skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
'most careers' and Australia is a special snowflake, too, though yes, a valid example. on the other hand you have Eastern Europe, 6h drive to the 'West' from approximately anywhere and salaries in the shitter except for some professions in capitals (cardiologists would probably also qualify).
5 years ago, Netflix started proactively cancelling inactive accounts. They lose ~$10M/yr from this, but it's the ethical thing to do. (That said, I'd like them to use an even shorter window than 1 year of no activity.)

https://entertainment.ie/on-demand/on-demand-news/netflix-ac...
The fact that a pyramid was hidden for so long, just a kilometer from Caral, makes you wonder what else might still be buried in the region
I highly doubt tortoise or any tool can "break" a repo. This might be a sign that you don't understand git either. Now I'm sure it can lead to people who don't know what they're doing doing the wrong thing, but if they're allowed to push somewhere and make it someone else's problem, that's not their fault. They've been forced to use git, so there should be someone else who actually understands git.
Revenue, not profit. Many small shops voluntarily turn off their website for some weeks so that the employees can take a Christmas break. So it seems like the business can handle a week offline.
>there are many better alternatives if cloud storage prices aren't an issue for you.

What are a couple that you particularly recommend for this? I've been using B2 after abandoning the disaster that SpiderOak has become (was a long term user and stuck out of habit), and not exceptionally happy with B2 either.
i've been making websites since 2000. i've seen the internet change and made couple of projects during my life, none took off. as time went, i realized this golden era of online businesses is long gone and everything has been monopolized and bought out by the big tech companies and that money for ads is what matters the most these days. right now i am finalizing my last project that i will ever make, for this reason. it will be 2.5 years of work in march, when i will be releasing it. the only reason i am going for it and i stuck with working on it full-time this whole time is because it is a type of business where customers will come on their own and will want to use it because it provides them with a new sales channel so competition is actually good for them. it flips the usual business model on its head. otherwise i would have quit a long time ago. my hopes up to get it going this year and make 1M in sales next year and hope to be able to focus on growing it for many years to come.
> i think its underappreciated how much of America's modern success comes down to attracting scientists and intellectuals from war torn europe in the 30s-50s.

if you're going to boil down our "success", if you must call it that, to a root cause, it has a lot more to do with our insatiable greed and lack of respect for, well, anything. The talent is just a small detail in the narrative of America and that narrative is driven far more by capital than it is by interesting people.

The talent narrative makes for excellent propaganda, though, neatly whitewashing a violent and hateful culture.
I think this is a vast overestimation. The majority of people notice every payment they make every month, a Netflix subscription is a choice that they would not continue to make if they were not using Netflix. Those of us who can afford to pay Netflix whether we watch it or not are the minority of wealthy people. I think you would be surprised to learn how many normal people juggle different subscriptions by cancelling/subscribing each month.
Don't forget that, at least in the pascal that was used in my university programming course, all data structures have a fixed size. If you want variable size, you need to allocate them on the heap and free them manually, so it is not clear that this is going to be that much easier than C or C++ in practice. Actually attending the lecture about this I was a bit shocked that it was necessary to free memory manually and I thought to myself 'isn't this going to lead to a lot of trouble'. Turns out my 19-year-old self was right about that.
> Hopes that netflix or any other provider will implement this are small though. Because it's free money when someone pays for service and does not use it.

Right. This is the sort of pro-consumer practice that is obviously morally right, but will not be widely adopted without consumer protection laws. Outside of small, niche businesses like Kagi, there is no pressure to treat customers with respect.
trump really doesn't care about the bounds set by congress or anyone else
is your argument that protests do nothing, therefore people should stay home?
There are a few channels on YouTube where someone's tasked with fixing a laptop or some small electronic thing. They pull it open, find some tiny little circuit that won't go, dissolve the solder, and put a new tiny little circuit in to save a perfectly good device from the landfill.

I hope they can still afford their tiny little circuits and tiny little solder dissolving things with more expensive shipping.
It seems like some new doctors have arrived and diagnosed the patient with terminal cancer. Being new, they have no experience of surgery so are hacking out the tumor with a blunt instrument, excising good tissue and bad. Some hope the surgeons will improve their skill over time. Some say the patient won’t survive. Some say the patient wouldn’t have survived if they did nothing. Some say the patient never had cancer in the first place.
Could be but seems there’s fraud when so much missing and uselessly spent. Classic fraud
He’s not a “billionaire friend” in this role. He was asked by the president to do a job and he’s doing it. You expect the president to do everything by himself? Trump likes businessmen. Steve Mnuchin was another “billionaire friend” and it’s hard find fault in his tenure running treasury.
Civilizations rise, fall, and get buried over time, yet traces of them still shape the landscapes we live in today
> .... and Trump is helping out with pushing the rest of the world toward China.

