skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
InfluxDB 3 just went alpha, and they similarly have very severe limitations on what their open-core product will do, very strongly drive folks to upgrade to enterprise.

https://www.influxdata.com/blog/influxdb3-open-source-public... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42684524 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42703113

While I admit that I don't think losing open source developers is actually that big a harm to many projects (there's just not enough people out there to drive by big valuable amazing features), I feel like the open core approach shuts yourself off from most people who are looking for open source solutions. The core is not enough.

No one's going to be happy running a 500x slower python project knowing there's the real deal running elsewhere, with a hip new runtime they can't get.

I recognize that for some of these companies, this probably is a necessary move. They need revenue to do what they do and it's hard to get revenue in open source. But these are both interesting products that I was hopeful for that I can't imagine adopting anymore. That's fine, I don't demand being served by anyone, but it is really sad to see, and I wonder how many awesome projects that would have grown big stop these technologies will never be created, because of these shifts.

Matrix especially feels like a brutal loss, because we are so short of good communication systems. I regret not seeing DataFusion & Arrow being out to use & integrate on with InfluxDB 3 but at least there's a lots of time-series databases available. Matrix's whole ecosystem has been slowly slowly slowly building momentum & acceptance, but there's so much less diversity & offerings, & that now Synapse Pro is needed if you want more than a simple instance.
Separating storage, compute, and database into dedicated appliances makes sense for home labs. Getting redundant units early is key.

A pre-built NAS (configured to raid 5 at least) is worth the cost - storage should be set-and-forget since drives will fail and hot-swapping drives and automatic rebuilds should be zero downtime to life. Commercial NAS solutions have proven backup workflows.

For compute and databases, home setups can mirror to cloud or remote locations. Proxmox makes this straightforward with its web admin - just a few clicks to spin up replicas.

Modern consumer hardware and internet are quite reliable now. Business-grade equipment performs even better.
Another obvious case of double click is to select all text in a given area. This one is a bit more obscure though.

Edit: Actually that's generally I guess triple click. Double to select a word.
Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42742580.
What about poor countries? If a drug company had to sell drugs for the same price in the US and a country like Sudan, the result would almost certainly be raising the price in Sudan up to US prices rather than lowering the price in the US to Sudan prices.

That would put the drug out of reach of most of the people in those poor countries.
Recovering parts that landed in the literal salty ocean and need massive refurbishment to work again isn't really reusable in the same way that Falcon is though really is it? Trying to compare the two is honestly disingenuous.

Calling Space Shuttle to what SpaceX have done really is like comparing chalk and cheese.

Space shuttle cost (inflation adjusted) about 700M per launch(!!). Compared to Falcon 9 (10-20M). Superheavy and starship will start costing maybe 100M and rapidly decrease to maybe 10-20M also, but with more than double the carrying capacity of shuttle as well as in generally being far more capable.
> It absolutely does. (It’s in the opinion.)

The opinion actually assumes without deciding that First Amendment scrutiny applies, so I don't think it "absolutely" does. (But yes, it probably does and Sotomayor and Gorsuch would decide as much)
Here's some nice relaxing mood music as background for the discussion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVb2tnFN5AA
I'm in the industry: regarding California,the answer is that they aren't paying high enough premiums. Regulators have refused to allow catastrophe modeling to set rates, so fire prone areas are effectively getting a discount.
Chinese social media has pretty transparent upfront censorship regime: dont criticize CCP, adhere to One China Policy, dont push LGBTQP+ propaganda, everything else is allowed.

Americans on red book are surprised to see the actual life in China and are shocked how different it is from american MSM propaganda about China, you can find plenty of these threads on Twitter how tiktok refugees are amazed by how brainwashed they were by US mass media
A Stone Only Rolls Downhill
I probably should mention the name of the tool I'm working on... oops, it's VeilStream :)
How likely is that vs works written by the rich folk survive? A cursory GPT search implies not a lot of medieval works written by poor people in general
You never host the same website on two servers?
Raster CRT Typography (According to Dec) (2019)
Doom in Blender VSE
Web browsers and the applications on them have become extremely memory hungry. Memory management pauses are common and people click multiple times irately.
AI Agent doing data science in R
I have a lot of Japanese friends and travel between Japan and here frequently. TikTok is huge in Japan and a lot of my For You Page is content trending in Japanese spheres. I don't live in Japan so being able to plug into Japanese media is a very, very convenient thing.

I'll probably continue trying to use the app if possible since I mostly connect with Japanese content, but I will say there's also a fun world of Japanese creators who straddle the English and Japanese speaking words who are about to lose an outlet to the English speaking world, and I feel really bad for that too.

