skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It'd be interesting to see this project develop further, if only to get WebRTC running on Win95 (iirc).
To Change the System of Work We Must First Change Leaders' Mental Models
> One app gave me trouble - a Python Flask app. It had several complicated dependencies including OpenCV, Numpy, and Matplotlib. My belief is that this had more to do with the complex nature of the libraries and less to do with NFS.

It has to do with the allround lunacy that surrounds the python ecosystem the moment you step outside the stdlib nursery. I picked up python because I wanted to contribute to a project. Was immediately met with ** of the first order.

After decades of C-like languages, I like (some of) the syntax. But I hate the ecosystem and having to ride a bullock cart after cruising in a plane. The language is slow. So all the critical work is done in C/Rust. And then you write python bindings for your library. Once that is available, you can "program in python."

The dependencies are a nightmare, particularly if you do anything LLM-related. Some libraries simply won't work with newer versions of the interpreter. After decades of Java, this came as a big surprise.

If it were not for uv, I might have given up on the language altogether.
"Technically I don't see why this couldn't happen," a federal IT worker tells WIRED in a phone call late on Monday night, referring to the possibility of a DOGE employee being granted elevated access to a government server. "If you would have asked me a week ago, I'd have told you that this kind of thing would never in a million years happen. But now, who the fuck knows."

Concerning
One of the dude literally solved a hundreds years problem and won a prize. He coded an AI to decipher an ancient manuscript AIUI. I certainly wouldn't look down on the achievement of that young programmer.
> Slack uses more ram than the game im developing sometimes.

I think this should be said more often: the ratio of content to non-content is absurd in some electron-based apps.

Look at it this way: the average video game probably has about 30GB (uncompressed) of content and uses about 10GB-12GB of RAM.

In a busy slack, with hundreds of messages, we're still only looking at maybe <5MB of content while the app chews up 800MB - 100MB of RAM.

I think the video game devs are doing a much better job at writing desktop software than the Slack/Postman/etc guys.

Additionally, security in video games (it's poorest metric) has, over the last 10 years or so, improved considerably, while efficiency in desktop software (it's poorest metric) has gotten worse!

It's unfair to single out video game developers for poor software considering that they are making gains in their weakest measurement while those doing the criticising are happily using software that is losing points in it's weakest metric.
It’s all in the eye of the beholder.

It appears to me that Trump is doing phenomenal, and my I didn’t like the other side vote for him, is turning into I kind of like him and would more actively support him. He seems like a strong president, especially compared to his predecessor, and the promise to “make America great again”, seems like it might becoming more of a reality.

If he can negotiate an end to the Ukraine war, in a relatively soonish timeframe, I will be very happy. But it’s kind of a game of chicken, a high risk high reward type gamble, that could be very dangerous and lead to worse things, so I’ll just have to wait and see.

Ultimately I read comments here and I think the “other side” is blind, which they likely think of me.
Not mandating businesses to accept Bitcoin is a more free market solution.
The advantage of LLMs is smaller if you know everything by heart.
I fail to see where you stand based on your line by line commentary. Are we not supposed to be against these obvious negatives? Regulation against undesired outcomes needs to start somewhere. Do you believe we should not regulate, simply because we already do some of the things that seem to fall under these individual buckets?
A find-the-best-path puzzle
Half of the voting population were so fed up with the economy that they went with the nuclear option.

It’s just that most of them have not read history and none of them have lived through war or fascism to understand what they are signing up for.

They will all learn their lesson.
The problem of fairness in an automated world
In normal circumstances, e.g. as contractors I would agree. However, they are not, as far as I can tell they are operating as federal employees. No federal employee name is private.

I do see this (article) as mostly retaliation though. Maybe deserved or not. Hard to tell at this point. But these people are public employees nevertheless, they never had the option for anonymity.
These are very simple and clear and confirm my own approach to refactoring. Thank you.
People depend on the state. Someone has to be the adult in the room. If your marriage fails what do you do with the kids? You abandon them because you don’t want to clean up?
Precious to public goods. Wasn't obvious to me how to navigate to the digital library.

Edit: it's here: https://archive.gamehistory.org/explore
They're credits against taxes. Since corporate income taxes are on profits, that implies that there would have to be some profits in order for there to be taxes to take the credit against, but that doesn't make them credits on profits. If they had made more profits without making more EVs, they wouldn't have gotten more credits. If they had made more profits but offset the taxes with some other credits then they might not have been able to use these, not because they didn't make enough profits but because they didn't pay enough taxes.

