skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The link came (indirectly) from a story about virtual machines https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37867144 which has a lot of good tidbits. It's fair to say that the idea of virtual machines is very old, and probably a very natural one.
Translation: We suck at running and leading a company so we are going to prioritize showing investors we can still return dollars to them this quarter by letting go of some peons.
> I kinda cheat a few cents from them per day/month/year

You certainly do not. There is a very simple and legally-recognised way to recuperate costs associated with providing a service and that is to charge money for the service. Youtube is very happy to give you content for free; you're cheating nobody. Or do you think you're cheating if you watch the ads but don't buy any of the products too?

> I hate the idea that people use [my apps] without paying for them

Do you charge money for them?
To counterbalance your anecdote this is not among my friends and family. We swap books regularly and enjoy the recommendations. Of the prior 10 books I read all came from friend recommendation, and I enjoyed each one.
Hong Kong Locations in Ghost in the Shell
Goldman surely has access to the real card number and the statement, but not sure if the Mastercard network has access to that as you would think that information just gets routed back to Goldman.
I was sitting 10 feet from PK when a lot of these decisions were made, but you have to realize what a different time it was, and it how much becomes obvious only in retrospect.

There's more than a few misunderstandings and errors in the article but mostly it's a valid 20-20 hindsight perspective. We knew it at the time too; when a couple of us formed a different company later it was with the express idea that we knew all the things that sucked about .zip files and would love a do-over. We never got around to it though; our thinking at the time was to get established with other products first and then come out with a new format. Our initial stuff ended up being pretty successful and we exited to McAfee and didn't look back. Different times, maybe we did the world a disservice not tackling archiving first :-)

One note about putting "PK" on the file format. In the dev culture Phil learned his craft in there was no source control and change tracking. Files were exchanged via 'sneakernet'. This was true even at PKWare in the 89-91 timeframe. Change tracking was done via file renaming, and if you added a new variable you put your initials on it so if someone had a question they'd know who touched it. I used usenet at home but not at work.

Our communication to the outside world was an 8-line BBS in the next room and the EXECPC BBS that one of us would dial into at least once a day to answer questions on.

The multi-part/disk spanning stuff wasn't added until pretty late in the game, so it was kind of hacky. The format overall is what you get when something takes off and people start asking to use it in ways that weren't anticipated on day one but you want to maintain backwards compatibility. For sure time was spent answering questions from devs who were implementing their own versions, especially info-zip which was iirc the most important seeming effort at the time, and a guy that worked in the office a few nights a week on a port to a mainframe environment which escapes me at the moment.

It was pretty heady to be able to walk up to practically any computer on the show floor at Comdex and type 'pkzip' and get a response, but even then the idea of just how ubiquitous it would become was impossible to anticipate.
> As I understand it, a similar phone would have cost $100 in, say, 2007.

I remember that they cost $24 in 2008.
> The Australian regulator said that when it asked X how it prevented child grooming on the platform, X responded that it was “not a service used by large numbers of young people"

> The commission also issued a warning to Alphabet’s Google for noncompliance with its request for information about handling of child abuse content, calling the search engine giant’s responses to some questions “generic”

It sounds like these giant companies simply needed to provide borderline-competent responses to these basic regulatory inquiries, but instead they phoned it in and got dinged. Hard to imagine how they can be so lackadaisical, especially given the topic of the inquiries.
I've noticed Google's web properties are particularly bad about this. I'm logged into an account - they know what language I want my search results in because I told them in my account preferences, but if my IP geolocation says I'm in a different country, I must want the UI in the local language, right?
The last bull saw the rise of all kinds of new technologies which will enable the use cases people were talking about (Avalanche is my favorite example, but theres some new stuff like SUI coming). The thing web3 did absolutely right is create a true interchangeable format (ie tokens) the downside is this technology has been developing sooooooo slowly. Whenever people start to get hope the technology might be ready for use, the gambling use cases rise to the top and dominate. I think crypto is also dominated by a certain hardline techy. Or at least it's critics are. Crypto should be working side by side with traditional finance. Instead they view it as their enemy. FTX US is an example of how regulation can be good (the funds on FTX-US were more or less unmolested) yet most crypto people seem to argue against any regulation at all. It will be their demise.
Thats not the point. The point is who cares about the mistreatment. The objective is to get the relevant info. I'm one of the highest ranked people on SO.

And guess what? All I do on SO is ask stupid ass questions. One time someone scolded me, said I should know better for asking a certain question that was against policy of something given that my rank was so high. You know what I said to him?

Nothing. I just didn't give a shit. Stackoverflow is one of the few places on earth where you can ask the dumbest questions with zero consequence. The consequence is just in your head. Better to launch that dumbass question in stackoverflow than on your company slack.

