skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did not say that deconstruction was pollution. I do think that many of a generation of American scholars found it hard to write or think other than in terms worked out in Paris between the mid-1950s and the early 1970s.

I used the word "polluting" in referring to American thought as influencing French, and that perhaps was a little strong. What I had in mind is mentioned for example in https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-59584125.
Can we stop with "bros"? It's honestly such low quality nonsense. If you have something to say it shouldn't need ad hominem to support it.
Searched for 'peacock chick' and got 100% genuine images.

Searching for 'baby dog' would probably get you garbage images too. (it does)
DOJ's Google breakup remedy puts tech world on notice
classical MBA says that a firm can compete on price OR branding, unfair advantages (moat) notwithstanding. Competition in commodities is difficult but not impossible given a rational economic environment. Some would say that the modern expectation of returns on investment are irrational, and warp the economics around them too.
Ask HN: Why is the .IO gTLD uncertainty not getting press here?
There have been a small smattering of posts not making the front page. But the news is a BFD for the community here. As I write this there is yet another startup launching with an IO domain on the front page.

We need to be aware of this issue as a community and potentially petition ICANN to find a way to keep the IO domain alive.
I'd be happy with a light, monochromatic, text-only AR glassess
Because the idea of leaving something to your kids (and a legacy beyond oneself) is a fundamental motivator for most people?
Having just skimmed X.225 thanks to OhMeadhbh (https://www.itu.int/rec/dologin_pub.asp?lang=e&id=T-REC-X.22...) I think Graham is correct that we don't have anything similar to the OSI "session" layer in the stack you're talking about; although the ARPANET TELNET protocol does have a lot of the same functionality, there's nothing analogous in SSL+https+JSON+RPC. I'm guessing the same is true of the "presentation" layer, but I'm certainly open to hearing why you think otherwise, if you do.

Also, if you happen to be familiar with X.225 (or read it following my prompt above), I have some questions in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41789004!

Graham makes a good argument that, although there are some promising analogies between the physical/data-link/network/transport layers and the PHY/MAC/IP/TCP layers of TCP/IP over Ethernet, the model is overall a very poor fit even at those layers; it's better to not try to decompose network stacks into a predetermined set of layers, because the actual set of layers used is variable depending on the application and the environment.
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If one believes it’s a big problem, it seems to me there’s an easy solution that doesn’t disrupt anything else. If you use a stock as collateral like that, it’s a taxable event that steps the basis of the stock by the amount of the loan. No unnecessary taxation of assets at rest, no double taxation later because of the step up in basis, and you close the loophole if you view it as such.
I usually find it amusing.

„Was meinst, kriegen wir das hin?“

„Safe Digga, das ist so was von easy.“

And they think they're so cool talking like that.

The part that irritates me though is when I try to pronounce Denglish stuff with a German accent and the Germans end up not understanding me. I made a joke about strippers once and got only blank looks, then one guy said, "oh, you mean strippers," pronouncing it the way you'd say it in English as best as he could. I had pronounced it schtrippas.
I love Python, but it seems to always get more complicated and more things in the core and now backward incompatible changes. Not so good. I love Python and how much I can get done, but I must admit I also love that I know the Go code I have from 7 years ago can run without problems. It is just more stable
I have a different use case. I use voice controls to reply to text messages.

And it has to work with iMessage destinations that are not a phone number. I am unaware of any built-in infotainment system that can handle that. Tesla certainly cannot, as one data point.

Trying to get voice control to work reliably over bluetooth has never been anything but a laggy mess for me. A well implemented CarPlay implementation (even GM...) is way better.
Ribosomes hibernate on mitochondria during cellular stress
Really? We're a 'solid majority' away from murder being made legal?
You can't really do that because there is no way to know how much someone is worth. What is my house worth - there is no answer until I sell it. You know what it last sold for, but you have no idea if I fixed it up since then so it is worth more; or maybe I was cooking meth and now it is a toxic waste site with negative value. A house is simple to value compared to a business. A yacht is another asset that is really hard to value.

For public stocks we can at least calculate value with computers, but for some that is a minority of value. In 1960 the DOW was used because it is only 30 stocks so you can add the values up every few minutes - the S&P 500 could only be calculated at the end of the day as by the time you got the value of the last stock the value of the first had changed.
You're right - that has been around for a long long time. But I feel like I've seen a general increase in its usage that can make writing more ambiguous to parse. Like we already know the gender of someone being written about in a sentence, but they become referred to as "they" at random - it's a subtle effect. I'm talking about examples unrelated to "gender stuff" but perhaps that's what's made the usage more popular among younger writers.
Eh, the oldest form of government is a Kingdom.

