skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
COBRA is not cheaper than exchange plans. Medicaid is not universal; in many places - Florida for ex - it isn't available to most men, to other-than-the-elderly, and other-than-children.

What's this about getting a COBRA subsidy if you're fired? Where did you hear that?
just to be clear, this does not affect the people who actually pirate ebooks, you can still download mobi files all over the internet and transfer them onto your kindle. it's only an impediment for people who legally purchase kindle ebooks that have DRM intact and want to transfer them to the device via USB.

it's not targeting the ebook pirates who knows about libgen, it's just meant to annoy the people who borrow an ebook from their library and want to keep it an extra couple days by turning off their kindle's wifi. that's what they mean by "piracy".
It's my understanding of how embeddings work, as well. The dot products (cosine similarity) of man . woman end up being very similar to king . queen. This similarity could be considered subtraction if you stretch the metaphor enough.

If this is not a valid way to think about embedding vectors, would you care to elaborate?
Indeed, wow. Has anyone reproduced this result?

The separation process has some similarity to electromagnetic separation of uranium isotopes. Only more difficult.
Well Hitler wasn't a blue-eyed blond German either.
Let's say I downloaded a paper on my laptop and want to transfer it to my Kindle. Would I need a WiFi connection to be able to transfer it?
Yup. Forget college or post-graduate degrees. This is no longer a meritocracy. We are in a grinding and grifting mindset. This is a jokers/jesters economy.

Forget pricey degrees. Just start streaming, become controversial af, gain an audience of young followers, sell them on quasi-legal gambling platforms, rake in that cheddar.

Or become a “political talking head” that doesn’t contribute to the conversation but instead provokes audiences with click baity material.

Or if you are traditionally attractive, start teasing the waters with “Just Chatting” streams and potentially switch up to selling OF subs. Nothing wrong with it, got to make that cheddar. Right?

I’m calling it now. The alignment with neoliberal economic policy is the downfall of not just the United States but the end of capitalism itself.
But how do I validate that I’m actually getting the same value as everyone else? Is the value I should get published somewhere (in a verifiable and not editable way) so I can see that I’m not being tracked?

Or does the extension validate this and the correct value is hardcoded in the extension like stebalien suggested?
RSUs are wage income, and subject to supplemental wage withholding. The responsibility for wage withholding is with the payer.
For most purposes, what matters is what you earn in comparison to the economy you live in.

For example, if you live in a place where people make $12,000/yr, on average, then earning $24,000 is a nice living. In the US, software engineers often make north of $200k/yr, but a single family home in a lot of US cities is $500-800k, putting a new roof on your house costs $15-40k, and a dinner out at a sit-down restaurant costs $30-60 per person. If you earn $24,000, but it costs $8 to eat out and $80k for a decent house, that's not too shabby.

Where are you located, if you don't mind sharing?
No, I'm aware. It's just $39 million a year is not actually a salacious number. It's actually a semi-reasonable salary given the size and performance of the company in question.

If only compensation for the 0.1% stopped there. But unfortunately, the distribution of income pretty closely follows the Pareto principle.
I can't find the exact link now (very well might have been a video without a searchable transcript), but I recall someone asking Linus that (specifically re his previous comments on C++), and his answer was something like he saw Rust solving a problem that C genuinely does not. It's controversial, but I do think of C++, Zig, etc as solving the "same problems" as C (perhaps in a much nicer way)
As a note, the FDA circulars in particular (like the labeling one) aren't technically law, but because they're (1) put out by the FDA and (2) a good summary people treat them as law. The thought is that you can always point to the circular if you need to.

You should read the actual regulations as well, but that's work so lots of people don't do it.

Here's an example of why you should read the regulations. Technically, supplements can't make structure/function claims. However, you can submit your structure/function claim to the FDA. Once you do that you can make that particular structure/function claim on your labels. Since the FDA has no process in place to actually review those claims your structure/function claim is suddenly valid.

It's amusing.
Note that our use of D and M for the "Roman numerals" 500 and 1000 is a misinterpretation of their |) and (|).
No, this isn't a change to the Kindle itself at all. It's the removal of an option from the Kindle Content section of the Amazon website.
The choice is simple: work for next Nvidia or pursue academia?
"give me a child until he is 7 and I will show you the man"
If you have ebooks from other sources, like Project Gutenberg, you can still load them on your Kindle.
I understand that part. I was wondering specifically about the USB functionality because there was that sentence that made it unclear.
This is what really confused me about the article. I read the mailing list post and had no idea what was controversial about thin blue line. In fact, I thought most of that post was fairly reasonable.

I'd never heard of the extrajudicial punishment aspect of the phrase (though I had heard the phrase itself) and it didn't show up when I googled, but I'm not American, so maybe there's some cultural differences.
Please if you do get a PhD, don't feel bitter if you don't get paid much more than people without one after you graduate. This is a toxic mentality that (anecdotally) I find quite common in the computational sciences specifically.
Bazel enforces a hermetic sandbox for Starlark to operate within.

