skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the point is that there are abstractions that require you to know almost nothing (e.g. that my laptop has a SSD with blocks that are constantly dying is abstracted to a filesystem that looks like a basic tree structure).

Then there are abstractions that may actually increase cognitive load "What if instead of thinking about chairs, we philosophically think about ALL standing furniture types, stools, tables, etc. They may have 4 legs, 3, 6? What about a car seats too?"

AFAICT writing a kubernetes controller is probably overkill challenge-yourself level exercise (e.g. a quine in BF) because odds are that any resource you've ever needed to manage somebody else has built an automated way to do it first.

Would love to hear other perspectives though if anybody has great examples of when you really couldn't succeed without writing your own kubernetes controller.
You can buy options. Though one thing to be aware of is counterparty risk. If bitcoin were ever to go to its true value (ie ~0), then you might find that your put options have also become valueless, because the providers of such options are, by and large, horribly exposed in such a scenario.

It is also likely to be very _expensive_, and the market can of course stay irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
Without taking a position on the larger issue, it's not dishonorable or shameful to be a victim of something.
There's a pretty good list of weird off-label uses for the Galois Field instructions here: https://gist.github.com/animetosho/d3ca95da2131b5813e16b5bb1...
Astronomers delete asteroid because it turned out to be Tesla Roadster
From my 1980s 8-bit CPU perspective, the instruction is unhinged based solely on the number of letters. Compared to LDA, STA, RTS, that's not an assembler mnemonic, it's a novel. :-)
> countless ways around the issue of "average" employees being punished. E.g. hard caps on top employee compensation for X years. Bans on dividends

How do either of these help an employee of a company that was just poofed?

> there's holes in these but plenty of smarter people than me who can easily make them watertight

No. There aren't. Both the caps you proposed--capping dividends and salary--have known workarounds. Stock buybacks exist because they're more tax efficient than dividends. Health insurance is tied to employment because in WWII the U.S. government capped wages.

There is really one solution to corporate malfeasance: criminaly prosecuting where you have evidence of individual criminality and massive fines in every other case. We bankrupted our automakers without hurting their jobs. That's actually less intrusive than trying to fuck with their capital structure by e.g. banning dividends, which just incentivises leverage.
Two things can be true. Most people don’t climb the corporate ladder because there are a limited number of spots, that’s true, and it is also true for most people that the reason they won’t make it is that they’re not good enough at emotional labor.
It would be such a shame if this went viral.

Before today I did not know who Maury Blackman was. I now know that he was arrested for domestic violence in 2021.

Here is the original news report: https://jackpoulson.substack.com/p/the-covert-gig-work-surve...
At work we are using Metacontroller to implement our "operators". Quoted because these are not real operators but rather Metacontroller plugins, written in Python. All the watch and update logic - plus the resource caching - is outsourced to Metacontroller (which is written in Go). We define - via its CompositeController or DecoratorController CRDs - what kind of resources it should watch and which web service it should call into when it detects a change. The web service speaks plain HTTP (or HTTPS if you want).

In case of a CompositeController, the web service gets the created/updated/deleted parent resource and any already existing child resources (initially none). The web service then analyzes the parent and existing children, then responds with the list of child resources whose existence and state Metacontroller should ensure in the cluster. If something is left out from the response compared to a previous response, it is deleted.

Things we implemented using this pattern:

- Project: declarative description of a company project, child resources include a namespace, service account, IAM role, SMB/S3/FSX PVs and PVCs generated for project volumes (defined under spec.volumes in the Project CR), ingresses for a set of standard apps

- Job: high-level description of a DAG of containers, the web service works as a compiler which translates this high-level description into an Argo Workflow (this will be the child)

- Container: defines a dev container, expands into a pod running an sshd and a Contour HTTPProxy (TCP proxy) which forwards TLS-wrapped SSH traffic to the sshd service

- KeycloakClient: here the web service is not pure - it talks to the Keycloak Admin REST API and creates/updates a client in Keycloak whose parameters are given by the CRD spec

So far this works pretty well and makes writing controllers a breeze - at least compared to the standard kubebuilder approach.

https://metacontroller.github.io/metacontroller/intro.html
Genomes didn’t reveal this. It was already known by various knowledgeable figures on the ancient culture of the isles and more recently established through poetic critique by Robert Graves (among others).

These theories were largely rejected by the established authorities and scientists because it couldn’t possibly have been even near the truth and yet…

This goes beyond the iron age into antiquity. What is seen as an Iron age practice is mere evidence of the practice persisting in spite of the repeated colonizations of the isles and (later) cultural pressures from the Mediterranean basin.

Somehow the shamanic types and poets always seem to be correct in the end. Maybe it is their lack of incentive to lie about such things.

