skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Meanwhile other people chooses the opposite. You know, options.

Yes, that’s exactly the point, that anyone should be able to choose without being judged. The first paragraph in the article:

> No matter your accomplishments, marriage and children in our culture are considered the real achievements, and for those who remain on their own we reserve this silent decree: Something is dreadfully wrong with you. No matter how at peace you may be with being single, our society demands a reckoning for the never-marrieds.

This is just a book review (from 2018, by the way), the author is not trying to impose any ideology. Quite the contrary, the end reveals their ambivalence:

> For some, this book will read like an anthem to choosing the single, family-free life; for others, the story is clearly about ambivalence. To me, it’s about both.
They used to be good back when they started, but alas not only have the grown significantly and can't deal with the support load, but as they're growing towards being a "real" bank (ie; they actually have licenses to operate) they're subject to much stricter regulation, so this will only get worse.
Because one day you won’t be high performing and you’d like to have some protection for your job? Among many other reasons…
You can also pay a house off early much faster if the payment component is more interest than principle.
The relevant sections of the Chrome IDN rules [1] seem to be detection of "mixed script confusables" and "whole script confusables".

The character ķ (U+0137) is part of the Latin script [2], so I presume the string "ķeepass.info" won't trigger the mixed-script confusable test.

I don't see ķ listed in the "whole script confusable" glyphs [3]. Should ķ be included there? There's a comment in the Greek section of that file to the effect that "variants such as ά, έ, ή, ί" are ignored, so perhaps there is a general rule that accented characters are not considered to be confusables? If so, that makes some sense to me; French users would presumably be a bit disappointed if a domain name containing an é were rendered in the Punycode form, for instance.

[1] https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/main/docs/i...

[2] https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+0137

[3] https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:com...
EU Elections at Risk with Rise of AI-Enabled Information Manipulation
Ingraining 'Nature' into 'Human Nature'
> Funny because our public services and healthcare are the same dysfunctional as in US, only in different ways.

The same, or different? There's various levels of dysfunction depending on the country, but outcomes are better and there is zero risk of life crippling debt. Anyone not a multi-millionaire who could afford the best private care would take that deal any day of the week.
Correct, yep. Which is why tax avoidance is not a crime, but tax evasion is.

It would be a rather strange conversation with an accountant doing your taxes, if you walked up and said “hey, can you make it so that i pay more taxes than the legal minimum I am obligated to?”
The market failed to innovate on safety for years. And the issue with a market based solution is it can be much cheaper to just not include any of those safety features.

Some things can be below your personal risk tolerance, but be well above the acceptable risk tolerance at a social level.
I don’t know about other fields of study, but such an exposition exists for math [1]. I heard about this book on the YouTube channel The Math Sorcerer [2].

[1] https://www.amazon.ca/All-Math-You-Missed-Graduate/dp/100900...

[2] https://youtu.be/ur0UGCL6RWc
Not sure about that, gcc is pretty important to society and still gives out the most cryptic error messages.
Generative AI can create new data, such as text, code, and images. Organizations are quickly exploring the benefits for a variety of business needs, like generating data for machine learning, creating personalized content, & automating tasks.
1000 bytes is also a huge QR code. Sure, you can do it, but I'd bet that scanning it will be very hard and impossible with some apps where that usecase hasn't been tested.
Fears about the impact of generative AI on misinformation are overblown
> That exchange reminds me of a group of russians making an OS with a browser that is a mail client, irc client, rss reader, news reader, calendar and a few other things I forget.

They could have just used emacs ;)

Enhanced integration between apps and uniformity is what OPs app offers I think, similar to why I use emace
Viz.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37941860
very much paid
Sadly no, the model training part of the process is the most expensive part, so testing it out beforehand would be complicated.
PEP is wholly incompetent in any language, I'm still flagged as a PEP because I'm the father of a 60 year old US senator, despite not having any ties to the US nor possessing a time machine.
It's brutal, it's cruel but it's true. Any other view is mostly based in dreams that never succeeded.
It’s very much a “who cares?” Issue. It’d be cool… but: taxes are still super easy to file for 90% of people. You’ve literally always been able to file your taxes by paper and not have to pay anyone anything to do so.
It does not have to be a digital system and the government should not chase technical solutions unless it genuinely benefits its operation and legal requirement.

If people want easy taxes then they can hire someone. That seems to be the market solution to most problems.
Viz.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37941871
Peter Thiel was an FBI informant
A CT scan for calcium scoring is around $100 in the US- and that includes radiologist time to interpret the scan. That is not a negotiated price either- insurance does not cover such scans.

