skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Comparable unit-pricing: A mandate brought to you by the European Union. You know, this allegedly evil entity that always hassles with the free market and annoys global companies. /s
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> every employee is best served by entirely optimizing only their own utility.

but this would still remain the case in the scheme proposed.

Even suppose those employee-class shares get a voting right, they would want to maximize their own benefits: such as higher dividend payout. As for why - imagine if there's a decision between long term investment in plant & equipment, vs paying out dividend today. An employee who might not wish to stay will vote to get the dividend, as their "share" is going to be gone by the time the long term investment pays off.

So the only way to align employee and owners, is to have employees own regular shares.
I don't have a list and I don't even write TS (or do much web dev in general), but I do follow their announcements and it seems every one of them brings new big type things.

Nevertheless, I don't see TS support in e.g. browsers being anything useful, as in practice all JS code deployed is already packaged somehow, so the stage to convert TS to JS (and then also checking the types..) fits that just fine. It's useful for hobbyists, but I don't that is a reason enough to come up with a standard.
While this might sound great at first, it comes with a tangible risk: In a worker-owned enterprise, workers cannot freely sell their stock (or it would not be worker-owned for long). So their wealth is tied to the company and the value of every stock hinges on the company's long-term success. Imagine going into retirement with this six-year plan to learn that the company goes bankrupt one year later.

Of course, there are probably ways to try to minimize the risk (e.g., saving the profits for the payout and keeping them separate from business cash) but it won't be very diverse. Or maybe several such companies could put their stocks in a basket and allow employees to diversify their portfolio.

So I think it's a great idea as an add-on, but no one should bet their retirement on it.
Tell HN: Mattermost published ± 2000 266 bytes Docker images on 2024-07-24
Mattermost published ± 2000 266 bytes docker images on 2024-07-24
I may be recalling incorrectly but I seem to remember it having some storage deduplication benefits on the backend.
That's a pretty obtuse interpretation of the comment. Browsers natively being able to run Typescript code / .ts files instead of requiring transpiling to plain Javascript would be a large boon to the TS ecosystem by making basically everything easier. Even if it's just stripping the TS and running the plain JS it would already be helpful, but it running the typechecking beforehand would be wonderful.
Great as long as Apple doesn't sue over the IP. The Commodore Amiga IP went public so now there are many Amiga clones out there and replacement parts. I'd like to see the same with the Mac 68K and PowerPC line.
Giving employees stock options does not solve the "employes should own the company" problem, when there is a market to sell the stock. Shareholders and employees have different goals and interests regarding the company. For example, the employees they may have to decide on the elimination of their own jobs in order to secure the value of their stock holdings (which btw. would make the company not owned by their employees anymore)

A more interesting approach would be a model where being a employee automatically gives you a vote on company wide decisions including. the distribution of profits, just how being a cititzen of a democratic country gives you a vote on the fate of your country (similar to the Mondragon Corporation in Spain)
I've had cashiers in Germany balk at my debit card because it says "Visa" on it and tell me "we only take EC" or sometimes even "we only take EC or Maestro". The joke is of course that EC hasn't existed since 2007 (when it was renamed to "girocard") and Maestro was discontinued by MasterCard, which is why many German banks replaced Maestro debit cards with Visa debit cards.

I wouldn't rely on cashiers to know more than just whether they take debit or credit.
I've seen it happening on GitHub, among others. Anyone that automatically imports an up-to-date list of all existing TLDs will fall into the same "trap".
That was the defacto state of things up until windows 10 moved to a forced update model. In that world we regularly had massive malware waves and resultant massive botnets constantly disrupting critical infrastructure.

We moved away from that for a reason. And the real fix is to make updates not take down the whole system. When was the last time every Linux system in the world was unable to boot all at the same time?

Even the crowdstrike issue only took down a very limited subset of installs and the blast radius is far more minimal due to the linux kernel being a lot more sane and cautious.
Jeez, that must have been some giant scandal to lose 80% of market cap. What is accounting fraud?
Windows will run a regular MZ exe even if its name ends in .com.
Honestly, if I receive a link ending on .top I would simply not click it.

90% of the time (from experience) it's either phishing or malware.

You're still free to host whatever you want, wherever you want - but it's clear that .tk / .top domains are not for serious stuff
Not for defence stuff. For war/defence stuff, you must have approval; and systems for acquiring information from phones and computers intended to be secure from that is war/defence stuff.

If this weren't state-approved spying by Israel, then these people would be in jail.
It isn't search engine exclusivity, so far as I see. I'm sure Reddit would welcome a big check from Microsoft or Apple, or even assurances the data will never be used for AI training.

