skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At the end it's just a market problem, no alternative can emerge because the US cloud companies are way too large.

Remove them of the picture and the market will solve itself very quickly, most of the companies to replace them are already there in a weaker form.

The cloud platforms are nowhere near as hard to replace as the chips.
What are my options? could i be using something better than vercel ai sdk
Dharmesh already built this: https://agent.ai
* Drawing geometric shapes still requires dealing with paths, instead of having a pre-defined set of the most common ones, like in any other drawing program.
Which bar did you work at in Chicago? Was it in Hyde Park?
https://bsky.app/profile/waldo.net/post/3lkmo3w3pvk2n

Hi, I'm the guy who used to oversee the federal government's agency IT telecommunications contracts. This is extremely bad. There is absolutely no need for this. Not only is it a huge security exposure, but the simplest explanation for this is that it is meant to be a security exposure.
In friendship, love and feuds, adolescents stick with their own, researcher says
So great, that they can't make their tools for Linux to this day.
Nice work. I've never subscribed to Adobe products, so I haven't experienced it first hand. My thinking is if your software is great, you shouldn't need lock-in contracts or adobe-like tactics. (I've dodged similar subscription models like economist magazine and masterclass purely due to the utility of the subscription being outweighed by the knowledge I'd one day have to endure a frustrating process to unsubscribe).
It is the stated assumption that competition for limited resources will lead to the most qualified person getting the position. This is true only in the most tautoligical sense. The biggest sin of science 2 is that all the survivors believe that they were the most qualified to practice science 1 as well.
Great, That's right taking the niche is easy for the first step that's awesome. I took Task management lol :)
Alphabetical is the norm in algorithms theory. It is not the norm in other subfields that I can think of, even theoretical fields like programming language theory.
State of Subscription Apps in 2025
I agree it is not an easy task. But lasers can be detected with the right equipment (think the classic "laser through fog" but happening to plain air molecules), unit movements can be tracked and straight sight line is a significant logistical restriction.

But if they were only receiving. Well, that's going to be pretty hard to confirm and even if you "jam" it, then so what?
Author here. I agree this is an important feature for a CA. I'll try to add it.
DPRK's Python- fueled intrusions into secured networks (2024)
My IKEA desk has this net under it, it’s so simple and just works. No tedious mucking about with screws or cable guides.

https://file.app.ikea.cn/cn/en/images/products/bekant-desk-s...
For those interested, there is also OpenUC2 on this niche: https://github.com/openUC2/UC2-GIT
It would be interesting to see how the two systems compare.
yeah I know agent.ai and i have been using it more than 2 months. The problem is the intuitiveness of the app. if you are a beginner to Agents it will be little difficult to onboard into agent.ai fully
Your Next GPU could be from AMD
I'm trying to figure out why would someone need or want to install Starlink in a place that's certainly very well connected with fiber, and the only things I can think off is that it's either a commercial / justification for why they are changing the legislation to allow Starlink to receive tens of billions of government $ to provide internet in rural areas, or some (not so wild anymore) conspiracy theories.
I think the parent was really referring to "mind" instead of "brain". It's not the hardware of the brain that's classical, but our sense perception and model of the world.
Probably nobody wants to be the first to do this. Any region that tries to build supply, and bring about lower housing cost, will soon be overrun with migrants I will gobble up to supply.

Housing people is not just putting walls and windows around them. They need transportation. They need water. They generate garbage and sewage.

These are problems that don't go away when you build more housing, but are rather exacerbated.
Show HN: I made a movie recommendation app based on people emotions
You can view what others people emotions for a given movie and you can input yours. This is a side project I worked on to strengthen my portfolio. Really had fun making it. Thanks to cursor for the assist.
I don't think on-call is a necessary evil; I think it's the result of managers and leaders not caring about having multiple failsafes instead opting to foist that problem onto engineers via unpaid labor.

You can have a system with enough redundancy, ability to rollback and deployment scheduling where any sort of on-call incident is highly rare and low impact. But that requires spending time and money on solving those problems which is money that could be spent on developing more features faster. A buggy and broken product doesn't matter as long as you can shovel out More faster.

I've been on both types of teams and I'm at the point in my career that if I'm going to be on-call I'm expecting to be compensated appropriately with actual on-call hours worked. And part of the problem is that even on a team where you're informed of on-call duties and rotation, if the team gets cut or people leave then you're on the hook for working longer hours for less pay. It's inherently exploitative.
They look hand-drawn to me.
E bikes can be used by 15-16 year olds so Dominos uses them a lot here in the Netherlands.
Working on a big embedded C project at the moment - wow, C really needs this and this will be a bit of a gamechanger! I have a lot of 'goto cleanup' but it's so easy to add something and accidentally put in a path that skips some free, proper use of this kind of keyword would make it so much harder to do that.
Falsifiability is exclusively about objectivity and measurability. For instance I think it's fairly safe to say that every single human of working faculties would claim they are conscious. This doesn't mean humans are conscious, because it can't be falsified. Our philosophical zombie, for instance, would say exactly the same no doubt.

