skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's pretty cool. Is it a managed switch? I feel unmanaged switches have an advantage for being relatively simple with no user facing config or startup/backup images. They're basically just an ASIC with supporting hardware to look up numbers in a table and transmit out the resulting port - it could last decades.
The three-body problem, as a concept, feels like a twist on the hammer-and-nail analogy: If analytic methods are the hammer, anything that doesn't resemble a nail is an anomaly (Framed as in this article, notoriously hard). Amusingly, this applies to most practical calculations (perhaps all when examined closely enough).
Negligence of the truth is the standard.

Being wrong is not sufficient for a defamation case.

All of these mistakes make the statement wrong and not factual but that isn't enough for a defamation case.

My point is if it was a simple mistake or misunderstanding that is enough to prove it wasn't negligence.

Verifying a article about the thing existed while misrepresenting that thing is likely not negligence unless that misrepresentstion was extreme.

Certainly "killed his girlfriend" would be negligent but if you misunderstood the thing in a minor way that isn't negligence just because you are wrong.

(To be clear the statement was certainly objectively false for multiple reasons)
Right? Don't they know software is free and insurance is a simple industry?
I’m trying to understand your critique and you are right it is bitterly sarcastic but I don’t think it undermines my point. For background, I’ve worked extensively with veterans and their families in the past. War sucks. It really really sucks. It ruins people for generations in both overt and covert ways. I can’t, in this space, communicate how much I hate the atrocities that comes out of war so I use sarcasm directed at all the arm chair generals sitting in their towers riling people up to send their boys (and girls in certain countries) to go slaughter and be slaughtered in horrific, soul crushing ways. Fuck those people with no skin in the game pushing for conflict. This is an equal opportunity “f u” by the way.

All war has innocent and combtants raping pillaging murder etc. it goes hand in hand and for some reason people just love putting “our team” against “the other team.”

Maybe this proves your point, I appreciate the critique regardless and did try to take it to heart.
Nice! I would also be interested in the position of your credit card number
You make an interesting point that making transit free could have triggered economic growth.

This could be because making transit free reduces the underutilization of large mass transit systems.
It's a shame that I have to face the externalities of people paying for the privilege to do the dirty work of the surveillance state. If I was gonna wear this stupid shit, I had better be getting paid to so.
> an you please give me some Lexis cites on any case

Why are you holding other people to higher standards than yourself, when making equal if not stronger claims?
Sure, but people pay for the name
That's why I say they're pretending to be L5s--capable of handling anything they encounter within their defined environment.
>Tesla has exeptionally low debt, ist almost hilarously low compaired to other car makers.

Admittedly their financials are better than many automakers, but their age and business model are different. But so what? Debt is one way you finance your company. Tesla continuously dilutes its shareholders instead. Is that better?

>Removing tax credit would actually help Tesla as they are in a far far better postion to relative to the rest. Other need the subdidies and credits desperatly to not lose even more money.

Hilarious. Remove the subsidy, and how profitable are they? Why aren't they lobbying for it? Other companies would simply stop producing these unprofitable cars.

>With lots of competitors not executing very well. Their position isnt very riscy and the have plenty of cash.

I agree with the first part, but keep in mind their market cap.

Ask far as cash, I pose the same to you: how much of that "cash" is RMB that can't be repatriated? How much is BTC or some other shitcoin? How much are "cash equivalents" that aren't properly marked?

>The biggest risk for Tesla is China really makeing a big move into Europe and later the US.

No, the biggest risk for Tesla is that China says "you're out", which would bury the company. What percentage of revenue/profit come from there?

Other than that you list a bunch of intangible things that may or may not have a material impact on financials. As if no one else is investing in factories, robots, and data centers.
I really hope that we learn that narratives will sooner or later turn against us if we sacrifice truth for narratives. NYT and WaPo and what not may enjoy their "progressive" narratives now, but the party will not go on forever. Truth matters.
There's also a setting to turn off the gzipping. I use that to make it Git-friendly.
> Understanding the extremely subtle movements among three orbital bodies is important for space travel...

Is it? I assumed "close enough" was good enough as long as you have realt-time feedback (where am I really?) and a means to make course adjustments.
"A wise person does not kill any living being."

- Mahavira, 6th century BC

(Translated, of course.)
>Research published yesterday by several European media outlets has revealed that an international campaign in support of the EU’s proposed child sexual abuse regulation has been largely orchestrated and financed by a network of organisations with links to the tech industry and security services. The controversial “chat control” regulation would require providers to indiscriminately scan and automatically disclose allegedly suspicious private messages and photos. EU Parliament lawmaker Patrick Breyer (Pirate Party), negotiator for the Greens/European Free Alliance group on the proposed regulation, expresses shock:

“As negotiator for my group, many of the organisations mentioned in the report, which call themselves child protection organisations or victims’ associations, also contacted me. But I had no idea that the pro-chat control campaign was being orchestrated and funded by a network of organisations linked to the tech industry and security services, drawing millions in funding from a US-led foundation and paying foreign consulting agencies to create lobbying strategies. I had previously only expected corporations to use such methods of ‘capturing legislation’.

