skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First, I think VC makes up a tiny percentage of invested capital, so I'm not sure the intuition of "so much money is thrown at it" is right. There's far, far more capital and talent in e.g. traditional non-software businesses, finance, government, etc. Just look at places like Google, which has 180k employees. Not all are tech/innovation talent, necessarily, but that's probably more than most new startups combined.

In any case, I'm not sure I trust you, me or anyone to be smarter about how to get innovation than our current relatively-free-market capitalistic system, where there's actually pretty good incentives to pursue innovation. Look at how many things today that absolutely improve our world have been created through this messy process. It's apparently monetarily worth it to have 95 failed startups in order to get 5 ones that change the world, and that's probably a good thing for society, because the world is better than it war 20 years ago in terms of technology/innovation.

(The world is worse in other ways, and a different criticism of tech is that some of it can also be negative for society, but that's a separate concern than it being wasteful, which I just don't agree with.)
Ask HN: Got any killer marketing tips for indie hackers to boost their product?
Hi, hackers. I'm developing mobile applications, but I haven't had much success so far. My colleagues who are also working on their own products have already had some success.

I try to make quality products, but while some apps have worse ui/ux, achieve more

What advice would you give on how to promote mobile app?
They need to work less than 1% of the time to be effective.
Congratz for this achievment :)

I've down developing in private for >15 years now and even tho i wrote alot of stuff i never was motivated enaugh to "publish" something as product that i might need to support.

Therefor - my respect!
Ramen to that
After reading the readme I’m confused what the advantage is over just regular piping.
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Delve into the Physics of the Hula-Hoop
Hey everyone, I've trimmed down the video to 55 seconds. Besides, I'll be working on pivoting the idea if needed based on your feedback. Thank you all for your valuable insights.
OP has a point. Why is this being downvoted? In my neck of the woods (UK and Ireland), everyone I know using Perplexity Pro, got a free annual subscription with Revolut. Like OP, I tried it for a week and moved on.

Its citations are often bunkum and code generation abilities are very limited, compared to GPT-4o or Claude 3.5 Sonnet, heck even tiny 4-bit quantized 14B local LLMs are way better at code generation (Qwen 2.5 Coder).
The simplest geo engineering is planting trees, but I see very little rush from government, privates and agencies into doing the simplest thing.
Who do you consider to be your target audience? Who's your client?
My gut feeling watching PirateSoftware says to me that something is wrong with this dude. Of course, he was a hacker for the government, worked at Blizzard hat made all the smart decisions, source is him.

Every time he's saying something obvious (basic computer science concepts) and people are pretending he's the ubergod of knowledge.

The dumb person's genius, I feel like. Something says to me there is much pretending involved.
I mean its good but is it to the Ig Nobel level?

I mean its no "Homosexual Necrophilia in the Mallard Anas Platyrhynchos"
It depends where you're coming from. The waltz has a very different rhythm to most other music. If you can tell (obvious) waltz music from (obvious) non-waltz music, you could identify the dance fairly easily. But if you do not know the musical difference between a waltz and a tango/foxtrot/jive/etc, then you'd need to know specifics of the dance to tell them apart - and could be fooled, eg. by pairs in ball costumes doing a different dance.
temperature too low?
Smart thing I did in my teens and early 20's was to work part time at mine sites every vacation break.

I got a good lump sum saved up by the end of university and I was ticketed with experience on bobcats, haulpaks, loaders, mini-cranes, heavy rigid trucks, etc. along with trades assistant experience working for electricians, gas fitters, fitter and turners, riggers, plumbers, radio technicians, belt splicers, etc.

That meant that while I wasn't a qualified electrician I did know how and what they did and had done most of the work myself under supervision.

I veered into Engineering (Trad.) then Mathematics, then Geophysics .. but I was well set up to go into trades had I wanted to .. more importantly I could do a full gas fitting layout for a glass blowing studio (isolation valves, pressure valves, furnace, annealing oven, glory hole, leakproof joins, etc) just not legally connect it .. for insurance and peace of mind I get an actual working tradie with insurance to inspect and signoff on the connection to a large rented LPG tank.

It's a very Weddings, Parties, Anything * kind of state (ie. many people here are comfortable taking on many types of work; typical for large area low population places).

* Any song you want
Playing requests now on the bandstand
El Clash combo
Paid fifteen dollars a day
Weddings, parties, anything
And Bongo Jazz a speciality
Async and parallel are a bit different.

Parallel means that things execute at the same time (or at least appear to do so). Async means that you yield control to some kind of scheduler and get it back at a later point.

Barring workers, JavaScript actually guarantees that two pieces of code never execute at the same time. That's the run-to-completion semantics.

