skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Eventually these will merge or ally into global-scale competitors.

Those country-issued cryptocoins that are popping everywhere should enable this.

But even now, a lot of companies are appearing that do international billing. Those tend to accept the popular formats from a few countries, and convert into the popular format of another country.
The first two have a lot to do with "keep blocks small". Bitcoin basically has stopped trying to actually be a useful payment mechanism, though other cryptos are trying (still, the fact that wallet access=money gone and no chargebacks makes them not particularly suited for most consumers)
Network effects. Visa and Mastercard work nearly everywhere (approximately 100% of merchants who take cards in many, but not all, countries). Your big bank can* issue new cards that aren't on either network, but they need to somehow get them hooked into all the acquirers out there (or at least their payment gateways), otherwise they just don't work. So this is indeed a middleman business, but they have a big moat.

* of course, banks don't actually print the cards themselves, there are a smallish number of companies that do that, who may not be set up for your new scheme either, so that's also a thing.
Why would "people having different preferences from you" be a parody? What kind of thinking this even is?
Then the shareholder is still liable - just like if you insure your house against fire, and a fire happens, but your insurance company goes bankrupt, and the reinsurer goes bankrupt, then it falls back to you to pay for a new house.

Obviously such a thing I don't think has ever happened in modern times, but it's what would happen if all the insurers in the chain couldn't meet their obligations - the debt falls back to the insured person.
I'm a huge fan of the BEAM, but I wonder if you're not overselling it a little? Surely there are trade-offs here that sometimes aren't worth it and alternative ways are better?

For example, the BEAM isn't optimized for throughput and if that's a high priority for you then you might want to choose something else (maybe Rust).
no hyperbole, read the article:

> so intrinsically disagreeable that my throat nearly closed up reflexively.

and then:

> That night, my stomach’s rebellion against the loaf was anything but neutral. I felt so full and lethargic that I skipped dinner and the following breakfast.

...followed by a euphemism for serious diarrhea.

I'd encourage you to call poison control with those symptoms. Then consider what you would do if you had a kid or loved one with those symptoms and they ate "something" they didn't know what it was. Regarding starving, they feel like they have not eaten, but rather have been poisoned and can no longer eat more. That's not eating.
Chinese scholars are running away from left communist china into the US

The "progressive" left of today is quickly running out those same asian (and other) scientists out of US and CAN universities, via social media mob lynching and DEI inquisitions.

Im not seeing any right wing movement playing out with the same dynamics.

Where are these institutions affected by right wing persecution?
Yeah, osdev is mostly useful for finding out about nitty gritty details (especially for x86).

The Minix book explains details of Minix 3 (file system, memory management etc.) and gives a listing of the Minix kernel, but does not really explain how to write a system from scratch.

Comer's Xinu book is much better suited for this, it uses sort of a literate programming approach mixing code pieces and the related descriptions. However, Comer's books are rather old by now and the most modern architecture covered is MIPS.

If you want to start from the ground up, i.e. setting up a (cross-)compiler toolchain, building a kernel that boots with your bootloader of choice, starting with "Hello world" and then proceeding to syscalls, interrupt handling, cooperative and preemptive multitasking, virtual memory, etc., then Stephen Marz' blog is a better resource.

You could also check out the lecture slides for my operating systems engineering course if you're interested. In this (master level) course, we build a small preemptive multitasking OS with virtual memory for RISC-V from scratch in C: https://multicores.org/ose/
> hoarding of real state and making it a miserable investment.

Homeowners are a powerful voting bloc and do not want this. Many EU states also have excessive rent control, which creates another powerful voting bloc who also is opposed to any change in the housing market.

