skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree - as someone who has started up small companies and worked in megacorps, including FAANG and major banks, it’s entirely possible to build that intoxicating environment anywhere. It’s more about having a dynamic leader who assembles teams into collections of individuals who know precisely why they are there - and are given the work they excel at and the work they don’t the manager ensures someone who does helps them. Then the manager has to make sure the mission of the team is crystal clear in its value to the mission of the enterprise and the enterprises mission on earth. Finally the manager has to relentlessly break down barriers to production and impact.

The arguments articulated are entirely false: ex. N^2 communications. This is reductionist and absurd. No team depends on every team in the org. Their domain is often fairly small and their adjacent teams extremely finite. The exception are “core teams” (which have been my specialty). However a well functioning core team doesn’t have n^2 communication overhead - they act as a concentrator and teams come to them - which is N. N can be large, in which case effective triage is crucial, but so is automation and self service, coherent platforms that are self documented, and some folks on the team that really really enjoy teaching.

I’ve burned out though on building these teams. It’s absurdly hard work on management. But management is supposed to be absurdly hard work. My next gig is as a distinguished engineer at a late stage startup - back to the roots for a while.
a) You will definitely need trained and credentialled translators to do the verifying.

b) The claim that verifying is faster than creating is unsupported. (E.g. reviewing programmer code is tougher than writing from scratch.)
I agree. I don't understand why the IA seem to be continuously poking the limits of what's acceptable or not, when their core mission is already complicated enough copyright-law-wise.

They are one big lawsuit away from being possibly forced to shut the _entire_ archiving operation down, and yet they continuously prod all the entities that are likely to serve them such a lawsuit. I cannot but have this picture of a small dog barking at a pack of huge dogs. And then they'll cry and make a fuss and claim they are the victims when they are inevitably sued.

Exempli gratia: https://archive.org/search?query=office+2019

Why. Just why they risk everything by being yet-another file sharing site that is full of pirated software?
I just said something similar in another reply

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37099395

But as far as employees being an “investment” let’s look at things from the employee side.

For context: these numbers I’m about to cite are correct to within a first approximation on the “enterprise dev” side where most of the 2.7 million developers work and in most major cities in the US that are not on the west coast or in NYC

Let’s say you hire a
Junior/mid level developer and offer them $100K which is fair knowing they are going to do “negative work” for the first few months as an investment. Two years later, they have experience and now can apply for companies that are looking for experienced iOS developers. Their market rate shot up to $135k.

Because of salary compression and inversion, you’re not going to be able to pay them 35% more in two years because of HR policies. Yet you can bring in new experienced iOS developers at market rate. If he’s smart your employee is going to jump ship, wasting a lot of your “investment”.

As a hiring manager, knowing that statistically I’m only going to get two years out of an employee, why wouldn’t I just poach the person you just trained and pay them the $135K you couldn’t?

Another scenario is that now that developer has been reading r/cscareerquestions and decided to “grind leetcode and work for a FAANG”. Now he’s looking at $200K+ as a mid level developer adding yet more bloat to the Facebook app.

You couldn’t compete with that if you wanted to.
Dutch tiled sidewalks are different from what I have seen in China. They embed thick tiles, hardened bricks nowadays, in sand. Chinese make concrete sidewalks topped with thinner tiles. Nice when it rains some tiles work like mud pumps spraying your feet.

BTW I have no statistics on Chinese sidewalk maintenance, but when I lived there development was so fast that a sidewalk would have to be broken up every 2, 3 years anyway for new cables, pipes or whatever. I always wondered why they didn't use the tile plus sand system, as this involved always in noisy and dusty concrete hammering.
I've just started using tRPC, and I'm in love with it so far! I use GraphQL at work, but I always felt like the boilerplate is too much for my hobby projects, and I wasn't really happy with the code-first frameworks that I could find (especially with the ones that support proper Relay integration).
Thanks a lot for the creators! Also if anyone is enticed by this, I highly recommend trying it out!
An LLM model is as useful in this regard, as Wikipedia could be.

