skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cool stuff!

You might consider an alternative to screenshots for tables. There are a few problems with this strategy. Most significantly, it's inaccessible to the visually impaired - they're hearing your description of the data without getting to read the data itself, which must be frustrating. Problems like this can feel hypothetical and abstract, but HN is a large enough audience that there are probably real people having this experience.

It also can't be copy pasted, it can't be plotted, it doesn't respect the settings of my browser like font size, etc. When I see some of these breakdowns, my first thought is, "hmm, I'd like to copy paste this into a spreadsheet and make a bar chart." (Indeed, that's when I noticed it was a screenshot.)

You might consider copy pasting from DataGrip into your editor and formatting it to be a markdown list or something. It probably would take about the same amount of time as taking a screenshot and putting it into your markdown.

Thanks again for sharing, this was an interesting breakdown.
I went to pick up my dog from the groomer and they asked me for a tip as soon as I said I was there to pick him up.

I replied "Can I see my dog first?"

It just shows that there's an expectation, and at that point it should simply be built into the advertised price.
>The woman who solved the Golden State Killer case, didn’t she die quite young because of the stress?

She died of an accidental overdose exacerbated by an underlying and undiagnosed heart condition. She had some level of opioid addiction prior to her death.
Notes from Pen and Teller's Masterclass
agree but I am still trying to grok the divine truth as to why exactly that is. What's up with the sandwich products? Why do they work? I guess it is like a change-of-basis for a matrix (PAP^{-1)) but I still don't quite see why, and why it works as a change-of-basis on multivectors, not just vectors.
This isn't an English language question. The technology in question doesn't guarantee a singular route or a path to a destination. Subsequent packets from an originating host to a destination host can follow different paths. Even during an activity such as a traceroute. A packet that reached its TTL at what is presented as hop 12 didn't necessarily traverse previous hops displayed by traceroute.
'Unrealized Gains' is one of the methods by which the wealthy avoid paying taxes. When you read the article about 'Billionaire X paid 2% taxes this year' this can be the cause.

It works like this: you pay taxes on income, or realized gains (sold your stock). But you don't pay taxes on unrealized gains.

You have TSLA/AMZN/NVDA stock which has gained $10M, and you have a mansion/yacht payment coming due. You could sell the stock and pay $2M in taxes...

OR

You can get a loan with your stock as collateral. You may pay 7% interest but you still OWN the stock and the S&P grows at a rate of 10%, netting you a 3% annual profit on your collateral stock. AND the interest might be tax deductible offsetting other income taxes you may owe. You pay 0% taxes because you didn't sell anything.

Search for 'buy borrow die' for more resources on this strategy. This new tax proposal is trying to address the problem that the most wealthy individuals in our society pay a much lower percent in taxes compared to the average individual using this type of strategy.
At a coffee shop I'm sort of a regular at, I hate how they spin around the Square tablet whatever thing and it starts at $1, $2, or $3 for a 2.50 Americano. I usually tip a dollar but honestly, an americano is just two shots and hot water. Basically drip coffee. Sometimes I wonder why I go there at all when I could just make crappy instant coffee at work that more or less tastes same.
Observable by Default with OpenTelemetry
Today you have to write all the observability code to export telemetry from your app. Telemetry should be emitted, formatted and exported automatically by web/cloud development frameworks.

disclaimer: I am the author of the article
Yes, and that is super neat.
St Kitts and Nevis is notorious for giving out citizenships to those who can afford to 'invest'
Folks, he is free from the initial custody, but was brought to court today, which will decide on further steps.

The AP article is rambling and disappointing, literally the DailyMail has a more coherent coverage:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13788495/telegram-f...
Abusive requests, API overload, noncompliant clients to name a few.
And both major party presidential candidates have expressed a desire to enshrine tipping into the tax code as the holy grail tax avoidance.
State changes that are internal to a function and not visible are sometimes called "benign effects" in functional programming. A function can be considered "pure" if it has only benign effects, which is a relaxation on the stricter requirement that a pure function have no (side) effects at all.
Microsoft stood-up a channel in order to compete with Novell.

