skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd like to see an RSS item-level recommendation / discovery algorithm driven by recommendations made by a cohort of people who have similar likes to me. I wish there was a standards-based to publish a stream of my "likes" from my feed reader, and to "consume" the "likes" of others. When I add somebody's blog to my feed reader I'd expect it to pick up their "likes" (much like how people used to have a "blog roll" on their own site) and begin to consume the "feeds" from the sites they "like". It reminds me a bit of PHP's "web of trust".

Hacker News, arguably, functions in this capacity for me now. The cohort is the entire population (since we all see the same item rankings), though.
Ask HN: How Did You Transition Careers?
I left my "Insert Big Tech Company Here" job a few months ago out of sheer misery. There were just so many people working on so much Nothing that any attempt to get things to operate By The Book was met with skepticism and outright conflict. It just became too taxing to wake up in the morning and I felt like I was withering away. Couldn't transfer teams, couldn't make it work with my boss and so I just decided fuck it, can't do this anymore, I'm gone.

Now as I'm assessing what to do with my life, the idea of jumping back into all of this is giving me existential anxiety. This is an industry that is ACTIVELY attempting to automate the humans away. Whether successfully or not, that's an at scale, publicly acknowledge, leading effort of the industry and the only cope most people can seem to come up with is "Well it'll never happen" or "I'm too good to be replaced" or something about Luddites and I'd really prefer not to play that game. Whether it is successful or not, it's now baked into what Big Tech is trying to accomplish and I just don't see how I can comfortably exist in the world. It gives me the creeps.

I don't have much of a network to ask for advice and in fact, "advice" is more personal than I maybe expect. Anecdotally or personally, what are the options for someone like myself? How do you get away from Big Tech when that's all you've done so far? Can I become a fireman? Do people in their 30s go back to school with no income and make a living thereafter? I'm sure there is an example of every possibility but any words of wisdom from a community that must have been in a similar situation would be appreciated.
You’ve got the wrong person, buddy! OP is referring to Gary Webb (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Webb), who died from two gunshot wounds to the head, with the death ruled a suicide.
Yeah, that shot is so clean and smooth it feels like a render. Absolutely iconic even after a dozen rewatchings. The iris flares and the framerate… gotta hand it to whoever planned that shot and placed that camera. A+ videography.
Regardless of how his films come together as a whole, Lynch is without a doubt the most prolific producer of haunting and unforgettable imagery that inhabits my mind. A few months ago I rewatched, on Youtube a scene from the Elephant Man, a film I saw once 30 years ago. The scene was just like I remember it, I only to watch it that one time and it was etched into my mind forever, crystalline.

Dune is more fun to watch and seems to have emerged as my all-time favorite film. In spite of it's flaws and Lynch's own disdain for it, the orphaned film is no less visionary, and is as strikingly original as anything Lynch has made.
I blame SpaceX for this as they do not have official youtube stream. This is just amateurish.
I think the major difference between a subway turnstile and this is also the fact that it is single file. Gare du Nord has dozens of turnstiles, not a single turnstile per platform.
I guess you never got a PS2/PS3/PS4/PS5? Sometimes, the internals are the right thing to upgrade. And there definitely is some hardware innovations. I look forward to learning more!
Given that the engine telemetry shown on the broadcast showed the engines going out one by one over a period of some seconds, I could easily imagine some sort of catastrophic failure on a single engine that cascaded.
> Isn't this essentially making the point of the post above you?

Yes. This is why I wrote the chat app, because I mistrust LLMs, but I do find them extremely useful when you approach them with the right mindset. If answering "Did Homer Simpson go to Mars?" correctly is critical, then you can choose to require a 100% consensus, otherwise you will need a fallback plan.

When I asked all the LLMs about the Wikipedia article, they all correctly answered "No" and talked about Marge and Lisa in the future without Homer.
Can you link the neural rendering animation you're talking about with some info on the total rendering times without any precomputation?
Nix's core idea is wonderful, but I wish it could be redone from scratch. Why can't we just layer some Flatpaks that have source code in them or something?

