skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know you're just font as an example, but doesn't your markdown editor also shove a font in your face? You can adjust default behavior in Word just as well as in another editor.

Anyway, to work within your analogy, I would say that Word lets the write do a bit of a 'mockup' of the set with nearly 0 effort. Like "I want a table here", so 2-3 clicks and you have it. Then you can "let the director" take your mock up and flesh it out properly later. As a writing, it helps me to see the mock up of the product as a go, but I want that mock up to be effortless. And as I said above, I do some work up front to make sure that Word's mock up looks good (or good enough).
Crusty enterprise networks are far bigger problem than retail ISPs. This is clearly visible by the fact that you have clear weekend peaks in e.g. Googles IPv6 adoption stats.
That’s more of a statement of the monopolization of hardware access the App Store gives than it is him “piggy backing”. It’s not like you have a real choice without Apple being forced to allow software downloads via a web browser globally.
Not the person you're asking, but hosting a game server is one example where you probably wouldn't want to go through Tailscale, due to the added latency. A Plex server might be another one if Tailscale has bandwidth limits. (I could be wrong here - I'm on a static IP, so I've never used Tailscale)

Also, in general, it just adds a layer of complexity that I wouldn't want to deal with if I didn't have to.
Canada, Portugal, Colombia, the US... we'd probably have an easier time making a list of nations that don't have a "pay to play" immigration scheme.

Here's a half-decent list:
https://www.globalcitizensolutions.com/citizenship-by-invest...
> In the case of the first, the Story was among the first on the Front Page, until its title was changed from "Stable Diffusion Turbo on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 generates an image in 29 minutes" to "OnnxStream: Stable Diffusion XL 1.0 Base on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2". This effectively "killed" the Story.

> In the case of the second, the Story was in third place on the Front Page, less than an hour after the submission. In this case it was simply removed from the Front Page.

With repeatedly getting flagged articles like this, at some point you have to begin to wonder if you are not simply spamming the community by trying to promote your links.

I get that people want to promote their stuff but the community has preferences too. The community can get tired of LLM articles reaching the front page everyday! The community can refuse to be spammed and the community can flag articles!

> While I have no reason to doubt Daniel's good faith, it's hard to believe that HN users would be tired of LLM-related news.

Denial? Why is it so hard to believe that HN users would get tired LLM-related news. I get tired of it myself but I don't have flagging privilege. I find it very believable that HN users who have the flagging privilege might want to flag LLM-related news.
Because a tourist visa is not a work visa. That’s all.

If you want to work remotely in a foreign country, you need to have the correct visa.
Funny thing about Farscape, it was my favorite TV show as a child. Fond memories. The only thing that doesn't hold up is Rygel, maybe back then it was ok, but it's pretty horrific to see it now in all of it's Animatronic glory.
Length is fine. I am seriously considering it.

Properties in rural Japan are VERY cheap (like 20k USD). It makes sense to just buy summer house there. It is pretty good life to spend summers in Japan, and winters somewhere at south.
Note to everyone making death threats: just make sure to quote music, film, or theater in your threats. You’ll be protected from prosecution but your recipient will still get the message.
I don’t get it. Most of my expenses are “living costs” and food. You also said you have the same tax residency. May we know what other expenses in Thailand that matches Switzerland (I’d guess some electronics, but these are casual expenses that you can pick up from the duty free).

The other possibility is that you are simply spending more in Thailand. I’ve seen some DN who have the same expenses because they get used to going out ever night. But this is an apples to oranges comparison.
I would leave that restaurant and not enter that theater.
I agree, I don't find it very interesting.
I went to check if the story I submitted today (Breathing 101 — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39227295) was present in the list, and it was indeed! I don't know how it reached the front page and why it got removed.
Only just started watching a mirror of the video, but Bandidos mentioned in first few seconds, those are serious violent people. Jesus.
I started collecting the /news feed something like 7 years ago in a script, I think it's still running. It's fascinating watching stories get dropped or auto-killed and then running stats to find out what the algorithm is trimming. I think I started it because there'd be things changed or removed and you couldn't tell unless you had looked at it before it was culled. At some point I'll kill the linode it's running on, maybe move it to a Lambda, push the database to GitHub.
https://www.nasa.gov/solar-system/asteroids/nasa-system-pred...

