skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> [an off the cuff promise] seems to be the same kind of "lie" [as charging $7,500 for future self-driving]

No, it doesn't, and I cannot understand how they could seem so similar to you.
hilarious that GP was flagged to death, HN is so predictable
Global study links diabetes and heart disease cases to sugary drinks
No, its absolutely widespread that they do.

You can confirm this by searching "quarter past" at any significant US website, e.g., the NY Times:

<https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Anytimes.com+%22quarter+past>

"Quarter of" or "quarter to" are less frequent, but can be found and heard.
> and he said “huh, the other guy yelled at me about that”.

If this was SASR recruitment that'd be the pysch portion of the test, reject a candidate for a reason that makes no sense and watch their reaction ...

The assessment never stops, everything's a meta test, and they push until you quit the recruitment merry go round.

In the relatively normal world of software engineering .. that's a recruiter landed with a poor testing pachage and procedures.
Nature Medicine article: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-024-03345-4
For people wondering here's s side by side https://i.redd.it/ot0j04k7apb71.png

It's quite a bit larger (and more powerful too).
I don't disagree with what you've written at all, but let me just say:

> Hopefully, you have a monorepo or something with similar effects, and a lack of fiefdoms

ah to be so lucky...
Reckon that's a bridge too far even for those miserable reprobates. Besides, it'd only take for a couple to be locked away to scare the shit out of rest of them. There's nothing like making an example out of a few to bring better behavior.

The real problem these days is that the culprits who perpetrate this shit are able to hide behind corporate walls—at worst the company gets fined (albeit rarely) but those who are actually responsible escape both freely and anonymously. Laws need to be changed to make employees directly accountable for their actions and to take the consequences.

Unfortunslely, introducing such laws is somewhat complicated and would meet with huge resistance for many reasons too involved to list here. Nevertheless, there's one I should mention, sometimes unavoidable mistakes occur (or important facts remain unknown) even after due diligence and rigorous testing. Laws should not hold individuals responsible for force majeure† (so-called acts of God) that they have no control over. Any change in the law would have to allow for this.

That said, we know damned well that that provision/exception is totally irrelevant in most of these cases/customer unfriendly fuck-ups, clearly they're as guilty as hell.

I'd advocate another change in the law in that shareholders need to be identifiable. We need a way of
publicly embarrassing and shaming shareholders when they invest in 'carpetbagger' companies. To avoid shame investors who invested in good faith would be left with little option than to divest themselves of their shares. In effect, shareholders have to share the responsibility for a company's bad behavior and be seen doing so.

Mind you, I can't see this happening anytime soon, as many shareholders are just too greedy to allow laws like this to come into effect. Unfortunately, the political will just isn't there.

_

† A classic example of where hubris, cocksureness, cost cutting and insufficient engineering rigor — AND force majeure led to a disaster was the collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. If engineering rigor had been followed to the letter and penny-pinching avoided then it's likely the bridge wouldn't have collapsed despite force majeure entering the scene (the physics of Kármán vortex street turbulence was not well understood at the time).
Related:

Sam Altman responds to his sister's claim of sexual abuse

https://twitter.com/sama/status/1876780763653263770

(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42630067)
I don’t understand this response.
I have no idea how you cane to the conclusion that they showed any such thing. Even Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_Files) takes the stance that the points raised were generally showing bias against conservatives, and tries to downplay them.
There are pockets of Internet that are still great, definitely. But "likes and retweets" are long-time major features of basically all of the absolute biggest social sites in the world, and they're also some of the most awful ones that people keep looking for ways to leave. So no, I don't think it's particularly outdated. Predictive, if anything.
I really, really wish the industry would give the fuck up on resumes. It's such a stupid way to hire. Huge waste of time for all involved, inaccurate, lengthy, difficult.

