skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Idk, this article assumes that the company before the recent changes reflected his beliefs of how companies should be run. But the way I see it, it's pretty clear he disagreed with a lot of it, and just felt too much pressure (internal from employees, external from the media) to not fall in line.

Does no one remember that in the 2010s, Zuck went around trying to advocate against the calls for censoring "disinformation", arguing free speech shouldn't be regulated by a company? These types of views aren't new for him, they were aggressively suppressed by the press which published thousands of articles calling his ideas anything from "reckless" to "violent."[1][2]

At some point, he gave in, in part because the new administration very much agreed with the media on this (and again, many of Meta's employees). But now he has the political cover to run things the way he actually wants to, which we can see from his public remarks years ago.

So, you can I guess call him a "coward," but it would be misinformed, in my opinion, to claim he's a coward because he's seemingly kowtowing to the Trump people in the changes he's making. On the contrary, if anything he was a being a coward before by not following through on his true convictions!

(fwiw, I don't agree any of this is cowardice. It's extremely difficult to run a company at that scale and try to keep everyone happy, and he's only human at the end of the day. The author simply disagrees with his currently expressed opinions. If he agreed, she might be calling him a hero, though probably not. I also think laying the NIH stuff at his feet is a huge non-sequitor. Zuck has nothing to do with any of that, idk what she's expecting he's supposed to do about it?)

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/18/mark-zuckerberg-georgetown-s...
[2] https://www.google.com/search?q=mark+zuckerberg+tour+talking...
Yeah, I think a key point here is recognizing that the law isn’t always aligned with morality, depending on the issue you’re protesting for/against.
We launched HTTP request logs early in 2024, which would have made things easier to debug. Similarly, we're launching full OpenTelemetry exports in a few weeks.

Deep observability is critical for more complex environments, and things are improving dramatically on this front just as they have on Postgres.

We already support AWS PrivateLink! Reach out to support@render.com.
Brings a whole new meaning to "history is written by the winners"
Given sama is a Bay Area native now, I think he might not feel as connected to Chicago or St Louis or the Midwest in general.
I'll elaborate. You'd think that by putting N powerbanks daisy chained together (except i imagine at either end) you get ~N times the mAh or runtime but i think you get probably .25N or less. the "last" powerbank in the chain, the one you'd charge to charge them all, would run out of power first, and about 15% of seconds more afterward, the second one, then the next, with the "first" powerbank, the one you're using for its USB ports to power a load lasting about 2x as long, no matter how many powerbanks you put in a row.

this is a supposition, but i don't think the numbers are very far off. Most powerbanks are 18650 or 26650 inside - flatter or "better" ones are lifepo or lipoly or whatever, instead of cylindrical Li-Ion. anyhow those are 4.2V nominal and USB wants 5V so all single cell or parallel'd 18650/26650 power banks are going to use a boost converter to get the voltage to 5.1V nominal at the USB terminal (assuming a dumb power bank, a power bank with power delivery will boost that even higher but also probably has multiple batteries in series, but that doesn't matter, it makes efficiency worse for our daisy chain regardless!). So these boost circuits "charge" something and store it until there's the correct number of electrons to equal whatever charge/joules is required to run the load. There is >15% wasted as heat either in the capacitor or the inductor (depending on the style of boost converter). There's another ~15% or so lost in the charging circuit, as it has to take 5.0VDC in and run a charging circuit (similar to mppt) on the battery at different voltages and/or amperages which again waste is generated as heat. Cable losses in the daisy chain probably account for a percent or two each, the indicator lights across all the power banks, plus all the microprocessors/etc inside of them probably waste another couple percent.
I agree that the US might withdraw (under Trump), but the EU can defend itself. It spends EUR 330 billion on defense, way more than Russia. It has more people. It can build nuclear weapons on demand.

I think all the statements that the EU "is freeloading" on the US are not factual. The US spends more than the EU because it has a nuclear arsenal (forbidden for many EU countries) and regularly engages in hegemonic wars like in the second Iraq war or in Afghanistan.

