skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s Greeks vs Romans.

Western finance/accounting industries adopted ‘M’ from the Roman numeral for 1,000 to mean “thousand”. MM (or mm) meaning “thousand thousand”, or a million.

Separately, when the French invented the metric system they used the Greek prefixes for multiples (kilo, derived from the Greek for “thousand”, being the best known). Which is why ‘k’ denotes thousands in most other industries.

Conversely, the metric system used Roman prefixes for submultiples, which is where centi- (same root as Centurion) and milli- come from.
Or imagine the CEO says, "Safety is everyone's job, we will accept no lapses in safety"

Instead the CEO said "increase monthly production 10% this quarter"

There is no trick needed here, just the proper leadership. The current Boeing CEO is an accountant who made a fortune running the private equity playbook of squeezing out costs:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Calhoun
> not a reason for the government to not bust up their rackets

Nobody in this thread has argued against enforcement.
"Bachelor's degrees have become essential for well-paid jobs in the US."

The lies we continue to allow ourselves to tell as a society.
Poverty is expensive.

I’m about to be 40 and I finally feel like my family has escaped it.
They're starting off with support for AWS, and it sounds like Azure and Google Cloud is rolling out sometime in the next few months.
>this energy amounts to about 15,080 kilotons of TNT. (About the same as the Castle Bravo nuclear test)

I thought of mentioning Castle Bravo or Tsar Bomba as contray examples of my general argument, but I simply stated "normal nuke". Neither Bravo or Tsar were at all normal nukes and especially by modern design standards that focus more on the multi-kiloton range and precision-guided multiple strikes against a given area target.

Even with those insanely giant old bombs, I wouldn't absolutely be sure that they'd achieve a massive tension release, even in a fault as tense as the San Andreas. Such a thing is likely just a bit too variable-prone to model effectively.

As for something like a Hiroshima type bomb doing it, bloody unlikely. The original post comment simply mentioned a bomb so I didn't want to stray into the biggest mega explosives of human military history.
Of course it does.

It’s comparing the effective tax rate of someone who made $1m 1945 dollars against someone who made $1m 1980 dollars, and implying that the same should apply to someone who makes $1m 2024 dollars.

$1m in 1945 had the same purchasing power as $4.6m in 1980 - or $17.4m in 2024.

Those are not at all the same socioeconomic classes.
> South Carolina (lots of banking tech jobs there)

I'm curious, where?

I've lived in Columbia, SC for thirteen years, not that I'm looking to switch jobs, just interested to know what I've apparently overlooked here!
There are no doubt way worse places than the US.

I was under the impressions that Americans work hard too. For example, if I'm not mistaking there's no mandated minimum number of vacation days, so you might get only 11 compared to 20 in most European countries.

> Heaven forbid you get sick.

The medical act is (very) good in the US, but is it affordable?

> The children have to compete in complicated exams to even have the sliver of a chance to land themselves in a good university.

Doesn't the same apply to the US as well? You either have lots of money, or good grades or you're good athlete.
bonfire.
Depends on whether it’s a manufacturing flaw, maintenance issue, or both.
I definitely listen to KUOW a lot less than I used to. The main reason is that a few years ago they had a lineup on Saturdays that kept me listening most of the day. It included:

• A Prairie Home Companion [1]

• The Vinyl Cafe [2]

• Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me! [3]

• Says You! [4]

• The Swing Years and Beyond [5]

Those I'm sure were on Saturday. I know I'm missing 4 other programs from Saturday. I remember the following programs as being on weekends at the time, but can't remember which were Saturday and which were Sunday.

• This American Life [6]

• The Moth Radio Hour [7]

• Snap Judgement [8]

• Radiolab [9]

• Freakonomics Radio [10]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Prairie_Home_Companion

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vinyl_Cafe

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wait_Wait..._Don%27t_Tell_Me!

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Says_You!

