skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read through the description. Funnily enough, it's a second time I ask a question "what does Ruby have?" and the response provides something very specific to Ruby that does not idiomatically translate to other languages in a way that someone in polyglot environment would immediately understand a need for.

Statically typed languages usually have other, better ways, to associate metadata with the types, if necessary. Or avoid having such a requirement at all.

> For instance, in a social network, a user might have tags that are called skills, interests, sports, and more. There is no real way to differentiate between tags and so an implementation of this type is not possible with acts as taggable on steroids.

Isn't that's just having a property/field on a struct/class/type/object that contains the list of tags? Active Records seem to be effectively EF Core's tracked entities but with seemingly more "magic" under the hood (something that ORMs are often criticized for, including catching undeserved strays by EFC).

In general, I remain very negative towards Ruby and Ruby on Rails because most feedback that I hear leaves an impression of "so it has some of the advantages similar to top modern web frameworks in C# and Java/Kotlin but with a huge bag of breakage risk with codebase growth, a need to extensively cover code with tests and static analysis to cover for mistakes that are impossible in statically typed languages, and one tenth of performance on a sunny day".

Now, I don't think it's a bad choice in a vacuum, but it's important to consider the overall experience and practices used in a language A vs B, and whether either is used correctly.
You can't. The term "virtualize" is generally used to mean running an OS via hardware virtualization, where your host CPU natively runs its code but forwards all I/O to a hypervisor. You can only do that with an OS built for the same CPU architecture as your host system.

For everything else, like running ARM software on x86 (and vice versa), you'll have to resort to emulation, which involves either interpreting the code or dynamically recompiling it. By definition, you can emulate anything on anything else (someone recently booted Linux for MIPS on an Intel 4004, the first ever microprocessor), but the performance might be a problem.
Even if that's true, that's even less reason to attack them and make yourself look terrible. Just wait and they'll destroy themselves.
I think it’s GP’s own evaluation
Last time I heard of someone using Puppy Linux was this guy creating a Cursed™ NAS that works entirely on RAM.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTSuSAn0o7c
Can the columns be sticky when page scrolls down?
I wonder if they tested this at all. What a poor showing.
I'd like to filter on country-of-origin of ingredients.
Sell and buy
I always wondered why arcade cabinets were covered in plastic. Till now i thought it was for spills or something.
Understanding Rust's Trait Objects: Vtables, Dynamic Dispatch, and Memory Deall
"A" is just a foreplay for "B", to soften the target.
> is there any concrete evidence supporting either potential future administration being tougher on Apple?

Trump’s trade war with China would probably hurt Apple. But his allies’ plans to gut federal regulatory powers and cut corporate taxes still make him a net friend to one of the world’s richest corporations.

Note that the FTC and DoJ remain independent agencies [1].

> Can the downvoter please explain why you downvoted?

Didn’t downvote. But a partisan aside about a judicial decision on a case between private parties is off topic. (I’d also be shocked if there is any overlap between undecided likely voters and HN users, the latter who tend to be informed.)

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_agencies_of_the_...
Last I heard Barnes and Noble was doing pretty good:

https://www.theverge.com/23642104/barnes-and-noble-amazon-bo...
It's usually same-day where I live in the bay area. Same for Walmart, Costco, etc
I was confused on the lighter type so I deleted that part of my response. I think you're correct but I can't say for sure.
Ask HN: Monitoring the coming and going of Bluetooth devices around your home
I’m looking for a solution that would constantly monitor Bluetooth at my home. It would keep a local database of all devices seen. It would keep track of the first time they were seen and the most recent time they were seen. Optionally it would trigger events based on their comings and goings.
Hey, not sure where you're running your backend for this, but this is the perfect use case for my company's product (check out my profile if you're interested). We make a serverless compute platform that doesn't charge for wait time, so it would be signifigantly cheaper than EC2 or AWS Lambda for example.
Yeah but I imagine the ice is getting thin. Sure, use of key pinning on the web failed - but for instance banking apps commonly use it. Once monitoring Certificate transparency logs gets more traction, things like that could get noticed.
Show HN: Stupid AI Coder
"Is this the one weird trick to rule them all?"
Show HN: Yet another email signature generator
Mostly made to scratch an itch. Looking mostly for feedback how on to build upon this MVP and if it's worth it.
As a culture we don't value primary sources.
In our setup we have multiple processes. The application that we are benchmarking itself, plus our the process that generates the load plus any optional dependencies of the application. These all are scheduled over the number of cores of the docker vm. From the outside it is hard to track which internal process was scheduled where.
None. Code review is about ensuring the user has a good experience, which Apple claims to value. Pay for it then with some of the absurd profits they've made off of me purchasing Macs and iOS devices regularly for the last decade or so.
Sure, but the blast radius still has to be considered. Working to reduce that is certainly a worthwhile endeavor even if the end state is the same.
How do you check how much protein your body actually needs?

