skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Bezos achieved" it's never one person that changes the world, it's the conditions being ripe for it along with some bloke having enough seed money and brutal determination to make it happen.

IMO Bezos's main achievement was to get through the dot com bubble by keeping enough investors in so that the company wouldn't collapse. Execution probably played a role, but I think what played a bigger role were his extremely good contacts to wall street and the money owning elite in general. Keeping people convinced that your "books.com" remains a fine investment while the "pets.com"s around you are dying like flies is an achievement IMO.
Seating protocols in Japan – what are your comments?
Moron confuses increase in net worth with income, news at 11.

By this token, anyone who owns a house probably made a $100k+ extra in income the last couple of years.
Minority != racial/ethnic minority.

Homeless people are by all definitions a minority.

I can’t really understand why you are asking the other questions (accidentally replying to another comment?)
Why are small businesses so good? Yes they offer a living for people but objectively there is scant choice, you’re paying for overhead and support is inconvenient or awkward.
It sounds like you have an opinion but would rather sea lion. In the event that you are being genuine, there have been multitudes of instances.

- Post jan 6 insurrection has left Republicans trying to justify their seditious invasion of the U.S. capital as protests protected by speech: https://knightfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/KF_F...

- The "Cancel culture" pejorative has created a double standard where a certain political party cries foul for being censored on private platforms (for violating TOS) and push for government regulation of said platforms to protect their political opinions. They are even trying to redefine private websites as the public square to do it.

- Sacha Baron Cohen also sums it up nicely in his speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymaWq5yZIYM

If you really are genuine with your questions and asking for citations, you can google more topics about any of the above.
Not the OP, but it has recently come to light what lots of people had already suspected, i.e. that Bellingcat is laundering information provided to them by various Western intelligence companies. From here [1]:

> Paul Mason Says Bellingcat Launders Information For Western Intelligence

> "Just as Bellingcat get a steady stream of intel from Western agencies, I suspect the attacks on you and others are fed by Russian and Chinese intel," Mason is seen telling Khan, who has been the subject of a previous Grayzone exposé.

They're not the only OSINT group doing it, but they're the most obvious.

[1] https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/paul-mason-says-bell...
>but this is not because he is so different from other business people.

What makes you think so?
Yes. Seattle had multiple chop shops scattered around the city, including this one dissecting cars under a bridge: https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/is-chop-shop-operating-plai...
Just tried this with a pair of AudioTechnica headphones and an Insigia bluetooth speaker and couldn't reproduce it. Tried regular already-paired connections and removing/pairing. Maybe it's driver-specific with something you're using?
Art Bell, KGO, TalkNet, and I could go on!

Bruce Williams!

One AM Station where I lived actually did some stereo talk programs. Oh boy! That is probably the best voice in the car experience ever. The pre emphasis used for AM, coupled with a nice 8 to 10Khz bandwidth on better radios made people sound just great, but not tiring!

Ahhhhhh age gone by now, sadly.

Now, you are bang on about community and all that! Entities like Discord have shuttered forums and lists and we are losing so much!
> The new law states that anyone engaged in a criminal investigation, even those not convicted, will be compelled to provide biometric identifiers such as fingerprint and palmprint impressions, iris and retina scans, biological samples, and behavioral traits such as handwriting.

The use of the word "engaged" is a bit ambiguous (perhaps deliberately so), but I'm wondering if it includes victims and witnesses. There is certainly the risk that people might be afraid to report crimes if they thought it would subject them to more tracking, which in turn would make the police more likely to introduce such a policy, so that crime reports go down.
I do love that we have viable electric cars and that I can order something on amazon and have it at my door in 2 days. Seriously, try living in a developing country and have ANYTHING delivered...
One thing to recognise here is that "income" isn't an entirely global concept, and has been pushed into a lot of places, which frequently go from something resembling a barter or trade economy into a place full of "low-income" people. Some people living on cents a day are living "fine" lives relative to their area, because not every exchange of goods or services is mediated by currency.
It seems that this article is missing the forest for the trees. The biggest improvement will come not from the raw speed but from the entire IPv6 eco-system. For example, the new segment routing for IPv6 or SRv6 should improve the Quality of Service (QoS) for examples bandwidth, delay and jitter by having control at the edge. This is unlike MPLS where the control is done in the core itself and that's why MPLS is called layer 2.5 because it's not truly native IP layer or layer 3. This new approach of networking is considered as IP 2.0 [1].

[1]SRv6 Network Programming: Ushering in a New Era of IP Network:

https://www.routledge.com/SRv6-Network-Programming-Ushering-...
You made my point for me regarding moving natural gas. EU is 5+ years from a Russian gas replacement (oil/gasoline, sooner).

Regarding debts, the Russian federal debt is one of the lowest in the world. Google/Yandex it.

