skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We love Python for multiple reasons but one of the reasons we chose to stick with the language is fastapi & its ecosystem, it's really a joy to work with.

When I started the project I chose MongoDB for simplicity but a PostgreSQL rewrite is on the roadmap ;)
Oddly the uploading part is missing. To be a peer, an equal, things have to flow both ways. Bittorrent wouldn't work otherwise.
"FreeBSD saved me from different problems"
Others comment that thermal prints don't last long, but that's all dependent on the print material. The typical receipt fades after a couple of months, but Brother has small label printers that are often used in archiving and those labels can last for decades.

So just take some time to find the right medium for your needs and thermal printers can be a decent option.
It’s from South Korean authorities
When I refinanced they let me pick a term of a 27 years, of course it was at the 30 year rate. There is no advantage to doing this versus just automatically overpaying the mortgage every month to tune in the target payoff date.
These feel more like theoretical selling points, not documented uses of.
apparently the bar for companies is that low that HN is bootlicking the bare minimum. it's honestly hilarious.

this is extremely shady, and I don't know why people are trusting the source directly lol. they wouldn't say they did anything untoward, ever
> claims to be libertarian

> starts a billion dollar company that helps the government spy on people, become FBI informant

Ironic.
You think that because of your beliefs you should be able both to enjoy somebody’s work and not pay them? Boycott them if you want - that’s absolutely fair. But enjoying their work anyway, and just not paying, is unprincipled and cheap. And arguing that it’s their fault that you’re stiffing them is awfully convenient.
Just a factual example, in Sweden this year the union agreed wage increase for IT workers was 3.5% against an almost 10% inflation year-on-year and almost everyone is unionised. In an unionised sector in the US this would have been cause for immediate strikes.

In Sweden (and many other european countries) unions work with government and companies to make the business succeed and that success be spread to the employees, this means the bad times are also amortised by the workers as well.

It is not perfect but it is not a zero-sum game which keeps both sides more aligned. I wish I could have had a 10% raise to match inflation, but I have been getting ~1% raises above inflation for the past several years so it kinda makes up for it.
In exchange for what?
That would cost Google and Facebook revenue.

They are not going to do it unless a government makes them do it, or if the legal liability risk is too great.
GitHub Co-pilot, the AI programming assistant integrated into VS Code, has new features including inline chat, improved command suggestions, and better test generation.
You found a small example to counter the many many examples perpetuated by BJP Hindu nationalists. Which accomplishes nothing but covering for the atrocities committed in the name of ethnic nationalism. How long and how hard was it to find that? Must have taken some effort, your mental gymnastics are Olympic level.
You can get small inkjets too...
Why would this be better than just buying a server chip e.g. Epyc (where you can add another one to your 2P motherboard later)?
The article contains solid advice that certainly transcends coding, alone; in my free time, I try to essentially "find work". Sometimes that work consists of writing software to solve weird little home "problems" that may or may not be actual problems. Sometimes that means building something as a joke, just for fun.
Sometimes that work consists of over-engineering a water heater box-turned-space shuttle for my daughter. Or recording my dog's wheezing and turning it into "classic industrial" music. It all feeds the same internal need, though; to learn, to build, and to produce something, rather than to passively consume other people's products. It keeps my brain alive, and I find improved performance/innovation in other work-related projects, as a result of just staying active, mentally.
Previous discussions:

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37830987>

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37830998>

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37831004>
As we enter the ai powered post truth social media world, I’m not sure anything will flourish beyond TikTok and YouTube getting more powerful.
> Scientists lied and manipulated a naive and plastic public deliberately in order to protect and advance their own careers

How do they protect and advance their careers by being wrong?
I am not really comparing tax system, or at least that isn't the intention. The Swedish tax system is easy as long as you stick to those accounted for benefits.

Say if you make a $100k a year and you pay social security for public pension among other things but public pension only gives you credit up to $50k a year. Now if you have a big house you can deduct renovations so your income is for tax purposes is, say, $75k.

If you don't have a big house and your income is a $100k you still get the same public pension but are taxed on the full amount. Now if you started a company and hired yourself through that you could lower your personal income and instead take out dividend so you are also taxed on $75k. But to do that you now have to file much more complicated taxes, with actual accounts and often accountants.

In reality it is even worse because many do the first thing but then also have a company. So they pay themselves $50k a year and then use deductions on that to lower the effective amount even more. So I am out here paying on a $100k so they can have a nice life. (The numbers are made up, salaries and individual benefits are usually less than that and the example might not be entirely accurate but the overall point stands).