I probably have 10 questions with negative points. My highest ranked question was likely the stupidest one I ever asked.
Lots of banks have offered very competitive interest rates for a long time now.

https://www.doctorofcredit.com/high-interest-savings-to-get/

Bigger banks are simply betting that people will not go through the trouble of moving their money.
It’s not an exception. There is no magic.

Large code bases are large, and not every program is your simple crud app with a handful of endpoints that can be meaningfully managed a single function.
Riot Responds to Recent Inquiries Regarding Its Power Strategy [pdf]
People love simple answers to complex problems. Unions are such an example. The core idea behind a union makes sense - it's legalised extortion. Unions have codified in the law the ability for everyone in the union to hold the owner of property at ransom until they meet the union's demands. The only counterweight is the threat of bankruptcy, which ruins everything for everyone, but because the ideology of labor is very anti-business, they don't really care about that anyway.

Very few intelligent, educated people are part of unions, so they have no idea how they actually work. As I am against extortion, I am against unions.
The global market for tech products isn’t that much lower friction than tech employment. India has a lot of tariffs. China has the great firewall and the “local partner” shakedown. US has export controls of many high tech products.
Nice. Who are you looking to hire?
The difference is much lesser 7-10x in big tech (Google, Amazon, Msft, etc). Big tech's Indian offices pays about 1/3 to 1/4 of what they would earn in the company's USA office. Levels.fyi will corroborate this.

Yes, while the average software engineer in India might earn 7-10x less than in the US, this isn't the case within major tech companies.
Doesn't belong here? Given your biased Act.IL based commenting, I can see why you would flag this. Israel is an Apartheid State and its actions including forcing people to flee and indiscriminate bombing on civilians will lead to innocents dying. Looks like you would rather bury your head in the sand than have people reminded of Apartheid Israel's war crimes.
because these people are being replaced with off-shore hires from India and China.
Note that it's better if you don't apply rewards points at checkout - instead, get a payout to your bank account via the Chase reward redemption portal in the app. If you have $100 in rewards points, and use them in checkout, that $100 doesn't hit your card and you don't get the 5% cashback on that $100.
That's, what, a month's interest on unpaid rent on their SF office?
Oh, I don't know, one measure of it made me nervous. :-D But I don't usually drink spirits.
Medical care should be weighted at 20-30% to reflect how much of a burden it’s become. Childcare is severely underweighted as well. Housing is underweighted in rents and overweighted in owner equivalent rent. Those are just the obvious ones
The the types of technical questions I get SO results for I’ve not once got Reddit results. That said there are other queries for which Reddit is the only answer and SO not capturing this is a failure on their part.
I've also been using it for years and I've never had this problem at all.
This seems like corp-speak 101.

You aren't doing layoffs.

You're adjusting to a new market to maximize current opportunities.

You have to always look at the bright side.
only if they can keep training from the commons and stealing other people's work.
The renewed interest in the N64 is very interesting considering how relatively "unpopular" it was during its lifetime. There's also not a huge number of great games on the system (IMHO) compared to its competitors. A top-50 list is not exactly full of all-time classics until you hit maybe the top-15.

The aesthetic of the console also has aged very poorly, mostly due to the incredibly tiny texture memory leading to overfiltered smudgy blurry textures all over the place.

My understanding of things from the MiSTER project is that the FPGA hardware used there is just maybe enough to be a PS1, Saturn, and N64, but just barely, and maybe not at all. If this was a 3D 32-bit multi-system thing with upgraded texture support, and not only CRT emulation, but also rendering upscaling, we might be talking. Some PS1 games at 1080p with upgraded textures and fixes to the texture warping problem look almost as good as early-mid stage PS2 games and sharper. Some games like the WipeOut series absolutely shine in high-res and are more playable since you aren't trying to figure out if a blob of 6 pixels at 240i is another racer or a wall.
A free market is one that is protected. Unfortunately nothing in the USA is protected. Our borders, our jobs, our votes. Those in control only care about themselves.
Try actually reading this time. I never said that middleware didn't exist in other frameworks, I said you can control that middleware using attributes. Do not accuse other people of being disingenuous because you didn't read something right
The Great Cash-for-Carbon Hustle
OK, so it kills the mold? I was under the impression from some videos that it didn't do much. So I assume it's dying because ozone is actually toxic to it?
First waves of layoffs are famously more generous with their severance agreements than the following ones.

They are already not as generous as they could be (for example, Google on January 20th boasted about accelerated vesting for the notice period of US employees that would be laid off... But employees in other regions didn't get the same terms)

...and they are going to get worse and worse, with future layoffs
By your reasoning, YouTube (like Costco) should ask the actual freeloaders to stop instead of imposing ads on every Costco member in a misguided quest to profit on every single free sample.

