skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
UK's GDP grew 14% from 2007 to 2022. The EU's GDP grew 12%.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/281744/gdp-of-the-united...
> Given both the competitive landscape and the safety implications

Let's be honest, the real reason for closeness is the former.
> This lawsuit also marks EFF’s commitment to stopping the current trend that seeks to privatize aspects of the carceral system for profit as well as strip privacy away from incarcerated individuals.

Scope creep? [Clarification: Not the lawsuit itself, but the first part of this sentence.]

This is the Electronic Frontier Foundation, 'The leading nonprofit defending digital privacy, free speech, and innovation'.
> taken 30 minutes to read up on zero-knowledge proofs

I didn't read it. It really sound interesting, but I'm not too much into cryptography. I may read it someday.

> or stablecoin growth,

Now idea what it means. I have some Argentinean pesos. AR$1=US$1, guaranty by the Argentinean government, forever.

> or you haven't taken an hour to create a wallet and try products like Maker DAI, ENS, Compound, or Uniswap,

It's like investing, isn't it? I can use the app of my bank to make investments. It has bigger interest rate, but I lose the guaranty of the government in case the bank closes.
I'm an engineer, I'm a curious person. Why does it follow that I need to take 30 mins to create a snake-oil wallet? I'm curious sure, but mostly curious as to why someone thinks a hash to a public url of a gif of a catatonic monkey has any value at all let alone 6 figures.
A few comments have noted that it's common for non-profits own for-profits (Mozilla Foundation, college endowments, etc).

What seems different here is that rather than funneling profits up to the non-profit, the intent seems to be to make payouts to fellow board members and employees:

> Only a minority of board members are allowed to hold financial stakes in the partnership at one time. Furthermore, only board members without such stakes can vote on decisions where the interests of limited partners and OpenAI Nonprofit’s mission may conflict—including any decisions about making payouts to investors and employees. [1]

IANAL, but has anyone seen this sort of arrangement before?

[1] https://openai.com/blog/openai-lp
The Changelog #531 has a great interview with Nathan Sobo. Until ui-based debugging, I will have to stick with other IDEs though, sadly.

EDIT: At the end of said episode, Nathan talks about debuggers and mentions that users depending on that might have to wait a bit. So there’s that!
I have a very hard time believing that the choice matters in their context

this is just a build runner, it isn't even the thing doing the builds

Rust is cool and if you just want to get on the bandwagon, its okay to say so, you wouldn't be the first dev to rewrite something "just because" and you won't be the last
I don't disagree with you, but being pre-dabetic is an uphill battle to then get healthy again, as you are most likely trying to reverse many years of lifestyle habits that have lead you down the road towards diabetes. A car crash in slow-motion. That takes an incredible amount of will power and I applaud anyone that's on that journey, especially since you have to go well against the status quo.

I've at least heard that T2D is somewhat reversible given drastic diet changes, fasting, bariatric surgery - but a moon-shot for sure.
Unless you're hosting the infrastructure yourself, you can't ever be certain. No one can know for sure what Docker will decide to do in the future. The entire company could shut down tomorrow.

But it seems to me that Docker official images are no more at risk of deletion today than they were a week ago.
Ask HN: How do you manage in this job?
It might be me getting older but I'm at the point where I despise everything about this line of work (SW Dev et all).

Politics, repressed anger, more politics and the feeling that I'm never going to be enough.

Been doing that for 16 years now and it feels like 10 years too many at this point.

How do you manage to go on?
Doing any form of object detection whatsoever as part of image processing is too much imo. Any form of AI as well.
> A very large chunk of federal taxes are for UBI and universal healthcare for old people

We don't have UBI for old people (a pension system that you are eligible for based on aggregate amount of prior qualifying income is not a UBI.)
"Tester was one of the leading Democrats to team with Senate GOP in the 2018 deregulation of Silicon Valley Bank. SVB failed because of that deregulation, and the government bailed it out. One weekend later, Tester heads to the valley to reap his reward." https://twitter.com/alex_sammon/status/1635721023235424293

"@JonTester is raising money in Silicon Valley tonight." https://twitter.com/teddyschleifer/status/163529734392169676...
Completely disagree. If we compare incarceration rates, surveillance programs, sentencing guidelines, etc. it is very clear that European and American policies are incomparable. Almost half of US discretionary spending goes to the military. The impact of incarceration in the US is estimated at 6% of GDP. And the drug situation speaks for itself.

https://nicic.gov/economic-burden-incarceration-us-2016
> I think the difference is effectively negligible.

