skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That sounds like a terrible year. I feel sorry for the poster. Life can come at you fast and sometimes I feel like I’m just bracing myself for such a life changing event.

I too was at Google. But for 7 years, not 10. And my employment terminated in April, not because of a life event like his.

But the feelings he expressed resonate with me. I stopped enjoying work and my performance tanked coinciding with a reorg and manager change.

I did not miss my job which just a couple years ago I actually enjoyed.

I wasn’t seriously thinking of leaving my job. Being pushed out forced me to evaluate what I do if that happened - which it did. And that evaluation is that I’m a lot happier and can reset what I want from life - it doesn’t have to be full on retirement.

I have always thought about life in the long go term. What legacy do I want to leave, how do I want to spend the last years, what do I want the late years to look like with my wife.

Sometimes it takes the outside world to force you into the next thing. Life does not discriminate but the best you can do is take a big step back and try to find a new lens to look at it through. There are many lenses.
I thought it was going to be about how there was 3700% inflation since coins were actually a useful concept.

It's probably just better to go for eliminating the cent and the nickel and making a 2.5$ coin.
Yes, some paid ones that encrypt the data and have been in business for many years. They're not publicly listed in the stock market, and so they don't have to put up with the self-destructing demands of shareholders
Wait, 5000 is an actual number?
If Stephen King thinks he can make a better movie then he should start directing.. Kubric was a genius.
People messing up in this puzzle are not confused about the idea that people know things others don't.
It's quite surprising to me how the US still has the penny. Like its value is less than the cost of carrying it around.
Ask HN: Do some people combine dumb phones with tablets?
Maybe they do this because they want to look at a larger screen?
I'm sad this magazine will be ending soon. They do such great writing.

I was at orcas Island recently. I wanted to have my kids hear some good stories about the place, so I started asking anyone I met, "tell me a story about a dangerous animal attack here!"

Everyone would just say, "hmm, there aren't any dangerous animals..."

Then, one person said. "Well, there was that person that died from a bee sting."

Then someone said "Sometimes the elk swim across the sound and come on the island." I decided I would tell my kids they came over to attack people but I had no evidence that was true.

There were reports of bears getting confused and swimming over and they are quickly relocated.

The most dangerous animal apparently is the mink. In the seventies a rogue employee at a mink farm released a bunch of them, and now they have overrun the place. And they can be vicious hunters. The person that told me that said he had a recent picture in the local newspaper of a mink that went into the ocean and captured an eel. His picture is of the mink rising from the waters with that eel in its mouth.
You’re right, he was an overall good guy. I had Harold in mind, who builds the bomb that kills Nick.
You're not special.
Hey guys, I'm switching to this amazing Linux distro called waydroid_Linux
> he should start directing

He did.
Maybe, I actually don't know much. You can check it out: https://font.batinstudio.com/
I apologize to all of you, but the interest in this blog post exceeded my expectations and unfortunately, due to the number of entries, the blog simply exploded and you can't enter the article...

That's why I refer to Webarchive: https://web.archive.org/web/20241006115043/https://blog.toma...
> Sailfish Mobile OS

> Available for supported Sony Xperia™ devices.

So not very useful for other devices. /s
Because you are basically root then
Drought has dried an Amazon River tributary to its lowest level in over 122 year
Laws against fraud, like 18 U.S. Code Chapter 47 and others in each state?
Id say your friend being put behind bars would do the trick.
I like the simplicity of envars too, but they shouldn't be used for secrets. They are not designed to be secure, and are too easy to leak. Containers often allow placing secrets into files, and specifying the filepath in an envar. Files have access controls that are designed for security, so while it takes some thought, they are easier to secure.
A building is nothing more than a shell for the most part. It's all the parts that attach inside it that make it specialized. Those extraneous city halls could easily be repurposed, as their layouts share many of the aspects of business offices. Should that not work, they could be remade into commercial storefronts, or redesigned to hold electrical infrastructure by using the building as a facade, or any other number of things. For example in England many of the older pumping stations designed to keep the fens dry were repurposed as voltage stations for electricity, old rail sheds were repurposed to shelter busses, and horse stables were turned into loft-over-shop style homes. Reuse is always better than replace when it comes to something as expensive as architecture, especially architecture using lasting materials like stone.