I’m impressed you saw what should really happen at Costco, but disappointed you could not extrapolate that thinking to the YouTube case.
signalfd() is less portable and has caveats around signal masks and subprocesses that you can avoid with the self-pipe trick.
If you add up the investigators' time, prosecutors' time, judge's time, legal fees, data collection and archival costs, etc., etc., the fine probably barely even covers the state's costs.
To me seems like this whining is a part of negotiating tactics by GS.
Is that language actually useful to anyone? Don't you always need to evolve and prioritize, or is that a brand new concept to LinkedIn?
> Bitcoin is not backed by anything other than crime, money laundering & financial derivatives.

Then short it.
It has a couple of decent themes, nowadays.
I worked for 5 jobs or so in my decade of experience. Every single one had layoffs (usually 10%+). Layoffs aren’t that common in tech until now but were always prevalent in the “industry”.
Right, but when serfdom was abolished and people were free to move, some of them were forced to move looking for work and poorer because of that. So were they more free? Just because they were not attached to their land? Or were they less free because they had less and nobody anylonger cared if they live or die?

We are also attached to land. Just a bigger piece of land. I can't freely move to work anywhere on the planet.
There are a lot of great labor in India, but great does not come cheap. Cheaper than the bay area, or even the midwest, but still not cheap by world standards. You can pay engineers in Germany for similar or less in total compensation. (but good luck finding them)
I'm reading the just-released Musk biography by Walter Isaacson and I think this is a pretty good summary. He has basically taken "move fast and break things" to the extreme and with hardware.

Musk himself is quoted as believing that SpaceX's success is in large part owed to him getting involved with the technical minutiae, whereas Bezos has other people making decisions.
> they’ll look for the cheapest labor they can get away with

Don't you look for the best deal when you buy things?

That's how markets work.
Show HN: Interactive Internet Map
Example: https://reversedns.space/?zoom=5&x=56547&y=35391&px=56492&py...

Try to play with it, zoom it, click on various elements.

Source code: https://github.com/ClickHouse/reversedns.space/

Happy to hear questions, feedback!
I'm aware of this but also who cares? It's was down to 14 people. That's a bad exit.

Fastly is also kind of a struggling company itself.

Many years back, Fog Creek was the first company that I learned of that put up fake job openings to portray more success than they were really having.
> "Everyone loves collecting data, but nobody loves analyzing it later."

Analysing oceans of telemetry is not just hard, it's exponential-volume * permutating-international-linguistic-complexity hard.

The business model is therefore not to anything truly useful with useful data, the business model is fake it hard by hoarding the data to make money. If enough people believe that MAANG have real capability beyond non-semantic content correlation at scale, the money will (and does) accrue.

Say "A.I." breathlessly.

> chances are good that your pet ML application is an expensive replacement for a dumb heuristic

The probability approaches 1.

If the mere fact of holding data were put to a rigorous test, we would discover what everybody knows. [0]

> See, the problem is there's almost no way to know if you're right.

The dystopian truth is that it doesn't matter if the advertising empire is right or good or helpful. And the result is the grotesque coupling of what would otherwise be unequivocally brilliant technological advances: powerful mobile communication at scale and shared, connected, cultivated information.

- - -

[0] _ https://genius.com/Leonard-cohen-everybody-knows-lyrics _ "Everybody knows the scene is dead, but there's going to be a meter on your bed that will expose... what everybody knows." -- L. Cohen, S. Robinson
> I don't think so: that quote wouldn't make it into the article if it didn't typify a common opinion.

It only needs a printed source to make it into WP. Here it is the opinion of one Chris Brown. No, there is no problem with citing that, but it is hard to estimate how much support is really behind that opinion.

> I've only read two of those, but in both the competition is wholly with external actors. Within the Culture itself, the Minds are of one mind about how to act.

If you really think there is no internal dispute between minds I will politely ask to read the novels again. There certainly is. Already the existence of the "eccentric" classification gives that away. Why would they need "Special Circumstances" if they were all "of the same mind"?
What is true (AFAIR) is, that they are no battling to the death. However, the point was that minds are not too powerful, if there is competition. That point would still stand with only external competition.

> The Culture is a fantasy, and like most fantasies, it needs some hand-waving "magic" to hold its world up. That's what the Culture Minds are.

Try your hand as an author with the very far future. Unless you go dystopian (and thus denying most of the potential progress) everything after a couple of centuries might well be seen as magic.
It’s more of the principle of the thing. We work in an industry that aspires to disrupt everything from human relations (social media), to commerce (Amazon, the sharing economy), to biology, nutrition, and the very laws of physics (or at least material science.) Even if a lot of this is just marketing hype, there is still ambition required to come up with such utopian grandiose goals. But whenever the idea of a union is discussed it’s “no, we’ve tried it already, that’s impossible, everyone knows that.” What hypocritical defeatism!
Communication overhead between teams is very different from communication overhead between individual people on a team.
Hackers host malicious code on Binance chain to circumvent takedowns
it's a superposition of two states:

- insecure and you know it
- insecure and you don't know it

until you sneeze and someone's stolen everything.
This is one of the more perplexing takes I've seen, assuming this isn't satire
If you have anything at all to do with OS administration, management, or software packaging, it's worth it.