The difference is categorical, humans are responsible whether they are held to account or not. An automated system effectively dissipates this responsibility over a system such that it is inherently impossible to hold any human accountable for the error, regardless of desire.
Steam will even still give you refunds after 2 hours if you have a reason that convinces the customer service rep (e.g. performance or compatibility issues that you spent 3 hours running the game trying to fix)
Don't get me wrong, I kind of hate the democrats too. It's frustrating that the choice is between "kind but mostly incompetent and somewhat corrupt" and "cruel and extremely corrupt"
Yup. I own a home in AZ and the prices have doubled in 6 years. Despite interest rate increases, they haven't really come down. Most of that is immigration from CA I'm assuming.
New York tax collectors are incredibly aggressive about pursuing this kind of stuff.
That won't work for something like Steam. It would mean you got unlimited games for free.
There is an argument that US defense spending also pays to protect Europe. So maybe the EU should pay for US healthcare.
Is Starship Going to Revolutionize Launch Costs?
Such an overwhelming amount of perfectly good solutions are created with Python that I have trouble conceiving it as a "trash" language. Clearly it's at least good enough in many scenarios. For example, I use it for machine learning and data science professionally and I find it much more pleasant to use than alternatives in that space (e.g. Julia and R -- both have advantages over Python but have disadvantages too).

It works, it doesn't confuse me, it's easy to find libraries and examples, and when it's too slow -- which is surprisingly rare -- I have other options to turn to. If that's trash then so be it; call me a raccoon because I'm there for the trash.
This is not the same proportions at all.

Compare how much of the GDP of European countries went into invading foreign countries?

Our how much is spent to arrest, judge and jail people. The number of people in jail in the USA for drug related crimes is completely insane.
I've used Mint at large venues. It really depends on the venue what your experience will be like. Usually I'll get at least a few megabits of speed at the venues near me, some places I've gotten practically the same speeds as any other normal time and place, and there have been times where its been almost completely dead data-wise. Usually SMS will almost always eventually get through even on the most slammed networks, and the times where its been effectively dead has died down a good bit since the roll out of 5G. I'll often just switch to the venue's WiFi though, which often gives me pretty good speeds.

As others have mentioned, Mint (and many other MVNOs) has tethering included in all plans without any extras. It counts against your data allotment just like any other data, as it should be.
This was almost word for word my decision process when picking where to live. "I'm not going to buy a car, so I want to live somewhere designed for that, and I want to live somewhere with local tech jobs." I also don't like the heat too much, so that gives me a couple of cities in America, or I could move to another country.
Do you have a source for that? The highest city tax bracket I can find is 3.867%

To be clear, it's still ridiculous to pay hundreds of dollars a month extra just to live in the five boroughs but 10% would be unmanageable
On Windows the normal install method is by downloading an installer and executing it, almost nobody uses app stores or package managers. And it works great.
My first job was at a startup for $95k in SF in 2018. This felt like the "peak" of rent here, where I was paying $2350/mo.

I'm kind of lost how this salary should feel like 36k/mo. To me this is a salary that reminds me of my childhood-- paycheck to paycheck, looming foreclosure from being behind on house payments, constant fliers from electric threatening to shut us off.

That isn't remotely what my experience was. I maxed my roth ira, paid into my 401k up to what my company matched, and had plenty left over month to month. I paid off the small amount of student loans I had within the year. I didn't have to think or care about what I spent money on. I went to bars weekly spending $12/drink. Work comped my dinners, and I ate out everyday for lunch.

Articles like this have created this perception online that you will starve to death on a salary like this in SF. I guess my question is, 100k here feels like 36k where?
I realized I wasn't a serious audiophile a long time ago, but still went through a quest to improve sound. My first receiver was a cheap plastic thing that produced an enormous amount of white noise floor- a loud hiss not much quieter than the music itself. I went through several receivers until I found one that didn't hiss so badly, but I found that the volume wasn't very impressive (turning the knob mainly just increased hiss and distortion). I learned later that most people address this using a preamp, although at the time I was poor and couldn't buy one.

I mostly listen to soundboard recordings of live music (Grateful Dead and Phish) where some recordings are fantastic and others aren't. My personal favorite reference to listen to is Dave Brubeck's Take Five- although it has a high noise floor, the recording is still excellent (I like to listen to the creaking of the bass during the drum solo because it's quiet and in the background).

Over time I moved away from speakers because I'm rarely in a situation where I can listen at the volume I like without people either asking me to turn it down or leave. I got a pair of Sennhauser headphones- nothing fancy- and am quite happy listening to my desktop computer through that. Switching to another set of headphones- it immediately sounded terrible and I had to play with various settings (turns out the audio driver was trying to send through lots of very low frequency and the headphones made a shambles of that).

There was a period where mp3 encoding was terrible and generated obnoxious artifacts. Nowadays many mp3 128k recordings are fine for me.

