skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can use Hotwire libs with Django - integrating stimulus into my django project wasn't any more complicated than integrating tailwindcss for example.
Bowel cancer rising among under-50s worldwide, research finds
You can also buy a scratch card with credits.
Are You Underperforming as a Leader?
People ask me, 'What is the use of climbing Mount Everest?' and my answer must at once be, 'It is of no use.' There is not the slightest prospect of any gain whatsoever. Oh, we may learn a little about the behavior of the human body at high altitudes, and possibly medical men may turn our observation to some account for the purposes of aviation. But otherwise nothing will come of it. We shall not bring back a single bit of gold or silver, not a gem, nor any coal or iron.

If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won't see why we go. What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money. We eat and make money to be able to live. That is what life means and what life is for.

--

George Mallory
I have never seen anyone online or IRL say that. Could it be your social circle?
It's highly dependent on location. I use it while traveling, and yes in a few countries it's useless, but I've met 300-400 people over the last 7 years. It's added more value to my life than any other single app (even though I've never paid a dime for it).

For the record, I'm male, mid 30's, and average looking.
VPNs are a great business these days, but I don't feel that they treat their customers properly, or that they're transparent about what they provide.

My sense is that there's a lot of BS going on. Including the fact that "cool" VPNs are supposed to be coming from Scandinavian countries (but most of them aren't).
I seriously wonder if this is considered fraud. Since tips and money via DMs appear to generally be the largest source of income for OF models. And if the money is sent under the pretence of someone directly messaging the model but messaging someone else that would appear to be fraud, no?

And this isn't a small amount of money, if I understood the screenshot of Sophie Rain's revenue she made 43 million from messages. But maybe it was just tens of millions which is still a lot of money.
That was a US Representative, not a Senator, but point taken
What Pgroll offers does not come for free: it puts some constraints on your schema and what migrations you can perform. Most "automatic migration" tools I've seen are designed for the easy migrations ("horizontal" changes, ie adding/removing/altering columns). But a schema migration is not equivalent to a view and a pair of triggers in general, even if in practice it's often limited to that. (simplest if a bit contrived example I can come up with: imagine you have a short table with 3 columns and 4 lines, and you wish to use instead a transposition of this table with 4 columns and 3 lines)

It's also why I'm dubious of "revert patches" in general. If there exist a revert patch for a migration, that's an easy migration. Sqitch can use a revert patch, like it can use a verify statement, but just for the convenience; it does not require them.

Yet, 9 schema migrations out of 10 are easy ones that pgroll handle nicely. It's a bit like using an ORM : if you just need a DB to store objects manipulated only in your program, sure go ahead use an ORM; but if your DB is the core of your business then you'd better not let an ORM anywhere near your schema.

At the end of the day, I'm under the impression that if one wants to handle the general case then one has to keep the whole previous DB and apps in one hand and the new DB and apps in the other, and transition customers from the former to the later. That's much less work if you don't need slow rollout.
> sales emails at scale

That's a great definition for spam.
Which country? I am in Finland and have had the same number for over 20 years. It is publicly listed. I receive maybe 1-2 marketing calls a month and less than one SMS scam per year. I am somewhat restrcitive filling in my contact details when I don't expect any real business. I only use deposable email addresses, but that should be completely unrelated.

The last "Microsoft" support call was years ago.
Google goes "agentic" with Gemini 2.0's ambitious AI agent features
That shouldn't be a reason, there's money in drugs too. Just saying, that doesn't mean every food should be "vitaminized".
I love it when people go off the beaten path to prove that wrong opinions about one unrelated topic somehow must automatically disprove true facts about a completely different topic. It's the playbook of trolls. Whataboutism at it's finest.
The problem with Django is not swapping out defaults. The problem is it doesn't like to sit at the edge of an application where it belongs. Django should be equivalent of any other MVC-style framework (like Qt etc), sitting right out in the "interface" layer of your software. But it just doesn't work well out there, mostly due to how tightly coupled it is with its ORM.
Well I am sure no system is perfect but the people that choose to end their life have to meet several criteria. They first need to be of sound mind when they make this decision (and this is one of the current issues being sorted out). So they talk with their doctor and express interest. They then are seen by other health care providers like psychologist who discuss it more. They are spoken to privately without the family present. It is their decision in the end and only theirs. Once they choose a time they need to still be fully alert and aware and they have to personally push the button that ends their life. And that is one of the issues, some people do not want to live if they become paralyzed or brain dead. But we can not euthanize those people even if they expressed that wish before.

