skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have two pinball machines in my basement waiting to be fixed up and restored. But I don't have the motivation to do the work, probably because I was never nostalgic for this era, I'm too young. I do find them fascinating from an engineering perspective, however.
How about a hard cap on inheritance instead.
> Keeping the network secure isn’t valuable?

Relative to the amount of consumed energy? Not, not at all... Bitcoin is extremely exceptionally very inefficient for what it is.
"permits the existence of Jeff Bezos"

- your mind on capitalism.

What things of importance has Bezos done? End world hunger? Or are we celebrating the death of local stores and malls? What about a society that prevents kids from starving instead of making bombs and satellites for world wars?
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I recently graduated with my PhD in Experimental Linguistics and currently am teaching computational linguistics and NLP in my university and looking to transition to data science/ machine learning experience. I have experience of building a data analysis pipeline and a research project, as well as understanding of various NLP models.
Encore CEO here. Thanks for the feedback.

We sell developer productivity and devops automation, and compared to hiring additional engineers Encore is very cheap.

We’ve tried to align our incentives with the needs of our customers, so there are no usage-based or surprise fees when using Encore. The per-seat price may be higher but it’s transparent and predictable.
The Big Tech Brain Drain – The Changing Landscape of Big Tech
>Why shouldn't a billionaire be capable of starting a genetics lab to fund cancer research and pay for it in cash, if they are so inclined?

Starting land to fund cancer research is fine, but I don't see why we need billionairs for that? Multiple people can fund it. They are going to work alone in that lab either.

>It's not as if the money wealthy people have is just in physical gold coins in their swimming pools.

And it's not as if taxing that wealth makes that fact go away.

What's different is that when all that wealth is concentrated with a few people, they get to decide what research they spend it on and which jobs are created. And that's a bad thing, it's a threath to democracy.
Miners don't really want to use energy only when it's at a surplus though. Because the equipment is expensive and due to the difficulty increasing it's only viable a short time. So this is an argument that also doesn't really fly (and draws attention to another issue; the e-waste)
Taken to the extreme it is an accelerated track to causing a black hole given the incentives of the network and the requirement of computational space having a physical necessity to provide the substrate for it to continue.
I still wonder who enforces the MDR if a company from outside the EU offers their app/software to EU citizens without any certification.

There are quite a few health apps that are considered medical devices under MDR, but not in other countries. The EU companies must comply with the regulations, but nobody seems to be responsible for removing non-certified apps made by non-EU companies. That is a huge competitive disadvantage for EU companies.
How would you bring media ownership to the masses? A hardware "hub" you can put a disc in and it rips it and organizes it and allows your family to stream it?

They could add a cloud based subscription for storage if you don't want their hub. The tech is all out there, someone just needs to do it in an Apple-like dead-simple manner.
First link? You are lucky if the first page has the result you want.
That doesn't change the extreme: "Taken to the extreme it is an accelerated track to causing a black hole given the incentives of the network and the requirement of computational space having a physical necessity to provide the substrate for it to continue."
Interesting idea re:internal links. For sufficiently complex issues of this nature, pandoc filters[0] are a powerful tool for this kind of mid-conversion processing. I've made some cool projects with the Python package panflute[1]