Q. Do you know what the difference is between reality and a conspiracy theory is?

A. About six months

P.S. And before anyone gets all angry at me, if you had told any random person on the street that the Tech and Security Industrial complex were secretly funding activists groups to try and be able to spy on all European data you would've been considered to be daft and people would look at you like your crazy. If it doesn't sound crazy to you it's only because you're familiar with how the sausage is made in this area. So what could be going on in places where you don't know how the sausage is made?
Intuitively it doesn't make sense, but companies can outlast bonds, currencies and indeed the governments that issue them. Daimler-Benz has survived the fall of 3 German governments, the loss of 2 rather large wars and a number of periods of hyper-inflation that accompanied them that'd have made any bond worthless.

We're not there yet, but people do go bankrupt gradually and then suddenly.
See this related discussion three days ago:

"Iowa man files lawsuit after being arrested twice for criticizing the police"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37910698
Templates are one reason products like Notion took off: they simplify the product, and build community at the same time.
I have not seen it but, to me, it kind of makes sense if you put an average overall.

I think companies making a lot of money are in a world of trouble: sweet trouble, to be sure, but still trouble.

Sustaining the same percentage growth is incredibly difficult once you are big. So, what is there to do? Expand to new markets, create new products with the potential to destroy your existing ones, fire people you think are no longer needed? Decisions that will either make more money or destroy the company. And, no matter what anyone else would say, I think their decisions are worse than half chance.

In the end we praise the CEOs that made the "right" choice. But it was the right choice only in hindsight, it could easily have gone in the other direction, as many many examples of previously successful CEOs have shown.

Nobody stays on top forever and that's just how it is.

Now, as for the CEOs' salaries: they are the same regardless of their successful choices. So, when you average it out, it would look like it is inversely proportional, simply because more companies tank than stay on top.
I switched from Unifi to Aruba
Terminals in UNIX systems are anything but basic. Windows terminal takes it to the extra level by supporting two OS terminal models.

Terminals in non UNIX, that not pretend to be serial printers, like the Amiga DOS, or plain MS-DOS, those are the basic ones.
do you really think this is only the govt's fault for not reacting fast enough? Or only the company's fault for providing a product people want?

I don't see the advatadge in playing the blame game here. I'd rather provide solutions than focus on who did it worse.
Extra-judicially maintaining the status quo is a prevalent practice in small town America. The song is referencing that, of course, but the behaviour here is quite typical of it.

Essentially, if you're in a small town in America, the question isn't whether you have rights. What is law and what will happen to you are distinct.
Kind of like the apocryphal story of Joe Kennedy and the shoe shine boy’s stock tips,

The crypto SuperBowl ads were a signal that it was about to come crashing down.

Basically, the smart money was looking for naive suckers so they could cash out.
They're not really discussions without comments so just end up being links to nowhere.
Thank you. What advantages you see in working for a large company vs working for a small company.
I've written my own tiny Python script for this, that launches the right executable based on the URL. It works really well for my situation with two different Firefox profiles.

Maybe it works for others, too.

Link: https://github.com/fdw/brooser
I meant the branching itself. Is it possible to build features on top of this branching strategy? Is it possible to list versions and get a specific one using just SQL?
Yeah. 224 MB is nothing.

Small LLMs that have been quantized to optimize for space still sit at 4-9 gigs
Ask HN: How to do transactional SMS as a bootstrapped or startup company?
Ok, first let me classify companies that offer these services.
Tier1: Twilio, Plivio, MessgBird, Vonage, Amazon SNS
Tier 2: Alternatives for these
Tier 3: More Alternatives, but geo based and also focussed on bulk SMS as primary offering

Now, ì do not want to get into Tier 2 also as the API approach ad DX is not available compared to how it is with Tier1. Also I don’t want to risk my customers phone numbers with providers who do not have good support and privacy handling features.

There are couple or more apps that I am building where I like the simplicity of SMS. I don’t have to request for push notification permissions, I do not need an app on the stores to push relevant info and updates.
Most basic User signup. If user does not want to use the phone, then maybe the service is not for them. And then occasional updates on Direct messages on the platform. (Order completion, delivery instructions, Direct Messages from users etc.) I see most of these as small messages only if they ever did take actions on the platform.

However, based on my initial calculations, even with 1000 users signing up.
Allowing SMS code input and DM messages or info messages, these can reach a number of close to 300 to 500 Euros or Dollars monthly. This is including alpa numeric sending options. Where I do not allow messages to be replied back.

