skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Spotify has a really good search engine, may uncover some relevant audio work.
I think a more apt argument to make is that "text-color" means absolutely pig latin to those who don't speak English.

Their line of thought would be "Type 'text-color' to change the font size." (in their language, obviously) and it would be perfectly logical both from human and computer perspectives.
'I invented the precursor to the iPod – and a solicitor threw it in a skip'
It might be prudent to avoid name collision with an ubiquitous open source technology also in the jvm ecosystem.
Also republished here: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/ar-BB1i6Hln
Touring the Lego Factory in Denmark [video]
Maybe because they have the budget to poach other Bay Area engineers?
Bang on I would say! ;)
Having free oxygen in the atmosphere (I don’t know, 500 M-year?) would already had put us as target for oxygen breathing advanced civilizations in a long enough radius. If they could be a realistic threat capable of wiping us, they should had been here even before mankind evolved.

Maybe the great filter is the great promotion, acquiring a knowledge/technology powerful enough to not need to go to other solar systems or expand a lot. But as we are not yet there, we expect invasion fleets.
Wolfsort: A stable adaptive hybrid radix / merge sort
One thing you can do is make human readable passwords for sites like Netflix. You can still make it long and save it in the password manager, and it becomes much easier to type out if you need to.
Southwest Airlines Reveals Thinner Seats to Cram More People Onboard
I am trying to build a hardware prototype which expands beyond my experience in software.

There’s no way I would try and hire someone with lots of experience and credentials. There’s too much risk.

Instead, I found a recent college grad who I believe is capable of doing what’s needed at this stage.

I face lots of risks and the last thing I want is to add an expensive hire to it.
Calling German infrastructure 'creaking' is also completely ridiculous. What would you call infrastructure in the UK, then? The US?
This post is interesting overall. But saying the org needs to care about scalability and then not understanding sharding is an interesting vibe.
What about Ktor? I always see that being pushed, maybe because it's from Jetbrains..
> Dark matter isn't non-luminous matter.

What I meant to write is—

> Dark matter isn't merely non-luminous matter.
I believe in the good intentions of you and the team, but my advice here is to build a data management and retention process to be future proof.

What it means is you create a policy of non-ad-value data collection and very short identifiable data retention to avoid a future change of hearts (maybe you get big and acquired, maybe you bring a Zuckerberg to the team...who knows).

By doing this you not only protect the users data but you help the community trust your good intentions.
> Heck, even if you start a project within a company and it gets successful, the company can just slot in people above you, so you become employee #n in a project that you started, and then these people can say you underperform and so on.m

The trouble with these stories is that they’re n=1 anecdotes and we only get one side of the story.

There’s an implicit claim in many comments here that we need to assume that the employee was actually a higher performer, didn’t need managers, didn’t deserve a PEP and so on. That’s understandable given that we tend to put ourselves in the shoes of the person writing a piece and being anti-corporate is always popular on HN.

However, those aren’t safe assumptions in cases like this. I’ve worked at a couple early stage startups that acquired early employees who couldn’t (or wouldn’t) grow with their role and the company. It’s common to keep early employees around out of respect for their past work, a belief that they hold difficult to replace historical knowledge, or simply because they’re well connected to founders and other early employees who have grown into leadership positions.

But in reality, simply being an early employee and being involved with early important projects doesn’t necessarily mean that person is the best person for the job or even a good fit for continuing to do it. Some of the early stage employees I worked with were great at cobbling something together from scraps and keeping it functional with a collection of cron jobs and manual interventions, but their operating style doesn’t work at a bigger company at all. If they can’t adapt and change or they become disgruntled about having to work on things the way you have to at a bigger company, they start to become more detriment than help. That’s just one example of many different potential failure modes of early employees as companies grow that we don’t like to talk about.

> I wanna say this story is pretty standard, and probably a big part of the reason why people in big companies often don't do great things.

It’s “standard” in the sense that every early company has a number of early employees who don’t grow with it, but it’s not the only or even a common fate. GitLab has plenty of employees who have been there for a long time, but you’re not hearing about them from disgruntled blog posts. Consider the selection bias when reading this.

As for the claim that they can’t do “great things”: I’ve used GitLab for a very long time and I disagree. The product continues to evolve. It’s not a stagnant product at all.
Conflating the three is easy, because instead of paying for delivered value, the company is doing arbitrage on location ( like it could do with gender, race or anything else)

All companies will take advantage of maximizing their profit or reducing cost, but it's a slippery slope once a subjective metric to determine value is used.

I for one live in a "low" CoL, but my AWS bill is just the same as a person in NY, SF or Geneva, should I also expect a discount because "my income is lower"? Or is it only fair to be billed equally, because the value all of us get is the.same ?

