skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a bit misleading though as it includes state spending as well. For the purpose of federal debt, we really only have three sources of spending that can move the needle:

- Health Care 28%

- Pensions 24%

- Defense 20%

Defense seems like an easy cut, but we are not currently in any major conflicts anyway. And our allies might not take to kindly if we start pulling bases from around the world.

Pensions are entitlements and we can't really touch those.

I think though that we are underrating the effectiveness of efficiency reforms around our healthcare system. For both private patients and taxpayers.
> 23. Cut ruthlessly.

And still 35 lessons. ;)
I noticed the same. During lockdown I felt bored and thought about porting my fav software to minix only to find out that minix is really dead nowadays
Ask HN: A fast, Rust HTML parser that works?
So I'm doing some web scraping in Rust, and so I will need to parse HTML. [scraper](https://docs.rs/scraper/latest/scraper/) (which uses [html5ever](https://github.com/servo/html5ever)) is doing fine except that it's the bottleneck of my application.

So I need a faster parser. I've tried [tl](https://docs.rs/tl/latest/tl/) which would've been perfect except that it doesn't actually work on the HTML I have. When I try to `query_selector` the elements I need, it returns nothing.

[Kuchiki](https://docs.rs/kuchiki/latest/kuchiki/) is abandonded.

I couldn't figure out how to get [lol-html](https://github.com/cloudflare/lol-html) to work for me (it's designed for re-writing HTML, whatever that means). It doesn't seem to have an API to extract the inner text of an element.

[html5gum](https://github.com/untitaker/html5gum) seems to be just an HTML tokenizer, or otherwise just too low-level. I have not yet tried [quick-xml](https://github.com/tafia/quick-xml/) but judging from the README, it's pretty low-level too. I mean, if these are the only options left then I will try them. Otherwise, I would love to use a parser that's faster but as ergonomic as `scraper` or `tl`.

At this point, I would be happy with an Lxml bridge/port of some sort. I don't need to mutate HTML, just parse and read data from it.
Ask HN: Have you been promoted / demoted during remote / Covid era?
Do you think / know it was because of being remote?

Possibly you got hired / fired / laid-off due to remote circumstances, too.
Site is blocked by NextDNS.
And people say crypto is a scam.

The truth is trust no banks—I had Mercury Bank and First Republic help someone steal over $120,000 from me—I'm not kidding!

Trust no one-distribute your money in lots of places so if one is crooked you are not dead.
NinJedi – Social Engineering at the Strip Club
I can confirm that last part. I've bought many CD keys for games and software off Ebay and each time the seller gets removed within 24-72 hours, but it has never affected my account.
Along the same lines I loved the Serious Sam solution to piracy. They let you play but spawned an invincible enemy occasionally to ruin the experience.

https://www.thesixthaxis.com/2011/12/08/how-to-get-rid-of-th...
> true cost of dairy milk

$6/gal

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/us-subsidies-lead-to-pover...

https://www.realagriculture.com/2018/02/u-s-dairy-subsidies-...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17997055

(The US spends about $22 billion on dairy subsidies each year)

I imagine the true costs (and climate impact) of soy and oat milk are lesser than dairy because animal husbandry isn't involved.

https://ourworldindata.org/environmental-impact-milks

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46654042
You used to be able to meet great people and have a good chat in the smoking carriage. Alas it is no more.
Seems reasonable for certain non-native English speakers. "You are talking with a live support [person/agent]", but support is a noun meaning "support person". Chinese developers who have introduced themselves to me usually say, "Wu Chengming, develop" instead of "developerER". (The name is made up) Also, the strange construction using the indefinite article is a feature of some non-native English.

This doesn't mean it's not a bot of course (TechSupport Syndey seems likely to claim to be a live person), although I think a bot would tend to have more commonly used grammar.
I lived on a quiet street that became an optimized shortcut (no stop lights, fewest stop signs) for all the new-construction dwellers, most of whom had zero regard for speed limits.

