skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They certainly can cause a lot of chaos. In fact, I'd say that most malicious chaos normal internet users may be subjected to is done by these scriptkiddies.

Theres a difference, though, between an extensive ransomeware attack and an experiment by a bunch of amateurs. The chance of key recovery is much greater if there are dedicated criminals behind the attack, but amateurs also don't get the widespread reach that the media coverage might suggest.

I think the characterization of scriptkiddies as hopeless people is a bit romantic. I was something of a skiddie when I was young and I think a lot of their behaviour can be attributed to teenage recklessness.

The former USSR certainly has their fair share of scriptkiddies but they're around in every country. When the USSR was still around, the west had its fair share of phreakers that developed into the hacker subculture and established the code of honour that evolved into the cybersecurity communities of today.
The complexity is this:

> Suppose you buy a home for $500,000, financing the purchase with a mortgage at a 6.4 percent interest rate. A few years later, you sell for $600,000. Interest rates have fallen, and the new buyer is able to get a mortgage at 4.7 percent.

> The price of the home has risen by 20 percent, so you could just say the cost of housing has gone up 20 percent. But that would be misleading. Assuming a 20 percent down payment, your original mortgage would have cost $2,502 per month, while the new owner’s mortgage would cost $2,489 per month. The monthly mortgage payment required to own the home actually went down.
For perhaps the ultimate example of "pictures under glass", contrast this product:

https://www.slatemt.com/

with a traditional mixing console, full of physical objects to press, grab, twirl, slide etc.
The Mathematical Theory of Relativity, Arthur Eddington (1923) [pdf]
You don't realize what's required for all that to work properly. Webpack + Babel at the least. Expecting that a beginner developer will have to learn these to write even simple programs is absurd.
Mortgage loan officers (and also car salesmen) do all in their power to redirect people away from the fact that they're going to fork over e.g. $600k in total interest and principle for a $300k sticker-price house over 30 years. They do this by focusing on the monthly payment rather than the actual total spend. Convincing buyers that monthly out-of-pocket spend is somehow a proxy for the actual purchase price is a powerful tool that, while not technically deceptive (you do, after all, have to sign a Truth-in-Lending statement when you finance a house), absolutely causes people to spend more than they otherwise would.

But since the total lifetime spend on a house is absolutely lower if the interest rate over the life of the loan is lower, then it's true that lower interest rates make homes cheaper over their lifetimes. I don't understand why the writer of this article would chose to focus on the deceptive monthly payment argument rather than the concrete interest-rate argument.
wouldn't taking 5 poor kids to a pizza hut be an act of sympathy and not empathy?
The math behind mind-reading tricks
Sequoia Capital warns of a ‘Crucible Moment’ for startups
Properly Constructed ML Models Are Not Necessarily Biased: Neuroimaging Study
Correlations aren't catered for, as far as I can see.

But I think it's still a worthwhile point he's making, one that people can see quite plainly at work: the boss makes a lot of money because he's the boss, not because being boss is hard or requires special skills.

People are social animals, and societies need leaders. Everyone appreciates that, but maybe we overvalue it a bit:

- Think about it, when have you ever lacked a leader of some sort? Someone always wants to do it, just so they can be leader. Whether it's running your local kids' sports club, the parish council, or a multinational, when was it ever the case that nobody signed up?

- There's always someone who is competent. This is a bit different but related. When a CEO is replaced, there's a song and dance about how hard it is to do his job, but any competent boss surrounds himself with competent lieutenants. When he goes there's always more than one that can do a reasonable job, save for one issue...

- Credibility. This is the political tool we use to create artificial scarcity, so that we can justify giving the chosen one his lion's share of the spoils. Live long enough in a hierarchical organization and you'll see this: X isn't old enough, Y doesn't have enough tenure, Z bungled this project. We narrow the choices arbitrarily, and if the wrong person is brought in, BS is made up to remove them.

- The boss always makes the most, except in special circumstances where it's very obvious and contracted that some lower level person should make more. Portfolio managers at hedge funds for instance might make more than the CEO, because they're promised some % of a number. Why does the boss make the most? Hierarchy says so.

- A boss might make 100x the average employee. If you had the choice, who would you make ill for a day? The boss or 100 employees? The boss, because his work is actually worth 100x but doesn't suffer from taking the day off? Ok so why don't you give him those days off and pay him less? If he makes the wrong decision, we'll lose 100 salaries? Ok so how are we going to know what would have happened in the alternative universe where he does the right thing? More arbitrary decision making coming. There's just no way to justify by productivity why there's this huge gap.

- There's also no way to justify it by incentive. Paying the boss 100x is not going to allow you to train-by-ambition someone who wants to be the future boss. Yes, people will want the job and the money. But they don't become 100x just because there's a carrot. What about the whole "if we don't pay him he'll go elsewhere" argument? Certainly if he has the choice he will, but often you don't want to win the auction.
It's a reference to this https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/youll-own-nothing-and-be-happ...
I thought they ripped the network stack from BSD.

https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/381190-windows-tcpip-stac...
>Wow, those goalposts sure moved a long way!

