skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm 41, just recently got back into the hobby. Have rejoined the local club I was a member of as a teen.

Membership average age is like 50-60ish. We do have about 10-15% of members like me under 50. Some even in their 20s. Doesn't seem quite like its in too much trouble around here. The pool is shirking with apartment living becoming more normal though in the area. But maybe because this is a club with its own layouts that members can use is one way for the hobby to survive & thrive.

There are 5 layouts, 2 in N scale. 3 in HO. 3 of the layouts are able to be broken down and put on a trailer and taken to an exhibition.

I do think that home built & run layouts are probably on the decline with cost of living & housing so high compared to years past. But I think club layouts that members can use is a way to help keep the hobby relevant.

There are cool projects like https://dcc-ex.com/index.html and arduino based control for layout automation bits. That historically cost a lot.

My observations of the US is that mostly ready to run models are sold now, haven't seen too many kit makers around for US stuff. Still kit makers for Australian & NZ stuff. With some decent ready to run Australian prototype available now.

The next house will have a train room or area of the garage available. This is definetly a middle class hobby. Its not cheap.

I have wanted to work with my hands again. Sitting at a computer all day or parts of the evening playing video games is only so fun. Would rather build something physical.
That's not React. The stuff you need for "displaying some rectangles and glyphs in a browser" is "react" and "react-dom".

Those 1484 packages are simply for the build step. And having a lot of dependencies in a build tool isn't necessary "insane".
Which usually means you’ll be caught my the country’s general tax provisions, and the local tax agency will have no institutional knowledge of how this is meant to work for people on this visa.
> So I've got to prove I make $70k a year, and then put down a $7500 deposit on a small apartment that costs me $1800 a month

Nice, <5 years old, fully furnished, two-bed room apartments in central, well-connected areas of Seoul are <$1000 per month.

And that's places that are suitable for 2 people to live in - the large majority of digital nomads live on their own, in which case it's even cheaper.
You've gotten tons of great feedback already, so I'm going to keep it very brief:

1. As some others have mentioned, I had trouble extracting a career progression from the non-chronological format. I'll actually read a resume that crosses my desk, but, if you make me work too hard, I'll just move on to the next one. You're making me work too hard.

2. The design sense in the document is good, except that the typeface for the main text is fairly thin. Again, it's not that I don't like it, it's just that you're making me work too hard to get what I want out of this document. Go for a heavier weight typeface when you redo it.

That's all I've got for now. Good luck!
For me, the glaring issue here is not whether 27% is fair or not. Rather, it's the absence of an alternative method to do so without relying on Apple's "services."

Naturally, there can be endless debates about whether this is acceptable or not. However, the reality is that there is a striking disparity between the iOS's model and that of Android, PC, or even Mac.
Be pragmatic for the present, but also spare some hope for the future.
Not an answer but a very good clue I can see is that the sum of the digits on each side of the equation consistently gets closer and closer.

9541 – 1459 = 8082

Left hand digit sum = 19. Right = 18. They are 1 apart.

8820 – 0288 = 8532

Both sides now = 18. Now 0 apart and they'll stay there. They are only 0 apart when at 18.

8532 – 2358 = 6174

Both sides = 18

7641 – 1467 = 6174

Both sides = 18

You can play with this a bit and it's consistent. The sum of digits of the left and right hand side consistency get closer to each other iteratively (but not necessarily closer to 18). Eventually they lock in at being equal to each other when their digits sum to 18.

This seems to be one property to look at.

I think there's then a second thing happening. Once the values on both sides have digits that sum to 18 the process from there converges on to 6174.

So first the digits of the two sides to the equation converge to equal the same which always only occurs when the digit sum is 18. The digit sum locks into being at 18 at that point. And then subsequently once the digits are 18 they converge on to 6174.

I would start by working out why digits on each side of the equation converge to summing to 18 on both sides of the equation and never being equal at any other value in this process. It reminds me of https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/99725/every-integer...

