skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of these are pretty accurate, but there's good news: giving a sh!t about your people will likely get you 80% of the way to being a good manager. If you genuinely care about them, their work and progression you're already aligned with the key aspects. You can learn & figure out the rest. It might be hard and very unpleasant at times, and stressful, but building the teams that build software is the most rewarding accomplishment of my life.

I will add one too: sometimes you only find out you don't want to be a manager after trying it. Building a lead mentorship program where both management and the individual can live a realistic experience of being a people leader is invaluable. I've implemented this program twice now and it has been great for building leadership capacity with people who are excited to take this path.
They're trying to delete all pictures of themselves and remove their wiki pages.
Not any more absurd than claiming that nobody has the right to challenge the definition of what "free and fair" according the laws of a specific state (regardless if one agrees with that definition or not).
I was speaking loosely but the operative term is "information thermodynamics": comparing bits of AI output versus bits of intentional human thought, ignoring statistical/physical bits related to ANN inference or biological neuron activity. The "tiny chunk of the human mind" thing was a distraction I shouldn't have included.

These AI output as tokens hundreds of potential solutions, whereas a human solving a very tricky ARC problem might need at most a few dozen cases to run through. There's a big mess of ANN linear algebra / human subconscious thought and I agree these messes can't be compared (or even identified in the human case). But we can compare the efficiency of the solution. It is possible that subconsciously humans "generate" hundreds of solutions that are mostly discarded, but I don't think the brain is fast enough to do that at the speed of conscious thought: it's a 50bn core processor but each core is only 200Hz and they aren't general-purpose CPUs. It also seems inconsistent with how humans solve these problems.

I believe energy usage would be even more misleading: in terms of operations/second a human brain is comparable to a 2020s supercomputer running at 30MW, but it only consumes 300 watts. (I was thinking about this with the "tiny portion" comment but it is irrelevant.)
It damages confidence in democracy itself.
I use OsmAnd, but perusing both of the repos it is apparent that OrganicMaps has better code.

What I like best about OSMAnd is that you can tweak the routing algorithm without recompiling the code, as the rules are stored in routing.xml.
> Disagree philosophically, there was no "them" to consent prior to them existing, so no one was forced.

The point is that the obligation flows one way because one party was inserted into it without their consent.

Does their lack of preexistence impact that equation in a meaningful way?
I'm no fan of TikTok but this is a really shitty argument.

China can do it because China doesn't have the First Amendment, which is, you know, sort of the whole point...
> RSS is great but it has one great flaw in that it doesn't scale that well by itself

The readers often cache the result for all users of the same feed. The only exception are readers that are running 100% locally. In that case using Etag or Last-Modified will make each request cheap and manageble.
> There's a reason we don't just let people murder murderers, even if they have very good moral justification for it.

It remains to be seen whether this will be allowed. The jury may be unable to agree that this person should be found guilty despite the video evidence.
They're searching for enterprise customers before they become a commodity.
rates of cancer are going up in younger people nowadays
I'm not sure why I forgot perhaps the most important; charity!
Google's latest Gemini-exp-1206 seems to be great, near the top of livebench
Depends. If you were let go from a well known and perceived successful organization that didn’t have a public mass layoff in the press, I am damn sure going to red flag that if you are interviewing with me.
To me, it feels facile, even cruel, to put so much blame on the the insurers when US laws and regulations have created every incentive for insurers to behave exactly as the they do and no incentive not to. Their behavior is entirely predictable.

Why is there not more criticism and blame put on our legislators and regulators who have done so little for the suffering public?

Is there any area of the market where we would expect that participants will all routinely act against their own self-interest and for the benefit of others? Markets have to be structured and regulated so that participants are incentivized to behave well. The US has not done that.
In 1800, 1 in 3 people on Earth were Chinese. Today, it's 1 in 5
This "research" helps her run her side hustle: https://www.ketoonc.com/contact

No diet has been conclusively shown to slow or stop cancer. I guarantee cancer cells can mutate to survive a keto diet.
> traditional media had social constraints and we need those back

Sure, let's go back to only governments and bilionaires having access to media, that was so much better.
very helpful link, thanks! I don't know what ominibar is (maybe Mac stuff), but I'm on Linux, but I replaced the "q=%s" with my string and it works. nice!
No time for burnout, he has no money in the account. I would start driving uber then join climbing clubs
Maybe if they didn't kill people for profit, they wouldn't need to hide in the shadows like cowards.
If you can make this AI bot fall in love, you could win thousands of dollars
Fixed after dialog was rapidly pushed into production across all browsers.

