skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From page 2 of Schedule J (at the bottom) they break out the components of the compensation, showing that most of those numbers incorporate a base salary that looks fairly normal with 2-600k of bonus & incentive comp on top.

In curious Googling to see if there was an explanation for how their structure works, I stumbled on this interesting Glassdoor review:

> The bonus structure promised up to a 100% match with salary, but in practice the system was set up so that nobody got more than 50%, if that. Had I understood this I probably would have taken a competing offer that ultimately would have had much higher comp.

> The quarterly cliff on the bonus system, where a feature failing to ship within the quarter specified (even if just by a single day) was counted as if you hadn't done it at all. This led to death marches each quarter as everyone scrambled to try to finish unrealistic goals. It wasn't possible to get help from anyone else at these times since of course they too had the same problem.

> Nominally, the quarterly goals were set in a collaborative process. In practice it was a 2 day full day meeting where we were told what Moxie had decided we were going to do - our input wasn't really considered at all, including if it was even viable to complete in a quarter. I'm fine with top down control, that's how most corps work, but I disliked the false patina that this was some democratic process.

> Internal communications are a disaster, because Signal uses Signal for everything, including things Signal isn't at all designed for or good at. Bug tracking is literally done in a giant group chat. I have a newfound appreciation for JIRA.

https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Signal-Messenger-Reviews-E...
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This proves the exact opposite of what you think it proves. Planes crash all the time. Commercial planes also crash all the time if you want to be extra specific.
>what do you mean by my "guix checkout"

I mean the working copy (the local directory) created by git clone.

>Looks like it's a huge effort.

Probably.

I've never used Dart in my life, so I don't have so much Dart-specific information, sorry.

> That Pull Request is adding Dart 2.8 while the current version is 3.1.5 (and it's released often, at least once a month). Most pub packages don't even work on Dart 2.x anymore.

Then as a next step you (or someone) would probably add another dart package for version 3, building it with Dart version 2 (is that how the dart build works? Probably).

>as I am using Guix OS (in a VM) and as far as I know there's no sources in it?

Just do the git clone. The guix package manager is a regular program (with source on git) like any other.

I always use a git clone of the guix master branch (for like 6 years now) and it was never a problem. But if you instead want to use the version used by your OS, do guix build -S guix . It will unpack the source of the current guix and tell you where it is. I wouldn't bother doing the latter though.

Also, basically there's a guix daemon that does the build container management (think of it as something like dockerd) and then there's the guix frontend. I'd never do "make install" in the guix working copy--so the guix daemon will not be fucked with. The ./pre-inst-env allows you to run the local directory guix frontend without installing it.
Does switching to high fructose qualify as tweaking the formulas specifically increase/enhance the addictive properties? To me, Socials should be treated like Big Tobacco.
>This reminds me of an old article I read about how psychedelics don't actually "increase connectivity in the brain" like users thought, as though that had anything to do with why people use psychedelics.

I don't recall seeing anyone make that argument, but I do tend to avoid woo and pop sci. What is reasonably clear is that psychedelics increase neuroplasticity even in vitro, which is hypothesised as being one of the plausible mechanisms of action for psychedelics as a treatment for mental disorder - they potentially create a window of opportunity for habitual patterns of maladaptive cognition and behaviour to be unlearned.

Some people are very attached to the idea that the qualitative experience of the "trip" is integral to the therapeutic effects of psychedelics, but that is by no means a universal belief; many groups are working on non-psychedelic drugs that exploit this mechanism.

I think it's entirely reasonable to be wary of people justifying their recreational drug use with outsized claims of therapeutic benefits, but in the case of psychedelics there is definitely something of clinical interest happening. I'm quite circumspect about the clinical use of psychedelics, but I think it's highly likely that we are going to see a generation of novel and useful psychiatric drugs emerge based on what we have learned from psychedelics research.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6082376/
Yep, people who think about messaging security as a problem of sending data from one computer to another are missing a huge part of the attack surface. To fully understand the entire problem set, we need to consider the entire pathway from one human's brain to another.
I'm glad I'm using Qubes OS, so that only my disposable VM would be compromized in such attack.
Yes metadata + url to the page which I have easily parsed out the download link before. Your right, the way I said it was not the best.
I created a 𝘀𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗺𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮 𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘁 app that takes a context as input and generates a full social media post for me. Then I can customize the output by tweaking parameters like tone, length, images, and adding my own flair. It's amazing how quickly it creates draft posts for any announcement or topic I give it.

