skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Before the industrial revolution, there wasn't a ton of difference. If you look at a plane made in the early 19th century in both Japan and the US or Europe, they'd look pretty similar. A carpenter on one continent would probably be able to orient and use tools on the other easily.

Modern metal-bodied planes do work similarly, in that both let you set a blade slightly beyond a flat sole, allowing you to remove high surfaces on wood. That's about where the similarities end.

Japanese blades are laminated steel, and quality blades are hand-made by smiths. Smiths use proprietary techniques to make blades that can maintain edges for longer than machine-forged steels. Chipbreakers are made of laminated steel as well and can keep the primary blade under tons of tension, allowing it to remain stable even when cutting against the grain. Wooden bodies allow skilled users to adjust the blade depth within microns without sacrificing stability. Wooden bodies are easily adjusted to fit the needs of the user.

To use an analogy: using a western hand plane is a lot like trying to race a Camry rather than a Porsche. It's not that the Camry is wrong - it's just built differently. The Porsche is really easy to drive into a ditch if you're not careful. It'll break down a lot, but it'll also perform much better for a skilled driver. The Camry, conversely, will be easier for anyone to drive and probably go a lot longer without maintenance. It works fine as a daily driver, and you can tune it so that it'll perform like a Porsche would, but a very well-tuned Camry is probably not going to outperform a well-tuned Porsche and a person used to driving a Porsche is probably going to complain about the Camry's handling.
I think the whole two sides in a class war model is a bit dated. If you are thinking workers and owners of capital there is a spectrum between the Musks at one end and minimum wage workers at the other with most techies somewhere in the middle owning some property and or equity. The system should maybe be modified to make it fairer but the splitting into two side who fight each other thing doesn't really work.
>but also wanting to maximize the hours of daylight after work.

Maybe adjust the work schedule to e.g. start at 8 instead of 9?

Rather than mess with the actual clock.
You must have done little research to remember those. I knew all but two. (COmSAC and Sweet16).

I wonder if the wikipedia articles are lucky enough to be good...
Librechat has it as a dependency. Seems very memory heavy like elasticsearch. 3G+ memory at all times even on a new-ish instance with just one user.
> what's the point of cryptocurrencies in the first place?

So far, to execute illegal transactions and using the lack of regulations to exploit the financially illiterate.
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Three big places:

1 - Claude Desktop (and some more niche AI chat apps) - you can use MCPs to extend these chat systems today. I use a small number daily.

2 - Code Automation tools - they pretty much all have added MCP. Cursor, Claude Code, Cline, VSCode GH Codepilot, etc ...

3 - Agent/LLM automation frameworks. There are a ton of tools to build agentic apps and many support using MCP to to integrate third party APIs with limited to no boilerplate. And if there are are large libraries of every third party system you can imagine (like npm - but for APIs) then these are going to get used.

Still early days - but tons of real use, at least by the early adopter crowd. It isn't just a spec sitting on a shelf for all the many faults.
+1 for local-first. there needs to be a local first bookmark/snapshot manager. where you can own your data without requiring hosting or installing things.
> he got fired over ... bumpin the bumper
Interesting ... it's presented in the context of drugs for curing infections.

I wonder if this is being used for other drugs. My curiosity stems from personal experience: I had Migraine headaches from age 17 to about 35. I was put on ancient seizure medication that's common prescribed for Bipolar[0] because this doctor had three other patients that it nearly eliminated Migraine from. It was fall, a time when I'd get about one a week. After five days of taking it, I had my first Migraine ... if you could call it that -- I could only identify that it was a Migraine by the aura; the pain was about 10% what I'm used to).

Searching through the web, I found a forum that was filled with Migraine sufferers. Sure enough, there were a handful of people who swore by it. There were also a handful of people who it didn't work for. Looking at the more official sources, there was no indication that this drug could have any effect on Migraine; they listed all of the other off-label uses[1], but Migraine was not among them.

This medication had been in the news several times (and on the front page, here[2]) over the last few years and a year ago (or so), I looked it up on the "official sources", again. It now indicated that it was prescribed for Migraine.

It made me wonder ... how are things like that figured out/communicated down-stream? Is it entirely informally amongst doctors? I went to four different specialists before I found one who suggested this drug -- and he did so in a "half-hearted manner" not truly expecting it would work. It'd be nice if this was centrally tracked/managed as it might surface both "new uses for old drugs" and "new problems with old drugs."

