skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Knowing that the game is rigged is liberating!

> how should you be expected to earn a living using their platforms unless you find a way to game the system? Do you have 20 smartphones lying around, per chance?

This is the message I'd take away. Once you learn that the whole capitalist hellscape operates in approximately the same way, you can start to explicitly target its mechanisms in order to improve your life.

Having moral flexibility helps so much. Being actively willing to "fuck over" arbitrary, faceless entities makes all the difference. If you start looking at the law in terms of "how much does it cost to do whatever I want", then you are now effectively playing by the same rules as those who seek to control your life.
It’s basically all dudes that jumped from FAANG to FAANG. Impressive but I would expect to see biologists, neuroscientists, physicists, psychologists etc
You broadly have two options:

A) Find a company that is 100% remote (fairly common), does no in-person meetings (rare), is a great place to work (extremely rare), pays the salary you want, and is hiring people like you. It's likely that most of the time, there are zero companies that fit these criteria.

B) Find a company that is 100% remote and does only a few in-person meetings, then work on your aversion to socializing in therapy. Anxiety and fear are very treatable, and life is full of things that you can be very afraid of if you successfully avoid them. You may never become more extroverted, but that doesn't mean you need to be stuck in the prison of being afraid to meet your coworkers once a quarter.
The 10 kids while repping on his $44 billion dollar Titanic transphobes, homophobes, etc. I'm not talking about fascism as in "kill all of the people of a certain ethnic group," but there are, if you're in the study of ideology, politics, moral epistemology, etc., smaller, lower-case fascisms before people start calling you "Fuhrer." There is something in Elon's behavior and signaled preferences that very much comes across as a bio-Darwinistic, egoistic, self-maximizing project, e.g. a fascism.
How about Deschutes’ Black Butte Porter [1]? It started regional but has been expanding distribution in recent years [2].

[1]: https://www.deschutesbrewery.com/news-media/2021-02-08/how-i...

[2]: https://www.deschutesbrewery.com/news-media/2021-03-22/more-...
Great to see Nigito. Brian, if you're reading this you still owe me a dollar from our bet.
The problem with this theory is that almost nobody who lives in these cities is paying current prices for a home. A person in Vancouver or Toronto needs a top 1% income to buy a detached house. Almost everyone with a home can only afford it because they bought a long time ago. Almost every city is like this so “just move” isn’t a realistic option. People will continue living here because they either don’t have to care about the price (bought long ago, inheritance, love with family, etc) or because they’re a poor immigrant that’s happy to share a 1 bedroom apartment with 5 strangers for $600 a month

The average Vancouver house dweller makes 44k which is way lower than people in any other home type. People are buying houses with wealth, not income. It doesn’t matter what jobs pay.
https://archive.ph/OkFFX
Where is the widespread malware on Linux servers?
Its unique design allows broadcasters to send data to several users concurrently through a single signal. To transmit 1 GB of data to 1 million consumers with ATSC 3.0, broadcasters only need one-millionth of the capacity required by broadband.
UBI is a bane because it kills meritocracy. The reason most people are successful is because they risk a lot if they weren’t. Surprise: Stress is a factor of excellence.

You say it yourself: If UBI is introduced, then none of the hard jobs gets done.
The United States is into its fifth decade experimenting with that theory. The results do not seem to support your assertion.
I suggest taking a look at the book “Debt: The First 5000 Years” by David Graeber.

As parent suggests, this is a popular misconception. It’s a nice story, but its made up. Upon a more thorough historical analysis, evidence suggests that in fact, money came first. Not barter.

The author makes some solid arguments to support this.
The gap between physics bachelor’s recipients and grad school spots is growing
Are you joking? I was first hired as a software dev at age 57.

People over age 40 have a secret superpower. It's called "attention span"

Find out what industries and dev stacks are prevalent in your area.
Work the meet-ups: show up, knock back a few beers, ask questions,
find out who's doing what. Consider getting up to speed on an alternate
dev stack, if need be.