[0] https://pandoc.org/filters.html

[1] https://github.com/sergiocorreia/panflute
So if you guys had actually clicked on my link, you'd see that much of the highlighted issue was that 1) all of the months before the December yearly adjustment were down, so we adjusted down, then at the end of the year we adjusted the whole shebang back up. 2) The negative data was actually mostly tied to the household survey for unemployment and general financial health. Overall, we're seeing people complain that life is hard to afford and there's a general upward trend of low-wage positions (low wages are getting less low over time, more than higher wages are). This backed up my current employer, one of the Big 3 automakers having just massively increased the line worker salary in the UAW negotiation (to something like 2.5x what a Tesla assembly worker makes) while having suppressed promotions and wage increases in white collar areas. The government and health care sectors are up but counter cyclical. Similarly, construction is up in places like Michigan not because people are building more (just check the construction surveys for that one) but because the state finally saved some money for fixing the damn roads, then got a windfall of COVID assistance that had to be spent, not saved, and had to be used quickly, so they turned fixing 2 freeways into fixing 5 freeways simultaneously, which requires a lot of additional road construction workers. As another commenter further down pointed out, those jobs are not sticking around past 2026, when most of that work is scheduled to end. Meanwhile, the announcements of layoffs in anything that makes over $80k/yr is increasing...
Gut reaction: Talk to some older people, who've been around business for a few decades, on the sort of polite-sounding, emotion-numbing buzz-phrases which they would use to say "no, never".

BTW - has this family-friend-turning-CTO ever done you (or your previous-startup team) any 7-ish-figure financial favors? I'm thinking "no".
This (conveniently) ignores (as do so many similar analyses) the opportunity costs of entering into a labor contract.

When an enterprise fails, it is not just the stockholders and corporate officers who suffer. The employees do too. Worse, only the foolhardy investor puts more than they can afford to lose into a risky investment, meaning that while they have undoubtedly lost money from the failure, they are almost certainly still "whole" in terms of their ability to meet their basic needs. By contrast, the employees, who may have lost no capital, often face much more dire circumstances in the aftermath of a venture failing.

>even a political process that isn’t being corrupted or gamed by someone powerful is badly incentivized to throw good money after bad

It isn't clear to me what you mean by this.
One of the reasons I pretty much stopped listening to podcasts all together was the trend Rogan set of interviewing comedians. I guess having a podcast and doing the podcast circuit is easier than getting behind a mic and being funny. It turns out most comedians are dorks who decided to be professional joke makers in order to compensate for being uninteresting. Nothing wrong with that, but comedian stories on podcasts just blend together after a while.
I made a bookmarklet that loads the state from localstorage and also autosaves the state on each new craft

javascript:(function(){
const exportState = () => JSON.stringify({
discoveries: window.$nuxt.$root.$children[2].$children[0].$children[0]._data.discoveries,
elements: window.$nuxt.$root.$children[2].$children[0].$children[0]._data.elements
});

const importState = (state) => {
const { discoveries, elements } = JSON.parse(state);
const gameInstance = window.$nuxt.$root.$children[2].$children[0].$children[0]._data;
gameInstance.discoveries = discoveries;
gameInstance.elements = elements;
};

/* Set up a MutationObserver to listen for changes in the DOM and automatically export the current state. */
const observer = new MutationObserver((mutations) => {
const state = exportState();
localStorage.setItem('gameState', state);
});

/* Start observing DOM changes to auto-save the game state. */
const startObserving = () => {
const targetNode = document.querySelector('.sidebar');
observer.observe(targetNode, { childList: true, subtree: true });
};

/* Check for a saved state in localStorage and import it if available. */
const savedState = localStorage.getItem('gameState');
if (savedState) importState(savedState);
else localStorage.setItem('gameState', exportState() );

startObserving();
})();
At some point you get the option to vouch for flagged posts as well.
Amazingly helpful!
> Those tests exist already

Do you actually know which tests the EPA runs and if so could you cite your source?

> no ethical tests can determine the full truth.

That's an all-or-nothing fallacy.

