skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> wondering how many morons actually destroyed their perfectly working CPU back then.

Well, if they knew where the CPU is, and still drilled a hole through it, they deserved it.
"How do you make sure that a hotel room cannot be booked by more than one person at a time" Excellent question! You don't. Instead, assuming a globally consistent transaction ordering, eg Spanner's TrueTime, but any uuid scheme suffices, it becomes a tradeoff between reconciliation latency and perceived unreliability. A room may be booked by several persons at a time, but eventually only one of them will win the reconciliation process.

A: T.uuid3712[X] = reserve X
...
B: T.uuid6214[X] = reserve X // eventually loses to A because of uuid ordering
...
A<-T.uuid6214[X]: discard T.uuid6214[X]
...
B<-T.uuid3712[X]: discard T.uuid6214[X], B.notify(cancel T.uuid6214[X])
-----
A wins, B discards

The engineering challenge becomes to reduce the reconciliation latency window to something tolerable to users. If the reconciliation latency is small enough, then a blocking API can completely hide the unreliability from users.
The only obvious mainstream "success" to come out of crypto is stable coins (Tether/Bitfinex is something like the 5th or 6th largest buyer of US treasuries ...and amusingly keeps all the yield from them). Ironically, this use case also happens to be one that doesn't really require a decentralised ledger (would work equally well with a few cross-border validators, ala DNS root server approach) and lends itself very well to tradfi involvement (since you need pegging to fiat).

For me crypto today looks like ~1998/~2000 ish internet. Big, powerful traditional entities have fully woken up to it and will now take it over and ensure whatever useful use cases exist will be controlled by them with profits also accruing to them. The speculative, lawless days of the crypto wild west (fuelled by oceans of QE & stimmy money); and promises of a satoshi enabled future are well and truly over.

In terms of ushering in a new decentralised monetary order, it has failed completely.
Nice read. Although I much prefer the first solution, the hotfix of adding extra padding to the bottom. UX-wise, not just because it is simpler.

On large screens I prefer to not read texts at the bottom (I always scroll things enough so I am looking at them at the middle or top of the screen). Also, the positioning of the heading relatively to the screen is always the same on every scroll.
How is "Novnaode" pronounced? How did you come up with this name?

Thanks for sharing your project!

Edit: Ah, thanks @evanjrowley! I'm glad it was a typo, because otherwise the name would have doomed this baby :)
> Likewise, it should be apparent to anyone with a cursory understanding of economics

Can you explain why countries have tariffs if tariffs are bad for their economies as a general principle? I'm assuming you're not the standard sort who thinks Trump invented tariffs.
This only works in so far as their actions are illegal.

But the premise here is these people have these beliefs and are working to make them legal. The idea isn’t that these people want to kill Jews, it’s that they want to make killing Jews the right thing to do.

Then, it becomes your problem. Particularly so if you are Jewish, but even if you are not.

This of course extrapolates to less extreme examples.
They may work hard, but it‘s hardly productive. I mean Jobst just self-immolated like 3yrs of his income, meaning if it sticks he‘ll likely be paying for at least a decade, and I‘m not sure Billy has produced anything of value aside from the occasional drama.
My favourite genre of this is when the crypto community rediscovers centuries of economic lessons from first-principles.
> Öküz saraya çıkınca kral olmaz. Ama saray ahır olur.

I like the saying, but why Turkish? It's known in English also.
Who benefits from policies aimed to combat this? Western society.
That's fair. Making predictions is risky business, economist or not. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/paul-krugman-internets-eff...
Can't even try if we don't talk about it. The issue with line of 'clear thinking' is it leaves no room for change.

If enough people take talk into action, we could reasonably see a change in behavior. It may come from sources than we don't expect, but it can happen all the same and we only have a chance at getting there if we are wiling to talk about what is ideal and raising that awareness. Its an important piece of that puzzle
My primary computer, the one I'm typing on right now, is a 13-year old 2012 Mac Mini.

