skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I strongly disagree that if I, a European living in Asia, make a new social networking account it should assume that the things I'm interested in are American celebrities. Which is what happened on Threads. That's a dumb design decision that made me bounce out immediately.

A simple, privacy preserving solution: ask me! When I sign up, offer broad categories like art, tech, sports, celebrities etc. don't put everyone into one "probably likes celebrity gossip" box on signup.

But it's even worse than that. I already have an Instagram account! They know there that I like art, tech, webcomics, music. I know that's all shared with Threads even if I'd rather it wasn't. But my feed is still filled with celeb trash.
> Asking NATO to pay their fair share was fair. Imposing tariffs on China because they were devaluing their currency was fair.

"fair" has little relevance in geopolitics. Spending on military used to be politically difficult in Europe and US has so far decided to be lenient on the 2% rule since pressing the issue would achieve little but burning the relationship and thus influence. Choose your battles wisely, apply your limited political capital where it has the biggest impact. This 2% rule is likely not it.

In general, the international relationships will get more transactional and "multi-polar". One probably unintentional effect is that Europe will get closer to China, not bound by loyalty to US, and thus doing more fence-sitting. (China is a much bigger concern in US than in Europe)
I agree. Violence is everywhere and specifically in the animal kingdom it is weird to apply a moral judgement on violent animals. Eg. the wolf that in nvc symbolizes violent language does nothing wrong when it gathers the food it needs to live. There is no malice however "ruthless" it looks from the outside. And the giraffe also does nothing wrong when it protects it's grounds by kicking a hyena's head in.

But we humans that use these animals as metaphors when trying to improve our communication skills can apply a moral judgement and say that this way of communicating is better than that way. But we literal minded often get derailed when the metaphors are not 100% solid so I often think that metaphors are bad, or at least risky. (but I like these specific metaphors in nvc somehow)
>Why is Gimp failing to reproduce the successes seen by Blender? Blender is huge, Gimp is miniscule.

One is part of GNU, and one isn't. Not even being flippant.

Being a GNU project brings with it all kinds of political baggage that gets in the way of developing good UI/UX.
Every plane has what is called a stall speed, which if you go below it it loses its ability to stay in the air. Above that, even 1kt above, the plane will still fly. Also, to make sure you can fly the longest possible distance to have time to troubleshoot any issues, planes also have what is called best glide speed. If you maintain that, you’re golden.

There are a lot of factors that come into play when you lose the engine, but unless there is a serious issue, you still have control over the flight surfaces.
>The solution is for only one of the two layers to parallelise

If you have a common scheduling API, you can manage this much more elegantly. For example make(1) can control the concurrency level across recursive invocations by using a "job server" https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Job-Slots...

With this, you can have, for example, 3 top level subprocesses, each spawning multiple threads of their own, but never exceeding the CPU count.

Alternatively, parallel could make it's subprocesses think that they're running on a 1-core machine, although this may have some subtle side affects.
I'm struggling to thinking of any dated sites that I use where a revamp would result in an actual improvement.

I can think of plenty where the revamp has made them much worse, Reddit being top of mind.
Probably 10 at most.
Financialization — financial capitalism is not productive, it's extractive; eventually the host succumbs.

China, on the other hand ...
Why would a city that has never built a contactless ticket gate system have experience building a contactless ticket gate system?
Eve similarly has Signal Cartel (and possibly some other corps too), who offer free assistance to pilots trapped in wormhole space without a way to scan down an exit hole.
dont downvote me it hurts my feelings

im genuinely asking if op has hobbies or interests that should be alleviating the dreadfulness you get from boring repetitive work.
but the point is why does the municiple gov't have someone with baking skills on staff, when they don't bake bread at all normally?
A lot of IoT devices, cameras, alarm systems, car components have known vulns and are still sold...
BitWarden went this route against LastPass. They've had their own closed source component contoversies lately though.
A good employee will want to hand off his projects and take questions, but you need to be ready if he can't.
I think good APIs are one of te most important and least obvious advantages of SPAs.
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That depends what you mean by "low". The F-35B (like any fixed-wing aircraft) is perfectly well flyable down to stall speed, and below stall speed it doesn't fly at all. For the conditions described, stall speed would probably be something close to 120kn (exact performance parameters are classified). (Some fighters can use thrust vectoring and other aerodynamic tricks to retain a limited amount of post-stall maneuverability but that doesn't really apply in this case.) In an engine failure situation, pilots are trained to trim the aircraft to the speed that will give the best glide ratio and that's going to be well above stall speed.