PartyRock is a web app that lets anyone experiment with state-of-the-art AI foundation models available on Amazon Bedrock. You can build your own apps by connecting widgets like text generation, image generation, chatbots, and more.
Food production being manually intensive today isn't going to be the case forever. There are lots of innovations happening in ag-tech that continue to reduce the need for humans in the loop
* laser precise weeding
* drone flyovers + image detection for keeping tabs on the land without going out there
* purpose built harvesters that could eventually be driven by an autonomous agent
Would love to see more of these websites implement the JS-DOS on-screen keyboards configurations to allow games w/ key shortcuts (like, say, Civilization) to be played on touchscreen devices.
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> Lets not bring in even more disinformation.

And this is why “disinformation” is a bullshit term. Hes not spreading lies nor objective falsehoods. Hes not even making the claims you’re rebutting (physical addiction to sugar). He makes a perfectly valid point that we can all discuss as we see fit without maligning it as disinformation.
Super cool! I love when programming languages try to do more with types.

Julia has a neat little library called Unitful.jl[1] which does almost exactly what Numbat does by taking advantage of Julia's extremely flexible type system. Extending it to cover all of Numbat's functionality could be trivially accomplished in a few lines. In fact, fun type magic like this is pretty much my primary motivation for using Julia in the first place.

Not that I want to detract from the author's hard work, of course, I'm just very excited about Julia! Numbat is obviously an awesome project, and I can't wait to see where it leads!

[1] https://painterqubits.github.io/Unitful.jl/stable/
If the value passed to the function isn't dimensionless there's very likely a unit error somewhere.

I can't come up with an example where that would be a reasonable thing to do, but haven't thought too much about it.
Java is entirely performant if you treat it right, and many of the problems with GC in J8 are fixed in later versions.

You can push Java very far.

Of course you can also write horribly ugly code in it.
> In-person ordering knows that and would change it hamburger, the online ordering does not and keep it as cheeseburger minus the cheese while keeping it as cheeseburger price.

Maybe your experience was different but I've found the opposite. I usually had to tell them "actually it's cheaper if you ring it up this other way". The big one was nuggets at McDonalds. I wanted 40 nuggets once (for a group!) and they had a deal on the 10 packs, so it was cheaper to order four 10 packs than two 20s. They kept insisting that two 20s had to be cheaper. I had to twist their arm to ring it up as four 10s and even after that they still didn't understand why it was cheaper.

> My issue with online ordering is that I will be missing higher degree of customizability

At most places with app based ordering, I've lately found that even in person they can't do the customizations anymore because they are using the same app I am but on an iPad in front of themselves.
bots are still a subset of the traffic for streaming, porn, etc. Whether its for ad fraud or faking popularity on streaming those bots are running 24/7.

However I agree, on its face 73% sound ridiculous.
I don't see any snarl.

The law requires disclosure so that companies can't hide material information from investors. The SEC wants all incentives lined up so that companies will choose to report. The primary way that the SEC catches them now is that the data showed up somewhere like a data breach. So ultimately, the behavior of the hacker group is the source.

This hacker group just cut out several steps in the middle. The SEC verifies it, the company gets punished, and companies are on notice that they really should report. Just like the law says.

What WOULD be a problem is if the hacker group got rewarded for reporting...
There's an entire new field on behavioral addiction now and lots of current and past research in the field. You're just out of date.
try forgot email id and start answering security questions.
Well you can, it just takes the extra step of grabbing the download from the page. I have done it before but I dismissively misspoke and should have said full index of subtitles available.
Most users only use about 10% of the features of your software...

The problem is, for every user it's a different 10%.
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imagine if kids had a magic rectangle in their pockets at all times that generated, when tapped, an infinite amount of sugary breakfast cereal for them to consume, anytime, anywhere, and it had become commonplace for kids to spend plural hours each day doing nothing at all but mindlessly tapping said rectangle and consuming the magically-produced sugary breakfast cereal. imagine if this started from early childhood, with parents giving kids a slightly larger, rubber-bumpered sugary-cereal-producing magic rectangle to occupy themselves while out to eat or shopping for groceries or even just around the house. imagine if this was all completely socially accepted and anyone speaking out against it was shouted down as being opponents of technological progress or whatever.
Signal should be able to bring in some revenue other than donations. Premium features that don't compromise the privacy? Premium stickers? Extended emojis only if one paid $1 etc.?
It was only a matter of time before social media started clamping down on people using their platforms to advertise their sex work. Those platforms don't see any of that revenue that the creators will make on an entirely different platform.
Pretty sure most people who think they need a real-time thread actually don't tbh.
Which app would they all use and from where would they get it? Signal does not (intentionally) support the official app using other servers or the platform itself supporting federation. [1]

[1]: https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/
HTML is a shit spec. Without strong semantic elements, it's impossible to reliably parse any HTML document without using your eyes.
There certainly is! - see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html - but it's a manual process to correct these things - which takes a while and often requires someone to let us know.

