skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Yes, rich people will buy more stuff subject to VAT, but a much lower proportion of their incomes, and it falls a lot as incomes go up.

Doubt. Rich people usually have holding corporations or trust funds that can buy their yacht, and employ a wide range of tax evasion techniques carried out by an army of specialist lawyers and accountants to minimise tax impact to the absolute minimum.

They play a different game than you or me, but on the same playing field.
Era of Experiences [pdf]
Era of experiences paper by David Silver and Richard Sutton explores new direction where agent continuously learn from new data and how it can help to achieve long-term goals.

An example from the paper

> For example, a health and wellness agent connected to a user’s wearables could monitor sleep patterns, activity levels, and dietary habits over many months. It could then provide personalized recommendations, encouragement, and adjust its guidance based on long-term trends and the user’s specific health goals.
This can still happen:

> where I only found out a colleague had been fired because I tried to write them on Slack only to find that their account had been deactivated

The colleague will just be one that's based in the US, but that doesn't make it much easier.
Blade Runner passed the test of not making my children pick up the phone while watching it.

Very few movies do that.
Look at the handbags hanging in the air next to people walking by in the background, and the six fingers on the interviewer's hand. But yes, I had to look at it repeatedly to see that it's fake, it's definitely good enough to fool most people scrolling their feed.

I don't follow it super close, but I've seen some videos from the Wan model that's now available in ComfyUI, and they can be really good.
I think the source of the bikes is important - you see a lot of unbranded stuff like carbon frames, wheels or bars bought from temu or similar. I wouldnt assume this stuff has been tested to the same level as known brands, and wouldnt trust them

I also think the age of the bike is important too - especially carbon where the lifespan is expected 5-8 years
The elderly need companionship, but we must protect them from scams targeting seniors.
Concurrency in Haskell: Fast, Simple, Correct
Can only find one software dev job posting on your site:

https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Coder/6fbfeb59-cec0-43f1-bee7-389c5...

And it says: "Currently based in the United States or Canada"
Apple platforms only had command line after NeXT reverse acquision, it isn't as if A/UX was a huge success, so it is kind of ironic see that mentioned.

It was specially clear in the early days of MS-DOS versus Mac OS.
I never trust the sense of new scientific ideas I get from popular press articles. But this comes across as highly questionable, “Intelligent Design” redux stuff. Sure there are some interesting points about information theory etc, but overall it sounds like a lot of scientists desperately cribbing concepts they don’t actually understand from other fields and misapplying them to oversimplified computer simulations someone who barely understands Python wrote 20 years ago, and assuming the simulation, which has built-in, accidentally hard-coded selection factors, is the same as reality.

Seriously, phrases like “selection for function”, unified theories of biology and physics, and big ideas about the second law of thermodynamics are major red flags.
Show HN: Compoundster – Visualize your compound interest over time
It's the "scanner" that I had a problem with. A device to turn printed media into PDFs... but darkly?
You have to look at the population of Palestinians in the 1948 region before and after. Towns are empty from the nakba.

People fleeing a genocide and being refused return is genocide. Don’t try to rephrase this is as “conflict”. Nor equate the history of other regions as equivalent to this one.
I’m going to guess that a lot of your posts are of similarly low quality.
- Dynamic languages are good, actually. IDE auto-completion and full-project renaming are the features that hit above their weight when using static type systems. IMO the remaining benefits of static types are within the same order of usefulness as the pros and cons of dynamic langs; You can argue about them on a case by case basis. This means static types aren't inherently better than dynamic languages (which is the popular opinion of the day), there's just a tooling issue right now. Therefore, dynamic langs will eventually make a comeback in popularity.
What do we gain by using MCP that cloud not be achieved worth OpenAPI standard. It feels extremely redundant to me.
Can’t say I'm a fan of packaging models as docker images. Feels forced - a solution in search of a problem.

