skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you use this, you should set the laptop up on a stand or at least an adjustable height desk and use an external keyboard. With two screens it's not very mobile already so no sense using the built in kb too much
Maybe there's buggy malware involved?
The problem is that the institutionalists define "first-order" safeguards. They also often control key relationships like access to the board of directors
There's currently a proposal that medical debt not be taken into account on credit reports. [1]

Personally, I just don't trust companies to not put that sort of thing in a credit report. Do we actually audit for that sort of thing? And what if they do? Assuming anyone finds out, they get to drag the punishment out over the span of years, and if they do get punished, it's probably only a fraction of the money that they earned by reducing risk.

[1]https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/newsroom/cfpb-propo...
I had their typewriter many many years ago; didn't even know they did PCs.
That was a really good read, thank you!
We just hit $3M in Contracted ARR in under 8 months at Lyzr AI!

Here’s our journey

Lyzr began as an AI data analysis app(PowerBI+ ChatGPT). The name Lyzr comes from the last four letters of "Data Analyzr."

However, while building the app on Langchain, we encountered several challenges related to deployment, troubleshooting, bug fixing, and monitoring.

Our initial idea didn’t gain traction, and we faced rejections from YC, AIGrant, HF0. But this led us to pivot and create a Langchain alternative for enterprises, using an agentic approach.

Lyzr was reborn as an Enterprise Agent Framework for building reliable and fully private AI agents.

We gained some decent traction from January to April 2024, with customers building single-agent apps like chatbots, knowledge search tools, and data analysis apps.

As a hack in the early days, we used to search for job postings in Upwork where customers asked for 'Langchain' support. We used to meet with those customers, understand their problems, build the prototype on Lyzr in <24 hours, and convert them.

We went from $0 to $100k in ARR in the first 4 months.

Then, we launched our multi-agent orchestration capability—Lyzr HybridFlow. Around this time, I came across a tweet by Jason Lemkin looking for AI agents to automate research, outreach, and sponsorship sales for the SaaStr Europa event.

We took on the challenge, building and launching a 'downloadable AI SDR agent' template in just 4 days. While the tweet gained some traction, we saw even more interest on LinkedIn and Instagram as influencers picked up our story and shared it.

In about 10 days, we received about 250 inbound leads. We decided to productize the AI SDR agent, naming it Jazon, and launched it with a world-class UI. Paired with Skott—The AI Marketer (Copy AI+Surfer SEO) - these two agents started bringing us a steady stream of leads.

I personally handled most of the initial calls, demoed the product, and onboarded our early customers onto a 3-month pilot. Interestingly, more than 50% of the agents built on the Lyzr platform today by enterprises are custom agents designed to automate complex business workflows (think UIPath, but built with self-learning AI agents).

We have a strong pipeline and are yet to start proper outbound. We’re aiming for $6M ARR by the end of this year and $30M next year.

Can we get to $100M in 3 years?
“We’re now at what will be the largest industry of the united states.” (at 4:50)

That aged pretty well.
> Yes to the first two, but the latter is a good way to get your credit score destroyed for a few years

Not necessarily or at all - in California there are a bunch of laws about what healthcare debt can even be reported on your credit score. I routinely let things fall into collections and maintain a very high credit score because I ironically gain more negotiation power occasionally with the debt collector than whatever service I was charged for - often this happens as a result of over-billing. Dispute it enough times and they can just disappear. The credit hit is/should be minor. They use "credit" as an intimidation tool to coerce people into paying bills they don't actually owe.

Classic example - I get a procedure. Doctor submits a claim that is pre-authorized (I don't know the exact term). You receive procedure, insurer later denies claim. The doctor then passes the bill to you. Later, the doctor and insurer may come to an agreement, and the doctor is paid - but sometimes/often this is never communicated back to the patient, effectively "double billing." In these cases the only sane way to navigate it is by simply allowing it to fall to collections.
I haven't noticed Kodi or nfs-ganesha pushing out a version with ads? There are many markets that have been captured by duopolies and turned into inescapable extraction gauntlets, but when you've got some actual market power you've got to exercise it!
That's a fair bit of revisionist history trying to make PE look like it's not the bad guy.