It couldn't be more fine. It does everything I need it to do.
He who is free of sin..
But I can now call someone a "retard" without getting cancelled, so it was worth it.
Works perfectly in Firefox.
Yes of course. What is your solution?

"Warren Buffett Wants Higher Taxes For The Ultra-Rich, Including Himself — Says 'My Friends And I Have Been Coddled Long Enough" - https://finance.yahoo.com/news/warren-buffett-wants-higher-t...

"Reagan's Radio Address on Free and Fair Trade on April 25, 1987" - https://youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc?t=119
i've been wanting to implement a design like this for blogs for 5 or 10 years. Great work on the inline detail on mobile. genuinely better than whatever i would have made.

did you consider pushing the word(s) directly following the activation button to below the detail pane, rather than doing it based on line break?
My pleasure—happy to share an alternative.
Thanks for making and sharing a thing!
How does it compares with https://bearblog.dev/?
Show HN: I 100% vibe coded a free remote job aggregator
I am tired of remote job aggregators charging money from job seekers for access.

So, I asked Windsurf to build a completely free remote job aggregator.

Not a single line of code has been written by me.

Model used: Claude 3.7 sonnet with thinking.
It's a typo. Their website indicates it's Novanode.
It doesn't matter how accurate the models are, it's not a "data set" (in the scientific sense), it's more of a conclusion set. Maybe the conclusions are spot on. Maybe not. I have no idea.
When it comes time for layoffs, it generally isn't what your boss knows, it's what your boss's grandboss thinks to throw onto a spreadsheet at the eleventh hour before Quarterly Reports are due.

A good direct boss might keep you on track for a bonus or other "local advancement", maybe even a promotion, but many companies you are only as valued as the ant numbers you look like from the C Suite's mile high club. (Which doesn't protect your good boss, either.)
> From which the code can then be derived naturally.

Disagree with "naturally". Unless you want to end up on accidentally quadratic. Or on accidentally exponential if there's such a list.
Conduwuit – a Matrix 2.0 homeserver written in Rust
The domain names are killing me lmao
tickets is only a pretext, surveillance and loss of privacy will affect anyone regardless of whether they drive the speed limit or exceed it.

this is what fundamentally people don't understand. They look at one government failure (inability to enforce order on roadways), and cheer to spend taxpayer money to erect a techno-fascist surveillance state.

Sure, if you speed you will get ticket, but also if you post anything against the US government or against Israel, you will be tracked and thugs will come knocking your door.

It is fundamentally wrong to allow government to massively track and collect data on citizens, as it makes it trivial to track and harass people since all your data is in one place, one SQL query away and the state will use it against you
So if I was looking for an older Thinkpad to throw something XFCE flavored onto, what are some model numbers to look for? I'm basically just looking to do word processing/browsing, but I assume I'll have to jack up the ram, maybe replace the main drive with an SSD...
Probably not abortion. While rights never happen in a vacuum, it is usually framed as a matter of fetus rights.

How about a woman's right to equal employment opportunity? 67% of women are in favour of DEI, while most men (57%) take the opposing view. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/poll-american...

The primary political parties are definitely catering to those sides.
opening the thinkpads will add ~ 38% to the effective area of stacking thinkpads, if edge-to-edge (0.2325m depth closed, assuming doubling for opened = 0.465m opened) [0].

if opened and touching corner-to-corner (~0.574m), will add ~ 71% to effective area.

[0] https://www.lenovo.com/content/dam/lenovo/pcsd/north-america...
The word is starting to be used by the left in the same way the right uses "woke": It's become watered down and an over-used way to simply say "anything my side doesn't like".

- Climate change is real: "woke"

- Firing people in government: "fascist"

- Compassion and fairness: "woke"

- Cruelty toward political enemies: "fascist"

- Expertise-driven and reason-driven policies: "woke"

- Stacking government positions with loyal cronies: "fascist"

- Rights for women, minorities, gay people, and so on: "woke"

- Handouts to corporations: "fascist"

They've become vague words that mean the same thing: "Politics I don't like"
The graph here could be instructive:

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-coronavirus-hospitalizat...

