skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are right, but the very need to do the hard work of informing yourself, to the point of becoming a semi expert in sofa construction and what to look for, reduces the value of what the sofa-seller is offering. The point of an economy where everyone specialises on what they are good at, is that you the buyer don’t need to become an expert. Its part of the value addition. This value addition mechanism is failing in your argument [because I need to become a semi expert first, i.e. this isn’t part of what I am buying]

The problem here is trust. The trust that the monetary amount I am paying is equivalent to the real value I am getting. And that our society accepts that it is a sound business model if this trust is broken.
gluten itself doesn't seem to be the problem for many ppl, but it opens the pores in the gut lining and lets other allergens through. There's another one glutinin on which there isn't much research, seems to have same effect.
Since Australia was mentioned, let an Australian tell you something about the history behind Australia economic policies.

Australia experienced boom times after WW2. It has a strong manufacturing industry. It's not well remembered now, but back them agricultural machinery designed and made here was regarded as some of the best. But we aren't a big country, so economy of scale did not work in our favour.

We responded by raising tariffs. It saved the manufacturing base, but that's the only good thing that could be said for it. Every other economic indicator was going backwards. After a few decades of that a politician named Paul Keating famously (well, it was famous here anyway) said the policy was turning us into a banana republic [0]. We made him Treasurer, and later Prime Minister. During that time he tore down tariffs, and removed other non-tariffs barriers such as the one our bank system hid behind.

The policy had a rocky start, climaxing in the recession in 1991 Keating said we "had to have" and interest rates hitting 18%. Unlike the USA where fixed interest rates are common, in Australia that means everyone is paying 18%. I remember it well. The memory still hurts.

It's 33 years later now. We have not had another recession. 33 years of continuous growth. The free trade policy is pretty much set in stone now. We dismantled what was left of our car manufacturing industry a few years ago. Everything we do have to be world competitive, or it goes. Did you know Google maps is Australian? There were do satellite mapping companies at the time. Google bought one. The other one, Near Map, is still turning out better satellite maps than Google.

Anyway, the point is if someone pushed Australia to close it's economic borders they would get one mother of a push back.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Keating#Macroeconomic_ref...
What I'm saying is capitalism isn't working the way people say that it works, and the way people want it to work. Now obviously a lot of ink has been spilled about what exactly capitalism is, so you're not going to get a mathematically specific list of definitions that everyone agrees on.

But the main idea is that modern businesses are undermining the efficient allocation of resources.

> therefore something(?) should be illegal

What did I say should be made illegal?

> You are mindreading and focused on putting down the messenger.

No I'm not. Suspecting that you've never thought about sofa joins is very reasonable, you might be the only person I've ever communicated with who has ever done this. You feel put down because I think you're not a sofa expert?

> Why not discuss this amorphous idea that is always attempted to be rebutted and never can be?

If you want to discuss amorphous ideas you will need to accept they might have some merit. Not being able to put your finger on something can be challenging, but that doesn't mean there's nothing there.

> Again, when we come down from the castles in the air, what are we asking for here?

Is that a requirement? I have to have a demand? Sorry, but I'm writing a few thoughts from the comfort of my bed and expecting others to constructively contribute, like one does here.
this one can also be helpful: https://allendowney.github.io/ThinkDSP/
And that's what is stopping NixOS from ever being main stream. It will always occupy this obscure corner of OS's that basically nobody uses.
How is "modern capitalism" to blame? Modern capitalism allowed a small business to sell you the higher quality option, and you were able to direct your purchasing power to the product you wanted. If you convince more consumers to do the same (like you are) big brands will loose money and change. That's capitalism.

The best term I can come up with to describe the phenomenon you dislike is _modern consumerism_ (although not perfectly accurate). Many people now want more new stuff cheaper. That's what drives companies to produce things more cheaply.
Am continuing to reflect on this, so may have more to say later, but what struck me first was the commitment to openness with FineWeb, it is impressive and thorough (eg all the scripts they actually used are available and linked to, not just the finished data)
> Where are you living, if you don't mind sharing? I don't know about any place where expressing eurosceptic views would get you called "far right", let alone a Nazi.

