skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because starting a business might still lead to higher returns for you than hoping that your money will be worth more.

One thing i’ve always wondered: If something like Bitcoin was the only currency, then it would be like a direct mapping of 21 Million Bitcoin <-> all global economic activity and goods and services. In that case, shouldn’t its price be relatively stable, and might actually even go down sometimes? Like in big natural disasters increasing the cost of certain goods?

I’m not a crypto zealot, but I’m not a big believer in the idea that the economy needs to be stimulated and I need to be forced to spend my money before it loses its value. I just want to buy what I need or really want.

And in the hypothetical case of having a mapping of “all economic activity” <-> “21M payment units”, then the relative stability of this money might still make investments more lucrative than just hoping for my money to be worth slightly more tomorrow. In this hypothetical scenario it would be more like “my money is worth 1000 eggs today, next month it might be 1001 (if others grow the economy) or 999 (if something unforeseen happens halfway across the globe). So if an investment looks like it might yield the value of 1100 eggs there would still be people to take the risk of investing, no?
Do you have keys on your keyboard for those or do you have a key combo or browser addon for them? I tend to stick to basic ascii characters for the most part myself... but part of that is ignorance. I have trouble remembering the euro sign combo on Mac.
in line with the de-risking mantra, it is important that Europe finds to way to avoid over dependence on stronger powers
some different takes:

https://www.crisesnotes.com/elon-musk-wants-to-get-operation...

https://popular.info/p/musk-associates-given-unfettered

no matter political affiliation, this should be alarming the level of access these people have been given without security clearances etc.

this is a national security issue.
There have been very articles talking about the various events and exploits of the past two weeks, which, given how unprecedented they are, but also how relevant they are to the tech sector given the persons involved, is surprising. I can't help but wonder if a similar moderation issue as on X might be happening on this platform. It is, after all, owned by another venture capitalist - Paul Graham - who has, in the past, employed the rhetoric of the Curtis Yarvin bubble ("luxury beliefs", and so on).
> the Democrats have nothing to offer in response to the people's suffering.

WTF? The Democrats are the ones with concrete offers to ease people's suffering. Literally. Stuff like Medicare for all.

For example, Clinton offered coal miners retraining and income support in order to ameliorate the inevitable. Trump offered empty impossible promises. People voted for the empty promises rather than the concrete reality. Coal miners lost their jobs without the support Clinton would have provided.

99% of economists were predicting recession during the multiple crises of the Biden term. 99% of economists were wrong because we had skilled leadership at the helm. How much suffering did that prevent?
hi my partner is a neuroscientist and multiple words on this list appear on any one of her proposals. She doesn't even work with humans.

If you think this only affects social sciences you don't have the requisite knowledge to have an opinion here.
I don't support this action by Trump and I am linking to an article that criticizes the Florida bill. But it is trying to explain/justify why this word may be banned based referencing the ideological background that is motivating it.
If CS courses are supposed to teach students how to do Software Engineering, maybe they should be renamed to be SE courses.
Alan Turing's "Delilah" project
Show HN: Git commit splitting in Retcon 1.2 for macOS
Retcon (a macOS Git client for quickly rewriting history) has been out for a few months, but this update adds a highly-requested feature: commit splitting.

In a few keystrokes, you can now break apart a big commit into smaller, more granular commits. Just enter Edit mode on a commit, unstage some of its changes, and confirm: the changes will be moved to a new commit, which you just have to title.

Retcon's purpose is to let you make your branch history legible and sensical, and commit splitting was a big missing piece there. No more.

(Something that often comes up: isn't it bad to rewrite a Git branch? Yes, if multiple people are working on it. But in many companies, you're expected to clean up your feature branch before opening a PR for review. Granular, focused commits make everyone's life much easier. Hence `git rebase -i`, and Retcon.)
From the last 20 years of bootstrapping to various levels of success, I now have an absolute rule: when I feel like I definitely cannot take a break _now_ that the time I must take a break, non-negotiable. Even a few days is enough. I have often felt outrage at having to invoke this rule, but the effect is so pronounced that I have always doubled down on it afterwards, as a life sustaining aide to my future self.
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beholder_(Dungeons_%26_Dragons...
Tady je ale více Čechů než jsem čekal teda :)
I just went to archive.org home page and typed M.C. Kids in search -

It has a timeline, magazines, videos, nes guides and a DOS box emulator that you can play the game on. All in about 10 seconds.
good. /s
VPS business is very different than the "cloud" space.

Yes yes there are cloud features now offered by VPS providers, but they are add ons to chase demand, they aren't positioning their offering to appeal to users wanting a comprehensive suite of services on the platform. Managed databases, SMTP as a service, deployment as a service etc etc etc. For that reasons market rates are different.

