skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I first traveled to Japan as a tourist, it was dirt cheap. The only expensive thing was the airfare, though the shinkansen tickets I guess weren't that cheap, but compared to rental car prices in the US they actually were. Everything else was really cheap. But I didn't travel like an entitled American, and certainly didn't hire a guide; how ridiculous. If you need a guide to get around a safe, highly-developed country in the age of Google Maps and Google Translate, then maybe you should stick to bus tours, but still that's not a horrible way to travel I think if you need hand-holding. They take you to all the best tourist spots and arrange things for you; the main problem is you're surrounded by people just like you and don't have to actually interact with the locals and figure out how to get around on your own, and end up going to the places the tour group wants to go instead of places you want to go.
The problem with a segfault isn’t that it crashed. The problem is that it might just as easily not have crashed but silently corrupted memory instead. A crash is (generally) safe.
In Australia the ACS (Australian Computer Society), "the professional association and largest community for Australia's technology professionals" is telling the world that the median hourly rate of $57.08 is too high and that professionals should expect "rebalancing" after the pandemic.

For context, inflation adjusted, in 1998 (25 years ago!) when I was a generic IT help-desk operator at a local University I was earning that rate. So, apparently in ICT we're earning too much and we should be happy about it.

Source: https://ia.acs.org.au/article/2023/it-teams--salaries--rebal...
On this day, 22 years ago, the Rockbox project started
Spotify Wrapped transforms user experience on the music streaming platform
What do you think is wrong with the way they handled the GameStop debacle? They say they run out of cash to fund people buying GameStop on margin. They raised more from investors and opened up buying again. The facts stand up that the whole debacle was a result of their incredibly generous margin facilities. Other (better) trading platforms exist that didn't stop allowing purchases but also didn't give out $1K interest free margin.

> Robinhood restricted trading in these stocks in order to meet collateral requirements at their clearinghouse

> The [class action] case was dismissed by the Miami federal court that November, on the grounds that the plantiffs fell short of providing direct evidence of an antitrust conspiracy
Well, I think I did good at interviews, not because I have the best technical skills, but because I trained a lot for interviews. And I not just imagined what potential interviewers might ask, or read a lot about interviews online.

That might be helpful, but what worked for me was physically going to a lot of interviews. The more interviews I went to, the better I became at the process.

And going to lots of interviews had the side effect that I ended up having to chose from several positions I really like.

More than that, a position which I kind of not thought greatly about when I read the job description and I read about the company turned out to be a great workplace for me. So even if you have some doubts, it's better to check it.
"Long ago, on Svalbard, when you were a young witch of forty-three, your mother took your unscarred wrists in her hands, and spok:[...]"

https://aphyr.com/posts/341-hexing-the-technical-interview
https://archive.ph/UAYFP
My wife uses YouTube a lot more than I do. I watch occasional tech related videos or stuff that's been sent to me. She uses it for audiobooks, music, some podcasts. She subscribes to a bunch of channels. It's her account that's logged in on the TV. I've never seen a message warning about adblocker use on my account, whereas her account got temporarily disabled. She ended up paying for premium.
But they are the most valuable cohort in terms of revenue https://www.statista.com/statistics/251328/facebooks-average...
I recall reading a great intro to ZFS article that did this! They had like 16 USB drives!
My biggest concern is that telescopes will soon hit a fundamental size limit when we run out of adjectives for naming them - I posit 'Inconceivably Large Telescope' to be the maximum.
Did you read the linked paper? The conclusion talks about related AI/ML research.
Oh that's a good one
You're thinking of Cruise, which had to stop operations for malfeasance. If you want to tell me that the Google Self-driving Car Project, which is what Waymo was called before it was spun out from Google, didn't come from Google, I'm not sure what to say.
I dedicated years to full-time work on unifying the architecture for general software development.

ECS, OOP, functional programming, and others serve as methods to organize software — the developer interface. However that role should belong to IDEs — an actual user interface for developers.

Everybody has different hierarchy of their software, esentially developing their own software engine which sucks, because doing it right is extremely hard and time consuming.

What Steve Jobs told long time ago is still true today, "Paradoxically, we need more sophisticated software to make it more easy for the user" (paraphrasing). This is what we need - trully general software engine with IDE made right, what will unify organization of all sofotware and beyond.

For some deeper insights, in the context of the Web, I suggest reading Graydon Hoare's post [1].

[1] https://types.pl/@graydon/110561036237098295
yes, that one, thanks!
> The banners (in their annoying form) are illegal under gdpr and sites are pivoting away

This needs to be more widely known.

Also, because they need active consent - any cookie banner blocking extension (weird to see so few people talk about this when it's seen as obvious we need ad blockers) means no consent and is perfectly fine under GDPR. You're not required to signal "no".
Maybe you shouldn't have started off misquoting what Nietzsche actually said if you didn't want push back on it?
No, not if the customer is a individual ("consumer").