It's not all sunshine and rainbows, but the benefits likely outweigh the drawbacks.

FWIW, the most the township would do is setup a radar trailer (zero enforcement) and new stop signs were not allowed for traffic control purposes. I never got them to add one for safety purposes either, even though a speeder clobbered a mailbox one house up from the school bus stop.
Thanks for this.

I'm heterozygous for a hemochromatosis gene and my ferritin is elevated (although not nearly as much as if I were homozygous). I give blood every month to maintain normal ferritin levels.

I'd never thought about my cast iron fry pans as a source of dietary iron. Obvious in retrospect.
It streamlines the process by putting a third party in the middle of the process and by sharing the “something you have” with an audience, making it even harder to know who actually did what.

For money.
The “digital prepper” aspect doesn’t appeal to me, but this sounds great for educational purposes. I’m especially curious about the “Almost C” compiler.

I’ve been looking to implement a simple compiler (targeting subleq, for reasons that aren’t relevant here), but I haven’t been able to decide on an input language. Real C seems overkill, but many simpler languages have a lot of runtime/size overhead I’d like to avoid. I’d been looking at Small C and Oberon-2, but I haven’t dug into the details yet.

If anyone has played within Dusk OS, or especially the Almost C compiler, I’d love to hear how the experience has been. Does Almost C it seem like a good fit for a low (run-time/size) overhead, but easy to implement compiler? Anyone able to contrast with Small C?

Edit to clarify: I’m referring to the Almost C language, and not this specific implementation (which might even just translate to Forth—-I haven’t investigated it yet).
Official rule is: "Template engine websites, tools, and sites that generate HTML from text, markdown, or script files, such as Webs, Wix, Weebly, GitHub, Jekyll, and Replit, are NOT permitted."

I still don't think this blanket bans GitHub; only in the context of using it as a tool for generating HTML from text, which the kids did not do.
Making It Legal to Play Outside: “Reasonable Childhood Independence” Bills
It’s not bad, but it explains the logic.
Cobra has this unique advantage that you can turn it on retroactively, so it's actually decently cheap for healthy individuals. You can just plan to not pay for it and then if things go wrong you can incur medical bills and send them to cobra after signing up. Of course you do have to backpay cobra if this happens.
People should stop treating California as the bastion of the Democrats, since it really isn't. There are 49 other states, many of them blue, that have none of the problems california has. California has been a state that struggles to govern for it's people since it was first created. It was a conservative stronghold for decades, and was no better under republicans. It seems more like there's something in the water, or rather that californian corporate interests have always been above the people there.

Conservatives scream about california because it's a useful red herring. California's stupidity is not limited to democrats, but conservatives really like to push that california is bad BECAUSE of democrats, the classic correlation causation thing.

Democrats often try to play the same dumb game with Texas, and that should be similarly rejected.
Because the recruiting process can cost over a year's salary, and that's ignoring the time it takes to get up to the same productivity as other employees once they start.
Cleaning data is usually very low on the totem pole of priorities for many companies. It is often a very manual and time consuming process. Support from management to fix it can be very poor.

Relational tables with millions or billions of rows can contain many different kinds of errors. Finding and fixing them can be like finding a few dozen needles in a field of haystacks.

I was working on a tool to make it much easier to find and fix anomalies. I used the Chicago crime data (available for free download on the city's open data portal) to show how easy it was to find and fix problems. Here is a short video of some of the things it found: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqkNeU1LYEQ

I contacted the people responsible for managing the data to show them some of the problems and how to fix them. They seemed like they could not be any less interested.
Before mask, I used a custom bash command runner which relied on a directory structure to implement the command and subcommand tree. This was pretty simple and nice to use. So if it’s working for you, there’s no reason to look for alternatives.

