skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If a dev can put in 30 solid hours of fingers to keyboard work in a week, they are already outperforming most of their peers.

I've been a startup manager for 12+ years and I can count the number of times I've asked someone to work a Saturday on one hand.

It sounds like YCombinator needs some training on talent management.
Probably, but I won't believe them.
I read miss here as "failed to be on time for", not as "long for". They specifically say "I wish I was around when [...]"
Western public opinion researchers == propagandists for the military industrial complex.

No one said they were "Western" in this case. Strange that you jump to that assumption.

Solid majority? Post your sources

The research is very easily findable. The numbers also resonate with my own impressions from countless discussions with actual, real Ukrainians, both in and outside the country.

Normally I'm happy to provide sources asked, but from the tone and content of your responses on this and related threads, I don't think you actually care.

From what you just said, above, whoever is doing the research -- if their data doesn't support your highly jaundiced and moralistic worldview, you've already decided that must be because they're propagandists for the military industrial complex, end of story.
Hate it in concept (I can't speak to Pave specifically). Metrics are useful if the manager doesn't make hard targets, the data is good and the model is good. How do you model compensation packages? how does 20 days leave compare to unlimited leave? Are two companies with unlimited leave equivalent? When the managers have targets, they're incentivized to massage the data in their favor. So even if you're doing it right, that makes every other companies data suspect.

This also sounds like it will reinforce some negative behaviors. If the data shows that other companies are paying women 80% of their male peers, shouldn't this recommend I also pay women 80%? But I doubt the output will spell it out that way, will I even know it's influencing me this way?
> helps startups with compensation

It's not only startups - I know decades-old, listed firms that use it too.
It's not hard to understand, this is a site where people champion working overtime hours for the chance at a lottery ticket or prefer working for companies that are destructive to society and anticompetitive.
If you liked this, the Penny Arcade folks have a nice video series where they brew a bunch of different things and discuss tradeoffs and flavor profiles and all that. It is based on their D&D streams that are called "Acquisitions Inc." and so it is fittingly called "Acquisitions Intoxicated." Each episode really does just feel like a chill hour or two with some nerdy friends.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjZRIC6PMEFlJgsGXgiBW...
Not really. You might need to login everytime, or on shops you will lose your cart.
Thank you so much for this project. I've been trying to learn more about building "stuff that moves", and 99% of what's out there teaches either beginner-level fundamentals or how to assemble something that's already designed. The whole process is exactly what I wanted.
If there is anything really damning that happened, there is no reason it will be revealed, ever, or that documents about it still exist.

Why should they? Who is doing full constant oversight of whole CIA that has always upper hand above them to make it happen? Sorry but this is just a pipe dream, just look how that agency behaved when SHTF. Boeing kills whistleblowers despite literally whole world seeing what a shitshow that company is now. That's just effin Boeing, not folks who can kill almost anybody anywhere and not caring about consequences.
The FAQ talks about "UptimeQuest.me". What the service renamed recently?
Tape has it's own problems. LTO drives only have 2 generations of backwards compatibility[0] and nobody makes new drives for old formats. So if you have a whole library of tapes you'll need to copy tapes over periodically to newer formats just to retain access to them, which is expensive.

And once you start doing that, you've just quashed THE advantage tape had over disk. LTO doesn't provide any more reliability, it just shifts the failure points around. Instead of 20 year old sealed hard drives with bearings that will seize up and render your data unreadable, it'll be perfectly stable 20 year old tapes that no drive in the world can read. I'm also skeptical of the cost savings from cheap media once periodic remigrations are priced in, but it might still win out over disk for absolutely enormous libraries (e.g. entire Hollywood studio productions).

And no, there isn't some other tape format that has better long-term support. Oracle stopped upgrading T10000 around 2017, and IBM 3592 has an even worse backwards compatibility story than LTO.

