skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The legality, and even the exact definition, of IP is not black and white and comes up all the time in copyright discussions. If we want to say that the NDA states that your brain while at this company is ours and must be wiped if you leave, uh what? I think the spirit of an NDA is more that you don't release private information about the company.

I look forward to the day I can add inventions to that one field that asks for them upon being hired!
> plumber charges 200 an hour and doesn't make anywhere near that much, because they work for a company who profits massively off their labor and exploits him as far as the law and supply and demand will allow

Do most plumbers responding to house calls work for an employer? There aren't many economies of scale in that work.
Would love some more information on how to do this. Can you share details or point to a resource?
How such a massive bug could slip thru?

This is weird.

If resellers with stocks know that, they will send back the boards and ask for a refund.
It might be fantasy or it might be the mighty reach of the US government. The US has a trade org that controls EVERYTHING about materials made with US licensed or US developed technology. I think it is the US International Trade Commission.
That seems like it ought to be a knob provided to the user…
These filings may add up to change at some later time, though are unlikely to provide any kind of near-term actionable remedy.
I'm also on a 5950x and I need to find a reason to upgrade :))
Tenderlove's Ruby and Rails Reflections and Predictions
> Everyone learns the law of supply and demand before adulthood, or if they haven't then they shouldn't be going to college anyway.

Yeah, the problem is that the "law of supply and demand" is a simple metaphor to help children gently begin learning economics, not how anything actually works. Almost no price any real person encounter anywhere in their daily life is actually determined in any meaningful way by "supply" or "demand" -- unless you stretch the definition of those two words so thin they're practically meaningless. They're potential factors, sure, but only small ones.

As one of a bajillion examples, see how every hospital is short staffed (low supply) and desperate for nurses (high demand), while we also see them constantly lay nurses off or reduce hours (and nursing has consistently-fixed low salaries, despite the shortages). Same for CNAs, nursing home staff, etc.
I believe it is both a scheduling and memory allocation/loading issue. It is interesting that caches are NUMA but main memory is not.
We've been hit by this at work as well. We had to add CAPTCHA and a several other techniques to defend against this.

How it works:

1. Attacker leases 1 or more premium rate numbers in an international country.
- Attacker can lease a premium rate number for as little as $10/month
- Typically, the attacker gets to keep 70% of the money generated by the premium rate number.

2. Attacker then finds companies with OTP (One-Time Passcodes) or 2FA (Two-Factor Authentication) endpoints that require no validation and writes a script to automate the webpage or call the API endpoint
- Attacker will typically obtain a new IP address per API call using a VPN or a rented botnet from the dark web.

3. If the premium rate number costs 10 cents, then each successful text message they can send to the number generates 7 cents for them.

4. The attacker then just needs to send 150 SMS to the premium rate number to break-even on their $10 investment, not counting the cost of the VPN or rented botnet.

There is a lot of money to be made here by an attacker unfortunately. :(
Yes, this is where/how you make money in the trades. Or you specialize in something esoteric and potentially dangerous like underwater welding or high voltage linesman.

If you stay as a line worker in a union you will do OK but won't be rich (unless you live frugally and save/invest a lot).
A Lisp interpreter implemented in Conway's Game of Life (2021)
The Home Depot orchestrates self-service cloud solutions with Workflows
Answering here, but this really covers the sibling comment from dekhn.

To me it seem quite wild to have quantum sensing separated from the rest of quantum information science. It would be like saying that classical SNR considerations are unrelated to Shannon's introduction of error correcting codes (the birth of information science). But if that is your preference, it does not make much sense to argue. Either way, most scientist who work on quantum information science also see their work apply specifically to sensing.

Similarly, it seems strange to me to insist on specifically focusing on quantum computing, when the majority of technology developments in quantum information science apply both to sensing and to computing (one of which is simply easier thanks to its analog nature).
> Somehow Rust forces you to have colorful terminal output? Rust is high overhead? You can't strive for simplicity and write in Rust?

This was more of a sarcastic reference to https://github.com/mTvare6/hello-world.rs
But I don't think Rust fits in here: https://suckless.org/philosophy/

> How is Rust incompatible with aligning with the philosophy that encourages building simple yet functional things?

I would say it attracts different kind of developers that in turn make respective design choices, and I believe Rust, its syntax, package management ecosystem and community reflect that. Can you write simple system tools in JavaScript or brainfuck (not trying to compare here)? Sure, but the thinking process, design decisions, approaches would be drastically different compared to what I'd consider good and elegant code.

ANSI C is probably the best balance you can get between product complexity, coding complexity and usability of the output (which again, has to be simple: writing something like Kubernetes in C is probably not the best idea, hence it was implemented in a more suitable language). Though there are some very good and complex products, like the Linux kernel, Redis or Varnish. All of them are very modular, as complex products should be.