Before all the downvotes one should compare notes and then maybe explore the thought experiment: why is pattern recognition more valuable in this age only in complex analyses of DNA or some other heuristic over similarly complex analyses of poetic myth as a cultural remnant. Especially given the tenuousness of scientific veracity when it’s truly mathematically considered to the full extent we are capable. Asking too much?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Goddess
Yep, professional journalists for much of the 20th century aspired to be conscious of what they were covering and how that served the public interest. There was a duty being honored.

It was exactly this understanding that allowed closeted public figures in politics, entertainment, to navigate a time when it wasn't okay for their personal lives to be made public. Journalists and editors were often aware of stories that could be told, but believed that their duty wouldn't be served by reporting on them.

Journalism did not always look like that, and did not everywhere look like that, but it was the prevailing norm.

We're now in a very different time again, where any "scoop" that stirs moral outrage, earns lurid eyeballs, or undermines a public figure is not only fair game, but the ideal career-making story.
That's not actually true. The biggest use is for jewellery. (see https://www.gold.org/about-gold/gold-demand/by-sector) And largely has been for 4000+ years since ancient Egypt.
Why is this the case? I mean buying crypto via a ?local? exchange is possible, but it is not possible to buy a more stable currency. How is the crypto bought, does someone sell it in that local currency? Because if not, you still need zo transfer your currency to (in >90% of cases) USD and then buy crypto. So why not just use those (the same way everybody else does).
For someone who wants that I’d recommend LibreOffice as it does all of that as well.
It seems like a pointless discussion since DeepSeek uses Nvidia GPUs after all.
Flag of convenience: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_convenience
Asking where it came from will at least provide an assessment of the actual openness and good faith of the discussion.

Because willingness to question one’s assumptions is good faith’s hallmark.

Which also means the OP should not be dogmatic that AI cannot speed features up 10x.

In any case changes to process don’t come for free. Faster features of the same quality may mean faster testing, faster communication with customers, faster analysis, faster marketing updates, etc.
The whole story is also what the report says, which was that his partner was bloodied and cut and only recanted her story after he was being arrested, which is common in domestic abuse cases. His arrest was sealed after the charges were dropped, but he wasn't found "not guilty" or "guilty" in this case.

Also, the "effect" could be to ruin an independent reporter, not just hide or explain the arrest.
Why ask HN? Have you actually tried using the tech? Then you should have the answers. There are lots of different types of software development and in some areas gen AI will be extremely useful, but a net negative in others. Only you can answer the questions about your environment.
> Its definitely the same on Windows as it always was, which is the platform I most developed games for.

Not really. Most games use "borderless windowed" mode instead of fullscreen exclusive, and even FSE is not true exclusive mode anymore in most cases.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/demystifying-full-scr...

> When using Fullscreen Optimizations, your game believes that it is running in Fullscreen Exclusive, but behind the scenes, Windows has the game running in borderless windowed mode. When a game is run in borderless windowed mode, the game does not have full control of the display– that overarching control is given back to the Desktop Window Manager (DWM).

see also https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/direct3ddxgi...
Problem with a non-android thing is that you lose the software platform it gives, as well as the ecosystem of apps. To do a new thing looks time consuming - the hardware and firmware has to be solid, the UI can't just be a desktop Linux in fancy dress, and then you need to write apps for stuff.

I sometimes think through doing a garmin-type thing with an e-ink display and the features I want - it works out to need way too much time: well-integrated hardware, decent low-power firmware, then the interface and custom map software is just a bit much for a spare-time thing for me (a pick one or two sort of deal). Android solves at least the ui and app problem in that case.
Comments like above usually serve a couple of sentiments - not just pointing out the Striesand effect but attempting to amplify it. The trend I think got popular with the teenager involved in People v. Turner[1]. At the time there was a fair amount of fear that the case would be entirely buried due to his advantageous position in society (not altogether different than what is being discussed here). He also changed his name. So people would make comments like above on Reddit and other social media platforms as a sort of attempt to ensure that it be extremely difficult to erase attachment of the name from the incident in the future entirely.

You can see this at play still today anytime that teenager's name comes up on Reddit. Very typical example thread here[2]

That thread is pretty exemplary of the trend, someone will say "convicted rapist Brock Turner", and everyone will pile on and also state it, in some sort of attempt to continue to keep the association at the top of the search engine.

That being said, after it's been done once the original purpose is already accomplished and I'd consider it a pretty lowbrow attempt at humor after that. It probably would be considered low effort enough to warrant a downvote here.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_v._Turner

2: https://www.reddit.com/r/army/comments/zk7jqi/comment/izz33a...
Web site needs more pictures of phone and less pictures of wind turbines.
> expunged and he was not guilty

Sealed, for undisclosed reasons, with no determination as to his guilt or lack thereof.
> When a domain name is stolen, definitionally it leaves control of the registrar.

