skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For example the income tax or other taxes already capture a portion of foreign workers' incomes that the state wants to capture without discouraging workers too much and working elsewhere, according to their economic models and policies.

I suppose different countries have different strategies on this, rich countries are trying to benefit from foreign labor and capture some taxes from them while less rich countries are trying to increase their haul by encouraging their citizens to become foreign workers (example: Philippines).
So essentially the same as with Ext4, either sans the orphan list or maybe they even store one somewhere so that they can clean up while mounting in case the system crashed.
After their acquisition by DigitalOcean in 2022, the biggest question anyone probably had was whether they would continue supporting now-competitors on the platform. We now have the answer. Expected, but disappointing.
Great idea! I'm afraid this would require at least a hundred employees to keep it current and useful, though. But, as a society, we definitely need this. Maybe if some government agency could back it up?
>Cost per launch: Over US$2 billion excluding development (estimate)

There must be a cheaper way to do that.
> This incessant tribalism by esp. developers over the topic of remote work is ridiculously childish.

No, it isn't, it's a symptom of the fact that herding everyone into the same building whether it is actually necessary or not is an outdated business concept, and now that employees have the wherewithal to push back--because now there is abundant evidence that lots of jobs can be done by remote work--they are pushing back. From an employee's perspective, even if there might be some benefits to having everyone in the same office, there are huge costs associated with having to commute back and forth to an office every work day, and having to live close enough to work to make that feasible, meaning your choice of where to live is dictated by your job. In the past those costs were unavoidable so employees simply had no choice but to suck them up. Now employees have a choice.

Yes, that means that managers who are used to managing in an everyone-in-the-office environment will now have to learn how to manage in a remote work environment. That's always one of the risks of being a manager: the game can change at any time, and you either adapt or you go out of business.
Just keep funneling all the tech (big business marketing budget) money straight past workers and right to lawyers and politicians.

The article didn't mention- where does this money actually end up?
How do I get USB3 'superspeed' data transfer though? I regularly shuttle multi-gigabyte files onto my iPhone's flash storage and that takes too much time. One of those sit-back-and-make-some-coffee moments in life that doesn't have to be that way. It would free up so much time if the transfers were near instant.
It's usually easier in person where you can move your head and see the natural color variation of the rock. Plus they'll have sketched this out, looking closely at different areas, and some will be more obvious than others.

But yes, it's sometimes difficult and you have to have an eye for it.
Best thing I ever did for depression. It just stops depression cold and makes it hard to even be depressed. I'm convinced shrooms saved my life
Starting homeowners who might want to move into a bigger home do want prices to fall as well. The loss in return of your current home is being royally offset by reduction in price when buying.
Nits:

- Model: Ideal device is 5C.

- GPG: S key should not also be C. The point is the C key should be the root of S, E, and A so they can be expired, revoked, and rolled individually.

- NFC: Disable it or don't buy it. It's a wide attack surface. USB-C works with iPads and Android devices, iPhones <= 14 with an adapter, and iPhone >= 15.

- Backup & recovery: Contrary to YK doc, there are too many issues with multiple card-generated YK secrets and identifiers for practical use. Create an identical device (apart from card no) with a 2nd YK kept offsite in secure physical storage by loading secrets to both rather than generating them on-card. It's possible to do so securely on a trusted machine (say running Tails or Qubes OS on a physical new machine without internet).

- Reset PIN: It's foolish to not create one.

- FIDO2: Setup your own (deprecated but still works) private, firewalled behind NAT server from https://developers.yubico.com/u2fval/

- Linux and Mac workstations: Setup gpg-agent ssh-agent compatibility instead of the PIV method because it doesn't require their custom PKCS#11 module with an unproven security track record. And update the firmware with the Yubikey Manager app.
I have a 5800x and an RX 6800 XT - definitely not a low-end system - and this is the worst performance I've had in a game. I have a 4K display and use FSR2 with 50% (!!) render scale in order to maintain as close to 60 FPS as possible.

All that for a game that looks pretty okay, with uncanny valley NPCs, awkward (awful?) animations, and fine I guess graphics overall. It doesn't look like 'Creation Engine 2' levels of quality, it looks like a well-done Skyrim mod. It looks as impressive as the HD mod packs I've tried for Fallout New Vegas or Skyrim, but it runs far worse.

It's not an apples to apples comparison, but Baldur's Gate 3's level of detail in texturing, character design, and animations was mind-blowing; Starfield has a mid-range level of detail and very clearly didn't bother with any sort of motion capture (and the voice acting for a lot of NPCs is mediocre as well).
Cloud-Based Integration
Perhaps over the small window, but still lagging over the longer. So ultimately using the shorter window is data cherry-picking. Yes, the iPhone has a definitive start so the window makes sense, but keep in mind citizens / workers / taxpayers / consumers were plenty behind inflation at that point.

