skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My co-founder uses the phrase minimal-viable-company for maximum-viable-product.

We bootstrapped for 5 years to well over $1M+ ARR before recently closing a seed round[1], Clojure played a large part in our ability to deliver as a small team. Also in our general happiness as programmers, it is a nice language to work in.

We will grow our Clojure core product team over the next couple of years, but mostly the funding round is about balancing our business to keep up with our product delivery.

Clojure has been very good to me (I had 15 years on the JVM prior to moving to clj/cljs in 2013-ish). YMMV.

[1] https://factorhouse.io/blog/articles/from-bootstrap-to-black...
Did you move from CL because of hiring or another reason? I cannot imagine leaving CL and if I had to, I would go for abcl and then add clojure. Depending on the business that is of course. As long as I don't need to build a 1000s person tech team, I would not move; it's just far faster until you get to a scale where processes take over everything.
Vaultwarden doesn't have all the paid features.
If you like you can modify the calculus to 'destroy and poison the vast majority of our cities and people' and the calculus holds. Countries need non-nuclear deterrence.
I used to run a fluid ops group managing a complicated and (relatively) unstable system.

I always approached this as a difference between incident management vs problem management, the later being the “what actually happened” phase, with lots of bureaucracy and post-mortems.

I always taught people in my group to manage out during incidents if they understood what was happening. In the vast majority of failure modes you don’t need the most technical people working the keyboard performing, for example, a failover. Most of those processes are well documented and well understood. Very technical/operationally minded people tend to want to solve the problem as quickly as possible, but I always found them far more valuable discussing the issue with stakeholders, and playing a blocking move for the more junior guys/gals on the keyboards. This also helps the juniors get the experience necessary to eventually be able to help develop future staff.
I've always heard that the JVM[0] in general is considered to have a fairly high startup time compared to other common compiled language targets; is Clojure especially bad in this regard, or is this something that's frustrating coming from outside the JVM ecosystem that just adds additional friction when you're already trying to look into using new language?

[0] Not sure what the correct term is here, but I mean the official default one; I know there are other implementations, and my vague recollection is that there's at least one other one that's either sponsored or maybe even fully developed by Oracle, and that the OpenJDK version is the "canonical" non-enterprise one now anyhow, so saying " first party" feels like it might add more ambiguity than it would resolve
> Almost sounds too good to be true.

Note that this is essentially already the case under the GDPR for anything that's tied to a natural person.

> * There is no clause indicating you can charge a fee for the sharing of the data

Quite the opposite; There's a clause mandating it be free of charge. Chapter II, Article 4:

> Where data cannot be directly accessed by the user from the connected product or related service, data holders shall make readily available data, as well as the relevant metadata necessary to interpret and use those data, accessible to the user without undue delay, of the same quality as is available to the data holder, easily, securely, free of charge, in a comprehensive, structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and, where relevant and technically feasible, continuously and in real-time. This shall be done on the basis of a simple request through electronic means where technically feasible.

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2023/2854/oj/eng

There are rules pertaining to B2B relations, where there's some restrictions on how fees may be charged. (Article 9, where fees may cover costs but must not discriminate and must be "reasonable")

> Easier to just eliminate any attempt at malicious compliance by interpreting 'reasonable' unreasonably.

The "reasonable" clauses exist to pre-empt this. EU courts generally aren't very amused by companies pulling stunts like setting fees to 'Math.infinity'.

A good case study for this has been Apple's legal fights around the DMA & App Store monopoly. Which mostly consists of Apple trying to be "clever" and the European Commission telling them that no, their clearly unreasonable fees are unreasonable.
I don't think there are many women who'd feel threatened at the prospect of receiving fewer unsolicited dick picks from the sort of guys who view them as interchangeable with robots, and I'm not really sure what more impact on 'the current balance of the sexes' you'd expect to come out of something like that.
I also got a score that would have put me on the leaderboard, but the leaderboard did not update sadly.
That’s not true. The law was altered so people can downsize if they are very certain age.
IIUC, the Swiss German can't make a cut as there's no standard written form (and with it, not much resources), and the variations between the cities are pretty significant.
Do you have any other family members with very high IQs?
Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)
What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?
How Germany's economic strength became a weakness
I'm curious, why do you find this so high?

Take the army for example, it's estimated 30~40% of the workforce is dedicated to logistics. This is equivalent to 42~66% overhead (in the same sense that overhead is discussed in the context of academia, as +% cost) if you were to count only combat personnel as the direct costs.

This is was universities do, they only count research expenses as the direct costs. Yet it's quite obvious a university can't run just on scientists.

