skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's absolutely no indication that what is highlighted in the tweet is due to the 2008 crisis.

As a French, I can tell you that the reason the GDP doesn't grow is because France is absolutely failing at any sort of innovation. So are most EU countries.

This is self-inflicted damage, nothing to do with 2008.
Oh sure, I didn't mean I was giving the full explanation, only that I felt the idea wasn't so ridiculous.
I think the chances of the kind of person who steals your wallet also being able to leverage pilfered two-factor authentication codes to hijack your accounts is almost zero.
Is GDP per capita a measure of anything real for day-to-day life?
Hmm Barcelona wasn't so bad this year.

Of course there's many people complaining about tourism but really it's not so bad. They're mainly hanging around the Ramblas and gothic areas, those are areas the locals avoid anyway due to the lack of genuine services and high crime (pickpockets, drug dealers)

I welcome the restrictions on AirBnB and other apartment rentals though because they are driving the prices up too much.
> it’s almost tempting me to apply elsewhere

People not doing this is why it stays as it is.

If you don't like your broadband provider; you change it. If you don't like a car brand; you don't buy it. You don't buy them and claim their deficiencies are unfair.
It's not if you use it to understand cash flow. If you use it as a profit replacement, you might be disappointed.
An even better analogy would be food safety enforcement for large food processors: not wearing a seatbelt makes the author’s proposal seem like it’s about you, when it really is about well-needed criminal penalties for FooCoGotPwned Ops (where FooCoGotPwned isn’t in tech, health, or finance.) Otherwise, like listeria in your liverwurst, it’s only a matter of time until you get hacked.

The only current remedy is a class action lawsuit which will eventually give you a pittance after many years, and it’s pathetic.
Would I rather pay £22 a month to use software that might stop working, where the company makes it actively difficult for me to cancel a subscription, or £0 a month for software that does basically the same things but doesn't have smart objects? Seems like an easy answer to me
Offtopic:

What are some good frameworks for webscraping and PDF document processing -- some public and some behind login, some requiring multiple clicks before the sites display relevant data.

We need to ingest a wide variety of data sources for one solution. Very few of those sources supply data as API / json.
Hi there,
This is Umit, the maker of Agnost. I think you are right it can be confusing. By container we actually mean resources such as deployments, statefulsets, cronjobs. It is not related to containers in a pod.
I was thinking about this the other day. The house prices in the UK have steadily risen way above salary. Could it be that the salary was screwed by 2008, but the house prices continued? Either via investments (buy to let as well as stocks etc), other home owners being able to sell / buy or international money?
I search ") myFunc" to find member functions. It would be nice to search "c myFunc", but a parentheses works
First I’ve heard of Semantic Markdown [0]. It appears to be a way to embed RDF data in Markdown documents.

The page I found is labeled “Alpha Draft,” which suggests there isn’t a huge corpus of Semantic Markdown content out there. This might impede LLM’s ability to understand it due to lack of training data. However, it seems sufficiently readable that LLMs could get by pretty well by treating its structured metadata as parathenicals

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What is Semantic Markdown?

Semantic Markdown is a plain-text format for writing documents that embed machine-readable data. The documents are easy to author and both human and machine-readable, so that the structured data contained within these documents is available to tools and applications.

Technically speaking, Semantic Markdown is "RDFa Lite for Markdown" and aims at enhancing the HTML generated from Markdown with RDFa Lite attributes.

Design Rationale:

Embed RDFa-like semantic annotation within Markdown

Ability to mix unstructured human-text with machine-readable data in JSON-LD-like lists

Ability to semantically annotate an existing plain Markdown document with semantic annotations

Keep human-readability to a maximum
About this document

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[0] https://hackmd.io/@sparna/semantic-markdown-draft
That would help for a lot of things that are priced around schools.

Flights can be 1/3rd the price with less than a week before/after summer break.
Oh nice! Have you considered submitting it to https://design-system.service.gov.uk/community/resources-and... ? There's no Django solution there at the moment
> There's absolutely no indication that what is highlighted in the tweet is due to the 2008 crisis

Not in the tweet, but the austerity policies pushed by the ECB in the aftermath of the crisis has been shown to have significantly slowed down economic growth [0]

[0] - https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w23147/w231...
I really am interested and it baffles me that nobody else has privacy as a priority in their life, but down-voted my question instead.

playdate.scoreboards.addScore sends just the rank, player and value data, or is there a device ID added in the background? If not, how do they prevent spamming/cheating? Is player value user-defined? For this game only or all games on the device? Is it sent with https or just http?

