skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Treaty of Versailles main problem was that it wasn't really crippling enough to destroy Germany but still enough to hurt. But most of that was at the chaotic early years of the Weimar Republic, which by the 1920s had stabilized the situation with American loans.

It was the effects of the Great Depression and internal politicking that gave power to Hitler. The Nazis hatred wasn't directed to the West that enacted that treaty, it was to the east for the Communists and the "subhuman" minorities.
Indeed, though with lock wire there's usually another anchor point you wire it to, so that the nut can't back off.
I'm not sure the 'You deleted my YouTube account because I got 3 false copyright claims in 1 hour' to 'I've installed Google(TM) YouTube(R) Antivirus Subscription' pipeline is a strong one.
Snip – a simple and minimal command-line snippet manager
Asus, the brand that can't make an ISO keyboard in Europe.

Either Surface line or Lenovo x line can be compared with Apple devices, anything else falls short.
> the required governance norms: if you offer freemium services to people, you have an obligation to implement real-person interaction on account suspension, and a mediated access path to your effects inside the locked-down digital store. These identities now fuel our access to governments, and public services. If you can't access your google account you can be blocked from legal documents.

Yes, very well stated, this exactly. If you have a hold over how people interact with others or organize their lives or do business, you should offer reasonable processes for addressing issues e.g. lockouts that could impact them seriously. It's the sort of process that should exist: if your email account got shut, what if the helpdesk refused to ever tell you why or how it could be reopened? It's too late to move (social media) providers by then.
Unary operators are still operators. The integer parsing rules are probably different. In Lisp, -x would be a symbol, and the proper analog to -123 would be (- x) eg.
A United States of Europe
> There is no market incentive for this to be the steady state.

The market incentive is that everyone other than the monopolist will want to take the monopolist's market share. The monopolist, in turn, captures the government and uses "Taxes & Regulations" to ensure that random small businesses can't enter the market and take their market share.
Just the '++i' instead of 'i++' brought my reading that code to a halt and I had to start deciphering if it actually changes the operation of the loop.
You Don't Own Your Content on the Internet. You Never Have
Read their remark again. Tell me in earnest if that is something you would like to hear about yourself, being told to your wife or boss.

We’re not talking about a faceless company like JetBrains here, but a single human being, for chrissakes.
> More streamlined menus that reduce visual clutter and prioritize top user actions so you can get to the important things quicker.

Why not just copy and improve Vivaldi and allow users to easily rename/move/delete the menus?
You wouldn't know what a specific user's top actions are
Personally it is more about avoiding big relative errors: 1 month ago can be between 10 and 45 days ago (maybe, nobody knows how the rounding works). 8 months ago is less of problem
When you still haven't emerged from the covid pandemic and your shutdown project started to take roots deep in your mind.

It reminds me of that scene from The Shining where the character writes the same sentence over and over again.
Hehe spot on. 58% faster ad delivery, in 58% more random places than you would have expected!
I opted for postmarketOS, which doesn't support microG, on an old device. Going Degoogled was my only option for anything remotely maintained, which was a priority.

It's nice to see my old device get some patches, but I'm not sure how much I'll use it since ARMv7 is mostly being phased out.

Overall, using postmarketOS and trying to go completely without Google apps (and without microG) has been interesting. Not sure I could recommend it, but it did force me to discover some very useful (and quite nice) OSS apps.
Like Homer says

Unprecedented, so far !
Wow so finance school startups and engineering school startups are different?
Well yeah, the entire thing reads like a piece from someone who should look up the meaning of survival bias.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40384959
it will work with the next release (and already works with the beta)
I actually agree with the spirit of what you're saying but I feel compelled to point out that Alexander actually wasn't a king for very long. The median reign for hellenistic rulers was 20-30 years whereas Alexander's only reigned for a short 13 years.

Again while I absolutely agree with your point, he was in fact, not a king for very long.
You can shutdown the Pi between refresh cycles, too, but would probably need an external circuit to wake it up again. For microcontrollers, a capacitor and a resistor is usually enough.

