skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ever since I was a child addicted to the "magic eye" stereogram books, I've always diverged (not crossed) my eyes for spot-the-difference puzzles.

Also, if you're doing it on a piece of paper, hold a pen in each hand spaced right so you see the middle (3rd) hand in the middle combined image, and move both hands in sync to circle all the differences. Kind of a cool way to point them out to someone else.

The difficult puzzle took me about 10 seconds here since I was looking for more than one difference. I saw the first difference in about 1 second.
A friend of mine once applied for a job with the local PT operator. For that, I finagled the PDF of his CV such that after a minute or so, one of the company's trains would drive over the page from left to right at the very bottom.

He never heard back from them.
Probably every human being looks like a huge asshole if you put their entire life under a microscope. Even Mother Teresa did some giant asshole things if I remember. You're just not aware what a huge asshole you are because someone hasn't written a very good biography of your life from a perspective different from yours (or you havent lived long enough)
This is awesome. Two orgs come to mind that you might want to work with in some capacity: Electricity Maps for sourcing US electric grid carbon intensity data [1] (unfortunately, granularity is only down to the ISO/balancing agency), and Clear Loop (a division of Silicon Ranch, one of the largest solar developers in the US) [2], which uses carbon credits to build clean energy projects in the most carbon intensive parts of the US grid.

[1] https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/72h

[2] https://clearloop.us/projects/
Volunteer work can come with benefits other than payment, such as food, access to facilities, etc. It can also provide a support network and contacts for finding work.

With that knowledge (despite not knowing specific circumstances), it sounds like a highly effective way to cope with the situation as an individual.
As an elder millennial I have to cheer.
Can't recommend Thomas and crew more. The interview process with them was smooth, transparent, responsive, and always forthright.

I'd fully recommend interested individuals take a look.
Since there's two possible antecedents for "they" (the Unicode Consortium, and Microsoft) here you'll have to clarify. Also, my question really was for u/UltraSane.

Microsoft should just never have created Best-Fit -- it's a disaster. If you have to lose information, use an ASCII character to denote loss of information and be done. (I hesitate to offer `?` as that character.) Or fail to spawn the process with an error indicating the impossibility of transcoding. Failure is better actually.
Zuckerberg and Musk are billionaires, money always grants power.

What are Biden and Harris supposed to do when the swathes of land that vote for politicians, don't vote for them? And when Congress doesn't back them up? Should they just... say "Pweeeaase" louder?

This is why recently I've switched from "Progressive income taxes are good because we need to fund social programs, and rich people can afford to bear a greater tax burden" to "Taxing rich people is essential to democracy, since wealth can buy political power."
Supreme Court signals it will uphold ban on TikTok
Couldn't you just translate the rules to a standard playing deck? Seems like a PITA, but if you dont want to go through that effort, the ruleset inventor should get compensated for their effort...
you also have to trawl through the flags to make sure it actually checks types, e.g. check_untyped_defs
Great point. Great suggestion.-
This is not about capitalists vs. working class. It's about upper middle class vs. capitalists, middle class, and working class.

When you grow up in an export-driven country, one thing you learn early is that high wages are bad for the economy. And when the economy is bad, it's the ordinary people who suffer the most.

You generally want to keep the labor share of GDP constant, which means that wages should grow about as fast as GDP per capita. If the wages grow faster than that in a field, it's probably bad for the economy. Especially if the field was already highly paid. Unusually high wages typically indicate low productivity (when measured in outputs per dollar). And when productivity is low, businesses that rely on the outputs of that field become less competitive. For example, if making software is more expensive in the US than in other developed countries, American businesses cannot afford to use it as much as their foreign competitors.
Sure (for 7 years IIRC). But that's hardly a blocker to a dignified life.
Automattic (it’s Auto-Matt-Ic as in Matt Mullenweg, who embedded his own name into the company name) is a reflection of Matt’s ego. If he fails his investors, he will view himself as a failure, and that’s not acceptable for someone who has literally embedded their ego in their business. Whether or not he has infinite runway, he does not have infinite VC reputation.

While it’s possible he suddenly woke up one day and decided to become greedy and petty, it seems more likely that with the end of zero-percent interest rates, his investors are nagging him to increase his rate of growth of profit accordingly. Otherwise why rock the boat when, as you note, he’s already making money hand over fist? But it’s not rate of return annually that matters to investors, it’s the rate of growth of rate of return that matters, and that’s almost certainly trending negative by now.
Just run an undersea cable to Argentina, easy peasy. Argentina should be more than willing to help out their fellow citizens in the Malvinas, right?
Culture changes, but it's very hard to deliberately effect specific changes.
I don't want to make too many assumptions here because it's a bit of a minefield, but... perhaps there's an entirely selfish and rational explanation for DEI hiring programs in a tight labor market? If you feel like you've hired all of the labor you can at a given market price (e.g., you're cheap and don't want to pay people more) it might make sense to try and reach out to parts of the labor force that you feel have been underutilized (or historically underrepresented, but we're looking at this from the perspective of a ruthless business), and DEI programs could be a way of achieving this.

