skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's what no one will tell you about PR reviews. Highly productive engineers often learn to work around them. Once you've been around for a while, you gain trust. This usually results in a group of people who will rubber stamp anything you send them.

I've been doing this for 20 years and I've never seen an organization where this didn't exist to a significant degree.

I review my PRs myself line by line. And because of this I've literally never had a PR reviewer catch a major bug (a bug that would have required declaring an incident and paging an on call engineer had it made it through to prod). Not a single time.

So the vast majority of the time, I don't care that someone is going to rubber-stamp my PR. Occasionally, I'll ask someone who knows more than me to give it a thorough going over just in case.

I also very rarely have someone suggest a change in PR that was worth bringing up. But most of the time if I'm doing anything non-trivial, I've already talked it over with someone else well before PR time. I think that is the real time when collaboration should be happening, not at the end of the process.

Essentially, the PR a process at most tech companies is nothing more than a gatekeeping/complicance/CYA mechanism, and realizing this can definitely help your career..
Is it OK to submit URLs that require login?

Not really. In this case it would be best to submit a "Tell HN: Billing is down at the Gandi domain registrar" and provide details in the text. People that have accounts on that site would know where to log in and test.
Will they? I'd actually be surprised if there are many people that, upon receiving a suspicious message from someone who claims to be Joe Schmoe, will actually go and check to see if a different account from Joe Schmoe with a blue check. I think it's much more likely that they're either going to recognize it as a scam right away, or they won't and they'll fall for it. In either of those cases, it doesn't help for the blue-checkmark-holder to keep their account.
Honey is the new Bonzi Buddy

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BonziBuddy
Extremely light on "history", it is more like a sermon.
Is this meant to counter the Qubes post?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42677608
My take: if a given task is not fun, then it is work. People on average do not enjoy work. They do not like doing work, let alone doing it well. Training kids to do work well, without any pleasure, necessitates heavy accountability enforced by management, which brings a slew of its own requirements and complexities.

Schools already handle many cross-competing concerns across stakeholders (PTA, Taxpayers, Town Government, State Government), so I suspect they would want to reduce their enforcement & oversight load. They'll choose a teaching style that makes everyone happy or at least complacent, even if they know "fun is not learning".
> They use a single programming language to implement all aspects of the OS: configuration, system services, packaging.

I can understand the appeal of the idea, but this feels like a significant mistake. It would be like an automaker saying, "We are using exclusively 17 mm bolts for fasteners." Sure, it saves you time with finding a wrench. But I can't begin to imagine the number of compromises or additional complexities you introduce this way.

It seems like a goal founded in an academic ideal rather than a design benefiting from engineering practicalities.
The quart size plain will generally not have added sugar, and is widely available (national brands package it like that).

The single serve packages are "ready to eat" for people that want a sweetened snack.
Oh, very nice. I tended to use the Safari enough to use it before it dried. Having the option to not to is nice.
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The stock nib is also excellent when inverted (writing with the pen rolled over so that the “top” of the nib is now the side touching the paper). This is extremely useful when annotating diagrams, for example, as the writing is hyper fine.

I wanted to love TWSBI but our honeymoon period ended when nearly all of my barrels developed hairline fractures.
If neither you nor they bothered reaching out, did either of you actually care? It might be a good time to reevaluate the nature of your relationships and start maintaining the ones you actively (instead of passively) care about outside of corporate shopping mall websites.
> it's sort of a household name on HN for over a year now, being way ahead of what was available commercially on the market - and yet, it seems most people here haven't heard of it.

Can you clarify what you mean? If "most people here haven't heard of it" then it's probably not a household name.
Problem is facebook decides what you want to see unless you go to the feed which they make hard. Even then the vast majoritiy of what you see is garbage they share instead of life updates that you want.

I wish there was a better way but life updates still a posted there only. Facebook is the only one that has a concept of this is a for my friends only.
More like compliment. One of the main recommended ways to use whonix is within qubes
The flip side can also be true, where the replacement cost of a home is higher than its market value. Always be sure to insure your home for at least the replacement cost.
A thought I had recently was that someone should try making a social media/forum platform that only allows non-mobile usage.

My theory (which is definitely not originally mine) is that mobile devices have driven a huge shift in usage patterns towards low-effort content consumption. Smartphones are everybody's go-to when they're temporarily bored, so social media on the phone is less of a deliberate destination and more of an idle snack to alive someone's boredom. Even when people do engage, because they're often doing so on-the-go in short bursts and don't have access to a real keyboard, the engagement is typically very low effort. TikTok is a perfect testament to this shift IMO.

