skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Less than 1 in 4 Americans voted for Trump

Yea and it seems the 75% of population cannot do anything about Trump now.

I wonder when people will wake up to the fact that USA does not actually have a democracy.
Well these are messengers, not social media. The only social media platforms without algorithms I can think of are decentralized, i.e. what can be described as "fediverse".
It's important to distinguish between wealth and income. Like, I would say that a lot of HN readers are in the top decile of income in whatever country they live in, but far, far fewer are in the top decile of wealth.

Personally, I think that we should tax wealth more in general, and probably make the income tax a bit more progressive (I currently pay 52% which sucks, but if I had to pay a few pp more to get rid of homelessness and poverty in my country then I'd be ok with it).
Cool ideas. Some other tools that may be useful are hour/minute difference calculator, in addition to the date difference calculator. Timezone conversation may also be good.

Some additional feedback I have is that scrolling on the site was choppy on my recent and fairly high powered android tablet. Certainly high powered enough to render a static page like the home page. Also the domain name age look up doesn't work for any domain I tried. It just returns a JSON parsing error.
Podman compose isn't bundled in the init process.
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Will American soft power triumph through AI?
Bottom-left corner
I wouldn't mind a simple or even boring website... But sometimes they are actively ugly.
> Ok, maybe very niche hobby products, but then I wouldn't expect a warranty.

I bought a bunch of parts for a racing drone from Aliexpress because I didn't expect a traditional retailer's warranty to really matter much. ("This frame has been in a crash. No warranty.") What's the point of paying extra in that scenario?
A star "lasts" about 10 billion years, so you'd expect about 1 in 10 billion stars to 'die' each year, but only a tiny proportion (the very largest) go supernova.

Numbers are huge. Even tiny ratios mean something like 10-100 stars go supernova every single second somewhere in the universe.

Sounds a lot? Only about 1 star per galaxy goes supernova per century. A lot of galaxies.

Mindblowing.
I'm not seeing that people here take issue with this. People here seem rather brainwashed themselves.
It's not. It's closed source. But Google is still the worst when it comes to privacy.

I prefer to use only open source models that don't have the possibility to share my data with a third party.
"we tend to live pretty high up the economic value chain, which can abstract us a bit from participation in the more grassroots co-operative aspect of society."

I really don't see this as being directly true. Most sorts of interactions where we would depend on others/strangers would happen outside of a job, just like all the examples you give. Maybe there's some truth to the stereotype that us IT guys are nerds and participate in fewer IRL group hobbies, which could make your statement indirectly true. However, there's still communities build around stuff like MMORPGs, FOSS, etc where people are from different backgrounds and regions. But then again, maybe I'm the odd one out as a middle class developer with everyone making more than me.
OK, burning is happening right now, so mission accomplished, I guess? Are you sure people will learn from it? And who is the responsible person nearby in this reality?

> Children get told 100's of times they will burn their hand if they touch the stove. In the best case scenario they touch it once anyway, ...

That is not the best case. I never burned myself on a stove.

Also, this is not an individual Darwin problem like the stove example -- this has consequences for many bystanders who did know better, and many more bystanders who had no say in this.
Really incredible video, thanks a quadrillion
> If you list on a big exchange, your investors will expect revenue and profit to go brrr quarter after quarter forever. It's a treadmill you can never get off.

> or an interest in a hitherto-undiscovered source of limitless energy.

Doesn't sound so different actually :)
I have a friend who started a snowboard factory recently, in the USA, he was able to do this because of Chinese made CNC machines and presses that were half the price and had great support.

Now everything he needs from them to keep his factory going is going to be ridiculously more expensive, probably screwing over his business as well.

This factory wouldn't have got off the ground if it wasn't for Chinese made machines.
Shopee allows you to post follow-up reviews, and gives you a grace period of 45 days to post reviews.

If you want compare, at least compare with facts.
The important difference that you mentioned in your comment as well is: the French problems lie in the realm of possibilities, while the US problems are in the present. So the comparison doesn't really hold. Maybe it's also helping that the French iterated 5 times, a concept we are all taught in agile 101.
"Most American academia" !== "most educated people" (much less so if taken globally).

Many Americans would be seriously surprised by the balance of left and right at continental European universities. It is nowhere near as one-sided. And Asian universities are a completely different world.

Generalizing from the extremely lopsided ratios in academia of the Anglosphere to the global educated class is somewhat unreliable.
Show HN: I built a tool to organize Kindle and Kobo highlights (esp. sideloaded)
I read a lot on Kindle but wanted to move to Kobo to get away from Amazon. The problem: reviewing highlights, especially from sideloaded books, is slow and painful on both.
So I built Clippings.store: a way to import, annotate, and review all your Kindle & Kobo highlights in one place.
Would love feedback from fellow Ebook nerds.
You are speaking from the position of privilege. Not everyone is as lucky as you are in your country, let alone the world.
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Technologies:

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It’s all about the VAT collection. I order frequently from Amazon Japan. They add the 25% VAT directly at the moment of purchase and deliver by DHL to Denmark without any extra handling fees. So it’s not about china, but about the company doing the paperwork required for the VAT collection instead of you doing.