Initially, at least, Microsoft was much a preferable OEM. Better docs (MSDN), better tech support, more profitable, etc.

(Microsoft also made embraced application servers. Spearheading switch from workgroup to client/server. But that's another chapter.)
That is mostly what testing does, modulo the exact numbers/durations involved.

One reason people don't do snapshot-releases of testing is that such releases wouldn't get security support. And security support shouldn't wait 30 days.
And you're still paying the other performance and efficiency costs of TCP. ROCE also isn't a magic bullet.

Every system has a cost and tradeoffs. Just because someone took an unusual path doesn't mean that they were wrong. And the larger and more specialized their use case is, the less likely that a generic solution is the best match.
Would they use tripods like in war of the worlds?
Show HN: I gamified the hard work of running SaaS businesses
some American media is reporting that his personal cell phone was hacked for a long time before this arrest. One implication is that he is personally "dirty" in some real way -- so the story essentially supports the arrest and charges.

Since this is high public profile by definition, expect lots more questionable spin to come.. IMHO
As a lawyer who has worked in the federal judiciary, it's understandable that someone outside the legal profession would have some of these views ... but they're actually pretty off base.

> judges are often paid multiples less than leading lawyers

This part is true.

> and they are not desireable jobs and so many were attracted to the power/low competence ones.

No, no, and no. Judgeships are some of the most prestigious and desirable jobs in the entire legal profession. You have to be literally nominated by the president of the United States and confirmed by the Senate. Then you enjoy constitutionally protected life tenure. It's common to see elite lawyers, making millions as partners for large firms, leave their jobs to become federal judges. (Note that I'm talking about federal judges.)

> And also add in that with a single judge, a party/the state only needs to influence a single person.

I guess, in theory? But, in practice, this really doesn't happen. This is partially because judges highly value their independence. And their decisions are appealable, so this kind of corruption would be easily detected, or at least reversed, making it both risky and not very useful.

> The public often don't have access to all documents, transcripts and mostly what is published is the Judge's version of what the parties submissions are (i.e. one person writing history)

Nope. This is generally all public, unless there are specific confidential materials that need to be redacted. But this is unusual and disfavored.

> When a judge dismisses a case and classifies it as not refileable, always raise an eyebrow.

Eh. It's much more complicated than this. There are situations where this might raise an eyebrow -- like if the claim was recently filed and there's reason to think that it could be amended in a way that would rehabilitate it. But if it's obvious fundamentally doomed, or if it would unfairly prejudice other parties to allow it to be refiled, or for various other reasons, this can be totally legitimate.
I think that if you use OSS projects as much as the typical HN user, you should be giving money to at least some of them.

If your OSS contribution budget is $0, you're part of the problem.

The same of course applies to companies but 1000x more.
> so those folks should be making way more

I heard rumours that trash collectors in the US earn pretty good money, in part due to being unionized. I've experienced what happens if binmen go on strike firsthand and / or seen it on the news, it's not pretty.

Whereas industries where there's plenty of supply, like the service industry, cannot get a union off the ground because for every unionized employee, there's plenty of un-unionized people waiting to get a job that doesn't pay them enough, but it's a job and that's good enough.
Hey HN,

I’m just another dev guy who saw a bunch of people doing SaaS businesses, so I thought, why not give it a try? For my first project, I made something to gamify the grind to keep my motivation up — track my revenue, set goals, and unlock medals when I hit milestones.

I’m planning to add more medals for boost motivation. Figured others might like it too, so if you join, there’s even a leaderboard to see where we all stack up.

Check it out, and let me know what you think!
They don't need him in jail until the court case starts.

He can't run away without looking guilty.
Anyone can, that’s orthogonal. This is about an automated tool that launders copyright at scale, generating revenue for its operator.

