skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Compositors will always have worse latency than writing directly to the front buffer.

I mean... in the sense that "ALSA has to be faster than Jack ultimately", I guess; that fact may not be useful for a given setup
Don't believe your lying eyes when watching the direct actions of a fascist regime.
What does "European welfare model" even mean? Europe consists of many countries, and different countries have significantly different welfare models.

Many EU countries have enough wealth, the problem is that it is unevenly distributed.
I get a couple of cheques a year from family in the UK. It's an infrequent transaction but an important one, and cheque scanning is actually the only reason I maintain my legacy bank account.
Realistic depiction of hacking in Malayalam movie "I am Kathalan" [video]
For a change, here is a movie (in Malayalam language) which shows the hacker working with real tools!
Hey, I'm Benjamin.

I got banned from Reddit for being in Mexico (on vacation with family and friends).

After sending 22 appeals to Reddit that were never read/accepted, I gave up and created an alternative.
There have been several incidents of underwater sabotage in recent years, and I can't recall any previous action being taken, so this is a welcome change.
The cobra analogy doesn't work because there is a finite amount of use after frees and buffer overflows to be exploited in any given codebase.

Companies could choose to outbid the black market on every single one of them if they wanted to, they just don't.
This would not suprise me at all, since Tobi Lütke is vocally against unions.
And this is why, eventually one gets tired of all reboots, and endless variants on Distrowatch, get a computer at BestBuy, Mediamarkt, Dixons, or whatever is the local chain, run GNU/Linux on a VM, and be done with it.
I just checked it and the total cost has been 35 000 yen, which is around 250 euros.

Here in Japan PC gaming was not that popular and it is more difficult to find old hardware. Also, it was not until Windows 95 that IBM compatible PCs start to become popular, before that the NEC PC-98 dominated. I also guess I could have bought a full computer for less, but I wanted to assemble it myself to my specifications.

On the other hand consoles are much cheaper here than in Western countries. The sad thing is that I am not very interested in consoles except for the Megadrive, which was not very successful in Japan so its games are more difficult to find and more expensive than for other consoles like the SNES.

I guess I am just stupid to focus on two of the most expensive platforms here xD
Checked it out quickly, looks cute and inviting.

Is there a reason you did not submit the thread with the link? I was a little bit confused that the title did not take me to the link and I think most HN users would expect that as well - just a pointer :)
Well it's open source and contributions are welcome, though it's a fairly sprawling java project that's probably not the easiest to get into still (through no lack of effort making it more accessible): https://github.com/MarginaliaSearch/MarginaliaSearch

If you have spare dollars but not time, you can also contribute to the war chest: https://about.marginalia-search.com/article/supporting/
I haven't had much luck using it as a search engine, but I ADORE using the "explore random websites" feature[1], and just browsing random personal blogs and sites, or kitsch neocity pages.

All of it feels so human and is a joy to view, in contrast to the raw garbage Google spews at me whenever I bother to use it.

[1] https://search.marginalia.nu/explore/random
You can also visit one in Germany at the Technik Museum Sinsheim[1]. It has the advantage that it can be compared to the soviet counterpart Tupolev Tu-144 that is also exposed.

[1] https://sinsheim.technik-museum.de/en/
Guessing those are missing ultra wide band?

Seems doubtful to me that someone implemented all three frequencies at 5 bucks
In the UK there's no significant regulatory advantage to big banks outside of the mortgage market, yet the same dynamics occur. The biggest issue for new digital banks is customer acquisition cost. Most consumers won't change bank accounts unless you spend hundreds of pounds on adverts and incentives.
ICC braces for Swift Trump sanctions over Israeli arrest warrants
They just didn't need to conscript younger, you're mistaking Ukraine to russia
I can't comment any more than I have on the situation the OP describes, but you raise a couple of good points in your reply.

Companies hiring interns as PR stunts and low-cost labor for menial tasks, or just throwing them in the deep end without mentoring, seems fairly common these days. Then employers complain that they can't find junior people.

