skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately that is pretty much how society works. As long as the right people are making money, or getting paid off by the people who are making money.
Isn't localization triggered for specific format strings only? There are many corner cases when typical printf implementations call malloc, but it's usually not too hard to avoid them.

If you are worried about including <stdio.h> and potential side effects from that, you can use __builtin_printf instead.
Thanks. I will implement this converter as well. Forgive me as the product JUST launched.
DosWasmX: Build your own DOS/Windows machine in the browser
Yeah, I agree that it's a very difficult problem to solve and that getting the balance right between using metrics and having access to good "guts" is essential in a company's forward success, but that's the state of affairs we are in right now, for better or worse.

I also think that the companies that matter getting bigger and bigger, with no actual failure on the horizon (such as bankruptcy) in case of strategically wrong decisions doesn't help things one bit, because in those cases management failure is in many cases rewarded as there's no immediate and adverse affect on the life of the company itself. We need some return to creative destruction, otherwise we'll be left re-arranging the chairs on the deck of the Titanic (I see this type of discussion on this particular subject as part of that metaphorical re-arrangement) until the proverbial iceberg will strike.
I have pings in excess of 300 ms to her site. TCP connections need a lot of time to "warm up" before speeds become acceptable. It's easy to say things like "http2 does not matter" when you're single digit milliseconds away from all major datacenters.
How does it lose nutrients? It is still potato
Chrome on Android 14 (Pixel 4a).
It's not commission free for private sales here in Germany.
Does it know things such as reverse charge and when to apply it, the requirements to apply the customers VAT rate (depending on whether you're cross border shipping physical and/or digital products), the VAT rate depending on the actual product, VAT MOSS, ...

I sincerely wish you the best, but I would advice being careful with any such statement because getting it wrong means a lot of pain for your customers that trusted your word.
Can you link me one? I want to compare the UIUX, speed of creating an invoice, how smart it is etc. Thanks!
The Magic Function
In the end it's subjective, but SF gets 24% more sunshine year-round, and 42% less rain, so they balance each other out. Can't go wrong with either IMO!
That is generally true, minus any plateaus that require assistance like exercise to break through.

For me, I like to eat my calories than drink them if I had to pay attention.

I liked this challenge and think it presented a lot of solid merits.
Oats can be very expensive, depending on where you are. When I was actively body building and on a business trip to Singapore, I couldn't find any reasonably priced oats at the the grocery store.

When you're dieting, once you know the amount of what foods you need to eat, its much easier to stick to that plan vs trying to re-balance your macros and calories with a new food item.
True. I got so much valuable feedback from you guys. I really can not thank you enough for the support.
> There's something deeply broken about computers.

It's just not that mysterious, if we want our communications to be secure (we do) then we can't reasonably use ciphers that have been broken, since any adversary can insert themselves in the middle and negotiate both sides down to their most insecure denominator, if they allow it.
> The irony? AI tools might actually enable this renaissance. By handling the routine coding tasks, they free up developers to focus on what matters most: creating software that truly serves and delights users.

How very naive. All productivity and efficiency gains will be utilized to push out an ever-increasing stream of new features because that is what drives sales and that is what the business needs.

It is the exact same reason why widening a highway does not actually reduce traffic congestion.
Ask HN: How do you come up with your domain names?
Hello and happy new year again, so it's not about the services where you buy your domain.

But more about how you come up with the domain names.

- Do you like short names?
- Longer .com domains?

What do you think about before you buy the domain name?

Given the fact that you don't have a huge capital to buy any domain name.
I can't speak for anyone else, but this seems to describe how some tech folks use LLMs as sounding boards for their input and thinking things through that they understand, or are understanding and want to get through faster.
I have not yet met a "good real estate agent". I dread having to deal with these people.

Case 1: a puddle in the centre of a room; agent comments that the window had been left open.

Case 2: "this view will never change" as a building was going up right in front of us.
Wireguard devices to home, where Pi-hole and NextDNS filter all ads. Noone in my family saw an ad over few years.

It's always shock to se how many ads grandparents has in TV, especially for kids that are rised in adfree environment.
Many people saying here "Pay once, fishy, not trustable". I don't know how much this critic relates to the topic for each commenter (invoicing, being a constantly changing field) but how the general public loathes subscriptions and binding, I actually would double-triple consider any subscription-based software (I'm speaking generally here, not invocing) and would always choose the one-time payment over it.

