skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
you are not forced to live and do business here. Feel free to move to another country if you don't like the taxes. But you can't just avoid the taxes because you feel like it. I don't care how much you would loose by not avoiding taxes.

Society only functions if everyone contributes. And the rest of society pays their taxes, you know. They can't avoid paying taxes on their car through a foreign holding structure. It's a slap on their face because you feel like you should have more.
GDP growth is usually quoted in real terms.
>Memes and videos are now being posted
Was there a time when it was not like this? At least 12 years ago it was the same.
In the UK, we had a smaller scale model of the aircraft that we used for testing. The team that built the scale model was having trouble configuring the autopilot and I volinteered to help

They were using an off the shelf 'drone' autopilot based on an open source project PX4, which I had some experience with.

I was asked to visit the location with the prototypes and spent the weekend trying to get their RF, magnetometer and GPS calibrated and working with their carbon composite prototype in the way.

I was expecting that they would already have an expert working on this, but instead I found some very senior hyper specialised engineers that were experts on helicopter rotor design for example, but could literally not read the instructions on an FTDI based usb to serial cable and connect their laptops to the autopilot.

It was a classic situation where you connect the projector in english class and the teacher thinks you're the next Donald Knuth.
It really is this group of maybe max 10000 people all boasting to each other, interspersed with “I got laid off, available to hire!”. It’s a pretty depressing place.

I wonder what the strategic plan Microsoft had in mind originally was? Was it really as simple as “we are all about business, that is the business network”?
Well, they've lost (almost) free gas from Russia.
You could just make your own blog if you don't care about readership. Would probably be better for the longevity.
https://netwrck.com is a good one because of the AI generated images and backgrounds, also you can edit the story, I know most people use them for relationships but these things are good storytelling tools too.
Neoliberal is a general purpose snarl word meaning, roughly, "stealth reactionary". Drew DeVault, for example, describes Hackernews as neoliberal because it does not do enough to muzzle Nazis and signal-boost progressives.
I think we're in agreement. But the original commenter was stating that all companies die or change given a long enough timeline so criticizing a company for dying/changing is pointless since that happens to everyone.
> Has anyone else noticed that LinkedIn is turning into a shitty social media platform? Memes and videos are now being posted.

It's also gotten pretty political.

If I cared about your political hot takes - I'd be on Facebook.

Though this seems to be permeating everywhere, even to HN - even though the mods try their best to keep it out.
If this adds a humorous twist on it for you, I saw someone describe it as like a dating site except it’s women trying to contact men and men ghosting them.
If the top line is also growing fast, and you have a good story on the unit-economic, part of the narrative is that you can eventually reduce costs and increase margin. It is hard from the outside to distinguish between Amazon style "we are investing all our profits back into R&D so we can take over the world" and "We are bloating our team to grow at all costs and don't know what levers to pull"
Conference on Language Modeling
I think it's just because I'm a new account. I signed up to make this comment. But I'm not a troll or anything so thank you for vouching.
There are 13 divorces among the 10 richest men in the world. Seven of the top ten have been divorced at least once.

and over how long of a time period? compared to national average? so what

Money is good for solving problem which have a price tag. Is this all problems? No, but its's a lot. Fun fact: Medicare and Medicaid exclude a lot of things, like teeth implants, hearing aids, glasses, elective procedures. having money helps in that regard.

3. The richer you become, the less likely people around you are to tell you when you’re wrong, crazy, mean, or oblivious.

Hmm..elon musk? People are always telling him how crazy he is. But maybe not the people close to him, who should have talked him out of buying Twitter for $44 billion, which was dumb.

“Because if you don’t give them the money they’ll hate you,” Charlie said.

lol Munger so old his kids gonna die before he does, so I guess that solves that problem
Side note: the whole "read terms of service to find the 'terminate the service at any time' clause" thing is getting old - name me a service that doesn't have that clause.
Unless there's more to this story, it's a big fat "trust me, because I said it happened" story.

I have no horse in this race, and do not use Vercel - but there's zero evidence provided, and the story isn't even first-party. The author even says "I looked at the email so it's valid" aka "trust me".

Seeing the author's twitter account is filled with "look at how great I am, I shipped 18 apps before breakfast" posts - I have no choice but to be cautiously skeptical at the provided claims unless actual evidence is presented.

With that said - it sounds like an individual who happens to also work at Vercel may have abused their access and contacted some other party with some sort of cease and desist demand because the app idea and name were similar to theirs. News at 11...
There is a very large body of evidence that demonstrates consumers are unwilling to pay higher prices for environmental benefits.

The entire premise of Pigouvian taxes is that they force consumers to pay the external cost, not let them optionally avoid them. This leads to substitution effects lowering consumption of the pollutant.

All market participants must be subject to that price or you introduce arbitrage opportunity.

