skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How the language of job postings can attract rule-bending narcissists
So they can rotate IP too?
That is absolutely an option which other sane nations would consider.

Issue a Tsunami warning and get everyone off the beach for an hour Sunday at 3am.
Zig's 0.14 release inches the project toward stability
Show HN: A Discord/Slack bot to watch HN comments
Some years ago, I discovered a bot called Little Birdie to watch HN comments for keywords and post a link to Slack. Unfortunately, it has disappeared and I've found myself missing this.

So this bot is a re-implementation of it, but now also supporting Discord.

It's very easy to use:
1. install the bot on your workspace/guild
2. /keywords add rust,hn,foobar (for Discord) ; @newsbutler add rust,hn,foobar (for Slack)
3. done

For technical stuff : it is implemented in Crystal + Postgres (hosted on Render+Neon). I will certainly opensource it when I clean the repo of all production secret.

I'm the only user currently, so it is certainly missing some basic optimizations to support HN crowd size. Please don't hug it to death.
Say what you will about anything else, but if you have never been there, I don't think many of you could understand the crippling, unbelievable poverty that exists in West Virginia that the author somehow managed to claw his way out of. It's the kind of multigenerational poverty where all economic activity in the area seems to have ceased completely. There aren't any "beggars" because there is no one to beg from. Dwellings are often made from found materials in the area. Especially if you are from the West Coast or the North East, you might find it hard to believe that places like this exist within the United States.

In these areas, if you happen to secure a job that makes in the 30k's, you are several standard deviations above the baseline and you are probably taking care of your entire extended family.

These areas are, by and large, completely ignored and abandoned by our country. They are things we don't want to look at, because it hurts our sense of national pride and national identity. It hurts our narrative of the "American Dream", because the American Dream does not exist or apply here.

This is not to say that the people here are not hard working and industrious, as much as they can be. But the lack of economic mobility in these areas is intense.

It's hard to understand the difference an unconditional 500 dollars per month would be here.

Perhaps you think most people would waste the money. Even if you are right, some would not -- and the some who would not are now not responsible for those who choose not to, and those bright stars can possibly break free of the situation they are in.

Huge kudos to the author for beating all the odds and still remembering where he came from.

If you have it in you, I would invite you to visit Charleston, WV sometime. Get a car and drive around. It is beautiful country, the area could use the tourism revenue, and it will certainly not be an experience you will forget.
> Scientists have debated whether this event caused nearly as much terrestrial destruction.

Is this the right phrasing? I thought the whole planet was terrestrial

Not a distinction between sea and land life
I cannot imagine how UBI wouldn't fuel yet another mad increase in rents.

The fundamental problem with housing in economically strong areas is that there is nowhere near enough of it. That is creating a brutal competition already.

Once everyone is able to fork out +X thousand monthly from their UBI, how much of that X will be captured by landlords?
Look at the major components that push up the guaranteed minimum income every year: rent/mortgage; health insurance; auto insurance; lack of public transportation; ripping off by utilities like PGE in California. The more one gets paid, that delta (increase in wages) is eaten by rents, insurers, etc.

Fix the housing mess, fix the insurance mess by dismantling cartels, etc.
> rich getting richer means poor getting poorer

If the rich getting richer drives up inflation then that does indeed mean that the poor get poorer.
Could go all the way, and instead of a YAML, just do a literate Markdown, so you can embed the code and documentation, something like

# My Pokemon backend

## Entities

Let's start by defining my entities, I want to model Pokemons, so I'll just add this:
```yaml
Entities:
- Pokemons:
- Bulbasaur...
```
Microsoft Lured Inflection AI's Staff to Abandon the Startup
Timer IDs, CRIU, and ABI Challenges
An index is a specific kind of number, but so is a count.

Indexing should clearly start from 0. It leads to far more elegant code and lower risk of off-by-one mistakes.
As it should be. I am not begrudging anyone of that. As a matter of fact, I often mentor employees on treating their career as a business, and build it accordingly. Just like a strong business, you should be selling your services for as much as reasonable, and if your employer is not paying the appropriate price then find another “buyer”.