None of this really relates to the US tax system, but it is a similar problem in that if I want the best financial situation (by a decent margin) I need to file complicated taxes and a lot of people do exactly that mainly for tax purposes. Swedish sentiments just haven't caught up yet.
He mentioned several points, all different from what you said
That 2nd graph is awful. You’re comparing the 8week retention of two groups with a single line graph?

There’s not even 8 points on that line.
> > I haven't seen it used once for any legitimate purpose

> You could say exactly the same thing about any form of encryption.

Maybe YOU could, and maybe you'd even be telling the truth, if you're going to this site over http and and not https.
The kind of freedom we lived under in the last 300 years or so is an anomaly in human history, and I believe it's coming to an end.

So, I kinda accepted that things will change mostly for the worst. When the real thing against ecryption comes out, I will adapt to the specific case. Not much to do outside a political battle (which requires real power).
it's directly saying that unions protect against anti-worker bullshit corporate speak.

which you seem to eat up and want to spit right back at people
This is super fun! I did the same back in uni, it was an awesome project: https://github.com/bbpcr/Yomato
Actually, I saw that I was banned, and thought, "OK, I'll deal with this another time." I hadn't heard horror stories. I didn't know that there was any such thing as a lifetime ban. It never occurred to me that if I didn't act soon, it would make a difference.

I don't think that it's a sob story at all. I think that it's (a) incredibly funny that they would make such a mistake, (b) a combination of bad UI and bad service on Meta's part, and (c) crazy that even three Meta employees cannot undo such a ban.

So yes: It was my fault that I didn't notice or care faster. And sure, you can call this a sob story. But I think that beyond my personal experience and issues here, this points to some deeper problems with Meta, as well as other large companies that depend on AI.
I am a UK accountant.

To my knowledge, under IFRS you cannot put IP on your own balance sheet. If you're bought by another company, it goes on the balance sheet as "goodwill" which is the difference between the price paid and the book value of net assets.

R&D spend is pure cost to the business. There might be tax advantages to doing it (UK has some addital tax benefits), but broadly just hits the income statement.

I'm pretty sure that USGAAP has similar rules, however, I would apply a health warning to what I've said.
It's more like 100k-200k homes completed per month: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/COMPUTNSA
The galling thing to me is that these "lifetime bans" do nothing to stop scammers because they can easily create dozens of new companies and identities to continue ripping people off with. For them, it's just a cost of doing business. Either through legal or illegal means, scammers find a way to create lots of different companies and manage to get back on these platforms after their first efforts are "banned for life".

The only people who are actually banned for life are normal well-intentioned people who get their fledgling small business destroyed and don't think they have any recourse.
Yeah. I was briefly an adblock complainer, but I have swung so far to the other side I can't even see my old high horse, and not just because of ad served malware.
If you need to encode 1000 bytes in a durable way, have you considered writing them by hand? Would take me about three-four minutes in each direction.
I can't wait for the next layoff where my newly hired star performers get laid off because some bureaucrat thought tenure was more important than job performance or whether they were working on an important project or not.
OK, I was just wondering.

It sounds like you're not using an ORM if a rewrite is required?
What a fun site
Does anyone know why BitTorrent-based Linux package managers has not become a thing?
I did 23andme and although I'm not happy about this, I admit I'm growing numb to all the leaks of information, and I kind of went into it with the assumption that it might be leaked at some point.

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/nih-s-all-us-r...

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/18/science/poking-holes-in-t...

As you can surmise from those, the issues about DNA sharing are more general than 23andme, or even private companies.

I mean, therapy notes have been leaked, and hospitals have had medical records compromised.

I do genetics research and although 23andme does have sensitive information, the level of information they have is relatively low. People with certain polymorphisms might be at risk but most of it is pretty crude, and I suspect many of the people affected might know through nongenetic ways that they were at risk anyway. I think the genetics revolution people were predicting doesn't exist, or to the extent it does, it will require something different than what 23andme has.

Google or Apple has more damning and accurate information about someone than 23andme. If 23andme or anyone else had some mind-blowing insights into you personally based on your genes, they'd certainly sell that to people and they don't. Most of their selling points are in genealogy and things like that.

