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41,789,900 | comment | deutschepost | 2024-10-09T16:41:46 | null | Sadly they already joined the NATO. | null | null | 41,788,690 | 41,785,553 | null | [
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41,789,901 | comment | unsupp0rted | 2024-10-09T16:41:47 | null | I bet her calligraphy sucks too. And is she any good at milking a cow?<p>In 2024 there's no need to feel sad about deprecated (or now niche) skills being lackluster.<p>I'd be more concerned if she couldn't find information efficiently when she goes searching for it. That's a skill that mustn't be lackluster. | null | null | 41,789,674 | 41,787,647 | null | null | null | null |
41,789,902 | comment | interestica | 2024-10-09T16:41:47 | null | I fully expect a WPE-backed fork before anything is in court. | null | null | 41,791,369 | 41,791,369 | null | [
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41,789,903 | comment | kristjansson | 2024-10-09T16:41:50 | null | My concern, and IMO what should be the overwhelming concern of the maintainers, is not the code that is being written, or the code that will be written, but all the code that has been written, and will never be touched again. A break like this will force lots of python users to avoid upgrading to 3.17, jettison packages they may want to keep using, or deal with the hassle of patching unmaintained dependencies on their own.<p>For those Python users for whom writing python is the core of their work that might be fine. For all the other users for whom python is an foreign, incidental, but indispensable part of their work (scientists, analysts, ...) the choice is untenable. While python can and should strive to be a more 'serious', 'professional' language, it _must_ have respect and empathy for the latter camp. Elevating something that should be a linter rule to a language change ain't that. | null | null | 41,788,026 | 41,788,026 | null | [
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41,789,904 | comment | waveBidder | 2024-10-09T16:41:51 | null | Then separate out the basic science from the defense work which requires that bureaucratic oversight. Or direct that funding to universities. My main point is allowing monopolies because they direct their excess profits to research to hide their excess profits is just a complicated tax to fund basic research, which we would be better off spending directly on research without bloated executive salaries and distorted markets in e.g. search or browsers. | null | null | 41,784,997 | 41,784,287 | null | null | null | null |
41,789,905 | comment | arcticbull | 2024-10-09T16:41:54 | null | That requires getting a different job, my friend. Vendor lock-in with housing is real. | null | null | 41,789,447 | 41,780,569 | null | [
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41,789,906 | comment | dangsux | 2024-10-09T16:42:00 | null | [dead] | null | null | 41,789,366 | 41,785,511 | null | null | null | true |
41,789,907 | comment | haunter | 2024-10-09T16:42:01 | null | I wish there was a benchmark with Windows 11 LTSC and showing if it has any actual performance advantage or not | null | null | 41,788,557 | 41,788,557 | null | null | null | null |
41,789,908 | comment | null | 2024-10-09T16:42:05 | null | null | null | null | 41,789,843 | 41,788,805 | null | null | true | null |
41,789,909 | comment | adamrezich | 2024-10-09T16:42:05 | null | I find that when initially exploring a problem space, it's useful to consider functions as “verbs” to help me think through the solution, and that feels useful in helping me figure out a solution to my problem—I've isolated some_operation() into its own function, and it's easy to see at a glance whether or not some_operation() does the specific thing its name claims to do (and if so, how well).<p>But then after things have solidified somewhat, it's good practice to go back through your code and determine whether those “verbs” ended up being used more than once. Quite often, something that I thought would be repeated enough to justify being its own function, is actually only invoked in one specific place—so I go back and inline these functions as needed.<p>The less my code looks like a byzantine tangle of function invocations, and the more my code reads like a straightforward list of statements to execute in order, the better it makes me feel, because I know that I'm not unnecessarily hiding complexity, and I can get a better, more concrete feel for what my program's execution looks like. | null | null | 41,758,371 | 41,758,371 | null | null | null | null |
41,789,910 | comment | dtech | 2024-10-09T16:42:08 | null | Deprecating without removing ever seems reasonable | null | null | 41,788,958 | 41,788,026 | null | [
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41,789,911 | comment | null | 2024-10-09T16:42:10 | null | null | null | null | 41,789,560 | 41,789,560 | null | null | true | null |
41,789,912 | comment | which | 2024-10-09T16:42:11 | null | This! And where do people think open source funding, hackathons, bug bounties for software that's not even theirs, oss-fuzz, really incredible but not necessarily profitable research like Project Zero comes from? AdWords largesse. | null | null | 41,784,599 | 41,784,287 | null | null | null | null |
41,789,913 | story | jandeboevrie | 2024-10-09T16:42:19 | Python and SysV Shared Memory | null | https://euroquis.nl//blabla/2024/10/08/shm.html | 3 | null | 41,789,913 | 0 | null | null | null |
