skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>An obviously absurd analogy is if a hammer company was somehow able to force you to use their brand of nails and wood and charge you per annum for the use of whatever you built. We did not have previous legislation to handle this situation, because simple physics means that can't happen. But with modern-day complicated tools, it can, and so some regulation of this sector is absolutely needed.

Is it though?

To extend your analogy, let's say you can go to the store and buy a hammer. One brand ("Granny Smith"), and only that brand, has these limitations and it's pretty well-known these limitations exist if you buy that hammer. Or, you can buy one of the other dozen or so brands of hammer, and you don't have that limitation.

But because the Granny Smith hammer is pretty and has slick marketing, half the hammer buyers get that brand of hammer, even though the other hammer buyers call them idiots for doing so.

Is this really a place where we need government intervention, when consumers are willingly making this choice?

If it got to the point where you couldn't realistically do any hammering without a Granny Smith hammer, then sure, it's pretty obvious action is needed. But right now, it's only a problem because half the buyers are happily choosing Granny Smith despite all the alternatives (which generally have more features and cost less). Even worse, they say they like these limitations, and don't want them removed!!!
Is it surprising ?

I bet a big part of people on HN are working remotely at least 50% of time since Covid. It was a huge change for many, for better or worse !
It kind of does, since the gatekeeper status is bound to how many users a platform has.

I’d also like to mention that EU anti-trust law talks about „dominant position“ and not about monopolies. And any Company with more than 40% market share are in a dominant position.
https://brisk.news has an api and is free
The prep consists of mixing the ingredients, and layering it with the lasagna sheets.

Basically you mix 50/50 of pre-cut spinnach from a jar, I use the small jars, and premade spaghetti sauce, add about the same amount of cheese as you've added spinnach. I use shredded gouda but I'm sure whatever mildish cheese you can get locally would work. Mix in cream cheese with herbs and two or three heaping teaspoons of pesto. Then you layer this sauce alternating with the lasagna sheets. No need to pre-soak the lasagna sheets, but make very sure they are covered all around with sauce or you end up with hard bits. Bang in the oven at 190c for 40ish minutes.

You'll have to adapt the recipe to what you can find locally, but as most of it's is pre-made stuff from jars there's very little prep. If you want to get fancier about it you can of course substitute jars for hand-cut ingredients instead. In my experience the most crucial ingredient is the pesto. Too much and it's overpowering, too little and the lasagna turns out bland. The rest of the ingredients are quite unspecific in how much exactly you use. I don't measure anything really when making this.
Neither is NYC, Philadelphia or Chicago!

Meanwhile you can easily get a gun in Scandinavia or Switzerland or Czechia.

Not a good example, to be honest.
> would be terrified if my parents had this "freedom"

We are so accustomed to the nanny state, we are afraid when we are left to our own devices and our God given brain. How can we possibly survive without our overlord telling us what is good and what is bad?
People always apply for jobs. Even airplane pilot, where the pay isn’t as high as software developers, and where giant door-losing corporations put millions into making every accident pass as a pilot error, incurring a dozen years in jail. Heck, people even apply for the army, where, out of no fault of your own, you can die. They do this for the proper function of the society.

And therefore, for proper function of society:

- Judges should be exposed to penal jail sentences if an innocent goes to jail,

- Judges should also be exposed to penal jail sentences in case they release a criminal sooner than the maximum sentence and they commit a new crime.

When a criminal is released 18 times by judges, and they slaughter a dozen people on the 19th time, you know you’re in France. And that’s somewhere you don’t want to be.
Better measurement might be did they go up less after this or did they go up later? As there should be more leeway in delaying increasing prices.
One big difference in England (I'm an English barrister, so that's my jurisdiction) is that most short civil proceedings end up being effectively closed to the public, or at least unlikely to be viewed by other barristers. Longer proceedings will typically be held in larger court centres where you are, again, less likely to see what fellow advocates are up to.

You do meet opponents, but in some fields, not often enough to really know.

In crime, your client would be in the cells much of the time and you could sit at the back of the court and watch lots of counsel do a good or bad job.

