skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it a breeze to work with and seamlessly supports SSR, isomorphic code, and type safe library and data sharing, because it uses the same language on the client and server, and does it inspire joy and delight because it's fun and easy to work with like SvelteKit? Since not, then why bother with PHP? Because the alternatives are so much better.

In no way is PHP better than JavaScript, and the simple fact that JS runs natively in both the front and back end is astronomically more important than a point-by-point comparison of language features that PHP loses anyway.

https://x.com/Rich_Harris/status/1844744999272935596

Rich Harris @Rich_Harris:

A few takeaways from this remarkable data:

1. Yes, SSR matters. SvelteKit users sometimes get frustrated that it's too SSR-centric, and we have plans to address that in the next major version. But SSR is the default for a reason! Our ultimate responsibility is to end users

Ben McCann @BenjaminMcCann:

Some data from Google (big thank you to @rick_viscomi and @imkevdev !)

Client-side-only SPAs are extremely detrimental to latency as they add a network round-trip before rendering begins.

You can win at LCP by making it harder to build client-side apps
I think it was Martin Luther who said something to the effect that of the 12 apostles, 19 are buried in Germany.
> I find that when I point this out, people often get mad. They feel they aren't obese. But the research doesn't support them, if you are anywhere outside of the "healthy" categorization you are at the same risk (that we know of so far) as "clinically obese" people.

Depends. All cause mortality is notoriously lower for "overweight" people than "normal weight" people.
Thank you. Larger text does just that and in some cases makes buttons even more difficult to use. My eyes are fine, and my fingers are big…unfortunately rendering the Mini mainly useless for me.
Is there any hope for a new, homegrown aerospace U.S. company in this day and age? This decadent beast needs to be put out of its misery but it seems to be the only one we've got left...
I clicked on this link with one of my two index fingers and felt the joy of a person feeling enjoyment
You can probably get fairly close to do this by using an apple watch with a sim card

I used to leave the house with just my watch and it was great - I could read and send text messages, email, even take calls on my watch and have everything synced up to my phone at home. You can even download music to it and pair it to your airpods.

The missing piece here is just having a dumb phone - somehow I think that with some ingenuity you might be able to something that serves 80% of your needs here or something like that.
Can I just get a a flagship iPhone sized like an iPhone SE please?
(The submitted URL was https://graphite.rs/blog/graphite-progress-report-q3-2024/ but I converted the post to a Show HN per https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and added the progress report link to the bottom of your text. I hope this helps!)
Ask HN: Starting FinTech/becoming a card authority in Australia
I thought I would ask here because I can't seem to find the information I'm looking for. Australia is going through a "credit card fee debacle" at the moment so search is cluttered.

I want to investigate how to become a card issuer/authority without becoming a bank in Australia.

The purpose is simple: I give my customer a "credit card" to use for approved merchants. They can go use that credit card for any amount. The list of approved merchants will vary by customer.

I don't know where I can find information on doing this in Australia, and I also want to find information on how far I can get without venture capital.
Keeps them addicted to their phone by not allowing them to just go watch only.
Stock price is irrelevant in isolation.
Oh sure, the user-space ABI is stable; I meant kernel-space. Although I realize now that I failed to write that explicitly.
> just because my email takes 150gb

You have a very different email life than me. Is that like, all emails received in your life, or just huge attachments?
It's not an emotional reaction to Boeing, it's a logical reaction to the fact that stock buybacks are a blatant form of market manipulation that were illegal for most of the 20th century. Nobody should be doing them, it's nothing to do with Boeing specifically. Buybacks are almost always bad for employees, customers, and if you're a big enough corporation, the world.
How do you know they don’t have side effects that would reduce max life expectancy?
> So China is both using slave labor and also paying close to wage parity with the US? How can both of those assertions be true?

Very trivial actually. The ones approaching wage parity are tech workers in big cities (what I deal with). The ones working as slaves are literally digging holes, sometimes in other countries. The battery supply chain contains both. The part that makes it easy for China to make cheaper batteries is the digging holes and fucking the environment part of it.

> the US coudl also opt for strategic reserves of key items at a much lower cost than the cost of tariffs on the economy.

They could, but they would, again, have to ignore environmental and labor concerns, which would require first changing federal laws that ban imported goods that used forced labor (see previous links).

> An easy way to help EV companies would be to stop spending trillions of dollars on petrolium-related wars.

Unfortunately, 93.2% of the 283 million cars on the road are ICE. This "easy" way involves a short term severe disruption, especially of the lower levels of the economy. But, I agree completely that subsidizing EV companies (including Tesla) and strategic foreign investments in REE is probably a better long term bet than building nice bombs.

I think the realistic result of all of this is that the economic pressures force the next gen of batteries to not use lithium or cobalt, or anything that China has 80% control of.

