skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The moderation is quite arbitrary. Here are three specific examples I've noted:

1. "Don't hate Jira, hate your manager." https://lobste.rs/s/n4v6a8/you_don_t_hate_jira_you_hate_your... is okay but "Making time for planning" https://lobste.rs/messages/h9z5ee is not (Management is off-topic.)

2. "A normal week (in tech)" https://blog.ignaciobrasca.com/work/2023/05/01/a-normal-week... is not okay (Article does not relate to computing.) but "What are you working on this week?" is okay.

3. "What Punch Cards Teach Us About AI Risk" https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2023/11/26/what-punch-cards-tea... is not okay (Business history is off-topic) even though specific implementations of punch card machines are discussed

There will always be sharp edges to moderation but I've generally found more permissive policies to be more fair.
“probably”? I mean, yes it’s a tech company, but it’s a bit surprising anyone would expect it to be much more than 50% engineering. Marketing and customer support alone would have a huge headcount - and given the impact AI tech is having on those areas, I wouldn’t be surprised if they represented a disproportionate fraction of the layoffs.
This study appears to focus on short term memory, but for my money, long-term memory is much more significant. As such, it would have been useful to add a third option: using a SRS system like Anki. I imagine it would significantly outcompete both hand-written notes and digital tablet notes. A bit like the famous Steve Jobs example comparing a human, a condor, and a human with a bicycle. The condor (hand-writing) may beat the human (tablet), but a human with a bicycle (SRS system) outcompetes both.
They don't have 9000 developers, they have 9000 staff.
Your description is oddly specific.

Maybe it's exactly like that, or maybe there's some variation to it, but the problem here has been simplified to make it more approachable.
Well DC is where the people leading the war effort were, so it had the potential to be very disruptive / demoralizing. Is the Union going to pause their war effort in order to elect a new set of representatives and a new president?

I don't know though. Maybe there was a plan to evacuate the capital which would've worked if push came to shove.
I have never had Spotify and would like to understand what people like about it?

Admittedly I pay for YouTube Premium which comes with YouTube Music, so I use that for music. YouTube is kind of an integral part of life I find, everybody uses it. It has so much useful content, it has educational content, product reviews, how to guides, and then of course all the entertainment content. So assuming that probably most people subscribe to YouTube Premium, why Spotify as well?

Where do people have all that time for listening to all those podcasts which Spotify buys to lurk people onto their platform? I don't even have time for Netflix, let alone listening to some podcasts. Time taken up by my work, then my hobby projects, playing sports, playing with my child and spending time with my wife, meeting friends and family on our weekends, going outdoors with the kids or just for us to do something in the real world, cooking fresh food every day, doing regular house work and so forth, where is the time left to binge watch one Netflix series after another or to listen to these podcasts?

Even when I was single and didn't have wife and child I didn't have time for these things. In fact I had even less time because I did even more sports, went clubbing, house parties, dating women, going abroad with friends, etc. was even more time consuming than having a stable family now.

This is not criticism, but genuinely asking, do people who subscribe to those services do anything else in their life or are they just transitioning from Spotify to work to Netflix to bed to Spotify to work to Netflix to bed to... ???
If you run it on a Pi, do you run it on Portainer or anything like that?
25% market share is a bit lackluster, though?

Podcasting has also been called the slowest growing new medium in the history of new media. I can't imagine it's earning its keep, relative to those big initial payouts. Meanwhile, the shows that are brought into subscription-only world systematically fail to attract new listeners; it is hard to use podcast exclusives to grow market share. Especially the talking head variety, which exist in abundance outside the pay wall.
A deep dive into the Apollo Guidance Computer, and the hack that saved Apollo 14 (2020)
I used to take some notes on paper (if it needed math and diagrams, or for meetings that require eye contact), and some notes on a computer (programming or pure text). My iPad replaced the paper but not the computer.
Teaching Robots to Build Simulations of Themselves
Sachin Dev Duggal's Builder.ai-The Startup That Caught Microsoft's Eye and Why
In a move that reverberates across the tech landscape, Microsoft has chosen to invest in Builder.ai, the brainchild of visionary entrepreneur Sachin Dev Duggal. This strategic investment, while garnering attention, prompts the question: Why has Microsoft chosen to back Builder.ai?

