skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good. Fuck them. Remember that they do the absolute minimal to extract as much money as possible. Get an older house not flipped with a decent kitchen.
I’m wondering what the heck 7500 people at Twitter actually do. Ok so a few hundred for engineering and DevOps. Their financial performance has been relatively poor prior to the Elon takeover saga. They don’t make their own hardware like Google and FB do. They don’t make consumer HW. They run a giant message queue with some ads. 7,500 people is way too many.
Oddly, this sounds like the difference between inductive and deductive systems.
In terms of personal employment, yes California is very leery of non-competes. In terms of business contracts, absolutely not. If you build a product for a customer, you can agree not to build a similar product for said customer's competitors. This is not unusual.

Practical example: one customer was a cruise line, and the company had to tactfully ask if building a similar product for a hotel didn't violate the contract. As opposed to, say, a school which would not reasonably compete with cruise lines - Semester at Sea notwithstanding. If you don't want to agree to this, you don't need to sign a contract not to work with competitors. But of course, the customer is probably not going to want to pay as much if they know that they can very quickly lose whatever edge they're getting.
Do I spot an Emerald Sea reference?
alias aoeu='asdf'

Seems like a reasonable shortcut compared to trying to do keyboard layout detection.
> I wonder where the opposite fact that I hear on the internet that most olive oil is adulterated comes from.

If someone on the internet is telling you something is bad, they probably got their information from someone else on the internet. The number of people willing to guess based on their gut feelings is too damn high. People don’t know what they’re talking about and letting everybody know how bad for you something is is a toxic infectious idea disease.

Where does it come from? I’m guessing in this case the trend of making a product like salad dressing that advertises its evoo content and neglects to mention it also contains a majority of cheaper oils unless you actually look at the ingredients.
Not sure if this solves it, but as a relatively heavy twitter user and as someone who REALLY would like an e.g. Mastodon to succeed, the lack of something like a universal handle and an easy way to follow them and find people you're into is 100% why Mastodon just ain't it.

A blockchain is a 'not crazy' potential solution?
Not to mention the sentence fragments.
These suggestions sound like a classic "central planners know better" attitude.

Would taxing/banning plastic actually reduce waste/pollution? or would the shift to more expensive replacements (paper/wood/etc) actually increase pollution and waste?

Banning chemical fertilisers would almost immediately cause a massive famine, enormous drops in agricultural productivity, etc. People consuming "organic" foods that don't use fertiliser can only do so from the position of privilege wherin chemically-fertilised crops are feeding 95%+ of the population. We even have a real example of the consequences! See Sri Lanka recently :(.

It's times like this I can't help but see why some people are so keen to keep the government away from things.
Sorry, but this is an incredibly disingenuous take on the topic.

WFH does NOT mean 'Work From Anywhere'. The first hint is that "Anywhere" does not start with an 'H'. Many, if not most corp employees are compelled to stay within state (US) and border (EU) limits due to tax code restrictions. It's literally illegal for many to just work from outside their jurisdiction. It probably gets even more complicated for employees on a VISA.
But I digress, It's really ironical that you chide OP that you see no disrespect while simultaneously dismissing and disrespecting their opinion.

In case you truly don't get it. Working physically from the office while a vast number of their peers are at home does not make it work from office. The location isn't the factor here, it's the medium of interaction. Sitting on zoom calls all day in the office has no discernible difference than sitting at home.
What the OP and TFA posits is that the lack of real human interaction, the social cues, the energy or more informally 'the vibe' is very different when working remotely vs working in-office with everyone else there.

Again, this isn't trying to spark yet another debate on RTO/WFH/Remote preferences, but to underline that empathizing with the opposing point of view is a virtue that earns the respect you speak of.