Thank you.
There are a substantial minority of people, mainly on the political left in my personal experience, who characterise capitalists / economists as using theories where the market / consumers are perfectly efficient. To me it seems one of those phenomenons where people want to have an opinion on a complex subject, but to do that they need to simplify it to an extent that makes it a completely innacurate caricature, often based on information that's many decades out of date. It drives a friend of mine - who's an experienced economist that builds models of economies - absolutely mad when people blithely say "but of course you believe that people act rationally and markets are efficient".
> reduce it do only sections that are likely to be relevant (eg. "Life and career")

True but I also managed to do this from HTML. I tried getting pages wikitext through the API but couldn't find how to.

Just querying the HTML page was less friction and fast enough that I didn't need a dump (although when AI becomes cheap enough, there is probably a lot of things to do from a wikipedia dump!).

One advantage of using online wikipedia instead of a dump is that I have a pipeline on Github Actions where I just enter a composer name and it automagically scrapes the web and adds the composer to the database (takes exactly one minute from the click of the button!).
Hi,
This is Umit the maker of Agnost. It indeed does container building. ArgoCD and Flux are great GitOps tools that focus on automating the deployment of Kubernetes resources based on changes in a Git repository. They do not build Docker images or push them to a container registry. Instead, they deploy pre-built images to Kubernetes by syncing the state of the cluster with the manifests defined in a Git repository. On the other hand, Agnost builds and deploys images to the Kubernetes cluster and updates the image tags of your Kubernetes resources when a build and deploy pipeline is triggered.
In person scams don’t scale. That’s much better.
Not a hot take at all, for anyone who has worked with securing code.

SWEs simply aren’t trained to deeply examine code and the side effects of it being pressured by skilled attackers.

2+ LGTMs reduces the change of a security issue making its way in, but no amount of expensive “more eyes” will eradicate bugs.
No way in hades would the UK ever switch. Few on HN are old enough to remember the fight over the kilogram. That was intense enough. In terms of being consistent with the outside world, the UK is more likely to adopt metric speed limits. That certainly won't ever happen either. Abolition of the monarchy and adoption of the Euro are more likely this century than metric speed limits. The concept of the UK driving on the right side of the road is in DrWho territory.
Should we tax realized gains?
I like Crawlee: https://crawlee.dev/
Then what explains the clear inflection point in 2008? Did western Europe suddenly become less innovative?
If I could still run FreeHand, I would seriously consider it.
Also, anything that contains "func" and "lart" as a substring, e.g. foobar(function), blart(baz).

It's not far off from my manually-constructed patterns when I want to make sure I find a function definition (and am willing to tolerate some false positives), but I personally prefer fine-grained control over when it's in use.
The author wrongly implies that if Center Parcs was just owned by a public company or an individual, that those controlling entities would simply not care about making a profit and wouldn’t charge the prices they do. Author also ignores inconvenient facts such as how the private equity firms actually spent a lot of money upgrading parks in order to make them the desirable locations they are today. I suppose author would’ve preferred they be kept in disarray but cheap?? I could go on but no point. This kind of left wing economic ignorance (redundant?) is tiring but sadly expected. Private equity isn’t perfect but it’s been made out to be some sort of bogeyman it’s demonstrably not.
TOTP is trivially phishable.

Code security is orthogonal to end-user authentication methods.

So, wrong on every count.
that's just the core of the posting-on-hn experience. when i'm programming i don't try to preemptively defuse personal attacks like that, though i do try to accurately document the advantages and disadvantages of things in my comments, which often looks like 'this is a fucking broken piece of shit that only works if none of the input bytes are null and takes cubic time'

