skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, all stuff that the country's budget needs from you, you pay them manually each 1-3 months... or else.

That's more or less how it's best described. Once you are not an employee you need an accountant, or you need to be very well versed in the laws and the monthly payments to the country's budget yourself. If neither, some 6-12 months later you get persecuted and called in court, with the possibility to have some of your property confiscated.

They don't like small businesses very much.
> one of the corporations that usurped Python-dev

Man, that phrase perfectly encapsulates so much of Python’s evolution over the last ~10 years.
Nobel Prizes leave lots of people feeling left out.
Whooping cough does not come from pigs. Pertussis is a bacterium that is a human only thing.
I guess it depends on how much of a departure from the current language it would be and if that introduces complicating factors. It would make sense to seriously consider adding matching (like in Rust) but then you might want to consider more than just enums?

I'm not a language design expert, but I suspect there be worms in that there can.
its NOT open source. the github package just loads stuff from their servers and does not contain the actual web container code
Tell HN: Eternal realm of 480p – An FCC Verizon Complaint
After a year of enduring spinning circle icons and relying on a nearby magnifying glass for seeing fine details in instructional videos, I finally said fsck it! and made an FCC complaint. I had phoned Verizon at least a half dozen times prior, inquiring of a solution to the tendency for videos to generally refuse to play in 720p.

For most purposes, 480 or less is adequate. However, where small parts or fine text is a necessary part of the video, more resolution is vital. Verizon reps offered no answers other than to confirm my account was not subject to throttling and had no data cap (which I'd seldom approach anyway). Most here are probably aware that most carriers limit mobile devices to 720p, which isn't a problem for me. But when a contract states that a service tier is exempt from throttling and specifies an expected data rate, it seems reasonable that the customer would observe this both in theory and practice.

Three days after the complaint, I was contacted by an executive rep. He seemed annoyed, but was polite. Apparently there was a default option, or tick box, somewhere in the account settings which defaults video resolution to 480p or less. I took the opportunity to express the consumer's perspective on this feature, as well as my own annoyance that this was never mentioned in any of my previous conversations with customer service.

I was sent instructions for navigating the labyrinth to tick the magic "don't throttle me bro" box, but haven't done it yet because it seems it may have been done for me, as videos now seem to respect the settings I select.

There are many cans of worms to open on the subject of federal regulations and I'd rather not dare it here or now. Regardless, it is a good thing to have resources that help keep the puny consumer afloat in a sea of hostile monopolies. Thanks FCC, for this one.
As you said, he did not voted for those guys:

all executive positions are either elected by members of the European Parliament or by representatives of all member-states.
a-gps is quite a different thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisted_GNSS
I could say the exact same stuff about NodeJs, c++, go, rust, php, etc. All of these are easy to use and debug and "install easily" when you know them and use them regularly, and the opposite if you're new. Doubly-so if you personally don't like that language or have some personal pet peeve about it's choices.

Guys let's not pretend like this is somehow unique to python. It's only until about a few years ago that it was incredibly difficult to install and use npm on windows. Arguably the language ecosystem with the most cumulative hipster-dev hours thrown at it, and it still was a horrible "dev experience".
I can't find a single piece of evidence in the article. These Gish gallops of utter bullshit have really poisoned the public debate.
To be honest, my current smartphone doesn't feel at all that evolved compared to my 300€s Lumia 920 from 2013..

Pics are slightly better, but I've never cared that much about photos and the Lumia 920 made amazing ones.

In fact, if anything, my phone feels slower, more intrusive with ads and notifications..Battery life is much worse too.

Things that got better are:

- apps supported. Windows mobile was killed by developers sabotaging the ecosystem entirely, many banks/etc just ignored it even when Lumias were outselling iphones globally

- screen: albeit it really shows in a very light environments (like at the beach)

- external hardware support such as Bluetooth earbuds
The most effective way I've found to get other people to "write" good commit messages is by changing the "Default commit message" for squash merges on the GitHub repo to "Pull request title and description". [1]

That fixes the "Squashing, when you have 100 crap commits, and then not re-editing the message is a crime" item, because suddenly not re-editing will give you a fairly useful message. This ofcourse assumes the PR description is useful, but I've found it much easier to convince people to write a decent PR description than to write decent commit messages.

[1]: https://github.blog/changelog/2022-08-23-new-options-for-con...
I usually/only read comments with replies to get different opinions and go to next sibling comments if child comments aren't interesting to me anymore.
I look for comments with responses. Comments with responses are usually more interesting, that filters out like 90% of comments.

