skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The mindset of wasting 9 months going on dates instead of starting something is so foreign. Based on what this person was looking for (someone to build out his ideas) he would be better off trying to get funding and hiring someone.

It was a job interview (50 question homework, 3 day hackathon trial) plus firm requirements and who has the final say is presented. We didn't hear about the different tests and requirements these 100 dates demanded so it appears one sided.

The best way to meet a cofounder is to be interested in something; so interested you explore it and you find something you like someone else is doing and you talk to them about it. You come up with some idea and you reach out to this person and explore it.
And reality is to mock them regularly and frequently. In media, in comment section, in real life.
Do that and all support for the environment goes completely out the window.

Do this and that's pretty much the end for any kind of green transition.
> You can't exactly shop around

The vast bulk of health care is by appointment, not a dash in the ambulance.
KeepassXC actually supports passkeys and can be a passkey provider in a desktop browser.

And Android 14 seems to allow changing the passkey provider in the android system as well. With that, the only thing left would be a KeepassXC-compatible app that can serve as provider on android, using the same database as the desktop.

With that setup, I'd be willing to use passkeys exclusively (my phone is still Android 13 and I don't know about app support). I already can't login anywhere (important) without access to my password manager.
This is an exceptionally cynical take. WebAuthn is an open standard; this new credential transfer spec is the opposite of “big vendor lock-in”. It’s standardising the export-import.

Standards are slow and expensive to create and evolve. They involve endless meetings, discussion and design. However, the outcome is freedom.

The idea that this should have been “extremely simple” is just standard hubris.
I rarely use pre-increment tbh, but post-increment all the time for array indices (since typically the array should be indexed with the value before the increment happens).

If the pre- or post-increment behaviour isn't actually needed, I prefer `x += 1` though.
with more than $1 million is hilarious
Normal weight and overweight were determined by percentage of population at some point. The boundaries are not about lifespan, they never were.
Touch a cold blanket and cold stone countertop and tell me which feels cooler, then do the same thing for a hot blanket and a hot countertop.

Sure, the stone is more conducive meaning you feel the temperature sooner. But it also has a lot of thermal mass, meaning it can give off or absorb more heat.
Top 1% wealth in the US is around 13 million. So I would say you are very far off.
Can you not just set up a new passkey using a different provider (eg. Bitwarden)? It is a bit inconvenient, since it has to be done manually for every site.
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I literally ran into a problem with this a few weeks ago. My son didn’t charge his phone for a few days. When he turned it back on, the clock was turned back a few days. He couldn’t change the time manually and he couldn’t sync the clock over WiFi due to apple’s cert not being valid yet. We had to put a SIM card in for a few minutes to get the correct time.
Some future VC-funded company will unironically have this same requirement
I thought this would generate a mobile app APK containing a webview for the website
This is a pretty complicated matter. In principle, a government could do this. There would then be an invisible tax in the form of high inflation.

High inflation causes practical and psychological problems and undermines the appearance of stability of a currency. For one thing, it would be terrible to save any money. So fungible assets like stocks or foreign currency would see a disproportionate demand. You'd be buying and selling stocks just to buy some groceries or a car. Any event like COVID that creates more demand on savings would send the stock market crashing.

Another aspect is that the government would lose the ability to manipulate tax policy. Charity would have no special status, strategic industry would have to be directly subsidized, etc. Government would lose an important lever.

There also would be little reason to accept payment in this government's currency. Why accept the government's rapidly inflating currency when you have no taxes to pay in that currency and would prefer to transact in a stable currency? Why accept a government contract denominated in their own inflationary currency?
Older technology is often neat in a lot of ways and has certain benefits, but there's a reason why we moved on.
Rust runtime is partially implemented in a C++ toolchain, should we use the same arguement then?
You gotta go higher in BMI for those to kick in. Basically, where you are within normal and slightly overweight bounds is mostly an aesthetic concern with slight lifespan advantage for slightly overweight people.

When you move toward obese or into underweight category, health problems kick in.
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Show HN: I made a Fast Food Simulator game, you can play online for free
Like the Rust compilers partially written in C++.
The Case for Humanoid Robots
Sorry I was referring to the boost you get from having ram integrated into the chip vis-à-vis apple’s M-line of processors.

Having replaceable ram is not really a marketable feature these days.
The amount of ads on this page is insane (and I'm using ublock origin!)
The line is very long and blurry the whole way. The extremes are completely naked 100% of the time with zero grooming and the opposite is eugenics or genetic engineering body/facial features (is what i've come to believe?).