It varies widely by state/county, etc, but in most of the US, hospitalizations were pretty low still in April. The first peak was around August which was my experience, and the second peak was around January 2021.

So as far as "A bunch of medical professionals shaking in their shoes waiting for something that never came", they were waiting for what was actually coming.
I’m having a real hard time with this one lately.

The major mistake/misunderstanding I see now is thinking that a stupid, vindictive asshole who failed upwards would be a good person to run the country.

I don’t think I’m susceptible to that. I’ve never viewed anyone the way a lot of these people view Donald Trump. I can’t imagine I ever will. Is it a failure of imagination or is something really different between us?
I know. :P So far it all works on Chromium-based browsers, too, but probably not for long.
I don't know if you're a news buff, but they're actually actively saying "women can't do that".
One could ask: what's the UX purpose of the "active anchor" indicator on the side navigation?

One answer I can think of: if a reader is in the middle of a long section, and the heading is off the screen, it can remind them which section they're in relative to the others.

This indicates (to me, anyway) that it's not a function of which heading you've scrolled to; it's a function of which section is on screen. If you use section-screen-area or something similar to highlight the active section, fiddling with the heading positions becomes unnecessary.

If you have a tiny section at the end that can never take up the majority of the screen, then when the user is reading it, the active indicator won't really be useful anyway.
It’s hard to see tariffs on steel (say) not raising wider domestic prices. Any domestic industry using steel (car making, house building etc) presumably now has to pay more for its steel which feeds through to consumer prices. You might increase the number of steel worker jobs but at a hidden wider cost to the wider US economy.
You're right that a "European Cloud" has been a 'dream' for a long
time. But I don't see the reasons you cite (regulation) as a cause of
impediment.

And you slightly mis-parsed my words. A migration of cloud services
from US providers isn't the same as to a "European Cloud".
Canada, Australia, India, Vietnam, South Africa... there's a whole
world of nominally friendly and economically viable suppliers out
there. What matters is moving from Microsoft, AWS, Google and other
services that cannot be considered "safe" any longer.

I notice from your profile you're an AWS disciple. You must know AWS
want to build a "Euro Sovereign" division? Not that I think it will be
successful, but look at which way the wind is blowing.
It is and it isn't. I've gotten so used to the promise of AI that I don't know if I'll ever be able to go back to imagining a "normal" future again. Of course it can all turn to fuck, but it's so much more interesting than dying at 85 in some home.
The author believes he is better than his friends and probably irritates friends when talking politics but can rationalize his way out of the problem while still blaming his friends.

What a jerk.
He's the Immortal Dutchman.
I think there might be something to it: if you look at the correlation between commitment to maga beliefs and affection for the confederate flag, my guess is it would be fairly high
Now you’ve jinxed it. I’d imagine you’ll never see this response because your laptop exploded shortly after typing that comment.
It's on my website (https://rossng.eu, also linked in my profile)
To steal a quote from The Good Place, “This is why everyone hates moral philosophy professors”
Apple and google. Read both lines of my post.
Because this is just simple substitution of common math/CS functions.
Physical cartridges are just as temporary as digital copies; unfortunately. This is starting to be a big deal with the 3DS. Nintendo doesn't use ROM; the carts start degrading after a decade or two. The console tries to automatically correct any data integrity errors, but if you aren't using them on a semi-regular basis they'll eventually fail.

The 3DS homebrew community has built some tools to attempt to recover failing carts, but for long term ownership your best bet is digital copies that can be backed up. Homebrew that enables dumping carts is also good, but who knows when that'll happen for new consoles.
must be using way better LLMs than i am?
FWIW: On iOS 18.4 my Battery report for the last 10 days is ~128h of background activity, using ~2% of my battery life.
Heh, Popper wrote an entire book that says pretty much the opposite, but Wittgenstein attacked him with a poker once so maybe it was payback.
Great question. If you ask senior management, the answer will be yes. ;)
The Fed has a mandate to keep inflation under control but a lot of leeway to decide if they should increase interest rates or not. If they see a price increase as temporary or structural, and not based on an interest-rate-responsive process, they will not increase rates. Some prices are "sticky", some are definitely not.
>Maybe they got it from an LLM, maybe they didn't, but what matters is the college sophomore level of consideration of the individual tariffs.