If a government won’t enforce others rights to property, eventually someone is going to form a government where everyone’s things are theirs eh? Since what other option do they have if they want to own something.
And you principally protect your property by… wait for it… paying taxes to the state to uphold law and order
Systemd, Pipewire and Wayland all contributed a lot to the desktop experience.
Yet I still feel Windows is more fluid and responsive just by using it generally. I have a pretty up to date dual boot laptop and Ubuntu still feels like having some kind of "shadow lag" all accross the system.
Yes, code is a substance, like sand or iron. The system is built out of code (not codes), just like the table is built out of wood (not woods).

Hearing someone talk about ‘codes’ has the same weird vibe as when they talk about ‘Legos’.
The industry standard in finance is decimal floating point. C# for example has 'decimal', with 128 bits of precision.

On occasion I've seen people who didn't know any better use floats. One time I had to fix errors of single satoshis in a customer's database because their developer used 1.0 to represent 1 BTC.
Every half-competent software engineer knows about fixed point arithmetic, my friend.
Continuing Pythons tradition of breaking perfectly functional code.
Newsom signs bill to expel six food dyes from California public schools
Jungle Music with Janet in the Browser
Most hardware encoders suck.
Let's hope this catches on elsewhere!
There is definitely an obvious fix, just have collateralization be considered realization. You're welcome to have as much money on paper as you want, but if you want to post $Xm in stock against a loan, you need to pay taxes on it first.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41729526 - which made the front page
As a refresher...

These exploits promise to be the rule, not the exception -- and not (just) because this company might have to comply with its national imperatives.

Assuming companies get paid for deploying hackable devices, it gives them an unfair competitive advantage relative to ethical companies (who would have higher prices).

Given the information asymmetry (promoting the devices as simply reliable vs the difficulty and complexity of hacking them), this advantage is protectable.

Thus if, or since, the market gives enduring advantages to this kind of exploitation, we can expect exploitation to be the rule, and product/technical leaders will be selected who comply.

A key aspect (noted in the article) is the capture of technical standards organizations by the companies they monitor. Usually this is good (keeping standards more realistic, timely, and relevant). But that means one can't rely on those organizations to protect end users (whether business or consumer).

The alternative of government politicized regulators would kill technology advancement, leading to a race to less-regulated jurisdictions (protected by fair-trade rules). The same is true of product liability schemes.

So exploitation is the rule, and technology can't regulate itself or be regulated.

Meanwhile, technology reaches into every aspect of work and play.

Entrepreneurs who solve this problem would create tremendous value (yes, some of which could be captured).
> I'm hoping Python 4 will be

I'm hoping "Python 4" will be another language entirely that displaces it, Fixing some ecosystem problems upfront (packaging, concurrency/GIL). Nim is possible candidate, though Go is pretty popular w/ Pythonistas.

My personal unhappiness with how Py3K was handled, plus recent PSF events make me feel new leadership would also be a boon..
I don't care if a rich person buys a yacht or not, it's their money and after they've paid the tax they can do whatever they want. The wealthier you are you should pay more tax regardless of how you use the money. Consumption taxes just make it harder for regular people to afford things they want; the wealthy won't care that a luxury bag with 1000% profit margin has an extra 10% tax on top.

There's already exemptions for both income and estate tax for donations to charities or governments to benefit society. It's possible to set up a private foundation, with some additional guardrails to prevent abuse, if you want to give the money directly to people that need it.
I think organisations (companies, teams) being singular/plural differs depending on what country you're in, so perhaps this is a bleeding across of conventions due to globalisation.
> This is what would happen anywhere else in the world

On every single large social media platform, people praise and applaud the death of individuals and entire races of people, all the time. Yet Facebook, Twitter and related sites aren't blocked in most of the world. What's up with that?
Yeah, that could totally be by design. For example,the book "Rainbows End" is not "Rainbow's End" specifically because the meaning of the first is intended, not the second.
https://www.classicpress.net
you do know that MIT and a bunch of other us universities doing a bunch of military research/engineering

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_Affiliated_Research...

https://ras.mit.edu/grant-and-contract-administration/sponso...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Lincoln_Laboratory?useskin...

you should also consider how much of different research about cybersecurity/hacking comes from universities.
I don't even think this is about money anymore. Matt may have started this cruzade for money, but at this point is just pettiness and refusal to backpedal.
My point is that .io represented a state which officially has zero permanent residents, which probably shouldn't have inspired confidence in its continued existence. Yes the paperwork was outsourced to Donuts in this case, but the principle of doing your due diligence on a TLD still applies.
You’re finicky, maybe you haven’t really found what’s right for you?

