skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IIRC there were only ~1000 66MHz and ~800 133Mhz BeBoxes produced.

In comparison, I'd be curious as to how many, say, SGI O2s were ever produced in total.
I'm not sure what you mean by "randomness would be predictable". For example, it is possible to do this if you know the bias.
Similarly, I use Ublock Origin to remove basically every element of the site except the search bar, subscriptions and the video player itself.
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Not only good off-grid solar setups are expensive, but installers also cut every corner possible and impossible in order to drive the cost down no matter whether the result is safe. For example, they will sell you an inverter with a step-approximated "sine wave" output if you don't ask otherwise, and will connect it to the battery directly, bypassing the controller that protects it from too much discharge, because that controller is not powerful enough.
It’s the older version where there’s no division between the sclera (white of eye) and the rest of the skull:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0d/Mickey_-_The_...

Compare to later versions, where the eyes are well defined:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f6/Mickey_-_Fant...

In recent years, Disney has been using the old version from Steamboat Willie at the start of movies:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steamboat_Willie

And even making new shorts with that style:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC6qIbU1olyXQe1WOKt8U...
> There should have been a prompt to review the features' settings when it was first introduced.

Although it was phrased disingenuously as a pro-privacy switch that you should obviously turn on.
No veritasium is pretty legit imo. Johnny Harris is not bad, I’ve heard the same criticism too. I think he won an award in journalistic integrity at one point.

Theres no YouTuber without criticism. Referring to no one in particular: There’s even offensive snobbish garbage comments equivalent to the banality of Mr. Beast videos here on HN yet this doesn’t reflect the overall vibe here.

Don’t try to bring my overall point down by attacking one particular aspect of one particular example. What should the snobbery of some of the commentary on HN here render the entire site moot? No. My point stands regardless.
For TikTok I assume it is protectionism. The Chinese government might be able to use TikTok to get personal information of Americans for free. Ban TikTok and then if China wants personal information of Americans it will have to buy it from American data brokers.
I hate and fear cancer so much.

Why does it seem like so many are dying of cancer :(
The seriousness of any code review process can be determined by whether it diffuses liability from the original code author for any bugs.

So far in my career this has never been the case.
This occasionally annoys me. Sometimes I'll actually be searching for a product and see just what I'm looking for in the sponsored results. It doesn't annoy me enough to get rid of the pihole, though.
> Identify on-the-job learning opportunities, like giving someone the chance to lead an incident response or a high-visibility project. Critical mistakes can still be catastrophic, but because of the fast-changing nature of wartime work, it's easier to process smaller errors with a healthy learning mindset.

I don't understand how wartime makes this easier.

Pre-wartime, you could've also had short-turnaround tasks, and the realities of generous funding of nonviable businesses mean you'd have more luxury to rollback dropped balls.

Seems like wartime means that you have to be more responsive and successfully.
Ask HN: Is a bad traction a judgment call?
Hi, there are 2 types of traction

Just posting somewhere (it can be ph, hn, post on reddit) -> Thousands of users -> Heaps of subscriptions. Instant traction that doesn't stop. These are usually the guys who make 5-10k$ MRR in 2 months

hard growth. The all action from point 1 and another plus 100's of different actions (article writing, google ads, cold emails and lots and lots of stuff) - hard and slow growth. Thousands of dollars of investment in advertising and marketing hypothesis testing. Hard and slow growth, scrambling forward. And after years, you come to your long awaited 1-2k$ of revenue.

And so I'm wondering if there's anyone out there who found themselves in point 2 (I'm there) and was able to turn the tide.

Would love to hear your stories.
I have an (actual) engineering buddy who occasionally has small fires flare up in the factory he works at. Ever since talking with him about it, I’m very much off put when someone at my cushy software company talks about ‘a fire’. No, some system is down or throwing errors- there is no fire.
We care very much about North Korea as they have nuclear weapons and share a land border with our ally
Mastodon is the way, and it federates with Threads.
A lot of cheap Chinese cameras work just fine without ever being connected to the Internet. Look for ONVIF.
Most of what comes out of executives mouths is fantasy role play. It's always exaggerated to motivate.
Sure, that's part of it, if those tools are used. Daemons like the particular flavor of syslog and cron are also part of it. Patched kernels used to be more common, too. I listed a bunch of things that actually broke for me before in a sibling thread; sometimes it was down to e.g. the Python packages that were in EPEL vs. the Python packages that were actually being maintained by their original authors in PyPI, or various security tools configured around paths that changed, etc. There were usually workarounds or alternatives, but they were more difficult to set up than doing things the "native" way.
It is grand when a chorus changes its meaning due to intervening verses, and in particular the line "if you're looking for a ride I've a horse outside" changes both the people referred to by "you" and the identity of the "horse", on either side of your one breaking the fourth wall and saying "I will of course /
if you grab me by the ponytail and..."
> The AI would have loyalty to its creator, and it would get into the deep philosophical aspects of what is a living organism vs what is a machine and why that matters.

