skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wealth inequality is not an important thing to worry about by itself. The Gini coefficient undergoes a U-shape growth curve in economies as they move from under-developed, to developing, to developed. A better thing to worry about is wage growth and wealth growth among the bottom 50% of the population. Correlating that metric to the Gini coefficient seems like an exercise for an ideologue not a rigorous thinker.

Speaking to your point about VCs. They represent a minuscule amount of capital investment in the US economy. Of course, on this website, they predominate thought and discussion. However, the simple fact is that VC money is a rounding error in overall capital investment.
I had to deal with a concurrency bug in Ruby once and it was so bad* that it pushed me into Elixir, which makes the vast majority of concurrency bugs impossible at the language-design level, thus enabling more sanity.

Ingeniously simple solution for this particular bug though.

*as I recall, it had to do with merging a regular Hash in the ENV with a HashWithIndifferentAccess, which as it turns out was ill-conceived at the time and had undefined corner cases (example: what should happen when you merge a regular Hash containing either a string or symbol key (or both) into a HashWithIndifferentAccess containing the same key but internally only represented as a string? Which takes precedence was undefined at the time.)
Thank you, I'm glad you're finding this inspiring. I've been thinking about some similar ideas that excite me. Would be happy to help as well if you ran into any blockers.
Do you support when using S3 object storage as a backing for Clickhouse?

One of Grafana's advantages is its very low cost of running because you can send everything to object storage with very little configuration.
Tiny nitpick: the family name is "Kim", Jong Un is his first name. Kim Jong Un, Kim Jong Il, Kim Il Sung.
While UK's laws on online speech are insane this is not really an extraordinary story. She's using a lot of tricks to make it seems outrageous. There's nothing weird about being investigated about something a year in the past. It's also not weird that she cannot get any information. She's is being informed that an investigation is starting, she has not been charge yet. The police should definitely not disclose anything when an investigation has just begun. That comes later. Like revealing the name of the person that reported it, have completely bonkers to think as weird or somehow unfair.

In the end I don't understand her surprise. UK is pretty consistent with this nonsense, and you would think that all people - especially public persons - would have taken note on how they write on social media years ago. She is just annoyed that its hitting her, bet she didn't care at all before that.

It's a classic when self-identifying law-abiding citizens get involved with the police that they feel that they are being treated very bad and assumed a criminal. But its just how the system works, and what happens to everyone going through it.
You can do much more in Blender and it takes around a month to get to a decent level with it. BSP is just outdated and limiting. If you want to add small details and variance, then just make smaller models and combine them in creative ways, together with decals, texture atlases, etc.
That's a fair reaction to the post if you haven't looked at any normal Raku code.

If you look at any of the introductory Raku books, it seems a LOT like Python with a C-like syntax. By that I mean the syntax is more curly-brace oriented, but the ease of use and built-in data structures and OO features are all very high level stuff. I think if you know any other high level scripting language that you would find Raku pretty easy to read for comparable scripts. I find it pretty unlikely that the majority of people would use the really unusual stuff in normal every day code. Raku is more flexible (more than one way to do things), but it isn't arcane looking for the normal stuff I've seen. I hope that helps.
And you're welcome to do just that. But do you really believe that should be the default behavior, expecting people to remember checking for updates regularly?
Isn’t what we always thought?

“The model revealed that bats tend to fly near environmental features with higher "echoic entropy"—areas that provide richer acoustic information.”

So, they recognize the sound of key reference points. This all seems rather intuitive and unremarkable?
Food delivery is an other great example. Companies extract huge cut, people doing the hardest work are not significantly rewarded. And in the end whole thing have at least some if not significant challenges in sustaining itself.
> Most train systems around the world are not automated

All modern ones (in an urban/suburban context, which is what the post and thread are about; interurban is a bit more mixed, but every high speed line is highly automated too, because at those speeds there simply isn't the time for a human to react) are.

> The real advantage of automation though is without a human driver it becomes cheap to run a lot of trains that are not very full

And you can also have a very high frequency (60-90s intervals), which is impossible with manual operations. This increases capacity, on top of the convenience.
Is that due to fear of an atomic bomb or more because of the artillery pieces aimed at Seoul as well as surrounding countries being unwilling to take in large amounts of North Korean refugees?
I've been thinking of perfecting my AVR-8 assembly by writing an AVR-8 emulator in AVR-8 assembly. This is less useless than it sounds because one could upload a small program into RAM and run it if you had such an emulator. AVR-8 has so many registers that it ought to be possible to dedicate only some of them to the emulator and let the rest be shared between the real and virtual environments,
Every film does that. It's called a log line. Hollywood is chock full of classes teaching you how to write great log lines.