but my motivation there isn't to keep people from calling me an idiot. that's a lost cause. it's to save me and them time rediscovering problems i already know about
So the "Hey siri"/"alexa"/"Ok Google", those features don't show your mic is recording, i dont think. Whether it's TVs or phones. all of the speech recognition and hands free control features are probably enough. there are masses of consumers that opt-in to these companies collecting data "to improve services" and other sketchy stuff. Honestly, I would think if you wanted to build a business around this it would be much better to go after the data collected behind EULAs that never got read than try to collect data from people who have all that shit turned off..
Some people, like Warren Buffett, do exactly that. But the forecasting is very difficult. It's a full time job for them, and they have the industry connections to obtain information that you or I can't.
You're right of course. I guess I was trying to steelman the hypothetical exec's position as not totally unfounded or unreasonable, not give the final verdict.
It was released roughly a year ago, I wouldn't really say this is an issue. While there has been plenty of progress in the meanwhile, actually conducting research takes time and effort, you can't expect everything to be done on the very bleeding edge at all times.
would not happen to you at pontins
Direct air capture is quite expensive, and also adds the question: if you can capture CO2 from air, why not just continue to use petroleum-based jet fuel and capture and sequester the CO2?
This is not price gouging, but rather it's a price the market supports.

The debt shouldn't make a difference to pricing unless debt free owners were reducing pricing below what they could charge (with the trade off being that you won't be able to book except with quick fingers on days of release).
If you’re referring to the fact that alcohol is a diuretic, then just say that. that’s basically a myth in the popular understanding. A drink has to be fairly strong to dehydrate you. A beer will probably hydrate you. But it might vary by person for stronger beers.

The drinks we are discussing here are extremely weak and definitely going to hydrate you.

> Even if that’s true it’s not at all related with alcohol being a replacement for water. It’s like if someone if in 400+ years decided that most people in the 2000s only ate supplements instead of actual food due to similar reasons.

Then maybe read my whole post where I explicitly said they drank a lot of dirty water
The specific noun to distinguish "car" from "truck" is "personbil" in Swedish, and "Personenkraftwagen" ("PKW") in German. Guess why.
Are you a non-solo marketing professional?

If it saves 50 hours a year, it's a bargain.
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Wonderful vizualization and library! Many years ago I made a Chua's circuit PCB for an electronics course[0]. We had to dust off an old Cold War era analog oscilloscope to actually see the attractors because the resolution of the newer digital ones induced too many artefacts.

I want to use this library to vizualize this using the electronic component values now.

[0] https://karan.sh/res/Chua_Circuit_report.pdf
It's a measure of global agency.
The lower the Gini coefficient, the better day-to-day proxy it makes?

(I saw a claim here on HN the other day that the state of mississippi has a higher GDP/capita than europe in general; while I don't know if that be true [my corner of western europe being over twice on that scale], the two potential explanations [based on my memories of a neighbouring state] which sprung to mind were: (a) the benefit of the general productivity of mississippi may be concentrated [and perhaps not even among those living there], or (b) GDP/capita is a better indicator for finance than prosperity)
The ISP absolutely doesn't care if you publish ... they just don't want somebody to host stuff without paying a premium, since people are willing to pay more for it.
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A lot like video game streaming, the appeal of this totally misses me.
Have to believe it is a reference to the missile copypasta.
Thanks, but coincidentally(?) there was a post with the correct URL made a few minutes after I posted this comment, and it got a lot of traction.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41409522
According to the linked PDF which includes a report from AWS professional services, the PoC was originally devised in September 2023 and conducted in January/February of 2024, before the release of Llama 3. They tested Llama2-70B, Mistral-7b and MistralLite. They didn't evaluate proprietary models such as GPT4 probably because they would've wanted to be able to deploy it within Australia or with an Australian company
I think what's interesting about it is the inter-relation between different disciplines and how the ideas are connected. The connection between the heat-equation and the generative diffusion models we see to day, and its relation to the Fourier Transform would not have been immediately obvious to me.
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The LLM is resistant to website updates that would break normal scraping

If you do like the author did and ask it to generate xPaths, you can use it once, use the xPaths it generated for regular scraping, then once it breaks fall back to the LLM to update the xPaths and fall back one more time to alerting a human if the data doesn't start flowing again, or if something breaks further down the pipeline because the data is in an unexpected format.
I'm referring to the 'capture customers and unreasonably hike the prices' business model, which intends to make profit of exactly the cases where a customer is NOT a rational agent, just like scams do. I'm not saying that's all there is to Canva, just making a general remark about these kinds of business models.

Because yes, in theory a customer can 'just' switch to another product. In reality though, there are various reasons why it isn't so easy. Customers get invested with their time, build skills, have projects, or just plain inertia. It takes some mental load to compare alternative products and make the switch. People are busy.

We don't think of bait-and-switch business models as scams, but once you see them as basically scams-light it becomes clear it is at least an open-question if their existence furthers the glory of the free market, or hinders it. We don't have a problem seeing scams or criminality as basically obstructing a free-market.

