skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>A film studio, or its investors, might very well prefer a 50% chance of a $5,000,000 profit on a $20,000,000 budget than a 70% chance of a $500,000 profit on a $500,000 budget.

That's not how it work: a rational actor would take the $20 million and invest it in 40 different films costing $.5 million each if he could make an expected profit of $.5 million on each of the 40 cheap films.

In other words, a rational economic actor will keep adding employees (or any other expense) as long as adding employees increases profits, but will not keeping adding assets as long as doing so increases profits because assets have opportunity costs.

To account for the opportunity costs, investors commonly speak of return on investment (profit divided by amount invested) rather than profit, because that is really what they're trying to maximize. Recasting what I just wrote in the new, crisper language, the rational actor will add any employee, any other cost and any investment to a firm as long as doing so increases return on investment.
Nope. I'll use the good enough tool for the job.
How do you buy this?
Yes, they vary. The bad ones sell to a corporate office structure to deal with data flows = maximise take home. Killing off vets and dental practices the same way - into corporate holding company. Ever why vet bills up 15-20% annually for 5 years now?
What's wrong with "math can't be made illegal"? I think the context for this argument (that I've heard most often) is around e2e encryption, and in that context I agree with it, both from an enforceability and a moral perspective.
A lawsuit on what grounds? Firing a ceo is not illegal.
No they're not. If they were, they would default to 0 temperature and have no Top P, frequency/presence penalty, and frankly not have knowledge as a function of language to begin with. They're designed to be convincing as a "presence" and output reasonable sounding language in context, with accuracy as an afterthought.
The issue (temporarily) is that many consider a long comment = high effort = probably high quality.
Now we have to change our heuristics.
Why would you use a Mac versus PC. Why would you use FL Studio versus Logic, or grand piano versus a synthesiser?

It comes down to the interface and the unique affordances it brings. A piece of musical hardware such a this is a musical instrument.
And it’s entirely plausible they make enough money from that to buy the next VMware in another decade or so to repeat the cycle. Sustainable bottom feeding as a strategy.
I think the comment you had replied to was equally unwarranted, no need to tie me to them.
nothing that involves administering windows or macs.
What was subversive about spending money to get ads run arguing on a live policy question?
I just want flat lenses for my glasses :-)

A very very long time ago the lab adjacent to the one I worked in was investigating if light passing through a holographic lens was bent in the same way as light traveling through a physical lens[1]. It was a super neat idea at the time. That was long before the whole meta-material craze hit.

[1] https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/1457205
It doesn’t really matter as the poster is in the “clueless” cohort of the company and she’s a sociopath. He thinks that the company exists to do whatever he said it was earlier when in fact the sociopaths running it at that time just said that to attract people that can do work to make them rich.

He thinks she is bad at her job and it’s clear she’s not. She know precisely how to move people around to take blame for failures while staying clean and clear to brag about the wins. To the clueless she might look dumb but she’s not at all. She knows how to secure her millions in comp per year and retire early. She’s very smart.

To be fair he seems to be waking up to the fact the sociopaths are in it for themselves, 18 years later.
It's not practically enforceable.
It seems to me like the PR machine is doing its job pretty well.
It's fine if that's the submitted URL of course.
isn't that an absolute too, though?
Microsoft under Balmer did great financially IIR.
> Many times I saw Google criticised for actions that were sincerely intended to be good for society. Google Books, for example.

Yes, Google books was great endeavor that could benefit all humanity. What happened to all those scans? Are they still stored somewhere?
I guess we'll merge that thread hither. Thanks!
Closed stuff can always be built on open formats and protocols.

E.g. TCP/IP is open; that doesn't make the Internet and Web open.

Open formats and protocols can serve as monopoly-enabling catalysts.
Same old same old. Nobody is starting new Fortran projects outside of the domains where it has been used for decades.
> Surely people aren't using Proxmox in production?

Lot's do, e.g., the Austrian domain registry:

https://www.proxmox.com/en/about/stories/story/nic-at

And many others (albeit the big ones aren't listed there, a bit harder to get real testimonials from them, and we do not pester everybody):

https://www.proxmox.com/en/about/stories?f=7
Hi Windmill devs -- why build this on relational Postgres at all? I've been toying with the idea of forking airflow and trying to swap out the backend for something document based either on Mongo or something else.

The reasons being db migrations are a pain in the relational strongly typed schema world vs the more forgiving paradigm of documents.
I don't think that's it, if anything it's chump change next to what they must have envisioned for themselves in the future. These are people hoping to be the next "ground floor" people in the next Google or Amazon, and while $800k per annum is a ton of money, it's closer to $0 than the billions they were probably anticipating.
Things Become Other Things (first ed.)
Probably not.

