skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was strange and disappointing thing to read. Why such a conspiratorial tone ("we are being lied to", "we have enemies", etc.)?

Since this is written by Marc Andreessen, I did a search for "crypto" and "web 3", but no results came up. Isn't that strange coming from someone who was so prominent in promoting and advocating for a crypto-based future? I guess that one didn't pan out…

"Our enemy is the ivory tower" is a bit rich coming from a billionaire who lives in one of the most exclusive California communities (and vociferously opposes any development in that community, despite loudly proselytizing to others that "it's time to build").

Looking at the "Patron Saints", after skipping the meme-posting pseudonymous Twitter accounts, I am pretty sure university professor is the most common profession. The ivory tower is the enemy indeed. And it does seem distasteful to use the names of dead scientists and intellectuals like John Von Neumann and Richard Feynman to burnish the image of this polemic.
LLMs generate content that's statistically plausible, not factually accurate. We don't need more content about USB that might be mostly right.
See I'm not so sure. How common do you think they are that someone should have recognized it? Do you see it in popular mainstream media, do you see it as a daily object, or it is something a smaller subset of the population would recognise?
It’s easy to sterilize your code in this regard (although as this article points out you need to know to do it).

POSIX implements a three-argument `main` function (just look at `exec()`) where the third argument is `char* envp[]`. You can call `setenv` to manipulate it.

But easiest is to just null out the POSIX extern `char* environ` (save a copy if you want to consult it yourself later). Just `man 7 environ`
Have a look at Hotelling’s law: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotelling%27s_law
information that Russia helped? Iran I can understand, but why would Russia help Hamas to launch a massacre? Russia's busy fighting one war already. Israel isn't even supporting Ukraine afaik. and they have nukes, and they're not known for being pushovers. I can't think of a compelling reason for Russia to have helped, only massive downsides.
Deadlock disaster that one.
Why is it hard to fire? I thought it's super easy in the US.
… I always figured that gas stations clustered together to minimize the distance long haul drivers would need to go to get to a gas station. I.e., they're clustered, but near highways.

The same logic doesn't apply to pharmacies: I don't have a sudden need for drugs on the road.

(I'm not sure how much I actually buy the mathematics in the article.)
> Tax a house on a foundation; no tax for a house on wheels?

Most states do tax mobile homes, they just classify them as vehicles. Whether that actually makes a difference in the tax rate depends on the state.
The average home size in Tokyo is 60 square meters, that's 645 square feet. That's called a one room studio apartment in the US. I don't personally know anyone that wants to live in a box like that, except maybe single people just out of college with little income.
The fact that the biggest ActivityPub app doesn't consider bringing your own domain to an instance hosted by someone else as a critical ASAP feature gives me pause.
Iowa man files lawsuit after being arrested twice for criticizing the police
Ruff is amazing. Makes me want to rewrite a commonly used python package in Rust!
Bandcamp has (or had) 118 people. Their business is music, not a chat app, so it will have different needs, both technical and non-technical. Maybe their engineering team is slightly larger than WhatsApp, but not by orders of magnitude.

Now maybe their business model was flawed (I heard it was profitable, but perhaps not profitable enough). But otherwise 118 people for a global brand-recognized business is pretty lean already: I have worked for medium sized businesses around the same headcount you have never heard of, which don't even operate outside their home country.
If BB is a computable function, then you can solve the halting problem by running every turing machine with n states for BB(n), and the ones that don't halt by then don't halt at all.
I used to leech Mp3's with the best of them, trawling through blogs enmasse before music was consolidated by giant aggregators. DI.FM is different though, its a streaming service, curated by humans (who are the worlds best DJs), has a sustainable buinsess model and lets you download streams.

Its very intersting how my music taste has evolved over the years, the more genres and types i was exposed to, the more i discovered. Nothing beats going to a concert you dont know anything about and having the night of your life. Im one for nostalgia, no doubt, but i think listening to the same song, in the same tone, over and over again, is a simplistic view of music and ruines its potential magic. Music and moods are instrinically linked. What happens if i was to listen to my favourite rockband, but instead mixed into chillout music that ebbs and flows over 5 or 10 hours. I get to hear the songs i love, in different ways, evoking different emotions and memories. I find that extends the life of music, not run it into the ground, dulling all those memories that triggered your love in the first place. I kissed that girl for the first time listening to this song, fades if you listen to that song everyday.

Spotify is automated radio, warts and all. Popular amoung the consumerist sheeple, often coupled with tv and shopping subscription technoligies. Society has always had this cross section of music interest, chinstroker outlets always existed at fringes, hardly able to survive in the world they helped create. Music sells. Captalists like to sell things people love to buy. A victim of their own success. Such is the harsh reality of this economic system, things just cant be done, they have to be done to death, then revamped and rebranded and the cycle goes on.
There is a document for the 3GPP specs that contains a list of the abbreviations used in the rest of the spec...