Try the largest German-speaking subreddit, for example.
Great watches, I'm a bit sad my Garmin Instinct spoiled more classic wristwatches for me — with GPS and a lot of sensors, and an actually functional flashlight, I cannot imagine giving up that valuable wristspace for a bit of added beauty (fortunately it looks decent with an aftermarket strap).
HTML isn't a "tree of elements" though; it's about content token sequences described by regular languages where the symbols can also represent nested markup. The regular content model stuff is what drives SGML/HTML tag omission/inference and is a major feature of markup languages as a text format compared to primitive co-inductive expression syntax a la s-expr and co.
Hooray for lifestyle businesses!

I started my company in 1999 with my wife and I around the kitchen table. My vision: a consulting company that never told a lie to a client. With that philosophy and 25 years of work we have built the company into two people around the same kitchen table.
Apple's proposed algorithm was probably the best so far.

The problem is not going away, we in tech are partly responsible and we should promote good ways to deal with it. If we don't then a solution will be found anyway, it'll just be a bad one.
This is not reality TV, it's important that you cast a vote aligned with your views, not who is most likely to win or loose. If you're unsure which party represents your views, you can use tools like https://euandi.eu/

The EU structure is democratic, you can see a summary of each body and how its formed at https://european-union.europa.eu/institutions-law-budget/lea...
So where does it say how much operators can charge in their plans? Nowhere.

They are free to say texts are free (included in plan), or texts are charged at 10 euros each, whatever.

The EU only limits surcharges when roaming to other EU countries.

Jeez, guys.

Edit:

I am not backing away from anything, I was rephrasing to sustain your strange cross-examination. You guys are being unecessarily aggressive and argumentative over a simple point.

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

"don't cross-examine."

It's Sunday, guys. Do something positive with your time. Bye.
You can message anyone using the internet.
It seems to only be resolving on some providers
In Poland, 4.70€/mo will get you unlimited calls and texts. Can be purchased on pre-paid plans as a 30-day package, no need for post-paid plans.
Or avoid cutting by using a book scanner e.g. https://www.amazon.co.uk/CZUR-Professional-Document-Auto-Fla...
Crediting the EU with peace while Israel and Ukraine are actively at war is a bit much.
If only these conversations were recorded somewhere. They would be wonderful to read.
Untangle an IPSEC issue – traffic selectors unacceptable (2022)
I believe you're vastly overselling driving. We're talking saving ~10 minutes on the mean ride, at a huge increase in cost (and IMO, health).

Source:

>>> Differences between cities [public transportation vs car transportation times] mainly concern the magnitude of the ratio, where the car is remarkably faster than public transit in Los Angeles but _not that much in Tokyo and Seoul._ (Emphasis mine)

```

PT travel time (minutes) Min: 9 Max: 121 Mean: 52.8

Car travel time (minutes) Min: 11 Max: 123 Mean: 41.8

PT travel cost (¥). Min: 110 Max: 1290 Mean: 430.8

Car travel cost (¥) Min: 149 Max: 6138 Mean:2102.6

```

Source: Altieri, M., Silva, C., & Terabe, S. (2021). Keep pushing! Analysing public transit and car competitiveness in Tokyo. Case Studies on Transport Policy, 9(2), 457–465. doi:10.1016/j.cstp.2021.02
Counting the number of hours in science does not really matter. This work is full of incredibly productive eureka minutes in the middle of unlucky boring days or weeks of stunted progress. Scientists don't stop thinking on the problems when they go home. Some significant advances happened even by scientists while dreaming. In some cases sleeping time definitely should count as hours on office, having in mind the results.

If we could remove the bureaucracy load from them, scientists could work even less hours without losing productivity or even increasing it (See: Stephen Hawking).
FBI raids Cortland Management in Atl; DOJ rental/housing market probe
I mean, politicians who push bad wars do far, far more damage than a terrorist ever could. Politicians who push authoritarian domestic policies instill fear into the hearts of more people than a terrorist ever could.
>It's almost impossible to solved political issues using only technology.

