skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I’d be much, much more worried about the depressingly large number of people who have next to nothing saved

I agree.

> Not a lot of people in that bracket are going to wake up one day in their sixties and suddenly realize they need to drop their standard of living if they want to make it.

If all they've been doing is maxing their 401k and expecting that to be enough are likely in for a shock. I don't know if this person is more savvy than others. They likely have many other tailwinds, like paid off mortgages and kids with good careers that will ease things. But the drop in income is going to be an adjustment is all I'm saying.
I absolutely agree with you about where the dividing line is. Your experience reminds me of an article my wife read out to me a while back. It was written by a guy who has an autism diagnosis. He brother is also autistic, but low functioning. And likewise he said that it's hurting his brother that there are thousands of people out there claiming to be autistic, whose symptoms are little more debilitating than social anxiety. It causes people to disregard the condition and underestimate the huge effort that families have to put in to care for an autistic child. Similarly, charities that accept donations for autism... Who gets that? The author of the piece that my wife read, said that he needs nothing, but his brother needs constant care.
I wouldn't know what to do with a RAR file on a Linux machine, and I've used Linux for over 20 years (and Unix before that? Don't even ask, youngster.) I mean, yeah, I'd figure it out; but I've not had the need.

As sibling commenters said, you're probably thinking of .tar. Now that I run into a lot. :-)
Behind the scenes at Scary Fast: Apple's keynote event shot on iPhone
I guess enjoy rejecting modern life. We're going to see an explosion of new works from people using these new tools in creative ways. I'm sure you'll say that you don't want anything to do with AI-generated art, but that will soon mean avoiding just about every new work.
Here’s an example of why it would be worse to have poor error type coverage:

function libFoo(foo: string): throws FooError;

function libBar(bar: number): boolean;

Both of these functions throw. With untyped errors, you have to assume that this is at least a possibility. Now you have every reason to assume it’s safe to call one of them without handling errors.

The argument as I understand it, which is convincing, is that types like this are inevitable if typed errors were to be introduced. The scope of even well typed code with no documentation of even the errors thrown directly is enormous. The scope of code which might propagate errors from calls deeper in its stack is unimaginable. And there is basically no way to do static analysis to meaningfully reduce that space.

It could be fair to say this was a missed opportunity earlier in TypeScript’s development. But introducing typed errors retroactively would lead, trivially, to millions of cases like the above. Many in very hard to find ways.

Could those types be produced and refined to be as high quality as existing types (first party or community provided)? Of course. But it would take years. And unlike introducing types where none exist, the gradual story just doesn’t exist. You’d have to treat literally every function and property access as `throws any` to get safety equivalent to the gradual types story for non-errors.

And the incentive to type one’s own code with errors is hard to imagine: how can I, as a library author, say with any confidence what anything I write throws, if I have no idea what the underlying code throws (or if it really even does)? Why would I take on the maintenance burden of getting it wrong? Or incomplete? Or incomplete and wrong?
And like a lot of things related to California, the issues there are unique to the state.
Yeah that's crazy for their Pro line to even offer that option. Only the lightest users of MBAs should be buying a new machine with 8GB RAM.
If you have the extra room already then you're probably already using it as a den anyways. But if you don't then you're not likely to move and incur the extra expense of having an extra room -- work from office is definitely for you then.
I clearly stated I am fine for the special needs kids getting more funding. The central point is to give me - the parent - the money that would go to the atrociously bad school so I can put my kids (not special needs) into a good school. That is the situation for the majority of students.
i think one of the greatest crimes of the modern world is light pollution. it has completely redefined nearly everyone's perception of the universe and themselves in a really tragic way.

we would all be better off with fewer lights on buildings, and fewer streetlights. there is no reason for most of them, and the cost is existentially incredible.
just wear an AZ wildcats shirt and loop the video feed?
Reverse-engineering Ethernet backoff on the Intel 82586 network chip's die
> H1. Thought Leadership | Cybersecurity Thought Leadership Awards
Back-off-ski? Too funny.
> I am pretty sure that he never thought he'd have to follow through with it.

Of course not. But (and it's a really big but...):

> If he did, then he wouldn't have made such a ridiculously overpriced offer.

His ego won't let him do anything BUT (see, it's a really big but) make a ridiculous offer.
We should make it a criminal offense with severe penalties to pay any sort of ransom regardless of the consequences. Use the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act as a model. Even if it means hostages will die or businesses will be destroyed, that is an acceptable price to pay in order to cut off funding to terrorists and other criminals.
I expect it's one of those utterly unenforceable small-scale things that the IRS, at some point, decided to twist some logical reasoning around why it wasn't even going to try to enforce.
Ask HN: Project that amends Git history based on a schedule
Hi HN, sometime in the last year someone posted a project that would modify git history in a repository based on a provided schedule. You could specify a time range, and it would go through and move commits outside of that time range. I've googled and checked the various HN search products, but I haven't been able to find it! Does anyone remember?
Well, I don't know what you consider a short term, but PiKVM feels pretty good throughout its existence, and it has been for several years. It seems that we have set priorities differently at the start. My policy has always been that throughout the entire lifecycle of the device, the user must be sure of its security. In particular, this means that the user must receive updates. There is nothing more important than security when it comes to equipment, and I hate when a device turns into a unsafe brick after a few years. That's why we put it into the business model even before the first Kickstarter.

