skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. Meta had to have spent vastly less than $30 billion on their "metaverse". That's ~80,000 person-years of senior SWEs.

2. Literally half the companies who have video games as their core competency would have been able to build way more for way less.
> What would you suggest?

Fed accepts Treasuries at face value, not market, at the discount window.

Stress testing for banks with more than $50bn deposits. (No Barney Frank/SVB exception.)

New FDIC assessments for large deposits. Tier so banks can reasonably choose to refuse them, or charge an excess-deposit fee. ($1mm, $10mm, $100mm seem reasonable.)
Is there a 10 year old that can MC the groom going for the garter, or the first dance? Doubtful.
Could be a case of Jevons paradox?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

Sometimes when things look weird to us, it just means that it's counterintuitive and necessarily irrational
Nobody's day to day life will actually change because of telescope images. It's, for the vast bulk of all people, a curiousity. Claimed detection of life away from Earth will always be met with disinterest, skepticism.

It's neat if you like astronomy but it can't, and won't, change anything any more than the relatively recent discovery of virophages has.
I'd like to hear this as well.

I cast a wide net in my information gathering, but I tend to still skim a boatload of content...

Because, I don't trust any of it. I take the skeptic (not cynical, there is a difference) on all content.

Because given that I have been on the internet for decades, I've seen how the sausage is made through a number of company lenses and roles....

However, as I age, one thing I have found out is that expertise atrophies at an incredible rate.

I was one of Intels DRG managers testing all sorts of kit, from private dealings with the initial Unreal engine, gaming testing on plasma monitors for subjective visual glitching etc...

But the space of tech is just so fn huge these days, and expertise (and relevancy) don't age well....

So, I just dont know who to keep up with given the scale of tech info out there... as Tech has become the Mycelium to the Human Organism (the fruit of the Tech-celium) - We built the ornaism that controls us.
Thank you for reinforcing the point! Let them eat cake.
They need to cut at least 100bps. This is the only way to bring all those mortgage and treasury bonds back a bit and not be so under water.

This may or may not restart inflation but it’s the only option that will be effective.

The Fed has been cargo-culting Volkner in the 80’s without considering this is a different beast. They needed to raise rates but they needed to do it far more deliberately and cautiously. And of course should have started sooner.

We need to accept multiple years of 6-10% (possibly more) inflation or collapse everything and create carnage no one wants to live in.
But he did have some insight into the nature of revolutions, which is the context in this case.
Can other expats who has since left, or have decided to stay, share their experience as well?
If enough people show up, that will happen, just like it has with Mastodon
If keeping your job in investment banking had anything to do with not losing enormous sums of money, they would have already lost their jobs long ago.
This has been debunked for generations, much like orgone. People have gone to JAIL for suggesting that you can use electricity to cure diseases such as cancer.
> Regulator Finma said about 16 billion francs of Credit Suisse bonds will become worthless to ensure private investors help shoulder the costs.

That’s a funny way of saying “we’re gonna punish everyone who previously lent money to CS.”
I would love to see evidence that showed a measurable difference of an adult's behavior or personality based on the playground (or trophy policy) they grew up with.
See what he does when you tell him you're going to sleep on it. If that makes it look like a great deal is going to disappear, or if he doesn't want to get lost when you tell him you've had enough of him for now, you are being taken for a ride and it's time to get off - what he doesn't want is you getting a chance to compare notes, whether with someone else or yourself.

That said, the hard part is realizing it's time to say you're going to sleep on it in the first place. They don't call it a confidence trick for nothing, and faced with someone who's very good at it, it's easy to want to buy what he's selling because the guy's just so dang likeable.
"Communism is Soviet power plus electrification of the whole country!"
- V Lenin

Russian Joke: "Consequently, Soviet power is communism minus electrification, and electrification is communism minus Soviet power."
If you prefer, you can think of it as Baumol's productivity paralysis for human-centered labor.
If this triggers you, Please resign.

