skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dutch banks did this, it is called iDeal: https://www.ideal.nl/en/

iDeal is ubiquitous in The Netherlands for individuals sending money to each other, and for online payments. However it does not support NFC payments in physical stores. Dutch banks decided to go with Google/Apple wallet for this. I believe in the longer term Wero https://wero-wallet.eu/ (and potentially the digital euro https://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/digital_euro/html/index.en.ht...) is supposed to take over this usecase in the EU.
Looks like a tissot PRX
Honestly I cant really imagine a world with unlimited time and money - it would be so different from the present world that has shaped us all. But that aside, I would work on assembling a team that could build and support a widely available tricorder.
I think web assembly can be comparable, e.g. unity/unreal/godot can compile to the browser pretty easily.

The problem is that each of these apps can be quite bloated and in the tens of MBs range not the usual single digit MB.
Thru Axle M6-Connector (for bike trailer)
The older I get, the more I understand the necessity of static typing. It just makes more sense the more your project grows.

It'll be interesting to see how this plays out!
And that’s why my household doesn’t have Netflix or Disney or YouTube.
My Amiga 1200 hates these tools.

It is really sad that the worldwide web has been taken to the point where this is needed.
Well yeah, the baffling leap from "young adults are having a hard time navigating life" to "the real problem is interest bearing loans but they won't let us talk about that" is the other clue that pydry is a nazi.
This seems to be an engineered-only solution without real world testing.

A person teetering wildly 3 feet above are still going to miss that narrow design. Or you have to hover and let your pants touch the rim, which also probably puts you closer to the inevitable splash back.

The only clear solution is to direct all splash back to the user so they can take it with them.
A Financial Crisis Primer, Part I
Mario Bros. did nothing wrong
>Those images on the interstitial page(s) while waiting for Anubis to complete its check are so cute!

Love them too, and abhor knowing that someone is bound to eventually remove them because found to be "problematic" in one way or another.
Funny how closely his own machinations resemble the (obviously comically deranged) delusions of some of his characters. He was clearly quite self-aware, as another comment noted, or could it be that the whole FBI report was a jest? It really reads exactly like a passage from his novels.

The subtext of the report to the FBI, that we must suppress artistic expression in order to protect the innocent minds from dangerous ideas, remains as relevant and intriguing today as then.
Strange to go all this length without mentioning the approaches that solve the problem in that first example:

1. send a close message on the channel that stops the goroutine

2. use a Context instance - `ctx.Done()` returns a channel you can select on

Both are quite easy to grasp and implement.
Thanks for the clarification. Both of your preferred messaging client and your interminable pedantry.
Natural language to Bash, baked into macOS Finder
I've just discovered this bicycle axle for attaching a trailer. I have a mountain bike with a through axle and normally you can't attach a trailer. This axle is longer and can be used to attach the trailer hitch to sport bikes.
Sounds like there is a startup opportunity here to recreate this
ChatGPT politician image generation hack
For anyone who wants to know about ATSC 3.0 the Antenna Man channel covers over the air (OTA) stuff in the US:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cw3W7MoafR4

* https://www.youtube.com/@AntennaMan/videos

ATSC 3.0 allows for DRM/encryption as the parent comment mentions.
Ask HN: Can You Prompt an LLM to Solve a Simple Puzzle Clearly?
I've observed something interesting: my toddler can quickly and somewhat effortlessly solve a simple physical puzzle, yet when I try to prompt large language models (LLMs) to guide me clearly through the solution, they struggle.

Even with clear photographs and detailed instructions, LLMs tend to give general advice or indirect methods rather than precise, actionable steps that clearly demonstrate correctness.

Have you tried something similar? Have you successfully "prompt-engineered" an LLM into giving clear, precise, step-by-step solutions for physical puzzles? If yes, what's your approach?
They can do it retrospectively. Logistics knows every single container, it's tax and import consequences. This is a shit take. Seriously, the bill of lading for every good in and out passes through somebody who can total that stuff up.