Another secret: 80% of hires are done end-run around HR. If they want you,
they'll pull you through whatever process HR throws at them.
>By using passkeys, you no longer need to enter a password, or even your username, when you sign in – nor do you need to perform 2FA, if you have 2FA enabled on your account. That's because passkeys validate your identity, as well as possession of a device, so they count as two authentication factors in one.

how is this better? you only have 1 factor auth now. earlier you have 2 or even multi-factor.

also, how is passkeys different/better than ssh public key auth? sure with proper infra, why can't we do website auth with your installed keychain than this? that would have the additional benefit of power users already using the same for terminal auth to servers so this would be just another channel
Regular users on Linux shouldn’t run commercial software?
It works very well, because the Microsoft Store was trying to operate as other locked down stores do by enforcing better practices. Store apps used to have to use the new permissions system for example. 10S was locked down for security and even encouraged it after they dropped the cheap devices to help bolster secure environments on your own, Microsoft also benefited through control of the Store. They aren't mutually exclusive.

So yes, the security benefits is the issue. Once you impact people's ability to install Chrome and give it full permissions, they scream. 10S didn't allow this, and Google (just using them due to popularity and because they weren't trying to be malicious here either) didn't give a damn about adhering to the new app format's restrictions on permissions.
I was going to say, this seems more like a Super PAC to fund his other "hobbies".
CA PUC Public Advocate Q&A: https://www.publicadvocates.cpuc.ca.gov/-/media/cal-advocate...
the difficulty at my job is the many tables have no documentation, the transform code is inaccessible, and they were created by different teams by people who arent here any more.

by the time i figure out what to write in the prompt most of my work is done.
The issues they face and will face with copyright is a big can of worms. They let users pay for prompts that fail because of errors on their side. And last but not least they require a phone number when signing up, for no apparent no reason and they’re vague about what it’s used for.

There are certainly evil undertones.
Sure.

Now, instead of using an algorithm of music selected by a mass market service that is playing you an endless stream of songs that are proven to have a large audience, try listening to the raw feed of uploaded music to major services.

Like the literal feed coming in that is just a firehose of every major label, all the indie releases uploaded via Distrokid or similar, and so on.

You'd find it instantly unlistenable. Nobody wants that because it sucks. Most music, even music people have taken very seriously, has almost no appeal to anyone at all.
They’re keen to peanuts apparently!
This seems to be a conclusion in the beverage world as well, the craft beer wave has broken and people are just trying to drink something that tastes like what it says on the label.

I home brew beer and the instinct is to make something crazy, but I get sick of my own experiments and double sick of paying 18$ for a 4 pack of someone else’s experiments. I could never stand being told that hop burn was a sign of craft beer, it’s a sign of a shit process and you should never have those flavors in your beer.

I’ve actually been shocked to discover hard kombucha with some fruit juice is great. I still drink my beer, but this stuff is light, refreshing, and it’s 7% so it gets the job done.

Anchor’s taste changed to me sometime after the acquisition, I liked it in years past and there was something off to me now.
In asymmetric networks this is true, however as asymmetric bandwidth is an old trend that is dying out. That is good. On high bandwidth networks, 300mbps+, everything is symmetric. For example my home network connection is about 860-920nbps up and down where the upload is generally quite a bit faster than the download.

The reason why networks used to be symmetric is because ISPs believed users downloaded far more frequently than they uploaded and therefore a greater percentage of the pipe was dedicated to download channels. That increases QOS on bandwidth constrained pipes but comes at a traffic management cost. Now IPS figure if the network is already fast and the user wants it to be even faster then they can just pay for a larger pipe and everybody's happy.
How is my Yubikey Nano both something I know, and something I have? It requires no input other than touching it (which anybody can do). No PIN, no prompt. To me, that's only something I have, not something I know. I saw a Yubikey listed in one of the screenshots as an active passkey, so I'm curious how it fulfills the two-factor requirement.
Negligent sharing is still sharing. There is a lot of negligence in software development and we should be better as an industry. It may be standard practice to hastily integrate software without considering legal compliance, but it shouldn't be.
Yes! You can also instruct the LLM to constrain the generated statement with specific clauses, so that the notion of "my data" in the english query comes with implicit constraints. This can be made safe using a validation scheme, which is what HeimdaLLM[1] does. It guarantees that generated queries are only joining to allowed tables, that they have required constraints, that they only select allowable columns, and that they only execute allowed functions (and more).