If those comments were interesting I read more.
sorry but how is open source a political statement exactly? it can be a choice for a host of different reasons besides political activism
New options for controlling the default commit message when merging a PR
I really don't agree with that. Git is a powerful tool with very few actual downsides, and the unwillingness of some developers to spend an hour learning how it works hurts them in the long-term.

It's like sticking to the text editing feature of your IDE because you can't be bothered to learn how it works. Sure, you _technically_ can do that, but you're losing on everything that makes an IDE useful and probably losing actual days or weeks worth of work because of that.
Did Python as the language change which justified that version bump?
Have you thought about open-sourcing the code for this page? I'd be curious how you made this. Works really well!
This is only true of the virus population in the infected people. The virus population still in birds is still at square 1. When the virus is eradicated from the infected people, we go back to square 1.
You can look it up "sugar microbiom". Our gut and the 2.5 kg of bakteria in it are our defense against everything and is strongly needed for a good sit-down. Just like chronic diarrhea is caused by a non-working microbiom, the ultra-fat people suddenly start to lose weight after a stool-transplantation.. or, our immunity system is highly influenced by the microbiom.

The microbiom consists of different bacteria stems and fungi that fight for food as a question of live-or-die. If you have a high intake of sugar, you give the ones of the fungii and bac.stems an advantage, that specialized on splitting raw sugar for energy. Sugar is the most easiest shape of energy for the foes. So, they will grow faster than the other bacteria/fungi, eventually pushing out competition. But all of them gut's contents have a purpose and having one competitor being pushed out would mean, some purpose is not fulfilled.

So.. eat more of dietary fibers, less sugar and more of things like bread, milk products, rice and noodles, potatos. Less fat-fried and sweetened things. You'll see a difference after a few weeks.
Beetroot somehow has a good effect on shitting too xD
It is not, but as a non native English speaker, and considering how good LLMs are at the technical aspects of writing (spelling, grammar, syntax, choice of words, etc...), I take it as a compliment.
Quibbling a bit:

>questions whether generative AI will ever become the transformative technology that Silicon Valley and large portions of the stock market are currently betting on...

Who really cares if the AI is generative or not? AI is pretty much bound to be a transformative technology.

>higher productivity (which necessarily means automation, layoffs, lower labor costs...

Nah. It can also mean more stuff produced. And probably will.

That said current asset prices may well be a bit inflated. And some startup could come up with a better algo for self improving AGI rendering the other companies not worth much. Bit like how Google came along and rendered the other search companies not worth much.
Show HN: A todo app but syncs and hotkeys like linear
Hey guys!

This is my first hackernew submission! Just been hacking on this for the past 2 days (https://github.com/kndwin/hayom) and felt like it was "ready" enough for sharing.

Had lots of fun thinking about how linear does the hotkey layers, cheated with the sync complexity by using Evolu and played around with xstate/store (zustand but can be promoted to state machine if it gets too much).

Have some fun and let me know anything you'd love to see on it! I'm currently using it for myself and have a few ideas (like an undo command)

Thanks guys!
That's the one. Though where I heard it, you can set your own rule, not just use the example.

I'd say that every black swan is an example of a real process that is misleading.

But more than that, I mentioned verified/falsified, as in the difference between the two in science. We got a long way with just the first (Karl Popper only died in 1994), but it does seem to make a difference?
I have a part-time research assistant job in a lab where I work on several overlapping projects, and when I started this job I started a journal using a Google Spreadsheet, with a shortcut to the sheet on the home screen on my phone.

It's instantly always there, adds up my hours for time tracking, and when I have to write a project status report, I just pull out the relevant entries and turn them into proper sentences. Bam! Report done with semi-chronological flow.

I bold entries of open questions/tasks that need attention, and i can quickly scan my journal to know exactly what to work on next. I've never been so organized and on top of things in my life. This little journal hack makes me look like a fricken genius in the lab.
Firefox is controlled opposition. Firefox will hire leadership that is most capable of maximizing revenue from Google, and Google sends their money to Firefox based on now nicely that CEO cooperates. Therefore it’s probably not a direct threat but a “do we understand each other?” situation
Caniuse (https://caniuse.com/) aggregates data from MDN with their own data and has reasonably good search. I see browser and standards people linking to it from time-to-time.
But not the laboratories doing gain-of-function research on coronaviruses in the exact vicinity of the virus’s origin? Even considering that several workers of this laboratory got sick with COVID in 2019, right before the outbreak? C’mon, it’s been 4 years already, this is becoming ridiculous.
"Sprytile" is the open-source Blender addon inspired by Crocotile.

Seems last updated a few years ago from a quick googling; I never used either, so no idea how they compare or how Sprytile works with the newest Blender.
Why not? What else would you call them?
> Musk accepts many secret censorship deals from many countries, including EU countries.

