skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see these in the forests around where I live quite often in the autumn. In Norwegian they're called "heksering", translates to witch ring, and have historically been thought of as a bad omen. Specifically a remnant of gathering places for witches, hence the name.

The species in this case is Leucopaxillus giganteus, which is edible, and due to the unique fairy rings, unusually easy to identify. Though I still don't dare try them because only young specimens are edible and mature ones are known to contain KCN...
If I were hiring for my farm business, I would consider years of experience to have some relevance. Every year brings a new environment (e.g. drought, rainy, etc.) and, with the work being largely seasonal, it takes a whole year for a chance to try again. As each year brings new challenges, having another year of experience does strongly indicate that you faced a new challenge each time.

If I were hiring for my tech business, I agree that it doesn't mean a whole lot. One can experience a multitude of different environments before lunchtime. One can also do the exact same thing over and over. There is no seasonality to hold you back or push you forward.

Ultimately, what one is interested to know in questioning years of experience is how many scenarios someone has run through so that when something similar happens again you can believe, with reasonable confidence, that they will know how to react. This is quite measurable, but it can be hard for someone in tech to keep track of as there isn't a good frame of reference like in farming where you can simply remember each year.
I'm actually glad my Volvo uses coded parts. Makes the airbags less valuable so there's a smaller chance they get stolen. (last time I was at another car dealership there were dozens of cars lined up for repair with the airbags ripped out so it's a real problem)

For Apple I admire the end-to-end security they try to implement. There's nothing else in the consumer space that claims to be as secure as macOS.
https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/security/welcome/web

Preventing 'evil maid' attacks by switching components seems a bit far fetched for most people's threat model but you can't say you are secure with a straight face and just let people switch some ic's to break your security.
That non-official replacement screen with fingerprint reader can in theory contain a backdoor to reproduce your fingerprint for another party.
Why does Google actually build stuff like this? What is their actual end game and how does it relate to what they actually do as a business?

They're an advertising company with a mission to "organize the worlds information", pivoting to robots? Do they need robots to organize the worlds information?

No idea how big of a breakthrough this is, but it is absolutely undeniable that Googles PR team is going wild on anything AI since OpenAI provided them with their first real existential crisis / code red.
The private investigator who spies using drones
It's slow and sluggish and full of bloat.
A few years ago (10?), AT&T got into a lot of trouble - they lost in court - for making unilateral changes to an unlimited plan.

1. The AT&T unlimited plan being talked about here includes the HBO Max streaming for $0.

2. Just a few months ago, Xfinity started breaking out their free streaming service on internet bills, and put in a statement that said that in either late 2024 or early 2025 they were going to start charging a monthly fee unless you cancelled that part. If any of y’all have Xfinity and don’t have a habit of reading your bills, you’d better go take a look!

3. I’d be willing to bet that the “new” AT&T unlimited plan has contract language that will let them also do what Xfinity is doing, and the “old” one doesn’t. Maybe AT&T is considering a sale/spinoff and needs to have that charge broken out for accounting/valuation purposes.
It's at an intersection of a curvy four-lane road which is very busy at rush hour.
Of course, take the free bugfixes but no longer give back.

I'm aware of the long public good history of Red Hat, so I say the above with a measure of respect.

I don't see this working out long-term for Red Hat. The "free loaders" will have to gravitate to another rigorously tested and long-term supported setup. It's unlikely to be RHEL because of the bad taste (i.e it won't force people onto RHEL). So someone else will step up (My guess either Rocky or Alma, next time Red Hat changes the rules).

I also can't for the life of me work out how this gels with the GPL. Correct my understanding -- I thought as long as it was licensed GPL if you changed it you had to provide the source code with it (etc etc). So that means if you backport a upstream contributed patch to an older version of RHEL you're bound to release said fix under the GPL.
Build an iOS and Android app in 100% Kotlin with Compose Multiplatform [video]
Optimizing Rust programs with PGO and BOLT using cargo-pgo
Some people enjoy simple food, and enjoy having a reprise later.
Hollywood writers fear losing work to AI
>I won't be around to validate this, however I am asserting GNU/Linux will not survive after everyone that was part of its genesis is long gone.

