skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hang on, what mid-sized independent software companies have been around with the same corporate ownership since 1992?

In today's world of corporate growth via acquisition, having a modestly successful job with a modestly successful mid-sized company in no way insulates you from the economic forces of the outside world.

Legitimate modest success tends to result either in a series of endless acquisitions where a mid-size business gets absorbed into incrementally larger businesses time after time - or where the business gets acquired by one of the larger, monolithic players in the industry. With any acquisition, restructurings, layoffs and product changes have substantial impact on those moderately successful staffers.

Alternately, stagnation or modest decline typically results in vulnerability to market forces which results again in a buyout by another player in the market, or a buyout by a private equity group who cuts costs, lays off staff, and tries to leverage whatever assets they can to maximize their return at the expense of the business itself. The effects on the staffers are even worse.

Sure, you can find a boring, moderately successful job for yourself. It may last 5, even 10 years. But the days of being able to have a modestly successful, boring job with the same company for 30 years appear to be completely gone.
In business you have to get it right close to 100% of the time. In AI research people often think it is groundbreaking when you get it right 40% of the time.
How reliable are these LIDAR scans? They seem pretty speculative to me and the way they label features doesn't always make sense. Like page 10 of the PDF has a causeway intersecting with a canal and merging. That doesn't seem likely or possible given what I know about canals and roads.
With the exception of Excel, I don't use Microsoft for development. I don't use vim. I stick with the defaults as much as possible as painful as that is. I thoroughly document all changes I make so that on the next clean install, I can remember what I did before. Any of my "conveniences" are never dependencies. The only dotfile that matters to me is my .bash_aliases file which is merely a stub pointing to an over-engineered startup script to avoid the madness of using dotfiles.
I’m looking forward to the compiler kit.
You mentioned "fines", which implies a law. Voluntary codes of conduct can't be enforced with fines.

I do agree that media organizations should be more responsible about not glorifying violence or publicizing the identities of violent criminals. A desire for notoriety seems to have been one of the motives in some mass shootings.
Well, damn. Where's the Eeyore porn?
This is true, unfortunately.

Here's an example of things to come:

https://www.arch13.com/ms-windows-defender-decss/

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27914752
This is why we need more employee ownership of companies.
side note: FAANG is an obsolete acronym according to The Economist, it's now Microsoft - Amazon - Meta - Apple - Alphabet, leading to the new acronym, MAMAA, which has the nice result that we can now talk about the outsized influence of Big MAMAA in the tech world.
The author of this page seems to have just added a bunch of company logos to the "Supporters" section at random, with no indication that those companies actually support this or are planning to remove IPv4 support on February 1st, 2030.
The word you used was "related to". That term encompasses a lot of ground. It would be a very strong claim that it's completely unrelated, and that claim is easily shown to be false.

I said explicitly that it doesn't mean that all uses of the Thin Blue Line symbol are white supremacist. But it's clear that white supremacists have used that symbol, prominently.
> kernel updates were well vetted for regressions.

That seems like the kind of things that is easier said than done.
Looking at you, Tableau.
secret fear of almost everyone who has been seeing this war unfold
[in small text] ignoring that it's almost all stock, vested over 10 years, and pretending we can predict the price of the stock 10 years from now [in large text] Amazon is paying its CEO a salary of $212 MILLION DOLLARS!!!
> The web killed the internet.

This is an under-appreciated observation, and adds useful context to a lot of the other answers given here.

> I wouldn't be surprised if http came for smtp next.

I hate to be the one to tell you, but:

https://jmap.io/
is your postal code in the US?
Quite a narrow case, and it still requires careful attention in order to shoot the animals. Perhaps there are more practical alternatives with fewer externalities like fences, traps, scents, motion detecting lights, noise deterants, etc.
Security won't be jeopardized because of PoW difficulty adjustments. The 'fear' here is that say 50% of the hashrate turns off, difficulty adjusts... and then it all turns back on and attacks the network.

That won't happen as long as mining is as decentralized as it is today. Saying that 'China' controls the hashrate is wrong because it isn't 'China'... it is a bunch of smaller individuals and they are acting in their own best interests. Attacking the network wouldn't help them at all.

AA covers this in a video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUd8ZGgm6Qo
Because they can privately buy the regulators who can then make them even richer. If you place that much influence in the hands of anyone, it will be misused for personal gain.
Hopefully we'll see AVX-512 in Intel's little cores soon. Centaur's last CPU architecture proves that it is possible to implement the extension without a huge amount of area [0]. Once that happens, I expect we'll finally consistently see AVX-512 on new Intel processors. The masks really are a huge improvement to the design.

AMD should be implementing AVX-512 on their own cores soon as well. Once Armv9 (with SVE2) becomes dominant, we'll pretty much be in a golden age of SIMD.

