MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sotix | 2025-10-13 18:30:43+00:00
Does thunderbird support the file storage, labelling, alias creation, and notes features as well? I thought thunderbird was just for email using IMAP. Does it support JMAP?

And what about them making this has detracted from your experience as a Fastmail user? I've found the desktop site to be perfectly fine, and they recently addressed my primary complain with the mobile app by allowing emails to be saved offline. I haven't found anything worrying that I feel their dev time needs to urgently address that was ignored due to this. Fastmail just works.
by fwip | 2025-10-13 18:31:09+00:00
I think this is pretty instructor-dependent. I had two LinAlg courses, and in the first, I felt like I was building a great intuition. In the second, the instructor seemed to make even the stuff I previously learned seem obtuse and like "facts to memorize."

Maybe linear algebra is more instructor-dependent, since we have fewer preexisting concepts to build on?
by huitzitziltzin | 2025-10-13 18:31:13+00:00
Sure…

Mokyr’s northwestern website has links to a lot of his papers.

An extremely crude selection rule:

Anything published in the American economic review, quarterly journal of economics, journal of political economy has the profession’s “highest stamp of approval”. It’s really hard to publish anything there. (There are two journals im not listing in that “top” category but he has no papers there on his website.). On aghion or howitts websites, look for the above journals but also econometrica and the review of economic studies. Those are the “top five” in the field.

There are surely papers in good history and Econ history journals on mokyr’s website but I don’t know the journals!

Standards for any chapter in a “handbook of X economics” or “handbook of the economics of X” are high - those should be good surveys.

Similarly a paper in the “annual review of economics”

Also mokyr has a bunch of work on Amazon. “The lever of riches” is a classic. “A culture of growth” is well regarded.

Finally he has a forthcoming book called “two paths to prosperity” with two other distinguished guys - one Econ historian (greif) and one political economy guy (tabellini). It’s coming out in about three weeks. Good timing, Princeton U Press!

Aghion and howitt have a growth textbook at the advanced undergrad level called “the economics of growth.”

They have a much more advanced work called “endogenous growth theory” which is for specialists (or at least anyone with first year PhD macro)

Aghion has a book called “the power of creative destruction.”
by NoboruWataya | 2025-10-13 18:31:22+00:00
From the article it looks like the fine here is basically for not complying with information requests (rather than a full investigation having concluded that 4chan is in violation of the substance of the Act). Ofcom probably thought 4chan would just respond to the requests by geoblocking the UK, which would have been good enough for them. But once their bluff was called, they really had no choice but to levy the fine. Announcing you are investigating someone for violating the law and then not bothering to fine them when they very clearly ignore your investigation (which is itself a violation of the law) is more destructive to your credibility than anything.

It's not like the fine has zero consequences. It will likely restrict 4chan and its senior officials from visiting or dealing with the UK, which I'm sure is annoying on a personal level if nothing else. I don't know if Ofcom currently has the power to order ISPs to block non-compliant domains, but if it doesn't you can bet it will be using this to push for that power.

As for not being able to intimidate the long tail: for US companies, yes this might further weaken Ofcom's influence over them. But companies with a UK presence who try to call Ofcom's bluff after this are likely going to have a bad time.
by nomel | 2025-10-13 18:31:42+00:00
I don't think that deserves to be categorized as a "reliability" problem. I don't think that's technically a reliability problem.

Sounds like it was reliable, with the problem being that it's much much slower than bare metal (a very well known thing), with the microcontroller not having the required processing power to service your task in that context.

Dropping into C for performance critical code is something you sometimes need to do with python, regardless of platform, because it's slowwwwww anywhere it runs. You'll always hit a ceiling, and much much sooner on a microcontroller.
by stackskipton | 2025-10-13 18:32:06+00:00
I've look at Tilt and it's another abstraction for Kubernetes which rarely ends well at scale.

