skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Immer can generate patches from your changes: https://immerjs.github.io/immer/patches

I think I've seen this in other libraries too but I forget which.
Why do you need your email provider to post news?
> For a UUIDv4 PK

To be fair, this blows out any db that supports clustered indexes as well. Non-k-sortable primary keys are just a bad idea all around.

With UUIDv7, the WAL write amplification problem goes away just as the clustered index issues do.
I always find posts like this fascinating. I love the direction of going low tech and maintainable, but I have never once found myself spending significant time looking through old work. Photos are the one exception but I've always been fine just scrolling through my personal timeline of date-sorted photos. I used to spend more time on this sort of thing when I was younger and then at some point I just realized I'm never actually looking at it. I'd be curious to know some of the reasons people are frequently revising work from years ago?
Agreed, the internet is already in desperate need of a way to authenticate real humans, and we'll need it even more in 5-10 years. But it can't simply be verification via government-issued ID. The solution needs to be private, and ideally as decentralised as possible.
kittysplit.com has had this feature set for a decade. I try to promote it whenever I can
SpaceX is NASA's biggest lunar rival
Close Windows, many doors open
What is this new trend of describing recurring phenomena that one does not understand as bots?

The term aphantasia was coined in 2015, so yes, it is new. We aphantasiacs only heard this described relatively recently, and my mind was blown that apparently people can actually visualize things. A whole lot of things that we assumed were mostly wordplay or concepts ("imagine you're sitting on the beach") turned out to have much more substance than we've given them credit for. It's not that we've started having aphantasia, it's that there's new understanding about the range of human experience.

Edit: looks like half of your comments are about HN being overrun by bots, so I guess I'm unlikely to change any minds here.
Watchdog finds significant issues with US Army's boat fleet
Decoupling Visual Encoding for Unified Multimodal Understanding and Generation
> but its also wildly exaggerated

Such as?

> everything that is exaggerated is insignificant

But are the non-exaggerated things significant?
Here’s a way to write tests next to the code: https://clipperhouse.com/go-test-csharp/

(Whether I recommend it, not sure! I did it and then undid it, with suspicion that tests were taking longer due to, perhaps, worse caching of build artifacts.)
https://archive.ph/mRsMz
I guess he’s going for the “FBI fingerprinting” market?
Ok, I guess "transparency" doesn't begin to cover all potential cases, CADA's role is to ensure the freedom of access to administrative documents, but also to public archives and to the re-use of public information.

And any document created during a public service mission is concerned, regardless of whether it's in a text, visual, audio, etc. format, the law specifically abstaining from giving an exhaustive list or even type of documents, considering their variety.

And why would point clouds of statues be exempt when point clouds of buildings or landscapes are not ?

Legislators are human beings indeed, not computers, they are able to try to convey "the spirit of the law", and hope that their successors will be able to understand them.

The "hate" is from, yet again, taking taxpayer money, while basically doing the opposite of their job.

P.S.: Something to cheer you up : https://youtu.be/sQ9I4t0kJxg
I would use hosting with SSH access. I am based in Poland so we have MyDevil.net
But also you can just rent VPS for 5$, but you have to care about setting everything up.

First thing I thought while reading was Firebase - it's interesting how much it would cost there.
I can see the big chip makers making out like bandits - a la Cisco and other infra providers with the rise of the internet.

They are facing competition from companies making hardware geared toward that inference that I think will push their margins down over time.

On the other end of the competitive landscape, what moat do those companies have? What is to stop OpenAI from pulling a Facebook and Sherlocking the most profitable products built on their platform?

Something like Apple developing a chip than can do LLM inference on device would completely upend everything.
Success is defined only in the eye of the beholder. Maybe money is the what someone else defines as success and therefore that’s what they strive for. “We don’t all match to the beat of just one drum, what might be right for you may not be right for some” - I think that was in the theme song to the old sitcom The Facts of Life.
Someone is gonna reverse engineer their orb and add a couple thousand fake people with fake biometrics to the database - or just pay people to borrow their WorldID.
I'm sure this is fine, and there is no reason to be concerned that the same very rich person is behind this device as the AI technology whose worst outcomes it exists to combat.

Also there's a blockchain so that's great! I know you're not a crypto evangelist on Twitter anymore, or an NFT evangelist, and now you're an AI consultant and solutions provider. But here it is -- that great application for the blockchain you were all so sure was coming all along.

All tied up with one neat looped bow that can make you feel like it isn't somehow some empty, culture-destroying, billionaire-welfare griftapolooza.