41,789,914 | comment | Retric | 2024-10-09T16:42:28 | null | I am referring to the intent here. Gold in religious art is ment to signify importance just as the tacky rich guy’s gold is.<p>Use of gold on a kings actual throne may seem more appropriate than a CEO’s chair but that’s a judgement about what should be venerated not the intent behind the use of gold. | null | null | 41,789,687 | 41,761,409 | null | [
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41,789,915 | comment | null | 2024-10-09T16:42:39 | null | null | null | null | 41,784,222 | 41,784,222 | null | null | true | null |
41,789,916 | comment | null | 2024-10-09T16:42:49 | null | null | null | null | 41,788,559 | 41,788,026 | null | null | true | null |
41,789,917 | comment | tivert | 2024-10-09T16:42:50 | null | > I wouldn't mind for English to have "standardisation body" akin to French or German one (or RAE for Spanish) that could maybe get rid of backward, dumb spelling ;)<p>That's even less likely now than in the past, with the elite cultural trends in English-speaking countries favoring the adoption of foreign spellings <i>and</i> pronunciation. That just piles on the complexity to unmanageable levels.<p>IMHO, for instance, there's no excuse for the requirement that English newspaper readers know Pinyin [1], rather than some more English-friendly romanization system, to be able to read news about China, when Chinese speakers themselves use a completely different, non-roman writing system. What's next, just printing the Chinese characters without romanization? Pinyin has its uses, but writing things out for foreigners is not something it does well.<p>[1] which gives many letters <i>very</i> unexpected values (e.g. c = ts) and many vowels are impossible for an English-speaker to guess correctly. | null | null | 41,789,147 | 41,787,647 | null | [
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41,789,918 | comment | dangsux | 2024-10-09T16:43:15 | null | [dead] | null | null | 41,789,699 | 41,785,511 | null | null | null | true |
41,789,919 | comment | Cupertino95014 | 2024-10-09T16:43:15 | null | He quotes from The Guardian, Al Jazeera, and Haaretz /s<p>How many of those killed were actually Hamas fighters? | null | null | 41,788,459 | 41,783,867 | null | null | null | null |
41,789,920 | comment | tombert | 2024-10-09T16:43:17 | null | Can't speak for everyone, but at least in my case, especially when I was first learning about Linux, I'd mess up stuff with my graphics card driver or wifi card driver or something, and I'd get to a state where stuff wouldn't boot, or a GUI wouldn't start up. I'm decent enough now to where I'd be able to fix it, but when I was starting out I would sometimes feel that I had to wipe the hard drive to get it working (particularly before I had a smartphone, so when the WiFi went out I really had no way to look up how to fix it).<p>NixOS is nice because if you get to a situation like that, you can simply reboot and choose a previous generation, and then figure out where you went wrong. | null | null | 41,789,704 | 41,788,557 | null | [
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41,789,921 | comment | jgrahamc | 2024-10-09T16:43:24 | null | You can visit my retro-computing site: twostopbits.com. No AI there! | null | null | 41,789,661 | 41,789,661 | null | [
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41,789,922 | comment | adamrezich | 2024-10-09T16:43:27 | null | This isn't actually an FP post. | null | null | 41,789,655 | 41,758,371 | null | null | null | null |
41,789,923 | comment | kens | 2024-10-09T16:43:29 | null | Author here if anyone has questions. This is a bit different from my usual posts... | null | null | 41,789,751 | 41,789,751 | null | [
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41,789,924 | comment | KRains | 2024-10-09T16:43:29 | null | Hi, I created this plugin to help people with their support after spending 7 hours in a queue to get an answer to my (pretty simple and standard) question.<p>This tool has a lot of automation and customization, and it's not stupid as most chatbots.<p>If you have a website, you can create a chatbot even without registration, here: <a href="https://enumhq.com/test-drive" rel="nofollow">https://enumhq.com/test-drive</a><p>Let me know what you think.<p>Thanks! | null | null | 41,789,553 | 41,789,553 | null | null | null | null |
41,789,925 | comment | morpheuskafka | 2024-10-09T16:43:34 | null | Surprisingly some people are apparently advertising tax advoidance strategies, which is why the IRS has the authority to regulate "promoters" of certain schemes, such as a recently popular one where unuseful land is donated to conservation to generate a large deduction. | null | null | 41,783,912 | 41,780,569 | null | null | null | null |
41,789,926 | comment | danm | 2024-10-09T16:43:35 | null | Maybe a consumption tax with broad exemptions for necessary goods like food, clothing, shelter, etc would be a nice way of dealing with the issues people seem to have with others having wealth.<p>Billionaire heirs use the inheritance to buy a yacht, big tax bill, mostly use the inheritance to continue funding things that are generally good for society, smaller tax bill. | null | null | 41,780,569 | 41,780,569 | null | [
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41,789,927 | comment | pishpash | 2024-10-09T16:43:43 | null | As usual with Wolfram, too hand-wavy. It could be true but this is not serious physics. | null | null | 41,783,308 | 41,782,534 | null | null | null | null |