Eventually Canva will perish if they make the deal bad enough, unless they somehow achieve a monopoly or sales stranglehold (my term), but not before they squeeze a good few bucks out of frustrated users. If they are successful enough at it, it hollows out the market.
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I mean a separate physical device, like, well, a Yubikey, that can't be automated away due to some vulnerability or UI spoofing. A browser keeps your client-side certificates. A browser is a hardened, but also an incredibly complex piece of software. Chances that an exploit would let coax it into activating a particular client-side certificate without your noticing are pretty slim (hopefully), but for a hardware key which is simpler and even more hardened these chances are lower still.
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But also hasn't it always been argued by Photoshop people that "Gimp isn't good enough" compared to Photoshop since the dawn of this debates origin? I feel like I've always heard this.

Look, use whatever tool you want, but stop pretending like you get to decide if others get to recommend tools or not.

I would personally prefer to just use Gimp, but I'm not really a graphic designer by any means, which also makes justifying the costs of Photoshop for me silly.

Sidenote: Aren't there other pieces of software that match more things that Photoshop is better at than GIMP? I have heard praises for Krita, but I assume it depends on use case.
related to "grok"?
You Have the Right to Remain Innocent (2016)
It’s interesting that it reads like a crisis team PR statement instead of a technical explanation. Particularly “the space station audio system is complex” bit.
There was a quip from Admiral Hopper's video posted here last week[1] which caught my ear:

You manage things. You lead people.

Leadership is a forgotten and/or underappreciated concept. And Hopper was speaking in 1982.

I can of course think of some counterarguments, and Hopper makes a few of them herself, consciously or not, in distinguishing rote, gut, and/or traditional modes of management from those based on measurement and outcomes. But she also clearly describes what she means, and practiced, by "leadership" as well. Especially as regards principles.

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Notes:

1. <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41356528> The referenced comments occur late in the 2nd video of the set.
> “… languages seem inherently sequential, while ideas and knowledge tend to have a more hierarchical structure…”

Careful with your musings, or you might start thinking semiotically!

Diachrony and synchrony

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diachrony_and_synchrony
I was not expecting to see The Big Lebowski on that list.
You have apparently mistaken a very British word joke for something else
"Markets" are rational as betting is rational.
This could work if there is an accessible alternative that's better which there may not be.

Demanding change can also work, and regardless of whether better alternatives exist.

"Just move to a country where women can vote" was not an effective strategy, demanding the vote worked for a huge number of women without them even moving to the next town.
When it comes to mathematics do you use the law of excluded middle? I ask out of curiosity. Wondering if your physical intuitions are “natural” (for lack of a better word) enough that it affects your view of mathematical logic.
If markets just randomly assign values to companies, you can beat them in two straightforward ways:

1. Just buy when the price is low and random variation will move the price higher eventually (or short when the price is high).

2. Ignore the market except to buy when a company is underpriced, then just have the company declare dividends or whatever and directly eat the profit that the market is stipulated to have underpriced.

A very small investor in a random market might have difficulty with either of these strategies, but a reasonably well-capitalized investor would not.

If you want to think up some kind of complicated model of difficult-to-take-advantage-of company pricing that is hard to exploit, really ask yourself whether that model is grounded in anything other than, "I'm mad about the EMH."
>Have random, unique passwords. Use a password manager. Done.

Still vulnerable to phishing, and that's where Yubikey & U2F can help.
> "super case insensitive"

lets say someone would make a plugin for their favorite IDE for this kind of search. How would the details look like?

To keep it simple, lets assume we just do the super-case-insensitivity, without the other regex condition. Lets say the user searches for "first_name" and wants to find "FirstName".

one simple solution would be to have a convention where a word starts or ends, e.g. with " ". So the user would enter "first name" into the plugin's search field. The plugin turns it into "/first[-_]?name/i" and gives this regexp to the normal search of the IDE.

another simple solution would be to ignore all word boundaries. So when the user enters "first name", the regexp would become "/f[-_]?i[-_]?r[-_]?s[-_]?t[-_]?n[-_]?a[-_]?m[-_]?e[-_]?/i". Then the search would not only be super-case-insensitive, but super-duper-case-insensitive. I guess the biggest downside would be, that this could get very slow.

I think implementing a plugin like this would be trivial for most IDEs, that support plugins.

Am I missing something?