Of course even the civil bar do get to know each other in the way that commercial transactional lawyers - which is what I do now - don't have as much opportunity to do. I am typically dealing with commercial organizations all over the world. Too many lawyers to get to know.
Unfortunately, I cannot, because we live in different countries and Apple "families" have to all be in the same country.
Ask HN: How to pay sales tax in 38 jurisdictions?
My company based in UAE runs a B2C website which charges monthly subscription fees through both Stripe and PayPal. The tax rules for collecting sales tax varies by state/country. I want to avoid spending time

(a) registering for sales tax in each jurisdiction;

(b) calculating the tax amount for each jurisdiction;

(c) submitting tax returns for each jurisdiction;

(d) paying tax to each jurisdiction.

Isn't there a 3rd party platform that can do this for a small commission? I'm thinking of a website where I enter my UAE company details, grant it read-only access to my Stripe and PayPal accounts, then the website does all of (a) to (d) above?
I don’t gel I’ve any European country claims to be “home of the free” while massively limiting pretty much any freedom other than gun ownership
> also you get to choose your ads layout.

Its Orwell's 1984 except that you are made to feel free here
None of those are my idea, but feel free to continue believing they are if that makes you feel better.
Nah it's nuts to mobilise the sand as a working fluid. The more mature design option seems to be refractory brick for heat energy storage, with piping running through it where you can raise steam. Running a steam turbine generator is generally seen as uneconomic due to the very low round-trip efficiency, and heat storage usually follows the principle of "if you store it as heat, use it as heat".
I missed saying that in England (1) civil juries are essentially hen's teeth nowadays and (2) you don't tend to cross-over. Either you are in court most of the time, or advising on court proceedings, or you are a litigator (running those proceedings but not going to court) or you are a transactional lawyer who has nothing at all to do with them.
On my work laptop, I’m a very happy Microsoft user. I’m assuming all shitty Microsoft behavior is turned off via policies, and even if not, it’s only my work mail and data. The apps work very well, Copilot is nice, the software even looks good. No complaints.

On my personal laptop where I cannot get enterprise licenses or preferential treatment, I’m not touching MS stuff even with a loooong stick.
Perhaps a pun on NEET which whilst not the same thing as a hikikomori is undoubtedly an adjacent concept.
I can really understand how it feels from their perspective. Work feels much better when we do stuff that makes us connect as humans, and quarterly corporate events don't cut it. They created a culture where they did something fun together and had a conversation topic other than work, and there's this one guy who just refuses to participate and doesn't even try to find a way to include himself in the group.

Sure, reading a book a week takes time from your other activities and is way too much to expect, but if you had spent 15 minutes on Monday morning browsing Wikipedia on the topic of literature and brought some trivia, that would have been much appreciated.

People often complain about the soullessness of corporate jobs, but when someone tries to do something about it, there's usually huge pushback because everyone wants that something to fit their personal preferences, and since we can't find a thing that everyone likes, we go back to treating job as a pure business relationship.
Nobody said that. Any the people who did grow up in unsafe areas generally don’t recommend it. It’s not a hot take.
I opened it on my Intel Mac with 64 gigs RAM and it slowed down like hell, entire machine ground to halt.
I did not know that existed until now... I wonder where a fork is :-P
I'm not blind to this very, almost blindingly, obvious problem. I've posted comments on the subject before, where I've strongly supported the idea of a decreased population.

I just don't see a way to decrease the population levels in a way that doesn't lead to a collapse of our way of life.
NYC is the only city on that list with any real restrictions. Much easier on Philly than any European country, and the European countries are still tougher than NYC.
Is this not the case on Android?
Who doesn’t drink? Well definitely someone with stage 4 cancer, so…

Edit: this was too snark, I meant:

If someone has cancer they are less likely to drink. So more of those people end up in the non-drinking cohort. There may not be many of them, but they are outliers in terms of life expectancy, whether measured in age of death, or age from the survey date.
I work in the German immigration industry. Toytown Germany, the biggest forum for immigrants, just vanished from the internet. It needs a replacement. It would mesh really well with my current business (https://allaboutberlin.com), but I don't really want to hire mods to run it.
But if that's true then why Debit cards are not qualified for reward programs ?
I absolutely agree with you. 100%.

The problem is how we can make this transition from a large population to a smaller one with as little suffering as possible.

