skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't claim to know all about this situation, but I do discern a recurring pattern that many IT professionals don't (want to?) realise:

Information technology is giving all kinds of actors leverage to exploit our human brain's fundamental shortcomings.

In this case, it's a fscking nazi sympathiser jumping to the fore of a presidential election from nothing.

Remarkable and ironic to me, these actors weaponise the powers of technology while often spitting at the scientific method underpinning them.
I think cargo cutting stuff like "Postgres for everything" is also a plague. I agree you don't want to overengineer, but if you're a leader and your policy is basically "engineers can't ever be trusted to do hard things" then you're a bad leader.

Sorry if this comes off as brusque, but I've seen good engineers want to use Elasticache for the right reasons and seen "leaders" tell them no because "caching is one of the hard problems in computer science."

Leadership-by-folksy-saying is sadly a real thing.
Universal 'Plug and Charge' protocol for EV charging to arrive in 2025
Not even large companies. High margin companies tend to always think the same way. Don’t rock the boat. Change is the enemy. Eventually people lose track of what made the company profitable in the first place and simply follow the same process religiously. Suggestions to evolve or change the process are met with hostility.
> Rivian's R&D center is in Palo Alto, but their charger map doesn't show a public charger anywhere near there. They have zero chargers of their own in Silicon Valley.

Silicon Valley has one of the highest density of EV chargers in the world, why would Rivian need to build more?

Their goal appears to be covering areas poorly served to expand the places EV owners can go. This seems much more valuable than adding another plug to an already well served urban area.
Will China's manufacturing juggernaut run out of road?
d<atalist> is a gem. Love it.
As already pointed in that discussion thread, there are standards for Unicode identifiers, e.g. RFC 8264 and RFC 8265.

All Unicode characters have types, like letter, digit, punctuation, mathematical operator and so on. The standard for identifiers allows in identifiers only certain types of Unicode characters and it defines rules for normalization and comparison of identifiers.

So rules for handling Unicode identifiers have already been defined. Whoever wants this functionality should just implement the standards.

One may have opinions whether this is worthwhile or not for a certain application, but strawman arguments about cat pictures and other impossible dangers are no longer valid.
I'm beginning to harbor resentment
It’s the so called “economic” definition. You’re absolutely right to call out that it’s not very philosophically valuable, but they were trying to be pragmatic — and it was kinda hard to imagine, anyway.

Of course it’s being thrown out the window now that money’s on the line… drives one to cynicism! No wonder Altman is a paranoid prepper.
Worse (and very unfortunately), any kind of unmonitored/low-attention payment scheme that starts funneling meaningful money to countless small libraries turns those libraries into revenue streams whose ownership can be valued and sold.

And when that happens, you'll quickly start to see professional schemers and hustlers coming in to buy them, the most aggressive of whom will start surreptitiously converting some of those projects into things like data siphons or bot shells, may relicense and restructure them for further monetization or to set up targeted lawsuits, etc

It creates a whole new and dangerous incentive scheme, not unlike the one that's already corrupted the browser extension ecosystem.

To avoid that from happening, people need to be actually paying attention to what they're paying for, when they're paying for it, so that they can make sure they're still getting what they expect. Automated/algorithmic schemes like this specifically avoid that.

They're a great idea in theory, meant to address a real issue in what reward open source developers might see from popular work, but as you suggest, it opens a very wide and inviting door for trouble at scale.
Does the atmosphere need protecting? White dwarfs don’t have solar wind.
Who do you expect to buy it?
How many face-to-face conversation with them about why they’d use this tool?

Customer don’t exist in hn, ph, twitter, they exist in their own offices, on Zoom, and your local coffee shops.
2019:

>Chrome, with an emphasis on making the web great for the next billion users. The team consists of around 40 engineers, in addition to a number of PMs, test engineers, UX designers, researchers, and others. We built a lot of features in Chrome that are used by more than a billion people.)

https://mdwdotla.medium.com/some-thoughts-on-running-success...

"MY" Mozilla has 46 engineers ;)

But if you think ludicrous big teams can make "much" product you should read "The Mythical Man-Month"..again ;)

The ~23 was from 2012, sorry about the outdated information
> I disagree with "don't use this in projects you intend to maintain" as across-the-board advice

Backdrop-filter is... fine. Using masks, animations, and backdrop filter, and gradients, especially for fine details like edges, are just asking for trouble.

Browsers are incredibly complicated, and rendering engines have lots of edge cases, broken features, slight incompatibility issues some of which vary by hardware/os/enabled-flags.

