skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm clearly biased since I work at Datadog[1], but I use and recommend Cloudcraft[2] for diagramming. As I don't use the cloud I focus more on the manual design tools, but the automatic stuff are pretty neat.

Recently, though, I've been using D2[3] a lot and really liking it. The diagrams don't look as aesthetically pleasing to my eyes, but being able to design everything with a simple language is pretty cool, and helps with automation.

[1]: Datadog owns Cloudcraft, hence the bias. Plus, I work in the Cloudcraft team, haha.

[2]: https://www.cloudcraft.co

[3]: https://d2lang.com
I don't think that's a good benchmark for a C discussion, though it probably is for JS.
Google: Capex Arms Race
The contour package (2004) [pdf]
I just meant that they REALLY love international standards. They have the assumption that a group of really smart people must have decided it democratically and fairly, so no matter what it is about they will get excited about it.
Hey, this is not new. For me these are akin to a web dev building an ERP system vs another creative coder building beautiful motion graphics using same tech.

While the ERP is boring as hell compared the the creative coding results, the latter is novelty and often has no intrinsic value.

Also, I see these videos and get deja vu of boston dynamics demos from years back. Not seeing anything new here except this is just early beta version of boston dynamic robots backed by different models.

Also amount of people around the demo set tells me, a lot of supervision and retakes happened. I often do not trust such demos(experience from seeing what goes behind the scene with cherry picked takes being published).

Anyways, my point is, just chill out. I remember how AWS/GCP/Heroku etc were eradicating IT admin but instead now we have dedicated DevOps and IAM specialist roles… and every day I see 7:1 ratio of job vacancy for DevOps:SWE.
"It's never been easier to start a company, but never harder to be successful."
Came across this interesting quote the other day... Do you agree or disagree with the quote? Why or why not?

I should mention that the domain of interest here is primarily 'high growth technology companies', not necessarily something like a dentist office or a barbershop.

I think data could also help here, so please feel free to share.

My initial thoughts: the first part certainly seems true, as anyone with a laptop and a web connection has the power to at least prototype some potentially useful SaaS product for a potential customer. But then I also think there are some systemic factors that have really eroded this since the early or mid 2000s:

- Low hanging fruit, especially in B2C, has been picked clean.

- Outreach via advertising, social media, blogs, forums, etc, has made connecting with people online so much more difficult, due to spam and general volume and density of online notifications for people; now there's AI, and bots keep getting trickier, so there's an arms-race with outreach blocking.

- More competition than ever, with things like YC becoming more mainstream and culturally relevant.

- With AI/LLMs and democratization of coding tools, a lot of software products become cheap commodities that can be built in-house by potential customers, or have no competitive moat.

Though many of these concerns may be overblown and/or only apply to specific niche startup categories.

So what do you think?
"Being left behind" is a floating point. If you think there's something you'd like to learn (or would be valuable to learn), just start digging in. Picking new things up usually takes far less time than you'd think, especially if you have existing experience in an even semi-related field.
A ton of hydrogen seems to occupy a cube with a 23 meter side. Wonder if a bunch of those could be built to hold the excess gas for night time operation.

100GWh is not small, but it's not impossible. The largest solar farm in operation is 5GW, and that could get you theoretically halfway there operating 10 hours a day.

It feels like the challenges are a lot easier to solve than with fusion or nuclear.
I guess my comment was a bit wrong, Linux has "TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION" not usage.
I've done this a lot - mostly with big machinery where the ANC on the earbuds, or the (not aviation quality) ear muffs alone don't suffice to bring the noise down to an acceptable level.

It works well - but have them in long enough, particularly when physically working and the earbuds will loosen and shift. The seal on the earbuds with your ear canal is important, especially with ANC buds. Removing face shields and ear muffs to re-adjust earbuds is frustrating.
>Yea but when you stack up the tax receipts it suddenly looks very worthwhile.

