skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 'inside a Boeing' is not, legally speaking, the same as being 'inside Boeing'.

Due to mens rea, it’s treated the same. However, if the subject can stick their arm out of the gaping hole in the side of the Boeing aircraft while making the trades, this proves that the information was in fact public and their beneficiaries should not face any legal contest to the profits from the trades as long as the trades were executed prior to the moment of impact.

I am also not a lawyer.
Economies of scale abd pre existing spare part warehousing | JIT production.

IIRC correctly this was mainly Tesla EV's (?) which hard a high cost of replacement parts | long waiting times.

Some of the other EV models are better situated re: spares and legacy gas vehicles have decades of replacement part infrastructure already in place.

> Also, Tesla should theoretically lasts for million miles while gas vehicles rarely go beyond 2k.

Here in Australia all our family cars since the 1980s have had at least 600,000 km on the clock before being sold on (a couple hit one million km).
My thoughts exactly :-). Remote and fewer responsibilities are a win-win situation for some of us.
Many horrible people are 'just doing their jobs'. Think about it a little longer before justifying a persons actions, or assuming they're above repute.
Someone told me if butterfly door gets jammed (and it would in rainy weather), it costs $20 to fix just one door! This person has sweared that he will never ever buy another Tesla again. l How did Tesla didn’t got this right?
I would say even the 787 is a good plane, if it didn't have major build quality issues because of Boeing wanting to reduce manufacturing costs (it was initially built at two plants, Everett WA and North Charleston SC, and it got to a point when airlines only wanted to have 787s manufactured in Everett, but ultimately the production in Everett was discontinued). And now the same major build quality issues start popping up with the 737 MAX (whose fuselage is being manufactured by Spirit Aerosystems, which was originally a division of Boeing but was outsourced in 2005).
Sublime is certainly the closest, but there’s little bits of TextMate’s UI design that give it a certain mac-ness, if that makes sense. It’s a touch less utilitarian in a good way.

Some amount of that could probably be achieved with a Sublime Text theme designed for that like Soda[0] used to be back in the day, but I know of no modern equivalent (if anybody knows of one please mention it!).

[0]: https://buymeasoda.github.io/soda-theme/
Many are delusional and believe they are doing, "gods work." You couldn't pay me enough money to murder innocent children and civilians but many IDf do it for extremely low pay.
I've learned pixel art by messing with Sim City 2000 files!
I found out that I could just change the sprites, so I started modding the game, and learning how tiles and palette animation works.
Now, on every game I make or work on, I try to keep atlas and files exposed and unencrypted, so people can play around with it.
“Preceded by: Australia

Succeeded by: Australia

Today part of: Australia”

Someone had fun writing that.
How does removing a dam compare with simply opening the gates and releasing all the water?

A dam not holding any water back has far more strength than necessary and will probably last thousands of years.

It's obviously far cheaper.

You get many of the same environmental benefits (lake area no longer flooded, fish can traverse the base of the dam).
It does not matter what I think; objectively and indisputably my existence in the world, especially in a first-world country, has an enormously negative impact on the planet. And I'm an individual with a conscience - now imagine a business with diversified shareholders!
He only became an Jehova’s Witness in 2001. He stopped performing these explicit songs, in live shows, thereafter.
> XENIX, which was Microsoft's clone of V7 UNIX

no, not a clone, xenix was licensed unix v7, licensed from AT&T. They did not have a license to use the trademark unix, so they called their version xenix.

unix was already widely available when Linus started tinkering, he wanted to play with source, and BSD's were still tangled up in copyright. Had closed source Windows been based on unix, linux's open source hegemony would have toppled Windows too
For anyone who uses Chrome and wants to view their archived pages in the browser as if they were still online (URL and everything intact), and also full-text search through their browsing history that was archived (like AB plans to add in future, I think, right nikki?) you can check out DownloadNet: https://github.com/dosyago/DownloadNet

You can have multiple archives, and even use a mode where you only archive pages you bookmark rather than everything.
BBEdit, if anything, feels more native than the rest of the OS. A lot of bundled apps are kind of converging towards a coherent mobile / desktop UI with “screens” that you navigate between, or just giving up and embedding a web view. BBEdit remains desktop-native.

It’s nothing at all like Vim out of the box. I haven’t tried using any Vim compatibility stuff with BBEdit.
It's the old 80-20 rule. Don't waste your time and money on the 20% when you can sell freely to the 80%.
MCAS is not strictly needed; the planes would fly fine without it, and pilots would be able to handle things just fine. MCAS only exists to make the MAX's flight characteristics more similar to 737NG.
I generally agree with this sentiment, but I'm uncertain about its relevance in this specific case. CloudFlare decided to terminate her employment, what's wrong with that? Unless there's evidence to suggest otherwise, it seems reasonable to assume that their decision was based on letting go of employees who were perceived as the least valuable or lowest performing.
Did you directly get promoted to CEO ;-) ?
True, regardless debt is used all over the place to “liquidate” assets without actually selling them as a tax scam. If you sell something and realize gains then you have to pay taxes and such. If you take out a loan against the increased value of an asset without selling, you get the profits without anybody charging you taxes on them. There are more complex benefits too.