And this works the same for the consumer EV credits; you can't get them unless you were paying that much in taxes.

If your point is that non-refundable credits are stupid, yes. All credits should be refundable. But that doesn't have anything to do with whether they're credits for the manufacturer or the consumer.

Making the consumer credits non-refundable is actually worse, especially for the credits on used EVs. Because then you can't get the credit if you're unemployed or a student or otherwise don't make enough money to be paying the value of the EV credit in taxes, so it becomes a tax credit for the affluent that the poor aren't eligible for.
Nitpick, but please inline the icon on your landing page to prevent the initial layout shift.
I don't think it's anywhere near that simple.

Organizations are ongoing processes, constantly in flux, not structures erected in the past. Like a river, you can never step in the same organization twice. Like ghosts and money, they only exist in people's minds; they consist of belief in them, hyperstitiously.

The democracy the FBI is sworn to protect has turned on it. What is left for it to protect? The laws handed down from an older, wiser time? Perhaps the time of Senator McCarthy? Or Jim Crow? What if today's president pardons common criminals and today's Congress legalizes their crimes—will the FBI continue to enforce yesterday's laws?

You can count on the FBI to protect itself, but never believe that what it is protecting is democracy.
I did not know these things! Thanks for that.
Everyone deserves a presumption of good faith by default. But Trump has a long history of dishonesty and lawbreaking, culminating in an attempted self-coup in 2020. At some point, he doesn't deserve a presumption of good faith anymore. And he passed that point a long, long time ago.

This is perhaps the single biggest disconnect I see between Democrats and Republicans right now. To Democrats, Trump is "the man who attempted a self-coup", and everything he does is viewed in that light. Whereas Republicans seem to think that it just wasn't a big deal that Trump tried to overturn the 2020 election.
"Competitive tech landscape"

Come to the west coast they say, work in tech they say, it'll be great they say

(Die Hard reference)
Yep, and good looking people don't deserve all the preferential treatment they get in the world. Those genes were inherited from their parents.

We should do plastic surgery to the best looking children to make them average-looking...it's social justice.

We won't achieve true fairness until we forcibly take central control of all decentralized processes (markets, nature) to ensure no tall poppies.
Sunken worlds under the Pacific? Models reveal workings of Earth's mantle
You can get 1Gbps unlimited traffic VPS on IONOS 12 vCores, 24GB RAM, 640GB storage for $50/month.

No need to pay 9 cents per GB egress to the big clouds.

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Does anyone know how/if using BTC as daily currency works in practice? Can El Salvadorians just add it to their Google Wallet?

I don't know much about cryptocurrencies but there seems to be a scaling issue, last thing I read it can only handle 7 transactions/s, is that still valid?

If so, then how would this scale to a country-wide payment system?
> You could decode a 320kbps mp3 on an 83mhz Pentium I.

Only if doing nothing else at the same time!

I was there; I had a 486 that could decode 96kbps mp3.

But, like the P1, if you tried to do anything else while decoding mp3s, the entire computer, including the sound output, would stutter.

I'm not defending 30GB of uncompressed audio (obviously they could have compressed it a little, at least), but to claim that a P1@80MHz could indeed decode mp3s@320kbps is a bit of a stretch.

It could do so only if you weren't doing anything else at the time.
Fame and security. Bitcoin is the hardest crypto to attack socially and economically.
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My Glassdoor dummy account is something like Mr Null at 001 null drive. I’m amazed the feedback from the null corporation I get. There are a lot of other employees who appear to work there. Work seems pointless. Dead end. A clear lack of direction. Lots of dead ends.
Missing the point that you don't need to be able to spin up/down servers. You can just rent 2 and spin up/down containers.
I don't see what that has to do with anything in the discussion so far?

It looks like you can't believe that there are bad arguments for good causes; and instead want to keep arguing that the cause is good, and thus all arguments must be good?
To be honest, it's such a long article I couldn't find a good passage that summarizes it, so I went for the most stark bit. Because it's really quite mad.

But it wasn't my intent to claim you run HN like this either way; but I'm making the educated guess that people who think the above isn't mad, but quite exciting, would be both likely to use this site, and prone to abuse flagging to suppress discussion, and/or awareness of the article that would be discussed.
The trade war pales in the long run compared to the power grab by Musk and supporters (accessing the Treasury payment system, shutting down agencies without congressional approval). It's very bad news for American government and democracy, it looks like a coup.
if you genuinely are interested in an answer to your question, I recommend this blog post by Matt Ranger:

https://singlelunch.com/2020/10/21/badeconomics-putting-400m...
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From my understanding, toilet paper is produced for commercial and residential purposes. As people stopped going to the office (and restaurants and malls, etc), people stopped using commercial toilet paper and started using more residential toilet paper.