But if you don’t care about the extra efficiency and don’t want to play with the technology, there is really not much left to justify the e-ink display.
The challenges are still up which I think are worth doing, even though it's not running anymore
Maybe we need a new CSS relative measure? Call it something like the `tem` - time spent interacting with the interface...
So Israel does not administer the emission of visas? And does not have a gray list with Egypt on the Palestinian border? And there were no border agreements in the context of camp David and other related agreements with Egypt?

Israel has shown itself to basically have 0 regard for international law. It's not like they haven't shown that they will attack any way to cross the border that they don't have some sort of control on. I mean, why would they attack the Gaza flotilla and enforce a maritime blockade on Gaza if the border with Egypt was already "free" from their control?

Generally speaking, do you agree or disagree with the fact that enforcing a maritime blockade is usually an act of war and grounds for retaliation? Btw, you still haven't shown me a single example of a country that emits a visa of entry for a territory that isn't under occupation (or under blockade).

But sure, I guess Egypt totally has control over the crossing that is within shelling range from Israeli military outposts, in an area that they did shell in the past too.

So if we ignore the soft military threat on Egypt, the choking out of the border crossing opposite of the Egyptian side, the lists of goods that can't make it through due to israeli graylists, the fact that every other border crossing is controlled by Israel, and that they did control human passage before Hamas even at Rafah until 2007... oh and also the fact that Gaza has no rights to maritime traffic or air traffic.... then yes sure you're completely right.

I'm sure Palestinians should be glad that Israel gives them the privilege of being a notch more "open" than Warsaw ghettos. The few weeks per decade when Rafah is actually open, that is.
Parallel Prime Number Detection in Lisp
Oh that is great news! It's always been a pain for exactly that reason.
Don't @ me I went to a SUNY
This is pretty similar to some fraud in professional science that's more common than it should be. A few people have started to make it a hobby to detect copy-and-pasted and altered images in published research:

Fabrication discovered in prominent Alzheimer's research: https://www.science.org/content/article/potential-fabricatio...

"Sleuths" uncovering fraud and getting retractions for thousands of papers: https://apnews.com/article/danafarber-cancer-scandal-harvard... and https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/how-a-sharp-eyed-... and https://retractionwatch.com/2022/07/22/papers-in-croce-case-...

So I'm dismayed but not surprised that the incentives driving fraud in research science are trickling down into pre-college science fairs. A cynical person might conclude that we're just training the next generation of scientists to be better at fraud.
Given that the words Night and Club appear in the picture, the title looked mildly intriguing ..
The US cannot suppress AI. There's a lot of other countries which would love to pick up the AI flag if we drop it, and then they'll bury us.

I've used AI in my programming work. After you get used to it, you see its limitations. It's not that clever, it's mostly mush. It's better than stackoverflow, though :-/

I've seen AI written articles, and they're pretty much drivel. Of course, most articles are drivel anyway, but the AI ones seem to have a peculiar drivelness about them that I recognize but cannot really describe.

I view it as simply removing some of the drudgery of my work, just like textile machines removed much of the drudgery of making cloth.

What I fear about AI is not their economic uses, but their use in warfare. Do you want a terminator drone hunting you? I sure don't.
Elastic releases serverless open-source Vector DB for Generative AI
Xml is too bulky, let's do csv
Csv is too limited too strongly typed, let's do json.
Json is too heavily punctuated let's do yaml.
Yaml is too yamly, let's do this instead.
It's astonishing to see the public reaction to this is not:
"Oh shit, global warming really is creating some crazy weather patterns!"

