skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Amazon is 100% nationalistic anti- the existence of other countries

what do you mean? Given they have to quote shipping, it's not unreasonable to take into account.

> Some Chinese..

China, and the CPC, are well know for restrictive policies and not giving a shit if it inconveniences foreigners. The message is pretty clear: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-24/china-ban... <- English tutoring is one of the few things foreigners can get a work visa in China for. I wouldn't be surprised if CPC is actively discouraging tourism. I wouldn't generalise this behaviour to all SEA.

> Currently in Ukraine, at least 2 of my banks block me from any access to my finances

To be fair, some countries have "complicated" relationships to international law/fraud.
So in summary, you don't like people's choice of research topics, you don't like the media, and you want to suggest that certain categories of research are PR conspiracies, but won't quite do so.

Does that have it about right?
> There should be some obvious test, like if you want to make something app-exclusive, make sure the damn app is in every version of the Play Store.

Huh? How is the Play Store supposed to know whether your Israeli gas station takes cash or not?
>New research suggests that ... the drop in interest rates has been caused by changes in population structure and by shifts in the distribution of income.... In most economies, baseline interest rates are “set” by central banks.

No need for quotes here. People at central banks literally set the baseline interest rate. There's not much evidence for attributing this straightforward bureaucratic process to vague trends in population and income.

>Central banks can impose any level of (local currency) borrowing costs on the economy that they want, which is why some say that “interest rates are a policy variable.” But central banks generally avoid exercising that power arbitrarily—and for good reason.

Wow bankers have reasons? It seems like this article is not just assuming market efficiency but also banker efficiency. Neither is a good assumption.

>the trends in inequality that have retarded growth and have pushed down interest rates were choices that can be changed.

This is a radical claim about cause and effect for which there is almost no empirical evidence. AKA pseudo-science.
> That's the kind of skill to be very jealous of, at the same time these savants often seem to have to have given up something else.

Counterexample: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Collier

True musical genius and child prodigy but also a skilled performer and composer.

History also tells of impressive feats by composers like Mozart and Rachmaninoff.
How they came up with conclusion that persons younger than 18 years cannot have credit cards?
> I see no need to play with VPNs for Netflix.

I am surprised, because there is some content on Netflix region-specific which you can't access from another country.
Part of it. The inability to increase housing supply meant that the inflation of home value cannot be blunted.
Actually my half baked comment led me to search out the credited director's and animator's work. The director mostly makes Music videos and commercials anyway! The animator made some interesting anti-discrimination works for MOJ in the past.
Is it really though? As relative demand for consumption falls there is less demand for labor. Wages stagnate and fall while income concentrates further. Most poor people wish most for a path out of poverty, but what we've seen is that the paths out have become less successful and more expensive e.g. College.
Tardigrades Walk
So the system is solving a high-res inpainting puzzle that - if filtered - looks similar to a low-res input?
The results are impressive because our brain can‘t do this quickly. They contain absolutely no additional information but they _seem_ to do, so this may lead to much harm.
> Avoid multiple round trips: Often, in order to call one endpoint that required a certain parameter, such as /getProfileById/{id}, we would have to call additional endpoints as a pre-req, such as getUser{username} to returnparameters such as id. This was a problem because we were making multiple round trips to fetch one piece of information. GraphQL helped solve this problem because it allowed us to fetch everything we need in one round trip.

Why not add another URL? /getProfileByUsername?

Nothing stops you building another layer of endpoints to service your frontend.
What's the work life balance like for you? The companies I've worked at expect 40 hours per week but in practice are more like 30/week. Amazon has a reputation of 60-100 hours per week depending on who's telling the story
Saying it's an axiom is correct - economists generally pose this as a fact, but where would we end up if it was the opposite, if the utility of money rose with the amount you have?

In other words: if the diminishing utility axiom were true we could start redistributing now, but one would predict the money owners would be against it.

It's proof by contradiction - everyone knows money is political power.
DISAPPROVING DRAKE: narcissist humans

APPROVING DRAKE: narcissist corporations
Paypal is the worst with this. I struggle to understand why anybody uses them if they operate in a remotely inconsistent manner (i.e: move occasionally.)

I only recently re-opened an account due to local convenience, but would not trust them for moving serious cash around anywhere.

My (old) UK paypal account, even though i have the full credentials, doesn't allow me to sign in because it sends an SMS to a number i've long lost. I only wanted to sign in so i can close the account.
It has definitely been implemented, I have been prompted several times over the past week, but I refuse to enter my credit card details or ID.
Top two lines are httpaf_eio and rust_hyper.

Next two lines are httpaf_effects and httpaf_lwt.

Bottom two lines are nethttp_go and cohttp_lwt_unix.

All in order from top to bottom.
This isn't specifically about the article, but generally, does anyone know what the heck is going on with the YouTube App?

