skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank god, finaly! I was getting so annoyed at my ice melting when cooking fish and the beeswax melting when cooking tenderloin. Why didn't anyone think of this before? /S

When you have a product you think is cool but you don't yet have a sales pitch. Wait until you figure out your sales pitch to release it. This might be a great oven, but the material just makes it seem like a really random gimmick that no one needs outside of filming TikToks about how random it is.
Thanks - my benefits portal calls the 43% figure my "rate of return". I am assuming that doesn't include the contributions themselves.
this is impressively well designed, as someone who dabbled in this kind of thing many moons ago. hats off to you.
This is exactly what my current employer did. It's also the best job I've had in a 25 year career. Business is very stable and provides a nice life for the small group that we are. No VC's harping at us to do more, more, more. We made a profit the first year and have every year since.
No. The false urban legend is that "the changes were done at the entry point [by immigration officials] and that the immigrants were unwilling participants in the modifications" or more specifically that these officials "carelessly or maliciously altered an immigrant’s name because it was too difficult to spell or sounded too foreign".

The link is clear that "Many names did get changed as immigrants settled into their new American lives, but those changes were made several years after arrival and were done by choice of someone in the family." and "immigrants changed their own names, usually during the citizenship process".

All quotes from the text.
As the other commenter said, upload and download speeds are separate. And if you mean data caps, most internet connections have "unlimited" bandwidth unless you're torrenting off your phone.
If you have young children that depend on you, yes.
Reminds me of the mindset of the species in Pandora's Star by Peter F. Hamilton. They basically accepted that they would die fast due to toxins / radiation / disasters for "progress" / "efficiency", and instead just focused on trucking forward and breeding like mad.
You're looking at it the wrong way. They're not looking at the hypothetical improvements and charging as if you built them. They're saying "this land could reasonably support a skyscraper, therefore it is very valuable land".
A similar thing happens in Go if you don't use a pre-known 'capacity' when allocating slices. Each internal realloc could use a larger backing array. Adding elements 1 by 1 will keep doing this making lots of garbage. They all get collected of course, but performance is horrible with memory fragmentation and all the copying.
What does that have to do with outsourcing to China and others?
huh? This got a bit attacking for no reason...
Money to stay within commutable distance, but also the cost of the commute itself.

E.g. my yearly cost of commuting when I did added equivalent to about $2.5k/year in after tax transport costs.

I've typically told recruiters about 20%, from a high base, and frankly that is lower than it ought to be when accounting for both the time and costs, but given I already live where I live, I feel I could justify it in terms putting extra cash straight into my pension pot and retiring earlier. But not enough to lower it further to find a point where someone is more likely to take me up on it.
can you make a scientific argument that carbon capture and geo engineering will not work at scale.

if not, then you are just littering with words.
Okay, with this added nuance I'm not worried. But I think we should be explicit about this because it is difficult to distinguish if people are doing this or not and it is quite reasonable to believe that they are not.

I have no issues with anyone using GPT as a __noisy__ tutor. But we just must be clear it is easy to get fooled, difficult to validate, and easy to cause GPT to change its answer. There's a high rate of people using it as a non-noisy tutor, so we can't be implicit.

FWIW, I use GPT in a very similar way, and frequently. Especially with the decline of Google and especially for high level topics. It functions very well as a fuzzy search and often even when wrong (which is frequent for me when asking high level math questions, think post PDEs) there's still words or phrases that help me significantly narrow down a Google search.

Which any Google Search engineer should not be reading this as "replace Google Search with GPT/Bard"!!!!! They work in tandem!!! I CANNOT STRESS THIS ENOUGH and do not want to see the hell that that creates.
You understand “following the science” arguments are stupid right?
That is correct.

It's just a regular database you need.

Using overhyped fancy technology like blockchains, DLTs doesn't solve anything legitimately useful.

But if there is a 'usecase' it is only of the worst and illegitimate kind, ransomware payments, speculation, ponzi / pyramid schemes, etc.
Ever heard of getting debanked? Or being a refugee?
Plenty of legal fund raising campaigns came to political ends.
Forced conscription is going on in Ukraine and I've personally met someone who's only assets they could leave with was crypto because it wasn't in a bank.
Ask HN: Would your life be better if you stopped visiting HN?
I've been reflecting on my online consumption habits, and I'm starting to question whether HN is a net positive in my life.

It's by far the most intelligent and interesting community I engage with, but if I'm being honest I think it has just made me cynical about technology, entrepreneurship and my own career.

I think my life would improve if I stopped visiting HN (and Reddit/YouTube/etc.), but it's definitely not easy to shake the addiction and the 'fear of missing out'.

