skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interest payments reduce profits on both a tax and accounting basis, so the profits are lower with increased debt. Otherwise, for example, Twitter/X would have been massively profitable after Musk acquired it with debt financing. (The interest on that debt is over $1 billion/year, and is a large part of why Twitter/X is struggling.)

When finance bros talk about "interest shields" they forget to include the interest payment in calculating the total cost of the shield. For example, if two companies are identical except that one has equity financing and the other has debt financing, the one with debt financing will always end up in a worse position after accounting for taxes and debt service even though they will pay less in taxes. For companies that wish to remain a going concern, cash flow is more important than effective tax rates. It's possible to survive for decades with a high effective tax rate, but negative cash flow can kill a company in months.

That being said, I agree that allowing for corporate acquisition-debt to be deductible is the factor that artificially props up the entire private equity scam, since they use it to shield debt-funded "distributions" from the their victims and they generally load up their victims with more debt than is actually serviceable (see for example, Toys R' Us).
For the WebRTC jargon check out https://webrtcforthecurious.com/

If that still doesn’t cover enough I would love to hear! Always trying to make it better.
H.264 is effectively the MP3 of video today: It provides neither the best quality, nor is it patent free (yet), but if an SoC supports any hardware accleration at all, H.264 is usually on the list.

Applications/services that can afford the overhead of multiple format encoding will do so, but it's not always an option.
Another poster replied with the Hamas connection.

In my mind, framing anything as "pro-palestinian" too simplistic. I am a strong supporter of Israel and I am also very pro-palestinian in the sense that I hope for a solution that enables them to live in peace and prosperity.

The "nuance" is to peel back to the root causes of what's happening so things can be fixed. When people equate "responding to terrorism" with "genocide" (a stretch...) you're not talking about the issue in a way that can enable any sort of evolution.

Maybe that's a form of "luxury belief" that's being talked about here - you can throw around righteous terms w/o having to worry about solving the problem or being impacted by a lack of solution...
There is a right to strike in the Swedish law as well. As long as the strike is legal (has to be a union involved and follow certain procedures) the employer definitely can not fire anyone. And the union in a case like this is paying all the employees 100% of their salaries while it is ongoing, for however long it will take.
Let's say you support A, but know that many supporters of A also support B, C, and think that A implies D. Detractors also know that an argument that A implies D.

If you are arguing for A, and you are versed in basic argumentation (as anyone in Peterson's situation is), it is reasonable to expect that you understand the landscape of the argument. As such, if you know that this will be used to discredit your argument, it is incumbent on you to say, "I am arguing for A. I define A as such. With that definition, I am not arguing for D or that A implies D."
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As for dog whistles, you avoid having that problem by explicitly condemning the groups that use the dog whistle (if you indeed believe that group is wrong -- e.g. explicitly denouncing white nationalists), and by adjusting your argument to avoid any semblance of dog whistles as you learn about them.

Yes, it's more work, but this is the landscape of public discourse. Consider that minorities like Muslims have had to do this to the point of absurdity. (E.g. someone does not support the indiscriminate bombing of Palestinian hospitals and the withholding of substantial relief aid to Gaza, but that does not mean they support Hamas or its taking of hostages.)
You are -mostly- right but there is also the factor where a specific sort of negative reaction can actually function as a recommendation later.

I've definitely missed out on work sometimes due to having a reputation for being about as subtle as a brick to the face with no lemon, but I've also -got- certain pieces of work as a direct result of being criticised and somebody who heard the criticism thinking "if he annoyed that person that way, he's probably serious about doing the right thing."

I would, however, suggest that probably I would've done better overall if I'd toned it down a bit.
We did post-merge code reviews. But half our team was on the other side of the planet from the other half (4 people on the team, US, EU. APAC, and AU).

If we waited for reviews before merging, we’d be waiting weeks to merge a single PR. Thus, you wrote your code, opened a PR, did a self-review, then deployed it. We had millions of customers, downtime was a real possibility. So you’d watch metrics and revert if anything looked slightly off.

You would wake up to your PR being reviewed. Sometimes there would be mistakes pointed out, suggestions to improve it, etc. Sometimes it was just a thumbs up emoji.

The point is, there are many ways to skin this cat and to “ream” someone for merging without deploying is incredibly immature and uncreative. You can still review a merged PR.
Same thing that happens if you don't agree with the democratic locality you live in. You participate in the process to get things changed.
What are credible alternatives to Wise?
Ask HN: How to leave a startup that's asking you to give up your vested shares?
I'm leaving a startup I cofounded due to disagreements over strategy and cofounder conflict.

I worked on it for 24 months. We had a vesting schedule in place. I currently have 20% vested.

I've agreed to sell back 15% of my vested equity and stay with 5% to help the company succeed. We are about to start raising. So far we've received $25k investment via SAFE + $10k grant w/o equity.