The "algorithm" is also just so much better than Reels and others. I spent an afternoon of PTO training my algorithm a couple years ago and it's been great ever since. My partner and I share TikToks with each other all the time and. we shape each other's algorithm and interests. Reels fixates too much on your follows and Youtube Shorts is honestly a garbage experience. Both platforms really reward creators building "brands" around their content rather than just being authentic or silly. I treat Reels as the place for polished creators or local businesses who are trying to sell me something and TikTok as the place for content. I find that I get a lot less ragebait surfaced to me than I do on other platforms, though I admit my partner gets more than I do. We both skip those videos quickly and that has helped keep this stuff off our FYP.

An important thing to remember is TikTok was one of the first platforms that was opt-in for short-form content. Both Reels and Shorts was foisted upon users who had different expectations of the network and as such had to deal with the impedance mismatch of the existing network and users who didn't want short-form content. TikTok's entire value proposition is short-form content.
And on the grasping hand, one could think they were right - so instead of defending social media by pointing at the past and saying it's "just the same doom and gloom reaction to more communication, it will pass", or - conversely - instead of claiming social media is a new and uniquely bad thing, we could perhaps consider that their observations were valid then, and are even more valid now; that we've been going down the wrong road for the past 100+ years, and social media is merely an incremental worsening of a mistake made so long ago, we can't even conceptualize correcting it now.
Ah the land of free speech and freedom of the press.

Not even in Europe we have such crackdown on freedom while Americans scream censorship because nazi symbols and certain phrases are illegal in Germany.
Have you verified that they are actually Amazon crawlers as outlined here:

https://developer.amazon.com/amazonbot
I think you've lost sight of what the discussion was about.

The person above was claiming they were using substandard versions of their medication in non-US markets where the retail cost is lower. I was pointing out that the manufacturing cost is so low, that doesn't make sense.

Your point now has nothing to do with the discussion being had.
What is the business case?
Looks Amazing!! Will def be trying this out!
Optimizing Jupyter Notebooks for LLMs
How democratic a regime is can only be measured in hindsight unfortunately
Ok. You've said nothing of substance, really just yelled about how you don't care about the distinction between Law and Justice. If you'd like to say something substantial about why Justice shouldn't be something people are concerned about, or specific issues with the opinion in question, that would be welcome.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42742559
But if you live in a tinderbox like California, that will only get worse from climate change, how long will that sequestration actually last? How much carbon will be emitted rebuilding and replacing?
it signifies lack of trust from US citizens in their own government that lied non-stop for decades and kept brainwashing them with one false narrative (like Iraqi WMDs) after another
First impressions of the Nuio Flow keyboard
I got a new keyboard recently and was pretty excited about it, so wanted to share :)
Home values in Japan are somewhat anomalous. There are some good policies that contribute to this, but also other factors that make me reluctant to generalize from Japan. It’s a country with declining natural population, where houses are assets that rapidly decline in value to the point where they’re nearly worthless not that long after you buy them.

Average home age in Japan is 30 years. I think, maybe once or twice, I’ve lived in a building less than 30 years old in the US. I’ve spent most of my life in buildings built pre-war. There aren’t so many pre-war buildings in Japan, but the US takes the blame for that one :-(
Show HN: I built a browser extension to automate retyping, tailoring my resume
They -can-, they just don't, unless you specifically enable it for power reasons.
They'll be on RedNote within 2 weeks.

Other's have said it; but TikTok was such a nice format for media. It emphasized what the creator can provide its users; what content was legit; entertaining, informative, etc.

Whereas Instagram and FB are more about personal "branding". You post the best version of yourself and it's rewarded with engagement. Where on TikTok the emphasis is on the content; even creators I follow and have seen dozens of videos on I couldn't tell you what their account name was.

On TikTok you put up or you were shut up.

The experience, in the end, was always on point for shortform content. Nothing else like it exists; and I don't think American tech can make it because they benefit too much from being ad networks. Maybe YouTube shorts.
Happened to me and it just popped up on random, no logging if I remember.
> Every Saturn 5 was successful

Do you not count the Saturn 1B rocket capsule that caught on fire on the pad and burnt the Apollo 1 astronauts alive?

What about Apollo 13?

> but just because you are wandering in the desert does not mean there is a promised land

The "promise land" in this analogy is visible past the desert. What's not known is what route to get there.

In your tortured analogy, the people who "are really fetishizing iterative failure" are not doing that; they're fetishizing the fact that the person walking through this desert is trying, and if they hit a barrier, they iterate and try again until they reach the promise land. Along the way they are accomplishing what was once thought to be impossible.
Yes, I stopped at question three because just lying is not what I consider a dark pattern. The three check boxes are not giving the site permission to do what you say they will do.

