skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you intend to insure a pillow for $1 million, expect the premium to cost about $999,950.
What stops someone from decompiling the closed source driver into barely legible "source code" and then grafting that onto a generic kernel so it can run on the device? It wouldn't be pretty but it would probably be a faster way to get running on the device than having to write a complete reverse-engineered driver from scratch before you can even boot, and then you have a starting point for writing an open source driver that doesn't suck as much.

Could some change be made to the kernel to make that process easier? Do we need better tools to make it more practical?
You might avoid common pitfalls by reading "Eight Signs A Claimed P≠NP Proof Is Wrong": https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=458.
> You cannot disagree with "over/under-rated" because there's no official "rating" method.

(A) That's not going to stop anyone; (B) the claim can easily be obviously false. For example, Taylor Swift is underrated.

We have here an example of problem (B); P versus NP is possibly the single most famous problem in computer science. It isn't underrated.
It really wasn’t. It was the kind of writing you get when someone desperately wants to be deep and profound, but lacks the skills to pull it off.
Very unconvincing. If you become cleverer you can just write even more clever code and still not be able to debug it.
Literally the one saying can't we all get along is referencing Rodney King and inferring a comparison between them.

For future readers the article at one point said

>On May 1, 1992, a man who’d been horribly beaten by the L.A. police called for calm in five heartfelt, memorable words: “Can’t we all get along?”

This is a reference to a statement by Rodney King near the end of the riot period.

https://archive.nytimes.com/learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/...
Why is patent trolls even a thing? I thought you had to have a clear intention of using the patent in a product for it to be valid. How is it not a 5 minute court case showing how the patent trolls have no employees other than lawyers, which shows clearly that there is no intent to make a product?
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So-so, honestly. Was okay at the time. Sorry for not sharing it, but that’s how I feel.

Btw, reading and calculating hex is not that hard. In Hiew (and other hex/asm binary file editors that showed hex together with mnemonics) you quickly learn that e.g. B8 xx xx is “mov ax, imm” and C9/CB is a return. You can actually spot these in an 8-bit hex view, and yes, code has a pretty distinct feel in hex and ascii/exts. Zips and data don’t look like code.

For me hex code was read-only, but I remember my granddad entering programs through literally 8 on-off switches plus some more on a pre-sinclair “computer”. I could input hex values. He could input D0-D7 and #CLK itself.

That said there’s not much “hacker” in it. It’s just a knowledge induced by a relatively low level tooling and the times. We did what we did out of interest, not for social attitude. So yeah.
Can we have this but something server less? Like using cloudflare workers and R2 (I know R2 is S3 compatible)
I wrote as much in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41755211
Extract as much value as you can from a quickly depreciating asset before you dump it.

Makes so much money.
TLDR: All energy usage produces waste heat, and while right now the planetary heating from altering the atmospheric composition (GHG emissions) dwarves that from waste heat, even if we were to switch all our energy production to "green" energy tomorrow, assuming continued exponential increase in energy consumption as at present, in one century waste heat alone would account for about 1K of planetary heating. Any technological civilization that follows a similar trajectory of exponential increase in energy consumption would make its planet uninhabitable within 1000 years.
Indeed. This... like expectation that free programs should work the way somebody other than the author expects it, and particularly when it comes to opensource, which is most often made available under no promises and liabilities, seems from the side as some sort of cognitive dissonance mixed with a little too much self-centeredness.

Even though the e.egg broke s.o.'s pipeline, it should yet be celebrated. Why? Cause otherwise you get libfuse's author rage quitting over endless pressure on himself and his codebase for little fun and no profit.