IME, this would definitely not be worth it.
Strong disagree that it's because "Omg, no more Perl" but just complexity cranked up and that Perl person stitching scripts together became their full job and obviously Perl only got you so far. So now you have additional FTE who is probably expensive.

Also, if end user is on Windows, there is already Perl like option on their desktop, it's called Powershell and will perform similar to Perl.
I wonder if early Sonic the Hedgehog games were influenced by his art. The beaches, cityscapes, and palm trees all look similar.
Take a look at Gemini Flash 1.5. I had videos I needed to turn into structured notes, and the result was satisfactory (even better than the Gemini 1.5 Pro, for some reason). https://jampauchoa.substack.com/i/151329856/ai-studio.

According to this website, the cost is half of the gpt4-o mini. 0.15 vs 0.07 per 1M token.
I think the issue with MBA-led companies is that you have people with an MBA that have very little direct experience. The MBA itself is useful, but detached from the experience of the industry and organization leads to misguided thinking.
They aren't, it's in response to the final line of curiosity to this day.
Very interesting website as well. I like to enter throught the home URL:

http://hiroshinagai.com/

It's funny his BBS service says they were going dark in 2022. I was also curious how he sells things and it took some searching to find:

http://hiroshinagai.com/fmcd/collectors/collectors_catalog/c...

Or you can go to his gallery in person :)
He started the company - I’m no Elon fan myself, but that’s the case. Also, you’re disagreeing with him anyway; he’s saying that starting a company who’s defining purpose was to avoid a for-profit race to AGI and then immediately pivot to ruthless for-profit competition as soon as you have a real shot at your goal (+ an advantage) is deceptive.

And yeah, I’ve gotta give it to him: tragic. Tho I guess that’s “Homeric” or “Hellenic” deceit?
I observe for myself that I am rather quickly influenced by the information I take in. Since I’m aware of that, I’m diligent in the information I seek out, and can therefore compensate for some amount of misinformation. Other people aren’t necessarily aware or diligent in that way.

I’m not satisfied with the voting choices either, but I do have some understanding of why they are the way they are. It is a nontrivial systemic issue, and voting populist does not improve that situation.

You seem to see a dichotomy between the politicians that provide voting choices and the rest of the population that votes. I don’t see it that way. The politicians are part of the population, they represent the population. I won’t tell you to go into politics to try to change things, but if you did, then maybe you’ll realize why it’s hard, and that how things are is a function of human nature, of the particular country’s specific political system, and of the world being more complicated than many people recognize.
Exactly what I was going to say. Attention to detail is noticed by people, to the point that they may not necessarily even consciously know why they like one product over another when in reality they just subconsciously are attracted to products that are simply more polished.
I did. Healthcare was a big part of that decision. My older siblings have been through hell both medically and financially because of the US healthcare system.

I decided to learn from their experiences and GTFO while I could. I miss my family and friends dearly, but it’s a massive relief (and privilege) to be able to get the care I need and not worry about whether the cost is going to bankrupt me.
Fucking embarrassing.
When I shop for insurance my #1 priority is seeing if the company will pay a claim. Either because they have the reserves, or because of corporate policy. Premium cost is #2.

What I have observed is that starting about 8-9 years ago any retail insurer that uses a mascot in their advertising, is difficult/slow to pay a claim. Both to other insurance companies who are being forced to subrogate to make their own customers whole, but also to their own policyholders. The sarcastic part of me is saying: "If they spent less on marketing, they'd have deeper reserves"
Totally agree with this.

One of the biggest beneficiaries of the recent tech boom happen to be the owners of land and buildings in and around the cities that tech companies prefer to be around.

Also a strong argument for remote-first companies.
Lots of sites these days are using that frosted glass effect, I recall seeing it on the Linear site recently.
“We don’t want to hire unlucky people.”
Israel defending itself != extermination.
These were my thoughts too. The use case for Mathematica is extremely different than Octave.
Yeah they're going to keep SALT capped farther than they said they would, huh?
ChatGPT Is Terrible at Checking Its Own Code
I had a situation with HashBackup (I'm the author) where I needed a map-like data structure that could get rather large (hundreds of MB to a few GB) with big backups. In Python, storing this data in a dict was not really feasible because every unique integer takes 24 bytes, and since the data structure stores things like blockid and file offsets, there are a lot of unique integers.

Instead, I created an in-memory SQLite database for the data structure and it was something like 1/3 the size of the Python dict. It was around 10-15% slower, but for the memory savings it was an okay trade-off.
These are great pictures. I'd love to see a sequel to the old arcade game Out Run done in this style.
Hey this is great!