Really? A NASA report, on the official .gov site? Maybe the comments were horrible but that seems right in the middle of what HN is interested in.
Self checkout is an interesting study. On the one hand, you might get by with smaller labor costs because you need fewer cashiers. But the costs are less easy to quantify.

First, you need more POS stations, because customers are not as fast as trained/experienced cashiers/baggers. So you need more machines to serve the same volume. That cost might be worth the lower labor costs.

But those extra stations also consume space. Picture a Walmart that dedicates one entire edge of each store to a row of checkout lines. It's easy to imagine that 10% of their public floor space is devoted to that function. If it takes 50% longer to self-checkout, you might need 50% more floor space to handle the same volume of purchases. That's not completely accurate because stores don't convert all their checkout lines. But you get the point.

I have noticed that most places compensate for the space requirements by drastically compressing the space for a station. No more conveyor belts. No more funneling customers throught a gauntlet of magazines and chewing gum. They might replace 4 checkout registers with 10 self serve stations. In many ways this can be better for the customer but worse for the business. There's a lot of money to be made in all that merchandise immediately surrounding checkout stands. Even the endcaps on the aisles closest to the checkout lines are worth special attention for maximizing sales. Losing this hurts the business.

I'd be curious to see the results of rigorous studies. In the meantime, as a customer, I like the self checkout stations.

I'd be super curious to see things completely flipped on their head. I'd like to see a grocery store where you walk through aisles that have only one item per SKU on the shelves and you point your phone at the qr code to "buy" one. The store app lets you indicate how many of that item you want. In the back room you have robots feeding your items up to a boxing station. In the time it takes you to walk to your car after pushing "Finalize and Pay" your order is waiting at the will call loading dock as you drive through.

No shoplifting losses, dramatically lower security costs, better and cheaper inventory management... A long list of benefits. And of course an offsetting list of increased costs. For example: smaller sales floor requirements, huge loading dock requirements.
This announcement includes an upward revision to December and November jobs numbers.
> many thought that Airpods look dumb as well.

I still do.
> what exactly is the optimal size of a national assembly?

This is indeed an interesting question, and I submit that the US is in an awkward state where the national assembly is simultaneously too large and too small.

I've seen some statistics that suggest that assemblies tend to start degrading in quality when you get past 300 or so: you end up in a situation where too many members just have nothing to do. At the same time, it's almost certainly the case that the US House has too few members for them to be sufficiently responsive to their constituents.
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I really could have used a concrete example here. Author seems like they have a very clear idea of what they're talking about but kind of failed to communicate the vision.
They have (it's work in progress) https://tfl.gov.uk/campaign/station-wifi
Every time I have to track down exceptions in production on .NET projects, I deeply miss checked exceptions, because some people just code away without caring one second to check their errors.
> It’s crazy remembering the pushback from Google Glass a decade ago compared to now with people embracing the exact same thing (but worse)

I don't think anybody thinks that the Apple Vision Pro is going to be used out in public like that, and it makes no attempt to disguise what it is. Whereas Google Glass was intended to look like a pair of glasses and be used out in public.
> Personally I'd rather do that, have a team ready, and break production for x minutes in order to properly register auth keys.

Sure, but you aren't going to do all that when your team is juggling N other priorities. At least, it will be very difficult getting mgmt and others on board. Unless it's explicitly in the context of a recent breach.
For anyone that is concerned about over flagging, please consider turning on showdead and vouching responsibly!

If as many people thoughtfully vouched as maliciously flagged it may be less of an issue.
F**K Product-Market Fit
The words “product” and “market” are often taken too literally.
> I can't imagine that in the long term, they've helped the store save money or save anyone time.

They weren't supposed to. They were supposed to divert money away from checkout staff and towards the company making and servicing the terminals.

(Is my cynical streak showing? ;) )
There are moderation tools. I can do things like kill a story, ban a domain, ban a user, alter the score on a story, mark a story as dead, lock a story so no one else can edit it, see how many sock puppets voted for the story, edit any aspect of a story.

I modified the default source to have a concept of tags on a story because I wanted people to be able to filter stories by their areas of interest (e.g. everything Commodore 64: https://twostopbits.com/tag?q=c64). All my changes are open and here: https://github.com/jgrahamc/twostopbits
It was probably actually Indonesia I had a visa on arrival for. And they explicitly allow business meetings and attending events--which is pretty much the norm for most (but not all) countries whether they say so explicitly or not.

