skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some light searching reveals that around 60% of Americans are invested in the stock market. So 40% at least say they are not or possibly don't understand some of their retirement investments/pensions if they have them.

Point is that many people simply don't pay attention to it so I am not at all surprised if they are unaware of the increase so far this year. Also 12% isn't that amazing historically so unless it is really bad or great it will not register on most peoples radar.

https://www.fool.com/research/how-many-americans-own-stock/
https://usafacts.org/articles/what-percentage-of-americans-o...
Using Gradle, ant or Maven still means, in the end, you’re calling javac. All it takes for this to be exploited is for the files to be dropped anywhere in the classpath.
How would the endpoint prevent that?
Crazy, and this will likely fall under the radar in todays news cycle. People just don't care anymore. Privacy is dead.
Without two phases: figure out what you need for the resource, execute query, how can you avoid N+1 problem, raw sql or not.
Happiness is when a web page that requires JavaScript to display its content happily redirects you to the simple text version when it detects you have JavaScript disabled. It makes one feel that the web page cares about your preferences (NoScript in Firefox as default).
Which hardware can "stitch" (I don't know the print equivalent) this? This looks interesting!
I used Audacity recently to fix some youtuber's backing track for guitar improv, by tuning down 7 cents. I reuploaded it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TE3pgOkfYu0

In that case, it's a pure stretch: i.e. the tempo is slowed down by a factor of 0.996 to achieve the pitch change.

I also have an unpublished version of that track transposed from the key of Em to Dm; that was a pitch change preserving tempo.
Homophobe apologizes after accidentally saying what he really believes.
Kind of ironic that people are jumping in here to defend Sam Altman on the message board of Y Combinator, which also fired him from an executive leadership role for similar reasons.
Age could be a confounding factor here.
Environmentalism is a young person’s game. As people get older, life happens and people acquire nuanced perspective on things that they once were dogmatic about.
And older people tend to be more conservative than the young.

A conspiracy take: Environmentalism is in fact a young women’s game. Young men follow, for obvious reasons.
> I still don't think people in the middle need JWTs.

Actual current example: Small company acquired another with a complementary product, but on an entirely different tech-stack and cloud-hosting.

Product owners want customers logged into Service X to be able to follow a link to Service Y and not log in again, and vice-versa.
I've been seeing a lot of media coverage of this lately. The Tesla BOD voted on, and approved this compensation package in 2018. The package rewarded Musk for various milestones, and TSLA stock saw incredible gains over the period covered by the package. The result was a $56B incentive award to Musk, challenged by Richard Tornetta in Delaware. (Tornetta held just 9 shares of TSLA when he filed his lawsuit.) So the activist judge in Delaware nullified the contract and the result is that Musk gets no compensation for the incredible job he did for all TSLA investors. Musk has since re-incorporated Tesla in Texas, and he's now asking the BOD to pay him for his hard work. Is it "unfair" to TSLA shareholders to reward Musk for a job well done, or is it "unfair" to Musk to have his BOD-approved compensation package contract voided after the fact by an activist judge, as a result of a cheap shot lawsuit from a nobody shareholder?

Disclaimer: I earned over $100k trading TSLA stock last year, but at present I do not hold any shares.
> you only think it's entitled and arrogant because you don't understand that protestors are protesting for people who don't have a voice, who's pleas fall on deaf ears like your own.

I do understand that, absolutely, and my ears aren’t deaf.

So you’re saying the protesters are justified in belligerent and deviant behavior because their cause is just? According to whom?
All of our deductive reasoning is founded in induction. For example, the basis of all arithmetic is physics analogies regarding things that exist and the understanding that a thing implies another thing is not based in deduction. Similarly, I suspect from my own experience that general reasoning requires a basic understanding of physics if its origin isn't something ineffable. The ability to connect and find implications cannot itself be purely deductive and it would seem to me that an understanding of physical reality would have to be the origin for that ability.
https://datatau.net/
> I agree with your concerns, but wow do I miss the 1990s/2000s era of the internet. Things were so much more fun then.

