skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TL;DR - there are billions of new workers in China and India who are now competing for the same output.

Post-WW2 was a unique time when the US emerged as the strongest economy with a solid industrial base, technological superiority and skilled workers that allowed it to leapfrog and stay ahead of the rest of the world in terms of worker output, productivity and wages.

Since then, the rest of the world, particularly Asia has caught up while the industrial base, education levels and skills of the average American worker hasn't grown by as much. In addition, women entered the workforce in major numbers in the 60s and 70s, so even for service jobs and other jobs that can only be done locally, there are now twice as many workers.

There's very little reason to hire a US worker when someone on the other side of the world can do the same job at the same or higher quality level at a lower cost structure. So, most US jobs are now in service sectors (e.g. food, retail, hospitality) that are low productivity, trades (e.g construction) that require local workers or in some niche sectors (govt, security) that aren't competing with external talent. The sectors where there have been high wage growth (e.g doctors, SW engineers) are either highly regulated or sufficiently new that they still not affected by global competition.

To change this, you can either upgrade the skills of your workforce or set up artificial barriers. The former high lag activity (i.e takes years to retrain your workforce)and there is often a cultural bias against STEM in the US. The latter helps in the short term but ultimately renders your economy uncompetitive (see EU economies that have seen their dominance shrink over the last 20 years)
Assemblyline's Static Analysis Showcase
A showcase of the static analysis services that Assemblyline comes with out-of-the-box (specifically related to the recent OneNote campaign earlier this year)
>So far (AFAIU) anything that can be simulated on a qc can also be simulated (much more easily) on a classical computer.

A few things about this idea.

1. It really depends on what you mean by "more easily." From a technical perspective, yes, simulating this on a classical computer is much easier. But simulating this on a quantum computer gives an exponential speed up, presuming you can live with the provisos associated with such a simulation.

2. Suppose our _model_ of quantum mechanics itself is wrong. For example, suppose we live in a universe where some peculiar physical collapse theory obtains (it would have to be peculiar indeed given the constraints we have on such a thing, but presume anyway, for the sake of argument). Then the quantum simulation may indeed tell us something that we don't know. If you've read Aaronson's book, he sort of suggests this is one of the cool things about Quantum Computing: it operates as an experimental domain within which some pretty strict limits on our quantum theory can be tested. Eg, if we did discover that there is a physical collapse of some kind, then one way that might happen is with a non-linearity in the Schrodinger Equation. But if there is such a non-linearity than it has some pretty profound (one might even say absurd) implications for what you can get away with with a quantum computer.
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It looks to be per-install, not per-month-installed.
You’re reading it wrong the monthly bit refers to the reporting/billing period and volume discounts. So each month you pay for the installs past the thresholds that month.
The technical-specification part of the law is placed in an annex for easy modification. Big-tech lobbyism will have no difficulty to effect an update when they can present genuine improvements.

Will a solo player be able to use their own tech instead of USB-C? No, but that’s the price to pay for interoperability. It’s a trade-off.
What do logicians call this? A null positive? Is that allowed? E.g. obviously it's correct that "no Linux systems on Jupiter do not have working audio", but is "all X do/have Y" a valid syntax for zero X?
New life goal: "There is very little that is new to me; I wish my corresponders would realize this."

Second life goal: To have corresponders
"just one dev"

Chris McCord is the creator of Phoenix and this is a post about Phoenix functionality. What you say is likely correct but that's a strong tie.
That just references that the fee is charged monthly and for pro/entprise plans based on monthly install numbers.

But you're at least the second person just in this discussion to make that mistake, so they probably need to reword that table!
In the UK, I've seen a fair amount to TikTok shop fads pass on my For You Page already, mostly seem to be things like cleaning products or some clothing stuff.

I could see the model being moderately effective as an advertising method, they tend to look more "organic" than professional adverts, which might make people think they're more authentic.
The only element I'm aware of that you didn't mention is quickly swiping away from thirst traps- TikTok counts how much time you spend watching that video as a signal.

Other than that, if you're representing your use correctly, it sounds like a bug, or that someone else is using your account (on a shared device?) to watch the sexy people.
You're right about AI capabilities being much better in the "ungrounded" realm (like writing sonnets), but I would revise the statement a little to be more accurate.