Just by having a musl library and tcc [0] you can get a lot done. I'd prefer that over complexity that Rust toolchain involves and crates ecosystem mess.

[0] https://bellard.org/tcc/
I think this person is referencing the game Factorio which is known to benefit from more cache. (UPS = updates per second)
It's like a MLM spread across generations of workers. You recruit two workers and they recruit two workers each and then they recruit two workers each.... You even get to be your own {Personal Pronoun}Boss!
Ask HN: How to make a living designing human languages?
I have a son that is bit of a savant. He learned to read on his own at 3, started learning Greek on his own at 5, took French and German simultaneously in school, etc. He loves creating his own languages - I guess it's the syntax and other stuff that is fun??

Anyway, although he's very good at it, it seems to me to be a complete waste of time. There are small groups on the Internet that also do this, but I can't see any way for him to make a living. Currently he is suffering in college going after a science degree, but his heart isn't in it.

Are there any jobs out there that could use skills like this that I can't think of?
Ok, thanks for that. I misread that baseline was the Elixir version. I thought that usually "baseline" is the reference implementation that you start with and the slowest?

Interesting topic, thanks for writing the blog post!
Yeah, it's called Signal.
But most people have more free disk space than 10gb, and most people also have more than 1 device. I have 2 phones, 3 laptops, a desktop and a NAS, with some 40TB between them.

My workplace has a private cloud with some 70PB of storage, plus tape, and tons of desktops and laptops.
Does anyone know if the Internet Archive is on the case?

A lot of profile and newsletter links of the form "https://www.getrevue.co/profile/..." are going to be dead very soon.
Game company advertising budgets can be in the hundreds of thousands per day, giving away free games like this (most likely with a bulk discount negotiated with the game creator) is peanuts compared to the traffic they bring.
I’d say there more nuance to that, but yeah, for me part of the magic is that I can manage/complete multiple tasks while not even thinking about leaving org-mode (or space|emacs).
"Almost certainly people like Elizabeth Warren will use this to show that crypto is having a spill on effect to the real world economoy and therefore should be under their regulatory control."

Under this analysis one could argue that Madoff was having no effect on the "real world economy" so his conduct should not have been regulated. His "advisory service" made zero investments. All he did was accept money from clients, spend it on himself, his family, his employees and charitable donations. His advisory service was arguably "disconnected" from the real world economy. For example, when the real world economy was going into a "meltdown", when Madoff knew he could not pay all of his clients' withdrawals, he wanted to use the limited funds he did have in the Ponzi account to give bonuses to his sons.^1

It was the real world economy, i.e., the 2008 conditions, that ultimately brought Madoff down.

1. That tipped them off, they discovered the fraud and once they knew about it, they had to turn him in or else risk facing criminal charges themselves. One of them later committed suicide, the other died of cancer.

Madoff was not buried as is customary for his faith. He was cremated and his family refused to accept the ashes. They are allegedly in his lawyer's office.

How will SBF's family react to what he has done if and when all the facts are revealed. Unlike Madoff's family it seems like they knew what he was doing. Time will tell.
The Most Terrifying Spyware Ever Created – Pegasus Documentary [video]
Faster? Hard pass. Guaranteed to make you slightly taller? How do I invest?
OpenRPC
Man ball mice sucked, it seemed like I was always cleaning the rollers. I generally am an early adopter of nothing but I rushed out to buy that first Microsoft Optical mouse. I was still using it on a secondary machine until a couple years ago when it finally died.
I disagree, this sounds _exactly_ like what the drug cartels have been doing in Mexico for years. They build their own network so they can bypass the government. It makes more sense that they are connecting their operations further up north given the amount of security upgrades that the USA has been doing recently.
One Example: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mexico-telecoms-cartels-s...

"Crypto" is just a buzzword that people who don't understand tech jump to as a kneejerk reaction.
Note that it also works on macOS even though it only shows Windows in "Platform". The Epic Launcher and KSP both run through Rosetta on ARM.
>If they can get you hooked on a few games to draw you from Steam then you start buying your games on Epic and then they make real money

Hasn't happened yet and I've had an account for >2 years.

The thing is that even if they keep giving out free games, I still consider my Steam library to have the superior collection of games than what Epic has thus far given out. And since I like using the Steam client and the Steam store more, I don't see Epic Games closing the quality gap anytime soon.
VPN + BitTorrent client + ThePirateBay has pretty much any current or recent movie or TV series.
2023’s Juicero
Your benchmarks are analogous to
Toyota on highway 0-60 8sec
Porche on highway 0-60 3sec
But
Tell me how they perform with load, bumpy terrain, tyre wear.
Just because something runs faster on WASM doesnt mean u have to use it, there are othet things to consider to see if its even worth it. Vscode is based on mono and is written on top of JS/TS. Why woukd you compile it to something and run it on top of WASM, rather than just running it using the native browser engine.
welder. learn to weld. take a community college class to get certified. somewhere in there get a job at an abusive shop making $30 migging tube fences and grinding all day. try to find any lifeline to a higher paying less brutal work environment hopefully without assholes constantly doing hinky shit for a laugh
From my perspective[1], the problem with writing everything you're going to do upfront is that it's a terrible way to develop new ideas.

