MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by zer8k | 2025-04-11 16:34:46+00:00
Looking back at what my best managers (I have two) had in common:

* Cared deeply about my personal progress. Not just at work but in life. Am I feeling okay? How are things going? What are your interests? Are you doing what is interesting to you? Both of them became actual friends outside of work once I left one of the companies, and the other manager left the company I was at during that time.

* Treated me as an equal and used their power in my favor. Bad project? Moved me off it. Salary problems? Fought for a raise. Needed to skill up? Got me what I needed whether it was books, or classes, or whatever.

* Didn't bother much about using 1:1s for "business". It was my time, and they made sure I used it how I wanted. If I wanted to wax poetic about my hobby project for 30 minutes I could.

Importantly both of them understood that what I was doing for the company was a JOB and there were no qualms about that. "Careers" do not exist anymore. This refreshing reality and human feel is something pinhead middle managers I've had since seem to miss.
by ninetyninenine | 2025-04-11 16:35:08+00:00
No he's saying go is designed for people like you. You're obviously joking about COQ, but I'm not joking about you. This is literally what he's talking about. Take a step back out of your sarcasm and look at reality. You are the demographic Pike is talking about. And we both know Pike is not even referring to coq.
by sjsdaiuasgdia | 2025-04-11 16:35:22+00:00
IIRC, Win2K would wait for most / all service startups to complete before showing the login prompt. XP and later would allow login to occur while many services were still starting up.

It's a tradeoff. A Win2K system was pretty responsive when you log in after a reboot/startup, but you've got to wait for that experience. In the days of spinning disks and single core CPUs, you had to fight those still-starting services for resources, making the first several minutes of XP usage painful.
by paulorlando | 2025-04-11 16:35:49+00:00
That carcinisation convergent evolution effect is real. But so is the reality that outside of network dependent companies like the Netflix example in the post, those faster horses do still exist, just in niches. In Kevin Kelly's book What Technology Wants he writes about going through a 100-year old catalog and then finding that there are people today who still make all the items (some now obscure) that were popularly sold back then. But the difference is that if you're talking about individual companies like Netflix, YouTube, LinkedIn, Substack in the post, you won't see that.
by UncleEntity | 2025-04-11 16:36:12+00:00
Back when I was in the army the objective when doing individual land nav was: go hide in the woods until around the time to go back. Of course there was a bit of walking because we never started and ended at the same place so you had to have some familiarity with finding your way in the woods. Once in a while they would go out and change the point numbers around, usually when it was an actual test, so you had to know actual land navigation skills if you didn't want remedial training on the weekends.

The last land nav course I ever did was in the reserves and in the mountains. Instead of traipsing through the underbrush I just followed the fire breaks and occasionally took azimuths off surrounding mountain peaks and only missed one point because I didn't feel like hiking up the steep hill it was on top of.

Not too sure I see the value in online land nav but I also learned it before GPS was really a thing.
by RestlessMind | 2025-04-11 16:36:14+00:00
> I don't see why...

People need a trillion-dollar company for even simpler tasks like exchanging messages with their friends and families.

Why? Because the UX and reliability of that option is superior to anything else. Which of course means Billions of users flock to that service. Which brings insane revenue and economies of scale. Which can be invested into improving the UX and reliability further than the competitors. Now the company has a big moat around its business and a Trillion dollar valuation.
by TuringTest | 2025-04-11 16:36:17+00:00
The classical answer of why more hardware resources are needed for the same tasks is that the new system allows for way much more flexibility. A problem domain can be thoroughly optimized for a single purpose, but then it can only be used for that purpose alone.

This is quite true for LLMs. They can do basic arithmetic, but they can also read problem statements in many diverse mathematical areas and describe what they're about, or make (right or wrong) suggestions on how they can be solved.

Classic AIs suffered the Frame problem, where some common-sense reasoning depended on facts not stated in the system logic.

