skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Resource allocation, risk management, and collective action are all information transmission problems. It's arguable whether wealth is being generated by the people who actually do the work or the people who decide what work is being done, but that's the subject of this thread.

China isn't really centrally planned. They call themselves that so that the government and previous communist ideology can avoid losing face, but anyone who's visited there or done business with Chinese companies will say that it's intensely capitalistic, just with the potential for random state interference at a whim. I suspect the same is true for Vietnam, but know less about the country.

Information asymmetry issues are exactly why certain types of financial transactions are illegal - that's why we have things like SEC disclosure and insider trading laws.
The fact that they stop crimes is just a "broken clock's right twice a day" things. Of course the tyrants stop crime, they have to.
>How much energy would it cost to stop the rotation of the earth?

it would require 2.6 x 1021 kilograms (5.7 x 1021 pounds) of propellant, which is "about 500 times the mass of the Earth’s atmosphere".

According to the article.
Eh, I gave you the clear out under #3 where you could show that these blackouts were really the will of the people. You haven't done that, if your strongest argument is about "oh, prove there was brigading", I think we're at the point where, at best for you, any polls are basically just meaningless (if they were meaningful you could use them under point #3 to refute me).
You're right, we should probably all work out more, but gravity is gravity and I'd still rather not fight it all day.
I spent a few years working in a project (program?) management office as an administrative assistant.

Somewhere in there, I announced to my manager that I had figured out how to accurately estimate the time a project would take - of course historically we had all sorts of overruns.

I had reviewed records of hundreds of past IT projects and found that they averaged a nice round 2x estimates.

Therefore, obviously, a simple methodology of evaluating all known factors as usual and doubling the result would lead to dramatically better planning and resource usage.

But...you can't just do that, any more than you can simply walk into Mordor.
They tried to blackmail MLK to get him to kill himself. A department created originally to fight the mob started acting exactly like it. There's no way a reasonable person's faith in an organization like that could ever be restored.

Imagine the information that isn't public about their misdeeds.
Did you work in real state before?

Can you provide some info about the tech stack? Did you wrote the code or you hired someone?
My opinion is that on average, people achieve as much on less time, but individually, that may not be true. Evidently not for Carmack nor a lot of the high-performing, always-on people I know (though a lot of the time, them “working” doesn’t necessarily look like “work” in the traditional sense).
Well this is encouraging:

Thanks for connecting @realGeorgeHotz. Appreciate the work you and tiny corp are doing. We are committed to working with the community and improving our support. More to come on ROCm on @radeon soon.

Especially that last bit. Can't happen soon enough, IMO.
Looks great! Thank you for sharing, you are an inspiration building this at 77. I can only hope to still love what I do and have the motivation at that age.
And eggs crack when you drop them from waist height.
I like your landing page, what did you use?
This was a great read, thanks for that.
Well that's easy. After the initial kicking of the old admins a community split was looming because not every project cared that much and some worried about the hassle of changing networks.

But Lee sped things up considerably by deleting all user and channel registrations, leaving his last holdout supporters at the mercy of randos that happened to be the first to join the channel.

That was basically the last drop and libera is now exactly like freenode was before he started stirring trouble. Only one or two projects went somewhere else (like alpine which went to oftc).

But libera is just as well run as freenode was before the incident and after a month or so it was already like it never happened. Nobody even talks about it anymore, it's just over and done. It's the best outcome possible IMO. No dragged out legal battles, no months of toxicity. Just problem solved.

Kudos to the admins who proved they were right all along and have the chops to run a network efficiently and create a great atmosphere without conflicts. And the new organization has a legal framework to prevent such a thing from happening again.

