skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SMS/MMS is free in almost all phone plans in the US, and I have absolutely no trouble believing that people would subject themselves to a very bad messaging experience if that's the default that comes with their phone, as long as it's free.

If I were to come up with a social/economic theory to further back that, my guess would probably be that phone users in the US have a "full service mentality" much more than in the rest of the world:

Buying a phone on a (very expensive) monthly plan that subsidizes the device is much more common than elsewhere, and historically, SIM cards weren't even a thing, so devices were tied to a given network and (to some extent) even a subscriber much more than in the rest of the world.

That would logically extend to people not expecting to have to install a third-party app for what they consider to be "basic phone functionality".
How old was Bismark when he said that?
Thermodynamics is a young and poorly thought out science.

My beef is the adoption of bad names and pseudo-philosophy. In Gibbs free energy equation, there is a term called entropy but it is nothing more than the value for heat transferred for the given elements and given constant temperature and derived from experimental observation. Instead of calling it entropy, they could have called it Clausius constant. No need to confuse generations of students.
Show HN: A state of the art retrieval API on both text and visual documents
No, I'm not going to give you access to WebGL just to show me a map.
There's a vscode extension that embeds NeoVim and just uses VSCode UI as a front end to delegate key presses to:

https://github.com/vscode-neovim/vscode-neovim

This yields a better experience than the old half baked VSCode vim emulation.
Eh. I was quite willing to take risky bets on startups when I was laid off, at 55.

I had experience in myriad aspects of releasing and maintaining software, managing release-level projects that were hybrid hardware/software (I originally hailed from a hardware genesis), and the myriad "soft skills" that are required of anyone that is going to ask cynical, hard-boiled people with bags of money (think Japanese executives) to help fund their efforts. I had (still have) a guaranteed income for life, so I would have been quite willing to work on equity, and had (still have) no problem, putting in a huge amount of hours (my GH Activity Graph is almost solid green. I keep busy).

My experience: no one cared about that. They wanted young jargonauts. I assume that's the formula that gets VCs to pony up cash.

They were probably correct, in pushing me away. I am not particularly enamored of the business plan model that seems to be in fashion, these days.
I maintain a project that mirrors all the code published to PyPi into a series of GitHub repositories, allowing automated scanning and analysis.

https://github.com/pypi-data
An LLM trained on exclusively safe code could can still combine it in unsafe ways.
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Same. The exception for me is tools, because I really enjoy building things and I own a house. I feel they’re inherently useful and I do research to ensure I get those that will last [nearly] a lifetime. I never buy a new tool because it’s new, only because the old one has become worn or broken.
Home Assistant can not be secured for internet access
They absolutely are. I'm somewhat non-technical but I've been using Claude to hack MVPs together for months now.
Hey! I wrote this. The python being barely legible is my own fault, as the one who wrote it.

The whole post is written to be a little ridiculous, but I must not have gotten that across =(

I agree with you. In real life, python is absolutely a better choice than trying to write a Rust macro to produce the result as a compiler error.

I added a footnote to the end of the referenced paragraph to say that python is great.
I'm going to go to an extreme, but if we had solid research that said banning phones at school resulted in some extreme, lets say 50%, improvement in their ability to learn, would you support the ban of phones during school time? Would you expect the school to _not_ implement a policy that would benefit learning that much?

What if we swapped this out for "not taking edibles during class", would that infringe on your kids personal freedom too much?

In a world where parents feed their children fast food all the time, and let them play mindless Ipad games from an early age, I have lower faith in every parent reading the relevant literature and implementing best practices than I have in academic institutions figuring out how to optimize learning (not that I have a huge amount of faith in that either, just more)
I feel like its very easy for companies to say no to paying for something they already live without. Unless you can prove it increases productivity.
It still holds if you’re not bothered by negative-area rectangles
They absolutely told voters during the election they were going to destroy government. They might not have said "Project 2025 is how we are going to dismantle the government" but he said he was going to give himself the ability to remove "rogue" federal employees and overhaul or remove federal agencies.
Well, I mean an LLM can’t make any decisions unless it pulls things into context (into memory). So yeah, it’s true for machines too. You need to remember to even be on the right track.
I think Swing is a non-goal of this project. It provides good interop with the DOM and core JS methods, and it makes it easy to create your own interop for JS apis that aren't in the core.

