skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, this is seriously misinformed:

> YouTube / Google CDN is much bigger than Netflix

Youtube and Netflix are on par. According to Sandvine, Netflix sneaked past Youtube in volume in 2023[1]. I believe their 2024 report shows them still neck-and-neck.

> you can make pretty much everything work on modern solution

Presenting a false equivalence without evidence is not convincing. "You could write it in SNOBOL and deploy it on TempleOS". Netflix didn't choose something arbitrary or by mistake. They chose one of the world's highest performing and most robustly tested infrastructure operating systems. It's the reason a FreeBSD derivative lies at the core of Juniper routers, Isilon and Netapp storage heads, every Playstation 3/4/5, and got mashed into NeXTSTEP to spawn Darwin and thence macOS, iOS etc.

It continues to surprise me how folks in the tech sector routinely fail to notice how much BSD is deployed in the infrastructure around them.

> All the benefits they added to FreeBSD could be added the same way in Linux

They cannot. Case in point, the bisect analysis described in the presentation above doesn't exist for Linux, where userland distributions develop independently from the kernel. Netflix is touting here the value of FreeBSD's unified release, since the bisect process fundamentally relies on a single dimension of change (please ignore the mathematicians muttering about Schur's transform).

[1] https://www.sandvine.com/press-releases/sandvines-2023-globa...
The saddest thing is that as much as I would like to get me a copy, and browse through them on a rainy day while sipping tea... I have nowhere to put them, due to my apartment being filled with books already. I have books under my bed... books in the sock drawer, books in the living room, books inside boxes... I wish I had a bigger place so I could put more books... not long ago people used to have these studio-like places with entire walls filled with books... the economics of today are quite restrictive in those terms...
People they were designed to keep from "hanging out" no longer "hang out" outside any more anyway.
can relate the post. but i wonder if what she/he defined is a "burnout" or just the result of the alienation?

no matter which execuses we find, we know that our job is meaningles. KPI's OKR's Jira tickets.. does not mean jackshit to our self.

I've jumped on programming/tech since i got my first computer, i loved how hacking/building something that works and learning new stuff along the way feels. But at the end of the day, this is just another white-collar job, some shits needs to be done, most of the time with coorporating with other people.

If the article defines burnout correctly, i think it is inevitable due to the alienation[]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx%27s_theory_of_alienation
They're case-sensitive for the purpose of scraping a profile page.

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Retr0id - 200

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=retr0id - 404 (Edit: 200 now?)
> Because companies are amoral entities..

Then maybe they shouldn’t have many rights real humans enjoy, like anonymously owning property or filing objections to planning permission for ‘ruined view’
Lane has spoiled essay for me. I've read all his books and he's in the right place on the readability-complexity spectrum for my case.

I can't find any other author, on any other field, I can learn so much from without being actual work.
The boat might not have been big enough to carry her family, attendants, and material wealth. All of which can be more important to people than immediate escape. Pliny writes that the cloud had not reached Stabiae. Its likely she was anxious and wanted to evacuate but was not under noticeable threat and did not understand the severity of her situation.

Edit: https://igppweb.ucsd.edu/~gabi/sio15/lectures/volcanoes/plin...
'runs 100% on Linux' is a bit vague. What customisations do they do?
Well, yes. Databases are event driven themselves.

As is any web application, because the web (at least without sockets) is constrained into communicating events only.

Also, most local GUI applications, because people just like events better for it.
From the article:

> In December 2001, Argentine President Fernando de la Rua imposed an ATM withdrawal limit of $250 per week.

> I sometimes read from people in developed countries, offended by bitcoin’s carbon emissions or by the huge amount of scams in the crypto space. ... To really get crypto, you have to have been fucked by some third party with power over your money. Be it a government, a bank, a business, or an ex-employer, it will come.
I tend to be anti-regulation unless the benefits of the regulation can be justified above and beyond laissez-faire, which in practice makes me quite anti-regulatory with some notable exceptions like the FAA.