I don't think that's an entirely accurate narrative, but I do think it's probably at least part of this (e.g., that all of the best white people were already hired, while many POC people of equal caliber were not or not making as much). The job market was soaring in 2021 and looking for ways to hire new people without having to pay them more would likely be highly attractive. Now that the job market is not so competitive, there's not as much need to do so if you're just trying to find workers.
Replicated KV store in Rust using a shared log service
The "upload audio" feature doesn't require any specific text.
As an outsider looking at the US, this looks so dangerous. It feels like the whole democratic system is bending to the power of money.

Just a few weeks ago, an American friend was making the comparison between the number of billion $ companies in the EU vs the US. I was trying to tell them that it isn't necessarily a bad thing to have less of that - I rather have 1,000 million $ companies than a billion $ one. The concentration of financial power seems so unhealthy, and it looks like it's crippling the whole American system.
Diverging is way way easier for me, but I am positive that's because of the 10's of hours (at least) that I spent staring at magic eye images as a child.
Where have I heard that before? Right, it was in the book "My Job Went To India", which was published more than 20 years ago.
The world moved away from legitimate grievances to something else entirely. Hate speech in 2025 is not the same as it was in 2000. None for the better.
That was the image I had in my head.

My whole career I’ve been watching people on greenfield projects looking down on devs on already successful products for not using some tool they’ve discovered, missing the fact that their tool only functions if you build your whole product around the exact mental model of the tool (green field).

Wisdom is learning to watch for people obviously working on brownfield projects espousing a tool. Like moving from VMs to Docker. Ansible to Kubernetes (maybe not the best example). They can have a faster adoption cycle and more staying power.
There are tons of them, mostly thanks to a renaissance in Japan starting maybe a decade ago but spreading elsewhere.

Taylor's Trick Taking Table is a YouTube channel dedicated to them. The Portland Game Collective's Discord channel is the de facto English language home to the movement.

Most of them are very small scale and artisanal but a few bigger publishers have also started doing more of them in the past year.

The Tokyo Game Market has literally hundreds of new ones released every year but most don't have English and can only be bought in Japan.

A few smaller companies like Tricky Imports and Newmill Games are importing them, though.
Show HN: Flatty – Dead Simple Codebase-to-Text for LLMs
Transform any GitHub repo or folder on your Mac into a simple text file so that you can upload it to an LLM (Claude, ChatGPT, etc.) to reason over the whole thing in the context window.

LLMs like ChatGPT and Claude let you upload files, but they limit how many you can upload at once. When you're dealing with large codebases that have tons of files, you can't just upload them directly to an LLM. You end up having to use RAG (retrieval augmented generation) techniques, which in my experience aren't as effective as uploading everything into the full context window - especially when you need to reason about architecture or understand the entire system.

Flatty is simple to use.

Navigate to your project directory in the Terminal and then type "flatty" - that's it.

The script will output your GitHub repo as a text file (or series of text files in case of large repos) into a folder called "flattened" in your home directory.

I hope you find this tool useful in your own work!
> starting to emerge here on hackernews

It's not getting worse, you're getting better.

HN has for a long time been where I go for whatever you call the tech equivalent of watching stoners think they're having a deep conversation.
Yes, we must shoot down the flying bears.
New OpenAI job listings reveal its robotics plans
A lot of words to say that doing anything at all must be impossible.

Not understanding how homelessness (or poverty generally) leads to mental illness is remarkably disconnected.
Or the side of a shopping cart.
I can't seem to do this, it seems impossible for me to cross my eyes. Hmmm.
Parallels 20.2: Run Intel x86 VMs on Apple Silicon Macs
Apparently the newest Parallels now lets you run x86 VMs on M-series computers. (Previously, you could only run Windows Arm, and Microsoft's own virtualization/emulation inside Windows was what let you run some x86 software).
Meta ends its DEI programs
Building a reputation is important. Can you make a contribution immediately? I was pulled into a firefight where the biz folks were micromanaging the tech folks with twice-daily meetings, with little progress being made. Two or three obvious and immediate fixes later I was able to cut the meetings back to daily and after a few more to weekly.
The background is flowers, but the hidden image is most certainly the classic heart shape.
Microsoft Money has basically been discontinued at this point, so there's no real guarantee it's going to keep working on Windows. Meanwhile Wine-HQ lists Microsoft Money Plus Deluxe Sunset as a "Platinum" level supported application, which means it should run essentially perfectly on any current Linux distribution.

