skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing is, most of the reason for the fees you’re complaining about is things like government regulation and insurance. Now, you may not like the government regulation, since in many cases the governments are corrupt (South America is a good example). And, you may not like paying insurance, since you’re probably ok with the risk of getting scammed, but there it is.

Crypto is like buying a product online for cheaper, but instead of using Amazon or Walmart, you buy it from some random guy on Craigslist whose brother delivers it. Sure, it’s cheaper and lower fees, but if the product doesn’t show up you’re SOL.
In his promise Trump said exactly "I will commute the sentence of ... "

I don't know the differences but also from my perspective they don't seem to differ that much. Might as well be that Trump said "yeah and pardon that guy Ulbricht ... " while doing tons of other stuff wielding his new powers like he's doing now and his word was taken exact, given there's little difference
i’m curious, do you feel that you are contributing to the discussion?
Your mind works in a very different way than mine.

Elsewhere, you worried that getting millions of people put of crippling debt due to a broken education finance system might tick up inflation.

Here, you worry that making society more educated via university training might decrease the economic value of a degree.

Where is the humanity? Of course some extreme of inflation is bad, and of course we want people to be employable. But artificial scarcity seems like a bad way to go about it.

(And I don't think we have a surplus of engineers in the country, judging by what I perceive to be the gap in talent between china and US, and the moaning by tech about the need for H1B).
I saw a 3D printed brain https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/1i6xuhh/...
Sure, it has always been the best JSF framework.
A classic essay whose significance goes way beyond women or feminism. I've been part of a few "structureless" groups which spontaneously organized around an opportunity and were initially effective because of that structureless (e.g. somebody gets an idea, the whole group moves like a military unit, opponents had no idea something like that could happen) but succumbed to the dynamics in that article on a time scale of three weeks (arguably ended a public company in that time!) to three years.
I know of at least one instance where several well acclimatized individuals died in less than 15 minutes in open air in the Grand Canyon above the Colorado River due to solar heating and 95% wet bulb humidity.

I’d argue you just haven’t actually been in those types of situations either. In that case I think they estimated 110ish air temps.

But maybe I’m misremembering - I heard it from the investigating safety officer though.

I have yet to see anyone actually able to work or function in actual 100% humidity and 100+ degrees temps for more than a few minutes before having serious problems.

I’ve seen plenty of people have problems in 60% humidity which everyone agreed was terrible. Mostly heat stroke.

People’s core temp is already just a hair under 100F, and even at rest are producing 100ish watts of thermal energy. It really doesn’t take much for it to start spiking if cooling is literally impossible.
Unionization and the threat of collective bargaining (and other workers’ rights) are economic factors.
There are a couple in the tutorial page, just updated the post:

https://thehardway.app/tutorial/#flashcard-gen-demo

https://thehardway.app/tutorial/#audio-trimming-demo
link to the old.reddit.com version for an actually readable page: https://old.reddit.com/r/HomeNetworking/comments/1dsfv5f/to_...
China average electricity prices at USD $0.075 vs US average electricity prices at 0.14c/kWh. 2x cheaper than US. And they keep on decreasing the cost every few years.

China playing the long game.
> Often, they confiscate their property.

In the real world, you need to exit crypto to realize the value of your holdings.

That’s the weak link in the anti-regulation argument. You can’t pay for food or housing in most places with crypto.

> Also, how about when your local currency undergoes hyperinflation? Would non-sovereign currency with global consensus based value be of potential use then?

How would crypto be immune to this? Most of the extreme large holders of crypto (financial institutions) are also exposed to fiat risk and would likely liquidate their crypto assets in order to keep staff paid and buy the dips in fiat.
Has that happened in countries with similar policies?
Probably because your brain is mush from being born into a world where everything is a high tech attention grabbing nightmare. Those of us born 40-50 years ago see the consequences of this mess and are glad to have someone quantifying it, and hopefully creating a competitive market for devices that don’t intentionally make life harder.
> So you don't know. All you have done is provide a list of grievances with previous governments

Thinking of "surely this is obvious" on the other thread, to me it seemed obvious that this is a list of things which caused the results, i.e. they are the why.

> Yet the sources I cited indicated the opposite

You seem to have difficulty understanding what I'm saying here, and I don't know why.

Your citations were about demand. Demand is not what I am disputing. You said yourself "supply and demand", but seem to be blind to half the equation.

> I also don't care whether it does increase supply.

Ah, that explains it.

