skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's pretty brutal.

I offered a service essentially undercutting what I do for my day job by $15-$30k and its been nearly impossible to market that and convince anyone of the value. Despite it being exactly the same work companies already pay (me) for, lol.

The effort required to attract new clients isn't something people that build want to spend time on. Its just a numbers game and ultimately entirely subjective.

Build for fun, build for yourself. That's the only way it doesn't beat you down.
It's interesting to think if what tradeoff walking in the current normal natural gain has, and what possibilities there are now that most of us don't need efficiency.

Most exercise programs and movement training skills talk about efficiency and performance, what would an exercise program look like that was entirely optimized for preventing disease and injury rather than maximizing capability look like?

If tennis is said to be the best sport for lifespan, can we design a new sport with new equipment that shares as many of the properties as possible with less impact injuries?

In the extreme case, maybe you could even have a sport where you wear some kind of damping brace that prevents certain unsafe movements, so that there is no advantage for the team willing to do them, or just with rules that heavily favor the healthiest movements.
Your git commit message mentions PID reuse. Couldn't PID of a userspace process be reused by a kernel thread?
Does this make DOS .com files or DOS MZ executables (.exe, .com, .dll)?
They probably don't know all of them, if the Party knows what it's about.

In the old Soviet system, you had people who were openly members of the Party, political officers placed in your organization. But you also had KGB agents placed in your organization that you didn't know about, because their job was to keep an eye on you.
My favorite example is Death Grips prematurely leaking their album, to the player after following a bunch of deep web clues
While it is an informative article, I fail to be convinced that wasm is somehow superior (even for its current role).

Validation is faster due to it being structured, but stackmaps make it fast for class files as well. It is lower level, but is that really a good thing? It is quite trivial to just assign a huge ‘long’ array to some jvm byte code for the same result, and while I will look at the linked GC proposal, because haven’t been kept up-to-date on that, I think having a good GC is the single most important thing, as that is much harder to do than just providing a linear array. Which will in turn decimate the implementations (or at least mark a toy vs prod ready divide).

Also, will that structured nature not make it a less than great compilation target? This means that certain, more niche languages will have to use ugly (and slow) hacks to get implemented. And it being lowish level it is much harder to optimize it well (in that you express the exact semantics).
Everyone needs to realize that these evil deeds are being made possible by the two party political system that divides the people so they fight amongst themselves. We need ranked choice voting everywhere.

If the government was captured and properly enforced antitrust measures, there would be many alternatives to prevent the corporate fascism we’re seeing everywhere today.
Please do not store the password... store a hash.
Computer_Programming_101 – Windows API
I found this channel randomly few days ago and it is amazing, it has only 200 subscribers but its very very good.

I just started with windows programming and it is kind of weird coming from linux, but this channel really hits the spot for me information per minute
Some government agencies already do something like this. (There has been some resistance to implementing it for "money-saving" reasons, but IIRC it was 5hen pointed out that it was hypocritical for agencies that had supposedly the job to help to only have an anti-fraud department but not its "reverse".)
The bulk of the kickstarter campaign was selling actual objects. These objects need to be produced, they have lead times, they have scaling issues both ways (there are economies of scale, but scaling up also involved a bunch of hiring — one can’t just snap one’s fingers). And Brandon Sanderson apparently wanted to sell however many people wanted to buy at a a preset price.

So what exactly is wrong with using kickstarter for this? It’s essentially a platform for placing orders for things that won’t be delivered for a while, which is exactly what happened here.

(Note that Brandon Sanderson and Dragonsteel have spent or committed a lot of the money already despite having delivered nothing yet. Those employees aren’t working for just equity without money or benefits!)
If you can't make $40 off an open-source project in years, you are probably deliberately avoiding accepting money.
I think the discussion we're having is much more valuable than blocking a bad comment. The insight that we're providing hopefully rubs off on the "it worked for me, so it should work for you" fallacy.
Maybe, but it might also help put things in perspective. Enjoy the things you have and help the ones that are not as lucky.
Nice, I wonder why they wouldn't surface that? Speculating they got it included in their CMS and decided they didn't want it.
Exxon’s bad reputation got in the way of its carbon capture proposal
> The company is denying service BECAUSE the customer is involved in a lawsuit.

