skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, yeah.

A real punishment would be destroying their business, returning money illegally gotten to individuals profited on, and opening up criminal proceedings on cartel and monopolization.

But no, here's your slap on the wrist. And they'll just make a 10x more convoluted plan that does the same.

Why is it allowed? Cause "they're too big to fail".
ALS is a cruel disease. My mum is 83 and had great difficulty speaking and swallowing much of anything. Food was getting trapped in her throat and blocking her air way was happening more often. she battled for each breath. The riluzole did very little to help her. The medical team did even less. Her decline was rapid and devastating. The psychological support from the medical centre was non-existent and if it were not for the sensitive care and attention of our primary physician, there she would have died. There has been little if any progress in finding a cure or reliable treatment. Acupuncture eased her anxiety a bit. this year our primary physician started her on Natural Herbs Centre ALS/MND Ayurvedic treatment, 6 months into treatment she improved dramatically. It has been a complete turnaround with her speech, she no longer needs the feeding tube to feed, the treatment is a miracle. She recovered significantly! Visit Naturalherbscentre. com
> Well-meaning friends had already suggested it might be kinder to have her put down, because she was often visibly distressed.

I've always found it interesting how little we regard other forms of life out of our warped ideas of "compassion" - it would be unthinkable to suggest this to parents of an actual child, for such an easily treatable condition.
Kind of funny that the only way to download the 256 Byte demo is to download a 19.6 MiB zip file containing a video recording of the demo.

https://files.scene.org/view/parties/2022/lovebyte22/executa...
> But in both cases, I don't see why the value they provide changes based on the value of the home. Some of them might change based on the size of the home or property, but not the home value.

It’s pretty simple, more expensive homes are less liquid and take significantly longer to sell, because there are fewer people with deep enough pockets to buy them. This equates to more effort in actually finding a buyer. A $20 million dollar home may be on the market for years before it gets sold.

I’m guessing that if just one side of the deal was getting a % of the value, there would be a significant imbalance between the sellers and buyers agents, in terms of effort, which is something that you don’t want as a buyer.
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We were able to get a 3% commission when we bought our house ~10 years ago since the listing agent and our realtor were with the same firm. They were doing us a favor for sure and it was at a time when the market wasn't completely crazy as it is now so making the sale actually mattered.

A 6% commission today is like adding $30,000 to the price of a modest house (in my area anyway) which is bonkers. Time for a shake up.
this speaks more about your character than his
Had an intersex Great Dane. She was visibly female but had an enlarged clitoris (with bone). I sent her blood sample off to someone doing early work on the subject; they told me she was probably sterile.

This turned out to be mistaken. Boy dog that bred her broke his penis bone in the process. Never fathered another pup, but did heal and live a few years of rewarding life after that. She delivered a little of normal, healthy pups; with some extra effort and probably pain; we got her spayed after that.
Neat, might I suggest just 'posterizing' the red and yellow layers instead of half-toning them?
but with the run up in house prices, the percentage doesnt really do that anymore. For many areas in cali with a median > 1mil... The agent is getting 30k on your 1mil sale. If they push REALLY hard and get it to 1.1 mil, they get 3k extra, which is something, but not much extra incentive compared to the 30k.

What they are actually incentivized to do in expensive housing markets, is do the minimal possible effort per house, but sell more volume.

You could of course design a better incentive structure (fixed fee for median sale, tiered incentives for every % over that), and thats what i hope happens from these changes.
I agree that a good realtor can provide a lot of value. But the amounts of money involved are crazy. Much too high. The average sale-price for a house in my neighborhood is about 1.4M these days. At a standard 3% commission, that's $42k each for the buyer's realtor and the seller's realtor.

Yes, they both provide value. But $42k of value each? At that price, they only need to sell one house a month to have a $500k gross income. And they definitely aren't doing a month of fulltime labor to close my sale.

I think that $15k is probably fair for the amount of labor that a realtor provides. But the whole realtor system really is a huge predatory monopoly, and they are squeezing too much money out of the market. And now they're starting to get to the "find out" part.
*[CITATIONS NEEDED]*

1) Bioreactors have available many options other than antibiotics for controlling bacterial growth.

2) A bioreactor is not "basically just an animal with a severely curtailed feature set". A bioreactor is not even "basically an organ with a severely curtailed feature set".

3) What precisely do you mean by "sterile techniques will only get you so far, especially at scale"?

There are actual issues with lab-grown meat. In a nutshell: nutritional quality, and the high degree of post-processing likely needed in order to make them palatable in terms of texture and taste.

TL;DR when someone reasons by analogy, doubt everything they say.
More than just vouchers, these people need services provisioned in places other than those with the most expensive housing costs in the country.

