skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a very terrible book BUT it was also super important, influential book at the time it was published. It can be both!

As a child, I read this book in a bookstore. Nothing else like this was available to me in the suburbs with parents who didn't have any business experience. The idea of doing anything other than just "getting a job" was totally foreign. The book opened my mind to the idea that you don't have to work for someone else your whole life and that you want to build appreciating assets.

Literally everything else in the book is fluff or flat out wrong. It's not a good book. But for a lot of people, it was also life changing because it broke through in a place and a time when little else was available.

In 2024, we don't need this book. There is so much content available online that is so much better. Someone would get more out of reading a random page of the bogleheads wiki than this entire book. But I wouldn't call the book a "fraud" and I wouldn't deny the amount of influence it had decades ago when it first came out.
Most criticism in this thread can be summarized as:

He is dumb and unsophisticated

He doesn’t give technical advice

The assumption is that success comes from being smart or credentialed (or fraudulent). This is a bad bias because it manifests as an inability to learn from sources outside your demographic. Furthermore, you develop a susceptibility towards marketing which presents itself as sophisticated (journalist podcasts, Ted talks, ML white papers, etc).

It didn’t take a genius to make money in real estate in 1980. You probably have dumb relatives who did it too. The character traits that helped most were optimism and tolerance for risk. Is this true today? I don’t know. Thinking about that question is more fruitful than assuming failure and seeking evidence to support that view.
If someone kills someone with my car, and I do nothing, I'm innocent until proven guilty.

If a bank mistakenly initiates foreclosure proceedings against me, and I do nothing, what happens?
Instant dashi powder has lactose in it.

After learning this I now take lactaid to ramen restaurants.
This is the way I taught my math classes at two different universities while I was in grad school. I even used chalk. As I worked through the proof or problem, writing out everything in full meant we could have an interactive flow where if I lost them they could complain. And they did! I would get comments/questions even if I was writing on the board, with my back turned. I don't recall time management ever being an issue, and my practice was to just work through everything beforehand.

It was one of the most satisfying/gratifying experiences of my entire life.

(Dirty secret: I only deeply learned vector calculus/linear algebra when I taught it.)

(Edit: grammar stupidities)
Arguably better, since the ponzi scheme runs on under-constrained fossil fuel extraction and exhaustion that is both unsustainable and risks collapsing the planetary biosphere.

The sooner we stop assuming this planet can support unlimited human beings, the better.
It’s an SEO thing.

The better way to implement this is to serve a 301 redirect if the words in the URL don't match the expected ones, that avoids trickery and also removes the risk of the same page being accidentally indexed as duplicate content.
But the popular tooling for it (e.g. Visual Studio), isn't.
Evaluating these decisions one by one doesn't make sense. Yes, if you are looking at just the cost of setting up Vaultwarden, there's a significant amount of stuff to learn & practice to keep it up.

But self-hosting scales horizontally. If you already run one service that uses postgres or MySQL, the next service often won't add much of a burden.

For a lot of people, yeah, at present it makes no sense to get started. But the ability to get inertia, to carry the effort, can grow and grow into something really fierce. And even better, there are such good references & starting places out there today. Onedr0p's home-ops is a beautiful example (one among many) of investing hard on really good tools up front, so that the incrental cost of adding and managing new things is fantastically low. Years ago we would have to diy much of this, but today onedr0p can use well known community tools like Kubernetes, Flux ci/CD, gitops, and helm to get it done, to have other smart making the tools of self-hosting better for him. He's still the self hosting, but there's a sizable % of the engineering talent of the world helping to make his self hosting better & easier. That's pretty novel, and pretty excellent imo. https://github.com/onedr0p/home-ops
Is there any Category Theory tutorial that illustates that we need this apparatus to solve some real problem? For example, for Group Theory there is an excellent book 'Abel's theorem in problems and solutions' that does exactly that.
> There's no way for someone to make an identifier that's also a secret secure.

umm what? Private-Public key authentication exists.
You guys read way into my message. I didn't say not having kids is selfish. I said having kids requires a less selfish lifestyle.
Superhighway84 a uncensorable decentralized internet discussion system
God forbid you have to expend a bit of effort every six months to get free entertainment and skip ads.
It's a registry setting. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-serve...
> A lot of folks have this visceral, instinctive horror of fat people

Because humans spent some hundred thousand years on earth with no fat human in sight, and only around 3-400 with the ultra obese. It's unnatural.
> If someone steals your car, you've lost your car. If someone 'steals' your identity, you haven't lost it.

Valid. Imagine it's a car you never use, didn't care for and won't replace. The inconvenience of being proximate to a crime is what I'm getting at.

