MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lupusreal | 2025-10-02 16:21:59+00:00
Even if wealthy people didn't move or otherwise evade or avoid the wealth tax and fully complied with the spirit of the thing, I don't see how it could work over time. If the tax "worked" and reduced their wealth, then the revenue from the tax would drop. There would be a natural tendency for the system to then start moving the threshold down to keep the revenue up. Where does that end, with everybody being equally poor?
by nonethewiser | 2025-10-02 16:22:13+00:00
>It's one of the last versions where the modal dialogs ask "Yes" or "No", instead of "Yes" and "Not now", "Maybe later", or "Ask again tomorrow".

This difference captures so much...

I recently setup a minecraft server on an old windows machine and had a hard time setting it to never restart automatically. After reading some support forums I found the menu to control when it restarts but still didnt see an option to completely stop it.

Eventually I found a way that I can't even recall at this point.
by wyc | 2025-10-02 16:22:35+00:00
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by makingstuffs | 2025-10-02 16:22:48+00:00
The problem is that there is a vast number of people in modern societies whom do not come from a stable background.

Something I have realised since managing to work my family out of the trenches is that the majority of people really do not have any idea on just how bad things can be. And I should add it is not their fault in the slightest. If you’re not living amongst it the articles you read in mainstream media seem like rare anomalies but the reality is that they are not.

The biggest benefit to having a stable background is the ability to be more selective about the job you take as you know there is a safety net.

When you are literally living paycheque to paycheque you don’t even want to risk having to complete another round of probation in a better job as you run the risk of being unemployed in three months time and loss of one month’s salary can start a spiral which makes your currently manageable situation a lot less so.

I say this from personal experience as someone in the UK, I can’t speak for anywhere else.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-10-02 16:23:08+00:00
Yeah it still uses the old Control Panel system, which is far from perfect (it's really bad about "dialog tunnels" where some things are buried too many levels deep), but overall is more servicable for technical users.

Another thing that it has over XP is that it's better at providing a minimally usable environment post-install, with a better payload of default drivers. I don't miss booting into 256 color 640x480 and trying to get all the hardware in a functional state without a network connection like was a frequent occurrence with XP and older.
by austin-cheney | 2025-10-02 16:23:22+00:00
Does that example really require masking? Absolute not. You don't have to lie when you provide a neutral response. Examples: "Busy day", "Just feeling tired", "Many things to get done.". Those are not necessarily good or bad and suggest you aren't making small talk.

Or, if you provide a never ending story they will see your disability for what it is and they won't ask you a second time.
by thrance | 2025-10-02 16:23:41+00:00
Sorry, no. There is no comparison possible between Harris and Trump. Know that I wouldn't have fancied a boring neoliberal technocrat such as her in the White House, but at this point anything would have been better than the literal criminal sociopath currently residing there.

> many, many of the right did not want trump

They're awfully silent, if that's the case.
by jkaplowitz | 2025-10-02 16:23:44+00:00
Greg K-H's explanation (as paraphrased by the journalist) confirms that, for example, receiving payment for an article which is accompanied by a software example would not trigger the requirements that come with monetization. Here's the exact quote - look at the "even when" part:

"There is no legal risk for individual contributors simply sharing code online or in publications, even when they receive payment for writing an article, as long as the software itself is not monetized or organized."

So, maybe EU developers would have to learn the safe wording through which to solicit and accept donations, but at the very least, donations supporting their software activities in general (and not tied to a specific software program) will likely not increase CRA requirements - and maybe even voluntary donations to support development of a specific software program but which are not in any way mandatory.
by tguvot | 2025-10-02 16:23:44+00:00
the only law that somehow discriminates arabs it's that if you marry somebody from west bank/gaza, you can't bring him to israel. also it's renewed yearly, not even sure if it still active or expired.

green license plates are for west bank/gaza. all israeli citizens, including 2m arabs and ~700k "other" have yellow plates
by 0cf8612b2e1e | 2025-10-02 16:24:21+00:00
One thing I would love to see is more industry collaborations to make software. The nav system of Honda/Toyota/Ford is never going to be a differentiator on the core product. Chip in resources to get a core platform that each vendor can cosmetically tweak.

