skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Even in Google's currently evil debased declined state, it's still infinitely more competent and better than your corrupt compromised legacy government institutions.

Corporations are only efficient when they have corporate responsibilities. Corporations do only efficiency and can select customers. Government must guarantee equality and rights for everyone. Even criminals are citizens with rights.

Let me demonstrate. This is how Google would do it:

(1) Algorithm captures 90% of all criminals (it's a good algorithm)

(2) 5% (1/20) change that flagged account is a criminal (95% false positives)

(3) 0.01% (1/10000) of all accounts are flagged.

There are around 246 million unique Google users in the US. Closing just 24,600 accounts removes 90%
of criminals. 90% change of capture is a good deterrent.

Google also removes 23,370 innocent accounts.

GOOGLE DOES THIS ALREADY. It's efficient and well-run (actual numbers may vary) but also brutal and unjust. Legacy government institutions do their job better than Google would.
I'm not understanding this one. The attacker has to have Ring 0 access to perform this particular attack. Doesn't that mean that attacker already has access to everything on the machine? There must be some subtlety I'm not understanding.
Sounds like https://xon.sh/
GPT is too... robotic? Claude is much better at everything without overexplaining everything.
Or cities that have seen a uptick in crime but refuse to either fund security measures or empower the existing workers to do anything about it on mass transit.

Seattle used to have a great transit setup between the busses and the light rail. But post Covid, the security and enforcement was scaled back dramatically, making it a real crap shoot on how safe a ride could be. This is slowly being recognized and changing [1], but I don't need the stress of being stabbed or shot each morning on the way to work.

[1] https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/sound-transit-beefing-up-se...
I use them out of the box to track expensive equipment in cases and the batteries are good for 6-12 months or so, sometimes longer.
I assume all of these are some special combination of keys/modifiers? While I agree it’s less than ideal, at least you always know it’s going to happen if you are sort of familiar with Vim.
From the article:

> NB: Correlated does not mean linearly correlated

> For simplicity, I have used linear correlations in all the example R code. In real life, however, the pattern of correlation/association/mutual information we should expect depends entirely on the functional form of the causal relationships involved.
If a framework claims to solve a human resources problem, than then turns to be ridiculously susceptible to human resources misusing it, then that framework is not of much use is it.
Boeing (especially Boeing ITDA) did indeed have a run-in with Agile SAFE. It went predictably.
AMD's Zen 5 is a missed opportunity in messaging
Not sure.

I think a lot of this is just type of thing comes because with a monorepo you can actually see the problems to solve whereas you can easily end up with the same N engineers firefighting the same problems K times across all your polyrepos.
At this point, now that the SpaceX alternative has been officially acknowledged, I really don't see how anyone at NASA would be comfortable risking the return on Starliner. If they do and it fails and the astronauts die, everyone will be (rightly) outraged that a viable rescue plan was available and not used. It could become an existential crisis for NASA.

My belief is that the fact that they're publicly "considering" the SpaceX plan means that they've probably already decided to do that and what we're seeing in the media right now is NASA just letting everyone get used to the idea before they formally commit to it.
GM lays off more than 1k salaried software and services employees
Well, if you use recursive code, you better know what you're doing. With or without tail call optimization.
> How do I move my eSIM to my new phone?

You open your web-browser on anything with service (your laptop / desktop / toaster / Nintendo Wii U / whatever), go to "insert-my-carrier-here.com", login, and click "move eSIM". You type in the IMEI/eSIM ICCID number on the back of your new phone (or in the 'settings' menu on the new phone), and wait a few minutes. Your plan moves over as-is, same with your telephone number, etc.

Yes, it's steps, and it takes time, and in a remote situation, those are real barriers with real trickiness. But it's no more tricky than saying, "I smashed my laptop, how do I check my gmail now?".