However, most of time, Devs don't need to develop on Kubernetes since it's just Container Runtime and Networking Layer they don't care about. They run container, they connect to HTTP endpoint to talk to other containers, they are happy. Details are left to us Ops people.
by bluGill | 2025-10-13 18:32:10+00:00
This is great for ordinary Americans. It means you don't have to do the boring assembly jobs, but you still get the benefits for vast amounts of mass produced goods. (some of it is junk, but that is a different topic). Those goods should be cheap as well because they are mass produced with little labor costs. The only ones who lose are those who are want to do boring work instead of something creative. (or those who are incapable of doing something else)

There is the constant argument that what when machines do everything. We are not there yet, and so far there is no reason to think we will be anytime soon.
by yibg | 2025-10-13 18:32:31+00:00
Using people for manufacturing fundamentally will never be cost competitive compared to cheaper markets. There are really only a few ways to resolve this in my view:

1. Give up and just outsource manufacturing and be ok with it

2. Invest heavily in automation, technology etc so we remove cost of labor from the equation. Or at least heavily minimize it

3. Put up trade barriers to artificially raise the cost of imported goods, which is what the current admin is trying to do, at least officially

1. leaves us dependent on other potentially adversarial countries, 3. increases the cost of goods sold so puts a burden on the population. So seems like 2. is the only way to go, if the country can get behind it. But it also inherently won't add a lot of jobs.
by kmoser | 2025-10-13 18:32:56+00:00
A Turing machine operates serially on a fixed set of instructions. A human brain operates in parallel on inputs that are constantly changing. The underlying mechanism is completely different. The human brain is far, far more than a mere computation device.

Efforts to reproduce a human brain in a computer are currently at the level of a cargo cult: we're simulating the mechanical operations, without a deep understanding of the underlying processes which are just as important. I'm not saying we won't get better at it, but so far we're nowhere near producing a brain in a computer.
by karakanb | 2025-10-13 18:33:16+00:00
Disclaimer: I am the co-founder of a dbt alternative, Bruin. (https://github.com/bruin-data/bruin)

I think consolidation in the space has been coming for quite some time now and this merger only confirms what us, along with many others, have been saying: the data tooling is in a miserable state and we had to glue together a bunch of different tools that don't work with each other.

At this point, I think it is quite obvious that Fivetran is going for Snowflake/Databricks's market share. They own the ingestion for many companies already, and they will offer a managed data lake product in order to compete with the data giants. By owning the means of bringing the data in (Fivetran) as well as the transformation layer (dbt/sqlmesh) they will aim to get ahead of Snowflakes of the world.

I think it'll be a win for the data community if they maintain and continue investing into the existing tooling, as they are running in quite a few places already, especially dbt core running in a self-managed way. I certainly hope they won't try to squeeze revenue for the sake of it from their combined users.

It's an interesting time to be in the space, and it feels great to be one of the few independent players in the market.
by stackskipton | 2025-10-13 18:34:17+00:00
You have a config file, it needs to have secrets so likely you are going to run some templating system where you replace dbpassword: ${dbPassword} with password from some secret system. Hopefuly you understand possible issues with any templating system that could result in replacement failures.

String manipulating is one of those "This is easy" until it's not.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-10-13 18:35:34+00:00
This is nonsensical. The minute the government doesn’t check ID to get on a plane that coincides with your ticket, the airline will start doing ID checks before getting on domestic flights just like they do for international flights.

And some airports are now allowing non fliers inside the terminal.

Even hotels force you to verify your ID to check in even though the reservation I’d transferable - just add a guest to your room when you make the reservation.
by wkat4242 | 2025-10-13 18:36:25+00:00
Yeah in the name of "security".

Unfortunately it also means giving the key to the Kingdom to a company like Microsoft or Google which are definitely adversaries in my book. Keeping them in check was still possible with full system access.

Even Apple I don't trust. They're always shouting about privacy but they define it purely as privacy from third parties, not themselves.

