skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're a single adult (which you probably are if you're interested in taking advantage of this program), $66k/year would mean you are richer than 99% of people on the planet, and your median income would be 20.2 times the global median. [1]

1. https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/how-rich-am-i?income=66000&c...

So yes, by global standards, $66k/year would mean you are extremely rich. It's even quite a bit higher than the median adult income in developed countries. At $66k/year, you're making about double the average German working adult, and over triple the average Japanese working adult. [2]

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_income

I think people often don't understand the grand scale of difference between the developing and the developed world. Yes, there is a cost of living adjustment, and certain things are cheaper abroad (though many things, such as electronics, are more expensive), but people really do consume a ton more in the rich world. Most people don't have cars, and most people live in far smaller homes. Even Europeans live in far smaller homes than Americans: the average new English home is 1/3 the size of the average American home. [3] People in developing countries also travel a lot less. Only 3% of Indians have traveled abroad, vs. 76% of Americans. [4]

The discretionary income, defined as "all the money you have left after paying for taxes and your absolute needs", that most Americans have (all but the lowest 3 deciles) would be extremely enviable by most people worldwide. [5, 6]

3. https://www.businessinsider.com/ons-english-homes-are-a-thir...

4. https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2023/12/06/international-...

5. https://www.fool.com/investing/general/2015/10/18/the-averag...

6. https://infogram.com/discretionary_income_by_income_decile
Mostly east of the Mississippi, which has no water shortage. If you don’t use the water in the East, it usually ends up as salt water in the ocean.

https://www.usgs.gov/mission-areas/water-resources/science/t...
> most companies will choose to write their own code.

That might depend on the ubiquity of the OSS in question. If a company's option is to rely on a piece of open source software that has been used billions of times over without incident versus rolling their own solution that at best has only been tested in-house, could they say the latter is really the safer bet?
I agree, but then we're back at exporting produce from wherever water is cheap and abundant. Which is a good thing and necessary, but it has to be done carefully at the industrial scale we're at.
I never used it; I just knew about the situation and used it as an example.
Any advice is going to be reductive when measured against the reality of building a startup. While learning and continuous improvement are table stakes, I think the GPs advice is much better to get first-time founders overall. "Sharpening the saw" is likely to feed perfectionist tendencies, or send them into dopamine learning loops online. There's a reason that "bias for action" is treated as a highly valuable trait in founders.
The parent post said it looks pixelated.
So, yes distance matters but is not relevant to my post because they already said it looks bad.
I guess you could get an M2 Ultra with 800GB/s if you care about this metric specifically?
I’d think that proven success (“there used to be a pervasive problem but now we are presenting it from manifesting”) would provide good job security. If structural changes were made, that would make auditors less necessary, but it’s not like the auditors are the ones that create the governmental rules around ID checking. They might lobby the issue, but it would be tough for them to advocate for less strict rules without seeming openly hypocritical.
Grammar checks are somewhat like compilers. When I type prose or code into my text editor, both are underlined with squiggly lines if they are grammatically incorrect.

Furthermore, I compose both types of text in an iterative process where I got the general ideas down first and then improve the precision and completeness of the piece.

Lastly, I think deeply about the human meaning of the text before I consider it complete, at least for my side projects. I refactor the code so that it matches my human model of the problem as well as I can.

Your mileage my vary, but coding and prose feel similar in my experience.
I opened the article wondering why, then the first line said "Private auditors", and then it was pretty clear to me. Why would you ever rely on auditors paid with private sector profit to care for basic human rights? Especially when paid for by a huge corporation?

The answer must lie in strengthening the Labor department, but that's a whole another problem I imagine.
I admire how they barely try to hide the fact that it's just a way to bombard you even more with ads. They don't even care to pretend at this point.
I see that as eleven billion dollars of damage done to the mental
health of children.
The good thing about this is that its bidirectional, so can be used to offload ~4.2% of the total generation capacity of the UK, or should they need it, import that amount.

That should also cut the tops and bottoms off the spot price of electricity.
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/cK5GE
The phrase is a satirical meme used to sarcastically comment on the ongoing tendencies to ease child labour restrictions and crontrols in certain parts of the US.

Edit: those downvoting me, please consider that this is not necessarily the opinion I hold, I am not from the US and I might not have enough background information to even judge this. What I wrore above is what a 5 minutes on research on that phrase brought up.
I eat stuff with bones in it all the time, as do most humans. I was a vegetarian for years and the inclusion of gelatin in foods where it isn't immediately obvious was certainly annoying. As was the inclusion of non-vegetarian products in cheese, beer, and sugar. Doesn't change the fact that gelatin isn't generally considered a ghoulish or unusual ingredient -- little kids get served big bowls of it! If you have a special diet you need to read labels. That's what they're for.
Reminds me of the Wright Brothers. After their incredible invention of controlled heavier-than-air flight (using a wind-tunnel - did they invent that too?), the focus was on patent royalties, while others innovated.
No dog in this fight. I moved out of Scottsdale to the Great Lakes region a bit back partly because of the water issue. So I definitely get the natural inclination to not want to have to think about water.