But rather:
"They are trying to kill us! Chemtrails! HAARP!"
Traders brace for big swings in Nvidia shares
Should the back end return raw data or formatted data? JSON or HTML?
https://archive.ph/YTaJi
I use Opera because it perfectly scales the text when I zoom in, as opposed to other browsers.
wouldn't it have made it harder to find in this case if the DCHP lease time was 34 minutes?
A 10% projected improvement in a bulk chemical process isn't that useful unless you're already in the industry. It's not enough to justify entering the industry. 2x, though...
The best is going to boingboing, and seeing that shit art everywhere, while they have posts whining about AI art. Be Consistent. You're just being part of the problem if you can't even abide by the basics.

I never thought I would end up hating the whole tech world so much, and I thought "Crypto" was peak - but that was just a bunch of scammy dudes and rugpulls for suckers. This? Everyone is suckers. In theory there's a case to be made for it, but I trust none of the entities involved in pushing this out.

For about 5 years I thought MS was going to do something good. WSL2 was actually good tech and they seemed to uh... "embrace" open source. But since 2020 I feel like things are just going downhill.

My inner old man yells at the lawnmowermanchild : GET OFF MY LAWN.
Your legacy can continue as part of the AI trained on your output.

What would you prefer? Would you want people to remember your name? Your face? Your voice? Which people? How often should they have to remember you? For how many thousands of years?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40436533
Andy's collaborator Michael Nielsen has a nice blog post, "using space repetition system to see through a piece of maths"[0]. He makes a point that the idea is to commit more and more higher order concepts to memory. But he does emphasise that Anki is one way to achieve his and a more simpler pen-paper method that you wrote might work.

[0] : https://cognitivemedium.com/srs-mathematics
This feels fair. I would personally be totally in favor of nationalizing college admissions along such lines. Every school is given a fixed number of admits/waitlists and these are then allocated by lottery based upon such rudimentary qualifications. The federal government could easily force the issue by tying federal funds to a unified national admission scheme (They did this back in the 60's to eliminate men's colleges).
check out "Why the West Rules for Now", it's a historian's attempt at that
I get that in polar arguments, people tend to minimize and accentuate arguments.

The link doesnt back the claim in the 1st sentence.

Human shields irrespective of the case here are victims IMHO not deserving of the same treatment as those using them.

There are other articles claiming, the 2nd phase continued after journalists reached out for a delay
> You identify that in fact humans have literally evolved to be cooperative and socially helpful, but you decide this is just "machievallian" and a trick of some kind?

Psychopaths trying to reverse engineer regular human behaviour can lead to funny results like this.
> The former company might be unable to keep up with the 3+1 other companies on the same playing field, so may sell to one of the other four, but only the latter company in the above example may have the money available to buy.

Your assumption is that companies can be destroyed but not created, which isn't true. The way prevent monopolies, then, is to make it as easy as possible to create new companies. There is no monopoly if five new companies are created for every two the incumbent buys or destroys.

> Limiting personal wealth to 10-100 million dollars, even "on paper", might prevent this

This has really nothing to do with it. Google is a public company. It could easily be just as big without any single individual owning more than $10M in shares.
Inflation benefits debtors, and hurts creditors. But if inflation is controlled and predictable, those contracts will price that in or renegotiate. On the long term, inflation has no real impact on the economy.

Uncontrolled, unpredictable inflation (40%)(Zimbabwe, Turkey) is the problem as it incurs more costs on updating prices and renegotiating contracts, which introduces severe distortions on the economy. But we're not anywhere near that.
Fast and Responsive Open-source templates for your next Side-project or Startup
This is interesting as a technical PoC but also feels a bit unethical.

The moral case for ad blocking on the web seems pretty clear: online advertising is built on massive exploitation of user privacy, has horrible UX, and is often implemented so poorly that it tanks pageload performance. In short, I understand why people use ad blockers on the web.