When async was introduced to JavaScript from two different angles (callbacks in Node, Promise then await in browsers), there was limited parallelism involved (typically running I/O in the background), but the async was meant to ensure that:

1. while a task was (almost explicitly) waiting, another one could run;

2. in the case of the browser, we could yield control from JavaScript often enough that the UI could run smoothly.
NATO is probably even less solid than the EU : France historically not being all in, the very reason for the pact being under question between the fall of the USSR and Putin deciding to shot himself in the foot, and who knows what Trump will do... (last time he already siphoned NATO funding, including for the Ukraine ramp-up, to build his (strategically) stupid wall).
My experience is that Python is worse at async than JavaScript. At least, the debugging experience quickly scales up to nightmarish.
As far as I can tell, in the extract I quoted. Do you interpret it differently?
> In many cases, yes, it is worth a rewrite instead of trying to shoehorn something that exists

I also haven't seen every codebase in existence, but I have seen enough "it's only going to take a year" rewrites that absolutely should have been refactorings and so I remain rather skeptical of the claim that rewrites make sense in "many cases".
The remote ssh server used in the demo seems to be a proxy service so apparently it's for cases where you can't ssh in to your example's server2.
So that you get attached to a person who only exists on Facebook, therefore you spend more time on Facebook and see more ads.
Same here, gource did help to visualize a complete revamp / refactor of a software, from the current mess by that time, to the final, pratically complete rewrite it was (through a process, since keep it working was mandatory). Really interesting to see the "mess" mutating into a more organized file struct, etc.
Yeah if you drink lattes it is pretty good value for money. If you want to make at home try coffee from https://www.mabo.coffee/
Keep up the good work. Both desktop and cloud apps solve problems for users, but there is no doubt a different kind of old school PC era charm in using the former. There is a sense of freedom that comes from the ownership of software and platform while you work with it.
Genuine question, more for soloentrepreneurs, but what if instead of adding ads from other companies, the perplexity company did other paid products?

Then they could put a few non disruptive ads for those into their main free product, and they would make much more sense.

I want to apply this strategy into my (yet non existent) future products.
It's part of perf_event, available since 2.6.33.
It's definitely something that requires a high budget and a dedicated reliability team. In most orgs that have got as far as a proper post-mortem and analysis culture, they aren't even reliably draining the action items generated by the post mortems, so attempting to pre-emptively generate action items is kind of a moot point.
dupe? ;D https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42591570

(@dang i actually dont mind u dont gotta do nothin)
Yes, it is foolish to hoard allocation aimlessly. Anyone who amasses resources without a vision or for the sake of amassing it is a fool.

There is a sacred responsibility implicit in the acquisition of resources. It implicitly says "I know what to do better with these resources than others." To take on that responsibility then do nothing with it, and actually publicize you don't know what to do with it, is disgraceful. As long as there is suffering, there is more work to be done.

Move aside and let people who know what to do take over.

In the past, when people didn't know what to do with resources, the people would very loudly & painfully clawback the misallocated hoards and make better use of them. Recently, a CEO that didn't know what to do with resources & took active part in misusing them returned his misallocation to others.

This kind of misallocation is a universal crime. A life is nothing compared to the magnitude of this crime. Ideas of "ownership" and "it's my money" are irrelevant. The crime stands, and the justice of balance for this crime always comes, one way or another.

Escaping the responsibility of this duty, and the negligence of misusing funds, is easy; sell everything you own and reallocate resources to others who are better able to manage them.

Revolution is the "final" reaction to misallocated funds. It is when a mass of misaligned, foolish resource allocators who collectively lost their way and lack all vision to allocate, hoard most wealth. This misallocation chokes out the society they've hoarded from, like a blood clot, and leads to a death of the society if not addressed.

I would be very scared right now to be part of the group of people who have hoarded resources and mismanaged them, because this planet is on the cusp of a clawback.

Alternatively, if visionary resource allocators are allowed to operate, it brings wealth to everyone. It raises the standards of existence, brings about lasting peace, and makes for a prosperous existence. These visionary allocators are most definitely not in operation in these times, and it shows.

I will dream of a day when this changes. I hope that this change occurs peacefully, and with minimal suffering, even to those who has caused incomprehensible suffering due to their greed.
I'm sorry that you have that pain in the first place but I'm glad that you are able to process being in pain without getting into a panic.
As relevant as ever, arguably more relevant than ever as more programs are being written and need to be adapted, in more and more complex domains.

Note what Naur means with Theory here. Quoting from the paper:

"What will be considered here is the suggestion that the programmers' knowledge properly should be regarded as a theory, in the sense of Ryle [Gilbert Ryle, The Concept of Mind, 1946]. Very briefly, a person who has or possesses a theory in this sense knows how to do certain things and in addition can support the actual doing with explanations, justifications, and answers to queries, about the activity of concern."