All that said, I mean, if your HOA requires this, is the problem with the city charging for water use to upkeep the infrastructure required to deliver it? Or is the issue really just that your HOA has rules that it shouldn't?
It's a very similar idea.

Traditional Unix-ish filesystems, with inodes and indirect nodes are a lot like b-trees, but ones where the indices are block numbers and where you can only append indices, trim, or replace indices.

The ZIL (ZFS intent log) is a mechanism for amortizing the write magnification of copy on write trees.
I don’t doubt you at all, but what kind of innovation was there?

Did it tend to be strategic or tactical?

How closely was tied to their core competencies?

How many innovations were industry firsts?

What percent impact did they have on profits / growth / market share?

From the article it sounds like innovation and investment were consistently blocked by short term financial goals.

I can easily believe there were lots of very smart people, with transformative ideas, that were never given a chance to thrive.
The oposite is true as well so: don't focus on the books, bottom line and so on and the company goes bust as well.

Any successful company has to do both.
A capitalistic corporation seem to be a terrible way to maintain software since the "means of production" is in the workers' heads. Especially with these new management fads punishing loyalty. The attrition just makes stuff collapse from unknown complexity.

It is not surprising that volunteer run projects kinda can keep up.
Aaaah so good to see this here - played the hell out of Liero, modded it a LOT. My pals had a bunch of our own insane versions we played endlessly for years. Wonder if I can find them somewhere

Single keyboard frenetic split screen multiplayer is still a gaming nirvana I can never seem to get back to these days.

Noita is a good modern reimagining in single player, I used to quite like Soldat etc too but none had the sweet kick of Liero...
Is it? What about using limited water for crops that don’t have as much value to survival as other crops? Or wasteful locations, etc.

I’m not advocating charging necessarily, but using up a limited resource with reckless abandon seems short sighted. What am I missing? Is it not a very important resource to manage?
The line is very unclear to me. What if that national park accepts donations/has entry fee expressly to maintain the trail, would that make them liable for accidents or not?

The telco has service agreement with customers and it's clear exactly what service it was supposed to do and failed. Where is such agreement for a random github repository? To put it a bit ad absurdum, say user supplies parameter to your math function so that it divides by zero and it results in some injury or loss. Who is liable for that? Shold judge try to parse some piece of code for whether it was reasonable for user to expect passing zero will work?
Netflix will not deliver the highest resolution video unless you have a DRM supporting browser.

Website operators don't need to outright block you, they can just start putting certain features behind "the wall".
Irrespective of how you feel about this feature, the fact that an individual with an itch to scratch is able to scratch that itch in the most popular operating system in the world that drives rocket ships to nearly every website you use is a wonderful testimony to the power of Linux in particular and Open Source development in general.
Instead of mechanical slip-rings use fiber-optic rotary joint so you avoid awkward bandwidth limitations. You could probably make do with plain off-the-shelf components here
I wouldn't say systemd is the "one place" where Arch has an opinion. Quite the opposite, Arch is just as opinionated as the average distro. On Void Linux you can choose between musl and glibc, on Arch you're forced to use glibc. On Gentoo you can choose your init system, on Arch you're forced to use systems. On Debian you can have `/bin/sh` be any POSIX shell, on Arch you're forced to have it be Bash. On nixOS you can choose between rolling and normal release, on Arch there's only a rolling release. I can't really think of anything you can customize on Arch that you can't configure on most distros, but perhaps I'm missing something.
Why would only big agricultural business be able to afford to have crops? Water use, and thus costs, should scale linearly with acreage.
QR error correction helps and hinders scanning (2021)
> it simply releases slow GPUs at high prices and shrugs

These are literally some of the most powerful processors ever built.
This nonsensical sentence is the heart of whats wrong with the article.

There is a tremendous difference between creator and licensee, and lumping them together shows either a fundamental misunderstanding or incentives so perverse they're blinding the author.

From what I understood, the liability would only touch the creator if they're providing a _service_ to the public, and wouldn't touch people who release code for others to use.

And looking at it like that, doesn't this make sense? Who would have ever expected the provider of a service would be free from liability they cause? Regardless of what tools they're using to provide it.
How is holding people responsible for their actions "dangerous" or "appalling?"
> If you have deeper modules, you stop needing 10, 20 levels of modules to accomplish things.

I'm a big fan of being able to read stack traces without scrolling, so my rules of thumb are to remove layers that pass data around without either providing a substantial abstraction or doing some computation with it (avoid ravioli code), and to collapse layers that were all doing the same sort of thing to the data, each a little bit at a time (avoid salami code).

