skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm very late to the party here, but as a smartphone product manager at Vodafone I had a front-row seat to the entire arc--which actually started with many telcos being angry at Nokia for their arrogance and near-monopoly, before the iPhone came out.

Nokia never really had a chance--the N-series was a mess of patched software, they had no real Linux alternative, and their supply chain was fragmented six ways from Sunday because they churned out dozens of SKUs.

Then everyone went into denial because they couldn't believe Apple would be successful by going outside established norms (like refusing to customize the homescreen or packaging for telcos, etc.).

A few telcos tried to respond by picking their own champion smartphone (Verizon did that in the US). I ended up having to talk my CMO out of going all out on promoting the Blackberry Storm (which was a dud of epic proportions).

I later became the product manager for the iPhone as well, and that was an amazing roller coaster I will eventually write about (it's been around 17 years, so I think I'll get to it sometime soon).

But I would recommend folk interested in the intervening years to read Operation Elop: https://asokan.org/operation-elop/

I also had a front row seat to that...
Yes, the profession is going to change, as it always has but this is still bad economics. Wages don't fall when productivity increases, or otherwise you'd be poorer every year since the industrial revolution. When software developers become more productive their value goes up, not down. A web or game developer in 2015 was not a "ultra math brain autist" compared to a 1980s CS whiz kid writing video games in assembly, but financially better off. Software developers, like everyone else, aren't paid for their calculus skills, they're paid for the market value of their output, entirely independent of how much brainy skills that requires.

When Guido and Mats invented Python and Ruby, or you get a really fancy debugger, did you think the wage apocalypse is upon us because you got a more productive tool and more people can write software?
Then Zelle it bro.
> Yes, it is absolutely acceptable and it happens all the time in road design.

Aren't there usually signs indicating the maximum safe speed when that sort of thing happens? We don't have context here but I doubt there is a sign telling bikers that they should slow down. And aren't roads in general much larger and easier to see from far away, vs this tiny little ramp? You also haven't explained why the big curb is vertical instead of sloped, or why the street sign needs to be where it is. It's hard to avoid the conclusion that this thing is designed as a fuck you to bikers who don't obey the rules. We simply don't design roads that way, where it's designed to make you crash if you deviate from the standard even a bit.
Haven't seen a director before or since with such a grasp of mystery and command of dreamlike sequences. The world lost one of the great directors of our time.
... and look how well that has turned out for the average Russian citizen (or journalist, or competing business-person who stands too close to a window anywhere but the first floor)...
I disagree with both of your extreme black & white thinking.

The true answer is somewhere in the middle but now its definitely leaning further from your view.
You guys don't research demographic before real estate purchases? That must be why you find this new movement hard to understand. Have someone more plainly honest give you the details.
The only time they've been honest in years.
Gel electrophoresis data or Western/Southern/Northern blots are not hard to fake. Nobody seeing the images can tell what you put into each pocket of your gel. And for the blots nobody can tell which kind of antibody you used. It's still not totally effortless to fake as you have to find another protein with the right weight, this is not necessarily something you have just lying around.

I'd also suspect that fraud does not necessarily start at the beginning of the experiments, but might happen at a later stage when someone realizes their results didn't turn out as expected or wanted. At that point you already did the gels and it might be much more convenient to just do image manipulation.

Something like NMR data is certainly much more difficult to fake convincingly, especially if you'd have to provide the original raw datasets at publication (which unfortunately isn't really happening yet).
Block level copies of boot volumes is high risk, because they are almost exclusively mounted in RW mode via label or guid.

Pretty common problem for someone to do their boot drive, reboot and have it mount their backup.

If you are using iSCSI or anything with multipathing this can happen even without a reboot.

I know that block level copies seem like a good easy solution. But several decades in the storage admin to architect roles during the height of the SAN era showed that it is more problematic than you expected.

To be honest, full block level backup of a boot volume is something you do when the data isn't that critical anyways.

But if you use case requires this and the data is critical, I highly encourage you to dig into how even device files are emitted.

If you are like most people who don't have the pager scars that forced you to dig into udev etc... you probably won't realize what appears to be a concrete implementation detail is really just a facade pattern.
I thought Pot8o expanded to Potuberneteo
Copying an old comment by rini17

> Hearing aids, seriously? They need at least miliwatts - 1000x more than this battery. Cochlear implants even more, so I suspect ocular ones and pacemakers too.

> Sad to see such spin directly from the university.
I would expect that being a computer company gave Apple more leverage than the handset makers. Apple could afford to have none of the providers say yes.

Moreover, Apple had prestige. It wasn't that big but it already the high-end computer maker. And Apple had the already successful ipod which served as the basis for the original iphone. And the handset makers had been fundamentally dependent on carriers in determining what features made it to the final phones - which would have had to made them essentially weaklings.