[0] LTO-8 drives only have 1 generation of backwards compatibility because TMR heads get trashed by metal particulate tapes
That sounds like normal supply and demand, not "price gouging". If you only have N of something, you set the price level such that the demand at that price will only be N of that thing.

But people feel it as price gouging. If the price has been X for a long time, and now the price is suddenly several times X because the supply got short, that feels like price gouging rather than "supply and demand".
Yes, this will need legislative backing. We had the GDPR since the DNT.

I also just discovered the GPC which seems more interesting: https://globalprivacycontrol.org
Scoop rarely pollutes Windows registry which is what often triggers the corporate blocklists. The portable install is a feature here, compared to chocolatey or winget.
A Markdown version emoji cheat sheet
It is only efficient based on particular metrics. Change the metrics and the efficiency changes.
We should kill cookies once and for all.

Put on a scale what we gain and what we loose, and just let it sit.
The problem is that it needs to be manually adapted to each side that doesn't have a well known cookie banner... So if you mostly visit "exotic" pages it doesn't work.
- "There are thousands of highly qualified tech workers currently working as Starbucks baristas who feel the same way."

Do you have a source for this data?
Uber and AirBnb are essentially illegal taxi and illegal hotel services. Remember taxi medallions? Remember zoning laws? Being illegal is not a showstopper for a startup because they are under a radar, being illegal is not a problem for a large business because they have enough power to not get prosecuted.
ah that's an embarrassing oversight! we reuse the same cdn configuration for multiple projects and for some reason the compression isn't properly configured for our portal-notebooks.singlestore.com entry point. It's funny that I reconfirmed that before publishing the blogpost, but mistakenly looked at the request headers and not the response headers (facepalm). We are fixing that now, thank you! This will be helpful for cases where you access the notebooks UI directly. For cases where you come from other page, it shouldn't make that much difference, since the iframe is already pre rendered.
Windows 10 wallpaper was physically built and photographed (2015)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40439515 - May 2024 (268 comments)
Show me one instance in which a permanent member of the UN security council successfully invaded another country and suffered any real repercussion other than political backlash.

Downvoting me and saying "not true" doesn't make it less true.
founder of podera.ai here, we're building this right now (turn anything into a podcast) with custom voices, customization, and more. would love some hn feedback!
DC-DC converters are not a "dead short across the input for part of the cycle" in normal operation - rather the voltage is across the inductor. If the switch stays on too long and the inductor reaches its saturation current, or one of the many other (cascading) failure modes, then can you end up with effectively a short across the input. This can happen to many kinds of electronics (eg a simple tantalum decoupling cap, or an IC's SCR latchup), but designing the power topology is a good place to think about these failure modes.

(Although going 5V->120V with USB as the power source, I can understand how "dead short" was a decent intuition)
The honest, moral ones seem to be the minority far too often.
All of those videos are great.

I'd start with this one specifically: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySuUZEjARPY . (Your 3rd link).
I can throw one more curveball here that currently isn't really solved anywhere. Nameless people.

This situation arises when you know you want to travel after giving birth, and you want to book the tickets in advanced to take advantage of lower prices. Most airlines won't let you book a ticket without a name, nor do they let you edit names.

The situation is also relevant in hospitals where babies are born, in Finland they literally put girl <surname> / boy <surname> into the system as the first / lastname. It's quite funny that a place literally designed to handle new humans, does not have a way to handle that.
No, then people will mistakenly think it is 100% secure.
In some important areas France has better laws than other EU countries. Another example I believe was about avoiding wasting food on the supply chain of food to supermarkets and what happens with food afterwards.
I grew up in a small town that had ordinances blocking fast food and drive thrus. It was really nice. More municipalities need to step up there.
Staff engineers exist in a system of patronage
I by no means support the efforts of the CIA in Chile, however it is worth noting how transformative the economy of Chile has been since then.
very cool product. nicely done — what's the tech stack?
This technology could be used to benefit people with developmental disabilities like Alzheimer’s disease. TVs and streaming services have become increasingly complex compared to 30 years ago and it makes it harder for people who have cognitive issues. Wish I had something like this for my mom, who struggles to change channels on our UI heavy smart TV.
Airbase Spend Analytics Transformed Our Finances – Watch to Learn More [video]
Hey, ycombinator Community!