Outside of academia, where you just do shit to see what happens, you can get through maybe a dozen different "idea iterations" in a month, and within a short span of time you've really got an understanding of what does and doesn't work.

In academia, where everything has to be justified, it seems like it takes decades to reach the same level of understanding that you could get independently in months.

Of course, because your're more methodical and precise you can much more certain that you haven't made as many errors, but as a human being who doesnt know what the hell you're doing you'll almost always learn more from playing with something spontaneously 50 different ways than carefully planning 5 approaches.

I feel like science as a whole would be much more effective if we split it into two separate tasks: trying to wrap our heads around new things, and then only after this has done do we begin to formalise things. The current model of pretending we know how to approach new things from day one just seems to stifle progress and prevent bad paradigms from dying.

[1] I left my PhD due to complete frustration with the system after first year - kept getting pushed towards the goal of "going through the motions" and adding to the pile of polished turds that is decoding algorithms for brain-computer interfaces. Still bitter about it 6 years later, probably will be until the day I die.
If you're in Oregon or California, it looks like the wages there are much higher.

Also, you're probably paying the company which manages the plumbers, of which the plumbers don't directly earn that.

If you're hiring a plumber directly, I'd assume it's a more experienced one running their own business. In addition to charging you $200/hr for the work, they're probably doing their accounting and business management, billing, ordering parts and equipment, replacing tools, and communicating with clients.

I could see that only resulting in 10-20 billable hours per week.

Also, if many of their jobs are paid in cash, it's possible there's a significant amount that is unreported to the agencies generating these statistics.
They claim the Ryzen 9 7940HS has ~40W TDP, which is a little more than a M1 Pro, so it shouldn't be too bad.
Actual papal elections might be more efficient then this charade. The conditions the cardinals have to work in get progressively more and more austere as balloting goes on.
As LiteSync used eventual consistency AUTOINCREMENT isn't possible. You would have collisions when a node come back on after what they are calling "Airplane Mode".

I suspect the issue with random() and date('now') similarly are they it will replay transactions on other nodes, and these would return different values. Obviously they could design the system to save the values for returning when replaying a transaction if they decided it was necessary.

I haven't looked in detail, but I'm suspicious they are using the SQLite Session extension: https://www.sqlite.org/sessionintro.html
Doesn't "military-grade" imply the lowest-possible cost to get the job done? I.e., the exact opposite of the marketing PR it is servicing?
I was being snarky. They named dropped JPL and Tesla in their video.
In case you don't want just my word on it: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Computer_chip&redirect=no ; the first paragraph of the linked page for ICs notes it, as well.
Yes, that's obvious. The question is more WHY -- why serve curl detection from the root domain? Why only detect curl? ...
Sounds to me like a great time to start working on your own project. Maybe even start your own company.
Might be worth taking a look at the announced Intel Xeon MAX chips then. I watched a video on it last night and these new server CPUs have a boatload of memory on the chip and can actually run without needing external DRAM.
> Not in love with it…

But notice the way the list is composed :)
Are there any moderately priced 486 SBCs available these days? The ones I've encountered (forgotten the links) were in the $200-or-so range. Surprisingly expensive, or not?

I would love to have a dirt cheap fanless 486 minicomputer for FreeDOS (SvarDOS). Not for gaming, mostly for writing and some hobbyist coding. (I'm an ultra-slow thinker, so a single-tasking system is very probably plenty for most things. :)

Currently thinking about this one, with Vortex86 -- but it is still, well, fairly expensive as compared to something like a RasPi: https://icop-shop.com/product/ebox-3100/

As for fanless and low spec, there is, of course, this wonderful table of thin clients: https://www.parkytowers.me.uk/thin/hware/hardware.shtml
*Surely
A skateboard works great too for moving faster around town, and is pretty fun to use as well.
We've been hit by this exact issue, especially over the last month.

We tried to mitigate as cleanly as possible for our users, adding one-time nounces to signup requests, adding rate-limiting rules, locking down regions, but we still faced an onslaught of tens of thousands of fraudulent signups per day. On our tier we don't have the ability to set block rules ourselves - it requires a support request that takes 2-3 days to get a response on. Our choices are to eat thousands of dollars per day in toll fraud, or disable sign-ups until we can add more fraud prevention on top of what Twilio enables. The problem is the fraudsters are using real browsers across thousands of IPs located in dozens of different countries.

