skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you work at a company where teams keep on turning to Redis for different features, there's a chance that it's an indication that the process for creating new database tables in your relational store has too much friction!
The problem is how AI is and will be used and how unaccountable it is.

An Ai scans job applicants. Is it biased? Is it conforming with legal requirements? A person's bias can be an issue in a lawsuit. AIs are a much more difficult target, at least for now. This is why companies like them.

You know what the impact will be? More scandals like Hertz falsely reporting people to the police for stealing cars [1].

AI will make financial and lending decisions that could easily become redlining 2.0.

Companies are so desperate to eliminate labor. People have rights. They need to be paid. They can strike.

If the AI purveyors fulfil their dream, companies will be automated but nobody will have any money because nobody has any jobs anymore.

[1]: https://www.npr.org/2022/12/06/1140998674/hertz-false-accusa...
FTA: “power.* is how we dereference a pointer“

This Is basically the gist of the article.

I’m surprised to see that so many programmers these days don’t know C and basic pointers.
I recently decided against Orion because I have linux machines as well. Can’t use it if it doesn’t sync across all my devices.
What is the benfit of doing this in the terminal over tools such as Slidev or Marp which also allow you to make slides based on Markdown?

- Slidev: https://sli.dev/

- Marp: https://marp.app/
Pre YC
I still haven't been able to figure out whether Varoufakis is a genius or delusional. I really enjoyed this video, though, thank you.
Yet the list of search engines in iOS Safari is locked and I can't add my own.
I use them to automate some stuff on niche websites I use, for pure convenience. I don't have them in a git repo, they all live in my bookmarks bar.

Note: it's quite easy to create them using chatgpt, nowadays (of course you have to check them before using).
for the longest time there were only 4, named suspiciously exactly like gmail's categories... something like shopping, socials, work... i dont remember exact details.
Elimination is not the same as separating someone from the hazard. Edit: elimination is (re)moving the hazard and a control is adding a barrier or moving the person

Elimination is completely getting rid of the hazard. (In the case of x-ray it would be just not doing an x-ray at all)
It's because people don't want their silly coding jobs taken away, and they don't want others to be maximally empowered. They are shallow and feel threatened by what's happening.
Yes, or — if you're lazy like I am, and don't want to manage another device or container — use something like NextDNS, which has a very generous free plan and an extremely inexpensive yearly plan. Control D is a popular alternative with similar plans.

In the last 3 months, NextDNS has blocked nearly 9% of 10M DNS queries from devices in my household with no ill effects that I'm aware of. (I'm not affiliated with NextDNS in any way, other than as a satisfied paying customer.)
marp is rad! kill powerpoint forever by writing markdown slides.
At this point &var and *var are pretty much an established way across languages, like if-else. I don’t see any benefit of reinventing this paradigm.
Mirror not a reputable newspaper in UK.

OTOH, dictators always find something or someone who is a threat/rival/etc, to parade in front of the nation and tell the nation how they are being protected by said dictator and so why he needs to stay in power.
> Possibly by trying to find a business model that can support Chrome development just like all other Chromium (and non-Chromium) based browsers?

What would this business model be like, if, say, Google Chrome is eliminated?

As a reference, in China, very few people use Chrome because Google services are blocked. There are tons of third-party or vendor preinstalled browsers that bundles with bloatwares, put ads/clickbaits on every new tab, and spy on users. I'm pretty sure they are more sustainable than Firefox, former Opera, etc. But that's certainly a privacy dystopia :)
Your Android phone will run Debian Linux soon (like some Pixels already can)
Goku: A Schemaless Time Series Database for Large Scale Monitoring at Pinterest [pdf]
Coolify will be great, 6 months ago however I experienced so many bugs around docker deployments I just couldn't trust it for production. Hopefully the new hires will make continued progress because there are some pretty great workflows possible. Already though, it is extremely cool to run your own platform
There are two different projects being discussed here. One Open source effort and one "AI Entrepreneur" effort. YesNoError is the latter project.

AI, like Cryptocurrencies faces a lot of criticism because of the snake oil and varying levels of poor applications ranging from the fanciful to outright fraud. It bothers me a bit how much of that critique spreads onto the field as well. The origin of the phrase "snake oil" comes from a touted medical treatment, a field that has charlatans deceiving people to this day. In years past I would have thought it a given that people would not consider a wholesale rejection of healthcare as a field because of the presence of fraud. Post pandemic, with the abundance of conspiracies, I have some doubts.

I guess the point I'm making is judge each thing on their individual merits. It might not all be bathwater.
Side windows in most new cars are also laminated. The quarter windows are the one you should try break.
I find LLMs useful in the same vein that I find StackOverflow useful or reading through documentation useful. It saves me time when I 1) run into edge cases (where I might search SO and get lucky, but just as often the LLM's suggestion won't work); 2) am working with a framework that I'm not super familiar with (faster than looking up in the documentation); 3) writing code comments; 4) tedious refactoring.