There is only ever one problem that makes housing too expensive: zoning restrictions that make it illegal to build huge volumes of cheap housing. There's a huge amount of evidence to support this, and very little evidence to support any other theory. Even in towns with a lot of tourism and AirBnBs, the problem is a lack of hotels (which are almost always superior to paying a cleaning fee and then having to clean your room yourself).
Could you share more intels about this ? Links or whatever

I'd like to learn more
People can bond and socialize over other things, including tea and coffee. We see this in cultures that do not use alcohol.
And yet, they refuse to make their protocol secure on any way that isn't mandated.
Other people might be interested in Stephen Wolfram's approach to physics[0].

[0]: https://wolframphysics.org/
This is a big one. Actually deploying a network worldwide and it just working is a massive feat. I go to some backwards place in South America and if they’re not cash only they’ll take visa. If they are cash only I’ll be able to get cash from the nearest ATM.

I really dislike their duopoly and the fact they’re a tool for American politics but… it’s extremely convenient and well executed.

Contrast this with my bank, not using a third party provider, it would cost 30$ and take 3-5 business days to get money to a bank pickup location in a city.

Contrast this global coverage with the global coverage of my mobile provider that wants to charge me 6.50$/mb for data.
> For example, the BEAM isn't optimized for throughput...

weird take, given that Erlang powers telecom systems with literally millions of connections at a time.
It’s not different preferences, the presentation seems designed to make this look awful.
At this point when we can pull the plug I think governments should just keep an eye on what's going on. And maybe avoid connecting unstable AI networks to the nuclear missile systems to reduce the risk of Terminator 2.

I'm not sure about when the robots can build better robots and their own power sources - maybe worry about that when the time comes.
Of the thousands or so resumes I've received on Indeed, I have advanced maybe a dozen into an initial screening stage. The vast majority was basically spam - applicants with backgrounds that didn't match the job at all or new grad applicants for a posting that clearly stated we were looking for experienced candidates. Then there was the terrible auto-formatting that Indeed would apply to candidates' resumes, sometimes being so jumbled as to be illegible. It made it seem as if there was no one behind the submission checking to make sure their information was being sent correctly.
AltStore – Sideloading for iPhone -Discover apps that push the boundaries of iOS
looks like it worked
Greaseweazle: Tools for accessing a floppy drive at the raw flux level
I will simply solve economics in a weekend with my startup: GOSPLAN.ai
40k affords your $1600/mo rent at least. Having housing covered is not nothing.
Intel’s next generation Arrow Lake CPUs are supposed to remove hyperthreading (i.e. SMT) completely.

The performance gains were always heavily application-dependent, so maybe it’s better to simplify.

Here’s a recent discussion of when and where it makes sense:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39097124
How many more of those do they need to make before all the preorders are released now? I see they’re pushing the assembled in USA one for a few thousand dollars now, presumably they have the parts in stock and can put one together fairly easily.
> But literally everywhere accepts Pix (and every app that uses it).

I just want to clarify, because this phrase looks like a huge understatement.

Beggars on the street accept Pix.
The yt-dlp project has an issue to add it

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/10368

and that's the normally the most comprehensive.

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/blob/master/supportedsites....

(When I tried the "generic" command suggested in that issue, it downloaded only the first song in the playlist.)
In 2024, I don't use crYpTo, but I use bitcoin to store my wealth without it being stolen by the banking system via supply inflation.
> General users don't want root and don't want malware to obtain root access

"Ordinary people do not need freedom of speech, since they have nothing to say, or right to repair, since they can't do it anyway".
I disagree, everyone is concerned. The vast majority of apps on the android ecosystem are adware with dark patterns all over the place. My mother complains about it every day.

Google is currently blocking many quality open source apps like VLC and Termux from updating on the play store, because they require the signing certificates, in their quest of controlling everything. VLC is not for power users, it's the most common player in the world.

Recently I wanted to reencode a video to upload to Whatsapp. I tried 10+ apps, all freemium and terrible, 4 tried to trick me into a 1 year subscription. ffmpeg did it in 5 seconds.
You sound completely out of touch.

I honestly suggest you go to your local foodbank and talk to the people that use it. You should also go to your local nursing home that takes medicare residents as well.

