MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bayarearefugee | 2025-04-06 02:18:49+00:00
Even if they are a dump and pump and Trump cancels or drastically lowers them before the 9th I still think we're going to have a very serious downturn and recession (and maybe worse if things go off the rails with escalations and other countries taking more drastic steps to isolate the US).

The uncertainty around what exactly they think this policy is going to achieve (that's remotely positive for anyone, especially the US) is in many ways worse than the tariffs themselves. And all of the other issues talked about in the article like the DOGE cuts are still going to be a problem even if Trump pinky swears he's done with tariff threats (which he of course won't do).
by zekenie | 2025-04-06 02:18:54+00:00
I’m surprised the hospital said they were confident it was safe. I wonder what gave them confidence? I’m struggling to think of what data I could have on hand that would convince me it was really safe. Also, to folks saying that randomness is clumpy… did you read the article? I think a bunch of nurses that notice they are all getting sick (and then FIVE of them getting brain tumors) should be taken quite seriously. I’d start with the assumption that there IS an environmental problem and then figure out what it is.
by inkyoto | 2025-04-06 02:20:08+00:00
Supporting ZFS in a UNIX kernel requires excessively extensive modifications to the design and implementation of the VMM, namely:

1. Integration of the kernel's VM with ZFS's adaptive replacement cache which runs in user space – memory pressure cooperation, page accounting and unified memory management. It also requires extensive VM modifications to support ZFS's controlled page eviction, fine-grained dirty page tracking, plus other stuff. 2. VMM alignment with the ZFS transactional semantics and intent logs – delayed write optimisations, efficient page syncing. 3. Support for large memory pages and proper memory page alignment – support for superpages (to reduce the TLB pressure and to efficiently map large ZFS blocks efficiently) and I/O alignment awareness (to ensure proper alignment of memory pages to avoid unnecessary copies). 4. Memory-mapped I/O: different implementation of mmap and support for lazy checksumming for mmap pages. 5. Integration with kernel thread management and scheduling, co-opertation with VMM memmory allocators. 6. … and the list goes on and on.

ZFS is just not the right answer for consumer facing and mobile/portable devices due being a heavyweight server design with vastly different design provisions and due to being the answer to a entirely different question.
by drekipus | 2025-04-06 02:21:14+00:00
I had a simple formula:

"I feel like I am contributing at least $X value to the company. If I am then it makes sense to pay me that, and if not I'd like to know how we can get there."

It starts a discussion and it's more honest: if I am not worth that much then tell me how I can be more valuable.

I have had a pay rise every year from this conversation but my company is very flexible and successful, so mileage may vary.

I find all other approaches to me gimmicky and tricks, and somewhat dishonest in some way.
by bdangubic | 2025-04-06 02:21:28+00:00
I am 50 and I can’t recall more than 3 ads between these three companies. especially apple… ads may get you first X customers but the reason tide/apple/cc are dominant is because they made shit that everyone wants.

coca cola is such a ridiculous product that there isn’t a situation/place/… on the planet where asking for one is odd. you can be in 876 star michelin seven-years-long-wait list restaurant as well as nastiest rats-on-your-should shithole and asking for coke would be the most normal thing
by hardwaregeek | 2025-04-06 02:22:10+00:00
With most tech career advice on the internet, I would check to see if it was written before 2022. If so, I'd take it with a grain of salt. I wrote tech advice in the ZIRP times. It was a very different market. Negotiation is still a valid tactic but there's a lot more to lose and a lot fewer offers than in 2021.
by vo2maxer | 2025-04-06 02:22:53+00:00
The philosopher Blaise Pascal once said that "all of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone." Many of our world's troubles come from people doing stupid things rather than sitting peacefully with discomfort.

Doing nothing is actually a kind of discipline. The brain isn’t designed for idle time; evolution didn’t prioritize contentment—it prioritized survival. So Becky never really shuts up, because quiet might’ve once meant danger. Today, it just means our ancient wiring is nudging us to be productive, even when there’s nothing to produce.
by dlevine | 2025-04-06 02:23:17+00:00
I’m job searching right now, and it’s definitely not the doom and gloom that I’m hearing about.

