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lvkleiston Launch HN: Langfuse (YC W23) – OSS Tracing and Workflows to Improve LLM Apps

Have been a very happy Langfuse user since March - dead simple to use and has helped us a lot with LLM observability and debugging - great work guys :))

lvkleiston YC wants to let people invest in its startups through the blockchain

I'm not sure I understand, could you elaborate?

lvkleiston How the British aristocracy preserved their power

Only the ones in the west. Most of the Prussian aristocrats who owned land in what became western Poland or the German Democratic Republic were disowned and fled/were killed.

lvkleiston It rains solid diamonds on Uranus and Neptune

Such an interesting article. Churchill was known to take advantage of this in his speeches, for example in (parts of) the famous "We shall fight them on the beaches": https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/97665/did-the-we...

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all. - Winston Churchill

lvkleiston On almost every indicator, Germany’s south is doing better than its north

Having lived in Berlin and Freiburg, I can confirm this. I also find it interesting that most in southern Baden-Württemberg still refer to their dialect as "Allemanic"(as in the ancient confederation of Germanic tribes, the "Allemani" Excerpt from Wikipedia: "First mentioned by Cassius Dio in the context of the campaign of Caracalla of 213, the Alemanni captured the Agri Decumates in 260, and later expanded into present-day Alsace, and northern Switzerland, leading to the establishment of the Old High German language in those regions."). The french word for Germans, "Allemands", reflects these old tribal boundaries as well. It's easy to forget that Germany as a unified state is young, but try sometime watching someone from Berlin or Hamburg attempt to decipher a sentence spoken in the rural Allemanic dialect, it's pretty futile.(Note: this doesn't really apply to larger towns like Freiburg anymore. You have to drive half an hour or so into the countryside, and find an older person. Young people often prefer to speak Standard German nowadays).

lvkleiston On almost every indicator, Germany’s south is doing better than its north

*have

lvkleiston On almost every indicator, Germany’s south is doing better than its north

But would you habe to pay the higher german taxes then?

lvkleiston California teaches inmates code; some states ban them from teaching themselves

On the other hand, maybe they won't feel the need to sell drugs/commit burgleries anymore if they have a marketable skill.

lvkleiston Muesli – An alternative approach to Soylent

One idea is that you should choose a traditional diet based on where your ancestors come from. http://www.marksdailyapple.com/the-definitive-guide-to-using...

lvkleiston S&P 500 to exclude Snap after voting rights debate

Could you explain?

lvkleiston Why we should learn German

German here. This is a recording of "Willkommen und Abschied" by Goethe. It's a beautiful poem and I find that this recording does it justice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mgd0JYKu14Q