skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm using Nostr now. There is no algorithmic feed, so I have the experience again that I used to have on Twitter 15 years ago. It's awesome.
This is one of those rare articles which, although much of the material is over my head, I couldn't stop reading because it's written so well.
(Raised (fake) Canadian, living in the US)

I was in Canada last week and I saw a bunch of (real) English and (real) French Canadians. It dawned on me that the French Canadians resemble "redneck" Americans quite a lot more than the English whilst speaking a language that resembles French

The English Canadians (I wasn't in a major urban area, so these are what I call "real" Canadians) were quite different. Very reserved, low key and "proper". Unbearably stuffy.
The government also supports bombing the living fuck out of people on the other side of the world. Similarly, someone throwing 100m in the market does not unless they are taxed to do so.
You already posted one of the dumbest things ever posted on this site.

"no u" isn't going to change that.
The problem should be addressed at source - prevent excessive accumulation of wealth in the first place.
Same. It's amazing not having my server hammered by malicious actors and hardening it by not even offering the ssh service on the primary network interface
This will sound pretty dumb, but with all the amazing cross platform games written in Unity - which I thought was Mono or some form of cross platform library with .NET as one of the primary languages, I always wondered why there was not a more 'business app version' of this. After using Xamarin, Appcelerator, and dozens of other 'cross platform tools', with to be let down from ALL of them in the end and/or support dropped.... Having to support multiple platforms, esp. IOS vs. Android still seems to be stuck in the stone ages, esp. for small dev teams that can't allocate massive resources to multi-platform...
When IB really went downhill is when it got merged into Xcode, in my opinion. Performance and stability took a big hit and it never fully recovered.
I personally find software development to be enchanting and am often thankful to have a job like this.

I get to make in the comfort of my home creations where I am only limited by my knowledge, imagination, and attention. I can experiment easily and explore completely different designs with an ease that any other discipline would be envious of. And then I can allow millions or billions to have access my creation with ease.

That seems pretty enchanting and almost god-like and magical to me.
I don't understand. How does that help cross platform?

All I see is a manager saying, "the data shows no one uses it"
And that's why they have a $3.08 trillion market cap
It’s true, evangelical voters are notorious for their low turnout. Just look it up.
Is Pidgen still the default IRC client bundled with Tails?
Knockknock was one of my favorite things back in the day. I love Moxie's mindset. Nowadays I put Wireguard in front of everything.
Just like respiratory infections, some people get it multiple times, and have to be treated multiple times.
It should! Kani’s used by AWS’ Firecracker hypervisor.
Same here, but presumably, I have a feeling that I have a pretty good ability for discernment. Thinking of all my non-technical and even technical coworkers that fall for the monthly corporate phishing exercises, there seems to be a non-trivial amount of folks that haven't built up that discernment muscle.

When I visit my elderly mom after several months, I can't quite understand how she's purchased all sorts of bunk from everywhere, not just Amazon. From church MLM sales, to random youtube ads that take her to a store front. While the things she has purchased isn't an absolute scam, they tend to either be low quality or far overpriced for the purchased price.

I do think that there is both a tech privilege that our cohort shares in both high compensation and a better tuned intuition as we tend to be the creators of many products and have a good smell test when it comes to how the sauce is made. The high comp allows for us to purchase the high quality, brand-name version of many products. While understanding the sauce behind a lot of stuff informs my internal heuristics of price, pictures, marketing, 1,3, and 4 star reviews.

I do get the impression that those that are scammed on Amazon tend to be the cohort that is looking for esoteric goods, bleeding edge folks, or just the generally non-privileged folks that will gamble on a $7 Amazon item rather than a $100 version of the thing.
I don't support "real equality" and never have.
I use it as a reminder , timer, and my lights. That's all it's really good for, maybe a joke every now and then.
> but I don’t think leaving the auth servers on is going to benefit more than a very tiny handful of people at most, and thus probably isn’t worth the effort.

