skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Their share price growth is only a result of share buy backs. They’ve fired tens of thousands of employees and used the cost savings to buy their own stock back, enriching executives, especially their CEO, whose pay increased 23% from 2022 to 2023 to $20.4M. (And IBM didn’t even meet their own internal revenue goal). Are the execs doing what’s best for the company’s long term prospects or what’s best for the shorter term shareholders holder?

* https://ycharts.com/companies/IBM/stock_buyback
* https://www.theregister.com/AMP/2024/03/15/ibm_ceo_pay_jumps...
Claude is just better full stop these days, but you have to actually be attempting to get practical use out of various different models to know this.
and yet you discount even the commenters in this subthread who report on the horrors within the private sector ....
Union incentive align mostly to more members not more salary or benefits. Similar how companies tend to go for more revenue unions benefit more from additional member and less from higher salaries
Only with market discipline, by making that company compete with others representing pools of workers. A union chooses not to do that.
Wow finally, it seems like yesterday when first encountered the real-time Linux kernel proposal.

It's a long time overdue and congrats to the real-time Linux time for the tenacity. The fact that it's included after eBPF being accepted to the Linux kernel but better late than never. Now we can preempt eBPF codes to make it even faster and responsive.

It will be very interesting to run real-time Linux on Raspberry Pi interfacing with Pi Pico for IoT monitoring, sensing and actuating communicating over bidirectional BiSS interface [1].

[1] BiSS: High speed open-source digital interface for IoT sensors and actuators:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41516826
where you see talent I just see a bunch of people who aren't in a position to say no
Working at an electronics retailer a few years ago, this was well-known (though news to me, when I started). They hid the fact that the company no longer manufactured their products, and/or that multiple companies were selling similar or even the same product (produced in the same factory, even).

It is trouble, though, since the entire point of a "brand" is to signal provenance in manufacturing, quality, etc. It's supposed to be a way to know something about the product (if nothing else, who to hold accountable when something goes wrong). If it doesn't, what's the point?
Even that doesn't agree with reality. Some tyrants prefer to say they're doing things for your freedom, your money, or your rights. (In fact, you know what, it's silly to expect tyrants to stay consistent.)
But that would mean any attacks made by or involving spies are terrorism.
Competent devs are not the target demographic. There are more incompetent than competent people and appeasing one alienates the other. It’s simple math you need to get to 50% so you optimize for outcomes
It's different enough from Comic Sans that it doesn't look terrible to me!

edit: drop actually from prev sentence
Looked it up, very interesting! Thanks.
An update on our safety and security practices
Ok. Beyond for me means that there is a part that can be explained by economic and a part that exceeds economics. I hope that clarifies.
Would we be able to improve that with multiple runs? eg. 2 our of 3? (Or, ie. are the errors systematic?)
It would be if people were hourly. But devs are all salary so hours should not matter and besides Amazon generally wants more then 40hrs of work anyway
What counts as short-term? On a monthly basis this is definitely lower because they cut by 0.5% instead of 0.25%. On a 2026+ basis expectations have been steady at ~3%, don't understand how 4.x% could be lower than that.

Personally I think the 3% long-term expectation is ridiculous, and we'll either see high (10%+) rates as inflation spirals out of control, or low (0%) rates as we get another depression, and likely oscillation between the two of them. You can't use monetary policy to fix a demographic problem. But the projection for 3+ years out has held constant at 2.5-3% since at least 2018, even as the reality went from 2.5% to 0% to 5% during that time period. Just like all the projections for inflation always converge on 2% even if they're wrong.
I asked previous IBM leaders about this oddity. Basicaly boiled up to financial engineering
Well I got invited to Twitter HQ back when it was still called that. It was some obscure team offering an app library of some sort, IIRC. It certainly wasn't something close to the main product.

I suspect there are a lot of these sorts of investments in the big players, a bunch of teams doing far-from-core things that someone thought was worthwhile.
> given enough time (in theory) parallel construction is eventually exposed.

Parallel construction has existed for decades. It's even in "The Wire". It has never been tested in court, probably because it is nearly impossible to discover outside of being the agents that implement it.
Isn't that a lot of work and a negation of the purpose of fast shipping?
I recall this situation well as it interrupted an exam of mine. iirc, it was the MAC address of his machine being known/registered to the Campus network that nailed him.
Kyndryl was spun out of IBM a while back. My cynical take is that the “IBM GS” brand was so toxic this was the only way to continue to sell those billable hours.
Bluemix wasn’t really IBM Cloud. It was what turned out to be ill-advised backing of Cloud Foundry but a lot of companies did that with a certain degree of public ridicule falling on those who didn’t fall in line.
The issue is that the people making 'level headed' claims have read none of the literature and their mathematical ability seems to end at multiplying numbers together.