I think it’s a challenging environment for developers who are either inexperienced or who have skills that are out of date. I have found that companies are a bit more picky than i remember about knowing the exact tech stack they use, but they are still making offers and those offers are pretty good.

Note that I’m applying mostly to mid-sized non-public companies. I’m not sure what it’s like applying to MAANG-types right now.
by userbinator | 2025-04-06 02:23:40+00:00
I assume this is some kind of ARM binary, but without any headers or anything I haven't been able to find out exactly what it is.

Hint: ARM (32-bit) non-Thumb opcodes have a very recognisable appearance, i.e. nearly every 4th byte will have E as its high nybble, because most of the instructions can be executed conditionally, and E is the "always" condition.
by mmooss | 2025-04-06 02:25:14+00:00
> Netscape was SO bad that they literally threw away all the code to make Firefox.

Nope. Netscape 4 did very well; that's one reason Microsoft used illegal means to compete. But Netscape, in what may be the textbook lesson about starting software projects over, tried to write Netscape 6 from a clean slate. It took much too long (of course) and wasn't released until Netscape was effectively dead.

AOL open-sourced Netscape's source code and from that was born Mozilla. Mozilla's first releases, based on Netscape 6, were Mozilla Suite or later Seamonkey. From what I know, they had generally superior browsers to IE - for example, they had tabbed browsing, popup blocking, and weren't the world's leading vector for attacks (it was before the Gates' Trustworthy Computing memo, which finally focused Microsoft on security).

Mozilla Suite included the browser, email, an HTML/webpage editor, and I think an IRC chat client. It also had seemingly every configuration option any contributor could think of. It was complex and impossible to develop and manage, and far exceeded user needs - most just wanted a web browser. So Mozilla made Firefox, just a web browser, along with the separate Thunderbird, just an email client.
by N2yhWNXQN3k9 | 2025-04-06 02:26:17+00:00
> So... you're basically saying it works?

Working under pressure isn't a viable therapy, IMO. In my experience, it is a path to burn out and diminishing returns.

> Got any support for that?

Anecdotally, ~25 years of eating them, but there is plenty of evidence that prolonged use of amphetamine causes structural neuronal changes, even at therapeutic doses.

Here is one article: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38665308/

> you look at the papers about externalising motivation/triggers

What papers? What do they say?

Also, fear (an external motivator) is a great way to release catecholamines for positive outcomes in ADHD, but it is also a great way to increase general stress, which has many other outcomes (free cortisol changes, etc).
by danaris | 2025-04-06 02:26:43+00:00
What? No; the problem is vastly more attributable to the tremendous transfer of wealth from the working classes to the wealthy that has occurred over the past 50 years.

Look at any graph of earnings by quintile over time, or of income or wealth inequality today, and you'll see that the fact that builders can't cut corners and sell us crappy houses and apartments that will fall down around our ears is far from the primary reason we have trouble affording things today.
by CharlesW | 2025-04-06 02:28:31+00:00
> Apple had no money or time to invest in rewriting NeXTStep for a completely new kernel they had no experience in.

And even if they had had the money and time, Avie Tevanian¹ was a principal designer and engineer of Mach². There was no NeXTSTEP-based path where the Mach-derived XNU would not be at the core of Apple's new OS family.

¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avie_Tevanian ² https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach_(kernel)
by mmooss | 2025-04-06 02:29:52+00:00
What will you give me if I prove you wrong? Let's make a bet. How about a note in the loser's profile for a month? 'I was a fool to doubt _____'. (I feel like we need something more creative.) :)

> if you're going to make wild claims you should back them up

Same goes for you.

I'm just going to preserve this claim here:

> I guarantee to you that there was never any government action (or even proposed action) against Microsoft for Office.

A guarantee! Can I sue if you're wrong? :)
by jasonpeacock | 2025-04-06 02:29:59+00:00
Integration test are slow/expensive to run compared to unit tests and reduce your iteration speed.

Unit tests let you change code fearlessly with instant feedback.

