skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's the difference between employment vs working as a contractor.

That's absolutely NOT the difference between employment and contracting. The general expectation from the IRS is that if you are setting someone's hours (and Uber is, the driver chooses to be available, but within that availability window, Uber can arbitrarily define them as unavailable), then they are an employee.

Contractors don't just hang around your job site because you tell them you don't have work for them now but "stick around 5 minutes or 2 hours, we might have some then".
How about my smartwatch, or my $29 earbuds? They are always conveniently near the 'random mac' and can be used to fingerprint.
20+ year resident of Austin here. I skimmed the article so maybe I missed it, but one thing that is lacking is the actions of private equity real estate purchases. During 2021/2022 (I'm not sure exactly the start/stop of the window) house values went up 50%+ here, and rent went up correspondingly. At the time, P.E. first were responsible for 40% of all home purchases.

I just had a look at zillow, as imperfect as that is, it estimated my home value in Jan 2020 at $882K. It shot up during covid and peaked in May 2022 at $1.7M. It is now $1.2M. Anyway, the point is I think the private equity buying spree was also responsible for much of the run-up, which has since cooled off somewhat.
> Yes, crypto solves it.

The vast majority of scams are run through crypto now. In fact, crypto is a step backwards and makes it easier to scam people.
Wikipedia has an article, with links to sources. I think the main source is Douglas Pike's The Vietcong Strategy of Terror[0]. Another Vietnam Expert, Bernard Fall, documents some of it in Vietnam Witness.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viet_Cong_and_People%27s_Army_...

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20230405095258/https://vva.vietn...
Ah, cool, yes, same idea! I like it.

Any of the expanded search options get much action?
Bitcoin holds 57% of total crypto value, Ethereum another 11%, some 15% is in centralized instruments like USDC or XRP, which are not really cryptocurrencies.

In addition to that, there are also 10.5 million altcoins (10000 new are created every day). But all of them together hold just 17% of crypto value. So you can, of course, create another millions of forks, but it won't make a dent in Bitcoin value.
> Who would be buying bitcoin right now?

Well, maybe the US government? What if the US starts dedicating 10-15% of yearly federal receipts to serve as exit liquidity for Bitcoin holders?
I don't really see the point of this - but here is some feedback from trying it out:

* Whatsapp search is broken. Goes to "https://web.whatsapp.comSEARCHPHRASE/"

* Most of these only work when logged in via cookie to the service

* Amazon search inserts your affiliate tag - you might want to make this clear somewhere.
Gold is also not like other commodities. No one treats gold the way you treat iron or lithium or even platinum/palladium.

And for what it's worth, Vanguard doesn't have a pure gold ETF.
The central message of this article is that huge companies are bad because they make large profits.

But there are many countries were companies cannot grow huge because the underlying economy is small and not part of a large trading block. (Georgia, where I'm currently living, is a good example).

People are worse off in these countries: Wages are lower in dollar terms. Locally produced products are of poorer quality and cost more.

So, although huge companies make big profits, their economies of scale do benefit their customers and staff.
How would it make auditing simple? Auditors would still have to go out and count things to verify that the blockchain contents match assets and liabilities in the real world.
IMO: get rid of the animations
I mean most of the things are the fault of a badly designed or non existent protocols:

-Problems with non western input systems

-Accessibility

-Remote control(took around 2 years to be stable I think?)

-Bad color management

Then there's the things that did work in x11 but not in wayland:

-Bad support for keymapping(the input library says keymapping should be implemented by the compositor, gnome says not in scope, so we have a regression)

-bad nvidia support for the first two years? three years?

While these things are compositor/hw vendor faults, the rush to use wayland and nearly every distro making it as default, forced major regressions and wayland kinda promised to improve the x11 based experience.
What does it mean to be inactive? I see Pigeonly (W15) on the list, but they are still active as far as their website is concerned.
Negligence has the same problem as intent.