Which is to say, I think there's reason to think Apple had strength in it's negotiation position relative to a random handset maker.
I think the acronym made that a sketchy choice. Even if Nintendo never used the acronym, the gaming community seems to use them extensively.
I wonder if part of the reason people are comfortable ditching calls is that we’re already transitioning to a world where AI can handle so much of the back-and-forth. Tools like ChatGPT and automatic summarizers make it easy to manage and process large volumes of written communication, so async feels almost effortless.

On the other hand, it’s less clear if we’ve got good AI solutions for real-time calls. Yes, we have speech-to-text and live transcription, but they still require more setup and don’t always capture context as smoothly as a neatly structured email thread. For people who want everything documented and searchable—even the decision-making logic—AI-assisted written communication just works better right now.

I’m curious if future AI tools will make synchronous calls more appealing by automatically generating real-time summaries or helping participants get to the crux of the discussion faster. But at least for the moment, it seems AI is nudging us toward async rather than giving us a richer live conversation experience.
A small repair shop near where my parents live. The people who run it can fix just about everything and do a great job. Sadly, they're getting on in years and will probably be shuttering the business because there's no one who wants to or can take it over from them.
Having first run a bot motel in I think 2005, I'm thrilled and greatly entertained to see this taking off. When I first did it, I had crawlers lost in it literally for days; and you could tell that eventually some human would come back and try to suss the wreckage. After about a year I started seeing URLs like ../this-page-does-not-exist-hahaha.html. Sure it's an arms race but just like security is generally an afterthought these days, don't think that you can't be the woodpecker which destroys civilization. The comments are great too, this one in particular reflects my personal sentiments:

> the moment it becomes the basic default install ( ala adblocker in browsers for people ), it does not matter what the bigger players want to do
It's a good overview of the basics. I personally do think SSL/TLS is overused. For logged in stuff, sure. For accessing a basic document on a webpage, I think that forcing SSL down people's throats is overuse and waste
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Of course this a personal attack. You can't post like this to HN, and we have to ban accounts that do, so please don't.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
and https://boredreading.com/
Wow, I didn't expect such a precise reply! Thank you.
A funny thing about curiosity
WinCE (which was rebranded as Windows Mobile at one point) basically had a cut-down version of Win32 as its app framework. There was also .NET complete with a WinForms port.

Windows Phone 7 had Silverlight as the app framework, which, to remind, was itself basically a rewrite of a subset of WPF in native code for perf (although the public API remained .NET).

And then after that it was WinRT / UWP, which was effectively further evolution of Silverlight in terms of how it looked to app devs.

WP7 was a really low point for the series because not only the new app dev story was completely and utterly incompatible with anything done before, it also had a very limited feature set in terms of what you could actually do inside the app - much worse than the iOS sandbox.

WP7 -> WinRT transition was easier because WinRT was so similar to Silverlight in terms of APIs (in some simple cases you literally just had to change the using-namespace declaration to compile). It also added enough functionality for more interesting apps to be viable. But by then, the reputation hit from both devs (who were being told to again rewrite everything they already rewrote for WP7) and users (who were being told again that their devices won't get the new OS, and the new apps are incompatible with the old OS) was too much for the platform, IMO.

And then on top of all that Google actively sabotaged it by refusing to make apps for its popular services - such as YouTube - and actively pursuing third-party apps that tried to fill that gap.
what a wonderful chain of people-being-weird events:

- old time guy wants to name a horse "potato"

- kid writes it as "pot-8-o"

- somebody else rewrites that as potoooooooo
We discovered a cut that was about three hours that people who hadn’t read the book seemed to understand. Had a different intro and flowed better.

I’ve seen three versions of this movie. The theatrical and the longest one both sucked for anyone not a Herbert fan. I thought the longest was the director’s cut but he never did one. Perhaps it was the TV movie cut. But I don’t know what the “good” one was called.
How do you find time to read?
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This model works for customers where the user and the buyer are the same person (or highly aligned) but in many other cases, the “procurement team” gets in the way and is literally paid to make calls and negotiate. I love this approach but am concerned about its scalability.
If you're a senior IC who does strategy, then the term "IC" is misapplied. You want to be a 1/2x engineer, not a 10x engineer.

I was a Sr Principal for about ~3 years, which taught me that the most valuable thing I could do was drive discussions to decisions, quickly and mostly painlessly.

Your job is to run good meetings to conclusions - any meeting which causes a follow-up meeting is a bad one.

However, that job get immensely harder if you can't understand complex technical things and tie-break decisions quickly. If your feet are not on the ground, you can't understand exactly why someone wants an API to be cut exactly at this level of abstraction.