I think the root of this problem is that private equity managers often have no skin in the game and tend to fail upward. It would be one thing if a private equity manager had a record of taking a company private, streamlining it and making it sustainable for decades to come. Even with the human cost of that, it's preferable to a company going prompt bankrupt. But too many managers seem to take these things private and then run them straight into the ground. Toys'R'Us, for instance, or Red Lobster as quoted in the article. In the latter's case, the management tried boneheaded promotions like "unlimited shrimp," which would be a bad idea even in a zero interest rate world.

I'd propose instead some sort of mandatory filing on the part of private equity managers that is publicly accessible and searchable and shows the track record of a private equity manager, with links to all of the other managers they've worked with. Then, when a PE investor proposes to take a company private, they're required by the SEC to demonstrate that their management isn't tainted by a chain of incompetence.

Who knows if that would work, but it might increase the skin in the game somewhat. The status quo seems to be HBS grads performing with mediocrity at best and having no real accountability.
Never underestimate the motivation of empathetic nerds.

Reading this has me horrified and wanting to help with the effort.
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=ZBB&ia=web

"Zac Brown Band"

Obviously! (j/k - I was also lost, and tried the web search, and was still lost.)
The problem that Bitcoin aimed to solve was that cash cannot be transferred online. The headline of the whitepaper - "a peer to peer electronic cash system".

You can transfer cash in person by handing someone coins or notes. It might be illegal in some jurisdictions to do that for high amounts or certain items, but it is at least physically possible i.e. permissionless.

Bitcoin is that, but online.

The regulations you are describing affect what are essentially financial institutions operating on top of the system.

The act of sending Bitcoin is permissionless by design.

That's it, that's all it is. Nothing more, nothing less.
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I've always felt sorry for Kaspersky. The leadership seems to have put together a company that's about as ethical, in culture and in the general sweep of its actions, as you can ever find in the industry. Their products tend to be in the upper tier in terms of delivering what they promise. They try to behave like "good citizens".

But the company constantly gets squeezed between trying to fight obnoxious demands from the Russian government (including, I suspect, by not expanding into businesses where those demands would be un-resistable), and trying to fight suspicion from everybody else.
> an import-export business between complexity science and the gaming world,

Good first move for such a studio would be to buy the Factorio team, and then learn from them.

Their formula can be applied to the software implementation of other game systems, to explore other spaces where complexity can be symbolized entertainingly.

The presumption, however, is that any such offer, no matter how noble the sales pitch, will really be a money grab. "let's monetize your rabid fan base, then burn the space so no competition arises any time soon to rekindle the thing that was once loved." Pity the Kerbals.
YMMV, but I often find myself in a weird state where it's easier for me to "hunker down" and do a couple more hours of work (because I'm already in the flow), but I'm too exhausted from work to do personal projects around the house...

If I'm really feeling exhausted in the afternoon, I'm really good at taking a 25 minute "power nap", my mind goes from slightly foggy to crystal clear, and if I take it well before 5pm my sleep for the night is typically not impacted at all. It's taken some training to get to the point that I can quickly shift into sleep and then snap out of it, but it's amazingly effective.
The problem with this journey into lived nihilism is that it so often ends with suicide. Stay safe.
This is, by definition, not a tax: if you don't want to pay a congestion toll for entering Manhattan's CBD by car, then don't enter the CBD by car.

In a car dependent city, this could be fairly argued to be a regressive or punitive toll, but NYC (and especially Manhattan) is not car dependent.

(And note: the "free" status quo exists only because the cost is hidden from you, i.e. the potential car driver into the CBD: you don't pay for the air and noise pollution, emergency service delays, deferred maintenance on mass transit, etc. that residents do. Factor those in, and free transit through one of the densest and most expensive cities in the world is a pretty gross subsidy.
gpu drivers with patches for individual games.
Peace of mind is invaluable.
I keep an IPX lunchbox on my desk to remind me.
I'm not an employment expert, but I believe that in the US, jobs of more than 30 hours per week come with benefits. I don't know if that's a legal requirement or just a custom.
Wikipedia FWIW, first sentence;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methodology

"In its most common sense, methodology is the study of research methods."

