skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Knowledge retention and generational succession in OpenStreetMap
Going back to a gold standard will limit the money supply. This means that there will be less capital for building $thing.

A gold standard means that when the economy gets overheated it pops, then contracts and you get deflation. This makes crashes last longer and harder. It requires greater fiscal discipline to overcome.

The problem with the USA "empire" is that for a trading empire to work you need a plan, and stick to it.

China has been quietly debt trapping a whole bunch of nations that have strategic things they need. They have been investing in infra and leasing it back to the host country. That takes planning, money vision and time. Something neither the president or congress have the ability to do.

The USA in the 40/50s played a blinder, neatly using war debt and the martial plan to usurp the exhausted british empire's trading power. The dollar became the global reserve and all of the new global institutions were setup and housed in the USA.
So when you literally asked "who", you just wanted the name of an organization, a meaningless label, and not any kind of information as to how that organization behaves?
Even reading those you can surely see it was the correct approach.
Is the flagging of articles an absolute number? How does the article get 100+ upvotes but still flagged? Does it mean it early hit the flag threshold to get flagged and later got the votes, or that the flags continue to outweigh the upvotes?
Vs Code?
So long as they're free to go where they want, I've got no criticism.

It's almost certainly best for them to remain in their natural habitat, however.
Arc is equivalent to a distribution over four tuples of images--with no prior the last image is uniformly distributed given the first three...
It also slows down execution so much. Agreed that it is a dark day if I'm forced to use that. If it's not in library code I just put the condition in an if and put the breakpoint inside it.
I do not know how this can be justified at all. It does not make any sense.
He is a bit naive in general but he is mostly right.

1. Hyperfinancialization was a huge mistake (e.g. a house should not be an investment)

2. ZIRP was a huge mistake: revenue matters, the current SP500 P/E ratio is insane. [1]

3. Manufacturing matters if you want to keep the blue collar people engaged economically. It's bewildering how US Democrats turned their back on their political base, the proletariat.

[1] https://www.currentmarketvaluation.com/models/price-earnings...

Now, what he gets wrong. China is also doing hyperfinancialization, just slightly different. Their housing market is crazy with tofu constructions and mostly empty cities. And they got already the Evergrande collapse. China also over-invests to take over markets, for example BYD is kind of a gigantic ponzi scheme [2].

[2] BYD’s Financial Time Bomb: A Replica of Evergrande's Collapse in the Making https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHpTWsBRIQs

As many other people said, Trump is making a huge mistake on tariffs. He should be putting tariffs on the completed products but not on the supply chain. Block subsidized EVs but not the small parts for industry and make Europe do the same. This would prick the Chinese manufacturing bubble.

And about importing talent, the system needs an overhaul. The H1B system is completely rigged and most of it brings cheap consultants for jobs easily sourced locally. Improve local competition. But bring the high earners. Make H1B for say 300k and up salaries for a minimum 5 year contract. And they should have a very strict English test, I'm fed up with people who don't bother to learn basic English because they live in bubbles of their country (and I'm foreign).

Also, and this is probably controversial, make some Singapore-style limits on who immigrants can live with and marry, forcing very different cultures assimilate. No more ghettos of very different cultures fighting each other. See how that's turning up in Europe. Before you call me a n*zi, Soviets did something like that, too.
Also, his article on why the internet is going nowhere. Definitely missed a few things
Probably not.

The gas piston engine didn't just power cars, it also powered aircraft, armoured vehicles, and trucks. Anyone using electric vehicles by the time World War 2 broke out against a gas piston enemy would've been constantly outmanoeuvred and outgunned. And the logistics chains to bring men and materials to the front of the enemy's front lines would've been far faster then any electric trucks at the time. Especially without the modern day micro controllers that make modern battery management systems possible.
And that sort of thing is predictably wrong. It's premised on the combination of low interest rates and a lack of inflation, even though low interest rates generally cause inflation.

As soon as you get inflation, keeping interest rates low would make it worse, but raising them explodes the interest rate on the debt. And your other alternative to paying the high interest is to print the money to pay the debt, which also worsens inflation. So taking on that much debt is just a bomb that goes off as soon as inflation becomes non-trivial, and on top of that, is a thing that generally causes inflation.

To understand how people like that succeed, realize that there is always a market for someone who will tell you what you want to hear.
I reserve the word "degenerate" for those who dehumanize others.
I really wish FreeBSD were a tier 1 OS.
There are some features which could be included in the paid plan in the future.
Also the tech stack can handle a couple thousand emails every month without any operational cost.
In the best case if a lot of users sign up, I can still restrict access to existing users to keep the service operational for them.

The limits and pricing can of course change in the future.