It also doesn't seem to be about search engines, but just a side effect. It seems to be about publishers licensing their content for AI training data. I expect to see more money sprayed around from all the players, to head off lawsuits like the New York Times one.
not a ebpf expert, just been on my radar lately because i’m going through a sysdig poc.

To me It feels more like a reverse proxy for intercepting traffic going between user land and kernel space.

As we move to k8s and classic EDR isn’t feasible i 100% understand the need. It still feels like a dumb thing humanity has done and will blow up in our face after having the kernel / user space security boundary beat into our heads for so long.
I never made that connection. The Palantiri in LOTR were neither inherently good nor evil, they were "seeing stones" with both communication and remote-viewing capabilities, equivalent to a what an iPhone, CCTV cam, or spy satellite can do today. It's an appropriate and cool name for a company whose whole mission is "intelligence gathering".

(Yes, it is true that Sauron corrupted Saruman while communicating to him via his Palantir, but this would be tantamount to blaming Apple because someone called my iPhone and told me to be evil.)
>> ...what house wives should be paid.

House wives are often very well compensated. They have a home they don't pay for. They often have a bank account they can use to cover expenses (effectively direct deposite). The entire reason alimony exists is an acknowledgement that she has effectively been getting that benefit from the marriage and is not prepared to abruptly lose it in a divorce even after splitting the assets. Assets? Right, that's also part of the compensation package.
I jsut know that compare to 30-40 years ago we have been following this path of increasing regulations and the results are starting to be harmful.

However, some people ask for more of this, instead of less. It is curious when the solution to a problem is throwing more of the problem at it. If it was a transition period of some kind where the effects of some policies cannot be seen yet... but it is years and years and years. The result is high debt and collusion, or that is more of what I see around me, in all Europe. It is a chain of favors and they regulate more and more aspects of our lives, yet we are not better. We pay more, the services are not better either.

I think something is broken here and I am very aware that the result is not giving more control to regulators to even smash us more. It is quite the opposite: leave people alone. At least, this is my experience right now. I can assure that 25 years ago my country had much more balance in most areas and people were more free. I am almost 41 FWIW.
Not my impression, can you share an example?
If coops could be more productive for less money they could beat out their competition without needing it outlawed. It should be easy for them if what you say is true, no Bezos means they have more margin to work with but they struggle to compete... Hmm..
It also prevents backwards edges in the control flow graph; no loops (unless entirely unrolled), no recursion
>got this cryptic error:

> 'lib/libjpeg.so' missing

whats cryptic about that?
The property (“bug”) in question is an inherent and intentional property of meekly-tree type storage systems such as git.

Calling this a bug is like reporting that telnet sends information unencrypted.

The actual bug is in the way that their UX paradigm sets user expectations.
That's silly, and reason enough just to stay away from it. I don't like when developers try to evangelize their opinions through things like configuration variables. It's quite childish to me.

But yes, that's probably it.
I know people are complaining about lack of Firefox support, but the page also blocks Apple’s own Safari browser on the latest iOS 18 beta.

So I think it’s more likely it’s just beta bugs (site not OS) and reducing their support matrix down during that time.
The implementation is literally just one style on the page:

* { font-family: monospace !important }

You can use e.g. Tampermonkey to inject this style on https://www.google.com/search*:

https://www.tampermonkey.net/documentation.php?locale=en#met...
Honestly that’s pretty false.

There are lot of countries out there in the occident where you can’t "excise unproductive divisions" and where firing a worker without a solid reason is hard and dangerous for the employer.

And guess what, they have a cost of living that is comparable to the US (except for housing which is currently shitty all over the occidental world).

Ok, you may say that the US is the first worldwide economy or whatever. And what ? A good economy is just a tool to help societies flourish. If you have a powerful economy but your citizens are sad and depressed, you are loosing the society game anyway.

Being efficient at getting shit done is probably important for global happiness, but that’s up to a point.

If people in US are sad, it’s not because schools are too long to construct or because roads are too long to fix, it’s because nobody even decides to build/fix them because it benefits "only" to the community.

Humans don’t inherently hate working, that’s even probably ingrained in their genes, they just hate being exploited.
Oh, misunderstood. You still need to think about what it is you wish to optimise for. I am not a regulation hater but naive regulations tend to cause rather than mitigate pathological economic incentives. It is very very hard to get these kinds of things right.

Another thing, one related to your original post: it is, of course, good imho to have a working hand-out system so that you don't starve when you are out of a job, or are forced to have to work for really shitty conditions.