1. Paul Graham and Jessica Livingston tend to keep their private life private.

2. If I'm correct, it seems unlikely Paul told anyone he hired Sam to protect his personal interests as a married man nervous about his pretty younger wife working closely with another men.

3. If I'm correct, he probably didn't even tell Jessica because that would have come off as "I don't trust you" and not "I am worried about his behavior."
It's ok, now you know! Probably the thing to do would have been to post the tweet and use it for the title, and then link to the other site from the comments.

Looks like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38383099 did that, so we'll move the comments there.
For my case above we have a decent explanation of the “SMTP stage” policy [1] but no visibility into its actual metrics.

[1]: https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/360060591393
I deleted my LinkedIn account when it started becoming more like Facebook (nothing against FB, Wide likes it) but FB isn't for me.

Also, I removed my public open source projects from GitHub after Microsoft bought them then removed them from GitLab too when the AI warnings about stealing copyrighted code started to sound more real.
I'd switch if they would support the File System Access API. It's a really convenient API and IMO as someone who has worked with it extensively, is very secure. It supposedly has privacy concerns, but I think it would primarily be used for FOSS and hobby projects since Bigco likes to store all the data on their servers anyways, that's a feature and not a bug for them. In fact, I think it would be a security/privacy improvement since it would encourage storing data locally (privacy) and is way more secure than asking users to install a native app (which has access to pretty much everything on the device and not just the directory/file a user gives it access to).
You don't have to enable all these fancy new features in your zpools even if you update your build of zfs if you don't want to.

I have multiple zpools and none of them have been upgraded to enable any of these new features in the past couple years.
Well, the logic is/was that an engineer you hire on for 300k is now unable/less incentivized to go launch the startup that would threaten 20 million or whatever of your revenue. Now these employees are rare, and hard to find, so the 300k is what you pay knowing you also end up hiring duds.

It's also better from a managing perspective because if you have 10% of bloat and then have a bad quarter, you then have a lever you can pull to show you are getting stuff done. Its how managers smooth their performance, you overhire in good quarters to lower the profitability comps, and then fire to buffer up bad quarters.
The point of the colors is precisely to be highly visible. If you become incapacitated the last thing you want is to blend in with the surroundings. You might also notice that there's very few skiing outfits that are mostly white, or swimming suits that are mostly blue. To only reason someone would want to be more difficult to see is if they're trying to sneak up on someone.
And neither Apple nor Google published their FTLs...
Surely they could do something better for humanity, such as selling heroin to middle schoolers.
Turns out, Meta's Threads is good for breaking news
Red Hat has/had Red Hat Virtualization but has transitioned that to Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization as a successor. I think RHV is set to phase out in 2026, and I'm not sure if they're currently selling new subs or just servicing existing customers with other folks pointed to RHOV.

The oVirt community's most recent release is from last December, so I'm not sure whether that project is going to thrive now that Red Hat has largely stepped away. (Last blog update is also December 2022.)
Does that work with recursive types? I have had mixed results with `from __future__ import annotations` personally, but I haven't written much Python in ~a year or so.
A Fervent Belief Split Silicon Valley–and Fueled the Blowup at OpenAI
> After a Dutch lab modified the H5N1 bird-flu virus, five years ago, making it super contagious, the chance of a lethal synthetic virus being released in the next twenty years became, well, nonzero.

He must have felt pretty vindicated about his prepper's stance when COVID happened five years after this statement.
> C-Suite can drive a culture where folks feel safe through reorganizations.

The larger version of that is mergers and acquisitions. The Wall Street Journal has pointed out a few times that M&A activity is usually a lose for stockholders. Reorganizing the corporate structure is one of the few things C-suite executives can do themselves. For most other things, they have to work through others, managing rather than doing.
They have Monopoly over the iPhone market, everyone was free to distribute programs for Windows but MS still got into deep trouble because of IE. In the eyes of the law you don't have to run 90 or 100% market share to be considered to be a monopoly.
Post author never mentioned her race, HN commenters did.
Yeah, and the other side of the coin is that there are tons and tons of people who left Google to pursue their passions and failed. And the third side of the coin is that there are many people who invented things within Google, were successful in doing so, and have stayed (e.g. Google Meet)
Manga artists and taxi drivers hit as tax frustrations mount
95 starts from dos and can exit to dos (maybe? my memory isn't reliable back then, I seem to remember it having a shut down screen and I thought reboot into dos rather than exit to dos?), but that doesn't mean dos runs under it. When a 386 mode Windows runs, it subsumes DOS; the DOS becomes virtualized on top of the Windows kernel, and when Windows exits, it puts things back to how they were.

It's messy and weird, but progress. Windows NT operates differently and I don't think ever started from DOS.
Thanks for the clarification.

I'm asking whether people download/watch/listen to copyrighted content without permission.
Briefcase is as handy for portable drives such as Zip drives. Yahoo also had an online version was much more restrictive
Posted without any explanation or context.
I feel like this is not a very useful article without a comparison to data over time.

