skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the issue that this metric doesn’t measure is that there are households with debt. And there are many that don’t even keep credit card debt.

So the metric to measure “working class burden” (or whatever) is the percent increase in consumer, non-housing debt for people who had debt.

Well off people who went from $0 credit card debt to $0 while having their networth double since 2020 (high gdp) are not very useful to predict bankruptcy or political upheaval like people who went from $5k to $40k in credit card debt, are renting so didn’t see their networth go up and had their wages increase 5-10%. Those people are having a really rough time. And are worse off now day to day, and have increased exposure to risky negative events.
Anti Anti Debug: Chrome extension for dev tools on sites with anti-debug methods
Players like VLC do much better and let you make your own arbitrary adjustments via GLSL :)

In particular, I like the anime4k shader pack, which is ML-based but runs in real time in mpv (and I think VLC as well). While it is tuned for anime (as is obvious from the name), it has decent denoise and deblur which often make YT content more watchable and a restore step that does a really good job with compression artifacts but is a bit too tuned for anime so may not always work, or even make things worse. See https://github.com/bloc97/Anime4K/releases
A power plant stopped working. None of the engineers could fix it. They called the retired engineer who designed the power plant years ago for help. He arrives, looks at the control room panels, walks through the plant, pulls out a screw driver, and turns a screw. The power plant starts working again. He quickly writes an invoice for $100,010. The manager complains asking why he is charging so much when he only turned one screw. The engineer replies, "I'm charging $10 for turning the screw and $100,000 for knowing which screw to turn."
It says https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/ is safe.

You want to use the "old" look, cool. Log in and set preferences.
My learning style is piecemeal: I do a bit of that, a bit of another thing with the long term goal to combine everything I did into one project. It's proof of concept or prototype approach.

The experts are doing databases in C and C++ and Rust. But I'm not a C, Rust or C++ expert, so I need to start somewhere, where I am today.

I start small accomplishable goals to get the idea of the problem solution so I'm not distracted by boilerplate C, C++ or Rust. My multiversion concurrency control is in Java.

You might think all the things are easy but they're not easy to everyone. We have to start somewhere and one way to start is to write the parser in a simple language so you're not wrestling with memory management.

If I tried to do all the things you mentioned in C++, Rust or C it would be too much work in one step. I need to start small to have an achievable result.

Not everyone is Stonebraker or Linus Torvalds.
What's happening is that you're falling for corporate propaganda. It's like trusting someone more, because he gives you what you want and tells you what you want to hear.

While that's extremely common nowadays, it's also fucking stupid.
Do you expect to be typing my comments for me? Of course it isn't what you said! It is what I said.

You're focusing on the rounding error. Focus on the big issues. Bezos is making great use of those resources compared to the next-best non-billionaire institution, which is the US government.
Checks and balances are needed.
Sure, but the Law could well be made so that the admission of responsibility is compulsory but a sort of statute of limitations is triggered so that no further action can be initiated for the same reasons.
Yep, government officals and zero personal responsibility.

I have no idea why they get exempt from any kind of consequences for their actions, either private (getting sued) or criminal. Person X requested something without having probable cause, person Y signed that, both people have (or should have) the knowledge of what is needed to either sign or get the signature, neither did the required, both should lose their jobs and be liable for damages caused to the people affected. A bartender gets punished more for not checking IDs than those people.
psychohistory is from "the foundation" and last time I checked is fictional. If someone has a new theory of sociology which they've named after the field in the book, you might link it and introduce it as if it's a new unknown field, rather than some established thing that everyone should know about and agree with.

If it were truly rigorously proved and were able to make quantitative predictions, it would have some pretty significant implications for policy, finance, politics, etc..

However if the creator was brash enough to name their pet theory after the theory in the book, I'm skeptical that they were careful enough to get it right.
Valley of the Boom
From Vine to Friendster, a look back on defunct social networking sites
Not a lawyer and not legal advice, but isn't labelling something malware -- that isn't malware -- libel? I'm wondering if you could sue them for defamation.
They do this so they can show more commercials to people watching the game on TV.

Of course it makes watching the game a worse experience.
If the article is even half accurate, they must be using a different definition of "identity theft" than the one I understand.
>Who (other than the police) actually thinks such reporting is bad?

there is a growing number of people who espouse the belief that grievances towards the police/government/military are by their very nature anti-patriotic, and there is a pretty real history of coercion towards 'under-reporting' on certain stories in the media; it's not real surprise to me that this exists on the lower scales of local municipality/etc, as well.

'chilling' is a very real concept, and it seems to snowball.
> They can relocate that part to the Netherlands. Copying without public distribution is explicitly legal, and all storage media and smartphones carry a "tax" that's given to the rights holders to compensate them for this.