And it's even a bit YCombinator because Sam Altman, right? He was always going to make it. He's got the killer instinct.
This seems like synesthesia, I've read that it may help excelling as you have several senses to use at the same time.
The Making of Horizon Zero Dawn [video]
It actually uses a lot of modern cryptography (zero knowledge proofs, multiparty computation, decentralized consensus, etc) to avoid exactly that.
Hetzner my lord :)
I hadn't heard of this, but it's nice to see that it's standardized (although I'm not really prepared right now to evaluate that standard properly).

Some time ago (9 years, apparently - time sure does fly), I made a thing to describe patches to a binary using JSON (https://github.com/zahlman/json_bpatch). It was meant primarily for hacking content into someone else's existing binary file, and I spent way too much time on fancy algorithms for tracking "free" (safely modifiable, based on the user's initial assessment and previous patches) space and fitting new content into the remaining space. Overall, I consider it a failure - but a fair amount of this project DNA is likely to survive in future projects.

I also had the idea at some point to make some kind of JSON diffing tool that works at a JSON-structure level instead of a textual level. I guess I don't need to reinvent that wheel.
https://www.analogue.co/3d
Guilt and shame. Eliminating unhelpful guilt and shame also solves low self-worth and a lot of anxiety. Guilt and shame often comes from setting too high expectations for oneself/perfectionism, which in this case can be socially-prescribed or self-oriented.

This article seems to fuel guilt and shame — “here are more things you should have done to escape your spiral, like drugs!” I expect that no one will benefit from it.
> That's why you and I can eat, be satisfied, and not be obese.

Who said so?! I have been obese (clinically, BMI) multiple times. And all the time I got back to overweight then normal weight by exercising and eating less (than what I wanted! Because eating until I feel like exploding is so good).

> Consider: GPL-1 inhibitors are actually root-cause solutions, and diet/exercise are not root cause solutions.

False. Overeating is caused by lack of movement and bad diet. There is no point in discuss the rest starting from a completely wrong point.
Apple some years ago proposed a string format for password rules – to be used in password managers and also an HTML attribute for that:

<input type="password" passwordrules="minlength: 8; maxlength: 12; required: lower; required: upper; required: digit; required: [-];">

It seems implemented in Safari and UIKit, but I can’t find any implementation documentation for other brothers. Sad.

https://developer.apple.com/password-rules/

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/security/customizi...
NASA is Space X’s biggest competitor for government funds.
If we’re dealing with an all-powerful Skynet intelligence, or even a WOPR or Wintermute, won’t it just figure out how to bypass the verification system?
https://archive.is/20241017140712/https://www.economist.com/...
IMO, if you’re burnt out I am not sure that’s the best time to take on a risky endeavor. Taking risks means dealing with a greater chance of failure, regardless of how calculated that risk may be. I don’t think one can reason about failure well if they’re emotionally and physically exhausted.

If your $1M isn’t a loan, like from a retirement account or similar, my suggestion is to park it in a high yield, low risk investment while you recuperate from burnout. If you put it in a savings account with a high interest rate, for example, you could even draw monthly compounded interest as income, precluding the need for a job, if you manage your expenses well.

In the meantime you can decide on your next venture. But I think your Ask HN is a little misguided, tbh. No one takes on a risky thing and sticks with it unless they have a reason to do it. What’s your reason, what do you care about?

If you ask what you’re passionate about, you’ll come up with a problem space to search for either an investment opportunity or startup idea. If you’re a solo founder, $1M is enough to sustain you while you tinker, pivot etc. Just don’t outlive your income.

If you’re looking to invest without doing anything yourself, go to any AI/ML or robotics conference and look for startups or founders you’d like to invest in. For example, I once met people from a company making neurotech devices for astronauts. There’s a lot out there, I suggest reading MIT Tech Review to get an idea.
Yes, I think you've totally coined it with the fluency concept.
> Easy enough: almost no one writes SQL queries by hand these days, not for querying the database nor for doing schema upgrades. It's all done by tools

Your experience does not match mine. Tools like ORMs make horrible schemas in my opinion that cater to the lowest common denominator of SQL engine functionality. This means leaving a lot of performance and scalability on the floor. In order to make the ORMs generate decent schema definitions, you need to know the underlying engine and therefore SQL. At that point, you might as well use SQL.

Ever try changing a column's data type from a table with hundreds of millions of rows with an ORM definition file? Hope you like downtime.
I've read the Docs https://subvert.fm/docs/, co-op bylaws draft https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zbobfJY4a7-dVdrgk6bSJh89AI7... and roadmap https://subvert.fm/roadmap/ and got answers to all the questions above.
The goal posts were never moved. What moved is your understanding of what I'm trying to say.

A hypothesis is a statement that is TRUE or FALSE. And THIS is HOW it's defined by statistics.

>I'm not going to waste time debunking every half-baked idea you can come up with.