The end result is that you can produce safe SQL queries on behalf of your users, allowing your users to use natural language to query their data in your database.

For example, in this demo[2], I ask it:

query("how much have i spent renting movies, broken down by month")

And it responds correctly, guaranteed to be constrained to my data.

1. https://github.com/amoffat/HeimdaLLM
2. https://github.com/amoffat/HeimdaLLM/blob/dev/notebooks/demo...
> You are using a browser or device that does not support passkeys.

Yet again the supposedly open standard is compromised by terrible implementations. I already ranted about PayPal which has somehow managed to only support mobile devices and macOS:

https://www.paypal.com/us/cshelp/article/what-are-paypal-pas...

I added passkey support to a couple of projects at $DAYJOB and they work just fine on Firefox or Chromium on Windows, Linux, or FreeBSD if you don't go out of your way to break them. WTF GitHub?
I don't know... I think some classes of drugs amplify someones shittyness. Call it Inherent Shittyness (IS). Time is a big factor, too. The longer they are on drugs, theore shitty they become.

Δ Shittyness = IS x drug amount x duration

Sometimes people get off illegal drugs and become decent again, but
Слава Україні, орк.
You have a couple of options to really understand networks at a fundamental level

- Go through a well regarded textbook on networks

- Go through the PDF/powerpoint slides/notes for some networking
course offered by a well regarded university, these should be easy to find if you search "<university name> + network course pdf"

- Go through lecture videos on youtube for a networking course

Youtube videos you'll find by searching "network tutorial" are likely going to be beginner level and not very useful. You want the deep and technical videos not the things people are making just for the sake of making youtube videos

I won't link anything specific here. If you're serious, you'll find everything on Google without too much trouble by searching yourself.
I have no problems with USB on Qubes OS when I connect the USB controller to a VM.
Not a tech company, but Patagonia stands out currently as a "don't be evil" company. They recently dedicated their profits to go tackle climate change and protect land. Sustainability seems to have been a goal by the founder for a while (repairing or recycling clothes, using leftover scraps of fabric, etc.)
Enough searching around told me what CNCF is, but I still don't know what it means to "graduate"
The vast majority of "malware" on phones isn't software that exploits security bugs in the system software. Instead it's software that effectively asks the user nicely to give up their information, using mechanisms provided by the system software to do just that. This isn't something you can trivially prevent, as some software really does need access to your location, contacts, SMS, etc.

The response to true malware on Android isn't looking for and removing APKs from compromised devices after the fact, it's patching the vulnerabilities in system APIs.
The past 3 years of experimentation of wealth transfer has wholly benefited the wealthy and corporations by a large margin. Direct cash assistance[0] in total cost is less than what just the PPP loans ended up costing the government, for example. This actually would be a great example of government spending that does cause inflation[1][2] and largely did not benefit the middle class (let alone the poor).

Cash assistance to the poor / middle class is more murky. While yes, short term inflation in part was driven by the broad relief payments[3], it is sustained by cheap money[4].

My argument is centrally that cash assistance to the poor and middle class, broadly, won't sustain inflation as prices rise and demand normalizes, as an efficient market should do. The distortion on that market happens with a combination of low interests, which drives cheap capital creation, which distorts natural price normalization, and fuels riskier investments, which are all observable economic cycles.

My conclusion, based on what I understand and evidence there in, is that cash assistance, especially in limited one shot capacity, is not going to sustain inflation at the pace we've been seeing it most broadly. One particular note is PPP loans (which were largely forgiven) + "cheap money" is a big driver in being able to sustain higher prices via "buffing" the balance sheets of businesses. If I can sustain demand loss at a higher price because my operating costs dropped significantly due to cheap (or in some cases "free") money, you've just distorted the market.