Vertical flight mode wouldn't be usable in a situation like this. They only transition to vertical flight at low altitude with the landing site in sight.
Can’t forget Elon.
True, but I don't think loss of tone would've mattered much here; almost all of the content of the video itself seems deliberately overwritten; it could be condensed to a tweet or post less than 100 words.
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> Today adults crusade against these absurdities without the slightest inkling of self-irony.

> Perhaps other posters can point to the underlying causes.

It's because a lot of the flat-earthers out there on the internet actually believe it. It's no longer an amusing discourse, fun little game or intellectual pursuit for the high-minded playful contrarian, it has transitioned to an actual conspiracy theory with actual adherents.

> Flat-earth is typically used as a pejorative at HN.

As it should be, given the above. It has become part of the wider conspiracy-sphere alongside chemtrails, 9/11 'truth' and all the other crap. It's no longer a sign of high intelligence or curiosity when someone brings it up, if it ever was.

Compare "BirdsArentReal", though honestly I expect that eventually to go the same way.
> When a ship sinks, the outcome is more or less the same whether people are onboard or not: in either case the ship will sink

The more difficult question is when a ship is on the brink of sinking. Then, having people on board can make a difference: the extra weight can make it sink, or actions by those people (pumping, plugging holes, closing doors) can prevent it from sinking.

For the captain, the difficult thing is to figure out whether a ship is destined to sink or not.
They didn't think to flee earlier?
Change can be tough
This is actually also a lie (at least in America). Real income (after adjusting for inflation) has been rising at the median [1]. The bottom quintile got reamed by Covid but have been the biggest beneficiaries of inflation [2] (which tends to be bad only for people with savings) and the covid slump was more than compensated for by stimmy checks [3]. The Gini coefficient has been pretty stable since 1990.

There's only a cost of living crisis in cities with epic nimby-induced housing shortages, but most Americans don't live in those cities.

[1]: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEPAINUSA672N

[2]: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CXU900000LB0102M

[3]: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CXUINCAFTTXLB0102M
Note that it can get trickier than it sounds. (Well, I don't know about big tech, but at least for medium and smaller.)

You need to figure out who the "important people" are, and somehow make sure that they understand and buy into the product definition, delivery dates, etc.

Even if they're 3 levels up from you, and you can't normally interface directly with them, try to find a way to double-check that all the "important people" are on the same page.

Organizational dysfunction happens, and you have to succeed despite that possibility.
And modulo the fact that we don’t even know that we can build ones that are actually faster than classical computers (at meaningful qubit sizes).
Almost anyone (above the age of 5) on this planet is familiar with food, not the case with `git` and it's obvious non-obviousness
“Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times.” (from a postapocalyptic novel by the author G. Michael Hopf)
I know that some artists sell their music directly from their own websites. I prefer to buy CD versions actually...
Thanks for sharing! I didn't want to sign up for a monthly subscription to transfer my music...
Compare to Microsoft Copilot ad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWXbd2fKTu8
Elon Musk still can't sell his cars in like 15 different states due to laws car dealerships put in place, so while the individual car dealership owner might not be elite, they're higher up on the totem pole than a random ivy league grad student.
In a way it seems like it's a practical approach to supporting artists directly
Ah. AG Talking Bear meets LLM. I started working on something similar a year back - but tried to keep it restricted to offline which made it more challenging since inference on CPU of raspberry PI limits you to very small models.

Sending voice clips of children to an always listening server is just a bit too dystopian for me.
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That sounds really frustrating! It’s one of those cases where it feels like the system is actively working against the listener
Fidelity has downgraded X by 80% in 2.5 years.

And X has competitors in Bluesky and Threads both of which have seen record user numbers and growth. For example, Threads has grown to 275m MAU in 1.5 years.

There is no reality in which X should be remotely compared to any of the other major social media platforms. It is failing at an unprecedented rate and based on user growth in Bluesky/Threads is continuing to rapidly decline.
What? https://duckduckgo.com/terminator+foundry+scene !1!!