Cheers!
Elements such as buttons and scroll bars are too small for my big fingers and relative to the size of the device.
Show HN: Report – What AI Says About Y Combinator and Its Competitors
Called it https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41843217
For those people who can't even be bothered to find the papers.

Here's a site that gives you those references. Do the critical thinking and reasoning. If you actually do the reading, you'll find what I have said is quite correct (and your downvotes are you exercising your opinion to silence others irrationally, which is coercive and evil when its arbitrary and unbacked by rational evidence).

https://fluoridealert.org/content/50-reasons/ (the list is at the bottom)

Then there is also a good paper here for the history of Flouride.

For those that don't pick out the critical parts, conclusion isn't appropriate because it neglects common factors like funding (rather the lackthereof for anti-flouride research), the lack of ability to publish (subverted journals refusing publication), and a great many papers after the 1950s; and only briefly touches on methodological issues such as the fact that early studies used young men (not infants, kids, older populations, or women), and extrapolated out for the general population.

Women's health, birth, and allergies/thyroid changes were largely ignored, and rather than correct the bad science in a rational way; the expert voices involved were minimized and discredited, while simultaneously being barred from publishing in research pools (for a perceived stance rather than for actual science, ideologically against science). Its not hard to see why the thought that Communism was playing a role in this line of inquiry.

When seeing these tactics, they were commonly known by the public at the time, and were used primarily by Communists and Marxists who weren't follow western thought based in rationalism (science) to try to subvert the population, and if this were the case, its hard to argue that they didn't succeed in subverting the bureaucracy to force the changes despite the health consequences.

Read for yourself, also that objective 15% benefit (not 2/3) extrapolated didn't properly account for increasing tooth hygiene during that same time.

Even the CDC today recognizes the benefits are mainly from topical uses. Most western countries don't allow flouridated water supplies.

Much of the research over the years had to be independently funded, or were government funded by those countries, and the science has been overwhelming, but this isn't how public trust science is supposed to work (in the US). More specifically biasing funding on safety issues to push unsafe options for profit/benefit would fall under political corruption, and a violation of the public trust.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4504307/
William Gibson: You are an adequate but drug-addled hacker, navigating dangerous, high-tech worlds where blurred realities, conspiracies, and corporate power struggles force you to uncover hidden truths, survive against powerful forces, and ultimately question the nature of identity, technology, and control.

Neal Stephenson: You are a small cog in a historical epic leading to a far-flung speculative future, where you grapple with the complexities of technology, cryptography, and philosophy, as well as incidentally discovering the best way to eat Captain Crunch cereal.
Thanks for the transparency and thoughts!
>Why exactly should we perpetuate the insecure old single-privilege-level desktop model?

Because after 10 years of heavy development none of the waylands have managed support simple things like screen readers. X11 supports screen readers and innumberable other vital accessibility features that wayland never will be able to. Some waylands might eventually develop extensions for their particular desktop but there won't ever be a way for wayland protocol because it can't. Security theater is more important than accessibility/usability for wayland that leaves many use cases and entire demographics of people out in the cold.

So yes, X11, which is still the least worst option. Better to have the ability to do all things than have to wait decades+ for developers to write complex extensions to do things (and just for their DE, causing fragmentation).
My best use case for the apple watch is I can keep it on everywhere. If I constantly have to think of the thing it’ll get annoying enough I want to get rid of it.
So fluoridated water is mass medication because the alternatives are bottled or expensive, not pumped into the house, and salt is non-mass medication even though its “natural”-marketed alternatives are more expensive too. I guess milk and grains (vitamin D and folate added) are just normal non-mass medicated foods too given that they aren’t pumped into the house like water either? Or is it mass medication in the grains case because the FDA requires folic acid to be added?

This is starting to sound real silly.
It seems reasonable to expect it to grow even at a diminished rate until everyone enjoys equivalent access to health care, nutrition, occupational safety etc but that is subject to the political environment, priorities of the electorate and the capacity of the economy. Without pandemic, famine, war or natural disaster a decline in life expectancy is generally the result of public policy for a rich democracy and not an inevitability.

I think we need to distinguish between longevity and health though. Lots of people live with chronic disease and giving them more quality of life counts for more than longer life IMO.
> it's not like owning 10 billion dollars of Treasury bonds would have prevented a door plug blowout

I doubt today's announcement is any kind of endorsement by the company about its past foolishness.

I think the assumption here is that, in the past, more money should have been dedicated to ensuring high airplane reliability instead of company profits. And if that had been done, the door plug blowout wouldn't have happened.

P.S.: I'll call it how I see it: it wasn't merely foolishness, it was evil. They prioritized their own profits over the public safety with which they were entrusted.
The lede paragraph was all I could see, so I had to draw conclusions from that.