"Unlocking exclusive and premium content" doesn't mean it will always be promotional content. The exclusive content has just as much chance as being an ad as the rest of the content.

"Personalized deals just for you" is not a dark pattern. That is basically just asking if you want to see more ads. That's a light pattern,

"24/7 support" presumably means you will get some support. If they share data with folks who are not support folks, then that's just lying.
I find something really gross and dystopian about the idea of Ozempic. Developing the willpower to resist short-term gratification, and the ability to make long-term decisions about your diet and health are some of the most important ingredients to living a good life. The idea of letting a drug do the thinking for you because you just can't trust yourself really horrifies me.
It's targeting Chinese users abroad. The entire interface, and all the content, is Chinese only it hasn't been localized for anyone.
> I think keeping the validity long just removes incentives for people to bother fixing their setups.

The best certificates should expire after 20ms. /s
I’ve seen these too on Instagram and TikTok, but usually it’s some tense part of a movie and the scene encourages me to basically go watch the whole movie, which then turns out to not be as great as that one curated clip.
Space Shuttle isn't a "rocket" like Falcon 9 is though, it couldnt go to space by itself. So saying its the first reusable rocket is really stretching credibility.

Falson 9 is a one piece rocket, as is Superheavy.

The Space Shuttle got to space with the help of other rockets, tank etc.
As a more concrete input - go through tools that help you understand your current skills and competencies, and the explore the transferability of those to other areas as on.

You may be able to even initiate some of this exploration with LLMs making sure to paste in everything about you, the entire linkedin profile, your resume(s), projects, all of it, and let it see what can come out.
Switching to RedNote? Your privacy is at stake
they talk more about the motivations of the law in part D.

The "exclusion" referred to in this quote is not the exclusion of tiktok. The court is responding to one of the arguments that tiktok made. Certain types of websites are excluded from the law, and (tiktok says) if you have to look at what kind of website it is, then obviously you're discriminating based on content.

the court is saying that this would be an argument that this law is unconstitutional, period. That's a very hard thing to prove because you need to show that the law is bad in all contexts, and to whoever it applies to, very hard. So tiktok is not trying to prove that, that's not how they challenged the law - instead tiktok is trying to prove something much more limited, ie that the law is bad when applied to tiktok. It's an "as-applied" challenge. In which case, the argument about looking at other websites is irrelevant, we already know we're looking at tiktok. As the opinion says "the exclusion is not within the scope of [Tiktok's] as-applied challenge"
The solar panel conversion of sunlight to usable energy to around 20%, with a theoretical max of 30%. So it's better than that.
Ironically, we're replacing a 2011 Honda Odyssey!
Great answer. Along with the "what kind of person ... in ten years" question, you might be able to search around for folks who look like they're doing something you might want to do, and move in that direction. I had a colleague do the opposite. He looked at the day-to-day existence of the folks at the top of our organization (where he could possibly be in 8-10 years) and realized he didn't want to do that. So he shifted career paths.
The gasoline vs H2 ballpark is a little wider because storage is not trivial for H2 -- you need to carry around a cryogenic and/or high pressure vessel instead of a plastic box -- which will detract from your p/w ratio. It also wants to leak out, so H2 is maybe better for fleet vehicle applications where they can refill daily. Granted, anything is better than burning more hydrocarbons!
https://wordwaffle.org/
Instead of making every website accessible → AI-powered 100%-accessible browsers
Respectfully, it’s not very helpful to develop 10,000 rules and standards that are nearly impossible for creators of all 200 million active worldwide websites to even comprehend.

Instead, the most helpful way to advance accessibility is to find easy solutions for implementation.

For example, instead of making all 200 websites accessible, which is obviously failing, why not make browsers, like Chrome, Firefox and Safari, implement AI-powered “make-accessible” mode, that makes even a zero-percent accessible website 100% perfectly accessible in real-time?

If the U.S. Gov't funded an open source solution with $15 million to finish in 12 months, then $2 million per year for future development, and gave it away for free to any browser builder, the entire accessibility issue would be SOLVED!
I worry that removal or faraday caging might cause bricking.
I presume the US market is the dominant target market for ads / influencing, a quick google search suggests it is 75% of the global spend. So the other issue is not just losing US influencers but all influencers will take a haircut. I don't know how much of popular content is paid for by such revenue but taking a 75% haircut could put a real damper on content producers - especially those who make it a full time job. I don't know if that'll make it better with an increase in proportion of more organic content. I personally don't use TikTok - I waste enough time on HN.

There is an additional separate issue that influencer is a coveted 'career' for many children (~30%), so not only would it wipe out many jobs it'll kill their dreams. I guess like cancelling the space program at a time when kids really wanted to be astronauts.

