skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The technical term for the number of times a dollar is spent in a given time period is the velocity of money [1]. The velocity of money in the United States has dropped sharply over the past 30 years [2] as inflation on inelastic goods like housing, education, healthcare, and food have far outstripped the consumer price index and people opt to spend their money buying things from large corporations instead of small businesses in their communities.

The velocity of money is about as good a high-level measure of where the balance between “Wall Street and Main Street” lies as you’ll find - and there’s not much juice left to wring out from your typical American when a typical dollar is spent 1.2 times before it winds up accumulating interest in a billionaire’s bank account all over again (and that’s with the Federal government spending at unforeseen levels running an all time high and increasing deficit).

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velocity_of_money

[2] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2V
Why is this trending here? It's not a hot take. Of course we will use AI to the fullest extent possible. And interviews will evolve
> had all the necessary bullet points to become what is Java now

The language itself was hacked together in a haphazard way. It didn't even have a formal grammar which I found out because it stopped us from creating some pretty important tooling for it.

Edit: I think there was a commercial company that offered a parser, which they created by tweaking a grammar until it got a high enough pass rate on megabytes of publicly available Delphi code.
25% of my team laid-off at Meta
> But definitely don't eat at Trailer Birds.

This is the takeaway I see.

Then, as someone who's not from Colorado Springs: why is that restaurant in particular so bad? Do the reviews indicate issues with management, or issues with particular waitstaff, or issues with sanitation, or perhaps just the food and recipes are bland? In my experience from Houston, a lot of the "worst" restaurants could be seriously improved if only their management were made aware of issues that show up in reviews.
The balance of actions taken by the Trump administration suggests it generally is in favor of doing whatever people who suck up enough and donate enough money want.

The history of lobbying on behalf of the tax prep industry is easy enough to find.

Is drawing a line through Trump's well-professed love of sycophants and people who make him money and that lobbying and motivation, to their current actions, so far fetched to you?

I think taking a wait-and-see approach to things like "Trump wants to get rid of income tax entirely" would be wise until we see where the implementation ends up. In the meantime lets talk about what has actually been done to date.
What I'd really like is a service that edits down YouTube videos by removing all the stock footage and talking head crap, then speeding up the audio to fit over the remaining novel information—whether that's new battlefield footage, electron micrographs, demonstrations of machining techniques, or just elephant toothpaste. The talking head filler seems like it would be easy to recognize, but stock footage recognition presumably would have a significant false negative rate, which is okay.

This would reduce some videos to just a transcription, which would be the ideal outcome, I think. The less of my limited time on Earth I waste watching some dumbshit reading a script at a camera, the better. Summarizing the transcript further like this site does might be occasionally useful, of course.
There are several Transformers successors and spinoffs across various media. Animated series like Beast Wars: Transformers (1996) introduced a new generation of transforming robots, shifting from vehicles to animals. Later, Transformers: Prime (2010) and Transformers: Cyberverse (2018) continued evolving the story and animation style. The live-action film series, starting in 2007, led to spinoffs like Bumblebee (2018) and an expanding cinematic universe. Beyond official media, franchises like Go-Bots (a competitor turned subsidiary) and Voltron (though distinct, often compared) reflect Transformers’ legacy in robot-focused storytelling.
Oh there's no issues. I'm interested in making money and my business is very successful at doing that because of how I run it.
Because someone submitted it, and the collective here found it interesting.
Yeah, for many years it didn't allow uploading videos of over 10'.
Yes, and a lot of people feel that way, but that's 'booting', or 'bootstrap'. A program like that is what I might call a bootable application. It's just not what an OS is. "Operating System" has quite a clear meaning, being software that assists the general operation of the computer. If it's not capable of running general programs then it's not an Operating System.
on one hand i can see how it's going to break stuff (and I see they've changed it! []). on the other hand... mind talking a bit more about how it did break things?

[]: https://github.com/boostorg/container_hash/commit/40ec854466...
You're effectively invoking Ring Theory - https://speakinggrief.org/get-better-at-grief/supporting-gri... - which I think is a strong foundation for navigating grief and distress.

But I don't think it's a valid criticism here because OP actively calls out they trying to find the most appropriate path for empathy ("support in") while deliberately not equating the two experiences of grief (avoiding "complain in").
Just wait until AI can feel pain- you know it will happen eventually when they have physical sensors and enough compute.
Ask HN: What country would you like to relocate to and why?
We hear about people wanting to move to a different country because of economic reasons or political reasons regularly. If you had your wish, where would you move to? If you wish, tell us where you are from.
lol. how? I tried to use ChatGPT but couldn't paste the solution
Hence

> Kubernetes is not the first thing that comes to mind when I think of "understanding where their code is running and what it's doing"...
We have a small team that is remote by design. Yet everyone has commented that those rare times we can gather see massive uplift in productivity.

