skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Worth noting that having everything encrypted at rest wouldn't have helped in this case, because the attackers threatened the credentials out of the owner.

Still a good idea though, since it deters far more subtle attempts.
Worth noting is that OpenRCT2 has multiplayer co-op!
They'll have to see who is winning first?
Nobody is jobless. You either have a job or you don't need a job. If you need a job, then finding a job is your full time job. Do your marketing. Build your offerings (skills.) Slam your offerings against the market as much as possible to get feedback.

I couldn't imagine anyone wanting a job not finding one. At least in the US, there's industries hurting for skills shortages. We're also on the edge of a cliff of baby boomers retiring.
Far from a complete list, but I maintain a curated list of personal blogs with RSS feeds here https://minifeed.net/blogs
System administrators are paid to wake up at night to fix things.

Ask your boss, "do you want your users wait until the next morning for the system administrator to wake up and fix the issue? Or do you want the software inform the user how long it will take to fix the issue in seconds and start calling the system administrator to wake up and fix it?"

Because you answer based on your preferences as a worker who wants to avoid the extra work to make the system perfect and not your boss's preferences.
Not the person you're replying to, and I also don't have sources, but to me this is the logical conclusion to deeper thought beyond these vague innuendoes about manipulation and national security.

And isolationist, hands-off US would be great for China (and Russia, etc.). China has been increasing their influence on the global stage for quite some time now, and would love to surpass the US in its global influence. Helping to get leaders elected (like Trump) who want to pull back and focus inward could easily be a part of that strategy. (To be fair, I don't think China got Trump re-elected; I think Democrat blindness toward actual domestic issues got Trump re-elected.)

> "... that are equally applicable to US companies.*

I don't really agree that's the case. From the US government's perspective, the dominant social media platforms being owned by US companies is a big win. Certainly those companies sometimes act in ways that piss off the US government, but the trade off is worth it.
The mistakes are common. Almost tropes.

It would be like golf swing or skiing mistakes. Every instructor knows em.
I mean, or it heavily restricts the pool of founders to mostly those who already have enough wealth such that they won't be homeless.

I don't see why a safety net wouldn't mitigate this risk in the first place, which would then allow for more people to take these risks and come up with great ideas as well
Once you get past the passionate technologist crowd, and there have been signs the initial buyer pool for Tesla was already stagnating a bit in 2023, who are the next natural candidates for buyers?

The mass market is 1/3 right wing, 1/3 left wing, 1/3 centrist roughly.

The 1/3 right wing are the pickup truck buyers. Like a rock ... Strong as I can be.

The 1/3 left wing is now pretty much a no.

The 1/3 centrist is probably price driven. Tesla is still too expensive for them, and if they want a Tesla, I would say they are buying a used one.

Tesla has two cars: a sedan, a crossover, in small and medium. They don't have real pickups, work trucks, station wagons, sports cars, roadsters, delivery vans, real SUVs, city cars/kei cars, or minivans. The cybertruck is a sideshow, the robotaxi is years away given Tesla's roadmap with mundane manufacturing scaling, to say nothing of the AI advance it requires and the alien nature of it to the larger buying public.

Tesla failed to utilize its name brand in ebikes, motorcycles, scooters, or even other battery/motor devices like hand tools, lawn tools, snowblowers, riding mowers. Obviously no heavy equipment aside from some pilot Semis. No RVs.

The Solar business is meh. The grid business likely will be outcompeted by sodium ion/lfp/other schemes. Home storage is slow uptake, and again they'll probably be outcompeted in price.

Tesla has no more tech advantage. Their EV drivetrain may be a percent or two more efficient, but likely not enough to matter. NMC cylindrical cells are about to be economically noncompetitive with 150 wh/kg sodium ion and 200-225 wh/kg LFP, and denser stuff is on the 3 year roadmap. The battery day 4680 tech is basically undelivered or won't scale.

