skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I still don’t follow. If the VAT was completely removed, US businesses would still pay state sales taxes on inputs and EU manufacturers would not?

The two things seem unrelated?
Fascinating! Thanks for sharing.

I've done a bunch of thinking around how to organize things in dates, etc, and often wondered if I should be using week numbers. Never thought to look up if it's a common practice in any countries.
Thanks. I’ll look into gscript.
What I'm having trouble getting past is the hypocrisy of building my home on sold public lands while telling the youth 'sorry got mine, go fuck yourself, you can't do the same thing that made my land ownership possible.'

Perhaps there is a balance to be struck, but if our ancestors said what you're saying today we'd be in extremely dire straits and squashed into a tiny cluster of OG slivers of chartered land.
Yes! It’s slow going. I grow and sell plant tissue cultures. Sometimes I get fairly large orders (hundreds of units), but usually I sell a few or a dozen at a time to hobbyists who are into aquaria, terraria, or they want stock to start cultures on their own more easily. I also grow and sell some other stuff, but that’s the bulk of it.

I got started on some discord channels with other hobbyists, but I’m in the process of creating a store front that’ll hopefully boost revenue a bit. I’ll likely need to learn a bunch of boring stuff like marketing to actually get traffic to it, but we’ll see.

It’s at an awkward stage where I need to devote more time to it in order to allow it to grow more, but I’ve also got a full time job, kids, a wife, etc. But I really enjoy it. I hope to make the leap to doing it full time eventually, but that would be a while off still.

Do you have non-tech business ideas or plans?
Because after spending years building it out, the company will be loathe to redo all the work, especially since it is so tightly integrated with the third party system. They won’t replace it until they replace the third party system someday, but because they are just now starting to use the third party system, it will be many years before they abandon it to move on. I’ve worked at large companies for decades. Switching major systems like these takes many many years. If you can get involved with setting it up and maintaining it, you are almost guaranteed job security for 10-15 years.
The article title is: "Energy Department Acts to Lower Prices and Increase Consumer Choice with Household Appliances", which says nothing of substance.

The only part of the article that explained what was done states: "Today’s actions postpone the efficiency standards for the following home appliance rules:"

Would a title of "US energy department indefinitely postpones efficiency standards for home appliances" sound less deceptive to you?
No, Trump wants to gut anything related to climate change initiatives because they were enacted by the previous administration.

It has nothing to do with quality tradeoff curves.

You don't even have to do a lot of critical thinking to get this; Trump has made it pretty clear.
I think there is a tremendous amount of empathy, if one isn't blinded to it. For every person that dies a violent death, there there are thousands engaging positively with friends, family, loved ones.

If you care about sums, you must also acknowledge positive within the Russian state as well? On a given day, it also has lovers meeting, mothers nursing children, friendships.

Surely, humanity doesn't have enough empathy to dissuade violence, but that is an argument about purity, not aggregates. The typical person spends an exceedingly small amount of time engaged in violence, and this is a testament to both our empathy, intelligence, and the social systems we have built.
PHP is slow, as an example we generate (somewhat complex pdf documents from a sourced html file), and it takes PHP multiple seconds to parse and generate the document. We since rewrote this in Go and now it runs in milliseconds.

This is pure CPU bound (the IO is only opening a file and not a bottleneck) and PHP is still very slow for anything more complex.
"A group of monkeys who entered the Panadura Power Station had ended up in a spat." Yes, it is incomplete.

https://bmkltsly13vb.compat.objectstorage.ap-singapore-1.ora...
This isn’t a software company. It is a Fortune 500 manufacturing company. Making physical products is the core business, not software.
Death of OpenAI whistleblower deemed suicide in new autopsy report
There probably are as many 20 year old college kids who can hit threes as there are pros who can hit them, but they are spread over many more teams.

Unless you have a correctable mechanical problem with your shot, the ability to hit a three point basket is more of a natural ability than a learned skill. Those guys just have incredibly good hand-eye coordination.
Not even 23% people voted for Trump. The people who still want this are all insane. Or maybe they're not, but it makes no difference, that's the output, just lengthy sophistry at worst, brain worm slogans at best (because it saves time). So they need the rest of Americans more than the rest of Americans needs them, that's for sure.
Some trans women played in some sports. So basically the downfall of western civilization.
I haven't run any numbers but I suspect they're referring to the energy cost of cracking water for hydrogen Vs. the energy costs of bleeding off and saving hydrogen as a side product from LNG and hydrocarben wells.
My state doesn't require rear belts but I still wear mine when sitting in the back and encourage others to do the same. My sibling had a classmate in high school who got thrown out of the rear window while the car was in a roll, crushing and killing him.

