skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Our entire banking system is built on trusting that companies and individuals will keep paying their loans.

If enough people don’t want commercial real estate, then those empty buildings will, at least for businesses, eventually start to default because they have no money.

At least that’s my “off the top of my head” theory.

It doesn’t change the fact that the US’s car-centric, NIMBY, segregated behavior has resulted in a world where in-office work is about as unpleasant as can be and greatly desired against.
This was laughed out of the room 5 years ago too, the only difference is now the HHS secretary designate is also an anti-vaxxer in addition to the incoming president rather than just the President.
at least where im working, team coordination was already dying to dead before covid lockdowns started because all the realted teams were moving to far off locations. the coordination improved with dedicated remote compared to conference room to conference room remote meetings
Where do you live? I'd love to go grab a beer with you.
I work at a ~100 person tech consulting firm[1], although I joined when we were closer to 30. They actually found me through HN!

We mostly design and build data/devops/mlops/cyber platforms for big banks and other finserv companies - lots of Databricks, AWS, and GCP services.

[1] https://bit.ly/4j5cC5T (I'll expire the link in a few days for privacy reasons)
Try https://www.digitalmars.com/articles/Cobvious.html
I believe JPM earns a ~40-50% higher return on equity than almost every other retail bank, which is extraordinary given the scale of their lending. Among banking CEOs, Jamie is regarded as one of the greatest of all time. If anyone else could achieve these results, they would. The Swiss certainly can’t.

The systems, processes, culture and technology necessary to achieve that is breathtaking at their scale. They spend billions on software engineering a year. I interact with their fintech team routinely - dedicated solely to innovation - and I’m told it comprises hundreds of people globally (I’ve only met several dozen). They’ve created so many tools that power so many parts of financial markets I can’t fit descriptions of them into this window of HN. Short of maybe their private placements and equity IPO division, I can’t think of one that doesn’t deal in trillions of dollars in flow monthly (fx and settlements do this daily) which is hundreds of times the scale of the GDP of the nation of Tasmania, per day.
How did you reach your current customers? Any way to expand that? Are there additional services/products to offer, the existing customers?

Where is your current course? Would enjoy seeing it.

I developed an iOS course and used udemy. Only netted $40K before the course was made obsolete by apple’s Swift language being created.

You could add your course to udemy… for reach.

But, I would recommend adding a slimmed down version of your course on udemy… for free. Collect their emails… required to download ‘course materials’. Then market your full course… not hosted on udemy.

Do the same thing on youtube. Obviously, x.com/ticktock is good for word of mouth and reach.

But, udemy will get you a lot of signups…

It is disturbing how little margin is given to creators… i think I made 10%-15% of the sticker price of the course… b/c udemy will significantly discount and bundle your course with other courses.
My high school computer lab had an incredibly incompetent admin whose idea of security was to look through the bash history of problem students and go from there. Anyway, at one point they decided that someone had used cp to copy things to places they should’ve have been (did I mention they didn’t really understand UNIX permissions?) they decided to just remove cp altogether. So of course I made a fake cp (in Java, because that was all I knew at the time) to replace it.
Unlike famously chill billionaires of the past like William Randolph Hearst or Howard Hughes
So what you're implying is that for roles where other companies do have managed to establish functioning remote work protocols, we should interpret RTO mandates as a public display of organizational dysfunction if they were unable to emulate those within the span of, oh, five years?

Also I'm pretty sure employers don't generally pay for, or care about, the commute times of employees…
Is this a correct interpretation of the timeline?

1. Matt announces that he's going to effectively stop contributing to WordPress for now https://automattic.com/2025/01/09/aligning-automattics-spons...

2. Others in the community say they'll pick up the torch in leading the next releases within the current WordPress project

3. Matt says "nuh-uh, I'm busy self-sabotaging my own project here in an attempt to prove how none of you can live without me, stop interfering and go become irrelevant in a fork somewhere instead" https://wordpress.org/news/2025/01/jkpress/
I’ve never worked at one, but I interviewed at HRT. The interviewers were all quite kind, and more importantly to me, they asked difficult questions relevant to the role. Specifically, the role was for DBs, and the questions (beyond “can you do some basic coding”) were all low-level RDBMS or Linux. I hate Leetcode, doubly so when I will never, ever be using those skills on the job.

Given that those places are also doing stuff like writing their own network stack to reduce latency, I get the impression that they know their shit.
@solardev: thank you so much for taking time to reply, im gonna try all that you have mentioned.
I have bad news for the kind of company ‘monero-xmr is interested in.
If nothing else, I was a little surprised they didn't (or at least didn't mention) having a fail over plan in place already. Seems like "Prepare for the worst, hope for the best" would have been the logical game plan.
Would you rather live in Phoenix, or something?
@jerlam thank you for your reply. im gonna dig out my old laptop and push them both at the same time.
I don't really disagree. The problem is outreach when you're clearly mostly researching something whether to do with computers or something else. One travel company is particular was pretty aggressively reaching out because I downloaded a couple brochures.
> Evaluating Constant Expressions

The examples are quite simple in the article but I believe more complex cases would significantly degrade the compiler speed (and probably the memory footprint as well) and would require a VM to leverage this.

