skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The state of nature has no schools, no water, no sewer and no police. If one is going to live in a civilized nation, he should pay his share of taxes. Capital gains is 15%. That is not an outrageous amount. Everyone should pay because everyone benefits. One is free to leave and live in tax shelter principality or Sultanate.

There is a problem with high taxes on earned income, but anyone complaining about the 15% capital gains tax has problems. The estate tax only applies to this who are very, very fortunate. These are not even earned. Again, if one hates his country, he can move to Dubai, Bermuda or the Glorious Sultanate of Brunei and enjoy their lifestyle.

I do understand that people in California get angry because the state is so poorly run, but most of the US has easily avoided the self-created problems of California and New York city.
The crux of the question is "how people find internet resources". And the answer is that, generally, ad-driven companies have no interest in showing their users this kind of stuff, and have taken over pretty much every entrypoint.

For instance, if I was to build a webgame, there is zero chance it could be found through Google nowadays. If I made an app, I would have to plead with Google's or Apple's store.

I could share it on e.g. Reddit, Twitter or FB, but that would be a tiny trickle of users, and the odds of them staying on my platform and its associated forums would be extrelemy low, because the users aren't actually looking for it when they see it.

Also it wouldn't be large enough to be their daily doomscrolling experience (and there is zero chance it could be integrated to it using e.g. RSS feeds). On top of that, any site not algorithmically optimizing content shown for maximum addiction would not capture users in the long run.

Guess what option I have left to show my thing to people? Pay the ad-tech business. That's not something easy for an association or an individual who aren't looking to create revenue streams.
Hey there! Thanks a lot for the nice words and really hope you enjoy the book.

> Was wondering if JSON BinPack is a good serialization format to sign json documents?

Not sure what you mean by signing but let's connect. I would love to learn more. Can you find me on LinkedIn and/or e-mail?
Hacker news is overloading the website. It now returns 429
Cool idea! Adding PassMark scores and live prices is a nice touch. How often do you update the prices, and do you plan to add more filter options like battery life or weight?
> limits of the human mind when more and more AI-generated code will be used

We already have a technology which scales infinitely with the human mind: abstraction and composition of those abstractions into other abstractions.

Until now, we’ve focused on getting AI to produce correct code. Now that this is beginning to be successful, I think a necessary next step for it to be useful is to ensure it produces well-abstracted and clean code (such that it scales infinitely)
Is there really nobody in the Wordpress.org organization who can provide a check on this kind of behavior? Or do they really collectively share this Matt character’s attitude toward professionalism?
Only long experience can help you figure this out. All projects should have at least 20% of the developers who have been there for more than 10 years so they have background context to figure out what you will really need. You then need at least 30% of your developers to be intended to be long term employees but they have less than 10 years. In turn that means never more than 50% of your project should be short term contractors. Nothing wrong with short term contractors - they often can write code faster than the long term employees (who end up spending a lot more time in meetings) - but their lack of context means that they can't make those decisions correctly and so need to ask (in turn slowing down the long term employees even more)

If you are on a true green field project - your organization has never done this before good luck. Do the best you can but beware that you will regret a lot. Even if you have those long term employees you will do things you regret - just not as much.
If for "documents" you mean PDF, Word, Powerpoints, Excel you should try preprocess.co

If that’s not what you meant, can you please clarify?
There might be an age component to that. Anecdotally, holding the phone with the opposite hand from the one touching the screen feels correlated with age to me. I'm right-handed, and primarily use my phone one-handed with my right hand.
https://youtu.be/H7DgMFqrON0?t=214
I remember being somewhat excited for Intel dGPUs since I had a real interest in a card that could do GVT-g and also might have super low idle power consumption like their iGPUs that would fit well with my VM server. We ended up with GVT-g canceled and promising of SR-IOV coming eventually and dGPUs with atrocious idle power consumption!
Discrimination has largely been "reprogrammable" though. E.g. America doesn't have segregation anymore.
He has written a custom Python library for math animations, manim - see the top of the FAQ at https://www.3blue1brown.com/faq
Microsoft Recall Is Mandatory
That’s only true if you’re writing the codec. If you’re calling the system APIs, you’re using Microsoft or Apple’s license.

