skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> “I filtered out accounts that follow more than 50k accounts, or follow less than 5 accounts and have less than 5 followers, leaving 7.7 million nodes.”

So not quite 13M but almost half of them, pretty cool nonetheless
Fear and rage drives higher engagement which results in more ad revenue.
This is quite welcomed! I like seeing more competition in such spaces. What would be really interesting is if DDG got involved...and those 3 entities (DDG, Ecosia, and Qwant) worked together. I know DDG is simply a wrapper around Bing...but i think one of these others has a similar Bing back-end...so if someoine who has the mindshare of DDG got into that, i think woul;d make it even more interesting. I know Google is quite the behemoth, but still, would be great to see some shake-ups (assuming of course that the results are good and provide value, etc.).
I feel like if the person using the product you're selling looks like the only smart one then that's also a good look for the product.
I'm sure defective ones exist. For kicks I just opened my first CD, Bryan Adams' Reckless, bought late '84... it's in perfect condition. Put it on, and it sounds great just like the first time.
We need this on every e-commerce site! Just today, I was trying to pick out a keyboard on Keychron's site, and after an hour, I’m still unsure which model is best for me. Imagine how much harder it is to buy something more complex, like a car or even home appliances with all the specs to consider. Klicker could make online shopping so much smoother by guiding you to the right choice without the headache of endless comparisons.
This is awesome. Cool to see the history told this way.

I would also encourage folks to seek out photos/footage of the concentration camps in Europe as well as the aftermath of the atomic bombings in Japan. When you see the unsanitized horror it really gives you pause that people did this to each other. And why war is worth trying to prevent.
Are you able to share what these parallels are that you've drawn? I've always thought them to be slightly different processes.
That's not inherently true. If there were a way to reliably destroy all the sock puppets, we should, and the world would be better off. For instance, reliable bot detection, or mechanisms by which major social networks could detect and prohibit bot-like activity that isn't labeled as such.
If you don't like data structures and algorithms, you don't like data structures and algorithms. If you don't like the work required to learn hard things, that's different. While three years is a long time when a person is school-age, three years is only a short fraction of adulthood and only a brief period for a life-time learner.

Learning as an adult feels hard and the experience consists of not knowing much against an adult standard. Good luck.
Cade here with Good Enough.

I love the frontend design

Thanks!

What's the stack like?

It’s a relatively mainline Rails stack. The Good Enough crew has worked in the Rails ecosystem for a long, long time, so it’s what we’re most comfortable/happiest working with!

are you using SES to handle the inbound mail?

We’re using Postmark to handle all the email processing.

Let me know if you have any other questions!
Interesting that justified text was such a focus point. I've been told by accessibility consultants to avoid justification alignment in the products I work on because it can be more challenging for some folks to read (IIRC people with dyslexia in particular).
I'm just very curious as I'm passionate about teaching, how do you evaluate 'their level'?

I my experience, I can give material that is way out of their comfort zone, but it's my job to make it interesting enough and make enough bridges so that everyone can learn the material well, no matter the starting point.

(note: university level, but I also teached numerous times for schools)
How does it compare to Threads?
That and the change to how blocking works on Twitter, which coincided with the AI policy change.
My Social Anxiety Cheatsheet for Mingling
Number 14 is “Claim Victory Despite Defeat” - coincidentally, there was a lot of “14/88” being thrown around in recent weeks in USA politics.
Eventually someone important gets a call from a more important client on the golf course about how his company fucked up on his watch, the new thing is cancelled, the old one is reinstated (to much rejoicing) and the 15% of the huge new effort that actually worked is distilled in to a plugin feature and bolted on to the old product and everyone moves on.

The original PM responsible for all this gets an L+1 diagonal promotion at a new company and pulls this shit again.
The Yubico support article for this issue: https://support.yubico.com/hc/en-us/articles/15705749884444-...

Spoiler: none of the options are warranty replacement.
Thanks for sharing all of this Tom. It's always cool to learn the various backstories behind mainstay HN contributors. Hope the rest of your career is going as well as that first day!
it's not but this stuff converts
For us, affordability is _part of the product itself_.

We’re specifically building this _not_ to hoover up every dollar on the table, but to serve smaller groups that have been left out in the cold by "bigger" tools, and who get screwed by per-seat pricing. We believe there are enough teams who fit this profile to be profitable.