Given to some rights holders.
I’ve never heard of this show until now, who even has the Nat Geo channel. Is this a modern day equivalent to The Pirates of Silicon Valley?
Quit and get a regular job. Start building your own version of this and release it shortly after the founder runs out of money.
Given that we're already living the Idiocracy, I can absolutely see that happening. We're just one or two generations away from people requiring having everything breast-fed to them, served on a silver platter, otherwise they can't function anymore.
Where did you find "bending the rules" in the original article?
Jesse

Jesse is a resourceful and daring individual who is looking to establish a successful meth business.

With concerns about getting caught, Jesse has decided to operate out of a caravan in the desert, believing that this unconventional approach will give him a competitive edge.

Problem

Jesse is constantly worried about getting caught while selling meth.

This fear and uncertainty create significant challenges for him in establishing and growing his business.

Pains

• Fear of law enforcement discovering and shutting down the operation

• Potential risks and conflicts with rival cartels

• Dealing with the pressure and stress of operating in a clandestine manner

Goal

Jesse's ultimate goal is to create a highly profitable and sustainable meth business.

He aims to establish a solid reputation within the market and achieve financial stability.

Benefits

• Greater financial independence and success

• Recognition and respect within the criminal underworld

• Ability to secure a higher social standing and lifestyle

Trigger

Jesse's decision to operate out of a caravan in the desert is primarily driven by a recent close call with law enforcement.

This event has made him acutely aware of the need to adopt a more covert approach and minimize the risk of detection.

Barriers

• Concerns about the effectiveness and reliability of operating out of a caravan

• Potential difficulties in obtaining necessary resources and supplies in a remote location

• Lack of knowledge or experience in successfully running a business of this nature

Yep, checks out.
Oracle, SUSE and others caught up in RHEL drama hit back with OpenELA
Better FFI interop with Go might be interesting, though the lack of classes in Go might be a stumbling block to front-end devs more used to OOP.

As a dev that uses Go frequently, and dabbles in Dart / Flutter, I would not complain!
> configuring DHCP really is a huge pain

Not sure why the author is so sniffy about DHCP. To me it seems easy to understand and configure.

Having said that, I appreciate the author's remarks about DHCP being a 'fake' IP protocol, and in reality being an ethernet protocol; I hadn't seen it that way before, but it's a reasonable way to look at it.
in retrospect, sometimes don't write about what you learn about
Altitude as a proxy for isolation, perhaps
Help with Awesome Parenting
Also, the classic "doing crimes with a computer" (performing a query on the DMV website)
Hey all looking for some recommendations to add to my awesome list. have to wait 30 days to add to the offical lists so want it to be as good as possible until then. Feel free to comment or hit me with some PRs :)
I am so sorry but I hate Sarah for being a middle manager
https://guides.rubyonrails.org/active_record_basics.html
if by 'client facing' you mean assassination then perhaps.

but plenty of not-men out there doing SVR work. Anna Chapman comes to mind, or the little lady who was making friends with the NRA and all of those GOP politicians...

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

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegals_Program
Sometimes the client wants to talk about code. He wants to be involved in the technical decisions. But he doesn't know diddly about code. So you have these frustrating conversations and try not to call the client an idiot.
sorry about this!
Why the Great AI Backlash Came for a Tiny Startup You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
There's still 2^64 /64 IPv6 subnets, and only 2^32 IPv4 addresses in total, of which huge swaths aren't even used.
Linux Reworks AMD Zen 1 Divide-by-Zero Mitigation After Original Fix Inadequate
It depends on the app, but the costs for maintaining iOS and Android separately don’t seem like 2x… with how similar Swift and Kotlin are to each other and Compose greatly streamlining what used to be a real mess (Android Framework), it’s closer to maybe 1.2x or 1.35x. More expensive but not terribly prohibitive, plus it saves some trouble in the future when/if features that don’t play nice with whatever cross platform framework are needed at some point down the road.

Dual native also gets you better portability to new platforms branching off of iOS and Android — for example most native iOS apps can be turned into suitable AR apps for visionOS with two clicks and it does most of the UI adaptations required for you. Flutter won’t be able to do that for years if ever.
>Kara-Murza was literally and openly an actor playing against the country's national interests. He was running around Washington, DC, providing intelligence on who the U.S. should sanction next in Russia.

This is only true if you consider the interests of Putin and his band of merry oligarchs equivalent to "the country's national interests".
A few reddit comments and the fact that there aren't widespread protests whenever this happens.
Did not expect this story on hackernews. I witnessed the crash. It was such a surreal moment…

Its the first time I read an article about all the details. Thanks for the writeup!
I think it looks pretty cool.