You say this, but of the composers who haven't moved to Dorico by now, they're probably very set in their ways. So I'm not sure "very tiny handful" is accurate.

I don't actually think they should be required to maintain auth servers, hence the patch.

> And again, it’s entirely possible this is all coming at Steinberg’s request and was deemed an acceptable tradeoff by MakeMusic

I still have no idea why this relevant or appropriate. "Hey, we might have been willing to continue to "allow" you to use the software you know, you bought, but another agreement sounded more appealing to us". That would actually be pushing on the concept of tortious interference (where a third party induces a first party to renege on their agreement with a second).

> And again, it’s entirely possible this is all coming at Steinberg’s request and was deemed an acceptable tradeoff by MakeMusic, assuming that it would benefit more people than it would harm. The discount vs activation tradeoff very well might benefit more people than it harms.

Entirely so. And maybe for some, the financial aspect is what's holding them back. But to be clear, Finale itself has been several hundred dollars (I believe I paid $299), so I don't know that that was the distinction for some.

Also, there is the removal of choice. "We're turning off the activation servers. You can pay $179 to some other company, or lose access to the software you'd already paid for". I don't know that your "oh you're not losing it, because you can keep running it, if it's already activated" is anywhere near the argument you think it is.
I can see where my mental heuristic is informed that most chargers are bunk, so I never buy chargers on Amazon unless they are Anker or straight from Apple. Cables I will gamble on though.
Canadians who visit any major American city for a day think we're basically the same.

Canadians who visit for a year think we are totally different.
I don't think saying any of that resulted in being banned because I saw it constantly.

Also you are still wrong about most of that. The vaccine is certainly safe and effective, masks definitely help, lockdowns definitely helped the overrun hospitals. Yes there were adverse effects in some of these policies unfortunately.
"I am morally superior because I have the correct beliefs, as validated by the artificial applause on The Daily Show"
Where is this feedback you’re referring to?
"The world would be one month in diameter - so that a fleet or army or inter-player message could be dispatched to anywhere in the game in a single turn."

I had a similar idea. Since my game is real-time, rather than turn based, I decided to use time for to indicate travel. There is basically no map. In that sense, it is similar to some sci-fi star games where star travel is mostly handled by "teleporting" from one star to another. Though I use time to indicate that attacking another Kingdom cannot be done instantly.

Thank you for the suggestions about Show HN. Good idea. I'll do a Show HN when it is ready.
I was paying for both. Then I canceled both. I hate the fact that they sensor what I am trying to do or test. Everyone has a different career path. It does not tailor to me. I am in cyber security. I wish they sold consumer gpus with 80gb or 250gb of ram. Would live to run some large llms locally that could assist with code automation.
Ask HN: Fake CC that you can give to scammers and they get owned
I was wondering why isn't there an app that generate fake cc numbers that are valid and when scammers use them, it gets traced and instantly gets reported to relevant law authorities.
There's a fair deal of resources for writing code-only UIs in iOS apps with UIKit, but not nearly as much for Mac AppKit apps.

I suspect that this is because the average Mac window/view nib file is a great deal less complex than its counterpart view nib on iOS and still manageable to edit in Interface Builder, and so a lot of Mac devs still use nibs.

I've toyed with code-only Mac AppKit stuff but generally have found that it's not quite as clean as code only iOS UIKit. For example if I recall correctly, there's no initializer for NSWindow that sets all of the flags that make it behave like a normal window because it's assumed that you'll be using nibs. It's not difficult to write an extension to NSWindow to fix this, but it has to be done for reasonable productivity, and these papercuts are strewn throughout AppKit. In contrast, most UIKit controls can be initialized with few or no arguments and still behave as expected.
In Quebec French "on" is often used instead of "nous"; a closer translation would be simply "we don't speak English".
If Amazon had curated content I might actually consider ordering items through an echo device. As it is now, you have no idea if you're getting some keyboard smash brand.

It's AliExpress with slightly faster shipping now.