It sounds reasonable to anyone who hasn't read the papers, to anyone that has these comments are so wrong that you can't even start explaining what's going wrong without a papers worth of explanation that the people don't read.
The demonization of Monsanto is really something. You should go back to those who've been doing it and reevaluate what they were trying to get you to think.
Absolutely. Many small regional newspapers are inaccessible from Europe; omny.info (which would be very interesting to tourists visiting NYC, as you can pull your trip reports there) bans most EU IPs too (but weirdly leaves some countries open).

Most frustrating is not even being able to cancel things like a US streaming service subscription from an EU IP (of course these things usually have no contact email address available either).
> I can just double my cheap RAM later

The thing is that this is quickly becoming impossible, even with fairly low speeds like 6000 2 DPC is not achieveable in some cases, and consumers that are buying the 4 DIMM boards aren't particularly aware of it
https://babelstone.co.uk/Unicode/whatisit.html works well for me for this purpose. It shows all the names and code points.
This is not what “opt in” means. Users were non consensually added to this data collection scheme.

Also,
I’m not a lawyer but a significant update to terms of service probably requires notice. Some lawyer could get rich filing a class action lawsuit.
Wasn't the court threatening to start penalizing the local X ee's as the only local target they had for enforcement actions?

"The social media giant published pictures of a document allegedly signed by Moraes which says a daily fine of 20,000 reais ($3,653) and an arrest decree would be imposed against X representative Rachel Nova Conceicao if the platform did not fully comply to Moraes' orders.
'To protect the safety of our staff, we have made the decision to close our operation in Brazil, effective immediately,' X said."

https://www.reuters.com/technology/x-close-operations-brazil...
From that same link, financial sanctions against a country can be one of any of the following:

* authority to prohibit U.S. citizens from engaging in financial transactions with the individuals, entities, or governments on the list, except by license from the U.S. government

* requiring the United States to oppose loans by the World Bank and other international financial institutions,

* diplomatic immunity waived, to allow families of terrorism victims to file for civil damages in U.S. courts,

* tax credits for companies and individuals denied, for income earned in listed countries,

* duty-free goods exemption suspended for imports from those countries, and

* prohibition of U.S. Defense Department contracts above $100,000 with companies controlled by countries on the list.

If we look at the map on that same page, we can see that very few countries have a total financial sanction such as the likes of Iran.

> Really quite ridiculous that there are sanctions on something like 1/3 of the world.

Sanctions are one of the de facto tools in the arsenal of American soft diplomacy. To be frank, the US has so many sanctions because the USD is so powerful.
Let me point out the opposite view.

Google is a massive company that often throws its weight to take patented technology without payment under the guise of fighting patent trolls.

Ex Parte Reexamination simply makes it easier to avoid patent claims since it provides another opportunity to throw out claims, some of which may have stood in a full trial.

Patent cases can easily take decades to complete an span multiple jurisdictions, and google has been involved in several such cases, meaning the original patents are now quite outdated compared to modern technology despite their original applicability.

After ex google executive Michelle Lee became head of the US Patent Office, the PTO has been more favorable to patent infringement in my opinion.

Google has settled many patent cases over the years, surely some of them were valid patents.

> If you go to trial, it's some unsophisticated jurors who decide if the patent is valid. For a reexam, it's PTO people, who at least know what the law is.

Is this not depriving people of their right to a jury? The PTO reviewers are hardly more knowledgeable about technical fields than juries. Somehow 64% of reviews end up with changes, is this not a sign that the PTO has been all to regularly changing its mind about valid patents?

To be clear I have never been involved in any sort of litigation against google, patent related or otherwise. I just think the pendulum has swung too far against patents. I could have instead argued that Apple or other companies are also very oppressive against patents.

I do agree many software patents are not applicable and are often spam, but there are real costs to decreasing patent rights outside of software
Being a toml-n00b, why is this quoted? https://github.com/CerebriumAI/examples/blob/85815f8e09e9e77...

Related to that, it seems the syntax isn't documented https://docs.cerebrium.ai/cerebrium/environments/config-file...
It does not depend though. It’s pretty clear that it’s how you value your time which is what I was getting to.
I’m not clear on the virtues or potential of a model like this over a pure text model using STT/TTS to achieve similar results.

Is the idea that as these models grow in sophistication they can properly interpret (or produce) inflection, cadence, emotion that’s lost in TTS?
A timestamp won't help if your goal is reducing game lag. You can tell you're lagging, but can't do anything about it.
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The two are not mutually exclusive. The incentive for seniority-based pay is that low-performers are dissatisfied with lesser career advancement, so they form a block within the union electorate and vote in leadership that flattens pay.