41,789,928 | comment | flobosg | 2024-10-09T16:43:46 | null | > A breakthrough in folding would have produced folding rules that are universal.<p>Protein folding ≠ protein structure prediction<p>> I think those who invented pairwise and multiple alignment dynamic programming algorithms deserved some recognition<p>I would add BLAST as well but that ship has sailed, I’m afraid. | null | null | 41,789,866 | 41,786,101 | null | [
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41,789,929 | story | Destiner | 2024-10-09T16:43:51 | The Scribe Media Collapse and Recovery | null | https://www.tuckermax.com/the-scribe-media-collapse-and-recovery/ | 1 | null | 41,789,929 | 0 | null | null | null |
41,789,930 | comment | StefanBatory | 2024-10-09T16:43:54 | null | I can say the same about FB, Messenger, Reddit, WhatsApp,<p>(...)<p>HackerNews, mails, letters, conversations.<p>The end. | null | null | 41,789,706 | 41,785,553 | null | null | null | null |
41,789,931 | comment | logicchains | 2024-10-09T16:43:57 | null | > is to be able to have finances to back a research division, where you can spend billions on building a new type of technology, if need be, that may not pan out. You don't need a monopoly to accomplish that<p>A company in an industry with very tight margins has much less money to invest in fundamental research. All the recent growth in generative AI has been driven by companies with very high margins; Google, Facebook, Amazon. If all those FANG were in tightly competitive markets and hence had low margins, they wouldn't have had billions of dollars to spend on the GPU compute necessary to develop modern language models. Which is evidenced by the fact that no companies in more competitive sectors have produced any large language models. | null | null | 41,789,421 | 41,784,287 | null | [
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41,789,932 | comment | lambda-research | 2024-10-09T16:44:03 | null | The idea that time is tied to computation makes me wonder if everything we see as 'progress' is just the universe showing us the loading screen percentage of the game of life. | null | null | 41,782,534 | 41,782,534 | null | null | null | null |
41,789,933 | comment | threatofrain | 2024-10-09T16:44:03 | null | If I'm not mistaken both sides have hired some extremely prominent lawyers (Rachel Kassabian, Neal Katyal). | null | null | 41,787,557 | 41,791,369 | null | null | null | null |
41,789,934 | story | mkristiansen | 2024-10-09T16:44:04 | New scientific fraud cases worry me: Now also in material science [video] | null | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpQobaBCSYk | 5 | null | 41,789,934 | 2 | [
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41,789,935 | story | miguelfernandez | 2024-10-09T16:44:09 | Show HN: I Made a Chrome Extension to Prevent Developer Burnout | I made a Chrome extension to help developers and other desk workers prevent burnout. As a frontend developer, I found myself neglecting my health during long coding sessions. This extension provides customizable break reminders and guided activities to help you stay productive and healthy.<p>If you’re curious about it, you can try it out here: <a href="https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/deskbreak/fcmmkgomkmhajbipcimpknjhhefchhco" rel="nofollow">https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/deskbreak/fcmmkgomk...</a><p>Why I Made It:<p>After experiencing burnout myself, I realized that long hours of coding without proper breaks were affecting my productivity and well-being. This extension is my solution to help others avoid the same problem. It’s designed to be non-intrusive while ensuring regular, healthy breaks to help prevent burnout.<p>What You Can Do After Setup:<p>- Set your preferred break intervals according to your work schedule<p>- Receive customizable break reminders<p>- Try guided activities like stretches and eye exercises<p>- Track your progress over time<p>- Integrate breaks seamlessly with your workflow<p>Tech Stack:<p>- React for the UI<p>- JavaScript for core functionality<p>- Chrome Extension APIs for browser integration<p>- Tailwind CSS for styling<p>- Vite for the build process<p>Challenges I Faced:<p>- Balancing non-intrusiveness with effectiveness in a developer’s workflow<p>- Ensuring user privacy while storing preferences<p>- Optimizing performance within Chrome extension limitations<p>Feedback:<p>I’d love to hear your thoughts on how this could fit into your workflow. What additional features would make it more useful? Are there any issues you encounter while trying it out? | https://www.deskbreak.app | 1 | null | 41,789,935 | 1 | [
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41,789,936 | comment | cafard | 2024-10-09T16:44:15 | null | I did not say that deconstruction was pollution. I do think that many of a generation of American scholars found it hard to write or think other than in terms worked out in Paris between the mid-1950s and the early 1970s.<p>I used the word "polluting" in referring to American thought as influencing French, and that perhaps was a little strong. What I had in mind is mentioned for example in <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-59584125" rel="nofollow">https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-59584125</a>. | null | null | 41,789,666 | 41,787,647 | null | [
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41,789,937 | comment | robertlagrant | 2024-10-09T16:44:40 | null | Can we stop with "bros"? It's honestly such low quality nonsense. If you have something to say it shouldn't need ad hominem to support it. | null | null | 41,788,457 | 41,733,390 | null | null | null | null |
