MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rmason | 2025-11-30 01:48:11+00:00
What about Replit? Two guys in a coffee shop in Jordan, you cannot be much further from Silicon Valley. They got turned down four times from YC and decided never to try again. But pg fell in love with the startup and urged him to try again. Then during the interview one of them got into a heated argument with Michael Siebel and thought for sure he had failed.

Yet he got in without a wealthy family and an American Ivy League degree. There are lots of other examples, I can even think of a one in Michigan.
by tmoertel | 2025-11-30 01:49:38+00:00
I think author's use of the word "the" is misleading:

> You don’t need every job to choose you. You just need the one that’s the right fit. [emphasis mine]

You don't need the job that's the right fit. There's more than one. You need any job that fits. (Or that you can make fit you.)

So, if you want to size up the search, let p be the probability that a typical job you apply for will (1) result in you being hired and (2) be a job that fits you. Then the expected number of jobs you must apply to before getting hired to a job that fits you is 1/p. [1]

Say you think p = 5%. Then, on average, you'll need to apply to 20 jobs to land one that fits you.

How many jobs do you need to apply to have a 90% chance of landing one that fits you? If q is the wanted probablity of overall success, then the number of jobs k you must apply to is given by k = log(1 − q) / log(1 − p). So, in this example, k = log(1 − 0.9) / log(1 − 0.05) ≈ 45 applications.

That's a lot of rejections and ill-fitting jobs before landing one that sticks. Which is why it's useful to be persistent and flexible. Being able to make a job fit can dramatically reduce your search.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_binomial_distribution
by userulluipeste | 2025-11-30 01:49:53+00:00
Becoming an entrepreneur happens most of the times merely for advancing one's personal financial success. But, another side of it, which doesn't usually get attention, is that you become a beneficial factor for the society at large, because you are assumed to be doing something good and appreciated by others to earn that money. (Otherwise, earning money without being willingly paid, would make you just a criminal). You are right, this "compounds through your life and even more through generations". Especially through generations. This is how the prosperous societies got here - people doing all sorts of things that led to prosperity. If you don't not live in a society like that, then your business should be building a society first. Put your brick in the wall.

It also means that, unless the state of the environment you're in has some "force majeure" as a cause, then the people that were before you haven't done that of a good job building one either. That's not an individual failure, that's generations of failure, don't you think?

And lastly, if the environment you described is the one you're residing in, that means you're far removed from that of the entrepreneur's (you're casting judgement on) and from his/her stance. How can that lead to a caracter judgement worth anything?
by Todd | 2025-11-30 01:51:15+00:00
An alternative is graduated capital gains rates based on total assets owned (ideally skewed higher, like 10, 50, 100MM, …). Exemptions like QSBS could still be applied. This would allow shareholder control issues to remain unaffected, which wealth taxes never seem to address.

Not sure how to apply it on the corporate side. There are also multi entity workarounds to consider.

Just an idea.
by rayiner | 2025-11-30 01:52:30+00:00
> Both slavery and territorial expansion by force were wealth builders.

It’s mathematically impossible for American settlers as a group to have become wealthy by expropriating wealth from Indians. Individual Indians had almost nothing—they were hunter gatherers with a small number of subsistence farmers. Nor did they have much wealth in the aggregate—their population was quite small even pre-contact. The America population in the first census was almost 4 million, which is higher than most estimates of even the pre-contact north america population. A more populous society can’t become rich by expropriating wealth from a poor, less populous society. That’s just math.

What actually happened is that the American settlers built a civilization that utilized the resources of the continent vastly more productively than the Indians had. That’s entirely different.
by fragmede | 2025-11-30 01:53:12+00:00
> at some level are people allowed to just not engage in stuff like this

That level is of a private citizen, casually going to the corner store to buy a KitKat. If you're giving thousands of dollars to Nestle to hold a conference about their farming practices, I think you might consider their farming practices before giving them a pile of money to hold that conference, even if they are delicious.
by NewJazz | 2025-11-30 01:53:40+00:00
Eventually those loans will need to be repaid and the money will need to come from realizing capital gains.