It’s a hole in regulation that’s too complicated to legislate against and one of the hidden ways wealth is shielded from tax.
If everyone used Bitcoin, everyone could do about one or two transactions in their lifetime. The network cannot handle more than that.
The whole slew of layoff posts from Amazon, Google, and others.
For anyone interested in cosmology, I highly recommend checking out Neil Turok's ideas about a CPT symmetric universe and the work they've done in explaining a number of unexplainables in cosmology with it:

https://insidetheperimeter.ca/a-mirror-universe-might-tell-a...
Filling in a gas tank does not take 30 minutes.
Have you ever designed or architected similar hardware?
There was no empathy here, only generic HR platitudes. "Your opinion is valid", etc.

That's not empathy.
Thanks, I see it now. The document you linked describes three applicable situations for layoffs, but then goes back and says those situations also apply for a bunch of things which are not layoffs.
I mean, not sticking to anything, but if I would hire a sales-person and in 5 months (just before the perm-contract @ 6 months) and they made 0 sales - I would fire that person as well. It's called probation-period for a reason.
What do you think this indicates economically / business cycle wise?
> For example, if you open a “example_file1.txt” file (which is nothing but a process)

I’m very confused by this use of “process”. This isn’t one? There’s a note further down talking about how closing it will make it available to other processes that doesn’t make sense either.
100% this. One of the reasons I left a salaried position and struck out on my own was that I saw the talent density around me drop like crazy.
You can totally do this (within the bounds of your contract) but from a career point of view, it's not wise to burn bridges.

There's a lot of talk about "networking" to find jobs or opportunities (like your own startup or freelancing) but one thing networking means is building relationships with people you have worked with in the past. That doesn't mean sucking up, but just being known to be reliable and dependable makes you a safer bet if that person is in a position to hire or recommend you.

That manager or coworker you did a project with a few years ago might have moved on to another company and is someone you can reach out to. If you dropped out of a project mid-way without cause leaving them in the lurch, that's something they are going to remember.

Sometimes of course a job or project can be a nightmare and you want to have nothing to do with those people ever again, which is understandable. But otherwise I would try to be professional as possible and leave options open, and if that means giving your notice and coasting a few weeks, then do so.
It’s their mandatory military service.

Basically a signal intelligence/hacking unit just like any other military outfit in their forces.

It is mostly 18 to 21 year olds. And I would think it looks really good in your CV if you want to work on the sector later.
I mean, parents pay for that stuff. Youtube videos are monetized, books are bought, videos at school are bought by the school or licensed for educational use (schools of which are paid for via taxes). Can you really argue that people consuming copyright material aren't benefiting the copyrighter?

If you can convince adverts that a scaped hit counts as an organic view, I can concede on your point of "educating yourself on copyrighted material is okay". But given NYT here, that seems to already have been a lost point.

>AI's gonna get trained on it no matter what; nobody wants a product that isn't.

That's fine. Just license it like everyone else that wants to use copyrighted material for commercial use. Why is that so hard? It's not like Microsoft can't bankroll it.
yeah. i plan to use it exclusively for home assistant completely off grid
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Sure, but killing people doesn’t require a lot of skill. Hacking does.

I’ve seen firsthand that security engineers tend to be paid less than mainstream dev roles, but pocket money for the best talent in the world seems unlikely. The IDF needs them more than they need the IDF. Even with religious beliefs in play, wouldn’t market forces still have an effect?
Not a great headline when the distinguishing feature of these chips is building a complete system without a dGPU. You can make an all-around solid computer with these, like the well-regarded new 13" Framework laptops but in a desktop, but they're not "extreme" or "gaming" devices the way buyers see those things.

Perhaps there just isn't enough of a market, but ASRock made a series of nice little machines they called DeskMinis with 5x5in motherboards that were a bit larger than NUCs, but in the extra space could fit a socketed 65W chip and quiet low-profile cooler (NUCs I've used were noisy under load), two full-length NVMe M.2 disks, and two 2.5" SATA drives.

An updated AM5 version could potentially ditch SATA to be smaller, since there isn't a huge premium on NVMe capacity now. I wonder if they could also handle some non-G chips, since those now have very basic iGPUs (though power and/or chipset requirements could still limit that).