The quality of services offered by NYC and SF to the homeless is unparalleled but it simply is not economical/borderline absurd to try to house them in the economic agglomeration centers of the US.
100Mbps 15 years ago in Australia would have been huge, the return on investment almost instantaneous for that timescale (Say, 14 months)
> unthinkable to suggest

you'd be surprised.
The housing market is currently under supplied, and has been for ~ a decade, and while higher interest rates are showing some progress, it's still a sellers market.

In a sellers market, with competitive bids, over asking, and sometimes sight unseen / waiving inspection, (and in 90% of markets unfurnished) -- staging is the equivalent of lipstick -- and in correlation to this case, much less meaningful than realtors blacklisting FSBO/Redfin/Zillow listings.
Policy simulator is indeed a great option except I didn't have access to it at the time because it was disabled via SCP :D

Kidding around though I'll try that if I face a similar issue in the future. It has been improving quite a bit lately.

> Well EC2 would process these requests by first verifying subnet-related permissions before moving on to security group permissions. Variations in the error messages could reflect the point at which the request encounters a permission issue?

I would think the context would be deterministic in that case but I verified calling the API with the same parameters using the same role twice in a row ended up with different 'resource' values in the context. It was almost like under the hood boto3 or something else was changing the order of the parameters in the API call which was changing the way the context was created. I could've put in a support case but had bigger fish to fry.
Yes, you need a trusted word of mouth referral, good agents live on them.
IDA and Ghidra, which they mention at the bottom, along with Binary Ninja which they didn't, have decompilers that will output C source-ish from compiled assembly. Variables and functions without symbols in the binary are just given unique non-meaningful names. There's a lot of AI-powered extensions for them now trying to automate the reverse engineering process of giving them meaningful names, but IMO they are completely worthless and of negative utility - they're either so high level they just reiterate what the assembly is doing but in English, or are wrong and make up explanations for nearly every name that are incorrect and take more effort to correct than they save.
If your contention is fraud then good news - we already have the laws and authorities required to pursue it. Nothing new required.
Here in the US there aren't a lot of kings, but if you have the fortune of living in a commonwealth nation, you're free to get rid of yours.

Unless you're in the UK, though, King Charles is not exactly asking for anything from you.
> “How can this sort of event that makes our customers angry be prevented in the future?”, they asked themselves. Their answer was a new rule: any versions of a package that has dependents cannot be removed from the registry

> We tried to hang a pretty picture on a wall, but accidentally opened a small hole. This hole caused the entire building to collapse.

These two snippets say everything that needs to be said about the JavaScript ecosystem and mentality. I'll leave if for you to decide what that is.
Not if your purpose is watching movies/surfing the web, which is my use case.
Until it's been found, you mean?
Very informative - thanks for the explanation! I also forget that these attacks are usually very targeted (I guess I just imagine criminals swimming in money despite the old adage). I'll just have to do my best to be an unremarkable person.
One way to look at VR headsets is that it's a better computer display -- as large and immersive as you want, without physical limitation. People prefer retina displays and will pay for multi-monitor setups, so we know people value this.

We also know that people are perfectly willing to wear something on their face to be able to see better, and willing to carry something around in their pockets to be more connected -- glasses and phones.

So I think the only real barrier is technical feasibility: can you make it small enough, light enough, power efficient enough, and, of course, affordable enough?

AVP and Oculus clearly aren't there yet. Relative to smartphones, I think we're at the "Palm III" or maybe "Palm V" level of things. I personally have no idea if a path forward to the "iPhone 3S/iPhone 4" level even really exists for VR headsets.

But if it does and we get there, I think there's no doubt that these headsets (probably just goggles at that point) will take over the world, like phones have.
ok, I'll bite:

1) What do you mean when you say “enshitification”? How is the world getting worse? By what measure?

More violence, more bigotry, paying more and getting less not because things cost more but because stock price, minimum wage not tracking inflation while political donations do, Donald-Fucking-Trump as POTUS, cyber attacks at a truly breathtaking pace, healthcare and the entire fucking tragedy that is in the US, women's rights, body autonomy, a stock market where market makers can legally and literally steal money from everyone else, CU literally legalizing outright bribes to congress, the rise of US Nazis, the entire fucking state of Texas, judges who ignore any and all legal standing and common sense that enact the stupidest most regressive horse shit, corporations dumping chemicals into the environment by the metric ton and "suffering" profits for it, and much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much, much more.

How about you step outside sometime and look at the world you're in?

2) Are there any counter examples which could disprove your thesis?

There are counters, but they are generally outliers in practically every instance. The simple fact they are outliers is the entire point I'm making.

