skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hah, honestly I have no idea, but that does sound like something that could have happened. It's funny how memory fades and we are only left with snippets as we get older.
Looks like actual recent sales on eBay are between $15-20 shipped.
https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=trader+joe%27s+bag&_sac...
It happened to me last week at a small Thai restaurant in Las Vegas.
The best advice I ever got was from a mentor who told me: Your network is your net worth but only if you give more than you take.
> ... but the whole point of cryptocurrency, or at least of smart contracts and "DeFi", is to reject that and try to build a parallel system.

No, it isn't. It might be some peoples desire around it, but by no means all (or even most).
Science and progress are not a one off thing.
The scientist are not used up after 10 years.
They keep working and keep the advantages going.
The advantage attracts even more intelligent people from every corner of the world.
It matters. If it's not subsidized, it's not actually free, it's just baked into the price, and a large player like Walmart might be able to compete.
Do you have a case where a defendant tried to argue that being upside down protected him from a copyright claim? You claim that they have decided it, can you cite that decision?
I disagree with this. Everybody wears clothes. Everybody eats food.

You can't put a monetary value on a t-shirt, because people will buy them anyways. Who is to say that t-shirts aren't $60? People only think that t-shirts are "low value" because we have offshored the labor and are used to very low prices. Meanwhile I bet most Americans can't even sew.
Thank you so much, really appreciate the thoughtful feedback and questions. Glad the idea resonates.

To answer your points:

For native speakers, we’re focusing on matching them with people learning their language and who speak the language they are learning. So it becomes a fair exchange, and both sides benefit. That buddy system idea is exactly the approach we’re taking.

We’re also thinking about adding optional tags like “casual,” “travel,” or “business” to help guide conversations and avoid awkward starts. Icebreakers could be a nice touch too.

For safety, we’re taking moderation seriously. There will be a reporting system in place from the start, and we’re planning to add basic rating features and eventually moderation tools to detect and prevent bad behavior.

Thanks again for the support. I’ll definitely share when the MVP is live. Would love to have you try it.
TLDR: do things that are meaningful to something other than just a ranking algorithm.

I have Heavy Things I have started to make years ago, and I think about them every day, thinking "one day" I'll finish them. I'd never considered that maybe smaller more trivial Light Things are getting in the way.
Honestly, I love that both exist with their respective world views.
Thank you. I got something (but not the full method) working. However, I ended up abandoning this approach because I realized that the SDS process is too slow. It'd take at least 10 mins to generate a single SVG.
I received really heartfelt (to me) and sincere life advice on 4chan. I think the fact that it's anonymous without a real karma/voting system means there's a lot less ego-driven, self-centered posting. People don't try to attack as much or have bitter back-and-forths as much as twitter, reddit. They might argue for a bit and then just say f it and move on. But there's no motivation for ragebait, karma farming like there is on twitter.
Why do Big Corps get trademarks of every day words?
Following the Decease letter from Figma to Loveable on the "Dev Mode" trademark. It's ridiculous, but it's common.

Basecamp owns the "Hey" trademark. (I received a decease email from them when I was building hey.new)

Oracle owns the "MySQL" trademark.

So, I'm not surprised that Figma owns the trademark "Dev Mode."

Big Corps owns trademarks all the time. It's not right, but they do for several reasons. Most don't make sense to me.

Maybe IP? What do you think?
I'm a huge fan of Cohere. We were highlighted in the launch post and use their V3 text embeddings in production: https://www.searchagora.com/

We're switching to the V4 to store unified embeddings of our products. From the early tests we ran, this should help with edge case relevancy (i.e. when a product's image and text mismatch, thus creating a greater need for multi-modal embeddings) and improve our search speed by ~100ms.
IDK man, really depends on where you visit. The few dozen big cities we currently associate with wealth were doing way worse, but the hundreds of smaller cities we currently associate with the poverty of former manufacturing and industry were generally doing a lot better.
Or maybe quantum?
Sorry, I've got more than one.

Learn how to manage your manager

Make sure the work you do is maximally visible (at least to your co-workers)
/dev/random is right sometimes, too.
Yes exactly this, and it's very clear to see that the activists who push for males to compete in women's sports do not care about female athletes at all.

