skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd like to see longer-term revenue reports to make sure their P/E ratios (or similar) are decent. The staff reductions etc. have yet to fully play out in terms of costs and results.
I recently finished an article[1] on my home computer experience and have been thinking about getting back into the Amiga scene. Looks like a lot has changed over the years. Where is a good place to start If I was thinking about getting an Amiga?

[1]: https://www.scottrlarson.com/memorials/memorial-my-home-comp...
> But what about the display brightness? [...] In order to support the display output properly, we need a driver for Apple’s DCP coprocessor and its firmware. We’ve already talked about DCP in the past, and how cursed the interface is! Since then, Alyssa wrote a Linux kernel DRM KMS driver for DCP and Janne took over maintenance, and he’s been steadily adding features, including brightness control support.

> However, it does come with some caveats: the driver [...] may also reduce performance on some setups, since it is really meant to be used together with GPU acceleration (the simpledrm framebuffer driver has some software rendering optimizations that DCP lacks) and clients using the modern atomic-modeset and swap APIs, like Wayland compositors. It also has some limitations when used with legacy clients such as Xorg - in particular, there is no support for true VBlank interrupts, and it is unclear whether the hardware/firmware supports this at all. This breaks XFCE4’s window manager with compositing enabled. For these reasons, we are not enabling DCP by default for all users

Is there a reason they can't use the DCP driver to change display brightness without switching over to it entirely? It sounds like DCP and GPU acceleration probably ought to ship together—but IMO, changing display brightness is a must-have, in order to use a laptop comfortably in different ambient environments.
Winning a tournament and good average scores means that we can conclude that Cicero is not an appalling player - reasonable to say it's human level.
Nobody knows what the secret hashtags are. The claim is unverified and unverifiable, and probably signal-boosted from a single wild tweet.
His companies were the first to land rockets and make the electric car popular. I am not saying he knows everything, but I am sure he can fix a website given a bit of time.
Not just back to +1.5C, but to where you would have been by that time.

Meanwhile, the whole ocean ecosystem has collapsed as acidification continued on up. The primary protein source of a billion+ people has vanished. They do not starve quietly.
There is also "expert beginner" which is either the same thing you're talking about or at least a related concept.

https://daedtech.com/how-developers-stop-learning-rise-of-th...
That's an interesting question and I don't know the answer! But I'd expect any amino acids produced this way to diffuse and mix with the biologic amino acids from the surface. They'd be diluted by the overwhelming amount of biological "stuff." Stereoisomers should behave the same under the influence of gravity.
I mean I ran ubuntu on my mac natively back 5 years ago. Ran pretty well!
PCTask is a software PC emulator emulating PC Intel hardware with 8088 processor
I really want to understand how Amazon doesn’t understand this. What is it that has them so totally blind to what everybody else can so plainly see?
> You can't generalise.

Sure you can. NASDAQ https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/%5EIXIC/
and VGT https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/VGT/ Agree that nobody knows.
Let's hope volcanoes (or a a supervolcano) don't accidentally add to the effect then.
What's with the funny connected "st" in the article? I've never seen that before.
I really want to learn the algorithms behind automatic layout engines. Are there any books on this topic?
Internet providers play tricks to raise your bill
Well it's not really a "conspiracy" that Jews are one of if not the richest of the significant religious ideologies in America. Friends/family/mutual aid often goes along religious lines so it wouldn't be surprising to find out some of the investments look like a "jew-fest" as SBF is after all Jewish, and his family probably knows lots of Jewish people who happen to be about the richest families by religion in America on average.

