skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
thanks for playing and for the feedback!
You think? I only see jobs for people who are specialized in something
I did a little maths on this at some point. If you divide the government's revenue by how many acres are in the US, it turns in to ~2,200$ per acre. Not too shabby.

If you charge 3,000$ an acre, assuming everyone could pay it (big assumption), you'd be able to eliminate income tax and turn the budget deficit into a surplus of $290 billion with no changes to spending. Nice!

The real number would be higher for reasons I glossed over like the fact >25% of the acreage in the US is probably unproductive for the purposes of an LVT (national parks, the plot your city hall sits on, etc.)

Who loses? Well, Ted Turner big time. Many large farms probably wouldn't be thrilled. I don't feel _that_ bad for Ted but the farm thing might be concerning.

I also think retirees/lower middle class rural folks would get absolutely shafted. Imagine this being instituted the year you retire. You've been paying 30% income taxes all your life, you move out to a dirt cheap 10 acre plot in the Missouri wilderness, and you _still_ have to pay 30,000$ a year. Your property taxes would have been about 200$ the year prior. Ouch.

This would force a lot of rural poor onto smaller plots. I do not imagine this would be popular with them. So maybe you weight the price more towards the urban areas? Possibly could work. A big buff to van life arbitrage I guess lmao.
It's the complete opposite for me — there are no animations in Firefox even with uBlock Origin disabled, but Brave shows them fine.

The browser console spams this link: https://react.dev/errors/418?invariant=418

edit: looks like it's caused by a userstyles extension injecting a dark theme into the page; React doesn't like it and the page silently breaks.
https://archive.today/bvrBq

https://web.archive.org/web/20250313014434/https://www.bchyd...

https://web.archive.org/web/20250313200526/https://goelectri...
It's really sad e.g. when you look at the browser you've been using for years and know that the manifest that was introduced "for your safety" is really introduced for their income
It is pretty obvious that every use of that word is to communicate a stance that is allergic to free markets.

A moat by definition has such a large strategic asymmetry that one cannot cross it without a very high chance of death. A functioning SEC and FTC as well as CFPB https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_Financial_Protection_... are necessary for efficient markets.

Now might be the time to rollout consumer club cards that are adversarial in nature.
Also, if you were really concerned about this then maybe you wouldn’t back a guy who fired everyone who might say no and replace them with yes men. I mean Pete Hegseth is explicit about this in the military.
> > Uyghur volunteers

"Volunteers" eh? That's one way to put it.
He's in the Oval Office, has the ear of the POTUS, and is having a major impact on both domestic and foreign policy. Only a fool would stop paying attention to him.
Absolutely love the sound design on this.
The Triangle of power explanation of logarithms is what really got me across logs.

It wasn't until seeing the triangle and having the relationships explained that I had any clue about logarithms, up until then logs had been some archaic number that meant nothing to me.

Because of the triangle of power, I now rock up to B and B+ Trees and calculate the number of disc accesses each will require in the worst case, depending on the number of values in each block (eg, log2(n), log50(n) and log100(n))
Can't I just put an conventional alarm clock across the room and get the same results? No app or smartness required.
ARM Cortex based ones exceed 1GHz [1]. Although, maybe the definition of microcontroller is a bit fuzzy these days.

[1] https://www.mouser.com/c/semiconductors/integrated-circuits-...
> How so? I don't have to pay to read most websites. To read most books I have to pay (or a library has to pay and I have to wait to get the book).

"or" does a lot of work, even ignoring that I'd already linked you to a page about deposit libraries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_deposit

Fact is, you can read books for free, just as you can read (many but not all) websites for free. And in both cases you're allowed to use what you learned without paying ongoing licensing fees for having learned anything from either, and even to make money from what you learn.

> Not quite. They had to chop the spines off books and have humans feed them into scanners.