Mask takes advantage of the markdown structure in a few ways. Headings define top-level commands and subheadings represent nested subcommands, which makes it extremely easy to structure a command tree. Also, mask checks the code block lang code (ruby, python, js, fish, etc…) and executes the script using that runtime as long as you have it installed. There’s other features, but those two are great examples why markdown works well as a command definition format.
Is anyone working on a payment service with escrow, or does another good alternative to PayPal goods and services exist already?
To not deal with those headwinds because it is difficult to pick-up a new tool—especially if you haven’t in a long time or aren't interested in the tool/technology—we should priortize kids learning FOSS tools. Especially if it's not often used, I think most folks we be happy with both meanings of ‘free’ as something to pick up every once in a while. Most of the differences matter only once you're a power user. I use LibreOffice for the reason because I open up a document once a month, not my daily work.
Thanks to the way SCOTUS works, and horrific games by the previous admin, things wont change for fifty years.
Yeah, I totally agree.

I only use Lisp as a hobby so I stick to the free implementations, but if I made money with it I definitely wouldn't mind paying for LispWorks or Allegro.

An $8k license fee really isn't that much for enterprise software.
People are still using eBay?
I attended the 1989 MackHack[0]. I had the Oscar The Grouch trash can hack.

I also wired all our Macs to run the Energizer Bunny hack. That was fun. It would have gotten me fired, a few years later, though.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1994/06/27/t...
Bevy had 83 contributors last one month according to github. I wish they had more (more is more), but I think they’ll be fine.
tralene's comment is talking about safeguards. Their comment was substantive, linked to a WSJ article about deficiencies in elections.

The comment 8ytecoder is replying to is the comment by colpabar. Their comment alleges ... some shadowy conspiracy by government, mainstream media and big tech.
Exactly. Even if it isn't technically block, it must contravene Acceptable User Policies.
I’m going to reply in this thread, since I’m probably the employee you’re referring to.

I would like to reiterate that this is completely untrue and borders on disinformation.

ProtonVPN maintains its own VPN infrastructure, and we take our commitment to user privacy very seriously.

It shouldn’t be surprising that the VPN space is a very competitive market, and certain people have a vested interest in defaming certain VPN providers, especially among a technical audience.
Some of them read unit positions/type/health to auto-aim at the best target.
Watch Syntiant’s 1-Milliwatt Chip Play Doom
"We recruited too many people during Covid"
PanCSF: A new DRM driver for Mali CSF-based GPUs
Prominence is one measure of relative height of mountains: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topographic_prominence
Traffic, transit, and the water and sewer systems disagree.
In what way have you addressed the OP's insinuation that I was responding to? I asked a specific question:

> Why does that say anything about either side specifically?

I agree with you on a point: we can draw conclusions about SBF by examining SBF's behavior. But that is not what OP said -- OP said that we can make conclusions about the left by examining SBF's behavior. That is what I take issue with.

That you continue to focus on a strawman, whether or not he donated to both sides equally, is completely uninteresting. Good day to you, I do not wish to further this "conversation" as you continue to talk past my point. Sea lion.
HN favorite Mark Ames has another theory about Stoltenberg fils that wouldn't contradict TFA: perhaps even his teenage war protest was of the "observe then snitch" variety?

https://twitter.com/MarkAmesExiled/status/162420098079862374...
If you resist enough it's upgraded to execution.
Would guess that it helps with keyboard flex. And rivets are cheaper than screws.
> not a nuclear engineer

Former Navy nuclear engineering officer here -- I guess it depends on your definition of "nuclear engineer," but I imagine most of us "nukes" think of Jimmy Carter as one of our own.
That used to happen to me frequently in the past with LaserShip, when Amazon used to use them in my neighborhood. The delivery drivers were frequently given too many items to realistically deliver (I assume), and around 8:30 pm if it wasn't delivered it would still be marked as delivered.

Then it would actually be delivered some time the next day or even the day after.