I'm 100% with you on this. I also think that if Linus were to die today, the kernel would fall apart within 10 years.
How would room temperature superconductors magically make silicon semiconductor CPUs run faster?
... wait... there's another Cambridge?
> LinkedIn is one of the most invasive

surprised to read this, I don't find it invasive in the slightest. I've turned off notifications for most things but its the only "social" app I have on my device.

I will say it's gotten a lot more content focussed lately, with everyone and their mom sharing their thoughts on jobs and employment. Personally I just use it as a profile for recruiters to hit and a way for me to talk back to them
Phoronix did some, but not really anything centered on that - may be possible to infer from their data though.

https://www.phoronix.com/review/epyc-9684x-3d-vcache
I’ve been following Tim Lapentino for many years and immensely enjoy his Art of Atari book and love for all things retro nerdity. I’d be really disappointed if this was faked. But I admit, it is astonishingly remarkable that the guy who curated a Tron exhibit would also be the one to find a minty DoT environmental, an arcade grail, abandoned on the curb.
The guy made millions of dollars. I'd say it was very worthwhile for him.
Nice! I haven't checked for quite a long. I'm glad it is this way already. Especially considering the fact a user still is free to opt out of any policy by sideloading the app from the author's website.
I mean par for the course for tech blogs/articles right.
> Being able to apply to hundreds of jobs is a double-edged sword where hiring managers also have to filter through thousands of profiles

This has been true outside of tech as well and has given cover for harmful hiring bias to thrive.

Hiring for common jobs is largely done thru portals and most will diminish/disqualify entire classes of people (first-time, age, inconsequential criminal rec, other hidden criteria) with no regard of the candidates' likely capability.

During the worst of employee shortages, there was no sign that portals loosened their ingrained discrimination; qualified and available hires went unconsidered as before.
in Vienna 55k in not a livable wage for someone who has aspirations of having a family. two people making each 55k is fine if you can be reasonably frugal with your life.

most I have seen publicly offered for senior IC is 75k. you can get more through connections or being an extreme outlier.

as far as EU is concerned, best tactic is to find a smaller German town for lower cost of living and join a company there as german industry and IT is spread our fairly evenly all over the place and there are quiet a few smaller university towns with desirable kind of people.

another idea in EU is to move to portugal or croatia or czech republic and contract remotely for western europe from there. language barrier being an obvious but not insurmountable obstacle. if you are US citizen I could imagine you could contract for US from eastern europe without problems as well.
On linked in, there are "about 2,900" people listed who work at Reddit.

Want to see something shocking?

My mind was blown.

Click on this link.

https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/people/?currentCompa...

86 people work at Reddit with the title "UX Designer" -- 86 people. What on earth do these people do?

Reddit has some of the worst UX, and moreover, it hasn't changed in years. Years.

Nothing seems like it's quite designed to fit, or ever tested... they bolted on a chat feature, but it doesn't really work with "old" Reddit.

A ton of settings seem... just 90's-era seems about the best way to put it.

But seriously, 86 people do UX at Reddit.

No possible way that's correct.
Cophone – Mobile work phones running in the cloud
Is it possible there’s some way of abusing UserDefaults that Apple knows about but we don’t?

Also, I guess you could write some values into UserDefaults to uniquely identify users.
I wonder what the ballpark resale price is for it, the author mentioned it could sell for big bucks, but it'd be interesting to see how much.
From the other side of the table, we just went through a few months of interviewing (we're devs) and boy were there a bunch of lemons. We were offering 6 figures for a junior/mid in a low cost of living area too, with 100% remote. Only a few even had the slightest idea what they were talking about when asking questions and they were softballs. One guy was even googling the questions we were asking him. We used multiple recruiters from multiple companies.