Its an 80 page document.
Previous Israeli PMs involved in wars have all retired within two years or so. That’s what makes this conspiracy theory hard to believe. It would mean Netanyahu, the consummate politician thought “yeah, my future success depends on tanking the diplomatic process with Saudi Arabia and instead launching a bloody war with Hamas.” Yeah, right.

- Yom Kippur War (1973). Golda Meir, stepped down 1974.

- First Lebanon War (1982). Menachem Begin, stepped down 1983.

- Gaza War, Operation Cast Lead (2008). Ehud Olmert, stepped down 2009.

Not listing Levi Eshkol because he died of a heart attack a couple years after the Six Day War (1967).

But sure, the man in charge during the biggest fuck up in the history of the Israeli state deliberately fucked up so he could extend his career. And this fuck up can’t be played off as accidental or bad luck, it’s a direct consequence of his policy of coddling Hamas.

If you believe that he did it deliberately, welcome to my Bridge Emporium, we’re running discounts today!
Axios says that "judicial overhaul" and the resulting turmoil helped weaken Israel's military.

Axios reports

https://www.axios.com/2023/10/07/hamas-attack-invasion-israe...

The big picture:

The attack comes amid a deep political crisis in Israel over the Netanyahu government's judicial overhaul, which has weakened the country's military, economy and society.

Links to:

https://www.axios.com/2023/07/24/israel-judicial-overhaul-re...

Why it matters:

The plan, which will weaken the Supreme Court and other democratic institutions, has faced opposition from some of Israel's closest allies, including the Biden administration, and it has already destabilized the country's economy and military.

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Of course, "helps" is a weasel word, but it must be a contributing factor.

Turmoil never helps.
This is an actual thing chains do. My understanding is that much like Coke/Pepsi it’s often about maintaining competitive parity.

What they’re afraid of is not doing that, and then the area goes through a growth spurt and suddenly you’ve got a town that your competitor owns. This even applies when the stores are minimally profitable, because if you don’t bother, then the competitor that does actually makes a profit because they have no competition. It’s almost a form of retail Mutually Assured Destruction.
https://archive.li/qV3pW
> Recognizing the increasing demand by consumers to enhance security and in particular user convenience, Amazon rolls out passkeys widely across most devices and browsers. This underlines Amazon’s commitment to bend to consumer demand.

Which consumer base has demanded enhanced security and convenience (for which passkeys are the proclaimed answer)? The non-tech crowd has no idea what it is and is probably just hearing about it. The tech crowd on a forum like HN seems to be mostly against it because of issues with account recovery and cross-device use that passwords don’t pose.

From what I understand, it seems like passkeys may ultimately rely on SMS OTP or similar mechanisms for account recovery. The other likely result would be losing the account forever, especially if the user is a single device one (there are billions of such people around the world).

I’m going to wait it out a little longer to see how the interoperability factors play out in reality and learn from those who are braver than me.
> definitely cannot afford to get on Spotify

How so? There aren't necessarily any upfront costs for getting on Spotify; several aggregators offer a "we take a cut of your earnings" model.
Wow. You've also just described oil and gas Operator engineering departments perfectly. It's got to the point in oil and gas operating companies, where even the simplest piece of technical work is outsourced, and even if you wanted to produce quality engineering deliverables yourself, it's hard to hunt down someone who is willing to review and sign them off because so few have that competency themselves. Of course nobody admits to that, so they're just slippery and try to reassign or deprioritise any work that involves actually doing a calculation.
It is literally the job of a pharmacist to use their own best judgement when deciding whether to fill prescriptions. That's why you need a Pharm.D to work in that position; if they were just counting pills, they wouldn't need that level of training.
> It turns out I'm no longer a child. I cannot game while out of the house anymore and that's ok.

I'm not a child, haven't been one for a long time. I still find time to play games out of the house. You don't need to be a child to play videogames outside of the house.

Just this weekend we went to the park. I drew the straw to watch my infant nap in the stroller while my wife ran off with my older child. An hour of downtime. Turn on the 5G hotspot, whip out the laptop, and I'm on Starfield on my cheap laptop with several hours of battery life.
That is a great argument for never building a hot tub, or participating in a project to build one.

Why bother making a tub, a neighborhood, or a community if it can simply be taken from you.

Id rather burn mine to the ground than have it taken away just because someone else wants it more. They might not even want it more, but they just have more money.
> I ate a meal with a drink at Taco Bell for $2-3.

Taco Bell in particular has gone mad, I don't see how they can survive with current pricing. I used to go often, knowing it wasn't good quality but it was oh so cheap.