It boosts productivity in the way that a good IDE boost productivity, but nothing like 5x or even 2x. Maybe 1.2~1.4x.
Tangentially related:

You can play around with analog programming of a sort with modular synthesizers. It's a pretty neat way to dip your toe into analog signal processing.
this looks amazing, goodbye google docs
>>> Someone with programming experience could contribute in many of these areas, and still work exclusively at their keyboards and not even getting their hands dirty, if that’s their concern.

I could probably be described as living in the "analog" domain, as a physicist working for a company that makes measurement equipment. Naturally, this could be an ingrained bias, but I've formed the impression that something about getting your hands dirty confers the intuition needed to work productively in this domain. You need to experience being proven wrong by mother nature, over and over again.

Also, if you're sitting at your screen all day, nobody's going to pull you into the loop. It's quicker to just do that stuff ourselves, than to explain it to someone.

So I agree with everything else in the article, because I love analog and love coding. But come on, join us in the lab.
I guess it's not corruption if you do it out in the open?
It used to be that medical "ethics" precluded actively killing someone. That's a religious legacy that more and more countries are coming to recognize is wrong. Fundamentally, this reduces to whether quality of life can be negative.

If quality of life can be negative then there will be cases where the humane act is to provide someone with a comfortable death.

And my point about nuclear power is that excessive regulation actually is counterproductive at maximizing human benefit.
Wouldn't they fit within the "decades of spreadsheet software tradition"?
I miss these. I had a netbook, used it for years with Linux. Loved it. Took it everywhere, even got the battery upgrade so it would last 20h on a single charge.
Sounds like it isn't a big deal, but even if it were a big deal, I still think it'd be important to mention that THAT LINK IS ABSOLUTE HOT GARBAGE. We don't need links to content-free marketing press releases on here.
Well, if you can do it, do it. But in my experience, using an analog computer is nothing at all like digital. I used to have to maintain one when I worked at the University of London, back in the very early 80s (basically making sure plug-board wires hadn't gone bad). Programming one (if you can call it that) required a bit of mathematical nous (which I didn't have enough of, though I was pretty sharp at digital), and the academic I worked with (who did) used to spend a lot of time saying "f*ck" as he tried to set up things like predator-prey simulation demos for the students.
I am experiencing massive productivity boost with my home grown open source agentic coder, especially since I added a GitHub mode to it this week. I write about that here: https://benhouston3d.com/blog/github-mode-for-agentic-coding
The current behaviour is: no native bold or italic, but weird Unicode bold and italic if you know the weird trick.

To me this seems unintended, rather than some thoughtful, considered optimum.
We will move back to a worse version of that when Microsoft buys Chrome, since now Google aren't allowed to compete in this space.
while true; do git pull && sudo reboot; done
Ask HN: MVP ideation and implementation before summer
Hey YC community,

I’ve been running a small marketing agency since I was 19 (now 26), but I’ve always wanted to transition into something more technical and hands-on. About 8months ago, I took the leap into drone technology, and after meeting some great people, we identified a real pain point among farmers in Central California: pest control inefficiencies.

What We’re Building

We’re developing an automated drone system designed to deter pests by flying pre-configured routes with randomized parameters to prevent habituation. The drone will autonomously take off, execute its flight path, land, and recharge—with the long-term goal of expanding into broader agronomic automation solutions.

Current Progress

- MVP launches next month for initial trials on a few farms (Super simple quadcopter with GPS, Ardupilot).
- Farmers are excited, and all feedback so far has been overwhelmingly positive.
- We’re considering applying for YC Summer 2025 if early results validate our approach.

What We Need Help With

Right now, we feel like we’re in an echo chamber of positive feedback, and we want realistic, critical insights from experienced founders and engineers.

- What are common pitfalls in autonomous drone deployments we should anticipate (Related to ArduPilot)?
- What challenges might we face as we scale beyond early adopters?
- If you were in our position, what red flags would you be looking for before pushing forward?

We’re new to the drone space but moving fast, and any brutally honest feedback is hugely appreciated.

Thanks for your time!
They deliver a lot of value, and they’re even so good at it that they’re often consulting for large overseas companies. But it’s like ASML, do you see anyone making chips using their stuff in the Netherlands?
I used to regularly go to cinema and I kept the tickets in an envelope. A few years later, all the tickets were white.
That's how it used to be, or did everyone forget Google Toolbar? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Toolbar It sucked in IE days.

But, it also goes back to browsers being built by the operating system, that was also a no-no, e.g. MSFT / IE.