Of course, this never happens, because humans. Yet I still dream.
by jpfromlondon | 2025-10-02 16:24:23+00:00
it is, it's unfalsifiable nonsense because nobody actually "sees" things in their "minds eye", when someone imagines something it's just a generic default instantiation of whatever, the properties might list "red" and "cube" but the individual doesn't "see" the red cube.

It's just another way for attention seekers to feel special.
by vunderba | 2025-10-02 16:24:23+00:00
A lot of the article goes into trying to "multitask" your practice - building it into some minimal viable practice routine.

I would urge caution around this - in fact - deliberate practice is probably worth 10 times this. There's a reason people tend to plateau early in their efforts to master something. Once your brain figures out how to put the skill on autopilot you're going to find your rate of improvement significantly slower.

It's not just about the time you put in - it's about the type of practice you put in.
by bigyabai | 2025-10-02 16:24:30+00:00
> Luckily, I live in a crumbling empire. Shortly before I started this review, America's mad king assaulted the first amendment.

It's both jawdropping and quite hilarious how lines like this make it into the review with no mention of Tim Cook kissing ass to Trump. Protests and politics are important, until they interfere with my right to a good iPhone camera review. Then it's just business as usual. Politics, in my iPhone camera? Say it ain't so!

Of course, they reinforce this by playing the "iPhone is so important" card, and leaning away from the notion of foreign manufacturing and domestic coercion being important. It's not about the first-party control wielded by Apple, the United States and protected hackers-for-hire like NSO Group. It's about capturing the moment, however vapid, temporary, compressed, modified or restricted it is.
by mmh0000 | 2025-10-02 16:24:37+00:00
You've got to look at ISO27001 from the perspective of the Sales Rep, not from an Engineer.

In theory, being ISO27001 means that you're environment follows best practices and has a somewhat sane security posture.

To the business people, a new customer demands that you have ISO27001 certification before they'll sign the $$$$ contract. The salesperson does not care HOW you get the certificate, just that you have it, they need this contract signed!

The department wasn't designed with security in mind, so implementing everything required by ISO will take many months. But sales needs $$$$ now! The CEO, CFO, and CTO are aligned: money now!

So, there's high pressure to pass the audit quickly. You implement what you can, you weasle your way around the things that will take too long. Those things are "out of scope" or "testing databases". You implement MFA while the auditor is auditing, but you know it breaks developers' workflows and there isn't a quick fix, so you turn MFA back off once the audit is complete....

TA-DA! We're ISO27001 certified! But we're no more secure than we were before.
by jofla_net | 2025-10-02 16:24:46+00:00
The new menus are really fun in 11, where it starts out new, and then when you want more info pretty much everything changes back (font/kerning/color) to the point of feeling you need to do a doubletake. Its something that if it happened online you'd swear you've been slip-streamed and shouldn't continue. Guess they dont have anyone who can move over the old items to the new look, go figure.
by OscarDC | 2025-10-02 16:24:50+00:00
I think we both fell in the exact same rabbit hole started in the "Immich" post today!

By the way I tried to look at the code to see where it was defined and, with difficulties I ended up founding:

https://github.com/rschristian/voldephobia/blob/1792b7c39baf...
by potatolicious | 2025-10-02 16:25:12+00:00
Most recently during COVID, when many a VC exited SF and NYC to Florida with loud caterwauling about how the cities were completely over and Miami is where it's all going to be at going forward.

Nearly every single one has quietly crawled their way back into those respective cities. Agglomeration effects baby!

Listen, I am sure there is some level of taxation at which the rich will in fact decamp and go somewhere else, but empirically we are nowhere near it, nor does it appear that any of the mainstream proposals (either for increased high-bracket tax rates or wealth taxes) get anywhere near it.

For example, MA instituted a 4% surtax on all incomes over $1M and... and the population of payers actually increased 25% since instituting it[1].

[1] https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/04/28/massachusetts-millionai...
by riffraff | 2025-10-02 16:25:34+00:00
Switzerland does have a wealth tax[0].

The latest destination for some rich foreigners is Italy due to the lump sum tax on foreign income (200k) for the first 10 years of moving there.

But Italy also has a 2‰ wealth tax since 2013 or so.