I have worked in hospice and they do MAID there all the time. It was a weird feeling to see a family and their loved one head into the downstairs where they would all sit around and tell them person how much they are loved and then that person would end their life. But I know it is the right thing.
In the US, I've had my number for about as long as GP and get something like one spam call every couple of months.
best on desktop/web. mobile support may be glitchy
very early concept - looking for first users feedback on this

have fun :)
For real, with everyone having a smartphone with high quality cameras on them there really is zero excuse for there to not be highly detailed accurate videos of this if they are legit especially with people describing them as "low and slow".
Just cold emailing for companies that might be interested in us. No replies. My cofounder did some research on what best to do for cold outreach and did end up getting some replies, after. I have better luck talking to people in person at networking/industry events (or messaging relevant people via HN connections). We'll go back to emailing at some point.
But you are giving very little to the ISP to begin with. You can use encrypted DNS and most web content has TLS. The only gap there is SNI, which we should be able to close with TLS ECH. I don't know why ECH has been so slow to roll out.
People should know if they talk to a bot or a human. This goes for only-fans, customer service, anything. A human pressing a "send" button does not change anything. But disclosing it would hurt the specific business, right? So it matters to something for someone. I respect AI-companion apps like replika much more than this.
Do you think suggesting this to someone with any other type of addiction (smoking, gambling, heroin, whatever) would do anything?
> how do you protect the people who don't want to go, being pressured or manipulated. I agree that if someone is really, independently and committedly deciding to go, you shouldn't stop them. But how do you express that test in a bureaucratic, legalistic framework?

I would look into countries where euthanasia has been already implemented. It doesn't seem like it's a widespread problem, so apparently they made it work somehow.

Does it mean it's absolutely bulletproof and no-one will ever be pressured to undergo euthanasia? No, but you can't ever achieve such certainty, and it's better to look at it from the utilitarianism view - allowing euthanasia will prevent much more suffering than it will cause.
The disconnect is simple: you have two populations. One is about consulting, coaching, writing books and speaking at conference to make money. The other is about cranking out code to get things done before some deadline.
whatsapp should be divested from fb(meta). and yeah the business api has a lot of potential.

I don't know whether a fb account is required though to use the api.
No problem, you just bring your TV with you when you travel. /s
It's not, not anymore than it already was.

I guess there is some truth to the adage that a male body can't push blood both to the brain and to the penis at the same time - it's either one, or the other. I mean, if you step back and take a cold look at the content produced by popular OF performers, it's pretty apparent those are business operations. There are other people involved. Someone does the camera work. Location work. Promotion. And yes, fan management too.

Same applies to YouTube personas, too. Brands, not people. Talking to fans is a job that can be outsourced. AI doesn't introduce anything new; AI features on the platform are competing with creators' brand management agencies, which themselves likely already use ChatGPT for this anyway, because why wouldn't they? ChatGPT does better job at this stuff and is cheaper than human labor - but again, the AI angle isn't important here - that human labor was just a generative model in a protein substrate anyway.
I must have been living under a rock, first time I've heard of this.
Konwinski Prize: $1M for the AI that can close 90% of new GitHub issues
Both systems have flaws? True, but it’s a false equivalence. There’s a reason why there’s only one country in the world where insurance company CEO’s have to hire security to walk around in public.
We all hate recieving cold emails, yet there is likely a majority of us in this post who work for companies that rely on cold emails to get sales that ultimately pay our salaries.
Playfulness vs. Epistemic Traps
Django admin is great but it's just CRUD. If you plan to do anything more than CRUD you need to switch off admin at some point. But as a "better than a spreadsheet" database, it's great.
I agree. I was wondering if I would learn something new here, but it's just the same story that's been going around for the last couple days.
It depends. Auditing the mitigations defined in threat model does make sense with say IEC 62443. This would not be only penetration testing done. But it is reasonable process. You want to know if the mitigations you have put in place against identified threats work or can be thwarted from outside perspective.
Small Businesses vs. Corporations: What Tech Tools Are We Missing?
I was browsing Y Combinator's latest Request for Startups and one prompt caught my attention:

"Develop tools that help small businesses operate at the same level as large corporations"

This got me thinking: What critical operational capabilities are small businesses currently lacking?

What technological or strategic barriers prevent them from competing on equal footing with larger enterprises?

I'm curious to hear from entrepreneurs, small business owners, and tech enthusiasts:

What tools or systems do you wish existed?

