skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Use networking to determine how valuable the product is and if people give a damn about it. If no one wants to talk to you about it, no one is going to want to pay for it.

This is a key thing. A lot of developers operate in the belief that “if you build it they will come”.

A small amount of market validation would prevent a lot of wasted time.

- Do people have the problem you are solving?

- Are they willing to pay a sufficient amount to solve it?

- Are there enough of them to make it worthwhile?

The real danger is that we often don’t want to hear the answers to these questions. So we either don’t ask or we dismiss the answers that we get. Wishful thinking is a dangerous thing.
Me too me too :D

There's a lot that is very right about SQL, but a few clunky bits around the edges.

CTEs made a lot of difference, and window functions - which can be a bit head bending - made difficult things a tiny bit easier.

I'm using BigQuery, which supports structs and arrays, but only recently allowed arrays to be grouped by, although there is still no equality check etc.

BigQuery is slowly adding more sugar, like aggregate UDFs and polymorphic UDFs using ANY TYPE parameters etc, and I find myself putting more reused logic into tidy functions, but my pet want is for temporary functions to be declared and scoped like CTEs so they integrate a lot better into tooling like DBT that wants everything to be in one statement.

And the one most productive thing they could add? Allowing you to specify null behaviour on JOIN USING. (Having to spell out foo.bar IS NOT DISTINCT FROM bar.bar on a join is unobvious and ugly. Something like USING (bar RESPECT NULLS) would be so much nicer.)
stop spamming the comment section or use your real account if you have something of value to add.
People will tell you about product market fit but honestly, just enter a space that's already proven to generate revenue.

Also don't be afraid to build "boring" software, many times this is what will bring the most steady revenue.
I don't buy this because using Chrome is what most bots probably do right? Headless chrome is easy.
Without question.
> I think the only responsibility maintainers of an open source project have is to not intentionally cause harm, and even that might not be absolute (e.g. would it really be that wrong for maintainer(s) to remove a package/source code, if they so decide, like with the left-pad debacle).

I understand this perspective as a developer but it feels kind of like a feel-good don't-worry-just-have-fun thing. Don't worry, just have fun is how we get big security breaches that cause measurable harm on real people.

It's fine to not worry and have fun if you're hacking on something that isn't a part of critical workflows or managing sensitive data, but a terminal is not that! The moment your app is asking a user to type in a password, you have a responsibility for what happens with what they type in! It's not only your responsibility but you simply have to be aware of the long term consequences of every action you take as a software developer, whether it's choosing not to bounds-check a memcpy call or choosing to add a dangerous verbose logging facility.

The bill for our decisions always comes due eventually and the question is who's paying the bill. In this case, the end users are paying for it.

> There is a good chance that they would welcome additional maintainers, so you can try volunteering to do that.

I don't have a mac, but if I used iTerm2 I'd certainly be contributing to the author's patreon. It doesn't seem like many people are even doing that much, let alone reviewing commits. That makes me sad.
Complete link https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2021/04/21/level-viewer-for-...
Quick note: the article header should say “ICO” and not ISO.

I didn’t know about this change n in policy from Google but, in summary, it doesn’t change the legal positioning on fingerprinting as something that can fall under PII collection under UK data protection legislation. I do worry that the change from Google will make practical enforcement more difficult, however.
This does add some validity to my belief that DOGE is full of wealthy mid-brains trying to convince one another they’re smart boys.

If you had tens of millions of dollars and wanted to help the world, there are a million legitimate paths. They might not be glamorous. You might not get to hang out with Elon. But you would actually make a huge difference.
Google removed chrome extensions that do cookie stuffing before: https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-removes-two-chrome-ad-b...

PayPal's Honey extension should be pulled by Google for doing the exact same thing. There is no difference and Honey shouldn't get special treatment just because it's owned by PayPal.

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UPDATE: It's criminal wire fraud.

Brian Dunning sentenced to 18 months jail for cookie stuffing: https://www.businessinsider.com/brian-dunning-ebay-and-affil...

“Cookie Stuffing" internet fraud schemer Jefferson Bruce McKittrick pleads guilty:
https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdal/pr/cookie-stuffing-interne...
I'm not a no-vax to any degree, but I agree that one of the biggest problems was lying
As an original Macintosh user who discovered programming via HyperCard and Unix through OS X I’d disagree. I think there are a fair number of people like me who can’t bear the ugliness (in all senses) of windows and the time sink of Linux but do love composable open source utilities and text files for parts of our work.
> the ability to organize things freely in space

This is the key. It's not enough for digital tools to just put things in folders or tag them. It's the links themselves that need elevation. People need to add metadata to links, they need to apply rules specifying what links to crawl and how to arrange them in space, they need to specify how content should be displayed in islands of connected content. Then they need to be able to arrange islands on a 2d, 2.5d, or 3d canvas.