Read the thread your replying into. Here's the descending comments:

1. Topic: Australia confiscated 650k guns. Murder and suicides plummeted. This was 1996

2. Death plummets in the decades following 1996.

3. There were more mass shootings in Australia before the 1996 law than after.

4. List with shootings since 1996.

5. List doesn't compare to the shooting in 1996.

6. Question on evidence about effectiveness of such buybacks, asking about the buyback from Australia working.....

7. Me: It doesn't necessarily work. Similarly to Australia since 1996, other countries saw similar reductions in murder, even without passing such a law. New Zealand for example saw this reduction without passing such a law (around the same time clearly implied, since we were talking about reduction in crime from around 1996....)

8. You: derailed by ignoring the thread and pointing out New Zealand passed a law in 2019, well after the crime drop.

You are really the only one in this thread confused about how to demonstrate if such laws work by looking at the evidence.

>We were talking about the Osmington shooting in 2018

Um no, we were not. It was mentioned in a comment about items on a list. The nest comment went back to asking about effectiveness of laws like the 1996 law, and the one after that clearly went back to discussing evidence for or against such laws by using other places, again from 1996. No one else jumped back to it except you much later...

>Also, New Zealand did pass an amendment to the Arms Act in 1992

Yep, and tell me exactly how many and which guns this removed? Oh, none? So they didn't remove any guns.... And how is this evidence in a thread asking about gun buyback law effectiveness? The summaries of the law even state that it did not change much, because like the US Assault Weapons Ban, it was based on scary looking things instead of important things like lethality.

But it didn't remove guns, and apparently didn't change much at all.

Since you seem unable to note the discussion is about homicide rates dropping pretty consistently despite local laws, here is New Zealand's homicide rate over the entire period in question [1]. Which laws caused this? Is there clear jumps?

Now do the same for pretty much any first world country, note the same reductions, note the variety of laws passed or not, and pretty soon you notice the laws do not seem to be the driving force in homicide reduction.

But go ahead and keep losing the thread and moving the goal posts.

[1] https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/NZL/new-zealand/murder...
Problem is the amount of money people will pay for a place to live is unlimited.

If people would take 300 year mortgages that would put your kids into debt bondade if thry could
I have read the article - I just don't understand the article.

What do they mean "hierarchy"? If I take this not as an article but a long sarcastic rant, they seem to be saying "we found the thing that determines who gets paid the most - it's the people at the top of the hierarchy within the firm"

I might be being unfair with the sarcastic comment. I mean this is an accurate analysis.

It might also point to some alternative universe organisation where people at the top of the hierarchy are not paid most, they just need someone to sign the paperwork, the people paid the most are measured by productivity
You can make the argument any feedback is 'valuable' sort of like people contrive to defend entirely offtopic or incomprehensible comments as 'relevant'. But HN discussions have additional standards and not being a terse, dismissive jerk, especially about the work of others is one of the important ones.
Migrating extraterrestrial civilizations and interstellar colonization
But someone made $100k in a sale a few years later…
From what I understand, the very end goal is not to make money off of the hardware but the services that the hardware will provide. Existing OEMs are not easy to work with, especially if you're trying to get them to install your app in their car. I like to think of it like the smart phone hardware/software revolution that happened after the first iPhone came out. Tesla is like Apple and I hope Lucid will become like Android. The pre-EV era OEMs are like Nokia, Blackberry, etc...
Agreed, there are too many correlations to make hierarchal rank a useful metric for directly comparing to income.

I think the author would get more interesting results by looking at how much hierarchal rank is passed down through generations and comparing that against expected income.
I don't think you understand what coercive means
You are quoting the name of the company, who's name is 37 years old, not the current state of it's technology. It's true it was originally RISC, and is still somewhat RISC, but it's also true it's acquired many decidedly CISC instructions over the decades - is it CISC or RISC ? reality is not this simplistic, it's a bit of both, and I'm not qualified to judge how much of each.
Says EVERYONE who drives a late-model car that sticks everything behind the sliding fingers under glass UX, from climate controls to the volume of the stereo.

This is a known problem, and one that will get people killed, because it demands that drivers focus on the infotainment screen and not the road to do a mundane task that their tactile fingers could easily perform on their own with mechanical controls.
> You don't need to purchase a home - but historically - if you did - you've been much better off financially.

it's not the purchase of the home that made you better off financially, but the ability to purchase a home.

