skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolutely I was shocked to see almost all movies on that Amazon streaming service are 4€ to watch onces. Why pay for the service when most movies are not included and need additional purchases.

I would like to see some data actually about each streaming service content availability in a chart by country with over time changes.
America eliminated malaria endemic to the South through dedicated and systematic control measures. While they weren't able to eliminate mosquitoes, I'm confident we could if we really wanted to. We've eliminated smallpox, passenger pigeons, emu, dodo, and likely dozens of late Pleistocene American megafauna herbivores.
You're right, looks like Apple has a form for it if you public an app in the app store that supports encryption other than what is provided by Apple. I see posts from app developers complaining about it and debating whether to check the "none" box or just leave France out. Presumably Google does the same.

Now that I know, I'm actually surprised that Telegram would not have filed that form given its size. How could they have gotten it through Apple's review without doing it?
Ask HN: Writing a Shell in Go, Advice
I like Go, and I'm thinking about writing a shell in it, but I'm not sure how well Go's runtime will play with fork and exec (probably not well). Any advice?
You can test for this. For example, we had routines that were called on repeated HTTP failures that would then get 5 or so of the top US websites. If those fail too, it moves from an application error to an infra one.
This is a non-issue. Lost money on one of the trades, may have gained on the other, very short term and quickly identified and reported, didn't involve a lot of money.

There are things worth outrage, this isn't one of them.
If you actually need to lose weight (which, statistically, most Americans do), in my experience you will be hungry at some point even with a pretty healthy diet. There’s just no way around the body’s response to a reasonable caloric deficit. The key is being able to actually have the willpower to ignore those pangs. Maybe you won’t be hungry immediately, but a 500cal deficit (which, is a pretty light deficit) is quite a lot.

Most folks are likely at a mild surplus of calories, so the swing to actually get you to lose weight is often as substantial as 700-1000cal to actually lose weight. Per day. It’s a lifestyle change, unfortunately.
I think that the vast majority of it is unnecessary, and a lot of it makes the car actively less desirable.
Many do go out of business, and many substantially undercut others. This is particularly true for the diesel market, where OTR truck operators are more price sensitive. Most stations are buying gas around similar prices at the terminal, but their overhead to provide the station can vary wildly between large chains and small, family owned stations.

“Skimmers” (drastically lower-priced diesel stations) are a real threat to larger chain stations. They don’t put them out of business entirely for a number of reasons, but one is because gas stations ultimately sell more than gas/diesel (e.g. a clean bathroom is often worth a few extra cents per gallon for me, but there’s a lot more than that too). Also any given station can’t sell an infinite amount of fuel. Beyond tank capacity, wait times are a real impact on sales volume, and so if a station offers a price too low (even if still profitable), it is just leaving money on the table.

So not to say collusion doesn’t happen, but one can also arrive at similar pricing with a commodity like gas without it. Especially since fuel margins are typically low.
The only concern that really resonated with me is:

>“I am concerned that automation and the ease of the technology would cause police officers to be sort of less careful with their writing,” said Ferguson, a law professor at American University working on what’s expected to be the first law review article on the emerging technology.

>Ferguson said a police report is important in determining whether an officer’s suspicion “justifies someone’s loss of liberty.” It’s sometimes the only testimony a judge sees, especially for misdemeanor crimes.

With the worry being that an officer might not catch an error that the LLM hallucinated or that they'll just overly trust the AI and not give it earnest review.

That said, this sort of summarization seems to be something LLMs do well, I suspect it'll be more accurate than humans in the long run if it isn't already.
I work as a contractor. My company is one country, my legal entity that receives SWIFT transfers, invoiced every week, is in a second country, and I live and pay medical insurance in a third country.
They already can reject your appeal based on BS like you didn't fax a form correctly (or more likely, you did but they claim they didn't get it), or they require a peer consult with your doctor and chose a time he wasn't available (on purpose).
And don't forget they already use tech to speed up denials - Cigna had one doctor "review" and sign off on 60,000 a month via automation. That's under a minute a case, assuming he worked 24/7. It takes longer than that just to fax in your form. So you submit an appeal via AI, they spend 20 seconds rejecting it, with their tech stack from a few years ago. If they invest in AI it's only getting worse for individuals unless there are new regulations that put the burden of proof on the corps instead of on patients and doctors.
Yes.

