skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, nor of a paint brush. Those are dumb tools that do nothing without direct human action.

I can’t tell a gun “shoot John Doe”. If I could, I’d likely be OK with a law holding the gun maker responsible for it. “You shouldn’t make guns that can target people by name” would be the analogous conversation to “you shouldn’t make machines that can crate fake images of humans by name”.
The more time moves on the more Apple's "App First/App Only" approach seems to feel like a mistake.

While yeah there has been a handful of benefits to it on iOS specifically, the move of real work to iPads never materialzed so real work still gets done on Macbooks and therefore searches for locations, calendars, documents, etc all end up in Google infrastructure instead of Apple.
You will always give up some privacy this way, but there are better and worse ways of doing this with some combination of cryptography and trusted third parties.

There are already online ID verification services for all kinds of apps.

Most of the EU's EIDAS proposal - apart from the "we control your TLS certificates" paragraph - is about building a reliable online identification service that preserves as much privacy as possible. I think one of the ideas is to be able to prove you are (or at least hold the ID card and PIN of) an 18+ EU citizen, without divulging your identity. Part of the bill is then to make it mandatory for businesses that want to do citizenship/age verification to accept this method unless they have a really good reason not to.

Once you've verified someone's ID, if the law doesn't require this then you don't have to save it in any form, so all a hacker would get if they break in to the database later is that the boolean flag is_verified is set on a particular account (along with the usual things such as the password hash and the email address).

For comparison, I'm always a bit uneasy when a site needs my mobile number "to verify you're a human and prevent spam" but they definitely won't save it or use it for marketing purposes - I don't trust everyone. But I would trust a properly designed and audited privacy-preserving ID protocol, just like I trust using the same yubikey across different sites.
I dont know, transitions can easily cost many millions of dollars of swirl when our director changes. They only lead 100 people, in a small part of a large company but we spin up and cancel projects with 250 million dollar budgets. Change in leadership and direction is expensive. Bad leadership and direction is expensive too. greenlighting one more/less wasteful project pays for many years of CEO salary.
> This is not true in my experience. I don't know where you're getting this information from. Heating costs were always covered unless you heat like a maniac and unforseen bills are not happening. Where should they? Your apartment and car fixing costs are covered. You can read more about this here: [1]

That does not fit together at all. The article is covering a legal decision from 2020 where one woman forced the jobcenter to cover car repair costs. So before, it was not covered. So you just did not have a childhood in the system where stuff like this was covered.

> Why shouldn't they take up shitty work? It's not undignified.

That's not the point. The claim above was that you can comfortable live on Bürgergeld without having to work. Which you usually can't, since it would be taken away (or at least significantly reduced) if you tried that.

> The reality is that social welfare in its entirety is too close to what you can earn with low skilled work

So which other social welfare systems than Bürgergeld are you aiming at here?
Funny. I thought “ok, yet another generation of Accenture/TCS/Fujitsu large scale government projects that cost billions and fail to deliver a single thing”
I was also surprised, but the author clearly had US in mind. It's not just former Soviet countries, prefabs for large apartment blocks are used all over the world.
It feels like back in the “optimized for Internet Explorer” days.
I don't see how that would fall to different people in reddit's case. I'm sure reddit has some moderators on staff but the vast, vast majority of their moderation happens on the proverbial front lines, which is basically all volunteers. I would hope there's a dedicated abuse team at Reddit that are actually paid people whom the volunteers can kick the truly sick shit to so it can be properly dealt with, but given the corporate culture Reddit has shown over the years, I also wouldn't be awfully surprised if it's JUST down to the volunteers either.
I'm conflicted about this one. march native definitely. Have you seen substantial gains from omitting frame pointers?
Weight-loss power of oats naturally mimics popular obesity drugs
Amex's reputation for backing the customer, means you don't even always need to go to them for help. My wife was dealing with a travel agent not wanting to issue a refund (when the listing specifically gave the refund window, and we were inside it). She was at her wits end and finally said, "ok I'll call Amex, the listing is clear and they'll do a chargeback", that caused them to get a manager on the line and our refund was processed immediately.
Funny, for a lot of the functionality you get with Windows you have to pay some random dev for with MacOS. Window management alone feels like it's baby's first computer.
Ask HN: RAG – Do you need PDFs as Markdown with integrated tables and images?
Hi, I'm Carl. I created a PDF parsing solution that I’m now considering turning into a SaaS.

Existing tools didn’t meet my needs for:
- Structured data (title, paragraph, checklist)
- JSON and Markdown with integrated tables and images
- Tables and images as separated files
- Reasonable costs (many providers charge $1K-$25K upfront or high cost per-page)
- Reliable response with all PDFs

My goal is to make data ready for LLMs to display relevant images and tables with text easily (e.g., text 1 + image 1, text 2 + image 2).

