skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We (https://www.definite.app/) solved this a bit differently.

We spin up a data lake and pipelines (we support 500+ integrations / connectors) to populate the data lake for you then put DuckDB on top as a single query engine to access all your data.
This was a brilliant show, but it had the misfortune to come along at a time when Netflix was cancelling even moderate successes after one season and slashing the budget of hit shows for their second season before cancelling them too (e.g. Altered Carbon). Only very rarely does a show turn into the kind of pop culture sensation that seems to make the bean-counters want to go past two seasons (e.g. Stranger Things), unless it's some executive's idea of a tent-pole for their platform (e.g. Rings of Power).

Given how fragmentation and enshittification of streaming services is driving users back to piracy, one can't help but feel like the current model may not persist much longer. Heck, I wonder what the impact of the trade war is going to be! A lot of people in a lot of countries are cancelling Disney Plus, Netflix, Amazon Plus, Apple TV, etc. just because they're American.
It’s rarely a case of winner takes all, and in this specific scenario both companies have grown into billion dollar valuations. Seems like it’s working for them, ignoring all the lawsuits
People love to hate on the Cybertruck for political reasons but it's literally one of the most innovative vehicles of our time.
See https://www.aboutamazon.eu/news/aws/aws-plans-to-invest-7-8-...

Of course, the question is very much how the courts will see ^
Can't confirm, from Berlin everything is available for me.
It's mandatory for gas stations to install at least one EV charger in a lot of EU countries. Spain recently started requiring one EV charger per 20 spaces in every parking structure. The electric transition may not be fast, but it's happening.
> It feels like there's a real opportunity here for European companies to step up and make a big play, but will they?

I think that this will depend a lot on expectations about politics in the USA in the medium/long term. Making this kind of investments makes sense if you expect the aggressive hostility that the current administration brought against Europe (and all other US traditional allies) to continue for a long time, and not just a couple years.
Your last quip fascinates me. Do you price options such? How is the pricing different under different methods?
Maybe if we weren't letting a third party sign arbitrary certificates for arbitrary domains they wouldn't be reading our passwords.

People don't realise CloudFlare is a MitM-as-a-Service.
Why do people go through the system, hate the system, then gleefully enforce the system (or an even more brutal version of the system) when they are at the top?
It is not, like the THz band, which is why it’s very interesting for telecommunications. There is more bandwidth available in a tinier part of the spectrum. It’s like comparing the ipv4 address space to the ipv6 address space. And no license required.
Similarly: monitoring dashboards

You can find the exporters like we did, scrape away. Stop trying to get me to look at it with you
They were never stranded, that's why anyone with half a brain isn't outraged.

Or maybe the astronauts, who themselves stated they weren't stranded, are big fat liars. Personally, I'll take them at their word.
Can only recommend them - not too expensive, you can also use your own domains and they support at-rest auto encryption of all incoming mail with a PGP public key you give them (which of course does not prevent them from saving incoming mail as clear text somewhere else, but prevents others from reading all existing mail should they get access to your mailbox later)
Could you explain then how so many European governments ended up one of a handful of US clouds (Amazon, Microsoft and Google)?

Almost reason I can think of comes down to scaling or network effects.

I say "almost" because I've thought of a couple more:

- it's already a Microsoft shop and it's hard to change? Lock-in effect.

- you never get fired for choosing IBM, err, AWS? I don't have a name for this effect, though it seems related to scaling.

Note that "monopoly" does not mean there is only a single provider. "De Beers controlled 80% to 85% of rough diamond distribution and was considered a monopoly" during the 20th century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Beers

This is because I'm using the legal definition of monopoly, not the economics one. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly

> In economics, a monopoly is a single seller. In law, a monopoly is a business entity that has significant market power, that is, the power to charge overly high prices, which is associated with unfair price raises.
You're assuming it would make a difference: they're already just hoovering up 'usual stuff' and splicing it all sorts of ways. For these purposes there's no difference between 'deliberately incorrect' and 'just not very good at its job'.

No point in taking effort to recreate what's already out there as authentic not-goodery :)
Is Product Search Broken? Why Are We Still Stuck with Ads and Fake Reviews?
Hi HN,
I’ve been thinking a lot about how broken product search is today. You type in a query, and the first page is just ads, SEO-optimized blogs, or fake reviews. It feels like the system is designed to waste our time rather than help us.

For example, I was searching for a decent pair of wireless headphones under $200. After an hour of scrolling through Google, Amazon, and forums, I found a thread on Reddit from 2019. Guess what? The recommended model was discontinued.

This made me wonder:

Why are we still stuck with ads and fake reviews?
Why hasn’t anyone built a better solution?
What would your ideal product search engine look like?