The existing stack - a server and model file - works just fine. There doesn’t seem to be a need to jam an abstraction layer in there. The core problem docker solves just isn’t there
Adding Structured Data to a Rails Application
> Never before, and not for most people around the world.

Please tell me more about the gig economy of medieval peasants.
It has been a while since I worked through it, but Haskell programming from first principles had some pretty good exercises IIRC.
Maybe they're not confident in the case against them: https://www.wired.com/story/the-doj-still-wants-google-to-di...
> low eu salaries implies finding job is hard. fact.

Does it? Sounds more like an opinion than a fact to me.
That is mostly in Central and Nothern Europe, unfortunely in the south even with unions, things not always go as they should be.
This looks somewhat horrifying. How do I safely write a function that takes a linked list as a parameter?
Company's Surveillance Tech Makes Immigrants 'Easy Pickings' for Trump
There are rules, but one can decide to not follow them.

One thing that I saw (but never experienced myself) happen with North American companies wanted to leave EU is just doing their usual things (thus not following local rules), and then people have to sue and wait many years to be compensated.
In other occasions, time seems to pass very slowly for the aging of first-page items. Probably relativistic effects of large amounts of hidden mass ...
I would imagine there is more wear and tear on a bike tire because of rough handling.
No, I do not want the government to get involved other than through regulations on warranty replacements etc. One of the big appeals of riding bicycles is the near total lack of government involvement which makes it a more true form of freedom than any type of motorised transport can offer. This is why I never had and most likely never will get a car as those do allow the government near total control as well as regular bloodletting. No, keep them out of it.
Is Australia full of daily bicycle riders or just for sport type of people?

Here in the Netherlands I’m not aware of any such thing going on in our bicycles.
grok-3 beta in cursor has been good
JaysOS Toy OS for the GameBoy Advance
Yes, this is the entire point. Government needs to spend productively to grow the economy.

Any spending can be inflationary if it’s perceived to not be productive.

How that spending is financed is a footnote. Domestic debt works, foreign debt works, but the central bank can also purchase bonds and that works too (and is not inflationary). This is what Japan has been doing for decades to great success.

Not to say that the transition is easy, and if too much of the USs debt is owned by 3rd parties that means that there will be currency value shocks that have to be mitigated.

It does not mean that there will be a crash, or a recession, or a default.
Makes sense; it's definitely the case for me. I first started my Netflix subscription many years ago, because they had Star Trek shows (and in particular, they were to have the about-to-come TNG remaster). Since then, I've seen pretty much all that I wanted there, but I keep the subscription running... because of Star Trek. If they ever drop those shows, I'll cancel.
Misogyny in comedy is still real. Just saw SNL fully taking the piss out of an actress' teeth this weekend, in fact.
I'd like to bag my oranges in bags that make them look less orange. I can't stand orange recently.
Is there some assumption here that inequality is bad? Or that there's some ideal number? Or that there's a meaningful comparison with modern economies?

I see "inequality" as a concept like "uncertainty", it can be pointed to as the source of social and economic issues, but only is undesirable that rain is seen as undesirable weather. Nobody likes being on the wrong end of these, but they are inevitable and natural (to some extent) and I think we're better off trying to acheive a society that works with an equilibrium wealth distribution. Umbrellas rather than weather control machines.
I had the same feeling. The underlying message has merit, but the format felt very similar to a lot of the get-rich-quick landing pages. I had to edit some of the CSS to get through the page at all.
The classic check is just "ABC"

https://bikeleague.org/videos/basic-bike-check/

>Air: Be sure you have enough air in your tires

>Brakes: Look to see that your brake pads are not worn

>Chain and Cranks: Pull on your cranks to see that they are not loose and look to see that the chain is not rusted and it is free of gunk

Newer bikes add:

>Quick Release: Make sure all quick releases are closed

and it's a good idea to:

Check: Take a slow brief ride to check that your bike is working properly

and of course the recommendation has always been to take a bike in to a bike shop in the spring before resuming riding.

