skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Redis as ephemeral cache is ok, but nothing extra.

Redis as transactional, distributed and/or durable storage is pretty poor. Their "active active" docs on conflict resolution for example don't fill me with confidence given there is no formalism, just vague examples. But this comes from people who not only not know how do distributed locks, they refuse to learn when issues are pointed out to them: https://martin.kleppmann.com/2016/02/08/how-to-do-distribute...

Every time I find code that claims to do something transactional in Redis which is critical for correctness, not just latency optimization, I get worried.
Linear Pluggable Optics Save Energy in Data Centers
Is there an API that i can use?
Hackernews is end to end encrypted

Its written - it must be true.
I suggested a few years ago an alternative business model for platforms[1]. Rather than selling ads, sell people the ability to filter. Buy some in-platform filtration either from a provider or from another user of the platform. It had been a particularly frustrating day.

[1] https://blog.eutopian.io/building-a-better-linkedin/
I thought like you in the past. Today, for some reason, I value defaults and reducing my cognitive load so that I can think more and do less. Even Eclipse would work for me nowadays :P
On the developer side I've always found Safari messy to support with out of date APIs

Feels like Apple doesn't really care about it
This reminds me of the 90s trend for applications to boast about their customizable user interfaces, which meant you could drag panels around or choose what should appear on which menu ... but none of them provided a good user interface. Saying "you can make it any way you want it!" excused the devs from putting in any design effort.
More anti-EV FUD.

“Officials said the battery briefly went into a 'thermal runaway' partially due to damage from the Nov. 11, 2024 house fire that destroyed the home and damaged several vehicles.”

The battery survived the house burning down and then finally failed 4 months later. If this was a petrol car it would have burned up in November.
I built a large front-end component with it.
don't do the crime if you can't do the time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sHA7Uuz4oY
Have you tried kagi small web?

https://kagi.com/smallweb/

It’s not “browse search results” but more “curated stumbleupon”.

You can also change your search lens from just generic “web” to “small web”, “forums”, “academic” etc or create your own lenses.

I don’t think these answer your particular browsing pattern, but I for one am happy that it doesn’t return hundreds of results. I feel like that is kind of the point, even. I’d rather get fewer, but better, results and have it just say “look buddy, there isn’t anything else”. Plus, I’m not stopped from just adding `!g` to the query and getting 1000 garbage Google results if I want.
Using state violence to protect property is literally one of the main reasons for having a state at all.
I don't understand this regression to the binary.

Your social media tools allow you to block content. I use this feature on youtube all the time. If I see a channel that's posting garbage or propaganda or flat out lies I just click the three dots and say 'Don't Recommend Channel.'

My youtube feed is a pleasant experience every day. There's no CNN or Fox news, no yelling talking heads trying to convince each other in existential terms, no jingoistic propaganda trying to influence me.

It's like what it was meant to be 20 years ago. Why do people not do this?
> empirical studies of life satisfaction and happiness

Are subjective. People's responses will be relative to what they're used to and what possibilities they see for their lives. These studies give no evidence at all that you could not have people whose subjective satisfaction and happiness was just as high, or higher, in a country with a minimal government along the lines I've described. They also give no evidence that such a country could not do as well or better in objective terms.
Huh that’s a perspective I hadn’t thought about before. Thanks for sharing.
What exactly is the benefit over Waterfox or Ungoogled Chromium here? The FAQ https://kagi.com/orion/faq.html#firefox seems to be things that are specific to Mac or have privacy features already offered by open-source alternatives.
Well, last time, the presidential election changed executive support as well. That would make this significant since it’s a new Justice Dept.
> Sadly this dude was afflicted with verbal diarrhoea