This news article is interesting because it underlines the hypocrisy of these self-described paladins of free speech and makes it clear these complains and criticisms are nothing more than baseless and fraudulent grandstanding.
Same here. Taking notes is incredibly helpful, especially when I'm stuck or unfocused. I just start writing anything that's on my mind and it's like the writing does the thinking for me.

While I used to type notes digitally, I've recently discovered the superiority of pen and paper. Writing by hand offers more flexibility - you can start anywhere on the page, sketch, or create mind maps effortlessly which encourages creativity, whereas typing forces you to think linearly. Research also shows handwriting improves thinking and memory retention.[1]

Interestingly, rediscovering fountain pens sparked this change for me. The enjoyment of using a quality writing instrument encouraged me to take more handwritten notes, leading to significant improvements in my workflow. I now keep separate notebooks for different projects and have started journaling.

This discussion has made me realize that moving my keyboard is the last bit of friction when switching from computer to paper notes. It might finally convince me to invest in that split keyboard I've been considering.

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2024/05/11/1250529...
thanks, I'll try it out, too

Btw: I suggest to everybody using these tools (external to ycombinator.com) to use email aliases instead of their real email, of course
Still using it but the regions issue is annoying.

We currently deploy to an entirely odd region way outside our geographical location because it had the most available models when we set up, even then it still lagged behind and only got gpt-4o recently.

I find the whole concept of a "deployment" odd, clearly it's not deploying anything other than a config enabling access for your account. Great, now I have to keep track of every model release and have a DevOps process to keep on track!

Also yes we noticed slow downs, but as we've stopped using openai directly I don't know if this just applies to azure.
> Pertussis is a bacterium that is a human only thing

B. pertussis “evolved from Bordetella bronchiseptica or a B. bronchiseptica-like ancestor… B. bronchiseptica infects a broad range of mammals, including humans, and although it can cause overt disease such as kennel cough in dogs and atrophic rhinitis in pig” [1].

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/nrmicro3235#Sec2
* I needed a new phone *

Did you really?

decided to treat myself

Or did you need a dopamine hit ;)
Living in the world as a hostage to nuclear weapon yielding crazies is a fate worse than death for some free-minded people.
Same here. I began using Obsidian when looking for something to drop my collection of Markdown notes into, which was somewhat of an improvement due to the quick search, tags and links, but not life-changing. I tried the Kanban plugin but gave up after a while. Then I read about the MOC concept[0] and started with topic-based index pages using the `dataview` plugin for generating lists of backlinks. Haven't looked back (yet)!

You could also create an index of MOC pages with the same plugin and making sure each MOC have a `#moc` tag, for example by using templates. Then write a query that lists all pages with the `#moc` tag.

For pure TODO lists, I'm a happy user of Taskwarrior since more than a decade.

[0] https://obsidian.rocks/quick-tip-quickly-organize-notes-in-o...
> Under the subtitle “Human writing is full of lies that are difficult to disprove theoretically” which only matter if you think that the AGI needs to learn from text. As opposed to conducting its own experiments, or gaining insight into raw sensor data from experiments.

Worse than that. The author has not been paying attention at all, because at this point LLMs clearly demonstrated that text encodes a lot of information about reality indirectly, and a model can learn those patterns. The amount learning LLMs already extract from text is maybe not as big as Eliezer would have you believe Bayes theorem allows for, but way further in that direction than the author believes.

There are good arguments made against the AI X-risk fears. This article does not make any of them. Rather, it just reiterates the usual basic misconceptions, mixed with a hefty dose of contempt towards people the author thinks are wrong.
And, while it might not be rational current-day policy...there is very much a history behind this. For a very quick intro: https://www.britannica.com/topic/opium-trade
How do/would you use it over various systems? What's the best way to cloud sync this? One might have to use it on work machine with restrictions around installing apps.
How does one hide completed tasks from org mode?
I guess he would need an "Extreme Makeover" to go on "Undercover Boss".

My dad was the financial controller for a large pizza chain in the '70s--they used to send him into the field to do spot checks, which was progressive IMO.
You had eyes? Back in my dat6, we hadn't differentiated into multi cellular organisms yet, and had to model 2D worlds as an amoeba because that's all the dimensions we had at the time. An Amoeba! You tell kids these days, they don't believe you. It is the most annoying thing.
The "different goals than us" part is redundant. Across humanity there is already vastly oppositional goals. That's why we have prisons, war, and counter-terrorist organizations.

As Geoffrey Hinton points out, a generally useful subgoal of any task is power accumulation. In other words, you can assume that a very intelligent AI will always be not just smarter than us but also accumulate power for anything that you ask it to do, simply in order to do that thing more effectively.

