skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In addition the float (the freely traded portion of the shares) might be well below what's needed to acquire the majority.
Golay codes are a set of error correcting codes.

The interesting thing is that one of the Golay codes is isomorphic to a mathematical object called S(5,8,24), which is the set of 8-element subsets of a 24-letter alphabet such that any 5 elements occur exactly once. And that this is very closely related to one of the Mathieu groups, which are finite and sporadic: exceptional objects in mathematics.

I loved the presentation of it.
It is a bizarre take, see also the train wreck of a discussion about Beeper and Apple.
> With digital, literally everything is an infringing act of copying[0], so any rule of how many copies can be made (e.g. "one to one") needs full-supply-chain enforcement. It'd be very easy to cheat the CDL system without even generating any evidence that cheating had happened.

The inability to generate evidence is not any kind of distinction. Anybody can go to the library, borrow a physical book, take it home and scan it into their computer. They can print out a physical copy and put it on their bookshelf. They can upload the scan to an offshore piracy website via Tor and nobody has any way to know who they are.

People pay for books because they want authors to keep writing books, not because nobody has figured out how to anonymously distribute content over the internet.

> What we actually need to fix libraries' ebook programs is collective bargaining and compulsory licensing programs. We already have this for radio: there's a part of the copyright office that decides how many fractions of a penny to charge a radio station every time they play a song, and as a result, radio stations can play whatever

The record labels used this to essentially destroy internet radio by making the compulsory fees uneconomically high so they could turn Spotify et al into the "Netflix of music" because the fees bankrupt most anyone who doesn't enter into a separate agreement with the labels. And then independent music services can't play small unsigned artists because it's uneconomical to negotiate with them individually and also uneconomical to pay the compulsory licensing fees if you don't. And large radio stations have to cut deals with them that cause the thing where "iHeartRadio" (formerly known as Clear Channel) only plays the five songs the labels want them to (essentially payola, but now you're bankrupt if you don't take the deal).

The thing IA was doing seems better.
It's a show that plays to New Yorker stereotypes and exaggerates them. I suspect you wouldn't have liked it at the time either.
Coast Salish "woolly dogs" revealed by ancient genomics and
This conversation has been had at length at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38576857

The top reply addresses your points:

> The hacker spirit is the fun of reverse engineering. The hacker spirit is about personal use.

> It's not expecting to be able to turn it into a business, or a popular app, that wouldn't quickly be shut down. That's just common sense.

Beeper’s CEO is acting high and mighty, speaking like he’s some kind of ideological liberator, while charging for a service using another’s infrastructure. Had it been free and open-source from the start¹ you’d see a lot more people on their side. As soon as you start charging, you lose a lot of “hacker” sympathy.

It’s possible to disagree with Apple for not providing iMessage on Android while at the same time disagreeing with Beeper’s approach.

¹ And I do mean the whole app, not the proof-of-concept from the teenager.
> I made my own blogging platform where I write Markdown, and it transforms the markdown into HTML before delivering it to the client. The only JS involved is highlight.js, and that's only loaded on posts where I specifically ask for it - the whole blog works normally with no JS at all.

There are plenty of platforms that will render markdown into HTML (e.g. Jekyll); I specifically wanted to actually serve the markdown as-is, so that the "source" for any post is always available.
LinkedIn sells to data brokers. You can get a list of past and present employees and cherry pick the ones of value.
It should still work. Just like adding 0 to a number should still work, or multiplying by 1. The computer should just happily do nothing.
> Would it be better if high-performing people worked for lower-performing companies?

Per my value system, what we want is to match people to work that they are good at, and for any particular ability, we want to match people who have more ability to societal needs that are more important. "Higher performing company" does not equate to "more important company". I'm glad Einstein chose to be a physicist rather than be a Facebook engineer (or whatever the equivalent was in his time). I don't believe anyone should be billionaires or fabulously wealthy, but if I did, it would be people like Einstein, not Mark Zuckerberg, or people like Musk who would have paid Einstein some minimal market-driven amount more than Princeton would have (from the government subsidies Must gets) while convincing people he (Musk) is responsible for all the great technological advances resulting from Einstein's work, keeping all the profits for himself and pouring them into even more extractive schemes.

> Wouldn't an inability for higher-performing workers to move to higher-performing companies reflect a lack of worker freedom?

Doesn't the inability of lower-performing workers to not be coerced into working for slave wages under slave conditions represent a lack of freedom? What about the children of lower-performing workers who are locked into poorer schools, poorer nutrition, poorer environments, less quality time with their parents and many other disadvantages?

And what if higher-performing companies are those that are best at extracting the most value out of bottom-level workers, effectively acting as intermediate slave owners for consumers who get cheap goods on the backs of bottom-level workers and their lack of freedom?
>Putin told the Duma that he wanted to rebuild the USSR, is that still going to happen?