This 59% overhead is equivalent to 37% of the expenses. So, unlike you, I'm positively surprised that 63% of expenses go directly to the core mission with only 37% "waste" (which is necessary to ensure the scientists can actually work, and work efficiently).
I'd love an authenticator app on my desktop. That way if I lose my phone I won't be quite as hosed.
Okay. So? HOTP and TOPT are so trivial to implement, you can even use a C64[0] as your 2FA device. Here's my anti-FAQ[1] to their FAQ:

---

### TOPT ANTI-FAQ

1. Want a guide to implementing time-based passwords in your app? Here you go: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-time-based-one-time-pa...

2. What was that? You want to do it in Typescript? Okay, here you go: https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=totp

3. Want to do it in Python? Unfortunately, you only have 275 choices: https://pypi.org/search/?q=totp&o=-created

4. How about on an Arduino? https://github.com/lucadentella/TOTP-Arduino

5. Fuck it, we'll do it ~~live~~ in Emacs!https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/securely-generating-t...

Y'all get the point by now, I'm sure.

---

[0]: https://www.gadgetany.com/news/now-the-commodore-64-is-a-two...

[1]: "Anti"-FAQ, because I'd like to discourage people from wasting brain cycles on thinking that a time-based authenticator app is something worth announcing.
“More compact than anything a human engineer would ever come up with” … sounds more like they built an artificial Steve Wozniak
Vegan computer savants with Bay Area ties linked to deaths across U.S., authorit
I own an iPhone and it's useful and a technological marvel (other smartphones too).

But I strongly dislike and am saddened by this impact that it's had on society.
> I don't think I have EVER seen "American" used to refer to "North and South America" outside of geography.

I'll refrain from reproducing the OED 2nd Edition entry for American unless you really want it, there are three uses as a adjective, five as a noun, the Adjective Use 2, variation c is "United States specific", ( 1.a is "Belonging to the continent of America. Also, of or pertaining to its inhabitants." )

So, you know, a few hundred years of printed use, with citations, says that others have seen it used more widely than yourself.

To be fair, that's all an aside to me .. what has caught my eye in the past few months is a few commenters on HN getting quite upset at "USAian, USofAian, etc" variations appearing here. Clearly this is new to some, others have seen such contractions about forums for four decades.

It follows from pre 2000 (ish) BBC and other style guides that eschew using "Americans" to refer to US citizens until after the context has been established, leading to older BBC articles and broadcasts opening stories with "In the United States today .... Americans reported ...".

From that, in (say) forums discussing i18n and|or l10n (the usual contractions for Internationalization and Localization) with Koreans, South Americans, various Commonwealth types etc. USian became a short fast way to specify which group of North Americans reference might be made to.

This seems straightforward, reasonable, non evangelical, and something a majority immediately "got" w/out batting an eye .. certainly causing less fuss than using "i18n" and other contractions.

I have to agree with you that the meaning of "Usian" is obvious from context in almost every case and it is a really annoying form of pettiness that makes a song and dance about it in protest every time it appears.
Done me fine for the last decade. Along with all the other languages that kept me in employment. I still use it daily.
Thank you (and the whole team of course) for creating something so amazing
It does look a little more nuanced, seemingly with Stripe allowing all sorts of actions that should have been restricted even with access the API key:

https://www.reddit.com/r/stripe/comments/1itn3i7/comment/me1...

Truth often lies somewhere in the middle.
If the data worth the hassle to backup, isn’t it worth the hassle to self host? Especially if you were part of the lastpass breach
> European Commissioner for Startups Ekaterina Zaharieva emphasised the importance of implementing this strategy quickly. She also pledged to propose a European Innovation Act to push member states to meet the 3% target for research and innovation (R&I), combat brain drain, defend research freedom, invest in infrastructure and expand the European Research Council.

Tragicomic hubris among bureaucrats, to think innovation would improve if they added more bureaucrats.

The EU is a political experiment that will always be doomed to repeat its own mistakes, because it completely lacks self-awareness.

Too many ideologues, too few pragmatists.

A bureaucracy as supra-national and politically ambitious as the European Union will attract the kind of staff who are far, far removed from people who want to create startups.
In the daytime I prefer light mode, and at night I prefer dark mode.
I think it's somewhat odd to have a preference inconsistent with the time of day.
I guess they swim in the direction of the majority which is probably always the same in a circular tank with many fish.
on youtube, codebullet remakes games so that he can try different AI techniques to beat them.
My take is that Raman spectroscopy is not getting the love it deserves purely due to the hardware cost and difficulty, which has come down a lot but still high. IR spectroscopy has been quite popular due to its cheap hardware and its amenability towards ML.

My (weakly held) hypothesis is that ML stack on IR already maxed out, and there is no more signal we can get out of. H20 interference is still difficult to work with. Raman is the way to go for those cases. An affordable, portable (true) Raman could change how we do medical and chemical sensing in aqueous solutions, anywhere from medicine to food production.