Now, LLMs have largely solved the Frame problem. It turns out the solution was to compress large swathes of human knowledge in a way that can be accessed fast, so that the relevant parts of all that knowledge are activated when needed. Of course, this approach to flexibility will need lots of resources.
by names_are_hard | 2025-04-11 16:36:19+00:00
This is an important point. Readers should remember that what's obvious to them is not necessarily something "everyone knows" until it's pointed out. Personally I will say that when I first starting consuming movies at around age 20 I was not conscious of this dynamic, until I read about product placement in movies and then suddenly I started noticing it. Especially when a car chase scene goes into slow motion at just the moment that the camera gets a closeup of the tires and you can read the brand name...
by adamgordonbell | 2025-04-11 16:36:36+00:00
Theoretically, there's some sort of arbitrage happening.

There is some department in the government that's very unsexy and has a very real problem that could be solved by a smart finance MBA student diligently working on it. But there's no way that diligent young employee would want that job. Nor no way if he had it that anyone would take him seriously and put his changes in place.

He doesn't want to work for that unsexy department. The people at that unsexy department do not want to work for him.

Put a consulting company in the middle and he has a job title that sounds cool and that organization gets their problem solved.

( This is how someone explained business consulting to me. )
by sambeau | 2025-04-11 16:36:39+00:00
Steve Jobs was not a marketing guy. If anything, he was a designer. His technical knowledge was also way beyond most CEOs. He designed his presentations with a high attention to detail just like he designed his products, product ranges and companies. If you watch any one of the many interviews he gave you'll see that he can talk off-the-cuff, in depth on all kinds of subjects. And, unlike many modern CEOs, he pauses to think before opening his mouth.
by andrewfromx | 2025-04-11 16:37:03+00:00
This was fantastic find. I've added:

container_cpu_usage_seconds_total: total CPU time used

container_cpu_cfs_throttled_periods_total: how often a container gets throttled

To our Datadog Charts. And I'm adding

import _ "go.uber.org/automaxprocs"

right now.
by gonzoflip | 2025-04-11 16:37:06+00:00
Generally the expectation is that with a map, compass, and protractor a member of the Army should be able to navigate a land nav course(the simulation is very similar to the real courses). In practice, it's much more likely that a combat arms soldier would know how to use this than someone that works in something like cyber operations.

In my time in the Infantry we spent a significant amount of time working on honing landnav skills, both theory, and practice.

*Edit* Also, there is already a manual for everything you do in the military.
by hinkley | 2025-04-11 16:37:17+00:00
There were people who only had HBO subscriptions to watch the new season of Westworld. Given they merged with Cinemax I’m not sure if that worked out for them. But there were also Apple+ subscriptions just to watch Ted Lasso. And I begrudgingly got Prime to watch the Expanse.

But when I bought the full seasons it was from Apple. I’m sure Bezos still ended up with most of that money but at least some of it went to Apple instead.
by the_snooze | 2025-04-11 16:37:24+00:00
I think the harsh practical reality is that a lot of end-user computing needs have been met for a long time: word processing, media playback, communications, etc. Unless you need live collaboration or some specialized package, most things you can do in modern Google Sheets you can do just as well in LibreOffice Calc or Excel 97.

How does one build or maintain a viable software business in a world where most people's software needs have been met? It's to pivot away from delivering value towards extracting value. Hence all the push towards cloud-based services instead of stadalone local programs. Online connectivity allows the developer to arbitrarily change the balance of value between them and the user, which is where the gross adversarial feeling of modern computing comes from. The computer is no longer serving you exclusively.
by mfitton | 2025-04-11 16:38:08+00:00
I'm not sure that follows from this article. In fact, I think the logical conclusion of the article is that, by trying to grow (address weaknesses and turn them into strengths) you're actually creating strengths, which in turn creates a weakness.

I think it's possible to grow in positive outcomes of behaviors, but I also think this article is trying to get at something intrinsic within each one of us. Identifying where our personality quirks lead to strengths and weaknesses, and accepting that, is related but not quite the same as identifying concrete positive and negative outcomes of behavior, and trying to change our behaviors to align more to the positive outcomes.