Now the next thing I would do is ask why does every number with digits that sum to 18 eventually end up at 6174. 4 digit numbers with digits that sum to 18 is a very limited set so it should be easy to figure out the combinations and why they all reach 6174.

Put those two together and you'd have an answer. (I'm thinking about it now but it really doesn't seem too hard).
Read the ruling. It's not a monopoly. https://casetext.com/case/epic-games-inc-v-apple-inc-2

> Given the trial record, the Court cannot ultimately conclude that Apple is a monopolist under either federal or state antitrust laws. While the Court finds that Apple enjoys considerable market share of over 55% and extraordinarily high profit margins, these factors alone do not show antitrust conduct. Success is not illegal. The final trial record did not include evidence of other critical factors, such as barriers to entry and conduct decreasing output or decreasing innovation in the relevant market. The Court does not find that it is impossible; only that Epic Games failed in its burden to demonstrate Apple is an illegal monopolist.
Everything listed in the article is non-committal and specifically worded to avoid making conclusive statements. It's similar to the way a businessperson behaves when they want to avoid legal liability. Read these quotes:

> Does Tether have the money it says it does.

> "They have it," he said during an interview with Bloomberg TV.

That's not a direct reference to the currency being pegged. "the money" and "it" is non-descriptive; it might as well be referring to the advertising fund or the community bingo payout.

> "I manage many of their assets," said Lutnick, who brought up crypto in the interview that was streamed live from Davos, Switzerland. "From what I've seen – and we did a lot of work – they have the money they say they have."

"Many" of their assets says nothing about whether they are pegged. If anything, the fact that he hasn't seen the remaining assets should be alarming to him. The only actual fact that he claimed in the entire article is that "we did a lot of work", which may well be true but has nothing to do with the Tether controversy. The lack of detail or scrutiny should alarm any diligent investor familiar with tradfin scams.
it's true that golang is basically newsqueak with structural interface types, but newsqueak is pretty obviously strongly pascal-influenced. i agree that newsqueak shows significant c influence, but in most of the ways that c and pascal differ, it follows pascal. and it seems unavoidable that griesemer spending his grad school at wirth's school hacking on wirth's language oberon would have influenced the taste he applied to golang
The Government should make 'Windows for Warships' mandatory for all Navy ships.
> on salaries that have hardly moved for anyone except a few fortunate elites since the 80s.

I assume you're talking about salaries in the USA, and this is largely because global salaries have risen to take more of their fair share of the pie. At the same time, this has put a lot of pressure on US labor.

The postwar period from 1945 to around 1980 in the USA was historically aberrant. In 1970, the USA's share of global GDP was 38%. In 2023 it was around 15.5%.

Globally, living standards have skyrocketed since the 80s.

https://ourworldindata.org/a-history-of-global-living-condit...
Or, more likely, people will switch to a different visa type if they’re looking to do more years? I’m not sure any of this counts as a “sneaky trick”
Membership with upsell to support, custom models and more

Plus licensed variant models like stable audio and on chip installation like arm for specialist models eg Japanese law or Indonesian accounting
Coursera, MIT opencourseware, etc are great if you don't need the degree.
IO_uring creator delivers 6% file system speed increase – 'a five minute job'
But they don't allow alternate app stores.
I've been using it for a few weeks now and when it didn't load right away last week I was at a loss what to do. I wondered "what is Kagi and why can't my browser search anymore?" It's really well built to get out of your way and I'd all forgotten about it. Eventually I realized I could use another search engine. The bother!

Before this post-mortem dropped I'd also forgotten the incident. Props to the team that doesn't make me think when I search!

And my sympathy in this incident. It's rough when things coincide like that and cause you to look at the wrong metrics.
How do we go about defining service limits when microservices scale out to a large number of services and hundreds of engineers? Is it people, process or tech? or all 3?
> I don’t want them to fight at all.

Me either.

> I don’t want anyone friend or “foe” to die from faulty AI decisions.