A small suggestion, a toggle to exclude between "free" and hosted models.

Reason is, I'm obv. interested in seeing the cheaper models first but am not interested in self-hosting which dominate the first chunk of results because they're "free".
Your comment is excessively dismissive. The irony is that parent actually did what you’re suggesting, tried to talk about the interviewee’s solution and found that they didn’t come across as knowledgeable and experienced enough even though their code suggested otherwise. Whether it’s live coding or take-home is mostly irrelevant.

Your proposed alternative is absolutely subject to the same problem, AI-written code and LLM-written mental process. Think more carefully about whether it solves anything and exactly what problem it solves, because it does not solve the problem of people trying to game interviews with AI, your suggestion is potentially worse on that axis. The whole point of doing it live is to get to the talking part that you suggested more quickly.

Wouldn’t you rather be discussing your thinking immediately and get a sense for what the real questions are and how you’re doing, and have the opportunity to talk about it, than waste several hours doing it at home trying to write something up without getting clues along the way or being able to ask questions, only to have the next guy get hired because they used AI, or because they’re fine with live coding, or because they’re better at writing than coding, or because they got lucky?

You have to live code on the job. Do take a moment to consider what the hiring manager needs and whether take-home problems are either more effective or more efficient for the company. Managers want to find the best candidates, and best involves more than coding, it involves communication and collaboration skills too. Live coding can give some indicators of those things, and take-home problems cannot.
YOU would, but a lot of people with credit cards don't even understand that it's a loan, or what compound interest is. They put the expense on the card and then pay the minimum payment, either until it's paid off with insane interest, or they keep racking up debt until they reach their limit and get a worse card, until they're trapped in a cycle of poverty

seriously, everyone in this thread should watch Financial Audit and see how people outside the silicon valley bubble really live. That show has extreme examples to be sure but there are so many people like this
Most Western European countries do have higher savings rates than the US, but, disregarding Switzerland, Ireland and the Nordics (ie small wealthy countries with very high cost of living), it’s not a _dramatic_ difference. People may be less likely to be living paycheck to paycheck, but being able to just take two years off not working, unless you had very low living costs, would still be very unusual.
What are you supposed to do when your manager has terrible and/or selective memory? My last manager would assign me work and then promptly forget half the time what he assigned me. It was bizarre. Sometimes it worked in my favour because I would do something he assigned me - then show him - and then he would sing praises for my "self initiative" and creativity. Like dude, you told me to do this. Of course this sort of amnesia will eventually come back to bite you when you are yelled at because "why are you working on Y?? you should be working on Z!!". Dude you told me to work on "Y" two days ago.

I never understood whose blame the poor memory falls on? In my opinion it was on him to stay organized - something he never made an effort to do. Others would say it was on me to communicate to him what he told me. I don't get paid enough to be his executive assistant. And I don't see the point in communicating better if he would just forget again.

Other times his memory was bizzare. Like he would remember some off comment I'd made to him in a 1-on-1 and then use it as a way to butter me up or appeal to me. I once mentioned to him I follow news in the "programming space" (aka reading this website). And he seemed to remember this whenever he needed to appeal to me to look into some new platform feature clients were requesting. "You read a lot about this stuff right??? Take a look into PDF generation using this library. You read a lot about this stuff right??" I think he thought he was juicing up my ego with this. So bizzare.

Of course its the same manager who did the fundamental sin of complaining downwards
to me, and about my peers whenever one of them messed up. Dude you're the CTO. If you can't maintain face then I will lose all confidence in your ability.

OK I'm going to stop venting about my last boss now. Sorry!
Owned by Yipit - a credit card data analytics company.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/free-email-apps-spying-on-yo...
as a general rule when someone discusses profound technology they mean it is important, words may have meaning but they also have common usage and when he says AI is profound he certainly doesn't mean it is deep like the ocean.

Evidently you do not agree with this - so please tell me, what technology do you consider profound and yet, also, unimportant.
This is not how it works in practise. I’ve been on Starlink for more than three months, and I play CS and other competetive shooters daily. There is no such a thing 100ms latency spikes every X seconds. Same for packet loss. Teams calls are no problem at all, and the latency and quality of the Internet is comparible to that of a fibre lane. You wouldn’t be able to tell the difference if you didn’t know you are on the Starlink network.
Can you imagine if buyers and sellers only had to pay, say 1% each? The whole market would become a lot more liquid. But nah, brokers are essential and have your interests at heart.
Bezos says he is 'optimistic' about Trump's plan to roll back regulations
Nice read! FWIW, I built a system the other day, its name, "whitedwf" :)
You say you lost a phone number in 2022. Might some of the people you know, still have it in their contact lists?
Should not surprise you on this forum. Many such examples.

