skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That was pretty much my first thought... what kind of people are you following, if you see a lot of this kind of thing. I mostly use the "Following" tab now, as it's just more tuned to what I want to see and who I follow, even if it is political.

I also feel there are a lot of chaos operatives on the platform that are spewing garbage and these are likely foreign state actors as much as trolls. Which comes back to who you follow. I am perfectly fine as long as I can block individuals I don't like... I don't necessarily want the platform to do it for me.
> Car ownership is absurdly expensive

I mean, it's absurdly expensive except for all of the other types of car usage right? Companies have been pushing car subscriptions for years because they sound nice: "Don't worry about maintenance, just pick a new car every so often!". Except that it turns out to be even more expensive than just owning a car.

Leasing (unless you have some tax advantage) is typically more expensive than owning.

Ride hailing apps are great, but I don't know anyone who has run the numbers and decided it makes more sense for a daily commute than owning a car (maybe someone with no or extremely expensive parking options?).

I'm skeptical that using a self-driving car service from a profit-seeking company would end up being less expensive than owning your own self-driving car, but maybe we'll see.
> On the other hand, what's the chance of something like this happening with a much bigger asteroid.

The same as it's always been, which is to say you can live your life without worrying about it.

If our technology advances such that we can observe/find more and more of these, that doesn't affect the chances that a particularly sized asteroid hits the earth or not.
Well, yeah, in a world where corporates don't want to pay for sysadmins that can actually code or giving their devs a pager, you get what you saw: sysadmins and the people that do Jenkins being renamed as the "devops" team in 2014, then the "SRE" team in 2016 or so, then, "platform teams" after the age of Kubernetes in 2018-ish.

There are so many companies that have SRE teams despite those teams not maintaining a website!
I also have a Kobo, and I use Plato, created by the same person that made bspwm! It's great, and IMO a little easier to use than KOReader.
Pretty long piece, but seems like the overall point is:

> I expect the true market crushers of the next two decades to be companies that are willing to venture into doing something that few would bet their professional lives on: applying the data flywheel to the world of atoms. That can range from defense tech, to biotech, from space tech, to robotics, from consumer hardware, to anything in between.

and also

> There are not many success cases I can mention to support my argument: these companies are being built right now. It will take many years to see them flourish and thrive. I don’t think it’s a coincidence, for instance, that some pure software companies like Midjourney seem to be getting ready to make a consumer hardware play.[16] Conceptually, the archetypical company that I think will win the biggest will look like Waymo. Hardware-first, ultra-high capex, more than a decade of R&D and deep technical work before seeing the light at the end of the tunnel, but an incredibly defensible position that will be very hard to attack. And the moat is not simply technical. It’s a data advantage too, as they are not a car company, they’re an AI company that is constantly harvesting data and improving their models. Physical companies applying AI to their verticals will be a marvel to witness, and at the risk of being proven completely wrong, I don’t think they run the risk of being disrupted in a hypothetical post-AGI world.

I guess it's cohesive: we're about to enter a compute/programming-as-commodity world. So your next moat is something physical that can't be replicated/made irrelevant overnight.

I personally think this is a little overblown, do we really think the era of SaaS is over? Maybe those companies are not getting the price premiums they used to, and I think thats partially the market itself maturing. But the article says:

> The more obviously good an idea is, the more competition there will be, the more an entrepreneur's likelihood of succeeding will eventually regress to the mean — in this case, average market returns.

This has always been true, and perhaps you could argue that until the early 2000s there wasn't much competition in some given arenas online, but that surely isn't true anymore. I can't think of a single emerging major startup that I can't also think of a few major competitors for, often huge companies.
We've also seen a rise (or maybe I just notice it more) of stories of "I changed these 3 lines in 5 minutes and saved my company $40k/month!"

And then you'll get responses like "pfft.... that's hardly the cost of one part time FAANG person who makes $680k/year - what's the point?"

And around we go...
Show HN: Anki Deck Assistant
They aren't implied. They are physical documents presented and signed after the 'employment contract' has already began to be executed.

Hell that 'employment contract' is at will 99% of the time, any party can end it at point for any reason, but that doesn't apply to the implied non-compete portion signed after employment? What?