Easter eggs are much less invasive and nasty compared to mid-video yt ads, which the world gladly takes alongside free content, including people who hate having their pipes tweaked with. Besides, there is enough evidence internet and the whole computing business works on workarounds and now with LLMs - on pure chance.
Well this at least doesn't kill a random person who has to empty your storage for legit reasons and sets off a land mine.
Black Scholes is not used for any otc option pricing, except perhaps to provide an instantaneous estimate to get in the ballpark, but no one would use it for the final price.
Gravel trucks are the last trucks that should ever be hopping curbs though, even gentle ones. Gravel trucks already require many roads to be upgraded due to the weight and damage they do just to a flat surface. A truck carrying diapers and crackers won't mind so much, but when you got 50 tons of gravel then even a small 1 inch jump causes significant extra forces on both the road and the truck.
Ruminants can eat things that humans cannot eat or should not eat. Bacteria in the ruminant stomach can bio-hydrogenate the unsaturated oils in their feed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38437204

Dairy cows are an efficient means of converting calories into a form that humans can use.

Thanks for the youtube channel link.
Hello fellow arp fiend. What I did: Go full hardware with a Squarp Pyramid or Hapax sequencer. Then stack multiple Arpeggiator effects on a channel to a MIDI synthesizer. Wire up the touch pad x/y axis to control some of the arp parameters or modulate them with an LFO. Get crazy, yo.

https://squarp.net/legacy/pyramid/manual/effects/#sHqFsaX
No, their job is to accurately calculate the expected value of the losses, then collect a premium slightly higher than the expected value, turning an unpredictable, potentially high loss into a predictable small one. Reverse gambling, basically.

1. Know your insurance contract, know what's actually covered and what not (sometimes describing the same facts in two different yet truthful ways will result in your claim being accepted or denied) and have a non-shit insurance company (check reviews that talk about how they handle claims or ask friends that had claims).

2. "Self-insure" risks where the variance won't hurt you. In other words, if you can grudgingly eat the loss if it happened, don't get insurance and eat the loss if it happens. If you have a lot of disposable income, you don't need insurance for something that won't noticeably shift your budget. Likewise, pick high deductibles. What would you rather do: Eat a $300 loss, or have paid $200 in additional premiums and spend two hours of filling out their paperwork?

3a. An exception is if you just really want the peace of mind, are willing to pay for that, and think you can find an insurance company that will actually pay.

3b. Another exception is if you think they miscalculated the premiums. I know that this is unlikely, but it ties into the "peace of mind" criteria - if you think a risk is more likely than it actually is, just insuring it might be an easy way out. The premium might also be accurate for the average, but you might also think or know that you are at a significantly higher risk than average.

For the latter two points, I like to consider insurance cost "per decade" or "per lifetime".
Yeah I think MATLAB and Mathematica are waaay more used than K et al. They just don't look insane so people aren't posting them on HN as much.
Might be worth adding (2020) to the title
The difference between gambling and insurance, is whether you have an insurable interest.

It makes the market for insurance much better if everyone actually has insurance. Because it reduces cost. It also keeps the industry legitimate, preventing gambling legislation from applying, and anti-gambling activists from targeting insurers.

You'll have to go to a bookie if you want to gamble.
And if he starts a nuclear war, what do you do then?

Direct engagement with NATO would almost surely guarantee massive loss to Putin, possibly leading to his fall. He would have very little to lose in that scenario, and so nuclear war would not be impossible.
Oh! Thank you, I will have to try that. Here I just got it working and stopped reading docs... oops...
No, we need an alternative smartphone ecosystem like a hole in the head. Android won, and AOSP is free software. There is no reason to undertake the Herculean task of writing a new mobile userspace core. You might as well write a new kernel while you're at it. What would be the point? What are you going to do better than AOSP? A 5% more efficient binder?

At Google HQ, there is a veritable mountain of skulls of Android competitor projects. Please notice the skulls before doing something that will almost certainly add your project to the pile.
Indeed, other times the customer relationships, or the packaging, sometimes it is even about technology, but not so often .) Having attended and then participated in the masters program in Technological Entrepreneurship @ Sofia University, this all seems now so apparent. But you can only really grasp it when you have a business activity, otherwise it is sounds like common sense talk.
How Many Martinis Can You Fit Inside a V-2 Missile?
Dental health benefits of fluoride in water may have declined, study finds
Mid-level LC questions are an excellent indicator of problem-solving ability: you need to read the task, understand the requirements, write code, think of edge cases, and potentially optimize, all of this in a time-constrained environment.

