skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd like to alternate between professional & my hopeful open source projects.

I don't think UBI would give me the quality of life I'd like, but it would definitely help me carve out & spend more seasons & years of my life doing the really really ultra-high grade important & hopeful Personal Computing Revolution shit I want to get up to.
I thought the whole point was supposedly to raise wages through collective bargaining?
> From a cultural standpoint, many people do not trade on insider information because it is seen as unfair or immoral

Is it immoral to trade on material nonpublic information you happened to overhear in a restaurant?
>As Smith writes, “Questions like this are simple for humans living in the real world but difficult for algorithms residing in MathWorld because they literally do not know what any of the words in the question mean.”

Eh, that's mathematically false. Text descriptions of the world can be thought of as <n dimensional projection of a n dimensional real world, at least as seen by humans. With enough projections from different points the real world can be reconstructed, although it's of course likely that the gpt-3 architecture isn't capable of it regardless of how big the model is, that all text data in the world doesn't contain enough information, or both at the same time. That's a different argument however.

I think from a theoretical pov, only the former is true - as even without being able to analyze videos and images it's possible to build an internal world model and humans after reading a book about physics and genetic human code, but computational requirements as opposed to being trained directly on videos, images, and simulated worlds make this approach absurd in practice.
You mean working for others? If I had a universal basic income I would still “work” in tech… but not building software as an employee on a company I couldn’t care less for; I would work in tech building stuff I care for (so I would work for myself).
That is a common usage, but not the meaning. There's really nothing we can do about people misusing terms though.
At my last job, I worked with MarkMonitor to get registry lock on our domains after an incident at Network Solutions [1]. It was expensive, but the price didn't matter because they had an annual spending requirement that was more than our annual renewals, since we didn't have many domains. Ownership has changed since then, and I don't have the slightest idea about current pricing. I think they charged us $1000/year for registry locks, on top of the $100/year for a .com/.net. If you had more domains, they might have had a bulk discount; but from our perspective, it was pay $$$$/year for registry locks on our two important domains and get the rest of our registrations free.

Never had any hijacks after that. We did have to postpone a DNS service change because the CEO didn't answer the verification call and the registry wouldn't try again on the same day. No big deal, we set up the lock for a reason and fail-closed is desirable.

[1] I know, but the CEO thought they must still be good, because they were in charge in the 90s. I'll check closer on these things in the future, I guess.
Show HN: I made a calculator to show cost savings of serverless GPUs vs. AWS
Cities have really bad failure modes.
Well, Hong Kong, Taiwan, etc relaxed on the vaccination distribution and got hammered.

Also, authoritarians sometimes get the actions right even if they don't understand the science or the math.

And do you remember the great "fogging disinfectant trucks" in China. Completely ineffective show that may have fooled the masses but would have failed to destroy any viral agents.
The financial incentives behind care differ greatly between states and health systems, so you can't just make blanket statements like that. Look up accountable care organizations and value-based care. We're still in our early stages, but our country is trying to figure out how to properly incentivize care, I hope.
Mac simply isn't a significant part of intel's market, and running Mac apps (the things you'd want to emulate) essentially requires a macOS license, which means owning a Mac.
I was a working magician at age 13, and could have used a book with the title:

“Sleight-of-hand for the slight of hand.”
All of the old Java (and ActiveX, ewww) was operating under the principle that you'd grant the applet more permissions than javascript, whereas WASM grants the same or fewer permissions!
In my case it means performing well under stress, having good time management, and skim reading quickly/effectively. All of these are real things that do matter, but they dramatically boost test scores.
It’s a multibillion dollar nonprofit who’s ceo makes over a million a year.

Do with that what you will.
It really depends on what treatment and testing the water is getting. I'm not convinced it's not monitored or tested at all..
Apple Maps keeps working fine when I invariably drop my phone under the seat in my car. GPS receivers are pretty good these days and are capable of picking up very weak signals.
Sounds like Yelp for drugs.

Your real profit would have been to follow the Yelp model to charge for placed ads and charge to manage reviews.

Just as Yelp gets a cut of online orders you could have partnered with mail order drug companies for a percentage to order directly.

If you wanted to get into really morally grey area do the doctor shopping too. Who prescribed what.
Its like the researchers back-solved for a headline, and even tried to optimize for what would make HN front page
IE11 is still supported until June of this year in various Windows SKUs. Longer for certain enterprise customers with extended support.