When I started programming SMS was the cheapest option. Now I feel it has become expensive
However I still see small and big companies using these options.
1. Are there other alternatives I am not seeing?
2. Since my volume of push and sending is low, I do not want to ask users push notification and scare them away
3. What other options can we see here.
Does anyone know of a game (board or otherwise) that uses non-regular hexagons? It seems like it could be a sort of neat way to represent bottlenecks, for example in a strategic game. (You could of course make the hexes smaller and represent a bottleneck by making some of them impassable… but then things might get more tactical I guess).
AI Agents vs. Developers – update on security, memory, and multiagent frameworks
So you are suggesting that costs are primarily set by how much the government is willing to pay, and are completely independent of medical production?
But that doesn't imply he (Marc Andreessen) adopts their entire worldview. For example, he lists Adam Smith, but I don't know if he has a nuanced view that includes both the "Theory of Moral Sentiments" Adam Smith or just the more often cited "Wealth of Nations" Adam Smith. It doesn't help me understand if he has a nuanced take or succumbs to simple confirmation bias by latching onto the bits that support a simplistic mental model.
The libraries being Verilog, or whatever they use for their chip design.
I'm generally inclined to dislike these, but I do respect this decision:

"The capture LED light lets people know when you’re using the camera to capture content or going live. If the LED is covered, you will not be able to start recording, and you'll be notified to clear it."
A lot of languages span several races or countries.
dont give a rando website your correct birthdate. not for something as silly as this. dont give any of your "banking PII set" data to strangers online, folks. sheesh. shameful made front page of HN. wow

consider this a phishing op until proven otherwise
> The timeframes and costs involved with getting a Proper Software Development Team to build you a Proper App For That are absurd, and are only getting worse with everyone wanting to do bespoke web SPAs using modern practices and tool stacks. Even if one could afford that, the outcome is unlikely to be better for actual users. And so Excel stays, covering for all the processes that are custom enough that there is no ready-made popular Enterprise SaaS on the market that management can order people to use instead.

I've had similar thoughts recently, though without the direct personal experience of trying to convert from a spreadsheet to an app.

Makes me wonder: perhaps what we really need isn't a shiny new framework like React or a design pattern like async/await, but rather "VB for the web"[0] — drag and drop a text field here, a number field there, perhaps a checkbox or some radio buttons, then add some "done" and "cancel" buttons… it shouldn't be as hard as it has become.

Heck, give Figma or whatever a way to be event-driven like VB was, it's not like we should need engineers to hand-craft code that replicates the look of a design document.

[0] Xojo and VB.net both exist, so the question is really: why are they not dominant? Is it as simple as "BASIC-family languages are fundamentally bad"? But the language itself obviously isn't a necessary constraint; and likewise Xcode has Interface Builder (though less reliable in SwiftUI than it was in UIKit, still present, yet why isn't it better?)
The argument that this is simply the market rate required to attract a person with the required skills can be proven false in so many ways, for example:

1. It's not a market, there is no job advertisement for the CEO role that the general population can apply for. If there were, and if it were to offer a fraction of "market", there would still be thousands of applications, and the top 1% of those candidates would absolutely do the job as well or better than the typical hand-picked candidate.

2. There are several roles in society that place enormous responsibility on those professionals and that only a handful of people in the world can do well, yet those jobs still pay low 6figures max. For example, nuclear engineer, aerospace engineer, state leader, and yes, ironically, most public hospital directors.

The sad reality is that executive pay is simply a result of incentives and the fact that corporate hierarchy gets very thin at the top. It has no relation to the competence or direct value-added of the executive.
Good on him.

In this world it seems that self-referential inconsistency is increasingly maligned; an increasingly concerning source of chagrin, in my opinion.
The US has terrible cost disease in a lot of industries, and I would lump executive compensation in with those industries.

I don’t think I’ve seen a good coherent theory for this specifically
WordPerfect called it Reveal Codes.
I agree, strongly, and am the happy owner of a Framework as my main computer. I’m about to make a somewhat pedantic observation but do not want it to detract from your main point - yes, it IS up to us to push this along.

Now for the pedantry. I think the repairability concern is more about owner-user agency & rights, not material efficiency /sustainability. The latter is very important of course, but we should expect it to follow from ownership. This isn’t a disagreement - I think you’re saying the same thing - just a difference in emphasis.

Imagine a population of users who, when replacing broken parts, would actually just toss them in the local river rather than properly recycling them; and imagine a corporation who sells unrepairable electronics, and touts “green” and perfectly upcycles every last bit of silicon from returned devices. (Scooping the effiencies for themselves, of course.)