Flat-out refusal to do any kind of algorithmic interviews is a red flag for scammers and people who thrive on politics instead of building things.
I know absolutely nothing about Wordpress or Matt! I'm not much of an internet historian
The solution to wordpress-the-org being mismanaged is to sort out the org management.
The premium would be 1M. Maybe .99M if they have reason to assume not everyone will be fraudulent.
mean(a - b)
Better safe than sorry. Especially when hundreds of lives are potentially on the line.
Dumb or not, getting rid of their smaller customers and jacking up prices for their large customers is exactly what Broadcom said their strategy was going to be immediately after they bought VMware. They are in the execution stage now, it shouldn't come as news to anyone at this point.
Well, by regulation, an aircraft is a “national property”, so a blast in an aircraft is seen as “national incompetence”. The security check is just a filter, an attack there is seen as general terror. The stakes are very different. It is also easier to de-escalate someone with a gun or other dangerous objects at the security check, people at that location are well trained to handle such situation and extra support is just a radio away, in aircraft, not only is the situation extra dangerous because other people sitting will act immensely irrationally or panic, the crew is only trained in minor de-escalation, and it is difficult to call a backup security in mid air and any shots fired in that environment is 1000x more dangerous.
We need mandatory FLOSS and mandatory open-hardware with the obligation for all commercial products to be design and built openly from start to allow a community to form and switching marketing from mass advertisement to community flaws of interests. Essentially OEMs instead of being advertisement driven with brands like religions they should evolve toward being innovation-branded.

That's would create a much better and knowledgeable world BUT it means having entrepreneurs in chief and managers and technicians aside ate the same level, "high output managers" do really dislike that.
We already have it, and it's called Sailfish OS (https://sailfishos.org/ and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailfish_OS)

The paid version even comes with Android App Support - the 'killer feature' that allows a Sailfish device to run full Android apps in a sandbox (https://jolla.com/appsupport).

Some people will inevitably moan that it's proprietary, but that's just the UI layer; the rest is wide open, familiar Linux. I can SSH into my device without any fancy workarounds, and it works almost identically to a desktop machine.

(Besides, how else is a company meant to survive in the super-competitive mobile device market? The OS is cheap. Android App Support is awesome. Pay up and be grateful!)

The UX is simple and consistent, WAY superior to iOS and Android.

Most importantly, it has an ecosystem: the Jolla app store, a comprehensive SDK, and an alternative open source app repository (https://openrepos.net/).
Yeah I was surprised about that one ‘Handling stolen goods’ is a criminal offence in Britain and if you can prove ownership of something you get it back. If you’re an innocent intermediary and you bought a stolen item without knowing you have to make a civil claim against the person you bought the item from to get the money back.
Amazon has 1.5 million employees, they probably have 100,000 managers.
> Now, how do you make sure that these companies buying patents don’t become trolls?

The problem with patents is that they prevent use by 3rd-parties, either by the license being too expensive or by the patentee refusing to grant one. The patentee actually using their patent has no bearing on this. The real solution to this mess is to make patent licensing compulsory. The patent office could decide that in lieu of a contract staying otherwise, a patentee is guaranteed 10% of profits or 5% of production costs, whichever is greater. Patents used to provide ongoing services could be 1% of profits. Non-commercial users should be exempt.
It's a solved problem for ARM platforms with standards like SBSA. Thankfully, a few ARM notebooks implement ACPI, UEFI and whatnot that makes standardizing boot images easy instead of requiring bespoke images for every model.
I interviewed a bunch and sometimes I saw folks attempting to write a perfect code snippet and it would almost always result in them not being able to finish the actual problem I wanted to see on time (which resulted in rejection). So after a few of those I started asking people to just get to the point first and then make it nice if there’s time
Show HN: TopazNG - Amiga system font for coding and terminal use
For some reason I've always had a soft-spot for the quirky Amiga workbench aesthetic.