Bleak reminder that I will never jive with the general vibes of HN and the VC trash types polluting the world for a tax write-off.
Show HN: Time Portal – Get dropped into history, guess where you landed
Hi HN! I love imagining the past, so I made Time Portal, a game where you are dropped into a historical event and see AI video footage from that moment. You have to guess where you are in time and on the map. It’s like GeoGuessr (and heavily inspired by it!) but for historical events.

The videos are all created with AI. It’s a pipeline of Flux (images), Kling (video), and mmaudio (audio). The videos aren’t always historically accurate to the last detail. They might incorporate elements of folklore or have details from popular beliefs about the way things looked rather than the latest academic research on how they looked.

I’m thinking a lot about how to make the game more interactive. One thing that makes Geoguessr so fun for me is that you can move infinitely and always find more details to help you pinpoint the location. I want Time Portal to have a similar quality. I have a few ideas to try soon that will hopefully make the game more interactive and infinite.
Agree. A majority of people on HN are in a startup mood so they feel a company should market aggressively to attract investments and expand. But I don't think Google would achieve more than marginal gain were they to aggressively make Gemini/Imagen/Veo available to Search/YouTube/Workspace users, and the cost could be terribly high.

Gemini has been one of the most cost-efficient models. Probably this is exactly what Google needs for productization.
Many years ago I heard a mathematician speaking about some open problem and he said, "Sure, it's possible that there is a simple solution to the problem using basic techniques that everyone has just missed so far. And if you find that solution, mathematics will pat you on the head and tell you to run off and play.

"Mathematics advances by solving problems using new techniques because those techniques open up new areas of mathematics."
All of this presupposes that whatever you implement yourself will be more secure and/or that you have the budget to even begin to approach the same level of security.

I’ve been there, done that, and was amazed how the security aspects only rapidly escalated to many millions of dollars and an ongoing cost also in the million or two range!

Think of this like a CEO: they’re less worried about Chinese hackers and more worried about about insider attacks. They’re much more common and do way more financial damage.

The cloud automatically provides separation of roles because an entirely different vendor is in charge of the lower layers, such as networking and storage.

Do you have any idea how hard it is to prevent a smart sysadmin from simply copying all data to a USB drive and walking out of the building with it?

That’s much harder when everything is on a managed hosting platform and no single person can access all accounts / subscriptions.
> Mandarin is full of nuance, and it's no closer to English than Japanese is. It has the Subject-Object-Verb grammar structure, just like Japanese and Korean.

This isn’t correct from what I’ve studied in both Japanese and Mandarin.

https://lptranslations.com/learn/chinese-vs-japanese/#:~:tex...

> For example, Chinese verbs are not conjugated and only have one form, whereas Japanese verbs have a wide range of conjugations and particles.
Plus, Chinese is an SVO (Subject+Verb+Object) language just like English, so sentences are easier to make and interpret.
Vice versa, Japanese is an SOV (Subject+Object+Verb) language, meaning you do not say: "I eat sushi" but "I sushi eat".
Aren't the Cooperation and Foundation exactly those separate buckets?
Some Scattered Thoughts About Hades
duckdb labs didn't make the UI, motherduck did. The extension just launches the web UI.

you might have a point on #3, but they need to pay the bills somehow.
I wouldn’t get that hung up on the specifics when we are using terms like ‘near’ which is why I said boats for economies of scale.

I was thinking of navigable waterways which are common near major wind farms and some solar, not just major ports which rarely have a lot of space available. The UK is already facing issues with moving offshore wind around the country, an Ammonia plant could theoretically make a lot of sense.
I meant hosting a dedicated computer sounds like you are talking about a virtual cloud type setup?
Tunable superconductivity and Hall effect in a transition metal dichalcogenide
Culture is often orchestrated, not organic-

https://www.thechinastory.org/yearbooks/yearbook-2013/introd...

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna19197078

http://www.china.org.cn/english/Life/159407.htm

Cheating and queuing woes, you say?

https://time.com/4360968/china-gaokao-examination-university...

https://alanrefkin.com/2013/08/13/queuing-in-china/

https://theculturetrip.com/asia/china/articles/why-do-chines...

