skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The odds of really driving off long-time fans with uniform variations are low.

The odds of selling more jerseys to young fans - and possibly making new young fans as a result - are high.

Long-time fans have complained about the changes in sports for as long as there have been sports. Some of the new uniforms and courts especially have been terrible; I'll keep watching anyway.
I'll be surprised if reading ebooks on a Kindle prevents an "inactivity reboot" on an iPhone...
Exactly. Imagine how overwhelmed the courts would be with real cases if people could sue over hypothetical harms. People have many fears—some justified, some not. The main reason you can’t just sue for a theoretical harm is that everyone is focused on dealing with real issues.
1. Patents
2. Cheap CAD
3. Arduino (IMHO...before this it wasn't easy to interface to USB/PC for anyone who wasn't EE)
4. Surge of DIY online (Forums, mailing lists, instructables, pinterest)
5. Reprap leading the way with recycled parts as well as cheap imported motors and controllers.
6. Lack of interest- Machinists could usually do the same thing but better using subtractive. Additive was seen as "useless" for real world items even after reprap.

There are probably a couple other things I am missing...and what order you place my list probably doesn't matter. It took everything at once happening.
AMD's desktop market share skyrockets amid Intel's Raptor Lake crashing scandal
Indeed. I lost several essays before figuring that Tetris and MacWrite Pro wouldn’t coexist.
Wow… why’d you get so defensive and presumptuous?

I have my opinion, it’s just not the same as yours.
I'm not proposing the literal words "createdAt" or "indexedAt" be used in the UI.
If I had a dollar for every time I'm surprised to find out one of my AOSP devices has rebooted, I'd buy an old-fashioned alarm clock.

Maybe iPhones just reboot sometimes too.
> Your manager doesn’t promote you?
> No, managers at Google can’t promote their direct reports.
They don’t even get a vote.
> Instead, promotion decisions come from small committees of upper-level software engineers and managers who have never heard of you until the day they decide on your promotion.

AIUI, nowadays in 2022+ the manager gets the only vote.
Windows 95 was a big step forward though because it had actual process isolation and preemptive multitasking. While it wasn't very stable compared to Linux or NT, for the most part an application crash wouldn't bring down the whole machine the way it typically happened on classic Mac OS or Windows 3.1.
I suggest thinking outside the plane.
This is awesome! I have made games for the browser a few times but always felt it wasn't a "serious" way to make a marketable game. Really cool to see someone else taking it seriously!
It is "imperative", not interactive, sorry. From Wiki:

"There are generally two approaches to IaC: declarative (functional) vs. imperative (procedural). The difference between the declarative and the imperative approach is essentially 'what' versus 'how'."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrastructure_as_code#Types_o...
You honestly think there are 10s of millions of people wanting a decongestant in the United States without ID? This is ridiculous and I agree with the other commenter, a bit hyperbolic.
“Bad” is merely the inverse of the characterization you seek to avoid. There is no basis for assuming Pareto improvement in offshoring, particularly in an intellectual-property-flat world.
Thanks so much! Any resources for deploying something like this into a cloud/datacenter and standing up an API?
of that group of people who don't do the actual work to run the meeting, are an especially slippery group of people who don't intend to do any of the work that results from the meeting either; you can often identify them because the best of their breed will volunteer to handle communications with the bosses.
Age-Normalized Testosterone Peaks at Series B for Male Startup Founders
Getting started with Voyage multimodal embeddings
You may be among the extremely tiny minority of sane people left in this country.
What sounded like the usual Google-internal-self-congratulatory-echo-chamber nonsense grated on me, too, but I kept reading, and was glad I did, because the article didn't go like the usual.
It seems to me that academia grew out of the church doctors who grew out of the knighthood: thé eldest son of an aristocrat would inherit the land without lifting a finger, but to earn their spurs they needed to convince existing knights they were capable of doing equivalent work in the field. So, out of major feudal institutions, it was among the least nepotist.
At the very least, you could try differentiating between opinions and facts... And facts could be verified via knowledge graphs.