Which is probably assumed "too complex" to go into the standard.
I'm not saying it's impossible, but I kind of understand why this would not go into any kind of standard.

> Importing Declarations

I wish C++ (or even C) would have gone into this direction instead the weird mess of what is defined for C++20.

Additionally you might import module into some symbol, like:

#import "string.c" as str

and every non-static symbols from the file can be accessed from like:

str.trim(" Hello World ");

> __import dex;

This is totally tangential but I don't like when file paths are not explicit. In this specific case I don't know if I'm importing dex.d or dex.c.
Yes, this is correct. This is my eventual end goal, and a lot of my career so far has revolved around obtaining the skills, connections, and runway money I need to make that leap.
Astral AI startup demos how to flood the Y Combinator subreddit
Commercial real estate bottomed already. The market isn't going to collapse. Besides they obviously didn't make any similar hedges when it was residential real estate in 2007. Nor does it make sense for them to spend hundreds of millions on real estate so they can not lose money. There is no 4d chess. It's just old people making bad decisions.
@toomuchtodo thank you for your reply. i have tried changing settings on the card between 2.4ghz and 5ghz but now on the router. will have a look!
You have joined a time honored tradition of attempting to fix English spelling https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/English-language_spelling_re...
I’ve been working on a configuration format [1] that looks surprisingly similar to this!

That said, the expectation in CONL is that the entire structure is one document. A separate syntax for multiline comments also enables nice things like syntax highlighting the nested portions.

I do like the purity of just a = b, but it seems harder to provide good error messages with so much flexibility

1: https://github.com/ConradIrwin/conl
I've been working in IT for the last 15 years and there is nothing that will replace sitting next to your colleague to discuss something, doing a call on teams/zoom is absolutly not the same.

Remote work is fine for 2-3 days a week, full remote is absolutly worse than 2 days of social interaction.
If I were to guess, the types of conversations that happen in these places that aren't gutter racism (they're eating the dogs etc) are going to be eugenics-adjacent, "enlightened" scientific racism instead. At least, that's what I've noticed among rationalists online.
Memory Leaks in System76's Cosmic Desktop – Coded in "Memory Safe" Rust [video]
I don't know if that's correct or not, but if I were to prioritize, I'd put safe passenger evacuation ahead of the recorders.
My suspicion is it's the financialization of everything driven by fiance capitalism and enabled by the huge twentieth century population boom.

I know that sounds edgy but explaining it.

With the population surging you could just flat out ignore the need to have children and create the next generation. So the priority then became amassing wealth. As long as the working classes were still behaving like they were living under malthusian conditions that worked. But now the working classes have caught on and are either trying to acquire capital wealth or they're trying to just hang on.

So yeah the working class knows what economic reality they are living under and acting accordingly. Having few children in order to acquire wealth and funnel it to the smaller next generation. The tell this is true is that it's happening everywhere. And the longer a place has been operating where childhood mortality is low and you can acquire financial wealth the lower the birthrate. With the caveat that some places are more culturally amenable to that.
I see he’s back to posting again. Do we think he fired his lawyers or that they quit?
No other company automatically sends data about pictures users take on their phones off the phone. Not a single one. All required explicit opt-in except for Apple. Hence, the news story.
A lot of orgs had VPN with forced tunneling before the pandemic. They caved on that in the first few days due to the increased usage and instant split tunneling with no planning. We also caught multiple people who connected unauthorized network connections and created unauthorized bridges/routes. These people exist and you don't know it until they start connecting stuff.
>I was delighted, and immediately impressed by the sound quality. The low end was punchy and deep, much deeper than the modest dimensions led me to believe. The high end was crisp and detailed.

Its amazing what a brand name does to ones ears, all of a sudden a small plastic box with SBC Bluetooth codec sounds great.
@fuzzfactor thank you for your reply, and taking time to write out so much. I will definitely dig in to all you have suggested. love the Windows 3.1 mention, maybe i should install it instead of 11 :P
This story is for me a real painful death I have experienced way too many times, absolutely nuts.

But then you find an open source solution which is in general better and can do everything you want (simply tested already with just a docker compose up) but for deployment you get hit hard by compliance who just checks the SOC2 certifications and wants a in-depth due diligence of the code since everyone in the world can theoretically change it.
Then your manager asks how it can be so good if it's for free and open source.
And of course, last but not least, your overloaded team in general not happy to support just another unpredictable piece of software...