You're arguing in bad faith.
So, in this desert there would be no inflation or deflation, you say. Let’s say we use gold coins there. Wouldn’t we have an inflation if we find a gold mine there and everybody start digging up gold?
You are missing the fact that the money printing is not driven only by government spending. It is driven primarily by the monetary policy (in the hands of the FED) and to some extent by the government debt. You have knowledge gaps on a very basic level.
The idea that taxation stops inflation is absolutely ridiculous. It would mean that countries with low taxes have very high inflation and this is not the case. It would also means that the inflation should be constant and in struct correlation with the taxes. Both statements are completely false and very easily provable by quick fact check.
The only things taxes do are: misplacing capital and stopping economic growth, which may be the same thing arguably
If someone facilitated a transaction of goods that were illegal between two people and received a cut of the sale, do you think they deserve some culpability?
True, much of that is because old people are the only ones still watching legacy media like cable news, which have repeatedly torched their credibility. Young people tend to get their news from podcasts and social media, which tends to not be as blatantly controlled.
No, it's a function of the acoustic, mechanical, and electrical properties of the entire system.

An easy way to understand this with dynamic mics is that the coil itself has some resistance, inductance, and capacitance that impedes the flow of the induced current through the coil. That impedance is frequency dependent, so the properties of the coil affect the frequency response.

Same principle applies to all transducers. The acoustic energy is converted into mechanical/kinetic energy and then into electrical energy. So to understand the frequency response you need to understand the acoustic, mechanical, and electrical impedances.
“This is unsafe! I quit!”

“No problem, as a non-employee you are hereby confined to your cabin except to use the head, and you can eat in the galley but you have to pay for your meals, they cost $100 and will be deducted from your final paycheck. If you have a negative balance when we dock at a port in around 3 months, you must pay immediately or we will send the debt to collections. Have a nice day”

Maybe you want to read up on how things work at sea?
This kind of conversations give me a cofidence, so thanks.
Midscene.js – Joyful Automation by AI
Ironically silk road had much safer drugs than whatever pills you would get on the corner.
i’m sorry but student debt payoffs are probably one of the lowest socially valuable uses of this money, rather than basic things like snap or housing vouchers. sorta shows how myopic HN is, student debt is a relatable concern so it gets prioritized
Ah, quite different to this then.
Show HN: Asmreader
Introducing ASMReader: the tool you never knew you needed until your PDFs started whispering sweet nothings. ASMReader transforms your text into a soothing ASMR experience using kokoro-onnx. If this tickles your fancy, check it out. And if you're adept at blending synthetic voices, your expertise would be greatly appreciated!
and what would voting for Harris have gotten them exactly?
Read this with a smug "eh I still don't have TPM 2.0 so good luck with that", but little did I know TPM 2.0 is no longer a requirement since December 2024[1], guess I am getting upgraded whether I like it or not.

[1] https://www.techopse.com/microsoft-reverses-non-negotiable-t...
You’ve just rejected an idea because your interpretation of it takes a severe path where use of randomness is incompatible with documenting an algorithm. Flowchart the process “flip a coin” to demonstrate why this world-ending interpretation isn’t so.
The downside here is that a smartphone will happily still visit those sites whenever you wander out of full wifi coverage
The US appears to be fully in the grips of centralized economic autarky. A tiny coterie of industrialists who have the President's ear decide how to allocate a gigantic amount of capital for their pet projects while the state raises tariffs and implements bans to protect them from competition.

Didn't go well for South America in the 60s and 70s but perhaps, as economists are prone to saying, "this time will be different".
Because the Chinese government has its hands in everything that happens in china….
Submit it again once it's ready to be tested https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Different categories, yes. But mostly drugs.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Gh5_2YgWoAABY-O?format=jpg&name=...
In the good old mandatory "headphones are speakers" spirit (which us kids at 12 years old had fun with by plugging our headphones in the mic input to act as a mic) I'll mention that ribbon tweeters in speakers are a thing too. My floor-standing loudspeakers have two tweeters, one of which is a ribbon tweeter.

The vertical tweeters in the vid here are ribbon tweeters (same speakers but not my vid):

https://youtu.be/Tgk_ke1BRiM
The Math Academy Way
I had to do a double take, I thought this was a side project of the head of Amnesty International, but no, just similar names: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnès_Callamard
Billing shouldn't just be PDF generation
I can't fathom it, but if I had to start over today, I'd:

- Pick something I want to build

- Pick the tools -- whatever's at the top of the latest SlackOverflow survey, though I'm not sure SO matters anymore

- Peruse the https://learnxinyminutes.com link for the chosen tools

- Use an LLM with good prompting to assist me in making what I decided. I'd use chat and hand type the code from the LLM and try to understand what I'm typing and see how it all fits together
we are vastly overspending and will either need to monetize the debt (disastrous) or massively cut spending and raise taxes in the future. already now, we need to massively raise taxes on the wealthy but even that will be insufficient with our current spend.

free college is just a giveaway to the wealthier third of our society and irresponsible with our current fiscal situation.
Clicked on it in the expectation of encountering an attack on schema-free databases and "NoSQL"... only to find it is about social groups ;)
I look forward to the evaluation by the administration to see if it's needed or it's redundant red tape.