Your statement is over 20 years out of date: https://patents.google.com/patent/US7508978B1/en
Lol and I wondered why it came back light after reload. It was really fun after you got past the UX hurdles! Pity there aren't more online.
That great infographic at the top illustrates one big reason why 'dev instances in the cloud' is a bad idea.
I'm still waiting for the clothes-folding robot.
Over 200 years "shit happens"... the argument. We are still working less and the hours didn't get filled with other work.
what do you mean by drains?
You can get better in a Mercedes, but it ain't cheap. Tesla ADAS isn't all that it made out to be: it's mostly very aggressive, which imo makes it more dangerous, especially to others. No wonder Tesla owners took the "most dangerous drivers" crown from Bimmer owners.
Quantum physics tells us all particles are waves, so it’s possible that the amount of water will be negative in some point in time, as long as the average value is not negative. ;-)
That database architects blog is a great read.
I'm talking about bad designs. Grandparent mentions Figma, this is who I'm talking about.

Developers have to work on the app the whole day and they know when a design is bad for long term usage. Either by doing manual testing, or even when automating it.

UX people dictating the designs will rely on instinct even when developers complain that a design is inefficient. Or even for visual design things like excessive padding getting in the way of making the apple useable. IME, YMMV.

If you're talking about inexperienced/unemphatic developers being in charge of UX alone: well, yeah, that will happen too.
tortoise-tts*
This has been going on for awhile now, and is partially why job hunting has gotten so bad.

Similar to RNA interference in Cellular networks, the same thing is occurring on both parties of communications that typically happen in job hiring scenarios.

What are the incentives and who would benefit?

Certainly a nation-state following a regime-change playbook similar to the CIA would benefit from sabotage, espionage, and all that. Demoralize, Destabilize, Bring to Crisis, and Renormalize are the various stages.

Aside from that, Recruiters and professional headhunters have profit incentive to engage in these things since their services become more valuable as the noise floor increases.

This is a simple indirect imposition of additional cost on all companies seeking hiring candidates. By polluting the current candidate pool to the point of no return, the only alternative are recruiters.

The cost to do this used to be extremely high which is why it wasn't done in the past, with AI/LLMs the cost is negligible in comparison.

People today didn't want to listen about the knock-on effects of AI being generally available. Integration is happening rapidly, and the bridges have now been burnt.

Problems will only build and get worse until the instability that caused these dynamics in the first place is removed, the same general rule as any chaotic or stochastic system (such as weather/storms).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43327638
Elon Musk claims - without evidence. Trump claimed the 2020 election was stolen from him, without evidence. At this point in time, if you believe a word this serial liar says then that's on you.
Trojan Source Attacks (2023)
Background:

1) The Republicans have enough votes to pass a budget... but they can't agree on one.

2) The Republicans in the House instead passed a continuing resolution (CR) to keep funding the government temporarily while they figure out a budget they can agree on, but also put some things in there like ceding some power of the purse to DOGE, tax cuts, et c.

3) All of this happened super last-minute.

4) For procedural reasons, the Republicans in the Senate need Democrats to help them bring the CR to a vote (they could pass an actual budget without them, if the House had passed one).

5) Some Senate Democrats are already hesitant about resisting even this CR with its multiple poison pills, so the Republicans could almost certainly get a fairly "clean" CR through with Democratic help if they brought one. Or they could pass an actual budget that they all agree on, and get that through without Democrats at all. Instead, this is what they've brought, and at last check enough Democrats weren't planning to help them that it's not going anywhere unless that changes.

6) Also, see again point #3, and plus the House went on recess right after passing this, LOL.
In the article it says it's based on origin, but Tesla is singled out. Ford currently is still eligible for the rebate.
How would a person know that without having considered it?
> I remember being told to 'specialize in something' when I first started. Looking back I think this is terrible advice.

You just have to specialize in something that will be relevant for 20 years.

Worst case scenario, at least you'll learn about survivorship bias. :)
Good points. PlanetScale's durability and reliability are built on replication - MySQL replication - and all the operational software we've written to maintain replication in the face of servers coming and going, network partitions, and all the rest of the weather one faces in the cloud.