41,789,938 | comment | NikkiA | 2024-10-09T16:44:45 | null | Searched for 'peacock chick' and got 100% genuine images.<p>Searching for 'baby dog' would probably get you garbage images too. (it does) | null | null | 41,767,648 | 41,767,648 | null | null | null | null |
41,789,939 | story | MarlonPro | 2024-10-09T16:44:46 | DOJ's Google breakup remedy puts tech world on notice | null | https://finance.yahoo.com/news/dojs-google-breakup-remedy-puts-tech-world-on-notice-124308156.html | 3 | null | 41,789,939 | 1 | [
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41,789,940 | comment | mistrial9 | 2024-10-09T16:44:51 | null | classical MBA says that a firm can compete on price OR branding, unfair advantages (moat) notwithstanding. Competition in commodities is difficult but not impossible given a rational economic environment. Some would say that the modern expectation of returns on investment are irrational, and warp the economics around them too. | null | null | 41,789,800 | 41,784,287 | null | null | null | null |
41,789,941 | story | binarymax | 2024-10-09T16:45:04 | Ask HN: Why is the .IO gTLD uncertainty not getting press here? | There have been a small smattering of posts not making the front page. But the news is a BFD for the community here. As I write this there is yet another startup launching with an IO domain on the front page.<p>We need to be aware of this issue as a community and potentially petition ICANN to find a way to keep the IO domain alive. | null | 9 | null | 41,789,941 | 21 | [
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41,789,942 | comment | tambourine_man | 2024-10-09T16:45:08 | null | I'd be happy with a light, monochromatic, text-only AR glassess | null | null | 41,760,503 | 41,760,503 | null | [
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41,789,943 | comment | lazide | 2024-10-09T16:45:10 | null | Because the idea of leaving something to your kids (and a legacy beyond oneself) is a fundamental motivator for most people? | null | null | 41,789,807 | 41,780,569 | null | [
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41,789,944 | comment | kragen | 2024-10-09T16:45:14 | null | Having just skimmed X.225 thanks to OhMeadhbh (<a href="https://www.itu.int/rec/dologin_pub.asp?lang=e&id=T-REC-X.225-199511-I!!PDF-E&type=items" rel="nofollow">https://www.itu.int/rec/dologin_pub.asp?lang=e&id=T-REC-X.22...</a>) I think Graham is correct that we don't have anything similar to the OSI "session" layer in the stack you're talking about; although the ARPANET TELNET protocol does have a lot of the same functionality, there's nothing analogous in SSL+https+JSON+RPC. I'm guessing the same is true of the "presentation" layer, but I'm certainly open to hearing why you think otherwise, if you do.<p>Also, if you happen to be familiar with X.225 (or read it following my prompt above), I have some questions in <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41789004">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41789004</a>!<p>Graham makes a good argument that, although there are some promising analogies between the physical/data-link/network/transport layers and the PHY/MAC/IP/TCP layers of TCP/IP over Ethernet, the model is overall a very poor fit even at those layers; it's better to not try to decompose network stacks into a predetermined set of layers, because the actual set of layers used is variable depending on the application and the environment. | null | null | 41,785,001 | 41,766,293 | null | null | null | null |
41,789,945 | comment | miguelfernandez | 2024-10-09T16:45:14 | null | Hey HN, I’m Miguel, a frontend developer who built this extension as a side project to solve my own burnout issues.<p>For years, I’ve been coding long hours without realizing how it was affecting my health. This tool is my way of staying productive without sacrificing well-being.<p>To activate the extension, you can sign up on the website.<p>How It Works:<p>- Chrome's Storage API is used for storing user preferences locally.<p>- React helps keep the UI modular and easy to maintain.<p>- Chrome's Alarm API schedules break reminders to fit your schedule.<p>Sign-Up Process:<p>The sign-up is necessary to activate the extension, manage your preferences, and enable future features like streaks and synced activities.<p>Questions:<p>How do you currently manage breaks during coding sessions? Is the sign-up and activation process smooth enough? Would you find value in features like Pomodoro integrations or more advanced reminders?<p>I’m here to answer any questions, so feel free to share your thoughts! | null | null | 41,789,935 | 41,789,935 | null | null | null | null |
41,789,946 | comment | mcguirep | 2024-10-09T16:45:16 | null | If one believes it’s a big problem, it seems to me there’s an easy solution that doesn’t disrupt anything else. If you use a stock as collateral like that, it’s a taxable event that steps the basis of the stock by the amount of the loan. No unnecessary taxation of assets at rest, no double taxation later because of the step up in basis, and you close the loophole if you view it as such. | null | null | 41,783,931 | 41,780,569 | null | null | null | null |
41,789,947 | comment | zolbrek | 2024-10-09T16:45:23 | null | I usually find it amusing.<p>„Was meinst, kriegen wir das hin?“<p>„Safe Digga, das ist so was von easy.“<p>And they think they're so cool talking like that.<p>The part that irritates me though is when I try to pronounce Denglish stuff with a German accent and the Germans end up not understanding me. I made a joke about strippers once and got only blank looks, then one guy said, "oh, you mean strippers," pronouncing it the way you'd say it in English as best as he could. I had pronounced it schtrippas. | null | null | 41,789,563 | 41,787,647 | null | [
