skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a meta-problem: one that I don't have a solution for, but keeps coming up.

We are in an era where there is simply more capital to invest than ever before. Countries that were historically "third world" have developed into their own capital sources, with more resources than ever looking for investment. The NPR show Planet Money called this "The Giant Pool of Money" in their reporting on the housing bubble, and they tracked how it acted as an accelerant to push the housing market into subprime mortgages and eventual collapse, but the underlying cause is the same: where the bubbles are the sauce, the money is the stove.

So why does the money keep creating bubbles instead of giving a sort of, if you will, "even heat?"

* There's more of it than there are safe investments with guaranteed low-yield returns

* A lot of it is sovereign wealth, so it must be invested: at a certain level, that money loses value if it just sits in a treasury (it's also the case that at a certain scale, investment becomes security; keeping all your money in a sack jeopardizes everything if the sack gets stolen, and there are analogies for this that operate at the scale of major corporations and nation states).

* When the investments are less safe, the money chases itself: a fund manager can get fired if they invest in cars when everyone else is investing in dotcoms and the cars don't grow as fast. It's safer for individual actors to stick with the crowd, so as a result, the crowd comes in and pumps huge amounts of resources into one sector until that sector fails to perform and the money evaporates.

It is a problem with no obvious solution. Hypothetically, Norway may be on the right track: they maintain a diverse portfolio with a lot of long-term bets (sustainable energy) and reinvestment bets (domestic housing and development).
> Great thing about entropy is that adding more never hurts.

I used to think the same but here's a counter-example of a (hypothetical) attack based on a malicious entropy source being able to manipulate the hash/PRNG output:

https://blog.cr.yp.to/20140205-entropy.html

Now, it's not necessarily the most likely attack to materialize, as already pointed out downthread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43391377.
The U.S. and Canada are fighting over the future of their economies
Actually, it’s because we believe innovation is easier the further you are from HQ. And Portugal is wonderful. I’m spending about 4 months of the year there with the team who hail from around the world.
https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/bymodel/1994_nissan_truck.sh...
https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/bymodel/2024_Nissan_Frontier...
Okay, tell me, Lets say I want to be an entreprenuer who can roughly learn any skill in tech (pretty young and ambitious) and he just wants to make enough money to live life nicely / travel the world (something like 60-80k USD are fine to me as I live in third world country and plan to travel mostly in cheap countries , I am a pretty frugal person. I want to work the most minimal amount of hours/work hours.

Something like the 4 hour work week. What Idea would you want to suggest me as you are an engineer.

Since, you are an engineer, and it seems obvious to you which startups are well positioned, It seems that you can reason out which trends in startups are well positioned for my specific use case.

I will pay you 100$ of my first income from such a project if it really fulfills what you are saying.
It's time to haul out the Lucent story.

Lucent was the commercialized spinoff of AT&T's Bell Labs. They acquired Livingston, who made the best serial terminal concentrators (Portmaster) which were essential for cost-effective deployment of modem banks. They acquired Ascend, whose integrated ISDN/POTS/modem/terminal server systems were the heart of the highest density deployments. All of this equipment went into dialup ISPs' points-of-presence -- places where consumers could dial in.

The ISPs needed more! There was a price race to the bottom -- $20/month was borderline profitable, but you had to sell for $17.95 or $15 on an intro period in order to get customers switching to your service. So Lucent cleverly borrowed the idea of financing their own sales to the ISPs. At worst, they would end up repossessing the equipment -- which could be sold as nearly new to the next ISP in line.

But when the ISPs went out of business, the winners already had all the POPs they needed. And then Lucent collapsed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascend_Communications
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucent_Technologies

Lucent left behind one of the canonical coffee-mug-ring logos.
> They're not. Embracing trans people runs completely counter to radical feminism.

Trans exclusionary radical feminists are a radfem niche; they’re not necessarily the radical feminist mainstream. Note that most people identified by the media as ‘TERFs’ are not; they’re transphobes who may claim to be some sort of feminist, but few subscribe to radical feminism as an ideology (there are a handful of _actual_ TERFs left in the broader modern transphobic movement, though many of them, unsurprisingly, have difficulty with that movement’s dubious bedfellows.)
are you concerned about something like a fire destroying all the copies?
Because it's common in Nigerian English, which is where they outsourced a lot of the RLHF conditioning work to.
Got a free echo dot (not sure they're even supported anymore?) a long time ago through some promotion. Hooked it up with a separate account to let the kids play music that we uploaded on-demand. Then, they took away the "play user-uploaded music" part of it. Probably haven't plugged it in in 5+ years - definitely going to the landfill as soon as I remember..
Emphatic Yes.

