short term rather than long term investments
Im working on MLJAR Studio, new Python editor perfect for beginners. It has set of interactive code recipes with Graphical Interface. You can create scripts with it. Additionally, it automatically install and import missing packages. It is a kind a new way for visual programming. Most of recupes are ML and AI focused. You can read more on https://mljar.com/docs
Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems.
so does its man page https://git-scm.com/docs/git
I know regulation isn’t as popular on HN as it is on, say, Reddit, but note that this is going to be enabling a lot of innovation in mobile apps in the EU.
I am not sure what the rationale was (probably security), but this was a concious upstream change: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1764223
With my 1988 IOCCC entry

char*M,A,Z,E=40,J[40],T[40];main(C){for(*J=A=scanf(M="%d",&C);
-- E; J[ E] =T
[E ]= E) printf("._"); for(;(A-=Z=!Z) || (printf("\n|"
) , A = 39 ,C --
) ; Z || printf (M ))M[Z]=Z[A-(E =A[J-Z])&&!C
& A == T[ A]
|6<<27<rand()||!C&!Z?J[T[E]=T[A]]=E,J[T[A]=A-Z]=A,"_.":" |"];}

discussed in more detail in Don Libes' "Obfuscated C and Other Mysteries" [1],
I turned out to have rediscovered Eller's algorithm, which only keeps one line of the maze in memory.

[1] https://tromp.github.io/maze.html