- Argued that dialog should be removed: 2018

- Tried to force-remove confirm/prompt: mid-2021

- Dialog rushed into all browsers: March 8-14, 2022.

- The linked proposal for a fix: March 04, 2022

- Request for position on standard: Jan 18, 2023

- The proposal merged into the standard: Jan 26, 2023

- Implemented in browsers: ?? (Webkit is possibly July 2024: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=250795)

"Actually"

Dialog was literally rushed into all browsers without bothering to fix the issues that plagued it for a decade. Some of them were fixed post-factum because now you couldn't ignore these issues.
A lot of "influencers" did campaign for this guy, some of them not even knowing who are they doing it for. They signed contract with "talent company" to promote stuff without mentioning any name, but that stuff was his main point of the campaign, so they amplified the craziness. Not all of Romania is sitting on TikTok, but a large enough portion or around 2 million people voted him while most of the rest of the people never heard about him. The list of candidates was so long (>10) and some were not known, most people ignored them.

I personally don't know anyone that voted for him. It was a big surprise for most people. Now that videos of his speeches appeared in public space he has no chance to get any significant amount of votes as he sounds like a lunatic. This is why I said the entire thing is trolling.
That might have helped his soul, but it wouldn’t have helped the victims who had their claims wrongly denied.
>> Well OK sure I get that that would be good for kids

> And past a certain point it's not.

Where do you estimate that point is? What harm do you believe lies past it?
Yeah, the model has to be

[affected people] x [events/person/year] = [event rate]

right? If the rate is one event per twenty years, and there are N=200 million customers I get 2.5x10^-10 per person per year which is very very low for a product that people have a high rate of dissatisfaction with. Compare that to rates for nuclear meltdowns per year or participating in a fatal car accident. Or for that rate the number of murders that a person experiences in a night of TV news, and police dramas not to mention movies, video games, etc.
Ha. Math geek.
Just read the room, the far-right is winning across all of Europe, not just in Romania. It'd be more extraordinary if the left won the elections.
Except we're not talking about the choice of being a customer or not. We're talking about the design choices of the system.
I didn't demand anything. I extrapolated on the current rate of enshittification in the industry. It won't be long before poor people are excluded from flying even with the shittiest experience possible.
What country before ever existed a century and half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve it’s liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it’s natural manure.

-Jefferson
A testament of how optimized web browsers are.
"Legal name" is a catch-all term that usually means "approved for use on government issued ID". Are there instances when that's not always the case and some forms of ID (not just, say, an ID card, but also in tax filings, for example) actually have different rules? Amazingly, sometimes yes. But usually that's what it means.
My first thought is "which rich family member can they coast off of when shit gets really bad" or "where's the rest of the money you haven't touched yet?"

So many of these "I've been funemployed for 5 years" articles NEVER talk about the hidden asterisk that, well, actually, they have plenty of money and are just fine; they're just conventionally broke.
In the page that you linked, it states that he wants to implement a measure that enforces minimum 51% participation by the state in all natural resource exploitation activities on Romanian territory.

While this can be viewed as a left-wing policy, it can also be a form of economic nationalism.

As far as I understand, he gets classified as far right [1], because of his ultranationalist and ultraconservative views.

The parties that declared support for him [2][3][4], after the first election round, have similar views.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far-right_politics

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AUR_Alliance

[3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_of_Young_People

[4] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.O.S._Romania
I've entered 2 new orgs as an engineering manager, after getting some experience organically. You need to prioritize between lots of things, including technical / people. Usually people is the right choice I've concluded, but the first time my teams were using all new tech for me and I really struggled after over focusing on relationships. The second time I still focused more on people but new the tech better, and forced myself to find time to go through more typical developer onboarding. It was way more successful.

Some of the things you mention sound right for a team lead (i.e. single team) but not really for an EM where you might have 2+ teams. You need to be able to solve the problems the leaving teammates create for you, but stepping into the role is probably the last thing you should do. Don't get me wrong, you need to live the life to build credibility and empathy, but doing the job yourself is usually a substandard, unsustainable solution.
Democratically elected? Yes. Lawfully? No. There is a distinction.
Obligatory reference: [0]: have you ever tried to sell a diamond? (1982)

[0]: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1982/02/have-yo...
Related: DC Circuit Upholds TikTok Ban In Alarming Ruling, Claiming It Actually Enhances Free Speech https://www.techdirt.com/2024/12/06/dc-circuit-upholds-tikto...