[5] https://archive.kuow.org/show/swing-years-and-beyond

[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_American_Life

[7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moth

[8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snap_Judgment_(radio_program)

[9] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiolab

[10] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freakonomics_Radio
Easy and unethical? Give them a weaker target than me.

Find and exploit their weakness publicly thereby robbing them of their power.
> My last job title was Software Engineer II, but really I'm just a generalist that keeps failing upward, and I don't know whether if I were to double-down and specialize more, go deeper, or pivot out completely, I'd be able to do that well; it's a bit of a constant existential crisis.

As a generalist that still has the title Software Engineer after over 25 years of experience, I think I am able to empathize. I think, if you are a generalist and, like me, if you like "laying the pipes" to connect things end-to-end and see the satisfaction of having built the entire thing, embrace it. You should be proud that you can build a complete application though OS infra to database to backend services to frontend UIs and provide the glue of scripts as needed, all by yourself (not shitting on working in a team setting, just knowing that you could). I treat that as a badge of honor. Sure, I can't get super deep into one of these verticals, but then I'm a "builder" and I like the feeling it brings.
Does there exist a market where you can convert the phone into $800 or $500? If so it is objectively worth that much. Otherwise it isn't. "Seems fair" has nothing to do with it!
The whole point of this study is to show that a well off person can do the bare minimum and a disadvantaged person could be doing way more than minimum, and the disadvantaged person will end up being disparaged as must have been doing the bare minimum.
> And, critically, how much are we willing to collectively sacrifice

If we bring back wealth taxes "we" probably wouldn't have to sacrifice much if anything (not sure if your net worth is > 20 million)
> Again, 'solid state' is a marketing term.

No. It's a battery with a solid electrolyte:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_battery

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_electrolyte

They've been around for a long time.
Several posts here have interesting,
critical comments on the past and recent
content of NPR.

Sounds like some of the HN audience wants
content that is some of entertaining,
interesting, informative and, instead, is
getting some quite different content,
superficial, and based on some topics
common in current journalism and/or
partisan politics.

Why??

For "partisan politics" content, one
candidate explanation is simply money.

But for journalism, that's more
difficult. A guess is that journalism is
an old profession with some accepted
assumptions and techniques.

One such assumption is:

"Keep it short, simple, superficial.
Avoid credible information as too
difficult, demanding of the audience."

One technique is:

"Keep it emotional about problems of
people."

With the Web, for a focused audience
journalism may be changing.

Maybe I'll pay attention to journalism
again when, for a start. they report
numerical data with graphs, done like STEM
field students do.
What exactly are you not consenting to? Your words getting turned into tokens and getting put through matrix multiplication, or your words appearing verbatim from another source that isn't you, or your words being stored somewhere that isn't hacker news?
So monopolies and oligopolies are okay as long as it isn’t for a life necessity?
This comment sparked a really good debate - one which I am pretty sure I remember seeing on HN before. But what it makes me think of is seeing the parent issue: that accounting can be abused to spin the truth however you want. I really want to go in the meta direction with this and say I wish accounting shenanigans could be identified and labelled as fallacies or at least sneaky tools used for persuasion, just like people are becoming wise to established fallacies like strawman or relative privation.

Does it "cost more" based on calories/dollar, or weight of food, or cooked-meals-per-dollar? (I'm not asking for an answer, thats what everyone below your comment has been arguing about I assume). Are cigarettes "just as addictive" as heroin? Well, it depends on how you measure/define _____. I keep seeing effort wasted in arguments that all point back to the "well, it depends on how you measure it", but to me, the arguments never actually get anywhere and nobody seems to realize that they are playing with movable goalposts.
Companies paying for perks and spouses not having to work both sound like good things to me.
They also run to provide grid inertia when there aren’t enough utility scale batteries or grid forming inverters to do so.
They can try reviving the age of Empires.

US hasn’t directly gone into a war with another nuclear superpower.

When it does, it gets dirty pretty fast.