Languages

* C should have had standard types comparable to Rust's Vec and String. Pascal did. Null terminated strings were a terrible idea, and are still a curse. Plus a sane set of string functions, not "strcat" and its posse. Didn't have to be part of a general object system. Should have happened early.

* Slices. Easy to implement in a compiler, eliminates most of the need for pointer arithmetic. Again, should have happened early.

Those two alone would have eliminated tens of thousands of pointer bugs and decades of security holes.

Operating systems

* UNIX should have had better interprocess communication. It took decades to get that in, and it's still not that good in Linux. QNX had that figured out in the 1980s. There were some distributed UNIX variants that had it. System V had something.

Networking

* Alongside TCP, there should have been a reliable message-oriented protocol. Send a message, of any length, it gets delivered reliably. Not a stream, so you don't have issues around "is there more coming?". There are RFCs for such protocols, but they never went anywhere.

Databases

* Barely existed. This resulted in many hokey workarounds.

With all of those, we could have had CRUD apps by the late 1980s. That covers a whole range of use cases.
There were client/server systems, but each had its own system of client/server interconnection. With all of the above,
it would have been much easier to write basic server applications.
Yeah, that's probably true. I'm just an indie dev looking for a job and bringing lawyers into this probably wouldn't make sense for my situation.
No idea what smart watch you have but the latest (series 9) Apple Watch has (up to) 2 GB of RAM and 5 Tflop of computing power, while the PC junior had 256 kilobytes of ram and .33 megaflops of computing.

nodejs' main binary on my laptop is 44 MiB.

The Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) we put a man on the Moon with could do 4 kilo instructions per second and 0.43 megaflops and had 2KB of RAM. Apple watch is roughly 900x as fast as the AGC while being being .67 x as large and less than 1% of the weight.

Vs the PC Jr, it's almost 2000x the size of an Apple watch and like 150x heavier.
Hopefully they review it very carefully and not well after the event so the memory is fresh.

Otherwise, you may forget important details and just think it was correct if you need to reference it later. We know how influential someone's memory can be.

There is something to be said about needing to write this stuff down fully to commit it to memory.

I agree that this is likely going to end badly.
There's no formal definition of MRR. Do you count transactions refunded as fraud after the fact? What about transactions that were partially refunded by your support team? What month do transactions that take more than one day to settle fall in? Of course that needs to be timezone-adjusted as well.

What about the case where recurring transactions fall on the 30th and 31st of each month? They'll be processed on the last day of the month, including February 28. But depending on your time zone, they might actually happen on the first of the subsequent month in _your_ time zone.

You could instead sum up recurring subscription amounts. Do you count trials? What about users who have credit or a balance on their customer object? Are you counting users whose subscription is set to expire at the end of the billing period, but who have already paid for the month?

If you ask 20 people how they should be calculating MRR, you'll probably get at least 10 different answers that produce 10 different numbers. That's why Stripe doesn't offer this as an API.
Site loaded almost instantly for me. Paging through some catalogs was very fluid also.
There's a graphic novel I liked about the life and work of Audubon. For anybody interested...

