skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The biggest problem that nobody talks about and the reason most collapses (or rather revolutions) happened was the grow to top layer of ruling class. Those who dont do anything but extract rents (as in get money for doing nothing).

They siphon wealth from middle class, who has less and less wealth to sustain itself and prop up poor.

The finance sector is not helping either as it generally doesnt create anything either + markets and ever more abstracted tools that create usless 'middle man' that again siphon wealth without creating anything.

And on top of that you have corporate media that are doing everything to prevent class war, by creating cultural and propagating wars.

This is putting immense strain on middle class who are tasked with pushing the wheels of the system, with less and less each year.
Other similar cases I'm aware of.

* The Scunthorpe problem, AOL didn't let users set their hometown to Scunthorpe because of the "cunt" substring. This is a classic.

* Amazon banning sales of Guns N' Roses merch (because guns).

* People named Miranda having issues with bank transfers (because of the substring "Iran").

* Some games displaying the nickname "Nasser" as "N*er", suggesting that it is the n word.

Alexa not being able to say "pussycat" properly, which is an issue to this day.

* Parental control software that filtered on "anal" in URLs, which also affected "analysis".

* Another parental control software that removed any file with "sex" in the name. This also included "sysext". I know of a school whose entire computer room got bricked because of that bug, the IT person decided it would be a good idea to update all the computers to Windows 10 at once, without checking for software incompatibilities first.

* The British politician Dominic Cummings not being able to set up a Twitter account.
It doesn't work out well for the company in the end in the movie either.

Works out great for milton though.
"Ideally, we'll make you lots and lots of money."
For what it's worth, I think what Mojo does do better is that it's trying to be a better Python. Chapel's syntax immediately discourages me from using it.
Also good for other languages :)
What if a premium case maker like Spigen made the phone body itself?
I’ve thought about this (because of course it might happen and I need to be ready, haha) and if I had billions I’d do two education things:

1) Fund a small pure research institution. Get a dozen or two academics who are promising but are hindered by publish-or-perish and related culture out of that mess, let them do their thing. Even if only one or two at a time do anything worthwhile and the rest just kick back and take the money, that’s potentially a pretty great outcome. No strings, long horizon, maybe even a lifetime-stipend kind of situation.

2) Buy the rights to some excellent textbooks in areas that don’t change fast enough to need major updates all the time (math, for example). Possibly whole curriculums, especially for lower grades. Put them in the public domain. Set up a small endowment to fund keeping them up-to-date (mostly just fixing errors). (This is 1,000% something the government ought to do, the ROI is crazy high, but they aren’t doing it, so whatever)
I've had a python code sharing post blocked on Facebook because it "violates community standards". If I remember right it was a script to search a word doc and highlight certain words by changing the color. Their bots are stupid.
> It's basic media literacy 101

Can you imagine applying this standard to other professions ?

Say you doctor says "The Lab technician read your report and says you have cancer" or a scientist says "Our experiments say that global warming is real". You still hold them accountable for their claims, because THEY are the professionals. The whole point of being an authoritative source is that you don't report things until you have it on good authority. If you can't be held accountable to your claims, then that's the failure of your profession. Your role as the intermediary, is to vet the sources. If I have to do it, you have failed.

Is your claim is that : "All media is inherently untrustworthy, but some media is worse than other media"? Because that sounds like a vote in favor of rejecting the premise of authoritative sources.

I have looked at every front page of NYT over the last 48 hours. It started with outright accusing Israel strongly, and then steady reduced the degree of accusation indicated in headline over the next 48 hours. The photos and front page still hints towards Israel being the cause of the blast without saying it. The facts on the ground now strongly indicate a misfire from Gaza, that the hospital wasn't directly hit and expects the death toll to be closer to 10-100, rather than the 500 that has been parroted as truth. Have NYT/BBC/AJ reflected any of these changes in their front page headlines ? NO.