I actually spent a full year outside academia doing IR v Raman work. I ended up deciding on industrial IR with a sophisticated signal processing & ML stack, but at some point, I was planning to build a Raman from scratch because I was so tired of compensating for O-H bonds.
Arne has written, as usual, an excellent piece. Not only it argues its intended points, but it can also be followed by everybody-it brings readers up to speed without assuming any significant background knowledge.
It is just funny how technology was supposed to help society become less bureaucratic, but it has done just the opposite. Now to do anything, you need a bunch of administrators that will manage the systems that one needs to be "more efficient"!
I wrote my own extension in version 9 some time ago where I used hooks to track changes and sync our Full-Text Search engine (Meilisearch). I just remembered some of the difficulties dealing with hooks, because their payload differed in structure depending on how data entries were mutated (update via Web-UI VS creation via API VS import via API /utils/import). Has that improved?
Other people have already given great answers: it plays faster, the levels are different, etc.

But to me the main problem of "remake replaces the original" approach is that it's a a very "content-consuming"-way to look at media. Videogames are art in their own way, old games can still be enjoyed for what they are and for what they were - same thing with movies. Silent Hill 2 (2024) doesn't replace the original Silent Hill 2. RoboCop (2014) doesn't make RoboCop (1987) obsolete.

That's my take on re_makes_, at least. With re_masters_ I'd be much more willing to recommend them over the originals (although the preservationist in me would still like the originals to be available in some way)
You're assuming the people who handle it for the government weren't working at Amazon and Microsoft a year ago, and won't again be working for Amazon and Microsoft a year from now.

The government doesn't have leverage. The government is Amazon and Microsoft's leverage against others.
I'm from Australia lol the US constantly interferes in our country directly and indirectly. 'Busybody that meddles' is a pretty soft term for it, I would call it aggressively destablises its allies.

If you take away the premise that the US is doing something good, like for PEPFAR, then what is left? A gun wielding maniacal imperial power that you have no reason to deal or treat with. This is bad for the US and bad for the world
Trump's EEOC Chief Threatens Civil Rights Lawsuits Amid H-1B Hiring
A collection of papers with citations and data isn't "a doctor dismissing something they don't know"
I've been using this for a few days now, and while I love the speed, I have experienced a couple of glitches with the file list e.g. duplicate files/folders shown, files missing, especially after doing a bunch of move/copy operations. I would have expected hitting F5 to refresh the view but I had to close the application and open again (blazingly fast) to get a fresh view of the folder's contents. It happened in side-by-side view, if relevant. Presumably some bug in the caching mechanism, at the very least I would force F5/refresh to do a fresh query of the current folders' contents and display correctly.
Just to the degree that there's more machine code competing for the same limited page cache... nothing about having multiple versions of one library is worse for cache than having the same amount of machine code across different libraries. It's not ideal, but considering how lean you could make the host system, it's a minimal cost.
>We find people all the time who have committed crimes.

The murder clearance rate is only 50% in the US, and that's with relatively dumb people committing the murders. The rich on the other hand have Ivy League tax lawyers and accountants to optimize/obfuscate their wealth.
Thanks! This has been life changing for me.
Not in the UK for icloud
AM radio can be "detected" with a semiconductor, so this kinda makes sense if you squint. If you can find it, someday, update this!
Yep, just pointing it out. It's like a completely unironic version of that joke:

> Conservative: I have been censored for my conservative views
>
> Me: Holy shit! You were censored for wanting lower taxes?
>
> Con: LOL no...no not those views
>
> Me: So....deregulation?
>
> Con: Haha no not those views either
>
> Me: Which views, exactly?
>
> Con: Oh, you know the ones

"Oh no, I keep getting kicked out of places for throwing around neonazi references"

Well, don't be a shithead and that won't happen
Do you have details on this? The (non-new) system is (At least in the US), a piddle pack. It's a thick plastic bag that folds flat, filled with kitty litter. Turns into pee gel. That's for men. The women's ones are more complicated, and have electrical pumps.
They say they use green solvents, but in the list of materials at the bottom I see Lead Iodide and Cesium Iodide, which doesn't strike me as too green of a thing to use.

Also, the abstract doesn't really make it clear whether the recycling is for complete panels or the "filling" of panels (sorry for the layman's terms). And whether this applies to any Perovskite-utilizing panel or just certain kinds.

But I am generally heartened at seeing thought regarding industrial processes which consider the end of productive life as well. I wish more products were designed to eventually be taken apart and reduced using standard processes, or even per-product processes - rather than the assumption being that more and more stuff is chucked into landfills.
And you need to change that preference on every single device, it will not change your default. And they hide this option in a weird place away from all of the other Appearance options.

I'm not one to complain about UI changes but some of their recent decisions are baffling beyond belief.
One thing interesting to me is solid state batteries would be a boon battery powered aircraft. Current 150 to 200 miles range. If you double capacity then 300 to 400 miles range becomes possible.