I am reminded of this excerpt from Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism:

> In his 1903 book, Evolution of the Japanese, the American missionary Sidney Gulick observed that many Japanese “give an impression…of being lazy and utterly indifferent to the passage of time.” Gulick was no casual observer. He lived in Japan for 25 years (1888-1913), fully mastered the Japanese language, and taught in Japanese university. After his return to the US, he was known for his campaign for racial equality on behalf of Asian Americans. Nevertheless, he saw ample confirmation of the cultural stereotype of the Japanese as an “easy-going” and “emotional” people who possessed qualities like “lightness of heart, freedom from all anxiety for the future, living chiefly for the present.”
(...)
> This was not just a western prejudice against eastern peoples. The British used to say similar things about the Germans. Before their economic take-off in the mid-19th century, the Germans were typically described by the British as “a dull and heavy people.” “Indolence” was a word that was frequently associated with the Germanic nature."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14885027
ScholarlyArticle: "Tunable superconductivity coexisting with the anomalous Hall effect in a transition metal dichalcogenide" (2025) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-56919-2
FWIW I tried this the other week and it did not ‘just work’.

It just did nothing.

Then I remembered I have Syncthing running on the machines I was trying to transfer between, so I used that.
Thanks! As soon as I saw Niri I wondered if there was a macOS alternative.

Aerospace has a similar resizing glitch as PaperWM.spoon: resizing one direction ends up looking wonky if you do it fast enough. It’s noticeable at the end of the smooth scrolling demo. That must be a macOS thing…

I may check out PaperWM.spoon at some point but realistically I’ll set up a VM and try out Niri
I think GTalk being spun off into its own thing might have seen Google Talk succeed beyond whatever Hangouts became. Google Talk had a native client plus it had native clients that supported its protocol.

I even messaged from my GTalk to my Facebook as a test, which worked because both were Jabber. Both companies closed both services off to anyone else. Sadly.
Well it includes those low frequencies. I'm sure if you've flown you've experienced the strange ear-plugging feeling of flight. The fuselage is highly sound damped from the engines but you still get the low frequencies. Also could be that pretty much everyone tried to not go outside during 9/11, probably a lot more than just planes stopped
I'm really fascinated by the idea of biological computers. Doesn't get enough recognition.
The Three Forms of Psychic Hunger (2018)
Yep, and the server bandwidth can become a bottleneck if the peers are fast enough, so true peer-to-peer is still the better choice, or something webtorrent-based if multiple people are grabbing the same file.

But there's been enough last-minute submissions of DJ material by now that I'm still happy it was added as an option :-)
You can also use “shift + enter” to add a newline to your input, without telling the browser to take your input yet.
Cleo from Math StackExchange's Identity has been Revealed? [video]
Apple could start selling again if it just surrendered control.

Let their devices become general computing devices that empowered their users.

It worked well when they relented and went from the more inbred apple powerpc systems to the more interoperable and useful intel systems.
How is the anime related?
Slowly but surely...

PEP 750 (still a proposal) adds "t-strings" Python. They're a simple extension of f-strings that give developers access to the static and interpolated parts of the string before they get combined into a final string. They're Python's answer to JavaScript template literals.

This allows writing code like:

user_name = current_user.user_name # something user-supplied and potentially unsafe
foo: HTMLElement = html(t"<div>{user_name}</div>") # wouldn't be safe with f-strings

where `html` is a normal function that takes a `Template` as an instance, and can return whatever it likes -- say, an `HTMLElement` rather than a `str`.

If PEP 750 does get accepted, eventually one hopes the community will introduce formatting, type checking, and LSP smarts for common kinds of t-strings, like HTML and maybe SQL, etc.
Most of my telecom experiences were pretty boring. It largely consisted of handling digital circuits for modem banks, then later setting up a very small CLEC and building small PBX systems out of open source software in the early 2000s, which at the time worked about as well as you might imagine[0]. The outside plant people for the local ILEC had the best war stories:

* Someone tried to carjack a friend while he was suspended in the air in the bucket of a bucket truck, making a repair in a splice case[1].