I bet many folks would have the same results with 2x less protein intake.
Isn't venture capital merely a kind of private equity?
Hey! I'm Boris, creator of meet.hn
Would you like me to share this on https://x.com/meet_hn ?

If you want me to tag some people there, I can as well.
I have not tried that, no. I'm not even sure what a SOTA model is (which is my other issue with AI right now: the fragmentation). Sure, the AI design can be done quicker and may be "better" by some objective measure. However, can it present its model to upper management in a coherent way to justify the budget it is about to be given? Can it translate this design into a series of tasks for (surely AI) engineers to implement? Can it deal with late-breaking changes to the design based on new requirements? You'll tell me it probably can, or shortly will be able to. The thing is, as long as humans are making the ultimate decisions, they'll probably want another human in the loop somehow, at least within this generation.

I mean, look, there's no one who wants to stop having to write code more than me. Our industry is full of make-work and pointless drudgery for no reason and I'd love to see that be made pointless by AI. But there's the old quote about overestimating the short term progress and underestimating the long term progress that applies here. Your version of "awhile" is probably pretty similar to the "awhile" of people excited about past technologies. As another comment pointed out, we engineers have been trying to automate ourselves out of a job for quite a while now and I don't see this being much different. I'm old enough to remember the 4GL fad and people were just as breathless then that you didn't need those pesky engineers anymore and soon you'd be able to do similar things as AI is promising. Low-code was a thing recently too. These things gradually chip away at the skills you need to make things happen, but something has to ultimately be responsible for the results and that's where humans come in.
It exists: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/ti...

As a nearby comment indicates, it's not clear any browser makes use of it.
Rails has strict_loading now which eliminates the n+1 issue. Which kinda supports your position that tooling plays a large role. I was always very aware of the issue but framework support makes it 10x easier
It seems like none of the issues with wpengine have anything to do with private equity. The article just said private equity sucks, which sure i will grant, but that doesn't say anything about this particular conflict. Private equity isn't responsible for literally every sin in the world.

I feel like this article is essentially a smear piece - wpengine is associated with private equity therefor is not deserving of sympathy. Or something like that.
More of a Kozel fan then, are you?
Dell seems to be doing OK.
This is an interesting idea, but the advertising is a little misleading. Your pricing page claims that "A USPS Postcard Stamp is now 56 cents!", but nobody who's mass-mailing direct marketing materials is paying retail for a postcard stamp per mailpiece. They'd use Every Door Direct Mail [1], which is 22 cents per postcard/envelope and doesn't require individual addressing or individual stamps. Printing adds a bit of cost, but that doesn't nearly make up the 53-cent difference between your service and USPS's.

[1]: https://eddm.usps.com/eddm/select-routes.htm
Totally makes sense not to jump in early to make sure kinks are worked out, but it is worth noting that Solid Cache was code extracted from BaseCamp and HEY, so it has seen production at scale for a while now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYeVne3aRow
OK. All you see when you hit Threads is what YOU said. Not what the person above you said.
And then Clippy sneaks up behind you, and whispers menacingly in your ear, "It looks like you're installing an operating system."
It sounds unusual for a seed-stage company (I assume that’s what you mean) to seek funding from private equity. Did the company already have significant revenue and profitability? Why did the founder go for private equity rather than VC.. was the founder basically looking to sell/exit at that point?
You might be less prone to being nerd sniped as well. Being employed as an engineer while completing an MDiv certainly speaks to a certain healthy degree of mental balance. Certainly higher educations that focuses on reading comprehension/understanding will have a broad positive effect, as will being a respected and educated (high status for some value of status) individual in a close knit community.

I think how devout a person is matters a lot, my parents always gave away their 2nd cloak away and I've known very few christians stateside who live with a believable degree of piety.

My parents would literally give up a dishwasher, dryer, car, computer, etc.. without second thought when it served the mission and they intentionally put themselves in places where that would be the case. Finding ways to isolate yourself from seeing others needs is a very common way of following the letter but not spirit of NT teaching.

I think north american christians typically have the best life outcomes when they practice restricted piety instead of taking NT injunctions seriously or literally, which is just a hedge of course against the existential doubt that seems to drive a persons observable behavior.

Agree or disagree with them but my parents also had a hundred fold (more than that actually, when I really think about it) return in reaching people, I don't know many NA christians who have had even 30 fold return, which definitely makes me question what type of seed NA christians tend to be. I've heard some very devout missionaries say that there they suspect there are very few christians left in NA and based on numbers alone many churches seem to be reaping negative numbers and the rest are growing through absorbing other groups.
I'm mind-blown at how relevant that is here
I agree that our current government is not.

