skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yesterday was a surreal day for us at monity.ai.

We got accepted into the Google Cloud Startups program. Then we hit #1 on Fazier.com. And to top it off, we landed on the Indie Hackers homepage — all in under 24 hours.

Monity is an AI-powered tool that monitors websites for changes — visual, text, or structure. But what makes it unique is the AI agent system we've been building. You can define what the agent should track, how often, and even prompt it on how to interpret or respond to certain types of changes.

For example, you can say “Tell me if a competitor changes their pricing plan layout” or “Track if legal disclaimers are updated on this page,” and the agent figures out what to look for.

It’s like having a smart assistant watching any web page for you 24/7.

We’re still early, but seeing this kind of traction yesterday was incredibly motivating. Sharing here because HN has helped us from the beginning.

Happy to answer any questions about the product, traction, tech stack, or how we’re approaching things from a tiny team perspective.
Pre-symptomatic Parkinson's disease blood test
As a starting point? Sure. Marry a citizen or get a job, get residency, then apply for citizenship. Guy was ticking the correct boxes, not sneaking across the border.
I remember a story I heard about Microcenter. It was started in my hometown (Columbus, OH) by a Radio Shack store manager. When PCs were coming out, the store manager kept putting those PCs up at the front of the store. The district manager would come back and make him put it in the back. This went on for a bit until the store manager quit, took his best sales guy, and opened up Microcenter at the mall next door, selling PCs. They eventually took over the entire mall, before moving to another part of town, and then expanding to other towns. By the time Radio Shack figured out where things were going, things were too late.

I didn't know this years later, watching Young Sheldon ... that Incredible Universe was Tandy's attempt to get into the consumer electronics when Radio Shack's profit started falling, and that Tandy has a whole (very profitable) leather company. My SCA friends tend to know a lot more about Tandy Leather than they do about Radio Shack.

Fry's Electronics closed here in the west part of Phoenix, several years ago. Their shelves were starting to get bare and were selling things from consignment. It took a while for them to die, and I finally found out why: they were having trouble getting credit to buy inventory.
By default, Anubis will not block Lynx and some other browsers that do not implement JavaScripts, but will block scrapers that claim to be Mozilla-based browsers, and many of the badly behaving ones do claim to be Mozilla based browsers, so this helps. (I do not have a browser compatible with the Anubis software, and Anubis does not bother me.)

If necessary, it would also be possible to do what powxy does which is displaying an explanation of how the proof of work is working in case you want to implement your own.

Having alternative access of some files using other protocols, might also help, too.
fair enough. you're entitled to your opinion.

and I to mine. :)
Absolute power and control. "An evil enemy will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over the ashes."
Air freight rates vary wildly by demand/bulk discounts/route/etc but $2-8/kg is typical, with a median around $4/kg. Commercial flights are often cheaper, and especially when you consider the weight of seats/water/food/crew/etc.
Meshtastic's routing system (up until this last version), wasn't great. I haven't tried the latest version, because it's gonna need to take a while for people to update their firmwares.

Also, a lot of nodes tend to flood their battery state for the entire network, which uses up the airtime for something that could be more important like routing information, and also wastes their battery.

Even though things like AlohaNet have been around for years, Meshtastic chose to reinvent the wheel. The primary difference is that Meshcore started with "routing" first, and then save the airtime and therefore battery for routing messages.

geerlingguy did a video on it, and it's highly worth while checking it out. I think he was kind enough to use the term "Beta".