* Another friend was making a repair in a bad part of town, and while doing some work in junction box (larger, ground-based version of a splice case,) a drug addict hobbled out of a nearby house and asked him if he was with the phone company. When he replied in the affirmative, the drug addict asked him to call 911 as one of his compatriots was ODing.

... etc...

I did get to help another service provider recover from a tornado by physically removing mud and debris from their equipment over the course of a few days and powering it back on. It almost all worked, with a few parts swapped out. I wrote about that one[2].

*Edit* I forgot I have one good CLEC war story. I wrote a test system that ended up calling 911 several times and playing a 1 kilohertz test tone at the 911 operator until they hung up. The test system was meant to troubleshoot an intermittent call quality issue that we were having difficult isolating. It consisted of a machine with a SIP trunk on one side and an analog telephone on the other. It would call itself repeatedly, play the 1k test tone to itself, and look for any audio disturbances, and record a lot of detail about which trunks were in use, etc., when that occurred. That all worked fine. The problem was the telephone number for the SIP trunk, which I remember to this day (20 years later) - 5911988. Every once and a while, when calling the SIP trunk from the analog line (this thing made thousands of calls,) the leading 5 wouldn’t get interpreted correctly, and the switch would just process the subsequent digits… 9, 1, 1 - as soon as that second one was processed, it sent the call to the local PSAP. After a few days a police officer showed up and asked us to please stop whatever it was we were doing.

0 - "not at all"

1 - in the US, anyway, these are the black cylindrical objects you see suspended from cables strung along utility poles

2 - https://marcusb.org/posts/2023/11/a-real-life-disaster-recov...
Fundamentally, mathematics is about understanding why something is true or false.

Modern AI is about "well, it looks like it works, so we're golden".
Are Lovable, Bolt, or V0 good? I haven't tried them yet.

Are these tools going to replace application designers? How much work can they do, and how much remains to be done by engineers? Can they engineer complicated apps, or do they reproduce simple apps from a training set? (TODO list apps, etc.)

Is the code these systems output any good? Maintainable and extensible?
I'm sure that many of us sympathize, but can you please express your views without fulminating? It makes a big difference to discussion quality, which is why this is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

It's not just that comments that vent denunciatory feelings are lower-quality themselves, though usually they are. It's that they exert a degrading influence on the rest of the thread, for a couple reasons: (1) people tend to respond in kind, and (2) these comments always veer towards the generic (e.g. "lack of true care for anything and anyone", "just another type of stupidity"), which is bad for curious conversation. Generic stuff is repetitive, and indignant-generic stuff doubly so.

By the time we get further downthread, the original topic is completely gone and we're into "glorification of management over ICs" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43346257). Veering offtopic can be ok when the tangent is even more interesting (or whimsical) than the starting point, but most tangents aren't like that—mostly what they do is replace a more-interesting-and-in-the-key-of-curiosity thing with a more-repetitive-and-in-the-key-of-indignation thing, which is a losing trade for HN.
simple example along these lines running on AWS (specifically paired with Iceberg): https://www.definite.app/blog/cloud-iceberg-duckdb-aws
Narcan is extremely potent. While our LE and EMTs carry IN (nasal) Narcan, our Medical Director actually prefers us to gently titrate IV Narcan while providing airway management and ventilation. His perspective is that 1) that makes life a lot easier for everyone involved, because sometimes those patients "come up swinging", and 2) there's a hope that if even a few per cent of those patients are gently roused by the time they get to the ER, they may be more willing to consider addiction help.

But, funny story on what you said: a call for some teens in a park drinking, one is now unconscious. "We think he's had a heart attack!" Dispatcher: "are you sure, not just black out drunk?" (not a good thing, but still). "No, we can't find a pulse...". Dispatcher starts walking them through phone CPR while dispatching us. A few minutes later, some commotion on the phone. "What's happening?" "We're having a really hard time giving him CPR!" "Why?" "He keeps pushing us away and telling us to leave him alone but you said we cannot stop no matter what!"