I'm thinking that desktop-only requirements would lead to less engagement over all, but higher quality engagement when it does occur. If there were a ranking system or some other kind of algorithmic content serving, it would be less skewed towards content that you can fully engage with in two seconds. And the userbase would skew towards more intentional enthusiasts who deliberately seek out the site, rather than someone looking for a quick distraction while they're bored for 15 seconds.

Hacker news does probably the best job at this without actively trying to prevent phone usage, but it doesn't exactly do much in the way of fostering a community like old-school forums.
I think it's perfectly fine to learn about huge life updates from people the next time you actually speak with them. That seems normal.

Seeing people's updates on a wall isn't truly keeping up with friends. Keeping up and staying in touch requires consistent deliberate effort from both parties, via phone calls, messaging, and seeing each other in person. If you're not doing that with someone, then yeah, learning about life updates when you actually chat and catch up just makes sense to me.
In my early years I had an Apple //e, a Mac LC II with an Apple //e card, a PowerMac 6100, some PCs and the Mac Mini G4.

My mom still has my old Core 2 Duo Mac Mini. It’s running Windows 7 now. But I could put an old version of OS X that still runs PPac apps.

All that being said, I can run old Mac apps on new Macs via emulation. Why would I want an old Mac
The bank account anchoring bias may be just the base model predicting as best as it can, as OP described earlier. Imagine a random Internet page where you read "There is V in my X. The Y of Z A, in Bs, is _." What do you expect? V, of course! Because why would a person on the Internet ever join these two factoids if they were totally unrelated (as they are in fact in this example)? That would be a gross violation of basic writing and human communication norms (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative_principle).
also eschewed social media. it's a different way of relating. normal people now react the way minor celebrities used to react when I'd meet them and not know anything about them, either insulted or very relieved.

I think it has made me a better friend in some ways, as I'm a respite from the narratives they sustain, but to others, also a kind of legacy friend who may be an attachment to an old life, and who isn't part of their present.

there's an aspect where watching their social media would be to participate in the change in their lives, and separating from it (perhaps selfishly) preserves things that might be left behind. but on the other hand, I'm interested in relating in one way too. social media profiles are strange because they say, "see, I am all these things now!" and in not seeing them, it declines to recognize those, like an old uncle you're always going to be a kid to because that's how you always were.

I have more old friends than most, and I often think about whether there is an essential self we see in each other, like a character that all these stories happen around where we can peer across them to one another, protagonist to protagonist, as companions in the real. or are the relationships artifacts of the stories, and when they change, we do? it's prob a mix, but I don't think those essential(ist) aspects of friendship survive being mediated by the churn of updates and the curation of a public persona.

anyway, being outside social media is a very different way to relate and not everything survives.
Not really. I have a Travelers Notebook with their own lined paper. I got that for the goofiest of reasons: so I could feel like Indiana Jones when I was taking notes for my Diablo game. I’ve started using it for bullet journaling as an experiment.
> Removing your account completely from Twitter makes it immediately available for anyone else to take,

Do you have a source for this? The only thing i can find is a random tweet from Elmo in 2023. I deleted my twitter account in the 2022-ish timeframe, and the handle I had (created in 2007) was my first initial + last name, which I would think would be claimed by now. It's not, so I'm thinking that deleted account handles can't be reused.
True, but the relevance or importance of a message is orthogonal to the hypocrisy of the messenger.

Citing the hypocrisy of some messengers as a reason not to care or do anything just means someone really wants an excuse not to care or do anything anyway.

Everybody waiting for a critical mass of other people to tackle something is a good way to not tackle it.

Just talking generally here, not specifically about the climate.
The other languages do not (as my parent claimed) write stacktraces to a log somehow. I suspect that in reality they've ommitted to explain that they're expected to write all the C++ code to make that stacktrace and write it to a log, but once you add those steps you're back to parity with Rust, the Rust programmers can write a stacktrace to a log too.

In the specific case of "Hello, World" it's more embarrassing. The Rust Hello World does indeed experience and report errors if there are any, the canonical C just ignores them, as does the C++.
And economically strangle the EU, which is now additionally danger of being crushed between whatever is bargained between Trump and Putin.

At this stage it is impossible to say whether Syria and possibly Greenland are part of a bargain to end the Ukraine war (You get the four provinces, we get Syria and take Greenland from the EU, probably by political influence via NGOs and a sort of color revolution that leads to the "independence" of Greenland).
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> strong gravitational interactions between individual stars are extremely rare except in very dense star clusters

We’re talking 225 million years for the sun to orbit the galaxy, rare events become commonplace on those timescales. Anyway, I’m sure someone has actually done this kind of simulation I’m just curious about what the result is and how they did it.
There is a theme here - these predictions don't account for the existence of Asia. Chinese military planners have probably noticed that after it is done with Russia the US will be focusing on China. It is very favourable to them to fight the US in a proxy war rather than with Chinese troops. The resources the US is using to try to coerce Russia are probably the same that it will use against China, so if the US fails in Russia it may be exhausted of the ability to resist China.