This is just from the last 48 hours and I was fortunate enough to have accumulated trustworthy 'alt sources' to identify the discrepancies on this issue. Add Gellman Amnesia into the mix, and I wonder how many 'authoritative' lies I've gobbled up from despite a decent degree of scrutiny on my part.
Another factor to consider is that BC makes files available to download in a variety of formats (MP3, FLAC, AAC, etc.) Presumably they're transcoding on the fly from a lossless format and not storing all those extra files...
Isis is the name of a main ancient Egyptian goddess; I can imagine many researchers triggering alerts when mentioning her in their emails.
> You lost me on the title of this post "If X I'd be rich", without reading a single word immediately my reaction is "that's an incredibly naive or just plain stupid viewpoint".

It's possible that he was being facetious.
The implication is that Amazon was fully aware that this was happening and didn't care. That's what most people would think "let" meant here.

Yes, equivocating over the meaning of "let", the headline is technically true. Like so, so many other technically true but misleading headlines.
Are you trying to tell me sanctions don't work? That's absurd. Clearly the war in Ukraine is due to sanctions working.
The library could have a monthly fee.

The library could charge per download.

There could be be ads, though that seems distasteful.

None of these require making an ebook available for a limited amount of time.
Hard needle to thread. I understand the risk of getting community momentum in a direction you don't want to go, but I'm also doubtful that much of the audience they want is interested in a closed source programming language. Hoping they can thread it because I think it's a good idea and Swift is pretty nice.
glad I can finally play with it. Hopefully the pace of development does not slow down because Rust features with Python syntax and a smarter compiler is a pretty attractive proposition (regardless of all other goodness being promised).
How to get the attention of a busy person (2019)
You’re in good company misinterpreting Truman’s famous desk sign:

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2012/10/buck-stops-here-clin...

Or directly from Truman’s library:

“In his farewell address to the American people given in January 1953, President Truman referred to this concept very specifically in asserting that, "The President--whoever he is--has to decide. He can't pass the buck to anybody. No one else can do the deciding for him. That's his job.”

Funny enough, Trump gave his own version of the phrase around the looming 2019 shutdown with “the buck stops with everyone”.
No, and nor do I compared to a rich person.

But is telling anyone "don't minimize your taxes" really practical?
Nice! In that case yeah, price is another differentiator.
You seem to have interpreted this in a strongly partisan way for some reason. Nobody accused any specific party or groups of spreading disinformation. This was not a tribalistic argument. and by your own account you seem to understand that disinformation is something that should be combated with critical thinking, so you seem to acknowledge that it is a problem when people decide to believe in falsehoods.

"All sides are doing it" doesn't diminish the problem, if anything is shows how severe the problem is. Critical thinking is a good skill, but it's a hard skill for a person to develop if they are overexposed to disinformation. People cannot be expected to figure out what the truth is if they don't have trusted sources of information. You either have to guess who is telling the truth and hope they are right, or you have to assume nobody is telling you the truth and stop caring.
Speaking as someone who has worked cleaning up the area adjacent to an interstate, there's no way to identify the urine bottles specific to a trucking company. Unless Amazon issues their drivers with branded urine bottles? (I think the urine bottles begin as pop bottles and are reused).
New devices could change the way we measure blood pressure
Confuse trading algos that do semantic analysis? It can be interpreted as neutral, if it's not "cuts".
I think the TL;DR is foxconn wants to assemble data center/a bunch of servers with Nvidia's chips which they call AI factories, but the marketing BS is strong.
"Do you still beat your spouse?"
Just came here to say that I love this
Founder personality could predict startup success, study suggests
Minds: ActivityPub and Nostr powered decentralized social network
For me it’s like a nice slide into the warmer
months, and a less pleasant climb into the colder months. And you see the next year after the peak, the turn of the year bringing a new perspective of sorts.
It sounds like in the past you’ve used pandas/python for this. Any opinions on the best option for pivoting with those tools?
Just zoom in on the keyboard. It’s pretty characteristic of AI generated images.

