skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If everyone has access to food, shelter, transportation, and health care, in what ways would we even still have capitalism? Like, what happens to landlords? Will we fund this stuff with heavy taxation on the wealthy? Will defense budgets be cut?

I obviously agree that social programs are necessary for a just and humane society.
But I also think the opposition from military-industrial complex, energy lobbies, and rent-seekers of all stripes make it impossible to implement these programs effectively. Because at the end of the day the root of the problem is capitalism.
SEC X Account Hacker Hijacked Staffer Phone Number, Agency Says
>The media have been going out of their way to elevate themselves as the arbiters and gatekeepers of “truth” all the while using their coverages and how they frame the coverages to push people towards their view of the world.

Example: This recent Hollywood Reporter article <https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/lifestyle-news/c...> on Cheryl Hines, wife of presidential candidate RFK Jr. Note the huge tone shifts between what the author wrote, and what the editor hamfistedly inserted throughout the piece about "dubious and disproven claims".
Canonical's hiring process is probably the worst on earth,how can they ever hire anyone?
I am extremely wary of drivers. Years ago--before cell phones were ubiquitous--I saw a car around here start to pull out to a fire truck, one that had its lights and sirens goin.

Having said that, pedestrian wariness can carry one only so far.
>falling prices.

Where?
It definitely made hearing acoustic music / music with real instruments a hell of a lot better for me, making it closer to being at a performance than listening to headphones.
This is time sensitive. The criminals would lose too much time doing that. At least for the “criminal use case “ in Brazil, where they want to quickly access your bank app, this wouldn’t work.
How did Snapchat scramble fighter jets?
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A sprinkle of entropy improves everything
In a similar vein, there's a neat "Efficient Page Replacement" strategy described in a LeanStore paper [0] that combines random selection with FIFO:

> Instead of tracking frequently accessed pages in order to avoid evicting them, our replacement strategy identifies infrequently-accessed pages. We argue that with the large buffer pool sizes that are common today, this is much more efficient as it avoids any additional work when accessing a hot page

> by speculatively unswizzling random pages, we identify infrequently-accessed pages without having to track each access. In addition, a FIFO queue serves as a probational cooling stage during which pages have a chance to be swizzled. Together, these techniques implement an effective replacement strategy at low cost

[0] https://db.in.tum.de/~leis/papers/leanstore.pdf
I do not know if they are on streaming platforms, but Imogen Heap has some atmos mixes and they are worth experiencing. She also does spatial in her live shows. The recording is only stereo, but you can see her do it in act 3 of her tiny desk concert.
> I think if this were really how a substantial part of shareholders thought

It is a substantial part of how shareholders think, as individuals: the problem is that there aren't good channels for sending that message. Shareholder meetings require coordination and are open to manipulation by the C suite, and the market only lets you say "good" or "bad", not "do this" or "stop doing that".
To be fair, there is Doppler shift in cmb, we are moving about 370km/s relative to cmb rest frame.

You can possibly imagine a world where some of this asymmetry is from a lorentzian ether.
Fallout 3 video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9E4wnKf2OsI

800x600, around 20 fps, settings on high.
Also, not to be a shill for Bloomberg, but Matt Levine's newsletter is available for free if you subscribe by email. AFAICT they are not selling the list or anything hinky either: I used a unique address, and nobody else is spamming it even after several years. The newsletter actually contains the full text, it isn't a link to a website with a paywall.
It's truly lame and over-resourced management that allows this practice. I'd argue it signifies a lack of good management practice if the bus factor is high and the actual utilization is low.

I can't fault the engineer for taking advantage if they can.
Also lately, getting the newest LLMs features much later than the rest of the world, or not getting them at all
is this targeted towards non-technical users? for technical users, wouldn't an IDE plugin be a more natural part of the workflow?
It's a gimmick that doesn't really add much to music. Most professional audio engineers I've spoken to about it absolutely hate mixing for it.
Not all of it is an opinion.

The LLM does not have the ability to tell you what it knows and what it doesn't know about a subject. In order to get information out of it, you need to present it with a pattern that matches with something it was trained on.

An example, is that an LLM can tell you how many programming languages it knows, how much it knows about them (which one it understands best), and how many it doesn't know. If you ask it a question like "how to do X in python", it will have been trained on something that roughly matches that and give a response, but if you ask "what things do you know how to do in python", and it simply is not capable of giving a response.