There's already OSHA, NIOSH, and NOAA that cover these things, so imo it's probably redundant at the least, harmful and wasteful at the worst.
I asked and answered some easy questions as a student to learn more, then when I became a professional and got certified in Kubernetes and a lot of on the job experience I started answering kubernetes questions, getting quite a bunch of points and feeling good I was giving back something. They then decided kubernetes was not part of the main website and all questions should be asked somewhere else where you started from scratch. I never used any of their websites again.
Walgreen’s was closing stores anyway and used the pandemic shoplifting as an excuse… but it was never the actual reason.

Crime is at historical lows.
Do you have inside knowledge or a reputable source that he is kept at a distance from the controls? How much control does he have as the CEO?
This has been posted several times over the last several years, with a total of about 100 comments.

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jofreeman.com%2F...
I'm guessing the people who voted for this are not surprised. They either expected it, want it, or don't care.

It shouldn't be surprising to anyone here with a functioning brain and is roughly aware of what is going on. Expect more of this.
Yeah, in my mind, the distinction worth making is where the inflection point from exponential growth to plateau in the s-curve of usefulness is. Have we already hit it? Are we going to hit it soon? Is it far in the future? Or is it exponential from here straight to "the singularity"?

Hard to predict!

If we've already hit it, this has already been a very short period of time during which we've seen incredibly valuable new technology commercialized, and that's nothing to sneeze at, and fortunes have and will be rightly made from it.

If it's in the near future, then a lot of people might be over-investing in the promise of future growth that won't materialize to the extent they hoped. Some people will lose their shirts, but we're still left with incredibly useful new technology.

But if we have a long (or infinite) way to go before hitting that inflection point, then the hype is justified.
PythonNet - Running python scripts with .net
I feel torn about this because it seems there was good evidence for attempted murder- and I cannot understand why they never tried him for that (seemingly larger) crime. However, for the crime he was actually found guilty of, the sentence was unfair and unreasonable. It seems they unethically sentenced him for crimes he was not even ever charged with.

I'd also argue he almost certainly saved a huge number of lives with Silk Road: the ability to view eBay style feedback and chemical test results makes buying illegal drugs far safer than buying them on the street. On Silk Road people could buy from a reputable seller with a long history of providing unadulterated products, and could view testimonials from other buyers who had sent the products for chemical analysis.
Not sure why doom scrolling is a thing when joy scrolling is what’s popular
I've never understood how 49.8% of the vote is a mandate.
As latexr said you can disable watch history. This means there is no home page (even when it should have known my interests, my home page was awful so this isn't so bad). You don't get watch-progress memory on videos, which is simple to adjust to. Recommended are less targeted and I get a lot of the typical ragey youtube stuff but it is mostly half relevant. I no longer watch any shorts which I kept clicking just to "see how bad they are" until it became a habit. And the UI keeps pushing it... If youtube makes the no-watch-history method not work, I'm just deleting the app and waiting until I'm bothered to configure revanced.
> are you actually currently sending funds with cruptocurrency

Yes, actively using it as a cheaper, faster and smoother means to send money to family back in South America for the last few years. Before that we were using Western Union, MoneyGram and all those other services that like to tack on fee after fee after fee.
Show HN: ClarityLoop – CI/CD for high performance culture
Hi HN,

I am Sachin, and I’d like to share ClarityLoop, a platform that solves real challenges for modern teams building high-performance culture - with a little help from AI.

Would love to hear your thoughts—what do you use to support growth and collaboration in your teams?

Check it out if it sounds interesting. Thanks for your time!
> But is there really a fundamental difference between an ISP and a big internet portal with respect to the value of neutrality?

Everyone is responding that legally, yes, there is.

But you're asking about whether there's a logical difference.

Yes, there still is. Your ISP is the only data pipe into your house; if they don't let certain data in, you literally have no other way to get it. (Other than by using a hotspot on your phone, but that data is also provided by an ISP.

Whereas Reddit is just an aggregator. They collect links. You can get those links from elsewhere - other aggregators, or by directly going to the website, etc.

Saying that Reddit & subreddit mods shouldn't be allowed to block links to twitter is like saying that since the USPS can't refuse to deliver your mail, then the Washington Post should be required to print copies of the New York Times in the middle of their printed edition.
I wrote up my own version of this idea in "The smartphone app audit."

https://amontalenti.com/2024/03/26/the-smartphone-app-audit

If the idea of auditing all your apps seems daunting, you can take a look at how I did it in bulk by using screenshots of my app launcher screen, then OCR and LLMs to help me do an initial pass at categorizing them. That let me do one quick bulk cleanup.