If you have a bunch of motivated people working for you, this works in your advantage as they will grab you before the meeting to make sure you understand exactly what they are going to present & if both sides do it, then you will come into the meeting with more information than you could have gathered on your own.

And then the project will go ahead, things will break, whichever fork was taken. If you cannot jump in at that point to fix things or at least roll up your sleeves to get your hands dirty, then your opinion will slowly stop mattering to people.

So after quarterly planning has been done, you need to dig up some time to get into the thing that you think is the most risky thing that was decided upon, but work on it instead of asking for status reports.

About 6 hours of my weeks used to be 1:1s with people, mostly outside the office and on walk in a loop.

This happens because you are influential in the organization as a senior engineer - you get told the struggles, hopes and expectations of engineers, which allow you to run backchannels into the management tier whether it is about recognition, money or just personal stress factors.

All of this stops working when you aren't able to do the work that an IC can do, but your other 50% of time is made more valuable by the 50% of time you spend fixing things in the guts of the system. I'm only half kidding, mostly I could only do a day a week of coding at best, the rest is just eaten up like this.
I have no issues with the Right learning that it must become further right to achieve its goals.
I think sometimes guidance like this is more about the organization than the customers. This is true for all sorts of things: application development, disaster relief, etc.
What if you buy the game secondhand, cheaply? My friend got Animal Crossing with their switch for free with a bundle, but they don't like playing the game. This would be much better than paying full price for a game that never will go on sale.
The Switch 2 is supposed to be a bit faster than a PS4. It has more RAM and a much more modern GPU. It is using a LCD screen to reduce cost. I bet they will release a more expensive OLED version later.
I missed that news. Could you pay some links to the DOJ and SEC investigations into Hindenburg?
Each workflow is tagged by the executor ID that runs it. You can command each new executor to handle a subset of the pending workflows. This is done automatically on DBOS Cloud. Here's the self-hosting guide: https://docs.dbos.dev/typescript/tutorials/development/self-...
Agreed. If the microservice does not provide any value from being isolated, it is just a function call with extra steps.
looks v interesting
>We have absolutely zero credible evidence of tens of thousands of child deaths

We have absolutely tons of credible evidence in fact. In September, The Gaza health ministry published names and details of 34,344 identified dead ( the remaining 7,613 that made the official death toll were unidentified). Of these 11,355 are children below the age of 18.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/17/gaza-publishes...

Gaza Health Ministry figures have been generally found to be reliable by international agencies, western governments and journalists from years of experience in previous conflicts and corroborate their own independent investigations and reports. Israel will also have full records of most of these people given that they issue ID cards to Gaza.

Indeed, Studies like the recent one published in Lacet suggest that the actual “traumatic injury deaths” might be closer to double the official ministry figures : https://edition.cnn.com/2025/01/09/middleeast/gaza-death-tol...

I haven't mentioned the thousands of missing buried under rubble or dismembered into multiple pieces or eaten by stray dogs. Or deaths due to starvation and disease (due to Israeli blockade of water and food) and excesss deaths due to denial of access to medical care (again due to the blockade of medicines and due to Israel's deliberate targeting of every hospital in Gaza).

I have yet to read a credible report that doesn't also mention the very high proportion of children (and women and elderly) in the casualty figures.
I am going to miss him. Not only his art but his personality.

We need that kind of crazy.
> I want an algorithm that surfaces things of interest to me, then says "you have seen it all, go outside" (with an option of if I'm confined to a hospital bed to go on).

[Acquire, or Employ your] good taste, sensibility & discipline.

Edit: For the record, "Employ your..." assumed that it if "good taste, sensibility & discipline" was not already acquired, it was already possessed and who I was responding to is able to put it to use.

Let those characteristics be your algorithm...or rather, your natural heuristic for living fair.

Has good faith met the end that it's said that chivalry saw?
Fair enough. I didn't realize that the Khazar hypothesis was fringe. I've seen it pretty widely cited and assumed it was more commonly accepted.

What is still fair to say is that many Jews in Israel do not actually have a continued occupation of that land going back thousands of years as was claimed by the person I was originally responding to.

4% in 1872 is a very low number. Absent the mass immigration that diluted the local population and a Nakba that expulsed many, that 4% population there in 1872 would still be about 4% of the population today give or take a few percentage points assuming the fertility rate of that 4% and the 96% percent that were not Jewish were comparable.

Many of the Jews that are in Israel today are of European descent (i.e. no thousands of years of continued occupation of Palestine) and many of the Jews that are in Israel today that are of Arabic descent are there due to Zionist terrorism from the Irgun, Lehi, and Haganah prior to 1948 and the mass migration from around the Arab-Israeli war. For example, Avi Shlaim from Oxford University has given numerous interviews on the terrorism committed by Zionists in Iraq to coerce the Middle Eastern Jewish populations to concentrate in Palestine as part of the Zionist project.