Red Lobster was flourishing in the 1990s; it was one of the most popular sit-down chains back then. There were lines around the block at most locations.

In 2013, Darden Restaurants decided to spin-off Red Lobster and Olive Garden by selling them to a PE firm which coveted the ability to exploit these profitable chains. (Average EPS was approximately $0.77/share, and Red Lobster remained the countries' most popular seafood chain until COVID.)

The sale to the PE firm GGC included a sale-leaseback of all of Red Lobster's real estate. The purpose of this was to fund the acquisition, since PE never puts its own money down; it funds acquisitions with the assets of the acquired company. Red Lobster's operating expenses jumped more than 50% overnight, as it now had to pay rent on locations it used to own.

Within 2 years, this PE-driven cash grab had Red Lobster on the verge of bankruptcy. Selling Red Lobster to its biggest supplier didn't fix things because the problem was that PE had the bright idea to ruin the company through the sale-leaseback arrangement.

PE was not just a convenient story, they are the cause for Red Lobster's demise.
I've thought a lot about these problems and you eventually hit the need for stronger than natural magnets. Without electricity it's a hard challenge, but without magnets creating electricity in a simple bench scale is a lot harder.

I ended up thinking that you'd need to do a chemical battery to bootstrap electricity and then with electricity generate the electromagnet to create stronger magnets and then iterate from there.

Your next stumbling block from there would be optics as everything else can be made with horrible tolerances. Even lathes and similar machinery can be made with pretty good tolerances without optics. But when you start needing time keeping or miniaturizing components for improved efficiencies, it becomes a blocking issue.

You also need to discover photo-reactive elements to do lithography, but that's a lot easier since it's just silver nitrate and you'd already have the components when you are working towards the initiate bootstrap battery.
How does this compare to "segment anything" from Meta
I think about this a lot. It's certainly not sustainable for streaming companies to consistently increase end-user pricing. I understand why they are doing it, but there will only be an increasing number of individuals unwilling to watch X amount of ads or pay X amount a month.
Huh. I'm surprised you'd use an R5 in that situation, but I assume since it's a good chunk cheaper than an actual archival camera, it might make sense especially for smaller institutions.

TIL, thanks for sharing!
So what? If only companies could have slaves again to make them more competitive!

I'm absolutely fine if companies "become less competitive" because they can't exploit their employees as much.

Following this train thought would paint China's 996 policy as a great idea.
CrossDB vs. SQLite Benchmark
No, he is saying between the lines at the end of his tweet that a 'juge d'instruction' is leading the arrest, so that it isn't lead by the French executive power.
(After my first comment was downvoted)

No, seriously, probably even you do not believe in unfettered freedom of expression: I doubt you would welcome paedophiles posting child porn to your service, for example.

So: what are your boundaries? What content will you fight to the death to defend, and what will you suppress without a second thought? Only then can you go jurisdiction shopping.
That's what paper is for. Not email.
I don't think that's the way to go.

First, insurance and everything else (including your job) should be strictly decoupled.

Second, health-insurance and life-insurance companies should imho be required to be cooperatives. That makes it so that incentives are aligned.

That the instance company is denying certain claims (both wrongly and rightly) is perfectly fine. In fact, that is good. It's part of the core business to protect against abuse. The balance is important here and will reflect in the premiums.

Those two things should already fix most major issues in insurance in a working market with competition.
> but it's also plausible that they're offering pricing research.

It's not plausible when they strongly pressured landlords against accepting rents lower than suggested.

That pressure wasn't an accident, and it wouldn't make any sense in a product that was merely pricing research.