This causes another problem, however. It is very easy to get dependant on these hand-outs because the difference in pay between the jobs you are able to do and the size of the hand-out can be very small. Even negative. We have (had) this problem in Sweden for a long time. And it is a problem because when people are less poor, then things cost more money because of it. Cynical, I know. Economics is very very hard.
It works fine on firefox with a safari UA; but not if I turn the resist fingerprinting setting on. Maybe that is your issue too?
AI, unlike StackOverflow, won't call you names and XY you.
I've never seen chaos testing for broken drivers or boot problems. It's usually taking things down ramdomly.
Unless you specifically know and understand the ramifications of this GitHub idiosyncrasy, you have no way to tell that your key was possibly leaked. GitHub never informs you that someone accessed a commit created in your private fork.
I think for Gamedev windows is mostly good just because that's where most of your players are.

Tooling was historically also better from a GUI perspective. With nicer to-use debuggers. Now on Linux you can use Jetbrains products if you need them.

Vulkan is just as much an industry standard as DirectX 12 is. I did a lot of work with both. Choosing between them is often just a matter of being already used to one when it comes to PC support.
You'll have to do DX for Xbox support and that's sometimes a bigger player base for you than Android/Linux/Switch/Mac(MoltenVK), though.

As a game developer, I can see how DX12 got a lead. As a Linux user, I'm a bit salty that it's being chosen so often! As we could have all united on an open multiplatform API :(
> A true German would have put down cash, and seen that as a flex perhaps. (Or at least would have done so in the past. I haven't lived there in a while.)

Things had changed quite a bit here. Card usage is now a default everywhere(including those pesky shops that used to put a "cash-only" signs).

Only hardcore grannies now use cash these days, but even I see a lot of oma/opa pulling out their Sparkasse cards at the counter.
Show HN: Msgdrop – Test emails, webhooks and 2FA using a simple API
Hey HN crowd,

I'll spare the marketing speak and talk straight and honest here which I think most of you will appreciate.

I was on a team not too long ago where we needed to test emails from an automated test run. Think of the stuff like magic login links, verification links, etc.

Normally when we had such cases then these user journeys were tested manually by our QA engineers and this always bugged me a lot. None of the tools which we found on the internet really convinced us. They were either completely open and wholly insecure or only accessible through a UI and very cumbersome to use. Also their features were very limited.

I am not with this company any more, but I've seen the same issue time and again, not only emails but also things like two-factor authentication being turned off in testing environments because QA couldn't automate their way around it.

Long story short, I thought it would be a really cool side project to build a service which specifically addresses these issues and makes testing emails, webhooks and 2fa an ease. So far my career has been mostly centred around .NET (C# and F#) but I always wanted to switch to Go after having done some fun little projects in my spare time. I decided to build Msgdrop entirely in Go (and Svelte for the frontend app) so that even if this might go down as a failed SaaS at least I have some work to show when I apply for new roles in Go.

However, a lot of work has gone into making Msgdrop really neat and I'm actually very proud of what I've done so far and wanted to get some feedback from the one site which I value the most :)

P.S.: I know there are a few tools which do something very similar or parts of it. I only discovered them much later, but either way, I don't think that having competing products is a reason to stop. If anything I believe that means the idea has already been validated and I think I can beat them in execution, or at least I hope so :)
"If companies who don't optimize for profit optimized for profit they would be the same as the companies who optimize for profit" is fairly obviously true, and also useless.
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Have everybody else not did that calculation too? Were they all wrong about it and soviets were the only ones who were right it reduces loses overall?

We know soviets just pushed people through minefields.

We know soviets had huge loses - higher than everybody else.

Your reading is that it's unrelated because the guy that did it said so :)

For me this is just excuses/trolling exhibiting the typical soviet attitude towards human life. And it's very much related to their higher loses through the wars they fought.
Waymo is 15 years old,
Companies can be owned by employees (or customers!) without the messiness of stock options. It's called a co-operative.

I know in the US that worker co-operative can be marred by accusations of "communism" and that trade unions will own the business, but it doesn't have to be that way.

In the UK (hardly a hotbed of communism with now close to 50 years of centrist governments), one of the best known and most aspirational brands is the John Lewis Partnership. The "Partnership" in the name refers to the fact it doesn't have "employees" - they're all partners in the business. People working at JLP, and its subsidiary supermarket Waitrose, receive a share of the profits in addition to their salary.

The current CEO is dancing around trying to get private equity in to the business, but they are finding - like most businesses that seek capital investment - that investor interests in eternal rapid growth don't align well with employee interests.

JLP isn't alone in being a partnership. The vast majority of UK professional firms (accountants, law firms, management consultancies and so on), are LLPs, meaning senior partners are the owners and distribute profits between themselves.

Perhaps slightly more radical is the customer-owned co-operative. Started in Rochdale (possibly with the help of some of my ancestors who hail from there), in 1844, shoppers with the Co-Op, effectively get a return of profits based on how much they spend - the original loyalty program.