It hasn’t been a 100 years since nukes were used. And those nukes were weak sauce.

The world will slowly get bloody.

AI won’t help. It only adds to the fire.
I like this, oauth has a certain threshold, whether this can run in the browser or not
There is imprecision in my wording. The paper was about removing goto from high level programming languages. The context in which people were starting to view goto with suspicion was that of ~1968, at which point I believe the baseline assumption was that goto was a branch to anywhere as that's what assembly gives you. However it was before my time and I'm inferring from partial information.

I think the distinction between goto as rendered in C and goto as rendered in machine code is significant. It's the same argument in favour of structured programming in both cases. The gap between structured programming and local goto within a function is smaller than in the assembly case.
Democracy isn't a silver bullet, and doesn't work well when the voters are stupid and make bad choices. IMO, it really requires an educated and reasonable populace to work out well. Otherwise, you get what we're seeing in the US and Hungary lately.
> Sometimes it pays to risk your life on airplanes other people won't fly on.

We have a winner!
>> This is true, of course, but the rest of your claims are pretty speculative. Big bands were touring long before the TicketMaster monopoly became a thing.

Ticketmaster is the result of consolidating all the regional ticking systems that existed back when printing and retail sales were a thing. This lawsuit is against Live Nation, that Ticketmaster is a part of... It's the evolution of what Bill Graham started. Your thinking ticket master is the problem but promoters are the ones maximizing value from ever aspect of the experience.

Bill Graham made EVERYONE money, and it all came from the fans...

>> Why wouldn't a band want to play several ticketing companies off against each other

Ticketing is a zero sum game... You dont really need paper tickets or local markets. If ticket master dies ... "oh no were auctioning tickets now the other tech is hard" is going to the excuse.

>> It's also not in a band's best interest to rip off their own fans... There are two artists who give a shit about this.

I did point that out, there are a few... but there aren't many. The only money is in touring and licensing. There are lots of artists who say this, and push low "ticket prices" and take their cut of the "high fees". The only ones who give a shit: non transferable tickets. It cuts out the secondary market (and means they, or their promoter, can sell there themselves...

>> In Europe there is a much more competitive market in the ticketing/events space... And there's certainly no shortage of big bands on tour.

It isnt that much different. AEG is 2nd after LN/TM and owns O2 they also own AXS, and Eventim, independent but now into venues in joint deal with AEG... It's a bit of an insestuous circle jerk not as "free" as it appears.

Europe as a market is still a region in America. Taylor Swift is doing as many dates in Indiana as she is in any EU city...

>> secondary and resale-market ticketing companies like Viagogo/Stubhub, DICE, Ticketswap

Here is the well known inside secret, why do shows still have "promoters" instead of marketing departments? Because lots of these secondary sales were never primary sales.
thank you for finding this. I disagree that this documentary revealed the battery pack fires. I remember seeing several of those stories in the news around 2011-12 because they were catching fire with passengers on board.
afaik, scalpers will often be selling tickets that have been bought speculatively in large blocks during pre-sale or when sale starts. this is a whole very complex side industry in itself, and being able to get those large chunks of cash up-front/early is beneficial for the artists/promoters/venues for lots of reasons. obv. this doesn't really apply to a super popular artist who is going to sell out on the first day, but there are very few artists/performers who do that.

so. as mentioned above. it's a hard problem to solve. if you think about it purely as a market/exchange then it's not dissimilar to how market-makers, arbitrageurs and HFT systems keep the market "efficient".

there's a good writeup here. https://www.404media.co/why-scalpers-can-get-olivia-rodrigo-...
I saw a video in a Russian missile factory yesterday and they were using Windows 11 on a laptop.

I mean, of course they were, but it's definitely a weird situation.
Identifying Dependencies Used via Dlopen()
> I have a gaming rig with a 4080 with 16GB of RAM and it can’t even run Mixtral (kind of the minimum bar of a useful generic LLM in my opinion) without being heavily quantized.

