skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, you have to find another place to live.

You still have to pay taxes on property, as well as all the utilities you have a contract for.

You are also completely responsible for the safety of the house. If something happens to someone (inside the house to the squatters, or outside to a bypasser), you as the owner will be responsible.

The law protects squatters in their freedom to live where they see fit.

The law also theoretically protects the owners. The problem is that there are so many exceptions (children, ...) and requirements (negotiating with the squatters, ...) that what you get after months (some were apparently luckier) is usually a ruin and you are expected to be ecstatic about the fact that you got your house back.

The people who support this situation are despicable. Especially because I do not see them giving their house away and living under a bridge to live their dream of complete freedom.

When we will have meetings for the next election, I will ask the candidates about their opinion on squatters, and if they support them in any way, their home address so that can hop in, burn it to the ground and expect them to clap because freedom and equality.

EDIT to your EDIT: the problem is with houses people own as their primary ones (and come back from vacation to an occupied house), and the ones they use occasionally(week-ends, vacation, or rent).

If there is a building that is abandoned I do not see much problems outside of insalubrity and health/security risks.
5 years in china is equivalent to 15 years in the outside world. Things have definitely changed.
What if quantum theory is all BS? I feel like quantum mechanics is just like math, most scientists would believe that 1+1=2, but it's not, 1+1=2 is a theoretical rule we made, it's not real. We could have made a rule that said 1+1=3. These are just all fictional rules that we use as a tool. You can create any fictional theoretical system you want. And any of these theories can be complete. This doesnt matter. Because they hold no relation to reality. The nice thing about math, is that the theory was built up from reality into a theory. And i feel like quantum mechanics is the opposite. But that wil never work in my opinion. Theory first theories will never have any use for the real world and are for me, something that should be placed in the BS category.
That contradiction jumped out at me too. But note that these are utterances by two different people.

At any rate, a "theory" that can't make predictions is no theory at all, in my book. And a theory that encompasses quantum gravity should make predictions that are more precise than any previously made.

I'd expect such predictions to be untestable in practice, using contemporary methods - the theory as expounded should encompass any test that can currently be performed, without the need for predictions. Otherwise the theory is falsified at birth.
If it’s mostly long term capital gains, he’s in the 20% LTCG tax bracket.
Ask HN: Is it likely we will see efficient GPU sharing in VMs for gaming setups?
If I would like to use Linux or MacOS as a host machine but run Windows in a VM to play games on, currently it's not possible to share the GPU with the host through VMWare or VirtualBox.

You can dedicate you graphics card to the guest, but you need two GPUs for that (one for the host and one for the guest).

CPU passthrough seems to have no performance penalty and allows me to pass all of my cores through to the guest.

Will we see something like that for GPUs? What is the blocker for this sort of technology?
Chances are anyone other than Tim could have done just as well?

Did you see what happened to Apple after Steve Jobs got fired? Have you seen what has happened to great civilizations after the roll of monarchical dice or even a democratic election?

Have you ever met a bozo? They exist and there's more of them than there are sane people.
Are you serious? His PR person must be working some serious magic. Before 2020, Billy was known to be the most ruthless capitalist CEO of the late 20th century.
The top answer on SO that I found (https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/344463/91434) also uses this way of determining whether the device is being used - is that really the best way, or is there anything to actually query the device? E.g. my webcam has a light already that is only active when images are being captured(?), shouldn't it be possible to query that bit of information directly?
Our world is unfair only when the corruption interferes, that lets you receive more money than you are actually worth. But in case of foxconn workers and Cook, everything is fair. Foxconn workers are not chained to the benches, that simply don't know any other place where they can earn more. And I think Cook doesn't bribe anyone to achieve such payouts. If anything, he's doing a great job developing a business.
Recipe to have a nonsensical argument:

1. Take a Normal distribution

2. Take 2 pieces of data that are 3 standard deviation from mean, in opposite directions

3. Compare and contrast

4. Keep a straight face while making the argument, use plenty of Logical fallacies to defend your position against logic and reasoning.