I guess you will have to write it for me to see. :)

> People need 2000 calories a day which is a trivial amount of electricity compared to say an AI cluster.

We have no idea how much energy an AGI will need. You are literally looking at steam engines de-watering a mine and trying to guess what a Shinkansen ticket will cost. It would be very surprising to me if it turns out that keeping human bodies around is the most efficient from of intelligence.

> Yeah, but if someone became intelligent 10,000 years before us, which is a pretty trivial amount of time technologically, their Von Neumann probes would have eaten our planet already, so probably not going to be militarily feasible if there's other intelligent life in the galaxy that's keeping an eye on us.

You will have to spell this one out for me a bit more.

We can't have Von Neumann probes because if we could someone who came before us would have already eaten Earth before we came? There are quite a few assumptions here. And the thesis is not entirely clear either.

Also we just assume that there are little grey ones watching us, and they have never contacted us, or told us anything but seemingly their military red line is us creating Von Neumann probes? Do you feel that this is built on a pile of shaky assumptions?
Considerably more affordable than the alternatives:

- multiparameter sondes (submersible sensors): More expensive, maintenance heavy, only measure at one point.

- Manual grab-samples: Again more expensive when you factor in labour, unreliable, single point.

Remote sensing has its disadvantages though; cloud cover can be problematic for example.
Are BigCos any more stable in the US? At least in a startup they probably actually need you because you already know their system.

Overseas BigCo means permanent contracts and being very hard to let go, but that doesn’t seem to be the case in the US (e.g. Elon Musk Twitter).
Linux is basically a national security issue at this point with how much runs on it. Linus is an interesting dictator because he's not bound to any corporation. I think some kind of kernel throne wars would be terrible for the community and could result in Red Hat or some other corporate overlord owning the kernel (not literally because of trademarks but effectively through the release and mainline).
so is this o1 thing just cot (like has been around for a few years) but baked into the training transcripts, rlhf and inference pipeline?
> if you have a site with regular user engagement.

Ah, gotcha: this is a new Google standard that helps Google sites when browsed using Google Chrome.

Everyone else will discover that keeping the previous version of a library around at build time doesn’t fit into the typical build process and won’t bother with this feature.

Only Facebook and maybe half a dozen similar other orgs will enable this and benefit.

The Internet top-to-bottom is owned by the G in FAANG with FAAN just along for the ride.
Not at all. It is a poor pattern because they throw a kernel over the wall right before the freeze, then refuse to fix any of the bugs, because of the freeze.

The kernel should go out to general testing as soon as the cycle starts, not right before it ends.
>But, what's the alternative?

The alternative is grabbing The Little Prince or My Neighbor Totoro and watching or reading it with the kids. I have a very simple rule, if something isn't good enough to be engaging for parents and kids just throw it the hell out. It reminds me of a discussion between a Japanese coworker and an American expat. The Japanese guy was disgusted by lunchables, and the expat went "oh yeah, they're just for kids", and he just said "you feed your kids something you wouldn't eat yourself"?

Stop normalizing feeding garbage to children, metaphorically or literally. There's enough stimulating media in the world outside of Youtube.
That explains why they they added a link in the results' additional info to the Internet Archive.

And some people considered that a "victory" for IA.

They'll just foot the bill while Google reap the rewards
There is a resurgence of small-run print zines which lean into the strengths of print as consumed alongside digital content

MagCulture [1] has 600 zines in stock and Printed Matter [2] has nearly 8,000

At present I'm enjoying n+1, The Baffler, Granta and The Fence

Counter-intuitively, a zine can be an easier way for writers and creators to get niche/unusual content seen than battling the algorithm online

[1] https://magculture.com 270 St John Street, London

[2] https://www.printedmatter.org 231 11th Avenue, Manhattan
One distressing trend I've noticed becoming ubiquitous on HN is that any writing that is confronting to a consensus worldview becomes flooded with highly upvoted comments that are, in essence, excuses for why it's not necessary in this instance to re-examine your priors.