Supposedly the new firmware from Meshtastic fixes a lot of this, but it's gonna be a while for people to upgrade, and I'm not too keen on wasting time again on something if it's not fit to work for it's stated purpose originally.
Seems a little tone deaf for the current economy at the very least.
You felt you knew enough about me to tell me to learn my job, so I figured you'd be open to similar feedback.
Yeah, I probably should have put firing in quotes since there are a zillion ways to get someone to leave. Being "Laid off" is a form of firing, telling someone all of their multipliers are being zeroed out so that they "quit" is a form of firing. Putting someone on a "performance improvement plan" where the requirements to get off that plan is to do really unpleasant work is a form of "firing." Lots of ways to get someone to walk out the door without having to escort them out. And if you went to the managing within the law class they gave it was clearly explained it was so much better if the employee "chose" to quit than Google "firing" them because involuntary termination carried with it the risks of being sued.

Did you ever run percent when you were there? I started at Google in 2006 and one of the 'fun' things people did was run the 'percent' command that would tell you what percentage of Google employees were 'newer' than you, so if it was 10% you knew that 10% of the people were new. I was curious how it worked and found that it just counted rows in a database that had active employee names and start dates. Pretty simple hack.

The amazing thing was how quickly the number grew! And at TGIF there were the Nooglers in their propeller caps and everyone was like wow look at all those newbies. About 6 months in I noticed two things, first there was like 25% of the company was newer than I was, and that the number of employees being reported in the financial reports was about the same as when I joined. One could do the math. Waves of people would be hired, large chunks of them wouldn't survive the first year, and another chunk wouldn't survive 'slotting'. They were just no longer at the company. After a couple of years, as I remember it there were three of us, out of about 30, from the group that joined when I did, still at the company.

When I looked for it, it was pretty clear there was a tremendous amount of 'churn' in employment. I asked Lazlo Bock about it once, he was heading up 'People Operations' at the time and he assured me there were always plenty of candidates in the pipeline and Google wanted only the best and brightest. The people we had? Well they weren't always a good fit "culturally" with the company, after all Google was unlike any company that had ever existed, right?

It was just one of the more egregious times where the 'actions' and the 'words' didn't actually communicate the same message.
US readies national security card to justify taxing Americans for foreign chips
I agree that it's very important not to lose control of your email account. Someone taking it over would be very bad indeed.

On the other hand, I don't have very high expectations when it comes to the security of the actual email messages. I don't control the other end at all. Email infrastructure, software and protocols are old and varied. Keeping those messages secure seems a bit hopeless.
Because the screen medium is different from paper (emitting light vs reflecting light) pure black on white is a bit intense to the eye.

General recommendation is to reduce contrast a bit.

A good starting point would be #444 for the text and #eee for the background. #eeeee6 would warm the background a tiny bit.

Recommended line size is 65-85 characters, line-spacing at 1.3-1.5.
Scientists reveal advance in brain research once thought impossible
“Those guys” are California YIMBY. The Stripe brothers for example are major funders.[1]

One of the “California Forever” billionaires, Patrick Collison, CEO of Stripe, looms large in Abundance world. Along with Open Philanthropy, he donated to fund a $120 million “Abundance” grant tied to Klein’s book release. Collison is a key backer and inspiration for the Institute for Progress (IFP), a think tank which works closely with others in the Abundance network, including at the Abundance 2024 conference. Collison co-founded “Progress Studies” with economist Tyler Cowen, born from their Atlantic article, “We Need a New Science of Progress.” While IFP isn’t officially a “Progress Studies” think tank, its mission aligns closely, and it has received funding from both Collison and Emergent Ventures, Cowen’s Mercatus Center grant program established with funding from Thiel. Klein and Thompson were interviewed by Collison on their book tour.

Cowen has his own interest in Network State style projects. Balaji Srinivasan, a cryptocurrency billionaire and Próspera funder, defines a Network State as “a highly aligned online community with a capacity for collective action that crowdfunds territory around the world.” In this alternative governance structure, tech elites would create private, blockchain based enclaves—Srinivasan calls this “tech zionism.” Network States are founded on empty land, or by taking over an existing city—as Network State evangelists have attempted in San Francisco. Srinivasan even called for “ethnically cleansing” San Francisco of non-tech people.