Which Mixtral? What does “heavily quantized” mean?

> A refurbished M1 Max with 32GB of RAM will enable you to generate better quality LLM output than even a 4090 with 24GB of VRAM

Not assuming the 4090 is in a computer with non-trivial system RAM (which it kind of needs to be), since models can be split between GPU and CPU. The M1 Max might have better performance for models that take >24GB and <= 32GB than the 4090 machine with 24GB of VRAM, but assuming the 4090 is in a machine with 16GB+ of system RAM, it will be able to run bigger models than the M2, as well as outperforming it for models requiring up to 24GB of RAM.

The system I actually use is a gaming laptop with a 16GB 3080Ti and 64GB of system RAM, and Mixtral 8x7B @ 4-bit (~30GB RAM) works.
Some helpful, perhaps valid context is that lattice-based cryptography was a contender even before PQC became a thing (NTRU being the obvious example).

Really the only point I'm trying to make here is that there's nothing eyebrow-raising about systems using lattice crypto; after IFP/FFDLP stuff like RSA and ECDLP, lattices are maybe the next most mainstream approach to constructing asymmetric systems.
I've tried Bandit on a few codebases and each time it's yielded thousands of false positives and no actual findings. In the best cases it's something like hashlib.sha1, where you should set usedforsecurity=False anyway. That's at least an actionable, if ineffectual, alert. You can make the code clearer, and the warning goes away. But in the worst cases it's something like having a variable named "token" (You idiot! Is that a password in your source?), or constructing SQL queries, which by design may never accept user input but, you know, Bandit can't determine that statically, so it goes ahead and throws an absolute fit anyway.

Conversely, I apply Pylint and mypy aggressively, because what they find almost always should be changed. But Bandit's findings are overwhelmingly wrong in context, so all you can do is litter your code with ignore directives. For reference, in my current codebase of 175k lines, there are 52 Pylint and 66 mypy ignores (with mypy at max strictness). Bandit would need 1,823.

Palo Alto absolutely should do better, but Bandit, or probably any "security" linter, isn't the answer.
“For every blue-collar Democrat we lose in western Pennsylvania, we will pick up two moderate Republicans in the suburbs in Philadelphia, and you can repeat that in Ohio and Illinois and Wisconsin.” Chuck Schumer, 2016.
Silence is not consent. As in many things, consent must be enthusiastic.
I played Star Wars at a Chuck E Cheese as a kid. The cabinet was impressive too; done up like a cockpit with a flight yoke.
His argument though is that the things you think are one time use items actuakly arent. I dont think he's saying use everything you have as soon as you can. Hes saying actually uae them sometimes.
What’s input latency and throughput on this like? Would it support near native keyboard / mouse, webcam or display output? What about mass storage devices?
Really? Do you think it's fair that some kids will be able to command historic levels of political and capital power by being born and never need to work, most kids will need to work at this point it seems until death, some kids will achieve "needing to work until death" status by working harder than anyone else while being hungry and housing insecure, and many kids will simply live and die in squalor whether they work or not?

Considering we seem to be discussing the USA, the richest nation in human history, this seems very unfair to me. It seems to me at minimum we should easily be able to remove squalor conditions no matter how little someone works.
That’s a pity. IMO the lack of static typing is one of the biggest flaws of the language, and it persistently slows me down.
> There is no media which every person would consider unbiased, and very few media organizations take action to even attempt to reign in biases.

NPR receives public money. They should be unbiased and objective.
I would add that sometimes the one use items are really more like muscles. If you dont use them they decay. If you never ask a friend for a favor are they really your friend? Will they be there for you when you really need it if you never borrow a cup of sugar?
From my own PoV, NPR and their stations in my area mostly went to crap back ~2000 - shifting formats from music-heavy to much more talk-heavy and news-heavy (especially after 9/11), and seeming far more idiotic and partisan as part of that.

