skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep! There’s a lot of checksum verification, carefully orchestrated deployments, hardware diversity, erasure code selection, the list goes on and on. I help run a multi-exabyte storage system - I’ve seen a few things.
I wonder what caused the current obsession with stoicism. It seems vacant.
Yep, let's wing serving 400 million sandwiches - whatever the risk that the US population dies of salmonella or listeria.

Anyways, one of the things about growing up is realizing that there is more to the world than just innovation.
How ProPublica Uses AI in Its Investigations
I'm actually really interested in the end-game.

My general experience is that people who've actual self-built an empire (ex. Bezos) are actually very aware of history + cause and effect. While the guy that needs to work overtime to afford groceries and gas is more likely to claim the government needs to get out of their medicaid.

So, Bezos et al should be extremely aware that the great depression was followed by a massive expansion of government under FDR. Even under Biden there are a lot of claims of a recesssion and the under Trump the USG is trying to cut exports (~11% of GDP) and USG spending (~25% of GDP). Like how are they not going to trigger a depression when going after 30% of the economy? Do they figure they have the government all locked up?
China shouldn't prioritize low drug prices in procurement plan, EU group says
Yeah, you can run into it anywhere. When I was in the pizza delivery business in my early 20s, once you got into management, there was very much an up-or-out mentality. You couldn't just be a really good assistant manager; you were pushed to move up to manager and then to a bigger store and so on. It just seems to bother the climbers to see someone content to stay in the position he knows he's best suited for.
these are the first people to go in times of trouble or politics, which is a real shame because the bulk of work in almost all companies is done by solid, experienced workers, not rockstar hierarchy climbers
GC holders are permanent resident aliens, not naturalized citizens. Yes, thet went through a legal process, but citizenship is further down the road of that process.
It runs DeepSeek R1 q4 MoE well enough.
I understand your point that the "news" part is that RCS standard now includes E2EE, rather than about Apple's support for said standard.

But I don't think it's fair to suggest or imply that this development is unrelated to Apple either.

RCS has been a thing for nearly a decade, and Google's RCS backend has been doing non-standard E2EE for half that time.

Within 8 months of Apple publicly announcing they would adopt RCS and work with GSMA to support standardised E2EE, there is suddenly a standard for it...
How about "Stop Wasting My Time", nytimes!
Doesn't matter. Some could care less what MSFT is doing - a Blazor app I developed in super-speed time has collected 40k transactions in the last 4 months. It did it's job.
One perspective is that meditation and stoicism helps silence guilt about being so properous in an unequal society.
We could probably implement your first thing but just extending HIPAA to cover all entities, not just health care providers. HIPAA's privacy, security, data selling, and breach notification rules are exactly what we need and could effectively apply to any business.
Brave

Related link: https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/17550072876045-L...
Try to look for small/medium non-tech companies. There's quite a few out there that have dev teams but their primary product or service isn't software. The downside to that though is pay likely won't be as good as big tech, and sometimes they can be hit or miss with being able to work on exciting or new stuff.

I work for a medium-ish company (around 250 employees), and we're just a small team two devs, and a sysadmin basically and are pretty autonomous and there's no "up or out" expectation for anyone here.

There's definitely downsides - no one outside of our team has any technical ability whatsoever so communicating requirements back and forth is difficult, and a lot of the work is boring business CRUD and integrating SaaS products together, but it pays well enough and I love being pretty much autonomous on our small team. Most days it just fees like I'm a contractor.

All that being said, I'm almost 40 so I don't mind the boring enterprisey work. In my younger years this job would've burned me out super fast, just something to keep in mind.
I think one of the things about growing up is accepting personal responsibility and not looking at the government/daddy to protect you from everything. If I sell 400 million skateboards - do we need a regulatory board to approve skateboard design changes?

I'm sure millions of people make unregulated sandwiches at home just fine.
I am French, and I will incorporate in Delaware. Is the ESTA dangerous in this case, for example, if I go to SF in June?
With other, younger, subjects, you wouldn't feel the need to justify asking for a photo like that, so including a justification indicates that you consider the subject to be some sort of special case.

The most common social error I see when younger people interact with older people is that they treat the older people as if they're a special case or delicate flowers to be handled with kid gloves. Just treat them like the normal humans they are, the same as you'd treat anyone else.
How risky is the E-3 to Eb1 green card path for moderately successful founders in this current political environment?
Bullshit article, no proofs, nothing but manifesting "it is so! believe me!"
I really enjoy using S3 to serve arbitrary blobs. It perfectly solves the problem space for my use cases.

I avoid getting tangled in authentication mess by simply naming my files using type4 GUIDs and dumping them in public buckets. The file name is effectively the authentication token and expiration policies are used to deal with the edges.