OP: there could be a better middle ground - you could still offer a one-time payment, and optional subscriptions to newer versions (eg. conformity to newer regulations).
It wouldn't be a ditch anymore. The plane won't be going perfectly straight and level while hitting the water, so there's a pretty good chance one wing/engine would hit the surface first and cause a cartwheel.
From Photon to Display, how FPGA process images
Modify your DNS to put cloudflare or bunny in front of it and you'll be good. Don't stop self-hosting :)
I worked at a company that received audio of Siri listening in on iPhone users
I'm personally a huge Elon fan, but I know many who are not and have heard from multiple sources that they can't get him out of their feeds no matter how hard they try. If you tweak your current idea to simply remove all Elon-related content from the feed, that would be funny but may also be strangely profitable (people would probably buy it out of spite).
I think magic links and passkeys are awful for websites. I have refused to give services money because their only login system is a magic link, passkey or using a 3rd party login. For example, I got some free credits for clipdrop.co, I like their service, even setup the API and got everything working, but when it was time to buy some real credits and give them money, their login system was so awful I just found an alternative with a path of least resistance.

Another company I wanted to give lots of money too was fal.ai, but you can only login through github, which I didn't want to do. I even emailed them asking about alternatives but they couldn't even bother to reply. So my money was spent else where.

I don't have my email login on my computer so for every tragic link I get that means I would either have to find a way to get the link from my phone to the computer or login to my email from the computer just to click that stupid link.

You know what faster, more efficient and better in every way? Using an user and password.

I should not have to suffer because some nitwits can't remember their passwords, we should not subsidize mediocrity because we will get more mediocrity.

Thank you for reading my rant.
It's not in my name even there.
Sounds like gymrat gentrification of staples, like how cheap / mass produced dairy (by) products are now "fortified" with proteine (and in Dutch they make sure to use the fancy sounding "protein" instead of the colloquial "eiwit") and given black-and-white branding in their own section, sold for 2x the price. And the sellers are laughing all the way to the bank.

Even if you're serious about sports / weighlifting etc, you don't actually need the specialised protein foods and shakes. Just have an extra bowl of yoghurt or low-fat cottage cheese and you've got a big chunk of extra protein in your diet already without spending extra or messing with calorie intake.

The problem is that people look at e.g. oats or anything branded for "their" group and go all-in on it.
Telemarketing is mostly just sleazy upselling. And the _sleazy_ feeling is why most people avoid selling and salesmen, but it might just be sleazy from your perpsective.

The best salesman I ever met was peddling boat tour tickets.
He wore the same suit and flip-flops every day, visibly messy, like he never heard about ironing even as a concept.

On a first look, you'd probably guess he was either a down on his luck businessman or a drunkard, but if you spent 5 minutes observing him sell, you'd think he fits the definition of a sleazy salesman.

Yet damn, that man could sell.
Even the customers that ignored everyone would fall for his traps.
He did this long enough that he recognised the type of customer almost immediately and could just "vibe shift" to their vibes.

From "Hey guys, you look hungry, have you had lunch yet?" to just "Hey, welcome!" - he'd slowly reel them in and either he'd hook them now, or redirect them to a restaurant/bar/shop he had an affiliate deal with and get some commission.

While none of the things he was peddling were bad, from the local perspective it felt like he was scamming these people and they were poor innocent tourists.
But after a few talks with him, figured out it wasn't like that at all - his trick was he'd make them feel like they "know an insider", someone who can recommend them to good stuff and not "touristy" stuff.

And he would be that guy for them - he'd get them local wine, local honey, oils, meats, anything.
He'd set them up a dinner or help them rent a car. He'd call up boat owners and get them private cruises.
Basically, he'd be their "concierge".
The boat tours were just a way to hook new customers in, and he'd both be getting a kickback from the owners and a tip from the customers.
He'd basically be making everyone happy, making the tourists experience amazing and bringing a lot of money to small local businesses, while earning a nice comission in the process.
Even tho I've later worked with everyone from door-to-dooor all the way to high ranking MAG7 salesbros, this one was the least sleazy of them all.

Unfortunately, the man was a heavy gambler, which would mean he'd lose all his money quite fast and be extra motivated to work again.
Show HN: Making a cool ClickUp/Asana alternative
In the context of a production line, the role of a project management tool is to maintain efficiency in the process.

The next step of optimisation is to continuously identify and improve the machines involved. I am building Shram for humans with this in mind.

I would love your feedback to build this into something that could replace your current tool! Thank you! :)
But you have to pay for it and link your credit card with it. Which is privacy nightmare.

I have whatever search engine without ads for free. uBlock + NextDNS do the job.
Oh my, please don't glorify bs-itters. They are time and patience thieves.
Seems like printf debugging worked! ＼(≧▽≦)／
Not sure where the why belongs, but some EU countries have rather strict rules about what you can sell when call without prior approval, e.g. newspapers only in Denmark.

