skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i401k’s which you have to manage yourself if you are a contractor allow you to purchase whatever you want depending on where your account is. I was with Vanguard and they do not allow it - I moved my account to etrade and now my 401k account is basically like my brokerage account, I can buy whatever I want.
And what is wrong with being a cog? Not everyone is going to invent the next ai innovation and not everyone is cut out to build the next hot programming language.

Bugs need to be fixed. Features need to be implemented. If it weren't for cogs, you'd have people just throwing new projects over the fence and dropped 6 months after release. Don't want to be another cog? Join a startup. Plenty of those hiring. The reality is that when you work at a large company, you're one of 50,000 people. By definition, only 1% are in the top 1%.

Someone has to wash the dishes and clear the tables. Let's stop looking down at jobs just because it's not hot and sexy. People who show up and provide value is great and should be appreciated.
"TLS-N", "TLS Sign", and maybe a couple others were supposed to add non-repudiation.

But they didn't really go anywhere:

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/52135/tls-with-...

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/103645/does-ssl...

There are some special cases, like I think certain headers for signing e-mails, that do provide non-repudiation.

For that, `tcpdump` with `SSLKEYLOGFILE` will probably get you started on capturing what you need.
Yep. Do not obey in advance.
> That one person that creates threads haphazardly will wreak havoc

What if someone comes along and starts adding threads and doesn't check what they are accessing? And doesn't read the documented invariants of the design?

Well I don't think any project can succeed if that's the level disorganization.

Are there certain kinds of bugs that are easy to regress last minute? Yes. A brand new thread without limited state is not one of them.

> put the onus of program soundness on the contributors to a program.

Who then is responsible for making sure the program is correct?
IIRC someone else started it by applying a ligature to the appropriate regional indicator pairs, then Unicode adopted it.
Will do, I was researching generic causes into hEDS + autism in general and came across a post you made on HN in 2021 where you mentioned TNXB. Noticed your technical background and I figured that was far too close to be random. I went from thinking that TNXB is just one of many possible causes of hEDS and super rare to thinking that most definitely I have it. A WGS confirmed it. Word about it is starting to get around it helps that we tend to have similar interests and hobbies. It is statistically blindingly obvious to me but it is surprisingly really hard to convince others. Most people understand the world through a lens of social proof and can’t imagine a world where something like this could remain undiscovered.
This is actually part of what I find so wrong about this entire idea.

With all this fine granularity, it seems like ads would be incredibly relevant. Specifically about what you need with something that might actually result in a click-through to purchase a product. Especially if they get real-time updates on my hard-drive status and battery state.

I don't remember the last time I got an ad that was actually relevant. Pretty sure the last ad that was even clicked on was one of those little windmills that swirls crazily, cause it seemed like it might make a cool lawn ornament. Turned out it was tiny. Years of online purchases, and they don't even suggest stuff I want.

It just seems like an excuse.
I'll take my medicine. :)

I'm not above being put in my place and being shown the light.

(And when I said OP, I did mean the parent poster)

You should also understand that the "you" in my comment you quoted is the colloquial you and not necessarily the parent poster.

So lay it on me.
Looks amazing, but the limitations section seems concerning given the nature of the tool:

“Limitations
Deep research unlocks significant new capabilities, but it’s still early and has limitations. It can sometimes hallucinate facts in responses or make incorrect inferences, though at a notably lower rate than existing ChatGPT models, according to internal evaluations. It may struggle with distinguishing authoritative information from rumors, and currently shows weakness in confidence calibration, often failing to convey uncertainty accurately. At launch, there may be minor formatting errors in reports and citations, and tasks may take longer to kick off. We expect all these issues to quickly improve with more usage and time.”

Given the point of the agent is to replace hours of manual research and factual distillation/summarizing, the risk of hallucinations and confident falsehoods in the data sort of undermines the whole shebang. If you want rock solid data but can’t afford to spend the time getting it, seems like a terrible trade off to save time but increase risk of bad data.
I think that was a post-war railway accident, actually, not a bomb.
I think this is a slightly different case no? If the ad network is using a very high precision variable to soft-link anonymized accounts, then randomizing the values between apps should break that.