And by you I mean PostNord in the case of Denmark
While I am not a friend of a mask ban, universities should absolutely teach their students to stay home when sick. Going to work sick is an abomination that should be rooted out. And it is a nice liberal cause too.
Well, yes. CORPORATE BEHEMOTHS do not appreciate small players getting top search results, for one.

The article raises a valid point about indifference and lack of responsibility and authority being weaponized. "What are you gonna do about it?" When Microsoft Defender calls your site.com "bad" for no explicable reason .

We have no levers to affect megacorps, and they feel entitled to eat the entire internet and subvert its founding principles.
What ARE we going to do about it?
I also built some free tools to help you manage your Kindle/Kobo clippings — like converting them to JSON, CSV, PDF, images, or highlights wrapped. No signup needed: https://www.clippings.store/freetools
Location: EU, EEST Bucharest time zone

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Possibly

Technologies:

C++ 17, Python 3, SOLID, TDD, Linux, REST APIs, Docker, Git, Protocols, Flask, Django

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pnVituSV1qz0hFUMajTj38bi...

Email: (Check Résumé/CV)

About: Software engineer with expertise in C++, Python, and web technologies (14+ years of full time software development experience). Proven track record in designing, developing, and deploying scalable backend systems and embedded applications. Passionate about writing clean, efficient code. Language agnostic, open to multiple tech stacks.
I am looking forward to seeing French troops on Greenland.

The food will improve for sure ...
If you have to go out of your way to have a humble experience and then blog about it, then it's not authentic and you don't really know.
> By working co-operatively and sharing among themselves the clients in one cluster can fill in missing packets from a different cluster far quicker than the requesting them from the originating host.

That's only true if you assume the nodes operate sequentially, which is not given. If the nodes operate independently from one another (which they would, being non-cooperating) they'd all get a response in ~100ms (computation and signaling time is negligible here), which is faster than they could get it cooperatively, even if we assume perfect cooperation (100ms for the first local node + 15ms from there). It's parallelism. Doing less work might seem theoretically nice, but if you have the capacity to do the same work twice simultaneously you avoid the synchronization.

Basically, it falls somewhere in my loose "tree based system" sketch. In this case the "trusted" nodes would be picked based on ping time clustering, but the basic sketch that you pick a subset of nodes to be your local nodes and then let that structure recursively play out is the same.

The problem you run into is latency. There's no good way to pick a global latency figure for the whole network, since it varies by how deep into the tree you are. As the tree grows deeper, you end up having to retune the delay. The only other option is to grow in width at which point you've just created a another linear growth problem, albeit with a lower slope.
Yes, but why be the one to set it up? Why not be the pharmacist who waits for others to do it, and then sell it anyway?
He's 30 feet down. Could make it out of wood.
I don't think you read my whole comment, but carry on.
The whole society functions on a set of agreements. Some get codified in laws, many not. And as soon as some of those rules, laws or habits, get constantly broken, it means the society has changed. Now what? Do you accept the new change, or do you try to change it again? Remember, you can't enact a new rule - if it's not agreed upon it will simply not be applied.
Wow this is absolutely great!
We live in an ex-urban area of SW Ohio and after years of nearly zero outages, in the last two years we have had several 12+ hour outage events following pretty standard spring storms. We are experiencing a boom in new construction around us as farms are converting to new subdivisions, and have been told that electrical infrastructure is less stable while construction activities are occurring. All of the subdivisions have buried utilities - but they also all tie to a pole near the entrance, the poles all follow roads, and inevitably a car takes out a pole and entire neighborhoods go dark.
>I think both those cases are easy to decide

Many people disagree with you and describe what these people do as theft, so it's not as easy as you think.

>which Medjedovic rejected

I made no points at all about what he did afterward. This is all irrelevant to my point.

>I don't think it does, but you don't explain why

I did explain why further up in the thread. It's not just a badly coded computer program; it's a badly coded computer program that acts as a contract intended to circumvent government control of money. That's the context.

People agree to adhere to the smart contract instead of putting their money into a financial institution that uses contracts backed by laws enforced by governments. This guy adhered to the smart contract, and when the crypto company didn't like the outcome, they decided that none of the crypto stuff mattered and that the laws enforced by governments mattered after all.

But this makes cryptocurrencies entirely pointless. If you can use legal means to circumvent undesired smart contract outcomes, then you can just do that in the first place and not have the smart contract.

>Can you explain to me in simple english how that is using the contract as intended?