I always assumed LaserShip was being paid for on-time delivery so this would have been a policy passed down from management. Thankfully, Amazon finally rolled out its own Amazon delivery vans, and the service is now way better than anything even UPS, USPS, or FedEx has ever provided.
My whiteboard and the sticky notes it holds outperform JIRA all the time - 100% uptime, clear and obvious process flows, haven't needed a service ticket ever.
Those things are chosen via looks, athleticism, and charisma in person. Not planned each morning via internet points, right?
> However, new founders may find it harder to tap than those who went before them. A spate of founder scandals at unicorns like WeWork and Theranos have caused investors to dig deeper into a company before throwing money at the latest shiny promise. Market uncertainty only adds to that scrutiny.

These examples made me laugh because they notably didn't increase scrutiny during the last few years. Otherwise, we wouldn't have more recent examples (FTX, among others).
This is pretty bad considering Comcast's website itself is a bit optimistic as to which addresses have service.
I heard you could tell when your opponents had vision on you. Useful for detecting ward spots or incoming ganks.
The Holocaust absurdly outweighs the Autobahn, the Nazis were the worst people in history. The net result of big tech has been relatively good (for the average person’s material conditions, the jury’s still out on psychological effects but regardless of anything, it’s not even comparable to the Nazis).
The M x N interoperability problem is SOLVED BY building on top of bytes /
plain text, not solved by moving AWAY from it!

I never argued that we should move away from plain text. Indeed, one of the examples I cited of an interoperability format, JSON, does exactly that: it takes plain text and adds structure to it to make it easily parseable by machines. Overall, I'm not sure what part of my post you're arguing against. I'm suggesting that instead of having a many different ad-hoc formats, Unix utilities should agree on a few accepted serialization formats and pass information around using those. This would make our shell pipelines less complex and more robust because we wouldn't have to worry about e.g. random spaces or newlines breaking the ad-hoc parsers we write with `grep` and `cut`.

It seems like you agree with that, with the caveat that that serialization format should be built on top of plain text. That's fine. We can agree on JSON as a serialization format. It's not ideal, but it's better than the myriad of ad-hoc formats that we have now.
> At the moment I have to deal with a guy who dislikes databases and instead of adding a column to a table wants the database-server internally to query his webservice when someone selects something from the table.

micro-column-service oriented schema. He'll go far /g

> I could talk more about young guys being problematic

It's the false sense of 'knowledge' afforded by trivial access to technical content without the benefit of practical experience. It's the internet, not the young men. LLMs are going to max this to an unpleasant extreme.
Anyone could fake donations like that, without any sort of massive coordination. If you notice a pickpocket, in an crowded area where there aren't many police, it's not a conspiracy theory to suggest that maybe that's not the only pickpocket in the area.
I literally just selected your question and searched brave: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/01/paypal-stole-use...
It's called work for hire doctrine... it's not even remotely close to this issue. This is exactly how tons of artists do their work. Go watch "The Price of Everything" and see Koons' studio working exactly this way.

You have to actually make an argument based in fact, not superficial characterizations that are belied by the facts and common sense.
This isn't float desks. This is an assigned desk that requires you to share and coordinate office time with a co-worker. This is so much worse than float desks.
I recently just closed my Paypal. You have to close your paypal credit accounts before they let you close it. They only approved me for $300, while AMEX approved me for $6000 last year, so not a big loss. They asked why and I said its a garbage service. I tried using it and it could not verify my identity, even though I uploaded a passport picture. I would suggest Stripe or even Coinbase commerce. At least no one can chargeback your stablecoin!
Let’s hope that they’re paid more than sub-market rates and 0.05% equity.
>I know PayPal spun out of Ebay a long time ago and that PayPal is especially evil and sociopathically unscrupulous but...

I thought it was that PayPal was built, then bought by eBay so the could double dip.
Modern landline phones can receive and send SMS. Your landline provider might have SMS support. Just buy an SMS capable telephone.
Nvidia results show its growing lead in AI chip race
I can't think of a business I've worked for where PayPal hasn't done something like this in some way. Best thing I can recommend is complain to your state regulatory agencies. Even a one week suspension can be a major headache and revenue hit. It's incredible to me that they haven't been hit with more scrutiny given US banking regulations.
I had an account on a popular gaming platform banned for fraud. Fortunately, I knew devs on the team, and they dug into it and found a bug. Account unbanned.

