skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're talking about individual companies, I'm talking about the systemic factors in general.

> They don't have to sell because the factories can't stop making products.

What are they supposed to do? Shut down the factories and fire their workers? Industrialised production relies on huge up-front investments and large operating cost, in exchange for enormous output and low per-unit cost of production. That's how it works in capitalism. That's how it works in communism. If industry can't operate on that model and need to get their income from fewer customers, then consumer goods would be much more expensive as a result. Also much better in quality, but inaccessible for the majority of people.
Very good letter. I'm struck by Nick Cave's comment about the making of beautiful things being the meaning of life.

It always struck me as bittersweet that we should be birthed on this world with a mind capable of imagining oblivion, futility, our own certain death, but we were also given the tools (our creativity) to express both our fears and pain as well as our joys and our love for life.

Were we to evolve to some point where we could live forever, knew no fear or want ... it seems like it would be an artless world then. They might look back on us and our culture with only a mere curiosity and have no understanding of what it was like to be "human".

But back to the point, I question whether AI can every truly make "art" if (and perhaps I put too fine a point on what art is) they can never feel human pain.
Ultimately, we can only guess.

The fact that there are more negative associations with 'black' in our language than 'white' seems more of a feature than a coincidence.
> significantly less reliable and significantly more expensive

Going to need a citation on those two claims. You can lookup fees for both, right now BTC fees are about one USD more than a WU transfer. WU is subject to banking laws and if you're going to claim it's "unreliable", you're going to need to provide some evidence of that. It's literally their business, and a heavily regulated one at that.
Your net positive is not HN's net positive. There could very well be a 100 annoyed readers for every sign-up to your waiting list.

I'm not judging you, nor saying you shouldn't post about your app anymore. This is just a general observation that applies to all online marketing.

But I do want to make this observatioj which applies to all online marketing:
It's more that it is proof that you are who you say you are. I just recently had to order birth certificates from my state. They ask for at least 1 of many different types of proof.

For newborns, hospitals release a 'statement of facts' that allow you to order the birth certificate. YMMV.
I looked around to see if that was the case and couldn't find any indication of it, but if it's true I might just try it out again in the future (however distant that future may be) because apart from the lack of metaprogramming I really like everything else about it
To be fair? That's like saying "To be fair, some people try to steal money from banks, so it's okay if the ATM sometimes doesn't work."
The code defines that you start with the midpoint of the taxable year, so even though it covers a five year period, it will also cover 6 tax years. Because of that, the first tax year (which was 2022), only 10% can be deducted. Tax years 2 through 5 is 20%. You can deduct the last 10% in the 6th tax year.
bureauracratized welfare and government identification is relatively new
But the site has the "This site is supported by paid affiliate links. Learn more" plaque. Isn't that enough?
That’s a common sentiment, but I think it undermines American egalitarianism, and, ultimately, our notion of self-governance. When your class of “burger flippers” is also foreign, that can’t help but accentuate class differences.

Burgers should cost what’s needed to pay an American with deep roots in the country to flip the burgers. I think it would be morally beneficial for people if the employees flipping burgers or serving them at restaurants were their neighbors’ kids.
Unfortunately not enough people understood that movie.
Ask HN: Should submissions on same subject in two pubs be considered dupes?
Sometimes two different publications/websites have markedly different content, both useful.

For example:

I submitted this about an hour ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3906712

which appeared in the Wall Street Journal

A comment labeled "Dupe" 15 minutes later linked to this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39058633

which appeared on frontofficesports.com

The content of the two pieces overlaps in many areas but there is content unique to each one that would otherwise be unavailable if HN readers assumed "Dupe" = identical.
You're mistaken. Just across the board. I'm not walking anything back. I have said the same thing every time.

Food =/= just eat the corn as is. It's an ingredient in many many many foods. That's what I'm talking about. Starch. Oil.

And no, sweet corn (food corn for humans) is not appropriate to be used as field corn for biofuel. Too high of moisture content, even when dried. It just doesn't store well.

Finally - Per acre, you will be hard pressed to find a crop that can create as many products, including starch and oil, as corn. Please let me know what you're talking about here.
Lee Kuan Yew on Malta
https://focustaiwan.tw/business/202311100005

> At this rate Taiwan will be all TSMC fabs.

It's almost in every big cites, but there are still some regions in Taiwan that don't welcome TSMC to set up factories.
Look, you're free to believe that. But I promise you I did not expect you to say whitewashing was ok. That came completely out of left field for me.
Like a SSN in the US?

Registering at birth is somewhat trivial outside some edge cases. How do you resign the SSN at death predictably and accurately? Then, do you trust access to this database from 3rd parties? It's turtles all the way down.
By good fortune the PC I built from eBay parts was 100% compatible with a hackintosh macOS 10.6, even down to wireless and bluetooth.

