skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> their biggest worry is a new class of people getting richer than them fast

You can read a lot of Western political history since the industrial revolution, when the new class of mega rich Rockefeller types shocked the established orders, as filled with attempts/policies to prevent new Rockefeller like classes of entrepreneurs from happening. Perhaps counter intuitively, real free market capitalism is a great threat to the established political order since it produces the levels of wealth in new people that can actually change said political order.
I haven't used that add-on specifically, but the tooling for making a floor plan is very good these days. SweetHome3D is absolutely brilliant and with only a 5 minute video tutorial to guide them, I'm sure any computer-literate person could grab a tape measure and make a great floor plan of their apartment in less than an hour.
Bryan Cantrill explains a very interesting thought about that here: https://youtu.be/2wZ1pCpJUIM?t=1420

I'm sure there are many other factors that play into this (just look at Gary Bernhardt's "WAT" talk), but essentially, I agree that this has to be a big part of the problem. If you've been developing backend systems and asked to hold up robustness and stability guarantees for multiple years and then run into Javascript, you will likely run into situations where you have to make up for its deficiencies in that regard.

That doesn't make it a bad language per se -- that's the case with any language in some aspects -- but since JS will be a new language to you, you're much less likely to accept that situation as a given.
Ending the consideration of the SAT's and ACT's doesn't mean the end of testing. I imagine passing an AP test will now be more valuable than before. Hopefully universities will take the opportunity to develop a better test, one which aligns to the major the student wishes to enter.
and there is no solution to it.

Why? because there's uneven skills, uneven effort, uneven luck, uneven work ethic, etc, etc, etc.

As long as humans are involved... in all human history, in all societies, in all things there has been inequality and no effort so far has had any affect on it.

In fact, most efforts have made it worse across the board. Socialism and communism are failed experiments with a 100 years of history as proof.
Tauri is a light and fast electron-esque platform written in rust. I’m pretty bullish on it, as it seems like the best of node and rust without the bloat. Using Svelte to write super light and fast cross-platform apps on Tauri is such a treat.
I don't have Raketa, but I have one of Botta Uno series. It is super inconvenient to read. If you are planning to actually use a single-handed watch for telling you time (rather than just adding it to a collection), I would very atrongly advise against it.
For AWS, consider AWS Lightsail not EC2.

Pricing and specs are similar to DO, and bandwidth is good.
>It's a good feeling knowing you can repair that hunk of metal on your wrist, with interest, and a fair amount of study.

That... goes for everything, software included. But watches being something of a Veblen good [1], wouldn't availability of parts just make consumers realize that actually this $700 watch is practically no different from that $70 watch? They wouldn't want to sell parts for that reason, I think.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_good
I wonder to what degree battery life is specifically an issue with x64.

If Apple ported iOS to x64, I wonder what the battery life on a device would be like compared to ARM?
Also not the same thing because the law also considers the harm caused to innocent 3rd parties from booby traps. No firefighter or EMT is gonna be harmed by the Signal code designed to break the cellebrite device.
You may also want to look into variable fonts if you are loading multiple variations of the same typeface.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_Fonts/V...
>Why do I want a scripting language to glue together that is designed to be good a glueing things together?

A good example might be calling legacy libraries like BLAS and LAPACK. These are battle-tested libraries that represent probably hundreds of millions of dollars of developer time, but Fortran is annoying for IO-heavy tasks (at least in my opinion).

I like that I can spin up a scripting language like python and call into LAPACK for performance and correctness, but still have modern and ergonomic networking or what have you.
More often than not, base64 encoding has a negative net-impact.

- base64 encoded strings are larger than the real file size.

- It blocks browser rendering. Browsers can still render a page while it's downloading the fonts. Not while it is downloading CSS.

- Makes cache busting hard. You will update CSS files more often than fonts. Fonts, served with right headers, can stay longer in browser cache.

- Base64 encoded strings don't compress well. I go as far as sorting the attributes/combined classes to increase the compressibility of the CSS, but base64 strings hardly compress.

You won't see FOIT/FOUT because the browser is outright blocking the rendering until the CSS is completely downloaded. That is arguably a worse outcome.
I think the article was pretty clearly written, and did not in any way appeal to or try to engender sympathy for Cellebrite.
To clarify, I trust research papers since they are a network of citations each reviewed by peers, not because they were written by researchers.

So when someone cites papers they tend to be trustworthy and you can have a discussion. When they don't you can't trust them, you can still have casual conversations but you can't trust any facts. Them being a researcher or not doesn't matter here.