I'm not sure that this means it doesn't have some form of understanding of things, and I do believe that AGI is possible to create in general with sufficient technology, and I do realize that our brains may work in a similar way, but I think LLMs are missing something when it comes to understanding and creating that we have not yet figured out.
> The one way speed of light can be measured

Incorrect. It is two-way you’re measuring. Always. Yes, including in circuit designs
This looks really cool and has a wonderful story behind it. But I’d have to get a new phone to try it, as my OG iPhone SE only supports up to iOS 15, and the App Store says this requires iOS 17…
It would be a commitment that costs money to run day to day, even if it is just running the iOS app.
Thanks for your reply, I agree with almost everything you said. I think perhaps the only place we might disagree is our estimate of number of people who would continue to be productive, and those that would not bother.

I _did_ say we need both disability and unemployment benefits to support people who can't or choose not participate in the workforce for whatever reason. I agree that we should support somebody who might want to drop out and write the nest great novel. But I don't think its unreasonable for those people to feel like they have to go without some luxuries.

I think it's OK to choose to be poor in exchange for total freedom, and we should insure that even the poorest of us have food, shelter, education, and health care.

UBI experiments that don't don't guarantee the income for life are obviously not going to induce people to quit a job.

UBI says we need to give everybody the same amount of cash to be fair, I just don't agree that we need to give it to everybody, and perhaps that giving out lots of cash will have unintended consequences.
Show HN: Whatshouldipatch.com Prioritize Vulnerabilities Using NVD,EPSS,KEV
Not addressing the parent's specific claim, but there was recent discussion of a disturbingly high proportion of studies in one field being fake/flawed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37572394

> "For more than 150 trials, Carlisle got access to anonymized individual participant data (IPD). By studying the IPD spreadsheets, he judged that 44% of these trials contained at least some flawed data: impossible statistics, incorrect calculations or duplicated numbers or figures, for instance. And in 26% of the papers had problems that were so widespread that the trial was impossible to trust, he judged — either because the authors were incompetent, or because they had faked the data."
That extra layer of indirection, virtual queues, is key.
Atarimae Hinshitsu (当たり前品質) translates to "obvious" or "common sense" quality.
Refers to the fundamental, expected, or basic level of quality that is considered standard or normal. The minimum acceptable quality that customers anticipate and assume when purchasing a product or service.

Miryokuteki Hinshitsu (魅力的品質) translates to "attractive" or "charming" quality. It focuses on the special features, design elements, or innovations that make a product or service stand out and appeal to customers on a deeper level, factors like aesthetics, creativity, innovation, and any extra qualities that contribute to a product's distinctive allure

Marriott vs. Ace Hotel

Burger King vs. In N Out

Exxon vs Wawa

Subway vs Potbelly
Git might be the best thing there is today (outside of very large companies or environments with large binaries). It doesn't mean that'll always be the case... There were other VCSs before git, and there will be after.
Beyond AI Exposure: Which Tasks Cost-Effective to Automate with Computer Vision?
I have noticed this as well. EDM/Dance/Pop is a particular offender, we've lost a lot of ground since BT's "Emotional Technology". In the between-years, getting CD quality / FLAC formats helped a lot, but as you say, now the original masters are pretty highly compressed and don't get much benefit from quality audio systems at reasonable volume levels.
That's an interesting perspective. It probably does have a lot to do with the first programming languages you learn. The first programming languages I learned were all strongly typed, so it seemed inherent to the concept of a variable when I learned it. I had to wrap my head around dynamically typed languages as "Ah, all variables are actually just pointers to structures with a tag indicating the type, and they can be rebound to objects with different types." When I write Python, I use type annotations, or I keep track of the type in my head, and use casts as convenient conversion functions. But, since Awk and shell script don't make you cast things explicitly as much as Python, I can also see how someone would learn programming with dynamic types in a really natural way.
I hope it's clear that this isn't about actual cake cutting.

But rather as a stand-in for any resource that people want to figure out a fair, equitable way to distribute.

So you should read this as a guide to how different countries might be willing to fairly divide a contested piece of land, when different parts of the land have different qualities (e.g. suitability for farming, value in mining) and the different countries value those things differently (e.g. one is good at building mines, the other prefers to protect the environment).

There are a lot of conflicts in the world over resources that need to be divvied up in some way, where everyone really is looking out for the self-interest of their state or nation or community.
i thought RH had solved that. just write a systemd unit file with the cpu quotas. bam. done. /s?
I know hasty optimisation is the root of all evil, but even so this has got to be a bit too far in the other direction.

A 2x speed improvement is very significant if it happens to be in the critical loop of your code. You want a 5000% difference? Just find 6 tweaks like these and you might just get there.

Of course in most cases whatever you're doing to build the dict is more likely taking up most of the time, not building the dict itself, but understanding why one option is 2x as fast is still important. Though one can only hope that it will soon be irrelevant when JITed python becomes a thing.
I wonder how the market will shake out…

Generally I see AAA studios churning out Boring Shooter: 2024 Q1 edition. Pay $70 for the same engine, some balance tweaks, and a new map. But their games are pretty because they are the only ones who can afford to buy millions to make assets.