My rule of thumb with range is if you can go from San Francisco to Tahoe that's a notable milestone.

Also with AI it feels like we have 8 billion people in the world who are intellectually under utilized and often under fed.
Don't worry about the FUD imho https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_uncertainty,_and_doubt

Personally I would trust a fan-made work distributed through MediaFire and MEGA (and there is nothing wrong with these services!) more than some corporate re-release riddled with DRM and “““analytics””” (the word we've collectively agreed to pretend doesn't mean “spying” lol)
Deloused in the Oceaneum
The motivations seem pretty plain. They were anticipating the question, "why did you host this site yourself?" I don't think there's any need to read further into it. You seem to have come to that conclusion yourself.

The HOA analogy would be appropriate if HOAs were about conduct among colleagues. It's pretty obvious why you need to set ground rules when you have a huge number of people collaborating - you get incidents of people behaving inappropriately, and if that behavior proliferates, you will create a hostile environment where it's difficult for work to be done. (See this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43147705)

HOAs are a problem because there is very little shared interest in regulating the size of hedges or the color you may paint your house or whatever. It's a scheme to keep property values elevated.

There is no connection between these phenomena. One of them addresses pragmatic and real problems, however flawed the implementation may be. The author is a scheme to manipulate property markets. There is no shared cause between them.
The Unnatural History of Bird Flu H5N1 Is a Human Creation
The bin doesn't work and there's no way to delete workspaces. This isn't even a minimum viable product
thank you for mentioning this comment, it was very in depth and I agree I think it should be ranked higher
GRAY8 vs. RTP [2021]
The way out is fixing "you need to get into bed with either Apple or Google" which is the root of the problem.
What's with all the sideways traffic lights?
Universities became complicated because it is now a business. If you have a business, you need to complicate it to justify higher prices over time.
Can’t tell if this is a joke or not
Well, yeah.

Mobile apps and their business models are designed for maximum addict^H^H^H^H^H^Hengagement. Journalists have written stories about social media and gaming companies hiring psychologists to better understand how to make their apps more engaging to people, even.

Unfortunately, it seems that state, federal or country-level governments have no interest in reeling this in. In fact, they actively enable this behavior by using ex-Twitter et. al. for official communications!

It's even worse than that, too; many businesses _only_ advertise or maintain business hours on social media platforms, so people that refuse to use these services are, effectively, digital dinosaurs.

I don't think things like checking your phone (usually social media) at a stoplight or a long stretch of road while you're driving becoming become more-or-less socially acceptable was what the iPhone team had envisioned when creating the phone, but here we are.

To be fair, though, this would have been just as much of a problem in 1994 as it is now if we had the technology back then. TV addiction was all the rage back then.
Yeah it shouldn’t be much more than a decade imo. Being able to sit on a copyright for many many decades is genuinely just rent seeking, and bad for everyone.
Sure, but the title cards for Bluey episodes are far more recognisable for a 3 year old than words. What do you think they recognising in the "Squash" episode - the word "Squash", or the squash racket in the picture?
The world is not what you or me want is what you can convince enough people to do. In the country were I choose to pay taxes, people in wheelchairs are well accommodated.

But you know what that also means? That the same resources used for the ramps are not used to help someone that maybe starves to death somewhere else. I can't say I know which of the two I would choose, but I will not imply that the ones making a choice think "some are lesser than us".

Probably you will say "we can do both", "why choose", or something similar. But practically, all resources I know seem to be finite (time, energy, people). If you have infinite resources that I am not aware of, please fix all the problems.
NZ? I use examples I'm familiar with because I'm from Christchurch.

> we pay less and live longer than in America

It's a common myth that this is due to healthcare costs: but the implied cause/effect is a lie.

Americans die younger due to a variety of preventable factors (the term lifestyle factors is commonly misused and societal factors is likely better). The ambulance and doctors don't fix those factors. For example "Two years difference in life expectancy probably comes from the fact that firearms are so available in the United States,". The maternal mortality rate in the US is considerably higher than the rate in other wealthy countries such as the UK. The infant mortality rate in the United States is also grim.

Based on self-reported illnesses and biological markers of disease, US residents are much less healthy than their English counterparts and these differences exist at all points of the [socioeconomic] distribution.

The poor and the wealthy are unhealthier in the US. Cherrypicked health decisions don't help explain fairness.

It isn't just childhood upbringing, because the statistics for immigrants trend towards the American mean.

I'm ignoring your strawman implications: you don't know me or what I believe or how much empathy I have.

I guess the point I'm trying to make is that we all want more healthcare. How do we choose how much to spend? My strawman is that I think you are saying we should spend more (especially on the poor). And specifically I'm guessing you think that we should make anyone wealthier than you pay more and more. There is no limit to how much is fair to pay for things we can't easily value like our time and our lives.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16670412/

https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.117.0...

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/03/25/1164819...