Now RealPage has been around for 26 years and didn't start out doing that. But at some point they transitioned into illegal price fixing as a service, because their pricing determinations were not treated as optional recommendations.
One of those headline rules got this one - it's supposed to say These fossils. Maybe edit to be more specific? Dumbbell shaped?
I _think_ the question here is whether you operate the platform and are able to help the police if requested. E.g. as a developer of an open-source messenger you are probably are not liable, as soon as you deploy and operate the same messenger, and refuse to provide the data you have you can become complicit.

If police asks you to add a backdoor in your software though. As far as I know you are only explicitly obliged to do so in Australia.
> That's $12k/year

You dont need to pay that much. You can halve that.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_h...
The open source LLM framework Haystack is trending on GitHub
France has at least theoretically had a licencing/declaration/whatever regime for all cryptography software since forever. Presumably they rarely enforce it, but I remember when they passed it. I think it was supposed to involve key-disclosure back doors somehow.
No requirements, it's not possible. That license is reserved for government, military etc.
I am struggling to see a use case for more than 1gb up and down. Which I have with Fios right now.

Very few things seem to go above 100mb (hard wired). The single exception I have seen is my Xbox which sometimes gets up to 500 when downloading a game.

I guess if you have a big family and a lot of things are downloading or streaming at once, but are people really hitting a limit. Even Netflix’s recommendations are super low.

It just seems like we have some pushes for these crazy speeds(maybe for marketing or increments) when the reality is the speeds to you will never utilize it.

I feel like I am missing something for how you could possibly justify this in your home.
>No, I can't write 1000 lines of bug free code (I think when I was
younger I pulled it off a few times...).

Yeah let me just rush and use THAT file system haha I know I know, a ton of subleties can get packed into that much c (I'm making that assumption) especially in file systems stuff but if its still somewhat experimental wouldn't it make sense to be in someone elses kernel when developing?

Sounds cut and dry to me, quit developing in production lol
Does anyone know how this would enable remote sensing technologies, as the article says?
It's also possible to get go-to-definition etc working in VSCode locally. You need to switch from Microsoft's C++ extension to the clangd extension. Clangd scales better and is more accurate for projects using clang like Chromium. Instructions here: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/HEAD/do...

The Chromium code search site is still very useful too.
Declaration of conformity given out by the government.
> You can derive the basics of supply and demand from game theory.

You can derive supply and demand from game theory once you make some assumptions about preferences, costs, rationality of players, etc., all of which are non-mathematical, mostly empirical concepts.
You'd just be switching one framework for another really. Either make it framework agnostic or make it use the framework you're already using (wordpress)... anything else is unnecessary overhead
This is not a critic of all geometric algebra and especially not of its more basic parts. Therefore it is not an excuse for not grasping e.g. what Hestenes has written about GA, or what Eric Lengyel himself has written, e.g. in his new book that is advertised in this article.

It is a critic of many books about geometric algebra, which have made attempts to expand and further develop some parts of its theory, but those attempts have not been thought carefully and they have produced various inconsistent or useless definitions.

It is also a critic of attempts of presenting geometric algebra as preferable for applications where in fact it is not optimal, by showing misleading "benchmarks". Unfortunately this tactic is not at all specific to geometric algebra, but it is frequently encountered for almost any kind of algorithm known to mankind when it accumulates for one reason or another some kind of fan base.
Bizarre comment, of course there's value here
Very cool, but man pulling 900+ dependencies to build and run this thing feels awful. The NPM culture is out of control.
It's more like forth if I had to pick one. Though it is very lispy -- you can pass functions as objects, etc.

I was quite good at programming in it back in the day.
Show HN: AI-powered text simplifier and audiobook creator
I built a web app that uses GPT-4 to simplify complex texts to any language level (A1-C2) and turn them into audiobooks. Great for language learners, educators, or anyone wanting easier reads. Try it out and let me know what you think!
It should always be assumed that everyone participating in a bureaucracy is selfishly motivated.