Is it reasonable for my cofounder to be asking me to sell back the 15% vested at .00001 (the price I paid two yrs ago)?

What other options should I consider?

Thanks!
The catastrophe is upon us now. Just look in the number, frequency and scale of wildfires, tsunamis, floods, etc.

It's too late to put the genie in the bottle now, but if anything, the government of the world haven't been strict enough in the regulations, haven't taxed enough the top earners, haven't done enough to curb the giant corporations.

As for fewer freedoms, I am not sure what you mean by that. Do you mean by freedom the manner in which large corps exploit their own workers, other countries, and eventually throw the whole world under the bus in the singular pursuit of profit? Or the freedom of cowboy bank-boys destroying the life savings and retirement funds of millions and putting yet other millions out of housing, just so they can satisfy their own gambling habits? That kind freedom, if anything, has become much much more and has gone unchecked for far too long.

> If you live in a constant state of emergency, eventually people become numb.

We share a finite world and its finite resources with one another. The freedom of rich douches to buy a Lambo to compensate for the gaping void in their soul comes at the expense of others, and luckily, more and more people start realizing this.

Not everybody stays numb in the face of a never-ending crisis. Some people, like me, get progressively angrier at the state of things. You can see it by the tone of my writing, you can see it by the millions on the streets protesting the oil giants, old dudes sending young boys to fight their wars, old dudes racking massive profits with 310:1 the salary of their own workers. I hope new generations are even angrier than us, and fight for a lasting change, because if they don't, they might be the last ones.
At 60fps but yeah, I think they mean they still passed the raw 4k stream through a lossy codec before putting it over cellular.
This is also called the "motte-and-bailey fallacy", and it's utterly insufferable.

It's the off-internet equivalent of 'I'm just trolling, bro, why do you haff to be mad ;)'

What confuses the matter further is that some of his advice is actually common-sense good-advice. He's not famous or controversial for giving that common-sense good-advice, though.
If you see a bunch of random ascii characters jumping around on the screen, try adjusting your Browser zoom to zoom out a bit. On my 4k screen with Windows providing 300% UI Scaling, I had to zoom Chrome out to 33% to see the wavy ascii text art.
Almost all those 300K+ industry jobs are willing to sponsor visas.

Most of these jobs on the other hand seem to be US citizens only. Some require a security clearance which a lot of AI experts would probably rather NOT have.
ScopedValue solves that problem: https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/21/docs/api/java.base...
I would say there really isn't any fundamental difference. Any system requires a balance, and you never want that balance point at an extreme because that's where one type of cost is at a maximum. If you squeeze out all freeloaders, then your enforcement regime will eat >90% of the resources. If you remove all overhead, then the freeloaders will consume >90% of the resources. That's as true of academia as it is of law enforcement and government. Police and the judicial system need some amount of leeway to keep things sane. "Bribery" is a strong word that is used to label a vast range of activities, and no human system has ever been created that does not contain some amount of influence and persuasion. (And mostly, we just choose to call it bribery if someone else is doing it. It's defined by who more than by what.)

Slack is important. Slack is necessary for things to move at all.

(Which is not to say that the systems I'm looking at today have anywhere near the right amount of slack. Almost all lobbying should be explicitly illegal IMO. Campaign funding should be heavily regulated and enforced. Universities should be regulated so as to prevent the profit-driven hellscape they have become, at least as long as they're going to be directly or indirectly receiving tax money. Pharmaceutical companies, congresscritters, law enforcement, the prison industrial complex, ... it's a total mess. And it's not just about using the regulatory hammer, it's about underlying incentives. Everything has been captured and monetized. It's gotten so bad that I feel like it would be only fair if I were to be paid for my vote, since it feels like it's going to be converted vote -> influence -> money ever more efficiently anyway. That's not the system I want.)
This has to be one of the most insightful comments I've ever read.
I see a buyout in your future...
How the whole open source ecosystem is working fine and delivering software while depending upon each other for almost decades all the while not ever being in the same room and yet having no microservices?

I mean take your pick, anything open source be it desktop or web has a huge and deep dependency tree all the way down to libc.

Just wondering.

EDIT: Typos and desktop.
When doing field work near an orchard, "wind mills" were noticed scattered across the fields. I asked what the wind mills were for, thinking they were pumping water for irrigation. I was told they keep the fruits safe from frost. It took me many years to understand how that worked.
I wrote another interpreter you can see in action here:

https://lindenmayer.club/lindenmoji/#?curve=f%0A%0Aa%3D%E2%9...

docs here:

https://github.com/beaugunderson/lindenmoji/blob/4f55ca78d22...
Your analysis is wrong. @livpost_br, @cosasdevida_13, @humseila, and @Steven_Mr9 are all bots. Early reg dates and retweeting of the content of others does not prove an account is not a bot. If you actually skim those accounts' replies more carefully, you will see the spamming of t-shirt links.