And they were the first to come up with a plan where your phone would spy on you 24/7.
by itsme0000 | 2025-10-13 18:36:45+00:00
Yeah actually I don’t need to be in agony or improve my outlook at all or even understand my motivations for my own actions to be happy. I needed real medical care. Therapists think pain can teach you to accept something, but true pain, it can’t teach you anything. It only makes you a worse person. There’s no possibility for the rationalization of true agony. Attempts to do so simply lead to worse, more dangerous mental problems.

The majority of people are tourists in the world of pain. They enter, make observations, then exit, assured that they had a harrowing experience. But for those of us who are residents in the city of pain, we know it stinks and it will grind us down until we become evil people. We are stuck there due to some kind of undeserved poverty which is not within our power to control. No amount of compromise or contemplation can escape you from a physical prison. It’s a cage that exists inside you rather than around you and it does nothing to shake the bars other than annoy the tourists who gawk as they pass by.

I know that’s pretty dark, but people simply will never acknowledge that life long happiness is somewhat dependent on luck. It would likely cause society to fail if the lucky people realized evil people were actually equally self aware but just fundamentally less lucky and under the influence of random inexplicable pain, that’s just a result of human biology. People just reject this idea even though it’s obviously true. Therapists simply don’t understand this simple fact because it’s not their job, they are there to guide the tourists.
by crote | 2025-10-13 18:36:51+00:00
> existing manufacturing automation requires that specificity due to technical constraints

Rather the opposite, I'd say: existing manufacturing automation is built around repetitive motions because an assembly line is making multiples of the same product. Having AI reinvent the wheel for every individual item is completely pointless.

One-off manufacturing can to a certain extent be automated. We're already seeing that with things like 3D printing and dirt-cheap basic PCB assembly. However, in most cases economies of scale prevent that from widespread generalization to entire products: ordering 100 or 1000 is always going to be have significantly lower per-unit costs than ordering 1, and if you're ordering 1000 you can probably afford a human spending some time on setting up robots or optimizing the design for existing setups.

There are undoubtedly some areas where the current AI boom can provide helpful tooling, but I don't expect it to lead to a manufacturing revolution.
by hinkley | 2025-10-13 18:37:06+00:00
This sounds like the sort of thing that happens when a team has a deliverable that slips multiple times but everyone had vacations planned for a responsible amount of time after the deadline.

Under time pressure and confirmation bias they signed off on code that was giving off signs of being broken, pushed it, and now key staff are either on airplanes, out of coverage on their phones, or cannot work entirely from memory and don’t have their computers with them because vacation.
by Findecanor | 2025-10-13 18:37:27+00:00
> Fil-C is more compatible in the sense that I can get CPython to work in Fil-C and to my knowledge it doesn't work on CHERI.

MicroPython has been ported though. What makes CPython special, so it couldn't be ported?

> Fil-C also has an actual story for use-after-free. CHERI's story is super weak

Indeed, CHERI does not always trap on use-after-free if the program is fast enough. A free'd memory object is kept until another thread has found all pointers to the object and made them invalid.

If I understood the paper right, Cornucopia-Reloaded does invalidate a capability directly when loaded if the pointed-to page is marked free. Therefore, any allocation of at least a page should have no use-after-free.
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-10-13 18:38:19+00:00
Amazon is a dystopian nightmare of a company. Amazon took losses in order to decimate their competition. Their business model you hype is evil af. They have to have people planning for when they run out of local workers their warehouses are so bad. They allow in fake fuses and tons of other fake products because they are cool with the risk to peoples lives. Instead of giving you decent search results they sell ad spots.

So yes, Amazon represents 'good management thinking' post 2010. But not corporate thinking pre 1980s that, you know, build the US/UK to the positions they were able to cost on up until now.
by nyeah | 2025-10-13 18:38:35+00:00
I think I'm mostly agreeing. Anyway here's my story.

Buybacks can be good or bad for shareholders, depending on the buyback price.

Example. I take $1000 and securitize it as 1000 shares. The company sells the shares for $1 each. This is a no-fee closed fund, whatever. I'm the "CEO". I personally buy 1 share.