I'm sorry but this attitude is offensive and against the rules here. I can't participate in any further discussion with you because of this. Thank you for your time and good day.
JSON is so simple that stuff like this isn’t a disasterpiece. I’m a fan and definitely need to keep this in mind next time I want to keep an edit history on a json-based dataset.
They have explained their reasoning in https://expressjs.com/2024/10/15/v5-release.html

> Before going into the changes in this release, let’s address why it was released v5 on the next dist-tag. As part of reviving the project, we started a Security working group and security triage team to address the growing needs around open source supply chain security. We undertook a security audit (more details to come on that) and uncovered some problems that needed to be addressed. Thus, in addition to the “normal” work done in public issues, we also did a lot of security work in private forks. This security work required orchestration when releasing, to ensure the code and CVE reports went out together. You can find a summary of the most recent vulnerabilities patched in our security release notes.
>
> While we weren’t able to simultaneously release v5, this blog post, the changelog, and documentation, we felt it was most important to have a secure and stable release.
>
> As soon as possible, we’ll provide more details on our long-term support (LTS) plans, including when the release will move from next to latest. For now, if you are uncomfortable being on the bleeding edge (even if it is a rather dull edge) then you should wait to upgrade until the release is tagged latest. That said, we look forward to working with you to address any bugs you encounter as you upgrade.
I haven't spent enough time on it but a good Youtube video I'd found was https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4xFVJTyJZg
SpaceX is the best prayer that NASA has.

If you want to read more about how terribly NASA is bungling its affairs: https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2024/10/02/sls-is-still-a...
No, but Sturgeon’s law applies, no matter how much LessWrong convinced itself it doesn’t.
Starting a company might be easier than you think.

Where I'm at, registering a business and getting a D&B number was cheaper than the $99/year Apple makes you pay for the app dev account.

This depends on where you are based in and your current situation, of course.

Good luck!
Intriguing idea! Some thoughts:

- If a consumer buys a car with heated seats and an option to activate the heated seats as a subscription, but the consumer elects not to subscribe, do the inactive heaters still count as inventory? If so, what if the car or heaters get destroyed but the automaker doesn't ever learn about the destruction?

- Would this apply to e-books and media? In today's market, if I buy an e-book or media from a streaming service, I'm not buying a copy, but rather a revocable license with a one-time fee. It seems like that e-book or media is inventory for the book seller.
If Ticketmaster wants to know I'm not a bot, I guess I would be OK signing a challenge with my government issued identity card [0] - for message boards that need to avoid spam and griefers, IMO an invite only system with revokable access to everyone a bad actor handed an invite code could be sufficient

Also scanning my eyeballs to have a private corporation give the thumbs up or thumbs down on whether I can access a particular service isnt merely distasteful but dystopian in a "we already lost" kind of way

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonian_identity_card
People may be even more likely to click on those ads if it will cost John Deere money.
no need to reverse-engineer anything, both hardware[1] and software[2] are up on GitHub

[1]: https://github.com/worldcoin/orb-hardware
[2]: https://github.com/worldcoin/orb-software
I'm afraid I don't follow: what's unusual about the printed cover of the book, and why is the date of publication relevant to your assessment?
Sorry, I thought you were debating in good faith. I now see the tone of your responses to everyone here.

Good luck with that!
My old work used to give a default month-year-org name and an exclamation mark. The majority of people who still used it was insane. LinkedIn was a treasure trove for logging into accounts.
Both political parties in the US have adopted a “you’re either with us or you’re the enemy” position.
The finance industry has strict KYC laws to prevent fraud and funding of other criminal pursuits. Now we have several converging trends:

- we need to know if anyone ever says anything doubleplus ungood so we can punish them with a lifetime exile from society. what qualifies depends on the day and if mercury is in retrograde.

- data is useful for making money

- human verification on an AI-enshittified net becomes practically "required" to get any "legitimate" content, by which i mean the dreck we had pre-2022 as opposed to post-2022.

- everything as a subscription service

- also the ghost of web 3.0

More parties are incentivized to hoover more data. So although #1 is overkill and everything else you listed, it's the path more companies will be taking in a neverending arms race.
I often wonder if Peter Thiel is somewhere, laughing bitterly into a glass of terrible overpriced gin that only a billionaire would drink: "this fuckin' guy... this is my schtick"
Ad sponsorships in podcasts have already been on a steady decline for a hot minute. I expect they'll keep sponsoring shows they know they can safely get a return on, but I'd be surprised if they expand their ad spend.
Ah, yes, that random blog of no particular note or influence, the Heritage Foundation.
You really don't want to give Google any excuse to suspend your account, especially if you're monetising it.
Cuba without power as national grid shuts down
Sorry, I replied to you because I thought you were asking how it affected the final product, and I clarified, in case you had missed it, that it was about the quality of the tests as documentation.