3) How does the world today compare to the world at other times?

Tech could have been a great thing, but it's being used to abuse people at a greater scale, now, so win?

3a) Why is the world better today?

I would say something like better medical care and that care does exist, but only for the rich since most people cannot afford it. Why? Human greed.

3b) What was better before?
Very little.

At no point did I say I pined for the 1860s. You're confusing me with Republicans.

I'm just tired of the human model of "shit on everyone I can, because fuck you, I'm getting mine". I'm fucking tired of people committing crimes for decades, and when caught saying, "I'm sorry". I'm tired of watching a country kill another countries CIVILIANS because they can.

Look at the world's choices.

A 15th carrier group or feeding kids in school?

Tax breaks for those that need them the least, while those with less money pay more or the reverse?

Food Stamps and the ever forward marching of less and less being spent on this very real need.

Social Security. A system you're forced to pay into, while congress plays fucking Lucy from the Peanuts with the benefits. Even going so far as to label them as "entitlements" in the shittiest possible definition of the word instead of entitlements, because its fucking owed.

How about the constant lies and horse shit propagated by media? Not truth, not facts, just bias with the sole goal of selling ad space and consequences be damned.

Maybe I just wanted more of humans than the current "fuck those in need" or "shit on minorities to make ourselves feel better", etc.

I'm truly glad you find the world a better place than I do.

YMMV and I sincerely hope it does, but let's put down the PollyAnna-tinted glasses. That's not the world humans built and pretending it is, is simply disingenuous or wholly ignorant.
To reiterate OP's point about scala, in my idiomatic scala, I'd use a 3rd technique:

def ABSOrSeven(maybeNumber: Option[Int]): Int = maybeNumber match {
case Some(int) => Math.abs(int)
case None => 7
}

Somewhat more verbose but I think is the most clear and should have fewer function calls than the getOrElse version and has no unsafe operations like the (safely guarded) `maybeNumber.get` call.

The point though is that the author is correct that scala provides too many ways of doing the same thing such that disagreement is inevitable.
I didn't say all European travelers eat at McDonalds. I'm sure many, many travelers are far more adventurous and eat like Anthony Bourdain.

But I still find it remarkable that McDonalds strikes such a chord with people, particularly people like my Swiss friend who is as cultured and sophisticated as they come. If we were choosing a film, he'd want to see the most difficult, obscure documentary. But choosing lunch - there's just something about the fear of a bad culinary experience that trumps all other concerns.
The link to "Microsoft's driver verification tool", which "has probably had more impact than all formal chip design tools combined", is broken. Does anyone know which tool this meant?
I did not know that, however that is a bit different since they had the Powerbook. So that's more of a rebranding than a new product.

I do realize that the name change came with a switch from PowerPC to Intel.
Well the stakes are sometimes as high....
What stopped oculus was the realities of a headset. Some of my friends were early adapters to oculus which I got to test out. They would use it as a toy really not as a main device (for gaming in this case) because you’d get nauseous before long and playing in VR is kind of an annoying gimmick once the luster wears off. Mouse and keyboard and a good monitor (or three) is more than fine and you can actually game for hours on that.
I live in a rural area.

Fiber is not available here, and without significant extra pressure from the government, probably never will be.

We've had internet through Spectrum (and before that Time-Warner) since we moved here a decade and a half ago. 100Mbps has been available that entire time. I don't know exactly what all the available speeds have been at any given time, but in about 2017, we upgraded to 400Mbps, which we still have. It's not always the advertised speed, but it's almost always above 100.

I think your understanding of this technology and the practicalities of implementing it may be misinformed or out of date.
really? signing worked for me
When my mother was younger she used to reupholster furniture as a hobby.

Older, antique furniture was much easier to work with and most newer furniture was practically impossible to reupholster at all.

I was pretty easy to see the difference once the bones were exposed.
Amazed this doesn't happen more often given what's at stake and how cheap to buy off employees apparently are.
Some thoughts I had while reading this, probably not very original: the fact that chess moves are not random and usually adhere to opening theory to some degree means you could get some value out of using something like a trie of some small finite depth, trained on a database of games, to compress common opening lines much better, at the cost of making things like 1. a4 a5 2. h4 h5 that aren't in the trie much costlier to represent. A practical way to actually do this would likely look like applying arithmetic coding to all of the possible length-N prefixes of the game.

The mid- or lategame are also far from random and could probably be compressed in small "chunks" via a coder that would (effectively) learn to predict patterns of e.g. capture being followed by a recapture and cause such chunks to require fewer bits to represent.

