skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The union had no choices when capital decides they want more money.

Look at what you're arguing here dude. You're blaming workers for trying to protect their jobs when the issue is that capital is too powerful and needs to be regulated more.

Even more odd you're mentioning shipbuilding an industry that use to have its workers centrally planned by the US government to provide educated skilled labor but was killed off in the 80s by the pro-corpo Reagan admin.

I do agree with you that we should do this more, regulate companies harsher while giving more protections to workers.
Your argument rests on mobility of capital and people being less federally than statewise. At both levels, that becomes less true as income goes up. And it virtually disappears in the long run. If the argument for UBI is that it must be federal because of monetary or mobility reasons, it’s either reliant on causing inflation or locking down the population à la North Korea.
My initial description was correct. Unfortunately, people like yourself subscribe to the outcome of years of commiseration that commenced with the aim of rationalizing what was clearly bigotry to even contemporary observers (I was one of those).

It is correct that the grassroots movement that you mentioned had a core of righteous discontent. As mentioned, the right portions were co-opted quickly and refashioned into an arm of neoconservatism. The left was popularly (though not ideologically) discredited or otherwise neutered by reliance on reluctant liberal "allies". The proof is in the rightward march of American policy in the interim.
> How did the American lawn become the site of such vicious disagreements? American culture embodies a zeal for individuality and property rights — of the idea that people should be able to conduct their own affairs in their own territory without the neighbors or the government imposing their views and forcing conformity.

As recent events showed, this position is purely an aesthetic one for most. Americans are actually very keen on dictating to others what they should or shouldn't do.
A gift is defined by the IRS as "Any transfer to an individual, either directly or indirectly, where full consideration (measured in money or money's worth) is not received in return."

Nowhere in this statement does it say "gift rules only apply to friends and family"

If you reach the point where a substantial portion of your income is Patreon or whatever (and thus, you wouldn't be otherwise performing the entertainment service), I'm sure the IRS would view it differently.

"a recipient generally can exclude from gross income for federal income tax purposes a donation from a nongovernment donor as a gift if the donation is motivated by detached and disinterested generosity and is not in anticipation of an economic benefit or in return for services."

ref https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-wd/03-0025.pdf and Commissioner v. Duberstein, 363 U.S. 278 (1960)

perhaps, my categorization of "more than likely" could be incorrect. But given how relatively small[0] most accounts make on Liberapay, that is what I imagine most in the US would be calling it.

https://liberapay.com/explore/recipients
Thank you for mentioning some cool projects, they all seem to target very specific use-cases not necessarily handed by junior roles. I guess PaaS services like Heroku/Render/Fly took away juniour DevOps roles then, but at least PaaS don't hollucinate or generate infra that is subtly wrong in non-obvious ways.
great to hear! logging communications is my main use-case for this, let me know what you think
Oh my god, as a UI designer by trade, the sheer STATE of the Windows OS will send me into a rant far too long (and that I'm far too sober for right now) for a hacker news comment. It's a TRAVESTY. If you try and modify certain system settings you will see, in no particular order, the slightly cleaned up Metro ala Windows 11 (I honestly don't know if this got a name), remnants of the original Metro from 8/10, the modified refreshed control panel from windows 7/vista, and as you point out, dialogs that are seemingly ported directly from as old as Windows 98.

I don't know who if anyone really is heading the UX department at Microsoft, but they should either be empowered to their job properly or fucking fired, and I couldn't tell you which.
Thanks! Definitely something funky going on there. I'll double-check my math and clean that up
Incorporate your own functions directly via source code with C++
You're just going to make lawn a privilege, and even more of a status symbol than it already is, and therefore more desirable. Just ban lawns in places where it can't grow naturally, it's not that hard.
Keeping with the Boeing tradition that all model numbers have a 7 in them.

(except the B-52, but that adds up to 7)
Have you considered self-hosting a payment page? I'm asking because I've been building Open Payment Host[1] a self-hosted FOSS payments host supporting multiple payment gateways; still very much a WIP but I hope soon it will be viable enough for someone like you.

P.S. Please ignore the AI autocomplete feature, I included it as part of Google hackathon to raise funds for the project; I'll be removing it in the upcoming release.

[1] https://github.com/abishekmuthian/open-payment-host
Do I understand correctly that for all of the above, the task results need to be verified by humans at the end?
Yes, Gnome on Ubuntu and Debian has had a built in rdp server for the last several releases: settings -> sharing -> Remote Desktop -> on
+1 for peano arithmetic club.

I never realized it was controversial. I think I've always included 0 in the nat numbers since learning to count.

But there are some programming books I've read, I want to say the Little Typer, or similar, that say "natural number" or "zero". Which makes actually confuses me.
They're just spamming the site right now, not trying to join discussion. You can change the number in the account name to see a bunch more of it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=bschmidt201

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=bschmidt112

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=bschmidt127

And so on.
CSV is _way_ hairier than folks think it is!!