As a hiring manager, I want:

- Your references are already vetted and testimonials left on a public profile,
private on invite for those who haven't left their job yet
- Actual qualifications, like job training and certifications. Even Scrum Training.
I want to know you were actually taught the right way at least once, by a
reputable source
- A written contract that what you say is your experience is true, and that I can
use arbitration to seek damages if you lied
- A standard set of tests administered by experts chosen at random.
- Your requirements to be hired

As a candidate, I want:

- The salary range, hire type (contract/full-time), benefits
- The location
- A description of the project you want worked on and skills required
- Your company's pitch deck or equivalent
- Glassdoor reviews
- My name, age, gender, picture, etc are hidden until the company has clicked a button
that certifies they are interested in me based on my qualifications. I get that we can't
stop hiring bias, but at least make it more obvious when they pass up why they have.

We can't we just agree as an industry that we should all pitch in and make this? There's enough capital here, and it's not like we don't know how to build these things. Certainly there's enough people here motivated to work on it.
I have an M-Audio Delta Audiophile 2496 PCI sound card somewhere. The circuit board has an 8-pin socket with a replaceable op-amp. Why does a stereo sound card have only a single operational amplifier? This sound card already sounds very nice, but what kind of op-amp would I replace it with if I wanted to upgrade it?
The only thing annoying about this sort of blog post is that of course we will get a million posts pointing out that the old UI is faster, exposes information, and is more compatible with an expert keyboard driven workflow.

And this is all completely correct. UIs have gotten worse and there’s no hope in sight.

But it is repetitive. And kinda annoying that every individual programmer understands and acknowledges this, but the industry continues this inane march “forward.”
Have they been trying?
I run a cybersecurity company and I’ve had drinks with Krebs at various events over the years. He’s the real deal, digging up dirt on the people who ruin everything for everyone and risking his life in the process for a minuscule payoff. I don’t know why he does it; I suppose it’s just the journalist’s passion. A really nice guy in person too.
> In the U.S., the company is preparing for Phase 3 trials.

That's that country where, if you do anything such that these eggs don't make it, you're an abortionist.
Thanks for this. I've a passing interest in those older expert-level interfaces and input buffering wasn't on my radar but is completely vital. I remember relying heavily on that functionality back in the day and yet it's non-existent in most modern interfaces.
Why would the political leanings of other countries matter in a discussion about the US?
If you spent enough time and energy on it.. I'm fairly confident you could get the newest Ubuntu running. You'd have to build your own kernel, manually generate the initramfs, figure out how to and then flash it. You'd probably run into stupid little problems like the partition table the flash script makes doesn't allocate enough space for the kernel you've built.. I'm sure there would be hiccups, at the very least, but everything's out there to do it.
GitHub: Why developer satisfaction is your best productivity metric
You often want parametricity, until you want type-specific behaviour, which is very, very common. Haskell uses this to great effect with type classes.
Sometimes asking, "When will we..." is just a turn of phrase, but sometimes it's a serious misframing of the issue. There is no such thing as "we" that meaningfully acts or makes decisions. Thinking about "we" as if it's real because the individuals in "we" are capable of choosing is the fallacy of composition.

If you want collective outcomes that are different than the sum of uncoordinated individual action, you have to design them. Don't talk about "we." Who specifically is doing what, and for what purpose, and why would they do that, when they could just not?

Answering those questions often shows you that the problem isn't what you thought—because the mental model of a "we" that does things is so harmful.

Or you end up with a plan to solve the problem, so win-win.
Ya gonna just leave empty pixels on display?
SAD! Craigslist was a much better product and community even without the luxury of identity verification. It had some obvious spam but by and large worked fine once you got the hang of it. Marketplace is a cesspool of lowballers and sex workers with some shitty ML sprinkled on it, underneath it all some slow and clunky RPCs that need refresh all the time.