Why should that be unreasonable? Seems a little cheeky to sue someone and expect them to keep on entertaining you.

> If you don't think that's suppression of free speech

Whose speech is being suppressed? The Rockettes are free to sing, the lawyer is free to complain about missing the show, and the venue is free to explain their point of view. Everybody involved appears to be speaking freely.
I enjoyed this post, thank you! For the benefit of anyone else reading, some context that I felt would have helped: The toy problem being considered is the following. You are given a sequence of historical prices (of a single stock or index or whatever), one for each day:

day 1 2 3 ... n
price p1 p2 p3 ... pn

The task is to annotate each day i with a (retroactive) decision z_i ∈ {buy, sell, do nothing}, and do this optimally, subject to the constraint that you cannot sell before you buy, cannot "buy" twice without an intervening "sell" and vice-versa, etc. And there are indeed dynamic-programming algorithms to solve this quickly, which you can find on Leetcode writeups and whatnot.

(Whether or not this has any resemblance to real-world trading is not the point of the toy problem, which is about computational techniques. See e.g. Knuth's article “Are toy problems useful?” from Chapter 10 of https://cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/cs.html, or “Puzzles versus the real world” on pages 7–9 of TAOCP Vol 4A.)

Another way to model it is with two-valued y_i ∈ {do nothing, "change state"}, where "change state" means buy if you haven't bought and sell if you have, with the last day's decision forced (you have to end in the sold state), which shows why there are 2^{n-1} possibilities to optimize over.

But there's yet another way of modeling the problem, presented in this post, where we have 2n-2 boolean variables x1, x2, x3, x4, … denoting respectively the choices of whether or not to "buy on day 1", "sell on day 2", "buy on day 2", "sell on day 3", and so on, and now the problem becomes one of the form:

maximize w1x1 + w2x2 + w3x3 + …
such that f(x1, x2, x3, ...) = 1

where f is a boolean function denoting whether the 0-1 values assigned to the x_i variables is "valid" (does not have both buy and sell on the same date, has a buy before a sell, etc).

Now, this may seem hard to optimize over, but BDDs (binary decision diagrams) are a data structure that can represent such functions compactly, and in this case (because of the problem structure) the entire truth table (over all possible 2^{2n-2} assignments to xi, with 2^{n-1} "true" values among them) can be represented as a BDD with 2.5n nodes, and with a standard algorithm can be optimized over.

This gives an algorithm that is just as fast as the dynamic programming algorithm (almost? asymptotically?), and is a fun exercise to play with BDDs, which this post describes very well.
You may be overestimating to what extent successful startups benefit everyone. And underestimating the dangers of failure for non-rich.
Then why did you write this feedback?
‘Laskovy May’: The Schocking story of USSR’s first boy band
May I ask how you monetize this?
On the other hand the Rust syntax have gradually moved closer to exceptions, now with the "?" operator which automatically unpack the result or propagates the error value. This feels awfully close to exceptions, even if it in theory is "just a value".
The other advantage of a pre-order is you know roughly how many copies to print. If you're publishing your own book you may not be able to predict that, and if you estimate wrong you're out a bunch of your own money.

Large publishers have some expertise in guessing that, and probably still plan to eat some costs for the times when they get it wrong. But on a smaller scale, "Oops I have piles of extra copies of every single book I printed" would be a big problem for someone self publishing a couple of books.