Similar to the OP, Twilio tries to say this is our fault and leaves it up to us to both pay for the issue and to try and fix it.
Good news! You can twist your left heel and the Moonwalkers(TM) will engage regenerative mode, where you will be forced to walk slower, and your effort will recharge the Moonwalkers(TM) battery, or your friend's phones! Everyone will love it!
>Your only power to encourage them to fix this is to do the thing they're begging you not to: dispute the charges.

I'd check their TOS to see if they offer some kind of arbitration option. As noted in other threads, triggering that process can be a surprisingly effective way to make someone from the company actually engage with the issue. Disputing the charges is always a nuclear option. They may never do business with you after that.
Even if it works offline, it probably won't continue to work if you need to switch to a new device after their DRM servers are turned off.

DRMed content can never truly be purchased.
"East takes you Out, Out takes you West, West takes you In, In takes you East."
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Smoke_Ring_(novel)#:~:text...).
California pay transparency law kicked in this week, revealing Big Tech salaries
Yes, it is detecting curl by the user agent - by using the "page rules" in Cloudflare. Cloudflare is good for traffic management rules.

I've created this distribution channel as an experiment and for my own need - I use it to download and install ClickHouse without the need of package manager. So I don't need to run "apt update" to install ClickHouse. It works if the package manager is broken, and it works well on very old servers, and rare Linux distributions.

It is using the fresh build from the master branch. I have also created a website for my team to monitor the status of the continuous integration system: https://aretestsgreenyet.com/

We also have deb, rpm, tgz and Docker as wrappers for the release builds.
New home/residential wiring jobs are basically the entry point for electricians. It's about as mindless and simple as it gets. I'm not sure what the licensing requirements are but those are the sorts of jobs that an electrical contractor puts their new/junior people on.
I take the opposite tack, a serious libc should just ignore locale requirements because complete disuse is the only way to force the standards committee to fix the spec.
Seems like a trade + honesty + can run a business as an IC/MBA hybrid, you’ll clean up and have a good or very lucrative career. Especially as billing peers cost of living.

Probably a big caveat exists for businesses that get into contract bidding, as that’s different.

There’s 1x old plumber in my town who does honest and on time work and he’s a spry 70 year old. And charges a hefty but honest hourly rate given the service. There’s no plumbers behind him.

Whenever Ive thought I might not make it in tech, a trade and running a business on it was the backup plan.

*edit the nuances I’ve seen that are worth mentioning is if you’re not in that owner/operator role, the work can get bad. Know enough friends who:

- slipped in a construction site moonlighting a demolition job and now limping and can’t afford a doctor.

- Electricians who got their in around a strict union hierarchy but also zapped themselves pretty bad early on.
Being a plumber who works for a company means you are given tasks and show up at those assignments. You need to know how to plumb.

Being an independent plumber means handling: marketing, networking, customer service, etc, plus plumbing. Like any other freelance position it's not easy to break in and get enough work to live. And we're not in the days of people just opening the Yellow Pages and calling a random plumber. Now it's a labyrinth of competing search engine results, yelp reviews, HomeAdvisor references, etc.

Some people will take the time to find an independent plumber. Most people call RotoRooter or whatever company has advertised the most in their area. The plumbers, electricians, handymen I call are all independent, but they're also old, at the end of their careers, having a set of regulars they could take with them going independent, and having saved a bunch of money because they were getting paid fair wages in their prime. There are economies of scale in the skilled trades, they're just not the trades themselves.
> But he just shut down Revue, which was exactly "Twitter's Substack" version

Google Video was "Google's YouTube" but Google still decided YouTube was worth acquiring.
There's not that many jobs that pay that much around here.

However, our Seattle location has that problem. It was almost closed down because of competition.

edit: can't reply to the person who replied below, but if you have a contract to sell parts to a company you can't just increase your worker pay to whatever you want and have it be sustainable.
Non-American here.

The Democrats will never swap their votes, they have no reason to.

So this is just the new speaker trying to negotiate/coerce/force/convince/bribe a few more Republicans to vote for him.

And if he doesn't succeed, will they just keep voting until all eternity or is there a chance he'll step down in favour of someone that everyone can agree on?
IIRC, something about opportunity cost or maintenance burden.
When I first saw your question, I guessed it was the Netherlands, and it is indeed the first according to these estimates [1]

However, The problem is that outside western Europe and the US (and even within them to a large extent) :

- "Countries", as we know them today, were not the default mode in 1820. It would be interesting to compare this list [2] to today.

- "Middle Class", as it defines the average person today, was almost non-existent by then (a minority at best). So, I suppose there was a large difference between the mean (average) and the median. The average loses its real value as indicator.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_regions_by_past_GDP_(P...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_entities_in_...
I have gone to the moon several times in Kerbal Space Program. Going to the moon is super easy. Not smashing into the moon at 1.5KM/sec, on the other hand, is pretty difficult.