Integrating image links in markdown with hidden titles and descriptions improves LLM responses:
- Images follow the relevant text (great for tutorials and more)
- LLMs include relevant images more easily compared to separated images.

If you also need to turn your documents into JSON or Markdown with images and tables for RAG, you can subscribe here:
https://mailchi.mp/5ae256ad323d/pdf-converter
Ordering items from the system where you are buying products from a local Walmart store for pickup or delivery works very well. I find their Amazon-style marketplace chaotic, high priced and fairly useless, though.
>There is some kind of derangement in the English speaking West, any attempt to reign in power of capital must be communist.

I do believe corporatism is a problem with modernity. That being said, the article does sound fairly similar to "workers must own the means of production". Are we not in the ballpark of Marx, for better or worse?
Been experimenting with aider for a while. Really fun using it for basically free with deepseek. Thanks for getting that to work.

My question is re your whole file fallback approach. Since you already have everything mapped out with treesitter, have you considered doing function at a time instead? It's just as easy for a model to ask for a function as it is for a file
> First option requires passing somewhat stressful interviews and then it is all familiar territory. Second option has more unknowns.

The most you'll ever make at a job is based on one conversation you had months or even years ago. Your income will only ever increase at steps every 6 - 12 months and, in the best case, linearly and in the worst case never increasing beyond inflation.

With a business, yes your income may be stagnant or slower, but your income isn't capped, can change rapidly, and can change on a dime rather than waiting on the next review cycle or whatever.

If you have the stomach for it, a business will long-term always give better returns for your work than a job.
I never snoop like I said. And yes I know about kids because I was a kid too! and have suffered the same. Only people living under a rock will act fully dumb when predators harm kids through online methods.
i wish more software in this niche supported wikilink syntax natively.
Cheaper mortgage rates equal more expensive housing - supply didn't magically increase.

Cheaper mortgage rates means institutional capital that was otherwise sitting on the sidelines in T-bills will be deployed directly into that remaining supply.
Agreed that there are some downsides for employees.

I worked at a company that incentivized owning the company's stock. The company was doing fine but it was still controversial among employees because of the risk of correlating your employment and investments -- if the company does poorly then you may lose your job and a large chunk of your investment at the exact same time.

(In practice there also ended up being some jealousy as people who decided to play it safe missed out on some large gains.)
Sounds like a virtuous cycle to me!

Babies who cry a little at a time will be awash with diapers, leading to secondary market opportunities. Now we just need a two-sided marketplace to capture that business and charge a modest fee.
Someone has to make that decision if we're going to start censoring. If I don't trust them not to label all queer content as porn (as they always do), why would I trust them here?

Please, if you're going to march us into a new authoritarian regime, at least try out some new rhetoric. This is boring.
How it usually goes for me.

I ask business how often should something be updated - they say “real time” (not going into details what real time means really) - it is hard to explain processing all data all the time so everything is fresh takes forever….

After couple of months it turns out they never ever open their “super important dashboard” or do it once in 6 months.

Great after a year of bogging down everything I can clean up and make jobs run once a day instead of once a minute because now it is acceptable.
The supply and demand for something with change regardless of how it’s distributed. If you’re spending the money on food and housing, demand for better food and better housing will increase.

If it’s all going to a bunch of really wealthy people then the it will be focused on the types of assets that they would spend money on (businesses, yachts, whatever).

No matter the supply of money, there’s a limited supply of everything else.
Use explicit huge pages.
Why don't we invite millions of manual laborers in to sample our wonderful emergency rooms, public schools, and other services? That will surely help!
Volume up...no hiding.
Volume down...no use.
I cringe every time I read the words "go rogue" in an AI article. The state of the art is still basically madlibs. Sure, I'm worried about terrorists using AI to generate new bioweapons, but including those concerns in the same breath as something about skynet makes it sound childish.
> as you point out it's not

so what's the difference except the name?

> if we start accepting static analysis tools

I'm not talking about static analysis. In today's Java you can write code that does not accept nulls, if you want to.
Corporations pay employees and generate profits for owners. The third party is the customers. The first comment (currently) uses the word "profitable", in other words it asks what happens when a corporation is NOT profitable.

We live in a time when profit is shrinking or drying up. So what happens? Corporations are controlled by owners, so they do two things:
- they lower wages (inflation)
- they raise prices

This happens even when the owners have made stupid decisions. This happens even when the owners have committed criminal acts (Boeing, Sacklers, and many more). And the owners are also protected from legal consequences.

The corporate model is obsolete. Simplistic answers like letting employees also be small owners will not fix this. We need a new model that provides the benefits of Corporations while ending the excesses, irresponsibility and criminality of owners.