I wanted to share something that’s been a game-changer for us—Airbase Spend Analytics! It’s seriously transformed how we handle financial operations around here.

With Spend Analytics, you get full visibility into all spend activities, so you can make smarter, data-driven decisions and keep procurement running smoothly.

Here’s why we’re loving it:
Total Visibility: Everything’s crystal clear.
Smart Insights: We’re optimising approvals and cutting down cycle times.
Streamlined Procurement: Spotting cost-saving opportunities early has never been easier.

And it’s not just me who’s excited—our Global Controller, Kelly Hicks, had this to say:
"Airbase's Spend Analytics has unlocked smarter savings and greater efficiency. It provides comprehensive insights that elevate our financial operations.":movie_camera: Check out the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wqh04VpEafc

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Yeah, this is what I do. Or used to do. I followed an interesting progression with it -- at some point, I stopped having to actually look at or touch my knuckles to do it, then after a number of years, I found that I (mostly) just have the months lengths memorized.
It's indeed an RLCD, but an atypical one with microperforations for the backlight, rather than transreflective. See one of the comments from one of the Daylight employees in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40456834
Rethinking Leadership: The Promise and Pitfalls of 'Founder Mode'
> Linux wasn't a thing by the time NT was in development

So your statement provided here is wrong and misleading then?

According to this book NT development took five years to complete and reached stable 1.0 version by 1993 [1].

When Linux was in version 0.99 it has had a working implementation of TCP/IP by 1992 then in the very same year Linus relicensed Linux to GPL, and all these happened during NT development, wasn't it?

[1] Showstopper: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and Next Generation at Microsoft:

https://archive.org/details/showstopperbreak00zach
Writing an HTTP Server in Go from Scratch: Part 1
Incidentally, I was delighted to see a Taco Bell in Amersfoort, Netherlands, recently. Ten tacos for 14 euro isn't QUITE the 59, 79, 99 cent menu of my youth, but it isn't bad.

I still bitterly miss the Chili Cheese burrito, Taco Bell's crowning achievement. RIP chilicheese.org :-(

https://web.archive.org/web/20190313160757/http://chilichees...
Gleam compiles to JavaScript, so JS is not needed for that extra frotnend flare.

The flexibility to sprinkle some code here in there is definitely unique to JS
Ask HN: ChatGPT can't replicate a logical hierarchal tree structure?
https://imgur.com/a/LfEbbL4
*using GPT-4o

1st prompt = describe the layout of this map.
//to confirm comprehension.

GPT's response:
"The layout of this map features a hierarchical tree structure. At the top level (level one), there is a single node that branches out into nine nodes on the second level. Each of the nine nodes on the second level then connects to six smaller nodes on the third level, making a total of 54 nodes on the third level.

The entire map is spread horizontally with a wide aspect ratio, ensuring all nodes are evenly distributed across the levels. The branches connecting the nodes are straight, creating a clean and symmetrical flow from the top node down to the lowest level. The design uses a consistent style for all nodes and connecting lines, making it easy to follow the hierarchy."

2nd prompt: recreate this map exactly 100% in every way;
The layout of this map should features a hierarchical tree structure. At the top level (level one), there is a single node that branches out into nine nodes on the second level. Each of the nine nodes on the second level then connects to six smaller nodes on the third level, making a total of 54 nodes on the third level.

The entire map is spread horizontally with a wide aspect ratio, ensuring all nodes are evenly distributed across the levels. The branches connecting the nodes are straight, creating a clean and symmetrical flow from the top node down to the lowest level. The design uses a consistent style for all nodes and connecting lines, making it easy to follow the hierarchy.

the only change is to make each square a purple isometric shape.