As I said

> this story, which I can't afford to read
Heh... The obvious choice of course is Unreal Engine. It's almost 2025, after all.
> How about being imploded like a submarine CEO?

What I've read over the years is that when a submarine implodes from external pressure, the implosion happens SO fast that the human occupants are never aware of it. [0]

That sounds to me like the one time I was ever under general anesthesia: One instant I was chatting with the medical staff as they were putting me under, the next instant I opened my eyes and saw my wife standing over me in the recovery room.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_submersible_implosion#:~...
Related. Others?

[Open source Rust graphics editor] Graphite progress report (Q2 2024) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41138691 - Aug 2024 (3 comments)

Graphite 2D graphics editor built in Rust: Looking back on 2023 and what's next - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38855850 - Jan 2024 (2 comments)

Graphite: 2D Raster and Vector Editor - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38169500 - Nov 2023 (4 comments)

Graphite: Open-source raster and vector 2D graphics editor - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36901406 - July 2023 (64 comments)

Graphite – open-source raster and vector 2D graphics editor written in Rust - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30675530 - March 2022 (18 comments)
Absolutely unnecessary solutions. The US Treasury is already plugged into FedNow to provide federal tax refunds instantly (20 second SLA) to demand deposit accounts. If someone is unbanked, bank them. There is no credit risk with instant payments; simply don’t allow overdrafts or otherwise extend credit on a deposit account. Don’t allow check deposits (see: check fraud at ATMs and mobile deposits with float).

If banks refuse FedNow support, make it a condition of their bank charter.

https://www.frbservices.org/financial-services/fednow/organi...

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/petition-to-bank-regulato...

https://www.fdic.gov/household-survey
Show HN: Ditto – the simplest self-building coding agent
I built a super simple coding agent, as a ~500 line python script, that includes a simple front-end interface. It's a single LLM loop with 5 tools.

When you load the app, it shows you a form where you describe the app you want, and it will show you progress as it builds your Python Flask app by writing folders and files into the static, templates, and routes folder.

It uses a task_completed tool to decide when it's done, which exits the loop. Just reload the Flask app (which rebuilds all the routes it created), and it will point you to your new app instead of the original input form (which it does by simply determining if index.html exists).

It's not as powerful as Replit Agent, but at ~500 lines of code, pretty fun to play with and easy to improve upon by simply updating the prompt or adding some tools.
Misunderstood the finances, more likely. The difference between selling existing shares and creating new shares is complicated.
What's added to tap water isn't the compound used in aluminum refining. Thus they would have to separate it out and at that point they can simply react it with aluminum and continue to use it. There's nothing to discard.
> Why is the bezel so thick?

How else were they supposed to make room for the extra 4GB of RAM required to support Apple Intelligence?
> "modern" as a value seems pretty loose, and it's often at least arguable whether it's objectively better!

Well, there is research on this!

https://security.googleblog.com/2024/09/eliminating-memory-s... writes:

> vulnerabilities decay exponentially. They have a half-life. [...] A large-scale study of vulnerability lifetimes² published in 2022 in Usenix Security confirmed this phenomenon. Researchers found that the vast majority of vulnerabilities reside in new or recently modified code

Where ² goes to https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity22/presentat...

A study limitation is that they looked only at security-relevant bugs (vulnerabilities). As someone who writes code, I would tend to think that this also goes for bugs without a direct security impact, but I don't have the data to back that notion up
which flags did you use and which compiler version?
Some opinionated conventions around defining templated SQL queries in YAML files for ETL.

Then it provides additional tooling around that, GUI’s, governance, everything your average large corporate asks for.
Data collection in a live scenario. Guaranteed it's being trained on now in their data center.
"Don't be snarky."

"A good critical comment teaches us something."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

(p.s. not defending boeing - just hn thread quality)
Ridiculous. A perversion of the true spirit of conkers.
That's a nice trick!

For reference, what I'd normally do if I wanted that is specify launching with the debugger, like

python3 -mpdb example.py

and then step through. Also `ipdb` is nice if available.
Entirely possible they do - but those effects would probably manifest in some fashion earlier than actual death. We'll have at least 7 years to see if we can spot them. But, even if they do exist, they will probably be small (given we haven't found them so far), and the positive effect on life expectancy via weight loss is huge.

i.e. the benefits of the weight loss almost certainly outweigh any side effects that are likely to manifest.
Decades ago Linus Torvalds was asked in an interview if he feared Linux to be replaced by something new. His answer was that some day someone young and hungry would
come along, but unless they liked writing device drivers Linux would be safe.

This is all paraphrased from my memory, so take it with a grain of salt. I think the gist of it is still valid: Projects like Asterinas are interesting and have a place, but they will not replace Linux as we have it today.