So call the registry?

The difference is that a judgement will actually get you something because in the end, the registry can give the domain to whoever they want. If your crypto DNS name is gone, you can’t appeal anywhere, even if you win your lawsuit (which you will, the opponent won’t appear).
Require ships entering Baltic to be insured for damage to underwater infrastructure. Blockade all the other ships.

Insurers will figure out who is trustworthy enough.
This is Brent Ozar's old theme.
You're right of course.

This gentleman works in a US national lab, graduated top of his class in a top Chinese school and has friends that, at the time, worked in the Wuhan lab.

He, while very proud of being Chinese, was very critical of what he perceived his countrymen's lax safety standards. Myself, I can't judge that as I am not Chinese or an experimentalist so I deferred to his expertise and experience.
True, but you can do a much richer set of transactions with Ethereum/Solana, like moving stablecoins and making collateralized borrows, including against real world (tokenized) assets.
> And you didn’t have a bank account with money in it?

I had a bank account. Each month it eventually came to have the exact amount of the rent in it. Most months, anyway.

> Did you cash your paychecks at a check cashing service...

On a few occasions where utilities would be cut off in less than a day, I used a check cashing service. Specifically Ace as their fee was lowest.

> (giving them a cut?) and spend all the cash?

On those occasions I blew it on water or power.

> What were your expenses during that time that ate all your paycheck. Surely not just rice.

Not just rice, true. My expenses were rent, water, power, fuel and minimal auto insurance (until the van was stolen anyway). Water and power outweighed food because disconnected utilities were CPS threat vectors.

> The point of my comments is to acknowledge that people should seek out return for their money instead of keeping it in a bank.

For those that make more than 100% of their minimal bills sure. For the millions of us who had to live otherwise, keeping non-existent money in a bank seems unrealistic.
The official announcement from the Qwen team is also on HN right now.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42831769

https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen2.5-1m/
I doubt the journalist actually has 25 million to pay, even if the CEO wins the lawsuit.
Increasing the speed at which you throw shit at a wall does not change the fact that you are throwing shit at a wall.
> They might have their two weeks notice. What else? “There might be no other jobs around?”

"Let them eat cake" isn't a winning pitch when it's your job on the line.
They're just cosplaying being a startup founder at that point.
As long as you have a real share, and are not holding an "entitlement" (e.g. a brokerage firm holding your shares in their street name. In that case, you have the right to the economic benefits of the stock, but not the underlying. To do that your name needs to be on the company's ledger. Anyone can request to directly register their shares and hold them directly with the company's transfer agent.
PS5 with a drive can play DVDs, interestingly however, it can't do audio CDs.
It does, but Bitcoin's transaction fees are just paid to the miners. On Ethereum they are mostly destroyed. Combined with the lower issuance of proof-of-stake, this means that the supply of ETH sometimes actually shrinks.

That makes ETH is comparable to shares of a company, where fees are revenue, new issuance to stakers is cost, and any net profit is paid out to ETH holders in the form of stock buybacks. You can calculate a PE ratio.
Is it acting in good faith to hire the professional crypto scam whitewasher Christian Ericssen (who sometimes misspells his own pseudonym Ericsen) as a representative to threaten and bribe people?

Whether or not the police report that was sealed actually says what it's reported it does, the courts did not seal the record that the recourse he chose was to hire a pseudonymous representative so spectacularly unethical and dishonest that he has a track record of whitewashing the reporting of crypto scams.

Talk about scraping the bottom of the barrel. When you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas. I'd refuse to hire or associate with Maury Blackman just for choosing to hire Christian Ericssen/Ericsen to represent himself and threaten and bribe people on his behalf, regardless of when or how often Maury Blackman gets recorded beating his girlfriend then successfully threatens her to recant what she said in the police report.
>I think the OP makes it very clear that the issue is the lack of communication especially around when they can work next

"When they can work next" is entirely dependent on supply and demand. Also, it seems like he was more upset about drivers having to wait around while not getting paid, than having to periodically check the app. From the OP:

>To avoid having to pay any difference to make up the hourly wage to drivers, Uber runs an algorithm which kicks drivers out of the app randomly if demand gets too low, without warning or indication of when they can get back in. It can be minutes or hours. So the drivers remain on the road, driving/idling, waiting to get back into the app. The "work" is still getting done, but it doesn't count against Uber.

