skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you heard of Rocket Internet? It's one of the most successful models in the world. They may avoid the US market and such, but most of the unicorns in Malaysia are backed by Rocket. And most of the people who stay and start their own, backed by YC or whoever, are usually ex-Rocket. They hit 10% growth per week, even at unicorn sizes.

I would anecdotally put Germany at #3 globally just for Rocket alone, with US and China ahead of them.

There's lots of successful non-Rocket startups from Germany too, but most are boring stuff like agriculture, grocery delivery, pet stuff, etc. We normally don't take note of startups until they're Stripe-sized or something.
Haha, that's the most practical way to put it compared to the theoretical blog post.
Says the article, which perhaps "Grok" failed to read:

* Helsinki is now building the world’s largest heat pump, which will send heat to 30,000 homes when it starts running in 2026.

* At the site of one of the closed coal plants, the city is also building a new facility that will capture heat from the Baltic Sea.

* Helsinki also uses some hydro and nuclear power, and as much waste heat as possible. That includes capturing heat from local data centers and wastewater.
> Reallocate portfolios if that makes sense

Yes. This is one of the reasons 80 stocks / 20 bonds is a common strategy. The rebalancing "forces" you to buy low and sell high.

When stocks dip, your portfolio might become unbalanced at 70/30, so you reallocate funds to buy stock bringing you back to 80/20. Conversely, if stock market soars, you might get to 90/10, and selling stocks would bring you back to 80/20. Performing this balancing is, in effect, "buying the dip"
Show HN: I made an AI chatbot to help challenge anxious thoughts
Hey HN,

I'm a solo founder who has struggled with anxiety myself.

I found that once anxious thoughts start spiraling, it’s really hard to interrupt them — especially in the moment. So I built Anxiety Breaker, a chatbot that helps you challenge those thoughts using evidence-based techniques from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT).

It also includes quick 3-minute daily lessons to help you understand how anxiety works and how to manage it long-term.

My goal was to make something simple, private, and accessible for anyone who might not have access to therapy.

I hope it can help anyone!

Would love any feedback!

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I have been playing around a lot with Zig lately, and though it's still in beta, it really feels like it has the best chance at being a true C successor. While Rust feels like they started with C++ and worked on making it harder to write incorrectly, Zig feels like they started with C and worked on making it easier to write correctly.

They also have a few pillars that they call the "Zen" of Zig[0], of which three out of the first five are directly related to readability.

[0] https://ziglang.org/documentation/0.14.0/#Zen
https://finshots.in/archive/the-us-wants-its-stock-market-to...
> They get to punish woke science.

Imagine how all the chemists who study cis/trans isomerization feel right now ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cis%E2%80%93trans_isomerism

As someone who studied an cis/trans isomerase decades ago in grad school, I say this somewhat tongue-in-cheek, but not completely.
Regular companies aren't given $1m they don't have to pay back.

They have to get loans and founders are usually on the hook if the venture fails.

This is different from what the article advocates.
> C lacks mechanisms to do this apart from using its incredibly brittle macro facility.

We programmers are the ultimate abstraction mechanism, and refining our techniques in pattern design and implementation in a codebase is our highest form of art. The list of patterns in the Gang-of-Four's "Design Patterns" are not as interesting as its first 50 pages, which are seminal.

From the organization of files in a project, to organization of projects, to class structure and use, to function design, to debug output, to variable naming as per scope, to commandline argument specification, to parsing, it's nothing but patterns upon patterns.

You're either doing patterns or you're doing one-offs, and one-offs are more brittle than C macros, are hard to comprehend later, and when you fix a bug in one, you've only fixed one bug, not an entire class of bugs.

Abstraction is the essense of programming, and abstraction is just pattern design and implementation in a codebase, the design of a functional block and how it's consumed over time.

The layering of abstractions is the most fundamental perspective on a codebase. They not only handle scale, they make or break correctness, ease of malleability, bug triage, performance, and comprehendability -- I'm sure I could find more.

The design of the layering of abstractions is the everything of a codebase.

The success of C's ability to let programmers create layers of abstractions is why C is the foundational language of the OS I'm using, as well as the browser I'm typing this message in. I'm guessing you are, too, and, while I could be wrong, it's not likely. And not a segfault in sight. The scale of Unix is unmatched.
The amount of this that could be trivially automated fills me with rage.

Even just automated flagging of common errors would save 1000s of volunteer hours.
>I don't really understand what this argument is trying to argue for; shell scripting languages are, for practical reasons, usually interpreted, and in the POSIX case, they usually don't have to be fast since they're usually just used to delegate operations off to other code for performance. Their main priority is ease of interop with their domain.