Not sure if the link I'm trying to make here will be clear, but... I had an interesting conversation with my wife the other day. She conceives of who she is largely through the behaviors she expresses, a kind of de facto self-definition. I tend to have a self-conception that's a little bit more abstract and rooted as much in my feelings, thoughts, with some aspirational quality, that my behaviors sometimes live up to, and other times don't.
by ninetyninenine | 2025-04-11 16:38:45+00:00
Go sucks not because it's accomodating to poor designs. It sucks because it is in itself poorly designed and that leaks over to the design of entire applications.

Why have functions return err, nil? Why even allow for a runtime error here? It's a really simple fix. You don't even have to make the language complex to support this. Instead the entire program is littered with holes and if statements you have to check in order to prevent a actual crash
by ceejayoz | 2025-04-11 16:39:06+00:00
The maps at https://www.atacarnet.com/sites/default/files/documents/airp... and https://www.ana.co.jp/en/jp/guide/prepare/airport-guide/inte... say otherwise.

Immigration (can you enter) --> international baggage claim --> customs (can your stuff enter) --> transfer bag drop.

edit: Same setup for Boston, it seems?

https://www.jal.co.jp/jp/en/inter/airport/bos/info/

Immigration: "Customs declaration form - not required"

Then baggage claim, then...

Customs: "Please show your passport and customs declaration form. (Your customs declaration form will be collected here.) If you have any items to declare, please declare them to an official."
by chengzeyi | 2025-04-11 16:39:06+00:00
We have made HiDream online! This SOTA open-source image generation model with 17 billion parameters is designed to deliver exceptional image quality and prompt adherence. It is now top 3 ranked on https://artificialanalysis.ai/text-to-image/arena?tab=Leader... and it is totally open-sourced with MIT License.
by sightbroke | 2025-04-11 16:39:16+00:00
Or you could try and read the link I provided:

> But winning an election is not the only way a person can become president. And there are hypothetical situations involving presidential succession, Baude adds, that are "not addressed as fully" by the Constitution's text. They reveal ways in which the common understanding of the 22nd Amendment's presidential term limits could be challenged in court. One theory: Trump could become vice president and then president in 2029

> Still, in court, a lawyer could try to argue that being a "natural born" citizen, at least 35 years old and a resident within the U.S. for at least 14 years are the only presidential eligibility requirements specified in the Constitution, says Stephen Gillers, a professor emeritus at New York University School of Law, who proposed in 2004 that Clinton run for vice president.

I'm unconvinced that the Supreme Court will look towards public sentiment.
by laurencerowe | 2025-04-11 16:39:17+00:00
As I understand it TinyKVM is so fast because it does not run a full Linux guest but rather a thin layer with just enough syscall compatibility to run single threaded Linux static binaries.

I’ve been running varnish/tinykvm using podman by using passing /dev/kvm into the container and adding myself to the kvm group. https://github.com/lrowe/deno_varnish?tab=readme-ov-file#run...

Maybe you would be better off with something like krun which is built to run OCI containers in a full Linux kvm guest. https://josecastillolema.github.io/podman-wasm-libkrun/
by mattfca | 2025-04-11 16:39:22+00:00
you have a fundamental misunderstanding of govermental debt and the US.the US CAN 100%, its not a guess its a fact, spend away their troubles forever.

learn how the global economy is, understand what fiat is, find out what your missing. (first hint, money is a construct - and follow the tbills)

you know what does make the US have to do "painful austerity measures - budget cuts, increased taxes, and the like. It's unpopular to do painful things, but it's necessary for survival" ??

Watch everything the current administration does because they dont understand modern economics and you'll see.
by Spooky23 | 2025-04-11 16:39:34+00:00
Uh, no.

I can name a half dozen people who are in roles like this for F500 companies.