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41,789,948 | story | pedroth | 2024-10-09T16:45:32 | null | null | null | 1 | null | 41,789,948 | null | null | null | true |
41,789,949 | comment | martinbaun | 2024-10-09T16:45:32 | null | I love Python, but it seems to always get more complicated and more things in the core and now backward incompatible changes. Not so good. I love Python and how much I can get done, but I must admit I also love that I know the Go code I have from 7 years ago can run without problems. It is just more stable | null | null | 41,788,026 | 41,788,026 | null | null | null | null |
41,789,950 | comment | rootusrootus | 2024-10-09T16:45:55 | null | I have a different use case. I use voice controls to reply to text messages.<p>And it has to work with iMessage destinations that are not a phone number. I am unaware of any built-in infotainment system that can handle that. Tesla certainly cannot, as one data point.<p>Trying to get voice control to work reliably over bluetooth has never been anything but a laggy mess for me. A well implemented CarPlay implementation (even GM...) is way better. | null | null | 41,784,620 | 41,781,081 | null | null | null | null |
41,789,951 | story | bookofjoe | 2024-10-09T16:45:56 | Ribosomes hibernate on mitochondria during cellular stress | null | https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-52911-4 | 1 | null | 41,789,951 | 0 | null | null | null |
41,789,952 | comment | freejazz | 2024-10-09T16:46:06 | null | Really? We're a 'solid majority' away from murder being made legal? | null | null | 41,784,773 | 41,780,569 | null | null | null | null |
41,789,953 | comment | bluGill | 2024-10-09T16:46:16 | null | You can't really do that because there is no way to know how much someone is worth. What is my house worth - there is no answer until I sell it. You know what it last sold for, but you have no idea if I fixed it up since then so it is worth more; or maybe I was cooking meth and now it is a toxic waste site with negative value. A house is simple to value compared to a business. A yacht is another asset that is really hard to value.<p>For public stocks we can at least calculate value with computers, but for some that is a minority of value. In 1960 the DOW was used because it is only 30 stocks so you can add the values up every few minutes - the S&P 500 could only be calculated at the end of the day as by the time you got the value of the last stock the value of the first had changed. | null | null | 41,785,515 | 41,780,569 | null | null | null | null |
41,789,954 | story | ocean_moist | 2024-10-09T16:46:18 | null | null | null | 1 | null | 41,789,954 | null | null | null | true |
41,789,955 | comment | nmeofthestate | 2024-10-09T16:46:27 | null | You're right - that has been around for a long long time. But I feel like I've seen a general increase in its usage that can make writing more ambiguous to parse. Like we already know the gender of someone being written about in a sentence, but they become referred to as "they" at random - it's a subtle effect. I'm talking about examples unrelated to "gender stuff" but perhaps that's what's made the usage more popular among younger writers. | null | null | 41,789,786 | 41,787,647 | null | [
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41,789,956 | comment | lazide | 2024-10-09T16:46:30 | null | Eh, the oldest form of government is a Kingdom.<p>If a government won’t enforce others rights to property, eventually someone is going to form a government where everyone’s things are theirs eh? Since what other option do they have if they want to own something. | null | null | 41,787,910 | 41,780,569 | null | [
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41,789,957 | comment | jncfhnb | 2024-10-09T16:46:32 | null | And you principally protect your property by… wait for it… paying taxes to the state to uphold law and order | null | null | 41,789,193 | 41,780,569 | null | [
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41,789,958 | comment | odiroot | 2024-10-09T16:46:37 | null | Systemd, Pipewire and Wayland all contributed a lot to the desktop experience. | null | null | 41,788,937 | 41,788,557 | null | null | null | null |
41,789,959 | comment | thrownawaysz | 2024-10-09T16:46:38 | null | Yet I still feel Windows is more fluid and responsive just by using it generally. I have a pretty up to date dual boot laptop and Ubuntu still feels like having some kind of "shadow lag" all accross the system. | null | null | 41,788,557 | 41,788,557 | null | [
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41,789,960 | comment | jameshart | 2024-10-09T16:46:39 | null | Yes, code is a substance, like sand or iron. The system is built out of code (not codes), just like the table is built out of wood (not woods).<p>Hearing someone talk about ‘codes’ has the same weird vibe as when they talk about ‘Legos’. | null | null | 41,788,178 | 41,787,647 | null | null | null | null |
41,789,961 | comment | fluoridation | 2024-10-09T16:46:45 | null | The industry standard in finance is decimal floating point. C# for example has 'decimal', with 128 bits of precision.<p>On occasion I've seen people who didn't know any better use floats. One time I had to fix errors of single satoshis in a customer's database because their developer used 1.0 to represent 1 BTC. | null | null | 41,789,337 | 41,784,591 | null | null | null | null |