I may be wrong, but I think what's happened is that everyone likes saying "methodology", so they do, and so everyone uses it. It's just that it's wrong - but it's normal.

Sociology -> study of societies.

Psychology -> study of the mind and behaviour.

Archaeology -> study of historical human activity (by a particular means).

"ology" -> a branch of learning.

We are not creating new branches of learning, when we are in fact creating a method to investigate a problem.

Also, if we were to say methodology differs to all other uses of -ology, and in fact is a, or a few, methods used to investigate a problem, what word do we then use to describe the study of methods?
ChatGPT is in-fact that. GPT-4 the API is not that. There is clearly no RAG, you bring that yourself, same with toxicity filtering, again - a different api, up to you to implement. etc. There is probably something going on before the input reaches GPT-4 and we are definitely not seeing the raw output from the LLM. But the layers over GPT-4 the API are thinner than ChatGPT.

The Assistants API is closer to ChatGPT & what you are describing.

Edit: it should be noted that the Assistants API is somewhat model agnostic as well, so the product part of this isn't part of the inference system.
They also get much more control. If they employ most of the core FreeBSD devs they basically have their own OS that they can do what they like with. If they want some change that benefits their use case at the detriment of other people they can pretty much just do it.

That's not really possible with Linux.
I have no idea how involved they were; I didn't get the nitty-gritty details of the story, just heard the broad strokes over beers.

I can easily imagine that HR was never told about the purpose of the changes. I can also imagine that HR has bills to pay, and a lack of desire to quit without another job lined up.
I don't know whether it's driven by shoplifting, or maybe the company being "proactive".

At least 2 Target stores here, in a very expensive university town, have recently installed rows of locked glass door cabinets, for securing products like... soap.

One of the locations, I'd expect to have some shoplifting shrink, though not too bad. The other location, a lot less.

(Also, anecdotally, the employees seem more aggressive lately about approaching people to "help". Which tends to come across as insincere and likely a Loss Prevention tactic, which is creepy and offensive, and makes me leave ASAP. Which I guess they might chalk up as an LP win. Nope, I was there to conduct commerce. Now they've made me dislike in-store shopping as much as I dislike their often abysmal Web order pickup experience. They're not nearly the worst store, brick&mortar or online, but I don't understand why they're moving in the direction of trashy with the image.)
Maybe on a market/profit level. On an interpersonal level, though, joy is not valued. If someone feels that you are expressing joy they are very likely to view you less than they did before. We find the expression of joy to be distasteful and childish, and culturally are disdainful towards it. Only cynicism and stoicism are acceptable.
It's not premature; it's something to consider whenever sharing people's personal data on the internet.

The GDPR does not apply "in the course of a purely personal or household activity and thus with no connection to a professional or commercial activity" [1].

However, that does not extend to generally sharing the information on the internet [2] as that's no longer purely personal.

[1] https://gdpr-text.com/read/recital-18/

[2] https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/92229/what-does-hous...
I would love to live in a world where everyone did that. But that's (currently) a utopian pipe dream.

I don't know if throwing CEOs in jail is the answer, but neither is putting all the responsibility on people to make tough choices like "give up my privacy or fall out of touch with my friends" or "give up my privacy or give up the chance to get this job".
- MacJournal

- Inkscape

- Reaper

- iA Writer

- Transmit

- LocalSend

- homebrew/cli: ffmpeg, imagemagick, pyenv, nvm

- Sublime, but I'm using it less and less. I tried so hard to support it and have bought multiple upgrades. But, the plugin system and environment handling is terrible. I dread setting it up on new installs or machines.
That second one doesn't give me a 404 but correctly shows your profile.
A piston engine can last a generation. You might get a year out of a turbine engine.

