skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cindy Lee isn't a retro revivalist IMO, their previous band Women already had that technique of using 1940s-60s songwriting form and warping it with a noisy, no-wave, DIY sensibility: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=673IaJZko9I

Part of that sound was Chad VanGaalen producing Women's two albums, and he went on to produce Alvvays' debut album in a similar DIY, tape-saturated style. Women's other successor act, Preoccupations, pretty clearly shows the post-punk/noise-rock side of Women, so it's kind of interesting to see how the descendants have grown their own roots a decade after the band ended.

Anyway my hot take is that Cindy Lee uses past conventions in an inside-out sort of way as a means to an end, rather than producing a retro-sounding surface as the end goal like Ariel Pink. It's not a style, it's an instrument.
This looks amazing! As a marketer, many times I struggle with repurposing long video interviews into shorter tactical videos, and this what you built looks promising. I'm excited to check it you!
I was once a security engineer at Google. So many people really believed ad blocking is like, actual theft. Got into an argument about that with my manager once lol.
You don’t mind the waiter/waitress standing over you while you decide how much to tip them?
> Without a reporting chain—or official support structure of any kind—I didn't know where to turn

I really don't know where you are coming from. The OP stated a clear hierarchy where you'd have a single and well known manager that you can just go and talk to.
I guess a less usual one, compared to the other comments: For me it was StarCraft multiplayer, had to type fast so I could get back to controlling my units.

Because I was rapidly going back and forth between the keyboard and mouse, it resulted in an unusual style where I use the outline of the keyboard for hand placement, and attempting to use the home row slows me down significantly.
Not all CDC pipelines are created equal
Focus is incredibly underrated and probably why a bunch of us are on ADHD medication, but I'll also highlight the importance of _environment_ that allows focus.

Disruption-based workflows, lack of direction, applied pressure on developers that leads to stress can all kill even the most productive dev. I've worked places (most of my career) where that space to fail and space to take a bit longer on things that have value not immediately visible and produced a lot and a couple places where negative attributes have killed the momentum that can come from the general joy & excitement of development.

A lot of these 'outstanding' people work within an environment where development is mostly joy. Where spending 3 days on a small problem incites a drive to tackle more. They're either established and trusted, wealthy enough to not be affected by these things, or just work within another flexible space.

It makes development pleasurable and as a result the output maximizes over time.
Original publication location: http://www.shipmyfriends.com/UntanglingTheSpaghetti.html
> Feel free to add us [The Register] to your white list if you do use an ad blocker. We have full-time ops staff whose job it is around the clock to keep our sites clean of anything naughty.

Nah, I think I'll keep it on.
> There’s no one Islam, so it depends on which Muslims you’re talking to.

There was no one Christianity either, but the question is, was it rational at the time to be cautious of any Christians if you didn't know their affiliations or religious zeal? It seems to me that charges of Islamaphobia are a convenience afforded only to those safe in developed countries far from the realities of life in Muslim theocracies.

You are correct the Reformation was not an end to violence, it was the start of the process of eliminating systematic violence at the behest of religious ideology. It's an ongoing process in all such religions, but it's not Islamaphobic to note that Islam is far behind the curve on this. I think Harris would agree that we shouldn't judge individuals based solely on their religious affiliation (and hence, don't stoke fear of Muslims), but to ignore the realities of Muslim theocracies is naive.
have you ever heard of no wave ?
> The daily mean temperature in London is around 6c in January vs lower than -8c in Calgary.