(And if you seriously say that this tool is learning how to program, ask yourself if that tool’s operator is effectively a slave owner.)
That’s playing all sorts of games with the numbers, from 1917 the $2K threshold (50k in 2024) was at 2% tax rate with the top rate being 15% at $2m pa of 1917 dollars so ~$50m pa today.
He can’t be detained for more than 96 hours without a court ruling. The clock ran out, so he was brought to court. That’s it.
Made my own, made it easy to add different type of clients (TUI, Android, Web) and display cleaned up articles.
Tesla drivers say new FSD update is repeatedly running red lights
Call me crazy but I don't exactly have a ton of sympathy for temporarily embarrassed millionaires. The statement that we somehow have absurd tax rates now is completely inconsistent with the reality that taxes have been trending down for decades, punctuated by tax cuts that were made in the last decade. If you're worried about government spending and government debt, and you probably should take a macroeconomics class and realize you shouldn't be, then you ought to be in favor of reforming our codes to ensure the rich are paying a fair rate given that they benefit hugely from being in a country with developed infrastructure, a highly educated workforce, and a military that ensures global stability and unmolested shipping.

Bringing up tax codes from before 1900 is just an absurd way to start a discussion about this because we've had over a century of development in monetary policy and taxation since then.
If he flees Telegram is done.
This as good a place as any to mention one of my favorite authors, Dishwasher Pete[0], who wrote a zine about dishwashing and dishwashers[1], and a memoir about his quest to wash dishes in all 50 states[2].

0:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dishwasher_Pete

1:https://archive.org/details/dishwasher7

2: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/827458.Dishwasher
Well, that's essentially what I'm saying.

If you use an AI to "get around" copyright, you should face the consequences. Same if you hired a "consultant" that did the infringing.
I think that the give-away that the union wasn't beneficial is that you were forced to join. If there is value add to parties, it would have to be voluntary.

For instance, in financial industry, there is a certified financial analyst (CFA) designation that some choose to get. Employers normally pay those with a CFA higher wages and people sign up to get this certification and pay dues, all without anyone being forced.

Mandatory unions seem bizarre to me, essentially just rent seeking.
Traceroute works by observing Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) time to live/hop count exceeded messages and noting the source IP of those messages. There's plenty of resources you can search on to learn more about this. When you see * * *, it means that for that given TTL value, no corresponding ICMP messages were returned to the source.

It could be because they were filtered at the boundary of the network. If source IPs are private (RFC-1918 or carrier grade NAT space), those ICMP messages should get dropped. This is Best Current Practice (BCP) 38, if you wanted to read more about it.

Ever want to know why IPv6 is so important? This is another reason why. Troubleshooting networks without globally significant IP addresses on the intermediate hops is a real pain.
To be clear anyone with a few million in savings can take on multiple citizenships as a hobby, maybe OP just considers it table stakes for billionaires, as in, why wouldn't you.

St kitts and Nevis is only a quarter mil, tho I don't know what benefit that would confer unless you're coming from a country without visa free travel

And for what it's worth, UAE citizenship is not for sale directly, you have to actually live there long term

Nice table on this page: https://www.globalcitizensolutions.com/citizenship-by-invest...
Maybe it's time to retire this meme. Women are not cows and sex is not milk.
Does one leave a flight attendant tip in the seat or in that envelope in the seat pocket? (Handing a tip to someone directly feels so gauche, like I'm pretending to be some fancy person.)
Separation of powers is a very important reason not to limit the power to just politicians. Just like how we would prefer not to have media moguls also be politicians, leaving control of the media to just the government is a bad thing for democracy as it just compounds power towards the existing holders.
Firefox was never #1. It had a very slow adoption curve driven by organic growth, and just when it started being a significant competitor, at about 25-30% of market share, Chrome got released and advertised to death (and also bundled in so many unrelated stuff like a malware), and its adoption skyrocketed.