Imagine if everyone had access to a magic genie. Eventually someone is going to wish for something bad.
> As you said, he did not voted for those guys:

Not really. That's not how it works, and it's a very puerile and cynical take that can't be taken seriously.

Just because you didn't held a referendum to pick what brand of stationary an office clerk should buy that does not mean you didn't voted for the executive branch.
I don't know about the 5x optical but the over day I took a picture of a beach.
On the phone with x2 I could see a sign that I didn't even noted bared-eyed. With x10 I could actually read the sign only the little phone number alert was unreadable.

With my bare eyes I couldn't even read the title of the sign, barely see the sign actually.
> they should be integers

i am not cheating; you are cheating by trying to do integer arithmetic instead of float arithmetic. in particular: 99 * progress is a (potentially big) integer; then the quotient, from my understanding of python, is equal to the mathematical quantity rn(99 * progress / total), which is not trivial to compute. (although cpython does tend to do a particularly bad job of this sort of thing.) (compare with c or with my version of the python, where it would be rn(rn(99 * progress) / rn(total)), rounding twice, which is very easy to compute. i'm not saying the c semantics is better, mind.) when you scale up by 10x, the numerator is <1/2 'ulp' away from the denominator, and so the quotient rounds up to 99 exactly; there is still double rounding (would have been triple rounding in c and my python), because we got rn(rn(99 * progress / total) + 0.5) where what we wanted was rn(99 * progress / total + 0.5) (which is mathematically always the correct result)

i agree it is not common to have so many steps. but if i were providing a routine that was intended to be robust where others were not, i would try to be comprehensive. and i would not try to do int math with floats unless i could show it to be robust (i have sketched such a stunt! https://gist.github.com/moon-chilled/60bd2ba687dc197d93a9d22...). the integer routine is simpler and more honest anyway, and it is obvious that it works uniformly for the entire range

note also that, with x floating, the python expressions 10 * x and 10 * x - 1 are equivalent, meaning the error is on input to the percent function. (if we set progress to 10 * x - 8, the immediately preceding fp number, we do get 99, but there is no deep reason for this, and it differs for different values of 10.)

> if your username is named after the band, good taste :)

my username comes from a book: the neverending story. i am more using the german version of the name these days but i do not feel like making a new account on this godforesaken website
> NoRootFirewall

I found this on Google Play but apparently it was last updated in January 2020.

> NoRoot Firewall may not work on LTE because it NoRoot Firewall currently doesn't support IPv6.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.greyshirts...

Searching for this keyword I found another one called NetGuard on F-Droid. It supports IPv6 and looks like it's updated more frequently (or at least more recently).

https://f-droid.org/packages/eu.faircode.netguard/

Anyway, thank you for the tip to use firewall for improving battery life.
You can also somtimes plug the old nokia phone to USB and start making calls, reading/deleting SMS and many more over standard AT commands.

Also very convenient.
Gentrification is good for you if you own property there. If you are a renter, not so much.
if you use wsl2 you are not using Windows under the hood...
Especially after you get caught by the police
I minimise threads that get more narrow or argumentative than I'm interested in for a particular topic.

Sometimes in a particularly large discussion I'll do that even for top-level comments without replies that I've either read (and won't reply to/not interested in replies to) or skimmed/read enough and decided I won't read.

Help others by voting (both directions) and flagging/vouching where necessary.
Saudi Money Makes a Big Splash in Video Games
> The official Python Installer The guy who works on this is employed by Microsoft so big surprise it refuses to add Python to the PATH.

I wonder if Zed knows that Guido van Rossum works at Microsoft now. I wonder if his head will explode when he finds out.
> good UI and operating system that requires very little maintenance

good UI on Windows? are we talking about the same OS that uses UI paradigms from at least three different eras all in one?

and the little maintenance is laughable. force reboots galore on Windows.
I'm creating local tmp1 tmp2 branches before I'm doing anything sketchy. Branches will keep the commit visible and I can always return to the previous state if necessary. Tags would be more appropriate, I guess, I just got used to branches more.
Both digital and handwritten notes have their values. - I‘ve used moleskine notebooks and fountain pens for over two decades. Fountain pens are unbelievably smooth to write with, and the text looks beautifully. So I can relate to your experience.

Re Keyboards: I switched to mechanical keyboards lately and will never go back. It’s like the fountain pen of typing.
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Grid lays out the structural layout, while Flex lays out the content ordering and positioning.
Pen and paper is far superior in my experience.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40953297
Genetic differences found to influence coffee drinking behaviors