skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1080p is not nearly enough. You basically have to create sufficiently high resolution on a relatively small fraction of the image sensor. Even 4K is not enough for that (see e.g. Apple Vision Pro).
Interesting, I hadn't heard that term before. It's essential to put a name on it.
The problem is, it kills anonymity - it allows at the very least the government to tie each web page visit, each resource load, back to a real person.

And no, "anonymous mixer" services don't work either. They're yet another layer of useless profiteering middlemen, which the web already has more than enough of.
FCC Launches Proceeding on GPS Complements
I wonder how well this will actually work.

The core problem is that alot of crawlers aren't spending their money. They are part of a botnet so they are just spending the victim's money.

But hopefully most of the crawlers aren't botnets or funded by free VC money so they have an economic incentive to avoid crawling systems requiring proof-of-work.
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@kesor -- Are you still hiring for the Senior Product Manager (Workflows & Automation) positions?
This is one of the use-cases of proof-of-work, but the rest of what makes something cryptocurrency isn't necessary. There is no need for a blockchain here, and the cost can be paid directly in compute time.
> HTML such that instead of typing <h2> devs have to type something like <Heading.

...but they don't? Just use <h2> haha
These aren't getting flagged by 'YC', just like your local bowling league is not oppressing book clubs and Ren Faire by not organizing those things.
I'd rather just be able to click a link and not have to worry about wallet, transaction fees, keeping my keys safe, etc.
No, I'm talking about stories that are extremely relevant to hacker news and techies.

Which is attested to by Dan repeatedly manually unflagging these posts afterwards, which is an explicit approval that these posts follow guidelines.
Humans are not mindless molecules whose only interactions are with the people right next to them.
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But that's not Wikipedia.

Because the Wikimedia Foundation has Wikipedia, which I love, doesn't mean I love (or even know) everything the Wikimedia Foundation does. I would donate to Wikipedia, but they apparently don't need it.

Same thing for Firefox: I would donate to Firefox, but I have to give to Mozilla that does a bunch of other stuff and doesn't even treat Firefox the way I would want them to. So I don't donate.
You have to do something with your life anyway, right? I always envied people who have a calling they are good at and work on essentially until they die (especially in academia and art), since I'm not sure if I have one and if I do (designing 4x God sim games?) I'm unlikely to be paid for it even if I was good, which is itself also unlikely.

Then there's also the case where following your passion is near impossible without a large organization, anything from space to medicine.

But even forgetting all that, there is no reason engineering challenges, team dynamics and sense of accomplishment at a work project can't be higher than for the personal projects you'd do by yourself. Granted, most jobs aren't like that (for myself or for most people) but some of my most challenging and exciting projects were at work.

If you're gonna spend time until you die doing tech things you might as well get paid for it. The less you need the latter the pickier you can be, with your own thing becoming /another option/ at some point.
agree. a really good definition leads to a really good mental model which leads to really good design. however people can get in a penis measuring contest over definitions too which is often not great
I started in AEC in 1989. Most of the built environment happens without drama because only professionals are involved. Never showing up in the news except as a press release. And then usually not.

When amateurs are involved, so are unrealistic expectations. When politicians are involved, so is political grandstanding.

Finally, when the value of a project is the future revenue generated, budgets and schedules don’t extrapolate from your household experience.

Zero is the median number of construction projects people are involved in.
Juust putting this out there:

1. Some people made good money from shareware in the early home computer days.

One example:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Knopf

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC-File

Knopf originally wrote the software for his own use to manage a church mailing list, on an Apple II. Later, he ported it to CP/M, and then to MS-DOS. Other people heard about it, and started requesting copies. Eventually, the cost of sending out update disks inspired Knopf to include a note requesting a small cash donation to offset the expenses. The response was overwhelming, and when his income from PC-File exceeded "ten times" what he was making from his job at IBM, he decided to turn Buttonware into a full-time business.

2. Current stuff too, like Mike Perham's https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidekiq

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35566768

mperham:
...
I'm closer to $10m than $1m in annual revenue now.

Mike Perham, Creator of Sidekiq: From Employment to Independence:

https://codecodeship.com/blog/2023-04-14-mike-perham

There must be others ...
This has been a solved problem since 2016: https://signal.org/blog/reproducible-android/
Absolutely hilarious! I bet you forego using calculators and do all of your arithmetic by hand, too. Such a clever analogy!
Been speculated for a while there's, at best, some very proactive Tesla defenders trying to flag any bad news. And at worst someone who made bots to automate such a process. If you're stalking new, you only need a dozen or so flags to trip off the auto-flagging.

