skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nextcloud is terrible and will eat your data, silently and without remorse. Avoid it at all costs.
The example on the site is a very simple JSON object that doesn't demonstrate JSONtr.ee's potential at all.

To showcase it better, I'd like to see more complex objects on the initial reveal, so I don't have to go and find & format a JSON object just to see if the app/library is worth using yet!
It could be a triple cover story. The faked double cover story is meant to deflect.
> Dlink has a long history of putting out insecure and even backdoored devices and so anyone with a dlink device is probably better off buying something different

Except for unmanaged switches. These little D-Link unmanaged switches are little workhorses: I've got several so old I don't remember when I bought them. I take it D-Link didn't manage to fuck up even unmanaged switch?

But seen their approach to security, I probably won't buy D-Link again.
Google to wrap up Christmas Island with new subsea cable
HTC Vive Pro 2.

Unlike some of the other people listing VR headsets, I actually use VR regularly. But the Vive in particular was an expensive piece of junk: it lasted not even a year before one of the displays started to die, then experienced the same failure again 6-7 months after warranty repairs. Apparently this failure mode is common.

In general I think it's best to stay away from the high-end headsets: HTC, Varjo, Pimax, Bigscreen, everyone I know with them has experienced problems of some sort or other. Many of the midrange headsets are worse on paper, but seem to have fewer issues in practice.
> to transfer wealth upwards constantly

This is overly simplistic. Truer: we will sacrifice a lot to maintain our relative standard of living.
The funny thing is that telco customer service is in fact orders of magnitude better than it was in the monopoly days. Ma Bell was ruthless.
Ask HN: Any recommended foundation models for design and aesthetics?
Hi Hackers! I am working on a problem on a code review tool for designers and have a use case I am trying to solve with GenAI but not able to solve well.
LLM models are trained on huge corpus of text, and many multimodal models also on images with text caption that can identify objects in the images. However, models are not necessarily trained on more abstract visual concepts like aesthetics, contrast, symmetry or such concepts.
If I want to take an app design and ask a model to provide feedback on it from a design perspective, what might be some ways to do it using GenAI, where it can also give pointers on design and aesthetics (like contrasts, font sizes, symmetry, etc..)?

I understand it's slightly open-ended, and "design is very subjective", but at the same time there are very good principles for design so it seems plausible that the design languages and principles can be codified?
Same reason voice recognition isn't good for code.

AFIAK all writing-compression methods come down to optimizing for the common--and so much of what we do is the uncommon. We need lots of keys.
He had to close down his cooking school during Covid, so he started making YT videos. I watch a number of chefs on YT, and he's easily my favorite. He's a wonderful teacher, and I've learned more from him than any other because he always reinforces concepts without being repetitive and dull. It also helps that his meals are practical for home cooks, and, overall, he's just a charming guy.
Do you know of actual (not hypothetical) cases, where you could "flip a switch" and run the exact same Kubernetes setups on 2 different cloud providers?
I fix the issues in mobile, I found other issues with dragging the graph
Except that all of this subjects you and all of your workloads to warrantless US government surveillance due to running in the big public clouds.

I personally don’t want the federal government being able to peek into my files and data at any time, even though I’ve done nothing wrong. It’s the innocent people who have most to lose from government intrusion.

It seems insane to me to just throw up one’s hands and store private data in Google or Amazon clouds, especially when not doing so is so much cheaper.
> Take your ethical concerns to the public/press instead

Or at least above the heads of the people who are fucking around. Press might be seen as vindictive. But a sharp letter to the trustees of the university, possibly even some political offices, would not be out of place.
Show HN: Narralize – Turn PDFs into Podcast-Style Summaries in 29 Languages
Hi HN,

I've been working on Narralize, a tool that turns PDFs into podcast-style audio summaries in 29 languages. You can try it instantly on the homepage without creating an account: narralize.com.

How It Works:
1. A user uploads a PDF document.
2. OpenAI detects the source language and generates a summary in that language.
3. The summary is translated to the target language.
4. The translated text is sent to ElevenLabs for text-to-speech conversion.

All of this runs on a Node.js backend, and I’ve also developed an API for 3rd-party integrations, enabling other applications to leverage Narralize's infrastructure.

Key Use Cases:
Newsletter Summaries: Content creators can generate multilingual podcast-style summaries to engage a global audience.
International Students: Narralize helps students quickly understand academic papers and course materials in their native language, making education more accessible.
I’d love your feedback on how it works, the technical approach, or ideas for additional use cases. Feel free to try it out and share your thoughts!
No. I am able to read it from California.
> the basic gist is in the event of a cyberwar you could brick millions of peoples routers [...] but it's an interesting thought experiment regardless.