Government websites tend to have very broad support requirements.
Keep reading: "The reduction in wages following the accession of a business manager leads to an increase in profits: the return on assets (ROA) increases by 3 percentage points in the US and by 1.5 percentage points in Denmark. In the US, we also find an increase of about 5% in the stock market values of companies that appoint business managers."
The antenna in the picture looks a lot like a Taoglas L1 active patch antenna. So an antenna (possibly several, hard to tell if it's a stacked-patch or not), low-noise amplifier, and possibly a Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) filter.
With Warzone the situation is a-typical because you have to download the whole of Modern Warfare even if you have not purchased the game and only wish to access Warzone.

Typically textures are the largest part. Many objects with many different channels in high resolutions e.g. Color, normal, roughness, metallic, emissive,
AO/Lightmaps and more depending on shader. The other two significant contributors are sounds and mesh geometry.
>> How you save/retrieve bytes isn't the interesting part of this blog post as it's elementary

I do not have a beef with the author, at all, in any way, but, LOL, that is anything but elementary.

Furthermore,

>> this post will not implement full text search.

...makes their solution or specifically, their index, not very "Lucene-like". Which is why I had objections to their title, not their blog post. Their blog post is fine :)

Storage is one of the problems you'll need to solve, when doing "Lucene from scratch". Indices are another. Full-text indices implemented from scratch: hard and interesting.
I think he's saying that the whole society would be slaves. While I did not live under communism, I personally know some people who did and I think they would characterize that existence as a form of slavery.
The problem is that this changes dynamically in function of opportunity and ambition, or its composed form: opportunity to expand ambition.
We are supposed to not accept authoritarianism.
Because beliefs tend to emerge from ideology as opposed to the other way around. Then those beliefs become the api for interacting with information
I'm still looking forward to 2fa devices that can be backed up or copied or otherwise actively replicated.

I feel like this would make a lot of people very mad. It's probably against spec for a number of protocols. The purpose seems like it's to build a single, trusted system that we have absolute physical control of.

But Matt's dead on here. I'm far more interested in how we cope with the out of control situations. Building a token we trust totally, but than having to ad-hoc reinvent a dozen odd recovery schemes on top of that- something there doesn't appear to be any standards for- makes me feel like this is an out of touch, logically-bankrupt security regime we're trying to foist on the world. The idea of security is so appealing, so compelling, that we've secured ourselves into an untenable position.

As a side note,

> The question for me is not: what do I do incase my phone runs out of battery.

I really enjoy the image this popped into my head, of not storing backup house keys somewhere outside, but a backup usb charger somewhere outside the house, or magnetically attached to under your car: so you can get home & charge your phone to let yourself in, or get to your car & charge your phone to get in the car. Maybe the charge-port in cars- which we recently learned this week isn't cryptographically secured- should have a modest rate usb charger out (log into the app to unlock higher-rate power-delivery).
It feels like having management as a specialism in its own right is a result of the financialisation of business. It is inconceivable that business schools can equip people to innovate: innovation will come from founders who have technical skills, and the teams they lead. As soon as career managers are involved, the game begins to be about playing the numbers rather than focusing on the product. It seems absurd to think business schools are capable of producing anyone who would do anything else.
Some companies will also work with the financial group they administer their equity and ESPP through, so you literally -can't- trade on certain dates. You probably shouldn't be buying company stock outside of those anyway, given the limited trading windows, the scrutiny, and the lack of diversification.
It's an endless cycle, honestly. We have shipping deadlines we can't miss, so we write some code we're not proud of. Then we do our best to live with it until it's hard to continue. This triggers a refactor that snowballs. Then that causes us to be behind for our new deadline, so we put in some code that we're not proud of....

All in all, I would say that the quality of the code depends on how close we are at the moment to shipping.
Reminds me of a company where I was in the talks of becoming a manager for R&D.

They took a business dude for that role instead, I left, and the company went bankrupt.

But it was a good thing, my life got so much better when I finally quit emplyoment for good.
> The notion of a "well rounded student"

...

> is a legacy of blue blood WASP culture

First of all, I don't know what "blue blood WASP culture" is. Explain that please.

Second, there's nothing wrong with expecting students to participate in extra-curricular activities like music and art as a basis for admission. MIT is still going to evaluate those things.
You are right to be skeptical. Charles Murray is not the most reputable of scientists, and his book The Bell Curve is full of bad science to say the least, used to advocate for conservative (if not racist) policies.

