skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There isn’t anything in life that’s “stable”. Not one single thing. Even rocks on the ground erode.

Because of inflation, stable is actually shrinking. If you raise prices perfectly in lock step with inflation, trends and tastes of your customers still change, necessitating innovation if only to maintain the exact same level.

In reality, you have to grow to ensure when the ground shifts from under you, there is still some buffer. Growth is insurance against an ever changing, unpredictable world.

The people who think things never change are people without imagination. They want safety and security, but that is an illusion.
This post being flagged is very … curious.
Don't over think it - I use pen and paper. List out tasks that need to get done and start at the top.

Here a post I wrote and linked to an awesome reddit post https://virtuwise.com/youre-wasting-your-time-following-prod...
> according to calculations by Lyn Alden

But what "calculations" is she doing exactly? The source that she's quoting says 53.7% not 93.0% [1].

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WFRBST01122
"But what's the point of deceiving family members over toy cash?"

Why play a game unless the aim is to win—even with family? It's like playing poker, it's a game of one upmanship, such behavior helps deflate the ego of one's opponent which can change his/her decisions to one's advantage.
I would be very interested to see how this compares to land. What percentage of the top X % owns all the land.

I think it’s probably a more equitable mix as I know a lot of Americans who’s generational wealth is tied up in land and not the stock market.
> Editor's note: This story and chart were corrected to reflect that it is 93% of U.S. households' stock market wealth (not 93% of the stock market) that is held by the wealthiest 10% of those households.

This is actually kind of an important distinction. If you add back in things like pension funds that distributes things a lot more generously.

Also, I am not sure if 1 in 10 people I know even own stock directly. 1/10th of the population is still a lot of people and it almost surely skews more by age than any other metric.
Cheap $63 macOS Sonoma Hackintosh with Dedicated GPU [video]
Will to drive the chariot is different from intelligence. In the same way it’s different from strength and horses didn’t domesticate humans.

Of course if we make systems with a goal of dominating and are smarter than us and let it run for a while we could be in trouble, in the same way that we could be in trouble detonating a bunch of atom bombs, just maybe less obviously.
I would hope no company relies solely on leetcode questions, but the common understanding was that Google was, at least in the not-so-distant past, among big tech companies, the closest to that style.

The weight that a company allocates to communication skills can also be measured on a spectrum. What I suggested in the comment to which you responded may be considered extreme by engineering interview standards, but the more you can probe an engineer’s communication style during an interview, especially in an adversarial conversation, the higher confidence you can have in their interpersonal compatibility with your team.

It’s one thing to answer questions about behavioral characteristics, which can be prepped. It’s another to induce the behavioral characteristics you’d like to test and see them for yourself. That’s a lot harder to fake.
Mhm, for the first story I said 72 comments and that's what I see on this page[0]

And for the last story I said 83 comments, that's also what I see at [0]

Both of your comment counts are exactly one less than what I see and have written.

Is this just a typo on your end, or do you really see one less comment than I do?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=letsblock.it
You could generate a lot of revenue via a rule (enforcement TBD) that requires people to establish a reasonable valuation on an asset before they can use the asset as collateral for a loan.

Then anyone who wanted material benefit off of their wealth would be required to pay taxes on it, rather than "benefit now, leave the gains to my estate".
If you believe wikipedia, the Murderbot half your wish is coming true:

On December 14, 2023 Apple TV+, announced that it had ordered a television adaptation of the Murderbot series. Alexander Skarsgård is set to star in and executive produce the series with Chris Weitz and Paul Weitz directing.

via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Murderbot_Diaries
I don't use Amazon, Tesla, or Facebook and it's not working.
I have been wondering how improvements in TTS would affect the audiobook world. Perhaps management sees changes coming that will affect the demand for traditional audiobooks.
This is a pretty cool prototype for something I'd considered Godot for: a GUI for a device running embedded Linux. In that environment, you want the least bloat but some decent development tools so you can iterate reasonably fast. That's not a widely-available combo.
Also true wealth is inherited. People making it big thanks to their merits are as rare as lottery winners. Probably even rarer.
Yep, if you want to add a dark mode for sites that don't have one, Dark Reader is hard to beat. Also first-class on Firefox Mobile
they will sell. the big guys are gobbling up _anything_ they can get their hands on.
Ok, fair. My curiosity about methodology was satisfied when I saw an interview with a UN relief director who explained the retrospective examination of past casualty reporting that had happened.

I mean completely seriously that Israeli occupation forces are engaging in deliberate mass slaughter, including widely reported upon declarations of certain zones as safe for civilians followed by the bombing of those zones (https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-news-01-03-2024-...).
Except for the money you owe to the bank that created it by pressing a button.
App sandboxing is less of a concern when the software you use is built from source in your distro's package repository, and is maintained by distro maintainers whose interests align more closely to yours than the software manufacturer's. Ironically, Flatpaks are software from upstream and thus harder to trust.
Remember that many plants have futures contracts setting the price for both fuel and electricity sometimes 10+ years in advance.

