skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Y-yes? That isn't reducing the damage to you?

It is only reducing damage to you if you anticipated the inflation and avoided it. Here's an example:

Person 1: Has $5k in cash.
Person 2: Has $5k in cash and a house that is paid for, worth $100k.

After inflation, both of these people would lose the same amount of spending power on the $5k. The one with the house has an asset that goes up in dollars but is likely worth the same or less. His spending power goes down by just as much as the other guy, if not more.

>If inflation is 30% percent, but your savings went up 60% since 4 years ago, then you profited overall. (And stocks would not have gone up the same amount if there was no inflation.)

Ok so yes, if your stocks outperformed inflation somehow (despite inflation unofficially running 10-20% per year!) then you can claim a profit. But stocks are supposed to profit anyway. You did make it sound like you thought the inflation made the stocks more valuable. It does not, because inflation raises all prices in general.

>Overall you're probably worse off than if inflation was lower, but you can't say that your money buys 30% less now.

Actually yes you can. Money buys 30% less. If you had assets that rose with inflation, you can preserve your spending power. But your salary is not like that, nor any cash-adjacent instrument you have like savings, CDs, and treasuries.

>Remember, I was specifically objecting to the idea that "inflation is X% in the last few years, therefore my money buys X% less". Ignoring that it's the wrong way to calculate percentages, the baseline idea is not true. The amount your wallet is impacted is more than 0, but less than inflation.

You do have a point about it being backward. 20% inflation means your dollar buys about 83% of what it did previously. But as inflation is measured by price changes it literally means your money buys the straightforwardly-calculated reduced amount. You can't point to inflation avoidance schemes or occasional salary increases and say that shit offsets the actual price increases in a meaningful way. Accounting for inflation avoidance (an economic inefficiency produced by inflation) would require a whole new statistic.
The problem with that is that it is not providing the standard library API, but rather its own API. A good alternative should only remove footguns (ideally, to the point that you can replace with typedefs and get correct behavior just with less protection in case of future changes).

Aside, it's embarrassing that all these alternative libraries fail to implement automatic correct signed/unsigned mixing. It's not like it's particularly hard to implement!
$45K EV smuggles a 620-mile solid-state battery out of the lab
>The worst time to join a startup is anywhere in between. The exercise price of your options is too high on day 1 you can't afford to buy them, then you work there for years and become vested on paper but can't do anything about it, then you leave prior to an IPO and you still can't afford to buy the options so they cancel and you are left with nothing.

Hedge with far OTM (1-5 delta?) LEAPS puts in same-industry/sector competitors or market indices? At least reduce some crash risk, though I am not sure how you run your stock options compensation through BSM without a market to price against. Probably should figure what your VaR is for an x-sigma crash and try to get a hedge which will roughly balloon to that level under high vanna.
Someone has combined those things to port Pledge to Linux.

https://github.com/jart/pledge
It's not common, no offense but you clearly have an axe to grind and started out with an incomplete understanding, so [citation needed].

Also, please do name and shame, especially since MICROSOFT MANDATES THAT SECURE BOOT IS DISABLE-ABLE (on x86 devices, anyway, we'll see what happens with Snapdragon X Elite devices).
Maybe if the network was much more distributed and lower bandwidth?

If most of your customers are in Mexico, Canada is DDoSing you, and the pipes between you and Canada start filling up as a result that isn’t a big problem, right? As long as consumer routers on you/Mexico’s side of the Canadian clog don’t decide to help out.
LOL. Several of the large ones are owned by the same entity.

The main reason they exist is to do grey market bypass of controls becoming media access. If you trust them to not do some grey/shady exploitation of your metadata, more power to you. Sounds foolish to me.
That's a wonderful idea! Will write it down for the next iteration, Thanks!
I can't tell if they're extremely bad at executing or whether they've hit a wall on something and the design doesn't actually work.

I think if they'd had started now (/ more recently) and been much more open source-y they'd be in a much better position e.g. it's interesting enough that random autists will work on their toolchain
We all have a definition of "fair", partly cultural and partly biological. It may not be easy to distill down to words, but we certainly know it when it see it.
This is a great video, with a cool technical story that is well told. Too bad it didn’t make the front page!
The Abyss in only good on VHS, or laserdisc if you have the setup...
> early exercise

This article argues the opposite using financial arguments: https://www.investopedia.com/articles/optioninvestor/09/get-...

It is a bit technical for my level of ignorance: and it seems irrelevant.

Interesting how it points out that companies get a financial advantage on their books if you early exercise.

I think it is saying that optionality has a value to the person that owns the option and that early exercise loses that value.

I think you are saying that in the winning case, you are better off if you have exercised early. Perhaps you are not costing the losing case properly? Lottery tickets!

