skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pro plan advertising:

> Unlimited invoices

Terms of service:

> Our Pro Plan allows for the generation of up to 1000 invoices per month.

Please fix your advertising.

This also has a one-time fee for unlimited use. For SaaS, this is dangerous. There needs to be a provision in your terms for what happens to "unlimited" memberships if the service shuts down, you currently don't have one.
same here... at a species level, I would expect evolutionary benefits if immunity increased with exposure
SEO very much does count. And on site optimisation is the easiest return on investment as it's generally not a lot of work. few hours of work can bring you tons of clients.
I don't think more people should become software engineers. But I think more people, even non-professional programmers should be able to program computers for their own needs.

So basically I think programming should be something that a lay person do, like learning to drive a car.
You need 6 people to staff a 24/7 desk on a 6 week rota. That’s not on call, that’s actual work, assuming you don’t need to cover toilet and meal break or handle two fails with equal priority (when I used to work regular nights I’d have a pager when I went to the canteen)

You can do it with 5 but that leaves little room for covering illness and holidays, and you tend to end up paying overtime.

If you are getting frequent call outs out of hours, you need 24/7 coverage at a skill level high enough to reduce the total call outs to just a handful per year.
And yet, Russia started an aggression when there was no chance and no plan for Ukraine (or Georgia for example) to join NATO but agreement on the EU association was being prepared.
Paralysed man communicates first words in months using brain implant (2022)
Good riddance, but thinly veiled marketing post.
It's what they call the resource curse, something that has plagued Norway too, but at least in Norway's case, they have opted to do it in a way that sustains it for the future. Compared to the Swedish and Danish, the Norwegians are also considered lazy for the same reason - life is good, so why bother with ambition?
Trump reminds me of a Star Wars quote

"The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers"

The reality is that China will not magically disappear and they have integrated themselves into the world economy.
>It's not ads per se that bother. It's the tracking part.

No, people are irritated by just the existence of ads -- with-or-without the tracking.

E.g. the "native" advertising of sponsors embedded in Youtube videos or podcasts have no technical way to track the audience and yet people are still annoyed such that they use Sponsorblock to get rid of it. https://www.google.com/search?q=sponsorblock

Lots of ads-without-tracking still anger people. The commercials interrupting the tv and radio broadcasts, the ugly billboards around the city, etc. What gp is saying is that most of them would still listen to the radio "for free with the ads" rather pay extra for ad-free Sirius XM music or ad-free Spotify subscription. That majority preference is why ad-funded businesses dominate the paid-membership business models.
Javascript bundling for Spring Boot applications?
The problem with distributing standalone installers on Windows is that all non-popular apps are immediately regarded as malware by Windows Defender unless you go through the horrendous process of signing your app, which requires obtaining a certificate (which also requires forming a company that is not an LLC) and waiting more than a month while navigating multiple rounds of bureaucracy. I’ve done it for my app, and it was a terrible experience. Microsoft should study how Apple handles signing and notarization.

EDIT: spelling.
'What have we here?': a simple question to change how you think about your life
Well in most companies it pays more than being an IC or line manager. Sure it sucks but you get more money for it.
I’ve always assumed that this was sort of a known thing.
The "right way"[0] to use Kagi is the unlimited search tier ($10/mo) and then aggressively rank domains in searches. Within a few weeks, the search quality improves tremendously, because I have filtered out the domains responsible for low-quality results, and up-ranked the domains I find to be most useful.

[0]My opinion. Probably true.
Aw, I looking forward to seeing the author's implementation for the other two cap types, but it was a nice read regardless. These types of links - right between general interest and too niche for most readers to care - are why HN is such a great site.
Except they do. They help connect buyers with needs/wants to sellers with solutions.

I know this breaks HNs brain so I don't expect to win this one however.

Can ads encourage people to buy stuff they don't need? Yes. Like most things (including humans), they aren't perfectly rational.
My take is the opposite of yours. The guy loves SV culture. Most of the article is a humble-brag about it.

