skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> get food stamps

Great advice all around, but I'll emphasize this part. SNAP is becoming a de facto indicator of eligibility for all sorts of programs, from reduced price transit passes to Medicaid, depending on the state.
It depends on the filler and whether you want other things around to get warmer or not. Radios for example are normally kept away from too much heat, then any temperature difference is monitored/compensated in configuration. Anyway, what I mean is - that heat is going somewhere - any extra filler will change where / how quickly.
> Has any country had parts for their existing defense purchases restricted?

Iran in olden times. Venezuela recently. I wonder who is next?

Also denial of certification for 'shared nukes' for Eurofighter comes to mind.
Very cool.

What note taking software are you using? Or just text files?
How did you get started consulting? I'm in a similar spot, been a director, don't really want to go back to it.
> It's actually not that difficult: just be honest to people, treat them fairly, and be considerate.

Then why do we see so many people complaining about bad managers?
Here's a presentation of a comprehensive NREL study from 2018, but I don't know the source of the numbers. It finds hydrogen and flexible generation (that is, natural gas turbines) are best for long duration storage. Notice the slides on page 13. PHS is way out of the running for the storage case being discussed here; it's not close.

https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy21osti/77833.pdf
The key ingredients here appear to be audacity and persistence, with competence taking somewhat of a backseat.

This isn't intended to be overly critical. It aligns with the old adage, "If you want it, ask for it."
Payment processing is dominated by a massive monopoly, leaving no room for negotiation. The industry is controlled by global elites and financial powerhouses who gatekeep access. Only stablecoins have the potential to disrupt this cycle and offer an alternative.
Labeled incorrectly in Sharpie is the best! I agree, with the caveat that I have worked as an electrician professionally. Generally this is how home ownership works. You go over everything, find all the weirdness that the previous owner did, and fix it up. Years later you sell the house, and the process starts all over again. ;-)
"They ignore the suffering of millions saying they do not understand it. But I ask them: In what language does a child cry?" - Karim Wafa Al-Hussaini

The Israeli-right have indeed lost the war, as it is clear that they have lost their humanity. Netanyahu's right-wing government and the current religious-fundamentalist-settler dominated IDF are the Nazis of this generation, this century, that one day future generations of our world will grow up condemning forever.
Tim Cook loves that sweet services revenue.

Maybe non-terrible Siri needs to be a subscription service, instead of a phone-selling feature.
They sold 500 million really cheap speakers. The voice assistant is mostly doing the same thing Siri does, i.e. set timers.
I’m a pretty slow reader. I tend to reread sections, pause and play around with the ideas that come into my head, get lost while doing that and have to start over… I still prefer reading specifically because it allows me to do all that at my own pace. I don’t have to feel rushed along by a presenter or actively pause, rewind, try to scrub the timeline to find a point I want to rehash etc.
It's odd. The HN guidelines are

>If the title contains a gratuitous number or number + adjective, we'd appreciate it if you'd crop it. E.g. translate "10 Ways To Do X"...

>Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.

but people seem to take that as delete random words so the title doesn't make sense?
Other comment mentions it takes 30 seconds in mobile Firefox to pass, obviously too much
When I read this yesterday, I was contemplating one possible way to mitigate this at a larger scale is if websites could create random virtual paths/endpoints that drive the bot into a locally served Library of Babel[0] that poisons the spiders with lots of useless text.

It won't work for well-structured sites where the bots know the exact endpoint they want to scrape, but might slow down the more exploratory spider threads.

[0] https://libraryofbabel.info/
UK is struggling to pay its meagre unemployment and disability benefits. The idea that we can pay a meaningful amount of money to everyone seems fanciful to me.
I don't want to burden you with work, so don't feel obliged in any way. This is simply my opinion (there are also good reasons for newer C versions). In all my personal projects, I don't have any newer versions than C99 or C++11 (most are even C++98/03). I recently even migrated a compiler backend framework from C++17 to C++11 to use it: https://github.com/rochus-keller/eigen/. I could do the same with your code if I would use it, but first I have to move forward in other projects.

Concerning cmake: I only use it if unavoidable; instead I implemented my own build system (https://github.com/rochus-keller/busy/) some years ago which I now use for most of my personal projects.
Maps is my default now, it’s improved so much relative to
Google Maps. (At least in my area)
True but .rs and .is were working great for the past couple of years and both stopped connecting when the Meta news came out a few weeks ago.
The government doesn't do anything. It is the people that do. If the poor people all choose to live off UBI then who will be building these giant housing blocks since it isn't the rich people that build housing?
> Permanent deletions use a "recycle" symbol