He's making low value content/the culture of the company is horrible/he's a fraud/it's more luck than skill. The actual critiques are personalized to the content and, to one extent or another, valid, but the social purpose of the critiques is universal which is that I felt uncomfortable that reading this might mean I have to re-evaluate my worldview and I'm going to dive into the comment section and upvote all the people telling me actually, I don't have to do that.

I actually spent over an hour writing 750+ words of my takeaways reading this document and shared it privately with a few founder friends of mine and I briefly considered also posting to share with the community but I took a look at the comments and took a look at what I wrote and decided I didn't have the energy to face the endless onslaught of nitpicks and misunderstandings that are driven, at the end of the day, not by a genuine intellectual desire to reach an understanding, but by the need to prove emotionally that others are not taking this seriously so I don't have to either.

All I can do is be vague and say I think this was an enormously valuable piece of writing that is worth engaging seriously for what it is as it might change your worldview in several important ways.

But also my larger meta-point is that there's a now near ubiquitous "sour grapes" attitude that's pervaded HN that makes it an extremely unpleasant place to hold a conversation and people reading should be aware of this systematic bias when reading comments here.
I expected to experience something similar, but on reading, it's so over the top that my brain has no problem realizing it's a joke. Violent movies on the other hand I can't really enjoy much anymore.
Do you think that is the only statistic that might have some correlation with this? Are there perhaps other things than race that might be just as or more relevant?
> while beef produces like 5% of global methane emmissions the oil and gas industry produce much much more... and beef can be solved by adding algae to their feed.

It won't solve the problem of beef already occupying too much space (agriculture sprawl) and water. It's the most inefficient meat to produce, and meat production is extremely inefficient compared to plant food production.

https://ourworldindata.org/food-choice-vs-eating-local

> I can just talk about my own story.

Anecdotal evidence aside, there are numerous studies showing that eating even a moderate diet of meat/processed meat can cause bowel and colon cancer:

- https://www.bowelcanceruk.org.uk/news-and-blogs/news/new-res...

- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34455534/

- https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/red-meat-and-...

> When I swapped everything I ate for meat, the depression went away,

Anecdotally, I completely stopped eating meat and dairy and replaced it with a fully plant/mushroom based diet in 2017, and my depression went away, and I lost quite some weight!
The math doesn't check out
It offers entertainment value. The educational component of it is it offers education into human psychology when people are presented with challenges and reward, etc. etc. etc.

Mr. Beast videos are actually insightful and educational in certain contexts. It’s just snobbery all the way down.
They are time wasting machines. YouTube is, and Mr. Beast's production company is by virtue of the fact that it would die immediately if YouTube went away, because nobody would buy that shit in a theater, on a blu ray, or in iTunes Store. Same reason TikTok and it's associated content is also bullshit, literally the only reason anybody watches that garbage is that it's free.
I agree with you in spirit (people need to learn their tools more) but your examples...not so much. Merging main into the feature branch was the original intent on how to do it. PRs are sent the way you describe because GitHub literally offers the maintainer a squash option and it's a lot easier to review a pull request when history is unedited.
Similarly to how someone else shared, I've added a Hacking Time to Friday afternoons on calendar. I've been using this time for over a year. Try a new tool, try a different approach, try cloning another team's repo, experimenting with XYZ, and so on. A lot of that has allowed me to have "just in time" knowledge of topics which helped unblock a team member or provide early recommendations for a new task.

All that said, I also read HN regularly and I know I don't touch beyond the very tip of the iceberg and that's fine.
They do, but usually you'll find it worded something like "Deliver high value, seamless and synerginized entertainment that frontalizes our strengths and inspires diverse modalities of consumer satisfaction"
That's possible- I may have assumed incorrectly
The executive reaction is the same as when a factory is on fire though. Whether we can’t produce due to system down or due to hazardous environment makes little difference.
There is actually no way to avoid this, aside from setting the Fee nearly to the reward.

It's essentially MitM all the way down.

even the private mempool can attempt a double-spend with a larger fee, get one transaction ahead, then try to maintain an edge long enough to be the "longest branch" for consensus - the 51% attack only needs 33% in reality, much less when your the private mempool that can take advantage of the birthday paradox to jump two blocks ahead.

you have to literally mine your own coin with the reward transaction included.

of course, zpk+ would solve this issue entirely.

Alice and Bob wouldn't ever doubt each other again.
Can someone EILI5?

I thought cracking anything to steal bitcoin was impossible due to the keys sizes involved? Is this possible because a portion of the key is already available so there is less to crack?

Which key is known? The public or private? Another comment said the “now known public” but then also said the private key can now be recovered by cracking it? Two keys need to be cracked?

What kind computing power is needed to crack both keys and how long?