Your analogy applies more to things like trying to anonymize your traffic with Tor, where using such an anonymizer flags your IP as doing something weird vs other users. I’m not convinced simply fuzzing the values would be detectable, assuming you pick values that other real users could pick.
I need my default mode network to produce good code, and I don't talk while it's active
We are all product managers now.
That is just insanely hyperbolic. I think this why the left lost. There is a 0% chance that Trump will invade Canada. I really think the left needs to just back away from fighting for their positions for a little while and get some perspective or they will continue losing.
Yea but I also suck in 95% of FAANG like interviews since I'm very bad at leetcode medium/hard type of questions. It's just something that I never practiced. It's very tempting at this point to trow in my towel and just use some aid. No one cares about my intense career and the millions I helped my clients earn, all that matters (and sometimes directly affects comp rate) is how I do on the "coding task".
If you're writing CSS I suppose you can vibe code, but it won't work for anything more complicated. They get you close most of the time but you still have to work.
If you want the Snow Crash version of Da Vinci Code, then you might like The Illuminatus Trilogy. Robert Anton Wilson is something else. Umberto Eco's book Foucault's Pendulum is a slightly different vibe, but very entertaining read.
> José Mario Alfaro González

Just to add to it all: In Paper Mario: TTYD there’s a segment where Mario infiltrates a professional wrestling promotion, and in the English translation he uses the name “The Great Gonzalez”.
Yes, these companies are so rich, and their targets so comparatively poor, that they're not risking anything by spamming lawsuits. It's like a rich individual going to some developing country and suing poor people for their meager possessions, for no other reason than because they can.
> The process is all about knowing what is possible and drawing paths through the graph of possibilities. The details aren't relevant until the implementation stage when you'd be accessing reference materials anyway.

Well put. But in that case, couldn’t you utilize SRS to memorizing high level concepts (e.g., coarse characteristics of various algorithms as opposed to how they are actually implemented, etc)
You make a valid point that while the rules of the game are known ahead of time, it’s strange that the entire industry is stuck in this local maximum of LeetCode interviews. Big companies are comfortable with the status quo, and small companies just don’t have the budget to experiment with anything else (maybe with some one-offs).

Sadly, it’s not just the interview loops—the way candidates are screened for roles also sucks.

I’ve seen startups trying to innovate in this space for many years now, and it’s surprising that absolutely nothing has changed.
And the combination of contacts are also unique enough to identify you. Even though they change over time. Some fuzzy matching, take in another few bits of fingerprint like device type and country and voila no advertiser ID required.

Ps smart idea to use it for that purpose. If I failed to get proper service I'd just review bomb the company everywhere and soon enough I'd get a call fixing my problem and asking to remove them :)
I'm curious about the differences from Pyroscope.
https://github.com/grafana/pyroscope
How? Most of the services I use, from Walgreens to banks to retirement accounts, require a phone number either for 2FA or just to verify that you’re you when signing up. After changing my phone number this year and having to go through the rigamarole for each service, I decided never again.
As important as cryptography is, I also wonder how much of it is trying to find technical solutions for social problems.

People are still going to be suspicious of each other, and service providers are still going to leak their private keys, and whatnot.
It's not 80% emissions. Thanks not how math works.

It's 80% of the emissions it was yesterday. That's better right?
so what are you buying the repo not the source? If MIT License how does this work?
Before even securing security clearances and induction processes?

Do you even qualify as a state, if you just allow rich private citizens to nominate people to do things inside your security ring?
This is really cool.

It could be like Goldeneye, slappers only.

Just find a better way to slap than bumper cars.
Thanks for sharing your experience, Greg!

I really appreciate your thoughtful take, it’s clear you’ve built a system that works perfectly for your workflow. Momentum isn’t designed to replace what works for seasoned freelancers like yourself, but it’s more than just time tracking or invoicing. Let me clarify where it fits in:

Client Collaboration Portal: One of the core features of Momentum is a dedicated portal where clients can log in to track project progress in real time. They can upload files, leave feedback, and even pick color palettes for design-related projects. This is especially helpful for creative freelancers- designers, marketers, web developers- who need constant client input and want to streamline that back-and-forth.

Integrated Invoicing & Payments: Beyond project tracking, clients can pay invoices directly through the platform. This reduces the need for manual follow-ups or switching between tools, making it easier for freelancers to get paid on time.

Transparency for Newer Clients: While you’ve built long-term trust with your clients, many freelancers work with new clients frequently. Momentum helps establish that trust early on by making the whole process transparent—clients can see exactly where things stand at any given time.

Simplified Workflow for Growing Freelancers: For freelancers managing multiple short-term projects, Momentum brings project management, file sharing, and billing into one place, reducing the friction of juggling multiple tools.

I totally get that for freelancers like you, who have long-term clients and a well-oiled system, something like Momentum might feel unnecessary. But for those in different industries or earlier in their freelancing journey, it can be a plus for both organization and client relationships.

Thanks again for your feedback. It’s super valuable to hear from experienced freelancers like you!

Jared
Okay, but… if there’s no feasible individual solution, it really undercuts your argument here.
If you read enough literature and try to implement enough stuff yourself, you will eventually run into a question that you cannot immediately answer.

