skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean do you really need a “study” for this?

If you are good at your job and you are forced to return to office, you have other choices and you get another job.

If you don’t have other choices because you aren’t good at your job, you return to the office.

It’s the ultimate “Dead Sea Effect”.

https://brucefwebster.com/2008/04/11/the-wetware-crisis-the-...

> I think low preformers are going to get RIFed

Has the Trump administration ever made competence a requirement for employment? He wants RFK to be the head of health and human services
> the UUIDs could also be service specific, so they cannot be cross referenced across different sites in case of leaks.

Assuming services play nice. What if they start sharing UUIDs amongst each other, for example for advertising purposes?

Worse what is stopping companies from creating both service and verifier? Nothing, as Amazon already has both. I do not trust them not to abuse this.

And even if in theory all companies do the respect my privacy. I am one government away, from seeing a law passed, that makes it mandatory to report all UUIDs to the government. The potential for tracking is off the charts.

Right now it takes forever to trace everything. You can realistically only do it for a select targets. If you implement this UUID system, suddenly it becomes much easier to trace everyone's actions.
When meat packing plants slowed down, their owners started losing money and complained to the government, who granted them waivers to open. Workers there of course caught covid and spread it to their families.

They also pushed schools to open sooner on the basis that children were not as affected, but they caused teachers and staff to become infected and die.

Trump put his dilletante son-in-law in charge of the logistic effort to distribute equipment, and Jared went on to recruit his rich buddies on the task for instead of experts, prompting Jack Kennedy's grandson of all people to blow the whistle, wondering why they were in charge of this monumental task instead of you know... experts.

One thing they did was take equipment from states that needed it and redirect it to states that were loyal to Trump but didn't need the equipment.

They also seized equipment purchased by states at airports, to the point states had to meet planes on the tarmac and escort the equipment to hospitals with state police.

The end result is that the US had one of the worst pandemic responses in the early days, and today we have the distinction as the country with the most covid deaths (over 1 million) as well as having an absurdly high death rate compared to peer nations.
you say that like it's a bad thing
> Traditional allocators are fast

Really it's allocators in general. Allocations are perceived as expensive only because they are mostly dependent on the amortized cost of prior deallocations. As an extreme example, even GCs can be fast if you avoid deallocation because most typically have a long-lived object heap that rarely gets collected - so if you keep things around that can be long-lived (pooling) their cost mostly goes away.
The Drunken Plagiarists - Working with Co-pilots
> Are these tasks really complex enough for people that they are itching to relegate the remaining scrap of required labor to a machine?

I think I sympathize with your feeling but I don't agree with the premise of the question. Do you have or have you ever had a human personal assistant or secretary?

An effective human personal assistant can feel like a gift from God. Suddenly a lot of the things that prevent you from concentrating on what you absolutely must focus on, especially if you have a busy life, are magically sorted out. The person knows what you need and knows when you need it and gets it for you; they understand what you ask for and guess what you forgot to ask for. Things you needed organized become organized while you work after giving minimal instructions. Life just gets so much better!

When I imagine that machines might be able to become good or effective personal assistants for everyone … If this stuff ever works well it will be a huge life upgrade for everyone. Imagine always having someone who can help you, ready to help you. My father would call the secretary pool to send someone to his office. My kids will probably just speak and powerful machines will show up to help.
Subaru's got an unusually complicated infotainment setup.

If you'd like to do a more meaningful comparison, Mazda might be interesting, since they do focus on simplicity and use real buttons and switches.
If somebody is using your website to phish, it almost certainly means they are targeting people who legitimately want your services. It is an executive decision, but I personally would let people know, and take the free advertising.
I shan't be denied my right to wildly speculate.
A new definition of obesity goes beyond BMI. What this could mean for you
Interesting how the obfuscated code is explained by slowly unobfuscating it step by step. This is the reverse of how obfuscated code is normally created: by starting with understandable code, and then slowly obfuscating it bit by bit (as I explained for this IOCCC submission [1]).