> There is a fair bit of hand-waving, in which they note that the government presented no actual evidence of China doing anything nefarious with TikTok, but because government officials said “but they could!” that was enough. This sets an extremely low and dangerous bar. Mere speculation about what a foreign government might hypothetically do in the future should not be enough to override the First Amendment rights of millions of Americans.

> In many ways, this is a continuation of the way the courts often view Fourth Amendment cases, where if the government just yells “national security” loud enough, courts will ignore the plain text of the Fourth Amendment.

...

> The court’s reasoning here is Orwellian. It claims that banning TikTok, and the speech of millions of Americans on the platform, somehow enhances free speech. This is a complete inversion of First Amendment values. The First Amendment protects against government censorship and control of private speech, it doesn’t justify such censorship in the name of preventing foreign influence. The court is essentially arguing that violating the First Amendment is necessary to save it, which is absurd.

...

> The ruling also rejects the idea that this was a Bill of Attainder, by saying that while it does “target” TikTok directly, its remedy is not a “punishment” and therefore that prohibition doesn’t apply. But banning TikTok from operating in the US unless it is sold certainly seems like a punishment. The court’s analysis on this point is not persuasive.

> The court also claims that this bill is, in fact, the least restrictive means of achieving this outcome, rejecting ByteDance’s long-negotiated alternative of having all the data stored in the US on Oracle hardware, and giving Oracle the ability to audit the code. This plan was originally cooked up deliberately under the first Trump administration to support Trump donor Larry Ellison.
i’ve lived in connecticut for 3 years. Can confirm it sucks!

maybe i should actually visit canada one day, see it with my own eyes.
Tanks are cheap. Land for them, and digging, are not.

Employees are needed because most places require gas stations to be manned. Unless you're talking Bucee's they're not making much from selling a few drinks, they're just making marginal use of the building.
Turning this person into a manager is a major fail. Typically their only move is to quit, and everyone loses.
Why are you even commenting here if you don't believe that people should ever share their opinions on anything?

But yeah not a great look for Romania and its political system either way if they have to invalidate the elections and throw away the votes of a significant proportion of the population to stop them from electing a pro-russian/fascist candidate...
TikTok, while allowing whatever content people post, can easily be trained to show you what you want to see. People that were fed whatever insane gibberish pro-Trump content are mostly the ones that wanted to see that content.

When election campaigns "got going" I started first see pro-Left content for about 2 days off and on. Disliked the F out of it... as I was doing that the algorithm was proly thinking "ohhh the right-winger, here's some awesome pro-right content..." took 2 days (off and on) to dislike that shit... From like August onward I maybe saw 2-3 political videos weekly if that...

Social media companies do not give a shit what you watch/read as long as you read/watch as long as possible. So you will get whatever (on TikTok or otherwise) you actually want to see there :)
https://zapier.com/blog/add-search-engine-to-chrome/
The fair bit requires everyone following fair election laws.

Think of it like a game, it’s only fair if the rules are unbiased and everyone to follow them. There’s a wide range of possible rules for a fair game, but allowing one player to cheat is equivalent to unfair rules.

So sure, you can have fair elections where no candidate needs to disclose their net worth, or fair elections where everyone is registered to share their net worth, but you can’t have a fair election where some people are registered to share their net worth.
> I'd argue that if you accept that the results were "likely influenced by a likely state-actor campaign" then the means by which they achieved their objective are not above scrutiny.

No influence doesn't exist in any country. In France during the first elections Macron was elected, he was pushed heavily by the media. In 2016, almost every news outlet in the country were vocally against Trump. Those are example of "state-actor" level influence on elections, but somehow it's supposed to be fine because it was supporting the "good" candidate. Democracy in unironically in danger, but not for the reasons often voiced. So people and factions try more and more to impose what is the supposed correct outcome of elections or the definition of democracy.
>Someone needs to take a look at a mirror.

irony

something one finger something something something three fingers

https://vocabulary1.quora.com/What-is-the-meaning-of-the-phr...

goldfinger

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldfinger_(film)
Does that amount qualify as "F YOU" money? I always thought it was if you have multiple years worth of savings.

But I agree. Some funds to fall back on is critical. The amount is highly dependent on your situation and risk comfort level and can be argued back and forth but not having any puts you at the mercy of whatever your employer/manager decides. Or even you getting sick and unable to work for a while. And even if the former doesn't happen, the latter definitely will at some point.

Though I am reading some of these comments and wondering why they'd call losing a job an end-of-the-world scenario. I've always thought people on this forum are the type of working professionals that could afford to put away a few hundred dollars a month even if they're not on SV wages. Mind you, I am not talking about an amount of money to allow you to retire but just enough to get you going for a few months until you can figure something out. Even if married and with children. That just changes the math a little bit but not the approach. Is there something I am missing?
> One year a company did mandatory 'half-day Fridays' during the summer where the company closed after a half day on Friday.