I especially like the idea of being able to see that it works before I try to use it.
That's true, there's a niche business for consulting on gaming tuition and aid (as well as college admissions in general).

FAANG engineers certainly earn enough that gaming the system isn't necessary, but "don't hate the player, hate the game" applies.

For normal middle-class families, planning for future tuition is a massive undertaking.
Man, they should really be giving me a /56 instead of a /60.

Grumble grumble.
Related, and known (at least empirically) for a while, Lévy flight sampling methods:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9vy_flight
KrisFix-Germany Drilled This MSI RX 6900XT and It Works – Rare Problem [video]
If this happens, we certainly won't be the first to know.
It's FOMO on a second-by-second basis. No matter what you're watching now you could be watching something better. The UI even somewhat encourages this with the way it displays a list of additional videos below what's playing now.
science has advanced enormously since the 1800s.
little home-made labs can't compete with billion-dollar research institutes in the hard-sciences.

these guys claimed big, but their equipment couldn't generate temperatures above 127C (Celsius), basically just a bit more than a tea kettle.

they seem to lack the hardware, and super-computing power required to model and simulate the molecular dynamics.
> the Islamic conquests primarily have the distinction of being carried out by nations who if not foreigners themselves were driven by motives—the Islamic faith—entirely foreign to the invaded lands.

from a scripture point of view, they are both Abrahamic religions, use a book as the center of wisdom, buildings to house worship.. but let's set that huge likeness aside.

India, the Middle-East and Europe, all expanded at a certain time via tribal groups maturing into land-owning, army building principalities. The City-state and the male-heirarchy of arms, taxes and authority. The book contains the "King of Kings" .. this seems trivial to observe but it is not. Original tribal groups had vastly different social structures, religious beliefs, literacy rates but ultimately did not scale.

I propose that the Muslim expansion into Christian lands was polarized but similar military methods on both sides, all with the knowledge of Rome in the background. Contrary to what each saw when looking in the mirror each morning, they had a lot of similarities. Compare to trading, agricultural or other practices, who saw these Empire builders as the blood-thirsty ego cases that they were. Compare to the military conquest of South America by Christians much later.

Invoke "otherness" all you like, but there are layers to that, and more layers under that. Evolution ends quickly by the sword, and those empire builders, of all stripes, ended a lot of human social evolution exactly that way.
The police cannot be reformed
I was around for the mp3 "revolution", so I'll add to the author's discussion point about the ipod.

The thousand-songs-in-your-pocket sales pitch was more than lifestyle/concept -- it was an actual feature. All of the other players at the time were big & bulky because the components they used for storage & battery required the corresponding form factor. The "pocket" part of the sales pitch was exactly that: the ipod physically fit in your pocket because the components were smaller and more integrated. In the stage demoes by Jobs, he shoves the ipod into his jeans.

To the author's point about "you pay for the problem it solves, or the needs/wants it fulfills", the implied need here was that you need this to be small and out-of-the-way -- not a miniature home-stereo attached to your belt.

And not to pick on the author, but I don't find the ipod reference very applicable to the case of communicating with your consulting clients. Sure, you have to speak to your audience -- but direct 1:1 contact with a handful of stakeholders is hella different from millions of consumers who never asked you for a specific set of features and a timeline.
Grammar Nazi: A Look at Prescriptivism and Language Policing
Yes, I certainly expect so!

In my 2019 paper I earlier linked to I predicted "The VPOPCNTDQ instruction in the AVX-512 instruction set computes a 512-bit popcount, which should be faster still." because at the time I didn't have access to such hardware.

While those are easier to find now, I haven't revisited the issue because my experiments back then strongly suggested my code is now limited by memory bandwidth, not popcount evaluation performance.

I also don't know how many of my customers deploy on VPOPCNT-capable hardware.

My bitvectors have a 1-bt density of 5%, so I think the real next step is to look into something like BLOSC, where I store the data in compressed form, using a compression form which supports on-the-fly decompression faster than a memory read, then do the popcount on that transient data. 75% compression would need a 4x faster popcount.

I've tried to use BLOSC for this, but wasn't quickly able to figure how how to integrate it with my code, and realized it would likely require some pretty breaking big changes in my code that I couldn't really justify, so I've been putting it off for years.
I do not think any of those things would even remotely make up for the brand damage and bad will Apple would garner from breaking their customers’ Internet connectivity.
I fear this will be another egregious violation of the Constitution ignored under qualified immunity. Prosecuting egregious violations of the Constitution instead of allowing police to do whatever they like would be a good check/balance.
Silicon Valley's latest hype: Eyeball-scanning to confirm you're human
To repeat the other comment in this thread. Just increasing the address space is such a headache that you might as well take advantage of the suffering to fix the other problems with v4.
Values were still provided separately. The string-interpolated SQL would include a placeholder just like static SQL does. That's pretty easy to audit for in code review: no variables in interpolated code.
There is a chrome plugin for this that is awesome
At least one of those is currently buried on 3rd page, despite "110 points by uptown 1 hour ago | ... | 19 comments".