Pick the distribution which seems the best fit and try it again. As Money is no longer being updated, support is only going to get better in Wine and worse on Windows from now on.

Even if you don't move to a different OS, since your data and Money are so important and Money is not particularly demanding in terms of hardware, it might still be a good idea to migrate money into a VM with a fully supported OS to insulate it from changes to the underlying OS. That would simplify backups, and guarantee that you can continue to use it essentially indefinitely even if you choose to use an ARM architecture Mac or Chromebook in the future.

Both VMware and VirtualBox are free for noncommercial use, available for all popular platforms, and allow easy snapshots and full backups. If you backup your VM to a cloud service you could lose literally all of your possessions in a disaster and still be in a position to recover everything onto nearly any computer within minutes.
Maybe try talking to this guy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23669188

If you’re not witnessing it then that’s only because you’re not noticing it, unless you think a large chunk of the population is just a bunch of liars.

Also you need to explain why there is a huge racial imbalance in elite jobs.

Also you need to explain literal blinded studies demonstrating racism in callbacks based on resumes.

None of it excuses reverse discrimination but denying it is happening is just not based in reality.
Well, there is this: https://clienttest.ssllabs.com:8443/ssltest/viewMyClient.htm... But you’d have to test your own clients.

One imagines though that with enough clients connecting to your site you’ll end up seeing every type of incompatible client eventually.

The point I was trying to make is that removing SSL doesn’t make your site compatible and the number of incompatible clients is small compared to the number of compatible ones.
Compatibility alone is not a reason to not use SSL on its own, arguably. The list of incompatibility doesn’t stop at SSL, there’a still DNS, IPv6 and so on.

SSL is usually compatible for most people - enough that it has basically become the defacto default for the web at large. Though there are still issues. CMOS batteries dying and having bad client time is one that comes to mind first, certificate chain issues too. SSL is complex, no doubt. Especially for server-side implementation to remain compatible client-side. That’s why tools like Qualys’ exist in the first place!
Glad you liked it. The scene with the Jennifer Rush song is living free in my mind, when Warren Clark's infatuation breaks surface.

The Beeb did a version of "the history man" by Malcolm Bradbury which I think was OK, but a bit less successful. They're somewhat contemporary novels about academia. They also did several of the Tom Sharpe novels but they're generally more boisterous, picaresque stories.
I think governments should offer free housing to everyone who asks, in their city of choice. "But why should taxpayers pay for that? It's expensive!" Yes, it would be very expensive. But you know what's even more expensive? The sum of everybody's lowered wages, bad bosses, fear for the future, fear of having kids and so on, due to the threat of homelessness. Yes, building housing is expensive, but the removal of fear will pay for it many times over.
Next gen starlink v2s are going to be 1000-2000km with starship. Low LEO v1s was more limitation of F9. Shooting high LEO ery expensive (PRC has HQ19s for 3000km), but realistically once US/PRC rolls out starship tier reusable payload vehicles at scale, we're goign to start seeing enough co-orbital asats being launched to guarantee kessler.
It's not easy every day that's for sure, and your experience as well as the studies are very clear on that.
ADHD severity varies of course; the 5+ people with ADHD in my company do struggle at very varying degrees.

I'd like to be a bit positive anyway, because it gives more agency. My own experience is that by knowing how ADHD works, one can use it to focus on where it shines and avoid where it's definitely not great. People aware of their strengthes and weaknesses, whatever they are, are so much more effective.

The strong emotions, the energy from novelty, even the erratic curiosity are powerful capabilities in the right context :
- fuel on anger to speak your mind when an inappropriate situation occurs and no one dares
- use your energy to Kickstart new projects, and then give them to someone else to finish
- emergencies often require to look everywhere before the root cause is found
- etc

It would be easier without the emotional roller-coaster and focusing mayhem, but I'm convinced I couldn't do those things so well without ADHD .

To finish, I wish you all the best!
One thing that started happening is that "diverse" candidates were aggressively head-hunted, for interviews. HR wasn't interested in hiring them, they just wanted to fill our their internal diversity quota and lubricate the hiring pipeline.
> two young boys who are white, heterosexual and normal in every way, I found it disturbing to know they'd be discriminated against in the workplace.

At least they will always feel welcome in their own country. I had that feeling about 10 years ago and I miss it.
I am pretty sure somebody will do this. My guess is that it will make basically no difference, but the end result is likely less useful...
Yes, helped start it (first or second employee back in 1980(?)).

Wild! I had forgotten the LispMs had Impress support; I think that came out of the time when we worked with Janet Walker, head of documentation at Symbolics.
If you're distant enough / the people are sitting close enough, you can stereogram two people's faces together. You usually only get fleeting moments of crispness when their heads are aligned correctly though.
>Automated tests are a formal specification, and running them is a formal verification method.