Seriously, can’t wait for this LLM craze to wind down.
Family Link [1] also looks like it's made with Flutter (I checked the DevTools in the browser).

[1]: https://familylink.google.com
> They can translate intrinsically.

Unfortunately no. If you speak two languages natively you know how hard translating can be unless you have training.
The World’s Largest Time Capsule Won’t Be Opened for Another 6k Years
Java JEP draft: AOT at JVM startup
Can't speak to personal experience, but my understanding is Objective-C++ (which is most of C++ plus all of Objective-C) is still popular for bridging the Objective-C/Swift and C++ worlds. Though apparently Swift is getting a C++ interop system, so that might become less common!
Just a reminder that you don’t need to be patronizing to get your point across. Calling someone “cute” is a bit much.
Sludge (split screen) content is consuming TikTok. Why nobody bothers?
I saw a post the other day: "I could be vegan but bacon", which drew the reply "Ok, do that." You don't have to eliminate animal products to do a lot of good for your health, the environment, and animal welfare.

Just cutting your meat consumption in half would be a substantial change, and with only positive effects on your health. Meat is a very good source of nutrients but most westerners consume far too much, and are at zero risk of a deficit in those nutrients.
Rhino Linux – Rolling Ubuntu
I wonder if those who exploited child labor talk about the times before and after child labor was "killed", or drug companies talk about the times before and after thalidomide was "killed"
No screenshots and only the most brief explanation of what it provides.
Org mode is recommended if you have tabular data, in case there are any Emacs users that still haven't tried it. (Which might sound ridiculous - but who knows? I still haven't used magit! I've been using Emacs since 2006.)

You can sort the table using M-x org-table-sort-lines.

(Org mode tables, while simple plain text, are very readable. Anybody not using Emacs is going to find them tedious to edit though.)
Please delete this before Boeing MBAs get their grubby little booger hooks on it.
'Sludge content' is filling up TikTok feeds, using split screens to pair users’ clips with unrelated footage. It’s aimed at getting users to watch for just a little longer, and increase views for content creators.
Everyday we stray further from gods light.
Having worked for a large telco that ran an oppressive network that performed TLS inspection on all corporate traffic, I imagine there'd be demand to inspect TLS 1.3 traffic. Banks, Boring Enterprise, Governments, Intelligence Community, etc. are the types of customers that are interested in this.

Here is a vendor implementing TLS 1.3 inspection [1] - they probably don't call it ETS (since there's a CVE attached to it) but it probably implements that exact spec (since ETS only deviates from TLS 1.3 by using a static DH key instead of ephemeral).

[1]: https://symantec-enterprise-blogs.security.com/blogs/product...

Edit:

Here's another vendor that probably does it too: https://blog.gigamon.com/2020/04/15/how-do-you-run-cryptogra...
Nice point; but ... "you've got to look a little further / the argument i'm refuting is too simplistic" can continue here.

What cost does society at large pay for the 15% bite on people laundering money? How many legitimate transactions are made more expensive, or never begun at all, because of AML regulations?
20 Years of Vim
I used data from the Vim git repository to create an annotated chart of some of the main moments in the last 20 years of Vim development.

Vim was the first text editor I've ever used (back in 2008), and it shaped the way I interact with computers forever. I'm grateful to all maintainers, and to Bram for creating it and shepherding it through all these decades.

The annotations are interactive, so if you hover them you'll see more context about the events.

I built the tool to make this visualization: https://www.contextualize.ai
Trump kind of reminds me of a lame old Clodius. Where is Milo I wonder? I guess those calling for violence and civil war mostly look like the old and mentally deranged. I’m not exactly afraid they’ll do well against US infantry. No Milo needed for now.
Might I suggest that if it’s a problem maybe it’s a good thing to have people study it more deeply?
> anxiety are normal responses to the current [insert thing here] we’re living in?