And as for the citizens, yeah - no more BMWs or iPhones (just kidding, those will come from Kazakhstan and Armenia at a markup)...
How is one anecdotal story with conflicting accounts told in a sensational way so meaningful to you? How did Jeff Bezos and his fugly girlfriend and his billions cause a heart attack? Am I confused or are you?
Also, in many cities the sports teams also own the channel that the games air on.

A team isn't going to yank its own games off of its own channel without a very good reason.
I would like for you to cite the teen pregnancy rate, and then I would like you to compare it to the average age of pregnancy, and marriage, and "unmarried mother" birth rate.

Teen pregnancies were very high when many women were getting married at 18 and giving birth at 19. Birth rates for younger teens, <16, have never been higher. https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/08/02/why-is-the-...
Amazing that I've never heard of this!
Also just something interesting to do. And it’s fun to lead, and get press, and make hard decisions.
If you could push a button once an hour that gave $1,000 to you and $99,000 to the government you are saying you'd feel like you're being punished for pushing it?

Let's not pretend that billionares are working 1.44 million hours a week to earn 18000 times what the janitor earns working two jobs in an 80 hour week. The quality of a billionaires 'work' is different than 'real work' so what you feel intuitevely about work may not be a great touchstone for how billionaires should be taxed.
Elon Musk borrows against his assets to pay for things. You could too.
Thank you! Do Camtasia, OBS, etc allow simple video workflows like linear editing and splicing audio / video tracks? Or would I need to use these screen capture software along with something else for that functionality?
Well, it predicts infrared spectroscopy to train detectors accurately enough to chemical structures. It can calculate other spectroscopic information so as to identify unknown materials being investigated. I'm sure there are other microscopic properties that can be investigated, such as tunnelling or material/catalysis design, but I've only worked in spectroscopy.

Edit: forgot... Minimization to transition states has been used to understand chiral synthesis and has been proposed as a means of training antibodies to assist in such synthesis. It's also been used to humanize antibodies (in combination with the classical forcefield molecular dynamics).

Are these all "simple experiments". Yeah, I guess so. No extreme physical conditions are required to perform them. Can be done in high school labs, ... Still, they're specific calculations of physical properties that reproduce nature. Not sure your point re: "doesn't describe reality" - Can relativity predict ir spectroscopy (not the shift thereof due to acceleration)? Does string theory predict anything testable vs. simpler theories?
In praise of a chain-link fence
Most of his worth isn't liquid. As i understand it, it is difficult for him to liquidate enough stock to buy Twitter.
He challenged the narrative and now he's a sworn enemy of the establishment.
Elon was able to leverage his vast personal wealth to secure loans to _buy Twitter_. His purchasing power doesn't extend solely to what he is able to liquidate. In any case he can liquidate a million dollars a day in holdings and burn it in a barrel and it wouldn't move the market in a meaningful way. In fact he could tweet that and people would probably buy more of his meme stocks.

You seem to be peeved about a distinction that is not worth making at the scale we are talking about.
I thought Klarna had moved away from Erlang, mostly towards Java. I guess not.
In fact I did exactly that to buy a Tesla!
That’s cool. I personally think going out of one’s way to defend crypto cash grabs dressed up as art projects is also a waste of energy. That being said, people that think it’s a good idea to mint NFTs are rarely concerned with the actual, literal problem of wasting energy.
You're taking a hammer to the seat of your soul. So I gotta raise my eyebrow.

But you tell me it feels good. And you are more productive etc. And all the experts agree. So who am I to argue?
I'm not getting the part how disabling turbo boost lowers your cpu performance. It should only significantly increase power consumption right?
Check out GiveDirectly (https://www.givedirectly.org/), a nonprofit which does what it sounds like. They give money to the poorest people, directly. You can browse the site to find out why that's incredibly effective at alleviating poverty.
Interesting study, but it needs replication. A 15% reduction in cancer incidence is a rather large reduction, assuming this result is replicated in a different, ideally non-European cohort.
It is, but it's ancillary to Kafka the distributed log.
> unless you just run the world by computers and have humans slot in for menial tasks.

BOFH: I've upped my priority, so up yours.
Citations please!
Do you recall which show that was? Curious to listen
Once you reach a certain level of wealth, your net worth increasing becomes a substitute for income because these people live off the debt backed by their illiquid assets. That allows them to avoid a large tax bill.

Take out a $1b loan using $10b in assets as collateral. When that $1b loan comes due, your net worth has grown to $15b. Take out a $2b loan, pay off the original loan and have $1b left to live on. No taxes are paid because no gains have been realized and loans aren't taxable.
On the other hand, Elon Musk could use his existing assets as collateral to attempt to buy Twitter without offloading much stock, and this web page is talking about tiny amount of disposable income purchases like a cup of coffee (or a few dozen coffee franchises with Elon's free cash)
Individual doctors are rarely deserving of the implicit trust and praise they receive from proximity to the stereotypical hero doctor on this season's popular medical drama.