I say normally because one could also have a superoptimizer search for a minimal program that achieves some desired behaviour, and then one has to understand it by slowly unraveling the generated code.

[1] https://tromp.github.io/maze.html
CS 1.6 was exclusive to Steam; I remember waiting quite a while to register because I didn't like the idea of Steam but ultimately caved (still have a 6 digit steam id, which used to sort of but not really mean something). The server browser in CS 1.5 and below was built into the menu's on the application.

This is indeed the Steam UI, not Counter-Strike. This was also back when they had games like Go built in that you could play with people on your friends list.
Useful feedback - thanks. The content you're seeing may be misleading for what the platform really does. Let me explain.

The "hot topic" thing is just chatgpt creating conversation starters. Sometimes, its' leaning left, sometimes right, sometimes it's not political. We're tuning it up (mainly to just be more engaging).

The post you saw about Elon Musk ... Everyone is talking about whatever they feel like talking about. If Musk isn't your cup of tea, mute this anonymous person and you don't see each other for a week. It's only a week because maybe one of you was having a bad day. But with repeated muting, they're completely gone. Also nudges the system to group you with people you're going to like better. After enough respects and mutes, you should see the people you enjoy.

The bigger point is what happens once you bring your friends. You guys can talk about anything without getting angry at each other. If they irritate, mute 'em. If you enjoy the conversation, respect them. Enough mutual respect and you can see real names.
Republicans have never cared about reducing the deficit. Trump isn’t even a traditional Republican. He definitely doesn’t care about the deficit

https://www.investopedia.com/democrats-vs-republicans-who-ha...
It says in the article that there is a comment period next month. NEC could backpedal / adjust the requirement to accommodate this particular use case. Failing that, states could create their own exception to the NEC. Failing that, EVSE manufacturers will need to change their product designs.
Django with SaaSPegasus. Lots of control over the interactivity of the site, due to fine-grained data modeling.
Ha, I had this exact problem asked as an interview question.

IIRC their real life solution was to leave gaps between elements (eg index 0, 100, 200… instead of 0, 1, 2) and re index when needed. Probably works well enough, what I came up with is (as you say) the idea of fractional indexing, but dealing with decimals is a pain so you can instead represent them as vectors, which you can just represent as a string of numbers that you sort lexicographically.

So an element inserted between elements 1 and 2 gets an index 11 (anything between 11-19 is fine). Between 1 and 11 is 101. Between 11 and 2 is 12 (or anything between 12-19). Note that these indexes are not numbers, they’re string that are compared lexicographically.

I’m sure there’s downsides, eg it takes a lot more memory to sort these indexes (strings are much larger than numbers). It feels a bit too smart to not have unexpected downsides.
What’s meant to go under /Users/<username>/Applications ? If I’m the only user of the machine is there a difference between that and /Applications ?

Looks like for me the only thing is Jetbrains IDEs installed themselves there hmm.
Removing Barriers to American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence
They don't need a full exemption to GFCI, just the current raised from 5 mA to 30 mA.
"This view is based on a misunderstanding of why people pay for software."

Do many people pay for software. Other than some small, one-time donations to shareware back in the day and to more recent project that operates outside of "app stores" I pay zero dollars for software. It is a negligible expense.

No doubt businesses still pay for software. Having friends in software sales, I know it does not necessarily sell itself. It takes (non-developer) work. Whether businesses truly need to purchase these licenses is an open question. Most companies I know want to reducedd their software bill, some believe they are being overcharged.
Yes, that's true. It's a balance to find between RAM and speed.