Having said that, no healthcare imaging facility would agree to scan a random cable that someone brought in off the street- unless you knew someone. And then it would probably be free because the marginal cost of running a scan is very low with no radiologist time.
Conan is a cooperate packaging framework, which obviously favors binary packages over source-only. And there's no guessing, all the options are hashed, and the binary is based on this hash. A single option change leads to different binaries.

Even in open source it's extremely important to use proper options (arch, flags, deps in which variant, ...). E.g. with something Debian or Redhat they decide on these options. With conan you can decide by yourself. E.g. use better hardening flags or a better libc or a more stable dependency package.
Because they can charge shippers for transporting more cargo if the bottom of the plane isn’t full of checked bags.
https://thepointsking.com/blog/passenger-planes-ship-freight...
Yeah American companies go scorched earth against any union activity. The Starbucks in my city unionized and they immediately shut it down and fired everyone. And look how long the writers strike went on- how much money did that cost them versus the cost of just negotiating a little

Honestly I feel like it just must be egotistical powerful men who don’t want to lose control over those they see as beneath them, to the point that they’re willing to do the wrong thing from a business point of view.
Audiobookstore.com are fantastic. I've enjoyed so many of their audiobooks over the years.
Well that's good news, I was a little worried that it would be impossible to tell on mobile
It's too bad that there is still no JEP for an official context in Java.

Disclaimer: I wrote the OTel one, and am sad to see yet more context implementations being made, including the OTel one, these really need to all be on the way out.
If I understood correctly, they are claiming that Epic effectively laid off everyone and sold some of the assets to SongTradr. SongTradr then made offers to half the previous employees. As these people were not previously SongTradr employees, SongTradr hasn't laid off anyone because of their union activities - they didn't employ them in the first place. At least I expect that's their argument.

Seems like the way the sale was set up, it was deliberately done to avoid any commitments to the Bandcamp workforce. No idea of the legality of this, but if I was a Bandcamp employee that was lucky enough to move to SongTradr, I'd be polishing my resume, because it doesn't bode well for them being a good employer.
They're designed to be able to print solid black. Some printers even have an 'invert' mode which prints white on black. It doesn't look very good though (uneven), which is why it's rarely done.
In one of my recent projects I've used rtk in combination with their openApi generator and that was one of the fastest developed apps I've made. Having all hooks ready from a single command is just great.
I thought Microsoft bought it long time ago and it became US company then. But, I think it is not the case anymore.
What's funny about this is that multiple people at this bank think that a terrorist group would just freely advertise itself this way. Like some local cell leader names his accounts "Groceries", "Home Repair", "Bombing Supplies"
This is interesting because I started using continue specifically because it doesn't just do tab completion. I have normal Github Copilot turned on again as well now after having it off for a while and the tab completion does seem to be better than it was a few months ago. Still, explicitly asking continue to write a diff has a higher 'this is correct' rate for me because I can describe what I want in detail.

Tab Completion seems fine for cases where I add one new line and the next two lines are just incredibly obvious. I am going to experiment with writing a little comment first to see if it primes the tab completion to do something non-obvious.
Tell HN: PR GitHub Actions don't run over your commit by default
Instead, they run over a merge commit from the base branch: https://docs.github.com/en/actions/using-workflows/events-that-trigger-workflows#pull_request

This means CI is always running over commits that don't exist anywhere in the repo, and change whenever master changes.
If you re-run GHA after master changes, CI is testing over different code.

You can disable this on the checkout action: https://github.com/actions/checkout#checkout-pull-request-head-commit-instead-of-merge-commit

Posting because every senior developer that I know is surprised to learn this, so curious if this is the behaviour people expect.
I asked GPT-4:

There's a book called "Using Python and Pandas in the wild". What do you think it's about?

"Using Python and Pandas in the wild" likely refers to the application of the Python programming language and the Pandas library in real-world scenarios or practical use cases.
It's because of a quirk of the hardware. The Unified Memory setup that Apple built into the M2 (and M1? not sure) systems means that you have high bandwidth and large amounts of memory available to the GPU inside them, which lets you run LLMs very efficiently, and very easily. Combined with the fact that that part of the hardware is the same across all the machines it makes for a very easy target to get a lot built with minimal effort.
Is there a good critique of the hypothesis? This sounds pretty dated.
Updates to Dashlane Free
Would generative AI have made me a better software architect? Probably
Just because you can't get rid of UTF-16 doesn't mean you can't let people opt-in to UTF-8 string semantics. Just like there's a `use strict` pragma, there could be a `use utf-8` pragma.
Haven’t read the full article, but I note with interest that this is by Peter Turchin, the same person who wrote Secular Cycles. I haven’t read it myself, but I’ve always liked Scott Alexander’s review of that book [0] and its sequel [1].

In particular, Turchin predicted in 2016, that 2020 would form the peak of social conflict in America. This strikes me as eerily close to what has actually happened…

[0] https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/08/12/book-review-secular-cy...