To maximize the price you can sell your ‘product’ (you), you should be making career decisions that strengthen your offering. This can be taken too far (those that only look for promotions at the expense of real work), but it can be done ethically very easily.
Study: Students in large research groups more likely to drop out
Not here. ElevenLabs can do that.
Solid fuel motors are quite hard to ignite. So they are pretty safe from that point of view. But:

Once the motor is ignited, nothing will put it out. Not even immersion in water.

The motors are not made to NASA standard and don't always do the expected thing.

Model rockets with solid fuel motors can go 1000s of feet. If they come down in one piece without a parachute (which does happen). You don't want to be under it.

They can set fire to dry ground. I've seen it happen.

None of the above are an issue if you are being sensible, following guidelines and paying attention.
> because enough US citizens are zero-sum thinkers

This is lazy dismissal. “Everyone who disagrees with me is an idiot” isn’t an argument.

I believe in UBI. But writing off the arguments against it like this deserves inaction.
Headsets have been fine IME, but the killer is car bluetooth. Can't swap that out easily.
Right. Add the middleware and use the yesod-form library. Pretty easy.
IIRC Piketty's book also made a similar suggestion of having the government as an employer of last resort, i.e. offering an unlimited number of jobs at a guaranteed minimum income. It's seen as a more "palatable" policy by many, as it's "just a job" and we've already tried something similar during the New Deal. For people who take these jobs, there's also a lot less stigma than "taking social security".
Either extreme is silly. A serious answer is: "if it's a priority, we'll produce estimates for size-vs-cost". Resources are never infinite, reasonable options are not always available. "just do it", "can't be done" is just cringe linkedin style drama.
> Which one is this? I've argued in the past that this is a basic feature missing from 4GL languages, and a lot of work in every project is wasted on hand-rolling in-memory databases left and right, without realizing it. It would seem I've missed a language that recognized this fact?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenEdge_Advanced_Business_Lan...

Dates back to 1981, called "Progress 4GL" until 2006.

https://docs.progress.com/bundle/abl-reference/page/DEFINE-T...
Was there an actual lifetime UBI study done?

I mean... if i was given a livable amount of money for no work for a year or two, my quality of life would go up, but I wouldn't quit my job and move somewhere cheaper (where I could get more for that amount of money).

But if i was guaranteed livable amount of money for the rest of my life, that would be a whole different story.
How does Alaska do it then?
Could have Blutooth instead and cast it to your smartphone/watch, or whatever.

Think wireless JTAG for dummies/consumers.
This is one of the dumbest things people say constantly.

Remember this the next time you ship a bug! You built a system whose purpose was to have that bug in it.
What are some footguns? It does seem easy
The Isaacson biography has a section where Jobs speaks to the CEO of Corning (glass screen vendor, CEO was a materials engineer) with absolute Trumpian ignorance ("You don't know what you're doing!"). Corning wanted the business and thus had to coddle him like a baby to get him to see reality.

It's tragic that so many business leaders in the US see this kind of bloviating as something to emulate. Reminds me of Altman telling TSMC to gear up to spend $7tn on fabs and them just snickering about his cluelessness [0].

[0] https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/tsmc-execs-allege...
First US sixth-gen fighter jet will be the F-47, and Boeing is going to build it
Capability Analysis for the Kernel
Very quick napkin math calculation in the US:
Annual U.S. deaths (approx.):

‘’’
• Cigarettes: 480,000
• Alcohol: 140,000
• Drug overdoses: 110,000
• Poor diet/obesity-related (heart disease, diabetes, stroke, etc.): ~650,000

Total: 1,380,000

U.S. population: ~335 million
Deaths per 100,000: 412
‘’’

So combined with the 8 violent deaths per year it washes out to be about the same as the 420:100,000 prehistoric figure. (Using very hand waivey numbers - and excluding things like traffic deaths that have a huge utility tradeoff).