I just don't see the growth path for this company anymore barring miraculous AI combined with miraculous execution combined with miraculous domestic battery supply. About the only thing I can see floating the company it terms of real sales figures would be the Semi, but it sure looks like a soft launch to me that is still a year away, and something that will need either sulfur chemistries, solid state, or dirt cheap high density LFP/Sodium Ion to be economically viable.
logged in? do people that are not editors do that?
Unlikely, because in spite of heavier weight the pads are used less, as a last resort.

Most braking is done by recuperation, i.e. turning the motors into generators, braking electromagnetically, so to speak.
lol the person is happy with the minimal life and here we are trying to fix it for them pushing Amazon links.
The zero would obviously be the zero value of one of the constituents. Coproducts in most of Go are easy: it's interfaces that make it hard.
What? Someone likes Lackadaisy. Nothing wrong with that.
Precursors of Copernicus' heliocentric theory
Is this written anonymously?

I'm wondering what stake the author(s) have in gambling companies.
> or at least Congress to pass a law banning it.

They did that already.
>Was it used by China, by the candidate, or by romainians?

I think the allegation, implied rather than stated in this case, is that it is not predominantly any of those, but that it is predominantly the Russian state.

Which would serve as an example that it's able to be mobilized, even weaponized, at the behest of state actors. China would not necessarily be culpable under this interpretation of this particular example, but it illustrates that they could exercise that same mechanism.
Will I still be allowed to use Douyin? Can we all just sign up there instead?

https://www.douyin.com/
Receiving calls? Perhaps Im too young, what was the use case for that?
> they would pass privacy laws that affect all social media companies.

And China would just ignore it. It's already illegal to steal IP and yet China does it all the time.
How many possible combinations of RNA and DNA can there be?

Is it fewer then that due to what we know about variance in codon sequence alignment?

Does protein coding viability further limit the viable combinations?
not really.

I am writing code on my machine, running one query at a time. I can easily view the logs and spend a lot of time looking at them.

I am running test suites, running thousands of queries. It's harder, but I will still view the logs around failures.

Then I am taking the very code, and pushing it to prod. Should my logs be suddenly completely different in this case?

(The right answer of course is to have "log-to-text formatter", either running in-process or as a separate post-processing step. But it better produce nice-looking, human-readable logs, or every format will be "Message: %s" )
Or perhaps a caching issue?
Retail can years after the original indie release
2 years living in a big city enjoying entrepreneurship, hacking, socializing, music, sports, climbing, triathlons – all without the shackles of a 9-5 office job – sounds like a dream. Resourceful people find ways to pay their bills, and I'm sure you will as well. Best of luck!
I did some fooling around with this and it seems promising.

The first problem is that, when your enciphering function is a matrix, f(0) = 0. This looks bad, but we can easily solve that problem by starting the webpage sequence at an index higher than 0.

I tried to work through a much smaller version of the problem* by hand, and it looks like this:

We have our enciphering matrix N:

[[1 1 1 1 1]
[1 0 0 1 1]
[1 1 1 0 0]
[0 1 1 1 0]
[1 0 1 0 0]]

and our deciphering matrix D, the inverse of N:

[[1 1 1 0 0]
[0 0 1 0 1]
[1 1 1 0 1]
[1 1 0 1 0]
[0 1 1 1 0]]

We want to find the next index whose encipherment ends in -110. This sets up a system of equations Dx = y, where x_3 = 1, x_4 = 1, x_5 = 0, and y tells us the index of x. By multiplying that out, we get:

y_1 = x_1 + x_2 + 1
y_2 = 1
y_3 = x_1 + x_2 + 1
y_4 = x_1 + x_2 + 1
y_5 = x_2

So we can freely choose any values for y_1 and y_5, and the rest will be filled in by constraints.

Assuming we want the least possible value for y, this means we will pick y_1 = 0 and y_5 = 0, which then tells us that we want index [0 1 0 0 0], and we can jump to there. If we wanted the least possible value for y above a threshold (such as the current viewport), we'd pick y_n values accordingly.