All input files have to be declared, and the build process can only see files that are declared.

Starlark cannot access arbitrary files at runtime, and it deliberately has no APIs for things like system time or random number generation, or global state.

Scala, on the other hand, has no such restrictions. As much as I love Scala, I think it’s an odd choice for a pure, deterministic system. Although perhaps if you use Scala to build a DSL (an area where Scala shines) you could engineer a pure functional sandbox within Scala.
There are many research jobs at Microsoft, Google, etc., that require a STEM PhD.
from what I've seen of his grandstanding on the LKML suggesting to bully people on social media, I've lost all respect for the guy. He is a person in power considering all his social media clout, and this is how he uses it. I'm glad he realizes that it's time to sit back and reflect. And I don't mean that in a disrespectful way. He will be of much more use to the community, and more importantly himself after confronting his ego.
> I fixed the 64-bit routines for the same bugs, but I don't have enough years to run all the 64-bit tests the same way and discover any that aren't paralleled.

Minor thought for today: there are more than 2^64 bits of RAM in the world.
I keep my Kindles in airplane mode most of the time because otherwise Amazon tries to change the covers on all the books you've sideloaded.
Do people have news articles of Microsoft, Google et al using search history to the searcher's detriment? How frequently does this happen? I'm imagining it must be like one in a million.
Got it. In that case, what is different about the feature being disabled?
It was never about "the democrats aren't perfect", I think we gave up a long time ago on politicians that would actually push things forward. Nope, it was more like here is the "status quo" (things don't get better but they don't get worse either) and here is "batsh*t crazy" (99% chance things get really bad). And I guess that's what many Trump supporters are going for: they know Trump is nuts, but they don't want to see the status quo stand. They want destruction while hoping that they will come out better for it.
The PhD is has become the de facto replacement for the advanced workforce training programs (apprenticeship, guilds, corporate talent development programs) that many civilizations used to use. For some fields, you really do need to bang your head against a small number of problems without anyone holding your hand before you become proficient.

Not all PhD graduates get there; many just skate by because no one wants to fail them. They are an essential part of the modern labor force, though.
The Iron Maiden, the Most Brutal Torture Device of the Medieval Era
AI Summaries Turn Real News into Nonsense, BBC Finds [pdf]
their collapse didn't have anything to do with computer systems failing though.

they just spent a period of about 10 years making sure they were involved in every major financial scandal due to poor judgment.
really awesome results, this has been great since day 1 and i'm glad to see you guys keeping up
> And that's incredibly hard

>You need to both be able to ignore

> and be openminded enough to ...

I'm know it's pretty pointless to argue because we see the world in a different way. But realize the (quoted) requirements are you putting on the open source developer.

A developer without these skills will burn out.
Physical Education in the 1960s
Have you actually updated the software in that time? Did you try reverting to a previous version? Have you looked for ways that your current workflow differs from how you used to do things (tendency towards larger files / differently structured files / different kinds of edits / etc.)?
Ever heard the expression "bad money drives out good"?

Free content drives out paid-for content. It would only take a tiny percentage of sites going ad-supported. All the users would rush to them, the microtransaction sites would see this, and they would soon change their models.
A government "official" who claim to make the government efficient and root out corruption has a conflict of interest on the level of a 400m government contract. Is that not something worth knowing and discussing?

I should also note that you do not have to click every HN link on a page.

>Elon Musk and we don't need to put everything with him to the front page.

I don't know what to say. The elon posting here was long before his political career. He's involved in EVs, Space, and Crypto, all popular HN topics. HN can't exactly mandate a blanket ban on him without major pushback.
I'd love to read an in-depth explanation of how you improved your LLM abilities to lay out diagrams.
I would point out that former twitter lost both advertisers (you know money resource) and users. Its usability went down. Now the obvious difference is that x dont matter to people in real life, goverment does.

It is pretty obvious that real goal here is to cause maximal harm and destruction. Fascists do better in destroyed countries, Musk does not need consumer protection or functional FBI, he wants them corrupt and weak. Just as he made x weaker.

I am aware that pro-Musk people do not care about ethics, harm, morals or legality. Harm to other people is feature to people like you, I get it.
That extra $15 a month is for access to LLMs. They currently support the Claudes, the GPTs (not o1), Mistral, Gemini, Llamma, Qwen QWQ, Nova, and DeepSeek. It's currently unlimited access in the standard chat format.

You can also choose if you want the chat to RAG search results into the context for additional info, and then cite those sources. To me, replacing a Claude/ChatGPT subscription with $15 on top of a company I already like, while also getting a bunch of other models was a no-brainer.
consider Switzerland. PhD salary is around the range of 80k CHF. It's not bad at all.
FAANG or some company in a high-rent area where you could most definitely not save that kind of money, as far as I know.

