MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-01-28 01:31:52+00:00
You realize you are arguing my point? We are in complete agreement about #1.

As far as #2, I came into a large project at my new at the time company last year one week before having to fly out to a customer site. I threw everything I could find about the project into NotebookLM and started asking it questions like I would ask the customer. Tools like Gong are pretty good to at summarizing calls. I agree with you on #2.

I am at a point now where I am the first technical person after sales closes a deal and I lead (larger) projects and do smaller projects myself. But I realize remotely, my coworkers from Latin America are just as good as I am now and cheaper.

I’m working on moving to a sales role when I see the time coming. It’s high touch and the last thing that can’t be taken over.

I would never have trusted any L4 or L5 SWE I met at AWS anywhere near one of my customers (ProServe). But they also wouldn’t let me put code into a repo that ran an AWS service. Fair is fair

If I remember correctly, the leveling guidelines were (oversimplifying).

An L4 should be able to handle a well defined story

An L5 should be able to handle a well defined Epic where the what is known bit not how

An L6 should be able to lead a more ambiguous longer term project made of multiple Epics.
by Bender | 2026-01-28 01:31:54+00:00
Looks like it is hosted in Equinix in NL? Or just part of it maybe? Is it behind a load balancer, maybe something like HAProxy? If so were stick tables set up to limit rates by cookie and require people be logged in on unique accounts and limit anonymous access after so many requests? I know limiting anonymous access is not great but that is something that could be enabled when under a high load so that instead of the site going offline for everyone it would just be limited for the anonymous users. Degradation vs critical outage

On a separate note have tcpdump captures been done on these excessive connections? Minus the IP, what do their SYN packets look like? Minus the IP what do the corresponding log entries look like in the web server? Are they using HTTP/1.1 or HTTP/2.0? Are they missing any expected headers for a real person such as cors, no-cors, navigate, accept_language?

tcpdump -p --dont-verify-checksums -i any -NNnnvvv -B32768 -c32 -s0 port 443 and 'tcp[13] == 2'
by Apocryphon | 2026-01-28 01:32:43+00:00
> I hear a hollow plugh

>> You pause and listen, the word 'plugh' humming at the edge of your thoughts, as if echoing from some distant chamber of magic and legend. You try to see if anything stirs at the sound of the hollow incantation.
You give voice to the old magic word: "plugh."

A hollow voice answers from the unseen depths: "Fool."

The world is silent once more, charged now with the uneasy energy of legend and caution.
by to11mtm | 2026-01-28 01:33:08+00:00
You kinda missed part of my specific point,

Mostly that there's a lot that goes on in society where a single person can't necessarily genocide a 'race' but a single person can certainly fuck up a single person of family's life over the long term intentionally and not care, even if doing so does not gain them any real advantage.

But hey if you want to look at 'bigger picture', 'societal' cruelty...

Reaching even further back than WW2, we may look at the Armenian Genocide and the circumstances.

> You don't need to invent instincts or tendencies or claim something is more subtle or targeted when the vastly simpler explanation is just that it's all just cost-benefit.

Part of the human condition used to be the idea that we had evolved beyond short term cost-benefit, however the last 15 years, might be proving you right.
by XorNot | 2026-01-28 01:33:10+00:00
Again: which experts were saying what was impossible, which was then revealed to be possible by the Snowden documents?

Is the claim that there was adequate court oversight of operations under those codenames which then turned out not to be the case? Are they referring to specific excesses of the agencies? Breaking certain cryptographic primitives presumed to be secure?

Why is absolutely no one who knows all about Snowden ever able to refer to the files with anything more then a bunch of titles, and when they deign to provide a link also refuses to explain what part of it they are reacting to or what they think it means - you know, normal human communication stuff?

(I mean I know why, it's because at the time HN wound itself up on "the NSA has definitely cracked TLS" and the source was an out of context slide about the ability to monitor decrypted traffic after TLS termination - maybe, because actually it was one extremely information sparse internal briefing slide. But boy were people super confident they knew exactly what it meant, in a way which extends to discussion and reference to every other part of the files in my experience).
by the__alchemist | 2026-01-28 01:33:11+00:00
I'm confused about this: As the article outlines well, Std Rust (over core) buys you GPOS-provided things. For example:

- file system
- network interfaces
- dates/times
- Threads, e.g. for splitting across CPU cores

The main relevant one I can think which applies is an allocator.

