skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends on the company. Complete startup with zero history suggesting they're still around?

Or a company that's been at it for 30 years, happily paying their employees to have a life, and no interest in IPO or selling?

Because the former: that's buy once, never upgrade, because it's gone. The latter? Buy once, enjoy forever, maybe upgrade once there's a feature that actually makes a difference to you personally 5 years from now. If you ever need to pay for that update at all rather than just getting lifetime free update (VueScan, FL Studio, etc)
Yes, it's pretty common. It's also common for businesses where customers tip to underpay their employees on the expectation that they'll make it up with tips. It's legal to do this in many jurisdictions.

As an American, I wish we didn't do this, but it's a collective action problem that's very hard to solve.
That may be exclusively a Portland thing.

You definitely can't do that in most of the US.
Speculative?

You are probably not aware of this, but these are the events on and leading up to Jan 6.

* Trump calls fraud on elections with no real evidence. Lawsuits are filed. Every single one of them gets dismissed except like one, which ends up turning more votes for Democrats anyways

* Some adviser puts in an idea in Trumps head that Pence can reject the results and send them back to the states

* Trump basically gathers a crowd together, tells them to march to the capital to save our country. As the protesters are breaking in, there are records of him just calling different senators and asking "are you sure you don't want to delay the certification of the vote", all while being told that protesters are breaking in and getting hurt.

* Trump sends a fake set of electors from key states, calling on Pence to "do the right thing". Those fake electors were of course arrested and prosecuted.

None of this is disputable, undeniable, as it was brought up in a republican controlled supreme court hearing, which you can read for yourself. Supreme court decided that President is basically immune from legal punishment as long as he is acting within official capacity.

So saying he is gonna do more shit this time around, granted that he has legal immunity to do so is about as speculative as saying the guy who does 2 Nazi salutes probably believes that the Nazis were right in a lot of things.
Swiss Cheese Model of Failure
I'd be happier if that broken-but-correct-2x-a-day guy banned HFCS (High Fructose Corn Syrup) instead. It is my personal hypothesis that it is the cause of 'sugar cancer' (general cases of bad sugars / imbalances of sugars in the body), including Diabetes.
Sadly people keep buying these types of devices. Every time I walk by modern devices all I can think is how I wish I could buy them without the fear of what they will do once I turn them on. I don't want a new car because of the spying it does. I don't want a new TV because of the spying and advertising it does. I don't want any part of the current crop of smart speakers because of the spying/advertising they do. The problem is I will eventually have to buy some of this junk as my old stuff slowly breaks. If I am forced to buy something spying on me because there is no alternative, is it illegal to poison the data sent back in some way? Is it time to go on the offensive?
There's a mismatch in submit pricing: FAQ says $20 while the submit page says $10
>it's a good loss leader

And that is problem. Old era Apple dont do Loss leaders. Apple TV+, or the services strategy involving News+, Fitness+, Arcade, Music etc are fundamentally different to old / Steve Job's Apple.

All of them were created hoping it is valuable enough so you could subscribe to Apple or "Apple One" in a bid to hide and leverage the $30B raw profits from Google Search and App Store.

Steve once said IIRC in D9, you create a great product, then you figure out the go to market strategy. Right now Apple is the other way around, at least for Services, they figure out the strategy, and then think about what product should go in that strategy.
I don't think Rust is particularly problematic here. As long as you don't want to do funky things like use immutable argument memory as temporary scratch space (with you restoring the values afterwards of course), all it means is some `unsafe`ing at worst, compared to C/C++. And there are some safe abstractions you can make over loads/stores (everything else being safe, even if not yet marked as such).