Every week I hook up to a military vehicle (HEMTTA4) that was built in 1984, with a CAT diesel engine. Absolutely flawless.

Besides, a turbine engine has two modes: ridiculous and ludicrous. I can idle a diesel engine for days on the fuel it takes to fire up and run a turbine engine for a short period.
Looks like rich companies tend to look respectable
It just seems to be the way of things. There's an inherent value in being yourself without feeling the need to hide, and via the process of de-stigmatization, more people are comfortable coming out and expressing that they are what they are, and because of the de-stigmatization effort, those people are uplifted. And in turn, other people who want to feel special and want more social capital will either imitate it or try to get diagnosed themselves.

The "my ADHD brain" stuff isn't my thing, though I am pretty sure I have an ADHD thing that's so mild it doesn't quite qualify for the second D, but I have a heavily ADHD spouse, and she likes them. I think it makes her feel less crazy/dumb for doing the admittedly sometimes amusingly boneheaded things she does, like bashing her arms and legs into things or making tea and forgetting it a moment later. But also she has grappled with how that content flattens ADHD into, her words, "quirky ditz syndrome" and much rarely goes into the darker aspects she struggles with, like being completely unable to accomplish a basic task for hours on end and getting increasingly frustrated with herself, or her "zombie hours" when she gets absolutely stuck in her phone (I eventually helped her setup parental controls on iOS to boot her off after awhile, but even that being couched in things called "parental controls" is humiliating for her).
Welcome to Mr Olympia!
yeah you do need to at least want to learn the difference between a UI and an API. None of our customers thus far are coders, though -- but most have worked close to software in some role (like a pm/marketer in a software company)!
Fun idea!

- The first bullet point does not seem to be recognised (on your profile and mine).
- webp images do not work?
Back in 1998 a German webtech forum installed its first forum software, if I remember correctly it was WWWBoard out of Matt's Script Archive. They soon got better software over time [1].

But something the community was and is sure about was a preference for threaded discussions. WWWBoard must have been inspired by the Usenet – and for meandering discussions with many sub discussions it still is perfect, I think. We then looked down on those flat bulletin boards – but then the Usenet people were looking down on us Web people.

But to be sincere: In a way threaded and flat are just different views on the same date. From a modern web forum I’d expect a switch button for different views or even maybe a combination of those two: A visualization of the thread structure on the left, a flat list of posts on the right.

What speaks against threaded, sadly, is the rise of mobile: You can’t very good display an even more indented structure on a small portrait screen. Another cultural technique lost.

[1] WWWW Board was replaced soon by as custom Perl Software which then because of resource constraints was replaced by a server in C which then later was replaced by a Rails application and now it is written in Elixir. But there is a clear lineage and the archive was always converted and goes back a quarter century. I feel old.
I guess none of that has ever bothered me? I grew up in the 90s with physical media, and many of those games are now unplayable too. But Steam enabled indie gaming like never before, surpassing even the shareware scene. The easy storefront plus good discoverability and community and good downloads management makes me choose Steam despite DRM.

GOG has been selling DRM free for a decade or so now, but I still choose Steam because their software is so much better (Galaxy is atrocious and has gotten worse recently).

And I don't really care about cosmetic lootboxes, I guess? I've bought some (too many) for Path of Exile. I'm glad they are a funding model that enables free to play. I find it less obnoxious than the paid DLC model, in-game advertising, etc. As for kids, well, shouldn't parents control their spending anyway?
I don't know... I have fond memories of SUN (younguns: it stands for Stanford University Network, not our neighboring star), but they screwed up commercially a few too many times and tried too long to hang on to workstations when it was clear they were going away --ironic for a company whose motto was "the Network is the Computer" (definitely best motto of a computer company ever). And SunOS >> Solaris
> imagine a company that purchases space shuttles and lights them on fire in a field

You mean like SLS throwing all of the remaining Shuttle engines into the ocean, and then making more of them for $100 million each, and then throwing THOSE into the ocean too?
New York moves to limit kids' access to 'addictive feeds'
VideoTetris: Towards Compositional Text-to-Video Generation
What Is the Opposite of Oil Drilling?
All I did was ask if they were involved, you accusing me of secretly pot-stirring a secret pot is against HN rules.
Senior Engineer to Lead: Who to promote and how to train them
To give a few giant examples:

Stripe for a good while was (at least at some point) very highly perceived, I think?