AI systems are quite good at perception in a traditional sense (e.g. determining a red ball is in the sensor receptive field), but once actual cognition about how the red ball relates to the world around it becomes important, current approaches are limited.

I would argue that the first wave of perception is solved much more completely than the ability to reason about complex interactions of objects grounded in the physical world.

Disclaimer: I am a robotics research scientist
When I joined the .NET team in 2015, we were rounding out the first arc of the journey to be truly cross-platform, and June of 2016 released a 1.0. It was an absolute mess of a release, but it actually happened. You can bet your ass that "go after startups" was a part of the strategy - in my first team meeting we literally all read a blog post about how Go was picked over C# at Parse. I'm sure our execution of that strategy could have gone better, but it could have been a lot worse too.

Since then, I learned a great deal about how inertia within developer communities works. Every single year I'd speak with a skeptic and they'd have a "reason" not to use .NET that wasn't true. Eventually they'd land on a reason that was true, and in most cases, we were already working on it. We'd even find some past skeptics say publicly how they started paying attention, picked up the tech, and loved it. Fast forward to 2020 and pretty much every possible reason that isn't purely idealogical evaporated because we (hundreds of us) did an immense amount of extremely hard work. But by and large, the perception is still there.

The reality is that .NET was a Windows technology for a long time, operating in a space ("the enterprise") that's a wholly separate universe from startups. And people bring what they know into companies; they don't usually try to learn new languages or tech unless it's required for their job. And that's created a feedback cycle where .NET is outside the startup and high tech scene.

Yes, there's warts (don't get me started on how MSBuild isn't deterministic, although you likely wouldn't have known that...), but few people run into them. Yes, there's missing packages for some stuff but that gap closes every year. It's not about that. It's about a cultural feedback cycle that .NET is simply not a part of. The bet was that we could build great tech that works in most environments, sprinkle some marketing on it, and people will pick it up. That's largely not happened. Most of modern .NET is still in the same space that Windows .NET was, it's just that it's kept pace with (and sometimes led) the modernization of general tech in that space. That's largely fine because there's millions of developers there.
According to the docs[0], you need to log in to Github in order to share a port. Can anyone explain why this would be necessary? I understand it if the port is set up as private (as explained in the doc), but not if it's set up as public. Is the traffic being routed through h
Github?
0: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/port-forwarding
What conditions, if anything, can stave off decomposition in damp earth?

> “A few weeks or months after death, the body was still ‘fresh,’” Dr. Skóra said.
Did you read the PS? According to your condescending tone you did not.
Juicero https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/sep/01/juicero-s... ;)

Somehow I ended up remembering this out of all the things.
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Me too. To this day, I love finding Neopets-compatible HTML and CSS tricks to use on petpages. For a while, I had a fully functional chess game running on a petpage. It would play against you using stockfish and everything. But then browsers stopped sending the full path in image request referer [sic] fields, and the jig was up.
Deploying LLMs in any cloud with Python API
Native Apple support of the MacOS on the iPad would be really cool, though I suppose it'd never happen considering just how awful the mouse on iPad experience is. It's astonishing compared to how just about everyone loves the trackpad feel on MacOS.

It just makes me sad that I have so much computing power in such a small form factor, and software just gimps it, both in capability and experience.
The New Godot Development Fund
Ask HN: Unimplemented Languages?
I was thinking about those web design sites where people post renders of a colour scheme or layout etc of fictional websites to showcase their design talent and it got me thinking. Is there an archive of programming language syntax that hasn't been implemented - somewhere for people to discuss their design merits and for bored programmers to pull one of the shelf and spend a weekend building a compiler for?
Or… because they have different information now than they had then… which is a completely rational and even desirable state of affairs.
Tantalising sign of possible life on faraway world
It's being exploited in the wild, so yes. Heap Spraying is definitely still a thing for kernel exploitation on 64bit, idk about the primitives people use for v8 exploitation.
An anime title, anyways.
Dex gives you a "proper" multi-window desktop with things like a start button, task bar, system bar, etc. It's very different to the iPad experience when the iPad is connected to a display and peripherals and much better.
It seems like it has potential but I tried using it with a Shopify app I am building and for some reason it wasn't automatically creating the cloudflare tunnel in dev mode. Also, there's no verbose flag to show more detailed log message.
A picture that changed the world
Your account being terminated with a registrar usually doesn't mean that you lose the domain. You have to find a new provider, and there might be some interruption of service while you do, but then your addresses will resume working.

