skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>How is "Baumol effect" different from supply and demand for any limited resource?

It isn't, but nominal growth as a consequence of demand without increase in real output makes you no better off, that's the "fake" part. More practical example than graphics cards is houses. Large chunk of the US market, constantly goes up in price, but not because housing is becoming more productive. It's because money from other sectors spills over. Good for landlords, bad way to measure real economic activity. You'd be better off if you could roll houses from the conveyor belt and collapse prices.

Rising education prices don't reflect greater quality in education, faster teachers, or more graduates, i.e. output, which is what we ought to care about, but just higher spending funded by real gains in other sectors.
How much real power does House of Lords have?

But my biggest gripe with EU institutions is not EU parliament. Commission is much much worse. Especially with how special positions are assigned. It does not matter what is elected into EU parliament, each country sends someone. And that process is usually murky AF. And person being sent seems to not even know area-of-work in many cases. How EC speaker is „elected“ is yet another story. And then stories start to bubble up how this under-the-table formed EC is lobbying EP, all on our own tax money :D It'd be funny to watch if I wasn't a citizen of a member of this mess.
FWIW, my perspective and descriptions of the detractors is aimed primarily at the detractors I see - which are notably not the artists or other people whose livelihood depends on copyright protection. Instead, the loudest voices are of the bystanders who imagined possible windfall if only OpenAI et al. had to pay them for using their Reddit comments and a few blog articles written half a decade ago. These are the "I won't write comments on public forums anymore, nor will I blog, because LLMs" voices.

I fundamentally believe that people are not entitled to 100% of the value created by their labor - in fact, society can only function if there's surplus that others can build upon, and when companies try to capture 100% of their output, we call this out as extreme greed and a symptom of "late stage capitalism".

I do agree that people who are directly affected by LLMs basically replacing their job have a valid argument, though I don't think the core of it relates to copyright anyway.

As for the laws:

> it’s the fact these companies are being allowed to flaunt the law with zero repercussions i have a problem with (specifically on this one of the problems).

It's not been determined they actually broke the law on this. AFAIK it's still an open question, pending (in the US) court verdicts or (elsewhere in the world) updates to IP regulation. Morally, I personally think use of data for training AI is not violating copyright entirely, and is closer to a person consuming content and learning from it - but more importantly, I think preventing this use to be denying humanity great value for no good reason. Almost all content in the training set, on the margin, is both contributing an infinitesimal bit to the resulting model, and at the same time, it's providing much more value this way than it ever had before.
Washington BANS Britain from sharing any US Military intelligence with Ukraine
nice one! Love that it runs locally.
It's configurable. As per their FAQ:

https://delta.chat/en/help#why-can-i-choose-not-to-watch-the...

https://delta.chat/en/help#why-can-i-choose-to-only-watch-th...
I did a mix of CS and EE in university, and I was really remarkably poor at one particular part - signal processing. I scraped by the first module, just about. I took a class which I can only describe as "applied DSP" - it was basically just programming the DSP theory we had done the previous semester, and I was top of the class. When we did DSP 2 the following semester with the same lecturer, I was pretty much top of the class again, without going back to basics on the theory stuff. Either I was unfairly graded in the first instance (probably some amount of this is true or I learned enough practical application during the second class to fill in the gaps where it all fell into place.
You're essentially assuming an increase in the money supply leads to inflation, which it does if nothing else is different either, but if you also have e.g. a larger population then you're looking at something else.
Off-by-one errors are more likely with 1-based indexing because they don't have the nice properties of 0-based/right open intervals that mean you don't have to add or subtract 1 all over the place.

For example what is the index of pixel X,Y in an image buffer? X + Ystride right? Nope! It's X + (Y-1)stride.

What's the range of the Ith block of N elements? [in, in + n)? Nope! It's [(i-1)n+1, in].