Forget about the sucky product. Who has Facebook been hiring in the past decade that built that technical crapshoot.
Blaze Turns Pacific Palisades into Evacuation Zone
I like that 11th Century Dover Castle is now an apartment building :)

https://streets.gl/#51.12937,1.32037,45.00,0.00,630.67
I've answered elsewhere on the thread why I think the warning-label approach Facebook took was doomed to failure, as a result of the social dynamics of Facebook.
> “maybe it's just a way of saying that certain kinds of 'content' like attacking trans people is going to be ok now”

The new policy explicitly says that allegations of mental illness are not allowed except if the target is gay or trans, so, yeah…

https://www.wired.com/story/meta-immigration-gender-policies...
yeah - the need for a boss in the first place. there simply isn't one.
https://archive.ph/dHqIX
Oh~ This is definitely worth referencing as well. Thank you for the information!
"Never go against the family, Annie, ever"
It wouldnt have worked any differently from the first qr code with quarantine, and been a flagged violation, eventually
Stablecoin Trading Startup Perena Tries Its Luck on Solana
Occasionally, when I'm bored, I actually tried to engage with them, but they immediately hang up, when they notice I don't speak Mandarin; and my attempts at Nihao haven't convinced anyone so far.

For context, I'm in Singapore, and I suspect the vast majority of these spam calls are manned by PRC people.
People don't retire to such areas, and only would stay if they owned a home bought decades ago.
Ask HN: how to optimize dead-man data?
I was thinking about how much knowledge people have, that people may only be prepared to reveal upon death. (please excuse the morbid topic)

There's not much "return" on disclosed knowledge and stories for the deceased, but people may still wish to share their sensitive information with the public anyhow. Maybe inventions that would otherwise be confiscated via the Invention Secrecy Act (1951)?

Goverments release classified data after many decades, why not people?

With all the throwaway accounts on HN, maybe this is something readers here could use? A way for people to disclose their real identities here on HN.

Can any of this be done at present, and where? Should data be encrypted in case of a breach? Perhaps a blockchain could be used?

I suppose nothing new needs to be invented here, maybe just a way to get pings from all preexisting dead man's switches?

One caveat is that people may not want their descendants to suffer from their disclosures - hopefully they can even benefit and profit. The other consideration is bogus deaths, and false identities being used to legitimize information.

example names:

"Autobiographies of the Recently Departed"

"Undertaker Disclosures"

"Wikileaks for the Deceased"

"HN Unmasked"

"Death-bed Publish"

"Inventions in Peace"

"Treasures Heavensent"

"Timed, Anonymous Deadman Switch"

"Karma Resolver"
This has been done, many times before, it turns out the neural network just learns a crapper version of A*, and of course, any domain knowledge from whatever environment it's in, there was a post on this very thing last year on hacker news.
> the users were often very satisfied with the old software we were replacing. They liked how fast they got things done with it: For instance, the old software had keyboard shortcuts for everything. Its layout was more information dense.

I can say that I am also satisfied with many old programs for these reasons, and sometimes other reasons too. When writing new software, I generally try to design it like that too, with keyboard for everything (or nearly everything), and with dense layouts.
Apple has stopped being product driven. Sadly.

It's all about maximising short term profits (see iPhones of the last years) or things top down from the CEO that make little sense (Vision Pro)
Passkeys are at least more convenient than magic links as they do not require opening an email or pulling your phone out for an SMS code. You're right though that they Passkeys + email reset is no more secure than email magic links, but I'd say email magic links are perfectly secure for most use cases. There really is no reason to continue using passwords these days and every website should switch to either magic links, Email OTP, or passkeys.

For more sensitive accounts like bank accounts and government services. You'd probably have to go through some other reset process involving real ID and possibly an in person visit to a support location.
They already predicted this hence DLSS and other AI magic.
The job market is bad because a lot of people joined tech when there was a lot of open roles (and a lot of SV money). The money has returned to its pre-bubble level, so there's fewer jobs. But the same number of people looking for work as during the bubble when they switched careers. Most of those new workers lack deep skills, so the existing jobs are going unfilled. Most of the listings I see now are for senior and above.
Wow~ You’re one of the developers of Ultima, a game I truly loved! The concept of using "highways" is really fascinating!