I got started in my career as an intern, paid. I got assigned two mentors who had responsibility for getting me from newb to productive. They put in the time and effort and gave me valuable guidance, helping me learn the tools, the code base, and the organization. When I got hired the project manager told me I had no more than three months to sink or swim. I got offered full-time after a couple of months, and before long I got assigned to mentor new hires. I have always thought of that as one of the best places I have worked, and probably the best hiring process. That happened in 1979. Over the years I have seen mentoring and on-the-job training practically disappear, and now eager young people fresh out of school can't find those opportunities.
Q : What's the difference between a permie and a contractor? A: The contractor KNOWS they have no job security. ;). Your only real job security is your skillset. If that's good, lay-offs are often an opportunity rather than something to be feared. I've been laid off twice, 20 yrs apart. 1st company folded soon after. 2nd got taken over by bigger one. Was glad to be out in both cases, not happy place to remain. In both cases quickly got a better job, pay rise, and engineered a nice long break between jobs. 2cnd time I wasn't super happy there, but risk averse about moving due to young family. Lay-off was helpful push to look for something else. Found another job, then hopped on in 18 months to a great job. Got rid of a nasty commute in the process. Many people tell this story. Far too many of us stay places too long, we think "better the devil you know". Layoffs can be a blessing..... Caveat - if you're working a min wage job without a marketable skillset, layoff is indeed to be feared and a totally different experience.
Not looking at Google at all. All indexing is custom and in-house.
Looks great. I've scanned the front page of the GH repo and I don't see a mention of double-entry accounting, so curious if it is doing that under the hood?
More concerning is the practice of discarding the original audio recordings after transcription. This is a recipe for disaster. It removes the ability to verify the accuracy of the AI output and introduces serious ethical questions and it compromises patient safety, all for the sake of efficiency?
Granger Causality Detection with Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks
It Is Time to Standardize Principles and Practices for Software Memory Safety
> I think we’ve lived without these diseases for so long that some people (stupid, selfish people) simply think they don’t exist or pose a threat any more.

This is true beyond just vaccines. All too often hardships are forgotten, history is just old pictures and stories, and people who are too far disconnected from those real events and don't learn from history will just walk the same path, leading to the same hardships.

They all think that the world is better today so they're smarter or better than the old generations, that the world evolved so they're intrinsically prepared, so the pains of the past can't harm them. Ironically they're ignoring all the lessons and the tools that made the world better and are needed to keep it like that, and instead think things are better because they just are.

They'll skip any vaccines or support extremist regimes because they think the modern world is just immune to this, it's intrinsically and permanently "fixed". We have freedoms or don't get sick because we "just" have freedoms and don't get sick.

Having close family spending a lifetime paralyzed by the polio virus before a vaccine was widely available, or spending some of my life in the cold embrace of dictatorship really drove the point home for me about learning the lessons of history.
I dont get it, everyone wants to work for big tech or big corporations in general and then wonder why they do stuff like this.

Go to small companies, yes they pay less but also yes: you will have real impact and they actually need you.
Mostly a bad advice.
Not sure why you are being downvoted.
I live in welfare mecca with the worlds highest tax pressure and heqlthcare is breaking under the load.

Staff is overworked and underpayed, waiy lines for crucial procedures can count to decades.

The workforce is aging because young people have stoped reproducing and fear of losing welfare money and the sight of brown faces prevents authoritiesfrom importing competent foreign non eutopean workforce.

This will collapse. There is no doubt this is not sustainable.

This is not an uneven distribution of wealth. Its a monster system that costs more than the national GDP can reasonably sustain in the long term.

Now I am no proponent of privatized healthcare, the current system does not work though.

Everyone suffers like this.

Note: My employer provides private healthcare insueance for us. I live in the richest part if the world. The Nordics.
My private insurances gets me same day medical appointments.

The poor sods that cannot afford it have to wait weeks.

Tell me how this is fair and how wonderful the nordic welfare is??

Its americanized and terrible for almost twice the price
They can, but they also hallucinate non-existent references:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/05694345231218454
For what reasons do you recommend it?
I think it was Paul Graham that likened software dev to gardening. But yes, the woodworking analogy is more appealing.
That's because they have a budget which is planned ahead (e.g., 2024 for 2025) for everything.

Typically if the company is really in financial trouble, they will also NOT use the pre-allocated budget which was not yet spent (=200k for company events, although the budget for such things was planned and approved last year).

I have seen companies actually taking care of finances (both firing people AND blocking useless events) and I have seen companies doing what you said, which creates pure hatred.
Also mostly it's speculation of an accepted kind. Executives can say, listen we have these initiatives, I think they will print money next year, so based on this prediction I will raise the budget for the FY. Then when the prediction of revenue fails, you do cuts, oh well you were wrong. But next year you can do the same thing. Game theory wise this works because if you're right, you bet big, hire big, are ahead next year vs your competitors that invested less. If it goes wrong you are seen as a serious executive that has the courage to have layoffs when needed, and if your market is ebbing your competitors will also be suffering somewhat.

It's also easy to make the next year prediction be whatever you want since in a small company it's just you saying a number that the board doesn't think is too outrageous and in a large company involves you asking an analyst to increase the word of mouth factor of their model or whatever.
There's a lot of updating old systems that are creaking .. and paying dearly through the nose for the privilege going on in the UK also it seems.

The latest example past the newsdesk:

A UK council is set to use up to £25 million ($31 million) from the sale of capital assets such as property to fund an Oracle-based transformation project that has seen expected costs mushroom from £2.6 million to around £40 million ($50 million).