It's extremely possible to solve political issues using technology. If you consider the government infringing people's right to put whatever substance they want into their body to be a political issue, it's been pretty much entirely solved by crypto and darknet markets for drugs.
Why 'super-commuters' fly hundreds of miles to work
You can already write your Javascript in Scala so the game is afoot.
A bit verbose, but I can see it working if media queries are added. Why one would chose this over vanilla CSS I don't quite know but there is worse out there.
PyCon US 2024 Recap
Wow, that sounds a tough thing to go through. Hope you are going in the right direction. I had a partial rupture of my achilles 12 years ago and it is still different and still feels like something I need to work around. But I have adapted.
Nah, the people who force you to put your home address on your blog just care about individual privacy and consumer rights.
> It seemed like the sheer volume of food

30 ml of olive oil is about 300 calories. 50 grams of peanut butter is 250 calories. Edamame / tofu (soy) has about 18 g of proteins per 100g. Beans have about 17 g per 100g. Peanut butter has 25 g of proteins.

Protein daily needs is 0.8 grams per kilogram of body weight.

I dunno boss, doesn't seem like a very high volume of food.
If you get out of the US bubble, the prices are simply insane

fix a sofa: it's equivalent to a month's salary/stipend here in Asia. 200 bowls of noodle (if it's a cheap noodle then it's more like 500)

new sofa: "new leather sofas of the “not flat-packed sawdust and glue” variety quickly get into five figures"
So like a year's worth of stipend/expenses

Could be that just the US dollar is crazy - but until the economic disbalances of the world doesn't equilibrate (that's on a centenial scale), it's never going to make sense to fix a sofa

"But I’d sure vote for a political party that convinced me it was trying to achieve that"

The only way you can achieve this is by going full North Korea and self sufficient. There is no real upside to this fantasy
Lua is both cool and not, depends on how you look at it. I used it for several years before going elsewhere. I wrote a graphical toolkit with animations in it (based on pango/cairo), embedded it for a business-objects platform and used in Quik trading platform for trading bots.

It’s very nice, but it has rough edges that never get addressed, despite being proposed in the mailing list in every proposal phase.

__newindex only works once, then it’s not “new” anymore. You have to proxy your table with an empty table and a metatable, also make sure you now implement all metamethods for your proxy table to be indexable, iterable, #-able, tostringable and so on. No __setindex for you. Every version of Lua has little changes in there (it uses no semver), so your 5.x iteration protocol/etc are bound to that x. Why would you upgrade then? Cause every 5.x lacks something you really want and it’s in 5.<x+1>. There’s also something you don’t want.

“a and b or c” and “b or c” paradigm doesn’t work with boolean “false”, because it’s unsurprisingly as false as nil. It’s not haskell vibes, it’s a lack of ?: and ?? operators right there. Nil/false are basically second class citizens in Lua cause only these two share the same room, also nil is prohibited from any array.

Lua ignores most syntactic ergonomics. You can’t destructure a table, everything has to be “local a, b, c = t.a, t.b, t.c”. And vice versa: “{a=a, b=b, c=c}”, which is syntactically non-fixable due to table duality. Its “…” literal has inconvenient semantics of collapsing before another argument: f(…, x) is equivalent to f({…}[1], x). So you have to “local t = {…}; table.insert(t, x); f(unpack(t))”. No way you can get something like t.push(x) either, for reasons too long for a medium sized comment. Lua is also highly function-esque, but there’s no way to shorten “function (x) return <mylambda> end”.

Also its gc is pretty much stop the world. They experimented with it in recent versions, but at 5.1 times you didn’t expect your complex scripts to not freeze for a substantial amount of frames if you “wow so simple”d them and created {} here and there. It takes time to collect the garbage.