In a later comment he also lamented about how uber was "leave [drivers] hanging by an on-call thread". I doubt that if uber added push notifications for slots becoming available, that OP would be even slightly placated. The issue is that there's more willing drivers than active "slots" available, since such slots uber have to pay for. As a result, there's still going to be people waiting around for a chance to make money, while being unpaid. Adding push notifications only means people don't have to check their phones every 5-10 minutes for a slot, but they're still forced to wait around unpaid.
I'd say this demo looks exactly like what you would expect a prototype to look like that you spent 4 days on building. Not bad!
History offers plenty of other examples. Daniel Ellsberg is one of the most notable that comes to mind without spending more than a few seconds to think about it.

Is it worth it? That likely depends on how highly you prioritize the protection of liberty. It’s ultimately a personal call, and I don't mean that as a judgement one way or the other.
But the thing is that, if the institutions collapse, that isn't actually going to be good for the capitalists. They're making far more money from the working system than they would from a collapsed one.

So either those capitalists are very stupidly short-sighted, or blaming all this on the capitalists is mistaken.

I find the explanation of foreign agitprop to be more believable. At least with that explanation, you're dealing with an actor who actually benefits from the collapse.
OK, it's 2025. You have received $1M in cash. The US stock market is ludicrously overvalued across the board. What's your move?
Maybe you can see something in that noise, but I just plotted those and looked at their correlations, and it's garbage. Even looking at their sums, they have different slopes (over decades), all you can say is "number go up". The monthly correlation is junk, the yearly correlation of their sums is junk, the decade long optimally lagged correlation is junk (include 2008-2010 and it's worse). I had to look, because I wondered if there was some interesting coincidence, but there's not.

Now, if what you're trying to say is that the much larger (non M2) eurodollar currency correlates to long term global growth and inflation, yeah that's true. There is a trillion $ industry maintaining that called the banking system. But the idea that eggs, oil, lumber, or rent are well correlated is not even a funny joke. Gold and bitcoin are a bit different because they are so financialized, but I wouldn't go day trading them just based on Fed stats either.
Can u provide some examples?
Fiat currencies have value because you have to pay your taxes with it. There’s no choosing not to participate.
it uses a fractional amount of GPUs though.
No, but their children or a worthy inheritor will be. There’s reasons to make investments which exceed your lifespan.
Comments moved thither. Thanks! (I'll add a link to Simon's article there too.)
Gold's fundamentals are it is mined and used for jewellery. Speculation and hoarding can cause it to fluctuate a fair bit but long term the price is driven by the mining cost. See the 200 year inflation adjusted price https://www.marottaonmoney.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/st... It's remarkably constant in the long run.

Bitcoin is different. Although it's mined, the mining difficulty constantly adjusts to keep the block time at 10 minutes. The price is set by the people in the market buying and selling it and so fluctuates all over the place.
Surely he'll come through! And totally won't take Biden's work and claim it as his own, right?
I so miss this look and feel.
> If we are going to talk about current versus what could be, shouldn’t we do the same with hydrogen?

No, because with hydrogen we don't have working prototypes nor a track record improvement. Maybe there is a lighter tank and fuel cell combo. Maybe there isn't. You can't argue maybe there isn't a better battery chemistry than what we have on the roads because we have better chemistries in the lab, in production and in some cases on roads in China.
That would be sharing your phone and password with the police because there is nothing to hide.

I’m asking why you’re expecting to be booked by authorities and your phone confiscated for attending a “protest”.
A decade ago robotic arms like the ones in the video would have cost thousands - if one that small and simple were available at all without bespoke development. Now they’re a cheap kit and go up to six DoF and all kinds of end affectors.
Related: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/26/qwen25-1m/

(via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42832838, but we merged that thread hither)
> Option three: They get enough drivers to cover most of the peak, and end up paying for some idle time otherwise. Just like almost every company with permanent staff.

That only works when the difference in demand between peak and off-peak is small relative to the cost of idle workers. In this case it isn't.

> Alternatively option two with an explicit, upfront decisions who is actually part-time, so there are no surprises and the rules are known.

Then you'll be objecting that the majority of people are classified as part-time because there will be a lot of people who get 40 hours some weeks and zero other weeks due to changes in seasonal demand etc.

Also, the result of that would be that in the slower weeks, one person gets 40 hours and one person gets 10 instead of each person getting 25 hours, and that's obviously not to the advantage of the person whose hours you're cutting. Which in turn implies that the person getting 40 will be signing up for some fresh hell like "you get 40 hours but we choose when they are" and then they're both getting screwed by the change.
It is always this holier than thou attitude of Software engineers towards DevOps that is annoying. Especially if it comes from ignorance.

These days often DevOps is done by former Software Engineers rather than "old fashioned" Sys admins.

Just because you are ignorant on how to use AKS efficiently, doesn't mean your alternative is better.