MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by simoncion | 2025-08-21 23:55:43+00:00
> is not comparable to guaranteed wage income...

Funnily enough, wage income for nearly all USians is not guaranteed. For most of us, you have to keep hitting performance targets to earn subsequent paychecks. Sometimes (as many of us in the tech sector, and so, so many in the movie and video games sector know) you get that income taken away from you for no real reason at all.

> ...in a single year.

(To keep things simple in the following, I'm going to assume that Starbucks' fiscal years line up with calendar years, even though I'm certain that they do not.)

Sure, that objection of yours I sort of agree with. He gets a ten million signing bonus [0] and ~30 million in stock just for signing up, with ~45 million in additional stock gated behind continued job performance. The guy only starts getting 10.8 million per year (through the LTIP) in FY2025, with an equity bonus of 13.8 million and a cash bonus with target value of 3.6 million and maximum-planned value of 7.2 million.

Having said that, it does look like the annual cash bonus starts immediately:

> Your annual cash bonus for FY2024 will be pro-rated based on your Start Date and, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the foregoing, will be calculated by multiplying (i) the annual cash bonus due based on actual performance for FY2024 by (ii) a fraction, (A) the numerator of which is the number of calendar days from the Start Date through September 30, 2024, and (B) the denominator of which is 366.

Another thing that's very important to look into: How often do these CEOs fail to meet their cash bonus targets? Their stock bonus targets? When I was working a bonus-eligible job, the only people who didn't meet their cash bonus target were folks who were going to be fired soon. (Noone I knew was eligible for bonuses delivered via RSUs.)

If we assume that he's not eligible for stock bonus in 2024, and we assume that his late start only divides his 2024 earnings by four, then (if I haven't fucked up my math) it looks like his Q4 2024 earnings were 41.3 million dollars. That's a little less than half what that article reported, but

a) That's still a lot of money... much, much, much more than most USians will ever make in their life, for four months work.

b) Because of my fiscal year manipulation, It's entirely possible that I'm not counting some money that was actually paid out in calendar year 2024, that would bring the actual payout much closer to the value stated in the article.

[0] I'm counting 100% of that signing bonus as paid up front because the only way he loses any of it is if he gets fired With Cause before he hits the six-month mark. If he got disabled on day #2 of his job and had to quit, he'd get 100% of the signing bonus.
by drewbug01 | 2025-08-21 23:56:31+00:00
The reason for the flag is always the same: because they don’t want to talk about it here.

The real question is: why don’t people want to talk about it? I’ve found it typically falls into three camps:

One group flags these kinds of stories because they’re exhausted, and can’t stomach any more. I feel bad for this group, and I understand the impulse.

Another group flags because suppressing information about what the administration is up to aligns with their personal ideology. This is the more dangerous group, and I’m always sad to see people coming out in support of awful stuff like this.

The last group flags it because it annoys them, and they don’t want to engage with it. It makes them uncomfortable and they feel it doesn’t impact them. They point to the HN guidelines and say it’s not relevant. It is, they’re just lucky enough to have not been affected personally by anything yet.

I pity the last group, honestly.
by aspenmayer | 2025-08-21 23:56:55+00:00
> One time I somehow set the permissions of the sudo executable to lower than they needed to be (0600?). Fixing that was fun :)

I know very little, admittedly, but without telling us how, it’s just a funny anecdote.

I would try to switch user to root and su instead of sudo, but I’m not sure if that would actually work. Would it? Probably not on rootless installs, but I don’t know how many of those systems most folks are able to break in the manner described above.
by cousin_it | 2025-08-21 23:57:12+00:00
I wonder if there's a more intuitive way to define an elliptical arc given 2 endpoints. Dimension analysis shows we need 3 parameters. The SVG spec uses rx/ry/rotation, plus a couple booleans, but maybe there's a better parameterization without booleans? For example, it could be two coordinates of a control point - if the endpoints are A and B and the control point is C, the ellipse would be tangent to AC and BC - and an additional positive number for squishing the ellipse closer or farther from C, with values above 1 making the arc bubble outward. So it would occupy a natural spot between quadratic Bezier (with 2 parameters = 1 control point) and cubic Bezier (4 parameters = 2 control points).
by snickerbockers | 2025-08-21 23:57:14+00:00
I still have yet to see it do anything useful. I've seen several very impressive "parlor tricks" which a decade ago i thought were impossible (image generation, text-parsing, arguably passing the turing-test) but I still haven't seen anybody use AI in a way that solves a real problem which doesn't already have an existing solution.