Yeah in one way people were much more casual and curious. But keep in mind everything back then were monoliths. You’d just upload files to your server. Some of the complications of trust comes from the fact that you need microservices with custom API credentials and usage quotas in order to run leftpad at web scale.

If you zoom out and think where we are today it’s absolutely insane that uploading a file 20 years later is a closed source subscription service. Nothing against OPs project, but goddamn look at us.
Have the authentication header effectively be a signed hash of relevant headers and the full URL, rather than a simple bearer token?
I'm pro-nuke, until I read stories like this and then I become anti-nuke. Eventually these thoughts fade and I become pro-nuke again.

- Humanity
>>>> godelski:
>>>> how Uranium-238 decays into Thorium-234, in 4.4e9 years,
>>>> Uranium-234, which has a long half-life of 2.45e5 years

>>> jojobas:
>>> You got something terribly wrong

> jojobas:
> From the provided link:
> U-238 4.468×10^9 a
> U-234 2.45×10^5 a

I've been checking for a typo, so that's why I quoted, but I'm not seeing it. Can you clarity? It looks like you used the same numbers as I did.

Is the confusion "a"? It stands for annum. Which in the decay chart on the EPA site (at the bottom) there's a nifty legend that specifies "half-life units: a - years". But the IAEA site specifically uses "y", stating "4.468 x 10^9 y" and "2.455 x 10^5 y".

Are you mad at the rounding? I'm really trying to understand what you're saying I've said is in error. If I made an error I'd like to fix it.
Almost all cryptosystems are broken by implementation issues, not attacks on the algorithms themselves. This may be a particularly straightforward attack, but crypto is hard. There's a lot of details you have to get right and a single mistake can destroy all the effort, regardless of how much else you got right.
governments are providing you with safe, clean water, roadways, basic standards of food safety, protection from enemies, disaster prevention and relief, and social services beyond the feasible scope of charity. They may suck at many things, but existential risk (even if just civilizational shift owing to mass-produced disinformation) is a great place to point a government at.
Descent 3’s code was recently open sourced, however I believe they had to remove several proprietary libraries first if memory serves me correctly.
What's your theory of how change happens in a democracy?

Assuming we aren't giving up on democracy, my theory of how change happens in a democracy is that it starts with changing people's minds.
This may not be a popular answer, but the truth is, this is a self-confirming story that gets stronger each time you tell it to yourself.

You can prove this to yourself.

Tomorrow, when you go to work, check in at regular intervals and ask yourself, “What’s wrong with what’s happening?”

Usually, the answer will be something like “It’s pointless,” “It’s tedious,” “I’d rather be doing X than Y,” or “I’m tired.” Short of your work causing you physical harm, it doesn’t matter what the answer is.

Look into why you answered that with as much detachment as possible. Ask yourself questions like, “Is the thing I’m doing inherently unpleasant? Is it hated by everyone who does it? Is it possible that if I dropped the contextual story around what I’m doing, it’s actually about the same as doing anything else?”

You will find that the misery comes from comparing what you’re doing to some ideal that is just that—an imaginary idea that does not actually exist. It’s pretend. Stop comparing reality to pretend things. Take what you’re doing for what it is. Your mind is not going to love doing this because it thrives on resistance to what is. That’s fine; just recognize that and keep investigating what’s happening.

Keep doing this until you realize that you’re creating your own hell and that you can also escape it with just a few creative adjustments to the story you’re telling yourself.

Moving places or changing jobs won’t fix it. Working less or more won’t fix it. Having a more meaningful job won’t fix it. Having no job won’t fix it.