Also you didn't respond to the core of my remark, which is about increasing the financial incentives by an order of magnitude. Lastly I take your complaint about coffee as support my argument that the current testing mechanisms are likely too simple.
On benchmarking Postgres performance, highlights of a podcast episode
No, the term recall has long been used for cases where the defect could be addressed without returning the product. For example recalls of major appliances are usually handled by the manufacturer paying to have a repairperson come and repair the appliance in the consumer's home.
It's rather brave of them to publish the list of "no"s. I imagine that's helping to crack the whip on IPv6 support within the company.
An interesting feature to try on this might be to have several sentiment modes to try out. I.e. what if you hade a neutral perspective, a conservative one and a progressive one available as easily as it is to click a dark/light mode button? What if you had some more custom modes that are targeted at providing news that fits the user's perspective / interest more and that would shape the summaries to align with the perspective "I am a software developer that enjoys news about technological innovation and related industry news"
I spent a lot of time playing Bally Twilight Zone at the Munich Maker Lab a few years back. I still miss the tungsten bulbs which lit the ball consistently, as opposed to LEDs which tend to "blink" rapidly (at 60Hz?). It makes the ball much easier to track at high speed, and has such a nostalgic soft glow which gently fades off into nothing.

I also miss reading the manual and fixing little things every so often.

It looks like this machine has either moved on from MuMaLab, or was never listed in the first place.

It would be nice to be able to filter machines here by what kind of lights they use. I imagine most places tend to use LEDs to save on electricity. At least that's been my experience checking the barcades I've found from this site.
Thanks a lot for the feedback. Although I've received several bug reports like this, and unfortunately every time, it was the player who placed a flag incorrectly. So at the moment I'm more leaning to one of those 2 flags being incorrect. I think out of those 4 flags, the second from the top shouldn't have been placed.

But my assumption can certainly be wrong! To be sure, could you take a screenshot of a loosing screen? as all the mines will be revealed then, and we can see if the number is indeed correct or not.
I think it's ok. One of the mine spots is incorrectly labeled. The spot that the upper orange arrow is touching is not a mine.
My guess is that sharing from Linux would give you more options in terms of how to work around the copy protection.

I don't know if you use Docker, but a seriously weird sharing workaround could be to use a Samba share to mount in Finder, pointed to your drive on Linux... I made a Docker repo that could probably be modified to fit this use case: https://github.com/jzombie/sshfs-mac-docker
> There is no standard, how can it be verified.

The behavior of the generated binary can be verified against the requirements. Yeah, the most common way to do this is to verify certain properties at the source code level, and then rely on various ways to show equivalence between the source code and the generated assembly, the generated assembly and the generated binary, and the formal semantics of the generated binary and the as-executed semantics on the chosen hardware; but it's perfectly reasonable, and not even particularly unusual, to skip the first equivalence and verify the assembly against the requirements directly.
US launches retaliatory strikes on Iran-linked militia targets in Iraq, Syria
Crazy talk. Consider this scenario: I have a company with 80% of my revenues and profits coming from 20% of my company, but that other 80% still requires 80% of my time and energy. Should I be forced to continue to maintain that 80% rather than devoting time and attention to the part of my business that is clearly far more successful, in demand, and probably enjoyable, just for the sake of maintaining the jobs?

No? OK, now I'll hire 20 people so that division is losing money. Great, now I can legally shut it down.
actually none. 2nd flag from the top is wrong
A lot of these collective decisions aren't even needed but are simply the consequence of runaway states having to make all sorts calls on behalf of regular people because they've inserted themselves into everyday life in a million different ways.

For the few collective decisions that really do have to be made, regular elections are the only way to keep the decision-makers on their toes.
These infinite verification prompts are the reason I no longer consider Cloudflare as an option for business use and would not recommend it to anyone. I know that they are configurable by the admins but they give bad PR to Cloudflare. I am not sure what this company was thinking associating itself with such a terrible user experience.
Workers created all those things not Jeff Bezos. A lot of the services and technologies leveraged by AWS are created via open source projects for example PostGres.
Fair point that terms like this can change meanings.

But this version absolutely does not fit the original, which had nothing to do with amounts of traffic.

It was a problem with kernel APIs: if N threads sleep waiting for an event on a socket (i.e. a thread pool), there was no way to wake up only one of them when a single msg arrived. They would all wake, all check if there was work to do, then all (but one) would go back to sleep. This is a behavioral flaw even in the case of next to no traffic (though it may not have an material effect).