// Is there a better way?
It's promising that RFK Jr could potentially be in a future administration and push to declassify these documents[1]. It would really only take an executive order. He probably has enough of a chip on his shoulder to accomplish this.

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/23/trum...
was this during the tech hiring boom or after
Makes sense that's where the bulk of the volume is, not much different from the internet at large. Freedom fighters and oppressed journalists are exceedingly rare, but they do use Tor.

I wonder what you expected?
Ding ding ding. Improving information for only the already-more-powerful side of such an asymmetric relationship doesn’t help the weaker side.
> But average world GDP per capita is something like $12,500. Electricity isn't free. Internet access isn't free.

These people are big users of the command line?
Commodore VIC 20 and Atari 400 better. :)
The article isn’t interested in the “online” aspect, but in finding all (what turns out to be called) non-bridge edges, in order to visualize the loops.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1917896
I think the obvious next feature for this specific thing is to be able to click to begin asking questions in the context of the audio you just listened to. You can basically become one of the hosts- “You mentioned before about RNNs, tell me more about that”
That's... hilarious. We all know they are thinking that but to say it loudly and proudly to the employees is a self own on a level that makes me Cheshire Cat.
I miss the 90s internet and I think even though some things have objectively gotten worse (most people interact in proprietary networks, as opposed to using open standards), as a parent, I think part of that feeling is still there, since my kids are doing some of what I was doing back then, only that instead of irc they're mostly using discord now.

The one thing I do believe is legit to miss and not just rose-colored nostalgia lenses is that, back in the 90s, I remember all or the vast majority of what I found only was not tied to profit in any way. I'm not against profit per se, but I do believe you get a very different network when people create content because they want to share something they're interested in as opposed to them trying to make a living out of that.
Would love to hear some perspectives on this.

I worked at a YC company a couple years ago. They did not say they were 7-day-weekers, but the culture encouraged it.

There were 2 planning meetings per week, one on Thursday and one on Monday. So if you set a goal on Thursday… you should have it done by Monday.

A young manager there would work 24/7, stressing the hell out of most people who worked with them.

Of course, things would be broken that required weekend death marches.

The thing with startups is, it’s easy to default to this. After all, to the founders, this is the most important thing ever. It’s their ticket. And they try to make it seem like your ticket as well (it’s not).

But smart people don’t work like this. Smart thoughts don’t come out of exhausted brains. It’s a meat grinder for no reason. It’s sadistic.
A few crashes every month causing a few hours of lost time is likely worth more than any possible savings self-building could generate.
The regulation needs to be focused on the validity of the identity chain mechanism but not on individuals. Multiple human interactions as well as institutional relationships could be leveraged depending on needs.

The earliest banking was done with letters of introduction. That is why banking families had early international success. They had a familial trust and verification system.
InstanceSet: Take a specified instance offline in a K8s cluster
Restrictive exit policies
I generally agree with this, as a small-L libertarian. However, the results of the Philips Respironics problems killing people and badly damaging lungs would indicate that we need some amount of better tracking and observation of things like this. See this old HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39223982
I am big fan. Its features are not immediately obvious, but it's a superpower to have. I'll mention just one - the ability to hit Ctl-Enter (MacOS) literally anywhere (in code editor, terminal, assistant pane) to get context-aware responses and code-diffs is super-useful.

I did try cursor but I'm just not into that whole VSCode feel (I am a JetBrains person, and zed lets you set the keymap to JetBrains-style, so most of my kb shortcuts still work in zed).

Zed is rust-based and extremely fast, and they are building it from the ground up instead of forking VScode like Cursor.
The simhash patent has expired and is now free to use
Simhash is an extremely fast and simple algorithm for detecting near duplicate text at scale which makes it particularly useful for deduplicating AI training datasets.
Carta has a similar product, and Radford is a popular one as well. These things have been around for decades. Nothing new.
To me the Psudeo-CGI or straight up non CGI effects have more character. Is it intentional or just "found" I don't know, but I always feel like there's more of a unique look to them.