Replicated network-attached storage that presents a "local" filesystem API is a powerful way to create durability in a system that doesn't build it in like we have.
It's a land value tax, not a land tax. Rural acres are worth a lot less and taxed a lot less.
20 physicists discussed a scenario which demands a solar system scale device to initiate a physical phase transition which destroys the universe, and guess what: they don't agree if it's possible.
The US doesn't have that kind of geographic inaccessibility. Cliven Bundy is alive, not because the US couldn't locate him, not because the US couldn't reach that location with overwhelming force, but because the US decided that killing him was a less optimal move than letting him be an annoyance for a while, and eventually arresting and trying him.
There's a common belief, especially among older people -- and not just employers -- that the natural way of things is for there to be a larger number of workers competing for a smaller number of jobs, and if that ratio gets flipped, something's gone wrong. They consider it unseemly for the worker to have the upper hand, especially if it might raise prices for them.
I wonder what on earth these people are dreaming of when they try to stop one person promoting a book by making a move guaranteed to kick off the Streisand Effect and having the whole media machine do it for her?

Maybe they're getting paid royalties on the publication?

Also, .torrent file available on TPB in 3 2 1 ... (It wasn't at time of posting).
What's slow about regex? A properly optimised regex engine ought to be very efficient (if used sensibly, at least).
Microsoft Copilot falls down completely when it comes to citing things: even when the answer is correct, the cited documents frequently don't say what it says they do.
C/C++ also have various sanitizers but they are generally not used in production. Is Zig's allocator usable in production or only while developing?
According to this scheme, if you find a bug and can read the bank's data, then you can use it as you want.
I am having a hard time imagining a scenario where you have humans working where you can't replace them with a conveyor system. it doesn't need to be that long, you could have a 5 foot, linear, isolated section (about the sphere of a human range), and use compressed air and optical/laser sensing to pop stuff out of that section into a bin/trailer/whatever.

do you have a picture of a facility where they would have to replace humans with humanoid robots and a conveyor would not work?
Malaysia signs deal with UK chip giant Arm to bolster semiconductor ambitions
A simple average of total value / total amount of land is crazily misleading. LVT isn't about charging a flat rate per acre, it's supposed to scale with the unimproved value, hence the name. Land value per acre has a tremendously skewed distribution. The 10 acre plot in Missouri wilderness wouldn't pay very much under an LVT system, while a vacant lot in NYC would be on the hook for millions (probably).
Encrypting your .env file with dotenvx, or something similar, can help mitigate this need for trust.
It feels like the start of this article establishes three interesting questions and the rest of it fails to answer them.
Usually it’s only the propaganda outlets that get blocked, not all internet access.
Not a metal/element but there's Ruby
AWS, for one example, provide a feed of upcoming "events" in EC2 in which certain instances will need to be rebooted or terminated entirely due to whatever maintenance they're doing on the physical infrastructure.

If you miss a termination event you miss your chance to copy that data elsewhere. Of course, if you're _always_ copying the data elsewhere, you can rest easy.
Won't the industry eventually go through all stages of the smart home? Early protocols, often completely incompatible and perpendicular, then few competing standards, etc?
Created a NSFW chatbot with Mistral Le Platform. No logins: securing it was hard
I've created a NSFW chatbot using Mistral Le Platform and it was surprisingly easy.

The service is free to use and doesn't require any login. This however poses a big challenge:
How do you secure it against somebody using your LLM API credits?

I've built several layer of protection, including simple ones like IP rate-limiting, server side forced system prompt injections and more advanced ones like fully obfuscated and encrypted requests with a secret way of transferring access tokens. Curious to see how it will develop and if someone here could crack it.