If your fans trust you to follow through on a kickstarter, there's not really a downside.
I think you should re-read the phrase "Also, starting a company is an entirely different skillset from software engineering. Just because someone is excellent at writing code doesn't mean they'd be a good leader"

Not everyone can be the person in charge; and it's counter productive to force people into leadership roles that they really don't want.
No. My Norwegian colleagues trust that they will receive healthcare. They trust that their representatives in the government are acting more or less in good faith. They trust that money in the government is going towards protections and services and infrastructure. And if you look around in Norway, you can generally get the feeling that the government is taking care of things.

Go to America and it seems like the country is a decayed husk wrapped in gold. Roads are barely functional. Schools do not educate children. Each day there is a new story about a politician who is corrupt either through insider trading, being a pedo, or whatever. The government of America does not appear to do things for Americans.

Thus, it's easy to see why you can trust the government in Norway but not in America to me.
Jeeze what care he shows by patiently asking trolls not to post flamebait.
Google is dead. Long live Google|Google is way ahead of ChatGPT
Attorney barred from show – facial recognition software knew where she worked
RSS is alive and kicking. I created a little Web 2.0 phenomenon named Popurls and recently launched https://biztoc.com — ~65% of the site is still RSS driven.
This is solved by a beneficial owner registry where you must register the actual human who owns and benefits from the assets of the corporation.

This has the added benefit of injecting a ton of extra transparency and sunlight into corporate dealings.
Non-paywall link: https://archive.vn/1jRVq
Hopefully the B2B at least makes the password rules configurable per customer. Big Customer X can have what they ask for without hurting all the other customers.
If I understand you correctly, the issue is that the Swedish government used jargon masquerading as a common word, and as a result people didn't understand the meaning. That's another example of jargon being a problem!
This year, quite many have actually chosen to move from Norway to Switzerland, probably due to taxes
You're really not missing anything skipping the booze. If the stuff was invented today it would be seen in the same light as huffing paint for fun. I definitely don't like when people sober-shame others for not partaking in the stuff, even as someone who drinks from time to time.

However, not all drugs are poisonous in the same way alchohol is. Caffeine is a drug and in moderate quantities is probably pretty good for you. Weed is probably far less toxic than booze if used in small amounts by adults that don't have certain genetic markers for schizophrenia. Mushrooms aren't toxic at all. There are tons of psychoactive drugs used for medicine and fun that arguably cause more harm than good.

Anyway, people have a natural impulse to alter their consciousness, be it through extremely harmful ways like booze and coke, or through less harmful ways like mushrooms or meditation. I don't see it ending anytime soon.
> Defending a company is just weird.

So why are you defending this company?
This misses the point completely. One side is taking advantage of geo-arbitrage while the other is fleeing violence. It's a false equivalence.
You would owe capital gains tax if these were considered like breeding livestock. You would probably want to sell the pets again so you could offset your gain with loss.

Otherwise, I think this sale would be considered ordinary income (other than the fact that it's for an outrageous amount). If you did this as a person, you would have an enormous tax bill and no cash to pay it. As a business, you could deduct your expenses and end up with 0 taxable income, although the IRS probably wouldn't like it.
Again, the ebooks were a minor part of the total. If you write a book, sell $5 million of physical copies and associated swag, I guarantee you either need to outsource the whole operation to a competent publisher or you need money to make it happen.

Brandon Sanderson appears to be running most of this operation in house, and he would have pulled it off entirely on schedule if it weren’t for a massive storm introducing a (short!) delay.
Hi,

I’m looking for a simple cad software for visualizing how my home interior would look like with some remodeling. Wondering if this is a nice tool to use?

Thanks!
I'm sure you're right
How Americans Feel About Elon Musk
I could agree with HTML rendering and compression, but sending an email during user registration or as part of an event notification is 100% business logic.
Ask HN: Why does black hat activity always spike in the holiday season?
Wow, that is my goal now. I'm curious, what RSS readers do use on mobile?
Here are just some of the reasons why RSS fell out of favor...

