skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Free market doesn't mean that actors can do whatever they want. It means that the market has the power to allocate resources. In the labor market, the labor market allocated that employee to a job, and allocated a penalty to changing jobs, that the government in then changing.

Also, even in the labor market, the scenario you're describing is punishing the labor buyer but rewarding the labor provider, so it's not just the capital market that's less free, it's the labor market too.

More actors being able to provide input is restricting the markets. The market allocated who gets to provide input in itself.

All I'm saying is, don't fetishize the market being free.
Is heating rocks a method of producing methane on Mars?

How does that work?
To be honest I don't know, I wasn't there for the initial decision, but I know it wasn't just about CAP. It could have been as simple as Riak was easier to use (which I don't know either)
This assumes that any house can go for $2 million if you just get a good enough agent. That’s clearly not the case. If there was some way to pay for excess returns, that would be a good argument. But flat commission percentage isn’t it.
Here (Canada), "passports, birth certificates, bearer bonds", etc. all get sent as registered mail with receiver identification required for release — which means they get held at the nearest post office for you to go pick up, rather than coming to your mailbox. (Instead, a notice card gets delivered to your mailbox, telling you to go get the thing.) Surprised that's not a thing in the US(?). Is that why long-term identity fraud is so common there? Birth certificates and other legitimate primary identity documents just being stuffed into insecure outdoor mailboxes where anyone could grab them?

Also, while many parcels are just purchases from companies, a parcel could very well be a priceless heirloom sent by a relative. Or, say, a live reptile.

The postal system bakes old assumptions into it, where ordering goods for delivery didn't used to be nearly so common, so a much larger fraction of parcels used to be of this personal variety. Which makes it even more curious that they're generally handled in such a blasé manner.

My only guess is that shipping parcels is expensive by itself, so almost nobody bothers to pay double to have their parcel handled securely as registered mail.
Yes, this is a consistent position, but bounds checking all indexing and making pointers larger by including length will cause slowdown much larger than 1-2%. My estimate is at least 10% slowdown. So citing 1-2% slowdown is misleading.
"Up to $100B". Okay. I planned on spending up to $100B for my wife's Christmas present. I actually ended up spending $75 + tax.
> And with the stock market at an all-time high, corporate profits soaring, and CEO pay exponentially higher than their workers, execs can afford to share the wealth a bit.

Executive pay makes up a tiny fraction of the total salary expense of a large corporation. Even redistributing the entire salary of the CEO among workers will have no impact whatsoever.
You're right about the blurring of the line. But the average user doesn't care as long there is access to the file. Saving the files on your computer require you to backup regularly the files and that's to much of a hassle for the average user in comparison to just saving it to the cloud.
log(100000) is 5, so approximately 1 in 5 numbers below 100k is prime. Obviously those in the range 10000-99999 are less dense, but primes are still surprisingly common.
I think the point is "what if there's no electricity but the gas stove still works"
Yeah but they don't accept that. They literally make you print out, sign in ink then scan back in and reject it if they detect you haven't done that properly.
Their #1 priority for search used to be quality (relevancy) of the results. Anything the SEO marketers were using or could come up with was combated. Keyword stuffing = lower rank. Ads, redirects, spam... = lower rank. Anything except actually useful results = lower rank.

What the heck happened then?
As an HR administrator for a small business, this absolutely grinds my gears. According to every accountant and consultant I've ever talked to, the "wet signature" rule is enshrined in federal law (although I have yet to be able to find out exactly where). It applies to all brokerage operations (opening your custodial accounts); employee applications (even internal to your own company that never leave your own filing cabinet - keep in case of audit!); statements of information (form 5500) filed with the IRS (it's the only form you can't submit electronically - needs a wet signature?!). For everything else we deal with a saved drop-in signature in Acrobat works just fine. Almost not worth the employee's savings given their low participation rate and general ambivalence to the whole program.
That's Zork, not D&D.
Were you able to hit the delete key and remove the typed numbers? (Works on wordle too)
Ohio is the 7th largest state by population and 10th in population density. It's also continuing to grow in population, especially around Columbus, unlike some other Rust Belt states. Whether they "want to" or not, LOTS of people live in Ohio and Columbus is arguably it's most vibrant city thanks to being the capital and home of its flagship university.