Indie games are, of course, where all the interesting mechanics are invented.

If AI makes it easy to generate assets, why won’t the AAA studios feel the pain first? Of course, everyone would love a stable job, and it is really sad when they lose them. But the management just contributes coordination. Maybe we’re heading toward a world small teams can leverage AI to fill their skill gaps, they can make some actually interesting games, and the AAA studios can go extinct. The game shattering Steam records was made by like 10 people apparently, and I think they didn’t even use AI (as far as I know).

None of this puts food on the table now of course, but the future could be better.
The actual study:

Beyond AI Exposure: Which Tasks are Cost-Effective to Automate with Computer Vision?

https://futuretech.mit.edu/news/beyond-ai-exposure-which-tas...
There are such projects. The problem is that so few people use such browsers that just having that browser is often enough to fingerprint you.
Ol’ Boozy at it again!
10Ks.. possibly 100K people were sold $5-15k worth of software that doesn't work and won't be refunded. I think that's pretty rude.
I believe this is intentional... many reasons come up for why.
Distributed systems can get very big.
Made a flashcards and mcqs generator based on text input
I would really value anyone who can be a test user for this product, its my first shot at making something usable and would appreciate any feedback you can give!

discord link : https://discord.gg/n7ATsAfN
Curious if a system like this is plausible:

Why must the market be purely capitalistic? Rather, why any market must bare the mark of others is curious to me; similar as they may be some should not be equal.

Hypothetically - why not make raw materials in the traditional market(s) while also giving it a credit rating (valued in the market based on sustainability) - one that is transferable only against those same credits. So if a public need requires (x) and gains (theoretical) democratic support, credits can be used in place of monetary requirement to build these required needs.
It seems to depend. Some tracks seem to really benefit - I was listening to some Bob Marley and thought it was particularly good.
Biome doesn't want to replace TypeScript.
Really? There have been plenty of high-profile crashes due to weird Airbus design decisions.

I'm thinking of this one primarily:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447

>>Confused, Bonin exclaimed, "I don't have control of the airplane any more now", and two seconds later, "I don't have control of the airplane at all!"[43] Robert responded to this by saying, "controls to the left", and took over control of the aircraft.[84][45] He pushed his side-stick forward to lower the nose and recover from the stall; however, Bonin was still pulling his side-stick back. The inputs cancelled each other out and triggered an audible "dual input" warning.<<
Well, that's not the average trip :P

Yet still, I instantly feel tired by thinking about the effort / planning of cross-country trip
That's an interesting point. That's sound at least plausible that mobile notifications could be monitored by intelligence.

Still, the point would be the same: they are likely inventing a story around the airport wifi, and someone/something is watching messages directly on the provider side.
>What cozy games are showing us is that a world with tons of “free stuff” — universal basic income, universal health care, free education, free housing — will not result in a breakdown of our society because “no one wants to work”.

Who provides the health care, education and housing? Actually providing (a large part of) all these things, and many other goods and services that we expect to exist at reasonable prices, is much more tiring, and much less dopamine-inducing, than clicking a mouse while seated comfortably at your desk.

The concrete example I favour is cleaning toilets. Every city-dwelling person uses a toilet regularly; toilets need to be cleaned periodically, and there's a lower bound on how much time and effort that takes. Thus some constant fraction of all human effort must be devoted to cleaning toilets. I can imagine a janitor simulation game, in which people click a few times to "clean", becoming popular. But I can't imagine anyone cleaning toilets for free in their spare time.
No?

What do you dislike about current E2EE?
Lawyers are rapidly embracing AI
> But these requirements still ignore one of the biggest problems: the price of spare parts.

No, that is short-sighted.

The price of spare parts is the symptom. The root cause is that the part are highly specific to whatever they are going into, and there is a single supplier for them.

For repairs to be easy, things have to be made with generic parts that are available from multiple suppliers.

Not all parts have to be that way, just the ones likely to break, or ones that are expected to require replacement by design.

You're not going to get decent prices for spare parts, if you're vendor-locked, and there is no competition.
Latex is I guess fine. I have no complaints from sleeping on it. But it is a bear to move. If you don't have a couple of stevedores in your household, good luck.
Unencrypted web traffic sent from the airport's wifi.