It's a little crazy to me that people are perfectly comfortable going 80+ down the freeway with no belts on in the back. Like the two seat backs are enough. It reminds me of the "no smoking sections" in restaurant that were sectioned off by a half wall.
I mean, a modern example might be the various companies open-sourcing LLMs (e.g. Meta). I don't think "public-mindedness" is exactly the right explanation, it's probably driven by strategic thinking... but then, maybe the same was true of Volvo.
Not sure about now, but it apparently was allowed when the Mars Pathfinder priority inversion problem happened.
yeah this is not atypical in finance orgs. sounds like it's a culture clash of "analyst in tech ops" getting the first-year IB associate treatment. apologized and offered to buy him a beer, seems fine to me and hardly worthy of any sort of article or reporting.
> Red-green-refactor can also provides live feedback about whether your code is behaving correctly as you write it.

No, it provides live feedback about whether your code is passing your tests

If you have written your tests poorly then set out to make the tests pass, then your tests become the target rather than the correct behavior

If you are continuously updating your tests while your code evolves because you missed test cases or your understanding of the behavior has improved, then writing the tests first didn't actually give you any value. In fact it just wasted a lot of your time

Write the code
Manually test to verify correctness and to identify the test cases you have to write
THEN write tests to protect against regressions
glitchy page, crashing on ctrl key.

needs a "less like this story" button and introduce topics more naturally, article titles are usually clickbait, the opposite of what information dense voice medium is good for.
The creators I see on YouTube are EXTREMELY lean. Typically it's them and an editor. Some video game creators stream on twitch and record the YouTube videos live on stream. Pass the content to your editor and do light editing work and you have a video. You also collected ad revenue from the stream. Also shorts are pretty important promotional tools and if you're making the videos anyway cutting out a good 15 second chunk for a short is pretty doable.

I get that the author wants to be a chef and that's fine but I don't think YouTube really rewards high production costs as much as pushing out frequent content.
There is no official senior VP title at JP Morgan. The next rung on the ladder after VP is Executive Director
Isn’t Canada part of the English empire?
If you are concerned about request startup times (which is not the problem in most cases, cause db io is usually the bottleneck) you can look up the following swoole, octane, hyperf, frankenphp. Haven't used all of them in production but had good experience with swoole.
IDK, I watch this guy futurecanoe who does random cooking content and he just films that shit with the worst quality camera he could find. And he has ~3mil subs.

The mistake is thinking YouTube content needs to be quality to be successful.
Do you believe RTO leads to productivity increase? Why? Is there data to back that up?
The intended audience are the American people, to make it look like "America is not going to take that shit that ___ have been given us anymore!" It just has to have the illusion of action, since most voters don't read enough, or are educated enough, to evaluate and understand the substance.
All of them? You can have typesafe HTML in most of them.
> It has nothing to do with quality tradeoff curves.

So do you think the claim that it's cheaper to build to looser standards is a lie, or do you think cheaper appliances did not play any role in motivating this order and only came up after the fact?

I'm pretty sure at least one of those has to be true for your claim to be true, and I'm quite skeptical of both.

(If you said it was mostly about climate change spite I'd be a lot more likely to believe you.)
I want to see this but for soft robotics
Both of those sentences are completely incorrect.
He was the public figure for TASBot and TASVideos for a while (see https://tas.bot/wiki/Main_Page). TASBot is really a beautiful idea to help visualize what tool assisted speedruns are doing via the controller button lights in TASBot's hands. I think DwangoAC and TASBot represented the TAS community at multiple events, not just GDQ.

Tool assisted speedruns are remarkable to me because creating the authoring tools is hacking in the classic sense.

And then there's the sheer insanity of exploiting broken game logic to gain arbitrary code execution solely via controller inputs. The most elaborate demonstration of this that I know of was given at AGDQ 2017, eventually injecting a video player into Zelda on SNES and streaming the video through the controller port: https://youtu.be/7CgXvIuZR40?si=KR5hAv-iJHjWv8vL&t=1076 Ars Technica went into a little more detail about that feat: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/01/how-a-robot-got-super...
I can't help you with any suggestion for a better list. Most I've seen start out very promising and good intentions, and fail after a while, it's been 10 years or more since I've run across a half decent curated list project.

There have been IIRC a few good attempts over the years to create sizeable publicly accessible curated list with or without registration, and for a time looked like a success to be had, but given a couple years the momentum was mostly lost until the site stagnates, lingers and folds. Very small limited curated lists still exist in good numbers within forums mainly for the membership being committed to their shared and focused interests.