One issue is that AM5 is still the relatively expensive option; AMD is still adding new AM4 5xxx SKUs because there's still seemingly a market for them. The DeskMini systems could be economical, and if a similar AM5 system couldn't be, due to the mobo itself needing to be pricy or the 8xxxG + DDR5 SODIMM cost, maybe it's hard to sell enough of them to get it to make sense. Still, it's a fun idea, and if you're listening, ASRock, I can promise you'd sell at least one.
You worked at a company for 7.5 years and were actually performing.

Person in the video worked for a company for 5 months as a sales-person and closed 0 sales.

You are not the same.
Atomics and Concurrency
I wrote this as a way to understand atomics, concurrency and memory ordering in C++ when I was exploring lock-free programming
I’m only guessing here but, could it be some kind of multi-level PE scheme…?
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That's what I thought too, but someone who should know told me recently that's illegal (bill more to insurance than what the self-pay amount would be). Is that true or no?
Don't know about Netherlands but in most EU probation period is fixed 6 months. This situation would be perfectly legal in most EU companies.
How to get NVM working in CI/CD systems
An old Unix mistake you could make when signaling init (PID 1)
> BMW is currently having all excellent EV cars

Maybe excellent, but they have nothing as affordable as what other EV makers are offering AFAICT.
Cloudflare Spectrum (https://www.cloudflare.com/application-services/products/clo... - available pay-as-you-go by the GB for SSH and Minecraft) could handle git over SSH without an enterprise account. Email would probably require either Email Workers or an enterprise Spectrum plan though.
The simple answer would be AI. That’s been the major change in the past year. I find it odd that everyone thinks Uber’s end game is automated cars, but no one seems to be talking about how tech companies end game is automated coders. LLMs are not even close, but what’s to say internally, they don’t have something that works. Or they have enough data to show they need fewer workers since they can leverage AI now.
>There is nothing wrong with buying and liquidating a company.

Beyond the perversity of using a company's own full faith and credit to eat it dead from the inside out (essentially admitting that the PE firms themselves are not respectable enough to be granted the credit directly), we have multiple instances of the government preempting the purchase and liquidation (and presumably the accompanying halt or even dissolution of production within) of certain companies for antitrust or even national security reasons.
The worst part to me is their inability to tell the truth because of what seems to be legal reasons?
Can't fire her twice
Ah, thanks. I didn’t know it was mandatory. So if you want to work on Stuxnet, you’d start by climbing the corporate ladder for pocket money. Interesting.

I wonder which unit is the elite one.
I think their number is the right one. Ten percent faster is not a ten percent decrease in runtime, it's about a nine percent decrease.
It's such an odd angle that I can't believe it actually came up in a legal case. Can you imagine a lawyer representing a shoplifter with "but do you know how much an iPhone costs?"

But I guess the sad fact of it all is that I'm sure they 100% anticipated lawsuits, and expected that fighting them is still cheaper than trying to license all the content properly. I doubt anyone is surprised by this lawsuit. Just disappointed that they will throw money at anyone other than the actual artists and writers.
Feels like I'm on a 'Generation Ship'
> It is if you provide a route to citizenship for ~16M americans, many of which are not making minimum wage.

Hmmm, I think it more counters a deflationary trend of older local people retiring. It is true that people earning more is likely inflationary (but that's better than all alternatives).

> The goal is to use the inflation to drive a reduction in wealth inequality.

Causation would go the other way round. Wealth taxes are inflationary, insofar as taxes are paid in USD and so you have to sell your assets to get the USD, causing extra transactions. That's a problem since most other kinds of tax are deflationary.
Haven't seen 1024 x 768 in a hot minute. nostalgia sigh
I'd love to find the contact details for this old server I used to use. It's been online continuously since 1996 and I know the first name of the guy that has it, but I don't remember his last name. Shit, the server hardware might even be mine, I don't even remember. I can't even remember if it is Linux or *BSD at this point.

http://resworld.eolith.net/staff.html

The email address is no use as that is my domain name and I dropped it in like 1997 o_O

Dustin: if you see this I would love to pull my DMs off Resworld :)
And the penny drops!

Thanks, I didn’t know he already did it. Totally on brand though.
“the UN voted our existence in, so its legit!”

“the UN voted about this other self governing region with overlapping boundaries as ours! since when is that a country, here’s an old map! no not that map, this one that I like! My argument also requires me to pretend that new national identities haven't come into existence over the last 75 years anywhere else either!”
Haven't seen tech layoffs in Turkey yet.
Hopefully this isn't too hard of a rant, but file descriptors are... neither files nor descriptors. They literally don't "describe" anything about anything, and whatever they refer to doesn't need to be a file either. They're literally the exact opposite - 100% opaque integers, as opaque as anything in a program could possibly be, that could refer to pretty much any kernel object.

Why they were ever called file descriptors in the first place (esp. given the one thing they lack is any description), and why they couldn't just start being called "handles" (like on Windows) or "object IDs" or something else that at least makes some modicum of sense, is beyond me.
I think this is stating the obvious if you are eyeing a position in mgmt. Im ok with this.