Tell them to their face what you truly believe after hearing their stories.
> Kubernetes has been pruning out vendor-specific code for a while now, moving it out of tree.

I wasn't aware, but it makes sense, and explains the current "confusing" state.
Does Llama-3 405B "solve" Q6 from IMO 2024?
Zero-shot prompted Llama-3 405B to solve the Q6 from IMO 2024 https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/DeepMind.com/Blog/imo-2024-solutions/P6/index.html

It seems it gets the "correct answer", but don't know if the reasoning is correct. Can anyone help with it ?
Social Security's current obligations are the largest single spending category of the entire U.S. Federal Government, and are continuing to grow rapidly.

The SS trust fund is projected to be depleted by 2033, at which point benefits will be automatically reduced to just 79% of their current level, by laws that are already on the books. This information is freely available from the Social Security Administration themselves. [1]

Keep in mind, Social Security's and Medicare's unfunded future liabilities grossly exceed the current liabilities of these programs.

These defined benefit programs are mathematically reliant on a growing, rather than shrinking population, yet a shrinking population is what the entire industrialized world is currently on track for with our sub-2.1 TFRs.

[1] https://www.ssa.gov/oact/trsum/
Worth noting that the movement to drop morse code, "No-code International," was spearheaded by none other than K6BP. Bruce Perens, one of our own!
I went into the job market a few months ago. Applied to 15 companies (all online, all offering salary within my highish expectations), went into the interviewing process for 7, finished 5 and got 4 offers (although a couple were for a lower role than I applied to). A number of friends have also recently found a job online.

It’s very anecdotal of course, but it’s just not true that nobody finds jobs online anymore.

Data points for the interested reader: fullstack web engineer, L5-L6 level, UK.
Rent in HCOL areas is more than 1600 a month. I live in a college town, hardly HCOL, and 1600 a month will get you a small apartment here.

Looking online, median rent in the US for all housing types is over 2k.
Fair enough, yes. I know the payment situation is very different worldwide, especially in 2nd/3rd world countries (Brazil, India, Southeast Asia, Africa, etc.).

But if you look at some of the top fintechs in both the US and Europe (e.g. Chime, Revolut, Brex, Robinhood, SoFi, etc.) all help extend Visa and MC's reach.
I don't think think the concern in this case is any perceived possible human danger, but the actual real danger to the pets.
I have also given money to criminal advocacy groups. I’ll take back my harshest accusations of empty words against you in light of your claims.

But let’s not lose perspective here. Murder, rape, embezzlement… these are despicably selfish acts, among others.

I have a family to care for, I do the best I can to provide food, shelter, medical care, and proper development so I don’t raise a child that becomes a criminal. And yes, sometimes that involves actually having fun. Just because I don’t feel I should sacrifice everything to live an ascetic lifestyle serving criminals, does not make me absolutely selfish. There’s much more nuance than that.
Indeed, we should demand better. But it's important to emphasize the bitter lesson that a lot of naive people don't want to learn: identifying a bad thing and then tearing it down will often just cause it to be replaced with a worse thing. Power abhors a vacuum, so before you create that vacuum, you better be prepared to replace it with something that will resist the influence of the powers-that-be.
It's probably easier to make a list of companies that don't ghost per company policy.
Yes but you also have taxes, car payments, gas, and food. It also wouldn't be uncommon for rent to be more that $1600 a month.

Edit: To give an idea. According to Google, in New York at $40k a year you will pay $12,000 in taxes. So after taxes and $1600 a month in rent you would only have about $733 a month for transportation, food, entertainment, clothes, savings, etc.
Flags as a system call API design pattern (2014)
It's the hardest asset mankind has ever seen. Nothing else is as optimised for storing large quantities of value for long periods of time.