But the whole thing seems like it's designed to express more powerful things than you can easily map to an app store style install/uninstall button, rather than solving the problem with the least powerful tools that give the user the highest level interface possible, and leave as much as possible for the computer to figure out.
That's for sure not stage separation, that's an explosion from the FTS rupturing the ship tanks.
The kind of weird, backwards consensus-making where betting market odds get used as proof for whatever fact or outcome they're betting on is... interesting.
While the telemetry was still going, you could see Ship engines going out one by one. Earlier when there was video there was what looked like flames visible inside one of the flap hinges, definitely shouldn't be there on ascent. Presumably something failed internally and caused the Ship to shut down before reaching target trajectory, at which point either FTS or the failure itself caused it to blow up, as seen on the Insta reel.
They were mirroring Twitter stream and switched to Elon talking about crypto within 10 seconds of the launch. Don't ask me how I know.
You don't need that much luck when you have billions of years.
Sorry, I should have clarified. You can't do certificates that fast on Let's Encrypt no. I meant running a custom CA inside/alongside Kubernetes, and using that to issue 20-minute validity certs to pods.
I'd say it might be after the loss of the craft. It was losing engines for a while then lost telemetry. This would have been a bit later when it started tumbling in the atmosphere on re-entry. Hopefully we'll know for sure in a few days.
My 90s PC had similar specs and ran Flash websites just fine. It also supported desktop backgrounds and animated screensavers just fine.
What model do you have?

The five and era 100 both say they have a line in on the website.
I think that the advice needs to consider company, society culture and even family dynamics. We don't live in a bubble where we can make decisions entirely based upon our personal preferences.

In my experience (Sydney, Autralia) being a competent and productive IC in an organisation has limits. An alternative is to become a contractor and build up a reputation for delivering quality results on time and budget. You can easily out earn the managers and garner respect. However, the longer you stay with a client the more you get sucked into the meetings and politics.

The downside of contracting is that you need to continually evolve and technologically skate to where the puck will be. Doing so requires one to be clued into emerging fads as seen from the clients' perspective not your nerd's view.
I don't draw, whether with analog or digital tools. OK, I sometimes do but in a paper notebook. But that's very rare and what I draw is usually crude, ugly, and simple, and transitory.
So there is no way to know about rowing unless you are wealthy and white?
Like this? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bL6fLdOK_FM
the onboard control system and flight termination system are programmed to explode if it deviates from a specific and allowed path of trajectory/speed/functional engine thrust. The last thing anyone wants is a partially broken starship going into an uncontrolled suborbital velocity that lands on a city in Africa.
I feel the same. If Blue Velvet was the first Lynch movie I saw, I surely wouldn't have bothered with the rest, and I would have missed out on what I now consider one of my absolute favorites (Mulholland Drive). Same goes for Eraserhead and Wild at Heart.
>BYD is a decent car for an impressive price, but they're ... just cars.

BYD car division has multiple departments doing independent R&D and releasing independent lines. They were first with 360° tank turn and now a jumping supercar. They are trying hard to deliver things others like Musk keep promising down the line.
That's going to depend on feature size, isn't it?

Assuming parallel work, 100 1GHz circuits are going to be as fast as a single 100GHz circuit. If that 100GHz circuit is significantly more than 100x larger it is probably going to be significantly more expensive to build, which means it won't be attacking any hashes any time soon.

