skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an important anecdote because it illustrates the stark divide between "making it" and "not making it" in the current era. The people who make it get unprecidented luxury but the people who don't make it live in slums.

People who "make it" often feel like their path was trivial. While people who haven't "made it" often feel like finding the path to success is impossible because it lies in their past or was never accessible to them.

It's easy to maintain your habits and it's extremely hard to change your life's course.
Right, but the other EU officials are not Belgians or Germans or aliens from another dimension but people who are appointed by the elected governments in every country. As a result, these elections define part of the EU and the elections in every country defines the rest.

In EU countries keep having strong sovereignty, it’s not like the USA. EU here acts more like an alignment institution among countries, it doesn’t actually have powers by itself and it appears that Europeans are still not ready to switch to a US-like system.
EasyFrontend is cool - nice job. Do you have a long term pricing plan?

You definitely need some copyediting on your home page.

It'd be nice if you abstracted fonts (and colors?!) across components, so that users could pick their main combo and have those applied throughout.

The editor sidebar should be wider, since that's the main place where somebody working on the frontend will be tweaking styles and editing text.
Couple of ideas of top of my head:

- Think of the most embarrassing thing you've done, and now tell me about it

- Unlock and show me your phone so I can view all your messages, photos and apps

Now that we've established that you have something to hide, we can talk about where the line is.
To determine how useful something is it's important to look at the usecase.

My usecase for interacting directly with the store is that I want to look at some specific store path, so I already know the hash from somewhere and can autocomplete on the first characters with much higher precision than first completing drv names, and then moving on to the right hash.

You seem to have some other kind of use-case. What is it?
How about rsync?
Sure, but they're still able to sell cars and at a profit even without subsidies, so the market can survive without them.
Agreed. I don't really know why I thought the distinction mattered yesterday.
Nah man, half the jobs in tech exist because someone decided do reinvent the wheel and learn everything from scratch again, we need the jobs!
Aye fair point, I guess I've just been noticing it happening more because I noticed it happen and am now tuned to see it - that Baader-Meinhof frequency illusion thing.
I'm really not sure if you trolling or believing in this.

People don't act rational and plenty of people literaly don't care about the environment or other aspects.

Tesla was pushed by Elon Musk Money and he did this because he saw the market and had the money to disrupt it. Classical car manufacturer wouldn't have build EVs ever because they don't care.

Having a margin of 30% of classical build cars is nothing you spit on.

And there are plenty of market regulations which are most of the time here to protect or help us consumers. Shell, BP and co spending millions for lobbying.

From an economyical standpoint we also have an issue: Plenty of people don't know or don't care to solve the initial investment problem. Figting classical cars, were the market was optimized for 50 years is not easy to disrupt.

Basically non disruptive for consumers alone.

The punishment, hard limits and restrictions are not here to punish consumers but producers.

BMW you are not allowed to sell ICE Cars in europe 2030 vs. dear consumer you are not allowed to buy ICE cars in europe 2030.

Nonetheless in regards of our specific transition: We are actually trying to transition faster than normal because of climate change. We have a huge issue in our society regarding the relevants of this topic.

Old generations mostly ignore it or dont care, the young are frightend and we in the middle (me) im in the middle of my normal life while trying to push more for doing more.

For someone who thinks that a sudden increase in ocean temperature is a very bad sign, we can't wait until everyone has slowly and steadily transitioned. Instead the adoption curve has to be pushed.
My wife who is more than 2 years sick with Long/Post Covid, lost almost everything because of it, her body and her brain. She had almost perfect memory and spoke 5 languages fluently by the age of 30 while learning Chinese as a 6th. She had a promising career in the medicine field and was also quite a good painter and other crafts (not famous though). We were hiking regularly to very high mountains and doing a lot of activities.

Now she spends most of the day in bed and the rest on the sofa and she can’t barely do anything, only crochet… maybe some cooking. Not even watch movies that have too much action, so she is watching black and white series now to have something to do without getting cognitively burnout. She lost her memory, her capacity to think, she has chronic fatigue and many other weird symptoms like easily getting senses overwhelmed by simple noises or smells.

We went to a lot of doctors, tried a few “remedies” from small scientific studies and internet: metformin, nicotine, lidocaine, multiple supplements and vitamins, some antivirals and many other things. Nobody is able to help her and most of doctors don’t even try to help or know anything about this new and growing condition.

Of course always the “psychosomatic” smart ass appears, but there are enough proofs already to tell them to shut up. Even the NIH director mentioned viral persistence found body tissues in a recent talk [1].

At least the awareness is growing and there are s lot of studies going on. So still some hope, but it won’t come fast.