Uh, yes. But they can be repaid with refinanced loans based on the same assets... So no guarantee that the gains will be realized. And in the possibly long interim between loan issuance and maturity, the owner accesses liquidity via the asset and pays nothing in taxes.

Which all raises the issue of being taxed twice on the same money. Taxes once when you take the loan against it, and taxed again when you realize the profit to pay the loan.

To clarify, I advocate that the loan issuance be a taxable event, where the cost basis of the shares are adjusted to the current price of the asset. So there would be no double taxation.
by StillBored | 2025-11-30 01:53:45+00:00
Ok, so instead of a couple UAC style prompts for screen readers, macro recording, desktop sharing, etc, and some tweaks to GDK, we got what? An entire new backend GDK windowing system, and a pile of broken applications? And its been decades?

And its not like actual flaws people found couldn't be fixed.

There is a word for this.
by hibikir | 2025-11-30 01:54:31+00:00
It was before this: It was never a huge community, but from very early on it was split thanks to some rather unfriendly, competitive personalities and very different goals. You didn't just use scala: you either ran scala with a Twitter stack, or a typesafe(now lightbend) stack, or a scalaz stack, or a cats stack, or a zip stack. And a lot of the people developing each stack didn't like each other. I've gotten to work with core contributors of multiple of those, and knowing that I wasn't a devotee of any stack led to hearing way to much complaining in pairing sessions about how The Others (TM) were slowing down the adoption of the language.

A language that is really popular can manage having 5 ways to do things, but a small community is just going to lose steam. And the fact is, all the ways work just fine in a vacuum, but you can't just get really mature tooling when everything is just so split.
by vmh1928 | 2025-11-30 01:55:06+00:00
Reminds me of the Twilight Zone episode where the aliens visit Earth and someone on Earth snags a book from them with the title "To Serve Man." The rest of the book is written in the alien language. Everyone is excited because they think it means "we are here to serve you to make your lives better." At the end of the episode someone figures out the book is a recipe book about how to cook humans. If you look around the table and don't know who the mark is it's probably you.
by dangus | 2025-11-30 01:55:08+00:00
The reason we are disagreeing so much is that we can’t agree on what defines a political statement.

Take your view on Tesla as an analogy to this:

I don’t like Teslas and I don’t like Elon but they sell so many vehicles per year that it’s a statistical impossibility for all their owners to automatically be Nazi sympathizers. The Model Y sells almost as many units as the RAV4. A whole lot of Tesla owners don’t even know who Elon Musk is. Most people are not connected to any of this stupid Twitter drama.

Framework hasn’t engaged with this guy in any way that goes beyond technology. They sponsor the rails foundation (not the distro) and maybe gave the dude a dev machine.

You call this an open political statement, but I would say it’s the opposite. And now the Framework CEO is being cornered to make a political statement when he never intended to make one in the first place.

It’s not like Framework donated to “The DHH Political Foundation for Racism.”
by dangus | 2025-11-30 01:55:37+00:00
And when did Framework do anything like that in relation to this issue?

They just sponsor the Rails Foundation.

GitHub sponsors them too, are you gonna boycott them until they apologize?

How many people on this forum truly believed that supporting GNU while Richard Stallman was a part of it was making an endorsement of his unsavory actions?

This toxic Twitter drama stuff involving everything being a black or white issue with no nuance is so off-putting. Everything is polarized where you’re either on one side or the other and you have to take sides.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-11-30 01:56:08+00:00
> My recommendation would be to encourage the tutor to ask the student how they use the LLM and to school them in effective use strategies

This reminds me of folks teaching their kids Java ten years ago.

You’re teaching a tool. Versus general tool use.

> Those calculators are largely still what you get nowadays too and I suspect that LLMs will settle into a similar role

If correct, the child will be competent in the new world. If not, they will have wasted time developing general intelligence.

