skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hardly cashing out directly. The thief is probably just selling the crypto to criminal outfit(s) able to launder it at a highly reduced amount. Maybe even just 10% of its crypto value.

The thief gets paid, doesn't need to worry about cashing it out, and the outfit that has experience in laundering can just go to work and get a massive payday.
I don't know. I feel like the language space is very crowded right now.

While that's a great thing for everybody, it does mean if you're going to be pushing a new language, you need to be clear about what sets your language apart from the dozens of others clamoring for attention.
It is too small when the expected payoff is business success in one lifetime.
Optimized package imports in Next.js
I was being sarcastic, as I absolutely despise the lack of scroll bars. But perhaps I was being too subtle
Juniper Networks Patches over 30 Vulnerabilities in Junos OS
Would this org refuse to accept CSAM from an anonymous source just because they can’t point to its origin?
It sounds like you're pretty secure in your job but generally unfulfilled so there's no reason you can't start a business on the side. That way you can find fulfillment while providing for your family and still moving solidly towards financial independence.

With regards to financial independence, I recommend reading the likes of Mr. Money Mustache. He was able to achieve it in his 30's making less than you do.
If you put switches on plugs in America, people will call electricians because "the plug dont work." Often without ever trying the switch.

I built my house 20yr ago. I put all the outlets in "upside down", that is, with the ground pin topmost. I think electrical codes recommend that now, I've seen it in some new construction elsewhere... But people still freak put when they're called on to plug something in here.
Presumably into the (outside) air.
I too find the web unusuable on mobile without FF mobile with ublock origin. Hey maybe Mozilla could focus on that rather than "reclaiming our online digital creative spaces"
Yeah, it's awful. I use the Content Restrictions feature on iOS to hide Safari so that it's not accessible at all. I just don't have a reason or need to browse the web on my phone.
That's also been going on for over a century. Plenty of businesses exist to provide market summaries, and it's been done for longer than anyone alive.
Sounds like Far Cry Primal
Accelerating Interoperability Standards for Commercial Lunar Infrastructure
Sounds like a front page of a BS self-help book.

> you dont't organize eating, sleeping

I absolutely do.

There's nothing wrong with making your life more efficient to reach your goals faster.
For a chat session with a big corporation like AE - I'd always assume that you're talking with a hybrid. A front-end bot handles the "what's my balance?" sort of queries, another bot assists their live humans on the not-so-basic questions, and it's pretty much all-live-humans when you get up to stuff like AE Platinum Emergency Medical Evacuation services.
>How do you tackle this?

Adguard Pro
In the US nothing happens. We only protect our rich people, not our consumers
No doubt this could have been a pre-written script.
Thanks for the memories. These were the cool tools in the nineties. Not a very practical UI, but good looking. :-)
It is hard to tell without trying but it seems like just a screen sharing like app built on chromium. Lacking in detailed technical specifications or any organizational backing, its credibility is very questionable. Just a guy bragging about how he spent a year alone and wrote gazillion lines of code, which makes no sense as a metric.
I never implied they were not friendly. All the YC folks seem very nice. I’m sure they want you to succeed, but they succeed more if you take a strategy that is against your self-interest.
They'll just shrug at you and say okay.
Depends on what brings you joy.

Update: Ok, non-glib serious comment: the "joy" of programming is highly subjective and the author might want to consider a different byline to avoid confusion. A "creative" or "hobby" programming lanugage for "experimentation," might make the point better.

Personally I don't find much joy in C-like languages as they're all approximately the same to me... and the "joy of programming," is less about syntax than semantics and form.
How do these databases differentiate between AI generated CSAM and CSAM of real victims? (Since many jurisdictions only criminalize real CP)

I know that 99% of people cannot tell an AI image from a real photo since that "Last giant irish greyhound 1902" photo has been going around on social media for weeks, and it is, to me, unbelievably obvious AI.
Friday Facts #380 – Remote view
So this means more accurate pricing, which generally means better for consumers. The same thing happened in stocks as pricing went electronic, lowering the bid/ask spread. This meant lower trading fees.

The same thing has happened in many markets. Quicker information results in more accurate pricing and lower risk, which translates into efficiency and less dead weight loss.
How exactly does it make someone experience the joy of programming?
hello from California - "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" is an amazing novel, and (surprise) quite different than also-amazing movie "Blade Runner"

focus on "drugs" is typical of critics, easy to draw the bystanders IMHO
Leaning into Indigenous knowledge on climate change
Really depends on industry.. maybe at FAANG that is normal, elsewhere - no.
I've worked almost 20 years now and haven't done a real 2-weeker vacation in 5 years, and probably won't again for a while. 4 week vacation is practically unheard of, as is sabbatical.