UK council selling the farm (and the fire station) to fund ballooning Oracle project https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/27/west_sussex_oracle_as...
Managers have a budget. They can't save it, and may spend big on consultants to create a buffer for their team when cuts hit. This is especially true in government, and big companies are similar.

There is only one person who really can stop cycles hitting budgets and that is the CEO. IIRC Warren Buffett lamented the fact that the CEO is more of an investor than a manager and that spending budgets as a senior manager gives them almost no experience in setting those budgets.
Everybody makes mistakes. Higher up in the company (or goverment) mistakes are usually more expensive. Painful, but I see no way around this.
The crux of finding a HID proxy-capable USB Bluetooth adapter (2014, still true)
For those wondering, he was laid off from Shopify (quick search on LinkedIn revealed, not mentioned in article)
If your business fails you will consider yourself a failure. Thus these life lessons leads us to buddhist concept of self-detachment.
As I mentioned in another comment, don't buy, just use Microsoft Activation Script, then you can choose whichever AI-free version you prefer.
Yeah that's very misleading. You note questions from 1 to 5 then they show you an average of answers from 0 to 4 (you'll never get an average below 1 and of course probably not a linear scale anyway).

We already had that discussion when websites used star ratings where you couldn't rate 0 star...
Is this the same thing as create_function for python?

https://docs.python.org/3/library/sqlite3.html#sqlite3.Conne...
I don't know when do you think I wrote that "the how" was needed because of course it's not needed. Again, OP wrote about just having "the why" in the message which is bad imho and you need "the what" there as well. As per your commit, the title is "fix crash when enabling pass-through port" which is exactly what I mean - it says what was done in a clear manner.
Great read OP. My only hope is that somewhere in the future, when these "efficiency-focused" companies close. (Nobody there will build anything special soon and they can easily be disrupted.) Maybe, just maybe, someone would start something that will do things differently, and others will follow.
> Avoid going above and beyond with initiatives. Many companies encourage impactful work to earn promotions, but instead of chasing internal advancements, focus on switching companies to achieve your next career step.

This is probably the most heartbreaking aspect of modern HR policy.

It’s not just about layoffs. It’s about the way the company incentivizes (or doesn’t) worker loyalty and enthusiasm. You could have employees that spend their entire career at a company, and refuse to ever “go the extra mile,” because there’s obviously no motivation to do so.

Loyalty, engagement, and morale usually comes from things other than paychecks. Often, simple, basic Respect can have huge impact on the motivation and loyalty of employees.

It’s actually quite mystifying [to me], how modern HR practice seems to actively discourage things like treating employees with Respect.

I worked for a company that was (at the time I joined them) quite well-known for employee retention. I think the average length of stay was about 25 years, when I joined. They didn’t pay especially well, so their corporate work environment was responsible for that retention.

As the years went on, I watched the HR Department become much colder, and more impersonal. They became absolutely obsessive about constantly reminding employees, at every possible opportunity, that we were simply replaceable cogs in the machine, and that the company could get rid of us, at a whim. They never really improved their compensation, and gradually removed many incentives, so it became all stick, and no carrot.

Performance evaluations became insulting and predictable exercises in humiliation. I was often told to reduce the encouragement in my evaluations (I was a manager, for many years). I used to take pride in specific and eloquent praise in my evaluations. My employees really appreciated that.

HR definitely wanted to make sure that employees felt insecure in their employment. It was obviously a deliberate and calculated policy. Our HR was run by the corporate General Counsel, so, lawyers set the tone.

By the time I left (as a result of a much-anticipated layoff), the employee morale was completely in the shitter, and the company’s much-vaunted employee retention statistic was no more.
The risk is not that they shut down, the risk is that you lose your hosting account.

It happens all of the time.

Downloading your mailbox is trivial, comparing it to self-hosting is not accurate. (I do both.)
In many countries, a number of visas are employer bound or sponsored, so there's a wide array of reasons why some relevant documents might live in the corporate sphere. Depending on policy, you might not be allowed to transfer it to a personal device. There are often many more documents to a visa than just the visa itself.
What would be the analogy? That programmers plant exploits in their code, only to quit their job and collect money from the exploits? That seems pretty far fetched. It also seems like something that could be easily fixed by companies suing anyone who does this into the ground for planting backdoors. Or just prosecuting them in a normal court.
Not a gmail invention perhaps, but also not per RFC. That some use it to mean something special is not in the RFC. Actually, a significant number of SMTP servers don't even implement the required parts of the related RFCs, let alone fancy things like plus handling.
It would be 2020 and older; only cars which are subject to this check.
> But today, companies are announcing layoffs alongside record-breaking financial results. You work hard, focus on impactful projects, and receive praise from your lead—only to find yourself let go by someone who likely doesn’t even know you exist

This what happens when country policy and businesses are driven by awful neoliberal economic theory and neoclassical/orthodox economic policy.