If the US withdraws its forces from the EU, Poland alone could stop a Russian invasion, not to mention a two front war with Finland involved.

I blame the EU politicians for not responding with more confidence and concrete examples like the above to Trump's recent statements. Trump has no cards to play. If he leaves, good riddance. If he threatens 50% tariffs, block Google, Meta, Amazon, X and Tesla. This is the language he understands.
Fair point. Kubernetes seems to have been designed as a system to abstract across large physical machines, but instead we're using it in "right-sized" VM environments, which is solving the exact same set of problems in a different way.

Similar to how we developed a language that could use many cores very well, and compiles to a single binary, but we use that language almost exclusively in environments that scale by running multiple instances of the same executable on the same machine, and package/distribute that executable in a complicated tarball/zipping process.

I wonder if there's a name for this, solving the same problem twice but combining the solutions in a way that renders the benefits moot.
I sincerely believe "obvious troll" was the strongest possible interpretation of that comment.

edit: For with it's worth, "don't feed trolls" is also an HN guideline ("Don't feed egregious comments by replying").
In a lot of modern corporate jobs, how hard you turn the crank of effort is almost completely disconnected from the outcomes that you see.

Beyond a small minimum requirement, turning the crank more only leads to the expectation that you will continue to turn that crank that much. Rewards for going beyond -- money, security, autonomy -- are rarely present and almost never in proportion to how much you turn the crank. Plus, one day the company will decide it no longer needs you to turn the crank anymore, and without so much as a "thank you" you're on your own.
Their point is that cowardice isn't necessary to explain the obvious. He's a CEO, he's going to do what's most profitable. "Cowardice" suggests that if he were more brave he would sacrifice profit on the basis of some principle, but as a CEO principle was never part of the equation to begin with.
> Bitcoin, the most popular cryptcoin in the world, is far from quick and cheap to exchange

Compared to what?

Let’s say your goal is to get some wealth out of Tibet into India.

Is it “quick and easy” to do that with dollars? Or Yuan? How about gold bricks? Maybe goats?

I’m not sure what the Chinese authorities at the border would have to say about those things.

With Bitcoin you can memorize a phrase like “witch collapse practice feed shame open despair creek road again ice least” and with that information in your brain you can move any amount of money anywhere your brain can go.

That is one _utility_ of Bitcoin. Just like one _utility_ of a dollar bill is I can put it in a Coke machine.
I'm sharing my opinion on a related thread. Sure, I agree with the article. What makes you say that I am ill-informed, except that you disagree with me? Is it a rule that anyone disagreing with you is ill-informed?
We've used various methods over the years, but we'll check this one out. Thanks!
What about Zen5?
> In fact, in almost 2 decades of using Linux every day, I can't remember X doing anything similar. It's always just worked.

Well, we have very different memories then. Sure, X worked reliably once configured. But configuring it was a marathon in hell, as per by my memory, and all the litany of forum posts crying out for help all across the internet. Like, I have at one point had to rescue an install by changing back the config file without a screen at all!
A judge had said that it's as if the arrest had not occurred and ordered the record sealed. Without reporting the whole story, they're certainly not telling the "truth."
R1 is a mixture model with only 37B active params. So while it's definitely expensive to train, it's rather light on compute during inference. All you really need is lots of memory.
Good question. Seems pretty clear the new administration doesn't believe in such concepts.
Oh and the penny pinchers have consistently under-leased space and forced the worst setting imaginable on most of us - open floorpans. So RTO is disruptive, distracting and pointless.

My small team of 3-4 will occasionally go to the office when someone is in town, ask for a room/office get denied and assigned random open floorpan seats.

Usually sat next to the interns or the Helpdesk or some other noisy group we don't interact with at all.

Often they can't even find contiguous seating so we are sat hodgepodge amongst people we don't work with.

Would be better to go to a WeWork or something.