You are correct that unions are also incentivized to increase membership, that's why unions often oppose more efficient work practices. More efficiency reduces the number of personnel needed to perform the job. An example of this is the longshoremen's unions in the US. They have consistently rejected the automation that most other developed countries have long-since adoped [1]. The result? American ports are some of the least efficient in the world, despite also being quite expensive [2].

1. https://apnews.com/article/longshoremen-strike-pay-automatio...

2. https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/server/api/core/bitstrea...
it's not been tested in court, but it's not some crazy Internet theory.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/08/us-drug-agency-g...
Doesn't sound like your type of company tbh, the flipside is that a "serious" company will often have broken bs too except now nobody is going to look at your contribution/fix.
F*ck Grammarly.
Absolutist statements about services like TOR or VPNs are often not helpful. It's highly contextual to the threat. If the threat is a state actor it's likely nothing, TOR included, can preclude them from determining things about you that you would prefer them not to know.

Some specific state actors operate TOR entry and exit routers and can perform analysis which is different to others who just have access to the infra beneath TOR and can infer things from traffic analysis somewhat differently.

I have never been in a situation where my life and liberty depended on a decision about a mechanism like TOR. I can believe it is contextually safe for some people and also believe it's a giant red flag to a lead pipe and locked room for others.
Am I the only one who cringes at the name of this tool? The implication being that it's a way to churn out low-quality papers, probably with some p-hacking along the way.
AI agents invade observability: snake oil or the future of SRE?
Disparate outcomes do not conclusively determine disparate treatment

Disparate outcomes most definitely imply disparate treatment, at least enough to merit further investigation
Long story short, what I want to say is that making an offer and complaining about getting it rejected does not make much sense

No one is complaining about it, they're pointing to the many generous and heartfelt attempts made, that were rebuffed, along with repeated statements that Israel should not exist.

This shows how unreasonable others are being, and how reasonable and open to resolving things Israel has been.

And that does matter.
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with zero coding experience I am building the website builder I wish I had.

I don't don't to spend time learning tools or messing around with settings I just want to add text and images and press "Go"

This is my 1 week progress with no coding skills using no code to code.

Please leave feedback in comments or email me at dimitri@builtwithatlas.com
Is that what they're famous for or even what they've dedicated most of their time to? From looking at their histories I would not describe them as "coders." Let alone presume that they have anything to offer anyone doing the same in a modern context.

"Keep the whole program in your head?"

Cool advice for small greenfield projects that you can sell to unsophisticated companies and then move on. Interesting that it comes from an investing firm that makes this precise activity it's core business and reviewed by people who are in a position to directly benefit from this.

This is all terrible advice if you want to actually contribute to or work on anything significant in your life.
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People saying that the government funds Tor so it's insecure is like saying that the government funds the army which kills people on purpose, so any government hospital will also kill people on purpose
Can't they just do what everyone else does and steal other sites' content?
Still easily within the budget of the US, Russia, China, Israel, etc. I wouldn't be surprised if a majority of nodes are ran by intelligence agencies.
Regarding minimal syntax: https://yosefk.com/blog/i-cant-believe-im-praising-tcl.html
History is redolent with first-to-market fails followed by also-ran successes.
This would appear to inform Apple's AI strategy, but not just since AI.
> Random doctors in the hospital won't have these.

To put a slightly finer point on it: Even an uninvolved doctor somehow came to own a booby-trapped pager, they wouldn't be carrying it around every day unless it was configured to listen to the hospital's broadcast network of real medical messages, as opposed to leaving it tuned to Hezbollah High Command or whatever.
SAML has to be one of the worst security specs ever
Wow that sounds like a hell of an achievement. Here is the commit to the print_k function they mentioned as the final hurdle [1]. I have no idea what it does but maybe someone else here does. I wonder if the RT stuff will remain behind a config flag or become the default eventually. Is there any reason to not just have RT on by default?

I remember I had some nasty sound distortion issues on a Windows VFIO VM and it came down to events/interrupts not being handled quickly enough. I wonder what happens with an RT kernel and the VM thread having high priority in that situation.

[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...
kMail is not the most performant mail client. Neomutt works fine with > 10k emails.

DPI scaling works fine with Wayland + Kanshi, and a few environment variables for GTK+ applications.

The "mess" of application styling is an application-level problem, and the same problem exists in plenty of Windows applications.
There’s a lot of ass coverage involved. Someone came in temporarily, was given a certain title, hired IBM, left shortly afterwards. People shift, staff turn over, and before anyone knew what happened nobody knows who said what.
>If you want basic anonymity while researching someone powerful or accessing information, it's extremely unlikely anyone is going to go the lengths people are bringing up here as a way to compromise Tor. The intersection of expertise, funding and time required is too great for such a low value target.