This is not "theory" in the sense we sometimes encounter in colloquial speech in the sense of (exclusively) "assumption", especially not with the connotation "unjustified assumption". It is also not a set of rules:

"The dependence of a theory on a grasp of certain kinds of similarity between situations and events of the real world gives the reason why the knowledge held by someone who has the theory could not, in principle, be expressed in terms of rules. In fact, the similarities in question are not, and cannot be, expressed in terms of criteria, no more than the similarities of many other kinds of objects, such as human faces, tunes, or tastes of wine, can thus be expressed."

Yet, it plays a central role in programming:

"For a program to retain its quality it is mandatory that each modification is firmly grounded in the theory of it. Indeed, the very notion of qualities such as simplicity and good structure can only be understood in terms of the theory of the program, since they characterize the actual program text in relation to such program texts that might have been written to achieve the same execution behaviour, but which exist only as possibilities in the programmer's understanding."
I now believe it's happening based on this article.

We already know about TV piracy detection leading to bars showing soccer without a license being fined.
Please offer a non-microsoft-store installer for Windows. I hate using the windows store. I can back up an exe or msi installer, for example. Windows store? Nope. You need an internet connection and need to be signed in. So if the app gets removed from the store later... welp. You're out of luck. No more lifetime license.

Shipping an MSI or EXE will help with people who want to use it on WINE as well.
> Within living memory, 10 million Soviets were killed in an unprovoked invasion from Europe.

Correction. WWII costed Soviet Union between 20 and 30 million lives [0]. Main thrust of the German onslaught in 1941 went through Ukraine. The same happened in WWI when in 1914 Germany and Austria invaded Russia through Ukraine.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties_of_the...
Is "ssh.beam.camp" an example hostname, or an instance that you run?
It's not economically optimal for one country to manufacture all the jewelry and its neighbour all the tanks, because this situation quickly becomes one country
Show HN: News – A merged news feed of Hacker News and Reddit submissions
nothing major, just hacked together a combined feed for hacker news and a few subreddits i like to check up on, plus AI summarisation and YT embeds. Updates every ~10 min.
Nice video walkthrough:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kkxhFhZssE
David Horne said it best in 1964.

"Australia is a lucky country run mainly by second rate people who share its luck. It lives on other people’s ideas, and, although its ordinary people are adaptable, most of its leaders (in all fields) so lack curiosity about the events that surround them that they are often taken by surprise."
Decades ago, primarily for show, computer technicians wore lab coats, in a glassed-in facility at the University of Colorado. To gain access to the computer one would punch a set of 80-column cards and pass them through a little window into the hands of a person who apparently lived in a separate, elevated, dimension. Debugging an otherwise trivial program was often a multi-week nightmare.

It was my first exposure to the world of computing. Ten years later, hand calculators appeared and the ridiculousness of the entire show was revealed for all to see.
Duplicate the polys, vertex scale by normal of outline, invert normals, draw in black? no shadow pass?

edit: turns out there is more .. thanks
It's ssh.beam.camp and is a public host that I run.
You can't capture even a percentage of what we've been emitting in Carbon over the last 100 years or so with trees.

Planting trees is good thing to do but not even getting close to a solution.
> Show them one shot from a cheap modern mirrorless and the smartphone is over for them

IME this only lasts up to the point they have to lug that brick with them.

Don't get me wrong, I'm firmly in the "my 8 yo m4/3 kit wipes the floor with any phone it's not even funny". Which is all the more the case for a modern FF kit. But even my tiny Olympus is huge compared to my iPhone. Only my winter coat with fat pockets can fit it. It otherwise needs an actual bag (might work with some women's purses, I don't usually carry anything at all).

Guess which one I have 100% of the time with me? I've found that the iPhone in hand while outside takes 100% better pictures than the Olympus kit in the drawer at home.

It's always a question of compromise. Before my Olympus gear, I used to love my FF Canon gear. Built like tanks. Until it got old carrying all that junk around, and it started gathering dust somewhere. Now I'm happy with m4/3 when I'm relatively serious about my photography, and I'm happy enough with what my iPhone produces when I only feel like having a pair of jeans and a shirt on.

Would a new Sony something-or-other wipe the floor with the Olympus? Possibly. Enough for me to lug it around? No way.
I haven't heard many bad things about Youtube Premium on its own, besides all the jokes people were making back when it was called Youtube Red (hahah redtube...).

The way they seemingly randomly have a family plan in some countries but not in other is very annoying and the bundling of Youtube Music is problematic from a fair competition standpoint, but that's about it.

It's not that expensive for what you get, it removes ads which are the worst thing about Youtube and it ends us giving more money to the creators you watch compared to if you just watched the ads. What's not to like?
Iron fertilization is arguably simpler— don’t need to own the land and it can be scaled.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_fertilization

The use of mass timber for construction is a great way to make sustainable forestry sequester carbon for the long term.

https://research.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/66069

Cloud seeding via containerships is another low cost, high impact method:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_cloud_brightening

But if we really want the ability to pause climate change, we need to do some more research on Stratospheric Aerosol Injection: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratospheric_aerosol_injectio...