The last time I looked it was worth supporting because there was a 20 point gap in hardware support but that’s closed as each generation of hardware adds AV1 support.
I taught guitar for three years to groups of undergrads. I noticed that most lefties had no problem playing a right-handed guitar. However, occasionally I would have a student that just struggled mightily and things clicked when they switched to a left-handed guitar.
This is awesome! Integrating multiple LLMs into Google Sheets sounds super useful, especially for quick AI tasks. How's the performance with larger datasets, and are there any plans to add more AI models down the line?
Scuda – Virtual GPU over IP
Wow that's petty.
Entertaining. Tripling down on a bad decision. Mans mad.
so your telling me my analysis is flawed because i didnt take META as a base. MY guy the article is about CTS. NOT META.

H1B is to tech what H2A is for agriculture . Yall want to Drive the combine ( Managment, Software development, VC ) but dont want to do the dirty work ( QA, Devops, IT admin )
I agree, no matter how much we don't like reloads, the fact that they reset your whole client state makes things much simpler.
>> You don't repeatedly recompress along the pipeline length

Yes, you do. That is the primary purpose of transmission compressor stations. You may just lose a few psi per mile or something, but over the course of 100s of miles..
We're going to the Solar System's most intriguing frontier
Yeah my body is all kinds of confused also:

- Write with my left
- Cricket/golf right
- Tennis/squash left
- Bowl/throw left
- Mouse right
- Drink left
- Eat right (fork in left hand, knife in right)
- Cut left (but usually don't bother because scissors never work)
- I also kick well off both feet (although favor the left foot slightly)

I'm definitely more left dominant but can usually do most things well enough with my right. I was also never told/forced to be right-handed.
"Left" probably comes from the proto-indo-european root "laiwos", which means to bend or curve. "Right" probably comes from "hregtos", which means straight and correct.

Makes sense, since most people don't write well with their left hand.

English retains this connotation strongly since "right" also literally means "correct" or "straight" (both of which come from the same root too)

Then you add in the political connotations "right wing" and "Human Rights" and the subject becomes endlessly fascinating.
The stigma of Japan's 'suicide apartments'
I have no dog in this race, but the behavior does seem ill-advised even if you look at it through a pure legal lens. WP Engine's lawyers must be having a field day with this stuff.

Is he just totally ignoring his own lawyers? He has to be, because no lawyer who charges more than $20 an hour would tell him any of this is advisable.
Impressive work, Hayden! It’s amazing to see someone your age diving into AI development. How did you go about fine-tuning the model? Any plans for future improvements or features?
The percentage of left-handedness correlates strongly with how pacifist vs warlike the society is. According to this 2005 study it varies from 3% up to 27%: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1634940/
Ridiculously petty. I genuinely wonder how the fuck Matt and Automattics lawyers are gonna argue him out of this shit, because this is pretty much just giving free arguments to your opposition when it comes to arguing that Automattic is self-dealing.
This is incredibly troubling; I cannot see myself ever using Wordpress going forward. It is just too risky.
It could be an age thing, but I feel like it's more a size & situational thing. I would definitely use a smaller phone one-handed. And when I'm out and about, I do too.
Yep me too, I'm sure there are many things we've subconsciously adapted to using with our right hands. Actually I've never bought a product purpose made for left-handed people.
I'm not really sure why you would want that aside from curiosity. Going out of the app would as far as I understand limit your ability to watch Netflix at anything higher than 1080p (maybe 4K) and no HDR if the device in question has the capability. It's stupid DRM stuff but the best way to watch most streaming DRM content is on a trusted device through the app because that's the only way they allow it anymore for you to get the highest quality version of whatever is there. Can't even do it on a desktop computer running Windows 11 and an RTX 4090 in a web browser as far as I know but you could definitely do it on a Roku Smart TV from TCL from 2019 where the system on a chip seems like it shouldn't even be capable of decoding a 4K HEVC or AV1 HDR stream but hey this is the world we live in and I'm completely off topic to your question at this point.
What is your interpretation of a "Secure OS"? Trisquel isnt a hardened distro, so isnt going to give you any more security out of the box than a minimal ubuntu install - just a more restricted package selection.