Shared Vision of Innovation

At the core of this collaboration is a shared vision of innovation. Microsoft recognizes in Builder.ai a kindred spirit, an entity committed to pushing the boundaries of technology. The alignment in values and commitment to pioneering solutions is a driving force behind Microsoft's decision.

Unlocking Synergies in AI and Cloud Technologies

Builder.ai's expertise in artificial intelligence (AI) and Microsoft's dominance in cloud technologies create a potent synergy. The investment is a strategic move to unlock the combined potential of these two tech giants, offering a comprehensive suite of solutions that seamlessly integrate AI capabilities with cloud infrastructure.

Strategic Positioning in a Dynamic Market

Microsoft's investment in Builder.ai is not just a financial transaction; it's a strategic positioning in a dynamic market. By backing Builder.ai, Microsoft strengthens its foothold in the rapidly evolving landscape of software development and AI-driven solutions, ensuring a proactive stance in shaping the industry's future.
Why would it be a satire? I've worked on much harder problems than moving anywhere between 1MB to 20MB files from a CDN to user's devices, and we were 11 people, responsible for dozens of terabytes per workday.

Obviously I am not well-versed in all the legal requirements and many other commercial aspects, but to me 9000 is quite insane and surely can be optimized away.

And apparently Spotify agrees.
Each feature, integration (maybe with each publisher), country, etc is likely its own microsservice and infra and devops and team.
I always wonder what people did the last 5 or so versions since windows is actively hostile, annoying and destroying the user experience?
Couldn’t you do an independent “NAS to Glacier” (or similar)?

Genuinely interested as I was planning to spend some time this Xmas season along your lines and I am missing the same point.
Spotify has a lot of front ends to manage, I think more than 20 would be required.

Mobile (iOS, Android), web, vehicle native integrations (Tesla, Volvo, VW, BMW, Audi, Ford), gaming (Xbox, Switch, PS4, PS5), desktop (Mac, Windows, Linux, Chromebook) and voice assistants (Alexa, Google).

Maintaining that variety of front ends must be very labour intensive.
Dark Mode has been promised since 2020 but we still don't have it yet.
Greenlight Developer Console
Lmao, I love this comment so much because of how incredibly uninformed it is. 5-6 backend engineers to run Spotify in 185 countries... I've seen a lot of ridiculous comments when it comes to company sizes, but yours is probably the best one I've seen in my life, thanks for the laugh.

Is it because you've never worked at a non-startup or how come you have that opinion? Like, you just have no idea what's required/useful and you can't even imagine it?

I'd love to hear how you split the workload between these 5 backenders.
To put it into context 9000 workers on an average of $75000 is $675 mil a year on salaries alone, so Joe's 200 over 3 and a half years, harry and meg etc etc isn't a big a deal as it might sound. The elephant is the 9000 staff IMO.
Adobe file formats never had the reputation of being easy to work with. I spent some time with the CFF font format, and I can say it was not a pleasure.
You think Spotify actually made money from it? They seem to be pulling back from Podcasts...
Are numbers ever really brand new, as in you are the first to ever have that number?
What are you using for backup?
I am not outraged. I am baffled. And yes, if somebody is willing to give a bit more details, they can be informative (and a few people already did).
https://ehs.lbl.gov/resource/documents/radiation-protection/....

My understanding is that typically it isn't an issue, but the hearer malfunctioned, and it was on his desk, and so he was kind of staring at it all day.

I'd take care. Don't stare into the light, for starters.
How can I get my App Store on your device without letting you get your App Store on my device?

May regulation gut these pigs…
Right, but his concern about security is not just to restrict how you use your computer, but to try to keep it safe in a manageable way.

