skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The first question should be if we want an antidote? We've tried banning many things to little effect. In many ways, the economy needs the spending to stay afloat.
I don't use any of those services, though I used to use Dropbox for sharing family reunion photos with older relatives who didn't have the technical skills to do much more than click links to download photos. I am also not a potential user of Earthstar's product.

>I wonder what they have in those photos and meeting notes that is so sensitive?

As someone who is actively working on documenting my family history using photos, original copies and reproductions of official documents, old paper letters and copies of letters, I can say that the dominant reason that I do not use any of those "services that are designed for these sorts of sharing, like Dropbox, GDrive, GPhotos, and a million others" because none of the things that I am working with are any of anyone else's business.

Using many of those "services" grants perpetual ownership and license to use anywhere, forever to the service operator and should that service collapse for any reason their only asset is the contact info and personal data that their customers have chosen to entrust them with.

Frankly speaking here, I have been using computers for a long time and the most dominant recent trend among tech-bros has been to conjure an app or service to con people into paying SaaS fees even if they stop using the app or service. There are fewer apps available that can be bought as a pay once use it forever app.

I'm not interesting in playing anyone's con games and the software industry is full of them as many here note whenever someone does a new "Show HN" post. Oftentimes some of the first comments note for other interested parties that there is a requirement to give an email address to test the app or to register an account just to be able to see for ourselves what it does and whether it is truly useful.

I'm not interested in helping fund someone's second or third or fourth income stream when it requires handing control of something I own outright to a third party who will make every attempt to monetize every part of the transactional relationship that develops when a user registers an account.

I do not trust companies or individuals to have my best interests in mind when I am using their products or services.

Since the materials that my family members have collected and preserved for generations can't be replaced and we are not trying to write books or shoot films about any of the individuals who may have led interesting lives it is none of anyone else's business what the photos depict or what the documents tell us about how each branch of the tree connects to an individual's trunk.

The archive of the work I'm doing will be available to my family members. Some of them unfortunately use social media to keep in touch with friends and family. I can't control what they do with the results of my work but I can control everything up to the point where I distribute it and it's my decision to keep it all local on storage that I own and control.

The tone of your last sentence is accusatory and, like this last sentence of mine is out of place.
I agree that we have over medicalized many conditions and over prescribed psychoactive drugs but let's not romanticize past generations. Very few of those misfits became artists or rebels or seekers who did anything interesting or challenged the status quo. Lots of them ended up homeless or addicted or incarcerated or dead in motorcycle crashes. I have some of those in my own extended family and it's tragic to see them continuously fail, sometimes in ways that have disastrous consequences for the innocent people around them. You're looking for the successes and not seeing the failures (selection bias).
You are grading American football on a world football rubric. One could just say that world football is not demanding because you don’t need much strength, you can be small and fast (easier than being big and fast), you don’t have to be physically resilient enough to get flattened by a 350 pound man and jump back up, you don’t need hand skills, etc.
You think your data/activity isn't being monitized?
Isn't it obvious? Warn the user, who can now use something else instead.
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You can only use IDEA when you need to do major refactoring or debugging, which isn't that frequent on average. There's nothing special about navigation in IDEA that text editors can't do.

IDEs aren't perfect - they often have performance issues, new bugs with every update and do confusing things like marking completely valid code as errors. One of the reasons why I stopped using IDEA after many years of being a fanboy is that I found these unexpected behaviors and bugs getting in the way of actual work. For example, you might reopen your project in the morning to find out that everything that worked perfectly in the evening is suddenly broken, and then you have to spend half the day reinstalling previous versions of plugins and cleaning caches. While editors might be a bit simpler, they're always works reliably.

>At work we are forced to use a specific IDE. It's a niche programming language not supported by any other software.

yes, sometimes is no any choose.
> What qualifies as dangerous information?

The reports are public, and if you don't feel like reading them because they're too long and thorough in their explanations of what and why you can always put them into an AI and ask it to summarise them for you.

OpenAI is allowed to unilaterally limit the capability of their own models, just like any other software company can unilaterally limit the performance of their own software.