However I feel like this propaganda to scare people back to the office
Tinkering with Manjaro and NetBSD on the Pinebook Pro
So what if he likes to put things that way, there is hardly any competition to Mathematica, in what it is capable delivering.

Yet many of those that complain about Wolfram, will idolatrate Steve Jobs, and they aren't (weren't) that different in praising themselves.
thanks man! i actually am not really aware much about pitching or convincing people but yeah i sure am learning. i really appreciate your feedback.
Even valve is similar. Most of the original counter strike team is still there. But again valve is more efficient than maybe all of FAANG combined.
This stuff tends to be very complex. Writing off losses early doesn’t always help you. This is why depreciation rules are flexible and losses can be carried forwards.

For a public company with steady growth I imagine you generally want to amortize losses over a fairly long window. Also if you already had losses this year, and think you’ll grow more in future years, you really don’t want to book more losses now! Hertz has been getting hammered recently. Especially problematic if these are lumpy losses which will make profits less predictable. You’d rather smooth those out and hit your earnings forecast. (At least, that’s the CFO’s mandate.)

It gets even more complex when you consider the interplay with windfalls and rapid growth, but you can probably assume here that they are optimizing for short-to-medium term stock price (1-5 yr). Most CEOs don’t invest in 10yr bets. You might get fired for lackluster growth before that pays off!

More generally, “fiduciary duties” is generally construed pretty loosely. Delaware corporate law defers quite strongly to the corporation; if they can make a coherent argument for why they are benefitting shareholders they tend to get the benefit of the doubt.
The two randos were just given a list of names to fire for "performance reasons".
They were probably also being evaluated by how many people per day they let go.
Nobody, even those two, believes that she had a bad performance either.
Sad situation to be in.
It really should not happen, especially for fully remote teams and/or companies.

Current company has built a comprehensive career management that encompasses even remote workers. It's a very objective and simple approach. The challenge comes with crafting KPIs with each employee as basis for promotions, but so far it has been paying off.
Coat checks are similar.
Just need to solve that pesky little storage problem and it will all be coming up roses…
French intelligence has been doing full scale industrial espionage on US companies for quite some time.

https://www.hanford.gov/files.cfm/frenchesp.pdf
"age and location related "

I am completely out of touch. Which age bracket prefers Instagram, which TikTok in your opinion?
yeah cloudflare can be real aggressive at these times.
I want to start my own micronation the size of Singapore (around 700 sq. Km).

What should I look out for?

Any great resources to learn about?

Best/Easiest way to make this feasible?
I often wonder how many artists ended up making explicit music simply to get that sticker. There's no doubt that it became a marketing ploy for artists. As an edgy teenager I was put off by albums that didn't have said sticker. What a time to be alive.
This thesis is absurd. Who gives a shit where the poster's identifier sits? No one. It's all about the feed.

Instagram's feed is full of bullshit that has nothing to do with anyone I follow. It's a conduit for spam at this point, and everyone knows it.

TikTok on the other hand is just a sewer line. I don't know what dictates the effluent they're funneling through anyone's feed, but it represents a new low even to cynics. Just... mind-boggling stupidity.

Vine came and went. So why the ascendance of TikTok? Human stupidity. My condolences to Vine's creators.
Thinking about tinkerable software, this is one of the promises that crypto offers in my opinion, as it decouples the front end from the back end in a very clean way.

This gives the ability for anyone to add a different front end to any pure crypto back end.
Distilling Vision-Language Models on Videos
I mean it's a great deal for Israel, to get the US to fund efforts to sabotage your rivals nuclear program.

But it's hard to imagine it being worth it to the American taxpayer. Remember it's arguable whether Iran would have bothered pursuing this at all, except Israel itself is a nuclear power, which the United States allowed (see Taiwan in the 1980s for what the US does when other allies try and start their own programs).
VSCode works, because Microsoft has written a ton of C++, C# and Rust code to make it work in a usable manner.

Exactly what most devs reaching out to Electron don't want to do, only cozy JavaScript.
Pretty close to where a lot of the higher end mini PCs land... It's not a bad thing.
I believe the intention of those was that it was actually a "slow down" button just with enhanced marketing. But when you played an old game which was designed with no frame limit cap, you could slow the game down to a playable speed with the button.

Unfortunately, I had no such button on the family computer, so many games were unplayable because of our speedy 486SX33
(OP here, happy to see this on HN!)

If you're interested in this topic, Robert Haas (the author/committer of the feature) also wrote two posts after I published this, which talk more about incremental backup:

http://rhaas.blogspot.com/2024/01/incremental-backup-what-to...

http://rhaas.blogspot.com/2024/01/incremental-backups-evergr...