Thank you. I appreciate learning from you and I hope I have learnt something from that article which I wouldn't have done otherwise (even if I don't understand the pricing details).

My eyes tend to glaze over whenever volatility is mentioned. Relevant to public stocks and options in public markets. I suspect volatility is not a useful measure looking at investing in early-stage startups since value tends towards all or nothing. The distribution of returns for a single startup seems fairly wacko - hard to model.
Why not change it?
It's a bit scary how mostly smart people writing here seriously believe doctors are a "cartel" blocking preparing of new doctors. It's scary how you just ignore obvious facts like that the problem is present in any developed country. You really believe there is an international mighty cartel of doctors, what could influence like governments and private universities as well? Even would it be so, who would benefit from the lack of doctors? It's bad for simple doctors, because the workload is greater, it's bad for doctors in leading positions, because finding new staff for their teams is more difficult, and it's bad for patients, because the doctors are chronically tired and worn out and in some areas they even got a problem just to get an appointment soon enough, because local doctors are overloaded and got a full shedule for many months in the future.

The explanation of the situation is not a mythical cartel, but the simple facts:
- Any additional place for a medical student at a university costs a lot of money, and nobody wants to spend money to fund its creation.
- The people in developed countries get on average older and need more medical service and consequently more working hours of doctors.
- The quote of women among students is constantly growing. In my country Germany we had ca. 70% men and 30% women among students like 30-40 years ago. Now the quote is like 70% women and 30% men. Nothing bad at that, but a lot of female students get soon a family, a bunch of children and since that never ever work full time anymore.

Stastitically we got so much doctors as never before in the history, but the sum of working hours in the country is lower, while the needs are getting higher because of olding population.
Thanks for sharing, good article. I work in the Steel industry but was not all that familiar with the US history, my experience from the last 20 years is that the JKT area (Japan, Korea, Taiwan) have been the leaders with innovative technology and operating expertise, more recently Europeans have been doing interesting things with Hydrogen/green steelmaking for example.

The feeling I get at the moment is the industry is very much entering a transitional phase, I think we are seeing the sunset of the Blast Furnace era, it's kind of where the open hearth furnace was at the dawn of BOF, something is going to have to replace BFs but it's still not 100% clear what the replacement is going to look like (or even if there will be a one size fits all replacement for Blast Furnace, it's possible that several processes will emerge suited to different regions) companies are reluctant to blink first and back the wrong horse. The capital costs are very high so backing the wrong technology and needing to pivot later could be ruinous.

Over the next 5 years or so I expect we will start seeing more (and larger) pilot scale projects but I don't think BFs will truly start getting displaced until early to mid 2030's. Companies still clinging to BF into the 2040's will be in trouble in my opinion.
> most HDR content is too damn dark anyway.

It's not, though -- it's entirely the problem with players. Not just software players but also TV's.

There are lots of TV shows now that are available in 1080p SDR and in 4K HDR. When you play them both on any player or TV, they should have the same brightness in "regular" scenes like two people talking in a room. They're meant to. HDR is only meant to make a handful of elements brighter -- glowing lightsabers, glints of sunlight, explosions. HDR is never meant to make any of the content darker.

Unfortunately, far too many video players and televisions (and projectors) map HDR terribly. The TV's aren't actually meaningfully brighter, but they want to advertise HDR support, so they map the wider HDR brightness range to their limited brightness, so that lightsabers etc. get the full brightness, but everything else is way too dark. This is the disaster that makes everyone think HDR content is too dark.

When the correct thing to do would be to display HDR content at full brightness so it matches SDR for normal scenes, and then things like lightsabers, glints of sunlight, etc. just get blown out to white. To admit the hardware has brightness limitations and should never have been advertised as HDR in the first place.

So the problem isn't with HDR content. The problem is with HDR players, TV's, and projectors. It's mostly on the hardware side, with manufacturers that want to advertise HDR support when that's a lie, because they're not actually producing hardware that is HDR-level bright enough.
There's also a "making of" of Fitzcarraldo, which left at least me wondering who was crazier: Fitzcarraldo or Herzog.
>>> Those seems like situations where extra spacing will help accomodated unexpeded mergings and lane changes without slowing traffic down.

>> The majority of the roads that aren't highways do not have lanes.

> I fail to see the relevance of this comment?

... you don't see how roads lacking lanes applies to the efficiency of merges and lane changes?
I have to admit I was a bit disappointed that the conclusion was effectively diff your sensor with a reference sensor, I was hoping it was more like "here is how to make your own reference measurement".

Don't get me wrong it was a good article, I appreciate the math on how to make a meaningful diff.
Thanks for your kind words!