And no idea if the reference to Prozac was random, but yeah that is a good example. It's effect is not falsifiable at all. It's based on self reporting. And controlled studies, particularly those not carried out by parties with a vested interest in the outcome, shows its effect be scarcely better than placebo. Some might cling onto to that with 'well that does mean it's still better!' yet Prozac has extreme, and rather rapid onset, side effects which makes it basically impossible to not know if you're getting the right thing. This completely ruins double blinds, and could largely explain what little effect it does show.
when you do a real free(), it frees up memory for any program to use

This is an extremely naive description of not only what the libc free() function does, but also of how memory management works in general.
How is IPv6 mobile centric? It's from the 90s
But we do contribute to Eurovision. That'll do as a trade right? :-)
It also appears to be a $5k permanent backlink from unicode.org, custom anchor text even.
Does DNS blocking work with Apps (e.g. YouTube android) using Certificate pinning?
> there's no need to make everything about politics

I agree except this is a 'News' site where we discuss news. Occasionally there will be a lot of politics in the news that people want to discuss. Bannning that will diminish the value of this site.
If Europe wants cloud protectionism then they need apply the usual methods: tariffs on foreign cloud services and requirements on public funds to be spent on the European cloud providers.

They could apply Chinese policy and require foreign cloud corporations to have locally owned partners that will own the technology produced locally.
It's not Windows only but it is Windows-first. Every few years I take a look but it still doesn't feel like a serious ecosystem for Linux development (in the same way that e.g. Perl might have a Windows release, but it doesn't feel really first-class). I can't think of a single .NET/C# program that people would typically run on Linux to even have the runtime installed, so no wonder people don't bother investigating the languages.
I think the issue is the complexity? It pushes a lot of logic into userspace.
Nix on Ubuntu would be using a parallel set of libraries/dependencies. They won't be linked on top of the stable versions of packages as they've been selected in the LTS

I actually don't really know how that interplays with the rest of the system. If I build say... Konsole in Nix.. It seems like there would be no way for it to cleanly integrate with the rest of my KDE Desktop

The normal Nix versions numbers aren't stable. They have a stable branch but I don't think it lasts too long. And the "pinned" versions aren't as widely supported as Ubuntu LTS versions
> But it would have been a mistake to build High Mountain Abbey in Rust.

I didn’t expect avoiding the custom engine side quest in a game with a very custom art style; kudos!

I think there may be an even bigger mistake avoided here: many indie devs build amazing projects and don’t talk about them enough. If you ever created something you enjoyed, wanted to share it and somehow didn’t, watch and learn; I know I should!
> Groups display some sad behaviours where most of the members know that what they are doing but the leadership is committed to something silly so they go along anyway. Sometimes it gets bad enough that they quit the group, but that is all they can do since most never have a chance at reforming it. This turns up formally in corporations (the executive team have the power to reform) but that is actually just a mirror of a natural social dynamic.

It’s weird how people talk about our modern very unnatural corporations and how they behave and then rush to insist that it’s all a reflection of totally natural and organic stuff.

Yeah I think they doth insist too much.
Although with extra irony. "linear regression followed by an activation function to make it non linear". So it isn't good old linear regression because it is explicitly delinearised.
Is OVH not a European cloud provider? There are also smaller players like Hetzner.
OP just provided an explanation for Robin Hood's business model, it was never stated that Robin Hood operates in accordance with the law.
In fact it is well known, that Robin Hood operated illegally for a long time and got fined by the SEC for its violations: https://www.sec.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2025-5
This is nothing new, see

- M-expressions (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-expression)

- Lisp 2 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LISP_2)

- Dylan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dylan_(programming_language)

- Wolfram (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfram_Language)

- Julia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_(programming_language))

However the large majority of Lisp folks end up using plain old Common Lisp and Scheme with their S-expressions, because it is easier, it is like telling written languages with symbols are harder than those with latin characters, it is only hard to read and write until one actually learns them.
I don't think many people use the builtin HttpClient these days. Apache httpclient would be the conservative standard, apparentyl it has some support for 2 but not 3: https://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-5.4.x/index.html .
I think data driven tests are underused by engineers generally. One advantage that shines in a porting scenario is that they can be language agnostic.

There was pressure from a reviewer in one area where the code could obviously be improved and I pushed back fairly hard in principle, but this was our first big project together and we were building trust, so I compromised in some leaf functions that presented the same API.
> Filing for a new feature implementation would require a thorough documentation, rightfully so, followed by a political campaign to convince the political party of principal engineers and managers to accept the new feature. These stakeholders carry incentives and principals of their own - that do not necessarily always align with the true engineering spirit of solving the problem, nor with satisfying the customer.

