skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is so neat. Mysterious treasure on the banks of the Thames. Forbidden to boot.
I was responding to the commenter above me discussing the phenomenon of mentally disturbed people sleeping rough and I think that's been a small phenomenon in Finland the entire time due to their different history with mental health, with economic homelessness being most of what they've reduced via housing first.

To clarify, I don't know much about Finnish mental health in particular as opposed to the general trends in Northern Europe.
> It’s not like there are other contenders out there.

Apache Skywalking might be worth a look in some circumstances, doesn't eat too many resources, is fairly straightforwards to setup and run, admittedly somewhat jank (not the most polished UI or docs), but works okay: https://skywalking.apache.org/

Also I quite liked that a minimal setup is indeed pretty minimal: a web UI, a server instance and a DB that you already know https://skywalking.apache.org/docs/main/latest/en/setup/back...

In some ways, it's a lot like Zabbix in the monitoring space - neither will necessarily impress anyone, but both have a nice amount of utility.
I agree with most of your points. Though with respect lasting change, where is your impression coming from that the gains are in the last 10 to 15 years? Or even that is a widespread belief?

According to reporting at the guardian [1], FBs DEI program increased black and brown employees from 8% to 12%. Seems abysmal.

My perspective, US society is still fighting for gains that _started_ 160 years ago. Still painstakingly slow. We take for granted perhaps the first black president is _recent_, the first time having two black senators is now, school integration is about 40 years old in some places - not even one lifetime.i don't think it's an accurate characterization that huge strides were made in just the last decade, or that we were even starting at a "good" place.

I fundamentally agree on how slow the progress has been. I don't know if it needs to be that slow. I disagree that there is a wide held belief that everything was done in the last decade. Notably because of how little has been done. It's not like we're in that good of a place, never really were.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/10/meta-ending-...
> Although as a customer i'd love to just use Starlink and pay less for better quality of service

The radio spectrum is far more limited, so the more people use it, the slower it should get.

> If these companies shutdown because of international competition, it's money going to the US

The ideal "free market" result of this is that the ISP lowers prices in response or improves the service, in a rational competitive market.

The question is about customer density - the ISPs + fiber works great with density in miles while Starlink works better with lower density.

So hopefully the cities get better wired and villages get better wireless at the same time.
Apollo Landing Keypad Shrunken into Coolest Calculator Watch
So setting aside the details of DEI-specific issues, I find it really ironic that the right really wants to claim that government shouldn't be telling people how to run their businesses through regulation, but businesses trying to improve relationships with the incoming administration are changing how they do business to match Trump's preferences. I.e. three-letter agencies regulating their areas is governmental dangerous overreach but Trump expressing a view and having companies restructure themselves to meet his whims to curry favor isn't a concern.
Right. In typical workstation loads (e.g. data processing where the same data is not handled repeatedly) the 3D V-Cache doesn't help much and are better off with the 'X' suffixed parts.
American culture did not drastically change but mainstream media outlets and the entertainment industry attempted to make it seem as if it had shifted quite dramatically when it really had not. You can't simply say that all the people that voted for Harris support all this stuff. There were many people that voted for Harris or against Trump for many reasons but still don't fall into the far-left camp. It's just paying fealty. Is what has happened to AAA games and example of consumers paying fealty to Trump? Let's be serious.
I don't want to hijack Datadogs+Quickwit's post comment section with unrelated promotional-looking info. Quick summary below but if you have any other questions pls tag olirice in a Supabase GH discussion.

The OrioleDB storage engine for postgres is a drop-in replacement for the default heap method. Its takes advantage of modern hardware (e.g. SSDs) and cloud infrastructure. The most basic benefit is that throughput at scale is > 5x higher than heap [1], but it also is architected for a bunch of other cool stuff [2]. copy-on-write unblocks branching. row-level-WAL enables an S3 backend and scale-to-zero compute. The combination of those two makes it a suitable target for multi-master.

