skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there are a bunch of things about tax you don't quite understand yet - I recommend you find a financial planner who can help you navigate this.

Firstly, it's trivial for a business not to pay tax; simply don't make a profit. (Since you can simply assign any excess to yourself as salary.)

Of course you then gave a personal income tax question; and that has its own complications.

Staying with business; and assuming it makes a profit, you then have choices regarding where to register the company. At the one extreme you have zero-tax places (Isle of Man, Jersey et al) but they come with fixed high annual costs. (Not a "tax" - just payments for services.) Your choice is typically one of these, or the place you live, or the country of your passport.

Things like banking play a role. When you can't visit your bank it gets harder to resolve issues (like when they freeze the account because of money-laundering concerns.)

All this to say, Tax planning is complicated. And if you insist on playing games it gets very complicated. The internet I'd not the place to get advice. You need to speak to a professional, or more likely a professional in all the places that matter. If you are a US passport holder even more so.
You can't leave out Bob Dylan's influence with introducing the band to marijuana, as well as Jimi Hendrix not making it big in the US, and being "shipped" to the UK to start the Jimi Hendrix Experience. That didn't just have a big effect on The Beatles, but acid rock/psychedelia as a whole. You also had Black Sabbath taking blues music and downtuning it, and playing it slower, all due to Tony Iommi's work accident where he lost his finger tips. Modern metal music owes a TON to Black Sabbath, especially styles that play slower, like doom metal and all its various sub-genres. There was a lot of sharing between countries, and I think that is why the music is so closely tied together (along with the entire psychedelic movement).
Damn, I was working on the same thing but I got caught on implementing LaTeX-compatable <math> support and bitmap/svg diagram drawing. (https://files.catbox.moe/25hxc3.zip) Also I used emscripten to embed a PNG encoder into the browser

The UI of this is a lot better though, for markup-style tasks.
Someone's cutting onions. I couldn't finish reading it to my wife, that was a great person. I can barely finish this comment. Thanks for that link.
Phrasing it that way makes me think of how the Scots were driven off their land to work in factories.
> in c or go if you dont like variadics just pass in a params struct.

Which, again, is fine if your language supports named args for your params struct.

C++ didn't have this until C++20, despite C having it for decades prior.

Java still doesn't have this.

If your language doesn't have named args or designated initializers or whatever it calls them, then what, perform your function calls with argument comments of the form f(/*foo=*/1, /*bar=*/2, /*baz=*/true)? That's error-prone even in the best-case scenario.
thank you pseudokid!
Great, but how do you imagine multimodal with text, video. Just 2 for simplicity, what will be in the training set. With text model tries to predict next, then more steps were added. But what to do with multimodal?
It's a zero-sum game. People don't understand this: https://community.intercoin.app/t/intercoin-compared-to-the-...

I guess advertising is too, in the limit. So a lot of the business model on the web is also not much value to society.
Why not enforce anti-trust law?
Attacker rings harsh, and very limp. "The Adversary" is a common occult, religious and Biblical term for the Devil, Satan. The Hebrew word Satan means "the adversary". That's why it's funny and appropriate, lol!

brief bibliography - https://web.archive.org/web/20250316045952/https://pastebin....
It's not free. Regardless of what the original intention was two decades ago, Google is putting everyone under mass surveillance and their manipulative algorithmic feeds are threatening our democracy. That's an enormous cost all of us are paying right now. If people don't like that, good luck trying to avoid it. Youtube is now so pervasive that not using it effectively means not participating in society.

But yeah, why not also attach our payment information to our watch history to make it even more efficient for Google to keep on what it's doing right now?
At some point, they're going to make "fuck the judges, ignore and proceed" the official and stated policy. I'm frankly surprised this has not (really) happened yet. Guess they have to boil the frog just a little longer.
My free idea, as others have put theirs, is why hasn’t Lego made their “Minecraft.” It goes hand in hand with Lego. Blocks. Creative. Building infinite things. Whimsical. Etc.