Integration tests require basically deploying your app, and when something fails you have to debug the root cause.

If you’re doing a lot of mocking then your design is not good. And only public interfaces should have testing.
by GianFabien | 2025-04-06 02:30:00+00:00
Back in the days when Apple acquired NeXT, Linux was undergoing lots of development and wasn't well established. Linux being a monolithic kernel didn't offer the levels of compartmentalization that Mach did.

As things now stand, FreeBSD represents many of the benefits of Darwin and the open source nature of Linux. If you seek a more secure environment without Apple's increasing levels of lock-in, then FreeBSD (and the other BSDs) merit consideration for deployment.
by bch | 2025-04-06 02:30:26+00:00
> I am not sure whether DragonBSD is dead or alive today at all.

Oof, yeah.[0][1]. I hope they're doing alright - technically fascinating, and charming as they march to the beat of their own accordion.[2][3][4][5]

[0] https://www.dragonflybsd.org/release64/

[1] https://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git

[2] https://www.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/kernel/2012-03/msg0...

[3] http://www.bsdnewsletter.com/2007/02/Features176.html

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vkernel

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAMMER_(file_system)
by freeamz | 2025-04-06 02:30:47+00:00
I don't know about 'advertising', but Bahai don't allow campaigning when running for leadership position. I would imagine it would be some where along line of that. It encourage action speakers louder than words.

With all the modern techniques (used by neurosciences) in the modern advertising is pretty all entrainment and brain washing at this point any way. So no harm in making all that illegal. I'm pretty ok with a world with no advertising, and just function by word of mouth and network of trust.
by yieldcrv | 2025-04-06 02:31:00+00:00
I have also experienced this and subsequently bluffed it.

I told a startup that I “was talking to Meta”, and they were like ok we cant compete with that. I hadnt even done leetcode yet I was just doing emails with Meta’s recruiter. I told the startup that its okay because I will be stuck in team matching for 6 months, and the startup bumped my salary 30%.
by linguae | 2025-04-06 02:31:17+00:00
Interestingly enough, Apple did contribute to porting Linux to PowerPC Macs in the mid-1990s under the MkLinux project, which started in 1996 before Apple’s purchase of NeXT later that year:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MkLinux

I don’t think there was any work done on bringing the Macintosh GUI and application ecosystem to Linux. However, until the purchase of NeXT, Apple already had the Macintosh environment running on top of Unix via A/UX (for 68k Macs) and later the Macintosh Application Environment for Solaris and HP-UX; the latter ran Mac OS as a Unix process. If I remember correctly, the work Apple did for creating the Macintosh Application Environment laid the groundwork for Rhapsody’s Blue Box, which later became Mac OS X’s Classic environment. It is definitely possible to imagine the Macintosh Application Environment being ported to MkLinux. The modern FOSS BSDs were also available in 1996, since this was after the settlement of the lawsuit affecting the BSDs.

Of course, running the classic Mac OS as a process on top of Linux, FreeBSD, BeOS, Windows NT, or some other contemporary OS was not a viable consumer desktop OS strategy in the mid 1990s, since this required workstation-level resources at a time when Apple was still supporting 68k Macs (Mac OS 8 ran on some 68030 and 68040 machines). This idea would’ve been more viable in the G3/G4 era, and by the 2000s it would have be feasible to give each classic Macintosh program its own Mac OS process running on top of a modern OS, but I don’t think Apple would have made it past 1998 without Jobs’ return, not to mention that the NeXT purchase brought other important components to the Mac such as Cocoa, IOKit, Quartz (the successor to Display PostScript) and other now-fundamental technologies.
by jtimberman | 2025-04-06 02:31:36+00:00
The Chef-branded distribution is still built from the same open source repositories that the CINC project is built from; it isn't proprietary. It has an additional EULA that requires people to accept and thus [presumably] pay for.

It's basically the same model as Red Hat. Except Chef never had the market penetration and brand recognition as a trusted source that Red Hat has.