This doesn’t strike me as a good strategy for anything other than time-consuming babysitting.
by Telemakhos | 2025-11-30 01:56:12+00:00
This is the right book for a beginner on the bronze age, because it tells you the importance of tin and who was supplying it (and horses) to the large and well-known cities like Mesopotamia. There are a lot of comments today about, "wow, the ancients were more advanced than I thought," but this book will have you understand that steppe pastoralists were much more advanced than you thought.
by ethmarks | 2025-11-30 01:58:15+00:00
Well, as a college student planning to start a CS program, I can tell you that it actually sounds fine to me.

And I think that teachers can adapt. A few weeks ago, my English professor assigned us an essay where we had to ask ChatGPT a question and analyze its response and check its sources. I could imagine something similar in a programming course. "Ask ChatGPT to write code to this spec, then iterate on its output and fix its errors" would teach students some of the skills to use LLMs for coding.
by bilekas | 2025-11-30 01:59:40+00:00
I sometimes have the same recurring dream that the internet was unmonetizable by advertisements. It's a semi lucid one where it's used for it's initial purpose just in a lot more forms. Before, the cost of operating a website was a badge of honor to say "I did that", now its a numbers game. Get as many people in as possible solely to sell them advertisements.

As a business they would be negligent on their duty to shareholders (coming IPO) not to go down this advert route, and I will say it now, it will be FAR more profitable than paying customers.
by dannyfritz07 | 2025-11-30 02:01:04+00:00
I've been messing with sandboxing using "bwrap" for random itch.io games I download to play and it isn't trivial to get it working with least privileges. I have so far been unable to get "Microlandia" to run, but other Unity games are running just fine under "bwrap". I am excited to see more Landlock tools emerge that make this task easier.

- https://github.com/containers/bubblewrap

- https://codeberg.org/dannyfritz/dotfiles/src/commit/38343008...

- https://explodi.itch.io/microlandia
by hansvm | 2025-11-30 02:01:10+00:00
Suppose the graph admits only 4+ colorings, but when attempting a 3-coloring it's possible for only one edge to be misaligned. Then (A) you need O(n_edges) calls to the oracle to gain any confidence about the 3-colorability of a 3-colorable graph (else you might be easily duped by the one misaligned edge), and (B) in so doing, you learn almost all of the structure of the graph (since you have way more random calls than there are edges).

Restating, not only is the ZK algorithm slow, but by the time you have confidence in the ZK proof you also have additional knowledge about the structure whose properties you're proving.
Show HN: Cryptopp-modern – maintained Crypto++ fork with BLAKE3, Argon2, CMake
by CoraleDev | 2025-11-30 02:02:21+00:00
I’ve used Crypto++ for a long time, but I wanted newer algorithms and a more regular release cycle. To solve that, I started maintaining cryptopp-modern, a fork based on Crypto++ 8.9.0.

The aim isn’t to redesign Crypto++, but to offer a mostly drop-in option for existing users with a few modern additions.

Highlights

Based on Crypto++ 8.9.0, same CryptoPP namespace and overall API style

Adds BLAKE3 and Argon2 (RFC 9106) on top of the existing primitives

Modernised CMake build (presets, find_package, exported targets) plus updated GNUmakefile

CI across multiple platforms

Documentation site with API reference, guides, examples, and migration notes

Most Crypto++ 8.9.0 code should compile and run with little or no change. The main differences are version macros and the build system, which are documented.

The target audience is people who are already comfortable with Crypto++ but want BLAKE3/Argon2 and a more active release cadence.

Repo: https://github.com/cryptopp-modern/cryptopp-modern

Docs: https://cryptopp-modern.com/

I’d really appreciate feedback from:

People running Crypto++ in production: is this useful, and what would make migration easier?

People with strong views on C++ crypto library design, misuse resistance, and versioning: what would you change while this is still young?
by thegrim33 | 2025-11-30 02:03:04+00:00
"[..] deploying a solar array with photovoltaic cells – something essentially equivalent to what I have on the roof of my house here in Ireland, just in space. It works, but it isn't somehow magically better than installing solar panels on the ground – you don't lose that much power through the atmosphere"

As an armchair layman, this claim intuitively doesn't feel very correct.