I find modern fonts, while functional to lack the character & charm of some of the fonts on older systems.

I've been using this font daily on my terminal & for editing code recently and like it so far.
> What's wrong with just letting the premium take care of it?

Offering a deal that nobody honest would take is a waste of time for everyone involved.
It wasn't just me then. I thought I was going mad!
I don't follow the logic? How does above-market-value insurance discourage people from having insurance?

I don't get the comparison to gambling either, that reads more like an appeal to emotion than actual reasoning.
It can actually make it worse, and creates different Hazards.

When it does work is when insurance has no influence on the price of goods, and is a minor consumer. For example, when fire insurance pays to replace your goods that burnt up.

When it doesnt work is when insurance is the predominant purchaser of those goods. A good example would be US health insurance, which has an 80/20 rule just like your proposal. Health insurers by law (ACA) must pay out 80%, with 20% allowed for opex and shareholder returns. The Hazard is that as an industry, to increase returns, you want the cost of care as high as possible, thereby maximizing your allowable profit.

It is a similar problem to how power is regulated in California, which has a mandated profit cap as a percent of costs. As a result, these regulated companies have the highest opex and cost of power in the nation of approximately $0.50/kwh
Their version numbers are meaningless in that way. Most major up upgrades are non events
Perhaps you’ll be kind enough to post the explanation as a top level comment.

It’ll certainly help those of us who do not know K.
Wow, doctors being treated like ... employees? That is outrageous! Don't these private equity firms know that docs are in a privileged social class, not touchable by menial rules like something having to be done in 25 minutes?
Sure, whatever. The exact value of the premium has no bearing on the point I'm trying to make.
There's nothing wrong with wanting advertising to survive. It's a creative powerhouse and a huge cultural influence.

But what most people really mean when they say that is: I want to preserve ways of coercing or tricking people into consuming content that they do not actually want to consume at the time of consumption.

And I think that is a very bad idea, regardless of the expectations people put into that ability.

No one should be force-fed advertising.
You are bullying and lying. Please kindly stop bullying and remove comments with lies. Thank you very much.
It is still less efficient that growing food humans can use directly
Ahh, so we must have more e-waste because terrorism means we can't replace our batteries with anything not under the full control of Buy n Large.
I think Vancouver is the best city in North America.
With the vendor/system split introduced by project Treble in Android, it should be easier than ever to build your own system against a rich set of hardware abstractions, that work on a wide range of devices. Assuming you are ok with still running a very thick slice of the stack as proprietary vendor image.
For distros, you're probably talking about small programs with shared libraries. I talked to the Bolt guy at an LLVM meeting and Bolt is set up for big statically linked programs like what you'd see at Facebook or Google (which has Propeller). It may have changed but even though they were upstreaming Bolt to LLVM, they didn't really have support for small programs with shared libraries.
It's on the IATA dangerous goods list, with pretty much the same wording: https://www.iata.org/contentassets/6fea26dd84d24b26a7a1fd578...

Attaché cases
Security-type attaché cases, cash boxes, cash bags, etc. incorporating dangerous goods, such as lithium batteries and/or pyrotechnic material, except when authorized by the airline, are totally forbidden.

https://www.emirates.com/english/before-you-fly/travel/dange...

For what it's worth the FAA doesn't like these either: https://www.faa.gov/hazmat/packsafe/security-type-equipment
VMware has always sucked so this is good news in the long run
I'd class this website as good if you want to make a visual impact, but giving subtly bad advice if you want to visualise data.