Still, when Chrome released, IE was at about 65% market share.
Imagine step 2 to realize the insanity. That household likely doesn't have disposable income that is greater than 25% of their unrealized cap gains, so what do they do?

1. Hope they can get a low interest loan to pay their taxes?

Or

2. Sell some assets. Think about what will happen to your 401k balance as wealthy people all over the US are forced to sell stocks. It will not be pretty.
The significant step here is anything can do what you say. Because there's no human in the loop looking at source code and learning from it.

You have an autonomous system that's ingesting copyrighted material, doing math on it, storing it, and producing outputs on user requests. There's no learning or analogy to humans, the court is ruling that this particular math is enough to wash away bit color. The ruling was based on the outputs and the reasonable intent of the people who created it and what they are trying to accomplish, not how it works internally.

It's not the first, if you take copyrighted data and && 0x00 to all of it that certainly washes the bits too.
https://archive.is/FFPt2
For what it's worth: Thank you for your work on SQLAlchemy and Alembic!

On large projects like those, what ratio of community interactions would you say are angry/demanding vs supportive/helpful? And any advice for dealing with the negative ones?

For me, probably less than 5% of interactions on PRs/issues/discussions are negative, but even that small amout sure does have a way of draining one's enthusiasm and motivation!
not really. some aspects that make great tool

- easy distribution (like "go install")

- minimal dependencies, tests and thus stability and security (like go ecosystem)

- cross platform support

- source code proxies by Google, checksums, and prevention of attacks (thanks to security of go ecosystem)

overall, I would very much prefer some well done Go tool rather say Python, Javascript or binaries
Love Baldur's writings in general. Smart & insightful, great topics.

I do feel like the mental model here - industry & labor - defines away a lot of the currents that arose open source. These factors are the industrial/capitalist view of open source!

Perhaps I was just young and naive, but man, it was such a an exciting time to be alive, and it was so clear to young me that computers already could do anything you asked them to do, and that they were getting soaringly better all the time, and that we were building new world spanning interactive mediums and revamping how society communicated with itself.

It was a grand project, and the term I heard recently & love vocational awe barely contains the magnitude of interests & awe I had & still have.

And it was such an open accessible time. Reading ajaxian.com was a constant torrent of regular folk inventing futures. We were harkening always towards new better protocols and libraries.

It felt so much more than industrial. And the scale of activity was on such a more personal, small innovator level. There weren't huge teams maintaining React or Nextjs. There were a couple folks creating Comet, or BEEP, and sharing not just the output but more engaged in an arena of ideas, discussing on blogs and comments the tradeoffs & nitty gritty.

Lately, tech hasn't been accessible, and it hasn't been cool. Open source used to be the connection for cool and accessible, used to be endless blogrolls that would suck folks in and let them see & become part of that project of building the new world. Open source has, as it's gotten more economically important and larger scale, become just a taken for granted tool, not something that was going to alloy & enhance our lives or expand our thinking.

The motivations matter, the image matters, the cause matters, the drive matters. We can look at industry and labor from a rationalist economic view, to assess open source, but the philosophy and motivations to me are more interesting, define the energies or lack that create the awe & passion that drive this amazing open source world, that impel people in.
I'm using the Cosmic alpha in Fedora and loving it. There are little bugs here and there, but nothing show stopping that I've seen. It's the first desktop that's been able to pry me away from KDE with tiling.
Working on 8 inch Cassegrain telescope F 30-40 with small secondary and optimized for planetary observations.

But in order to get there, I need to rework a couple of mirror grinding machines in the club according to specs by the professional optician teaching us.

This means building the right set of mechanical thingies to safely hold glass and tools from 6 to 16-inch diameter optics. According to our optician, we need an aluminum disc the same size as the mirror with a reverse threaded hole in the center of the aluminum disc. This disc will be screwed onto a coupling which is attached to the shaft of the turntable motor.

