skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you implying that people who prefer work remotely are deadwood? Are introverts deadwood? Are people who prefer not to commute 3 hours a day deadwood?
> Settle for premade layouts

Just think of how many man years we could have saved if we did this.
Also 2 x 60m commuting + 15-45m (depending on circumstances) of preparation for the office before leaving. So much waste of one's life!

I was steering myself towards remote work since it was technically unfeasible. I worked from home in the late 90's setting up a removable hard drive with data and two computers taking that (office + home), but that WFH was beyond the 40h / week, I had to go in 9 to 5 still. I liked the tasks, so it was exciting.

Then technology improved, chose a position where the pay was only acceptable but I had the chance of working from different places, city, country, so no chance of going in to the office! This was the 2010's.

Then chose an on-site work in a rich country so after getting to know and trust each other I'd have the theoretical possibility of working from a cheap country remotely on a very good salary (or something between the two for mutual benefit). Unluckily I had a stoneheaded and actually very incompetent COO coming from decades of secretarial position in a uni unable to comprehend working elsewhere than in an allocated (rubbish) chair at a particular (rubbish) desk in a cheap office (being cold in winter so my poor female colleagues sat in coats) far from amenities, from 9 to 5. This was her sole understanding what work is, the poor soul. So after some time trying (suffering, fighting) for remote dominant settings I handed in my resignation (they headed a wall anyway with that poor incompetent COO) into the nothing. Having some months of rest before picking up something new. That was 2019 December. Oi! : )

Now I work with colleagues - working on the very same codebase - from 3 continents spanning 18h of time zones, most of them never met. This is nice!
Yeah same. Ive been doing it the long way for years apparently.
Show HN: I open-sourced my HN comment/reply alerts service
2 months ago I launched a service that sends email alerts when you get a new comment/reply on Hacker News.

I've only been able to acquire 6 users since releasing it (°ー°〃) I tried promoting it here (duuh), Reddit, and LinkedIn. Optimized it for SEO (ranking 3rd on my target keywords). All with limited success.

So I've decided to open-source it! Links to...
- frontend: https://github.com/mihailthebuilder/hackernewsalerts-fronten...
- backend: https://github.com/mihailthebuilder/hackernewsalerts-backend

I'm still using it for myself, since there's no service that sends alerts when you get a new comment in one of your posts. But I won't invest any more time in it.

Welcome any questions/comments!
Graal let's you compile native binaries
FWIW, Hezbollah has thousands of members.

From Wikipedia [1]:

> Hezbollah does not reveal its armed strength. The Dubai-based Gulf Research Centre estimated in 2006 that Hezbollah's armed wing comprises 1,000 full-time Hezbollah members, along with a further 6,000–10,000 volunteers.[200] According to the Iranian Fars News Agency, Hezbollah has up to 65,000 fighters.[201] In October 2023, Al Jazeera cited Hezbollah expert Nicholas Blanford as estimating that Hezbollah has at least 60,000 fighters, including full-time and reservists, and that it had increased its stockpile of missiles from 14,000 in 2006 to about 150,000.

And this is just the armed portion.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hezbollah
The Accelerationist Playbook
I think this is the case of both sides knew about each other's plan all along and yet Oct 7 happened. What could be the reason for both sides to execute it. Just to find out what happens?
I can't remember the details, but sometime in the '70s or '80s a sci-fi magazine ran a contest: take a short text (something like "a man gets onto a bus and notices another man wearing an unusual hat") and rewrite it in the distinctive style of a sci-fi writer of your choice.

The winning results were pretty entertaining. I only remember the Heinlein entry having something like "Why, he's using plasteel for his helmet liner instead of ferrocrete!"
Post-Mortem of Our Longest Downtime
Reuters is quoting experts, including lithium battery experts, saying that the explosions were inconsistent with an exploding battery:

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/what-we-know-so-fa...
Mandelbrot calculation speed on a variety of Python accelerators
The first person to arrive was hawking himself in his patented timetraveling wheelchair, advising himself to not tell us that time travel is possible.