However, in my project, everything is in plain view for everyone to observe, so I won’t be able to use any cheats like that!
I think folks undersell Trump's intention to deliver. Just, to him, there's no objective reality outside of the message and the public reaction.

So he says "We'll build a wall!", then throws up a few miles of fencing, then takes some photos and says "We built the wall!", and people believe him?

That's job done.

Sure, there are a lot of interests around him, but I honestly don't think he's playing a master plan. He just lives inside messaging.
Actual extreme left-wing views are those that the average San Franciscan holds. Economics isn't everything.
DLSS is becoming the standard rendering.
A* and JPS seem a bit different from the direction I’m aiming for.
> like people being in Texas makes them more objective?!

This is the least charitable interpretation. Obviously, it is not talking about a single person moving to Texas suddenly changing colors like a chameleon (although I suspect there is quite a bit of merit to that due to groupthink and community speech policing in BayArea/LA).

And yes, I think it won't be a stretch to think Texas would be more objective representation of general US PoV and less of a monoculture than FB sites in California. This is not a value judgement, just a natural function of the distribution of people.
Because the US is part of the world.
That's actually very clever. The person writing that passage was responding to an obvious criticism. How could an all-knowing all powerful being mess up the design of procreation so badly? Conveniently, we will write that up as a deliberate punishment.
> household disposable income

That doesn't matter a slightest if people can't afford housing.
Income is indeed disposed, without much to show off.
All the assets are loading sequentially. I have 100ms of latency to the server so that means several seconds of load time for me. Should be an easy fix to load them in larger batches.
Which backwater? I'm looking for LGBTQ friendly places and there are not many to be had worldwide. Things are okay at the state level for me but federally about to go to hell
I don't think abstinence works in practice and condoms are a better alternative than "Russian roulette". Single trusted partner: Ok, sure...
> Yet, few of the millions who program in it realize they have much better choices

Oh, if only that were true. I wish there were better choices for web development. And no, transpiling another language to JavaScript doesn't count.
I mean, the upvote buttons could be bigger on mobile.
> needs to be a key leader for the part being broken out into a separate system

Indeed, the developer was one of the best programmers I've known
and absolutely the key person on the system.
The New Guys Clique were the sort of developers,
you might know some,
who come in, look at the existing systems, decide it's all wrong and terrible, and set out to Do It Right.
They are sometimes required. Say you are on a mailing list for some company you gave your email to at some checkout counter one time, and you want to unsubscribe. You probably don't have an actual account with a login with that retailer, they just have your email address.

In this case, what alternative is there than having a magic link in the footer of that email that says "unsubscribe" that includes a token unique to that email address that acts as proof of owning an email account when you then click that link and ask to unsubscribe?
Ask HN: Favorite Podcast Episodes of 2024?
Mine was oddly a Radiolab episode that actually premiered in 2014.

https://radiolab.org/podcast/less-than-kilogram

My favorite radio program is slowly dying so I am trying to dive deeper into podcasts.
The US is going to endure four more years of post-truth governance. It isn't in Zuckerberg's interest to have his organization pointing out that the emperor is unclothed when there is real risk of blowback in round 2.
"Money can be exchanged for goods and services."
Of course National Semiconductor had a chip for this, the LMC669 Auto-Zero.

https://www.electronicsurplus.com/national-semiconductor-cor...
Oh, as expected, A* couldn't be fully utilized on older hardware. I can totally relate, as I’m running my server on a Mini PC with an *N100 CPU* right now.

