skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The number of websites that only work on chrome really sucks. It's a small percentage, but it's enough that you run into them and I hate that very much.

But unless I'm actively campaigning everyone I know to switch in an effort to save them from it, I'm going to reserve the term "the new ie" for another day.

Not to mention the developer story. Just getting a website to look right in every browser was difficult, with IE very often being by far the hardest.

IE was a nightmare for a long time.
Linux Kernel 6.12 Has Landed – and It's a Big One
https://archive.ph/W1HiL
The Scrumlord Regime
Mirrors won't save you. A high powered laser will burn through a mirror as if it wasn't even there.
I built an implementation in Rust a while back:

https://github.com/aabiji/qr
Emissions per kwh has gone down.
>In the After First Unlock (AFU) state, user data is decrypted

Note that this is a slight simplification because, I assume, the reality is irrelevant to understanding the topic:

There are a few different keys [0] that can be chosen at this level of the encryption pipeline. The default one makes data available after first unlock, as described. But, as the developer, you can choose a key that, for example, makes your app's data unavailable any time the device is locked. Apple uses that one for the user's health data, and maybe other extra-sensitive stuff.

[0]: https://support.apple.com/guide/security/data-protection-cla...
That may have been Dave Cutler's doing. Cutler came from DEC and did the OS for the VAX. (Not UNIX, DEC's own OS). When DEC went from 16 to 32 bits, the VAX was made hardware-capable of booting up in PDP-11 mode. Nobody used that feature, because the result was an overpriced PDP-11. So it seemed reasonable to think that, once the 386 was out, everybody would run 32-bit software on new hardware.

That did not happen. 16-bit applications hung on for a decade.
if you want a really old example, pnacl. If you want a slightly recent one, FLoC. Not saying those are the best examples, they are just what comes to my head first. I don't really keep up super closely.
I've got two keyboards with red switches, some basic foam and o-rings. It's still noisy, especially in a small home office.
This definitely exists, even when switching jobs.

However I would say that IMO it's another case of foreigners buzzing by depicting boring and common stuff under a "weird Japan" light.

Shitty companies manipulating employees to stop them from resigning is something that exists in any country. And this escalating to the labor authorities or going through a lawyer is not a rare thing anywhere either.

It happens more frequently in Japan because the culture of not being confrontational is strong. The fact that lawyers can afford to specialize in this matter alone is just a logical result of the larger number of customers.

EDIT: I also want to add this: if you have been in a company for a while, you are eventually going to see or hear about how resignation is handled for other employees. If you want to quit and already know that the company is going to harrass you and make your life hell, is it so weird to save your time and mental health to delegate all of that to a dedicated professional?
There are plenty of 100 year old companies doing basically what they did 100 years ago (Exxon, Coke, Hershey, Wells Fargo, etc.). They’re just not tech companies.
I cook myself and i know which and how much ingredients i use and how much carbs they contain. Either from a food label or in general (like 100g of cooked potatoes contain about 16g carbs).

Then I calculate how much my serving contains.

Depending on what you eat, what type of diabetes you have and how it’s treated you may have to consider the amount of protein and fat as well (they slow digestion and cause a delayed rise in blood sugar levels). If you have an insulin pump you may want to program a delayed insulin dose to handle that.

Sounds complicated? It is, but only during the first weeks. You quickly learn the carbs content of the food you frequently eat and learn to estimate how much is on your plate. Like, two units for a bun.
There are also great nutrition apps out there that help a lot.
Ask HN: How Ray Bradbury's Advice on Writing Can Be Applied in Programming?
1) The best hygiene for beginning writers or intermediate writers is to write a hell of a lot of short stories. If you can write one short story a week—it doesn’t matter what the quality is to start, but at least you’re practicing, and at the end of the year you have 52 short stories, and I defy you to write 52 bad ones. Can’t be done. At the end of 30 weeks or 40 weeks or at the end of the year, all of a sudden a story will come that’s just wonderful.