Do agree that a standard SIMD type is rather pointless, if not immediately, then in like 5 years. (and, seemingly, both Rust and C++ are like over 10 years behind on SIMD, so they're already out-of-date)

Maybe somewhat useful if you just want the simple ~8x speedup, and not squeeze out the last 1.4x or whatever, but autovectorization should be capable of covering a significant amount of such.
Many Android TVs do this, including Hisense, and they try to mask it with dishonest verbiage about what the feature is doing. It's definitely not just a VIZIO thing.
VueScan Developer here. We have a subscription option - but that's really intended for customers who have short term scanning needs (ie. scan all of your slides). If you purchase a one-time VueScan license, you can use it indefinitely.
Yeah, I can only speculate on that one. It was a well-written, high-level epiphany, that, as you mentioned on the podcast, was purely editorial. It was one of my favorite DF posts, but I don't think everybody got it.
Just as we should assume innocence until proven-guilty, we should assume the arresting authorities have terrible bad reasons until they show us good ones.
That isn't it. The Lynch PS2 commercial is in the video in the original article, 16:14 through.
oh for the days of offline datacenters and dumb terminals.
Why not buy a smart TV and don't connect it to wifi?
It’s heartbreaking, but not surprising. When you’re dealing with limited resources, constant stress, and often living in areas where healthy options are harder to access or more expensive, sugary drinks can feel like an affordable comfort. Instead of judging SNAP recipients, we should be looking at the systems that make soda more accessible than clean, appealing
, and fresh food.
As said in another comment, first there are particular filters builtin or that you can setup. To the point that you can even customize with css the way that results are displayed.

Not having half page of the results with ads is also great.

And in addition, results are not only from Google/Bing and other sources but they also use their own index.
I plug a mini PC into my TVs and use them that way. Works out better because the TV apps run way slower than even the cheapest mini PCs.
And just to clarify, if enough people flag submissions, but not enough people, then it can get buried but not get the "flagged" tag? Because very few of the DF posts actually seem to get that tag.

But maybe even some light flagging, plus high engagement-to-view ratio (esp. if engagements go many levels deep fast), may cause some "unwanted" content to be buried.
Unprivileged user namespaces are not a security vulnerability. Ubuntu's short-sighted and reactionary decision to ban them makes systems less, not more, secure overall, since with this capability gone, it makes it that much harder for a well-behaved unprivileged program to set up a userspace sandbox. If the kernel has vulnerabilities, fix them. Don't just randomly break useful features.
Show HN: OpenAPI MCP Server – Make Cursor AI Understand Your API Specs
Hey everyone! I've built an MCP server that helps LLMs understand your OpenAPI specifications. It's pretty straightforward:

What it does:

- Loads multiple OpenAPI specifications from a directory
- Exposes API operations and schemas through MCP protocol
- Enables LLMs to understand and work with your APIs directly in your IDE
- Supports dereferenced schemas for complete API context
- Maintains a catalog of all available APIs
GitHub: https://github.com/ReAPI-com/mcp-openapi

Would love to get your feedback and suggestions!
Windows has a whole different (looser, older) security model. There are no security barriers between windows running on the same desktop. (In particular, "UAC is [still] not a security barrier"--when you hit ok/type in a password to elevate a process, you’re effectively elevating the whole desktop and everything you're running.)
I play Silent Hunter III which was released in 2005. Also Half-Life sometimes. Everything older is going to be console games.

Businesses run the old stuff.
The cognitive dissonance in the article when it comes to Signal and Protonmail is the same thing the author is deriding with people trusting Apple et al.

Apple has far more to lose monetarily than protonmail if it comes out that Apple sells off iMessage contents or similar.

I agree with the ideal of the article and the plight, but the shilling of Signal and Protonmail absolutely destroy the message because it goes right back to who you decide to trust to run a closed source service for you.

A corporation betraying a relationship with a customer is not a magic property of a corporation. It can happen just as easily with non-profits, coops, and any other org structure.

They are all groups of people in the end who you don’t know and fundamentally cannot trust to be acting as an agent of your interests.

100% we need more of Stallman or someone pushing actual open source.

Signal and Protonmail are not that. They are just other SaaS providers that you have to trust the marketing of.
What do you mean? There's literally tons of evidence. Do you think fluoride doesn't actually reduce cavities?
IRS to overhaul its tech after finding $21.1B in fraud in just two years
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Alternatively - and now that I'm thinking about it - I think Apple TV might adopt the A/24 model of purchasing individual movies and shows that they like, and marketing it like crazy.