Dang hasn't really commented anything supporting nor negating such a theory.

The stock up probably comes more from rumors (nothing explicitly stated except offhand by trump) that Elon is stepping down as head of DOGE. translation: they are making use of some contract terms for Musk to GTFO for both their sakes.
Totally feel you on this and kudos to these guys, low pricing makes it so much easier to actually try something without second-guessing. I’m working on a similar philosophy with my own project, 99dev — simple tools for indie devs at just $1/month. Starting with lightweight analytics (like a mini Plausible), but more tools are on the way. No bloat, just useful stuff for folks like us who are building things and watching our budgets.

Really glad to see more projects like pico.sh embracing low cost, no frills, indie services.
https://99.dev
There are a ton of face-to-face conversations between officials that don't get recorded. Why is text messaging so special? Are their phone calls recorded? I don't think they are.
This article has more information, such as

> The 10% rate would be collected starting Saturday and the higher rates would be collected beginning April 9.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-tariffs-liberation-day-2a03...
For what it's worth, ensuring that JIT is enabled for challenges.cloudflare.com can help a lot.

No, not to the point of making it bearable, but at least it becomes rarer for it to take minutes.
How comes your karma points halved?
Yes. And that is what a client should 100% do from the security standpoint. But since you mention caching - from the perf standpoint, it could sometimes be beneficial for the query planner to know the values before coming up with the query plan. Sometimes I have done little optimizations by replacing prepared statement placeholders with baked-in numbers or known enum values.
overall i REALLY like this paper and effort, but this part sounds like a bit of bullshit. they dont have the ability to implement retries and backoffs to deal with rate limits?
I donated to "Wikipedia" for years until I learned that it was actually not really going to Wikipedia. I completely stopped now.
Is there any sort of plan / expectation / result that these seemingly random tariffs make sense?

There doesn’t seem to be a plan here…
What about Monero/XMR? Isn't is fully anonymous by design?
> They told the public the truth, basic facts like

Just telling people the 'truth' isn't effective communication at all (in fact, it can be dangerous) - that should be obvious to anyone with some experience in life. To tell the 'truth' and then throw up your hands because it didn't work is just being at victim.

A major political party knows all that - it's shameful and corrupt that they don't care to be effective.
Show HN: JavaScript Flowchart Generator
This tool generates flowcharts from javascript code. There is a trial link available on the website, but here is the same temp. trial link: https://www.cad-vc.org/decompilertrial.html
My original intention was to build something that makes it easier to interact with LLM's in software development, specifically to speed up the initial iteration process to get a code structure that you want before doing more detailed changes manually, but I think this has more use cases.
It uses mermaid to build the flowchart.
Let me know what you think.
My initial feedback is that the website sucks and people don't trust it enough to use the stripe link, so I do plan to do some work on that.
Spanish speakers in Philadelphia break traditional rules of speech in signs
It's wild, but the numbers they showed as tarrifs are calculated in the following way: US trade deficit with a country / country's export to US. This is computed only on goods, excluding services.
This is absolutely surreal to see in action! I hope that I can manage to afford to not have to do my dayjob anymore.
China built hundreds of AI data centers to catch AI boom. Now many stand unused
this ignores that the role of some players in this current monetary game is to print new money in their basement...
Wow, truly bizarre.

And TuneIn and Radio Garden don't even host any streams, to my knowledge; they're mere directories!
> Paying fractions of a penny to view websites has minimal impact

Although true in an ideal financial sense, it's demonstrably false because having a pay wall of any kind will severely limit usage.
YC built the flagging functionality and handles the exceptions. This is highly upvoted but "flagged" post number like 300 in this general area.

So yeah, I feel like we all need somewhere else to meet.
There never, to the best of my knowledge, was any animus.

The only people who hated Datsun worked in Detroit
I don't seem to be able to add multiple SSH public keys. When I try to create one, I paste my pub key and hit enter and… no key is added.
I've taken to linking to moderator admonishments (mostly dang, occasionally pg or sctb) where I think it might be helpful, e.g.:

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43478913>

This is not for every flag, by a long shot, and occurs (checking my history) perhaps a few times a month.

Note that the follow-up to the above link also earned another dang cite. Few justifications are original...

The practice seems ... not too disruptive, and at least modestly effective. It also gives me a track record of who's turned up before.

