skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It used to be that companies paid pensions. They had to pay for the full life-cycle cost of the humans that they used for labor. Companies hated that of course both for practical reasons, but mostly because they'd rather that pension money went to shareholding executives.

The 401k was originally a special interest clause inserted in a bill designed for kodak employees (kodak was a crazy profitable company at the time, and with that came the power to lobby changes to bills). But others picked up on in and also used it as a tax haven, then over time its existence effectively eliminated private pensions. In the 80s there were a number of big pension blowouts (some real, some manufactured) so that companies could offload these commitments to the government, to externalize these costs. The 401k was then sold as the way retirement saving should be done.

Investments don't actually pay for retirement costs, only selling investments can do that. Younger people have to buy the stocks of the older people who need to sell them to pay living costs. So that of course leads to growth and demographics problems to keep the system working.
The complaint is "if we have to put up with your crap at there should at least be a reason beyond 'just because.'"

The argument you get from Google is that downloading APKs is dangerous so everyone should use the store. When they don't police the store anyway then it's obvious they're just abusing everyone.
As a casual gun owner, my main requirement for entertaining any sort of gun prohibition is simple - disarm the police first. The police operate within domestic society, where the power of the government is supposed to flow from the rights of the citizenry. Police are also involved in the sheer majority of violent confrontations across society, and thus preemptive de-escalation would be quite significant at changing the overall societal dynamic. And disarming the police wouldn't even involve any kind of constitutional amendment, since we're essentially talking about employment regulations. It would also address the worry that police will find some way to except themselves from any new regulations prohibiting firearms, as they have traditionally done with existing regulations on guns and many other judicially-banned armaments. So if you're advocating for gun prohibition, put your best foot forward and get to work on the police.
But why do companies get to file suit in any random place?

IIRC, it's because many companies have "offices" in the district. So, you'll see things like an empty broom closet registered as the headquarters of hundreds of companies.
But is Qualcomm going to let them have access to the Globalstar constellation or band n53 licensing without a Qualcomm modem?
I was at Stripe until 2022 and inconsistency with the language server was never an issue
It will compile, and eventually blow up nicely with a stack overflow OS fault.

Ah, the joys of writing "portable" C code with #ifdef spaghetti, across commercial UNIXes and their own C compilers, 20 years ago.

It only got better because for many people just like they assume Web == Chrome, C gets C == GCC, blessifully ignoring everything else.

Nowadays clang is also considered, mostly because a couple of companies wanted to replace GCC, and naturally clang needs to be able to match whatever GCC offers.
I am not that worried about it. One article and one power plant that is miles away (and already factored in to our decision) is not going to change my mind. It’s Florida—I am more likely to get melanoma from the sun, attacked by wildlife/sealife, leprosy from an armadillo, or killed in a car accident than anything that plant is going to do to me.

C’est la vie.
I question even using it past 2 months. That's around when babies begin to learn to roll over. Swaddling past 2 months has resulted in deaths. I know that you Velcro the baby down with the Snoo, but I wouldn't feel comfortable putting off that milestone for long. As babies learn to roll, they strengthen their neck muscles. This allows them to safely sleep on their stomachs eventually.
> If most employers require it, and your school requires it, and airlines require it to fly, then it's effectively mandatory.

Back to the above, working for someone is voluntary. And you certainly don't have to fly anywhere; that's a choice you make. Leaves only school, and that's often more or less voluntary too.
Didn't work out for Organic Maps. Merely allowing to access map data makes you un-family-friendly. Or at least that's what we can assume, since Google won't indulge in specifics. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41272925
What actions do you have in mind? Where are those actions happening or not? How do you think the decay of democracy is tied to judicial secrecy/immunity?
> Won't be surprised to see that many would probably need a safari map or README documentation in every single folder

Is...documentation a bad thing?
My point, which hasn’t really been addressed, is that “more” isn’t a meaningful term when comparing card networks and software app stores, because the markets are structurally different.
By 2001 it was this, but it was very late for Irix:

https://www.openoffice.org/porting/irix/
> It's also interesting that 25m of pre-crimped cable costs almost the same as 125m, because the crimping seems to be the expensive part, not the cable material.

When I was doing fiber quoting you would see this with some of the bundles, e.x. 72 vs 144. Cost wasn't doubled per foot like you'd think, it was a little less.
This seems a bit self referential, if viewed from a many worlds interpretation.

The infinity of universes in which you can exist is reduced to a lesser infinity by the reverse time travel, since you could only have travelled backwards from universal states in which those specific conditions still existed, ergo reality appears to the traveller to be self healing.