Regardless, I use it as a timer frequently, and it's fantastic in the kitchen. I make a lot of bread and it's nice to be able to set a timer when I have flour / dough on my hands.
> I can't imagine Canada adopting economic, military or cultural policies that favor US enemies without being strong-armed out of it by the US.

Are you familiar with NATO? Clearly Canada wouldn’t do that - Canada can’t. But the existence of a treaty organization does not change how distinct we are.

As an example, school shootings. They’re far more rare here than population would dictate.
The web is beginning to come back home. There are going to be more and more pockets of satellite communities of the early web. It is becoming more and more interesting to be a traveler visiting different parts of the web again.
Even the "standard Canadian accent" is nearly indistinguishable from the "standard American accent" except for the o's and a few words that have a more British emphasis.
Learning to Move Like Professional Counter-Strike Players
Bad form to recommend something else...

But I had some of the same issues that people have described about synchronizing across multiple devices with notifications and all that jazz, and ended up landing on Amazing Marvin (https://amazingmarvin.com/).

It is the single, closest thing I've found to the same paradigm of Task Warrior's prioritization systems, and incredibly customizable, which is lovely to see as a web app. No connection to it, other than it being something I love.
> I think this is a great idea

It is a completely ridiculous idea. You can't value "unrealized gains" without using a third-party agency to come up with a number (typically through 409a valuation). And even if the third-party agency comes up with such a number, there is no way to have liquid cash available to pay the tax. To give you an example, say you are a Founder with a Startup that received investments from investors, through various rounds of funding, and the Startup is now valued at $1 Billion. Assume also that you sit on 5 million shares, with 51% equity post all the dilution. You will have to pay tax on $510 million. This $510 million is "unrealized gain". It is an "estimate" of what you would receive if the company was hypothetically acquired for that amount by a bigger company on that particular day of valuation. Assuming 25% tax that would be $127.5 million. Where will you come up with that money? There is no secondary market where you can use your shares to raise that money. You will probably have to take a loan from banks (if they have that sort of liquid cash available for ALL unicorn startup founders/centamillionaires/actual billionaires) and that too with exorbitant interest. Why would anyone want to go through all that hassle? The other option is for you to sell some of the shares to raise money to pay tax. But that is self-defeating because you are devaluing your net worth by the same amount.

It is the most ridiculous idea ever.

EDIT:

> are doing to avoid paying tax including taking out loans against their own share portfolios

How is that tax avoidance? You do realize that when they pay the exorbitant interest on the loan, they are paying tax on the interest right? That is typically higher than if they just sold the shares and paid capital gains tax directly. Because here they are paying interest + tax.

High net worth individuals take out loans by risking their shares. Those shares are marked as lein. In other words, those shares get locked with the lender (bank in this case) and in case of the Founder not being able to repay due to bankruptcy, the lender can liquidate the assets (shares) and not be required to get the best value for it in the market.

This is not tax avoidance by any means. This is Capitalism 101: putting YOUR capital to use the way you see fit and taking personal risk along the way.
Why do people use things like this? Is it for talking with managers?

I'm being sincere. Maybe I should be using it. I don't see why though.
I've read a ton of your writing on this topic. There is still much more, but I'm tired. You described the problem well, and if your software alleviates it, then I see the value.

I'd like to try the software if it'd available please. But I'm not sure where it is or if it's out yet. Is it the Obsidian template you linked here, or is it a separate software called Your Commonbase? Because the Obsidian vault has a different name.

I have to say that the irony is hilarious that I can't find this information in the (well written) sea of information you posted. But then of course I'm not using your solution yet!
The fact that the push primary school students through to higher and higher levels of math, when they 'fail', is a sacrilege to the student and a stain on the education system. I see so many capable students that don't have the prerequisites for the current math level, and are now just completely lost with NO chance of finding the path in the current system. And completely demoralized and disenfranchised.... all for what? To meet some BS metrics? This really needs to change.
The thing the .NET team maintains is (a fork of) the Mono Runtime/JIT. Mono's implementation of the .NET Framework BCL (= stdlib) isn't part of modern .NET.
> I honestly, truly believe that limiting the size and reach of government is voting in my own self interest.