> My old phone is dead and my new phone doesn’t have a SIM. I have to go out of my way to find a Wifi network (for billions of people their phone is their only internet connection)

Ok, sure. Yes, eSIM requires you have a new device to connect with. But other than that, it's not terribly tricky. (You can do it via your carriers mobile app, or you can transfer via any web browser, you don't have to get to a store or get a new sim card, its usually free to transfer an eSIM, etc).

> Because of this I will end up paying to repair a phone that I have already replaced, just to extract the eSIM!

That's not really how eSIMs work. No one regular person would ever need to do that. (If you are already in a phone repair place, you already have everything you need to transfer your service to a new eSIM in ~5 minutes anyway).

> eSIM seems like it was designed by someone from the US who has no idea how the rest of the world uses phones, particularly the developing world.

Well, I suppose that's fair (in that, half of the carriers in the US already did service provisioning without SIM cards at all on legacy non-GSM networks for a decade, so for them eSIM is entirely upgrade with no downside).

But as someone who actually uses eSIMs, the only real annoyance I've seen on eSIMs, is that US Cellular Carriers often lock it down to postpaid only or prepaid carriers don't know how to support it properly, so changing eSIMs on prepaid/mvnos is still a huge pain. (For example, US Mobile's eSIM support didn't reliably work for me on Verizon, but Visible's eSIM support did work on Verizon, despite literally being the same eSIM, same device, same network). Or they put artificial delays on provisioning, so it takes an hour for the network to "update" the "profile" or whatnot. So, while the technology works fine, carriers artificially make it kind of a pain.

But that's not SIM vs eSIM's fault at all, carriers also made switching physical SIMs a huge pain for many years (AT&T used to device-lock SIM cards, for example, defeating the entire point of the card).

> Then what do I tell customer support?

Nothing? It's like saying, "if I want to check my gmail, what do I tell customer support when I telephone call in?". The question is kind of nonsensical. You wouldn't call customer support, the whole point of an eSIM is you no longer have to talk to customer support to transfer the SIM.
Multirepo also comes with cost overhead. I think people talk about it somewhat less. I’ve worked at multirepo and monorepo places, both, before. My current company has a multirepo setup and it sure seems like it comes with plenty of tooling to fetch dependencies. That tooling has to be supported by FTEs.
I just look at Charlie posts and (re)discovered this "AMD's Zen 5 is a missed opportunity in messaging" [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41290792
HN does exactly what OP wants tho? view as guest view/comment/vote as registered user
My org is moving to the cloud as well and has yet to experience the lock-in and price gouging drawbacks.

The pendulum is gonna swing back; it'll take a while.
No I mean the ones on my feed.
I honestly wouldn’t know what to look for either way. Do you have any examples?

I’m not all that enthused about watching a bunch of school board meetings that are probably 97% boring in the hope that I’ll find the exciting 3%.
Why should you look this paper up? It argues that certain approaches from statistics and computer science are limited, and (essentially) that economists have a better approach. YMMV, but the criticisms are specific (whether or not you buy the "fix").

From the paper:

> Each of the recent approaches holds value for limited classes of problems. [...] The danger lies in the sole reliance on these tools, which eliminates serious consideration of important policy and interpretation questions. We highlight the flexibility and adaptability of the econometric approach to causality, contrasting it with the limitations of other causal frameworks.
State-support for media can take a wide range of forms, several of which are fairly resistant to control, coercion, and/or curruption:

- Distribution supports, as with discounts on US postal rates for printed matter, a policy dating to Benjamin Franklin.

- Tax breaks for publsihers.

- Legal notices and other advertising. Legal notices are simply an obligation put on third parties to take out box ads within newspapers. Other advertising might be for government services by some governmental unit. As with other forms of direct payment, there are both multiple levels of government (local, regional, state, federal), and numerous independent units. A larger city/metro paper might well represent numerous towns and cities, as well as multiple counties, and even possibly multiple states if near a state-line. Each of these could contribute independently to the news organisation, and cutting off or controlling all such spend would be difficult to coordinate.