Something tells me Reddit won't go that easily. Not only because there's no exact replacement ready (lemmy isn't really it) and because the management isn't likely to shoot themselves in the foot that badly.
7 straight hours of anything will fry me. But most people in the technology field (hell, any field) don't work for 7 straight hours. They work for a couple hours at a time and take breaks in between. I'd be surprised if most office workers do more than 4 hours of actual work a day
If you consider assembly line or like, Amazon box packing workers, they move their arms all day already, fighting gravity
Individual freedom isn't free. Most people need to work, but achieving freedom takes a LONG time. It requires a lot of work, strategy, and discipline.

If you are born in America, then it is possible in your lifetime if you don't enslave yourself to vice.
And that's a pretty terrible thing. I guess it's biting them in the ass now.
used regularly in modern German in the diminutive form: "das Märchen"

Agreed. That word is used and everyone knows it. "Maer" as an actual word. Very much not so. I did not make the connection actually although your explanation makes perfect sense for the origin of Maerchen.

lobebæren

You can immediately see the relationship to the noun "[das] Lob"

I did not see that at all and I do not think I'm the only one. Now, once you've told me, I can totally see it. This is exactly my point about not being able to just listen to this or read it and understand right away. I have to stop and think and look stuff up.

The word "der Recke" [valiant] is a (slightly old-fashioned) word that does exist in modern German.

I never said the word does not exist. Just that, like you also mention, it's old (fashioned) and not in very active use and I do not expect many kids these days to recognize the word. If you read slightly older books about knights and such for boys with a bunch of "kuehne Recken", sure. Otherwise: doubtful in my opinion.

If you are used to the lyrics of the Lohengrin opera

That's also part of my point. If you're into poems, especially old ones, you'll have a better time. If you're "poem blind" like me, there's no way I can just have someone read the Niebelungenlied in the original to me and understand what's going on. No I am not used to Lohengrin type lyrics.

As for using Streit as a noun, yes, no problem there, though the fact that there's no proper capitalization in the Niebelungenlied text does not help to figure that out. I immediately read it as "streiten" the verb only.
When herding cats, do not take away the catnip.
When I’m highly motivated and want to accomplish huge technical work I will shift to sleeping 2-3 hours, working 6, then sleeping 2-3 hours, I will keep doing that for as long as 4 days straight and do nothing but work, sleep, eat. I don’t tell many people this as they think you are crazy, but my family knows, and they think I have a mental health problem. I don’t at all. I function completely normally and fully regulated in all ways. I just really really want to accomplish something asap.
That was a paraphrased quote, made by bill gates. I think we’ve somehow found usecases for >512kb of memory, which was my point.

Edit: I’ve conflated parent and grandparents points, I was in the middle of avoiding a social situation while posting.
You must mail in copies of two forms of identification proving EU and California citizenship.
> but at least for a brief moment, they have created some real value for the shareholders.

Not yet.
This is the farming region experiencing draught and affecting supply: https://maps.app.goo.gl/kUgRSKiqqRsUx3Xm7?g_st=ic
Thanks for sharing, I’ve never heard the full song but I’ve definitely heard bits and pieces of it. Off the top of my head, I can name at three songs that sample it; Nas - The World is Yours (throughout), Beastie Boys - Paul Revere (also produced by Rick Rubin!) and Girl Talk - That’s Right.

It reminds me of the first time I heard Top Billin’ by Audio Two, I had heard samples of it many times but never the full song.
“Bayes is guaranteed to overfit”: What does this mean? There’s a factor of 2
Newton observed that the apple fell from a tree.

He then noted that it was the apple that moved, not the Earth.
I think this is just cliche Hollywood trope that’s not even true. Most divorces don’t have the husband working too long and not paying attention to family trope. It’s very possible John with normal working hours would still have gotten divorced, most divorces I know didn’t have long working hours as a reason. Marriages go to shit for a large variety of reasons, and not often because husband spent too long working, that is a very small fraction of divorces. There was a time when I judged someone by the fact that they are divorced, but now I don’t anymore. Sometimes she just wants different things and figured that out after marriage, there’s nothing you can do really
The staff they just hired with the massive fundraise they just had?
This is a rant about right to repair, but is marked NSFW because it has to do with a sex toy, and I don’t know where the line is. Like many rants, this starts with a questionnaire purchase.