Isn't it okay to feel good about looking good, sure (i love dressing up and doing my hair for occasions)! but obviously that can turn very problematic very fast. Honestly, I wish I knew where to draw the line in the sand. Is it makeup? piercings? nice clothes? surgery?

Just a parent with two daughters who has more questions than answers.
The issue is the step-up in basis, not borrowing against assets. The step-up in basis really is a giveaway. I think that it would make a ton of sense to transfer the basis rather than step it up.
From what you posted in this thread, I can tell with confidence you don't know shit about web development

Hooks solution to async code? Hooks make React full blown forntend framework? Routing only important for single page applications? Yellow gorilla bread butter? Chickity dickity web frontend back single page I understand much
What about the rest of the software?
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Yes, this is quite true and one of the reasons I left trying to find a job and start my own business. With the business you actually have control over your life. And now I crossed more than I could have ever gotten as a salary by doing my own thing.
First, you are making lots of great points in your posts. Thanks for your comments.

You wrote:

> Not technically secured.

This raises a very interesting question. When institutional clients use a "repo" trading desk to pledge liquid assets for cash (or vice versa), from a legal perspective, it is not treated as a secured loan. (Yes, it is bizarre. Truly, looks like a duck, walks like a duck, quacks like a duck... but not a duck!)

For these private bank-style loans backed by liquid equity stocks, are they considered secured or unsecured? Honestly, I don't know.
>If people aren't going to be polite and accept that contract then fine, enforcement was always by an honour system.

No, it wasn't: it was on what I would call "the ignorance system". The vast majority of users were simply too lazy or ignorant to install ad-blockers. Ads made money because most users had no idea they could be blocked, or because the users just didn't care. Hang around non-technical people and talk to them about this and you'll see: many users just don't see what the big deal is, while others will admit to finding the ads annoying but don't even know it's possible to block them easily.

However, this is slowly changing, as 1) word spreads about ad-blockers, which isn't just word-of-mouth, but all these news articles lately probably help too, and 2) the ads get more and more annoying and intrusive. Remember how everyone wanted pop-up blockers 20 years ago when those became so popular with advertisers? It took a while there too, for word to get out about the ability to block pop-ups, but eventually it became the norm and was even built into browsers because the pop-ups were SO annoying and even destructive.

>But strategically if a service's social contract doesn't work for someone then they shouldn't use that service

Yes, they should, if they want to. Contracts require two parties to agree to something, and there is no such thing here. You can't just come up with a business model (e.g. pop-up ad supported website) and then claim there's a "social contract" in place when you just implemented this unilaterally.

The REAL social contract that's in place is the HTTP system the entire WWW is built on, where you send a request to a web server and it sends a response. What you do with the data you receive is up to you. It's absolutely no different than watching a TV show (in pre-DVR days) and then muting the volume or leaving the room when the commercials come on. Or better yet, in 2002 buying a DVR and just skipping the commercials.

You do have a point that a lot of services are funded by ads, and depend on enough people seeing these to sustain operations financially. But that's a business model chosen by these companies; they're free to choose a different business model if too many people start blocking ads. If people block ads, it's their own fault anyway, for making the ads too annoying. Back in the days of banner ads, almost no one cared about blocking them, because they just weren't that bad, just like no one really cared much about all the ads in newspapers. But that wasn't good enough for the advertisers. They brought ad-blocking on themselves by their own actions.
Sorry, mostly permissive licenses; there are a tiny number of copyleft things in there (famously, the last GPLv2 version of bash)
Are you always busy? How do you manage tasks like writing documents, attending meetings, or learning new things?
Java doesn't want to do a Python 2, a JAR compiled in 2000 has to still work in a Valhala enabled runtime, assuming it didn't use any of the now deprecated APIs.

You can play with early releases, https://jdk.java.net/valhalla/
Why not extend blender, then it becomes so much more powerfull.
ea 3d print, animate, render, use for vfx in videos
Curiously enough, here in Spain they're still pretty common nowadays, as lots of houses purposely incorporated green awnings, both to protect an exponentially-growing number of these houses from harsh sunlight during summer season, and to presumably 'soften' the arrival to the city of an increasing quantity of newcomers from rural Spain, as they already were very familiarized with them and, the designers thought, would find spots of green on the building more appealing comming from a greener countryside.
What are they going to do? Sue the bankrupted company?
>> the person has symptoms provoked by gluten, but they don’t have evidence of celiac disease

Sigh, it would be useful to know what specific tests for celiac were performed that came back inconclusive or even just stating what doctors consider to be definitive evidence of celiac disease.
There is hardly that much C and C++ left on GUI frameworks and distributed computing, other than existing infrastructure from projects that are decades old.
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It wasn't a requirement, it was a prompt :)
I already hit a button (the Bitwarden icon in my browser toolbar) so I do not see what passkeys buy me, except a terrible hassle the day I want to change password manager.