I think this is already way past "thought experiment". In the day of the 2022 invasion of Ukraine by Russia, thousands of satellite modems were deliberately bricked.
I just containerized LibreOffice to do docx->pdf conversation, but now I'm wondering - what parts seem particularly gnarly to you? My naive strategy is to mount an external volume to put/collect files, then call `soffice` inside the container to process them. We generate all source docx files so I'm not worried about an injection from that angle.
Who’s standard of living?

We will render arbitrary people homeless to constrain the supply and push up real asset prices for homeowners.

We’ll tolerate flagrant cartel monopoly and flagrant securities fraud and all manner of evil to drive equities up?

Qui bono? Not the working person at the median.
They're all Samsung. The Gear S3 was utterly useless due to the bespoke OS they immediately abandoned, the Note 10 was bloated as hell, un-rootable, and would forcibly restart to apply 30-minute updates while I was using it to show something to a client. One of said forced updates also bricked the damn thing. Never buying anything from Samsung again.

Other than that, I regret buying a Nintendo switch. I played the big Zelda game when it launched and that's about it. Nothing else in Nintendo's library interested me, not for a $70 download-only two years after release.
They already arrested them right?
> This sounds like someone trying to deflect upon being found out. I'd wager that this person is going to be caught.

that's what a super epic opsec troll would want you to think
Unless you're suggesting that the pita bread you threw out was preserved with formaldehyde, there isn't much of a question here. Taking issue with bread keeping its freshness is in-and-of itself no bad. If you have issue with a specific preservative, perhaps discuss that specificity.
Maybe even skipping the quadruple cover story and going straight to the quintuple. A true pro.
Related:

Dear friend, you have built a Kubernetes

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42226005
> Who’s standard of living?

Each person's. It's an individual determination.

> We will render arbitrary people homeless to constrain the supply and push up real asset prices for homeowners

Yes. Because from the homeowner's perspective, they're maintaining their real standard of living.

Crafting good policy requires being very careful about whose relative standard of living you're sacrificing for the greater good. Because no matter how privileged you think someone is, for them, it's the baseline.

> We’ll tolerate flagrant cartel monopoly and flagrant securities fraud and all manner of evil to drive equities up?

No, not really. Shareholders win in the aftermath of antitrust action and trusted equity markets. We tolerate those things, the first much more than the second, but not for the reasons you presume.
Organizations create these reporting systems to make themselves look good to outsiders, but they will punish you severely if you actually try to use them.

It's kind of like your grandmother's good china: Look at it all you want but don't you dare use it.

Stuff like this is incredibly confusing to people on the autism spectrum.
It's always crappy opsec that gets people otherwise very savvy.
Ok but how many other 40 year old vehicles do you see?
They would if supply was unlimited and cheap but they had monopoly power of the market.

Oh, hello Purdue Pharma!
Kubernetes has a proportional learning curve.

If you're used to managing platforms e.g. networking, load balancers, security etc. then it's intuitive and easy.

If you're used to everything being managed for you then it will feel steep.
László Polgár kind of did it three times.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/László_Polgár
I work with Kubernetes enough that I would answer to the title "kubernetes developer" and I would recommend you don't use kubernetes. In the same way I would recommend you don't use a car when you can walk.

Your friend lives 1/8 miles away. You go to see them every day so why wouldn't you drive? Well, cars are expensive and you should avoid them if you don't need them. There are a TON of downsides to driving a car 1/4 of a mile every day. And there are a TON of benefits to using a car to drive 25 miles every day.

I hate to quash a good debate but this all falls under the predictable but often forgotten "it depends". Usually do you need kubernetes == do you have a lot of shit to run.
I think the fact that MCP is two ways, and tool call is asynchronous (since it's over network), means that it should be possible to code an approval flow with a prompt and a slack approval tool?

Yeah it still takes a bit of work, but it's more extendable (can swap slack to email) and more versatile (human can message agent to interrupt or ask for clarification).

I haven't used langchain (beyond RAG) or crewai, not sure what was capable before.
The dumbest decision that stupid government can make. And it’s not a partisan issue, as when this causes the current party to fail, the “malignant tuber” will ratchet it further.
Cooked either way.

Australia has always been run by technologically iterate petty tyrants. They have wanted to deanonymize Internet users, and now they will try to force the internet to give them their wish. Resist.

