skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, the central park 5 were innocent but everyone was racist in the 80s if that is the standard. All those poor kids were doing was beating random people, stealing from them, and knocking them out and leaving them for dead to whoever might come along. But they weren't rapists.
Have you found any studies that show that shared environment makes a "huge difference" on broadly how a kid turns out? I haven't seen any.

And that cdc site isn't evidence. If you look through any of those studies it's all correlational. So they have literally 0 power to differentiate outcomes driven by genetics vs shared environment.
Blockchain technology has potential applications in enhancing cybersecurity, such as securing identity management systems, ensuring the integrity of data, and facilitating secure transactions.
Developing blockchain-based security solutions or consulting services can cater to organizations looking to adopt this technology for security purposes.
>There would be an immediately noticeable harm with the genuine ability to make Earth entirely uninhabitable, and unlike with climate change, where the mechanisms at work aren't directly relatable, with an orbit change, the mechanisms are pretty relatable to everyone, in the form of seasons and their total disruption.

There is immediate noticeable harm to oil spills, and yet you still have people arguing that we should run pipelines next to rivers because it's easier and cheaper. I think you grossly overestimate some folks ability to have a rational discussion when they've got a financial incentive not to.
I'm really hoping that by the time the Enterprise is out there exploring, we won't still be on TLS 1.3 at all.
Changing jobs often was a common advice though to ramp up your salary.
This is great. Adds something that's missing in Django
This is Google we're talking about, so maybe they were :)
I am very senior, and am getting ghosted too. Not even a reply.

Considering AI advances, I think I will be fully unemployable in 4-5 years. I am making plans for exiting IT and maybe starting my own company or buying land and growing food.
Enums in the traditional sense, is what Pascal and C have been doing it for decades.

(* Pascal in 1970 *)
Planet = (Unknown, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune);

// C in 1989
enum Planet {Unknown, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune};

Plus type system guarantees, and in Pascal's case, run time capabilities to query enum values and ranges.

Go's hack has barely anything to do with that.
This title appears to be confusing based on a comment: Selatogrel has nothing to do with epinephrine from a pharmacological standpoint. It acts more like a super potent quick acting (and deactivating), less blunt aspirin, an anti-platelet / anti clotting drug. The comparison to epipen is just the physical delivery.

Epinephrine is not used for heart attacks (MI) directly, but can be used for cardiac arrest.
Here's an unpopular opinion: If the US government - or some European government for that matter - wants companies to start building semiconductor fabrication plants within their borders they should not start offering them carrots like this $8B subsidy, instead they should:

- go lighter on the sticks of onerous environmental regulations

- do their best to recreate an academic culture which centres around competence and expertise instead of political indoctrination and activism

It is not likely to be a lack of money which keeps these plants from being built there, it is the threat of being buried in regulative paperwork and the decade of delay which that comes with because of some critter being found living on the plot where the plant is to be built. It is the regulations around the use of all the nasty chemicals involved in semiconductor fabrication which make it more profitable to build those plants elsewhere. Also, it is the fact that many western universities have been or are in the process of being captured by political activists who turn these institutions from seats of learning into agitprop factories where merit takes a backseat to unalienable characteristics like race, sex and sexual orientation.

Given that we here in 'the west' insist on having access to the products of these factories I'd say it is more than hypocritical to insist these be manufactured elsewhere because doing so here is too damaging to the environment and the people working in those factories.
Buybacks "pumping the stock price" is a common misconception, but not actually true (unless the buyback is executed at prices lower than fair value).

There are less shares outstanding afterwards, but there is also less cash, so if executed at fair prices there is no reason for the stock price to move.

Just think through an example of a simple company which is a pot of $1000, and can get 10% returns on it. There are 100 shares, so if investors want 10% returns, shares should trade at 10$ (P/B = 1). If the company repurchases half the shares, there will be only 50 shares but the company only has 500$ now, making each share still worth 10$ for 10% hurdle rates.
Do they still get raises?
My whole career I was a developer, it's what suited me best and it's what I wanted. A couple of times I considered going for tech lead or architect but those were parts of the job I didn't want to do.
And oh hell no to management.
If you're telling me I would get to work from home and not be badgered into going into management, I say sign me up.
> But later on, now there are only 80 shares out. When buyer 52 comes along to buy a share, there are fewer shares, and fewer sellers. He might have to offer more than Buyer 51 to actually get a share for that reason.

By buying that one share buyer 52 gets ownership of 1.25% of the company. Buyer 51 only got 1.00% of the company when they bought their share. You need to take that into account when comparing share prices.
> We've been here before: AI promised humanlike machines – in 1958

But this time is for real. /s
I laughed out loud very hard. Free speech is easy if you have money. Otherwise you are screwed everywhere.
> Moreover I doubt it’s even possible for a person to fully mature if they don’t have kids.