All these news are always exagerated.

[0] https://thepoorswiss.com/wealth-tax/
by JustExAWS | 2025-10-02 16:25:57+00:00
First you have to get the interview. I don’t know how old you are. But the older you are (I’m 51) the harder it is to get mid level hands on keyboard roles.

It’s a shit show out here right now. It’s actually worse than the dot com bust. I had no trouble getting jobs then as an enterprise dev working in Atlanta with four years of experience.

Have you looked for a job post 2022? My experience in 2023 and 2024 when I was looking for a bog standard enterprise dev job (twice) that needed AWS experience. Mind you in 2023, I had 5 years of AWS experience leading projects with hands on keyboard work including 3 working directly for AWS leading projects at AWS ProServe.

A) submitting my resume for standard enterprise dev jobs blindly to ATS’s using LinkedIn Easy Apply, Indeed, etc: I submitted hundreds of resumes and heard crickets. LinkedIn shows you how many people applied, if your application has been viewed and how often your resume has been viewed. Maybe 3-5x my application was even looked at.

B) Targeted outreach to internal recruiters based on a niche of niche in AWS where I was an industry wide subject matter expert [1] - two interviews one offer.

C) reaching out to my network based again not on them wanted someone who could code - coders are a dine a dozen. They wanted someone who was hands on but also had a history of working through all of the complexities of dealing with organizations and “getting things done”. I had two full time offers and one short term side contract.

The three offers came within two weeks. It would have been a lot harder no matter how well I could do on a coding interview to stave out.

That was in 2023. A year later I was let go of the shitty company that I did accept the offer from through my outreach to recruiters. I got an offer from responding to an internal recruiter for the job I have now within three weeks. But I also did the randomly submitting my resume again while I was waiting with the same results.
by crowcroft | 2025-10-02 16:26:07+00:00
> You pay for instagram with your personal data, which is used to target you with high value ads.

It's not quite that simple though. The problem is that they are not simply showing you relevant ads, they actively attempt to deliver an outcome the ad is trying to achieve.

On the surface this is relatively benign, Nike wants to sell shoes, they run ads and optimise towards shoe sales, and Meta makes that happen.

But what happens when people run political advertising? What happens when crypto companies promote scams?
by alexchantavy | 2025-10-02 16:26:12+00:00
There are a lot of good AI code reviewers out there where they learn project conventions based on prior PRs and make rules from them. I've found they definitely save time and catch things I would have missed - things like cubic.dev or greptile etc etc. Especially helpful for running an open source project where code quality can have high variance and as a maintainer you may feel hesitant to be direct with someone -- the machine has no feelings so it is what it is :)
by rtkwe | 2025-10-02 16:26:28+00:00
That could be misread too though depending on when you're reading it and when you think the article was written in relation to the events. If it's a quick article right after it reads like the original verbiage but if you think it happened a while before the article was written it sounds more authoritative that there were no injuries. The "it is unclear" phrasing makes the ambiguity clear that the author doesn't know if there were any at the time of writing.
by colechristensen | 2025-10-02 16:26:33+00:00
Democrats are cowards and will not stand up against any of this.

Let us all acknowledge that we're watching America's descent into fascism and doing nothing about it.

Watch your Democratic leaders in Congress stand by and do nothing but complain and appease.

There will always be the would-be fascists in society, that's a constant.

Whether or not there are leaders to oppose them varies. Or do we have to wait until the only opposition option is open war?
by throw0101d | 2025-10-02 16:26:42+00:00
As per sibling comment, this is about utilization efficiency and not breaking isolation (between MIG instances). The conclusion:

> In this paper, we presented MISO, a technique to leverage the MIG functionality on NVIDIA A100 GPUs to dynamically partition GPU resources among co-located jobs. MISO deploys a learning-based method to quickly find the optimal MIG partition for a given job mix running in MPS. MISO is evaluated using a variety of deep learning workloads and achieves an average job completion time that is lower than the unpartitioned GPU scheme by 49% and is within 10% of the Oracle technique.
by cryzinger | 2025-10-02 16:27:11+00:00
In my experience the injections are very mild and easy to administer. As a kid I used to be afraid of becoming diabetic because I didn't think I'd be able to give myself insulin shots, but now I give myself a number of shots without issue. For most of these drugs, including lower-dose Skyrizi (like a "psoriasis only" dose), it's an auto-injector pen almost like an EpiPen where you just pinch the skin, press down, and a spring engages with minimal pain/effort. You don't even see the needle! And then my higher-dose Skyrizi is unique (as in, I've never seen any other biologics that do this, but it might become more popular) in that you actually stick a little plastic box to your leg/stomach for a few minutes that administers the dose for you. Again, you never have to see the needle, and there's a bit more sensation than a pen-style injection but it's mostly from the fact that the injection takes so long to complete (compared to a pen that takes 15-30 seconds from start to finish). Icing the area beforehand can help, too.

I will also say there's truly never been a better time to be diagnosed with an autoimmune condition, given the quality and number of treatments available these days. For Crohn's and colitis in particular, if you catch it early enough and find a treatment that works for you, I believe it's possible to prevent the worst of the permanent damage so long as you remain in remission or mild-at-worst inflammation. Compare that to twenty years ago when there were only a few treatment options, which made it much harder to get in remission, which increased your odds of needing surgery or similar.
by qafy | 2025-10-02 16:27:21+00:00
unfortunately, the techniques you are trying in order to get access to a dormant Github account are EXACTLY the same ones that github gets spammed with every day by bad actors attempting supply chain attacks. You don't have anything that proves your identity any more than any rando on the internet in Github's eyes at least. Everything you have presented here may be convincing enough to me, but probably not to GitHub's opsec policies.
by stoneman24 | 2025-10-02 16:27:29+00:00
Would like to see the stats behind the 5% complication rate. My understanding was under the NHS in the UK, the major complication rate was under 1%

My private surgeon was quoting well under that. 6 weeks post op on both eyes and it’s slightly weird not needing glasses (unless I have small print in a book) as he fixed the cataracts and the astigmatism due to the more expensive than standard lens implants.

Just a pity there wasn’t a option to have HUD display built into the new lenses
by testdummy13 | 2025-10-02 16:27:35+00:00
"but I do think drone-based delivery will be rejected by consumers if it ever reaches significant scale in non-rural areas"

I'd wager it's the opposite: Rural areas would notice the one off noise of a drone flying overhead because humans notice novel sounds more. In an urban area you already have other significant sources of noise (traffic mainly) and if the drones are ubiquitous it might just be more of a background constant that people tune out.
by ckitchens87 | 2025-10-02 16:27:47+00:00
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Things I've enjoyed working on..

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- Develop internal tooling, e.g., CLIs, APIS to promote developer experience/productivity

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- Containerize and deploy applications to Kubernetes while leveraging CI/CD tools such as ArgoCD, Argo Workflows

I am open to full-time employment, contract, and part-time project-based work.
by megaman821 | 2025-10-02 16:27:49+00:00
Since most non-biological medicines don't cost very much to manufacture at all; enough profit is enough to cover that drug's R&D and the R&D of the 9 other drugs that didn't pan out. If the US market can cover all those costs, then whatever you get out of other countries is gravy. If that ceases to be true, then other countries will have to pony up more money or go without.
by DrScientist | 2025-10-02 16:28:33+00:00
There is serious talk in the US now that democracy is a failed system and the country would be better run by a bunch of self-selected billionaires in perpetuity.

The election choices are between some-one is clearly senile, or somebody who clearly has no substance and, well, Trump.

Other recent candidates include sons of previous presidents, or wives of previous presidents.

And you are worried about Europe.

Europe is worried about Europe - but in the context of catching what the US has via dark money flowing through tech platforms driving politics.
by kohlhofer | 2025-10-02 16:28:40+00:00
I built https://dxc4.com – a free chess analysis tool that doesn’t use servers or databases. The entire analysis session (moves, variations, current position) is encoded in the URL itself. That means when you share a link, the recipient sees exactly what you see. The Stockfish engines runs entirely in your browser via WebAssembly — so there are no server costs, no logins, no data leaving your device. Once loaded, it even works offline.

It does a bunch more. Would love some feedback.

You can read more about it here: https://notsocommonthoughts.com/blog/chess-analytics-in-the-...