What are your specific application requirements? OpenBSD is a BSD, not a linux, so you aren't going to have access to the benefits of the linux kernel - specifically hardware support.

You mention the device you are thinking of is a Razer Blade - which is chock full of hardware with closed BIOS and that will require 3rd party drivers. Its not exactly a libre device. The availability of some of that on linux may be limited, and may not exist in many cases on OpenBSD.

Maybe your question would be better posed by describing your requirements - what hardware and software you need/want/would like to use - then people may be able to advise based on that.
> Makes you wonder why this isn't part of the C++ standard library itself.

Because the C++ standard library cares about binary size and backwards compatiblity, both of with are incompatible with a full Unicode implementation. Putting this in the stdlib means everyone has to pay for it even when you don't need it.

Libraries are fine, not everything needs to be defined by the language itself.
I’m right-handed for everything except eating crisps. But that’s just because I don’t want to get grease on my phone.
Really cool idea! As a non-native speaker, I can see how this would save a lot of time. How well does it handle more technical posts or long discussions? The top responses feature for 'Ask HN' sounds super handy.
US considers asking court to break up Google
I write left handed, and use a fork in my left and knife in my right. Left hand for holding a phone or a drinking glass, and for shaving.

I'm right eye dominant, though, so I throw, swing, shoot, use scissors, play instruments and use a mouse right handed.

I'm not at all ambidextrous, I can't do most of those things with my other hand.
Mark Zuckerberg wants to stream Civilization on Twitch
Oh bowling - I do that with both hands, equally bad at each (well, maybe slightly better with the left).
What is going on here? I understand that open source companies have a free rider problem, and will naturally take steps to deal with that, but some of the recent activities seem… strange.

I’m thinking part of the problem is that the software itself is GPL and so is it’s ecosystem, which means that the standard next step of changing the license (followed by an inevitable fork) is infeasible.
8. DIN A4 paper size

9. Metric units where possible
How could you forget about them saying the exact same things about Facebook? It wasn't that long ago.
> You still need to think about react-router, mobx, redux, nextjs, remix, vite, tailwind or mantine or material ui or whatever

You really don't need any of this though, you can get super far with React alone, and the new docs on react.dev are great at explaining this and pushing this idea in my opinion.
Wow. Congrats on what was surely a large effort to resurrect an old piece of software.
The NHL is getting its own Drive to Survive. But could it backfire?
This is interesting, especially for me as one of the intrastate pipelines on the map crosses through my property.

However, the article doesn't say what the "PIG" is (but talks at length about how the "PIG" is "launched" or "received"). Wikipedia says it's basically a passive device that gets inserted into the pipeline and pushed along by the pressure to clean or inspect the inside of the pipe.
Show HN: Screvi – Your Personal Knowledge Feed
someone needs to bring up the indestructable Nokia
I was thinking more about ad tracking, which probably works reasonably well with your setup.
> I would love for my great grandchildren to be able to read the things I write today, and see the photos I’ve taken.

Be honest with yourself here.

This stuff is probably going to be of less than 0 interest to your great grandchildren and anything the intervening generations have to maintain is just a burden on them.

What is it specifically that makes you think your great grandchildren will be interested in what you write today and the photos you take today?
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2315002121
Depending on what you mean by large, I have. Testing is just the same as on any server-side MVC application. And I don't get spaghetti, because the structure is provided by the backend framework. Same with the data modelling - there's a model layer in the backend project that can be tested independently of everything else.