This is my favorite of the lies parents tell, it's so obviously nonsensical
AMD has 1.5x larger market cap than Intel. All in 7 or so years where it was near bankruptcy. During AMD's weakness, Intel had near monopoly position on chips. It racked up all the cash it could. It hasn't innovated ever since. Chiplets came from AMD, 6 cores as minimum standard came from AMD (Intel sold 4 core entry CPUs well into Zen era because that's all you need!). Affordable motherboards (together with partners) and strong commitment to socket longevity came from AMD (AM4 is still supported and new products with 5600x3d are still released). In reference, Intel before AMD's Zen would release a new socket for each yearly release.

And in fabs, Intel just isn't nowhere close. How's the 12nm++++++++++++ going?
China is 5.2B of AMD's sales (2022). That's 65% of U.S.' with enormous growth potential as Chinese middle class gets richer. Europe is 1.77B of AMD's revenue. How does the capex investment equation play out when your 5.5B of sales just disappears into thin air?
Ask HN: Are there any real world blockchain / crypto use cases already?
A common critique regarding the crypto space is that except for "store of value", no use cases have emerged yet.

Let's check this out!

Any HN users, who use blockchain technology? And if so, what for?
I’m confused — with TLS 1.3 Server Name Indication is still usually sent in the clear, unless you’re also using Encrypted ClientHello, right?
There is "she asked her 18,000 followers on Facebook to share their opinions about a tomato puree". Is jail time appropriate for that? Probably not, but she did not just review puree, she asked her followers to do it to.
> > But because of the far side’s mountainous terrain, scientists say the installation of telescopes is possible at only three sites—and one in particular is rich in helium-3, which space mining companies have identified as a key element in quantum computers and fusion energy.

A while ago, I saw a page that did the maths, and it worked out that the abundance of He3 was so low (at best 50 parts per billion), that even if we assumed a perfect fusion reactor (which we don't have) and noted the energy density of fusion fuel, it made slightly more sense to separate the metal and oxygen in the lunar regolith, catapult the resulting metal ingots to earth, and then generate energy from magnetically decelerating them (and even more if the ingots were shaped into liquid oxygen tanks). Likewise, one could get more energy from burning that metal as if it were coal than from fusion of the He3 in the same volume of regolith, because the particle density of He3 is so low.

I have not been able to find a link to that page since reading it, so unless someone here can remember where it is, I may have to re-do the maths and blog about it myself.
Fundamentally too much communication interferes with doing real work. No amount of technical solution will fix what is essentially a social problem. The original post states the headphone rule: This is not a rule generally respected very well within actual offices, because people overestimate their own importance and the importance of their problems.

Fundamentally, other people and their communication should be ignored and regimented to specific parts of your day or week (depending on your role). You can do this with slack, email, phones, this tool. Simply turn off the notifications. Within the office you can only do this by having a door that can be locked, which is generally not available.
Only a dozen? I applied to 37 jobs when I was hunting, and had a note on each one tracking who I’d talked to and what the next step was, plus to-do tasks to follow up with each on certain dates.

It was psychically exhausting.

But then I went from have 0 good news to having 3 jobs racing each other to make offers. Go figure.

This is a challenging time to be an applicant. Hang in there! Also, completely ignore LinkedIn as a source for jobs to apply to. It’s worthless. Each opening I looked at had captions like “be sure not to pass on this opportunity so amazing that 437 people have already applied to it! Subscribe to LinkedIn Platinum or whatever to boost your chances!” It’s basically an RPG with pay-to-win loot drops. Don’t get into their feedback loop. It’ll drive you nuts.
Jamba-v0.1: An Apache 2.0 licensed 52B Mamba Transformer hybrid LLM base model
> how hard would it be to go back if things don’t pan out?

Go back to what? The answer is going to change significantly based on field, seniority & role and what your responsibilities would be as an entrepreneur. Another factor is the brand/prestige of your current resume (Work exp, School etc).
Your bomb analogy sounds like the modern military industrial complex…
> The Hamas attack might have surprised Israel

What? They were warned multiple times of an attack and chose to do nothing.
I think Amazon is playing that scenario. They want to ensure a controlling interest on AI providers because they think it's disruptive for the traditional capital structures of corporations. And I also think it's pretty ingenuous to turn training expenses into capital control.
R1-2 (Minor-Moderate) Radio Blackouts Continue
Eventually lunar entities might decide they don’t want to just offshore all resources to subsidize earth based companies, and seek or fight for independence from their colonial overlord on earth. There’s plenty of precedent for that on earth, even in the modern era.
> In fact, God requires each act be done in love or He won’t reward it at all. No showmanship