You can't compare a coastal city with an average elevation of like 10 meters and an inland city perched more than 1000m above sea...
IMO, the Mandate of Heaven gets over-emphasized in a lot of Chinese historiography. The bestowal of the Mandate of Heaven was usually seen as occurring once a ruler controlled all or enough of Chinese territory, and disappeared once it was significantly lost (with a rebellion being justified if it does this). In other words, the right to rule China was mostly synonymous with ruling China. The Divine Right of Kings in the medieval and early modern Christian era functioned similarly, as did similar claims of divine legitimacy by various ancient regimes in the West.

tl;dr, I think it was a real thing, but mattered much less in actual imperial politics than many suggest. It's also very much not a factor in current Chinese politics, despite what I regularly read in the media. No one talks about Macron's divine right to rule France.
Note that their license (ODbL) is more restrictive than AGPL.
Survey Study on AI Agent Architectures (2024)
My brain just could not parse the blogs name, so I looked up its meaning:

" Ijtihad ( lit. 'physical effort' or 'mental effort') is an Islamic legal term referring to independent reasoning by an expert in Islamic law, or the thorough exertion of a jurist's mental faculty in finding a solution to a legal question."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ijtihad
Could you increase the range for the mouse sensitivity option? I'm finding that even maxing it out results in painfully slow look speed.
Well I've had good managers but you're right in that they were peers more than emperors.

As for something concrete, I can think of managers fighting for my bonus allocations, fighting for comp days after a crunchy deadline, things like that. Estimation was earnest and not pushy. Problems were handled in a solution oriented way, not a blame game. You could argue that's just maintaining combat readiness but I'll take it.
I don't think a gig economy app's open signup process is considered an offer for unemployment purposes. (If it were how would anyone get unemployment payments?)
Isn't an embed better than a link? Click play vs click a link then click play?

It's embedded and says the channel name in a giant font size. The creator gets the views.

> People won't get views from this

Do you know how YouTube embeds work?
running all my homelab / private repos off of a tiny gitolite3 server, and i'm always amazed that it all runs on an alpine linux VM that uses 75mb of RAM.

for anything even just sharing with friends or whatnot i won't recommend it though, people do love their web-UI and having to explicitly give someone access can turn off people already.
Even the idea of routinely scheduled 1:1s i dreadful.

People that do that one certainly will also do routine scheduled meetings by project, and routine scheduled meetings by department. You'll quickly get more than 10 hours/week of just those useless meetings, and your manager will be completely unavailable for any real work at any time.
Thanks for the feedback! I'm Syrus, main author of the work on py2wasm.

We already opened a PR into Nuitka to bring the relevant changes upstream: https://github.com/Nuitka/Nuitka/pull/2814

We envision py2wasm being a thin layer on top of Nuitka, as also commented in the article (not a fork as it is right now, although forking got us into the proof of concept a bit faster!).

From what we gathered, we believe that there's usefulness on having py2wasm as a separate package, as py2wasm would also need to ship the precompiled Python distribution (3.11) for WASI (which will not be needed for the other Nuitka use cases), apart of also shipping other tools that are not directly relevant for Nuitka
You would likely enjoy Myst: https://www.gog.com/en/game/myst_masterpiece_edition

Related HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18058991
It's not just "getting old."

For many of us it's an engineer's mindset. We appreciate games for their art and gameplay, and we also appreciate them for their engineering.

So it's a little sad to see that one aspect of game engineering become relatively extinct, even if it's the certainly the correct tradeoff given today's constraints.
Curious what your experience is. I'm guessing there are dev cultures where tooling versions never have to change across projects, which has its pros and cons.

For most of my career at large tech orgs working with node.js/frontend stack, python, go, and even java, I always needed things like conda, nvm, etc...

Heck, even working with C (and CUDA), I would love to have an easy way to switch system-wide C/CXX compiler versions.
No link to license: non-compliant. Less theft, less lying about compliance, more compliance please.
Good point.

If history is any indicator, he seems strongest at mid-stage companies. He didn't start Tesla. He isn't doing well there right now (or Twitter, for that matter). He's too erratic for a mature company.

But he did an awesome job taking Tesla from the $M to the $B stage.

Any company at that stage would also benefit from the visibility he brings. For smaller players, any press is good press.
...and they are building it for NASA's Artemis program. SpaceX evaporates the moment the juicy billion dollar public contracts dry up.