Edit: Just saw the other comments saying the same, whoops
So much of Monty Python depends on a "classical education" to really get all the jokes - for example, the 'philosopher's drinking song' is quite amusing when you know who all the people referenced are.

Or in other words, it was designed for people in Britain who went through a British education of the time.
Isn't this the definition of US colleges?
We got a massive inflow of traffic from HN today and that seems to have hit some rate limits with GitHub. We're looking into it.
I second downpour.com for audiobooks. You can download files in mp3 or m4b formats and listen to them in whatever player you like.

I hadn't heard of libro.fm. I'll have to give them a try, thanks for pointing them out.
Previous: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37920633
Expressing that you have no idea what the other person is saying (but that this is part of the value of this community) is not without substance or useless. They could have been more verbose about it, but I'm not sure that makes the community better.

The guidelines are guidelines. We all work to interpret them. HN themselves in introducing the guidelines says that "empty" comments can be okay if they're positive, which I feel this was.
Well thats fairly similar to how Swift was done so not very surprising.
One solution to this, albeit a fairly technical one, can be found here: https://github.com/Ezwen/bandcamp-collection-downloader . I've been using it for years to download my library in FLAC format.

There are also a bunch of GUI tools that claim to download libraries (search for "bandcamp downloader") but I haven't used any of them.
Yeah, I do. It's what ultimately discouraged me from using the language. They are keeping a tight grip on Mojo, they may promise open sourcing it, but that didn't stop them from doing things like preventing an online repl for Mojo being built[0]. Presumably because they want to use Mojo to gather as many sign ups as possible for their business. Fair I guess, but leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

0 - https://mojo.picheta.me/
Is there a YouTube version of this?
There's also this repo if you're keen on free resources: github.com/codecrafters-io/build-your-own-x
drops connections
The most expensive home in the world, if you ignore still-occupied old palaces, is Antilia in Mumbai.[1]

It has a estimated market value of USD 1.5-2 billion.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antilia_(building)
What does the PDF contain? Maybe this online tool is helpful for you, it converts PDF into Excel files:
https://www.ilovepdf.com/es/pdf_a_excel

If it works you can extract the CSV from there.

Hope it helps!
Note: "duly-elected" does NOT equal fairly-elected, without undue influence, financing, eliminating viable opponents, etc.

I happen to think that the POTUS is correct to point out that Hamas' policy of intending to kill all Jews, and intentionally targeting civilians including babies and elderly, is NOT shared by all Palestinians.

If you want to argue that it is, and that Hamas actually represents all Palestinians, then all Palestinians are also legitimate combatants and targets in the conflict.

You cannot have it both ways. Pick your poison. Carefully.

If you look a bit more carefully at the facts, you will likely find that the Arab states influence is the basis of the entire problem. Simply look at their response this week. Not a single one will help the Palestinians, and it took a US Presidential visit to even convince Egypt to allow humanitarian help through their common border. The Arab states DGAF about their Palestinian brothers, other than how they can be used as pawns.
Once you get beyond W2 income, things get complex in a hurry. I don't think I have especially complicated income sources and deductions and I still end up with a half-inch sheaf of forms from my accountant every year. It's not actually a lot of work for me personally. I just need to make sure I've kept track of all the paperwork drifting in or downloaded and I have to write a fairly substantial check to my accountant.
Interesting, although I would say that Symbian Belle did look quite good, and QT/PIPS was going into the right direction as well, but that memo killed the remaining goodwill of the developer community that cared enough for the transition.

And the release of N9 was mostly due to ongoing contracts, which were going to be quite costly by not releasing it at all.