This is not complacency—change can and will happen, but it’s not going to happen until you’re content with what you’re doing now. Good change comes as a result of accepting what’s real now. Good change doesn’t come from escaping what you’re doing now for some pretend ideal.
I’m not disagreeing with you, but I think the actual question is “how can we make games companies profit meaningfully by releasing their source code?”
> Unfortunately the war on drugs and America's latent puritan streak means that since some people in some places use opioids to get high, then all uses of opioids should be avoided

Where were you the last 30 years? This comment sounds like you fell into a time warp from 1988.

No latent “American Puritanism” stopped Purdue.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purdue_Pharma

True the recent shift is itself reactionary and with its own problems, but this one isn’t because of Nancy Reagan.

American Puritanism would also not explain having the highest rates of opioid prescriptions of peer GDP/capita nations in the world.

> there really isn't anything other than opioids for pain management.

1. Not true. 2. There are plenty of cases where opioids are ineffective just the same as NSAIDs/Tylenol.

> We don't really grok the idea that some folks just won't ever "get better"

Yes, we do. If your oncologist doesn’t prescribe you appropriate analgesia or refer you to a palliative care practitioner then find a new one.

> and our entire system is set up to assume you will.

This is one of the more unusual and unhinged takes I’ve ever heard in this era of diabetes, A-fib and COPD medications advertised on TV and every street corner (none of which are curative).

The vast majority of non surgical medicine is about chronic disease management. Medical cures are the exception.

> The sad reality is some people are going to be in constant pain for their entire lives

The sad reality is that the medical industry was complicit in causing unnecessary suffering due to the legitimized medicalized misuse of opioids and this is the aftermath.
It's also a similar reason that Sam was fired from Y Combinator. None of this should be new, it's just when there's money on the line people's memories get as fuzzy as their morals.
Let say you had 1kg of radioactive material that produced 10x the lethal level of radiation. Let say this material has a half life of 6 seconds.

Question 1: How many seconds until its below lethal levels.

Question 2: How many years will it take until the last atom is gone with a probability of 99%?
500 Harmonics, each with a different pitch lfo rate
Assuming Helen's account is fully accurate, of course.

The same person who was pushed out after her coup attempt failed. Which was very likely motivated by much more than Sam lying as she has stated in other articles about how she wants AI she regulated by gov, how GPT shouldn't have been released to the public because it's dangerous, and her interim CEO she pushed as Sams temporary replacement who made statements about wanting to pause AI development for safety reasons.
and also see the ports available: https://github.com/jlesage/docker-baseimage-gui?tab=readme-o...

exposes direct vnc or via web
> Also, seems like they picked the wrong target since they basically had nothing to pressure the prosecutor with,

Makes you wonder what dirt they have on our politicians. The republican party acts like they work for the israeli government.

Student loan forgiveness? Every republican politician cries "No way, we have no money for it".

Affordable healthcare for americans? Every republican politician screams "Impossible, our debt is unmanageable.".

Money for israel? Every republican politician shouts "Whatever israel wants. Damn the debt.".

Peaceful protests by american college students. Every republican politician "Who cares? ... Oh it's against israel's genocide?... Send in the troops".
You are aware that we're in 2024 and most users use a mobile device to browse, right?
Funny fact: Motorola didn't ship 68040 CPUs over 40Mhz because they didn't think customers would tolerate even a small heat sink and fan combination being required for the chip.

*looks at massive heat sink and fan on my desktop system...
At this point I'd instictively disbelieve him if he said the Pope's Catholic. The man is such a heinous sociopath I'll first assume he's lying for fun, profit, or both.
Ants behave in ways that a modern computer still can't imitate. I don't think that generalized intelligence is possible but if it is it would need a different starting point than our current computing hardware. Even insects are flexible in ways that computers aren't.
Smart, and not something someone would realize if they'd been too insulated from how things work.