So for me, while not an audiophile, these things matter: reduce hiss to an acceptable level, get headphones or speakers you like, and use EQ to tune it to a sound that works for you.
Yes that’s manufactured consent. Not a good thing. Being surprised by BS nationalism is good. People should be shocked by how bad this is for the world.
https://mvnrepository.com/repos/central

That has Maven Central as 34TB, which seems reasonable.

Docker is extremely inefficient in comparison, it was 15PB two years ago: https://www.docker.com/blog/scaling-dockers-business-to-serv...
You're not doing that either. You're buying a revocable license to access. That's actually worse than renting or leasing.

In the case of Amazon Music, if you haven't fallen for the subscription nonsense, you actually are buying the MP3 files. You can download them and then it's on you to move them around as you need. Amazon will also "keep a copy in the cloud for you, and let you play it wherever." You lose that when you lose your account, but if you went to the trouble to download your MP3, that's yours.
Formal proof is problematic because English has no formal specification. Some people are working on this, it's a nascent area bringing formal methods (model checking) to neural network models of computation. But it's an interesting fundamental issue that arises there, if you can't even specify the design intentions then how do you prove anything about it.
Living without a car in NYC definitely helps with affordability! I saved several thousand a year on that. But you should also account for the following costs:

- subway fare ($120/mo, possibly pre-tax on a commuter card)

- rideshares or rental vans for occasional large item pickups

- rental cars or unreasonably expensive Amtrak fares when you want to leave the city or visit family (the rest of the USA requires a car, ofc)

After those costs, you're saving more like $1-5k/year. You can avoid them if you walk more than average or never get out of the city, but in my experience there's a bit of a mental health toll if you spend many many months in NYC and never get out of the city, especially if you have friends and family outside of the city.
> I was hoping it would raise the alarm regarding Google and Apple's overreaching, always-on data collection practices

It seems this is the article you were expecting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26639261.
> …even implied it?

There were plenty of ways to ask “why haven’t we been back in 50 years” without dragging in conspiracies, or even “how do I refute the conspiracy theories” without saying “this one has a ton of logical sense backing it up”.

It didn’t sound like a good faith question, and it’s an extraordinarily tired argument, so you got downvoted.
Good. Time to finally put those dealers in Görli (largely) out of business.

For non-locals: that's Görlitzer Park, Berlin, which has largely been owned (and rendered nearly useless) by the dealers for several years now (along with the neighboring streets, and a good chunk of the recreational land on the canal zone nearby).
Yeah, it's easy to make ChatGPT do wrong things which is why I'm not so concerned about it other than companies using it as an excuse to further strip down essential technicians for such platforms. I think ChatGPT can be a wonderful tool if corporations would stop pretending that capital can always replace labor which won't happen anytime soon since many C-suite folks are naive about most things in my experience.
Awesome concept! Good luck!
They didn't say they were "living for vacations", just "saving money and taking vacations to pricier places". They could very easily be living for the moment, enjoying every day, and still taking some time to go out exploring other more expensive areas now and then.

It's a common fallacy of the new yorker to think they're the only one who has figured out living, and everyone else wants to be where they are but can't afford it. (not saying this was you, but it's something I've heard many a time)
I wonder how they manage that on countries that have proper consumer rights government agencies.
Free speech is a facade. It never existed. It’s right wing agitprop.
I pay 2700 for an acre in a highly desirable area in the south. Which is 1200 more than it was 4 years ago. But we have a huge flood of people coming from out of state that love how cheap everything is.
Is Steam UI terrible? It seems a little slower than I'd like, particularly initial load but otherwise it seems fine to me. And most software I use is so slow now it certainly doesn't stand out and has probably moved to the upper grade just by not getting worse over the years.
Lucky web framework written in Crystal: Official release 1.0
Something doesn't add up here. They're actively telling third parties to lease cloud servers with large amounts of free bandwidth, and allocate them to this purpose. I see four possibilities:

- They are paying the third party less than what it costs to rent the server, in which case the third party is losing money and shouldn't be doing this.

- They are paying the third party at least what it costs to rent the server, in which case why aren't they just renting the server themselves? They could probably negotiate a bulk discount.

- They are trying to hide this activity from the cloud server provider by involving third parties. While this may not be a ToS violation as such, I'd guess that if they're hiding it, it is something the cloud providers will want to crack down on if it becomes significant.

- This entire scheme is actually a plan to get access to countries with weird regulatory requirements, e.g. foreign companies are not usually allowed to own servers in China. This one's pretty legit actually, but it's a really complex version of the scheme.

I think at least one of those must be true, and none of them would be a good sign for the future.

Edit: I guess "paying the third party less than their costs" and/or "not making a profit themselves" might be what they mean by "Uber-like", so it would just be an elaborate joke?
The US has six public single-payer health systems (I forget them all) and spends more on them than European countries do on their universal healthcare systems without providing universal healthcare.