I'd like to expand. What I find mindblowing about it is that, as a regular consumer:

* When you need more space you can't just plug in another disk or USB stick. You also have to choose on which device you want to use it, and you have to tell all your software to use it. And that may involve shuffling data around.

* As a corollary, you need to remember in which device you put which stuff.

* As an extra corollary, any data loss is catastrophic by default.

* File copy operations still fail, and when they fail, they do so without ACID-strong commit/fallback semantics.

* Backups don't happen by default, and are not transparent to the end user.

* Data corruption can be silent.

Bonus, but related:

* You can't share arbitrary files with people without going through a 3rd party.
The Dotcom bubble was much before I graduated, so it didn't impact me directly.

Years later, around 2015, I was serving meals at a homeless shelter and I met a guy (client at the shelter) who asked me what I do for a living, and after he realized I have some background in technology he started telling me about his past. He told me that he made 6 figures before the dot-come bubble burst, and then he got laid off during the burst. He was a network engineer and told me even though he was making a ton of money, he still made several bad financial decisions and spent all his money when he had it.

For me it was a lesson in financial planning. Suddenly all the theoretical concepts that I learnt a few years earlier in b-school (risks, diversification, investments etc.) became suddenly clearer to me. Ever since that day, I just assume that things can go wrong any time and I must be prepared for the worst.

And years later to this day, as I get more philosophical about life, I also wonder - why do we have so many wants - and I actively try to get rid of unnecessary clutter in my life.
Oh hey there bcantrill. I pull up your Oracle/Larry Ellison portion of your illumos talk when I need a pick me up [0]. Live long and prosper

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc&t=2047s
Ending your string literal with \n is much easier than using std::endl.
Neither precedent nor whataboutism are a good way to run a multipolar world. Both include literally all of the worst of humanity throughout history.

Even though we haven't evolved much since then, we don't have to be savages: Consensus of the majority of nations is a more appropriate (albeit not perfect) way to resolve multipolar issues.
> they do dynamically direct their own processes and tool usage
how are they dynamic?
if there is a code written for it then they are not dynamic.

If they are driven by LLMs interpretation then there is no explicit code written and it's figured out at runtime
> Once things are put away, I fear the chances of recovering that data steadily reduce over time.

I’ve run into this a lot. You store a backup of some device without really thinking of it, then over time the backup gets migrated to another drive but the device it ran on is lost and can’t be replaced. I remember reading a post years ago where someone commented that you don’t need a better storage solution, you need fewer files in simpler formats. I never took his advice, but I think he might have been right.
path/to/venv/bin/uv pip install foo installs to the global venv, not path/to/venv. Sadly that's a deal breaker for me, everything else looked great.
Intelligent Model Routing with Arcee Conductor
If you don't want pyhton flavored scope and lifetime rules, use another language :emothonless-face:
Guess who the boss of the US Marshals is? Former Trump attorney and 2020 election denier Pam Bondi. Good luck with that.
Why not just a zero followed by a UUID? UUIDs are the obvious standard everyone knows for identifying stuff.

Maybe a zero, the UUID as ASCII, then another zero, then a human readable description for debugging and search, or a structured metadata header.

But first, ask yourself why you are designing a binary format, unless maybe it's a new media container.

When would someone ever want a binary file that's not zip, SQLite, or version controllable text?
>Don't play dumb, products manufactured in Asia, for US companies, that are then shipped to Europe or elsewhere for sale.

That sounds more like it's to China's benefit than the United States' (or Europe's). If that wasn't spent, not only would there be an easier tax burden, but more incentive to manufacture domestically, employing people here.

I've lived my whole life through the China-makes-everything era, and the few pennies people saved getting cheap junk never outweighed the reduction in income they suffered when jobs went away.

>I hate to break it to you but the majority of products sold by US companies are not made in the USA any more.

How are they US companies, if they're selling products manufactured elsewhere, employing 1/50th (or even less) of the workforce they should? They're more like the overseas offices of Chinese companies with an English-friendly name.

>You are welcome to see how well the US economy performs when their is no policing of the world's shipping routes

I've already seen how it performs with the policing. And it can't get any worse for anyone who is in the bottom 90%. It can't get much worse for the greenies worrying about global warming, but failing to put together that making things 12,000 miles away and shipping it across the ocean embiggens the carbon footprint.

Ocean lane policing is the bad solution to a problem we should've never had in the first place, a problem we can get rid of, and it costs too much besides. Saying "but we should protect Chinese profits!" doesn't much change that.
A lot of people don’t see that.

