skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Different communication strategies have different strengths. The strength of talking, in person or over the internet is that the response is near instant, the greatest strength of written communication is that it is near permanent and delayed.

Remembering what you talked about two weeks ago can be hard, E-Mail allows you to look back and re-read about what has happened before (important for both sides). It also relieves you from the burden of having a response ready in seconds.

I do not think you could sell a car over E-Mail, but for a technical product, where technical questions need to be answered I do think it is different. But I also think it is a problem of management, which intentionally avoids technical issues.
I do #1 and it's great. I'm not sure why folks in this thread are sneering at what is a working English transpiler. I don't get to choose having to write formally at work sometimes but I can control how I deal with it.
I’ve always valued the mentor / mentee process and have gone out of my way to help a couple of students from my former university.

The problem is, I’ve struggled to find a mentor that isn’t currently at my company.

Not looking for a job or even network building - I love my job, simply looking for someone to chat with about issues and career development as someone only a few years into their career as a SWE.

Most of the recommendations I receive are sites where the individual has a large list of mentees and cost hundreds of dollars.

Are there better ways to go about this?
Possible Nintendo Switch 2 Tech Specs
I'm baffled by how you've changed your stance in such a way. I sympathise with the Israeli people for thinking it's complicated and I understand that we need to consider them and their livelihoods and trauma when talking about the situation, but at the end of the day, what Zionist project requires genocide and thier government subsquently is quite happy to slaughter people like dogs. No amount of "the other side did some bad things too" justifies that when the Israeli's are the only ones who have the power to stop it.
TL;DR

- CPU: Arm Cortex-A78C 8 cores Unknown L1/L2/L3 cache sizes

- GPU: Nvidia T239 Ampere 1 Graphics Processing Cluster (GPC) 12 Streaming Multiprocessors (SM) 1534 CUDA cores 6 Texture Processing Clusters (TPC) 48 Gen 3 Tensor cores 2 RTX ray-tracing cores

- RAM: 12 GB LPDDR5

From the other thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42726594
An engine is an entropy engine
I didn't watch this talk but I read the article it's based on.

When an Iraq War supporting Tory like Niall Ferguson criticizes the US military for being both bloated and stretched thin by underfunding, it gives away that the critique is just disingenuous contrarianism.
Programming Perl, by Larry Wall.

just the preaching of "the three great virtues of a programmer" makes it the most influential book in my entire ( 25+ years and counting ) carrer.
This is incredibly sad news. I guess I'm rewatching "Mulholland Drive" tonight
Lynch's was still my favorite version of Dune despite flaws.
> To be honest, this entire post reeks of that.

I could definitely be out of the loop but I've never heard of the linked blog/newsletter, and there is no explanation of who it is, so the whole thing gives me a feeling of "uhm, why would I do that?"
you are right. an enterprise products can never be ready for any enterprise customer. they need custom solutions to work with what they already invested millions in. each customer is different there. most enterprise products are ever expanding 'app platforms' or frameworks ultimately, in order to be able to adapt to new customer environments and needs quickly and efficiently. if they arent, most environments will spit them out quickly and harshly. bad for business on either side.
The one thing that kills me is the number of "modern" blogs/sites that don't offer rss or atom is really frustrating. If I really like your site, please let me be an engaged reader and let me know when you have something valuable to say again!

I've even resorted to adding features in my personal feedreader to seek out common feed locations or APIs that common blogging tools leave on mostly unnoticed.
I was once in the US Navy, and stood many a bridge watch. When it got dark, all outside lights except for the navigation lights (red light on port bow, green on starboard bow, a white light up top and another white light on the stern). And on the bridge, we used only dim red lights, to avoid affecting our night vision. None of the navigation lights was easily visible from the bridge. And you could see reasonably well, even on a cloudy night.
> I do have big pockets, but at least with the Switch Lite, it's possible.

Can you dock a Switch Lite with a TV?
NVIDIA release GPU driver for Linux and Windows after announcing security issues
Cooler Screens Chief Executive Officer Arsen Avakian decided to try a different form of pushback. ... On Dec. 14, Avakian’s team secretly cut the data feeds to more than 100 Walgreens stores in the Chicago area. The dozen or so smart doors affected in each of these stores either glazed over with white pixels or blacked out altogether.

That's a dick move. We've all heard the story of the independent developer shutting off access to their work for nonpayment. This is different, and IMHO it's actively damaging a business because of a dispute. As much as I hate the screens, and really don't give two cents about Walgreens, Cooler Screens is in the wrong here.
Here's a non-facebook link for anyone who refuses to use that site:

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/david-lynch-dead-director...
Sad news, he was a genius creator - I like to think about him as Salvador Dali of our times. For sure his works will be remembered.
New Executive Order on Cybersecurity
Hopefully game saves will sync between Switch 1 and 2. It would not be great to have to restart games with 80+ hours or drag 2 consoles around with you to access your full Switch 1 library. I'm mildly optimistic given Switch 1 has online save backup capability for a lot of its games.
>Hamas was offered a ceasefire under exactly the same terms in May, and refused it.

