skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FWIW, I'm a single-person company with a tiny turnover and only a handful of expense categories. I've used ledger-cli for many years, but at one point, I started to migrate my data to pta [1]. The reason was that in my country (Europe), all reporting seems to implicitly rely on a numbered chart of accounts (something like "101 Cash", "201 Accounts payable" etc), and the journal format of ledger-cli is not built around this idea by default.

pta, however, does this numbering [2], so for filing taxes in my country, its journal format seems more straightforward in case auditors should have any interest in it. I also quite like its terseness (1 transaction = often 1 line, as compared to 3 in a ledger-cli journal -- gives a better overview and is somewhat better to parse further with sed or awk when needed [3]). Finally, it is a single Perl script, thus very portable and lightweight.

All that said, pta doesn't seem to have much of a following, as compared to ledger-cli, which, obviously, is a much more mature project.

There was also an interesting discussion regarding pta vs ledger, involving the author, OpenBSD dev Ingo Schwarze [4] -- well worth a read regarding the general plain text accounting philosophy also. Interesting stuff.

1: https://mandoc.bsd.lv/pta/

2: https://cvsweb.bsd.lv/pta/accounts.example.en?rev=1.3&conten...

3: https://cvsweb.bsd.lv/~checkout~/pta/journal.example.en?rev=...

4: https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=202009281234...
Iraq wasn’t a mistake. Iraq exemplified the type of error you make and will continue to make when you commit the U.S. to enforcing “rule of law” around the world. Heck, the very concept of international “rule of law” is repugnant-that means there must be some country enforcing the law.

The US has among the lowest levels of trade dependency of any country in the world. In 1960, which is remembered as a Golden Age, trade was just 10% of GDP. We would be just fine, probably better, living in a world where regional powers kept their back yards clean and the occasional border skirmish broke out. Even if that meant somewhat reduced trade.

Empire also imposes a demographic cost on america. Every time we destroy a country in a war trying to maintain the “rules based order” we have to accept a massive influx of refugees. In the long run these people will not be able to maintain the american system the founding population created.
He is the most spineless coward. Despicable.
Fair point. There's some data showing patient outcomes are worse when managed by overworked residents-in-training, but I think you're referring to outcomes post-residency. i.e. Physicians should squeeze as much training as possible into the allotted years. This is reasonable, especially for surgical specialties where procedural reps are a commodity for trainees.

I'd be more open to this line of reasoning if physician's salaries had kept pace with inflation over the last 30 years and if if we hadn't tacitly accepted a much, much lower standard of training in the form of DNPs, CRNAs and PAs who are now practicing independently in a lot of regions. You can't demand that people make extraordinary sacrifices without extraordinary compensation.

For contrast, most European countries have a much longer post-residency training process that is more humane. Caveat being that students enter medical school directly from high school and don't have student loans.

It's also worth pointing out that in the US a LOT of those 100 hours are not spent in direct patient care. They're spent doing chores ('scut') that are not directly tied to patient care. Think: Calling insurance companies for prior authorization for your supervisor or filling out FMLA paperwork for one of your supervisors' patients. As a resident you don't have the ability to say "no" to these tasks.
Any feedback on HN community? ;-)
I use vimwiki[1] just for this "diary" functionality, with different days in different files. Can browse the directory in netrw to find a day's notes, and I have scripts that let me archive old stuff. I tend to put an "x" in front of completed lines (and move uncompleted lines forward to new days) so it is easy to detect and archive unactionable or "completed" files.

[1]: https://github.com/vimwiki/vimwiki
That's plenty complicated. There are people out there who can't even fizzbuzz.

Tomorrow there will be the two monthly threads for who's hiring & who wants to be hired on HN. Use those.
> I am a smart guy

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Honestly, not enough USAID was cut. Most of it will move to the State Department. USAID is used to hide clandestine CIA operatives that destabilize states. Corbett covered it years ago:

https://odysee.com/@corbettreport:0/flashback-usaid:7

It's fascinates me that people who have never heard of USAID, who are completely unfamiliar with how many left-wing groups have protested it over the decades, are suddenly outrages when a program is cut they knew nothing about until 5 minutes ago.

Nations become more authoritarian after USAID. There is no free lunch.
This is correct. Proof of this can be found in 37 places on government websites (I actually checked, took me three hours). If you add these up its obvious that the EU spent a lot more that the USA.

If you consider what EU countries pay besides arms and aid, for example on housing the millions of refugees from Ulraine or buying stockpiles of arms to be used on behalf of Ukraine in the future the numbers are much higher, between twice and triple the US budget. Even the sanctions against Russia and their weapon suppliers China, India, North Korea and Iran add to the costs of this Russian conflict. Also consider the EU pledges to rebuild Ukraine should be counted.