Linking quips both keeps my own voice out of the discussion, and mutes the impact on the page itself.
It's luck-based, I'm working on making a check that's more deterministic, but I'm also trying to figure out how to not lock out big-endian systems in the process.

I may have to just give up on that though :(
Just a great project!
Good question. Property benchmarking would be required to know for sure. It's probably rare that a multi-gigabyte file would be contiguous on disk, so lots of seeking would probably be required anyway.
Best printer 2025: just buy a Brother laser printer, the winner is clear
The End of Coding as We Know It: AI is doing to code what photography did to art
Maybe I'm missing something, but why do people expect PoW to be effective against companies who's whole existence revolves around acquiring more compute?
Cool project. Unfortunately I get infinite spinners on all non-Youtube videos in Firefox. Works in Chrome.
I believe that the criticism is not about what the Wikimedia Foundation does specifically.

The criticism is that the Wikimedia Foundation makes people believe that Wikipedia needs funding, so that people donate thinking that they contribute to Wikipedia. Personally I have nothing against the Wikimedia Foundation, but when I learned that I was not actually donating to Wikipedia, I felt tricked. They lost my trust because they made me feel like I was tricked.
I recently retired after 45 years in tech. I started out in 1978 at Bell Labs. I have had great jobs and terrible jobs. Great bosses and horrific bosses. And all the things in between. I did not just survive, I thrived and beyond and worked at 3 start ups and a bunch of other companies large and small. What I learned is to not to be afraid. Regardless of what is happening around you. Fear is the enemy. Don't be afraid to be weird or crazy or whatever is causing you to be timid.
Thank you for the comment. This is not what I'd intended to communicate with this article. The Kilpi.filter pattern is not the primary point of this article, it is only a minor utility provided by Kilpi for special cases.

My point was to show how you can co-locate your queries and authorization logic, just as you would with any sensible data access layer. This method however keeps the inner function pure and easily cacheable, e.g. with the upcoming "use cache" Next.js directive, and allows easy explicit bypassing of the protection with e.g. `.unsafe()`, which is required in some scenarios in your application.

I hope this clarifies my intent.
Show HN: The #1 SWE-Bench AI Coding Assistant for VSCode and Jetbrains
Our AI Agent is now in GA today.

http://augmentcode.com/

How is Augment different than Cursor & co?

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- works in VSCode and Jetbrains Today.
- Memories. Besides user Guidelines/Rules, the agent update its memories as it works with you.

Everything else that you expect from an ai agent is there too. Checkpoints, terminal interactions, auto mode, etc.

Would love your feedback, or try it out, it's free an unlimited for now.

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I'd say it's the opposite. They are flooded with misinformation, disinformation, and disruptive trauma, and don't read the facts.
I’ve had similar frustrations with gig economy services. A while ago, i hired someone from TaskRabbit to set up a standing desk. i thought it would be an easy process, but the assembler showed up late. then he had a hard time following basic instructions, and he also left halfway through, saying he had another job to go to. I finished the assembly myself at the end.

then i realize these platforms don’t support skilled, well-paid workers. they focus on cheap convenience, which often results in poor quality. the issue isn't just that people struggle with their jobs. it's that the system makes it hard for them to do good work.

Now I hire local professionals, even if they cost more. Their experience and trustworthiness save me time and frustration.
Thank you so much! This is exactly b what I was wondering.

Much gratitude!
People ask why AI will exterminate human kind.

The answer is because we wouldn't universally adopt zulu time.
It routinely takes at least a minute overall on gitlab, from a budget phone.

Other sites with Cloudflare only take some nice twenty seconds, others just never ever let you go through.

Those checks are a serious contender for worse thing ever happened to the web.
Tell that to apple mail. Makes no sense how an app seemingly unchanged since the tiger days when I started using it could still be as performant as it always was on far better hardware. In fact I frequently find it to be the culprit when I wonder what the hell could be spinning my fans on this m3 pro just churning over the database.

Iphone version is arguably worse because it also has performance issues but doesn’t support inbox rules. Then again those inbox rules often fail to filter emails anyhow.
PS. The existence itself of a name not containing "AI" (itself) is a telltale sign of AI becoming "normalized" (ie. "commonplace" ...)
Trump's antitrust agency blasts EU digital rules as 'taxes on American firms'
Is there a case to be made for 'well, that's what we had the most colour of...', with regards to manufacturers...of the paint, that'll sell it cheap, just to get rid?
Context for others: Xe is the author of the software used for this (https://anubis.techaro.lol/docs/)
GitSummarize – Generate living documentation from any GitHub repo
you're very stuck with this idea that anyone who disagrees with your must be a terminally online redditor. But at the same time you mock those people for their inability to get outside. Which is needed for vandalism. Which is it?