- Direct tax-based subsidies for news. As with ad spend, again a news organisation would have numerous sources of support, with a strong degree of independence amongst those.

Many people seem to jump straight to "one level of government providing 100% support to one global news organisation". That's not at all what I'm envisioning; there would and should be a multiplicity of both funding sources and funded organisations.
This may be enough to get the ball rolling:

https://blogs.oracle.com/developers/post/how-to-set-up-and-r...
So... Paying people to write software inhibits them writing software?
You clearly didn't read any of these papers. Quote from one of them

"Our results support the hypothesis that GPT-4, perhaps the most capable “general” LLM currenly available, is still not able to robustly form abstractions and reason about basic core concepts in contexts not previously seen in its training data"

Another, recent, good one https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.03321

EDIT: For people who don't want to read the papers, here is a blog post that explains what I'm arguing in more accessible terms https://cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/can-llms-really-reason-and-pla...
Why Behavior Change is so Difficult
Maybe a silly question, but why all this engineering effort when you could host the dev environment locally?

By running a Linux VM on your local machine you get a consistent environment that you can ssh to, remove the latency issues but you remove all the complexity of syncing that they’ve created.

That’s a setup that’s worked well for me for 15 years but maybe I’m missing some other benefit?
I'm not keeping up closely with WASM development, but doesn't it say this was the case at the time the proposal was written? It seems it goes quite extensively into the subject which is a good look for WASM (which I'm otherwise on the fence about when it comes to using it outside of browser scenarios).
Who Patented Patent Leather?
Understand value to price your time or services
What I like about https://github.com/tembo-io/pgmq is that it can be used with any programming language and does not require any background workers or running a binary in addition to postgres.
Fragile GPS is a vulnerability for the West – and Putin knows it
But a new optical quantum clock may be the solution.
its a filter to reduce the number of applications, meaning their confident a sufficient number will apply
You might be surprised that chaining employees to their desks doesn’t make them more productive.

It’s easy to figure out that a lot of companies collect the same checks from their customers regardless of how much their employees burn themselves out. Google doesn’t magically get to charge more money for cloud storage because they decide to work their engineers harder. Labor is only a small component of the cost of that product.

https://hbr.org/2023/07/how-taking-a-vacation-improves-your-...

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-four-day-workwe...
Talent is scarce. Yet many countries spurn it
> Has this been discussed anywhere

Yes.

And it has universally been regarded as Russian propaganda. Ukraine would have nothing to benefit from such a stupid act (effectively playing nuclear chicken) which would be condemned by her allies.

See here: https://understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-...

EDIT: I see fast downvoting by the Russian shills that are busy infiltrating HN!
BionTech: Lift of Partial Clinical Hold for BNT326/YL202
I came to ask the same thing. We use docker-compose to describe all our services which works fine.
This project is for Flipper Zero, not a phone.
Investigative journalism is something rather more than happening to be in the right place with a camera and mic.

Hard-hitting investigative journalism takes a long time, much research, analysis, interviews, FOIA requests, document leaks, etc., etc. It also all but inevitably requires some reasonably well-funded legal defence capacity as well. Publishers are known for their prodigious ink and paper budgets, but also legal retainers.
I had an elementary teacher in the early ‘90s who did the same. I don’t remember any of us thinking it odd at the time.
I mean, from like 30 years ago until now, anyone that ‘got into real estate’ at any point during that period would have been wildly successful.

Though I guess that kind of undermines my initial idea that you needed to have a brain for it.
Twilio class action claims company collects in-app communications
That because with Vim (and Emacs) the main tool for navigation is search. Even vim’s text objects are just search related to the cursor. That’s why you want quick file search, quick find in files, and powerful search and replace utilities. The issue with the mouse is that it adds friction between searching and editing. That’s where vim bindings and emacs chords come into play.
It has bearing because it highlights how your analysis, based on "will move 2 people per second" is incomplete, as that same analysis would conclude that moving sidewalks are much better.

