skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's unlikely given the internal strife inside that 48.3% (i.e. the "democratic" voters). The EU as a whole encompasses not only groups which are aligned with the current "democratic" party but also several groups which are more in line with the current Republican party line. Joining the EU would dilute the "democratic" vote and increase the power of those whom they consider to be "enemies of democracy".

I hope the "democratic" party burns down to ashes and that a new Democratic party will arise from those ashes, one which does not need to be put between quotes and which deserves the capital D. The same has happened with the Republican party which currently stands more united and stronger than they've been in a long time. While this may be good for them it is not good for the USA to have one of the two parties be in disarray for an extended period, the system is built around having the two main parties hold each other in check. The current "democratic" party has shown it does not have the capability to put up any believable sort of opposition against the Republicans which runs the risk of those Republicans getting delusions of grandeur. They need to be kept in check just like the "democratic" party needed to be - and was as a result of the last elections - kept in check.

So, Democrats, pick up your pitchforks and torches and burn the whole thing down so that something better may arise, preferably before 2028. Trump did the same to the Republican party, now it is your turn. Ditch the identity politics, get rid of the looney lefties, listen to your (potential) voters - and by that I do not mean only those with funny coloured hair in the humanities departments but especially those out in the boonies, those who never went to college - and please stop the absurd reductio-ad-Hitlerum and demonisation of anyone who dares to voice an opinion outside of what is tolerated in the hallowed halls of Harvard, Yale and Princeton.
Why? The rich can easily diversify where there money is located, so their country being invaded wouldn't impact their wealth to much. They can also flee more readily than anyone else as they probably have their own jet. It would protect their nice house(s) in that country, but how much is insurance from invasion worth...
It's actually the other way around. As a big fund looking to trade a large number of shares in the public market, you'll quickly realize that the market tends to move away from you, and statistically, you're more likely to get a bad deal than a good one. Even if you try to be smart about execution by splitting your orders into chunks, randomizing order sizes, and similar tactics, there is still a huge information asymmetry between you and more sophisticated players. In many cases, they can classify your orders based on different characteristics of your order flow (such as latency profile), distinguishing them from so-called toxic flow from other HFT firms.

The purpose of these private rooms is to separate your orders from those players so that you trade against other uninformed parties, making your chances of getting a good or bad deal closer to 50/50.
It has a plugin API. Should be easy to implement should you want it.
And sticking with tradition, zero screenshots of it on the announcement post.
Kudos! Am a huge proponent of learning the most useful hotkey combinations for any software one uses even semi-frequently. Such a massive time-saver.
There’s an opening, right? Right or wrong, our (USA) allies are a little skeptical of the us at the moment, and France does still have a defense industry. If they can kick it into high gear and start selling more arms to their fellow Union-members, Europe can arm itself, and France will get some nice middle class engineering jobs.

Seems great for everyone other than US defense contractors.
That's from 2006 and yet, France still roars along even without the rich who were apparently so un-attached to where they lived that they'd rather ditch the country than pay their taxes.

What exactly is the argument made by all these alarmist "who will think of the the wealthy"? Tax the rich and many leave, so you don't get as much tax revenue. Don't tax the rich and you just don't get the revenue. The implication in all these seems to be "well then why not just lower taxes so then the wealthy will grace us with their presence?"

Um, because they're not paying their fair share, and the few who leave don't lead to a net loss in tax revenue/economic prosperity, that's why.

Everything in that article seems quite twisted in its presentation. Quotes like the following:

> Eric Pinchet, author of a French tax guide, estimates the wealth tax earns the government about $2.6 billion a year but has cost the country more than $125 billion in capital flight since 1998.

The implication in that quote is "$2.6 gained but $125 lost, wow what a bad tax scheme", which is horribly irresponsible presentation. That's $2.6B/year in increased yearly tax revenues, but a loss of $125B/8 years (1998-2006) in capital, e.g. assets of some kind in the country. In most real-world cases where most of that flight happened early in those 8 years and the year-over-year capital flight goes down as folks acclimate to a tax regime, that's a totally acceptable trade off! In fact, that trade off might be a HUGE boon to France in the near term, let alone the long term. To actually know though, we need tons more information, information that isn't presented at all.

In short, bad article quotes rich guys who don't want to pay taxes saying "our life is so hard now that we've left a country that we liked but not enough to pay taxes on our insanely valuable assets, and that's actually hurting you more than us, so you should totally lower the tax rates on us."
Multiple kids + unexpected chronic health issues can quickly change this equation. And before you go judging someone for having multiple kids, consider that a) demographic collapse is probably very bad and we don't want our society to make having kids exceptionally hard, rather than the default norm and b) people may decide to have kids without expecting significant and rapid changes to inflation and cost of living.
Discussion on the original work (274 points, 14 days ago, 107 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43244739
It blows my mind that the cockroach db founders started this 29 years ago.