I’ve been exploring some tools that claim to solve these issues, but I’m curious to hear how you handle it. Do you have any tips, tools, or tricks to share? Let’s discuss!
At a lot of companies engineers are involved in picking the work. It's silly to hire competent problem solvers and treat them as unskilled workers needing micro-management.

Besides, if you set the on-call system up so people get free time the following day to compensate for waking up at night, the manager can't pretend there's no cost.

Bad management will fail on both of these of course, but there's no saving that beyond finding a better company.
Don't see anything in there about searches?
How do we start learning to 'read' other people's minds?
Its already a thing with Nio. Whats more they also allow you to upgrade your battery to higher capacity for long trip ie your normal car battery is 60Kwh but you swap with a 105Kwh for a long trip.
Is that the GDPR that has polluted the web with cookie notices?
Stockholm syndrome. Only if the game is getting grant money out of that system.
For some reason, I had subscribed to OpenAI's service updates via email and not a day goes by without some some email about some downtime.Though I am a bit surprised to see it as the best one of the lot... they might be putting their money to good use.
I’m not sure about Go being full of footguns, but for one, a panic in any goroutine forcibly terminates the entire application.
'as quick as filling up a tank' is a bit exaggerated (5 min for 250 miles) but I guess it's impressive that it's getting to the same order of magnitude.
Why risk it when you can be a dick and assure your success?
> It's a super top-heavy industry to be in

Yes, and this disparity exists even within the subscription subset of apps.
The Space Shuttle's Controversial Launch Abort Plan (2014)
Curious to hear more details about your previous job? What were you doing to require 100k tapes?
Yeah the last couple weeks has made me wary of anything US based too. Not just privacy but also just overall risk. They’ve suddenly become very erratic in their decision making.

Quite hard to untangle it though. So much of the internet is US centric unfortunately. And even if you figure out the first layer of vendors they in turn are likely US reliant too
I know that US iOS is the dominant system, but shouldn't it be just a website with PWA??
Empires have fallen and civilizations have crumbled, an idiocracy like scenario is not unimaginable.
Which supercapacitors are sold and have car-scale energy?
No prices set in stone yet but it will be around 10 per monthly user, 20 for pro accounts.

There will be an option to self host as a single stateless executable/ docker container (plus db) and also to do two way sync with github issues, jira, notion and linear. So the company going away should be less of a danger than with pt.
Let's assume you are right. If two parties trade a large amount of shares at the public price, how is HFT going to interfere if the trade took place in public?
Simply put, "because their normal egg prices are much higher than American due to their agribusiness being a lot less efficient". But as a consequence, unexpected events hit American system harder.
Have you considered mailbox.org? I rarely hear much about this German mail provider that supposedly prioritizes privacy.
I'm talking about the EU countries and not the third-world countries but since you're ignorant and disingenuous there's no purpose of continuing this discussion anymore. More graceful interpretation would be that you're limited in capabilities to understand distributions, percentiles and some fresher year statistics, in which case it should be easy to fix.
which has horrible issues with moderation and zealots over-blocking random things in videos
Fello AI: Universal AI Chatbot for Your Mac
For me the worst thing about being on-call is not the actual work outside business hours (it’s usually not much), but the potential work: if something happens I need to jump into my laptop within X minutes (changes from company to company, but it’s usually within 10 minutes). This means: I cannot go for a run, I cannot go to the movies, I cannot go for a dinner with family, I cannot even go shopping (shopping mall is further than a 10 min. trip). Basically, all I can do is stay at home and be available. It sucks, and the money is not worth it.
>It seems we are pushed into major conflicts

>so her friends can build expensive tanks that will never see a battle

I am not sure how you consolidate the two statements. It seems to me that there is a very real risk of armed conflict in Europe over the next decade.
Bad policy seems to be the typical case. People can't even agree on what is good policy. Expecting them to implement good policy consistently is just unrealistic.

Meanwhile, as we wait for the elusive capitalist utopia, there are real-world issues that should be solved. The solutions will likely involve policy changes. Which will likely have both positive and negative outcomes. And the negative outcomes will probably require further policy changes in the future.
How is this not "sanitizing inputs"?

The basic idea behind your proposal exists and is called prepared statements. It's actually, I hope, the normal way to write queries these days.

You write your query like: "SELECT * FROM users WHERE username = ?" and execute your query like "execute(query, username)".