I'll just say not to cast stones in a glass house.
Sounds like Apple Mail so maybe no one gets it right.
Your comment makes no sense. You can already export all the keys Protonmail generates (which I don't want to use and neither should I be forced to use). Not allowing the user to use their own provides absolutely no resistance to any kind of exfiltration.
> Trump supporters are unswayable.

You fell for the aggression tactic - it's just a cheap negotiating / political tactic. Act hyperagressive and some will believe you are unstoppable, implacable, etc.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43561401
I was under the impression that the bad crawlers exist because it's cheaper to reload the data all the time than to cache it somewhere. If this changes the cost balance, those companies might decide to download only once instead of over and over again, which would probably be satisfactory to everyone.
But a 50% increase of a relatively small amount is still a relatively small amount.

So it helps to show exactly how much more.
I highly recommend Prof. Sussman talk at the Strange Loop conference 2011 [1].

It's not his inaugural lecture but it's pretty close where he talk about his research work with his former students.

It's also paved the way to modern constraint programming based on logic and optimization which are the machine intelligence that's complementary to the conventional data driven and learning bases AI.

[1] "We Really Don't Know How to Compute!" - Gerald Sussman - MIT (2011) [video]:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=HB5TrK7A4pI
The person you’re responding to is not Paul Graham. Similar handle but not identical.

> The people here are rather anti-compassion and any kind of spirituality.
And how I was attacked for calling David Lynch a worthless purveyor of ultraviolence and vapid, wasteful lifestyles was unconscionable.

Maybe your problem is not with your opinions but with how you choose to express them. My observation is that disagreement is rarely downvoted massively if it is expressed eloquently. OTOH, emotional and brief conclusory opinions that aren’t supported with narratives or supporting information that are also contrarian may be subject to mass downvoting.

Looking through your comment history, I think you’re experiencing this phenomenon not because you respectfully disagree with others, but because of the quality of your communication.
Right, you could do it... maybe. Some languages/libraries/runtimes could have specific expectations around the specifics of mmap that can't easily be papered over, but I suspect it would be a minority of cases
I enjoyed their succinct project description:

> Weighs the soul of incoming HTTP requests using proof-of-work to stop AI crawlers
> the Democrat party sucks

> And they want more of it [Trump]?

Those two things are closely related. Who votes for inffectual, feckless, cowards, who are hiding from the crisis?
Here's the brilliant formula they used to determine those tariffs by the way:

https://xcancel.com/orthonormalist/status/190754526581875103...

https://xcancel.com/corsaren/status/1907554824180105343

It's trade deficit divided by total exports divided by 2
The big difference between 1800s and the 1960s is that oil paints were mixed “onsite” for color and the the 1960s had the commcerialization of latex paints and Pantone colors.

I should mention that the Bauhaus (1920s)broke out color theory as separate from graphics representation.
I see you subscribe to the "roman salute" huh? I guess my eyes are propoganda if we're in 1984 being told to not believe what we view.

He never rebuked it and in fact doubled down with jokes. So I'll call a spade a spade unless something changes.
You can send an email and ask for an exception to be made. 'YC built the flagging' feels like somewhat non-responsive sophistry to me - users are rejecting these stories because HN is is not a current affairs forum. I don't think you're meaningfully defending the claim 'YC doesn't want this discussed' at all. And you just made it.
Sure, you can get better model performance by throwing more compute at the problem in different places. Does is it improve perf on an isoflop basis?
Fair points. I do admit it! I expect no one to jump onboard from this community. I may be unreasonable — wouldn’t be the first time I have been accused of such, nor would it be the first time I agreed.

It is a real problem IMO. So many of us are perpetually exhausted. Unable to sleep. Jittery and fidgety. And as you say: unpleasant to be around when withdrawing!

These are the hallmarks of this addiction. To me the thing that is important NOW is getting people to see how deeply this has hurt humanity. But then, I also agreed with the premise of the Unabomber’s manifesto — while disagreeing wildly with his decisions on how to counteract what he saw.

This is a hill I am probably willing to die on.

Edited to add: I appreciate the conversation and not just a downvote, thank you
> I don't think people want to change email addresses very often.

You probably know this already, but people should have their own domain. Then they can change provider without changing the address.
Do we even know what percentage of their hosting costs is bandwidth?