skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t think it was bound to happen. The company did a pretty good job maintaining the culture as we grew. Obviously as more layers of bureaucracy are added and things settle into more standardized procedures, you’re going to lose some of that scrappy feeling. Up until the end of last year, at least the energy really hadn’t changed too much.

I think the algorithm change mentioned in the article precipitated a lot of the culture shift. I think it was a failure of leadership to not have planned for something like this, and two rounds of layoff really shattered a lot of the energy that had been cultivated over the years. There isn’t much discussion these days about brand integrity or responsibility, especially from the top down. It’s very clearly coming from leadership to pursue growth and SEO is steering the ship with everyone else on the sidelines, subject to their whims. I hear from my colleagues in edit and data about some truly wild pieces they’re told to write/research. It doesn’t help with leadership being, as mentioned before, basically invisible outside of quarterly town halls (which are hilariously lacking in transparency, they refuse to even show revenue numbers to the employees).

There’s been other aspects too that contributed. They’ve built up a massive operation in India which offshored a lot of company functions. I had colleagues who had their growth paths with the company essentially halted because they decided to hire new people in India to build out teams rather than advance them and have to pay them more. There were headaches last year with hiring where management basically refused to do US hires for most teams because the UK had lower labor costs, even though a significant portion of the existing company was US based. This caused some of the cross-functional breakdown because it made it more difficult for teams to collaborate across the major timezone gaps. The India buildout exacerbated this too so stuff generally began to take longer.

It all ultimately stems from what is Leadership’s stated “growth above all” mindset. I can’t say they’re wrong from a business perspective. Obviously they’re doing extremely well and taking in a ton of revenue (little of which makes it into our paychecks based on our raises last year lol). It definitely wrung whatever joy or spark people had to try and put together something good. It’s an SEO machine at this point.
From the homepage[1]:

> Ninjalicious, the founder of this website and Infiltration zine passed away in 2005. The website is maintained both in his memory and in the spirit of exploration.

[1]: http://infiltration.org/index.html
I think you have an overly cynical view of the other posts, and are putting words in their mouth and mine.

Yes, governments have many options to allow spending besides borrowing. they do have real downsides which are not negligible, which is why they are done less often. The ability to do something, like "pay off debt by tea time" doesn't mean it is consequence free.

There are governments that fund spending primarily by printing new currency, and you can see what some of those effects are.
If you are arguing that the reactionary ethos is about broader distribution of power, this makes even less sense.
Where do the raw materials for that production ramp come from? Are they abundant?
> Since the late 70s, policy changes and the modern management movement have caused worker pay to drop in real terms.

This isn't well established as the cause and there is reason to expect that it isn't. To start with, the Housing Theory of Everything fits better.

If this was about management practices then in competitive markets things would still be fine, you would only need one company to not do that and everybody would buy from them. But things still kind of suck even there, so what's that about? Housing costs would explain it. People spend more money on rent so they have less money to spend on other things, meanwhile companies have to pay higher rents too, so their customers have less money and simultaneously their business has higher costs. Somehow they have to lower prices while covering higher costs and the somehow is by enshitifying their products, i.e. that is the symptom rather than the cause.

But the Housing Theory of Everything is slightly off, because the real problem is a generalization of the theory. Housing is expensive because supply is artificially constrained, and it's artificial supply constraints -- insufficiently competitive markets -- that are the general underlying cause. Housing is a major example of this, probably the largest and most important, both because it's such a large proportion of personal expenses and because the restrictive zoning that imposes the constraint is so widespread.

But it's the same problem when you need a medical imaging scan and there are Certificate of Need laws that expressly prohibit new competitors from providing the service when the incumbents are charging inflated prices, and then those high costs get incorporated into health insurance premiums and Medicare taxes and reduce real wages by increasing the cost of living.

Regulatory capture has to be undone or it will be our undoing.
> Nevermind that dtrace exists but you're not allowed to use it either.

You're not losing anything, dtrace even without SIP has been broken and unusable for at least 2 major versions now.
> which can be mostly avoided by stopping coffee, tobacco and meat consumption?

Wait, so you're implying the medical industry is responsible for people eating meat and drinking coffee?
What do you expect to happen? Continue to host your data for free? This is such an odd thing to write about.
Do you ever need to implement an HMAC from scratch? I'd look for an off-the-shelf solution before trying to find a cryptographer.
Designing a Better Water Filter
That's fair, though there was a lot of violence against Jews before this, things like the Hebron massacre, though they weren't terror attacks.

Also, I'd point out that the attack on the King David Hotel was widely condemned by almost all mainstream Jewish and Zionist organizations, including the official Porto-army of Israel which turned into the IDF, and including by Ben Gurion, Israel's first Prime Minister.