Another thing that made it possible to do this is the automation of all routine processes, such as testing and package builds. In PiKVM, the first component that was written was a build system to solve this issue once and for all. In this vein, I made a huge contribution to the "pre-launch" before flying. BTW, to be honest, I was somewhat surprised that you used Ansible instead of packages, it seems that this caused you a giant overhead for support.

Of course, in the future we plan to provide some paid services, but this does not concern the regular OS and access to updates at all, they should remain free.
This is an excellent point. Rivian didn't have a "basic cruise control" without the following feature that adjusted speed, but they later added the basic/dumb cruise mode.

Failure modes are definitely an afterthought for new gen cars with the fancy sensors - I think it's a problem with gas and electric cars.
I saw someone playing a concertina once and thought hmmmm... a split keyboard might work there. Never got round to doing anything about it, though.
Yes, they are in opposition, but it is a non-sequitur to then associate it with privacy. And most critically, to consider privacy to be a binary attribute, rather than a multidimensional and graduated quality.

Do you believe you have the right not to have a satellite track or drone hover over you in public and share that feed, associated with your identity, with the whole world? I sure do. You should too.
I ask the opposite - should employers reimburse commute expenses for return to office workers? Gas / electric, and time wasted on traffics etc?
And moreso than even the additional expenses, the expense of tracking these expenses for a small company is non-insigificant. There's the cost of the expense tracking software, setting up rules for what can be expensed, figuring out what this new law requires, and having someone approve those expenses.

The simple solution for fully remote companies is to just exclude CA residents.
True, but accuracy tells us something, and an accuracy of 0.75±0.22 tells us that what we know is very close to “we have reasonable confidence that it is at least very slightly better than a coin flip”.
This law has been in effect for years.
Well, if you include the power to get to the modern hardware: no; then you are indebted forever by running Starcraft on emulation.

We often discount progress as obvious because we never paid the price of photosynthesis for millions of years before our tiny part in existence.

My problem is specifically getting to the consensus we have today, we were too slow, 6502 (8) freed humans 1982-85, 68000 (16) and ARM-1 (32) came 1985. So we had the instructions (in both senses) for the final hardware then.

40 years, and X trillion barrels of oil, later we are still in complete hardware and software confusion.

64-bit is a big mistake, because nothing scales to infinity; and since nothing is free, we are about to pay the price now!

Indebted to the past and the future to max!

I say roll back to C and Java and rebuild from there on Risc-V (even if it has 128-bit addressing, in case you run out of your 18.4 exabytes 64-bit RAM/disk).

But it might already be too late.
Now you are into ad hominems.

This is a classic playbook of people who keep claiming something with no evidence. They try to divert to something else and they try the "I don't like how you're saying it" move.

Pointing out that you have no idea what you're talking about is not ad hominem. Ad hominem would be something irrelevant to the topic like "you're fat so you don't know about cryptography".

The point is processing power at quantum level already starts to threaten some of the encryption methods and early keys are definitely at risk over time

You have grossly misunderstood (again). Quantum computers haven't threatened anything new.

AES was first proposed 26 years ago and has never been broken. Quantum computers only reduce the theoretical key lengths. This has been known for multiple decades and is why key lengths have been increased. Again, it has never been cracked, 256 bit keys have been used just for a theoretical time decades or centuries in the future with no clear path to get there.

Bitcoin's private key length is 256 bits.

https://cryptobook.nakov.com/asymmetric-key-ciphers/elliptic...

There is zero evidence to back up what you are saying. There are no cryptography experts that agree with what you're saying. It is just you making something up.

If you have any evidence at all, go ahead and link it.
> There is absolutely nothing I can do with my M2 laptop that I cannot do well with my cheap old Intel laptop. Nothing.

[…]

> The only time I experience any type of slowdown is when I launch IntelliJ.

I can't tell if you're a serially dishonest interlocutor, or whether your fetish for making very emphatic generalisations with lots of intensifiers makes you seem like one, but once again this is very weak reasoning. You have yourself pointed out something you cannot do with your Intel laptop which you could with an upgrade.

> Please do point out a single concrete example of "productivity gains" that I would get by spending $2k on a new laptop.