DDT is a hell of a lot older than Bourne shell, is not interpreted, does have full efficient access to the machine instructions and operation system, and it even features a built-in PDP-10 assembler and disassembler, and lets you use inline assembly in your login file to customize it, like I described here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43609418

And even the lowly Windows PowerShell is much more recent, and blows Bourne shell out of the water along so many dimensions, by being VASTLY more interoperable, powerful, usable, learnable, maintainable, efficient, and flexible, with a much better syntax, as I described here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43609571

>When even lowly Windows PowerShell blows your Unix shell out of the water along so many dimensions of power, usability, learnability, maintainability, efficiency, and flexibility, you know for sure your that your Unix shell and the philosophy it rode in on totally sucks, and self imposed ignorance and delusional denial is your only defense against realizing how bankrupt the Unix Philosophy really is.

>It's such a LOW BAR to lose spectacularly to, and then still try to carry the water and make excuses for the bankrupt "Unix Philosophy" cargo cult. Do better.
Can you please read the comment I was replying to? I'm not interested in discussing a strawman argument or letting people put things in my mouthy I didn't say
Surely you would have to take into account all the near accidents and crashes that fsd has prevented as well.
In the first game of the YouTube video there seems to be a lot of discussion about P7 even after P7 was eliminated?
This is way too broad of a statement.

The smartest person and the dumbest person I've met professionally are both investors.
JPMorgan Chief Jamie Dimon's Annual Letter to Shareholders
Is there any way to put numbers to this success? As in, by what metric is Germany #3?
I really want to start trying to learn zig, but right now I feel like it's not quite finished enough. When it hits 1.0, I'll probably give it a more serious look
What if we made advertising pay the user?
Then the user would get paid for getting interrupted.

The user could configure the browser/email-client/social-network to not accept messages that didn't submit a fee above some amount.

It would set a market price for human attention. The price would be public and known live to anyone.

Ad-tech co's get 100% of advertising revenue. Users get 0%. This would flip it around so users would get 80%-100% and ad-tech co's 0-20%.

It would make LLMs/AI spam prohibitively expensive.
Is it really that hard to imagine "large companies not diversifying"?

Large companies diversifying is the unnatural thing. Why on earth should Apple do music, or Amazon do video? It's manipulating their monopoly positions, it's almost inherently anti-competitive, etc.

Just because antitrust in the US at least is so wimpy (exclusively looking for "consumer harm") there's no reason sane antitrust couldn't also protect ... competition itself, in the form of smaller players etc.

I don't think there's a single industry that merits the bloated conglomerates that rule the earth today, whether it's mining, autos, chips. It's just that capitalism inherently centralizes, and capitalism runs the show.
Copilot gaming experience: Quake 2
We should get them to play Diplomacy.
My guess that the actual secure government messaging services are a pain to use vs. Signal that's on your phone in your pocket, and these people don't really value security over their own convenience. They did share some of the details over actual secure systems ("you should have a statement of conclusions with taskings per the Presidents guidance this morning in your high side inboxes"), but I guess when the attacks were starting, it was easier to just blast them on Signal.
It does come fully assembled?
Foveon has awful Foss support so far. Older foveon models also require an older version of windows to run the antiquited software to process raw pics, it's maddening.
Absolutely & very well said - my contention lies in the fact that certain skills are just that - technical. Especially when it comes to architecture, code, complex systems and so on.

I don't mind an illiterate Executive when it comes to basic manufacturing, cosmetics and so on - but when it comes to STEM subjects it becomes a dangerous gamble - especially when it comes to recognize a strong vs weak player.

Too many times I've seen weaker players get bumped up as the executive in charge is somewhat incompetent...

I've been lucky as my family forged my communication skills at a young age - but these days this is rare and I see extremely competent young players get sidelined quite rapidly... Hope is a mystery, but can be found.
Can you point to any examples of this happening in the last decade or so?

For now, I agree with the GP that:

> There are nowhere near enough knowledgeable people who will balk at this stuff.
Everyone I know uses the MX Master 3. It's an amazing mouse, and it's the only one on the market that checks all my criteria (horizontal wheel, free wheel mode, and support for macOS gestures via the thumb button)
We already don't need a crude process like you describe for lighting applications: look up "chip on board" LEDs, or COBs. The brightest single element LED lights you can buy today are all COBs.

What we need is finer COBs that are monitor sized, and wired like a monitor.
There's good and bad from advertising. I think it needs to be regulated and restricted more than banned. They did some study and where advertising was banned prices were higher because low cost providers couldn't put up a get it cheaper here ad. In the UK solicitors are banned from advertising and it makes getting one an expensive pain in the arse.