Regarding planes/cafes/guest/etc. WiFi, I now usually put any "emergency remote plumbing access" on port 443 (though usually not HTTPS), to reduce the likelihood of some random non-SPI ruleset blocking us in an emergency.
Not just lifted code but patent-violating code. Ever wonder why GPU makers don't open source their drivers?
I don't feel it's counterintuitive. If we have a leaky cauldron, the bigger the hole, the faster it emptied and vice versa. Although we wouldn't know whether this big stream is because of a big hole or a big jug...
The regulations themselves are what forces bureaucratic review though. Fewer regulations would mean more throughput with the same resources.
HN only allows comment deletion for about an hour after you comment, right?
The way it works here in Washington is that when you generate excess power during a billing cycle you get energy credits for it rather than money. During subsequent billing cycles when you use more than you generate the credits are automatically applied.

Credits expire every year on March 31.
> pushed out

If what she said was true, I'd leave the board if I were in her position. I would understand why they decided to take him back but decide that it's not worth working with someone who can't be trusted.
Why not just stop listening on port 80, period?
The issue with those things is we actually know how to measure success for most of them, and they notably work best when the politicians stay the hell out of the process other then setting broad directions.

There's no equivalent for AI research, and a lot of temptation to try and find simple metrics which mean safe - and it's appealing. Water should be below X ppm contaminant is "easy" to establish. AI should be <blank> to be safe?
> Also, I think the idea of "native speaker" is a bit of a red flag

I assume you mean “red herring”. Red flag just means a sign that something is wrong.
That's a valid question, but there is no answer to what "optimizing for quality of content" means, and every entity involved has a different view of it.

We'd have to decide what is quality and what is content first, and I'd expect the heat death of the universe before we ever come to a useful definition that even matches half people's own definitions.
That’s an interesting question, it would be great if there were good alternatives.

So FWIW after sleeping and thinking about it, I might be coming around to what you were saying, that buying at high prices and high interest might not be a great financial decision right now. My today thinking is that this whole discussion was perhaps not really about buying vs renting, it was mostly about financing and the often obscured total cost of a loan. I guess if we were talking about paying cash for a house, the calculus vs renting is completely different. I’ve been lucky with my houses and I shouldn’t assume everyone will be as lucky. I did realize a couple of funny ways to frame things. Buying a house might let you leverage your down payment, but a loan is also bank leverage against you, since you will eventually pay back 2x-3x the loan amount. Or another way of putting it is that when I buy a house with a loan, I’m renting the money to buy the house. :P
I found the FP piece to be rather anodyne. What aspect did you feel was preachy? The fact that the author told Zoraya that she "hoped she wouldn’t go through with her decision to kill herself"?
> They may suck at many things

Exactly. I gave examples of actual tech projects undertaken by governments, so an abstract discussion of "government vs. private industry" is not really on point here.
Isn’t all the writing about the American chestnut indicative of some on-going cultural significance?

Wasn’t the blight and panic that wiped them out largely a result of human activity?

I think this is one environmental change that happened VERY fast, in which we see our own hand, and that we believe we might still be able to turn back.

But I sense that you see some down side which I don’t see?
Ask HN: Best Personal Laptop in 2024?
With the Copilot+ (i.e. Windows ARM) computers on their way, and the M-series Macs already setting the precedent, what do you consider to be the best personal laptop option in 2024?
I don’t have enough to retire on, but spent my last decade working on what I wanted. I worked on Formal Proof, until I realized the problem wasn’t the tech but the math-proof business model. (Academic mathematicians aren’t incentivized to write formal proofs.). I got an Econ degree. I’ve studied housing in Austin and advocated to loosen restrictive regulation that causes high rents. And I designed version 3 of Parchive. (You may know the previous version by its file extension “.par2”)
I am an active customer of Savvy. With savvy, I am able to offload a lot of operations tasks we were afraid of delegating to ops team before because of two reasons -
1. Training our team was difficult. Now the ops team finds the assistance due to savvy run very helpful.
2. We have insights into what our ops team is doing.

Hoping to scale savvy to more use cases as they role out features that create and destroy environment variables automatically. This will reduce the chance of secret leakage.
There are too many factors which artificially make housing less liquid IMO.