Submitters: if you want to say what you think is important about an article, that's fine, but do it by adding a comment to the thread. Then your view will be on a level playing field with everyone else's: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

(Submitted title was "Could be bigger than Cambridge Analytica (5B people)")
> Hes not even making the claims you’re rebutting (physical addiction to sugar).

Did you not read his post? I'll quote it for you.

> Would candy companies be liable for making their products appealing to kids, knowing sugar is an addictive substance?
Right? Let's see some Hex Color Injection or Retina Inversion or Bytecode Reversal attacks. I want to see a flatline riding a black chrome shark into my browser. Enough of this "XSS" this and "Server-Side Request Forgery" that stuff.
Slightly tangential, but does anyone know good learning material to understand real-time (Linux) kernel more? For someone with rudimentary Linux knowledge.

I've had to compile&install real-time kernel as a requirement for a robot arm (franka) control computer. It would be nice to know a bit more than just how to install the kernel.
does the dial-in suggestion work? Seems like spoofing phone numbers is trivial, while spoofing numbers for inbound SMS is harder.
I mean, you're free to make up your own definition, but it won't be shared by the vast majority of other people.

From the Wikipedia article: [1]

> Cyberpunk is a subgenre of science fiction in a dystopian futuristic setting that tends to focus on a "combination of lowlife and high tech" featuring futuristic technological and scientific achievements juxtaposed with societal collapse, dystopia or decay.

> The settings are usually post-industrial dystopias but tend to feature cultural ferment and the use of technology in ways never anticipated by its original inventors ("the street finds its own uses for things").

> Much of the genre's atmosphere echoes film noir

All of this comes from the foundational literary and cinematic works that defined the cyberpunk genre, namely (in rough chronological order): Blade Runner, Neuromancer, Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology, Akira, Snow Crash, Johnny Mnemonic, and The Matrix.

The visual aesthetic representation of the cyberpunk genre is firmly rooted in a vocabulary involving dense cityscapes, night, neon lights, and rain (echoing the film noir vocabulary), often set in slums of East Asian metropolises or US Chinatowns.

Deciding that the common elements of all these works isn't what "cyberpunk" is is simply creating your own, personal, idiosyncratic definition.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberpunk
They want the address book because if you don't have engagement promotion features like that, there is no way to ever become remotely popular in the chat app space.

Why is the security a joke? The data is e2e encrypted, and isn't related to a phone number in any way after registration. Do you know of a better way of combining privacy and anti-abuse measures? If you don't offload identity checks to telecom providers during registration some bad actor will immediately create a million accounts and send millions of spam messages and destroy the slim chance of this type of app to exist for free.
Q&A with the cast of Ruby on Rails: The Documentary [video]
I'm not sure it ever got built! The Spectre stuff was found during the "how would we even begin to do this" phase. I've seen a fair amount of academic work about formally verifying RISC-V cores though.
> For the second SIM option, that requires a dual-SIM device

Or a device that supports an eSIM, which is every iPhone since 2018, for starters.
Does everything runs on those CPUs though? Hard realtime control is often done on much simpler MCU at the lowest level, with oversight/planning for a high level system....
To build on the above, it's worth thinking about the transition that happens between those two quotes:

> Scraping, it must be said, is a legally murky area. It is not specifically illegal

There's already a jump happening here from "it's not specifically illegal" to "it's a gray area because it's immoral." Even if it was certainly and unambiguously immoral, that does not make it automatically a legally murky area. In fact, scraping seems to be reasonably established as specifically legal.

So the article is already kind of edging away from reality, where they acknowledge "this is not a crime" but they want to blur that and say that it's legally dubious, even though what they really mean is that they believe it's immoral.

Which, fine, I don't respect it but whatever. But then we jump to:

> But it is purpose built to commit crime.

Wait, no. Scraping is not specifically illegal. This is the emulator debate again; we have something that really is strongly implied to be legal and has won court cases before. It's not like it's an untested gray area, we know that there are scenarios where scraping websites against the permission of the website owner is not illegal.

So the article pretends it's more of a gray area than it actually is, and then once it has thrown doubt on it, drops the pretense entirely and calls it illegal. Not all scraping is fraud and not all scraping is illegal, and it's pretty galling for the article to admit that scraping is not illegal and then to turn around and pretend that they didn't just admit that.

> It is also a good example of crime-as-a-service.

No, it's not. The article admitted that scraping is not specifically illegal. Tools to help scrape websites are not "crime-as-a-service" because objectively (and there is legal precedent backing this up) scraping is not a crime.

----

The propaganda strategy being employed here is to admit a piece of factual information (scraping is not illegal), however hesitantly, and then to pretend that it was never admitted.