In fact, that does seem to be Apple TV's model already. For example, Ted Lasso, Mythic Quest, Pachinko, Foundation, Silo, Severance, The Studio, and For All Mankind are all produced by entirely different production houses but licensing for them was acquired by Apple.
20 bucks for submitting??? damn bro
Not just in code, anywhere that accepts a comment (or carries a JSON Schema), e.g.

# just as an example, I'm pretty sure that
# IJ already knows this is SQL
spring:
datasource:
hikari:
# language=sql
connection-test-query:
SELECT count(1) FROM my_table

and also in not-obviously-sql literals

#!/usr/bin/env python
# language=sql
MY_AWESOME_QUERY = """
WITH awesome AS (
-- ...
) SELECT * FROM awesome
"""
He's not wrong, but he's also not right. I suppose it mostly comes close to screaming into the void and not helping with anything.

The way things are is also a mirror of large society. It takes a lot to keep it all going, combined with nobody has time or wants to care about the technology in their life. At best there are some negative events that makes people think about it for a little while, and for some there will be a bad memory, but in the end it just fades out of focus to the same place where oil changes and filter changes go.
I prefer to use clickhouse-local for all my CSV needs as I don't need to learn a new language (or cli flags) and can just leverage SQL.

clickhouse local --file medias.csv --query "SELECT edito, count() AS count from table group by all order by count FORMAT PrettyCompact"

┌─edito──────┬─count─┐
│ agence │ 1 │
│ agrégateur │ 10 │
│ plateforme │ 14 │
│ individu │ 30 │
│ media │ 423 │
└────────────┴───────┘

With clickhouse-local, I can do lot more as I can leverage full power of clickhouse.
You still reward the company and there's a chance you'll resell it to someone in the future, who will not understand the dark patterns. If you really disagree with the approach, just don't touch them at all.
It's an odd hill to die on - I doubt the production line in Bangladesh or India would any less "dirty" than the person wearing clothes before you.
Yep. My favorite thing is when I am not even at a restaurant and I'm being asked to tip a retail worker making well above minimum wage. As a former bartender who made $2.65US an hour and relied on tips for my "paycheck" each week, seeing this new "tipping everyone" trend is like a slap in the face.

Bottom line, if your business can't afford to pay its people a living wage, then it can't afford to operate.
Yeah it would have to be some kind of browser redirect dance using stuff like oauth.

The current system of generating keys and setting custom permissions will leave room for error.
I was thinking margin calls too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43423201#43425801

He had a sizable chunk of collateralized borrowings against his Tesla shares even before the Twitter acquisition. There was the risk of a margin call during year following the acquisition, but AI became the latest hotness so he was able to spin up a company to cook up some more market bubble.
I believe a Roku does the same kind of TV fingerprinting, and probably so do the other streaming hardware devices. So, not sure there is any relief anywhere? You can run your own linux HPC, but those get locked to 720p quality.
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Nobody tell him what chemicals were put in his drinking water to produce it. This might be the dumbest sentence uttered yet.
Unlike the other players (except Amazon), Apple is not primarily a streaming company, so it makes it easier to bundle streaming as a loss leader while leaving open the option to do a tuck-in acquisition of high value IP if the opportunity arises (eg. MLS games).
Same.. huge productivity boost, and in general it writes better code than me, because quite frankly, I'm pretty lazy with the first lines of code.

But yeah, the better you know how to describe what you want, the better the results. Not really a difference from humans, eh?
That exists, it’s called SteamOS.
Afaik these findings primarily involve populations exposed to fluoride levels above 1.5 mg/L, which is higher than the 0.7 mg/L recommended for U.S. water supplies. There is insufficient evidence to conclude that fluoride at recommended levels negatively impacts IQ.

At safe levels fluoridation is a public health measure akin to fortifying foods with vitamins (e.g., iodine in salt or folic acid in flour something we do all the time).
Show HN: Stream your movies to the browser in 150 LOC
The First LLM
if it ain't broke :)
> Rust feels like a Python developer’s idea of a high-performance computing language.