I'm not very knowledgeable about compression algorithms, though; I'm sure others will be able to provide corrections or references.
My step-by-step journey to create a Minecraft physics engine [video]
The best way to prevent a SIM swap is to not let your phone number be used as a trusted piece of authentication.

Sure, what this guy did was criminal. But not nearly as criminal as it should be for companies to unilaterally force customers into using snake oil authentication methods, just so they can check some new compliance boxes and pretend to be adding security.
I agree with this if the AST is a YAML or JSON document, but maybe if it was visual then you wouldn't have that problem (but I imagine it would exacerbate the style problem while also eliminating many of the advantages of text formats).
This seems to be asked once a month. I am surprised there isn't a spam filter explicity for it at this point:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2022116

Also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22767319
I never thought about pentesting my service providers - sounds fun and useful! I'll try this the next time I have a moment.
I don't think one needed to "game" the system to get this post to the front page.

Even if you don't care about Indian stock market (I certainly don't), it's a description of a tech stack and principles of a huge company. And those are nice principles... "Tech stacks should follow “right tool for the right job”"? "Don’t be afraid to self-host"? I can get behind this. I can also share this post around to my friends, to show that one does not have all those annoying corporate rules to create a huge and successful company.

Compared to that, someone's personal blog with bland programming notes is pretty underwhelming. I would not upvote those, and I certainly would not share them with other people.
I think that points 3 and 4 of that article are somewhat refuted by the popularity of Go.

You could argue that Go ultimately does give you a much control as possible but it certainly doesn’t do it like Lisp in the way that Paul Graham admires, and Go definitely doesn’t focus on brevity, beyond avoiding Java style magic incantations and boilerplate.

Interestingly Go is designed for “yourself and your friends” and they ended up in a very different place from the hackers that Paul Graham admires. It’s a language spawned from the pain points of large corporate software projects that wins a lot of sympathy from smart engineers that are working on large corporate software projects. The fact that it translates well to small projects as well is definitely an engineering feat.
Related follow-up from same author:

Compressing Chess Moves Even Further, To 3.7 Bits Per Move

https://mbuffett.com/posts/compressing-chess-moves-even-furt...
https://nypost.com/2023/06/13/pentagon-whistleblower-claims-...
You can always switch to a smarthost if you run into these problems. No reason to give up on self-hosting.
Fancy type systems have come a long way since then. (TypeScript, for example.)
The main problem with AWS IAM is you have to understand the service, how it works, and what the permissions do to restrict permissions correctly.

But that's true for anything with granular permissions.

Answering "what permissions are needed to perform X" is hard in any context. In AWS it can be overwhelming because AWS is big and interconnected.
I’m skeptical too and I’m glad that rank speculation is being deranked well below FP.

But someone else wondered if it’s almost worse than murder that even successful whistleblowing can lead to experiences so awful you want to kill yourself. Like “Boeing won’t kill you, they’ll make your life so terrible that you’ll do it for them”.

I don’t think thats a completely reasonable interpretation either — but if we as a society value valid whistleblowing, what can we provide whistleblowers to help them navigate these incredibly difficult times? (financially, emotionally, socially, and spiritually)

That said, if the cameras were off or not covering where the truck parked, I don’t think it would be very complicated for a highly paid individual to steal someone’s non daily-carry gun from their home or hotel room and walk up to their window when they get in their truck, shoot them at point blank, and wipe some gunpowder residue on their hand.

I just don’t think it’s responsible to posit this as the clear reality. We don’t know what happened, and HN has been terribly wrong about the details of various recent high profile deaths - Tony Hsieh and Bob Lee. This type of speculation always causes more pain for the families and is almost always wrong-headed.
You're right on what some of the major problems are but, there are no SAR teams on Everest. Your SAR team is the expedition outfit you signed up with. Many are under-manned and under-equipped but even the best ones won't be able to facilitate a rescue much of the time (due to weather, altitude and manpower issues). The climbers all know this.

Many of the bigger outfits do co-operate on rescues where they can, but aside from that there is no official rescue organization.
Ok, “private testimony against his company”…

Also to say that Foo in Green is in no way connected to Foo in Blue is a farce. 737,777,787, they all share a safety process and protocol. To say he was talking about oranges when the probes are about apples when it’s all about the Grocery Store is absurd. It’s connected. May not be directly connected, but it’s connected. It’s bad management, bad practice, sus circumstances, a coverup on the left and a dead body on the right.
> For that matter, suspend copyright for works that aren’t purchasable.

When do you start (or stop) counting something as "purchasable"?
Does it mean I can copy the tapes of movies the day before their first screenings, but not the day after? Or if my local shop doesn't have a show on disk?
Big thread at the time, a couple of months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38894445