skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Federal spending projections for 2024 were revised to $6.8 trillion, or 24.2% of GDP

Why don't they mention that that total federal tax revenue was only $4.44 trillion?

So the us is spending trillion a year more than it takes in and is issuing more debt to make that up.

I believe the INTEREST accumulated over the decades is now more than military spending.
Houthi attacks in the Red Sea, merchant traffic through Suez Canal down >50%
> corporate executives are the kind of people who could have a lot of money invested in commercial real estate

Sure, many of them do.

But there's something else they are far more invested in: their company (through huge pay and even larger stock option grants).

I don't buy this meme that CxOs are willing to hurt company efficiency just to protect personal real estate investments, when for nearly all executive (I'm sure there's some exception but not enough to matter) they own far more share in the company than in their side business in real estate.
The implication is that people just don't spend much time talking about jhanas at all.

There are ~3,000 living billionaires. People talk about them continuously. Their actions are studied, their motives are studied, their contribution to society continuously assessed. The top few are household names.

There are countless living people who achieve jhanas. The topic comes up in conversation basically never. I know someone who I'd confidently say has gotten there. It hasn't yet inspired them to do anything new and they generally don't bring it up in conversation with people since it leads to a lot of woo and disagreement.
Thanks for the suggestions!

I agree that scamming is an issue with few marketplaces. We're trying to add different user scoring methods to show how reliable the seller/buyer is based on their behaviors. We're also trying to see if we can cut deals with daycares and orient the user acquisition/experience centered around them. My hypothesis is that it comes with credibility if we acquire them from daycares around us.

Do you have any other thoughts?
>In the last week, Houthi forces killed a merchant mariner, sunk a commercial ship and forced a crew to abandon another in flames. The attacks come as the Houthis continue to escalate its eight-month campaign against commercial traffic in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden.

>Comparative data from Marine Traffic suggests that the Houthi attacks have led to a 79.6 percent drop in drybulk carriers going through the Suez Canal in June 2024 versus June 2023. The recent attacks and sinking of Tutor is expected to lead to an additional rise in insurance costs for companies planning to send ships through the Red Sea.
So you'd ban 50% of planes too (Airbus)?
Discussion (29 points, 11 hours ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40777114
Maybe I'm just not aware of the evidence. The skullduggery in "Barbarians Led by Bill Gates" looks to be absent these days
Company linked to federal execution spree will no longer produce key drug
Make More Manhattan
Nadella's MSFT is plenty underhanded. You only have to look as far as their last two major OS versions. Last four to five if you want to count everything they did to 7-8.1 to get people on 10. But even just on 10 and 11 there's plenty of anti-user nastiness. And more is getting cooked up every day.[0]

[0] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/06/microsoft-removes-do...
I'm not sure the comparison is apt. The Brits who comprised America at the start did not forfeit their English heritage in 1776 or at any other time. Modern Americans share Shakespeare as a direct and pivotal cultural ancestor just as modern Brits do. The connection was never lost.
I worked it out when the (actively) working on broke compilation after returning from my lunch break. If MS can't get OneDrive to work well with Visual Studio then what hope is there for true third-party products?
Handover of unpublished manuscripts of A. Grothendieck to the BNF (2023)
It's not snooping btw, this is information the sender provided. Would be hard to deliver the mail otherwise....
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> concerned about the political implications for journalism

As I recall, Wikileaks made the choice to take sides in politics, so the blame lies with them.
That was identified as fraud, and Spotify took action against it.

https://www.billboard.com/pro/spotify-removed-thousands-song...
It's language specific, I believe. I know in our African language we use Humans (niit) or Children of Adam (domu Adama) when referring humans and humanity.
For those who don’t know the obvious reason behind his persecution is Wikileaks revealing embarrassing US secrets (re: embassy cables and Bradley/Chelsea Manning) and publishing IS war crimes in Iraq (re: collateral murder).
When I was a child, my dad restricted my computer access for a day. I retaliated by putting

@echo off
:loop
echo You is a fool
goto loop

in `autoexec.bat`. I did my part in highlighting flaws in Microsoft.
Yeah I agree with your point of view for clothing related things. We're also getting most of our clothes from our friends.

I think it becomes more difficult when you're looking to buy things outside of kids clothes tho. Things like strollers or baby bouncers - more expensive, short usage.

Facebook marketplace is the most popular one for those, but I generally feel that I don't usually trust those sellers and it's a bit of hassle to get through that. We're trying to see if there's an angle that we can go to address those issues.
Show HN: Digital goods selling for disinterested creators
I just launched https://unrono.com, a platform specifically aimed at creators who aren't interested in spending time monetizing their work.