Ultimately, Australia will be further isolated. Internet properties will decide to block Australian IPs rather than complying with eKaren and co. Elon cancels starlink in Australia.
The part about accepting when your focus is shot is good, while I'm not convinced it's gone for the entire day, you can definitely get stuck outside of your "flow state" for a couple hours and you may just have to go do other stuff when it happens.

I think what triggered me was this line - "no early morning notifications - no sudden alert about Putin’s latest military actions."

Unless you're a journalist covering the Ukraine war, you really shouldn't have real time notifications informing you about Putin's military actions, and if you do, that's productivity problem #1.

I'm just saying this guy paints a picture of a constantly interrupted life and from my experience the first line of defense is to reduce the interruptions, with measures that are much more aggressive than the average modern person's.
In the 1960s already, the culture premium for all ranks (not sure about the property insurance) was famously lower in Miyamifla than in Haarlem?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight_Cowboy
We are the ones developing the technology. We are not the luddites.
When I can buy a social media platform and rejigger it’s algorithms, ban users whose views I don’t like, and insert myself into court cases on behalf of people like Alex Jones to protect their brand / social media accounts, I’ll disagree.
Creative idealists tend to abstract away the social politics of power and are often suprised by the result of their actions. They do not have enough fear of others and what they are capable of. The response is not only a personal surprise, but an epistemological shock. The solution is to remain aware of the reality of your situation. This is particularly difficult for thinkers and dreamers because their attention is often elsewhere; but one must make the effort or bad abstraction will hit you like a freight train. The other solution is to ally yourself with other less pragmatic principled idealists such that you can help them assess the situation and take mutually beneficial action. One must understand the battle to come, you must feel the fear of failure and the possibility of success. The worst thing you can do is be unaware of the game entirely, or be aware and disdain it, and so play it like a fool. Finally, if you are extremely talented and recognized for it, the de facto situation is that you acquire advocates to play the game for you. But this is a rare position, and not without its drawbacks.
are we really still doing this lol?

>> Kubernetes is feature-rich, yet these “enterprise” capabilities turned even simple tasks into protracted processes.

I don't agree. After learning the basics I would never go back. It doesn't turn simple tasks into a long process. It massively simplifies a ton functionality. And you really only need to learn 4 or 5 new concepts to get it off the ground.

If you have a simple website you don't need Kubernetes, but 99% of devs are working in medium sized shops where they have multiple teams working across multiple functionalities and Kubernetes helps this out.

Karpenter is not hard to set up at all. It solves the problem about over-provisioning out of the box and has for almost 5 years.

It's like writing an article: "I didn't need redis, and you probably don't either" and then talking about how Redis isn't good for relational data.
"PAW Patrol's Dark Secret, Explained": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwhUpu9MfZ0
Yes, but it would involve first setting up a server instance and then installing k3s :-)
Counterpoint: The original "Google Wi-Fi" Mesh routers (the hockey puck looking ones) from about 10~ years ago come with *4GB* of storage and 512MB of RAM [1]

[1] https://openwrt.org/toh/google/wifi

They're about $30-$50 USD for a 3 pack on eBay
Serverless containers.

Effectively using Google and Azure managed K8s. (Full GKE > GKE Autopilot > Google Cloud Run). The same containers will run locally, in Azure, or AWS.

It's fantastic for projects but and small. The free monthly grant makes it perfect for weekend projects.
But it's okay to call them ugly. People get used to a certain look of things and then you introduce something that look like what an 8 year old would draw (this mail truck, Musk's cybertruck) and you'll get some flack. It's utterly meaningless in the end, and just bar talk. If these are reliable and make the postal workers' lives better I'm all for it, but they are imo ugly as sin.
When I refer to the economics, I refer to the market that the NBN act creates. This is largely divorced from political spending, like purchasing the Optus HFC network to which you refer.

The original labor approved cost for accessing the network made it unreasonable to purchase enough CVC to provide services for customers.

Bevan Slattery used to discuss this alot, but NBN had the capability, and in one case threatened to use that capability, to cut off any wholesalers they like. So Bevan was the only one in a place to really publicly criticise them. A gentleman I know wrote a whitepaper about how bad the NBN Fixed Wireless service was and his employer forced him to scour it from the internet after threats from NBN Co.

So as to publicly allowed criticism of NBN Co you dont get much other than that.

I will see if I can dredge up the numbers.