I’m the proud owner of an...

The guy definitely knows how to write an opening hook.
The algorithm penalizes copies of content that are newer than the original, which punishes spam and forks alike.
Carmack is absolutely not the norm from a brain chemistry perspective. His level of obsessiveness is not naturally achievable for the vast majority of individuals. That whole post is very short-sighted and solipsistic
> Counter-argument: 99.996% of Reddit users apparently don't want to be moderators or they already would be, so finding more will be very hard.

That was what you said before.
To be fair, does any company know how to use SSL client certificates? I rarely ever see them used, especially compared to IP access controls.
All firmware should be open source, including drivers and particularly graphics drivers. It boggles the mind that a hardware manufacturer refuses to make available the source of the software that actually runs the hardware you paid for.
This is similar to my hook for friends and family - show them how to use Inspect Element to change parts of the page they didn't think you could change.

That usually is an eyeopener to how the whole thing is working.
I've noticed a speed increase by running these tools along with the hosts file:
http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/Network/qdns/Freewa...
http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/network/fc/freeware...

And https://mayakron.altervista.org/support/acrylic/Home.htm
works as well, and it also accepts wildcards.
But how many days can you do it?

Doesn't matter how much I love an activity I can hardly do it all time for more than few days.
Daniel Ellsberg (April 7, 1931 – June 16, 2023)
Worse yet, with all those estimates and commitments we look like we only make progress when doing features that the business looks for.

Other things just aren't valued.
> exact demographic the law enforcements need to pay a special attention to

But perhaps a different kind of attention?
> Easy enough, and I reduced my expenses by ~91.5%.

Fantastic comment. Super important to understand that even what looks like just a modest fee difference can mean the price of a house.
That is awesome info! Very interesting that English used to be more like German in that regard then, i.e. being able to actually kinda write things like you say them (or vice versa).

Do you know if this is more of an exceptional case or was it common for many words?
The "rooster brand" (Huy Fong) is actually the knockoff, imo.[0]

I've since switched to Underwood Ranch and the flavor I remember from 5 years ago is back.

I now buy it by the case to save on shipping and distribute to friends.

[0]https://www.mashed.com/182079/the-real-reason-huy-fong-srira...

Edit: The "new" Huy Fong sauce has a very distasteful aftertaste to me - I kept thinking I had some old/bad bottles that had been laying around the pantry too long, but brand new dated from the store also had the same thing. I likely am in the minority here, but it was enough to stop using sriracha at all until I came across that article and had a chance to order some Underwood. Now it's back in the rotation for me.

If I can't get Underwood there are plenty of boutique hot sauce brands now that have acceptable versions. Yellowbird is quite popular and available, but I find it too sweet for my tastes.
Obviously there was an insane amount of bloat. Many popular apps with similar scale run with 20-100 engineers ....... they had like 4500 or something?

Insane waste. Remember that lady going on about "how dare you critique infra! we use graphql!" Nonsense, they were obviously not that valuable: twitter is running great with them all gone..
A nice looking site. How are you navigating the mandated broker licensing requirements, error and omissions, seller/buyer fraud...
Such great wikis. And funny but true characterization... "with infinite money"

I'm broke but would give these the Wikis a new home if I had money.
Twitter cost cuts seem amazing...?
I've found ChatGPT very useful for tools that I use once in a very long while (like ffmpeg) and simply don't remember all the nuances of.

For example, I needed to use K6 to run a load test. It supports a million things, and it would have taken me a long while to figure out the right combo. With ChatGPT I had it running in 5 minutes.
Show HN: I made an app that redesigns your interior
Google doesn't use the promo committee process anymore for most levels, the whole perf process was overhauled in the past year.

https://buildyourfuture.withgoogle.com/programs/grad
Yeah, speaking as a European tech lead; GDPR was a pain in the butt a few years ago when it was introduced - and all client websites had to be retroactively fitted with cookie systems, routines had to be implemented, stuff had to be learned, etc.