I've been creating digital assets for my own use for years, but they just sit on my hard drive because I don't want to bother dealing with "beating the algorithm", making my storefront look nice, answering refund questions, etc. So I build a site for someone like me:

- No customization features.

- No product variants, bundles, sales, etc.

- No algorithm (stores are isolated).

- No dealing with refunds. Instead customers see the file tree and you can provide a portion of the product as a free sample.

Sellers have an account management page, product upload/update/edit page, and that's it. I do not plan on adding more features as I want to keep the site simple.

The fee per sale is 2.5% which I feel is pretty reasonable and also keeps the site positive.

I'd appreciate any feedback on how I could improve the user experience!
i typed a literal comma, and then the tab button, and it put in the baker's dozen other characters. I only did this to see if "this doesn't work in powershell" was true, turns out it is not true.

if i have ,foo.exe and ,cuda_install.exe in a directory (or on my path), it's two characters and then a tab, same as linux, to run either of them: ,c || ,f

anyhow, it was for my own edification.
But video proves no claims. No skid marks, no locked steering. Looks like he just ripped too fast and didn't have enough distance to brake.

> mods nerfed this submission into the ground

Because it's Jalopnik, known anti-EV and especially anti-Tesla page ran by Gawker. Look at all the submissions from the domain and tell me they aren't biased.
Never leave your treasures in the house of someone you literally don't know.
(aichat in tangential comment looks much better) Besides aider and ollama, I think shell_gpt https://github.com/TheR1D/shell_gpt is great for quick chats / lookups. Being able to quickly cat files to repl sessions saves a lot of time.

I need to integrate distil whisper large v3, aider, and shell_gpt to tidy up a lot of my disjointed LLM use. As someone else mentioned, the commits created by aider allow me to "skip" some intermediate steps that would be required when working on coding tasks with other frameworks.
A healthy, well-proportioned human form looks nice to most of us basically at a genetic level. The whole point of good fit is to further accentuate/bring out that form. Saying fit is way less important than shape makes no sense, they go completely hand-in-hand. And 'style' is completely subjective.
A good chance dead.
Or until republicans ruin the earth and make things bad enough that even they agree to introduce legislation relegating what businesses can do to the extent other developed countries have.
> Also people had little understanding of the scale of things. There is nothing indicating that the moon is smaller than earth or that the sun is much, much bigger than earth, and both appear equally large in the sky...

The Ancient Greeks were actually quite clever about trying to calculate things:

* https://physicsteacher.blog/2021/05/31/from-the-earth-to-the...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Sizes_and_Distances_(Ar...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Sizes_and_Distances_(Hippar...
ok, how is that different from iOS, ChromeOS, macOS, or Android?

I'm mostly a linux user, but the idea of having to sync with a stupid cloud account to use a commercial OS is kinda how things work these days. Don't you even have to do that dumb stuff for things like Photoshop now?

If so, singling out MSFT as some egregious malcontent for this sounds more like salacious headlines
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Indonesia in general is somewhat of a colonial project. Sukarno had large visions of a great Indonesian empire, and what the people who actually lived there thought of that wasn't really his main concern.

Arguably the occupation of West-Papua is the worst of that. Also because there's just so little attention to it.
I do believe Archive.org is, ironically, "too big to fail"... I would be INCREDIBLY surprised if it ever goes offline.
There might be some conditions where it didn't work exactly like it should, i.e. when I enter mine and press brake before car booted up and try shift into drive it says press brake first, even when it's pressed already.
I found this interview on it better than the documentary itself (which scrubbed out a lot of the US role): https://www.democracynow.org/shows/2013/7/19?autostart=true
> they tell me that about once a month.

So fix that.
No matter how much we conspire to destroy the environment on earth, by burning fuel or nuclear war or otherwise, the earth (or parts of it) will likely be more hospitable to humans than any other alternative. We can shoot some vials of DNA towards Alpha Centauri etc, but so much for the interplanetary humanistic escapists.
I think there needs to be at least an attempt at monitoring people for some time and making sure they are not spending the money on something that will make their situation even worse. If they did this, then in theory you could have a really good success rate, although I admit I do not know the details of the logistics there. The alternative to just give out free money with no strings attached is potentially much worse because it will just attract all the people that can get away with it.

We should help people but also the government should not be so naive to think everyone is an honest actor, especially when it comes to free money. If Denver officially launches this without the proper screening and monitoring, I could bet that their situation will get worse as many will move there just for that reason.
Yes. I would extend that. An external hosted service - Google, Microsoft, whatever - wrong tool for the job. Great for easy access but not really a long-term repository. You can lose access to the account through so many ways. And there's no guarantee these services will always be there. Get a few flash drives. Do some backups. Maybe even store some "offsite" with a relative. Just have to remember to update periodically.
>the Russians have just switched to directly releasing on Twitter.