If you have an idea for how it could be optimised further or beaten by something else, I'd be very interested to hear.
In terms of convention over configuration, Ruby's metaprogramming is crucial for the name-based class conventions that make Rails so convenient. For instance, if you have a class User with the attribute name, at runtime Rails dynamically adds methods to the User class, allowing you to do things like User.find_by_name("Alice"). Rails uses Ruby's metaprogramming capabilities to accomplish this.

The same is true for defining associations between models. Consider the following model:

class User < ApplicationRecord
belongs_to :organization
scope :active, -> { where(active: true) }
end

You mentioned that DSLs aren't important, but the DSL for defining associations is extremely convenient. Adding the belongs_to line defines numerous methods on the User class, allowing you to do things like User.last.organization. The scope line dynamically defines the active method, allowing you to call User.active, which executes the code in the provided block. There are also DSLs for defining routes and migrations, which are extremely important when using Rails.

Ruby's metaprogramming is also utilized in Rails controllers to load the correct code. For example, the index method in the UsersController knows to look for the views/users/index.html file because it can reflect on the method and the class to determine where to load the correct code using Rails' autoloader, Zeitwerk.

Ruby's open classes and monkey patching (something that should be done with extreme caution) allow ActiveSupport to add extremely useful methods to Ruby's base classes. This enables conveniences such as Date.today - 10.days or DateTime.now.beginning_of_day.

These are just a few examples that I can think of off the top of my head, but nearly every major convenience in Rails relies on the flexibility provided by Ruby. While it might be possible to reproduce many aspects of Rails in JavaScript, I don't believe you could replicate all of it with the same readability and intuitiveness that Rails offers.
Agreed. Good point
There have been a number of OS-type systems in Ada/SPARK, though at least mainly in the embedded space. E.g. the Muen verified separation kernel: https://muen.sk/
IOCP is not an event loop. It is true async, non-blocking I/O; completion-oriented; the I/O manager informs the thread the operation is completed.

epoll/kqueue are readiness-oriented, which continuously asks if the operation is completed via a single thread.

https://speakerdeck.com/trent/pyparallel-how-we-removed-the-...
Sharks Discovered Inside Underwater Volcano (2015) [video]
No, but the help is appreciated!
Fair enough. I just loved learning it as a boyscout and applying it to HAM and always think of it as this last ditch backup option
What are you talking about? All preorders have been shipped. The shipping time is 10 days now: https://puri.sm/posts/all-librem-5-smartphones-have-shipped.
Thank you. Hope it is useful!
This reminds me of the Joe Grand video titled:

“ I hacked time to recover $3 million from a Bitcoin software wallet”

Just put a program in the computer that generates a ‘random’ key based on time of day and second…and it does this every day at pre defined hours…and maybe some way that the time and date can’t be modified. Then, only when that day and time comes will the right key be generated and the files decrypted. Program does not know when that date is it just bases the key generation on time and date.
The things I do daily on a smartphone are:

- Web browsing

- iMessage

- WhatsApp

- Social media

- Photography

- Music

- Email

- Maps

- Medical stuff

When I see articles like this, it’s a stark reminder of just how wide the gap between iOS and any of these community Linux phones is. I’m also sure it’s a similar gap between a modern Android phone and the same community projects.
Rintzler89 is still right though.
Hardly any asylum seekers in eastern european countries because “nordic welfare” > “eastern european welfare”

Not an easy thing to fix
So, "German Jews" come from Russia, but "Russian Jews" come from Germany?

Moskowitz in particular is the German spelling of a Russian patronymic identifying the man's father as having a Yiddish name. That's several cycles of transferring between Russia and Germany.
Ignoring the butterfly effect issue, I would have said just pick the title of a given newspaper on a given date as the password.
Ok maybe I read it differently than you, but the will in the article doesn't sound like me like what is typically discussed as "free will"? It sounds more like what could also be called "drive" or "striving".
Ask HN: What kind of virus can live in 2124?
I'd like to get your opinion on this thought experiment I came up with.

The year is 2124. Humans have merged with AI. ASI is achieved. War and hunger were eliminated. The Riemann Hypothesis was proved.