5. Alternate between attacking and being the victim.

6. Lather, rinse, repeat
(author here)

Yup, good thing to note, thank you!

I've kinda assumed everyone knows about the named parameters some bindings offer, but that's probably not true. Will add a disclaimer.

In the previous articles, I do talk about how this is an upgrade from plain SQL, not from regular full-blown query builders / ORMs.
The CIA would!

https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/01/28/1016867/lunik-ci... ("Lunik: Inside the CIA’s audacious plot to steal a Soviet satellite")

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/collection/lunik-loan-space-... ("Lunik on Loan: A Space Age Spy Story")
That's the definition of capitalism.
It's a very interesting topic, but clearly the investors/board got what they wanted so they are giving him the payout. It was tied to a goal and they got that goal. So presumably the people paying are happy to pay him that amount.

Would he have reached/pushed for a particularly aggressive goal for less? Could someone else have achieved that goal for less?

No doubt there is some element of personal relationships between everyone in the compensation committee and the ceo.
Agree to disagree partially. Bitwig is a major DAW, runs on Ubuntu. Native Instruments interfaces have their drivers in the kernel. YMMV with other DAWs/interfaces though.
This is also celebrated in the media, or at least it was when the UK National Lottery was new.
If that’s frightening to you, I think you’re seeing the point.
Is gambling allowed at that age?
The shareholders decided that providing a share incentive for raising the share price higher than other company shares was a great way to align the interest between the shareholders (who own the company) and the CEO. It’s as simple as that.
The Open Source Feedback Gap: Freedom vs. Convenience
The markets are seriously inflated with cheap money. That can’t last forever, or even much longer. Best to cash in now and redeploy the cash to a diverse set of assets.
> Probably thousands?

Lmfao. Hacker News, never change.
The article seems to miss one (IMHO) important detail, are the 290,000 £ made out of 290,000 1 £ each "sales" or of 29 10,000 £ each?

Or what?

The collection is of 3,350 whales, according to this other source:

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/25/12-year-old-coder-made-6-fig...

the collection was sold in 9 hours for 255,000 US$, that makes a whale sold for around 76 US$ apiece?

EDIT:

Another question being:

>He then earned an additional 30 ether, worth over $95,000, from the resale market, since Ahmed earns a 2.5% royalty on each secondary sale.

30 ether (so we remain in this realm) corresponds to 2.5%, it should mean that secondary sales were worth 1,200 ethers.

What?
Slapdash (YC W19) is hiring engineers to build a Command Bar for work
I think it's laughable to assume that it was only Tim Cook who contributed to that. Indeed, where would we be if it wasn't for these handful of superhuman geniuses.
Honestly, this genre of venting about new grads has long been applied to new grads here in the West too. It's a long-standing complaint of the industry that academia isn't willing to serve as vocational training.
You want to go down that path? Do tech works in SF “need” $500k compensation packages?
That's not a prediction. That's a known fact that any purported theory must explain, to avoid being instantly falsified.

A prediction is a fact that is falsifiable in principle, but is not known to be true when the theory is expounded.
Out of interest, how much of that two trillion dollars do you think is directly attributable to the role of CEO?
en.wikipedia.org redirects to the mobile site, at least.
Lunik: Inside the CIA’s audacious plot to steal a Soviet satellite
It doesn't make any difference to the channel whether you watch the sponsored segment or not. If you want to archive some videos then sponsored segments are just a waste of space. I archive any useful information that I intend to use. For example, an instructional video showing how to repair my car.
I love TypeScript.