2) What you’ve got to do from this night forward is stuff your head with more different things from various fields . . . I’ll give you a program to follow every night, very simple program. For the next thousand nights, before you go to bed every night, read one short story. That’ll take you ten minutes, 15 minutes. Okay, then read one poem a night from the vast history of poetry. Stay away from most modern poems. It’s crap. It’s not poetry! It’s not poetry. Now if you want to kid yourself and write lines that look like poems, go ahead and do it, but you’ll go nowhere. Read the great poets, go back and read Shakespeare, read Alexander Pope, read Robert Frost. But one poem a night, one short story a night, one essay a night, for the next 1,000 nights. From various fields: archaeology, zoology, biology, all the great philosophers of time, comparing them. Read the essays of Aldous Huxley, read Lauren Eisley, great anthropologist. . . I want you to read essays in every field. On politics, analyzing literature, pick your own. But that means that every night then, before you go to bed, you’re stuffing your head with one poem, one short story, one essay—at the end of a thousand nights, Jesus God, you’ll be full of stuff, won’t you?
> deleted case can bite you one way or another, no?

Right. I use a renderer where, on rare occasions, that happens. I didn't write it, but now I have to fix it, because it's abandonware.
Well, Japan hasn't done too well in the software world over the last 30 years.

Meanwhile American software companies and employees are both infamously disloyal and have done quite well.
I’m on the wrong end of my 30s and I haven’t dreamed consistently for years (or I can’t remember it at least). I have never used THC, so I suppose there are more reasons then THC to not dream. I’ll get the odd dream on a vacation every now and then- I suspect I’m too sleep deprived on a regular basis.

Looking at my Apple Watch data, I get regular amounts of REM sleep and Deep sleep.
Yep, got to help with some water systems in small town govs. No care for security and no budget = this situation.
Most entry level engineering classes (first 3/4 semesters) in most of Europe (all kinds) are designed to gate keep.

I graduated in chemistry, and Chemistry 1 in engineering had tests much more difficult than any other Chemistry 1 in any other faculty. After noticing that the same pattern applied to Physics 1 or Calculus I started realizing it was an engineering thing, which was later confirmed to me by an associate professor that was the design.

I asked him why, and he told me that it's a long established thing that you don't want people that struggle with science fundamentals to build bridges, ships or electrical circuits so the first semesters are very focused on this weeding.
Typical contracts will require a 1 month period between you announce you're quitting and you effective termination date.

If you have enough paid vacation you could pad that period with your vacation, but it requires pre-acceptance, so cooperation from your employer. Otherwise you're into non-accepted vacation territory, which could lead to financial penalties (basically withdrawing your salary, with potential tax adjustements. They could also try to sue you, and given you're fleeing assume they'd get a default judgement for instance)

Then there's all the paperwork you actually want to have properly done by your employer. They're legally obligated to, but it's always harder if you're in adversarial mode.

All in all, you can still quit cold turkey ("bakkure"), but that's a usually a PITA. Getting a pro to negociate a clean separation will be better than just disappearing, if you're not in the mood/capacity to face your employer.

PS; There are magical words that would give any employee an immediate option to never see their employer again. I don't want them in my comments, but anyone interested will find them with a simple search.
Maybe it's not in spite of but rather because of them?

To me, it seems like if you were designing a brand new society optimized only to maximize the countries GDP, you'd implement the Japanese model - employees who never leave their employers, extremely long work hours and mandatory after work social activities.

China, Japan and SK have all effectively implemented a version of this and their economic growth post WWII has been nothing short of remarkable (China was poorer than Sub Saharan Africa in the 50's).