There’s a difference between making profit and maximizing profit. the capitalists will call us crazy, but we're not here to maximize profit.
IIRC those are only 256 kbps. I get that MP3 is a lossy format, but still, they could at the very least offer 320 kbps. I was under the impression Amazon wasn't short on server space.
It's a NUC with 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Alder Lake-N [UHD Graphics]

Integrated graphics to be sure, but i'm usually only using it to stream games from PC or laptop and the performance is fine for that in game.
I think it would be better to have a system where teachers aren't required to synchronize knowledge between 30 kids and some source material; where each kid can excel at their own pace and the teacher helps them manage their goals rather than being the primary source of information
As a broader comment about Bluesky, it seems to me that it's heavily left-leaning, while Twitter/X is obviously leaning more and more to the right. Amazingly, it seems that the BlueSky/X dichotomy is another emergent manifestation of a fracturing and continually more polarized society. In my opinion, what we will ultimately end up with is two echo chambers, each catering to opposite ends of the spectrum, each radicalizing their respective userbase, and each further amplifying the divide in society today.
If you see children like that, you're not ready (some people will never be ready, it's ok).
You mean two, disconnected circles.
From my experience of doing a full migration of a not too large frontend app, its gonna take way longer than anyone expects. And there are going to be higher ups that are going to be upset about it, because whoever sold them on the idea of a full rewrite, said it would take x but its taking 2.5x or how ever long it takes.
And the police wonder why no one trusts them or there are movements to defund them.
there's no reason to believe you're now relatively wiser compared to 10 years ago than 10 years ago compared to 20 years ago :/ which is why in another 10 years you'll probably think how stupid it was to believe you can guide a young asshole and should instead have just fired them. just speculating.
It's our goal to make this as affordable as possible for all types of organisation. If you're part of a non-profit or volunteer organisation, get in touch.
"general problem solving ability" isn't a real thing. Proficiency in solving, for example, math problems, does not confer the ability to draw conclusions based on evidence in history class. If you require a kid who's already mastered fractions to simply do harder and harder fractions rather than allowing them to continue onward, they will become bored and distracted, and ultimately burned out or resentful of the education system
Few governments aren’t a massive net surplus for their citizens, just look at any failed state to see the alternative.

So calling them a thief is almost always purely self serving nonsense.
See, the USA has 350 million people, and fifty states with materially different local norms. With this scale and amount of variety, "one in a million" freak incidents ought to be registered all the time. But, being freak incidents, they get amplified and thus seem to represent the entire country in the eyes of distant observers, foreigners, or just people from far enough away within the US.

Ironically, this is the same mechanism that magnifies every freak incident in daily life and gives it disproportionate news coverage. It's sometimes useful to draw attention to a rare problem, but more often it's just to pump up the audience's emotions and thus drive up "engagement" (views, coincident ad impressions, contextual ad clicks). This magnification, if not dampened by some rational thought, leads to people, including officials, mortally afraid that "anything could happen" with an unattended child on the street, and over-reacting; jail time for a parent is definitely worse for a kid that walking alone on the streets for some time.

But again, talking about "the USA lifestyle" is about as productive as speaking about "the European cuisine". The lifestyle is highly varied; I myself is not a fan of transactional suburban SUV lifestyle, hence mine, and that of my neighbors, is vastly different.
The fundamental dynamic underlying all of this is that there are absolutely zero downsides or repercussions for the professional bureaucrats persecuting their victims in this way. At the very least, the civil damages of legal expenses, emotional pain and suffering for the mother plus her four kids, physical harm from being held in poor jails, straight up wasted time, etc should be coming out of the budgets of the organizations perpetrating these attacks. Instead, in the worst case they simply get told "no" after a long arduous battle on the part of the parents (that the bureaucrats even get paid to engage in!), and are free to try again. This creates absolutely zero incentive to exercise judgement whether to actually persecute individual cases. Essentially, sovereign immunity being applied to every penny-ante government employee strikes again.
Isn't there a problem of perspective here? As a head of engineering you are hands on at getting entire projects and strategies done - which are not measured in single lines of code. You are not hands on at pushing a few lines of code. As you "move up the hierarchy" - for an antiquated phrase - your ambition and interest better track and you better be aware of what this scope of authority is about? You are "getting stuff done" - just not the same stuff.

Revisit what the firm is about, and what actually is your responsibility in this. Your responsibility is not to push paper and run meetings - these are just some of your means.

You also do get to take pride in what "your" people got built. That's not unfair just because you were not the one at that keyboard.
US Senate likely gonna do bidding for their corporate donors.

It takes ~$1B to elect a president and millions for many of senators and congress(wo)men.

US congress's median age is 58.8 and median wealth is about a million dollars. Many are career politicians who are far removed from the lives of median Americans.

Remains to be seen what the Trump administration passes that helps the middle and lower class.
It's AlmaLinux 9.4. Gnome 40.10.
Anecdotally, I see a lot more “normal” human to human engagement than the addressed-to-millions engagement bait I see on Threads.
They need to justify their military-level gear. If the city is nice and calm, they won’t get armored vehicles.
I actually meant "I am never talking with him about handing anything over" and "I am not going to ask 10x if there was no visible progress after they were swearing to pick it up" but other than that I will update the person that I am picking up tasks on my own and making progress on the thing they were "taking over".
Yeah, I wonder how much money they're pouring into lidar production. Particularly considering that they've partnered with Hyundai, Stellantis, Mercedes-Benz Group AG, Jaguar Land Rover, and Volvo.
Don't forget that there are a lot fewer kids today.