For Hetzner to bump their prices significantly they would need to build a cloud platform a la AWS/GCP/Azure. Won't happen by Xmas even if went all in. They are good at what they do and make money so they stick to that.
that is how I interpret the word "portrait" too, and the etyomology of it matches.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/portrait
> If you are protected from facing competition, then you don’t need to actually compete. Therefore, you don’t develop the competitive advantages. You remain at a competitive disadvantage, but it doesn’t matter since you don’t actually have to face the competition… until someday when the protection is removed and you are left to face the more advantaged competition.

However, it's not uncommon for a company or industry to fail to develop a competitive advantage, and then go bankrupt and disappear.

Without the Jones Act, it's quite possible that the US shipbuilding industry may have ended up even more moribund than it is now, decades ago.
I have found that third-person games that involve a lot of looking up and down -- largely anything with crafting/building or picking up loot -- really hurts me. On the other hand Death Stranding worked great -- largely because you don't have to angle the camera up and down to pick stuff up off the ground. I play a lot of first-person shooters and those usually don't give me any trouble.
Unfortunately, laws have to be signed in by the president
Lithuanian laws are a good example. They are extremely verbose compared to most common law countries.

I lived in Lithuania for a while and at the time, there was a big national debate about how “family” should be defined in laws — what people it can and can’t include.

So yes — a lot of emphasis is put on verbose definitions in literalist legal texts. And very very verbose explanations of many edge cases, too,

I know first hand it will be very hard to read Lithuanian legal texts for someone who is not a native speaker of the language, and even for natives it’s a challenge. So you could instead google “literalist legal systems”, and I believe you’ll find at least some examples/more context in English somewhere.
A difficulty I have with customer service folk is that usually I'm just trying to report a bug. I'm not upset. Please stop trying to give me coupons. I'm not trying to cancel my account I just want to help your engineers fix this bug (and later on, I want to see that it has actually gone away).

If I must intact with an AI for this, I'd prefer that it infer my emotions correctly.
Yeah and ultimately in a very real politik way whatever the Supreme Court says is Constitutional is Constitutional because they are vested with the final say on what the Constitution means at any particular moment.

The CDC has pretty vast powers in a public health emergency and IMO the ability to forcibly quarantine people is a power far beyond the ability to pause evictions and is maybe even a necessary part of the former. (Can't really quarantine someone if their landlord can just throw them out right?)
unless it is for right wing political campaigns! then it is all good, per Citizens United
Is that because defense doesn't like them or is it because (non-wartime) defense moves on geological timescales and these are "new"?
Why did this just plummet to page three? Very weird.

[Edit] A few seconds later, I cannot find it no matter how many times I click "more".
There's still a lot of science to be done at home.

Analyzing data sets and producing good data are bottlenecks.

It's usually less fundamental and more related to recording and analyzing properties of the world though.

You can crunch numbers that CERN and MAST provide.

https://archive.stsci.edu/
https://opendata.cern.ch/

I've gotten into 3D printing, and load and temperature data of different filaments is always appreciated.

Mixing materials together, microscopic images, etc...

I get a lot of value from YouTubers who simple follow a consistent methodology of endurance or break testing products or materials. Tear downs and documentation of internals, performance statistics, etc...

Channels like CNCKitchen or ProjectFarm are excellent citizen scientists for example.
Working against apartheid in South Africa would also count as "fomenting unrest" so I don't know how useful that metric is. Even what you linked is basically equivalent to the US projecting soft power and pro-capitalist sentiment (inappropriate, IMO, but probably within agency mission parameters).
I did a JS1K back in the day [1] such a fun concept!

I wonder these days if anyone is using multi-character emoji (don't know what do you call those exactly) to compress more data in 1024 "bytes"?

Since HackerNews does not allow emojis, here is a demo of what I mean:

https://output.jsbin.com/nebemihuhe

[1] https://js1k.com/2013-spring/demo/1426
It probably is the general sentiment. Though I quite like them - it's like a new art form almost.
> The defense against this is to have very clear legal principles that identify the person or people fully accountable for the machine's decisions.

Most legal principles are designed to reduce liability. That's the whole point of incorporation, for example.
Science article on it: https://www.science.org/content/article/exclusive-nsf-starts...
This has to be a bad faith argument. DOGE was not signed into law by congress as an official executive department, Musk was not officially appointed with a congress hearing and approval.
The title is clickbait. There are have not been any known confirmed spottings, but, according to the article: "However, Hofer and Mills (1998), mentioned unconfirmed records from Egypt through questionnaire surveys."