Me either. I'm going to assume they'll do more than 5 minutes of homework on AI
I am not suggesting it. It was widely presented as inevitable once the costs dropped enough. Retail inventory management and checkout is expensive.
https://archive.is/MDYWF
Serenum: OS from scratch to save computers [video]
> Apple argued from the very beginning that the 30% was its fee for running the App Store, marketing the apps, and storing and delivering the app bundles. The in-app payment system was a convenient way for Apple to collect its commission and a way for Apple to create a unified payment experience for its customers, but it was never the Achilles heel for Apple's business model.

Is it just me or does this argument seem insanely flimsy? If Apple were serious about it then why aren't they charging free apps for downloads and approvals? Why doesn't the developer policy require Netflix to pay 30% of subscriptions for anyone who signs in on an Apple device? Why are the prices lower for "reader" apps who presumably cause Apple to incur similar costs?

Its like a toll road arguing "no, driving on the road is free of course, we just charge at the entrance and exit for the privilege of looking at the toll road".

What does it take for the legal system to be able to call BS on a claim like that?
If crawling the web, ingesting copyrighted content, and ranking them is not a derivative work for that content, then using them to change the values of a mathematical expression should also exempt the expression from being a derivative work.

> Does copyright law say you can ingest copyrighted work at very large scale and sell derivates of those works

In that case the OP should have never posed this irrelevant question because access to the expression isn't giving access to a derivative work.
If they told you the legal advice they were giving you for a specific country was valid in all countries, and that all countries treated this income the same way, then yes, they lied to you.
You really think they're using AES internally? Surely they're using classified ciphers.
Write Your Name in Hieroglyphs
Thus the following sentence in my comment: "So call it a cartel or duopoly with price fixing if you like rather than a monopoly."
Yup, been following this build as well. There are plenty of other decent layouts that can be built in a shed, half a room etc.

A different aspect is the shunting layout, this guy's channel is amazing. https://www.youtube.com/@boomerdioramas
I don’t think that opposite argument works given the current geopolitical situation which has nothing to do with the US being aggressive. Russia would have very likely completed its conquest of Ukraine by now and moved on to the Baltic states (NATO relies on US military spending to compensate for lack of spending of other NATO members). Taiwan would belong to China yesterday, along with the rest of the Indo-Pacific.
Exactly, I suffered this landlord abuse while working abroad. Apartment was delivered back to the landlord crystal clean and 100% intact. Then they took my entire deposit and billed me around 12,000 EUR. I even had pictures to show that I had done no damage, but you can imagine how foreigner vs native testimony works in these kinds of super-racist countries. I managed to leave before I had to pay the bill, but I still lost my full deposit. Apparently this "fleece the foreigner" is a well known tactic in some countries.
Not sure I understand the context of this sub-thread?

What kind of lawsuits (and need for liability insurance) should be expected for a software SaaS with a TOS that basically says "we're not liable for anything...". As every software terms state (grumble).

From the sound of it, seems you two are talking about providing something moderately mission critical.
Generally restrictions are against working for a local company, since that would be a workaround of getting the right visa for you.

I think most tourist entries are ok with working for a company abroad, especially if some jobs might require to step-in while on vacation.
> yet is somehow completely acceptable even among hardcore libertarians. Why?

A common area of concern for libertarians is the balance of power between citizens and government. In this case, the power of the government to take your (or your family's) stuff after you die, despite you already having paid taxes on it.

Through a libertarian lens the government "stepping in to make everything fair" can be viewed as unwarranted interference. Especially when a politician's idea of "fairness" might not square up with yours and be subject to political winds.

(I have some libertarian leanings but wouldn't call myself one, overall I believe wealth and inheritance taxes make sense, the big question is "what rate").
Vouch, I finally tried Stable LM 3b zephyr today and I'm stunned this slipped by. It's the only model I've tried that's not Mistral 7B that can do RAG. And it can run ~any consumer grade hardware released in last 3 years. I'm literally stunned it's been sitting out since December 8th. I've heard 10x more about Phi-2 than it, and I'm not sure why.