In a healthy environment, high prices should naturally have lead to lower demand, which would kick off the deflation cycle, which in a certain band, is healthy for the economy as a whole.

This is why there's arguments over whether interests rising more dramatically is the "right tool for the job".

To be honest, I'm not sure our understanding differs that much on this aspect, only in as so far as I am less critical of direct cash assistance to the poor / middle class than the assistance given to wealthy / corporations (in, for instance, form of PPP loans). I also don't think that cash assistance is the real long term driver of inflation at this stage.

I'd also like to note, I wasn't talking about pandemic relief per se, I was more talking about general cash assistance that you would typically see in welfare programs, which is provided via taxation, usually.

[0]: https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/coronavirus/assistan...

[1]: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/26/ppp-loan-fraud-drove-home-pr...

[2]: https://www.stlouisfed.org/en/publications/regional-economis...

[3]: https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/notes/feds-notes/fisc...

[4]: https://www.imf.org/en/News/Articles/2022/07/11/CF-US-Econom...
This is a disingenuous argument.

Chat programs are not stores in any typical sense of the word.

Chat programs are effectively clubhouses. Convincing a person that they’ve joined the wrong club, invested time and effort in the wrong club, and should make better and more informed choices in clubs…

Lol. Have you MET a human before?

Good luck and don’t hold your breath.
I hope this blows up if that's what they're doing. A Russian nesting doll of scalping?
> As a value proposition, you have an initial cost of $50-$300

You can get a cheap antenna off Amazon for $10-$20, and even my budget-oriented TCL Roku TV has a built-in tuner. In cities, this works pretty well! I don’t think many young people realize this is just available to everyone basically for free.
eh, it's a pretty vanilla rails app. they can scale horizontally with the right resources, connection pool settings, and a db that is adequately sized.

chances are this was just allocated a small number of initial resources as it was never intended to hit a high traffic page like HN
If portability is a project goal, maybe pick a language that is actually portable (which python is not). This is almost exactly the argument for Electron: I want a portable app written in js + html, therefore I need to include a js runtime (i.e. chromium + node) with it.
> The goal of xAI is to understand the true nature of the universe.

That's kind of what the whole natural sciences community is doing. Like that is one way to define what natural sciences are about. That's basically the biggest goal anyone could mention. Like your cliche "world peace" answer that no beauty contestant ever says any more.
On the other hand it seems entirely possible to use only apt-get install and be happy on linux.
Last I heard from a finance CTO (years ago), the type of companies that would engage in HFT have a direct line and latency SLA with the specific markets they would trade on. My impression is this is not something you can emulate on a small scale in a consumer setup.
EU strategy to lead on Web 4.0 and virtual worlds
I feel like the myth-building stuff really fell apart for Elon after he exposed himself with the Twitter stuff. For a good half-decade in the 2010's he was real-life Tony Stark. Rockets, self-driving cars, clean energy, super unrealistic goals that somehow he kept delivering on despite everyone saying it's impossible, and then then since like 2018 he's just been on a downward spiral. So sad.
Yes, I think Heidi Howard gets it spot on there, in that the main difference is the view change.

(TB implements Flexible Paxos and we're fans of Heidi Howard's work!)
I have started businesses both in California and in Canada, and have not found it more difficult or more expensive to hire in Canada. Can you tell me what additional roadblocks or expenses you have encountered?
Thank you very much for the share. I would add: another attack vector might be older hardware, with older priv spec, such as the K210. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36473136
Yeah, this article was rather sparse on background, more intended for friends and sponsors and people who have been following along with Vale. A strategy that backfires with general audiences like HN!

TL;DR: Vale is like a cleaner C++, and it uses generational references [0] which are similar in spirit to running with ASan [1] turned on. Generational references have a bit of overhead, but it can be removed by regions [2] or more specifically, immutable region borrowing [3]. This helps Vale achieve its goal of being a high-performance language while still remaining memory safe.