And, I love how making $125K is some sort of great salary. I live in MN and while it’s above the median HHI for the state, it’s by no means a comfortable enough wage to save that kind of money unless your housing is covered by family or something.

Here in the MSP metro, you’re looking at $2500/mo for rent + utils or $3500/mo for mortgage + utils for what’s a pretty average living arrangement. Unless you’re making $200K+ you’re definitely not saving shit.
Thanks for the link. I appreciate that Unicorn is much leaner than QEMU and easy to integrate with an application. I currently check whether it could be used as a replacement for the M68000 emulation of LisaEm; I would expect a significant performance gain.
A good universal healthcare system wouldn't have these issues but, much with a nod to the ACA, would we manage to accomplish a good system or would that system still be riddled with rent-seeking opportunities to protect the employment and profits that the current players extract?

The US seems to have real problems with regulatory capture (especially with recent political happenings where we're seeing tariffs implemented that specifically hurt competitors to those with influence in government) so I think it's important to not fall into a trap of believing you'd walk away with a wonderful healthcare system even if something like medicare for all happened. The entrenched interests would continue to exact their pounds of flesh unless a real sea change was seen away from the current status quo.

I do hope it happens though, I'm a Canadian and my employment is dependent on your system continuing as an entangled morass but I'd happily be out of a job if it meant more equitable access to care.
I assume, perhaps incorrectly, that you realize that diseases don't honor national borders?
> People who at one point in the past related to the Democrat Party

The US has never had a political party named “The Democrat Party”.
And yet I've never seen that phrase used other than when cops are defending their colleague who is on video murdering/raping/beating someone innocent, or by those calling for reform who are criticizing the cops covering for each other's crimes.
I’m a statistician. What point are you trying to make? Write it off as an anecdote? It’s not 1999.

It’s two observations. Observations lead to questions which lead to collecting more data. Which lead to a conclusion that it is not pretty.

When managing risk you judge a company not on a good day but how they handle things on a bad day. And Monzo are terrible. It’s a pattern.

Go look and find.
> He saw this one patch as a Trojan horse (in the original Greek sense, not in the computer virus sense) to get Rust into the main kernel tree.

You are aware this patch introduced no code into the main kernel tree?

rust/bindings/bindings_helper.h | 1 +
rust/kernel/dma.rs | 271 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
rust/kernel/error.rs | 1 +
rust/kernel/lib.rs | 1 +
4 files changed, 274 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 rust/kernel/dma.rs

See: https://lkml.org/lkml/2025/1/8/801

> The stated goal of the project was to allow drivers to be written in Rust. Adding Rust bindings to the kernel oversteps that goal. It's a legitimate concern.

You do recognize that all drivers will need to bind to some C interfaces? So -- your argument (or the argument you suppose Hellwig has) is that it is better that each driver author recreate each such interface for themselves? Now, when these interfaces break as a result of a change in the underlying C code, instead of fixing that breakage at possibly a single place, that one true binding, now a maintainer might have to fix that breakage in a dozen such places? And this is preferable? This will cause less work for the overburdened maintainer?
Nope. That’s not how piles of patents are wielded defensively by the big companies. They don’t protect their IP with defensive patents, they defend their company using the threat of using unrelated patents offensively against the attacker.
It's subjective. LibreOffice UI is why I stay away from MS Office. I can't find anything in MS Office anymore, I have to rely on their "search for command" feature (or whatever it's called) to be able to do anything. LibreOffice is mostly intuitive for me. On the other hand, my father does not like it and keeps nagging me to buy him the MS product (I can't justify the costs for his casual use though).
Were those 100 people working in anti-spam/bot detection?
Found the Haskell guy.
Is this the same Privacy Pass that Cloudflare was using to allow clients to bypass CAPTCHAs? If so, this is a really neat application of that system; it never occurred to me that it could be used to anonymously authenticate to a paid service.
Yes that is exactly what I mean lol
Have you at least opened Activity Monitor to confirm that Zed is the issue? Often times a misbehaving LSP, broken hardware acceleration or mdworker_shared can impact your system's performance.

Running Zed on Linux has gotten pretty good for my uses. It flies on my shitty dual-core netbook, maybe I haven't updated to the same build as you have...?
There's no auth required at this stage of the handshake, so you can test from any number of devices/locations/networks/etc and confirm you get the same value. We could publish it, but it will change every epoch/month. Plus, if you don't trust the service to not issue special key pairs to track you, you probably won't trust us to not do the same when publishing the key material. There are schemes involving third-parties we could employ, but it's trust and turtles all the way down.

A malicious server could maintain separate key pairs for users it wanted to track, but you can't do it for every user because 1) it'd be clear from the WWW-Authenticate header changing, and 2) you'd have to validate tokens against every key, which would quickly get too slow to work.
Note that this story is only half complete.