Looking at the selection for proportions [0] there are things like circle packing or bubble maps presented as options. These are terrible ways to encode visual data if the intent is for the audience to actually take an interest in the data itself. Humans are really bad at interpreting the relative size of areas, especially circles. They really only make sense if the intent is to wow the audience that you have data and design skills, then everyone moves on without asking tough questions. Fair enough, sometimes that is the right thing to do, but it isn't a good way to visualise data. Use bars.

[0] https://datavizcatalogue.com/search/proportions.html
Yeah, in an era when mobile device users are a pretty major customer segment, and they're essentially all native-v6, it's weird to dismiss it.
I’m stunned by the idea of making the pawn shop whole.

As I understand UK law, if you buy stolen goods, the original owner can just claim it back and you take the loss - simply to discourage buying with knowledge it was stolen.

I guess the pawn shop would go out of business but it does seem if you let them act as a fence you are solving for the wrong problem
Canvases versus Documents
Yes, I said it seemed like a reference. A reference is different than a comparison. What is the comparison to the company? Can you explain it to me?
no auth at all
> Offering a deal that nobody honest would take is a waste of time for everyone involved.

I'm not suggesting any insurer should be forced to offer a deal. They're welcome to just shrug and tell you to pound sand. What I don't see is the logic behind having an international code prohibiting the offering of such deals. Is the international code trying to dictate to the insurance company what is worth their time?
That’s how LC sells it. And companies buy it. I know enough people, that deliver on very tight deadlines, but can’t do whiteboard coding during stressful interviews. Are these scammers or thrive in politics? Or just stress level is way too high during these interviews with 3 strangers in front of you sitting in unfamiliar office with unfamiliar computer.
No PDFs or books for you I guess.
>Communism thrives and is growing in America!

A disheartening thought. Are things really that bad in USA?
The mobile ecosystem is basically the world Stallman and his comrades-in-arms wanted to prevent.

It did't come to reality on the PC, but sneaked in through the backdoor with the advent of mobile devices.

I have little hope that this can be undone, but we need to be prepared to nip these tendencies in the bud for the next paradigm shift.
From everything I’ve read, that seems to be the name of the game on anything beyond senior. Try to gather influence. Slap your name on projects that are going well, stay away from projects that are going bad. Say the right keywords that you’re supposed to say. It all seems so tiresome.
Not a fan of ownership changing to rent, but it's almost inevitable that these kind of products will turn into AI cloud services now. All that server power is not cheap.

I'd still prefer a fixed perpetual license with a usage based fee for AI features though.
In my opinion, not being able to call out vague requirements is a red flag for any senior role, staff or not.

I call our vague requirements not because it's part of a certain process or something I read from a book. It's because I want to know what the heck you actually want because I want to double check your plan.

Heck, if a friend comes to me with a plan, my first question will always be "what are you trying to do?" because I don't want you to waste your time.
You can read about it at

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

(I don't know if that will make you more sympathetic to the legal rule or not.)
Oh the interesting part is “our AI could not interpret images of common objects at unusual angles”.

Now that’s fascinating - why not? Is computer vision just boring pattern recognition and really does not have “concepts” underlying it - if so 90% of the AI hype is false?

There must be several phds in that at least :-)
I think it is. In my experience it is basically mirrors a cross section of California politics, ages 25-40.

That is fairly left when compared US averages.
Broadcom follows the private equity playbook: hike prices and reduce expenses. Customers will leave until only the most locked in remain. This extracts value from the business and makes it more capital efficient. Broadcom will continue to extract value until only a husk remains.
But they can offer a lower price than competitors or collect more profits (to taste) by having a lower expected value of losses by screwing you over
Yep. And before ID requirements, it was the poll taxes. Like robbing a bank, the penalties for fraudulently voting are so extreme (52 USC 20511) that no sane person should dare to entertain it. As such, it's simpler and encourages exercising of voting rights to lower bureaucratic barriers now to figure out paperwork and credentials later.
Heisenberg's autobiography is much better
Privacy respecting vacuum robots? Why not Valetudo?

https://valetudo.cloud/