The difference is some people see a path to personal success by creating shareholder value (better product, less cost, etc.), while other people focus on fortifying their current arrangement to ensure it can't be made worse.
I dropped armhf (32 bit arm) a few releases ago. It was painful to maintain and the few users of that were older Raspberry PI installs. I think there are other tools out there that better support low-powered platforms (piku comes to mind).

ARM64 should be fine, with some caveats:

- Dockerfile/nixpacks support is great! Just make sure your base images and your Dockerfile supports ARM64 building
- Herokuish _works_ but not really. Most Heroku v2a buildpacks target AMD64. This is slowly changing, but out of the box it probably won't build as you expect.
- CNB Buildpacks largely don't support ARM64 yet. Heroku _just_ added ARM64 support in heroku-24 (our next release switches to this) but again, there is work on the buildpacks to get things running.

I run Dokku on ARM64 locally (a few raspberry pis running things under k3s) and develop Dokku on my M1 Macbook, so I think if there are any issues, I'd love to hear about them.

Disclaimer: I am the Dokku maintainer.
Excuse my for rolling my eyes at DHH complaining about the price of software. It's enterprise software. You saw the price when you signed up. DD isn't cheap. Neither are the direct competitors (have you looked at Splunk licenses lately?).

Why is the cost so high? Because it's easy to add logging in places it isn't needed or useful. Every place I've ever worked has been able to save costs on these licenses by taking a pass at cleaning up their logs. If you pay by volume and you're logging things that aren't useful and never ever ever get read, you're burning cash. And if you think you're not doing this, I promise you probably are. DD (and others') costs can be reasonable if you don't just spray log data at it indiscriminately.

Want it for cheap? Cloudwatch is pennies compared to DD. It's not good, but it works. Want something faster or more featureful? You can stand up ElasticSearch or your favorite log aggregation software, and then you're probably paying a substantial percentage of what you paid for DD in server costs and time required to keep the thing plugging along. And then whatever time you spend dealing with "Grafana started timing out and we don't know why" and similar flavors of incidents.

Yes, good software costs about as much as a FTE. Because you'll (hopefully!) save about a FTE's worth of value by using the tool.
Why does the title say “serverless” though? AFAIK Dokku is very much a “server platform”.
Encryption is illegal in France? Hard to believe that. Do French websites not use TLS?
Ouch.

I love it when people say what they mean and don't beat around the bush.
My opinion:

Exceptions are sometimes good for things going totally wrong, like connection failures or disk full. What I don't like is that it is a pretty big (and sometimes slow) concept that is often misused as 'message bus'.

However, error codes are quite limited and often are an extra load besides the necessary return value, requiring reference or out params.

The best concept i know of is rust style error handling, wrapping returns via generics providing a success and an error type. This is very specific, doesn't lose context, pretty quick and still elegant to handle. There are also libraries using this style in other languages, e.g. C#[1], but it does not work everywhere.

1: https://github.com/gnaeus/OperationResult
Maybe it's just down to the way the comment was written and it actually played out differently, but the only thing I'd be a bit miffed about is someone more senior just coming in and nuking everything because YAGNI, like the senior guy who approves a more junior engineer's code and then spends their time rewriting it all after the fact.

Taking that situation as read, the bare minimum I'd like from someone in a senior position is to:

a) invite the original committer to roll it back, providing the given context (there isn't a requirement, ain't gonna need it, nobody asked for it, whatever). At the bare minimum this might still create some tension, but nowhere near as much as having someone higher up the food chain taking a fairly simple task into their own hands.

b) question why the team isn't on the same page on the requirements such that this code got merged and presumably deployed.

You don't have to be a micromanager to have your finger on the pulse with your team and the surrounding organisational context. And as a senior being someone who passes down knowledge to the more junior people on the team, there are easy teaching moments there.
I found that "observability platforms" like Datadog, New Relic etc can be really expensive and not that valuable unless you place a centralized "real-time observability pipeline" that's data agonistic between the originating telemetry data sources and the end destination like Datadog, New Relic, Looker, etc.

