skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It probably isn't good for the economy that large proportion of retailers are charity shops with very thin margins, despite the fact that they're being subsidised in terms of business rates and receive most of their stock and a lot of their labour for free. A charity shop is better than a vacant unit, but it generates very little value, even for the charity.

Local authorities want to see more diverse and vibrant high streets, but they're economically reliant on charity shops - local government collects and spends business rates, but central government funds the rates relief that charity shops receive. They simply can't afford to offer rate relief to other tenants who might use that space to build a more valuable business, because the tax system has distorted everyone's incentives.

In many towns, charity shops are visibly crowding out other kinds of retail. The relief for charities props up landlords and local authorities, taking away the urgency to reform the system and take steps towards a more sustainable future for declining high streets.

The new government are finally talking about fundamentally reforming the business rates system, but it's happening at least a decade later than it should have done.

https://www.cbi.org.uk/articles/the-path-to-business-rates-r...
Very interesting to see how effective US propaganda can be

Going by the comments, it seems a lot of people here actually believe this whole thing is about “China”

“China” is the new “communism”. It’s just the phantom enemy to scare everyone

Without a real disclosure about the real reasons for the TT ban, we will never really know what is going on behind the scenes

Maybe we’ll have to wait a few decades to get some unclassified docs
It's not a quote from 1984.
The article says that Rogers was a newcomer, who the captain had immediately made Chief Radio Operator. When normal practice would have been to make Rogers the Assistant to the longer-serving Alagna. On what are you basing your statement "[Rogers] apparently had grudges against the captain..."? The article is clear about Alagna's ongoing public disputes with the captain.

I'll agree that Rogers' mental and moral fitness were dubious at best. But I see no mention of him being depressed, nor remotely suicidal. And especially in the 1930's, you'd need to be suicidal to set fire to the ship you were on, at sea, in 40-knot winds. What motive would Rogers have had to do that? His later behavior is obviously self-serving.

I agree that things are very different when you're targeted by an A List adversary. But even if such an adversary is present, the normal laws of physics are not suspended by Plot Fiat. Experienced marine engineer William McFee noted that the ship's funnels were directly behind the locker where the fire started. Funnels clad in flammable materials, which would dangerously overheat if the boiler maintenance had been neglected. In an area with no fire detecting system. Then serious fire-fighting efforts were badly delayed, because nobody knew how to get the fire hose working. And Wikipedia notes that the ship was a fire-trap - with features such as broad wooden bypasses for the "fire doors", hidden above the wooden ceilings.

If there's a closet full of oily rags in an old box factory, where the drunkard night watchman has passed out yet again, then no criminal mastermind is needed for the place to burn down. Though "criminal mastermind" does make a far more salable story.
I’m not sure how that thing works and I haven’t tried it, but even my tech tweets on the feed are sometimes deeply political these days.
This is fiction considering Microsoft is extensively using Azure DevOps internally and is still developing it. Moving projects away from it and to GitHub is impossible because they're incredibly far from having feature parity.
And where exactly will the Jews currently living in Israel go? Or will Hamas kill them all? Is that the outcome you want?

Hamas can't actually defeat Israel. Palestinians have been trying and failing to defeat Israel for 80 years now. You would think they would learn.
Escaping flatland: career advice for CS undergrads
There is also https://repo2txt.simplebasedomain.com/local.html which doesn't require to download anything
> Biden could have cut a deal with TikTok instead of this. That would have left the US with a least one major social media not in the pocket of Trump.

This take is extremely disingenuous.

TikTok is a espionage and propaganda vector currently controlled by China's ruling regime. The only decision at this point is whether China continues to operate their propaganda and intelligence operation with free reign within the US. The only question at this point is whether Trump is in the pocket of the CCP.

TikTok's propaganda is clearly targeting Trump. I mean, ByteDance rejected a sale and instructed TikTok to unitalerally turn the lights off and post messages on how Trump was their savior. This is extremely transparent. There is nothing Biden could do to counter this.

