skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> To me it just looks like older companies paying to keep from having to deal with Linux directly

New companies, too. There's a lot to be said for paying someone to make problems go away. Not everyone wants to write their own software or change their own oil.
you pick two out of thousands! Google IPO'd so long ago that the rules regarding ISOs were different back then, strike prices could be arbitrarily lowered to whatever value the company wanted, not the maximum valuation as required by law now.

https://www.sec.gov/news/testimony/2006/ts090606cc.htm
Just go one sentence further in the cherry-picked quote, you get to the hand-waving.
I'm not sure lugging cash with you in a moneybelt is actually all that exciting really, and you're welcome to use the internet as little as you like and won't encounter it much when trekking in mountains or crossing desert in a broken-down 4x4 anyway.

I'm reminded of the time I nearly lost my wallet and the guesthouse owner pointed out that when he'd done that in the seventies in a neighbouring southeast Asian country he'd had to stop and work for very little money to raise the funds to get home. I don't think he considered that a highlight of his trip!
Fascinating … your very comprehensive list does not contain the only VMware products I have ever cared about: workstation and fusion.
Is google cheating when you search for something and it shows you results it scraped from a third-party source (e.g. song lyrics)? How is that different?
As someone who supports the elimination of virtually all firearms restrictions, this is a gun control position that I think deserves to be taken seriously by gun rights advocates.
Interesting to note that both he and Bernstein no longer live on US soil.
> total integration of religion with every facet of life is alien to most of us

I suspect there’s still a lot of bias in this view. A fish likely doesn’t realize it lives in water. Similarly, we likely don’t appreciate the role of our modern “religious beliefs” and how saturated our lives are with them and how they have permeated our methods of interpreting experience (physical or cultural). It’s alien to us only in hindsight and removed from the cultural context, but in a thousand years I suspect we’ll be no more immune from criticism.

Agreeing entirely with your other points, we are after all only human. There’s great conceit in our perception of past generations, and this gets more shameless the further back we look and especially across cultural divides.

Inevitably, we must state that they incorporated more supernatural explanations for physical phenomenon than we do today. It’s probably specifically this narrower point that would be alien to most of us.
That $212 million was starkly contrasted by the next point in the article, that Warehouse workers typically make $15/hr. It would take about 7,000 years working that wage (full-time) to make the same $212,000,000. It's still a _huge_ gulf, whether the CEO's compensation is in one year or one decade.
Well any dinosaur that existed and flew wasn't actually a dinosaur but rather a pterosaur. However I did a quick spot check and realize that modern day birds didn't evolved from pterosaurs but rather from dinosaurs surprised. So I stand corrected.
> no ground truth is possible.

Oof. I have bad news for you about science in general.
Is it a hack if the contract programmatically allows you to do it?

Or is it a hack if you didn't understand the scope of your contract as you wrote it, and are now upset someone executed on it in a way you didn't expect?
No, the broker is borrowing against their own assets. They already did the transaction. They just haven't been paid for it yet. It's their accounts receivable problem, not the customer's. That's what it means to be a broker, rather than an exchange.

Since brokers usually have transactions flowing in both directions, it's usually a wash.
> Intel is not dropping support for it on a lot of CPUs.

There are 0 current generation consumer CPUs of neither Intel nor AMD that have it

> The only thing they've done is disable it in the hybrid Alder Lake cores

Which happen to be all the current generation Intel CPUs
What's $1,000,000 / $212,000,000 again?

Is it 0.47%?

If you're going to mock me over math, then at least don't be off by a factor of a hundred. :)
A new open-source version of the popular GPT language model
dude puncturing a tire that's some serious bite force
I think they just acknowledged what they were doing was making a video game. Like they weren't pretentious at all about it. There's not a bunch of long winded dialogue I don't care about. They didn't try to make it hyper-real. You don't need to pay attention to the stats on anything except for requirements. There isn't some narrow line of progression. With just a handful of exceptions, the loot is just openly available and not subject to luck, meaning grinding is almost entirely voluntary. It just feels like a game, a lot of other games feel like work. But I've also been playing FS games since Demon's Souls so maybe I put in the hard work already.
So you can get settled by your stockbroker during a weekend?

