skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you’re financially backing and providing direct hands on strategic guidance to an active and blatant scheme to commit securities fraud then you are doing something you should not be doing.

As you wrote it as a generic hypothetical, no, it’s not really controversial to me. If however you are meaning to say it as a passive aggressive way to accuse YC, yeah, it very much is controversial.

To not be controversial (for me anyway), you’d need to meet some burden of proof with evidence. How much would be enough to meet that burden? I’m not sure at this moment, but as you’ve presented zero that I’ve seen, I think “more than zero” is a fair starting point.
I live in Utrecht. I moved from the US where it was required to drive 500m just to go to the store because walking there would be suicide.

There are cars here, for sure. But it is nothing like the US.
RouterOS – Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (2012)
It is rather difficult to pursue someone who isn't already retreating. You cannot chase something that isn't already running away.
> Bottle caps are often discarded and littered.

So the problem is really people are pieces of shit; open the bottle, chuck the cap on the ground and walk on.

I guess now at least the cap and the bottle will be discarded together rather than seperately - halving the amount of littering.
Damn the tech bubble is bigger than I thought.
Ask HN: What is the vanishing Spitzer-Webb star?
The gif [1] that compares resolution between the Spitzer and Webb telescopes shows a star that appears in Spitzer's image, but it is not present in Webb's. Any astrophysicists here have an explanation?

To find this star, start with the 4 nearly co-linear bright stars. Below and to the right of the topmost of that group is a spot that exists in the Spitzer image, but it fades out as the Webb image fades in.

[1] https://blogs.nasa.gov/webb/wp-content/uploads/sites/326/2022/05/spitzer_vs_webb_LMC.gif
I use it. It's excellent and works well.

The only problem with it is that it does not send you replies to your submissions, e.g. AskHN posts.
That's the irony. Output doesn't scale linearly with time for human workers.
I find Rust code rather pleasant to read.
Y-Combinator exists to make Paul Graham and it's investors money. Morality is not money. Y-Combinator doesn't exist to make morality for its investors.
> Since we use Python unit tests to test Cosmopolitan Libc.

Does anyone how this is meant?

They leverage Python's unit tests, running them on a cosmopolitan-libc linked Python version?
The only way I can pay on the net, is by using a wallet code (like with amazon). Namely, I need a monetary account I can fuel with wallet codes I will buy at my local monetary outlet. Then upon payment at pbs, I would log to this "wallet code" service where I would validate (one time code receive via email, sms, etc) that payment.
All that must be possible with noscript/basic (x)html browsers.
Of course there it is [1], but Chrome doesn't support it and is essentially blocking its adoption. And it is not like MathML is too taxing to browsers; Firefox and Safari had a support for a long time and actually Chrome also once had a support before being dropped due to the instability! [2] The implementation is still underway but is not prioritized enough by Chrome developers.

[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/MathML/

[2] https://caniuse.com/mathml
If you've ever been to São Paulo you'd see that some of the best neighbourhoods developed after the 50s in the south zone are very close to the airport.

It's not like you have an option if you want to live close to your office in the south zone (where most of the tech companies are located at)...

Just look at a map[0] and check how many neighbourhoods surround the airport, it's unsustainable, it was place on the outskirts of a much, much smaller city at the time, it needs to be moved. The city in 1936 was nowhere close to the current size, Brazil urbanised rapidly only after the 50s-60s, you can't blame people that expanded the city there when land became scarce.

Just look at the map on street view to see how densely populated this area is nowadays, are you gonna blame all those hundreds of thousands of people?

[0] https://www.google.com/maps/place/Congonhas-S%C3%A3o+Paulo+A...
Please stop linking to paywalled content.
Rule of thumb might be that it's best to sell some around one year after halving. So the next sell window is around 2025.
There are also other apps to choose from, just search “reddit” on F-Droid.
I disagree. I have 6-7 hour workdays. That's nice but no nearly as nice as another free day. I still feel like I have no time for my own life/projects. I still feel exhausted after working even 6-7-hours (because I'm not a morning person naturally yet have to go work in the morning) and the evening time (nor even an evening nap) never actually feels nice if I worked that day. I go out on Saturday, sleep until evening (the only way I can actually get pleasurable and physically regenerative sleep) on Sunday, get up and immediately start feeling bad about the fact I had no productive time for my side projects/home as another workweek starts in just some hours.

I'd rather work full 8 hours a day but have 4-day workweek. Ideally I'd prefer Wednesdays to be non-working days - this way I wouldn't have to spend more than 2 days in a row working in the office. For me this would feel even better than just 3-day weekends with 4-day contiguous workweeks. 5-vs-2 feels like you live in the office and go to visit home. 4-vs-3 feels the same although notably better. 2-1-2-2 (office-home-office-home) would actually feel you live at home and go to the office to get the job done. I even feel almost sure this would boost my actual office-time productivity.
I've watched 1000+ movies & shows. Just started to track them last month on my personal site.