[1] https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/09/02/book-review-ages-of-di...
Not surprised by this at all. “Animal trading” is such a touchy category within Meta. Once you get flagged for this, you can basically kiss your account goodbye. It is impossible to get support, even in cases like this where it clearly has nothing to do with animals. Meta simply will not touch it. There are other categories like this too. Ultimately it is easier/safer for Meta to just wholesale ban any use of terms even if it seems really stupid. This will only continue as Meta continues its exit from detailed ad targeting. Google is doing the same thing too.
This was so much more than a job to many of them, just like Bandcamp is more than an e-commerce platform. Bandcamp employed a lot of people who had been there for 5+ years and contributed heavily to its role as cornerstone and defender of independent music. To them, it was as much an extension of their identities as it was a job, and they saw protecting Bandcamp as being equal to protecting independent music. The union came about after they were sold to Epic in an effort to protect not only themselves but also the company and everything it did and represented. Clearly, they were right to be distrustful.
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The article states that two consistent causes of societal collapse are the impoverishment of large sections of the population and overproduction of elites. This two things remind me of one a passage from the Tao Te Ching, translation by Jane English:

Not exalting the gifted prevents quarreling.

Not collecting treasures prevents stealing.

Not seeing desirable things prevents confusion of the heart.

The wise therefore rule by emptying hearts and stuffing bellies,

by weakening ambitions and strengthening bones.

If people lack knowledge and desire,

then intellectuals will not try to interfere.

If nothing is done, then all will be well.
Years ago, one of my previous roles was building and supporting a custom linux live OS that could be used by employees on cheap netbooks (remember those?). To distribute updates, I ended up building our own internal torrent server from scratch and used it to distribute image updates. It was a good learning exercise as one of the first times I had built software to conform to a standard and work with out of the box clients.
> It disturbs me that Helm templates became a defacto standard for k8s. Something went very wrong there.

I don't know much about k8s, but this reaction reminds me very much of how I felt when I first learned CMake. "Wait we're replacing all this crap with.. this crap?"
I'm not saying there is a risk of fire but

> Receipt printers are thermal and they print all day long.

Not continuously, and not fully black pages.
Wow this looks like a course I am willing to pay for.

And I wanted to learn Rust anyway :)
There is a better way than depending on the majority to be "considerate". I prefer constitutional limits on what the majority can do.
The newest reason to block ads --- security.
Gonna keep a keen eye on this, the LMS space seems horribly served to me at the moment with almost nothing sitting between the risible Moodle and the vasty over-complicated edX. We occasionally have clients with LMS needs who always end up going with Moodle, SCORM support here would mean we have a much nicer alternative to offer.
There's a common misunderstanding regarding umbrella companies and their relation to IR35 legislation. Contrary to some beliefs, umbrella companies aren't subject to IR35. This regulation is designed for individuals who offer their services through an intermediary which they either manage or hold a financial stake in. However, when you're employed through an umbrella company or a large consultancy, you're considered an employee of that entity, thus IR35 doesn't apply in this context. Therefore, there's no impending "rude awakening" for umbrella companies concerning IR35.

The challenge in regulating umbrella companies lies in the similarity of their business structures to those of large consultancies. They operate nearly identically, and differentiating between the two would require an additional, layer of regulation that could potentially face legal objections.

IR35 itself is more about preventing professionals from departing large consultancies, establishing direct client engagements, and consequently, fostering competition. Ultimately, many small enterprises begin with the business owners personally providing services until they expand sufficiently to employ additional staff. However, IR35 essentially nips that in the bud and ensures the talent stays in the employment pool, corporations can exploit.
Here here!
And, that is honestly the best. It’s why we have a republic and not a “pure democracy”. Nobody likes taxes, but other than having to interface with the system once a year… who cares? I can pay H&R Block $X or pay $Y more in taxes. Whoopie!
Thanks for the guidance! Re-submitted as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37941896
The Fed says prices are still increasing, so what is this "the fed wants to have it not be true"? Have you actually listened to or read what Powell has said?
They have some free tier and paid tier and I am not sure what is in what.

https://codecrafters.io/pricing
Material promises a simple, effective method of extracting uranium from seawater
> Imagine the bastard child of OneNote, Outlook, and maybe Teams. To use OneNote terms: I add a Section for my "thing to do"; all the shit in #3 goes in a hierarchy of pages under it. In a page I can have the related email threads in an embedded mini-inbox widget - no more swapping to Outlook, no more bullshit with flags/folders etc. Same for related chat windows - a widget in the related section. State tracking and deadline/reminder/scheduling etc for everything.

emacs, org-roam, org-mode, org-attach, mu4e, are what I use to accomplish roughly what you describe.
People have been calling for the collapse of the air conditioned nightmare(1) for decades. I am very optimistic that America will be just fine. In fact, if you'll pardon me, I think everything that's going on in Congress right now, everything going on on the street, is good for our democracy. We are facing tough questions and as a country we will answer them and move forward.