Today their prices are so high that I can go to a local taqueria and get a giant burrito with far better and fresher ingredients and friendlier service for less money than a few mystery meat tacos from Taco Bell.

So on the positive side, I now only frequent the local business with good quality food.
Great read and a wonderful intro to non terrestrial network communication.
It's easy when you spend other people's money to buy something, extract value from the purchased company, and then have the company declare backruptcy.
We don’t know how well maintained Russia’s nukes are. US has invested a lot in deterrence of ICBMs and Missiles.

So if both Russia and US were to fire their ICBMs in quick succession (mutually assured destruction) scenario, it’s likely the US ones will be a lot more potent. Most Russians are clustered on the west near Moscow.

US cities would still be hit and it would be very devastating, but Russia and China would be obliterated.

Death toll would be in the billions.
Not so fast, those bacteria have a way of mutating to beat antibiotics. This war has lead to strains that are harder to treat, and there's no sign of this stopping.
Well they've all but run them into the ground already, in the process of extracting any profit they may have been able to squeeze, so not sure it's any big loss anymore.
Why do you assume the landlord has a significant mortgage or any mortgage at all? Most landlords have owned the properties for decades. I know quite a few that bought the properties with cash and never had a mortgage.

If you buy a place for $1,000,000 at 7%, you can’t compete with someone that owes $100,000 at 2.5% on the same place, which is often the reality.
The problem is there are large swathes of drugs that you cannot legally ship through the mail, including, but not limited to - anxiety meds, ADHD meds, pain meds, sleep meds…

Once you have any mtbung that falls into that category, 90% of the benefits go away because if you have to go in for that one thing anyway, it’s mostly less hassle just to get everything there rather than split things up between multiple pharmacies.
Assuming 4 weeks off for vacation, if you do one of them a quarter, each for a week, that's 8%. Close enough.
Sort of.

There are math problems that we "know" we can't prove or disprove, unless we can prove every statement both true and false (this is Godel's first incompleteness theorem). If we can prove every statement both true and false then our proof system just sucks and proving something means nothing so we should choose another proof system where that's not the case, so we assume we're in the first case (there are math problems that we know we can't prove or disprove). Incidentally Godel's second incompleteness theorem is that we can't ever prove we are in the first case.

And then ya, BB being incomputable means that as BB grows at some point they start to be able to encode programs that halt if and only if a problem we can't prove or disprove is true. So we can't prove that program does or doesn't halt.

Now, technically, proving/disproving something you can't prove or disprove would be proving false, which in turn could be used to "prove" every statement, and would therefore "encompass all maths", so what you said is in a sense correct. It's a threshold condition though, and one that kicks in well before you have turing machines large enough to encode "every" math problem. And in fact there is no finite number of states sufficient to encode every math problem (I can just make longer and longer strings of arithmetic for instance)...
Ask HN: Whatever Happened to Sysadmins?
I got my start in this industry fifteen years ago at the ripe age of 14 as a summer intern in Akamai Technology's sysadmin department. After finishing college, moving countries, and waiting for a year to get my passport sorted out, I finally took a job as a Cloud Administrator -- and it struck me that I haven't seen anyone seriously trying to hire for a "System Administrator" in a looooooong time, even though I personally think starting as a sysadmin and now finally moving into a role as a software lead at my current org was instrumental in me building up not only the right skills but the right instincts to debug many kinds of problems.

To me the sysadmin role always felt analogous to an Apache scout or something, where one's deep knowledge of the computational terrain they inhabit is of primary importance; in other words it was the ultimate version of "the best solution is the one which requires the fewest lines of code" -- no need to roll by hand what `awk` or `systemd` or BSD jails or what have you can already do, much better, and in a much more thoroughly tested way than what you as an IC could do. Indeed to this day when I work with people who started on the sysadmin side and only later made the jump to SWE I find it easier to communicate with them because I know there's this shared scout sense we both possess.

What's the deal? I have my own theories as to the decline, but I'm curious to know your thoughts.
The rumor is that Russia sold Iran information on the Gaza wall protection technology in exchange for the Iranian made drones they are using in Ukraine.

This is a rumor I heard, I don't endorse it.
Mostly fully remote companies will have something where everyone gets together at least once a year.
I have always been curious about BB but never saw Scott Aaronson's survey of the topic. Link within.
In my experience, because it is documented that’s the behavior I would expect.