If your Google account is closed, your Gmail address is lost to you forever.
It's not monthly, but it is worded terribly in the table.

Still bonkers for a cheap mobile game.
Could someone explain the significance of this for Wayland adoption?

As an outsider to the X11 vs. Wayland discussions, my impression has been that the main barriers to simply ditching X11 have been:

(1) poor Wayland support in nVidia's proprietary drivers

(2) Wayland's security model making some X11 use cases, e.g. screen recording, difficult or impossible.

Does QtWayland 6.6 address either of those (and/or some other) barriers?
Sure they are. They were delivered to my browser, for free, without any exchange of currency on my part. The page offered to deliver the ads alongside the content. Whether I chose to consume the ad is, again, my business, not the site's.

Maybe I loaded the link to the ad but never downloaded it; the site didn't require this. Maybe I downloaded the ad but my user agent chose not to display it. Maybe it did get displayed, and my eyes chose not to look at it. It's the same thing either way: I, the user, did not consume that content. All of this content is offered for free on request. There is no moral obligation to consume one piece of content just because it is delivered alongside another.
One thing I always assume about quantitative finance research, is that by the time it’s published in a journal some trading desk on Wall Street has already been using some version of the result for years. There is simply too much money to be made. Unfortunately for us there is also incredible secrecy and siloing of these innovative results.
> The exploit could be a PoC that at the moment does something noticeable but relatively innocuous.

Why would you exploit some DC lawyer with a POC?
How does the install tracking work exactly? Do they fingerprint the device once you start a game?
Is that so? The London property market isn't propped up by poor Russians.

100% of Russia's richest man stays in Russia, but that doesn't mean that 100% of the most resourceful 10% stay there. Look at this, for example:

https://www.standard.co.uk/homesandproperty/property-news/fn...

I feel confident that the richest third of Russians bought almost all of those, and the poorest Russians few or none, so it's those without power who don't leave, because they can't. Lack of money/lawyers/resources diminishes your ability to arrange a residence permit in a foreign country.
Before this change, there would be no reason to spend $2100/seat on Unity Pro. The Personal/Plus plans would be more than sufficient for indie devs.

You’re right, some studios are going to be forced to switch to the Pro plan to save on per install pricing. That just seems like a really frustrating forced upgrade.
Unreal C++ is so heavily modded that it often doesn't really feel like C++. Like I feel kind of odd the rare times I use std:: anything. And Unreal C++ tends to be garbage controlled, support reflection, and so on. The only real big downsides are you have C++ compile times and generally poor intellisense - though IDEs that specialize in Unreal, like Rider, have seen exponential improvements on that front. And for teams that are genuinely averse to C++, going 100% Blueprint is also a completely viable option.
1. The SpaceX Commercial Crew Program was intentionally the US's plan. That was the expectation of the program (Not that the Boeing side of it looks good to anybody)
2. Russia, just last month, flubbed a rover a couple feet deep into the surface of the moon...so, no if they wanted to, apparently they could not.
Not only that.
The stoic values also seem to be under much scrutiny in the broader "toxic masculinity" narrative.
This is still iPhone 14 for me
A coincidence this is announced on the same day as an Apple presentation....
Of course. The problem with these is that the license is most often best described at "it's unclear"... so if you're designing a piece of "open hardware", you can't just go and slap together stuff from implementer guides and datasheets. I mean, you can, stuff will usually work out on a technical level, but as it's not your work but someone else's you can get into trouble with copyright law.

A fully, truly open library of building blocks under actual open source licenses however? That would be a dream.
She was an ok girlfriend. She's not the intellectual caring doctor people imagine when discussing advice from doctors.
Yea there seems to be some moronic wording on Unity's part, either they actually intended to originally charge per month or some other nonsense.

It seems they will just bill monthly on the net gain in installs.