In the UK we have stamp duty which means that if I sell and rebuy the exact same house next door I would lose tens of thousands in taxes, on top of all of the (unavoidable) costs like surveys, estate agents etc.

In both the US and UK if you can't port your mortgage to a new home then you take a gigantic financial hit to move into the same house next door because your rates go from e.g. 2% to 6% overnight, doubling your mortgage payments.

We should definitely build more, but stuff like this also needs to be addressed, no-one is going to downsize if they end up losing most of the money.
people in plays
I don't get the feeling you read the link. But thanks.
Extremely impressive. Does anyone know if performance is likely to decrease as more features are implemented? Because if not, this is a winner.
I strongly agree!

alphaXiv (https://alphaxiv.org/) is a discussion layer on top of arXiv, and it's starting to gain a lot of traction.

You can replace the arXiv URL with "alphaXiv" to get to the discussion:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.16710 → https://alphaxiv.org/abs/2404.16710

Disclaimer: I'm currently helping out with alphaXiv -- it's a fun project out of Stanford
Not sure how much that would help. As far as I understand if you have access to putting stuff in the class path surely you can just override Java classes and run arbitrary code that way.
They didn't train the vision encoder either, it's unchanged SigLIP by Google.
Assuming good faith from a corporation is absurd.

Corporations measure success by one metric and one metric alone: shareholder value. Under our current system, a corporation that doesn't increase shareholder value is considered a bad company. Such a company is punished.

If Google can increase shareholder value by violating user privacy, and the consequences of getting caught won't reduce shareholder value too much, it's a bad company if it doesn't violate user privacy.

Of course there are mechanisms that slow this down, like laws and employees trying to follow laws, employee ethics, old guard culture, etc, but all will be defeated one by one for shareholder value.
Now I'm curious as to the reasoning Sam got back in. The board is there for a purpose and has legal duties. Did they have some duty to cave in when the company was threatened, overriding their oversight duties that caused them to sack Sam in the first place? Did they decide they just got it wrong? It seems pretty wobbly, and makes me question if boards are useful at all for many companies in today's world (and what other structure could protect shareholder interests, when the majority shareholders are passive investment funds?)
> The walls were high enough that I didn't see vehicles to my right

Might it be deliberate? I imagine a lot of drivers might be spooked to see "wrong" traffic, especially if it's headlights at night and they can't quite see the layout.
Believe it or not sama actually delivered something believable and actionable to the general masses while being the CEO of OAI while others all they did was to either lecture or publish papers.
Move along folks, nothing to see here.

Tesla driver assist is just fine, thanks. Tesla surely followed all relevant software best practices, like MISRA, ISO-26262, etc and is in no way liable for poorly designed software that has been enabling fully self-driving vehicles since 2015 as was promised by the CEO.
> basically what would your ideal job be

Easy. A nonexistent one. If you didn't need money, why would you be seeking a job?

> would you contribute towards making society more rational, healthy, and well-coordinated?

How does a job contribute to 'society'? Who works to contribute to society? What company exists to 'contribute to society'?

Has 'hacker' news become so cynical to believe one's existence is about finding a job?
Configuration with scheme looks like it would be pretty similar. https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/discussions/10441
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1527749734668050433
If whoever's idea this site was happens to be reading these comments, a word of advice.

Cleverness and wisdom are orthogonal. It is extremely clever to seek to reinvent all human philosophy from first principles. It is also extremely unwise. At best, you'll waste time achieving nothing, since it is impossible in one lifetime for you to recapitulate the canon. (Also pointless, given the canon already exists.) At worst, you might achieve nothing and also drive yourself insane.

That youthful energy and that drive to understand the world are both highly meritable qualities, as is the intelligence on display. Take those and do almost anything else with them but this, and looking back you'll find your time was better spent.

(Also, if you're going to try to be so mysterious about who and where you are, don't immediately give away that you're Polish.)
I'd rather not wait another billion or so years for computers to evolve themselves