I suppose Putin also blew up Nord Stream pipelines?

And Russia also ran out of missiles?

And Russian army is fighting with shovels?
> we have no idea when they filed what papers where ... and when regulators answered and what, and then how the companies reacted, and when, and ...

detailed timeline, explanations, submissions etc here from UK’s CMA:

https://www.gov.uk/cma-cases/adobe-slash-figma-merger-inquir...
There is a full court press against Elon. Not that it is all undeserved but I'm so sick of hearing about it. Every other day the media or the government has some fine or hit piece on him or his companies. Just read Brendan Carr's dissenting opinion on the FCC decision.
Not since... 2010, I think?
I really like this general approach of using HTML as a declarative language.

I've been working on a similar concept except as a serverless platform which updates all data in real time: https://saasufy.com/

Docs: https://github.com/saasufy/saasufy-components/#saasufy-compo...
> You don't think that Russia views NATO as an enemy?

I guess it depends on who you ask.

I recently read the memoirs of the man who was the Russian minister of foreign affairs 1990-1996. He certainly did not view NATO as an enemy. Already in 1992, he foresaw that all of Europe would eventually join the EU and NATO, because their core values would sooner or later lead to accepting new democracies as they matured. He expected that Russia would join those organizations too, but before that could happen, his fraction unfortunately lost the domestic political struggle to the old guard who wanted to maintain Russia as their personal fortress, and turned domestic anti-western brainwashing up to 11 before anyone in the west even lifted a finger at them.

He concluded despite some diplomatic mistakes that were made, the west was on the right side of history by working with new democracies and has been successful in ensuring peace and prosperity through cooperation with their new partners. Russia, which returned to Soviet-era antagonism, failed.

He hopes that one day, Russian people will be able to follow other European nations in finding their national interest in democratic reforms and cooperation with western institutions.

He wrote the book a little before the full-scale invasion. The war has made him less poetic and more direct. He does not think very highly of people who buy the Russian narrative about NATO threat. He now calls them "chumps" and "useful idiots" who help to cement the little fortress where Putin and his KGB buddies can freely loot Russian people with impunity. And now, unfortunately, the insatiable greed has spilled over to Ukraine too.
The algos will immediately yank the price up as soon as an order that big comes in. On many smaller stocks it’s possible to manipulate the price with less than $100k.
> The success traits that put high income earners together gets reenforced with their kids.

Bingo. It's parenting. I won't go into how I can positively confirm this, but I can as a "captain" as reddit used to refer to it...

Wealthy areas still out fund raise, out tax, and out volunteer poorer areas.
> The bread we throw to the poor is the only thing that keeps their knives away from your throat.

Yeah this wouldn't go how you think it would.
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Threads Isn't a Win for the Fediverse
Joe Biden, Five Years Before Invasion, Said the Only Way of Disarming Iraq Is “Taking Saddam Down”

At a 1998 Senate hearing, Biden argued that “taking this son of a — taking Saddam down" was the only way to guarantee Iraq’s disarmament. "

https://theintercept.com/2020/01/07/joe-biden-iraq-war-histo...
What are some symptoms of a cult of personality? I use Ruby and Rails and I know that DHH and Aaron Patterson are somewhat famous but don’t know much about them and certainly don’t make any decisions based on their existence or fame.
I mean, being a teenager might have something to do with it.
Principality of Hutt River
We need to have some regulation for such behavior where, if a provider can arbitrarily suspend an account without any recourse, they can’t charge any money to any customer. If they try to weasel away by hiding the fine print “please don’t use our service for critical activities..”, then they must not have any kind of premium model or must compensate the person affected if can be proven with 100-200x of 10 years worth of what the customer pays monthly.

However, with the tech wild west, anything goes and I’ll continue to be pipe dreaming.
Perl – The Humane Programming Language
What an entitled take.

Junk food is popular for many reasons. Beyond “tasing good”, most of it is readily accessible, requires no prep, and is calorie dense. It certainly lacks nutrients, but it does keep people going.

I know any people take this for granted, but knowing how to prepare food from scratch is a skill. It takesa time, it takes effort, it takes knowledge that some people simply don’t feel they have.
It doesn't matter if the demos were good or not. Demos don't always go as planned. I've found using Gemini for image scene description and chat works well, and have it running a portion of an image scene to spoken "thoughts" pipeline using ElevenLabs for the voice: https://github.com/MittaAI/mitta-community/tree/main/cookboo...
Full stop and without prejudice, libdecor is a bad idea. It requires linking to C code which is not normally necessary on Linux, and if you want to respect the GTK theme in GNOME, you need to link to GTK (even if indirectly: it still has to be in your process's address space) and have access to user settings. This is a whole lot of complexity that GUI libraries and container runtimes will need to deal with just for GNOME if they want something as ridiculous as native looking titlebars, especially considering a wide variety of applications that otherwise don't care about looking native would definitely like to have native titlebars. Another good example of a situation where it'd be nice is Wine, which can currently have native titlebars on X11 but not Wayland.