In short: Trust science, not scientists.
For "hard", I was implicitly referring to applications where existing compute throughput doesn't support the algorithm you want to run (which the example I was thinking of [1] is precisely case 2 you have)

1. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/5747245 Implementation of pin point landing vision components in an FPGA system for NASA stuff
For the integrated hardware, like IoT, cars and so on, it makes sense to attempt to reduce the amount of chips needed, and the glue the remaining bits in using software. I don't see how there's much else you can do to deal with a shortage, other than perhaps starting to remove many of the "smart" features and accept that perhaps we didn't need all of them to begin with.

For computers, desktops, laptops, servers and phone, we could start focusing on more efficient software. Replacing laptops every two or three year is no longer cost effective. We start to look at 5 to 8 year lifespan for phones and laptop, meaning that developers need to focus more on efficiency.

It's two different ways of dealing with rising chip prices: Use fewer chips, and use them longer. It's also a great way of shifting to greener computing.
Studies and evidence points to circles being safer and more fluid for traffic flow. The larger, the more flow.

As cars near a circle they need to slow down, follow the rules and allow some error. Being more cautious prevents more crashes and allow for more flow.

Automatic signals can be wrong, and promote reckless behaviour, confusion, less flow and more stops.

UK is all circles, with most of Europe following.
Let's not dismiss a more humane explanation: if you know someone likes to wear fantasy shirts, every birthday present is easy to choose!
Ask HN: How do you pay VAT?
Grew our small business into a healthy SaaS business with annual revenues now at around $1.5mm. We are based in the EU, and charge/pay all our VAT accordingly in the EU.

We also are aware of various state taxes in the US which we are currently below the threshold of, and are compliant in the US which is our main area of business.

Regarding the rest of the world, our business is spread thinly but growing in some territories. Some countries we'd sell ~$100 USD per year, others closer to $20,000 per year and growing.

We are aware that other countries have VAT, and we should be paying this VAT. For example, in Russia the VAT rate is 20%. There are a myriad of other countries with VAT rates we should be paying.

Some countries have stringent rules and the amount of work involved in paying:

Requiring a local representative

Having a local bank account

Navigating tax systems/documents in foreign languages

For Russia, we've spoken to a specialist tax adviser and they can make us compliant at relatively large expense. We've also spoken to a company who specialise in paying VAT globally, but their rates are in the region of $5,000 - $10,000 per country annually.

For the life of me, I cannot work out how other companies our size, or smaller than us deal with global VAT. Obviously, tax advisers/accountants have to tell us we should be paying VAT in these territories which is correct advise but not practical.

Are there any other similarly sized SaaS businesses out there who have solutions or advice for this? We've always paid all our taxes fair and square (apart from the aforementioned issue). It doesn't sit well with me to not pay VAT we owe but for all our best efforts I don't see how we can in a complete way, and not to the detriment of our business in terms of becoming less competitive when we are fairly confident our competitors do not pay these taxes.
That screenshot looks on the one hand very useful and on the other hand somewhat user-hostile since you have to build your own mental mapping from the architectural-style floor plan to the rooms in your house without any hints - I can imagine it being much easier to get used to or share with guests if there were sufficient icons or furniture shown in each room to make it obvious which room it is and which direction it's facing without having to consider the measurements and position relative to the other rooms.
In the golden days, without Internet access and no CDs, computer magazines printed source code encoded in a hex format to save paper space. Each line with 10 or so hex-codes had a checksum to test your actual inputs against.
Obligatory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event link.
The first cone was placed a few feet to the right of the lane divider. That and that the next cone was on the divider indicated that the right lane was closed.

I wonder if the traffic on the left lane somehow shifted the code/network into favoring that it was only the right lane that was closed. That may have gotten it moving after the first hang up.

However, once it turned into the left lane and passed the first cone (which was offset to the right of the divider), it saw the second cone placed in the center and forgot that it was the right lane that was closed.

I think it pulled over because it thought that both lanes were closed or did not know which one was closed. It’s modeling of a sequence of cones closing lanes and retention of that model seems inadequate.
Sure, but you still can't explain it without adding an extra dimension to your model, and that extra dimension is not symmetrical with the space dimensions. In fact, there is no physical model that I am aware of that makes time and any space dimension interchangeable.

The fact that our mathematical models generally seem to allow movement backwards and forwards in time is in stark opposition to observed physics. This obviously suggests that the models are wrong, and there is something about time we are not capturing well enough. Relativity does somewhat fix this, by essentially postulating that everything is moving with speed c in space-time, but that is a somewhat unsatisfying explanation, since it seems natural to ask why.
Where do you get that figure from? I'm looking at the add/delete statistics for instance:

https://github.com/facebook/react/graphs/contributors

It doesn't seem possible for this to add up to 3M lines of code?
We should see with Alder Lake. Intel is adopting the same BIG.little approach, with a mix of high efficiency and high performance cores.