Stratospheric Injection of Calcium carbonate is a very promising approach that would have the benefit of reducing ocean acidification.
How about every site and service let me use my username+password combination and stop bothering me with 2-3-4-5FA bullshit? I can manage my own passwords, thank you!
> To me, it's like not wanting to use a spellchecker when writing an article

Huh, I'm absolutely in the pro-static-types camp, but I never use spellcheck which I personally find distracting and unhelpful. I wouldn't consider those two be similar issues at all.
How was it banned from being launched? It did launch and the desire to not be promoted as a Google product came from Orkut himself, iirc.

The reason it was not regarded as 'production ready' was that the architecture didn't scale. In fact it also didn't run on the regular Google infrastructure that everything else used and that SRE teams were familiar with; it was a .NET app that used MS SQL Server.

This design wasn't a big surprise. Facebook won not because Orkut lost but because Facebook were the first to manage gradual scaleup without killing their own adoption, by figuring out naturally isolated social networks they could restrict signup to (American universities). This made their sharding problem much easier. Every other competitor tried to let the whole world sign up simultaneously whilst also offering sophisticated data model features like the ability to make arbitrary friendships and groups, which was hard to implement with the RDBMS tech of the time.

Orkut did indeed suffer drastic scaling problems and eventually had to be rewritten on top of the regular Google infrastructure, but that just replaced one set of problems with another.
The biggest problem with the US media IMO is access journalism and corporate ownership. You got some of the best journalists, but what does it help if their work environment makes it impossible for them to dedicate time to (for the general public) important stories?

Journalism (be it traditional or grassroots) and activism are the only things that can keep corporations (and their paid poltitical wings) in check. If Journalism dies or has perverse incentives, that isn't just a "Haha well go with times dinosaur", this is a very dangerous time for any democracy.
How much money does it take to manage and develop a web browser? Was it necessary for them to create a whole new way to deliver ads to support it? I feel like a lot of these tech nonprofits like Mozilla and Wikipedia are constantly begging for money despite their overall costs not needing to be that high, but they have this idea that have to continually develop new features and grow rather than just continue to deliver the same stable product.
TodoMVC – Electric v3
SRE and DevOps is better summarized as 'cloud engineering', IMO. Basically, it's to set up and maintain the infrastructure which allows you to do your own ops as a dev.
According to Kagi, they can’t make the price much lower and still be profitable.
> It seems like with Rust it [the AI] is not quite aware of which patterns to use, especially when the actual changes required may span multiple files due to the way memory management is structured.

In rust, when you refactor something that deals with the borrow checker's shenanigans, you will likely have to change a bunch of files (from experience). This means that an AI will likely also have to change a bunch of files which they say the AI isn't so good at. They don't say this HAS to happen, just that it usually does because the borrow checker is an asshole.

This aligns with my experience as well, though I dealt with Rust before there was AI, so I can say little in regards to how the AI deals with that.
Let's look in practice[0]: there's 720 seats in total for 2024. France has 81, spread on its local political spectrum [1]; biggest group has 18 seats. So while there's some democratic oversight, the public perception remains reasonable: the representative weight of an individual is severely diluted (divide & conquer, yada yada).

As it plays on the democratic oversight perception as well, we could also look at the perception/quality of the locally elected bodies, and their general attitude towards the UE: a great example is [2] ("let's ask the people but do it anyway").

That's to say, I believe there are good reasons for people to perceive EU laws as imposed without democratic oversight. It's not 100% true, but overall, it's not an unfair qualification either.

[0]: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/infographic/meps-seats/index_...

[1]: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_des_d%C3%A9put%C3%A9s_eu...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_French_European_Constitut...
That's why they call it "Carbage".

"The daily value of your car should not exceed 1,000 Euros and the car must be at least 20 years old."

Also it completed the activity without failure.

https://www.carbagerun.nl/event/winter-editie-2025-naar-hels...
Beam lets you do what you described even when both the machines are isolated and not reachable from one another. All you need is ssh clients on both the machines.
Palm Pilot Google Calendar Sync
I think more accurately: it takes them a while to learn to judge quality, and in the meantime "at least it's cheap".

Also most people can't actually afford quality, even if they're aware in the long run it's more economical. Same reason pay day loans exist.

Yes buying one solid dining table that'll last a lifetime sounds great, but a poor person just doesn't have that dining table budget.

So I think many of these articles come down to middle class cluelessness, and sometimes narcissism. They either can't understand the situation of the poor, and so come to the conclusion they don't care about quality. Or they're fully capable of understanding but don't want to let this opportunity to subtle brag their superiority go to waste.