Thanks. Sorry, I’m an idiot when it comes to bitcoin.
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The Shadow Dollar That's Fueling the Financial Underworld
I confess I wasn't positive what the correct term would be. "Online" is common for some uses of it. And I "knew" that what we call compilation for most programs used to be called "batch compilation." Searching the term was obnoxious, though, such that I gave up. :(
Ha, weird separation.. I build products, all day, design, write code, op and manage.
Prize pool would have to be much more than $400k to justify a state actor flexing that kind of capability, NK makes far more than that exploiting DeFi protocols.
Your blog 404s when an iPhone user uses lockdown mode. In fact your whole website fails to load.
It's more about willing to fire below-A players quickly rather than having a perfect hiring filter that only lets A players in.

Looking back at 7 companies I worked at: they all had a tough hiring filter to get in. But most of them also had not that great people that they were not firing.

Firing people is hard even when you know you should do it. You have to be a heartless bastard to not have a problem firing people.

It's even worse when the company gets so big that a game of building empires starts in which case managers have an incentive to grow headcount to grow power, even if that headcount isn't very good.

The document even talks about what MrBeast considers a B-player.

Made a mistake once? That's fine. Fuck ups are a price of ambition.

Made the same mistake twice? Need to be told the same thing multiple times? Not an A player so fired.
And that day, I was told I passed the Amazon interview and was offered a job as a L4 Software Engineer.
This information doesn't help anyone.

The fact is the person was double-clicking a file in a list to view its contents and Excel was trampling it. Nobody in their right mind will waste time to open Excel first, use import feature, re-navigate to the file they were already looking at, and go through the import dialog just to see what's inside.
What would a regulation look like here? Just a ban of casino style games?

It'd be cool if a nonprofit free to play alternative was set up to cut into some of the damage these do.
For a specific example of where choosing a name ("branch") which obfuscates the fact that you are actually manipulating a pointer, maybe consider what it means to delete a branch? Or create one for that matter.

Same in general programming, being clear on the difference between a reference and referee is vital to proper conceptualize what the operations actually do.

But I'm not sure even that's convincing as after using git for a while it becomes completely instinctual which is why it may not seem important to clearly identify a pointer to a commit and an actual sequence of commits related by the parent/child relationship.
It is nice to see the red flags in writing ahead of time. After all "boys will be boys"
It's mostly culture. I could get a gun+ammo in a week in Germany with no license. So could you and so did 'John Stark' (fgc9).
I honestly think these videos are horrible and chasing those engagement metrics is basically the opposite of creating art.

But one thing that did help me gain perspective is a comment that these are literally global products where English is a second language at best. They’re designed to really be the least common denominator.
There are definitely critical times where the engineering team can make a big swing in the success of their larger organization. I think that these intense periods naturally invite excitement. Going back to "normal" at the end of such a period is actually pretty hard; the work may not seem as important to the team, yet we have to rebuild some types of quality that were lost during the intense period.
Make it simple, equal ground rules for police as citizens. If it's illegal for me to point a gun at someone because someone told me a scary, it ought be the same as police. The dichotomy exhibits the standing army effect the founders warned against .
I learn every single day. But I ensure I've spent time with my partner and dog before blocking out time. Priorities.

At work I've blocked out time to learn. Here's what a typical day has been recently:

- 1-2 hours for Golang (TDD and Leetcode to learn the language)

- 1 hour towards learning SQL via CS50SQL

- 1-2 hours towards side project (A chrome extension development framework)

I only work 4 days a week though
There's a whole lot more than just two types of traction. What you've identified are two sides of a ROI timeline, one where your growth is immediate and another where your growth is gradual. Between those two extremes is an entire gradient of success and failure cases that only partially depends on your talent as a marketer. Treating traction as a binary state is precisely how you kill off a successful product before it takes off, or how you promote a complete stinker without realizing it's mostly trash. Your traction is the sum of a huge number of causal influences, not the least of which being if your product is actually good.
I think we do, to some extend. As the TL, when I’ve reviewed their PR I’m definitely not going to blame them for the bugs I missed during review. They’ll still have to fix them, because that’s just most efficient.
… and let’s us poor slobs transfer money to our friends and families without getting fleeced and cavity-searched.

So, there’s that too.
> Well it kind of makes sense if you believe people are generally going to follow social norms and not make false accusations for no reasons.

It kinda doesn't. If one in 10,000 people watching livestreams would do this kind of shitty thing, then at one million people watching livestreams, you can expect 100 instances of this crap.

It's small relative to global population but not small enough to ignore completely.