If someone is a rich bad person, they are disproportionately likely to be Jewish. If they are a rich good person they are also disproportionately likely to be Jewish.... but some only see the bad.

https://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2...
Just personally "software" wise:

YouTube premium (no ads and I get to support the content creators that I watch every day at a better ratio), Google one ($1), Microsoft 360 (1TB of OneDrive storage and the whole office suite that I use all the time and in my eyes is better than all of the previous versions)

I only pay for software if I make money using said software and right now I'm not making any money so I'm not paying for anything if I can help it.
That interpretation originated from your mind, racist.
Whats the problem with working only half of the time? Work is also a social enviroment and the «not working » part of work a realy important part. If the staff would work 100% of the worktime they would be fucked. Most people I know prefere a good working condition than working ultra hard for some sadistic asholes.
It's just evidence that a thousand moderators (plus many, many engineers for automated moderation systems to reduce the load) is still nowhere near enough to not suck at moderation on Twitter scale.
The Wild World of Unique Identifiers (UUID, ULID, etc.)
I think about this a lot. "Managers" are under pressure to make sure their teams are meeting goals/deadlines/whatever, so they are anxious, so they make efforts to observe and oversee "performance". Seeing people in meetings and diligently "working" makes them feel better about their teams' performance. But what really matters is outcome...which is very difficult to measure for a lot of software teams, and even harder for individuals. The irony is that the efforts to measure/ensure performance, in many cases, actually impede material progress towards the desired outcomes.
The trick is knowing which ones will survive
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Is this CPU similar to a Pentium in terms of protected mode / virtual memory?

i.e. can it run netbsd? linux? Even if uninterested in doing so, I'd like to have a grasp of what sort of compatibility this relatively unknown cpu has.
Mark Zuckerberg is set to resign next year – “will not affect metaverse”
In the article it states the government will no longer be paying for it and the cost will go to the insurance companies.

> Until now, all COVID-19 vaccines in the US have been bought by the US government, which paid $30.48 per dose in its latest vaccine supply agreement from June. The US government had previously paid $24 per dose in July 2021 and $19.50 per dose in July 2020. The government offered all the doses to Americans for free. Now, the company expects health insurance companies to pick up the tab, however larger.
If you wait for that then it’ll be too late and you’ll find yourself in the midst of the next tech bubble. Now is the time to buy if you’re going to.
You don't need a lot to eventually get a crash on Firefox. All you really need is to hibernate/sleep instead of restarting, and so never restart your Firefox, and have some Twitch stream opened - the memory leaks will eventually use up all your memory, in my experience at least.
Ask HN: Mastadon Resources
I have joined a Mastadon Server and I find it exciting that I could follow people from other servers. I want some Mastadon Resources as a user.

- How can I follow people from any server? Is this possible or do admins need to cooperate.
- How can make my timeline available in mobile app. I couldn't find my server.
- Can I move between servers and take my content?

Can someone provide these resources that will help navigate Mastadon?
> The point of these games is to be a bastard.

I guess you never play poker because you don't like to bluff. Or you've never faked a pass in basketball before taking a shot. Or you and the catcher like to announce when you're going to throw a curveball.
Sam Bankman-Fried and the power of dressing badly
When you use inline assembly, in fact the compiler does preserve the semantics of the surrounding program considering the target's ABI -- if you tell it correctly what impacts the inline asm has. Lots of rules must be followed in order to get this behavior just right. One of the most subtle ones is "early clobbers" [1].

In many cases, you can get all the benefits of inline assembly from compiler intrinsics while letting the compiler handle all the details of register allocation and scheduling.

Note that in OP's case IIUC this was assembly code and not inline assembly. If you write functions in assembly you are solely responsible for calling conventions and ABI conformance.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/a/15819941/489590
And it's sort of self-fulfilling, right? If these stories have a big enough impact, a lot of people will buy the stocks and they will actually stop falling.
Best 20 minute video of setup and demonstration that I saw was by Everything Smart Home: https://youtu.be/BLJR_v3IFwk
Opt-in telemetry is nearly worthless for most uses as it's a very biased sample from the get-go.

Crash logs are a different beast.
I'd like a "quick ff" that will ff if there are no conflicts, or ff as far as it can with no conflicts - and an easy way to apply to many branches.