Rocks, Lua package manager tends to build everything locally, but your windows box ecosystem is out of luck. If you can’t find a pre-built dll, you’re in the mud. That’s windows fault, but your problem at the end of the day. Luckily you can make it yourself, cause Lua has great C API and LuaJIT has ffi. No /s here, I made all my wrappers and connectors myself.

Overall it’s a nice language idea, fully functional prototype, you name it. It works in the falling in love phase and has unique features for a non-esoteric lang. But don’t expect too much from it in a “marriage” if you’re one of those who want things to get out your way and you don’t get why an obvious feature cannot be done for ideological reasons while compatibility gets broken regularly anyway.

I understand that this post looks negative, but that’s because it enumerates only downsides, which are real, although sometimes subjective. I have pretty fond memories of it, but still had to move on.
Probably because they know it's not politically popular. As members of the EU, they can work with their commissioners to bring in unpopular legislation and then blame the eu if anyone complains. The UK used to do this a lot, and I expect other countries do it too.
It's up to your country to determine how tedious they want to make it. For a counter example, as an Estonian citizen, I can vote in these EU elections via the internet using my private, government certified, P-384 key.
http://archive.today/GQ2TE
> In conversation with venture capitalists, you hear the phrase “lifestyle business”, meaning one that is doing nicely and rewarding the people who run it and which isn’t planning for unbounded growth. The words “lifestyle business” are always, of course, uttered in a voice dripping with contempt.

This makes me wonder what other type of business is there? How do VCs describe their business, what is their aim? Is it to be 'king of the world'? Have more money than god? Have power to control others?

If that's it, lifestyle businesses sound much more human. Who wants to pretend to be god, rather than being oneself?
They don't even indicate PHEV vs hybrid!

Hybrid is often just slightly better gas range, but gas engine regardless.

You pay more, and might break even years later.

PHEVs often (these days) have 60mi range, or more on battery, but you have no range anxiety with gas backup.

It's a big difference.
The embedded space would definitely prefer the ‘fixed size’ problem that this data structure claims to solve.
E2E encryption would prevent anyone from intercepting texts by mathematic certainty.

At least on a mass scale, if we worry about back doors.

This SaaS fad is the underlying technical enabler of the spying and need to go away.

I guess Google is the main culprit by making P2P coms hard.

Asking faceless corps to open their users' mailboxes willy nilly is way easier then asking the voters to.
That's what I was thinking. Probably some illegal content on the forums that caused someone to file something to cause drastic measures
At some point a politician does have to make a decision on these things.

The decision won't look like "should anyone who introduces an additional brand of deodorant be thrown in prison?" but more like "should we give a tax break to this deodorant company here, or to that aerospace company there?" Or "should deodorant imports from China be treated as healthcare products, at a 15% tariff, or cosmetics, which get a 30% tariff?"

When making that decision, you need to take into account whether your citizens already have adequate suppliers of deodorant and cruise missiles.

You might not like this situation, and have an idealistic answer like "We shouldn't have tax breaks for anyone, there should be a flat corporate tax of X%", but you're not going to get that genie back into the bottle.
Article 12 of the declaration of Human Rights :

No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.

Bugging communications by investigators with special approval is already an exception to this principle. Government bodies that make sure that laws conform to the constitution should veto any exception broader than that, so this draft should basically be pointless.

It feels like there are social/political mechanisms at work that allow that to however happen. They pave the road to Hell little by little, one stone at a time, and this is neither strange nor entertaining. To me, the beginning of this century has similarities with the beginning of the previous, which is quite worrying.
> Public transportation isn't exactly cheap when used every day. Then factor in your time and frustration. Nothing is as expensive as your time.

Public transport is cheap for an individual, and when many people use it, it reduces traffic and pollution.

Cars have the opposite effect. They are expensive for an individual, and when many people use them, it increases traffic and pollution…

Don’t aim to increase cars on the road, it’s better and cheaper for everyone to improve public transport
Ask HN: Sci-Fi/fantasy concept that you felt REAL?
Recently I watched the show "Upload" from Amazon Prime and it got me thinking that the concept being displayed might not be too far from here. It didn't even feel that strange as the show progressed.