Information alone is not enough.
>Germans usually reply with 'then go back to your home'

"You're country is corrupt as hell."

Eastern Europeans: "We know"

Germans : "Then go back to your country" OR "Impossible, we're Europe's number one economy!!!11one"
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/population
The massive growth of the global population is hard for people to grasp, but is a big part of the cost of housing.
Even if we've built billions of new homes in the last century that isn't enough to compensate the bigger still population increase.
I don't think his questions are bait; I think he just has an unusual perspective on the world.
> Seems easier to do this than to rebuild every intersection in the world.

Just the ones that need fixing, I guess?

Also, this solution introduces a lot of new moving parts, doesn't address pedestrian safety, and savings may not be significant enough in the long term, compared to a roundabout.

> And many roundabouts still need lights because lights prevent gridlock which roundabouts do not do.

Most roundabouts are small enough, so they don't really need traffic lights. Regardless, gridlock happens usually only during peak hours, which would account for, say, 3-4 hours a day. Intuitively, roundabouts would be more efficient than these smart traffic lights ~80% of the time, and outside that, regular traffic lights would do.
> How are employees allowed to have access to customer's data for their personal projects?

Further down in the image it says:

> I never shared my email and all my projects are private, so the one way he could have accessed it is by checking on Vercel user's database directly.

Does Vercel offer a way to inspect your Databases from the app? If so it could've been via an "impersonate user" button in their backend/admin control panel (which is common because a lot of troubleshooting is 10 times easier if you're able to trace an issue from the error in the console/network tab).
They're also expanding their STEM and Management education as well.

They've been working with IIT Madras to open an engineering campus in Zanzibar [0] and have built a management/leadership program with China [1].

That said, both of these seem to be a part of the larger regional Cold War between China and India in the Indo-Pac region, but Tanzania has potential similar to Bangladesh and Vietnam 20-30 years ago. If they can navigate this, they can jumpstart their development.

Portions of Eastern Africa (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda) definitely have potential, though others seem lackluster (Rwanda's development has been significant, but seems largely PR driven instead of fundamentals driven - they are still extremely dependent on Foreign Aid compared to other similar countries in the region)

[0] - https://zanzibar.iitm.ac.in/

[1] - http://en.people.cn/n3/2022/0304/c90000-9965681.html
To get $8400 on 2% cash back, you'd have to spend $420,000.
Replace int with uuid?
Get a dog and every day take it on a long walk-and-talk where you tell your dog all your hot takes and random thoughts. Your dog will look forward to this, will look for you on days when you forget or think you are too busy for the walk-and-talk, and as a side benefit, you will get a little exercise, some sunshine, and fresh air.

It can also help clarify your thinking. If you can't convince your dog that technical debt is widely misunderstood, then how will you convince your colleagues?
I think the base rate of people using GMail/Twitter to exchange child pornography is so low compared to the # of people sending pictures of their kids diaper rash to the grandmother to ask for advice that it's really hard for these automated systems to have a low false positive rate. Then you have to put a human in the loop who is now reading a bunch of your user's personal emails/messages which is a large invasion of privacy. Like two 16 years old sexting now being reviewed by some rep at Google.

Meanwhile I assume most predator rings are using some kind of end to end encrypted platforms like whatsapp.

I think probably the best way to break these rings up is by getting people to infiltrate them.
The email part is unlikely to have been malicious in a sense that it was pulled from a DB. They likely have a centralized dashboard to be able to look up users and their apps/services in case something weird/shady is going on.

But still a fairly petty thing to do. I mean this guy must have either his head stuck up his ass or he’s dealing with something personally and the victim just happened to catch a stray bullet.

I didn’t see in the tweet where he got fired, was there a follow-up?
wish this had a better title relating to "her 1925 doctoral thesis that stars were composed primarily of hydrogen and helium"
Since there are small yet positive IPC improvements each generation it’s a reasonable assumption/expectation that at least IPC is no worse in gen 14 than in the generations immediately before it.

Sure, until there are benchmarks we can’t know this. If I knew thus I’d no doubt be under NDA or embargo. But I’d be willing to bet that IPC difference is pretty small.

> There are also plenty of other reasons speed doesn't translate well to performance, like thermal limits and memory bottlenecking.

Indeed, the more interesting unknown for a new CPU gen these days isn’t what’s happened to IPC but how long and how many cores can actually run at peak clock. In terms of real perf that’s probably a much bigger unknown factor in the performance. When I see 6GHz I wonder if that’s for 1 core for one second…

But that’s exactly why the thing that’s reasonably easy to guess is exactly that: the peak/instantaneous/theoretical single core perf. And actual “real world” perf is much harder to make any guesses about.