These optical circuits aren't drop-in replacements for transistors, let alone direct replacements at 2025 transistor sizes. I expect they will be more attractive for SERDES applications, taking a single-lane high-speed serial optical interconnect and turning it into a wide bundle of parallel low-speed optical lanes, which are in turn converted to electronic signals and fed to a regular transistor-based chip. It would allow for 100GHz IO without needing silicon running at 100GHz.
Not arguing with your point, and point taken. The quotation marks suggest that I don't fully mean to mean the literal definition or understanding of the word quoted in the context you're reading. But I use quotes too often to equivocate. Thanks for the reminder.
What's the criticism exactly? Like I don't get your point? Yes they are behind on timelines and on Mars, does that mean that we should post reddit-tier cynical comments every time about that? I'm not saying that you're doing that, it's more that I don't get why this is surprising.

And on the other hand, it's also funny to see how "skeptics" (whatever that means in this case) dismiss or belittle achievements that were claimed to be impossible a few months or years ago (for example, the chopstick landing). It's like a never ending treadmill of

this is impossible->okay it happened, that's cool, but now xyz is impossible.

Plus, it seems normal to me that people care less about some sort of budget details or delays than really cool technical feats.
And yet up above we have others recommending to never, ever, use `git reset --hard ...`.
Takeaways from 10 years of data science for social good
How on earth did the wine not evaporate out of the vessel over such a long period of time?
Traditional interferometry already achieves sub-nanometer precision. This is already many orders of magnitude more precise than most non-optical manufacturing processes, so I agree with your analysis!
Couldn't you make a twitch stream of it? X isn't injecting ads into the video, so just open it on X and stream it to twitch.
More like the people who appear rich subsidize the repairs of the people who appear poor. Probably usually fairly accurate but it's amusing to think about the edge cases where the truly rich don't feel the need to dress wealthy anymore and get their TV repaired for cheap.
> Another protectionist measure to help the laggards in the us auto industry.

Maybe. I would not be surprised if the was some lobbying in that direction.

But the USA has also recently had it's communications ripped a new one by hackers. Not once, but several times, and they've been able to spy on the communications of the highest levels of government.

That sounds bad enough, but its fairly benign compare to what could happen. For example, I amazed to discover my solar inverter was controlled by a web site in China. I hate it in general, but to be fair to China this delegation of control is everywhere and is done every country - for example I guess most Chinese mobile phones are controlled by Apple and/or Google.

It's all pretty harmless I guess when we are all getting along. But if China and Australia suddenly weren't getting along it means China could literally shut off Australia power grid, as during the day it's not uncommon for Australia to get most of its power from household solar. There is no need for the sort of subterfuge the USA had to pull with getting Stuxnet into the Iraqi centrifuges, as China already has control over a large part of Australia's power generation. If they can program those inverters to change their phase they can probably take out the entire grid.

And now if China wins the bulk of the car market (which seems like a distinct possibility), they could also have control over most of the cars in the USA, along with their video and sensor feeds. This must be the stuff of nightmares in some quarters.

How did we let ourselves get into the situation that allows a robot vacuum send photos of us on the shitter back to a foreign country, without our knowledge? It's just insane. And while I understand the motivation in this case, this ban isn't the solution. It needs to go far deeper.
> Having legacy data and systems for a few years is a challenge. Still having them after decades is government.

FTFY
Homicide is pretty concentrated too. The rate varies 100x or more between the best and the worst countries, and there’s enormous variation within countries too.

I’m not sure it’s as extreme as you suggest. Looking up stats on slavery in different countries, there are definitely some extreme outliers, but they don’t account for that much of the global total. And by far the worst offender is North Korea, which is never mentioned in these discussion. I also have no idea how accurate these figures are, but the focus on places like Libya doesn’t seem like an honest assessment of the situation.

In any case, I’m not sure how this matters. I guess it would influence how you fight it. If it’s concentrated in a few countries then you’d want pressure on those governments specifically. But in terms of how bad the problem is, I don’t see that it really matters how geographically spread out it is.
Didn't you post something like this recently (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42716437)? Have you had a bad experience or three with hard interview questions?
I think it’s more kind of a supportive role. Like a portfolio for an artist, it helps with marketing yourself to the other person. Like: “Yes, I know embedded programming, I even blogged about $PROJECT I did a while back”. Having something that can be independently verified and judged helps more that talking.
It could be noted that manually operated flight termination systems have been used even on manned spaceflight, each and every space shuttle flight had a termination system under human ground control.
That is incorrect. Shuttle liftoff thrust was 5.7 million pounds, giving a ratio of 1.25.