We have information input and retrieval solved. For some reason it's taking a real long time for people to get to spread out.
"has a dedicated Copilot button." -all I will say about this is I better be able to remap this to a useful macro, or my own AI tool for local LLM usage. Many a button to bring up documentation would be nice.

Totally reminds me of the kenesis keyboard though. But hey if this keyboard is actually improving wrist strain and ulnar deviation then its a net good for developers and end users.
ICO, not ISO.

"The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) upholds information rights in the public interest, promoting openness by public bodies and data privacy for individuals. ICO is an executive non-departmental public body, sponsored by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology."
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/information-comm...
I wonder how far this reductio ad absurdum is going to get. Come on, we can get to "just don't use a computer" by teatime!
Competing against luck by Clayton Christensen, how brands grow by Byron Sharp
From what I understand, no, they don’t replace coupons you’ve entered.

Honey’s advertising message was “never search for a coupon again” and “we’ll ensure you always have the best discount possible”. However in reality a merchant could sign up as a Honey partner and for a mere 3-5% commission they’d let you set the coupons that Honey would show.

So for example if your business gave a 20% promotional coupon to a small community, you could set Honey to ignore it and only show a 5% coupon in the coupon search. People with the 20% coupon will still get to use it, but Honey will never supply it.

So not only was Honey removing affiliate revenue from the people promoting it, it wasn’t giving the people using it the best deal that it promised.
Who was cracking denuvo on a regular basis back in say, 2021, before the war started? Basically no one. So I'm not sure that's true.
If we look at final report of Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic:

COVID-19 ORIGIN: COVID-19 most likely emerged from a laboratory in Wuhan, China. The FIVE strongest arguments in favor of the “lab leak” theory include:

1) The virus possesses a biological characteristic that is not found in nature.

Yes.

2) Data shows that all COVID-19 cases stem from a single introduction into humans. This runs contrary to previous pandemics where there were multiple spillover events.

Yes.

3) Wuhan is home to China’s foremost SARS research lab, which has a history of conducting gain-of-function research at inadequate biosafety levels.

Other biolabs can match this description too.

4) Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) researchers were sick with a COVID-like virus in the fall of 2019, months before COVID-19 was discovered at the wet market.

Covid-like virus is not a Covid-19.

5) By nearly all measures of science, if there was evidence of a natural origin it would have already surfaced.

Yes.

So, yes, it realy looks like a leak from a biolab or a deliberate spreading of the virus in preparation to a war or a trade war.
> The only thing that I never understood was why brands would allow Honey to be an affiliate. Why would they want to pay Honey any money when Honey doesn’t originate any traffi?

Because Honey has leverage.

Just to provide one example, Honey can very easily hurt Amazon's bottom line by adding random affiliate codes (of independent creators) to every transaction. This wouldn't make them any money, but would bring them to the negotiating table.

Instead, Amazon can work out a deal with them where they get half the standard affiliate fee, and Amazon pockets the rest. Amazon is happy because they pay 1.5% to Honey instead of paying 3% to a different creator, Honey is happy because they get 1.5% instead of nothing, and Honey users are happy because if Honey is well-funded, they'll use some of that money on letting them find good deals online.

This is just one of the ways it could have played out; it's also possible that e.g. Honey had good access to some kind of Amazon discount codes that they kept applying too often, which Amazon didn't like, so they worked out a deal that wasn't too bad for Amazon and great for Honey.
So glad you like it! If I understand your question correctly, yes, we are also putting together a small library for training small language models. It's not mature at all yet, but can keep up with our progress here: https://github.com/danbraunai/simple_stories_train
Dude, you’re a bigwig at atlassian. Fix JIRA.
That was the previous CEO. This one is from Boeing school of "profit at all costs even if it kills us".
You are probably right on pilot error, dont forget Boeing probably want this to be the story as well!
But it wasn't there for this reason, and if it was, I'm sure they would have had more than 250m of space to put it at the far ends of the airport.
https://webcf.waybackmachine.org/web/20250103061402/https://...

Pesky paywall begone.
> If the holder of the rights does not agree to a certain kind of use, what else is there to discuss?

the holder of content does not automatically get to prescribe how i would use said content, as long as i comply with the copyrights.

The holder does not get to dictate anything beyond that - for example, i can learn from the content. Or i can berate it. Copyright is not a right that covers every single conceivable use - it is a limited set of uses that have been outlayed in the law.

So the current arguments center on the fact that it is unknown if existing copyright covers the use of said works in ML training.
I think this is disingenuous reporting.

It’s too early to actually draw a conclusion. We should wait for the full investigation.