Amazing to see this release.
> This is because most of the non-technical retail customers don't value reliability too much. … Similarly, many users don't have much valuable, unique data on their computers. The most important stuff very often lives completely in the cloud, where it's properly backed up, etc.

There’s a contradiction here which I think is worth fully considering. People definitely do value their data – data recovery services have been getting revenue for decades from people who lost things they care about – but there’s been a market failure where operating system vendors left the users to fend for themselves, everyone agreed that was hard, and the majority of users quite rationally decided that cloud services were better than learning to be unpaid sysadmins.

What we should be asking is why this is all so hard. Local file systems with strong integrity checks and seamless replication onto attached storage should be so basic that people can just assume it’ll work without them having to spend time on it.
The article felt off to me, and trying to pinpoint why led me back to the core premise of it.

On the examples given, we're talking about building tools. The point of a new library is to integrate into projects, understand its model, adjust and maintain it (deal with the requirements, dependencies, upgrade cycle etc), so to me getting taught how to use it is only a small part of the story, and could be potentially irrelevant.

I've used brand new libraries that have absolutely no documentation and it was fine for me and the team.

What the article really focuses on is perhaps more akin to quick onboarding and marketing.

> what would be real-world products of comparable complexity?

A new car will be the same level of complexity. You see it as different if you focus on the simplest part of it (going from A to B), but even for driving a new car will effectively have a learning curve, he tires don't grip the same, the engine requires a different driving style, the length and volume might require adjustement as well. And that's only the tip of the iceberg, as you'll need to understand how it's wired, how the panels are assembled and what standards are used for the parts to maintain or adjust it to your needs. You'll need to dig deeper if you're planning on running it on tracks or races.

Settlers of Catan comes with a booklet because the rules are the game, and the whole point is to bind the players to the rules. That's generally not the case for building tools (except for DRM or license management?), surely not for a new language.
'Matrix,' 'Ocean's Eleven' producer files for bankruptcy, blames streaming
Curious what your retirement plan looks like…
When you tax wealth, like say land or stocks, if the person is illiquid, they have to sell their assets to pay the tax. I would imagine that markets would crash every tax cycle due to people trying to pay their tax obligation.
If they were necessary for funding the country's defence, it is likely that it will also break the borders. France can't tax them to raise money to re-arm if they aren't there.

Peace through poverty in Europe would be an interesting development I suppose.
It’s an interesting problem, that’s why.
Offline PKI using 3 Yubikeys and an ARM single board computer
That is impressive, but I’m also extremely sold on ARM viz. Apple Silicon. I haven’t touched a Windows laptop in years. The only thing that feels as snappy is my gaming desktop, and I would wager that my M4 Pro could probably beat it in pure computational power.
You might be interested in GitHub's State of the Octoverse report from 2020 that had a section dedicated to security of popular languages, active open source projects on GH with those languages, and the package managers for those platforms.

https://octoverse.github.com/2020/
You know what? Let them leave. If they have business here, are they going to close shop and forego this market? No, they aren't. Can we still tax them for what they remmit to whatever the place they are? Yes, we can.

And where they will go? Once a major developed nation starts being serious on taxing the billionaires, the others will follow soon, or more probably, they will even coordinate among themselves to harmonize their rates.

Yeah, they could go to some third world hellhole where they could bribe the authorities and live in a Pablo Escobar's style compound. Will they do it? Will they subject themselves to the judicial insecurity that abunds in those places? To politician that manage the incredible feat of being orders of magnitude even more corrupt than the ones we have in washington?

All western nations used to have far higher top marginal rates for income and inheritance taxes. Far less loopholes, and yet here we are.
Yes managerial blast radius is an order of magnitude larger, and ability to measure performance lower / more lagged.
Bmw would like a word: BMW M760Li xDrive V12 Final Edition
Cool idea. Genuinely. But it does not in any way guarantee that an injection attack like used here won’t work - unless it’s maintained as hex through the whole pipeline. In this case the (malformed) Unicode was sent to a command line call - if your hex text needed to be parsed to be understood on the command line, then your security plan would have failed.
There is only one scenario that remotely makes sense for why this would be even necessary and that's fleet vehicles with dash cams. Even in that case, there are way better approaches because there are dashcams designed for fleet usage that upload to central servers over WiFi.

Basically this scenario only makes sense if there is something horribly wrong elsewhere to the point that the only reasonable thing to do is fix things to involve a network, not to try to figure out how to scale a sneakernet operation.
I worked in a University lab during grad school, then worked in the private sector for 16 years, and have been back working on research software for the last four years. All I'll say is that the software world should not look at the research world for best practices on delivering software products, except maybe to do the exact opposite of what they do.
Got it; thanks for the tip!
You can see in that very video that it's not even an unsolved problem, it's an unaddressed problem. They currently handwave it away as "vent the molten rock" as if that is a solved problem.