I can always use IMDB or LetterBoxd but I want to de-risk loosing all my work if a 3rd party company tomorrow decides to shut down or gets hacked. With my own data, I always will have a backup and lifetime uptime guarantee.
This Year Taxes Will Claim 1,262 Lives – Sort Of
Disclaimer: I didn't try it yet!

I really like the approach and vision. However my initial reaction: Why do I want a generic taxonomy for events? Every business has their own domain. Generic click events are not really interesting, but more domain specific events are.

For example for github you would want events like "project.Starred" "project.Cloned" etc. OR for hacker news "user.addComment" comment.Upvote etc. So you would need to build your own taxonomy anyways right?

I do see the potential power of using BI tools that are built upon a generic taxonomy.

Another comment: I don't really like using "TrackedButton" components that replace Buttons. What If i want to use Next.js and want to use the Next.js's Link... It's better to have a "TrackedObject" and embed a Button inside it..

Maybe i'm too used to calling an "analytivs.trackEvent" function manually coded, because we mostly used company defined events.

If you want open source, using SnowPlow + storing it in redshift using a pipeline would also work. But I guess with Objectiv you don't need to setup anything..
I’d highly suggest trying earplugs if you haven’t. The ones I use reduce sound by 33dB which is quite considerable.

They aren’t strong enough to block out my neighbor having a loud party, but it can block out pretty much everything else. It’s hard to sleep without them anymore.
There are plenty of motorcycles that do not make a ridiculous amount of noise, the ones that do clearly do so because of a conscious choice by their 'hey look at me' owners.
Even non-reactive particles like asbestos can cause a persistent inflammatory response eventually leading to cancer, chronic fatigue, malaise, etc. The ones that get the most attention these days are PM-2.5: tiny particles or droplets in the air that are two and one half microns or less in width, penetrate alveoli, and go straight into your blood stream.

More info: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4740125/

In about a decade or two brake dust pollution will be more recognized as a severe public health problem. It's not on the hype cycle yet. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32593898/
The journey of moving from C++/WinRT to C# in the Microsoft Store
Why do you need RPC at all? You've got a single client.
or the curse of being good enough.
Good concept! :)
> Sadly, I think their failure to finish GoT properly screwed their star wars movie ambition too....

Why being sad about it? Seems like a proper punishment.
He has been very rarely, but not never, seen since then.

https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3177452/jack-ma-m...
>selfhosted

AAAAAND you lost literally 95% of every single person who might even consider using this. Stop trying to make "fediverse" happen. It's not going to happen. All you do is end up putting great developers into projects that will literally never, ever amount to anything due to an insistence on decentralization.
Indeed I don't think the new UI was caused by a desire to increase engagement. All the dark patterns and annoyances can trivially be implemented on the old UI, up to the slowness if needed (just add sleep(500) on every HTTP endpoint).

I believe the problem is that there's a significant frontend/JS team (along with managers, etc) that needed something to do so a rewrite was planned. It probably started with good intentions (and the initial MVP/prototype probably was lightning-fast), but now once all the bloat is they ended up with a pile of shit, but bonuses have been paid, people have been hired/promoted and can brag about this new "achievement" on their resumes, so turning back while saving face is impossible.
OP, it seems like you are overdesigning. IPC takes way more effort than direct function calls - it's effort that is better spent on something actually useful. Let the requirements pick design patterns, don't try to cram in as many design patterns as possible.

Event handlers, model/view, independent-ish subsystems, frontend/backend are some typical patterns in desktop applications. Some of it depends on your framework - much of the architecture will be defined by the framework. The default should be doing things in the canonical way for the framework.
> ... it come from people buying hamburgers

So from money someone else put into this whole hamburger thing and won't get it back?

> For example the dollars you get from selling McDonald’s stock 30 years after purchasing it come from people buying hamburgers.

Some dollars not all, and most likely bot even the most.

So the Bitcoin doesn't have this merchandise based mechanism for sucking the money out of the rest of the economy, so what? Only a part of the cash of the investors comes from it anyways. The rest comes from other investors who gambled wrong. Same as with Bitcoin.

Your argument is just a version of intrinsic value argument tgat crypto bros dismiss with a wide smile.
I'd take the train.

Unless you actually want make sure you're on time for the meeting. Unless you are in Switzerland or Japan, if the train is supposed to arrive at 8am, the chance you'll make your 9am meeting on time is a coin toss at best, even if it's held right next to the train station.