I am not sure about this one.
Trump is pushing the rest of world to take side.

Panama, as displeased as it can be, choose to end the belt-and-road thing.

> China can replace them with internal consumption and developing world markets that are rapidly growing.

internal consumption: They tried. and kind of failed.

developing world markets: They are winning on this one, agreed.
You can still ship stuff from China to the US via FedEx, UPS, or DHL. You just have to do all the standard customs clearance data entry and pay.[1]

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/business/china-us-usps-de...
- He claimed the US funded bio-weapons when they found payments for gain of function research.

- Calling payments to non-profit organizations fraudulent on a whim.

- The sweeping condemnation of what USAID was doing.

- His call for a blanket drop of regulations.

Either he knows better or he is totally lost in his sauce. Hard to say what's worse for where he is right now.

I believe, he does not care. He only cares about his conception of the world and how AI and Mars are more important than those tiny tiny human problems. Society has to serve him and his god complex. He was told to find his subsidies and tax cuts by himself. That's what he is doing.
If you're writing in a language without strong type checking, Hungarian notation makes sense.
I bought an Android specifically so I don't have to use an iPhone, speaking as a former iPhone user. "Friends" chipping in to buy me an iPhone isn't something I'd actually want.
I am really struggling to find ways to approve anything if you don't have 100% control over it. Signal seems to be a solid choice generally and I do believe they are doing their absolute best to keep it airtight but this is software and some obscene, tiny little hole may very well exist.

Generally speaking, with people like comrade elon having so much say into everything, people rushing to pump out new features daily, most often not putting too much effort into security, I've been making a hard push to cut myself off cloud services and self-host everything I can myself.
You are so very wrong.

Just one example around free market: China's private sector has lost ground as state sector has gained share among top corporations since 2021 https://www.piie.com/research/piie-charts/2024/chinas-privat...
I can only speak about my personal experience (and this was also in the pre-tinder times and on OKCupid, so generally a more nerdy than average demo), but I had the experience that even if one isn’t top-looking, women were generally impressed if you could string whole sentences together and showed reading comprehension of their profile. That seems like a very, very low standard, but from what I was told, that filtered out a lot of people.
Yes, but don't forget that higher-ups also control, to a large extent, the narrative. Whether laying off developers to replace them with LLMs was good for the company is largely uncorrelated to whether the person in charge of the operation will get promoted for having successfully saved all this money for the company.

Pre-LLM, that's how Boeing destroyed itself. By creating value for the shareholders.
translate dot ai redirect to microsoft translator site.

may be <https://translate-ai.sonichigo.com> ?
INMOS (morally) lives on as XMOS, with its funky dialect of C (XC), which incidentally I quite enjoy.
Why not directly pay what you use? Similar to how LLM Apis are billed these days.
I used to have issues with VPNs but it’s been a long time ago. Works flawlessly now.
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This is a promising trial of an innovative pricing model. Many AI products require a $19.9 subscription fee just to try them out, yet I only use most of them a few times a month. For such occasional use, a monthly subscription doesn't seem very practical or user-friendly. I hope AI products eventually move to a usage-based charging model.
Did you even read the link? Read it.

I highly object to your pejorative insinuation.
Gyms get you by making memberships cheap and easy, and cancellations incredibly difficult.

The flip side of that is that only a small fraction of their members could actively use their memberships or they wouldn't have enough space. The active members get their membership effectively subsidized by people who don't use their memberships.

Apparently up to 50% of a gym's sign-ups happen in the month of January due to new years resolutions, and January/February are the busiest months as a result, though the majority keep their membership even after their resolve to go tapers off.
This is kind of like the argument that communism is great but no one has been able to implement it correctly yet. "Setting targets" having highly paid DEI consultants, and identity based hiring is what DEI is. Lowercase diversity and inclusion are good ideals, which I think is what you are saying. Uppercase DEI are the exact policies we are talking about here.
there's no AGI arms-race in china

> He stressed that China will not blindly follow trends or engage in unrestrained international competition. With a robust governance and regulatory system in place, China is confident in its ability to manage and utilize AI technology effectively

https://www.geopolitechs.org/p/chinas-vice-premier-ding-xuex...

IIRC, this speech was given just after Stargate announced
If you liked this you might also enjoy this little toy project: https://blog.singleton.io/posts/2021-11-24-probabilistic-spr...
> You purposely decided to omit the fact that the "biological questionaire" was in fact a change in the way applicants were evaluated

> * The FAA introduced a bigraphical questionnaire which screened out 90% of applicants.