If you take the IPC of the last gen and the clock of the next gen you have a pretty good value if you want to guesstimate the peak single core perf.
While somewhat off-topic, I had an interesting experience highlighting the utility of GitHub's Copilot the other day. I decided to run Copilot on a piece of code functioning correctly to see if it would identify any non-existent issues. Surprisingly, it managed to pinpoint an actual bug. Following this discovery, I asked Copilot to generate a unit test to better understand the identified issue. Upon running the test, the program crashed just as Copilot had predicted. I then refactored the problematic lines as per Copilot's suggestions. This was my first time witnessing the effectiveness of Copilot in such a scenario, which provided small yet significant proof to me that Language Models can be invaluable tools for coding, capable of identifying and helping to resolve real bugs. Although they may have limitations, I believe any imperfections are merely temporary hurdles toward more robust coding assistants.
excellent phrasing. going to need to steal this
OpenBSD had sndio since ages.
Does anyone have an actual breakdown of how much the younger generations are placing away in a 401k - if that's even possible?
I mean it's cool and all that they throw Deleuze and Guattari references at you (especially in stand alone complex), but unfortunately we have wised up to how much that stuff was fashionable nonsense since then...
Adding a link for anyone else interested: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/texas-...
Does social media count? Apparently it's now where everyone gets their news. Which reminds me, didn't Musk hit up the Saudis or some other middle eastern sovereign wealth fund when he was forced to actually buy Twitter?
The same MOSIS still operates.
https://themosisservice.com/
Having said that, given that many people do use separate GitHub accounts for their separate private and work personas, and many organisations seemingly expect their employees to do so, perhaps GitHub could consider revising this Terms of Service restriction to better reflect reality.

There have also been times when I would like to have access to a second GitHub account for testing purposes. (In particular, for testing GH behaviour when the accounts corresponding to PR commits, PR creator, and PR merger all differ -- see for example <https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/1368>.)
> Can someone please develop hacker news type basic site but for jobs? No memes, no dark patterns, no likes.

Isn't that what sites like indeed are?
The coordinated RTO push is about tax breaks that these companies receive for bringing workers into the city. Just another way for the wealthy to not pay their fair share of taxes on the backs of the workers who use their own time and money commuting.

>New Jersey and Texas are states that stand out for spelling out exactly how often employees must work from the office to qualify for tax breaks. Before the pandemic, several New Jersey tax programs required workers to show up at least 80% of the time, and one Texas program set the threshold at 50%.

>Provisions like these were designed to ensure that the jobs boosted local revenue from income, sales and property taxes, and bolstered downtown economies.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-02-21/another-t...
No, a simple one from ~2002.
Can't believe they didn't put a ring on the leftmost hand.
>with less built than is necessary for multiple decades of time.

I thought there was more housing sqft per capita in the US than just about anywhere else? If so it seems more like a distribution problem.
No - the author is telling us a 2nd-hand story from some other person, and basically says "trust me, it happened" without providing any real evidence.
Ouch! That freaking sucks.
So why does this affect mainly consumer stocks?
IMO there's a strong case for Haswel as the first "good enough" cpu. It's not a ton faster than sandy lake, but it adds AVX-2 and FMA3 which in lots of software can easily be a 2x performance difference. (and possibly more importantly, if you define that as your baseline, you can compile all x86 applications with the same arch without giving up much performance.
I take the factoid as not about the companies doing better, it was about investments in the companies. It has become incredibly common for stocks to not pay dividends nowadays, so that the only way you make money from investing in them is by exiting that investment. (Well, if you are ultra rich, you could leverage it.)

Edit: This also means that much of the money you would make from owning something like McDonald's can't be seen by just charting the growth in stock price. You have to also look at the money you could make by taking the dividends and putting that somewhere.
> unless you’re arguing that workers would deliberately argue for fewer protections, I don’t see how not having collective bargaining could lead to more workers’ rights

Unions are inefficient--only those represented get benefits. And they're unnecessary. Most countries with good worker rights have low union penetration. Unions in America are a dead end. They let electeds toss a bone to the ten percent of Americans in a union while delaying broad reforms.
>This does not make membership an option, does it then?

Yes it does. You are just redefining the meaning of "choice" now. There is always going to be pros and cons to any choice including this one. What do you want the non-union membership to look like? There are obviously going to be downsides to not joining the union or else there would be no reason to join the union and if there was no reason to join the union, it wouldn't exist.
Previously covered at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37880071
So comparing it to an aircraft manufacturer sourcing components and outsourcing in response to someone asking if it meant it was manufactured elsewhere is entirely irrelevant.