Today I estimate 1,234 trillion Euro's, part of which was spent as dollars, some as loans with the estimated 300 million of confiscated Russian bank accounts and assests from Russian oligarchs as collateral.
And it betrays a total lack of care for substance. Zelensky has delivered public speeches in the US, while wearing a suit if that matters saying thanks to the US for their support. He just said it to the whole country, and while Biden was president. Trump doesn't care if the US gets credit, he wants to steal that credit personally, despite literally having been impeached for trying to extort Zelensky.

It's amazing levels of personal pettiness and ego. That's before you get to them inviting a Russian state news person to watch and then claiming they "snuck in" as if someone can just bumble into a meeting of world leaders.
The story is about how medicine assumes that if a little oxygen is good, more is better. But in the real world too much oxygen destroys lungs, and we’re all deteriorated by even a little too much O2.

I, for one, welcome the reconsideration of oxygen anti-therapy.
The solution is reinforced concrete walls and not any particular zoning law
Wagner took refugees from Africa and collaborated with south America to run them up to your southern border.
> Ezra Klein has many axes to grind, so I take his commentary with a grain of salt

That quote wasn't from Ezra Klein, it was from Kara Swisher. Klein was interviewing her.
I wouldn’t put it as all along; it’s only been in the last few years.
Ask HN: What's your opinon on candidates using AI copilots during interviews?
As the Product Manager for Interview Ninjafy AI, I'm behind a tool that many would consider controversial - we provide real-time, undetectable assistance during job interviews. Hundreds of our users have landed positions they might otherwise have missed out on.

Let me address the elephant in the room: Is this cheating? Initially, I had the same concerns. But after analyzing hundreds of cases, I've come to a provocative conclusion:

True "cheating" - getting jobs you're completely unqualified for - rarely happens. Our AI can suggest approaches or help structure thoughts, but it can't fabricate expertise that doesn't exist.

What we're really doing is "leveling the playing field" - helping qualified but anxious candidates overcome the artificial barriers of interview performance. We're exposing the fundamental flaw in traditional interviews: they often measure presentation skills rather than actual job capability.

For candidates genuinely lacking skills, our tool doesn't save them - they still fail technical assessments and follow-ups. The system eventually catches those who don't belong.

Our most telling feedback? "The tool helped me stay calm knowing I had backup, which ironically meant I relied on it less than expected."

So I challenge the tech community: Is using AI assistance during interviews any different from extensive coaching or rehearsed answers? Are we undermining the interview process - or simply revealing how broken it already is? Should interviews be tests of performance under pressure, or accurate assessments of capability?

Our tool remains undetectable to interviewers, giving candidates an invisible advantage. We make no apologies for helping qualified people showcase their true abilities rather than rewarding those who simply interview well.

Where do you stand on this? Is this the future of hiring, or a step too far?
Can you quote me exactly where I imposed or endorsed imposing my beliefs on others?
Hopefully it doesn't take our cities being bombed into the ground for them to wake up.
Because he was expected to? To get a mineral deal and a ceasefire seemingly without any security guarantees? (Because Putin "is a man of his word")

I never thought I would see the day of a president that was more gullible than Bush with his story about Putin's mother's crucifix.

Edit: and getting support from Orbán is hardly something to be proud of.
Slack huddles and screen share are trash even compared to Teams let alone Zoom.
I'm sure it's gotten better now but back in 2016 provisioning VMs in Azure took so long that we joked that every time you provision an instance a Microsoft engineer gets in a car to buy the server.
Considering America signed the Budapest Memorandum pledging to assure security in Ukraine in exchange for Ukraine to hand over its nuclear weapons to Russia... all this is going to do is spur countries no longer reliably protected by the US to develop their own nuclear weapons.

I think the risk of nuclear war in the future just went up.
Even cocaine or heroin can be used responsibly, but there's a reason it's banned
Strange, why is the parent comment flagged now.