Turn the tables, if a dev in India, Romania or Mexico is delivering the same value as one in the US or UK should (s)he be paid any less ? Why ?
I do something similar:

strings -10 /dev/urandom | head

It's less efficient but easier to type, and also helps with websites that requires non-alphanumeric symbols.
Formula E: Maserati had a victory in 2023
How so? If I build a simple app that does its job and does it well, I don't need to work on it for 40 hours a week for the rest of my life. After the initial effort, you can put in almost no work, just periodic maintenance, and you can keep bringing in sales.

There are lots of opportunities like this. There is nothing morally or ethically questionable about this. It doesn't require you to over-inflate your prices. That is the power of software. The VC hyper-growth world is heavily focused on continuously changing your software, but that isn't a requirement (and in fact, is often not desirable to your customers).
I’ve trended in the opposite direction. I don’t particularly enjoy taking about any successes I may have had and I don’t care to make sure others (including in the company I work at) are aware.

It’s not great for career progression. But I actually don’t care about that. So instead of playing that game I play one I actually care about which looks very different than one where exposure matters.
I have had great success with a generic KVM I found on amzn [0], but it now appears to be unavailable, which is a shame because I wanted to buy another. Perhaps I can find it somewhere else. It has never failed to switch between sources and the only delay, as some others are pointing out, is the HDMI handshake process inherent to the monitors themselves.

I did have a considerably more expensive TESmart [1] but couldn't use it because it had some weird incompatibility between it, thunderbolt docking station [2] I used with it (which also work flawlessly), and the MBPs connected to it. I could never figure out why, even raising the issue to support with no luck.

My two cents.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B088WGKFZH

[1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08N494N7X

[2] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08HR3T837
My Roland piano, with weighted keys, has MIDI.
Amygdala?
thin single use bags is what I meant yes
BenQs have it (look for "Input Auto Switch").
I’d guess because many IT departments figure that on-premise=secure and provides them the illusion that they can prevent source code from leaking this way.
Philips Briliance BDM4350UC
Passkeys are still very rough around the edges and not widely supported but a first-class onboarding and management experience for public key cryptography as account passwords a la FIDO2, webauthn, and/or Passkeys will be amazing for solving the issues with phishing and weak passwords.
Yeah, PBP was a gamechanger. I got a Samsung with it without realizing and now use it almost exclusively.
You got an extension cord, please?
You're implying we'd easily see megastructures. Believe it or not, there's many more stars we haven't inspected than have. And our telescopes suck too much to see all but the largest megastructures, which you're assuming it would make rational sense to build in the first place. There can be better things for an economy to spend its (always finite) resources on.
Are you really trying to argue that Windows does just fine on all the fronts you mentioned?
What if they’re really greedy about energy and store everything they can in superconductors?
I think the author understands sharding very well. And the operational complexities of it and thus why it should be a last resort.
A Creative Process
There's a line somewhere between "optimized" and "highly curated" where I consider LinkedIn a negative signal. Those are both utterly subjective phrases, but nonetheless.

My LinkedIn is utterly moribund, which has come up in interviews a few times. Either they say "you don't really use LinkedIn, huh" or I explain the same. As far as I know this has cost me nothing.
I didn't watch this video, but am familiar with "The Body Keeps the Score", and want to contribute supporting evidence (that I don't recall being discussed in the book).

I've taken and taught voice for theatre, following what's called the 'Natural Voice' method. (Look for a book called "Freeing the Natural Voice", by Kristin Linklater, though other practitioners have augmented that since.) To summarize: bodies have natural resonating chambers, that act like the sound-box of a guitar or violin; tension in the body inhibits sound vibrations; release the tension.

It's a completely physical process: exercises are about making sounds and feeling their vibrations in the body, relax, rinse repeat. It's occasionally odd, but not 'woo' in the least. Very pragmatic, and not at all psychological. Nevertheless, people have incredible emotional reactions while doing it. Linklater's theory is that we develop habitual tensions in response to things that hurt us (physically or emotionally), and that releasing tension releases emotions connected with the original incitement. (You can call that trauma, if you want, though I don't think Linklater ever uses that word. I never did when I was teaching, though maybe with "kids these days" I would.)

In fact, those responses are kind of non-psychological, in that they're not like a flashback, or anything like that. People don't necessarily (although sometimes they do) have any knowledge or memory of the inciting events, but their bodies do. It's a fascinating process, which I think gets at these ideas from (as it were) the other way around.
CAP-X and COMP-X: How the Tandy pocket computers got a sucky Japanese assembler
I remember while studying at an IT they had a debate there about the potential dissolution or reform of the Seanad, with some senators taking part.