So it's the question to rather burn money and nerves with an awful SaaS offering and their endless and useless sales cycles and terrible and super expensive vendor-lock-ins or burn some money and nerves by utilising and running open source inhouse...

So typically I prefer to chose for the open source option and especially if the SaaS option isn't allowing me easy and fast self-onboarding, meaningful testing periods and a predictable and transparent pricing.

And then, if it get's widely adopted, I allocate some budget to support the authors and/or get some support plan (for more complex open source software) in place even though you most likely never need it...
Maybe adapitates should be a word! ;-)
Time services can help with these sorts of things. They aren’t notarizing the message. You don’t trust the service to validate who wrote it or who sent it, you just trust that it saw these bytes at this time.
Yeah, AFAIK burnout is pretty much defined as something that you cannot recover from (at a similar level of functioning as before), so "can be hard to recover from" sounds weird...
The alternative for most people isn’t sitting next to their colleagues. It’s calling their colleague on Teams, but both sides of the call are sitting in offices instead of at home. Worst of all worlds.
> Native English speakers don’t seem to quite grasp how difficult the spelling is.

We're well aware. This is why we have spelling competitions and why spellcheck is included everywhere. Native English speakers regularly use spellcheck. Some people even forego standard English spelling and just spell stuff as they want.

There are many things I could say about optionally adding accents to clarify some vowel pronunciations, but the worst case scenario would probably be if it actually gained traction. https://xkcd.com/927/
Spam started on Usenet. As did Internet censorship. You can’t just reinvent Usenet. Or we could all just use Usenet.
Peter Yarrow: not a great guy. One of the few clear stains on Carter's record was pardoning him.
Oof. If I never have to endure another hard-selling enterprise vendor salescritter, it'll be too soon. Mat has really nailed the agony of the experience here.
Thoreau on Defining Your Own Success
Don't forget farming the normies for profit and other forms of enlightened classism.
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Yes, especially for something creative and collaborative like engineering. Creating a culture where remote work works as well as in person is hard, and takes explicit effort and buying from management.
Reminds me of this:

ODE TO A SPELL CHECKER

by Jerrold H Zar

Eye halve a spelling check her,

It came with my pea sea.

It plane lee marks four my revue

Miss steaks aye kin knot sea.

Eye ran this poem threw it,

Your sure reel glad two no.

Its vary polished in it’s weigh,

My checker tolled me sew.

A check her is a bless sing;

It freeze yew lodes of thyme.

It helps me right awl stiles two reed,

And aides me when aye rime.

Each frays come posed up on my screen,

Eye trussed too bee a joule;

The checker pours o’er every word

To cheque sum spelling rule.

Bee fore wee rote with checkers

Hour spelling was inn deck line,

Butt now when wee dew have a laps,

Wee are knot maid too wine.

Butt now bee cause my spelling

Is checked with such grate flare,

There are know faults with in my cite,

Of nun eye am a wear.

Now spelling does knot phase me,

It does knot bring a tier;

My pay purrs awl due glad den

With wrapped words fare as hear.

To rite with care is quite a feet

Of witch won should be proud;

And we mussed dew the best wee can

Sew flaws are knot aloud.

That’s why eye brake in two averse

Cuz eye dew want too please.

Sow glad eye yam that aye did bye

This soft wear four pea seas.
Amen to this. Of the biggest frustrations I've had in my career, at the top of the list is working with engineers who do not take pride in their craft. I'm amazed at the number of people that just dial it in or make minimal effort. Perhaps some of these people are burned-out, but surely not all.

My goal was to get whatever I was working on not just "done", but "done-done". To a state where, if I walked away, it could live on in a working manner and be easily maintained by someone else. That meant having good test coverage, up-to-date documentation, instructions on how to get started with the repo, notes on dependencies, etc. Sometimes that someone else is future me, six months or six years later.

I experienced burnout early in my career, in the dot-com era, and it became especially acute when then the bubble burst. All those long hours (mostly) for naught.

The best times were at companies where everyone was all-in and we each had each-others back. Rare, but amazing when it happens. These were all at startups.
> If they're having a conversation in their house about your relationship

It is not private though, we are not talking about diplomats doing it in confidential communications, nobody is objecting to that .

What we are describing is equivalent to having a public conversation in the street in front of your home where you can see them having it
>They are brittle and a maintenance nightmare

I happened to be reading DMC source this week, those hydrate/dehydrate stuff really is everywhere (which I assume is solely used for precompiled headers?)
Anyone that ever had a policy of trusted devices on the network was just living in a fantasy land. The only reason the network ever had trusted devices was when it was in its infancy and there was nobody using it so the only devices on the net were the devices the admins put there. As soon as the first device that was not controlled by the admins was allowed to connect, the network should have been immediately untrusted.