The difficulty with corporations is that demonstrating anything about their behavior at all (negligence, intent, ignorance, malice, stupidity...) requires doing so for a corporate body, in the sense of that word that refers to a thing visibly composed of many other distinct things.

What does a corporation want? What does that question even mean? Was a corporation negligent? Does that refer to its officers? Its employees? Specific employees? A written plan?

It's not that hard to come up with a definition of what you mean by a corporation for the purposes of defining a specific type of behavior. For example, you may regard negligence as being a property of the board, exhibited by the decisions the board makes. However, any given definition likely misses cases where a reasonable person would still tend to feel that "the corporation was negligent".

This doesn't come from the for-profit aspects of a corporation, or its existence as part of a capitalist economy. It comes from the aggregate nature of a corporation, and talking about any sort of intent-ful behavior in the context of an aggregate is challenging.
I haven't, but downloading now - thanks.

I've been intermittently grinding Mindustry recently...
As a newly landed immigrant to the US I worked at Bell Labs in Naperville IL for most of the decade of the 1980s and I have a few fun memories mostly of extra-curricular stuff.

There was a Unix version of the popular Aliens video game built with curses and played on 9600 baud terminals and when the Pacman video game came out I hacked the Aliens code to play it. Initially I had the monsters represented by 'M' until the player hit the appropriate button that made them run away instead when I changed the character for the monsters to 'W' for wimp. This ran afoul of the affirmative action police as it suggested superiority of 'M'en over 'W'omen so I hastily changed 'W' to 'S'.

Another time there was a paper airplane contest where the planes were launched from the 4th floor walkway into the atrium of the Indian Hill West building. There were prizes for the longest distance flight, longest time flight, fastest plane and most beautiful flight. I won the latter with a helicopter-like plane that just spun its way slowly to the floor.

The best talk I remember giving was one explaining the game of cricket that took a full hour, and as for work contributions I can only remember coming up with the idea to use the geometric mean to summarize benchmark results.

PS one more - my first US code review I spent about 30 mins explaining how my code worked with few if any questions from the other participants. Finally I asked if there were any other questions when someone hesitantly said - "Yes, what is this variable "zed" that you keep talking about?"
Yeah, I think the existence of Reader's Digest makes your point for you. I remember the first time my dad explained that it was misnamed because it wasn't really for the readers. It was for the people who didn't want to read.
Try again! Just rebooted the server since it’s going viral now.
I’ve lived paycheck to paycheck and I definitely still had a few dollars to get the ball rolling after each paycheck. Claiming that you can’t is exactly the defeatist attitude that will keep you financially disabled.

People with less than $500 can still start gaining that 5% yield, and it is better than the bank taking that 5% and eating it. If you don’t get that 5%, the bank will. Furthermore most people can easily calculate 5% and make the decision themselves if you don’t actively discourage them as your reply suggests.

From the article you linked:

> This leaves them vulnerable to unexpected expenses, underscoring the importance of having an emergency fund, if they’re able to build one.

The rest of the article goes on how to vet yourself to start building an emergency fund. A great emergency fund would be a very liquid, low tax, investment option. Like cash equivalent Bonds and ETFs.

If someone has a bank account with $1 it would still be better in a Fidelity Cash Management account gaining a yield than it would be in a bank not gaining at all.
I run all of LegendKeeper's infrastructure on Render, save for a few serverless functions. It's been convenient; I rarely think about infra at all anymore.
Who knew that the one and only solution to a housing crisis (besides forcefully removing people from the area) would actually help the problem of a housing crisis.

The takeaway from this should be "Never listen to anyone who offers a fix for high housing costs if they say anything other than "Build more housing""
There’s two definitions of the same word both of which predate economics, but the slightly older one mostly died out.

“Home economics” was used in the 1950’s to distinguish it from the more common use of the term back then, while economics classes don’t need that clarification. Today few people are aware of the older definition.
I've ported omakub (By DHH) over to fedora
I'm really interested in hearing from anyone who does manage to successfully run a long prompt through one these on a Mac (using one of the GGUF versions, or through other means).
You seem to be arguing that if block reward sufficiently drops, everyone will stop mining and new block cease to be generated. Why would it happen?

