skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, it’s weird the guy hasn’t reached out to someone like Joe. Instead he just keeps sharing the story with the press, but like, you need to be going to white and black hat hackers and security professionals.

I understand why it isn’t in Kingston’s interest to try to help him out, but if I had that much money trapped on something, I think I would do everything I could to actually free it, including paying people to look for vulnerabilities in the drive and reverse engineer. Getting those people to take me at my word might be tough, but I would do everything I could to release $200m in a wallet.
I also think that the talk can be seen as suggesting that open core is the preferable way to make a living from OSS - as long as openness is preserved (service implementations can be exchanged, client can pull out their data etc).

My interpretation of why the talk was mentioned as an argument contra open core:
- the talk does have criticism for value extraction that does not preserve openness (as the OP says: promises of interop etc are not kept, lock-in... is it really meaningfully "open"?), and that it is not necessarily sustainable or fair for OSS developers ("who pays the postgres committers"). This latter point certainly gets more nuanced for open core, but can still be relevant e.g. when you depend on some library you are interested in its being maintained, having security vulnerabilities identified and patched etc.
A supplementary point of view: as we all pretend, blindly or not, what matters is how we relate to each other and treat each other.

I have no way of knowing what people really think of me. But how they treat me affects me deeply.
Laughable attempt to control something very few can understand at the moment.

What does control mean? You want to control who can access it? Maybe for now, you can broker a deal with OpenAI, but this technology will eventually spread, then if can be self hosted, what can you do?

If not for consumer facing, nothing will stop somebody to transfer data from EU to US to get their data processed by a GPT model.

This level of regulation is just fantasy, not even someone like China could do it, where the whole internet access is controlled.
The right question to ask is: What kind of labor market will those who get fired find awaiting them?
My best is 22 flips. I did them on screen.
I haven’t really changed the way I search information or acquire knowledge.

The only difference is that I can make very cool artworks while being devoid of any artistic skills
68 guesses, 1 tip. green: 16, yellow: 9, red: 44
Of course they can. The only real defense against this is for everyone to have nukes.

The only question now is whether NATO is going to escalate to global thermonuclear war over some foreign country. Seriously doubt they care that much.
Go for it.

You have PLENTY of savings to do this. Money should not the concern. At your age, I don't see any concern with taking the time off.

If you were much younger or much older, MAYBE there would be some concern about the employment gap or experience gap, but really even that is a stretch.
You start with a pure popular democracy that the people love .. and then you piss of the USofA and UK by making independant decisions as a nation:

In 1951, Mohammad Mosaddegh was appointed as the Prime Minister of Pahlavi Iran. After the nationalization of Iran's oil industry, he became enormously popular.

He was deposed in the 1953 Iranian coup d'état, an Anglo-American covert operation that marked the first time the United States had participated in an overthrow of a foreign government during the Cold War.

. . .the U.S.- and UK-instigated, Iranian army-led overthrow of the democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh installed the monarchical rule of the Shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi

leading to ~ 25 years of a US puppet government

After the coup, the Shah became increasingly autocratic and sultanistic, and Iran entered a decades-long phase of controversially close relations with the United States and some other foreign governments. While the Shah increasingly modernized Iran and claimed to retain it as a fully secular state, arbitrary arrests and torture by his secret police, the SAVAK, were used for crushing all forms of political opposition.

which made the religuous fundementalist opposition popular enough to stage a coup and install a "supreme leader".

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9ta...
Let them be. I have seen a grandpa sufferring for 10 years on iPhone (he bought new one every 2 years). He just upgraded to S23u and very happy with it. His wife still sticks to i13pm. Some just want burn thru their cash because they believe it is worth it. Some didn't know. We can only help the later group by informing. The former group won't bulge even if the realized it. It is human nature.
If you're gonna make these claims we need a few links - not calling you a liar but you got nothing here atm...
It wouldn’t be. You’d think for a $50m or even $100m bounty, you could get people who hoard 0-days like Cellebrite to do it. I don’t know.

If it were me, I would easily give up half of it to get the money back.
Please enlighten us, good sir. What is one error?

These folks seem to have ultra-legit reviews with deeply in-depth testing & comparison. A long track record of it, with many folks commenting in on HN to declare how great these kinds of reviews are to see, how numbers based.

You havent made a single claim amyone could refute, at this point. But you've pretty vaguely claimed a huge raft of issues. Are any of these things we can make real or discuss? Or should we just take it on faith, trust you, that this pretty well reputed site is bs?
>So is this racism? Maybe, but I’m guessing not.

It is, and if it isn't, then it's discrimination based on heritage.