If you had that ability, investing in another asset at the same leverage level (such as shares) would net you even more financial income (obviously, its higher risk).
Definitely a more flexible option, but you might trade overall value for that flexibility (in the sense that you can frequently use accrued points for more value than the cash).
>but it's kind of unfortunate how founder lore really minimizes employees

Yes it is, And none more pronounced than those involving celebrity founders like Elon Musk; The achievements of SpaceX and Tesla are often showcased like 'his' alone in media like Iron Man waving his hand and Jarvis building the products.

One thing these founders are proven to be good at is getting very talented people to work for them and perhaps lately taking credit for all their efforts.

P.S. Not implying that Collison Bros are like that, I don't know enough about them and I like Stripe as a product.
I guess I don't take the attitude I need to find them again. If I do, great, if not, I still go over the next hill to see what's there. I find the open world exploration quite fun.
We do. It's called voting. The redress you want is from voting citizens who disagree with you. And crypto doesn't solve that at all.
A "sick wannabe Blackmirror power play" is a little much.

This is probably the cheapest ransomware unlock that's ever been put out there (unless you're based in the US, then good fucking luck on the medical care clause). If you're a company whose security policies are too terrible to survive a ransomware attack, then you'd rather be hit with this one than any of the others.
Is it your contention that the net migration out of many US urban centers that was going on through about the 1990s can never happen again? In spite of the fact that it's probably possible to do more things remotely than it was back then?

There's also a lot between a city center and true rural wilds of Wyoming (especially the way the US Census defines it). There's a lot of pretty affordable housing and land within an hour or two of most major cities with decent infrastructure, hospitals, etc. No there's not much public transportation but that's true of anywhere that people are spread out.
Similar to Pokemon Go in the US
Only if it was built and distributed by an independent third party. Otherwise, why would you trust that what you are being given is unmodified?

(But in this context, said independent third party is now a target, so that e.g. a government that wants to get your decryption key may talk to them.)

This is where reproducible builds are good stuff, because they make it possible to confirm that what you got is actually correct and unaltered. Sadly, that stuff only really works on desktop platforms, because mobile software distribution has kinda undermined it and the web never supported anything of this sort. (In ProtonMail’s defence, some years ago they did try to help with that for the web; but I believe all of that work stalled due to lack of implementer interest.)
You mean when women were generally discouraged from getting jobs people were paid more? What a shocker.
>I doubt anyone has enough patience for the next question of "what's a terminal"

Have you spent time trying to teach people stuff?

Most people have no idea whatsoever how to learn things. Instead of asking "what's a terminal?" and getting a grunt in response, they won't even ask.

Learning things greatly outside your expertise needs a huge time and effort investment towards grokking the basics of the subject.

Most adults are goal-oriented, which means they won't do the hard work of really getting the basics, nor even think that maybe they should be asking, reading and writing down stuff they don't know that won't immediately help with their goal, but is fundamental to not end up bumbling about cluelessly.

The standard behaviour is like trying to solve differential equations without knowing what a function is. Just trying stuff works if what you are trying to do is piss easy, and it won't work if it requires any building blocks / isn't piss easy.

Instead of looking at a term they don't understand and grinding until they understand it (which is often a recursive endeavour), they are just trying to make it work.
I found the colours extremely distracting, and the test didn't give any results because I was better/faster without them. You still should give numbers in such a case.
I was going to write you off as one of those weird trackball people, but then I dug into the mouse. It does look like a useful tool for CAD in conjunction with a normal mouse
I have been writing JavaScript professionally for nearly 20 years. I try my damndest to keep up, but the fact of the matter is the ecosystem is garbage. It’s really not a not-knowing-the-language thing. It’s a legacy of years and years of incompatible tooling requiring even more tooling to work around nightmare scenario. Node modules not working in the browser without translation was the original sin that kicked the whole nightmare off.

Nothing ever works like a sane person would expect. When I do get a working typescript + webpack setup it’s almost entirely by accident. I stumbled upon something that works? Just avoid touching it at all costs.

Recently I wanted to load an AMD module in Deno and just about gave my self an aneurism before giving up hours later.

I have worked in dozens of languages over my career, and not encountered as much of a clusterf*ck as JavaScript anywhere else. I have never worked with anything before where so few people had any idea how it actually worked and just prayed that it continues.
No, there doesn't. You can own and trade something you built. That's what remunerated work is.
If you want to include shrinkflation, it’s going to wind up involving a lot of data entry.
Patch released for cross-domain cookie leakage flaw in Guzzle
I'm sure it doesn't help, but even with all that stuff disabled it's bad. svchost.exe's mysterious machinations, windows updates, superfetch (or whatever they call it now), one drive syncing, malware checking, app updates, it's like 'everything everywhere all at once' for Windows.