Of course, one thing Intel and AMD can't catch up on is pure transitor size. Apple has TSMC 5nm, Intel is on the equivalent of TSMC 7nm (Intel 10nm), and so is AMD.
> I like not having to wait on a red for an empty street or have to stop for stop signs at intersections.

Me too; but traffic signals are more than capable of detecting empty streets and oncoming traffic and changing lights to green before you get to the intersection.

> They are better and safer in every way and stats back that up (not to mention better for the environment and your car maintenance bills)

Traffic circles are tolerable with low traffic, but when traffic increases, especially if the traffic is asymmetric, it's possible for some directions to be blocked for a long time, and there's no fairness mechanism. Because speeds in traffic circles are slower than in signaled intersections with a green, it takes longer for the backlog to clear the intersection. And, while there's still throughput when one entrance dominates and blocks other entrances, if one exit is blocked, it can block the whole intersection and there's zero throughput; in a signaled intersection, other exits can usually still be used even if one is jammed.

Slowing for a roundabout when I wouldn't need to slow for a traffic signal that would likely turn green for me is bad for the environment. Extra miles driven from longer paths, and wear on tires from taking a circular path instead of a straight path is bad for the environment and my maintenance bills. They use more space than a signaled intersection, and may displace trees or impact waterways and drainage.

It's hard to look for pedestrians crossing from the right while also looking for a space in traffic from the left. Navigating them on bicycles can be tricky too, as there are a lot of crossovers.
This only applies for AP tests taken in 11th grade (or 10th, where possible). AP tests taken during 12th grade won't be graded — or even administered — before admissions decisions are made.

Also, any argument that favors ignoring SAT/ACT scores would also apply to AP tests. In fact, the barrier to AP tests is much higher. Any kid can sign up for the SAT, get a fee waiver (if applicable), and study with books from the public library. Taking an AP test is much more complicated; I don't know if it's even possible if your school doesn't offer the course.
"he is wealthy and connected" He still doesn't speak for all wealthy people any more than any individual speaks for any "group".

I don't speak for white people any more than a Mexican speaks for all Mexicans or a gay person speaks for all gay people.

One mans opinion is just that... unless he has more evidence than his "well connected" words.
The Urals as a border is purely political and historical in nature. It has no particular geographic significance.
So you think starting up a whole process, establishing connections to a db and serving the request would have any sort of acceptable latency and/or throughput? At that point, you could write your server in bash as well.. also, I think it would be ridiculously expensive.

Lambda is great for seldom run functions, like running some analysis/conversion on user uploaded profile pictures or the like.
And then the Accelerate Your Life course is only... £4,752 !

Not a joke! https://www.lyndsayking.com/

Please don't use HN for your ads, thanks.
But C# on the other hand is a very very complex language, with almost double the keywords compared to Java.
Sounds like bit of mirroring recent facebook test feature where user has to confirm it read the article before sharing it [1].

[1] - (https://techcrunch.com/2021/05/10/facebook-pop-up-read-befor...)

I see no point in implementing such feature here.
Assuming you are right, you must add one more thing to your hypothesis that men around 50 have the largest dating pool: you must have some status and wealth to access the younger women.

A broke, non handsome, average 50 year old guy will have exactly 0 access to women between 18 and 35.
In desktop computers?
Can someone explain why wealth inequality is bad?

Social exclusion is terribly bad and must be fought at all costs, true.
Consumption/income-measured, absolute poverty is bad in all or almost all cases - true, we could probably afford sacrificing some of the economic efficiency to eradicate it.

Relative consumption/income-measured poverty is not "bad" as long as it rises with overall income levels rising faster.

And wealth... why do poor people need any wealth at all? If anything, in socialist-ish, European countries most people don't have any wealth at all, they own nothing, they live for generations in regulated rental apartment - that regulated rental contract they can pass as inheritance is their biggest (although intangible) asset. They don't need any "wealth" - government covers all their risks and funds their healthcare, unemployment, education and retirement and they can literally live hand to mouth all their life and don't feel at all precarious (and this is why wealth inequality is bigger in EU than in US, even as income inequality is smaller).
I just realized an important difference between e-mail addresses and "fediverse handle is like an e-mail address": with e-mail, I can use my own domain to ensure the address outlives any single company, but that doesn't mean I have to run my own server. I can delegate e-mail handling to third parties, and swap them out at any time, and nobody's the wiser.

Meanwhile, it seems (based on what I know right now) that Fediverse handles are owned by the servers, not by users. I can't make me@mydomain username and delegate its handling to one of the existing instances, I must run my own node.

(Or maybe I'm wrong and it works just like e-mail. I just never saw it used this way.)
Telemetry, being able to trust it.
Imagine physical vault in your house. This vault has mechanism within it such that if anyone forces it open it will destroy all its contents. It may have defense mechanisms triggered to act as deterrence – it may spill/spew very bad odor and permanent ink – on anything nearby and that odor and color will be very hard to get rid of. Is such a vault legal?
If someone breaks into your house and steals such a vault and in the process of trying to open it, if they suffer damage, is the owner of the vault liable?