That button isn't permanent, it moves the files into ~/.local/share/Trash/files/

(Unless it changed after the version I'm on)
Comprehensive Study of IoT Vulnerabilities and Countermeasures
This comprehensive study provides an in-depth examination of the Internet of Things (IoT), which refers to the interconnection of multiple devices through various wireless protocols that facilitate data transfer and improve operational intelligence. IoT is widely used in numerous fields, including urban infrastructure, domestic settings, transportation systems, military operations, healthcare, and agriculture. However, with its growing prevalence comes a significant increase in security risks across multiple layers, such as hardware, software, cloud infrastructure, and networks. This study categorizes these vulnerabilities and explores how adversaries can exploit weaknesses to compromise IoT systems. In doing so, it highlights the risks associated with unauthorized access, data breaches, and system manipulation, all of which pose a direct threat to confidentiality, integrity, and availability. To address these concerns, this paper examines various mitigation strategies that aim to enhance IoT security by reducing attack surfaces, improving authentication methods, and securing communication protocols. By systematically analyzing existing vulnerabilities and countermeasures, this research contributes to the ongoing effort to fortify IoT devices and infrastructure against current and emerging threats. Through this study, we seek to advance the discussion on securing IoT environments while emphasizing the importance of proactive security measures in this rapidly evolving landscape.
That's arguably one of the only downsides of zero-based, and can be handled easily with negative indexing. Basically all indexing arithmetic is easier with zero-based.
A great service. Commonly used by long distance hikers.
ISO 8601 is a great standard when you need interoperability (e.g. between machines/servers, or between humans in different locales) or the ability to sort by timestamp.

For personal note taking, or notes to be shared locally, it makes sense to use your local locale's format.
Other trains are running on the main line through the area. It's 25kV electrification, there's plenty of distance between feeder substations.

National Rail say [1] "An unadvertised shuttle service is running from Heathrow Terminals to London Paddington to ensure customers and colleagues can leave the airport" so trains can and are running, they just don't want flight passengers to go to the airport.

[1] https://www.nationalrail.co.uk/service-disruptions/heathrow-...
Using America as a shorthand for "USA" is hardly limited to people who live in the US.
Boeing Wins F-47 Next Generation Air Dominance Fighter Contract
What if I said, we outperform them? Check this out: https://jigsawstack.com/blog/openai-audio-stt-vs-jigsawstack...
Part of what makes RDP performant compared to VNC is that the RDP server is aware of the GUI state and a lot of compositing is actually done by the client.

A hypervisor just sees the video output from the VM and has no knowledge of the underlying GUI's state, so even with RDP it won't be able to do much better than stream compressed bitmaps.
> social conditioning over the past few generations in America that says that if even a tiny slice of the population would abuse a program, that program is worse than the problem itself

This problem is sort of caused by how hard Americans work. If you’re working two jobs to make ends meet, it is insulting to see someone lazing on the perceived fruits of your labour.
Except this led to Corning repurposing a Kentucky plant and ramping manufacturing to meet the original iPhone launch. And Weeks (Corning CEO) has publicly praised Steve for helping him better assess risk as a leader.
> In all fairness too, my 17 year old self who knew basically nothing about the world ,really did add absolutely nothing of value to the usenet discussions I participated in besides noise. Of course, at the time I thought the complete opposite.

Me too!
Agree that having something in there for how to use it will make it make sense for 10^1 times more people. Show one simple calculation. I don't know: Probability that at least one person on Earth gets struck by lighting twice in a year.
If you were able to move the poverty level in a place like rural WV to zero, don't you think it would shortly become economically active?
Prevents some re-renders when passing callbacks down the render chain, but the core flaw in modern day React is that this is added to the developer's list of things to worry about (same as memoization) and manage with the dependency array. It just feels like a lot of things that the framework should deal with and abstract away.
I explicitly call out how the reduced traffic benefits tradespeople driving their van: every minute they are not stuck in gridlock is a minute they can either bill for or a minute they can get home earlier. We're talking about the price of a sandwich here, at most.
It’s worth noting that paying retailers and publishers books is actually a very inefficient way to compensate authors. They typically only see a small fraction of this revenue.

The piracy debate often simplifies the issue as one of pirates vs authors. But pirates vs publishing and retailing businesses is closer to the truth, when you look at where the money goes.
I think it is actually, because as everything transitions to apps and websites and smartphone, lately I feel like my phone is simply another organ located in my hands and I have to spend an unreasonable amount of time looking at it to get things done. I’d love to have something like Apple Glass powered by AI so I can get both hands freed up again.
No, you can't put words in his mouth. He said Adderall, not ADHD.

Yes he said SSRIs, but SSRIs are not for ADHD, so that has no bearing on whether or not he said "people with ADHD should be sent to camps", which he just... did not say.

This shouldn't need to be stated, but I personally think RFK Jr. is a nutter. That doesn't mean you can stick words in his mouth or imply things he didn't actually say.