The notable mechanical failure I had was a broken gear on the rear cassette (and this in a lifetime of riding which has included a couple of bike tours, a lot of general riding, and a couple of years of almost exclusively commuting by bike (which I'm hoping to get back to)) --- fortunately, was able to pick up the pieces, set the bike on a particular gear, then continue riding --- getting hit by a car on the first day of summer vacation when I was 14 was far more momentous.
Zotero Fullscreen Mode by Script
> How do I safely write a function that takes a linked list as a parameter?

Zig does not have a lot of generic code. You would pass the user directly and then walk the list or you use comptime. The real answer is that "you don't write code like that in Zig".
Bluesky: Advanced Bridge with Telegram
It does?

https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/macppc/
Its only a model.
Doesn’t matter, a sovereign government doesn’t need bonds to fund its spending.
Commodore hardware viruses-yes, they were possible
> Edit: I'm in germany

Yeah, Germany is quite (in)famous for this.

I have seen quite a few times in my career large US tech corporations specifically choosing not to open a satellite EU sales office or a dev office in DE because of the horrendous labor laws.

Sure, very nice for the workers. But foreign money chooses to skip DE because of this.

Warm and comfy in a sinking ship, great!
I read lots of quarterly report summaries. I like what you're doing here, but you need to be aware that AI summaries are already built into many existing platforms. So don't expect to be able to monetize this as it stands.
It's interesting that Tarkowsky himself didn't like the movie either.

Authors are a bit too involved emotionally to judge movies that are based on their books though. It reveals to them that the interpretation that readers make of their books or their interest in it may not be what the author intended.
As an example of 2), Abdulrahman al-Awlaki.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Abdulrahman_al-Awla...

Or Nora al-Awlaki.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Nawar_al-Awlaki

Do you consider the state of Israel "first world"?
Nothing wrong with wanting a guaranteed salary and job stability, but people in this situation should simply not be working at a VC funded tech startup. “Boring” software companies exist. Banks, government, aerospace, manufacturing, consulting Countless mid-large software companies of all conceivable types. Practically all of them will be able to beat a tiny startup on salary. Go work at them instead.
Presumably that is limited by the gig or so of information in our DNA, though?
That is a very good point! Gravity is just such an ingrained intuition that people tend to be ok with saying things go into the spacetime wells, but it is a little tautological.

My understanding is that a more correct intuition is thinking of straight paths on the curved sheet. Say it's like a loosely woven tablecloth - objects in free fall will go along the threads of the weave, so if you stretch the fabric by placing a heavy object on it, the paths of smaller objects on the fabric will be stretched towards the heavy thing.

This metaphor falls apart for orbits though, as it requires "stretching" the fabric so much that the threads now somehow go in a circle around the mass heh. But the underlying principle is the same - an object in orbit is in free fall along a straight path in curved spacetime.
I'm also a fan of the movie. It deserves a re-watch.

As a slow burner / future cult classic it's about the same as ExistenZ another of my favourites.
Yeah still not flagged. Nice bias HN.
Google launches (horribly named) A2A for AI to AI integration
I just don't understand the fixation with REPL. How do you use it? It sounds like you write code as black box then run it in REPL to see what it does because you don't understand it by yourself.
> for me personally, this is also a huge disillusionment in Google

This feels like "I installed Chrome before Google went evil".

https://fortune.com/2025/03/19/tesla-owners-elon-crazy-bumpe...
Checked the sheep dip?
Intel Close to Unveiling Deal to Sell Altera to Silver Lake
The author makes the classic misunderstanding of talk therapy, that it is designed to talk about your trauma and go over and over about it. This is false, any modern therapist who practices CBT, ACT, schema therapy, etc. only addresses trauma in the context of how that trauma impacts present decision making. The point isn't to discuss the trauma, it is to discuss how your mind may organize your thoughts in a sub-optimum way caused by your previous experiences.