Cowen is an early backer of Praxis, alongside Srinivasan and Thiel. Praxis describes itself as “a grassroots movement of modern pioneers,” aiming to build an autonomous, cryptocurrency city. Initial plans proposed a Mediterranean location, but last fall, the Praxis CEO tweeted “I went to Greenland to try to buy it.” Greenland, however, reiterated that the country is not for sale.

Cowen has been a protégé and friend of Thiel’s, citing him as a major influence. He advocates a form of government called “State Capacity Libertarianism” which, unlike anarcho-capitalism, includes a strong state apparatus. In Cowen’s words: “a good strong state should see the maintenance and extension of capitalism as one of its primary duties, in many cases its #1 duty.” He explicitly credits Thiel for inspiring this idea: “You will note the influence of Peter Thiel on State Capacity Libertarianism,” Cowen writes, “though I have never heard him frame the issues in this way.”

[1] https://www.housingisahumanright.org/why-is-california-yimby...
The review manipulation offer was boxed up in the shrinkwrapped package so from my POV that made it part of the product. If the seller is altering the product then IMO its fair game to review. If a seller removed the batteries or put a sticker on the product I'd consider that an alteration to be part of the product itself... as opposed to when reviews complain about stuff like the seller's shipping speed which is orthogonal to what's in the box being shipped.
'An unlimited piggy bank:' Inside a powerful union's lavish spending
Discussion (272 points, 7 hours ago, 362 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43691334
I was wondering if this number was somehow significant in the paper, but it doesn't seem to be: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/251524591877096...
I am not arguing that ideas should be free from criticism. Not at all. Not sure how you got that idea.

I'm arguing that we shouldn't censor bad ideas, or exclude them entirely from the relevant discussions. And more to the point, when we educate the next generation we should be doing so in a holistic way so that they understand why and when bad ideas are bad, and why those ideas were ever popular in the first place.

I'm arguing against ideological censorship, not justified and well constructed criticism.
Hence the "defensive" qualifier. Defensive bureaucrats hide behind the "just doing my job / following orders" excuse. This is problematic when it is at odds with ethics, especially in civil service organizations.

Following protocol is critical to the function of large human organizations, but it's not everything. People who blindly follow protocol without heed to societal values and ethics are no different than killer robots.

Adolf Eichmann was a defensive bureaucrat.
Expensive mall based rents in general and large amounts of company debt.

Which falls apart when you have competitive online shopping.

Which falls apart further when you buy a giant bag of what you need online cheaper.
> You will find no judge willing to entertain your

Yes they will. Judges have already ruled that you can't just ban people from using your IP, like by standing on your head.

It is only publishing someone else's IP that is disallowed.

This is copyright law 101.

You can it seriously be arguing that an IP owner could ban someone from listening to their music while standing on one's head, for example.
Even latest CMake version still has that terrible syntax. If they want to survive the competition, at some point they need to provide (an option at least) another, proper syntax.
Fair enough.

I'd still quibble with your whole framing though. For example:

> This is a trillion dollars that cannot be used to provide government services.

I don't know if you have a mortgage, but assuming you do, is it useful to say of the interest payments you make on that "this is X dollars that cannot be used to buy food, heat, gas or streaming services" ? I suggest that it is not, and for reasons that apply to government too.

Capital investments, and debt more broadly, comes in good, bad and indifferent varieties. Some portion of the US national debt arises from spending on "good" things, some on "bad" things and quite a bit on "indifferent" things. There's no point in (accurately) noting that a mortgage payer cannot use the money they pay in interest to pay for other things, because we (broadly) accept that borrowing money in order to own your own home is sensible and comes with lots of its own utility/value. Whatever portion of US national debt arises from "good" spending can be viewed in the same manner.

Of course, how the actual apportionment between good/bad/indifferent spending is described will vary with political outlook and many other things, so there's no single answer to the question "how much of the national debt is a good thing". But it's certainly some of it ...
Discussion (25 points, 5 hours ago, 22 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43692165
> How we view the regret over the camps is, outside of that, mostly irrelevant to the context in which the issue was raised in this discussion.