That being said, I went to look[0] and it turns out it wasn’t a lie.
[0]https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/blob/master/usr/src/...
They did a big rebrand a year or two ago
His take on yoga is... unhealthy.
I've seen other similar videos made in identical style. I think it was a viral trend. The objective being to enrage people with smug workplace laziness culture, and get plenty of views as a result.
i can't take a16z seriously ever since they were a major driver of all the pump & dump crypto crap, publishing a grandiose manifesto doesn't really help with the perception of being bullshit merchants.

stop listening to people just because they have money, it's not a measure for greatness and definitely not as reason to give them any credibility outside of their expertise.
You don't need passkeys. They are aimed at a less tech savvy audience whose primary technology interface is a mobile device.
Since 1968, 77 million housing units have been completed in the US. At 2.5 people per household, that's enough for 190 million people. The US population has increased 133 million over that time. We have plenty of housing.
How do you do that at the Apple Store?
Yeah, but... isn't that kind of strange? Most managers who didn't know half the things their reports were doing, would conclude that their reports were useless. So is it surprising that developers who lack visibility into the things going on above their paygrade, tend to conclude that their managers are useless?
its same like flightcontrol,easypanel etc do

make 'an heroku lite'
This is well worth a read, as is the Progress and Poverty substack if you're curious about the subject.

https://progressandpoverty.substack.com/
> Simply an alternative way to play.

for now, but companies are waiting for the future where you own nothing and are forced to pay more or lose access to everything
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LVT doesn’t punish people for making improvements to their homes.
yes, bytedance eng ICs reportedly spend more time talking across dozens of peers and coordinating.
$ wc -c output.js

117708 output.js

$ uglify-js output.js -c unsafe | node

Hello world!

$ uglify-js output.js -c unsafe | wc -c

2740

$ uglify-js output.js -c unsafe | cut -c 1-60

(()=>{}).constructor("conso"+"".constructor["from"+(()=>{}).

$ uglify-js output.js -c unsafe | gzip | wc -c

192
>But then it's not used when/if you need it.

I mean, use PTO if you need it. That's what it's there for, but you don't lose it if you don't use it (unless you hit a cap like I mentioned). The old dude you talked to was wrong when he said "you're not taking that money". You lose nothing by hoarding PTO (unless you hit the cap) since it gets paid out if you resign or get fired.

>"I've been working here 40 year and never took a day off!"
>Is not the flex you think it is.

Who said this or implied this?
Bytedance Eng managers don’t do any 1:1s.
By the same token, Tesla spends a lot of time figuring out where to put superchargers. Electrify America just builds their superchargers across the street from Tesla's (or in the parking lot of the nearest Walmart).
TIL that invidious is an actual English word.

I always suspected that it was video related pun, something like "in-videos".
What is the point? Something unrelated to the Nobel Prize?
I was talking about engineering at bytedance. Developer teams.
Sort of. Uncomputable functions exist because the halting problem exists. So any function whose definition includes anything to do with halting also becomes uncomputable. e.g. BB is uncomputable because you have to determine all the TMs that would halt given n and m.

The entire rest of mathematics is smuggled into BB via the halting problem: you can write programs that only halt if arbitrary mathematical conjectures are true or false, so anything that wants to solve the halting problem or solve BB has to be able to know all maths[0]. Of course, this is possible because Turing-completeness is the boundary of computability. Anything that can have a computer in it is itself a computer.

[0] This isn't actually the thing that makes halting undecidable. Undecidability comes from programs that "pull themselves into the halting problem" by only halting if a hypothetical halting problem decider would claim that they don't halt.
> But I've worked with quite a number of managers, PMs and TPMs who talk down to me the moment I tell something even remotely technical, like I'm some sort of amateurish geek only tolerated at the adult's table.

You're working with the wrong people.
Patent Continuation Strategies Face Major Threat
Thank you. This was much more approachable for someone like myself that has little background (a few undergrad courses) in both machine learning and computer vision concepts.
There's a lot of legalisms to wade through, but it's pretty important.
> Please note that this specification replaces the earlier 1.0 and 1.1 Specifications, which should no longer be used. The Revision 2.0 specification covers all three data speeds, and maintains backwards compatibility. USB 2.0 does NOT mean High Speed.

Interesting how this sounds sensible on paper but also turns out to be a poor decision in hindsight that keeps confusing people to this day.
It was better with actual physical button. Current SE has a fake software button that didn't move, only vibrate at certain pressure. It feels more difficult to press even at easiest setting because of the way pressure detection works.
This is going to cost billions to implement and enforce. Companies will have to hire large departments of people, including outside consultants, to manage it all. Expect higher prices to cover the cost.
It's beyond stupid. Literally we have families and children out of love. It's the foundation of everything else in human society.
Llemma: An open language model for mathematics
Demo: https://llemma-demo.github.io/
Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.10631
Related: https://nickdrozd.github.io/2020/08/13/beeping-busy-beavers.... and https://googology.fandom.com/wiki/Googology_Wiki
Split DNS is broken on macOS when doing that, and for users with VPN that does split DNS it is not just an annoyance it leads to software not actually functioning.

Re-implementing system capabilities is fine and all as long as you support common use cases properly, which Golang does not.