skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> I think it's more excitement about the idea that it is possible to write a web browser from scratch

Depends on your definition of “a web browser”.

It’s not possible to clone Firefox or Chrome without huge huge resources and time and effort.

It is probably possible to make something like a web browser from 20 years ago.
Jason Fried (Basecamp) really explained this in great detail recently.

https://twitter.com/jasonfried/status/1743421673871929723
> a YC proposal for a startup that provides professional executor services

There are law firms already doing this. From a quick search of my area (Toronto, Canada):

* https://www.millsandmills.ca/areas-of-practice/wills-estates...

* https://ontario-probate.ca/estate-administration-executor-se...

* https://mcdonaldestateservices.ca/services
I fucking bet. Hiring is broken
It's a big five test which is a real personality test but in the same category to Myers Briggs as far management pseudoscience and ability to predict performance/career outcomes.
> I am sure Apple and MS would love to do this with desktop, but the ship sailed on that ages ago, and probably wouldnt have ever worked.

Charging third party app developers never worked on the desktop, but Microsoft had a lot of success with building the key features of popular third party Windows applications into their own products, thus taking away the third party developers' markets. Which is worse for the third party developer than just having to pay a fee or a percentage.
Missing in this analysis is the MD-95 (now renamed as Boeing 717). McD did a bunch of expensive reengineering and the gamble didn’t pay off when the launch customer was involved in a crash that eventually sank them.
For me it is to prevent bending and because the material on the back of my phone bothers my skin.

When I did my last upgrade the box was damaged and the phone bent at about a 20 degree angle. Made me a bit nervous about how sturdy they actually are.
It's laughable that you think the only companies committing wage theft are those that are not profitable and are struggling to keep the lights on.

And even if they are, remind me where your constitutional right to a profitable business is? If paying your workers means you can't keep the lights on, then you can't keep the lights on. Too many even in this situation think the answer is "keep the lights on, before paying workers".

But highly profitable businesses (up to and including Apple) also commit wage theft. So please don't try to turn this into yet another "poor small business owners" trope.
It also required the complex gyro for each car, not just the engine, which is why the video states ultimately it was killed. I'm not sure the situation has changed with that.
> many of the stories that have become central to the physics lore are mere pseudo-histories far detached from the real events

But, like, you know how Newton discovered gravity when an apple fell on his head? Totally true, pinky swear!
As far as I know, the Mojo implementation is doing the same algorithm as the baseline rust implementation. The person commenting on that is complaining about the rust impl as well.
Cartels are a feature of free markets.

I would argue that it's good for the state to take some sort of interest in regulating them, one of several ways that I'm not a free-market fundamentalist.

But arguing that the formation of cartels makes a market non-free is backward. Cartels emerge through free association in trade. Regulating them might make for a more functional market, a more efficient market (or it might not) but it makes for a less free market, always.

I will add that I consider the very idea of "absence of the state" to be badly-formed, states vary considerably in their constitution but there's always something serving that role, even if it's a few elders in a village.
Rent is a contractual obligation and the remedy for late payment is built into the contract. Hardly comparable.
What does “putting humans through the mud” achieve?
Similarly, I worked for a restaurant in high school that abused tips to pay wages for non-servers. When I was hired I asked about tips, and was told "yep, you get tip share". It turns out "tip share" meant "you get a flat wage, and we pay for it using tips from the servers".

I turned down a job at a nice Italian place to work there because of that lie and a $1 difference per hour in the base wage.
Not having a patent doesn’t _prevent_ you from bringing your invention to market, it just accelerates _someone_ bringing it to market, and that’s a net good for society if the invention is useful, no?
It would have been fun if a "fake" assembly language had to be used (rather than one corresponding to the actual CPU) that MIX from Knuth's books would have been used (yes, current versions of the books use an updated version called MMIX, but plain MIX would have been contemporary for these pocket computers).
You can't fight for an open web just by making a browser. As dire as the Firefox market share is today, it'd be so much worse if the Foundation didn't spend its time and effort making sure the folks who don't give a shit, but should (e.g. politicians, law makers, lobbyists, news outlets, etc. etc.) learn why they should give a shit about the open web.

It sucks that you can't donate to Firefox directly, but calling what the foundation does "irrelevant" feels like you're not looking at the very real big picture of everyone wanting to lock down the web, all the time, everywhere.
Great comment.

I bet there are at least two markets (or niches):

1. People who want the absolute best performance and the latest possible version and are willing to pay the premium for it;

2. People who want to trade performance by cost and accept working with not-the-latest versions.

In fact, I bet the market for (2) is much larger than (1).
> That said, I really don't understand the issue with their cut, or insisting on handling payments. In the vast majority of cases, these are not your customers. These are apple's customers they have given you access to.