The US does seem to have a different visa for temporary business activities.
This might be a good idea for a SaaS.

A proxy-as-a-service that allows you to interject alternative recommendations for your kids to watch.

Allow the parents to whitelist certain channels. Blacklist specific keywords - 'minecraft', 'fortnite', 'mrbeast'.
Garry Tan seems to benefit from this system as well. Nothing sensationalist about tracking his awful behavior.
Assuming that some remain, I believe ArcaOS was licensed from IBM to provide support in such circumstances. Not to mention that you aren't going to use software from Hobbes on an ATM.

For what it's worth, I have seen OS/2 used in banks within the past decade (though I believe those banks have since migrated to Windows).
Do you have any references/links for the side hustle guides you're talking about?
Yeah, like you I would have never thought to use the flag unless it was violations etc but turns out it's a weird behaviour of many users. Not sure why or when it originated but seems like its been driving the up/downs of a number of topics/posts for years now. Still use with moderation.
Yes, and so?

It's perfectly reasonable to try to minimize how much you're being spied on even if you can't completely stop it. You do what you can.
> Severe developmental disorders or severe cognitive impairments where significant support is required, including but not exclusive to: physical disability, intellectual disability, autistic spectrum disorders, brain injury.

I think that's a deliberate misinterpretation. It obviously means 'low functioning' autism rather than someone who's awkward in adulthood but otherwise leads a normal life.
I don’t get the impression from that article that Daniel and Scott are curating the front page in the way the thanks in this thread suggest. I am still of the impression that the front page composition is decided by upvotes, downvotes, and flags. Contrary to the implication in this repos’ text.
The last story is so full of outdated and misinformation that I tried to find out whether it was written a few years ago (though it would have still been full of misinformation back then).

I suspect that it has been flagged for that reason by multiple people.
Thanks for the notes and for checking it out.

Right now it obviously just covers existing news articles but the future (of this or something like this) is for each news story to be a reporting on what's happening separate from what any individual news source says. Maybe it checks multiple news sources, their primary sources, social media etc. Ideally it would do the work to determine what is happening and what is relevant for you -- many searches around the internet per story.

Not sure how to pull this off but 10 years from now I feel like that would be the norm? And it would personalize it to anything you want in any tone you want. You want honest news in the style of a pirate? Arrr-here ye go.
The things you see on HN are not purely decided by the community. Mods can and do "freeze" the vote count on comments and posts, and do other non-obvious things too. You will notice the effect after participating for a while.
Because things were worse before doesn't mean we need to stop trying to be better in the future.

After January 6th, I don't share your assessment of the present or recent past. Free speech seems excessively protected today, even for veiled threats; moreso if one is rich or popular.
It took about 10 years for the crypto headline hysteria to taper but it might have been only because ai is now the big annoying thing to shoehorn into everything. Monkeys pawl will curl and you will emerge out of your hibernation to more disgust at whatever the next annoying thing will be.
This was the case also for Beavis and Butthead on MTV.
I see, it's worth a shot, different from what I used to. I haven't played rimworld yet because my experience with prison architect wasn't the greatest (no idea what to build or why)
Exploring Reddit's third-party app environment 7 months after the APIcalypse
If we're talking qualitatively about bubbles, I'll take government-led building programs that help lower real estate prices and help build trades over hilarious tech bubbles that all rely on the same memes (Quantum! AI! Selling user data!) and then burst, leaving a bunch of people with super mad Monday.com skillz out of work.
Even my (US) ISP defaults everyone to CGNAT.
People who like to learn and improve as programmers do care. In fact, the article explains the value of all that additional stuff which implies there are those who DO care.

The article even provides a link to a search result showing multiple commits from people who learned from the fix.

That commit message is a treasure trove of knowledge.
Nazi Germany won clear victories against Poland and France.

Had UK given up and signed a peace with Germany then it could have been possible that there wouldn't have been what we call WW2 today at all. Given what Germans planned to do then fortunately it didn't happen. We can thank stubbornness of Churchill for this. But Germany made it even worse - it declared war on United States.

But there were no treaties between Germany and Allies until Germany had unconditionally surrendered.