And they still are even when they're just blantantly wrong or even just lazy — it's not like people complain about Google "lobotomising" their web browsers for no longer supporting Flash or Java applets.
Review what knowledgeC.db is used for.
If I may make an suggestion: Instead of a static json file, read at boot, I'd suggest passing the feature flags down per request as a header, or a pointer to the set of feature flag. So that all systems for a given request, observe the same features. Just my 2 cents.
Sometimes you do not have the same concepts - life experiences are different.
First week they also declared banned books a ‘hoax’. So maybe getting rid of existing information takes longer than a week.
https://thespacebucket.com/what-happened-to-spinlaunch-its-p...
Yes, but they are stronger than 99% of people. You claimed that their muscle size had no correlation with strength, which is absurd.
Tell me you didn’t rtfa without saying you didn’t… oh, wait.
Yeah, just going to be a dream.

Awhile back a bunch of superbowl workers who were mandated to drive off-site to go through security screening before being bused on-site sued to have those 3 hours counted as billable. They lost in court.
It's a super early release and the project itself is pretty fresh, and that's also how it was announced today at FOSDEM, so we can expect improvements.
> But why is this classified as a deficiency and a disorder? In other words, why is directed attention considered the normal human experience?

"In other words"... no, those are separate things.

"Normal" means being like most of the rest of the group. My being 6'3" isn't normal here, but iirc would be normal in parts of the Netherlands.

A deficiency or disorder is something that causes problems. And getting people to just declare that something isn't a disorder won't actually change anything, because the language is downstream of the reality of what skills or abilities are needed for what roles in society.
I would add two things:

It's often important that flag changes be atomic. Having subsequent requests get different flag values because they got routed to different backend nodes while a change is rolling out could cause some nasty bugs. A big part of the value of feature flags is to help avoid those kind of problems with rolling out config changes; if your flags implementation suffers from the same problem, it's not very useful.

Second, config changes are notorious as the cause of incidents. It's hard to "unit test" config changes to the production environment the same way you can with application code. Having people editing a config every time they want to change a flag setting (we're a tiny company and we change our flags multiple times per day) seems like a recipe for disaster.
Ah ok thank you for clarifying
This is because Delaware stopped Elon's pay package, is there anything else I'm missing? I think incorporating in Texas or Nevada will net short term wins but there's a lack of long term infrastructure. This signals the decline of the American tech companies as they make their decisions based on vibes not engineering.
I mean fair enough I suppose? I've always gone with the idea that "don't roll your own crypto" meant not implementing cryptographic building blocks. Which is reasonable and fair. I just take issue with it being something you'd apply to all crypto code.
What don’t you like about the VSCode plugin?
"> Our broad list of demands includes, but is not limited to: Climate action. Universal healthcare. Racial justice. Reproductive rights. LGBTQIA+ rights. Living wage / raise the minimum wage. Immigration reform. Education reform. Gun safety. Tax the rich. Affordable housing. Disability rights. Welfare and child support reform. Voters rights. Constitutional convention. Paid family and medical leave. Criminal justice system reform. Workers’ rights. Permanent ceasefire in Gaza."

Lol.

"Hey, Johnny, what are you striking against?"

"What've you got?"
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If you define strength as one-rep max, sure.
Yes, this article has the value of having a child’s perspective in form of an adult prose. It’s difficult to sympathize with him as an adult but gives insight on how some children see their parents during their adolescence.
Looks like code lives at https://github.com/hetu-project/chronos
> DEI does not mean hiring quotas where you refuse to fill open spots, it means proactively reaching out to find talent in non-traditional areas

I've worked at companies that do exactly this with quotas of a minimum number of underrepresented candidates who must be interviewed before filling the position, even if the positions all end up going to white or asian men.

It can take a very long time to fill a position under those rules.

I don't think this is a bad policy in principle, but an unintended consequence is often understaffing in the short to medium term.
> I commented back then that ADHD may be understood as introducing chaos into life to avoid being trapped in local optima.

I have had life-long crippling ADHD that I am only now, in my 30s, starting to learn to cope with. My biggest thing was educating myself on what ADHD actually was so that I was better able to spot it in my own life, and then apply strategies to address it.

I'm not sure the above is relevant, but what I wanted to say is in response to this:

> I commented back then that ADHD may be understood as introducing chaos into life to avoid being trapped in local optima.

My life has been really difficult because I simply cannot, ever, force myself to do something I don't want to do. I think there are cool goals in life I'd really appreciate - playing an instrument, learning a language, gettign a PhD, etc. But each of these goals involves an activity that I inherently don't want to do and therefore cannot make myself do them. Studying for exams to get into a grad program, practicing consistently for an instrument, studying a language that has no real applicable use in my life. I simply cannot do these things.