What makes your take extremely disingenuous is the fact that you are arguing that Biden should fold to the CCP's pressure to continue their propaganda and intelligence campaign within the US, and you're trying to frame this somehow as keeping a major social not in the pocket of Trump. As if Trump is the issue.
I wish we would ban social media for at least 2 days per week, these apps are extremely distracting and will be seen like gambling addiction in the future.
He’s not pushing disinformation.
> Yeah but just how many cases do you know where people just store the recovery key file on their desktop, lose the printout or whatever...

You are asked to make a choice of who gets the custody of the recovery key: you or Apple. If you 1. choose to keep it safe yourself, 2. can't remember the password, and 3. lose the key, well... you've cooked yourself.

> or they only have one iDevice that they use for 2FA so they can't log in to their Apple account...

I don't use iCloud for recovery, but my understanding is that you can just log in to iCloud from the Mac in question (I do get 2FA prompts on my Mac). I might be wrong.

In case you also lose access to iCloud, go to an Apple Store - they will reset it for you (bring your ID/passport/driver license/etc, it's an involved process).

> Any widespread way of encryption must take the most braindead user into account or whoever rolls it out will be inundated by utterly stupid and preventable complaints.

Yeah, Apple is pretty good at that. Not perfect, but miles ahead of the competition.
For now...how long will it last. Days? Weeks?
From what I can tell, the entire hive is “the” organism, and individual bees are like cells in the body. There was an episode of Cosmos, where Neil deGrasse Tyson described bees as the other of two major intelligences on Earth, and suggested their structure as a model for alien visitors[0].

If we judged ourselves by the cells in our body, we’d probably conclude that humans aren’t “happy.”

White blood cells basically run suicide missions against intruders, so they are sort of like swarming worker bees.

[0] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ubE9hjrsHmI
The problem is in many small towns in the UK (like mine) the charity shops outnumbed the non-charity shops, and oftent he competitions isn't billionaires, it is locals who would like to start a coffee shop (for example), but can't compete against "multinational" charity shops.
U.S. Forces and NASA Could Inadvertently Be Spying for China
There is no First Amendment issue here. The Supreme Court already determined that:

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24-656_ca7d.pdf
I’m sure they expect the issue to be resolved by paying the incoming president.
> I feel pretty rugpulled here

How? Synapse is still being developed, this is just a commercial addon for huge customers.

> and not hijacking matrix.org community channels to promote it. They don't seem to be able to keep their hats and chairs properly separated

matrix.org has never excluded mentioning commercial entities, past blogs have frequently included information about etke or beeper for example.
Nothing specific. Most everything printed that I have since circa 1980s is fine. I expect looking after them matters more than paper quality.

Thats mostly paperback novels.

Stuff that was printed cheap in the 30s and 40s (ie "pulp" fiction) is taking strain now - which is to be expected.

Books I got as a child seem yo be I fine condition, despite a lot of rough handling at my hands, and my kids hands.
Why not use the "Following" feed? You won't get any recommended content (besides ads without an adblocker) and only see stuff from people you follow.

Side note: It's annoying how many tech people started posting their political hot takes since ~2016. I unfollowed everyone who tweeted about politics.
> Maybe the US should just create some privacy protections instead ?

But... But that would apply to Meta and Twitter as well Ö
I know. But I don’t want to use something with a naming sounding weird that I actively hate, especially when there are alternatives with a better name.
The generalized version of ‘traverse/mapM’ that doesn’t just work for lists, but any ‘Traversable’ type is absolutely amazing and is useful in so many cases.

‘traverse :: Applicative f => (a -> f b) -> t a -> f (t b)’

And you can derive it for free for your own datatypes!

The amount of code I’ve manually written in other languages to get a similar effect is painfully large.
> Sounds like the mafia.

You're taking a decision to protect national interests that safeguards investor's interests, and here you are spinning it with "mafia" nonsense.