But what you are proposing is a different government, one in which leaders could operate without the primary accountability that they face now: that anyone can organize a campaign against them.
duckdb is shorter to type than clickhouse-local and at the command line brevity is king! Of course the winner here is chdb! (And don't talk to me about shell aliases) :-p

While on the topic, how exactly does chdb relate to clickhouse-local?
Be a founder that wants to build a long-term business that employs people that want to create a good product. Be an employee that will only work for companies founded by those people.
It depends entirely on the strategy. Sometimes PE invests to help a business acquire other businesses
A Language of Beautiful Impurity
Working to reduce what? The risk of wpengine over extending and going bankrupt? So we try and bankrupt them earlier? This makes no sense.
People say this as though teens and tweens aren't just going to find something else to latch onto immediately to bully the fuck out of one another.

I never dealt with the "blue bubble" thing but it's not like I wasn't mercilessly bullied for basically my entire education about everything else you could possibly think of past the fourth grade. I'm all for tackling bullying, I think it's fucking heinous the kinds of things schools let happen under their watch, but let's not kid ourselves that Apple opening up iMessage is going to do a fucking thing about this.
Discussed at the time:

Microsoft didn’t sandbox Windows Defender, so I did - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14909759 - Aug 2017 (43 comments)
What did you use to filter through the stats?
I think there is a big difference between devices that don’t easily support running third party code and apple devices which they have had to spend lots of money developing multiple signing schemes, bug patches, threatening jailbreak communities, etc. just to prevent people from running 3rd party code
I couldn't compare it to other OSINT sources for satellites, but it was pretty good for looking stuff up when I wanted to.
Wouldn't fibers work well for ActionCable applications? Lots of connections being kept alive, with sparse activity on them?
Paying to receive a call seems to a mostly American phenomenon. In most (all?) of Europe, receiving calls is always free, no matter where or how they originate.
They're just having a conversation; that's one of the things "Ask HN" is for. I don't know why you're getting all triggered over it. Just ignore it if you don't like it.
Surprised they're not paying people to find out who's not a Trump voter.
It would be good to explain the difference between PE funding and VC funding.
History Of Hacking The Nintendo 3DS (2019) [pdf]
Python 3.13.0 (final) released
Google will win on appeal.
> In my experience, most web applications are terminating HTTP connections from clients, then reaching out over a network to database servers, etc. to do work. This is very much IO-bound, so I'm not sure how this wouldn't be a good fit for most Rails applications.

Most rails applications are deployed using a multi-threaded application server such as Puma, a thread processes a single request and when it encounters IO (or calls out to a C function) the thread gives up its hold of the GVL and another thread can run. You can use 100% of your resources this way without the added complexity of parallelism within a single request.
And competition. One of the ways companies like Walmart hold their popular brand name companies in check on pricing power is through their store brands.

Why should I feel bad about Kraft being under permanent pressure by Walmart's Great Value brand?

More competition is needed, not less. Along with more transparency. Banning Amazon from competing would be a mistake. They need a more level playing field, not fewer players.
I bet you, with the advent of the FDA banning flavored products, we will see the same for form factors. The pleasant-looking disposable vapes are neon colors and look like toys, just like you said.
I'm not sure I can even blame Altman here. I think it's quite easy to move into a mode where all forward 'progress' is perceived as unequivocally good. It is so difficult to move the ball, once the ball starts rolling, it's absolutely exhilarating. He's the person on the crest of the wave at the moment, and it's either Sam or someone else is there. Is he a moral man? Can he dare to pause and ask if these features should exist? I doubt it. Perhaps his request for regulation was in earnest: He maybe knows that only governments can slow down a market that is cresting, and only governments can stop and ask questions. Since I believe in government (I know that many do not!) I think we must immediately create a Department of AI and a President's commission. This shit is about to become very real.
If you have an amateur radio license, a small HF transmitter would probably successfully send a signal to a receiver on land most of the time, and of course wouldn't cost anything.

HF propagation does vary over time, but you could send a signal far more often to make up for it.
Honestly the output from this model was a little scary. I could always tell AI generated people and images prior to this

But most of the images here are just mundane enough that they could have been taken by your average smartphone user
Thank you that is nice. I will try tomorrow to see whether it has effect. According to the man page I need `-B`: Move target process out of PRIO_DARWIN_BG.

This will still allow scheduling on both the performance and the efficiency cores though. No way to only pin it to performance cores
> Look at last weeks Iran ICBM barrage vs. iron dome and David’s sling.

I believe the issue was not overwhelming the defences but rather the defences (Iron Dome and David's sling) were designed for short range and slow rockets from Lebanon or Gaza and not long range fast/high rockets from Iran.