My bet is that shallow modules originate via Conway's Law, then get cargo culted.
I think you think I hate Gecko. In fact, I've used it since it was NGLayout and think it's one of the most important pieces of software in computing history. I have deep respect for the world-class engineers working on WebRender and other Gecko components.

I simply think that it's time has come. Remember that Mozilla itself once intended to replace Gecko with Servo.

I have no doubt that WebRender is brilliant, but WebRender will not save Gecko, and Gecko will not save Firefox.

If Firefox is worth saving — and I think that with hard choices, its decline can be reversed — then Gecko and its components are non-differentiating ballast that must be dropped if the balloon is to get over the mountain. IMHO, of course.
The Hitchhiker Tree [1] addresses the write amplification at the cost of making lookups and scans slightly more expensive, by keeping a small array of "pending writes" in every non-leaf node. The entire thing is still immutable, but instead of writing a new leaf node + path from root to that leaf, in the majority of cases we only write a new root. When there is no space left in the array, all the pending values get pushed one level down at the same time, so the write amplification is amortized.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdn617M3-P4
> Maybe, I don't know, quality of life...?

I’m very happy with my public healthcare. I think every American would be as well.

And not to mention that our kids don’t need to do active shooter drills in school.
> If you use open source you are accepting the license that says that there is no liability.

The article directly contradicts this:

> What if an open source project is used directly by consumers, and causes them harm? The public policy is clear: they must be compensated. Does it matter if they signed a license or didn’t pay someone? Their business is bankrupt, their files are in a hacker’s hands, or their own customers are suing them. Someone should be strictly liable.
> You won't be able to run versions that your supplier hasn't certified, and the rate of change will slow to a crawl.

Interesting times indeed. Though I think open source software generally is reliable enough that companies will simply continue business as usual and take on all the liability. They have enough deep pockets to pay compensation that one time something goes wrong, or at least that's my impression.
No, they're mocking the notion that children actually want to be economically exploited. The specific phrase has some history in related online discourse.
My favorite example of "wait, they do what for growing fruit??" is that they use helicopters to dry cherry trees if there is too much rain.

More details here: https://www.theweathernetwork.com/en/news/nature/outdoors/fa...
If it's an MSI-based installer, it's pretty easy to edit the MSI with Orca to remove the check. This is similar to how you'd get client software installs unblocked on Windows Server. In other cases, there are often ways to trick it, but it's contextual.
I'll check this out.
There are many different systems out there like UTM and such, but I want the most basic / minimal amount of dependencies, which will work basically anywhere - which is just QEMU.
Not UTM, or maybe parallels, sometimes Lima, for Mac and then virtualbox for windows, and QEMU Linux type of nonsense. Just QEMU should suffice everywhere, and it's much more secure that way.
I presume this open Mozilla issue is related

"incorrect relative order of Subject attributes"

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1864204

It appears that they didn't exactly follow the long complex technical requirements for how a web certificate should be formatted. I have no idea if this could somehow be a security hole.
> Not just did it not have containment, it was intrinsically unstable.

I know. It is incredibly dishonest to use Chernobyl as an argument against nuclear power.

> thriving wild-life reserve

I know.

> where you might have a slightly higher statistical risk of cancer.

I know.

> In Chernobyl as well.

I know.

> In both cases the negative health effects of the evacuation were far more severe than the negative health effects of the radiation.

I know.

> Doesn’t mean they shouldn’t have evacuated at all, but a whole lot less.

Absolutely agreed.

> Numbers don’t lie.

I never really trusted 7.
Yea but the discussion is around water usage practices. Deciding we have to waste water because HOAs say so is of course silly. They need to change.
Minor detail ))
In 2024, I'd like to not fry my battery when browsing a simple website. Thanks.
If you've never seen the video ad that went along with this campaign, it's hilarious and worth watching, as is the follow up. I love the good humor about the whole thing. And it has made their campaign stick in ways that other similar campaigns have not.

https://youtu.be/rRi8LptvFZY?si=nfzpn2DDngeyyETN

https://youtu.be/ZLWMQLMiTPk?si=28csS65KpQyoFrEn
I mean, it’s called a operating theater for a reason
Combined one of the section headings in the text, which basically gives away the conclusion, with the caveat that it's about undamaged QR codes. As you can expect more damage (such as when tattooing one, or paper that goes around), higher error correction does make sense; same when overlaying graphics/logos.

I found this surprising. I'll be displaying QR codes on a screen, so for me L easily makes the most sense in order to be able to make it larger with fewer squares inside of it.
>> That statement alone is enough to get a warrant for said pharmacy records.

> Great, then get a warrant.

I agree with my whole heart. This is the meat and bone of the discussion.