There are at least two GUI toolkits that run on TeaVM:
1. Codename One. Similar to swing, but focused on mobile https://www.codenameone.com
2. SnapKit. Targeted at desktop. Also a light-weight toolkit, like Swing. https://github.com/reportmill/SnapKit
Just rename a to b and b to a.
Instead flyover country tells the most populated areas to know their place.
I tried this game multiple times, but it kept bugging: I made 2.3 M after a few trades, but then the "trade" button just stopped working. I'm on Vivaldi, so maybe that affected something.
Yes, the two kids in grade school who's parents wouldn't let them watch SpongeBob felt some exclusions from the lunch table discussion as well. The social aspect is extremely difficult to solve, and the app makers know this and accentuate it. They are shrewd businesspeople who's only goal is a functioning app that brings in more money than last year, hopefully on an exponential curve. This social exclusion aspect is why Facebook is still there, plodding along. They've effectively trapped the last groups of people there, and they raise the wall faster than the stragglers can climb. I'm currently trapped in snapchat as the only way to stay in touch with my old dnd group for when i come around. But those people are actually my best friends, so i speak to them more often, and i will be decompiling the APK and gutting the engagement shit with a rusty saw the moment i have time.

It's crazy there's people here defending these companies.
It should be fairly simple to feed an AI all WSJ headlines/articles and day-to-day stock values for the last 20 years, and have it recommend trades each morning.

I expect it would does better than average.

I also expect similar thing are already running.
It's democracy until it isn't. Hitler was fairly elected.
Ask HN: Will the Trump administration affect H-1B visas for YC batch companies?
I apologise in advance if this is the wrong place to ask, but I wanted to open up the discussion to other legal armchair experts too.

I am currently awaiting my response to join W25 batch. My idea is combining my two knowledge fields, dentistry and technology. However, I am based in Melbourne, Australia. The upcoming second term of the Trump administration will most likely bring about changes to the H1-B visa program.

I was just wondering out aloud if uncertainties to the H1-B visa program is causing YC to be bearish regarding international founders/companies like myself?

Thank you in advance
Selling order flow is a related but distinct practice:

- Order Flow Sales: This involves brokers selling information about their customers’ orders to interested parties.

- Potential for Front-Running: While not inherently front-running, selling order flow can enable it if the buyers use this information to trade ahead of customer orders.

- Payment for Order Flow: This practice allows some brokers to offer commission-free trades, as they make money by routing orders to specific market makers.

Front-runners do take on some risk, but it’s typically minimal:

- Speed: Modern front-running often occurs using high-frequency trading algorithms, minimizing the time between the front-runner’s trade and the large order execution.

- Committed Orders: Front-runners act on knowledge of committed orders, not mere possibilities. They have an informational advantage.
My kids are addicted to reading and I don't like it. Reading is great but not at the expense of staying up until 3am on a school night, not helping with basic household chores, not practicing music, not doing homework.
> at least it assumes that b < a

But you can fairly assume that wlog.
Technically, because the bubble sort is implemented at compile time the program is infinitely faster.

The answer is produced as a compiler error and so there is zero runtime at all.
The idea that entropy represents the uncertainty in our description of a system works perfectly well in quantum statistical mechanics (actually better than in classical statistical mechanics where the entropy of a system diverges to minus infinity as the precision of the description increases). The entropy is zero when we have a pure state, a state perfectly defined by a wave function, and greater than zero when we have a mixed state.

Regarding your second point, how does the practical impossibility of measuring the initial state invalidate the idea that there is uncertainty about the state?
That is quite an offensive and uninformed comment.

I worked in that sector a long time ago and your hipshot is very far from my lived experience. If you want to educate yourself in what the large community of typically very dedicated IT workers in UK schools do to protect children from online harm, search for edugeek and take a look through their "filtering" related forum.

Back when I did that kind of work the web filtering tools were stil mostly commercial, e.g. Websense, and we maintained reasonably good control, but it was a cat and mouse effort. As just one example, for blocking games it wasn't enough just to block all game websites (new ones every day) and all "proxy" sites as they were known (new ones every hour), you'd also have to block things the kids brought in. At one point we wrote a script that scanned files to find all Excel documents with Flash games embedded within them via an activex component and nuke them.

This is all against the backdrop of maintaining an incredibly diverse IT setup where commercial software often had utterly appalling requirements but was mandated from on high. I now work in an organisation with >£1bn turnover and it probably has fewer licensed software packages than just one secondary school I used to work for.

What you realise over time is that the technical tools are not really the solution. Classroom teachers need to use their skills to keep children on task. Schools need to use their existing disciplinary protocols when children don't follow the agreed rules. IT staff need to provide a baseline level of safety to ensure that no child can accidentally or casually break the IT rules.
Why the downvote? That's a correct argument.
Do you have any details on that being due to carrier pressure?

I remember using Hangouts (and Google Talk before it) with almost everybody in my social circle. It had XMPP interoperability for a while (which let me use it at a computer, even with my phone battery dead, at a time when WhatsApp was available on the phone only) and it otherwise just worked.