Obviously, you could say this has not been going very well for Japan more recently but I'd argue the main drawback to this paradigm is the inevitable population implosion.
>They already have prior failure experience

What was the previous fail?
Well this person is complaining about not being a homeowner so...
It also helps to have $4.5B (in 2024 dollars) to spend on a project.

https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/voyager-spacec...
Worked with Weka to maximize NFSv4/mellanox throughput, and it was absolutely required to get targets.
I can't even view that link without logging in
it does, because i won't be greeting them, which is exactly what the poster above is asking for
Working for a company that pays you in stock and then selling those stocks is in fact earned.
My question is: why three days specifically instead of a user-configurable delay?
I’d like an AI that detects and rejects AI scrapers and people referred from commercially owned search engines, social media platforms, and parasitic news aggregators like Reddit and HN. Why? Because my website is not a side hustle and it’s not for commercial use.

While I doubt that was the answer you hoped to receive, nobody’s paying me to pretend your feelings matter. The more I read about AI the harder I yearn for the Butlerian Jihad.
> I bet the subset of buyers looking for a bare bones no frills brand-new car is quite small.

I think you're correct; we're probably talking about a portion of the weirdly minimalist and frugal crowd pursuing FIRE. Also, most folks in that small subset wouldn't even consider buying a GM product; it's going to be either a Toyota or Honda for them.

Source: I'm one of them, still driving my base-level trim 2008 Prius.

As an aside, I'm reading that the new Bolt sold nearly as well as the Tesla Model S in 2017. Before that, I think the similarly basic Nissan Leaf was the best selling EV. Since then, however, my sense is that EV purchases became more about "fun" (which Tesla has emphasized and provided) than anything else.
I liked it but I am not an Android Dev, so I found it a little hard. I like that there are hints, but they are probably for a different audience. I would need maybe a little intro saying that the next three puzzles deal with the following three types of bugs, which the intro would briefly introduce. I would then have to figure out which puzzle corresponds to which bug and find a way to debug it.

The second puzzle was great because the tool gave me a way to solve the puzzle. The tool for the third puzzle didn't really help because I still had to tap a lot, so I quit.

I know that my feedback may sound negative. I think the concept is great and after one or two revisions I can see folks enjoying it quite a bit!
So, things that are either impossible (touch events or vibration) or ridiculous (why would I want a website to know my battery level or directly access system hardware?)
Hopefully the cat doors can be locked too!
If you use Comcast's modem/wifi router, you are part of their service infrastructure. Xfinity WiFi Home Hotspot
(Assuming it's really from them etc.)

If they were this bad at taking responsibility for the stress in their life with regard to you, imagine how bad they were at handling all the other, more basic and visceral, sources of stress they experienced and refused to take ownership over in their life.

They could write a hundred such messages to people they interacted with (and probably did?).
The Boeing reboot is necessary because of an integer overflow that occurs once the aircraft is on for 248 days: https://www.i-programmer.info/news/149-security/8548-reboot-...

> This condition is caused by a software counter internal to the GCUs that will overflow after 248 days of continuous power. We are issuing this AD to prevent loss of all AC electrical power, which could result in loss of control of the airplane.

> A simple guess suggests the the problem is a signed 32-bit overflow as 231 is the number of seconds in 248 days multiplied by 100, i.e. a counter in hundredths of of a second.
Frequent writing of programs along the lines of Knuth's might be a good approach:

https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/programs.html

These aren't shippable end-user applications, but implementations of algorithmic ideas, so something reasonably done even on a daily basis.
Based on what I’ve seen and heard (luckily, not experienced), I think it depends on the company. Smaller ones with older management may be both more reliant on the labor and more used to lifetime employment. I suspect there’s probably some maximal fuckiness point. Most companies aren’t like that, but resignation in Japan has a lot of stigma even if everything goes well, so many people will use these services just so they don’t have to deal with it.

The way the culture works there’s no way for the managers to be anything but unfailingly polite to an external party that calls to resign on behalf of the employee.
50 samples gets you past “intriguing” and into “we need to be doing something, maybe a large trial first, but something” territory

The result that the human+AI is a little better but the AI alone is much better matches the experience with chess engines, where grandmaster+AI is a little better but just AI is the strongest.
To be ever so slightly sympathetic to American cops, unlike just about anywhere else in the developed world, it is plausible that the person behind the door is armed with anything up to an automatic rifle, and any random person they stop may be carrying a concealed firearm.