On principle, I would still prefer the former scenario of users with the rights to do what they wish with their goods, than the scenario where corps essentially rent out their manufacturing expertise under the guise of selling.

Luckily, that’s an abstract thought experiment and not likely to actually occur. But corps WILL try to convince us of their benevolence and sell us the latter scenario. We need to steel against it because, like you are emphasizing, we can’t trust the profit incentives to ultimately align.

As a side note, we need non-corp entities (or at least, much smaller businesses) to handle proper electronics recycling - after all, that river-dumping scenario is not great! They exist but it’s not as easy to use them; for instance, unlike paper/glass/etc recycling in most US cities, they typically don’t come to your house to pick things up (at least in the places I’ve lived). Some shops will take this part but not that. The whole ecosystem has a LONG way to go before competing with the gravity well of the big corps. But I don’t have confidence that we can somehow get them aligned with human interests without the emphasis on individual agency and rights.

And this is just based on the sustainability issue; right-to-repair is related other ownership concerns, e.g. DRM and data privacy, neither of which are directly related to material sustainability.
I’d love to visit an overstaffed bank. Each time I need to visit a branch I’m waiting for the single teller while the manager tries to sell me a credit card or mortgage.
I wouldn't even begin to worry about this until a customer or potential customer brings it up and wants to pay extra for it.

focus on the main problem your trying to solve.

if someone is only willing to pay $1 a month for something they probably don't care enough.
> I pay; so should they.

They don't pay and neither should you.

Why is it that when people are oppressed, their biggest desire is never to be free, but to see others suffer the same as them?
Browser dev tools! Edit the DOM markup ad hoc, change the DOM with JS, show what the JS console can do, change the styling
I’m engaging in good faith, no need for ad-homonyms.

No, I do not expect a CEO to make those decisions on their own. They also usually bring a team (or make choices about who to keep/remove). So even if they’re not deciding directly, they’re only a step or two removed. Many of the multi-million dollar bets being placed might just be on who to hire to make a decision and execute.

Incidentally, those key hires are often why CEOs command such a price. Their price simply reflects that power in human networks is highly consolidated. CEOs absolutely leverage their position as gatekeepers here.

All this to say why I don’t think we’ll be successful in curbing CEO pay, and should instead just focus on taxation.
Again, apples and oranges. Yes it's more markup than e.g. markdown (which is fundamentally less capable) But how do you do the equivalent ot the [t] and \centering in the former on a per figure bases? what about scaling it differently from other figures in your doc, or embedding a reference in caption with a particular style?

For that matter your equivalent is still one line, it's just \includegraphics{path}. The figure environment is just adding extra capabilities.

I agree not everyone needs to do this, but the trade offs you are illustrating are not "X is better than Y" so much as "X is simpler than Y, and can't do as many things"

For you that trade-off makes sense, great. But I wouldn't generalized it to the value of the tool. I know plenty of academics who are quite proficient at Tex, let alone the simpler Latex, and find it lets them generate the content they want easily enough, given it's power.

This isn't just mathematicians either, though most of the people I know using it came to that out of a need to do math typesetting properly. How would you for example generate a mixed language document with both left-to-right and right-to-left languages formatted correctly?

LaTeX's real problem isn't the syntactic load (easily handled with a decent editor) it's the package system. It can be abused to e.g. generate conference posters well, but it's hairy once you get into the details.
It's fine if you do not think high EMF readings are unhealthy in any way. But you obviously know UV from the sun is not the same as EM radiation emitted from a microwave or an EV. It's also not just whether something emits radiation but the level of radiation that matters.

Fun fact: EMF from EVs is so high it interferes with AM radio, which is why AM radio does not exist in any EVs.
Dollarization doesn't seem to be any worse or better than keeping control of your own currency.

There are issues, but they're probably outweighed by the benefits of not having your currency under political control.

In general, though, countries that have undergone unofficial dollarization are worse off because it shows that nobody trusts the local currency. That trust is what makes currency work, so unofficial dollarization is most likely more a symptom than a cause.
Sadly people don’t seem to discuss hummingbirds on HN, yet they do post a lot about them.

Links to nowhere seems unfair, along with the downvote.
I’ve been writing code for Apple platforms for over 15 years at this point and I still occasionally find myself surprised with how far one can take a Mac app with little more than Interface Builder and Cocoa bindings.
I am beginning to think that almost all (big) companies over hired and will start shedding employees because they don't need them. I'm wondering when We will cross the threshold of the number jobs permanently less than the number of people.

This is situation called structural unemployment but structural unemployment is defined as a mismatch between the skills of the workers and the jobs. I'm interested in the case where even if everybody had the right skills, there are fewer jobs than people.
No, I'm just making an observation that he will destroy the uniqueness of the object by talking about it.