So yes, given that it could greatly improve performance on the platform, it is a goal to release in Supabase's primary image once everything is buttoned up. Note that an OrioleDB release doesn't take away any of your existing options. Its implemented as an extension so users would be able to optionally create all heap tables, all orioledb tables, or a mix of both.

[1] https://www.orioledb.com/blog/orioledb-beta7-benchmarks

[2] https://www.orioledb.com/docs
Internet Research Agency bots on social media
> Serious question: why does everything need to be banned?

No one said that, but when you ban some things and not others, the details can be fairly revealing. "No dehumanizing... unless it's trans people" certainly sends a specific message.
Do you know the name of the movie?
> Nearly all of the people who stay homeless in the long term have some severe mental illness (including addiction)

The problem is that people can end up homeless for all sorts of reasons, and even if that reason is some sort of mental illness, being homeless is an often-traumatic experience that easily exacerbates and worsens a person's mental condition.

There was a period of my life where I slept rough (long story) and I can personally confirm that a lack of sleep security (not to mention "stuff security", the fear of having my meager possessions stolen) will start someone on the path to mental illness; some amount of paranoia and mental fog seems almost inevitable in those conditions.
so what is the operational theory then?
They're all business savants that got lucky, either by birth or by association, and completely stupid otherwise. The rest of society means nothing for them.
Rust's standard library basically never uses ANSI APIs. The article doesn't demonstrate any attack that works against Rust. If they do have one I'd highly recommend reporting it.

Of course, Rust can't control what happens on the other side of side of a process boundary. So if an application invoked by Rust uses ANSI APIs then they'll have a problem. But also that's their responsibility.
India is overwhelmed with poverty far beyond anything I've seen in the US.

The people of India started from even worse poverty and have generally made progress (especially since recently-deceased PM Singh). I'm not criticizing. But holding forth India's culture [1] as a model of preventing homelessness is pretty incredible.

[1] India may have the largest, most diverse collection of 'cultures' within one national border in the world, so which one are we talking about?
What really helped me was doing some sessions with an Orthoptist to reeducate my eyes. I used to see double when stressed sometimes and could never imagine to converge/cross my eyes and retain focus.
With the reeducation I was able to see the Impossible one in focus after a couple tries.
I think I got your point but might have expressed myself badly. The pdf can run js and messes with the display right at opening time, without any warning or ask for permission.
Years ago the software engineering field looked at this problem, came up with good solutions, and then promptly proceeded to implement none of them.

Resumes need to be filtered to remove age, race, gender, name, even what school someone went to. Then ideally the first filtering round of an interview is also completely anonymous, a take home test or a video interview with camera off and a voice filter in place. Heck modern AI tools could even be used to remove accents.

HR has biases, those biases need to be removed.

It only takes a few moments of thinking to realize these techniques are a better way to hire all around. Nothing good can come from someone in HR looking at a resume and thinking "oh that isn't a college I recognize, next candidate."
The fact that a C function really only has its return value for communicating success or error status is why most fallible C functions use mutable parameters, also known as output arguments, for their result value or values. This is like, elementary C program design.
I'm software, but towards the hardware side of things, for decades, in silicon valley and elsewhere. I've worked with (as in, in the whole org) exactly zero software/firmware, and only one black hardware engineer (born and raised in Nigeria). I've interviewed a couple hundred people at this point, with only one being black.

Where I've been, trying to get some DEI policy to influence who's hired would be impossible, since the panel has to agree, and there's no way they would agree to someone not qualified. Even with pressure like "we really need to hire someone before end of month or we'll lose the req", the response has always been "find better people then".
You can't have a variable of type void, but you can have an expression of type void - calling a function that returns void does just that (in C++, "throw" is also a void-typed expression).
Interesting, what kind of situations does it come in handy?
Same as in autostereogram, the trick is to look to the distance.
Close your eyes and imagine a mountain far away or some distant object, notice how your eyes adjust to see it. Open your eyes and try to look at this imaginary mountain while the image is in front of you.
When you see the third Image, treat it as if its a distant 3d object somewhere on the horizon.
> Give free houses in US and next day you will have +400mln people from South America.