As I said, here we are expected to work into our 70s on average already, which just will not be possible. At some point there won't be enough resources to care for those who can't produce. We need a substantial increase in productivity per individual for society to keep working while the population numbers are decreasing, and that doesn't seem to be happening.
> This is strictly not a backup.

true. But you select what is tracked. My approach is to make a system image using the built in functionality. I use file history for the important stuff that does need to be backed up - code, documents, etc. - every 10min. Make sure that you cover everything. Nowadays, a lot of things are being put into ~\AppData.

You also have OneDrive. I don't like it because I've had it cause problems using multiple computers when you don't want everything in sync. Apple and Microsoft seem determined to get you subscribing to their online stores by having unrealistically low limits. Don't trust anything in the cloud anyway.

If I have a crash that trashes everything I think it's easier to do a clean install, install the software applications that you need, and then recover from file history.

I've not had the misfortune of a total crash as yet. I do have multiple SSDs with separate OS instances side by side, core live data on yet another SSD so I think I'm good.
That said, I've still have to use the file history to restore/recover things. Always because I did something that messed up.

Use basically the same approach on macos. Without the multiple drivers though.
Hey, yep we have this today! Depot's original product is a fully-managed container build service (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34898253) that caches all BuildKit layers to SSDs, so there's no cache-to/cache-from and cache doesn't need to transfer over the network at all.

Our original version of that system used vanilla BuildKit + EBS volumes + orchestration, nowadays we've replaced EBS with a distributed ceph storage cluster for significantly faster IOPS and throughput and have modified BuildKit to be better suited for high-performance distributed builds.

Both the container build service and the Actions runners are in the same AWS VPC, so they get good network performance between the two and don't need to egress over the internet.
Playing with Koopa is MK on hard mode, and you can feel better about winning. You'll be like Piccolo or Rock Lee keeping their weights on while training ;)
Suppressors, absolutely true.

Owning guns is a different story. In the US, it's actually easy to do. Austria and the Czech Republic are the closest to US average, and it's still significantly harder.

Also, most of the US has permitless carry. If you can own the gun, you can carry it, period.
But this site you get the thrill of a possible hard landing!
A) Is the following then the appropriate conclusion? Drink moderately, and find a spouse that drinks approximately as much as you.

B) I wonder whether the following set of hypotheses makes sense, and how one could test it:

- Social life is good for health

- Alcohol is bad for health, and the more, the worse (ie, a monotonous relationship)

- At lower levels of alcohol consumption, it brings improvements in social life whose health benefits outweigh the health costs of consumption

- At higher levels, this reverses.

Thus explaining the U-shaped effect (quadratic, as the study terms it).
Yep, it's dishonest. But it looks good... It meets visual expectations... And I'm sure it helps the product off the shelf. Write ups in the NYT are quite useful too!

And I thought it was all about sound. She probably has a tiktok account too!
they allow it but only after the app adds some pretend functionality which makes the user experience worse for everyone.

or nefariously worse. how curious that "verification" is extended only after the app implements a location 'ping', which is inevitably reported to or observed by the system.

the more i think about it, i honestly wonder if it hasn't taken this long because Apple's been reluctant to reveal and therefore open up to public scrutiny any sense of what the system does with clipboard functionality and/or its contents 'behind the scenes.'
The UK has tried that. Infrastructure mostly means transport when it comes to government, but can occasionally mean airports or sewers. Anything that involves forcing people off land in order to dig it up, basically.

Crossrail, Thames Tideway and HS2 are all attempts at creating wealth through infrastructure spending. The link between these things and wealth is very weak. There's been no noticeable uplift from Crossrail, HS2 is semi-stalled and Heathrow Runway 3 has been stalled for decades, because the incredible costs can't really be justified even with very optimistic modeling.

The other issue is these are invariably funded by borrowing. Even the current levels of taxation aren't sufficient to pay day to day costs, so capital projects definitely can't be. So it just leads to a vicious cycle in which the infrastructure crumbles today thanks to the borrowing of yesterday consuming all the taxes.
This is a better idea than the joke suggests at first.

With great responsibility should come great authority.
Yes, that's the intended goal. To do everything tla+ does (behavioral modeling) but not stop there.
The second biggest area that's missing in tla+ but indispensable is performance modeling that will be integrated. (PRISM model checker does it, but with a unwieldy complex language not suitable for more than a few dozen states)
The performance modeling is work in progress, you can still try it, but you need to download and use the command line tool at present.