It's nonsense all the way down.
I'm already covered by rust, but thanks for the link it is interesting. I was not aware of wuff.
I excitedly went to that channel. I'm overwhelmed! Can you tell me the top three devices he recommends so I can review those videos? Man, he makes a lot of stuff!
Show HN: Retronews – TUI for HN and Lobsters emulating classical Usenet readers
Getting funded by a16z is if anything a sign that the field is not hot anymore.
Experts call on Apple to "immediately restore" VPN apps to its Russian App Store
It's not a monolithic project, it's a funding pool where an organisation can apply for access. It's not even limited to EU member states, the UK has returned as a partner after the Conservative party got their panties in a twist about it during Brexit.
Claude's Surprising Recitation: When an AI Reproduced Auster's 'City of Glass'
This has to be one of the quickest valuations past a billion. I wonder if they can even effectively make use of the funds in a reasonable enough timeline.
Norwegian YouTube critic asks Norwegian Film Institute (NFI) how it selects video games for subsidization and why Dustborn specifically, given that it is not set in or has anything to do with Norway. He discusses the state of the country's gaming industry (which he has worked in), and concludes that Dustborn is the product of a system which provides a living to lower-tier developers as long as they produce something, anything, that is likely to pass the ideological tests the NFI uses to evaluate projects.
It would be cool if we got a system on a module (SOM) along side this. Sounds like it would mop the floor with a pi5 performance to watt wise.
X-twitter puts their x in the top right of the box. Talk about your dark patterns. I just noticed that.
Looking forward to the open sourced code. When and if it gets out, this KVM will become a workable solution.
You probably could, but you'd have to find a way to port the display stack or write your own.

Edit: here's one of the big sites for 3rd party software for the remarkable https://toltec-dev.org

Edit2: Here's someone running doom on the RM https://www.reddit.com/r/RemarkableTablet/comments/gkktxy/de...
I think this is actually a signal that the AI hype is dissipating.

These numbers and the valuation are indicative that people consider this a potentially valuable tool, but not world changing and disruptive.

I think this is a pretty reasonable take.
Help me out here because I'm having trouble understanding this blog post.

>By definition, if everybody agrees that something is worth investing in, the return on that investment will correspond to the market average. Formally, “market” is simply “consensus on correct pricing”. It’s the average, the norm, the wisdom of the crowd. Generational companies are outliers, happening several deviations away from that norm. If we accept this definition to be true, it must follow that consensus and successful startups are antithetical.

Um, but then who is investing that makes a company "Generational company"? If you're hugely successful and your market value huge ... someone will be investing and there will be demand for more investment, so it's not like you're entirely disconnected from the market...

Or are we talking about everything BEFORE the market invests a lot of money?

The later section on AI and wrappers and competition made more sense to me (not to say I agree, I think I got it), but the whole idea that you should be heavily concerned with potential competition in the context of a start up is interesting to me as I think most start ups fail ... because nobody wants their product, not because of direct competition.

Generally the post felt like a blob of "start up speak" to me, and I couldn't really pick out what the big insight here was overall other than maybe something like 'bet big / weird'. But maybe that's just me.
The relationship between money printing and inflation is neither linear nor instantaneous, but the connection is very real.

Are you arguing that printing 80% of all the dollars ever created in a short two-year time span had no effect on inflation?
Jelly-Load An inconvenient way of loading stuff into your Commodore via YouTube
I cannot turn my solutions into code
I have a interesting but not so unique issue: I am great at problem solving, and when I do program my solutions I come up with rapidly do in fact work, however I have an unreal amount of difficulty making my solution into syntax. I don’t know how to get better at that. It’s incredibly frustrating when I have an amazing solution and it’s taking me forever to imagine it in syntax, I do have a good and clear idea of how the data will be stored and what functions it’ll move in and a lot of different parts of it are held in my brain but then language syntax trips me up and it becomes “how do I do this in this language?”.
Just my perspective, but I returned my Remarkable 2 - I don't think I personally had a compelling use case for it.

Ultimately this thing is not going to magically make you super creative and productive. Frankly it's easier for me to be more productive by using my laptop. I prefer typing notes because I can keep up with what my brain is thinking. I prefer reading books on my computer with the Books app. If I'm trying to work something out visually I'll use my sketchbook which I have at my desk.

But this is just how I like to do things. You might be different. I really liked the Remarkable but it just didn't work into my workflow.
Two Decades of Advances and Limitations in Organ Recellularization
that's right.

another metric that affects the ... impact ... of such an event is also the speed of the asteroid. Unlike size, I suspect higher speeds would make it harder to spot (and once spotted there would be less time to take action)
Wearing my own branded shoes would be nice. Yes I will take that deal with Nike. They can put a small swoosh on there too, for even more money.
The new pen looks to be battery powered, whereas the old one didn't require a charge. They might be doing something fancy for better writing and gesture detection.
This is pretty much all of my concerns as well. The top like 2/3rds of mine is pretty accurate on the tip of the pencil when writing, but on the bottom 1/3rd it's off by about 2mm and it's freaking obnoxious. It makes me hate writing on it to the point where I've gone back to real paper. I do occasionally use it for reading papers and other page-sized PDFs, but it's really not worth the cost for writing.
Roughly which century was it when economics began to exist?
Good news for NVDA.
This has been linked in the comments already, but check this out: https://faultlore.com/blah/text-hates-you/
Under normal circumstances batteries do _not_ heat up during charge/discharge, both the BMS and their internal electrical design (most of the cells are connected in parallel) are intended to prevent that. And you connect the batteries in parallel too. The current in individual cells
is not significant enough to cause any visible temperature changes even when the whole pack makes hundreds of amps @48v.
> Windows has been losing market share to tablets and macs.

