skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If the benefits are so great, then surely everyone will choose to stay in the walled garden.

Surely you've seen enough of the free market to know that this is baloney. The instant that the walled garden is gone abusive apps (Facebook et al) will start ushering users away from it into their own, abusive paths as the only way to install. And once the big abusive apps have started the trend, the walled garden is effectively gone. Businesses don't choose regulation if they can help it.

The only reason we don't see this with Android and Google Play is because Google hardly has any rules at all about what can go on the Play Store.
What stops Spotify from paying USA wages in Stocholm or other cities in Europe that offer good quality of living and thus appealing to software developers? Software developer unions are going to say NO? Do such unions exist? Can they control software devs?
Is it time for our 'tech companies complaining about EU regulation' article again? Must be a day ending in Y.
For me, I bought "Clean Code" because it was, at the time at least, quite highly recommended. After being rather confused for a while, I finally stopped reading right around page 141 when I realized that the reason his examples looked awful were because they were.

In that section of the book, he takes a Java port of Donald Knuth's PrintPrimes program, and refactors it. But in doing so, he actually breaks it. He moves state out of local variables and parameters and makes them all static fields, and then refactors the code into long-winded methods that specifically perform side effects or operate on those fields (names like isNotMultipleOfAnyPreviousFactor(), isLeastRelevantMultipleOfNextLargerPrimeFactor()). But the simple act of moving state that would otherwise be part of the stack frame into static fields means he has changed the behaviour of the code - it is no longer thread safe! calling it from different threads will have undefined results because all threads will be operating on the static fields. He demonstrably made the code worse!.

It invalidated the entire book for me at that point. Here's "Uncle Bob" trying to pretend to be some aged, skilled, craftsman hand guiding us young, ignorant whippersnappers into being proper craftsman and not only can't he properly refactor a simple prime number sieve as a demonstration, but he's so blind to awful code that he doesn't even see it in his awful example enough that it gets published in the same book that complained about programmers who don't have "code-sense". Mistakes and "errata" are one thing, but when he makes such a big noise about "do it right the first time" and then has an example where he refactors and literally breaks something, that's another.
The prime minister of Canada literally said housing can't come down because it's the retirement plan of a lot of boomers.
Is your dad running Windows? Windows firewall is known to block icmp traffic, a problem that neither Tailscale nor any other p2p VPN can solve.
SONiC has options for both switchdev as well as proprietary-binary-blob backends. It's certainly possible Marvell is shipping the former — but I looked and didn't find anything. It might just not quite be fully published yet (and propagated into search engines)… or it's a proprietary-binary-blob switch driver.
people just text me to invite me to things. I don't want to be invited to parties where someone just invites everyone they know on Facebook.

if they want me there, they can ask me directly. My social life has not significantly changed since I quit Facebook.

if you have good friends, they will find you. if you don't.. why do you care about losing them?
>It's like these companies think gaming the system will magically stop employees from reading job adverts.

OTOH, they might want you to read loads of them until you are blue in the face and see how unlikely it is :(
Curious how many other people were similarly taken for a ride while management was waffling on this decision. How many dozens of hours were invested on both sides.
Note that Bayesian methods also have analytical solutions in some settings.

There is a reason why conjugate priors were a thing.
> They were close and had potential, but we also saw some gaps.

I would be really interested to hear more about the specific "gaps".

> After lots of discussion with my management chain, we decided not to extend the offer.

I wonder exactly what was said, given that this candidate was led on for months by this point and I presume the management knew about everything along the way. Also, was someone else hired, or did they just cancel the entire opening?

I understand some emotional pain about passing up a really nice candidate for an objectively unbeatable one (that's competition for you), but I only get the sense that it was a single person in the interview loop (who was then cancelled on): they were apparently hiring for just one extra manager position?
As I've been deliberately moving toward self-hosted computing, under my control, on my home network, I've had a feeling more and more that we're on the cusp of something transformative... For those who want it and those who care. There's an ecosystem of mostly FOSS software now designed to run on a home network and replace big, centralized, cloud providers. That software is right on the edge of being easy enough for everyone to use and for sufficient numbers of people to deploy and administer. News like Immich (to replace Google Photos) getting a major investment thanks to Louis Rossman and FUTO [1] is encouraging. The ecosystem of software you can now run on a commodity built NAS or homelab is, for me, the most exciting thing in computing since I first used the Internet in the late 90s.