They're only interested in promoting the demands of males who desire to be women, regardless of how unfair and unjust the effect of this ends up being to actual women.
Great question. The idea is to match people who are learning each other’s native languages, so both sides benefit from the exchange. For example, a native Spanish speaker learning English gets matched with a native English speaker learning Spanish. That way, it's a fair trade and both get value from the conversation. It's not about helping someone for free, but practicing together.
> create much less landfill

But maybe bought from a salesman with a Humvee and a artisan that spends every last cent on overseas travel

The issue is that trying to analyse the breakdown of $ by environmental outcomes is hard.

There is a lot of propoganda about how to be environmentally sound. We tend to pick one dimension like trash output. We lack the information to be able to make better balanced decisions, for example sometimes the throwaway thing is better for the environment.

> expensive shelfs

I think that example is selection bias. I'm sure you can think of plenty of expensively wasteful examples too (it's easiest to look at other people to find that).

Counter-factual: I made some shelves from waste-stream offcuts, and other shelves were going to be thrown out. Plus costs to paint them (much much less than even the cheapest of new shelves).
I've heard multiple times about a bit of lore that holds that 4chan once tried to brigade Stormfront, causing Stormfront to brigade back, and that was how the cross pollination occurred and started turning 4chan fascist.

No idea if this is true but it sounds plausible.
The dramatic moral harms of this Engineer's-Disease-based reasoning on public policy are already visible and are only expected to dramatically accelerate for the foreseeable future. There's no point in engaging an off-topic and inflammatory line of discourse that attempts to paper over this undeniable reality with smug appeals to authority.
Why do they allow so much interracial porn spam, and how does that fit into your view of the mods being alt-right racists?
I also recall at one point some image file format that ended up leaking sensitive info, because it had a built in preview image, and the editing program failed to regenerate the preview after a censor attempt.

Was a loooong time ago, so I don’t remember the details.
You're better off asking an IP/trademark lawyer than HN.
The part that might take some work is matching the motion correctly, with a pixelated area or blacked out rectangle it doesn't matter if it's exactly sized or moving pixel perfectly with the window. I haven't done any video editing in 20 years, so maybe that's not very difficult today?

That moving pixelation look is definitely cooler though. If you wanted to keep it without leaking data you could do the motion tracked screenshot step first (not pixelated, but text all replaced by lorem ipsum or similar) and then run the pixelation over top of that.

If any of you nerds reading this are into video editing, please steal this idea and automate it.
Given the fact that LLMs like most neural networks work by passing their input through layers, wouldn't this be expected? There's no going back to an earlier layer and if the first layers are in some sense needed for "translating" to English, any other functionality in those layers cannot be used.
It also contradicts the idea that they are acting transparently.
scribus-ng: next generation of the desktop publishing program (2006)
I think I like the idea, but I have to ask a favor: Please stop the animated banner text!

I'm getting tired of how many web developers don't realize that endless, unstoppable animation is a huge accessibility issue. My brain apparently has some deep programming to follow anything that moves, so I can't actually read anything about the project without straining my brain. For reference, I'm autistic. Many neurodivergent people have similar issues. So, unintentionally, you're excluding people that might enjoy this.
In the EO language there is no "whichever is greater", the shipping company picks.

In EO 14256:

> Transportation carriers delivering shipments to the United States from the PRC or Hong Kong sent through the international postal network must collect and remit duties to CBP under the approach outlined in either subsection (c)(i) or subsection (c)(ii) of this section. Transportation carriers must apply the same duty collection methodology to all shipments; however, transportation carriers may change their collection methodology once a month or on such other periodic timeframe as CBP determines appropriate, upon providing 24-hour notice to CBP.

(c)(i) is Ad Valorem Duty and (c)(ii) is Specific Duty
Python package management infrastructure and tooling works fine for me, and I use python frequently.

There is a relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1987/
A $15,400 value!
I for sure don't want to suggest that anyone who loves gcc shouldn't be working on what they love. More compilers are a good thing, generally. Just trying to say why I have a preference.
It is childish naïveté; it shows up in tech again and again

"Napster is gutting the music industry, but there's nothing we can do. You see, the mp3s are never stored on Napster's servers. Curses!" /s

"PirateBay is gutting the film industry, but there's nothing we can do: PirateBay is in Sweden - it's like trying to shut down an outfit operating from the surface of the sun" /s

"This one account is repeatedly pumping and dumping small altcoins... well, it's the code, we have to let him keep millions of our dollars" /s
> when an economy becomes "advanced," the birth rates drop to tragic levels.

heck maybe that's what trump's doing - tank the American economy and hope it brings the birth rate back up...
Modern Programming Languages in 2025: The Art of Selection
If the administration was even remotely competent, this would be scary. There is EASILY a list of things that they could do if they truly cared about going full authoritarian.