Audubon, On The Wings Of The World
Looks very cool from what I can see. Any plans to have an open / public API? For many associations past a certain size, an integration is going to become an inevitability (syncing member lists between systems is the most common, but also events, i.e. letting people register for an event on your site and then syncing to Zoom for automatic registration and email handling).
Pure Irish Butter not so pure
There are numerous projects completed today for "retro" computers that run on unmodified hardware that would have been almost unimaginable "back in the day" and the vastly more powerful development tools (running on today's hardware of course) is surely a big factor. The fact that you can debug a game for the BBC Micro, say, by emulating the entire system and seeing at a glance frame by frame what everything is doing makes some tricks feasible that would have been incredibly difficult to pull off in the machines hey day.
Sadly missing Convox - particularly I'm looking for examples of things each excel at against each other.
Having rather basic car. Only two pieces of tech I would like is adaptive cruise and backup camera... And I could install backup camera, but don't feel like doing the wiring...
Yeah! That's what I noticed as well from the banner.
Poang appears to use oak and beechwood-based plywood - at least from a quick Google search.

Both Oak and Beechwood are considered a hardwood.

So yeah, it should be more durable than their pine-based furniture.
I like learning a little about a lot of things as I’m the entrepreneurial type, but I’m really good at very few things. I appreciate having workers who specialize in one or two things really deeply though.
I think its easier to program LLMs than humans. You can change the dataset, or have explicit prompts to remove biases.

Just look at how Google got their LLMs to re-imagine the founding fathers to remove bias.
For fun (and no profits!), I built an AI-powered haiku poetry and generative visual art app. It started as a daily puzzle (https://haikudle.ai, previously shown on HN), then evolved into an authoring tool with curated daily haikus (https://HaikuGenius.ai).

To learn more about SEO, digital marketing, and other areas I hadn't explored in much depth yet, I tried bringing it to market with modest success. It's been a fun journey so far, and I’ve documented the first legs here: https://medium.com/@desmat.ca/a-genai-haiku-journey-part-1-a... and https://medium.com/@desmat.ca/a-genai-haiku-journey-part-2-f....

I'm also experimenting with a similar format for limericks (https://limericks.ai) but I haven’t cracked that nut yet.
That's a huge understatement. Galaxy Watch 7 has 5 cores, one of them 1.6 GHz A78 and 2 GB RAM.

In 2013 I bought Galaxy Gear which was one of the first smartwatches and even that one had 512 MB RAM. PC Jr. had a 64 KB RAM base in comparison.
Can you prove it? That's a big claim (not the radio, the fact that you can read any e2e message instantly)
I couldn’t have said it better myself, thank you.
They build the same building over and over again because theyve had to create litearlly a billion units in the last 50 years and it's faster that way.

There are unsold units because the price went crazy due to speculation. Empty housing is one of the main indicators of a real estate bubble. American vacancy rate has slowly crept up but is still extremely low outside of manhattan. Americans tend not to believe housing will appreciate faster than the stock market, so housing speculation is limited, although of course not unheard of. We'd need LVT for that.
The blue collar workers I actually know do not make very good money. I was literally talking with my parents last night about my cousin's baby-daddy. He's worked in HVAC, painting, and now in warehouse door repair/maintenance (a speciality that I didn't know existed but makes sense given modern logistics). The last job is seen as a real career (with health insurance even), but he's unable to move out of his parents' house for some reason. He's had some problems, but as far as I know has worked full time for most of the last decade.

My brother is one of the most skilled carpenters that I know and did some really good home reno type work, but finally put his ME degree to use and got an engineering job that's construction adjacent. He was also amazed to get health insurance and paid time off.

Two examples among many that I know. I often see people on forums like this talking about how trades are a sure way to a middle class life, and I don't know what reality they're inhabiting.
> This premise is anything that makes a police officers job easier means they can do more policing, which equates to making the lives of some people worse?

If policing has a net negative impact on some people's lives, more policing will be more negative. I can get behind that.

Also, what's with "Black and brown"? Why is only one capitalized?
To your point, I think we see a lot of cancellations on projects that are too futuristic, But I believe the answer is no; just look at Lockheed Martin’s stock price history.