What's the principle being applied here? How would the same principle be applied in the case of digital property?
It's one thing to ask her for a comment, it's another to publish that she refused/ignored the request. That's usually reserved for asking an executive about a scandal at their company, not a grieving wife.
You could say the same for adding a traffic signal with sensors. Compared to a circle, you would need to slow less (or not at all, depending on visibility and prevailing speeds), and you wouldn't need to steer around the circle either, reducing the uneccessary tire wear a circle adds. You also wouldn't need to acquire land surrounding the current intersection to accomidate the area needed for a traffic circle.
If I were to use the 2d floor plan I’d look at it for a moment, and then I’d flip a couple of lights so that I could tell which room is which. It’s not complicated imo.
and that 10k will be worth less in 20 years. How many loaves of break could you buy 20 years ago? how much land? how much gas? You can buy less of it today with $10k than back then. You'll be able to buy less again in 20 years.
Very insensitive comment
Do you know anything about the future open-source modems? Most promising project I've seen is working on the PinePhone modem https://linuxsmartphones.com/hackers-develop-open-source-fir...
One has to take the perspective of the author into account here. He's a psychology MD and seems to have a lot of experience with people with major eating disorders such as bulimia.

I find it quite convincing that for this type of patient, regular eating patterns can help to restore a healthy approach to food as they are starting with extremely unhealthy eating habits to begin with.

The conclusion, as formulated in the title, does seem to generalize these findings a bit too much. At least it lacks evidence on how generally healthy (maybe somewhat overweight) people who attempt IF as a dieting measure tend to develop unhealthy longterm eating habits.
Yes, that is what I meant by winner. Dont these people have moral a moral standing to see that the value add is less to nothing by such shill? It is hard to bet on people who add real value when hype is what that carries the day...
If not using C++ with Qt, Qt is a bit harder to get going. But I honestly dont think that building a UI with JS/HTML/CSS is easier than in C++/Qt.

But then the Qt UI:

* needs to be (re)compiled for each platform

* needs to be re-shipped on each change

* is not a client-server application (all runs on the client)

* has "desktop styling" by default
While Microsoft still is the best in this regard, they too are not perfect. I routinely see very strange thing when working on devices that aren't in English. Things like translating the word "manual" in the camera app (as in "manual settings") into the equivalent of "manual" as in "instruction manual".

Strangely enough, open source projects tend to actually have better translations, since they are more often than not done by developers and users of the software, who have far more context than the random translator with the lowest hourly rate that most companies go for.
The issue here is not "someone" breaking into your house and stealing it, it is the authorities doing it. Destruction/sabotage of the evidence collection process is very possibly going to be held against you.
There is a tiny but interesting community around the concept of low-tech that is about that, and more : objects you understand (since you build them) and can repair yourself.

About the industrial production of such analog objects, I have the intuition (maybe I’m wrong) that we lost the knowledge of how to build complex mechanical objects at scale. Those objects used to require a huge design work where now, all you have to do is a plastic case enclosing a chip and some software developers to bring it to life.
Rust being easier to teach than C++ is a very low bar to clear.

And for the record, when Uber got started Go wasn't available either.
Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself?
Many times you just want to plug something in. PostgreSQL, Node.JS Express, Java Spring, numpy, Three.js. There's many examples where the already existing solution fits well.

Sometimes that's not good enough tho. What are some tools, libraries or services you built, are they open-source and why weren't you satisfied using what already existed?
I you didn't check them out follow the links and try out orca with casetter and the synth - really nicely done in all areas
It's not available in my region
Such an oversimplified analysis. What does "higher taxes" mean? Higher for everyone or a progressive tax scheme? What about inheritance tax? Or taxing financial operations? This person clearly does not understand much about how complex taxes can be.
Entirely different topic, but thinking about how many people got all hyped about the first pi and then realized it was just a very slow PC and not something full of magic is depressing.

There must be a huge amount of pis that ended up in some drawer after a few weeks, and because it's cheap it was never worth it to sell it. And if you wanted one it was so cheap that it was more convenient to order a new one than to deal with private sellers on Craigslist just to save five bucks.

It would be great if we could repurpose all of them in some halfway meaningful way, but at lest for commercial products it's just not feasible.
What do you mean by "enjoy life"?
> [...] as well as to our shared goals of Diversity and Inclusion.

Does this apply to people working in Engineering? are you incentivized to have goals that have impact on D&I?
Software that does not have a one-man-team behind it (with all due risks): that's where bigger companies pay even better.
Large Divorce Settlements
Well yeah it would? It wouldn’t solve entirely the problem for the person behind you but it would make it better.