Bummer, but it is as it is.
This is good advice, if doing dishes is boring, procrastination won't help it'll only make it worse. Taking pride in a dish well washed and a clean kitchen/living space makes the task worth it.
matrix multiplication? but i didn't get the joke either
I don't frequently read The Register but every time I've read their articles over the years it's been a bit tongue-in-cheek and quirky so this fits.
I'm sure Chapel has its merits, but one of the main selling points of Mojo is the aspiration to be part of the Python ecosystem, and so far I haven't seen any other programming language offering a similar promise, other than Python itself coupled with DSLs or other extensions for high performance.
The price difference for direct, volume purchases of FPGAs is reportedly about 10-50x lower than the unit price on Digikey, but they keep it very secret so they can price gouge you on negotiations. That VU57P likely costs at most $10-15k when purchased directly and in volume.

As a comparison, this fully-built PCIe card with a VU13P FPGA costs $13k at quantity 1: https://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/BittWare/XUPVV8-0007?qs...

While a single unit of a comparable chip to the one on that card costs $77k on digikey: https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/amd/XCVU13P-2FHGC...
Are you assuming that the goal for being creative is to produce content? Because often being creative is just a nice way to spend time while being alive, regardless of whether it produces any output.
No. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=kafka also mentions Apache Kafka before Franz's wiki page. DDG's very existence hinges on NOT profiling you, in any way.
I mean honestly, the closest language to Mojo really is Nim. In the latest Lex Fridman interview with Chris Lattner [0] when he talks about his ideas behind Mojo it pretty much sounds like he's describing Nim. Ok fair, he wants Mojo to be a full superset of Python, but honestly with nimpy [1] our Python interop is about as seamless as it can really be (without being a superset, which Mojo clearly is not yet). Even the syntax of Mojo looks a damn lot like Nim imo. Anyway, I guess he has the ability to raise enough funds to hire enough people to write his own language within ~2 years so as not have to follow random peoples whim about where to take the language. So I guess I can't blame him. But as someone who's pretty invested in the Nim community it's quite a shame to see such a hyped language receive so much attention by people who should really check out Nim. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[0]: https://youtu.be/pdJQ8iVTwj8?si=LfPSNDq8UKKIsJd3

[1]: https://github.com/yglukhov/nimpy
It's because making money with a programming language is very hard. They are trying to build a moat around their product while courting people who abhor moats to use it.
Consumption is not the only way to levy taxes.
I ask myself what is a software development environment (2022)
Wrongful termination generally requires either discrimination based on protected class or retaliation for reporting (discrimination / injury / safety).

You generally can’t sue your employer for being an unfair asshole.
I got myself a used ThinkPad T480s with OEM Win11 installed. It was the last straw and I made it dual-boot with Kubuntu. So far, the annoyances are few and far between. Maybe I will try Fedora next, cause people are right about snaps being dogshit.
It blocks redirects from Google ads so you would never have been able to load the website in the first place
> I have seen HN threads ridiculing some govt website for being outdated or not fixing the latest vulnerability or not using the latest version etc. Or if they do allocate a bigger chunk of their budget for tech and there will be unreasonable HN threads about how one user feels he/she could build it over a weekend and question the budgets.

So? Public institutions are free to run "outdated" web sites and ignore random people ridiculing them on HN. "We're on a budget, stop whining" is a perfectly valid response, if a such behavior even warrants a response.
You can have a lot going on at work that makes people turn to cold and indifferent because they want to get work done and deadlines met. Their mental effort is focused on that because that's the priority. Socializing can be a context switch. If the company continuously keeps the pressure on, they just continue on like that until switching jobs.

It would be nice if we had more time to relax and socialize as a reward for getting work done early or at a higher quality but the reward for it is often more work, which will quickly turn people cynical. If you are cynical, socializing is very much a chore even though they know you didn't cause it.

Essentially, there is a lot to focus on that prevents people from relaxing and socializing. But profits are up, so yay?
No, only uses a tracker.
Shoes does not attack symmetric ciphers like AES.