I wish there was a form of it that had a rust-like borrow checker and transpiled to C (so it could be compiled with GCC or similar)

Would make the eventual transition to WASM a little more interesting
> Mac/Win flailing walled in garden ecosystems, everyone wants to escape from

Isn't any given distro's package repository basically the same thing? I mean, sure you can go around it but the same is true of Google's Play Store, it's just a pain in the ass in both cases.
why are the default config / settings so lax ?
Does Tim Cook staying around for another year mean the stock is 0.03% higher than it would be otherwise? If so, this is a wise decision from the Apple board.
I have one. I keep it with AWS because it's fairly cheap, has autorenew, and I use their other services/tools so billing is already set up. I've seen some cheaper ones out there, but some of them seemed sketchy to me.
The NFT game is all about making your NFTs look unique and noteworthy, with as much fanfare and publicity as possible. That’s because the only way to make money from an NFT is by flipping it to someone else, who thinks they can flip it to someone else, and so on. Having a 12-year old kid get hundreds of thousands of dollars for blockchain receipts of whales is a great way to get headlines, but I'd be cautious about taking this story at face value.

The more noteworthy you can make your NFT, the more you can convince people that they might be able to make some profit by flipping it, meaning the more you can sell it for.

The high prices are a known gimmick for grabbing headlines. “Useless NFT sells for $100,000” is (or was) a sure-fire way to get your NFT into the headlines. The trick was that you could actually bootstrap these high prices yourself without actually spending the money. If you have $100,000 in ETH sitting around, you didn’t have much to lose by using it to “buy” an NFT from yourself in a transaction with yourself. You keep the money, you keep the NFT, but now you’ve generated a public record of the NFT having sold for $100,000, and now you can claim to hold an extremely valuable NFT. After all, the record is on the public blockchain! No one can deny it “sold” for that high price.

Maybe this kid actually lucked into a trading fad where crypto-rich individuals had so much extra money that they didn’t care about tossing hundreds of thousands of dollars to a kid in exchange for a virtual blockchain receipt for the lulz. Or maybe they think they can use these headlines to further flip the NFTs at a profit to someone else.

But whenever you see a headline like this, it’s important to remember the possibility that maybe nothing actually changed hands at this price at all. If this kids’ dad (who works in finance) wanted to generate headlines hopes of flipping NFTs to someone else, what better way to do it than by getting headlines about your 12-year old making hundreds of thousands of dollars? All he needs to do is “buy” those NFTs with crypto funds, keeping the crypto funds in the family, and then start contacting news reporters about these miraculous, high value NFTs that they should totally write about in every outlet so that hopefully someone else will buy them for an even higher price. Come tax time, you can always argue that you never actually sold anything because you control both wallets, so there wasn’t any profit to be taxed.

You’re only out the transaction fees, so you can buy headlines like this for tens of dollars.
But...but... the Pi is only $10.
The most popular posts on Facebook are plagiarized
While that is obviously a ludicrous idea, as a shareholder I don't really care if someone else also might have been able to do it. The fact is that Tim Cook DID preside over perhaps the most monumental value creation in corporate history, so I don't begrudge him the money.

To be honest, I wouldn't even blink if he was paid 10 times more, and I don't even like him.
Don't know where you live. But a big problem with rent controll here in Sweden is that it's just not enough appartments to go around. Sweden at least would need a new million programme or something similar
Your right, teams and office are really very janky. The difference is, if you launched it for the first time without seeing it before, you'd think (if you were a normal person) it looks clean and modern and so on.

You open up OpenOffice for the first time, it looks like software from 10 years ago.

I hate teams with a searing passion, but the thing is though it does break, it looks pretty good doing it.
I think this is ignoring the risks associated with such a change. You might find people qualified on paper, but you really don’t know how that translates into real world performance until you try it.

The risk of getting that wrong and accidentally destroying billions of dollars of shareholder value (don’t like the term, but it seems appropriate here) is very high (low likelihood, extremely high severity).