It's just annoying how so many 'smart' people on HN keep pedantically hammering the point that you can just totally just work from the office. Sure, you're technically correct, but just comes off of as socially clueless.
I feel it tends to be the same kind of people that are surprised when the more affable, but average engineer is promoted over them, the misunderstood genius. Turns out people like to work with people they like over some opinionated rando who happens to close JIRA tickets a little bit faster than others.
Have the freezes been fixed upstream?
Arguing about genres is the dumbest past time but... none of those are roguelikes as per the op and traditionally.

I do so wish we had landed on a different genre name for games that share these meta characteristics.
>But to answer your question if we would have been stuck with 1992 technology the internet would have evolved differently, and mainframes would play a much bigger role, to the point that your desktop computer would be just a thin client, running the latest amazing software accelerated by mainframe computers. You would submit jobs from your computer, the mainframe would calculate it and get back to you.

We're kind of getting back to this in a roundabout way, with more and more programs and services being run as web applications in a browser, or otherwise being inseparably tied into cloud technology/storage (looking at you, Adobe.)

With the advent of AI tools that require significant GPU hardware to run there may actually be a legitimate basis for it, but in general it just seems an excuse for companies to have their own tightly-controlled ecosystem which can be continually monetized and exploited.
Sorry. You’re right. Heh.

No we’re not. I thought it was a reply to my comment higher above in the hierarchy.

Sorry about that.
Was this written by AI? I stopped after the second paragraph. Too much cognitive load.
Wow. I was wondering why I had such a hard time reading this. Now that you say it, you’re spot on – it’s the text equivalent of stop and go traffic.
I am ethically obliged to supplement my original summary

[hours later]
-Ha ha just kidding of course there's a feature tour do you want to see it now
Hmm OK
-Have you ever wished I was a phone? (8 slides)
Really? Let's have a talk about Preferences
-They are Settings
OK, let's have a talk about Settings
-No
That’s a solvable problem though. Regulations could be changed to require more buffer areas for the landfill.

Also, another thing to think about it is that your parents likely picked the best place available for their means. Not many people choose to live next to landfills if they can afford something better. Had the landfill not existed, your parents would have likely needed to live next to some other type of hazard. It’s unfortunate, but a reality of our economic system.
I don't really agree. If you say "the" speed of light and don't make other qualifications, that means c.
alternatively: https://archive.ph/2S200
Ask HN: Is the role of the interviewer being reduced/automated away?
I came across a post of a photo of a question from a online job application. The question asked what your catchphrase would be if you played a neighbor character, in a sitcom, whose backstory takes from your real life.

Aside from the roundabout way of trying to draw more information from your past, I also think, this question is something I'd expect to get in face-to-face or onsite interview, not in an online application. And I've seen more and more questions regarding soft skills, in things that are now being "front-loaded" in a form instead of saved for a live interview.

To my knowledge, interviewing has never been a dedicated job but something that different employees might need to do from time to time. Seems like online applications and assessments like these are an impetus, maybe helped by HR or others, to diminish the role of interviewing so that employees can perform their main role more often. Does it follow a goal of trying to reduce and streamline the time employees spend on face-to-face interviews? I find it a problem because a lot of useful data from interviews is not just in the initial question but in the follow-up that can lead to other interesting tangents to learn more about the candidate, something that can't be done well with online forms.

I have never interviewed others for hiring so I lack this perspective. I'd like to hear what interviewers see in these types of approaches of moving more interview questions to online questionnaires, if it's reduced your role as an interviewer, and other ways that tools might be reducing that role, if any at all.
I gave up. Old PCs used to die and I could just take the disk and put into a new box and copy what I could. I encrypted a disk and ended up losing everything on there (except photos which were backed up). I realized I really dont have anyhthing worth stealing. I keep tax returns on a usb stick, with a paper copy backed up.
Your telling me this wasn’t a historically accurate depiction? https://youtu.be/4ST_ON9Xm7Q
I have a N6005 box from AliExpress ($180 bare, about $300 with 32Gb RAM and a nice 512Gb M.2 nvme) that runs a bunch of workloads (Proxmox VE on the metal, opnSense in a VM doing all my routing, plus 4 LXCs with 20+ Dockers for various services).