I can't see anything sad about a pathological liar outing himself.
Why? Aren’t Blu-ray discs encrypted?
that logic can be applied broadly to the unbelievable amount of ip theft that LLMs train on
Both sides make good arguments about turning children into pre workout smoothies
If you read the article in the comment you're replying to, the whole point is that despite having a wealthy, transnational organization, the Catholic church is not an outlier, and in fact, abuse is higher in many orgs that don't do the things you describe (eg, evangelical churches, sports, and school).
What Drove Michelangelo?
What a weird article. First it's about sex trafficking, then it's about foreigners getting killed on dating platforms, then back to sex trafficking? I'm not trying to distract from the actual topic(s) here, they are very important, but instead of cramming everything into a single article I would have preferred to learn about them in depth. For instance, after reading the whole thing I still lack any sense of how the mentioned issues have evolved over time. Has the situation gotten worse, has it improved? The article presents a ton of anecdotes but is surprisingly thin on hard facts. The article could have easily been written ten years ago, based on all the stories one could hear in Medallo back then.

Finally, it seems the author has never actually been to Medellín, despite the photos suggesting otherwise. The geographic incorrectnesses are rather telling.
https://archive.ph/HvjeM
As I scroll through the various discworld commentaries here, one of the things I haven't seen surface much yet is Pratchett as a dialog artist. My dad and I were both discussing just the other day how we’re honestly happy just picking up any Discworld book, opening it anywhere, and having a listen on what the characters are saying to each other at the moment. I’m not sure what others have created dialogue like that. Maybe Michael Sullivan in his Theft of Swords series.
The author alludes to a general problem with popular culture - the cult of the Chosen One.

Pixar has some in-house rules for stories. One of them is:

Once upon a time there was ___. Every day, ___. One day ___. Because of that, ___. Because of that, ___. Until finally ___

That sums up a Chosen One story. Chosen One protagonists do not work their way up. They are special snowflakes.

Star Wars is an extreme case of Chosen One popular culture. So is the Marvel Overextended Universe. (Note that Star Trek is not. Starfleet people start at the bottom and work up.)
The top 8 highest grossing films of all time, unadjusted for inflation, [1] are all Chosen One movies.

Overexposure to Chosen One stories predisposes people to look for a Strong Leader, one who is somehow special.
This seems to be a problem. Historically, the United States didn't work that way, having rebelled against a European monarchy which did. But I digress.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_films
Aren't most media players (by market share) just wrapper around, most often out of date, libffmpeg? Famously a huge pile of old C/assembly? I'm not shitting on ffmpeg, it's a great project but let's call it what it is.

"Virtually safe" is nowhere near accurate.
Thought this was about the Shepard tone [1].

[1]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepard_tone
To protect real property. Violations of copyright should be strictly civil issues. Why are the people who arrest murderers and vandals involved in this?
In a lot of ways I really like recommendation algorithms, regularly I've had youtube recommend a video that's converted into new sub (eg. LiamTronix and his electric tractor conversion).

What we really need is "responsible" recommendation systems (that allow the joy of discovery while aggressively damping rage bait and extreme view points). They'd need to be trained with some kind of socially beneficial reward function rather than pure engagement or advertiser dollars.

Could such a recommendation systems operate on top of existing social graphs?
It's also common to think that you should only read non-fiction and that fiction is a waste of time, but I absolutely don't agree. Fiction is amazing and it'll help your reasoning, creativity, helps give perspective on things, and improves your outlook on life in a way that non-fiction has a very hard time to do.

Non-fiction is very good for other reasons and it's good to aim for a healthy mix of the too I think.
I'd like to see the feature of preventing the OS from sleeping before downloading has been finished.
Corporations facing meaningful consequences for their actions? That'll be the day
That is really interesting. How much of Florida would be contaminated?
firefox on iOS on most places is just a firefox skin on top of safari, since Apple does not let other browsers engines in iOS..
Intellectual property is not property, its a misnomer. A bluray disk is property. Do you own it or no?
* The KDE system for network protocols ist called KIO. KParts is for user interface components.
AFAIK, Falkon isn't using KIO because QtWebEngine has no extension points for that (and if it did, somebody would need to write HTTP2 and HTTP3 implementations or Qt wrappers for KIO).
Python implementation (not mine) for comefrom and goto, so old it predates a pypy package - and very much for good reason! https://entrian.com/goto/
Technology connections is great. I've never been more excited to listen to a man talk about dishwashers for 20 minutes.
Maybe we need a client side rather than server side recommendation system. I.e. one that's under our control.
I will extend your analogy, and offer than many people do not understand why a red cube came to be red, and why it might be a bad thing.