There are a large number of compounding problems here. That was just the last one.
Use of the phrase "evolutionary fit population" in this (or any) context strongly suggests you support some/most/all of the ideology behind eugenics. Godwins Law violation inbound in 3...2...1...
Syntax highlighting is just CSS. There's nothing stopping you from adding your own custom CSS to the code block which will prefix lines with the prompts.
There is truth to what you say. But I sense what I wrote came off more negative than I intended, and I am not sure it makes any of our lives (our lives or his) better to be hard on the author. Self actualization is legitimately extremely difficult.
This will have the same effect in the west the VLSI restrictions have had in China: stimulate industrial development.

Massive amounts of lithium are mined in Australia and Australia has been doing battery chemistry science for many decades: I would be amazed if the materials processing problems here are not tractable without magic.

In order to do this China must now be confident it has secured independent lines of lithium input lest reciprocal barriers are erected on the raw materials. Spodumene miners in Australia might panic a bit, but there will be markets.
Like doing what things? What I read so far is that they suspect the pilot had control issues.

I don't think people who say that it's a bad idea to have a concrete wall at the end of the runway argue the plane should make its way to a nearby motorway. I think most refer to using EMAS, ie a crushable concrete floor in which the plane sinks and stops.
It is not very common.
Get your own acronym right!

Someone is still recovering from New Year
there is a wonderful quote from a soviet movie called guest from the future, you can watch the whole movie on youtube with english subtitles here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BB6bwJ9agM

Anyways, the quote is:

>> You are a pathetic victim of an idle mind.

I think this aptly describes the author.
We can also do “copyright for thee, no copyright for me”! It does sound a bit hypocritical, but until we see where the copyright needle goes this might be the safest option.
Agree with this. Added my digital garden to the list and then was excited to dig through all the other sites, a little disappointed to find most were just personal landing pages (but very nice looking and professional ones!)
I guess Maggie and Kasper’s lists are still the gold standard for digital garden indices :)
Thanks! I still don't feel ready to do a proper "Show HN" with it though :)

The related posts are generated with the help of a vector database (Cloudflare Vectorize [1]). I take post titles and descriptions as input, vectorize and store the results in the vector DB. Then for each post, I find 10-15 related posts and store the results in a separate table (it's a plain one-to-many SQL table). This is done because querying the vector DB is not super fast, and I wanted Minifeed to load under 500ms (according to my status page tracking, users in Europe for some reason experience the fastest loading times of 100-200ms! [2]). I also set up a scheduled job which regularly updates the relations (since there are new posts every day, and some of them may become "related" to existing posts).

I've been meaning to write a blog post about the overall architecture of Minifeed, there are lots of small components related to RSS parsing, updates, caching, etc.

1. https://developers.cloudflare.com/vectorize/
2. https://status.minifeed.net/
How about "sharing your money back" ? Or "helping" other in any kind of way ? Focusing on something else than yourself ? You have immense freedom, but also incredible power given your wealth. Lots of things that would be hard choices for most people will be about pocket changes for you.

In the end, your life expectancy is finite. Add a couple of philosophy book to the physics regimen, find a cause where you money can be put to good use. And "live hapilly in the meantime".

Good luck !
Scientists Trace Fast Radio Burst to Surprise Source for First Time
Prompted by the awesome investigation by MegaLag https://youtube.com/watch?v=vc4yL3YTwWk
Yeah, I feel this! There"s so much of everything -- the central challenge (of software anyway) is not actually creating something new, it"s standing out from all the noise and the thousands of others doing the exact same thing.

And increasingly all economic activity revolves around a handful of megacorps siphoning up all available money, with everyone else trying to insert themselves somehow into the siphoning process. Ideally "as a Service", ie by creating their own little siphon and attaching it onto their hos^H^H^Hcustomer.

Not just software businesses either, but because everyone has been conditioned into spending half their waking time staring at their little screens, traditional businesses too are expected to have an online presence and so carry their share.
At no point in that writeup does Honey say they use cookie stuffing to fraudulently steal affiliate attribution when no discount code is found. This is a serious crime: people have gone to prison for cookie stuffing affiliate codes (see: https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdal/pr/cookie-stuffing-interne...)

Google removes chrome extensions cookie stuffing affiliate codes: https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-removes-two-chrome-ad-b...
Sure, it is slow for me.
GitHub suspends AI code editor. >500k of users locked out of their projects
This is sad but good advice. I'm in my late 40s, and my hair is getting pretty gray, so I've started using comb-in color to tone it down. It's not about vanity; I just want to avoid standing out as older than many people around me.

I've had some amazing experiences in my career, but I've started dropping off some of my older work. I don’t include my graduation date on my resume, for example. I have nearly 30 years of solid, relevant experience, but I need to trim it down to the last 12 years or so.

Ageism is incredibly difficult to prove. Plus, you don’t want your name in the paper as someone who sues employers; it can make you seem toxic to future employers.
Many "generals" turn to crime because it's largely compatible in the way things are achieved, types of rules in place, and the rewards (at least here in the Balkans).