Instinct tells me that libraries should exist for quickly solving systems of linear equations like this.

(For full full-text search, we'd need to do this several times, also finding solutions for the enciphered values 110xx, and x110x. This multiplies the work we need to do and the storage we need to use by an amount that is linear in the difference in length between the search string and the full UUID, which is still a lot better than trial-and-error.)

* I ended up doing it in 5 bits because every random 4x4 matrix I generated was noninvertible.
.. probably yes, it would become illegal. I don't think that this is the absurdity you believe it is. It can even be the solution. If

* we want candidates to spend ~the same amount of money on campaign and

* Russia interferes

then the state, Canada or Romania, should block TikTok propaganda. What else?

Also I think that if the "same amount of campaign money" rule is proven to be wrong, and they want to go in an "anything goes" way instead, then they should redo the election, and they shouldn't accept the results with unfair conditions.
I would add Bash Forth to that. String-threaded concatenative programming!
> can't even necessarily depend on bc/dc being available in every environment

Just discovered this myself, also trying to make a language target shell. Was really surprised bc/dc was not present I think in Ubuntu install in WSL2. Also using awk for floating point math, but just shelling out to it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5JBlwlnJX0
Roller Coaster Tycoon is notable because:

- It was relatively late. The heyday of coding games in assembler was years prior (maybe there were some exceptions in portable platforms?). Was there any other smash hit PC game in 1999 coded in x86 assembler?

- It's a pretty substantially complex and large-scale game, at least relatively speaking. It's one thing to write a game like Tetris in assembler, RCT is magnitudes more complicated than the vast majority of games on e.g. the SNES. Doesn't mean the games are bad or anything, and there are probably exceptions. (I know the SNES in particular has a Sim City port, though it's pretty slow.)

- It's not just about assembler really, it's about the whole mindset. RCT is very well-optimized. For example, gameplay mechanics are adapted (e.g. stretching the length of months, shaping algorithms for calculating scores and ratings, etc.) around reducing the number of multiplications, and even on fairly crummy computers of the early 2000s it was possible to have huge parks with a lot of guests running quite well. Contrasting RCT2 with RCT3 paints a pretty good picture, because if you ran both on contemporary computers for their respective releases RCT3 with its fancy 3D graphics and modern development practices couldn't handle a fraction the size of parks without becoming a laggy unplayable mess.

I admit that I think people focus on it a bit much, especially since I'm not sure most people who repeat this fact actually understand what it means. But honestly, I'm willing to be arrogant enough to say I understand, and I salute. Writing scalable and complex code that actually works in macro assembler is not at all impossible, but it's certainly not easy. It requires a discipline that is not to be taken for granted.

That said, I watched the video, and while it did talk on this point, it was largely about the death of hit games from small teams and the bedroom coder.
Flip the actors and imagine how you might feel. Imagine in Hungary if Orban was defeated by a radically pro-NATO, pro-EU guy. And then courts in Hungary ruled that said person was unfairly promoted by Google, Instagram, et al. And so the election had to be completely redone. And then some reason was found to exclude this individual from the next election (as will certainly happen here, or he'd probably just win again).

There would be 24/7 headlines about tyranny, disregarding democracy, and more. The US would be leading the charge with sanctions against Hungary if not outright "regime change", and the EU would likely even begin working on motions to remove them from the EU. Yet when the wrong candidate wins a democratic vote, suddenly everything is entirely different. The 'rules based order' becoming a joke is precisely why anti-establishment candidates are winning everywhere.
> Has anyone else considered leaving the United States long before retirement age?

Yes. I'm American but was born in a small country in Eastern Europe. I was planning on moving back during the pandemic, however I was presented with some job prospects I couldn't reject and my move was delayed. But I do plan on retiring in my hometown within two years. There is universal healthcare which sucks for the most part, but private insurance is extremely cheap (compared to the US) and I could retire more than comfortably with my current nw. And by 'retire' I don't mean stop working, I mean I'm going to work on whatever I want.