This has been useful for problems like emailing customers gigantic reports and transferring build artifacts between systems. Having a stable URL that "just works" everywhere easily pays for the S3 bill in terms of time & frustration saved.
A more practical way (short of explicit language support) would be to have an enum and a dispatcher function:

enum { CALL_Z, CALL_W };
int call_z_or_w(int which, int arg) {
switch (which) {
case CALL_Z: return z(arg);
case CALL_W: return w(arg);
default: __builtin_unreachable();
}
}

Or you could even do the same thing, but switching on the pointer value instead of an enum. Either way, this lets the compiler statically know where the call may possibly lead to.
Marginally, in some models only, and only in token generation, if I read the tables correctly.

The models are also not huge, negating the advantage coming from the memory size on both machines (192GB on the M2 Ultra, 512GB on the M3 Ultra), and memory bandwidth is more or less the same, which might starve the computing resources of data to crunch.
For those advocating for multiple app stores, I have a 2 questions.

EU users might be best suited to respond, as they are currently experiencing this change (though I believe the impact will be different once it's rolled out globally).

1. How do you think having multiple app stores will affect user experience and app discoverability? It seems likely that not all apps will be available in every store, meaning users may have to search across multiple platforms to find what they need.

We’ve seen similar issues in the gaming industry, where each company has its own launcher, or in the movie industry, where content is locked behind different providers, making it difficult to figure out where to access it. This is why platforms like Netflix and Steam initially succeeded.

Meanwhile, the Windows/PC model has shown that an open ecosystem can be a security and privacy nightmare for the average user.

2. On that note, how do you envision ensuring privacy and security in these alternative app stores? Risks could range from major tech companies like Google or Facebook running their own stores and collecting even more user data, to scammers creating fake stores that steal credit card information.
By this point, it should be fairly clear that unregulated markets lead to monopolies. If modern libertarianism still entails "the freer the markets, the freer the people" I would consider this to be empirically disproven[1].

[1] Except for minimal states which have not succeeded in reality because some type of strong organization's force will likely always exceed the market's implicit one.
Having grown up through ad-bars, Windows malware, email worms and everything else that could go wrong for most people during the late 90s on and not wanting to do IT for my entire extended family, I don’t mind having a popular platform with guardrails. Unfortunately, I think providing non-curated access and opening up platform features that are currently gated by security features to unscrupulous actors will make things worse for more people than it will help. After over 15 years of iPhone use, I’ve never had any of the problems that plague PCs and I attribute a lot of that to a restrictive app distribution model, sandboxing, etc.

End users can (and do!) use apps not approved by Apple on mobile devices every day. They just do it on something that’s not an iPhone (or have the capability to jailbreak their iPhone and know what they’re getting themselves into). Corps and devs can also run custom software without Apple approval. I’m personally fine with that delineation and I’d much rather have stronger GDPR-like and property laws.
I'm 50+ and it's a thing, but not really different than any other bias lots of people here likey deal with. It's not legit but does make sense: any groups that you don't identify with are assessed differently based on the delta. Sometimes this is positive; most times negative.
I appreciate the engineering perspective, and you're right that supporting every integration isn't trivial.

Is there a difference between providing an "unlock code" upon deprecation, and requiring "support for every possible integration"(?)?

Setting that aside, it seems it not every possible combination needs official support, but rather that providing an open or documented way for motivated users or communities to build upon or repurpose devices would be beneficial. Many projects exist precisely because tech companies allowed or at least tolerated community-driven solutions.

It's less about expecting everything to be effortless for the original manufacturer, and more about avoiding deliberate restrictions that prevent the community from extending a device's useful lifespan.
Why install and run some arbitrary blob that has full access to your computer, when you can open a web page and grant access to a single device?
First look: Sony unveils next-gen RGB LED technology
The Periodic Table of States
The constrained optimization part is good, though.
No, though contributions to a company can come in many shapes and sizes besides just direct financial transactions.

And that doesn't mean I don't already pay money to American companies every day of my life anyway ;)
I've heard law firms are a good bet
How can I improve my Landing Page?
> And lets not talk about the 0.1x developers who are probably also a thing. If you get enough of those together, team productivity completely collapses. I've seen that happen.

> 1x is normal.

IIRC the post that came up with the 10x and 1x terminology used 1x as the worst performer. Normal/average was somewhere in between 10x and 1x.