I was thinking more on use cases that require to disable JIT anyway (WASM, iOS integration, security).
Yeah it was changed to 280 for all users in 2017. That's still the default limit, but paying users can exceed it now.
Apple Enlists Veteran Software Executive to Help Fix AI and Siri
'Bomb' cyclone Storm Éowyn approaches Ireland and parts of UK
What is the point of burying it? Cosmic background radiation is 2.7k and I have to imagine interior of any body like Pluto would be higher than that.
Note that Mold has no interest in becoming incremental, so there is a big reason there for another linker to exist. I find it kind of embarrassing that MS' linker has been incremental by default for decades, yet there's no production ready incremental linker on Linux yet.
same, UDel trained, this works. It's weird that you can talk to your brain. Oddly your brain can trust you.
> I use intelliJ with ideaVim for my work, and I don't think these editors can fill the capability that JetBrains offers. Even though vim has a special place in my heart

I keep wanting them to make a Neovim headless plugin for their IDEs.
Given how long it takes for compilers to mature, by the time it's ready I didn't think anyone will care about x86. Similarly for c++11 vs 17. No?
OK I always see this sentiment.

Can someone show something useful in RPN? House odds on 3 on roulette, or don't come odds for 10; or the standard deviation of 1, 1, 1, 1, 7, 29.

I have never seen anyone show an example more complex than 2 2 12 + * or whatever it looks like.
If you want to try it out, here's some quick and dirty code.

Install the qrcode python package and run this code:

import qrcode

bar = qrcode.QRCode(border=0)
bar.add_data('bar')
bar.make()
bar_mat = bar.get_matrix()

foo = qrcode.QRCode(border=0)
foo.add_data('foo')
foo.make()
foo_mat = foo.get_matrix()

for l, r in zip(foo_mat, bar_mat):
line = ''
for lc, rc in zip(l, r):
line = line + (lc and '\u2588' or ' ')
line = line + (rc and '\u2588' or ' ')
print(line)
print(line)

What you get is indeed a dualing qrcode (which I can't quite paste here because no unicode on HN, and using "8" or "0" isn't enough to get my phone to recognize it).
A lot of things are confusing at first but then we discover intuitive ways to explain and teach them to others.

Also, don’t discredit the intelligence of retirees, teachers and librarians in the same post. It’s bad for karma and makes you sound like a douche. I’m sure they can figure it out.
Climate change is mostly irrelevant to the fires here. These fires were preventable had the city and state administration competent.
Show HN: WebMarker – Mark web pages for use with vision-language models
WebMarker is a JavaScript library used for adding visual markers and labels to elements on a web page. This can be used for Set-of-Mark prompting, which improves visual grounding abilities of vision-language models such as GPT-4o, Claude 3.5, and Google Gemini 1.5. This library aims to:

- Improve LLM performance on vision tasks referencing web pages
- Enable reliable web page interactions based on LLM responses
No, the author is pretty clear that it shouldn't be used for production yet
This makes some very naïve assumptions about the relationships between entities in a program; in particular that you can make arbitrary assertions about the representation of already-allocated datastructures across multiple versions of a component, that the program's compositional structure morphs in understandable ways, and that you can pause a program in a state where a component can actually be replaced.

By the time you have addressed these, you'll find yourself building a microkernel system with a collection of independent servers and well-defined interaction protocols. Which isn't necessarily a terrible way to assemble something, but it's not quite where you're trying to go...
How effectively Congress can stop these efforts remains to be seen.

One thing I learned in the past decade is how much democracy depends on decorum. It needs more solid protection mechanisms than just that.
There is no such thing as "Swiss Cheese". We have many different types of cheese. The one with the holes you are probably referring to is called "Emmentaler". Most Swiss find that cheese quite boring and bland. We usually mix it with another cheese.

/sr
I also haven’t touched CS 1.6 for 15-16 years, it will be cool to try it. Is it possible to run it on Mac M1 or I need a VM? Also, can you recommend any resources where I can read how to setup and configure bots? TY!
I really like this asthetic.
I'm a Brit who's lived in America for ~8.5 years. There are plenty of differences in language usage that I've observed, but this isn't one of them. Curious to know what they meant by this.
https://archive.is/N1onz
More for shielding, but you are correct. With proper shielding it makes little difference.
Of course. With 100% certainty. [0]

Now that Meta is going to place ads in Threads (unsurprisingly) which is an unfavourable change, lets see where the users who don't like this migrate to other platforms or just don't care enough to leave.