I can only guess that you're trying to put all your logic and structure on the front-end, with the backend only serving what the front-end needs ad-hoc? Don't do that. Build a classic MVC app (Django, Rails, ASP.NET MVC), factor your views into small, reusable components, and use HTMX to replace page elements at that level.
It’s fascinating how the affluent backgrounds of many famous scientists and entrepreneurs are downplayed. Eg Warren Buffet, Jeff Bezos, etc
I always use left hand for everything that does not requires right hand. The only activities I need to use right hand is when I use a desktop computer or writing. I was tried to use right hand for the other activities but it is never comfortable no matter how much I practice.
My experience as well !

And even when we do give WP-like ease of editing with background static generation, editors still want WP, because this or that plugin.
Left handed. Right eyed. Right eared. Mouse with right because I had to in 1992. Overall, I’m unhappy with my brain, so my vote is on it being a bad thing. It’s very discouraging in a left to right language society to smear your own handwriting constantly. Also, guitar tabs and all kinds of other things are built for the majority. I’d much rather be right handed.
This is straight from Matt, himself:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41782365
And as an Indian who has lived for 25+ years in India, I continue to be astounded by how fixated white guys like you are on caste when I have never once witnessed caste-based discrimination in my life, despite belonging to a categorized "originally backward" caste.
I remember an article in Nature that’s better than this one. Stats:

Men are 13%, women 9%
Being a twin is very high, like 17%
Scandinavia is 13%, China <3%
No, strong backwards compatiblity a real strength of C++. In fact, it's probably it's main strength these days.
AHA calls for declaration of national emergency over IV bag shortages
The Editors Protecting Wikipedia from AI Hoaxes
Text makes communication hard. Have a good day bud.
You're right, how could I forget?! WRT pinball, add Arcades in general to the list. Evil! Evil! Evil!
If you aren't going to discuss anything that's not public, what's the point of adding that you worked at twitter? "publicly available earning reports" put you on the same level as me or anybody else.

Also, there are two kind of accounting: external and internal. Internal accounting (cost accounting etc) does not have to be shared publicly.

But that (internal accounting) is where you see many of the details of the inner workings of a company. You also need internal context to understand it.

If you're not willing to write anything on that matter when you're adding nothing to the discussion.
It looks like beartype supports the same sort of implicit decoration, because there's mention of an explicit API:

>Beartype now implicitly type-checks all annotated classes, callables, and variable assignments across all submodules of all packages.
This isn’t Reddit, evaluate the statement without needing to link to some mainstream media outlet.
Even a malicious ps/2 keyboard could run any command it desires automatically.
The article is too polite to say this directly, but the issue is that people made a bad decision to purchase marketable securities via TreasuryDirect. You can buy these through any brokerage account and they are easily sold there as well.

Transferring securities is not something people should need to do very often, and as a consequence it is not optimized in general. The one time I had to do it, I had to hand-sign paperwork and get a medallion stamp as well. This was to move stocks from one private (not govt) IRA provider to another without selling them.

I have a TreasuryDirect account but only use it to purchase and hold inflation-protected bonds.
Inverter units are nice, those Honda engines run forever.

I've had my 26kW generac for almost two years and it's done several multi-day outages without issue. I just have my mechanical contractor come out and do the annual maintenance on schedule, keep track of the weekly self-tests, and otherwise don't worry about it.
Yes modern tech fails are making you crazy, here's why
What are you doing to change this? Are you trying to make the situation better? California has been run into the ground for the last thirty years intentionally. Many residents love having mentally ill people die in the streets. They have created an entire system to support this. Money has been drained away from roads and schools to pay for ever growing "programs" to employ rich white ladies so they can brag to their friends about their incredible virtue.

You are free to leave. There are plenty of low-tax countries. If you want to live in the US, Europe, Japan,..., then you must pay to be part of our reindeer games.