Mildly critical of me, he just engaged in dialogue and asked for facts.
Scimitar props are pretty tame, though, or what part do you mean is hard?
Air-to-air is way more difficult than just a tug, though.
4 mains or nothing at all
There are a lot of variations. I am most familiar with turbo props so shaft hp is the limiter on the ground and TIT is the limiter at altitude. TIT, of course, gets most of the heat from burning and I did mess up my explanation a bit. Sorry about that! You may be surprised how much of that TIT comes from compression though. The main point still stands, check the temp of that compressed air at sea level vs at altitude and for the same PSI out of the compressor you get a lot more heat at altitude. Either way though, the original point remains, electric has no TIT limit and you don't have to deal with 1000c materials spinning at 100k RPM so way simpler and easier to build something that keeps delivering thrust at extreme altitudes.
The people holding the money are not at war.
Sure, but presumably the theory is that it's a lot easier to flip folks now given the disrespect the current administration is showing to US government employees.
I worked for the "Father of Robotic Surgury" and once in a company-wide meting he said "The general public would be pretty happy with the average surgeons results, but they would be horrified by the below average surgeons results". Their goal was to bridge that gap with robotics.
Too cynical. There exist homeowners who don't want the problem to get worse, because, like, we live in a society. Rampant homelessness and nosediving birth rates are not to my benefit. My friends and kids will need to be able to afford housing.
I didn’t answer the question about Donbas because it’s a non-sequiter. Who cares if he stops at Donbas or somewhat further than that? Domino theory was a stupid idea when Kissinger came up with it and it’s a stupid idea now. Do you think Russia is going to invade Germany? Germany doesn’t seem to think so, otherwise it would be investing heavily in defense.
Links in the original are dead but I think this is the Microsoft doc on “what could Windows do better” - https://web.itu.edu.tr/~dalyanda/mssecrets/hotmail.html
Show HN: Imagine a place for verified notion templates that worth your money
No need... if things continue the way they are, they'll soon be offered the opportunity to buy Siberia
No not at all. The vast majority of Americans are uninterested in being world policemen when it means it's mainly American boys (and girls, but mostly boys, let's be real) dying in foreign wars.

The Chinese are not stupid enough to send their kids to die in war, and even if they were, they at least have an excess of young males.
> It is frankly absurd that they should be expected to

> These LLMs could not exist without them, but now they're expected to compete?

Yea, those damn tractor makers - they ate the food that the hand farmers used to make! How are hand farmers expected to compete with tractors now, when it's so much more efficient and can do 100x the work!?
very good example to learn async , will try it
For the record, there are a million kernels for Jupyter: https://github.com/jupyter/jupyter/wiki/Jupyter-kernels
All I see is some unmeasured correlation. How did we get to causality?
Why are most criminals men under 40? Some things just are, uncomfortable as they may feel.
Full video (49:22), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajxSWocbye8
I agree that Zelensky's main point was definitely that Putin can't be trusted.

But, he also highlighted a couple of times that that no one did anything to stop Putin which implies that the US didn't do anything. Which could be taken as criticism. Also, ending his statements with "So what do you mean diplomacy" is clearly a snarky response.

The fact is Zelensky has no leverage. He was given aid from the US, apparently as a grant. The US has no obligation to help Ukraine. My understanding is that the aid was given to Ukraine in the hopes that it would weaken Russia. That gamble doesn't appear to be working.

If he didn't like the terms of the deal, it should have been discussed in private, before coming to the US. Instead, he chose to push back in a public forum. So I don't feel the response he got was unwarranted.

An analogy that comes to mind is helping out a friend that just lost their job. You give them money and a place to stay and over time the friend starts to feel entitled to your generosity. Eventually, you get tired of it and give them a deadline to find their own place. Then during dinner with a group of friends, they complain to the table that you only gave them 3 months left to stay instead of 6...

I got carried away with the analogy and of course it doesn't capture the gravity of the situation in Ukraine, but I feel like it captures the core sentiment.
The vast majority of Americans are skeptical of our military-industrial complex
Maybe? There are also just a ton of really stupid, or not especially conscientious people.
What Zelensky got mad about is that all previous diplomatic agreements with Russia have been broken by Russia when convenient. Even the Budapest Memorandum, where the US pledged security to Ukraine in exchange for them giving their nukes to Russia, is no longer honored. How can Ukraine trust that any deal made by Trump is going to be honored once Russia rebuilds its military if the US won't offer any assurances of peace?
> For a hobby project, what you describe is probably fine.

Thanks! Yup, it will be "a hobby project" until, if ever, it gets some users and revenue. Then, have several servers, some load balancing and redundancy, uninterruptible power with a generator outdoors on a concrete slab, contact Cloudflair or some such and have them do what is needed, etc.

Just looked up SSL, reverse proxies, firewalls, etc. Okay.
I find it irritating that they are comparing clock scaling to the venerable Skylake-X. Surely Sapphire Rapids has been out for almost 2 years by now.
> Programmers have become "proletarianized". The elite expert programmer who crafted a system and stayed with it for many years, finely tuning it and adding new bells and whistles with ease, has by and large been superseeded by an entire generation of college graduates who were introduced to computing in their courses, and who are hired and fired by programming shops in accord with the winds of the market place.