Always as expected.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36637185
CE is clear entry to my brain, regardless of the actual etymology.

So 7 + 1 * 5 ÷ 0 CE 4 = 10
And 7 + 1 * 5 ÷ 0 C 4 = 4
The left and the right have routinely ignored “rural White America”. Trump at least pays lip service to them. Of course all of his policies actively hurt them. But as long as he can stir up discontentment and use the religious right, he is good.

I’m not saying that’s the reason he won this time. It’s entirely the fault of the DNC and them doing the real life version of “Weekend at Bernie’s” with Biden.
a....hahahaha?

the only way i interact with any facebook property is still with instagram and only through my safari browser running a plethora of adblocks that sometime give me connection issues -- probably 30% of the time i can't log in -- which is fine and forces me into a break.

i downloaded the app once because i had to reverify myself for reasons above, and it felt like i saw 5 ads, or suggested posts for people that i don't follow for every single picture from someone that i actually care about. most of the crap was videos, and i guess i'm old school and still only use/care for instagram as a photo utility.

when the browser trick with adblocker stops working i'll probably leave instagram for ever, i'm already half out the door.

i honestly don't understand how people tolerate such terrible experience and how they can have XXX million active users, don't people have some esthetic integrity?
Nothing about Rust requires the use of the heap or RAII.

Also, if wild is indeed faster than mold even without incrementalism, as the benchmarks show, then it seems quite silly to go around making the argument that it's harder to write a fast linker in Rust. It's apparently not that hard.
Yeah, could be nice to allow the user to select the type of ECMAScript engine that fits their use-case / performance requirements (balancing the resources available).
Pay for a study? It would likely only be possible to do these studies at a company level, where there is enough sample in the headcount. There are plenty of People Analytics teams that exist on large F500's that would tackle a project like this.
Very interesting! Learned a lot about color space and how it applies to subpixels, glad I watched this!

Gameplay wise, I think it should be a bigger game board and there should be accounting for the speed of the snake through each subpixel (when traveling left to right, going from R to G is less horizontal movement than going from B to R, and traveling vertically, each step is massive compared to the horizontal movement.) This should be pretty easy to do by ratio’ing and changing the speed of each animation step based on where in the spectrum it is. That would make it feel a lot more polished I think.
Isn’t ported to ARM64. Runs really well in Whisky though.

https://getwhisky.app/
also known as magic that go itself won't support.
Twitter was based on sms, the standard SMS character limit is 160. They used 140 so they could use the remained 20 chars for other purposes.
Could it potentially fit in a Cloudflare worker? Workers are also V8 and can run wasm, but are constrained to 128MB RAM and 10MB zipped bundle size
>But by the same token there's not a lot of weight to accelerate either, right?

Right, most of the energy is used pushing air out of the way, which you don't get back from regen. Say you ride half a mile before stopping, the time to accelerate to 20mph is pretty small compared to the time you spend cruising at 20mph pushing all that air out of the way.
I would say that TUOT is absolute essential reading (even more than the -- justifiably -- better-known Library of Babel), since the fact that things disappear unless kept in memory is exactly how the digital world works.
Not my experience but sorry to hear that
I found one that references the flamsteed drama. It's an audio drama: https://9ol.es/tmp/ep14.mp3