Also, a way to "rebase" that works the same as cherry picking commits on top of the target. As far as I can see, the regular rebase works it's way up the target branch, so that I end up resolving conflicts in code that eventually changed in the target.
I believe this applies to 2020 and 2021 models as well. According to NPR[1] Hyundai/Kia only decided to finally install engine immobilizers part way through the 2021 model year.

[1](https://www.npr.org/2022/09/19/1123647178/kia-hyundai-car-st...)
Precisely. It's like installing plumbing to divert a roof leak instead of fixing the leak. "But we would have extra water from the leak!".
Emulation on the Amiga
Why does a „3rd party encryption software” appear in the call stack of a user mode process in the first place? Is this another case where a “security” software injects broken DLL files into all processes in your system?
A scam on a scam.
This is just covering up design problems. NPEs show you were you have design deficiencies.

If you have getAccount().getContact().getPhoneNumber() and contact is null, you'll get an NPE. The question shouldn't be: "How do I shove the NPE under the rug for the next 1337 coder to deal with?", the question should be: "How did I initialize an Account without a Contact?"
I’m coming to feel this way about github copilot, especially as a solo dev right now. Is it perfect? No. But it works often and spits out code that’s a good enough template or good enough, and is something i’d likely find on stackoverflow anyway. It’s kind of like I’m reviewing a junior/mid dev’s code and almost like I have a second person working with me which I find very valuable.
Memory in Uncertainty: Web preservation in the polycrisis
Unless nuclear gets drastically cheaper, it'll never be good for on-demand generation. Because fuel is a small cost relative to capital repayments, operations and other fixed costs, operators run them flat out 24/7. You're paying to run the plant and you're paying your debts off anyway, so you might as well sell energy at any price since the marginal cost is minimal.

They also don't start quickly.

If you look at https://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/, you can see nuclear runs at more or less the same output day in, day out.
>You can get pirated movies from Twitter now, for example.

Sounds like an upgrade. That's not really helping your point.

>It's microservice based site features will break one by one.

Yes, I see this as highly probable.
I agree and would posit they already are facing a lot of turbulence.

As an aside it seems like Amazon is a bit of a sacred cow on hn. It's assumed it is some exceptionally well run company with an extremely promising investment future - but the reality of the past few years has exposed that hypothesis a bit. It is the first company to lose over a trillion dollars in shareholder value.

Further, much of their business strategy was copied by other .com companies during the dot com boom, and they pretty much all failed spectacularly. Pets.com is the notable example, which had investment from Amazon itself, the same "get big fast" mindset, and spectacularly collapsed.

It seems a lot of "what works for Amazon" doesn't actually work anywhere else for some reason. If you've had ex-Amazon managers enter your organization you've probably seen this first hand.

I was also practically laughed out of the room for suggesting that Walmart is many times a better e-commerce experience these days compared to Amazon, as if comparing Walmart to Amazon is a laughable proposition which only a fool would make. Well, I would challenge anyone reading this to actually use Walmart and come to your own conclusion. It's cheaper. Shipping is frequently faster. They have more selection in stock sold by Walmart. And frankly I don't see any reason to go back to Amazon after using Walmart for several months.

Amazon is going to lose it's shine more and more, and I think the turbulence they are already facing is just the beginning.
Based on the news I've heard so far, this affects their EARN program and not the general exchange.
Only if you double your bet every time you lose. Otherwise it's called a dollar cost averaging.
This is the way to do it, IMO.

- Do a proper valuation of the company
- If the price is right, start Dollar Cost Averaging
into a position during a downturn

No one can perfectly time the market. However, we certainly can approximate the proper value of solid companies, and we generally can tell when sentiments and market conditions are biasing low.

(Disclaimer: I am not a financial advisor. Do your own research, etc.)
> Journalism is supposed to be about digging up dirt on the rich and powerful so that us peons can get mad when they do bad stuff and make sure our government to punish them.