Meanwhile, support wouldn't tell me anything. Final suspension, we will tell you nothing, there is no more information, etc.

I have a very dim view of this type of filtering. If it's a bug in eBay's systems, they will never fix it.
Happened to me in 2007, they took 750 GBP from my back account. I complained, it was never explained what happened. They paid the money back to me over a period of about 4 months. It was utterly ridiculous.
The stuff you’re saving time on, managing hosts, just isn’t that much compared to dealing with aws/terraform/etc. I’m at a few orders of magnitude more spend than that, and in absolute dollars is very much noticeable how much more expensive aws is. But as a percentage of costs it’s so little next to wages, as is your example, that cost is really the wrong thing to get hung up on. Most engineers I’ve worked with don’t get that, they see a value they can objectively minimize, without realizing that even dropping it to zero his little business effect.
Totally agree that we are decades away from either.
I don't think the 20% low-income gets you out of CEQA.
Netflix cuts prices in some countries to boost subscriptions
This is a Reuters article though; if they get it factually wrong they stand to lose significant money from wire service customers. I think it has more to do with not wanting people to go offsite. Many bad user interface decisions are driven by marketing.
In that context, it's really hard not to see this as intentional. Be aware that only the challenged address must be fixed, so (after the 2 week update period) you might want to randomly sample some addresses in town to challenge as well.
Further adding to debunking the myth of meritocracy.

You have to be stupid, arrogant, lazy AND unlucky to violate our anemic campaign finance laws.

We allow unlimited contributions to super PACs. From there you can contribute to basically anything.

I heard it once said that if you ever have impostor syndrome 10 minutes with a startup founder will cure you. SBF seems to be no exception.
That requires bob to sign a certificate of authorship. Good luck getting the AI to do that.
How nice, my late 2010 MBA has 103, and is still on 89% health.
Great point. It was a question not a statement but I like your perspective a lot. Thank you.
This is a good link, appropriate for the conversation, thank you for providing it!

Just to rant about this article though, I really dislike this statement by the author:

> Why on this green Earth is there a web server in a hidden part of my CPU? WHY?

> The only reason I can think of is if the makers of the CPU wanted a way to serve up content via the internet without you knowing about it.

That's absolutely not the use case here. Intel is not on some secret conspiracy to collude with governments to serve content from your computer.

The management system is a legitimately useful functionality for the support teams of large corporations, public entities (schools, local government), etc. enabling management of their fleet of user devices. It's a very unforgiving and thankless task to be able to support a worldwide workforce, for example, or large non-computer savvy users.

Now, does the Intel Management Engine pose a security risk. Absolutely! We tech folk should absolutely know about this capability and be able to make decisions if this functionality should be enabled for our fleet. Having it default "on" without a way to sensibly turn it off broadly or update it when necessary is a big issue. But this is nothing more than Intel giving the majority of its user base functionality that is desirable, not some deep laden conspiracy.

I don't like the Intel Management Engine running on my personal device. But I sure appreciate it for its intended use case and audience.
I don't know if you're interested in monetizing this, but Wallpaper Engine on Steam is really popular (>500k reviews, 75k concurrent users). There's definitely a market for this type of product if you can find a way to differentiate yourself and crack the gtm strategy. eg seems like the wallpaper engine doesn't support linux yet, which may be your early wedge. Good luck!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/431960/Wallpaper_Engine/
I’m gonna be that guy: cryptocurrency fixes this.
That's a false dilemma.

You can control both. You can take measures to reduce the probability of a nuclear accident, and the impact of a nuclear accident if it were to happen. You can also take measures to reduce the continuous pollution coming from fossil fuels.

Depending on which measures you implement, how stringent they are, and how strictly they are enforced, either nuclear or fossil-based power plants may come ahead.