Ultimately this lack of understanding of modern psychotherapy just makes the entire post sound like snake oil. But I suppose if the author can offer therapeutic snake oil and make money grifting on AI bros, why not.

edit: I just want to follow up, reading through some of the other posts of the author where he describes modern psychology as "poison" and that he refuses to even learn about it. This author really just gives me the exact same vibes as dutchsinse, the quack earthquake prognosticator who claims seismology is a scam, earthquakes are predictable, and that he predicts them by pointing to his custom google earth globes and saying "earthquakes happen there". Of course if he could actually predict earthquakes this would be incredible and the world would change in untold ways since predicting chaos should be impossible. Of course, this never actually happens and ends up being anti-intellectual nonsense.

If the author disagrees with modern ideas the author is welcome to publish their methods and participate in a common discussion like any other scientist studying any other system.
But then, human artists have a lot of training and influences too, so it's not so easy for humans to be truly original either (if that is a thing).
For offensive work, yes. If you control the ground, though, and are policing a defensive perimeter against air attacks on targets in the interior of your territory, you can make and distribute the camera stations cheaply enough that it doesn't make sense destroying them.
Could it be done logging frame vibration and monitoring characteristic frequencies over time?
I wonder if a piezoelectric sensor would be effective here too?
Satyre: Pill Curing Red Disease
Command/data channel separation can and does exist in the real world, and humans can use it too, e.g.:

"Please go buy everything on the shopping list." (One pointer to data: the shopping list.)

"Please read the assigned novel and write a summary of the themes." (Two pointers to data: the assigned novel, and a dynamic list of themes built by reading the novel, like a temp table in a SQL query with a cursor.)
I don't think averaging the color over the whole image is the right way to do this. When you buy bagged oranges you pick up a bag and look at it close, not squint at it from a distance.
>Isn't the point of a title to get someone to read the book (and not be disappointed by it's contents)?

For marketing departments maybe. For authors it's supposed to be a fitting name for their novel.
ReactOS' one it's far better than MS's one.
There's a higher monthly salary in the US, sure. However, you're expected to work very long hours (60-80 hours per week) and get basically no time off

In my current position I'm hired for an expected 37 hours per week. This can be more if I'm asked to work overtime, but my weekly hours cannot exceed 45 hours per week on average in a 3 month window without additional compensation

Additionally I have six weeks of paid time off every year plus public holidays

If I calculate my hourly salary it's better than what I was paid by US companies

That's not to mention the security of having a legally mandated termination period of minimum 3 months (in which you're, in most cases, not expected to work)
Possibly won't be very popular in all of the US: Urinals seem to be optimized for maximum noise (in some parts of Europe for minimum sound). Different design objectives. Or in some Southeast Asian countries, regular (small) toilets are optimized to be able to be flushed with a single bowl of water: Standing in front of them will almost always spray in all directions (but hot temperatures will usually take care of it quickly enough).
Dev replacing all tests with return true would should up in the PR review right? I mean a dev that malignant needs to be fired yesterday and someone approving that PR can be shown the door right alongside them.
I’m sorry that this happened to him. There are innumerable ways to let go of people with dignity. This isn’t the first time I’ve heard of this treatment from Google. It will not be the last. Google is a great company with great people. Google is incompetent at handling layoffs. They could learn from banks on Wall Street. The banks do layoffs routinely and have a process that’s more empathetic than Google, and that’s not a high bar.
How is Internet being "embraced and extended" by Google feeling like as society contribution?

It has literally turned into ChromeOS, with exception of Safari, and Firefox meagre 3% hardly matter.
Sounds mostly correct. The standard LLM tool call 'shape' matches the MCP tool call 'shape' very closely. It's really just a simple standard to support connecting a tool to an agent (and by extension an LLM).

There are other aspects, like Resources, Prompts, Roots, and Sampling. These are all relevant to that LLM<->Agent<->Tools/Data integration.