As a board member, why would you take that risk, when not taking the risk is so cheap? Ultimately I don’t think the risk weighted expected return on finding a cheaper CEO is greater than just paying Tim whatever number he pulls out of his arse. I suspect expected return is actually substantially lower (probably very negative) than what Tim gets paid.
> The amount of people owning property and the size of the real estate market says otherwise

You usually buy to rent. renting is ultra-complex in France as well but at least you know what you are getting into.

> Squatting is just one of those things with an over-sized media footprint

Right until the moment it hits you. Have you had been squatted? No? So how can you have an opinion on the impact to someone?
Thousands seems high for the largest company in the world with potentially the most complex supply chain ever assembled. And that doesn't even mention the political issues that need to be navigated.

Your choices I imagine are the other Apple executives and the CEO of another International technology and/or manufacturing (potentially) company.
Yes, and if you want to take this route you can either maintain your package yourself on every single major distro or deal with support tickets for issues that have either already been fixed in old versions or arise from strange interactions with dynamic libs.
A Disruptive Idea for a Startup
Came across this open access book[0] that describes Finance 4.0(FIN4).

Anyone interested in the idea? Let's try and build it. Will be fun!

[0]
https://library.oapen.org/viewer/web/viewer.html?file=/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/49519/9783030714000.pdf
And he will pay no taxes on it I estimate.
IMHO it does matter how big Apple is today, because that's the appropriate context, that's the size of the pie that's being divided and the size of value creation for which he's being compensated. The payout is less than 0.05% of the value increase of Apple under Cook's leadership. Many other people played a hand in it, but it seems to me quite plausible to attribute at least 1/1000th of that growth to Tim Cook personally.
He is very specifically referring to putting in the work to achieve breakthroughs in graduate-level and higher mathematics here. No one in the that field is driving factory workers to actually produce the proof breakthroughs for them.
> how can we work in parallel with minimal synchronization and blocking?

This is something I'm very interested in at the moment. Trying to read up on how good development organisations do it, but I'm partly coming up short.

I know a Ward-style lean approach of web-based concurrent engineering involves these things:

- Brainstorming up multiple potential ways to break the system into subsystems, and exploring those in parallel.

- Negotiating over interfaces. "If I give you that endpoint, how will you use it to improve the product?"

- Specifying ahead of time which subsystems are inflexible and which are flexible. If an inflexible subsystem has an interface demand, the flexible subsystems have to comply. They, of course, are prepared for this and have explored several variants of their interface.

- Exploring several implementations exposing the same interface.

The main thing I don't get is that this is presented by Ward as a cheaper way to do development, because the subsystems are -- when all is said and done -- virtually guaranteed to integrate cleanly, and by exploring many options in parallel at all levels the risk of failure to deliver on schedule is virtually zero.

But... that parallel development of alternatives sounds really, really expensive. Like more expensive than blowing the schedule by a fair amount. I understand not all the work is wasted -- there's useful learning that happens in exploring an alternative even if it doesn't end up being used. But still!

Reinertsen argues for a more fiduciary view where the number of parallel alternatives to be developed must be balanced against the economically defensible level of risk reduction, but it gets somewhat abstract for me at that point. Can you really apply that logic at all levels in the organisation? Does it get easier with experience?
Is it fully captured motion? It seems like it was random or button controlled.
Why does everyone think that they know better how to spend other people's money than the people who have earned it?

Somehow the people who didn't have the intelligence and discipline to spend decades successfully doing things that make them rich are so sure that they would be able to do better with their (totally hypothetical) wealth than the people who did.

Everyone loves to claim some kind of moral superiority over the billionaires, but I don't see these critics spending a significant portion of their wealth on charity.
20 billion over 5 years seems a bit much, no?
Feel free to ask me anything, I work at Candela!
History has shown us that as societies get richer / more productive people work less. Here is a graph of this in the US:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/US...

This makes sense. As people get richer, they use some of their wealth to "purchase" more leisure time. There is no reason to think this won't happen in China, just like it has happened in other places.