I hope I don't break the rules of this community by posting this, but the technical challenge of securing the system was cool!
If it's almost non-stop, it should be easy to link to a few examples, no?
I go in for the more contrarian podcasts like: Tech Won't Save Us, Better Offline, This Machine Kills, Digital Citizen, 404 Media, System Crash.
That's pretty cool; I didn't even consider doing any cool bitwise arithmetic.

I didn't particularly care about performance or anything for this particular case, since it runs exactly once at the start of the app just to initiate the Disruptor.
This is a fun analysis, but that's not traditionally how a land value tax works. Land is taxed based on (surprise) its value. Land in cities is obviously more valuable than a big farm in Missouri.

The general idea is that two plots of land in the middle of a city, one with a sky scraper, and its neighbor, a bare parking lot, are taxed the same. You don't pay more for development.

This general scheme makes intuitive sense. It prevents speculation, and encourages development (if your parking lot costs the same in taxes as the sky scraper, you might as well get some more rent from it and make it more productive.

It's nice from a "libertarian" perspective as well because it doesn't force you to develop your land. It just puts incentives in the right places.

Finally, if land is taxed more uniformly, as you described, a landlord in the city, who owns their property outright, is collecting far more in revenue than one with a similar building somewhere more remote, simply because of it's location. Nothing the landlord did justifies the higher prices, it's the restaurants near by, the subways, the well employed people in need of homes that demands higher prices. Since all that value is produced by society, it makes sense to tax it and spend it on the public good. That value, is exactly the land tax.
This belief is fairly central to capitalism, and capitalist societies are actively managed to maintain the described conditions.
It might be useful here to give a current example or two of Aussie nanny statism, just for context
yep it's been defunct for a while now tho - so no point removing it
Well, in a sense, yes. The threat model isn't quite identical between the two sorts of companies. However, SV-style companies who are are not ad-dependent still tend to be highly problematic in their behavior. In my view, it's more a difference in style than anything.
Sure thing. But this reminds me of another thought I’ve had. That LLMs are likely better at writing (and refactoring) docs and docstrings than code – certainly not better than the best humans but the average bar is very low here. So that’s a force that might improve total software quality if it can be integrated to workflows effectively.
I’m not sure where did you (and half of the country) get the idea that the president is the king (or CEO if you wish) and can do whatever he wants with federal government.

The president’s role is to follow the law and make it happen. President is under the law, and the law covers in great detail how the government suppose to function.

And, fyi, budget is the law too and it originates in congress, not in memecoin named agency. Just like tariffs, which are absolutely abused by Trump at the moment.

It’s all in the constitution.

And if half of the country decides they are above the law we’re going to face extraordinary (and quite bad) times
Aren’t they creating a market of 1?
In Tech, most layoffs seem completely unrelated to company performance, profit, or revenue.
At least in Brazil, blocks are limited to specific IP ranges and happen because companies defy court orders to hand over publisher data the court considers illegal - irregular electoral propaganda, misinformation campaigns, etc. Rumble, AFAIK, is blocked in Brazil right now. Twitter and WhatsApp were blocked more than once.
Can you explain why this is associated with fascism specifically, and not any other form of government which has high levels of oligarchical corruption (like North Korea, Soviet Russia, etc).

I am not saying you’re wrong, but please educate me why is this form of corruption/cronyism is unique to fascism?
Are you seriously making the argument that writing to effect change is a waste of time? People do (2) because they want things to be different, and given enough writers, the needle may eventually move. Today, there's a lot more iPad-should-be-open sentiment than there was a few years ago, even from long-time Apple pundits and fans. Regulation is also quickly catching up.
That's fine if you are just trying to get it running on your machine specifically, but the problems come in when you want to support multiple different combinations of OS and compute platform in your project.
How was it more capable then google?
I was on mobile, too much cortisol vs endorphin.
Sqlite doesn't work super well with parallelism in writing. It supports it, yes, but in a bit clunky way and it still can fail. To avoid problems with parallel writing besides setting a specific clunky mode of operations a trick of using a single thread for writing in an app can be used. Which usually makes the already complicated parallel code slightly more complicated.