[0]: https://chipsandcheese.com/2022/04/30/examining-centaur-chas...
The user @Proven has a comment that was downvoted and is now dead, but I'm not sure why. The comment seems reasonable. At least this part, I agree with:

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I can buy real assets rather than assume that these oracles, "Smart" Contracts, code dependencies, blockchain (network), and developers will remain stable in extreme conditions.

If you need stablecoin, that's because cryptocurrencies are useless to denominate prices. We may as well use a Central Bankster-backed coin (which no one invested in crypto wants to admit).

It may be harder to remain anonymous, but at least there's much less to fail (mostly just the currency itself, which is why buying real-world assets represented by tokens is a much better approach).
I think this is a good movement and a decent timeline goal. In my personal opinion, as a suggestion I believe the Site Operators section could use a link to a detail page that offers additional tips such as ensuring that equivalent firewall rules and kernel settings are applied to ipv6 settings to match ipv4. e.g. sysctl, iptables, firewalld, nftables, ipsets, dns blocklists Site operators should also ensure that whatever protections they have added to ipv4 have a corresponding protection on ipv6. Always test your migration on a test/staging/beta version of your sites first and keep DNS TTL low prior to and just after testing. Or in the case of datacenters, add a new ipv6 vip on your load balancers for testing using a unique endpoint name to avoid your production clients finding it by mistake before you are ready.

Additionally there are DNS propagation validators [1] to verify DNS settings for ones test/staging sites. Qualys [2] has a tester for checking that both ipv4/ipv6 https settings match. Qualys also have a test [3] for clients.

[Edit] As others noted the sites that are purported to support this movement should have a corresponding page on their site linking back to this domain otherwise they should be removed. The CTO of Cloudflare [4] frequents HackerNews so that should be easy to bring to closure.

[1] - https://www.whatsmydns.net/ # Note: their web client does not wait long enough at times and may fail until you hit refresh on some probes.

[2] - https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/

[3] - https://clienttest.ssllabs.com:8443/ssltest/viewMyClient.htm...

[4] - https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jgrahamc

@jgrahamc
thanks for the feedback! It is only for taco bell so I assumed it wasn't needed
what if you have bird feeders in your garden, do you think they pose a risk? These are small birds, are they susceptible?

Maybe I should move it.
> … lack of type safety…

Smalltalk is type safe & not statically checked.

"Type safety is the property that no primitive operation ever applies to values of the wrong type."

page 263 "Programming Languages: Application and Interpretation"

[pdf] https://cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Books/ProgLangs/2007-0...
It’s great to have a service network.
It sucks having to haggle with these clowns when buying a car.
Direct sales you get price transparency.
Even dealers showing inventory online neglect to mention that they want a $10K ADM until you try to buy the thing in person. Or only if you buy $5K in accessories. Or only if you finance. Or only if you get some BS extended warranty/service contract, etc
> Most companies don’t have these problems

Can anyone cite a single real world example of a fully stateless system being run for the purpose of business? I ask this every time JWTs come up and no one can answer it.

As soon as you tap the database on a request for any reason, whether it's for authorization or anything else, you might as well kiss JWTs goodbye.

Then again, just don't use them anyway, because they have no benefit. Zero. Disagree? Prove it. I'm sure there's some infinitesimally small benefit if you could measure it, but the reality is that JWTs are saving you from an operation that databases and computers themselves are designed to be extremely good at.

Don't use JWTs. They're academic flim-flam being used to sell services like Auth0.
I'm using this comment as jumping point.

What's cost/opportunity to optimizing for a specific platform/instruction set ? At what point is it worth doing, when isn't it worth doing ? AVX-512 strikes as something... "ephemeral".
because the rich use their wealth to buy instruments that sway public opinion at the expense of everyone else?
> Supporters

> They don’t endorse anything on this page, but they love the internet.

This is ... as the kids say, sus.
even better use DNS over HTTPS/TLS.
You're right and my above comment is wrong, but I still think the downside risk is bigger than the upside risk. It's ETH with 100% leverage, except beyond the risk of collapse of ETH there is also the risk of the collapse of RAI. Either of those happening would result in severe losses.
Wow, Esphome on the front page. This project is what makes me feel like ironman.

The most used esphome is the one I have installed with a relay to my garage opener. I'm able to automatically conjure siri using 'hey siri' on my airpods and tell her to open my garage, while being on my motorcycle. The response time of my garage opening from having finished my sentence to siri is less than half a second! I drive right in, and I have a timer set on home assistant to hit the relay again after a minute so the garage closes automatically. Also have 5 esphomes with motion/temperature sensors.

All my automations are programmed using node-red. Everything is run using docker-compose.