Most payments providers will not settle during weekends and most will settle at T+2 or T+1. Instant settlements and weekend settlements are basically unheard of in the financial and payments worlds, trust me, I work in this world.

Stable coins allow almost instant settlement and weekend settlements, that's why merchants and individuals are interested in them.
>millions could die before vaccines rolled out

Millions died from covid before vaccines rolled out
It’s been trained on millions of public datasets and allows developers and data scientists to create new variations of synthetic text and labels for their datasets. Enjoy!
This is really nice, love a grid (always user grid (paper) notebooks), I hadn't seen this one before.

I also love https://www.tldraw.com, worth following its creator on Twitter (https://twitter.com/steveruizok). He posts loads of interesting thoughts and insights into designing this sort of app.
1) Pick the right startup

2) Get paid mostly in stock

...and then I stopped watching. Videos are a terrible medium for this kind of information.

I hope they mention alternative exits like acquihires (and the golden handcuffs), or how employees often get a bonus at the end if the company does fold, whereas founders get nothing.
AlmaLinux 9
Yeah, I was going to say the same thing. I've been a tech lead at 3 different places and they've all been close to what he described. Being a just a senior developer was always far more relaxed.
> HN/VCs also said Uber was a $150B company...Lyft was a $50B company...Peloton was a $40B company...

Exactly.

The hype squad have been screaming about the valuations of these companies and now look at them as soon as they IPOed. Neither of them are profitable companies.

It just means the VCs, insiders and everyone else who got was in before the IPO made a windfall in their stock and by now cashed out. The news hyping up the IPO to retail investors and left them holding the bags again as the market drops.

I would expect Stripe to delay their (eventual) IPO.
Garticphone.com is a lovely mashup of drawful and telestrations, highly recommend for remote team happy hours. Several in our company have reported laughing so hard they are sore the next day, and a couple others have purchased styluses specifically for garticphone.
Excellent turn/reaction based squad tactical combat. Think OG XCOM: UFO defense, only 2+ players. Frozen synapse is about the 70% solution but only abstract and pretty repetitive. More players, more varied units and terrain, asymmetric fights for score, etc.
Does buying private stock on EquityZen include any due diligence? I'm skeptical that it's helping with price discovery, but I don't really understand the platform.

The topic reminded me of a good episode of Invest Like the Best with Carta CEO Henry Ward[1], which included a discussion of their CartaX platform for offering insiders a chance to sell private stock to institutions.

[1]: https://podcasts.apple.com/ma/podcast/henry-ward-transformin...
broke: pffft, a trifling concern

woke: three drones, to stabilize the swinging, and hanging far enough that the noise wouldn't be a bother.

bespoke: a 50' pole interrupted by a 500rpm lawnmower blade at about 15' up, and topped with a bird feeder. The only reason people think squirrel-proof bird feeders are impossible is because they don't want to harm the squirrels. (and, for the record, neither do I)
> To your point on the Model 3, I think you forgot to unselect the 'including incentives' button on the Model 3. The actual MSRP for the 356 mi (not 334, 334 is with the 19" wheels) Model 3 is $56k.

You're correct, I did forget to unselect that option.

> In comparison, the i4 is 55k MSRP for the base one, certain not double the price (at least, at MSRP).

The i4 gets less range. The max range option is the iX, and that only gets 315.