I am amused as anyone else but this doesn't even count as a glitch to me.

Booze is taxed by %alcohol. You think they ka-ching some cash register at the inter-modal depot? It's done on paperwork, monthly or quarterly.
Suffering together for the same cause or with the same goal goes a long way to make close friends.
It is actually how soldiers become close friends in the army.
It is lost because we aren't producing executable files with multiple segments, jungling near and far pointers, trying to fit everything into 640 KB, while writing directly into the video memory.

Turbo Vision was great and one of the frameworks I am most found of, back in 1990.
Show HN: AEE – An Open-Source Engine That Evaluates Truth and Bias in Text
Hi HN,

I’m 18 and I built an open-source engine that analyzes raw text to extract structured propositions, assign trustworthiness scores, detect contradictions, and identify circular logic or bias — all with human-readable outputs.

It’s called AEE: Automated Epistemology Engine. It’s not just an information extractor, but a reasoning assistant designed to think about how and why we trust certain information.

Main features:
• Extracts subject-verb-object propositions
• Scores each statement's epistemic reliability
• Detects internal contradictions and circular reasoning
• Flags common bias types (assumptions, generalizations, etc.)
• Generates explanatory reports in plain English

I published the code and detailed documentation here:
→ [https://huggingface.co/NextGenC/AEE](https://huggingface.co/NextGenC/AEE)

And a research paper version on Zenodo:
→ [https://zenodo.org/records/15205917](https://zenodo.org/records/15205917)

Would love your feedback, criticism, ideas — or just a chat about epistemology and AI.

Thanks!
It is good that you paid attention to economics 101 but we don't live in the 19th century anymore and economic theory has progressed a bit since Ricardo.

We don't have pure free market economies. Neither in China nor in the USA nor anywhere else. The see big monopolistic companies dominating most markets. We see an closer interlink between state and private corporations.

Even just with the currency manipulation that China engages in, things get screwed a lot. Or the special status the US has with the dollar. Real world is more complicated.

But even if we assume free markets, you misunderstood what the previous poster said. The problem with Ricardo's comparative advantages is that is assumes fixed advantages. It is like optimizing for a local optimum. You might be super inefficient in producing X because you have never done it but if you actually invested in learning how to produce X you might discover that you are really good at it and the comparative advantages would go in your favor.

I do still believe that trading with each others can lead to more net wealth in most cases and obviously full autarky is not realistic these days but like anything in economics, it shouldn't be taken as a dogma.
> engaged in a trade war with ... half the EU

That is generally not possible. All EU countries share a common trade policy. Another country can either be in a trade war with the entire EU or with none of the EU.

According to the Wikipedia [0], The EU member states delegate authority to the European Commission to negotiate their external trade relations.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Commercial_Policy_(EU)
> think positive about your country and shift with the times

You know I tried to think positively about the United States; but darned if they don't keep doing negative things. Like appointing grossly incompetent people to head Federal departments. Like unlawfully and arbitrarily abducting people from the streets. Like extorting universities - ideally centres of free thought - over non-complying ideological positions. Like appearing to wreck the economy; but in ways that might just advantage himself and others in his circle. And the list goes on...

Some of us aren't "shifting with the times" because of an ethical line we won't cross. I grew up in the United States in the 1960's and had the constant drumbeat of "We're the world's melting pot," "We're the most benevolent spreader of democracy," "We're practically the only free country on the planet," "We are a country of laws." beat into us in public school. So it's a little jarring to see the wholesale abandonment of these values at the hands of someone who can barely string together a cogent sentence of more than, say, 4-5 non-repeating words and for whom "negotiating" means "win/lose", instead of "how can we meet our needs _and_ your needs, while creating more value in the process?"

Personally, I tried having a positive outlook; but saw this coming and left the U.S. just ahead of Trump 1.0.

This rant aside, it's incredibly wishful thinking to assume that one can undo in weeks or months, the complex web of international trade that has developed over decades because of the much-vaunted invisible hand of the market.
I believe MacOS has full support. Windows now has support available as a free installable plugin.