>note that if the Supreme Court overturns these decisions, it will be based on labeling affirmative action policies as being actively discriminatory against Asians and Whites, not actual direct discrimination against Asian applicants

No, it will be that they found affirmative action policies as discrimination against Asians, and that is direct discrimination against Asian applicants. Saying "well you were just a box I ticked the wrong way because you are Asian" does not make it less discriminatory.
> elites/secularists thought they would take over, but actually had the rug pulled out from under them and the fundamentalists taking over

I’m curious about this. Not the short story. Is there a source you’d recommend?
Besides the other use cases that benefit others have mentioned, there's much more to perf than req/s for a webserver.

Basic examples:

- Latency/processing (which suffers as req/s grows or peaks)

- Memory usage (idle, at peak)

- Startup time (one-off jobs, serverless cold boot)

The "thousands of req/s" benchmarks are often unrealistic - either super simple (the benchmark you linked serves a static tiny JSON payload) or hyper optimized and not representing a run-of-the-mill webserver.
A program can't be too incorrect (in certain directions) without it affecting usefulness. The type correctness of the language it's written in isn't one of those directions, though.
Does it? Humans are cheap.
Porn Zoom bomb forces cancellation of Fed's Waller event
> no one going to work for three years

Where did this happen?
At which point the coins will no longer have a value that is relevant
I always find app-based stuff like this odd. It adds a level of completely unnecessary friction to the process. I drove an EV for a while and the same issue came up - none of them had card/cash payments. It was a significant contributor to me giving it up.

They could just as easily have set it up such that I could walk in and they could figure out what I've bought and just let me tap a card or put cash/coins into a self service machine at the end to open the turnstile. No tappy tap = no open turnstile.

But they don't, because... I dunno. Less data? I mean, they could facially recognise me and track me that way if they really wanted.

If Amazon the website required an app then I wouldn't use it. I bet they'd lose out on a significant number of customers.
Although my first post may not sound like it, I am in fact quite sympathetic to your wife and her situation (although I think she'll be fine is she adopts what I'm about to post).

> However, she's a history professor who can hardly use a computer. Between dealing with bureaucracy of an inherently protectionist work environment, reading a zillion books, research, teaching, conferences, publishing, etc, etc, plus never really focusing on becoming technology literate, this is a lot to process.

This is no longer an option for our species.

We've managed to dumb down computers to a level that people can't even figure out what operating system they're using (Windows 10/11 or macOS).

That's a problem. I don't care what anyone says. They're all objectively wrong. You *need* to have some idea of how the technology that shapes your life works. Just like you don't need to be able to tear down a car, you don't need to be able to explain how ChatGPT works, but just like you understand that using the accelerator makes your car go and the brake makes your car stop, you need some base idea of what's happening with your computer and the software you use.

We see this in just about every aspect of our lives. I wouldn't be able to file taxes for a multi-million dollar business with 300 employees, but I can file taxes for myself with a little bit of effort and reading (in fact, even trained professionals struggle with filing taxes, so maybe this wasn't the best example...).

I think you should have your wife make an account on OpenAI, and subscribe to ChatGPT, and try it out. Sometimes I literally just talk to it when I want to learn things.

I've never had to use Microsoft Outlook, ever, until I started working at my current job. I didn't know what an OST file was, or why they get fucked up so often, so instead of Googling and reading a bunch of shit, I just asked ChatGPT, "What is an Outlook OST file?" and it told me. And I went down an Outlook rabbit hole from there.

And the 4.0 and 5.0 version are just going to be that much more spectacular. I think it's better for her to embrace this right now and get on the other side of this train than be caught in the tracks when it arrives at her station.
China's birth rate has experienced a serious decline, but as the economy recovers, people may become more confident in a few years. The government is also encouraging childbearing, but I think the main problem is that the cost of getting married (house, car) and raising children is too high. As a 1980-1990 generation, the general idea is to have multiple children, especially in countryside and small towns. Most of my elementary school and high school classmates in my hometown have 2 children, and a few have 3 children. But personally, my wife and I have absolutely no intention of having a second child.
The sub-head on this article is Good luck trying to become a professor if you don’t have family money. It discusses the problems of people stuck in what would be called adjunct positions in the United States.
I work for a big tech, and I have yet to see any evidence that leetcode-style interviews lead to better hires. If that data is being tracked anywhere, it's kept very secret. In fact the metric that recruitment uses for success is "inclined rate". It's easy to see how that is a lousy metric: I can just say yes to all candidates, but that doesn't mean they will do a good job.
I don't think you understand the point of bun. It's not to make npm/webpack/typescript faster at running JS code, it's to replace those tools entirely. So in essence, it's doing the same thing that esbuild is doing, just across all of the major tasks people currently do with node. What's different about bun vs esbuild is that it's one tool you can use for everything you do in JS projects.