Suggest to someone that they turn off their phone and leave it at home, and watch them have an almost painful physical reaction.
This was absolutely in furtherance of his crimes. A Tucker Carlson interview was item 3 on the list he kept of ideas for how to get away with it.
Okay my bad. I thought you were making an argument against intrusive law enforcement but you were actually saying kids should run with knives.
i was looking at the US market. and i am talking about the upper bound of the range that i think i can ask for. for germany my expectations are lower. since so many applications ask for a salary expectations (some requiring a number to be filled in to even be able to submit the application), it matters to pick a good number. it shouldn't be to low, nor to high.
Haven’t tested but I’d just like to commend anyone doing something to spoil the success rate of scammers who prey upon the old, the gullible, and the just plain too busy to check properly.
Well in this particular case - yeah, excel 100% of the time.

But I think the point here was exploring different paradigms and their trade-offs. I appreciate that a lot, as I think we're stuck in various local optima as an industry - and spreadsheets seem to be one of them (once they pass a certain complexity threshold).

I'm not sold on the "everything in clojure" model here, I think you could accomplish all this does with a script written in $LANG and a little DuckDB (and probably a half dozen other similarly suitable approaches), but again - I appreciate the goal of exploring the solution space, especially when it's using approaches that I'm not that familiar with.
I remember reading this some time ago : https://floooh.github.io/2019/09/27/modern-c-for-cpp-peeps.h...

I do use those so thank you :)
I wish to offer some gentle resistance to the notion that future generations will not miss anything. You can still feel the loss of something even without knowledge of the loss. Too many children are already missing out on the enriching vibrancy of unmediated experience. They feel it as anxiety and depression. Mental health statistics for our youth are disastrous. The adoption of each novel technology that replaces a former way of life involves a loss. This is not to say technology must never be adopted, but there is a trade-off. We should keep in mind what we are losing and what we gain from technology, and use that knowledge to inform the limits of our use.
I'm pretty sure courts have already ruled that to be fair use, and either way I don't think it's appropriate to compare the two like that, I consider it a false equivalency.
Not really in mechanics (or geophysics). Most of the time there is no sensible default, and we talk about reference instead. But then that’s just muddying the waters. Here, "default" is utterly meaningless, for example.

The long and short is that deformation means just that the shape of something changes.
I'm sure Alec would celebrate that his ideology, which is also not original, is spreading.
Hey HN,

CORRECT URL: www.arcella.io

We’re a small team working on Arcella, an AI-driven platform designed to streamline pharmaceutical sales outreach while ensuring strict compliance. Think of it as a co-pilot that flags off-label mentions and handles disclaimers, so reps can focus on real human conversations instead of wrestling with regulatory text.

Problem: Pharma sales is notoriously complex—reps lose hours each week juggling disclaimers, scheduling follow-ups, and worrying about audits. Meanwhile, compliance slip-ups can be career-killers. We wanted to fix that.

What Arcella Does:

AI checks for sensitive or off-label language in real time
Automates repetitive tasks (like disclaimers and email follow-ups)
Integrates with common CRMs to keep data in sync
Our Build Approach:

We started small, focusing on the biggest time drains (disclaimers, scheduling)
Then we layered on compliance logic to handle different regions
We’re “building in public” by sharing progress and roadblocks
Why Post Here:

We’d love honest feedback on the idea, approach, and any concerns about AI in regulated industries
Open to suggestions on features or real-world compliance scenarios we might be missing
If you’re in pharma or biotech, we’d especially love to hear your thoughts
Link: arcella.io (landing page, sign-up for early access if curious)

Questions:

Have you tackled compliance automation in other domains (finance, healthcare)?
Any “gotchas” we should watch out for in regulated AI?