Recently they took away anyway to refresh the videos on the home screen. So I have to login as a guest, then back into my account to get refreshed videos.

There is no way to tell youtube from the app to not show me a video or a channel. I can't join a channel from the app, or look at the community stuff or any of the comments. From mobile you can do that stuff but the experience is horse shit.

I love youtube, I just can't for the life of me understand why their app on apple tv and android is absolute garbage compared to even what it used to be 6 months ago.
If someone asks you "are you good", you should say "yes" or even better "very good". Humility gets you nowhere.

edit: Assuming you are actually good, but also recognizing that on the bell curve of competency, most people aren't noticeably better than one or another, despite a generally held belief otherwise.
That’s the parents job not something we need to outsource to every random tech company who dares to offer kids programming.
who are they using for ID verification?
I already use Odysee, Rumble, Bitchute over yt whenever possible, this just pushes me away from yt even more.
Have you ever met a clinically diagnosed narcissist or someone with antisocial personality disorder? (The answer is yes, but I'm not sure if you realized it.) I don't think you'd be quite so skeptical if you had encountered it IRL.
Honestly, Linus is a seal of trust by itself at this point, so if they manage to keep up, they may gain traction.
> Actual facts would be something like washing your hands or boiling water preventing diseases. Nobody questions it anymore...

People are questioning exactly these things. Germ theory itself is under attack. Masks have been used for many years in healthcare settings to hinder the spread of airborne pathogens, yet now we hear they are useless...
Official inflation is 4% (!!!) now in Germany, but the real inflation is usually 2.5 times higher than the official, so it is probably 10%.

Gas prices increased by 4% in just last 3 months:

https://www.mwv.de/statistiken/verbraucherpreise/

The most food prices increased by 5% - 20% in the last year:

https://www.az.com.na/nachrichten/nahrungsmittelpreise-gesti...
> People don't always use this setup, whatever is the reason. You won't change that.

You might change that if they're explicitly asking on HN what the best setup is! For those people you can just recommend to use the same simple setup as us.
Yeah there's a lower limit to the interest, otherwise every consumer will take their money out and save it in cash (or gold or even crypto) the moment they are hit with this negative interest (I know I would!). But I bet eventually it'll come through to consumer accounts, once they've locked down crypto enough and enforced card payments everywhere. The EU is heavily doing both right now.

I'm not an entrepreneur and don't have that much money in the bank but this really worries me because I want to buy a house at some point. This is becoming crazily difficult.

I think it's pretty insane that the ECB still does this negative interest thing. Even at zero interest we're already losing savings all the time due to inflation. It's really undermining my trust in the banking system, basically I'm leaving my money in a tank that's slowly draining.. Totally counter to the concept of a bank which should be trusted and safe. I can understand they need to be paid too, but they already charge a fee for the account. But actually taking money away is ridiculous.. Meanwhile house prices are increasing dramatically yet banks need ever more personal investment to provide a mortgage. How can I ever get this if I can't even save money anymore?

They should really stop trying to appease multinationals who benefit from this for cheap exports, and gain consumer trust back. These multinationals are also the ones avoiding taxes on a wide scale (e.g. Apple not paying any tax in Ireland on all their European profits) and not even contributing to our system.
A simple solution that works for depression mostly is meditation. Consistency is key.
One well written document can spin out many programs. One well written program cannot spin out a well written document. Is up to savvy developers and ultimately a computer to give thumbs up to a program. A document on the other hand has a subjective bar for approval. When documents and programs clash (the program not doing exactly what the document asks), to people's chagrin, the program wins.
Please no memes on HN
This project https://github.com/Const-me/Vrmac implements unified keyboard+mouse input API over 3 distinct lower-level APIs: Win32 messages, XCB packets, and Linux raw input. Here’s for raw input: https://github.com/Const-me/Vrmac/tree/master/Vrmac/Input/Li... All 3 have unique quirks, yet I would not say they significantly affected the rest of the library.

I think for the USB in that OS, a C API with intentionally very narrow scope would be OK for the job.

The main reason why the real-life code is so complex is that scope being very wide. We have USB 2 and 3, mass storage, two-way audio, cameras and GPUs, hubs and composite devices, numerous wireless protocols on top, OTG, power delivery, power saving features, and more.
Vinyl click flooring is amazing, isn't it? I just put some in my house and it's just an incredible material.
> I never though I would see the day where internet services would do something worse than TV.

Don’t blame YouTube for this.

It’s not YouTube making the decision to require ID or credit card. They’re complying with the regulations. That’s why this restriction is only in a single regulatory region, not a global requirement.

There’s a culture war brewing around internet services with user-generated content, including YouTube. One side wants more freedom to view and share content. One side wants much more censorship of anything they don’t want to see (or, more commonly, things they don’t want other people to see). This ranges from dangerous misinformation to low-grade objectionable content like video game screen recordings.