The problem? It's optional.
Hot take: If the US and EU secret services stop sharing any intel with each other, wouldn’t it be smarter for Europeans to use American services now more than ever? Because even if they’ll get their hands on your nudes, tax docs, or pirated movies, what could they even do with it? If you use an European company on the other hand and some local government wants to fuck you up, it’s much more easier to get their dirty hands onto you, your family, and your friends.
I'm mostly posting this to see if anyone here is using it. My spidey sense is tingling that there's something off about it.
> want to smash their degenerate faces

You're supposed to smash the like button and remember to comment and subscribe.
We did this when we renovated. Had a kitchen wall section chalk board painted for notes, as well as a much larger section of the kids play room wall.

The notes was useful space on the kitchen and the playroom one the kids just loved to doodle. Their friends were always impressed and loved to be able to leave a tag or doodle on it when they came over.

We tried a layer of magnetic paint too, but it didn’t work nearly as well.
> but almost all apps nowadays use certificate pinning which means the system certificate store is ignored

Certificate pinning (or rather, public key pinning) is technically obsolete and browsers themselves removed support for it in 2018. [1] Are there many apps still really using this?

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Public_Key_Pinning
With scooters you handle the battery by yourself.

Unless you plan to scale human strength in the next years, it won’t be the same solution.
Digital wiki as a single and detailed online resource
For the Americans in the room with European customers, this all should be taken very seriously.

From our perspective, the US has just declared itself hostile. No organisation their right mind would use a stack dominated by Russian companies, any organisation not considering the risks of having their tech US-based right now is being careless in the extreme.

Even if Trump goes away tomorrow, this is a long term issue. America has demonstrated that it's an unreliable partner twice now. We can't make our planning on the basis of a dice roll for the Whitehouse.
I think it's pretty clear the owners of the corner store are not deploying those tactics for they are not the state.

Thank you for engaging in good faith.
Whether the price is fair or not is obviously up to you. I personally don't like the deal, so I would rather use alternatives.

IMO your quotation marks around _free_ do a lot of heavy lifting.
Right and there's asymmetry between what a good & bad manager can do.

A good manager can motivate people, but in absence of interesting projects or budget to pay people, they can still lose talent.

A bad manager can make even interesting work and good compensation intolerable and lead to a revolving door of B players as no one with better options wants to stick around.

The through line for me of genuinely bad managers is guys (always guys) who are emotionally unstable and/or have anger management issues. Whether it was being put on as an effect to get a result, or they genuinely had no control, it doesn't matter.

Shouting at people, berating people in public, praising in private while criticizing in team meetings, going on tirades over petty stuff (formatting of internal non-user facing documentation), etc.
Huh, didn't know there were enough people to perpetuate a model like that just for lost pets. I had thought of this a while back and figured that would be a no-go

I was thinking it might help if they opened up the premise a bit, just made it about collecting pictures of animals, maybe tagging them as being a stray or having a collar but being alone, that it might increase the engagement for something like this.

Also +1 on the android point
Are you willing to pay for something like a Consumer Reports subscription? $24 for 1 year.

https://www.consumerreports.org/electronics-computers/headph... seems like what you want, at least for this case.

If you are not willing to pay, then who pays to carry out the reviews, and who benefits from helping you find that review vs. helping you find an advertisement?
I don't think anything in life is better than sitting in a Rolls Royce, apart from say having a kid (but even that's debatable lol)
I'll give a different point of view.

I switched my personal email from Google Workspace to Proton. My use case wasn't privacy (especially when 99% of my email is sent to and received from people using Gmail, Office 365, etc.) I was interested in trying Proton more to support a plurality of service providers.

As such, I'm probably not Proton's target customer. That means the compromises Proton makes to enable E2E are not worth it to me.

Some examples:

* Search is like going back 20 years.

* The lack of automatic filtering (e.g. Gmail's automatically applied Promotions, Updates, etc labels) has made the signal to noise ratio in my personal inbox so low that I'm considering just taking the app off my phone or suppressing notifications, at least. I don't have the time to set up manual filters for everything that comes in.

* The lack of automatic filtering and decent search means that my personal email is now pretty much useless.

Similarly, it's pretty hard to migrate away from because you can't just use IMAP to shift your email history to another provider.

This isn't a negative review of Proton. This is just to say that choosing Proton Mail means living with the compromises necessary to enable their main feature (privacy) and I don't care enough about that one feature to make those compromises worthwhile (because my email is going through so many non-private services anyway).
> public IPs affordable

Not until we start considering all non-IPv6-supporting ISPs to be a no-go.
> Supposedly creators get a bigger share from YT Premium users'

I've heard this multiple times before, but every time I go hunting for a source from Google/YouTube, I cannot find any official statements or confirmed information about this, seems this is mostly based on 3rd party analysis afaik.
can confirm. Great for small and cheaps VPSes
Things were wildly overpromised. The innovation that was delivered (e.g. steer by wire) gives little advantage for customers.
The problem I see with this article, is that 3 of his chosen options rely on Swiss companies. And Switzerland is most definitely not the EU.