You do realize I'm referring to an electric walkway in a dedicated tunnel, right? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_walkway lists quite a few of those, including in the several-hundred meter range, for place where "a BRT system, a bike or electric scooter lane etc." are not superior solutions.

> Developing a completely new and custom vehicle for passenger transport

Very unlikely. As the article points out, the current system already supports golf cart systems, likely as an ADA requirement.

Why do they need a new and custom vehicle? The expense of special-purpose designs is one of the reasons monorails aren't popular.

What does a Tesla demonstrate - in terms of mass transit goals, not "cool, it's a Tesla" - over a golf cart system, or golf cart train, with higher capacity and better accessibility?
Or just because it is own by Amazon and not under Free Software Licence like thus made by the free software foundation ;)
The article is pretty clear about this. When it comes to fast lexing and parsing, it is typical for projects to make portability tradeoffs in favor of performance. For example, simdjson is full of assembly.
I can pretty much guarantee you that there is news in the area. It's simply going unreported.

That said, the situation you ... report ... is all too common in far too many places.
I found Xi Jinping’s HN account!
Nation Wary of Suddenly Usable Website
This shows how much of a false sense of security code signing can create when done inconsistently like this: Highlighting unsigned binaries as dangerous, yet displaying an entry `python.exe malware.py` as trustworthy is… not great.

Relatedly, I really wish runtimes and interpreters would rename their process to the name of the file they are running by default. Finding out which `java` or `python` out of dozen identical processes I need to kill isn’t fun.
It doesn't matter if you have a mono-rep or multi-repo, you will need engineers on tooling to make it work if your project is large. There are pros and cons to both multi-repo and mono-repo with no one right answer (despite what some will tell you). They are different pros and cons, but which is best depends on your particular context.
From Caveman to Chinaman: Why China Fell Behind Europe
> What I'm wondering is whether this is a warning when cargo fails to restore the crates

What does "fails to restore the crates" mean here?

I've seen this verb "restore" used in some .NET software, but I can't see how it relates to Rust.
- subsea temperature increases impossible to explain by any atmospheric heating mechanism

- complete predictive failure of all atmospheric models, over both the last 2 decades, and the last year

But, trust us — we’re “the science”, and we totally know what’s going on, and you should give us trillions of dollars and sacrifice your economy and standard of living to follow our suggestions to address “the problem”.

No, I can’t imagine why “Americans” aren’t flocking to do as these “climate scientists“ say.
>Imagine saying that about a modern game.

Took 4 years to find the final scret cheat code in Nier Automata

https://x.com/NieRGame/status/1345725199900155909

And that's just one modern game example, there are many more
I read it but there is less and less available. Presentation and video recordings are more common but useless for the self study and search of information.
Writing good documentation and instructions is hard. I try it a lot.
Alain Delon was insanely popular in Soviet Union, along with other french celebrities like Jean-Paul Belmondo, Louis de Funes, Gerard Depardieu, Pierre Richard.
I have worked for 2. Granted, they're unlikely to be massive, unicorn successes - but they are successes, none the less.

My opinion is largely the era of the unicorn is essentially gone. Except for extremely rare moonshots (like OpenAI), markets just don't simply have many multi-billions of value for a disruptive startup.
You have different problems with both. Some problems are hidden in one, but there is no one best answer. (unless your project is small/trivial - which is what a lot of them are)
Can you elaborate a little on this US future you believe in? I'm not sure I understand what you're getting at.
This does not scale to a large number of services with a certain amount of RAM/processing per service.
Ask HN: Where to Start with SEO in 2024?
Hi all,

The last time I tried to do any SEO was in the late 2000s, when the Web was a very different place. My partner is now asking for help to improve ranking for her online business, and I am starting work on some bootstrapped side projects that I plan to launch over the winter, and I don't want either to rely on advertising to support.