That's my thoughts on the topic, but I'll put the question to you... Would your life be better if you stopped visiting HN?
The British Post Office robbing it's employees isn't a new story then?
Closed institutions are a thing. You can be in therapy under close supervision and unable to leave until it is safe to allow you to do so. Arguably that is better than therapy in prison because even with trained staff on site a prison is still a prison. You could say that closed institutions are functionally a form of prisons and you'd be right but the difference in motivations matters: mental institutions exist to provide mental support, prisons exist to lock people away.
Hyperbole tends to make people lose trust in the author and stop reading. It is in their interest to tone it down so that their point can be heard. A decent contingent of people are sick of clickbait and tired of people using absolutes. I tend not to get too mad at people calling out silly behavior that has been normalized. The author here BARELY added anything to the articles the quoted. It seems the majority of the post itself is quoted text.
>Has there ever been an instance where a tech IPO resulted in an improved end user experience?

Not even once.
Thankfully, my state (NY) forbids that little loophole.

https://www.dfs.ny.gov/consumers/health_insurance/surprise_m...

If the hospital is in-network, you're good.
I can only imagine how many 3D models they render in a physics simulation platform like Nvidia Omniverse so they likely just used what they already had.
It makes little difference who owns the hardware in the data center. The important thing is who selects, controls, and manages the software that runs on it. Therefore that’s the main dividing line.
"Shareholder value had a cost, and now it must be paid back"

The problem is, it is voluntarily.
Micropayments struggle because they add friction to the process of consuming content. Right now, if I see a great blog post, video, whatever, I spend a bit of time taking it in and then move on. With micropayments, I now have to think about how much it is worth to me (is this blog post, comment, sketch worth $0.50? $0.10?). You just turned a brainless moment of enjoyment into a value judgement where I now have to become a critic and try to create some kind of inner framework for assigning value, etc.

Ads avoids all these by (relatively) frictionlessly converting attention into money. Subscriptions bundle the friction into a single event (the conversion) and remove it for all future interactions. Micropayments are just constant papercuts.
Maybe I misunderstood the whole point of this.

This whole lawsuit is because Epic wanted to avoid the Apple Tax by processing in-game purchases via their own payment provider, bypassing Apple App Store or Apple Pay or whatever other thing Apple forces everyone to use on iOS.

So Epic is now allowed to use their own payment processer for in-game purchases, but Apple is saying that they will still have to pay the Apple Tax for those purchases.

In this case the "store" is not an app store but an in-game store, sure.

Have I got that right so far?
To anybody reading: If you're lonely, consider changing your environment – at least for a while. Some towns, cities, regions and even whole countries are just lonely and miserable. So maybe it's not a problem with you? Maybe it's just your environment. That might sound crazy, but many times it's true. Do you owe it to anybody to stay put where you are and continue being lonely?
Python 3.13.0a3
The way I understand it, the "uncertainty" about global warming as of 2024 is the same kind of uncertainty as whether an alcoholic with liver cancer can live three or six more months if he continues ignoring his doctor's advice.

I'm open to discussions about different approaches and their relative merits, but we're beyond the point where "we don't know how bad it will get" is a valid argument for anything.
I once got a rejection letter from a recruiter, complete with the boilerplate, "we'll keep you in mind for future positions" from a noreply@ email address.
What does it mean for content to be truly worth paying for? That someone pays, voluntarily, after already having consumed the content? How could we distinguish selfishness from content not worth paying for?
That's just sugar coating hero worship and trying to make it more acceptable.

Just because something is written in flowery language doesn't make it profound.
> Why does systemd give up by default?

> I’m not sure. If I had to speculate, I would guess the developers wanted to prevent laptops running out of battery too quickly because one CPU core is permanently busy just restarting some service that’s crashing in a tight loop.

sigh … bounded randomized exponential backoff retry.

(exponential: double the maximum time you might wait each iteration. Randomized: the time you want is a random amount, between [0, current maximum] (yes, zero.). Bounded: you stop doubling at a certain point, like 5 minutes, so that we'll never wait longer than 5 minutes; otherwise, at some point you're waiting for ∞s, which I guess is like giving up.)

(The concern about logs filling up is a worse one. It won't directly solve this, but a high enough max wait usually slows the rate of log generation enough that it becomes small enough to not matter. Also do your log rotations on size.)
Norway issue their own currency, so 100% of their budget comes from money they spend into existence.