This allowed me to experience using macOS as a daily driver (at home) while saving up for an eBay macbook (macbook pro 13 mid-2010)

The Hackintosh community is a vital step of "try before you buy" for many like myself.
Got a T-shirt in a frame, printed with the GPL preamble and signed by RMS.

Used to have a version of this up, too: https://historyshots.com/products/parties
To me, meaning requires effort.
Also, we need to stop gaslighting people with fake solutions like "planting trees" or "deleting emails". Sure, it's good, but the scale is so small that you're actually losing focus on what really makes changes.
That wasn't the issue I had at the time. I had the required disclaimers but they still rejected me because the sole purpose of my site was to sell their products.
Technically speaking they provided the mold, so it's a derived product at worst, and the evidence will melt away before the lawsuit gets underway.
ChatGPT didn't end the knowledge economy, because it doesn't possess reliability, niche knowledge, and experience which is hard to put into words. Reliability, niche knowledge, and experience (pick two) are what get people get high-paying, stable, knowledge-based jobs, like legacy system engineer, sysadmin, and <thing> advisor.

Surface-level knowledge (which ChatGPT is good at) was already accessible by anyone who can do basic research, albeit slower. It wasn't a gated skill, so I can imagine some people achieved decent jobs from it, but most managers probably either did it themselves or assigned it to someone with a different job.
As Cave’s letter articulates how foregoing the struggle of creation risks destroying the ‘collective, essential and unconscious human spirit’, his characteristically masterful writing combined with Fry’s powerful reading serve as a reminder of the value and vitality of human creativity.

Art is what comforts the disturbed and disturbs the comfortable. It appears that Mr. Cave is very comfortable and wishes to keep progress from disturbing him.
You hit the nail on the head. "git gud" as they say in online games, is not teaching, it's just pushing for competitiveness and survival of the fittest.
AI has no effect on singer-songwriters.

People that are into someone playing an instrument and singing their own poetry in a live setting will keep the form alive.

People that listen to expensively produced hot-100-esque music are already not that interested in watching live music.

What does Nick Cave need to worry about? When he tours people go to listen to his music and poetry, not someone else’s!

Do you think live music is going to suffer that much more since the ultimate dagger, the phonograph?
That's awesome! Ram Dass has been a real hero for me. I also love how excerpts from Watts and Ram Dass have been picked up by so many (very talented) musicians over recent years, e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwT7AobR2No
People also have a wrong idea about how buying electronic components on Amazon/Aliexpress/eBay/etc. works. You buy a few of the same, test them, then use them if they work. Otherwise ask for refund.

Otherwise you're up for a big surprise that all your TL081's are LM356 instead, or that mosfet you bought has 3x the Rds(on) than expected, or that your fuse doesn't work.
Japan estimated 5% in 2006, for one data point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodokushi
Im glad you had a great experience in the bookstore. Unfortunately many bookstores had to close down because of giants like Amazon. Some will stay open but much fewer than before as it becomes a niche rather than a widespread phenomena. I fondly remember spending lots of time in bookstores in the 2000s, it was my favorite pasttime. The experience of browsing books in a bookstore cannot be and will never be produced by the likes of Amazon.
I think the columns could use some basic sorting, but otherwise yes
An OS made by an ad and tracking company won't let you turn off the internet to one app. It's probably intentional.
Can you expand on what the questions were? What would a high or low score indicate or trigger?
And if we run out, we can finally make Teslas useful by recycling them!
Haha, they're both my creation (: Plume is based on Notes (https://github.com/nuttyartist/notes). I believe I'll change the icon before Plume's release.
> Some companies apparently have already been amortizing salaries for a while in anticipation of this (eg: Google)

> Given that this also greatly punishes outsourcing

Anyone help me understand these more? My understanding was that instead of deducting the costs of paying software devs the year it happened, it will be spread over 5 years. Which leads to a bigger tax bill now, and benefits bigger companies with deeper pockets as opposed to smaller businesses which have to raise moneny to pay taxes (or lower costs, potentially lower hiring). This should also push companies towards outsourcing, since not all places have similar laws? Is my understanding wrong?
The Serendipity Machine: Notes on Using Twitter
You already had the apps installed... already had the passwords loaded... had zero transactions that you had to recall who the vendor was? really?... and you recognized all of your spouse's transactions? and all of your kids?... and you also checked ACH payments?... every ATM withdrawal accounted for?... not concerned with any gradually increasing amounts?... why did you wait 6 months to do this if it's so simple?
I assume this is using some kind of amazon pricing API under the hood. Does anyone know how to get access to that kind of API without already being a successful affiliate?
How can SaaS owners plug this into their products?
Why do you think this DDoS attack is non-standard? What makes it stand out?
Found out, you should not post on HN a vercel app running an hobby plan, as you quickly reach KV store usage limit. Fair :)
But upgrading vercel was not a smooth experience : https://twitter.com/skeetmtp/status/1748702685325398388

Anyway, simulator is back and running! :)
Elizabeth Holmes banned from federal health programs for 90 years
When sellers invest time and effort into making it comfortable to buy, there is no problem at all getting customers to pay on your own website, outside of Amazon or other platforms like Booking.com or what have you.

