skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This.

Working for a big company in the US is massively underrated. Over time, most people working in these companies will be much better off financially and with less stress/health issues.

The silicon valley/tech bubble over-romanticizes entrepreneurship without realizing its NOT for everyone.

For every 1 success story you hear about entrepreneurship, there are 50-100 that fail. The stress and anxiety is not something everyone can or should take if they have the opportunity to coast at FAANG and make $500K+.

How many businesses make $500K in revenue in the US? Not many? [1]

I am paraphrasing here, but I really agree with how Scott Galloway put it: The US corporation is the greatest wealth creating vehicle in history. Way safer and easier to build wealth working at Google.

Giving "StArt a BusZineaSs BRO" as a blanket advice is very disingenuous.

[1] In 2018, 9% of small businesses made more than $1 million.
https://www.smallbizgenius.net/by-the-numbers/small-business...

Note: Many statistics online say the number is actually fewer than 5%!
Hebrew, you mean?
Helpful, thanks. I'm happy to be proven wrong if you have anything worth sharing.

I'd be particularly interested how you would see a program on the scale of a UBI working sustainably if the government can't predict the outcomes. Or, alternstively, if you think the government can predivt the outcomes I'd be curious if you disagree with the OP author that a UBI can't be tested before a full rollout.
The purpose of hyping up the existential risks of purely theoretical AGI is to distract us from the actual problems involved with LLMs today and the much more likely problems they will cause soon.
In particular PyPy's abstract values have multiple domains at once: type, known bits, known range, etc. They do it all in one pass
It did include useful info I wasn't aware of such as acid-free folders and sleeves
and polaroid light sensitivity, mine green-shifted in 2 years compared to film.
This doesn't seem like anything new. I've associated Japan at least with all sorts of weird crazy stuff (including electronics and all sorts of kitsch) for at least a few decades.
Creating a game with React – part 1
> you went on to say that a race-blind period Macbeth is not an approach you like

I didn't explicitly say so. But given race-blind adaptations, do it or don't. If you're going to turn a historical period on its head, then going all the way would be better.

Going back to something you said:

> What I'm saying is you are not purely interested in artistic faithfulness to the original. You are interested in particular aesthetics that fit your own perspective, and you're using box office receipts to defend your own aesthetics, which is weird.

Consistency and approximating faithfulness to an original is itself an aesthetic. It does not itself make an adaptation superior, it's a stylistic choice, and no one said it's the only good one.

Another user mentioned people are looking for "depth and coherent world building". All I said is in keeping with that.
It's really amazing to watch, plus the delusion that it's ctos being tricked or something.

take Opera. You buy it to run eg an amusement park or a casino or chain of hotels. That's a relatively complex thing to do, and not something that amusement parks or hotels are capable of building out a team of devs to build themselves.

The list of things that are table stakes would run $10-$20m of devtime for a decade to build out. Bookings (both individual, block for events, and syncs w/ expedia or others) / payments / loyalty + customer relationship management / etc.
We do. We haven't done a very good job of listing good first issues, but please feel free to create and contribute.
I wouldn't be surprised if these fines are payable directly to Clear Channel. Personally I'd say that at this point in the evolution of FM radio, half of its broadcast spectrum should be made available for unlicensed use by individuals operating lowish power transmitters.
The US fiscal mess: Some unpleasant fiscal simulations
The animations are less realistic grounded, legless, critters and more accurately things being dragged (without seeing whats dragging them). That said, engaging, concise, and well produced video. The technique also comes to life when legs are added. Maybe thats obvious.
You probably got this, but since others are replying to the extract out of context it's worth clarifying that that quote is about the difficulty of displaying the exact cancellation fee before the subscription is even begun. So the difficulty isn't that the math is complicated, it's that you can't display an exact fee when you don't know what the cancellation date will be.

That said, this continuation of the quote was funny to me:

> "We always have to balance the need to be clear and conspicuous with our terms — which is what we’re trying to do — with the number of things we need to be clear and conspicuous about."

This is a problem that Adobe created and it's a problem that Adobe can solve by just... simplifying the terms. If your terms are hard to explain concisely then that, in itself, is the problem!
A nonzero probability should be enough because the consequences are infinitely bad.
If someone finds LetsEncrypt challenging, they don't have sufficient network andsystem administrator skills to be running a private, public-facing web server. They should be running tailscale.
I attempted both when trying to implement a language, and I couldn't wrap my head around the typing of the term that CPS introduces, so I ended up going down the ANF road.
Agreed - I didn’t feel like I had much knowledge to negotiating power at the start and definitely got ripped at a .2%