I concede that may not have been the best example. Did you actually read my comment in full? If you did, why did you pick one of the least convincing examples?
This applies to performance optimizations which leave the interface untouched, but there are other scenarios, for example:

- Performance optimizations which can't be realized without changing the interface model. For example, FOO_TABLE should actually be BAR and BAZ with different update patterns to allow for efficient caching and querying.

- Domain model updates, adding/updating/removing new properties or entities.

This kind of update will still require the 32 consumers to upgrade. The API-based approach has benefits in terms of the migration process and backwards-compatibility though (a HTTP API is much easier to version than a DB schema, although you can also do this on the DB level by only allowing queries on views).
You didn't create the market conditions for IT to pay so well, and you never will on your own.
Spinning rust is still useful for many purposes and will probably live on for decades more. We generate a ton of data and most of it ends up as read rarely or never. But it can live with slower access times on longer duration storage.

It’s honestly just like tape. There will be an HDD market for a long time that will be hidden in the whirl of data centers. Consumer HDD will slowly melt away, but the price/byte and durability of disk will keep it viable for quite a while. It’s still faster than tape (but not as cheap).
If you're interested in the practical applications of AI and Large Language Models (LLMs), you'll find value in this talk and live demo. The presentation goes beyond theory to include real-world examples and best practices, including a GitHub repository packed with Python code and ChatGPT-like app examples that will help you spin up your own app.
Thanks! ("Time to move on" = mmmaybe put those 32-bit machines aside, ohwell; I'm long time aware and still curious about MenuetOS, also as a huge fan of minimalist systems. The Dell Mini 9 is a really cool fanless netbook, though, esp for the ~5€ I paid for it, ha. Would be great to test MenuetOS with audio on it as well. That M64 latency is surely impressive.)
Both approaches - watermarking and 'requiring testing' seem pretty pointless. Bad actors won't watermark and tools will quickly emerge to remove them. The 'megasyn' AI that generated bioweapon molecules wasn't even an LLM and doesn't need insane amounts of compute.
Thanks for WebCodecs!

I'm still just trying to get A/V sync working properly because WebAudio makes things annoying. WebCodecs itself is great; I love the simplicity.
The quite popular Logitech C920 webcam used to natively support H.264, but they dropped it in a model revision a while ago, because "nearly every computer offered in the market features a chipset that can efficiently encode high definition video at 1080p" [1].

I've used that very camera (without the accelerator) on an RPi 4 myself, and the only way to get acceptable quality was by using the Pi's H.264 hardware encoder.

[1] https://www.logitech.com/en-us/video-collaboration/resources...
Close enough:

https://h1bgrader.com
Because stock market “show a short term profit” every quarter is insane. The rationality of a 2 year old on cocaine (as I was told).
Where are all the people who are talking about how to prepare for the future? There are couple of billion people living near shores in very crowded areas, is there nothing planned or are we still hoping that if we do something the emergency will just fade away? Also, why are very smart people buying islands and land near the beach if there is an emergency, are they also hoping that we will fix this in time and their expensive investments are going to be ok?

I'm in the camp of what ever it is that we can sufficiently predict, we should also prepare for it, like it isn't likely that some space rock is going to hit earth in the next yew years, but it's a sufficient enough probability that there is work being done to track them and at least have plants on what to do if it comes to that, but this is not the case with climate change.
I think it was around 3gbps or even less if I remember correctly, it wasn’t 60fps and I can’t remember the color depth either, and the cellular network was a SA (Stand Alone) mmwave private network, not a commercial one, so it did work in our project eventually.
This hit hard. I have a smile from ear-to-ear.

I can still remember plugging my USB Robotics 14.4k modem in for the first time. We could transfer 1 megabyte in 5 1/2 minutes!!

Thanks for the memories.

Here's a shout out to all those who read 2600 magazine and tried to hack their local PBXs so that they could call some TDT support board, internationally.
the ability to change the angle on yours by dragging is so cool!
:O

And I thought my unholy xmllint -xpath (bad stuff, lots of slashes) ${1} |sed -r -e s/this/that/ -e s/alsothis/alsothat/ -e /ohyeahthistoo/somethingelse/ | grep something | while read AA; do stuff then echo ${COUNTRY},${SIGN}$(perl -e "printf('%.2f', ${VAR}/1000000)"),${ENTRYDATE}; done|sort

was as bad as things get. I need to get my horror code game up. I mean, not only is the code awful, its very purpose is horrifying (XML to CSV with some transformations, bit of math, all without being able to use any external sources due to security, only what's in a baseline RHEL7 (soon 8, yay!) ).