As to why the phone company call: Because they need you to approve the move to a new plan. At least previously, when contracts where 12 months, forcing customers to a new plan would immediately release the customer allowing then you move their number to a competitor. Given that most contracts now are just month to month, if that, it's only expedite the porting of contracts. My old employer, a telco, wanted my grandfather to move from a landline and a basically free service, to a cell phone and a contract where they could actually make a profit on him. It took them years and a pretty large (temporary) discounts to get him (and others obviously) to move his number, so they could shutdown their landline service.

Telcos hate losing customers for two reasons. Firstly it takes over a year to turn a profit on a customer, if you factor in cost of acquiring the customer. Secondly, the different phone companies meet up a few times a year and compare number and figure out how much each should pay to have the other companies customers call their customers. If you have the most customer, you get the most money. (Not sure how this works across the global).
A visible reminder that quietly nudges you throughout the year... It always works for me. I have a whiteboard at home where I write down my goals for the quarter. It’s satisfying to erase a goal from the board after completing it and write a new one.
Deduplication in Distributed Systems: Myths, Realities, and Practical Solutions
100% agree. There is a basic level of honesty required for this to work, which seems to have gone missing due to the "evolution" of corporate culture and the cash-rich environment which made actual productivity a secondary concern.
pay once for something that is fundamentally tied to regularly recurring costs for the vendor is unsustainable. It's a model that works well for desktop software or something self-hosted where the cost of running (and potentially maintaining) occurs on the buyer side.
i planned to make it as 2 part series within 100pages ,which will be enough to get your normal work done even for begineers,so zero-hero
? I'd rather get up a little earlier than stress about how much time I spend on breakfast to be honest. Mind you my breakfast is usually a sandwich, not exactly time consuming.
Its impressive how fast this is. I don't use twitter anymore (for the same reason as your use case), but nice job!
Also involves killing calves
This is exactly the behaviour that I would expect from a human teleported into a project and given a similar task.

After some time humans would gather some background info needed to be more productive and we need to find out how to copy that.
Attenborough "Profoundly Disturbed" by AI Clone of His Voice
I capture things I find interesting at https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker - I then post them automatically to various socials (BlueSky, Mastodon, Facebook, Threads, and X) and once a day to a link roundup post at https://andrewducker.dreamwidth.org/
> You should also count your calories, to make sure you're getting enough. Once you start being more penny-pinching with eating, you might find yourself getting hungry less, rather than more, and it's not hard to slip into caloric deficit that will make you sick. There are calculators on the Web for how much you should intake.

This is surprisingly easy.

Back at university, 20 years ago now, I was living on about £0.5/day, in the form of two big bowls of oats, 500ml semi-skimmed milk, a bit of sugar and dried raisins for breakfast; no lunch; and 108g pack of instant ramen for dinner.

In retrospect, this was about 1100-1200 kcal/day.

You can absolutely sustain that for a single university term at a time — it was so easy, so simple and devoid of negative sensation, that it didn't even occur to me to calculate the calories until someone here on Hacker News expressed disbelief because it was so little food.
Honestly, it's just about doing what is easier at the time. Re-compiling an application in debug can be a pain sometimes, or getting back to a specific state within the application to inspect what is going on. Some have mentioned about hardware (which marches on with or without software running), but similarly part of a system where you only really control one sub-system/interface.

My print statements normally come when "I have no idea why this is breaking", and I start sanity checking the basics to make sure that things I previously thought were true, remain so.

Just recently I was doing something in C after a long time, and had something like this (simplified):

#include <stdio.h>
int main(){
int a = 0; // Input from elsewhere
switch(a){
case 0 :
printf("0\n");
break;
defult :
printf("?\n");
break;
}
return 0;
}

It was late at night, it compiled, so I knew it wasn't a grammar issue. But after testing with printf()'s I realised that the default case was never being hit and performing the core action. It turns out 'defult' highlights in my editor and compiles fine in GCC. Turns out that any word in that location compiles fine in GCC. Nasty!
It wasn't even the real Turing test but a lesser version of it. I'm hopeful about uses of this tech, but companies need to be more honest unless they want a second winter.

The incentives don't align with honesty though.
Apple's China troubles mount as foreign phone sales sink for 4th month
Afaik almost all of the actual malnutrition in the world now comes from political causes rather than literal lack of volume of food (and actually a lot of historical famines were politically caused as well- the great leap forward, Irish potato famine)- there's probably some underlying political condition that prevents the normal functioning of the infrastructure needed to grow food and get it to people- water, roads, etc., because of war or simple mismanagement of money or resources.

So making a supply of this nutritionally complete food isn't the hard part, it's basically getting it to people who would eat it.

The other sad and ironic thing is that in America, both food insecurity and obesity basically exist side by side. It's definitely not the composition of the food that contributes to those issues.
An OpenAI voice called ‘Sky’ was pulled soon after launching after Scarlett Johansson objected to its likeness of her voice.

She released a statement saying OpenAI founder Sam Altman had approached her about using her voice, then moved ahead with the plan despite her rejecting the offer.