What is indisputable is that the claim of a continued presence of Israel/Palestine by Jews going back thousands of years really only applies to a very small percent of Jews in Israel. The reality is that that number is most certainly dwarfed by the quantity of Palestinians in Israel/Palestine that can claim to have "lived there for thousands and thousands of years" per the person I was replying to.
David Lynch embodies the quote from Thelonious Monk: "The genius is the one most like himself."

No matter what he did, no matter what you think of his works, he never compromised on being himself.
The HN headline doesn't reflect the statement. Do not donate used clothing.
Yes, HN guidelines are generally to avoid modifying the source for headlines like this unless it is impossible/impractical otherwise. Doing so risks either accidental misrepresentation or editorializing, which is a bit of what happened here.
Part of me thinks a Peacekeeping Force (e.g. UN, EU etc) should go into Gaza to control it until a government is formed and stop Hamas from taking back control but I don't see the US not blocking it.
A bit like Google removing their "Don't Be Evil" motto
Nice one.

Pro-tips: switch styles to show all content (and buttons) then use contenteditable - for the whole page or allow it at element levels, allow copying/removing specific element ("template"), POST new version, HTTP Authenticated, to the server or just save :)
Another nice thing about Twin Peaks is it inspired Chris Carter's X-files and the early X-files seasons have that same dreary feel to them Twin Peaks did.
Pot-two-os?
Thank you for the comment! I had no clue that Github has RSS feeds for each repo.

For everyone else, I found this article to be super helpful to understand what kind of RSS functionality is available: https://ronaldsvilcins.com/2020/03/26/rss-feeds-for-your-git...
Do not self-deploy to a disaster area - it helps no one if you also need to be rescued.

If you volunteer to help someone else, you can't do it on your own terms alone, you have to be aware and willing to work with what other people need. This might sound obvious, and the people who really need to hear this may not accept it.
As software engineering gets automated the demand for it goes _up_ because the problem spaces that were previously uneconomic to tackle become economic. We're going to see a further proliferation of software, and that's going to require care and feeding. So, now you need software engineers _everywhere_.

You could say, no, that's not how it's going to work because now everyone can just talk to a computer and get the software they want. But there's so many non-technical reasons why that doesn't put software engineers out of work. People are lazy and don't want to write (even if just by talking) their own software. People can't clearly describe what they want, so they won't be able to put to words the software they want. Most people just accept things as they are and don't think to change things with software.

What is clear is, if you're a run-of-the-mill, take-a-ticket work-a-ticket software engineer, with no interface to the business other than that, then yeah that shit is ripe to get automated away. But if you get out into the real world, man, it's the best time ever to have software engineering skills. Opportunities are _everywhere_.
I imagine that applies to most single used items, it takes a lot of time to sort, and time is the one thing you have the least of in a disaster.
If you lost your home in a wildfire, what happens to your mortgage? [video]
They re-released it in theaters when the new Dune came out. I was one of four people at my viewing!
> Donald Trump’s first term, and now, as he threatens the fabric of democracy once more,

The breathless hyperbole never ends.

> That’s a little too much to bear.

You were fine the first 4 years you'll be fine the next 4 years.

> Instead, let’s focus on the fact that the paper’s new slogan is “Riveting Storytelling for All of America,” which specifically includes “conservatives”

Oh no! A diverse point of view. Let's wring our hands throughout an entire article about a slogan change. :|
> 5. Therefore all new development should be ~~microservices~~ modules written from scratch and interacting via cleanly defined APIs.

We figured this out for humans almost 20 years ago. Some really good empirical research. It's the only approach to large scale software development that works.

But it requires leadership that gives a shit about the quality of their product and value long-term outcomes over short-term rewards.
This is completely different than past technology, and is a novel human advancement on the level of the internet
I disagree with you on a few specifics, but I think the more general question does become what should the Shopify app be like? Non sexy is, as you say, probably the right call.

For mobile apps generally I cannot recall the last time I was actually impressed by one. The reverse is often true, such as with Sonos. Individual features (again Sonos, the calibration it can do) can be neat but experiences as a whole have gone off a cliff, React Native or not.
Of course they haven’t, how can they afford to compete with private companies? We’ve all decided that taxes are bad, there’s no money in a govt position.
Ok, we'll use that above, since it has so much more information. (Submitted url was https://www.facebook.com/davidlynchofficial/posts/it-is-with....)

Another relevant link people may want to look at:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/david-ly...

Looks like NYT haven't published their full obituary yet.
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