This is a commonly shared theory on the internet, but I don’t think it really makes sense when you consider how anxiety and depressive disorders operate. What characterizes these disorders is not having a negative feeling, but getting stuck in negative feedback loops that perpetuate the feelings and interfere with daily life. The original triggering event or “cause” isn’t what sustains this pattern, and when the pattern is disrupted (for example, through behavioral treatment), people recover and find peace again.

My personal take on the past few years is pretty straightforward: a lot of stressful stuff happened in a short time span, and it revealed that people need to be tending to their mental health more than they have done. Just as having the elevators go out in a tall office building would show that people need to tend to their cardiovascular health.
> It also depends on what you mean by "productive", would I want to lead a team to create a new app from scratch? Probably not. Go into an existing app and start fixing bugs and creating new features? Sure.

As someone with experience, are you actually applying for jobs where you would just be pulling stories off the board doing “feature work”?

And let’s take your example. What’s the chance of me being productively able to create a feature in a Typescript/React app seeing that I haven’t done front end work since 2015 and even then it was server side rendering with ASP.Net MVC and bootstrap.
Thanks! I'm going to run simple CRUD app, most funciness sits on FE. My rough estimate is the service will only have to sustain ~3k users overall, max ~10-20 simultaneous users.
omg, this is awesome. i’d been meaning to pick up some ARM assembly. and the fact that you managed to link game mechanics with working opcodes is great.

love it!
My friend and I would be on the phone while we sent each other emails and we would be shocked at how instantaneously they were delivered. But now that I think about it, it is interesting to think how we weren't equally shocked that our voices were being instantly transmitted over the phone at the same time.
If I defenestrate a frail 80-year-old that they were eventually going to die naturally is not a murder defense.

If a robust 80-year-old lived next to the frail one it is also not a murder defense.

If the frail one was a stubborn old mule it is likewise not a murder defense.

Maybe the neighborhood is better without the dead one, but that doesn't change that they were murdered.
Notes on running a single-person Mastodon server
This website would greatly benefit from screenshots
You can't "manage" people who work remotely the same way you manage people in the office. That's the issue.

Also, you shouldn't have to watch newer employees like a hawk if you've given them clear tasks / projects and expectations. No need to micromanage people.
Most of their apps are native. They learned the same thing that Facebook learned years ago. Cross platform GUI apps have always sucked - or at least since Java tried to popularize them in the late 90s.
Why do people care? If that's the kind of content you like to watch so be it

As long as it's not a mix of kid-friendly and NSFW content, who cares?
link? I'm very familiar with Zeros and I've never heard this..
And yet it mediates your entire existence. Without both objective (or analytical) science and subjective (or holistic) theology we're trying to understand the world with one hand tied behind our backs.

Personally I think understanding the story should carry equal (or greater) weight when compared to examining the letters and paint used to write it.
Thanks, indeed privacy is the thing though I'm OK to DIY whatever it takes as long as instance itself will not have some holes I can't patch or mitigate. What do you mean 'all instances are public'? I thought it's possible to purchase instance without public IP
i kneel before your noble lies, my philosopher king
KTM, too. My buddy got a 450 XC-F and he was able to buy a service manual directly from them.
No info about what it is
Almost all the radioactive elements in coal go into ash, which is not emitted into the air. Do you have some vision of old coal plants where emissions were not controlled?
I'm curious about the mindset behind your statement. The article you linked is very clearly a political propaganda piece, and I'm not sure what point you're trying to make with it.

Does the local population really see the coal industry as purposely killed off by government, and not an industry that's been long in decline, with the final nail in the coffin being provided by the rapid expansion of natural gas via fracking?

https://siepr.stanford.edu/publications/policy-brief/what-ki...
Could artificially dimming the sun prevent ice melt?
academia started as a branch of the church and retains the same institutional structure to this day. the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
I'm not sure if this is rosey-colored nostalgia glasses, or just being jaded by the garbage that AAA studios have been putting out, but is BG3 actually raising the bar or is it returning to a bar long-forgotten?