Browsers then shouldn't be a profit center, but ironically google starting chrome made it one and then defined web standards. IE afaik wasn't a profit center, and MSFT hedged outsourcing all dev costs to practically google and forking it offically to Edge, lol.
I’m doing a long term (read: takes months to collect data) investigative journalism piece regarding hiring practices in the United States that tracks with your musing. As in, I’m using tools to actually document who obtained positions and comparing those visible profiles and credentials with the actual listing put out by companies. The motivation has been through personal experience and seeing…patterns…that I wish to document to the best of my ability in a professional writing project.

I’d be willing to expand my scope if there is interest by any group or entity to support such a project - as in, expand my pool of people actively seeking and applying for jobs (in my case about 10 per week, all within reasonable % of qualification) to explore if data reveals any patterns. It’s a nuanced thing. Basically poking a hole in the “meritocracy” narrative is potentially able to expose other bias at play (age, gender, ethnicity) with a willingness to put such findings into a well researched article / study.
Apparently they started on top of cdk - then migrated to pulumni adding support for terraform providers.

Looks like one of the more interesting deploy toolkits I've seen in a while.
We're always coming back full circle: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubiquity_(Firefox)
You can subscribe to Asimovs and/or Analog on their website today and they give you a download link for PDF, epub every other month.
it took them nine more years to ship Chicago aka Windows 95
It's because that puts the onus for coming up with a solution onto the millions of end users rather than the handful of devs who created the problem in the first place
Nuking Russia will not do anyone any good, even Ukrainians. Russian Empire should dissolve to constituent republics in the same way USSR did. Also they should be forced to give up nukes, it is in the long term interest of every country on Earth
Strictly speaking, you got me there! Much like narcotic preparations, toxic cosmetics have been known throughout history - so both cases do boil down to the same dynamic after all. (Though there are interesting divergences e.g. in the gendered targeting of the products in question, or their application for altering the state of the self, vs. the perceptions of others, and so on. FWIW I consider both to be harmful and habit-forming; but a habit is a form of personality alteration that must be fairly reckoned with.)

My point is that fighting to get one's unhealthy "toys" back doesn't require any more maturity, self-reflection, or responsible decision-making, than that of a literal toddler. But neither does embodying a "rational economic agent", the very thing notionally expected of well-adjusted adults! This is a compound effect, eventually resulting in the present grossly miscalibrated governance model, where homegrown "growth hackers" run circles around the legislators.

Generously, "think of the children" can be seen as an escape hatch: reverting to some sort of universally shared value to prompt people to reflect on their present choices. Not very effectively, though: "Well I'm building a better future for my children, by selling all of this poison here to your children, what?" And, like one of the parent posters said, consumers don't just stop needing protection once they reach the age of majority. Clearly, we need better consumers.
> - Google pays Firefox ~$500M/year for 2.5% market share, 65% market share should get a healthy annual payout for default search status.

Actually, this is hardly healthy.
Firefox feel this single source of can be deprived anytime that they tried many other alternative -- like VPN, partnership with pockets, some sponsor ad on tab selection, and even selling some data

Other browsers go even further..
This will be a shocker I'm sure, but I think the demonstration (and the article in general) is for those who are receptive (or at least are choosing to be receptive) to this issue, and may not be aware.

Not entirely sure why you think the assertion of your own opinion over the supposed assertion of another's is any better by the way.
Google already monitizes Chrome with chrome enterprise (premium) and similar offerings for education where Chrome OS is used extensively. Schools and enterprises have little choice but to buy these to use chrome securely, and they could easily move even more of the management features behind these paid plans.

They also already charge to be an extension developer and could easily charge much more.
The thing I worry about with this kind of thing is that without very careful UX integration, people take false negatives as proof that things are OK, rather than treating it as just one of many signals.
ChatGPT has 400 million weekly users
I had to install the Kagi for Safari app on iOS. This lets me install the extension and switch it to on my phone.
The way I see it, the problem being addressed here is that there is structured data (for some definition of "structured"), and we are in search of a useful visual representation of that data in various aggregates.