I have to deal with that nonsense in Matlab all the time. Nightmare.
> Low-profile is nicer to joints in the long run

Very much so. I went through 10+ keyboards before finding one that I could type on for a day without aching joints. The only one that passed (which I'm typing this comment on), was the lowest out of all of them. Cheap Aliexpress keyboard, but it's maybe 4mm from table to keyboard. For those in a similar situation that want to try it, it's this one [1]. Definitely not "high quality", but saved me from inability to type.

Question for the keyboard-knowledgeable: it claims in this picture [2] to use scissor keys but the picture of its insides are pretty meaningless to me. Does their claim look to hold up?

[1] https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006265944802.html

[2] https://ae01.alicdn.com/kf/Sf4d150eda2c4441490535d5f17ebfbfc...
Security Bulletin: Nvidia Hopper HGX 8-GPU HMC – March 2025
And it us easier in a non moving target.
Don't forget Cloudflare tagging old browsers as "bots".
No, it's because it doesn't make any sense to do that. It would add a ton of complexity for no benefit.
Running a mail server dynamic IP is the primary self hosting option for most people. I've been doing it without problems for 15 years now.

> Only if you want to be using their domain

No, that's simply not how SMTP routing works.
One-based indexing simply has its own set of off-by-one bugs.
Yeah, except it's the world shifting to zero-trust towards USA after Trump torched the Budapest Memorandum and started threatening with expansionism. Please leave calling things "interesting" to Musk. This situation is tragic.
Many countries in the former soviet block would very much contradict this take.

Entire economies were indeed planned and designed, and their shape was controlled and changed at will. Individuals and groups had control, and did do major changes, including but not limited to forced resettlement and labor camps.

You can of course argue that this ended almost universally in failures, but people did try, and the amount of control over economies is very much a spectrum.
Ask HN: High quality job interview resources (backend, .NET/Azure, senior)
Hello HN, I am strongly considering searching for a new job. I am aiming towards .NET/Azure backend positions, as this is where I have the most experience.

The problem I've noticed with myself is that I always fumble the first two or three interviews. This wasn't a huge deal back when I was last applying to a job, but now there's significantly less offers out there so I don't think this is a good strategy and I'd like to prepare better. I've also been promoted to senior engineer and I've never applied for my current position, so I am also extra anxious about the type of questions I might be getting.

I am looking for a high quality resources that would help me prepare for an interview. Anything in any format is welcome. I've been trying to search on my own but it's quite difficult with all the SEO spam and clickbait youtube videos. Any recordings of actual interviews or list of actual tasks and questions given during these interviews would be quite valuable to me.

So far I've had some success with asking ChatGPT for a mock interview. I usually list all the technologies and skills I'd like to be interviewed on and ask for the format to be "one message = one question". It has worked rather well, as it is able to point out mistakes and provide additional context to my answers.

Any help and suggestions are appreciated.
The B9 would be a good option. I'm not sure about the USB cable charger, but I assume you’ve checked that already. That being said, the main issue is that the second-hand market is very dependent on where you are, so it is difficult to recommend something that is really an option. It would be better if you shared the ones you can actually find or get delivered to you so we can discuss those.
Same. 10+ years of experience writing FAANG-scale systems software. I don't want to go much into details but I also either tick or heavily exceed other skills they are looking for. Yet, I also got rejected without a single interview.
I don't understand the complaint. It's useful especially for people not riding every day or dozens of km on weekends. Sure, press or rotate to go up or down, but then you end up cross-chained on the largest chainring and largest cog.

I have had bikes that did not have numbers, but at least had indicators giving you an approximation where you're at. I sometimes miss that on my road bike when I'm not sure if I should change the gear on the front or not. When you ride enough you get a feel for it, but again not everyone does that.
Very simple, M2 components are running out, makes no sense to keep producing them, so upgrade to the next one.