His problem is that $60m is not enough to be an important player in that world. He was just a cog in the DOGE machine which wasn't enough after being number 1 at Loom.

He has now decided to study physics to try and be like the tech bro messiah Elon.
It will only sound bizarre if you didn't read ivewonyoung's link, which provides specific examples of big news outlets doing exactly what was claimed. Maybe everywhere you looked didn't do that, but if so you weren't looking at NBC, MSNBC, the Washington Post or CNN at the time of the attack. The link supplies screenshots of their reporting in all cases.
Also generally known as LFSRs (Linear Feedback Shift Registers): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear-feedback_shift_register. One advantange is that they can be easily implemented in hardware (and then very cheaply implemented in emulators). For instance the noise generators in audio chips of 80s home computers were typically an LFSR with around 16 bits of state.
Not sure about the energy costs: surely a short wide pan dissipates more heat than the classical pasta pot.
"American cash crop" is a little misleading (implies that its a substantial amount) when the article cites 3.5kg and 360g of harvests of saffron from American farms. Iran produced 174 tonnes, for comparison.
Most people are held back by their conscience
Or more likely lose it all and have to work again.
The problem is that it can create a chain-reaction of complexity because it opens up possibilities for over-engineering. In the sense of: "Yes, it's a bit over-engineered, but k8s makes it manageable for us anyway!" - consciously or subconsciously. When I'd often suspect that some restrictions in what's possible/acceptable would've created a significantly leaner overall design in the end.
> Of course, they are not going to grow to the level of FANG with this approach but do they have to?

They do if they want to demonstrate that paying is a viable alternative to ads, and not just a niche curiosity.
> Australia also has welfare, high living standards, high life expectancy, good health, etc.

Tell me how affordable a home near the workplace is for most Australians? On the contrary, Norwegians and Emiratis get a huge housing subsidy for their first homes. They both use their oil revenues to push for sustainable energy sources at home. And the UAE is currently pulling over its weight in AI, funding a significant AI player, while also taking part in active space exploration.

> Ahhh, so Norway and UAE have their own home built computers, TV's, and EV's, etc then?

Building computers, EVs and TVs in this age when China controls the complete manufacturing chain is a bit stupid honestly. But they do have manufacturing bases on the things they actually excel at - Norway is a major player in manufacturing shipping and specialized O&G equipment, while the UAE has focused on aircraft parts manufacturing and defence manufacturing.
> imagine if some kind of yeast/virus affects humans to eat so much sugar

I think the gut microbiome can indeed do this.

The episode called "Swap Out Sugar" of the BBC podcast Just One Thing explains more - the relevant section is from after 7 minutes to before 12 minutes into the episode:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09by3yy/episodes/downloads...
I am very biased on this topic.

I have started using AI coding assistant and I am not looking back.

This comes from an engineer that KEEP telling the junior on his team to NOT use GenAI.

The reality is that those tools are POWER TOOLS best used by engineers very well versed in the domain and in coding itself.

For them, it is really a huge time saving. The work is more like approving PR for a quite competent engineer than writing the PR myself.

My tool of choice is Cline, that is great, but not perfect.

And the quality is 100% correlated to:

1. The model

2. The context window

3. How well I prompt it.

In reverse order of importance.

Even an ok model, well prompted gives you a satisfactory code.
Google copied that idea from Microsoft, primarily.
https://bsky.app/profile/seanmcarroll.bsky.social/post/3lec7...
Help for the Heartland? The Employment and Electoral Effects of Tariffs [pdf]
In that case, I suggest taking a closer look at the definition of "sovereignty". When it comes to lawmaking, if you say that your country can basically do "almost everything" without the EU's permission, "BUT with certain exceptions" it simply means that it is not sovereign. This is not a matter of opinion but of facts. It's binary — either it is sovereign, or it is not.
A big fan of this article. I was in a similar position to the author in having a 'vague understanding'. Excellent for anyone wanting to solidify their mental model.
thank you a lot! forgot about that.
Yea, the idea is that no one really needs to create more than 1000 invoices, but i also see your point. Thank you so much. Will change it now.
I'm conflicted on this. I use perplexity at the moment because they gave out a year of pro subscriptions, and it's geuninely pretty useful since it is so heavily based on web results. The one gpt wrapper product that I've liked so far.