Then a bunch of other people arrived and they had a wild party.
This is an important point, and something that HN should really take to heart. It's legal to buy and sell slaves in some parts of Libya, therefore slavery is good.

People are quick to forget that the morality of any given action should always be judged by its legality in any random jurisdiction.
Perhaps US surveillance capitalism will provide some security lost through a porous southern border. Maybe those who cross it don't have a proper visa, but at least adtech can tell us who they are. Worries about allowing terrorists into the country can be offset by monitoring their internet searches, buying history, location data, etc.
This is nice!

When everyone can choose what work best for them! We are not the same - and face to face meetings have their huge benefits from time to time anyway.

Except for those poor souls working for Amazon.
Well this just proves my point. I graduated from high school when Nirvana, RHCP - and the far superior Fishbone - were in their heyday. Your dad and his friends were simply cognizant of the fact that the music when I was young was the best ever!
Seeing this is Amazon corporate, as warehouse and delivery people never worked from home, probably most of them (if they weren't dumb with their Amazon salaries).
> Surely a pager message isn't transmitted from every tower everywhere.

They generally are!

Some systems required the sender to select a geographic region to increase bandwidth efficiency, or alternatively the pager owner to update their coarse-scale location with the operator after moving significant distances.

The latter is what the old Iridium satellite pagers did (do?), for example. (Not sure how the new GDB-based ones work.)
> How do we stop others from amplifying the lies/propaganda that they're producing?

By penalizing the companies that make that extremely easy and convenient for external actors to push their propaganda. Basically the whole userbase is for sale for the... really for the lowest bidder.
TexTube: Chat with any YouTube video transcript in ChatGPT fast
What is the use-case for GraalPy? To be honest I don't understand why would anyone want to use it.
Exactly, there are numerous reasons other than it's not possible.

1.Time-travel will never become possible.

2.Time-travel becomes possible. Their time travel capabilities are inadequate to visit us.

3.Time-travel becomes possible. They do not wish to visit us.

4.Our archiving and preservation techniques are inadequate. Our message does not reach the future.

5.Time travel becomes possible. They are willing and able to travel to the past. Our archiving and preservation techniques are adequate. The message has not been accessed in its future database.

6. Time travel becomes possible. They are willing and able to travel to the past. Our archiving and preservation techniques are adequate. We are not able to perceive or become aware of their visitation.
I'm very skeptical about production use, but the thought of Oracle taking over Python is amusing, since the Python community is already run like Oracle in a top down military manner. It can only get better!
There is no substitute for teaching critical thinking skills. The childhood education system needs to prioritize that above all else, demonstration of those skills must be regularly rewarded throughout adult life, and those who flagrantly disregard them need to be properly ridiculed.

This serves our society not just for resisting foreign propaganda, but also reducing the inefficiency brought about by sycophants and the short-sighted promises of charlatans.

It doesn't scale well, it is a hard thing to maintain a society of critical thinkers, and there are powerful elements out there who actively work to oppose it, but alas the right thing is often not easy.
This should be the minimum requirement to launch a system like that
Show HN: Open-source deployment tool for AWS Lambda
Nothing in the linked article backs up the implication that only members of Helbollah’s militant wing had these.

It did, however, mention that an 8 year old girl was killed by one of them. Which is a foreseeable consequence of widely distributing a bunch of bombs and then detonating them without regard for who’s nearby.
That would be one of the entries in the "unholy nightmare" bullet list.
Sounds like a bargain.

Any idea how long your servers will last until you need to upgrade to the latest GPU/HW?
From https://www.whatgenerativeai.com/docs/genai-playbook/unveili...

"Many GenAI models use unsupervised learning, allowing them to find patterns in data without explicit labeling. This helps models generalize beyond their training data and create new outputs."

I'm curious how unsupervised learning relates to the transformer architecture or RLHF. What aspects of these methods, or other GenAI technologies you know of tie into unsupervised learning?
whoever is good/evil aside...

hezbollah got totally owned and look like fools...relying on tech they just took at face value out of the box
In quantum field theory electrons are excitations in the electron field.

