skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's also how the bank bailouts were structured. They weren't free money. They were loans plus government ownership (which the government typically sold off for a nice profit). The loans were typically 5% which would rise to 9% after the first five years.

People talk about the bailouts like they were free money and say things like "the government should bail out ordinary people." The reality is that they weren't favorable terms - but reasonable enough that the banks wouldn't fight taking the money. The government wanted to stabilize the banking system (and automakers) and it wasn't totally clear who would need money. For example, how much money do you need over the next month? Well, that depends on factors you don't know about. Maybe you have a medical emergency or some other unexpected thing happen. So the government wanted the banks to accept the money rather than say "nah, we think we can weather the storm" and then fail creating more chaos.

If the government had said "we'll give you $10 and own half your company," no bank would have accepted that. Instead, it was typically structured as preferred shares (essentially a loan) offering 5% interest for the first 5 years and 9% after that plus warrants for ownership of the companies equivalent to 15% of the money invested. When the financial system stabilized, the banks typically repaid the loans and bought the warrants from the government.

For example, with Citibank, the government gave them $45B and made a $12B profit 2 years later - a 27% increase over 2 years. That's pretty good. With General Motors, the government gave them $13.4B in exchange for $2.1B in preferred shares and 61% ownership of the company.

People act like they got free money, but that simply wasn't the case. The government got a reasonable deal on that money, especially given that they were trying to force the banks to accept it. Some believed that they could go without the help and that the "bailout" terms weren't in their best interest. They didn't want to make a deal while their value was low since the government would be getting a lot for their buck. But the government's terms were reasonable enough that some cajoling got them to accept it.

I mean, Citigroup went from $900B in July 2007 to $400B in July 2008 to $50B in January 2009 (and around $85B when the government sold its ownership in 2010). Citi did need the bailout and the US government ended up with 36% ownership. Citi clearly wouldn't have sold 100% of the company to the government for $5B in 2008 or 2009. At that point, you might as well roll the dice and take your chances. The government gave Citi $45B and got $22.2B back as cash from Citi and 36% of the company (basically, 36% of Citi for $22.8B). Note: when you buy large chunks of companies, you don't get the market price. As you buy more shares, you get to investors unwilling to sell at that price and the price goes up. Maybe 1% of shareholders might be willing to sell at $50B, but then some will believe they should hold rather than sell. So the government didn't get a bad deal.
Perhaps "Phallic Fossils Found" would have generated even more clicks?
I think it's a very generous assumption on your part that increased infiltration of AI into this process will benefit consumers more than the corporations. It would make AI fundamentally different from... I mean, every previous technological innovation in the history of corporate structures, and previous to them, the robber-baron empires?

And I mean, it could be, the history has yet to be written for AI in terms of it's long-term effects on industries, but I think as I said it's very generous on your part to preemptively assume that it will benefit the customers.
I've been trying Coolify lately and the idea is great. I really hope it gets more support from companies. I wanna see where this project could go.
Google (and Apple) has remote root over their message bus. This is reflected in the fact that they can remove spyware from people's phones remotely at any time.

Should they have to comply with law enforcement they have much more straightforward ways of doing so than capturing messages off screen.
Reminds me of the French supercentarian who credits her good health with having quit smoking (at the age of 103).
There's a good book called, "But What If We're Wrong?" by Chuck Klosterman that explores the concept of how things we consider the "best" or "worst" of contemporaneous common knowledge may change over time.

One of his examples was how there are only a handful of classical music pieces that folks remember and consider "great" after a 100+ years have passed and yet there were many composers who were popular at the time they were composing. His question was, "out of the the works of rock-n-roll in the 1900s and early 2000s, how many will be remembered in 200 years time?" Will it be "Louie-Louie"? Something by Elvis? The Beatles? Beyonce?, the viral song 'what does the fox say?', something that is contemporaneously unknown but is discovered some time in the future?
So humans aren't on their way out, it's not even clear global human civilization will collapse as opposed to adapting and mitigating before then.
They blocked Signal but can't do anything to their biggest enemy Telegram?
Many FDA-approved AI medical devices are not trained on real patient data
To be fair, even if 5% are unwanted I would think this is a good investment of effort. I have no data though
Heres the best thing I have found: https://pagescms.org/
Solid project that leverages Github as a CMS.
Wouldn't the hard part be grabbing the shirt from the pile and spreading it out flat?
You have to limit the traffic to that pool to prevent people accessing your server directly. But that's not enough on its own, because other people can use CloudFlare's IPs to scan you too, so you need some kind of auth on top or use the tunnel.
I'm mostly on board with you but what kind of "scouting" are you thinking of here? When I talk about scouting before a hunt, I'm talking about wandering around the countryside, looking for animals, looking for scat, etc.
I doubt the passwords are stored in plain text, but they ultimately have to be decrypted at some point. I guess you are seeing the outcome of that process.
>It’s basically a website that returns reviews that reference a specific menu item regarding a specific restaurant.

