skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Netherland is actually extremely egalitarian. Managers are often just one of the team, you address everybody informally, we're all equals, etc. Except in pay. And especially in larger organizations. Managers and people on track to management are seen as the shit. Programmers are paid fairly well compared to the average job, but even if you're single-handedly pulling an important project, you're never going to make the same as people who push numbers, papers and money.
> Totally agree

I'm a little confused - if you agree, then why did you mention inequality in the first place?
It does seem to be quite common to cover hobbyists and huge companies, but nothing in between.

I know a few people who will likely have to stop using CockroackDB because the license costs would be higher than their entire revenue.
Thanks to Mutable Instruments for putting out there all that DSP code.
> .NET ecosystem is still very corporate-minded and open source is not getting the love it deserves from the community.

You mean the same way MongoDB and many other open source products went commercial?

It has nothing to do with .NET. It happens with all languages and all platforms.
I doubt that Microsoft would by it. From what I remeber they were working on their own framework doing a similar thing, which was originally meant to release in .NET 9 but got pushed back.
Unless they want to throw all of that away I doubt it would make much financial sense for them.

But we have seen FluentAssertions parter with tool maker recently so I guess that's not entirely unreasonable.
> . You should ask yourself why you - a pakistani - has such strong feelings about Voter ID when Voter Fraud is completely a non-issue when both political sides look at the data.

Because as I said somewhere else in this post, when americans are unhappy, they spread their frustration on the entire world with a shovel.

And when I see that this frustration arises from something as stupid as voter ID, I wonder why they don't just fix it. I am not interested in the actual voter fraud numbers or some random foundation... I am interested in YOU guys being happy. And if (a sufficient number of) YOU believe in voter fraud, then for ffs, get voter ID, we all have it, why can't you?

It's like with the kids' blankie to save them from the monster under the bed, don't argue about the probability of bed monsters, understand the frankly low cost of providing the blankie, realise it's not worth quibbling about and just GIVE IT TO THEM.

It isn't about about voter fraud, it's about trust in the system. When americans don't feel trust in the system, they are unhappy. And when they are unhappy, they are often distracted by their elected leaders by other things.... things that affect the entire world, like tariffs or wars.

I don't speak about Brazilian issues, not because they don't affect us (we import soybeans from them which affects chicken prices, for example) but the effect is less... catastrophic.... but a Texan sneezes, I get the flu here.

It's part of the curse of being the world hegemon.
As if the things the US produces aren't predominantly made in China already. Cutting out the middleman can't hurt, especially if the middleman behaves like a mob boss.
It's only a good sign if they're able to speak out, and aren't terrified of expressing their dissent in public.

Both the left and the right seem captured by a small minority of radicals, using social media echo chambers/purity spirals to shut down often-quite-reasonable disagreement. And we're clearly past the point at which we can just ignore 'social media politics', given how much it seems to have led to the current state of things in the US.
I ran into him at a store in El Granada in 2022. He was wearing a USENIX t-shirt and I commented on it. I think he was living on a boat in the harbor at the time, it was a little sad.
How did he pass?
FWIW eliminating the de minimis exemption had already been proposed by President Biden late last year:

https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-room/statement...
I take issue with "thinks".

Isnt it just a; one's and zero's thingummy gadget over hyped contraption whirring away until it finishes
Apparently much of the rest of the world believes in them as well: almost every country has tariffs and had them long before Trump.
Huh. Thanks for that. I naively assumed that Google would lock down the launcher. I have emerged from darkness into light.

The difference between an Android TV launcher that's designed give people what they want, and the baroque monstrosity that results when Google tries to extract every fraction of a cent of advertising revenue that it can is startling. My TV just became an appliance that does exactly what I want, no less and no more, instead of a cacophony of distractions and diversions trying to convince me to do things I don't want to do.
People who voted that wouldn't want to work at factories with working conditions and salaries Chinese factories make everything they consume. They also don't support the unions that would make working bearable in factories. Even if somehow factories would return and pay reasonable compensation, that would make the products so expensive most Americans couldn't afford them. People would have to consume a lot less. Which may be a good thing for the planet, but I doubt that's what the voters are prepared for.
Always keep in mind that Blackrock manages the retirement/social insurance funds of a lot of countries. If the USD crashes, they will, too.

The aftermath will probably be complete isolation of the US, because no country will want to trade with them. And the administration is fine with that, because they're not interested in keeping the status quo of democracy alive.