I suspect that private profits are much higher in the US though, since that is supposed to be the incentive. I know that I would pay quite a bit of profit to someone in order to save my own life, and I imagine that people with children feel similarly about their lives.

It's not any great secret either, listen to Obama talk about healthcare back in the day, and the phrase he always used was, "bend the cost curve". I would think the obvious solution would be to set up one actual single-payer and then use monopsony power to force costs down. It would probably mean less profit for those sellers though.
All will fail eventually.
Newbie firm plans $2,800 add-in card that holds up to 21 PCIe 4.0 SSDs, 168TB
I’ve heard this a lot, but I don’t buy it.

My friends in London lose at least half their equity value to taxes, have to buy 1000yr leases, and seem to be generally poorer than their counterparts in the US.

Anecdotal, but the US is a rich country with I suspect a lower lower bound and a higher median quality of life per dollar.

Before you say the UK isn’t Europe it’s even worse in the EU imo.
You don't need to appeal to cheeseburgers to not want to value 100 future dollars at 100 current dollars, if you can buy 100 future dollars for 80 current dollars, which is essentially what happened when rates rose.

(Someone else is offering 100 future for 80 current because they have a forecast about cheeseburgers, sure. But you don't have to agree with that forecast to take their deal; the deal looks even better for you if you don't agree.)
Well, prisons are a good testing ground for these things.

edit: I should clarify that I don't support what prisons are doing, I think it's good that the EFF is opposing this, because prisons are exactly where you'd roll out this kind of technology firsts.
You seem to have started with the premise that getting management to behave ethically is hopeless, but that maybe engineers could refuse.

Management can always find someone willing to behave un-ethically if they look.

Regulation and criminal liability tends to be the only way to eliminate shady business practices.
What problem does this solve? Cloudflare is already free.
Apparently Google Fi users have the same priority on t-mobile's network as t-mobile users do. https://www.reddit.com/r/GoogleFi/comments/wd5ijm/qcipriorit...
Enviable domain name
That's probably a good thing, because that makes clear you missed the point about the Docker Official Images program. Docker's support for open-source organizations has nothing to do with the Official Images program; they are generated by Docker themselves, rather than being generated by an open source project and merely hosted by Docker.
the most obvious red flag is that perspective is unfalsifiable. hence why you would have to always move the goal posts predictably further.

as in, the crypto numbers could have been any amount and you would have said the same thing.

if it was $1bn you would have said that, $500mm you would have said that.

and thats, in conjunction with nothing in the crypto space having any utility, for you, and nobody else’s utility being valid, for you.
Sure, among us that is true. But to those who have power over us...the corporations and the government...our only value is our labor.
It's not true that there is no longer anyone working on AI ethics at Microsoft as I understand it. Rather, Microsoft had more than one team working on AI safety and dismantled one of them. There is still a large "Office of Responsible AI". It seems like internal reorganization but was reported as an abandonment of AI safety.
I use Octal, Free with $5.99 for paid features (commenting, etc)

Great UI, performant app and the developer is quite active in pushing updates.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/octal-for-hacker-news/id130888...
That general sentiment is unsupported by evidence and most of the time when you challenge it you get links to strongtowns.org which is a non-credible source run by a crank.

People constantly say that cities "subsidize" suburbs but when you look into it you find out that is only sometimes true, and that many of the people who do the most productive work in cities commute there from the suburbs, and that many of the world's most valuable companies, including all but one of the FAANG companies, are located in suburban areas.

Plus, if people really want to talk about "subsidies" they should admit that big dense cities get plenty of those too.

You'll also see a lot of commenters who think "suburban" and "rural" are the same thing, often without realizing it, to the extent that one particularly clueless comment I saw recently asserted that nobody in the suburbs had city utilities and all the houses had septic tanks.

Cities are actually very expensive to maintain, and they tend to have the worst concentration of problems such as crime and drug abuse, and NYC is one of the prime examples.
Remember that climate politicians are buying properties on the beach. They have no actual concern.
Ask HN: How does “Dribbble for Notioners” sounds?
Hey,
We love using Notion in our personal and professional life. Also, we build products to make Notion users life easier. Notion Standup is one of them (https://notionstandup.com/).
I'm in many Notion communities and I see too many people creating Notion templates. They give some tips about creating templates and share their templates through their networks.
I thought that would be great to have a website for Notion template builders to share their templates as their portfolio.

There are many Notion learners as well as users. So, to create better Notion templates, inspiring by builders and contacting them would be great.
We can even hire them for our needs through this platform.

What do you think of that? Would it be good or unnecessary?
He fundamentally misunderstands what it means to be "non-profit" (or is being intentionally disingenous; it's hard to tell with him). It doesn't mean you can't make a profit.