And for anyone who's not convinced by CSV, consider parsing XML with a regex. "I don't need a full XML parser, I just need this little piece of data! Let's keep things lightweight. This can just be a regex..."

I've said it many times myself and been eventually burned by it each time. I'm not saying it's always wrong, but stop and think whether or not you can _really_ trust that "little piece of data" not to grow...
If Valve doesn't announce a new hmd by the summer, i might get this. the index is getting a bit too blurry and heavy for long sessions.
But you _would_ feel safe driving a car?
No, I don't talk to it like it is a person.
A great book is "Strategy and the Fat Smoker". It's written by a consultant but points out an obvious point: the quality of the strategy itself is not nearly as impactful as the ability to execute. The author compares this to being a fat smoker who won't change their habits - knowing the right strategy is insufficient.
I do have one large tree, but space is limited because much of the lawn is over underground utilities near which you really shouldn’t place trees
That's by design and maybe why congestion pricing is so popular in places like HN. Just don't say the quiet part out loud.
Yes it's achieved an Initial Operational Capacity, at least for the earlier versions. However, it hasn't finished Operational Testing, for the newer versions of software/hardware upgrades.

"The Office of the Director, Operational Test and Evaluation said in its annual report, submitted to Congress on Jan. 31, that dedicated operational tests for the F-35’s Technology Refresh 3, or TR-3, upgrades will probably start in mid to late fiscal 2026, or around next summer. Those tests are intended to determine whether TR-3 is operationally effective.

Lt. Gen. Michael Schmidt, the military’s F-35 program executive officer, said in a statement to Defense News that as of January, Lockheed Martin has delivered more than 100 TR-3 equipped fighters. All of those jets have software allowing its pilots to conduct training flights, including combat training."

https://www.defensenews.com/air/2025/02/05/key-tests-for-lat...
They assume that people were only relocated from the areas later covered by water. It seems quite plausible that the actual area of relocation was somewhat larger than that subsequently covered by water, which could explain the results.
I don’t think there’s an accepted set of concrete criteria for making software that can absorb major design changes later without a great deal of effort and stress. How you write code that can accept an abstraction layer at the last responsible moment.

Some people have an intuition for it, but it’s sort of an ineffable quality, buried in Best Practices in a way that is not particularly actionable.

So people having been scarred by past attempts to refactor code reach for the abstraction in fear, just in case, because they don’t know what else to do and it’s not written down anywhere, but abstractions are.
that's an interesting approach
this implies that the context can change from one subject to the other within a single note? is that a useful use-case to you?
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> This specific example, https://jsfiddle.net, is not a monopoly and has many suitable replacements (e.g. https://livecodes.io/, https://liveweave.com).

The other two don't even have sidebars...

They are suitable replacements in the same way that crickets are a suitable replacement for beef: It'll get the job done. But usually the customer wants more – the whole experience – and jsfiddle does have a monopoly over that. Attempts to truly compete against them will be marred with legal challenges.
> Rule following has not been a safeguard against recent border and immigration actions

Just because it doesn't reduce the chances of harm to zero does not mean it's useless. She was less likely to be detained had she left the country as soon as her visa was revoked. Not really up for debate.

> illegally

And we're back to the "I can cross the street here without looking both ways because I have the right of way by law!!!" argument. I don't know if you experienced the last few US presidential/administration changes, but things that are "illegal" and yet "allowed anyway without consequences" are becoming a hot topic!
That's a shame since dandelions aren't actually harmful to lawns.
There are plenty of things we take for granted in American criminal justice that aren't standard in Europe. For example: you do not necessarily get exclusion of inappropriately obtained evidence, or a right not to incriminate yourself. There's an amazing article about how criminal justice works in France that followed "Anatomy of a Fall" --- just the idea that the prosecutor doesn't literally work for the judge is not a universal idea!

What's happening here is that we read more stories about criminal justice in America than stories about anywhere else. In fact, we more or less exclusively hear stories about America; we are the true crime center of the planet. That's fine, but it's also a powerful cognitive bias. Be careful about extrapolating too much from it.
> rich getting richer means poor getting poorer

That is not how the saying goes.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_rich_get_richer_and_the_...