The problem has been solved with better kernel APIs.
This is what we run. Modest but not trivial scale. Transition was really easy.
Why is 1955 the "normal" baseline? I could be convinced it's somewhat reasonable, but right now, I wouldn't assume it. More data would be the most convincing argument.
Never work for free!
Either cash or equity.
You should expect an equity relative to your amount of work multiplied by the median freelancer hourly rate in your region.
For example: I put in 3 months of work, that should be at least 30.000$ of value.
If the company is worth 100.000$ I expect 33% of shares in equity.
Everything else is fraud.
That’s the thing though: you can’t trade a billion dollars if Bitcoin for USD in a day! Tether, sure, but not actual money.

The original USD sunk into the system is mostly gone, spent on electricity, mining rigs, hookers, and blow.

If you attempted to withdraw that much money, you’d be stonewalled.

The only way to do it would be to hire some coders, set up your own “trading” web site, and convince a million rubes to part with a thousand each on average. You’d have to do this for years while loudly saying “Bitcoin is not fake money” in every Internet forum you can spam, because otherwise the music might stop before you can cash out.
Your argument reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of both energy markets and the role of Bitcoin in the modern economy. Asserting there’s a ‘finite’ amount of energy oversimplifies the issue and ignores the capacity for human ingenuity to tap into ever-more efficient and renewable energy sources. The notion of energy being a zero-sum game is a defeatist and static view that hampers progress.

Bitcoin mining, far from the wasteful ‘heating the desert’ analogy you propose, incentivizes the development of excess energy infrastructure that can be redirected or scaled based on demand fluctuations, acting as a catalyst for innovation in energy production and management.

Moreover, your argument smacks of a dangerous ‘divide the cake’ mentality, suggesting we should cap our aspirations and limit access to energy and technological advancement to maintain a status quo. Should we tell emerging economies that they must forego the benefits of modern technology because we’ve decided there’s simply no more room for energy growth? That’s not only patronizing but inherently regressive.

The beauty of Bitcoin and its underlying energy consumption is that it encourages the search for more efficient, cost-effective, and often greener energy solutions. This is not about wasting resources; it’s about driving forward a future where energy is more abundant, accessible, and sustainable for all. To stifle this under the guise of protecting resources is to deny the very essence of human progress and innovation.
I liked Garfield without Garfield, you might be on to something.
I love the simplicity of the blog layout - is this open source I'd love to setup my blog to look similar!
ah yes. I have not added that, but it's on my list. I completely agree it would help. I'll see if I can get to it. Thanks a lot for the nudge, that's super useful.
"Aside: I'm confused why you're saying "hospitals" -- medical providers don't synthesize things, it's researchers at universities and biotech companies"

During at least two pandemics I've worked on, I've known hospital labs synthesizing their own PCR primers for diagnostic tests.
Tell that to a roofer.
What should the EPA have done instead?
This reminds me of trying to get around the web filter on the computers in high school. Going to MS Word, selecting open from URL, then entering a search engine or whatever site you wanted, would open the browser and circumvent the web filters.
Why not comment on the (rather interesting IMO) content rather than on the personality of the person writing? No one is going to change their mind based on your snark.
I made a 4 hour trip to https://www.pasttimesarcade.com/ in Gerard, OH. Includes an incredible collection of tables from the 60s and 70s and a few from even earlier. I've been to Next Level in Portland too. It rocks.
Obtuse tips that I'll probably fail on all accounts
They are. Most locksmiths hate graphite. The two lubes most used and recommended by locksmiths are Houdini and Tri-Flow. The latter is available in some hardware stores (it’s in the lube section of my local ACE Hardware), and while you can special order Houdini online, you can also buy it locally under its alternate name Super Slick Slick Stuff. I’ve seen it in my local Lowes, not sure if Home Depot also has it now.
And yet, all of those examples are critically dependent on huge pieces of infrastructure created and distributed for free by people motivated simply by craftsmanship - Linux, the BSD kernels and many other similar things.
You're right that in some industries, with some products, automation delivers lower-quality results. But at the same time, automation has allowed us to build certain things that we previously almost couldn't at scales that were once unimaginable. Electronics are a good example of this -- a sub-µm process couldn't be done, practically, without a level of precision reliably achievable only through automation.