I also think we could turn the numbers optimistic and say that 40% of Americans not living paycheck-to-paycheck is pretty impressive.

Finally, I think if you ask the question "are you worried about finances?" of course most people are going to say "yes."
what'd be wrong just storing your documents in postgres JsoN Or XML fields
This is an awesome idea and project!
Integration with nikto would be cool.

Good luck and happy hacking
I'm sorry. I was just taking the snark discussion to the next level. I thought going overboard was the only way to convey that there's no way I'm serious.
> I don't really see how naming the specific individual improved the argument

I disagree. Good articles should make specific propositions about specific exemplars. The alternative is to make generalities that are hard to falsify.
The way it usually works for something like bcrypt is this: password comes in as input, you choose a work factor / cost, your bcrypt library takes both and returns a string that you store in a single hashed pw field. The string consists of the work factor followed by a random salt (that it generated and concatenated to the input on its own) followed by the hash, so each account has its unique salt, you're good. If your DB gets dumped, people can't generate rainbow tables to discover the passwords of multiple accounts at once. Devs do sometimes concatenate other data to the pw before passing it to the bcrypt library, basically a runtime salt not stored in the (same) DB, so that just having a DB dump actually isn't enough to find users using the password "password".

Sure, if someone swaps the stored fields of two accounts around, they can login as them, but I don't think I've ever seen attempts at preventing this with just hashing policy. Things are rather dire for you already if an attacker can swap the fields of two accounts. Is the attacker in this scenario an employee...? As you say, any additional data from the row that is used along with the main random salt can just be swapped around too. I guess it's possible that an attacker can only swap the hash field, but not anything else, or especially not something like the primary key they would need. Some older schema designs store the per account salt in a separate column from the hashed password, if only one field can be altered then I guess that would stop the given threat scenario too. (Edit: I guess another scenario the GP might be thinking of is that all other data is gated behind queries that filter on a user id, so an attacker partially modifying just the user login row to login "as them" doesn't actually help get access to anything else if they had to modify the user id.)

I think it's better here to focus on the broader scenario of "unauthorized access" which includes concerns like: attacker actually knows the user's password (from keylogger or whatever) and thus doesn't even need to alter anything in the DB or care about the hashing policy. It might seem like it's over in such a case, but many systems out there still manage to prevent many cases of such unauthorized access. e.g. with 2FA, or pseudo-2FA with things like "we don't recognize this device fingerprint/IP, so re-verify the account's email and/or phone and/or trusted recovery email" -- and even after that sometimes the service (Google) still might not let you in.
To close to home for many? Then again this is what life is about from moralphilosophical view. A body horror show with a "what have I become" at the end? Spoilers not welcome?
Please, we call it "venture rationalism"
Does virtualbox have an equivalent to VCSA? Can I failover a datacenter with it?

virtualbox is pretty capable but I only view it as equivalent to vmware workstation.
Addicted to attention
Altman founded Loopt.

Not sure how you can say he fell into the CEO position there.

Also at the time he was at YC it was a significantly smaller and less prestigious incubator.
> If the PSF ran a poll for the most-wanted type checking features, I don't think this would come close to first. This sounds very niche. The people working on typing seemed very busy in the last few versions.

Sure, but while it's not possible to type basic functions like ones that concatenate tuples, I can say that Pythons typing system is not superior to Typescripts.

> Returning errors as values isn't really how you're supposed to use Python though.

Okay, so how am I supposed to handle non-exceptional errors? Because using exceptions for that kind of thing absolutely isn't good practice.

> And why is there a second tuple-based format that does the same thing?

Legacy. Typescript allows me to do refactoring of things like these step by step and very easily. Python doesn't, because it's inflexible.

> It also smells slightly off that the rest of the code takes an object that's exactly similar to the first function's result, but with a transformation uniformly applied over the values. Shouldn't the first part's output and the second part's inputs both be clearly declared independently of each other? And then wouldn't it be an extremely niche case that both types are identical except for one transformation applied to all values? Is it worth the language complexity and a dedicated function?

Are we taking apart my code now or what? I can't stop the world and focus only on refactoring things to be neat and tidy for months on end. But I can improve individual parts, bit by bit - and in a language with a better typing system, I can do so way easier.
Feels like ChatGPT has to show up in every Hacker News thread now.
I think AI doomers are mostly dumb, but this argument is not very good. The Halting Problem is a technical fact: you can't _prove_ that a program terminates in general. This doesn't mean that all programs are ambiguous with respect to termination. In fact, with appropriate limitations imposed, many programs could be proven to terminate. And even without limitations humans wrangle code all the time. If the presumption that a machine intelligence is at least as smart as a person, I don't see why they'd be any more likely than we are to run into non-terminating programs or whatever.