It was deeply funny listening to the sitting senators tell us how important the Seanad is, because for all of us - the Seanad was some useless shit we couldn’t vote for or influence in any real way.
PTSD is also lumped in with shell shock, a jarring of the braincase after explosions (usually during a war) with physical damage. It's unthinkable to me they lump it in with mental problems.

George Carlin skit. https://youtu.be/hSp8IyaKCs0
This is why push&shove routing was so important addition to Kicad :) Once you are exposed to it once you never want to go back.

"Kicad push-and-shove routing, 2nd attempt" - Tom W Sep 18, 2013 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxHDAHpR5Ls
I’ve been noticing a handful of these types of comments from a couple of different accounts.

Why is someone trying to scam/advertise managed crypto trading accounts?
what's old is new, even NYC where the war against phonics was started has given up on it. I guess having Mississippi and Alabama score better than them was the final straw

https://thehill.com/homenews/education/3996281-nyc-stressing...

basically 30+ years wasted on a strategy with no scientific basis, I wonder what our school systems are teaching today that will be looked at as being just as dumb 30 years from now
The Map of Control Theory (2020)
> The author has a poor understanding of economics.

Because as we all know the laws of economics are fair and just. Truly a business man who strictly follows the laws of economics would always compensate people fairly for their value delivered to the company.

In all seriousness, how does this make economic sense? The company is incentivizing that people move to areas with a high cost of living, but why exactly? What economic benefit does that bring to the company?

The only reason that's ever been explained to me is that the cost of competing for talent is higher in those areas than others. However someone's location is a poor indicator for talent potential, so why would you compete in high cost areas?
Not silent, just not broadcasting.
What about having a family? If you pay everyone the same, those living alone or with a partner will live like kings while those with children will live much more modestly. Oh wait, we get 2k in tax credits per kid. I forgot that one is all good.

My point is, people are going to have different lifestyles that cost different amounts and give them different benefits. Companies should fuck off pretending they care about fairness or cost of living. Just call it what it is - competition-based pay. You pay someone in SF more because you are forced to by market conditions, and if you could, you would pay them less, with zero concern for their rent or mortgage. And since you CAN pay someone in Kansas City much less, they do.

We've already seen the prevalence of remote work change the equation. Many places now pay SF 110% and everyone else in the US 100%. The COL difference between SF and KC is not that 10 percentage points. Nor could you compensate someone for the discomforts - both political and meteorological- of having to live in Missouri, who God himself has abandoned.
I agree with you that there isn't one correct approach in these situations. I can't agree that there was any possibility of authorities having made a good faith effort in the situation though. The government lost any shred of credibility and moral high ground when they brought M1 Abrams tanks into the situation. The children are in danger so we'll point a high powered tank cannon at the house? How will tanks save the children? Not to mention breaking the longstanding policy of not using military weapons against US citizens. That situation was an authoritarian massacre similar in style to Tiananmen Square.
He mentions that Modern Tetris has this: "And in Modern, they have this special randomizer that’s meant to be really fair".
Same here. This is why it is important to define an abbreviation when it is first used in a document.
China could use anti-fraud app to monitor Tibetans – report
There being an organic correlate for attention, for memory formation, for emotions and so on – it's likely that the beta-blockers makes certain intents easier to override others, rather than the causality being only one way.
> because instead of paying for delivered value,

This argument falls apart when you consider that some projects have zero or negative value. Developers who work on these projects still get paid and we obviously don’t have to write a check when we make a mistake that costs the company money. Nobody actually likes “delivered value” compensation except under hypothetical circumstances where they imagine it can only increase their pay.

The hiring market is a market. Supply and demand drives compensation.

Delivered value isn’t one of those forces driving supply and demand. It sets the maximum an employer can pay someone and still get an ROI, but that’s it.

> Turn the tables, if a dev in India, Romania or Mexico is delivering the same value as one in the US or UK should (s)he be paid any less ? Why ?

Because it’s a job market and you’re bidding for candidates against their other options.

If you’re house shopping and you find an identical 3 bed, 3000 sq. ft. house in all of those markets, would you expect to bid the same for it? Of course not.

The sooner we accept the realities of job markets and supply and demand, the sooner this all makes sense.
Like NPD, the only way is a proper comparison of reality to facts.

The difference between NPD and normal is, are the reactions and mental view based on reality, or a delusion?

Is the person actually regulating their emotions correctly, or is their internal world view a delusion that they are regulating their emotions correctly?

Are their traumatic events actually as presented and occurred - they were raped, or had someone blown up in front of them - or actually didn’t happen that way, never happened at all, or something else happened and they refuse to remember or see it?