Be better than the other side.
GM Reportedly Blocks Dealership from Installing CarPlay in Newer EVs
That's nice dear. Now, what do you want to post?
Same in Germany, just that we usually call it ground floor instead of 0th floor.

You could argue it's a bit of a translation error. The French and German words for floor are referring to ways to add platforms above ground. Either by referring to walls, wooden columns or floor joists. Over the course of language evolution those words have both broadened and specialized, referring to building levels in general. But the way they are counted still reflects that they originally refer to levels built above ground. The English "floor" on the other hand counts the number of levels that are ground-like, which naturally starts at the actual ground.
Elon Musk Is Said to Be Getting the War Plan Against China
Regular Americans are probably used to being liked around the world. Sure, we all make jokes, but in general "American", a mere few weeks ago, stood for something attractive. American music, American values, American companies - things most people around the world would like the sound of. Not everyone, sure, but a majority.

Very quickly and for no clear reason, America is saying FU to all these people. Americans will have a rude awakening when they realize they are now disliked rather than treated with a mild admiration. Just not sure what that's for.
I've looked into it and the only sane answer right now is still "If it flies, floats, or infers, rent it." You need crazy high memory bandwidth for good inference speed, and that means GPUs which are subject to steep monopoly pricing. That doesn't look to be changing anytime soon.

Second place is said to be the latest Macs with lots of unified memory, but it's a distant second place.

The recently announced hardware from nvidia is either underpowered, overpriced, or both, so there's not much point waiting for it.
Conversely, I doubt anyone has any idea what Germany does, least of all the Germans. PACER gives us a glimpse into the actual US government practices, but we don't even get a glimpse into actual German practices. Same goes for the UK and other large European countries. At most you get some, but probably not even all, of their highest court decisions, not including things like the underlying case documents.

Ignorance is bliss, so Europe must be a blissful place where nothing bad happens lol.
Assuming you don't take any non-work rides, ever.
> Meanwhile, every advantage China has in engineering prowess, supply chain management, decades planning ahead, and ruthless competition are completely ignored.

Don't forget to include their advantage in slave labor in that list. Wait, maybe that's included in the part of the ruthless competition.
This is the major point for me. It's a policy miracle for some. Delivery, construction, repair etc etc jobs will be the ones it will hurt as usual. The rich won't care.
> It's more likely to be "G" round here

I see what you did there.

Somebody should create a programming language that implements all real-world number idiosyncracies. Don't have 4 or 13; define π as 3 and τ as 6, print 6 three times every time it occurs for good luck (or bad luck, depending on where you live), replace all numbers close to 8 with 8 in money values for great prosperity, have a constant for "dozen" that's 13 in case you're counting loaves of bread, have a rounding function that rounds to a close number that's easy to say depending on your locale...

And let's go with 0.5-based indexing as a compromise.
You still don't need ID to enter Mexico 9 of 10 times. The only crossing that even glanced my ID was Tijuana. Of course it's not like they have anything to lose, if you don't have money or work they're happy to let you perish in a ditch, and the cartels aren't going to let you compete in crime.
We encourage everyone to try out our model. Here is a link to get started: https://jigsawstack.com/speech-to-text
I think I know the basics. In the NYC implementation entering the toll area is $9 a pop during certain hours, and cheaper outside them. $9 maximum once a day. Low income residents get 50% off.

In general the primary purpose of these pricings is to discourage people from using the priced thing, revenue from the fees is a bonus. The price naturally is more painful to pay the less you have money, so the less you have the more you are discouraged.
What Is the Most Minimal Agentic Coder You Can Write?
My point is a little different. OpenAI is pushing its ChatGPT product as a solution to real-world problems that the company knows it cannot solve reliably. There are some minimal disclaimers, but they do not dominate the messaging: the marketing does. OpenAI is fundamentally interested in selling the product, not promoting responsible use of the product. So the mixed messaging is calibrated so that lay users are encouraged to rely on ChatGPT even when they shouldn't. Kind of like Full Self Driving, which isn't.
You're not wrong. Upper management is a very stressful grind with little glory. It used to be that it was paid very well to compensate for that, but staff engineer jobs are close enough in comp now that the difference in stress becomes really questionable.
That's the point, I have a full time("good") job currently, and can barely afford food and rent for my family, I am literally selling plasma 2x a week for gas money, while paying a significant amount of taxes, so why would I work?
That's a bad assumption, since NYC residents tend to use the subway for non-work-related travel as well.
Interstingly in a traditional British company directors are the most senior and VPs don't exist. A director would be a board level job, as in a statutory director.

Obviously there are a lot of US companies in the UK and their influence spreads...
> Isn’t the argument UBI will promote growth?

Some types of growth, yea that's the theory. But I don't think there's any theory of UBI with freedom of movement between borders where UBI isn't present. If every single person who doesn't want to work shows up to your state, you won't be able to keep UBI running.