I do a lot of GPU work with rust: Graphics in WGPU, and Cuda kernels + cuFFT mediated by Cudarc (A thin FFI lib). I guess, running Std lib on GPU isn't something I understand. What would be cool is the dream that's been building for decades about parallel computing abstractions where you write what looks like normal single-threaded CPU code, but it automagically works on SIMD instructions or GPU. I think this and CubeCL may be working towards that? (I'm using Burn as well on GPU, but that's abstracted over)

Of note: Rayon sort of is that dream for CPU thread pools!
by danans | 2026-01-28 01:35:09+00:00
> The amount of world history taught there is vanishingly small.
Just for fun, ask some high schoolers who were the major combatants in WW2.

That is an example of poor teaching of historical facts. It's bad (especially in our current times when people have forgotten the perils of fascism), but it's different than what the GP describes, which sounds like the biblical literalist timeline of life on Earth (with creation happening only 6000 years ago).

That is not just poor education, but instead direct contradiction of widely understood knowledge that much of our modern world is built on.

To use your WW2 example, it's
similar to explicitly teaching someone that the Holocaust didn't happen. Or in the scientific realm teaching that the earth is flat.
by jalapenos | 2026-01-28 01:35:27+00:00
That's because leftism needs an antagonism against the cultural self. I.e. it needs to somehow have an element of fighting against others in your own society.

That exists with say Palestine - it's allows picking a side that's against a western right-wing state, Israel.

It also exists with say Russia, here's a right wing white male traditionalist attacking a state that was aligning towards the leftist EU.

In the case of Iran, there's not really an angle there.

So if you understand leftism not as standing for its claimed virtues and instead being politically akin to a group of teenagers rebelling for the sake of it against their own authority figures, it makes perfect sense that deaths of the downtrodden in general are not of concern - the victimhood cause must resonate with a particular format that gives them a clear and familiar path to self-congratulation - which is the primary goal.
by nosuchthing | 2026-01-28 01:35:29+00:00
Okay fair point, so it seems we're miscommunicating the semantics. In math, there's proofs, so I'm not sure what term is better to say other than disprove, or to say the original claims of the Tragedy of the Commons has been refuted as dependent on false pretext or premise.

The meta problem with The Tragedy of the Commons is it was communicated almost as if it were some law of physics but the rules are synthetic and when the framework of ToC enters the real world it is invalidated and defeated by the human systems it exists in. ToC became a reference as a narrative weapon to justify social engineering policies, where lobbyists claim it as some sort of scientific finding. Ostrom researched case studies of common pool resources, and identified how to prevent the tragedy of antisocial exploitation through a system of accountability, auditing, and explicit retaliations. ToC is basically just libertarian/anarcho-capital dynamics.

So sure, ToC behavior exists and is a problem. Ostrom found the solutions to fix the problem.
by CMay | 2026-01-28 01:35:42+00:00
In the case of George Floyd, that was local police. In this scenario, these are federal law enforcement officers so it probably is correct for this case to be handled federally as far as I know.

I don't know what you're referring to about DHS lying about disproven things and destroying evidence. If you can give me links I'll look into it.

> What are you waiting or expecting from a investigation to make up your mind?

I've seen enough video to know that it's not impossible the officer reacted within the spirit of the law. To get a sense for that requires testimony from the officer that fired the shot. Please watch court cases some time and you'll get a sense for how the application of these kinds of laws work. I'm not a lawyer, but if you ever have to defend yourself against someone you'll be thankful the laws work the way that they do.

We have a justice system for a reason. It doesn't always work, but it lays out a process for evaluating evidence. Why do we do it that way? We do it that way, because it is not that uncommon that perceptions, witnesses, videos and many other things can be deceptive. They can make you believe things which are not true. So you try to establish all of the relevant facts as they apply to the law. Not based on how you feel, but based on the law.