That’s one of the things about MWI that is irritating, even though it still seems the most likely to me. It covers the testing parameters so completely that it is impossible to test. You always end up in a lesser infinity, but an infinity nonetheless. What we need is a way to quantify randomness in such a way that we might detect a change in the dimensions of infinities or something, but that seems improbable at best.
Rspamd: Open-source spam filtering system
It's telling that there is no other VLC developer commenting in that thread - neither to support the decision and calm things down nor to go agains Remi's decree.
I understand the potential nefarious motives for spamming the site with LLM comments. It's just that there isn't really any evidence in this case that the comment is generated by an LLM. I wouldn't be surprised if it was, but I also wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't.
If it's not patched yet: I heard you can just power cycle a tag on a timer to evade detection. Add a large battery with a simple timer circuit, remove the beeper and you got yourself an amazing tracking device.

IIRC this came up in the context of tracking shipments with expensive equipment, where it can be in transit for many months. The tags are so power efficient that they work for ages on a large battery, existing GPS solutions just didn't cut it.
Every host running a particular commit is running the code you think it is. No submodules or internal packages. If you updated the Button component in the design system, when your commit is deployed, every service that gets deployed has the new button now.
And Genie language in 2024?

The Genie language was created to expose a Python-like syntax to the Vala compiler.
When the CSS is only to be used when JavaScript runs, I'm okay with using JavaScript to make it active. Again, the media query only does its thing when the browser says JavaScript isn't supported, if the page's JavaScript doesn't run because the .js file was blocked or there was a network issue, you get the "JavaScript styles" without the JavaScript.

Yes, there's probably been enough device performance to handle things like :has() and CSS nesting for a while. Another factor may have been IE; as long as there was a browser that wouldn't add features but still had to be supported, interest in expanding CSS spec in ways that couldn't easily rely on CSS parsers ignoring code they don't understand may have been limited.
The man who learned basically everything about the technology industry that they didn't want us to know yet in bars outside of tech conventions, and then shared it with us in the very best traditions of tabloid media (which has mostly awful traditions). Spawned his own successor to the Register at The Inquirer and trained writers for an entire genre of spinoff platforms like Fuad Abazovic (Fudzilla) and Charlie Demerjian (SemiAccurate).

Dr Thomas Stewart Von Drashek will be organizing the funeral.
Harnessing Data Is Paramount to Reshoring the Chip Industry
> so we want a way to tell them to not worry about the ABI and avoid wasting time on preserving registers across the call

that's what -fvisibility=internal already does, no?
Ditto with the N64. I think there's a WIP backport of Super Mario 64 for Irix 6 by reusing the decomp and the PC source port. The PC one can run under GL 1.3 and GLIDE, nothing fancy.
I maintain dasel on Debian [1], and It's such a nice tool! I don't use most of its advanced capabilities, but being able to convert from/to any of those formats with a single tool is very useful.

[1]: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/dasel
HN strips out emoji and other non-language characters, may be related to that
otoh you can just buy complete gps based ntp servers from china for <$100, so there is that too.
> Being the best out of the opening will typically put you a “quarter pawn” ahead, maybe putting you ahead as white or equalizing as black. Then if you’re a novice you will immediately hang a knight and end up 2.75 pawns behind. Then your opponent will hang a bishop and you’ll be a quarter pawn ahead again.

While this is true if you know openings, many openings have a trap or two that make up a very tricky line that puts you 3-5 points ahead. Knowing the traps and how to punish them is a huge material advantage in some games. So while knowing your opening well is "worth" only a quarter pawn in a typical game, it is worth a several-percent increase in win rate from knowing these lines.

Openings like the Jobava London system have 10-20 different trap lines like this, and if you want to play them, you must know the lines.

It is very common for players with your mindset to plateau around 1400-1600, at which point it's time to sit down and start memorizing openings and endgames. Just being good at searching the game tree gets you to that point, but now you need to know the times when the game tree collapses 30 moves later.
No TCL/Tk?
I think you'll find that they have more thrusters on the spacecraft that they actually need - they can control attitude even if they lose one or more thrusters. So the possibility of the failure of them is already in the design.
That's because Windows forces you to use special userspace libraries that account for memory and let you create "reservations" for large regions, without actually populating entries in the MMU (i.e. PML4t). Linux doesn't have that. You create reservations for large memory regions by allocating virtual memory, which of course doesn't become real (resident) until you use it. That's overcommit. But since there's no userspace libraries like WIN32 forced upon you on Linux, there's really no way for the kernel to know your intent when it comes to memory, because the abstractions for memory on Linux are so simple. Windows has a ridiculous byzantine system, which some people think is better. But people are really missing the point when they try to make an apples-to-apples comparison between the two systems of memory management. It's not a question of (a) overcommit good, vs. (b) overcommit bad. Anyone who thinks either is a fool. Linux is simply a system that requires a smart system administrator who understands your use cases and can tune sysctl accordingly when you want to push beyond the normal boundaries.
> E.g. a U shape in the scatterplot may have a zero correlation coefficient but is not conditionally independent.