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

Actually, the logline is one sentence. If Scott is giving you two sentences to make your pitch, it's a luxury.

So, a sample log line for Blade Runner:

Deckard, a blade runner, has to track down and terminate 4 replicants who hijacked a ship in space and have returned to Earth seeking their maker

Does this feel like it really captures what makes Blade Runner a great movie? It seems like a fine basis for a sci-fi movie, but no better or worse than thousands of others.

The log line is the elevator speech. It gets you into the room. If you can't make a compelling log line you don't even get started. But saying "Make a good log line" isn't really much in the way of advice.
Because if he was, why not do it now? If your plan is to burn your country and the world to the ground, then there's not much reason to delay.

Putin is saving his own life first and foremost with his actions, so he's not suicidal. But then secondly if you listen to the man it's apparent he believes he's rebuilding the Soviet Union as he imagined it when he was stationed in Berlin as a young KGB officer, and that belief is powered by a very specific lens he casts over Russian history.

Which is to say: he doesn't want to destroy the empire he see's as his legacy (which is notably different to whether he actually cares at all about the Russian people in it - the Russian government historically does not overly concern itself with dead Russians unless politically convenient to).

EDIT: The third element of course is that there's not literally "a button". No leader has unilateral release control of strategic nuclear weapons, so the reality is one "mad man" can't fire them - orders have to be issued, codes input etc. If Russia was going to launch it's ICBMs, then you can't do it by waking up in a bad mood one day unless at least a few of your top generals agree with you.
https://archive.ph/20241112193037/https://www.nytimes.com/20...
Dito. Started c64 scene at 12. You had to not talk about your age back then, though.
If your heart rate at rest is truly 180, you have an arrhythmia and need to see a doctor.
This article is a mess. The post title is a mess and the headline is a mess.

The article calls UNSW a "top 3 university", whatever that means. Not the top university that the HN title implies.

Additionally there is no halt to international admissions, just a reduction to 9500 students (from 17k) starting in 2025. The reduction is based on a new law.

What's most interesting to me is that the article states that there are almost 1 million international students, in a country with a population of 27.5M (according to Wikipedia). Which means ~3% of the entire country is international students. This data however is suspect and contradicts the official data here, which shows roughly 500k - https://www.education.gov.au/higher-education-statistics/stu...
> I encourage you to read this
More whataboutism telling me the US is bad which is supposed to distract me from what Russia is doing.

It's probably illegal or is illegal? Be honest, does the Russian government arrest people for holding a sign that says "No War" or even signs that are blank? Pieces of paper that are blank?

RT using the term war for English speaking audiences is allowed because it is state sanctioned propaganda so you can come here and point to how they say it. Well, they also come here and pay people like Tim Pool to say things too that they won't say in Russia.
I had same worries like yours but worry not, check MicroPython/CircuitPython when you get a chance. You load it up onto Pico and play with REPL in IDE. It is easier than debugging Go on large-RPi.
My wife and I have personal emails but also one that’s shared between us and set up on devices for both, so we can keep track of things that should be shared, like credit card statements, bills, and whatnot.

We use Migadu, which allows you to have as many mailboxes as you want with any plan, so it’s pretty cheap.
This was one of the rabbitholes I chased down, but didn't find anything.

At some level, this was just the easier approach :)

I'm sure there's something though. Apple changed the URL handler schemes for iOS 18, so a lot of old repos that reference that don't work anymore.
The Art of Time Travel
All the Big Tech Leaders Congratulating Donald Trump
Where am I disagreeing with that? Hardware task switching already existed on the 16-bit 80286, and remained supported on newer generations until being finally removed in x86-64. Early versions of Linux did use it for a time, but doing it in software turns out to be faster, because the mechanism was badly designed for what a general-purpose kernel has to do.
it’s not. it’s being presented as such. but it’s not.
The comment is really weird.
Are they cheap, though? I often avoid going to shops the like of GS25, Żabka or 7/11, because the prices are often 125%-150% the normal supermarket price.
Even ChatGPT Search was revealed to be a Bing wrapper, this meme summed it up - https://ibb.co/8csc3gv
That would be a victory for users.
I made a big move back near family that was hugely professionally disruptive to me (although beneficial for my partner). As time has gone on I've started to realize being away from family was weighing on me far more than I was aware of, especially with a new child.

Sometimes the move goes the other way. I have friends and extended family whose parents moved to be closer to them.
Japan is known to be generally good at logistics, and you could say there is a software aspect to that. Robotics and machine control are also a traditional strength. My own experience is that their big weakness is interfacing with the user, whether it is red tape at an office or a complex GUI.