But my claim was a little different. I wrote that US didn't lose until it "lost its sight". I would argue that it was not understood what is US actually doing in Afghanistan and when you don't have any idea what you are doing then you can't win anything.
I don't think I am, but I'm sorry that this hasn't been a productive conversation.
Two out of three currently aren't removed. There's no moderator comment on the third, but a fair number of upvotes and user comments; I think it was flagged by users.

Open Source Doesn't Require Providing Builds

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39094387

Sam Altman Says AI Using Too Much Energy Will Require Breakthrough Energy Source

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39095738

Avoid Async Rust at All Cost (flagged)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39102078
Yes, but I did not see any of the claims of demanding to kill civilians.

They were still way over the line and he apologized. But I did not see any of the claims of "openly calling for genocide in Gaza". Did you? You may link some quotes then. Possible I missed them, but I rather think, this was the usual hyperbole.

"innocent civilians" was the only questionable phrase, but still not at all a clear demand to kill civilians, rather a doubt whether armed civilians, who want to kill jews, should count as civilians.
The corpse of blockchain would like to have a word with you :)
I've always assumed that when a story rapidly drops past the first three pages (e.g. >90) it is because it has been flagged some indicative, disproportionate number of times[1] by users with flag functionality. The submission seems to presume that such drops are only the result of Daniel or whoever manually doing it.

Which is true?

[1] - Notably the majority of the "removed" stories have pretty tiny number of upvotes, so if flags are weighted proportionately it wouldn't take many.
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If this is the future, then we're doomed. I think, though, that such fatalism isn't warranted. It will be a battle, yes, and it will take a long time, but there is always hope that we can avoid a complete dystopia.
Very true. Ideally the culture would be that we’re experiencing some pain now to avoid more later, so we should do it - I’d hope management was on the same page. Real world, unfortunately, often differs.
If current rates continue, which is a big assumption, then Japan will have 106M people by 2050 and 75M by 2100, which was roughly the population before WW2. Japan is already one of the most densely populated areas in the world, so further population growth may not be the greatest idea. They already have good standards of living, great infrastructure, high societal trust, low crime, a competent government, etc. Europe's strategy of importing millions of low skill foreigners who are mostly dependent on welfare and have destabilized their societies is also probably not a great idea either.

These population projections also ignore the many factors that may change. As the population declines, more opportunities may open for young people, leading to increased family formation. The culture may evolve in response the lopsided demographic pyramid, causing increases in the fertility rate. People are already predicting AGI in the next couple decades, which will render most people unnecessary anyway. These classical analyses around demographics will probably become increasingly obsolete.
Tldr the answer is “2”. Not sure how posting a link where this info is buried is helpful.
One could argue that when viewed in perspective of a shrinking population, Japan's economy is doing just fine. Just because it doesn't work for hedge fund vampires doesn't mean it's not effective at sustaining a good standard of living for people there.
For those of us with families living in the house, please add:

- Set boundaries. When dad's in the office, don't bug him. He's working. When you see dad not in the office, give him a hug (unless he's on the way to the bathroom) <grin>
> what are the heuristics I can use to understand that this is the right time for me to start a business that does not create huge opportunity costs and is not an impulse that is the result of my impatience?

I'm wondering if it makes sense to think about your goals here. Why are you even thinking about starting a business? Are you trying to make money? To really serve people? Because it's a fun challenge? Because you want financial freedom? Because you see an opportunity? Because you've been told you should or want the status of someone who has "made it"? What's in your heart?
I don't agree with the GP at all. Most seem normal for the front page or the intellectual curiosity standard (I mean, personally I'd like a much higher standard, but I'm basing it on what HN already has).

All from only one day:

* Ford's new 48-inch digital dashboard is a lot of Android for one car: https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/22/24045932/ford-android-scr...

* Secret Plan Against Germany (a very big story in Germany about a far-right planning meeting): https://correctiv.org/en/top-stories/2024/01/15/secret-plan-...

* Show HN: Vx.dev – GitHub-Powered AI for effortless development: https://vxdev.pages.dev/

* Open Source Doesn't Require Providing Builds: https://codeengineered.com/blog/2024/open-source-not-builds/
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Reminds me of similar tools for DDR machines near you.

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The article shows evidence for the opposite of this
There's a difference between removed and removed from the front page.

IIRC: Mods can downrank a post so that it doesn't change anything for users, aside from the fact it won't be on the front page.
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