I still recall listening to an especially wretched NPR news story ~2003 - where (in effect) Senator Slime(D) insisted that 2 + 2 was 3, Senator Sleaze(R) insisted that 2 + 2 was 5, and NPR was far too fair, balanced, and brain-dead to even hint at the possibility of 4. I stopped tuning in, and never donated another dime.
United has their own mechanics. So, it wouldn't surprise me if United has no warranty except for defects from the factory, and also with a good rate on replacement parts.

Otherwise it would probably be like a car. What you can't fix through a mechanic is a defect, and what you wear down (e.g. tires) are consumables.
Yes, also if you work at a company that locks down the machine its likely you can't install browser extensions.
At this point, to me the Democrats seem more racist than the Republicans. All you hear from the latter is oldschool liberal egalitarianism, whatever the sincerity; the former are obsessed about race and make everyone else obsessed by proxy with, for example, how they cast white guys as the antagonists in every piece of media.
This seems like the more lucrative route. As an avid reader I do a bit of research before deciding on a book. I suppose someone had to read it first but a lot of good books seem to bubble up to the top. I would never dig 5 pages deep into Amazon and buy a book with zero reviews based on...what? After raising small kids however, the classics are fun but buying some easy time-filling books or activity books doesn't require as much thought. I do hope that AI can also be used to combat books like the one you linked. Straight garbage looking for a sucker.
“Somewhere at Google there is a database containing 25 million books and nobody is allowed to read them.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/04/the-t...
White blue collar workers switched during Reagan.
Reverse lottery.
> screaming 90% of the time.

Well isn't that just awesome parenting.
These two comments together explain what was mysterious and spooky.
One Billion Row Challenge in Rust
I wonder what Airbus is doing to increase their production capacity. They're basically leaving a lot of money on the table by not being able to fill orders faster. If they could somehow double their capacity overnight, they'd still immediately sell all those planes. Of course, building production capacity for complex aircraft isn't trivial at all, but I never read about this in the news media, only about Boeing's problems and the problems their customers are experiencing because they're Boeing customers.
Scalpers are also a source of guaranteed sales, so you're diluting the risk of a concert because someone is already buying up all seats already for you and running the risk of not being able to sell them at a higher price later.
> 1x/realtime

You can see at 1:05 how the man suddendly accelerates.
This Bird Strike Reminds Us It Doesn't Take a Missile to Down a Fighter (2020)
I’m afraid these wars are going to kill open source.

Unfortunately… if that’s going to happen, I’d rather have it happen without first having huge security breaches.
GitHub.io page has the demo it seems, can't run it right now myself since I'm on mobile.

https://video2game.github.io/
Positive on the day side, negative on the night side.

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20220007230/downloads/Fi...
It disturbing that your response to the story of a man who endured unimaginable torture and died from psychedelic misuse is to insist categorically that "psychedelics are safe". Then you have the nerve to suggest we ignore the grieving warning of an associate of the dead man. I hope your uncritical drug boosterism doesn't encourage someone else to OD.
Have you asked Mr Saito if they still have the Mac version in particular? A lot of the content seems specific depending on the platform it was released on. Getting everything archived would be great for preservation
That’s the perfect word: exhaustion. Every nth (for some small value of n) segment is on a progressive zeitgeist topic, the vast majority of them are not newsworthy, those that are are mostly unnecessarily projecting on top of a newsworthy story, and they seem designed simply to elicit an emotional response.
Would you rather like a monthly subscription per client?
Hah, you should make this comment on reddit, because I'm curious about the response you'll get.

https://www.reddit.com/r/litrpg/comments/tw44yu/sentient_vs_...
The most sane thing I've found is:

- Pin all application versions
- Don't pin or set upper bounds in libraries. Lower bounds may work.
- Use automation to continuously upgrade and test new versions of everything

If you just pin, you fall behind and eventually it becomes expensive to catch up. If you don't pin, you lose repeatability. If you don't automate, the upgrade work doesn't happen reliably.