Look how many Burk destroyers Are being upgraded; Look how many Sm6 Missiles are being ordered or upgraded, etc.
not a participant. Whatsapp is multi device ( a single user can have multiple devices, such as a web client, an iphone and a mac app). They can simply register another device as belonging to one of the participant, and everything should be forwarded to them, invisibly.
> areas with concentrations of talent in [insert field] outperform

Outperform in terms of company performance? Company performance per person?

I'd be curious to hear from someone on the hiring side, how hard is it to get someone talented to move out from the SF Bay Area assuming you match compensation?
Using LLMs to write a first draft based on your notes, rephrase and reword existing text is completely different from using an LLM to recall facts in its training data.
"Nietzche read and admired Dostoevsky. In Twilight of the Idols, he calls him "the only psychologist from whom I had something to learn,""

https://old.reddit.com/r/askphilosophy/comments/3d1h59/did_n...
Evil-genie wish granted: Your AI is now a person that can hold power of attorney... Buuuut you're going to jail for child-slavery.
Judge James Robart told Business Insider a bank that managed his wife's individual retirement account purchased Boeing stock in April 2023. He said as soon as he learned about it, he had the stocks sold; his financial disclosures said the shares were sold on two dates in May and June.

That sounds perfectly legit if true. Maybe not disbar him before finding out?
Intel Layoffs: Is Future U.S. Chip Independence in Trouble
This, I'm fine with it as long as whoever signs it becomes liable for the consequences.

i.e. if the AI makes up some shit and someone brings this to a court house, then perjury should apply as usual.
Yes. They could have had better software given the CS of the 80's too. My first computer was an Interact [1]. The best games for it came out after production stopped. Having fully dissected the ROM I can say filling the 2nd (empty) ROM socket would have allowed much faster implementations of the built-in functions and some additional ones. The machine was so short-lived nobody ever maximized its potential.

On the hardware side, the graphics were very low-res with each pixel being 3 scan lines high. Simply adding RAM (there was an upgrade available to go from 16K to 32K) to the base machine should have allowed higher resolution graphics by not re-using pixel data so much or at all (simple hardware changes). Higher horizontal resolution should have been possible but with more complex hardware changes.

I'm looking forward to the end of scaling. I'm hoping that leads to more efficient software at all levels over time.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interact_Home_Computer
Dismantling the Ship That Drilled for the Ocean's Deepest Secrets
Seems more like it was the bank that administered his wife’s IRA. I could easily see how someone could have an IRA account and not be aware of the individual trades and investments it makes. Now you would think a federal judge would ensure things like this wouldn’t happen but I don’t think this is on the same level of what we have been seeing with the SCOTUS.
It is very useful to be able to see how other did it though leaderboard.
It seems like it. I'm curious as to why would he do this? Some people say that it's for portfolio to get a job. But wouldn't recruiter be able to tell that this is not their work?
Yep. It's really, really hard to meet other technical and entrepreneurial people virtually. The density in SV is a billion times more than tiny nowhere towns. What sucks about it is few people can afford to live there unless they work for MAANG or have $uccessfully exited one or more ventures.
> how many miles your mouse had moved...

I remember those! Perhaps something like "mouse pedometer?"
I can see the appeal of working for SF startups while living like a college student for a few years in your early 20s, or making a career out of doing it remotely. I don't get how the in-person startup talent pool has any staying power. A 3/2 in a decent school district with a commute under an hour would be an insane splurge even for someone with liquid Big Tech TC.
Fair enough, and food for thought. Though one has to wonder how many people refused to respond (they apparently don't publish these numbers), or adjusted their response in accord with what they thought was expected of them.
The same goes for me and DOOM on the SNES, the amount of magic they had to do behind the scenes is incredible.
It doesn't matter if he lost money on the trades, what matters is that he had a position in Boeing that was impacting his ability to make an impartial ruling.
Sounds like a nothing story.
It was not a significant trade. It was just the money was in a pooled fund that was trading individual stocks rather than a mutual fund, which is in practical terms, not really meaningful.