It'd have to be open-source and reproducibility should be a core value (so we can start healing some of the scientific fields' reproducibility crises).

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_graph
i agree with you but you do realize what you’re saying right? the vast majority of people will never have 150k+ in liquid capital they can tap in to if they don’t like their job
Show HN: I build a FullStack boilerplate to ship my projects faster
Every time I start a new project, it’s the same drill: setting up authentication, routing, databases, UI, etc. Sound familiar? I wasted 10+ hours on the same repetative setup.

So I built Getstart, a SaaS-ready framework with everything you need to go from zero to launch—fast. It’s all here:
NextAuth for easy auth
Prisma + MongoDB for scalable databases
Next.js API routes pre-built
Nodemailer for emails
Razorpay for both domestic and international payments
Tailwind and Shadcn for sleek and customizable UI

Let me know what you guys think and what can be improved
Russia is not so good on the battlefield but great at sowing dissent and getting their man elected. I’ll never understand Biden giving Ukraine just enough to not lose but jot enough to win. Ukraine is fucked. But Europeans should do more for their own defense and not rely on the U.S.
the same author has also published an interesting series of "annual review" blog posts summarising his progress trying to get different software businesses off the ground -- including being quite open about the finances. If you're interested in boostrapping a software business, and haven't seen them, they're well worth reading:

https://mtlynch.io/tags/annual-review/

https://mtlynch.io/i-sold-tinypilot/
Elon Musk amassed his wealth with the help of taxpayer dollars (through government subsidies for electric vehicles and NASA contracts) and has now bought the most valuable asset up for sale: the US Government.

The president will leave office after 4 years, but Musk is here to stay. He has said on X that he will continue to play a big role in all U.S elections going forward.

He will use his AI company xAI to generate fake images and push it to the American public on a massive scale using X [1], and politicians will have no choice but to bow to the czar of misinformation.

[1] https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1830656672211103825
...wait, I thought he was already in contact with Musk for SpaceX satellite information during battle-time!
A Staff Engineer is a Senior Engineer that has been doing this for a while and doesn't want to be a manager or director.
"Very much alive," in the sense of being a living organism in their own right. By that standard, each cell in the human body can also be considered a separate living organism, simply cooperating with other humans cells in a complex way. It makes sense, since we have no problem identifying the trillions of bacteria cells living on or in the human body as separate living organisms.
ugh, who would
It appears that you require payment to use the service. This probably should have been mentioned.
EWD comes up as a dissenter for Algol-68, and the longer my career as a software developer the more I disagree with him on anything that isn't pure math.
When you say good weather, where would you place Guyana in this map? https://xkcd.com/1916/
Things don't become true just from being written down on the Internet. Open source means that the source code is open for the public to see, and that's it.
Known Attacks on Elliptic Curve Cryptography
A staff engineer has a long beard, carries a staff, and performs magic.
It used to be that you would put together your promo packet, which was sent to the promo committee. These days it is your manager who puts together your promo packet. But it is still the promo committee (which doesn't include your manager) that decides whether or not you get promoted.
Yeah, definitely not suggesting domains are a better form of identity!
I remember learning back at the beginning of my career that at places like Bell Labs and IBM, everybody who was anybody had the title "Member, Technical Staff" which was designed to be a low key humblebrag with the uniformity designed to quell egotistical agitation/competition for more and better titles.

Then everybody who didn't work at those places wanted that title too.