At liftoff, each SRB produces 2.65 million pounds thrust [1]. Using Wikipedia numbers instead (2.8 million pounds for SRB thrust at liftoff [2]) gives a liftoff thrust to weight ratio of 1.33. The 3xSME produce 0.4 million pounds thrust at liftoff. The SRB thrust did increase as the burn progressed, then ramped down for max Q.

People are accustomed to SpaceX rockets rapid acceleration, since they conduct most launches these days, but historic rockets (and New Glenn) accelerated more slowly off the pad.

[1] https://www.nasa.gov/reference/the-space-shuttle/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Solid_Rocket_Boo...
reminds me of the classic joke:
a man walking down a street, stops and asks another person if they know what time it is. The person responds: I'm sorry as I don't have a watch on me, but you see that car parked over there? when it explodes, it should be 5pm
Eh I'm thinking more it was a reentry explosion from pressurized tanks. Engines had failed a while before then.
Same here.

Julee Cruise/Lynch/Badalamenti - Floating into the Night album is really fitting music for right now.

Into the Night
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsLJxUEbkG8
Unless you’re in a detached HEAD, in which case it’s xylomorphic to the left-aligned Galois group of R^3.
https://x.com/DJSnM/status/1880032865209184354

>Commercial flights are turning around to avoid potential debris.
> We look back at things like putting lead and radium in paint or using asbestos in insulation and say "they should have known better, how could they be so stupid"

The main thing is: they did know better. They lied to us. They spent a lot of time, money, and effort to lie to us.

And this has happened time and time again in many different industries. Just the other day there was a story on the HN front-page about the PFAS industry has been copying the tobacco playbook for in disinformation campaign.

Also on other topics. For example canned tuna with "Dolphin friendly" logos. Looks good, right? And then people look into it to see what it means, and turns out it has no value, is something the company simply invented themselves, and has done zero-effort to make anything more "dolphin friendly". The entire thing is a basically just a lie.

Many additives are probably entirely safe. Things like vitamin C and caramel are "an E number", and those are fine. But I sure don't trust things, and I don't have the resources to see what is and isn't safe myself, so best to just avoid most of it.
The flight control loops are strongly latched. They are constantly checking the state of discretes, control surfaces, and intended guidance. If any critical parameter gets out of range for a period of time or if any group of standard parameters gets out of range the vehicle will simply cease powered flight.

In the Space Shuttle, given that it was human rated, the "Range Safety" system was completely manual. It was controlled by a pair of individuals and they manually made the call to send the ARM/FIRE sequence to the range safety detonators.
> Something I heard somewhere that stuck with me: git is less less of a Version Control System, and more of a toolkit for assembling your own flavor of one.

That's how it is in principle, but it seems to me that there aren't that many different CLI "porcelains" in practice. Kind of like how Knuth figured people would essentially write their DSLs on top of plain TeX, not spend most of their time in giant macro packages like LaTeX.
Do they? I haven't seen a meaningful improvement in video game graphics for at least 5 years, maybe even 10.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBqcgbf8Iag&t=162s
I think they are called “accounting firms.”
If it was an official product, it would have to read from the real cartridge or disc. If nothing else, Nintendo does not have the legal right to redistribute games made by third parties.
For most people, success comes from winning the parent lottery, or if not that, then birth nation lottery. I hate to say this, but the UFOA phenomenon sounds to me like someone who got lucky, and rode someone else’s prior success. Very few people are the real deal, and they’re literally carrying everything built in this world on their efforts.
The snakeskin jacket was in the film on Nic Cage's request. Possibly that line too!
I was surprised they were landing them on those fins, makes more sense now.
Yamaha HS4’s.
No German too. But, still, very impressive. That's a talent.
I see it compares between ads/sponsored vs kagi showcasing just webpages. If I use ublock and block elements, does Kagi has advantage over it?
In other words, are the search results superior barring QOL improvement could Kagi possibly bring.
Note that the precision is very good, however the accuracy is nowhere near as close (fractions of a metre) in the atmosphere, due to the variable refractive index of air. Long term averages can help, of course.
It's kind of silly, but I do like the philosophy behind it: https://longnow.org/ideas/long-now-years-five-digit-dates-an...
Not denying any of your comment but there are also geographic features? Even with perfect funding and management, it would still be the northeast funding the rest of the country for amtrak, right?
huh?