Lisp is a fantastic tool for accomplishing this, but to me, Access is tailor-made for exactly this problem (and a whole lot more besides, it's a beast). If one follows the trail of the original problem far enough, I think one is likely to end up with an Access-like solution regardless of implementation language.
I actually got a girlfriend through automation lol. So its actually really funny that we all go through the same problem in online dating especially on apps like Hinge. I tried to search for solutions out there that help with the swiping part so I can focus on getting matches. I literally am a person that likes to live offline and spend less time on these apps and focus more of my time doing productive things. But that being said living in a big city gets lonely and its hard to even socialize after a long day of work so you have to go back to the apps. I started searching for solutions around this same exact problem and theres a website theloveguru.ai which literally does this for Hinge+ users. So I used it, but to be fair it didn't work immediately cause you get a lot of matches and luck wasn't on my side, I was still getting ghosted (maybe my profile sucked), but ultimately on my 800th match in New York I vibed well with my date (now my girlfriend) and I guess it is a numbers game at the end of the day. I personally think AI is taking over a lot of things even in the dating apps industry. Like theres AI photo enhancers already that make you look 10X better and then automation and AI wingmen for messages etc. I kind of view it as a numbers game now but yeah curious to know what ya'lls experience has been.
I don't think VW ever moved away from conventional stalks for wipers and indicators. The drive mode is also on a stalk in the ID.3.
that extension intercepts the queries. Kagi couldn't make it any other way. And I don't mean this as a grievance against Kagi, but agains APPL's policies.
it's weird you consider this a failure. you spent a few months and learned how to work with embedding models to build an efficient search. the fact that your search works well is a successful outcome. if your goal was to turn a few month effort into a thriving business that's never going to happen period - it only seems possible because when it does happen for people we completely discount the luck factor.

if you want to turn your search into a business now that's a new and different effort, mostly marketing and stuff that most self respecting engineers gives zero shits about, but if that's your real goal don't call it a failure yet because you haven't even tried.
Rediscovering is a perfectly fine word for one person discovering for the first time what others have discovered before.
It's a matter of representation. Do the signals represent continuous or discrete quantities? A digital signal represents a discrete quantity such as an integer or symbol, or a sequence of those quantities. Digital systems possess the feature of "noise immunity," where a signal can be unambiguously interpreted due to rules that involve thresholds. For instance you can look up an oscilloscope trace of the signals on a USB or Ethernet cable, and they look horrid, but those signals can transmit information with virtually zero error.

To expand a bit, since my day job involves this stuff, physical stimuli are always analog. Even the discrete energy levels of an atom make their transitions in continuous time. Yet there are good reasons to do virtually all computation in the digital domain, where "noise immunity" allows processing to occur without the introduction of additional noise, and you enjoy all of the other benefits of computer programming.

These days, the job of the analog person is often to understand the physics of the quantity being measured, and the sensor, but to get a signal safely to the front end of an analog-to-digital converter.

Now, the irony is that I actually spend most of my time working in the digital domain. The reason is that analysis of the digital data stream is how I know that my analog stuff is working, and how I optimize the overall system. So if you watched me work for a week, you'd notice that I actually spend a fair portion of my time coding. I just don't write software for other people to use. That's another department, and their work usually starts after mine is done.
But if that's a good thing or a bad thing should be reserved, exclusively for you to decide.

Target had to pay $6,000,000 because of accessibility problems with its web site.

I sure hope you're not in a position to make decisions about your company's web site.
The same way Linux does. By being an independent nonprofit that all the big players in the web space fund because it is in all of their interests to do so. Whether such a model can work without a man like Linus Torvalds though is an open question.
From the article: "five most important functions – the volume, the heating on each side of the car, the fans and the hazard light".

Interesting choices. None of those are driving controls.

Presumably lights and wipers are on stalks. What about cruise control and related functions?
How does that help anyone? Firefox only survives from ad revenue from Google. Apple had some motivation to keep up with Chrome to a point. But wouldn’t be motivated from competition from Firefox. Apple is much more motivated to improve its own platform.

Microsoft definitely doesn’t care about the web or even its PC operating system much.

So now, no one is pushing the web forward. But Apple, Google and Microsoft are still motivated to improve their own platforms. While I personally think the modern web is a cesspool and I am okay with that as a user, I doubt many on HN who care about the “open web” feel that way.

As a developer, I haven’t touched the clusterfuck of modern web development for over a decade.
Hmm. Well, I for one, my spouse for another, LOVE the time shifts—especially the one in the springtime. It is hard for me (us) to imagine not having the time change to DST every year. If the time change is discarded, I certainly hope it is for daylight and not standard time.
What does "lemoning" mean?
A few years ago I set up a ublock filter to hide the next/more buttons on hacker news and reddit. It works great because I can still get my news fix, but I can't scroll endlessly.

Ublock Origin:
! 2020-10-11 https://news.ycombinator.com
news.ycombinator.com##.morelink
> A single beefy Redis (many cores, lots of RAM type of machine) should be able to handle the load

I thought Redis was single threaded running on a single core.

Having multiple cores provides no benefit (and arguably could hurt since large multicore systems typically have a lower clock)
It also goes bothends, there were numerous western messaging apps that come and go, wechat has been around since the AIM and blackberry messenger PIN days. Where are those two protocols/messsaging apps now?

It isn't insular, it's just it was the only local solution - same for Line having a lock on Japan and Thailand but not much of asia, and kakaotalk for Korea.