skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because most people don’t live their life by min-maxing their finances. They have other non-financial objectives that take priority over being efficient with money. You might as well ask why people buy nice cars, eat out at restaurants, etc. If people optimized for financial efficiency then the world would look very different, and the median household in the US has a lot of cash leftover to burn even after accounting for ordinary lifestyle expenses (~$12,000 per year, per the US BLS). Seattle, of course, is much wealthier and higher income than the US median so there is more money to burn.

That said, most people struggle with financial and investment math generally, even when they sincerely attempt to make prudent financial decisions. I can’t really blame people for not knowing how to build and reason about financial models, it isn’t a skill you ordinarily pick up in day-to-day life.
The amount of times I confused Bandcamp and Basecamp is insane
In envisioning a future landscape, I see energy—both its generation and consumption—as well as human attention serving as the core currencies of value. These measures transcend the limitations of material wealth, opening avenues for a more holistic understanding of worth. The question of whether this will manifest as a 'market' is less clear, but what is certain is that it would be fundamentally distinct from the systems we navigate today. The incentives driving such an ecosystem would be radically different, to the extent that calling it a market or associating it with money, as we currently understand them, would likely be a misnomer.

In this envisioned system, the nature of transactions could also change fundamentally. Currently, transactions are exchanges that often end relationships; you pay for a good, receive it, and both parties move on. In a framework centered on energy and attention, transactions could become cyclical or ongoing, fostering long-term relationships and community engagement. This extends the concept of "value" beyond one-off exchanges into a more interconnected, perhaps even symbiotic, system.

Just some thoughts from a nobody on a tiny glowing screen.
This theory gains credence when you consider the reports of Egyptian intelligence’s warnings of possible attacks falling on deaf ears.
That really does entirely depend on the size and style of the SFH, location on the land, lifestyle, etc.

Single family homes are often easier to power off-grid with solar if that's on the table, though again with regards to externalities the solar power equipment likely sends those costs to multiple countries on the other side of the planet.
Author here! I've just enabled Issues & PRs in the repo if you want to chime in there.
Then don't do that. Of all the footguns in POSIX/C programming, having to remember to free this is really not as bad as you seem to imply.
You see where I live, cars get smashed all the time, and the police does nothing about it. They just sit on their lazy asses. Property taxes where I live are also some of the highest in the state.
The Inventory Is Dark and Full of Misinformation
A nice study, but we all kind of already knew that it is broken beyond repair.
Bruh, I don't know where you've been but "Engineering Manager" positions are the new "Devops" from 10 years ago in terms of needing to do multiple jobs. Every position I've both applied for and gotten has required that I can

-Complete technical tasks at the minimum of a senior engineer level if not staff/principal

-Train the <senior engineers on a weekly basis

-Project Management

-System Design, to the point that I am willing to put my name on each and every design as the architect

-Understand all the projects my team owns to the level that I can answer extremely explicit technical questions from other teams line engineers immediately in that meeting and not need to refer to my team's expertise

-Be on call 24/7. This isn't asked explicitly, but I am told that I need to be available to support my team for every on call event, which funnily enough means I cover 100% of the on 24/7 call schedule my team has

-People Management

-Employee growth

-Vendor Management

-more I am probably forgetting

I am not super incensed about this because the total comp has kept increasing as the expectations grow, but I am now 3 jobs in a row with companies expecting this combination of perfect high level engineer and perfect MBA accredited business leader in one role. If you have engineering managers that legitimately seem like overpaid scrum masters you should probably look to join a more mature software company.

Also if you're at a FAANG or close to FAANG startup and still feel this way, odds are that you have no idea what goes into 90% of running a team in an well running business and think that the company is making bad decisions because they don't dump 90% of their revenue into feature development instead of stupid choices like fulfilling government mandated regulation.

Edit: Also I've worked on teams with Scrum Masters. Its been more than 7 years since I last came across someone with that title. My Scrum Master equivalent planned tasks equate to less than 6 man hours total a week and 5 of that is the standup set for 15 minutes for 4 engineers a day that we normally end 5 minutes in
Infrastructure spending is dwarfed by expenditures on education, healthcare, or public safety.
As an older person, CLI is unusable. It is impossible to memorize all the switches, need to consult chatgpt at every step. I paid my dues to the CLI gods in my miniVAX days.
Just because it is documented as thread safe doesn't mean it actually is. They might have just not understood the problem (see e.g. the various indirect links to "please mandate a thread-local `getenv`").

`setenv` is a nasty beast, especially since the raw `environ` variable is also exposed (and is in fact the only way to enumerate the environment).
I agree simply on the fact my head filled with half a dozen loopholes within seconds of reading "blight" and "vacant" as measures for tax.
> Hamas got around Israel’s surveillance, because Israeli government led by Bibi got complacent

Correct.