41,789,962 | story | andreykh | 2024-10-09T16:46:56 | null | null | null | 1 | null | 41,789,962 | null | null | null | true |
41,789,963 | comment | myst | 2024-10-09T16:47:06 | null | Every half-competent software engineer knows about fixed point arithmetic, my friend. | null | null | 41,788,910 | 41,784,591 | null | [
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41,789,964 | comment | __turbobrew__ | 2024-10-09T16:47:12 | null | Continuing Pythons tradition of breaking perfectly functional code. | null | null | 41,788,026 | 41,788,026 | null | null | null | null |
41,789,965 | story | PaulHoule | 2024-10-09T16:47:24 | Newsom signs bill to expel six food dyes from California public schools | null | https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-09-28/newsom-signs-bill-to-expel-six-food-dyes-from-california-public-schools | 5 | null | 41,789,965 | 1 | [
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41,789,966 | story | sourcepluck | 2024-10-09T16:47:40 | Jungle Music with Janet in the Browser | null | https://lisp.trane.studio/ | 2 | null | 41,789,966 | 0 | null | null | null |
41,789,967 | comment | foobiekr | 2024-10-09T16:47:40 | null | Most hardware encoders suck. | null | null | 41,784,740 | 41,780,929 | null | null | null | null |
41,789,968 | comment | JohnFen | 2024-10-09T16:47:47 | null | Let's hope this catches on elsewhere! | null | null | 41,765,006 | 41,765,006 | null | [
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41,789,969 | comment | efsavage | 2024-10-09T16:47:48 | null | There is definitely an obvious fix, just have collateralization be considered realization. You're welcome to have as much money on paper as you want, but if you want to post $Xm in stock against a loan, you need to pay taxes on it first. | null | null | 41,783,931 | 41,780,569 | null | [
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41,789,970 | comment | nullindividual | 2024-10-09T16:47:51 | null | [dupe] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41729526">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41729526</a> - which made the front page | null | null | 41,789,941 | 41,789,941 | null | null | null | null |
41,789,971 | comment | w10-1 | 2024-10-09T16:47:55 | null | As a refresher...<p>These exploits promise to be the rule, not the exception -- and not (just) because this company might have to comply with its national imperatives.<p>Assuming companies get paid for deploying hackable devices, it gives them an unfair competitive advantage relative to ethical companies (who would have higher prices).<p>Given the information asymmetry (promoting the devices as simply reliable vs the difficulty and complexity of hacking them), this advantage is protectable.<p>Thus if, or since, the market gives enduring advantages to this kind of exploitation, we can expect exploitation to be the rule, and product/technical leaders will be selected who comply.<p>A key aspect (noted in the article) is the capture of technical standards organizations by the companies they monitor. Usually this is good (keeping standards more realistic, timely, and relevant). But that means one can't rely on those organizations to protect end users (whether business or consumer).<p>The alternative of government politicized regulators would kill technology advancement, leading to a race to less-regulated jurisdictions (protected by fair-trade rules). The same is true of product liability schemes.<p>So exploitation is the rule, and technology can't regulate itself or be regulated.<p>Meanwhile, technology reaches into every aspect of work and play.<p>Entrepreneurs who solve this problem would create tremendous value (yes, some of which could be captured). | null | null | 41,735,871 | 41,735,871 | null | null | null | null |
41,789,972 | comment | Chris2048 | 2024-10-09T16:47:57 | null | > I'm hoping Python 4 will be<p>I'm hoping "Python 4" will be another language entirely that displaces it, Fixing some ecosystem problems upfront (packaging, concurrency/GIL). Nim is possible candidate, though Go is pretty popular w/ Pythonistas.<p>My personal unhappiness with how Py3K was handled, plus recent PSF events make me feel new leadership would also be a boon.. | null | null | 41,788,618 | 41,788,026 | null | [
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41,789,973 | comment | morpheuskafka | 2024-10-09T16:48:07 | null | I don't care if a rich person buys a yacht or not, it's their money and after they've paid the tax they can do whatever they want. The wealthier you are you should pay more tax regardless of how you use the money. Consumption taxes just make it harder for regular people to afford things they want; the wealthy won't care that a luxury bag with 1000% profit margin has an extra 10% tax on top.<p>There's already exemptions for both income and estate tax for donations to charities or governments to benefit society. It's possible to set up a private foundation, with some additional guardrails to prevent abuse, if you want to give the money directly to people that need it. | null | null | 41,789,926 | 41,780,569 | null | null | null | null |
41,789,974 | comment | nmeofthestate | 2024-10-09T16:48:09 | null | I think organisations (companies, teams) being singular/plural differs depending on what country you're in, so perhaps this is a bleeding across of conventions due to globalisation. | null | null | 41,789,782 | 41,787,647 | null | null | null | null |