Either way, the AAA take on Larian's success is extremely telling - especially some of the mocking/hostile takes. They aren't going to learn a damned thing.
Harvard University encourages grad students to go on food stamps
UFC president meets Italy’s culture minister to discuss fight at Colosseum
Coffee Kick Calculator – How Much Caffeine to Drink to Stay Alert?
This is nicely done. I like your marketing. I made it 98% of the way through reading your website, I was almost convinced. Then, I ran into a couple of typos right at the very end, that instead led to me writing you this comment on HN.
And the point I make is that if you don't give uranium mining a free pass, then with current thermal reactors your statement is false.
I've personally been using ts-rest for my projects, which is traditional REST but allows one to autogenerate types and API docs from a zod schema.

tRPC seems cool, but seems riskier to go with an alternative to REST or GraphQL, especially if you intend to make your API public and/or have multiple consumers of your API.
It's a bit of a tall order to say that MetroUI and fluent icons and design are a "Better UI"...
AI Mania Triggers Dot-Com Bubble Flashbacks
don't let a table get too big

I'd amend that to "don't let your scan coverage get too big". Understanding how much data must be loaded in memory and compared is essential to writing performant database applications. And yes, those characteristics change over time as the data grows, so there may be a one-size-fits-all solution. But "table too large" can pretty much always be solved by adding better indexes or by partitioning the table, and making sure common queries (query's?) hit only one partition.

As a simple example: a lot of queries can be optimized to include "WHERE fiscal_year = $current". But you need to design your database and application up front to make use of such filtered indexes.
Yeah ... no

I'm good, thanks
a majority of americans believe the opposite of whatever the "experts" tell them. they are not always right but it is a good heuristic.
Is that where faults really occur though? Could repair shops troubleshoot and repair a bad trace or capacitor on a multi-layer board?

I recognise that there is environmental and functional value in repairing a $600 part, but the reality is that it’s not currently economical, even with schematics.
They were efficient because they weren't self-defrosting.
I'm not sure of this specific example but it's a good policy when you are about to mention an accident/illness/school shooting or other situation where a loved one of theirs may have been badly injured or killed to preface that with "everyone (optional: that you know) is fine but..." to save them imaging the worst until you get to the details.

I think of it as the opposite of those clickbait headlines where they try to trick you into believing it applies to you or your family by leaving out details.

"Local school explodes" will get more clicks than clarifying it was empty at the time and/or giving the specific name.
Despite my best efforts, I continue to be amused by this "story."
Yes and with apologies to Sam Altman, I like it's odds of success better than "World Coin".

1) Amazon is selling this as a simple, natural convenience feature. Holding out your palm to pay is easy and natural --- easier than pulling a card from your wallet, easier then bending over and looking into a weird orb thingy.

2) No crypto mumbo-jumbo required. Crypto is quickly becoming associated with "scam" in the mind of the public and "World Coin" only furthers this trend. Paying people "funny money" for their biometrics is inherently suspicious.

3) This is not a "sneak attack" on anyone. Whether you pay by biometrics or card or phone or even crypto, there is no real privacy left in the process. Thanks to Google and Apple and others, that ship has already sailed and disappeared somewhere over the horizon.
I've listened to few interviews with people manufacturing in China and "you have to have someone on the ground there" repeated in pretty much all of them.
This website does a very poor job at describing what it is, what it does, how it does it, etc. Even after googling, there isn't much information about the full extend of what changes this does to Win11.
did you flag it?
During Covid I had a colleague, mainly web/js/angular dev, join the Android team. It was a new project to him, so he had 0 idea of the business problems, flows, etc.