This looks like a very interesting argument. When you retain full control on access to a specifically defined set of customers (or relevant market), we call it monopoly. You should never have such a single powerful entity in a properly regulated, successful free market.
Ngl I'm relieved to not see my personal favorites here!
I'm not in the gpu programming realm, so this observation might be inaccurate:

I think the case of cuda vs an open standard is different from os2 vs Windows because the customers of cuda are programmers with access to source code while the customers of os2 were end users trying to run apps written by others.

If your shrink-wrapped software didn't run on os2, you'd have no choice but to go buy Windows. Otoh if your ai model doesn't run on an AMD device and the issue is something minor, you can edit the shader code.
You got a point. Yesterday this post which was trending on hacker news mentioned that cloudflare was defending not revealing identity of people at court that were stalking and literally destroying someones live with swatting. I wouldn't say they are soulles corporation like google. Their attitude is somehow problematic yet admirable.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/swat...
Why not talk to your future boss?

They are likely to have relevant recommendations.

And talking to your (future) boss is a useful habit to develop.

Good luck.
My abstract reading of the rule: we should minimize negative externalities while maximizing positive ones, while curtailing selfish behavior. IE, the ambulance is there altruistically; a riding lawnmower, similarly. The airplane has few negative externalities (to the visitors of the park), whereas a drone has more negative externalities and few positive ones. An ambulance that rides over the grass and tears up the soil better be in pursuit of an urgent need, a police cruiser similarly driving over the soil to stop that drone pilot has inadvertantely created greater negative externalities in pursuit of enforcing a problem.
The rule is simple: don't be a jerk, think about others, don't be oblivious.
I just dump my default changes here. Maybe somebody finds something usefull for themself. Added the command from this thread too. :)
Edit: Looks like i already did edit this before since mine was already at 8 and 12. Added the original source like its linked above.

# Defaults and other Stuff

sudo scutil --set HostName nix

# https://macos-defaults.com/
defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSNavPanelExpandedStateForSaveMode -bool true
defaults write NSGlobalDomain PMPrintingExpandedStateForPrint -bool true
defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSDocumentSaveNewDocumentsToCloud -bool false
defaults write com.apple.dock "autohide-delay" -float "0" && killall Dock
defaults write com.apple.dock "autohide-time-modifier" -float "0.3" && killall Dock
defaults write NSGlobalDomain ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false
defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleShowScrollBars -string "Always"; killall Finder
defaults write com.apple.screencapture "disable-shadow" -bool "true"
defaults write com.apple.dock "tilesize" -int "38" && killall Dock
defaults write com.apple.dock "mineffect" -string "scale" && killall Dock
defaults write com.apple.finder "ShowExternalHardDrivesOnDesktop" -bool "false" && killall Finder
defaults write com.apple.finder "ShowRemovableMediaOnDesktop" -bool "false" && killall Finder
defaults write com.apple.dock "mru-spaces" -bool "false" && killall Dock
defaults write com.apple.TimeMachine "DoNotOfferNewDisksForBackup" -bool "true"
defaults write com.apple.dock "enable-spring-load-actions-on-all-items" -bool "true" && killall Dock
defaults write com.apple.Music "userWantsPlaybackNotifications" -bool "false" && killall Music

# https://www.jessesquires.com/blog/2023/12/16/macbook-notch-and-menu-bar-fixes/
# https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/16lpfg5/hidden_preference_to_alter_the_menubar_spacing/
# https://flaky.build/native-fix-for-applications-hiding-under-the-macbook-pro-notch
# https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39343919
defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain NSStatusItemSelectionPadding -int 8
defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain NSStatusItemSpacing -int 12

# https://www.reddit.com/r/macgaming/comments/16ra8di/metal_hud_enabledisable_shortcut/
# https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/1271048e407543d391415934cad5edcd
defaults write -g MetalForceHudEnabled -bool YES
/bin/launchctl setenv MTL_HUD_ENABLED 1
I actually have no idea, I made up 1990 completely, I bet it is way too late. In any case, I guess it is just the digitization of an existing UI element from paper forms, right?
That would at least make this happen a lot less often.
> maybe 'it's just off a straight line by a little bit' - ok, that will be several million

I understand your general point - diversions have realized material and labor costs. However, not all "diversions" need to be individually costly nor expensive. Partly, arguing over specific costs is political (varies by regional policies) or regional (costs of transporting goods/excavations into a particular geological region).

However, again, as with any data set, it is possible to fit the line to the curve. If viewed strictly from a "point a to point b" situation, sure, you may incur costs by increasing the curvature of the line by routing through some village, however mother nature/politics sees fit to create those costs regardless (mountains, lakes, major roads, airport, etc).