Oracle stalled development, made the bugtrackers etc private, and kicked out all of the contributors and tried to commercialize the product at the time. The reason for Oracle "dumping" it to the Apache graveyard is that most of the "free" (as in unpaid) contributors switched sides to LibreOffice because of Oracle's hostile behavior towards the development community. And they donated OpenOffice because it was effectively a dead project for a couple of years.

There's probably still some contributor talks about it on one of the old CCC conferences on their media server.

If you want to learn about how to manage open source, Oracle's track record is a prime example of how not to.
The other usecase has been Oceanographic sensors and moorings, and GPS tags on things. Iridium RUDICS gets you verrrry slow dialup connections to things and Iridium Short Burst Data gets you ~1800 byte messages sent 'mailbox' style. We use Iridium for sending them commands but also a surprising amount of useful data can be stuffed into those ~28k connections and 1800 byte payloads.

Argo floats use them, Slocum gliders and Seagliders use them (underwater AUVs). There's lots of Iridium resellers out there and small companies offering backup GPS tags like RocksBlocks and Novatech and Argos (not too be confused with Argo, or Argos the brand).

We get enough data back to build up vertical profiles of the water column down to like 6000m depth with enough resolution that scientists can pick out physical chemical and biological features of interest. We communicate with the AUVs every couple of hours on average and they are operating all year round. I think there's probably a couple thousand underwater-glider style AUVs and a couple thousand Argo floats being used in total by the world's oceanographic institutes, meteorological institutes, militaries and coastguards etc.

It's a small niche, but a small niche that's been collectively using Iridium for the best part of over 2 decades now and one that is very conservative about change.... Like extraplanetary rovers with radiation hardened hardware, deep sea pressure tested robots use tried and tested stuff so we're a long ways off switching to higher bandwidth alternatives... Especially since Iridium comms are very low power and the modems are easy to integrate into things.. tiny boards which accept AT commands over serial.

It does not suprise me at all that security flaws have been found in Iridium. Most of our applications of it don't even consider security, the hardware itself rarely offers encryption, and old-school Iridium RUDICS requires you to open up a raw TCP port on a server open to the internet for your satellite devices to dial into in RUDICS mode, and if you're using SBD you're sending plaintext emails back and forth to the Iridium gateway service. The whole thing is very "security is not our problem" which means nobody thinks about it. I believe the military versions of one of the underwater glider AUVs has a login prompt now lol, but still sends unencrypted passwords over the plaintext RUDICS connection.
<quietly turns airplane mode on for good>
Why do you think something is wrong with them?

The part about it not being something many use is probably true in percentage terms. The part about it being used for piracy is hard to prove. Piracy in this context would likely be giving it to others - I personally think it's unlikely.
Sounds like a total deathtrap.
The way I think about it is how much time do I save by having better search results. I'm on a family plan currently, but was on an unlimimited 10/month plan. At the rate I value my time, Kagi needs to save me well under an hour per month through better search results. I'm quite confident it reaches and exceeds that bar relative to google. And that's even before you get into any philosophical/moral preferences for being the direct customer rather than being the product (as in ad-supported services).
We used a system of LLM critics to generate a high-quality dataset for this. More in the blog post linked in the answer above.
That wouldn't have prevented tech bros from hijacking the cultural momentum or commoditizing attention. Even a maximum fidelity web archive would drown in the noise just the same.
They have become good at capturing that surplus. People are still doing amazing things, and these platforms give them the tools to publish videos, an audience, and monetisation opportunities. However the platforms giveth, then taketh away.
Just another leg-up for RISC-V.
It seems you'd answer your own questions here and maybe some of your frustration if you actually proceeded to read the rest of the article, which explains quite clearly the point being made. You being exasperated by the tone or style isn't really relevant to the substance of what was written about, or to anyone else really.
Perhaps the product isn't for you.

I don't know Kagi's financials, but this is usually the case for a lot of products with a smaller customer base. For example, a block of Kraft cheddar will be a lot cheaper than an equivalent-sized block from an organic local dairy. There's always a customer base that is willing to pay for a differentiating feature or value.

I'm satisfied paying for it because the product works well and saves me time. I can't say the same for a lot of the random $10 impulse buys I make in a month.
That genetic component is between parents and children, not between neighbours who serendipitously share the same skin colour.

happiness and IQ, which unlike race is not a social construct

Which one of those is not a social construct, you'd say? Happiness -- which relies on self-reporting, or IQ -- for which a person can change their score by 10-20 points by studying test preps?
> Being forced to survive an alien landscape can make you whole again.

I can't agree more. My sister died at the hardest point of my PhD and I buried myself in my work for nearly every waking second for years, confident that at least I was doing it for myself. I couldn't have done that if I were working a normal job.