This is a plane that anyone can buy off the shelf and put together themselves. You can message the Czech manufacturer on Facebook if you want one. Total cost is around $100k. This isn't Boeing having a lot of subcontractors.
If you haven’t tried fediverse apps yet, you should.
You have missed the point by a fantastically, awe-inspiring amount.
This is actually a great question because LinkedIn has become ubiquitous in the professional world and I cannot, for the life of me, think of anything that is currently available to replace it. Could someone build it? Sure. Could someone gain the mindshare (and marketshare that it has)? Someday?
Aleister Crowley wrote that everyone shares in magical thinking, it's just that they want to make magick itself the exception.
Check out PBS Spacetime on YouTube. I love the videos and always watch them more than once. After the first time…it’s like counting quark sheep.
https://twitter.com/vercel_support/status/171329547499877221...

> @vercel_support

> Our investigation has determined a member of our customer-facing team violated company policy. We have taken appropriate action.

> This was an error in human judgment; Vercel’s internal security systems worked as expected.

> The employee did not have access to any source code, secrets, or the ability to change settings or deployments.

> The employee used customer information, which they have access to for their job duties, to pursue a personal trademark matter.

> We have zero tolerance for this behavior, have taken action, and will continue reinforcing procedures to prevent future occurrences.
so what you are saying is the only people that deserve to put content on the internet are those privileged enough to be able to afford to put it out for free while they pay to run the servers?

Or privileged enough to have the technical knowledge to be able to run it very cheaply?

Or have the privilege to spend the time making content with out any concern of finances? People that can chose to spend time making free content instead of needing to work another job or some other source of money.

I'm sorry but it is a fantastic ideal that people would just do things without any concern about making money but that isn't the world we live in. If I were to make content I would at least like to break even so I am not spending money for nothing.
Just because everyone is doing it doesn't make it any less insane. I think there needs to be some sort of regulation around clauses like that. Companies should be allowed to terminate services but if they're going to do that then they should at least be required to give some explanation or some support line to contact.
Apple just can't get over their NIH obsession and support FLAC like a normal store.
> Has anyone else noticed that LinkedIn is turning into a shitty social media platform?

As someone who didn't bother to curate their LinkedIn account all I can say is: This is great news! Now my career opportunities are again the same as everybody else's.
Wireless USB at ~60GHz has (sort of) been a thing for a while for short range comms as a possibility.

One of the largest devices that ever used it was the Essential PH-1 and its snap-on camera module (and some other modules as well); the data was transferred over 60GHz USB while power and alignment was delivered by two pogo pins.

There was also Dell and friends' various efforts with WiGig 60GHz docking stations. https://www.wi-fi.org/discover-wi-fi/wi-fi-certified-wigig
If you have access to Azure DevOps Server your company likely also has access in its existing plans to GitHub Enterprise (on-prem) as well. GitHub Enterprise is usually about 6 to 9 months behind GitHub "Regular", but that's quite a bit better than Azure DevOps "Regular" which now seems destined to be 2-3 years behind GitHub and however far Azure DevOps Server trails behind that.

Microsoft is still playing "will they/won't they" with killing Azure DevOps for whatever reasons make sense mostly only to themselves, but it is hard not to wonder if the writing is on the wall to migrate to something like GitHub Enterprise sooner rather than later.

(Arguably yes, running GHE is different than Azure DevOps Server, as it is still mostly not Microsoft-stack. But I'm told they package it in a friendly enough way that even companies deep in Microsoft-stack-only don't have too many problems.)
> 3. Why do you add China to that list when it is widely considered by many diverse institutions to be state capitalist?

You mean China today? China today commits more than their fair share of human rights abuses, but the worst atrocities in the PRC were perpetrated in the past by staunch socialists, not those capitalist reformers who later introduced capitalist elements back into Chinese society. During the Cultural Revolution the Red Guard, a hard-line socialist paramilitary mostly comprised of students, were purging anything that vaguely resembled capitalism or tradition. They murdered millions of people for socialism.
> I know the common rejoinders about time zones

Cheat code: most engineers in India will agree to work US hours if they're compensated accordingly. "Compensated accordingly" is still well below even the lowest US engineering salaries, and still in the top 1% income percentile in India.
I'm definitely not a financial expert, I just play one on the Internet. (I can also be a doctor, political strategist, and a scientist with expertise in all sorts of fields if you wish!)

But in all seriousness -- at least in terms of this particular business unit, how are they effectively losing money on this? I've always been under the impression that banks make crazy amounts of money on the interest from credit card debt. I don't entirely understand it. But it looks like it's an industry wide phenomenon right now [1], and not just related to GS.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/22/credit-card-losses-are-risin...
It was found through various FCC filings and documentation -- Apple never publicly announced it. ;)
Unveiling the Hidden Gems of iCloud Mail
>For topics that can be understood using experimentation, faith is not required.

Actually, you need faith in the laws of logic and anything else that is considered axiomatic as they, by definition, cannot be proved by reason.
Arguably, typical Android is less secure than a Linux phone, since it constantly calls home, runs a ton of untrusted apps and often has a short software support time.