The mind is a machine, if you keep it tuned it will last you and allow you to grow. You should certainly have the power to make yourself do anything. Try that game. Make yourself do anything, one simple thing at a time.

What do you think you should be learning? Is that some complex lie you tell yourself to get you something else? If it doesn’t mean anything to you, it will naturally fall off the page.
> company in an industry with very tight margins has much less money to invest in fundamental research

OpenAI has raised almost $18bn to date [1]. That puts it in the top 10 corporate R&D spenders globally, ahead of Intel and the entirety of big pharma [2]. (And OpenAI's gross margins for its API business are estimated around 40% [3]. Standard fare for tech. If anything, OpenAI subsidising its business with Apple and ChatGPT is behaving more like a tech giant than a start-up.)

The top of that list are the big 5 American tech companies, spending about $200bn annually on R&D. By coincidence, that's roughly the pace of U.S. VC spend [4]. The depth of American private capital markets make a solid case against favouring housing these long-shot bets inside tech giants. (Particularly absent non-compete and IP reform.)

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/02/openai-raises-6-6b-and-is-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companies_by_research_...

[3] https://www.theinformation.com/articles/a-peek-behind-openai...

[4] https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/ai-deals-lift-us-ve...
I believe both the PS5 and whatever nonsense string of Xs, numbers, and descriptors MS named this gen's console can do 144Hz output. I don't know how many games take advantage of that or whether that refresh rate is common on TVs.
It's interesting that you mention Rust, since Rust takes backward compatibility quite seriously; that's why it's still on version 1.x. Granted, sometimes there is a compiler bug that causes some old code not to compile with newer versions of Rust, but that is rare and never intentional like this PEP.
What is it about Discord that makes it more of a magnet than any other large Internet platform?
Indeed it is, but that fundamental concept is for human understanding of how physics works based on how we perceive/think about the universe, its not the metaphysics of the universe itself.
Really easy, power law formula marginal sales tax rate. The more and more you spend, the higher and higher your sales tax rate is. Considering most spending happens via electronic payments, this should be easily trackable since we have internet/electronic databases/identifying numbers for each purchaser.

You get a 1099 or W-2 for income, why can there not be an equivalent for spending?

This plus power law formula land value tax rates would fix multitude of societal problems. Land values are also already in electronic databases.

And get rid of income taxes altogether. This would disincentivize hoarding and wasting, and incentivize working and being efficient.

The only other aspect of rent seeking I can think of that would need to be nerfed is copyright terms being reduced to 10 years.
Inducement to what? Where's the breach of contract being encouraged?
You’re assuming that everyone shares the IT security department’s priorities. If you tell someone senior that they can’t use a tool they need, you might learn that they have political clout as well – and the context here makes that especially plausible.
HN is a special place but among the average folk, I get why 90% of people use google. I'm no google fan, but it still baffles me how bad the alternatives still are. Especially with so many companies scraping the whole web for AI data, and so many GPUs chugging on that data. I suppose they are all focused on replacing the concept of search results with LLM prose. Ironically bing is down at the moment https://downdetector.com/status/bing/
It's not under AFR, it's just generally less than inflation.

And the loan terms aren't payable at death on any of the loans, they just let you refi every year when you want another $100M for that year's incidentals.
Seems like a troll PEP and still would not surprise me. Explicit is better than implicit, except if it makes you look like a fool.
Ha, from the picture in the article I thought they were talking specifically about the backtick as an apostrophe. I could totally call that the idiot's apostrophe, but in a completely different context than what the Germans are talking about.
Look out, kids! It's the return of renowned Dan Brown (2016)
Show HN: Instantly query your Google Drive via Slack
Always faced an issue where people would ask for where a particular file or slide was located. Decided to solve it using RAG. Feedback appreciated.
Pinyin is pretty good at rendering Manderin in a Latin script. Can you elaborate on what you mean by “English-friendly”?
>Elon Musk has taken over another popular X handle

> The @America handle was once dormant. But on Saturday, as Musk appeared at a Trump rally in Pennsylvania, the account started tweeting pro-Trump/anti-Harris statements.
I can see the reasoning. But the value did not really move. As the estate is family owned. The family did not die, a member of it did.
To make an advance in a field, you must simultaneously believe in what’s currently known as well as distrust that the paradigm is all true.

This gives you the right mindset to focus on advancing the field in a significant way.

Believing in the paradigm too much will lead to only incremental results, and not believing enough will not provide enough footholds for you to work on a problem productively.
> What a synergy!