However, most sellers have a hostile attitude towards their own customers, whether the seller is a business or individual. They won't make a decent webpage, they won't make an acceptable and smooth buying experience, and they won't match price or give a better price than the platforms. So, naturally customers will go to who they trust.
Is it so terrible to do a very simple procedure once a year to avoid fraud?
I did the same thing but there’s one more crucial piece that you need. Wireless charging. It can take a decent hit to your battery. I put in a magasafe charger and it’s the perfect setup. I throw it on the charger and it keeps the phone from moving around, wirelessly connects to CarPlay and charges the phone. It was a little difficult finding a MagSafe charger with a removable usb so I could buy a short cable but I found one and it was a nice clean setup without cables all over the place.
Concur: She's the British equivalent of New York Times superstars Carl Zimmer and Dennis Overbye.
> Do you think live music is going to suffer that much more since the ultimate dagger, the phonograph?

Well, you can also have AI band playing AI music live. Cue vocaloids.
They send pension checks out to specific addresses and accounts at exactly the same scale. Does it seem unreasonable to add 'attempt to call the pensioner' into the 'maybe they are deceased' part of the verification protocol?
After the keyboard fiasco I'm not convinced Apple's first party control is really all that great. Non-removable batteries, RAM, storage too strike me as repair hostile. It's a luxury brand now. The hacker spirit is long gone.
[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parental_alienation]
>Is there another national US online bookseller?

Barnes and Noble. Their Nook isn't as good, but it's an alternative. I also will buy books [1] direct from publishers, and there are still more narrowly focused sites like History Book Club and Christian Book Distributers.

[1] I dislike using qualifiers (physical books, postal mail) which turn centuries-old words into phrases. If I mean e, I say/write e, otherwise I mean what the words always meant.
Take action and sign up for the Small Software Business Owners Association newsletter and petitions to the government:

https://ssballiance.org/

Michele Hansen is doing an incredible job here and should be recognized for it. Latest news was sent yesterday:

Republicans and Democrats finally struck a tax deal that includes a partial fix for Section 174. It includes expanding the Child Tax Credit, a key Democratic priority, with a handful of business tax issues where were Republican priorities...

Not sure if there is a public copy of that email, but the core info is on the site, it has a list of ways to get your representative's attention and a script to follow. Please call.
Wouldn't a perfect compression algorithm know that spaces are followed by Uppercase letter and take that into account?
Three-story walk-ups are common and legal in America, if that is where
"Here" is for you. If you are in a wheelchair, you rent a ground floor unit.
>So basically technical debt and maintenance overburden.

Roger. That's a very big 10-4.

One thing that made software good to begin with was the culture among programmers to make sure their programs were complete, in need of no further development, and worth money before launching a program as a product. Nobody thought it would be sensible to do anything less, but before long lesser thinkers with lesser programs not worth money did gain an undeserved foothold in the forming market. But the playing field didn't tilt fully in their favor until the internet came along.

There was just a higher bar back when there was no convenient on-line way to patch bone-headed errors.

It's been a predictable downward slide ever since, eventually you have to draw the line somewhere and one way of looking at it is like "suddenly one year, software went bad".

Actually I remember the day Microsoft launched Windows Update, I was imediately struck by the feeling "this can't end well". Instead of issuing software that's worth money without the need to "upgrade", we're going to end up with software that wouldn't be worth money even with an update.

The dominant software company at the time, setting a bad example ever since.

I guess you could also say "suddenly one day, software went bad".
Same in France, the meters report via the grid to the grid operator, which is a public utility and shares your usage data with the (public or private) electricity company from which you buy your electricity. They have a local physical port with an open spec (and e.g. I have a device that connects to it and shares the usage data live over Zigbee for my Home Assistant), and there are ways of getting the data over an API from either the public utility or the electricity company which are more or less complex depending on the entity.
Which would benefit them more? Buying CD or listening on Spotify?

I’m have a list of artist I want to pay back to:

- the Monty Python
- Tom Lehrer
- Arrogant Worms
- “Weird Al” Yankovic
- the Dead South

their work helped through different hard times.

With latest update Spotify’s Home is one scroll away from instagram story like short videos with a timer bar on it, trying to rush me with a decision on what to listen.