The seems like an interesting concept at least. I think you probably need a better name and some idea how to market it. I think you should use the same data so instead of 'what are people saying about x item at y store' or be more like 'which store has the highest rated y', same concept but easier to market.
Would you pay 16k for that?
What does an "uninhabitable" Earth mean? Do you mean less habitable than the Sahara or Antartica, or the Himalayas? Because some people do inhabit those places, and more could if they needed to. There's no scientific evidence whatsoever that all of Earth will become uninhabitable for humans. That's just doomerism.
So you're talking about Chrome password syncing? AFAIK this is encrypted so that Google doesn't see those passwords; only the user can see them. Normal people love syncing everything between their devices so Google is just giving them what they want. Note that Apple, Firefox, and password managers provide the same feature.

Passkeys are more secure than passwords so hopefully the world migrates to that over time.
Her Lucky in Love blog post (1) includes this premise:

> Even after all her years of research, she’s still excited by love. “You’re trying to win life’s greatest prize — which is a life partner and a chance to send your DNA to the future..."

How novel! I met my now-partner a long time ago and we quickly agreed neither of us wants kids. 16 years later, we're pretty happy with each other. I guess you could call this a powerful extinctive adaptation.

(1) https://ideas.ted.com/what-does-it-mean-to-be-lucky-in-love/
I'm really confused as to why it's bad we identify people by their preferences and the content of their character instead of by the role they play in our capitalist economy.
Hold my beer

In TechCrunch: AnonMailCoin announces ICO, seeks to provide the Web 4.0 of email
it's used quite a bit in finance for things like transaction signing. the keys used to create signatures only ever exist within the SGX enclave, similar to how yubikeys and HSMs do the same thing.

compromising SGX wouldn't suddenly open up all of these transactions to exploitation though, since the attacker would need (presumably root) access to the machine and the keys could always be rolled.

I'm no expert but I suspect it would mean urgent firmware updates for anyone relying on SGX
> we wouldn't call Facebook/Whatsapp insecure just because of that.

I and many others certainly would.
Shakespeare’s reputation has grown over the centuries. While he was popular at the time he wasn’t regarded by critics as the greatest English playwright until at least a hundred years after his death.
> Let’s say your company pays for 215 software products that cost us $420,000 a year to own and use. Nobody would object to somebody looking at that list of software finding redundancies and canceling those licenses.

That's simply not true. Big companies have special vendor management departments, their incentives are literally built around cost optimizations. Smaller startups have CEO looking at their billing and complaining about "why do we pay so much to vendor X?", check the most recent rant by DHH on Datadog:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41357726
Yes, that's exactly the point...

"But they didn't have any kind of mathematical foundation until the 1960's, when Robinson found a way to coherently axiomitize them."
This discussion was posted in May 2012, more than 12 years ago. Interesting thinking about the landscape of platforms over time. Note that Jamie Zawinski has stated that this was a statement less on copycats and more on platformization: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski#Zawinski's_Law
That logic seems a bit circular. I don't endorse the 90% figure because I haven't thought about it, but for the sake of argument if you were faced with a choice where 90% of your income would be redirected away from you vs not saving it'd be expected that nobody would save.

So you can't argue that lack of savings under the current system implies no savings under a low-tax system. It is pretty reasonable to suggest that a big contributing factor to the lack of savings is precisely what the tax system does to savers.
I’m in my 40s and have no idea what either of those things are.
Some people have issues with object permanence (if they don't see an object, they forget it exists).

Sticky corners plus keyboard-driven tiling inside IDE (emacs), web browser (zen) can go a long way even without a formal tiling WM.
Show HN: What if you didn't sell that stock? Ignite your FOMO
I've been a UX designer my whole career. Just discovered 3.5 sonnet, and my world just opened up. Built this over the weekend with real API calls and a cron job (laughable I'm sure for most folks, but for me a big achievement)
And how many of those 75% are willing to support "special operation" with weapon in their hands in the frontline? Try to guess.

