skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm, guess it gives the words “pre-seed” a whole new meaning.

Seriously, though, the guys who sit by a computer tend to be more on the quite and shy / nerdy side, and not necessarily the jock type. So one would expect this.

(PS: it would be funny if the low testosterone levels were also due to the founders being female :)
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There's certainly a lot of cargo cult security controls out there. One of the big issues is simply that it is very hard to change established practices. It takes a lot of effort, and senior people who are not security experts have to sign off on the "risk" of not doing what all their peers are doing.

There is one word I would change in your post title. Security has a useless controls problem, not security is a useless controls problem.
I see the opposite, this person may have learned a lot, and enjoyed themselves in the process. And of course produced less waste.

Feel free to buy a new computer whenever you want, just don't judge those that do not.
They have different taglines, and this video was posted to the NileBlue channel.

NileRed: Capturing the natural beauty of chemistry

NileBlue: Exploring science through sheer incompetence...
Why don’t we just use Edge? It offers a superior experience with features like vertical tabs, collections, and more.
Exit-node right?
Blender was a commercial product, with an established user base and community that eventually went open source.

That is a huge difference.
> If management is actually willing, it's a perfect opportunity to streamline business processes

This, a million times.

Never try to bend an ERP - they are immense business process templates internally connected in incomprehensible ways. Bend the company instead, drop whatever process cannot be implemented trivially in the system and adopt one that is.

Just mapping the parts that need to be transformed is a huge process.
Were the people who wrote the manual penalized? Should they continue to write manuals?
I wonder if AlphaProof will be ever released
do you have an example of this scenario? I mean reading it, sounds true but then support is mostly determined by the company's willingness to support (outside of some legal requirements) and so I find it actually difficult to imagine where selling more of the product is a great income generator but the support actually kills you (destroys company) in the long run.

In software at least support costs can be decreased by fixing bugs or identifying high support low value features.

So - I would like to see a company that actually got killed by support costs but was doing good from product sales.
> As far as I could tell, it’s because the CEO or CTO didn’t think the type of work they were doing was worth doing, and also didn’t think they were making a difference.

So the CEO/CTO weren't able to express their concerns and priorities and instead just fired the whole team?

If, as you say, there were no financial reasons, then the team could've been re-purposed to do more meaningful (at least in CEO/CTO eyes) work.
Yes, downloading is important as even download sites can redact later - e.g. https://audiophilestyle.com/forums/topic/70250-qobuz-may-be-...

Another source are good ol' CDs. If you know where to look you can get them cheap too. Specialist charity shops that specialise in records and CDs in student or wealthy areas are good, as are second hand stores online.

An alternative to self hosting is to use an online music locker. I wrote up a bunch here: https://www.blisshq.com/music-library-management-blog/2021/0... and (disclaimer) operate one myself: https://asti.ga
> and it's impossible to keep extending their service lives.

B52 projected to last till 2050
Helping people be more productive with less effort, I'm all for it. But letting people fake the appearance of effort or sincerity by passing off AI-generated content as their own? Nope nope nope.
VMware Workstation was my go to for "Desktop Linux", nowadays I use WSL, and most likely this is the main reason it is now free, before getting the axe eventually.
The implications are different. There has to be a high euro sum you can offer to get someone who won the lottery to still brief a colleague. You can throw money at a dead person all you want but that will not have the same result. It is a sudden end in knowledge that can not be restored with time or money (like running out of lottery funds)
> The Nitrokey seems like a good option <https://www.nitrokey.com/>.