Often when I read a paper in a subject new to me, I realize that I do not understand something and make a note to study that question further. A lot of times, that question is already answered somewhere. I find an answer to it --- either by asking a colleague, searching for papers or books on the subject, searching the internet, or even just by trying to solve it myself --- and I then just move on once I get an adequate answer. But sometimes, even in subjects that I am an expert in, I write down a question that I cannot find a good answer to at all. Then I know that I have something that is worth researching further.
You can be interested in what you want. But the interest in anti-amyloid therapy came from the basic science indicating amyloid pathology as the critical but-for cause of the disease. It wasn't just a blind shot in the dark.

To my knowledge, there's no such basic science behind a keto diet for Alzheimer's.
OK, I will.

But I also got a notification about a big comment you posted but it is now deleted. Did you want to rewrite it or did you give up on it?
> He uses a skateboard and grappling hooks to get around and has samurai swords because he studies the way of the blade.

It's been a minute, but I think Hiro Protagonist gets around on a motorcycle with wheels that deform to adapt to the terrain.

The story does have couriers that use skateboards and grappling hooks, though.
SearchGPT is bad because its underlying model is not a reasoning one. Deepseek one mentioned above is closer to deep research than searchgpt.
Until the app's devs get wise to this, and do not allow the app to function without the network access. It could be as simple as a full screen, non-closable screen that says the app requires network access with a button to the proper setting to correct the issue.
"Free to play" games with slot machine mechanics and intrusive monetization schemes seem to have won.
o1 and o3 are definitely not your run of the mill LLM. I've had o1 correct my logic, and it had correct math to back up why I was wrong. I'm very skeptical, but I do think at some point AI is going to be able to do this sort of thing.
I refuse to believe that the only way to resist picking up a cell phone too much is to take a dopamine suppressing drug. That simply trades one problem for another.
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Where is this ruling insane Christian nationalist movement? I don't see one. Are you just talking about people that think men are physically more dominant at sports and other physical activities, that is insane? I think that's what all of the world thought for thousands of years and probably 99% or more of people in the world think today. This is just more the Henny Penny stuff that I don't think helps the left much.
I took this approach with this:

https://github.com/williamcotton/webdsl

I didn’t even put that much effort into defining the grammar, I just sort of let my fancy take flight. Which is a wild headspace to be in when writing a DSL in C with a web runtime with jq, Lua, GitHub OAuth and more all built in into the language itself.

It took some guidance of course and I’m well versed enough in C to have orchestrated the memory arenas and overall architecture but I sure has hell didn’t actually type more than 5% of the code.

Cursor Composer in agent mode with Claude Sonnet 3.5 has let me take on some very experimental endeavors.
There is foundational knowledge you must have memorized through a combination of education and experience to be a software developer. The standard must be higher than "can use google and cut and paste." The answer can't always be - "I don't need to be able to recall that on command, I can google/chatgpt that when I end up needing it." Would you go to a surgeon who says "I don't need to know exactly where the spleen is, I can simply google it during surgery."
Picking a state that's not California nor New York, Massachusetts, etc.: https://www.indeed.com/career/assistant-professor/salaries/A...

Says $60,000 for University of Arkansas or 2/3rd of what was listed for California.

I'm not an academic nor do I live in California (or Arkansas) but $90,000/year after 6 years working below minimum wage and 6 years barely above doesn't sound that great in <economic terms>. Hopefully people are getting benefits from teaching or research.
> Having a free society implies the freedom to exchange with each other with minimal restrictions.

I don't think that it implies "with minimal restrictions", any more than it implies the freedom to do anything else with minimal restrictions. In any case, a free society also implies a lot of other freedoms, and insofar as wealth accumulation interferes with those other freedoms, it's not adding to net freedom. An abstract "freedom from market restriction" is not useful if you don't have things like the freedom to eat or the freedom to sleep peacefully.

> Not allowing people to do so runs opposite to the ideals of the stated intention.

Not necessarily. Not allowing anyone to engage in market activity probably does; allowing everyone to engage without restrictions also does. The point is that markets don't have some magical special status as a component of freedom.

> But the outright banning of markets is equivalent to the banning of hammers, just because hammers are sometimes used to bludgeon people to death.

I'm not suggesting banning markets, I'm just saying that the mirror image of your position is also true: elevating markets to some mythical status and insisting that they are the ultimate litmus test of freedom is like saying that because hammers can be used to build houses, everyone must be allowed to use hammers however they please. Markets (just like everything else) are okay when controlled and regulated within their bounded role as a component of society.
Nonsense. I don't endorse lying about qualifications, but employers don't sue over this. Employment law in most US states wouldn't even allow for that with regular W-2 employees.
If you care about performance, many locks across many pieces of shared state is always a bad idea.