???

> which eliminated the privilege of an in-group to avoid to compete with "walk-ons", i.e., anyone outside of the privileged group

> The answers to this questionnaire were distributed to members of the National Black Coalition of Federal Aviation Employees.

??????
what a beautiful story. thanks for sharing, OP. shades of my own youth peeking into 6502land on my AppleIIe in the early 80s.

Also thanks for the Transputer deep dive, TIL!

Love the source code you posted on Github with its Spanish comments.
Let's focus on the article and evidence rather than personal details or dismissive labels. Personal attacks don't add to the discussion and go against HN guidelines for civil and substantive debate.
Should be minimal disruption; when someone in China wanted to send me a package, they used DHL anyway.
They did several wrong decisions, first they started building it with old libraries, e.g. JQuery, KnockoutJS, then they they should have opened their no code builder to the public. They are now in the process of porting it to Preact and opened VBCS, but it’s too late. From UI point of view, it is the most complete library
Could you just give the option for them to delete the account if they want to at the same time? I assume most wouldn’t want to, but if it costs them money to keep inactive accounts then they can choose to. Out of interest what sort of services were you thinking of there?
Posted it few days ago but didn’t get any traction. All Linus’ work on retro computing is fenomenal. Please have a look at its channel, a lot of awesome content there.
I tried this and RSVP'd with an email that didn't have an Apple account, and it asked me to created an Apple account.

I originally created the event using my own Apple account which definitely has iCloud+. So how do I create an event that someone without an Apple account can RSVP to?
There are nets on bridges and other places in the US, too.

Also I don't think the suicide rate of those workers you are referring to is higher than the general population. There are simply lots of workers. For example, Foxconn has more than 1 million employees so it is normal that there would be some level of suicide within such a large population.
This makes sense, if someone isn't using your service for a month, chances are good that they are going to cancel soon. Maybe they'll keep on paying for another few months, but if they're not using it, they're not getting any value from it.

So rather than getting them to cancel, pause their subscription. You don't have to deal with cancellations, and if/when the user does return, you are one step further than you would be with a new subscription.

Furthermore this generates goodwill, and I'm guessing goodwill has some % that converts to conversions and lower churn.
FTA

> Wired beat me to the punch of reporting that a top DOGE employee, 25 year old former SpaceX employee Marko Elez, has not only read but write access to BFS servers.
if the plans included the search API for personal use I would almost consider, but brave search+ai is good enough for me, also they blocked my vpn's another big nono
Does the same apply for Chromium or does Chrome specifically have better runtime protection than Chromium? Why not mention Chromium?
Yes or No Wheel
Why not charge x ct per search. Or rather, x ct per click through. Or rather, x ct per action on a target website?

Search = advertisements
Ah neat! Might have to steal that. Let's just hope nobody decides that "origin" is racist too...
Your comment is missing the point.

Even if you do have a smartphone, you might be running some flavor of Linux on it. Or maybe Google terminated your account due to some false positive.
This is hilarious to watch. The people working at CIA are probably the most evil people on this planet. Now they are getting a taste of their own medicine. Good for them!
No. Some people are sensitive to it yes. But it is not unsafe. There are no proven long term effects and no treatment is needed.

(Some people are also sensitive to sugar like me — due to gout — but sugar is not unsafe)

Please read the research claims critically instead of posting a knee jerk reaction.
Please cite the specific regulations and when they were first passed and last ammended.
They mention that extended offers declined year-over-year after the policy. The implication to me (though it is left unsaid) is that the treatment of students, colleges, etc. by the FAA led to fewer people interested in spending their own time and money for ATC training since the FAA fucked them over so badly.

> Per Fischer, applicants declined year-over-year from 2014 onward. In 2016, hiring was divided into two pools: Pool 1, veterans and CTI students (4021 applicants, 1451 offer letters) and Pool 2, for general population (25,156 applicants, 6799 who passed the biographical questionnaire, 1500 offer letters). By 2019, only 9265 applied, with 6419 (923 from Pool 1, 5496 from Pool 2), with 234 Pool 1 offer letters and 680 in Pool 2.16
It’s not moral panic, it’s because Trump is reducing legitimacy and stability of the government. Killing foreign civilians is normal, locking everyone out of a government job with zero notice is not.
I created an event and it doesn't seem like anyone can RSVP unless they have an Apple account. They can easily create one but still, that's one more step.
The WW2 experiment to make pigeon-guided missiles [video]
Hard to say what people voted for. Any winning candidate's coalition is going to be not unified on lots of issues, but Trump's especially. Project 2025 and many of its specific policies pulled out separately all polled like total garbage, so Trump simply lied and said he'd never heard of it and wasn't doing it, and the media dutifully reported the denial. So what did the people who voted for him vote for?