Btw, if you want a fact that's sure to wow people - I'm fairly certain that, to date, the KDH bombing was the deadliest terror attack in the Palestinian/Israeli territory. (Excluding October 7th, of course, which I'd personally categorize as an invasion, not as a single terror attack.)
If Network Byte Order wasn't a thing, we could all just pretend big endian doesn't exist outside of mainframes.
No. You still need to create a login.

Everyone else at work likes it, so I signed up with my work e-mail address and use it for work. All of my complicated browsing needs are done for work, so there's a good fit there.
If the devs didn't take security seriously before, why would another node in the communication graph change anything?
> Third party apps are not allowed by airlines to charge less than the airline

I've paid much less (on international round-trip flights originating USA) on justfly.com than I could find on the airline's own site.
Yes this seems variable based on point of entry. I had (have?) a flagged passport for awhile and I never got the oh shit face from CBP until they scanned my passport.
The built in DOM types for the browser's `crypto.randomUUID` function actually already use this technique to a lesser extent: https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/blob/121c5dd36bd87e4...
E: VLO
My team switched our medium sized org over to Rancher Desktop with no major issues after about 10 months. We don't need kubernetes though.
This reminds me of this other work[1], which is also a fascinating example of emergence from a dynamical system. Instead of a chemical reaction model, it's a model of slime mold growth, as a system of particles and some update rules. They haven't posted new work in a while, but you can still see many video renderings on their twitter[2] using variants of it that are absolutely mesmerizing.

[1] "Physarum" by Sage Jenson https://cargocollective.com/sagejenson/physarum

[2] https://x.com/mxsage
The ISA isn't what makes x86 easier for operating systems to support than ARM SoCs. It's things like generic ACPICA instead of hardcoded devicetrees.
Silence = no.
I don't think OP is offended, just, there's a lot of us who are in locations where we can't be watching someone yap about sex and drugs
We’re working on a proper security bulletin site that will have these front and center! This was a bit of a stopgap for now.
Interesting opinion but there is no dystopian literature i know of that worries about banning mass surveillance. Mass surveillance on the other hand features very prominently.
You’re seriously quoting an article on spiked-online.com as if it is a truthful and authoritative source?

No, I can’t accept that.
That's how you ruin a company reputation. Not saying it is or not deserved, but how could anyone trust a browser that had such a big security fail.

And what about all the other that have not been reported or may be exploited ?

From now on, every time someone is going to suggest arc browser, there will be another one to remind everyone of that. That's going to be very difficult to overcome when your software already doesn't have that big of a market share.
Well, a true cynic would note that if an 80% of a dictatorship all agreed and felt so passionate -- if even 40% did, such a government would easily fall apart or be capable of reform.

If we could reliably attain passion, cooperation, consciousness? And ultimately, a belief in agency?

Then we would hardly even need to protect institutions against such subversion.
> But today fares are the lowest they've been in the history of aviation, except for during COVID which should never be factored into trends.

Not from the US to Asia they're not.

Not even close to the 3-5 years preceding Covid, when competition from Chinese airlines drove prices way down
Great to hear! Thanks for saying so.

Question for you: can Google Flights (or any other flight search engine) give you the same kind of search capabilities/answers/experience you got from Adioso?
numpy and scipy are other examples of widely used (esp in scientific community) FOSS packages that are solid, updated, don’t appear to be v political (from the outside). There are others.
We did but we closed the roles by hiring folks. They just haven’t joined yet.
Ya this is fair! Honestly this was our first bounty ever awarded and we could have been more thoughtful. We’re currently setting up a proper program and based on that rubric will adjust accordingly.
Give them a test task relevant to the job. And see if they are able to do it within timeframe and quality of work. Ask them to walk you through a recent project they worked on.
What will happen instead is standards, because the fragmentation of these monopolies would instead leave people unable to communicate with each other.

People want to be able to communicate with each other! For example because people want to be able to communicate with each other, the EU made it law that messenger apps must embrace competitive compatibility.

Once you have standards a clone of a UI or even a backend is no more threat. People can customize clients and servers to no end at that point -- they can do anything but break the shared expectations.
doesn't actually have to be a Mexican IP. Just has to be in the database as Mexican. These databases can be pretty bad, as much as 10% wrong.
I'm reminded of ceausescu. Everyone agreed, up until they suddenly didn't and he and his wife didn't even seem to get it until they were lined up and shot.