That's hilarious! In 1974, that was decades from actually happening.
In this instance, they haven’t walked anything back yet: rather, they’re trying to explain why they’ve done what they’ve done, why it isn’t as bad as it looks but is just a matter of others using the wrong definitions… and then demonstrating that it’s them that have the wrong definition after all, and it is exactly as bad as it looks. And that the Mozilla of even ten years ago wouldn’t have been in this bind.
Sone real tech news here
I think i post in like 2 smaller subreddits now because its impossible to participate in anything. automod and eventually real mods are always deleting stuff because of some seemingly random interpretation of a rule
You are a saint moderating hot threads dispassionately like this. I appreciate you.
I did that for a while, including hosting the auth myself. Then I realized Mozilla is probably one of the few companies I trust with my data, even though it's probably misplaced trust. The sync server is relatively straightforward to setup, but auth is quite more involved. I don't think it's worth it, compared to using the public hosted service
What relevance would the group size have to any of this, and how would this possibly be a result of the Simpson's Paradox?
I think it was querying the database to get usage information, and it was blocking the loading of the page as a result. It's been a few years, but if I recall correctly, the .NET API for changing the database provisioning did work, so some people would hack up a quick script to change resources in an emergency.

I think they did fix it eventually, because I know that multiple people on my team complained to Microsoft about it. Very short-sighted decision on their end, but to be fair it was a brand new product.
Appears there was never a Joe Bloe. [0]

It's also whimsical of Quora because there are many "San Jose" locations.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayor_of_San_Jose,_California
This is a tough one as I agree with many of your points but not fully.

So here is my follow up. I don't believe it was Americas intention to keep Europe weak. That treaty was signed after WW2. Russian was at western Europe's door step and they were depleted from the war so they needed protection. They signed NATO treaty with America for that purpose. It was not a treaty of equals, it was America flexing its global power and Europe having to acquiesce. Over the years it has been retconned into an alliance of "allies" but really most of the "allies" were protectorates and not contributors.

I would counter that they have been freeloading. Europe absolutely willfully subordinated themselves for THEIR benefit. They have been getting national security for free for nearly 80 years. I am not ignorant of that. Yet I am no longer of the opinion that there is as much benefit to us as there once was. We have our own issues to attend to at home that we haven't had in the past. 100,000 Americans die every year from the drugs brought over by the cartels. We have 100,000's of illegals coming across our borders. We should prioritize our own defense for now and let Europe stand on its own. If Europe cant keep from having wars with each other than maybe the security the US was providing would be worth paying for.
Wasn't poe.com supposed to be the quora replacement since its run by the same guy who also sat on the OpenAI board?
I would be willing to place money on there being a very high correlation between MCAT results and board exam results.
Just switch to old.reddit.com
How about we don't build an auto-updater? Maybe some apps require an extremely tight coupling with a server, but we should try our best to release complete software to users that will work as close to forever as possible. Touching files on a user's system should be treated as a rare special occurrence. If a server is involved with the app, build a stable interface and think long and hard about every change. Meticulously version and maintain everything. If a server is involved, it is completely unacceptable for a server-side change to break an existing user's local application unless it is impossible to avoid - it should be seen as an absolute last resort with an apology to affected customers (agree with OP on this one).

It is your duty to make sure _all_ of your users are able to continue using the same software they installed in exactly the same way for the reasonable lifetime of their contract, the package, or underlying system (and that lifetime is measured in years/decades, with the goal of forever where possible. Not months).

You can, if you must, include an update notification, but this absolutely cannot disrupt the user's experience; no popups, do not require action, include an "ignore forever" button. If you have a good product with genuinely good feature improvements, users will voluntarily upgrade to a new package. If they don't, that is why you have a sales team.

Additionally, more broadly, it is not your app's job to handle updates. That is the job of your operating system and its package manager. But I understand that Windows is behind in this regard, so it is acceptable to compromise there.

We go a step further at my company. Any customer is able to request any previous version of their package at any time, and we provide them an Internet download page or overnight ship them a CD free of charge (and now USB too).
They have used their agency to give up their agency to the GOP hivemind.
> For candidates genuinely lacking skills, our tool doesn't save them - they still fail technical assessments and follow-ups. The system eventually catches those who don't belong.

If a candidate gets the position because they used your tool to fool the interviewers, and they later get fired, then you’ve wasted a huge amount of the hiring company’s time and money as well as the time of the team who has to cope with the situation. I know this doesn’t affect your business model because they got through the interview and that’s all that has to matter to you, but anyone who has had to deal with a bad hire is going to despise tools like this.
As mentioned in the parallel thread Orion does not support v2 and uBlock Origin does not work there. The commenter mistook Orion's internal adblocker for uBlock functioning.
Pure cope, how well did the sanctions strategy work? I hear US companies are returning soon
Text from diagrams can be useful in LLMs. For example an LLM can understand a flow charts decision making shapes etc, but without text it could misinterpret information. I process a bunch of PDFs including procedures. Diagrams are concerted to code. The text helps in many cases.
Yeah, the USA is a giant free market for immigrant labour in tech.