Directive 2013/11/EU, article 10 states "Member States shall ensure that an agreement between a consumer and a trader to submit complaints to an ADR entity is not binding on the consumer if it was concluded before the dispute has materialised and if it has the effect of depriving the consumer of his right to bring an action before the courts for the settlement of the dispute." https://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:...

This does not preclude the customer signing away their rights after the dispute arose, as part of a settlement agreement for instance.
It is 7AM which time zone? What stock markets do you support?
That do makes sense if you consider the MIT paper on debating LLMs.
Disagree. They can do what they want with the email once it is in their queue but bouncing 'unknown' IPs is an extreme choice especially when they have SPF/dkim/dmarc/mta-sts/... all set up, and are not on any spam lists, and are hosted in a reputable data centre.

SMTP 550 means the email bounces. The sender knows but unless they're also the admin they can't do anything about it. The recipient knows nothing. In the most recent case that happened to me, it happened when I sent a reply to an @outlook I had just received a message from (and was regularly receiving emails from, but only rarely needed to reply).
It is automatic with Vercel, I just tried and it works for me. Maybe your config or your browser? I don't know.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38543587
EU is also not uniform in terms of language - so most EU companies need to decide whether they go global and start in a foreign (English) language or begin in their native language and risk getting locked in there.

I’ve been mentoring startups in EU for over 10 years and there were only a handful that had issues with regulation, but 95% had issues with a language/country lock in.
The companies I listed require an account with them, not day one patches.
What is the share of revenue from US? I would guess it's not thaaat far from 50%. The median income in the US is like 20x of India, so presumably ad views from the US ought to be quite a lot more valuable. I would guess EU + US is the vast majority of revenue.
Same with WhatsApp and signal
I don't know if Mondragon is not like this a bit - they have elections to choose managers. But it's still much more flat that typical state structure.
They also haven't released in the UK and they have released in a huge range of other countries, so language can't be the reason.
He gives various reasons and practical examples for it.
The "C is a shark" is really apt, I like it. Keeping that one for future use.

"Write it yourself" ... I'm not so sure. It will come back in a limited way; stuff like leftpad is obviously stupid. But chatGPT is not good at tackling very large problems.

I think GPT require both breadth (large context size) and depth (smarts) to create good programs, organized well, with consistent behavior. Some code is very local. It's easy to write yourself because it touches only a small bit around it. Competitive programming problems are like this. GPT is good at those. The jury is still out on its ability to do anything further.

But a lot of code is far more global. It takes the work of a skilled programmer to take all of the small local pieces under an API and organize them to produce a cohesive whole. This large-scale organization of software is and always will be excruciating in a language like C.

C is a shark, yes. A shark is a hundred million years old; it's fast, stealthy, and sleeps with one eye open. But try getting 20 sharks to collaborate in a hunt, like orcas do. It's simply impossible.
IMHO, You have a wrong idea of what decentralisation means.

- light validator nodes, more than 50ks around the world
- no foundations, CEOs, companies behind
- proposals based on BIP
- miners don’t own the chain since rules are based on nodes (except some quick activations in the past for segwit and taproot)
- no premining
- the only one truly censorship resistant (stratum v2)
- I could go on and on and on

But yes, I agree with you on the mining pools topic.
I wonder if you did that same calculation today, what percent of the speed of light would the edge of that disk be moving...I miss that kind of humor.
Not many people like the commute itself. A few people do, as it may give them time to themselves.
But people do like to work in the "stuffy" office. It takes them away from distractions at home. It makes it easier to separate home and work. It gets them out of the house and around other people.
Personally I'm not one of those people, I prefer to work from home.
But I don't think it is obvious that working on the office is a net negative.
Story telling is not about code challenges. When it comes to code challenges, you can either do it or refuse the job.

Anyway, aside from a few bad faith individuals who try to make them seem smarter than you, the interviewers aren't going to fail you for small mistakes. They are more interested in your thought process, how you approach the problem and how fast. They even might give you some hints or guide you slightly if you are in trouble.
That’s it right - they get the goodwill of “we value privacy, look we gave you e2ee” and yet they still get to use your data and serve you targeted ads. Creeps.
Did they sell positions where they had no right to sell?

If they, hypothetically, had gone bankrupt, how would that have helped retail traders in that moment?
They need to show the regulators they're doing something about the absurd level of data mongering they do as their quintessential business model.
My personal security audit is to look at what a company returns when compelled to do so by law enforcement.