I think it takes both agreement and desperation for that kind of thing to happen, though. Comfortable people don't tend to buck the people who can freeze their bank accounts in any serious way at simultaneous scale, even when they're in mass disagreement.
I demoed Orbstack to my whole department of 100+ engineers, now we've canceled our Docker Desktop account and switched everyone over. Zero complaints.
Cancer :( Specifically Cholangiocarcinoma (bile duct cancer).
What a pompous and annoying message you’ve written. Apple is one of the most successful businesses in the history of the world for good enough reason — providing value to customers.
so that you can cat(1) multiple files at once, and their bookends don't get glued.
Then you're looking in the wrong section. You don't want the sci-fi section, you want history - Cold War. The investigation of the government by the people was violently suppressed and the the official mouthpieces were jokes - "There is no pravda in Izvestia and no izvestia in Pravda."
Commercial speech is substantially less protected under First Amendment case law. You can't prohibit random individuals from declaring themselves a citizen journalist and recording people, but I think it would be entirely possible to pass a law saying private companies may not assemble facial recognition databases for sale to third parties.
... Intel wasn't able to ship on EUV, so they would be in great company.
> You're so disproportionately upset about some minor administrative hassles.

Aka getting robbed, in a way no other country would dream of doing. We've been over this...

> I certainly don't find it "exploitative" or "unjust" that Americans retain the rights and responsibilities of citizenship worldwide.

Being this disingenuous is generally considered bad faith and rude.

> No one's stopping you from renouncing your citizenship if you're really this upset about it.

There's literally all kinds of exit penalty...

> I'm sure this suggestion will trigger a long screed about how tragic the exit penalty is

Well, no, because other people have already pointed this out.

Also, it's obviously bad, because no other country in the world charges a higher exit fee, or gets so petty about renouncing citizenship.

And even though you know all this, even though it's literally the worst in the world, from multiple angles, even though it's costing you time and money for no return, even though you get absolutely nothing out of it - you will get into a three day argument rather than accept that it's uncool. Bizarre.

... "Please Uncle, tax me more and make me do more forms, and make everyone else do it too so I can flaunt my fantastic form-filling skills". Truly, the diversity of humans on the planet is something to behold.
Ask HN: Kodak, VW, Intel – Why big companies fail?
Understandable for startups - product isn't something anybody needs or not enough cash but why big companies with a proven product would fail?

Your observations?
Sure.

Under the second amendment to the us constitution of 1787, and through the intentionally inflammatory language of the Declaration of Independence, many believe that citizens are empowered to “throw off the yoke” of an oppressive government. But the knowledge that — in an emergency — we could break open the glass of the second amendment and regain our rights blinds us to the by-degrees ratcheting towards authoritarianism. Without the false promise of the ability to overthrow a profoundly evil government, we would be more aggressive against the immediate threats, knowing that once we got too far, there was no ultra violence route back.

(This is not a great argument, merely the best I could make on no notice).
"Citation needed" is the lamest response. I am not your personal Google assistant. Nuclear proponents just like you cited Fukushima as a hallmark of reliability to "disprove" its dangers to me. There were articles highlighting it. These are obviously hard to find now with the digital rot of the last decade. Sorry I didn't print out copies to hand out to you many years later.
Try this: https://dearrow.ajay.app/
I'm afraid the calculator with the code is long dead - but really was a very simple (and very slow) straightforward renderer in whatever the horrible Casio basic programming language was called.

As I recall I first implemented a simple zirpenzky gasket - and then wrote a renderer for the Mandelbrot set. Took only about 5 to 8 hours runtime to do a black and white Mandelbrot...

I was reading a brilliant book at the time, which I've since donated to a school library (and i fear they in turn threw it away) - can't find the exact book now, I think maybe it was called "A walk through modern mathematics" or something like that. Came out in the 90s and had a bit about various chaos theory stuff in it.
If you just want a different aesthetic when your system is powered down, you don't need to change the screen itself - just drape a piece of cloth over it.
I think the author may not be entirely serious, and may even have been attempting to achieve some level of humor or personal catharsis with their writing.
This is kind of complex. Maybe the simpler answer is that people decide to buy houses when they have families in the US, and as people have families later in life, their income has actually increased, even if wages appear to be stagnant. Wages are measuring the wrong thing.
I will note that Dropbox has changed so much from when I first learned of their service. They seem very focused on providing solutions to businesses now compared to back then when it seemed more like a product for individual users.
New W. Richard Stevens editions
There are new editions of W. Richard Stevens‘ books coming out next year. What do you expect will be the biggest changes to these classic texts?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/TCP-IP-Illustrated-1-Protocols/dp/0138050813

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Linux-Network-Programming-George-Neville-Neil/dp/0138095051
The answers are as diverse as the companies. I think you'd find it more productive to search for past discussions on some of these corporate declines. You might also be interested in Stafford Beers' work on system theory.
You said "exact same work", I said "comparable work"
I quite like John Mulaney but I do kind of agree, these are rather contrived insights. That being said, I also think that delivery is part of what makes a joke land and we're just reading a few select bits after the fact as opposed to watching Mulaney deliver them onstage. I remember being introduced to some Mitch Hedberg bits over IM some years back, followed the next day by them reciting those bits, and it didn't click at all until they popped in a VHS tape (yes it was that long ago) and I saw Hedberg anxiously weaving back and forth, heard him mumbling and elongating his phrases. I wouldn't say Mulaney's in the same league, but I don't think it's unfair to say this contributes.
Imagine a marketing/advertising professional said, “I’ve never had any kind of positive ROI from trying to write software.” What would you think their issue is?
TSA Precheck lines are excessively long now, to say nothing about the normie lines which probably violate some population density laws of the universe. Meanwhile the Digital ID line is (at least for now) practically empty.