[1] https://x.com/californiacodes/status/1780099073468764415
idk man I'm late gen X and did OK by being in the right places at the right times, but i see millenials & Z (my students) getting absolutely screwed by housing, education, transportation and healthcare costs. Inflation numbers are obviously understated, the government has a huge incentive to lie about it.
Right, buying an apartment in a big metropolis where all jobs are is often beyond capabilities of a single worker (mortgage aside). No matter the country even.
The Deep State treats human rights as damage, and routes around it.
The Parliament has veto rights. Nothing gets enacted without parliamentary approval. Which is very good, considering some of the bullshit that comes out of the Commission.
In the data engineering space JVM languages are probably neck and neck or even favored over Python. Hadoop, Spark these things. I know big firms like Apple — where I’d love to end up doing DE stuff — are big on Java and Hadoop style things.

I just know I need to branch out. I’m decent at Python and SQL but I could learn some more.
> became a widely celebrated patriotic hero for his courageous work

When leaks happened, traditional opinion polls seemed to show a 1:1 split on support vs. disapproval. Online polls seemed to show a 2:1 split, favoring support.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commentary_on_Edward_Snowden%2...
For an article in a magazine called “The Economist” you would think they’d know that wealth is net worth based on capital assets and cash reserves, not your income. The fact that hourly wages are rising doesn’t matter because costs are also up in equal or higher proportion due to inflation. The premise of this article is basically untrue on its face and more so when you account for the housing affordability crisis.

That said, this article is probably still true for some kids. I put together a custodial IRA for my teenager funded with a dollar-for-dollar match to her gross earnings while she’s underage and she’s a prolific saver too. She’ll graduate high school with a higher net worth than the American median, but that’s mostly because of the typical American debt load more so than the raw amount.

Since we are directly paying for her college we hope that this will guarantee her a decent retirement some day, which so many of her generation will likely never have.

Also for commenters saying Gen Z is the kids of Gen X, that’s probably true but many of us are older millennials (xennials) too. I am not quite 40 yet and my kiddo turns 18 this year. The oldest millennials are 43 right now.
>This might sound insane to you or me,

Why is it insane? For example, my address is more or less public record one you know my name since I purchased a piece of property. Keeping your name hidden while being a public figure is hard. So you'd need to use a shell company to buy the land ahead of time. Normal for movie stars probably but not for someone on YouTube. The vast majority of people don't view their own name as highly sensitive information to never give out. They use it every day all the time.

The risk is that the YouTuber pisses of someone and they swat him or try to steal the land or some such. What that really comes down to however is that "knowing my address someone can do an illegal act on me with impunity." Most people would view that as a societal or government problem versus one they should personally tackle by perpetually hiding. Hiding might be a viable short term or stop gap solution but if it's a long term requirement then you're living in a dystopia which most people would prefer not to.
If you're talking to someone on the left, you can say "if the party you don't like gets into power they could use this to track and punish people for getting abortions", and if they're on the right you can say "if the party you don't like gets into power they could use this to track and punish people for owning guns, not getting vaccinated and making politically incorrect jokes".
I had a similar obsession. Being aware that I’m not immortal and have finite time to live helped.
Java is good enough and Kotlin does not add anything substantial worth of switching.

Google provides first-class support for Kotlin. Oracle does not. Kotlin does not evolve with JVM. For example they introduced coroutines to imitate blocking code and few years later Java decided to create green threads, making the feature essentially obsolete.

Kotlin made sense in Java 1.7 time, when Java seemed to be stale and kind of dead. Things changed since then.
Neo (Keyboard Layout)
> they're tried to make end-to-end encryption illegal how many times now

Isn't the fact that they fail each time rather a sign that people don't want it, and are not happy with it?
Testing my cloud deployment tool built on Terraform and Kubernetes
3 years ago, I was a CTO at a late-stage company struggling with slow releases due to insufficient automation and non-standard tooling. Spinning up new environments was a month-long ordeal.

To solve this, my co-founders and I built an in-house "architecture-first" DevOps solution - which eventually became Facets, a comprehensive DevOps automation platform. We got early validation, raised funding, and built one of the largest feature sets in the DevOps space.

But through conversations with companies of all sizes, we realized two key problems:

We had built an overly complex enterprise product without enough user feedback.

Developers, especially from early-stage startups, needed something more self-serve and simple.

So we're taking a new direction with Facets 2.0. The focus is now on quick, clean cloud deployments optimized for early-stage startup developer workflows. When you have limited resources but growing workloads, infrastructure challenges can feel daunting. We want to take that off your plate.

Over the next few weeks, we'll be stripping down our giant platform to create something any developer or DevOps engineer can easily use.

