skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not in the US or San Francisco, I totally don't get the purpose of this post. It's like dude's living in a bubble after all this time. Dude should travel to poorer countries (like where I'm from right now) and get some inspiration.
The world is truly globalised. Zildjian has a unique place in my childhood due to the legendary drummer Sivamani, who collaborated extensively with AR Rahman.

1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sivamani_(percussionist)
That's excellent. And congrats for finding what you were looking for, and making some of us jealous about the remote part. You probably have a pretty solid skillset as well.

Now one third of them being remote-friendly isn't the worst stat in the world to hear. I was worried it would be far lower (at least in the Northeast). Was it much higher before?
Process Reinforcement Through Implicit Rewards
Relatively sensible and privacy-preserving compared to what I first imagined - cameras and AI AI AI
Between this and that botched FOIA request, it feels real good to have content creators out there actually looking out and fighting against this BS that every other content creator lacks the expertise to do anything about.

I don't care if they do two ads per video (a normal ad and one for their firm), they more than deserve to shout themselves out.
A side effect of extreme litigiousness
Yeah, but they have an education license we must use. We can’t use a personal account. Also, kids must be 13 and over. Good luck first year high schoolers!
Flagged? Why?

This was a great read!
That's the HDL, and not the inherent design complexity.
That Forbes article is just a Forbes journalist guessing what DOGE might do, based on things they've mentioned in passing.

Of course that doesn't add up to 2 trillion in cuts!

The Reich article is mostly him making up evil things DOGE might do, and then criticizing them for these imagined plans.

Once DOGE has real plans and proposals I'll be happy to mock them if they don't make sense. I agree their goals sound very difficult, but I've learned that there are always smarter people than me out there. Maybe you can at least agree with that last part :)
Seems like the next generation of programmers has relearned the lessons of poor package management and ecosystem fragmentation, and that it wasn't worth giving up for a slightly simpler or slightly faster language.

Also, ruby did get a lot faster in the last couple years, which inspires people to want to help make it even faster. When someone finds gold, everyone else rushes in to look for more.
Universities always make things open source. I also make everything open source that I make for the university.

It's because you cannot make money with it anyway and the university often allows it, so then it's really good for your CV.

In Europe there is also a lot of stuff open source, and I can honestly say there is no plot by the government to destroy the United States. I don't think Linux is a plan by the Swedish government to destroy the USA.

Most Chinese people in my experience also don't really have any country outside of China on their radar, unless they are in some trading business. China is just so huge compared to for example the US, they really live in their own bubble. It's not something they think about on a monthly let alone daily basis is my personal experience.
Yep hard to trust with conflict of interest. They seem to be at least partially wrong on Supermicro and Adani.
> you're not actually responding to anything I said

Projection to the highest degree. I've directly asked you a question four times here; you have never addressed it.

> literally operating a large ISP,

No wonder you can't smell the corruption and the mental pretzels don't bother you.

I'm not arguing about what the law did in 1996. I'm not even fully arguing what an ISP was or a telecommunications provider was in 1996. I'm just asking you to take the words as written in the law, take what an ISP functionally is today, and use an ounce of your own logic and reading comprehension (please!), see which of the two buckets it logically belongs in, and then tell me why.

> In short, an “information service” manipulates data, while a “telecommunications service” does not.

Please, tell me how an ISP is manipulating the information I'm sending outside of doing things to manage a telecommunications service. Please. I'm begging you.
Iterm is better documented. Try finding how to pass Ctrl-Meta-key; better yet, throw in a shift as well. Setting up 24bit color, supporting italics, and allowing Emacs keystrokes to go through to the remote server at will is a quality of life improvement. I managed to be feature complete with iterm on macOS with minimal effort, but not with the default terminal, and there was no source code I could check to help me avoid trivial annoyances. Xterm/rxvt from xQuartz on Mac OS are easier to work with than the default Mac OS terminal, and feel closer to their behavior in Linux, but then you have some unneeded X window features and miss other trivial automation features like multiple tabs.
The 'fix' for that (applicable in some areas, not so much in others) would be to remember phone ID's and focus on numbers (and strength) of new ID's during the rental period.

A downstairs coffee shop would be a semi periodic flux of a particular size, a party would be a surge over and above that flux and persisting outside of coffee shop hours.

Again, pattern learning is only applicable in some scenarios .. but effective enough in those.
There are no politically viable ways to make the US government significantly more efficient in a way that would leave government services unaffected.

The one big opportunity to do that is defence and it is the one that Republicans, particularly, treat as a sacred cow.

Social Security is already extremely efficient in that the cost of moving money around is minimal.

Medicare and Medicaid are also more efficient than the private sector.