The goal is for the users to be able to send some number of free emails (currently not limited) every year or month unlike futureme which provides just 3 emails for free in total, then charging $9/year even if user only sends 1 email per year.
> I've never understood what's the point of attracting good students if you don't want to keep them later on

Exporting knowledge, culture and contacts
Drawing to the screen is a IO operation, is going to be slow.
> forces me to open/close the toner door every time i switch on the printer to get it to function again

My first HP printer forced me to spam the Stop button for 10 seconds every time I turned it on as it would always try to print a colored test page with generous amounts of ink.
Spam from residential IP's should never reach SpamAssassin. The mail server should be rejecting the SMTP connection. SpamAssassin is something which deals with mail that has been accepted by a server: i.e. delivered. It shouldn't need to have any rules about residential IPs; what's the point.

Residential IPs are spammy, so if for some reason you've decided you're going to let SpamAssassin to handle them post-delivery, it would make sense to give them a high score.
Is there an implementation of the same capability as a JS lib? So that one could have an email server running as part of their Node.js / other runtime?
Americans need to understand that everything their Founding Fathers wrote is just footnotes on the ideas that came out of the political tumult of seventeenth-century Britain. Free speech was first proposed by John Milton during Cromwell's disastrous attempt at creating a republic, and was swiftly rejected as a bad idea. The Founding Fathers were obsessed with 'Tyranny', because that's what Charles I was executed for when the Protectorate was established. Tyranny isn't the omnipresent problem that the puritan pamphleteers portrayed them as; it's just the cause of the specific debate in which they engaged.

There are no principles in British politics, there is only pragmatism. Every policy must solve a real-world problem. The current Labour government will remove the hereditary peers from the House of Lords, because they only show up to vote in their own personal interest, and that reform has widespread support and will pass. Harriet Harman has put forward a bill that will also remove the Lords Spiritual, and that will pass, because no one has a problem with what the bishops say and do in Parliament.

Parliament gained control over taxation and the treasury in the seventeenth century - this was the major cause of the Second English Civil War. Later in that century, freedom of the press was established, but there were still consequences for libel and defamation. With the accession of King George I, Parliament gained control over the king, by appointing one who couldn't speak English. Everything that is not illegal is permitted, and the only speech that is restricted is that that is widely considered objectionable. Getting along with one's neighbours is an integral part of living in a society, regardless of one's beliefs on 'personal autonomy' and 'self-reliance'.

No one has been gaoled for posting memes, but people have been gaoled for threatening and abusing behaviour, and for inciting violence during rioting across the country. It just so happens that this has been done by posting memes, but if it had been done by using a megaphone to whip up a protest into a riot, the consequences would have been the same.

America's obsession with free speech is a problem, because it's used to justify retrograde opinions. The two political parties in the US are still debating broadly the same economic and political philosophies that held sway in Britain at the time of the War of Independence. Both political parties treat it as a religion, holding to these dusty old ideas rather than solving real-world problems experienced by real-world people. But every time someone proposes this, someone else yells 'Tyranny!', and the ghost of King Charles I laughs.

With one foot planted firmly in the past, and the other striding determinedly forward, the United States of America is truly a nation going in circles.
I sincerely hope to see some kind of Fuchsia desktop experience someday.

Even in the form of fuchsia -> Android -> ChromeOS which publicly at least seems those layers are actually converging somewhat.
There's an implicit assumption in the article and the comments here that "brain drain the world" is a free lunch.

But does anyone think through to the end-game of that? That when you drain the most smart/productive people away from every other country, all those countries become less wealthy and more dysfunctional, leading to societal decline, poverty, resentment, radicalisation, war, etc?

Aside from anything else, the other countries become less able to trade on good terms, and thus less able to buy US products/services. And so it becomes a self-defeating policy long-term.

Good economists (and to be honest I don't know of many these days) know that there are no free lunches. We need to put as much effort into helping every other country develop and thrive - and by doing that we'll create many more customers for the products/services produced in our own countries, and everyone can end up richer.

After writing this I wonder even if the economic and political dysfunction we're seeing in so much of the world as actually the inevitable consequence of decades of brain-draining, rather than an indication of the need for more of it.
I got myself a waterpik (water flosser) and got a sore throat for a few days after I first started using it. I'm going to assume this was due to the crud moving out from between my teeth. Recommend water flossers, I much prefer it to using conventional floss.
My E46 in that purple blue will forever be my favourite car. The purr of the straight 6 was lovely

Just a shame they built the cooling system with such poor plastic parts that were prone to failure.
When I used to teach CS, I’d tell my students they would need to learn pointers 3 times. First, they’d hear me explain it in a lecture and think they understood it. Then they’d try and implement a linked list and realise they didn’t get it at all, and figure it all out from scratch. Then at some point it would all click and seem really easy.