Ok this is correct, but has nothing to do with causality. Whether or not two variables are correlated and whether or not they are independent, and when one does or doesn't imply the other, is a conversation that can be had without resorting to the concept of causality at all. And in fact that's how the subject is taught at an introductory level basically 100% of the times.
>who write ("generate" cheapens it)

Eh? I'm saying that the comment could generate (i.e. provoke) interesting responses. I'm not saying that the responses themselves will be "generated" by their authors as opposed to being written.

>Maybe the comment isn't generated by an LLM

Indeed. I think we should definitely bear this possibility in mind!
> "generalize to its dataset" is a contradiction

Not "to" but over, example the same code written in one language over the other language.

> if you think being able to generalize in ways similar to the whole of the internet does not give your meaningful abilities to reason, I'm not sure what I can tell you

If after reading papers below that show empirically that they can't reason, you will still think they can reason, then I don't know what I can tell you.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.00871

https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.13638

https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.09247

https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.18654

https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.01809
Today you have a modern Dillo fork (the one from Github) from the ex-Nekochan guys.
I've been getting randomly flung by the terrain in Roblox since 2008.
Exactly right. I’m not against competitor analysis here. But let’s at least compare against a basket of structurally similar offerings instead of cherry picking companies whose rake happens to be an order of magnitude lower in percentage terms.
The problem is once I'm deep into a certain job all recruiters assume that I should continue working on this type of job. It's extremely difficult to switch career.
Man invades home of Code for America founder – cops take two days to show up
We use similar practices in our 3.5 person team; we work via code-server and Aider with our own tooling on VPSs and this gets synced to execution VPSs which run dev versions, a lot of sentry logging and tests (mostly playwright these days). There is also a vps which does builds all day and logs to Sentry too. We can almost instantly get on our own test versions and see what we did, and, over the space of some seconds to minutes we see test and build data coming in. It works incredibly well for many years already. Onboarding people is easy and no one ever has 'it doesn't build on my system' as that's not something we do (you can of course, all scripts are there but why waste the time?).

I grew up with mainframes, minis and unix batch andor multiuser machines; for me this is the best way for business applications. I didn't particularly like the move to local all that much.
We need another team to determine when the Mythical Man Month applies or not

/s
Dunno about the current prices, but it was a REALLY expensive paperweight for a long time. People paid hundreds of dollars for one.
Is it this one? https://github.com/sungminlee114/PEAQ_matlab
Anonymous Private Chatroom
How does that work if you want to export a symbol for dlopen?
No, none of the Millennium Problems or other math problems (unsolved by humans for decades or centuries) have been solved solely by LLMs, even though they possess all the knowledge in the world.
I agree, Markov chain is fun when you don't know what it is because you try to make sense of it but once you realize it's just gibberish it's pointless. The other has that "unserious surprise" talked about in the original article.
You can, there's been ESP32 firmware out for years that does this: https://github.com/seemoo-lab/openhaystack/tree/main/Firmwar...
Thanks. I wonder what the experience is like working on a very large codebase with or without a framework. E.g. Stripe vs Shopify.

Or if the framework is barely noticeable at that scale and doesn't really matter anymore. That's the impression I get for Instagram (which was built with Django).
Based solely on age this is probably their last hurrah in space
And confidence would solve the Starliner problem? Oh come on. NASA can't tell the truth because, you know, just look at the state of social media and the news today. I wouldn't want to tell anybody on HN the truth, much less your average CNN or Fox reader/viewer. You want them to tell the truth? Stop going on idiotic witch hunts first.

The NTSB doesn't comment on ongoing investigations either. That's a good thing. Complete transparency only makes sense once everything has been resolved and investigated. Otherwise you have idiots on the internet chasing the flimsiest of threads and making a big stink about insignificant details.
Maybe there’s a (limited) business opportunity here, for a dumb TV.
whats wild is this problem never happened to the Soviet Union, and it doesnt happen to China, but its happened twice to the US now.

Why is the US giving Boeing a free pass for this? it frankly makes the US look pathetic. News stations quit covering it once the cat was out of the bag that this isnt a "routine evaluation" and the crew is actually just stranded.