And to your original point about healthcare, it is the absolute single reason for why I did not take any sabbaticals or long term leave even while burned out, for my insomnia during layoff seasons and generally for my job related stress.
What about Planet Coaster?
>why are we ok with the algorithmic content of all the platforms?

I don't think we are okay, but I don't think there's an across the board equivalent. We prioritize the egregious examples while simultaneously searching for a systematic redress that's less heavy handed.

I don't think Facebook marketing Blue Apron to its users is the same kind of issue as undermining democracy in Romania.
Searching for small primordial black holes in planets, asteroids and on Earth
Related:

OpenRCT2 – RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 in browser using emscripten
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42318673
does "scatter" do anything? doesn't seem so to me on android chrome (pixel 7a)
Ask HN: If TikTok's banned, can I use Douyin?
If the TikTok ban sticks, what does it mean for the Chinese variant, Douyin? Is there anything that would stop a bunch of Westerners using it instead?

https://www.douyin.com/

Like this guy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AM9vIhiG_8A
Yep! I considered shelling out to AWK for the same reason, as a bc/dc alternative, but rapidly found that nearly everything else bash could do was easier and less error-prone (and workable on much older systems) if I moved the whole script into pure AWK.
Contactless payment by card is mandated going forward:

https://www.fleeteurope.com/en/new-energies/europe/article/f...

So you won't have to sign up for anything else.
You expand your knowledge in useless things like design patterns and frameworks. Odin will make this type of knowledge useless.

Making simple tickets to epic shows that the company does not have a software architecturer. It means that you create a monster application with full of technical debts left by junior. If CDD used in your company, nobody would ever be able to replace a ticket with an epic, because the architecturer would show you from where to start and what steps to take.
If the secret service tells the president it's Russian interference, then it is what it is. The report was declassified and the Constitutional Court has acted on some of the interference complaints, of which there were at least three after the report was published. It has unanimously voted to cancel the election. This is part of the checks and balances of a functioning democracy.
Anecdotally, Australians are very very unhappy with Musk now due to the US election
ScholarlyArticle: "Searching for small primordial black holes in planets, asteroids and here on Earth" (2024) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S22126...

NewsArticle: "Ancient black holes could dig tiny tunnels in rocks and buildings" (2024) https://newatlas.com/physics/primordial-black-holes-tiny-tun...
We all took the DVD boom era for granted
I will try to ignore the a16z part, which just invalidates this whole website and project (almost feels like a parody).

"Crypto is the answer to debanking" was almost, kinda-sorta true like 15 years ago. But today pretty much all the crypto prices are driven by institutional investors, lead by major banks. Where I live, the streets are full of crypto ads, all by big banks, trying to convince grammas to put their pension in doge coin...
> Disinterest in the diversity and detail of scholarly definitions is the very opposite of intellectual curiosity.

Is it? I personally consider research in classification to be of relatively low intellectual value, especially in the already poor sciences of psychology and sociology. So the expectation of value from it, intellectual or not, is extremely low.

I mean, just take "cited as standard by _notable scholars_", "focuses on", and "anti-communism". Then ask yourself: what if the communism did not exist as an idea yet until after 1945, e.g. USSR being just another western democracy, and the holocaust and WWII still went the way they did, would Germany no longer be "fascist"? Somehow I asked myself that question right away, but none of the _notable scholars_ did.

This is why in this thread the fact that masses can be manipulated by wordplay seems more interesting than classification of societies. I'm more intellectually curious about what to do with that problem.
Vitamin D deficiency is common in high latitudes. Most people don't get enough from their diets so supplements are recommended for them.

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/vitamins-and-minerals/vitamin-...