(Asterinas, from what I understood, doesn't claim to replace Linux, but it a common expectation.)
Does anyone know what the legality of these are? Can you get in trouble just for purchasing things like flipper zero? Or just for using them in some way?
Attorney files federal lawsuit challenging court's gag order rule
Honor and Shame: Core Values of the Biblical World
> Is that a commonly reasonable goal for folks?

Why not? Humans have been pursuing immortality for time immemorial. "The Epic of Gilgamesh", one of the first known stories, features such a pursuit.
wat, we have plenty of aerospace companies, Boeing is the only one making consumer air travel jets right now, but they're far from the only aerospace company in the US
These comments always come up with every mainframe post. It's not only about performance. If it were it would be x86 or pSystems (AIX/POWER). The reason customers buy mainframes is RAS (reliabililty, availability, scalability). Notice that performance is not part of RAS.
The parents said cash on hand.

You are proposing a third hypothetical. Would Boeing being a better position today if they had spent 10 billion dollars yesterday? Maybe, maybe not.
clang 19, -O3 -ffast-math -march=native
Sadly business has given up on improvements/efficiency gains and is instead trying to maximize solely via extraction.

I hired a service to help with my trees because an old try was dying. Each time they come out they send me a 'survey' only it's barely a survey with most of the focus on 'Do you want to tip for the services performed'.
>I’ve done Ayahuasca several times, each ceremony fundamentally life-changing. In one ceremony, the shaman helped heal years of abuse. One led to my divorce. The penultimate ceremony convinced me to make this film, instead of using my savings to buy a house.

Yeah the author seems to think this paragraph is pro ayahuasca. Healing years of abuse - definitely good. Getting divorced - could be good or bad depending on the situation. Spending all your savings on making a film instead of buying a house. This one is leaning (could be good) towards more of a bad decision than a good one to me.
OpenAPI for Contract Testing
Using OpenAPI to its full capability can help you achieve contract testing and help improve reliability of your deployments.
Envoy is legendary in (dev)ops circles, but I don't understand what it lends to the AI space. I feel like building a separate backend service that runs behind envoy would make more sense but that's just me.
It's not just hand tracking. We're literally here commenting on a tutorial for the Apple-exclusive Metal API.

Every step of development is a reason not to write software for this thing, and it doesn't exist in a vacuum, either.

I have trouble believing that even a successor to the Vision Pro would look significantly better than my $800 Pimax Crystal Light.
Portion Sizes and the No/Low Fat craze from the 90s mentioned in another post are related.

This is all my THEORY, a speculation that I would like someone to study or to find a study about.

Theory / speculation:

Humans evolved with natural sugars, fats, proteins/meats; primitive cooking, probably some grains (more recently). That's what our bodies know how to process, to react to.

All the fake sugars, modified foods that lack the components our bodies use to regulate internal processes; highly processed foods which also lack those components we need to feel satiated and to produce the messengers to digest correctly: those are likely the causes of obesity (not feeling full, so more eating) and bodies behaving poorly.

'Food Deserts' and corporations that are geared around selling large portions of tasty but unsatisfying food, or only offering huge sizes rather than also offering adults a tasty portion that's not intended for take home leftovers also contribute.

Also: my main vice for this topic. Can I _please_ have lightly caffeinated + carbonated water that isn't outrageously expensive?
The consulting/contracting is the optimal way for this guy. I can confirm it works.
Standups nearly always involve reporting status. At MPOW they involve short discussions on what may be blocking and who / what could help.
Jack Woodford, a decent pulp writer in the first half of the 20th century who also wrote several books on writing and on how the publishing industry works, including "Trial and Error" in 1933 which Robert Heinlein and Ray Bradbury both cited as a major influence in getting their writing careers started, had a nice description of how to plot:

> Boy meets girl; girl gets boy into pickle; boy gets pickle into girl
The Never-ending Struggle against Clutter
You're using Bootstrap for a personal website? Who are you trying to impress?

And why are you returning HTTP 406 to Firefox ESR versions?
A Lisp REPL is a user interface, not an implementation.

The first Emacs wasn't using Lisp at all. Wasn't it literally the Emacs?

> It's rather a Lisp REPL that has a text-editor built on top of it.

Just write an Emacs without a Lisp REPL. It can have the same Dired, just written in Python. There is nothing in Dired, which requires Lisp.
Depends on your country. Usually it's the action of using it for specific things that are illegal, not just purchasing/owning it. But if you're caught breaking into an office with it, I'm sure many countries' courts would see that as additional tooling for the break in, for example.
120hz panels are dirt cheap at this point, look beyond the Apple ecosystem and they're everywhere at nearly every price point. Even barebones office monitors meant for doing spreadsheets are often ~100hz now, there's no reason to make them 60hz when faster panels are more or less the same price.
Happy to discuss further if you are looking for app development partners.