Of course being a small business owner is not really compatible with 2-4 week vacations, BUT.. you are empowered to make that decision. Maybe you just drag your laptop with you and stay reachable / keep things moving along, but from whatever sunny location you've decided to holiday.

Not much different than my last 6 day vacation where I had my laptop & work phone, and checked in on any urgent fires every morning & evening back at the hotel...
Building an LLM wrapper is quick money right now, thus the abundance of pointless businesses, and AI fatigue.

I optimistically think that when the initial interest weans off, people will find creative ways to leverage generative ai in less obvious, but more practical fashion.
It's immutable in the sense that you only need to check the node you are interested in to verify it's history hasn't been tampered with. That can be valuable. I'm well aware that someone could create an alternative chain, but it will be different and easily noticeable.
As iPhone X owner I can confirm that this is one of the worst combination for mobile browsing: small screen, safari and internet full of adds.

The best option for browsing internet is large screen Android Phone.
Twenty-year-olds should not be in charge of UX.
Just quick take from the code examples.

How is this more joyful than Rust Or Java or anything?

What is the key difference here that is about adding 'joy'?

Just not picking up on the sales case.
That’s exactly how i used the term.
More importantly you would want to keep the secret sauce secret. If I develop something actually near magical, I’m not going to blast the underlying technology from the rooftops, that’s my entire edge.
I don't have an answer. I feel stupid for it. I thought I had all the answers but I didn't think this through. I thought getting rid of cell tower triangulation you can achieve privacy but you'd still need to connect to a satellite with a unique network identifier.
Why haven't they arrested the former employee?
That's always been the case. Market analytics has existed as a service since forever. And the company doing the analysis wants to sell that product to everyone to maximize their sales
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I would actually suggest there may be a flip side of this. Android apps tend to feel more clunky than their iPhone counterparts, and the web is universally familiar. But it is possible both can be true at once.
> Belief in containable backdoors is the height of naivety

What if it is acceptable for potential enemies to (eventually) also have access to that backdoor, and your goal in providing the backdoor is just to give the masses a false belief that they can communicate secretly?

Obviously those in the know would not use the flawed system, but instead would have a similar/better one without the intentional flaws.
What’s your point? The human genome is also too complex to comprehend but we still make us of it. Without technology to interpret it, having it would be useless. How is the brain any different?

What’s wrong with collecting the data? And why would you think technology couldn’t help us make sense of it?
I don't think this is off topic, and I'm curious if anyone has a good answer. I see the same issue with people who work on "old school" machine learning techniques for the normal useful things that aren't "generative". Like, my company does a lot of time series forecasting, and sure, it's fine to market that as "AI", but that terminology has become a lot less useful for serious discussions of what we do, like with potential candidates. I guess just saying "ML" works fine, even though "generative AI" is also ML, but people don't tend to use that terminology for it much.
> The same for the "community for small-time entrepreneurs". Good for them. But if someone has the next Dropbox-potential idea, you better hand out with this crew here, than that crew there. Because that crew there will settle for mediocre, while this crew here will aim higher.

There's a third way. Don't take VC, but hustle and focus on excellence and growth.

If you need capital, realize there are other non-dilutive sources. Or that perhaps you can achieve similar results with far less money than a speedy VC-backed company.

Think: what if I were not <demographics statistically favored by VCs> and did not have access to VC? How would I grow this business?

Think: how would the Mailchimp founders ($12 B exit), or the SAS founders, or the Epic Systems founder have solved this problem? Think: am I even aware that many (most?) multi-millionaire tech founders did not raise VC?

Look to non-tech industries for inspiration; VC typically doesn't fund high-growth companies, like Spanx, that are not tech companies. Then get big anyway, on your own terms.

The dichotomy between VC or small-time is false.
Maybe the cave lions united together and hunted down all Neanderthals :)
I think it depends on what you count as "survival".

Group 1's long-term success/survival is contingent on timely exits and timely access to future funding, which historically (i.e. during all times + places, except 2008-2021 in SV) is a pretty volatile commodity. Group 2 develops fairly portable skills that they can "sell" to the market whenever they want to give up on building by themselves. They can compound in a way that's uncorrelated from LPs' appetites for risky allocations.

It's like comparing a firecracker and a candle. Although they both depend on combustion, the goals of the two groups are almost disjoint.
JavaScript Oxidation Compiler
How do you warn people you're about to kill them if they don't leave? That question is as old as war.
> Any computational method that relies on a function that converts m bits (an image) to n bits (a fingerprint) where m > n will always be vulnerable to such an attack.

The "vulnerable" depends on your definition: SHA-2 and SHA-3 are both still quite safe against preimage attacks, and even second preimage attacks require significant work to pull off for SHA-2, and I am unaware of any meaningful second preimage attack on SHA-3.