I guess you don't like roads, bridges, courts, fire departments, GPS, the Internet, modern medicine or stable food prices then.

This whole "limited government" fantasy is such a uniquely American delusion. It's crazy. It's propaganda sold to you by wealthy people who want to be able to poison your drinking water because it increases their personal wealth from $30 billion to $31 billion.

It borders on libertarianism, which, if that's what you're talking about, is such an incredibly naive and ridiculous political philosophy.

I am actually curious though: how exactly is big government creating "negative consequences for [you] and your family"?
I wasn't happy with Taskwarrior, so I started to develop my own CLI task manager called "TaskLite" a few years ago. Here is the comparison page:

https://tasklite.org/differences_taskwarrior

I'm about to release a new version with a lot of improvements the coming weeks.
I semi-purposely left out self driving cars, and the revolution it has/is/will provide again.. remains to be seen. Waymo is nearly a 20 year old project at this point and is seemingly quite great in 2 cities, serving ~1% of the US population. These cities also happen to be in warm climates so theres a whole slew of environments / "edge cases" they just don't have to deal with. Maybe 20 more years?

So it's both outperformed what pessimists might have said (never work) and vastly underperformed what the median enthusiast projected (it's always just a few years away). I'd wager we are still teaching teens how to drive even 20 years from now.

LLMs are ~7 years old, so maybe another decade to being useful if we go by self driving cars learning rate?
Telegram doesn't have E2EE except for 1-on-1 chats where you enable it.
As a separatist-sympathizer, I get it.... but instead of obsessing over teaching French to English kids, you'd think they could set up programs to teach their own kids to speak French!

French Canadian is the cruelest sounding language I have ever heard.
Because the goal is to have and endless war. Think about that.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_IGU_7alJ80
Yeah when benchmarking by batch sizes it's common to see huge jumps associated with the memory hierarchy:

- word size (64bits)
- cache alingment fetch size (generally 64bytes as mentioned above)
- OS page size (4-16kb)
- L1 size (~80kb/core)
- L2 (low megabyte number)
I wouldn't call it "great". It crashed in 2 seconds (index out of bounds) on my Mac from going to the Calendar page and hitting j twice.
> you make up new words to show off your virtues.

You are hurling insults by intentionally misrepresenting the reasons people create new terminology.
Her campaign supports Biden's 2025 tax proposals which includes tax on unrealized capital gains.
These also seem to have a weird stacking sort of nature. Once a bad review, someone says they had a "fight" with their boss ... now there's some system that brands them as a threat, their options for advancement are limited, but maybe they don't know why...

After a while it's a self fulfilling prophecy. All because of a couple of perceived issues.
A funny thing is that reading the rights to the arrestee isn't even the law in much of the US.
Look at the release history and you'll see it was already on life support. MS stopped adding new features to .NET Framework with 4.8 but Mono has yet to reach parity with that.
This site is very slow when accessed from Asia. And I can't open each card in a new tab. Slow server and/or bad Nuxt implementation?
To me, this looks like a wealth tax by another name. I Google about the plan and found this:

> households worth more than $100 million would pay an annual minimum tax worth 25% of their combined income and unrealized capital gains.

Ref: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/kamala-harris-supports-tax-un...

To be clear, Norway has also had a wealth tax for years. Summarised: The wealth tax rate is 0.7%(local)+0.3%(national) and is calculated based on assets exceeding a net capital tax basis of NOK 1.7 million for single/not married taxpayers and NOK 3.4 million for married couples. (Ref: https://taxsummaries.pwc.com/norway/individual/other-taxes)

And regarding "taking out loans against their own share portfolios": Yes, I agree, this is genius tax avoidance strategy. And, I am pretty sure the interest paid on that loan would be tax deductible in the US! Most large investment banks have a separate trading desk that facilitates these loans via private bankers.
Kids getting colds allows them to develop immunity to some of the hundreds of endemic upper respiratory viruses that constantly circulate throughout the human population. They're going to get infected with many of them sooner or later, so better to get it over with sooner. This protects them later in life when their immune systems are less effective.
> RISC-V cpus are still at the performance level of Raspberry Pi 4, a $50 computer from five years ago.