Of course AI is far from a trustworthy source, but just using it here to get a rough idea of what it thinks about the issue:

"Ground sites average only a few kWh/m²/day compared to ~32.7 kWh/m²/day of continuous, top-of-atmosphere sunlight." .. "continuous exposure (depending on orbit), no weather, and the ability to use high-efficiency cells — all make space solar far denser in delivered energy per m² of panel."
by givemeethekeys | 2025-11-30 02:03:33+00:00
“I’ve never believed in the term work-life balance,” says Morris, who oversees the experience of over 2.1 million employees. “I call it work-life integration. There are times that your life requires a lot more, and there are times that your work requires a lot more. … I don’t think that’s a bad thing.”

My interpretation: The "Chief People Officer" at Walmart doesn't want to be responsible for making sure that the people who work at Walmart have a good work life balance.

Does anyone know if Walmart pays more than its competitors?
by mimir | 2025-11-30 02:03:42+00:00
100%, This is the uncomfortable fact of taxes in the US right now. If you are a high earning W2 worker, you are likely paying close to if not above 50% income tax rate. Pretty much on par with all the "high tax" European socialist countries you always hear people complaining about. There is basically no good way to lower this w2 tax burden.

I'm generally a "liberal" and support fair taxation and goverment spending, but the current level, based on the worldwide tax rates I've found, doesn't have much room to grow, especially when it does seem like goverment services are actually supbpar for many, and these taxes don't support some sort of universal health care/cheap university like they do in many European countries. I truly believe that goverment can and should be a force for good in people's lives, but I don't think that means we should give it a blank check. It does feel delulu that so many democrats seems to blindly support raising taxes on the "rich". I do think a wealth tax is very much the wrong approach.

It's pretty frustrating to when folks talk about taxing the rich, since it seems like the policies that get passed often just add even more burden onto the "working" rich vs the capital based rich. Even the long terms capital gains rate is close to 30+% in high tax states + top bracket, but there is way more room for deductions.
by wkat4242 | 2025-11-30 02:04:39+00:00
That's one capability that was lost with the space shuttle. There's nothing remaining nor planned that can bring something that size back from LEO.

I feel like materials science could learn a lot more about radiation embrittlement and high energy micro impacts.

The space shuttle is often regarded as a huge mistake and in many ways (reusability especially, it was more like rebuildability :) ) it was, but it was still hell of a machine.
by strontian | 2025-11-30 02:04:46+00:00
Basically a two step process: 1. Keep humidity at 40% year round, using dehumidifiers. This stops their biology and makes them go dormant quickly. Their eggs and protonymphs will die out after a year or so. 2. Remove existing allergens from your home. In short: allergen covers around your bed, get rid of old fabric stuff(curtains, rugs, carpet). Launder everything you can on the highest heat possible.
by strontian | 2025-11-30 02:04:57+00:00
Basically a two step process: 1. Keep humidity at 40% year round, using dehumidifiers. This stops their biology and makes them go dormant quickly. Their eggs and protonymphs will die out after a year or so. 2. Remove existing allergens from your home. In short: allergen covers around your bed, get rid of old fabric stuff(curtains, rugs, carpet). Launder everything you can on the highest heat possible.
by YZF | 2025-11-30 02:05:05+00:00
We need to disconnect the question of bad managers from the structural issues though. I try to be a good manager but I still have people jump ship for better comp and where we won't match it. I still need to deal with an incentive structure that doesn't match what I am trying to do with my team.

This same structure is also what helps bad managers. Who is going to get promoted to a director role? The person who stands up for their team and argues with the VP or the person who toes the line? The things that you think are near-miracles are not visible and the people that play politics will make their stuff look more valuable to the company.

/rant I guess ;)
by tapoxi | 2025-11-30 02:07:08+00:00
VKD3D-Proton gained FSR4 support and will ship in a future release of Proton, but RDNA4 requires a newer kernel.

SteamOS release notes are public at https://www.steamdeck.com/en/news, it still uses a 6.11 kernel from September 2024.
by woodruffw | 2025-11-30 02:07:15+00:00
I think it's a reasonable question. The answer is that not everything does indeed run in a VM or a container: lots of things (notably on developer machines) run directly in a host user context, where they have access to all kinds of global state that they don't really need (developer credentials, browser state, etc.).