Thanks for calling it out - we all need more educating on this
Also from Burke, The Day the Universe Changed. He also has a recent new Connections miniseries.
For good pizza you need high quality but basic ingredients. Theoretically you could grow your own tomatoes and basil and bake something reasonable at home (although the store bought cheese was shit and making your own is hard).
In practice I haven't enjoyed good pizza until fairly late after the iron curtain fell.
The "bedroom community built on inexpensive rural land some distance outside of city boundaries" in my area was actually connected to the city by electric railway lines (whose right-of-ways still largely exist, as bike paths). This was before the big mid-century paradigm that GP describes, which absolutely was a(n open) conspiracy to create racially-segregated communities. There were a lot of amenities that these communities went out of their way to fund, so expense was a concern only inasmuch as the money that would have gone to sidewalks instead went to a community pool or bike paths or water/trash services.
F-14 was a nightmare to maintain though, especially compared to the F/A-18. Sometimes reliability is the most important ability.
denial of service is not the same thing as arbitrary code execution, and that goes double in kernel mode, but yes, it does seem that the linux implementation of ebpf had buggy sandboxing; i don't think allowing clownstrike to prevent booting was part of the intended objective

i wasn't hunting around for nits to pick; i was hunting around to see if you'd ever contributed any useful comments to the site. instead i found you making authoritative pronouncements about ebpf that were so wrong that you had evidently never read so much as a one-line summary of what ebpf was for. do you have a more promising historical comment to offer? perhaps something where people complimented your contribution as being informative?

have you ever made a worthwhile comment on hn?

on thursday, wahern posted this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41061179 where they traced through the illumos/opensolaris source code to track down how a peculiar solaris interprocess communication mechanism worked, an investigation i had started but gotten stuck on. why can't you make comments like that instead of harassing me about how i format my comments?

the reason i'm asking is because i'd like to be able to talk to more people like wahern, but most of them avoid this site. a major reason why is that comments here frequently receive vacuous, aggressive responses like the comment you made the day before in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41056718, where you launched a personal attack on me because you didn't like how i was formatting my comments

i'd like you to ⓐ apologize for doing that (this is not the first time you've done that to me personally; so far i haven't looked through your comment history far enough to find out how many other people you have a history of repeatedly harassing) and ⓑ commit to not doing it again

because i'm sure you're capable of making comments that make the site better instead of worse
Let's not fool ourselves, these changes are almost exclusively pushed by small but very vocal minority groups and SJWs
It’s really nice to see data being used to back up an argument in this space. There’s too much sci-fi out there.
Since you judged me so quickly on my comment history, let me return the favour: You seem to stem from an underprivileged background without formal education but have still accumulated a wide range of self taught topics which you use to engage in dogmatic ideologic discussions that never penetrate the surface, because if someone challenges you outside your shallow depth, you only get evasive and change the topic.

Tbh this seems like a huge waste of time for any conversation, so you'll have to excuse me if I disengage here.
Indian exchange to 'socialize' $230M security breach loss among customers
There is a strong difference here: Smartphones are kind of essential to our modern life, game consoles aren't.
For big projects, as I have mentioned, the linking phase is at most a few percent of the compilation time.

I have CPUs with 48 threads and for big projects the compilation time decreases monotonically from 1 thread to 48 threads (and almost proportionally with the number of threads until 24 threads, then with a constant smaller slope until 48). The published benchmarks show that for big software projects the compilation times decrease monotonically until 512 threads on a 2-socket MB with 128-core CPUs.

So the compilation of a big software project, like Chromium, Firefox, LLVM, gcc, the Linux kernel, Libreoffice, etc. (all of which have many thousands of files that must be compiled) is one of the tasks that can use efficiently any number of threads that is currently available.

Moreover, there are now linkers that work partially concurrently. Tasks like the relocation of the object files and of the external symbol references can be done completely concurrently for all source files (after the start addresses are known for all object files and the corresponding object files are known for each symbol).
> Once starlink coverage expands, the poorest, most remote villages on earth can technically become eligible for remote work

I suspect some tight number crunching - of money and bits - is necessary for this to work. I could see a joblord popping up who provides the (not cheap) Starlink connection and sells the local labor at a profit. I wager the arrangement will be as exploitive as possible.
Wesh Network: Async mesh network protocol
Costco in Cancún
For whomever might be interested in anectodes about mathematicians' personal lives:

My girlfriend's family was related to https://planetmath.org/kallevaisala and she told me this story which was part of the family lore. The family and friends were having some kind of get-together celebration maybe a wedding or so and prof. Vaisala's wife had bought him a brand new suit to look good for the occasion.

During the party they were playing croquet in the garden and prof. Vaisala got really into the game, but had the realization that suit-pants may not be the best for playing croquet. He could have stuffed the end of his pant-legs into his socks but that didn't really work, maybe socks were too tight and pants too big. So, he found a pair of scissors somewhere, and cut his pant-legs short. His wife started crying. She didn't really appreciate the genius of mathematicians.
Common sense. It's what scum bag companies always do. If their business is creating actual problems, they try to distract the public with some other shiny object.
A bit of a tangent, but something like PowerDNS authoritative server comes with an API[0] that can be leveraged for similar functionality to what Cloudflare provides.