I will say that grok is a very useful research assistant for situations where you understand what you're looking at but you're at an impasse because you don't know what its name is and are therefore unable to look it up, but then it's just an incremental improvement over search-engines rather than a revolutionary new technology.
by bigyabai | 2025-08-21 23:58:22+00:00
The first-party App Store was the state-owned one all along:

https://www.macworld.com/article/230330/apple-in-china-why-t...

https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2024/12/26/apple-defends-re...

Apple's treatment of their users in censored or oppressed jurisdictions should make them demand sideloading.
by zhengkyl | 2025-08-21 23:58:30+00:00
I wrote a blog post about QR codes with an overview of image techniques like this and a bunch of links to different implementations if anyone would like to see more things like this.

https://kylezhe.ng/posts/crafting_qr_codes#image-techniques links directly to that section and skips the fluff about how QR codes work

I highly recommend checking out https://cgv.cs.nthu.edu.tw/projects/Recreational_Graphics/MQ... which uses word clouds with QR codes and looks crazy cool
by runarberg | 2025-08-21 23:58:54+00:00
> First off, the "cultural Marxism" theory is not about Jews, any more than actual Marxists blaming things on "greedy bankers" is about Jews.

I don’t follow. Cultural Marxism is an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory which has inspired terrorist attacks, see e.g. Anders Behring Breivik, or the Charlottesville Riots. Greedy bankers is not a conspiracy theory, but a simple observation of accumulation of wealth under capitalism. Terrorists targeting minorities very frequently use Cultural Marxism to justify their atrocities. “Greedy bankers” are used during protests, or political violence against individuals or institutions at worst. There is a fundamental difference here, if you fail to spot the difference, I don‘t know what to tell you, and honestly I fear you might be operating under some serious misinformation about the spread of anti-Semitism among the far-right.

As for Pallywood, it is a conspiracy theory which states that many of the atrocities done by the IDF in Gaza are staged by the Palestinian victims of the Gaza Genocide. There have been numerous allegations about widespread staging operations, but so far there is zero proof of any of these allegations. It is safe to say that the people who believe in this conspiracy theory do so because of racist believes about Palestinians, but not because they have been convinced by evidence. And just like Cultural Marxism, the Pallywood conspiracy theory has been used to justify serious attacks and deaths of many people, but unlike Cultural Marxism, the perpetrator of these attacks are almost exclusively confined to the IDF.

By the way Shaun Maguire has 5 tweets where he uses the term directly (all from 2023) but he uses the term indirectly a lot. And just like Cultural Marxism citing the conspiracy theory—even if you don‘t name it directly—is still hate speech. E.g. when the White Nationalists at the Charlottesville riots were chanting “Jews will not replace us!” they were citing the White Replacement conspiracy theory (as well as Cultural Marxism) and they were doing hate speech, which directly lead to the murder of Heather Heyer.

And to hammer the point home (and to bring the conversation back to the topic at hand), I seriously doubt the Zed team would have accepted VC funding from an investor affiliated with an open supporter of Anders Behring Breivik or the Charlottesville rioters.
by FridayoLeary | 2025-08-21 23:58:56+00:00
It's the unfairness which bothers people.

>Even if you give $500 to every citizen, that does not mean affordability will increase because inflation can increase proportionally. This is because even with increased money, each citizen is buying goods amongst the same quantity of goods as before.