Oil has an impact on their ability to import, and on their ability to meet their own energy requirements.
First thought, being in the aerospace advanced composites field and using machine tools: "MBAs"

Aaaand, the money quote:

" In his history of the American machine tool industry, Albert Albrecht states that “the actions of these larger corporations and conglomerates, under the leadership of financial MBA’s, perhaps more than any other factor, contributed to the restructuring and decline of the US machine tool industry at the end of the 20th century.” "

MBAs & financial "leadership" have basically optimized American excellence, leadership, and its middle class out of existence, and putting the world's democracies in jeopardy.

They benefitted greatly by privatizing and optimizing profits into their pockets, but at the cost of nearly breaking the society onto whom they externalized the costs.
I have no idea what Greenpeace's position on carbon capture is, but it's definitely isn't anti-growth to oppose carbon capture.

And when I say "carbon capture" I of course mean "pinning our hopes on carbon capture". If actual, working, viable carbon capture existed then nobody would be against doing it, but that's a pipe dream. It's always going to be more economic to not burn stuff than to burn it and then unburn it.

Kind of like carbon credits. If they were real they'd be a pretty decent idea, but they're basically full scam.
What’s the actual utility of this for anyone that isn’t trying to replace native code with web pages? Is this ever going to be worth the no doubt massive investment it required?
Hence calling them suckers. Doing the commute is fine, but not taking it into account is potentially seeking yourself short(even if you end up feeling forced to take an offer you feel doesn't take it into account - at least then you're aware).
When my dog had a subcutaneous form of cancer, one treatment discussed was local injection of a chemotherapy agent in the tumor area along with electrochemotherapy to help make the tumor more susceptible to the chemo treatment.

We opted for surgical removal instead.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrochemotherapy
Ted Kaczynski, AKA the Unabomber was also the youngest math professor at Berkley. But shortly after he said he hated it and went to live in a shack in Montana.
Credibility matters. If someone is equivocating genocide with “making Germany great again”, it deserves to be pointed out and their testimony taken with a huge grain of salt.
A Proposal. The Osama Bin Laden Virtual Machine (2011)
Ideologues won’t accept it because they are waiting for a technology solution and these are the best they’ve seen offered so far. Their optimism is predicated on market driven technology solutions saving us quickly enough. Negativity toward their favorite technology solutions is interpreted as pessimism toward their ideology.
Only a very small percentage of businesses need autoscaling.
Noisy brain may underlie some of autism's sensory features
I wonder what people host that require such specs.

I host on a skylake about 7 years old I think, with 12 GB RAM. About 30 docker images running Home Assistant, Bitwarden, the *arr suite, jellyfin, minecraft ... Nothing fancy and I have heaps of free CPU and RAM.

I understand that one can easily load CPUs with compute processing, or RAM with video transformation but for a generic self-hoster of typical services I am surprised by the typical setup people have (which is great for them, I am just curious)
He's serving 15 years to life, and has already served 15 years (next chance of parole in 2027). So he's at the point where its very important for him to look like he's a reformed character. That makes it particularly hard for us to judge, at this distance. If he'd remained cold and calculating, this is still exactly what we'd expect him to write.
Mark maneuvered for the best of both worlds with the dual class voting shares. He owns the majority of the vote but only ~13% of the share capital. From the rumblings I've heard, I don't think VC allow this type of Google/Meta share class anymore, and/or SP500 don't include new entrants, but not super knowledgeable here.
In 100 years with minimal, passive effort, a piece of paper will be fragile, but usable.

In 100 years, a hard drive will degrade without multiple transfers to new media - an active process.

The barrier to digital archival is much higher than paper archival for the average person, and the internet does forget. There's not really an equivalent authority who preserves records for digital works, is there? The Internet Archive works toward this goal, but their mission is not enshrined anywhere permanent and could be gutted.
Article/title is a bit confusing and perhaps borderline clickbait, so...

If I understand correctly it seems like his crime was *using* the exposed database credentials to log in to the third-party database server.

So he wasn't charged for simply "exposing" the credentials as the title says, but actually using them to poke around.
The stuff you want to delete from the internet (embarrassing photos, bad takes from a decade ago) are forever, but the ones you want to keep (great hangouts, cool personal webpages) are fleeting.
Cool cool will the youth also return the money in their oil pension funds?
'Legitimate' is a weasel word, as you use it. "No true Scottsman" and the like.
"Just on the legal standard: it's probable cause that there's a risk, not probable cause that the risky event will happen. If you have 51% certainty that the subject has a 25% chance of harming themselves or someone else, that is likely to be good enough."

Do you have some citation on that? Frankly, if it's so ill defined that we don't know what level of risk justifies restrictions under the law, then we should all be opposing it as it can be used against anyone. Perhaps you play violent videos and that's enough risk?