What I read at the time also said that it's very hard for a plant to shift from making commercial to residential toilet paper, that the margins are paper thin (pun intended) and so it would take a lot of time and money to retool.
Anyone know the latest on the Apple Silicon port of CCL? The new mailing list doesn't seem to have a publicly-accessible archive.
I'm just waiting for someone to post that they have developed an AI to read and summarize (AI-generated) LinkedIn posts making us go full circle: AI-in -> AI-out -> AI-in... ad infinitum.
I'm also blocked. Is it some geo block perhaps? I'm from Germany
What makes it a coup? Trump was elected on a platform of government reform and that's what he is doing.
What is England, then?
ETH forked because the contract was poorly written and they didn't want to honor the contract because their buddies would have lost a lot of money and the project would have gotten an egg to their face.
So? I explicitly expressed no opinion on that.
Update: their account has been restored

https://bsky.app/profile/sinevibes.bsky.social/post/3lhc6l3c...
so musk re-invented mckinsey?
> I can see that you're unfamiliar with how EU grants and how these project collections work, but I don't have much time to address this with great detail.

This is a take that can only come from someone who is dependent on Horizon, because I don't think any independent observer could look at Horizon projects and say they just work.
The logic here is pretty thin: “criminals are already able to do it, so we should make it simpler”.
Because Europe does not have enough money. This comes from taxes i.e. as an EU citizen you pay for the fun.

Private sector often does not fund projects like these as they have bad return on investment.
He didn't lie to Congress, and he got a preemptive pardon because Trump is vindictive and would 100% have ordered the DOJ to go after Fauci in any way possible.
Young people often are hopelessly ideological, in the same way a dogmatic religious person would be. Both are less corruptible than your average person.
Tangentially, people attempting to share some of this news are having their First Amendment rights violated.

This occurs because government employee Elon Musk is censoring them for talking about his government job and his government co-workers, which also breaks the law that says their identities are public information.

I guess what I'm saying is, spread the news, and if we're lucky and the Redcaps don't burn the Reichstag, you might someday get a few cents out of a class action lawsuit.
I know the enshittification is inevitable, but one of the best things about BlueSky getting prominence is that they actually allow you to view everything without logging in.
Yes as far as I understand it's a big issue.
Since you can only vouch once it's dead and usually too late.
Additionnaly you might loose the ability to vouch ...
Can we get some sources that back the narrative for that last sentence?
Does blocking non citizens from voting count as “suppressing voter turnout”? It’s all just politics and words, and we’ve picked our side and so we use the language that best supports it. Is someone pro-life, or are they anti women’s rights? Is someone pro-choice, or are they pro-baby-murder.

How does one actually convince someone of the “rightness” of their side? It somehow starts with love your enemies, though if I say that to my more right wing friends it means capitulate to whatever the progressives want. All I know is the spirit of the age is evil.
Bleh. Seems like the IMF, which was against this for blatantly selfish reasons, basically strongarmed them into this. This is essentially a continuation of colonialism by other means.
But.. that’s just maintenance?
I am confused with the wording. Is there an official description of Non-Human Identities?

I only known service accounts, which pose similar threat. Both AI and Humans can use service accounts and api-keys to pose the same threats.

But it's ultimately known and wide-spread as service accounts from what I know.
Is non-human identity referring to a special case or attack vector?
I like that the service he recommends, NearlyFreeSpeech, will host anything that is legal. But they do require your real identity info. Is there a way to anonymously host websites today?
ooo, read this!

https://singlelunch.com/2023/09/13/the-bad-economics-of-wtfh...
> My point is that most of the cheating comes from structuring the game around pro-play

This is incorrect. Both selling cheats and cheating are big businesses.

In Escape from Tarkov, cheaters bought the game (50€), cheated to get in-game items, sold in-game items for money, got banned, and bought the game again. It's literally profitable to keep buying a 50€ game after getting banned.

Same happened with Diablo 3 when it had the real money auction house. A mate of mine earned around 10k in 3 months and went through a dozen accounts a week.

Team Fortress 2 basically has no competitive scene, but the casual games are full of cheaters anyway. And you can't even make money through it, unlike the previous two examples.