I'd guess the reason the momentum dies off and finally stagnates is whichever list stopped being important enough to maintain by the core of its users. While search engine difficulties are often blamed on the ever expanding web surface, proliferation of too many to count spam-worthy sites popping up, as well as the vast about of data that needs to be scraped and perhaps cached, more than anything there exists the issue of more and more web sites being non friendly to search bots and those who don't meet a prerequisite - the latter of non friendly being why the allure for curated lists eventually start to die off, whatever url listed isn't useful for everyone, resulting in the same unpleasant experience search engines can have -- for example the url being only accessible for those in the USA or some other location. The web has long forgot it's supposed to be WWW, not those who can afford the latest or live in the right area.

The web could be easier but so many sites don't even include a proper If no JavaScript then this replacement instance.
I argue that there is nothing more easy than deploying something like Go (or anything else that is compiled). With PHP you STILL ens up with a complex deployment pipeline even the apologists argue "just ftp it like in the 90s".
Maybe you’re right, I don’t have a successful cooking YouTube channel so I can only speak in general business terms.

I do know that there are many profitable cooking YouTube channels that didn’t have a separate producer and food stylist from day 1, and probably still don’t.
Well two posts ago you said London was one of the world’s great cities. Not that it was the most open to economic globalization which is a vastly different point to try to make.

The first two sentences of the wiki reveal both the British nature of the publication and its focus not on great cities but on measuring how large cities are open to investment and trade from foreign markets.

This is as close to approaching no one’s definitions of a great city as I am aware.
> they can just move to the actual grant with somewhat more accounting overhead

This is not true due to the retroactive nature of this change. The problem is that the grant budgets are already fixed and will not increase. You can't move those costs to the grant budget since the grant money is already fully allocated to things like salary, etc.

In order for this to work, DOGE would have to automatically increase the grant budgets for already awarded grants, which they are unlikely to do.
I did not like the popular frameworks either, they were too limiting.

I always ended up writing most things from scratch (using stdlib).

So... I agree.
Because using the particular framework in my experience once you have a basic grasp of it's concepts, makes development time of applications extremely fast. Delivering is what pays the bills.
Why so you think there is no accountability? Aside from that isn't some overspending a necessary evil to ensure stability over all else?
I just want you to add the word "new". If you do that I'll happily unflag.
You are living a life my friend.
You cant have unicode without the mess of mb_real_uppercase and friends. Concurrency on a webserver? LOL, this is like the lowest bar i have heard. This limit SO much and pretty much forces the concurrency to the client, and thats not always an option.
Is that a device? An application? A library? I ask because it looks like the former.
Did I miss something? The RTO mandate is still there, isn't it?
> I distrust myself, and therefore I write basic unit tests which validate the code I've written to prove that I haven't screwed up.

This drives me nuts.

You don't trust yourself to write code that isn't broken but you trust yourself to write quality tests that ensure the code isn't broken?

I don't understand this at all. Automated tests are just like any code, they are as prone to mistakes and bugs as anything else
As another experience: No book I've looked for lacked a publisher's page.
We dont need yet another adhoc dependency. All the PSRs out there are just a big ball of mud. We have incrementing numbers each years, and today there is something like PSR-12. Its a joke.
I wouldn't be able to elaborate well so I asked ChatGPT and here's some pointers.

1. Familiarity Breeds Apathy – Most people grow up with the assumption that life exists only on Earth, so they don’t question it deeply. It’s just "the way things are."

2. Existential Avoidance – The idea that we might be utterly alone in the universe is terrifying. Conversely, the idea that intelligent extraterrestrial life exists but remains silent is equally unsettling. Many people avoid thinking about it altogether.

3. Spiritual and Religious Views – Some believe life’s uniqueness is evidence of divine intent, making it feel less like an anomaly and more like a purposeful design. Others believe that even if life exists elsewhere, our existence here is still sacred and meaningful.

4. Cognitive Limitation – The vastness of the universe and the complexity of abiogenesis (life’s origin) are difficult to grasp. People struggle to comprehend distances measured in light-years or probabilities that span billions of years.

5. Anthropic Principle – We exist to ask the question precisely because conditions allowed for life to emerge here. If life were common, we might not find it remarkable.

6. Lack of Direct Impact – Whether life exists elsewhere or not doesn’t change most people’s day-to-day experiences. They’re more concerned with immediate human concerns than cosmic loneliness.
We were using Darcs on what was then still a small code base and already started running into operations sometimes taking tens of minutes. Not knowing if an operation would end sometime during our lifetime is pretty annoying. Git, though conceptually worse, felt like a breath of fresh air once we migrated.
> What if curing cancer needs education, applied intellect, and inspiration more than it needs "financing"?

unlocking liquidity of currently hard to value assets will remove distractions for a broader set of people to get education, apply their intellect, and be inspired including to cure. many people are not applying their intellect because they are distracted by their illiquidity, basically all of their life.