41,789,975 | comment | squigz | 2024-10-09T16:48:12 | null | > This is what would happen anywhere else in the world<p>On every single large social media platform, people praise and applaud the death of individuals and entire races of people, all the time. Yet Facebook, Twitter and related sites aren't blocked in most of the world. What's up with that? | null | null | 41,788,819 | 41,785,553 | null | [
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41,789,976 | comment | underlipton | 2024-10-09T16:48:14 | null | Yeah, that could totally be by design. For example,the book "Rainbows End" is not "Rainbow's End" specifically because the meaning of the first is intended, not the second. | null | null | 41,789,091 | 41,787,647 | null | [
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41,789,977 | comment | joewils | 2024-10-09T16:48:28 | null | <a href="https://www.classicpress.net" rel="nofollow">https://www.classicpress.net</a> | null | null | 41,788,741 | 41,791,369 | null | null | null | null |
41,789,978 | comment | tguvot | 2024-10-09T16:48:33 | null | you do know that MIT and a bunch of other us universities doing a bunch of military research/engineering<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_Affiliated_Research_Center?useskin=vector" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_Affiliated_Research...</a><p><a href="https://ras.mit.edu/grant-and-contract-administration/sponsor-information/department-defense" rel="nofollow">https://ras.mit.edu/grant-and-contract-administration/sponso...</a><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Lincoln_Laboratory?useskin=vector" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Lincoln_Laboratory?useskin...</a><p>you should also consider how much of different research about cybersecurity/hacking comes from universities. | null | null | 41,788,068 | 41,783,867 | null | [
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41,789,979 | comment | danillonunes | 2024-10-09T16:48:38 | null | I don't even think this is about money anymore. Matt may have started this cruzade for money, but at this point is just pettiness and refusal to backpedal. | null | null | 41,789,813 | 41,791,369 | null | null | null | null |
41,789,980 | comment | jsheard | 2024-10-09T16:48:49 | null | My point is that .io represented a state which officially has zero permanent residents, which probably shouldn't have inspired confidence in its continued existence. Yes the paperwork was outsourced to Donuts in this case, but the principle of doing your due diligence on a TLD still applies. | null | null | 41,789,843 | 41,788,805 | null | [
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41,789,981 | comment | xtrapol8 | 2024-10-09T16:48:50 | null | You’re finicky, maybe you haven’t really found what’s right for you?<p>The mind is a machine, if you keep it tuned it will last you and allow you to grow. You should certainly have the power to make yourself do anything. Try that game. Make yourself do anything, one simple thing at a time.<p>What do you think you should be learning? Is that some complex lie you tell yourself to get you something else? If it doesn’t mean anything to you, it will naturally fall off the page. | null | null | 41,788,455 | 41,788,455 | null | null | null | null |
41,789,982 | comment | JumpCrisscross | 2024-10-09T16:48:59 | null | > <i>company in an industry with very tight margins has much less money to invest in fundamental research</i><p>OpenAI has raised almost $18bn to date [1]. That puts it in the top 10 corporate R&D spenders globally, ahead of Intel and the entirety of big pharma [2]. (And OpenAI's gross margins for its API business are estimated around 40% [3]. Standard fare for tech. If anything, OpenAI subsidising its business with Apple and ChatGPT is behaving more like a tech giant than a start-up.)<p>The top of that list are the big 5 American tech companies, spending about $200bn annually on R&D. By coincidence, that's roughly the pace of U.S. VC spend [4]. The depth of American private capital markets make a solid case against favouring housing these long-shot bets inside tech giants. (Particularly absent non-compete and IP reform.)<p>[1] <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/02/openai-raises-6-6b-and-is-now-valued-at-157b/?guccounter=1" rel="nofollow">https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/02/openai-raises-6-6b-and-is-...</a><p>[2] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companies_by_research_and_development_spending" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companies_by_research_...</a><p>[3] <a href="https://www.theinformation.com/articles/a-peek-behind-openais-financials-dont-underestimate-china?rc=gtdonx" rel="nofollow">https://www.theinformation.com/articles/a-peek-behind-openai...</a><p>[4] <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/ai-deals-lift-us-venture-capital-funding-highest-level-two-years-data-shows-2024-07-03/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/ai-deals-lift-us-ve...</a> | null | null | 41,789,931 | 41,784,287 | null | null | null | null |
41,789,983 | comment | VyseofArcadia | 2024-10-09T16:49:06 | null | I believe both the PS5 and whatever nonsense string of Xs, numbers, and descriptors MS named this gen's console can do 144Hz output. I don't know how many games take advantage of that or whether that refresh rate is common on TVs. | null | null | 41,789,748 | 41,758,371 | null | [
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41,789,984 | comment | sestep | 2024-10-09T16:49:10 | null | It's interesting that you mention Rust, since Rust takes backward compatibility quite seriously; that's why it's still on version 1.x. Granted, sometimes there is a compiler bug that causes some old code not to compile with newer versions of Rust, but that is rare and never intentional like this PEP. | null | null | 41,789,155 | 41,788,026 | null | [