You can run IntelliJ smoothly and have no battery life issues. (Literally from your own post… it's just so sad to see this utter lack of self awareness.)
> How much silicon does it take to add an AV1 decoder to a chip?

The die area is very modest, but the hard part is building it in the first place.

Encoding is more area, but should still be peanuts for Apple SoCs.
> If I, a white man living in upstate NY, were to don Haudenosaunee ritual gear and record myself performing a traditional dance of theirs, that would be cultural appropriation.

This is insufficient to be cultural appropriation. The context in which you wear the ritual gear and do the dances matter, the same as with the Japanese example.
A fun version of the forced choice is that your patter makes it come out the same. "By your choice this animal is doomed!" versus "By your choice this animal is spared!"

The person still feels that they made a choice, even though they didn't..
A home office costs you hundreds extra per month, at least in my market (London). I work in the corner of our bedroom right now. My girlfriend works in a corner of the living room.
>oh and behold

Lo and behold
This is so washed up as a take. Let’s go to mars instead of pouring energy into blaming the British for everything.
Cravath System: how top law firms mastered talent development a century ago
I'm afraid I'll have to disagree. If anything, fiction is Eliezer's strong suit. I had a blast with HPMOR, it's the best Harry Potter book out there in my opinion. But perhaps he's better at long-form fan fiction than short stories. Maybe it would be best if he stuck to doing that.
Catchy title. Throwing disabled people under a bus does seem egregious. Get a job on a newspaper.
It's ok to give humans rights that we don't give to machines.
I'm clearly out-of-date on data, as my assertion is more in line with your chart from e.g. 1990 to about 2015.

That said, if I've understood what we're looking at - wages in terms of buying power as measured by CPI, I'd like to admit some other data to the conversation:

1. The series I'm looking at (https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/OPHNFB) has productivity doubling over the same time that wages went up 10%. You can argue that productivity is going down now, but the gains up to this point appear to have gone somewhere besides wages.

2. As an example, the rent component of CPI has roughly quadrupled over the same time period, https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CUUR0000SEHA ... which I take to mean that less is being spent on other components of the CPI. That's a factor in what's available for present needs.

3. As a percent of the population, there are about as many workers as there were in 1980, down 2-5% from the 90s and 2000s. (https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/EMRATIO)

With wages up 10%, productivity up 100% and rent up 400%, it seems to me that there's a tipping of the balance toward the future rather than the present.
It's pretty hard to hide cigarette usage (smell, color of teeth). Vaping is likely to be much easier to conceal though (does that count as "tobacco" though?)
If you have many friends that are windows power users, there's a high chance they'll use rar if they ever have files to send you. This may be indicative of their cultural familiarity with the warez scene, but they use it for anything. I've received rars from people of their own music, photos, projects, etc.
Well, one could be faily musically inclined and never have listened to "despacito" on the height of its fame.

And I think that in this case,the critic was kind of a dick in his critic. In a very knowledgeable and eloquent manner he implies that if (from his perspective) the painter is not very good nor the art he produces, then the only explanation is that all the people who enjoys his art are gullible simpletons who don't know art. He has every right to have this opinion, of course, but he shouldn't be surprised if the gullible simpletons in question loudly disagree.
Yes, lack of transparency and lack of trust are big problems.

I'm hopeful that the ad topics code in Chromium will improve this situation somewhat. Maybe someday we will see reproducible builds for Chrome?
Nice and congrats!

How stable it to use for day to day desktop tasks?
Tried a couple of weeks ago from a Linkedin post. Impressed!
Maybe I misunderstood something, but the article seems to highlight how the genetic variant of SLC30A9 is protective against lack of zinc and cold, while it predisposes to some mental health issues. So individuals with the variant are less likely to be zinc deficient.
I used something like this to study finger placement on touch screen keyboards in the early 2010s. You would type a prompt without any typos appearing regardless of how inaccurately you pressed the keys. I would think it helped with touch retargeting eventually though I was just an intern. I wish that Google pixel did it better as I always have issues pressing period instead of spacebar and other annoying things.
To be blunt, if reimbursing your employees for better working environment makes your business non-feasible then your business is based on exploiting workers and does not deserve to exist.
You're competing with other renters for the unit though. If someone offers the landlord more you think they should say no?
Why not Zstandard?
By modifying the site that way you're violating its ToS and can simply be denied service, as you are neither accepting or denying the request (you can't deny it because you haven't read it).

Yeah you can claim otherwise and other people are free to just deny you service. EU still doesn't have access to Threads, right? Twitter is thinking of turning off the EU as well. That attitude is why. Trade is a two way street and constantly harassing the providers is a good way to find yourself without any services to harass anymore.
Mozilla said Servo was for prototyping. Not Gecko's replacement.
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They are required to pay all the necessary expenses in the office too.
You say “if I ask you to choose” but if there is no free will then I cannot choose.