Maybe the explanation is that Japanese institutions perform well when development is wholly internal and allowed a long time. My own experience has been that Japanese groups attack tasks with superior organization, but they need extra time to adapt to novel input.
Not just Grab, most of tech giants in Asia (granted, I only know about the sinosphere) pursuit the "super app" idea. Here in Vietnam even the bank apps try to be super apps, it's somewhat hilarious but part of asian tech identity that makes us unique compare to the western tech scene.
Relevant context[1] of the underlying meta.

[1] https://technicaeditorial.com/cash-for-citations-the-newest-...
So all your software that does the updating of your packages are bad, because they make network requests?

opt-out telemetry is bad because it disrespects user consent by assuming they have it. Not because it uses the network.
Yeah when I wrote that I knew I was forgetting something about how that works, thanks.
Is this comment on the wrong article?
S3 over RDMA is my personal favorite.
Mildly interested to see if they come up with anything useful regarding cultural map differences.

An ongoing PITA in Thailand was Thais being absolutely baffled by Google Maps. You couldn’t hand your phone with an pin to a driver and expect it to make sense. All the taxi drivers and motorsai guys have smart phones — hell I even saw one at the _win_ using a VR helmet — but were totally perplexed by Google Maps. Weirder still was the insistence at places like Ikea that you drew a map to your property, but the map they wanted needed to be entirely landmark based.

I feel like there was some underlying sociological issue there where Thais thought of maps in terms only really of landmarks, and not as birdseye views of territory. Would be fascinated to know what Grab’s experience of it is, and also if Grab and friends are slowly converting professional drivers to real maps.
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TBH no windows 8+ feels as fast and responsive as a Linux computer, nor as fast as the my first windows 7 computer on my first SSD.
> Because we human beings are also free to ignore all notions of karma and the associated question of why we are happy/unhappy

A newborn can have a chronic disease that makes their life terribly difficult. Do you think negative karma caused that? Or can other things cause unhappiness?
So, am I reading this correctly?

Researchers try to get paper published, but publisher asks for paper authors to add citations that weren't used in the research, presumably to increase citations of certain 'blessed' papers.

Authors add the citations, but also a note that the citations were not used and were asked for by the publisher.

If this is all correct, I'm curious what the publisher's relationship is to those cited papers. Were the citations paid for? Something else?
You mean it's possible to throw exponentially more cash at one aspect of the problem until it's almost incomprehensible, and not rapidly result in AGI beyond your wildest dreams?

"Maybe" not even movement in such an intelligent direction at nearly the rate the cash influx is trending up and to the right?

Who knew?
Refusing to accept a culture of optics is tantamount to not understanding optics though. The reality is that if you work on any kind of product, optics do matter - the perception of something working is often just as important as it actually working.
Apple is positively swimming in money! They could pay me! (Hi, Apple ;-))
My workplace doesn't even allow us to plug in (unapproved?) USB devices,
so even this workaround likely wouldn't fly here.
Some of them seem ok, e.g. ignoring whitespaces in regex by default is a great move, and the `` as a shorthand single lambda argument is neat.

But trust me if you ever have to actually work* with them you will find yourself cursing whoever decided to riddle their code with <<+>>, or the person that decided `* + ` isn't the same as `2 *` (that parser must have been fun to write!)
About a year. Paste on how it's going:

>How is it going so far? If we were giving out report cards, Milei’s tenure would get a B+ to A- grade. Unusually for Argentina, the country has been running a fiscal surplus since the beginning of the year, inflation is down substantially, but the economy is not yet displaying clear signs of a recovery. However, inflation has come down not just because the fiscal accounts have been turned to a surplus, but also because the economy is in recession and the currency is appreciating in real terms. https://globalamericans.org/explainer-mileis-economic-progra...

I'd say reasonably well given the problems in the country. The US is a very different situation.
Yeah Hetzner is amazing and I think if you’re looking at a single app for costs in the $5 range, it’s probably not worth it to use k8s.

The magic with k8s is being able to easily host third party packages via helm. I often find for anything I want to run in production, I usually want something like sentry, grafana, etc, and those items can get expensive if you try to buy hosted versions. Kubernetes makes it trivial to just host it yourself.

In terms of performance, I’ve gotten reasonable performance out of a $24 kubernetes server, which is 2vCPU + 4GB memory. These days, DigitalOcean and linode don’t charge a markup on their managed kubernetes at all, above their regular VPS pricing.

Heztner is much cheaper than both those options though, and they don’t have a managed kubernetes product
> If your plan is to burn your country and the world to the ground, then there's not much reason to delay.

I didn't say that's his plan now. But if he got cancer or something I could see him doing it as a defiant act.