For us being in a central location is not possible. But for companies with an office building I can see the human dynamic of being together is very powerful.

Even with all the chat, trackers, conference tools etc “context” is the hardest thing to do remotely.
Ask and ye shall receive. Not only titles, but thumbnails as well!

https://dearrow.ajay.app/
I use SponsorBlock (be sure to enable all categories of blocking such as filler content, not just sponsors), DeArrow (de-clickbaits thumbnails and titles) and a video speed changer extension to enable much of your stated functionality, though of course not all. I've saved likely years of watching due to this combination.
Huewoblfan is not taken! Noiewoidc is free. XIONqlic – totally available, can mean a range of things! Ciohupoij – a bit of asian flavour but still a valid free name.
I reported some issue spam in August last year and recently got an email from GitHub that they're looking at it.

So your report might get looked at in half a year. Less if they have working filters to prioritize reported malware.
Government is the best method we've found yet for dealing with the problem of other individuals and groups of people killing and exploiting you.

The state does not have an actual monopoly on violence, and never has. It merely provides a threat of organized, systematic retribution to try to prevent private-party violence. But that illegal violence still happens. Just at a lower rate than it would otherwise.

Remember that the alternative is not paradise, it is not a system that is "on the rails", it's everybody trying to murder you to get ahead. And in that world having a gun doesn't protect you - guns favor the one who shoots first. Does a tiny village from the past where everybody knows everybody and depends on everybody have that problem to a high degree, or need a large government? No. But that's not the world we live in.
Most code I use spends time waiting while I solve the captcha.
Got a chuckle from that recent commit message. I feel you
This seems unfounded. How exactly would e.g. a hedge fund manager "pass along" their income tax?

It feels like you're confusing this with corporate taxes.
Marijn wants to eat all the money . Love you bro.
How is PHP's speed these days? I haven't been following but I heard that PHP has become much more capable in features and performance since I used it a decade ago.
What if we summarize all the information in the world into a few hundred volumes of human knowledge, then summarize those into a 10,000 pages book, then that into a 10 long form essays, then those into a 100,000 chars blog post, then that into a pamphlet and finally we summarize one more time into a single tweet.
I wish the government used money more efficiently. This whole ICE thing seems like a bad unnecessary flex. We already have more important issues to address including health care, gun violence... and we're deporting taqueros and fruit pickers, really...?
Executives Behind Nvidia's Unprecedented A.I. Domination (2024)
A failing/failed state leads to more corporate power and control. I think it’s that simple.
Allegro thats a name i have not heard since 2002 i think. Kids these days would know SDL, DirectX , LOVR or Raylib.
Completely agree, this is a common argument ever since Python existed. I've also used it for almost 25 years and these kind of indentation errors just don't happen. I see it the same as forgetting closing brace. Python programming writing C code might forget it initially, but C programmer absolutely will not forget it, it's in their muscle memory. And the same applies for dealing with indentation.
The answer will be a single number, 42.
I must have more details !
This is a sabotage so the next major release doesn't get any attention ;)
Given the limited context length of most LLMs, is there value in turning in an entire codebase into a doc to feed it into an LLM?

I think cherry-picking relevant sections would be necessary to make it function effectively. Has anyone tried using tree-sitter to recursively feed it the source for functions used in the section we want to analyze to optimize for this?
Finder already has equivalent functionality. You can Copy (Command-C) a file, then Paste and Move (Option-Command-V) it to the destination.

I think those are better names for the two steps of moving files than Cut and Paste. Cut implies deleting the file immediately, which isn’t what Cut does in file browsers that support such a command.
Odyssey (Zine)
Then summarize it one last time into a single bit. I like to think it'd be '1'.
Bookshop.org launches Kindle alternative, sends e-book sales to local bookstores
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> Jesus wept with them, certainly, but also was rather clear on who He was.

I'm just saying John 11:32 is not immediately followed by John 11:40. There is a time for grief, and there is a time for evangelism.

> And I do know more than a few people who have... lost preborn children.

I've miscarried twice myself. A lot of women have. Sometimes it's grieving a child you never knew, but sometimes it's not. Sometimes it's just a late period. Miscarriage is rarely the same depth of loss as stillbirth; it's almost never the wrenching, life-changing grief of losing a six-year-old. It feels honestly a bit grotesque even to make the comparison.
AI is only a tool. You still have to put work in. That's all I'm going to say.
Followed the YouTube recommendations to really see that this seems to be a fairly international sport that continues to push the limits: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MUwOWIyRhGo

Speed is crazy.
Slight correction: Around windows its architraves and reveals.

But I’m in Tasmania, some geographic variation in dialect can be expected.

Except, I’m from South Australia, so some people around here think I talk posh.
Don’t waste your time researching facts for people like this. They will not even take the courtesy of responding, and cannot be bothered to consider an alternative angle to their ideology.
And yet, you perfectly understood what they meant, because words can have different meanings dependent on the context.