Thinking it through as an engineer I want to work backwards from an end goal (high quality traffic of people interested in a particular product or service), to the actions I need to drive that traffic. Searching around all I'm seeing is quite vague guidance like "write some content to get backlinks", or "write good product descriptions". I think I'm after more detailed guides or tools to help me understand the bricks a bit more. I don't mind paid, per se, but obviously prefer free in no small part because this sector seems to be the most spammy, scammy and hard to trust sector I've encountered, ever.

What are the key resources I should look to use today? What are the best books, online guides or videos to absorb? Are there high signal-to-noise forums, podcasts or other resources I can dig into? I'm also particularly interested in software to track impact, and help me improve product pages.

TIA.
> whats wild is this problem never happened to the Soviet Union

Tell that to Vladimir Komarov who launched on Soyuz 1 despite knowing it was a death sentence because if he refused then his close friend (Yuri Gagarin) would have to fly in his stead.

The rocket had several hundred structural problems and they knew it would fail but they launched anyways.

So he died screaming while he burned to death on reentry and he broadcasted it in the clear so that everyone could listen. And they insisted that his remains be shown in an open casket so that leadership would have to look at what they did.

https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2011/05/02/134597833/c...

Or the three backup crew members who flew Soyuz 11 and died of asphyxiation despite the fact that it was a known issue that the cabin pressure valves that led to their deaths did not reliably close automatically. Manually closing them was not part of their reentry flight plan and the only thing they got was a warning from an original crew member to do so because it wasn't safe and they wouldn't add it to the flight plan.
An additional week ensures they stay compliant with their rich tradition: a time estimate being off by an order of magnitude.
Language extensions are a feature, not a bug. They allow C to evolve and C compilers to compete without requiring committee consensus. Good extensions will eventually be picked up by other compilers, and maybe even find their way into the standard.
This is awesome! How? My rig isn't too bad but would take at least 30 seconds... What is the trick here l?
Apple can’t.

Qualcomm’s special area of expertise is in cellular, not WiFi. And cellular is specced and regulated to the extreme. There’s nothing extra Apple can do that Qualcomm isn’t.

They can optimize, but they can’t revolutionize.
UDF - user defined functions (SQL)
tl;dr they are profitable, but they don't want to show it. Once they want to reach profitability they will fire (layoff) most of the R&D department and make billions.
Gonna wait a long time for EV resale values to 'stabilize'. Old-model EVs are sold for scrap because their range, recharge, weight stats become out-of-date. It's technology creep. Not gonna end any time soon?

Maybe they could put in an upgrade path - make your Lamborghini date-proof? Swap batteries for better ones on some schedule?
Looks interesting but the close modal button for the signin isn't working so I couldn't test it without signing in.
North Norwegian port welcomes controversial Chinese shipping giant to the Arctic
The Equation That Outsmarts AI: Y=Mx+b
More useful link https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/19/yacht-...
When is the last time that China or Russia tried testing an entirely new launch vehicle? It is my understanding, aside from upgrades, they have not really built anything new.

Edit: also looking at your list of accidents, China has one with 6-100 deaths.

And USSR has 120 deaths in 1960.

I think you need to look at deaths beyond just Astronauts here.
Do you read private eye? the satirical pieces are confined to a few pages in the middle, definitely not more than a third (maybe the purely humourous sections count as a third if you include cartoons). They're primarily investigative journalism if you ask me, admittedly the news pieces are often sarcastic and witty. Look up their role in the post office scandal, or the Paul Foot awards.
Can these seven be reduced to three basic rules?

- controlling for a node increases correlation among pairs where both are ancestors

- controlling for a node does not affect (the lack of) correlation among pairs where at least one is categorically unrelated (shares no ancestry with that node)

- controlling for a node decreases correlation among pairs where both are related but at least one is not an ancestor
It is impossible to be polite to a group of people while also insisting that they are lesser humans and deserve a lesser place in society.