The rollout and transformation, if it happens, won't look like all this stuff becoming so easy that every individual can run a server. But it is possible that every extended family will have at least one member who can run a server or administer a private network for the whole clan. And that's where tech like tailscale's offering will come in. That's where I see the author's vision being a believable moonshot:

Each extended family, and some small communities, with their own little interconnected, distributed network-citadels, behind the firewalls of which they do their computing, their sharing, and their work. Most family members won't need to understand it any more than they understand the centralized clouds they use now. And most networks won't be as well secured as a massive company can make its cloud offering, but a patchwork heterogeneity of network-citadels creates its own sort of security, and significantly lowers the value of any one "citadel" to even motivated adversaries.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyTPqxgqgjU
Each wavelength of visible light corresponds to a color on the gradient from blue-green-yellow-red. Purple or magenta colors do not exist as light and only exists in our minds. That's why rainbows do not contain any of these colors.
Correct. They do salt it, but not enough.

It's gross. Really, really, really gross.
Yes, all those things mean I get to find out what _groups_ buy my products.

The plural of anecdote is data after all.
In Firefox you can shift+rightclick to bypass that (disables the event), or completely disable the event by changing "dom.event.contextmenu.enabled" in about:config.
Yikes! If any of my previous CEOs caught me spending “months” making a hiring decision I’d be toast.
What value does a google search provide?
I love this, and have thought of doing the same with a dumb smartwatch but... is it good opsec to have top so visible/available? What about losing the watch or getting stolen?
Either that or the company hires yet another consultant to rewrite everything because it can't be maintained.
Zerotier is I think the obvious answer? I haven't used it though; it's more proprietary, not less.
Whatsapp is not Facebook, and it's not social media. It's a messaging application. Different thing. I quit Facebook -- I didn't exit every messaging platform. Yes, if you eschew every messaging platform, nobody can reach you. That's obviously correct.

However, nothing I use could be called a Facebook replacement, either. WhatsApp isn't a Facebook replacement.
Hah, this reminded me of a submission from a couple of years back [0] about efficient hot water piping, and lo and behold, the URL is for Gary Klein Associates [1].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16540802

[1] http://www.garykleinassociates.com/PDFs/15%20-%20Efficient%2...
Rent seekers are bad! Don't you all hate landlords?! Now let me tell you why you should pay rent to me as well as everyone you currently pay rent to!
I feel the opposite! I can usually get components next-day on Amazon, and I can get entire circuit boards _assembled_ from China in about a week. Maybe I'm not trying to do anything particularly hard, but I keep being pleasantly surprised when things work on the first or second try
I will honestly take 20’s and dry over 40’s and wet. Until it gets in the deep negative numbers, I’ve never found cold to be a reason not to ride. You create heat when you ride, so comfort is easy to manage through layers.
Genuine Question, why can't we just charge a federal property tax 3-4x local property taxes for individuals who own >1 property (which would likely be distributed back to the locality, specifics not important), apply the same rules we do for pass-through taxation to mitigate loopholes, and automatically charge this elevated rate for properties owned by non-natural persons? I think this would just price in the externalities of corporate versus natural person living in a property for a locality.

Or maybe it's a tiered system. W/e.

On a related note, does anyone have anecdotal stories about the efficacy of Georgist tax policies?
Which is odd because I don't see a lot of downsizing from any boomer I know, the equity is locked away on the home until they sell.
I remember not too long ago when you'd do a quick phone screen, then sit for maybe a technical interview and maybe come into the office for a panel to talk to other devs. Most of the time, hiring managers would say, "If you're close with your technical skills, we can teach you, but we're more interested if you fit in with our culture "

Months of interaction? Why did just a few years ago, managers could spot a phony a mile away and could see potential in people? Why is it I feel like I'm dating you just to try and get a job?

This story just confirms how broken and dysfunctional the process has become to make a simple hire.
> Not to mention the simple freedom of choosing what you want to install yourself, and not just what Apple allows you to...

I have the freedom to install whatever I want. I get that freedom by using Linux and Android. I choose to have that freedom by selecting platforms that provide it.

Many HN users seem to want all the benefits of Apple's approach with none of the downsides, and it doesn't work that way. Apple is what it is because it has a tight, coherent strategy, and forcing Apple to change that strategy will have knock-on effects that most Apple users won't like.

If you value freedom to install whatever you want, you chose the wrong ecosystem, and hijacking the ecosystem to satisfy your values is unfair to the vast majority of customers whose values already align with the ecosystem's.
My offer was accepted on one :)
I think many people would prefer bad news like this in an email. I know this was a long (!) hiring process and the willingness to tell someone to their face is noble, but I imagine it might be both unexpected in a Zoom call and hard to process with someone looking at you.

If the intent is to give a verbal explanation, I’d send an email with the news and then offer to connect on Zoom for that.

(But I’d also avoid a process anywhere close to this long.)
> tl;dr - previously companies could choose 1 or 5 years to amortize

Just seeing if I got this right. A McDonalds' flipper's and a SWE's wage expense now works the same tax wise?

I mean, most of the R in RnD is abuse for tax reasons when applied to SWEs. I get that it is bad for our wages, but is the change 'fair' for some definition of fair?
I have a feeling there's a lot of analogies to be had between parenting, regulation and AI alignment.