As for building something new... What exactly would need to be new to justify the construction? Density in cities only continues to grow, but that density is solved by verticality rather than replacement. You build up and you build onto rather than build out and build over. If it's to replace architectural styles, that is something that has to be decided on an individual example, as there's things like a city's aesthetic identity, historical significance, and architectural cohesion to consider. Erasing Lancashire's infamous council houses would be decried for decades despite their homogeneity and and connections with poverty, but getting rid of the giant monobloc apartments in Sheffield likely wouldn't be opposed too much because Brutalism's never much been liked and there's plenty of examples.
Books to Challenge Perceptions of Neurodiversity
I'm pretty sure the author is specifically referring to the framing of P vs NP used in the video, not to the problem itself, since a bit into the article they write this:

"I think that the framing with inverting a function f is quite underrated."
To me, this appears to be the democratisation of information (or bullshit, depending how you look at it) dissemination. In the past, only a select few told stories to the masses. With each new invention (printing press, camera, internet, AI), more people gained the ability to share their ideas. Now we've reached a point where almost anyone can tell stories, even those who previously struggled to express themselves.

Each time, we observe the same pattern: the established storytellers predict doom, fearing the loss of their privileged role. Once again, we're eliminating the middleman. We're approaching a state where peer-to-peer communication is once more possible (something we lost when we grew from tribes into nations and "the world"). This development is deeply unsettling to existing gatekeepers who have derived money and power from controlling the flow of information.

And "information wants to be free" after all, so things like "licences" and "intellectual properties" are going to suffer too.

And a reminder that the full quote from the 1960s (!) is this:

"On the one hand you have—the point you’re making Woz—is that information sort of wants to be expensive because it is so valuable—the right information in the right place just changes your life. On the other hand, information almost wants to be free because the costs of getting it out is getting lower and lower all of the time. So you have these two things fighting against each other."
Books for understanding AI and its effect on people
https://ipwatchdog.com/2014/08/17/the-government-vs-general-...
When the borrowed IP ran out, the game was over.
People need to be able to quickly do the math in their heads to make change. More efficient use of coins but harder for everyone involved is not a functional improvement.
Windows users with firewall-enabled routers were also protected from RCE.
I dug this one and wanted to share :)
A lot of the complexity comes not only from technology that has been dragged along for almost 50 years now but also that the maintainer of ncurses/terminfo has been stubbornly refusing to add new capabilities to the terminfo library.

Using terminfo will give you at least a standard approach to what defaults to use. If you don't want to configure your terminal then you are asking others to do something you are not willing to do.

If we are supposed to go with the lowest common denominator without terminfo capabilities, we would even lose 4bit colors. Then only the basic 8 colors are safe because there a lot of terminals now that don't support the workaround of "bold plus basic color gives bright color" anymore.
To my ear, this all sounds very pheasant.
They would just arrest the person who pawned the items.
Maybe insurance companies with a good network of plate readers decide to increase your premiums because you park in a neighborhood known for auto break-ins. Or they deny you entirely because your commute takes you on a windy road known to have a +30% accident rate.
The problem is personalized advertising.

The solution is context sensitive advertising.

Period, the end.

The ad industry fears and resists this (in my opinion) because it is less conducive to their monopolization efforts. They maintain that personalized ads are more effective and thus command premium pricing.

Several factors for advertisers to consider 1) any data in this regard is suspect since it is fully under the control of the ad networks and 2) more than half of internet users now take active steps to block the insanity of "personalization" 3) the solutions being proposed and supported by the ad networks are mostly aimed at obscuring the fact that "personalization" is the problem 4) Amazon continues to grab an ever bigger chunk of the ad networks lunch using simple context sensitive ads.

Until a real solution is offered, I will continue to resist and block this "personalized" stupidity to the best of my ability.
That is the most surprising part to me. If the pawnbroker doesn’t bear the risks of buying stolen goods they are not disincentivized from buying stolen goods, which creates a larger market for selling stolen goods which in the end increases the market for property crime.
I wonder if anyone tried long-lasting transactions passed between services?

Like imagine you have a postgres pooler with API so you can use one postgres connection between several applications. Now you can start the transaction in one application, pass its ID to another application and commit it there.

Implement queues using postgres, use the same transaction for both business data and queue operations and some things will become easier.
We should better introduce $50, $100, $500, $1000 and $5000 coins. I'd love my entire salary to come in coins and to be able to pay for any purchase in coins conveniently.
Yes, but how does it work?
Band, Microsoft Band, oh how heartbreaking it is to read about the name. I once owned a Microsoft Band and was even excited about the second generation. Its design was captivating. But now it's all gone. My only remaining first-generation Band became unusable due to the notorious cracking issue. Now, I'm stuck with my Fitbit, which lacks design taste and inevitably has battery issues every three years. It's a product I have to patiently endure to keep using. Such a pity.
The “dyslexic advantage” is political —- who else could make blogs extinct by forcing all content onto YouTube?
Show HN: Built an alert tool for barber appointments
It took me 1,5 years to finally launch this tool. It started as a tool for myself because my barber is very busy and I wanted to see when he would get open spots. I have been building on it for way too long and have been procrastinating of when to launch it. It is very easy to use. Users only have to put in their preferences and their email. Users can cancel anytime. It's very specific because at the moment it only works for barbers using the software Salonhub.
> Imagine a new predator that somehow eats everything and reproduce 10x more than any other species in the introduced ecosystem, causing it to simply be destroyed?