Mozilla said that the current decoder state was unacceptable but if Google Research wrote them a Rust version that met their shippable criteria they'd ship it. That's planned to be done this summer. So I'm optimistic Firefox will ship support (courtesy of Google Research) within the year.

That would just leave Chrome support and Windows to ship by default. I'm hoping Firefox's support would cause pressure on the Chrome team.
There are so many footguns in the datetime lib.

That's why I use a Flake8 plugin to prohibit especially egregious footguns.

https://github.com/jkittner/flake8-ban-utcnow
> A lot of older comedy aged better. Jacques Tati films for example. Or Chaplin.

As a Frenchman I should be defending Tati but by God I have never found him funny. Poetic, maybe (maybe!) but funny?? Not in the least IMHO. One can guess what he means, immediately, there is no subtext. "Modernity is dehumanizing." Yeah, well, it probably is, but we all know that now, don't we? (Same thing with Chaplin BTW.)

Monty Python is incredibly funny, and still is, because it's often absurd, and absurd stays absurd forever.
We don't need to abolish the presidency or entirely change our system for a parliamentary model. We do need to drastically shrink the executive branch and its powers though.

I've found it interesting that so many are seriously concerned with what Trump is doing but not why the executive branch has the authority to do it in the first place.
I would create licensing for software employment. So much of my software career is littered with people who are not qualified to be there even after the industry has made considerable concessions and dropped the baseline of minimally acceptable practice to beyond ridiculous. That’s the carrot.

For the stick I would create a law firm to sue employers who introduce defective software from unlicensed developers that harms consumers whether that harm is malicious or just negligent.
If you’ve used a fresh copy of Windows you’ll know how aggressive their opt-in menus are. Its like browsing a ad-laden pornsite.
I made a decision early on in a project to replace YAML with jsonnet for configuration and it was the best decision I made on that project - I’ve written tens of thousands of lines of jsonnet since.
Hi! No, I think you've misunderstood the assignment. The example posits that you have a "game" running, which should end when the last player leaves. While only using channels as a synchronization primitive (a la CSP), at what point do you decide the last player has left, and where and when do you call close on the channel?
I am not very familiar with Python. How do you localize (translate) first one?
You can defeat a jammer if you are willing to use more spectrum than your opponent and/or can sacrifice information rate.
Some more background information on the laws and initiatives you mentioned.

The WissZeitVG falls within the competence of the federal government due to the exemption regulation of Art. 74 I Nr. 12 GG for labour laws.

The "Exzellenzstrategie" and the Tenure Track Programme are cooperations between the federation and the states based on Art. 91b Abs. 1 GG: "The federation and the states may co-operate on the basis of agreements in cases of supra-regional importance in the promotion of science, research and teaching. Agreements focussing on higher education institutions shall require the consent of all states. ..." (original: "Bund und Länder können auf Grund von Vereinbarungen in Fällen überregionaler Bedeutung bei der Förderung von Wissenschaft, Forschung und Lehre zusammenwirken. Vereinbarungen, die im Schwerpunkt Hochschulen betreffen, bedürfen der Zustimmung aller Länder. ...")

The latest revision of the administrative agreement for the "Exzellenzstrategie" can be found here: https://www.gwk-bonn.de/fileadmin/Redaktion/Dokumente/Papers... (PDF, 2022, in German).

And here the same for the Tenure Track Programme: https://www.gwk-bonn.de/fileadmin/Redaktion/Dokumente/Papers... (PDF, 2016, in German)
It surprises me how much people are determined to use the "car" form factor when it's clearly not a good design for weight reduction and efficient transport.