Anecdotally, I don't think I know anyone who believes they're ahead of inflation.
Manufacturers trying to get ahead of inflation and ending up with record profits. How convenient.

I'll buy the media narrative this time, thank you.
https://archive.is/YgJGR
I'm genuinely interested to read some of these critiques that you are referring to.
They warned Apple based on rumours but that doesn't prove that MFi certification for USB-C ever existed.
Seriously. So many people have a low-information understanding of the housing market, and think that homebuilders somehow aren't rational actors. Why would people who make their money building houses be into lowering their profit margins and causing pricing shocks for their existing stock of houses that are in construction? Developers are incentivized to charge what the market will bear. It is public policy's job to reform the incentives so other market players see opportunities to build lower-priced and lower-margin housing stock - I think the best way to do this is to make public lending corporations that will provide 3% construction loans, which are far more attractive than the 8% to 10% presently charged by institutional lenders. Couple that with expedited permitting for these projects, and tie them to affordability standards, and that's a market disruption that makes sense for most people. But simply deregulating and hoping that prices will fall never, ever works.
No Android app, no cigar
That's not exactly true. China has a firewall which restricts access to the internet at large so you can't use Tiktok or Instagram for that matter in China. Tiktok and Douyin (Tiktok in China) are essentially the same app. Douyin has more features and of course since it's in China, more content control.
Hard work simply makes you eligible for a lottery to become a billionaire.
In that case, the CEO should not have given himself a raise.

If there isn't enough money to go around, don't just give it out to yourself.
Specific examples of the negative effects of deflation include:

- The Great Depression, which began in 1929, was a period of severe deflation. The prices of goods and services fell by more than 25% between 1929 and 1933. This led to a decrease in aggregate demand, which caused businesses to cut production and lay off workers. The unemployment rate rose to over 25%, and the economy did not recover until the early 1940s.

- In the early 1990s, Japan experienced a period of deflation. The prices of goods and services fell by an average of 1% per year between 1992 and 1999. This led to a decrease in aggregate demand, which caused businesses to cut production and lay off workers. The unemployment rate rose to over 5%, and the economy stagnated for several years.

The reason these economic theories are widely believe is because of the close alignment with empirical observations.
Vancouver has one of the least affordable housing markets in North America and people have been concerned about it for years. 4 years ago, it was even a municipal election issue, yet most people who couldn't afford housing voted in some of the most NIMBY councillors, who in turn voted down any significant housing project. The reason? New units are expensive, so building them makes housing more expensive. Even some smart, educated people couldn't see past this.
I wonder what the conversation was an apple about losing all that additional revenue from the sale of lightning cables. I never believed lightning was anything more than a way for Apple to gouge the customers a little bit more.
For reference, the standard ILS glideslope angle for the final approach segment of every normal commercial airport is 3.0 degrees. But steeper ones are not uncommon, London City is an extreme at 5.5 degrees, and requires special aicraft/aircrew certification.
This will never be exposed in a data leak. It will never be used in legal proceedings. It will never be used to embarrass politicians. These records will never contain any errors. It is absolutely harmless to share this information with advertisers, data brokers, and government agencies.

/s
Frequently leaving your parents or ex or roommates in the old place.
Yeah, for you (and me) it is mostly an ecosystem question, but OP indicated that this would be a switch to iPhone.

Was wondering what specifically caught them about this particular generation of iphone.
can you still not view emails in text mode by default in Geary?
I would suggest building some projects for a few months and then start applying to relevant companies. Which country are you based in?
Ditto for me as well. I like having lunch with my wife at home during the week and I like picking up my kids from school and hearing about their day. I can't do these things on the days I'm back in the office.
Just like the black plague did too. Silver linings?
It is baffling to watch community calls and have them talk about rewrites and dropped tooling features as if it wasn't a big deal, being asked for the n-th time since Windows 8.
And yet that has nothing to do with the current length of copyright, so I think you're simply proving my point?
False. [0]

0: https://ethicsinediting.wordpress.com/2009/04/01/photo-manip...
Well it's not really about adding value to your end users as it is about bringing in new ones. At the end of the day Product Hunt is no more than a nice-to-have marketing tool, and it should be regarded as such imo.
I think the fines should be far higher.

If a company chooses to leach data they have a large responsibility to ensure they handle children appropriately.
Probably worth noting is that elvis is the origin of nvi (New vi) which is the default on the BSDs
PolyScale and Pgvector
Blog post about using PolyScale with pgvector.
Perhaps this is true on average over all housing classes, but in my university town, there has been a tremendous increase in supply (luxury appts for rich undergraduates) and no decrease in costs. And now there is a proposal to remove all R-1 (residential) zoning, so large appts can be build anywhere, all in the name of making housing more affordable.