Theoretically futures contracts should never affect wether an activity is financially worthwhile or not, but realistically a profitable contract can keep a plant online even though it otherwise makes no sense to do so.
> don’t look at ads on social media

If Google has its way, you won’t have a choice.
How do you convince companies not to advertise on X or YouTube?
Pinecone algorithms set new records for BigANN
Same here. A few years ago I rented a local Tesla on Turo for a day trip that was several hours away, but since I just needed to drop it off "whenever" (by the next morning), I could find somewhere to charge it at my leisure. Then this fall I flew somewhere and was asked by the car rental company whether I wanted an electric car instead of the one I had reserved. With a return flight to catch under possibly tight time constraints and no idea where I would charge the car or how long it would take (both right before return and just driving around; I was going a long distance to a pretty rural area), I declined that sweet sweet offer in favor of a car I could fill up anywhere in under five minutes. If car rental companies actually want to rent electric cars, they would be wise to say you don't have to worry about recharging them, they'll do it themselves either at no extra cost or at whatever the cost would be if you did it yourself (not the "we'll refuel it for you at the low low price of $15/gallon!" that they offer for gas cars).
Solar is still the energy source even if you’re using batteries.

The only question is if you can charge in the day not if there’s clouds at night.
Which city were you in?
React had a single major incremental change in the form of hooks. It was built upon existing established foundation: functional components. And even then, it still didn't break backwards compatibility. That's far from "changing a lot" in 11 years.

And "before react it changed even more" is a terrible argument. We had a handful second-tier frameworks who never gained enough traction compared to React/Vue/Angular even in their first months. None of those temporary frameworks achieved more than a very small fraction of jQuery popularity in their heyday. jQuery was king since almost launch, and was never really threatened, until React came along.

By "in this area" I obviously mean frameworks. And good call: WebGL is gonna be 13 years old this year and SVG will be astonishing 25 years.

And no, the "state of the art" is not really changing, unless you're going for non-market-tested technology. But that's you, that's not the market, that's not what people are hiring for, and that's not even what's getting stars in Github. New experimental projects are not "change".

The "state of the art" is still React/Vue/Angular, perhaps with SASS or CSS, which is from 2006. Even Webpack is 10 years old next February! And only now it is getting serious competition. Typescript is still 100% optional but is 11 years old.

The meme that "Javascript changes too much" was already old and tired in 2015. In 2024 it's absurd.
What are you talking about? Did you watch the drama or the documentary that finally spurred the UK gov to partially redress this absurd scandal?
I would hope they make 3-10x running their own consultancy compared to working as an employee. The risk is still much higher, but it’s offset by the large reward.
You don’t want older folks to generate reams of good art for consumption. Let the youngsters who need to make money do that. And many artistically-oriented youngsters do create art in their off hours from work, at least out here. I don’t think they think of it as “production” though. Why does a bird sing?

What retirees often do, rather, is develop an artist’s eye for images, a musician’s ear for sounds, a philosopher’s perspective, a writer’s voice, etc.. This often involve a broader exposure/consumption of arts and studying art history. Sometimes producing actual art as well…but less for the final artistic product but instead to engage in the artistic process itself so as to develop that way of seeing/feeling/being an artist has. When the work-related chunk of the mind is wholly freed up for other pursuits, there is often such a bit-flip. And since it is a deepening appreciation and greater consumption, there is no risk of overproduction of art and the soul devolution that arises from hyper competitiveness in the marketplace.
Gergely Orosz's theory[1]:

> An IRS tax code change in Section 174. This change eliminates the ability for businesses to deduct R&D as an expense.

> Hear of lots of layoffs directly because of this, as a start.

[1] https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1735030983173230944?...
This is going to be a controversial opinion.

The quality of your average tech worker has completely nosedived in the last 10-15 years.

All these huge companies wanted more products, more marketshare, more money, etc. They needed more people to pull this off. They started lowering hiring standards across the board because there just weren't enough people in tech.

Simultaneously, a huge portion of the world saw tech salaries and wanted in on it so they started taking every quick certification, bootcamp, degree, etc to get into tech.

It turns out that compared to the dedicated nerds of the previous generation, most new people just don't care that much about tech and don't want to go deeper than the bare minimum required by their job.

So I think tech overhired by a LOT, then they realized all these new people are actually net negatives on the company, and we are slowly correcting.

I think a solid 50% of people in tech are still on the chopping block. You can do much more with tools + really smart people in the year 2024 than you could before.
Simplifying my life with more devices
Other recent threads have mentioned gridscale battery storage on the order of 8-10c/KWh.
Or alternately, they staged what appeared to be a fatal accident to put him in a witness protection program.

