skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From TFA:

> Scholars agree that runes were influenced by an older writing system, but just which one, and when, remain the subject of academic debate. One theory posits that the runic alphabet—also known as “futhark,” after its first six sounds—was derived from the alphabet of the Etruscans in northern Italy. Another is that runes were born from the Latin alphabet, following commercial and cultural exchange between Germanic peoples and the Romans.
Where I live there is also a bank fee for dealing with large amounts of cash.
> According to this, there are no such things as "dynamically typed” langugages, only “unityped” ones.

Bingo.

That's exactly what Harper said.

Did you actually read that thing?
>> Instead of getting angry at aviation corporations who save money and maximize profits by degrading

Sorry! I skipped over the part where I was disturbed and disgusted at the fact that American had cut their filter expense by 80%. My friend's dad was not a smoker but was also appalled that the airline took that decision once they were free from the particulate strictures imposed by cigarettes, because he believed it made the air in the cabin filthy.

So, overlaying all of my angst about children and anti-smoking zealots, I do understand that we've all been thrown into this arena by corporations who have lowered my standard of living. Those corporations have, to be fair, raised the standard of living of people who fly with 3 sick kids to Hawaii, when from my perspective without massive credit they would be raising those kids in a coal mine. In a way, it's almost socialism.
Another idea: disconnect from your hardware vendor and see what breaks.
New Book Explains Shortest Path Bridging SPB Design
how can the population possibly reach "sustainable" level (not sure what this word means in this context, im assuming non-decreasing?), when the fertility rate today is 1.34 (need 2.1) and plummeting? It's going to get worse the more old people they have, because old people can't have children. When the whole country is old, there will be no children, because who's going to make them, even if they have an odd sudden change of heart?
Heh, "coke" is the only one that sounds normal to me (I'm from the southwest). Where I'm from, if you ask for a coke at a drive-through, they'll ask "what kind?". And then you say "Sprite", or whatever you want.
How much growth has Facebook stock had from the first day Zuck was in charge until now? I mean you need to take people's entire tenure not random periods of your choosing.
Do as many as you like. These are fascinating.
I think this changed with increase in non-smoking areas.

Back a few decades it was normal that cigarette smoke was everywhere. Trains, restaurants, offices, factories, at home, ... it was just normal. Nowadays in many places it is more notable.
Did this with libfaketime on an IDA trial.
My advice for a new graduate / entry level position is to optimize for mentoring and continued learning. Emphasize this during the interview process. If you can get into a brand name tech company, that can be a resume booster for the next opportunity.
It isn't just that the 2 year old can read. He taught himself to read! In Mandarin!
Hm, I wonder who runs 'The Children's Investment Fund Foundation'. I'm going to take a wild guess before checking that it's someone named Chris Hohn.

> CIFF was established in 2002 by Sir Chris Hohn and wife, Jamie Cooper-Hohn as the philanthropic arm of Hohn's hedge fund, the Children's Investment Fund Management (TCI Fund Management)

How generous! Giving over 4.5 billion dollars to himself!
I am pretty sure it is illegal. It is the donor that may claim the tax deduction, if any. The retailer may not claim it merely by being a conduit for donated funds.
> But, to absolutely steal the originators example -- the "superfragility" of crypto systems is the same as the superfragility of individual NYC restaurants

What? That's not at all what I was talking about. I was talking about fragility for the user.

When I buy something online even at a new and kinda dubiously run place, I'm only risking the $50 or whatnot I put in, and even then I can do a chargeback. And all the site knows is that John Smith spent $50 on their stuff.

When I interact with crypto, I need an online wallet, which means everything and everyone knows what's the balance in it, and how much cash they'll get if they succeed in finding a bug, or an exploit, or to trick me into revealing my key, or they trick me into allowing more access to my wallet than I should. And then I'm not out of $50, I'm out of everything, and there's no recovery possible.