At 6:34 in the video, they very briefly show a running test drill, and then cut immediately to the ceiling of the test chamber with a large specimen of rock wool.

That rock wool will completely clog any mechanism they could come up with. How do you reliably transport rock wool from 20 miles underground to the surface?

This project/company is a dead end unless they could magic away that problem.
Seems like it'd have to mean nationalizing some percentage of the corporations owned by the wealthy?
I mean gifts, a common way of evading inheritance taxes accross the world.
I switched from the Roku ecosystem to Nvidia Shield about a year ago because of Roku’s increasingly user hostile ad and tracking decisions and have been pretty happy with it. Android TV gives me enough control with a custom launcher that I can prevent ads.
> I've had mostly bad managers. Most of them maybe wrote code for a year or two and think they understand team dynamics and how to build software. They then burden a good running team with whatever cult processes of the day

One of the most incompetent women I've ever worked with, a sociopath and pathological liar who to my knowledge never wrote a single line of code, is now a senior manager at Google inflicting pain on some unknown team.

Don't hate the player, hate the game.
thanks, exactly.
Can someone use AI to model einsteins (Ulam's) spiral. I believe its related to emergent properties from seemingly random data. It even 3 dimensionally models our galaxy...
Telegram CEO allowed to leave France amid investigation
I made the mistake at a job once of getting a 16”. They offered both, and I figured why not go big? Except most of the time, it’s docked, so not like I need the screen, and when I have to travel, it’s difficult.

Learned my lesson; never again.
* The header is a fixed length.

* You can't fragment packets.

* The redundant checksum header was removed.

* No more private addressing (unless you're a glutton for punishment).

* No more NAT (see above).

* Simpler routing.

* Doesn't require DHCP.

It benefits hugely from the lessons learned with IPv4.
I agree it would probably be something mobile-first that does it, since those carriers all(?) support v6.
Columbia University Revokes Degrees of Pro-Palestinian Student Protesters
If they dont call it G-Wiz afterwords i'm disappointed in google's culture.
There is a strong correlation between success for children and fathers being present. Whereas children raised by mothers only face many additional challenges, children raised primarily by fathers are only minimally disadvantaged compared to children in nuclear families.

So, JP aside, there may be some truth to that analysis.
Yeah? So, they are going to take their factories? They are leaving the biggest consumer markets to sell their trinkets in the giant Costa Rican market?
Small discussion (25 points, 7 days ago, 17 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43316590
Tape is a way to get volume. Through easily spooled layers. Not fast access but otherwise not unreasonable. Plus tapes stored outside of the drive.

Another way to look at it: "and yet here we are". Tape is still what has led to the highest density so far (depending how much storage you look at, and cost tradeoff). But also cost tradeoff of separating the drive from the medium. which hasn't really worked: LTO tapes are pro supplies - and so, expensive.
If those fixes take years to get released, that's not really a good thing. One year with bug fixes is typically okay unless you're dealing with hardware.
In all fairness, a bad programmer can do a lot of damage. They can create attack vectors, destroy data and cause production outages. None of that is good. There are things in place to prevent that, but if those also fail, it'll be a busy week. Ask Crowdstrike.

https://ezo.io/blog/crowdstrike-outage-and-the-blue-screen-o...

Bad managers can also lead to a lot of bad programmers because all the good ones left. I reckon a bad manager is a multiplier of bad programmers. Bad is just bad no matter what level you are in.
Slack has a ton of auditing controls built in to the enterprise version: https://api.slack.com/admins/audit-logs-call#channel
hm... so a tech startup making millions in profits (tiny office for 10 people) should pay less taxes than a grocery store that barely breaks even?

I am not sure I'd agree.
For this list, its about opportunity costs. I look at my life expectancy, and what I want to do and what areas I can reasonably obtain.
It’s better for me to focus on those areas I can maximize enjoyment and avoid frustration. It also allows me to avoid getting drawn into projects because someone thinks I know something.

I love certain foreign languages, and have studied them, but I’ll seriously never get good speaking them based on my limitations, and where I live, and I have no plans to ever go to those countries.

I love road bike bicycling, but I’m too afraid of being on the road now-a-days with people on cell phones and their not concentrating on driving. I do still think about time trials on an isolated road.

I’ve reduced my goal of becoming a chess senior master to a chess master. That is good enough.

No python for me, R/Julia is good enough.

No need for world travel, been to a lot of places.

Oh! One project I will do in 2025, I have my dad’s lathe and will turn out a nice wooden chess set. But, it’s not about building a chess set, but being with the memories of my dad.
Call it GNU IMP if it bothers you
Pretty dope concept. I bought a standing desk last year and use the adhesive strips that came with it but some of them have lost their stickiness.