Of course, SHA isn't built for finding similar images, but for finding exact matches this should be safe enough.
Usually the smallest "skinny" 16:9 screens you see nowadays on desktops are 24".

Windows was perfectly usable on 15" 4:3 screens.
The first iMacs were 15" 4:3.

So that as such probably wasn't the issue.

http://www.displaywars.com/24-inch-16x9-vs-15-inch-4x3

What might be an issue though is the use of laptops.
Apple's system design is brittle and forces both the individual and the company to be meticulous about stuff that shouldn't matter. How is that not an Apple problem?
OLED Monitor Shipments Predicted to Soar by 323% in 2023
Sustainable infrastructure in the Pan Amazon: In search of an oxymoron
Direct from the article:

"BUT YOU JUST WANT TO SELL YOUR COURSE!!!
Ahahaha, you caught me! It’s true. I do have something to sell you. I run a community for small-time entrepreneurs who are satisfied with reliably attainable mediocre success. The YC folks feel sorry for our joy with mediocrity while they’re out there changing the world. And we reciprocate the emotion.

So yes, I am promoting something that goes against everything YC stands for. But if you think YC is not also selling you something, I have a bridge to sell you. But maybe I’m being a bit too harsh. Because what is it that YC is selling you exactly?

Me, I charge you a one-time payment of $245, and you get access to my community, which includes live workshops, recorded classes, a group chat, and a few other things. It’s very clear what I’m doing. I ask for some money in exchange for access, and those who give me the money get access. Even my 6 year old kid understands it."
I also caught that :) Nailed it.
Same here. Do I go back for a MS in CS or something else? Seems unlikely especially having taken a number of graduate courses. I'm a general systems engineer so I've thought about drilling down into specifics like Microsoft cloud architecture, or AI/ML architecture, or even authentication and gaining certificates to switch jobs. Then I think about starting an IT consulting business that would hire remote workers only and feel overwhelmed by that prospect. Part of me wants to get out altogether and start a pizza joint. Lots of options, too many.

If I wanted to I could probably stay at the same company for the next 20 years and retire but that sounds uninspiring and ultimately quite depressing. Two years ago was the time to do something but now is OK too. In another two years I will look back thinking "why didn't I make a move then?"

I know the feel, wish I had something better than my own story for you!
So is Junos OS still based on FreeBSD and have the vulnerabilities been forwarded to them (if applicable)?
Can you point to any society anywhere, where people learned to behave?
The same place the water goes now
You could have reasonably said Ross Ulbricht was the main suspect in the theft of Silk Road bitcoins, but it turned out to be two FBI agents involved with the case.
It does, but finding appropriately licensed foley samples that also sound ok in a loop is more challenging than I would have expected. Plus, my sound editing skills are minimal

My biggest beef with the sounds, tbh, is that I need to master them all to about the same volume. I think the drawing sound is a bit quiet, or maybe my button clicks and stamp sounds are loud.

Or maybe I should break down and get a microphone and find the sound I am thinking of
Like the article says, the author did test against an open addressing hash table. He also addressed the resize requirements in the first paragraph, which makes rehashing not a concern.
I think it's pretty awful (at least on Android), so I rarely browse the web from mobile devices at all. If I need to interact with some service, rather than apps or mobile browsing, I wait until I'm at a desktop machine (unless it's an emergency or something).
I'm assuming they're gonna work on ROCm(or maybe a new attempt by AMD?). Anyways good luck to them, we desperately need some competition to CUDA. AMD's hardware is definitely potent, but yeah you can't catch up to CUDA overnight (the release discrepancy between the two is ~10 years).
That article is garbage with no specifics. I don't know why you bothered to link it.
I'm sure this conversation will not decline into a raging flame war by self proclaimed "experts" on both sides.
You shouldn’t do spend months on your project.

You do like what Tony did here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37622702

Make several weekend projects, improve your selection criteria over time, take what works, and throw away the rest.
Broderbund was knocking it out of the park in the '80s and '90s
I think this is an incredibly interesting piece of art. I want to see more websites like this. Thank you for making it, I really enjoyed it
I disagree because C is just a more humane assembler, it is unsafe intentionally. Look at all kinds of ugliness of C++ starting from why ZeroMQ can not be written in C++ and ending with [1] both of which were discussed here.

I believe the biggest C's mistake is when you say "int x" it means "mut signed int x" while I would like to have "const unsigned int x".

[1] http://lists.warhead.org.uk/pipermail/iwe/2005-July/000130.h...
Excellent post. This is why I’ve given up on trying to monetize my web game (https://www.farmhand.life/) and just give it away for free as OSS. The money I’d make would not justify the effort needed to actually capture it.
Yeah this is the same take I have! This field is currently both genuinely amazing and very irritatingly hype-y.

This is just the normal hipster take though; we're annoyed that something we love has "gone mainstream" and "sold out" :)
> Personalization isn't key. Personalization from a tutor works because it's hard and costly, and convinces the student that this matters.