[0] Which I do not have.

[1] It's rarely, if ever, prescribed for what it was originally approved for.

[2] It's Depakote, I'm not being cagey for nefarious purposes, I just didn't want this to be a drug advertisement.
I think many were rightly adopting DEI initiatives in an environment post me-too and post George Floyd. I don’t think it was driven by hype but more a reaction to the environment which heightened awareness of societal injustices. Awareness led to all sorts of things - conversation, compassion, attempts to do better in society and the workplace, and probably law suits. You can question how motivated corporations were to adopt DEI initiatives but I think it’d be wrong to say it was driven by hype.
> what's the point of cryptocurrencies in the first place?

Not to be that guy but it seems like the point of cryptocurrencies is to scam vulnerable people...
A wanting of having cake, but a desire to eat it too.
Is that how it works legally? If you hack into computers using a zero day, did you also just access the computer according to the way it was programmed? Just because you can do it technically doesn’t mean it’s not fraud/something else.
... or use soemthing like FreeIPA
You can't "steal" crypto; it's all just a scam that operates outside of the law.

I mean, sure, we can use the language of theft and crime figuratively, just like when we talk about animals. For instance, "the wolf stole a chicken from the coop".
Well, right up until they get suddenly laid off.
> pronounced "infeasible" as "in-THESE-able."

What other way could you pronounce it?

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&sca_esv=0...

...unless you're saying he pronounced the 'F' as a 'TH'?
Please just use a pointer. Use metaprogramming when it makes sense, not to obfuscate something that was figured out 60 years ago.
'Parkinson's is a man-made disease'
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They say you never reach the end saying "I wish I had spent more time at the office".

I wonder if that's true. At least, I could see somebody spending the last months of their life complaining that they had run out of money, and that their lives would have been so much better if they'd been richer.

It would be great if we knew of a thing that fulfilled our souls while also preventing our bodies from starving. Unfortunately, even the upper-middle-class don't know when they can stop working and just coast on their money -- and most don't really know what their "true calling" would have been.
Honest q: after skimming through the book it's unclear how it's targeted towards hackers (c.f. academics)?
>Also Bolsonaro was termed “far right,” but Lula not called “far left?”

Bolsonaro was such an unbelievably terrible president that The Economist, that infamous right-wing rag (full disclosure: I am a long-time subscriber), endorsed Lula against him in 2018. If you're going to complain "does anyone care any more?" about a loss of common sense in politics, you probably shouldn't pair that complaint with a defense of Jair Bolsonaro, of all people.
FDA to phase out animal testing in drugs in what it calls a 'paradigm shift'
haven't bought it up with the VCs yet. there's only two and we raised a few 100k. feels too much like snitching on someone or going behind their back.
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"The house always wins," is the law he broke.
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law : code :: word problem : mathematical notation
Based on this article, it doesn't sound like he did anything illegal (initially). He saw an opportunity and took advantage of it not unlike high frequency trading in the late 90s/early 2000s. Decentralized markets operate in a space that's inherently risky -- if they don't want to get exploited, hire better engineers or get out of the game. Begging the government for help when you got bested isn't how decentralization works.
Well fear not for me. It is just hyperbole. Now it's a haiku.
Team Trump Is Gaming Out How to Ship US Citizens to El Salvador
We use Meilisearch in production with a 7 million article corpus - it works really well.
The entire idea of crypto is "I wasn't supposed to be the one holding the bag!"
For example when reading a CSV. Try using `read_csv` on a file that contains two letter country codes including NA.
This is how I initially pitched an AI assistant in my last shop.

It is a lot cheaper to leverage existing user interfaces & tools (i.e., Outlook) than it is to build new UIs and then train users on them.
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I've been enjoying watching you build this on X – nice work.
> what's the point of cryptocurrencies in the first place?

I think you’re answering your own question here
Did archive strip the author, or is this an unattributed piece? I became curious due to some of the non-neutral adjectives used.
It isn't clear that public vandalism is a good way to convince people of your political message.
Savater has not experienced socialism, Spain has never been socialist, Savater has been always someone in great need of attention and joins anyone who gives him that. And the Spain's fascism has give him that. I've seen it since He was teaching in University In San Sebastian and was easier to find him in certain bars and in the horse races than at his work.
https://darienite.com/great-10-hour-new-york-chicago-railroa...