And an important side note: The assertions "can't access without a warrant" and "can't access at all" need to be clearly distinct at all times. Once the 1st gets translated as the 2nd, the good faith portion of this discussion is lost.
Does Section 702 surveillance of foreign nationals even require a national security pretext? When it was introduced in 2008 it was sold as a tool for stopping foreign terrorists (and it continues to be justified on grounds of fighting terrorism [1]), but judging by e.g. ACLU's account of this case [2], FBI came by the emails of the Temple physics prof incidentally in the course of conducting "extensive surveillance of Chinese universities and scientific research centers", where the "fighting terrorism" justification transparently doesn't apply.

[1] https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/rogues-gallery-threats-made-...
> Since Hamas’ October 7 attack on Israel, [Wray] said, a “rogue’s gallery” of groups have called for violence against the US. “702 is critical to protecting Americans from foreign terrorist threats,” he urged. “Please don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater.”

[2] https://www.aclu.org/cases/xi-v-united-states-challenge-warr...
> The government has reportedly engaged in extensive warrantless surveillance of Chinese universities and scientific research centers. It has siphoned communications off servers, computers, and major internet networks that connect many of China’s most prestigious academic institutions. Both the NSA and FBI routinely store the emails and phone calls they intercept in government databases for years, where they can be later searched by analysts and agents who are investigating Americans. FBI agents conduct so-called “backdoor searches” on Americans so often that the government has referred to one of these massive databases as the “FBI’s Google.”
> Residual value for nuclear power plants are negative

Not what residual value means.

> you try to equate nuclear power with infrastructure, even though we have cheaper alternatives which the public don't even have to finance

Infrastructure isn’t dependent on source of financing. Neither do ROI calculations, though you might scope them differently for public benefit. We are doing none of that here.

> risk premium for the expected returns year 60 are ludicrous which is why no one suggests it

Plenty of large projects model residuals and terminal value over the long term. Bankers typically stop modelling when the financing has to be rolled over for practical reasons; it’s unnecessary to be precise.

I’m genuinely curious what your background in this is.

> Please calculate it

Lots of people at federal agencies, banks and private companies are; their work is cited across these threads. But if you’re arguing about the definition of time value and infrastructure, I don’t think that’s a productive place to start. There is seldom substitute for fundamentals.
it's referring to "marginal emissions" per unit energy produced
if firefox users keep flooding their support line with problems then that means firefox users are costing them money. eventually it will be cheaper to build software that actually works.
I've been here, aka worked at Google and became confused why people didn't trust it, since I now trusted it.

Succinctly:

- you described an _excellent_ process

- the key part is "concerningly sometimes ppl handed me stuff before I identified myself"

- there's nothing you can say or do to alleviate that

Furthering the Google analogy, with intent to clarify:

The Google version of this is "you can have all the data behind 20 locks and and 32 keys and 5 biometric measures and never let human eyes actually see it. Now let's turnover all Google employees. You sure they'll do the same thing?"

(the answer is no, after The Great McKinsey-ification and the corner-cutting and self-justification of lies demonstrated since ChatGPT)
I do. "Jingle all the way" was hillarious and parodied that at that time.
I used an EIZO FlexScan EV2730Q (1:1), and upgraded to a DualUp.

It is the best configuration I've found for programming and CLI work. For gaming I typically use one of the normal widescreens to the left/right of it.

Only downside I've found is that I screen share often, and the odd aspect ratio means sometimes I have to use one of the normal widescreens instead to avoid small text on the audience's side.

Also I ran into some scaling issues on Mac but got past these using BetterDisplay.

Overall - love the LG DualUp, my only suggestion is to pair it with a normal monitor :)
Fair point - I was saying that making revenue from minors is in no way unique to social media, but you are 100% correct that the depth of the placement points to different incentives to the marketing teams who create that revenue.

Turning 18 doesn't magically make those concerns go away, either. If anything, my takeaway is that as parents, we need to teach our children to critically think about the marketing they see while they are still minors, to avoid raising adults who blindly accept anything put in front of them.
I'm not saying this will happen, just that it's the one of the concerns that people have. I can certainly see the argument that some companies will go this route. It might not be the most rational decision, but people aren't always rational. Having something in your control often _feels_ safer.
Gotta say, I'd live in that steel modular house in a heartbeat.
Is it not the same for paying for food, as well? I generally agree, but water seems an arbitrary line to draw when we still have shelter and food to consider.
It's the eternal principal/agent problem. Those things go in cycles. When management goes too far off the rails then corporate raiders and private equity eventually take over to replace management and unlock latent value. Unfortunately, the managers who caused the problem still often end up fabulously wealthy while regular employees get screwed.

This problem can be somewhat ameliorated by compensating executives primarily using equity with long vesting or lock-up periods. That keeps their interests aligned with long-term shareholders.
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