> he believes he's rebuilding the Soviet Union as he imagined it

I agree with that. But people who are corned can act out.
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It probably would, but if someone has the app running, then the app knows what train they are trying to get on, and so if the data is all consistent with being on a train they are probably on that train. The app also knows where the train is, so it knows where you are as well. It won't know which train car you are on, but that normally doesn't matter.

This probably is wrong if trains for both directions stop at the same time from opposite sides of the same platform and you get on the wrong train. However this is a rare enough case that we can ignore it - but very annoying if you are that person (this case happens to most transit riders once or twice in their life). Even when this happens there often is other location data scattered around so you would likely only ride a stop or two before the app realizes you are on the wrong train and can reroute you.
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I would go for Electrolux from second hand store, at least 15 years old. So far in my life I only bought one hoover. Still going strong after 30 years, just a new bag and filter now and then. And I had to replace the power contact once.
Programming is not just a matter of slinging syntax at a problem. Good programmers need to develop a mental model of how a language works.

Needing to do geometric sequences as syntax like that is clearly a parlor trick, a marginal use case. What goes through a good programmer's mind, with experience of getting burned by such things over the years, is "If Raku implements this parlor trick, what other ones does it implement? What other numbers will do something I didn't expect when I put them in? What other patterns will it implement?"

Yes, you can read the docs, and learn, but we also know this interacts with all sorts of things. I'm not telling you why you should be horrified, I'm explaining why on first glance this is something that looks actually quite unappealing and scary to a certain set of programmers.

It actually isn't my opinion either. My opinion isn't so much that this is scary on its own terms, but just demonstrates it is not a language inline with any of my philosophies.
AI's power trip will leave energy grids begging for mercy by 2027
I'm not missing the point at all and I know the difference between Crimea and other parts of Ukraine.

So let me make sure I understand your story perfectly. Russia was so concerned about Ukrainian sovereignty that they sent their military into Crimea. And instead of allowing Crimea to exist as a sovereign state with what Russia viewed as the rightful president/government of Ukraine... it instead annexed it and said this is Russia now?

Quite interesting. It's almost as if Russia didn't care about the "integrity" of the elections and just wanted more land for itself.
Personally I dislike links that force me to do a bunch of work to figure out the gist of the post. In this case, it seems like a link to a link to a comment on an academic paper in which the author is frustrated about irrelevant citation requests? Maybe I misunderstood? I would love for submissions like this to include an explanatory snippet to provide context.
Thank you immensely for your selfless contribution to the FOSS community. Xfce has allowed me to turn the dustiest of old laptops into media center boxes, though its so pretty and light that I use it on everything. You're doing the lords work my friend.
No not the publisher. The reviewers - other researchers.
Looks like I just need to find a job that offers 251 PTO days.
Welcome! There are some advice in https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

Try to make post in English, post in other languages are usually ignored or flagged.

Try to post technical stuff. Non technical post may be also good, but it's easier to pick good technical post until you get use to the quirks of the site.

In general, the main page of a newspaper is not a good post. A single (technical) article is better.
Documenting procedures and processes will save a lot of time and effort in the future. Overcommunication is needed.
Well, you need a frame converter that sends it to an IP address/DNS server, and on the receiving side something that receives that packet on a specific port and translates it to a BT command.

I would say the most complicated part would be the TCP/IP stack, and binding/publishing your address, but if you are running something with Embedded Linux it is doable :)
In C#, a now popular choice is

record struct Foo(int Value);

In F#, this is instead done with

// Foo and Bar cannot be assigned to each other
type Foo = Foo of int
type Bar = Bar of int

// Foo and Bar can be assigned to each other
type Foo = int
type Bar = int

The first variant uses single-case unions. It's a bit unfortunate that they also default to classes over structs unless you annotate them with [<Struct>], partially fixed by escape analysis though.

The enum trick is the tersest and will also serialize correctly in most cases, but I have never seen anyone use it like that before.
i use linux on a daily basis and i will say microsoft’s solution to containerization was the .exe

linux has appimage, but containerization also falls prey to gpl.

exe, appimage, containerization are ideologically opposed to the gpl—- errr the other way around. gpl essentially requires compiling from source, which is great, but the intention behind that is to disrupt software supply chain distribution and most people want to be able to upgrade their computer, which is architecturally challenging with gpl, which is where nix, guix and the like can politely solve the compilation and distribution problem

but the core problem is my mom wanted a picture of me to know i’m alive, which is now entirely irrelevant to the topic at hand.
There is a gap, but in my country, the AML regime is concerned with the bar of "reasonable to suspect" rather than "probable cause". This is the only way you could catch any laundering of any sophistication.
The default behavior should be to not do anything that the user does not command, but if that’s too extreme for 2024, then at the very least, the software developer should obtain the user’s consent before doing anything on its own.