Yes, of course. Smart contracts are self-executing contracts. The agreement you make is written in the code of the contract. That is the intention behind a smart contract. It makes no sense to say that you did not adhere to the contract if it allowed you to do something. So by definition, anything you do that the contract enables you to do is using the contract as intended.

>Note that "it's what the smart contract said" is not sufficient, for the same reason that "the web server allowed me to make that request" is not a defence against a charge of computer hacking

Again, this argument ignores the context of smart contracts. Web servers don't claim that their code is a contract.

>why should I be rooting for this guy

It doesn't matter. I'm not rooting for this guy. I'm not arguing emotionally in favor of some guy who did something. In fact, I think he's a shithead.
The way I read them is as statements of intent, i.e. "[this commit will] Merge/Revert/Add/Fix ...".
Sigh, no. Obviously, just about any argument from nazi immediately gains credibility nearly instantly. It surely approaches the merit of 'think of the children' in terms of its ease of use while maintaining its flag waving functionality.

And no, when people talk about "freedom of speech", it is not about just saying that. It is about saying anything. The problem is, and always has been, people. Why? Because when you defend it, you tend to defend ones that are, at best, edge cases.
What if we replace PR with QA test rig? Then hire a bunch of QA monkies to find bugs in them and select the "bug free" one.
To quote Joel Spolski, has anyone using a distributed VCS lost any significant amount of code?

If github annoys you you can concievably create a new repo elsewhere, change origin locally, push.

The real question is how long until they annoy you. And how easy it would be to set up an automatic mirror beforehand.
Have you been interviewed anywhere? Curious to read your story.
Paste made from sodium bicarbonate and vegetable oil is good at getting sticky label residue off glass jars.
Can you keep the lens and camera info, while stripping the location data? It can be interesting to see the focal length and aperture, etc used if you're into photography.
It even has a name: strawman argument. And it's so popular!
I use shopee and find the reviews fair. Like everything else, you have to learn how to take the most out of a limited system.

My experience so far has been good. Negative reviews seem fair, and give a good indication of what to expect (maybe I've lowered my expectations from the start).
Please, this thread is about the average wage-grade worker (money earned via the "sweat of one's brow"), not an "accredited investor". In this example, almost anyone in the US can open up a Robin Hood, Vanguard, Schwab, Fidelity, etc account with probably $25. You don't need access to the most lucrative investment opportunities to make money; simply buy a standard S&P 500 ETF and call it a day. Over time, the chances of you making money with your investments are high, and the tax burden is lower, meaning you get to make and keep more money in your pocket. That is a win for everyone - not just the magical "billionaire".

The average worker in the US needs these sorts of opportunities to be self reliant. You don't need to be a billionaire to make money on the market, you just need a few dollars, some time, and the will to take a little risk. Stop hating on the average worker...
Agreed. Its a great way to communicate, and shows the person speaking has thought out the process.
You install a service that gives access to a random language generator, then you try to secure it with a project that is literally a few hours old. This is like tripping over your own slippers.
Think the parent has confused Von Neumann with Wiener. They've also misspelled Shannon.
The problem with LLMs is they have a defacto recency bias, so they only really remember that last few things you said. I've yet to see any real LLM manage a proper listing of rules.
Whistleblower details how DOGE may have taken sensitive NLRB data
Right, because the average worker has insider connections that set policies that affect the economy. /s
> They're the same as far as this discussion is concerned, as the amount that the beneficiary gets is (roughly) the same.

The estate's value is reduced by what it owes.

> if your business tries to classify borrowed money as "income"

sigh C'mon man, engage in good faith here. Stop saying things I didn't say.

If you can borrow cash against assets, don't have to pay principle until you die, and only pay low interest payments then it's functionally the same as selling those assets at a low tax rate. That's the principle.

And if you can use trusts to avoid estate taxes then there are no (or very low) taxes due ever.

> I rely on my CPA for tax advice

Ok ask your CPA what they know about using trusts to avoid estate taxes. Maybe it's BS but maybe it's true. Without some curiosity, how will you ever know?

> not the internet

More reputable sources than Reddit indicate it may be possible to use trusts to greatly reduce or eliminate estate tax:

https://privatebank.jpmorgan.com/nam/en/insights/wealth-plan...

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/g/grat.asp

https://www.fidelity.com/learning-center/personal-finance/wh...
At this point I would refuse to travel to the USA at all, not only for vacation, but also for work. Imagine being locked up for weeks or months because you need to visit the us-based office.
How Starlink took over Africa's largest internet market
Generative Modelling in Latent Space
An extended family member worked on using lasers to launch payloads to orbits. [0]

Here's a quick video demonstrating the technology, using lasers to lift a small prototype several meters, back in, what I believe is the 90s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i81f3LifpWY

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leik_Myrabo
Does it need fixing?
> Can’t be right, can it? It would make the Sun (over 4 billion years old) an enormous outlier.