I know. I thought those covid payments proved it. Everyone got a temporary financial boost, which was great, but they ended up paying for it threefold with rising inflation. As far as i can tell the only people that did really well from it were the banks. The whole policy was well intentioned and completely misguided.
by jkaplowitz | 2025-08-21 23:59:01+00:00
Microsoft’s statement wasn’t about Canada specifically - indeed, it was to French politicians about France specifically, but in a way that the Canadian author of the post was (quite correctly) able to generalize to Canada for the benefit of his Canadian audience.

Canada may very well have been compromised in the way you mean, but this statement by Microsoft is no more and no less evidence of that than of other countries being compromised in that way.
by tracker1 | 2025-08-21 23:59:51+00:00
My thought is closer to the developer user who would want to have their codebase as part of the queries along with heavy use all day long... which is closer to my point that many users are less likely to spend hundreds a month, at least with the current level of results people get.

That said, you could be right, considering Claude max's price is $100/mo... but I'm not sure where that is in terms of typical, or top 5% usage and the monthly allowance/usage.
by aspenmayer | 2025-08-22 00:00:16+00:00
First party is just state-owned with extra steps.

> Apple's treatment of their users in censored or oppressed jurisdictions should make them demand sideloading.

Sure, but once third party state-owned app stores are mandated, the whole handset is pre-owned. I don’t see how the slippery slope of allowing sideloading doesn’t slide to become a case of mandated state-owned pre-installs, because the only reason any state would want to own and operate an app store is because they want the power of first party app stores, and of their foreign jurisdictions, that they don’t currently have.

Most states don’t want you to sideload any more than you already do, because it doesn’t legibly generate GDP.

When every view is warped by the lens of “number go up” the myopia of states comes into focus. It becomes clear why folks cut their nose off to spite their face, because they can’t see past the tip of their nose.

(I don’t mean you, but I don’t know that sideloading will save us. I still think it’s better for many consumers, but I would hesitate to say most.)
by wkat4242 | 2025-08-22 00:01:37+00:00
I'm honestly thinking of moving to Epic. I'm a hobbyist and started with Unity because I thought it was easier. But all this stuff makes me reconsider.

Also it's super annoying they have several different rendering pipelines, they all have different ways of doing something and they haven't chosen one to rule them all, that will be the one going forward. I hate this ambiguity.

I think it makes more sense now to learn epic instead of diving into whatever pipeline is unity's current baby knowing it'll probably change again.
by red369 | 2025-08-22 00:01:52+00:00
Yup - I think that's fair. It is completely a value judgement. But without ill will, and not particularly heartfelt.

Regarding your point about things that are actually work in disguise, I basically look at browsing web pages as productive work these days compared to alternatives. There are only so many people who can be moderators working for TikTok, or researching endless-scroll or content recommendation algorithms. :)

But even taking what people are doing at face-value, perhaps TikTok/Reels/Shorts is actually important for their wellbeing. I think it is more likely harmful, but I'm guessing.

I think it would be better if people spent less time looking at phone screens (no matter how big), but as long as it's their choice, people should do what they want to do! I have a vague concern that people might be increasingly doing something that they want to do in the short term, but not in the long term, but probably that's always been the way.
by ineedasername | 2025-08-22 00:02:08+00:00
>did you actually read the post?

Yes.

>but it's to deprioritize spending cycles debugging and/or coaching a contributor on code they don't

This is very much in line with my comment about doing it to filter and dismiss. The author didn't say "So I can reach out and see if their clear eagerness to contribute extends to learning to code in more detail".
by ahartmetz | 2025-08-22 00:02:19+00:00
Wasn't it Fraktur in printed materials? I studied physics in the early 2000s and we still learned the convention, but rarely read anything that used it. To me, the incongruity of using an archaic font in a fast-moving science like physics was fun. Probably convenient at the time (early 1900s) because printers routinely had Latin and Fraktur fonts available. Germany was the country of physics around 1900, even the journals were in German! Some of them still have German names to this day (even more so in chemistry), but the contents are all in English.