But also: even within a container (which isn't itself a sandbox) or a VM, you still have concentric circles of trust and/or privilege. If you're installing arbitrary dependencies from the Internet, for example, you probably want a basic initial defense of preventing those dependencies from exfiltrating your secrets at build time.
by AstralStorm | 2025-11-30 02:09:42+00:00
It will be challenged in the Tribunal if it passes, and will lose as it is incompatible with baseline EU laws.

Specifically, the charter: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/treaty/char_2012/oj/eng

Article 8 point 2. They're missing the provisions of data retrieval. If available, that would immediately take down the whole monitoring system as a full message history request would have to be available since they don't know which data is private or personally identifying.

Additionally, this falls under GDPR legitimate concern category so must be possible to reject by the user. Otherwise it's an involuntary measure making the law contradictory.

With this in mind, it's toothless if corrected.
by nis0s | 2025-11-30 02:09:57+00:00
> In 2015, I had a lot of interaction with a startup incubator you know well, and ended up sitting in the discussions and planning around banning and erasing a young programmer we considered a threat to our financial interests, due to his concerns about authoritarianism in technology. In retrospect, he was harmless, but an example had to be made. The decision was made to ban him here, try to get him fired though I don't know if we succeeded, and attack him with sockpuppets on Reddit, and it seems to have worked because you don't hear his name much.

You should set this right while you still can. God or the afterlife isn’t a reason to try and be less shit. The reason is that our shit accumulates and makes a hellish cesspool on Earth if we don’t. Good luck.
by fragmede | 2025-11-30 02:10:38+00:00
> It provides a simple, developer-friendly way to add defense-in-depth to applications.

Defense in depth. Lock your valuables inside a safe, inside of your locked house. Why lock them in a safe when your house is already locked? Because if someone breaks into your house, you want additional defense "just in case". So just in case I wrote some shitty code and my server got hacked, lock the valuables in a safe anyway so that thief can't steal the expensive silverware (prod credentials).
by skybrian | 2025-11-30 02:11:12+00:00
Looks like it's over 50% for regular income, but for long-term capital gains the top rate seems to be about 37%:

20% federal 3.8% net investment income tax 13.3% California

I do what I can to lower my tax bill, but in the end I take a philosophical attitude: if I'm paying more taxes, that's a sign I'm making more money.
by varenc | 2025-11-30 02:11:47+00:00
My personal theory: Youtube ads exist as just a punishment to beat you into paying for premium. As in, while the ads make some money, their primary purpose is to motivate you to pay. And that a subscriber generates meaningful more revenue than the ads sales of a non-subscriber.

It seems plausible to me, since I get so many low quality poorly targeted ads on repeat. I can't imagine those ads are generating much revenue, but it makes sense if their primary purpose is just to beat me into paying for a subscription.
by carsonwagner | 2025-11-30 02:12:05+00:00
Exactly correct. As a YouTuber, all it takes is one YouTube Short to go viral for me, and I'll have hundreds of thousands of subscribers overnight. I haven't had anything go seriously viral, but my biggest Shorts have resulted in huge subscriber jumps. The best advice I ever received was to consistently post for years on end. If you have high-quality content, one of those Shorts is almost certain to eventually hit the big leagues.

When it does, your life will change in an instant.
by adgjlsfhk1 | 2025-11-30 02:13:14+00:00
The only sentence in the whole "paper" about cooling is

> Cooling would be achieved through a thermal system of heat pipes and radiators while operating at nominal temperatures

Which is kind of similar to writing a paper about building a bridge over the Pacific and saying "The bridge would be strong enough by being built out of steel". Like you can say it, but that doesn't magically make it true.
by reneberlin | 2025-11-30 02:13:34+00:00
Get a dog ASAP after recovering and don't look back. Mark my words and send the first pics with the puppy after you recovered elegantly.

Of course you will make it, and if not, you wont care anyway. You'll make it. I'll wait for the pics.

PS: But take that existential eye-opener serious and use it (you might later forget and drift from that in everyday-default-mode). You could print and frame this post to make it unforgetable.