But past increases in supply have not made housing affordable, and the effect will be to convert older smaller (cheaper) single family homes into apartment complexes that are designed for students, not single families. It seems pretty clear that the up-zoning will not make housing affordable for the middle class. Perhaps it will be more affordable for less price sensitive students.
No (almost certainly), but you will become frustrated and exhausted. You will probably destroy your relationships with the people who should be closest to you by chasing this obsession. You will be so busy chasing money that you miss out on living.
Bias, or lack of bias, in experimental results and hypotheses was an interesting angle I hadn’t considered before, especially if it’s combined with the ability to conduct the experiment mechanically.

Would researchers have less issue publishing papers that contradict sensitive findings in earlier papers if they can pass responsibility back to the robot? (e.g. robot hypothesizes and disproves widely accepted result that years of other research is based and that anyone who challenged in the past has been dismissed as a quack.)
This looks much better than B612. B612 just looks... awkward. It has these weird little cut-out areas at the intersections of some of the lines. I don't get it. Makes it looks like it's awkwardly pasted together from disparate pieces.
Scrape like the big boys (2021)
Dave Report: Curates the Summary of Global Happenings
> The idea that AI might transform scientific practice is therefore feasible. But the main barrier is sociological: it can happen only if human scientists are willing and able to use such tools.

As a tenure-track scientist who works in ML applications for astrophysics, I disagree with this sentiment. The main issue isn't that enough scientists are using tools to search through literature or form new hypotheses, the main issue is that scientists now have to validate and sift through AI-generated outputs in order to find useful signals, rather than validate and sift through experimentally derived or observed signals.

AI can be useful for hypothesis generation in my field [0], and I think that there are lots of great use cases where it can be used to summarize information. However, it always comes with the possibility that it might output complete nonsense [1], so scientists who adopt these tools will have to spend some of their time verifying their outputs.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.11648

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20230913230733/https://www.msn.c...
When employers force employees to upend their lives or get fired: no one blinks

When an IT department forces a small (?) company to do something by quitting: That seems way too fantastical to be true.

(Personally... yes, seems a bit too good to be true!)

And HN wonders why some people want unions.[1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37507458
https://archive.is/zz4Nc
Isn’t this a European regulation? In any case, it is obviously a good thing for consumers and it is difficult to argue against this.
> It should be a tradeoff of less battery consumption on device, and no need for large storage, at the expense of a lot more bandwidth?

Yes. I believe so.

> Would having to send all the raw samples consume more or less battery than just processing it and sending the result?

Good question. I don't know the answer to that. Maybe someone can chime in?

What would be interesting if you could send a "ping" signal to the tracker and it only start sending samples back then. After all most of the time you don't need to know where the cat is, only when it is "overdue" and the owner starts worrying.
The Pro phones are USB3.
>It’s like if Microsoft decided that you had to pay per person who read your document made in Word.

funnily enough, isn't that literally what figma does with their surprise 'editor fee' charges
Why BIOS (did you mean UEFI?) when it runs the best boot loader, which is Coreboot¹. Many users would love to re-flash their bios/uefi for it, if it’s supported.

1: https://www.coreboot.org/
>Companies have a very strong incentive to ensure their products are supported long terms and work well.

I would say that's not quite accurate. They have only one incentive: profit.

Long term supported products are one way of getting money, but it's most definitely not the only way. Many times it's not the most profitable one either.

Companies don't make shitty decisions because they are scheming on how to screw customers up. They do it because when push comes to shove, only profit matters.

One guy will plot a chart saying if we screw customers this way (with pretty words, of course) we can get X% more profit. Then they get promoted and this cycle repeats itself. Or a pandemic hits and suddenly your margins decrease drastically. Now screwing the customer is back on the table.

Unless your company only plans to be running for a few years, those are not as rare as we may think.
> But even if it's true, and they recorded the largest profits, the catalyst still is the monetary policy. If businesses could just price gauge their clients, they would have already done it before.

You can't think of any major global event that happened since 2020 that may work as a "distraction" and a cover while businesses engage in monopolistic/anti-competitive behavior?
There are mods to increase the amount of 'random instances' that are created on a planet when you land, which takes the game from 'isolated-feeling space exploration game with not much to do' to 'everyone else has already built hundreds or thousands of facilities on every single planet or moon in the galaxy.
>Letting it go to rack and ruin is storing up misery, so it worries me that in the UK we've had 20 years of government that has effectively "washed its hands" of water management.

interesting twitter thread here.

https://x.com/LoftusSteve/status/1659637753158545414?s=20
so you didnt even read the piece...
There was an article in NYT (I think) recently that talked about how over the past 50 years or so that there was a reduction in something like 50k apartments in NYC because of people buying neighboring apartments and combining them.
I know a guy like this. He was once employed to wander around talking with other engineers of different specialties. He has a habit of looking at things from first principles. And talking to him would invariably get you unstuck on some problem, often by sidestepping it completely. At the very least they’d end up with interesting directions to spend effort on.