We are talking about laptops. Not tablets.

Windows has been losing market share to Macbook-s at about one percent each year, so good luck reaching your 20% in your lifetime.
Yes, as stated in the doc: "cells is a simplified Functional & Reactive (but not strictly FRP) library".

There were enough true FRP libraries around not to implement another one.
We think cells is a sweet spot where we get most of the benefits of functional programming and reactive programming while simplifying the concepts from the original paper from Elliott and Hudak.
At least on my car, the name of the model is stamped into the steel.
No. It specifically is being treated as a second class citizen that is allowed to break.

Rust is already in the Windows kernel. It’s being used in embedded devices and kernels in production. It has proven itself.
> Hate speech is an arbitrary term used to censor political opponents, as there's no logical way to discern what is and isn't hate speech.

I think the Cambridge dictionary definition is a good starting point, even if it doesn't have a consistent meaning across every facet of political/social discussion:

> public speech that expresses hate or encourages violence towards a person or group based on something such as race, religion, sex, or sexual orientation

If your speech expresses hate or encourages violence it shouldn't have a platform, no matter if you are a progressive hating on conservatives or any other group of people.

Don't you agree that's at least a good baseline to start curtailing this on mass media platforms? I'd prefer a world where people calling for the death of Jews, black people, conservatives, white people, whatever group it is to not have a way to reach big cohorts of the population.

> So no I don't see any issue, I'd prefer everyone have equal access to free speech, world wide.

And that's where we diverge, dogmatic approaches like this don't leave any room for discussion or arguments, you have a belief which is not too dissimilar to a religious one... In reality allowing absolute free speech including people calling and encouraging the death of others on a massive scale is detrimental to civilisation.

Quick edit: you can have free speech, it doesn't mean it's free from consequences. One of those consequences is that hateful speech might not be allowed in mass media platforms, you can still spread your hate speech person-to-person, that's not a crime in many places.
Show HN: Battery Balancing explained in 5 mins – I built 3 EVs, now I share info [video]
I built three custom electric cars, there is a world of knowledge out there, but often it is hidden in long texts or videos, I am making a video series where I show: One Concept - in One short video - in an engaging way, hoping this will spread the understanding of LithiumBatteries, EVs, Off Grid storage and so forth. As an engineer this is an exercise for me in clearly communicating ideas & concepts.

I hope it helps someone.
About the same as left-wing/communists for commenting everywhere.

In the end, there are things that suck about a general freedom of speech and expression. With Twitter, you have the ability to block those that offend you, as does everyone else. I appreciate and use this function. What I don't want is for some huge opaque organization to decide on my behalf.
Cloud enabled a lot for small companies.

Instead of having to hire a full sysadmin and buying infrastructure, you just click a server, enable snapshoting and you are already 10x better of of what you had before.

The biggest issue with these 'cloud' discussions and the pricing is simply solved: EITHER you have a good team who understands it and can and should determine if you are better of onprem or on cloud, or you do not have this team and you are not wasting money you are just paying for a lot better system which you would otherwise never had.

I have seen plenty of tremendes shitty setups in small companies from people who should know better. Databases reachable on the internet, slow ticket systems for getting hardware, costly upgrade prices (and partially internal cost centers were an server upgrade costs a few k).

You use too many slow lambdas? your Database costs tons of money? You can't control your micro services anymore? And you think your company would have been able to setup a better thing on prem without the help of cloud? Never
I understand rust is faster than dart but wonder why rust was used over dart. As I understand it dart can be used for the backend and there would be no need for interop between flutter and rust if dart was used. Just interested in the choices.
Expat 2.6.3 released, includes security fixes
Show HN: I built the first tool to turn iMessage into website
Hi! I like minimalism and the small web, so I thought it would be nice to turn iMessage into a website.

TextTheInternet is a simple tool (the first?) that lets you create a minimalist blog just by sending iMessages (oh and even SMS if you don't have any connection). No complicated setup, no extra tools, just your phone and your words.
but the result is not subsequently used for full text indexing and searching (on device or on desktop) therefore it's useless
I've switched to exclusively using SSH on my Kobo, because I find it less effortful. The connection procedure consists of enabling wifi on the Kobo and clicking on the sftp bookmark in my file browser.
This might be the largest seed round in history (note that 1B is the cash raised, not the valuation). You think that's an indication of the hype dissipating?
Sucks, but true. Which is extremely unfortunate. Bad software is expensive to maintain, bad ops can take down companies, and both can slow the sales cycle and threaten renewals.