More influence for them, less influence from outside. That's how oligarchs think and act.
The group I stayed with in West Virginia (back to lander hippies basically) only had driver license, which to my understanding, is not a valid voting ID (it isn't a proof of citizenship), so they cannot vote (Lincoln county, WV). Some are a bit mad about it, most don't care.
It's got downsides. There's often no way to recover game state without actually running the simulation, and often no way to go backwards either. If you miss a moment in the replay you gotta watch the whole damn thing all over gain.
My first ThinkPad had terrible battery life. It was a X1 Extreme or something like that, pretty high end but the battery was useless. Even brand new it wouldn't last an hour off leash. Also couldn't use usb-c charging from the monitors at the office, had to be plugged in.

Also the Fn key is where the Ctrl key should be, which is endlessly annoying as a user of different laptop brands.
In my experience distributions only patch GCC or modify the package building environment variables to add compiler flags. You can be certain that the compiler flags used in build systems like cmake and meson will be vanilla.

Make adds no additional compiler flags (check the output of "make -n -p"). Neither does Ninja.

Autotools is extremely conservative with compiler flags and will only really add -O2 -g, as well as include paths and defines specified by the developer.

CMake has some default compiler flags, depending on your CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE, mostly affecting optimization, and disabling asserts() with Release (-DNDEBUG). It also has some helpers for precompiled headers and link-time optimizations that enable the relevant flags.

Meson uses practically the same flags as cmake, with the exception of not passing -DNDEBUG unless the developer of the meson build really wants it to.

These are all the relevant build systems for linux packages. I'm not familiar with gn, bazel, and etc. In general, build systems dabble a bit in optimization flags, but pay no mind to hardening.
When you show your id they check if you are allowed to vote, the id is just to identify you as a person it doesn't mean everyone with an id gets to vote.
It's been a gradual shift, with a few obvious changes along the way.

Among a few: The keyboard switch from the old 7-row (whose pinnacle was at the x220/T420 era with double-height esc and del) to the new 6-row (with later ever decreasing key travel) to the current x9 (which is basically just a yoga keyboard with no trackpoint, no key grouping, and the loss of pgup/pgdn). Things like the modular battery options vanished. The case got flimsier over time with e.g. the magnesium rollcage first vanishing from the display, then from the base. (And no - from enterprise experience - the carbon fiber composite isn't generally "as good or better", esp. for failure modes like punctual force on the display. Or...grabbing the laptop by the display and using it to fan your BBQ, which doesn't faze my old X41 :) ).
> I wonder if OP heard about it from the NA podcast

What podcast do you mean?
This whole "the EU fining us for breaking EU law is a tariff" narrative is such BS. The big tech companies just don't like the privacy & consumer protection laws in the EU so now they're getting the US government to help them bully the EU into submission.
Isn't HN self-moderating with upvote/downvote/flagging? I have an impression that the notion of moderator comes from old forums (e.g. phpBB) where they didn't have those features.
So has anyone an idea how those tariffs would affect software sales? Say I'm a German guy selling a license for my software to someone in the US. Will this fall under tariffs, too. Or are software licenses somehow exempt? Asking for a friend(me).
Even the best economists can't predict economy results from "small" actions.

With global ones like this - they are absolutely oblivious what will happen.
Aren't we (UK) putting boots on the ground in support of Ukraine, directly opposing USA? We're going to fight on both sides - the side of expansionist oligarchs (Russia, USA) _and_ the side of democracy?
Yep what many people overlook is that this deficient just means the rest of the world is financing the US overconsumption. And the only reason they are happy to do it is because they are happy to hold USD and are happy to invest in the US economy.
I found it interesting that when the UK was part of the EU, the Isle of Man was not, but because they held British Passports, the people of the Isle of Man were EU citizens.
My home desktop PC, which I use daily for many things (but not dev since rust is way too slow), is 14 years old. For rust dev I connect to a virtual machine somewhere else.

Thanks to Linux I have kept my memory need low (8GB IIRC)
"Paying" is a bit too ambiguous term. Let's say we go to have a lunch, but I forgot my wallet at the office. You pay my lunch and once we are back at the office, I pay you back. Who paid my lunch, you or me? Your company pays VAT in the technical sense you paid my lunch and your company does not pay VAT in the economical sense I paid my lunch.
This is the magical thing that happens when AI research happens in the open. Deepseek published their model and their methodology and then the nice people at the University of Illinois are able to build on it.