Hope that helps, happy to answer any other questions =)

[0] https://verdagon.dev/blog/generational-references

[1] https://github.com/google/sanitizers/wiki/AddressSanitizer

[3] https://verdagon.dev/blog/zero-cost-borrowing-regions-overvi...

[4] https://verdagon.dev/blog/zero-cost-borrowing-regions-part-1...
I wonder if ChatGPT has resulted in less demand for basic web dev services.
There's a sign on the table or the buffet where I've seen it.
Worth noting, if you use NTFS, there is an executable bit. In fact in many places, user profiles are set to disallow execution altogether.
Historians

https://www.historyonthenet.com/reasons-against-dropping-the...
Surely this:

50GFLOPS, 3Mpixel/s Imagination BXM-4-64 graphics processing unit (GPU)

Has got to be a typo? 3 million pixels per second is not very impressive, to understate things a bit.

Edit: also, in Sweden Digi-Key want almost $180 for this which was more than I expected. Wow.
If only there were a medium where we could transfer text across the internet...
Simply put, par for the course when it comes to what little of San Francisco's soul is actually left. Slowly dismantling the weird to make way for the boring.

Saporro has mismanaged this from the very start, they had no plan when they bought the company and will almost certainly turn to victim blaming and crying foul amidst their successful unionization effort in 2019.
Linux has no malware included by default.
I wonder which part of that statistic I'm in?

I watch broadcast TV a few times a year. (But, if I didn't work, I wouldn't miss it.)

I put an antenna (and HDHomerun) in my house so I wouldn't have to pay for cable; but one major motivating factor was for emergency broadcasts. In the five years I've been in my house, I used live TV to know how long to hide in my basement during a tornado warning.
Twitter-Agent: Build AI-Powered Agents for Twitter
Are Twitter outages still newsworthy?

Almost every day I am unable to load tweet images, unable to load threads, unable to load a person’s tweets. For a few days now I haven’t been able to refresh the main timeline. All in the official app.

I’ve accepted this as the new normal for someone like me who will never pay for a subscription to just read a few tweets.

The quick enshittification of Twitter curbs my social media use so I guess that’s one good outcome.
Interesting. If I have a program A and if I run ldd on it, it outputs dep1, dep2, dep3 and dep4. Now I do the same on program B and ldd shows that it depends on dep1 and dep2, the same ones as from program A.

If I want to update both of them, in the context of program A that would be partial update which AFAIU does not support? But in the context of program B that would be a "full" update. I'm not sure I understand what arch is going to do in this case?
I know hating on Windows is popular and I myself detest what Microsoft is doing to their operating system, but Windows is still a better OS than its competition for most people. This is reflected in its worldwide market share.

Windows can actually be managed by am IT department and has a massive security ecosystem. If a corporation with more than ten people has to deal with my data, I'd much rather see them use Windows than anything else.
I'm familiar with Garbage Collection and Reference Counting, but what is "BC"?

EDIT: oh, borrow checking.
Elizabeth Gilbert has a good take on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g7ARarFNnw
Cage matches against a Gold Medalist in BJJ is a sign of stupidity unless you are trained in such things.

Last I knew Elon wasn't. And yeah he's bigger, but that much skill is hard to overcome.

For the cage match I'm team Zuck.
The market incentives are absolutely not set up that way.

While you can make money in the short term by scamming people, in the long term, you always get found out.

Markets are not perfectly efficient, but in aggregate they trend toward efficiency over time. Fundamentally, all products that continue to exist over time do so because they deliver value for people.

You may not agree with what other people value, but then your problem is with those people, and we have to ask the question--why are the things you value so much better and why should we make you King and allow you to dictate the needs and wants of everyone else?
I see people from Britain, Germany, Hungary, Canada, China, and America.
T-DCS as additional treatment to SSRI in adults with major depressive disorder [pdf]