skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Apple's 30% cut makes them tons of revenue

Compared to? All taxes mean fewer transactions – and purchases that never happen don’t generate revenue. This is not easily measurable. Most SaaS or similar services probably go through other devices or email to handle transactions.

Apples payments and subscriptions are excellent products but how much goes through there of say revenue for streaming services like Spotify and Netflix? Is that even supported? As an iOS user, I would never dream of trusting that the IAP prices are a good deal, and especially if I want to support the company I would sign up on their website.

I’ve said before that even if they were allowing (or better, forced to allow) competition, people would still pay a premium, maybe 10%, to have all subscriptions in one place with one-click unsubscribe. They simply don’t believe their own product can stand on its own without crutches, for some bean counter reason.
Absolutely agree, but what is Asahi meant to do? Ask nicely?
We have zero evidence inequality drives inflation.
It's easy if the fields are all numbers and you have a good handle on whether any of them will be negative, in scientific notation, etc.

Once strings are in play, it quickly gets very hairy though, with quoting and escaping that's all over the place.

Badly formed, damaged, or truncated files are another caution area— are you allowed to bail, or required to? Is it up to your parser to flag when something looks hinky so a human can check it out? Or to make a judgment call about how hinky is hinky enough that the whole process needs to abort?
Project Nayuki – QR Code generator library
I swear it's forbidden by the language licensing to write any novel software with it. Actually I'm also pretty sure it disproves writing software by oneself in favor of asking others to (re)write their software in it.
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Brian Hayden has a book right at the heart of this topic, how secret societies (terrorist proto-religions, think scientology+murder) anticipate civilization. You don't find such societies in precarious places, perhaps because extorting wealth isn't tolerated, though you do find them in hunter-gatherer societies as well as civilizations.

Unlike many paleontologists, he is willing to bring in psychology and unlike many anthropologists he is willing to doubt sincerity/motives.
Show HN: A chatbot that tells other people what you said
This simple demo embeds all conversations and takes the top 20 most similar and inserts them into the system prompt in place of {{similar_conversations}}. You can see which conversations were retrieved and edit the system prompt.

I’m exploring AI social networks and trying to figure out a bot that will talk to many people in a useful way. I imagine that I could have extended conversations with a bot that would bring up other people it spoke with and suggest connections just like a person might.
All financial fines should be this way.
It’s a lost cause. He didn’t make such a salute but that doesn’t stop people from seeing what they want to believe.

Extreme political tribalism is absolutely destroying human discourse.
How could the authority determine what rate to charge? How could they know your net-worth? What if you're rich but someone not rich is driving (a chauffeur)?

I support not wanting a regressive tax, but there are just so many complications in trying to do that.
No way to donate Bitcoin?
>The Constellation, the first in what is expected to be around 20 to be built, is projected to cost at least $600 million more than its original estimate of $1.3 billion.

At the going rate in ukraine war drones of 10000USD - those are 130 000 drones. I would bet on the one tenth of the drones vs constellation. The US probably should rethink about the way they would project power when close to some adversary's shores.
Indexing is not really math, it's a reference-system which is using numbers for convenience. You could use letters or even emojis to get the same result.
They do in some places - Finland and the UK, for example.
Dropped a lot, there were a lot of media reports about it dropping, was level the last week, up 2.7% this morning now that Musk called an all hands. Who knows how long that lasts. I can't believe the autonomous driving story: here's your proof that cameras alone can't work:

https://www.newsweek.com/tesla-automatic-driving-test-crash-...
> One of the loudest criticisms of congestion pricing is that it “forces people to take the unsafe subway.” Putting aside the fact that the subway is already far safer than driving, increased transit ridership has driven down subway crime as more “eyes on the train” reduce the appeal of crime and make the system more safe.

I take issue with the framing of this. Sure public transport is "safe" as in you are very unlikely to get assaulted or murdered. But I think most people use that word as a stand in for general unpleasant experience. If you have to avoid a train car because someone decided to camp out there, or you nearly get kicked in the head by a subway dancer, you're not exactly not "safe" but you'd rather not be there.
The way I've heard it described is that psycopaths treat everyone the way most people only treat the out-group.

Animals are definitely an "out-group" for most people.
yet another complaint for no good reason
> States don’t have monetary policy

This is basically saying you need inflation to make the scheme work.
It takes time for the Big Money to leave and stick the small guy with the loss. By the time the retail investor figures it out, it will be far to late.
Also very dependent on sector.

Noticed hn in general seems to consider VP pretty senior. In my day to day finance world it's basically middle management. i.e. People still pretty deep in the detail
Look like other folks are doing similar things, wondering any benchmark results so far compared with Java implementation
I can easily sympathize with those who want HN to be some kind of bubble to where they can escape from the/their troubles. (Using the flag feature for this is not what I would do, or ever did.)