Also the hotel is guaranteed to have a much more comfortable bed, a shower and a better breakfast.
no "but to overcome the remaining challenge, more funding is required" ?
Even on this very forum you people will consistently brag that they only work a couple hours a week at their 500k job.
They are young and only get a couple of hours of exposure per day so they can do that for a few years before they're completely deaf.
By definition, a “YC Company” is given hundreds of thousands of dollars and direct hands on strategic advice on how to run the company. That’s the meaning of the concept.

The company in question has blatant securities fraud as their core business model.

QED

Here’s a logical construct in return. When people you like do unethical things they are still unethical.
>I find it amusing that people purposely move into dense urban cities, then complain about all the noise. Like what did you expect?

This is a defeatist attitude. You could have made the same comment a hundred years ago except replace "noise" with "smog", yet clean air regulations improved the lives of billions. Cities aren't necessarily loud; most of the noise comes from cars.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTV-wwszGw8
That approach to customer retention is exactly how you sink companies.
Wait for the 3nm RISC-V low power chips... algae power free from toxic IP.
Surging Dollar Raises Possibility of Parity with Euro
That does exist in _some_ companies but it's not "the norm".
I like how these proposals never get raised when it's the companies that suppress wages or hoard more wealth generated by their employees.
It depends https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25217270
the blockchain allows anybody to publish nfts that point to any media, so naturally there is a lot of spam and copy-minting. anybody can publish to OpenSea a Picasso NFT but this does not mean it will be valued by the market as a Picasso. the same is true of an impersonator trying to mint a new Pak or Beeple or whoever you think is a popular nft artist.

almost all of these "thefts" come in the form of social engineering and impersonation rather than forging the token itself. and if you look at the data, 99% of these copy-mints are not actually selling and are not making any impact in the market.

a copy-mint of crypto punks is trivially easy to discern as a fake because its contract hash will be uniquely different than the crypto punks contract, which has a long and clear historical trail associated with it on chain. if a copyminter starts to post new work that resembles a popular artist like Beeple, it will be under a new public key hash or address, and also easy to discern.

compare this crypto art copy-minting to paintings like Salvator Mundi which countless experts have been investigating for years and still are not able to discern the authenticity of the painting despite its $450 million price tag.
I have a feeling Terry would have objected to automatic memory management, and the idea of "safe" programming in general.
> The city belongs to pedestrians, not some "tuff" redneck gang who think they can do whatever they want.

the city, any city belongs to everyone, pedestrians, “redneck gang”, etc
I am in the same situation. I tend to get messages on Slack after hours on work days due to the different work hours, but almost never on weekends and holidays. I assume that an extra long weekend would be more beneficial.
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It may even be good for your heart, according to American College of Cardiology: https://www.acc.org/About-ACC/Press-Releases/2022/03/23/17/5...
even several decades.
So I am seeing more and more of ideas like this; but I feel the need to challenge them a bit.

Not the ideal; work less, have more fulfilling lives - I am all in.

But all of these initiatives are focused on the wealthier office workers and sometimes factory/shift workers who are non-customer facing. But it totally ignores the service industry which is a huge part of our society (and arguably even more so if we end up working less!).

You will still want an Uber after 5pm, or a shop or restaurant to be open on a public holiday. 4 Day work weeks, shorter hours - all great ideas but all ideas that either negatively impact the poorest portion of our society. Even universal basic income, which ostensibly would have a positive impact there would still not allow those individuals to work less.

Which is why my challenge is always; first we need to automate out the poorest roles in society (and then give them UBI obviously) before we solve our own lengthy work weeks.
Always blame the individual not the corporation...
This is still very much a thing:
https://www.amtrak.com/auto-train
Your calculation assumes that all working hours create equal value. I can say for me that on most jobs I had, I got like 80% done in the first 4 hours and 20% in the other half of the day. I regularly stop working when I can’t concentrate anymore and do some hours on weekend mornings instead.
> Because at some point the West will have to sit at the negotiating table with Russia.

We can suffer for longer than they can stay solvent.
> Pollution limits aren't authoritarianism.

of course they are, but we accept them because of the negative effects that you mention.
> Obviously manufacturers haven't been eradicating useful screen ratios for no reason

For me 16:9/10 is way more "useful" than 3:2/4:3 ever was (had that for ages, wouldn't go back). I love being able to have two different things side-by-side, e.g. an editor and a terminal, on a 13" screen, at a font size I can still read well. I definitely wouldn't buy a square-ish laptop screen.
> In 2021, New Yorkers filed the most complaints about engine idling since 2018: 13,489 complaints. The police issued 75 summons in response to complaints, data shows.
> Specifically, police issued 14 summonses for excessive vehicle noise — the most between 2018 and the present, a period in which the police issued a total of 26 excessive vehicle noise summonses.

There is one dude who drives past my window on 6th Ave, every single morning, at 7 AM, with an engine so loud it rattles glass ten stories up. That should be 365.24 summons/year, _for that guy_.