The strangest part about this internet user-generated content war is that many people have taken both sides because they just like to hate big tech platforms.
I hate this trope. What were the effective tax rates paid? The high nominal rates were trivially easy to circumvent so the rates people actually paid weren't all that historically anomalous. When you start talking about overall tax burden (sales taxes, fuel taxes, property taxes, etc) the 1950s look like a libertarian's wet dream.
I would focus on Seed+ startups backed by well-known VCs, so the failure rate would likely be ~50%. I modeled the probable distribution and it looks like I would return ~10-15% net IRR in a midpoint scenario.

Interest rate would be LIBOR + some fixed % (probably 5%). Shared upside would be fixed at 10-15%.
Ah, thanks for replying. I do trust him so hoping he can do well with the platform.

Edit: floatplane's TOS seems like they aren't any better than YouTube unfortunately.
Big companies getting bigger (the effect of scale) is the cornerstone of my NASDAQ portfolio.

I don't like it, but I don't really expect it change.
Back in the day parents used to say "don't reveal any personal information on the internet", no verification necessary. But the ad giants destroyed that.
Ask HN: If you could rewrite anything from scratch, what would it be?
I don't find anything wrong with a duel, nor that if someone knowingly chooses to not hold the NFL accountable beyond their millions in payment and post-employment benefits that they have the right to do that.

>If you live in libertarian la la land, then sure, both sides should be able to come to a consensual agreement without government interference

Yes and currently people still come to "illegal" consensual agreements like in the drug trade. When they're unable to seek peaceful intervention through the courts, they're forced instead to engage in violence and vigilante justice. That sounds much better to you, huh?

It's not just libertarians that have an interest in government butting out of these sorts of agreements. For instance, pot shops (run by all kind of folks) have trouble entering any sort of banking relationship due to asinine federal drug laws. Or if you're into certain alternative health ideas, you'll find you're completely unable to come to an agreement with a farmer across state lines for obtaining unpasteurized raw milk. Hope you've never purchased from a child's unlicensed lemonade stand either.
Central banks create inequality by artifically lowering interest rates house prices has increased due to lowering cost of mortages. Lower mortage price means higher asset prices. Higher house prices makes it hard for younger generations to buy an appartment.

Secondly central banks try and keep inflation around 2% by lowering interest rate will drive wage inflation. Except that central banks cannot control prices and wage inflation by locally controlling interest rate in a globalized economy. So the fundamental system control principle of central banks are broken.
A lot of engineering time goes to building things that never ship. These companies do a ton of A-B testing of small changes in various combinations and only the best performing thing ships. When you have 100M DAUs a 1% bump in engagement (or whatever you're optimizing for) is huge
> The tooling for other editors should be created or updated to allow developers to use their editor of choice.

Doesn't LSP enable this, to a certain extent?
Do you mean booking appointments in France from the UK?
That seems very reasonable. TY.

I know even in the US when stores started scanning physical drivers licenses people were / are irked when we're talking about validating a birth date... I think just presenting what the user wants is a good proposal.
I'm shocked that Googs does not already have enough information collected and linked to your account that this is necessary. Maybe FB can create a service where you can submit an email/phone number, and then return the age of the user. You know between the Googs and FB, they have linked to your profile multiple emails so I'm betting it would be a pretty robust service. Of course returning the user's age would be the lowest tier offered. For a higher service fee, you could then gain more access to the user. CASH COW
Without reading the article:

Using a woman's stock pic next to a headline that talks about workplace narcissism in an industry that's a majority led by men is absolutely not cool.

I expect better standards from BBC. On the article next…

[edit] Ah, the downvotes from insecure men. Suck it all of you downvoters. :-)

[edit 2] Any way, this was a good read otherwise. I think it is important for the founders to identify and separate performant employees on the basis of their optimization. Are they optimized for promotions and self-growth vs. are they optimized for growth of the business as a whole. This is an absolutely difficult thing to do though.
I think Rust kind of aged C.

It happens when some new band push the needle for a genre, its only when this happens that the "modern" stuff start to look old.

C is getting deprecated while C++ will need to catch up somehow (if there's a way).

This is actually a good effect of Rust, making people think more that safety is important and that its possible to have more of that in languages without a GC.

(Sorry for hijacking the question, that was not directed at me, but this is a good debate so i couldn't resist)
I've been running a very similar basic setup (docker-compose + ansible + caddy + a bunch of other things, most importantly nextcloud) on a VPS for my personal server needs for about 2 years, so I'm feeling very validated right now.
"Multiple Texas government agencies actually block any overseas access"

Montana also. I'm Australian in Australia but own a vehicle in the US. When trying to renew the registration, the ecommerce site failed with an error telling me to contact some authority. That authority's site and contact details blocked access to anyone outside the country.
Very interesting! Where did you learn all the skills you needed to get all of this work done? I'm curious if YouTube and Google was able to give you all the guidance you needed.
How is a doubling in prices offset by a 20% increase in wages? And has there every been a time when high inflation was offset by and even higher increase in wages? Wages never keep up and inflation always hurts the poor. A rich person couldn't care less if milk's price doubles. They'll drink just as much milk. A poor person who's banking on that yearly bonus/bump in pay to pay for all the next year's inflating milk, is going to have to do without some milk.
That's a very fair point, I guess I skipped over that part, my bad.