https://duckduckgo.com/Terminator+6502
Apple is making its first foray into the smart home IP camera market
Claire Saffitz's is probably my favorite channel for all things baking, such high quality productions with a care for detail, thanks for sharing that!
It's a little too late for that. The JSF program probably should have been cancelled or completely restructured circa 1996. But now there's no remaining alternative. The inventory of legacy AV-8, F-16, and A-10 aircraft are going to be retired no matter what because they're literally falling apart and it's impossible to keep extending their service lives.
I never knew that “Kings being King David (Spades), Alexander the Great (Clubs), Charlemagne (Hearts), and Julius Caesar (Diamonds), representing the four empires of Jews, Greeks, Franks, and Romans. Notable characters ascribed to the Queens include the Greek goddess Pallas Athena (Spades), Judith (Hearts), Jacob's wife Rachel (Diamonds), and Argine (Clubs). The Knaves were commonly designated as La Hire (Hearts), Charlemagne’s knight Ogier (Spades), Hector the hero of Troy (Diamonds), and King Arthur's knight Lancelot (Clubs).”
Seems like a smart setup
Apple Music has been utterly awful on desktop for years, with virtually zero positive progress. I made this angry video [1] 4 years ago, and have tried using Apple Music multiple times since then, and it never failed to disappoint.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gE8ZikfrpFU
Even with a company of size=1, you have to worry about customers.
I found Soundiiz pretty bad, at least when transferring from Spotify and Apple Music to Youtube Music. It failed to find about a hundred tracks from the library of couple of thousand tracks, and they weren't some niche, rare things, too. I had to manually search for them, using the same titles, and found most of them.
Used CDs are dirt cheap. Local thrift stores here tend to price them at $1-$1.50 each. Of course, the dedicated "record" stores tend to be closer to $6-10, but they're more likely to have things other than thousands of country albums.
And not the non-destructive editing that is the big thing IMO. I will likely finally say bye to Photoshop. Lightroom was replaced with darktable two years ago.
The anomalous state of Uranus's magnetosphere during the Voyager 2 flyby
Saturn-size brown dwarfs? Who would’ve thought!
plex alternative: jellyfin + finamp or fintunes. This is my new setup (alongside bandcamp if I haven't yet imported the bandcamp purchase into my jellyfin library). No cloud shit, no subscriptions, but I still support [most of] my favorite artists. Ones which aren't on bandcamp, well either I still have the CDs kicking around or some mp3s from wherever (yt-dlp + ffmpeg is useful when lazy too)
Firefox, is next on my list! If there's enough traction I'll be adding mobile support as well to share links to the app straight from your mobile device
What's wrong with the platform-provided Assamese input methods that made you want to develop a replacement?
When I worked at a big company I did a lot of mentoring and the dissonance between what people I mentored thought was the "right thing to do" and what it seemed like the organization wanted them to do (enforced via performance reviews or other mechanisms) was a huge hurdle for new engineers. Especially early in your career you're just one engineer in a huge org and most people eventually decide it's easier to go with the flow than fight against it (or they leave) but it was a struggle for people to get there.

This post seems the logical conclusion of that. Why spend your time and stress doing work that your boss doesn't appreciate? Just give them what they want, it's their job to align that with greater organizational goals.

All this being said I did not love working at a big company, partially for these exact reasons.
You're sort of making the exact mistake I mentioned here. How far do those wages go vs the 70s? Add together housing costs, fuel costs, healthcare costs, transport costs, food costs, general price rises? Why can single income households no longer really support a family with a house if everything's got better and everyone is lying?
Sounds like Colonel Del Pizzo let himself become a child of the magenta line[1].

(if you haven't seen this amazing talk, you should definitely give it a watch)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ESJH1NLMLs
This happened to me a bunch. I think in one case an artist released an album, but wanted to disallow buying individual tracks so they relisted it after I bought one track.

The most infuriating thing is that bandcamp gaslights you on it. I eventually confirmed that yes, I had bought that song, after tracking down the receipt in my email provider or something (it was hidden from purchase history, bandcamp "I can't find my music" link didn't mention this, etc etc).

This isn't just an issue for playing music though - if you buy a bunch of stuff but don't download it right away you could loose it too. I bought the track I mentioned right after it was released, and the substitution happened within a day or two of that.

Like, I get it, if there was some legal issue (pirated work - and then they should issue refunds). But the fact that bandcamp tries to hide it just means that they know they have no moral grounds here.
Just make it work like PS. Everything is different, non intuitive, a mess. And whenever you sit down and try to work with it you get nervous breakdowns because everything is all over the place. And then you give up and get back to PS.

I have a feeling that this new version will have all the same issues.
Doesn't Spotify as well?
Krita is the same mess.
some time ago when I canceled spotify, they show this special playlist like "we'll miss you" or whatever, and each of the song names, in order, spell out this little goodbye message. Ironically one of the songs in that playlist was greyed out and unplayable. Like, great job reminding me why I'm canceling :)
>Can’t forget Elon.

I try very hard to do so. And mostly I succeed until someone (this time you) brings him up.
Finding equivalent content elsewhere is probably not going to happen. The best the service could do is show you Instagram content without requiring an Instagram account.
I miss 7-bit ASCII.
But what do you do when intolerance is the thing you're being asked to be tolerant of?
Same here. What you highlighted makes a lot of sense to me and it’s something that happens at every company size.
You can paste in an existing url: https://odesli.co/https://open.spotify.com/track/1Yk0cQdMLx5...