Sometimes corporations face tough intense competition, where margins are pressured and products need to be shipped or media/government/bad actors go on a propaganda. If you can't handle that please join a steady, stable electric company or join the government.
The result is that nothing you do really matters in the multiverse, everything happens anyway regardless of your choices.

That's ridiculous. It's like saying there's no point in playing a videogame because other people are playing the same game differently. If it doesn't affect you why do you allow it to make you care or not care? Personally I think it comes from this sort of arrogant thinking where people are aware they are an insignificant cosmic bug but also are somehow above caring about things at the level of a cosmic bug. It's an ass-backward way of thinking, this "I don't matter so I don't care". A better way of thinking is "I don't matter, so I can care about things that also don't matter, because they're no more insignificant than I am." If a dog turned to us and said "I can never write a symphony, therefore gnawing on bones is pointless" we would call him a foolish dog for refusing to engage with reality at his own level, for thinking that things so far beyond him should make any difference to him and how he lives his life.

To quote James Watson, "I don't think we're here for anything, we're just products of evolution. You can say 'Gee, your life must be pretty bleak if you don't think there's a purpose' but I'm anticipating a good lunch."
CS probably goes bust as everyone pulls their money out, and has to sell all of their assets at fire sale prices. If they lose more than their capital buffer then people may not get their money back. That then has knock on effects which are harder to predict but might include other small banks with exposure to CS (and in the worst case, even other large banks).
I'm not sure what you're getting at. It's only the subject line the parent is referring to. There are practically infinite possible choices for a relevant subject line on any topic, with varying degrees of specificity and tone. Zuckerberg chose super-low-specificity, super-high-negativity. It reads to varying degrees as impetuous, petty, vindictive, ominous, drunk on power, and emotionally retarded (in my personal opinion). It's also unfortunately not terribly surprising/rare in situations like these.
Being Right Doesn’t Matter
Agree with you on conmen getting rooted out. I don’t think that holds for psychopaths or not nearly as much. They can cement themselves in positions of power.
Section 230 Won’t Protect ChatGPT
These people are amateurs: The USA lead the way: https://clickamericana.com/topics/family-parenting/life-for-...
> you should be able to give it directly to a US government entity

https://www.treasurydirect.gov/
Perl 5 is actively developed still though, and presumable will become Perl 7 at some point.

Why does a language being stable mean it's dead? Is Awk dead?
Sure, main goal was fun. But I should have a write up some time.

I wanted to see following:

1) Does manual memory management become easier when you use python-esque syntax?
2) OpenCL with @device like syntax so you can mix kernel code and client code in same .yaka file. - Not even started (Not sure if achievable with my time constraints)
Yeah but this could be an instance where the cure is worse than the disease.
To amortize or not to amortize software development?
For startups and bootstrapped companies, there's an extremely ugly new change starting in tax year 2022. Or is there?

Section 174 was rewritten in the TCJA so that seemingly all R&D costs must now be amortized over 5 to 15 years versus immediately deducted as a business expense. Moreover, Section 174 explicitly notes that "any software [development] shall be treated as a research or experimental expenditure."

If you search around, there's a ton of hand-wringing around this situation. On the one hand, most people thought that this would be repealed by now... but it hasn't been. On the other hand, small dev shops are parsing Section 174, Section 41, and related CFRs looking for escape hatches. For example, there's a lot of focus on language indicating "for purposes of this section" that may indicate that one can opt for dev to be a normal expense and not fall under 174 purview.