That's what I mean by "superfragile". Crypto needs you to do everything right, consistently, forever, or the results of a lapse in security that somebody succeeds in taking advantage of are catastrophic.

> I agree, you'd be nuts to throw a lot in. I just also think you'd be nuts to not throw a little in as well.

The era of crazy gains when somebody spent $5 on a lark and ended up with $500K is long over. Look at the stats. In modern times if you're really, really lucky you can double your money. But doubling $5 is insignificant. You need to risk a lot for the gain to actually be significant.
On the other hand, you have to worry about disputes and chargebacks, of which you can only accumulate so many with your processor, and which also tend to have unfavorable outcomes for merchants.

The pros may still outweigh the cons, but it’s not all roses with cards.
I'm sympathetic to this argument because people can't retrain for a different job instantly, and there's mostly no safety net that allows people to take the time to retrain and still be able to provide for themselves and family while they do it.

But in the grand scheme of things, low-skill jobs should be automated to the greatest degree possible, freeing up people to work on more worthwhile things. And as automation gets better and better, even medium-skill and eventually high-skill jobs should also be automated.

In my version of utopia, people won't even have to work if they don't want to, but, due the to abundance afforded by all this automation, will still be able to live a very comfortable life. I suspect humanity will destroy itself before we get there, though.

(Of course, that utopia will be fragile if enough people don't know how to maintain the automation.)
> Oh I heard about Theo Venneman

I haven't heard about you (and you haven't heard about me). Why is it meaningful that you (or I) aren't convinced or think Venneman, an established expert, has shakey arguments?
I don't feel like you responded to my comment. If you are paying a reasonable wage, profit sharing is a bonus. You are creating tipping with extra steps.
Bones of ten soldiers killed at Waterloo have been discovered
100%

They tout on their website that they get third party assurance testing done and yet none of it matters if we can’t see the actual reports.

I just can’t believe more people aren’t enraged about it. Or that people aren’t seeking to sue, purely based on that. Zero trust architecture is fine if you’re breached that’s the whole point, but saying that the information within the vault is encrypted when parts of it aren’t is downright malicious.
Tangential, but I'm looking at a few carmakers who score high but are known for unreliability. Would their models perform worse in real life after years of usage than reliable but lower scoring cars? Is reliability a necessary condition for real life safety?
Cryptocurrency exposed thousands of pedophiles a few years ago. It stores a record of every transaction. They just had to connect the dots starting from the wallet of the CSAM website.

Blockchain sleuthing had become much more commonplace since then.

If you have a public ledger, you don't need names to identify people's wallets.
> I love his talks, and how he tries to push the C++ community to write better code and less "C with C++ compiler" code style, however the production code I get to occasionally look into proves that a large majority just doesn't care.

I don't agree, specially considering legacy code. Those of us still have to deal with an awful lot of code written 10 or 20 years ago still have to maintain code that juggles pointers and references around in ways that are hard to track ownership, and migrating this code to C++11 is no simple task. This doesn't mean people don't care. It just means the industry cannot afford getting whole teams to spend a couple of years on sabbatical to refactor legacy code and pay it's legacy debt.

This is perhaps the biggest strawman that Rust fanatics use to criticize all things that isn't written in Rust. They pick their small little greenfield modules and boast how safe and perfect it is, and proceed to criticize all legacy production code whose teams can't even spare time to fix long standing bugs, let alone pay off technical debt. And that's somehow something Rust fixes?
Because who is the community? The first N people that happen to show real interest? You always need someone to have a clear vision and define an architecture for it.

And if you don't want that to be an individual person you still need a stable and trustworthy team that decides on something something. But even that is already a compromise since it slows things down, by a lot.