The placeholder in their search field even says "Search or paste URL"
Its also a vote for degrowth as things get swept away ever faster then they can rebuild. With the longterm planning that insurance enables, reality will have its say at the end of the day.
This seems to be less about fault and more about perception
I prefer Randall W. Carlson.
I remember excitedly reading the announcement for gegl that was finally going to bring non-destructive editing to gimp. If I'd been told it was going to take at least 20 years to actually happen I would not have believed you.

But whatever, I'm glad it's finally here.
This incident brings up a lot about the complexity and high stakes of military aviation
> The city's [San Diego] infrastructure management is equally impressive

The water districts of neighboring small cities are lately less impressed:

> Two North San Diego County water districts are filing suit against the city of San Diego over the state of the Lake Hodges dam, which the districts allege resulted in the loss of a local water supply. The Santa Fe Irrigation District announced the lawsuit, to be jointly filed with the San Dieguito Water District, on July 25.

> In the statement, the district alleged that: A lack of proper Lake Hodges dam maintenance led to an unsatisfactory rating by the state’s Division of Safety of Dams, which mandated a restricted lower lake level. ...

https://www.northcoastcurrent.com/coastline/2024/08/water-di...
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>The fact that persistent storage has to happen at the same place to be reliable is only incidental, not a defining attribute of a relational database.

Persistence happens to processes who's state is expensive to reconstruct. Measurements of the world requires time travel to recover and so are quite expensive to acquire! "Incidental" implies a weaker correlation than warranted.

As an aside, ~100% of data models are incapable of modelling contradictary or ambiguous measurements and fail to adequately model alternative normalization and integration into whatever model of "truth" you pick. And these systems entirely fall over when any part of these tacit and underspecified constraints change.
Spotify doesn't require you to create an account to hear a song from what I recall, so why wouldn't someone send you a link? That's what the web is for.

That said once you have heard it on Spotify, yeah you might want it on your service provider of choice so as to add it to whatever equivalent of playlists there are.
I have a similar situation, managing a lot of different threads in very different contexts (teaching and projects) at our university.

I miss the state of flow very much, not being able to focus on one thing and diving deep for a couple of hours or even a couple of days. The constant context switch and firehosing of incoming messages I have to fend off is draining.

Just as you say, some days feel like having been completely busy while not achieving anything of substance. I know I am lubricating others work, but I'd love to be with my own toughts for a while also.

For the next project I am attempting to dedicate full and exclusive days to the different contexts, so that at least on that single day my mind is not concerned with all the contexts, threads and their TODOs.

I am already tagging my incoming emails with "TODO" and "waiting for reply" and sorting them into their respective folders and then afterwards heading for the tag stacks and working on them. I think I will add tags for contexts and set up filters, so that I can open the right TODO stack for the topic of the day I am working on, to conceal any "not today" work.
If you don't enjoy it, go back. There's no law saying you have to keep going up the ladder.

I've tried more senior roles and didn't enjoy them. Just coding is much more immediately rewarding for me. OTOH, I'm starting a business and plan to scale once I gain some traction. But I'm looking forward to that since I'll have actual ownership, unlimited upside potential and control.

Personally, being stuck in the middle where you don't have any significant ownership but are managing people doesn't work for me. I've worked in jobs before that have got me down and there's only so long you can stick them out before they really affect you.

I normally find contracts now where I'm one of the most senior devs (they normally pay quite well). They are out there.

Find what works for you. There's more than one way to do it.
> Atlanteans

> Improbable fantasy

You mean as improbable and fantastical as the ancient Troy?

Oh right it turned out to actually exist, after much ridicule of its idea!

If anything, this kind of closed-mindedness is part of the problem.

Dismissing the abundant evidence for Atlantis is hindering our progress of finding it at best.
You shouldn't be flying an F-35B if you can't fly it without the HUD (assuming functional flight controls).
rerere in git config helps, but if jj just does it all more sanely, it's probably worth learning for people who don't yet have the git-fu.
Hear hear, I share these observations almost as-is.
If you want to replace Photoshop with something open source, I recommend Krita, everytime I give gimp a try it ends up being a frustrating waste of time.
China is fakeing most of it and our press only reports it as existing and true to coax our politicians into doing something ..anything.

My tip: If you read fantastic news, google the location and look on it from space. Any game changer should be visible and viable from orbit. And it is but often enough..no powerlines or tramsformers. Planned economies, they reach their goals, to promote bureaucrats , reality be damed.
"Your grandpa/dad was able to support a family on a single income, have two cars, a house and a nice vacation every year and you struggle to pay for food and a place to live? That's a lie. Look at these stats, dummy."
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