> But in order to do that we had to work 9 hour days Monday - Thursday.

This is SOP at my work in Spain. It's fine for me, they're very flexible anyway. And I work from home so much that it doesn't really exhaust me.
He had no chance in the second round. The moment he become a celebrity and his speeches were public, people figured out he is a lunatic. Therefore no chance.
In my experience, choices to label opposition as either reductive or overly complex are largely rhetorical. They don't pass the validity test.

Perhaps we should ask borrow the "magic wand" that seems to exist for every other country. Maybe they can lend us theirs since that's apparently how realistic a system that does not bankrupt people is.

Sadly, it doesn't seem equally possible or realistic to build a system where CEO's aren't revenge murdered.
Frankly, the mission of "safe AGI" is better served by guaranteed wide distribution of the technology -- not only to MSFT but on fair commercial terms to all comers. I'm less worried about AGI being a bad thing, and more worried about AGI being monopolized by a powerful few.
How would we know this isn't a scam and the bot is actually capable of the transfer?
i think most designers think hn is ugly lol
Yes, anthropic just released model context protocol and mcp is perfect for this kind of thing. I actually wrote an mcp server for claude to call out to openai just yesterday.
Where’s my dopamine? -> Your success is the teams' success. When they are doing well, you are doing well.

It's hard to get a dopamine hit of a second-order signal though. When you're a developer there's a strong linkage between the work you complete and results. If you write code for a new feature, you get to see it take shape on your screen. When your team reaches a milestone, you see where you contributed and can often quantify your contributions.What happens after you move into management? Your day-to-day is no longer filled with relatively concrete tasks and goals. Your role is not to do the work yourself but guide and support a team doing the actual execution. How do you measure that?
I was commissioned to recover ideawave.ca from archive.org as its owner lost its database so pretty much all what was left was only on archive.org. I think it was under WordPress but he asked me to port it to Jekyll.

I scraped its contents (blog posts, pages, etcetera) with Python's beautifulsoup and redid its styling "by hand", which was not something otherworldy (the site was from line 2010 or so) and had the chance to put some improvements.

The thing with the scraping was that the connection was lost after a while and it was reaaaaaaaaaally sloooooooooow so I had to keep a register on memory of what was the last successful scraped post/page/whatever and, if something happened, restart from it as a starting point.

Got pennies for it, mostly because I lowballed myself, but got to learn a thing or two.
Your comment is needed as a parent / top-level for the discussion. A lot of people were confused about the 'V' portion in particular. Thanks for the insight.
I open-sourced pyGoogleNews and wrote a quick blog about how you can reverse engineer google news RSS to turn it into an RSS feed of any website that is supported by Google News

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42343182

https://github.com/kotartemiy/pygooglenews
Going to trot out the "Those are actors" lie too?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cHGbQfsJOl8
> If the President took the same approach as the court, it stands to reason that he could go into any public authority in Romania and block their decisions based on finding that they are not properly observing the Constitution, right?

No. Article 80 you're quoting does not grant the President power. Instead it describes the role of President.

This is rather unlike Article 146 that explicitly grants the Constitutional Court power or the other articles that explicitly grant the President power.
My point was that YT already charges a lot for content they get for free, and if they had to license/create it, they would need to charge much more. Spotify is partly owned by record labels, and they have other incentives that are affect subscription pricing.

Their subscription model is not really that comparable to other services that have high acquisition costs for content.
FWIW, I've had something very similar in my head like 4 years ago :) https://medium.com/@dantodor/collapsible-logging-567aa2abf82...
Hard HARD agree

I have that fund now and it completely changes how you approach work.

It's going to go away once we buy a house, but my top priority will be to restore it after the deal's done.

Good on you for paying their way through college; that will help a ton.
While they did have agency, what if they were also lied to? These campaigns to say nice things about a candidate usually come with equally strong campaigns to lie about their rivals. It could all be lies, there could be nothing redeemable about the candidate. We saw similar in a recent election in another country that I'm not going to mention specifically. This is exactly how fascists gain power.
And you will live off... what exactly? Fall back on what skills? What does that even mean?

Your reply is cryptic and leaves crucially important details out.

OK, I figure I don't want to work anymore. Who pays my rent / mortgage? Who pays food, bills?
As far as I know, Americans supported Italian partisans (of any color, but the majority of them communists or socialists) against the nazi-fascists, so I'm not terribly surprised they did it elsewhere.