Engineering as a whole should be treated as a profit center.
CustomGPT to see if you were impacted by the Google Core Update August 2024
It's purely material.

When I see a beautiful sunset or listen to music I like, or fall in love, those are all material.

I too do not understand spirituality
I think it’s a fair argument that measuring temps in the middle of urban areas does not produce the most reliable data. The people saying it’s a conspiracy are clearly wrong, but the people saying the data is iron-clad and as reliable as Newton’s laws are also full of it.

I run my own weather monitoring equipment as a hobby and throw it in a time series database and see completely different results in air temperature, +/- a few degrees based on what side of the yard the measurement is taken on.

In a world where we are splitting hairs over 1-2c the microclimates present in an urban area matter. Things like reflections, landscaping, buildings, the presence or reduction of haze from local pollution and a million other factors make this data super dirty. And not only is the problem collecting reliable data in the present, but correcting data that was taken 30, 40, or 50 years ago with less sophisticated technology.
hydroponics i'm guessing
The DPT-RP1 line was acquired by Fujitsu and is now sold at the Quaderno. The hardware has been updated a bit in the Quaderno Gen 2, including a Wacom digitizer. They're still great devices, and the same open source software for the DPT-RP1 (dpt-rp1-py) works with both Quadernos.
One aspect I've yet to see covered is how existing hardware doesn't seem to be designed for s0ix to work as intended anyway.

For example, on mobile phones it used to be the case that the application processor wasn't actually the main processor of the phone, it was actually the baseband, and relatedly, this meant that the application processor could be shutdown and woken up when the phone received a text message or phone call. Similarly, modern arm processors have a big/little configuration where you can switch to the efficiency cores when the system is asleep.

While I'm aware that at some point intel started offering efficiency cores, the vast majority of devices that run windows, AFAIK, don't have any way of being awake in sleep mode other that just leaving the CPU running with the screen off.

Maybe s0ix will make more sense as big.LITTLE and other secondary CPU schemes become common, but today seems like it's just upsetting existing users for no apparent gain
Clearly the answer is 43.
Just upload some Performance Data from the Google Search Console. Let AI and Python do the rest. Hope some of you find it useful.
In the US, in most cases you have to go through a dealer due to lobbying.
Thats a very very dominant logo on a very dominant position.
An earlier comment said "The thing with rooftop/local solar is that it doesn't need to compete with wholesale electricity prices, it only need to compete with retail prices."

You seemed to disagree with that? I'm pointing out that, at least where I live, it appears this commenter was correct.
This happened for me too. I don't know why but after I tried it a few times it started working.
> with results very close to the theoretical linear optimum

In this case I could prove it was the globally optimal solution.

But this was only possible of course due to the internal structure of the problem: it was in effect a simpler problem hiding within a linear integer program. Standard solvers couldn’t find this structure, but it was possible to do by hand.
Hate speech is one of those things that's hard to nail down a perfect academic definition, but is often easy to spot in practice. I may not be able to tell you exactly where the line is, but I can tell you that (for example) a Nazi saying "Jews deserved the Holocaust" is well across that line.
How to build an open source metrics dashboard
For me AI helped me to implement all those things I was lazy to do all those years. Feel proud now!
In the actual code writing it helped me a lot on writing boring unit tests. Sometimes it's just a hit of enter key to write the whole test with GH pilot.

Just telling you all those things to maybe help you see AI differently and more friendly.
Writing code and trying to follow all those new technologies is a very mind intense and stressful activity. Maybe it's just this. Changing career was never bad for anybody. You can always make a comeback if you change your mind.

Maybe you try to become a product owner or something?
Sorry, but in what country are electricians digging trenches?

I am an electrician, technically.
(I do high voltage testing for a living.)
Database administrator tools like pgadmin4. Postgres has maybe 30 kinds of artifact that are in a dropdown tree (e.g. stored procs, collations, etc.) but most of the time all I care about is tables but I have to ignore and click past so many things just to find the table I'm looking for.

I am always harassed about queries I didn't "save" but there isn't a model for saving queries that works with the way I do software development (e.g. I don't have a git repository full of SQL queries thought I might want to keep SQL queries in files in the same repo as my Java/Python/whatever and bring them in as resources)

Products like this don't respect the fact that I am thinking about how a few tables and/or a few rows fit together. I don't want to see a hairball graph of my whole database (e.g. SAP printed out their SQL tables UML style and it filled half the wall of a gymnasium) but I do want to see a piece of it I care about as a graph

All the time I want to see a few queries, rows and result sets at the same time but tools like this don't make that easy.

If I do

select * from some_table

and get one row the columns are stacked horizontally so I can't see them all at once and have to scroll. I'd like to see one row stacked vertically so I can see it all at once and not have to scroll, scroll, scroll.

For extra credit I want a tool that works with document db's (JSON tables in postgres, arangodb, couchdb, etc.) and SPARQL databases.