When OpenAI was launched this is what I thought it was going to be like. Something, something for the betterment of man kind.
It’s good software so good luck to them.

.Net OSS looks more and more like a failure, while fans will incessantly reiterate it’s technically OSS it’s certainly not spiritually and if anything it’s regressed in the last 2-3 years.

The bigger project I know of follow a similar model of open core + support and I would not bat an eye if they did the same. The remaining ecosystem seems to be convenience over whatever MS is doing and IO adapters.

At this stage it’s just another nail in the coffin and I’d be wary of picking up anything other than MS packages if using .Net.

I also wonder if eroding confidence will start snowballing and bring .Net back to framework days in practice.
Total trade with Russia in 2024: $3.5bn

Total trade with Ukraine in 2024: $2.9bn

https://ustr.gov/countries-regions/europe-middle-east/russia...

So, Ukraine will get an exemption, too, right?
Because their trade is even a mooter point, right? Right?!
Or move the moon closer.
Is this a thought held by any serious person? The only major country to indefinitely postpone an election recently has been Ukraine. This idea that the midterms wouldn’t be held is tin foil nonsense.
> Folks are rightly pointing out that these laws are engineered to suppress votes, and you seem to not be willing to listen to understand why.

Are you saying democrats will engineer these laws to suppress votes? Is that why democrats don't have voter id laws? The GOP isn't relevant here, we are just wondering why democrat states can't seem to do this.
What do you mean? In my opinion this library does a very good job of representing the image’s color palette considering it’s encoded into a single integer. (Even smaller than usual because of CSS limitations, only 20 bits!)

You don’t even need JavaScript to decode that integer into the image. The underlying CSS may be complex, but for the user of the library it definitely feels minimal in a good way.
actual title:

"I spent four decades not sleeping a wink – until a doctor took my insomnia seriously"

Highly unlikely that someone has not slept at all in 40 yers.

they would be dead or at the very minimum have extreme psychological dysfunction
Did XMPP ever use these protocols for authentication?
The other day I got a massive tariff from the police, alleging that my parking was somehow wrong. This is a free country, I can park where I want.
I spent hours watching French Drama, I don't know any French.
How many successful business founders have never failed?
Octree Color Quantization (2019)
A fantastic explanation of octree color quantization with code implementation and interactive visualization.
Paper backing ggm's take:

https://www.hudsonbaycapital.com/documents/FG/hudsonbay/rese...

https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/markets-wrestle-with-trum...

>In a November paper, economist Stephen Miran, whom Trump has picked to chair his Council of Economic Advisors, raised the possibility that Trump could use the threat of tariffs and the lure of U.S. security support to persuade foreign governments to swap their Treasury holdings for lower-cost century bonds.

Via

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43350553
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43561808

Just so pple get the credit (even if they appear to be not so sane)
Also it's not as if the US doesn't fine EU banks disproportionately compared to US ones.
Using copyrighted material for massive profit can be fair use so long as a billionaire's (or billionaire funded) company is doing it.
There is a dedicated article in an Austrian newspaper about that: https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000264129/das-verrueckt... They essentially call it batshit crazy.
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What's the problem?

Just look at the actual facts, as you say.

https://theconversation.com/almost-2-million-people-in-the-u...
they hired a 3rd party to verify the leads and they basically checked that the row count was 4m and said yeah these look like contacts. if whoever was in contact with this vendor thought this was adequate, that's pretty bad judgment. how hard would it have been to validate a few records?
https://theconversation.com/almost-2-million-people-in-the-u...
Votes are not moderation. Ignoring manipulation tactics, majority consensus does not mean that something is right, acceptable, or in line with site guidelines.
I do believe that half of the US voters do not understand the economic impacts and workings of imposing indiscriminate, massive tariffs on trade partners. The evidence that the majority of Trump's voters have no clue what they've been voting for is quite overwhelming. I would even call it crazy to believe the opposite, to be honest.
the tariff is calculated based on trade deficit, not how much tariff the other is applying
It won’t unless you’re shipping an item to the USA.

I think the eu should look into taxes on u.s. services, instead of tariffs on products. Taxing AWS/Azure/etc +25% would do a lot in getting similar services in the eu expanded.
I have a doubt for some years about the US, but never really got good info on it (maybe because it’s a silly doubt).