Yes. That fact that I'm thinking made me think I was certainly wrong
Cool, I didn't know that.

I agree that this is, at least often, a case of where your roots lie.
Whats most shocking to me is that the likes of Apple and Mircosoft don't seem to be interested in/capable of building an actually good framework.

I feel like Microsoft tried with .NET Maui, but that really isn't a viable choice if you go by developer sentiment.
It seems "vibe electronics" have arrived way earlier than "vibe coding" did.
See also the entire job of “AWS Cloud Engineer” aka “I want to spend years learning how to manage proprietary infrastructure instead of just learning Linux server management” and the companies that hire them aka “we don’t have money to hire sysadmins to run servers, that’s crazy! Instead let’s pay the same salaries for a team of cloud engineers and be locked in to a single vendor paying 10x the price for infra!” It’s honestly mind boggling to me.
I think this person creates these marvels entirely by himself. There is no need for collaboration rules.
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Sorry, nothing prevents the poor from working smarter. Just because you are poor does not mean you are uneducated. And, investment opportunities are NOT gated based on wealth and income. Literally anyone in the US can open an investment account and get started. The lack of desire is the real issue.
My experience (with Aliexpress) is that you usually get what you pay for.
The Power Law of Venture Capital: Why More Funds Need to Understand the Game
I've long been wishing for the same! With service workers etc. this would be a perfect approach for many small utilities. I've started building things as single HTML files using vite-plugin-singlefile[0], but users either have to manually block network requests, or they have to trust me. It would be awesome if they could be sure that nothing will be uploaded anywhere.

The pledge would have to be persistent, which would make e.g. service worker updates difficult - ideally the browser should show you that an update is available, and offer to delete all stored information so nothing can be saved to localStorage etc. to be uploaded afterwards.

[0]: https://www.npmjs.com/package/vite-plugin-singlefile
A related thing: wasn't PopcornTime using bittorent to stream movies? Did it have any notable difference from Bittorent or any notable issue/drawback? I never used it, but it sounded like a big thing at the time.
So I understand how these prompts work for tooling, etc, but they tend to be specific to specific models. Is it possible you could actually supply say 10 prompts for the same tool and determine which one gets the correct output? It wouldn't be much harder than having some test cases and running each prompt through the user selected model to see which worked.

Otherwise you're at the mercy of whatever model the user has selected or downloaded or whatever. And whenever you need to tweak it to improve something.

This would be akin to how we used to calibrate stylus or touch screens.
I've never (to my knowledge) had a review on Amazon rejected, and I've left very some negative reviews, including when I received counterfeit items.

I always thought the review scams on Amazon were more driven by the third-party sellers doing stuff like listing takeover, astroturfing reviews, bribing customers for good reviews, etc., but maybe I'm wrong. I have personally received multiple offers from third-party sellers of incentives to leave good reviews.
How do you know? It's closed source. And they're in an "AI" race where every competitor ignores IP law and privacy.
What is it? An IBM z14? Counting PR/SM uptime is cheating.
The OP end result is cooler but I believe they could have sorted out the USB power issue a lot easier with a <$1 (sans tariffs) "USB tricker". Basically USB PD in one end and your choice of output voltage. Then just add a resistor.
I have tried Flutter and liked it for mobile development. Maybe I should give it a shot for desktop.
Though I believe those that dislike Electron and the likes for not being native would also have a bone to pick with Flutter.
The thing this really hits home for me is how Apple is totally asleep at the wheel.

Today I asked Siri “call the last person that texted me”, to try and respond to someone while driving.

Am I surprised it couldn’t do it? Not really at this point, but it is disappointing that there’s such a wide gulf between Siri and even the least capable LLMs.
> it's that we are accustomed to short-term, transactional, Wall Street thinking from companies like Google.

Out of all of the companies in the world, I wouldn't put Google near the bottom of the list in terms of stuff they've discovered and released to the world.
Cows are quite intelligent.
Not stupid, just careless. Trump has fuck-you money, he doesn't care about the rest of the country. He wants means of extortion so people have to lick his boots to get a reprieve.
Show HN: Zaturn – AI Data Copilot via MCP
I built Zaturn, a local-first, AI-powered data analysis tool that runs as an MCP server (Model Context Protocol). Plug it into clients like Cursor, Claude, or your own MCP setup, and start querying your data sources using natural language.

- Connects to Postgres, MySQL, SQLite, DuckDB, CSV, and Parquet
- Does not feed your whole dataset to LLMs; rather, it generates & runs SQL via LLMs
- Generates plots/visualizations

Still early. Would love feedback from devs, data folks, and anyone hacking on AI-native tools.

Repo: https://github.com/kdqed/zaturn
Since I'd like to live forever, then yes.