It actually hurts some of the witnesses that are obviously activists, because it means they aren't unbiased objective observers, but are predisposed to a perspective and have a possible agenda in mind which risks reducing the quality of their testimony. A law enforcement officer that thinks he might be found guilty also risks their testimony being weak. The video quality is also often bad and there are people obstructing important details at times. All of those things have to be considered.

Of course when you are emotionally invested, you might want them to just rush to what you obviously see. Again, you will be very thankful that the justice system generally doesn't rush to those conclusions so readily if you ever have to defend yourself in court when you know you're innocent.
by youarentrightjr | 2026-01-28 01:36:30+00:00
> ... Did you watch the videos from multiple people filming?

Yeah, did you? Any more substantive discourse you'd like to add to the conversation?

To be clear about the word "reasonable" in my comment, it's similar to the usage of the very same word in the phrase "beyond a reasonable doubt".

The agents involved in the shootings aren't claiming that:

- the driver telepathically communicated their ill intent

- they saw Pretti transform into a Satan spawn and knew they had to put him down

They claim (unsurprisingly, to protect themselves) that they feared for their life because either a car was driving at them or they thought Pretti had another firearm. These are reasonable fears, that a reasonable person has.

That doesn't mean the agents involved are without blame. In fact, especially in Pretti's case, they constructed a pretext to began engagement with him (given that he was simply exercising his 1st amendment right just prior).

But once in the situation, a reasonable person could have feared for their lives.
by EchoReflection | 2026-01-28 01:36:36+00:00
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/nbc-news/

and what is NBC "news"'s motive/agenda for framing this info the way they are?

"LEFT-CENTER BIAS
These media sources have a slight to moderate liberal bias. They often publish factual information that utilizes loaded words (wording that attempts to influence an audience by appeals to emotion or stereotypes) to favor liberal causes. These sources are generally trustworthy for information but may require further investigation

NBC News is what some call a mainstream media source. They typically publish/report factual news that uses moderately loaded words in headlines such as this: 'Trump threatens border security shutdown, GOP cool to idea.'

Story selection tends to favor the left through both wording and bias by omission, where they underreport some news stories that are favorable to the right. NBC always sources its information to credible sources that are either low biased or high for factual reporting.

A 2014 Pew Research Survey found that 42% of NBC News’ audience is consistently or primarily liberal, 39% Mixed, and 19% consistently or mostly conservative. A more liberal audience prefers NBC. Further, a Reuters institute survey found that 46% of respondents trust their news coverage and 35% do not, ranking them #5 in trust of the major USA news providers."
by shermantanktop | 2026-01-28 01:37:03+00:00
Sure, Europe is different than the US in many ways. I think most people know that.

What is more surprising to me is that Europe has become relatively homogenous. There are more differences between some US states than there are between some European countries, if we set aside language. A mid size French city vs an equivalent German/British/Swiss/Italian city… they differ of course but Tampa vs Seattle is a bigger contrast to me.
by Cu3PO42 | 2026-01-28 01:37:07+00:00
You seem to be under the impression that you cannot reset your Secure Boot to setup mode. You can in the UEFI, doing so wipes any enrolled keys. This, of course assumes you trust the UEFI (and hardware) vendors. But if you don't, you have much bigger problems anyway.

Is it possible someone will eventually build a system that doesn't allow this? Yes. Is this influenced in any way by features of Linux software? No.
by samplatt | 2026-01-28 01:37:18+00:00
I learned that lesson as a solo dev on a project that lasted a year, then learned it again as a team of 4 on a 2-year project. I've not had to learn the lesson again but I've certainly trod the same path... 20 people (including some VERY expensive contractors), 3.5 years, AU$80m to deliver what amounts to a timesheeting system that needs a team of 10 people manually massaging the data every month to make it work.