Is government perfect? Hell no. But in the really big picture the big and rising areas of civilian expenditure are not where the inefficiencies lie.
I really dislike that one. Not enough configurability. Unlike Apple terminal which is kinda surprising because normally Microsoft is the one with all the option settings and Apple makes the opinionated software where they decide everything and the user has to take it as it comes.

But Microsoft is becoming similar unfortunately. You can see it in other software too, like them discontinuing the real Outlook and replacing it with a web one that has much fewer options, can't even be started up offline (!) and wastes more screen space. And they are moving more and more apps to electron or their own knockoff of it.
I had an argument about that exact story on lobste.rs a few months ago: https://lobste.rs/s/mf7guc/leak_facebook_partner_brags_about...

(I wouldn't exactly rate techtimes.com up there with NYT/Washington Post/etc.)
I think they were being sarcastic…
People can switch because certain things feel easier or there’s nicer polish or quality of life improvements you enjoy. That doesn’t mean there’s an actual productivity boost and couching the former in terms of the latter is dishonest.

It’s interesting the emotional reaction you’re having to a rather banal observation.
This is their business model. I remember first hearing about them on their Nikola report. They nailed it. The stock lost 99.93%.

In my opinion, it's good for the market that something like Hinderburg exists. It keeps companies more honest. And if they're wrong, they'll lose money.
Coming from medical device background: procedures. Documents that explicitly lay out the things you have checked, how you checked it, date of check, and your signature on it at the end.

When you learn or anticipate a new failure mode, thats a new step in the corresponding procedure. Sometimes you'll be able to automate this stuff, but when the impact is this deep, it will not kill you to add some manual workload to your release process.
I wonder how many people remember the propaganda of Google and Reddit logos loading low resolution versions slowly around peak dooming?
We're specifically talking about Apple here, based on Siri wake words. Do you think Apple are running this kind ad of targeting?
Very cool! Don't meet the requirements but exciting work nonetheless!
AI to Validate Political Petitions
On why this is important: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7278994...
I tried that but I feel the same about that as lolinder says above. Using tmux as normal works better on all my systems, not just the Mac. I just don't see the point to it.
+1

My content is still MY content, and I'd prefer that if an entity is going to make money off of it directly (i.e., it's not a person learning how to code from something I wrote but rather a well-funded company pulling my content for their gain), that I at least have some semblance of consent to it.

That being said, I think there is no longer a point of crying over spilled milk. The LLM technology is out of the bag, and for every company that attempts to ethically manage content (are there any?) there will be ten that will disregard any kind of license/copyright notices and pull that content to train their models anyway.

I write because I want to be a better writer, and I enjoy sharing my knowledge with others. That's the motivation. If it helps at least one person, that's a win in my book, especially in the modern internet where there's so much junk scattered around.
Wouldn't you feel just a little bad if you worked really hard on something, gave it out for free in the spirit of sharing, and someone came along and said thanks, loser, and sold it for money? Would you want to go on making it for free for them to sell?
Your question is kind of backwards, as an interesting website idea is more of a project than a good domain name. But here goes:

Document every VR headset released with technical details and references
University of Alabama engineer pioneers new process for recycling plastics
So I can understand the distribution of this definition, what % of governments in world history have been far-left?
Because most people in this community know how much effort it takes to make software, but not that to make movies.
>If you believe information should be free to share and remix, you would believe that copyright infringement is not theft and that not releasing code is wrong.

I'm mixed, because it's an entire spectrum and there's no clear sand in the ground. It's a very nuanced topic.

But fundamentally, if people want to make sure they can benefit most from their creations, they need some way to protect themselves. Otherwise the biggest wallet will grab the idea, out-advertise you, and out support you.

That's why I always vied for minimizing copyright periods, not abolishing the idea. Creators should benefit: creators have almost zero need to benefit almost a century after they die. the original 14 + 14 made enough sense and can still work: something that was basically an average lifetime back then and is now most of a working career. Those rights can transfer to whoever they want, and it would be transferred to a beneficiary posthumously. But when 28 is up, it's up.
I dunno, you could imagine it happens [speculatively?] in parallel, at the cost of a read port and adder for each op that can be renamed in a single cycle:

1. Start PRF reads at dispatch/rename

2. In the next cycle, you have the result and compute the 64-bit result. At the same time, the scheduler is sending other operands [not subject to the optimization] to read ports.

3. In the next cycle, the results from both sets of operands are available
It’s very interesting to me that the author realizes he knows nothing about physics and robotics, but feels justified in talking about “saving the government” even though he also doesn’t understand economics.