He’s an absolutely fascinating person to talk to.
Necessary for someone to move into that city, for one thing.

In practical terms, also necessary to facilitate the functioning of the market. Most homes are sold by living people (rather than by their estates). They can't sell their house without someplace else lined up to move into.
The Favorite Doctor of Bio-Hackers and the Longevity-Obsessed
> fearing a downturn that will impact their profit margins

The obvious answer is for the Fed to give clear guidance on when rates can go back to dropping. There's no mystery why builders are pulling back; people can't get mortgages.

We don't need a new complicated system, there are easy fiscal knobs to turn.
You're paying for a tablet based on the utility that it gives you. If we could shrink every component except for the screen down to the size of a pin head, then, yeah, you'd be paying for a mostly empty shell, and that's not a problem in the slightest.
You buy a ‘pro’, which has the correct hardware to do super speed. The pro has a new chip, the ‘normal’ 15 doesn’t.
Half-Life Alyx*
And if the dates are correct it's pre-civilization, pre-agriculture, and during the ice age. It's incredible to me that the need to create is this old.
Thanks, that spurred me to read about it given the link above.

> "This bill would require the agency to establish, by January 1, 2026, an accessible deletion mechanism that, among other things, allows a consumer, through a single verifiable consumer request, to request that every data broker that maintains any personal information delete any personal information related to that consumer held by the data broker or associated service provider or contractor. The bill would specify requirements for this accessible deletion mechanism, and would, beginning August 1, 2026, require a data broker to access the mechanism at least once every 45 days and, among other things, process all deletion requests, except as specified. Beginning July August 1, 2026, after a consumer has submitted a deletion request and a data broker has deleted the consumer’s data pursuant to the bill’s provisions, the bill would require the data broker to delete all personal information of the consumer at least once every 45 days, as specified, and would prohibit the data broker from selling or sharing new personal information of the consumer, as specified....

> "This bill would provide that a data broker that fails to comply with the requirements pertaining to the accessible deletion mechanism described above is liable for civil penalties, administrative fines, fees, and costs, as specified, and would raise the amount of the existing civil penalty provisions described above...."

I guess it all comes down to the implementation level how specific and "actually deleting" they will be. And whether the new agency (ugh) charged with enforcing this will actually have teeth in the details.

And I don't know why such a long 45 day period is required. For reasons we're all too familiar with, people are quite able to gather data within seconds, but somehow need 45 days to delete it?
Even with unregulated sizes, Amazon’s boxes contain mostly filler. (I wrote Amazon, but it is common for other online stores as well).
How?

It's not 3% for everyone, it's 3% for specific projects for low income housing.
For a supposedly next-gen game, it sure didn't take long for Starfield to get an HD texture pack mod from the community.
Hypersonic Missiles Are Game-Changers, and America Doesn’t Have Them
Why not re-map the keys? I absolutely love my Chromebook’s keyboard for just that, less keys.
Nah, I fully sympathize with this problem, and fully acknowledge that it's harder. I don't think anybody would disagree.

I'm still fully committed into forcing your hand. It's your problem to solve (or did you want that salary increase to come with less responsibility), not mine. At the same time, once in a lifetime, I have the upper hand, and I'm not letting it pass.

The incessant tribalism by esp. managers insisting that workers just give away anything they want and never negotiate is ridiculously childish.
Show HN: FF and Dynamic Log Features We Shipped This Summer
I've been using Vim for years, but if there was one thing I could change, it would be the verb-noun order. The Kakoune[1] editor behaves mostly like Vim, but where Vim has `dw` as "delete word", Kakoune has it backwards: `wd`.

It might sound minor, but by placing the range first, Kakoune can give a preview of what will be changed. The longer or more complicated the command, the more this feature shines.

Strictly better as far as I know. A shame my muscle memory, and all default installations, are still stuck with Vim.

[1] https://kakoune.org/
It has nefast influence on the mind. Children are very susceptible.
This iteration seems unlikely to qualify, as it still needs a replaceable tread. Maybe it's better some, maybe it's worse some, but it seems like it's definitely not down to 0.

Maybe this tech leads to good things in the future. Maybe. It's hard to imagine getting rid of the replaceable tread. For potential wins to have a noticeable impact, I don't think bicycles are a particularly important area to improve. For potential wins to have a real impact, I think any wins need to be upscaled to cars & trucks.

Right now, it's hard for me to imagine us putting pounds of titanium into each car wheel. Sure, yeah, maybe some other metal wheel tackles this problem. I just feel like we're stacking the tower of what-if's a bit too tall to build big expectations around this.