In banking, the title is "Vice President". It means virtually nothing, there are hundreds of them in every bank, a reason I heard was "otherwise nobody will take your calls." Many people in their 20s who go to business school to get their MBA have already been VPs at banks.
And web apps on iOS cannot prevent the screen from dimming and locking, making many type of applications impossible to develop as PWA:

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=254545

It's a bug that's been open for years and happens to be beneficial for the app store.
Interesting: ROM code was accessed through ANNN ("A-line") traps. Then they started using F-line traps for co-processors. Then in the proliferation of models targeting education, they started putting out advanced CPU's without co-processors, so lots of software crashed expecting a co-processor. But of course if Word crashed, they'd talk about monkey-patching the OS pending the next release. Apple folks thought MS tailored their software to break the Mac, and thereby gain the upper hand in licensing talks.
>There's a reason that you can't make large "cash" purchases in physical cash

I don't understand what you mean with this.

And also, yes you can? I've purchased cattle (~100k) and vehicles (5-40k) with cash.

It's not insane and irresponsible. I legitimately do not understand your attitude with that. As long as you don't walk around with 100k in your hand waving it around, what's the danger? The world isn't as bad as the news would have you believe.

Also, Some people prefer doing business without involving electronics. I've bought things using cash, silver, canning jars, and baseball cards. I prefer to barter for goods and labor, but some people prefer cash. What's the problem with that?
Related, has anyone noticed with the new Sequoia, Apple Notes, which I use extensively, if you start searching or clicking as soon as the window open, you get a frozen application that won't recover - it must be killed? Is that being reported and if not where to?

I don't really care for the suggestion that 2 + 2 = 4, I'd rather the app be responsive on open.
Literally from today's news: an alcohol raid. So I guess technically correct it's nothing like alcohol.

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/pittsburgh/news/panther-pit-padl...
Most large tech companies require the manager to write some sort of a promo packet to be reviewed by a relevant committee. But it's not a mystery and ultimately it falls on the manager to put together a strong packet that makes it clear why the candidate should be promoted. The promotion attempt itself is the manager's vote. Beyond that it comes down to how strongly they champion for the candidate's promotion. It's the only way to ensure some consistency between promotions, IMO.
The final categorization is the least interesting part though. If we understand the origins and mechanics of how the once parasitic organism became an integral part of almost all complex life, does arguing the semantics of what label you put on it really add much value?

To reframe it: what you’re really doing is arguing about the definition of alive. In this case my opinion is: who cares. I fail to see how expanding the definition or being precise here adds anything.
Nice video, incredibly well made. But what an irritatingly clickbaity title.
I see history from more than 14 days ago...
girls in porn who blow the guys so they stay hard while they film.

i think
> Isn't restricting people from reproducing based on their genetic material known as Eugenics?

We really need to stop being afraid of words. We don't have to use a neutral word to imply a whole range of ancillary things which we don't name.

There's nothing wrong, in principle, with eugenics. (Some bad guys many years ago were really into it for a specific use case, but so what?)

While humanity is in the learning phase of gene editing:

- High-trust societies can choose to say: "You can get whatever gene mods you want but you will be sterilized."

- In freedom societies you could simply ask your partner what modifications she has before you conceive kids with her. Screening and embryo selection would probably be available in such a world and individuals would make their choices.
Hah this is a great definition, succinct and it fits my experience.

"I still want to code, and less Microsoft Teams"

Typically it means having a broad experience across product lines and being able to give pointers to the confused.
These articles always miss the core deliverable of a staff engineer.

Impact

The engineer who wrote the MVP of the product and grew it's customer base to hundreds of MM ARR -> staff.

The engineer who steers the ship for a 50 person org -> staff

The engineer working in a corner on a novel solution to the companies perf/accuracy/security challenges -> staff.

Everything that you do is in service of creating impact, but having a bunch of useless meetings or providing useless mentorship is exactly that - useless.
We probably can keep a heart alive outside of body, through artificial means, for minutes, maybe hours - and I mean keep it functioning, not just chilling it to slow its death. It's plausible we'll learn to be able to keep it alive for days, months, years, decades. At which point we could say that the "supporting infrastructure" of the rest of a human body isn't necessary for the heart to be independently alive?