Pray tell, how do you address the problem of having a totalitarian regime manipulating and spying on your whole country? Do you try to shut down the operation? Or do you argue they should continue their psyops operations because otherwise it "sounds like the mafia"?
As someone outside of the US, I'm sure this is happening in other countries too but watching it from afar without a political party alliance or direct bias that I am aware of, it just seems crazy.

People like Musk, pumping in millions of dollars, running fake competitions to register to vote for Trump in swing states, then once winning being included on phone calls to other heads of states and having a top government job (What!?)

Dropping a meme coin days before joining office.

Having a large amount of people that absoutely did not support him previously, suddenly paying lots of money to his inauguration fund. Particularly big tech companies. To carry favour.

The TikTok ban, which started when he was in office and now TikTok are literally sending messages to everyone in the US with his name on and saying when he takes office they hope it gets sorted. That's like brainwashing millions of kids into supporting him, it's an incredibly unprofessional sounding message.

It seems his erratic but bold behaviour has actually worked. He won the election easily and he has got people and the other countries lining up to support him, because they know that is how he works and if they don't, they fear what he could do. It's both terrifying and interesting to watch, how he's managed to get everyone fall inline.
I had to tap at least five times on the burger menu... It feels half baked. Either this is a problem of the site which is fine, or the problem of the framework and then all bets are off.
Noted grifter in grifting shocker.

Like, honestly, the only surprising thing is that it didn’t happen until now.
It is very valuable to maintain your scepticism, autonomy and not claim you might be a conspiracty theorist.

It is far too easy to claim everyone with a different opinion is a conspiracy theorist.

When people claim that a person is a conspiracy theorist it is a means of shutting down their opinion so that only those others opinions become valid and heard.

People then get frightened of expressing their opinions and views and so you only hear one story.

https://roblog.co.uk/2025/01/the-new-luddites/

https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/10/smoke-filled-room-where-i...

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/why-does-ozempic-cure-all-d...

https://off-guardian.org/2025/01/18/who-are-the-elite/
I try to avoid >>= and >> (or *>) because I know it trips people up; do-notation is more than fine. The exception is when parsing with one of the parsecs where you get a lot of <* and *> usage and all the tutorials use those symbols.

But I like <|> , it feels very clear that it has a sort of "or" meaning.
What always jars me the most is how modern ancient Roman taps and valves look.
To save you a click, the message displayed on TikTok reads:

- -

"Sorry, TikTok isn't available right now.

"A law banning TikTok has been enacted in the U.S. Unfortunately, that means you can't use TikTok for now.

"We are fortunate that President Trump has indicated that he will work with us on a solution to reinstate TikTok once he takes office. Please stay tuned!"

- -

That last paragraph is 100% the language of authoritarian regimes.

"We are fortunate to have the Leader's personal attention!" — and he hasn't even taken office yet. Incredible.
I'm not sure 'miss priced' is necessarily the case- I think they're priced to move, and obviously there's no cost-of-sales, so its a volume game.

Of course one can find truly valuable stuff, not just books, but I never have...
The 1st Amendment does not apply to Chinese companies operating in the US.

And even if it did it isn't a suicide pact that forces the US to do very stupid things like let the CCP use TikTok to manipulate US citizens to the benefit of the CCP and detriment of the US.
Yeah, but the distributers are always depend on the models. And they'll have to pay their licenses. And the ones who control the model have quite an influence on all of us.
PostgREST and Hasura (before rewrite) are written in Haskell.
Also make sure to remove bots from your followers. Having them in your social graph impacts your feed for sure.
I made the "x bot remover" Chrome extension that automates removal based on simple rules. It's free.

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/x-bot-remover/aohkh...
I tried watching the British version and couldn’t make it more than 10 minutes in. Cringy and dumb, it seemed to me.
I initially had a Gogs install, but moved to GitLab because of GitLab CI and some other features. It was a bit too heavyweight in comparison and the updates became difficult to keep up with, so I eventually moved over to Gitea and Drone CI (some might also like the Woodpecker CI project).