I found that it's better to simply delete apps and keep the total app count on your phone low, rather than use the various parental control / digital minimalism / Freedom.to style app blocking ideas.

Removing browsers from my phone never seemed like an option for me, but even so, removing all the addictive apps really reduces doomscrolling and other mindless scrolling a good bit.

Lately, I also put any newly installed apps in a "Purgatory" app launcher group and if I notice any of them having addictive qualities, I uninstall them. I did this recently with the Bluesky and Discord apps, for example.
you can redistribute real resources - every person spending their life working on a rich persons yacht rather than helping educate the next generation due to the price system, for instance, is a real distribution of resources. this is why consumption taxes are modern and valuable
JEP 502 Stable Values
> Musk has also said publicly that he doesn’t support the forced divestiture of TikTok. It would be the same as not passing PAFACA at all.

Musk is a liar. I don't get why people continually take what he says at face value.
I've never seen any pest problem in houses or structures built with or using turf in other ways. I have seen an old man picking lingonberries from a turf roof though. Not what I would call a pest..
Highlighting the polarization and weaponization of the justice system is worthy subject matter for the most powerful nation on Earth. It needs to be set onto a new path that is fair to all involved.
Re: custom fields in pcap traces and retis https://github.com/retis-org/retis
If you're building a dinosaur sanctuary sure
You've rather answered your own question.
Hope you enjoy it! It's a strange book and the bees in question are a small detail.

I found it presicient (though ultimately wrong) in terms of how it portrays what is essentially a big tech company.
Anthropic plans to release a 'two-way' voice mode for Claude
One one annoying thing about using LLMs to answer technical questions is when you provide context like “I have tried X, Y already, and Z won’t work because…” it does what LLMs do— uses all the words in the prompt to string together more words into an answer. It would make LLMs so much more intuitive to use for technical questions if this problem could be solved… sounds so obvious that maybe it does exist?
> The dominance of Apple devices, particularly macOS over Windows, reflects the platform preferences of modern developers.

I'm not so sure you can say exactly that: the last 3 jobs I've had, and I'm a professional programmer, I got Mac laptops of various stripes. I was certainly happy with that, work Windows tends to be a bit of a drag, and I always end up mostly running Linux in VirtualBox or whatever.

But the point is, I was assigned a Mac laptop, not "I chose a Mac laptop". I have a Linux laptop and a Mac M2 silicon laptop. I almost exclusively use the Linux laptop, for lots of reasons. Given a real choice, I'd pick Linux. And I wouldn't look at HN on a cellphone.
A good reminder that philosophy can be enjoyable. Shout out to Stephen West and his wonderfully dense and thought provoking Philosophize This! podcasts. The Socrates episode is number 3 and he was still working things out, but excellent nonetheless.

https://www.philosophizethis.org/podcast/socrates-98cdl?rq=S...
This is up to debate. The FBI and DOJ numbers disagree with each other.

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2023/11/03/violent-crime-...
Chain-of-Thought (CoT) Prompting
There are typically plenty of fees associated with converting real money to crypto, then back to real money in another country. I think the real draw for (semi-)legitimate use is for transfers in/out of countries that have unwanted surveillance and/or currency controls.
Agree, and would like to say that this is not because many of us see China as some benevolent actor on the world stage, but rather because we see how NOT benevolent the US has been historically (see South America, the middle east, etc)
That's not what this committee handled, other government programs such as OSHA, NIOSH, and DOL handle that.

You don't need a special fishing committee to make sure workers have good working conditions and proper pay. That's universal to any job.
This is very cool of Atwood. Also…my guy sold SO at the absolute peak.
also just: “why invest it when we could spend it on consumption now” is a good argument against letting private wealth usage be socially determined if most people just always vote for consumption now
> But it is much much faster and imo less nerve wracking than waiting for western union.

I have a feeling you don’t do international transactions. It’s not a binary decision between Western Union and crypto.
At the same time there is nothing sold at Amazon that you can't find somewhere else. And probably will also not be a fake.
Will do, thanks! Not the best at marketing :)
Your link says that the bank had lax controls in 2008 which allowed bad actors to move money through HSBC.

Your link did not say anything about crypto, it didnt imply that HSBC was corrupt, it didn't indicate the cartels were funded by HSBC. All of those additional points were added by your conspiracy imagination
Subtracting down votes from up votes is a worthless feature. Separately, the two numbers convey information. Subtracting one from the other destroys information and produces a meaningless number.
There should be a counterpart to this, "the tyranny of trying to encode an entire human mind in procedure."

As well as, "the tyranny of pretending that rules are much more absolute than their authors." :-)