How do you not be "toxic" after that? How do you retain a chipper attitude when you know for a rock-solid certainty that even if the project is successful it's likely by accident?
by like_any_other | 2026-01-28 01:37:21+00:00
Good. At least this will open the eyes of its users, however slightly, that they are being manipulated. Next step is to make them realize the algorithmic suppression/promotion is even more effective at propaganda. The step after that is realizing the same applies to the selection of stories focused on by traditional media. This is not the only thing Meta bans: https://www.npr.org/2019/03/27/707258353/facebook-bans-white...

If you want to keep a democracy, you simply cannot let your fellow voters expose themselves so completely to manipulation.
by kelnos | 2026-01-28 01:37:46+00:00
(xfwl4 author here.)

Absolutely seriously. To me, a big part of what makes Xfce is xfwm4's behavior. Even though most of the other Xfce components will run decently well on wlroots-based compositors, I don't really have an interest in using them, as that's not "Xfce" to me.

But it's not going to be perfect, though, as some things that we take for granted on x11 still just do not have Wayland protocols to enable them. This will take a long time. Alex's blog post says a developer preview around the middle of this year, and I expect I can deliver on that, and maybe (maybe!) even a stable release by next year (maybe!), but full feature parity will take years.
by wildzzz | 2026-01-28 01:37:46+00:00
It takes a whole minute for the entire data frame to be transmitted. While 1 bps is great for propagation, WWVB (and it's kin) is a really weak signal to pickup using the tiny antennas these kinds of clocks have. There's a relationship between received power, modulation type, data rate, error correction, and error rate so changing one will change others. Thus it can sometimes take at least several minutes for all of the timing data to be gathered as there is no error correction included in the data frame. Also the HF spectrum is incredibly noisy as switch-mode power supplies (pretty much in everything these days) produce a ton of interference so taking a battery powered clock outside can help greatly.

WWVB clocks are great but aren't so good these days. NTP is pretty much as good as anyone will ever need in their home but this has the downside of usually requiring internet access. GPS clocks have been the standard for 30+ years for anyone needing precision timing.
by jsrcout | 2026-01-28 01:38:12+00:00
The Apple II Reference Manual includes assembly listings (with full comments!) for the Monitor ROM and Autostart ROM, the mini-assembler, floating point routines, and a very nice 16-bit "pseudo machine interpreter" called SWEET 16. Most of which was written by Steve Wozniak. Learned a lot from this book back in the day.

Here's a link from archive.org. It's not the best scan, but you can easily find other copies.

https://archive.org/details/applerefjan78/page/n69/mode/2up

If you're feeling adventurous, you can find assembly listings for the AppleSoft BASIC language (though maybe only from third parties). It's pretty huge.
by gf000 | 2026-01-28 01:38:23+00:00
Well, we are using much higher resolutions with much higher frame rates and with more media-rich content.

You surely agree that not having a good compression here is less than ideal.

And it begs the question whether this is indeed the task of the display manager, or it's packing an unrelated functionality that could be better solved by another software.

And we haven't even gotten to sound - should a display manager now suddenly also handle sound?
by lateforwork | 2026-01-28 01:39:05+00:00
China imposes strong restrictions on the Chinese version of TikTok, see here:

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/03/08/1069527/china-ti...

Excerpts: Douyin [Chinese version of TikTok] introduced in-app parental controls, banned underage users from appearing in livestreams, and released a “teenager mode” that only shows whitelisted content, much like YouTube Kids. In 2019, Douyin limited users in teenager mode to 40 minutes per day, accessible only between the hours of 6 a.m. and 10 p.m. Then, in 2021, it made the use of teenager mode mandatory for users under 14.
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-28 01:39:23+00:00
Tried building with some other arguments/configs, went from 1,2M on X11 to 664K, which seems to place it under Lynx (text-only, 714k) but above OffByOne (full HTML 3.2, 409k). Of course, my experiment barely implements anything from a "real" browser, so unfair comparison really.

Neat collection of apps nonetheless, some really impressive stuff in there.
by hatmike | 2026-01-28 01:39:59+00:00
What if everyone who made calculators and calc apps realized they could exploit this for profit and charge you an ever growing subscription fee or token to do long division, and a significant portion of the economy was betting that they were going to be able to extract gigantic gobs of cash? Because that's the situation vibe coders are in now. They're getting hooked on a cheap and convenient tool today, but in a few years, it most likely won't be either of those things.
by NoPicklez | 2026-01-28 01:40:15+00:00
I don't know if I agree with that.