THE WEBSITE is www.arcella.io I don't know why HN changed it to arcella.ai that's wrong and was originally was linked correctly.
Then you will digest what ycombinator wants for you.
Yeah, I don't think Trump has any sympathy for Google whatsoever, given how censorious (and proud of it) it was on both Google Search and on YouTube in the 2020 election cycle. Good luck, Google, you're gonna need it.

That said, Chrome is not really viable on its own, and it's the wrong "split" to enforce. The correct split is "down the middle" right through the money-making businesses - create two Googles, with their own search and search/web ads and ensure (through antitrust oversight) that they compete with each other instead of rubbing each other's back. Spin out Cloud and Android/Play Store into separate companies. Separate all four from Alphabet. The rest of the money-losing properties (including Chrome) can be distributed arbitrarily, it doesn't really matter.

Or something to that effect. As long as ads are split down the middle, and separated from Alphabet, that's all that really matters. Unless this happens, any "antitrust" against Google is bullshit for those who can't read its SEC filings.
Just got served by a similar thing to these today in Amsterdam at a trendy seafood place. I thought I wouldn't like it but it was fine. Just get the plate and click the screen "Done". Smooth and no talking to anyone. Pretty nice.
Do Not Be Bamboozled by the New Fluffy Mouse
Firefox Focus at least removes trackers. It's a wrapper around Safari, anyway.
Do you see any potential down sides f the state decided not to protect intellectual property?
I agree that the governments of both parties have underserved most people.

Some of the reason for that is structural. The president has limited power, and congress has been too evenly balanced for decades to really get anything significant done.

If you look at what Trump is doing now it's all things that bypass congress- he knows at least half of them will toe the line and that's enough. When you set a violent mob on a group, and they give you a pass, well, that tells you what you need yo know.

For voters who believe that "it doesn't matter, they're all bad", well I guess we're about to find out. Seems to me there's a difference between the parties, but what do I know...

To the Palestinian supporters who voted for Trump 'cause they didn't like Biden's approach, well let us know how that turns out for you.

The reality is that a lot of Americans like Trump policies - like tarrifs, deportation, gutting govt regulations and so on. Clearly at least half think this is the road to be on.

It's a pity the other half is going along for the ride.
lol taken completely out of context

I was actually arguing *for* MCP in this blog

But I don't think its good for all use cases! hence the quote
Do you have any scripts you'd be willing to share for that?
"Wasting resources on making even smaller special purpose web browsers integrate with the engine is not a move for a company that has been struggling with a lack of independent funding for years now."

So says the narrative. Mozilla has money, but prefer using it for C-Level salaries : Mitchell Baker raised her salary from 2.5M$ to 7M$ within 4 years, all the while laying-off developers and spending a shitload of money on seminaries and others BS expenses. Meanwhile, the market share of Firefox dropped.

And I assume you have noticed that privacy is not their main concern.

Such a pity because Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox brought a lot to the Web. But I guess this happens when Corporate people take over any organisation.
>Concepts are usable in the sense they compile. Claiming they are usable in terms of being ergonomic and that people are willing to use them outside the stdlib is a stretch. You think it seems reasonable until you encounter Rust traits and then you wonder wtf is C++ doing.

Concepts work great. The primary purpose of them is to allow things to compile or not and to deliver readable error messages when a constraint is violated. I use them from time to time at work. I don't know about Rust traits but I do know that C++ has many useful paradigms and idioms to handle a variety of sticky situations.

>As for modules, it’s now 5 years since standardization. How much more time does a basic feature like that take to mature?

It's not as basic as you imagine, evidently. If this was any other language, the one true language authority would start building an implementation with a spec that is constantly in flux, and it could take just as long to complete. Alternatively, they'd break compatibility and shrug off the hundreds of man-years of work they generated downstream.