We should strive to have good laws about this (and more than we currently do for politicians) but 95% of the time people are losing their shit for complete nothing stories about people making mundane trades that aren’t even particularly profitable.
Considering how most of the action on HN happens on the front page this site should be runnable on a little ARM SBC with good use of caching. If a site is mostly static with content in RAM a weak VM or SBC can handle a lot of traffic.

I'm pretty sure HN already does this but each comment thread would basically be a pre-generated HTML file (served to all users) that is only updated by the server when people post or vote. If someone opens an old thread, then it would take longer to load since the system would have to query the DB, render the page, and put it in the cache.
Marketing developer tools is commonly much harder than developing them.

The hard thing about adopting a product like yours is that as a potential customer you never know whether the thing you want to do is actually going to be easy or hard or impossible or time consuming.

The home page preaches all the right things, but it's very busy and information dense and yet nothing on the home page gives me enough detail for me to know if it will actually work for me for real.

Figuring out whether a product like this will actually work for me is the real cost I'm looking at, not the $10/month cost. At present, the figuring out if it will work for me cost looks arbitrarily high, because I have no information to go on on the home page without trying to work through an actual deployment on my own.

The "explainer" video is trying very hard to be cool. It needs to focus instead on explaining things. Adding words, either spoken or on title cards, would help significantly. Yes, I understand there are words in the video - they are words that talk about goals of your company, not words that tell me what is going on in the video. I see lots of things that I recognize or that make sense, but I don't know where it's going or what I'm watching when it starts, so I have no schema in my mind to organize what I'm watching. Getting rid of the "music," or replacing it with much less distracting audio, would help as well - it makes it much harder to concentrate on trying to understand what I'm seeing. Remember, I am watching the video with the goal of understanding "will this do the specific things I need it to do" not "do we agree on the high level goals of what would be great to have."

Coolify is winning today, not because its tech is better than competitors, but because it's tech is more understandable than competitors.
Sounds like first hand experience observing wages being suppressed as a result of Radford/Aon.
Learning techniques to maximise the efficiency of games consoles isn’t CS in the traditional sense. But I can see where you’re coming from.

You also have to bear in mind that cartridge based systems you ship with larger ROMs and sometimes even additional chipsets in later years of a consoles life. So even if you knew all the hacks for a specific console from day one, you still might not have a large enough ROM to take advantage of some of them.
ReactOS is the only one I am aware of that might meet your criteria.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReactOS
Or simply use traefik + app containers via standard podman + systemd integration:

https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-systemd.uni...

https://traefik.io/traefik/
Frustration that led the creation of new fast, secure & reliable JSON Formatter
As someone who works extensively with JSON data, I found existing formatters too slow, insecure, or difficult to use. Frustrated, I decided to create my own JSON Formatter that is fast, secure, and user-friendly. It processes data locally, ensuring privacy, and is optimized to handle large files quickly. Building it required balancing performance with accuracy and ensuring cross-browser compatibility. After weeks of development and testing, I finally created a tool that meets all my needs. If you’re looking for a reliable, privacy-focused JSON formatter, give mine a try.

Feel free to drop any feedback.

I think this is it, before building what others want. You have to build what you want first.

https://jsonpars.netlify.app/
Hannibal (2001), Godfather 1 & 2.
It's also worth pointing out that the literal landscape in the SFBAY remains quite amazing, and lots of people do indeed live here because of it. Nearly flawless weather and easy access to nature is not something that's taken for granted.

I'd continue to live here even if I didn't work in tech.
Supposedly folds and irons. Seems to me it wouldn't be too big a step to give it wheels, and have it roll around and pick up my dirty laundry from the floor, toss it in the washer, move it to the dryer, and clean the lint filter too.
This is an absolutely terrible idea, people's lives are going to be ruined by this.