Lots of stuff is like this. You learn what you do. Sitting in a lecture theatre hearing about pointers, or photography, or DSP, isn’t really learning those things. Some people are definitely better at using their imagination to actually learn things during a lecture. But it’s a long shot at the best of times I think. For everyone.
The deceptive capabilities of cuttlefish has been known since ancient Greece. The 2C AD author of hunting and fishing books Oppian wrote extensively about the 'cunning devices' of cuttlefish, as well as octopuses, which he considers to be par excellennce foxes of the sea.

Yea, the crafty Cuttle-fish also has found a cunning manner of
hunting. From her head? grow long slender branches, like locks of
hair, wherewith as with lines she draws and captures fish, prone in
the sand and coiled beneath her shell.

They have seated in their heads a dark muddy fluid blacker than pitch,
a mysterious drug causing a watery cloud, which is their natural
defence against destruction. When fear seizes them, immediately they
discharge the dusky drops thereof and the cloudy fluid stains and
obscures all around the paths of the sea and ruins all the view ; and
they straightway through the turbid waters easily escape man or haply
mightier fish. ... Such are the cunning devices‘ of fishes.
Or better still use a water flosser.
> I've never understood what's the point of attracting good students if you don't want to keep them later on, unless you have overcapacity and sell education services.

Another reason would be to generate goodwill and potential future business relations for your country. Can be pretty valuable for your export-oriented businesses.
But thats the heart of the gold standard.

The only difference here being that you’ve described it before things like watering gold down, fraud, volatility, bank failures and the rest resulted in it coming under a single aegis.

Issuing currency against gold is what the gold standard is all about. What do you think it was?

And eggs are expensive, you should save them for later.
Fuck, when double checked my posts for the night I found out you were also the other person I responded too, for having logically invalid arguments[1]. I’m almost certain I am arguing with a bot at this point,
but I guess you can try to convince me otherwise

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43259102
> The looks match the intended audience

I thought it looked refreshing. Efficient, light, and no-nonsense. So you're right, it does match the intended audience.
Elon Musk creates confusion about IRS' Direct File – but it's still available
Create WordPress Website in 60 Seconds with AI
I'm not convinced that that's sustainable though, and I think it might be an artifact of the dollar reserve currency status etc., because US firms cost more for a given yearly profit. Just look at Boeing vs Airbus.

I also lived better in Sweden when I was a PhD student, than I would have if I went to Washington and took an H1B job for 100k. I think the cutoff would be at somewhere soon above 120k. Maybe at 130k-140k, I would be able to live in Washington approximately as well as I could live in Sweden as a PhD student, but it would substantially more stressful. Maybe 130-140k isn't much to long-term Googlers, but I think this is closer to salaries that people actually pay for H1Bs than these 500k+ salaries.

The built environment in the US doesn't really correspond to the nominal prices, so in a way, America is only interesting economically if you're planning to go back home.
It makes perfect sense, trump wants russia to conquer Ukraine, and wants Ukraine to pay for it.

BTW US is still blocking transfer of Swedish AVACS planes, build in Sweden by Saab.
My experience disagrees. You may believe so, I won’t protest. But if you wanted to know why people don’t just migrate, this is the answer.
As this gets more and more serious, the "Kompromat Hypothesis" starting to look like the only remaining explanation.
Here is a quick example of an application labeled as lightweight, which turns out to be a 500MB+ Electron monstrosity:

"MarkText is a lightweight, user-friendly Markdown editor that serves as a free and open-source alternative to Typora. It’s designed for everyday users who want a clean, intuitive experience."

https://myownsys.com/2024/11/24/everyone-should-have-a-free-...
> Nothing will compare to the Gmail experience

I think this might be a matter of personal preferences. Personally I find GMail very confusing, and not that user friendly.

FastMail UI is so much more intuitive. For me.
> and somehow still less capable than screen's session/pane/window.

How is it less capable?
Personally I love that landing page. It's simple, light, and presents exactly what I want to know. I wish that style was more common, especially in non-commercial products where you don't need to impress anyone with extra graphics.
The first one in 1987 was organised by the Radical Party.

The second one was an unfortunate coincidence.
I can't believe the entire FOSS ecosystem essentially stemmed from printer issues, and we _still_ don't have a mainstream FOSS printer firmware that removes DRM and tracking dots (and whatever else they do nowadays) akin to OpenWRT, but for printers.