Signed, someone who worked for Chef for almost 13 years.
by bdangubic | 2025-04-06 02:32:05+00:00
your whole problem is that you want to work at big tech. I still get a whole lot of perks (not massages :) ) working for small private companies making MUCH more money now than 2016… big tech bubble is killing a whole lot of careers these days, tech hiring now is actually pretty good, I get emails from companies and recruiters (even though I virtually do not exist publicly, e.g. linkedin etc…) weekly or less
by throwanem | 2025-04-06 02:32:11+00:00
I said that it violates no rule to include in program material valid tones that will spuriously trigger an ENDEC which receives them, and that it does violate a rule (specifically, a subsection of 47 CFR part 11 that I can't be bothered hunting down just now) to broadcast program material including such tones.

The example I like to refer to is my phone's PagerDuty ringtone, which includes a set of SAME headers (syntactically valid but encoding no meaningful alert, not that it matters) followed by the attention tone.

Nothing I personally do with that ringtone can reasonably qualify as a violation of 47 CFR 11, because I don't have a broadcast license and thus am not bound by the provisions of one, to include those related to EAS.

It would be a crime for me to broadcast that ringtone directly - not because of the nature of the transmission, but because operating an unlicensed transmitter in licensed bands is an offense. Depending on the specifics of my putative pirate-radio actions under this scenario, in theory a case might be made under 47 CFR 11.45.1 ("No person may transmit or cause to transmit...") for a fine along with the prison sentence, but I doubt anyone would see much cause to bother.

But, if I were to go to a radio station for a live interview in the course of which my PagerDuty ringtone went off and the edit delay failed, causing the ringtone to go out over the air - in that case the radio station would be considered to have violated the EAS rule.

edit: OK, I nerd-sniped myself and did look it up again; it's 47 CFR 11.45 https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-47/section-11.45 which has been amended since I last reviewed it during the Obama administration to forbid transmission of the Attention Signal (the equal-amplitude 853/960Hz mix that raises the hair on your neck) as well as the encoded headers that will trigger automated EAS equipment. It's not terribly well written in my view, and I'm much more familiar with the technical than the legal aspects, but there's no precedent at least of which I'm aware for anyone not actually an "EAS Participant" as defined in 47 CFR 11.2 to see any kind of enforcement action over an EAS violation.
by mmooss | 2025-04-06 02:33:09+00:00
If you win the gotcha game, what do you win? We can attack each other's words or we can try to understand each other. I think my words can be interpreted as I intended:

I think 'pure breed hacker' means much more than 'real coder' or 'can write competent 1980s-level production-quality code'.
by grues-dinner | 2025-04-06 02:33:51+00:00
Sure it's just a thought experiment.

But even in the strict context of the experiment for very heavy industry, like a steel mill or chip fab, they could be co-operatively owned in whole or by parts.

You could also extend the experiment to allow capital assets to be discounted, or allow worker-owned shares to be discounted. So you can get big, but only by building or by sharing, respectively.

Obviously the big industries today would not be possible as they are structured. But what would we get instead? Would the co-operative overhead kill efficiency dead, or would the dynamism in the system produce higher overall efficiency and better worker outcomes than behemoths hoarding resources and hoovering up competition? And if no one can be worth over 100 million (say), what would that do to the lobbying and deal-making system at the higher levels? One 10-billionaire would have be be replaced by 100 people.
by ricardobeat | 2025-04-06 02:34:30+00:00
No, I'm comparing to what you see on the average cookie consent banner [1]. If you dive into the 'manage' option, most e-commerce sites will literally have hundreds of third-parties listed that your data might be shared with. As far as I understand these are all direct integrations, either in the frontend or backend, not indirect - you don't have to ask for permission for companies downstream of your own providers.

[1] we don't get to see most companies codebases, so this is a good indicator of the amount of integrations
by csense | 2025-04-06 02:35:57+00:00
"The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks"

The original point of Bitcoin was that someone else didn't keep custody of your money for you. You'd keep custody of it yourself, on your computer or a paper wallet.

Yet, there are tons of people who keep obscene amounts of Bitcoins on crypto exchanges or otherwise held by companies for them.

Why do people buy a cryptocurrency built on distrust of institutions that hold your money for you, and then give that cryptocurrency to an institution to hold it for them?