Honestly, my eventual next move will be either Forgejo with their Actions https://forgejo.org/docs/next/user/actions/ for CI/CD or maybe going off into the deep end with moving back to Jenkins.
They have literally nothing to lose so stunt is relative.
VortexNet: Neural Network Based on Fluid Dynamics
Man I really want to learn a good code-driven CAD app sometime. Last time I tried to look at ImplicitCAD the website was down so I just gave up lol

CADQuery/build123d is the other big one I'm interested in.
> Does it offend your aesthetic sensibilities

Yes. I’m completely aware it’s irrational and probably a bit dumb, but I don’t want to use something with a name I actively hate. Some names are "meh" or boring and that’s ok. But for DuckDuckGo and Forgejo I have a visceral reaction against their name.

DuckDuckGo is an even worst offender because their logo is ALSO dumb and terrible, and I don’t want to see it.
Any DDoS protection? Doesn't really matter with a small personal site, but I run a few solo production apps and they get hit multiple times a month by >100k rps DDoS attacks.
> For that matter, what are China's interests regarding Russia/US?

"If these two get into a fight, we can move on with our Taiwan agenda."

That's why Trump is pushing the EU to properly finance their defense, so the US can concentrate on Asia Pacific. He signalled this during his Notre Dame meeting with Macron, France being the only European NATO ally with a reliable army and interests in the region. To Trump, China is the new US rival, Russia is merely a bigger Iran with nukes and more advanced tech. I don't see him giving Tiktok a break.
And you think America is not ?
It is, obviously, a grift, and the ‘market cap’ is part of the standard meme coin grift. If you print a billion Schrutebucks at home and sell one to an idiot for a dollar, then, well, do you have a billion dollars?

This is _not_ really a valuation approach which would be accepted in traditional finance, but it’s standard in cryptononsense world.
Indeed. What's is interesting (and not so common) with models like GLiNER is that it is way lighter than LLMs while preserving good (if not better) quality and some zero-shot ability (in this case wrt to the entity classes). This feature is very significant, as most "traditional" (including Transformer-based) approaches are more or less supervised during fine-tuning. Icing on the cake, you don't have to deal with all the problems that arise when you want to get structured output from an LLM (in this case structured NER output).
Only worth noting if Greenblatt has denied the phone call.

E.g when Russia stopped denying the presence of North Korean troops, it was pretty much cast iron proof that Ukraine's recent videos of the prisoners were not fakes.

A denial wouldnt necessarily mean it wasn't true, but the lack of a denial is very strong evidence that it is.
> And where exactly will the Jews currently living in Israel go?

Within the 1967 borders.

It's right there in charter you quoted. The current version .. the one without the bit that calls for the deaths of all Jews that attack Palestinians and the destruction of their state. The one that rails against Zionist settlers that expand and push Palestinians from their homes.
I think 99% of the problems with Jira stem from trying to use it for too many things at the same time.

If it's used for tracking issues, it's great.

If a team just uses it for keeping track of its ongoing work, it ok.

If the team also uses it to plan work, it works less well.

If management also uses it to keep track of what the team is doing, it works even less well, because now the team needs to put on a show for management with the tool it needs to track and plan its work. Now issues need to be phrased in a way so that they aren't causing outsiders to worry. Maybe don't say "problem" or "bug" so often. Use an euphemism. Can't we word it in a less concerning way?

If upper management has a dashboard of all departments' boards, you get nested Potemkin villages where the jira tasks are performative for both middle management, who in turn try to dress things up even more for upper management. At this point, the team (which still needs to track its issues and ongoing work) likely has a secret second issue tracker via post-it notes on a door somewhere.
Keep in mind, systemd is still a default-allow access control list (ACL) and has a very long road ahead in form of Linux security, as long as CAP_SYS_ADMIN continuea to exist.

May make it easier to customize but it doesn't close the security loopholea like SELinux, GRSecurity, TOMOYA, or AppArmor does.

https://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/selinux-vs-apparmor-vs-grsecu...
> China doesn’t allow US social media companies to operate there.