On one hand, that sucks. I wish my brain needed less short-term reward. I wish I was able to hold long term goals in my head as a motivation to get stuff done. But ADHD brains are famously very bad at this, mine included.

On the other hand, ADHD, to your point, has forced a LOT of growth and movement in my life. I cannot sit in one job, town, relationship, friendship, forever. I get antsy. I have to try new things. I crave novelty, and I seek it out in every aspect of my life. I do weird, crazy things, and I meet people who also do those things, and we get along just great. I live a very nontraditional lifestyle. And I've tried a million different things, hobbies, people, cities. I know a little bit about absolutely everything and can talk to almost anyone about something they're interested in because I know just enough to ask interesting questions that they enjoy answering.

It's a shame that my ADHD is pretty incompatible with capitalism. I work for a couple years then take a year or more off work, rinse and repeat. I've done this my entire life. Thankfully I work in software that pays well enough, and I'm frugal enough, to make this work. But job hopping plus not caring that much about my work means I don't get FAANG bucks or anything, in fact my salary has always been pretty below average for the work I do. But I make it work.
In the 1980’s Reagan fired all members of PATCO, the air traffic controller union and replaced them with military personnel until a new cohort could be trained.
That only works if the "user" is an interactive TTY with a human on the other end of it though. What if I tried using this for compressing automatic backups? Do I need an error handling routine that uses something else?
Type specimens appear to be 25 to 30 centimeter long.
To the degree code is a form of self-expression then it can be artisanal. If it is an industrial artifact, then it can’t.

I think craft as process is psychologically different from standards as professional identity.
This is not a direct quote, the actual quote from the article is

> But archivists who have been working on analyzing the deletions and archiving the data it held say that while some of the deletions are surely malicious information scrubbing, some are likely routine artifacts of an administration change, and they are working to determine which is which. For example, in the days after Joe Biden was inaugurated, data.gov showed about 1,000 datasets being deleted as compared to a day before his inauguration, according to the Wayback Machine.
I'm afraid you're overlooking the fact that, since AI scales linearly with constraints and exponentially with compute, the importance of knowledge (i.e. constraints) dominates over data (i.e. compute) for AI to be useful.
The only thing really bad about win11 are the UI changes they did to the taskbar. Apart from that the os is solid with great features that are very helpful. One example is the window tiling stuff that is simple and easy, but you can pull of quite complicated layouts too.
The multi desktop feature is way better than what macos has. The multi monitor support is second to none. The performance is amazing, especially compared to a similarly specced macos machine. Ubuntu does still feel faster though.

If there's one thing I'd like, it would have to be a win2000 style UI. Truly the pinnacle of design and aesthetics.
It’d be a point against in a formal debate, but in casual conversation it’s safe to assume your audience passed junior high and is familiar with the work.
Documents released at trial. Also, the market cap milestone was $100 billion. $750 billion was the stretch goal. Internal forecasts had Tesla on track to meet at least the first milestone the end of 2019 (they actually missed that forecast by about 3 weeks) just based on organic growth. Based on Musk's forward-looking statements back then that Tesla would double in size every year, basic math and common sense indicates Tesla forecast hitting all of the remaining milestones by 2025. Or in other words, at the time the pay package was negotiated, Tesla had already forecast reaching all of the market cap targets. (The judge refers to the failures to disclose this information as "material misstatements" in her ruling.)

Most of the remaining targets were revenue/earnings targets that Tesla goosed by pulling forward revenue from future quarters. This is the reason Tesla had all those quarter-end and year-end all-hands-on-deck crunches when the pay package was in effect but none since it was thrown out.

Note that none of the above is illegal. If an independent board had negotiated the pay package, it would have been fine. But no independent board would have ever negotiated a pay package giving away that much additional equity in a publicly-traded company, because there is no way an independent board could demonstrate that they were acting in the best interests of the other shareholders in heavily diluting those other shareholders' interests in the company.
Yeah the title probably should’ve been something like “revisiting my really really good random number generator” or “revisiting crowd-sourced rng” or something.
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I meant currently successful, not throughout history, but yeah I can see that.
Number 3 is what scares me the most, as throughout the years I overheard enough conversations that HR/management had, which weren't meant for my ears, that I find it an entirely believable reason why they might be doing it.
This is very funny to me. It took about a decade for them to receive a scientific name – because people were too busy eating them the whole time! The "note on the Bathynomus fishery" really makes the circumstances of this "discovery" quite clear.