If instead people consider EVs that are non-car-shaped then we get things like e-bikes and e-scooters. Both can feature easily swappable batteries as the batteries are so much smaller due to the reduced weight of the vehicle. Also, the problems around congestion can pretty much disappear when you get enough people to use an e-bike/e-scooter instead of a car. The tyre wear/pollution is minimised due to the reduction in weight and similarly the brakes.
I have not been to either for 20+ years, but Singapore or Hong Kong did not feel futuristic to me. Singapore is certainly efficiently run and clean, but at the time I definitely would have preferred living in London (or multiple smaller British cities), or Paris, or Sydney (culturally, if not geographically, western)
The downvotes are probably because there's no justification. If you want to say that some masterpiece from the past "hasn't aged well", you need to back that opinion with some arguments or facts.

Also the typo ("quiet" instead of "quite") and the absence of capitals at the beginning of sentences, or points at the end, give out a general impression of carelessness.
From what I am hearing, he seems to have appealed on culture war issues. On economic issues, it was assumed that Biden had been doing something bad and Trump would end it, but they didn't much care past that.

There is still a halo of "Democrats are bad at the economy" dating from the 1970s and rooted in the New Deal.
Facebook is just Craigslist now
Valuing them as in being enthusiastic about making more is different from valuing them as in caring for them. Few of them these days get sick and die in infancy, and it's no longer legal to send them to work. These factors have reduced enthusiasm. But the notion of being responsible about them is modern, and is a sign of increased care, or anyway social pressure to care.
Yeah at my work we still get a lot of the old 5G propaganda. "It's groundbreaking for IoT". Beh screw that it's just the successor to 4G. A bit faster and more flexible. The rest is just stupid marketing. There's nothing it can do that 4G couldn't, only slightly less efficiently.

The one thing that was really new was support for super high density environments with mmWave. That would have been ideal for stadiums etc. With regular tech the networks get overwhelmed. mmWave offers more cells in a tiny area. But here in Europe that's been given up for good. Phones don't even come with mmWave antennas anymore.
The problem we have today is that the one runaway branch has support from at least one of the branches meant to act as a check on power (the legislative).

Congress should be stepping in if the president is overstepping his legal authority, or if they wish to reduce his legal authority. The Republican party has control of Congress and our political system has devolved into a game of blind faith in your team, neither party is willing to go against their president in a meaningful way.

We need principled leaders who care to run an effective government based on our constitution. We have few, if any, of those people in charge.
Nerd here. I somewhat regularly need to use ffmpeh to convert between formats and re encode (we get 16 tracks of 16 bit wav audio out of a mixer, and I re encode them to send them to someone else who does a rough mix, about once a month).

I still use ChatGPT for the command lines regularly like - “ want to combine these two tracks into a single stereo track with A on left, and B on right” which is super helpful for putting stuff in an SPD.
Lack of nulls in toml is a headache. No two yaml libraries agree on what a given yaml text means. Although json is bad at numbers, that’s more easily worked around.
There is a pretty long list of deranged shitheads who still haven't faced any consequences for their actions (I mean physical actions, not "mean words on the internet"). Celebrities and pseudo-celebrities, stuff like that. I will be the first one to say cancel culture is real when they do face consequences, but currently it's like water off duck's back.
What's more interesting: they are not even billionnaires.
The special flags are environment variables, you can’t pass that in requirements.txt: https://whenever.readthedocs.io/en/latest/faq.html#how-can-i...
I think this concept, and this entire article to a large degree, at missing the entire state of the space industry. The competition in space is mostly a facade. This page [1] provides regularly updated overviews on most metrics of space 'marketshare' and SpaceX dominates to an exceptional degree by every single metric. For instance as of last quarter they were responsible for 83% of all mass launched to space, carried out 40 launches while the rest of the world combined did 36, and so on.

So for all intents and purposes SpaceX is not only the US space industry, but largely the world's space industry. And it was started on an ideological basis, not a financial one. Like the saying goes, 'How do you become a millionaire in aerospace? Start out as a billionaire in aerospace.' It's simply not an industry where you can throw money at it and succeed. Blue Origin, which only recently finally managed to send their first craft to orbit, was actually started before SpaceX and funded by Bezos bucks back when Musk was teetering on bankrupt.