That said, PLEASE get involved and try to direct public funding and attention towards core activities (roads, schools, infrastructure) instead of ever more ridiculous programs to employ Berkeley graduates in virtuous-looking jobs. Utah does a great job at this sort of thing. Instead of learning from them, our political elite degrade them and insult them for their religious beliefs. I once repeated a colleague's obscene jokes, only I stated that he said them about Muslims instead of Mormons. He lost his mind trying to correct me. It was amusing.
1. India has a low gdp per capita. What that means is quality of life for masses is low. That also means slum/ghetto like neighbourhoods. Even if you have the money you mostly stay in a gated community, sandwiched between those areas. So you want to leave ASAP and stay in the west.

2. The Indians in top leadership positions you see in tech firms are rare exceptions. To some extent they also come from fairly well off families and communities in India, who have social capital. Can afford cram school fees for Ivy league exams, money and ability to take loans to study abroad etc.

3. Any body who once makes non-trivial money or sees non-trivial career success instantly realises, given how big India is. Given its politics, and overall spending on Education, R&D, and the rate of industrialisation. The only hope for a good life for their, or atleast at their children is to move to the west.

Basically people want to leave India, as fixing India is largely a long term, and also a nearly impossible project.
I feel like there is context missing here. Is 13B high or low compared to current costs.
I went to a Don Ross workshop once and there was a left handed player there doing the upside down RH guitar thing, which was especially impressive due to the style of music and having to play the bass notes with their pinky.
I was literally building my own version of this with madness this morning to go from Obsidian to web in my workflow. Thanks for speeding things up for me. Great work!
COBOL's Map Reduce
Vagus Nerve Stimulation May Boost How Well Sounds Are Perceived
"Neanderthals were our ancestors" is more wrong than it's right.
The world simply does not need profit-motivated online content. The internet can be a place for physical business to interact with customers and individuals/groups to share their ideas and art. None of that requires ad funding. The only thing that does require advertising for revenue (and is of any value) is reporting work, and they're struggling in the current model anyway. What great conveniences are you worried about losing? Social media sites? Forums existed without any funding but donations. Maps? OSM and Apple Maps exist. YouTube? Free video hosting is more expensive to operate than other media, but I'd bet nerds would rig up some near-seamless webtorrent protocol for embedding and sharing video with distributed load. The people making YouTube/online content? They're mostly fan-supported via patron relationships anyway. If advertising were banned overnight there would be maybe a month of readjustments, a few tech companies would have to pivot, and then life would go on but be a bit less shitty.
Kids definitely make it more complicated.
So little time and so much to do, right?

Awesome if you want to chat.
If you are on X, send me a DM at @patricegorissen, my DMs are open.

Or send a mail to HN at curbnit.com
This is not a locale issue, it's a Unicode version issue. Which hightlights another problem with adding this to the base standard library.
One interesting data point is the majority of hockey players shoot left but are not left handed.

https://www.purehockey.com/c/why-are-so-many-hockey-players-...
Ask HN: How does line by line AI editing work in Cursor, ChatGPT Canvas et al.?
I'm making an AI content updating app, but I'm finding that when asking LLMs to make changes to existing text, they often remove or change other parts.

How are apps like Cursor able to (most of the time) only edit specific parts of an existing body of text?
"heart medicine helping with erections."

Why should it be nonsense? Erections are a function of the circulatory system. One could expect them improve if the circulatory system is improved as well.
The reasoning behind historical convention of kinds-of-data/app in Unix is so you can partition the disk easily and apply policies based on type (like backup /etc, tmpfs on /tmp, mount /usr read-only)

Although I'll never forgive XDG for renaming etc to config and var to state. Would be so convenient to set PREFIX=~/.local for some things
Yeah, now give me one with modern high end hardware.

That's the problem with these "niche" phones. Another example is Fairphone.

I don't necessarily have a problem with spending more, my problem is the fact that they compromise on things they could not compromise.

See Framework, they did it right.