They might have lost the reserved spot at TSMC as well
NoScript as a antipattern, because it disincentivises browsing new websites. As you observed, for every new website you need to reload the page quite a few times to get it functional.
Ask HN: What's your blog / portfolio stack?
Many people here post in some frequencies on their sites.
I wonder what kind of frameworks you are using and what you can recommend.

In a shared web hosting environment I'm building a React site myself, but found myself not updating it as much as I can't build on the go and am thinking about returning to a classic CMS solution.
Even though I dislike all the clutter WordPress comes with, I'm used to it after all these years.
Bullshit. Stop scamming people. Or tell your investors that this is not the way of increasing the visibility.
I use VC++ in 96. Just trying to learn a bit of C++!
I rollerskated to this song when it was the #1 song for many weeks in the late 70s. What a banger!

How do you think I'm gonna get along
Without you, when you're gone?
You took me for everything that I had
And kicked me out on my own
Are you happy, are you satisfied?
How long can you stand the heat?
--Queen "Another One Bites the Dust"

An Indian man whose people endured the depradations of England's imperialists? He's got a solution for fascists, my friends.

Out of the doorway, the bullets rip
To the sound of the beat
Look out

Then, a few years later, I really liked this jam, though I don't care for the song anymore, the lyrics fit my mindset, though not all dancing requires a beat other than the compassionate resonance of the heart of humanity:

We can dance if we want to
We can leave your friends behind
'Cause your friends don't dance
And if they don't dance
Well they're no friends of mine
--Men Without Hats "Safety Dance"

In 2025, feel your heart, feel the love, listen to "Squabble Up" and feel this movement down in your bones. And celebrate good times! Cone on!

Me and all my friends are dancing for ALL the birds trapped in cages, kept away from the beauty of nature, by ignorant narcissistic human beings who know not what life is really worth.
> postfix & dovecot's 20+ years of legacy cruft

That's not my experince - I use postfix and dovecot for years and they are rare examples of high quality software to me. I don't see any cruft. They are flexible which make learning and configuration harder compare to opinionated software where most decisions made for you by a developer and you have not choice but to accept them. I myself view sometimes see flexibility as a disadvantage but IMHO they strike a good balance. Postix often criticized by Exim user for not being flexible/configurable enough. And they don't force to use unix accounts, it's just one of options.

Having said that I would agree that using a mail server which combines all in one package is easier than unix way with multiple specialized parts combined. For a novice it could be a challenge to stichs (configure) multiple parts together, especially if you don't know how to test each part separately and blidnly follow some how-to.

Where you can find plenty of legacy cruft is mail standards and implmenting them correctly is not an esty task that's why I trust Postfix and wary of anything new until it battle tested on a large number of servers.
another option you could use is something like routedns[0], this allows you to filter DNS requests (or get them to resolve to 127.0.0.1) and it won't affect other services that might be on the same IP.

[0] https://github.com/folbricht/routedns
> If you can truly come up with an objective measure of wealth, I believe there might be a (quasi) Nobel Prize in economics for you.

Is it actually that hard?

The material worth of something is what someone will pay you for it, i.e. the value it would sell for at auction. Your material wealth is the sum of the worth of what you have.

That means if you own something and the market price of it changes, i.e. someone changes their mind, then your wealth changes. But is that even wrong?

The real trouble here isn't measuring wealth, it's measuring surplus. If you sell your widget for $5, that implies it was worth less than $5 to you and at least $5 to someone else, but the gain isn't $5, it's whatever the difference is between how much you valued it and how much they did. If that was $4.50 and $5.50 then it's $1. If it was $3 and $1500 then it's $1497, even though they only paid $5. Imagine, for example, a $5 generic drug to someone who has what it treats.
Show HN: Operational – Receive event notifications from your product
Hey folks Shash here, I built Operational to receive event notifications from my SaaS backend.

[Why]
It all started when I was employed in a full-time job. I got a customer support request for a benign issue.
Since I did not want to open my personal laptop at my workspace, I got in the toilet with my laptop bag and fixed the issue.