I think that is key. Too often we try to appear loving, to earn God's favor. We grabbed hold of the pulpit, to prove our ministry value, and in so doing, we quenched the Holy Spirit; to attempt to say it was us who did the work, not He -- since we worked to be loved, rather than accepted the free offer of salvation, and accepted that God loves us not based on our works. Only then will it be no showmanship, and enacted from love

If we don't get that key, (and sometimes we dont), then @talldayo's perspective would be right in saying religion is an empty shell of ideology, grasping to appear loveable, rather than knowning it is loved, and living from that perfect security

I think this was the key to the revival you talked about in Wales, where crime stopped, and on duty police would form choirs to sing carols -- they sang "Here is love, vast as an ocean"
Passing a law is one thing, but what would be the specifics, how would they be enforced, what are the penalties and who pays them? It's relatively easy to say, ban sales of cigarettes to minors, limit advertising, punish people to give cigarettes to minors, etc.

It's hard for a province/country to ban an app/category of app for minors, no? Maybe it's relatively easy to ban the app/website outright in your jurisdiction's borders, but that should be the last resort, if it is to be considered at all, since it is a huge blow to freedom on the web and really doesn't solve much since any manner of app can be just as dangerous.
My guess would be that it’s not all happening at once as you have short and long term memory.

The simplest analogy is that your short term memory is a buffer that doesn’t use DNA, but a limited electro chemical storage of new present-moment information.

Then it is transcribed through several steps of ever longer term storage methods in the brain. Some of which require sleep.
Show HN: I built a web app to open source travel itineraries
I made TripGeeks, a website where you create and share travel itineraries. Would love to hear any feedback you might have.

Thanks!
What's the net metering situation in Thailand. I assume not that good if you decided to get storage. Did you get a lifepo4 battery?
It’s a competition or a hobby. Most hobbies are ultimately meaningless. I used to do boxing. Getting punched in the face and punching others is ultimately useless. But for some reason I enjoyed it and put an enormous effort into it. Others play golf and enjoy it. And billionaires like to make money.
The easiest way to setup security monitoring for your VPS server or cloud VMs
American here - it is foolish to trust so much; history has shown again and again that a few determined actors, often wearing a uniform, can and do "fleece the sheep" for fines, tracking or whatever else.. With that said, there are plenty of benign or even constructive uses for traffic data. This is not traffic data alone. The worst offenders of privacy violation and aggressive monetization with or without consent, can do a lot of damage.
Impulse is a fully automated SIEM/XDR with real-time threat detection sensors, storage and visualisation. It detects malware from behavioural patterns rather than signatures and enables deeper visibility than legacy tools. You can use it to monitor your personal Desktop or cloud VMs.
How about a law that states:

If a business profits from the personal data of its users, then it must back up their data for a duration (say 3 years after upload) and make that data available to them, even if it removes that data from public access due to terms of service (TOS) violations. Failure to do so would result in the business being dissolved, this clause would mainly be to protect stakeholders who go out of business and can't afford to maintain backups.

This would work similarly to how a bank must be FDIC insured to lend out its customer deposits. Data is money in the information age and needs similar protections, especially with the rise of AI and profits generated from derivative works. A business which refuses to follow this law would be unaccredited, meaning that Google would be unaccredited in this case, so probably nobody should be using their services.

IANAL, but personally I might extend this to work something like personally identifiable information (PII) laws, where all of the user's data is considered private, but part or all of it may be shared publicly under the TOS which the user agrees to. The sharing would be at the discretion of the business, but the data would always belong to the user under copyright law until proven otherwise. The process of proving copyright ownership would first require full sharing of the data back to the user under court discovery laws.

The crux of the matter is that we have laws preventing the sharing of PII, but to my knowledge we don't have laws that protect access to a user's own information. Which seems doubly odd since companies profit from that data. Holding a user's data for ransom so that a business can make money from it seems akin to extortion, although I can't find the exact word for it.

Maybe the California Consumer Privacy Act of (CCPA) or similar laws could be extended to protect access to one's own information?

https://oag.ca.gov/privacy/ccpa

https://www.neighborhoodindicators.org/sites/default/files/c... (pdf)

Apologies if what I'm suggesting already exists, in which case filing a lawsuit should be straightforward.
lifo: last in, first out (cafeteria food line) -- taking from front/top, adding to back/bottom -- enought shifts will push element out of array queue without need to 'unshift'

fifo : first in, first out (stack of plates) -- taking from front/top, adding to front/top. -- shift on "1"/push; unshift off "0"/pop. start with at least one shift/push. ideally equal number of unshifts/pops by end of task to clear the stack array.
Farming machines changed it more so than birth control. Also farming practices like using fertilizer.
AI chatbot letdown: Hype hits rocky reality
> if your bot net consists of stolen CPU cycles what difference does it make if your bots are slowed down. It doesn't cost you money.