Your options comparison was interesting, although I don't much like adaptive cruise control or lane assist on my model Y (phantom braking) and would pay more to have a standard cruise control option--it's pretty nice that BWM offers it for free!
People with pools more likely to be in possession of cocaine, hey now.
Just put them underground.
VMWare Fusion on M1 was already way behind (to an absurd point: it has been > 1 year 1/2 after the M1 launch, and VMWare has not yet launched a release of Fusion for it, only betas, and they do not target Windows). Overwhelming most of VMWare business is about other products anyway.
But not millions of children and healthy young adults. Those are very different outcomes from a public health standpoint
Python is dynamically and strongly typed. It's definitely not untyped.
For cryptocurrencies with fees priced with gas, price volatility is not a problem. As the price grows, number of gas units per operation will likely go down, but will maintain its "stable currency" price.

Ether's price doesn't have to stay fixed. It can grow or fall, increasing or decreasing economic security of the network (assuming Proof of Stake). There is no good way to ensure price stability, and there's no reason to. We don't complain that stock prices change.

That's why smart contract cryptocurrencies have stablecoins: to address "stable use case". But this is just one of many possible "dapps", many don't need external peg to function (NFTs can be priced in the volatile ETH just fine).
Ghislaine Maxwell
The suicide rate in South Korea is quite high, yet the rate of gun ownership is low, and guns are typically not the method of choice.

There is more going on in US suicide statistics than merely the presence of guns.
Better execution is considered the biggest compliment in the industry. Novel ideas are sort of considered a passé path to success. In that context, it sounds more like idolization than insult.
As another commenter mentioned, what makes a better world is subjective, depends on what you value.

I joined my current company because I believe that as our species grows (over huge time scales) one 'world' will not be enough, and that our current manufacturing model is too wasteful and slow to adapt to meet our and our planet's needs, which impacts day-to-day life for all of us.

https://www.relativityspace.com/mission
But the water someone plucked out of desert air and drank doesn't poof out of existence. They'll eventually pee and sweat it out.
Ask HN: How do you organize your HN upvotes?
I upvote HN posts for different reasons. Sometimes I just want to show appreciation for sharing a specific story. Sometimes it's a tool, or article that might be useful for {work, project A, project B}. Sometimes it's just funny random facts I would like to remember.
Whatever the category, I was wondering if there is a good, easy way to organize the upvotes.
Installing the time zone tables on a single instance is certainly not hard: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/time-zone-support.ht...

The trickier part is orchestrating the ongoing management of that across a large dynamic fleet. And in this case, it was much more than simply loading the tables but about using them to support importing databases into PlanetScale: https://github.com/vitessio/vitess/pull/10102

I'll link to my other comment on the billing issue: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31509240

We've had to do some other changes to our MySQL fork as well that will show up there, but we'd love to not have any patches! We'd love to keep the patch set minimal (just as Amazon certainly does with RDS and Aurora). And I would certainly argue that Vitess, which is what we build PlanetScale around, is a meaningful piece of technology that pairs with MySQL to make a great database: https://vitess.io.
You're of course free to disagree — and I wish you all the best as you work to build something great in the future.
Pair programming in an interview is one of the most useful ways to evaluate candidates in my experience.
I didn't say it is meaningless. I said it isn't effective. Because it isn't effective. We have plenty of examples of effective gun control and these aren't they.

And I couldn't care less what party they represent. Democrats can presumably be against gun control.
Gotta’ be one of the various Palm OS devices I used to carry. The OS and its apps were so simple, fast, and graceful. And it came from the era when devices tried to differentiate in weird and creative ways (My favorite: The CLIÉ NR70 and its successors).
Ask HN: How long should Police wait to get in school with active shooter present
Looks like they waited more then 35 minutes in the case of this Texas shooting and were actively preventing parents from getting in.
The Hürtgen Forest, 1944: The Worst Place of Any (2013)
>VMware's problem nowadays is that, having basically invented the technology,

IBM, actually, on mainframes.
Especially considering all the problems Teslas have been having. Seems like every week I read about someone being locked in a burning car or the autopilot driving into a pile of schoolchildren or something.
They could mail a check.. oops now they need your mailing address