Well, in many times I read all of such books in one topic and chose the one that I liked the most or I found the most insightful. Maybe as an idea, I can mention such similar books
> We've already seen this shift from psychology to medicine with the invention of anti-depressants. Less people are seeking counsel from psychologists and instead just getting a prescription from their doctor.

I think that peaked somewhere between the 80s and 2000s; there's been a pushback both popularly and in parts of the medical community and therapy as opposed to jumping straight to medication is having a big moment currently.
I appreciate the article (eventually) discuss that this is not generative AI—it’s machine learning-enhanced image processing, and it’s not hallucinating and inserting random background characters.

This isn’t really a new debate. This is kinda the “it looks tacky to record a feature film at a high frame rate, Peter Jackson”. We have a cultural visual vernacular that guides how we expect certain media to look, and it just feels weird to have a movie from the last century remastered so that it looks like it was shot on the latest digital camera.
> For all of these reasons and others, manned aircraft are poor counter for this sort of attack. Despite this fighter aircraft were used.

For good reason at the time.

With no after the fact knowledge a hybrid attack with drones that may or may not scatter chaff, may or may not include or be timed to occlude larger threats.

Dealing with drones alone is a poor use of fighter pilots. Having eyeballs in the sky along with "just in case" weapons is smart defensive tactics.

Post game is when armchair coaches can call out whether it was neccessary at that time.
I don't see how these can be compared. They are totally different color schemes. It's possible that if you took the right image and displayed it using the same color scheme as the left image that it would look better than the left image.
Agreed, but better-than-middling small model local LLM inference on the M-series has largely been a happy accident that Apple have been silently capitalizing on without bothering to correct. They were first in mobile, not the best.

Generative performance and training are poor to nonexistent, Core ML is incomplete and underdeveloped, memory bandwidth was decreased on the M3 Pros, and eGPUs don't work with Apple Silicon - and what, normalizing 16GB of memory will encourage Apple to stop segmenting when they already have so little to offer? They're paygating /inference/ performance beyond their Pro chips. That's their official stance.

Even Intel wasn't prepared for the Cambrian explosion of AGI, and their libraries and APIs have been taught in higher ed for the past decade. The good news is that Apple are not the best or only consumer option and will likely be out-classed by AMD and Intel in the next 18 months. The price of any new Mac for inference today would be better spent renting GPU time.
“Stand your ground” laws allow you to use violence to protect yourself and your home or property. If someone is squatting on your property and will not leave (saying “make me” or whatever) you may be allowed to use force (e.g. firearms) to remove a them. I expect the details of these laws will vary greatly from state to state and even from city to city.
I'm going to say "downish" but not "burst". I and a lot of other people I know are getting a lot of benefit from using LLMS to sketch and refine code more quickly.
I don't think that's the same David Mitchell.
The author mentioned using polish translations of English books, so he already knew, at least roughly, what the book is about. This way, reading and listening in the target language makes a lot of sense.

It’s the same when watching foreign TV. Having subtitles on in the same language that is spoken is really useful, you learn more than only reading or only listening.
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Those files are ES modules served (at least to my Firefox) over HTTP/3 with unique filenames and a max-age=604800 cache header, so I don't think that's any less efficient than if they were served as a single bundle.

This means that if any of those individual files are updated in the future just that file will need to be re-fetched, with all of the others staying served from cache. A single bundle would need to be fetched in its entirety on any change.
Citi's 7k laid off staff were paid an average of $214k each
But wasn't it a backdoor, ie the attacker has to connect via sshd with a specific pubkey to make it run bad commands?

As I understand it, just the mere fact liblzma runs on a schedule wouldn't cause it to do anything nefarious.
We need to get payloads into space, and cost per kilogram is what matters. Why do this?
Among other things, passing around with white gloves Galileo's something something first edition book does not teach me anything.

But in general he had a lot of one off examples and interesting pictures, but without a solid and applicable theory behind them. He was an articulate speaker but I did not feel like I learned anything from the talk. I have also "read" his books but the only thing that I remember and make use of is the idea of information density on charts.
> what value does it add to the discussion?

The cousin was killed in New York around when we implemented Vision Zero [1]. San Francisco appears to have attempted something similar [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vision_Zero_(New_York_City)

[2] https://sfgov.org/scorecards/transportation/traffic-fataliti...
I think this is exactly right.

If you have a job, it less important. If you want to change jobs it still valuable. More and more employers want folks near by.
I've seen this article floating around over the last few weeks. It is strange to me that a company would put out a "data breach" notice due to detected credential stuffing attacks.

From a reputational perspective I see people reacting thinking their data has been stolen, whilst not realising that this was due to credential stuffing.