Sorry this whole thing seems to upset you so much. Chill!
"The company’s successes are also showing up the agency’s failings"

Capitalism may be boiling the planet's climate, but it damn sure can get shit done.
I did something very similar a while back: https://mbrizic.com/blog/solarhosting/
The other telling quote was him saying Admiral Rickover was his mentor.
Why check if something is odd simply, when you can do it with AI
Being a woman is objectively harder in America than being a man is. Would you screen for that?
You won't have a choice depending on what it will gatekeep, just like how at the moment web users can't opt out of being fingerprinted [1] and data intercepted by Cloudflare when they want to visit their favourite site or have to live with never having root access to their phones if they want to use their bank's mobile app.

[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/turnstile-ephemeral-ids-for-frau...
Vim's incremental search experience is basically identical to this Leap concept, just that unfortunately it doesn't come with two dedicated keys on the keyboard. It's been my favorite way to navigate text files for years and one of the reasons I like that editor.
On the tenth call to my bank in the same year to reset one of our user passwords, the account rep just volunteered to them the information that "there is an option you can check on an obscure settings page to NOT have the mandatory password rotation, you know".
> Sam the snake

Please edit personal attacks out of your HN comments, as the site guidelines ask: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. You may not owe people whom you call snakes better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it.

This applies regardless of who the person in question is, because it's not about them, it's about us, i.e. the group you belong to.
This is what I thought. Finger print and face detection have been added with little fanfare. FAANG wont let this become a defacfo standard without a fight.
You could buy access. Buy yourself into a chamber of commerce where you want to live starting with a small business in the area. Keep it small and look for businesses where the subject of the business itself, is interesting to you. Expand from there... angel investing/owning.

Buy a mini-excavator and a truck. Learn how to dig holes. <- I really want to do this when I retire from my main gig. Graduate to bigger holes and bigger equipment.

Develop a product for a hobby you are into. For example, if you like woodworking, design a better ruler. You might just become the next Woodpecker tool company!

Start a vinyl wrap business.

Buy a care home for elderly.

Just a few thoughts that came to mind...
> But my main point stands, which is that standard relational databases are not designed to be able to maintain a sorted index of long URL's out of the box.

You keep saying that, but Postgres does a great job with no issues without any extra work. MySQL is alone in being suboptimal. "It's not designed for that" isn't a good answer, if it works great. Show me how the underlying data structures fail or perform poorly if it's really not something you should do.
92% of Americans have health plan coverage, so we're not talking only about the rich here. There are certainly problems that we should fix but spreading misinformation about basic facts doesn't help anything.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhis/earlyrelease/Quarterly_Es...

It's easy for populists to demonize health insurance companies. But even if we somehow magically cut all payer profits to zero that would only marginally reduce total system costs. Much of what they do in fighting against doctors by negotiating lower reimbursement rates and denying claims that don't meet coverage rules actually helps to control costs for their main customers, the large self-insured employers that purchase health plans for their employees. At the national policy level, one change that would probably help would be breaking the linkage between employment and health plan coverage in order to better align incentives.

Other countries that spend less on healthcare also have lower provider wages, longer queues for advanced treatments, rationed care based on QALYs (or similar metrics), and less innovation in drugs and medical devices. Maybe that would be better overall but let's not pretend that there aren't severe trade-offs. You can't have your cake and eat it too.
You know what? If you don't like your job I'll take it. Seriously that's what I wanted to do since I was a teenager. Now I spend my time counting other people's money. That's an even worse life.
Some of us think nurture matters more than nature, too.
I had to really consider it because while I am familiar with synesthesia I never really thought it would apply in my case, but when I got deeply into thinking about it the sensations are pretty much in the exact same case.

I think its why I might get a little too irritable at silly code!
Some characters felt illegal to use in passwords, like starting your password with space. Not only feels, but will not pass validation during sign up in many places.
Edited, sorry.
Previously on Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41838050
I visualize some geographic location either in my home town where I grew up or in my current city. It's so vivid that I actually drive through some neighborhoods and can instantly recall what I was working on. I have a map with pins in each location I've visualized and what problem I was working on.
> Capitalism … can get shit done

I don’t disagree but n=1 for successful private space endeavours by my count. It’s possible simply that Gwynne Shotwell can get shit done.
In an extended chapter of Mythical Man Month, Fred Brooks described his practice of screening candidates for number-form synesthesia by asking “where is November?”

I have number form so when I was young and originally read this I thought it was pretty neat. But as evidenced in the rest of this thread, it’s an absolutely crazy practice since the majority of great programmers don’t have it. And I assume it’d be illegal these days anyway.

https://www.mattsencenbaugh.com/where-is-next-november/
> Example: They have the nuclear weapon, so they could end Gaza in one day.

Are you being serious here?