I went from a general naive faith in the profession to caveat emptor.
If invested in Axie Infinity 1 year ago
>The best mindset is that you could be gone tomorrow.

Can't disagree more. At my last job, I was in a senior position for 7 years, one of the earliest engineering hires. I loved my team, my CEO, the direction of our company, and advertised us to friends.

Then, one Friday, a close coworker was let go without me having any warning or say over the matter. Not during a layoff, just fired one day. After that week, I was practically paranoid 24/7. My boss loved me and I was getting raises, but the anxiety of whether I'd be let go disabled my work progress.

I didn't want to risk "fucking it up" so I became ultra-conservative with my code pushes, review cycles exploded, and I just kept putting off cutting out/replacing features.

It was so stressful that I recognized my personal psychology was deteriorating weekly. My anxiety-driven depression further disabled my progress to a practical halt. I quit the job.

The best work I did was when I was thinking about the actual work, not survival instincts.
I'm annoyed that people feel the need to lie in order to make a point, when the point would have easily been made without the lie.

If they just said: Elon makes $200 MILLION dollars a year, then the point would still be just as valid, and it wouldn't be a lie.

It's the same idiocy involved in people talking about needing to tax people more money. They're bait and switch income with net worth, which are radically different things.
We totally agree! We think it would be best when documentation is centralized, version controlled, and coupled with the code. Unfortunately, we realized that's just not the case for the vast majority of companies. One way to think about our product is just bringing the features of documentation on GitHub into existing documentation that lives outside of it.
Ten thousand years is an extremely long time for humanity, we didn't have computers 100 years ago, in 10,000 years who knows what revolutionary technology we'll have.

So much construction and development has engulfed the world. So you probably couldn't guarantee that anything even remotely close to a city now, will be the same that far into the future.

This means if you want to etch it into a rock it needs to be in a remote and dead part of the world which will likely never be developed, probably a desert. Or at the bottom of an ocean somewhere... But then no one will ever read it.

The best way to ensure it's still known that far in the future, is to make it popular somehow, copies will exist in history, the internet and throughout culture.
Saving your time, so you don't have to search what each parameter do: https://transformingembedded.sigmatechnology.se/insight-post...
The compatibility isn't 100% there yet.
I hear you, I am not keep of this type "propaganda" either, it's inciting to say the least.

It compares and contrasts the 0.01% with the rest of the world. Silly? Maybe. Maybe the intent is actually malice.

People should study and comprehend Normal Distribution, and how it applies to virtual everything.

Mic drop.

Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_distribution
The general state of public order is the distinction here. While drugs and some minor property crimes are essentially decriminalized in Houston, assault is not. Vagrancy is tolerated unlike in rich suburbs, but harassment is not widely tolerated. And if someone were to assault you, you would be generally free to slug him in the face or shoot him, depending on the degree of force he used.
Books weren't the end goal. He named it Amazon because he wanted something generic to expand into. I don't think third party sellers were in the initial vision but selling other items was
Airbnb allowed folks to keep their laptops after their recent round of layoffs. Presumably these laptops are managed by IT with the ability to remote wipe.

If not, I feel sorry for the folks in charge of rounding up all this hardware to likely sit around and rot.
And they’re arguably not sentient in those moments.
Because why would anyone, corporate or not, invest substantial time & resources into chasing mad profits if they won't get to keep almost any of it?
Laziness has costs, that’s not a new thing. You want something, you have to work for it.
I haven't looked at the article but this sounds like a local exploit, right? Those were important in the timesharing era, but with personal computers we temporarily had an era when we didn't have to let hostile code run on our computers. When will we learn that we shouldn't have given that up? Local exploits will never go away, at least on high performance machines.
I think there are parallels but the parent comment is taking the position that personal empowerment with sex education in schools and free condoms are irrelevant because only eliminating economic inequality can prevent pregnancy. I am for giving children the information and tools to make healthy choices.
Anyone who has seen their infants instantly cry when they receive their moment of birth vaccinations knows that they feel pain. The infant's pain creates more pain in the parents....what a cycle!
Not to disbelieve you but which ones?
Hm a lot of that doesn't match my understanding, which is more like:

1. Unix has fork() because it was influenced by Multics. I don't have the citation now, but I think some parts of Unix were from ITSS, perhaps the hierarchical file system, and some were from Multics. It was a drastic simplification of those systems, but with the same ideas.

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2. The shell developer and the kernel developer were really the same person -- Ken Thompson. I link to his original paper in this post [1]. The original Thompson shell had pipelines and redirects, which are most of what happens between fork() and exec() in a shell.