I can kind of read Fraktur - my motivation was that we had an old (1930s or so) crafts book at home that I wanted to read. I cannot read Kurrent or Sütterlin. Not only do I not know the letters, they all look so damn similar! I would've noticed if these vectors or matrices had been printed in Sütterlin, because I'd have had much more trouble reading them.
by autoexec | 2025-08-22 00:03:10+00:00
> Though as you said, the stores do not want the liability of guards taking action so they are left with locking everything behind glass and deploying privacy invading surveillance.

Stores have plenty of incentives to engage in privacy invading surveillance even ignoring shoplifting as a factor. If a store saw zero shoplifting they'd still deploy privacy invading surveillance because it's profitable for them to do it right now and it will only be increasingly profitable for them to do it in the near future.
by wkat4242 | 2025-08-22 00:04:04+00:00
You always have a choice. These people aren't forced to work there. And they also have the ability to go whistleblower and leak internal docs that instruct them to abuse customers. Just as an example.

I know I would. If someone gives you a choice A or B that both screw you over, there's always an option Z somewhere. It might be so outrageous they don't expect it but it's there.

However usually it isn't necessary. I've been put in situations where I had to do something unethical. I've refused. And every time that choice was respected. Only if I'd have been punished for it would I have considered more severe options like the whistle option.

But really if you take a hard stand and have good reasons, reality tends to bend a bit further than I expected.

And yes I know what these jobs are like. I have worked in that industry a long time. I've seen both very good and very terrible employers.

And yeah customers can also be little shits but I've learned to disconnect from that very quickly. It's easier when they're on the other side of the phone. It doesn't help them anyway. And sometimes (especially if they're not just a dick but they have a genuine reason to be angry) there's ways to flip them around, in which case that energy might be harnessed and they can become your strongest ally. Another thing I've seen that I didn't expect.
by mattashii | 2025-08-22 00:04:19+00:00
> The clearest difference is that in rust these things are explicit rather than implicit. To do this in rust you'd have to use 'static, etc.

You could use 'static, or you can move (partial) ownership of an object into itself with Rc/Arc and locking, causing the underlying counter to never return to 0. It's still very possible to accidentally hold on to a forest.
by m463 | 2025-08-22 00:04:57+00:00
I think the railcar equivalent will eventually become reality (if it isn't already)

Lots of people tool around in giant class-a motorhomes. They are 40 or 45 feet long. They are basically small apartments with double-door fridges, dishwasher, washer/dryer, starlink, etc

if they add the self-driving stuff, it will make them extra popular.

I think mobileye might have something.
by rTX5CMRXIfFG | 2025-08-22 00:04:58+00:00
I don’t think that’s the point. Yes, Siri is crap, but Apple is already working on integrating LLMs at the OS level and those are shipping soon. It’s a quick fix to catch up in the AI game, but considering their track record, they’re likely to eventually retire third party partnerships and vertically integrate with their own models in the future. The incentive is there—doing so will only boost their stock price.
by ethanwillis | 2025-08-22 00:05:35+00:00
Somehow you completely missed the point that it's not even about being law abiding. It's about the redefinition of what "law abiding" is without any consideration at all about whether that redefinition is "right, good, or justifiable."

Just because there isn't more than 1000 Euros cash in people's hands is simply an indictment of the Euro as a currency and the culture around it.
by sn9 | 2025-08-22 00:05:51+00:00
I think people underrate the utility of a premade deck when constructed well and used appropriately.

A use case I've found is if you can find a deck that corresponds to a book you're reading.

I found a deck for the Rust book and it's structured such that you can see cards about things in the order you read about them. You simply read the book as usual, learning from your reading and entering code into a terminal as instructed, and then test you understanding with the cards.

When you end up reviewing older cards, you end up getting the benefits of putting them in long term memory but you also get the opportunity to make more connections as you revisit concepts which has its own benefits for deepening understanding.

I've found this makes reading the book 10x more effective. I get so much more out of it.

This all depends on having a source from which you're learning and the deck is just for testing understanding.