And just 9 days ago I saw people praising Logitech. [1] No idea what the broader sentiment is currently (no news is good news, maybe?), but it seemed to me people loved it for a long time at least in the past?

Mozilla for a long time seemed pretty respectable, regardless of how people feel about them now.

There are lots of small tech companies out there that simply have respectable businesses but that you don't know or immediately think of because you just don't use them.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40539689
> Why the fuck do you need to do that?

Because deploying the whole monolith takes a long time. There are ways to mitigate this, but in $currentjob we have a LARGE part of the monolith that is implemented as a library; so whenever we make changes to it, we have to deploy the entire thing.

If it were a service (which we are moving to), it would be able to be deployed independently, and much, much quicker.

There are other solutions to the problem, but "µs are bad, herr derr" is just trope at this point. Like anything, they're a tool, and can be used well or badly.
Yeah, we've had a very functional focus so far - only using chakra and tailwind, so you need quite a lot of prompting to make something visually pleasing. I really hope we don't need to develope our own UI/UX lib though as there's so much great out there -- we'll likely lean into a set of good libs (like shadcn, daisy etc) to make it easier to make stunning UI's too.
Yes, that sentence is stating two different things:

> The parser core compiles on Google Web Toolkit *and* can be automatically translated into C++
> It is a message from people who program robots to those who design robots.

I thought it was a message from someone who designs robots to someone who programs robots. The author says they are an ME and mostly self taught. In my experience, self taught MEs are not adept robot programmers or programmers in general.

If I may try to parse the subtext here, this is a post by a ME who is helping manage/direct a startup of recent college grads, and they are frustrated with ROS because you basically have to be a Linux network admin and skilled C/C++ programmer to get anywhere with ROS. MEs especially find it frustrating because they just want to do robots, but to use ROS they have to be expert linux console hackers and it's just not a skillset they have.

Same is true for the fresh out of college CS majors -- my students who are seniors, Master's, and even some PhD students have trouble with it.

So what I see here is someone expressing that frustration of how tooling is in the robotics ecosystem is not accessible.

The reason this is a "discovery channel" treatment of the topic is because we're not talking about it at that level. We're talking about it at this distilled, filtered, high-minded perspective that is above the weeds, when really we should be digging in the dirt talking about exactly the problem here.
So this entire thing is confusing to me. It's a label that's a crosswalk but it's also apparently labeled as something you're not allowed to go across according to the article.

"The area is clearly marked to keep traffic away as it was just re-painted to repair previous damage."

So which is it are we allowed to transit across it or not? Do the police regularly arrest anyone on a scooter that's in a sidewalk or a crosswalk that is not this one? Scooters typically aren't considered motor vehicles worthy of a road use but I don't know the specific laws.

I'm doing burnouts and intentionally leaving rubber marks on the roadway or other traffic ways is a crime in most places. Either a form of vandalism or mischief. I do wonder about the selective enforcement here but and nonetheless if they're doing it intentionally they should be cited.

The last thing that bothers me about this article is it appears that this is a group of kids young adults doing this. They are attributing their motivations to some sort of homophobia but I'm not sure where they have any evidence of that. When I read this I would attribute it to the most simple explanation which is kids being edgy and shitting on something other people like. You don't need homophobia to explain kids being kids.
New report shows the importance of foreign-born talent to the US STEM workforce