A fairly quick summary is available on the Wikipadia page for this book (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bell_Curve#Reception) where you can dive deeper by looking into the reference (I particularly recommend S.J. Gould which addresses scientific racism in length in the book Mismeasure of Man). There is also a long video essay by Shaun (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBc7qBS1Ujo) —if you have 3 hours to spare—which does an excellent job of summarizing the bad science and political agenda of The Bell Curve.
Same manages who are afraid of work from home.
But for a program like ImageMagic or 7Zip to have any utility, it must be reading and writing files somewhere. I'm just trying to figure out why I would download and run a wasm program to handle these tasks. Why would I trust it?
> how is it different?

Thanks for asking! IMHO, a couple of ways:

1. Your original asked what GP thinks of people that make the argument. Mine asks about the argument itself. It's subtle but important difference, and to have productive discussion about sensitive topics it's imperative to avoid any sort of personal attacks. Even if one's answer might be "those people are stupid" it doesn't help. By addressing the claim/substance rather than the person, it will likely be a more productive conversation.

2. By omitting your opinion portions, it keeps the conversation more focused. When you introduce "standardized test is the only way to measure somebody on their aptitude for doing well like the LSAT", you move the conversation away from systemic racism and toward a debate about whether there are any other ways to measure aptitude for doing well. These seem to me like completely separate topics/discussion.
isn't that the whole point of business school? it's highly tied to the idea that you can run a company without understanding what the business actually does.

I'm pretty sure you're seeing it that way because it's designed that way, unfortunately.
That has always been true - not just from the days of Pong, but from the days of Pinball and Pachinko. It's not quite true these games are the equivalent of a bar scam - it's possible to genuinely enjoy a game for its own sake - but addictive rewards and behavioural reinforcements have been around a lot longer than computing has.

The reality is that commercial experience games - where the goal is trigger the imagination and guide the player to a rich experience - are much rarer than commercial extraction games, where the goal is to create addictive engagement and spending patterns which can be monetised.

This isn't nearly as true for tangible commercial board games, especially those that promote strategic and imaginative thinking. You can get started in chess with a chess board and a rule book. You do not have to keep spending money on nicer-looking pieces, and your board will not be monetised with pop-up ads. (Chess sites may be, but chess kept developing for hundreds of years without them.)

D&D and more obscure games like Carcassone are similar. You can spend extra on expansion packs, but even if you buy everything the expansion space is small and bounded. The physical costs of board game dev and distribution keep that true.

Electronic games have a virtually infinite potential expansion space, so the economics are drastically different. The temptation to turn every last thing into a monetisation engine is hard to avoid - to the extent that monetisation design has become a meta-game in its own right.
If the employees were receiving (vesting) a standard monthly amount of RSUs for compensation, normally selling immediately upon vesting, and decided to wait a couple months based on inside information about company performance that they were just naturally exposed to during their work, would that be considered insider trading? I assume it would. Hmm... it's kind of scary how easy it would be to inside trade without really thinking about it, or even without being that intentional about it.
In addition, these kinds of rules (in countries which have them) almost invariably do not apply to B2B sales, especially for machine to machine communications - at that scale the operator really only cares that they know which customer is footing the bill for the subscription.

At least in my experience many years ago managing an enterprise mobile account, I could have SIM cards and handsets sent out with no name or similar allocated - the name was a nicety for getting the package to the right person, but there was absolutely no verification of anything. The name helped you reconcile the bills, so we had users on the account called "office spare 1" and "field engineer spare". Any customer support had to go through the B2B account.

At scale, an M2M device customer won't be telling the operator anything else about the device or user - the customer will manage allocating subscriptions to vehicles or devices, and won't want to have to deal with their operator for this.
Maybe, but if so, the versions are very different. Corporations cannot imprison you or tax you with the threat of imprisonment If you don’t comply.
I wanted to come in here and bad-mouth MBAs, but you all already did an admiral and accurate job of it.

Instead, I would claim having the view 'business owner' and 'economist' is really helpful alongside expertise in the field this business is supposed to be good in. And not just a little, but MBA-level depth there; making sales predictions for the product, running net-present-value calculation for a high-capex asset, making decisions using quantified uncertainty, etc.

The problem seems to be "only an MBA". But having an MBA or equivalent knowledge while you are deep in your business' implementation is critical.
Guess: Some human saw the q & a. They realized it wasn't good. They uploaded some example of a phrase and the meaning, which would fix it. They were kinda lazy and just fixed that specific scenario.
With the collapse of live music, I highly doubt this is true. You could get gigs at bars and stuff. Few places today have live music.

Yes, minority artists might not have made it big in the past, but there was demand in the establishments that were run/supported/patronized by their respective group.