Also of note is a video by Stephen Bourne who says that Ken Thompson being away at Berkeley was a good time to turn his shell into a programming language (Bourne shell) [2].

Similarly, I read that Bill Joy added chroot() to Unix simply because he needed it for something he was doing one time (building another Unix system, I would imagine).

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3. Bill Joy also added job control to the kernel and the terminal for his csh shell. It's a very tightly coupled and ugly design.

So the key point is that we shouldn't assume any notion of "shell developers" or "APIs". The kernel developer and the shell developer were really the same person -- Thompson and Joy.

Unix is more of a holistic system than a modular one; it's porous by design!

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Since job control, it appears that have been almost no system calls added for a shell. Although I have a feeling a few fcntl() operations were added for a shell, i.e. the difference between dup2() and fcntl(F_DUPFD). But I don't remember the argument offhand.

So I think the history is basically what usually happens -- once the same person stops working on 2 sides of an interface, the interface calcifies. It's a little like the relationship between ISAs and C. So we will probably have fork() forever, but that doesn't mean there can't be evolution in a better direction.

[1] Unix Shell: History and Trivia

https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2021/08/history-trivia.html

[2] https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2022/03/middle-out.html#more-w...
The one big core OS thing that's changed by my reckoning— and I don't even believe it was within the last three releases— is the hoop jumps required to run unsigned code. I honestly don't see a problem with the move because they do provide a path to execute it when you need to, but it could probably be a little more straightforward.
Final Report on near collision of two planes at Toronto Pearson (YYZ)
Turbo will move the processor above the rated TDP when there is thermal headroom to do so. Turning it off means you'll max out at the rated TDP.

Now, TDP used to mean the max power of the chip, but as Intel's process failures left them holding the bag with no significant performance updates to speak of, they started overclocking their chips more and more so they could claim that the new gen was faster than the last.

Try turning off Turbo Boost on a 2020 i9 Macbook Pro - you actually get a usable machine with reasonable battery life with it off, instead of the hot toaster with 2hr battery life that Intel gave you. But it'll max at something like 2.2GHz when you paid for just over 4.
The Moon Terminator Illusion [video]
Solar Powered Arduino Weather Station
Huh, wow, I used breakpad/minidumps daily when I was at Google working on Chromecast based things. I had no idea it existed outside that ecosystem.

Now I know there's nice Rusty work happening with this stuff that I could maybe make use of for my next employer or a personal project. Neat.
> So Intel *did* ask for a long embargo…

> … again telling us that there indeed WAS a long embargo placed on this research by Intel.

These are worded as if this wasn’t clear? No guesswork, the article states it plainly:

”We disclosed our findings, together with proof-of-concept code, to Intel, Cloudflare and Microsoft in Q3 2021 and to AMD in Q1 2022. Intel originally requested our findings be held under embargo until May 10, 2022. Later, Intel requested a significant extension of that embargo, and we coordinated with them on publicly disclosing our findings on June 14, 2022.”
What does Bezos being a billionaire have to do with the working conditions in Bangladesh? What are you even talking about?
Thank you. This came at the perfect time for me.
What you are describing is called “quantization”. It has some disadvantages, one of which is that people tend to disable it the second they hit a use case that requires better performance. It is also sometimes possible to distinguish “doing nothing and waiting for a timer” from “actively computing the result” if you have other access (eg you can measure response time by making another connection.)
Well, IIRC Musk doesn’t technically have a salary and maybe (?) the target audience for this site doesn’t know their own net worth off-hand. So I could see why they’d make that choice.
Google it. Russians might be Orcs, but they can math.
That reminds me of the time I was a junior dev, and the team lead told me verbatim: "I know you are too busy to write tickets, but can you take some time off [this urgent thing] to do that? Thanks!"

This was after they encouraged a certain "cool culture" for a couple of months due to the lack of direction. It was pretty funny that I did not only get micromanaged, but was told I did the wrong thing, and then asked to do a third job that was not my responsibility.
> the poor students think about languages and libraries as key skills

well so do the recruiters, they’ll be fine

in fact, the better students are the ones wasting their time unless they prefer to be in academia, like you

so what metric are you really gauging for?

the “poor students” are pivoting for money and the name of the university to boost their employment prospects, maybe this shows in their academic performance and ability to understand, I saw the same in undergrad
I should clarify, as I think we're saying the same thing in different ways.

I don't equate "skunkworks" with high risk. To me, that's not "risk" as much as "I don't care about monetization in the first place", like you're saying. I agree that research without promise of a payout is sorely missing these days.

When I say "maybe we should have less high risk", I'm thinking of fly-by-night companies that do make a social media app for aardvarks, spend a bunch of money on slick marketing so they can pump their IPO, and then pull the rug with them when they bail.

But billionaires don't become billionaires by doing skunkworks projects. They often do the latter.