My experience with Nitrokey is different. I trust Yubico for my threat model, I just don't trust Nitrokey at all. They seem to have more products than employees and in my experience they have a history of advertising/selling features they don't have.
> We need to can this "passive media consumption" nonsense with respect to Apple
I remember when Apple added Stickers to iMessages - and was appalled that they had decided that normal users should not have the ability to make their own stickers (unlike every other chat program out there). I think Apple's attitude towards their users is very much a valid criticism

Your point about stickers might have been true in the past, but it's wrong now. Since I don't use a lot of stickers, I looked it up, and it was added in iOS 17 last year.
Why don't you fix it?
All big corps have strings attached on their free stuff, just like they don't contribute to FOSS out of the kindness of their hearts on the management board.
Now is it investment advice? Isn't that the other side what they say they are not?
Secure or not, an enemy can still see that there is a constant stream of RF coming from a patch of sky moving at fighter jet speeds, which might warrant some investigation
This failed completely after trying to search for songs that don't have a unique name. This seemingly just does a basic string search on other streaming platforms. Sad...
Actually, no. That is mentioned, but it's not the theorem in question.
And the time spent in commuting door to door and the radiation you get by flying 4 days a week? Not worth it.
The likely scenarios I was thinking (setenv vs execve) would both be called in the child process after fork. But of course here we get to the fascinating world of fork interactions with threads, and you could even have one thread fork()ing while another thread is doing a setenv().
In 1924, the US Turned Off Their Radios to Search for Life on Mars
Thanks for the precision, that might also explain the score of my comment. I'll get more info about quantum annealing.
That's about the only advantage I see with Nitrokey. Support is terrible (in my experience) and they sell unfinished products while advertising features they don't have.

I have never reached a point where I could trust Nitrokey (I have a Nitrokey that I never used because after waiting 2 years to receive it, it still had none of the features that were announced when I ordered it).
What's the perf like?
Agreed that I’m not sure jealousy is the right interpretation of imitation being the sincerest form of flattery.

Having said that, speaking as a Macalester alumnus, I wouldn’t put it past them to be a bit petty behind the scenes :)
Both Serbo-Croatian and Hungarian have these multi-character letters, but these Unicode points were created for the typographical needs (or rather, bad habits) of Serbo-Croatian. The "Dz" was probably included for the use-case where someone transcribes something in Macedonian.

One example can be seen on the Croatian 2kn coin, which features a tuna and a title written T U NJ.

Hungarian has more of these multi-symbol letters (with each letter having 1-3 symbols. It also has some other complications, such as having two "sz" in a row appear like "ssz", unless separated by a line break or a hyphen (then it's just two "sz").

IMO it was probably a mistake to let the article focus so much on Hungarian, as these Unicode points don't seem to be created for the purposes of the Hungarian language.
Yes. Unfortunately, it comes with a side effect, you will see leadership use this to kill projects they don't like by not never mentioning them until people think it's a failure.
> But how can the pilot figure that out, while flying the aircraft?

Looking out the window.
The procedure was to:

1. know the optimal glide speed. Since the jet was traveling much faster than that, he pulled up the nose to trade excess speed for altitude.

2. trim the airplane for optimal gliding

3. push the nose down to maintain optimal glide speed

4. work the math on altitude, air pressure and sink rate to get distance traveled

This was long before calculators (1950s) so he had to know the formulae and the figures. I read one of his certification tests for flying jets, and you had to know an awful lot.

When I was at Boeing I was told that one of the engineering marvels on a jet was the mechanical computer that managed the engine, reducing it to a single lever for the pilot.

P.S. ejection seats were new in those days, with bugs that could injure or kill the pilot. He figured it was safer to glide the bird in.
Blender 17yo winner of 2024 UK Young Animator of the Year
Don't you think having 28 aliases for the git incantations in your worflow is a clear signal something is wrong with git?
> but if a summary could fully capture the report, the author wouldn't have written the report

I'm curious if you work in a corporate environment. Middle management gets swamped with stuff like this because the person who wrote the reports thinks the longer the better to show off how good they are at their job.

Amazon fought this trend with their commonly referred 1-pager and >=6-pagers.