Did nobody learn anything when the former Magic: The Gathering Online Exchange imploded in 2013-2014?
by mrmincent | 2025-04-06 02:36:00+00:00
I wfh pretty much 100%, and have inattentive adhd. I’ll occasionally go spend a day at a WeWork, either with other workmates, or by myself.

On days that I’m with workmates, I get nothing done. On days I’m by myself, sitting by strangers, I’m really productive. I can just lock in and chug through my work. It never made sense to me until I learned about body-doubling, kind of feels like what I was inadvertently doing on those solo days.
by 8bitsrule | 2025-04-06 02:36:26+00:00
>A few cytoskeletal proteins did something non-classical, so we have to re-evaluate the place of life in the universe? What?

Yeah, I thought the find was interesting, but not nearly as significant as the article bloviated. Obvious that quantum bits have a role in everything in the universe, which likely includes the brain, huh? T'were worth a look.
by etempleton | 2025-04-06 02:36:35+00:00
People will hate me for saying this, but when people want to ban advertising they fail to realize how much utility they actually get from advertising when it is done in a straightforward, ethical way. At the core, advertising and advertisements are a way to inform potential customers of a product or service that they might like. A few points for consideration:

1. You probably only know about half the things you like, enjoy, and use because of advertising. Did you see a trailer for a movie on YouTube you wanted to watch? That is an ad for a movie. Did you get a demo disc for a new band at a party or club in the 90s? That is an ad. Did you see the concert lineup poster? Ad. No one complains when advertising is done well and provides utility.

2. Ads subsidize things you enjoy. Browsers, search engines, television, your tv, most websites, are all subsidized through advertising. You can say would prefer to just pay full price for it and avoid the ads, but most people clearly would not like to when given the option.

3. What even is an ad? What is the line? Are store signs an ad? Are movie trailers? Defining what an ad is and isn’t is messy and a bit silly.

4. The alternative may be worse. What happens when traditional ads stop working? Businesses still need to get their message out, so what do they do? They hire YouTubers to play talk positively about their product, they wine and dine journalists and publications for favorable coverage, which becomes easy because without ads they are hurting for revenue. If ads were banned this would get worse.

It is nice to opine about a utopia without ads, and believe me, I often do, but the reality is advertising has been around for thousands of years and integral to how business and even society works.
by linguae | 2025-04-06 02:36:43+00:00
I remember reading back in 2007-2008 that Apple was interested in bringing ZFS support to Mac OS X, but discussions ended once Oracle purchased Sun. This was a bummer; I would’ve loved ZFS on a Mac.

After a cursory Google search, I found this article:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/zfs-on-snow-leopard-forget-abo...
by hkmaxpro | 2025-04-06 02:37:32+00:00
Just these past few days, a fatal accident in China killed three college students in a car fire and the victims could not unlock the car door.

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinas-xiaomi-says-activ...

> Chinese newspaper Economic Observer earlier reported that local traffic police had told the father of one of the victims that the car had caught fire after hitting the cement pole, and the car key had not unlocked the door.
by tqi | 2025-04-06 02:38:10+00:00
> Our testing shows that Llama 4 responds with strong political lean at a rate comparable to Grok (and at half of the rate of Llama 3.3) on a contentious set of political or social topics. While we are making progress, we know we have more work to do and will continue to drive this rate further down.

My experience is that these subjective benchmarks are completely meaningless, because the researchers involved have a strong incentive (promotions, discretionary equity) to cherrypick measures that they can easily improve.
by twoodfin | 2025-04-06 02:38:33+00:00
Hard liquor ads are all over (e.g.) broadcasts of NFL games.

Cigarette advertising “bans” are not legislated, IIRC, but a result of the various consolidated settlements of the 1990s-era lawsuits against the tobacco companies. They’re essentially voluntary, and it’s not obvious that a genuine ban would survive constitutional scrutiny. It might: Commercial speech is among the least protected forms of speech.

But at some point a line is crossed: Painting “Read the New York Times” on the side of a barn you own is bread & butter freedom of expression.