Mutuals are also structured in this way like Nationwide are the largest mortgage brokers in the country, and if you have even £1 in a savings account or mortgage with them, you have voting rights at AGMs, and own part of the organisation. Credit unions are similar, but typically operate as non-profits.

And this is all healthy. Look at the oldest businesses in the World[1], they're not driven by growth, they're not driven by next quarter's targets, they're about longevity and creating something that lasts. They're typically family owned or owned in a way that means the workers reap the benefits. Many of them change hands in private ownership, sure, but no hedge fund is going to be interested in extracting value from them - they're not intended to scale on purpose.

I've come around in recent years to Cory Doctorow's ideas on capitalism (in the purest sense of that word, not "free markets", but investors making their living by demanding returns on capital), being misaligned with a healthy long-term business, particularly in the tech industry. "Building to scale" has become toxic. Unicorns are destroying our industry. I don't understand - and I know this will be controversial here on HN - why anyone would want to make some billionaire investment fund richer, just so they can have a yacht, making money off adtech.

The next thing I do will likely be an LLP or a co-op (probably employee owned, but a tech firm that is customer-owned co-op would be interesting). The goal will be to build something that outlives me by a long, long time. I'd encourage others to look at alternatives too.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_companies
I thought the main reason we didn't allow for vote buying directly (advertising is doing the same thing but less reloably) was because it encouraged "corporate raiders" too much, one for whom a sufficient amount of capital would be encouraged to leave a mess by stripping out the copper wiring and selling it for a profit. Combined with the other issues of non-secret ballots like (political) bosses extorting votes.
> There is no such thing as "without regulation"

No need to take my words literally. I you will, favor natural right and yes, put a bit of something on top. But this is not happening clearly. There is a lot of subsidizing and regulation. They are giving, literally, prizes to people that do nothing and punishments to people that kill themselves working. On the way, they have been swapping incentives from working hard to not work.

This in itself is a problem. Currently I see democracies as giant clientele systems. I am not far from the truth at all I think, at least in the case of my country (Spain).
This is not about publicly traded companies. It's about employee owned ones. Your point is still valid, but not in the way you think.
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This applies to any Western government interest group, at least for small submissions or individual comments that relate to those organizations. Large ones like the Assange release cannot be suppressed, but are full of pro-government comments that would not have been made by any software engineer before 2015.

So either the engineers have changed fundamentally, or ...
Our corporate processes have established that using "Fish That Swims Up Your Penis" as the name of the product might contribute to 1% sales decrease. Having in mind our focus on maximizing the profit by appealing to widest audience possible, this is the core reason why we're strongly against the chosen name. Instead, we suggest conducting market research which will determine the optiminal naming scheme for our products. We are very big and very serious.
Switching from Arch to NixOS
But that’s a restricted vision where being productive is a graal vs being useful for the society.

Coops don’t want to beat the competition, they want to be a useful structure for A) their clients and B) their workers.

If they manage to do A+B, they have already won. They don’t need or want to beat out competition.

They don’t play the capitalists game, they play the real game of "in a working society, workers want to be useful and customers wants a good service". There is nothing more to happiness of a society. Everything else is just about making rich people more rich.
> People consume a hell of a lot more now than 1950.

The graph is true regardless.

Americans could be working 20 hours a week without society falling apart. The only thing that would change would be to the yacht class - who would still be very very wealthy.

> Houses are bigger, we buy more clothes, eat more food, have more gadgets.

How much more does housing cost? I'll save you the effort - it's fully twice as much per square foot, adjusted for inflation.

How much more temporary and flimsy are our clothes?

How much less nutritious is our food? How much more toxic is it - to ourselves, to the soil? How much fatter are we? How much more unhealthy?

We have more gadgets, sure. They're all owned by a handful of companies with damn-near monopoly powers, and none of them are changing this trend of a more and more unequal society.

So... What's your point?
Not the person you responded to, but there are a number of changes they have banned, arguably for being too effective. Aerodynamic covers are not usable, recumbents are not usable (especially not ones with a cover, which are significantly faster).

I mean, I kinda get it, it's a traditional upright bicycle race where they want the human factor to dominate. But somewhere in there's a ~65% performance improvement they are leaving on the table (that is the difference in the "1 hour distance record" between traditional and fully faired recumbents).
You shifted the criteria here. Under optimise for profit does not mean unprofitable.
I've got thousands of karma. Used to love it. No more.
It's not a new problem, but think about how many average computer users expect to be sent a ZIP file, vs how many of them expect to receive a TS, CS or COM file in their inbox.