This entire post is about having more money than you know what to do with. Very strange.
That's the strategy I have with this blog. Instead of sitting and lamenting over the state of the internet, it's better to spread the word and encourage action. There are actual things we can do to reclaim parts of the web that died down. It doesn't need to be at the same scale as all the social networks out there, but even if it serves a small niche, that's a fantastic achievement.
> Adani

To be fair, for a company like Adani, which is very connected to India's politicians, even if they do something illegal, they'll get away with it. Corruption is very high in India and the elites and politicians just do what they want.
there are a lot of rentacar companies I can name, because I've heard of them. Then there is this one I have never heard of involved in two weird incidents this week.
This is just flat earth for technophiles. They don't really want to know the truth, they just want to enjoy their fantasy of living a conspiracy theory.
That's the main reason I care about this so much.

If people really do believe that their phones are spying on them all the time to show them ads that means that people are basically surrendering to an imagined surveillance state. They shut up and accept it, because they'd rather keep Facebook/Instagram installed than fight back.

I find that really depressing. I want people to have more agency than that.

We need people to understand the imagined v.s. the actual privacy threats, so they can push for better standards. If they believe in and submit to the conspiracy theories good luck getting anyone to campaign for actual meaningful improvements to the problems that are real.
From the webstore extension overview:

> Get Paid to See Ads — Opt-in to see a limited number of partner ads and earn rewards.
>> We earn these commissions when a member uses Honey to find available savings or to activate PayPal Rewards

Do you really think that clicking an "OK" button to dismiss a dialog after Honey doesn't find any coupons that secretly reloads the page your on and replaces the affliate cookie with its own is just "earning money from affiliate links?" That's just one of the super shady things they do.

Same with Paypal rewards. They entice users to click the rewards button to again steal the affiliate cookie, and pay them a few cents while they take tens of dollars in affiliate commision.
UA Engineer Pioneers New Process for Recycling Plastics
Try some popular user agent strings first before concluding that something else like TLS fingerprinting is the problem. Sometimes an acceptable UA string is all it takes.
Indeed. This situation reminds me of when SMS was new, where you had to pay 25¢ to send a text, and the recipient had to pay 25¢ to receive the text. The ISPs want to double dip, get paid twice for the same data like cell phone companies were doing in the 90s.
Reading this guys twitter feed makes my blood boil. Look at what he posted about this: https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-408580A1.txt

His argument is just 'this is a new way of applying these regulations, and that bad!'. Nothing about the cost impact that this will have for consumers, nothing about merits of the case, just political BS.

He's our incoming FCC head who previously was a lawyer for AT&T, Verizon, and US Telecom [1]. This is going to be a very bad 4 years to be an internet user except for probably Twitter users who will get preferential treatment.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20231022070004/https://www.latim...
Similar experience. I’ve never received much good advice, or found anything that feels like it “works”, just small, accumulating long-game actions that drive up traffic/conversions a hundredth of a percent at a time. Blog posts, paid ads, sponsorships, emails, affiliates, product improvements, etc. I’m B2C so most advice given to me by “thought leaders” is “stop doing B2c” which isn’t super helpful when I have a functioning, profitable B2C business.
Yeah, if ad targeting networks know you live on an island (easily done, location data is the most common type they get their hands on) it's pretty sensible for them to try and sell you a kayak.
The reddit comment says things like "Homicide (something like 20x more likely)" without citing the source of this statistics.
To pretend romance / affinity scams and crime were created by crypto is absurd. It’s fair to argue crypto made crime more efficient, but it also made the responsible parties quicker to patch holes.

The primary use case of crypto is to protect wealth from a greedy, corrupt, money-printing state. Everything else is a sideshow
Seriously, a whistleblower in tech? In 2025?

“Be part of the richest portion of the middle class and never have to worry about money again orrrrr mysteriously die 6 months from now leaving no identifiable impact”
Mess? I got a 8 try guess Ilol to try in 5 tries... in an indistinguishable font. Ooo... Im gonna fail that one...

I am good at this stuff, and "Cloudflare challenges have made large portions of the web unusable for me" too.
Hits the nail on the head. I was surprised they even removed the ability to customize the taskbar location - but it still employs the same registry entries, so you can relocate it by messing with obscure manual modifications.

Yet half the menus will just ignore it. The start menu will pop up at the correct location, but then glitch to bottom left as soon as you start typing/searching

What's beyond is that even if we were to accept all the dumbing down and reduction of the UI as a sacrifice to make the OS more touch/hybrid friendly - it'd be really bad design, since keeping the taskbar on top makes it quite ergonomic to access on touch ultrabooks.

I'm picking this specific example, since it really questions the "trust us it's how it's best" excuse, and makes it much rather feel like 11 was simply rushed into production
What bothers me is that there's no mention of Half-Life 2 episode 3. Valve announced that they would switch to episodic development to "release games more frequently."