In a timeframe of 1-2 weeks he was making PRs. It needed quite some reviews from me, usually because he didn't know about "how it should behave" on Android, or what the best practices were in terms of using Kotlin or following our architecture. After 2-3 months he was as proficient coding as I basically (but we all know, coding is 50%).
Windows 11 gives weird-ass macOS clone energy combined with designer’s ineffable urge to add MORE PADDING everywhere. I don’t get it and I don’t want to upgrade. I’m glad I can play my PC games on a Linux handheld.
NoMoreCookies: Protection Against Accounts Stealing
This Project protects against Accounts Stealing by malicious malware developers/script kiddies that makes a malicious executable file to try to steal cookies/passwords from browsers, in addition to warning the user about the program by making a notification that the stealing have been blocked and here's the program name.
Here we are, two weeks later, and the bloom is off the rose. It's turned out as one should have expected, the product of sloppiness and gun jumping.
I'm not an English native speaker, but what does that headline even mean? " Microsoft Continues Right to Repair About Face"
Yep, companies don't care about your overtime, and neither should you care about their overneeds.
How the Internet Obeys You
I recommend this website [0] for some details about how they got into this situation. Included are comparisons to peers (public Big XII schools), which are considerably better off. Hilariously, over the past 3 years, WVU was unable to generate actionable data on costs & revenues of their academic programs, though they spent over $1mm on consultants specifically for this purpose and pay $3mm annually on internal roles whose job functions have considerable overlap and include doing this type of work. Administration hired a second consultancy for the same purpose in 2023.

[0] https://wvufacts.wordpress.com/
Solely addressing the mask use part of your reply, I've found that it greatly helped reduce the number of times I fell ill ( even mildly ) from things you list like colds, coughs, sore throats & fatigue.

I can't believe that there are no substantial studies that have studied the ability of consumer grade surgical masks ( and/or N95s) in preventing common illnesses, very reliably when used regularly.

Why aren't these things conclusively studied, beyond any degree of doubt?
his entire argument breaks down when a cartel owns the entire vertical and doesn't need to pay fees at each stop along the chain
“With Visa or Mastercard” are likely the missing words.
I don’t think that’s settled. AF447, an almost perfectly functioning plane, was jettisoned immediately into the ocean because the flying pilot completely forgot about basic flight physics and that without automation, you can’t just always increase angle of attack and expect to go up. The guy spent 99% of his time flying normal law, under automation protection, and when that shield was undone he resorted to his gut instincts, operating like the shield is there, when he was panicking.
In the four parts, surely “current status” is more important than “punch line” and should come first?

As for the bull being dead, that seems like the least important piece of information from that situation.
There is just one underfunded organisation doing GPL enforcement, so adjust that picture to a worried cat holding just one butter knife and it might be more accurate. Hopefully their lawsuit against Vizio will mean user of GPLed binaries can sue for source code. So adjust the picture to roaming herds of cats with butter knives perhaps.

https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/vizio.html
I've been in their Discord server for a while, so feel free to ask any questions. They used to have Rectify11 and several other Windows mods in one server, but Rectify11 has since been changed to a Rectify11-specific server[1], and the then-current server was renamed to the Windows Mod Hub[2], which I'd also recommend checking out.

[1]: https://discord.gg/sDRcjjaS5a

[2]: https://discord.gg/sDRcjjaS5a

Edit: yes, the site does a very poor job of explaining what it does. I'm not gonna make excuses for them, but here's what it does: it combines a bunch of other software, stuff like ExplorerPatcher, and adds some more on top, to "rectify" Windows 11 to be more consistent, and overall a better experience.

The source code is available here: https://github.com/Rectify11/Installer
Windows 11 is comically bad.

I've used every Windows as a developer since at least XP, and 11 is hands down the worst. Scroll bars that auto hide, and are only a few pixels wide. God awful web search in the start menu. Taskbar tabs are now forced into icon mode. A UI that copycats Macos, until you actually click something and find a UI element from Windows vista. Microsoft Edge blowing out my CPU every few days with a mandatory update. Just do yourself a favor folks and don't use Windows anymore if you can possibly help it. Stick to Windows 10 or consider Debian.