The Lego/Fortnite integrations are the closest we have to this but even those are far from what it could be.
Works pretty slick for me. Are you considering adding things like super sampling for anti-aliasing and alternate coloring methods like triangle inequality, etc?
Looks Great ad a freeform note taking tool / blogging tool

I would like to understand more how this works -- where the data is stored esp if I were to self host it.
> prefer to get stuff for free rather than paying for it

This is how you describe a glorified VCR?
Already went through this stupid exercise 10 years ago with Trudeau's fiasco that wasted a decade and billions just to fly Australia's junkyard

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_F-35_Lightning...
Nirvana were influenced by some large bands that are still around to this day, like The Melvins. Nirvana just happened to have tweaked their sound and been in the right place at the right time. I do enjoy Nirvana, but bands like The Melvins have a far large catalog, and there were quite a few other bands that influenced Nirvana that kept going. Nirvana did often shout out these other bands, but people were too hooked on MTV back then, and weren't as willing to look up the bands they would mention.
> Specifically, YC in its letter points to Apple reportedly delaying its LLM-powered version of Siri until 2027, years after competitors brought generative AI voice assistants to market

Apple reportedly delayed its iPhone until 2007, years after competitors brought smartphones to market.
Also Lawrence Keeley, War Before Civilization
With all likelihood anyone still producing commercial (or free!) software today, or in the last 40 years, has users that they would love to see eaten by crows.
I mean - of course the entirety of financial markets are not zero sum - it would indeed be almost lunacy to claim that :) My point is that there's a big part of the financial markets that _are_ zero-sum - not that all financial markets are. One can argue about EMH and that the zero-sum games are in fact injecting information into the market by providing better price discovery, and that is indeed an argument - but one is left with the intellectually unsatisfying statement of "Well, anything the market does is information extraction, and the market is an information extraction machine, so prima facie, it works" - which is basically restating the EMH axiom.

For example, the added value provided by sub-millisecond arbitrage between NY and Chicago - while making the prices converge a fraction of a millisecond faster, makes the overall set of people playing that game in excess of 1B USD in aggregate. I'd argue that such a ratio of profit vs value-added gain is very bad, bordering on 0 - thus making that effectively a zero-sum game.
Well as long as you don't know who owns the copyright and/or make an assumption that they'd be cool with it, must be good to go.
Personally, I don't use multiple APs with overlapping SSIDs, but if I did than I can see how it would be easier to deal with the logic from the AP management side rather than the client. It's also nice to not have to re-connect IoT things if/when you add or change your APs.
They're not talking about yt-dlp itself though.

But if they were, they probably would agree that it never should have been posted to HN, not even the first time they saw it on HN.

Not publishing at all would obviously be incorrect. You know they're not saying that.
While I’m sympathetic to the “people working hard to build out ad markets instead of cancer research” argument, I only believe in a weak version of this.

Why? I have met many “smart with computers” people. Many of them have terrible people skills, don’t show up to things on time, are unable to keep their workspace clean, don’t know how to explain anything, and cry about how they can absolutely never ever be interrupted because their workspace is so hard. There are also people who are “good at it all”, of course, but I have the impression that the math/computer people tend to be fairly unwilling to deal with even mild inconveniences.

People who can barely deal with the tyranny of daily standups probably would struggle a lot in a world where you need to write grant proposals continuously to justify your existence.

I’m being glib for effect, but there’s so much involved in getting work done beyond “being smart”!

Besides… it’s not like the reason we don’t do more cancer research is because smart people didn’t go into that. “Cancer research” is limited by funding for positions into that domain!