It is a solution designed to lock people in the Apple/Google walled gardens, and I don't see why everybody is pushing for it.
Exactly! The only thing harder than making something so ambitious would be doing it in a huge legacy codebase with an existing leadership team fighting against someone vying to rock the boat. Being new is an opportunity, not a flaw. It means there's a lot of work to do, but that's tractable with the right organization structure that I think we've successfully managed to build— and it's something other projects really struggle with, so starting fresh in that respect also avoids problems from cultural elements that could very well be the blame for the inadequacies of those existing projects.
You haven't seen all the requests for donations on Wikipedia? It's not technically "advertising" I suppose, but it's basically the same, just more direct.
Pacapong – Pacman and pong and space invaders = awesome [video]
Every address you've ever officially used follows you forever. So it's not so much that not having a fixed address is illegal, it's illegal to erase or hide your residency history entirely. I still have mail that goes to relatives houses in states I haven't lived in over a decade, and there are mail-in ballots addressed to dead relatives being shipped to their previous residences as well.

As an aside, if anyone still has faith in this electoral system, or any institution in America for that matter, I don't think they're adequately prepared for the Kafkaesque chaos that's about to become commonplace, if it hasn't already.
I don’t entirely agree, you can get used to the borrow checker relatively quickly and you mostly stop thinking about it.

What tends to make Rust complex is advanced use of traits, generics, iterators, closures, wrapper types, async, error types… You start getting these massive semi-autogenerated nested types, the syntax sugar starts generating complex logic for you in the background that you cannot see but have to keep in mind.

It’s tempting to use the advanced type system to encode and enforce complex API semantics, using Rust almost like a formal verifier / theorem prover. But things can easily become overwhelming down that rabbit hole.
You won't get funding for a vector editor.

Re: open weight models
Most of the innovation happens within companies who use OSS to either appeal to developers or to destroy potential competitors (think Meta spending a fraction of its ad revenue just to ruin the market for OpenAI / Microsoft)
Some individuals get grants from VCs who want to make a name in AI for themselves for the cost of peanuts (eg. a16z sponsors some models)

At the same time, for wealthy tech people with skills and a well paid job (think 300-500) raising capital is not always an attractive proposition.
You'll likely have a lower salary when doing your own startup and if it turns out your open model can't make enough money you'll just have a bunch of worthless equity and 1-2 years of high stress / pressure.
You can only take it every 2 years. But also this would likely fall under the “step transaction doctrine” and so would be illegal tax evasion.
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I highly recommend "The Monsters and the Critics, and Other Essays" as not many fans know about this one.
This.

I often wonder what was left behind when the financial crash happened. Watching documentaries and movies about it, it looked me like several large banks and insurers closed up shop overnight, and people were leaving the next day with boxes containing their personal effects.
It was true until LLMs arrive.
Feature compilers + IDEs can be integrated with LLMs to help programmers.

Rust was a great idea, before LLMs, but I don't see the motivation for Rust when LLMs can be the solution initial for C/C++ 'problems'.
I'm intrigued by the potential of tools like Cursor, especially for their seamless integration and intelligent code modifications. However, a major consideration is the cost and flexibility of using your own API keys. Offering this option would empower developers to manage expenses and optimize their workflow, potentially making these tools more accessible and customizable. It's worth exploring if Cursor or similar tools plan to incorporate this feature to enhance user control and transparency.
> Bread is getting a bad name, yet whole civilisations have been founded on it.

However, modern supermarket bread is quite different to what people were eating even 100 years ago. We've selected for wheat with very high gluten levels as it makes for fluffier bread and we've started adding wheat to almost everything as it's cheap. It's very frustrating to go to a shop and see that products that traditionally don't have any wheat in them, now have wheat added to improve shelf life etc. Things like tortillas, onion bhajis, potato fries (or chips as we call them in the UK) etc.