I've swapped much of my usage of npm over to bun. I still work on projects where nobody else is using bun, but I can run `bun install` instead of `npm install` and `bun run` instead of `npm run` and these run probably 100x faster.
Avast bought the common "I don't care about cookies" addon, but there are forks (https://github.com/OhMyGuus/I-Still-Dont-Care-About-Cookies) you can use if that's a problem.
Well, monetary changes maintain the mean purchase power. But people being able to buy necessities is more about median purchase power, or really the details of its distribution.

The mean purchase power has a very small impact on society.
The file:

def foo():
bar = 3
print ('4')

runs fine when called as a file but when pasted into Python's REPL results in an error:

>>> def foo():
... bar = 3
... print ('4')
File "<stdin>", line 3
print ('4')
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

However with a blank line after the definition

def foo():
bar = 3

print ('4')

results in:

>>> def foo():
... bar = 3
...
>>> print ('4')
4
I wish a company would run an experiment where they just higher at random from a stack of team vetted resumes. I think the results would almost be the same as being super picky.

Why can’t anybody trust verifiable info these days - that you worked for $COMPANY doing some $JOB for $YEARS. Why are resumes completely thrown out the window and you start from ground zero on a whiteboard when you have over a decade of experience. I wasn’t practicing leet for the last decade, I was doing actual engineering.

I work in aerospace which often does a STAR behavioral interview (very light to zero technical interview) and I can honestly say that I work with some of the brightest people I’ve ever met.
Thats just wrong, you can have 3 day, 3 week or 3 month probation and fire them immediately if you dont like them.

And if you cant tell whether they are good developer after 3 months, how is an intervoew going to help?
Thank you. I think you've basically summarized the approach! If you have any specific guidance to that end please send me an email or DM with details :)
If your legacy app is incompatible with modern browsers, yeah, that's got to change. No debating that, really.

But,

1. That may or may not mean a full rewrite of the app. Even in terrible old legacy apps, there usually is at least somewhat of a separation between the backend and frontend logic.

2. While not exactly uncommon, the scenario you describe is a subset of legacy apps. A lot of them work just fine, other than the fact that they're not in the latest version of the latest cool framework.
Involving a third party in key management like a bank is entirely antithetical to the principles espoused in the white paper. Trustlessness is all or noting, and once you trust someone you are just doing what we do now but far less efficiently. A classically envisioned crypto society requires individual custody, or to borrow a turn of phrase “not your keys not your coins.”

Most people are unbanked not because banks don’t exist for them but because they don’t have money to put into an account. In the US online banks like Ally or Schwab are way better for folks who are legitimately unbanked than a crypto wallet - esp one they are unlikely to properly custody. Postal banking is an approach that has been historically hugely successful too.

Outside the US honestly I don’t know how folks wouldn’t be better served with for instance access to an account at circle.com vs USDC.

People not having money is a social problem that deserves a meaningful social solution - not digital magic beans.
Yeah, it's tongue in cheek. The guy is overthinking the easiest decision in the world.
I'm not following your logic at all. If our logic is that merit evenly falls between every racial group and the enrolment of schools should match demographics, then Asians are still over-represented and both blacks and whites are under-represented. So Blacks and whites took both era spots.

If the idea is that current test scores without affirmative action represent true ability, then nobody took eachothers spot, what you describe is true fairness, only 22.2% of whites and 4.5% of blacks deserve to be in school.

Is the idea that blacks deserve affirmative action, and Asians do, and Hispanics do, but whites don't, so any instance of them benefiting from AA is whites stealing from blacks? I just don't quite follow.
>The desire to sanitize language 1984 style is baffling...

If you go back to my original comment, you'll see that I wasn't making a judgement on whether such sanitization was a good idea, but described the perfectly rational reason someone might promote it (no 1984 Orwellian motives required).

>Because that is a useful word.

Now you're getting to the actual point. Is it always a useful word? If there were an exemplary employee at your business, who had worked there for 20 years and was professional and productive, would you describe him to someone else as a felon or would you (assuming the subject came up), merely note that he had committed a felony? And do you see the difference between the two in the way a third party would interpret your comment?
>D3 by itself can cause high calcium levels

I developed a calcification in my arm due to this. My wrist was in pain and I couldn't bend it. Got an x-ray, and boom: what looked like a little ball of bone had appeared.

Stopped taking D3 immediately and my body reabsorbed it, never had it again.