I don't know how to draw even a blurred line between I've made my burger taste better because I added salt to it, but has now make it more addictive as a result.

You could argue an Oreo has been developed to taste good such that you want to eat them again.

I understand your point and I agree to an extent but I don't know how you do that. Becoming addicted to things comes with a level of personal accountability, to a degree.
by basilgohar | 2026-01-28 01:40:29+00:00
All media, newspapers, and social media networks do this. I'm not sure why you're raising this specifically in response to the fact I was stating TikTok was uniquely able to bring awareness to the issue of the genocide in Palestine.

Many people were completely unfamiliar with the plight of the Palestinians over the past 100 years and TikTok (and, to a much less degree, other platforms) brought the issue to their attention. Israel is no longer untouchable and many have recognized them for what they are now - the last remaining Western imperialist settler colony. This was not the case merely 4 years ago. The transformation is stark and real.

What can people do with that knowledge? That's up to them.

I don't really get the rest of your comment, unfortunately.
by plorg | 2026-01-28 01:40:57+00:00
These "undercover" reporters have screenshots, surely they could show one of actual crimes instead of something that you keep willfully misinterpreting as such. We've already given you the mundane explanation, but it seemingly relies too much on people being able to work together as social creatures and not enough on a technological system.

What this reads as is a bunch of credulous X users trying to one-up each other and looking for reasons that Trump and his cronies are not once again lying to your face.

It is neither necessary nor particularly useful for them to be running plates for reasons you've already identified.
by scott_w | 2026-01-28 01:41:27+00:00
Definition:

> State media are typically understood as media outlets that are owned, operated, or significantly influenced by the government.

Which part of this definition is lacking, in your opinion? Which part of the UNESCO report do you think is incorrect? My source: https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000380618.locale=en
by snowmaker | 2026-01-28 01:41:36+00:00
I made a golden retriever you can talk to using Lemon Slice: https://lemonslice.com/hn/agent_5af522f5042ff0a8

Having a real-time video conversation with an AI is a trippy feeling. Talk about a "feel the AGI moment", it really does feel like the computer has come alive.
by rolph | 2026-01-28 01:41:55+00:00
so you print, until just before it looks like a fire arm, then you cnc till its finished.

or you break the printing up into a number of smaller projects, with thier own zero point. and if required cnc away what will look like part of a firearm, so the printer wont see it.

and there is of course, the use of a template to finish by hand.

and then you would have to regulate blueprints, then diagrams, then X/Y/Z/ feed tables, then you would need to regulate the allowed precision of a measurement device, then regulate posession of machinists tools, like locksmithing.

i didnt mention false positives, thats a good way to hobble 3D printing in general, if too many projects trigger the "its part of a firearm" hook.

oh i just considered, they should do something about EM waveguides, and resonant cavities, pre-emptively so there is regulation before too many people realize just how simple a discombobulator really is to engineer and construct.
by kelnos | 2026-01-28 01:41:57+00:00
(xfwl4 author here.)

I spent a month or so in 2024 attempting to refactor xfwm4 so it could serve dual purpose as both an X11 window manager and Wayland compositor, and ended up abandoning the idea. It was just getting ugly and hard to read and understand, and I wasn't confident that I could continue to make changes without introducing bugs (crashers, even). We want X11 users to be unaffected by this, and introducing bugs in xfwm4 wouldn't achieve that goal.

Note that we don't have to rewrite all of Xfce: xfce4-session, xfce4-panel, xfdesktop, etc. will all run on Wayland just fine (there are some rough edges that need to be ironed out for full Wayland support, but they're already fairly usable on wlroots-based compositors). This is just (heh, "just") building a compositor and porting xfwm4's WM behavior and UI elements over to it. Not a small task, to be sure, but much smaller than "rewriting all of Xfce".