"Living with someone who's making violent threats towards you or themselves is no fun at all, even if there's only a 1 in 4 chance that they'll follow through."

There are criminal charges that can be filed against this type of behavior. This does not require a hookie workaround. That's how we end up with things like civil assest forfeiture.
Carbon capture is being successfully used all around the world. It’s in its infancy, but so were solar panels decades ago, and we didn’t give up on them.

We don’t have enough data on geoengineering to judge yet, there is no real science to follow.

Also I don’t understand this attitude of rejecting potential solutions outright. Science doesn’t “prove” things, we can’t ‘follow’ it due to the problem of induction. So we should stay open minded and support all potential solutions, not just those we like best.
This "third way" is only really possible if you're strategically aligned with the "one round" investors you have. It's easy to point to a few companies that have gotten buy-in from their investors and generated a multiple of 100x returns, but for the vast majority of companies that raise one round, their investors are still going to push for "swing for the fences" returns - which usually means recommending raising more money.

Consider:

- Venture capitalists are generally funded with a 2% management fee and a 20% carry. AKA their limited partners (investors in the VC fund) are looking for returns over 10 years that are better than an index fund, even burdened by those extra fees. In other words, they've only achieved the most modest of success if they have a 3X overall average return, and are incentivized by the carry to aim for much much higher returns.

- VCs only make money if they can sell the shares. I.e. there's an M&A event, an IPO, or a secondary market.

- Even without a majority share, VCs generally get "preferred share" rights, which include the ability to force a company to have a public offering/sell itself (These are called "registration rights" in the Investor Rights' Agreement). Granted these haven't been used frequently in the last decade and a half, but it's a potential hammer that VCs can wave if a founding team/management decide to try to just run a company as a smaller profitable enterprise.
I'm sure some (many) make that kind of mistake, so it is worth pointing out.

But also:

> and that the high prices mentioned by US folk is due to the unusual healthcare situation there.

Are they wrong? I keep hearing that the US government spends more per person on healthcare than the UK government, even though the US also has mostly private insurance on top of that and the UK mostly doesn't?
I do use Firefox. I defended Samsung against Chrome in the category of preinstalled browsers, Firefox plays in a different league of course.
I'm not sure how to talk about this without using the word selfish. It's not an insult. Most people are mostly selfish. There's no way of talking about the world without taking that into account.
Can vouch for it.
Even though I have had an easy and fun career in tech, I have enormous amount of sympathy for farmers, truckers, train workers, and other groups that have held very large scale strikes. Collectively, they are crucial for ‘keeping the lights on’ in society.

I was amused by the media quotes in the article that dissed on the strikers. I think that the global elite, Wall street, intelligence agencies, big pharma, military industrial complex, etc. all have way too much control over what topics reach the news and what the tone is of news.

I consider myself middle of the road politically and I am grateful to live where I live, but in re-reading my above comments I wonder what fraction of the people living in my country (USA) would consider me radical?
Precious Germany. Swiss cheese security enshrined and protected by law but will blow an absolute fucking gasket if your open source software is even remotely applicable to national defense.
> geo-engineering causes so many extra problems and will absolutely lead to termination shock at some point.

This doesn't sound like a terribly scientific assessment.

Climate change is either an environmental disaster and geoengineering would be a huge risk - or climate change is an existential threat to humanity in which case we have nothing to lose. Which is it?
Prospecting in the AI Gold Rush
Turns out things are usually better, easier, and cheaper, overall, if you can trust your peers. You only need stuff like Bitcoin if you have to operate entirely in a very low-trust environment, and for some reason don't have access to better ways to raise the trust level.

If you're working with lots of money and can't rope in one or more trusted peers (a bank, say) to smooth things out, with that trust backed up by a robust & proven legal framework... uh, that sure narrows down the general type of activity you're likely engaged in.
The VCs won't see a return, but what's the upside for the founder there? Paying yourself a "nice salary" is not a win considering how hard it is to get a company off the ground.
So what happens when the vuln is accessed from someone not under German legal jurisdiction?
In fact, a lot of such users would find the revolt offensive because it interrupts their regularly scheduled memes
Maybe I should say I’m from abroad instead? European seems to trigger something in some folks around here.

That aside, I fail to see any cultural or other reason to require twin staircases nowadays other than ‘that’s how we always did it here’. I admit it openly and state that I’m from somewhere where we don’t do that, and the world works just as well, except buildings have a higher useful to total area ratio.
I was under the impression that the German economy was vastly improved under Hitler, so I think that point at least is valid.