Hell, my wife was zoning SANs for $300/hr for like 6 years at a big bank. Another friend is essentially a pimp for a bunch of companies providing logistics staff. He takes a vig from the work of like 10k people.
by sherdil2022 | 2025-04-11 16:39:43+00:00
* Servant leadership

* Sharing credit / let others shine, taking / shielding others from blame

* Phycological safety

* Clarity of Vision and Direction

* Active Listening & Empathy

* Growth Mindset & Development Focus

* Accountability & Ownership

* Adaptability

* Trust & Autonomy

* Transparent & Consistent Communication

* Emotional Intelligence

* Resource Clearing / Advocacy

Oh wait - these are the traits in a good/great manager - of which I have seen only 1 so far.
Ask HN: Is Apollo.io Ripe for a Class Action Lawsuit
by dhfbshfbu4u3 | 2025-04-11 16:39:49+00:00
For those of you who many not be aware, YC startup Apollo.io is the largest distributor of business email and contact information for lead generation. If you run a business (especially e-commerce), Apollo.io is the reason you receive dozens of solicitations each day. Without their lead gen database, your spam wouldn't exactly go away but it would be a little more difficult for services like Charm.io and others to scrape and bake your addresses. After receiving untold numbers of solicitations over the years, I started asking myself... is this company a good target for a class action lawsuit? The scope of damages would be quite large. Thoughts?
by pxc | 2025-04-11 16:40:11+00:00
I suppose one characteristic that Oils, resholve, and Nix share is that each is an ambitious attempt to bridge two worlds in order to propagate recent innovations to actually-existing environments that are entangled with complex legacies: Oils with its two frontends/modes/languages that hope to bring the innovations of PowerShell to settings where Bash is deeply entrenched, resholve in trying to add dependency management to a language that has always fundamentally lacked it and has perhaps a uniquely flexible standard of interop, and Nix in trying to bring insights from implementations of functional programming languages (e.g., garbage collection) and their features (immutability, composability) to Unix filesystem hierarchies.

In a way, I suppose resholve also directly shares a goal of Oils itself— namely, to make shell scripts "more like 'real programs'". YSH pursues this goal through more powerful and flexible language constructs, greater facility with data structures, more ergonomic error messages and other feedback for the user, things like that. Resholve pursues this goal by trying to make it possible for shell programs— even shell programs that rely on a mixture of third-party programs from God-knows-where— can be more portable, less sensitive to changes in the environment, and more amenable to a kind of static analysis of their behavior and dependencies. And both try to achieve their missions in a "conservative" way, letting users retain (or continue to write) code written in the shell language they're most familiar with.

Certainly here on HN, "disruptive" innovation gets a lot more consideration (and praise). But I think that "conservative" innovation of the kind I've just outlined is sometimes even more ambitious and challenging. It's a great thing to see such projects manage to produce interesting and useful results.

So long live Nix, resholve, and Oils!
by omoikane | 2025-04-11 16:40:34+00:00
The story I heard[1] was that Microsoft skipped 9 because people used to check for "Windows 9" prefix string to identify 95 and 98:

if(version.StartsWith("Windows 9")) { /* 95 and 98 */ } else {

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/2hwlrk/comment/...
by smusamashah | 2025-04-11 16:40:44+00:00
> They recorded over 300 of these observations, including what the caller was doing at the time, what was happening in the environment and the behaviour of the caller and audience after the vocalisation.

> To reveal the meaning of each call, they used a technique from linguistics to create a cloud of utterance types, placing vocalisations that occurred in similar circumstances closer together. “We kind of established this dictionary,” says Berthlet. “We have one vocalisation and one meaning.”

This is lots of manual effort, could the recent advancement in language models help decode animal languages more easily? I guess it will need lots 24/7 capture of physical movement/action and sound data and train a model (that already understands vocal English too) perhaps.
by chaz6 | 2025-04-11 16:41:30+00:00
I like the implementation, but it looks like nobody has pointed out that Python already has a built-in string template system [1]. Granted, it's not quite as simple to use, but I have been using it for a while.