We ended up having to pick one because, "it's just a junior, they can learn." We suspect the guy was working multiple jobs because he was hard to reach and wouldn't return messages and calls for a day or two, even when we were letting him go. He was hired as full time salary.

From my experience, the tech labor market is really messed up right now, there are a lot of people who shouldn't be in it. I'm not sure how long that will take to correct. You're not really competing with good people, you're competing with a huge glut of bad people with well written and probably highly embellished resumes. I'm not really sure how to stand out in that type of market.
Cloudflare Radar's new BGP origin hijack detection system
Upper middle class is different from hipster.

CCF thrives in upper middle class areas.
IMO, Open Source routers are a niche thing, and open source declarative CLI routers even more of a niche thing.

Most enterprises prefer buying something with a support contract from a known name vendor (Cisco, Juniper, etc.). Most home users just use what their ISP provides them with, and of those that want something more, they either pick a SOHO vendor like Ubiquiti/Mikrotik, or if DIYing the hardware, choose pfSense / OPNSense / DD-WRT for the clickOps options, because networking really isn't trivial. For those for whom networking is trivial, Debian is fine router OS if you know your way around iptables and friends.

That leaves all those who want to use DIY hardware, and a enterprise-like declarative CLI. That's really not a whole lot of people in the end.
Have you looked for a job recently?

I don't know about you personally, but people in my social circles and employed think the job market is the same as it was from 2015 to 2020. They have no data point and assume their 2+ year old experience of looking for work is relevant today.

The market is bad.

I was getting calls from recruiters in 2020. I looked and found work (contracts) twice in 2022, the first time was not easy, the second time was very difficult.

2023: I am available, contacts and links to resume, linkedin, etc... in my profile!
Are there any vector graphics editors that support CAD-style constraints? That’s a holy grail I’ve been searching for but haven’t been able to find.
I was talking about different regions altogether, not just different AZs. My understanding is that it’s generally a bad idea in Kafka due to the latency, but I could be wrong.

EDIT:

Definitely sounds like there are some tight latency requirements[0]:

> A stretched 3-data center cluster architecture involves three data centers that are connected by a low latency (sub-100ms) and stable (very tight p99s) network, usually a “dark fiber” network that is owned or leased privately by the company.

100ms would theoretically be enough to span the contiguous United States, but the references to "very tight p99s" and "dark fiber" make me wonder if 100ms is actually acceptable, or just a theoretical maximum that can only be allowed under absolutely perfect conditions. Either way, suggesting the user should have access to dark fiber between their regions does not fill me with confidence about the robustness of this solution. I'm sure it would be fine for geographically close datacenters, as AZs are designed to be.

[0]: https://docs.confluent.io/platform/current/multi-dc-deployme...
Hi HN,

My name is Tudor and I am the maker of cophone. With cophone you can have your private virtual smartphone running in the cloud, complete with a phone number so you can use it just as you use your physical smartphone. And it works from your browser!
Although cophone mainly targets companies, private individuals are welcome! At the moment only US phone numbers (+1...) are available, but more country codes are coming soon. Also having multiple numbers is in the pipeline!

Signal app works - just choose "Call" instead of "Text" when verifying your number.
You CAN receive text messages, but some apps that require you to receive one in order to register might still NOT work (i.e. Whatsapp). That's because they might not recognize cophone numbers as mobile numbers so you'll never receive the challenge message.
Main desktop browsers are supported. Chrome on Android also works but on IPhone there're still some issues, esp on older iOS versions. I'm working on it!

Cophone is marked as beta because I haven't tested it at scale and there are still some rough edges.

I am exploring having a freeware version with a common, shared phone number and an extension for each user. So you'd dial +123456789 followed by #098765 to get connected via PSTN with a cophone user - let me know what you think of this.