Grover’s algorithm applies and will never be used against even AES 128.
Gave you an upvote the font choice would be hilarious if someone tried to make fun of modern website design, but they're seriously using a font that is hard to read even at > 150% zoom
Show HN: (Your) Personal Spotify Statistics
that was my thought too, my impression was they went under several years ago, so not only they has 14k employee, but they has 14k employee who can be let go

anyway, i visited their wikipedia page, say they have 86k employee and make 24 billion a year

i tried to understand from their webpage what they sell now, but it seem this will need more time to understand , the page is all over the place with generic terms
"uBo"
"uBlock Origin"

How is that a difference of 3 keys?
Low income individuals spend a far greater share of their income on goods that would be subject to VAT than high-income individuals. Eliminating income tax would shift the burden of paying for government even more to the people who can least afford it.

Ideally, taxation should be a mechanism that redistributes wealth within society to be more equitable which ultimately benefits everyone, even the wealthy, by increasing overall economic growth. Income tax is a very good mechanism to achieve that goal (though definitely not perfect) and I agree with Thomas Piketty that we should add a small wealth tax on the very wealthiest individuals.
Yikes! TIL that with Apple Silicon it is impossible to stop the computer from auto-booting on lid open or key press. There was an nvram hack that worked for Intel machines but it has no effect now. What a "feature."

I've added a user account "Clean" and will do cleaning after locking the screen while logged into that account. If I happen to disable its login via failed logins due to keypresses while cleaning, I can switch back to my normal account and reset it.
I expect most of the people who spend substantial amounts of time/money on doing taxes in the US would spend substantial time/money on taxes in most other countries too--unless it's a country where a lot of people basically evade paying taxes at all.
I used a lot of these techniques as an operations research analyst in the early 2010’s.

I also wondered the same thing about DoE for hyperparameter tuning. Always felt like it was a case of grid search/random search/bayes opt being “good enough” and easier. But maybe DoE would be worth it for something like LLMs where training runs for a month on 25k GPUs.
Ask HN: Small business owners of HN, how would you rate your year?
Hey HN community, as we're on the 292nd day of the year with 20% of 2023 remaining, I'd love to hear from small business owners. How would you rate your business growth this year? Any valuable learnings or strategies that have helped you thrive?
Apple fired members of its App Store team in China over “business misconduct.”
Aside from the normal risks of injury there is the simple fact that many athletes would take the risk. I think it's morbid but top level athletes probably already deal with things that would make the normie sports fan queazy. They'd do it happily for the status and adrenaline
> The whole point of being an authoritative source is that you don't report things until you have it on good authority

Sometimes you never have it on good authority for years, meanwhile the 'thing' is being spread by other sources, so they have report that in the least. Sometimes 'Israel/Hamas spokesperson claims X' is a newsworthy story by itself.

> This is just from the last 48 hours of a issue that I was fortunate enough to have accumulated trustworthy 'alt sources' to identify the discrepancies.

And what are those sources? Have you looked at their record? Do they provide retractions? Do they cover the "other side's" point of views? Would you call them authoritative?
I've decided to drop Spotify and switch to youtube premium. I get streaming there and won't have ads. I guess it's worth it. I hate Spotify and thier interface. I used to watch Joe Rogan on YouTube but the Spotify interface sucks (to me)
Rip – Rust crate to resolve and install Python packages
GP implies that you’d just work longer to incorporate that hour of exercise?
> This is just saying "union bad" in more words.

That's not "just" what is being said. Unions are generally good in the US, but the tactics have aligned across industries. Notably, the teacher's unions, police unions, and often utility unions are horribly corrupt.
The World Has Already Crossed a 'Tipping Point' on Solar Power
You can definitely sue them for not telling you that you're fired, and then not paying you for the work you do.
How would the answer be relevant?
The Truth. The Whole Truth. and Nothing the Burning Platforms Memo Is 1 Year Old
Ask HN: Client-specific documentation for SaaS tools?
Hi all, I'm building SaaS which is customisable for each client. And the need arises to have client specific documentation places conveniently within platform, but it's not the same across clients. What tools solve this problem? I don't want to build it within the solution.

Thanks
Tim Cook meets with China commerce minister
You never made a mistake?