Or they could call you and ask.. oops now they need your phone number

etc
Tether is the next Big Short of the crypto community. I’m yet to find someone who doesn’t think tether will blow up. It’s going to be an interesting week when that happens.
When I checked this out 9 days ago there was a GitOps installation instructions page! I didn't have a chance to follow it up right away, but now it doesn't resolve anymore. What happened to GitOps support in Zitadel?

https://docs.zitadel.com/docs/guides/installation/gitops
The tax benefits of options over RSUs are vastly overstated relative to the risks. At the end of the day, you're going to save ~15% on the total exercise through options compared to RSUs. That's 15% of what for many people may be a 5-10 year investment horizon.

The risk you take on as an employee with those options is much greater than 15%. If you have used loans to purchase the options, you have a substantial risk of being underwater.

It's time we callout options for what they are, a way for companies to protect their equity pool while being able to sell a story that the options are going to shoot through the moon.
> Why We Switched from Python to Go
> Reason 5 – Fast Compile Time

From Python??
Response from the developer in the Linuxfx-Forums[1]:

"Unfortunately there are people who like to gain popularity by doing this kind of reverse work, but we are working on a final solution. [...] The Linuxfx activation system was written in a basic way, because at the time we did not imagine that we would have so many users and would attract the attention of hackers."

[1]: https://sourceforge.net/p/linuxfxdevil/discussion/general/th...
You might want to check out the Time Odyssey series. It was written by Arthur C Clarke (along with Stephen Baxter) and deals with similar themes.
Thank you!

Yes, it's really hard to get the right audience to notice. I feel there's a layer of the tech stack that's not getting a lot of attention, but is ripe for disruption. Vaxiin is our first (public) stab at serving it.

Would you happen to have ideas how to spread the word beyond HN? We tried a couple of reddit forums, but met mostly cynical responses. It was rather disheartening.
Personally speaking, the biggest bursts of developer contributions I've observed haven't necessarily been technical achievements (though those exist, particularly in crunch-time situations where somebody really busts his ass for a few days/weeks/months), but process and business realizations.

Once a smart developer gets his hands into a domain and really understands how and why things work, they come up with realizations about the business or problem that really needs to be solved. Because they see all of the technical parts of the project, they can see stuff that the business people can't: things like figuring out what tasks might be able to be automated? Or what data can be connected to create new insights? I've seen some genuinely very smart business people working on a particular problem for years who didn't make the mental connections about what was possible to do with a certain kind of data, who smacked his own face in frustration once he was told by the developer what he could do with his data. These kinds of realizations are usually worth more to a project than even the most skilled developer.
> So perhaps a random lottery--with some IQ floor--and lower pay would be a win-win for companies and workers.

Do you think any shareholders would vote for such a strategy?
You could probably add something like #23 to the end of your street address and still get it.

For gmail and fastmail, you can use jim+xyz@gmail.com and change the xyz for every new email signup.
consider first determining exactly what kind of impact you would like your work to have

looking for something "positive" without principled and reasoned motivation to prefer any particular outcome is a great way to get yourself taken advantage of, or to make yourself a cog in a machine that takes advantage of others

do you know how you want to change the world? if so, go work on it. if you're not sure how to achieve a well defined objective, then read, study, try things, and talk to people until you have a better idea. if your objective is vague, think about it until it's not

if you want something "positive" but don't really know what, the first step is emphatically not to go join somebody else's movement, the first step is to determine precisely what positive means to you, then reason from first principles how to get there
My experience in academia has taught me the following: Any slowdown in productivity among mathematicians as they age is more a result of increased administrative duties, childcare, or loss of interest than it is cognitive decline. The slowdown is real, but the commonly suggested reason (biological aging) is not quite right.