It may be that the cost per Arrow missile (for long range intercepts) is $3M as well, so they didn't fire that many of them? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow_(missile_family)
The Financial Times is also good about this.
I'm sure you have a ton of suggestions but having an option to filter by sweetener type would be great. I'm trying not to buy anything with sucralose.
Instead, think of AI and robotics as incredibly cheap labor that will be available to just about everyone. So you become an entrepreneur, or the manager of a sophisticated network of teams of robots/AI running on a blockchain. Think about how to leverage these systems to provide goods and services.

This doesn't make sense to me... It is a genuine doubt: if you, and everyone else by extent, have the same ability to create a product or service, that can be easily replicated by AI, what value you are creating? What will you sell? Who will want to buy what you're selling if everyone can make the same thing?
Ok, then stop trying, protomolecule.
Hmm, why was this removed from a homepage?
in case that wiretap system related to telephony, etc - plain voice data can be obtained
Agreed. It comes up a million times on HN and has an enormous amount of ratings on Goodreads, #3 in Russian lit behind only 1 book of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/117833.The_Master_and_Ma.... It is widely popular in the English-speaking world; not obscure.
Great work! I think you have a business similar to Lummi[0] if you:

- Enhance search capabilities

- Add a paid API

- Add a whole lot more images :)

Other royalty free image APIs out there like Unsplash[1] have difficult licensing terms. AI is poised to disrupt this space.

[0]: https://www.lummi.ai
[1]: https://unsplash.com/developers
Yeah as I've said before - don't remember much of the book. But freedom of association isn't exactly a concept the rand lovers have a monopoly over.
A wonderful, wonderful book. Highly recommended.

> Yes, it borrows a LOT from existing stories.

Honestly, I don't connect to this - this book has such a unique voice, so unlike most fantasy. And the plot is so different from the typical Tolkien-esque fantasy you normally find.
I generally don't find reductio ad absurdum arguments very convincing.

For example: seat belts and air bags add extra cost (a lot more than an AM radio), maybe they should be optional too?
Aye and it’s a fucking shit show.

Down with all “stores”!
This wording insinuates that the AI Model is the one profiting from the scheme and the programmer merely helped.
Wonder when capitalism's thumb screws are gonna break too many Americans' fingers. The day can't be too far off anymore, can it?
I think you missed my point due to me saying something about driving through the roundabout incorrectly. My apologies, that was entirely besides the point.

I’m trying to say that everyone driving through it incorrectly is not a great metric to judge bad roundabout. If everyone does it wrong and it’s still safer than a regular intersection, then is a success.

Of course I don’t know the numbers involved, so I can’t say if that’s the case here.
A great book.

I personally prefer Permutation City - for similar reasons. I don't think a book has quite affected my thoughts on what consciousness means quite as much as that book, and it's very interesting to boot.
I think everything spies these days, I don’t know why the government is not just cutting all of that off with privacy laws. They’re attacking the heads but this stuff is like a hydra. Just pass a comprehensive law against data harvesting and pro-privacy.
Too early to call. At least initially, her FTC was incompetent to the point that M&A lawyers were urging companies to attempt mergers because shit that wouldn’t usually get through would get bungled in court. She was aggressive but incompetent.

She appears to be improving. But the FTC chair isn’t an internship.
Yeah exactly - it was essentially at the revenue of series B or C at that point. This is in 2021 during the height of ZIRP, so I assume part of it was frothiness but the aftermath was terrible.
B&N is also probably the only example I can think of that has gotten somewhat better since. But I also wonder if its an outlier even worth considering. I don't work at B&N, so this is me making a guess. They don't have any kind of patents (software or otherwise), so no real valuable IP, its just a straight forward business. Not a disruptor of tech. No manufacturing, or at least manufacturing it is highly dependent on. There is nothing really in their line of business that makes it worth it for a brain drain to reduce cost and sell it higher than what you bought it for. But I'd also guess there are few to no people who want to enter the book selling business. So if your a PE firm that is gonna acquire it, your only option is to actually run it halfway decently? I guess maybe they could have slimmed it down to virtually nothing and tried to sell it to Amazon, but I wonder if that merger would be allowed to go through?
This reads like it was written by generative AI. Private equity is often the vulture a company is sold to when the founders can’t take it public or find a symbiotic merger first. In a traditional LBO it loads the company with debt, based on a steady stream of cash flows. The cash flows are key. It’s akin to having a wild stallion which grew up fast and beautiful and then putting a saddle on its back and an ore behind it. In public companies that looks like going from a growth stock to a dividend stock to a high dividend stock that people only buy for tax purposes because the dividend is less than the devaluation in stock price over time. You can look at the financial statements of companies or the details in any stock app and you can see where they are at in this maturation curve. Then invest your time and money accordingly.