However, the current state of guarantees around it is not at the point where Turing-completeness is the biggest issue. You can have a simple config, but the rest of the system is still unverifyiable and running unknown blobs.

I think the reasonable way out of it is through restricted capabilities. We won't get a fully verifyiable system we can inspect anytime soon. Probably not before the dark days of mandatory and somewhat provable ad impressions.
nit:

project oberon, though in many ways related, is by wirth.

you were probably thinking of alef (the early csp language) on plan9 (the bell-labs' research unix successor).

limbo and its os/vm inferno were an attempt to commercialise those ideas amid the java craze.
At least Rogan is still one of the most popular podcasters in the world. They paid a similar ammount for Gimlet and that company is now completely defunct and all their hit podcasts either jumped ship or stopped. So that was probably a worse investment.
If you're already using Radix UI in your project and need a Combobox, you can take just the necessary components from Ariakit and use them along with Radix UI.
>In 2020, Nielsen made the case again, writing, “After 20 years of watching users perform similar tasks on a variety of sites that use either PDFs or regular web pages, one thing remains certain: PDFs degrade the user experience.”

Good luck saving a HTML version of any modern web page and being able to read it in twenty or thirty years time. HTML just wasn't designed for that.
There's at least one team devoted to screwing up the homepage, pushing content that I don't want like podcasts. Will not miss them.
Uhh no, have you ever dug into compensation that most companies that post on HN are offering? They are offering regular old CRUD enterprise level compensation and “equity” that probably won’t be worth anything
There is some problem there though - peacefully using nuclear power creates plutonium, which could be later extracted.
This is my main gripe with Tailscale too, at least for personal use. What are you thinking of using instead? Headscale?
Obviously I can't be well informed since I don't work in there, I am saying that the core functionality of moving bytes around the globe is not something you need hundreds of people for -- because I worked on similar teams. In fact the DevOps team was times bigger than the programmers which might be one clue in Spotify's case.
If you're never using any external dependencies, it can work. It's just the no-dep C projects are few and far between. As soon as you have things like dependencies or compiler detection, CMake or other build systems really start picking up a lot of slack.

FD: CMake developer
I listen to podcasts: While doing pretty much anything in the house, while driving. Turns out that is a pretty sizeable chunk of time.
I would imagine they're outsourcing crap time-consuming jobs they get given on Fiverr and its ilk that ChatGPT can't blag a passable end result for, i.e., multimedia or research about present stuff. They may spend money, but the contractor has simply outsourced it—they're still going to make something.

As it's a "test", the candidate is likely to put a lot of time and effort into making it as good as they can to impress.
I see this guy get posted here all the time, always total puff pieces. Google him, nothing but puff pieces. Does he actually do anything but self promotion? I doubt the posts he gets on here are organic either considering their lack of traction and how frequently they’re posted.

Do a search for “Sachin Dev Duggal” and you’ll get 20+ sycophantic stories posted by people who post about nothing else and copy the text of the article into their comment.
I'm currently using a remote NAS as my backup to my local NAS.

At 35TB of data it will take a lot of time and money for me to back this with S3 or Glacier... so mostly my object storage scenario is to accelerate and make more available a working set of files I use everywhere and often, rather than to backup / sync the majority of files.
Chase could be a potential partner for Apple Card
Hm, solid point, thank you.
KDE is not going Wayland only with the upcoming Plasma 6.0. It's merely switching the default selection, while continuing to support X11 for much longer (no end date announced at this point).

I agree with the remainder of the parent comment, and prominent distributions dropping X11 in 2024 will definitely accelerate the quest for the last bunch of Wayland features that common users feel on a day-to-day basis.
It has: https://github.com/xonixx/gron.awk/blob/e5040a7b1384c5839dca...

Strange, should be much less failures: https://github.com/xonixx/gron.awk/blob/e5040a7b1384c5839dca...