So “this quant should have been a cancer researcher” is saying “this person who decided to become a quant will be a better cancer researcher than a cancer researcher who went into that domain directly”. I don’t know the prestige vectors there but it’s a stretch in my book!
Currently it is built for mac platform with roadmap planned for windows and linux. Will look forward to your feedback.
Ne Zha 2's $2B+ Box Office Run
We Should Worry When Kids Don't Show Up at School
I just tried your URL on my WhatsApp and it shows up exactly as in the preview from the tool.
My experience is is has to be the full URL with https:// and it only shows the first link, and it sometimes gets confused when you have multiple links in a message and shuffle them around/delete some of them.
I think it runs pretty well for something in the browser but I can see what you mean. Is there a decent program that runs efficiently outside of the browser?
Related Nezha 2 becomes highest-grossing animated film globally (26 points, 24 days ago, 17 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43116403
I played both Blockland and Roblox when they were new games and funny thing is that Blockland was the more commercialized version.

However Roblox was pretty barebones in comparison. I preferred Blockland. There were a decent number of players.

Eventually I got bored and a few months later, the first versions of survival Minecraft came out and my friends and I switched over.

It was wild to see many years later after I long stopped caring to see that Roblox had “won.”
Speedy Cutover Service, SXS switching cutover to ESS [video]
FWIW, 100% is unrealistic, as you would hire a personal assistant to do these kinds of tasks, and the personal assistant can be scammed, blackmailed, make stupid mistakes, or even be a foreign double agent. The problem is that, right now, AI models have more like the level of world-knowledge of a toddler, and so it is absolutely trivial to give them confusing instructions that they happily believe without much question.

But like, let's say you wanted to hire random, minimum wage level gig economy workers (or you wanted to leave your nephew in charge of the store for a moment while you handle something) to manage your mail... what would you do to make that not a completely insane thing to do? If it sounds too scary to do even that with your data, realize people do this all the time with user data and customer support engineers ;P.

For one, you shouldn't allow an agent--including a human!!--to just delete things permanently without a trace: they only get to move stuff to a recycle bin. Maybe they also only get to queue outgoing emails that you later can (very quickly!) approve, unless the recipient is on a known-safe contact list. Maybe you also limit the amount or kind of mail that the agent can look at, and keep an audit log of all of the search queries it accessed. You can't trust a human 100%, and you really really need to model the AI as more similar to a human than a software algorithm, with respect to trust and security behaviors.

Of course, with an AI, you can't hold anyone accountable really; but like, frankly, we set ourselves up often such that the maximum level of accountability we can assign to random humans is pretty low, regardless. The reason people can buy "unlock codes" for their cell phones is because of unaligned agents working in call centers that lie in their reports, claiming the customer that merely called asking a silly question--or who merely needed to reboot their phone--in fact asked for an unlock code for a cell phone (or other similar scam).
6 HR Game Build – StonkMKT Tariff Edition
Short story - built this Galaga themed game in 6 hours using cursor and Replit. Intended to be a silly play on the current market environment.

Long story - been home sick from my day job with COVID since Wednesday and went down the rabbit hole of stories like Peter Levels and others. I thought it would be a fun idea to see how far I could build something similar using only the free/cheapest versions of both cursor and replit, and well, this is the result. I fully acknowledge that the UI is trash, but I am pretty surprised with the overall output.
As of now Seether has > 1B plays on Spotify - can’t be that obscure or forgotten…
You shouldn’t need an extension just to add a keyboard shortcut for a menu item. Doesn’t your OS let you map that? On macOS you can in Keyboard Settings
they seem to still exist but have pivoted from AI safety, fairness, responsible AI etc., to reducing ideological bias

https://www.wired.com/story/ai-safety-institute-new-directiv...

(oh yay, government is keeping us safe from woke AI...eye roll)
The Defer Technical Specification: It Is Time
> but DOS is simple enough that it's easy to make additional copies of it (two kernel files, and one shell); in that era, I'd make all my floppies bootable.

Depending on your machines, we may have looped back to that point in the form of
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40914761 - 20MB in one file is all it takes to carry around a UEFI bootable Linux system on every USB drive you own.
Might be different with a SUNY PhD or another trading firm on the resume.

I don't think they'd ever call someone like me back, not that I'd ever be able to pass a coding round with them.
> Also look at how violent humans are to their own species.