So, when I sell something to the USA (on eBay) for instance. It doesn’t pay VAT automatically. Do Americans pay VAT when it’s delivered?

But, when an American buys something locally, they do pay VAT, correctly?
My opinion. (Also as a German guy doing a similar thing).

On the first order no. The tariffs just announced are only on goods and are collected at the ports when you physically import them.

On the second and third order. What I think will happen is that the EU will mostly retaliate against US services. And then trump might counter retaliate against EU services. So I would start looking for customers outside the US.
With how cheap solar panels are getting, why not slap a few of them on the roof of every EV? Some days they get you 10 free miles, other days 20 or 30. If you’re a commuter, you’re basically driving for free at that point.

Sure it’s not enough on road trips, but why is that a problem?
Any specific paper or article of his you would recommend?
They take forever to reply (2 months since my first email, meanwhile they regularly kept posting the job on HN) and after the initial call had me take a home assignment that I spent almost an entire day on, then went total radio silence again - not even a generic "sorry for the delay" or a rejection email. I see I'm not an outlier, given others' comments under their postings. I don't think the job's fake - they just really don't care about their candidates' time.
I agree, I loved the story (I also did kind of enjoy the form, but agree it can get in the way of enjoying the story).

The Navidson Record is on youtube if you dare =P
> that women's issues like abortion and trans women in abuse shelters should be decided by women, not men like me.

This got me wondering... Thinking in reverse, are there any issues that you think should be decided by men only?

Underlying your thought, seems to be the idea that some people should be excluded from certain political/ideological conversations.

Whereas for me, I see all people as individuals, each with a right to their opinions. Ie, I wouldn't start from a point of separation as this bakes in special interests, sexism, racism, etc.
Sure but we build (leaky) abstractions, and this is even happens in legal texts.

Asking an llm to build a graphical app in assembly from an ISA and a driver for the display would give you nothing.

But with a mountain of abstractions then it can probably do it.

This is not to defend an LLM more to say I think that by providing the right abstractions (reusable components) then I do think it will get you a lot closer.
That's pretty much an issue with every LQIP solutions though, including BlurHash and ThumbHash. The only thing that matters is that it's close enough to the real thing, since they're meant to serve as placeholders.
>And yet, most countries are using tarrifs.

On specific industries they want to protect. Not completely across the board.
My daily driver is an x200 upgraded to 4gb of RAM. It runs as well as it ever did except the web has become slower and slower in that everything became an app. Things like GMail and YouTube are slow but honestly still fine, and in the worst case scenario I can jump onto my phone.

My main use these days is recording and mixing music through an interface from 2014. With Reaper the experience is even better than when I picked the laptop up back around 2010.
> Inspired by the Twitter logo, which is made from 13 perfect circles

Compared to that, the new logo doesn't have a circle (segment) anywhere to be seen (unless you consider straight lines as circle segments with the center located at infinity of course), and is simply the "mathematical double-struck capital X" from an unknown but probably pre-existing font (apparently Monotype's "Special Alphabets 4" comes close, but isn't identical, according to https://tweethunter.io/blog/how-to-write-twitter-x-iphone-ma...).
I'm not sure about that, he will be importing a lot of parts for his cars.
Many people including doctors and health professionals apply restrictions to their diet including avoiding complex carbs or proteins, or reducing their salt or sugar intake while talking about balance diets. No complaints.

But when I decide to reduce all foods by at least 10%, lower my protein and carbs by 25%, pledge I'll remove at least 30% of metals from my diet and will be doing a 4 day fast twice a week in order to become an olympic level athlete by next year, people say I don't know what I'm doing!

How can people possibly be against nuanced thoughtful dieting yet be against my sudden do it all at once approach? It's totally inconsistent, what idiots everyone else is.
Congrats Tom. Fellow aussie HN lover here. Keep up the good work.
You shoe-horned two things together - free will and rationality.

Just because free will doesn't exist, doesn't mean they didn't act "rationally" (whatever that even means in this case).

Deindustrialization and Nikefication in the past several decades isn't "rational" long-term behavior either.
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I guess somone will have to create one. Same thing happened pretty quickly after FluentAssertions went paid.
It then becomes a question if someone is willing to put in the work to actually maintain that project.
Ah, thanks. Yes it couldn't have been 2010 because he died in 2002. But the date this was written is important, otherwise his references to "the last decade" don't mean anything!
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