They do Beijing to Shanghai in 5 hours so you have to make New York to Chicago in 4 or it doesn't count.

The numbers are funny. Flying from New York to Chicago takes less than 2 hours but all things considered you lose 8 hours https://www.trippy.com/fly/New-York-City-to-Chicago

You might as well drive it in 12.
The "situation" was a meme about filing taxes in its broadest possible conception. I don't agree that there's a distinction to be drawn here, and I already explicitly noted that this doesn't apply to most filers.
Oh no doubt it's my favorite backend way to build an API. Just toss in SpringBoot or Quarkus and it's very nice. The only thing that bothers me is that it's a pain to use with NeoVim.
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Fun fact, this is a great piece of art because it was written in 1999.

If you were to write this in 2025, it would be indistinguishable from trash.

So many doors are closing.
Says a CEO who's in a good position to extract more value from IP, once the little guy loses his rights.

Literally the first thing that's going to happen if "all IP law" is deleted, is all royalty checks back to artists and authors will stop. The next thing that will happen is any works of value will become locked down and restricted like you wouldn't believe (maybe movie theaters will see a resurgence, as it will be too risky to let others have possession of media files that cost millions to make).
We are only relatively recently have good enough tooling to even talk about discovering bio- and technosignatures in the atmosphere of exoplanets. I'm really hoping that we will find some undeniable evidence in my lifetime.
>you can't run to the courts when people use them as designed, even if they didn't use them as intended.

I doubt that will hold up in court. The exact thing could be said about computer networks and hackers exploiting them.
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I suppose it's not a spoiler to comment on this, but this was recently on an episode of Tom Scott's "Lateral" podcast.
could you please elaborate why it's costing me to be doing this investors already signed on?
Actually, Meilisearch uses the RAM available by design because it uses LMDB (which is memory-mapped) under the hood for key-value storage.

It's a feature, not a bug :D

The cool thing about that is that it is the OS that will get to choose which process to allocate memory, and you can always run it somewhere with less memory available, and it will work the same way
My experience is limited - I work in the UK for a US company and haven't spoken to US developers from a wide variety of companies. However I've not heard any US developers talking about working such long hours.
Closest thing I've heard is for devs to sometimes work over the core hours to build up time-in-lieu for extra vacation, over and above the paltry standard 2 week holiday allowance.
Contract is code, you don't need anything anymore. It solves all the problem.

Something happens

We need to use the system which we want to replace...
Yea it's definitely easier now

If only they'd go one step farther and make RSU be covered shares...
https://web.archive.org/web/20250414150812/https://www.polit...
Are there any conservative leaders that the media doesn't call "far right"?
Were they people you'd like to work with on a project you'd like to help build? Maybe it's worth it. Life is for living, after all, and we do a lot of our living at our jobs; there's more to consider than just what you get paid.
I've written a condensed summary version as a technical abstract here, in case anyone wants a quicker overview before diving into the full PDF:
https://blog.naver.com/as33sa/223833263822
This version focuses on the key principles, system architecture, and potential applications.
Since the original PDF is quite dense and spans 13 pages, I created this summary to make it easier for readers to grasp the core ideas more quickly.
Feedback is always appreciated!
Notable alternative Orama: https://github.com/oramasearch/orama

> complete search engine and RAG pipeline in your browser, server or edge network with support for full-text, vector, and hybrid search in less than 2kb.
See also https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Generalized_Heb...
> how do you monetize your personal code if it doesn’t really fit into a classic product or SaaS model?

Release it, and if it gets popular, you may sell consultancy time to interested parties.

Otherwise, if it really doesn't work as a business, I wouldn't try to monetize it. Unless I misunderstood your post, there is no need to.

From a personal perspective, I prefer writing Free Software, in both senses of the word. From a "I want money" perspective, contributing to Free Software in the past always resulted in better job opportunities to me.
>Does that mean ... no serious change in the existing mode of production can be expected?

The author is looking at traditional neoliberalism/Keynesian type changes but the huge change coming which he doesn't mention is AGI. I note the author is an 86 year old student of Marxism and probably not so up on that stuff.
Less controversially, when you write C, you write for a virtual machine described by the C spec, not your actual hardware.