If you don’t care about performance and want safety you should be using processes. Explicit shared memory is safer than implicit.

and yes. Better thread management tools are always welcome when we can get them.
You seem not to know much of anything about the laws regarding personal information in the US or Europe.
Linkedin is so terribly evil these days.

I also see the shenanigans of adding new 'privacy' settings and setting them open by default. Another typical Microsoft ploy by the way.
I am using AdGuard DNS and its absolutely sickening how many ads and trackers it is blocking on a daily basis. Just on my smartphone alone.
let's be clear: deminimus being $800 is corrupt.

what gets me about this sort of thing
is that we don't wind up getting to the bottom of it.
the current deminimus violates the intent -
we need to not just restore it to something reasonable,
like $10, but also find out what in the process went wrong,
find out whose palm was greased.

$10 sounds too low? consider that with today's IT,
import processing fees should be much lower than that.
the idea of deminimus is a fine one,
just that these numbers don't make sense,
and cause a lot of damage.
I'm fine with made-up technology and technobabble, but Digital Fortress had one thing that didn't make any sense: the supposed reason the new encryption scheme couldn't be cracked was "rotating cleartext" - that somehow the encrypted contents could magically change over time and the brute force cracking would have to start over.
I can highly recommend giving this a try, even if it goes against every instinct you might have as a programmer of any level of seniority.

It's not (yet?) my preferred way of programming, but the fact that it works at all was hugely surprising to me, and I got more than one genuinely useful little utility out of it already.
Can anyone confirm if this is available in Canada and other countries? This site says "We are still working on bringing access to users in the United Kingdom, Switzerland, and the European Economic Area." But I'm not sure about other countries. I don't have Pro currently, only Plus.
> going to be easy to go in with a clean slate and form my own -- oh wait

Yeah, this post was kind of a "can't unsee" for me and totally ruined those books. Although, maybe it was just a decade of reading better books that did it.
I would also blame the structure of the current economy and publicly traded companies.

What could Trump gang do that affects Valve in a similar way?
I'm probably an oddball compared to most, but I use a VM as my main work environment. My main reason is because it's super easy to create a backup and test anything like OS or major software updates there first to make sure it doesn't hose anything. Or if I just want to tinker and try new things without risking breaking anything. Also, where I work they get us new hardware every 3 years, and it means I don't have to spend a long time trying to set my environment up on a new computer. I just copy over the VM and jump right in.
This assertion made in the article invalidates the premise of same:

With a little encapsulation, you can make globals error-proof ...
I don't even see it in the US right now.
Structurally there is a good deal of literature published by Mises and others on socialism, communism, feudalism, etc. They are very nearly identical when it comes to the important economic systems aspects involving the choices people make.

Communism is about adopting socialism through violent revolutionary means. The Fabians were all about gradually forcing adoption to socialism. Feudalism met definitional characteristics for socialism, while being about the state or aristocracy.

The names of the various movements, or their fine-detailed implementations mean little while they still retain the important properties of structure that lead to failures, such as state apparatus owning/controlling most private property with little or no private ownership. The names themselves mean very little given the structures and defects involved.

Fiat money and deficit spending for example while initially backed by assets before the 1970s, eventually fail to non-market socialism, destroying the market in the process through debauchery of the currency (Lenin/Keynes), culminating in the Socialist calculation problem.

We can already see this happening with regards to the continual trends towards concentration of the market into few hands, who then make mistakes favoring profit driven by artificial constraint over production, that results in shortage. Competition is prevented by these entities being funded (and undercutting) and is driven by non-reserve debt issuance (0% fractional reserve, circa 2020).

Transitions to false reserve systems (capital reserves) is based in flawed value schemes that do not account for subjective value as defined by Carl Menger, they eventually fail (Basel III), when subjective value reasserts chaotically.

Marxist parties that call themselves marxists won't ever win elections because of the long sordid history they have with deceit, delusion, and truth, not to mention the callous disregard for life and limb to the consequences of their actions.

Anyone who claims to regularly change their core values and views without good reason (driven by extreme circumstance) is more likely than not to be acting deceitfully, which is engendered in a lack of credibility.

Unfortunately, the many promises of socialism as a structure are based in flawed assumptions, defects, and indirection, where many are swayed by delusion instead of following objective reality.

When continued survival and life is dependent on such systems not failing, and the rational are being dragged long at the whims of the delusional and insane, bad things happen which cannot be stopped.

This is a kind of existential risk that deserves rational thought and careful attention, but the psychological stress of our times has regressed all but a minority of those with competent or capable intellects, who are then ignored.

Hubris and sloth can be impossible things to fight against once the snowball gets moving downhill. The consequences of such circumstances, given history, are much more likely to involve loss of life or injury, or worse.