Also what if "the community" has contradicting views? One wants a platform for long in-depth posts, and one wants a twitter clone or a tiktok clone or whetever... It just doens't work. You are just projecting your own vague ideas into what you assume the people to also want.
Parent is only asking for eternal youth, not a way to massively decrease the net amount of entropy of the universe.
https://archive.ph/PyKYX
Early stage funding markets for science – an analysis
Seeing that view, for the first time in twenty years I thought about the curious stickiness of a well-used mouse ball, and cleaning the gubbins off the counter wheels, prompted by the cursor starting to stall and jump on the screen.
Gnome Crosswords 0.3.7: Adaptive Layout, Animations, and Arrows
Ah the 1980’s when Neutron Jack Welch (he kills the people but leaves the buildings intact) was seen as a visionary. He was ahead of the curve in massive layoffs while doing tons of mergers and acquisitions that years later seem to have been questionable at best. Nice to see this MBA hookum continue to survive like some radioactive zombie cockroach
What new evidence.

The guy's post said it was checked by linguists and found inadequate to support your claim. Not that your claim is wrong, just unsupportable by that checking.
I didn’t say it was easy, or that people who smoke are stupid, I said it was a choice. If you choose to quit smoking then you’ll succeed.
Communism isn't better; you replace elites with another set elites who control power and those who can produce goods and value have zero incentive to produce. Communism has been tried regardless if people come up with hypothetical governments and assert, without evidence, that these controls would lead to better outcomes for the average person. In fact, tried communism has led to the deaths of millions as there's zero controls to regulate the government when its the only system that contains power.
> I think the former is common and pretty unavoidable unless a company has an unusually large bonus budget pool available.

The problem with this is not the size of the bonus pool.

The immediate problem is the thresholding. Due to the sharp threshold, the bonus will practically never stand in proportion to performance. An employee that is judged to perform at a level of 6.1/7 gets nothing, but the one at 6.3/7 gets a lot. This makes the scheme anti-collaborative.

The less obvious problem is the ridiculousness of the idea that you can assign accurate individual performance numbers to people. These things are insanely noisy to the point of being meaningless. It ends up effectively a lottery. That would be fine if you called it a lottery, but by pretending it's not you create perverse incentives.

There are only two ways to do bonuses well:

- either forego individual bonuses and reward the entire company equally (or maybe scaled by salary) based on company performance, or

- hand out individual bonuses only to true (statistically verified) outperformers -- in this case you might end up not handing out any bonuses most years.
I don't consider that a normal nor a healthy opinion. I'd choose happiness over money. Sure there is some level of money that's so low I wouldn't be happy but that just again means I'd choose happiness.

Happiness isn't making the most money possible, at least not for most people. Happiness, for most people, is having a life of people, relationships, meaning and a big part of all of that is working with people you love on something you love.

You're likely to spend 80,000hrs working. It would be nice not to just have to endure those 80,000hrs but actually enjoy them.
Covid exists, it always will at this rate, and the rest of us won't be suffering for your insecurity about your own immune system. You wear a mask if you like. If it works, you have nothing to worry about.
Huh? Where did you get this idea? Daycare, clothing, food, medicine, and education are not free in Japan. They're mostly not as horrifically expensive as in America, but definitely not free.
Admirial Cloudberg covered at least one crash caused by fire caused by a cigarette. The response from the industry: smoke alarms. Banning smoking too was unthinkable!
We say pop in Liverpool too but only for fizzy lemonade.
There's an interesting general argument you're making here and I'm not prepared to immediately reject it, but one detail I will push back on hard is "use low complexity passwords for unimportant accounts".

This is inadvisable. While the accounts direct utility may not be high, and it increases user overhead, a malicious party can accumulate access to tens of a user's "low value" accounts to farm metadata or incidentally relevant data.