Yeah, that adds up. Should have either been on your cell plan or using E2E for stupid stuff like that.
I just love it. It adds more depth to everything even podcasts.
I can’t listen to music without it, it’s so well executed that music without it appears flat to me.
100x better difference than lossless music.
These are not primarily assembly issues. The newest -900ER is ~5 years old which means all -900ERs have been through a heavy check where the bolts would've been inspected.
I'd love to see those things, but not at the emotional/mental cost of actually having to travel to those places. If travelling didn't suck so much and in so many ways, maybe... but the reality is that airlines, lodging, and crowds collectively detract from the experience. Personally, it's very much a net loss.
I mean it's not like you can name your company Microsoftcom so I'm not sure these are any better. If someone owns vx.dev and they bought it before this thing was published they don't have to try very hard to make a case for infringement.
Ever been to Wisconsin?

I think at one time it was neck and neck with Texas for leading the nation in obesity. I live here, and it hits me when I travel. Even just to neighboring states. Minnesota and Illinois are visibly more fit.

Obesity is a problem in many areas in the US.
> If you're relying on your competitor to enable your business model then you're not competing with them.

This is not true, and there are multitudes of counter-examples: store-brand products sharing shelves with competitors, EVs delivered by ICE vehicles, AOL CDs being sent by mail, etc.
because it's all linked in WhatsApp, which is the only thing anybody still actively uses anyway
Yes, surprisingly, there is no other news source that I've found as yet.
Worth noting, in the email from HIBP, they include the following full information: "Breach: Trello
Date of breach: 16 Jan 2024
Number of accounts: 15,111,945
Compromised data: Email addresses, Names, Usernames
Description: In January 2024, data was scraped from Trello and posted for sale on a popular hacking forum. Containing over 15M email addresses, names and usernames, the data was obtained by enumerating a publicly accessible resource using email addresses from previous breach corpuses. Trello advised that no unauthorised access had occurred."
I suspect you may be missing one or two subtleties in this discussion.
And devs are not insulated from this. So much time of devs are wasted to play office politics.
IDK, seems frequent enough from my experience. A good boss doesn't make up for crappy comp
My problem with {} is that the syntax for dicts
{x1:y1, x2:y2 ...}
and sets {x1, x2 ...}
Are very close, and {} is slightly ambiguous.

I've run into bugs because i wrote {} for the empty set. Since then i write dict() and set()
Some people would. The percentage of users who actively contribute to open source, or readers who contribute to Wikipedia, or players who create mods or levels for their favorite games gives a pretty solid hint what the share would be. It's pretty consistently somewhere well south of 5%. And those jobs are about as close to the idealized work of Animal Crossing or Stardew Valley as it's possible to get: clean, standalone, simple, and doable from the comfort of your chair.
Yup me too. Just got out of working at a B2B SaaS that was 100% AWS serverless - Lambda, S3, dynamoDB and all that.

I worked there for 3 years! When I started 3 years ago - the owners touted the benefits of all of it. And I agree its not all totally bad. There are some valid use cases for small enterprise projects.

BUT after 3 years it was really starting to wear me down. The codebase just kept growing, there were so many lambdas to keep track of. It was so hard to test and observe the system in production. Sure you can address some of these pitfalls by creating your own tools that wrap AWS API calls but it never ends. It doesn't make your life easier, you still have to write a bunch of extra glue code because a lot of the tooling for these serverless platforms is terrible and left up to frameworks to solve.
Python is filled with these kinds of traps where there's more than one way to do the same thing but one way is faster for no reason. It's such a bad language.
> People keep bashing EU for making innovation hard, and there are a lot of truth to it.

If you consider the GDPR or DMA limitations on "innovation", then I don't want you innovating.
More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39087237
I don't know. The web is pretty unbearable here in the EU due to the cookies consent.

Even more, many times I find myself wondering why a site is not responsive to my clicks just to find out there's some hidden cookie consent that didn't fire up properly and now I have to inspect the DOM to remove it manually.
Land Value Tax is the solution. Simply tax vacancy into oblivion and force landlords to put the land to productive use.

The current dynamic is how economies seize up.
> If I send a clock from A to C to B, and a clock from A to D to B, and the two clocks arrive with the same time, then I have evidence that time dilation is anisotropic (for at least those two routes).

You mean isotropic, and you don't really. D->B is the same as A->C and C->B is the same as A->D; whatever clever path you come up with, a clock going from A to B will end up having had vertical movements that sum up to 0. If moving up induces some extra time dilation and moving down reduces it, or vice versa, you'll never be able to detect it; ultimately you can only ever make measurements when you and your clocks (and/or signals) have moved in closed loops, however squiggly.
Yes, this sounds plausible. Maybe the airline did know about the missing bolts and didn't want publicly admit it.

If they didn't notice the bolts missing it's a completely different story. If 4 bolts get loose, maybe 50 more go loose soon after. It's not impossible that all of them were not mounted correctly and the first 4 were only the beginning.