This is a great way to describe it, and an important concept to grasp.

Another kind of formal verification that exists between "standard" unit tests and model checking/automated theorem proving is property-based testing a la quickcheck: You have a function you want to test (e.g., a sort), you describe the properties of inputs ("a list of integers") and state the properties you want to hold of the output ("every number should appear the same number of times in the output as in the input, and every number should be >= the number to its left") and ask the system to generate and test lots of random inputs for you. These properties can often be used more or less directly in model checkers, which makes the checking exhaustive (on some small, finite domain).
My logged-in YouTube shows me almost entirely 3blue1brown, Applied Science, and the like. Logged out it is 100% chum and garbage.
Yes it will! That pattern matching is based on prior experience and if the entire makeup of candidates changes that'll cause people to pattern match differently. If old prejudices are taking a while to die out, it won't be long until someone smart realizes there's whole groups of qualified candidates who aren't getting the same offers as others and hires them
> Is the specific reason not clear?

Correct.

> Strong versus weak is not super solidly defined as referring only to values and not variables.

You're right. It's not super solidly defined as referring only to variables and not values, either. If dynamic typing is the same as weak typing, there'd be no point in having both phrases.
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Were you also trying to figure out which countries you could move to, and which friends and family you were willing to leave to do so? Or was that just me?
And in Iran, it's even higher (1). It is not what you would expect from either country based on the stereotypes people have in their minds.

(1) https://www.forbes.com/sites/amyguttman/2015/12/09/set-to-ta...
> "drug addicted or mentally ill people being a public menace"

Finland also is rather aggressive with involuntary detention of those deemed to be a potential danger to themselves or others.
> In case of destruction, the satellite breaks up into many individual pieces each having a potentially very different orbit.

Depends on what you mean with "potentially very different orbit". Each piece still has to be at least on some elliptic orbit that eventually again passes through the spot where where it broke up*. If it was on a low orbit to begin with, it'll still burn up soon-ish as it decays. You cannot increase the perigee of some formerly circular orbit with only a singular application of force, nor can you increase the perigee of an elliptic orbit higher than its old apogee through the same means.

It'll take a lot to get pieces into orbits where they avoid decaying within a reasonable time span.

*Disregarding external factors like the gravitational pull of a third object, and assuming no drag and perfect point masses.
Richard Garfield had never heard of Cuttle until fairly recently

https://www.reddit.com/r/boardgames/comments/17cb47k/cuttle_...

Magic's direct inspiration was Cosmic Encounter.
This is exactly the same skill needed to see 3d pictures (aka autostereograms).
This is one area of inflation I haven't experienced, because I almost never use services that require tipping, or go to restaurants. My income is limited these days, so its partly that, but also restaurant food is just generally bad for me (food quality not great, portions way bigger typically than I want).
No matter what people think the right thing to do is, making any hiring decision on the basis of a protected group is illegal in the US, no matter who is on what side of the equation.
Everyone wants to live in the centre of Helsinki, because why not?
For distributed systems this makes sense. Most people aren't writing distributed system components though but things where the risk usually isn't technical like business software. I worked on a project where I got into arguments with the PMs because I pushed back on optimizing performance on the main page of our pre-launch product. I argued that we don't have any real feedback that the page is what is needed and the PM thought I was insane for doubting the main page was needed. We completely redesigned that page twice, deleted it entirely and then had to bring it back because the sales team liked it for initial demos.

Every process is a tradeoff and it anyways depends on your specific circumstances which choice is best for your team and project.
In my entire career working for US companies, I have yet to work with a black software engineer. Not a auxiliary role like PM, DevOps, IT but a straight SDE role. I have worked with literally hundreds of software engineers in my life.
(Note: I know this applies to most US states; other places YMMV) Not if they're not making it up to the regular minimum wage with tips.

The federal minimum wage is $7.25/hr. The federal tipped minimum wage is $2.13/hr. If a tipped employee doesn't get enough tips to reach $7.25/hr for a particular pay period, the employer has to make up the difference.

So with low tips, all you're doing is subsidizing the employer.
Interesting re ammonia. But is it the same when there would be a huge spill? E.g. imagine a leak at a large storage facility, of comparable size to how we store hydrocarbons today. Wouldn't that turn into a massive toxic cloud?

Interesting read re breathing hydrogen: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydreliox
If you see 3 peaks you went too far - which is really easy to do on mobile. I had to be careful to go only "once deep".
Right but part of that is asking why your workforce isn’t representative of the available workers. If you’re disproportionately hiring some types of people you probably are hiring on race and not skill.

And yes, some of this is not solvable at the end of the funnel when hiring but as a society leaving a full class of people in less productive jobs due to race (or caste or whatever) is a waste of human potential.
Has anyone been successfully sued for excess hosting costs due to scraping?