Sadly, within the taxonomy itself the authors restrain themselves from sharing their findings on the most delicious parts and preparations of the animal. Darwin would have been disappointed [1], but at least as a species we've gotten our time down from 300 years [2].

1. https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/08/12/430075644/di...

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPggB4MfPnk
We keep a JSON blob in Google Secret Manager for our flags. The service running in the container will reload the secret anytime it changes
boredom, perhaps?
I'm confused. Are you saying this ironically or have you literally pitched management with the risks of using your product?
Happens when you do the flags wrong :)

We have a FF as a service platform and a big "value add" is that we can turn on and off features at the client level with it.

But, unfortunately, it's both not the only mechanism for this and it is also being used for actual feature flags and not just client specific configuration.

I'm personally a MUCH bigger fan of putting feature flags in a configuration file that you deploy either with the application or though some mechanism like kubernetes configs. It's faster, easier to manage, and really easy to quickly answer the question "What's turned on, why, and for how long". Because, a core part of managing feature flags is deleting them and the old code path once you are confident things are "right".

The biggest headache of our FF-ws is that's really not clear and we OFTEN end up with years old feature flags that are on with the old code path still existing even though it's unexercised.
Orbital accelerators are cool, IMO they feel much more sci-fi than rockets (and still a step below space elevators). They're not without their tradeoffs, though: the G-forces involved mean they're not suitable for living creatures, and because of atmospheric drag they're most suited to putting things into lower orbits.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_gun

"In Project HARP, a 1960s joint United States and Canada defence project, a U.S. Navy 410 mm (16 in) 100 caliber gun was used to fire a 180 kg (400 lb) projectile at 3,600 m/s (12,960 km/h; 8,050 mph), reaching an apogee of 180 km (110 mi), hence performing a suborbital spaceflight."
"never" in corporate-speak means not for 4.5 years.
Hi Tim. I liked your work with dart/flutter. Are you guys working on overhauling Xcode? The DX is atrocious.
Yep, a good reminder that fixed natural categories are another thing that we like to invent (and when we feel it necessary, impose by force), where they seldom exist in reality.
Didn't you get the memo? Trump won 49.9% of the popular vote. That means we all need to pretend this is normal and OK now.
This incentivizes people to live far from the office. I know people who live 2 hours from the office. If the commute counted, every day would be a half day. People choose where they live relative to where they work, so if someone has a 2 hour commute, that is a choice they made… assuming the housing choice and work choice were made in an environment where working in the office was the expectation.

I work from home currently, and thought about getting a less expensive place in a small town. However, I ended up deciding to get a place closer to the city. This way if I do need to get a new job, I have more options without a painful commute, and I’m not only reliant on remote positions. We all make these choices.
Perhaps something to consider is that Korea and Japan both don't have extensive lithium deposits within their country. Both countries already know what it's like to be stuck importing nearly all of their energy (oil). They've both been relatively lucky with the geopolitical climate of the last 50 or so years.

I think it's perhaps not unreasonable (once again, looking at a many decade long scale) to look at possible futures and perhaps understand why both countries might be looking to try to eke out some greater degree of independence from both China and America.
Somehow it’s hard to believe that the lower dense part of the atmosphere doesn’t slow it down or even burn it. It happens when these things fall down… why not when going up?
This "quit or risk getting fired" email was sent to federal employees on January 28, the day before the crash: https://www.opm.gov/fork and that includes air traffic controllers and their supervisors [1]

If you don't think that could have had an impact on morale, and therefore attentiveness, I can only wonder if you've never witnessed large-scale layoffs first-hand. They're pretty common in tech. From what I've seen in our industry, first and second hand, almost nobody gets any real work done for several days after getting such an email. The ATCs don't have such luxury, but instead, they continue their life-and-death job with an elevated level of stress.

And we know that one of the ATCs was dismissed early that day. Was it because undue stress, caused by that email, was impacting their performance? If so, will their supervisor be brave enough to say so in public? We don't know. But this is a substantial reason to suspect that the administration's actions could have had a direct impact on the people in that control tower.

[1] https://federalnewsnetwork.com/tom-temin-commentary/2025/01/...