Like Homo Sapiens ? /s
I just run Skype on my tablet.
Sabine Hossenfelder can solve our math problem!

Isn’t she working on an app?
I worked on Firefox to make sure that it kept working (and in particular starting up and closing) when you reached several thousand tabs :)

Might not have been a good idea in the end :)
Wi-Fi has the advantage of being usable on devices without a cell modem as well, such as most laptops, e-readers etc.

That said, now that many phones support dual-SIM, I do wish there was a low-friction way to connect to a local 5G network without downloading an eSIM profile and all that.
Why did dorsey left bsky for twitter again ?
NIH as far as the eye can see:

Germany already has a grassroots, volunteer-run network of free WiFi hotspots called Freifunk [1], which has pretty decent coverage in a lot of the larger cities. I'm sure similar initiatives exist in other EU countries.

Does Wifi4EU leverage this in any way? Nope, there is no way for volunteer-run networks to get included in the app [2]. Instead, it looks like municipalities have to apply for Wifi4EU funding (which they currently can't because "The next call has not been announced."), set up brand new hotspots themselves, and only then are eligible for inclusion in the app's database. [3]

[1]: https://freifunk.net/

[2]: https://forum.freifunk.net/t/wifi4eu-vs-freifunk/21686

[3]: https://wifi4eu.ec.europa.eu/
I do, because I find the bag to be messy. No matter how careful I am, it's impossible to open, take flour out, and close it without spilling a fine mist of flour around it.

With a container (I recommend Anchor Hocking's aluminium containers that have a rubber seal and a metal latch), I never have any issues. Open, carefully scoop out, close. Easier to wipe down, too. And the latch keeps stuff sealed even if the container falls over or is moved around. Easier to stack in a cupboard, too.

I also use this type of container for rice, grains, spices, pasta, etc.
The point is that tyoe is an EXTREMELY vaulable information and if you are explaining code to someone it is very helpful to clearly see what are keywords, what are arbitrary variable names, and what are the types of the variables. For example if you show me a programming language where there is a list object and you write list.one(), I don't know if list is a variable or a keyword, and I don't know if one is a variable or a keyword. Much better to write mylist.one() if one is a default function, or mylist.myfirstelement() otherwise etc.

I mean everyone knows using descriptive variable names is good practice, but then in a coding tutorial it is somehow fine to use foo, bar, a, b, c? That makes things clearer for someone who understands all the types and the syntax, and wants to see the structure algorithm more clearly. It hurts someone trying to learn the language.
Maybe he should stop directing?
> where Sam is no longer part of it?

It can be an "exit" in that it makes Sam extremely wealthy while he still hangs on as CEO.
Cracking the Porcelain Code
In me and anyone else exposed to Russian propaganda, which is probably just about everyone.

But in this case it’s also the literal meaning. You can’t say (or imply) that A is just as bad as B without also saying that B is no worse than A. Call it the anti-symmetric property of partial orderings if that helps.
Desire is like fire: feeding it only makes it grow, it consumes leaving ash.

One of the primary points of human life is learning the undesirability of desire itself.

- - - -

Jevons paradox, on the other hand, isn't metaphysical. When you make the road wider more people drive on it, but widening the road didn't conjure up those people and their cars. The road was too narrow. If you kept adding lanes to the freeway eventually everyone who needed or wanted to drive on it would have enough space.

Now metaphorically speaking we're considering a situation where widening the freeway is so cheap that we can make the freeway as wide as we like, and we're making free self-driving cars, and people can send the cars on the freeway to do anything at all, even really trivial things, and we imagine endless freeway and endless cars until the world is covered in freeways. Something like that?

I guess we do have to solve the problem of human nature and our tendency to flagrantly waste our time and resources on dumb stuff, eh? How does AI help us do that?
>> I don’t have a CS degree, I don’t think Leetcode-style interviews are any kind of indicator of job performance, and I think you can be a successful Staff engineer and never write a line of production code in that role.

Then don't fucking call yourself an engineer! Be a project manager, a product manager, sales, IT admin, QA, anything but mimicking a prestigious brand like Chinese "Adidos" shoes try to capitalize on the success of the original.

If you can't program you're not an engineer, period!
Note that I’m specifically referring to breaking it in a way which is significantly harder to recover from than rerunning a known setup process (Simon’s comparison to a cloud environment where you could reset it on-demand). It’s not about never making mistakes, it’s about having a good conceptual understanding and habits around configuration management.
The Funny Games remake was poorly received because it was released at the height of the torture porn craze and contemptuous spat in the face of audiences for liking that sort of thing. When a movie entices an audience to come see it them tells them to go fuck themselves, it often doesn't go over well.