While I don’t have a version ready right now, I want to get your early feedback on the idea and our landing page. https://www.facets.cloud/quick-cloud-deployments

We’ve also opened up slots for our Beta program to get as much user feedback as possible. If you’d like to help us out, let me know and I’ll reach out to you.

Let me know what you think!
Hi, I had a quick look at website and have some feedback in case you want it.

"Faq's" in the top menu does not need the apostrophe and "lets" on the frequently asked questions page needs an apostrophe. So all in all, you don't need to acquire any new apostrophes, you can just move the one you already have in "Faq's" to between the t and the s in the "lets". Result!
It’s an unfortunate trend, but it is also an age-old reaction to hubris. Humane made the fatal PR mistake of trying to convince the world they had a revolutionary product that would change everything… without selling the benefits of the product.

That triggers a bunch of memes, from emperor’s new clothes to pride before a fall. Add in a general societal distrust of tech and AI, plus the age-old derision for geeks/nerds, and Humane could not have set themselves up better for fiasco if they had tried.

I do think it was all well meaning and earnest, not at all a scam. But their over-the-top marketing for v1 of an experimental tech gadget was really clueless.
As a Canadian, it terrifies me that it's supposed to be comforting that these powers are only supposed to be used on foreign targets. The US controls so much of the Internet already, and the idea that it's becoming a full-fledged surveillance state beyond my own country's control is horrifying.

We're always talking about China and TikTok. What about America and the rest of the Internet?
I see your point but it appears that countries prefer keeping their sovereignty and as a result EU doesn’t have any direct impact on people lives. Every now and then countries agree on some standardization and it’s only then when people see an EU impact on their daily lives.
Just wait 15 years and it'll be back in fashion. Aero Glass is already back!
> "hey, don't blame me, it comes from Brussels"

This is definitely a feature disguised as a bug.
The tax question I've always had is around conferences. If I attend a work-related conference in California, I'm being paid to be there and so that's California sourced income and I have to file taxes, right?

During the pandemic when everybody was working from home, I thought about renting some place with more interesting scenery for a few weeks. I mentioned it to my bosses and was given a very short list of places where I could do so without triggering tax issues for myself or the company (later in the pandemic more options opened up).

When I looked into it, it seems like lots of states are pretty strict about tax requirements for people working remotely from their state.
From the reviews, it seems different and worse.

But it is something novel that requires serious research. Even if the result is disappointing, it is novel enough to not make the it a “scam using old te vc projection”. That was the point of my rhetorical question before.
My sense is less that the world has changed to become more dangerous and more car-centric than it is that parents have changed to be more risk averse and started encouraging structured time for other non-practical reasons.

Miles traveled per person [0] peaked in 2005 and has been down ever since, but my and my peers' childhoods in suburban America in the 2000s was way more free range and unstructured than what I'm seeing among children in the same neighborhoods today.

Before we could drive we rode our bikes everywhere. Once we could drive some of us got cars, others made a habit of regularly borrowing the family car or had a shared "kids" car. We found ways to meet up, we made friends with kids who lived in our immediate neighborhood. We had the regular set of structured activities that were popular (some sports, band, orchestra), but hours per week per child spent on after-school activities that were organized by adults was very small among my friends (fewer than 2-3) relative to today.

And all of that was at the peak of driving in the US. The USA hasn't gotten more car-centric since then, but children have lost freedoms. Cars can't explain that.

[0] Second graph: https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2018/12/staying-up-to-speed-...
Hijacking back button, shortcuts and key events has to be one of the most annoying thing. This breaks autocomplete/autocorrect, paste and many other use-case like the author encountered.

Related to accessibility concerns of numeric and number input, there is a good blog post from UK Gov that was on the front page a (long?) while ago: https://technology.blog.gov.uk/2020/02/24/why-the-gov-uk-des...
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You probably want to grant full rights to an outside authentication/authorization service that handles the fine grained rights for private tables.

That way you don’t lock the main functionality up with the rights management aspect and 1,000+ custom permissions and role sets.

Authorization is the front door to a hallway with keyed doors behind. Have a peep hole to authenticate where necessary, but don’t complicate the core product with it.

Heck, roll your own version if you have time. With this system you can change it in and out and not have to rewrite your base to accommodate. An oversimplification, as are most things.

My .02c
Is Monkey Island 2 even possible to beat without a hintbook?

I enjoyed Monkey Island 1 a lot, but with 2 there was a combinatorial explosion of items/locations, and it just seemed too difficult/unfair. I got the impression they wanted you to have to call the hint phoneline.
Ok interesting, where I can I read about why they decided to back it out after 2nd preview?
I'm not so sure about that. Mind that they talk about household income, not individual salaries.