I would think that 5K is a long time for any event to occur, however unlikely. The fact that there was no confirmed spotting doesn't mean all that much to me, especially if you look back all the way into ancient history where certainly not every animal sighting was recorded.
What I find most disappointing and frustrating is that accessibility has gotten caught in the crosshairs of this anti-DEI crusade. I expect this will lead to a lot of suffering among the most vulnerable groups of people.
> It's easy to get caught up in just getting the code work on a limited case, but true quality comes from spending extra time on testing and handling edge cases

The frustrating thing is how this feels so incompatible with the way most software companies work in two week sprints and judge productivity by tickets closed / story points completed

You can't take your time to do it well
flagged != forbidden
because the comment section is going to be a shitshow, just like the Trump administration.
TIL!

To me the word “portrait” makes me think “painting” as well.. I never would have guessed it refers just to what is being depicted rather than “how”. Thanks for sharing.
Will CWIS be able to handle drone boats that are submerged except for their cameras and satellite dishes? They are primarily used for cruise missiles.

Watching the Russian fleet "deal with" Ukranian drone boats (aka sink to the bottom of the Ocean) made me realize that most war ships aren't prepared for these encounters.
Details here in Science: https://www.science.org/content/article/exclusive-nsf-starts...
Take that to the next level. What are you worried about, and how would you combat it?
Usually the hospital has you sign something during intake that says "I acknowledge that if the insurance fails to pay this bill then I am the final guarantor." And so without that signed documentation the detainee shouldn't be on the hook for the bill. So asking the hospital to present your signature on that document or escalating until someone can provide that or indicate that they don't have it should be enough. This is a situation where personal legal insurance might be beneficial because for about $30 a month you get a law office you can call and ask questions, for example about the legality of the local hospital's billing practices for detainees.
I'll admit that this is a charitable reading of the essay, but I think that MS was dead in 2007 and is still dead in 2025, in the sense that Graham was focused on. In the 90s startup founders were scared that if they started a software company MS would copy their idea and crush them. Bill Gates used to talk about how he wanted to "monopolize" software before the lawyers caught up with him. By 2007 MS was mostly irrelevant to startup founders, and with a few exceptions it's mostly irrelevant to them now. They're not in the business of crushing the life out of software startups anymore. Paul's a VC, and that's what he was focused on.
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Violence is not inherent to the definition of a coup, and Elon Musk, who is not a government official, who has no official status in the government, has taken direct control of the Treasury's payment systems. An unelected billionaire has illegally and unconstitutionally taken control of the United States government.

That is a coup, plain and simple.
So you would agree with my statement that "That's not a coup as anyone understands the word." then
You can pinch-zoom on mobile, but only while you're holding it down. I suspect again this is intentional and the two go together - they don't want you zooming in on limited resolution images, that'll look even worse.
It was "flagged" by users.
I'm trying to do less browsing and more intentional reading. RSS works great for this. There is a bit of overwhelm for me in filtering out the right things in a RSS feed. But, generally the work is filtering out posts I don't want, as opposed to filter out the spam and ads I don't want when I'm browsing without intention.

https://RSS.surf (I built this) gathers up the RSS feeds for anything that makes it to the front page of HN. It gathers up interesting blogs, lets me quickly assess if they are useful and interesting, and then easily subscribe. It's been a good transition from browsing HN to getting more intentional.

If you sign up using the login button in the top right, rss.surf will email you a summary of the RSS feeds for the prior day (you can see examples of prior summaries by clicking "see past emails").

FreshRSS is integrated (https://reader.rss.surf) so you can click to subscribe, or just use your own feed reader.
The Log Cabin Republicans serve as their shield that “they aren’t homophobic” just like they trot out Tim Scott as their token Black to show they aren’t racist. As a Black person, there is no way in the world I would be put on stage to shuck and jive for the modern Republican Party even if I did agree with some of their policies before 2016.

Besides plenty of Christians have had to come to terms with the fact that at least one person they care about is gay. Many fewer have someone they care about that is trans.
There's a moment in Firewatch (first person) where the character ducks under a tree or a fence or something and that's the moment I turned it off, because the camera lurches downward. Incredibly unpleasant.

Also unplayable was Superliminal though that's not a huge surprise, considering the mechanic of the game. Outer Wilds was also a real tricky one.
I have that for youtube shorts.