We have fully open source hardware AND software _3D_ printers capable of printing working guns, but we can't improve the process of squirting ink on paper so it's not universally abhorred?
Trigon: Developing a Deterministic Kernel Exploit for iOS
The video is representing what a crab sees. An abrupt cut is either implying that the crab stops seeing (for brain damage reasons), or the video is not quite living up to the promise, and they are asking which it is.
A great YT channel dedicated to BMW restoration: https://youtube.com/@m539restorations?si=tb4gHcuFZeKhoJp6

One of my favorites.
Ask HN: What browser are you using?
For the past years, a decade even, if not more, I have been using Firefox as it was the last bastion of somewhat privacy oriented browser. However with their recent ToS change, I no longer see the point in using Firefox. It wasn't perfect, and I was fine living with it's quirks as long as I stay away from chromeonopoly, but now I wonder - does it event matter at that point?

I'm looking to switch to a new browser. One that supports extensions (my most needed are password manager, ad blockers, and if possible something similar to containers in FF). Access to developer tools is also important as I make websites.

What browser do you use that respects your privacy?
They're still doing that "grilles as big as possible" thing, huh...

Someone should take the pics of their historical models and add their idea of the modern grille onto each one...
While a power plant is more efficient than my car, transmission reduces that efficiency sigificantly (I think here in the UK transmission accounts for 40%-50% of usage, although I may be misremembering).

Does that affect the calculation at all?

EDIT: I was totally wrong - it's more like 7%. Still interested whether that affects the calculation, although it's much less likely to!
I always find gold weird. It has value for exactly same reason any money has. People believe they can later trade it for something else. And main argument for proponents seem to be that it was always valuable so it should also be now and in future.

And when market changes drastically(extra gold, or lot of removed supply). The value also swings a lot. Possibly even more than with other currencies.

Some level of floating currency is clearly most reasonable solution. But just how is still very open question.
FWIW, dotcom bubble was real. I also find myself frequently thinking about the "railroad era" in the US - from what I read, that too was a bubble, and companies that built up rail lines across the continent all went bust, leaving investors out to dry.

In both cases, even though the investors lost money when the bubble popped, the infrastructure remained, and allowed the next generation of companies to flourish and transform the economy and lives of everyone.

Perhaps this is a pattern? That laying down infrastructure and building up expertise are critical, but people doing it don't get to reap the rewards of it.
PDF annotation with a cheap drawing tablet works well enough for my insurance and others, and is a lot more convenient.
Scribus is on a whole different level as a direct competitor Adobe Indesign. Scribus is for professional dtp.
I ended up using gesturefy. It’s tiny but fully configurable and has rockers. Covered my needs, ymmw.
> Why don't someone writes a "bait" title generator?

I’d prefer a bait title detector and replacer. Or better yet, an eraser, since bait titles accompany shallow uninteresting articles more often than not and we shouldn’t be giving them the clicks anyway.
I think we're in agreement. To me the two dial microwave is the single purpose tool.

As a user I just happen to have very little kitchen space, so I ended up with a microwave/oven combination by necessity, and as it does exponentially a lot more than the two dial microwave, it also requires more complex modes and buttons and dials and I'm fine with it, as that's exactly why I paid for it. The "chicken" mode isn't some dumb time/power setting, as mine does the pre-heating, accepts additional watering, and adjusts the temperature curve so it's crisp at the end of the cycle.

Advocating for simple tools is fine IMHO, as long as we understand not everything needs to be overly simple.

PS: perhaps the part I'm missing is that while researching before buying my microwave/oven, I never saw a "dumb" machine that had useless buttons that could be exchanged for just a time/power setting. Each special modes usually have specific tweaks, and going through the manual it was made abundantly clear.
> instead, it’ll rise naturally to the surface

Well it isn’t rising to the surface thankfully because that would create an unbelievable amount of toxic pollution. it would also have to traverse through impermeable rock layers… otherwise we’d just have oil shooting through ground everywhere.

> through an outlet well

I see more. Pressurizing formations is pretty common in the oil and gas world. However, you can only do this with certain geologies. Most of the time it’s going to require fracking to get any kind of significant flow in most sedimentary rock geologies, because they’re simply is not enough flow through the formations.

The final note here is injecting fluids like this is that something that can be done everywhere. in some areas, this can actually cause miniature earthquakes because it’s lubricating slip planes.

Given Germany’s disastrous move away from nuclear power and the coal-lification of their power grid, Happy to see it them generate some actual clean power/heat, Is there one of the dirtiest producers in the EU.
Responsive TOC leader lines with CSS
Eerily realistic AI voice demo sparks amazement and discomfort online
Things are slow at Harvard these days, when they have to boast about things known for decades.

Given the number of people with budgies (parakeets to those who speak broken English) I'm amazed no-one has taken advantage of this to get published before.
How a YC Alum and Harvard Dropout Is Revolutionising Game Marketing with AI
Definitely looking into adding trackpad/trackpoint/touchpad(?) into the V2. And finding a way to do so without sacrificing the minimalist look and feel too much.
The Pareto Hack (2021)
Show HN: Small Restaurants Can Go Online with Just Google Sheets
Denmark is much much harder than the US.