I don't have hard rules like Amazon, but one of my common pushbacks on my team is make documents shorter.
The ad that bothers me most is actually the one where the guy just reads an AI-generated summary of a document at a meeting without having looked at the original. This is an amazing usecase for AI and I'm excited for it to get to that point, but it still just makes s** up way too often to be used blindly like this. These ad will probably succeed and normalizing doing this kind of thing, which means more noise.
Indeed, going by train I can just walk up and get on.

I've never been on a flight that didn't take a long time to get through all the corridors, wait for plane, fly and then walk the corridors at the other end not take hours. Even short haul from smaller London airports to a Spanish city.

The system is set up to take up a significant amount of time.
But you realize that this isn't meant to propose a viable working plan, rather to highlight an absurd situation.
Beautiful fragility captured.
It's a matter of safeguards. If the arduino clone is remotely extractable, then you're not saving much.
I have an i7/32GB/SSD x230 from 2013 and it's perfectly usable for everything I've thrown at it so far, so ymmv.
> Sometimes it’s just an influential VP or CEO’s pet project, and you need to align with their vision.

My biggest career mistake was a project that I had no way to know was the CEO's pet project.

Can't say where (non-disparagement agreement), but oh boy was that a lot of messy fallout — QA awarded me a prize for least bugs on launch, yet at the same time line manger also immediately went from giving me bonuses to putting me on a PIP for having too many bugs in launch.
> It is in pre-enshittification phase.

Totally agreed on this part, and, this lead me to a weird thought: maybe we're witnessing human adaptation of "[the users] are the product" phenomenon. Twitter the product was sold to a rich kid way over valuation and in form it can't be used commercially, like a consumer branded prepackaged food that are too blatant to serve at a restaurant.

IOW, it was sold at profit, with no opportunities left on the table. And a new instance of the product is being manufactured.

What I'm trying to say is, I think there is a chance that that's just how enshittification, social media, freemium-minus-mium model, etc works from this point on, as if it's junk food made of DAU.
AI as integral part of the creative process in writing – by talking to it
I guess it sounds like a bug, but it is effectively a feature. The real cost of a flat in London is the proximity to things that people want - well paid jobs, culture and tourism. Nice flat + long commute thus can cost far less than small flat closer by.

Door to door commute time is probably, what, 3 hrs one way at best. You can probably get some quite stunning properties in the UK on the same budget with a 3 hr commute.
When Abstractions Break
Take your hourly wage and calculate how much you could have earned instead of sitting in transport. From that find the most cost/earning-efficient place of staying. My guess is you will end up somewhere in London.
No one.

I'm thinking they're aiming to capitalize on mixed feelings people have about AI. These ads let the viewers have their social objects to diss AI - "haha, AI is for the losers like in that Apple ad", while at the same time making them say, in the privacy of their thoughts, "but I am not a loser and I could use such functions too!".
>but since the game is built on Unity, it was relatively easy to bypass these restrictions and enable system proxies. There are many others that do il2cpp mod tutorials, and I recommend those, with the key part being hooking HttpClientHandler.SendAsync.

I could only find il2cpp tutorials that I could not get them to work.
What is the non-il2cpp way? This should be a separate post and a new submission to HN.

Which il2cpp tutorial works?
I did a quick check (https://www.zoopla.co.uk/to-rent/property/west-hampstead/) and contrary to what I thought, a 1 bedroom apartment over there is still in the same range as 2013; I was sure it would've been double by now.
Love this man, great job!
Plugin that keeps Cursor and Jetbrains IDEs in sync
I think it’s fair to comment on the audio. Great interview but I found it really difficult to follow along due to the sound quality. To the host with the big Shure mic in the middle of their shot: point it at your mouth!
That’s absolutely still true. I just disabled Spotify app link handling, and then Spotify opens in Firefox on my phone. And on Desktop it works the same way.

edit: misread parts of grandparent. Yeah, the 30s previews are gone, didn’t even realize anyone used those.
Note that US was one of the 3 powers signing Budapest Memorandum, actively urging Ukraine to give up nuclear weapons in exchange for Ukrainian sovereignty and security assurances. While this document doesn't oblige US to defend Ukrainian sovereignty, I don't think US is completely off the hook here either.
I feel like terrorism is about to give up and come to the negotiating table though.
Barcelona is not cheap anymore.
Macalester ‘07 here. Back in my day their LDAP directory was public (at least on the campus network) which I used to scrape student & professor lists.
> Ideal Bus Factor for all team members is 0.