Furthermore, it doesn't matter for both practical and philosophical reasons. Practically, I don't see why a super-intelligence would just shut itself down to run some new code without various kinds of testing procedures. Also, there aren't any Turing machines anyway, since they need infinite memory, which even a super-intelligence doesn't have. I don't really see how the halting problem is a material problem for a super smart agent.
See also Intel and Tower Semi
> It's really made for developers or at least people that want code as a "first class citizen" of the platform.

Power Automate doesn't have this (unless you hack it into custom connectors) and it's a really puzzling decision.

I guess they want you to use Azure Functions but those need a PhD to understand and the deal with the security surface.
Any student can download and use Oracle DBs and most other products for free legally right from Oracle's sites. This suggests that even Oracle understands how important this pipeline is.
I'm not quite sure since I almost forgot everything about it, I was just like first/second try it, but thank you for the help! ill check that forum you just sent me.
Because this forum has a Paul Graham cult thing going on.
Agree, most work seems to treat the brain as the sole locus of neurological activity when the brain is one piece of a system.

To give a parallel, your high blood pressure may not be due to your heart, as it may be responding to a system of factors. Vasodilation and vasoconstriction of blood vessels have a direct impact. Your kidney health, an organ outside of your circulatory system can trigger high blood pressure. O2 and CO2 levels in the blood can trigger a response.

Looking at the brain in a vacuum will only get us so far.
Wouldn't be shocked if this is part of a deal Xi and Biden made.
Cable, without premium channels, was $20 a month when I was a kid and there were no commercials. It took about 20 years to grow to $100 a month and with 25% of time devoted to ads. Even discounting inflation, that's a significant decrease in consumer value and a massive increase in cable company profit.

Google's ad empire is almost 20 years old. The same level of enshittification should be expected.
I am not aware of evidence that he conned someone, but as a side quibble:

>Did someone force you to use Binance?

Do you understand what a con is? People are usually 'conned' because they are tricked into trusting someone that they shouldn't, when people are forced we typically refer to it as robbery or similar.
Transitive trust is a bad idea. The telephone game aka "chinese whispers" demonstrates why.
This is the result of having leadership with MBA or finance background instead of engineering. All they see is short term money, product is a 2nd class citizen.

This is what happened to the automotive industry. In the past companies tried to build the best car. Now? Profit is all that matters.
100%. I still have contacts from when I worked there, and It's worse than feared. Everything is on fire and all the best engineering/support talent has either left or is leaving. Broadcom is not only raising prices, but is set to deliver considerably worse products. It makes me sad, because it was once an incredible place to work. Now I recommend that people avoid them like the plague.
Im sorry, are you actually getting upset that someone responded to your snarky comment with snark? Get serious.
I write text in a text editor all day but would still upgrade my machine on a regular basis. I have a Threadripper and use all 32 cores everyday. I'm still debating on whether or not to upgrade to the new generation released yesterday. 4 year old CPUs are not speedy.
Unless of course you manage to get your work inside that company released under an appropriate license, meaning free/libre copyleft ... which they did not do.
It's really shocking how much they have gotten away with and for how long on all kinds of things around FSD and AP, both safety and consumer rights issues.

And they're still proudly presenting this 8 year old video as the main feature on https://www.tesla.com/autopilot claiming the driver is just there for legal reasons.
You sound like you’re from Belgrade and have never been to Kosova or Bosnia or even to the countryside. Would you prefer to say “western Balkans” or do you presume to also speak for Greeks, Romanians, Bulgarians, etc.

I would engage with your sources rather than once again retreat into claims of irreducible essence of identity that can never be understood by outsiders. If the Balkans has a curse, it’s that dishonest rhetoric being peddled by corrupt westernizers and corrupt nationalists.
Not software, but pragprog has 40% of all ebooks/audio books with code: https://media.pragprog.com/newsletters/2023-11-17.html
That's not free though. That's something very similar to "free for non-commercial use" (with an extension allowing free commercial use up to a certain scale).

It doesn't solve the problem of someone being able to operate the software on a server, where the users have no control of it and their data is held hostage, too.
I sometimes think that at this level of the game everyone hates everyone else and its all politics. You don't "come out" for or against anyone publicly, you leave all of that under cover. It makes knowing who your friends and enemies are more difficult and it restricts your ability to maneuver. Another quote from my grandfather was "Mutual respect does not require that you like someone."
> There is only so much you can do while still maintaining Microsoft's legendary backwards compatibility.

...like adding support for more filesystems.

I'm curious about what (and when) other parts of the IO stack have been updated. Something has to have changed to add trim support: I'm guessing the scheduler.
Windmill is great. Definitely don't stray from the self-hostable + DX mission! I haven't had need to use it professionally, but I use it on a home server to run several small web crawlers and yt-dlp jobs. Really fun piece of tooling.