Also if there is no free will then we cannot judge anyone, no matter what they did, because they didn’t have choice.

Actually my argument is that the best evidence for free will is that the world is such a mess. Without free will we would live in perfect harmony with nature, like all the other species do. We are so free that we can even deny the existence of our freedom, hence avoid taking responsibility of our actions.
Yes, people use .rar, get over it, an OS should not be designed around what a copyright holder wants, but what people need.
Unpopular opinion, but software should not have to keep up with this treadmill. Especially since the treadmill is a deliberate choice the OS vendor is making, and not some fundamental attribute of software. Bits don't tend to simply rot. The foundation they are planted on deliberately gets broken. The vendor could choose to allow backwards compatibility, but often chooses not to.

Sorry, but when I write a program in 2010, I kind of do expect it to still work on the exact same hardware in 2020. I don't think that's an unreasonable expectation.
What's to reconcile? If there are releases that are beyond bug fixing, then it it's not "completed", it's a work in progress.
Ask HN: Does anyone use InfluxDB? Or should we switch?
We're looking at adding an analytics product and need to use a time series database. After initial research, it seemed like InfluxDB was the way to go.

But we ran into an issue - which version do we use? It seems like they're pushing V3 but we've struggled to get the Node client to query data (writes seem to work). Anyone have experience with this?
This is all somewhat settled law. It's the same rules as a home office deduction but with exceptions. They pay based on the square footage of your dedicated workspace compared to your home.

If you don't have a dedicated workspace, you can't take the home office deduction and your employer technically doesn't have to reimburse you anything (so this is more beneficial to wealthy people with dedicated home offices).
Here in the UK, I've that basic hamburgers (£1.59) or cheeseburgers (£1.79) offer the best value, or indeed the box of 20 chicken McNuggets (£6.99).

They definitely try to hide those basic burgers in favour of 'fancier' and much more expensive ones. Even just a Big Mac is £4.79 and chicken burgers are £5+.
Edge and Safari (and Firefox) have reader mode, which automatically makes them better than Chrome.
Japan federalized zoning rules meaning cities can't arbitrarily deny housing. This allows supply and demand to meet, leaving housing approximately at the cost of construction.
They're paying for coverage in that thunderstorm; that's the business expense to ensure connectivity for their remote widget.

Why would your wifes employer compensate for a tool that doesn't meet their needs?
It never made sense, given that the entity issuing the rebate isn't the same one you're paying. Like if your employer (or really, anyone else) cut you a $1M check because you bought a $1M house from a random person, is that really not taxable income because it was a "rebate"?
Really impressive! The conversation is different for each user, really interactive.
You can entirely consume your way out of it, and you can also build your way out of it.

It's not fantasy. This is how markets work; how economies work.

Let's look at something like FB. At one point they were absolutely the social company. But other competitors have entered the market. In some instances, new markets were created, like Tiktok. Those new products took users away from FB. In some instances, the users will never return. This has happened precisely because someone somewhere decided to make something and challenge the existing market.

> I didn't even mention regulation

My bad. I was getting this thread confused with the one about AI regulation.
Its Apple and Qualcomm that have been slow.

Intel, AMD, Nvidia, and other ARM chipmakers for phones, TVs, streaming sticks and such were quicker to pick it up.
Astropy: Common core package for Astronomy in Python
This sounds like an example of “AI is whatever we think computers can’t do”. Because rule based gate synthesis sounds like what has been done today.
But even when paying the ransom, you still need to roll back a portion of your environment after you've assessed the intrusion. Can you really trust you've patched everything and removed all trace of persistence that was put by the attacker as a contingency to get back in the system?
Unrelated, but Wordstar reminded me of the time when I used a computer for the first time in 1993. The only thing I knew about computers was

cd ws
ws
Introduc ing the .ing top-level domain
Robot vacuum for me is the one I hacked
> educations that I'd consider completely and totally deficient, and then pull those same people back into the organization as cheap/uneducated labor they could abuse.

You just described public schools, Universities, and their relationship to the student loan racket. Deficient education followed by indentured servitude through loan repayment. False advertising by public school teachers of a ticket to the easy life through any university degree. If I had a nickel for every person I've met who had their life messed up by that lie, I'd be rich
The #1 point of ZFS is protections again bitrot, ie. checksums on all data. Does bcachefs do this?
Would redefining the value of currency in terms of the natural resources available help curb their depletion? Kind of like the gold standard [1], but in terms of Earth's resources in general?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_standard
Impressive user experience!
Evolving such an infrastructure is incredibly painful. Want to move to a zero-trust security model? How about migrating only some services to a different provider?

Set it up right from the start with a domain name you control (or one that is reserved for private use in an RFC). You can still use internal DNS if you want the additional layer of obscurity.