(Official ONNX version, please!! Then you get Transformers.js / web / I can deploy on every platform from Web to iOS to Windows)

re: art, Dalle-3 costs significantly more. XL costs are 1/5th of what they were at launch, 0.0002/image versus Dalle-3's 0.04. And you'd be surprised how often people are happy with XL -- Dalle-3's marginal advantage is mostly text, especially with the excessive filtering of stylistic stuff, and forced prompt rewrites
> It's an asymmetric relationship. The nomad doesn't care if SK runs this program. But SK does care if people don't come.

Unfortunately, they don't particularly care. The whole driver behind this program is optics. Both to domestic voters "Look at how global and modern the current government is and how much we're doing", as well as to international headline-readers "Look at how progressive Korea is".
Well remote.com specifically isn't paying for R&D. They're basically outsourced human resources, and the expense is born by their offshore/nearshore entity anyway (meaning, it's outside of the U.S.)

Not sure how they handle taxation as I'm sure they wouldn't want to pay tax on the full amount they bill their clients (the businesses who use them).

I'd guess the U.S. entity treats it as doing business with their foreign entity.

Customer A pays "U.S. remote.com" $X per month for employee B.

"U.S. remote.com" pays the "foreign remote.com" entity 0.95*$X per month (I imagine this counts as a regular business expense rather than R&D since their foreign entity is also "just providing HR services", and the U.S. entity is not directly commissioning or even benefiting from any R&D that might be happening)

"Foreign remote.com" pays the employee 0.9*$X per month

In that case, section 174 might make it unprofitable for remote.com to hire Americans.. which I suspect is fairly uncommon anyway.

And even then I'm not sure they'd be bound by section 174, since they're still not paying for for R&D really, they're paying the "employee" to basically maintain positive relations with their client, whether that involves R&D or sitting on meetings and cracking jokes.
cpp is probably inherited from beos.
I always hated native apps and found them to be very high friction, both as a user and as a developer. I have no idea what's wrong with people. Why are people so keen to install untrusted, intrusive software onto their devices when they can access them in the safety of their browser without downloading anything. When I was younger, people were very careful about what software they installed on their machines, you'd have to be insane to opt to install some software if you could just run it directly from a browser. Aside from a few niche use cases where the app needs access to device sensors, it really doesn't make sense.

With Apple, I feel like people are under some kind of spell. I cannot relate to their behavior. It's ironic that they've become exactly what they were claiming to be working against in their 1984 advert. It's has become some kind of big brother mind control operation.
China's Pacific charm offensive pays off as Nauru drops Taipei for Beijing
The smaller model is great at trivial day-to-day tasks.

However, when you ask hard things, it struggles; you can ask the same question 10 times, and only get 1 answer that actually answers the question.

...but the larger model is a lot slower.

Generally, if you don't want to mess around swapping models, stick with the bigger one. It's better.

However, if you are heavily using it, you'll find the speed is a pain in the ass, and when you want a trivial hint like 'how do I do a map statement in kotlin again?', you really don't need it.

What I have setup personally is a little thumbs-up / thumbs-down on the suggestions via a custom intellij plugin; if I 'thumbs-down' a result, it generates a new solution for it.

If I 'thumbs-down' it twice, it swaps to the larger model to generate a solution for it.

This kind of 'use ok model for most things and step up to larger model when you start asking hard stuff' approach scales very nicely for my personal workflow... but, I admit that setting it up was a pain, and I'm forever pissing around with the plugin code to fix tiny bugs, which I would prefer to be spending doing actual work.

So... there's not really much tooling out there at the moment to support it, but the best solution really is to use both.

If you don't want to and just want 'use the best model for everything', stick with the bigger one.

The larger model is more capable of turning 'here is a description of what I want' into 'here is code that does it that actually compiles'.