23 Taikonauts in China made it to and from the Tiangong space station in the Shenzhou xx series of rockets with no issues or delays. Maybe we should ask the China Manned Space Agency for a hand?
> TV and movies aren't VFR after all

There are TV shows that have telecined film segments and also interlaced VFX sections. While this wasn't broadcast as VFR the best way (as in highest quality result) to convert to a fully progressive frame sequence for display on modern displays would end up recombining the two fields for telecined segments (keeping the framerate) while doubling the framerate during deinterlacing for the VFX segments.

But VFR is also irrelevant to the problem at hand since it doesn't make it harder to find the next keyframe before the current frame - you need an index for that anyway.
The difficult in finding any pricing data (I spent several minutes trying to find out what the print price for the Sunday NYT is for an earlier response, let alone subscription rates) is ... dispiriting.

That's before getting to the ease or lack thereof of subscribing / cancelling.

There are well over 100 news sources which are routinely submitted to HN. Subscribing to each of those individually would cost a small fortune.
A surplus of agility is the last of Boeing's problems.
Yes and no, as long as you can connect P2P not with the mediation of some third party...

I do that for my home, simply via a homeserver (a cheap entry level celeron desktop) and wireguard to my mobile. I need a landline ISP and a mobile carrier with mobile data or something equivalent of course, but they are generic services, not product-bound ones, at least, so far...
Some judiciaries are just better at remaining undetected...
What’s doa?
The pancake SQL pattern: combine your SQLs into one for 50x better performance
First release of Basel was in 2015 when Stripe was already 5 years old and the progenitor of this tooling was already running with several dozen users.
Not sure what your point is here. Even the feds aren't enforcing marijuana laws.
I'm sure it makes sense to people smarter than me but I just don't get building a software business with <5% margins. What's the point? Clearly you failed somewhere along the lines at the whole thing you set out for, which is a clear profit engine... So how do you end up with numbers that look like you are doing easily copyable manufacturing with a tight bottom line? I think too much focus on product growth and organizational growth, and not enough on efficiency, scale, and profit.

The best times I've had at startups were when we were lean, and profiting >50%. The business was easier, we had more flexibility for decisions, morale was great... But then they all seem to grow into 0-10% profit corporate behemoths where each employee can't even tell if the job they do is worth their paycheck, it just becomes awkward, slow, uninspiring work.

And then you find yourself robbing more single parents checking accounts than anyone on earth, but not even profiting. How depressing.
You're right, thankyou, I seem to be mistaken. I guess I've been watching too many scam videos on YouTube and went into the article with the preconception that this was a typical pig butchering scam.

I'm still having a hard time believing someone would dump $5m into a dodgy app but that does appear to be what we know so far.
I agree with you but the Raspberry Pi's USP is the GPIO interfacing capability and the community surrounding it. You don't get these things with a second hand computer.
I think a lot of your complaint is a result of too many laws. Why don't we establish principles instead of trying to nail down every edge case. It's the edge cases that enrich the legal profession and leave the law open to abuse.

All these new laws "for the internet." When we could just follow the intent of existing laws. Though, for some reason we rarely codify intent and instead lean toward making laws to punish a certain individual or company (tiktok).

It's illogical and undermines the law. I guess that is the intent.
Classifying all of the pdfs on the internet
I'd argue you both could be right. Your comment could lead to a definition of intelligence. Organisms capable of causally influencing deterministic systems to their advantage can be marked as intelligent. The complexity of which would determine the degree of intelligence.

Your point is great in that it pinpoints also the notions of agency scopes. In all the causal DAGs it feels like there are implicit regions: ones where we can influence or not, intervene or not, observe or not, where one is responsible for or not.

An intelligent agent is one capable of modelling a system, influence it, and bias it. Such that it can reach and exploit an existing corner case of it. I talk about a corner case because of entropy and murphy's law. For a given energy, there are way many more unadvantageous states than advantageous one. And the intelligence of a system is the complexity required to wield the entropy reduction of an energy source.
Forth! I was programming in those days myself (though only a little bit on CP/M), and was getting surprised that many people here seemed to think the only alternatives were C or assembly. I learned to program in Basic, then learned some assembly, and finally discovered Forth circa 1984. It was perfectly suited to developing on 8-bit machines -- about as powerful as C, trivial to compile, easy to drop into assembly if you needed to optimize a low-level function.

If I remember correctly, I didn't learn C until 1989, when I was working on 16-bit machines...
The true cost of anything is the opportunity cost.

If the cost of you being promoted is higher than the cost of you staying where you are, you will stay where you are.

> Why can't I just do my work go home and enjoy my free time.

You can.