They really think we are cattle.
Kansas tuberculosis outbreak is America's largest recorded since the 1950s
Not first party, but they offer integrations with Neon, Supabase, PlanetScale, and Crunchy Bridge for managed pg.

Their “you’re on your own” option is really nice though for cheap, non-mission-critical stuff, and you can even scale the compute to zero during inactivity and just pay the attached volume costs.
Ah stop the whining, you're getting paid, do the work as asked by your employer. If you don't like it or think it's unfair, quit. Quiet quitting is stealing in my book. Employers should be free to fire any employee for underperformance.
They're talking about the post itself and its structure
Lie, say you're sorry, lie again.
Looks and sounds great, and works at resolutions greater than 320x200! The game content consists of raster tiles and sprites, so I've just set to to 640x400, which works great on my 1920x1200 display.

Although that website contains what must be the most egregious misuse of a hamburger menu I've ever seen.
Rousseau, Emile:

"The essential thing is to be good to the people with whom one lives. Abroad, the Spartan was ambitious, avaricious. iniquitous. But disinterestedness, equity, and concord reigned within his walls. Distrust those cosmopolitans who go to great length in their books to discover duties they do not deign to fulfill around them. A philosopher loves the Tartars so as to be spared having to love his neighbors."
"nobody wants to work anymore" is something they've literally found in greek writing back 2000 years haha.
Not if your dependencies end up costing more in the long run.
In the case of Argentina they literally are waiting for the weather to improve. Much of their economy is based on agricultural exports and crops have suffered from drought lately.
It may be easier to run apt-get install or yum install as a user but having done both I'd say that creating new OS level distro packages is a lot harder work than Dockerfiles to setup and is likely to run only on the specific system for which it was built and will need to be rebuilt and maybe modified every time you upgrade the OS. Docker images will run pretty much everywhere and tend to stay stable for a long time modulo security upgrades. Distro packaging is great for managing things that come with a distro where all the spec files are already written. That's likely not your webapp. Plus it's not a layer cake like Docker. That's a huge advantage that lets you leverage the expertise required for the different layers of your app or reuse publicly available base images.
More like we're in the first phase of the war.
This seems to sap the intrigue out of research. But I get it. My impression of academia is antiquated. People have Jobs to do. Capital J. And this is more convenient to them. Even though I think it makes them look sort of dumb. But that’s just me and I’m not an academic anyhow.

While I welcome the rise of parallel shadow institutions as civilization grows spiritlessly utilitarian, the future for common sense looks bleak.
Once German and Polish markets for Russian gas disappeared, smaller players immediately grabbed the opportunity. For Orban and Fico cheap Russian gas means absolute lifetime power in Hungary and in Slovakia.
So you don’t think Sam Altruistic Altman is really just in it for helping out the human race by creating “a global identity system through scanning people's irises”…?
It's almost like you don't want tearing when browsing the web and your documents, but games can take over the precise control of rendering.. because they are games that want to do so?

How is that bad design?
Boom Supersonic (US) has a Mach 1 test flight in 2 days, https://www.aerotime.aero/articles/boom-supersonic-mach-one-...

Test flight livestream (Tue Jan 28 6:45AM PST/9:45AM EST/2:45PM GMT), https://boomsupersonic.com/flyby/xb-1-supersonic-test-flight...
VAE - Variational Autoencoders...AI shit
Before Office 365 (later Microsoft 365), things were pretty clear.
I’m arguing in good faith. The Iraq War was the biggest mistake in recent American history. Which is why the realignment of pro-Iraq War republicans to democrats—and democrats’ acceptance of them—is so shocking. Liz Cheney should be politically radioactive. Instead Biden gave her a medal. Harris campaigned with her.

I think you may have the causation reversed. I voted for Biden in 2020. But the intelligence community has no credibility and are just trying to get us into war with Russia. That letter never should’ve been taken seriously by real democrats.
- Completely agree on more instance sizes similar out our Postgres

- More granular secret access (and, in general, more granular RBAC) are on the list for 2025

- Render is now ISO 27001 certified [1], and we help you pass SOC 2/ISO 27001 audits.