Additionally, the end user is not always the best judge of which accounts are even high value. My aunt insists, for example, that her Amazon account does not need a complex password because she "only" buys cookware from it. A silly example, but it illustrates the point.
The solution I posted works for most use cases, but apparently Safari can have zombie windows with no tabs. I quit and restarted, and updated the script to handle the situation where there are no windows, but I need to wait until there are zombie tabs again to double-check that my fix for that works. Once that's done I'll post again.
How big is a department at amazon? In other words, how many managers are in that conversation and how big are their team size?
Would TCI recommend they lay off their own staff or reduce their staff salaries due to such abysmal returns also? Lol.
The stack ranking on my team at MS was done across a team closer to ~60 developers. Each manager managed 5 or 6 and then they would all get together and fight for their team members. It was insanely toxic. Not sure if every team was the same.
It's fine - this is not in defense of RJR or something. I truly love to smoke. I love to smoke a pipe, to feel the sting of the smoke and the richness and then take a glass of wine next to it, taste the leather and dried fruit interacting with the bittersweet tobacco. I love to roll cigarettes, the act of doing so for others and for myself, delaying the intense pleasure of the flick of the lighter and the sound of the burning leaves. I love a cigar, the method of it, the intensity of its flavor next to a glass of rye whisky, turning both into chocolate and raspberries, the sheer pleasure of each wave of smoke entering your mouth.

I'm not defending tobacco companies. I just fuckin love tobacco. Dig?

[edit] I did not steal these lines from "Cigarettes are Sublime" - they're my own personal feelings. I can't seem to find my copy of that book.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure that the people who wrote ext4 assumed there would be ext5 (or something else) to take over way before 2038. If you look at the history, ext2 was released in '93, ext3 was released in '01 and ext4 in '08.

If you told the developers in '08 that ext4 would not be replaced in 30 years time, they would laugh at you (or cry).
Ask HN: Are you going to shell out $42 for ChatGPT pro? Is it worth it?
From what I have read, it doesn't provide a whole lot of features other than giving you a priority in the queue, and storing your chat history, etc.

So would you guys rather wait a little longer for the prompt to answer or shell out the $42?

Personally, I might pay if they limit the number of responses per month, or they put up a credit system like Dall-E.
Globus, a Soviet-Era Analog Space Computer
I still use the macOS machine (either directly or via Synergy), so I need the have it only put the desktop on one of the screens.
The ideal endgame imo. I'm slightly jealous but also happy for you :)
It never came to my mind that TAI64 could be something useable in “every day” programming. Thanks !

> Unless you are dealing with scheduling

It felt like a niche use at first read (“I’m not building a calendar afterall”), but it’s more than half of what I’d use time manipulation methods for actually.

Anything with a validity start or an expiration date for instance would fall into “scheduling”. But then timeouts and end of process estimation also fall into “scheduling” but need to not be affected by timezones etc. and be TAI64 in this case. And there must be a ton of weird cases that don’t come to my mind at the moment but would screw me when time comes.
What do you mean? Mastodon rode it quite well to the point that servers were straining under the load.

Twitter still exists and is still functional, so why would absolutely everyone move over? I don't think that's ever happened. Every system I've seen where people migrated over elsewhere had it happen over a long period of time.
A Future Mars Environment for Science and Exploration [pdf]
I keep that link handy too! I wish there were newer research to quote, but I also don’t want to force anyone to do that job. It must be pretty depressing to rip all the bandaids off and really contemplate how bad the situation is.
Plot twist: he works for Microsoft )
> Bad management is irrespective of the MBA.

It sure is, but just as "googling something" means searching it, the zeitgeist doesn't care. I think this should severely worry MBA programs, and those with the degree.

People quote the successful leaders who hold MBAs, while simultaneously ignoring the many who don't, or the many who have it but have failed. It's almost like it doesn't matter; because it genuinely isn't correlative beyond "I'm interested in business, let's get an MBA" (meaning, there is a pipeline bias in the statistics, but that doesn't independently validate the incremental impact of the degree).
Roughly half of the customers do head out as soon as the order is ready, especially in the morning.

We print stickers regardless of to-stay or to-go because it helps us keep track of fulfilled items, and you can easily pass a sticker to a colleague if you need help with an order.
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/you-can-now-assign-mul...
While the article is not good and tries to make a point, it is the wrong point.