I've now taken my hindsight glasses off and recognize that it's hard to imagine that assholes and criminals would so easily ruin it for the rest of us. 50+ years later and ~30 years later of the interwebs and now it's an "but of course they would". The sad thing is that there should no longer be a blank sheet of paper for a startup, but every "new" sheet should already have defensive strategies on it. It's just not sexy, and hard to get to MVP so it's easy to drop/ignore/delay. I'm guilty too, but maybe I'm worse because I'm well aware that I'm doing it????
Any reason why "AI made a flub" is still newsworthy? We know it does this.
Not again, not another D thread noooooooooooooooooo (i'm joking)
This really resonated with me:

> Even planning a vacation is beyond their grasp, much less grinding through travel. They're too drained to enjoy anything that's proposed as "rejuvenating."

You can't poison yourself 50 weeks out of the year then expect things to be fine because you took a two-week break.
You could save 50% of paper towel use by increasing the size of the towel. Everyone takes two because one is not enough to dry your hands. Make the first one large enough and problem solved.

Also delay timers are for children.

I hate bathrooms. Don’t get me started on the broken soap and faucet sensors.
Your theory matches up with how the WHO defines burn out:

https://www.who.int/news/item/28-05-2019-burn-out-an-occupat...
So HN, any theories on how this happened ?
It's telling you what it's mining in the background with those extra gpu cycles.
No. Hacker News is a very shifted selection of software developers.
Out of curiosity, what makes you confident that your orders deserve to be obeyed?
Stop lying. I live in a big city and everyone agrees with him and knows exactly what he’s talking about. I’m not worried about the guys who want to sit around drinking on the sidewalk but almost every time I go outside there’s at least one of them screaming at pedestrians, yelling at nothing, blowing meth or crack fumes, etc.

If you don’t think it’s a problem then give me your address so I can yell at you through the window and poop on the sidewalk. Part and parcel of living in a big city, right?
I remember, as a little kid, being "in charge" of telling my father when to dip the headlights because I saw the glare of a car coming over the next hill or around the next curve. Of course he saw it too, and wouldn't blind an oncoming driver, but he'd make it seem like it was all up to me.

That would've been around 1980, in some kind of late-70s Pontiac, I can't remember what model, maybe a Bonneville. But it definitely had a floor switch.

IIRC, a big problem with them was that they would rust out in areas that salt the roads in winter, when the driver would track in salty slush on their boots.
They used a circular mask and the model overfitted on Bitcoins as likely examples of circles? Adobe's models are only trained on their stock image library and they have a whopping 646,136 Bitcoin images.

https://stock.adobe.com/search?k=Bitcoin
I dont see where in the picture it is zoomed from to see the bitcoin
I don't think that the torque and horsepower are relevant when you're talking about practicality. I think the Mustang is good value for what it is, IF you care about it's branding and that sort of thing is valued in your social circle. It is absolutely a vanity car and if you're buying a car based on performance there's no reason to get a Mustang, any second hand electric coupe will annihilate it on performance per dollar, and in a straight line. The only reason to get it is because of what it represents.

That all being said I don't get the Mustang. If I were buying a car to have fun there are so many that appeal to me more than it does. My ideal car has bugs on the side windows.
What about the Apple account of the tag itself?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/hitler-dismantled-democracy-53-da...
Technical vs. Non-Technical Founder Is Dead. Here's What's Next
If I were part of Sam Altman’s “Tech CEO thread,” predicting the year we’d see a billion-dollar company run by a single person, my bet would be 2026. Here’s why.

For the last 24+ years, we’ve classified founders into two camps:

Technical Founders – Think Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook) or Patrick Collison (Stripe).
Non-Technical Founders – Think Brian Chesky (Airbnb) or Howard Schultz (Starbucks).
But that binary is on its way out. The lines are blurring, and the change is driven by AI.

We’re entering an era where a single individual—armed with AI can create platforms as valuable as Snowflake, starting from just a few sentences. AI agents will build software without founders writing a single line of code.

Why This Matters -
The old distinction of Technical vs. Non-Technical founders will be replaced by something new:
Commercial vs. Non-Commercial Founders.

Commercial Founders are masters of go-to-market (GTM), sales, and marketing. They know how to position, sell, and distribute a product effectively.
Non-Commercial Founders lack this expertise—and will face the same hurdles non-technical founders did over the past two decades.

The Shift Is Already Happening -
With AI lowering the barrier to building software, the real battlefield will be distribution. Your ability to sell and market your product will make or break your company.

Commercial expertise is the new technical expertise -
Founders who can’t sell will lose to those who can.
The explosion of tools enabling product distribution will put more power in the hands of savvy founders.

Implications for the Future of Startups -
In 2026, I believe we’ll see the first billion-dollar company built by a solo founder using AI. At that point, the idea of “non-technical founders” will seem as outdated as building software without version control.

The only question will be: Can you sell?