Keep in mind, my home assistant or esphome is NOT open to the internet, and only controllable by apple devices from outside the network.
The standards of living are high only because of the natural bounty of the Bay Area. Pretty good weather, stunning natural beauty with easy access to plentiful and varied open spaces, some of the best produce in the nation thanks to the most fertile and productive farmland in the world (central valley), multicultural, and generally tolerant and respectful people.

But many of the objective things that count towards a high standard of living are not much better than the rest of the nation, given the eye-watering tax burdens on CA residents. California roads are amongst the worst, housing quality is generally poor and nothing to write home about, failure to promote dense housing has led to encroachment on wooded areas that are huge fire risks, zero investment in burying power lines has exacerbated forest fires even further, and heavy property crime due to the exploding homeless population in core urban areas is continuously threatening public safety. Not to mention the insanely high gas prices (due to CA taxes), consumption taxes and effectively high property taxes which all hit living standards of average people quite hard.
Let's be optimistic & say you can somehow get batteries for $0.1/watt-hour, lower better. I just payed 5x that for some rc lipos, but let's be optimistic.

This is 10M$/15.66MWh/ft. The last is what makes this absurdly cheap. If those 5b gallons are raised up from the source only 1 foot, it'd be $0.64/watt-hour, more expensive.

But if you lift that water up 6 feet, it's down to $0.1/watt-hour, and suddenly you're at parity for the best anyone can expect. Lift that water up a 200 ft hill and you're down to $0.0032/watt-hour stored. Lifting a huge body of water is a colossal amount of work, it turns out, and thats what makes pumped hydro storage absurdly cost-effective.

Please also note the other comment. Apparently the new 5b gallon project is not $10m, it's unknown what it will cost, the $10m was for an old project. Even without knowing the cost of this new project, I expect the final figures will blow li-ion storage prices out of the water. For ex, if it it cost 10x more, $100m, but is up a 200ft hill, it's still $0.032/watt-hour. And there's really not a strong reason to stop at 200ft either; it's limited mostly by whatever the terrain offers (and how cost effectively one can engineer strong pumps & tubes. turns out we're pretty awesome at that.).
> The current IPv4 is unnecessarily slow

I've never heard of IPv6 being faster than IPv4. Does anybody know what they're talking about?
> The only time I’ve had a kernel update break things

> That definitely broke my assumption that kernel updates were well vetted for regressions.

Shouldn't that be evidence for the contrary? One break in a decade or two of use isn't so bad. It's actually pretty good.
Anyone who has encountered a potato or corn (maize) should know that the Americas had superior agricultural technology to Europe. Metallurgy and mechanics just leave more obvious artifacts.
You could kind of say a similar thing about some of Maxwell's and Einstein's work - restating Faraday or Lorentz in a more elegant way is not great achievement, but if it leads to a clue where a new rule can be found then it might be very useful.

But I'll admit I don't understand constructor theory, and maybe it can hide any interesting discrepancies by overfitting.
I'm more familiar with traditional retail options, but I'm confused.

I understand why the employees would want a loan - they need money to buy the shares required to exercise the loan - and I guess they can't do it through a normal broker?

If the employees Exercise-to-sell-to-cover or Exercise-to-sell they should be fine right because they would have closed the loan? This would explain why so many took the loan but so few of the layoffs were affected.

Is the only issue the ones that didn't Exercise-to-sell? I understand that tax will need to be paid but I'm not sure what benefit they'd have would be?

Unless, its because the capital gains + loan rate < income tax?
Amusing. The purpose of a company was originally exactly that: to employ people and provide services and value to the community they existed in. I mean, this is still the exact reason politicians cite when providing incentives to companies - bringing jobs to their cities/states.

I'm pretty sure I don't like this new definition; it feels like it's based on greed, not value.
But you could have that upside by owning the collateral.

If I own the collateral, I own the upside and downside of the collateral. If I own a stablecoin pegged to the collateral, I own the upside and downside of the collateral, plus the risk of the stablecoin collapsing.

The stablecoin doesn't offer me any upside compensating for the risk, so we are left arguing that the risk of collapse is negligible, or arguing that there is some other benefit of owning the stablecoin to compensate for the additional risk of owning stablecoins instead of owning the collateral.
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I'm with you there. The Polestar 2 is an absolutely excellent competitor to the Model 3, along with the Ioniq 5 and EV6. In my testing I found the PS2 to be more fun than the others and vastly more comfortable than a Model 3, but less practical than the Ioniq 5 or EV6 due to using an adapted platform instead of bespoke. That said, if you don't need a ton of range or room the Polestar is a total blast in the dual motor trim! I was seriously tempted by it.
Your reference [2] is somewhat suspect. As far as I know, it is not generally accepted in the physics community that the Born rule can be derived directly from the Schrodinger equation. In fact, it seems generally accepted that such a derivation does not currently exist, and MWI has to stick it in as an additional postulate in some form (or otherwise give an auxiliary argument for it, none of which seem generally accepted either).