With the actual model producers now also adding web search, the question is how long they will survive and how much value they can realistically add. The third-party models are also nerfed with less context length, and also seem less capable overall when comparing sonnet on perplexity to sonnet in the claude interface.

It makes sense that when the massive funding runs out these companies won't be able to offer free plans without ads or anything, still sucks.
Claude Tries Standup
The above link is to Simon Willison’s blog, which in turn links to Amanda Askell’s X feed. I don’t have an X account so I cannot see her full thread, but inspired by her I had Claude produce a similar standup routine:

https://gally.net/temp/20250104claudestandup.html

This is the first time I have ever found AI-produced humor to be funny.
Matches my observations, having used Github Copilot for several months. Its POWER TOOL.
I like how the arXiv sub-category this paper is in is "Soft Condensed Matter".

Because of course it is.

(Also, the Acknowledgments ends with "We further thank [list of names] for their support and for eating up the sample leftovers.")
Marreta: Paywall Bypass and Content Cleaner
I agree except when it is overwhelming. ads are so prevalent these days that many brains (mine included) look at every ad as a scam
I’ll try to not be dismissive of the labour, though it’s kind of funny (or actually natural) that the heavy lifting libraries that only a few can actually write are open and free, while the shallow wrappers that everyone can write are paid and closed.

Decades ago we were calling out these software and now it’s the norm.

Another example along the line: I wanted to extract a frame from a video on iOS, it’s impossible with the built-in tools (screenshot aside) and found that someone built a paid app only for that.

I tell you where we’re heading, we’re screwed.
Like I mentioned in another comment, you create manufacturing companies in your home turf to refine those raw materials into higher value products, which is exactly what Norway, the UAE and Saudi Arabia have done (Qatar cant exactly do that because their resource is basically just gas). Companies like Aramco, SABIC, ADNOC and Statoil exist. I don't see any of those countries inviting Adani or Yuxiao to extract their material for them. Yet China is a major customer for all of them, as they all are for China (Norway maybe less so).
Mozillas suicide. Sponsored by Google. Don't be evil.
I expect most people don't fancy crawling under their car nor do they have a lift. It's also surprisingly hard to do DIY stuff if you aren't used to or equipped for it; you can waste hours fiddling with something that you haven't built the wisdom to do in the right/quick/easy way, like unscrewing something in an awkward place or angle.
You are correct. Protein chirality determines which direction they twist when they fold but the binding sites are all made up of the same functional groups, just arranged differently.

Realistically they have to be compatible because chirality is enforced by a D-handed chiral checkpoint protein that preferentially binds to L-amino acids, excluding the D-amino acids. All living organisms use the “wrong” isomer to make sure only the “right” isomer is used in protein synthesis. The amino acid cysteine is also present in both forms in mammals, so it extends to small molecules too.
It is because the chance of the right answer goes down exponentially as the complexity of what is being asked goes up.

Asking a simpler question is not voodoo.

On the other hand, I think many people are trying various rain dances and believing it was a specific dance that was the cause when it happened to rain.
Can I ask from curiosity how long it took you to program and design this entire project?
Creating a spectrum analyzer for realtime audio (C++, SDL2, FFT) [video]
I'm not saying they're a force for good. But they're more than viable as a company.
Everything I know about Deno
Hey HN,

I finished my first written guide. This was a project I did to show myself that I can push something from start to finish without collecting dust on my hard drive like the other projects I tried before.

Deno is a technology that I really like and since I love to explain concepts or tools to people it was a great combination of diving even deeper into Deno.