Hearing stories about the challenges and solutions for low-spec hardware like this is incredibly fascinating.
2024 Shkreli Awards: Profiteering and dysfunction in healthcare
UHG only got #2 .. gotta pump up those numbers.
Happy 15th anniversary – "It's a double rainbow all the way across the sky"
A little background for context:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42622893

So by 2008, I was 34, starting over and applying for enterprise CRUD jobs where I was competing against people with a lot less experience and maturity. I was cheap labor. That held true in 2008 and 2012 and I was digging my way out of the “expert beginner” years.

It wasn’t until 2014 when I was actually starting to be recruited for strategic positions. In 2014, 2016 and 2018 I was an early strategic hire by a then new director/manager/CTO to lead major initiatives.

My interviews were two adults talking about strategy. By 2014, I was 40 years old.

2020, a remote position at AWS Professional Services fell into my lap. I was 46 then.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38474212

Now looking for a job in 2023 and 2024 targeting full time roles at cloud consulting companies, can you imagine how easy it is for a 50 year old who knows how to communicate decently, with 25+ years of development experience, 6 years of AWS experience including 3 at AWS to get a job at those companies?

Now when you take AWS away from me, I am just another enterprise Dev with above average communication and project management skills.

Two of my three rejections were at product companies even then the interviews were behavioral. It does concern me a little that I got rejected from product companies that were looking for “architects”.

My title right now is “staff software architect” at a consulting company.
Phishing attempts by definition create artificially urgent abnormal situations whose job it is to convince the intended victim that they're legitimate. A difference in degrees like this strikes me as not really something to haggle about. Users who fell prey to the attack aren't going to be reassured on hearing how much more unlikely it was.
Dupe (238 points, 10 hours ago, 209 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42625193
Is it not a conservative culture-war victory designed to earn favors? There is no external evidence of this having been anything other than a contingency around November 6 of last year, so it's hard to definitively say it's one or the other.
Yes, I’m also trying to explore as many options as possible.
However, I do have a strong desire to minimize preprocessing as much as I can.
At 100s of km, you’d be pushing the limits for actual live sound, though. 100km is about a light-millisecond, and ordinary fiber is rather slower than light, so that’s maybe 3ms round trip per 100km. If a musician can hear themselves through monitors at too much more latency than that, it could start to get distracting.
Igalia is the real deal. Many companies that want bugs fixed or features added to web browsers hire Igalia to make those changes. They also maintain WebKit on Linux (gtk and wpe) https://planet.igalia.com/webkit/
What's Next for Our Privacy?
Welcome to AI people. It will only get worse from here.
Enjoy the ride!
Do you mean that OP is incorrect, or just impertinent? Just because you have to use a light touch does not mean your friend does not have a Problem. (And I'm speaking as an American)
Yes, that's why our judges are human, and code is not law.

If your NDA contains 'reasonable' clauses only, they will (most likely) bind.
I wish we could create shared open source for schools and libraries.
Or a high side current sense amplifier...

https://www.st.com/en/amplifiers-and-comparators/tsc1031.htm...

Hall sensors drift.
That’s fair. If I get downvoted or flagged I’ll take that as a lesson learned…

But the submitted article was very badly written and broke the cardinal rule and didn’t give any background or even explain acronyms on first use.
Sure, here’s an example that isn’t just “scribbles”: https://youtu.be/Sj_GSBaUE1o?si=TfqBYfpCYcy-OsL4
> I wish there were an standard optional JSON attachment with a ridiculous small kb size limit to upload along with a human readable resume to help out the user data AST parser.

AFAIK one can embed arbitrary RDF into PDFs, and then one wouldn't need an extra field https://pdfa.org/wp-content/until2016_uploads/2011/08/pdfa_m...
If they blocked travel arteries like highways and bridges for more than a hour or two.
Cypress has an excellent turn-key accessibility tool if you already use their product, and don't mind paying a lot for the accessibility feature. It uses your existing tests and makes evaluations based on that, with zero additional work.
This is reminiscent of the stupid things people have tried to fix email.

If I just do this simple thing in my mail client. ... or server ... mail security and spam and whatever else will be solved.