After a while, I thought about why was I wasting my time with these issues. Was there a better solution?

After trying several different solutions, I threw in the spanner and built my own tool. Behold, Ops!

[Differentiators]
Ops is not comparable to a low level logging tool(like greylog).

Its meant for more higher level logging - like user signups, did that cronjob run, received stripe webhook, etc.

These are our differentiators

- Big focus on accessibility and UI. Everyone should be able to view events on their mobile
- Actions buttons on events. Use them to trigger webhooks on your server.
- Structured events. Pass json, image urls, etc and Ops will render them beautifully
- Contextual events. View events within events. Great for understanding complex workflows such as billing webhooks(webhook received -> billing processed -> email sent -> db updated)

[Closing]
Right now Ops is closed sourced, but work is underway to building an open source version.

Let me know how you like it!
This article is fundamentally good sounding bunk. Intellectual quicksand. Pretty much ideally skewered by someone with experience working with such things.

Anyone else who isn’t prepped will take far too long to get their heads around all the major errors, and by discussing it, propagate its ideas further.

Since people recall even incorrect things, repetition of it ends up creating the idea that it is true - the truth effect.
Web applets were a terrible experience all round. Downloaded JAR files usually just worked, though. The GUI looked odd because it wasn't using normal operating system controls, but in terms of performance it was no slower than any native program except for in the most extreme cases.

Java on the web was pretty terrible from beginning to end, but The Java Web could've worked.

Now that we have the web, we're moving back to the Javaverse in the form of apps (which, on Android, are actually Java(-like)). Every big website has one of those "for the full experience, download our app" banners. Other sites use WASM to bring back the Java applet days, now without third party plugin full of security holes. Google Docs renders to a virtual canvas in the browser in the same way an applet would've back in 2003, except it would've been able to open files directly from the file system.

And lo and behold, the new system is also a terrible experience.
> I prefer my economic takes from economists, or people who actually study these things.

Hmm

> you’re better off reading Krugman

It used to be kind of a meme to make fun on how wrong Krugman was but now it's kind of like beating a dead horse.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/10/22/economists-globalizatio...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jan/10/paul-k...

In particular, Krugman was the flag bearer of "countries that borrow in their own currency should not worry about government deficits because they can always create money to finance their debt". (paraphrasing) This was incredibly wrong. It ended up in sky high debt and now interests on it are non-zero. And most of the added money ended up in the top 10% making inequality much, much worse.
The the benefits the new owner of the toaster derives from it.

Maybe toaster is not the best example to illustrate this by, so say we use microwave --and the time saving based off of it-- instead. A 100k/y worker's time savings are 5x the 20k/y workers savings when equal in time.

So the microwave is accepted to cost more. Sellers are great in caching in on this.
Bad Apple but it's SSH keys
Bitcoins in practice are not truly limited. The amount of gold on earth is not likely to change much, despite the efforts of alchemists in the past. However, new bitcoins (with new limited supplies) are introduced all the time.
Yes, I agree that the personality defect is a form of narcissism.

I think, though, that the narcissism mechanism acts a bit differently than you say.

I think he sees himself as a great man, a man who can see further than others, a man who gets things done and above all a man who makes deals. I’m not saying his is any those things, he’s not, just that this is how he narcissistically sees himself.

Interestingly, I think this disordered thinking is probably what makes him not give any shits about what other people think. Like, from his perspective he’s going to do a thing that will be unpopular because people are myopic, but eventually his results will be too obvious to ignore. Picture a narcissistic software engineer, they do the same thing. He does this very clumsily, because he is not actually a great man in the way he sees himself, and he has never made any attempt to work on his personality shortcomings, because narcissism.

To be absolutely clear, this is what I think is occurring in his mind, I am not personally saying that he is a great man etc. His self perception as that is just what drives how he acts.