Why do you think there is so much excitement about AI art?
Does the UK's guy implement policies like mandatory first pass denial to encourage attrition, or try employing blackbox AI models to the task of denying care, and attempting to mathwash?

I've worked in the space. Most people don't care about denials that are reasonable. I.e. escalation through "lets try these first drugs" when there isn't an established history of use. Ruling out less expensive problems before approving the most expensive operation. Thise aren't generally issues.

It's capricious denials happening over and over and over again, despite well established case history. Denials that clearly don't make sense. Prior Auths being used as financial "nudges".

That type of thing can screw right off. It's why I left the space after it proved absolutely impossible to get through to people that these measures were costing the lives of our customers. I bloody tried; and in the end, left for the sake of keeping what was left of my soul intact.

As far as I'm concerned the industry has made their bed. They can now sleep in it.
Chernobyl happens to be the popular spelling. Don't start trying to tell people what to say and what not to say, that doesn't fly.
Trust.

Some people think that trust just means a someone blindly trusting another, but of course that's not how it works. People will be trusted to an extent that they can be trusted, and this goes for company-employee relations too. If people prove they cannot be trusted with remote interviews, companies will take remote interviews away. This was a luxury given to us during the pandemic, and it's now being rolled back because of tools like these.

I remember people here on HN complaining about CEOs mandating RTO without data to support it. Well, this certainly doesn't help.
How many childhood friend does anyone still talk to beyond liking photos on facebook?
The exact percentage of Russian ethnicity is is a little hard to determine, and varies through out that region

But the comparative proportions identifying as "Ukrainian" or "Russian" in the last pre-war census is not, and in fact, in this wonderful utopian future we now live in. And even starting from scratch, you can easily zero in on a reliable answer to this question within minutes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_Ukrainian_census#National...

I invite you to look at the numbers for the 5 regions which Putin is currently intending to grab (and which the Trump administration apparently intend to just hand over to him, with an order of fries on the side), and tell us what you find there.

Even more so likely if the Anglophone Canadians would start ethnically cleansing Quebecers.

The thing is, under normal circumstances they most definitely would not. And if you were to go up there today, and tell them that 10 years from now they'd all be at each other's throats, with one side insisting it just had to ethnically cleanse the other and they no longer had any real choice about the matter -- they'd look at you like you were crazy.

And that was pretty much the situation in Ukraine, until very shortly before 2014. What changed that was (to some extent) various political events. But what pushed these changes of sentiment into violence was -- a tide relentless propaganda and disinformation.

Of exactly the type you are echoing, above.
Learnt my lesson, already working on taking measures for new data or hopefully the data from the account if I recover it.

I already called the number, it seems it's not in use, called someone (he was selling "pretty" numbers online) to ask if it's possible to get it back and they said that there have been cases and it's currently in something they call "quarantine" and there may be complications as there are two operators involved, the original operator of the number and the one to which the number was ported to. I will follow up on Monday on that front.

Thank you.
Given that the top google results are now generated I think we already have a massive recursion problem. I think we would benefit from training a model specifically to just detect a likelihood of content being generated and then bias other models against the higher likelihood generated content so that we don’t end up with LLM echo chambers.
The discussion thread at LWN has already mentioned standards for Unicode identifiers (RFC 8264 and RFC 8265), which prescribe how to handle all these problems, i.e. which characters should be allowed in identifiers and how to normalize and compare Unicode identifiers.
> "highly autonomous system that outperforms humans at most economically valuable work"

As you note, this has nothing to do with actual intelligence, but with the for-profit calculus.

The disturbing aspect of such a definition is that economically-valuable work/activity may be grossly unsustainable and directly detrimental.
If someone tries to run your method but messes it up, and then accuses you of fraud when the results don't match their expectations, I'm not sure they're entitled to a neutral tone in response.

Maybe you're right, and a more neutral tone would have been effective! I think it's just that Jeff is just really done with this.
Some do, but fast chargers are expensive.

L2 AC chargers like you are mentioning would be a terrible fit for a gas station because they are too slow. In my car, which has a small battery, charging for a full hour is only like a 15% charge. No one wants to hang out at a gas station for several hours, and even if they did they arent going to go into the store to buy stuff more than once most likely.
Aren't pretty much all devices nowadays owned by a single person?

What's the user case for non-system usernames at all?

Why not just "user" and "root"?