TikTok is a weapon because it can be used to influence people's beliefs about current. This can be done in a very designed way, the way the CCP wants people to think about things, because the company behind TikTok cannot disobey the CCP and TikTok has very questionable / concerning data collection, ranking algorithms, and "go viral" buttons. Then can manually elevate content when you are most likely to be susceptible to it.

At least that is the fear.
Switzerland still has a strong tobacco lobby, and while it varies from kanton to kanton, there are still full smoking bars, usually not allowed to be above a certain size limit, then there's rules for larger bars, where maybe they have a fumoire, or non smoking areas must be accessible without having to go through smoking areas.

If I'm honest, the smoking bars tend to be either awful, or very cool, there's still something about a hazy atmosphere, usually dark with good music and the right mix of people, I still find a lot of newer bars rather sterile and bland.
I think a big component of this sort of activism (where the ability for actual shareholder control is minimal) is driven by the desire for visibility of the Fund itself as well as for personal visibility of the fund manager.

Here we are discussing TCI and last week we were discussing Ross Gerber calling for board seats on Tesla - who was trolling to get free advertising for the Gerber-Kawaski fund.

It is basically brand hacking/building 101 - Social Media/Legacy Media Engine Optimization. Pick a Goliath and start attacking and assume that Goliath's brand name will drive tweets and news articles and increase engagement for your David brand.

The "any press is good press" approach has been used to win political elections. Rinse repeat enough times and maybe it could be a way to win the presidential election.
Password hashing is controlled by NIST SP 800-63B, not FIPS, but FIPS supplies the approved primitives. When NIST says:

> The key derivation function SHALL use an approved one-way function such as Keyed Hash Message Authentication Code (HMAC) [FIPS 198-1], any approved hash function in SP 800-107, Secure Hash Algorithm 3 (SHA-3) [FIPS 202], CMAC [SP 800-38B] or Keccak Message Authentication Code (KMAC), Customizable SHAKE (cSHAKE), or ParallelHash [SP 800-185].

Those options are authorized by FIPS. The main consequence of this is that there are FIPS-validated implementations available, which are what you want if you're selling to the government.
> This is all completely besides the point as it has nothing to do with why people value things and why an AI would or wouldn't.

You already answered that yourself: it's all made up.

Given it's all made up, nothing will cause them to value what we value — unless we actively cause that valuation to happen, which is the rallying cause for people like Yudkowsky who fear AGI takeover.

And even then, anything you forget to include in the artificial values you give the AI is permanently lost forever, because an AI is necessarily a powerful optimiser for whatever it was made to optimise, and that always damages whatever isn't being explicitly preserved even when the agents are humans.

> Transistors don't have interconnection density like brains do.

Only limit is the heat. They are already packed way tighter than synapses. An entire Intel 8080 processor made with SOTA litho process is smaller than just the footprint of the soma of the smallest neuron.
I just don't have the option to upgrade here. :-/
Lance, if you hadn't got me runout in THAT match, you wouldn't have had to go through all these leet code programming.
Awakening Coffee in Inglewood
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It would take so long Google to bleed itself dry through self sabotage. I'd imagine they're both checked out, they have enough money to be really comfy for the rest of their lives.
Sadly, the other one did the same thing, almost simultaneously :(
> You can not take a single file in a folder and hand it to an executable, without needing to trust it with everything on your computer

iOS works this way. This is a problem that has real, commercially viable solutions. There are many real criticisms of the way security practitioners execute their craft (passwords and 2FA are littered with HCI failures) but something as well studied as sandboxing is not one.
Still quite normal in bars and clubs in Berlin and likely other parts of Europe. Technically it’s not allowed but isn’t enforced and no one really cares. I don’t mind that as a non-smoker but would find it pretty awful in a restaurant or cafe.
While it is common in some bars, it's no longer common in restaurants at all. I've lived in Texas for 5 years and haven't once seen a restaurant with a smoking section. It's usually outside if at all.
It could hardly be considered unprecedented:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Bourbaki