Thanks for the support team shoutout!

[1] https://render.com/blog/render-iso-27001-and-document-center
American "growth" companies aren't 100% funded by the USA Gov't with the only goal being to damage foreign national private sector companies. American companies are private sector only and have a business model that's to benefit a company, not a nation. In China all companies function as part of their National Party.
I think it boils down to quality of life. If you’re payed bank but feel abused you won’t be happy. If every day feels like a weekend with the buds but you can’t put food on the table you won’t be happy.

People want and need: autonomy, purpose, mastery. Many (direct) managers can advocate for a raise but have no direct authority to grant it. All managers can provide employees with quality of life improvements that cost nothing without any approval at all.
It has a waitlist and appears to be a fork to VS Code... But I will give it a try!
I think there's a legitimate argument to be made that ChatGPT and Gemini's free versions constitute unfair (and potentially even illegal) predatory pricing. They aren't even charging the price of the inference compute, which has got to make it much much harder for competing businesses to survive.

I.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predatory_pricing / https://www.ftc.gov/advice-guidance/competition-guidance/gui...
Yeah I think it says a lot about (possibly US?) office culture if ”not doing anything more than expected” is labeled ”quitting”.
Sometimes when I go camping, outside the glow of the city, I see the bright dots of the "Starlink satellite train"—that arc of newly launched satellites on their way into orbit. Even knowing what they are, and that they're temporary, just seeing them up in the sky is obscene. There should be places you can go where humans can't ruin the view.
> how much new medical research is just hype nonsense

There are actual rules in medicine about the devices, medicines, and procedures you can and can’t use. You can’t just have a doctor use a device or medicine that hasn’t been proven to be as good or better than the existing standard of care (unless you’re specifically participating in a clinical trial). So the amount of BS you can get away with is limited in that way.

However, medical providers are also under a lot more financial stress than most startups, and less constrained by market pressures, so there’s a lot more incentive for straight up corruption (e.g. ordering unnecessary expensive tests).
Zelle isn't run by the banks, it's operated by Early Warning and it's a scam service designed to harvest everyone's bank transaction history for intelligence gathering and fraud detection services

https://www.earlywarning.com/
As with all oligarchs, Zuckerberg's moral compass points whichever way the wind is blowing.

Capitulation is contagious, especially when it's profitable: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/03/washing...
Things were going to get worse regardless of what Milei did. Argentina had literally run out of other people's money. There was nothing left.
Build a mini-ChatGPT that's powered by DeepSeek-R1 (100% local)
How the New York Times Website Got Its URL
He didn't name it OpenEye?
"Beliefs"? Classic binary "if you're not with us, you're against us" thinking. Believe it or not, a lot of people didn't really give a hoot about either side of the culture wars squabbling and just went with the flow.
Others have called out how silly your comparison is, but Gates and Microsoft have contributed to plenty of local things. Bill and Melinda have given hundreds of millions to local universities [1], tens of millions to local schools [2], millions to local charities [3] and you'll find their names on the donor lists of plenty of local institutions (arts, etc.). You could have seen all of this with a single search for "Bill Gates Seattle donation" but instead came here to make malicious accusations.

[1]: https://globalhealth.washington.edu/news/2017/01/25/seattle-...

[2]: https://www.gatesfoundation.org/ideas/media-center/press-rel...

[3]: https://www.uwkc.org/donate/gates-endowment/
May I suggest Scrivener? It’s somewhat geared toward novels, but is very useful in other domains as well. Plus, it’s a one time buy.
"more often by unchecked supremacy clause execution."