>Btw, the community provided feedback to the standards committee that the spec was useless for anyone building build systems tooling around it and the committee chose to ignore that warning and this is the result.

I think this means the committee sees it as someone else's job to develop the implementation details for modules. They also don't specify things such as, how shared libraries should be built or loaded, or the format of binary code.

>The committee was actually given a lot of benefit of the doubt after c++11 because they promised to change. They’ve squandered it.

They did change. We are getting regular updates and corrections now. I think the committee is more open to proposals than ever, perhaps too open. I can hardly keep up with all the cool stuff they add every couple of years.
If you only read the headline you'll miss critical information:

> A 37-year-old Tennessee man was arrested Thursday, accused of stealing Blu-rays and DVDs from a manufacturing and distribution company used by major movie studios and sharing them online before the movies' scheduled release dates.
Show HN: Do I Get in Berghain?
Made this a while ago but didn't have time to finish it, now i think it's done. Enjoy :^)
The push here is much more from techno-utopian venture capitalist grifters than from scientists.
Did it prevent unauthorized copying?

(Not sure if OP referred to that though)
In terms of the positions of the characters in the narrative, yes, you're right. but in terms of the worldview you take home with you after reading... (or well rather a worldview that tech bros alledgedly leech themselves onto, if you will, because i don't necessarily agree that LOTR is all that bad)

Anyway. my take of tfa: in discworld, the whole system is designed for pluralism and messy progress. in middle earth, the entire universe is designed for epic quests and magical solutions from wise old wizards.

frodo might be a humble hobbit, but he's still caught in a deterministic prophecy machine where the fate of the world depends on ONE RING and ONE QUEST
Meanwhile encryption itself will become illegal, unless it can be backdoored.
Isn't this the concept behind BlueSkye? https://docs.bsky.app/docs/starter-templates/custom-feeds
Seems expensive and passive aggressive. Just horsewhip him. He'll get the message.
That landing page is nuts. Pretty cool
https://openoffice.apache.org/ is the context in which I've seen this saying get regurgitated the most.
can you expound on this "life change"?
Paracetamol is world standard for long chronic treatment. It starts tu hurt your liver only on big dosis. Source: FORTA List https://forta.umm.uni-heidelberg.de/
Blacksmiths draw out metal by pushing with their hammers. Same thing.
Just as plagiarism checkers harden the output of plagiarists.

This goes back to a principle of safety engineering: the safer, reliable, trustworthy you make the system, the more catastrophic the failures when they happen.
(Googler opinions are my own, don't work on chrome)

Chrome has just been a better product for the last 10 to 15 years.

Every other company has just failed to make a good browser because they lack the incentives to do so (have gone back and forth as a Firefox user).

The only competitive browsers are those already built on chrome or safari.

I'm not personally a big fan of Safari but it's bigger issue is that it is only available on one platform whereas the web is naturally cross platform.

Almost by definition Safari can't be the "winning" browser.

This feels like ruling that the iPhone is a monopoly in the US and that Apple needs to divest from phones.

Edit: to those replying I 100% don't agree with all the decisions chrome make, very importantly ad block.

But just survey the actual browser market in the last 10 years to understand Chrome's dominance
Even DVDs are. It's just been broken for years.
While people love to put this on Java, the idea predates the language by at least two decades, having appeared at least in CLU, Modula-3 and C++, before Java came to be.
Well, Skype is the only one I'd miss, and after years of neglect I won't cry after it either. As for IE - good riddance. They could add Teams and Sharepoint to that list as far as I'm concerned.

So maybe the difference is that Google kills projects that people love, while MS only kills unloved ones?
> We’re all derivative thinkers in the end

Some more derivative than others.

If someone is going to expound on unique thought, I’d hope they live in a cave in the woods making unique cave drawings with their feces or riding a pale green elephant wearing magnetic boots upside down within a large refrigerator.

If you want to really be a unique thinker, sure you can listen, and aggregate, summarize, but don’t regurgitate.