As with all things AI right now, this is a solution to a current problem in a fast moving problem space.
You should also complain that it depends on having a computer while you are at it.
https://support.google.com/googleplay/thread/338157420?hl=en...
Cops aren't made of copper either (nor do they belong to the Sus domesticus species), but still...
> For example, if an MCP or tool gets executed that you didn't want to get executed, the UI should provide an easy way to turn it off or to edit the description of that tool to make it more clear when it should be used and should not be used by the agent.

Might this become more simply implemented as multiple individual calls, possibly even to different AI services, chained together with regular application software?
POSIWID is usually the end result of asking some basic questions about "A System":

-Has the System taken (on) a mind of its own?

-What does It want?

-How do we know what It wants?

For organisms, sometimes just asking it directly can give more useful answers (or surprises,YMMV)
It’s a classic failure mode of the software engineer to decide to change something to be “faster,” before even checking to see if and when performance could become a problem.

I personally bucket this skill under napkin math and it is extremely good at guiding technical choices (YAGNI etc)
Yes.

Enterprise software rollouts can take months to actually get started from the point of procurement.

This happened at one startup where the sales team bid on a RFP, won, and then had to build it while finalizing the deal.

(First cut ended up being trash and crashed as soon as the customer took it global. It was replacing a paper process and had worked fine in a small scale pilot with one sub org. Customer ended up going back to paper and it took 4 years to rectify and try again)
There are 2.8 million developers in the US. Most of them don’t work for “tech” companies. Most of them work for boring enterprise companies without multiple rounds of enterprise companies and many let you just do behavioral questions and techno trivia on the stack they care about.

I personally have interviewed for 7 enterprise dev jobs and I have had 2 coding interviews and those were simple.
> It was still the era where UI's felt immediate and snappy

I'll never forget my first smartphone. Whenever somebody called, it took so long for the screen to turn on, that the other person would often hang up before I could answer. I'd just sit there with a ringing phone in my hand, waiting for its screen to turn on.
would be interested to follow along! Where would you source the filings for european stocks?
Yes, the way to do it is to tax investment properties. Many states already do that through the homestead exemption though.

https://www.quickenloans.com/learn/homestead-exemption

Another problem is everyone wants to live in the same few places. Missouri's average house costs around $250, which is pretty reasonable, it's just a lot of people don't want to live in Missouri.

https://www.zillow.com/home-values/32/mo/

The housing market in Detroit is even cheaper: $76K for an average home, what a steal!

https://www.zillow.com/home-values/17762/detroit-mi/

If you think you're going to get cheap home prices in places Silicon Valley or NYC, it's just not going to happen because everyone wants to live there.
Sounds like work colleagues should have a signal chat, or at least whatsapp, to stay in touch when someone suddenly disappears from the company. Not to take revenge or leak company secrets or anything like that, just to stay in touch and meet up for social events occasionally. If someone at work is my friend, that doesn't end when they're fired and I support them as much as I can in difficult times.
Psychoanalysts need to study this even if it is already in the DSM.
The biggest advantage of this is for the llm providers like OAI not application developers.

LLM's are brains with no tools (no hands, legs, etc).

When we use tool calling we use them to empower the brain. But using normal API's the language model providers like OpenAI have no access to those tools.

With MCP they do. The brain they create can now have access to a lot of tools that the community builds directly _from_ llm, not through the apps.

This is here to make ChatGPT/Claude/etc _the gateway_ to AI rather than them just being API providers for other apps.
If they all rose the same equally everywhere you'd have a point, but that's not really the case. If your home in Palo Alto goes from 750k to 3M and a house in Arizona goes from 250k to 550k you benefit by selling your house in Palo Alto and moving to Arizona.
CuPy on CUDA I thought it might be handy on ARM Macs
Assuming you mean "how would I safely write a function that takes a generic linked list and does something with the data," I'm pretty sure you would use comptime: your function would take the concrete type (say, User) as a comptime parameter, and then you would do your list stuff via accessing .node and use the fieldParentPtr to access the underlying data.

Syntactically I don't think it's that weird, TBH. And it's typesafe: if you write invalid code the compiler will give you an error.