Or more frequently just making shit up. Enough people will believe it anyway if they're politically inclined to do so, plausible details are not a required element.
Hopefully they keep it up. I'm one person but I went from a few surface pro iterations to two surface laptop iterations to framework 13 exactly to be able to repair and replace parts. I like to think it's part of a trend.
So I think there are many different marketplaces, but I don't personally find them as useful because of a few reasons - when I'm a seller, the buyers are flaky; as a buyer, I'm worried about being scammed (and it actually happened to me once).

Delivery is an option that we're contemplating now. If we were to build it, it'll be in next few months to try it out.

On the monetization front, we're thinking introducing in-app payment processing and adding delivery options to take commissions. I'm not sure how excited the users are going to be yet tho, so that'd be the challenge
I'm late to this, but your comments in this thread broke the HN guidelines extremely badly, not just in this comment but also these others:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40720177

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40713066

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40713015

I'm not commenting on whether you're right or wrong about biology, obviously—I have no idea. But it's not ok to violate HN's rules like this, regardless of how right you are or feel you are. I appreciate that you've been a biophysicist for 30 years and we certainly want that people with that depth of expertise on HN, but even more important is that you not put down or ridicule others.

I know that in the history of science and academia there has at times been a culture of hard-nosed ridicule of others who are deemed to be wrong and/or not knowledgeable enough to enter a discussion. Perhaps that approach is still vital in some professional circles, maybe? I don't know, but I can tell you for sure that on an open internet forum like HN, such an approach just poisons everything it touches.

Incidentally, if you do happen to be right, that makes it even worse to post these sorts of attacks, because then you end up giving people a reason to discredit you which has nothing to do with the truth. Lots of past explanation about this if anyone cares: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor....

You've broken the site guidelines since then too, so this is unfortunately a pattern:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40744320

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40739423

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
Called it: https://old.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/1c8vkid/idos_is_hope...
I see - thanks for the info. I'll check them out.
I can't help with the account closure, but I can guarantee you that your account was not closed because of a face your kid made. That's not something any automated tool would detect, and if it was private nobody should have reported the video either which would have triggered anything.

I can tell you that YouTube is not the right place for storing family videos. Google Photos is more appropriate for that, and you should be using Google Takeout on a regular basis to back everything up to a hard drive or secondary cloud service.

We should all be aware by now that what in 1995 was "my hard drive stopped working and I lost all my data", is now in 2024 "my account got closed and I lost all my data". As consumers, we now back up primarily not because disks break, but because we lose access.

(I'm not condoning Google here, just saying that this is the sad reality with any cloud provider.)
Stop accepting Jalopnik as truthful. It's part of Gawker media empire and spews crack on EVs (esp. Tesla) every day.
> What is the lesson here?

At least part of that lesson is that if you engage in partisan politics with your 'journalism' then you instantly become a great deal less sympathetic with about half the population. That includes a bunch of people in positions with enough power to make your life complicated.
In the original Cinderella, the slipper was made of fur, not glass. Still now, fur slipper is slang for... Well, you know.
What is it they say about correlation?

I'm not a scientist but in a group of 60 year olds doom-scrolling in bed vs those who just read a book (or even just go to sleep) is it outside the realm of possibly that the former group may be more likely have other aspects to their life that are unhealthy general?
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>“knowingly and unlawfully conspired with Chelsea Manning to commit the following offenses against the United States…”.

Why are you quoting that part rather than any of the actual offenses? He undoubtedly conspired with Manning to receive classified documents for the purpose of publishing them, which is what the plea details.

Part (a) even says he "received or obtained" classified documents from a person knowing that they were illegally obtained. It doesn't say he helped with the illegal obtaining.
In the US constitution it's just stated plainly, without justification.
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You should learn it, it produces much nicer looking documents.

Anyway if you want to edit word documents properly you have to unzip them and then write XML (eww). So this is the easiest option.
Edit: never mind, I've been corrected below, sorry. (Original wrong comment follows for context.)

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No, YouTube has no concept of authorized viewers the way Google Docs/Drive does.

YouTube private videos only need the URL.
I mean, he literally had a show on, and was paid to do so by, the Russian state media. And then later on failed to publish a set of Russian documents that were leaked to him, and also coordinated with (not just received leaks from) someone who turned out to be GRU.

Reasonable minds can differ here, I don't think it's bad faith to suggest he might have been acting specifically towards Russian interests - if not originally, then later on.
> but for me the alternative is to conclude that I'm having a multi-day hallucination.