Seeing them turned into regular videos shows how ridiculously stupid their format and user experience is.
Opravdu

(nejsem Cech - ani slovak - ale bydlim v Brne... pocita se? :D)
Same here as well. I been thinking on how to rise above the noise, trying some new things, failing as well, all in vain. Do you have any specific "way" to rise above noise or is it different for everyone and same old hit and trial method.
Yeah, 'one of the oldest' would be much more accurate title. Strong claims require strong evidence et al, maybe a bit of nationalism seeped in
Is there a chance for remote from LATAM?
> It’s called regulatory caption.

Regulatory Capture, no?
Charitably, that's a very flawed blog post. Studies of housing affordability in Finland should not be used to make points about America. Finland has a number of legal protections that shield its citizens from the rampant price-fixing, collusion, investor-oriented building, and other predations of the American market.

That's not to say housing construction regulation isn't a problem. It is, but two things can be problems at the same time.
A different, darker way to interpret this is computers cannot be held accountable today

If systems (presumably AI-based) were conscious or self-aware they would very much be incentivized not to make mistakes. (Not advocating for this)
Sure, but Fauci should also not have to spend the twilight years of his very accomplished life defending himself from petulant fascists' revenge prosecutions.
> Let’s turn it around. How does keeping the Jones Act ensure a competitive shipbuilding industry in the US? We could easily subsidize the shipbuilders, pay for training programs, and so on. But blocking competition just keeps the market uncompetitive.

Because the US can't "easily subsidize the shipbuilders, pay for training programs, and so on." It has an ideological dysfunction that prevents that. Even if you could manage to get a program like that passed, there's a large chance it'd get cut in 10 years by some libertarian to pay for yet another tax cut.

> We have no problem with subsidizing farmers and roads so why not shipbuilders if it keeps our navy competitive?

That's only because of how the Constitution apportions senators and the electoral college. Farmers are spread out in a way that gives them disproportionate political power.
I think most CS degrees do teach some software engineering but not game design.
Thanks for the pointer, lots of good looking topics in the back log!
we know how this ends...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Beyond_(film)
The article doesn’t mention how old the found skeleton is, or I missed it. Would be a huge coincidence imo given the large timespan, and perhaps more so an artifact of humans looking for similarities.
That is helpful context— it's too bad TFA wasn't a bit more clear on the history.

In any event, you could still make the case that prior to this bitcoin experiment, the people and economy of El Salvador still were benefiting from a human hand on the monetary tiller, it's just it was that of the US Fed rather than their own officials (elected or otherwise).
You can see the Github issue covering this here: https://github.com/Clozure/ccl/issues/356

There was quite a bit of discussion about this a couple of years ago. OpusModus[1] investigated supporting CCL on M1, but wasn't confident that it could be accomplished, and instead ported their product to LispWorks.

1. https://opusmodus.com
Common sense tells me that it seems unrealistic for America to compete in manufacturing with China when have significantly higher costs of living, many fewer people, and a much more educated workforce who is less willing to screw on doll heads for 16 hours a day.

Tariffs seem like a way to help American manufacturing compete given all of that
I like to differentiate between “bugs that stem from a recent code change” (easy to fix) and “bugs that suddenly appear out of nowhere” (hard to fix)
The FBI is not my friend, therefore I worry about them.
I don't remember who originally stated it, but there is an old axiom that "There are three stages of Reading: 1. Infantile - to learn about the world, 2. Adolescent - to learn about oneself, and 3. Adult - to read simply for enjoyment".

I think a lot of the current market for (adult) books reflects the second stage.
It would be interesting to ask the person(s) sitting next to you on the next plane ride why they are reading, e.g. Malcolm Gladwell vs Dan Brown vs Ian McEwan.
I think if you drill down you'll find there's no "they" who can. The majority of voters are homeowners who benefit from restricting housing supply. Any state actor who loosens land use regulation enough that it actually lowers housing prices would likely be voted out.

The changes you see - like allowing ADUs - are inherently very limited impact so that they look good to those advocating for more housing without actually lowering prices.
Argentina breeds gene-edited polo super ponies
There's no point in wondering this. Soros is swamp but Musk is not? There's just no rational, two neurons connecting there. It's just their side bad, my side good brainwashing.
The OED and Cambridge dictionaries disagree. All the examples in both are of two dimensional representations or even one dimensional (written).

Of course if enough people decide to agree with the Wikipedia article then the dictionaries will have to be updated but just now i suspect that if you were to ask people to describe what the word meant that very few would mention sculpure.

But I don't think that sculpture really captures it either, it's more like a cameo.
We can’t neglect the possibility that BadBadBad is a term that the Backblaze code base now defines directly, not just in terms of its etymological root “bad”. Its name and definition may overlap the common word, but also carry additional meaning, like “logged and non-recoverable”.
They are (ancient) bacteria
Scaling GraphQL Schema Usage to billions of requests per day