They still avoid the topic of defining how a install is tracked (do reinstalls count?) and so far on their forum have not replied to it.
So I guess you can't make fully online games with unity anymore - the runtime will have to connect with unity servers at least once to report new installation.
You are correct...
Unity used to support JS but nobody used it. Why would I ever pick such a weakly typed mess over C# for this use case?
Official post over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37480937
Neopets has a Ruffle integration as of very recently to make games run. Most of the non-game flash elements have now been replaced with SVG or HTML5. The site is very far from refurbished, but there's been a lot of progress.
Summary of Changes to the Microsoft Services Agreement – September 30, 2023
"In the Your Privacy section, we expanded the definition of “Your Content” to include content that is generated by your use of our AI services."

"We created a new section called “Microsoft Storage” which encompasses both OneDrive and Outlook.com and reflects branding changes. This reflects the current status of storage quotas in that Outlook.com attachments now count against OneDrive storage quotas as well as Outlook.com storage quotas. A link to a page with more information is provided as well."
Authorizer, an open source authentication and authorization solution
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Seems like a potential nightmare when your sensor network's operation is contingent on one badly tuned power circuit in a crappy Chinese LED floodlight in the janitors closet being perpetually left on.
Could you expand on that or link to something that does? I was considering using libcluster on k8s, so curious about the limitations you're referring to.
I really like the gamification there where they have hit points and a stat for mood as well as keeping track of the inventory. It's concise and helps make sure that the system doesn't lose track of key structural information.

I think that type of thing can make for a really fun and flexible GPT-powered game system. It seems like a great way to add some engagement.

It's also brilliant the way you have managed to mitigate the ChatGPT cheating to such a degree. Although as I got further down into the details of the assignment, I started to feel glad that I wasn't in school anymore. It sounds like they will have to do a fair amount of actual work. So congratulations on that.
This being a monthly rate is insane. Does the game stop working if the developer doesn’t pay?
No, not blending. Even blended I don't think you could consume 10 lbs of vegetables a day.
Electric and self driving vehicles do not solve the fundamental problem with personal vehicles; they cause congestion.
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Compositors and displays servers are now the same process, doubling the space for errors

The wayland security model means the compositor absorbs even more functions from global shortcuts to screencasting and input-method handling
[..]

Doesnt that mean, Wayland becomes everything that X11 was, just worse? I thought, Wayland was created to break up the monolithic X-Server?
Are big projects ditching TypeScript?
Official Intel post over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37480937
As the 90s commercial goes, Why Ask Why?

Celebrate good times
I still refuse to believe that's the right interpretation. That can't be real. Are you really going to owe more to Unity every time a user uninstall/reinstalls your game? If they want to play in their main PC and their Steamdeck?

Completely abolishes the incentive of pushing free updates too. You don't want to make new great features that would push people to re-download your game.
Time to switch to Godot for my design-stage mobile game. The fact that they even came up with this, and worded it so poorly, reeks of incompetence.
It's pretty wild how baked into modern life insecure 2fa is. Especially with the prevalence of sim swapping. I more or less model most auth as trivially insecure at this point.

You think about someone like Vitalik of all people, if he can't keep his account secure...average person has their work cut out for them.

Private key auth systems have security challenges of their own (losing access forever when you lose your key) but I wish they were an option in place of the current regime.

In the 90s you could bypass security locally on a machine by clicking cancel and it would just log you in. Feels like today it's only slightly more complicated and costs a bit of money to access twitter, email, bank accounts etc.

Seemingly little to no interest in resolving this state of affairs beyond obscure and increasingly less legal crypto based systems.
Credit where due. It's nice to see this bit of due process being adopted.
Unreal is nowhere in the mobile space.
You need to use firewall in BOTH cases. You're blaming the protocol for completely unrelated reasons.
It seems to be what they're going for at KDE:

https://floss.social/@kde/111051338968313784

> Plasma developer David Edmundson demonstrates how a desktop using Wayland, Qt6 and KWin can recover from a catastrophic crash as if nothing had happened.

> You will lose no data, the video you were watching will not skip a frame, and the contents of your clipboard will remain intact.

> The same principles can be applied to jumping from one desktop environment to another, for example, from Plasma to Gnome...

> ... And can provide a way to save _the state_ of an application to disk, stopping the app in its tracks and removing it from memory, so that later you can restore it just where you left off.
Alas, they decided the underwear bomber was also a big threat...

Thus the MM wave machines where they can see your privates.

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna38561251 is a good example.

The TSA is a bad idea done badly.