For more info, see:
- https://www.wsj.com/articles/small-businesses-face-big-tax-bills-from-research-deduction-change-a189b113
- https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/174
- https://www.journalofaccountancy.com/issues/2022/nov/amortizing-r-e-expenditures-under-tcja.html
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34627712
- https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/26/1.174-3
Yeah, but they’ll have at least thought out how this could work.
And how is it going, did it make any difference?
Austin Is Now on PyPI
The Austin binary can now be installed from PyPI with pip/pipx on all supported platforms and architectures
Maybe it would have been called the mePhone
It’s one thing to offer a pin for quick unlocks, and quite another to allow that pin to be the only key required to unencrypted the files stored on the disk. A pin should only secure the master key in memory; it should not even be possible to write passwords to disk with such weak encryption.
Who said fanning?
Sorry, not so good with CSS. Home page should look better I think. :) Will fix it at some point
> Steve Jobs never really invented anything but he knew how to play the role.

this is an absurd suggestion. Steve Jobs has been a pioneer in making computing ubiquitous
Show HN: Harmonized Data Platform
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After a few iterations I ended up with this prototype that I wanted to share with you. Please notice, that this is an early prototype and not a finalized product yet. Im also delighted to know your opinions or thoughts or advices. You can get the first impression at https://databarnum.com/
The violation-of-conservation-of-parity experiment that Wu came up with to test the Lee-Yang hypothesis is well described here:

> "The defining experiment involved cooling Cobalt-60 down to a hundredth of a degree Kelvin, a temperature at which its atoms can be induced to spin in one direction, and measure the number of electrons spun off from the top and bottom of the cobalt mass. If they are the same, then parity is conserved, since that way both the original cobalt atom and its opposite-spinning mirror copy will appear exactly the same. But, if one side emits more electrons than the other, parity would not be conserved, as whichever pole the atoms appear spewing from in the original, they will be spewing from the opposite pole in the mirror reflection, which would be like our clock hand stubbornly insisting on moving clockwise in spite of being reflected."

https://womenyoushouldknow.net/razor-sharp-physics-chien-shi...

Another good one:

> "To test the hypothesis, Wu needed three things. The first was a nucleus that decayed due to weak force (beta decay). The second was that the nucleus must have an intrinsic quantum mechanical spin. The third and the tricky thing was that all the nuclei spins must be made to point in the same direction. So why is this?"

https://www.secretsofuniverse.in/parity-violation-weak-exper...

Richard Feynam wrote quite a bit about the Lee-Yang hypothesis on conservation of partity in weak decay processes and its experimental verification by Wu, that's where I first heard of it, symmetry in physical laws:

https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_52.html

Of course, Feynman's lectures were delivered to an all-male audience at Caltech, which didn't allow women until 1970 or so, see the class:

https://physicstoday.scitation.org/na101/home/literatum/publ...

That issue has certainly greatly improved since then.
I am very much happy to see that this project is alive again and regularly releasing updates. Amazing job Leah Rowe :)
And 100,000kWh / minute is just 6 gigawatts or 6,000,000 kilowatts. Google is great at unit math like this: https://www.google.com/search?q=100000+kWh+%2F+1+minute+in+G...

Journalist consistently use silly or incorrect units when discussing power usage. At least for this article the units aren't flat out wrong, just silly and I can see how "kilowatt-hours per minute" could be a bit more intuitive to readers.

(And don't get me started on how USB battery manufacturers advertise capacity in obtuse units like 27000 mAh @ 3.7 volts instead of just using 99.9 watt-hours or 27 amp-hours.)
One difference is that urban areas get that benefit with lower cost due to the inherent scaling available in dense population. The benefit might be the same, the cost is not.

I’d argue the isolated benefit is the same, but the network effect amplifies it. When a ton of people do music together, it becomes part of the culture. That effect is more difficult to scale in low density populations, which means their rate of improvement is probably lower.
Of course.