> it shouldn't be my responsibility to prove I didn't take a loan, but instead the bank's responsibility to prove that I did once I make the claim

I know only one person who went through full-blow identity theft. Most of the consequence was in halting creditor actions. They weren't proving they didn't take out the loan as much as disqualifying attempts to seize their stuff. What made it stressful was there being no way to know when you're out of the woods.
That he doesn't hold stock in Tesla or other Musk companies and doesn't want to be associated with Musk because of his opinions?
That’s classy.
I already have kids, love them, happy to have more. My kids, others kids make me happy. Is this generation going to have a better life than the previous ones? I think so. I don't understand too frequent self defeating doomism.
Napkin math suggests Bitcoin will perish unless its mining incentives change
I’m worried that the last few were accurate depictions of what’s happening inside NASA
How do search engines figure out the date of webpages that don't contain it in the metadata?
I am sorry, I should’ve read it twice before posting. I meant, QC to attack longer keys should be bigger proportionally. Number of operations is logarithmic. Silly me.
It's an extremist argument that has at times been used in fundamentalist Christian circles. It's not a widespread refrain, but there are people who don't want any kind of government tracking and use that argument to persuade some Christians.
I don't think the reasons are easily digested. That social media does manipulate people at scale so a foreign government shouldn't be doing that. Once you broach that people ask: Why is it acceptable to do to ourselves? Which moves people nervously close to asking: Why aren't domestic social media algorithms regulated?

I find that a lot of these games are against opponents (real or imagined) that see the chessboard. They see moves ahead and realize that asking question x inevitable leads to y leads to z and z means that I lose money so let's act as if x is ridiculous or not feasible or crazy.
where do you live? Israel or Kazakhstan?

4 kids per family as 'average' is almost unheard of in the industrialized world
The idea behind Homomorphic lib is to allow 2 basic operations (such as add, multiply) on encrypted numbers. They return encrypted numbers as well.
From those basic operations, we can build more complex functions.
That's the gist of the magic.
The first post-quantum cryptography standards are here
Well, In India one can get killed for eating beef or supplying beef. And there will be millions who would celebrate the murder.

Your worldview seems limited to tweets and social media in first world.
> If someone kills someone with my car, and I do nothing, I'm innocent until proven guilty

Yes. That doesn't mean you won't have any inconvenience.

> If a bank mistakenly initiates foreclosure proceedings against me, and I do nothing, what happens?

You're describing seizure. If I walk into your home and steal something and you do nothing, what happens?
It goes well beyond that. There are other means of communicating remotely and privately that are probably at least as old as human self-awareness. Technically speaking, we would need to consider many of the prehistoric cave paintings remote and private communications since no one knows what they mean besides the small group of humans that made them 20,000–40,000 years ago.
And what else does it break-break, even if you do kill the antenna, more that just the annoyance of a light? Integrated GPS, because it uses cellular to “enhance” that?

What other risks are there? Haven’t we seen CAN bus “hacked” over the air to shut down vehicles before? (Even ignoring the intentional ability to do so by the OEM, granted to law enforcement)
I also expect my entertainment providers to work for free.
To have children is a selfish choice, parents are just pushing the selfishness from fun/self consumption to reproductive consumption, like squeezing a balloon.

As you said:

> I'll get to my deathbed and regret not having a family of my own to enjoy time with.

Is that not selfish? Making humans to fill your time? Humans who are in no way guaranteed to want to spend time with you between adulthood and your death [1] [2]? I'm not going to argue against it in this thread, but let's call a spade a spade. I can respect "I am selfish and am making this choice, consequences be damned," but lets not dress up having kids as a noble cause when there are 8 billion people on the planet.

Not directed at you, but a phrase I use often with people considering kids is "Do you need kids? Or therapy?" Enumerate why you are making this decision, and provide evidence supporting this decision. The worst I hear, far too often, is "I'm having a kid so someone will love me forever." Big oof, let me tell you how that goes. I'm arguing for more thought and intention into the default choice, because the outcome is mostly permanent and a one way door. Is it worse to regret not having kids? Or regret having had them?

~40% of annual pregnancies, in both the US and internationally, are unintentional (per the Guttmacher Institute and the UN, respectively), so I think folks who really want to have kids aren't going to be material as long as those folks who don't want them have their reproductive freedoms affirmed.

[1] https://www.vogue.com/article/why-so-many-people-are-experie...

[2] https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/brothers-sisters-str...
Some shorts report he is broke now.
I want users to know I use PHP! :D
I think the J-1 doesn't preclude getting a different visa later, however the J-1 is easy to get if you have the right job and certainly gets you here.
I personally hated working for a remote-first company. I was paralyzed because my coworkers were never online and then they would only pop in to reply briefly to my questions or requests and then disappear again. It was extremely isolating as well never leaving my house, and I was glad to go to a company with actual offices. Separating work life from home life was something I didn't think I needed, but over the long term it really does affect you.
The GPL is not simply about fixing bugs. It's about preventing the existence of versions of the program in which you cannot easily find or fix bugs, and the underlying ideology that they should be no such programs. And not only bugs but deliberate undesirable or malicious behavior. The problem with closed source proprietary software is that you don't know what's hiding in the binaries.