If anything, technology has made success/wealth inequity worse by making music cheap and accessible, thus allowing people to have unlimited music (replays) for little money. This killed a lot of live music and funneled that money to the upper echelon on musicians.
You are claiming that the University of Minnesota is systemically discriminating against South Asian and Chinese students? Can you back this claim up in any way?
Carbon-coated nickel enables fuel cell free of precious metals
> LOL, that is anything but elementary.

Like most tutorials, surely it's a simple implementation that breaks things down into simple code so that you can see how things work at a more fundamental level and follow along, not something that's going to satisfy ACID properties and compete with Lucene.

Way too much guff in these comments.
Whenever I get asked about a topic where there's clear orthodox HN groupthink, I always point to MBA discussions. MBAs get universally dunked on here, a lot of it well-deserved. But I argue that it's not the degree itself that makes people like the stereotypical "MBA bro" that everyone here hates, but rather the kinds of people who tend to go for the degree.

It's not like you're a talented, highly technical software developer, get an MBA, then suddenly forget how to code and only know how to reduce costs by 4% per year. I mean, I don't think I forgot how to code. But I did encounter classmates who boil down businesses to spreadsheets where human beings are merely "capital resources that ate lunch". I can assure you the piece of paper with "MBA" written on it didn't suddenly make them that way.

I'm not going to stop HN from dunking on MBAs but I encourage people to look a little deeper than the person's diploma before judging them.
Inkplate is a lot more affordable than ArtFrame.
If they don't pay the registry, wouldn't it not show up in whois? If it doesn't show up with the expected expiration date in whois shortly after registration/renewal, I'd be demanding it get fixed.
Does it really? We have a lot of laws and activities where we know there not perfect, yet we set the right incentives. Having laws against murder does not effectively prevent most of murder from happening.
IDK, something a lot more compelling than "the answers change over time" ? For a model that learns over time?
That's awesome (and I've seen other variations on this theme that were also very cool like Elaborate Spaceship Battles) but what I'm talking about looking for is exactly the opposite.

MechCommander 1/2 and the current BattleTech are kinda close since at least I only do the strategy between missions.

Note that Brood War's requirement for Macro -and- Micro play is also fun - too many RTS games let me win via Macro and then rolling over the enemy with effectively unlimited forces - but I really like tactical battles where the point of the game is the tactical side, because sometimes that's what I really want to spend my gaming time focusing on.
> I didn't say the 5 gives you 4ish bits of information. I said it gives you 1.4 bits of information.

Which is obviously wrong. The self-selection does provide a lot of information. Students who believe themselves unlikely to score well are unlikely to take the test, which is why so many students get a 5.
Is that photo in natural color?
And since VCs make practically all of their returns from that one hypergrowth 1000x company, they can push founders to swing for the fences even though that also makes startups more likely to fail.

For many founders, a 5x return would still be a life altering result, but to most VCs that doesn't really move the needle. It's nicer than 0x of course, but no more than that.
I read the entire article. I didn't find that to be very compelling idk.
i don't know anything about mikrotik's hardware development practices and don't want to besmirch them, but some places basically just fab reference designs, or smoosh a couple of reference designs together, and have a product.

it helps to keep costs down if you don't have any NRE.
It's not just math education. It's science as well. I'm bewildered that this is even something that people are even contesting what I wrote in 2022 on Hacker News of all places. The majority of PhDs in the STEMs are done by international students and have been for many years now. It's well known that American K-12 is woefully insufficient. But sure, I guess a-ok. But carry on with the straw man.
I'd just as easily believe that someone updated the model, it overfit to the input, and so minor changes gave incorrect answers.
The enduring legacy of Crazy Eddie is people writing articles about it on a recurring basis
Slightly off-topic, but OpenSSH already supports this via `AuthorizedKeysCommand`: https://man.openbsd.org/sshd_config#AuthorizedKeysCommand
That's not how most jobs work, you get paid a salary, some people still work 60hr weeks and do not get paid more than their peers.
It could be sentient. Let's probe it with our prime directive of non-interference
> would that be considered insider trading

Not by default. Typically, according to the trainings I have received, over and over again, it's only wrong to trade if you are exposed to material non public information (MNPI). Such a person would have to know they are in a special category, unless they live under a rock or something.

I think it's ridiculously difficult for an employee receiving a standard monthly amount of RSUs to "mistakenly" commit insider trading.
It’s formed of radio waves, so surely not.
It depends on the country. In the Netherlands they are definitely kept in small cages / stables during the winter.

I suppose in a climate that permits them to be outside all year it's a different story.
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