It sounds like a tragic and suspicious situation, and what I'm most curious about (since this is HN) is whether the federal government will step in, and figure out what's going on.
so basically, you think that AI tools can help with unit/component level testing and documentation?
They are not paying out because they are generous, but I have seen companies pay out even when the case against them is flimsy simply because it’s the smartest business decision for them.

These settlements are usually significantly less costly than if a civil case actually went to trial. Civil courts tend not to be very friendly to those with deep pockets. The burden of proof is very low, and the prevailing attitude is that they can afford it, so why not award compensation to the plaintiff.
Back when I was in college, my Architecture friend gave me “The Fountainhead” by Ayn Rand. I quickly progressed from that to Atlas Shrugged. I grew beyond these books after many years, but it did teach me something which is very relevant even today.
You need a Google account for living a normal life, or perhaps an Apple account but that's about the extent of your options. I'm sure Google can do the math on how many principalistic people are not going to watch videos with ads anymore if they have to log in for it. Most people are already logged in because they needed an account at some point anyway, so the vast majority of viewers wouldn't even notice. Kicking off adblock users won't be a financial loss either, so it's only about the group that was logged out (probably a tech savvy, privacy-aware audience) and didn't use ad blocking (tech savvy privacy people that watch ads? You can count that group on one hand)

I hate to say this because I'd be affected but that's the math I would expect them to use. The only counter argument I can think of, why they might care to keep freeloaders there, is the network effect
Analysis of the data job market using HN job posts
Sounds like this restaurant owner has some friends high up on the force?
ZFSBootMenu "reuses kernel code", too. It actually reuses kernel binaries, because it is nothing more than a collection of init scripts in a small Linux initramfs to enumerate ZFS filesystems and allow you to kexec one of the kernels found within. When using `generate-zbm` to build a custom image, your copy of ZFSBootMenu will use the very same kernel and ZFS driver that your system is running. When using the the prebuilt UEFI or separate kernel/initramfs that we provide as a convenience, the image is built from a Void Linux container using whatever kernel and ZFS driver was current at the time the container image was created.

I'm not sure what the complaints are about mounting filesystems. Unless you want to raw-dump your kernel and other components necessary for booting to some known offset on the disk, you'll always have to walk some filesystem to find the kernel. This even happens in the FreeBSD boot process, where one of the stages has to go looking at the filesystem for a kernel.
There is a chrome plugin for this that is awesome. I started using it and one of the things i saw is that the amount PR's that I block went down significantly. Because i will classify block or non blocking per issue so don't end deciding at the end based on the amount.

So for example something that has 10 nitpicks I will let it pass because all it tells me is i'm a dick :)
Don't US textbooks already scramble exercises so you can't just buy (use copies of) older textbook versions - effectively making making old versions obsolete without having to do any real work improving the content.

Making students buy their own copies of required textbooks always seemed insane to me. Glad that that's not how things work here and any required excercises (already uncommon) were just provided by the professors/assitants as part of the course.
It really doesn't matter if your part of the ocean didn't make it to the boiling committee.

The one thing that mattered was more address space. 4 billion addresses are not enough for the world. Anything else in ip6 is nice to have but falls off a cliff of importance and naval gazing that, if really of even nearly comparable significance, would be better directed to ipX or whatever's next.

IP6 is already facilitating connectivity for billions. Globally. That's a pretty major thing, more so than renditions of doing it my way.
"The medium is the message" should be the take-away here, ergo; not what Generative AI does, but how it shapes us. The Internet augmented our connectivity to one-another. Search augmented our knowledge. Generative AI is augmenting our skills.
I will form my thoughts as a reply to you, since it's in a similar vein. To me, writing is always a tedious process. I can ** out articles quickly, but 52 articles a year? This reminds me of people who say "Read a Book a Day"^tm. If you are really writing articles on topics you have a weak understanding of, while working full time, with the articles being somewhat original/new, how in the world are you writing one a week?

To go back to the generic - journaling (and writing articles) seems very useful until you contrast it with the amount of time it takes to put out something good.

For example, when I have "real" questions, I can't even find a Stackoverflow / Google article on them to even start researching, let alone have my own article out in a week. Unless you guys are writing "Here is the 5001st article on how FastAPI routers work", "Here is how z-level in HTML works!" or something.
Analysis challenges theory that depression and anxiety increase cancer risk