[1] https://docs.python.org/3/library/string.html#template-strin...

edit: this was mentioned by milesrout in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43649607
by ghc | 2025-04-11 16:41:33+00:00
At least one contract appears to be for the air force's effort to move secure workloads to a multi-cloud environment. Based on publicly available slides, I think Accenture is acting as a middleman to avoid dependence on Azure or AWS technical support creating lock in to their clouds.

IMHO firing Accenture is probably a good move in this case. I bet they were extracting money at every opportunity just so the gov't could nominally avoid cloud vendor lock-in.
by Suppafly | 2025-04-11 16:42:38+00:00
>You think a budding graphic designer of one year could afford the $1,500+ up front cost?

Yes? It's pretty normal to take out a loan or use a credit card to purchase tools to setup your career for years to come. That budding graphic designer probably spent $2000+ on a new Mac. Honestly though subscriptions only make sense for business customers, they really fuck over the home users that would like to buy the software once and use it for several years. Hobby photographers and such are either priced out of the market, or stuck with old computers running older versions from before the subscription push.
by absolutelastone | 2025-04-11 16:43:16+00:00
You always need to be careful when it comes to customs really. Some minor things like certain foods and OTC medicines can have big ramifications in many countries, including losing your visa. If you're a business person counting on using a multi-year visa to do your job, you can screw up your career by getting it revoked.

Of course I think people should get second chances, especially naive students. The professor should also have been mindful of this risk and made sure she complied with the rules too.
by mrpippy | 2025-04-11 16:43:20+00:00
I found Rez to be a really good option, see https://github.com/macssh/macssh/blob/master/macssh/source/A... or https://github.com/macssh/macssh/blob/master/macssh/source/t.... Modern macOS still includes Rez and DeRez too!

And new-enough CodeWarrior should be fine with regular \n line-endings and '/' in #include.
by jcarterwil | 2025-04-11 16:44:04+00:00
In 1999, top executives from Nestlé, Kraft, Coca-Cola, General Mills, and others privately acknowledged that processed foods were fueling an obesity epidemic. Despite alarming evidence linking their products directly to chronic disease, they chose short-term profits over long-term health solutions. Now, 26 years and $4 trillion in annual healthcare costs later, has the food industry missed its Kodak moment?
by hammock | 2025-04-11 16:44:08+00:00
>I'm not sure that follows from this article.

I can see how. In the example given, the strength of coding speed is created via a bias against careful review of edge cases. When it works (most of the time) , you increase your coding speed and reduce review of edge cases even more, until something blows up

The interesting insight from the article is that a coder is not an inflexible monolith - they can vary the expression of a "strength/weakness" pair (strength/weakness being a misnomer at this point in the argument) to suit the circumstances
by rdtsc | 2025-04-11 16:44:11+00:00
> Does ICE have evidence that not declaring them was intentional? I

They say they do: “Messages on her phone revealed she planned to smuggle the materials through customs without declaring them. She knowingly broke the law and took deliberate steps to evade it.”

> The article left me with a couple questions - is cancelling a visa for not declaring something like frog embryos normal protocol?

A visa like J-1 can be cancelled at the port of entry for a variety of reasons. Doesn't mean she immediately loses her status. With a visa like that you're essentially at the mercy of the State Dept. You can still reply but you have to exit the US. The normal procedure would have been to immediately send her to Russia. The idea is, you go back to your home country and re-apply. But they didn't do that and "let her" stay in detention since Russia is a dangerous place for her.
by MarceColl | 2025-04-11 16:44:16+00:00
I think it really depends, in Common Lisp for example I don't think that's the case:

(progn (do-something) (do-something-else) (do-a-third-thing))

The only case where it's a bit different and took some time for me to adjust was that adding bindings adds an indent level.

(let ((a 12) (b 14)) (do-something a) (do-something-else b) (setf b (do-third-thing a b)))

It's still mostly top-bottom, left to right. Clojure is quite a bit different, but it's not a property of lisps itself I'd say. I have a hard time coming up with examples usually so I'm open to examples of being wrong here.