Given that, if I was busting down doors in the US, I’d want to be armed to the teeth, equipped with the best body armour money can buy, and wouldn’t waste a lot of time on niceties until I was sure that nobody was going to attempt to kill me.

Blame the Second Amendment as currently interpreted.
Apple's whole thing is offering whatever they think is a good default over configuration. I can't even begin to count all the things I wish were configurable on iOS and macOS, but aren't. Makes for a smooth user experience, sure, but is also frustrating if you're a power user.
Considering that I do get questions and comments about the projects, yet, people are reading this.
So from your comment it seems you see a body that is basically advisory. Would I be correct in assuming you see no issue with getting rid of the parts of the EPA that deal in water? They don't sound like they do anything particularly important. They were probably overstepping their mandate with the cybersecurity stuff if your view is accurate; nobody needs to sue them if they don't exercise any control.

Those functions could be wholly coordinated by the states or direct communication between relevant bodies by the way.
It does, that's how it's own docs are put together –

https://docs.getoutline.com/s/guide
Not OP, and this was Hotwire Rails with Stimulus but I also saw a similar reduction in moving a page from React to Hotwire. It was actually a new page, with significant changes so couldn't be trumped up to just a rewrite. But this was easily 1/10th if not more of a reduction in LOC than the similar React app it was replacing, with the more features, and a like a 90% increase in performance.
Okay but I still see no startup here.

If LLMs will do well in the space for some use case it's the established chip designers that will benefit from it, not a small startup.
the presence of a decent quality DAC in the official dongle is neat. I'm not super surprised, since Apple probably wouldn't want poor-quality audio associated with their brand.

edit 3: the rest of this comment doesn't add anything to the discussion, it's just griping. you are welcome to ignore it.

A DAC in every dongle. A DAC in every pair of earbuds.
We went from one DAC to piles of them. I don't know that I will ever stop being bothered by this 'improvement'.

edit: yes, I know we don't actually put DACs in earbuds. I think. Please tell me that's not happening.

edit 2: Oh no that's really what's being done. I didn't realize Audio Accessory Mode was going away.
In my language, division isn't closed. The type of x/y is maybe<double> because when you do shenanigans of defining division as a different operator than multiplying by the multiplicative inverse, your code sucks.
>The parent comment is obviously stupid and has already been down-voted, so HN is doing its job? There is no need to feed the troll.

It's visible, and from my experience, it's not obviously stupid to many people, while being actively harmful.

This is not a trolling comment either, so I don't feel like "feeding the troll" metaphor applies. The "do not feed the troll" advice is usually given to not create opportunities for the troll to come and engage with.

Bigots are not trolls. When countered and having nothing to say, they shut down. Unlike trolls (who say things to simply provoke emotions), bigots want to feel in the right, and will abandon the conversations (and spaces) where that isn't feasible.

To stop the troll, you stop feeding them. When met with no response, trolls move on to something else.

To stop the bigot, you stand up to them. When met with no response, bigots feel emboldened, and do more of the same.

There is no need to feed the trolls. There is a need to stand up to bigotry.
Wouldn't really say Apple is pushing the envelope here, as covered in the previous threads about this topic, a number of Android flavors have done this long ago.
Planes are certainly turned around quickly, so a reboot every time they refuel isn't desirable.

But equally, they dont do this 24x7 - if only because airport curfews and maintainence schedules won't let them.

Rebooting the computer when doing regular maintenance is no big deal.
People here don't understand basic concepts like risk adjusted returns, flight to quality, Searching for yield etc...
Maybe this is wishful thinking but could something like this be used to make star wars style holograms? Strategically placed laser shadows to block light sounds like a useful tool in that direction.
> Those fortunate enough to leave are sometimes asked to send apology letters to colleagues or deliver speeches expressing regret for their “selfishness” and “disrespect.” Of course, these are the most extreme cases–but they do occur, according to Momuri.