Which is also quite often legistrature dysfunction.
"Work to rule" is what it used to be called.
Right... but we all know this guy beat his girlfriend from the report. She didn't want to press charges, that doesn't mean this guy is innocent and it doesn't mean he shouldn't suffer reputational harm. For the good of any future women who might consider dating him it's actually in the interest of society that people like this have arrest reports published about them. Many abuse victims are too scared to press charges and just suffer silently. In doing so it enables abusers to move on to new victims who have no way of knowing until it's too late.
Well, when “quiet working” gets overlooked and unrewarded, what’s an employee supposed to do?
Could you point to upcoming prospective breakthroughs for Hydrogen, in that case?
it's all fun to call it now coward when he rollback all his fake news/DEI stuff, but when he put it for biden administration, it was all for better. go figure.
There's a very nice book about the rise and fall of Bell labs: "The idea factory"
Because it's only possible in the USA. In the rest of the world everything is a bank and regulated as such.
Claude makes a genuine effort to encourage the user to push back. The reason for this becomes apparent when you look at the system prompts:

"Claude is intellectually curious. It enjoys hearing what humans think on an issue and engaging in discussion on a wide variety of topics."

"Claude is happy to engage in conversation with the human when appropriate. Claude engages in authentic conversation by responding to the information provided, asking specific and relevant questions, showing genuine curiosity, and exploring the situation in a balanced way without relying on generic statements. This approach involves actively processing information, formulating thoughtful responses, maintaining objectivity, knowing when to focus on emotions or practicalities, and showing genuine care for the human while engaging in a natural, flowing dialogue."

https://docs.anthropic.com/en/release-notes/system-prompts#n...
America Has Fallen in Love with Long-Shot Sports Bets
"Allowed to" pulls a lot of weight here, do you mean legally, socially, or something else?

I do agree though, there's no good solution to the problem. That's one of the biggest indicators for me that state regulation, at least enforceable regulation, isn't the right answer.

Companies, employees, industry organizations, etc can all come up with their own solutions that they're happy with though. A primary feature of federalism is allowing smaller groups to try different solutions, its pretty good at more quickly finding a solution that may actually work well enough universally
That's a false equivalence. There's more nuance than that. Both OpenAI and Google have a genuine private-sector business model, whereas my claim is that DeepSeek is totally a China Gov't entity.
TL;DR - Our department was originally an independent football analytics startup

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/oct/17/arsenal-pla...
Don't forget:

- No pervasive surveillance, which is also a form of micromanagement
The reason I’m on year 20 with an employer is because they tick those boxes. And also box 5: reasonably interesting/challenging/creative work. For me as a software developer that’s as simple as ”not making CRUD webapps”.
I recommend the following video lectures from a course: https://www.youtube.com/@deeplearningsystemscourse1116/

It covers ground I don't know where else to find on getting from theory to practice.
Excel has interesting new features. It’s the only reason I'm contemplating upgrading.
By "first principles" do you mean something long "learn from the ground up" or " from basic building blocks"?

I like learning things starting from small, atomic this, then building up and learning higher layers of abstraction and functionality later. I tend to find hands on totals too "top down" in the sense that they start with all the told in place and then give you a cursory look into what's actually happening.

Personally I feel like most things in the world aren't really that complicated when you understand the building blocks. There are a few core ideas and then a bunch of layers on top to organize and utilize those ideas for different applications. So if I have an interest in something I want to learn from the ground up.
EU will only be able to defend itself if it stays united, which is not a given in the future.

There is no guarantee that part of the EU will decide not to block any joint military action for either fear of retaliation from russia or because of separate peace agreements with it.

You can see that right now US incites division in multiple ways: Musk in Germany, Republicans in UK, Trump in Denmark.

These are all coordinated attacks with the same strategic goals.
You mean super aggravating.
My english major friend in college adopted this affectation because of ee cummings.

Sort of the September of English Lit I figure.
Their work in education has often been a mixed bag, sometimes spending huge amounts of money to enact initiatives based on little or no empirical research that ultimately hurt the students who have the misfortune of being saved by yet another tech billionaire who believes skill in computer programming and business mean they’re an authority on everything.