If they also were tiny black holes, what would it mean to be an excitation in the electron field which when the wave function collapses it would behave like a black hole. Does it mean that it's not a black hole anymore when the wave function spreads out?
There's one subtle aspect that we tend to lose sight of. Suppose you have an election where a regular candidate or party goes up against a troll-propped devil incarnate. The latter should have no business advancing or succeeding in politics, yet here we are. By many measures, Putin has already won at that point.

If the establishment fires off the artillery, democracy itself catches flak. Almost paradoxically, democracy's defenders are forced into measured complicity and silent legitimization. It's just a flesh wound and there's not much to see here.
Maybe those sure, but I guess I'm more talking about the corporate IT or legal department setting who are just worried about some micro service having some weird vulnerability or something.
Try Musk tweets. He directly posted at least one, the "When it's been 5 minutes and you haven't spread Russian propaganda"

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12589987/Perhaps-re...
Scancode vs character code is what they are describing:

Games SHOULD use scancodes for positional mappings (like WASD) and rely on the system keymap to decide what letter to display them as. There is no "probably" here, the scancode is the scancode and the keymap is the keymap.

Games OFTEN use the character codes directly regardless if it's for a positional mapping or not. This requires explicit support in the game for each possible system keymap, otherwise you end up with nonsense mappings.
No, saying "whoops" does not excuse war crimes.
What is the repeatable method by which you came to that conclusion? That is what needs to be formalized for your response to make sense.
Instagram makes all teen accounts private, in a push for child safety
Like again if you are not sure, what open source means, this is open source: https://appimage.org/

Hope it is abundantly clear with this example. Docker tried it's best to do the whole open source but business first and it led to disastrous results.

At best this will make your company suffer and second guess itself and at worst this is moral fraud.

Talk to your group partner about this and explain to them as well.
I feel similarly.
I've been pure remote since COVID.
I used to complain about having to come into the office just to stare at a screen quietly next to people.
Being remote has been great in some ways, but I've really noticed the reduction in connection to coworkers and the major decline in informal collaboration. I've also had to dedicate a room of my house as an office (have kids, so working from any common space is fully impossible).
My life just feels smaller now, when most days instead of traveling through the city on a busy train to meet up with dozens of collaborators, discuss, eat together, I start my day by sitting down in a small room by myself in front of a screen.

Work is what I do with most of my days. I'd like it to be as engaging and as socially connective as possible. I don't like commuting, but I'm planning for my next job to be in person.
Perhaps extroverts who can only thrive when in the company of others should stick with careers that require the company of others, instead of those careers that can be accomplished hundreds of kilometers from society (in a cabin in the woods).
I've been encountering fewer and fewer small point stories of late. There's a certain amount of overhead for one story, both on the creation side and the deployment side, and that bookkeeping starts to overshadow.

And on a larger team, a lot of these little things that need to be done could just be tasks rolled up into a maintenance story.

Of course when I was on a team doing Kanban none of this bullshit mattered. You just put it at the top of the backlog and it got done. Quick win, instant gratification, next story please.

And that right there is one of the biggest reasons Scrum is showing its age. It came into a world where quarterly milestones were the only time you found out how fucked the project is, and only then if you had a good bullshit detector. Otherwise it would be next quarter when you figured it out. It pushed that world down to two week resolution, one month to see past the BS. But it struggles to make good on reducing past 2 weeks. One week has more overhead, and forget about anything shorter than that.

Also I've never encountered anyone who followed Ken's advice to run sprints from Wednesday to Wednesday, so we always get the worst version of Scrum.
To clarify, I'm not trying to make any persuasive arguments about this. This is based on my own calculations, and there is generally not enough publicly available information to come to a fully informed verdict. For example, if you take all figures by Hamas, including some of the low number of deaths of their own fighters they reported, the ratio climbs up to 4:1 or more. I doubt anyone can say with certainty what the right figures are (well, perhaps some can provide good estimates, but not publicly).