I'm a UMich grad, so am not allowed to live in Ohio, but I can see its appeal for some.
It's an interesting idea to assume GETs will do no writes, as opposed to POST/PUT/DELETE and route them via middleware, but as an app developer, you need to be very mindful of any updates I suppose... replication delay can also create some weird scenarios I imagine...
Don't even need to spend $10 — the scanning is built into iOS, you can get to it from the Files or the Notes app, or even from your Mac (right-click somewhere and "Import from iPhone or iPad").
Google is almost a 2 trillion market cap company. Docusign is 20 bill. If some exec inside Google suggested building a team to "squash docusign" they'd be... silly.. and recognized as such.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1032019.Bad_Samaritans

This is a good book that goes through how economies develop and the role of State Owned/sponsored Enterprises are helpful in developing a nation's technology competencies. The author uses South Korea as a few of his examples, too.
Thanks for that. I actually went to the blog to read it and you're right they do explain themselves. Thank you.

I like cryptomining, so it doesn't help my adoption of them.
What’s inherently wrong with being licensed in multiple states?
Only primes are valid guesses, just like how in Wordle only English words found in a dictionary are valid.
Here is an actual example of taking advantage of UB behavior in a compiler.

The compiler sees a variable x that's allocated on the stack. It looks at all the uses of the address of x, and sees that they are all loads and stores. It therefore decides to promote x into a register variable.

Where's the UB, you ask. Well, since the address of x was never leaked, it is UB to compute another pointer to that address (say, via an integer-to-pointer conversion). The compiler never checked for that possibility to affirm that it was UB; it knew that any code that did that would be UB and simply ignored the possibility.

This makes arithmetic overflow a very poor vehicle for UB because it's unusual in that you can't really take advantage of the UB without pointing to the specific operation that caused the UB to occur. This is why I believe that arithmetic overflow UB is gratuitous, and people objecting to UB because of what happens specifically with arithmetic overflow go on to make suggestions that are completely untenable because they don't have familiarity with how most UB works.
I like it! Even the title made me chuckle...
The evidence for extant microbial life on mars is getting pretty solid at this point.

Seasonal methane.
Seasonal oxygen.
Viking label release experiments.
Now accumulation of C12.

At some point someone has to call it.

I'll take my down votes, but I'll wager I've thought about this longer and more carefully than most. I urge you to think critically about this.
It’s intentional, same as Wordle’s designed did it.
Every high-profile failure of the last century fits the bill, because bad business teams cannot get invested in, by definition, without looking good.

Good business teams tend to be good in the details, which leads to them struggling to find willing audiences.
Fugazzi MAMMA
I built a url shortened in 2016 and still maintain it now:

0x.co

… gets light usage …
N is for Netflix. Microsoft is hardly relevant.
If by user-defined pointers you mean arbitrary integer-to-pointer casts, then this is a kryptonite for static analysis, and I don't think you can have a language that is both fast and fully predictable (UB-free) in their presence. It breaks pointer provenance and aliasing analysis, and existing compilers already struggle with such casts in C.

But apart from that, you can have pointers, with many levels of indirection, as long as there are rules that prevent use-after-free, unsynchronized concurrent access, and other UB-worthy problems. Rust's borrow checker with rules for no mutable aliasing and Send/Sync markers for concurrent access comes close, but it has to give up on generality for safety (e.g. it can't reason about circular data structures).
China’s tech bosses cashed out at the right time
https://archive.is/3y9d4

"...By July, the Chinese government had banned the entire sector from making profits, crashing the share prices of all the major tutoring companies. Today, the block of GSX shares that was put up for sale in March would be worth only $4m. Chen does not appear to have yet fulfilled his $50m pledge.