The smaller model is much better at 'I want a code fragment that does X' -> 'rephrased stack overflow answer'.
Pretty sure that was calcite - famous for double refraction.

https://sciencedemonstrations.fas.harvard.edu/presentations/...
> The disdain that seems to infest so many when it comes to working with our national defense organizations is both annoying and bewilderingly naive and that's even when we take into consideration all of the bad things that happen.

I think yor phrase "our national defense organizations" summarizes the counterargument: a lot of readers/commenters on HN live in other countries.
You're both over and understating RMS's position here. He wasn't opposed to vertical integration, he was opposed to being told no. Vertical integration often means being told no, through not always through copyright means.
Still cheaper than going through gov. bureaucracy and having a higher tax exposure. In many other places, you can still rent long-termish and still visa-run regularly.
If all the developers I assume you care about left the App Store, Apple wouldn’t care. The apps that make the majority of the money on the App Store are slimy pay to win games where “whales” buy coins and loot boxes.

The other popular apps are front end for services where Apple doesn’t collect a dime like Facebook, Instagram, Netflix, etc.
Yeah I'm comfortable with that, at least when it comes to Ubisoft games. Every single one of their games feels like Assassin's Creed 2 or Far Cry 3 nowadays.

If they were half the price and like 8 hour games, I might even still keep buying them just to wander around new environments and get a nice tight story. But apparently speedrunning Assassin's Creed Valhalla is 44 hours, while average is 60 hours (and I'm always a little slower than average). Ugh.

When they were super cheap I tried with Assassin's Creed Origins and lost interest after 8 hours, and Far Cry 6 and stopped after 4 hours, felt like I was just rehashing previous games a little too closely. So yeah, I'm good. Don't need to pay attention to Ubisoft anymore.
That's like living in Ohio
Sure, but that isn't meaningful in this case - the vast majority of the new marginal profit goes to share and business-holders regardless.
Same with users fleeing all the scary free speech on Twitter, by joining... censorship-resistant alternatives.
> If the US had lower military spending, other countries wouldn't feel the need to be aggressive.

Ah, just like Ukraine thwarted Russian ambitions with its low defense spending pre-2014. Why bother invading a defenseless country, after all?

And those poor sods in the Baltics got invaded by Russia and overthrown after joining NATO, of course, since that needlessly antagonized Putin.
This is exactly what they are doing: https://www.macrumors.com/2024/01/16/us-app-store-alternativ...
> Apple is hosting, distributing, and directly marketing apps in the app store.

Isn't that a forced situation though, unlike with macOS?

With macOS anyone can throw an application on a website (GitHub, etc) and the users can download the application and run it.

To get rid of the scary warnings, there's even a $99 dev membership that can be used to sign the macOS binaries.

iOS developers don't have any choices to host their binaries elsewhere though.

The EU "allow side loading" thing might allow for some improvement there (hopefully), but I'm not sure.
Even when you have whitelist approval for certain mailing lists a user subscribes to, you can still use hashcash for unsolicited email. I don't see how to put these aspects in conflict with each other.
I'm sorry this is hard for you to follow. Good luck elsewhere, maybe someone else will be able to help you understand.
You are correct. I misremembered.

Flourite was ... very fluorescent.
oh ffs.
This is not correct if you are doing actual work in the country. What's happening is, many of these countries are low income ones; and this kind of work is far removed from their economies. So they are turning a blind eye to it.
Meanwhile roughly 80% of the world's smartphones use "that other smartphone operating system" instead of iOS.

Apple's iPhone is struggling to maintain its position in the world's largest market. It has probably peaked world-wide.
In the US, highways are almost all free but ”payment” is roughed charged through gasoline taxes. You also pay for sewage service based on how much water you use, not how much sewage you produce, based on the assumption that most of your water goes into the sewer.

Charging customers by some other correlated proxy is not robbery; it’s just practical. Which is exactly why the court had no issues with the arrangement.
Yes, it should be possible. This is something I am working.
> If you _google_ 'Steam DRM-free games' _on DuckDuckGo_

(Emphasis mine)

I'm quite amused that this is how language works.