Decentralization of the internet has to start with Authoritative DNS. I know it's not free to host an authoritative server like this on a VPS, and there are DDoS considerations. But the flip side is that DNS is a metadata protocol and contains a wealth of information that anybody privacy focused should think twice about. It's also an incredibly powerful and important protocol to understand.

[0] https://doc.powerdns.com/authoritative/http-api/index.html
Every path has non-zero risks. Choose your risk.

If we outlaw AI, because of "risk", then people might experiment with it in secret, which has its own unique risks. If we study AI in the open, that has unique risks. If we descend further into authoritarianism to punish AI, that has risks. And no matter what we do about AI, the risks of nuclear war or life ending asteroid impacts remain.
AI's current trajectory is actually the best one for workers where it increases worker productivity but does not replace them which will increase demand.
I wouldn't think it matters as long as the [human] authors review it for accuracy.
The implication in what you just said is that Israel having total control over Palestinian territory is taken for granted. They can wiretap with ease due to their illegal occupation. I think if the example was Canada wiretapping the US, the wrongness of it would be more apparent.

I think in western discourse it's common to treat Israel like a hurricane or some other natural disaster and not a state with agency. It is framed as Israel "just being there" and not as them choosing to occupy an area and subjugate people, so much so that they designate a huge chunk of their GDP to the endeavor and require continuous funding from the US.

Sorry if what I am saying is confusing, I am struggling to articulate the point I want to make. My point is mostly that sure, while wiretapping is several magnitudes less bad than murdering civilians and foreign aid workers, they are only capable of doing it so trivially because of their position of occupation, which is by design.
Web3 junk.
And arguably a high temperature oven. One of the reasons pizza is financially successful as fast food is that one of the hard parts is having the right oven. You can fake it at home to some degree even without much special equipment but making a good pizza (whatever that means to you) at home is more work than most people are going to put in.
If your lawyer is incompetent, is it still your fault that you end up in jail?

In this case, crowdstrike was the incompetent software which was given kernel access by Companies. One can’t blame companies for using incompetent company like crowdstrike
Oh what are they going to do, call me a bunch of times and make it harder for me to pay someone else interest for money I should have been saving? Big deal! An employer who cares isn't worth my effort to impress anyway. LOL to think credit reporting companies actually matter, it's a big con game and we're all the marks!

I am lawsuit-proof and actually suing me for a half-grand for an early cancellation to a license, and winning, is a great way to encourage me to find ways to cost you tens of times the judgment both in indirect lost revenue and direct damages (if I can find any way to). I hold grudges for a very long time, and I know how to use search engines and darknet forums. Simply, I am not someone to try and leg over using the legal system unless you are ready to wage extralegal war for your financial survival.

Again, I am lawsuit proof and my time counts at a million dollars a year in revenge if I am involuntarily committed (if you secure contempt of court).
> That is exactly what they're doing.

I think I made it clear, it isn't.

> You just don't like a black Macbeth, but others do and are fine with it.

Wrong.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240727165311/https://old.reddi...

https://web.archive.org/web/20240727171537/https://i.ibb.co/...

https://archive.today/i6ojl
The historic computer collection of Microsoft co-founder Paul G. Allen
most striker fired pistols follow glock's lead in using not a manual thumb safety but instead a trigger safety, which prevents the trigger from being pulled by something not shaped roughly like a finger

the us military version of the p320 does have a thumb safety, and the claim is that they are going off without trigger pressure anyway, so who knows what the issue is
- https://archive.org/details/ConnectionsByJamesBurke

Spreading the gospel of Burke :)

As I always feel I must when "Connections" pops up, truly, an outstanding masterpiece - the original and subsequent seasons.-

PS. This comment, is, in fact, totally Burke:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41087042

... he reasons as much, in the show, from spinning wheel to printing press (and before and beyond, of course).-

PSS. Featuring, as y'all certain know, the (arguably) "best timed" shot in the history of broadcast TV.-
"My company cares more about numbers than people"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_mugging

> In philosophy, Pascal's mugging is a thought experiment demonstrating a problem in expected utility maximization. A rational agent should choose actions whose outcomes, when weighted by their probability, have higher utility. But some very unlikely outcomes may have very great utilities, and these utilities can grow faster than the probability diminishes. Hence the agent should focus more on vastly improbable cases with implausibly high rewards; this leads first to counter-intuitive choices, and then to incoherence as the utility of every choice becomes unbounded.