Doesn't a solid VPN service also satisfy this exact need? Tor seems to occupy a narrow niche in which you have to care much more about privacy than the average person, but not at a nation state level. I think that is how it got associated with that 2nd tier of internet crime like buying drugs on the dark web or sharing CSAM. The truly sophisticated internet criminals probably know better and the people who only really care about anonymizing themselves are probably doing something simpler.
I leave it up to the reader to determine how serious I may be.
Really

Yeah that's the point. Without punctuation, no one can tell what inflection my "really" above should have, but even if it'd been "Really?" or "Really!", there's still room for interpretation. With a bet on voice interfaces needing a Google moment (wherein, prior to Google, search was crap) to truely become successful (by interpreting and creating inflection, cadence, emotion, as you mentioned), creating such a model makes a lot of sense.
If you think thats amusing, wait till see the people that believe in B Corps

You can tell them anything
What's a scare quote?
Nah. The other "pole" looks to be China. They aren't going to treat random people from poor countries any better.
Discussion (8 hours ago, 222 points, 816 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41580205
I get a spike of anxiety if I even see the LinkedIn name in an email header.
I think in the end we are agreeing here. The big problem is that it's opt-in. Making this mandatory like Australia and Singapore solves the biggest problems of apathy or simply being unaware.

Social security for example only works because it's mandatory. I think having some percent of your check go into index funds automatically would work too.
I read significantly faster than people speak, everything in voice would be immediately frustrating to me.

Though I think there may be a target audience in the blind community; who could find the demi-organic nature of recorded speech more conducive to genuine conversations than their standard text-to-speech conversion software.

(Which I think there's a good chance a lot of them are using for one of their primary social networking interfaces anyway).
> But that brings up a different question: If you have majority voting power, why try to take the company private (as it has been suggested by others here)?

Also the question of "what powers does the board even have then?"
The point is that every single time something like this happens, it gets silenced.

Except it doesn't. Stuff like this gets reported all the time (for exactly what it is), also when Ukrainians do it. Like the EW-intercepted drone that hit that apartment outside Moscow, killing (according to local reports) someone inside. Even RFE/RL reported it.

Not every single incident of course -- but they do get reported, very frequently.

People tend not to dwell on it, of course -- because they know these things are bound to happen to some degree (and anyone with more than a completely casual understanding of WW II knows that inadvertent civilian casualties, even in allied countries, were extremely high). And that there are far too many perfectly deliberate atrocities happening, and at far greater scale (and except for a few isolated cases, all coming not so coincidentally from one side). And because they understand the far bigger point, which is that at the end of the day, the war (and all the suffering that will be required to end it) is Putin's fault anyway.

But that's very different from the simple matter of these events being "silenced". Because plainly they're not. The reason they don't get more column inches or newsroom chatter is because, by any level-headed analysis -- they just don't deserve any.

And attempting to describe the state of affairs that way, when clearly it isn't, is well -- manipulative.
I ran Tor nodes, had a bunch of blacklisted IPs, and just stopped running them and it was fine? Blacklisting Tor nodes requires updating the data often, so it falls off pretty quickly. To discard an entire /24 would be pretty funny over that!
are “work” and “play” terms for the left (analytical, procedural) and right (creative, random) sides of the brain

There is creative work, so I don't think so. Creative work involves instrumental play toward a goal. This in contrast to free play.

https://www.tuni.fi/playlab/considering-play-from-method-to-...
You only need to do that if you're targeting someone. If your goal is terror, you just sell as a 3rd party on Amazon.
I'm optimistic SAML will be dead soon. ActiveDirectory/EntraID/whatever Microsoft wants to call it now supports OpenID Connect. Okta, OneLogin, Google, and all the other post-turn-of-the-millenium IdPs support OIDC. Shibboleth is the last major IdP I know if that is SAML-only, and I haven't seen anyone using it in like 10 years. When I built enterprise SSO for my current company, we went OIDC-only and we haven't had a single customer who needed SAML.
Sorry, I'm not familiar with this tech so looked up Jetstream and it seems to be archived https://github.com/nats-io/jetstream. Not sure that would be a good endorsement to try to use something that is no longer maintained or am I looking at the wrong one?
Its important to realize that TOR is primarily funded and controlled by the US Navy. The US benefits from the TOR being private.

It provides a channel for operatives to exfiltrate data out of non-NATO countries very easily.
Discussions

(32 points, 18 hours ago, 14 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41576276

(41 points, 10 hours ago, 68 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41579852