> and was busy doing geopolitics and selling surveillance tech to various regimes to spy on opposition and journalist.

OK, that's just foolish. It's not the same people doing those thing.

Israel got complacent because it thought Hamas was more interested in improving things in Gaza than it was in attacking Israel. For example the border was more open just before the attack than it had been in many years.

So Israel relied to passive tech to warn them, and reduced its security posture. Hamas took advantage of that by going dark and not doing thing that tech would notice.
Wikimedia Foundation: migration to serving production traffic via Kubernetes
More: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_On_Kubernetes
You're misunderstanding, they'll pay for your flights to the "off-sites", which are mostly team building hangouts.
Ah yes, I remember biking with friends down to the San Antonio Shopping Center, stopping at the Menu Tree for donuts, and then Thrifty's for that super inexpensive, cylinder-shaped ice cream. I must have been about 12 years old at the time.
> If people spend on item X less or no more, why would it be included in the index at the old weight?

Say ten years ago, hypothetically, everyone ate steak and wine every day for $100/week and today everyone can only afford to survive on ramen and tap water and it costs $100/week.

If you change the basket to say people today only want ramen, you will conclude that there has been 0% inflation in a decade. Everyone still spends $100/week on food, no change at all!

That does not seem like a useful measurement.
Why don't you just tell me when you want it done?
(said in Kramer MoviePhone voice)
I do think all of these various kinds of managers - none with any actual clout, is part of the problem. It is although the structure is designed by employees for employees, not stakeholders.
Well, I've heard of 'scum masters' (sorry, scrum masters) as a job description. So 'sprint master' doesn't sound too ridiculous by comparison.
Suburbs may very well be the worst of both worlds, being more spread out but still not spread out enough to be fairly self sufficient.
Netanyahu is pretty unlikely to survive the next elections because of this, so that's unlikely he would approve of this.

And your conspiracy theory requires literally thousands of people to be in on it.
Not sure what their version is, but at my employer (Canonical) we are globally remote in >70 countries accross all timezones. (Almost) everyone works from home, but everyone gets together in very large events for 2-4 weeks per year. The company flies everyone to an always changing location to meet at a hotel with many many meeting rooms for the week. The company pays for flights, accomodation, meals, etc. It's a short trip for some and a much longer trip for others like me being in Australia :)

The main part of the working week is a fairly dense schedule of both inter-team and cross-team meetings. You can get everyone together from all teams in the same timezone for various meetings, discussions or even pairing sessions to work together on things for the week. We plan and make decisions to set the pace and direction for the next 3-6 months of work remote.

While this definitely differs from person to person, for many it also functions very well as a great way to meet your colleagues face to face, especially for those out of your timezones. Many will have social dinners in various groups, a team dinner, head out for some sight seeing during the week or weekend before/after, etc. The location we travel to is always changing so you get a little taste of travelling to many different places and you can easily tack on a couple of days holiday before/after, etc.

It's a big part of what has made working remote here great for me. I've worked remote since 2007 when I joined MySQL, it was a similar travel setup at MySQL but once we got acquired by Sun and later Oracle for various reasons including the GFC such travel stopped and I never saw my colleagues face to face. In my particular team at that time we also never really used webcam chat etc so it was quite isolating - pretty much everything was done on Chat. It was a refreshing change moving here and getting to travel and see people, as well as chat on video a few times a week.

It definitely has it's challenges, especially for those with families. A subset of people travel for 2 weeks at a time and even the 1 week at a time (twice a year) that everyone does can be challenging for those with families. However I personally contrast that with the fact I have 0 commute time every other day of the year - easily saving me the 0.5-2 hours per day travel time that is pretty common at least in Australia (or more, I have gotten many stories of 3+ hours travel time from candidates in India). This leaves me with a lot more time with my young kids and family every day. I see them at both ends of every day - no leaving before people are awake or getting home when they are in bed already. Assuming 1 hour travel per day that would I guess equate to ~11 days a year saved not travelling? So kindof roughs out I guess - though I had never done that calculation until just now.
Why not a leatherman attachment?
Sitting on the Board of Facebook must really mess with you...
Thread unsafe is too kind a qualifier, libc is largely thread-broken.
It would take 6,477 bonded T1 lines to match the capacity of a single 10GBASE-LR fiber link.
For yhe most part, Code-wise I would not be harmed by that. (We supply source code anyway so there are no secrets there.)

Market-wise I could see a fair bit of confusion as an old (now public domain) version floats around with the same name (but different version number) to the commercial version.

Of course this is likely immaterial anyway. Unless someone bothered to archive the version at the time, that version no longer exists. We can date it (from the release notes) but I no longer have that build in the archive.