Just looked over the energy report and it's averaging 0.18kWh daily (so the average power draw is 7.5W) - that's with a 3.5in SATA HDD. Better power use than my Raspberry Pi 4 with an external USB HDD!

If low power consumption is your main motivator, I'd say you can do a lot better with one of those instead.
I mean... I know that the rockets that are on display don't have asbestos. That isn't my assertion. My assertion is that I could have sworn plaques and whatnot mention it.

Now... most of my memory for rockets is from when I did space camp way back in the mid 90s. So... Yeah, I don't have picture perfect memory of that.

This just feels like when I'm told that CS majors don't learn about the involvement of women in computer science. By and large, that is not totally accurate. It is accurate enough for the point, which is that there is sexism. But, as the software person in the room that went to college, I was almost guaranteed to be the only one that knew the names of the women that our education supposedly skipped on.
I dont think that this approach is a good idea at all.

Our brains are complex entities, this treats it as a simple one.
I think it will leave a hole in continuity and it may well be
helpful, but residual awareness that something horrible has occurred
will linger and it will be harder to resolve.

I guess what I am trying to say is that the body remembers, even if
we manage to pluck out one simple way the body goes about remembering.
This may trigger reactions to certain stimuli which will make less sense
when the person cannot relate it to remembered trauma.

I think PTSD is something you have to work on, and get help for.
I did eventually for mine but years and years of not having any
treatment.

This is the McDonalds solution.

A terrifying branch of this is the military's interest in using it in
war zones.

It fills my mind with images of soldiers getting "reset" on a frequent
basis. What would they be like after a year or two of that?
(I have also read ideas on preventative drugs to help a soldier not remember).

Humanity, whatever someone is able to retain in a war zone, is the last defense
against atrocities. The remembrance of atrocities is the only way to bring
them to light later.
one long recent stint is sufficient to pass the filter.
My first thoughts are that it's very similar to Mastodon, but has a better chance at gaining traction because its supported by Dorsey and his influential friends.
They made it so "user-friendly" it is no longer user-friendly.
The title here is a bit misleading. I thought this would be an announcement from Jack Dorsey, instead it just appears to be a blogger summarizing this Twitter thread from @bluesky a few days ago:

https://twitter.com/bluesky/status/1582437529969917953

@dang, could we get the link changed to point to the original thread?
One problem I have with the finder is there is no "loading files" animation when browsing through folders. So if open a folder and it looks empty, its not clear if it is really empty, or if the finder is still trying to get a folder listing. Hard to look through and organize/delete files on external and network drives.
This is Microsoft's second go at a developer-focused ARM kit. You may recall the first was called the Snapdragon Developer Kit [1] and was a miserable machine. It appears Microsoft has already pulled it from the Microsoft Store [2].

There is no other supported desktop/CI/etc. solution for Windows on ARM. (Mac mini with Parallels/VMware is a popular unsupported alternative. It may still be your fastest.)

Seems like a truly decent machine (ordered one) but I'm not sure if there's remaining appetite for Windows target-specific development. After years and years of development platform missteps and PC usage pattern changes, I fear web (electron, etc.) has become good enough for Windows users.

[1] https://developer.qualcomm.com/hardware/windows-on-snapdrago...

[2] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/d/ecs-liva-mini-box-qc710-de...
There has been a large amount of progress on wasm GC actually! If you haven't been attending the group meetings though then you might have missed it. In particular:

* The GC MVP spec is mostly done at this point.

* There are working toolchains for multiple languages: Java, Dart, Kotlin, and others have begun work as well.

* We will have a Phase 3 vote this week.
Judging by the bezels on the landing page’s iPhone, they’ve been working on this for a long time. https://bsky.app
> GPUs don't have the equivalent of an MMU--so they can't be partitioned or protected. etc.

All modern GPUs (last 5-10 years at least) have MMUs.
> I'm just sincerely confused at what problem this technical preview is intended to solve.