I'd be interested in knowing how the IDF mandate to destroy Hamas is defined concretely in terms of KIA of enemy combatants but perhaps that hasn't even been decided yet.
Unless the software is written to ROM or otherwise made not modifiable by anyone, the creators of the GPL intend that the end user gains the right to modify this software. If using a version before GPL/LGPL/AGPLv3, it is ok if the proprietary parts of the system stop running if the software is not an official build. With the v3 versions, even this is not ok.

Now, I believe Linus Torvalds for example interprets the license differently, and doesn't believe that a company using Linux on an embedded system is obligated to allow their customers to apply a patch to this Linux system (and he certainly doesn't want the manufacturer to be forced to make their proprietary software run on top of the modified Linux, which is why he never wanted the Linux sources to be updated to GPLv3, even if it were feasible to do so).
That is completely mesmerizing!
The only thing you would accomplish by that is an auto-reply rejection without content, or a last minute rejection with “couldn’t approve within deadline so rejecting”.

Surprisingly to everyone the problem in this scenario is Elons Musks blatant disregard for the rules, not the fact that the rules don’t bend to his will fast enough.
I certainly agree that war, as experienced by humans on all sides of a conflict, is a form of terror.

That's a simple emotional argument that everybody can relate to.

It doesn't touch on the realities of war, especially a war that was forced on one side by another (which is the case here, with Hezbollah willingly deciding to shell and bomb Israel on a daily basis for the past 12 months, despite Israel not waging any war on Lebanon).

What are you so fascinated with here, exactly?
AVX-512 is on Zen5. Ultra-popular libraries like simdjson can use it. https://github.com/simdjson/simdjson/issues/10

In general my hope is that runtimes pick up the good stuff & roll with it. Io_uring hasn't exactly been a stunning success on nidejs/libuv but the promise is so real that runtimes can take sweet io capabilities like io_uring or usersoace interrupts & boom, now everyone's ok is faster.
Apple's A18 Pro chip in iPhone 16 Pro has faster CPU than 6GHz Intel i9-14900K
Made-up names are bad to read for me too. I don't like too many things in my head with unfamiliar names. I can't think of things with unfamiliar names, and it bothers me.
We homeschool and there are some YouTube channels out there that are high-quality enough that we can use them to outsource / augment some of our subjects, particularly science and history.
What does that mean for Clojure?
Ask HN: Which of these product ideas would you bet on?
I'm seeking advice from founders and other HN users. Which of these do you think it'd be easiest to get 30 engaged beta users for? Which would you bet on?

Let's say that an engaged beta user is one who'll pay me $1 a month plus would chat with me for 10 mins a day as I build it. I'm purely building for the love of the game at this point :) (No fundraising needed). Success to me is one where I can spend lots of time building a product for appreciative users who are happy to give me ~unlimited feedback as I build.

For Founders

1. Product idea validation agency (Alt: marketing agencies, FB ads, cold emails)

2. Ambitious bootstrapper cofounder matching (Alt: YC founder matching)

3. $0->$1M ARR bootstrapper Discord and/or in person retreat (Alt: YC, MicroConf, Smallbets)

4. $1M+ bootstrapped business case studies (Alt: MyFirstMillion, Starter Story, IndieHackers)

For Work

5. AI-sector stock analysis newsletter (Alt: SemiAnalysis, Stratechery, TheInformation)

6. AI interviewer + content writing tool (Alt: Otter + ChatGPT + ghostwriters)

7. AI tools pro-tips guide (Alt: prompt engineering guides, AI tool videos)

8. AGI development tracking newsletter (Alt: Dwarkesh Pod, Jimmy Apples, anime PFPs)

9. Email simplifier app powered by LLMs (Alt: Superhuman, EA)

10. TikTok growth expert Q&A/audit (Alt: being stuck at 100 followers, hiring TT agency)

For Personal Development

12. Intuition training workshop (Alt: Joe Dispenza, decision tools, meditation retreats)

13. Procrastination/ADHD AI daily check-in calls (Alt: life coach, todo apps, over-planning)

14. AI-guided emotional regulation chats (Alt: coaching, counselor, venting to a friend)

15. AI-guided couple/cofounder mediation (Alt: relationship counselor, co-founder coach)

16. Emotional regulation training workshop (Alt: meditation, Internal Family Systems)

17. Toddler parenting skills workshop (Alt: parenting books)

If you have questions or feedback or suggestions let me know either via email (in profile) or in the comments.