Your C optimizer is emulating that VM when performing symbolic execution, and the compiler backend is cross-compiling from it. It's an abstract hardware that doesn't have signed overflow, has a hidden extra bit for every byte of memory that says whether it's initialized or not, etc.

Assembly-level languages let you write your own calling conventions, arrange the stack how you want, and don't make padding bytes in structs cursed.
One universal law is that if you steal from people with more money than you, you're screwed. And the more money they have, the worse off you are.

But on a serious note, whenever you read about some people that have either managed to outright steal crypto, or find some vulnerability which hasn't been legality tested...and they just pack their bags, hoping to live life free, forever after. It just seems so naive, too naive with how smart these individuals otherwise tend to be.

I think it is fair to say that once you'll cross a threshold, could be a million. could be 10 million. could be 50 million. All depends on who you've taken it from, you'll realistically be hunted for life.

The people that do get away with these things, are state sponsored operators - but they don't walk away with tens of millions in loot, either.

EDIT: Reading the article, this guy sounds like a real piece of work.
people are getting quite snippy about this comment, but hating this mindset means you lock yourself away from so much actual wealth. It means you confine and condemn people to significantly worse economic conditions by limiting people's ability to freely associate and disassociate.

just to hammer this point home: Every mandatory employee benefit has a huge cost, and adding enough of them kills your economy. It makes it more expensive to have an employee than X many jobs can justify. That X grows every year, and that's X people who cant do that job and get paid money for it.
Really clean site, I've also been working with similar stuff. If you need inspiration, check out https://findl.top
I agree that it's a little hard to care about this author's situation as much as other stories I've heard in the past couple of years. But that said, losing a job like this is never a nice place to be, and I don't hate this person for having those emotions. People are allowed to feel things, shaming them for that is not nice.

But I would caution people against writing public statements like this when they are still in shock, you might regret them later, better to try and regain some balance first.
we pivoted away from it for fairly dumb reasons ngl. my cofounder didn't segment ICP whatsoever and then got mixed signals from the market and eventually decided there wasn't a need. in hindsight, there was demand we just botched it. this is my first year doing startups and it's my fault not learning enough startup basics when we got started.
Displays are not made of paint, though - they use light.

There are two models of combination:

- subtractive, which applies to paint, since the more you mix in the more frequencies are absorbed

- additive, which applies to light, as mixing an extra light adds the frequencies in it

So additive, where more colour tends to white, is correct.
I think the main issue is that designers and web "developers" do not use their own crap.
Isn't it basically describing capability-based security?
"Code is Law" is a profoundly immature idea, and I am surprised anyone other than children take it seriously. The law is not, and never has been, something that is read literally and taken at face value. This is the entire reason that judges and lawyers exist.

Saying "The code let me do it, so it should be legal" is a bit like if I leave a "free to a good home" sign on a plant pot outside my home, and it leans on my car. It does not mean you are permitted to take my car, no matter how "obvious" it seems to you that it should.
Court was outside its jurisdiction here. The fact that the case went forward shows that he was about to be railroaded by corrupt authorities.
You have a problem with drag, eh?
Code is contract and disputes are handled by the courts. There's no such thing as a purely extrajudicial contract, is there?
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Reddit in general is getting wild. Entire comment sections on clips have half the people 100% convinced it is AI and everyone who cant see it is stupid.

And the other half of comments is precise opposite. Equally convinced that it is real and the other half are morons.

And if you can’t get consensus on what’s even real then who posted it (bot/human) and potential motivations for doing so becomes murky too. Everything just sorta collapses. Can’t tell if the content is real. Can’t tell if the poster is real. Can’t tell if comment authors are real. Might not be all bots but may as well be
how do you value the shares in that case? if i leave, i'm debating whether to sell my shares or simply split the company in half because it's no product and just the two of us.
I haven't checked and I don't know how it would render. But it is worth noting that since this was designed against an earlier version of css, it might render differently in older browsers.

For example, older monitors had less pixels, so it's likely that the wrapping was sensible in older monitor/browser configs.

To say nothing of browser defaults being different, if this was pre-css, then the margins might have been baked into the default browser interpretation. In other words, pre-margin property, a webpage without margin didn't mean "this has no margin", in the sense that a modern webpage without margin specified would mean "DO NOT ADD MARGIN TO THIS!".