If everyone stops mining that it would be enough to run mining on cheapest laptop and collect all the reward.
>It doesn’t suck because paying in S&P500 ETF doesn’t correspond to magical temporary store of labor whatever that is supposed to mean.

How many shares of SPY does a car cost? Before you answer that, you cannot convert any value of this into currency first. I certainly can't answer it!

>Sorry, plebs, only rich people are allowed to be paid in stocks and other non-inflationary assets.

Rich people are paid in cash. When the CEO of a company gets $10m in stock grants, nobody involved in the transaction is working on number of shares of stock, they work with dollars and figure out how many shares they need to meet that number. If I get a $500 bonus from work and immediately buy a few shares of AAPL, there's no fundamental difference between that and me getting a $500 stock grant of AAPL. They're even taxed the same.
This this reminds me of a call in the '90s where I was calling from France a support in the US.

I told them that I was calling from France but the insisted on having a US number to connect me "if needed".

I saw a number on a paper ad on my desk and proceeded to spell it out, stripping the +1.

I wondered several times since then whether their telemarketing dept contacted the telemarketing team in that other company.
"Hell, we found one corpse continuing to work as a procurement mananger at a defense contractor for six months before anyone even noticed."
Local YIMBY groups are a great way to actually do something and see the results.

Both of these groups have chapters or local affiliates across the country:

https://yimbyaction.org/

https://welcomingneighbors.us/

There's new housing where I live that I went to hearings to advocate for. And as more comes on line, rents have started falling a bit, despite being a desirable place to live.
(I'm Render's founder) What should we build next, HN?
Thanks!

I'm going to incorporate this and some of the other feedback in the comments.

Very helpful. Appreciate the suggestions, all.
Prices in 2010 were certainly far more achievable than they are now. I was in college and had made a lot of career plans based on typical incomes an engineer could achieve and what a decent home cost in several cities at the time. It was feasible even on a single income for an engineer. Unless I hit senior staff+ at faang, a home is out of reach in several regions. It was never cheap but it was plausible.

Homes in Santa Clara weren’t always 2.5m.
....or, you just use the same timestamp mechanism available for code signing. Aka you ask a CA to issue a signed timestamp against a content hash and while you are at it, you can get multiple CAs in it.
> Wayland simply came at a time to further the delay of the Linux desktop

I can't tell if you are serious or not.
It's much worse with Nvidia 30+ series on Wayland, feels worse than a Bluetooth mouse, using Nouveau eliminates lag for the most part.
I completely agree! This is an oversight that should be fixed
It's not hard to imagine your tokenized income stream and tokenized assets, algorithmically qualifying you for a defi loan with out need for some guy at a physical desk in a physical building.
Hence it's also not hard to imagine the economic value you attribute to banks, as value eventually accruing to crypto.
You need a setup like this guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbu3ySrRNVc
Except when they are not. In Europe you get a contract following such agreement and you have time to refuse it.

This is one of the reasons tele-sales do not work that well here (telemarketing is still an abomination, though)
Sometimes I think I shouldn't have listened to Hacker News and certain subreddits like r/buttcoin over these past 17 years and should've just bought and held Bitcoin, I would've been a multi-millionaire by now like some stoners I know, who did nothing but buy Bitcoin early and sat on it until today.

Sometimes it's worth it to believe in an irrational market, depending on how long you (and it) can hold out.
Easiest way I've seen to integrate Stripe
This might be a controversial take, but integrating Stripe has never made sense to me.

Theo Browne (@theo on X) summarizes it best: having to sync the state of a subscription with your app and Stripe is super annoying.

Here's a write up on how he does it, which is the best way I've seen so far. It relies on using a Stripe syncing function to update subscription status every time a relevant webhook event comes in from Stripe.