> Internationally, capital and labour are also mobile.

Capital yes. Labor ... not really? Even historically immigrating to the US is kinda difficult. Immigrating into any developed country is hard.

> If the argument for UBI is basically North Korea, I’m not seeing it.

No it's not even NK. It's socialism but no central planning. NK (and really any prior long running example of socialism in US history) doesn't do free market do decide e.g. who picks up the trash.

So it could well be that UBI works, but a lot of grunge jobs just don't get done. Maybe people are happier and have more free time, but there's fewer janitors so things are dirtier, and a much higher percentage of money goes towards paying people to farm so good is way more expensive.

Things definitely wouldn't be the same as they are now, even if it did hypothetically work.

> Put simply, if a UBI scheme doesn’t work at the state level, it won’t federally in the long run.

There could easily be things that break it at the state level (especially, freedom of movement of people), that don't apply federally.

It might also fail at a federal level, but you can't claim there aren't major differences between a single state UBI and a federal UBI
I thought to have seen some negative comments about its security, anyone knowing more about it?
"I shouldn't have to read code to understand comments"

That's fair, but that's not universally agreed. Some say comment the "why" not the "what" because you can always read the code to understand the what. Also, code will likely be more correct than the comments if code is modified, and the comment isn't. And finally an entirely different school of thought is that you don't need comments if you name your functions right, breaking every few lines, the thing you would have otherwise commented on, into its own function with a good name.

I think all of these are good suggestions to some degree. I'm somewhere in between, leaning toward more comments to help the AI
The trouble here is that generative AI is at a lower level of development as opposed to semiconductor design. Apple can build an internal talent pool to make the M1, M2, M3, etc. and produce an industry leading product but in A.I. the field is so rapidly changing that no company can dominate. Every moment is a “DeepSeek moment” in that smaller organizations are making tiny, small, medium and occasionally large advances and if you draw a line at time t where you pick the SOTA and build a proprietary system based on that you will be obsolete in a few months.

It’s kryptonite for Apple but I can’t believe anybody thought Apple Intelligence was more than hype.
This feels like one of the few ways to potentially avoid what seems like the inevitability of attestation.
> In some countries, police might torture you.

Yeah.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homan_Square_facility
Seems like what we need is a specialized compression algorithm. Since the domain is largely constrained it sure seems like there's some low-hanging fruit here.
"I read comments to understand code"

I read some of your repo. You write a lot of comments. Your response also describes reasons why I avoid reading comments. I think your preference comes off as an attack on different approaches. I attempt to code so clearly that I do not need to document as the code is self documenting. And the code you're talking about is probably AI written. I don't let AI comment on my code unless told to.

fyi your website is down or too slow.
I follow a lot of very small youtube creators. I can often convince them to start a liberapay just for me to donate. They get 100% of the cut* (Patreon takes 12-16%) and I am supporting both the creator and Liberapay's popularity

The main downside is lack of integrations with the tiered perks Patreon offers. Most of the creators I follow don't really rely too heavily on the feature but I can see it becoming a larger hassle if a creator has to manage two platforms

* less fees
Oh no burdens here. Would take a lot to burden me with something I love to do!

You are quite the master I'm very similar to you in that I gotta get my hands on everything haha.

I tagged yeah on the issue. I will after work have a look at the changes required to make backwards compatible. If not much, why not. I'll weigh the possible negatives if any.
The whole point is to change behaviour, not raise revenue (although that's obviously something city leaders look at with glee too). If you shift the cost away from the people making the decision, it's not going to change behaviour.

Congestion pricing explicitly wants to move people to transit infrastructure. More people using buses allows buses to be more frequent which is more convenient, reduces transfer times, and reduces the impact of outlier slow buses. My understanding is that the NY Subway is near it's trains/hour capacity otherwise the subway would also be able to benefit (although with subways the reliability thing goes in reverse because a stuck train blocks others vs a stuck bus being saved by other buses).
> didn't mean the only

Then don’t say “only”.
People leaving is definitely a step-function of negatives as the responsibilities get shared between the (now smaller!) team.

I think GP was more saying that improving retention, at a % level, is a slow ship to steer. (At least what is available at the manager level.) Decreasing retention across the org in the long term doesn’t happen overnight, and it can take a while to observe whether the effect is trending downwards or upwards. (And also depends on what signal you use - people actually leaving, or people talking about leaving!)
I get the whole Rust -> Iron thing, but when I see Iron prefix I think of dotnet because of https://github.com/ironlanguages and https://ironsoftware.com/
Car dependency is a much bigger tax on the poor than congestion pricing. Disincentivizing car travel and incentivizing public transit is a far greater help to the poor than any other conceivable transit policy. Most places in America require you to pay 10k a year just to participate. Places with good transit and progressive fare policies require $0 to participate, or a nominal amount.
I think you've responded to the wrong comment