1) It's great for consumers of content, but not so great for content producers or RSS reader vendors, in terms of monetization or even analytics.

2) It's great for tech-savvy folks, but not so great for mass market reach, and the incentives to make mass market reach feasible are low.

3) It worked better back when most content was free. Paywalls are a more sustainable business model, but aren't very compatible with RSS.
Yes, it is remarkably hard to come up with a US tax rate, because in single-payer healthcare countries your healthcare is covered. Here, how much do you pay? I couldn't even begin to guesstimate.

While you could probably find cheaper places to live in the US than California, and therefore find much more agreeable tax rates, it's not that easy. Culture varies a lot in the US. I love the South, but a some folks would rather drink poison than live there.

And you can't forget property taxes. These vary at the county or city level and can be quite significant. And, just for fun, they generally pay for the public schools, which depending on where you are may be abysmally awful, so now your "tax rate" includes stumping for private school, which could be the equivalent to a year's salary in some Nordic countries.
You've hit the nail on the head to what I believe is the crux of the issue: OP is "jumping headfirst" into a cybersecurity role for a 30 person company with large/important clients without considering what they will need, beyond additional hard skills, to be successful.

The background information is enormously helpful because, as you noted, it sounds like this is being thrust upon OP, but one can turn the conversation around and try to discuss what is actually needed to upgrade company security policies, infrastructure and processes -- starting with bandwidth (i.e. time). And carving out that time requires setting and managing expectations with both OP and CEO.

Perhaps my wording came across incorrectly, but "interim CSO" doesn't mean vying for a title bump (although that's one power move OP could certainly attempt), but more to bring to the CEO's attention that this role is now important enough at the company's current size that it deserves full-time attention.
> "Dart Throwers at Work: Stories of Plushy Hunters' Early Days" is a play on "Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance"

It missed this one, it's likely Founders at Work.

> "The Lean Plushy Hunter" is a play on "The Lean Startup: How Constant Innovation Creates Radically Successful Businesses"

Might be The Lean CEO instead.

I had to Google to get the right answers, I wasn't familiar with either book.
They did indicate the charging rate, it’s now up to 180 on model S/X
They're saying don't bother. The same panels can be installed more cheaply in a utility scale solar farm, and the sunlight hitting your roof is not itself a valuable commodity.
I honestly don't see why this is newsworthy whilst the social climate still celebrates conservatives being booted off various social media sites. It's a private company doing what they want; you have no god given right to attend Madison Square Garden. As progressives snarkily tell the conservatives, if these lawyers want a arena so bad, they should make one for themselves.
> we will return to the days of clickbaity headlines

We entered those days and have yet to leave. If anything, the rise of social media (at RSS's expense) turbo-charged clickbait headlines, since now it's easy to measure engagement around those stories, both in terms of views and in terms of comments/likes/shares/etc.
> Not sure why such an innoccous expression like 'circle-back' sends people into fits of rage.

Because it’s not innocuous, it’s fucking obnoxious, that’s what.

Just as I was thanking my deities of choice a few years ago that “touch basing” all the time had become uncool and all but disappeared from the workplace parlance, now all of a sudden everyone is happily “circling back” to topics of choice. It seems to be coming and going in waves.

This new hotness of a slang is also particularly shitty because it alludes to going through a few rounds of unnecessary talk before getting to the point.

It’s also one thing if one person is doing this, but if everyone and their dog keep circling back to stuff, it sounds quite idiotic.

The only thing that’s even worse is when a manager adopts military terminology while knowing nothing whatsoever about military.
What other terminology might better describe those concepts? These seem to be technical terms that describe specific things. Unless using them in an unrelated context (e.g. describing your pantry as a key value store), these seem relevant.
The sentence "seems ... to me" already carries that meaning.
Overflowing water pools with barriers operated by level or flow in some other pool would be the intuitive candidate. Very close to popular mental models of electricity and people do like to have fountains around. Fountain/playground intermediates seem to be particularly popular.