In many industries, automation also leads to higher reliability. Aircraft with flight envelope protection are a direct result of automation, and while poor design (like the original set of MCAS-related issues on the 737 MAX) or bad crew doctrine (like AA965 in 1995) can still lead to bad outcomes, automation, on the whole, has saved countless lives.

These tools exist, we just need to keep improving them, and use them in a strategic, smart, and forward-looking way.
Because of the demand curve. I can only read so much Reddit, and watch so many TikTok s. devoting all my waking hours to those, I'm still only going to be taking our watching one person's worth. Meanwhile, Bitcoin mining will scale to the amount of money I am willing to throw at it.
Never retire just reeks of out of touch and entitled. A brother of a close friend made it big with an edtech startup and he loves to tell everyone how he'll never retire and you shouldn't either!

Work for him looks like this:

- Working damn near anywhere on the planet he wants from a rental that costs $20k a month
- Having a housekeeper, traveling nanny, nutritionist, chef, fashion consultant, etc...
- Having $250M to fall back on at any time
- Going to industry events, conferences, etc... and having everyone praise you and dote over you
- Being able to just not work anytime you don't want to
There are definitely ways to progress from here, but they may be more advanced?

The 1 SouthEast of the bottom 2 touches two tiles, and the 1 immediately West touches a superset of those two. The difference between the larger and smaller set must be clear. And you can go further off of that.
£14 seems like a pretty good price.
Thanks a lot for the feedback and suggestion. And yes, I think it makes sense to add those.
With LLMs nowadays getting a PoC banged out in a couple hours is easier than ever. The things make boilerplate and you can focus on the value.
Author of fck-nat here. My big issue with Alternat is that it actively updates the route table which can still cause availability problems. It's a shorter outage than the current fck-nat replacement methodology, but it is still dropping connections.

The longer term vision for fck-nat is a two node approach using conntrackd and keepalived to actively failover existing connections to the secondary with no loss of availability. This has the added benefit of not requiring all of the auxiliary infrastructure that Alternat sets up.
Sucks, but there were three users I think
Why though? Classless ipv4 solves a real problem, handing out /64's not
> Wealth, at least the way we measure it, is inextricably tied to modernity.

Only in the sense that modernity produces a lot more wealth than any other system humans have come up with.

> What many see as prosperity, is irreconcilable with sustainability.

No, it isn't. What might be is allowing people to accumulate wealth by playing zero sum games, siphoning wealth out of other people's pockets into their own, instead of producing more wealth.
Funny you mention- this founding team is all over the age of 40, we would be the youngest people there (22-25)

The family friend wants to plan me as a successor in a succession plan to his position IF we join, and he's an old timer in the valley with strong connections but goes on random help sprees with random people just like this (my dad even told me to just entertain it and scope out what going on). He and my dad built a company that exited to Cisco in the '90s, and he's been doing random stuff like this since.

He has not done any 7 figure favors to me, however he has played a pivotal role in my family's life.
Will they though? A large consumer of oil is cars and EVs are coming fast. Even if we assume that 5% of cars will always be fuel burning ICE for "reasons" that is such large demand destruction that in 10 years I don't think OPEC will have any power - in fact I wouldn't be surprised if most of the world just embargo all OPEC countries: they are mostly middle east areas where there is a lot of conflict and the few non-OPEC oil producers can supply the world's needs, so cutting them off from all money is a good thing for the world.
There's a bit of a gap between 2 and 12. Can you elaborate?