Jakov Smirnoff homage?
Maybe because search is an extremely hard problem and requires hundreds of millions (if not billions) of investment to remain competitive?
100%
Being able to write, code, and read from a large virtual terminal without a clunky visor on would be amazing.
Say that you have i-t
followed by apostrophe
s, now what does that mean?

You would not use "it's" in this case!

As a possessive
It's a contraction
What's a contraction?

Well, it's the shortening of a word
or group of words by omission of a
sound or letter.

-- "Weird Al" Yankovic, "Word Crimes"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gv0H-vPoDc
When I can't find something on Google I may ask ChatGPT, read its answer and then we talk about it.
They hardcoded IP addresses, didn't they? /s
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Creating content is a great way to help promoting your profile, especially if you're looking for work. Relevant posts can attract recruiters and professionals in your field to visit your profile.
Though, sometimes it's hard to get started due to the commitment nature of creating content.
Using this Ruby script you can make job lists in less than 3 minutes scraping Google Jobs, which is a fast and easy way to create quality content without getting overwhelmed.
Carbon-Aware Websites: Adapting to the Grid for a Greener Web
This is just a proposal though, having a (sane) BDFL needn't change anything.
Because you specifically mention Alan Kay, I just finished reading “Dealers of Lightning”, which is about PARC, and says that the researchers there were very handsomely paid. IIRC, they were paid 20% more than their counterparts in ‘regular’ Xerox R&D. Xerox was also a big company, making a lot of money when it started PARC; arguably a monopoly (depending on how you define the term).
wow discovering Hamming’s lecture was enough for me! so good
In certain academic circles, it's been popular for several decades now to exhibit indifference to the general decline in observance of rules such as this. I find that attitude very regrettable. I can't be the only person who has found themselves having to repeatedly re-read a passage of text to discern its meaning, because the author is ignorant of, or indifferent to the use of apostrophes and/or other forms of punctuation.

These aren't arbitrary rules, for the most part: they came into existence to assist with reading comprehension. The clarity of expression afforded by modern English is a great gift, and I strongly believe that allowing it to degenerate by abandoning these (very simple!) rules will serve only to make written English less expressive and more opaque.
Running Semantic query over YC job posting
Huh? Bitcoin uses integers. The maximum supply of BTC in satoshis fits in 64 bits. JS implementations that need to handle BTC amounts use doubles, but only by necessity, since JS doesn't have an integer type. They still use the units to represent satoshis, which works because the maximum supply also fits in 53 bits, so effectively they're also using integers.

Anyone who uses binary floating point operations on monetary values doesn't know what they're doing and is asking for trouble.
I'm not sure what divisor you would apply which would reduce the impact of that chart?
> I'm no google fan, but it still baffles me how bad the alternatives still are.

I have such a hard time understanding your position on this. Google search results are absolute trash now, compared to DuckDuckGo.
[dupe]

News from last week.

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41729526

More recently Related:

The Disappearance of an Internet Domain

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41778633
A very enjoyable read of the history of databases through the lens of query language evolution, and the research done at IBM and Berkeley for System R and Ingres.
allies =/= friends
OpenAI pursues public benefit structure to fend off hostile takeovers
Flake8 already provides this for anyone concerned about it.

https://www.flake8rules.com/rules/E722.html
Microservices with their own database are often a terrible design choice, but I will grant you it is one of the two dimensions that make sense:

1. is there a _very significant_ difference in the horizontal scaling footprint/model or demand (and demand is _only relevant_ if there is static footprint)? Home the function with a similar service, if there is one, otherwise yes, add a service.

2. is there a _genuine_ and _legitimate_ need for a different database, with completely independent schema, and not some horrible bullshit where you will end up doing cross-party transactions (and almost always failing to do so well)? Are you sure you need a different database or is your team just afraid of SQL and schema management (the usual mongodb garbage)? Is the issue that you don't understand how database security works? .. if all of these pass muster, then yes, ok, that's an OK reason.

Every architecture I've seen since 2013 at startups and big companies alike (since I do technical diligence professionally as a side gig) has been microservices or simple CRUD.

Almost all of the microservices ones were totally fucking wrong and had to be massively reworked, and usually multuple times, because they had no thesis at all for what they were doing and it was often - even mostly - an excuse not to have to learn their tools beyond tutorial level and/or a desire to play with new shiny or not read someone else's code. The CRUD guys were fine, they just did business until they needed to add caching, and so on, like real products.
I thought having a hundred billion dollars was basically unfathomable just a few years ago.

Now I'm pretty sure we will see the first trillionaire in the next decade
> Companies switched from being singular plurals ("Google is deprecating another product.") to plural singulars ("Google are deprecating another product.")

I thought this was just a difference between American and British English.