I think your fear is unfounded.
Just to add that many South Africans are importing and reselling crypto through a legal loophole. [1] Only "exporting" crypto is illegal.

There are highly liquid international markets for our currency vs other fiats. The government has relaxed capital controls substantially over the last 20 years.

Right now the focus of government is taxing crypto. Capital controls are taking a back seat, because enough Dollars are coming into the country to pay for imports. External debt is minimal.

[1]: https://www.ovex.io/blog/crypto-arbitrage-101/
I think he had a point, some OSS software is objectively just bad - UX, UI, bugs, overly complicated. That’s not me trying to personally attack them it’s that just so many seem to lack any kind of QA - some bugs I’ve encountered are reproducible almost immediately with using the program.

Basic integration of all these solutions often ends up with a less satisfactory solution than a “commercial”/closed source version.

I’m sure some naysayers will come up with platitudes like “no funding makes it more difficult” and “well it’s open source just fix it”.

For the first one, like I said some of the bugs or cumbersome problems are not even difficult to reproduce. Basic pointing and clicking by the devs would find it.

For the second, come on, they can’t just misdirect all their users with “fix it yourself” - we might not know how, might not know the language or framework, or simply might not want to spend the time trying to figure out some tedious workflow involving self hosted Git repos or some poorly documented spaghetti build process. At the end of the day the devs themselves are in the best position to fix.
They had a ~200 year headstart and furthermore, they helped establish the current systems worldwide.
> simple examples let people get a feel for the code.

There's no code in there. Just links to other articles and whatnot.

I vote for blogspam, too.
> I do talk about how this is an upgrade from plain SQL

This statement is about functionality / ease of use, which is fairly orthogonal from (preventing) SQL injection: with plain SQL it's perfectly possible to avoid injection attacks, in fact that's probably the most common and easiest way to do it. In that sense, if anything this is a downgrade from regular SQL.
It's the brutal reality. But the argument is a moral and ethical one - not the subjective value of an individual's contribution.
> Is there something substantive behind that 750 million figure other than very powerful people just paying themselves as much as they can get away with? I think not.

If you are already rich enough to retire many times over, why should you keep working on something that doesn't move the scale of your money (and consequently power and ability to do other things, including starting a new business that could disrupt your previous business?)

Think of it this way: a lot of the money that is being paid to Tim Cook is to ensure that he doesn't go to work somewhere else.
> How many Tim Cook's do you have lying around?

I’d say it would be just about impossible to find anyone else capable giving such a wooden performance and unnatural fake excitement at product announcements. Perhaps a young Point Break-era Keanu? But even then, I’d actually believe when he says “whoa” as a new product is unveiled. So you’re right, irreplaceable.
So China is the heavenly palace and the rest of the world is earth? What will Sun Wukong think?
iOS/Mac OS X
Individuals with a combination of history of COVID and vaccination appear to have exceptionally strong protective immunity that has been described as "bulletproof." As published in Nature [1] and analyzed by JAMA [2], individuals who had been infected (even those with mild disease) and vaccinated had over 50 times more neutralizing antibody activity than those who were unvaccinated. This level of protection was more robust even than that seen in fully vaccinated individuals.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03696-9
[2] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2782139
They were a financial power long before. It kinda came with the territory, being a global empire.

They did well to hold on to it, though.
Supreme Court halts Biden eviction moratorium
> We don't really care what happens to fd3. But if we did, we could fix that by directing it to /dev/null at the end. Again, showing how important the ordering is.

it's good practice to close extra FDs for children who are not expecting it. poorly designed applications may misbehave if provided with unexpected additional FDs. you shouldn't use /dev/null for this purpose, but instead actually close it with 3>&-.
Isn't that frightening to you? What makes you think you would not be living under the whip?
Bout 20

All Godaddy

Too much drama to try to keep them in diff places

I think they're expensive

Especially if you're not trying to make money with them