GSX (which has since rebranded as Gaotu Techedu) declined to comment on the share sale and said any share purchases by Chen would be noted in public filings. None has so far occurred.

In the run-up to the July profits ban, executives at another Chinese education company also cashed in their NY-listed shares.

The husband and wife team who co-founded online English tutoring platform 51Talk began selling shares on April 1 and sold blocks of shares roughly every other day through to the end of June. Their sales represented as much as half the traded shares on a few days. By the time Beijing announced its new regulations, they had cashed out $4.3m. 51Talk did not respond to repeated requests for comment.

The documents reviewed by the FT show dozens of other well-timed sales by Chinese executives. While there is no proof of insider trading, many of the deals came ahead of regulatory action or the release of disappointing earnings reports.

Some executives appear to have hit the top of the market. Ten executives and directors at VIPshop, an online discount shopping site, sold about $527m of shares in March, almost three-quarters of all the shares they sold over the past 18 months, just before the collapse of Archegos Capital Management triggered a sell-off in its shares. Its share price is currently down 70 per cent from its level in March. VIPshop declined to comment..."
Just give it time until europe reaches late stage capitalism. Yes, they didn't have as many neoliberal waves eroding the social fabric in name of capitalism.
Not necessarily. Kids with poor social skills get bullied.
Clever. Also remember to remove the printer headers and footers.
One thing I'd point to is unitarity, which is essential to any kind of quantum mechanics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitarity_(physics)

(For my PhD thesis I found out that you didn't need an orthogonal basis set to do quantum mechanical calculations but rather you could do it just fine with an overdetermined basis set such as coherent states over p and q so long as you had resolution of unity over the basis set.)

If there is unitarity than there is no information loss in a black hole. If that's the case, the controversy that Stephen Hawking promoted about information loss shouldn't have been controversial -- in fact it held back progress in quantum gravity for 20-30 years which is a serious tragedy.

There is no idea at all how to do quantum mechanics without unitarity so if you believe in information loss you are rejecting the possibility of quantum gravity. My take is that the classical picture of black hole interiors is entirely wrong, even though it is a difficult concept to formulate exactly, I'm pretty sure that what's on the other side of the event horizon is something completely different though there is no way we can know
Activision Employee Group Forms Union, a First in Video Games
Now do it with matrices GPT style

Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeit
I'm not sure what that means. Whoever makes the claim provides the facts. If you aren't convinced by those facts then you don't accept the claim. You don't need to bring facts of your own to refuse to believe a claim.
I Broke My MacBook User Profile by Deleting a Single Folder
Only to win an argument by nitpick golfing. In everyday serious conversation that’s a 4-byte number, not an 8-digit number.
The receiving process gets a copy of the file descriptor. Both processes must close(2) it.
s/understand/care/

They don't care. At all. You are the product, not the customer.

Why inform you of anything?

Google does this all. the. time. If you use any google product, expect to lose it without a moment's notice, no recourse, and tough beans if you don't like it.
Do the people that need to work at the fabs come from those schools?
The Dungeon Master
Isn't that all a "container" is anyway? There is the image ecosystem of docker (which I think is a pretty big success) for the content that will be in the initial bootstrap of the isolated process, but beyond that containers are just very isolated processes no?
How to Design Your Own Chip [video]
My path:

1 2 [3] 4 7

[5][6](8)[9][3]

(6)(5)(8)(3)(9)

Fun game! Might take a while to explain to people though!
I haven't had a great signal-to-noise ratio from recruiter DMs on LinkedIn myself. But I think the more general point is that the "candidate sees job posting on job board and submits an application" hiring pathway is mostly dead. LinkedIn recruiting is probably the main channel that's replaced it, but college recruiting events, referrals, and poaching former colleagues are big ones too. The referral pathway in particular seems to have exploded lately, Blind and similar sites are full of people (successfully) requesting referrals to top tech companies from anonymous strangers.
Archived: https://archive.ph/uQ5h1
Oh cmon, MANGA is so much better
You'd think that, but as an internal employee "you're not our target demographic".