In the USA our constitution does not allow any action that denies equal protection under the law. Corporations have decide they enjoy the rights of citizens to buy elections. Owners, having made this decision may not enjoy any protection under the law that are not provided to ordinary citizens. No protection of their assets from bankruptcy and no protection from criminal prosecution. If you as an individual decide to sell OxyContin to any and everyone you would go to jail and you would be bankrupt. But not owners.

[edit: typo "if owners ..." => "if you as individual ..."
Yea. We use to call it "morphing" we were teenagers. We created a bunch ourselves of movie actors and shared among ourselves as a fodder for mastrubation.
Just start building already, 6.8 % for the 30-year fixed is well within historical precedent. High housing prices are a result of asset inflation for a product priced at the margin. Only way around that is to increase supply.

(Also consider this: there is nothing more unproductive than real estate - the stupid capital must be forced out of the mattress and into productive ventures.)
That's a well written article. For developers newer to relational databases, there's a heuristic at the beginning which I remember hearing elsewhere and keeping it in mind when I'm doing query work.

"You might expect that many small queries would be fast and one large, complex query will be slow. This is rarely the case. In practice, the opposite is true."
I beg of thee, do not do this. I get that people love typescript but I am already running into a problem where javascript resources are written in typescript by default with nothing for regular javascript. This is the same problem that happened when JQuery hit its peak popularity and an overwhelming amount of resources and guides amounted to "Oh just do this in JQuery"
TS made the choice to be “just JS” + types, and lean into JS-isms.

Both choices are reasonable ones to make. Flow has some really cool stuff, and works great for a lot of people.

There’s no denying, though, that there’s TS has done something right (even if you personally dislike it)
Interesting way of looking at it. Does it qualify as a nucleus if it doesn't have any protons tho?
OOP schemes like CLOS, Dylan, S4, and others keep Objects and Actions separate. This is similar to Haskell type classes.
You also might get counterfeit Tide full of melamine or lead.
Here’s the thing: you have an opportunity to turn the unknown high quality place into a well-known high quality place. You will have a bigger impact in a small shop than at Google.

If you don’t like your slate of opportunities as a new grad, then get out there and network with your cool friends.
> Every worker gets a salary but also a percentage of their salary in stock ownership

That's in the second paragraph. I don't know what the fixation is in finding problems with paying more the people who produce what the company sells.
To the extent the bank wants to retain employees, it does need to provide some minimum level of utility. That may be as simple as an hourly wage for some, but both shareholders and employees are participating in the machine.
Not a lawyer; agree it seems pretty reasonable and not-overbroad.

IMO the most subjective aspect is what constitutes likeness. I presume that's left to judge/jury's discretion? The range of face-recognition ability is pretty broad.
Have a look at TomTom for iOS. It's paid but in my opinion far superior to Google Maps and Waze.
There is also an abundance of people who don't speak English, or prefer not to, right here in North America. The Canadian province of Quebec, for instance, legally mandates bilingual signage and generally prefers French. And Mexico is right there too.

There are also a great many families in the US whose first-generation members have limited English.
I was a kid, too. I could spot and avoid the predators because my parents made sure I understood it was a risk, knew how to spot them, and knew I could trust them with any questions I had.

In reality, I encountered more predators offline, but had the skills to deal with it.
> historically high APRs

Interest rates are NOT historically high. In fact they are basically right at "average". The rates for the last five years were historically LOW.
Do we outlaw highly skilled impressionists? Pretty sure those existed 233 years ago.
> ll stick with "difficult" package managers that seem to resolve things simply rather than having 27 different copies of the same thing

That's not how Nixpkgs works. Nixpkgs, the collection of packages that NixOS is built on top of, is a monorepo with only one version of each end user package. There are only multiple versions of a package in a given commit of Nixpkgs if that is necessary to support some other important tuple of packages because they each have a hard dependency on different versions of some package— just like on your typical Linux distro.

The ability to have multiple versions of something installed side-by-side comes into play for your own voluntary customizations, and (optionally) for some third-party package sources.

Nix doesn't feature other NPM insanity either— there's no network access at bulld time, no circular dependencies, etc.
A comprehensive resource listing all paper sizes, dimensions and formats
> separate out the business of physically constructing houses from the business of capital management, land investment, risk management and house price speculation.

That is how it mostly works in the US. The developer buys a large plot of land and puts in roads, utilities then sells the lots to several home builders who build houses on it. The home builders contract out the foundation, framing, plumbing... to separate companies. while it is common to be in more than one part of this, only the smallest developments are all one builder (and even then plumbing is contracted out).
My wife was fascinated by my checkbook as a relic (like a sidesaddle?) of an archaic payment system.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/443677/cashless-payment-...
I understand that much, just thinking aloud what problem would that solve in Java.
China's robotaxis are racing ahead of Tesla's
Lisp is the original dynamic language; for decades more or less the only one. Dynamic languages have been incredibly successful.