I use https://hckrnews.com it shows flagged posts too.
> Why aren’t we sharing the American Dream?

Maybe because a country is collection of individuals. It’s not that people have to sign up to the dream so they can be held accountable. It’s a romantic vision inspired 250 years ago, maybe it’s time to move on. It’s clearly out of touch with the reality of the people.
One of the classic videos on the subject by Law Professor (and former criminal defense attorney) James Duane, accompanied by a police officer that concurs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE

And accompanying paper:

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1998119
While this all falls under the same product umbrealla, I'm of the opinion that the intractable problems around Siri have more to do with the lack of nuance in the underlying APIs.

Starting a specific album at a specific song, for example... well Siri handles it, to a point, but it has to interface with Spotify, and there you hit a wall of hot garbage, along with the sequencing and process-management/integrity issues of integration software. Garbage meets a money fire, in other words. High cost, brittle, constantly changing, glue code that is mostly depending on third parties also requires session management? Not a winning product formula.

Sprinkle in some inhuman HCI nightmares like not pausing speech appropriately when reading an album title and you've got a recipe for an expensive turd that annoys your customers, oh my, by a lot.
Those programs were all established prior to the EuroZone. A single European country would find it much harder to do today for the reasons stated.
It is more expensive for the better off, due to the magic of progressive marginal tax rates. All post-tax expenses are.
>It is too bad the rates could not be set based upon the income level of the driver. Make it hurt for everyone.

Sitting in gridlock already does this. The more valuable your time the harder it hits.
The banana seat bikes looked cool, but from a biomechanical perspective were inefficient to pedal. They were pretty tiring to pedal a significant distance.
I love Liberapay. I wish more people in the EU used it or contributed to it (it's FOSS) instead of using Patreon or GitHub Sponsors.
"If a small amount of my taxes goes to somebodies rent or healthcare, instead of paving roads for the Amazon trucks to drive on, or the FAA for the Amazon airplanes, them I might as well just be homeless myself!" What a strange argument.
> also it simply isn't true that software developers make double the median - that's just true for the sv bias here and a few other hot spots.

On a US national basis it is basically true. Median weekly earnings for full-time workers is $1,192[1]. Median hourly pay for a software developer is $62.58[2], which, assuming a 40 hour week, is $2,503.20.

[1] https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/wkyeng.pdf

[2] https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/...
The Art of the Steal was made in the middle of the controversy. They ended up moving everything to the city after all and it is alive and well

https://www.barnesfoundation.org/
Many developers have no authority on who is hired at the company they work at or even who allowed to be interviewed for that matter, this is where your privilege comes in.
By a similar argument, most frameworks are the same, most JS package upgrades are the same, etc, etc.

It's still small incompatibilities adding up. It's still work.
Does this implement a server? or client only? Linux?
8GB of RAM is not perfect for this. The M chips are only known for AI because unified memory allows you to get huge amounts of "VRAM", but if you're not putting absurd amounts of RAM on the phone (and they're not going to) then that advantage largely goes away. It's not like the NPU is some world-beating AI thing.
> Maybe those organizing a concrete workplace would be able to give you concrete answers

Maybe that's why I've never seen anyone trying to unionize a workplace I've been in.

The abstract idea of a union has been enough to spark a lot of unionization efforts because workers knew exactly what they wanted to ask for. Safety equipment, overtime pay, health benefits, etc. Things they were already asking for but didn't have the power to demand.

So... we'll see, maybe someday someone will figure out what a union could do for me.
I think Finland does this for speeding tickets and other fines. People pay based on their wages for days/hours of work.
I believe the point is that given an unreliable network, it's nice to have access to all the data available locally up to the point when you had a network issue. And then when the network is working again, your data comes up to date with no extra work on the application developer's part.
New Angular versions lose support so fast that they are already highlighted as risks in our TLM tracker on the first day they are released!
Show HN is for things you've made other people can try and it excludes most reading material, take a look at https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

You can post benchmarks, blogposts, etc without the Show HN prefix though.
This is also why starting your own thing will give you better experience at being a VP than working at a 9-5.

(But it’s also harder than being a VP.)

And if you’re going back to 9-5 after an unsuccessful startup stint, look for VP or GM like roles. Anything else won’t have enough degrees of freedom to keep you happy
"nice law firm you got there, shame if anything was to happen to it"
>as of now the US is an unreliable and untrustable partner

always has been. Trump is just an excuse, a façade, to make that insincerity bearable. "There are two americas". Bullshit.
Some advice to the managers and aspiring managers from the perspective an employee.