I might be wrong, but I think it sounds more like Rust doesn't move as far away from the C or C++ way of doing things as you want it to. At the very least, Rust is no worse than C or C++ at any of the things you mentioned.
Davinci Resolve is a lifetime license for an extremely powerful video production platform. It's a great value even at a serious-hobbyist level.
Ask IBM how well that idea worked.

I think it's fair to say that OS/2 had better Windows compatibility (for it's era) than Wine offers (in this era). The problem was that Microsoft introduced breaking changes with the introduction of Windows 95. While old Windows applications would continue to run under OS/2, IBM felt that it would take too much effort to introduce a compatability layer for Windows 95. If I recall correctly, it involved limitations with how OS/2 handled memory.

Besides, binary compatibity has never really been a big thing in Linux since the majority of software used is open source. It is expected to compile and link against newer libraries, but there is no real incentive for existing binaries to remain compatible. And if the software doesn't compile against newer versions of libraries, well, Windows has similar issues.
but it’s technically not a standard yet. Or not blessed as one by any neutral body or consortium etc.

It’s quickly becoming a de facto standard though, now that OpenAI has added it to their SDK.

It’s likely to be used to create a standard though (like with QUIC and HTTP3)
So you're saying that dental health is essential for the rest of the body? Yet, Canada doesn't include it in its famous 'universal free healthcare'...

I'd actually just like to see more money put into public dental assistance. And education.
Lots of embedded stuff will have control software that's very old.
Glad to hear it and thanks for the correction.

My impression was that the previous "Professional Edition, Single User" license included upgrades in perpetuity (which no longer seems to be the case). Am I misremembering on this point?
Probably the only app I bought once 10 years ago and still use daily.

https://fogofworld.app/en/
Is this sarcasm? Some of my favorite games are 20 years old. Windows is popular in a lot of manufacturing spaces because the equipment software doesn't get updated and only connects to old programs over 16 bit serial ports.

There's a whole world out there of legacy software that is happily churning along, and doesn't need to be updated.
When traveling by vehicle (pickup truck for me) I've thrown in a 5 gallon cooler of water from home. It was so nice to want to drink water because it was my own good well water that tastes like I'm used to.

When I had to fly to NY for work I felt like I couldn't get water anywhere that was worth drinking.
Why so defensive? I never stated any such opinion on it. I just pointed out the fact that it's not some sort of anti-capitalist activity that doesn't involve monetary transactions - billionaires are actively getting richer out of this.
I feel like ads are taking over everything. I fear the world will soon resemble Minority Report.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bXJ_obaiYQ
Why does the “little c” conservative look to Europe when convenient, hmm?
Microsoft generally strives for pretty good backward compatibility. Especially for, relatively speaking, simpler software.
> The obligatory TeXmacs mention.
Just one app? Flutter will die like most google projects. At best it's a mediocre language that only does mobile. The kind of people who are fine with that kind fluff in their brain already picked swift and/or kotlin. They're not moving to a new language just to gain ONE single extra platform (none if they're already efficient in both)
Cool to see you here - I purchased a license for an old Nikon scanner and haven't circled back to benefit from it but I trust VueScan will serve me wonderfully. Thank you!
> many people do not brush their teeth

many? (!!!)

Googling it all I found was one dentist website that said 2%, but didn't seem that reliable
WebMIDI isn’t implemented in Safari (supposedly for [security concerns](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23676109)). Only options I know of for iOS are Scrub Web Browser and WebMIDI from the App Store
I feel like there are enough free and semi-free textbooks to study just about anything I want. The limiting factor is my not so plentiful brainpower to actually learn new math stuff. There's no way I can possibly run out of textbooks.
FL Studio. Buy once, forever version upgrades. Good software too. https://www.image-line.com/
Yep, seriously.
… except for byte-level processing, variable-length codecs, or mixed-precision numerics. That never works with autovectorization and can’t be solved with general-purpose SIMD wrappers. For me the solution was to implement those manually, and even at a scale of just 2 libraries I’ve eneded up with somewhat different project layouts & dispatch mechanisms: https://github.com/ashvardanian/SimSIMD , https://github.com/ashvardanian/StringZilla

One big family not covered there, is sparse data-strictures and related algorithms. I’ve only started integrating scatter/gather in AVX-512 and SVE, and on synthetic benchmarks both look promising: https://github.com/ashvardanian/less_slow.cpp/releases/tag/v...