Anyway, he does want Greenland. Taking Greenland would make him a major historical figure, from the perspective of a man (himself) who developed his sense of historical significance from literal school history books, not from any deep thinking. Physics phds want to be the guy in the physics textbook. He wants to be the guy in the history textbook. Annexing Greenland would give him that.

However, he will not use physical force to achieve that. I would put big money on that prediction. It doesn’t fit with his m/o. He is bluffing about using physical force, in order to strong arm Denmark into a purchase deal. Because, you know, he sees himself as a master deal maker. Doing a deal on Greenland would be a massive win for that aspect of his persona, in terms of that self belief being supported in the narcissistic sense.

Using physical force on Greenland would be literally insane, and if you listen to the man talk for a long enough time, as I have, he has shown signs of being many, many things, but being literally insane is not one of them. Nothing he has done so far has surprised me (with the exception of the Gulf of America, he did catch me off guard with that one).

His supporters don’t really care about Greenland. I think from their perspective, Trump does some pretty goofy stuff, but if he’s the guy who will do something about 1) the Mexicans and 2) the trade policies that created the rust belt, then he’s their guy.
The system’s been hijacked. The craft of real engineering—building sharp, efficient, elegant systems—is buried under layers of corporate sludge. It’s not about progress anymore; it’s about control. Turning users into cattle, draining every last byte, every last cent. Yeah, it sounds dramatic, but look around—we’ve already lost so much.

I’m running 24 threads at 5GHz, sipping data through a GB pipe, and somehow, sites still crawl. Apps hesitate like they need divine intervention just to start. Five billion instructions just to boot up? My 5GB/s NVMe too sluggish for a few megabytes of binary? What the hell happened?

The internet isn’t just bloated—it’s an executioner. It’s strangling new hardware, and the old hardware? That’s been dead for years. Sure, you can run a current through a corpse and watch it twitch, but that doesn’t mean it’s alive.
> and it is that system that would experience consciousness

This is not a common view, I'll just say that much. What happens if the man stops moving the rocks? Does the universe die? And if he starts again later? Is the universe conscious only in the instants where the rocks move or only when the man observes the outcome? My experience of consciousness doesn't seem compatible with something a bunch of rocks could feel if you moved them in the right way. And note importantly that this is something the rocks are doing on their own. The man could be moving them according to some set of rules which he doesn't understand, therefore the simple act of rocks moving creates life. I'm honestly astounded that you don't have anything in your experience of the world that you think wouldn't be felt by rocks that shift around in the right way.

> In other words, if you really want non-material souls to exist.

I don't want them to exist, I simply observe them existing. My experience of consciousness is not explained by any physical process. Physics can explain being which say they are conscious, but who hears me say it? A universe could be inhabited solely by chat bots, talking to eachother and claiming to be conscious, but there would be no one to observe that happening.
A less succinct way of phrasing it would be something like: which gametes are produced, were produced, or should have been produced.

There are messy edge cases. Not all people have 8 fingers and two thumbs, but we don't say digit count is on a spectrum because some people are born with more or less, or that some people have had digits amputated.

The vast, vast majority of people are not messy edge cases. And some of them find language like "pregnant people" or "people with protates" awkward and vaguely dehumanising as opposed to the more understandable and specific terms: "women" and "men".
Although the DOS version was compiled using Watcom C, so presumably they'd use Watcom's debugger for testing the DOS version.
You know this is a serious article written by someone who knows what they're talking about when it earnestly quotes Curtis Yarvin on its third paragraph /s
On the positive side, the use of P2P and IMAP makes censorship difficult, which is a strong advantage in authoritarian regimes.

However this comes with serious trade-offs. PGP lacks forward secrecy: if a key leaks, all past messages can be decrypted. Also IMAP offers no metadata privacy, anyone can see who you email and how often.

Signal and WhatsApp are likely a step ahead in terms of privacy with their double ratchet encryption (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Ratchet_Algorithm).