I wonder how many people here on HN will get outraged about nipples.
OMG yes! This inability to just turn it on and be reliably playing a game in less than 30 seconds is the major reason I haven't upgraded to the current generation of consoles. It's especially bad for those of us who get busy with other things and may not boot the console up for weeks or even a month or two. Then it's almost certain I'll get hit with a mandatory OS upgrade and then a game upgrade. And then there's the drag of glacial install speeds, the need to create and manage user accounts, constant DLC pitches - it's become the opposite of fun.

In response, we've gone all in on retro gaming and it's a blast. The games are great and we get to spend >99% of our play time... playing.
Are There Age and Sex Differences in Personality and Intelligence?
This is one of the reasons why—although university admissions and financial aid has lots of paperwork—there is still a major human element.

This is explicitly mentioned on the FAFSA's web site: https://studentaid.gov/help/reporting-special-financial-circ...
Please can Australia join these initiatives. We have the same issues but are too small to do it ourselves.
Pretty superficial.

And no mention of the much-hyped "Minority Report" UI that failed spectacularly for obvious reasons.
Gimp is amazing and like Blender has replaced my use of proprietary tools in the area of 2D and 3D editing.

My wishlist for GIMP 4 is to see AI tooling integrated by default:

- Image generation that will do completions based on prompts on arbitrary areas. Something like this: https://www.adobe.com/ca/products/photoshop/generative-fill....

- AI super-resolution. There are a lot of options now that can dramatically improve sharpness, akin to Topaz Gigapixel: https://www.topazlabs.com/gigapixel

- Meta's segment anything integrated so that there is no need to painstakenly select objects. https://segment-anything.com (Does it support sub-pixel fuzzy selections?). It would also label everything in the model, which leads to...

- Built-in model context protocol (MCP) support to allow for automated control by agentic AI. (See what is possible with Blender: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqgKuLYUv00)

Of course it should only download the models the first time someone needs them.
How you expect people to pay to review your project?

You're missing something, and that's business development. Get a non-technical team member to work along.
In another level: How many software developers are forgoing job offers in California due to it being a state with income tax?
English is not my mother tongue and while I speak and write it quite well, such nuances escape me.

Thanks for the clarification. Appreciate it. <3
Again with the competitions, haha. But I mean, yeah - in a scenario where you only have one shot to recommend a piece of free software to someone, and are trying to avoid their startled retreat back into the walled garden, I'd also give 'em Krita.

Nevertheless, both are wonderful pieces of software! I'm not a graphics pro but do find myself editing images quite regularly, and I usually reach for GIMP as it's more familiar to me. Krita on the other hand has a great brush engine, so if I feel like drawing something, I go for that.

Also, of course, whichever one has GMIC on that particular day! Some of the stuff in that plugin is absolutely wild. Usually that means Krita again, though iirc at some point it was broken there for some time, but I found it for GIMP...

Btw, anyone know if there's a Rebelle Mixbox-style color mixing feature for either of the two?
Many events we celebrate as major achievements can be traced back to a group of people consciously violating the social contract, and succeeding to establish more rights for themselves using force.

I honestly don't know how to answer, because if you think long enough, you'll come to the conclusion that all rules are arbitrary, and everything could be questioned. Yet at the same time in practice we can agree on at least some basic principles of how the society should function. It's just incredibly difficult to formulate these principles in a manner that would be useful for logical reasoning.

I think what actually irked me was that many people say they believe in freedom of speech, but actually define it as "seeing others agree with me". I think that Reddit's "unpopular opinion" community is prime example of such attitude, where people say they value unpopular opinions, but actually promote popular ones.
Fully open Debian Linux VMs (and possibly Windows VMs via GrapheneOS) are coming to Android 16, which can run desktop GUI apps in those VMs. Already shipping in Android 15 on Pixel devices.

ISV/app misuse of remote attestation does not preclude valid use cases under device owner control. Android Virtualization Framework is the first step in reducing the over-broad conflation of device measurements with "security". It can lead to narrower measurements and attestation of specific OS components , while opening up other components to user modification without "breaking" device verification.
It's been quite sometime since I have heard the term "lamer", but I remember it being a ubiquitous insult in the BBS scene in the early to mid 90s.
What actionfromafar said. If we lose the rule of law in the US, and the rules-based international order, it will be a very different world.

Technology: GPT is at least part of a revolution. It will, I think, be less than people hype it to be, but more than nothing.

Sociology/society/culture: There is a massive vote against the future right now. It's in the deaths of despair. It's in the lack of children. It's in the epidemic of loneliness. Something is fundamentally broken, and it's breaking our society. (Or maybe society is fundamentally broken, and it's breaking us.) If nobody wants the future that they see, then some kind of revolution is likely.