What a wonderful insight!
Because they don't admit to it publicly.
> If the rich getting richer drives up inflation

Big if! (Inflation drives both price levels and wages.)
Governments are actually less nefarious by this metric because they don't have a perverse incentive to make things worse. If a government wants more money out of you, it just raises taxes. If a corporation wants more money out of you, it needs to induce demand, which at the limit means actively working to make the product worse. Our modern world is proof that relying on competition isn't enough to save us from the enshittification.
Yes I own 3 Alexas and still like them. But it's the same device it was when I bought them a decade ago, just occasional new hardware with nicer speakers + more TV/3rd party device integrations. Just like Siri it's software entered total technical stagnation post-launch. Not even the incredibly confusing Alexa settings/management app has improved nor the 3rd party extension marketplace. There's been no strong competition to improve it's technical capabilities as the entire market plateaued and stopped trying very hard.

Plenty of companies have thousands of employees working on stuff that never gets better and at best efficiently maintains status quo, until some competition eats their lunch.

Looking forward to seeing who wins Alexa+ w/ Claude vs Google's Gemini devices, or whoever does ChatGPT voice assistant
> The dislike is for the influence, not the existence of a military industry.

While true, this feels like a difference without a distinction. It's like saying "We don't want something humans always do, without fail, but we want humans."
Anecdotal: I agree because everywhere I have worked were backend-senior heavy -- they think frontend is easy and not worth touching, and they are the ones who makes decisions on "the next shiny things" for backend things. In my last job, databse migrations happened twice in just two years and we spent a total of one year of engineering time on it -- every single table, not just some non-critical ones. When things broke or when upper management was asking why thigns were so slow, they just blamed the front-end learning engineers for not being experienced enough.
Modern automation has also taken a dark turn— we already got laundry and dishes sorted out decades ago, and the only real developments on the domestic front since the roomba have been lights that change color when you talk at them. Meanwhile, AI is increasingly threatening to upend creative, high value professions, stuff like law, medicine, communications, journalism, and even software.

But at the low end, AI is never going to be the janitor or your garbage guy, or your barista (ordering kiosks aside) or your instacart dude. AI won't unclog your toilet or service your car or make your basement not smell funny. It won't tend the garden or cut the grass or install a new air conditioner or re-shingle a roof.

I think the prospect of a world where everyone has their basic needs covered and has to choose to work is scary to people who are used to looking down on certain professions and assuming that no one would do <thing> if they didn't absolutely have to.
> > Permanent deletions use a "recycle" symbol
> So does Windows.

Where? Deleting to the recycle bin uses the recycle symbol, which isn't permanent deletion, you can undo it. And if you try to delete a file permanently, you get a red crosss

But also, it's not like Windows has great design to use as an argument
> it's more important to have someone below us than it is to do well.

Pretty reductionist
> Why are they calling it GMI instead of UBI now?*

Because that's what it is? If it were UBI then it would be labeled UBI instead.

> after taxes are considered there's not any difference between UBI and GMI.

Mathematically that is true, but there is still a significant human difference. Consider a case where you have a loss of income. With UBI, the money will just show up at the usual interval to keep you going. With GMI, money will not show up until you go through the arduous process of notifying authorities that you are now eligible. And if you've ever dealt with people who manage these kinds of things before, you know they don't operate on an instant basis, so you could be going quite some time before the support finally shows up.
I would encourage anyone who is a fan of systems like this to understand a bit more about how the US taxes and distributes its money. Specifically, look for writings from Jessica Riedel (formerly Brian Riedl). A great interview is at https://freakonomics.com/podcast/ten-myths-about-the-u-s-tax..., and she gets to the meat of the problem towards the end.
Please run for president Jeff! Imagine an America led by Jeff Atwood - what a dream.
You benefit substantially from living in a stable, high-trust society where customers have money and employees are educated.
>* Because for a lot of Americans, relative order within the social hierarchy is more important than absolute level of prosperity: it's more important to have someone below us than it is to do well.*

That's humanity 101. And it's not something to be shunned: it means that the wealth that matters more is social not material.
That's a very confused way of thinking about it IMO. I say:

* Start from 0 if you are indexing. I.e. you are identifying an item or its position.