If you must make these million dollar "diversions" as you put it anyways (whether by tunneling, avoiding protected regions), then it should be possible to create low cost stations (the land should not cost much in excess of 40k$ and the station itself should be mostly concrete with possibly some electronic flagging mechanism, no need for fancy stations at every stop) within reasonably close vicinity to many villages on a route between two cities (not every station need run through a town center). This is still more economical than attempting to draw a straight line between two cities, which usually proves to be impossible anyways, due to the increased traffic from the additional rail network entry points.

Regarding being nice, my apologies, "you" is not always intended as a personal attack, rather a pronoun closer to the somewhat archaic term "one".
> Does that mean everyone wants to be a waiter and nobody wants to be a CEO?

Unironically, yes. Most people don't have enough exposure to actually understand what the job of a CEO is. I have had that exposure, and I don't ever want to be the CEO of any sizeable company. Once you become CEO, work/life balance utterly ceases to exist, because you are the person imbued as the corporation, meaning you are literally always working, always on call, always stuck with the most difficult or intractable decisions where maybe all the options are wrong, and no matter your choice everyone will hate you. It's a terrible job that people only do because it pays so well.

I am not the CEO but I'm much higher up the food chain today than I was when I started. I often reminisce fondly about my time working phone tech support, because I could work my queue and walk out without having to give any thought to anything that occurred that day. That's not the reality of being in any sort of management role, and the higher up you go the less that matches reality.
The above comment said specifically they are end-of-year grants. That's a bonus and it's never ever guaranteed. Fired or not, they can just say "no bonuses this" and it's 100% the employer's prerogative. Happened to me plenty of times in down years. Not to mention, stock is inherently volatile so 1000 shares can be worth an arbitrary amount.
Yeah, that's def not our plan (nor is it even possible at this point). But, for what it's worth, I don't see many families with > 6-7 kids, so I think your notion of what is meant by "want a lot of kids" is skewed by your experience.
That point can be reached with a relatively small amount of history. Nobody could possibly learn all of it.
Take a peasant in italy in the year 600 bc, 600 ad, and 1600ad. Does life look any different really? Probably not. Multiple different rulers in this time but life had been basically continuous with respect to how the majority of people lived through these ages. I’d wager you could go up to the early 1900s in some Italian villages and still see an overwhelming amount of similarity in how daily life played out.
“I detect you are a type F person….. the type who says no thanks to personality tests”

Personality tests in my opinion are what happens when companies want ever more certainty that they are hiring the right person.

I don’t think they’re helpful, and throw a spanner in the works of the hiring process.
Show HN: ECMAScript Advanced SubStation Alpha Subtitles Renderer for the web
Been working on this for quite a while and it's nearly finished. It's a full renderer for Advanced SubStation Alpha subtitles and SubStation Alpha subtitles in pure ECMAScript. I'm currently looking for contributors to help me polish up the project for a version 1.0 release as we're very close.
> What would happen if this had been the standard applied to Windows?

Microsoft had no problem taking features from popular third party Windows applications and building them into their own products, basically stealing the third party developers' markets. That looks worse to me than what Apple is doing.
Which is better testing approach for Kubernetes?
1. Ephemeral Environment : For development workflows, PR testing, or specific feature validation, where isolation from the main environment is crucial, or when testing under varying conditions.

2. Native testing Environment ( On Cluster ) : For ongoing integration and end-to-end testing as part of a CI/CD pipeline, especially with applications that are tightly coupled with Kubernetes.

Which one of the both should i go with?

And what are tools which would help me accomplish this?

Also with native environment, if too many developers are working on the same, it might bring the env. down , is also a problem.
Most cars have that feature list, as for the things you dont want, you can just toggle them off or not use them.

Though sedans are a dying breed, so I'd get one sooner rather than later. Everyone and their brother wants SUVs/CUVs and sedan offerings are getting slimer by the month.
Protect Act Could Require Removal of All Existing Porn Online
Also the size of the platforms have an effect. If you are on Twitter, even if you mostly interact with people within a select niche, everything is essentially public and anyone can see it or come in and spoil the party so to speak. Twitter / Facebook / itself has a far wider reach than the niche forums or IRC channels of the past, so it is very easy for things to go off the rails with commenters outside of that niche coming in angry about something or changing the conversation etc.. this is largely true on Reddit now as well. The userbase is too broad so it loses that shared sense of community, this leads to misunderstandings, different values, and more arguments. Thus necessitating stricter rules / bans etc.. which can also put a damper on fun.
... and copyrights should last no longer than software patents.
That may have been the point hundreds of years ago. Today, it no longer serves that purpose, and is doing more harm than good.
Imagine the tens of thousands of dollars saved if you had a 15 minute (okay 15 is a bit short unless someone vouches for you or you're a well known open source contributor etc, maybe 1 hour or 1.5 hour, hell even 2 hour) technical conversation and the other engineer is like, yeah this person's worth bringing onboard.