Mars is still a pipe dream. You might as well give the credit to Edgar Rice Burroughs for as far as realizing it has come.
Demands for non-hierarchical political forms have always scared me, and so often, how they are demanded by people whose main skill is to rabble-rouse. Of course, this is no coincidence.
Yeah it's not an age thing. My wife does the inverted thing whereas I do the correct way and we're basically the same age.
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I'm glad you called out Google in your post. I joined Google in 2015 having been a managing director of a global software engineering team at a non-tech F500, where I had teams in Brazil, India, China and Mexico, and folks scattered around the US & Scotland. I was accustomed for the prior ten years of my career, to run my org basically how you described, and I like to think I was a good manager that my team respected, and that we generally operated well. I spent a lot of my time 1) in leadership meetings trying to understand strategy and business requirements, and 2) structuring projects for my org and mentoring key individuals.

At Google, I found there to be 0 respect for management as a function. Every manager is expected to have their own personal projects and come performance review season you had better be able to point to something you did yourself, not just the outcomes you managed through your team. Perhaps this worked when it was a startup, but as an enterprise with roughly 350,000 workers, it's disrespectful to leaders to run things like this. I expect Bayer to experience similar disillusionment among their experienced management team. Overall they will probably see tactical acceleration in some areas but breakdowns in many others that will be more systemic and harder to recover from.
I’ve tried multiple times to get into SBCL, but every time I run into the problem that I have to learn Emacs first.

I know there are lots of other ways to work with SBCL, but they are either second-class citizens or paid.
It's coming. Progress is being made. A decade ago, the majority of Americans weren't using ad blockers.
El Niño to flip to La Niña in what could be the hottest year on record
I run my rp5 off of nvme
Maybe they had most peaceful society possible at the time, all things considered? Democracy / constitutional republic is an option for highly intelligent and engaged population. Didn't work for Greeks, Romans and Russians, at this rate not sure how long it will work in US. Without democracy, revolts just result in more revolts because new rulers have no special claim of legitimacy. Outright prosecution invites revenge and preemptive backstabbing out of fear. So, if that's all the options you have, maybe keeping society calm by people "accepting" their own punishment is the best you can do. Mind you, I don't want to live in that kind of society, but compared to people literally tearing each other's hearts out on streets in Syria...?
Yeah I think people are saying "GET shouldn't change state" and using idempotent incorrectly (which is more "hitting this multiple times shouldn't change things more than once").
UCSD announces equity-based rules for CS and other "selective majors'
Tit for tat, but start out nice. Second part is very important, that way we have nice relationships with most of the world.
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I hate spiders but I was able to get past it for this series. That and A Deepness in the Sky.
Hey :) I see you guys everywhere nowadays. Congrats, and happy to see you keep on doing amazing things!
I had a paid account Proton Mail for several months recently but it is hopeless for my use case, namely using their Proton Bridge so that I can use my mail reader of choice.

Proton Bridge does not work as advertised. Its IMAP server loses mails, puts them in unexpected places and synchronises incorrectly.

I cancelled my account.
Original document is here. [1]

1: https://students.ucsd.edu/academics/advising/majors-minors/s...
One factor that makes the comparison more apt may be accounting for the price difference. I can cook at home for a fraction of the price, or spend just as much but use much better ingredients.

When I do eat out there is always something nice about not having to cook or clean up. That skews it a bit for me, maybe it wasn't actually as tasty as cooking at home but the whole experience is nicer (on occasion).
Love this ^^

Yeah the coffee was just an idea to plant the seed that you value their time and feedback. It can be a steak dinner / massage to unwind from all the pain they experience around "X", etc.