Or alternately, he did it and then tried to back out of the deal. Now arranging an apparently accidental death then became the best way to keep security intact.

The one theory that makes no sense is that they intended his death from the beginning.
I agree, but the mission of private business is not to keep as many people employed as possible.
Other products that do search results filtering seem to often use Pinterest as an example haha! My fave filter is w3schools .

Brave Search Goggles https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31837986

Filter via Chrome https://support.google.com/websearch/thread/166168236/how-ca...

Kagi Lenses https://help.kagi.com/kagi/features/lenses.html
It's cool that capital gains taxes are so low versus income taxes. /s
> And those access elevations will be tracked and audited, just like at any other organization that handles sensitive data.

But surely you can see that saying this is still the same as just saying "trust us". It's very, very hard to trust Microsoft.
Indeed, but I only wanted to include so much pedantry!
Most of my playing was when I was young and losing was upsetting. It's a highly competitive game.
No, you've not understood what happened.

The SPMs were forced to sign and take responsibility for accounts that were prepared by the Horizon system, which claimed the SPMs owed the Post Office tens of thousands of pounds of imaginary money. If they later claimed that the accounts were wrong (which they were), they'd be prosecuted for signing them, and if they didn't do that they would be prosecuted for not paying the PO the money they supposedly owed. So they would lose either way, and the actual accuracy of the accounts was never tested in court, because in any individual case the PO did not disagree with the SPM about that.

The point being that this can't be blamed on software bugs alone. It was caused by different departments of the PO having completely contradictory ideas about how the software was supposed to work.
Revenue can be misleading, he's outsourcing the work and he mentions his margins are not good in the comment. How much is left after paying the contractors?

Productivised services are definitely a great idea, but this doesn't sound feasible.

For a productivised service success story you can check out the blog of alex west who built cyberleads: https://www.alexwest.co/
Previewing Meteor Lake at CES
Indeed, his involvement could have been fabricated after his death, and he'd be unable to defend himself.
Makes sense to me. We already have a wealth tax of sorts. It’s called “property tax” which is mostly a house tax. We can tax other property too, including virtual assets such as shares.
Not saying this is the reason at all, but personally speaking sell me something that is not a subscription based service. I will make a handful of exceptions but not more. All these companies relying on Nitro, Prime, Premium, Plus as if anyone wants to add yet another subscription to their bill. Meanwhile companies like Apple and Nvidia are releasing new high-end products that I can buy and not think about.
Still young without dependents? Great.

Have a family and esp these employees in high CoL cities? Very tough.

Speaking from experience. Been there done that.

"We'll have all this new innovation via new startups now!" is such a feel good sentiment to layoffs but in reality is nowhere close to a solution for the affected employees
I'm starting to wonder. I got a rejection message when I replied that said, in part, "our decision was based on matching the specific needs for this role with the background of the candidates in the final pool." If they are posting this position over and over again, what is this "final pool"?
> Still amazes me how widespread this is

It works⁰ surprisingly well for a range of target audiences – I've seen a few proper tests of the effect.

> It's like all aspiring YouTubers are reading the same advice for getting views, regardless of age, demographic, or subject?

While it won't work that well for all channels, it is unlikely to put off enough people¹ that it is worth a try just in case. Also, some do it just because it is current fashion, or because that is currently the default and they lack an original thought in thumbnail making², rather than thinking there is any other benefit.

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[0] gets more clicks than thumbnails without

[1] those, like you and I, who dislike it enough for it to make us simply click away, are apparently rare enough that losing us is not a big problem

[2] because that sort of marketing isn't their game, and they don't want it to be more than it has to be
> For anybody getting worked up about the Stuxnet article in de Volkskrant:
A water pump cannot carry a copy of Stuxnet
Erik van Sabben's visit to Iran allegedly happened end of 2018, whereas we assume initial infiltration in 2017.

Well, that's all the proof I needed — a twitter post with no further information.

Obviously he may be right as he is a researcher and most likely actually did the research, but an non-sourced definitive statement on social media is not what I consider "proof".
Peru's food culture pushed Lima to 'world's best restaurants' fame
Did you consider it could have been faked?
> I don't want an SUV. I get angry at rental companies when they try to give me one.

Same, but I think the GP is correct to say that most people do want an SUV, in the US, at least.
The top block gives some premises and a conclusion which we're meant to prove. The smaller blocks on the bottom are inference rules which can be used in the proof. I haven't figured out what the colors mean. I think there's also some kind of cursor/state, which I don't understand -- but when you click a rule, I don't understand how you control which expression matches to which term in the rule.
Write your own extra ssh client features on top of the standard OpenSSH compatibility.
[Pulling from another thread, but this is my best guesstimate. With additional context]
The rules of the game have changed.