So maybe my wariness is unfounded.
I'd love to know what their marketing spend was/is like. because it seems that they were purely word of mouth.
Why is it unthinkable? There are lots of examples of governments using false flag operations to begin wars.

https://independentaustralia.net/life/life-display/america-t...
There are synced passkeys, and there are device-bound passkeys.

The OP mentions Yubikey: you can store a passkey on a Yubikey, and then it's device-bound and can't be exported. But Apple's implementation of passkeys is synced; they're just stored in an encrypted keychain.
`envp` is unsafe after `setenv` even in single-threaded programs though. So you really should use `environ`.
It’s the one profession that should be automated heavily via AI or whatever.

I have worked at orgs that have chains of middle managers. Each one of them asking for updates on the same shit.
Yep you've found the debate point between minarchism and anarchism.
While the term 'utopia' might imply a final state of perfection, what I describe is more akin to an inevitable transformation, one that you can almost sense unfolding around us. Machine intelligence is advancing at an unprecedented pace, economic landscapes are shifting, and sociopolitical tensions are reaching critical points. This is not the end of a journey but a metamorphosis toward a different way of life.

Unlike a utopia, which suggests a static state where all problems are solved, this new paradigm acknowledges the insatiable human drive for growth and problem-solving. It doesn't eliminate challenges; it redefines them. In a world where our basic and even our complex needs are met, our focus would naturally shift to grander scales—planetary defense, interstellar travel, and even the quest for existential understanding. However, the metrics of value and systems of exchange that govern this new reality would be fundamentally different, rendering current techno-capitalist forces obsolete in their traditional forms.
> the attacks would lead to success for their side.

What success? Israel was already successful - the border with Gaza was quiet, attacks were few. What else exactly were they supposed to gain?
Counterpoint would be that in such a situation, all it would take is one credible leak to destroy the government's reputation, and there is a lot of incentive to blow the whistle since most people tend to not want to see the people they were working to protect being raped and murdered.
This is absolutely false. Since 1968, 77 million housing units have been been built in the US. Assuming 2.5 people per household, today's average, that's enough for 190 million people. US population has increase 133 million since 1968. We have plenty of housing. It may just not be where you want to live and the type of housing want at the price you want. But no one is guaranteed any of those and shouldn't be.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1aeIa

If you want to understand the housing price problem, look no further than the irresponsible monetary policies of the last 20 years.

Simply looking at median house prices to median household income we can clearly see the impacts to housing prices from the stimulus following the dotcom bust, the stimulus following the housing bust, and the stimulus from the pandemic. Hint, they're the big upward slopes.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1adYW

Take away the irresponsible and unnecessary stimulus and you have a reasonable housing market at 4x income, not 6x.
I assume doing something on behalf of a remote user and still convinced locales can do a thing other than hurt you.
Is this what we mean when we says BB are uncomputable? That as BB grows they incompass all of maths, requiring us to prove everything?
Could you please stop posting comments about this? I appreciate that the situation is fraught and intense, and I know you have good reasons to feel strongly about it, but you've been posting way too many flamewar-style comments about this issue and this is not what HN is for. This is a place for curious conversation, not fighting wars.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Security is always a game of cat and mouse. Defenses work best against what you are expecting, and what possibilities you can foresee.

Hamas changed tactics, and their defense held up reasonably well given that between 4 and 5,000 rockets were fired at Israel.

I'm not entirely sure how they could have prepared for paraglider ambushes short of having their soldiers be constantly patrolling, and thus being exposed, along the border.

Then again, I'm just a dog on the internet.
Is CVS doing something different from the others? They seem to be everywhere.
A Knowledge-Based Approach of Connect-Four [pdf]
Yep, it's close. But you still depend on the unholy mess that is nsswitch.conf

It's still a bit worrying, with manual JSON parsing: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/79f487038444646f5bce... But at least it's just ~600 lines of fairly straightforward code.

You also can get most of it with nscd.

(Sigh, I wish BUS1 guys pushed their project to completion)
The 90's version was just a sticker kit and some options made standard equipment. It came with was the 351 instead of a 302, but you could have ordered that yourself without the fancy stereo and ugly wheels and monochrome paint.
I am reminded of this video of a young woman showing a "day in the life" of a LinkedIn employee

https://youtu.be/X5TZVhKDwpk
How do you say goodbye?
Further musings on his impending death by author Jake Seliger on his impending death from Cancer
> This is what frustrates me so much about the deepening surveillance state: it just doesn’t work the way that its architects believe it will.

Surely though the actual surveillance part is worse lol
If that 250 mile battery maintained it's range for years and did so even in harsh conditions like cold weather and at normal highway speeds then it might be enough, but in reality all those things will wipe a good chunk of battery capacity away and those 250 mile range EVs will easily become 100 mile range in the real world.
They may be charging a lot, but that does not make it a nice neighborhood. But I guess they figured they could fleece people who did not know their way around the city.