For the past 40 years, we have seen:

- wage stagnation for labor

- decreasing worker protections (in tech, this means forced NDAs, arbitration, non-compete clauses)

- significant decreases in social safety nets

- increasing wage disparity across the board

- decrease in investment of labor and company and emphasis on stock —manipulation— buy back programs and layoffs for short term gains

- decreasing participation in labor unions and thus decrease in collective bargaining power for labor

- non-transparent pay grades across the industry

- rampant wage theft in the form of: “instead of paying overtime, give you a title, a salary, and expect you to push more than 40 hrs a week” (or do a job that usually requires 3-4 people)

- decreasing worker loyalty to companies

- increasing consolidation of power and money through monopolies and monopsonies
"Europe consists of many countries, and different countries have significantly different welfare models."

In general, single payer healthcare + pay-as-you-go pension systems + relatively comfortable welfare systems + high taxation and regulation to support those systems.

Yes, there are meaningful differences across the continent. But visible outliers are scarce. One of the really nasty consequences is underfunded defense, which caught up with us once Russia started acting on its imperial dreams.

"Many EU countries have enough wealth, the problem is that it is unevenly distributed."

A typical EU government spends about 40 per cent of the GDP, with the heaviest part of the spending being pensions. The worst outlier, France, around 55 per cent. If this is not enough, it will never be enough, short of mass expropriations.

We already have a massive brain drain to the US. More punitive taxation = more brain drain.
Facebook ban on discussing Linux?
>Regulations in Europe are written by people that you would not otherwise trust to write a shopping list.

That doesn't sound like you think any regulation written by them is good.

>Russia's active policy was to increase the west's energy dependence on it so that it's less likely that the west would oppose Russian imperialism.

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. Russia's goals are just the same as Big Oil's. For instamce the Green Party in Germany tried to reduce that dependency but was hit by a massive campaing by the BILD newspaper. Its main investor KKR invests extensively in fossil fuels.
So I'm NOT crazy for remembering that being a feature in old Teams! Thanks for confirming!
TSMC founder Morris Chang [video]
In the most recent incident the ship was also detained, forgot which country it was.
The cutoff is at modern infotainment systems. If you still have a car stereo, you're probably good.
For the anecdote, my first introduction to programming (and to computers in general) was in french schools with Thomson TO7, and the language used was Logo, with french keywords. But I agree, english keyword are not really the difficult point when learning to program (for countries with latin alphabet)
Fun fact if you want to change your office hours timezone to something other than the US default in Teams, you can't do it from Teams, you can't do it from Outlook, you can ONLY do it from the settings in the Outlook web app. Absolutely bizarre and broken situation
a lot of memories !
> I didn't want to take more than 15 vacation days in 2024

You probably did not have to. Your employer could have simply paid you for your remaining days.

> and wanted to take much more/longer in 2025.

Again, you can do that. You can actually transfer your free days from year to year. This is not something the EU forbids so it may be dependent on how your country does it.

> Reasons like this are why EU is on a free fall.

It seems that the reason why EU is in a free fall, according to you, is your lack of understanding how things work.
Ours were a certain beige colour.
For this kind of qualitative research I stand by the subjectivity of the questions asked as more informative. Retention is in itself a subjective construct.

Sure, you want "number go up" on average, but staying at a company for two years means something completely different to a restless jobhopper compared to a stability-minded employee with a family. Likert scales are perfect for this because they let respondents be their own judge of how well this job is retaining them.

Same goes for the perception of the value of their stock, but I admit it would be really nice to have the absolute value here in addition to the subjective scale to detect an interaction effect.

I do agree that the "actively looking elsewhere" label on the graph for the retention question is laughable.
My experience is that many liberal Americans tend to admire European welfare systems as a counterpoint to the more cut-throat US systems, and really, really don't want to discuss the downsides.

People need to dream, I guess.

The US is a terrible place to live in if you are poor. But for a typical Hacker News denizen, moving anywhere to the high-taxation domiciles of Europe would mean a major loss of income and worsening of many services.
US leadership in AI requires open-source diplomacy
China is leveraging open-source AI models to gain global influence, potentially creating dependencies on its technology and values. This article argues that U.S. policymakers are focusing on the wrong threats by restricting open AI models and suggests that embracing open-source innovation is key to maintaining U.S. leadership in AI. It outlines strategies like investing in open development, promoting adoption, and avoiding restrictive policies to counter China's growing AI dominance. A compelling call for 'open-source diplomacy' in the AI race. This was written over a week ago, and now with the advent of the R1 model out of China it seems even more relevant and timely.