This is all good feedback, and we’ll definitely try to explain the added value better in the future. The main advantages we see in this technical preview are:

1. Easy, reproducible dev environment to quickly & reliably develop cloud/edge apps that target Wasm, or code frontend apps that target a Wasm backend (for example, as part of a microservice architecture). This is particularly helpful if you build apps that have a mix of Wasm & container components[0]

2. Easy way to share & deploy Wasm artifacts, using trusted infra like Docker Hub, but also Dockerfiles and Docker Compose

3. Transparent, reliable way to deploy Wasm applications to existing container-based infrastructure such as k8s (via OCI images) — but these apps can also be “unpacked” to run natively on edge infrastructure

> is it going to wrap the WASM binary produced by cargo in another layer of abstraction? If the latter, how is this new layer of abstraction different from just using one of the WasmEdge docker containers [0]?

Our approach is close to this. First, it was built with the WasmEdge folks, so you’re correct to detect the similarity. Second, it does wrap resulting artifacts into a OCI image, because we believe that can generate a lot of advantages (points #2 and #3 above) BUT you can also easily unpack the Wasm payload from the binary image at deploytime/runtime if you’d rather deploy your app on Wasm-native infrastructure (as opposed to container-native infra)

Appreciate the feedback. Hope the above helps.

[0]: https://docs.docker.com/desktop/wasm/#running-a-multi-servic...
"Unveils" is somewhat misleading -- this project has had a web presence for a number of years already.

They have recently distinguished the project proper from the "Bluesky community," which was -- as far as I could tell -- just a chatroom with a Matrix/Discord bridge, vaguely sanctioned by but distinct from Twitter. I couldn't understand most of what was under discussion, but it's a moderately amusing space if people arguing about what buzzwords mean is amusing to you.
CRV doesn't work as well because it's not on the (literal) sticker price, so it gets appended after the consumer has already made a buying decision in most cases.
Asbestos was used pretty much everywhere you wanted to contain heat. I recall watching videos of people with a fabric of it on their hands and a butane torch aimed at it, to show how effective it was. Usually in lectures that were explaining why it was used in applications like jets/rockets. :D
Highly recommend this book on rust if you want to make a roguelike. https://pragprog.com/titles/hwrust/hands-on-rust/
One version manager to rule them all
I’ve got a similar machine. The last 15” Intel.

Honestly it’s kind of one of the worst. The 2010 was pretty great. If you ignore they keyboard issues (a BIG DEAL) they got better for a few years.

In the last few years it became very clear Apple just couldn’t do what they wanted as the Intel chips kept getting hotter and more power hungry.

I’m sorry you got that experience. It was and now is so much better. You kind of lucked into a low point.
although there is nothing about moderation, which would seem to be near the top of the list of what people would want to know about this system ...
It's back up now, sorry about that!
> Also, most of the ocean plastic comes from a small number of rivers in the less developed world. [1] Rich countries aren't really the problem.

That reference isn't exactly justifying your statement. AFAICT that research is just comparing the relative amounts of plastic going to the ocean _from rivers_. Rivers are not the only way that plastic gets into the ocean.

Most of the ocean plastic is actually from fishing gear...so if you want to reduce ocean plastics your best bet is probably to stop eating so much fish: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/great-pac...
I went to farmers markets in the Bay Area and was able to find that kind of spicy olive oil easily enough. If there’sa grumpy old man selling oil, tell him what you want.
Does it support java?
I discovered this tool a couple years ago since I’d type asdf into Google to test my internet and it started topping the results list. Great tool!
Ask HN: Lisp and Artificial Intelligence
As mentioned in Wikipedia “LISP quickly became the favored programming language for artificial intelligence (AI) research.” What was the reason for this and what is the language favored for AI today?
i don't think weirdo billionaire tech executives are able to have friends in the same way normal people do
This project appears to be funded and at least initially staffed by Twitter.
Wow, fumble. I wonder if that's just a theme though.
For one, it's not so clear anymore that Elon actually wants to buy Twitter, is it? Then Bluesky would have to succeed, for Twitter to move there. How many web3 projects have succeeded yet?