I don't know that at all. People in public housing that I know and see are not especially from South America.
I am hitting this error as well. I was additionally unable to create an account. Seems beta?
> The downside here, then is that if -1 and -2 are used as dict keys, they'll end up bucketed together.

Note that they'll only end up bucketed together in the underlying hashmap. The dictionary will still disambiguate the keys.

>>> a = -1
>>> b = -2
>>> {a: a, b: b}
{-1: -1, -2: -2}
> Lately, the imagery has disappeared and people don’t care again.

It is sad. Not many even is aware that it is very intentional.
As a white software engineer, in my entire career working for US companies, I only ever worked with one black software engineer. He was Nigerian. I believe that this is because the US has a profoundly racist culture; usually this was implicit racism (I only recall ever hearing one overtly racist remark against black people). I also worked with very few Hispanic people. But I worked with lots of Indian and Chinese people, plus Arabs, Pakistanis, etc.

Perhaps the US system of racism is less effective against people who had first-class opportunities at education and mentorship before entering the work force? It's still pretty effective — there were lots of times I had Indian and Chinese coworkers and a white boss.
Finland is cold. People without adequate housing will freeze to death. Not finding bodies in the spring thaw is probably actually important to them.
1. Get a bit closer to the screen so you can see both images clearly.

2. Now, cross your eyes and aim to overlap both images.

3. Draw the rest of the fucking owl.

Seriously. Ever since my physics teacher in high school tried to get the class interested in stereograms, everyone and every article I see talking about it treat "crossing your eyes" as an atomic, trivial step. It isn't. I for one have no first clue how to do it, it's not a distinct operation I know how to perform. Perhaps this is because I am nearsighted and wear glasses.

Still, I wish articles like these focused on explaining how to do the whole cross-eye thing, because once you master that, everything else becomes instantly self-apparent and doesn't need further explanation (I know because I did manage to accidentally cross my eyes once or twice while looking at a stereogram, so I know how the effect looks like).

EDIT: FWIW, I compensate by using another trick for diffing documents with Mark I Eyeball - get them printed on separate pieces of paper, put one on top of the other, and hold in front of you with some bright light behind you (Sun, or your phone's flashlight, will do). Not as good as crossing your eyes, but something I can reliably do.
Forward parameter declaration is an insane feature. It makes perfect sense in the context of C's other forward declarations but just bonkers.

I can't wait to slip this into some production code to confuse the hell out of some intern in a few years
Now try it with various colors, some people can see "impossible" colors [0].

[0] https://preview.redd.it/yaiyf2bi9aa31.png?width=640&auto=web...
I understand. My point was a lot of people live long, fulfilling lives and then drop dead from a heart attack without ever losing mobility. Loss of mobility is not guaranteed, even for people who live very long lives.
That will just give the FAANGs the opportunity to make more acquisitions and expand their power base, which is ultimately desorable from their standpoint.
Huh? Facebook was never bound to physical location…

Even Harvard kids doing exchange programs overseas signed up for it in the first year of operation.
Simple Task Queue – OSS Task Queue Using PostgreSQL's for Update Skip Locked
When building evaluation infrastructure for generative AI systems at Gentrace [1], we needed a task queue that could handle thousands of tasks per day while remaining simple to self-host.

We considered traditional options like RabbitMQ and Kafka but wanted to avoid the operational overhead for our self-hosted customers. That's when we turned to PostgreSQL.

Using PostgreSQL's FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED, we built a task queue that supports retries, parallelism, and large payloads, all without adding new infrastructure. Sometimes, PostgreSQL really is all you need!

It's been running in production at Gentrace, handling 8-10k tasks daily with peaks of 45k during large-scale evaluations. The architecture is simple, reliable, and easy to maintain.