The median personal income in 1975 has been $26,450 [1], although that's across all generations (not sure if your number is).

Edit: Unfortunately the statistics about the median household income [2] don't date back that far.

[1]: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEPAINUSA672N

[2]: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA672N
You have outdated info about how EU works. Since the Lisbon Treaty it is actually evolving towards single super-country, trying to strip member countries from their sovereignty (and mostly succeeding at that, unfortunately).

EDIT: in a typical HN fashion people downvote simple statement of the fact, because they are in denial about the fact.
The problem with 1) blaming early trauma on all outcomes and 2) saying it's out responsibility to support them, is that it sends a poor signal about personal responsibility. What kind of society would be created if we sent that message?
What are the fastest ways to find telltale signs you missed?
Musk himself has about 23% of the shares of TSLA[1]. His brother has another 1%.

Vanguard (the fund company) holds about 7.2%.

BlackRock has about 5.9%.

State Street's funds have another 3.4%.

Assuming the fund's go with the company's recommendation (i.e. vote "yes" to both proposals). That's already 40.5% of the vote.

So he would only need 15% of the remaining direct holders ((50 - 40.5) / (100 - 40.5)) to vote yes.

[1]: https://www.investopedia.com/articles/insights/052616/top-4-...
> The EU governments want to adopt the chat control bill by the beginning of June.

Just in time for elections...
You can probably find a large number that were gobbled up in FANG aquisitions
They actually can hold their value quite well or go up in value. The value of something is what someone else would pay for it.

The relatively utility of a $500 bag is no more than a $50 one, that’s for sure.

The effect on pleasure between gambling and a handbag are immeasurable and maybe equal so in some sense you’re right.

I’ll never buy one, but it seems like you’re distorting reality to make your point.
You’ve made a leap that I am somehow making a comment on the accuracy of his review.

I have no idea about Humane’s product or whether MKBHD’s review is accurate.

I’m simply making the point that “The worst product I’ve reviewed… For Now” is a bit clickbaity.

Ie it is specifically worded in a way that encourages clicks.
Go betrayed us simpletons with those terrible generics. Need something simpler. IMO Java 1.4 was ideal.
Former OpenAI Board Member Calls for Audits of Top AI Companies
> In Britain and America Gen Zers are avoiding the humanities, and are going instead for more obviously useful things like economics and engineering.

LOL
OpenMPTCProuter v0.60: an open source solution to aggregate connections
Ok then and who bans large private donations? Who can take money out of politics? Politicians won’t do it as it isn’t in their interest. It’s catch 22 all the way down. In theory you’re going in the right direction but the reality is stuck somewhere else…
From TFA:

> "What I had stumbled upon was that physical entities (stones) are not equatable with conceptual entities (points)," Bochner said

That's because the relevant conceptual and physical entities when contemplating lengths of sides of triangles, which is what Pythagoras' theorem is about, are lines, not points.

>The artist claims it was intentional. Do you know otherwise?

His reply reveals that he still doesn't get it, which to me seems to prove that it can't have been intentional.
People like to say that CSP solves everything. It's not. In reality everything communicates through a shared memory. Take sound, for example. When a human speaks the shape of sound waves changes in the ear of another human. What's happening is a write access to a shared resource. Another agent should process it accordingly. There is no magical "onMessage" in reality. CSP theory hides the fundamentals, thus it won't be as fast as more basic primitives, combined correctly.
But also the only core part of the fuselage they make are the wings of the A220 family.
This is very well done and greatly exceeded my expectations. Also brought a smile to my face on this dreary day. Bravo!
And let me paste. Especially if you're going to insist on doing it by SMS (also though please don't) then surely you should know that both Android and iOS make it easy and prominent to copy the code to clipboard...
Erasure Coding (Forward Error Correction)
"Often" seems a strong word. I understand that it's possible, but I haven't seen many projects using C# or other CLR languages for containerized Linux app
Say you have no Xitter account, how would one get any context on this news? apart from some searching of course, just wondering if there is way. (If you're not logged in this link is just to one Xeet.)
I think the tech industry has also changed over time. I joined just as the iPhone and thus smartphone apps became a thing, but we just haven’t seen shakeups like social media, cloud computing, web frameworks, etc recently.

Crypto is effectively dead, LLM’s ended up mostly hype with limited utility, so what’s there to talk about? Random interesting side projects, retro technology, random science stuff, a bit of news, etc and that’s what HN front page looks like.
"Gave their children $100k"
This is simply impossible for the overwheming majority of the population