I don't mean to sound dismissive, this sucks and 23andme could/should have done things differently. It's just I think as a society we need something other than "live as a technohermit" or "implement such strict security you're at risk of shutting yourself out" and "become a permanent victim of darknet hackers and authoritarian tyrants". I also think people overestimate the information value of the genetic information 23andme has. Yes, it's significant, but it's really at this point limited to what they offer. There's no would-be 8yo serial killers out there that, if we only had 23andme information, would be able to "prevent" them from killing in some real-life version of Minority Report crossed with Gattaca. Maybe someday, with different information, but not now.
Yes, let's exploit millions of poor workers, so they can make themselves obsolete.
One thing I've noticed: he is using the number of PhD students as an argument that people need more and more elite credentials to achieve anything. I am not impressed by this part of his hypothesis, since the academic machine simply uses naivety of young people for slave-like, tedious academic work. Especially in US, many of them are foreigners and will leave the country afterwards at some point, as far as I remember. It has a lot to do with how academia is structured (you have to get a PhD if you even consider a career in science) and not with any practical advantages it gets you.
EU starts investigating Meta, TikTok over Hamas content
It is no longer mere letters.
Show HN: Rails-like CLI for building full-stack Nextjs apps faster
Hello, HN!
Excited to share Kirimase, a CLI tool I built to scratch a recurring itch: is there a better way to set up my nextjs projects with my essentials packages? If you’ve grappled with the repetitive chore of configuring orm (drizzle orm or prisma), auth (next-auth, clerk or lucia-auth), trpc, shadcn-ui and resend (email), I hope this can help!

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Libertarians are always guilty of such "ironies", some would even call them hypocrisies. It's almost like the veneer of well reasoned ideology is a front just wanting more power.
The guy spamming all black is funny, as if it's going to run out of ink. It's a thermal printer.
I'd appreciate it more if they could get people to stop clustering around the entrance to the line to the skybridge. I always end up thinking I'm standing in line when I'm actually behind someone in boarding group Z who's hovering there so they can be first in their group.
AI Chatbots can guess your personal information from what you type
Having done a couple of their courses without paying:

You are expected to complete the project in steps they define (so for their Redis project, step 1 is to bind to a port, step 2 is to respond to a PING command, etc). If you choose not to pay, you can only complete one step per day, even if you submit code which would pass future steps.

This can be quite frustrating, since each step is often very simple, and IMO discourages producing a well-architected solution which anticipates future requirements, as you're left waiting 24 hours to press the submit button for code you've already written.

Still: It's free, and the restricted progress forced me to not use it for procrastination purposes, so there's that.
> Capitalism encourages generating wealth since people get to keep a slice of it, instead of being all looted by the state. The productivity gap is huge between the two systems.

1) In current capitalist system, almost all the "slices" are taken by owners and banks. Most workers only get crumbs of the wealth they create.

2) Communism and capitalism are not the only two ways of distributing wealth - there's a huge contiuum between them (like European socialism), and a huge number of paradigms outside of them.
I think the above comment "don't have more servers than customers" seems spot on as advice :-)
It shouldn’t be: college doesn’t have to be the default mode after primary school for a functioning society.

In fact, the future may be increasingly different due to the role college plays in collapsing demographics as currently implemented.

A better future will probably normalize many age ranges of people in college getting educated when most appropriate.
Amazon Let Its Drivers' Urine Be Sold as an Energy Drink
If there is no limitation, why would anyone pay for the ebook though when they can just get it for free from the library indefinitely? I just don't get how this works from the authors side, are they supposed to just give away their book to everyone for free? Or is the idea that the library compensates them enough to cover the costs of them writing the book.
Microsoft didn't buy Nokia the company, despite what a lot of journalists made it sound like at the time. They bought Nokia's mobile phone division and related businesses. With the purchase they also got 10-year exclusive right to use the Nokia name on phones.
You can repay early in the Netherlands as well. A friend of mine works for a major bank to hedge the risk of their mortgage portfolio. He mentioned once that the biggest risk for Dutch banks is not the risk of default, but risk of early repayment. This always surprised foreign investors when they did due diligence to invest in Dutch mortgages.

There are ways they use to hedge for this risk. I don't know if this is desirable, but that is probably the case in the US as well.
> Is this going to be truly free...

> I don't mind paying for software...

which is it you want because that sounds contradictory.
Not to mention that Nick Land is an avowed Néo-nazi.
Digital has its benefits but not being able to actually own the asset to transfer or sell to others is really terrible.
I'd note that python is a genus, not a species.
For context, guess which famous Russian investor in FB is a PT contact and friend.

Ah ah, PT had contact with China investors as well so I am sure it was both groups.
Yes, his question assumes an answer. Sure, I can force the year onto a circle, but that's not how I think of it. He really should not have assumed a circle in the first place if he wanted to know what people really think.
I'm with you for most of what you say. It's a hard situation in Aus because the Aboriginal people were treated like shit and there's no recourse for them.