Podcasts though? In RSS-based podcasting, which is what this tool targets, you're typically getting a reasonable quality audio ad, with limited tracking, targeted broadly at the category of people who might listen to a particular podcast; it's about as unobtrusive as advertising gets. Widespread circumvention of those ads could really hurt the ecosystem, which would be particularity frustrating given that podcasting appears to still be a viable space for small scale creators to do great things (e.g. San Charrington and the TWIML AI podcast)

TLDR cool demo but everyone should please think carefully about if or when to use this tool.
As soon as I saw the name "Aaron" and "I make field recordings" I knew I'd stumbled upon a "Quiet American" in the wild. How funny. I still listen to "maritime suite", "annapurna" and "rockets of the mekong" occasionally. Did you ever end up receiving that photo print of the goose I sent you back in 2009?
blm? black lives matter? please explain
Source, "Open Letter to Regeneron ISEF": https://docs.google.com/document/d/1e4vjzp6JgClCFXkbNOweXZno...
Scarlett Johansson has zero claim on voices that sound "similar"
I seem to remember that due to political infighting and ass-covering, they never really tried it. There were competing proposals that they hybridized in broken ways, and nobody in power wanted to commit to have their name on something that might fail or become unpopular.

I recommend the excellent novelization of the period “Red Plenty”. My understanding is that it stays fairly true to the history.
I've enjoyed "nano tape", thick clear stuff you can find on aliexpress or amazon. It's like a step up from mounting putty. Good for stuff like sticking a powerstrip to a desk or wall without drilling holes and using screws. I've also used a piece with the top part covered just to add a little bump to my bathroom vanity to stop a fan I'd set there from falling on the floor. It's pretty strong stuff, so beware using it on paint/drywall as it can rip that off later if removed. Works great on smooth/hard surfaces. There is probably some function overlap with 3M VHB tape, but I found this stuff first and still have a big roll. Plus it looks cool.
That use of "we" has been extremely common on HN.

Fantastic to see someone calling it out as BS.

End users who are not "developers"/"tech bros" who read HN cannot possibly be part of this imaginary "we".
Superpacs have no caps due to 1A.
the roads in areas of Rio Grande do Sul became river. Many people are displaced. The water flooded houses and many people died from the effects of water and electricity.
Yeah, Blender's shortcuts are a hurdle, and Fusion 360's interface can be confusing. I'll check out Tinkercad, thanks!
Given how pointedly opinionated Go is about how codebases should look like (unused variables are a compiler error!?), I'm somewhat surprised that `if err != nil return err` isn't some kind of built in warning. I do think Go as a language encourages this bad behavior.
I put the "NOT IN REPLY TO YOU" since I meant that as a thought experiment of a possible future that where a similar situation may arise. Notice it is not freedom of thought that is in question. What is in question is freedom to share your sensations with others. You are watching a live football game and you share the sensations (what you see / hear / smell) with friends and family who are not there, etc. add to this technology that enables perfect memory of you sensations and instantly sharing them. In that possible future many will litigate and complain that their copyright and broadcast rights are being violated and they must be compensated much like what is happening with generative AI today. Sure this is scifi today. So were "flying machines" and "moon visits" and magic of our global communication pocket devices, etc. Gpt4o is a bunch of matrix math being done on high purity ore and refined sand powered by the sun / wind / splitting atoms / ... A century back few would believe it. Even a decade back, any predictions about a real AI like gpt4o working in just a decade, would you believe such predictions?
I recommend some type of testing. Even subject specific.

And for most desirable institutions just outright auction for certain amount of spots. Let the rich bid for spot and the money spend to subsidise others.
Many, many years ago I participated in ISEF, so this is personally disappointing to me. I'll echo some of the sibling comments about the difference between kids who did the project alone versus parents/lab mentors who ... ahem ... contributed significantly to the project. In contrast, my project was entirely self-made and therefore not very impressive, but it had some gimmicks in how I presented it which managed to impress judges at the school and regional levels, enough to send me to ISEF.

ISEF was an amazing experience, especially as a kid from a school that was nothing special. Our school was so excited that they hired a public speaking specialist to work with me to prepare. Looking back, that training in public speaking directly contributed to many successes in my career decades down the line. Plus the experience of going to ISEF still brings back positive memories. I never felt like I belonged - there were some amazingly smart kids there - but the social camaraderie and the ability to meet kids that thought it was cool to be smart was eye opening.