If I was Roku I wouldn't have said the words "Data Breach" at all, I would just email customers recommending them that they change their password.
Apple's iPhone Shipments Plunge 10% as Android Rivals Rise
One of my all-time favorite novels, Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman, includes an anecdote: a crow's call wakes up someone who's sleeping outdoors, just as a large cat (a tiger, perhaps) is sneaking up on him.

One character suggests the crow was trying to warn the man. Another posits the bird was bringing the sleeper to the tiger's attention so it could enjoy the scraps after the meal.
Another thing I just thought of...how many times does a power company need to communicate to first responders about shutting down power? It goes the other way a lot - first responders asking for power to be cut because of a fire or an accident or something. So I bet they have lots of policy and procedures around that, but going the other way, I wonder if they just don't have it all written down yet.
Why is Montreal a stolen car export hub?
Entertainment? More like a lots of empty excitement.
"Preliminary" SWITRS data through end of 2023 is queryable on TIMS.
Back then swatch really blew it by not synching the zero with UTC. If the days had been UTC based, this might have taken off. This way, it was just a joke and that’s why it died quickly.
Pulsed charging enhances the service time of batteries
it obviously also inspired the Simpsons animators: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8xP1JioXTM
Yea for sure. I lived near there for a short while (in school) and have some friends in the area still.

The point is that most of the cost of these homes are labor - even when land is nearly free (<50k in a city), you can’t get a “cheap” home that’s made to modern standards. If the land is free, there is no demand and high supply, but the house is expensive- it’s labor or materials driving the cost.
Andrew Niccol's movies are always thought provoking. Even his Netflix movie Anon.
What would you like to say about factor analysis? Lay it on me
I recently watched the new Aliens remaster and actually thought it mostly looked very good. It was definitely a bit jarring at first because it doesn’t look like an 80s movie anymore: it’s too crisp. But once I got over the strangeness of it and realized some of my attachment to the original look was nostalgia I liked it. I do wish they’d kept more film grain, it’s a little too cleaned up, but it looks good nevertheless.

From what I’ve read the same team did all these Cameron remasters, and True Lies was the first one so they were still figuring some stuff out and it’s more flawed as a result. Haven’t seen it yet, though. But based on Aliens I’m interested in rewatching The Abyss.
You're late to this party.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17184054

But seriously, there's nothing in this article to debate, it is completely devoid of arguments for its position.
The thing is = Broadcom is cutting off the MSPs, too.

Compare it with MS strategy since pretty much 1990 - they not only had offerings centered at small business, and medium business - they also didn't drop them once they truly got into the big league with Windows 2000 and Active Directory (yes, that was very much a watershed moment).

It can be a bit complicated to buy at the lowest end, but it's also been unspoken policy of them to somewhat tolerate software piracy so long as it didn't really impact sales - as well as offering great deals for people who could then get into track to get them more sales over time.

Some companies will cludge together things in house. Some people will learn and make MSPs and VARs. Some companies will become high value clients with white glove treatment from MS directly or designated support partners.

But they always made it so that they could get themselves an in without having to fight a big honking procurement contract to land a "whale".

As for 300k USD a year - outside of Silly Valley, it can be enough money to get custom linux distro developed and supported. Hell, with 300k USD/year, I could get a team to build and support a replacement for all core parts of VMware (compute, storage, networking). And if we didn't need to replicate same level because we were a smaller client and didn't need hyperconverged setup, we could do it for less.
... and published dns records, and scripts on the client, etc etc etc.

it's functional. but far from practical or elegant.

good write up tho
Cats love to hang out in warm areas, even sunbathe, so I doubt they'd do anything to get attention in that situation! Their body temperature is a few degrees warmer than that of humans.
On the other hand the attacker may actually have incentive to follow through and hold up their end so as to build a reputation. Making their next victims more likely to just pay.

Somewhere I read that some ransomware had excellent "customer" service for helping you transfer over the payment and promptly restore your files.
> these ideas and concepts have obviously existed well outside and over society for much of history

So have most social constructs. From marriage to slavery.

> What gets created is a collective enforcement mechanism. The right, recognized or not, exists separately from this

Sure. Fine. Kant said the same about mathematics. Like undiscovered math, unrecognised rights do jack shit until they're codified. At this standard of evidence we might as well start debating ghosts. (Which is fun and fine. But not the business of a lawmaker.)

> Your reference, in the very first paragraph, contradicts you with `all people have inherent rights, conferred not by act of legislation but by "God, nature, or reason

Yes, that is what someone who believes in natural rights believes. I am disagreeing with it. (I believe it's quoting Aquinas, a famous philosopher and priest.)
Very much not, although both are English.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Mitchell_(author)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Mitchell_(comedian)