You can make a case for all those things, of course. Just why does it have to launch into them all immediately upon startup? On a beefier machine it's probably not noticeable but it's sad to see on older PCs when Windows 10 at launch was quite reasonable when it came to lower specs.
My understanding is: every x86 processor from Intel and AMD has been microcoded to an extent. The 8086 through the 808486 used a "horizontal microcode" PLA (like all microprocessors of the era), but when Intel introduced the first superscalar x86 processor, the P5, they switched to "vertical microcode". IIRC, that vertical microcode has always been based around "simple" decoder PLAs and a "complex" decoder ROM.

Horizontal microcode is the execution unit control lines being toggled directly by the PLA. Vertical microcode (of the P5 and up) is more in line with what people understand "microcode" to be, but it's still internal uops, never "raw" x86 instructions. The encoding of the actual uop can usually be roughly correlated with the external ISA encoding, but that's just to ease work on the decoder.

Realistically, with CISC, you'll always have a microcode sequencer of some sort. More broadly, short of a TTA, there's going to be a PLA somewhere.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_triggered_architectu...
> * arbitrary file I/O. I can take my compile time data and write a python script to put it in a std::array, but I shouldn’t have to.

https://ziglang.org/documentation/0.9.1/#embedFile

I haven't tried, but because it should just be equivalent to a string literal you should be able to further process it using comptime as well.

> * non-fixed-sized containers, ie vector

One way is to just have a function count how many entries you need and use arrays. This is all pretty straightforward because comptime.

Real dynamic comptime containers are dependent on making a comptime allocator available. There's a ticket for that: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/1291

> * a generic memoization utility in the standard library for caching. If I want my function to handle any input at runtime, but I want to pre-populate a cache at compile time for values that I know will be called, it’s doable but not as easy as it should be. (In general, given the amount of algorithms that rely on memoization, I’m somewhat surprised that Python is the only language I know that makes memoization as easy as a decorator).

I don't think it's possible to use comptime to generate wrapper functions duplicating the signature of a given function, at least I haven't found a way to do so. The function signature has to be spelled out in the comptime code.
I'm not familiar with Clojure, but: how would that suggestion handle a model like:

`hometown: City extends String, livesIn: City extends String`

Is the counter-argument that these are poorly specified types, and it should be: `hometown: Hometown extends City extends String, livesIn: LiveIn extends City extends String`?

I feel like at some point a balance needs to be struck. Its valuable to name types specifically; but that value can evaporate if they're too specific. It could approach FooFactoryFactoryGeneratorFactory java type-hell, where the names no longer make sense because they have to be globally unique and maximally describe whatever entity its typing. Maximal rigor isn't productive.
> I wonder if eventually the Fed will try to track inflation as a vector rather than a single number.

They already do, they just publish it as a single number for simplicity and ease of comparison. Multiply your vector by weights corresponding to "relevance" and you get PCE.

https://www.thebalance.com/personal-consumption-expenditures...
I am not an apologist for Bell any other the other terrible providers in Canada. There are many reasons to hate them. But why are Canadians surprised it is expensive? Landmass larger than the US with 1/10 the population. Yes, most of it is empty and unserviced, but building a national network costs the same amount no matter how many users it has.

Most of the comments here are comparing the UK or EU. Australia is close, and the NBN shows what a nightmare it is.
Hands feel and manipulate things because they evolved in a physical world where that type of interaction was most efficient. The digital world opens up new possibilities that don't need physical manipulation to be controlled. It feels a bit luddite to restrict interaction just to physical manipulation. I agree, sometimes designers go too far, e.g. in the case of touch-screen hvac controls in cars. However, there are also examples where physical manipulation is not desired. For instance, the smartphone is so powerful because it's not tied to one physical mode of operation. It can have buttons for a calculator, or a keyboard, or serve as a book, or a video game controller, or...

Given that this was written in 2011, I commend the author for having an opinion, but it has aged rather like milk to me.
They can shut the studio down, same way Walmart shuts stores down.
A bit sad not to see common traits that are said to effect income, like height, weight, and conformity to secondary sex characteristic. They mention weight as an example for statistics, but do not correlate that to income within the gender group.
Why would he buy Ford when his goal is to free up Twitter more, which he has stated a few times?
Why? Everyone calls Google Google. Alphabet is like a holding company.

I'd wager if you scraped most news publications you'd see Meta used across the board, Google used in most cases and a few cases where the writer uses "Alphabet, Google's parent company..." (https://thehill.com/policy/technology/3503534-activists-work...) which IMHO just proves the point I'm trying to make

For the perfect exhibit, look no further than this Tech Crunch article with the headline "Meta and Google's Gradient..." https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/26/meta-and-google-gradient-i...
> psychology is based in neurology

It isn't though. It's not like math, built on axiomatic foundations. Psychology predates the discovery of neurons.

(Math isn't really like that either.)
EKS Tales: Managed Nodegroup vs. self-managed nodes vs. FARGATE?
Ok, but the the standalone application is still not required for 4K. You can watch Netflix in 4K using Edge on Windows or Safari on Mac.