* Start from 1 if you are counting. I.e. you are saying how many items there are.

It doesn't matter what it is. I don't know why you think pages in a book are somehow different to memory addresses.
Maybe it was unclear, but that's what I'm asking too.
MetaMask Users Can Now Use Free Public Good 0xNAMEs Instead of Ethereum Address
In push for made-in-India browser, a mandate to trust government encryption
This idea feels a little like bullet journaling or logseq [0] to me. For what it's worth, I do this in Obsidian and clean-up my thoughts on a regular basis. It hits the right balance of minimalism and usefulness for me.

0: https://logseq.com/
Would it be capable of Winlink now? If not what would that take?
G, 1, 2, 3... :D
But if it doesn't work on a state level, why would it work on a national level or a global level?
> wealth needs to be distributed more evenly as its harming many people

Why? Seriously. I used to believe this. But it’s increasingly apparent that a lot of people are idiots. Why is inequality in wealth fundamentally bad if the poorest are taken care of? (They’re not, in America. But I’m framing a hypothetical.)

If a UBI proposal requires dismissing the concept of waste, it’s probably a stupid one.
it was 10 minutes for me, too. No rehearsing. I don't know what you are going on about
So then both of your replies are null because you have no idea?

Your first reply gave the caveat that there are severe limitations as a warning to "newbies". Definitely, it's an extension wrapper around calibre binaries and the db to make it a little easier to access across a local network. But you don't have specific examples for yourself and only something pulled from ChatGPT which is not even correct, some of those items are simply outdated/madeup.
Yeah you’re going to need to elaborate and post your sources here. If there’s zero protection at all, show how I can run `docker run -it alpine sh` and break out of the container. Without exploiting any 0days.

No, --privileged doesn’t count. No, --cap-add=<anything> doesn’t count. The claim here is that docker has “zero sandboxing” by default, so you’re going to need to show that you don’t need either of those. Not just moving the goalposts and saying you can break out if you use the command line flag that literally says “privileged”.
US already is a giant welfare state with too large entitlements for its budget
There already are lawn mowing robots.
Lol, CSAM and terrorists? It just reads like a generic form letter. I'm sorry, OP, that you put so much effort into a letter only to be completely ignored.

The UK is not known for having good privacy protections, right? Especially after leaving the EU?
The first property I got back from the 'Surprise' feature was "Penmynydd, Llanfairpwllgwyngyll".

Welsh is extreme.
Alaska has basically free money from oil.
Yeah it reminds me of POV-Ray, in a fun way!
The Warship That Shows Why the U.S. Navy Is Falling Behind China
Gift link: https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/warship-shows...
> I see you're not aware of `mknod`?

Try harder, friend, those require granted capabilities

$ PAGER=cat man 7 capabilities | grep -C1 MKNOD

CAP_MKNOD (since Linux 2.4)
Create special files using mknod(2).

$ docker run --rm -it public.ecr.aws/docker/library/ubuntu:24.04 /usr/bin/mknod fred b 252 4
/usr/bin/mknod: fred: Operation not permitted
I'm surprised you care that much about what the law says about Mickey Mouse. It's not for everyone.
It's funded by the giant firehose of money from oil

It's closer to the Norwegian sovereign wealth fund than anything else
Timestamps are very underrated. There's so much useful information stored in them. It can help you remember what other things you did that day around that time, in what order some events happened, what were your initial plans and how they changed. These things can be so easily forgotten.
Ask HN: Are You Polite to AI?
While using ChatGPT or similar, do you mind your manners? Does it help getting a better answer?
wait, what package does no longer exist? is it something that has been unpublished from NPM?
One potential solution is to add a connection to a second substation. For example, Laleham is a few miles south of Heathrow, and can be fed without sharing any infrastructure with North Hyde.