It's good.
Never used the Steam Remote Play but all the other RDP clients in linux have been lacking in one way or the other. I'll have a look, thanks.
I imagine faces on the fronts of people's heads. I know that this is common. Is this a consensual hallucination?
Maybe I missed it, but the story didn't seem to even touch on why the ship ran around.

That surprised me, as most stories I've read about mishaps with U.S. Navy ships cover causes/blame extensively.
I don't understand how do you avoid JOIN and ORDER BY?

Well, with ORDER BY, if your result set is not huge, sure, you can just sort it on the client side. Although sorting 100 rows on database side isn't expensive. But if you need, say, latest 500 records out of million (very frequent use-case), you have to sort it on the database side. Also with proper indices, database sometimes can avoid any explicit sort.

Do you just prefer to duplicate everything in every table instead of JOINing them? I did some denormalization to improve performance, but that was more like the last thing I would do, if there's no other recourse, because it makes it very possible that database will contain logically inconsistent data and it causes lots of headache. Fixing bugs in software is easier. Fixing bugs in data is hard and requires lots of analytic work and sometimes manual work.
This my very first launch ever. I did everything wrong. Worked way too long on the product before sharing it. Changed the whole concept multiple times. Now it was all about executing the launch and moving on.
Some of the proposed schemes seem acceptable from that point of view, in particular 1, 3, 10, 25.
i was meeting with my MUD playing friends almost weekly for dinner and drinks, and the wizards met to plan work on the game. every holiday weekend we travelled to other cities to meet player friends there. i didn't drink any alcohol though. i fondly remember when a guy fell asleep during such a meeting someone attached a note to his back saying "idle", like inactive players were marked in the game.
Drasi makes it easy and efficient to detect and react to changes in databases
The fun thing is that the web components' events can also be captured on the server as Server Action. This way, inside the Web Component, is client code that can validate and call onAfterValidateForm, but then when you consume the WC with <web-component onAfterValidateForm={/* */} /> from your page, it is a server action and finish processing. The mental model is simpler, if it's in a server component, it's a server action, if it's inside a web component, it's a normal browser event. No magic.
And easier to bankrupt yourself because of a hole in your wallet.
Most of the time, those over-achievers from the outside lead a very unhappy, constantly unfulfilled life. I've met few of those up close (former girlfriends, close friends) and oh boy its a sad view once you see full picture. Success is never really enjoyed for long, there is always next target to chase. Close people around suffer accordingly.

Then when you know what signs to look for, you see it a lot more among those 'very successful'.

There is one success for me - living a good life that one is happy to have lived when looking back old/dying. Good, sometimes hard moral choices instead of less moral shortcuts. A lot of people put themselves a lot of such baggage over years and from young happy folks they are grumpy envious older ones (there are many more reasons for such of course). Whatever such success means to you, all the power to you. For most of us, work achievement are pretty low in that list, so look for success elsewhere in life.
this; historically, human minds organized in societies have themselves been the best archivists

we've been able to store information even before being able to write things down! and the methods of recalling the information keep themselves up to date, no need to maintain esoteric codecs

contrast to other species' instincts/learned behaviors, personally i think the ability to only remember the relevant/interesting parts is a feature, not a bug
Solving the Victorian Housing Crisis
I agree.

But we've used that control of information to form super-tribes and it sits at the base of our civilization. National identity, various large group identities. Fandoms.

What happens when everyone is in an n=1 bubble?

Do we revert to bloodlines? Do we let AI match us? Physical proximity?
I think the cool part about kernel + busybox type sandbox is that you can get a working system with only 2 binaries and doesn’t even need a cross-compiler.

when I was playing with this stuff the hardest part for me was getting my head around:

1. why do I need a cross-compiler if my system has a compiler already???
2. why do I need to compile the compiler twice??

And well it turns out you don’t really need these steps but they’re required as part of the bootstrap process for GCC/glibc itself.
> Editorially adding “now” to the title suggests this is an intentional feature rather than a bug.

There are a lot of Microsoft bugs who look like "intentional features" (aka are never or very late fixed). See date bug in Excel, drawing problems with multiple monitors, false mouse button presses, and so on.
Why intellectual humility isn't always a virtue
One of those quotes where I can't tell if it's a compliment or not.

I hear "He will find a way to not only survive but to thrive in difficult situations"

But I also hear "He will eat people to get ahead".
King could fairly easily have negotiated for less money and more control. I suppose hindsight is 20 20.
Thanks for your feedback. I want to clarify that Starmoon is not being positioned as a therapeutic or medical device. Rather, it is intended as a supplementary tool that might potentially support emotional well-being, similar to how some doctors use YouTube videos to comfort kids for non-clinical support. Currently, we have agreements to pilot the product with a few hospitals in London to collect more data through trials to improve it.