If only one thread of writing is required, then SQLite works absolutely great.
Until you hit the single-writer limitation in SQLite, you do not need to spend more CPU cycles on Postgres
There are plenty of other choices.

Linux isn't going anywhere.

You just don't think people should be allowed to make choices you don't approve of.
Same, thought I had to hold or pull back on a ball
Just shift the size to the right 1 bit and count the shifts until the value turns to zero, and you'll get your number 2 exponent for the size :)
I used to sell small business apps on floppy drives. For copy protection, one of the best tricks was to physically damage a sector and try to format it.

You take a floppy disk, use a pin to make a hole on the magnetic medium at a random place, then format the disk so that sector is marked as a "bad sector". You hardcode the sector ID in your app, then when your app runs, you try low-level formatting that sector. If it can be formatted, it's a pirate copy.

Floppy disks had physical read-only mode, so my app asked users to put their disks in read-write mode to work :)
New puzzle every day! I have thousands queued up!
At least not anymore
Yes, well, some of my "non-mainstream beliefs" included:

1. AStonesThrow has a right to be healthy, a right to time-tested and clinically-proven medical cures and healing, and a right to be fully informed when a treatment may in fact damage health, decrease functioning, or hasten death.

2. Doctors can dispense practical advice and order patients' good habits. Such as: "Rest awhile in bed for a few days. Your legs hurt because you walk around too much." "Take some time off work, because your flu/cold may be infectious or you're burned out." "Here's a common-sense organic diet that is tailored for you and will improve your health." 2a. That doctors would write down what they said verbally to me in the sacrosanct privacy of the exam room, so that I could understand and remember what they ordered/recommended, or, y'know, show it to my employer.

3. Doctors, clinics, hospitals serve the patients as customers, and every medical decision is made to prioritize the individual's good health and longevity.

4. Physicians are Biological Tech Support for the body. File a bug report, educate myself on biomedicine, document my findings, help him troubleshoot, and he will fix me up as good as new

5. Doctors (MD/DO) understand supplements and nutrition, and so if I regularly inform them with a complete list of self-treatments, they will take into account their effects on my system and adjust care accordingly. 5a. That supplements and alternative medical practice is somehow superior or preferrable over commonplace Western Medicine for people like AStonesThrow

6. Medical care is essentially free of cost and it's no problem to go make an appointment whenever I have an ouchie or boo-boo so a Candy-Striped Jasmine-Lavender-scented Nurse can Kiss it all Better and Reward me wif a Lolly-Pop from Pirate Treasure Chest.

All these faulty core beliefs conspired to give me a whoppin' case of Somatic Symptom Disorder, which still isn't notated in my charts or records, for some reason, and a visceral rage against the medical machine, and basically at this point I'm going reactionary and overcompensating.

I also recognize that for people whose Social Credit is nil or negative, we're not worth healing, rehabilitating, or putting back in the workforce, and the Good of the Many outweighs the needs of a few.

Dying is, by far, not the worst thing that can happen to a man. We all suffer in some way to some magnitude. In my firmly held traditional beliefs. Thank you for your public demonstration of concern.
I think you mean packages, not modules. And actually there is site-packages, where your stuff lands when installed with pip, so there kind of is an official way. Just many tools implementing it.
Yes the office door stop as it was known as at our place. Top book though just faded in utility and no one had the heart to dispose of it because of the good memories.
"Runs are a strip of 2 to 9 cells"
If you want a purely visual experience (which I recommend), a dobsonian telescope has the best capability VS price ratio. The collapsible 150mm dobsons are already very powerful and quite compact. Avoid anything on a tripod under 500$, you'd be paying the "looks like a telescope" tax and have something deceptive.
Eh, you can just distribute a .lisp file as though it were a ruby or perl script. CL is faster than the usual scripting languages, but admittedly not as fast as C or Rust.