Possibly speaks more of the culture I am surrounded with than "generals", but maybe not.
I would advice anyone using iTerm not to willy-nilly switch their terminal to one recommended by a random user here.

Terminals can have a huge attack surface and many "open-source" ones are maintained by less than trustworthy developers who very easily could inject a backdoor.

Sticking with time-proven projects like iTerm provides the advantage of added trust, security and basic common sense.

It also seems like a huge coincidence that there are a lot of green accounts here "highly" recommending all sorts of random terminal alternatives.
Looking at the map, there isn't much beyond the runway.
> So I don't generally advertise my work on sites like this one

Please do — I for one always love to hear about indie projects, if they are relevant to the topic discussed.
There was a historical moment (2012ish, you can search HN and find it) where they changed the motto. They changed it from "don't do evil" to "googlers shouldn't do evil" changing the emphasis away from the organisation to the employee.

They moved a core principle to an employee guideline!
Can you come up with "non-evil" ways to cut 2 trillion, while you wait?
that's one way to get rid of Github Spark competition
To me it reads like the author wants you to think this way. There's more than a little self loathing in there, starting with the title.

But IMO it's not surprising. When I left my first "real job" after ~4 years, it took months before I stopped dreaming about that job. I was amazed how wrapped-up I was in it.

What is surprising is that they put this out there so plainly. Unless they're just trolling .. but I'm going to go with "not trolling", because cynicism just leads to sorrow.
Even with all of the compounded problems, the flight could have been non fatal in most world airports.
And of course there is always https://marginalia.nu
Why the hell does this crap have 940 comments, lmao? Why would anyone seriously spend any amount of time discussing this nonsensical crap of man-child?
One thing that strikes me reading this, is that the only thing that's changed is that Google won't disallow it. But I think it would make more sense if the ICO actually just went after the companies doing fingerprinting directly, instead of being angry at Google for not enforcing things for them.

There is a subtle but important difference here.

If governments enforce policy by bullying HSBC/Google/E.ON to enforce policies for them, there is no legal opportunity for companies and individuals to argue for their sake. You'll just be shut out of your bank/advertising/electricity for doing something "wrong".

If instead UK ICO would bring a legal case against an individual or company applying fingerprinting (and I'm no advocate of fingerprinting, but that's besides the point) then they can defend themselves in court.
Yeah, unfortunately, c'est la vie. Renting a domain is still better than not having it.
The hell they do.

Enforcement action by the IÇO is as rare as hen’s teeth, and when they do enforce, it’s a mild slap on the wrist for large businesses, and “put you out of business” for small businesses. Lose 2,000,000 sets of customer information because you accidentally left it public? Reprimand. Don’t do it again. 1000 spam calls? £100k fine. Go to prison.

If you have a U.K. Ltd company, you must pay them their annual fee.

Quite the gig they have. Do next to nothing, collect a tax on every business in the country.

Electoral commission: 40,000,000 U.K. voter records leaked. No fine. https://ico.org.uk/action-weve-taken/enforcement/the-elector...

Random company, 60,000 spam SMS, £120k fine. https://ico.org.uk/action-weve-taken/enforcement/quick-tax-c...

Make it make sense.
Do you hire in the APAC time zone?
Class Action lawsuit targets Honey extension on behalf of content creators
i mean, obviously advances in modern medicine has saved lives. it's not like i want to go back to the stone age. it would help to understand the point i'm making first.

you know those movies where all humans band together in the face of adversity? i now know the reality is that it will be full of nonstop misinformation and political infighting along the way. i suppose i understood it on an intellectual level but seeing it play out is something different. we are more idiocracy than contagion.
> the ICO will act.

That would be a first. The most useless regulator on earth.
While I am not somebody who succeeded in the field of running a SAAS, I gave myself the same question.

One answer (or better, one idea) I came up with, was to join a network marketing organization. While I am reluctant about this step, it would definitely pull me out of my comfort zone. And I think you can learn a lot sales wise in a network marketing organization.

I would love to hear what others think of this.
Well the publisher won in public opinion if that's your interpretation. Now anything trying to be a digital archive is privy to being taken down. A very dangerous precedent. I fear for the Wayback machine more or less letting corporations rewrite history
I believe Sanskrit has some very long words like 600 Roman letters or something
Shockingly, they do! Quite a few folks that I've talked to recently expressed that they are subscribed to more than one email newsletter and read them fairly consistently.
> (aliens? CIA remotely controlling the dice?)

No, more like Siri, bruh. To sell some too-expensive slippers. You used the word "absurd", didn't ya?

> accidentally recording siri queries

Sure. Apple does things by accident. Gotcha.

Motive, means, opportunity. Which is missing?