But when you do it on an 11,000 foot runway with full fuel and a passenger it's almost comical to fly almost two miles down the runway centerline. :)
Is this Bundek? I love the place
Things only gotten safer over the last 50 years and every kid walked to school in the 60's,70's & 80's but now the majority are carted in very large SUVs. Something changed and it's not safety. I'd also add that they walked to school without parental supervision pretty much from kindergarten forward. I think most parents today would have a heart attack if their 2nd grader walked to school alone (even though they likely did)
http://web.archive.org/web/20230319162808/https://www.nytime...
yup no hard feelings. felt defensive heheh. i guess as my career has gone on i've accumulated other stuff but early on the github star thing really did feel like a big deal + if i wasnt gonna plug it on my github readme where else
You really should read The Greatest Hoax.
Are you a commissioned bot by HN to submit all these news? Just curious as I accidentally clicked on your profile.
That's the risk you take when you lend money. It's why you get paid interest.
Just because certain behaviors are common among CEOs, doesn't mean those behaviors have no elements that can be criticized (i.e. "everybody does it" does not equate to "good"). Also, "snowflake" is pretty meaningless by now. In most cases, it's simply used as a synonym for, "people I hate."
90’s as well. Lots of casts. I didn’t get one so I’m not sure how to judge the risk-reward.
I am just clarifying that the government does not own money. It just manages it.

There was a famous intervention by the previous speaker of the house (Pelosi) saying “we are giving them our money”…

That is why I started by saying “nitpicking” but in the end, it is the State’s money (or the taxpayers’, which is equivalent), not the Government.

The government has no momey, it cannot pay anyone (in a Republic, mind you).
This post feels a bit like "the dress" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_dress)

Half the commenters in here are saying this a completely reasonable thing for him to say, and the other half are saying this is completely unacceptable for a CEO to send out
With the plane adjusted for hovering (or nearly so), a sudden drop in wind speed would cause you to quickly lose altitude, but you would also be accelerating forward relative to the ground to get back up to the former airspeed that the throttle is still set to produce. And the pilot would have had plenty of headroom to increase power, and that would have been an immediate response to an unwanted rate of descent. So a landing would not have been guaranteed, let alone a very hard one–but if you were too close to the ground for the pilot to react in time I could still see the landing being uncomfortable.
Ah I see what you mean.

I don't think "stealing jobs" means that there will be less jobs in absolute. It usually means (at least that's how I usually see it used) that people who current have a job and are trained to do that, will no longer be able to do it, and switching to another job is not easy: it's not just skills, but often also you need to relocate somewhere else etc.

The problems with coal miners losing their jobs is not because we don't have other jobs available. It's that the lives of those people will be upended and it's not surprising that people resist that.
> It was completely reasonable in context.

Lighting up everyone's notifications with "From: Mark Zuckerberg Subject: Please resign" has a cost to everyone's quality of life, IMO.
It seems reasonable tbf
Thank you so much for this comment. Until I read it, I was regretting having submitted this story, after seeing it marred by starkd's sickening 27-comment barrage of Russian propaganda and insults.

> How about US invading Mexico, occupying and annexing its lands

Hmm I think they already did that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican%E2%80%93American_War

TLDR: Map of Mexico in 1824 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mexico_1824_(equirectangu...
Just a rough guess from the diameter of the brain and the nerve distance between the brain and your finger muscles.
so a man claiming that he lies all the time turns out to be lying. did I get that correct? :/
Risk is likelihood X consequence, and there is also the distinction of actual risk vs perceived risk. They are manipulating the four variables; control actual consequence, maximize perceived consequence, maximize perceived likelihood, and moderate actual likelihood.

Both are types of risk IMO, and as children come to recognize the actual risk through experience they will come to recalibrate their perceived risk. Ideally this makes them better at perceiving risk in the future.
Fake Samsung 980 Pro SSDs are spreading around
nm, I was wrong, dragonwriter has the right of it
_""I CANNOT STRESS ENOUGH HOW AWESOME THIS SITE IS""_

=

Mynoise (ive posted about it here in the past) is amazing.

If you have ADHD Insomnia (no drugs, just biology) and ASMR 'needs' -- Do church bells with thunder and the 1942 bomber static radio channel... EQ the bells up.