Sounds like we're in agreement? The tariffs are badly thought out, but the "lol they got their policy from LLMs" accusation is entirely spurious.
Thanks for the link:

> At JPMorgan’s insistence, Javice said, she completed the task “over a couple of days and nights.” The professor uploaded Frank’s “customer list”—which now contained the synthetic data—to Acxiom on the morning of Aug. 5, the bank said. Acxiom analyzed the data and provided its report to JPMorgan later that evening. Acxiom destroyed the underlying data as its contract required, Javice said. Three days later, on Aug. 8, JPMorgan agreed to buy Frank for $175 million. Acxiom declined comment.

Analyzed the data and gave report the same evening? What the hell? How on earth Acxiom is not on the hook? Is incompetence a defence? And how can they avoid going bankrupt if they choose that defence because nobody will give any work to a company that admits it? I'm now more intrigued about the Acxiom side of story.
I disagree. There's a tremendous amount of waste in the economy related to reconciling different companies' records of who owes what to whom and then getting that info to the bank and then hearing back from the bank about whether the debt was fully or partially paid and then relating that to whether the service continues to be rendered.

Moving from an accounts-receivable/accounts-payable model to a insert-coin-receive-service model would be a huge advantage.

It just hasn't happened because the vibes are wrong and it appears that they'll stay wrong for a while.
While it wasn't as damaging from a legal or (business) reputational perspective, he also peeked into the Tumblr database in order to doxx people who were making fun of him, which doesn't say great things about his stability or fitness to run a company.
> It seems to be used exclusively by smart people as a means of extracting wealth from people who don't understand it.

How is that any different from other financial markets? A fool and his money are easily parted, while targeting desperate people with get rich quick schemes are also an easy play. The crypto/stocks/etc are just different tools to achieve the same result.
Yes and there will be the usual political consequences associated with inflation; but this type of inflation is caused by a tax and cannot be combated by raising interest rates.
Best Software Engineering advice I ever heard was at a conference talk by a guy called Dan North: "Think of code like surgery".

Basically Surgery is a means to an end (patient gets better) and a useful tool for achieving that but it's also dangerous so only used when necessary. If other treatments can fix the problem you try them first. If surgery is required you only do the minimum required to treat the issue.

Code is similar. More code means more maintenance, more tech debt, slower deliverables in future and higher risk of dependencies no one understands. So when coding ask "Can I fix this without code?" because if yes it's often easier in the long run and "What's the bare minimum/simplest code I need to write to fix the issue?".
It's downvoted because it's a transparent and weak attempt to "both sides" something that's not both-sidesable.
And that’s a major win for his family, good on them. For Billy though, it‘s not clear if he works for their business in some way or if he‘s the “gamer of the century” full time.

EDIT: Apparently he advertises their hot sauce
That actually checks out. If you take the median U.S. household income ($74,580) and factor in the effective tax rate (10.9%), eliminating federal income taxes would save the average household $8,167.50 per year. Subtract the $3,488.27 in extra costs from tariffs, and the net savings is still $4,679.23.

So yeah, if those numbers hold up, the median American household actually comes out ahead after everything is accounted for.
Everyone can come up with technical ways to backup and wipe. The most interesting question is how you answer questions like "it's clearly wiped/burner, do you have backup accounts, sir, and how you're gonna restore and can we have these passwords?". Because everyone is a hacker hero until faced with the option to lie to border control and get called out either way.

Your worst enemy here is a thought that they are stupid and that you can confidently lie in a tight room, surrounded by police officers. Neither is true.
1) EU businesses have to deal with complicated sales tax arrangements that vary by state and municipality.

2) EU businesses have to operate in their own environment and also face the VAT. There is no protectionism here. The playing field with respect to VAT is balanced, regardless of which side of the pond is (...was) an easier business environment to operate in.
LLM generated nutrition for accuracy.