In New Zealand the Maori were treated slightly better, not much, but they did sign a treaty with the settlers and that legal document has forced the government here to say yeah the land was taken and there should be recompense, and various ideas around what the state should look like. There's push and shove on the issue, it's not perfect, probably never will be. But it seems like a better setup. Part of it is a number of reserved seats in parliament that Maori only vote for.

I do think that representation and the treaty has had an impact on cultural integration and it could have had similar benefits in Australia.
> The US can only destroy itself. It is far from any such thing.

You sure about that? The current political climate has destroyed neighborhoods and families with how divisive each side has become.
>For US to be on the brink of any real crisis there would need to be a super power alternative. There is none and it does not look like any is going to be in the next 30 years.

China would like a word. A developing country with a highly educated population with a military that has achieved nuclear capacity....that also has developed trade relations with practically every other major economy on the planet. While their style of governance might be somewhat blunt and brutalist, it's also lifted a billion people out of destitute poverty. That builds tremendous trust internally.

The USA, on the other hand is trying to recover from having a perpetually bankrupt illiterate spray-tanned wannabe mafia Don pedophile fraudster as their previous president, who very well could get another chance at the Presidency. That president lost the popular vote by several million votes yet still got power. He's been elevated to the status of God by his followers and political party, and is untouchable to the point where he admits serious crimes and walks away a free man to this very day. Oh yeah, 70+ million people want him back in power.

We're not in crisis? Yeah, no. This is real.
For me it was just convenience - I bought a complete workstation (tower) with that CPU in it (and with all its capabilities, like 128 PCIe lanes and 8 memory channels). Does the EPYC server chip use a different socket (?), so I'd have to build a tower workstation from the components myself, a server mobo, server CPU squeezed into a tower?
In the 90s I had heard about this software you needed to publish web pages called 'Apache' so I googled it on Altavista expecting it to be hard to find amongst all the content about the Native American tribes. To my big surprise it was the web server that was at the very top of the search results.

Today I searched[1] for 'Kafka' on Google before I made the comment above and I got 'Apache Kafka' first and I'm still surprised. I never learn;-)

[1] I was tempted to write 'altavistad', but it's such a clunky word, no wonder Altavista lost.
Looks like it matches ARM Neoverse - a chip design ARM won’t sell to Chinese companies:

https://www.eenewseurope.com/en/arm-flags-neoverse-risk-of-c...

ARM flags Neoverse risk of China technology restrictions

The latest ARM Neoverse processor cores are too powerful for customers to export to China says the company in its filing ahead of a public share offering.
US and UK trade and national security policies regarding exports to the People’s Republic of China (PRC) of technology with potential military uses would require ARM to obtain export licenses for certain processors such as Neoverse, which can be difficult to obtain, it says.
Stringref is an extremely thoughtful proposal for strings in WebAssembly. It’s surprising, in a way, how thoughtful one need be about strings.

Here is an aside, I promise it’ll be relevant. I once visited Gerry Sussman in his office, he was very busy preparing for a class and I was surprised to see that he was preparing his slides on oldschool overhead projector transparencies. “It’s because I hate computers” he said, and complained about how he could design a computer from top to bottom and all its operating system components but found any program that wasn’t emacs or a terminal frustrating and difficult and unintuitive to use (picking up and dropping his mouse to dramatic effect).

And he said another thing, with a sigh, which has stuck with me: “Strings aren’t strings anymore.”

If you lived through the Python 2 to Python 3 transition, and especially if you lived through the world of using Python 2 where most of the applications you worked with were (with an anglophone-centric bias) probably just using ascii to suddenly having unicode errors all the time as you built internationally-viable applications, you’ll also recognize the motivation to redesign strings as a very thoughtful and separate thing from “bytestrings”, as Python 3 did. Python 2 to Python 3 may have been a painful transition, but dealing with text in Python 3 is mountains better than beforehand.

The WebAssembly world has not, as a whole, learned this lesson yet. This will probably start to change soon as more and more higher level languages start to enter the world thanks to WASM GC landing, but for right now the thinking about strings for most of the world is very C-brained, very Python 2. Stringref recognizes that if WASM is going to be the universal VM it hopes to be, strings are one of the things that need to be designed very thoughtfully, both for the future we want and for the present we have to live in (ugh, all that UTF-16 surrogate pair pain!). Perhaps it is too early or too beautiful for this world. I hope it gets a good chance.
> claims to be libertarian

> ruins press outlet that used too much free speech by burning them with lawsuits
> coefficient of friction of gorilla glass seems negative

Wow.
SpaceX slams regulators for Starship delay, risk of China beating US to the moon
I don't know why you're being down voted. This is spot on.