Luckily, GP made it abundantly clear he wasn’t talking about a beemer.
The problem is, if they are trying to build new architecture, its just wasted effort.

To truly build AI, it needs to self configure. I tried doing some work in the past with point swarm optimization of models, but I didn't really get anywhere
"As all the driving forces of the actions of any individual person must pass through his brain, and transform themselves into motives of his will in order to set him into action, so also all the needs of civil society — no matter which class happens to be the ruling one — must pass through the will of the state in order to secure general validity in the form of laws. " - Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy
Finn here. Depends from where I'd be relocating from and my overall situation with family. Applies to any country to be honest.

For the most part I like it here. Occasionally I miss my uni years in Stockholm. Specifically I miss the positivity in Sweden.

I'm not concerned of the geopolitical situation at all. Or the economy, it will get better at some point.

If you're interested in stability and security I think public sector job in Finland fits that well.
Discussion (28 points, 18 days ago, 9 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42854675
Interesting that people miss that so much of art is about the idea, not the execution. Most musicians can play a beatles song (ex. thousands of dead on cover bands), anyone can take a photo (ex. see shot on iPhone campaign), a lot of people can paint the mona lisa or other famous art (ex. see faked paintings).

It's that someone had the wild thought to do it in the first place.

A cynical take is that people are just so far away from the level that they see the execution as the difficult part. Like saying, I could type out the linux kernal.
All this good work by 18f destroyed by this maniac.
Getting a "Too long video" message in response to a query is frustrating to the user, and, well, redundant information, so contrary to the purpose of increasing information density.
Securing US bigtech ASSEtS against the US law, for making nasty agreements with foreign autocratic ASSEtS.
I'm not a fan of Docker, but Docker could do this.

If that's not enough, there's always whole VMs.
If you want to be able to select certain files quickly and visually, and work with private repos or just local files, try this open source tool I made:

https://github.com/Dicklesworthstone/your-source-to-prompt.h...
Which you necessarily only realise after you’ve struggled, and succeeded, to get it in to the new place.

I’ll remember that next time.

No you won’t.
The Bizarre Love Life of the Anglerfish
> the whole point is for users to see the content you publish!

no, the whole point (for most sites) is to make money off the users visiting said site (currently via advertising).

Another third party service which slurps the data, and redirect the users to a different site to consume the data means the original site lost the revenue, but paid the bandwidth cost.

So it's understandable that many sites want to block such agents.
Don't build castles in other people's kingdoms.

Even Microsoft learnt that with WSL, hence why WSL 2.0 is a plain VM, hardly any different from Virtual Box or VMware Workstation, other than is already on the box and doesn't cost extra.
What other tool do you use? I guess you want an svg or png output at some point?
Something that could be interesting is processing all videos in some subgenre, like say "game development", rank them by popularity, summarize them, and then analyze for patterns. This would be valuable information for anyone wanting to make a video with higher chances of being shown to people.
(2023) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36104533

First proposal from 2020: https://curl.se/mail/lib-2020-11/0083.html

I don't think it ever got added to cURL
Some context related to what you're saying:
- https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20071224-00/?p=24...
- https://www.xtof.info/inside-windows3.html
This is a great idea. Just better history management in general would be such a boon. If I have multiple console windows open, I still don't know what will wind up in .bash_history, and what (which?) history will be there when I start a new one.
DeepSearcher
If you are already using tmux, what is the value of using mosh? Sincere question.
Cool! I had thought about doing the same but in a Chrome extension that would use Llama 3.2 with WebGPU, but when I tested it, it was very slow and sometimes crashed the browser.
"Currently, available studies show incomplete results between the penis size and partners' sexual satisfaction and are limited by methodological drawbacks, including small sample's size."

That possessive "'s" is gonna haunt or bring joy to Shirley for the rest of her career.
Tell us more!
I still beleieve that the PSP is a killer platform, those games are beautiful with 60 fps mods at high resolutions. I never really stopped playing them, just moved them to my phone.
the whole point of TPM is that you cannot do it. And it's why windows 11 requires a modern TPM.

It's a travesty of modern computing. As an owner of hardware, i must be completely 100% able to control all aspect of it, and TPM is one aspect for which you are gated out.
ack, you hand wrote it all and copied from chatgpt. lol
I too have done this.

My wife owned a condo before we got married and they had moved in this huge sofa. After the sofa was moved in, they did a lot of renovations which made it impossible to get out.

Ended up using a chainsaw instead of an axe but it got the job done. Wife wasnt happy but I was like there is no other way to get this out of here besides in pieces haha.
A 10% productivity gain is a lot for any company, regardless if they are operating a fleet of 50 or 50 000 vehicles.