If software were uncopyrightable, they would still be binaries without source code, which you would have to reverse engineer to find out what harm they perpetrate actively or possibly through their security flaws.

Moreover, if you wrote a piece of free source code, anyone could do anything with it they wish, including removing your name, and not attributing you in any way in the documentation accompanying the compiled code.

Stallman was a control freak who insisted that people modifying his code give back the contributions to the project. In the world without copyrighted programs he would have had no leg to stand on, and he knew that. A world in which programs are not copyrighted would need laws which ban the distribution of binaries without buildable source code, and all the tools needed to build it and their source code.

A program is not distributed to you if someone else installed it on a machine you don't own and you're just borrowing that machine. It doesn't matter if you're physically at the console, we're at a remote dumb terminal or smart client. The program was distributed to your school, company or friend or whoever.

I don't think that even the people who drafted the AGPL believe the nonsense doctrine that the visitors to a server have been distributed the software. That's just something invented by the downstream AGPL apologists. (And of course vendors of proprietary software like the doctrine also. If you buy a program and let 10 people use it via remote access to your machine, they would like the legal system to believe that those people were distributed the program and that you should buy ten more licenses).
The doctrine is not required for the AGPL to work. The software distributed to the individual or organization installing it and running it for visitors. The license is concerned with the behavior of that individual or organization, and uses the power of copyright to make their permission to have a copy of the program conditional on their usage behavior. The visitors to the running application are not parties to the license.

The GNU AGPL contains these definitions:

> To "propagate" a work means to do anything with it that, without permission, would make you directly or secondarily liable for infringement under applicable copyright law, except executing it on a computer or modifying a private copy. Propagation includes copying, distribution (with or without modification), making available to the public, and in some countries other activities as well.

> To "convey" a work means any kind of propagation that enables other parties to make or receive copies. Mere interaction with a user through a computer network, with no transfer of a copy, is not conveying.
I don't think that's what they meant at all. Just that on a personal level raising children means you'll have less time/money/energy/resources for your own pursuits.
> It's more likely that the person re-implementing the SSO flow is making a mistake

The thread has other people confirming the same behaviour - and the description of the issue (preventing a double-submit of a non-idempotent action) is something most web-focused developers learn in their first year.

I don't understand why people assume that the people working at Google/etc are inherently incapable of producing bugs. Go literally invented a new programming language to make their staff less likely to fuck up because they don't have much real world experience: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwajp0g-bY4
And I judge people who use ASP, lmao.
Enjoy while it last. Some Idiot always has to make a blog post to collect some ad revenue or some attention. People don't understand that you can only use a loophole, if few people know about it.

Bullet train tickets in Germany are expensive. You were able to buy them online in the Czech Republic for a fraction of the price. Like Prague->Brussels 20 Euro. You don't have to use the whole ticket, you boarded in Frankfurt and went to Brussels for 20 Euro.

Gone....
Thank you! Do you have any specific "less obvious" keywords that you don't think someone outside the space would be aware of?
> The future doesn’t look like an API, it looks like better and better files.

Would be curious what the author thinks of initiatives like Open Banking, which don't seem to be a big topic in the US, but are in the EU and Canada at the moment.

My expectation is that banks should be abstracting away the 'under the hood' part, and so the future would look like an API.
It's funny, since the "monopoly" decision, not sure exactly when, they seem to have pulled their finger off the scale of political candidate search results.
The point is that if the bank gives someone a loan in my name, I'll have to prove it wasn't me, it's not the bank who has to prove it was me.
(I work for Neon.)
The author does not work for Neon. He did some one-time consulting work for us earlier this year. We didn't review or have input on this article. I'm sure he'll be happy to update it with the Supabase corrections he is a great guy who is trying to be genuinely helpful.
I have realized that in my benchmarks [1]. Llama 3 was significantly better than Llama 3.1, which was puzzling.

Then I realized, that I changed the provider. And the new one quantized Llama 3.1 with fp8.

Then I tried Hyperbolic [2], because they offer the model in different quantizations. As result, Llama 3.1 was better than Llama 3 or at least on par.

[1] https://github.com/s-macke/AdventureAI

[2] https://app.hyperbolic.xyz/models
pretty sure YouTube ads are directly trackable though -- if someone clicks it and funnels through to a checkout process and pays, they have a direct report of how much they spent on the ad versus how much they made directly from that ad.