A passing grade is a block of garbled encrypted mess for which they have no unlock key.
Oh, it's definitely not easy to get this right properly. I just wanted to point out that things aren't as clear-cut impossible as the comment suggested.
Yeah, I feel like "your 4-figures investment will eventually start growing again after years (unless the bubble pops for good)" isn't what people are thinking of when they hear about bringing stable banking to impoverished countries.
What was inconceivable yesterday will be mundane tomorrow.
C++20 ranges went a bitwise operator overload (OR this time).
> I tell them "Hey, I've used this question before when I'm interviewing developers" (often not true, but what's a little white lie), then explain what I'm looking for in a developer when asking those kind of questions.

I would thank you for that and I would ask you to kindly do the code challenge.
Seems very fun but the instructions are really unclear.

There's no indication of the class having to be defined in the scope (though it makes sense). The password isn't really clear on being in the filesystem (at first I assumed it's in the actual github repository for the game) and "no __builtins__" sounds more like you can't use the literal string "__builtins__".

I feel like it would've been so much more fun if you could see how the rules are checked instead of having to figure it out.
Bingo. I'm not sure where you're from but it's especially bad somewhere like the UK where income tax rapidly approaches 50% once you get above median income. There is simply no way for people who start with nothing to leave the rental class. When you look at rich people, they inherited it. Doesn't matter how well they did in school or how hard they work.

Another major pain point is how much more tax effective it is for everyone to work as opposed to families having a single income. Basically you only get to take advantage of both partners' tax allowance if both work, meaning people who have to work (renters) have to work even more and probably live off copious shite food like microwave meals or eating out which costs even more and have to pay for someone to look after any children and even walk their dog!

The 99% movement had it right. What they didn't have was any actionable solutions to this problem, unfortunately. Now that's all been forgotten and people are more interested in issues like men vs women which tell us all men are screwing all women as opposed to the truth which is a few wealthy (mostly men) are screwing everybody.
I have a retro computing collection that I have maintained, in working order, over the decades, and it has taken up a significant portion of my living space.

To the point now where I recently found a Retro computing museum to start taking some of my items for public display. This is happening in a city (Vienna, Austria) quite well known for its obscure "Wunderkammer" culture, so it wasn't really a hard sell - I just had to be sure nothing inoperational was on display, and that things worked. Easy!

45,000+ visitors later, my little obsession has turned into a profession, with business cards and everything!

So I can perfectly understand the cabinet-of-curiosities->museum process. Its real and still a thing in todays world.
Telegram conversations are not end to end encrypted. If you do opt to use their end to end encrypted chat feature it only works on a 1:1 basis, and uses a dodgy protocol. The owner of telegram , company and employees are based in some of the most un-democratic police states in the world, where you have no privacy rights. To call Telegram a secure or private messaging service is laughable.
Perfect for me is not perfect for others of course. I have not run into the issue you linked, that sounds frustrating to deal with.

Backups is the only (near) 100% way to insure you data I agree.
I think the highest ROI thing is to simply start applying for jobs, because it takes under a minute and might get you a job. But that's just me.
Language barriers and local markets. 95% startups here build things for local markets and fail to scale to the global ones. In the meantime US startups scale to ~1bn people almost instantly.
I’ll reply with my second job as I really consider it my first. It came 9 months after I graduated from school. Didn’t have people lined up to hire me!

There was a time (2005 when Monster.com helped with finding roles and making connections. A recruiter from an insurance catastrophe modeling vendor contacted me about a role as a data cruncher for their home replacement cost (for insurance) estimation product.

My practical data experience was all self-taught. Taught myself PHP/HTML/SQL in high school to make websites for my touring bands and ended up landing a job working heavily with SQL that changed my career trajectory in the best way possible.

Fun fact: it was my first and only job ever sourced through a pure random contact / job board. Every role since has been connections, referrals, etc
Virtual machines with many virtual disks would be much easier, or maybe I’m just lazy…
WhatsApp shipped key transparency before Apple. I assume FB will follow.
yes the baseband blobs are still underappreciated.
I would take a subway over a bus any day. Shoot I would even take a car over a bus.
In general I think a subway is more convenient than a bus. They don't have the same traffic problems a bus does. They tend to run more often.
Buses are slow, don't run very often. And generally transfers take up too much time
The audience must be factored in when crafting the story. Because it dictates aspects of it. the language used, the embellishments added/removed, delivery method, the actors etc must be carefully crafted.

Some stories are short and straight to the point.

I had a colleague where if the analogies are used to as part of the story told, the message is not full understood by him.
TLDR: We don't know because there's no transparency from the president.
I’ve played a bit with Gen3 NVG’s and clip on thermal imagers that offer limited “sensor fusion” capabilities.