Might not work in all cases, but really, if you're trying to sniff out a pretender vs someone who can write software, would not having a heavily technical conversation about details, challenges and other things not make it clearly evident after 15-30-45 minutes if this person is who you need? Rest of the time can be spent napkin designing something or peer programming to check off those to be sure.

I had a interview in 2021 where I had to do a 1.5 hour timed exercise, that apparently isn't sufficient, so their interview pipeline has 3x1hour additional live coding sessions with engineers. Over 4 hours of coding just to prove I can write code up to their standards. Then another 3+ hours of behavioral interviews, meeting the team. Multiply that by the ~5 candidates you interview per position multiplied by each position you hire for in a given year.
The very start of the background section there points out the inclusion of soldiers. They may not have set out for conquest from the start, but the article you link to go on to point out that the Romans would have been aware that they were taking a significant risk from the outset in allowing a group of that size to enter and stay concentrated, and go on to point out that a lot of them were allowed to or managed to keep their weapons despite not being meant to, and then put in a situation where they starved. To try to compare that to a modern government taking in a number of refugees it can trivially feed, and to then further draw a parallel between a rapid influx of refugees like that with immigration is fundamentally flawed.

> What I am curious is what would change your mind.

A line of argumentation that isn't based in tropes usually used by far-right extremist racists. I'm not saying that is your motivation, because I can not tell, but what I can tell is that those are the circles I see these arguments used by. When they are then further based in characterisations about failure I don't recognise from what I have seen myself, then you have provided nothing to give me any reason to trust any of what you've said.

When you now start talking about replacement, you're playing further into that.

I'm an immigrant myself, and I've seen enough variety between immigrant groups that the moment someone starts treating all immigration the same, and conflating handling of refugees and immigrants, that suggests to me someone who has preconceived notions and is coming at it with an agenda.

> I think we could both agree that there's no historic precedent for this

No, we most certainly would not. I pointed out the US to you as an obvious example. I find it funny that you flat out ignored that I've already pointed it out.

> Yet you seem confident enough in assuming that it might work, to simply assume it. This, to me, is pretty weird!

Define "work". I'm confident there will be all kinds of problems. I'm also confident it will happen, because, I'm even more confident that the alternative is a level of economic and societal collapse that will lead to violently overthrown governments, so I see it as entirely moot whether it will go smoothly or not. People will make it happen and manage the results because the alternative is turning into a third-world country.
The previous comment doesn’t show that - it just shows that there are companies without arduous interview processes.
At a previous company, we had a feature flag/config system where each client (tenant / org / account) had a JSON blob associated with it. The JSON turned on various features and provided any feature-specific configuration data. Some features were pretty simple and were literally just a bool. Others required a dozen lines of JSON. Clients never saw this stuff. It was done by the engineers during onboarding. It was a pretty complex B2B SaaS product and "onboarding" could take several days of back-and-forth with the client. It was also not a true plugin system, more of a monolith. The entire code base was shared across all the tenants.
The double flange wheel wouldn't work with existing rail switches.
Bizarre really don't capture how other-worldly (other than the lets-not-be-racist purple people) this test is.

Take the fourth image, of the person (or two people) with two emotions on the couch. How are you supposed to identify if that image as a whole is "me" or not? I would be baffled at how to respond to that. Some of the images I can kind of understand (watching TV while you have laundry to fold? LAZY!), but how am I supposed to respond to "generic image of puzzle"?
So how about you? When will you move?
Funny I spent Sunday afternoon watching youtubers talk about this and they all pretty much said that the catastrophe predated Plank's corrections (or caused them). Is this wrong, or is it just pedantic?

Most importantly, is the wikipedia page correct:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultraviolet_catastrophe
Ask HN: How to find engineering talent for early startup?
Does anyone have advice on finding engineering talent for early start-ups on a contract basis?

I'm not looking for a co-founder at this point, i'd rather get the product to a predetermined point.

I know of sites like UpWork and toptal, but i'm wondering if this great community has any advice.
S&P annual return is 8% on average.

A good hedge fund would be able to offer higher than that still.
>"Bryant Garth, a law professor who wrote the standard history book on arbitration, told me that the P.&I.D. process showed the danger of the arbitration system’s being manipulated by a greedy actor. “It treats the state as if it’s just another business,” he said, “rather than the representative of the people.”"

Calling a series of rapaciously corrupt administrations which often engage in electoral fraud[1] 'representative of the people' seems laughably charitable. I'm also unsure of why anyone would engage in business with a state if the latter were permitted to do whatever it wanted, whenever it wanted, without regard to its own commitments, simply by invoking its 'representation'.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_government_of_Nigeria
The pictures are strange but the OP neglected to notice the captions which make the intent much more clear: https://old.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/1ap1345/...
curious who makes these tests...seems like these hiring manager and dev leads have a deranged god complex

i'm convinced 95% of the people giving dev tests (leetcode) wouldn't be able to solve it themselves