I'd love to get your feedback! Don't hold back if you have a feature request or something doesn't work as expected for you!

If you'd like a deluxe tour please reach out (tudor at cophone dot io) and I'll be happy to show you around!
> their development has slowed significantly in recent years despite having a great product.

Did they comment on why this happened?
Would be cool if it came with a useful AI assistant that can answer questions based on data from chats
I took three backward steps since 2016

- dev lead - non tech company responsible for one “team” of two developers and a bunch of contractors on another team

- “Senior Software Engineer” - no reports and I actively refused a promotion to be a team lead. I was already the de facto “cloud architect” over the “application modernization” efforts via no more than influence and reputation.

- mid level “cloud consultant” - full time job working remotely at BigTech.
Okay, make sense. I'll for sure keep this as a factor while making the decision.
> a week after a rallying speech from the CEO declaring all jobs were safe

I strongly wish such things were recorded (eg, in a 1-party jurisdiction) and would be used to file grievances in court against CEO and leadership.
Not to mention the Eye of Sauron motif in the decor.
This landing page would lure a lot of people over from Slack if it just said "We won't keep breaking your workflows by constantly moving stuff around for no reason, or removing stuff you rely on, or forcing things into new windows that used to be integrated, or replacing perfectly fine features with really crappy versions."
I agree with what you say but I try to not make value judgements about people based on what or where they eat.

One time back in the day I was dating a girl and she somehow got gift certificates to eat at a place called “Golden Corral” which is a buffet. It was not the kind of place I’d considered eating at.

We get in and are sort of shocked at the place - you go through a literal corral after paying and they give you a massive cup for soda. There’s food everywhere and the place is anarchy. But the food was, to my taste, terrible and made from cheap, processed ingredients (too much salt, sugar in everything, fats were cheap oils, select grade meat, etc) and just bad. And the people there seemed to love it. So we had a laugh about the place and food and people that ate there.

But it occurred to me that those people worked hard to afford to take their families there and it was special to them. So better not to judge them and just be grateful that there’s places for different tastes, cultures, and budgets. To them, they were eating like kings.
She’s got a gen 7.

It definitely works. We don’t even have the Lenovo charger anymore. It broke.

To be clear, you aren’t going to be able to use a phone/tablet charger when you’ve got the lid open and are actively using the computer. But with the lid closed and the laptop asleep, it absolutely will trickle charge to 100% overnight.

Again, 7th gen X1 Carbon and another even older Thinkpad. No idea about the newer stuff.
> In other words, almost every app in the App Store will have to declare "CA92.1" in a privacy manifest, and if every app has the same response, then nothing is accomplished except privacy theater and some unjustified good PR for Apple.

I disagree. It gives Apple a tool to refer to when an app says A but does B. If you are a malicious app and you lie about any of these things then kicking you off the App Store is a simple decision.

In the past you could get away with just doing it in code. Now you have to declare that your usage is non malicious. That is a huge difference.
This seem like an cool upgrade from RT1, judging from the result. It seems to now also output the delta of the end-effector pose, which was previously handled by a different motion planner.

It does seem like this work (and a lot of robot learning works) are still stuck on position/velocity control and not impedance control. Which is essentially output where to go, either closed-loop with a controller or open-loop with a motion planner. This seem to dramatically lower the data requirement but it feel like a fundamental limit to what task we can accomplish.

The reason robot manipulation is hard is because we need to take in to the account not just what's happening in the world but also how our interaction alters it and how we need to react to that.

Robot Learning right now is either Reinforcement Learning or Imitation Learning (often latter) and I'm not sure how one would collect data that capture this.