Svn can branch and merge - maybe bit more clunky but still works
It's uncanny how accurately this maps to departments claiming they contribute V-$1 of the total profits. Sales argues they bring all the money, engineering argues sales would have nothing to sell without the products being made, platform claims no products would run without the infra they provide, support claims everything would grind to a halt without their constant babysitting of the users, etc etc. Only HR and Facilities don't claim to be directly responsible for any revenue, but that's only because everyone needs them anyway.
His videos are great!
The "lol" editorializes the articles title, which is just what you wrote without the "lol".
Yeah when I read that they "started this journey in March of 2024 and...completed it in January of 2025" I was like :o
> I think the argument is that the extra value provided is a small enough context window for working with an LLM.

I'm not sure moving something that could work as function to a microservice would save much context. If anything, I think you are adding more context, since you would need to talk about the endpoint and having it route to the function that does what you need. When it is all over, you need to describe what the input and output is.
This sounds like the correct Git workflow if you think the correct VCS to use is SVN.
How do you define hard technical questions or difficult questions?
The same people probably want to ban knives!
I mean blowing liquid oxygen on something with a hot heat source beside it typically turns things to fuel you wouldn't expect. Like metal.
Interesting. Now they seem to claim that not only they follow robots.txt for crawling, but that they also broke under pressure and made the unfortunate decisions to have user requests follow robots.txt too.

https://www.perplexity.ai/de/hub/technical-faq/how-does-perp...
GitHub Actions is overpriced and slow. WarpBuild [0] is so much nicer. Our iOS build times dropped in half and cost less than the base macOS runner on GHA. It couldn’t have been easier, just set it up, changed the runner image name, and then I promptly forgot about it because it works the exact same way as before. GH secrets work, runs show up in the same place. It’s one of the only times I’ve improved performance and saved money all without changing anything on my end.

I did have to move my repos into an organization because you can only use WarpBuild with organizations, not personal accounts, but I probably should have been doing that anyway.

[0] https://www.warpbuild.com
Take this as a kind reminder that Telegram is scum.

Alternatives include Matrix[0] and SimpleX[1].

0. https://matrix.org/

1. https://simplex.chat/
Honestly, if it keeps the price down I'm all for it. My switch spends 99% of the time in the dock, because I would far rather play with the pro controller on my big TV than play it in handheld mode. So I find the quality of the screen kinda irrelevant.
I really like the original Dune. While uncommon I think that hearing what people thought worked well. I also like the visuals, like the guild navigator or the disgusting baron.

That said I appreciate the new films too, in different ways. It looked amazing watching it in the IMAX theater, and I liked how the visions were presented. Not perfect films though, especially I think casting fewer big stars could have helped. I almost got distracted by the familiar faces.
I'm having fun sounding this one out for myself! I like how it audibly bounces along via -ung -en -er -ei(eye) -ung and -al. Makes me wanna say, "Now That's Fahrvergnügen!" Or rather, Sprechenvergnügen?
You can find that information in quarterly published information for all publicly traded companies, and for many non-public companies with only slightly more searching.