We are currently working on sourcing the parts, machining, and doing a trial run with a 6-inch mirror. Then I get some blanks, get the curve I need generated to save me hours upon hours with 80 grit hogging out the glass before he can settle down and let the combination of grit, water, moving glass and time work their magic on the surface, every minute bringing me closer to optical eh-its-good-enough".

We have enough members in the club building telescopes that the effort of making these mirror grinding and polishing machines work is well worth it. With any luck, you'll see me at Stellafane next year.
> I don't know that they're specifically friendly to police.

Throughout the last 5 decades: The SC have increased deference to LEO and established sweeping precedent that grants increasingly wider leeway by default. exs:Good Faith Exception, Qualified Immunity and Third Party Doctrine.

This is the SC before the recent conservatizing. The flags flying indicate this won't be rolled back an inch.
I do not see in the article where it says the loan has to be used for personal expenses. In fact from what I can tell it just says unrealized gains will be taxed regardless of whether a loan is taken out or not. The loan example is just used as a justification.
It just doesn't matter until it does. It's fine to work at a higher level of abstraction. But people who understand a lower level of abstraction can do things people will call "impossible" with fault injection exploits, rowhammer etc.
Golang Proverbs
No, not really. You mistake what the purpose of copyright is.

If I used a chatbot to sell the entire text of harry potter, all at once, that would still be illegal even though its through a chatbot.

Whats legal, of course, is creating transformative content, learning from other content, and mostly creating entirely new works even if you learned/trained from other content about how to do that. Or even if there are some similarities, or even if there were verbatim "copies" of full sentences like "he opened the door" that were "taken" from the original works!

Copyright law in the USA has never disallowed you entirely from ever using other people's works, in all circumstances. There are many exceptions.
> some American media is reporting

Can you please provide a source?
How to process 100gb tsv and XML files?
I am trying to parse a music data file that is close to 100gb. What app or programming language is best for handling a file like this?

Thanks!
There is a strong distinction between moderation, which is the removal of low-effort noise / spam / etc., and censorship, which is the suppression of ideas.
Surprised columbia put this behind cloudflair. Hate to see them spread into academia.
1861 article in The Atlantic on Nat Turner's Insurrection
https://archive.ph/8CgJO
That is, amusingly, the source of a ton of good research. :D
I think putting Firefox's share of the market at 5% is being quite generous.

All of the metrics I've seen lately for a variety of web sites indicate that Firefox has less than 3% of the overall market.

The mobile situation is particularly bleak, where I've yet to see it even get close to breaking 1%.

At this point, Firefox's share of the market is closer to that of Mosaic, Navigator, and IE than it is to Chrome, Safari, and Edge.
> But then, the path is broken, and we can’t reach the destination computer.

No. This is not what this output means.

People should not read more into what traceroute says than what it actually does.

* * * means that traceroute did not get an ICMP time exceeded for that probe. that's it. It says nothing about if you can actually reach the destination.
Ask HN: What's a "normal" amount of Layoffs to occur in one's career?
I've been laid off 3 times in the last two years, with the most recent just occurring recently. I've worked in tech for a little over 10 years now.

The frequency and absurd reasoning for these layoffs is really getting old, and I'm sitting here wondering if I should just expect this every 6 months to 2 years working in this industry, and if so if I should switch career paths altogether.

To be clear, I know I'm decent at my job. I can measure the impact I had, and see the customers we made happy, the usage our products created, and the monetary value it created for my former employers.

This is more asking if the frequency of layoffs I've experienced is normal, or something unique to me right now
RSS Guard. FOSS, cross platform with mpv integration. lite is the plain text only version.

https://github.com/martinrotter/rssguard/
I self-host FreshRSS. I prefer the feeds to be pulled from a server rather than locally from a browser. This lets me check out news feeds from work without worrying about my computer pinging websites IT doesn't like.