I doubt it's worth the additional expenses, though. Transformers exploding like this is extremely rare, and the main reason this one has such an impact is because the firefighting effort required the other two transformers to be shut down. Investing in better physical separation between the individual transformers is probably a way more effective investment.
Sounds like a cost center. Heathrow is privately owned. Would the board approve?
> but the obvious cause of the problems today is inequality

This isn't obvious, at all. In fact, it's the main point of contention in many studies talking about income and taxes.
Do we really still believe that fewer, more expensive and complex planes is the best path forward?
Two QOL uses I've found is concept indexing and excerpt formatting.

Before/after engaging with new material, I'd generate a table of concepts and the pages these concepts are mentioned. Simple two column markdown table, nothing more.

Second, for excerpt formatting I use a specific markdown format (add timestamp header, page number, and one/two keywords) to convert my highlights after running through a PDF.

A more advanced use case is extracting the bibliography and building an inverted index of where each citation
is mentioned (page numbers/paragraphs). You can then compute all sorts of concordances: which authors are referenced on the same page, what concepts are related, which authors/concepts are over/underrepresented, and so on.
you dont get high trust society by increasing welfare state. The argument that by handing out money we will get stable high trust society does not hold at all.

European countries that are unable to assimilate migrants are a living proof, for example Sweden Denmark, etc.

Counterpoint to your argument is El Salvador: by enforcing laws they are able to achieve high trust society, so what we actually need is maximimum law enforcement and isolation of people who dont want to maintain the high trust society.

China/Singapore is another example: they just execute drug dealers and solve the drug trafficking problem. It may be perceived as inhumane to drug traffickers, but it is very humane for the victims(current and possible) of drug addiction.

USA has a giant surplus of people with net negative contribution to the society and is unable to solve it in order to propel society forward
Do you know has it been adapted to work on the 4 and 5 metre bands?
Will there be some diffraction optic in the future, can we just add some phase somewhere or will it need a complete rewrite ? I'd like to experiment with photon sieves and holograms.
"everyone" and "usually" are doing a lot of work here
I am generally a bit skeptical of the concept of basic income, mostly because I think costs would just rise to match new spending power. IMO it would be better framed as Guaranteed Basic Needs (food, shelter, entertainment, etc.)

That said – one thing that has made me change my mind recently, though, is that UBI might serve as a buffer against the profit motive taking over everything. Increasingly it seems like other value systems are being overtaken by the desire to earn money. By "other value systems" I mean a huge variety of things that aren't driven by money: living a non-materialistic lifestyle in line with numerous religions, mastering a centuries-old craft that doesn't have much market demand, being a philosopher/thinker not defined by participation in academia (or the market), and so on.

Part of the growth of the profit motive can be attributed to the general precarious economic situation, unpredictability of future jobs, etc. But it's also because there are fewer and fewer cultural institutions that make up the ecosystem, because no one wants to make that bet anymore. Everything seems to default back to monetary/professional success, whether that be the "creator economy" or getting a professorship at a top university.

So I do wonder if UBI would be a mechanism for encouraging people to say, "I can count on making a basic living, so I'm going to study XYZ art form and become great at it."
I feel like any article that talks about "Celts" or uses the word "Celtic" should clarify that it starts with a hard "c". Americans familiar with the basketball team will probably pronounce it wrong otherwise.
The article conveniently leaves out USPV was a major money laundering and drug distrbution point and all the contents were seized by warrant in the furtherance of the investigation.

It appears the owners are cooperating with the FBI and the org plead out.

https://beverlypress.com/2022/03/beverly-hills-private-vault...

The original district court ruling upheld the FBI's proceures and it wasn't until 2024 that the 9th Ciruit reversed (some) of that ruling.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/judge-sides-with-fbi-in-86m-bever...

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/us-9th-circuit/115736960.h...
Sir, this is a vibes-based forum where the fundamental human rights are getting whatever can be represented as bits for free and being able to do your job from home.