Once sites are planned with it in mind from the get go it's really no big deal, and huge for the end user.
Cool idea with the color!

But for my needs the hex viewer that I've wrote works best. I need those number displays at the bottom and an easy way to go to relative and absolute offsets. See the screenshot at the bottom: https://github.com/panzi/rust-hox
>There is significant evidence pointing to the fact that if the FBI had

At the risk of true scotmanning, no, I didn't come away from either the guardian nor wiki links thinking the evidence was "significant".

Actually I didn't see any evidence in either link, that without the FBI, no attack would have happened.

What evidence do you think could lead you to conclude, that no attack would happen if not for the FBI?
is there a version of this not presented in a timecube format?
Can it have some kind of legal
charter and non-profit (and not the openai farcical one) status so we can trust you wont be spoiled by capitalism?

Not against capitalism but for some things - especially free as in beer for everyone things — it doesn’t work well for users.
$193000/year is not $4600/mo take-home, even by the calculator the author linked. It’s off by more than a factor of two.

If you get $193k/year, you don’t actually have to live like a grad student to save money :)
Why is the picture not centered on the top?
Ask HN: Hiring a White Hat Hacker?
I am looking to kick the tires on a product by having an ethical hacker attempt to exploit it. Is there anything I should know or be mindful of when going into this arrangement?
ImHex indeed looks very featureful and has a pleasant layout, but it's hard not to recognize the perverseness of a the slogan "A Hex Editor" built for those "who value their retinas when working at 3 AM" being applied to an app centered around putting text on the screen but that insists on tiny font sizes and no anti-aliasing...
His book Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers is an excellent book about the events of his life leading to his decision to leak.

He drove around Vietnam (armed) in a jeep for almost 2 years as an observer on pacification for the State Department..
looks like tailwind/react combo but custo
Patriot Front, Ray Epps, Gov. Whitmer, etc.
Different yes, less catastrophic no. Soviet plans (to the extent that they've been declassified) generally assumed that nuclear weapons would be used in support of tank warfare in Europe.
Just echoing this. I was looking for a site the other day, and I thought I'd use marginalia since it throws up interesting stuff in general, and the site I was looking for had a distinctive look that I knew I would recognise again ... and was disappointed the "magazine stand" view was only for the random sites.

I do like that feature.
I have to confess that I never felt very comfortable with the prospect of Microsoft dominating the AI era. This is good news to me.
It's a defined schema for exporting nix functions I'd say. I could share a flake with you to provision your disks like I do, a service like I do, your cloud infra or anything else nix can do now. It is way more than deb, but if you only compare packaging it'd be like automatically building every PPA and every locally compiled pkg against exactly your installed version of every pkg it uses.
Not sure why that seems like a challenge, but it's trivial since 2001. Use a codeblock.
There are many recorded reports of lightning, atmospheric visual effects (change in sky color, appearance of storm-like light conditions) that coincide with earthquakes. Which presumably / conceivably have to do with stresses in the rocks being displaced causing electric side effects. So it's not such a stretch of the imagination that this could affect the magnetic/electric fields around the Earth and change the trajectory of ions around the Earth as well.
This is true, a lot of people do seem to me laboring under the misapprehension that Reddit is a coop. Probably more than any other factor, that explains 95% of the current controversy (the other 5% mostly being that spez thinks he’s Elon Musk but, well, he ain’t Elon Musk).

But on the flip side, I don’t think it’s at all clear yet that Reddit is a viable profit-making company that isn’t reliant on unpaid labor to maintain usage at current levels. A couple months from now, I think we’ll have a much better idea.

My guess is that Reddit will be “fine” (in that private or public markets will continue to value it as a multi-billion dollar business) but I’m not highly confident in this prediction. It could also become a poorly moderated cesspool that still has thousands of employees and no equity value, and if it needs to be restructured, I’m not really sure that the network effects are so great that it’ll continue to fill the same role that it currently does.