Under labors watch, they assigned engineers and specialists to design a fibre network. It was over engineered (should have been ULL with no active hardware) but we didnt get that. It was to consist of 21 points of interconnect and effectively would have provided an alternative to buying backhaul from Telstra/AAPT etc.

The ACCC, after prompting from the big 4, changed the plan to include 121 points of interconnect. NBN co also mandated that Wholesalers be able to reach a very large number of them before they could connect to the system (with a plan for all 121).

What they didnt do was change the pricing structure. So now to play ball, you now need 100 more points of presence on your network (very expensive) and you are paying a quite hefty fee for an extremely small amount of CVC. NBN Expected that more CVC would be purchased by providers, but as it worked out, this did not occur. Some providers purchased more CVC just to get started, and then phased it out. Others didnt bother. Ultimately, CVC proved to be lossmaking for ISPs, who at best had a dollar after the customers monthly sub with which to find Support/Hardware/all their other costs. This lead to a significant number of user complaints, regardless of last mile tech.

LNP pops in, and they are looking for any way they can "fix labors mistake". ISP lobbying finally makes an impact and NBN starts bundling in CVC. The LNP also mostly stop talking about the NBN becoming a return on investment in x years, which takes pressure off of NBNCo to needle ISPs. This is where people with fibre connections started going from just having less dropouts, to having very significant speed increases versus other technology types. ISPs gained a very small amount of breathing room (still heaps of room for improvement) and the economics were somewhat improved.

The thing is, the LNP didnt market this success. They went and fiddled around with the rest of the project, bought the optus network etc and campaigned on that nonsense instead. Really if they wanted to they should have done more to highlight and correct the actual failures of the NBN rather than the issues their donors had but w/e.
The relationship between the money supply and inflation is mostly one of perception causing action, not some kind of primal law of economics. Debt and interest rates, trade friction and availability of goods, and availability of energy and labor are all more closely related to inflation rates, especially for monetarily sovereign currencies.
Reverse-Engineered v0.dev System Prompt: A Detailed Exploration
Start-ups that don't need to scale will quickly go away, because how else are you going to make a profit?

How have you been going since 2005 and still not understand the economics of software?
It wasn't frozen, Collabora were the ones doing the work and so they have largely hosted and developed LibreOffice Online.
Phiber Optik just doesn't have the same haha you said peepee vibe.
There's no such thing as an anonymous reporting system in a company that owns the reporting infrastructure.

Some companies contract out such systems to a third party to reinforce the illusion of anonymity. But what do you think happens when the CEO says to the contractor "Tell me who wrote this or we won't hire you again"?
Is there anyone here on HN who has non-news-article knowledge of what the situation was, around him, at NCSU?
Kubernetes lock-in: bad.

Google CloudRun, Database, PubSub, Cloud Storage, VPC, IAM, Artifact Registry etc lock-in: good.
Yup it makes no sense. All the billionaires's wealth in the US, if confiscated ($6.5 trillion), wouldn't allow to pay back even 20% of the US's public debt ($36 trillion). (not taking into account that that wealth is not liquid and confiscating it would crash that very wealth to way less than $6.5 trillion).

> The billionaire class isn’t just a group of people who happen to be superrich. It’s a dynastic oligarchy with a single overriding objective: controlling the government to protect its inherited wealth.

It's not what happens at all. Billionaires like Jobs or Musk were made for creating Apple products or Tesla/StarLink for us. Or billionaires like Buffet: by investing in companies who created products for us.

What's happening is the government is capturing nearly all the wealth: median household income in Washington D.C. is the highest in the world. EU bureaucrats are better paid (and pay much less taxes) than the average EU citizen. The government grows ever bigger, creating an ever bigger inefficient bureaucracy. And all the wealth is trapped there: endlessly going to state-funded agencies and organizations.

A country like France has 60% of its GDP that's public spending. And yet what do you hear in France? That the "rich" are the problem, not the government, not the bureaucracy.

I simply don't buy it.
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You're absolutely right! Thank you for pointing that out. I've updated the initial JSON example to include a more complex and realistic object that better showcases
Having done both: running a small Kubernetes cluster is simpler than managing a bunch of systemd files.
Neural Processing Unit
The way Rust solves this is that the type Result is marked with #[must_use] - ignoring it and not deciding what to do with the error raises an warning.

Plus, if you want to bubble the error, you must intentionally use the ? operator, so you are forced to acknowledge the function you called actually may raise an error (as opposed to calling an API you're unfamiliar with and forgetting to check whether it can raise an error, and the compiler not having your back)
I’ve spent too much of my career picking up after people like you.