What do you mean "still"? Those are brand new RISC-V CPUs, or were a year ago when they came out.

The base RISC-V specification which the current cores implement (except the ones from the last couple of months) was not even formally frozen and published yet when the Pi 4 came out. Getting comparable RISC-V boards out in 4 years was a great effort. Note that the Pi 4 arrived eight years after the ARMv8-A spec was published.

That original spec doesn't contain a lot of important things such as SIMD which make a huge difference to those Geekbench scores. They are not comparing like to like.

By this time next year we'll have RISC-V boards performing better than the Pi 5, less than two years after it (possibly 1.5 years).

A year after that, RISC-V things currently well into their design pipeline will be somewhere between Zen 1 and Apple M1 performance.

The rate of progress is incredible. In the last 2-3 years many designers of current CPUs from Apple, Intel, AMD, Arm, Qualcomm have moved to RISC-V companies.
The "fight to end sub-minimum wages" is a distraction from no tax on tips.
Makes me wonder what happens if you use this as a prompt for chatgpt.
Posy is fantastic. I also highly recommend his Lazy Posy channel.
It doesn't even require an appeal to a slippery slope. All I need to do is to look at the historical inflation rate and its pretty obvious that my grandchildren will require a net worth greater than $100M simply to retire.
"English is not spoken here" would work well.

The "on" is impersonal and quite different from "nous". I think a translation should reflect the universality of the statement.
It became even harder once Ethereum became non-fungible thanks to Tornado Cash and OFAC.
This is true of all voice assistants, you basically described my use of Siri.
Timers, controlling lighting, stopping music music, weather queries..
Most other things are 100x faster to pick up your phone, tablet, laptop, whatever.

We are approaching 15 years of these things being mainstream and.. really that's it. Maybe that's fine.. it's just another mild lifestyle convenience!

But again, a reminder of the hype cycle and what actually ends up being useful technology when put in the hands of regular people.
This article is written ass backwards.

Should start with the last part which explains that they have the WritableToBytes trait - implementing it has to be marked unsafe because it has an explicit invariant: no padding.

When it’s not implemented on a type, you can’t pass it to the writer unless you do what they did and use two pointer casts within an unsafe block. So you don’t do that. Instead, you write the initialized parts of the struct individually. They’ll probably add a derive macro to make implementing something a safe equivalent of the trait trivial.
Well, fountain pens are actually worse for lefties because the "push" motion tends to tear the paper. If only there were truly functional, smudge-free inks! While some brands claim to be "smudge-free," they don’t dry quickly enough to prevent smudging from a lefty’s own hand—they seem more focused on preventing smudges from other objects rather than the writer's hand.

As for pencils, they’re not much better than pens in this regard. The smudging issue persists, just in a different form.
Yeah, that's not accurate:

> More than eight-in-ten White evangelical Protestant voters who attend religious services frequently (85%) voted for Trump in the most recent election, as did 81% of those who attend less frequently.

Source: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2021/08/30/most-whit...

> White born-again or evangelical Christians made up 24 percent of the electorate in the 2022 elections, according to the media consortium exit poll conducted for CNN, ABC, NBC and CBS. Black (11 percent) and Latino (11 percent) voters and those from a union household (18 percent) combined to constitute 40 percent of the vote.

Source: https://rollcall.com/2023/06/28/be-skeptical-of-the-wave-of-...
but because the natives (metis) spoke French by the time the Brits got there.
I'm sure you could just use Stripe's test numbers...