The change to 1x being average in the common understanding seems to have happened because even the people criticizing it have an intuitive understanding that it's correct, they just want the boundaries somewhere else.
Nowadays with IDEs with auto complete.
When SQL was developed it was easier if a query reflects natural language.
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/russia-leans-cryptoc...
I'm also a manager and came here to say the same thing. Senior is a terminal level at plenty of mature companies. If you're in the startup world, you'll probably face big pressure to take on a Staff+ or manager title, but you can certainly successfully push against that if you have good rapport with the leadership team. I knew several engineers with decades of experience who were very happy being senior engineers in that world. They had their niches and knew them well. One had been writing email systems since the 90s, for example.
that's a very philosophical question, and i am happy to engage in a discussion if you like. let me start with that i believe that it is the very purpose of humanity to contribute to an ever advancing civilization. so yes, i do consider myself responsible for the wellbeing of society. in fact i am making that very choice right now, living with my family in a developing country so that i can make a meaningful contribution there and teach my children important values of life, instead of going back home where i could live on social benefits because caring for my children would prevent me from getting a job.

but at the end of the day i can't let my children starve to achieve that goal, nor am i responsible to feed all my neighbors who sometimes struggle to actually afford all their daily necessities. there has to be a balance somewhere. and as i said the balance is to not resort to unethical behavior. but that's not the same thing as giving other families a higher priority than my own which is what you are suggesting (you are not explicitly saying it, but the opposite reading of "why is your family more important than others?" is "why should other families be more important than yours?".)

i brought these children into the world, and my responsibility is towards them first. this does not mean that i ignore the needs of others, if i can help them. it also does not mean that i focus on giving my children an advantage over others, or that i protect them from their own mistakes. all i am doing is to make sure that they are healthy and learn, in school and in life. that is my priority because it is my responsibility alone. noone else is going to do that for me. i am the only one who can make sure that it happens. caring for society on the other hand is a group responsibility, not an individual one. i can and do contribute to that, but only as much as my primary responsibility of caring for my children allows.
Game to enhance students referencing knowledge in academic writing
Dual ladders is pretty common, though not equal pay IME, but I'd bet there's still a stigma attached to anyone who's not trying to move up one of those career paths?
Absolutely.

The thinking models really hurt. I was happy with anything that ran at least as fast as I could read, then "thinking" became a thing and now I need it to run ten times faster.

I guess code is tough too. If I'm talking to a model I'll read everything it says, so 10-20 tok/s is well and good, but that's molasses slow if it's outputting code and I'm scanning it to see if it looks right.
But this is obviously not a solvable problem.

The whole objective of WebUSB is to not generalize it. Meaning in theory someone could, if you explicitly allow access to a device, reflash your ESP32 with a HID mouse device that automatically uploads a sensitive file to the attacker.

But if the user was going to do this anyways (flash some unvetted binary to their device), the web still provides MORE security than having the user download flasher.exe + badbinary.elf
Finding out how to keep them on the line longer is part of the fun.
https://archive.is/LlgE4

Very short article, loose on details, mostly an advert.
It's no accident that a roman emperor (tyrant, mass murderer, and courtier) is the premier famous stoic. Nor is it an accident that the next most famous case is that of British empire public schooling, british "stiff upper lip" stocisim.

(EDIT: Marcus Aurelius) himself was no stoic philosopher, he merely wrote diaries to himself in his late days -- diaries he wanted burned, not published. And these were rehresals of what his stoic teachers had taught him while he was being raised into the roman aristocracy. Without this context, its very easy to misread his diaries in the manner of some religious text, cherry picking "whatever sounds nice".

Its clear, under this view, how bitter and resentful many of these reflections were. He retreated to his diaries to "practice stoical thoughts" on those occasions where he was emotionally distributed. They are, mostly, rants. Rants against the court (eg., ignore the schemes of others, etc.); rants against the public (no matter if one is whipped, beaten, etc.); rants against how his prestige means little as a leader. Stocism here serves as a recipie to smooth one's injuries faced as a member of the elite, surrounded by vipers and with meaningless prestige.

Stoicism, under this light, is training for a ruthless sort of leadership. From the pov of The Leader, all adoration is fake, all prestige, and status. Your job is to pretend it matters because it matters to your followers. It's a deeply hollow, dissociative, nihilistic philosophy which dresses up the status quo as "God's plan" -- a rationalization of interest to the elite above all others.
There is a 3 years work experience = 1 year of degree study rule. You can probably use your experience (3.3 years of a degree) + actual degree to qualify.
Kapersky, perhaps? Flagging an antiwar message as dangerous?
> There was nothing about the deployment of the three Chinese vessels — a cruiser, a frigate and a replenishment tanker — that was technically impressive or strategically significant.

As the article stresses, it'd be far more accurate to say that Australia (which is a continent of almost 3,000,000 sq. miles, with a GDP a bit under $2 trillion) was circumnavigated by the tiny Chinese force. And the only thing impressive about that force was just how meager Australia's own Navy looked by comparison.

TBD: Whether Australia's leadership can be bothered to get their sh*t together, and shift the balance of power a bit more in their own favor.