Not that this is exclusive to Microsoft. Every large company I've worked for has had some variation of that phrase.
14/2 or 12/2 :-)
Well they can dump seemingly unlimited amount of dollars into it for the next few years and maybe make something cool or at least make Blockchain more mainstream. If they dump it after that, who cares?
> The point is to authenticate residency, and while it’s not a great system, there also isn’t any better alternatives.

"No-one important enough is bothered, so we haven't had to try to fix it" is a far cry from "there [aren't] any better alternatives". We're HN; that's not the hacker ethos.
Oh goody! I've been looking for new ways to commit mail fraud!
Does anyone know why Intel would want to build a "mega-site" in the city of Columbus Ohio? Why not choose Cleveland Ohio where one has port access with an existing route to Europe? Fabs are international affairs, no matter where they're rooted, because just to keep the place running one needs a constant stream of parts from everywhere. It seems like being in a sea/rail/truck hub would be a logistics advantage.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_of_Cleveland

Edit: On second thought, Arizona doesn't have port access either so I guess it's not really a significant consideration.
IRS will require taxpayers to sign up with ID.me to access their online accounts
https://archive.is/DGp52

The article's title is a bit misleading. The article states that this isn't the first union in the video game industry, but it is the "first union at a publicly traded video game publisher," and the first union at a major game developer.
Very reminiscent of Google's `web.dev` site, which I find almost disgusting.
Unfortunately, these don't help much.

I thought about responding to jcranmer's post instead of yours, but wasn't sure how to approach it. It's a good comment, and I appreciated his attempt, but I feel like he's thoroughly missing the point of the complaints about UB. The complaint isn't that too much UB exists in C, but that compiler writers seem to use the presence of UB as an excuse for being allowed to break code that has worked historically. And the complaint isn't just that the code is broken, but that no apparent care is taken to avoid doing so despite the small amount of gain. It's a worldview mismatch, and I don't know how to bridge it.

Your comment seems about the same as the one I responded to. You seem to assume that people who complain about UB in C would have a problem with keeping local variables in registers, but I've never seen anyone actually make this complaint. Take for example the Arxiv paper we are discussing: he doesn't bring this up. This makes me suspect that your mental model of the people who are complaining about UB in C is probably flawed. I understand the technical issue you are gesturing toward, I just don't see it as being something that refutes any of the issues brought up in the Arxiv paper.

My hope was that a concrete example might help to clarify, but I do realize this might not be the right forum for that.
I suspect a lot of people here have never worked the kinds of jobs being talked about. It's basically bikeshedding. Tips are easy to talk about and the rest isn't.
> I think it's great that we are exploring the space

I am 100% agreed on this. I have used Evernote for many years and really hate the curse of commercial software that forces them to constantly fiddle and break things that their customers have come to rely on. Nevertheless, despite not loving it, I touch Evernote multiple times per hour almost every hour throughout my work day. I need a mobile app and quick sync between different apps, and that will be hard for an open-source effort or a one-person startup to achieve. I wonder if an open-source app could be built on top of a paid commercial sync service; I would gladly pay for that.
Good Advice on JSX Conditionals
Back in the day, I had a dual proc Athlon XP workstation that also functioned as the main heating system for my apartment.
Yeah I would have made it differently for sure. The statue's artist and promoters wanted it to be popular, and Roosevelt was a hero in part for his Rough Riders cavalry unit so I assumer they were trying to hit on that part of his life.
Yeah I’m aware!

Token vesting is fantastic and short! Months!

Early stage private companies being compared to FAANG compensation is a major market distortion!

Its basically base + bonus + 5-6 figures of equity/options and 6 figures of tokens at a prelaunch valuation!