By the way the government will pay $20 000 for joining as a volunteer and the salary is at least $2 000 per month.
Gartner AI Hype Cycle: Autonomous AI Is on the Way (Apparently)
What's wrong with using the convention? Knife and fork in "not done" position = don't clear; in "done" position = clear.
Just to expand on this, since it wasn't originally clear to me from reading your post, the contact privacy feature is about using SGX enclaves for the purpose of populating your known contacts on Signal. When you log into Signal for the first time your phone locally has all of your known contacts, and the Signal app wants to know which of these contacts already have Signal accounts. The secure enclave is a mechanism where you publish your entire contact list from your phone to the Signal servers, then they can send back the subset of those contacts that actually have Signal accounts. The point of the enclave is that this is all done in a way where Signal can't see what contacts you sent them, nor can they determine which contacts were matched and sent back to you.
Saving anyone a click if they don't like this stuff: It turns into an AI millenarianism article partway through.
The fact that humans took control over the most fundamental evolutionary adaptation and are capable of satisfying our urge to have sex without it resulting in children will cause the end of our species maybe.
I worked a decade in the public sector in Denmark and I think it’s sort of natural when MBAs enter and flood the work with pseudo work. A nurse went from maybe filling out paperwork a few hours a week to two full days a week. What was “fun” about that is that I worked on the data, and I may have been the only one to ever come hear 99% or it as it was only ever audited after someone did something bad. They didn’t even use the data for anything analytical because it tended to show just how bad their budget cuts were hurting the area and that the best way to improve quality was through more resources and less administration.

Add to this that most public servants make very little money and that nobody in the chain of command actually listens to the people on the floor… Well why would they care?
Actually, with the right battery and some regular trickle charging, that becomes less of an issue long term.
Interesting, I had always assumed shard came from a specific company's technology and never gave it much thought. Kinda like how we talk about blade servers because of ibm's marketing.
The worthless college degrees are the "gee, math is hard" ones.

At Caltech, you could get a soft degree, but you still had to pass 3 years of math, 2 years of physics, and 1 year of chemistry. There weren't any "weeder" versions of them, either.

P.S. I could work the quantum mechanics problems, but was uncomfortable because I didn't understand QM. Years later I learned that nobody understands QM, they just know the math works :-)
The US intelligence community does not govern criminal prosecutions of US citizens. That's the job of the FBI, Department of Justice, and the courts.

This is real life we're talking about here, not a Hollywood thriller. The only thing that might ensue after he got arrested on return would be the mother of all interagency pissing contests. Which are not anything new to the Federal government; they happen all the time.
An even more fundamental problem is in trying to judge something completely subjective like how good food tastes.

I assume you believe you have good taste in food and I very well might find what you think is good to be terrible. It is not impossible the majority finds what you think is good to be terrible too.

My experience is that the only way to know if I like a dish is to eat it and reviews are completely useless.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/a-brief-history-of-the...
But which one of your ancestors do you boot up? Over 1000 years, fanout at 2.6 kids per couple is significant as that's easily going to be more than 25 generations.
Thanks. That's the closest to an on-point response that I've ever gotten to this question.
Lithium mining is on its way out thankfully
How long did it take you to go from "making a new server / copying configs is fine" to "this is tedious enough I'd like to abstract it?"

Like, was it a years-long journey or is this the type of thing that becomes immediately obvious once you start working w/ N servers or something?

I'm trying to learn the space between "physical machines in my apartment" and "cloud-native everything" and that's led me to the point where I'm happily using cloud-init to configure servers and running fun little docker compose systems on them.
NeuroPapyri: A Deep Attention Embedding Network for Handwritten Papyri Retrieval
I am sympathetic to your argument.

I just would like to point out the irony that you want to break up companies to improve our global competitiveness. I seem to recall hearing in the late 90s and early 2000s a theme that the US really needed to let these companies combine so we could have large national players who would have the scale to compete globally with other nations' mega-corps. (Not so much in terms of FAANG tech perhaps, but certainly in banking and many other sectors.)

I'm not sure if there is some definitive research on what corporate size truly helps global competitiveness (but I'd expect that, as you say, smaller competitors in larger numbers tend to be more competitive.) But even in China car industry as transitioning today, the natural evolution of such a system is towards a fewer larger competitors. Kind of related to the iron law of oligarchy perhaps, this phenomena? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_law_of_oligarchy
I'm not sure what this actually does...
Tragic as it would be, that worst case global warming scenario is still more of a "set human population levels & quality of life back 200 years" situation, rather than a literal extinction event though. I see a lot of hyperbole & doomerism around these topics online & I think pushback is fair.