Those should probably unlock a much wider set of applications for SIMD, but designing libraries for those may benefit from yet another project structure.
I use LO Writer for my resume, and Calc for my taxes.
Please tell me why Apple should’ve kept supporting 32-bit apps forever. Do you have a good, well-reasoned justification?

Your comparison to Windows doesn’t make much sense. Windows is by far the less powerful and far more annoying to work with platform as a developer.
I still can't get MS Office 365 working on Linux over Wine, while no alternatives make me comfortable. Comparing Linux and Win32 ABI on Linux is nonsense without talking about Wine compatibility.
Open Source Framework Aims to Keep Tidbyt Afloat
I still play Total Annihilation, from 1997.

Great game.
Interesting hypothesis, is it based on anything specific? I think refined/added sugars in general are probably something best avoided, but admittedly still eat plenty. The idea that one sugar is materially worse than another feels off, but I can't quite put my finger on why.
Somewhere buried on the Microsoft site there is a page that says they are committed to getting any 32bit windows software or above working and they have a separate support team for. I assume they are the Compatibility team.
Kids until which age? Ime somewhere between 4-5 seem to be perfectly able to spit their toothpaste without swallowing. Guidelines in the EU typically suggest normally fluoride toothpaste in increasing amounts after 4.

Also, fluoride helps with remineralisation when it is used pretty much regularly, not once per 6 months. Fluoride treatments once per 6 months are not gonna bring back the enamel lost.

I do not understand what is the big deal here. In many countries there are specific recommendations wrt to fluoride and kids brushing their teeth that seem to work fine. This seems to be a solved issue in many places in the world without fluoridating water.
It is usually worth the effort and would provide you with invaluable experiences…
GDP PPP, not nominal
Related note: Karpathy is really good at naming things. Seems whatever name he comes up with for new things sticks.
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Hacked together in a day with cursor

I hope y'all get a laugh
I think you have a totally skewed idea about what is going on.

Most protocols are used by exactly two parties; I meet someone who wants to have their computer talk to mine and so we have to agree on a protocol for doing so.

When we agree to use XML, they use that exact date format because I just ask for it. If someone wanted me to produce some weird timestamp-format, I'd ask for whatever xslt they want to include in the payload.

When we agree to use JSON, schema says integers, email say "unix time", integration testing we discover it's "whatever Date.now() says" and a few months later I discover their computer doesn't know the difference between UTC and GMT.

Also: I like APL.
Those old Nikon scanners really were great scanners - VueScan will be there when you need it!
I agree with this way of thinking about it, but the problem is “added to the lexicon” is ill-defined.

There is no official lexicon. When speaking English, the pronunciation of “Paris” has become well-established, but for countless other words, it has not.
When my very nice Sony Bravia vintage dumb-TV did something like this last year, it was due to a streaming service running on my PS5, which service I canceled, with extreme prejudice.

(Right now, the ad-free Netflix that I pay for is testing limits sometimes, of how much they try to control my experience for their own whims, but it's tolerable, and there's potential obnoxious things that they tastefully haven't done.) (Though they did briefly give me two creepy categories, for about a day, but then maybe someone realized their mistake, or got the Netflix fired-fast.)
My comment was in response to the complaint about outbreaks at all.
The STL was originally header-only. Not sure if it still is.
Apple TV is pretty good and not very pricey. It’s a good value
I keep thinking that number would means Apple get $3.5B back. At $120 per year, that is 30 million paid subscribers. But we also know a lot of Apple TV+ subscribers are from gift, Mobile network give away etc. I would assume a lot of those are coming from Apple's Marketing Budget, which is basically shifting it within Apple.

I would not be surprised if it was closer to $2B if not more on lost.