I never understood why Google went out of their way as much as they did to kill a perfectly fine product in favor of various alternatives that just looked like yet another WhatsApp clone, including all the deficiencies of that (i.e. being single-device only, not using the existing Google account social network etc.)
But I definitely am bothered.

A visual proof is supposed to appeal to our visual intuition - I don't know about you, but negative areas are not something that is visually intuitive to me.
Why not drive (at least part of the way if one-ways are an issue)?
Aye, ageism can creep up on us all if we assume age means disadvantage despite knowing that experience is a massive advantage. Many older founders have both age and degrees, and many even teach those that get degrees. Older folks typically know the market much better, having lived it, and are better at garnering trust if they aren't a complete muppet.
The best time to start a business is in your 40s or 50s and when your kids are in high school or college. Here’s why:

- You have more time since your kids are more independent, and they might even help with your business.

- Your significant other might have a full-time job, giving you a safety net with steady income and insurance.

- By now, you have a network of friends and colleagues, making it easier to find your first customers and get honest feedback.

- Hiring is easier because you already know people in your industry or community.

- You understand your industry better, which gives you an advantage. However, this can also be a downside—you might avoid risky, “crazy” ideas that could lead to huge success.
Grug’s Guide to Sound
And yet, it has much higher adoption. I think it might be because PWA have long been second-class citizens on mobile, even with some recent OS updates.
I highly recommend trying paneer masala. It’s delicious.
Yep. Per the developer(s):

NOTE: 12/1/2024 - We are aware that the Mac DMG does not install on Mac OS Sequoia. You can try the Java Pterm until such time that the programmer can get a new Mac and test and build a new package.

https://cyber1.org/pterm.asp
Optum left an AI chatbot exposed to the internet
Nuclear Salt Water Rocket is a fun one too: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_salt-water_rocket
Not everyone has a telework job. And many who do still have to be available during "business hours".

Regardless of work type, DST likely offers you more personal time during daylight hours. Most don't object to this --- even many who currently claim to hate DST.

Take it away and many will come to realize that changing your clock is no biggie and just might be worth the bother.
I vaguely remember hearing that status updates are much more popular in other markets.

I could imagine the same for channels, as WhatsApp is zero-rated on many data plans in the developing world (as well as for in-flight Wi-Fi plans in more and more airlines!), which would make that an economical way of staying up to date on news.
We're all Wittgensteinians now (2023)
Wayland still intrigues me - it was first released 16 years ago but still support like in XFCE is "experimental". I really don't know much about Wayland but its initial goals and the excitement if caused (at first) seemed always very noble.
You are correct technically, but the implication that you must sacrifice speed or static typing is practically incorrect: faster on startup than .NET [0]. You can get benefits similar to static typing in for a while now [1].

[0] tested locally on a Linux environment

[1] https://github.com/ruby/rbs#readme
The right question is 'what are you even talking about?'.
One easy trick they don’t want you to know about: stop importing dependencies. You probably don’t actually need numpy. You probably don’t need requests. The stdlib is incredibly broad.

This doesn’t always work, of course (especially for large projects), but for smaller ones, it absolutely does.
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My side project Whizzmetrics, offers the simplicity and privacy of tools like Fathom, Plausible and Umami with their one-page dashboard design, while also offering enterprise-grade features for smaller startups/e-commerce brands looking to optimize their conversion rate with heatmaps, visitor journeys, and replays & more. These features can be turned off or on when necessary to maintain your visitors privacy & the simplicity of the platform.
This is very useful, thank you for making this!
Yes, and that's exactly why it's factually incorrect to paint WhatsApp as the "everything app" for either a specific market or even "the world excluding the US".

> It’s the “everything app” for messaging, friends and groups.

I'd call that a "some things app" :)
There’s no threat of imminent war for the West. And any non-nuclear war is a much less danger than climate change. At worst, the WWII-scale war may cost a few hundred percent of GDP. Climate change will destroy trillions worth of property and may affect human population for thousands of years.
>However, it's a totally different domain and the name conflict isn't really a problem for our users.

This is a poor rationalization for violating norms in open source software. No package manager needs to have a name conflict with a popular package or any package for that matter.
> people always jump in with their experience rather than relating to the person who is talking.

For at least some of them, that is them relating to the person.
I understand complexity of VPN as a reason to give up, but not the other two.

Wouldn’t it just be the server which needs to be accessed from the outside? And the control interface is not that bandwidth-hungry.

> Bandwidth Limitations: A VPN could bottleneck the performance for some devices.