The voice was “reluctantly” removed by the company once legal action had been threatened.
Burning them during Dondoyaki feels like a meaningful way to let go and start fresh.
Zoho invoice is a good one: https://www.zoho.com/invoice/
True, but at 1300 calories you'd also end up in a lower metabolism state (famine mode), undoing any benefits. You'd still lose weight of course but at a cost. I read that kicks in at 1200 calories or lower, but it's close enough.

I'm sure that the calorie intake could be increased without costing too much extra though, by padding things out with rice and/or beans.
Quite curious how no one ever talks about “responsible use of facial recognition” or policies to control the use of facial recognition, as it totally pervades and destroys the ability of a person to remain anonymous, at all.

It’s always curious to me how the peasants always seem eager to facilitate the interests of the monarchs to oppress them rather than their own interests to remain free from control by the narcissistic psychopathy of the ruling class prone to tyranny. What do you do as a peasant once you’ve closed the trap you created and led yourself into? I guess maybe more accurately would be to say that it is the aspirational minor nobility that facilitates the creation of the structure that serves the creation of oppressive, top down structures. It’s an odd human characteristic.
Ah sorry, I misunderstood you! I agree with everything you say in this comment. Although I do wonder how much of that "magic"/"wow" factor was due to me being very young back then, rather than those games actually being good. Looking at you, 1995 Magic Carpet.

I agree that VR tech in general is just "wow" at lot of the time, even if the games are not that great. But I think that "Hello Puppets", "Scanner Sombre" and "Superhot" were all really cool and innovative, even within the VR scene. I think there's still some technological innovations possible that to deliver more "wow" moments.
Chinese venture capitalists force failed founders on to debtor blacklist
> I think it is already proven that honey does not automatically show the best coupons for its users.

I think so, however I'm not sure how you would prove that they do this knowingly, mostly what's been proven are affiate link hijacks, because thats directly impacted sites.

And why would companies offer coupons, they then spend money not showing?
Im not going to reach true scale here mate. Even if i create 200.000 invoices a day, the cost will be near 0.
Better choose wisely this year!
There's limited bandwidth available in the space. 5G is "fast" compared to 4G because 4G effectively saturates terrestrial bandwidth available. Public, unauthenticated network would be too easily DDoSable.
Awesome Agents for Computer Use
A curated list of resources about AI agents for Computer Use, including research papers, projects, frameworks, and tools.

> An AI Agent for Computer Use is an autonomous program that can reason about tasks, plan sequences of actions, and act within the domain of a computer or mobile device in the form of clicks, keystrokes, other computer events, command-line operations and internal/external API calls. These agents combine perception, decision-making, and control capabilities to interact with digital interfaces and accomplish user-specified goals independently.
i care much more about nutrients per dollar, than overall price
Email will never die, no matter how much most people want it to do so. The protocol is arguably the best proof of "worse is better", which is why it's held out for so long.
This whole thing feels like drawing blood from stone. If your company/industry is abusive and miserly, you can go above and beyond and still make a pittance. If you put in the effort, the years, whatever, what you could get is a token recogniton of your efforts like raising your wages from minimum wage to 30% above that.

Poverty, scarcity and desperation drives people to evil. If you work a stable job for a respectable wage for an industry that makes money, and is willing to share said money with you, all this stuff sounds strange to you.

All the machiavellian scheming and power games that take place in a call center on the shift manager level might only show up close to C-level in an IT company, as its only there that the opportunities grow scarce enough, and the people desperate enough that these darwinian environments arise.
This airport is basically already complying with the highest possible standard [1]; so in your analogy the crash barrier already exists, the equivalent argument would be for the track to have a 200m run-off area all around.

It's not feasible to plan for every possible freak occurrence, an accident like this is only possible after a long list of other safety procedures have failed (as is often the case for aviation).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runway_safety_area
Let's say your application talks to a database.

You reuse connections with a connection pool, but you accidentally reuse connections with different privileges and scopes. As a result, sometimes you get to read some data you shouldn't read and sometimes you don't.

Or, concurrency bugs.

You don't properly serialize transactions and sometimes two transactions overlap in time leading to conflicts.
The problem is usually SSL support, the problem is that older SSL and TLS versions are being disabled.

I actually have an example myself - an iPad 3. Apple didn't allow anyone else than themselves to provide a web browser engine, and at some point they deliberately stopped updates. This site used to work, until some months ago. I currently use it for e-books, if that wasn't the case I think it by now it would essentially be software bricked.

I acknowledge that owning older Apple hardware is dumb. I didn't pay for it, though.
Bother Willisons and Grubers links blogs predate microblogging, afair.

In the end, everything you post on a website is a post. But of course they a different, not just in content but also in form.