It's been baffling me since late childhood that this isn't a thing everybody loved until they became "oh no, not another one of those!" frequent. Remember when fountains of that giant stone sphere slightly elevated by water pressure type weren't definitely not cool anymore yet?
Nice demo, any chance this tech gets ported to an android library soon? Real-time face detection via CPU would be way better than constantly uploading your video feed to aws kinesis for ML processing.
Maybe you should see it more as doing things other people need and want to pay you for instead as an more abstract entrepreneurship...
One gotcha in modular crypt format is that the format is different between glibc and BSDs. Glibc documents that the salt should contain only the same characters that are used in the crypt(3) output (ie. [a-zA-Z0-9./], note that this is different from the two most commonly used base64 alphabets) and recent versions of glibc crypt(3) check for this and will return an error (actually "*0" and not NULL with set errno) when the salt contains invalid characters.
Calling it "controversial" is a way of whitewashing that it would get you kicked out of any poker game I have ever attended.

Possibly you could get away with it at a shady home game where the other players know it is a sign you are a massive fish and will still lose money.
It uses DJGPP, so it makes protected mode EXEs.
I don't think anyone is saying otherwise. It's clear that the discussion is about general public-facing government websites. Something for which the intended audience is a large portion of the population.
The C programming language book.
I subscribed to all 3.

It was a pretty siloed world back then. Even if you were a power user and/or hobbyist PC user who was part of the BBS scene etc., you probably didn't interact a whole lot with either Unix or nascent open source communities. And, as a product manager of Unix systems in the late 90s, I know I was only vaguely aware of Linux.

PC Mag was definitely the lead magazine of the PC community from mainstream corporate users to assembly language programmers. (There was also PC Tech Journal, I think, which more consistently got into the tech weeds.)

Dr. Dobbs and Byte were always more eclectic--to the point they could be hit and miss--but were certainly more likely to get into more obscure technical topics.
The yard sale model encapsulates a lot of what you said above.

This interactive website does a good job of explaining the model itself: https://pudding.cool/2022/12/yard-sale/
The trouble is losing a phone is probably just as common or more common than getting hacked, and keepass sync is purely manual.

I suspect the most secure way to store passwords is in your Google account, because they have a far higher budget than almost anyone else. They will spy on you, but they also keep random hackers out.

I use BitWarden (with gmail as the 2FA) instead because I wanted the ability to try different browsers, and I like being able to store other bits of critical info in my vault.

You generally can't get hacked on anything important unless you already lost your phone, even if they have your password, because of 2FA.

You also don't lose your account if you lose your phone if you use SMS 2FA like most people do even though it's not perfectly secure, because your cell carrier can recover your number.
> I didn't bust my ass for 30 years creating tech to have companies pull nonsense like this

Hate to break it to you, but this is exactly what you busted your ass for.
I don't understand the love of RSS readers. The basic concept is trivial; you could write one in five minutes. It doesn't seem radically different from any of thousands of news aggregator type web sites, including HN.

I read upthread that Google Reader had a social mechanism for recommending feeds to friends. That's great for discovery, but it still hardly seems earth-shaking.

It feels an awful lot like a rose-colored-glasses situation, where something existed that wasn't horrible but doesn't reappear because it wasn't all that great, either. What is it I'm missing?
India to Review Rules on How It Taxes Foreign Digital Services
The US government provides retirement benefits, including healthcare at retirement. You are not required to pay for college, and you can go to a cheap school if you want.
What does "full akn" mean?
Even as a person that drinks sometimes, I find it annoying when people try to pressure me to drink if I don't want to. It's polite to offer but if someone says no than just ignore it.
I like the idea of a "scent picture"; helped me relax and indulge my dog in olfactory exploration. I get more and better exercise without a dog now, being able to move faster and get my heart rate up, but it was also fun to try to imagine what they experienced as we moved around through the world.