1. User clicks "Subscribe" button on frontend, triggering backend endpoint to generate Stripe checkout

2. Backend creates Stripe customer, stores customerId/userId mapping in database

3. Backend creates checkout session, returns it to frontend

4. User completes payment, gets redirected to /success page

5. /success page triggers backend to sync Stripe data for that customer

6. Backend fetches customerId from database (referred to as key-value/KV store), and syncs latest data from Stripe API using syncStripeDataToKV

7. After sync, frontend redirects user to final destination

8. On all relevant Stripe webhook events, sync again via syncStripeDataToKV

Thoughts? Is this just a skill issue or is Stripe's developer experience actually quite bad?
Also all those services basically just sit back and wait till a company gets big enough to have in-house SevOps/SRE/whatever and the inevitable cost optimising migration gets demanded.
They are, but they should not be
TIL there is a name for this.

> In 2002, during a press briefing about the Iraq War, Donald Rumsfeld famously divided information into four categories: known knowns, known unknowns, unknown knowns, and unknown unknowns. These distinctions became the basis for the Rumsfeld Matrix, a decision-making framework that maps and evaluates the various degrees of certainty and uncertainty.

Wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_are_unknown_unknowns
Wow, only one open job req and I can't figure out who is going to replace Bob. Seems like the platform is dead.

https://salesforce.wd12.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Heroku
No to paying taxes, mostly because the asset you'd have is an apple... The corner store at least has a receivable, but the IRS still won't accept that from them.

But, at least in the US, before the national bank acts in the 1800's, various taxing entities specified which bank notes (or other assets) they'd accept and not accept. It was basically whichever bank notes circulated the most with no/little discount, some gold/silver coins, some government bonds. Ie acceptance by a taxing entity isn't really a clear line on "is/is not" money.

Trading receivables has been going on forever, happens today, is totally legal. The corner store could sell the receivable, and many businesses to sell their receivables.
An additional information panel shows up on the right hand side when you're logged in.
If you're unhappy about their methodology, you're welcome to write productively about your specific gripes.
All valid points, but let's remember that most other stonks trade at some 40x of the value of the company.
Display devices (usually part of your GPU) still have "explicit display hardware just for the mouse" in form of cursor planes. Later this has been generalized as overlay planes.

Planes can be updated and repositioned without redrawing the rest of the screen (the regular screen image is on the primary plane), so moving the cursor is just a case of committing the new plane position.

The input latency introduced by GNOME's Mutter (the Wayland server used here) is likely simply a matter of their input sampling and commit timing strategy. Different servers have different strategies and priorities there, which can be good and bad.

Wayland, which is a protocol, is not involved in the process of positioning regular cursors, so this is entirely display server internals and optimization. What happens on the protocol level is allowing clients to set the cursor image, and telling clients where the cursor is.
TIL Wayland is 16 years old already; in a few years (I can't math) it'll be as old as X was when Wayland came out, but it seems it's still considered mediocre or not as good as X was.
When do you think it died out? People have used economical to mean things like affordable or thrifty for a long time.
It is true that Peronism is often associated with corruption, clientelism, and populism. However, I would argue that corruption transcends political ideologies and affects the entire political (and social) spectrum in Argentina. Using a satirical analogy, I’d describe Peronism as the "Tesla of corruption" innovative and deeply ingrained. What is particularly "interesting" about corruption in Argentina is its complexity: it’s not just about taking bribes but involves an extensive and deep-rooted system. Corruption often becomes intertwined with policies, blurring the lines between governance and malpractice.

For example, companies like Samsung and others assemble electronics in a free-trade zone in Argentina, yet the final product prices are often double the international market price. This illustrates how policies intended to boost local production can become vehicles for inefficiency and potential misuse.

While Peronism has historically been associated with the country's decline, I don't believe it fully explains complex and multifaceted causes of Argentina's struggles until the XXI century.
Not sure. I have not much insight into how people use it. Just like you, I mostly have built it (and keep building it) for myself. And yes, I also think it saves time.
I wish I could up vote this more.