I promise I'll rewrite it in python at some point.
Nuked-SMS – Sega Master System FPGA implementation using decapped chips photos
Which is exactly why the real challenges around (micro) services is to a large extent an organisational challenge mixed how those boundaries are belonging to which business capabilities.

The technical part of services is easy enough really but if the organisation leaks its boundaries, which always flow downstream into the actual teams, you are proper fucked.

It takes a different level of maturity, both in organisation and team, to build a service oriented software.

That's my experience at least.
When I read the original announcement, I had hoped it was more about the transparency of testing.

E.g. "What tests did you run? What results did you get? Where did you publish those results so they can be referenced?"

Unfortunately, this seems to be more targeted at banned topics.

No "How I make nukulear weapon?" is less interesting than "Oh, our tests didn't check whether output rental prices were different between protected classes."

Mandating open and verified test results would be an interesting, automatable, and useful regulation around ML models.
Hmm, my dollar: http://www.alsog.de/

Or see the examples page: http://www.alsog.de/feat_examples.php
They most certainly can, and often do. The absolute worst thing that can happen when the executive branch oversteps their authority is a court ordering them to stop.
Anyone who's ever had seasonal allergies will quickly and fully understand the implications. And allergens are absolutely enormous. Heck, there's a species of plankton that float through the air, with on average 1 million cells per cubic meter.
I have a hard time caring about this. Okay, maybe climate change was obscured from laymen 50 years ago(despite Sagan, the most famous science communicator, talking about it in the 80s), but everyone has surely known about it for the past 20 years, and our collective take has been "meh".
A complication is that the employees who work in the nursing homes are likely to bring covid in if it is spreading in the community and the community is acting normally (eg parties are happening). Not to say that your plan wouldn't be overall better (I'm not sure), but just saying it would likely result in more death.
On the subject of toothlessness:

>Protect Americans from AI-enabled fraud and deception by establishing standards and best practices for detecting AI-generated content and authenticating official content. The Department of Commerce will develop guidance for content authentication and watermarking to clearly label AI-generated content.

So the big American companies will be guided to watermark their content. AI-enabled fraud and deception from outside the US will not be affected.

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>developing any foundation model

I'm curious why they specified this.
They presumably set the price at a threshold where on average it still works out even though they lose on the highest end customers.
Comcast/Xfinity sold an elderly family member 800Mbps service. One person in the residence. Comcast/Xfinity told them this was needed so streaming videos could be played.
> We are trading back-end simplicity for front-end complexity.

Yes, but why? I think it's because clients have become increasingly more powerful and leveraging this comes at no cost. There is also the nature of responsiveness, which inevitably is faster to calculate only on the client side and save that trip to the server (and save money).

I see it this way: the frontend has its complexity focused in one system, whether that system is one codebase or many it still needs to coordinate and present itself as one cohesive software that is distributed across all users. On the other hand, the backend has its complexity spread out across multiple systems, most of which are designed to be completely decoupled from each other. So yes, the frontend keeps getting more complex because naturally all of its functionality is consumed by the end user, as oppose to other services or clients (in the case of the backend).
My opinion too
https://github.com/jaypatelani/Project7AI
> If you don't like Meta or Google, you don't have to work there.

What does that have to do with the unions? The unions negotiate with an industry as a whole, never individual companies, that makes no sense. So a programmers union would ensure that you have the same rights regardless of whether you work for Meta, Google or Carl's Discount Software.

> What recourse does an employee/member have if the union publicly supports setting up (mock) guillotines?

They vote in the next union election and vote out who ever approved of that idea. That's also how you change conduct and policies. The point of the union is collective bargaining, so there's bound to be something you don't like, but that's the cost of being a democracy. You're not forced to be a member to work in an industry, but at least parts of your benefits and minimum salary may be negotiated by the union regardless.
For comparison's sake. I have a pretty good pension plan and my employer contributes about 27% of my gross salary to it along with the 8% I contribute. If someone offered a 401k match of 300% on my 8% I'd call that a good deal, but what you described is what people more often get.
// Not all protests exist to further concrete political proposals (ex. suggestions to Hamas). Expressions of mass grief, community solidarity, and elevation of an issue which harms your neighbors are all important outcomes for people meeting en masse

This too smells like a "luxury belief" to me. If you're actually experiencing the problem, you want to solve stuff. You want to be practical and pragmatic because your ass is on the line -- or die as a martyr while prolonging people's suffering, but hopefully the former.

In contrast to that, things like wallowing in "mass grief" and generating a lot of noise and energy in a way that isn't aiming at making anything better is exactly the kind of thing one can easily engage in when shielded from the outcomes and failure on the actual issue.
The jackal bites. You die.
I'm so glad this country is run by a geriatric that can barely pronounce AI let alone understand it.
I would love too! Join https://pion.ly/slack and I am Sean-Der

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