I can’t understate how fucking awesome the technology is, even the stuff available in civilian market.
1. Meta can read the metadata perfectly well (who communicates with whom and when), which is enough for ads.
2. Meta doesn't want to be able to read messages, since it's a PR nightmare when doing so. Case: Ordered to do so by a government agency. People could switch to Signal.
3. Data isn't readable "in transit", since it's encrypted with HTTPS. Only Facebook servers could read it if they wanted.
Read once about an iPod shuffle array…

Also on wired: https://www.wired.com/2005/02/ipod-shuffles-m/
All true! But not limited to interviewing. Most human interactions rely on some form of storytelling. He who controls the story often control the outcome.

Storytelling is how we understand the world.

Is this overused? Sure. Do many articles start with the same couple of sentences, so much so as to become ridiculous? Sure. Is the New Yorker one of the greatest offenders? Sure.

But we can't do without story. It's not just that stories are interesting; it's that, if there's no story, we often cannot understand what is being said.
I was under the impression that the reason why we don't understand the languages that we don't understand is because we lack sufficient records of them.
I think there's a recent ruling states that web pages can't ignore the Do Not Track flag sent by the browser, and another one is coming for cookie preferences, too.
Well maybe if you'd not browse HN from inside linode data centers it'd work better :P
couldn’t we approach it like (my understanding of) code breaking worked back in ww2? meta observations of recurrent symbols, like time, start/end message, etc reveal certain consistencies. then we fill in gaps through possible coherences.

while ww2 code breaking contained other human contexts, perhaps like-context observations could allow for certain categories that might reveal linguistic insights of whales. like whale sounds observed consistently near boats, divers, danger, eating, play, etc.

no clue about how LLM/AI systems process meta contextual training data inputs (is this even a valid phrase about AI?! haha) but i hope whale linguists have considered such an approach.
I honestly don't know if you're being sarcastic.

Yes, it's "not a problem" because all transactions are final and if you lose the key to your virtual wallet with all your savings, then you're fucked, but that's part of the point?

Banks provide these essential services that people need. Bitcoin doesn't, and it still consumes massively more energy.
The problem with raising pay across the board is that it reduces the value of money. Everyone is making $15 more? Great! Now everything is $15 more expensive to make up for the loss in currency value; more money in circulation means each dollar and cent is worth less.

This is then compounded because most business have no reason to not just offload the cost of increased pay onto the customers, who also got increased pay from their work.

So by increasing pay, money and manhours both lose value while the value of goods stay the same.

To be clear: Increasing pay is one of many levers that can be pulled to address inflation, but just increasing pay is not going to address inflation (and will likely make inflation worse).
Confirm here: https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/6/23991132/warning-23andmes...

23andMe is only giving users 30 days from when they receive the email to opt out of the new policy, which you can do by contacting arbitrationoptout@23andme.com.
https://xkcd.com/1294/ :-)
Only 55%? The other 45% (minus those CEO’s getting 16% pay rises) are either ignorant or extremely lucky.
NVMe Base for Raspberry Pi 5 with M-Key NVMe SSD Support
Reminds me of how most physics books with »modern« in their titles are from the 60s.
A Schism in the OpenPGP World
I thought Signal is open source?
The original AlphaCode paper in Nature explains the approach, they generate many potential solutions with the LLM and do a lot of processing after to select candidates. Here's where the probabilistic nature of LLMs hurts, I think.
Being contractors is Poland - that’s because of the taxes exactly, not regulations per se.

Contractors get taxed 19% flat rate and a small% for health insurance (even less in IT - 9%?). Whereas full time workers get taxed similarly to people in the west.
politically yes - culturally or socially I don't see it a divergence. Very similar to rest of Europe
Oh it's nothing formal, I just try to avoid any stress to my spine. That is, I don't sleep in strange positions that I used to sleep and I changed my bed to a stiffer one because the old one was deforming too much by my weight and this was causing my sleeping position to be slightly curved.

I also looked around the internet for recommendations but they all converge the idea that you shouldn't be forcing your spine to stay in a curved position beyond the natural curve for too long.
Do ppl know if battery issues were resolved? Did amd cpu help?
This is essentially how the Golden State Killer[1] was caught.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_James_DeAngelo
Now that it’s been operational for a while, I would love to see an analysis of the James Webb to determine if there’s diminishing knowledge returns to size.

I worry a bit the cost of something like this may be better spent on other space exploration efforts which will yield more knowledge.

For instance, voyager 3?
They are unique hashes, similar to Unison language. Interesting.
Because everything is stored locally.
>The owner of telegram , company and employees are based in some of the most un-democratic police states in the world

Maybe. I don't live in that country.
If perfect secrecy isn't achievable, I rather not let domestic actors to peek at my data.

>uses a dodgy protocol

What do you mean by dodgy protocol?
That doesn't matter if we're talking about % of users that could be affected by some local-US law.
Aren’t you able to buy a sticker vignette at just about every stop kilometers away from the Austrian border, as well as inside?

I get your point that the digital one has to jump through hoops due to these regulations, but there are alternatives if you need one /now/