Species is a construct though, our genes have no idea about species.

Also I think that organisms feel most threatened by same-niche competitors, and least threatened by non-competitors. Similar but just different enough is like the worst case in terms of same-niche competition. Like how geese and ducks will act really adversarial towards each other, and then a beaver can just wander through and no one cares.
So I follow steps 1-4 but don't see what triggered step 5, if they indeed just did an orphan commit outside of releases or main branch?
Centurion - 100m / 330 feet, Eucalyptus regnans, 1.5hr south of Hobart, tallest flowering tree.
I genuinely don't think people that went to Exeter and Harvard (or MIT or Stanford or Penn or other JS feeder schools) see the rest of us as human unless there's another common factor like being employed by Jane Street and having those quirky hobbies the rest of them do - and then they rationalize it away by saying that the exceptions didn't apply to top schools, or were admitted but didn't attend for "financial reasons".

People like me are "NPCs" in their parlance.
One of my favorites in this space is Feather Wiki: https://feather.wiki/
I found the list of superlative trees more interesting. I had no idea there were organisms other than fungus that grew to this scale. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pando_(tree)
Why Hasn't Silicon Valley Fixed the Bay Area's Problems?
That's pretty funny (and on the money), because I almost mentioned Gangnam Style as an increasingly rare example of a generationally-known hit.

And even that was what, 10 years ago?
Another online SQLite viewer HTTPS://tablesviewer.com/SQLite-viewer/
They realized they could afford it by selling one additional Lego set.
I wonder if the attempts to replace parts of the network stack with FOSS ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38550026 ) would help with this? At the very least it would let you get more visibility into what's going on when things don't work, and in the best case it'd let you replace the firmware that's creating problems with firmware that doesn't have those problems. (I think.) Of course this depends on the bits you replace being the parts in play.
Use Gemini Flash 2 instead and call it from either your local computer or digital ocean droplet.

Should nearly eliminate your costs.

You could even write an phone app and do a notification.
Having a protocol for working with a black box is fine. The problem is how bad a lot of people are at differentiating between superstition, a black box, and a process with a well understood mechanism.
wimlib the open source Windows Imaging (WIM) library
@supakeen found a spelling mistake at the end of the first para

> seriously, open up a device and changes are relatively large that you’ll find one

s/changes/chances
Some more free advice, in no particular order:

* Try to get at least one job offer every year, even if you don't accept it.

* Look at the requirements for your dream job and figure out what you need to learn to qualify.

* Pick one skill and get very good at it. Spend an hour a day on it for a year.

* Steer away from skills like web development that are clearly getting eaten by LLMs.

* Look for work in major U.S. tech hubs like the Bay Area. Pay is better and network effects are strong, so your next job will be easier to get.
So how many Melania coins did he buy?
Ask HN: Circa 1998 AI Storyteller Article
Around 1998 or 1999 I read a long-form article about an AI e-mail fiction bot. I may be misremembering aspects, but it detailed how you could e-mail this bot with prompts and it would respond with further details about the story, a futuristic interactive choose-your-own story service, which in retrospect was likely alluding to a Turing Test bot. The article deftly let you assume this was a new technology that was being reported on, but then admitted at the end that it didn't exist... yet. That that day has come. For over 25 years I've regularly thought back to that article, but I've never been able to find it. It may have been on Salon, Wired, or possibly Usenet. I can't remember. Does anybody remember this?
Nailed it. I used to gather with friends for Game of Thrones every Sunday, but now there's really nothing with that kind of widespread appeal.

People used to do this with Friends, Melrose Place, Sex and the City...