Anyway, one day the stock trades at $0.90 and the company buys back 500 shares at that price. (How $0.90? Maybe the largest shareholder was distressed and needed cash, maybe somebody didn't read the SEC filings. Maybe "the ticker tells the whole story" and the ticker told $0.90 for a few days. It doesn't matter.) Now the company holds $550 and has 500 shares outstanding. Each share owns $1.10 of USD. Expenses are zero. I kindly volunteer my services as CEO and sole employee.

Pretty soon the stock might trade around $1.10. (Why $1.10? wHo knows?) The people who sold for $0.90 might regret that decision now. Continuing shareholders make money if they sell now. Was this "good for shareholders"? Depends on which shareholder.

Now I (the CEO) decide the company will do a buyback. The company offers $2 a share. I sell my own share for $2. To make it simple, say the company buys back 275 shares at $2. Now it's broke. The remaining shares trade for ... whatever. Somewhere between $3 and $0? ($3 because growth rate!)

I personally doubled my investment. Anybody who sold at $2 also did well.

Buybacks can be good or bad for shareholders.
by yograptor | 2025-10-13 18:38:39+00:00
https://github.com/yogaraptor/turnto

It’s the beginnings of a web-based “choose your own adventure” book builder.

I’m sure other such things exist, but I wanted to build one with a focus on a natural authoring process - no HTML or Markdown, just one plain text so you can quickly type your way to fun.

The primary users (both for authoring and playing the books) will be my kids.

I’m also getting a kick out of building it with zero dependencies (I’m not counting the linter/formatter, Biome) in JavaScript), especially enjoying writing tests with just `node:assert`.

I’m planning on making it themeable in the style of CSS Zen Garden - I.e. you can’t change the generated HTML but you can style it with CSS however you like.
by viccis | 2025-10-13 18:38:48+00:00
I recommend his ANN/LLM from scratch videos to people a lot because not only is he a clear instructor, but his code tends to be very Pythonic and just the right balance of terse but readable (not counting the Pytorch vectorization stuff, but that's not his fault, it's just complex). So I think people benefit just from watching and imitating his code style.
by badpun | 2025-10-13 18:39:22+00:00
> Those who do not sell, get their reward in the proportion of their ownership of the company going up.

This is incorrect. If the company buys back say $100m worth of its stock, it's true that the individual shares remaining represent a larger fraction of the company, BUT the company itself is worth $100m less after the transaction (because it has spent that $100m on purchase of something that can't be added to the balance sheet - basically incinerated that money from company's point of view, similarly to how paying out dividends is "destroying" money). These two factors cancel out perfectly, and the book value per share remains unchanged.
by iamnothere | 2025-10-13 18:39:32+00:00
Wtf is a bazaar vendor? A bazaar-style project is a project with a variety of contributors who aren’t necessarily affiliated with a central org, where decisions are made at least partially through consensus. Linux still fits this description although it’s more of a hybrid model at the moment, as decision-making is highly centralized. But as a free/open source project, that centralization exists with implicit community consensus. If a substantial portion of the community decided that Linus and his team were making poor decisions, a fork would emerge. This process of periodic de-/re-centralization is a common attribute of many long-term FOSS projects and is usually not possible with proprietary software, absent generosity or neglect from IP “owners”.
by jppittma | 2025-10-13 18:39:59+00:00
Yes you can? The container should be completely agnostic to the fact that it's running in kubernetes. You can do config the same way. Configmaps are mounted as regular files and environment variables. The application doesn't care if the configmap came from the cluster resource or a file your created on your dev machine with dev credentials. You can mount local files into the container yourself. It's docker run -v "source:destination" I think.
by Desafinado | 2025-10-13 18:40:12+00:00
The opposing viewpoint is that smartphones do fill a need of the modern world, and that is that most people have been separated from their families due to the logistics of finding paying work.

Some of my relatives in the 90s, things weren't much better without smartphones. You had long distance calling and TV, or otherwise you were alone. One of my relatives attempted suicide when she was very young, you can guess why.