OP is the answer to my new routine on consuming music, after which I’ll need more direct ways to support the musicians than using using some Silicon Valley cooked poison.
Unmasking Reddit's Violentacrez, the Biggest Troll on the Web (2012)
Wow, I didn't notice this when I read the beginning of Reisers letter in the previous submission.
> It's an abomination but it's the only(?) approach for making async functions behave fully synchronously which doesn't require third-party voodoo like Asyncify.

PS: it's also limited to argument and result types which we can serialize into a byte array. i.e. its utility is more limited than direct use of async APIs is, as those can accept any argument type and resolve to any type of value. That fine for the case of sqlite but it's not a general-purpose solution.
> OIG exclusion from federal health care programs means Holmes will not be eligible to receive benefits through programs like Medicare or Medicaid.

I've never heard of anything like this before. Banned for life from old age universal healthcare is pretty nuts.

What happens to her existing FICA[1] contributions and do they still collect it on income she makes after she's released?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Insurance_Contribution...
“Massive scale” is a distraction because society is even more massive. For example, if you’re talking about school pensions you have a school system with employees and that means you could do things like have someone check ID in person, and perhaps require a non-relative witness if there’s any question. Doctors offices could similarly be enlisted to certify that person X is the patient they’ve been seeing.

The problem with this is simply that it’s not absolutely free, and the people promising savings through outsourcing need it to be free to make their promises happen. Cutting budgets everywhere removes the slack you need to deal with things like this.
For most of human history pensions and social security did not exist, so there was little incentive lie.
1. create an account
2. define the functions your SaaS supports and the parameters necessary to run them
3. define the contextual data that may be needed to process the user's request
4. Add drop-in JS script to your site. Set the current user's contextual data, and connect the script's output to your site's functions. Tell the script to show the Rehance UI where it makes sense in your site.

The script will display the UI when you tell it to, it will process user requests, convert them into functions you support, and run the functions if the user approves.
Kids referred to counter-terror police amid crackdown on Palestine support
They're talking about incorporating in Switzerland, which allows 135% deduction for R&D costs. Yes, Switzerland pays you to run a startup.
Additionally, the degree of emotional manipulation and repressed-trauma-triggering things that happen during a bad divorce (or even just a good marriage) with young kids is truly staggering.

It’s frankly more shocking how many people survive it.
> Until you want to use a library that requires async. Now you do.

Now you do... have an incentive to write your own which is not async.
Yeah. How quickly we forget the hologram Tupac and Gorillaz concerts as well as a the virtual live concerts from Fortnite.
This has "content". The filters and columns are different to those offered by Amazon's own search experience (the $/TB, for example). Did your laptop selection site just replicate the data from Amazon, or did it try and do something novel?

"Content" is not alway descriptions, reviews and the like. It can be aggregation, statistical and calculated.
Not sure but either way it cost about the same as gas which makes no sense... Just a money grab
I don’t think that people into artists like John Prine are going to be into what’s akin to showing up with a record and pressing play! They already want a human expression.
Student Loan Forgiveness Biden-Harris Administration Announces Additional Relief
More details about the Javascript steps required at https://rehance.ai/docs/integration
I have art and photos. 'Posters' are often adverts, which seem weird to display in your home. Also i would not support that particular business, you can look up why and decide for yourself.
I don't get how this is justification for individuals to pay artists zero with thus bypass. Indie musicians who grow to have 10-100k+ monthly streams are making a nice chunk of money from it.
Nick Cave is expressing a personal loss, and I believe that he truly feels that loss. But to me, this letter reads roughly like: "if I were the server or the bouncer instead of the performer or the writer, all of humanity would cease to have meaning". Which is perhaps true, for Nick Cave. But it also betrays something grotesque and profoundly wrong about his view on the relationship between paid labor and the human soul.

It's a wonderful thing to find meaning in one's work, and for the things in which one finds meaning to be well-compensated. But it is no birthright. Contrary to Nick Cave's view, I can absolutely assure you that non-artists in HR departments and nursing stations and factory floors and classrooms often live full happy human inner lives. Those lives are of their own making and do not derive from the artiste class's output.

Manual production of high-quality clothes, tables, and glassware used to be the norm. Generations of people found meaning in these crafts before the industrial revolution changed the economics. People still do these things, only in rare cases as their primary way of making a living. Most art does not sustain developed world middle class existence. Most art is hobby. And that's okay.

The creation of software and AI systems is itself a form of craft-work and soul-work, which many engineers and scientists relate to the same way that Nick Cave relates to music. It is unclear to me why Nick Cave's striving is more important than the striving of engineers and scientists, or why his feeling of what humanity is, is more important than theirs.
Heck, why not list all the domains? Put that list in the app store.
Also basic keyboard nav shortcuts (external keyboard) don't work at all on Firefox.
It won't push people to outsourcing, because the same code change requires 15 year amortization for foreign R&D expenditures.