The bottom line about cheating is, it's relatively easy to prevent with manual moderation. But humans doing stuff dOeSn'T sCaLe, even though banning cheaters that will re-buy the game has a positive RoI.
Combine is for setting up observers to changes, whereas Concurrency is for async operations. I don't see the relationship.
Hey, you know another system that’s broken? The US voting system. Because you can’t know for sure who is entitled to vote if you don’t know who lives in your country.

You’re trying to put the cart before the horse with this argument. A voter registry under the current US system is not going to get higher quality data than the other existing government databases; in other words, it’s equally susceptible to fraud and abuse because it relies on weak authentication measures like phone bills or birth certificates.
Not wanting to pry, but are those motorsports decals paintable? There's definitely a niche there if you can do paintable graphics, I have at least 2 motorcycle tanks that I'd love graphics for. HMU @ my username at Google mail if that's a sub field you can serve.
Mitochondria are so absurdly more complex and interesting than what is mostly taught in schools.
Awesome video!
if you would like to continue your mental journey, I recommend reading this:

https://singlelunch.com/2020/10/21/badeconomics-putting-400m...
> The Privacy Act of 1974 generally, and the Internal Revenue
Code with respect to taxpayer information, make it unlawful for Secretary Bessent to
hand over access to the Bureau’s records on individuals to Elon Musk or other
members of DOGE.

Among numerous other laws listed in

https://www.citizen.org/wp-content/uploads/1-Complaint-7.pdf
"Auto" usually means "self," so this would be a coup coming from already elected officials.
That's a long post that seems to tell me it's bad for the economy. It's not my job to help the economy. Again, why should I use a money that loses value?
> The president openly declares he won’t enforce laws he dislikes, while Congress watches in complicit silence.

I voted against Trump, but this failed me right there. Does the author of this BS genuinely not know any instances of this from the dems and therefore is ignorant, or he does but unable to recognize hypocrisy?
and the true believers of those are maybe 0.001%, the rest are just hoping for a quick buck by riding the wave

cryptocurrencies are a failure and net negative, and the longer we hold on to believing they aren't, the more damage we are doing
Image Steganography Method Based on Brightness Adjustment
> I don't know what's to gain in this release other than closure?

Classic Trump PR move. Claim he's doing something that's already done and then take credit loudly.
Honest question: why weren't they declassified earlier?
A significant part of the animosity towards the EU and Trump's threat of tariffs is its consumer protection and preventing US companies, especially US tech companies, from doing whatever the hell they want.

A major difference between the US and EU is what the TikTok nonsense proved: the US is happy for a US company, aligned to Trump's authority, to track, influence and commodify its users at will; whereas the EU doesn't want any company to have that power regardless of location.
The standard for the judicial is not "the truth", its about what you can "prove".

Judicial cannot claim one party is lying or not, in fact it is impossible, given the fact its nearly always a "he said she said" deal (in this particular scenario). Quite literally, the judge was't there, lawyers weren't there either and they get a twisted version of truth no matter if they are prosecuting or defense.

It sucks, fully agreed, but there is no way around it. As long as the judgement is not too punitive is about the best you can hope for.
But can that also make them more gullible?
Yeah they have to pick up their mail a few miles down the road at a private business which runs their PO boxes. I don’t that’s an acceptable level of service but to each their own, I guess…
If you are elected on a platform of a coup (illegal reform), it doesn't make what you do any more legal. Some of what Trump is doing is not illegal, but some of it appears to be illegal.
What makes it a coup is that Trump is acting completely illegally. He was elected president, not dictator. He does not have the legal authority to create a new government department, DOGE, to appoint Musk as its head without Senate advice and consent, and to give it full power over all other agencies.
> This is a take that can only come from someone who is dependent on Horizon.

No, I'm not dependent on Horizon Programme. I just look at what we did, the outcomes, and talk from that point.

Maybe our sphere is one of the ones which deliver. I can't see the whole thing, it's too big to observe. Even if we're in the 5% which delivers, which is same with the startup scene, which is loudly applauded because it's an incredibly well working system.
History repeats itself as farce.
It seems really hard to get feedback by using ShowHN, I tried a few times but didnt get any. Anyway, I build a cool platform that combines Shopify/Wordpress and Airtable features into one, it is at https://sitegui.com. I'd appreciate some feedbacks as we are new.
How TOP engineers structure their day to maximize their productivity
I realized pretty soon that 2 hours of coding wasn't the same when I was fresh in the morning than tired at night.

But I didn't know other people could find it different until I learned about chronotypes.

I'm sharing what I learned here