We decided to open-source a version of this implementation as Simple Task Queue. It includes:

- A task queue built on PostgreSQL
- Type-safe task definitions and scheduling in TypeScript
- Support for retries, parallel processing, and scheduled tasks

We also wrote a deep dive about how we built it on our blog:
https://gentrace.ai/blog/task-queue-simplification

We'd love feedback! Try it out, and let us know how it works for you.

- Vivek

[1]: https://gentrace.ai/
What is the question you’re asking here?

I’m Finnish and I have a close family member with a severe mental illness, so I should be reasonably well positioned to answer your question. But it doesn’t make any sense to me.

How does any of this relate to homelessness?

To get people off the streets, you give them a place to live. Then you can start solving their other problems. It’s common sense.
Finney Prize – Human Rights Foundation
From the article:

"As Tomchuk experienced, if a site isn’t properly using robot.txt, OpenAI and others take that to mean they can scrape to their hearts’ content."

The takeaway: check your robots.txt.

The question of how much load requests robots can reasonably generate when allowed is a separate matter.
25 people on the team, and under $300K ARR? That sounds completely unsustainable without either more growth or a much smaller team, so staying there definitely sounds dicey.

That being said, ask your attorney about non-competes and IP before making any moves. If you do your own thing, draw extremely clear lines to be sure you started from scratch and took nothing from your current company. No code, no docs, no contact info for customers, nothing.

I would also suggest to not start anything right away. When I've been in situations where I thought I could do more with a product than the current team, and then spent 6 months away from it to clear my mind and look at bigger pictures... I have yet to actually want to go back to a prior problem space. More often, I just close the chapter and find something new. In short, be wary about following what you happen to be doing today vs. what you truly care about.
what a great website.

I was recently taught a card game, and when I searched for it I could not find it anywhere. Now I can probably find it.
Most people making it to VP or Director by age 45 haven't been in that position long enough to retire. Not to mention that getting there by that early point generally requires a certain amount of drive that's difficult to just shut off and retire.
Did I read it right that you pay 62,5$/TB?
You can also use this method to watch 3d movies without vr googles.
But if more companies can start up locally and succeed in the digital economy because of better and cheaper internet, is it not a net benefit to the country?
I use nerdy in-jokes a bit too much.
Those CEOs are great examples, because they show the operative power networks are things like being a Brahmin or a McKinsey alum. I see less evidence for power networks based on race, or those power networks are doing less.
Sure but the DEI programs have only ever constituted a tiny, tiny portion of hiring/firing/economic activity in general.
I’m not sure I get the fifty years bit at the very end. Anyone care to explain?
Thanks for checking it out! Hope you have fun, and we’d love to hear your feedback!
Fun fact- when I was a teenager, my friends and I set up a stand in a local mall selling those “magic eye”posters. We made bank for a few months. But, there are actually a lot of people that medically cannot use the technique, or at least for whom it is extremely difficult or less vivid. Severe astigmatism, (obviously) blindness in one or more eyes, and certain attention deficits or fidgety types often have a difficult time.