This approach allows you to see the data stream in real-time and then you can reduce, enrich, transform the data and then route it to any end destination like Datadog, New Relic, etc.

We did this and saw some pretty significant saving from the observability platform vendors we are using. Not only that the fact we were able to enrich the data made our troubleshooting much faster because we had data ingested now that we can make sense of and act on. We used datable.io who is a startup out of SF accomplish this. We talked with them about a month ago and their service was still in beta but they are allowing us to use it free of charge for now (not sure if they are still doing that or not?). I think the founder is an Ex New Relic guy?
Google, Discord, and Reddit all take swift and decisive action against CSAM. I have never organically encountered CSAM on Google, and have only encountered it on Discord and Reddit because of deliberate bad actors. Outside of Reddit's early mistakes with /r/jailbait, none of these services end up being preferred by pedophile communities, because they can expect to be shut down quickly if they rally there.

Telegram has become a hotspot for CSAM to the point that it is pretty much inevitable that you're going to encounter someone peddling it just by browsing other channels.
Building GCC with Nix
There are plenty of motivated actors that are terrified that the government will do a good job, and so they work to sabotage it so it won't be effective competition.
Why do so many criminals use Telegram over signal, I don’t get it, it’s obviously a worse choice, so much more data is up for grabs on the telegram servers.

Or is it just a reputation and signal is just as popular?
If the type of fuel or the type of brake pads you put on had a direct impact on your likelihood of getting in a giant accident in the future they would regulate that and require you to buy from insurance-approved brake companies.

In effect this is how home appliances are regulated. You have companies like ETL Intertek and Underwriters Laboratories performing fire and electrical safety testing of home appliances, originally on behalf of homeowner's insurance companies(See the definition of "Underwriter"). It's effectively self-regulating because the Intertek or UL stamp implies a certain degree of care. And based on some lease provisions I've seen the insurance companies for buildings do require use of certified equipment as a condition of coverage in many cases.
> cobbling together a poor man's DE using half-baked amateur-ish GTK apps

Do you think that GNOME's web browser (Epiphany?) and KDE's web browser (Konqueror?) are better than Firefox and Chromium?

Do you think that GNOME Text Editor and KDE's text editor (Kate?) are better than Emacs?
>But thats a lot of power over rent cost 'normalization' given they can set the prices on a large # of units and pretty much all real estate is driven by "comparables in the area/market" thats an awful lot of "comparables"

If their ownership is a drop in the bucket on a national level, then what you're proposing would only make sense if they're heavily concentrated in a few cities. Is there evidence this is happening?

>Unit could be an entire complex with hundreds of actual apartments.

Dividing the total asset value by the number of units gets you around 300k, which seems in the price range for a single family home. That doesn't entirely rule out what you're describing is happening, but if it is the effect must be low.
The other problem is that the government is in on the joke. OSHA in my liberal state is about two people. Civil right claims are capped at 300 kUSD for a large employer. The existing laws are plainly insufficient to claim the rights that the citizens supposedly have. The present state of affairs really undermines government legitimacy.
Ask HN: What desktop apps are you working on?
I love the "What are you working on" threads here on HN. I noticed that web apps make up the majority of software projects people are working on.

This "Ask HN" is a little different, it's an opportunity to show off the desktop software projects you're working on.

So HN, what desktop apps are you developing? What tech are you using? What did you get right and what would you do differently?
Microeconomics (including supply, demand, elasticity, etc) is pretty reliable. Macroeconomics has a lot of uncertainty and social science squish.
Maybe the masses (smartphone user population) will once it's as light as sunglasses.

Been wearing my Ray Ban smartglasses while playing pickleball lately and they are too heavy for playing sports. Im always pushing them up on my face so they dont fall off.
My lukewarm take on GLP-1 agonists