As we always have.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Air-Conditioned_Nightmar...
Burning gasoline to thwart a billionaire.
Creator of the site here. Thanks for posting! I've been meaning to update things with newer screenshots. Life gets in the way sometimes.
Fixed rate is really common in Europe, definitely not a US thing.
Great.

You now only need O(n^1.5)* magic bits instead of O(n^2) magic bits.

* Or O(n) according to other comments
As someone from Europe this is malarkey. The US is:

* Energy independent

* Democratic

* Highly educated

* Has the best demographics in the developed world

* Militarily untouchable

* Innovation central

Culture wars are a sideshow. 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.

The US can only destroy itself. It is far from any such thing.
Microsoft vs. MikeRoweSoft (2004)
I've seen multiple projects, in which people try to save results of requests into global state using Redux (not rtk), Zustand etc. and I have never seen it done well. React Query and Redux toolkit really should be the default options for request state management.
Factorio is perhaps the best tangible example of why infrastructure matters, is very hard to correctly plan, difficult to scale without shutting everything down, and yet seems deceptively easy.
Shouldn't justice be blind to culture also?
This is the most common "security" measure in the payments industry(i.e paypal)
Exactly, we are continuously cycling around basic ideas that were created decades ago that most of the world consider correct and are written in our constitutions.
My point is, why are we again and again and again reading about it? why?

Let's progress with something new, something necessary. We have a lot of problems in this society to lose more time discussing/talking/blablabla about the obvious things.
Meta and AI companies recruited striking actors to train AI
If that's the case why don't we see school boards have expense policies to shut them up?
Is this a direct admission that unions are for protecting low-performers?

Because if yes, that’s not a good look for them at all and is kind of a perfect ammo for the anti-union side.
> Eastern European countries, including Ukraine and Russia.

Okay, the term is used in geographical context and not geopolitical.
What an ignorant, obnoxious comment
There was a brief period in my tech history where I viewed adblockers as "somewhat immoral."

I am waaay past that now.
he has accused big tech for not cooperating with the USA , so it seems he s drinking his koolaid
Is there a way to temporarily invoke these effects? When I had covid the first time I lost my sense of smell & taste completely for 1 day. Eating food felt so weird. I really didn't want to eat. The next day my taste returned although I couldn't taste bitterness for a few months (espresso felt like warm water).

Has any company thought of taking away people's sense of taste as a weight loss method?
Threadripper is such a good cyberpunky name.
How does "elite overproduction" compare to "The Theory and Practice of Oligarchal Collectivism"?

(tl;dr of the latter: the high are only ever overthrown by the middle, who —no matter what their ideology may claim as to the low— merely displace, becoming the new high)
Ray Dalio also believes America could be on the verge of decline due to debt, China, and the growing wealth gap

https://youtu.be/7TGJRzRSzL4?feature=shared
I think these are policies that will only lead to ridicule for those that have proposed them.

Although the damage to trust these attempts alone should never be underestimated. Windows is already running in an enclave for me and I use it less and less. I don't like MacOS because I think Apple is not the way if you like open computing. Nice devices, but for a different target demographic.

Otherwise I can of course just disable any scanning, it isn't too hard to filter or even better make false reports. I don't use large messengers outside of a dry business account and I doubt any smaller software will comply.

Under no circumstance do I want to use a device where any third party can scan as it please, even if it is just file hashes or something similar. I would like to sabotage such attempts to the largest degree possible because I believe them to conflict with basic rights.
> for example the CPU is still the fastest around but RAM limitation makes day-to-day use way more painful than a slower processor would be

8GB of RAM seems a useable amount... I'm sure that there are phones out there with more (not sure which?) but I don't think that should be causing any painful limitations.
The way the build system imposes on a C/C++ project is just too much. I've maintained multiple projects now that have ended up supporting multiple build systems just because different people prefer different things. I always end up find myself wishing I could break off the build systems into separate projects so that other people could maintain them but that feels a bit silly. But honestly for a smallish C project you can easily end up spending more time on and having more LoC in the build system(s) than in the actual codebase, it's ridiculous.
The quintessential (and hilarious) postmodern film. Can't wait to take my daughter! She has never seen it before.
Advent of code is always fun.
No.. I got Zinc toxicity from taking it. I do not know its efficacy but it made me vomit when I got too high of levels and stopped.
Palantir works with FBI, no?
Not to mention geographically gifted, all neighbors are placated, and #1 place to immigrate too.
Bread on the table. That's it. Who could blame them, not me.