However, the cost and risk to achieve that productivity gain is typically huge. Many Operations Research projects fail. And when they do, they are very expensive failures. "Managers getting fired" expensive.

With our technology, we're making OR projects easy and quick to put into production.
Serious Music – A Robotic Exoskeleton for Musicians
Flagged, I think this type of content is basically junk. It’s a story about someone who used AI and didn’t check the output?
I had never thought this was a pedal issue. It’s a very significant problem in busses here in Copenhagen. We’re being jerked around continuously and it makes the ride very uncomfortable.

On my car, it’s not an issue. The dead zone around the coasting point is wide enough and predictable enough.

I always assumed the bus drivers were either incompetent or lacked empathy, but it being a hardware problem could make way, way more sense.
Idea hackneyed since LLM's appeared. Cool that implementation is open-source, though yt automatic captions are sometimes completely off-point, especially when people talking in the video don't have a diction of a tv show host.

I wonder if an idea found it's niche after all? Do you guys summarise you videos to short texts and that leaves you satisfied? For me video is video, I can relax, sit and watch/listen to it. With text it is different, it is a mental exercise to read and process it, so turning video into text feels like an essential downgrade. I would prefer watching at 1.5/2x speed instead of text summary if I want to finish it faster.
Come over to us to Cyprus. There's no better country to live in at least as long as your passport permits you visa-free EU access, so Europeans, Canadians, etc. are fine, but Indians etc. will be fucked - getting Schengen visas here is a pain and we are an oddball of an EU country because we are the only one of them left that's still not in Schengen. In that case i recommend Portugal which is slightly worse in many things like slightly higher taxes, slightly colder climate, etc., but is in Schengen. If you have cash, a good workaround is to also get a permanent residence in Greece that will set you free of visa issues for life.

If you are an American, nothing saves you from American taxes anyway, which are, even if you don't live in any state (because abroad) so only pay federal taxes, still higher than in any of low-tax EU states, so you are more free in your choice of location, because you will be able to count your American taxes paid against your EU tax obligation, likely nullifying it. I probably recommend Portugal in this case, closer to America in time zones, and local population that's well-used to American expats and doesn't hate them.
The difference between a doomsday conspiracy theorist and a physicist surmising the heat death of the universe is...just timing.
I used the fly.io GPUs as development machines.
For that, I generally launch a machine when I need it and scale it to 0 when I am finished. And this is what's really fantastic about fly.io - setting this up takes an hour... and the Dockerfile created in the process can also be used on any other machine.
Here's a project where I used this setup:
https://github.com/li-il-li/rl-enzyme-engineering

This is in stark contrast to all other options I tried (AWS, GCP, LambdaLabs). The fly.io config really felt like something worth being in every project of mine and I had a few occasions where I was able to tell people to sign up at fly.io and just run it right there (Btw. signing up for GPUs always included writing an email to them, which I think was a bit momentum-killing for some people).

In my experience, the only real minor flaw was the already mentioned embedding of the whole CUDA stack into your container, which creates containers that approach 8GB easily. This then lets you hit some fly.io limits as well as creating slow build times.
This poor guy
That "detect columns" piping stuff looks very nice, though it looks like this is something that could be implemented extrashellularly (as discrete "detect" and "where" binaries)?
FYI The fish shell does this by default.
When the debt service exceeds the value of the currency, people stop accepting it as legal tender.

A stock market crash is nothing compared to a global production crash.
> If you flag, please don't also comment that you did

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
With Surface devices, which ironically predate iPadOS and Android/iPad window modes, pluggable keyboards, but they messed up delivery, to the point higher ups responsible for Surface product line have left Microsoft for Amazon, unhappy with Microsoft's management decisions.
I adore Terence Tao, but this one feels like stating the obvious.

Basically, he says that simple solutions to complex situations work sometimes—for example when a simpler system can approximate your system.

But many times it's not true! So you need a complex solution to a complex situation.

That's kind of stating the obvious, no?
Sadly kids can’t choose whether they want vaccines or not. They’re the victims of this policy, not their parents.

Raw milk however is a self limiting problem. With the increasing rates of TB in the Midwest and a disdain of medicinal science becoming a political stance, cows are bound to start catching it one of these days. Bovine TB will set the tone on pasteurization real fast.
Does it ever worry your that half the island is occupied by a Turkish puppet state with no international recognition? Could that turn violent? From the outside it looks like a very strange situation.

Context: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Cyprus
Almost 20 years ago, and desktop Linux has improved immensely, but the underlying problem mentioned in this article remains: enterprise Linux takes priority over desktop Linux.
We can measure the angular velocity of mental objects, and it appears to increase linearly with the degree of rotation relative to a reference.

See Shepard, R. N., & Metzler, J. (1971). Mental rotation of three-dimensional objects. Science, 171(3972), 701–703.

https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1971-28060-001
Anywhere but the UK. It’s miserable here.