In olden days we used to get a classified ads newspaper through the door and that was good as you could pick it up if you wanted to check out the ads or ignore/chuck it otherwise. I'd be fine with ads if I had to click to see them. It's having them in your face when you don't want them that's a pain.
Check out her personal investment history. The party of the working man sure has changed in recent years.
probably a similar percentage of people claim on their car insurance.
In that 0.01% of cases where the order was fraudulent, placed by mistake,
how much data do we need to store inefficiently, in a way that uses a lot of power and space?

I'm feeling, the real real question, as Sci-Fi as it gets, is, is the winning ticket data even data, OR is it more like a thumbnail of "the whole data" that is 98%+ worthless, than standalone piece of data?

The winning ticket ID, e.g. a "0x-636e-7461-4e7b", only makes sense in the context as one among the entire cohort of contestants; I can make one up like I did, but I can't walkout with the payout unless the rest of the lottery didn't exist.

Statistically, philosophically, technically, and all sorts of *-cally speaking, is the 2% data, the winning ticket datum, even data?
Earth Orbits 101
The current penalty is 7% interest on unpaid amounts. Back when interest rates were low, it was 2-3% which you could easily beat, but 7% is tougher.
If you listen to Bernie's speeches, he talked about high tariffs too.
Was there any problem with 7z some years ago? I feel like I've been actively avoiding it for having the feeling that I've read something bad about it, but I can't remember what. But I could've mixed it with something else. It sometimes happens to me.
Which will cost many thousands in admin per year
"The Jews are responsible for everything bad in the world".

I don't know much, but this is the messaging (that I'm going to repeat ad nauseam so that more people will believe it).

Don't be a part of the problem.
What's far more reasonable and does seem to exist are people who have values that are not the opposite, but weigh the tradeoffs differently. Take for instance someone who is on a diet vs the Grill Dad ideology: a person on a diet can certainly agree with the Grill Dad about food being delicious, but believe that the health effects are net worse.
Has anyone tried analyzing Durable Object with SQL storage performance? Is it as bad as D1?
I'm just curious: do you have that link bookmarked?
It maens that if you copy a file from NTFS to ext4, ext4 will magically sprout support for alternate data streams.
Raw decoding is not as simple as you might think.

It’s the best place to add “signature steps.” Things like noise reduction, chromatic aberration correction, and one-step HDR processing.

I used to work for a camera manufacturer, and our Raw decoder was an extremely intense pipeline step. It was treated as one of the biggest secrets in the company.

Third-party deinterlacers could not exactly match ours, although they could get very good results.
https://ai.meta.com/research/cicero/
> These things do work and created a few unicorns here in Malaysia.

Which ones?
UK stats body snoozes legacy tech overhaul as Treasury tightens purse strings
This is the best and most obvious example of successful anti-advertising legislation, NYC as well prohibits billboards in most places which is a blessing.

The fact that the MTA is now plastered in flatscreen ads is an example of huge overreach, and also an example of how better funding for public utilities like the subway eliminate the "need" for advertising that the MTA claims.

Unfortunately, this is the system working as designed per the capitalists. Underfund public utilities to make the public more dependent on the for-profit private sector. Banning ads is communism for this mindset.
There is also ai-fallback [0] to automatically switch to a fallback provider in case of downtime

[0]: https://github.com/remorses/ai-fallback
To be fair, I love that magicians can pull tricks on me even though I know it is fake.
unzip 6.0 is from 2009 (see the manpage or https://infozip.sourceforge.net/UnZip.html). I suspect there are patches floating around (so YMMV as to which patches are applied), or someone has aliases/symlinked some other implementation as "unzip" (like Apple has done here, though unlike unzip rsync is maintained).

Try using atool (which wraps the various options for different archives and should hopefully fix your problem) or the tools provided by https://libzip.org/documentation/.

Practically, what you're hitting is the problem when upstream is dead, and there is no coordination between different distros to centrally take over maintenance.
These people *WERE* military personnel and there is no way they haven't been repeatedly exposed to proper procedures for information handling. They absolutely should know better and deserve to face consequences for this sort of incompetence.

Mike Walz is a Special Forces officer and only retired as a Colonel from the National Guard to take his position as National Security Advisor.

Tulsi Gabbard is still a Lieutenant Colonel in the National Guard.

Pete Hegseth was a Major in the National Guard, ending his service in 2021.

JD Vance is probably the most junior of the veterans, leaving the Marine Corps as a Corporal in 2007.
The issue in this case is upstream is dead, so there are random patches. Same thing happened to screen for a bit.
I doubt FOIA is even a concern considering this is classified information. I think they're more worried about investigations by a future DOJ or by a future Congress since they can look at this information (if it's not deleted, that is)
> Can we not consider free as in beer here?

The rest of your comment didn't. How did you want to consider it?