I hope you enjoy it.
Have a great day!
Does this mean I will be able to buy an extremely cheap, fairly new, windows laptop and install linux on it?

Needs to be really cheap, My state pension wont cover a brand new one

My old T450 with arch installed is looking a bit sore these days
The simpel solution is to register in Poland, at least here in Germany that's the normal way for ICE to EV conversions.
Yeah, I think I need a different wording for "write for beginners." It's not "write for beginners to programming" but "write for beginners to your particular subject."

Like in your case, you're writing for frontend developers who are not new to making webpages, but they're beginners at using the canvas element.
US preferred -> Can I apply if I'm outside of US but willing to match or overlap with US timezone?
Individual approval does not require destructive crash testing.
if you learn things from therapy that improve your life then i guess it has worked.

i imagine success stories tend to self-select as well. if you go to therapy in the first place it means you're admitting a need and willingness to change.

if a person thinks they know everything and can't benefit from therapy then they're probably unlikely to gain anything from the experience.
If you can't tell Confessions of an Economic Hitman is a work of fiction I don't know what to tell you.
New Years Circuit Challenge: Make This RFID Circuit
VW will offer "highly competitive" leases on ID.4 as sales restart
Does anyone know anything about the czech/slovak "flip" clock on the top right of the ~fifth last picture?

I'd love to have something like that for myself
How would you even measure the improvement of mental health objectively? You can’t just measure some levels of neurotransmitters and say “okay this is better, dopamine went from X to Y” because the patient may not feel any better.

It’s not like with a broken bone where you can look at an image of the bone and see that it has healed, you have to rely on what a person tells you, which is inherently subjective, and since a person can’t be cloned, you can’t have a “control” either.
Light-Switching Nanocrystals Ignite the Future of AI and Computing
Thanks for this, this was very helpful!

Sorry I completely misremembered what Win32s was, but unfortunately I can’t edit/delete it now. But the context you provided is amazing, especially the OS/2 bits.
But that's still not a circular dependency then, that's just the normal case for "I lost all my verification options" and it's exactly what the last option is for.

If I create an account via e-mail and password at a random service, destroy the password and delete the e-mail account, then it's not a circular dependency. In fact, the service has nothing to do with it, it can not know that you don't have access to either the e-mail or the password.
a fact for them at least

this is an opinion, not a fact and there is huge difference between the two. and this is at the core of this shit we are currently in with no end in sight…
Possible lease of 420 acres of Michigan forest for solar farm rankles lawmakers
We read the source code.
From watching the original video sounds like that’s exactly what LinusMedia did. Which doesn’t surprise me, I’ve always been amazed by how many people like that channel.
I think you are underestimating how difficult making a great UI is (although I haven’t used this application so I can’t say if it’s great or not).
He could also use his money to fund promising game studios like RocketWerkz to build the engine for that game. Kitten Space Agency has a bit of a problem with end game content. To this day you can play KSP1 if all you want to do is manual control of spacecraft, but lategame you want to launch multiple space craft simultaneously, which means they need to be autonomous.
Show HN is more for things that can be tried rather than things that can be read, take a look at https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

You can just post it without the prefix.
Cuneiform-like digital storage tech quadruples data storage
An automated manual retrofit that actuates the gear stick and the clutch could work.
I wonder how much that wire mesh floor distorts the recording result? I guess it must be insignificant, since the walls, ceiling and floor absorb almost all reflected sound waves?
I noticed not long ago that nootropic users were talking about it a lot. I wonder how much demand comes from that?
Especially as many licenses have liability disclaimers. Sure some enterprise stuff etc will have stronger guarantees etc but not by default probably
You can get starchier water by using less water to cook the pasta. I usually do it in my sautee pan, and just barely cover the pasta.
Great article! Here's one more, including animations on B-trees: https://planetscale.com/blog/btrees-and-database-indexes
At a 90 working, 10 non working people ratio, there isn’t going to be much to export, and hence the local currency isn’t going to buy much elsewhere in the world.