You'd have to do a lot of convincing to bring me back into the fold on making more of these. It was like 100 hours of work per episode.
Glad to see the origin of this. I saw this on YouTube refitted with "you're seeing the wind on Mars".
Is there a similar software for linux?
DeepSeek will open source AGI if achieved
This is such a cool concept! If you're focusing on the end goal, another approach could be using a "switch" at the URL destination—something that redirects users to a different page based on a randomizer, user data, or other criteria. For anyone exploring this kind of functionality and interested in testing physical stickers for their projects, I work with a lot of SaaS companies on variable labels and would be happy to share insights, print some samples or collaborate.
How long before MAGA starts calling WFH “woke,” I wonder?
When refering to Pascal, I mean something like Turbo, Vax or Apple Pascal, i.e. the version used at the height of popularity. Original Pascal has much less degrees of freedom. And I have no reason to assume that Turbo or Apple Pascal have less possibilities for memory corruption, or are better specified.
Google DeepMind CEO on the AI tricks up the company's sleeve
Does wikipedia help bots make coherent decisions for my personal grocery shopping based on my own habits, price point, allergies, and preferences?
I don't think it's entirely fair. You're telling me "don't use any dependency at all". Vendoring is not a solution, because it does not remove the transitive dependencies. So I have to essentially rewrite it myself.

I find many libraries in C++ that don't pull 20 dependencies. It's common for me to have a C++ project that has ~6-8 dependencies. In Rust I have never seen that. Either I have no dependency at all, or I have 100+.

I actually had this toy project that I wrote both in C++ and in Rust, for the learning experience. Both did exactly the same thing, with a very similar design. In C++ I had 8 dependencies. In Rust, 186. The thing is, 186 is enough for me to not even read all their names in the lock file. As soon as 25 dependencies magically appear in my lock file, I stop caring and start YOLOing it.
That's actually really cool. :D And here I was assuming it was about farting over the internet. :P
Similarly to Penpot.app, Octo is web-based, but it’s designed to handle more than just SVGs in its canvas. It supports other HTML elements as well as HTML canvas, which allows for raster graphic editing and even video editing in the future.

The goal is for Octo users not to feel the need to still use Photoshop or Illustrator to supplement their work.

I am curious, what are your gripes with Penpot.app?

Great question, thank you!
Interesting! I see this not so much as a feature people would use to make their own rules but a good feature for those creating lists of rules, like in this case "Un-Google my Mac"
The intrinsic hardness of UI programming is representing state and state transitions. OP's problem would be much easier in a full language with things like structs and dynamic lists, but it still wouldn't be trivial

People sometimes miss the point and think of UI dev as painting pictures with code, which is part of it, but the hard part is state
Isn't this how dynamic linking works? If you really want to reduce build times, you should be making your hot path in the build a shared library, so you don't have to relink so long as you're not changing the interface.
If you support people who "pretend to" antagonize LGBTs you're not a centrist.
Serenity has nightly build images https://serenity-builds.halves.dev/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIWzK9IOzuU

According to this video some areas in Malibu have burned 9 times in the past 90 years
I used to be in love with RPN and owned multiple HP calculators (HP-41, HP-15) but RPN is cheating by offloading effort on the user.

When you see a complicated, parenthesized expression, it's up to you to figure out the deepest expression, enter it first, and then work your way out.

Standard calculators require more keystrokes but they can be entered without much thought, left to right. And these days, you can also edit and modify your input, so it's hard to justify RPN.
Building codes are extremely local, and not really federally regulated much. They’re consistent most places because jurisdictions will just copy paste them.
this one started pretty obfuscated :)

https://x.com/warianoguerra/status/1576166873296941056
Very similar to my first intuition on how to approach this problem. An interesting question that comes to mind is how should you pick index sizes and how often should you rebalance the whole thing. Make the index too large and you're wasting a lot of space you'll never need, too small and you're forced to rebalance too often. I'm guessing an ideal index size is such that you can rebalance at most once a night with a cron job and then avoid rebalances the whole rest of the day.

To be fair, this sounds like one of those classic problems that someone for sure already figured out in the 50s or 60s, just under a different name and/or context. Hash chaining is a similar idea, but not quite the same.
If you're a fan of monocultures, then all of this is irrelevant since you're using Ubuntu and the quirks of nix/nixos/guix don't matter.