This is complete opposite of actual facts which is often the case with Israeli apologia. Hamas wanted a permanent ceasefire and full withdrawal from Gaza. Israel wants a temporary ceasefire - which if one comprehends english - is not actually a ceasefire at all. Quoting Netanyahu (in June) : “Israel’s conditions for ending the war have not changed: the destruction of Hamas’s military and governing capabilities, the freeing of all hostages and ensuring that Gaza no longer poses a threat to Israel,” which translates to "Return the hostages and we will kill you all at a time of our choosing". Even then Netanyahu never had any intention of pursuing a ceasefire deal to completion at the time because his cabinet members publicly threatened to withdraw from his coalition and collapse the government which would likely lead to Netanyahu's impending trial and incarceration.
This strikes me as curiously defensive, in that Canadian way of praising things that are obviously problematic to draw attention to them.

The wider noise around React Native is seemingly that it works, especially while iterating on things, but it makes the final 20% of work much harder than it already was. As one person put it to me recently “with RN you just have to face the fact you won’t be winning any design awards”.

What really amazes me is how far React Native and web React have separated, to the point using the web one is a complete non event.
they don't want to sell to anyone it seems
> Remembering what you talked about two weeks ago can be hard, E-Mail allows you to look back and re-read about what has happened before (important for both sides). It also relieves you from the burden of having a response ready in seconds.

In addition, you can recall and copy/paste responses from previous emails.

This is one reason why I really, really like email.
Here is a breakdown of the US GDP in 2023:

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/visualizing-u-s-gdp-by-indu...

I think it's fair to say that a large component of the top two industries (professional services and real estate) are shady. OTOH, there are a lot of industries that seem less prone to corruption and more likely to reward people for honest work.

That's just my POV, though.
What if I emulate current games that my friend owns, but I make sure to never play the same game at the same time as he does?
From the title I thought this was talking about cramming the night before an exam. ;-) Or if it’s an open book exam learning during the exam as one goes through the textbook.
Newer mainframes are still faster than older mainframes, and can have hundreds of cores and 10s of TB of RAM. A big part of IBM's draw is that they make modern systems that will continue to run your software forever with no modifications. I had an older guy there tell me a story about them changing a default in some ISPF panel, and customers complained enough that they had to change it back. Their storage systems have a virtualization layer for old programs that send commands to move the heads of a drive that hasn't been manufactured for 55 years or whatever and translate that to use storage backed by a modern RAID with normal disks. The engineers in the mainframe groups know who their customer base is and what they want.

It's unlikely that they're literally using 40 year old hardware since the replacement parts for that would be a nightmare to find and almost certainly more expensive than a compatible new machine.
If anything, that helps my point. People still buy Porsches even if they know it's the same car as a VW or Seat, just fancier and with a more prestigious badge.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42728862
Thank you. I was hesitating to post the facebook source but back when I submitted there was no other coverage.
As someone who bought into the mobile part of the ecosystem specifically because it's a walled garden, I hope those walls stand forever.
> He said at one point it might not be possible this decade. Even as he set up an “agent task force” to develop the product last year, he wasn’t sure if it would work. What changed was a new model from Anthropic, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, which achieved a record score on a coding evaluation called SWE-bench in October.

If the entire fortunes of your company and product changes overnight based on models released by other companies, how useful is your product really ?

Amjad has to be the worst hype man ever, none of the stuff he says even sounds convincing.
Found it: https://marketoonist.com/2023/03/ai-written-ai-read.html
It seemed to very positively react to the shutdown though
I don't suspect that OP fails to understand the importance of consent, but I do suspect that you fail to understand the importance of lawful carefully-target violence.
Are you me? I think you might be me.
All of those have games exclusive to them.

3DS has like ~15, though some heavy hitters (Xenoblade and Fire Emblem), DSi has like 6 no-names (and, technically, a whole lot on DSiWare); but there are many GBC-exclusive games.
> lots of people

Depends, as all things. See for instance the Twitter (increased engagement) study [0] or the more recent Facebook study (little effect) [1]. For more recent investigations on user perceptions see [2] and [3].

[0]: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01972243.2023.2...

[1]: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abp9364

[2]: https://jsb.journals.ekb.eg/index.php/FAQ/journal/journal/ar...