Biology was solved.

Can there still be viruses? This seems to be a super adversarial environment for them. I see two possibilities:

- Viruses are killed as soon as they emerge, so practically they don't exist.

- They evolved to be highly intelligent, comparable to ASI. But they run on DNA.

The latter seems highly unlikely, but not impossible? Imagine a fragment of code that can morph itself intelligently to stay alive.
Spider-Man (Neversoft) decompilation project progress checkpoint – July 2024
Which is better - working 40 hrs a week and barely existing, or not working 40 hrs a week and barely existing?
I loved the Manchester series on Churchill. The others you mention are all on the 'to read' list for me already.

My favorite recent biography was on both JCR Licklider and the world he helped create; 'The Dream Machine', Waldrop.

Even more abstract, 'The Prize', Yergin, might be called a biography of the oil industry and 'The Making of the Atomic Bomb' is a biograpy of that dread beast. Those were my favorite books before starting Caro.
It's not at all funny. It's dumb, and from the headline alone - "A dairy delight" - I already knew it was the lame and predictable ChatGPT language model with all it's repetitiveness, puns and consciously designed idiocy.

"dairy-inspired exploration" - word salad garbage

"we will humorously consider" - good to be reminded again, I was already falling for it

"the implications of a lactose-laden lunar surface" with acutely annoying aliterations.
lol, a website is not a good way to promote a business for most startups. Even a YT, facebook, or linkedin page will generate better lead volume.

The nonexistent brand recognition means most SEO and online advertising is a waste of time and money. i.e. random users are usually not going to suddenly discover your products and services in significant volumes.

Mostly we would see around 2400 new users after each contextually relevant community event, 400 per trade-show, and around 25 per informal business gathering.

To match similar lead volume on the web, it would take about 8 months to reach the same volumes as a single community event. i.e. random browsers are generally not going to investigate unknown brands unless they were tipped off by another user. You will see that exponential curve initially as early adopters share their experience with friends, and more users investigate the "free tier".

That exponential growth also requires persistent release updates (extinction rate is about 5 months), monitoring customer feedback, and keeping your profit mode traction quiet. However, do not rely on people stepping up to help out on any vanity project, and plan 2 month release cycles around your core use-case for paying customers.

The key to survival as a company is cash flow in the front door, and providing value to customers. Unless you can do both, than form a nonprofit instead.

Note, every castle needs a moat with legal alligators... If the product/service technological barrier is too low, than a competitor in a better brand position will scoop the market your team cultivated.

As a startup your chances are 1:22, and even lower if you are not objectively studying other firms founding years. Not the success stories, but rather the 21 other firms that didn't win the launch lottery.

As a side note, entering a market already saturated with crap is usually economically unfeasible. The goodwill available with consumers has been burned already.

Best of luck, =3
Seeing that the output is just a few pages, I tried generating one that is supposed to be short. It made the title longer and added an entirely different topic:

https://fakepaper.app/storage/f6d24c9c-0285-4144-9f5e-5c5c43...

Compare this with the original:

https://www.ams.org/journals/bull/1966-72-06/S0002-9904-1966...
I don’t have any benchmarking yet, but any help is appreciated. We do have fine-tuned model for anyone interested.
It would still be interesting to see how often those companies ghost.
Man I would love love love love to be able to have mobile device running a stock or near-stock Linux distro.

But I also want to be able to use things like contactless payment and banking apps. I actually wish in some ways that Jobs had kept with his original plan not to release an iPhone SDK (that was the original plan, right? I'm not misremembering?), and push the web platform hard for apps. Then mobile apps would have been naturally cross-platform, or at least cross-platform-possible, only requiring new JS APIs to be implemented in whatever available open-source browser.

It's a little ironic, because these days I advocate against closed, walled-garden platforms. But this unrealized future (well, present, I guess) would have required an iPhone that was even more locked down than it is, not allowing any non-Apple native apps on it.