> lack of server-side decorations in mutter is primarily a technical problem that's not really easily solvable - currently the compositor code does not actually depend on any drawing library, to draw native serverside decorations it'd have to pull in entire gtk (a lot of effort was put into eliminating gtk from the wayland compositor path in the first place; mutter the X11 window manager, i.e. what xwayland applications use, has the dependency, so it can draw decorations)

Application developers and users don't care about Mutter's clean dependencies. It doesn't matter how the problem is solved, it just matters that it is solved. For all the application developers care, they can resolve the problem by having another process manage GTK shells around applications and not having Mutter actually do it.

As for not wanting GTK in Mutter, well, a lot of applications also don't want to have GTK in their process space, so it seems like this desire shouldn't be very surprising to GNOME developers.

What will happen here is that libdecor will be treated like a polyfill just for the snowflake case of GNOME and the damn-near rest of the world will figure out a way to do SSD. Exactly how doesn't matter, so as long as it's out of the application's own concerns. This is basically the only way that things can work, because if you wanted e.g. native titlebar regardless of whether you were on GNOME or KDE or something else entirely, you don't want to have every single flatpak/snap/whatever needing to pull in the entirety of GTK4 and Qt6 or whatever just to be able to try to have native titlebars. The only reason this works for GNOME is that GNOME is the only DE that does things that only work if they are the center of the universe, so you can have the GNOME case and the rest of the world case just fine. (I know the common argument here is "but what about Weston", but I am not aware of any desktop Linux system that boots into Weston, so it's really neither here nor there.)
Is this critique to do with the div containing the text "Scroll down to read and explore"? It doesn't seem like a good critique.
The people who know about and post to HN can get remote jobs.
> The European Digital Markets Act, which will require chat networks to provide interoperability

I think this would be _fan-tas-tic_. But beeper is not a chat network. It is a company that simply wants to be be the iMessage for Android client, using Apple's network.

Their case would be stronger if they did have their own network and used this reverse engineered iMessage connection to provider interop between the two networks.
Unbricking my MacBook took an email to Tim Cook
If you service > 50% of Americans and there is only one other vendor, then yes. Exactly this.

Especially if your thing is the "everything" thing.
This gets posted a lot and the reality is that hedge funds own a very small percentage of properties: it's hard to find numbers, but anywhere from <1% ("how many single-family homes do hedge fund owners own" / "how many single-family homes exist") to 3% (how many "institutional investors" own) [1]. They allegedly purchased ~27% of the new homes during the first 3 months of 2023 [1], which is a larger ratio (and not ideal), but still less than the majority. The majority of homes are owned by individuals [2], and the main reason prices are high is supply and demand.

[1] https://nationalmortgageprofessional.com/news/democratic-leg...

[2] https://sgp.fas.org/crs/misc/R47332.pdf

[2] https://todayshomeowner.com/blog/guides/are-big-companies-bu...
Thank you for typing out the explanation!
That's bizarre. If anything, Amazon ebooks are worse than anything you can download, as Amazon retains some ability to remotely erase or alter them if your device remains connected to the internet, which pirated books never will.
it is the narcotic of programming languages
I always heard it put as (for highway driving) "9 you're fine, 10 you're mine". I do a lot of highway driving and the cruise is always set to 9 over, never had a problem. I just slow up at the speed traps but usually they probably see my first speed before I slow up
In this case, does "Power Plant" mean [Nuclear] Power Plant?
> It’s more silly not to realize that 60 years ago the janitor could buy a house and put the kids through school, 40 years ago you could get a college degree and buy a house as soon as you graduate…

woah, this a completely different topic. We're talking here about getting promoted. If you want to discuss the topic of how capitalism has degraded the benefits for workers this is not the thread for it.

> People shouldn’t work hard if the deal gets worse every year. Don’t reinforce this bad system. Tear it down.

You're not "tearing it down" by doing the bare minimum and not getting promoted. You're just hurting your own odds. I did not say work yourself to the bone, there are plenty of ways to show initiative and engagement in your 8hrs at work.

re: "tear it down". Replace it with what? we need serious adjustments, but there's no need to descend into anarchy.
Sometimes I'll post an article and I will be redirected to an older but still somewhat recent thread that doesn't have any comments, so at what point should I be reposting an article to not have this happen?
Yeah it seems like it was cheaper in the short run but will likely be extremely expensive in the long-run.

- loss of sales of watches

- either battling in court for who knows how long or settling out of court for god knows how much money.