It's also not an industry where you can just smart your way through it. Many clever individuals with money, John Carmack being one with perhaps the most name recognition, have tried their hand at aerospace, and failed. For that matter - China has all the wealth, human talent, and such of the largest economy with nearly the largest population. And even they, in terms of launch capabilities trail well behind SpaceX.

So basically the whole concept of the current state of things being a huge success for "commercial space" is, in large part, a facade. Had SpaceX not emerged then "commercial space" in the US would have been a complete failure, and people would be bemoaning such a waste of money to try to privatize things that history had shown were only able to be effectively executed by governments.

[1] - https://brycetech.com/briefing
"We are an anarcho syndicalist commune..."

"Now we see the violence inherent in the system..." :-)
Extras only affect dependencies, you can’t have different codebases for them.

An issue was closed as not planned: https://github.com/ariebovenberg/whenever/issues/158
> The demo on the show floor was also using eLoran to distribute time from a site in Nevada to the transmitter facility on Black Mountain outside Vegas, showing a way to be fully GPS-independent (though the current eLoran timing was sourced from GPS).

There's been a consistent call by many people that there needs to be a diversity of options for navigation and timing:

* https://rntfnd.org/2025/02/04/pnt-gps-critical-issue-for-new...

China has GNSS (BeiDou, plus plans for LEO), plus terrestrial navigation (eLoran), plus a fibre-based network for accurate timing:

* https://rntfnd.org/2024/10/03/china-completes-national-elora...

* https://rntfnd.org/2024/03/01/patton-read-their-book-chinas-...

* https://rntfnd.org/2024/11/29/china-announces-plan-to-furthe...

Russia has a Loran-equivalent:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHAYKA
(...I tired to find the clip and post the transcript, but it is unavailable. It was along the lines of Michael's postman having been interviewed in 2007, complaining that Palin received too many letters. Mark Watson must have replied that "It was sad, since Michael Palin speaks with high regard about his postman"... And so on.)
AI Models Still Struggle to Debug Software, Microsoft Study Shows
> A trip to one of the major cities in China made it clear to me that they are ahead of the world right now

Is that a fair sample. Foreigners tend to visit the best bits of anywhere and China is a very big and varied country.

> The amount of tech and the level of integration are unbelievable.

Also dystopian as it enables government control and monitoring. In many ways China is ahead in things I do not want to happen.
Just pip uninstall pep 206 interface then connect execute this remote code repo that the community uses into your supply chain and pip install pep 206 that's the secure way to run the http test server in production. Like just break the source code that works by removing it because "just parse the syntax tree to override it that's the correct way" just pip install the cgi interface specification from the back alley it's better than paying Oracle to keep your code working because you can just override the interface the right way then lets pull out lincoln logs out because nobody can figure out how the fuck to install the real webserver or parse the AST of the test server to use their per-process GIL locked python interpreter and then when they've almost fixed that lets pull out the http test server too then we're ready to write some more code!

Signed, almost dead battery
Better yet?
I have a few more projects in the pipeline :)
Deported to El Salvador.
It really is. At a previous job, the approval process for a tool involved a questionnaire that rivalled a census, and a wait time of 4-6 weeks for approval. I literally never had any software refused via this process - most people just didn’t bother filling it in.
> layoff plans must be communicated ahead of time. Minimum 30 days notice, usually much more

In the United States, employers with more than 100 full-time, non-probationary employees must provide 60 days notice of most planned layoffs[0]

> - LIFO principle for layoffs, newest employees are let go first. Stack ranking not possible

This is functionally equivalent to a stack ranking in that it is a forced-distribution scheme. It is just based on a single factor that is outside of the employee's control. Say what you want about stack ranking, but people do have a large degree of control over their job performance.

> Any kind of discrimination is forbidden

In the United States any kind of job discrimination against members of protected classes[1] in illegal. Even inadvertently disparately impacting[2] members of a protected group is illegal.

0 - https://www.dol.gov/general/topic/termination/plantclosings

1 - https://www.eeoc.gov/employers/small-business/3-who-protecte...

2 - https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/disparate_impact