What if we do it all on the Moon, or Mars? How does Gaia feel about it? We already know that it's theoretically possible, if not yet achievable in practice, to create artificial environments capable of supporting human life indefinitely - or, on a long enough timescale, bootstrap an independent, self-sufficient biosphere. The two are, in the limit, the same thing anyway.

Or are we going to argue that human technology is, by extension through causality, a part of life on Earth, and therefore a part of Gaia itself? Is Gaia in all of us, and will it persist after Earth dies if humanity is still around somewhere else?

All in all, I suppose the correct definitions of terms are the ones that are most useful in a given context :). "Categories were made for man, not man for the categories", and all that.
A good highlight of what quitting your job can look like:

> Six years ago, I quit my job as a developer at Google to create my own bootstrapped software company. For the first few years, all of my businesses flopped. The best of them earned a few hundred dollars per month in revenue, but none were profitable.

We often hear about the successes, and it is easy to be loud with success, but it's important to keep in mind the ground truth: most companies fail.

It's nice to see that for this author, three years in he did manage to find something that made money, but realistically most people don't have that much runway to keep at it without generating income.
Its neighbor, French Guyana is French territory. Thanks to that, Brazil is the country with the largest border to France.
But that’s exactly what they are, former endoparasites which gradually lost their independence and became more specialist in their function.

Defining an arbitrary line and then attaching labels does not really add to understanding.
Truly a tale older than me. In the business card scene in the film "American Psycho", all the guys are Vice Presidents.
The chances of someone finding me through this public forum are very low. Following this username takes you to a person from Reddit who I am not. If you follow the clues in my posts, you'll narrow it down to a farmer who also works in colleges, and who lived in the Midwest at some point, but doesn't anymore, and whose parents live in an area of the world that is kind of arid. There's a lot of those type of people.

I'm more concerned about locals finding out. That's why I don't talk about the cash I have on hand in my real life, ever.

I feel like that's relatively easy to do?
> the freedom to perform "body hacking" on yourself. But, at least in this case, isn't it more like "generational hacking?"

The latter would certainly be much easier than the former. But especially people who don't work in bio dream about hand-wavy future biotech that does things like using a virus vector to spread a CRISP/CAS9 payload to all relevant cells in an adult body, and performs in vivo edits.
FYI if interested in visuals for the earlier system OS

System .85! - https://apple.fandom.com/wiki/System_0.85 (December 4, 1983)

System 1 - https://apple.fandom.com/wiki/System_1

System 2 - https://apple.fandom.com/wiki/System_2.0

System 3 - https://apple.fandom.com/wiki/System_3

System 4 - https://apple.fandom.com/wiki/System_4

System 5 - https://apple.fandom.com/wiki/System_5

System 6 - https://apple.fandom.com/wiki/System_6 (April 1988)

Bonus round - Xerox Star UX (1982) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cn4vC80Pv6Q
I am not sure what exactly the 'broad implications and worldview' are here that are being challenged. The article is presented as a scientific opinion and references scientific research and has a doi number for citation (Cite: Liyam Chitayat. “Mitochondria Are Alive” Asimov Press (2024). DOI: https://doi.org/10.62211/38pe-75hu). What do you think that the article was challenging?
I seriously thought that that headline was a euphemism for the current state of the world...
> But Europeans should do more for their own defense and not rely on the U.S.

They already have been, when you look at Ukraine assistance by GDP. The US isn't especially generous, just especially rich.
A staff engineer is somebody who is providing enough value to the team that management has decided to give them a promotion and better pay to reduce the risk of them jumping ship.

Same as every other title.
Silver coins is my bet. I'm not a prepper by any means, but I always keep some silver on hand. If nothing else, they make good gifts for kids. They feel like little pirates when you give them silver coins.
It’s a payband.
> It’s a title, nothing more. It means nothing, because there is no legal certification process for any of this.

I believe I understand where you are coming from. However, that's not entirely fair. Most jobs have "no legal certification process", but that doesn't make their job title meaningless. Not everyone who wants to define what a title means is doing so to gain or assign clout, many just want to understand what a person with that title typically does.