My core issue was around this and I should have sticked to it :

> The original purpose of the Web was to be a set of protocols and formats used for the purpose of publishing documents.

I still think this is a bad argument, I disagree that HTML was conceived as a way to make "documents", but it shouldn't matter, things evolve on their own and people may use your creation in ways you disagree with.

> The problem is, if the core content is actually a document, but behaves like an app (and you cannot access simple text because you disabled JS).

I 100% agree with you, but the distinction is the "core content" part.

Part of the page is that core content, and what we actually want to see/read indeed (and why various web browser brought a "reader mode" that extracts that part). But the page itself is not a document that only contains this core content, and hasn't been for a couple of decades.

Most blogs/publication, even personal ones have been backed by a publishing system with the core content in a database. At this point these are applications, and many of these system can still output "pages" that 100% fit the description of being easily readable without JS, while still adding a lot of utility. Hence my disagreement around the "Documents ≠ Programs".

That's the distinction I was trying to make.
LOLBins Are No Laughing Matter: How Attackers Operate Quietly
>The trick is, as always, to make a sealed system and scare people into not messing with it.

No, it is about knowing where the cutoff point of risk vs reward is. It is about understanding when diminishing returns makes something impractical. Trying to design a nuclear reactor small enough for a house or car, that is also so safe, tamper proof, and unweaponizable that it is ok to just have 10s of millions of them floating around is pointlessly difficult. Building a reactor to go into personal vehicles that crash all the time is ridiculous. It’s the different version of the flying car, when we realized that maybe having everyone moving themselves around in personal vehicles that would plummet out of the sky in the event of mechanical failure instead of just pulling over in the breakdown lane. It is a “that would be cool” idea.

Replacing coal plants with nuclear plants is a far better idea. Building self-contained smaller reactors to provide power on the neighborhood, sub division, or factory complex level is a far better idea. Why would I even want a reactor taking of space in my house when I could just get the same electricity from a more efficient reactor installed in a large concrete shed for my whole block? Why would I want to buy an insanely over engineered nuclear car, when I could just charge up my Battery Electric using my neighborhood reactor off peak electricity? Or I could fill up my hydrogen electric car produced by my neighborhood reactor through electrolysis during times of excess power generation.
Well that is the problem though...back in the day YouTube was a fun place where people exchanged ideas, discussed their hobbies and so on. It wasn't about money at all. These days 99% of people on YouTube are only trying to grow their channel to make money off it like that is the only motivation to do anything in life. Money just corrupts everything it touches.
Braeburn capital exists for this reason.
Diminishing marginal utility is an axiom over fixed magnitude amounts of a good. Bill Gates still gets less out of an additional $10 even with new opportunities for philanthropy than a panhandler who is hours from starving to death and currently has $0. "Diminishing" doesn't mean it has to go to zero, but Bill Gates is not going to be in any situation where some number of dollars given to him on top of what he has means the difference between life and death.

Heck, this exact fact is the very reason why Bill Gates engages in philanthropy. He realizes that other people need the money more than he does.
Gigapixel AI is pretty cool.
Metamask Surpasses 10M Monthly Active Users, Climbing 1,800% in 12 Months
Depends how you look at it, the 7th edition is about Windows 10, and they certainly haven't written Windows 11 from scratch.
That's true but Netflix does gracefully and without mentioning it show you the content in your current country.
Would be better if the title here at hacker news mentioned the post is largely about analyzing the filing against Facebook. Maybe "Regulators and Reality - FCC against Facebook analysis"
Disassembling Jak and Daxter (2017)
> Not a fan of photo id's either

I lost a lot of mass over the period 6-to-8 year ago, so since than until recently my passport had a photo that didn't look terribly like me. Oddly this was never questioned at all at airports, though was when using it as ID for picking up an order at Tesco.
i believe this article is simply mistaken, like it's propaganda or misinformation designed to hurt america.
I love reading Gibson. His prose is brilliant.

In his book "Pattern Recognition" he spends the first page and half describing jet-lag in such brilliant manner that you feel like you just experienced art.

Unfortunately I feel his plot/stories never seem to hold up.
I will always consider him an artist. Something to savor. I've always felt that it was superior to true 'literature' in that each word is a morsel that adds to the whole and not up to the interpretation of the reader.
Did you consider using NextDNS?