Just need the base + total initial compensation package higher, and some of the formalities to match US tax circumstances.
> If you have to ignore 2 mechanisms by which authoritarian regimes enforce censorship in order to say that "the mechanics of censorship are exactly the same", then they're not _exactly_ the same.

I didn't say they are _exactly_ the same, that's pretty obvious. Especially that one is a country and the other is a company. So it's a bit of straw man, isn't it?

Not every single person who criticized the government or published anything that was censored was sent a labor camp. Those had been eliminated by the 60s. However people didn't get promoted, lost their jobs (is a journalist losing their job and not being able to be hired because they pointed out something controversial that different?), added to blacklist. The response to that was the people auto-censored themselves. They didn't want to get in trouble so they didn't talk about certain things. Those that tried used a few trick to get around the censors, and I outlined those already.
> However, a free society is not about mandating people to be safe, it's about providing the information and allowing them to make their own decisions.

I don't think it's that simple, and I think presenting things as a binary like this leads false choices. I think the right way to think about it is more along the lines of optimizing the choices so people can make good ones with a reasonable amount of total effort.

And there we're really only talking about decisions whose impact is limited to the individual making them. When there are externalities involved that's a different thing.

> Don't regulate but educate people on the harms and allow them to make their own decisions.

While that sounds reasonable in the abstract, I don't think it meets my criteria above, because the amount of education required quickly becomes far more than any individual can reasonably juggle with other responsibilities, and then there's the question of how much time most people actually want to spend on stuff like that.
Do you think it might have worked if you had run it through this FalsiScan program?
> […] but I guess that's too obscure of a "market" to cater too

Oh no, this is on purpose. WhatsApp, Signal, etc. want to maintain control of the clients at all costs because of user tracking and monetization. If this wasn't the case, they would allow some form of non-smartphone access. As it is they keep their API's closed and ban anyone trying to use any form of third party tools.

In the case of Meta (WhatsApp) this is about keeping their silo-suite closed. People may hate Facebook, but if they can keep these users via the popular WhatsApp, they can keep up their numbers. What Signal really wants is anyone's guess. Something to do with that shifty cryptocoin I guess.

> I just want the freedom to use an "alternative" system like my Linux desktop or maybe some eclectic device like PinePhone or those modern PDA things or whatnot […]

Absolutely.
It depends on what you're signing. My letters of authorization to my bank require a "wet signature." Scanned or photographed and emailed is fine, but they want you to print and sign, and they've sent it back to me when they can tell I've used a digital stamp.

This product looks interesting, although the idea of me entering coordinates for the stamp instead of just stamping it in a GUI is not at all appealing...
Indeed; they do! I have loved working with LinkedIn Learning. (They used to be lynda.com before LinkedIn acquired them.)
more like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30025097 :)
Selfhosted is a great community, tons of friendly and helpful people over there.
I too put more effort into keeping my grandfathered account than I ever got out. In my case it was my login getting trapped up by extra "security" to verify from a "previous device" when all such "devices" were long gone browser sessions, and having to go through the support bog to regain access.

It always seemed like GApps on a custom domain would be good for something. But whenever I looked none of the services were compelling. Other side of the lock in looking glass, I guess.

Given the dilemmas I'm seeing other people face (eg family got used to gmail on the domain, and either having to walk everyone through migration, or just give up and pay the Danegeld), I'm glad I dodged that bullet!

About the only Google service I rely on is Voice, which would be easy enough to move except I don't know any other VOIP providers that are as a good as being accepted for snake oil 2FA and the like. I think Google gets a pass due to Project Fi. Does anyone have any recommendations? The best option running seems to be getting a paygo SIM, pop it in a stationary cell modem, and use that for snake oil 2FA. but shrug
Their loyalty is to making as much money as possible. It’s simply greed.
Ditto, had it only once that they complained the signature on separate documents was identical. Well, just wrote it down a couple more times in case I run into that again.