Vitamin B (thiamine) deficiency is also common among alcoholics. Lots of heavy drinkers out there. While obviously drinking less is the preferred solution, if they aren't willing to do that then supplements can reduce the harm.

https://adf.org.au/insights/alcohol-related-thiamine-deficie...
I would rather make every year a prime year.
On my phone so can’t double check, but as far as I remember neither Grep nor sed supports \d in their regex implementation.
Can't you opt out? I'd even wager by default they don't retain this data for in-house training, especially at enterprise.
It’s always good to take a look, many things are decided on the client side, and developer tools are part of the browsers anyway.

The other day I wanted to make reservations for a service to send my luggage from the airport to my house in Japan, and the form was giving me errors.

Searching for the error string around I realized there was a timeout set on the client side, so I increased it and could slowly but smoothly fill in all the information that required a server check.

I guess they never bothered to debug their system when accessing it from the other side of the world. All it needed was a few extra milliseconds for the requests to arrive in time.
VTI + VXUS + BND, I’ve been dumping into those since my first tech paycheck in my early 20s, and now in my late 30s I can see a way out before I hit 40.
I'll do what I like with links, and I appreciate it when they behave in the conventional manner.
The recent shoes to me that the precursor for cancer is diabetes and inflammatory biotoxins
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42319997

118 comments, 2 days ago
I think it may have to do with the fact that most programmers today don't even know what a computer is. You can ask most "Software Engineer I's and II's" what the difference between the stack and the heap is and get some pretty strange answers. So, it is interesting for some to think about people that had some idea about it. I don't know.
Didn't he say he started with $80,000, spent it, and is now out of money?

Presumably he now needs to either get a job asap or make some hard choices. But it sounds like the post is supposed to be a retrospective so its not surprising he isn't really talking about the future.

> I don't mean to be one of those people that shout "privilege

He literally had enough money to blow $80,000 on 2 years of unemployment. Of course he is privleged. Most people in the computer industry are. Most posters to hn are. The average person lives paycheque to paycheque and certainly doesn't have 80k just lying around in their bank account.
Why would you say that? So ohio.
> For example, write a simple pipeline where Claude would scrutinize OpenAI's answers and vice versa.

I'm working on a naive approach to identify errors in LLM responses which I talk about at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42313401#42313990, which can be used to scrutinize responses. It's written in Javascript though, but you will be able to create a new chat by calling a http endpoint.

I'm hoping to have the system in place in a couple of weeks.
Mix not either-or. Zero is a bad strategy even for evil.
>If we're so terrified that TikTok can blast a candidate into office, we should be equally concerned that Rumble or Twitter could too

I'm seeing a lot of attempts to render Tiktok as interchangeable to any number of other examples in order to pose a dilemma about logical equivalences. I just don't think these withstand factual scrutiny. Rumble is not at the scale or engagement of Tiktok and Twitter does not have ties to a major competitive state actor.

You can see how it's meaningfully differentiated if you want to. If you don't want to, you attempt to restate the terms on which the comparison happens to make it look for fuzzy, so everything looks the same.
yeah it's just like writing a larger program in C. It takes longer to build up the basic primitives than you may be used to, but once you get going it's just programming.

I think programmers just haven't had that experience, so it's other worldly.
Tesla's brand damage in Australia:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2024-08-22/tesla-reputat...
And yet as home prices have gone up the number of homeless remains pretty much about the same in California. So if the number of homeless don't really increase with the rise in home prices, then it makes me think there's really just always some % of the population that can't integrate and be productive in society regardless of the cost of housing or economic conditions.
4 is the minimum number of digits required, but there are over a dozen different PIN block standards, and most allow between 4..9 and 4..16 digits: https://www.eftlab.com/knowledge-base/complete-list-of-pin-b...

Making an ATM that can accept cards from multiple issuers (which is the norm these days) and allowing only 4 digits is the same category of error as requiring that the first character of someone's last name start with a capital letter, or to block symbol characters in names.