We should be doing more to prevent the worse global warming outcomes. The stakes are billions dying or having miserable lives, which should be motivating enough. I don't think it helps to spin a dark fantasy about it being too late & humans actually going extinct. In the long run, an 8x reduction in human population & a few centuries of bad weather isn't really even a close call, let alone a legitimate extinction risk.
Yes. If it can iron and fold clothes, then it can probably do the dishes as well. $16K is a good price point for that, $30k would even work. But i'm not sure it can really do all of that yet.
That sounds like a fun and satisfying process! I realize my comment could be taken as denigrating all the people who write about this stuff, but that's certainly not my intention; I've also enjoyed a lot of the visualizations and geometric explanations that people writing under this heading have come up with. My complaint is really just about the ones who take this oppositional attitude, and a big part of why I think it's such a shame when that happens is that there really are some very cool ideas here, so it's sad to see walls being raised for no good reason.
You absolutely can root GrapheneOS, just use the standard Magisk process. I think the only downside is that rooting disables secure boot.
I think this isn't as complicated as you're making it out to be. If I take a digital copy and then create it in the cloud, that's not me. We could create 3 digital copies all at once. Clearly, those aren't all me. I'm not a gestalt, those are three individual entities who are having different, even if similar, experiences.

Same with a clone of me. Not me. Similar, sure, but not me. How do I know that? Because the real me could stand beside it.

Me with brain damage? After some brain cell replacement? I'm changed as a person, sure, but there's a difference between change and duplicating. It's seem like you're saying that the answer to the Ship of Theseus is "yes" in every scenario, and I don't follow that.

And this is all immaterial - like I said, the me I really care about is going to one day be rotting in the ground, and that's the only real continuity of consciousnesses I care about. The digital copy may be thankful for being alive, and it may very well think of itself as me, it only makes sense being based upon the same experiences, but they aren't the same thing.
Interesting. Is Lem the editor you use most for editing code?

For editing text that is not code?
The sad part is that people assume those two ate roughly inversely related. But I feel like there’s a lot of negative externalities and long term system effects that would disprove it.
Soviet Union had a residency system also so everyone didn't just move to Moscow.

Can we build enough housing in SF, Seattle, LA, SD to satisfy demand? Keep in mind that as soon as housing is affordable in these cities, even more people will move to them...so how much is enough?
EXWM user here, I have no issue with tiling mplayer or firefox, most of the time I simply use them full screen, if I open something aside flipping (mode-line-other-buffer) or anyway re-layouting my desktop is super-easy with proper keybindings to simple physical keys actions.

Meanwhile I fail to see any reason to waste time moving floating windows, playing overlapping. I use floats for instance for GIMP, they do work enough, but that's is, the float problem is more a GUI concept problem where the GUI dev have designed something not flexible enough in most cases.

You use a terminal, good, why you use menus on GUIs apps? It would not be much quicker the Ubuntu Unity HUD? Why having specific buttons instead of allowing typing/clicking text like in org-mode or Plan9 ACME editor? Why even menu bars instead of context menus? Do you really need to see let's say WYSIWYG office suite buttons all the time, wasting vertical screen space, for what? You want to make some text bold, you still have to select it, why having a B icons up there?

Why even have a damn desktop with icons concept since every time you use an app you cover the icons? Why not simply have an initial screen/page/you-name-it easy to write like an org-mode note, composed of active contents, like the said note, with anything you want, including even a reminder quickly written during the previous desktop session? Personally I have a single key bound to a function bringing me the current day note, I can directly type some text, click on the unread mail link witch is also a single key if I want, see/click some other stuff etc, why in modern desktops hyper-simple things like damn write down a simple note demand going through a menu, find a relevant app, launch it, type the few words, save them etc etc etc? Why it's so damn hard to link an email in a note, a local pdf, an "action" that do something on my desktop, a small sexp that let's say switch my current "web desktop" to "daily todo" windows layout etc?

The whole modern GUI concept down to the desktop is deeply flawed, born with the idea to make things easy for computer-illiterate imaging "the desktop" like a physical desk (try looking for General Magic systems) doing anything to mimics papers of that time, like "folders" (suspended folders, very popular when their visual concept was born) instead of directories (meaning list of files, because that's what they are) or even the concept of "single document file" where perhaps a note-app have no reason to store a file per note or even expose the user to the on-disk storage. Why even having a filesystem organized like a tree instead of a free graph? Yes, we need a starting point for the system, but the humans do not need it...
Blood pressure control should focus on more potassium (2023)
I've struggled to lower my blood pressure consistently, and I've been told by doctors and always thought that reducing sodium is the most important thing to lower blood pressure. I was unaware of the role potassium plays in tandem with sodium, and will be trying to raise the amount of potassium in my.

I also did not know that 1 banana a day is not enough potassium, you should eat more than that! I eat a banana almost everyday and always thought that covered my potassium. I am now trying to eat more leafy greens that are also a good source of potassium.
Bit of a straw man. The ecologists I know of are interested in cultivating biodiversity and preserving habitats from the corrosive influence of development, pollution, and climate change. "Pristine" isn't a term I've heard used much in this context. The language of "virgin" land belongs to the lexicon of settler colonialism, not environmentalism.