His dizzying array of contradictory statements, lies, and flip-flops have always made him someone where people, his supporters in particular, see the Trump they want to see. Isolationist or imperialist, the man who would ban TikTok or its savior, pro/anti vaccine, really pick just about anything.

There was a popular sentiment in his first term that Trump seemed to believe whoever had talked to him last on any issue, but he manages to have that same effect on other people, too.

Going back to the concept of the will of the voters, Trump won Muslim-heavy Dearborn, MI on the back of people voting to protest Biden/Harris's approach to Gaza. He just announced side-by-side with Netanyahu that he wants to totally depopulate Gaza and have the US take it over and rebuild it as a resort, and throw in the West Bank too while you're at it. Is that what those people voted for?
FCC Proposes $4M+ Fine Against Telnyx for Apparently Illegal Robocall Scheme
Here they talk about the solutions developed in China: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1f-o0nqpEI

Basically they made training much more efficient and developed a better and cheaper product. They passed the stage of "AI in China is basically impossible" to "It's just a matter of time and money until they take the lead".
I love beavers!! They don’t just build the dams, but the also change the rivers into special types of ponds that their favorite food grows in (green leafy shoots). So they don’t just build a house but also a farm! So cool!!!
It seems you are proving Zig will not become very popular, but not Zig will not become more popular than Rust.

I agree that Zig will not become very popular. It needs certain programming experiences to master it. But I'm quite sure it will become more popular than Rust.
> I guess to clarify, you're mostly talking about PC gaming where you're sitting close to the screen, or is this something you also experience with console games?

For me, it doesn't matter how far I am from the screen. If the camera is too far from the character in first person or too close in third person (Darksiders is impossible, Metal Gear 5 is fine), I can't play it.

Also, screen shake, head bob, and small FOV are impossible.
> You’re in Australia?

Negatory. USA.
Because they don't want the users to feel stressful for using their product more.

> LLM Apis...

Yeah exactly, ChatGPT doesn't have this option for their web interface either, only for API. For the same reason.
Dang, as much as I understand the point, what's happening is of the utmost gravity, and ignoring it or pretending that these people can be reasoned with is like giving them a free pass. Especially explicitly trolls account like the one attacking me first. I am certainly passionate about the topic maybe more than average, and I'm certainly more political than what this community might want to be. Nonetheless, my name is out there and I'm not really hiding or trolling, just expressing strong views.
I understand and respect that HN thinks this won't lead to good conversations, and will just try to avoid the blood-boiling responses.
sure, making the government smaller is basically the same as putting the government in control of everything.
Cloudflare is more than captchas, it's centralized monitoring of them too: what do you think happens when your research assistant solves 50 captchas in 5 min from your home IP? It has to slow down to human research speeds.
*A handful of oligarchs and their useful idiots in the US.

Fixed that for you.
That's definitely reading the situation totally wrong.

This so called arms race is only in western minds. It would be stupid to not think about this possibility and its consequences of course but this is the most illogical option by China.

The best option would be to advance their own semiconductor tech beyond TSMC and make it irrelevant, which so far is the course of action they are taking (alas only because they are forced by US).

Expanding on why capturing Taiwan is stupid: TSMC already has fabs and people with knowhow outside Taiwan. The fab assets are not as strategicly valuable as their knowhow. Plus, even if you acquire the knowhow, there's the supply chain: ASML, others, ASML's supply chain.

I think US might force ASML and TSMC to move to US in the coming years even stronger but more than that this arms race isn't getting hot.
As Trump said when an interviewer asked him about Ukraine: "I want people to stop dying." I think most Americans share that sentiment with regards to war, so no, trade wars don't count.

It's objective fact that Trump did not start a single war during his first term (he only inherited wars from his predecessors), his successor Biden immediately went back to starting wars. Americans will not tolerate declarations of war or otherwise military actions on Denmark/Greenland or Panama, we voted for him in large part because he is the first President in a long time who hates wars.

No. More. Wars. This is non-negotiable. Every single warmonger and the military industrial complex can go fuck themselves.

However, if we can get Greenland and the Panama Canal amicably through business/diplomacy then, as an American, why not?

>Dalewyn could have his family deported

If we're here illegally then fuck yeah Trump is doing the right thing; he's just enforcing the law as written. I thought we were all about rule of law?
I was recommended this book a few months ago, by a friend's partner.

Reading it was difficult, and impossible not to see the parallels of what we were approaching.

This excerpt is phenomenal on its own, but the full book is worth your time.
> equal footing

So, the candidates who were not members of some racially based association also got access to the answers to the first test?