Or that you didn't consider all relevant factors, like if you used the latest image like the other use did, as they asked?
> saying that if you crave the creative portion of the SWE job, sales engineering is not going to cut it for you.

To me, this is what separates customer-facing engineering from product engineering: do you enjoy solving people problems in addition to technical ones?

If so, you'll probably enjoy SE & CS.

If not, then stick to product engineering.

Personally, I get a decent kick out of solving problems. Whether that's because I aligned 3 VPs or wrote a technical solution doesn't change the enjoyment.

That said, I definitely wouldn't enjoy solving problems without any technical component.
Discussion (146 points, 52 days ago, 96 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40248721
Apple have managed to get themselves into a monopolistic position. Actually it's a duopoly. It doesn't matter if there are alternatives to Android and iPhone, those are the majority of devices to something like 99%. If you want to access that marketplace you need to go through one of those 2 gatekeepers and they have similar rules. This is the exact kind of situation that monopoly laws are there to address. Apple have been hugely successful. No-one is proposing to take the success away from them, but they are taking away some of apple and Google's ability to control the market they've captured.
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I don’t think that’s accurate. YouTube has “unlisted” and “private”. What you refer to is unlisted. Private is only for the owner of the video.
Thanks for the tip! I hope this works, as YouTube banned all my private christmas videos from the 80s.
How is it different? Because MS was not known for this sort of hostility. "Not acting like Google" was a feature.
I got to witness the decline of Xerox low volume printer/copier repair division in canada : They used to have really happy old guys who kept getting more and more vacation time as they worked their for years. They did really cool things like custom software running on internet explorer (teehee) to share repair tips globally, and they payed bonuses to encourage employees to share.

Then decided to switch to cheap disposable contractors (lucky me) They went full disgusting corpo bullshit: 16.50 an hour, no company vehicle, illegal third party payment middleman and misclassifying you as a "contractor" instead of employee while still controlling every aspect of your day. Of course the meetings were about how profitable they are.
AppFlowy is another big open source entrant, but I haven’t looked at it recently and can’t comment on its qualities.
Maybe not "underrated" but "Jobs only did marketing, Woz did all the technical work" is a very persistent comment I see on the internet when he's brought up.
Do you think that large multinationals are really going to pull out of a market over having to update their disclosures in fine print?

Reducing your applicant pool in a state you don’t operate in because you can’t be bothered to disclose salary is one thing. Closing down branches, losing customers and firing hundreds or thousands of employees in a move that reduces your bottom line is a whole other thing.
The same person also gave a talk at Defcon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01oeaBb85Xc

I'll echo the top Youtube comment here because it fits perfectly:

> When the bald dude with a beard on stage introduces an even balder and more bearded dude to talk you know it's gonna be good.
Good on Biden? It was only Assange good fortunes that his bail hearing coincided with Biden polling so terribly that they were probably forced for release him. I’m sure they believe themselves to be hemorrhaging votes and unable to risk any more negative publicity with the left. So they decided they don’t want to receive him any more.

Is that too cynical of a view? I mean this is an administration that is supplying the most destructive weapons to Israel so they can kill and dismember Palestinian women and children — what’s the freedom of one innocent man to such people?
> proximity of this federal U.S. District Court to the defendant’s country of citizenship, Australia

This is a little disingenuous, and made me chuckle. It's faster and cheaper to get to Australia from the US mainland than it is from Saipan. Yes, it's physically closer as stated, but does not confer the claimed benefits.
I wonder if ESP32 has VLIW slots and a tighter instruction packaging is possible?
Yeah I was gonna say, there's all sorts of media opportunities on the right for him. He will be fine.
Yeah I mean I'm all for banning people from driving an Airbus on public roads. And Boeings, Bombardiers, Leers, and every other FBW airplane. We should probably extend this to all planes though, just to be safe.
You're thinking of "unlisted". There is also a "private" option where you can invite people by Google Account that they have to be logged into.
Funny that this and "Round Rects Are Everywhere" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40781838) are on the front page at the same time ….
Even this reply is too late but I want to make sure you see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40783859. If you'd please read that moderation comment I'd appreciate it. You're welcome to participate on HN but we need you not to break the rules that badly.
Normalization of recent employment markets.

There's a generation of employees who haven't seen what "really bad" looks like.
Am I the only one who feels suspicious about this and would hesitate to trust the persecuters? Maybe that's not a entirely a reasonable reaction (I just woke up about 10 minutes ago) but it's how I feel currently and I'm wondering if anyone else would feel the same.

The U.S. as a national entity certainly isn't above lying, as leaks regarding them have shown.