This is wrong. It does cost you money - either directly, because you paid money to use someone else's botnet, or as an opportunity cost, in that you can't use your bots on as many targets.
Rust gives you strong guarantees about exhaustive matching. If you had a Turing complete mechanism, it could not provide such strong guarantees.
Ah yes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpMxpzfSRUA
Ask to get it in writing. Then you’ll see how serious they are.
Sunspot region 3615 is now past center and rotating out of view, but it has been the source of a lot of activity: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39796973
probably an automation fuckup as this is clearly "artistic" in nature
I think the prudence is why the US have those laws, regulations and morals, not the other way around which you seem to point towards.
Too many dumb ideas were overfunded (or funded at all). A lot of the bigger tech companies got into an overhiring and overpaying competition. And, as you say, companies are just being cautious for the future.

And it really goes beyond 2021-2023. The tech job market for the last decade or more has not been normal in the sense that tech jobs, especially on the US west coast (though also quantitative trading), have paid well out of line with pretty much every other STEM position which was not historically the case. When I was a product manager back in the day, I'm pretty sure the computer system hardware and software people were paid pretty comparably as I probably was as well.

I think there are questions about where adtech goes. If it has a major downturn, some companies are going to really feel it.
> Themes and plots, character perspective, writing formal arguments

You'd be amazed how far a writer can get in Hollywood without these skills.
There are countries today that are still very much dependent on global trade who have still gotten or fought for their independence.
Agreed - and you will find not a single living person will pass this test over time. Therefore, it's a worthless, but deeply amusing, test. Human ignorance is so pervasive it even applies to people like you :)
I don’t care about the LLM job market. I want to know who is going to fix the current awful internet. The people who got paid ruining it? really?
Exactly.

I don't bill myself as an expert on early 20th-century burial practices in America, but I'm willing the hazard the default expectation was "ground" rather than "use to make a book cover."

Ergo, it seems in keeping with the deceased's likely wishes to properly bury their remains.
Junk food is very similar to social media in that they are made specifically to be addictive. Sugar, fat, and salt are not bad things but junk food is formulated to hit all of those notes just right and be highly palatable. They are also usually high calorie which is something we crave from times when food was scarce. This doesn't even scratch all of the psychology that goes into making snack foods.
They absolutely should. It's quite clear that some food has been engineered to be addicting and is very bad for one's health.
Earth Restored
> How many companies are there that actually implement 5G, as opposed to buying a chipset from those that do?

The number of companies actually building stuff is far eclipsed by the number of companies amassing IP hoards around the tech.

Modern standards are an absolute tarpit; total waste of time to drive your career into that nonsense IMO. It's cool tech, but good luck with that -- you cant even start to build anything or use it without an army of lawyers and bankers clearing the path.
I often feel very hopeless about this. As an adult, I have to put a non insignificant portion of my brain and willpower to fight against social media addition. I have Twitter, use it rarely. I have instagram and have both a business and a personal account. I’ve always prided myself in never giving it any of my time. It was dormant for almost a decade and my friends called me a social hermit. I liked it. Then I started taking a peek, and noticed myself sinking deeper and deeper. I enabled the timer and I ignore it every time. I’m likely going to have to delete the app. I won’t even dare install or signup to TikTok. I use HN because I actually get a lot of value from it. Great dev tool recommendations, it’s a great GitHub repo discovery tool, product ideas, I learn a lot and I get to hear/read from many startup founders.

From this experience I know kids have no hope. I mean none. And I think we all know this, and Zuck knows this, I mean everyone. So now when we argue agains regulation we’re just regurgitating things like “rights”, “free speech”, “section 230”, etc. but what do we owe do the social contract that makes us better without sabotaging future generations? What is the actual, practical solution that does not take 2 generations to improve 1%?

I know that an actual solution will hurt a lot of companies, a lot of revenue and forecasts will disappear. But should that sometimes not be the solution? It certainly is for less protected/influential people.
Definitely a multi-faceted problem, a big part is the pandemic, where some students just completely failed to do any work or learning while at home, creating a sort of tidal wave.

My second theory is we have a dopamine casino in our pockets now, and it's generally more problematic to self regulate and dedicate time towards your education. FWIW I believe parents are a big part of this problem.

Last of all, we have a growing conservative movement that is basically telling everyone that higher education is dumb and everyone should become a trades person. Definitely have seen a lot more apathy in general.