Needless to say, separating delusion from fact can be extremely difficult in the best of circumstances and is prone to biases in the evaluator as well.

I think everyone has experience with someone in an authority position who was ‘not angry’ and took something out on them though, and refused to ever acknowledge the actual reality afterwards. Or was that person.
Hacker News on Encyclopaedia Automatica
Encyclopaedia Automatica is Wikipedia plus GPT, with humans editing but GPT doing all the hard work.
I glanced at this a while back, but, ultimately, went with Ktor. Reason being, well, I was using Kotlin and wanted something even more simple.
And the layoffs keep coming – Cisco
You gotta love this, "seeks to focus on high growth areas"
I think what they're getting at is that it has 11 digits internally but only displays the significant ones even though it has more 'under the hood'.
The dangerous seduction of the Lifetime Value (LTV) formula (2012)
1. it's not as complex as stated.
2. sharding scales read heavy workloads just as well as write heavy.
Macos does not come with the GNU utilities. You have to explicitly install them if you want them on macos. The included versions are BSD and similar licensed and are not all compatible with the GNU versions.
I’ve seen multiple teenage girls pull 405 for reps, yes.

I’ve worked with highschool athletes and it’s not uncommon.
BF Skinner, “Intellectual self-management in old age”:

> You can be fully rested in a physical sense yet tired of what you are doing intellectually. To take appropriate steps one needs some measure of fatigue. Curiously enough, Adolf Hitler can be of help. In a report to the Nie­man Foundation, William Lederer has called atten­tion to relevant documents in the Harvard library. Toward the end of the Second World War, Hitler asked the few social scientists left in Germany to find out why people made bad decisions. When they reported that it was when they were mentally ex­hausted, he asked them for a list of the signs 'of mental fatigue. Then he issued an order: Any officer showing signs of mental fatigue should immediately be sent on vacation. Fortunately for the world, he did not apply the order to himself. Among the signs on Hitler's list are several I find helpful. One is an unusual use of profanity or blasphemy. According to that principle, at least two of our recent presidents must have been mentally exhausted. When I find myself saying "damn," I know it is time to relax. (That mild expletive is a sign of my age as well as of my fatigue; I have never felt right about the scatological language of young people.) Other signs on Hitler's list include an in­clination to blame others for mistakes, procrastinat­ing on making decisions, an inclination to work longer hours than normally, an inclination to feel sorry for oneself, a reluctance to take exercise and relax, and dietary extremes—-either gluttonous ap­petite or almost none at all. Clues not on Hitler's list that I have found useful are especially bad hand­writing and mistakes in playing the piano.
> Is it really more "programmer friendly" to create wrapper types for individual strings all over your codebase that need to have passthrough methods for all the common string methods?

That can be handled transparently in languages that have good support for strong type systems, like Rust or Haskell, using traits or type classes.

What you're saying is essentially that addressing stringly typing can only be taken so far in weakly typed languages, without becoming inconvenient.

> Meanwhile the real world usages of this term I've seen in the past have all been things like enums as strings, lists as strings, numbers as strings, etc... Not arbitrary textual inputs from the user.

The definitional question is not that interesting. The point is that the concept applies just as much to a username represented as a string as it does to any other kind of value being represented as a string.

The reason is simple, which is just that "string" is a general type that can represent anything, whereas "username" is a subset of all possible strings. If you're trying to use your type system to ensure correct code, you want to be able to type check a function signature like `f(user, company, motto)`, just to take a simple example.
The browser (firefox) says that allowing MIDI can have security implications - what's that all about?

ETA: I didn't see this on your website because I didn't create an account or anything. But I imagine it would pop up at some point during usage, and maybe you know more about this general popup. I've seen it before on other sites that want to use MIDI devices.
> If they could be a realistic threat capable of wiping us, they should had been here even before mankind evolved.

One of my favorite sci-fi themes about that is that we've already been hit once, about 66 million years ago.
Boot camps take the “seems to be passionate about coding in their free time” signals and help their students try to fit those signals by encouraging them to build personal projects on GitHub etc. This somewhat dilutes the ability of recruiters to check off “has some GitHub projects” as a heuristic, however useful that was to begin with.
"Build your own Redis" challenge now supports replication
The vehicle game is poor metric, since it measures the general population, and doesn't up-front make it clear whether the spirit or letter of the law should be applied.

People need some minimum life-experience as well before they can pass judgement, which many in the "audience" simply don't have. I for instance find it easier to talk about a start-ups problems to someone that had run a restaurant for a few years than to a developer.

All that means is that moderation can be achieved, it just costs a lot and may not scale easily.
Woodworker, not scientist [0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geppetto
Did they take the explosive damage to the braincase versus shot someone they didn't mean to? https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/blast-sho...