[3]: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3687046
This is old school. No switch or restore here.
Is anyone collecting links to interesting sites that work without javascript? This could slowly be turned into a simple search engine that returns only results compatible with Dillo and other small browsers.
Don't Try to Vandalize ChargePoint's New Cables
HOMINA HOMINA HOMINA....
The article mentions

"[Cooler Screens CEO] Avakian [...] says [Walgreens] turned off its access to point-of-sale data for products outside the cold section, which brands like Revlon needed to confirm lipstick ads on fridges really were enticing shoppers to walk over to the beauty aisle."
I run at night on trails (during the summer, when it's too hot to run during the day). I wear a headlamp, and don't trip any more than I do in the day--despite the fact that the trails have rocks and roots. The only issue I have is that because the headlamp is inches from my eyes, shadows are almost invisible.
HN guidelines prefer the original source when possible, so you did the right thing IMHO.
Yes, it not being a version number is the entire point of this thread.
Intelligent motorcycle helmet promises 100% blind-spot elimination
interesting you said that, because I was totally unimpressed and bored with it and thought, "Ok, so this it? So it's just the Switch, scaled up by 10%?"

It's not that I expected something groundbreaking, but if I had been the creative director I would have said that they need to focus on whatever was updated, e.g., graphics or performance since effectively nothing major has changed.
European tech was doomed in late the 90s when the EU decided to throw in with Microsoft et al instead of supporting building out a homegrown alternative ecosystem based around open source software.
This is true. Also, there's a really neat platform called partunity.com that's strictly geared towards the world of early-stage startups, resources, and job boards. Worth checking out too.
With the habit they've developed of releasing upgraded versions inside a generation, especially already having Switch OLED, I think Super Switch would be too ambiguous.
Since the whole thing is not documented anywhere, it's hard to rely on or exploit. From my experience, it works.

Check out search results on "gsuite legacy storage increase 5gb", multiple users reported on their experience with it. It looks like extra space is granted if you're close to the limit, but not over it, for ~1 week.

There are also single reports on Google taking back the extra storage - back to 15(17)Gb - for people with extreme (ab)use of the feature, who stacked hundreds of gigabytes through 5Gb steps. Couldn't verify any of them.

I'm using 50-license GSuite since 2009, if that matters.
Elizabeth Bik (who is known for submitting such reports to journals) has a nice interview about this problem[0], which covers software as well.

> After I raised my concerns about 4% of papers having image problems, some other journals upped their game and have hired people to look for these things. This is still mainly being done I believe by humans, but there is now software on the market that is being tested by some publishers to screen all incoming manuscripts. The software will search for duplications but can also search for duplicated elements of photos against a database of many papers, so it’s not just screening within a paper or across two papers or so, but it is working with a database to potentially find many more examples of duplications. I believe one of the software packages that is being tested is Proofig.

Proofig makes a lot of claims but they also list a lot of journals: https://www.proofig.com/

[0]: https://thepublicationplan.com/2022/11/29/spotting-fake-imag...
RIP, master. You'll be missed. ;~;7
I have opinions[1] on Webmentions. It sounds like such a great approach, but it also opens up the original author to hosting mountains of spam and other low-quality comments, and moderation is a lot of work. Arguably, we see the same problem today on sites that let you post comments.

[1] https://havenweb.org/2023/04/10/private-comments.html
Given the context, it's pretty clear he is talking about their target market, not about their employees. Do you only work on things you're going to use yourself?

Edit:

Look, this is what the article says:

> In essence, Replit’s latest customer base is a new breed of coder: The ones who don’t know the first thing about code.

> “We don’t care about professional coders anymore,” Masad said.

Rather than the outrage-bait this was turned into, the quote was entirely about who their customers are. And it makes perfect sense. What kind of a professional programmer would use these their tools anyway?
i mean there’s progress on all those things and that’s good and there’s no downside really?
Why is Nintendo always in between last and current gen whenever they release new hardware? I know they say they aren't so worried about being cutting edge but wouldn't that just generate more sales?

I guess they can charge more for less expensive hardware.
What a guy, managed to meet him once! Sad all those American Spirits probably caused his untimely death.
The author is offering 1.5 hours of meetings, as three 30 minute conversations. It's not nothing, but it's also probably not really the level of mentoring that can be super impactful. But it might make a difference to some people who apply.

I've had one amazing career-related mentor in my life. He probably spent 20+ hours per week for 6 months doing mentoring things for me. He worked VERY hard at this but his work was very impactful on me and I really appreciated it. He had support of his management, which was critical to being able to spend that much time on mentoring.

I've tried to be a mentor for Google Summer of Code before. It was difficult for me and required a LOT more effort and time than I had expected. Mentoring well is not easy.
Money happened. The gaming industry produces more revenue than the movie industry and the music industry combined. Making a AAA is a $50-$100 million endeavor. At that scale, doing weird stuff because maybe it'll pay off is almost unconscionably risky. It's the same problem movies have, and it's the reason why indy films and indy games are so much more interesting.
probably because it's to complex. I think the earliest android demos were probably just writing to the framebuffer.
I don't know any half decent coders who use Replit.
Morale, or stock prices?
Rest in peace to a one-of-a-kind creative genius. Strangely I just rewatched Inland Empire last night for the first time since seeing it in the theater, so this is hitting extra hard.