> The same friction applied to fixing a bug or a flawed process. I would reproduce the bug: spin up the entire environment, the appropriate binary artifact and the reproduced state of application, create the test cases and pin-point the exact problem for the stakeholders as well as present the possible solutions. I would get sent to a dozen of meetings, bouncing my ideas back and forth until receiving the dire verdict - rejection to fix this bug altogether.

This has been my experience for the entire duration of my tenure at the current place I am employed at. I've stopped doing this, because my backlog is filled with "best effort" features and when I attempt to slot some of these into a quiet sprint, management says no.

Many features I request is not from assumption, but data I gathered with analytics for the customer-facing website. One example is to change a page layout and add better search functionality for this page and its data, because I noticed a +70% no-results rate in the search analytics. I suggested a change but marketing shot it down saying it's low priority for them, while they frequently say that the website can perform better at generating leads. I might be wrong, but to me it feels like utter short-sightedness and goes against the strategic goal of the company.

I'm just an engineer, what do I know?
Perhaps we should give them capital
I don't think bureaucrats can build a successful cloud by enforcing laws, adding even more regulations, making policies and using subsidies.

This is not how the market likes to work. There has to be a demand and the free market forces will build a supply. Governments can help by reducing regulation and bureaucracy, reducing taxes.
I think it’s good to have redundancy. It reminds me of President Jimmy Carter putting solar panels on the White House.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_at_the_White_House
What r-word even is for? Is it Romanian?
Yes even if they keep some places empty, which is a cost, they can more than make up for it.

Say you have an apartment with 50 units. If you can keep 25 empty but charge double for the rest, it's all good. Plus the empty ones are not undergoing any wear and tear. It would be more profitable if the place had just 25 units that were all occupied, but what the hell.

Now suppose you can charge triple.
If you mean free from billionaires and oligarchs, then yes.
It's impossible to surpass the physical limits of our biological senses. Can a person blind from birth form visual mental images?

We can try to retrain and reuse the sense for other purposes though. I'm reminded of that film "The Zero Theorem".
There are large European data centers run by European telecoms, including Telia and Altice. So there's something to scale up from.
> It happens outside QM, and even outside physics. It’s not a physical attribute, it’s statistical.

This is not true at all. In classical mechanics, particles have fully definite properties. In the theory, if two particles collide, the position and momentum they'll have after the collision depend on their exact position and exact momentum before the collision, with no bound on precision.

Of course, classical mechanics admits that we can't measure things to any level of precision, there is some practical bound below which noise in the measurement will drown out the signal. But the interaction itself has no such bound, it happens with infinite precision. If the speed of one of our particles were higher by just 10^-100 m/s, its trajectory might be completely different.

This is not possible in QM. In QM, if the particles collide (they meet at an exact point in space-time), then their trajectories afterwards wouldn't change even if one of their speeds were 10 times higher: if they have definite position, their speed is extremely fuzzy, and it can't significantly affect their trajectories after the event.

And QM turns out to be right abput this, when you measure things precisely enough.
When companies do something this unlikable, it’s often telltale sign they have nothing else to offer.
Even China has an Azure cloud though. I know because I work in it sometimes.
gigantic bobblehead of the author with a particularly exaggerated stupid looking expression on their face induce more people to click through

I never avoided these. They naturally make me puke and disgust and want to smash their degenerate faces if I ever see one on the street. No need for doing my best. The realization that so many people happily click through that was sickening at the time. It’s “open doors” party in asylum and people rushing in in excitement.

Btw, many channels seem to moved on from that, in self-moderation after a short period of experiments. Those who stuck to it showed the most increase in mental deficiency and turning to stupid comedy/meme show rather than original material. One example of that were these new LTT formats, afair.
My post is maybe a huge straw man that supports your post (parent)

Incoming Leo Sharp. He transported thousands of kilos of drugs in his car for the Sinaloa Cartel during his career. In the United States. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Sharp

Of course, He was white, he was old, he was a United States Veteran. This is just a funny single case.
> There has to be a demand and the free market forces will build a supply

Not in all cases it doesn't.

If the return on investment isn't there or if companies are unable to fulfil the demand then the market has failed. Recent example of this has been EVs where regulation needed to step in to force the market forward.
Sometimes when I have the need to do something with images, I wonder whether I could use GIMP. I go look at a Youtube tutorial showing me how I can do what I need to do, using GIMP, and that usually cures me of any desire to use it.

Here's a funny one from my history, 12 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G13TXE9agYM
Intel needs to vastly streamline and cut down their SKUs (antithetical to the PM regime they have built up over the last 25+ years).