Downtown SF has always been a soulless wasteland for the homeless and people who do not actually live in the city. Life in SF has always been about the neighborhoods. So basically anything West of Van Ness, South of 16th, and North of Broadway (with the exception of Nob Hill) modulo the character of the neighborhood.

The trick with muni busses is to always sit by the second set of doors. Crazy people ride in the front. Thugs and teenagers in the back. Normal people in the middle. The muni rail is truly an abomination. But the daily game of sardines is part of the charm … I guess
What gave you the negative view? Was it personal experience or media?
> Care to provide your library for the security folks to have a go at your bounds checking implementation in C.

Once again, I have to ask - what does that have to do with your claim that C is unable to express bounds checking?
Tracking, Profiling, and Ad Targeting in the Alexa Echo Smart Speaker Ecosystem
A question:

"RQ2: Is smart speaker interaction data used by either Amazon or third party skills beyond purely functional purposes, such as for targeted advertising?"

An answer:

"Our results indicated that Alexa Echo interactions were tracked by both Amazon and third parties. We also found that Amazon used Alexa Echo interaction data to infer user interests and then used those inferences for ad targeting, which was not clearly stated in Amazon’s policies before our research and public disclosure. In many instances,
skills did not clearly disclose their data collection practices in their privacy policies, did not provide any privacy policy, or did not reference the platform’s privacy policy."

A conclusion: not all conspiracy theories are mere theories.

A reader's feedback: do Siri et al. next!
I think that’s fair but could they allow AI to code a mobile or responsive version of that policy page?
This is how most things are. Look around next time you see a fast food restaurant. If you have some territory, there's usually an optimal place in that territory to put your pharmacy / fast food restaurant / whatever, and not putting it there means that you'll be losing customers to people who do.
AWS Confuses the State and Country of Georgia
Kroger bought the Roundys brand grocery stores in my area (Pick n Save, Copps, MetroMarket). I feel like a loser just walking into the place. Cut out ~70% of the locally made (Wisconsin) products, jacked up the prices, which were already on the high side b/c it’s a convenience grocery store, not a big list grocery store, and destroyed employee morale.
There's an old joke about how McDonald's would spend millions of dollars on selecting the locations for their franchises. Traffic analysis, weather forecasts, foot traffic, local politics, chances of disaster, advanced models and simulations projecting population density and future profits.

Wendy's just put their stores next to a McDonald's.
I was an early adopter of Ruff, what sold me wasn't even the performance win, but the advantage of having a single configuration file without third-party plugins, making it much easier to run the linter in my editor, CLI, pre-commit hooks, and CI without any fuss.

The speed of the tool and its development pace astound me.

If the authors/maintainers are lurking here: know that you're doing an amazing job.
I prefer those because at least a product manager is busy. Scrum Masters are so often bored to tears and end up generating all sorts of meetings as a result.
Yes this sounds like the best of both worlds tbh. Id like to find a list of companies which have this.
North Dakota is demographically weird enough (fourth lowest population density behind Montana, Wyoming, and Alaska; only one city - Fargo - has more than 100k residents) that I'd be hesitant to draw too many conclusions from it.
> And $1 in food is $1.84 today? I don't have an index to reference, but also hard to believe.

Up until 1999/2000, a Burger King Whopper was $1.

Today ~$8
Huh? AT Protocol is neither proprietary nor centralized?
rents =/= land value.

you can put a duplex or quad-plex on a parcel and have much lower rent, but higher parcel land value.

If you are a homeowner who wants lower land value tax, you should fight tooth and nail to prevent higher density zoning,
This is absolultey insane.
This is really not a good article, and probably not likely to lead to a good discussion, due to the lack of hard information. It's all just speculation by supposedly well connected people on how they might have done it. I don't think it's likely we can have a productive discussion until some more hard information comes out on exactly what happened regarding counter-surveillance tactics actually used. It's just gonna be more speculation and partisan bickering. Hence, I flagged it, and I suggest others do so as well.
Thanks for the explanation. Jesus though, they're going to spend 10% of the year doing that? Maybe only part of the company? As an engineer I really can't imagine spending 30ish days of the year doing that. Must be just for upper management or something?
Any one except the thuggish lying mafia state of Russia. It's really not difficult to be better than Russia. Maybe if you get rid of Putin and get rid of the mafia bullshit you'll have a brighter future.
Yep, I'm tired of fighting the arms race with twitch ads, so I just mute the video now and do something else for a few minutes.

I would honestly be perfectly happy with a black screen for 30 seconds as a compromise to ads. I only leave the twitch webpage because the visuals bother me almost just as much as hearing the stupid sales pitch or the goofy "lol we're so cheeky and random" jokes made non-stop by insurance company ads.
Exactly what I am saying.