But yes anytime you're using Anki to learn/understand instead of to remember, you're likely misusing it. Anki is a tool for memory.
by zamadatix | 2025-08-22 00:06:06+00:00
That's not very different than web browsers, but usually security concerned people just disable scripting functionality and such in their viewer (browser, pdf reader, rtf viewer, etc) instead of focusing on the file extension it comes in.

I think pdf.js even defaults to not running scripts in PDFs by default (would need to double check), if you want to view it in the browser's sandbox. Of course there's still always text rendering based security attacks and such but, again, there's nothing unique to that vs a webpage in a browser.
by gwerbret | 2025-08-22 00:07:50+00:00
> There is a simple test the public can use for any scientific model: does it make accurate predictions, or not? You don't need to understand how a model works to test that.

It's quite obvious from your position on this matter that you're not a practicing scientist, so it's very unfortunate that your position is so assertive, as it's mostly wrong.

To understand the predictions, as it were, you do have to understand the experiments; if you don't, you have no way of knowing if the predictions actually match the outcomes. Most publications involve some form of hypothesis-prediction-experiment-result profile, and it is the training and expertise (and corroboration by other experiments, and time) that help determine which of those papers establish new science, and which ones go out with last week's trash. The findings in these areas are seldom accessible until the field is very advanced and/or in practical use, as with the example of GPS you gave elsewhere.

> The biggest problem I see with "establishment" science today is that it doesn't work this way. There is no mechanism for having an independent record that the public can access of predictions vs. reality.

There is; it's called a textbook.
by timeattack | 2025-08-22 00:07:53+00:00
Now, this painter works for your house exclusively every day 40 to 60 hours each week total, 2-5 years, and because of their work you sell house for 1,000x of the original price. You now go to live luxury life without need to ever work again, while painter continue their meager life painting another house 8 hours every day.
by alfalfasprout | 2025-08-22 00:09:11+00:00
Oh please no...

The reality is, ecosystems evolve. First, we had mypy. Then more type checkers came out: pyre, pyright, etc. Then basedpyright. The era of rust arrived and now we have `ty` and `pyrefly` being worked on heavily.

On the linter side we saw flake8, black, and then ruff.

Decoupling makes adapting to evolution much easier. As long as both continue to offer LSP integrations it allows engineers to pick and chose what's best.
by shkkmo | 2025-08-22 00:11:53+00:00
The undelying point is mentioned early in the article:

> The traditional solution to blocking nuisance crawlers is to use a combination of rate limiting and CAPTCHAs. The CAPTCHA forces vistors to solve a problem designed to be very difficult for computers but trivial for humans. This isn’t perfect of course, we can debate the accessibility tradeoffs and weaknesses, but conceptually the idea makes some sense.

> Anubis – confusingly – inverts this idea. It insists visitors solve a problem trivial for computers, but impossible for humans.

Fundementally, the idea that PoW is a good way to tell humans from bots just doesn't work.

Captchas, rate limiting, authentication, etc are all part of the solution.

The more bespoke a captcha solution is, the less likely that bots, especially the kind of low effort bots that ignore rate limits and hammer sites, will have the ability to break it.

Arguably, anubis has a much better harm-vs-protection ratio at much lower difficulty setting where it functions less as a PoE system and more as an obscure way to block lowe effort bots. Of course, the more it gets adopted, the less well this will work.
by tracker1 | 2025-08-22 00:12:12+00:00
Monthly active users:

From DemandSage:

Facebook - 12 billion!? TikTok - 1.59 billion X - 611 million Bsky - 38 million

That's according to DemandSage ... I'm not sure I can trust the numbers, FB jumped up from around 3b last year, which again I don't trust. 12b is more than the global population, so it's got to be all bots. And even the 3b number is hard to believe (at close to half the global population), no idea how much of the population of earth has any internet access.

From Grok:

Facebook - 3.1 billion TikTok - 1.5-2 billion X - 650 million Bsky - 4.1 million

Looks like I'm definitely in a bubble... I tend to interact 1:1 as much on X as Facebook, which is mostly friends/family and limited discussions in groups. A lot of what I see on feeds is copy/pasta from tiktok though.

That said, I have a couple friends who are die hard on Telegram.