Be careful how you position this so it does not come out as "paying for their time" and more like you value their time, this way you can weed out those that just want the incentive
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for private use or even small teams it's way too late for that, but honestly it seems they're just focusing on enterprise use and i'm kinda glad something open source and self-hostable for that market exists. we're already wayy too dependent on microsoft, but at least my workplace's code can stay local for now.
Don't they infamously have a shitload of fiefdoms and informal structure?
Was playing in mobile and constantly wanted to zoom out, because the view was too narrow.
Yeah, political opinions change so much just by having a different person doing them.
This is true, but I predicted we'd get to 50% much faster than we did.
> Stories and Live have become such integral parts of the platform, for some people that's all they use it for. No posts, no reels, just ephemeral content.

And yet the entire feature is relegated to a tiny strip of horizontally-scrolled content at the top of the home tab. It's a complete failure of UI.
Killer features are 1. windows support, and 2. reading .tool-versions file, meaning that you can migrate from asdf with no issues.
It by definition promotes the video and the creator.

> publishers not able to make money on their work

Again you're wrong, the creator still gets the view and ad revenue not this third-party site where it's embedded, from YouTube:

Only YouTube and the video owner will earn revenue from ads on embedded videos. The owner of the site where the video is embedded will not earn a share.

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/132596?hl=en-do-i-...
Distracting people with mini games while they're holding a knife sounds like a bad idea.
First, note that my biggest point is that the way his group presented the work has led to gross over simplifications that actually cause harm when they help deter people from making changes, and the group has not gotten the word out that those interpretations are incorrect.

It’s pretty clear the effect of exercise is neither extreme. It is definitely not the naive 100% of calories burned in regular exercising are balanced out by metabolic reductions elsewhere compared to the same person not regularly exercising. And it’s definitely not 800 burned regularly means 800 mores than the person would if they didn’t exercise regularly.

It’s going to be in between, and I would wager it’s like backwards graduated tax brackets in terms of compensation percent.

It’s been a while since I read his paper, but if I recall right it actually did hand wave away the endurance athletes. But endurance athletes are not a binary yes no state andHand waving away obvious conflicting data isn’t logical or scientific. And so especially when people are on a graduated spectrum all the way up to the immediately obvious theory breakers running 60+ mi/week. Where would the cut off come? 15mi? 20mi? 25mi? Above what cut off should we ignore data to make the naive theory work.
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But, now that amazon is saving money on labor costs, where does that extra money go? Into the pockets of shareholders, who may then go out and use that to start other businesses which hire people, or increase their consumption of goods and services which also results in greater employment.
Bug report:

On iOS, I rotated to landscape and then portrait and it became permanently zoomed in. (even when I rotated back to landscape)
If you’re a developer that’s very important information, since if you deploy an app that breaks with ad blockers, it’s not going to work for 52% of users.
It seems like you didn't listen to me.

As I pointed out, I was not suggesting changes like changing car lanes to bus lanes.

And the 'lets just change top level highly visible regulation' without actually addressing the underlying infrastructure are what I am talking about.

> Drivers do not care about throughput

There are places where they removed red lights and put stop signs. People complained. Then the reversed it, guess what, people complained even more so they revered it again.

People don't know what they want, they will simply complain about changes if you actually ask them.

So, the solution just do systematic infrastructure changes bit by bit, without any grand top level political retric. Instead of top level 'all speed limits are now different' you go road by road, reducing it where it makes the most sense with the least amount of resistance. If anybody complains, just reverse it. This intersection is no longer with a red light. That's much harder to organize against. Most places will not organize a political revolution because one local intersection is different, and then 1 year later another one, and so on.

Again there is so much low hanging fruit. Like putting red lights on the sides, where pedestrians are rather then on top. There is not gone be a political movement against that, but it improves safety for pedestrians quite a bit.

In places where you have cycling gutters, and parking you can swap them, moving cycling inside the parking. Again, no removing car lanes.

You can turn 4-lane roads into a 3-lane with turn lane. Same threwput. You can even claim you are doing this to increase the amount of parking. They managed to do this even in Oklahoma maybe the most unsafe and pro car city in the US.