The vast majority of journalism articles have never involved any of that. They are there for informational purposes. You get a few investigative pieces with a much larger helping of lighter fare.
If stock prices were martingales, you would not be able to predict whether they will continue to drop or rebound after a crash.
Apple makes money from the devices it sells. Siri makes those devices more convenient to use.

Amazon is selling the devices at or below cost and hoping that Alexa will make the money (which it doesn’t)
Actually it refers to the scratch line of a foot race, the starting line. Some racers were allowed to start a little ahead as a handicap. So starting from scratch meant that you started at the beginning.

Made from scratch came along later, picking up from the usage of this word.

What I'd like to know is where "Old Scratch", aka the devil came from.
> The article isn't saying the highest bid is 60cents/$. It's saying this was the lowest bid. Very weasel way to put it, intentionally trying to mislead. They seemingly got you.

Order of magnitude wise this doesn't change the point. Why the snark?
> If Twitter went another month without an outage, how would you adjust your opinion? How about a year?

I think it's hard to just use time as a measure. If there are no security issues and they add no features, then things should run fine. Which, ironically points to how solid the team was that was fired.

Of course if Twitter not only limps along, but thrives in this new setup then I'll definitely change my opinion. Being in the US, this might end up the case while Twitter for the rest of the world falls apart.

Keep in mind, that I think Twitter was bloated and needed a big shakeup. Randomly dumping people and those who tried to correct me is not the heuristic I would have used.

With that said, Twitter still has 2 huge problems. No vision and saddled with an enormous amount of debt. Right now, Musk is taking the PE approach to cut and milk what's there. The problem is, there isn't much to milk.
considering how many companies are preparing for a recession, and since i’m reading recession next year in a lot of places, i think this is a bit premature. but time will tell.
RISC-V has such a register. It returns zero when read, and ignored writes.
dup of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33706750
They are if the fundamentals say they are. So yes, many are. GOOG seems fairly valued if you assume antitrust doesn’t crack down hard in the near future

Many are also still egregiously overvalued at 10x or more sales. NET, DDOG and NVDA come to mind.

It’s not hard to look at growth rate relative to current value to separate the two. Seems most investors lost any sense of fundamentals in the ZIRP world though

You can treat earnings/FCF multiple as the yield you get today. So a PE of 20 implies a 5% yield this year, while the 10y is at 4% ish. Then use various growth projections and future discount rate projections to determine if that multiple is justified.

Personally I’ve only been buying companies at around 10% current year yields, and only higher if they have sufficient growth to justify it
How big is the Asahi Team? I wonder, since there is so much of community interest in the final product, why do we not see a lot more community participation in the development as well?
I think it's not just the xor trick, but that Intel has lots of addressing modes, including ones with immediate operands that you can use in many situations.

In RISC-like machines, most of the operations are register-register, and you have load/store instructions for referencing memory.

To use an immediate operand (literal constant in the code itself), you may have to load it into a register, like

move r7, #42
add r1, r1, r7 ;; ok, now we have 42 in r7, we can increment r1 by 42.

Whereas in a CISC you would have

add r1, #42 ;; two operand form

or maybe

add r1, r1, #42 ;; three operand form

When you need a zero, you just use the immediate operand zero, and thus you don't need to to pick some register to clear.

In summary, zero registers in RISC-like instruction set architectures effectively provide a literal zero that can be used wherever a register is required, which helps because only register operands can be used in many instructions.
That is what happens when society limits them to money handling for centuries.
It wasn't very good and was pretty expensive
He looked like he was right out of bed. But it was mostly a feeling. I had recently hired a high school dropout and an immigrant who barely spoke our language. Both turned out great. Did not have the warning sounds go off during their interviews.

That period was strange. I got applicants with Microsoft certification in SQL Server who couldn’t explain the simplest SQL query.
I kind of like the term “digital voyeurism” for this, though it is a euphemism for “spying.”
Instagram wants creators to normalise NFTs
> Nuclear power plants require a connection to the grid to stay functional, as the biggest one in Europe has shown.