You can look up cognitive decline studies and see that it really doesn't hit in full force until the 60s and 70s, with lots of heterogeneity. I've seen plenty of sharp 70-year-old academics doing great work (though I can't remember someone at 80 who I thought was still going full steam).
Although I maintain that a persistent travel itch is a symptom of dissatisfaction in day-to-day life which should be addressed, I backpacked Europe and the Middle East the summer after university. I was an incredibly enriching experience and one of those things people should do if they can afford it. I plan on doing Cape Town to Cairo in a few years.
What's "reasonable" from an informed perspective vs. an uniformed perspective are vastly different. There are already limits on ammunition and they don't work.
You can sell VOO at midnight and transfer the money to your bank account? I don't think so or at least I'm not sufficiently privileged to do so.
For the record, access to push notification APIs only needs to be done by the developer of the app the users are using. Small servers never need to communicate with Apple/Google themselves - any necessary notifications are routed through a gateway operated by the app's developer (which is also necessary because only the app developer is given the API keys and permissions to send push notifications to their app).

At the time of writing this, 90% of 363 tested XMPP domains support push notifications.

I'm not disagreeing with your overall point, mind. There is lots to compete with, and due to the lack of a good business case for open networks, most XMPP projects are by open-source volunteers and the majority of public XMPP services are similarly operated by volunteers.

There do exist projects with funding though, and there are multiple companies actively engaged in paid XMPP projects and deployments. But these all tend to happen behind closed doors, they're typically not deployments for the general public, or the XMPP is quietly under the hood of a larger service/product (such as happened in Zoom, WhatsApp, and many online games such as EVE and Fortnite).
But, it's a good point that you rarely hear much in the public discourse about how much NFL players make, where tech CEOs are a constant target of this sort of anger.

Mind you, I agree with you on the general point, but turns out people don't act terribly rationally about who they get angry at for making too much money.
Generating Function
This depends very much on the definition of "all US dollars in existence".

If I put a dollar in my savings account and the bank loans it out to someone else, who has the dollar? It's on my balance, but it's in their pocket. How many dollars are there?

This is the question of money supply, it's very complicated but the TLDR is there is no fixed "all dollar" amount. This scenario just further muddies the question, but also explains why stable coins keep central bankers awake at night.
It's not that hard to do in C. Make a macro that takes a function, it runs:

set_fs(KERN)
*function_pointer()
set_fs(USER)

There did it before, so they knew about that option, and if they didn't do it, they must have had a reason.
I attempted to visit y'all's website, but I get a DNS error? WHOIS shows it as registered though?
Someone needs to find a license that the LinuxFx company is violating and then sue to get them banned from distributing their malware anymore.
The article mentions a virtual optical fence that cuts the beam if anything impinges, so no roast pigeon with this system. Anything which the beam could couple to, haze, smog, etc, would definitely reduce efficiency for sure.
> Well any dinosaur that existed and flew wasn't actually a dinosaur but rather a pterosaur.

I believe you mean: "but rather a pterosaur or bird".
That was rather the point I was making...
Hmm. It's a lovely design, a bit preachy throughout, promoting the Startup Agenda, but plays fairly well. I hit a 'dead-end' very quickly on the first run through as I chose to continue to self-fund rather than seek investment. That, apparently, was fatal, as other investors didn't take my firm 'seriously'. Never mind.
Ask HN: How to start developing critical thinking?
I'm seeking practical advice on how to develop critical thinking. I need it in my life. I want to have independent though, and not be bound to anyone's view of the world without forming my own. Especially in our age it's a life or death skills to have.

I my critical thinking skills are very poor for my age.
Indeed, esc for Cancel and return/enter for Save still work - (which I actually knew, verified yesterday, and should probably have updated my post to mention before the annoying HN edit cutoff.)

Are you running macOS Monterey? It doesn't seem to have a Don't Save option in the "Do you want to keep this new document" dialog box - it's Delete, and command-d does not work for me.
Yeah, mine was in ideal conditions (bay area, garage) so that could definitely be a factor.
> Wordlessly offered a credit card reader, Collison says he’d rather pay cash.

Wonder why. Competitors’ device? Privacy concerns?