This statement is not entirely accurate. It is possible for a US social media company to operate in mainland China, provided it complies with local regulations, including hosting its servers in China and adhering to censorship requirements. For instance, LinkedIn operated in China until August 2023. However, it may ultimately prove unfeasible due to factors such as user preferences, the volume of censorship requests, or even perceived unfair competition. Since at least 2010, when Google faced demands for compliance with Chinese censorship regulations, the requirements for foreign companies to operate in China have been clearly outlined.

No comment on these policies, but it is undeniable that businesses operating in foreign markets must comply with local laws. However, by intervening in business activities, undermining corporate property rights, and contradicting its own stated principles of free market economics and international trade rules, the U.S. has demonstrated economic nationalism. I can't tell who is playing defect in this case.
Play on words I assume.

- Meta - Facebook et al

- Stasi (an abbreviation of Staatssicherheit), was the state security service and secret police of East Germany from 1950 to 1990. It was one of the most repressive police organisations in the world, infiltrating almost every aspect of life in East Germany, using torture, intimidation and a vast network of informants to crush dissent
I think it’s the colonial influence - the French and the British officer classes basically just swanned around in hedonistic luxury, idling away their days, and gave people Ideas about what “being in charge” looked like. These ideas are strongly heritable.
All "governments" are authoritarian. The USA was founded by authoritarian white slaveowners. So yes, Gen Z and TikTok users will definitely baffle all those who accept US imperialism above all else.

Let's be honest: "Democracy" in the USA is and always has been a game for the rich, especially since the 1908s when Reagan and Thatcher decided that China should be the top dog in the world order.

People just want to live happily. Simple as that. TikTok gives a lot of people a feeling, a snippet, of a little bit of freedom and connection with others. All US media makes people fearful - FOX "news" is literally just fearmongering for boomers and their children who can't afford homes of their own. CNN and MSNBC is just fear mongering against boomers who watch FOX "news". Facebook/Meta/IG/WhatsApp is an extension of these fears into the virtual world and TikTok offers something better.

Jokes on the USA though. RedNOTE is gonna close the cultural divide between America and China and Americans will realize just how far the boomer generation and those who have been elected to uphold boomer beliefs really left younger/current generations behind.

China has won technologically and now begins the cultural victory.

I can foresee, sadly, that there will be an unnecessary loss of lives in the short term however for both the USA and BRICS nations. Hopefully I wind up being wrong.
We could have some words for this paradoxical phenomenon. I suggest "humility" and "patience":) Maybe even "kindness"
"Some people just hate their own government so much, they think any other government would be better. Including the known bad guys of the era."

Yep. I call it "Chomskyism"
It redirects to DuckDuckGo, the name is still written full size, and their stupid logo is still there.

Give me ddg.co or duck.com with no redirect, no branding and no logo and I’ll use it.
Accessibility is not an issue. It takes only a little bit of effort to get productive with a Haskell codebase. I think it's more of a mental block because the language is different from what one might be used to. What Haskell needs, and doesn't have, is a compelling reason for people to make that small effort (i.e. the killer usecase).
Is this analyzing the video with AI?
It's also really easy for Greenblatt to issue a denial.

That is, of course, unless it is true.

A denial wouldnt necessarily indicate that it is false (he has every reason to deny it, but lying is a risk) but the lack of a denial is very strong evidence that it is, in fact, true.

There is a very low cost to denying lies, so the absence of a denial (unlike its presence) is a very good indicator.
Show HN: Turn your Kindle 4 Non-Touch device into a network scanner
a phisher's dream: anything remotely related to ducks might be a real domain
It’s about as real.
>Record and upload a 1-2 minute screen recording of you scrolling through your X/Twitter feed.

Is that really the only way to get hold of someones feed? It's neat from a tech perspective & very AI...but seems rather cumbersome
Ask HN: Which AI CRM for B2B Startup?
Looking for a feature-packed, user-friendly, AI-enabled CRM for a B2B Saas company. What do you recommend?

I'm sick of paying a premium for HubSpot and dealing with their pushy salespeople at contract renewal time.