> Device Compatibility: Not all devices can reliably connect to a VPN.
Comparing a Wired Magazine from 2014 compared to 2024 is pretty illuminating to me, because in terms of aesthetics nothing had really changed, the "modern" adverts for furniture or gadgets could be interchangable. But the difference in the content and "spirit" of the writing was palatable, 2014 definetly felt alot more forward looking and speaking towards a more unified crowd, where 2024 was often a barrage of fears and anxieties of X upcoming technologies, or how X industry was not inclusive of Y crowd, the whole thing felt alot more diversionary and tribalistic. I've observed the same thing in media, where alot of the focus has shifted from value through exploration of new concepts to value via representation.

So perhaps corporate greed is one thing, but I'd also argue that America itself dosen't seem very interested in the future anymore either, they seem alot more interested in dividing the cake now rather than making it larger.
Reminder: don't anthropomorphize corporations.

This policy was recommended by Alice to her boss Bob, and it was then signed-off by Christine above him, Dave above her, Evelyn above him, and so on... until it reached the desk of Nathan Orville Percival III in the C-suite, who happily collected a fat yearly bonus for the savings. People made this decision, and in a large organization like UnitedHealth, likely a lot of people did so.

Unfortunately, the laws surrounding corporations make it largely impossible to hold such people accountable - piercing the corporate veil, so to speak, is rather difficult even in the few cases where it's allowed. The most you can do is fine the corporation a little and hope it shocks the business enough to make its own internal changes. In practice, it's usually just a small slap on the wrist that can be written off as a cost of doing business.

I would argue that for the long-term health of society, we ultimately need to start poking more holes in this corporate veil protection so individual people can no longer get away with the equivalent of "just following orders" which is the profit-above-all-else excuse.
I've shared ScreenMemory [0] before, but I just released a 2.0 redesign so why not. It records your (macOS) screen and gives a calendar / timeline to explore. You can then revisit what you did. I use it daily and mainly to go through my day before standups, it's incredibly how much side-tracking I do and completely forget each day.

Tech is quite simple, all native frameworks from Apple. OCR included!

[0] https://screenmemory.app
Optical storage currently is things like BluRay (non-volatile), plasmons, delay lines (both volatile), or Bose-Einstein condensates (requiring extremely impractical cryogenics).

All of these are much lower density than magnetic (hard drives) or electrical (RAM or flash).

I've not heard of RAM or flash having thermal issues (though I'm sure it would happen eventually), but that suggests 3D stacking is easier for storage, which would remove that potential advantage of optical.

One thing I've seen suggested for optical computing is to create optical elements (e.g. lenses, holograms) that represent the same transformations as a layer of a neural net; they're not at all space-efficient and any changes to the network requires basically replacing the whole thing, and you can do a similar thing with a suitable network of hard-wired resistors and transistors, but they're an interesting idea that I see come up very occasionally.
She must be fun to have a drink with though right?
I've been playing with LLama 3.2 Vision 8B for such a use-case, and found it does a good job at providing image descriptions which could be indexed, along with transcription of any text in the image, such as the name on the grave in this case.

So should be possible to have a similar capability locally now.
As one of the bad at geometry good at algebra people this blows my mind. I cannot even begin to comprehend how this shows, even for these specific boxes, the math works. But I can very clearly feel the relatedness of multiplication which makes the algebra work.

That’s not to say the example is bad, or good, more to marvel at how differently people think.
OK, but anyone who makes this argument should at least put some effort into thinking about how to define what is a social network, and what is an addictive game. It’s not that you’re wrong, but you need to think about the execution and making sure that the criteria has a strong basis in principle that can be used to justify the decisions on what to ban. Otherwise you’re just suggesting the impossible
Looks like heading into that direction.

https://rive.app/
Negative area's can be the only practical solution. Imagine the worst case: a 10*10 room with a pillar in the middle. How would you calculate that?
I'm a D&D player, and run campaigns on a regular basis - and I've learned that for me, the upper limit for a party is 4 players.

It's nice to see a headline of an article referencing a study that backs up my personal preferences.

Maybe I should read the article - or dare I say, even the study? - and make sure it's not complete bullshit :P
I didn't target the parent poster, rather the community in general.
Aren’t they already used in early high-school math books?

They aren’t used later on because, for more complicated expressions, manipulating the algebraic formulas is easier than the geometric method, or completely breaks down (e.g. when the powers aren’t integers or are variables)

For example, I think anybody who can visualize what (a+2b)³ or (a+b)⁴ looks like geometrically can also, and easier, do the expansion algebraically.
There’s a British controlled airforce base there too iirc.
>I'm already living this dream life from the 1940s. I have a range, a refrigerator, "permanent hot springs", heating, and air conditioning.

But you also had all this stuff back in the 2000s. In the 80s, harder to say. But in 2024, nothing has really changed.
Why not? Either b < a, b = a or b > a. If b = a both sides are zero and the result is trivial. If b > a just swap the names of a and b and multiply both sides by -1.