You can narrow lanes and turn parallel parking into angled parking, again this isn't an 'anti-car' move. More parking, and no more parallel parking. What a win for car owners.

The list goes on, those are low hanging fruit that not gone cause a political revolution.

Again, my point here is that even if you are pro-car, US is terrible in both safety, threwput and cost. Even by their own currently existing requirements they are doing a terrible job. Often there isn't a need to even change any political rules, simply the road department has to do a better job.

> multi-decade concerted effort to actually tackle the problem.

You can do much of that by slightly changing the standards and doing it bit by bit when re-stripping roads and doing other work.

If you want to change the big stuff, yes, that's going to be more political.
Giving this album 9.1 is the most old-Pitchfork thing they've done in years. It's the anti-PR move to do.
I have had management roles and been interviewed for management roles many times.

There hasn't been single interview where "what is the largest headcount you've managed" wasn't conspicuously asked.
I always wanted OKRs to be flipped to a bottom up approach. Let every employee or manager define what's most important to them, or their team, and how they'll measure success. As it goes up the chain, managers and ultimately the CEO are responsible for taking all those goals rolling up to them and craft it into a plan or business direction.

Effectively crowd sourcing your business from all of your employees. Of course you have to actually trust and respect a majority of your employees which really makes it a non-starter for most high level leadership.
> ... is in my opinion basic management 101.

Ever heard the one about how uncommon "common sense" often is? ;)

Were it a world where you were correct, but I am unsure how often that actually shows up.
CADtron: A gesture-based CAD environment (for tablets)
While CAD began with styluses and later moved to graphics tablets with tracing pucks, current software uses a mouse for interface (with some usage of 3D-specific tools such as Connexion's Spacemouse), with Moment of Inspiration 3D being notable as designed for a stylus.

This series of videos examines the UI of a CAD tool which uses a tablet/stylus and gestures.
Canonical Unveils 12 Years of Support for Ubuntu LTS
"Leatherman Tool" is a good comparison, as pretty much every "blade" in a Leathermann is a crappy tool, better only than the Swiss Army knife equivalent.

The Leatherman's reason for existence is that you have it with you for unexpected problems.
Something I've never been able to wrap my head around is how ROMs are dumped for emulators from cartridges? Dumping instructions and assets makes total sense to me, and packaging that up in a data file that can be interpreted by an emulator too, but how does an emulator model the hardware of every 'expansion' chip in a cartridge? How is that dumped from an original cartridge?
FDNY Arrests E-Bike Shop Owner for Allegedly Selling Illegal Batteries
In the sense that these games were conceived by teams working at Valve, using this management structure, the answer is: No, none of them are.

Most of them have their origin in community mods, some already having gained substantial traction on their own.
I sincerely doubt that. Every one has been sharply obvious. I've also asked candidates after the fact and they were open about when they were/weren't. I haven't been wrong yet.

There's this idea that LLM content is subversively good enough to pass muster, but ultimately if there's more than 3 sentences, it's not and you can ask any content moderator (Like publishing companies).
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Interesting! A big or small deficit?

> If only I could eat and train like a professional athlete...
Sometimes I feel the same!
Less training and culture fit.
https://archive.md/FZnsO
Maybe you know, what's the plaural of chindogu?
Like sheep (one chindogu, many chindogu)?
Hello, I am an American who has never been murdered. I am curious to learn more about the humiliating ways I have unknowingly modified my behavior to avoid a violent death. Can you be more specific?
A manager with 22 direct reports isn't going to have the bandwidth to be available when each employee needs them (unless that's all they do).
The CSV RFC is oriented toward CSV being a MIME type. The line separator in CSV is required to be CR-LF. This can occur in the middle of a quoted datum, and the spec doesn't say whether it represents an abstract newline character or those two literal bytes.