They need to stop artificially crippling their products to segment them. Simplify naming and have mid, great and greatest. The lowend shit products should be dumped. This means SRV-IO and ECC available everywhere. All of their GPUs should shift right by 8GB or more.

Streamlining their SKUs would streamline their wafer processing in the fabs.
The movie Screamers (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114367/) is based off it, decent sci-fi.
> If I want to buy at $5 and hold it for more than a day, I don't think the secrecy of that big sale really affects me. It'll be over soon enough.

It does, it means that you could've gotten the stock for maybe $4.9 instead of $5.
> The European cloud industry has struggled to take off, partly because existing players lacked the will or vision to compete effectively (among many other reasons).

The EU would have come after them. It is coming after Google, AWS and Azure even though they have diplomatic support from the US proper; how is an EU cloud provider supposed to compete?

The people with the will and vision exist, if anyone can build EuroCloud they would be wealthy beyond the dreams of mortals and it really just needs to be an OK AWS clone. The unfortunate part is that anyone who sees that far can also see how the story will end when the bureaucrats get involved early instead of after they have multiple billions for compliance. It'll cripple any ability the project has to compete.
yeah, https://nixos.org/guides/how-nix-works/

> parallel set of libraries/dependencies

snaps do the same thing? kind of the whole idea?

> If I build say... Konsole in Nix.. It seems like there would be no way for it to cleanly integrate with the rest of my KDE Desktop

See previous link
Or subsidies or funding R&D?

Tariffs are a trade disabler, so in general a loose-loose proposition.
First rule of on-call : if your team has it, then you either take shifts during work hours or are being paid a metric shitload.
The reason why Europe won't have a cloud is because you can't have managed decline and nice things. This is the same reason Europe will forever be depdent on someone else for defence and why it will always be the meek but somehow petulant follower of whoever is the world hegemon. This is why China and Russia cares so little about them also, they know that Europe will fall in line once their current patron no longer can or want to sustain them.
+1. I see it being helpful for the differently abled but for everyone to just speak out loud their every action would drive everyone nuts in a public setting. Not to mention I can type “code” much faster than if I were to speak it.
The elephant in the room here is pay. You can’t expect people to bend over backwards for 70k/yr.

Start paying 2-300k in Europe and watch shit being built.
At work we do this with DNA floating around in the ocean (have to track down all those nasty invasive crabs) but I wouldn’t have guessed we could do this with the air around us as well. That’s so cool.

Maybe we should spin up an air-based version for the office to keep track of who’s in coming to work the most
I can't speak for you, but personally, a company that would consider replacing its engineers with AI is a company I would not want to work for in the first place.

Maybe once LLMs gain actual intelligence I'll begin to worry.
Surely it's a play on multi -> uni
The blown up whale in Oregon is sort of like the SR-71 speed readout story. Reposted endlessly, but you just kind of accept it.
Ask HN: Do We Still Need One-on-One Syncs for Product Development?
With so many tools for async collaboration, do we still need frequent one-on-one discussions across teams, or can a tool that automates updates and feedback loops replace them? Are daily stand-ups and constant check-ins still necessary? How does your team handle this?
Good, then less greedy people will start new businesses.
It's a trick I stole from ext2, and simplified. In that filesystem there are three bitsets: one for reading, one for writing, one for fsck. If you don't understand a bit you can't do that action.

For most protocols there's only reading and writing, so you can use odd bits to mean "backwards compatible features, you can read even if you don't understand" and even for "stop, we broke compat".
I’m genuinely curious about your reasons to intentionally disable compression? Is there any scenario where gzip is too costly for your device?
The cost of trails and approvals is not something that needs to be covered because these costs are optional (and i guess the processes can be paused arbitrarily). Profits allow you to invest in new drugs but there are other ways of financing those, like investors or loans.

The general point is, that large drug companies can leverage many things while pretending R&D _requires_ high margins.
At google, SRE pays quite well and you don’t have more than 12 hour shifts.
>If the return on investment isn't there or if companies are unable to fulfil the demand then the market has failed.

If there's no demand, there's no problem. Also there's no money to be made. If there's demand there will always be companies to supply that demand. Of course, it takes a time.

Politics shouldn't dictate to economy.

>Recent example of this has been EVs where regulation needed to step in to force the market forward

Then why should people be forced to use EVs instead of whatever they like? That is not freedom.
This made me smile. I have a very similar configuration. Simple but effective. The only thing that worries me bitrot might get me. Then again, my body will bitrot, too. So no point worrying too much about some random data in some turbulence in time.
More like who is sick a lot (sneezing and distributing dna on multiple surfaces in the blast radius)
NASA Astronauts Depart Space Station After Nine Months in Orbit