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41,789,985 | comment | null | 2024-10-09T16:49:12 | null | null | null | null | 41,756,432 | 41,756,432 | null | null | true | null |
41,789,986 | comment | squigz | 2024-10-09T16:49:17 | null | What is it about Discord that makes it more of a magnet than any other large Internet platform? | null | null | 41,789,706 | 41,785,553 | null | [
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41,789,987 | comment | gibsonf1 | 2024-10-09T16:49:18 | null | Indeed it is, but that fundamental concept is for human understanding of how physics works based on how we perceive/think about the universe, its not the metaphysics of the universe itself. | null | null | 41,789,294 | 41,782,534 | null | null | null | null |
41,789,988 | comment | lotsofpulp | 2024-10-09T16:49:31 | null | Really easy, power law formula marginal sales tax rate. The more and more you spend, the higher and higher your sales tax rate is. Considering most spending happens via electronic payments, this should be easily trackable since we have internet/electronic databases/identifying numbers for each purchaser.<p>You get a 1099 or W-2 for income, why can there not be an equivalent for spending?<p>This plus power law formula land value tax rates would fix multitude of societal problems. Land values are also already in electronic databases.<p>And get rid of income taxes altogether. This would disincentivize hoarding and wasting, and incentivize working and being efficient.<p>The only other aspect of rent seeking I can think of that would need to be nerfed is copyright terms being reduced to 10 years. | null | null | 41,783,931 | 41,780,569 | null | null | null | null |
41,789,989 | comment | Matticus_Rex | 2024-10-09T16:49:33 | null | Inducement to what? Where's the breach of contract being encouraged? | null | null | 41,665,554 | 41,631,912 | null | null | null | null |
41,789,990 | comment | acdha | 2024-10-09T16:49:43 | null | You’re assuming that everyone shares the IT security department’s priorities. If you tell someone senior that they can’t use a tool they need, you might learn that they have political clout as well – and the context here makes that especially plausible. | null | null | 41,788,610 | 41,779,952 | null | [
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41,789,991 | comment | geor9e | 2024-10-09T16:49:45 | null | HN is a special place but among the average folk, I get why 90% of people use google. I'm no google fan, but it still baffles me how bad the alternatives still are. Especially with so many companies scraping the whole web for AI data, and so many GPUs chugging on that data. I suppose they are all focused on replacing the concept of search results with LLM prose. Ironically bing is down at the moment <a href="https://downdetector.com/status/bing/" rel="nofollow">https://downdetector.com/status/bing/</a> | null | null | 41,784,287 | 41,784,287 | null | [
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41,789,992 | comment | monocasa | 2024-10-09T16:49:46 | null | It's not under AFR, it's just generally less than inflation.<p>And the loan terms aren't payable at death on any of the loans, they just let you refi every year when you want another $100M for that year's incidentals. | null | null | 41,789,239 | 41,780,569 | null | null | null | null |
41,789,993 | comment | kh_hk | 2024-10-09T16:49:59 | null | Seems like a troll PEP and still would not surprise me. Explicit is better than implicit, except if it makes you look like a fool. | null | null | 41,788,026 | 41,788,026 | null | null | null | null |
41,789,994 | comment | rootusrootus | 2024-10-09T16:50:04 | null | Ha, from the picture in the article I thought they were talking specifically about the backtick as an apostrophe. I could totally call that the idiot's apostrophe, but in a completely different context than what the Germans are talking about. | null | null | 41,787,647 | 41,787,647 | null | null | null | null |
41,789,995 | story | udev4096 | 2024-10-09T16:50:08 | Look out, kids! It's the return of renowned Dan Brown (2016) | null | https://web.archive.org/web/20210208205133/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2016/05/21/look-out-kids-its-the-return-of-renowned-dan-brown/ | 1 | null | 41,789,995 | 0 | null | null | null |
41,789,996 | story | curiousbear | 2024-10-09T16:50:11 | Show HN: Instantly query your Google Drive via Slack | Always faced an issue where people would ask for where a particular file or slide was located. Decided to solve it using RAG. Feedback appreciated. | https://outscale.ai | 1 | null | 41,789,996 | 0 | null | null | null |
41,789,997 | comment | hosh | 2024-10-09T16:50:21 | null | Pinyin is pretty good at rendering Manderin in a Latin script. Can you elaborate on what you mean by “English-friendly”? | null | null | 41,789,917 | 41,787,647 | null | [
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41,789,998 | comment | null | 2024-10-09T16:50:25 | null | null | null | null | 41,788,111 | 41,786,101 | null | null | true | null |
41,789,999 | comment | explain | 2024-10-09T16:50:30 | null | >Elon Musk has taken over another popular X handle<p>> The @America handle was once dormant. But on Saturday, as Musk appeared at a Trump rally in Pennsylvania, the account started tweeting pro-Trump/anti-Harris statements. | null | null | 41,789,881 | 41,789,881 | null | null | null | null |
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