Good qualities in managers:

* I have a lot to learn from you

* you reward me with promotions and bonuses when I do well

* you can sell a vision, even a small one, and motivate me

* you take my problems and concerns seriously and do not ignore them, rather than gas-lighting me and trying to paint my concerns as the problem

* you have the awareness to figure out what my core motivations are, and have and skill to align your goals with mine, thus putting both of us on a path towards shared success

* you are forthcoming and honest with your feedback, bc you see my blindspots and tell me about them so I can fix them

* you understand that too much attrition is a bad signal for management success

* you understand that as a leader you understand accountability -- you deserve a greater proportion of the success but also the downside when things go bad

* I want to crawl over broken glass for you bc of all of the above bc you have earned my loyalty

Bad qualities in managers:

* there isn't much to learn from you, and the best thing I can learn is not how to be bad manager, bc you're a bad manager and I know it

* if you leave and my performance does not suffer, it means your presence never had a positive effect (or any effect) in my role

* you gas light me when I bring up problems and concerns, shifting any responsibly form you to me

* you are neurotic and I need to work around your emotions to make you "feel good", and I get more reward for this than actually delivering work

* you do not have the courage to give me difficult feedback that I need to hear bc you are afraid of having uncomfortable and awkward conversations

* you are so preoccupied with making your manager happy that you sacrifice your employees to accomplish this

* you do not care enough about attrition and underestimate the consequences of losing good employees, mostly bc your employees feel the consequences, not you

* bc of your lack of skill as manager, the relationships you have with your employees end up being adversarial rather then a shared success..no one wants to crawl over broken glass to work for you and the employees who stick around do not want to be there

* you do not understand accountability -- you repeatedly make poor decisions bc you never face the consequences, until its too late and then you get fired bc at that point, its obvious the problems was you all along

* you were promoted bc you kissed the right ass at the right time, which does great damage to your world view bc now you assume this is just the way the world works

I could keep going, but that should suffice for now.
Interface-Language has little relation with the used GUI-Framework. And Calibre is already using Qt.
You will never get rich people on the subway because they value time, convenience, comfort, and privacy, four things the subway really doesn't provide.
Unlike other areas of the US, the vast majority of poor NYC residents do not own a car. The majority of NYC households don't own a car. Car owners have about double the income of non-car owners. Of those that do own a car, the majority do not use it for commuting.

If you haven't lived in NYC it's a bit weird to wrap your head around vehicle ownership vs public transportation here. The subways run 24/7. Manhattan, the borough with the highest income, has the lowest vehicle ownership at about 22%. Staten Island, the second richest borough, has the highest vehicle ownership at about 84%.
>You can donate here

This project is not a non-profit organization.

I'd love to see a ledger, rather than blindly trust donations are used responsibly.

Who even owns the donation account?
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To add on what the other person said, the rich getting rich can indeed directly lead to the poor getting poorer. Money is influence, and especially in the US, a sufficient amount of money can buy anything. As the ultra-rich category of people accumulate more wealth, together they become the most important bloc to serve. Hell, you guys just directly cut taxes from the rich and raised on the poorest - what's that but not 'poor getting poorer'?
Germany does this for all kinds of punishments
inb4 claims that congestion pricing is somehow regressive

in fact, it is a progressive tax since reinvestments into public transit are phenomenal for the vast majority of low and middle Americans (and ALL the rest too, but especially those who can't afford a car in NYC)
Careful what you wish for.

All sorts of fines and fees and many underpinning laws would evaporate overnight if the HN and up tax brackets got hit as hard by them as the people who are usually targeted for selective enforcement get hit (and they will because there will be huge revenue potential in doing so).
The demo in the README is pretty impressive for an independent implementation, but I also noticed the repo includes server code (https://github.com/Devolutions/IronRDP/tree/master/crates/ir...). I wonder if tools like Proxmox could use this as a more efficient alternative to VNC (which is slow and weird) or SPICE (for which there are very few non-Linux tools).
If you want to get overly pedantic, money is not fungible either then. Sanctioned currency, dirty money that needs laundering, etc.

But that’s just being purposefully oblivious to the context we are talking about
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A car is more expensive generally because it is a lot more convenient. We shouldn't aim to have everyone take a less convenient mode of transportation just so everyone is equally inconvenienced. We should try to lift the poorest among us. Try to make driving less expensive. Not sure why car insurance doubled in the last few years but that's one thing to look at, in addition to other car expenses.
I must say I am not surprised that it works but that it works at such a cheap rate. Looking at parking costs that seems to be less than two hours of parking. My instinct would have been that there would be no effect below say ~30$.
Conversely, if an employer tries to retain you, the safest assumption is '... until your replacement appears'

No honor among thieves, etc. I've given every place a chance just to see what happens, it's always been a joke. The dynamics don't work.