Maybe this is the Year of The Web3 project.
https://github.com/bluesky-social
From what I can see, it's not entirely clear it actually uses a blockchain. Their PR name-drops blockchains and "Web3", but the technical details they offer consistently fail to explain how a blockchain might be involved.

It kind of feels like Dorsey wanted a blockchain, but their engineers found that blockchain-based social media did not work well and just built a federated network, so now they're going for some "inspired by the blockchain" angle.
> When you get right down to it, the people that got mesothelioma from asbestos pretty much universally directly worked with it (usually in the form of doing things like blowing it in loose form for insulation).

Yeah, cause they often (as I understand) were not using proper protective measures to keep from inhaling the dust particles. A common thing I have seen on construction sites of all sorts, is the workers refusing to use some thing or the other, because it makes them uncomfortable, or harder to see (but still can) or harder to breath (but still can) or some other jackanapes idea like that.

> Yet we spent an ungodly amount of money and time stripping asbestos from buildings that had been there for decades not causing any problems. Ironically, directly exposing people to asbestos in the process (more than you'd ever be exposed to it was left undisturbed).

This is where things get real fun. When moist or absolutely damp/wet, asbestos is basically harmless (to the lungs) because it's almost impossible to breath it in at that point. If you somehow manage to breath that in, you have to basically be trying to do it. When it is dryer than chalk on a hot summers day with 0% humidity though, then yeah it can cause all sorts of problems. But even then, people removing it tend to do the thing that the other prior mentioned construction workers (often) won't do.

They wear gloves, have masks on; and even are running some form of proper ventilation. And so much of the issue is averted.

Then comes the media and government. They take edge case scenarios like these, and hype them up; whilst mixing in the prior construction workers into the data. This makes things look worse than they really are.

It's not just Asbestos you can find this sort of thing with them. You can find media and government doing this with many things if you look carefully.

But that being said, none of this is to say that Asbestos isn't a problem at all. It's just to say that Asbestos gets the treatment it does for the same reason we have warning labels on nearly everything.

We placate and protect the stupid... stupidly.
Social media platform killer is always quite the murder mystery. No one ever knows who the killer is, and the killer never announces it (tiktok > everyone, insta > almost killer, Facebook > MySpace, Friendster).

So this ain’t the killer.
The next generation of social networks seems to be focused around decentralization.

The protocol they developed (https://atproto.com/) seems to differ with ActivityPub at least in "Algorithmic Choice", a "market of open algorithms". The other features are already offered by ActivityPub - which is what Mastodon, Pleroma, GNUSocial use.

I wish they had built on top of ActivityPub instead of making their own federated protocol, but they may have some particular reasons as to why.
Not really, proper encryption is usually opensource, peer audited for decades, and inspected by several global government agencies.

Math is funny this way, as it is an all or nothing algorithm... where it is either fully secure or broken beyond repair (sometimes intentionally).

A better question, is who do you trust?
And he want to make an “everything app” by…checks papers…firing 75% of the staff

Lol, what a joke
The architecture sounds interesting but I wonder how they're planning to deal with spam and other types of Sybil attack.
False.

In case nobody noticed, the WebKit team kicked ass by shipping a ton of new features this year:

* dialog element

* lazy loading

* inert

* :has() pseudo-class

* new viewport units

* Cascade Layers

* focus visible

* accent color

* appearance

* font palettes for color fonts

* BroadcastChannel

* Web Locks API

* File System Access API

* enhancements to WebAssembly

* support for Display-P3 in canvas

* additions to COOP and COEP

* container queries

* subgrid

* web push

* shared workers

* CSS Offset Path

* AVIF

* Passkeys
Also interested if there is any recent work on micro reclamation of discarded high value materials. Probably drinking too much sci Fi cool aid but seems like landfills may someday be a treasure for mining once the tech is capable
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