It was supposed to be a 3-episode story. They released parts 1 and 2 and part 3 was supposed to wrap up the story using the same engine.
> It would be nice if Tesla was just a car company.

What is Tesla?
you can work at a charity and still be paid, even though the "non-profit" moniker can confuse layman.

> I release my code under the GPL for selfish reasons: I want others to be able to improve it, and me to be able to take advantage of their improvements.

I suppose that metphor depends on what you think of community efforts. Like say, sharing a food recipe or a workout routine. I see see the framing as "giving it away". Even if your endgoal is an ultimately selfish search of "better recipe/routine to use".
What do you mean?

The judicial branch is much less democratic than the executive branch.

If you refer to the 'regulation is by unelected bureaucrats' argument, it's certainly widely stated but it's BS: With only ~540 elected people in Washington, almost every decision and act by people who weren't elected. Government would immediately cease to function if those 540 had to do everything, and democracy would be impossible. Democracy is people delegated specific powers by elected officials, and that includes regulators.

The democratic credentials of courts and executive branch regulators are an interesting comparison: Both have their members appointed by the executive and confirmed by the legislature. Elected officials insulate both from the elected officials' own interference.

The main difference is how thick that insulation is: Executive branch regulators are intended to change authority with each president and to generally follow the president's preferences to some degree, within the law and in service to the American people (that is, they serve the people and not the president). The regulators are insulated by laws which theoretically could change any day, but generally don't. Judicial branch appointees, the judges, are for life, are expected to act completely independently of the president who appointed them, and they are insulated by the Constitution, which is much harder to change.
I posted about that one on lobste.rs a while ago: https://lobste.rs/s/mf7guc/leak_facebook_partner_brags_about...

I'm confident it was a sales team putting together a dishonest pitch deck that deliberately took advantage of this widespread conspiracy theory.
I work for a FANG level company and when a person is promoted to a higher position and it doesn't work out they'll get let go or moved back to another position, I've seen it happen multiple times and it's happened to me personally. This isn't their decision, higher ups demand performance.

This "principle" seems to ignore this completely: that employees are regularly evaluated for performance. I don't see that addressed at all in the telling of this story. Yearly performance reviews and KPIs are a thing for most professionals. When people underperform and performance is the norm the rest of the machine will correct.

I'm sure in more dysfunctional or institutionalized orgs are going to work differently, but it only takes a few empirical examples for me to just completely discount this as something to expect. I believe the research that proves this is likely flawed as well.
Do none of these people have any creativity at all? No artistic spark that wants to be brought out but never could because art isn't really a profitable career?

Like it's the same thing that boggles my mind with Elon. All that success and he seems to destroy it by making himself miserable begging for approval on Twitter.
> a lingering question of whether any of it truly matters, especially knowing I could stop tomorrow without significantly impacting my wellbeing.

A suggestion for your consideration, or that of anyone in a similar position: give enough of the money away that this stops being true, and find fulfilling paid work (not necessarily in that order). I strongly suspect, from my own experience, that there's an amount of savings that you can keep that is adequate to remove any worry about winding up on the streets (or being stuck with work that actually turns out to suck, etc), without making further earning feel pointless to your own comfort. I think there's an ethical case for doing this even if it made you less happy, but even better if it's win-win.
Yes, but that saved them from burning to death. They were burnt beyond recognition.
>I mean if you’ve ever bought enterprise software, you know that much of the sales pitch is for aspirational features. Ugh.

The company I work for has had to cancel contracts and claw back money a few different times from vendors that have promised features that were mandatory in our industry that weren't actually available in the software. One I recall was a pricey leave of absence tracking platform that didn't actually consider hipaa compliance to be important.
Gundam Evolution, as someone else noted from my comment history.
US federal budget expenditures in 2023 were a little over six trillion dollars.

Eighty million dollars isn’t even sufficient to count as a rounding error in that context.
See I want to say you're right, but also the newer versions have all the same bugs the old ones do.
That is EXACTLY what I said in my article: "Convincing people of this is basically impossible. It doesn’t matter how good your argument is, if someone has ever seen an ad that relates to their previous voice conversation they are likely convinced and there’s nothing you can do to talk them out of it"
Some are locations etc
It's not a "failure" - people don't owe you to behave in ways that are approved by you. They have different priorities, and you can tell them they "actually" need something else until you blue in the face, but they'll buy what they want, even after your disapproval.
For "no one is proud or happy to see one" I sure see a lot of cybertrucks.
I read the HN link after the video though, and it was full of vague misunderstandings of exactly what honey was doing, even if people did understand the technical logistics. Some of the dark patterns honey goes through to get a user to click any link or button is pretty shady.