I was promised $50k last time! Not enough to look over my shoulders even more.
I don’t think it’s unfair. Both of the issues you mentioned (campers and dancers) are less likely to happen as ridership increases.
Sure that's an if, but the effects of inflation certainly exacerbates that inequality. Thus the rich get richer while the poor get poorer. It's just a question of cause and effect.
How far are we from completely replacing Zemax?
That is absolute bonkers.

I hope you’re having fun, because that kind of logic won’t lead you anywhere where people get paid to reason.
Internally the US has free movement of both labor and capital, so any single state trying broad social programs without federal support will run into free rider and arbitrage problems pretty quickly. Since the US can control its border and currency, it’s less likely to be a problem if it’s a national program.
Had you looked into the effects of similar policies elsewhere? The effect have universally been the same shown in the post.
I don't know man, it doesn't take many mental gymnastics here

https://xcancel.com/elonmusk/status/1724908287471272299

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/technology/elon-musk-x-po...

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/elon-musk-x-twitte...

I could keep going but there's really no point
I don't understand how you can make these comments but not thread the needle that the problems you are worried about is strictly the result of capital. Acting as if labor creating a union means Capital should just pack up shop and leave is an extreme power imbalance.

This imbalance not only justifies the need for collective bargaining, but that there should be more regulations wielded against Capital to stop this imbalance.

A flourishing middle class helps a country prosper, a flourishing middle class means a strong labor class where Capital has limits and regulations on what they can inflict against civilians.
It wasn’t clear to me what “u’re” was and I wouldn’t have understood without the comment. I’m a native English speaker.
Core contributor of RA.Aid here. We are up to 15 total contributors now and are aiming to be one of the top completely FOSS coding agents.

Cool to see we're on your list!

Curious to hear feedback on it!
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In an alternate world where your phone has a Core i7
It's always a good idea to ask for a lawyer (and to demand that the embassy of your home country gets informed).

However, the consequences of not talking can vary wildly. In some countries, police might torture you. Some countries might hold silence against you or even punish you for withholding exculpatory information.
I’ve had people like this. I’m with the other commenter that: Why do they have a say in this? No way I’m letting them decide each day when to format, what style to format to... Meet, discuss, pick a style, enforce formatting, screw you if you don’t follow.

I’m also with the other commenter about settings these things at the Editor level, but also at the pre-push level.

We benchmark how long it takes to format/lint only changed files, usually no more than a second, maybe two, but I admit for some languages this may take more. An editor with a language server properly setup would have helped you find issues earlier.

We also have reports for our CI pipeline linters, so if we see more than 1 report there, we sent a message to the team: It means someone didn’t setup their editors nor their git hooks.

If the checks take more than a second, yeah, probably pre-commit is not the place/moment. Reliability is important, but so is user experience. I had companies where they ran the unit test suite at the pre-commit level, alright? And that is NOT fine. While it sounds like it’ll find issues earlier, it’ll screw your developer time if they have to wait seconds/minutes each time they fix a comma.
This code seems to be part of some kind of cloud offering for enterprise cloud environments. A lot of RDP code seems to concentrate on a React component for connecting to an RDP server.

Edit: I've juist built the code on Linux and the demo video is recorded on Windows, so this seems multi-platform. There's also code for a .NET client in Avalonia (a cross-platform GUI library) so I'm guessing the entire thing should work on any modern OS.

There's a basic skeleton for an RDP server in the code, but the README is a bit short.
Doing anything based on income adds a huge layer of complexity to the system. I think that's a bit of perfect being the enemy of good, personally.

And while you're right about the charge itself being regressive in nature, the reality of NYC is that the vast, vast majority of poor people (and middle class people) are already taking public transit.
I'm not surprised; I've seen people devote hours to saving a few bucks.
He's not some kind of 0-24 robot, come on. (Yes, I also think it's HN related.)
I was, when ChatGPT 4 first launched. But as I have used them more, I have becoming more impatient and rude.
Non-anglo celt here. Selt. Didn't know it's supposed to be pronounced kelt in english (us an uk alike). I upvote GP.
Oh, I never would have guessed
Surprised no one has mentioned Mitsuba renderer, in particular the caustic design demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTHL3W2NUn0&list=PLI9y-85z_P...
I would not consider a car in downtown Manhattan convenient.
Orchestrating thousands of Speedtests, using Kubernetes
And then there are those of us who are history nerds who don’t even consider the possibility of pronouncing it otherwise. I think a history-based domain and a book with “history” in the title will self-select this group.
People from all over the world move to New York and other US cities, for increased economic opportunities.

Could we make it easier for people to migrate from WV?