The third goal is to make it suitable as a design documentation tool. I haven't started, but I would love to share the plan to get early feedback.
No, just go get one. Don't be a PL obsessing over a video game.
The thing that strikes me the most any time there's such a technologically jump is that, judging by the past 30 years, it is very likely that the most common apps, such as Chrome or Microsoft Office, will require these 64 GB/s NVMe drives to work correctly in a decade or so. We will look back at our meagre 4 GB/s NVMe of today as old junk.

I truly wonder what abomination will we create to require that much disk bandwidth in 10 years to run a web browser.
OpenWrt One / project update 04/04/2024
via openwrt-devel mailing list:

Hi,

Just dropping a quick update on the OpenWrt One project. I've received the first batch of three PCBs for testing today. I am in the process of testing the hardware to make sure everything works as intended.

There are twelve further early prototype boards on standby in case we need to tweak anything hardware-wise. You can find some pictures showing off the PCB from different angles at these URLs:

http://mirror2.openwrt.org/OpenWrtOne_top.png

http://mirror2.openwrt.org/OpenWrtOne_bottom.png

http://mirror2.openwrt.org/OpenWrtOne_side.png

Work is underway to establish a website where all legal information and links to our sources will be provided. Keeping everything transparent and accessible is crucial for us.

MediaTek also generously released a substantial amount of programming manuals for the SoC used by the OpenWrt One which will be made available shortly.

I would like to express my gratitude to the Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC), our manufacturer (BPi), the silicon vendor (MTK) and fellow developers for their support throughout this journey.

John
There’s a very good case to be made that these kind of laws are selectively used as a tool to oppress minorities and the poor. So while it’s probably not the straightforward Mr. Burns picture you painted, it is absolutely one of many tools in a large toolbox employed in America to continue to maintain the existing power dynamic.
Can't say I overly agree with that, I work full time from home but pretty common for me to not leave my residence for 10 to 15 days at a time, and usually only to purchase groceries or small things to repair or maintain where I live. This is my life for the last 6 or 7 years now.

I have no family to speak of, and I don't have any acquaintances outside of work. And I've never met any of my colleagues face to face. Many of whom have never seen a photograph of me. Most of our interactions are in Mattermost chats, emails, or work items. Most people only know me as ASCII codes rendered on a screen to form words.

If that doesn't qualify me as a shut in, what does?

>To be a shut-in is the inability to access the full spectrum of what life has to offer.

My response to that would be to ask why such things would be appealing in the first place. Why should one that finds no reward in dealing with other people at all, aspire to being promoted or falling in love? Both of which inherently require dealing with other people.
Better diagnosis, us breathing/drinking/eating ever more polluted things probably doesn't help either
As the result, most of the reward programs in EU are meaningless: too much friction with almost zero benefits.

Credit card in EU is only for rental cars.
Training data costs zero?

What is the training data anwyay? Books? (Is it legal to use non public domain, wait whom am I kidding) Reddit posts scrapped from the site? (Without clean up there are lots of bad subreddits) Wikipedia?

Of course I understand why labour costs + employee cost related costs are ignored.
I live on the outskirts of a city in the middle of England and I /very/ much doubt I'll see 10gig in 10 years
Might look into ambisonic support in Unreal/Unity.
Talking about malloc always reminds me of this paper the discusses delaying popping the stack to return temporary objects.

https://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/rompf/papers/xhebraj-ecoop22...
Surely not, but I don't expect a video game datagram size and rate to be anywhere near line rate. To put things in perspective, we are talking ~1M datagrams per seconds on a 1gbps link, 10M dgps on a 10gbps link.

Hell, I don't even think a commodity gaming computer have enough cores to process line rate datagrams on a 1gbps link.
I mean sure. Fine. Lets blame consumers for making poor choices. Done. Now what? The world is still polluted and getting worse by the day.

Blame doesn't solve anything, other than maybe making some subset of people feel good.
That’s how I understood it, too. From what I’ve come to learn, social health is most correlated with longevity. Despite alcohol’s negative physical effects, it appears to have net positive effects overall in terms of longevity when consumed at moderate/low doses.
it is already easy to do this. Unless you are a generally negative person, you will enjoy things that don't do something you actively dislike, right? so then just look at negative reviews only. If there are no issues raised that you would personally not be able to overlook, it's probably a good game.
Paywall is fine, I just don't have free trials intentionally.

Though I am considering adding a free trial now.