> plenty of financiers that have said "aha, we need to have [thing X], let's [throw some money at it]" without much useful results

misallocated capital is a symptom of current market inefficiencies and has nothing to do with the concept of people working in finance versus whatever you prefer
Ya'll need to rename entire government departments to have long self describing titles that are also easy to remember acronyms.
So PHP forces you to put everything in class? Thats hilarious!
Wow. Go big or go home I guess. I couldn't imagine spending $14k a month on trying to put out a TV quality cooking show on YouTube.
Needs? No. Helps? Often.
Deployment has not been an issue for me using PHP, nor Go, in all honesty. I did find Go more as-if I was using the wrong language for the job though.
Ah, the old consumers have zero responsibility trick.
One of the steepest curves I've ever seen.
Joshua Weissman is probably a good example, when you look at his older stuff (now he does have a team). He was always into the 'cinematography' of cooking and ends each video with a minute or two of b roll even.

I think he did have a good camera early on, but that's more of a one time 1k-2k purchase, not 3500 a video.
It gets messy real fast. I have seen horrible long namespaces ala java all over the place. It only leads to bad design. Having no way to force things.

PHP messed up pretty big when they made this ad-hoc namespace thing.
These look a bit better than $1 SG90s..
At what point does enough of the breakage affect the people who voted for this *cough to happen to others* make them turn off the tv trigger drip long enough to ask if this model of government behaviour is really fine for their families long term future. Because I really do not want to see a future far-left government that is actively taking notes atm.

I played co-ed sports with a couple forest rangers and they were always trying to recruit people because they couldn't be everywhere all the time (or that's what the complaint was I don't know what they actually do but it sounded like a Tom & Jerry or Wile E. Coyote/Roadrunner cartoon with them as the chaser).

They were republican but not sure if they ever fell down the far-right rabbit hole. They would be safe from the firings, but probably not happy about losing new help.
Thats does not work without a third party dependency (composer). You cant load functions like that in vanilla PHP.
Reading articles like this I feel like I have an intellectual disability. I can't make heads or tails of what the point of these kinds of trading-simulacra card games are, or even how they work.
Telling your employees that they can work remote, having them prove that they can work remote for years without a loss of productivity, telling your employees you have no plans for going back to the office so people leave and buy property or otherwise put down roots elsewhere, then forcing them to come back based on the CEO and the Board thinking the vibes are bad and making people restructure their whole lives around commuting to a specific location is cruel and if you disagree I recommend you work on developing some empathy.
It's less about "got mine, fuck you" and more about noticing what does or doesn't work out.

As you said, practically everything used to be public land, and yet we observe that a burned out meth trailer on .25 acres still costs a quarter million. So.. now you know exactly what happens if you decide to change nothing else and just privatize public lands. This fixes the problem for 1 guy maybe, who gets the dubious pleasure of paying a slightly less outrageous price and then shitting in a bucket for 20 years. Then that guy fucks over the next generation when they sell at the highest possible price that the market will bear and that increasingly desperate buyers can afford.

Why do we want to do more of that? What's the plan for growth when the future arrives and there's nothing else to steal from the public?
I find speedrunning fascinating. Like a microcosm of society to study human behavior. How the wins and losses of one generation of players shape the next, pushing the art beyond what was thought possible. A generation of strategies and perception of the limits in speedrunnig, in my view, can be just a few years.

Cheaters. Their motives. The attempts to expose them. The creative and not-so-creative ways they cheat. The equally creative ways they are caught. The border between trust and distrust. The psychological need for fame and belonging. Honor. Hierarchy. Tradition. Breakthroughs.

Technology. Strategies. Outside-the-box thinking. Advanced analysis. Statistics. Reverse engineering.

The psychology of the player. Persistence. Stress. Pressure. Adaptation.

Carl Jobst's youtube channel of course is recommended. But also 'Summoning Salt', and 'Bismut'.
Nothing special as those are like MISRA C rules from automotive industry.

I see that is repackaging of low level rules and not some „magical 10 development rules” that would apply to your yet another CRUD app.

Not to bash article just informing people who would write „software engineering is not real engineering” - it is real engineering and there are norms. Just because someone did not hear about standards and rules and practices doesn’t mean there are none.
There are many curriculums where IT security is taught in schools [0]. America does have a problem where their education systems are extremely disparate, but the lack is not universal.

[0] Virginia commonly uses Fortinet's lesson plans, for example.
I'm unimpressed. I gave it specifications for a recommender system that I am building and asked for recommendations and it just smooshed together some stuff, but didn't really think about it or try to create a resonable solution. I had claude.ai review it against the conversation we had.. I think the review is accurate.
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This feels like it was generated by looking at common recommendation system papers/blogs and synthesizing their language, rather than thinking through the actual problems and solutions like we did.