What daily/weekly/monthly tasks feel unnecessarily complex or time-consuming?

What do large corporations do that seems out of reach for smaller organizations?
i wonder if people from liverpool speak - what do they get ?
It depends. At some point often it switches to palliative care, rather than treatment. That point is not “there’s literally nothing else we can try”, it’s “the remaining options are inadequately proven, too expensive, high risk, or not effective enough (won’t extend life by long enough or improve quality of life enough)”.

Every single one of those criteria is subjective, which is why you see these fundraising campaigns for kids with cancer to go and a get a multimillion dollar treatment in the US, because as a parent, accepting that there’s more you COULD do if you just don’t give up is hard.
See also: "Open Source Maintainers Owe You Nothing"

https://mikemcquaid.com/open-source-maintainers-owe-you-noth...
> OSS developers are required to provide software with warranty

This injunction is against WPcom (a for profit entity) and not WPorg. Matt conducted tortious interference. This sets zero precedent on OSS maintainers.
I've been using sqitch for years and haven't had any problems with it. Though they haven't been big projects with lots of devs so I may be using in it's sweet spot.
Is instagram DMs a separate app that can be used without interacting or signing up for the social media part?
Are they happy though? Do they consider themselves happy? It does not seem to me like that, but who knows.
50 TikTok accounts + AI = $200 000 MRR for mobile App
Get started documentation on Multimodal Live API : https://ai.google.dev/api/multimodal-live
Exceptions don’t make the rule.
1 password does this automatically
almost as if those mass surveillance measures aren't to protect the children :o
Gemini 2.0: Multimodal Live API
> How does the existence of private schools enables this thinking?

Here is a simple example. There is a family with a combined 6k income, their expenses are 2k on rent and 1.5k on child private school, grocieries etc account for 500, savings another 500 and the remaining 1.5k goes on taxes.

Now the goverment proposes a 10% tax raise to improve public schools. Do you think this family would vote for or agaiinst that bill?

Now lets propose a counter example. Same salary, same expenses minus the private school, which gives the family 2k of savings per month. Now due to shortages in public schools they have volunteered at their kids school, helped with field trips, met other parents and families in their neighbourhood. Now the goverment does a 20% tax raise for public schooling. Would this family be more or less willing than the other family to vote yes?

By simply being involved you and your vote become resposinble for it. If you can pay your way away, specially if you stretch your finances to afford it, then investing in the system goes against your own interests regardless of the social externalities of your position.

We could have a society were parents of privately educated kids voted for a public school improvement, but psicologically and economically we know they by and large dont. Therefore the existance of private schooling comes at the expense of a fair, well resourced, and functional public education
When you’re smaller, the CPO doesn’t matter as much. Your business has an idea, your CEO and CTO knows what it should look like. Polish it later.
> So maybe what Redis should have done is not to pull the existing rug, so to speak, but to leave it be and lay next to it a new, better rug and offer the users sitting on the old rug to move over, if they find the new features of the new rug outweigh the drawbacks of a new license.

Can you provide more specifics about your idea? It sounds like Redis would need to maintain two version. Can your ideas be implemented with the same cost structure? I doubt it.
You should learn to love your neighbor, regardless of their race or how long they've been in your community. If laws are being broken, fix them universally without singling out particular demographics.
I will go a step further, AI agents transpiling into existing languages is an intermediary step until they improve themselves, just like in the early days of Lisp, Fortran and COBOL, Assembly developers didn't trust them unless they could fully analyse generated Assembly.

Nowadays while generating Assembly is an expected option, it is mostly a niche use case, largely ignored by most developers, many don't even know how to look into Assembly generated by JIT compilers, although that is an available option.

Same will happen with AI tools, they will perform desired actions, and eventually output some kind of data where we can cross-check the quality of generated actions, but not everyone will care to look into them.
I have worked in hospice and would say typically the people who end up there are not what I would say left alone. But they are there to die. They usually end up there because the family who was looking after them is really struggling to do so any longer for various reasons like personal care or medication management being too much and they are approaching death.

When there they get basically as much drugs to fight pain, anxiety and other symptoms as much as they need. The goal is to provide as much as possible a comfortable end to their life.