Curiously enough, this idea can be traced to one of the most prominent AI Safety advocates.
Sure, I don't disagree with you about what the concept of a (U)BI is. I am arguing, though, that fundamentally a UBI maps very well to Marx's "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" writings.

Basic income on the scale of welfare programs for a small minority of the most poor aren't quite the same. A UBI is a much more broad program, even if it doesn't help every single person it does attempt to prop up a large chunk of the population. At that point we're solving the wrong problem.

That were we definitely agree. A growing number of people in the US are falling behind. We need to fix the root cause of that though, the lack of money is only an obvious symptom. If our social, political, or economic systems are the underlying problem then let's fix those. Throwing a UBI at the problem creates even more chaos in the system and we simply don't know what the side effects will be.

Worse, if a UBI isn't the right answer we will have wasted all of our attention and political capital forcing it through. We almost certainly would walk away feeling like we solved it and end up in a worse spot when we're blind to the still growing problem. Roe v Wade comes to mind, we hung our hat on the victory of one supreme court decision when what was really needed was legislation codifying the decision.
Aaaaand with the bootloader unlocked, they'll just grab the Cellebrite and/or call up Cellebrite Professional Services for remote unlock assistance.

https://cellebrite.com/en/advanced-services/

The biggest thing is to set your device up on arrival to be powered OFF. Most of Cellebrite (and other security vendors) solutions rely on the phone having been unlocked once since first poweron (or "AFU").
Shipwreck full of champagne found in Baltic Sea
> by the turn of the 20th century we generally had fully accurate maps

New Zealand may having something to say about that...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omission_of_New_Zealand_from_m...
Was it before 1988? (before the Law on Cooperatives was implemented, which allowed the creation of privately owned enterprises)
https://archive.is/Pshsp
One man's trash is another man's treasure. I think much of this content is popular specifically because it appeals to the lowest common denominator. That and the creators produce this content in a very appealing way to consumers.
It depends on country or region which was part of Soviet Union.
China no longer sees Russia as a partner, but a vassal state. They rejected Putin's proposal for the Siberian pipeline and are slowing down deliveries of various components needed to manufacture weapons. Chinese banks are limiting their dealing with Russian banks and companies to avoid sanctions. Like it or hate it, US Dollar is the world's reserve currency and getting cut off from the global banking network is not worth all the gold that Putin can offer. China doesn't want Russia to attack other countries, because like a wise drug dealer, it does not want to loose its customers. Russia is killing them and that messes with China's business. To be honest if China could capture Putin and give him to the West in a box with a red ribbon it would. They saw how weak he is and have no respect for him.

On top of that, China has its own problems--demographic and economic. Russia cannot help China solve them so China is happy to see Russia bleed and slowly descend into the inevitable chaos once the Russian economy collapses. Xi will be happy to carve out a part of Russia for himself once an opportunity presents itself. Although how much more of a really backwards population and barren land he needs is a open question.
Give me your life savings or I will destroy the universe
I feel like I need to inform you that the people doing the “recommendations” in the Windows start menu are not the same people who write filesystems.

The venn diagram of those two sets of people is two non-touching, non-intersecting circles.

There are interesting things going on, I’m sure, but we won’t see any of it until this AI baloney is behind us.

Nerds create a virtual moron that gets a large percentage of stuff wrong and execs demand that it be inserted into every product made immediately. An absolute genius move only an MBA can explain.
Reporting on these issues was actually the reason the New York Times got kicked out of China…
is it strange that may 28th a paper titled "A potential association between COVID-19 vaccination and development of alzheimer's disease" was released and just got some reporting done on it 5 days ago?

no?
Curious, which part in RFC 6749 do you refer to or other ones?
Patch management still seemingly abysmal because no one wants the job
Why would "Before delving into code..." be a red flag that marks the text as LLM-generated?
> The best overview of this practice I could find was chatGPT [link], so all of the (now) usual caveats. It lists practices in dozens of societies spread across every continent[8].

I don't understand why an article that starts with scholarly pretense would throw that in there.

(If the best overview you could find was ChatGPT output, and you're suggesting the usual caveats apply, why not go validate what it said, from reputable sources, rather than passing through suspected bad information?)
How Soon Might the Atlantic Ocean Break? Two Sibling Scientists Found an Answer
Absolutely this. I'm always scared by seeing these low numbers all these sites. They have no relation to reality
Nowadays a dogfight between powerful nations is going to be driven by stealth, sophistication of ECM and counter measures. Take a 2 F15s and 2 F35s and they are straight into merge dogfight then the F15s will likely win. Put those same planes 150 miles apart and the F35s will shoot twice before the F15s even see them due to their stealth.

There remains a place for this type of aircraft purely because nations don't have sophisticated stealth counterparts or the same level of sophistication of anti air but its a dated design however many upgrades you throw into its avionics, engines and radar.