The code-as-data, self-similar aspect of Lisp, which is at the core of Lisp's macro features, hasn't reached the same popularity.

I would say that Lisp has both won and lost.
What bad coding practices does TS allow, and why are they bad?
Part of that is most humans' ingrained resistance against being murderously vicious. It's easy to gouge eyes out, but it's hard for most people to actually do it.
It is easier to have a productive conversation if you actually address the points being argued, rather than dismiss them out of hand with no justification.
If you set n=2^140, then sure, it’s constant. If instead you only have n<=2^140, then n varies across a large set and is practically indistinguishable from n<=infinity (since we get into the territory of the number of atoms in the universe), therefore you can perform limit calculations on it, in particular big O stuff.

In the article n was set to 5. All of those arrays (except maybe 1) have exactly 5 elements. There is no variance (and even if there was, it would be tiny, there is no point in talking about limits of 5-element sequences).
There was a point when they claimed it wasn't happening at all (as you are). When that became untenable, they switched to, "It's good, actually." We are at the "Big Tobacco funding medical studies" step of the process.

We are also at the point where I question what your interests are in prolonging this conversation. Mine are that I'm a renter whose finances have been damaged by the uncontrolled increases in rent caused by unscrupulous property owners, and a Millennial who can't escape to home ownership because of the inflation of the prices of properties for sale. Being clear about why I've been forced into this position is important to me. And you?
This is painfully out of touch. Forbidding a kid from social media is a bulletproof strategy for them to be ostracized, bullied, and isolated.
Given the full thread, you claimed both things here:

>> It is free money for everyone. Everyone obviously excluding the people who work full-time and who are paying taxes so that "everyone" can live of Bürgergeld.

> Oh wow, the exact thing people have been saying would happen has happened. Turn's out Quasi-UBI is a drain on tax paying citizens after all. Amazing.
And they would probably do a better job being happier and less stressed about money related issues
I suspect that when you buy decaf beans from a roaster they don't aren't the ones decaffeinating the coffee beans. I think roasters have a lot less choice when buying decaffeinated beans so I bet your theory is correct.
It is easy to "find a new job" but things like healthcare, geographic location, and creditworthiness are tied to employment.

If employment were more isolated this argument would still only be superficially reasonable, because we also live in a society with structural sexism and racism and other bigotries. Plenty of people have fewer employment options because of the circumstances of their birth.

Then look at me, I am professional contractor and not the obvious target of any of those bigotries. 16 contracts (often 6 or 12 mo), in the past 20 years. of that maybe 3 weren't complete shitholes. How long is one person supposed to keep making major life changes to search for a job that doesn't abuse them? Because a 1 in 5 hit rate implies some things.

Setting a floor on how shitty companies can be to their employees would a boon to everyone and likely make the whole economy more productive simply by reducing depression by a double digit percentage.
What was the reason behind the split?
> string theory has currently failed to combine them in a testable way

String theory may well be wrong/currently untestable, however failure to invalidate the null hypothesis is not proof that somehow we don't have a meaningful understanding of other, proven theories/laws.

Put a different way, if an apple falls from a tree on earth, I don't panic because I don't understand quarks or electron orbitals. I calculate the point/speed/force of impact to acceptable margins of error.
We have a small 4-story condo going into a lot behind us now (and for the past 4 months). It's remarkabke how stop and go visible progress is, even though the there's people on the site 5 or 6 days a week.

Two weeks of earth moving. Then prep. Do the foundation in a week. Then prep. Framing in a week and a half. Now endless jobs of plumbing, electrical, windows, this and that, on and on for weeks.

For factory built homes to really be a win, then need a very high level of integration. An easy to snap together frame doesn't actually save much time or effort. But if there's really finished walls with utilities built-in (and also accessible for future maintenance) then I can see the effort being potentially useful.
Seeing how on users' machines the most interesting data to read is in the user's home folder, I'd argue it's actually pretty easy to partition these. Autocad should read and write in ~/autocad. Maybe in ~/Downloads? But definitely not in ~/.ssh or ~/.aws.

Stock Windows actually implements something along these lines, called "protected folders" or similar. It's inactive by default (meaning every program can access every folder). It's quite easy to define a list of "protected" folders. But the implementation is quite stupid: if a program asks for access to one of the folders on the list, you can either refuse, or allow it to access it... as well as everything else on that list!
Profiling (e.g: Pyroscope) for better understanding (+load test).
More performant libraries with same interface.
DB optimizations (e.g: Indexing, Denormalization, Tuning, Connection Pooling)
Isn't there some asset insurance vehicle to protect against a catastrophic loss?
I'm not sure why so many people want to find issues with giving more to employees.