One only need to look at how a single kid is parented vs four.

I had a hilarious example at the park where the single child had constant supervision while the fourth kid of the same age was left alone to do whatever until she hurt herself and started crying. In between she ate dirt, sand, jumped in a puddle, threw stones at the local wild life, ate the single kids snacks, and finally fell off a ladder and busted her nose.

It's not that parents in the 70s were hands off, it's that they had their hands full and couldn't do any more.
I've seen this with other city pairs - for example there was news of an intern doing Charleston (South Carolina) - Newark (New Jersey) that made the rounds in 2023. https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/15/business/tiktok-summer-intern...

But her internship only required one day a week in person, so this isn't the same as a daily commute, and would be less viable now with increased RTO most places.
Even if there was an "egg-laying season", there could be a generation in-between that is not yet ready to lay eggs, that then teaches the newborns. Staggered lives, minimal overlap with direct parent, but still passing cultural heritage as a village.
Town of only 370 people only a mile away?

There is no way this sherrif did not know both the kid and the mom at least indirectly, and no way MOST kids in the area don't travel a mile on their own routinely, many every day, and no way this sherriff is not aware of this norm, and this is some personal and/or brown/yellow-people bs.

Maybe or maybe not driven by the sherrif directly but like a neighbor wants the property they live on or something. This has "make someone go away" (for whatever reason) smell. Though they are just as guilty for being willing to perform even if it was someone else's direction.

Like when a business just mysteriously can't get a normal permit in a tiny town where the entire staff of the department is Frank, the brother in law of the guy that owns half the town or the competing business across town, or their personal house near by and they just don't want the view. All impossible to prove and no one to complain to to even try.

I grew up in a comparative metropolis of ZOMG SIX THOUSAND(1) people and kids younger than 11 routinely travelled a hell of a lot further than a single mile by themselves, in the US. This is not crazy or dangerous or abnormal in the slightest in such a setting. In fact it's practically unavoidable in that setting. But Hey we were white and in the north-east version of rural instead of Mexipino-looking in the south-east version of rural.

(I seem to remember a figure more like 10-12k when I was there, but the census figures on wikipedia and say just under 6k for that time frame. Maybe these rural people avoid cooperating with the census, maybe the figure I heard included more of the general area than strictly the borders of the town, maybe I just never heard any such figure since we are talking late 70s and me only 7 to 12.)
Show me an LLM that is doing any of the things you mentioned and furthermore I'm willing to bet none of that will be possible after ARC is solved either. How much money would you be willing to bet?
Would you mind explaining a bit more over why this has value over and above a google group in collaborative inbox mode?

Annecdotally, I think there's a lot of good problems for a new vendor to solve with a product in this category, but a collaborative inbox is really just the baseline of a solution. Personally, the main issue my team has with collaborative inboxes are not issues with handling who replys to each message, it's an issue of spam. Would love to have a vendor build a solution powerful enough to solve these specific problems:

1. Filtering out automated beg-bounty outreach from any actual security issues by having some form of LLM responder: ideally having a bit of semi-automated back/forth (e.g. approved with a rich Slack button) to help determine if someone is serious or not (after two years of operating, I'm still at 100% of messages (over 1-2 messages per month per company) to security@example.com being spam; suspect over the mid-term it'll still be 98%+).
2. Filtering out spam where people are accidentally reaching out to the wrong company.
3. Filtering out spam where people are trying to sell us products we're not interested in. E.g. we attend conferences, for every actual conference email we get maybe 5 or 6 trying to sell us attendee email lists.

(would be happy to chat more, if you want to interview a potential customer; if you could really solve these above problems I'd pay you way more than your highest monthly rate on your pricing tier in a heartbeat, ideally scaling per email inbox rather than seat which would be likely be more lucrative for you, and more predictable for me)
Does this reset itself after a certain amount of time or is it one and done? I'd be worried about the feature being removed when the iPad or airpods decide they've been in India for too long.
It's not just one sheriff, it's:

- the busybody who called the cops in the first place

- the sheriff

- the Assistant District Attorney

- the Department of Family and Child Services
Yeah I guess regardless of the contract between the US government and TSMC, TSMC has the right to veto certain activities of Taiwanese companies. I'd feel a little bait and switched if I was the US government right now though.
Sorry for the negativity, but I think this is a bad time to switch to web dev, personally. There is still a glut of developers and nobody is going to hire a web dev with no production experience right now :( The sector might never recover, honestly, between all the over-hired and laid-off ex-FAANGers and all the hype (and funding) moving to AI.