In addition to his incredible film/television work, I'd like to give a shout-out to his other forms of artistic expression which often got less attention. His musical output captured the same unique vibe as his films, for example his album Crazy Clown Time is almost certainly best enjoyed in a smoky room with syncopated strobe lights and patterned flooring. His mixed-media paintings and sculpture were also impressively unsettling.
Beating Textbook Algorithms in String Search (2020)
little "m" meta, as in "rss feeds about rss feeds" rather than big "M" Meta the company
why try this hard for a private company that doesn't employ you?
tighter spreads are not zero spreads
Not if Mullenweg ends it first!
During Covid I started watching his daily weather update, even though I didn’t live in LA. Virtually every day was the same. Very clear. Very still.

I’m not sure if anyone could ever “get” one of his movies completely beyond the experience and the narrative. He always left so much unsaid and open to interpretation, just like life. They are movies designed to make the viewer feel a certain way, rather than literally what’s in the screen. He was one of the few directors that I thought of as making weird things that I would enjoy (most of the time), but how could anyone else?

“I like to remember things my own way. How I remembered them, not necessarily the way they happened.”
Blah blah blah.

I think most programmers will find their way, even if they stop programming. I worked with non-programmers who have attention span of a toddler and wouldn't be able to read a few sentence email and respond accordingly. They would just respond to first 1-2 sentences.

Corporate work is mostly pretend and look busy.

I'm really curious to explore code of an app written completely by AI.

I wrote complete apps that run a business. The biggest hurdle? Figuring out what is actually going on, what the process is, why is it so poorly documented and why is it stored in heads of multiple people. I don't think gathering this information would be possible without understanding how software and databases work and what I need to know.
It's fascinating how the Switch can be such a different device for different people. I bought my Switch in 2022 and it has remained exclusively docked under my TV since then. I have yet to even conceive of a scenario in which I would want to play it on the go. Perhaps if I went on long flights more than a couple of times a year? But who am I kidding, I would still read or listen to podcasts on the plane.
Let's say software really can be written completely autonomously by LLMs. I think it d be important to put that leverage in the hands of individual software engineers to build even more and faster, and avoid it being entirely in the hands of a few companies
There is no standard.

Filament is extremely well documented: https://google.github.io/filament/Filament.html

glTF's PBR stuff is also very well documented and aimed at realtime usage: https://www.khronos.org/gltf/pbr/

OpenPBR is a newer, much more expensive BRDF with a reference implementation written in MaterialX that iirc can compile to glsl https://academysoftwarefoundation.github.io/OpenPBR

Pick one of the BRDFs, add IBL https://bruop.github.io/ibl, and you'll get decent results for visualization applications.
How come the committers are not visible? I only see User and User in the commits, with no links to profiles.
The point of TFA appears to be:

> Masad said something that is going to stick with me for a while: “Finding software problems in your life is also a skill, looking at a problem and saying, ‘a piece of software could solve that’ is a skill.”

> Since I can remember, that is a skill that only software developers could capitalize on. Now, pretty much anyone can.

It's true, and even as a software engineer there are things I've thought up in the past but haven't worked on because I'm not well versed with frontend tech. I had an idea the other day for a simple web app, and after some brainstorming and scaffolding with an LLM there is something halfway decent running locally for me.

Feeling "unblocked" and empowered to get something working rather than burdened by all of the minutiae that need to be figured out to ship and iterate on an idea is a great feeling. I wouldn't trust any of the current models to take something to production, but for "personal" software that I can control and manage and spruce up, it's been fun getting to hack on things I haven't felt equipped to tackle solo before.
How sad. Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive (the IMO under-appreciated pilot), and yes his Dune even though he didn't like it are some of my favourite movies of all time. RIP
If you were a European Jew in the late 1940s after the fall of the Nazis, you were still faced with the prospect of living under the local governance of Nazi collaborators, continued pogroms [0] and antisemitism, and potentially Joseph Stalin's USSR. It's not like everything immediately went back to normal, either in real terms or psychological ones. Even if you survived your friends, family and neighbors are GONE.

It's unsurprising that many wouldn't want to reintegrate with that society after what they experienced, even if they managed to avoid the camps (and especially if they didn't).

It is ridiculous to just throw them into the same category with the English and Spanish colonists searching for riches in the New World.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kielce_pogrom
There's nearly always an adequate fix. In this case I took the HTML doc title and appended the advocacy groups to it. This fits easily within the 80 char limit.