Also, at 90/10, the working people will surely start to wonder why they are paying rent (or tax) and who is going to stop them if they don’t. Same for invaders looking at obtaining the natural resources in Canada.

I picked an extreme ratio to illustrate the why, but in reality, it’s a far more gradual process, where ideally there is no violence, just various renegotiations of expectations.

> Land value is not a product of labour -- in Canada it's an investment and a way to move/launder money from other countries. Many many properties being build that are not designed to be realistically lived in.

It is sort of “land value is a product of labor from decades prior that has accumulated to the orderly, productive society today”. But that can gradually change.
Cutting Edge Calligraphy
Doesn't Germany have any EV conversion shops that has supplemental type approved kits?
To me it looks like individual creators are the ones most likely to lose.

I was watching an interview with John Warnock (one of the founders of Adobe) and he was proud of the fact that the US went from having 25,000 graphic designers to 2,500,000 largely thanks to software his company created.

I do wonder if we are on the verge of reversing that shift.
It doesn’t make sense to grow it with US labor, on the other hand, in desperately poor countries like Afghanistan it provides a living for women like this project:
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7267488...
the critics in this section about doge are absolutely dumbfounding. it seems to be hiring the smartest people from the industry, and yet people complain it didn’t recruit people with education or exp in state administration / bureaucracy ? which is precisely the field which in fact needs a cultural shakedown ?

Are you people out of your mind ? this is the passage that in fact made me the most impressed about this DOGE project. They seem 100% focused on agility and velocity, that’s just crazy when you think about how those kind of projects usually work in other countries (like france, which would have a commission created with long pompous ceremonies of hearings of pseudo-experts)
I get the sense that treesitter is more for syntax highlighting than for real parsing, since I raised this issue[0] a while ago and I don't think anyone's really interested in it (not really interested enough myself in tree-sitter to see if it can be fundamentally solved; solving it involves making almost all production rules in the grammar parametric over two booleans).

Admittedly I haven't tested the TypeScript treesitter grammar, but I'd be surprised if the issue is fixed there. I've put together a sample file[1] that demonstrates various cases of these context dependencies. If I remember correctly, Sublime's highlighter was the best at handling these cases out of various editors I tried, though it still failed at some of the ones at the bottom involving multi-line function expressions within object literal keys. GitHub/gist uses treesitter, so you'll notice that sometimes the "REGEX" and "DIVISION" blocks are inconsistently coloured, but a correct parser should associate a colour consistently to them. Not demonstrated here, but inserting a multi-line comment in a file that is parsed incorrectly will throw the entire thing off.

[0] https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-javascript/issues...

[1] https://gist.github.com/Maxdamantus/a11b41675fcde25ffc9b7ef0...
In lower Michigan they're taking perfectly good farmland on the edge of cities and leasing it out for solar farms. As someone who worked as an agronomist for twenty years this does not make any sense to me. Once prime farmland is taken out of production for a solar farm you're never getting it back.

It makes more sense to lease worthless land in the North center part of the 'mitten' that is so sandy it doesn't even grow good trees. Now there's more snow and less sunlight but the state is getting revenue it would not otherwise get and there are few people affected. It seems as if the wildlife argument could be solved my capturing and relocating the wildlife.
Apparently it released simultaneously with the (more famous) Jet Set Radio, also for Dreamcast, which had similar effects. Quite the coincidence.
SSRIs, birth pills and other 'harmless' drugs modify behaviour too.
Got you, sorry. I had in the back of my mind, that guides / courses fall into that category too. But good to know :)
Whose voice are you 'borrowing' for this?

Compared to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24GfgNtnjXc this video is absurdly limited https://tma.live/video/9c8e725e-ec21-41a7-984a-317d84216497
I love exploring AI-powered apps. They bring me joy and make me feel like a child captivated by a magic spell. However, when I took a step back to reflect on the impact of AI, I began to view it differently, comparing it with the human experience. Wrote just about that.