> I think if we can make a distinction between modification and redistribution then open source can be less proscriptive.

I think new definitions should have new terms.

> If the source is open to view, and you are able to change that code in any way, just not redistribute your modifications, what would you call that?

Source available.
Show HN: I turned GitHub contributions into a retro battle game
Hey HN,

This is a little web game called Epic Dev Battles of History. It takes public GitHub contribution stats (like commit counts, streaks, activity levels) and uses them to simulate a retro arcade-style battle between two profiles.

You can enter your GitHub username and challenge a friend or colleague, try the online matchmaking, or pick one of the pre-loaded profiles as an opponent. After the battle, it shows a breakdown of the stats used.

It started as a fun side-project to visualize GitHub activity in a different way.

You can play it live here: https://epicdevbattlesofhistory.com

It's currently a closed-source project. I'm curious to hear any thoughts you might have on the concept or gameplay, and please let me know if you encounter any bugs!
Can you share what company have you worked for?
Shame they only have that wood version. Looks kinda cheap and not tasteful. I guess one can paint it.
Because gold will appreciate reliably to an extent but a company can appreciate in value far exceeding what gold can -- that's the risk/reward trade off.
Quagga got forked though and is actively being developed.

FRRouting is the fork.
From what I've gathered, Signal use was prolific among people in this administration and the past one.

I'm not surprised. My own company sends out several emails that Whatsapp can't be used as it's not secure, yet I get Whatsapp messages from leadership I work with constantly.

People ignore directives all the time. Usually out of convenience.

People have even called it out in a Whatsapp chat "hey guys, we're not supposed to use Whatsapp" and people usually ignore it.
> hope you understand :)

Nope, sorry, I really don't. Or rather, I guess it's you who doesn't understand:

> i'm looking for people to support me building this for other "open-source IDEs" as i alone would not be able to do that

But, hey, you have an "AI" to help you with that! That is, if your Composer Web were actually anything near "intelligent", you wouldn't need any people to help you. Since you do, it apparently isn't really "intelligent".

Maybe the reason you can't get people to help you with it is because everyone else is also as fed up with the constant hype of calling every even slightly complex algorithm "AI" as I am. Sorry about that. (And that the sarcasm in my first comment went over your head.)
Even if the source is already transcribed anywhere, I'm interested at what your experience will be if you keep going all the way through. A lot of authors have done things like rewrite Shakespeare plays or famous novels out by hand and claim to have got a lot of the experience of feeling like they were getting into the author's mind and stuff.. I wonder if typing this out could be similarly enlightening.
WON'T SOMEBODY, PLEASE, THINK ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT!?
Most of the Generals and Colonels I've worked with use government-issued smartphones with access to their government Outlook account, and send encrypted group emails back and forth that way.
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It means the guy is stupid.
Futures already softening, VIX is falling too. pre-market anyways
They are doing OK in the sense that they are spending a dollar to earn a dime I suppose.
Not publicly. It’s not difficult to figure out, but I make it a point, not to post stuff that would show up in their search algorithms.

But it was a pretty major one, and I ran their host image pipeline software team.

[Edited to Add] It was one of the “no comment” companies. They won’t discuss their Raw format in detail, and neither will I, even though it has been many years, since I left that company, and it’s likely that my knowledge is dated.
Writing Notes/Dominos apps was my first 'programming' job (if you ignore cutting and pasting random javascript into HTML files...) back in 97. We created a whole suite of in house apps that basically ran the business, including making most of them available as web apps for people who didn't have the Notes Client. It was so fast and simple do to that even a 'dumb' kid with only a high school education and who barely knew how to program could be instantly productive, I honestly can't think of anything that can really match it even today.

I've always been slightly confused why they insisted on selling it as a mediocre email client rather than a quite fantastic RAD tool.
Its most likely one giant ["input token close enough question hash"] = answer_with_params_replay? It doesent missunderstands the question, it tries to squeeze the input to something close enough?
You are taking this recommendation completely out of context. This is a recommendation for confidential communications, not releasable under public record laws.

But neither of those applies for the Signal chat in question. That was not confidential communication, it was top secret active military data. And, like any other military-related decision, it was very much in the category of information that must be recorded and was going to eventually be releasable under public record laws, as soon as its confidential nature expired, 50+ years from now most likely.
Talk is cheap. If noone has so far succeeded to build any industrial process capable of sitting around most of the time waiting for cheap energy that had economical sense...what makes this different? Every industrial process has huge overhead when it's constantly turned on and off on schedule. The less predictable the schedule is, the worse.
I don't. I have no problem not running open-weight models myself because there's an efficiency gap of two orders of magnitude between "pretend-I-can" solution and running them on hundreds of H100s for high thousands of users.