If anyone calls the propagandist out, they can point to their admission and say, "no, I acknowledged that it's not illegal, see". But then for every other part of the conversation, they just ignore that and act like it is illegal, even though at best all they've put forward is that they think it's more dubious than courts currently recognize.

They concede the point only to the degree they're forced to and only to the degree that would prevent someone from saying that they're lying or ignoring reality. But as soon as the context changes, they go back to acting like the point was never conceded.

This has the benefit of not only allowing them to make the same arguments they wanted to make before, but also sort of trains listeners to think of the original conceded point as more murky than it actually is. "Sure," the reader thinks, "it's technically not illegal, but at the point we're talking about crime-as-a-service and illegal tools, surely there's something legally dubious going on, this must be more of a gray area" -- even though not only has the article not backed up that idea, it's actually admitted that the idea is wrong.
Well? Its not enough to just say something and assume its absurd and stop thinking about it. Have those companies intentionally made their products addictive to the extent you think they are deserving of censure or punishment? Because if thats the case maybe your point shouldnt be "this new bad thing is fine".
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I think many cognoscenti will pick languages for their deep aesthetics. That means things like J, Lisp, Prolog, etc.

Coding outside of the pedestrian languages can be a border line mystical experience. Mind expanding. Life changing. Just not in JavaScript; sorry :-)
FB is getting and using some metadata from WhatsApp. FB also said it would be introducing ads in WhatsApp. While WhatsApp may not be raking in a lot of money, it’s not a complete loss for Meta either.
https://www.android.com/get-the-message/
Cruise Suspends Employee Share Program, Citing Need to Revalue the Business
You can proxy your OpenAI calls through a quick Pipedream workflow.

Here's a proof of concept you can copy: https://pipedream.com/new?h=tch_OknfQd

The link makes a new unique API endpoint that proxies your OpenAI API credentials.

It just accepts a "prompt" argument in the HTTP request, but you can modify as needed.

If it does start to be abused, you can add frontend JWTs to check on this backend.
Same with video games. Imagine how much productivity would go up if addictive video games were banned. Looking at you Factorio
If you pay Signal $1/year, they'll realistically see about 60-70 cents of that – and that's only considering payment processor fees.

Now add the cost of providing support (it's a paid product now!), payment handling on their end (in a privacy-preserving way, which excludes most common payment methods), and top it off with the immense damage to the network effect by excluding all the users that can't or simply don't want to pay $1/year...

Donations seem like the much better option here.
> Think avionics, medical devices, automotive, military applications.

FWIW by-device/by-transistor-count, the bulk of "hard realtime systems" with millisecond-scale latency requirements are just audio.

The sexy stuff are all real applications too. But mostly we need this just so we don't hear pops and echos in our video calls.
Imagine if parents could control whether kids have access to a magic rectangle and what they can do with the magic rectangle...
I think you're mistaking privately run "internet addiction treatment" centers and the like for actual medical science published in journals. In reality they're more like the "treatment" camps for homosexual people: scams designed to prey on people's fear and ignorance with no science backing besides third tier pay for publish journals.
Unless the event is especially egregious that seems unlikely. Firstly, most consumers won't even know the breach happened. Secondly, you can quickly run out of places to go. Lets say I leave Target because they get hit by a ransomware attack. A year later Walmart gets hit. Do I go back to Target? Shop exclusively online? Most likely, I continue to use whatever company or service is cheapest and most convenient. All of my PII is already on the Dark Web from a hundred other breaches by now.
Those are just non-profit fundraiser consulting tactics. Don't take them personally, just ignore them. The reason they exist is that Wikipedia has too much money, so they spend some on consultants who say they can raise more. It's weird, but that's how the world works.

I would much prefer the Wikipedia endowment model of non-profit orgs. They have a standard operating procedure with a predictable budget, and endowment that let's them run indefinitely, and we just have to suffer through pledge drives. I just block them with ublock filters. I gave them 6 dollars back in 2012, and according to their marketing that is enough for life.
Probably app, card, or plug and charge, depending on what's supported.

Payment methods are orthogonal to the connector type.
All this hassle using different email addresses for each service and a Google voice number was worth it.
Nitrogen wars: the Dutch farmers' revolt that turned a nation upside-down
Very cool! Congrats on the success. :-)

I wonder how many other people have had similar experiences thanks to using HN?
"Instagram owner"? You mean Meta, aka Facebook?
Yes, and they should go after Roblox /Fortnite next. Fleecing parents so your kids don't get made fun of for "having the free skin" shouldn't be a business model.
Oh thank you - will deffo look into!
If you're not waiting for the remote log server to write the messages to its disk before proceeding, then it seems like that's not guaranteed to me? And if you are, then you suffer all the problems of local disk logging but also all the extra failure modes introduced by the network, too