Could you please file a bug with the details?
FD: CMake developer

Do you mind pointing me to that issue? Off-HN is fine too (same GitHub handles here; grab an email address from commit metadata).
My blog landed me multiple book deals: I wrote the very first book in history about Ubuntu because a publisher found my blog. I published my first novel because the editor found it published as a serie on my blog. I’ve never asked for it.

Hosting my own webservices for fun for years transformed to a side-business during a couple of years, where I was hosting paying customers.

My involvement with GNOME landed me a job with a GNOME-related company (but I sent them my resume, so this was not unexpected)

My life-long investment in free software landed me a teaching job at my university, totally unexpected.

I built a whole career doing side projects. Do more side projects. (many of my side projects didn’t pay me but, for some, it was a choice because you cannot do everything. Also, side-projects have different taste once you are paid for it. You don’t want that for every side project)
This effect was observed in Weimar Germany also, during absolutely insane inflationary times. History books tell the tale as though people rationally bought things because they held value more than cash, but now having lived through this relatively smaller inflationary era, I wonder if there's more to it, and it's a more subconscious thing.
> They undoubtedly have a large number of developers working on apps for every platform

Yes, if they were at the cutting edge on every platform and constantly adding innovative new features, that could certainly explain 500 of the 9000 employees.

But that still leaves 8,500 employees unexplained.
Wouldn't surprise me if linking the notes to a physical location aids memory.
Quote from my mom in social media a few weeks ago: "How does the November cactus know that it's November?" with a picture of the flowering cactus. We don't have a true Arctic night at these latitudes, but thanks to the mountains it's close.
I'm also an Emacs evil user (neovim too). I think the kakoune editing model has the potential to surpass even the vim/evil model. Its default object-verb order makes it easy to preview and change selection before proceeding with the action. That's not possible with vim's normal mode. Vim does have the visual model. But then kakoune model also uses multiple cursors, making it more powerful. I really wanted to try kakoune model in Emacs. But the package needs a bit more updates.

Another issue I have with evil is that it changes a lot of Emacs' default bindings, making it hard to do certain tasks. Some operations simply don't work at all. The kakoune package doesn't do this - at least not in insert mode.

> It's not very fast though and has some conventions that feel archaic

Sadly, multithreading is an afterthought for Emacs. There is just too much legacy stuff to make it easy. The language design is also from another era. The default dynamic binding feels very alien when almost every language everyone knows is lexical binding by default. On the other hand, scheme feel very modern due to very careful language design. But the effort to switch Emacs to scheme didn't find much steam.

There is one aspect where none of the new editors (hx with scheme and nvim with lua)can match Emacs. Emacs is entirely written in elisp with the C parts acting merely as libraries. The extension language for other editors is just an addition to their core editing code.
I made a small configurable reverse proxy back in 2016 - https://github.com/ianunay/mock-node in an attempt to build my portfolio and to attract recruiters / interviewers. Sure enough in one of the system design interviews the interviewer simply did a architecture / code review of this project and was impressed by it. I like to think that this contributed a lot to the company making an offer. I ended up accepting the offer and my life changed a lot since as I had to move to a different country.
Whisper-Zero, new ASR model designed to mitigate Whisper hallucinations
French startup Gladia releaases an API,born out of complete rework of Whisper ASR that eliminates hallucinations and drastically improves accuracy. Built using over 1.5 million hours of audio, including phone and noisy data
Obviously you don't need all those people. Almost no company apart from like one-man companies or dying companies employ only the people they need. You employ as many people as possible that generate additional profit, short or long-term. Do you need to hire a conversion specialist? Of course not, though if she costs $400k a year while improving conversion by 10% the payoff is absolutely massive, and you'd have to be an idiot not to hire her.

I'm surprised people don't realize this, especially on hackernews.
Getting within striking distance of something, and actually striking, let alone successfully, are two very different things so.
I find it a bit hard to imagine you’re the first person to think of this, let alone those people working on it who I’m sure are a bit familiar with concrete then you ?
Why don't I take military funding? (ca 2004)
But the blameless culture as highlighted in the article does not prevent to identify when someone messed up personally or is not doing effort to follow the process/bring the results. It means to start by assuming the best of intentions, and see how one can avoid repeating the same mistake in the future. See the example with the fire department in the article.