The real move would have been to just.. Grow a team internally. I mean come on, ox sensors? They couldn't have figured that out without poaching a well established med-tech company?
Russia Punched an $11B Hole in West's Sanctions Regime
> Copyright covers derivative works

This is so dumb. If early math has been copyrighted all math would be 1000 late by now
This would also be amazing for screen readers and other accessibility software.
I think you're missing the factor that expanding the API surface area, however attractive/productive/cool each individual expansion/feature might be, in aggregate becomes a moat maintaining the incumbent's dominant position.

So as far as Google is concerned, the implied manpower requirements are a feature, not a bug.

Chrome's surface area is now huge (and still expanding at a fair clip), but matching Chrome's featureset has become table-stakes for being considered a viable desktop browser, and independently implementing (and maintaining) that entire set of features requires a correspondingly large developer team, even if you were somehow more labor-efficient.
How does this relate to my question about the 3 day special operation?

Will Putin be able to rebuild the USSR?
> three times a fortnight

I approve of this unit of measure.
A database language featuring easy writing and fast running
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Which length are you talking about? From that link, both Life+50 and Life+70 are very common, and NZ is in the former.
PowerPoint is a decent tool for creating lightweight animations.

With the right use of tools like morph transition etc. one can achieve pretty decent looking or even professional looking animations of concepts.

I have also used PowerPoint to create web application wireframes, design concepts, Logos and website graphics, icons, repeating fill patterns, arbitrary vector graphics, etc.

I guess one strong point is how easily / widely available the tool is, and therefore even if you don't have the same machine with all your design tools, or don't have admin access to install them, you can still edit your work later easily.
Ahhh, this speaks to me. I've been doing my pet project for 6 months now. I have just embarked on another new feature this weekend. The project has been "finished" for a number of times on a number of milestones, but but I just needed to get one more feature in. I'm my best and worst product manager. Best in the case that I can control what go in and what to keep out. Worst in that feature creep is way too easy.

Ok. I'm going to comment out the pending feature and just release it.
You might be right, but the alternative is to resign yourself to stagnation. I'm not sure that's better.
> To me, it seems those are all indirect, delayed outcomes of the money supply.

Why do you think that? Suppose that Treasury minted $100,000,000,000,000,000 in coins and locked them up in Fort Knox and never spent them. By what mechanism would that increase in the money supply drive up prices?
I'm also ok with mega corps not buying smaller companies. It encourages further mega-corpification.
It's on bn.com but it sounds pretty bad based on reddit comments.
Biden and HRC's votes are inexcusable.

When Obama first ran for President, having voted no on the invasion was the litmus test.

That's one of the reasons he jumped ahead in the running.

We all knew it was a giant mistake at that point. Now history is being revised. I have recently heard an active US Admiral on YT say "it's the best intelligence we had at the time." No, it was devoid of actually intel. As criminal as the Russian invasion of Ukraine, minus most of the ethnic cleansing. The USA lost so much global goodwill. It was soooo stupid and unnecessary. Arguably the end of Pax Americana.
>This theory doesn't work very well, because there are lots of places where new construction is entirely uncapped (politicians are desperate for the new property tax growth), and prices still don't fall there

Can you give an example of such a place?
> Your assumption is there is no electricity at home or work

I've driven electric cars for a decade and have two.

That is not my assumption at all. My assumption is that most people will consider the car defective if they plug it in, and then it doesn't have a full charge when they come back to it. (Either overnight or at work.)

> Residential garages have a 240V dryer outlet

Where I live that was a recent code change. I had to install an outlet for my first electric car. When I built my house in 2017, I had to really push on the builder to include an outlet.
If I was a climate change denialist, I would fund inaccurate, hyperbolic claims specifically to discredit the other side. This is more valuable than an actual lie.
Mostly unrelated, but I think activation lock and similar schemes should have an expiry date, like 2-3 years. It will drastically reduce the amount of senseless e-waste that are perfectly working computers someone just didn't bother to log out of.
Papers like this miss so much. There are so many other factors that can cause workers with the same abilities to wind up with very different salaries. Some workers might not be able to move to accept a better position so they wind up stuck in a lower paying job. Some are better at negotiation. Some have nepotistic connections to their employers, or got into the right old-boy network in college, so they are overpaid. Some lack self-confidence to ask for what they are worth, so since employers don't pay more than they need to, they don't get it. But too many economics papers just assume a rational market and a manageable number of possible variables and that anything else is noise that can be ignored.
Appreciate the clarification. It's a good write up either way!
iPhone and Samsung combined make up almost 80% of smart phone market share in the US. Being as Statistia is a premium thing I can't get accurate numbers, but lets say splitting 50/50 because if it was anything with any serious gap, they wouldn't group them the same. I'd assume they're high 40's and low 50's split between the two, so means iPhone is ~40%, now I ain't no math magician or anything but that leaves ~60% for non-iPhone devices.
Do you mean Beeper's customer can't chat each other?
If they can, Beeper has their own chat network, doesn't it?