Not the case for all Nuclear, just really old nuclear. All the ones in Canada (CANDU reactors) have the rods suspended by electromagnets, if the station stops producing power, they drop into the reactor, ending criticality. They also use unenriched uranium (or plutonium or thorium).
Chrome will do the same thing and so will any other browser that honors the HSTS standard in RFC 6797. You probably want to direct your ire at the owner of the website, setting the HSTS header is a positive affirmation by the server that it does not accept insecure connections.

Special attention should be paid to section 12.1 of that RFC:

>If a web application issues an HSTS Policy, then it is
implicitly opting into the "no user recourse" approach, whereby all
certificate errors or warnings cause a connection termination, with
no chance to "fool" users into making the wrong decision and
compromising themselves.
You can't just hand-wave away those edge cases. That's not how anything works.

If your potential write amplification for a single operation is anywhere remotely near a factor of 1 million, you have a serious problem and need to completely change your approach to the problem, and use different data structures and algorithms.

Hardware hasn't gotten that much faster really. PCIe flash cards started to get used over a decade ago -- yes, modern storage is better than those were, but not by a huge multiple. And meanwhile max CPU frequencies today aren't much higher at all. What we have instead is more cores. And a lot more RAM per box. Faster networking, sure. But none of this lets you get away with massive write amplification from choosing an overly-naive algorithm.

And iops aside, even just the storage capacity from full inbox materialization (along with necessary indexing overhead) will bankrupt you, especially on that blazing fast storage you keep talking about. Keep in mind everything needs to be replicated to multiple regions / data centers for DR/HA, as well as keeping the data closer to users to lower the latency.

I'm not making "assumptions" that I need to "refresh". I've literally spent the majority of my career working on this stuff at extreme scale, both in 2010 and today, and all times in between.
And people will, again, shout and scream (performatively) before quietly going back to mainlining Facebook's divisive outrage and misinformation. SMH.
Kotlin interops nicely with Java but it's not null-safe (all references from Java are assumed non-null).
IMHO, Risk is one of the few board games worth playing specifically because it's so engaging. Most of my friends who are "into boardgames" tell me that Risk is a terrible game because it starts fights. But the games they want to play bore me to tears. (I can't even read the manual for Settlers of Catan without dying of boredom, but from what you say maybe I should give it another try.)
forgotten account that a former employee can re-activate or login with? I would think banks would be fined by regulators or risk their license over even a single instance of that.
The problem with the rebuild speculation is the company is now saddled with so much debt, they have no money to hire.
I'd say start averaging into solid names, like Google and Amazon.
We may not be at the bottom, but by the time we've figured out what that bottom was, we'll have missed it. Time in the market beats timing the market, etc.
Ask HN: How do you start a startup in your 30s when you have wife/kids/mortgage?
I want to start my own company, but Im not sure how to pay my bills while looking for product-market-fit.

I have a well paying job now, and I am pretty sure I would throw my marriage into chaos if I told my wife I was leaving my job to pursue a start up. Shes not stupid, she knows start ups have like a 90% failure rate.

So the question is: how do I continue my current standard of living for my family while working on a startup?

Are all startups at my age generally side hustles that become profitable enough to quit my day job?

Does anyone here have experience with this?
I believe these companies have 30% more workforce than needed, if they wanted to drive earnings they could. Big Tech being a value... if not already, definitely getting close. I see this as a "get lean" opportunity.
Alphabet Seeks to Identify 10k Poor-Performing Googlers
Also very excited about the progress Asahi is making. I did technically live your dream though in 2003 with YDL on my G3 iBook. It was… ok.
That hardly makes them worthless.

And very biased towards what? People not triggering bugs?
I can't think of many other languages that will compile into a Java codebase, and be interoprable in both directions, as well as Kotlin. It's a lot quicker to pick up than e.g. Scala IMHO.