All three are about trying to persuade an intelligent organism to adopt acceptable, rich and virtuous behaviour. All three seems to have similar failure modes.

Too much red tape and you'll get over fitting, lack of creative and new behaviour.
They're hoping a large fraction of people won't bother with the RMA process and will just shut up and go away.

Unfortunately for Intel, "away" here means "to buy an AMD processor"
> There have been no cards that can do hardware mixing under production for more than 15 years. This is delusional.

I think you are mistaken. (And a bit rude.)

https://us.creative.com/p/sound-blaster/sound-blaster-audigy...
Courts Close the Loophole Letting the Feds Search Your Phone at the Border
Installing OpenBSD on OVH's VPS 2016 KVM machines. (2015)
Trusts. It's relatively easy to hide who owns what.
Real security researchers know that requiring symbols and upper case letters actually reduces security. Those requirements are explicitly rejected by the latest NIST recommendations:

https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-3/sp800-63b.html

So I'm basically agreeing with you, that a lot of people "in security" are just cargo culting.
Very interesting to see that Clang basically always produces very bad and unoptimized LLVM IR code and leaves it to LLVM to clean it all up. That said, it's not entirely true that Clang avoid doing any optimizations -- it does indeed produce slightly different LLVM IR for -O0 and -O3.
Flow doesn't even check that array access is in-bounds, contrast to TypeScript with noUncheckedIndexedAccess on. They're clearly equally willing to make a few trade-offs for developer convenience (a position I entirely agree with FWIW)
This is a 'gimme some of that Wix money', IPO/acq ramp-up post right?
I have a nice video of my mother a week before she passed, singing along with the YouTube video of an old song. Her dementia and stroke excised her short term memory but she knew this song about an old love of some sort. And she teared up while singing it... RIP, mom!
throwaway account due to my employer but - https://lobste.rs/s/w3zkxx/lobsters_interview_with_bjorn_sta... .. the definition of true grit ..
No political remedy will work until there's a culture shift, and that's probably still a generation or two away. The baseline that people seek isn't just a reliable place to sleep, eat, and clean themselves.

They want the television-depicted life: a home which they only (at most) share with a partner and some pre-adult children, where everyone has their own bedroom, and there's probably at least one more bedroom to enjoy as an office or rec room, a kitchen suitable for entertaining, maybe a finished basement, parking for a few cars, no shared walls, and convenient access to whatever their work and whatever they like to attend in their free time. They'll tolerate a little less, but will refuse to take the social issue as resolved if they have to.

That's a far far cry from both the traditional history of multi-generational homes, boarding houses, and one room cottages and the modern political vision of "social housing". You can award contracts to all the builders you want, or open the market for them to chase whatever money you think is out there, but you're not going to be able to practically deliver the homes people want for everybody who wants them. Expectations need to be reconciled too, and we have almost no means to affect that.
Use a quad tree to summarize entire blocks of checkboxes with the same state as a tuple (checked, start_x, start_y, end_x, end_y). You know, the blatantly obvious things.
> Just seeing if I got this right. A McDonalds' flipper's and a SWE's wage expense now works the same tax wise?

Exactly the opposite

A burger flipper is the cost of doing business. The value of the burger flipper is used immediately and so the expense is recognized in that year.

Software used to be treated like that. Now they say that software development is more like building tools and developing assets. So you should recognize that expense’s value across a handful of years.
https://github.com/RayTracing/raytracing.github.io/releases/

Most of the changes are in the v4.0.0-alpha.1 and v4.0.0-alpha.2 releases.
I'm saying they weren't solved until the problem composer (created and) solved them. They're not, in general, problems for which solutions have been lying around. So "these are problems that are already solved" isn't introducing anything interesting or useful into the discussion. The post I was replying to was trying to draw a contrast with chess moves, presumably on the grounds that (after the opening) each position in a chess game is novel, but IMO problems are equally novel.

It's true that IMO problems are vetted as being solvable, but that still doesn't really shed any information on how the difficulty of an IMO problem compares to the difficulty of chess play.
It's not about flexing, it's about the diminishing importance of EU in the world. It doesn't matter if EU still has a better GDP PPP if India ends up with a bigger GDP overall as you are only as important as you have in the bank internationally. Competing for resources would then flip in favor of India; EU burning bridges with Russia sending it to China's orbit will likely accelerate the process as well.
Unless the owner walks around proclaiming, “This is my second factor”, a casual observer is just going to think it is a broken watch.
I can't believe this is the first time I'm seeing this video.

Genius. Thanks!

https://tomray.me/Video/Tierra.html
To be fair, food banks aren't really meant for everybody either
I don't think that's the context when they referred to ant and make.
I use it a lot to improve my writings.
EU regulator rejects Alzheimer's drug lecanemab
there maybe better examples of why AI biases provide deep systemic problems but: CV screening? are contemporary LLM really worse that previous screening tech and processes?
Even before you get to greed, what basic goods and services are we talking about?