Edit: I'm surprised Google still do robotics work, I thought Everyday Robotics was shut down [1]

[1] https://www.therobotreport.com/alphabet-closes-everyday-robo...
Closing vulnerabilities in Decidim, a Ruby-based citizen participation platform
Saddly most "local diners" are now buying premade food from offsite and heating it. It is all the same premade food too, the only difference is the order things are on the menu, and what item they call the house special.
The job market as a whole and the industry as a whole doesn't give a crap about you. Your ability to extract a decent life out of working in software in the long run depends on the relationships you make. It's rare to actually work on a team that executes well and where you enjoy those people's company. In my 20+ year career it's only happened less than a handful of times for me.

So if any of those people reach out to me looking for connections, I'll absolutely do so because I also expect they'll return the favour when I need it. It's worked out for me before.

You don't have to invite them to your wedding. But having a brief if awkward friendly interaction and then passing on a referral for a posting or letting them know about some opportunity you may have heard of isn't "socializing", it's just a career skill.

We're all in this together. Being able to have a career that doesn't suck depends in large part on networking, not on your coding skills.
Thanks for the elaborate response and sharing my feedback! I'm quite (maybe a bit oddly) enthusiastic about WYSIWYG editing, so this is great to see coming.

(Semi-tangent: I believe the reason so many people dislike WYSIWYG editing is that they've only experienced bad WYSIWYG editing)

> There are no active discussions around open sourcing the rich text editor as a separate component though the source code is available.

Maybe you're missing the chance to make a dent here.

There's obviously a reason you built your own component: You didn't find anything satisfactory already on the market.

By providing a great solution everyone can just go and use, besides gaining you the usual open source good will, you could also increase Gitlab-Markdown's popularity. That sounds like it could be a bit of free marketing, in places you wouldn't usually otherwise reach.

Not sure if this is convincing or passes your cost/benefit analysis, but I wonder if it's something you've considered.
I am optimistic it will help a little. Probably naive of me.
Very anecdotally it seems to have picked up in July/August. No major layoffs and at least I’m getting the usual recruiters spam again.
I thought by now there'd be kits like plastic airplane models. Injection-mold a bunch of parts, connected by sprues, and throw in the odd bits of (metal) hardware where they are critical to the whole.
Creating a Decision Journal [video]
The original title is more click-baity: "A $5 Investment That Will Help You Make Great Decisions"

I never used a decision journal before. Has anyone experienced an improvement in decision making after using a decision journal? Conversely, has anyone tried a decision journal, but felt it was a waste of time with no improvement to the quality of the decisions? How do you measure that quality?
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> What happens if the original folder is renamed? Then, intuitively, the pinned one get the new name. So you always know what folder is pinned.

I disagree. I would expect MY bookmark to automatically have its target destination updated (renaming a folder should trigger not invalidate pointers that point to it) while preserving the name I gave to it.

Think of the following: You program in three different languages, and they all have a project directory called "src". You want to have direct access to these directories so you pin them in the explorer. Now you have three pins that are all called "src" and I am not allowed to renamed them "C src", "C++ src" and "Rust src". I do not want to use shortcuts because these would only be available in one folder, while sth that is pinned in the explorer is always right there.
It's impressive the contortions people go to try to shame other for enjoying decent food at a decent price, and not obsessed with proving they are cool. Luckily, we're busy enjoying our food, family, and friends.
Commentary:

I am reminded of a quote:

"The best things in life are free!"

(Usually those things are such things as sunlight, oxygen, trees, water, flowers, grass, friendly small animals, human beings that express the best of humanity, etc., etc... but in this case it's sort of like a very specific subcase of a very specific subset of a very specific subcase of all of those other best things in life that are free... this specific subcase happens to be that of a "Discs Of Tron" arcade game(!) -- probably from the 1980's -- with its own (highly immersive!) full "environmental" (arcade) cabinet -- left on the curbside, for FREE!)

So the best things in life -- really are free!

(Up to and including a "Discs of Tron" full cabinet arcade game -- with its catchy tagline: "Become the most powerful video warrior of the computer world"... :-) <g>)

I mean, what's not to love about all of that? :-) <g>)
Real life indirection is the root of all evil, and AI agents can fix it