> That's just a theory. It's not necessarily right, but it does present a convincing explanation for what we observe

Far from it. We observe that people who already believe that they need to learn something do better with individual tutoring.

> and in particular the observation worth repeating, that no one can seem to get algorithmic personalized education to work, no matter how rich and clever they are.

People got algorithmic personalized education to work quite a long time ago. It's called a book. The algorithm is "when the student asks about something, tell them". And it works very well, just like it always has.

What people aren't getting to work is forcing students who don't want to know things to know those things anyway.
It's the funniest juxtaposition of features ever.
> AI doesn't have nearly as lucrative scams, so I doubt you will see the same investor frenzy.

Maybe you are right about the “frenzy”, but quantitatively speaking the market cap of Big Tech (including and especially nVidia) is probably larger than the crypto scams ever will be.

As a comparison the market cap of crypto is apparently less than the cap of nVidia. Share prices of other tech companies like Microsoft are also inflated due to expectations of AI related returns.

The “frenzy” may not be as insane but the money is definitely there. Especially with the crypto bubbles bursting the money has to go somewhere, unless you honestly believe they ended up in US treasury bonds or sth
The majority of US adults own stock in some form. And as people age, the percentage owning grows significantly. Pensions, retirement funds, savings outside perhaps cash, all provide stock ownership as an asset component.

So by shareholders you mean the majority of everyday people.
It may have no content, but it is very easy to read and confirms the pre-existing biases of nerdy contrarians. It will go far here.
me too, but the epub -> pdf conversion is never perfect in my experience, with random headers through the text or weird paragraph splits.

The too big error was from openintro.com, where they have a "send to kindle" option which I was hoping was a proper epub
> Shapiro does a very good job of emphasizing the difference between an object and its multiple printed-representations (S-expression).

I think that is debatable. When he introduces S-expressions in chapter 3 it is in the context of a chapter on lists, not S-expressions. (In fact, he doesn't have a chapter on S-expressions!) And he doesn't actually define S-expression, he only defines "list S-expression" and leaves it up to the reader to infer that numbers are S-expressions -- or is it the printed representation of a number that is an S-expression? Shapiro never actually says. So is 123 a number? Or is it an S-expression denoting a number? Are these the same thing? Again, Shapiro never actually says. AFAICT, at no point in the book does he ever make it explicit that an S-expression is a string, and in particular, a string which is a serialization of a data structure.

It makes sense to you because you already know how it works. You need to read it with your beginner-mindset hat on to see the problems.
I find it very funny that a forum of people who ostensibly work in the highest profit margin businesses in the world, enjoying the highest industry wide compensation to quality of life at work ratios, claim that the lowest profit margin businesses in the world with some of the lowest compensation to quality of ratio work has enough pricing power to allow them to reap undue windfalls of profit.
If you enable private chat, you don't get notifications for new messages, that way the feature is self defeating, it seems to me at least. (Something could also have gone wrong?)
Maybe the cell processor was not anti-consumer but I also mentioned Sony being cocky which it very much was.

As far as Bungie, they were bought by Microsoft by the time Halo was made exclusive. I am not remembering any exclusive games from Rare before being bought by Microsoft?

You are right that Phil Spensor was the GM in 2014. That is a year after the Xbox One release ate, after many of the past mistakes were made. I don't know of examples of Microsoft engaging in many of these behaviors and in fact doing the opposite since he came in (existing contracts that was made before him being an exception). If I am wrong I would love examples, but I am not aware of them.

I am not necessarily saying that Microsoft is more or less anti consumer as a whole. But their gaming devision has done things (often in direct counter to what Sony is doing) that are more consumer friendly behaviors.

At the end of the day. It is Sony vs Microsoft here. The chance of us getting another serious contender in the gaming space is basically zero due to the cost, risk, and long term planning required.
My experience is excellent: android, Firefox, uBlock origin with advanced user enabled.

If I can avoid having to use an app I do using the website instead.

I think your experience is a result of apples restrictive appstore policies.
If the content would make better use of screen estate, that probably would not be necessary.
This is exactly right. A couple years ago I became a co-founder of sorts, supporting the technical side. I assumed all you needed was a good idea that attracted users - we had that.

Even though we had a working software product and demonstrable 20% MoM growth, we couldn't get investors interested. I learned (the hard way) that what you need to do is put the dollar signs in investors eyes and manipulate their greed in order to convince them to cough over their money. Of course, it isn't often described that way - they say things like "we need to de-risk the investment" and "expand the total available market". But really what they mean is they're only interested in businesses that are shooting for billions of dollars and have a solid plan on how to get there.

If I ever go into business again, I'm staying far away from VC.
Yeah, this is the only real solution.