The AI learns feelings from humans, real-time thought interpretation. Maybe 10-20 years from now on it might be true at [some] level.

what I want to ask is, have you consumed such content maybe from movies or books or blogs that were sci-fi but it felt more real?
Ask HN: Equivalent to sexy-bash-prompt in zsh
originally written for bash https://github.com/twolfson/sexy-bash-prompt
I believe Roblox's Luau would be suitable for this case? It's got pretty good performance and typing support. Still supports metatables I think (they needed backwards compatibility with old Lua 5.1 code), but it's a start ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I didn't mean their cut was that high, I'm estimating the total amount $ processed raised by that percentage due to easier and more persistent tipping options
Deliberate manipulation of the Overton window is, unfortunately, nothing new.
How to Walk and Talk: Everything We Know (2023) [pdf]
Steam Deck: I like it
true!

Site works fine though when you override steamcommunity.com with the ip 104.96.144.90 in your hosts file
You could argue from the perspective of the server this is a true statement. The message does not exist. If the server stored a history of messages, current and deleted, it would not be in the logs. What you received is something different. Like a message but not a message.
Except in the real world when the "pied piper brings out his flute again" he goes to jail.
Reminded me of the Embarcadero Freeway in SF, which was torn down in 1991 after being damaged by the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake:

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-story-of-the-embarca...

"The city adapted to the new traffic network with few problems"
GB has their own version of chat control: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Safety_Act_2023
Which Starbucks have you been to? All the ones I go to have gross bathrooms topped with whatever heavy chemical smell they use to etch the sins off the bathroom floor with.

I totally hear you on the taste, it comes off as smoky to me. The blond roast espresso is more mild on that.
> Not at all, OOP type theory is OOP type theory.

Tell that to Google. OOP type theory returns mostly Category type theory as results.

What sources do you have on OOP type theory? Our OOP classes were heavy on practical part and less so on theory.

> Rust has enough features from OOP type systems

It's missing inheritance. Without inheritance applying OOP design patterns just fails miserably.

So on one side you have stuff like Java, C++, JS, Ruby, Python and on the other Rust.

> Static and dynamic polymorphism, methods, data encapsulation, type dispatch, all there.

By that definition, Python isn't object oriented (no encapsulation), and C is.

I think it's much more natural to reason about types on what they can do versus some nebulous definition.

I mean any language worth its salt will have encapsulation. It's how you preserve your invariants.

Method is mostly just syntax sugar.

And static/dynamic polymorphism is just a fancy way to say we have function overloading and/or templates and/or vtables (even if using pointer casts).
Most developed countries now have below replacement level birth rates
I didn't say anything about it working or not, did I? The only thing I pointed out was that that leaving the EU isn't going to change parent's idea about leaving the EU to avoid voting left or right. Your comment doesn't apply or mean anything to me. I don't live in Europe nor do I follow all their politics enough to have a skin in the game.
Now the application processor is so cheap that Apple puts one in their display out of spite.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Studio_Display#:~:text=T....
A wireless controlled robotic insect with ultrafast untethered running speeds [pdf]
I am using a special keyboard that outputs these sequences automatically. Must my keyboard driver send the keypresses to the EU? Fine, here are they: AFC628BCF627.

I understand Signal is handicapped now, but I couldn’t care less about Signal. I only care about being able to communicate in private. Why don’t we implement this stuff at a lower layer?

Surely the guys on top must see this is an endless game that they will never win? It’s not an arm’s race, it’s fundamentally impossible.
This ignores the problem of client-side scanning of private messages.
"Legislators issued a document: Questioning Hong Kong’s determination to promote Web3 and its delusional attempt to promote zero-risk innovation".-
>The 2022 US Treasury report alleged that SouthFront was sanctioned in part for being "owned or controlled by, or for having acted or purported to act for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, the FSB"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SouthFront