For the time being their interest are very much aligned with the EU (and logically so, from a geographical and economic standpoint), but Switzerland also has a history of happily changing sides when their "neutrality" or their financial interests are at stake.

Their historical dependency on finance (and their shady practices), combined with a high dependence on US trade, and high financial investments in the US make them particularly vulnerable to economical and financial blackmailing by the US. For a case-in-point, see the particularly weak response (or "diplomatic" response, staying charitable..) of Karin Keller-Sutter to the Trump developments, in a bid to hopefully avoid tariffs.

Therefore, companies obeying Swiss laws simply do not offer the same "privacy" guarantee as companies obeying EU law.

Secondarily, putting your trust in a company who's CEO openly supports the Republican party is, in the current context, very questionable. No matter the Proton PR denials and clean-up attempts after the facts.
If the code is important enough that it needs to be fixed if it breaks at 03:00, someone needs to be on-call

If that someone isn't the dev, things breaking at 03:00 is someone else's problem from the PoV of the dev, and it will likely keep breaking.

I've tried at several companies to get dev-teams to prioritise things causing a lot of work for the ops-team, and nothing has worked as well as disbanding the ops team and putting the devs on-call.

Pain from a problem needs to live where the problem can be fixed.
See Typed Racket https://docs.racket-lang.org/plait/Type_Checking_and_Inferen...
With a much larger battery. Double the battery and voilà you can charge it at twice the speed.
Hard disagree with a lot said here. Watched both the film and this series (though haven't got around to finishing it yet) for the first time last year, and the series lacks a lot of what makes the film great.

The film has some interesting zen-like qualities like duality, and a more complex set of morals. The series just feels like most modern creations with a pretty bland right vs wrong.

The film is also almost entirely practical effects, which are incredible (the behind the scenes footage is amazing), while the series leans a bit too heavily on CGI in parts, which detracts from the action a bit (à la LoTR vs The Hobbit).

Given this piece I might go back to finish it now (and from another comment possibly upgrade my TV), but I still think I'll prefer the film.
I'm pretty sure:

"I have to review our mitigations several times per day to keep that number from getting any higher. When I do have time to work on something else, often I have to drop it when all of our alarms go off because our current set of mitigations stopped working. ... it’s not long before we’re complaining about the bots and asking if the other has cracked the code to getting rid of them once and for all."

means that no one has managed it.
Very good question! Funnily enough, it was indeed a conscious decision to avoid mentioning "inference", because then people might expect that we're doing polymorphism with type variables/or maybe that we're deriving a Hindley-Milner inference system.

We're not doing these things, so we figured it would be safer this way, but absolutely you could call what we're doing "type inference".

That being said, we've got some ideas for a follow-up paper to revisit this and derive something more worthy of being called "inference".
The ArmSom AI Module 7
please read my post again. crypto culture is tainted. cryptocurrency is just tech, just as ML is just tech. crypto culture however is rug pulling, rampant scams etc.
Email, again, is just tech and there is no real email culture around (mailing lists?)
That sounds like you've just made it so your app doesn't work behind a corporate SSL proxy. I really need people to stop rolling there own SSL stores (looking at you python, java and nodejs). I spend way to much of my time getting things running on my work laptop that should just use the CA store IT pre-installed.
Hetzner had revenues of €470m in 2022 (last available). It was €866m for OVH over the same period.

Source: S&P CapitalIQ
I agree!

I switched because of their calendar integration. I needed an email tool that would send 'accept' replies to calendar invites send from outlook and google, and I landed on proton.

To any self-hosters if you have a working setup for that (email+calendar), please let me know! I couldn't find anything decent.
> Now, this "cloud" is a misnomer

Absolutely.

I have seen a lot and usually the smaller the better.

I remember the Flemish gov (7M people so quite small) was doing great in this domain. France where everything needs to be centralised, big and controlled is doing terrible I guess.

This is why starting the discussion with the concept of "EU" and "Cloud" is wrong. We do not need an aircraft carrier, we need a lot of drones.
> It does require writing good instructions for the LLM to properly use the tables

--- start quote ---

prompt engineering is nothing but an attempt to reverse-engineer a non-deterministic black box for which any of the parameters below are unknown:

- training set

- weights

- constraints on the model

- layers between you and the model that transform both your input and the model's output that can change at any time

- availability of compute for your specific query

- and definitely some more details I haven't thought of

https://dmitriid.com/prompting-llms-is-not-engineering

--- end quote ---
It is more fun to fight LLMs rather than trying to create magical unicorn caches that work for every endpoint.
Gravity is going to be rough.