I had it saved years ago, but that mix will give you a lot to play with and be happy with.
> Conveniently the short rate, the Fed funds rate was 0.00% - 0.25% until 2016, so I would say yes :)

TARP was a Treasury program, so wouldn't it have been financed by Treasury notes, which averaged about 2% during that period?
>he made this prediction because he saw the rise of no-code tools replacing software developers

Given the way we had tremendously productive tools like Visual Basic 6 and Delphi, that seemed to be a reasonable interpretation.

But those tools gave way to C++ and all the .NET insanity. I don't know why someone would give up Delphi, which worked flawlessly and didn't generate any (as far as I can recall) re-only generated boilerplate, to C++ which was a mess, but it happened en masse.

Then most people abandoned personal computing, and the windows desktop for always internet connected pads and phones. Tools have gone severely downward in the past 2 decades as a result.

I suspect we'll get some really powerful AI tools, and go back to worrying about null pointers in a few years anyway.
I am a bit surprised and a bit unhappy that last week SNB said they gave a credit line to credit suisse after which i put a bit of money. And in one day after that, they did this merger without a shareholders vote. I would have honestly been happier as a swiss taxpayer and investor in both UBS and CS to lose my money in CS and let this piece of junk fail instead of bundling it to ubs now. Now i get UBS share to ratio 22.48 CS shares to 1 UBS. First thing every investor (including me) in UBS will do tomorrow is to get out of UBS, so even though currently i get say .74 chf per share, i won't be surprised if UBS is down 20% tomorrow or even 50 or who knows how much.

I would have been happier, if they just nationalized the bank and unwound it, even if i got less pennies per dollar invested or even zero. Now we will get another bank that will be holding the baggage. Amazing :|
Even something as crap as "to the leaker: please resign" would be infinitely better. At least that won't give the entire recipient list a heart attack.
Non Profits rarely have the kind of impact Google/Facebook/Microsoft/Amazon/Apple on the world. It's not even comparable.

Billions have lives have changed due to these corps, while your Non Profit may affect 100s
I would argue that it is not much harder than using Excel.

But there are good reasons where you don’t want random people running sql queries on production database or having direct access to the data.
The app in question is CapCut and the Google Play store describes it as "… the official free Video Editor and Video Maker with Music for TikTok that is versatile and easy-to-use."
More than 175B, but not in the order of trillions. No one outside knows the exact count.
It wasn't really "Quit or we'll find you and fire you."

The real threat went unmentioned because it's illegal. It was "Quit or we'll find you and fire you and every other company/startup in SV will know why we fired you."
They're forgetting that the official equipment is meant to be used thousands of times, by minimally trained and overworked staff, with the least amount of damages.

The various repair shops you can find in parts of China and East Asia in general can do the same if not even more in-depth (i.e. component-level) repairs, and they certainly don't need expensive specialist equipment like this either.
It was understandable that Apple stopped shipping Nvidia hardware. Blacklisting Nvidia hardware and preventing the installation of Nvidia drivers is another thing, though, and goes too far in speaking on the user's behalf. If that's somehow more of a "narrative" than Apple's perspective on the matter, I don't know what to tell you.
And their public "we're protecting you from yourselves" rationale is patronizing as hell.
> I get that, from "idea people," on a regular basis. They have nothing but contempt for us "Make It Happen" folks. They treat us as if we grow on trees, and are suckers, to boot.

Ideas are like assholes ... everybody has one and they're usually full of shit.
FDE doesn't matter at all since a running system is going to have the volume mounted.

Secure boot also doesn't matter because the boot time root kits are a rarity and trojaned downloaded SW (npm, homebrew, etc. nearly completely unprotected from malicious actors beyond the bare minimum) or the massive browser attack surface are what are actually used.

What would be nice is proper layered sandboxing at the OS level, always on, but obviously the kernel-userland ABI is not actually very secure in practice, and has been the source of recurring escapes. But at least it would be something.

Consider this: as it is, sophisticated users on, say, the MacOS platform, who download SW such as homebrew, youtube-dl, whatever, or do local development with npm and other package managers, are actually in a much worse place than unsophisticated users who run with "only from the app store" enabled.

This is not a good place to be.