> We were allowed to expense all employee compensation tied to software or R&D in the year in which we paid it. Now we can only expense a small fraction of that because we have to capitalize the expense. That means if you paid and developer $100 to develop a piece of software then sold subscriptions totaling $100 you now have a profit. The old model you have zero dollars in profit the new model says you have something like $80 in profit that you know have to pay taxes on… with what cash?

Additional "finger in the wind context": this change was brought about through the Trump Tax Cuts. My best guess is that Trump wanted the 174 change as a negotiation token to prod tech to make a deal. Mind you and me, this was all pre-pandemic. The financial world was pretty stable and this was going to be a 'great way' to make people work together, if desired. After the pandemic financial response, all bets were off.

Soloprenuers are the only one's somewhat immune. I'm thankful my companies needed to downsize before this.

Final context, there will be a whole new industry to define the useful life for a piece of software given the advancements in AI. This is going to be great fun.

[edit] One more thing, this change was thought to be “repeal-able” with new legislation. Since it no longer looks to be the case, to avoid “everything is securities fraud” (Matt Levine term), everyone has to adjust their public statements and accounting for this new change. Sure many of the big players will still make profit, but analysts only care about “beats and misses.” And since the legislation hasn’t passed to put the old rules back in place, accounting has to make these forecasts more permanent with less wiggle room - aka misses and forecasts down. Now, there is a huge op to trade the rules changing back - which would be a huge tailwind (made headcount cuts and get favorable tax treatment)
The proliferation of LeetCode for interviews means that we have an army of employed software engineers who are great at solving toy puzzles, but when it comes to actual business and / or customer problems, they stumble and falter. Management only have themselves to blame for spreading this kind of culture of interviewing around.
Kotlin is weird inclusion in that list with Java and .NET unless you'd include Android.
Did they also hire a bunch of offshore engineers?
yes, it's the nvms one.
A new life in Norway for a 55 year old Ukrainian refugee
My favorite was a reason I stopped going to a major famous hospital's outpatient clinic in my area, which was that their billing department would sell things to a debt collector that were paid, and when I called, they'd say you shouldn't be getting a notice our system says paid in full, and I'd say "well, then why do I have 12 debt collector notices with those IDs".

I suspect they were just opportunistically selling it faster than insurance paid them, but the harassment of cleaning that up every so often was exhausting (since the hospital would always say "well it's not on our end"), combined with a bunch of other shady things the place did.

The dumbest part was, they were like, $10 bills, so I can only imagine how cheaply they had to have been sold for the debt collector to think they could turn a not-loss on it...
This is naive. They will never let that happen. Those at the top regularly insider trade, manipulate the market, and perform all sorts of lobbying to make sure the game is in their favor. You are not playing with the same rules as they are.

For example, just look at the contribution limits for IRAs and Roth IRAs. They are disgustingly low, limiting people with salaries just barely big enough to afford a mortgage with an hour commute. Now, why is that? It's because it keeps the middle class in place while the upper class has several loopholes they exploit to put generational levels of money into these accounts. The story goes on and on.
Sourcehut and Codeberg are both currently experiencing a DDoS attack
https://archive.ph/6GlC0
Could they not make sure that enough of their assets are in cash-flowing assets (think, rent-yielding assets, or treasuries, or dividend-yielding stock, etc.) that need not be sold and whose cash-flow can be utilized?
The tags are up for it, but no blog post yet: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/tags https://about.gitlab.com/security-releases.xml

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/blob/v16.7.2-ee/CHANG... seems to be the tl;dr although strangely I don't see a v16.7.1-ee tag
Profit margins are like 4% on health insurance. Insurance companies introduce a lot of cost and waste, but there's no evidence to me these mass denials are anything but the market not bearing real insurance that covers things reasonably under current regulatory conditions.

Could it be the consumer is too poor to pay for a bloated system that covers what it does, plus the mass denials?

The whole system is fucked and the even more fucked part is mass denials may be a symptom of the madness of the inefficient rube Goldberg machine and not even a profit driver.
> EVs are already not a good fit for rental cars - I don't think travelers on vacation want to figure deal with a charging plan.

Agreed. Travel already involves enough work of having to figure out how to operate in a different location. Gas stations are everywhere and the time to fill is predictable across all ICE cars; I don't want to have to plan EV charging into my trip as well.
You should watch Office Space.
R&D mostly getting the axe. Growth's off the table this year. Outside the AI bubble, companies are soley focused on paying down debt and remaining profitable.
I'm sure it'll make it to Firefox for Android soon. I would imagine these "in page" toggles will fade away as the OS makes the switcher more prominent. In Gnome, it's right in the main menu next to the volume.
Looks cool. I appreciate the support for all replica identity settings!