> US goodwill, reputation, and the willingness of those abroad to help and assist the US in future

I’m afraid that there is a large group of folks in the US who put no value on these things, while not really understanding how much they have benefitted us (especially in the recent past).
> How old is Wayland?

About 16 years old, for comparison, X is 40.
Canada didn't fight in Vietnam.

Canada was part of the International Control Commision (along with Poland & India). Canada sold the US a couple $ Billion in weapons and allowed the US to test defoliating agents on a base in New Brunswick, and Canadians joined the US Military to fight in Vietnam.
Show HN: A simple dictionary and vocab builder (Rust, Svelte, Tauri)
I love learning new words. However, I tend to forget them.

When I find a new word, I’ll look up its definition and then save it to wherever is most convenient (Obsidian, my notes app, or I just keep the tab open in Safari). Collating these sources is a nightmare. I’ve tried various flashcard tools, but none are free, easy to use, available on mobile, and support spaced repetition.

deft is the simplest app I could make to meet these goals:

* Built-in dictionary

* Spaced repetition

* Completely offline

The dictionary uses wiktionary.org. The spaced repetition algorithm is fsrs, which is similar to Anki.

iOS App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/deft-vocabulary-flashcards/id6...

Website: https://deft.limn.so/
Flashes Then Flames: New Video of Eaton Fire Raises Questions for Power Company
Yes! Thanks. Will update.

Yeah, for me, it's just a _little_ bit better of a search experience. Would not expect that the be the case for everyone. Was wondering if that would actually be the case for _most_ people. Glad to see some folks some see value in it.
Wayland has support for games completely taking over the GPU; notoriously critical for VR support. This is basically the same as Windows exclusive full screen.

Wine/proton would need to support it, XWayland would need to support it (Wine/Proton are one major step away from native Wayland support: Vulkan), and finally the compositor would need to support it. Gnome is about the worst compositor that you could be testing any of this stuff on, they are comically hostile towards ideas not their own. The chances of this ever working on Gnome are near zero. KDE is pretty good for support, Hyprland seems to be trying to support every under the sun.
Yes, and to the parents point it was a CHANGE in protocol.

I get there was cruft in x. But the moment selected was a barrier to Linux desktop adoption precisely when the greatest opportunity in decades was present.

And the desktop was reimplemented.

Now in this period kde and gnome both decided to do rewrites, Ubuntu did their own desktop, got it up to snuff, and abandoned it. The lunacy wasn't just Wayland.

If we are complaining the gnome compositor sucks... I mean , should that be the goddamn reference implementation? What percent of desktops are gnome, 80% at least? If the gnome composting ready for primetime, then Wayland isn't ready for primetime.
Ooh. Good point. I guess we need traditional languages as a way to debug the created machine code. But… what if we didn’t? Ie the LLM made bytecode and we had some better way to talk about the concrete implementation.
Fan of these PaaS-like tools on BYO servers. See also Coolify, Dokploy. Best of both worlds.
Bitcoin has transaction fees too, that's all gas really is, doesn't really change the fundamentals of the system.
Also Meshtastic.org is a cheap (various <$50 options) open source LoRa based hardware bridge (or standalone device) that can be used with an app over bluetooth (or WiFi web interface).

It supports strong encryption layer and over 1 km/mile per “hop” in most circumstances.

Designed originally for off grid, it’s very flexible and pretty polished.

Abstracts your phone into a UI. Has a whole ecosystem behind it. I’ve been using it for festivals and tracking my vehicles (high theft area) for years.

Very handy should infra not be available. Should be great for protests also :)
The author is doing some extra work to connect dots that might otherwise be better left connected by the readers.
I don’t understand the issue. Protesting is legal. Are we advocating for illegal activity?
I'm missing what `files-to-prompt` does. I have an M3 Max and can take a stab at it, although I'm currently fussing with a few quantized -r1 models...
https://archive.is/WvaEB
Amazing context! Yeah the article’s snippets reminded me of Sonic Pi

https://sonic-pi.net/
What’s the method used here? “Finary” website still looks pretty good