But yes, it obviously makes sense to use smartphones intelligently. Meta products and Tik Tok are poison for the mind. And unless you're at home it's a good idea to just shut the smartphone off.
by lithocarpus | 2025-10-13 18:40:16+00:00
What's wrong with eggs btw?

The only thing I can easily find is that they have saturated fat - but it takes 4.5 eggs to have as much saturated fat as 1tbsp of butter.

Aside from 1 year of strict vegan diet, I've eaten an average of 4 eggs with 1tbsp butter mostly daily for my entire adult life (I'm 34), and also ate eggs regularly in childhood, and I seem to be in excellent health with no known issues. But I'm curious what I should be watching for.
by fair_enough | 2025-10-13 18:40:20+00:00
Just a friendly reminder: The Washington Post is owned by Jeff Bezos. Of course he doesn't want people to think that tariffs can bring back middle class manufacturing jobs, and naturally he would want to publish propaganda intended to demoralize pro-labor causes like import tariffs and worker protection laws.

I'm not saying he's wrong just yet, I'm just pointing out that he owns a propaganda mouthpiece and is willing to lie on a grandiose scale to protect his business interests.
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-10-13 18:40:31+00:00
Yes yes, companies used to compensate management with 'dividend options' so switching to stock options totally didn't pervert management's incentives.

And management doesn't manipulate the stock using stock buybacks. Why would they? Their performance and compensation are only completely tied to stock price. But no, stock buybacks don't allow perverse incentives that lead to short term thinking different than dividends. Totally the same.
by instagib | 2025-10-13 18:41:17+00:00
I thought most devs didn’t want to develop on android because IOS devs made more income per user (0) and spent more on in app purchases. Android does well with ad supported apps. Paid apps have had issues with piracy also.

“In 2024, the App Store made $103.4 billion to Google Play’s $46.7 billion.”

0 https://www.businessofapps.com/data/app-data-report/
by kmoser | 2025-10-13 18:41:29+00:00
> The ecosystem would be greatly improved if someone made a great (probably rust based) in-memory low level pdf reading and writing data structure.

> Not sure what would economically cause this to happen, but it would be great.

Writing a library that is better than all the others is difficult to begin with. Continuing to upgrade and maintain it and fix bugs is even more difficult. Even with the right funding, you'd have to find someone who wants to keep at it year after year. When they inevitably lose interest, you'd have to find somebody else to take the reins--and weather the storm of complaints during the down time.

In short, thank you for volunteering to write and maintain this library for the rest of your life! :)
by mindslight | 2025-10-13 18:41:29+00:00
The DOJ has been put directly under the command of the presidency ("Unitary Executive Theory"). Micromanagement makes for reduced regulatory bandwidth makes for little reason to go after crime for the sake of it, especially cryptocurrency related... unless it directly affects someone who can get the ear of the president or if it can be used for a political spectacle. I don't really see the spectacle angle here, so therefore it must be an instance of someone getting burnt in the "code is law" environment and then seeking out-of-band retribution.
by crote | 2025-10-13 18:41:37+00:00
> Navigating through a partially manufactured vehicle cab to install a complicated dash assembly requires a lot of context and is incredibly difficult for a robot to do.

Not really. The robots are programmed by having a human manually guide it, so the robot itself doesn't really have to do any navigation - it just has to follow a predefined path.

Want to install different variants of dash components? Split it up into methods and have the robot return to a neutral position after each method. You're literally programming it.
by rob | 2025-10-13 18:41:38+00:00
I'm surprised this doesn't happen more often.

I own a Land Rover and their system software also ("Pivi") seems to have tons of little quirks and issues.

Sometimes the cameras won't work unless you restart Pivi. One time, the entire car wouldn't respond to locking (via the app, keyfob, in-car buttons) unless you disconnected the battery and waited ~30 mins. Many people complain that they can't even successfully upgrade between Pivi releases. It'll error out a lot of times and they have to restart the process.

(Would be interested to know the kind of tech they're using if anybody's familiar with it!)