The military thinks that way. They expect to lose people and keep going.
What is your job where you need to give your key to lieutenant Chang daily?
64 miles sounds quite far, and I've gone quite fast on my motorcycle, but the top speed of the F-35B (that they tell us) is 1,200 mph. At that speed that's just over 3 minutes.
> In this case the F–35 has three independent displays that can all redundantly display the same information

This is not true. The standby display is just a tiny artificial horizon by the pilot's right knee, so when HUD and primary display is out, all you're left with is your speed, altitude and attitude. This cannot in any way or form be considered "the same information" as the primary flight display of an F35B, and leaves you without a lot of control.

Whether you can limp along with such backup system depends entirely on what is going on at the time the primary flight displays go dark. In a fighter jet, that display may in some cases just tell you what angle and velocity you are going to die at. Furthermore, in challenging conditions you might have to make a decision very quickly and might not have time tuning yourself into the standby display and its degraded information.

This type of degraded backups exist in many aircrafts - you don't want the pilot of an Airbus you're in to be confronted with the plane dropping to mechanical law, or even direct law if taking off or landing, even if these modes are technically flyable and well documented.
"Appreciate" is a weird word. At least for me (not an English speaker) it has a positive connotation so with that in mind I sure hope nobody appreciates the importance of optics. The concept is dumb but it is important and we have to play the game to achieve anything.
Daily commuting probably not practical since Brexit because of longer passport queues.
I know quite a few Doctors who do a weekly commute to UK from Cascais, Lisbon were I live, they have a big house here and small apartment in London.
Also many BA pilots live here, because of NHR low tax, they use budget airline (not BA) to fly into London whenever needed before long haul flights.
it was rainy so at 1,900 feet he was probably in a cloud
Guys the author isn't actually proposing that this is a viable option to working, they're highlighting how absurd the rent disparity is, and how cheap the flights are.

I'm really surprised that the comments here are seriously critiquing the viability of spending fourteen hours a day commuting.
Not really. I visited Twitter 1.0 HQ some years ago to give them a talk on spam fighting. Actually I went for lunch, and then discovered that a QA session had been volunteered on my behalf by the friend I was visiting.

Twitter's bot fighting teams back then had basically ceased to exist. They had existed once, but at some point the management decided that the biggest abuse problem on the platform wasn't bots or even misinformation but just people being mean to each other. So everyone working in that department had switched to what was basically semi-automated tone policing. By the time I talked to them they were years behind the state of the art in detecting automation.

As for academics and researchers, Twitter 1.0 didn't have the sort of rosy relationship with them you paint here. Researchers had access to the global feed if they paid for it like many other parties did, and Musk started charging much more for that access, but the feed wasn't really useful for finding misbehavior. In fact Twitter 1.0 was pissed off with academia long before Musk arrived on the scene. Academic research into social networks, disinformation and hypothetical foreign influence campaigns is nearly 100% pseudo-scientific garbage pushed for ideological reasons. In 2020 Twitter execs went public with their frustration [1] in a blog post where they pointed out that academics were using an "an extremely limited approach" that was full of useless signals, like:

• Usernames with long strings of digits (the default username generation pattern)

• Lacking info in the bio (even Twitter employees often don't fill it out)

• Posting many times per day (lots of real users do that)

Twitter 1.0: "the threat has evolved and the narrative on what’s actually going on is increasingly behind the curve". Given that there are tens of thousands of such papers coming out of universities, all of them justified by claiming they're ahead of the curve, being constantly behind it is a damning assessment. And that was from people ideologically aligned with academia!