If I could offer a little advice: The systemd man pages are useful as a reference, but are terrible to learn from. Part of this is because there are parts of systemd that everyone uses, and there are parts that almost nobody uses and it's hard to guess which these are at first. Also, the man pages are dry and long and quite often fail to describe things in a way that would make any sense whatsoever to someone who isn't already intimately familiar with systemd.

Most of my systemd learning came from random blog articles and of course the excellent Arch wiki.
> Goldman, which has zero retail banking experience.

Goldman runs Marcus, an online only HYSA. The interest rates for that and for Apple Savings (which they also run) are close, but not the same. It's weird.
Tech layoffs exceed 240k so far in 2023, 50% more than 2022
You are living in such a society. People who bought BRKA shares 55 years ago and just sat on their asses have done immensely better than those who worked their asses off.
That’s like saying that going to the gym is worthless, because you can rent a forklift which can lift so much more weight without even a sweat.

The human brain/body requires resistance/challenges, otherwise it will always choose the lazy road and won’t improve.
Storytelling vs. Exploring, with Global Happiness Data
this looks amazing. Particularly hopeful/interested if this could be used for wildfire prevention. Great work!
Based on this comment I am not convinced you know how unions work, either.
The world is designed against the elderly, writes Don Norman
what difference does it make that it's an FPGA?
His first book, Wasp Factory[1] is also a game changer. His is a dark world right from the off! :D

1. It's non-sci-fi so published under the name Iain Banks rather than Iain M. Banks.
It's interesting that I don't usually see policies written with the words "Please don't".
Except it is the worst way to fund an open source project and this use case is dwarfed by the 77 billion lost due to crypto scams and hacks.
Pivot existing expertise and engineering into new segments before someone else does. Also, I would expect that having Windows on ARM would shift the loose Windows-Android connection into something more robust, which only stands to aid Android in gaining/maintaining market share.

Laptops, phones, and tablets increasingly convergent segments, but x86 devices are sitting on the sidelines waiting to be rendered completely irrelevant in applications with battery life concerns.
Protectionism doesn't make an economy more prosperous. Quite the reverse, it makes an economy uncompetitive.
If you're interested in religion but want to go beyond the New Atheists, I recommend picking up a book like Refuting the New Atheists or Atheist Delusions. You don't need to be a religious person to realize that the Hitchens/Dawkins approach is an extremely shallow one that basically no scholar of religion takes seriously. They are mostly just polemics aimed at causing controversy to sell books. If you want a real critique of Christianity, pick up Nietzsche instead.

I also recommend A Secular Age, which isn't about the New Atheists, but shows how religion and secularism / atheism are not as simple as some think.
My take is I get better recommendations from YouTube if I am logged out.
Disney is a very big company. Maybe there are parts of it that our dinosaur-like but there are other parts that are doing the sharpening of the cutting edge. They'll fall behind every so often but then they catch back up and have been known to pass ahead.
Tariffs may reduce volume slightly but not margins. I doubt Apple is selling it's devices at a loss.
At the least, you can create your own leaderboard with friends.
I think this rule is going to backfire.

It's pretty unlikely for AOC to penalize people who use LLMs in any way (they have no way of detecting such use). This means there's going to be two groups of competitors, the honest ones and the ruthless ones. The ruthless group will probably be much smaller, but, considering how popular AoC is, probably big enough to completely overwhelm the honest group.

To be clear, the "ruthless" group won't be clueless people using Chat GPT for absolutely everything, but people who could very well solve the tasks on their own and figure out a way to leverage LLMs as efficiently as possible.

A rule permitting LLMs would give everyone an equal footing.
Super cool!

I have purely cosmetic feedback about the website, which is that the tagline "from the stratosphere" doesn't match up with the images being played behind, which are pretty clearly low altitude. I am assuming that's because it was easier (or possible whatsoever) to film lower, but it gave me a little mental hiccup.

I look forward to seeing what y'all come up with!
See my other comment for why VLIW was technically flawed

https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=37900987
I was reading reviews of the Amazon card and it sounded like there was a huge catch with fees and interest making that 5% not worth it. That's the only card I think would be worth adding for me. I don't do enough travel or shopping at Apple to make other cards worth using if I have a regular cash back card.
Rosetta example proves this is just a money barrier
Assuming Chrome wants to push a different technology and that's why they don't want to help the adoption of JPEG XL, what would be that alternative technology they want to push instead?
maybe it's a firefox thing? I am on google meet right now and I've literally tried several things and it does not work. But still, clearly it does not automatically work in every application, as I took the time to open several different apps and test which ones it worked in.