So, not that much different mindset than a US startup founder who takes 70% equity, while offering the first hire 0.5% to 2% in options (vesting over 4 years, with exercise rules that further discourage ever getting any equity at all)?

(Edit: Fastest downvoting I've ever seen on HN. :)
I'm now at challenge #13 and have no clue how to proceed further, I even revealed all tips for this one, but nothing is happening. (I suppose the start service command contains a typo, as it would require root, but removing the errornous word allowed me to start the service). I also see that the service is started in the developer tools, but 'sending the message' (being vague to not spoiler things) doesn't change anything in the Challenge.

For the previous challenges I haven't had any problems, finding the correct tools for each challenge wasn't really hard. But #7 and #8 were stressing me out, not because the "developer part" but the challenge itself, as I needed to remember things and be fast.

But I think the tips website is really well made! And the challenges that weren't tedious were quite fun, as it was cool to see how the developer tools can be (ab)used to created challenges like these!
AI-powered vending machines that sell bullets could be hacked, says expert
> and ignoring his often legitimate complaints. It does not address the question why high performers sometimes get irritable. The reasons can range from people intriguing against them with lies to being underappreciated.

This one stuck out at me too. We now have "architect" roles, and one of them was assigned to our group, having never even looked at our legacy codebases before, and during a meeting my response to what he wanted was pretty close to what's in this post - "that doesn't make sense / isn't a good idea". I didn't have a good on-the-spot explanation at that moment, it came from years of experience working with this legacy system, that I had to later figure out how to summarize all of that and put that intuition into words.
I recently learned of this new-design PC XT clone motherboard, which comes with a VGA card. I imagine this software is perfect for that system.

https://monotech.fwscart.com/product/nuxt-v2-0---microatx-tu...
Sounds like the issues around dating, marriage and children aren’t really cut and dry in Japan. The population crisis isn’t a “just so” thing. The society optimized for one set of criteria but is buckling under others.
Or hospitals refusing to support the doctor in malpractice suits unless the MD can show they consulted with Dr Silicon during the diagnostic process. Include AI consults in clinical standards guidelines at the hospital level. Require AI training in CME licensing requirements.
Right. Materials with nonlinear optical properties make optical logic possible. Here's an overview of that.[1]

Cross-gain modulation (XGM)

XGM has been investigated extensively to design optical logic gates with SOA. It is assumed that there are two input light beams for each SOA. One is the probe light and the other is the much stronger pump light. The probe light cannot pass through the SOA when the pump light saturates it. The probe light can go through the SOA when the pump light is absent.

[1] https://www.oejournal.org/article/doi/10.29026/oes.2022.2200...
The video of the Wichita shooting was, to me, the most clear cut example of how poorly police can respond to a swatting call. Guy comes out to his porch, having no idea what's going on, and within only a few seconds of time and 2 commands to show hands and walk toward the police, is shot and killed.
I learned my lesson when Google+ turned to shit while trying and failing to eat Facebook’s lunch. Parasocial media isn’t worth my time. Not even for POSSE. If somebody thinks something I’ve written is worth syndicating on Bluesky they can share it themselves. And if a platform wants their users to see what I write they can pull my website’s RSS feed. That’s what it’s for.
I haven't read the whole thing, but from skimming the beginning. This is pretty similar how AOSP's BFU vs AFU unlock works.
The simple of it:
Gear teeth are made in such a way so that when their faces touch as the gear rotates, they "roll" against echother faces rather than slide.
I don’t think companies are penalized for producing small cars so much as larger vehicles like trucks and SUVs are incentivized to become larger to sit outside the rules as commercial vehicles even though everyone knows that only a small percentage are used for commercial purposes.
Would you please share more information about it? Thanks.
JM Coetzee on Zbigniew Herbert