It’s said as a statement on policies that benefit the rich and hurt the poor, not on fixed money supply.
OMNI caps it, so the most you can pay is $136 per month and that is the worst case scenario. I don't think a difference of $4 is nuts.
Sounds like the problem is that the house lacks a park or similar area within walking distance. We have a garden here but there's two grass fields running along the street along with several play parks, a large park and a small swamp area within 5 minutes walking (Netherlands).
While it indeed "doesn’t reflect how elections are won", that is only relevant to the fact that Trump lawfully occupies the position of President. It matters very little to issues related to e.g. "public support" (which can change dramatically even with larger margins) or, pertinently in this case, "are the members of this group at risk if they attend this event in the USA?"
I wonder about that too, but I think there's two things in its favor that pretty much outweigh everything else:

1. Prevent low-wage, low-skill workers from being exploited. If the manager at a fast food restaurant is a creep or a jerk, desperate people feel they have to stay and put up with it so they can make rent that month. If they instead had a safety net and were able to quit without being put out on the street, then they'd be less likely to tolerate being taken advantage of.

2. Like you mentioned, art. Many people work to survive so they can pursue their real passion. Musicians, artists, anyone you see at a booth in the farmers market with handmade trinkets, and so on. UBI would allow them to focus on their art, and more people to participate and experiment, and I think the world would be better for it.
It's STFU Friday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EI_RYIEtrg
I think it's really worth keeping in mind that this is an ultra-enthusiast product: they're specifically targeting the niche of people who spend a huge amount of time in VR and probably in only a handful of the same apps every time (piloting/racing sims, VRChat, etc). The value prop here is effectively "this is a quality- and comfort-increasing upgrade to the thing you already spend all your free time doing".
I would bet real money that what I am saying is also true at your workplace.
I can tell youre unbiased.

/s
But that's just a straight-forward appeal-to-authority argument, and it doesn't really do anything to justify the existence and prevalence of the rules. Is it really a good use of time to go and fight each HOA individually? It doesn't really seem like we have time for that.
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Bigscreen made their name as VR video viewing solution before pivoting to PCVR hardware. I’m surprised they haven’t shown off any simple video solution with Beyond 2 especially considering that’s the main use case for the Apple Vision Pro.

That said, eye tracking and IPD adjustment is a huge upgrade to Beyond 2 for their niche
Yup I think I missed a comma when originally reading the sustainability report. They buy-in an average of 747 MWh a day (2022).

The point I was stumbling to try and make was that Heathrow is dense. Just under a GWh a day delivered to a 1200ha site isn't going to get a natural diversity of supply, especially compared to a rail system does.
And a car is even nicer in NYC now if you're not poor!

Also AFAIK apart from being a bit better on schedule, there have been no material improvements for public transportation.
I decided to reinvent SVG Filters because Safari won't let them be used with HTML canvas elements[1] ... well, at least that's the official reason.

Unofficially I just wanted a decent filter engine[2] that worked well with my canvas library, and there were things like SVG "filter chaining" which I really liked the idea of - but could they be done in a simpler way[3]? Also: proving to nobody that canvas filters can be done (fairly) efficiently without the need for WebGL shaders (because: why not?). And then I discovered I really like coding up filter functions and went a bit mad with them[4][5] and now the hole is so deep the only option left for me is to keep digging ...

[1] - Though I think that's changing this year? May already have changed - but I'm not gonna un-reinvent my filters even if the Safari folks have shipped the fix!

[2] - https://github.com/KaliedaRik/Scrawl-canvas/blob/v8/source/h...

[3] - Why do the SVG filter primitives need to be so complicated to work with?

[4] - https://scrawl-v8.rikweb.org.uk/demo/canvas-007.html

[5] - https://scrawl-v8.rikweb.org.uk/demo/filters-103.html
>Well that's all I needed to see. If an increase every two months and setting a new profit record every year isn't enough then maybe someone else should be in charge of this.

Given inflation is a thing, wouldn't you expect "record profits" year after year, even if nothing else changed?
Yes that’s ostensibly the reason, but I wouldn’t get tax breaks for covering my lawn with plastic bags.
You absolutely can (and should) remove people for screaming racial slurs at passengers in public transportation. Most crazy people are able to ride public transport just fine without being abusive to others. No one should be trapped in a car with someone who can't meet that very low bar, crazy or not.