I think there is a lot wrong with society and TikTok is part of it - but that's a much longer discussion for some other time.
Theory: Damages in the USA have gone up because mold mitigation was incorporated as a serious consideration only fairly recently. If you increase your definition of what damage is and the work required to fix it then 'damage occurring' will appear to suddenly go up.
More context? Which talk?
It wont happen. Not without apocalyptic wars.
That’s an incredible behind the curtains slip. I wonder if the media will pick this up.
except when the government decides to intervene and reject the transaction. See, this seems like routine, but ultimately it gives the government an option to cancel transaction they dont like and they can always cite some bogus reason like "national security" and use racist pretext like ethnicity of the CEO or whatever
Zuck and Musk already have done bad things with their power, and continue to do so. No real consequences so far.
I missed that, there was another post which was just the ruling itself and not an article, I thought that's what this was and never read the article.
This is happening already, it has happened to my neighbors. As resident of CA in a neighborhood which previously was not, but now probably is, 'fire prone' I fully expect to hear from my insurance company to provide evidence of defendable space and other modifications to minimize the likelihood of structure fire.

I've read that once more than about 5-10 house were on fire, there was really no hope of containment, due to the orientation of the streets relative to the wind, the proximity of houses, and the intensity of the wind. Thus the key is prevention -- not letting the wild land fire get to the first 5-10 houses.
Yeah, I heard about that. Someone with enough resources and connections could probably license the rights, but I doubt it would ever be profitable. Still, I really hope that this key part of gaming history doesn't end up lost.
Really excited for JS to finally get something similar with Iterator and AsyncIterator helper methods. It's way behind Ruby in that regard.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

https://github.com/tc39/proposal-async-iterator-helpers
Aye, but they already made money from the consumer. Ergo this is extractive after the exchange.
Decisionator
Well, this feels like a betrayal. Specifically, the focus on cashing out your idea, which overtakes the desire to make your product the best it can be. Then the pretense of excitement and admiration of who bought them out.

Finding and building a community for (tech) creatives is hard. Adding networking and post sharing aspects was stellar. I really liked how this one turned out.

I hope the gap it'll leave behind is filled.
> if you want to dumb it down to the public you might as well go in miles per hour,

The blue origin launch this week used mph and feet of elevation, and I can definitively say that using modified SI is way way better than US customary
“I was proud to join 352 of my Republican and Democrat colleagues and pass H.R. 7521 today. CCP-controlled TikTok is an enormous threat to U.S. national security and young Americans’ mental health. This past week demonstrated the Chinese Communist Party is capable of mobilizing the platform’s users to a range of dangerous, destabilizing actions. The Senate must pass this bill and send it to the president’s desk immediately.”[1]

[1] https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/press-release/chairman-mcca...

U.S. national security: "mobilizing the platform’s users to a range of dangerous, destabilizing actions"

And give me a break on "young Americans’ mental health".

This bill was about pro-Palestine content ... "being mobilized by CCP" and was harming young people's health.

The fact that none of this was put forward by the lawyers makes me think the tiktok lawyers were incompetent.
Even if the money from the IPO itself doesnt go to directly to random citizens it still pumps a ton of money into their economy providing capital for other investments in new markets creating jobs, spending on goods/services by the company, hiring internally (IPOs always allow companies to expand), etc etc. That money doesn't just sit in a giant pile being unused, like Scrooge McDuck's gold pile.

Not to mention the training and development it would give a whole new class of people in China to operate global businesses.
> but Vk was never truly popular outside Russian speaking countries.

Can't really disagree, but it's my favorite place to pirate fonts. Typing out site:vk.com <thing I want> feels like a real life cheat code.
Sure they are, they're called EULAs. What do you call clauses that force you to give up your right to sue another party in court other than a trap?
Show HN: Nimbus – AI Agent to control cloud costs
Hi HN! I built Nimbus, an AI agent that helps companies reduce their cloud costs by automatically analyzing their infrastructure and recommending specific optimization actions.

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What else should I build?

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I see thanks, the darker spots yeah. I was thinking it was a difference in the edges.
If you think that's bad just wait until you hear what Hillary was doing in that pizzeria basement!

The Romans were no stranger to just making shit up.
Correct!

You can also think about it as far as actually moving heat. Cold is the absence of heat, and so when the air is colder, there is less heat moved for the same effort and you have to work harder -- less efficiently -- for the same amount of head to get moved.
>The prospect of paper-based augmented books also holds out the possibility of revolutionary combinations of text, image and sound that would recast the boundaries of literary art.

So TikTok with subtitles (which are often not actually reflecting the sound)
China to probe US chip subsidies as export curbs rattle allies