But when they start doing stuff like tarrifs for no reason what so ever, to the point where even Musk thinks its stupid, the situation is sad more than scary. US has lost its edge for literally nothing in return.
> Not anymore. Used to be a Christian nation with a mix of European culture - that's what it was founded on. This started to change after 1965 Immigration Act.

1. America was never a Christian nation. That's a far-right populist rewriting of history.

2. 1965 was quite a while ago! But even before then, European culture is extremely varied. Not to mention Chinese and Japanese immigrants before. It was a melting pot even then.

> They are good because they preserve the nation's people. They help the nation.

This means nothing, by the way. This is the problem with populist messaging. It's populist because it sounds good, but it also has to appeal to the lowest common denominator.

There's no substance, no logic, no reasoning. Just promises, built on appealing to emotions. A sense of national pride, of sovereignty. Past that, the details are TBD.

> Economic prosperity at the cost of your nation is not worth it. We don't need cheap food delivery.

Once again, this means nothing. "At the cost of your nation" is just a populist message, something a bit Hitler-y. But it's not an actual argument. What, specifically, is being lost?

> And what has this economical prosperity brought you? Rampant crime, homelessness, zombie cities, healthcare accessible only to the wealthy, one of the biggest wealth inequality in the developed world.

On the topic of crime because far-right populists just can't help but lie - crime in the US is down and has been trending down for decades. People like Trump will claim the opposite, because they are liars and in order to form a populist message you have to appeal to emotions (see above).

It's easy to convince people something needs to be done when you cater to their sense of survival. Of course, it's just not true, blatantly. It's not misinformation or disinformation - it is dishonesty. The same is true for many European nations. You're free to look at crime statistics. But, more importantly than being dishonest, the horse begets the carriage. Why does removing brown people fix crime? What's the mechanism for that? Is it because you propose, by their blood, they are more susceptible to crime? Ah, and there comes the racism I mentioned earlier. With far-right populist ideology, it always comes, if you just give it a squeeze. I have no doubt now you will say no, that's not the reason why, but I don't really care.

And, on some other topics:

1. Healthcare is the most accessible it's ever been in the US takes to the ACA. The far-right wants to dismantle this. This isn't a matter up for debate either, so please don't bother.

2. Wealth inequality is high because of the far-right repeatedly failing to tax the rich and letting them engage in anti-competitive behavior. Under populist far-right leaders like Trump, the wealth inequality will only increase.
I've dabbled a little in game development projects. But how does someone actually get started on a project like re-implementing a game like TR?

I suppose the PC release helps, you can disassemble that. Perhaps find editors online to determine the asset structure. But it must surely be an enormous project and no end of trial and error to do it that way.
Side note: When you google "Geocities" the results are in comic sans
What if the sun suddenly went out? [video]
Unlike with memecoins, there's actually an operating company behind these stocks. It's good that they can access capital in public markets.

The problem imo is a lack of enforcement on modern pump and dumps.
What's new in X-Plane 12.2.0?
Trump 'looking into' legality of deporting U.S. citizens to foreign prisons
Tinfoil hat me says that it was a policy change that they are blaming on an "AI Support Agent" and hoping nobody pokes too much behind the curtain.

Note that I have absolutely no knowledge or reason to believe this other than general distrust of companies.
The Future of Private Credit Is Vertical AI
Wow. This one will go down in the history books as an example of AI hype outpacing AI capability.
It may not pass muster with a judge in some backwater, but with one in the Northern District of California or a jury of their HN peers, it might. Laws are what we make them.
> The labor wages themselves are a factor, but an increasingly minor factor in product costs.

Not disagree with your main points, but labor inputs are still very much a huge part of product costs, and often the biggest driver of where to build a new factory when a company is scaling up. Companies aim to build their new factories wherever there's a sufficient pool of cheap labor with the necessary skills.
Why would I have an opinion of the parking attendant at all? They're a a cog in the machine. If I thought about their phrasing at all, I'd assume they had a bad night, or not. Anyway I lost the ticket, it's my problem.
Can someone say tyrant? Or is that a thought crime for citizens too now?
>If you think that's what the "other side" is saying, then you've completely misunderstood what the diversity idea is about.

We don't think that's what the "other side" is saying, we know. You can't compare one idea with the misrepresentation of the opposing idea. That's just making things up.
I, too, wish I’d put more into my winners, and less into the losers. But what I really wish is to figure out which is which before I lay money down. :-)