Straight CG still looks more often than not, too clean (even if trying to look dirty), too polished, too uniform, no character, and just feels like CGI for CGIs sake. Something feels lost and while I expected it to get better over time, I don't feel like it has gotten better.
Migrating from Temporal to a Postgres based task scheduler
Scientists use magnetic nanotech to safely rewarm frozen tissues for transplant
Price gouging almost always happens when there are shortages, so the choice isn't between the two. You'll get both.

Price gouging only benefits those who are relatively wealthy (and the sellers). To those who aren't, it's just a plain old shortage, but combined with having salt rubbed into that wound.
I just wish I could group related files in the my PR so the reviewer has a better way of reading the changes.

It would be like a "PR Journey".
What would be the least ethical would be keeping it secret to one party and having the other party sharing data... Oh wait!
I am definitely not arguing in favor of DNSSEC.

However, I don't think it's reasonable to call DNS, as a system, "very trustworthy".

"Well-secured" by active effort, and consequently "adequately trustworthy" for consumer ecommerce, sure.

But DNS is a systemic weak link in the chain of trust, and must be treated with extra caution for "actually secure" systems.

(E.g., for TLS and where possible, the standard way to remove the trust dependency on DNS is certificate pinning. This is common practice, because DNS is systemically not trustworthy!)
That's because it is owned by a non-profit foundation, and never took VC funding to begin with.
No, but they have system or the like, which is effectively the same, just being evaluated by the shell. https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/system.3.html
https://www.restaurantdive.com/news/mcdonalds-kfc-burger-kin...

https://apnews.com/article/prison-to-plate-inmate-labor-inve...

> Get a grip

I'd suggest you be more curious when others are confident about injustice in the future.
I hope they maintain at least a few MIP options. I have a Garmin and the fact that the display works as well in bright sunlight as it does in a dim room is a killer feature for a device that is explicitly for fitness tracking. The highly-readable, always-on display and the 28-day battery life also make it great as a watch. Obviously, the tradeoff is that it's not good for email or video calls, but if I wanted a mini-smartphone strapped to my wrist instead of a watch, I'd just get an Apple Watch. It seems like a mistake to me to sacrifice the strengths of a product that make it far superior in its niche, in order to try to compete in a market that is already dominated by Apple and Google.
It's almost certainly illegal, but it benefits the capital class, so it's going to get a pass for a long time.

That said, it's exactly the same thing that landlords were doing with that pricing software and the government is coming after them, so maybe pave will get hit with a big lawsuit sometime soon.

Here's hoping this sort of thing gets regulated down into the earth.
This is really nit-picky.

The fundamental action of a boost converter is from the inductors "voltage spike" behavior. The lowest noise linear regulator is less noisy than the lowest noise smps.

I agree though that LLM's are not good at circuit design.
Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names

https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...
Ask HN: Shouldn't Cookie tracking request popups be converted to HTTP Headers?
I mean, it's the same three or four possible fields over and over... can't we just set a default and pass it as a header on every request?
Obviously there are a lot of errors by a lot of people that led to this, but here's one that would've prevented this specific exploit:

> As part of our research, we discovered that a few years ago the WHOIS server for the .MOBI TLD migrated from whois.dotmobiregistry.net to whois.nic.mobi – and the dotmobiregistry.net domain had been left to expire seemingly in December 2023.

Never ever ever ever let a domain expire. If you're a business and you're looking to pick up a new domain because it's only $10/year, consider that you're going to be paying $10/year forever, because once you associate that domain with your business, you can never get rid of that association.
I, born in '98, wrote something about being "nostalgic" for the 80's : https://opguides.info/posts/xx80/