I've been to other countries where the public transportation was amazing, and unsurprisingly there were almost zero people urinating (once in Japan I saw a drunk salaryman passed out with his pants around his ankles at a station and he was quietly whisked away less than a minute after I spotted him) so it's not as if a nice train system for everyone is some pipe dream that can't work in reality.
https://archive.ph/2025.03.21-013240/https://www.theatlantic...
thanks for that! new to this platform and when I created the post, it asked for a url and text which I thought will be shown together (like reddit), and now I can't find my own comment :)
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Respectfully, how else should one read your comments if not literally?
The same constituencies that oppose congestion pricing also oppose the things you're describing. When the Adams administration effectively ended curbside dining, they were the people telling us that it was an improvement to replace tables for a dozen people with a parking spot for one SUV. The only way we were even able to get congestion pricing passed was by tying it to MTA funding.
IRONically, hehe
It's an aircraft, not a rocket. The main features will be a new auto-crash-pilot, and random parts falling off.
Opinions aside the question is how it learned to draw details about a child that do not exist on an adult and vice versa.
This is very cool and crosses paths with a few projects I've been working on recently.
- implementing a ReLU network in Blender, mostly for visualization
- applying the Riemann-Schwarz mapping theorem to discrete radiance fields
- solving a spherical-elliptical optics dilemma in perspective projection
Your project dovetails spectacularly with this yet you've tackled the core chain of geometry problems "in the opposite direction".
It seems I'll have to pick a different thesis topic, but I'd love to pick your brain about it.
Resident of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia (trans. New Scotland) here. In somewhat of an acknowledgment of this issue, we've used "Keltic". See for e.g. Keltic Lodge:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keltic_Lodge
I think lower..higher index ranges for arrays were used in Algol-68, PL/1, and Pascal long before Ada

At least in standard Pascal arrays with different index ranges were of different incompatible types, so it was hard to write reusable code, like sort or binary search. The solution was either parameterized types or proprietary language extensions
That's 0.01% more evidence than competing theories, no?
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Also remember outside the US, there's limited to no protection against repeated prosecution. Only 50-ish countries have protections against "double jeopardy" written into their constitutions and there's lots of exclusions.

Italy is infamous for trying people over and over for the same offense until they get a conviction.
ChatGPT advanced voice mode really is surprisingly excellent - I just wish it:

1) would give you more time to pause when you’re talking before it immediately launches into an answer

2) would actually try to say the symbols in code blocks verbatim - it’s basically useless for looking up anything to do with code, because it will omit parts of the answer from its speech.
> with what money?

Which is why I picked your comment to reply to. People have this inclination that UBI is going to provide a reasonable amount of money. But if you do the math you'll find that about $1500 a month is about the limit that's feasible. You want to increase the tax rate by an amount that has the average adult paying the same amount in extra taxes as they receive via the UBI. $1500 a month gets to European level taxation rates which I figure is about the limit of acceptable.

A couple can live on $3000 a month in some areas of the country, and perhaps a single person can live on $1500 a month in West Virginia.
You can have it both ways though... A nice little grass play area, maybe some small soccer goals, and in the periphery of that some perennials, maybe some rosemary so the kids can pick it when helping at the kitchen? You may delimit the play area with a clover lawn too
Middle class habits and whatnot get the blame for most ecological ills.[1] It’s your car commute that is causing climate change, not the whole system of fossil fuel dependence.[2] It’s all those plastic straws and plastic bags that you’re using, not the fishing industry dumping their equipment in the Ocean. It’s you throwing out food, not food makers being incentivized to throw out food in order to optimize supply for profit. It’s your lawn using all the water which is causing a water shortage in California, not the farming industry growing almonds in an arid climate. And now it’s your, oh look it’s your lawn again.

On the one hand you can look at America. It ain’t very densely populated. And it takes active effort to get rid of dandelions. Are we really that good at mowing lawns and paving over nature?

On the other hand Georgia is a big piece of land.

If I were an American I would say screw it, let’s just

1. Ban sickeningly green residential lawns in arid climates

2. All lawns that remain are required to have at least 1/3 dandelion per square feet

Would that help the bees and the water shortage? Maybe. But at least opinion-makers would stop complaining. (And move on to the next thing.)

[1] I wrote all of this and then a Ctrl+Shift+W fatfinger killed it, thanks Chrome. Reminds to use a “notepad” before posting.

[2] And cars play a role in that. And who made countries like America massively car-dependent? Joe Parkingspace who has to live one hour by car from work or two hours by bus? (This is ill-informed. I’m not American so I don’t know what the ratios are on the ground. And it will differ from Philadelphia to Vancouver, WA.)
For some reason the performance with those is never on par with windows RDP, it feels a lot more like VNC.
Sorry, it seems like HN automatically stripped the URL to its base form, so the gift article pass doesn't work.
Yeah the way I see it this is where we find the value of customization. We are already seeing its use by YouTube video essay creators who turn their own voice into models. I want to see corporate executives get on board so that we can finally ditch the god awful phone quality in earnings calls.
> I, and most people I know just flat out don't believe that you can transition into being a woman as a man or vice versa.

I think I see where you're coming from. To be fair, I don't think many people actually believe in a magic fairy who turns men into women or vice versa.

But : In the playground, have you never looked at some kid at a distance, squinted, and gone 'I wonder if they're a girl or a boy, it's hard to tell'?

I know I've had that experience myself back in the '80s, before there was this much debate.
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I think it's only a database if you come down on the "logs are the source of truth, not tables" side of the logs vs tables debate. And if you do, any log is a database, I guess...