As far as "making mistakes when you're 17" - yeah, I made mistakes then too, but I certainly paid the price for them. Especially when you make conscious decisions to defraud and falsify, if these allegations can be proven. There should be serious consequences for this.
> Living in a world where I don't have a host of different power bricks in my travel bag any more, [...]

Huh? I don't have to do that, either. I only have different cables, but the power brick is the same.
That article is interesting for exactly what it doesn't say.

"Climate" does not appear in that article. Flood plain. Dam.

> According to the group, Rio Grande do Sul lost 22 percent of its native vegetation, or 3.6 million hectares (8.9 million acres), from 1985 to 2022.

https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20240522-experts-say-de...

The burning question I have that maybe is too far off topic for news of a disaster, is how fast and in what magnitude do we learn about our mistakes?
> I am aware that shipping has less environmental impact, but was it really the intention that the clothes should have the same transportation impact when being "recycled" as when they were first manufactured?

The transportation impact is minuscule either way, so I don't think it matters which side is slightly bigger or smaller?
In the ECAD world design rules and design rule check exists to prevent or at least detect that.

Then it is just up to you or your organization to come up with a design rule set that ensures your boards can be manufactured by the board house.
This looks great! As an engineer who has used Mixpanel at multiple companies it has always annoyed me that what you get for what you pay seems quite poor, so I'm very happy to see some alternatives.

I'm also happy to note that you are from (the wrong part of ;)) Sweden.
I am not so optimistic. I think LLMs and massive AI processing might be the last hurrah before a long early-2000s desert walk for big tech.

Essentially we are at peak personal computing: End-users are just as well served by the laptop they had 10 years ago and the mobile phone they had 5 years ago, as they ones they have today.

Don't get me wrong; LLMs are useful and exciting and so are other forever upcoming things from CS - say microkernels ... but that doesn't mean they can justify an arbitrary large valuation. Ultimately these things are worth no more than the value they can generate for their end-users.

Right now big tech is betting it all on LLMs. It's a perfect match for big tech - requires massive amounts of capital and just a tiny number of highly paid specialists.

But after having spent billions and their best minds. This is what they come up with: An app running on your PC that takes a screenshot of your desktop every n seconds and feeds that into an LLM that you then can interact with. Requiring completely new hardware and massive amounts of computing resources.

So that you can go - "I looked at a brown leather bag earlier - what website was it at?" and similar.

All has value I am sure, but also probably limited value. And could have been supported much more straight forward and with much less computing power through traditional software.
I have done nothing of the sort. All I stated was what happened at my company. The developers are free to do what they wish and I haven't asked them to change in any forum, ticket, or issue tracker.
... I was talking about the startups. I really hope the people survive.
I believe you're confusing "mistake" with "accident".
Is it unethical to fast-forward through ads?

How about if I turn the volume down during ads, is that morally wrong?

Maybe I play ads at regular speed and volume, but I think about something other than the ads while they play, is that wrong?

Perhaps a truly ethical consumer would listen intently to every ad, rewinding every time their mind wanders, pausing the audio every few seconds to take copious notes.
I recently noticed that Cloudflare issued multiple, year-long certificates for one of my domains that has NOTHING to do with Cloudflare services. Trying to get them revoked has been an exercise in frustration and futility.
In that regard, given the set of gc enabled systems languages that predated both of them, I consider both had quite a few unfortunate decisions, exactly regarding value types, low level coding, and AOT compilation.

Both went with more Smalltalk and less Modula-3, even though they acknowledge influence of those languages, among others.
I think the project itself sounds very intriguing and I am sure to follow how it evolves.
But I have to agree with you about the website. There are also some little inconveniences in there that are sure to annoy a technical minded person. Like the links on the upper right corner (GitHub etc.) that are not in fact links (<a>).