YouTube in-video sponsorships are a different beast admittedly; however there is still some basic tracking through use of promo codes (Use code JOHN15 for 15% off). They can see a report of how much they spent on ads that mention JOHN15 and how many sales included that promo code -- if sales vs ad spend are significantly positive, it becomes simple math to determine how much more to spend on ads, or to discontinue them.

I suppose your point though was that it's not possible to track the negative sentiment generated by the ads (people who get annoyed and decide to avoid your company at all costs). That is true, but companies who rather go down the path of something trackable than an unknown shot in the dark.
Differences between files and REST apis:

- files get persisted to disk by default. Usually we don't save every rest result to disk (though obviously, you could)

- files tend not to be processed at request time, but rather the directory acts as a queue. Usually with rest, we try to process things at request time until stuff gets too slow. Files always decouple

- multiple transports are the norm: SFTP, SMTP, etc. doesn't matter since it's not going to be processed at request time, but async. Think of "dropping it into a directory" as stripping off the transport layer the same way your web framework and reverse proxy abstract away http 2/3 for you.

- formats: much more variety than json everything. Back in the day, people liked to write custom parsers for everything. Nowadays, we like to let json be the bytes to in-memory data structure, and programmers recurse over that structure rather than spending their time ensuring their parser isn't ambiguous
I said "passkeys free us from complete dependence on mobile devices". Complete dependence means not having other options. Passkeys give us other options - all of us, not just those of us who decide to use those options at any moment time.

If most people use their phone for login that's fine. Many people don't even have another device.

What we should push for is passkey export, migration and backup features. The most likely lever that big tech could use for lock-in is making it near impossible to move those passkeys out of their closed ecosystems.
Birth rates are also low in European countries with strong worker protections.
Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels
Of course, but there are plenty of people who are willing to risk committing crimes if it benefits them financially.
Delaying gratification or in simple terms, delaying fun is easier said than done.

What it takes to retire early or at least be in a situation where a job loss, or other difficult life situations wouldn't effect you all that much is known for ages. Acting on it is just a totally different thing altogether.

And this is not just restricted to money. Nearly everything is like this. You could have a habit to read everyday, do push ups and eat healthy. You just have to do a little of this everyday. But most people struggle to keep up.

Success is doing boring things. Unfortunately since being boring is unattractive, some people actively avoid succeeding.
Europe and the US are also friendly. We know that we aren't set on destroying each other.
Yeah what I'd say is: Seek out and be open to advice. There's a "don't know what you don't know" problem here, as always. But this is also part of the point of reading sites like HN! People here are saying "actually there are tools that are net positive to learn a bit because they are much better choices for particular niches". That is advice! It's fine and all to say "nah, I'm good", but in many cases that's doing yourself a disservice. I really do see people writing tedious for loops in go because it is what they're comfortable with, when they would be much better served writing sql and using a language with dataframes.

Most of the time people aren't just on a kick about selling some hot new thing (and I'm old enough that go was the hot new thing for me at one point!), they actually have relevant experience and are giving useful advice.
Woah woah woah; we use the hackernews rules here; you'll need to apply the prologue variation before you can land there.
It doesn’t work that way. If it did, the current Supreme Court could be prosecuted for impending a woman’s constitutional right to an abortion, which was decided by a previous Supreme Court.
Not sure it counts but mine is wicky(AT)nillia(DOT)ms. Which aligns with my username practically everywhere, and is a spoonerism of my actual name.

The downside is that it's a massive pain to explain to people verbally!
I can't be the only one that actively avoid any YT videos, articles, apps etc when I see AI generated art.
That may stop someone from opening a CC in your name, but not someone impersonating you to get a driver's license or sign up for government benefits or rent an apartment (not all of them run a credit check).
That it didn't exist is not really that relvant. I.e. the US classified secrecy as a munition so under the US' framing it is a 2nd amendment right necessary to balance power between people and government.. Take it away from all and it is no longer essential.
Why did antisemitic attitudes almost double in the US in 2021-2022 according to surveys of beliefs? Did parenting get worse?

I think your understanding of how people form beliefs is not accurate.

Both good and bad ideas are contagious. Humans are vulnerable to social proof. Most humans aren't that smart. Most humans aren't impervious to the madness of crowds. They will adopt the religion of their parents. They will adopt the bigotry of their peers, typically no more and no less. A person from 100 years ago is more racist than a person today because they were surrounded by different norms. People aren't rational actors, they absorb what they're given.
Channel 1: Science and Technology

Channel 2: Travel and Events

Channel 3: Food

Channel 4: Architecture

Channel 5: Film and Animation

Channel 6: Documentaries

Channel 7: Comedy

Channel 8: Music

Channel 9: Autos and Vehicles

Channel 10: News and Politics

Channel 11: UFC

Channel 12: Podcasts/Interviews/Talk Shows