I, on the other hand, 37 years later,am basically permanently crosseyed from the experience lol. It somehow became a resting state for me from all of the practice, so I’m always doing it on any kind of repetitive patterns, and even “successfully” on random ones which does some really weird stuff in your visual cortex.
Remember that C's contemporary languages were either inefficient (e.g. ALGOL 68, PL/1, Lisp), functionally obsolete (e.g. FORTRAN didn't have recursion or heap allocation), or even lower level (Assembly, B). C eliminated the need for need for assembly in programs that were low level (like OS kernels) or high performance (math, graphics, signal processing), and that was surely a huge improvement in type safety and expressiveness.
Makes sense, perhaps the previous commenter thought OrioleDB was itself a database rather than an implementation detail alternative to current databases. That's what I thought before I went to their site.
I can't speak for normal, only what I experience. In my experience, I rest and close my eyes. Scene change. There may or may not be dreams remembered, and then I wake up.
It is perigee, not apogee, that matters for the lifetime of a satellite. In case of collision, it is near impossible for any object ejected to have a higher perigee than that of the original satellite. Some energetic particles might have higher apogees, sure, but that will not affect their time to deorbit.
Why would any California based company take a chance on being sued by the California attorney general's office in such a way? Meta is the perfect target to pick for fighting the overreach of a Trumpian department of Justice and GQP congress set on reversing years of social progress
A wifi encryption vulnerability that required you to interact with a base station or remote computer would implicate CFAA. A wifi encryption vulnerability that allowed for pure passive interception --- a devastating flaw in 802.11/WPA3 --- might not actually violate any federal law directly. There are probably state laws (I believe Michigan has one) that implicate packet sniffing directly (they were problematic in the early oughts for security researchers).

Worth remembering: when CFAA was originally passed, an objection to it was "we already have laws that proscribe hacking computers"; the fraud statutes encompass most of this activity. CFAA's original motivation was literally WarGames: attacks with no financial motivation, just to mess things up. So even without statutory issues, breaking an encryption key and using it to steal stuff (or to gain information and ferry it to others who will use it for crimes) is still illegal.

Your guess is as good as mine about whether ECPA covers wifi sniffing. But: presuming you obtain an encryption key through lawful means, ECPA can't (by any obvious reading) make cracking that key unlawful; it's what you'd do with the key afterwards that would be problematic.
It obviously should be replaced.

People with the visa from quota countries shouldn’t be stuck working for a sponsoring company forever.

Foreigners with US degrees should be given preferential treatment over these consulting companies gaming the system.
Cue reference to "Sneakers"...
The weight of that ice is another vast number to ponder.

Several million years past when the southern pole was ice free that land mass was riding a lot higher without kilometres of ice above pushing it down.
A "Panphonic Poem" is what may do well here. As in...

The pleasure of Shawn’s company
Is what I most enjoy.
He put a tack on Ms. Yancey’s chair
When she called him a horrible boy.
At the end of the month he was flinging two kittens
Across the width of the room.
I count on his schemes to show me a way now
Of getting away from my gloom.

As discussed here:

https://literalminded.wordpress.com/2006/05/05/a-panphonic-p...

And recited very famously, in part and slightly modified, here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgX4uJSj00Y
Yep, absolutely. End programmers will never see that unless they go digging into the CPython code. It's otherwise invisible.
AI could create 78M more jobs than it eliminates by 2030
that changes if people have voted on it or replied to it.
Thank you!! This looks awesome. Cannot wait to try.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/307002/regicide
De facto it is... but importing the kit is not illegal. Government expects to charge a license of £5000 for each person wanting to use Starlink in an official (legal) way, and being able to justify the use of it as well... Fortunately, after a public petition, legislators are now willing to have a look into the obscene license fee... Time will tell.
I think the flaw works like this:

1. Acme Inc. has 40,000 white employees and 10,000 employees of color on payroll. The statistic would be 20%, if Acme were hiring at a constant rate by the same demographics.

2. However, suppose Acme hired the bulk of its employees during its growth phase 10 years ago. Acme's hiring back then was proportional, but the population has changed. Now only 60% of applicants are white, compared to 80% back then.

3. Acme lays off 5,000 staff (at random), and hires 1,000 (proportionally.) So they've laid off 4,000 white people and 1,000 people of color. And they've hired 400 people of color and 600 white people.

I'm too lazy to do the math but I think that works out as hiring a negative % of white people, even though it's just representative of demographic shifts.
OpenAI will happily ignore robots.txt

Or is that still my fault somehow?

Maybe we should stop blaming people for "letting" themselves get destroyed and maybe put some blame on the people actively choosing to behave in a way that harms everyone else?

But then again, they have so much money so we should all just bend over and take it, right?