Further, the author of that paper, Frank Tipler, is a notorious nutjob: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_J._Tipler.

I don't have time at the moment to review the paper in detail to locate any potential flaws, but I wanted to flag this for others. I think there is substantial reason to be skeptical.
Most of the stuff in the "ethics overhaul" is pie in the sky nonsense.

Take this bullet point: "Whether AWS does due diligence to know if cloud customers are using its services in a way that contributes to human rights violations"

What does that even mean? How could that possibly be accomplished? Who decides what constitutes a "human rights violation" in the first place?
I disagree. If you're managing programmers, you might be expected to have a bit of a clue about programming languages. If you can't tell how easy it would be for your people to pick up Go versus how easy it would be to pick up Lisp, you have no business managing programmers.
I don't understand: How does it protect end-user privacy if multiple state agencies, rather than just one, can access their identity and metadata?
Same, I live in CA and thankfully it hasn't been reported in CA at all somehow. I live by a popular bird flyway so it's a tad concerning.
A key feature of the leveling system is that it allows somewhat for player controlled difficulty levels.

There is a wide range of skill levels of players, and what is "appropriately leveled" for one player might be trivial or impossibly hard for others.

Players level to the point where they can beat the bosses that they get stuck on.
Says who? I think the idea of "purpose" of a company is very nebulous and interacts opaquely with: the "incentives" of a company, the societal purpose for having companies, the mission statement of a particular company, etc. I would say the purpose of a company is mostly to make money for the owners of the company, which is not the exact same as what you said.
I think there's a lot of suspicion in most Muslim countries towards the motives of the US government when it accuses China of genocide.

Over the last 20 years, the US has waged war in predominantly Muslim countries. A conservative estimate is that the US is directly responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Muslim civilians over the last 20 years, in wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and many other countries. Add to that US support for Israel, and US support for Saudi Arabia's horrific war in Yemen, and the US has essentially no credibility when it claims to be oh so concerned with the rights of Muslims in China.

In this light, the US' accusations against China over Xinjiang look like cynical political posturing. The obviously hyperbolic nature of the accusations (including deploying the word "genocide," despite the complete lack of evidence that any mass killing is occurring) just make the US' posture on this issue look even more cynical and crass.
The problem is who gets to define what is "fair"?

I have similar qualms about an athlete who nets $46 million per year [1] for shooting balls into a basket. But, then, who am I to decide his "fair" pay? His club obviously thinks he's worth that…

1 - https://hoopshype.com/player/stephen-curry/salary/
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Docker didn't really attempt to monetize Kubernetes at all until the writing was on the wall, instead they had their own thing (Swarm) that they were pushing but most of the ecosystem went in the other direction.
just putting in 2 cents, first is the harsh reality of using lethal means to defend a flock is not somthing most people want to handle; second is a domestic flock is a smaller priority than a large wild bird die off event.
these are reasons right there, but not reason enough for me

I would probably be raising chickens in something like a greenhouse/pavillion, and using hygienic technique to minimize crossover events.
Not sure if here is the place for this but here goes. Personally I've been dealing with a regression of sorts on my laptop: it no longer suspends without being quickly woken up again on the main kernel release (works fine on LTS). Does anyone know if and where I could file a bug report?
it sounds like you believe that GMO foods can be key to fixing our most serious problems, and that the existing, documented problems with GMO "can go away" .. seems unrealistic at best to me
> Could we do better? Assuredly. There are many AVX-512 that we are not using yet. We do not use ternary Boolean operations (vpternlog). We are not using the new powerful shuffle functions (e.g., vpermt2b). We have an example of coevolution: better hardware requires new software which, in turn, makes the hardware shine.

> Of course, to get these new benefits, you need recent Intel processors with adequate AVX-512 support

AVX-512 support can be confusing because it’s often referred to as a single instruction set.

AVX-512 is actually a large family of instructions that have different availability depending on the CPU. It’s not enough to say that a CPU has AVX-512 because it’s not a binary question. You have to know which AVX-512 instructions are supported on a particular CPU.

Wikipedia has a partial chart of AVX-512 support by CPU: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVX-512#CPUs_with_AVX-512

Note that some instructions that are available in one generation of CPU are can actually be unavailable (superseded, usually) in the next generation of the CPU. If you go deep enough into AVX-512 optimization, you essentially end up targeting a specific CPU for the code. This is not a big deal if you’re deploying software to 10,000 carefully controlled cloud servers with known specifications, but it makes general use and especially consumer use much harder.