How do you arrive at that conclusion?

The Japanese internment camps held both citizens and non-citizens. The camp in El Salvador currently holds mostly non-citizens but Trump issued a statement where he expressed enthusiasm for putting "home growns" in the camp as well. It is speculated that "home growns" refers to US citizens.

Obviously EO 9066 was necessary because the alien enemies act wasn't sufficient to intern citizens, and both citizens and non-citizens were put in the camps. Trump's comment about "home growns" suggests that he may issue a similar order, which in my view makes the two situations quite analogous with respect to the principles of law involved in taking people into custody without trial.
The author's blog is a FANTASTIC source of information. I recommend checking out some of their other posts:

- https://mcyoung.xyz/2021/06/01/linker-script/

- https://mcyoung.xyz/2023/08/09/yarns/

- https://mcyoung.xyz/2023/08/01/llvm-ir/
The Economist doesn't use bylines for its news. The goal is to have a "common voice" for the whole organization, rather than a collection of individuals.

It doesn't aim for neutrality, the way a lot of top American newspapers do. It has opinions, generally being in favor of free markets and economic liberalism. But they also require strict fact-checking, and they're not biased towards any particular politician or party. They will make clear who they feel to be right or wrong.
This seems a dumb way to allocate Federal research funds. We, the taxpayers, should not choose the best university for these projects, but limit ourselves to only private universities? Is this what people mean by DEI? That we use some criteria other than merit when allocating resources?
Open it and clean the fan. After it, it will work like a new one.
So exactly how buying from Radio Shack better than Amazon as far as labor practices downstream from their supply chain?

How many people working in China would find it a dream to work in an Amazon warehouse? I know about Amazon practices second hand from my step son who has both worked in an Amazon warehouse and as a driver.

There have been plenty of stories about small towns having labor shortages and having to increase wages to compete against Amazon warehouse pay because people would rather work there than at a fast food store, daycare, etc.
I'm working on a problem that I think logic programming might be a fit for. And I already have a lisp. Anyone interested in giving me some feedback on a mini language for heuristics?

https://marimo.io/p/@paddy-mullen/notebook-b79pj7
Not just Among Us. You also get Minecraft!
Or SetThreadContext() if you want to be hardcore. (not recommended)
> Should I target smaller companies where I can wear multiple hats?

Yep, that is probably your best bet. Find a job where you are hired for your PM skills, but allowed to write code. Now you have coding experience. Do that for a couple years, then switch to full-time coding.
If someone rallied a hate-mob on 4chan, though, how would people know?

Since 4chan overtly resists it, it'd rapidly move off of there, but it's still a great place to find like-minded folks that'd follow someone to another server to go brigade someone.
But later on in the article he said that $10,000 was a lot higher than expected. I would think that if the overage was higher than they expected they would go through the PDFs that Turbotax/etc. generate and double check the math.

I do this even without weird tax situations because I want to understand what the website is submitting on my behalf.
> To achieve those ambitious goals, advanced communication systems are crucial. It’s not about astronauts sharing pictures on social media; it’s about facilitating complex operations, enabling seamless collaboration, and supporting scientific advancements and economic endeavors.

I for one am actually quite excited to see the first cellphone-grade photos and selfies from the moon. Those would (in my opinion) indicate we have taken another step towards making life in space more commonplace.
> the hobbyist and electronics worlds are about to get hit extremely hard

Speak for yourself. I am in this world but I am not in USA and I won't be subject to your stupid tariffs. Good luck to you.
How can there possibly be an answer to "how much will tax revenue increase if we tax the rich" without specifying how much we tax the rich, and how we define the rich?
Well - it invites people creating big promises and then selling, which doesn't help the consumer.
That is not entirely true.