If I were China's (one of the world's largest creditors, I might note) leadership then there is a pretty good chance I would backstop Russia's debt in this case just to see how badly it hurts the US. Bonus points that then there is financial leverage over a resources superpower who's resources are needed for China's industry.
No? Simply look at Elon's X account. And that's the point - if there's "controversy" then it doesn't get noted, falsely implying it's true.
Magical thinking explicitly lacks the connection -- that's why it's magical after all. Jupiter and Mars are aligned, therefore I missed my bus, that sort of thing.

That's not what I usually encounter. I see people imitating something they've seen others do (who appear to be successful) without understanding the full concept. Their efforts are in vain because clearing the brush for an airstrip doesn't make the planes land, and neither does one deliver projects more successfully by changing nothing except asking everyone to join a daily meeting each morning.
Yeah - it's mindboggling how insanely (actually) racist Western Europeans are towards Eastern Europeans.

Hailing from Eastern Europe, I could tell so many stories, some of which happened to me, and some to others, which was kinda affirming to see that it was not self centered bias.

How it went for me - I built a super challenging, super advanced feature (involving graphics acceleration, video encoding etc. in a company where this was not a core competency), then I got put in a team where we had to deliver a shipping prototype on a short timescale, build up a team around it, etc.

Still I was not promoted - what I got was a clueless Western manager, who I had to hand dictate Jira tickets and Asana reports to. A year later he left for a high-level position at an A-list company. Out of curiosity, I submitted my CV to a regular dev position at the same company, and all I got was an automated rejection letter.

I also had an Ukrainian coworker who built super impressive development tooling to a huge delight to everyone - he quit in frustration, and they had to build an entire team (with similar hiring logic), and unsurprising they couldn't match half his velocity with a team of 5.

It's not really in your face, you are not really treated like dirt - but you are managed away from actual prestige and opportunities, especially if the project succeeds, they tend to forget about you - except when the bug reports come rolling in.

It really shows up in the org charts too - we used to joke that there was an 'iron curtain' on C-level minus two, as nobody from EE managed to get promoted that far. I aLso felt that the fact that the majority of engineering was in EE was treated as some 'shamful dark secret' that if found out, would cast a bad light on the firm.

This is especially super ironic considering the standard diversity spiel (you are all privileged white men) is still going on, ironically from someone who makes 5x as much as we do, and sits in London.

Are you suffering from the same condition, too?
> When interacting remotely with untrusted services, apps, or documents, Qubes cannot be beaten.

Sums up WWW.

But I believe you could use a VM or container and use such. For example, with Whonix (which also works in Qubes!)

What I'd like is use such in macOS but alas Jobs & Cook ask premium price for RAM on Macs.

With regards to Donetsk example (I like the example). There is a good reason being hidden in plain sight is blending in with masses. It is difficult to get such OPSEC right, and you need to consider different techniques for if one gets burned.
I believe it's a fairly popular font with dyslexics as well.
I really like fountain pens and would love a Lamy Safari, Parker 51, Pilot 74, or any of the other pens that have caught my interest over the years. Like many people with similar interests, though, I know they'd just collect dust.

I did buy a few Uni Kuro Toga pencils a few years ago (the cheaper models). They're neat. And they collect dust.

If nothing else, I enjoy reading articles like this. It may be a world I'll continue to peer into from the outside, but it looks like an enjoyable one.
It's not too brutal. The main stipulation is that the free version is for non-commercial use. You gotta buy the packs for around $10 a pop, and you get get a pretty lax license. Unless you're trying to use Gen AI or NFTs.
I don't understand this. You think that social media is so bad that you want to give it as much power to censor speech as possible?
I didn't flag or downvote it FWIW.
I am quite happy with endeavouros for the last couple of years, it even plays well with nvidia cards. Having played with multiple distros from the point of installing the Ubuntu from the cds they used to send, I definitely feel things have improved a lot. And a sincere thanks to all who’ve pushed things forward.
Biden readies executive order on cybersecurity after hacks linked to China
OP is an example of how AI-generated images are usually clutter. Not only do the images not add anything meaningful to the text, and arbitrary parts of the images could be deleted or randomized without affecting the reader's understanding, most of them could be randomly shuffled without anyone noticing. (Which makes them worse then clipart/stockart: if an article swapped the 'hacker hoodie' stockart with the 'neural net brain circuit' stockart, some readers would at least briefly be confused.)
I wouldn't want to hire anyone that thought like this, as it demonstrates a lack of morality and willingness to adhere to not just an informal agreement, but a legal contract that could expose me to liability or IP theft.
Plus it's a lot more personal and meaningful when you can discuss the changes directly rather than on an impersonal "public" forum.
You interact with executives as if they are your coworker?