Booting these people off the system was certainly a good move both for Twitter/X's business and frankly, for academia itself. They certainly weren't trying to help.

[1] https://blog.x.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/bot-or-not
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I’m curious how leadership decides who gets laid off. Have you noticed any patterns? Do you have any suggestions for people in situations where they might be impacted by layoffs? Thank you!
> These are mechanics that will just create certain kinds of behaviors.

Yes, but if platform API allows using customizable third-party clients it is not really a problem for me (e.g. I can just enable chronological timeline, filter out all the ads and noise).
Thanks. I believe that Go indeed _could_ use those APIs to wait for the child more efficiently if they chose to, but the current implementation suggests that they're just calling wait4() in a separate thread: https://cs.opensource.google/go/go/+/refs/tags/go1.23.3:src/...

To be fair, in Go process spawning is very inefficient to begin with, since it requires lots of runtime coordination to not mess with the threads/goroutines state during fork, so running wait4() in a separate thread (although the thread can be re-used afterwards) is not the biggest concern here.
I’m in a dedicated music discord, about 70% of links are Bandcamp, 20% Spotify, 10% Tidal. BC percentage could be higher, but good enough, most of the time it’s only for those weird bands that don’t sell on BC anyway ;)

That said, I do miss Songwhip. It was a website where you could search for a release, and then generate all links for it, including streaming services and bandcamp.
> commiserate with his station

I do, but perhaps this was meant to be "commensurate".
I was about to say, and neither are the flights. Then again, nor is London.
Show HN: Chat-tree: a chat UI organized as a tree
The problem with current chat interfaces is that they restrict the conversation to only a single thread.

chat-tree is a tool that allows you to ask multiple independent follow-up questions without polluting the context or scrolling up and down through the chat history.
I think everyone is moving away from Godot since the scandal, so make sense
https://www.marketingmag.com.au/news/how-long-is-too-long-fo...:

- In 2019, Apple released a three-minute ad online. The ad was called The Underdogs

- In 2020, The Underdogs moved locations. […] The ad was seven minutes

- On 11 March 2022, Apple released the third installment of the series. […] This ad spot is a staggering nine minutes long

Looking at https://youtube.com/watch?v=JJwdhWM9d0Y, there’s a fourth episode of about 5 minutes, taking total length to 26 minutes.

I also remember there being an older televised Apple ad of over 20 minutes, but cannot find it.
Really? This is why the Mona Lisa is famous? Not because of any intrinsic properties of the painting itself?
Those that are under performing and those that are paid the most.
You're not seriously suggesting that HN commenters like to nitpick small details and miss the wood for the trees?
A pocket calculator using lambdatalk vs. Python
When you see the complex machinery developed in Brython and How-Brython-works, transposing into javascript the Python code with one more syntax to digest, we could still hope for a direct approach based on the javascript engine that works by default in web browsers, and respecting as closely as possible the existing syntaxes of the DOM, HTML, CSS, ... as a slight overlay over existing web technologies.

It's the quest of the {lambda way} project.
We do have to acknowledge Go's significant influence on language tooling. I'm not sure my own joy in Rust's tooling would be in the same place at all if we didn't have Go there shipping package management and autoformatting out of the box. Autoformatting - what a revolution in creating a language community where that's a standard, required part of the workflow! What an entire class of pointless arguments that's helped to eliminate. Marvellous.

I'm glad I turned down a job working in Go though. Whenever I read some open source tool's code to find out what it does, anything in Go seems unnecessarily verbose and extremely simplistic. It's all the design principles of Java that I don't like, but more of it. Not my style, but an undeniable positive impact elsewhere also.

And to some extent the idea that we can have modern languages with modern tooling which compile to native code and run really fast is much perpetuated by Go, and this is highly valuable in a world where far too many things are written in JavaScript and bundled with a web browser to render them because that's "easier".