For me, Twitter has become basically unusable since the buyout, and I mean that purely in a technical sense (i.e., no reflection on content, bans, unbans, blue checks, etc.) I just mean that probably half the time I click on a Twitter link, the page doesn’t load. Video works for me maybe a third of the time. If Reddit becomes similarly unreliable due to cost cutting, I don’t know it’ll be that much fun to hang out there.
I don't fully understand what you are saying, and I don't know what systems you're including in "all".

The system you describe building is exactly what nix does, as well as debian, El, and Arch. Their spec files describe both build and runtime dependices, and installing the package does not install things like Make.

Nix goes a little bit further by only including runtime dependices that it can find it the build output. It does this by scanning the output files.

But I don't understand how you could separate build graph and runtime graph. If I declare something needs foo and bar, that is useless unless I can get built foo and bar. _Something_ has to know how to build the things this hypothetical system is installing.
Looks good. I’m interested in selling a high-end house. I can’t tell if it has MLS listings as part of the deal.
Good: unlike Reddit’s mobile site, the mobile design is clean, legible, and free of weird dark patterns. It’s also easy to make an account and get up and running quickly.

Bad: low engagement with about 4-10 users commenting on most topics. Seems fairly crashy on the server side (multiple 503s each time I’ve checked it out today). Neither problem is insurmountable.

Ugly: just now I was greeted with a default not-logged-in home page consisting of topics like “why hitler was trans” and “let’s raid the Nazis on Gab”
Too many finance companies depend on National ID number, date-of-birth and Driver's License numbers to verify the identities of applicants for bank accounts, loans, credit cards etc.
At this point, assume that all your personal information is out there. There are some steps you can take to make it a little more secure for yourself. In an ideal world, the fintechs and banks would protect you better, but we do not live in that world.

* If you are in the US, go to one of the credit bureau sites (Transunion/Experian/Equifax) and sign up for a fraud alert. You'll need to provide your current phone number and what this does is this: no fintech/bank is supposed to create an account or issue credit in your name unless they have verified the activity with this phone number.

* If you have previously been a victim of fraud, sign up on one of the aforementioned bureaus for an Extended Fraud Alert.

* Isolate your email tied to your finance accounts from regular email that you give out on website signups, doctors' offices, etc. Only your bank/brokerage needs to know that this email exists

* If you can afford to, pay to track leakage of this information on the dark web or password sharing forums

* Use a password manager

* Use 2FA on all your accounts and use an authenticator app if possible. It's not ideal but it's better than the SMS/email 2FA

* If your telecom provider supports it, ask them about how you can protect yourself from sim-swapping and porting. Add a PIN to your phone provider account if you can.
Bug: “Understanding the pros and cons of your options as a buyer or a seller if this circumstance arises is here. A LINK”

There is no link
Triggered by an earthquake near Antarctica? Citation really freaking needed there. I've got one that says there was no causative effect.

https://web.archive.org/web/20141213144822/http://earthquake...
Why, how would you count it?
Because either they matter, in which case they support the blackout more than they do not as the votes have overwhelmingly demonstrated, or if you think they don't then who is left to pin the "most people like things the way they are" claim onto?
It looks amazing, but I couldn't get it to run. Binary was linked to a lib that's not on my system, and when compiled from source it just crashes with a bad cast.
This worked in an era where we naively believed in economical growth forever. It is becoming clearer that this can't be sustained forever and we are probably very close to the end of the era of eternal growth.

Compound interest is not magic, it can only exist if the real economy is growing.
Ancient astronaut theorists faked a Hindu nuclear explosion (2013)
AI can get you cancelled
I hate this timeline where all these tech CEOs now aspire to follow in Musk's footsteps and be assholes with zero empathy.

Yes, many tech companies are bloated. You (CEOs and other execs) did that yourself. You can at least be empathetic and have some tact when your actions drastically alter your employees lives.