Dementia patients are not candidates for MAID program here in Canada. You need to be of sound mind at this time. Perhaps in the future one can make a living will for future illness but currently if you are confused or suffering from dementia and can not understand what it is all about you can not consent to it.
Harmonics. What safety critical stuff is at 4.8 GHz, 7.2 GHz, ...?
Turn Boring PDFs into Brainrot
Every video game engine is a simulation and many of them are a very simplified model of images of things happening instead of simulating the actual physics. Even "physics" in these engines is often just rendering an image.
Right but how would you know how the other person interpreted it? What you said is not what I said. What I said is just a paraphrase of the Pentagon statement. How is it very different hahaha? :)
> Using sqitch in production, the main issue is that it effectively has no knowledge of what is happening except for running psql files for you.

I came to the conclusion that you can not have anything more than that without compromising on how you can change your schema.

> So it's hard to keep track of what the actual resulting schema should look like after each change has been applied to work out whether it's correct.

At first sight, this is a gripe that has to be addressed to SQL itself that the SQL to change a schema can not trivially be inferred from the "before" and "after" schema definitions. But probably there is no way around it, il all generality.

One can store the current version of the schema in the source repository and make sure that the schema extracted after one or several applications of the migration match that.
This isnt entierly suprising as Google have been breaking things artificially on Firefox for years now (Google Map and YouTube at least). Maybe try spoofing Chrome's user-agent.
That's a normal fact of life.

The underlying cause is that there is an almost infinite demand for medical costs - well beyond the economic capacity of any country.

Unfortunately facts are difficult, and politicians can't fix the facts regardless of how much they tax everybody.
maybe we need regulations for such things... maybe stricter gun^Wdisrupting tech laws could limit the abuse...
This is what it was like to live in 2019
Securely Delegate Access Without Sharing Passwords: AccessManager Autologin Pro
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The VFS interface is synchronous, I don't see how a custom VFS could meaningfully implement asynchronous IO.

> Well, it's perfectly possible to do that with the current sqlite.

If you want to wrap a blocking API in python, with actual parallelism, you have to use multiple processes with communication between them. The main advantage of sqlite in the first place is that it's in-process, and you'd lose that.
The hinge mechanism and the control dynamics.
Yes I am familiar with the physics behind what I said. Quoting a university textbook on a philosophical argument is an interesting choice.

I have studied and reflected on the subject and I really think Boltzman brains and Schröedinger cat are thought experiments that go way over the head of their pop sci/undergrad classroom interpretations.
We have taxes on sugary drinks in France. The tax depends on how much sugar is added, in kg / hl. Funnily, synthetic sweeteners are also taxed, but at a flat rate equal to the "up to 1 kg / hl" of sugar. See [0] for the official text.

I'm not convinced this has had a great effect, since I hear there are more and more people who are considered obese [1].

[0] https://entreprendre.service-public.fr/vosdroits/F32101?lang...

[1] https://presse.inserm.fr/en/obesite-et-surpoids-pres-dun-fra...
You're referring to Balaji Srinivasan's startup, Earn, right? It was acquired by Coinbase and became Coinbase Earn, at which point Balaji became Coinbase's CTO, around 2018. I believe it's since been shut down.
Expectations about privacy has changed since this time.
And probably like 100Gb of training data or whatever :). HN had a heady debate at least once about if that training data is source or not.
There is an old joke. How do you get rid of a bunch of old junk that nobody wants? Most people would suggest to put it in front of your house with a sign that says: "Free". You will notice that almost no one takes anything. The solution? Change the sign to say: "Any item is X dollars". Then, people will quickly steal everything!
They get money from the 'war with Iran' lobby. From their perspective such statements are rational.
I think it's important to highlight that many of the projects you listed in your wiki are likely scams, rugpulls, and/or unregistered securities that have HQs in every questionable places.
Doesn't that mean you only get recommended the most popular stuff? If your taste is completely mainstream then I suppose it's fine, but it means it won't find anything for you related to even a mildly niche interest.
> but that's the price they would be paying for the goodwill.

this post exists because of the price of being an open source developer, your solution is to demand more free work?
Hahaha funny metaphor but I don't think it's like that. It's more like they don't want to say if they can't control it, if it makes them look bad.

In your world, where is the precedent of extensive prolonged testing of secret tech over populated areas in full view?

But more important it doesn't make sense: it's either secret or you can test it so it becomes a news story. It's not both hahaha :)
It's been bad for me lately. Basically persona non grata

Many captchas are just bans but they are hoping for some free training
Very interesting, I also got Spanish, Chinese, and english. Lifelong midwesterner here as well. Maybe there's something to the midwest.
Fast inverse square root lookalike.
Lying to your population is not good. Especially when it's about the nature of reality.