Edit: Had a quick look to see if there's figures for gluten content over time and it looks like I've got the wrong impression from somewhere. This study shows that gluten content has remained relatively static: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/08/200811120112.h...
"The phone is fine, it's your genetics that are the problem here"
Wealthy people of course do all sorts of financial optimization. The framing of this as being primarily a way to avoid CGT is imho just uninformed populist rhetoric. The main reason this is done is for leverage e.g. Elon wants to buy Twitter but he does not want to reduce his stake in Tesla (ignoring whether he could actually liquidate that much TSLA stock in the first place).
"I have met 4 super rich people. Join me in my sour grapes"
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Bugsink is a error tracking tool with a focus on self-hosting and simplicity.

Features: an excellent UI for the stacktraces (I believe: the best). Sentry-SDK compatible. Very scalable. The usual stuff: notifications/alerts, issue-grouping.

Self-hosting may be important for privacy, security and legal reasons, or just because you have good taste. A focus on self-hosting should be contrasted with the "Self Hosted In Name Only" approach of «coughs loudly».

Bugsink is in beta now, with the Python SDK being the most tested, but others reportedly working just fine. Installation is basically `docker run` or `pip install` (there are some details, click the big "Try it!" button to see them).

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As per "Show HN" guidelines, I’m happy to answer any questions/feedback you might have.
That's cool, but the last thing I would want my mom to have to manage is a portable open source encrypted database shes's in control of and can back up and secure as needed.
>So why should these communities move away from discord to help you? Especially given that you do not respect their interests.

>Do you get what I'm saying?

No, I don't. I guess these "communities" don't want any new members, because if I can't find them with a search, I'll likely never know about them.
Why are employees complaint useless? And why shouldn't news articles mention complaints?
There are dozens of us big humans whose ideal form factor is the 12/13 mini. Dozens!

Why do I need to carry around a huge screen to text, make phone calls and take pictures?
Max articles constitutes some ~90% of what I know about programming language implementation.

His Lisp series are often shared around, but the entire blog is jam packed with golden nuggets. Big fan.

I see bernsteinbear.com, I upvote.
I expect it has more to do with Americans’ high level of obesity and other poor lifestyle factors.
So what you’re saying is: I like to program in C/C++ and don't plan to change, thankyouverymuch?
Great; but, as long as a system supports the open solution, anyone can provide for you the closed one, while the opposite isn't the case.
That suits our deployments where for HA we simply terminate and replace unresponsive EC2 nodes with new ones. I’ll have to talk to other developers to see how much work would it be to compile to freebsd instead of Linux
This is what id software did with doom and see how it ended

hint: extremely well
I practically begged the idiot planners in Ireland for awnings so we could have shade in summer and fewer chances for water ingress and they didn’t care at all. Helps explain why Irish houses are so mouldy.
How I take work notes as a developer
Which blog/post/book was this? Thanks
I actually had a discussion about this with a very experienced gastroenterologist.

They said that doctors love data. Don't come at them with theories or papers. Give them a food diary + symptoms, it helps a LOT more than "I think I have X".
Gave away my original print copy but it was such an amazing read for 23-yr-old me. It changed the wiring in my brain to think about truly global-scale infra problems differently.
transfer the basis to whom? better not inherit anything
If you have mostly static web sites with little work to update, you could try out the flat-file KirbyCMS: https://getkirby.com/ - it is a CMS I tried myself and liked quite much.

I want to point out that it is not an open-source project like Wordpress, but a one-time licence fee you have to pay once you go live with your project.

There is a great community around KirbyCMS who are building plugins for it, for example the SEO tool you want, in this case it is free / "pay what you want" pricing model, so it should be quite affordable: https://plugins.getkirby.com/tobimori/seo

edit: also this could be of interest, as it has the intention of helping to do SEO checks when migrating from WordPress to Kirby - https://plugins.getkirby.com/johannschopplich/seo-audit
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Which in my opinion is a transaction freely entered into by both parties, and is a taxable event. You have gained income from your capital at this point.

Wealth taxes do not need to have someone guess a value of someone’s wealth. The wealthy can tell the government what they think it is at each point.
Even so, when was the last time someone needed cancer treatment but said "ooh, that's pricey, nah, I'd rather buy a new car instead".

This is my main argument against private healthcare: there's no real choice involved. Without even getting into what a free market is and perfect information etc, the main advantage of a capitalist society is you get to choose what you like. Nobody chooses healthcare (at least, not the super expensive part).
Please, please, tell me this is sarcasm.
Can we say "search" instead of google, quit supporting a bloated incompetent monopoly.