Granted, there are some titles (especially in technical roles, in some companies), that tell nothing more than "that person works in I. T." (or whatever your company calls it). For example, I've seen roles called "Systems Analyst", that varied greatly in responsibility -- some where all the person did was code all day, some where the person almost never wrote any code. Sometimes that was two people in the same group at the same company.

So yes, titles can hold only a very small amount of meaning, at times, but that doesn't make them entirely meaningless.
Sure. Sugar allergy is a thing too.

If you give me six lines written in a material safety datasheet for the most chemically inert of materials, I will find something in them that could cause some human, in some situation, to die.
Yeah, fair enough. I could not find any better info about a new money source with regard to this new hiring spree.
My regular spotlight started doing that, if I do command space the box shows up and then spotlight hangs and then crashes, 2 month old MBa with sequoia update.
2024's Graveyard of Incumbents
I’ve always heard intimations that Guyana was worse than French Guyana or Suriname as a tourist destination, but yeah this seems really surprisingly bad as a tourist destination…
I'm featured on that list multiple times.

AMA
Currently on Vyvanse following a Concerta shortage (and inefficiency). Definitely helps, but I wish it helped more. I would love to see the world as a neurotypical person.
Suggestion for the website: ~double the height of the first video element; as it is, if the mouse is over the video, the play button / scrubber overlay will be displayed & obscure the video itself.

(the quote at the bottom of the article is excellent and apt, too :))
I'm not sure what the purview of the LWN documentation project is (in terms of, are those the man pages I look at when I'm using Fedora?) but I really don't like what has been happening to man pages. They're becoming bloated and beginner-y and not terse and dense technical descriptions of what I need to know.
This will be an absolute nothing, like moving to Canada. Lots of Americans said they'd do it in 2016, how many did? Probably less than 1% of those who said they would. It's a good, sensational story for the media - sex sells - but of the women who aren't already celibate I doubt more than 1% will stick to it after a month or two.

Not to mention, there's not actually that much of a difference between men and women in terms of Trump support or abortion - 45% of Trump votes were women and according to Gallup more women think abortion should always be illegal and 49% described themselves as pro-life.
Every doctor I’ve ever been to starts out recommending lifestyle changes. I think it’s the patients that ask for the medication.
Completely anecdotal, but I recently did a round of oral antibiotics and afterwards followed up with an expensive probiotic.

It was like $60 a bottle for a 1 month supply, but I was told that oral antibiotics can wreck your gut biome so I figured this was the ideal time to repair/replace the biome I have.

In the 6 weeks since then I've lost ~30 lbs (I am following a diet, of course, this has been wildly successful but intentional in the abstract) and I have more energy, sleep better, and have lost my baseline "snack late at night" urges. Physiologically I do not feel deprived of food, hungry, or tired all the time like I have with previous diets. I've also cut my caffeine intake to almost 1/3rd of its previous amount and I drink more water.

I am sure there's a lot going on beside that, so I am not blaming my progress on the 1 thing by itself, but that being said, it does seem highly coincidental and correlated.

Might be worth a deeper dive, blow out (mostly) healthy people's gut bacteria, replace it with very specific blends, accumulate the data on what changes happen or what people report happening in the 2 weeks, 6 weeks, 3 months, 6 months 1 year afterward.
I only get this when I paste and it's usually only edge or chromium apps (slack). I can't replicate it on demand to bug report, but it's very annoying when it happens.
I have an Erdös number of 2[] via a paper, co-authored with Ron Graham, on the topic of the maths of juggling.

AMA.

[] I also have an Erdös number of the second type of 3, but that doesn't involve Ron Graham or juggling.
A title companies give out like candy to retain engineers they don't want to leave. That's it. Naive people, and managers who want to manipulate you, and people who write books about being a staff engineer will tell you otherwise. Don't believe them. Same thing for any "senior" title.

ninkendo's comment is spot on: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42091132