I used to consult for a Canadian firm. Their sales folks complained that prospective accounts from outside the US would often include in their negotiations something to the effect of “you need to service our account through a non-US entity.” This firm had no non-Canadian entity.

But it was a very well known tech firm, so the assumption was that it was American.

Turned out the objections from prospects got a lot more strenuous (read: deals from non-US prospects not closing) when the firm’s cloud services were only available through AWS in the US.
Because he was testing automatic collision avoidance.
I think the author is being too kind when they reiterate the idea that we can ask these folks to "be more respectful."

If someone is peering into my windows, the first time I'll ask them politely to leave. The second time I'll call the police, and purchase curtains. The third time, I'll eventually call my lawyer.

There's not really an internet police we can call - so an aggressive defense is the only reasonable answer in this particular dark forest. Block, and maybe run Napenthes if you're interested in spending the CPU cycles & bandwidth.
You can always do OCR on the paper book, so if the easiest way to circumvent some ebook DRM were OCR, the vendor would probably consider that a resounding success.
Or, a fun little anecdote, the cleaner had access to the server room and turned off the AC of the server room, most disk drives failed, and the tapes melted inside the robots.

That was a fun Monday
> Remote attestation enables discrimination against free computers owned by users rather than corporations.

Not when my mobile device is attesting to my home server with OSS attestation software, or my USB Armory with OSS firmware for local "remote" attestation. GrapheneOS can attest to a 2nd mobile device running GrapheneOS, or a web verifier. This is not rocket science. Provide a mobile setting for attestation server URL.

> Every major service is going to use it. Guaranteed.

Hence there must be a mandatory option to define your attestation server. Advocating for the right to specify and/or host your arbiter of device trust (including firmware RoT) will do infinitely more for freedom than arguing against cryptography.
For hobbyists that's enough, for engineers often okay (I find myself in that situation) but for scientists "good enough" means nothing.

Optical metrology relies on accurate equations how a physical object maps to the image plane so in that case analytical solutions are necessary for subpixel accuracy.

I'm worried about how often kids these days discount precise mathematical models for all use cases. Sure, you get there most of the time but ignore foundational math and physics at your own peril.
i have a feeling it will be relevant on all continents before 2100

the world we're moving to is not one that is friendly to personal liberties
This is like saying "the human brain is just some chemistry." You have the general idea correct, but there's a lot more going on that just that, and the emergent system is so much more complex that it deserves its own separate field.
HTTP/3 adoption will explode as soon as its provided in `libcurl` with default compile options when combined with OpenSSL and not a moment before. As soon as this happens there will be a bunch of clients that speak HTTP/3 if available, and then there will be effort to build it into servers.

Right now there's no critical mass, and the most commonly used most-reference implementation of an HTTP client doesn't support HTTP/3 in any standardized way.
How can it not? Experts in C taking longer to make a slower and less safe implementation than experts in Rust? It's not conclusive but it most certainly says something about the language.
> Taking a guess based on the text in the cited intro, I wonder if the problem wasn't one of copyright, but one of credit.

Might be true. Not familiar with Amiga scene but the following actions were always mostly ok in the European C64 scene, provided credit was given to original author:

* Re-using music in whole

* Re-using fonts

* SOMETIMES re-using small parts of graphics

It always was not ok and considered "stealing" to re-use complete demo routines though for example.

People did get away (reputation wise) with re-using code routines for tools, though, provided credits where given and the re-released tool somehow improved on the original.

Another thing which many people disliked for example was re-using "instruments" from music, even when melodies changed. While the players were mostly open tooling, specific instruments/sounds for those players still had to be crafted first and I witnessed a couple of conflicts when people reused the instruments.

Nothing was written in stone, though. A concept such like licenses did not exist.
Strange to see this comment from days ago get listed as 2 hours ago.

What gives?
it's loud enough to be carried though your bones; covering your ears doesn't help.

it's also very disorienting
Yeah, it's definitely about using your brain and it's wise not to take a street taxi anywhere. Uber is not perfect, but much safer.
Yeah, companies are like that - they'll lie and pretend to be "the good guys" at the start, right up until they're not and change their motto to something besides "don't be evil".

As far as I can tell, it's all part of the plan to attract idealists for cheaper and get better bang-for-buck from their "committed" workers until such time as they can no longer deny their shady practices. By the time the original engineers leave, they have enough of an established framework that they can hire mercenary contractors or whatever to keep things going.