AI has an open goal on office workers with little client contact, but it requires serious leaps in robotics to take physical jobs from people.
Eh, I keep TOTP codes on my Pebble and am fine with it, they are labeled in such a way that doesn't make it obvious what services they're for.

There's basically no lock mechanism or security on a Pebble, but it's just a second factor.

If you have my randomly generated password, have done your intel to know I might have the TOTP on my wrist, and can physically steal my watch, you've got me beat and I'm okay with that for the convenience it provides.
"Have both with and sans…"

Not from Germany so it's not available where I am (or perhaps it's not common).

You say it can have a bit of a tase but was it notably different to the caffeinated one? Reason for asking, I've not compared the two types from the same company together to get an objective comparison.
Yes yes, we took away Apple's money funnel...

Let me go find the thinnest violin, to match this thinly veiled tantrum.
What do you mean probing your domain from Google?
Reaping and Sowing is an interesting book.
About math rivalry, his mathematical journey, and, yes, "Dreamer" which sends us dreams.
This reads like a parody of a LinkedIn post, poor candidate.
Not sure how it's down there, but my understanding is even if we have housing crisis, legislations that would actually bring down the housing prices is also bad for us. RE market is about 10%+ of the entire GDP, so we want individuals to park their money and use it as an investment vehicle as a part of the consumption cycle. Combine it with "i'll just buy it for my child/spouse/mom/dad" and so on, it's not really that easy to implement either.
Speculative predictors have been subjected to a number of attacks to weasel out private data. Given that so many of the common ISAs are vulnerable, are they taking steps to reduce the impact of such attacks?
Never been to Apex. But I sure remember C&H Surplus in Pasadena, which was a smaller facility of similar kind of salvage, and more focused on the Caltech/JPL crowd. Sometimes we would spend a whole Saturday afternoon there just looking at everything and scoring things we could carry on our bicycles.

All I can say is, if you like gear, you gotta visit a place like this.
That's a legitimate strategy for some Amazon trinkets but CPUs are a major purchase for most people such that they won't likely let them sit in a closet beyond the warranty period.
> Many of the old blue check mark accounts routinely posted inaccurate information or outright lies.

So? The point of the old blue checkmark wasn't to assure me that what the account said was true. It was to provide some assurance that the account was really the account of the prominent or notable person with that name.
With right features almost any ML algorithm will find what you are looking for
I was curious why the article didn't mention IPv6 at all, since Tailscale does support it.

IPv6 -together with WireGuard- gives privacy, security, and performance. The downside is the complexity to set it up.

Tailscale builds on the shoulder of giants. IPv4, WireGuard, Samy Kamkar NAT punching, OpenSSH, and probably many more. One of the upsides is the combination of these, and that the management interface in general is easy. But what counts for CA is also true for Tailscale: both are using FOSS to in the end deliver a (proprietary) service.

But because almost everything is build on top of FOSS and there's Headscale (and they're cool with it), this isn't a major issue to me. Like, it is a downside, but not a major one, as vendor lock-in is practically non-existent. In fact, it is likely an upside from a business/support PoV.
I assume trying to sign up for Google services (business email etc.) for his domain
I now ignore summary cards in search results completely and have to double and triple check everything to make sure that it’s not a hallucination when finding answers to simple questions. Finding reliable information takes up more time now than it did pre-internet, full stop.
Show HN
Recently, I've been checking out "Build in Public" communities on Twitter, and it's pretty apparent that many developers are trying their hand at 'Indie Hacking.' While there are a few misses, most of the SaaS apps people create are genuinely impressive and valuable. However, a common challenge these startups face is gaining user trust, especially when they're new and relatively unknown, which leads to most startups not launching properly
Marketing isn't something most developers are great at, myself included (and expensive to say the least), but showing visitors that you are trustworthy can surely increase conversion rates. I've created a sales popup that you can easily embed on your SaaS website to instantly enhance its credibility.

First impressions can make or break a user's perception of your product. So why not make that first impression count? With my popup, you can effectively showcase your product's value and build trust from the moment a visitor lands on your site.

p.s. Uses Stripe Integration :)
Although a bulk of my career has been in the IT space, I've been a developer for a lot longer. I can tell you, anytime you build software as a means to a "community" it never works out. You don't build software to get a "community", you build software and a "community" will eventually evolve around it organically. A developer should never focus on anything beyond the software itself. When you lose focus of the software you are building, the project will suffer.

That's been my experience. YMMV.
This is the first product miss. And I don't know where Apple goes from here. Others will also leapfrog them is my instinct. Basically they are too big now and startups have a chance of beating both Google and Apple.