Until the cops choose to enforce the laws, nothing will fucking change. I'm thrilled the government is claiming to care here, but until anyone chooses to have these people hanged from the yardarm^W^W^W^W nothing will fucking change.

By the way, did you know it is _illegal_ to honk your horn in NYC outside of an emergency? Neither do the the people honking constantly outside my window! Why doesn't the NYPD just fine all of these people every single day until it stops? They could fund the entire department! But they simply don't care.

Many of my friends dream happily of enforcing vigilante justice for the loud motorists. I personally would be thrilled if this guy:

>But Pennachio conceded he has modified four of the 11 cars he owns to enhance the rumbling of the engine, as a matter of pleasure, not safety. “Just to know you’re in a beefier man’s car,” he said.

was evicted from the city. He is a horrible person with no redeeming characteristics and doesn't deserve to live in society.
I was born and raised in Africa and I disagree.
It's not just me that is stuck in an hourly mindset, it's every company offering developer jobs ever. In my contract it's not defined how much I have to get done, only how many hours I have to work per week. Time worked is tracked, work done not really.
I live close to a park where bbq parties go rampant on weekends. They are annoying and loud for sure and it also makes my trip to the playground with my toddler pain. I totally agree with that. Still that does not affect us in the same way these bikers and cars do in our neighborhood. These people want to scare people. That's their primary goal. They enjoy seeing people jump and start.
Yes. In a heartbeat. Don't even have to think about it.

And by the standards of HN users I make a poverty wage already. Cutting my salary to 64% would put me well under the median household income for the my state and the nation as a whole.

And I promise I won't be less productive, because I'd be surprised if I did that amount of actual work as it is.
After further examination of the cat pictures, I do agree with you. I still prefer the dog website design and it has better performance on my machine than the cat one (the scrolling is laggy on FF).
You can already find this. It’s called a “part -time job”. :)
Hilariously, I have literally asked companies to give me a 4 day week and take away the salary for the last day. I don't care. I just want a free day, but nope, no-one bit .. even the "smaller" employers.
Include the semiconductors? Hope they soon flood the world with their RISC-V performant mobile chips... ok I wish that, because I know this is one of the only ways to rid the world for some ISA toxic IPs...
Well, in Russia treatments to boost your immune system are a thing and they're used by people with herpes or hiv - before talking to Russians I had no idea they even existed.
Some people report good results, others no change. It's not a final solution but it's not that expensive and it could be something western people would choose as well if it was an option. I can't say whether it's valuable or placebo effect but there is not much literature on the subject.

Some researchers in India came up with RISUG, a permanent but safely reversible male contraception. It's literally a piece of plastic, no hormones giving you cancer like female contraceptive, no life subscription to buy condoms and without the risks of a vasectomy.
The treatment is so cheap that it never had financial backing and we're still stuck with subpart alternatives.

After being prescribed benzodiazepines I ignored the prescription because of how addictive they are and self medicated with cannabis. That's a substance which can be an alternative (in some cases), it's not addictive and doesn't give you withdrawal symptoms. And yet, it's still mostly illegal and getting a prescription is insanely hard, even when you qualify.
Because of a condition I have, I qualify for medical cannabis in the country where I reside and I still haven't been able to get a valid prescription in 3+ years.
> If they get banned, people like me will lose a part of their hobby and noisemakers will find another way to be obnoxious (burnouts? screechy braking? loud music?)

Like most things in New York, it comes down to what NYPD officers actually care about enforcing. Per the article:

> But the law doesn’t doesn’t compel law enforcement to issue tickets, nor does it require police cars to be equipped with decibel readers.

tldr: these laws won't do shit then. Officers won't enforce what they aren't required to, this just gets added to the list of offenses they can use to harass someone or tack onto a speeding ticket.
Even Reddit thinks the new website is terrible. Every time I visit on mobile they tell me the app is so much better and do everything in their power to keep me from using the website.
On Linux, you want to check D-Bus [1] if you need IPC (but that is primarily used for message exchange between different desktop apps). Everything else you mentioned sounds like a recipe for bloat. Desktop GUI libraries (like Qt or Gtk) ship everything you'll need and you can get a platform-agnostic app without much of a problem.

> running multithreaded and writing into a sqlite database.

sqlite doesn't support multithreaded writes, so you'll have to use a queue or something like that. Qt/Gtk ships with that as well.

[1] https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/dbus/
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I think part of the issue is that there's a wide distribution of sleeping sensitivity. I'm a very light sleeper, and I find that a bad night sleep can ruin an entire day of work. Which is partly because I write for a living, which I really can't do well when I'm groggy. But for how many people are those two things true? I don't think many. A lot of people aren't light sleepers, and a lot of light sleepers aren't fazed by a bad night of sleep.
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