Old Geezer Perspective: The modern-day US Navy was effectively founded in 1880. Post-Civil War, the US had let its respectable-in-1865 Navy dwindle to little more than a few half-rotten hulks. Vs. Europe had a naval arms race, with warship technology leaping ahead every year. For their own reasons, Britain's Royal Navy discouraged other European powers from taking advantage of American impotence. But Europe's shipyards were happy to build (for profit) modern warships for various South American nations. One of those warships visited New York Harbor in 1880, resulting in a national oh shit moment - as America realized that just that one modern warship, from some South American navy or other, could take on the entire US Navy - and easily win. Very suddenly, building up a serious modern US Navy was a top national priority.
Why should one feel guilt about being prosperous in an unequal society? Even if you accept that it's based entirely on luck rather than merits, I don't see why you should feel guilt.

A few examples of things based entirely on luck that no one really argues we should feel guilty about:

Being tall

Having high innate level of intelligence

Athletic

Physical beauty
If navigation was fine, why was touchdown on a plateau?
Many smaller companies are what you describe.

The pay will probably be less, but it is a trade-off.
I don't know the general political disagreements, but I personally don't want WebUSB and think it's a garbage idea.

The browser can already access the USB devices it needs through normal OS interfaces (the keyboard and mouse being the obvious examples). I don't see why any website should need special direct access. The only use-cases seem to be giving access to web programmers who can't be bothered to write a standalone application (not a group I trust) or to provide additional ways to track users (something I don't want).

I don't even trust Google and Mozilla enough to give them access, much less any random stranger who's setup a website.

Not everything needs to be accessible from the web. I don't know where the line is, but for me USB access is across the line.
S3 has often fallen into a "catch all" solution for me whenever I need to store data large enough that I don't want to keep it in a database (RDBMS or Redis).

Need to save a file somewhere? Dump it in S3. It's generally affordable (obviously dependent on scale and use), fast, easy, and super configurable.

Being able to expose something to the outside, or with a presigned URL is a huge advantage as well.

Off the top of my head, I think of application storage generally in this tier ordering (just off the top of my head based on the past few years of software development, no real deep thought here):

1. General application data that needs to be read, written, and related - RDBMS

2. Application data that needs to be read and written fast, no relations - Redis

3. Application data that is mostly stored and read - S3

Replace any of those with an equivalent storage layer.
I'd still take the crypto casino Firefox over Chrome :-D
JK. But yeah my main issue is performance. I honestly like the AI features, dunno why people so triggered over that. Don't think it affects performance at all.
The privacy invasion I need to look into more, maybe only inasfar as it affects performance as well.
Only starts approaching PPL of AR at block size 4. May as well just use multi-token prediction with a standard AR model.
> The scientific method treats everything as wrong or a lie by default

No, the scientific method requires proof both for a positive and for a negative answer. If we can't prove neither, all we can say is that we don't know whether something is true or false. Think i.e. about Riemann's hypothesis or the Collatz conjecture: should we say those are wrong because no one so far proved them to be correct?
Extraordinary Labor Market Developments and the 2022-23 Disinflation (2024)
What are you basing that on? What makes granting access to a device so much more difficult to explain than any other permission?
Same. When the game started I was looking for a black circle to use against the "bubbles"; none showed up, and suddenly I had lost.
Do the tech companies that make the devices that we now require for daily life because they decided to make the world that way release all of the resources necessary for independent people to do what you're suggesting?

If not that's something that we need to regulate.
US Intel Vets Helped Crypto Firm Soar, Unaware of Infamous Hacker Behind It
Coal ash is commonly used in cement [1]. I would suspect the nuclear waste is being encased with cement to prevent its leakage with of course the punchline being that the encasement is more radioactive than its contents.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_combustion_products
Calling Plato a dualist seriously calls into question the author's philosophical credentials.
it's like cancer, it keeps replicating
It's definitely possible to target a certain surface location on the moon from low Earth orbit and set off on a trajectory to get there with a single burn. However, as the craft(s) approach the moon and enter its sphere of influence, gravity will kick in and increase their relative velocity to the surface. Another burn (suicide burn if you're feeling lucky) would be needed for the soft touchdown.

The moon is also gravitationally very "lumpy", so some small corrections might be needed along the way as well.
Folks, let me tell you, our Big Tech is going to be absolutely massive—bigger and better than anybody's ever seen. We don’t need Europe, okay? Their tech companies? Total losers. We’re going to keep on winning—so much winning you’re gonna say, “Please, Mr. President, enough with the winning!” But we won’t stop. If we don't win the first time, we'll slap tariffs on them so fast their heads will spin. And if tariffs don’t work, guess what? We’ll just buy them out—it’ll be huge. And if that doesn’t do the trick… well, let’s just say you really don’t want to know what comes next. We’re gonna win bigly, folks. Tremendous.