The first item I manually look up is has about double calories listed in the "dataset" versus reality. Honey bunches of oats honey roasted.
To my understanding, those paywall bypass sites used archive.today, and archive.today started redirecting them to RT based on referer header.

> The most likely explanation is “either a prankster, or that Russian hackers have actually compromised these sites,” said Matt Pearl, who previously worked at the National Security Council, and is now the director of the Strategic Technologies Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Seems more likely to me that the archive.today owner (supposedly "Denis Petrov") was either worried that explicitly advertising as a "paywall bypass" may attract legal attention/blocks, or just didn't want those services "freeloading" off his archive.
But the Fed is not the consumer
The way its being framed in the public - and often in discussions even in this Hacker News comments section - is its an alternative to raising other taxes. Trump is selling it that way, along with simultaneous tax cuts he wants to either extend or implement, which goes to show the tariffs are not some way of addressing the national debt concerns either.

While nothing does, the actual discussion around it isn't allowing any room for non-tariff tax increases regardless.
How did crypto solve something that Zelle,PayPayl,cashapp,venmo, etc did not also solve for paying people remotely?
The usual not terrible, not great solution is to keep the debt kind of constant and eventually it gets inflated away.
Dijkstra is actually a time traveling Brian Rantrill
I too want to highlight this, since it's one of the cleanest case of blatant equivocation sneaking past people.

>> Just like in math, the rational is a subset of the real

That only works if you think Rationality ⊂ Reality the same way ℚ ⊂ ℝ — which is like saying Space-time ⊂ Archery because time flies like an arrow.

Wordplay is not an argument.
This is basic economics that the administration refuses to understand.

Trade allows you to consume beyond your nation’s manpower and resource constraints.

And it’s even stupider when you’re putting tariffs on raw materials like Canadian lumber. So not only do we need to magically find millions of workers to work in these new factories we also need to find a bunch of lumberjacks and start cutting down our own trees? We’re at 4% unemployment, who’s going to do this work?

We literally don’t have the people to make this work.
I worked in a factory. I agree with gp. Don't you dare speak for me.
The One Hour Employee
Not true. The Fed did lower rates leading up to the election, seemingly to postpone a crisis until Democrats got elected (which didn't happen).

https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/federal-reserve-expected-...
No, you as an American consumer are paying the tariffs.
I have used this language for a few things (csv parsing and some simple personal cli tools). Other than the normal pre-1.0 issues it's great. I wish it had a tagged union type, but it looks like that's planned based on the github issue tracker.

It is a pretty big improvement on C without changing the ABI. Maybe not the improvements I would make if I was smart enough to make a compiler, but better than doing C which I also enjoy despite it's warts.
I don't mind not having an external battery now that these laptops can charge off USB-C. So many ways to get some kind of USB-C power source to connect to and get a bit more charge, and then that spare energy source is usable with pretty much all the rest of my electronics. Whereas before it was a big, proprietary battery that only worked with one device and needed to be connected to the laptop to charge some time later.

They're still pretty easy to find replacements for when they go bad.
Then lead them to the understanding that both parties are right-wing? (support the current economic system, support mass-murdering brown people overseas, support embezzling for personal gain as long as they don't get caught, etc)
Inflation is inflation.

The fact that we decided allow a massive tax increase by executive fiat is irrelevant. The fact that we’re risking a death spiral from decreased consumer demand via government imposed inflation is irrelevant.

You’re right in that the usual formula of turning the knobs on interest rates to ease economic challenges is unlikely to work. We may have to turn the knobs to prevent a total death spiral, however. Get ready for 16% mortgages.
Musk will stay on as an adviser post-DOGE, Vance says
Well, the first thing is to realize CNN is also just a stream of lies and BS. Every media news organization in the world has become (they always were?) pure garbage.

Listening to first-hand sources is the way, I guess, but also remembering they can be lying as well, so be vigilant.
The integration of generative AI makes want to consider other options. It is becoming increasingly hard to actually get apps without such integrations