Note that you bring in the example of a court, and this is how a court works: a suspect is presumed innocent until proven otherwise.

The main point is that a blameless culture fosters honesty and team work. A blameful culture fosters covering up and lying to look good to the manager. But if someone is careless, they will get into trouble in both cases. See the example with the person who deleted the production DB: they would likely never have said "guys, drop everything you are doing, I deleted the prod database and need help" in a blameful environment - even though this is the best reaction to have for the business. But even in a blameless culture, it takes a lot of courage to admit such a mistake and ask for help. Assuming that people are not afraid to do such mistakes just because they will not be immediately fired for it is quite absurd.
They were foolish/fickle/myopic/selfish to hire them in the first place. Companies have treated beneficial market conditions as an opportunity to make a land-grab for employees without a plan for how to afford them just a couple of years later - after the employee has organised their life and their family's life around the expectation that they were more than a temporary contractor.

If an individual took advantage of cheap credit to buy a car & flogged it while being underwater on the loan shortly after, we'd rightly judge it as a financial mistake. When a CEO does it with people's livelihoods and social circles at stake, it's applauded.
NextCloud is certainly also an option.

That said, the security issue wasn't really the fault of OwnCloud. They use a Microsoft library, which itself included a further library. That downstream library had the security issue. Unfortunately, it happened to interact especially badly with the containerized version of OwnCloud.

That kind of downstream security issue can bite any project. I don't blame OwnCloud in the slightest, and they were very quick to acknowledge the problem and post the solution.
Not Spotify, but I pay for Amazon Music. I listen music all the time, and it also works for 5 of my family members (out of which 1 listens a lot and the rest listen a little). It's cheaper than Youtube Premium and has better quality as far as I can tell.

I don't listen to podcasts, but I know people listen to them in during their commute.

In fact, I am surprised someone with kids and little free time considers Youtube an integral part of life. I watch an average of 2 videos a week, usually skipping most of them. Mostly DIY guides.

Maybe I will subscribe once my kids are in age to watch educational videos, but even then, I am pretty sure I will prefer Curiosity Stream, which I trust waaay more than Youtube for kid-friendly content.
My ignorance takes me to places you can only wonder about.

https://www.ptc.com/en/products/developer-tools/perc

https://www.aicas.com/wp/products-services/jamaicavm/

https://www.microej.com/

And to 80% market share in mobile OS market, full of JNI all over the place.
Thanks, I will use that from now on as a reference when somebody asks me why I don't like to program longer things in shell.
Really? I submitted this and didn't search online for any clues. My first guess for their first ONCE product was an IDE. They happen to scratch their own itch, an IDE is something you install on your computer (usually) so it fits the 'pay once' model, and to me it seemed that DHH might have liked that. On the other hand, it might be the wrong target audience for their company.
Just try being critical of the American military-industrial complex. You will get stomped by members whose livelihood depends on the perpetuation of the phony moral authority that is necessary to continue that heinous state of affairs ..
It's most definitely not free. It'd consume fetch bandwidth, decode/rename/scheduler slots, an execution port etc.

The comparison here is:

((v ^ 0x303030) * 0x640a0100) >> (len << 3)

against:

table[(((v >> 12) | v) & 0xfff) | (len << 12)]

The former is 4 ops, the latter is 6 ops, so throughput wise, the former wins. Latency wise, it also wins, considering that L1 cache lookups are generally 3-5 cycles, whilst integer multiply is typically 3-4.
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Ye when org. and team size grows "accountability" is not practical anymore since the decision makers have no clue who to blame in all but obvious cases. And the workers start to do what they get paid for, not what the nominal culture dictates.

My take is that it is probably better to accept bad workers in big orgs rather than trying to reach some kind of competence utopia, to get the incentives right.