It really doesn't look very fun now. Everyone is face-down in their phones even when they're together and "out." I'm so glad to have grown up at the time where we developed mastery of technology but are not enslaved by it. Childhood, or at least adolescence, looks pretty uninteresting and shitty now across all kinds of demographics.
One option for those so inclined is to cryptographically sign commits with a key that lists both work and personal email address (assuming your enterprise’s policy allows it). The employer retains control but you have a claim to credit for your work.
Adding an edit button to my static site on mobile
Cool but all you really needed to do was fix the contract between NewActionDeleteObject’s struct creation and the switch statements result = print. What’s really crazy is you can create anonymous structs to unmarshal json without having to fully flesh out data models thanks to its “we’ll only map the fields we see in the struct” approach. Mapstructure takes this even further with squash. In the end, the type checker missed the error because it was user error by contract and that, due to lack of validation that the actions were constructed properly, resulted in a rabbit hole debugging session that ended with an excellent blog post about the gotchas of unmarshaling.
Which cancellations caused these?
really, just like we had a "you don't need jquery for that" we need a "you don't need react (or vue, or svelte, or whatever else you are thinking) for that."

plain, vanilla js and some decent skills will do nearly almost everything in a cleaner and more maintainable way.

after decades of maintaining other people's stuff, dumb design by smart people beats all the other combinations.
You can levy plenty of criticism at finance. But they certainly take smart kids from wherever they can get them (for certain jobs; for others you need certain polish).
I'm not sure we're understanding each other so just to be clear, my suggestion is to change from this (pseudo) C:

wifi_connection_config_t config = {
.ssid = "my_home_wifi",
.password = "secret123",
/*
implicitly initialised to default:
.method = CONNECT_TO_THE_FIRST_AP_THAT_RESPONDS,
*/
}

to

wifi_connection_config_t config = {
.ssid = "my_home_wifi",
.password = "secret123",
/* explicitly initialise: */
.method = CONNECT_TO_THE_AP_WITH_THE_STRONGEST_RSSI,
}

It's that simple.
Money and value are different things.
> Look for work in major U.S. tech hubs like the Bay Area. Pay is better and network effects are strong, so your next job will be easier to get.

Jobs and the network effects happen all across the country. As you get older and maybe don't want the grind, or have a family, or just want a better work/life balance, this will become apparent.

Basically, always have at least two people who will support you for your next job.
Another strategy I like for groceries is walking to the store during my "lunch" break each day. It's never busy, you get used to the layout and can shop faster, it's easier to only choose ripe produce and to be selective with temporal price variations, it makes it easier to plan meals around produce that's ripening faster than you want, and you don't have the chore of dealing with a whole basket of groceries.

It still takes 2+ hours of work every week, but I was going to be walking or doing some sort of light exercise eventually anyway, and the mental break helps with focus on coding the second half of the day.
China urges CK Hutchison to 'think twice' on Panama ports deal
https://archive.is/12Lyk
And were always one cyclone (hurricane) away from extinction.
I love this. Once made a pdf editor by converting a doc to HTML then throwing in contenteditable="true" in the top-most div lol
I suggest you look at the distances, I am only pointing to the possibility in a scenario of a non-participating usa
It "feels" different to be "me".

Then because we are social animals, we presume without evidence that this is the same for other people as well.

We (most of us anwyay) don't form social bonds with machines, so there lies the difference.

There's a difference, but "merely" a social one.
This is a cool project! Reminds me of `hollywood`[1], but specifically geared towards programming. It'll be a useful tool in my arsenal of "things to run to impress non-terminal-users".

[1] https://a.hollywood.computer/
Sorry but this is a shit definition.

You’ve defined scamming people, a totally voluntary error, as creative not extractive.

You’ve also defined building roads as extractive not creative.

I think you’re latching onto some very misguided principles.
Sure. 95% of software development is banging rocks together until they fit the purpose anyways.
Would really appreciate if you could add some options for download quality(with webm merge for 4k support), gave it a go and it just by default downloads the 360p MP4.
I've been doubling down on mine as well rather than pursue a more traditional career path and I feel the same way.
I'm sure that's true, but I specifically referred to Western music found on music charts. Obviously I knew the assertion is wide open for attack on the "legitimacy" idea, but I think an objective analysis of hit-song structure would reveal trends that support the idea of optimal "catchiness."