> sycophantic servant

The misunderstanding is that you believe a servant is someone held in chains and beaten with a whip. A master is someone with power and authority, and servant is someone who works for them.
> I think even calling it a particle is presupposing things we don't observe.

Right, that's why I said it's a possible candidate for dark matter.

Your philosophical point about quantum field theory isn't really relevant here. The point is that, as the original commenter pointed out, we observe evidence of the presence of a set of quantum fields that act and interact in very well-defined ways. Given the nature of those interactions in the fields we can observe, it shouldn't be surprising if there are also other fields we can't observe - all it takes is a different set of coupling parameters. And we already see examples of this - we're virtually blind to interactions besides electromagnetism and gravity, and have to build enormous multi-billion dollar machines to explore other such interactions.

No-one is saying that this must be the explanation for dark matter, or that there must be other invisible fields. It's simply a natural prediction that arises from a successful theory.
It depends on the specific coworker I send it to. I have coworkers who will review within an hour without any additional prodding, and coworkers who will take up to a week unless I prod.

In general for small PRs I consider a consistent latency of over 24 hours to be long and mention it negatively in peer review.
+1 for Pentel Pulaman. They have a weird hybrid nib that's somewhere between a felt tip and a technical pen, and you can vary the line thickness a lot. The nib flattens a bit with age, so you end up with an almost brush-like feel.
I mostly wish there was more resources like this when learning 3d modeling. There's some low poly 3d assets to help with that here, but so many professional level 3d assets just aren't available. The closest is battling with Epic's Paragon assets to get them functioning in Blender.
>Video isn't required because even these black boxes, AFAIK, are STILL not required in the US. They also introduce unacceptable privacy compromises for Americans, seeing as how most people subconsciously treat their car as an extension of their living room.

…that is my point. For the most dangerous activity people in the country do, we avoid laws that would help ascribe blame because everyone wants to be able to break the rules. A pilot gets recorded, regardless of their privacy, because they are responsible for other people’s lives.

Why not drivers? They certainly cause damage to other people. And at a rate far higher than a person doing ANY other activity. It’s not about privacy, it is about wanting to avoid accountability.
One of my friends is affected by this and because of her skill set a large bank is the only feasible place she can work. She's just like "yep I just have to put up with it." The mobility in tech that makes it generally harder for employers to get away with this nonsense is underrated.
Putin didn't invade in 2018-19 because he was still preparing. There are indications that the invasion was planned for 2020, but obviously COVID happened.

Trumpy tantrums did nothing.
The Unexpected Benefit of Consuming Articles Offline
How about Heads?

https://osresearch.net/

https://forum.qubes-os.org/t/what-makes-heads-so-great-when-...
I’m sorry, did you have something to contribute?
My hot take, offered respectfully: The companies attempting to get you hooked on their products have succeeded via the auspices of "FOMO".
Lots of other replies already so apologies for adding to the clutter, but this sort of message always appears and it feels super dated. Like, 2003-era sentiment about the Facebook heyday.

Facebook is like a ghost town now from the "social" and family perspective. I imagine some circles might be strong on it, but from every time this comes up it's clear that the vast majority of normal people have largely abandoned it. They didn't delete their accounts, but updates are incredibly infrequent. The vast majority of Facebook activity seems to be people who don't really know each other in various conspiracy-oriented or political groups, sports arguments, etc.

As to huge life events you missed out on, even in 2003 if you only knew about something because of a Facebook post, you aren't very close. And the old acquaintances thing grows super old super quick. Everyone joined a bunch of graduating class groups, connected with old coworkers, and then... eh, turns out there was a reason we all lost contact.

In 2025 people use social media overwhelmingly to interact with strangers, not friends or family. Largely to argue and get angry and try to convince and coerce and convert. I mean, HN fits the bill in a microcosm.

Social media is a cancer on society. It has made everything much, much worse. It lets the ill-informed and unintelligent find each other and pump each other up. It monetizes and profits off of the absolute worst human traits. If Meta collapsed into a blackhole, Xitter disappeared, and so on, the world would be a much better place.
Children of Men was a documentary.
Even after reading I don't get why anyone would consider a laptop with nvidia over amd. Buying an amd thinkpad was one of my best choices of 2024