Which would you bet on being able to get 30 engaged users for?
For what it's worth, I have family members who are Palestinian, so I am deeply sympathetic to the plight of the innocent people dying in Gaza and the West Bank. I am not of Palestinian ethnic background myself (complex family history).

I believe the Israeli government and members of the IDF have done terrible things that they should be held accountable for. But I can't condemn the average citizen of Israel since I have no idea if they are for or against the war. I have enough Jewish friends and Israeli colleagues to know that there is a spectrum of opinion.

I also believe that organizations such as Hamas should be held accountable for the way the spend the lives of Palestinians in service of their greater cause. Some of the political leaders for the Palestinian cause use strong rhetoric while living comfortably far away from where the bombs are falling. And just like with Israelis, I have no idea what the average Palestinian believes about Israel, Hamas, or Hezbollah. I imagine there is a spectrum of opinion there as well.

I guess what I am trying to say is that it is possible for multiple truths to be operative at once.
I never said it excuses it, I just said that when you explicitly target someone you don't usually apologize for it afterward.
It is hard to read things like this and not have a strong emotional reaction instead of the appropriate strong intellectual one. Fundamentally attacks like these need to start with the question 'What is an appropriate response?'. These attacks are having an actual impact and have likely swayed many elections. Effectively they have brought down at least parts of various governments. That reasoning arguably calls for a very strong response since it is a real existential threat to countries. I think that a major issue here however is that governments haven't actually internalized how destructive these threats are, likely because they are using them indiscriminately themselves. "It's just propaganda and only electrons" Admitting the scale and impact of actions like these would be condemning their own actions. We need stronger international understanding that things like this are actually violent attacks aimed at overthrowing a government and that they should be considered potentially acts of war. At the same time however we need to constantly fight to deescalate since this is a new area of conflict and missteps can lead to tragedy. Figuring out responses that work, without increasing attacks, both virtual and physical, is key.
Doesn’t optimised charging ensure it’s not always at 100% natively?

Additionally, AlDente is even better than the native battery management.
Ok, so targeted strikes in the US by our enemies that have civilians as collateral damage is OK, is that what you are saying?
The power of Russian propaganda is that it’s based on kernels of truth:

* Germany is getting economically fucked.

* the US is wasting taxpayers’ money.

* the Polish farmers were getting screwed by cheap, low-quality grain.

The US/EU strategy of downplaying all of the above works as long as the economy’s fine. And when it isn’t, one can whine about Russian propaganda all they want, but the incumbent political parties have great chances of being voted out.
I loved the humor as well; it's part of why it is so readable. But what really stood out for me was this insane future he painted a picture of.
Fun fact: The nth composition combinator can be created by applying the b combinator to the nth Church numeral:

(1 b) ~> λgfx.(g (f x))
(2 b) ~> λhgfx.(h (g (f x)))
(3 b) ~> λihgfx.(i (h (g (f x))))
...

Furthermore:

(X (Y b)) = (X*Y b)

I use these in my bruijn programming language in the form of infix/prefix operators. [1]

[1] https://bruijn.marvinborner.de/std/Combinator.bruijn.html#b
People routinely leave guns in Walmart bathrooms. Leaving the top secret hezbollahpager on the counter is eminently believable.
Hey, great question - you're right, extensions are more accessible - the thing is, there is no great way to build the native UI we'd want using them. For example, displaying the before-and-after is vital for us, and doesn't feel natural in an extension.

Extensions like Codeium do the most naive thing possible by writing something like <<<<<<< DIFF >>>>>>>> in your file, literally breaking syntax highlighting. Others like Copilot are super buggy.

Right now Void is built on top of an extension, but we're also modifying and hooking into parts of the IDE to make a more native UX.