Funny enough, it happened when I was visiting Paris. Got to use Google Translate to explore the French medical system. Fantastic service, people aren't joking! :)
Everyone is interpreting this to be about ChatGPT, so one comment:

As automation starts to do more and more of the work of today’s laptop and professional class, we’re gonna hear a lot of fancy whining about it. These people can’t write as fast as ChatGPT, but they sure can write.
The situation where that "They" where living too fast to be related to the human experience. It where too painful slow to them.
Out of curiosity why is one note so useful to you? I'm not an avid note taker. But what are it's killer features? Or are you just vendor locked with so much of your own data in it?
That doesn't help CI performance. I bet `bun install` is way faster than `pnpm install` on a cold or hot cache (though I haven't tested myself). I think it does similar things to pnpm under the hood to improve local development speed as well.

EDIT: just tested on the eslint codebase:

cold (nothing installed, no cache): bun: 1.53s, pnpm: 8.25s, npm: 25s

hot (already installed, noop): bun: 218ms, pnpm: 1300ms, npm: 1230ms
For me (Firefox, Linux) it did give keyboard instructions on the how to play screen.
VERY FUN
> First off, these giant tech companies have enormous economic incentives to improve their interview processes as much as possible.

But we have examples where the companies themselves have admitted that their past interview practices turned out not to work: https://business.time.com/2012/10/23/no-brainer-brainteaser-...

> They also do a pretty rigorous assessment of the effectiveness of their interview process

Companies do review their hiring processes, but actual experiments and data seem fairly rare. It's harder than you think. What experiment would you run? Hire a group of people entirely randomly, and compare their performance reviews after 2 years?
I think the comment above is: "show me cracking a similar drive with nothing on it" as a capabilities test.
Only those who are not aware of construction costs. Counting those costs rates were more like 700% in their US.
Europe leaps towards energy autonomy as sanctions undercut Russia
Why wouldn't newer APU help for lower battery drain though?

> keeping current deck hw specs will allow developers to focus on single device when optimizing game for deck

That argument is used by incumbent console makers to refresh their hardware once in 5 years which results in it being horribly behind and holding games back as well. So I don't really buy this logic.
Was the last one called "Lights Out Sports Fans"? I know they had a baseball and basketball one, that did what you described. I had the baseball one.

In fact, it is kinda a funny story... I was about 10 years old, and my mom used to take me out of school every year to go to the MacWorld convention in San Francisco (just the exhibition hall).

One year I went and they had a booth for lights out sports fans screen savers, and as a prize for sitting through the demo you had a chance to win the baseball one.

Well, I sat through the demo about 5 times trying to win and never won. I would answer all the questions the demo guy would ask, and he was probably getting a little annoyed. He finally just gave me the screen saver to get me to go away.

Looks like you can buy it on eBay https://www.ebay.com/itm/202832094823
Accurate prediction:

Job data trails rate increases by many months. So do recessions.

If the fed levels off interest rates within the next year or so, we have a very good chance of avoiding a recession. I am young/old enough to remember the last time interest rates were this high, and we were BOOMING.

If the fed pushes the gas on interest rates, it will likely push us into a mild recession.

Thanks (covid!) to millions retiring along with remote work, it would take a black swan event to really push things into the red. Note that we have a few possibilities for that setup, but so far, nothing has pushed every button as of yet.

I predict a sideways trend for the near future. A really good event unrelated to employment will pull us up, a really bad event will drag us down.
We already spend enough to provide gold-plated healthcare to every single American.

We spend more than any other country on earth. ($4.3 trillion in total, ~$800 billion in annual federal spending alone)

Per-capita we spend the most but our systems suck.

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.XPD.CHEX.PC.CD?most_...

If that 1% was redirected, hell, if every single dollar of the defense budget was completely transferred into healthcare, it wouldn't make a difference.

The insurance and pharmaceutical companies would gobble it all up.

There is more than enough money already.

Increasing spending from $4,300 billion to $4,368 billion won't fix anything.

The only way to improve our systems here at home is to improve them.

Same goes for education and social security.

The only nation that spends more on education per-capita is Luxembourg and they don't count because they are the size of a postage stamp. If we completely zeroed-out ALL defense and Ukraine spending nothing would change, the system would soak up the money with no net effect.

In terms of social welfare spending the United States spends the exact same per-capita as most of its peers. We are right in between Germany and Italy in terms of spending. Same as above, the broken systems we run would just soak up the money with no effect.

That $68 billion is having a huge impact in Ukraine, though.

edit: Think of it another way. $68 billion is about $200 per American. That isn't even enough to cover the cost of an annual checkup with a physician assistant at a clinic, when billed to insurance. (my last one was billed at ~$500 to Blue Cross with an out of pocket cost of $85)

If we zeroed out Ukraine aid and sent everyone a check that could only be used for healthcare, that would be about enough to get your blood pressure checked by a nurse-- and practically nothing else.
I am more amazed that Cyberpunk can work at all on the deck. I thought it had such horrible performance optimization out the gate, that it was pulled from the Playstation. Surprised that any amount of patching could make it workable on a portable device.