And on a more serious note, you can have situations where a patient is (mildly) conscious through CPR. We had a patient who had internal bleeding that we were attempting to stabilize to get to theater. He was able to squeeze his wife's hand when she talked to him through our compressions.
easyQuake: Simplified ML driven earthquake detection, location and analysis
Paper:

easyQuake: Putting Machine Learning to Work for Your Regional Seismic Network or Local Earthquake Study:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/345773834_easyQuake...
My bet is on transparent, contextual ads. Assuming the product from all of this is having a robot in your house, when you're doing something like cooking, it will say things like "have you considered trying an oat milk base? Oatly is a great option. I can Doordash some for you if you'd like..."
They’ve improved a lot, but their Achilles heel used to be that the only way they could achieve more challenging compliance requirements was to have multiple segmented clouds.

With Office 365, for example, they had at least 4 government clouds, some of which used shared infrastructure with Azure commercial, but had different data residency or employee requirements. They have thousands of employees monitored by all of the states as a condition of working on those clouds, for example.

Technical controls are similar, but the weak point are things that can cross cloud boundaries. One of the Chinese breaches of US government systems were caused by a PKI vulnerability that allowed the attacker to pivot from a dev environment to a federal cloud instance.
Can we simulate it indefinitely? I thought chaotic behaviour entered the game at some point.
> You use tariffs to prop up the companies you already have. You could put “tariffs” on Apple Music, so people would move to European Spotify.

Not just the music providers, you could go after American IP and effectively stop international payments to American movie/music/film providers. You could bootstrap the music part from Spotify - i.e. just prohibit Spotify from remitting any licensing fees for American-owned IP. Like when Antigua had the WTO ruling around piracy: https://torrentfreak.com/antiguas-legal-pirate-site-authoriz...
That’s also because they were not called SPAs for the first 15 years of the web.

The very first technology for building “SPAs” was Java Applets. Corel released a web-based office suite already in 1997, and it was practically an applet for each app.

This was replaced by Flash because Macromedia did an incredible job of getting Flash Player preinstalled on every desktop computer. If you wanted to deliver a rich and seamless app-like web experience in 1999-2004, you used Flash. (It was mostly very primitive as a dev environment, but did a great job at vector motion graphics and video.)

The original progenitors of present-day SPAs are Microsoft Outlook for Web and Google Maps. Outlook invented the ubiquitous XmlHttpRequest object, and Google Maps became so popular that it coined “AJAX.”

Following these examples, people started building DOM-based JavaScript apps that loaded data asynchronously and built up views entirely in code. And that’s when they became modern SPAs.

(There was also Silverlight and some other technologies that vied for the rich web app crown, but JS/DOM carried the day especially when iPhone happened and wouldn’t support anything else.)
Burger King sells Windows 7 Whoppers as Microsoft begins Guru training (2009)
Show HN: Orthogonal – An AI Workspace for your files
Starbucks to Add Seating, Power Outlets to Attract Customers
Impressive! Silly question, perhaps, but will such packages be available for PCB assembly by "retail" companies like PBCway, JLCPCB etc?

Also, is it even safe/practical to use WCSP on a PCB if the bare die is exposed to the environment? Or do they require conformal coating (or even epoxy potting?) after assembly to avoid premature faults?
My friend why so irritated... I was just explaining why you two got different numbers. And my numbers of other companies are also calculated from the start of 2022.

I guess my broken English doesn't match today's bot quality :)
wondering why just polars is not enough?
I've used uv to work on the feast feature store project to great success
Me too. For most things I want all the screen space for the one thing I'm working on. Occasionally I need to look at two things. I almost never need to look at more than two things and I don't have a 100" screen anyway so there wouldn't be space.
Would alttab meet your needs? I've been using it with xmonad and it works well. https://github.com/sagb/alttab
Is there a configuration file or command line option to provide location information manually?