It seems that many humans live on a "show" perspective of the world. It is hard to separate what is seen from what is in the eyes though.

Being funny is to put up a show, for example. Even if it is in person, for a single individual. It draws from the same essential stuff.

Intimacy can grow on that "acting" ground, in a sense that they're not mutually exclusive. Many things, in fact, can.

The internet does lack many of the social cues that one would expect from the real world. It also has cues the real world don't have, like logs and history. If it can grow animosity, it also can grow other stuff. Hopefully stuff less disruptive than animosity.

Animosity and comedy seem to be very basal, primitive feelings. Probably the ones that require less thinking. They're not bad, sometimes is good to think less. But not always.

I imagine something similar happened in the real world in the past too. But I could never be 100% sure of it.

Different, but analogous in some ways. Difficult to compare, but undeniably related.
What makes the US more chaotic (and UK to some extent and probably more) is the political system first-past-the-post which does nothing to promote collaboration. Quite the contrary the winner does its best to crush every sprout of the loser to make his future win more likely. Now if you had a few parties which would be forced to forge alliances to govern, they would probably govern in alliances in the following terms as well so some of the politics for sure get carried over. But, such ideas help now nobody, the current system is how it is.
well, produce own steel. Own processors, own drug precursors...
Good. If I can get there this weekend I can get my last free battery from the battery club.
The /active page is helpful, thanks! I also just recently realized that the 'hckr news'[0] interface doesn't hide or remove flagged stories if you're using the Top 10/20/50 view options, so if something is getting discussed/upvoted it will be there.

[0]https://hckrnews.com/
Conspiracies Are Often Unnecessary
But it's not intended as a watermark, it's an attempt at disruption. And with some models it simply doesn't work.

For instance, I've seen somebody experiment with Glaze (the image AI version of this). Glaze at high levels produces visible artifacts (see middle image: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FrbJ9ZTacAAWQQn.jpg:large ).

It seems some models ignore it and produce mostly clean images on the output (looking like the last image), while others just interpret is as a texture, the character is just wearing a funny patterned shirt. This is while the intended result is fooling the model to generate something other than the intended character.
Many, if not most, of these occurrences can be made safe. It's very rare that I need `as`, and even more rare that I can't actually check the relevant properties at runtime to ensure the code path is valid.

It's on you to ensure that you don't misuse `as`. If I could choose between current TS, and a "safer" one that's less expressive in complex cases, I'd choose the current one any day of the week.
The Shining is one of the most heavily analyzed films of all time, for good reason. It's not just some random Michael Bay flick. It's really almost unbelievable how deep the rabbit hole goes, so no, it's not surprising in the very least that people would spend time on a detail like this. If people 100 years ago weren't doing this kind of thing with films, it's because they didn't have access to films the way we do today, if The Shining was around 100 years ago and people had home computers they could play it on and could download it easily over the internet, you can be sure people would be analyzing it like crazy back then too.
Then you do understand their mental model. Their purpose is the outcome they are delivering.
> Let's Encrypt lists 10 ACME clients for Windows / IIS.

How many of those are first-party/vetted by Microsoft? I'm not sure you understand how enterprises or secure environments work, we can't just download whatever app someone found on the Internet that solves the issue.
Btw I want to mention that it is free to use and try our hosted version as well. Thanks!
Critical infrastructure, critically compromised: It's now a matter of resilience
There are some things not even Doom music can fix.
>These are basically just machined pieces of metal so not really anything than can break.

Nothing can break but the metal can be alloyed with lead to make it easier to machine or coated in something toxic.
And somehow doesn't apply to actual criminals like his cronies, supporters, or himself, despite being found guilty of 34 felonies.
Didn't you just fall into exactly the trap I tried to tell you about? If Donald Trump himself gives five dollars to CA YIMBY, does that poison the YIMBY agenda? What are the actual policy proposals of Abundance advocates? What is CA YIMBY's 2025 legislative agenda?