I was very "I will only work for moral companies" and I still feel that way. But when I was laid off for almost a year, well, I did apply at Amazon knowing all about them. Didn't quite apply at Google / Meta (didn't really want to do website / HTML stuff) but it was getting harder to resist..
Cynically, much of the "privacy" industry is just a red herring by big tech / data broker industry to normalize how egregious their privacy violations are.
Apple has the money, but not the will, to improve app features across their entire ecosystem.

I'd love some inside baseball on why they make the decisions they do. Siri could have been improved since they bought it, but I'm unsure if they even tried -- the results feel the same as five and ten years ago.

If you compare this retro look at Siri from 2010 with the same question now, I get back "I found this on the web" and it lists something from Miami and Milwaukee, as well as Trip Advisor.

Edit: I'm in Colorado, and Siri knows where my home is!

https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/q1eg86/video_this_is...
If this were true, i.e. in an ideal legal system, frivolous lawsuits wouldn't be a problem at all.

In many actual US jurisdictions (and presumably beyond), it's such a pervasive problem that there are now explicit "anti-SLAPP" laws on the book against just that.
I agree. The author could go after msgpack, they don’t have a magic number, but support using the .msgpack extension for storing data in files. Since a magic number isn’t required at all, it shouldn’t be required to be good.
An ultra-broadband photonic-chip-based parametric amplifier
With the way current corporations - both public and private - are setup, those in ‘power’ seems to be shielded - for various reasons - and the victims are ultimately punished (one way or another). We need something similar to a #MeToo movement to weed out the cancer and bring justice to victims.

What are some solutions? Consumers boycotting products, shareholders voting out bad apples, government / legal oversight? Any more ideas?
Probably the right move.
ah this takes me back. Thanks ;)
I have wondered for years if a business could set their prices low enough so that competitors would not be interested. This happens as soon as you have three or four well know competitors trying for market share, and one inevitably loses interest and bows out.
Thank you for these clarifications.

I appreciate your adjacent point RE gatekeeping. While I can understand passing through that limited mindset as part of a person's journey, we agree.

Regarding my pinnacle statement, that's a reasonable interpretation and point. Yet, regarding:

> it is so open to interpretation

I expect some, if not most, artists are aware. Further, I expect that some of those who are aware revel in, embrace, and plan for that environment. Bjork and Mutual Core, for example... Can be interpreted as a discussion of global politics, geology, romance, and more; none more "correct" than any other. Yet the arrangement of the multi-interpretable dimensions (each of which can itself be interesting) forms a loose pattern across them (or, arguably, many patterns in their own diversity) that in a sense can apply to each of the possible perspectives and is meta-perspective building. An intellectually constructed environment in which to consider advanced, complex considerations about existence. But perhaps that's only the ways I "misuse" artist's work (I believe, as you seem to that artists give up that power, largely willingly). As art, it mostly isn't trying to tell you what to conclude but only painting a scene, an arrangement, if you so choose for consideration and potential mental expansion.

The way in which I which I enjoyed PHM, for example, was an auto-reversing tape player that I pretty much filled every spare, at-least-semi-appropriate moment with as a teen so long as the batteries held out. I probably carry a partially unreasoned bias towards it because of that.

While I reject the post-modernist, post-truth hypothesis/stance, so to do I reject any claims of perfect access to any objective fact even while some claims demonstrate better evidence and support while I would consider some things such as terminal values to be exist within a relative to constructed "relationships between" and "purposes for" environment. Even those can be expressed in a contingent to the constructs manner.

An adjacent medium is comics and among my favorite examples is Promethea by Alan Moore who draws this hypothesis forth that one can consider ideas to exist more (and be "more real") than our concrete physical presences. There too, like Mutual Core and so many other works, there is an assemblage of ideas, given deeper meaning through narrative, and through the structure. I believe one of the purposes of some artists artist's creations are screams into the void, calling out for solutions finding in cooperation even where we reject solution as meaning singular configurations due to the variance of contexts and persons to which the solutions may be applied. The solutions there can rest upon assumptions made. Another is to just see what comes back in response.

Regardless or any artist's purpose, intents, or frameworks while well structured philosophy might at times be more efficient and only less error prone, I would expect we agree that music is a fair bit more broadly appealing.
Sounds like a great idea for a science fiction story.
Yes but my point stands. If AWS added S3 data integrity to the SLA then it’s now made that commitment contractually. If you add checksum data the checksums would (logically) be required and also be in scope of the SLA. If there was a mismatch between them and the file functioned it would be impossible to sanely adjudicate who is responsible for the discrepancy, or what the nature of that discrepancy might be if no other copies of the file exist.

AWS probably doesn’t want those risks and ambiguities.
Obviously, the Vegas nerve is what regulates a gambling addiction.