That said, if your current job has web developers too, can you help them out a bit and learn on the job, part-time? Shadowing, working on simpler PRs, even just studying their code, etc.? It's not something you should quit your day job for, with these market conditions, but there's nothing wrong with learning gradually on the side. A lot of web work IS repetitive, as you said, and yes, there's a lot of cookie-cutter UX best practices that you implement over and over again. UI work is UI work and the same basic principles apply (especially since most web pages are responsive mobile lookalikes nowadays), so that actually gives you a leg-up over people who have no experience at all. The syntax and frameworks might be different, but many of the principles are similar.

Sure, web dev has some depth, but it's also typically the lowest tier of professional programmers. I don't mean any disrespect when I say that... been doing web dev for like 20+ years... but traditionally it was the one high-paying field where any high school drop-out with a few video tutorials or months of boot camp could get into. (I was one myself!)

So yes, web work is ubiquitous, but web devs are ubiquitous too, and these days many smaller companies use no-code platforms or farm out their work to web agencies that re-use templates. There's not many jobs for higher-skilled web dev anymore. It was different in 2018-2022, especially during covid, but we are currently still in an web dev oversupply and if you switched now you'd just be joining the breadlines. At least in mobile you're part of a smaller niche, instead of competing with the hordes of hungry low-skilled web devs. The easy glory days are long past us.

If I were in your shoes and really wanted to learn on the side, I'd choose one web framework and learn it well (probably React + Next; forget Angular, it doesn't matter anymore, but you can look into Vue and Svelte as alternatives too... but React is where all the jobs are/were). Don't spread yourself too thin trying to learn all the big ones. Add that to your existing resume but don't let go of your mobile skills. That way you wouldn't be an entry-level web dev, but an experienced frontend dev with both mobile + web skills. Bigger companies sometimes need that sort of cross-over talent when they want to make native apps plus web apps/PWAs and try to share code or UI or styles between them, etc.

If you want to do more backend / devops / networking stuff, there's plenty of that too, but presumably you would've had a chance to work on that in the mobile space too. It's common for different frontends to talk to the same backends.

Good luck... sorry for the bad news.

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Edit: Also see https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/technology/ for a good overview of the landscape.
It's a financial instrument, not necessarily a good one. I wouldn't recommend holding this to anyone. BTC is the only 'low risk' investment. However, thinking about it, this would effectively work the opposite of an index as safe investment vehicle. Effectively it is pairing high risk assets - Altcoins - in the same bag as a "low risk" asset - Bitcoin. You are not trying to minimize loss, rather maximize gain at lower risk.
It is decently common enough in unix. You are correct with my windows stuff it is fairly rare to set env vars to change the launching process. In the unix world though I have seen the pattern a decent number of times. With windows programs usually you see the pattern (not always) if it is ported from a unix system. Windows likes its ini/registry/cli items to do configuration. It doesnt mean the pattern can not be used in windows, I personally just have not seen it as much with native win32 apps. If you fire up something like 'git bash' you can see entire bash functions bound to env variables.

I think it goes back to where windows came from. That environment space in DOS was not exactly huge (256 bytes at one point?). In unix it seems like it was much larger and expressive.
Maybe we should consider changing out National anthem's lyrics from "home of the free" to "home of the safe"? Would rhyme better with "brave", too.
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Great question! Two things:

1. Jelly has a way to follow conversations and get notifications about replies and comments. So everyone can follow the convos they care about via Jelly notification emails sent to their personal team email.

2. For teams on our higher tier Royal Jelly plan, we have an IMAP feature that can sync mail sent out of Jelly back into your Gmail. It says "Coming soon" on our price table, but it's a working feature in alpha right now, and we already have some customers using it. We'd be happy to help any team get that set up if they need.
I would but PayPal banned me for life for taking payments for the sale of CBD oil in the early days of my CBD oil startup

Update: I kicked in $50 anyway. This story really infuriated me and I felt strongly enough to fill it out manually.
That sounds very ambiguous. Is installing Windows XP on an internet connected PC considered reckless? Is it driving a vintage car?
What Roles Should the Private Sector and the Federal Reserve Play in Payments?
Humans are not generally intelligent. The adjective "general" in "AGI" does not mean it is equivalent to human intelligence, it means it's above and beyond human intelligence.
I'm a little jealous that they passed your information along devdiv, I would have liked to work on something like the TypeScript compiler; I just got an unceremonious form letter.

I obviously don't blame them for declining me, they don't owe me a job, but I still find it a bit amusing that in my entire career exactly one entity has declined me for that reason, or at least only one has been brave enough to state that that was the reason why. I'm sure a lot of the places that never got back to me might have declined me for a lack of a degree behind the scenes, but I was never made aware of it.
Too soon to make this joke. Wait a couple years. He’ll have it fixed and you won’t need to ever vote again.
And you can't sue the corporation that made an AI?