So that's an easy 10~20 minutes shaved off. Once I'm ushered through to screening I have the same convenience benefits as TSA Precheck since it's a prerequisite for Digital ID anyway.
Mass surveillance played out privately means every plated cop car can be tracked, every noted confidential informant and every detective, tax stasi, etc can be traced. This is already becoming the case on networked mapping apps where the road pirates are losing their revenue. It's more of a worry for the state than citizens IMO.
Only if I’m the one on fire, then it’s relative.
When I packaged the ROCm libraries that shipped in the Ubuntu 24.04 universe repository, I built and tested them with almost every discrete AMD GPU architecture from Vega to CDNA 2 and RDNA 3 (plus a few APUs). None of that is officially supported by AMD, but it is supported by me on a volunteer basis (for whatever that is worth).

I think that every library required to build cupy is available in the universe repositories, though I've never tried building it myself.
From my understanding, don't many places like big retail stores or malls already use facial recognition with their security systems? Whether it be to deal with flagging banned individuals who come on premises, or for things like tracking where people go in a mall. These kinds of things privately I think are already used a lot.
This is so super annoying for shared lab computers
There might be a bit of misunderstanding on what's in that git repo here. It actually contains the executor, state store, queue, and our production UI, plus the syncing, registration, and logic for functions.

Earlier this year we didn't want folks to roll their own production cloud due to queueing migrations. It would make your life hard. We're entirely responsible for that right now, as we discouraged self hosting.

That's actually coming to a close, and we'll make it easy to spin up prod clusters using this code and eg. MemoryDB, Dragonfly, or what have you.
Generally, people who work as founding engineers are friends of the founder and believe in the founder and idea.

It's not really a job people should be hiring/applying for.
Shut up and take my money!!

Would that really need AI though? I guess recognizing the particular item and then deciding how to fold/hang it would be some sort of ML. Again though, that's just a bunch of if statements being labeled as AI.
its not clear at all if 'house prices' are meant to mean construction, land, the two combined, new, or new and second-hand
I have heard about some routes in northern Norway that have a lot of short stops to pickup/unload passengers (like a flying bus). I don't know if they still exist
Microsoft Ends Development of Windows Server Update Services (WSUS)
Indigenous South Africans Still Directly Related to Their 10k-Year-Old Ancestors
Petabye Postgres
Our Insights product at Timescale recently ticked over 1 petabyte of storage, 100 trillion metrics stored, 800 billion metrics per day.

A lot of the data is stored using Timescale's Tiering feature, but all that data is still ingested into Postgres and queryable as normal.

It’s amazing what Postgres can do if you architect your solution well.
At work, we had an appliance which went into failsafe on average 8 times per day. The failsafe is meant to remove power from a device-under-test in case of something like fire in the DUT. The few actual critical failures were not detected by the appliance.

Instead, the failsafe has the effect of merely invalidating the current test, and making the appliance unable to run a test correctly until either power cycled or the appliance's developer executes a secret series of commands that are not shared with us.

So of course an operator of the appliance found a way to feed in a false "I'm here!" with a loop, to trick the appliance into never going into failsafe…

That's for ~6.8% of all tests being false-positive, ~93.2% being true-negative, and ~3 tests that should have triggered failsafe did not.
Borsch is a Ukrainian dish.
Hi Hursh, I'm Tom. A couple friends use Arc and they like it, so I had considered switching to it myself. Now, I won't, not really because of this vulnerability itself (startups make mistakes), but because you paid a measly $2k bounty for a bug that owns, in a dangerous way, all of your users. I won't use a browser made by a vendor who takes the security of their users this unseriously.

By the way, I don't know for sure, but given the severity I suspect on the black market this bug would have gone for a _lot_ more than $2k.
Some ARM systems (mainly servers) do support ACPI; allowing for one image to run on multiple processors and devices.

However… ACPI is apparently a pretty awful thing to implement. When it doesn’t work, or mistakes are made (looking at my own 13th gen HP laptop right now - borked ACPI tables means unpatchable broken sleep on Linux), then it’s pure frustration.

Device trees on the other hand are much more binary. Either everything generally works or it doesn’t at all. It’s a valid approach.