skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
GP is talking about more than 20 years ago, I think.

You could time-travel into the future by moving your radii from somewhere else to a musical cultural center like New York or Seattle. People would pay for subscription services to listen to radio stations from those areas.
Push notifications are a powerful concept, but I feel like their potential has been stifled by Google's and Apple's near-total control over them on their respective OSes.

And while I'm not fun of heavy-handed government intervention, I hope the EU compels both companies to adopt a more open approach; provided that security remains uncompromised.
There is no substitute for trying it out for a few days. It will quickly become apparent why people like it so much.
Nobody is asking Christoph to maintain Rust code. Just work with the R4L developers occasionally when a breaking change happens, the same way he likely would need to do so with every C-based consumer of those APIs. But he doesn't want to do that, and he also doesn't want to let anyone co-maintain the DMA subsystem. At some point this does need to be called out as gatekeepy and counterproductive behavior by a maintainer who doesn't want to work with others.

But working with others is kind of, like, necessary, in a project as large and critical as the Linux project. Developing new kernel talent was one of Linus' express reasons for doing the project in the first place.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvuEYtkOH88&t=6m07s
Sure but there's so many internet and college radio stations out there. Even with mainstream consolidation I would find it surprising that there are less overall now than ever before.

I mean just look at boiler room and club culture in general. The amount of tastemaking DJs out there is pretty vast.
Depends on the company. Most of the time, you get paid to add features and fix bugs, while maintaining reliability.

End users don’t care where the code came from.
That you have created a new category of people: 'white', that were historically not considered belonging to the same group does not subsume the history of western thinking; which arguably started in the middle east, was further developed by europeans, and is now fully multi-cultural.

The west, as a culture, absorbs what is useful and discards the not useful.
Ask HN: What to do about underperforming team member
Hi all,

On my team at work we have an underperforming junior software engineer. He does not have discipline, is not meeting the expectations we have of someone of his skill level, and is not improving despite numerous interventions and talks.

Personally, I feel for the guy. I see a lot of myself in him from earlier in my career when I was experiencing imposter syndrome and struggling with knowing even what to do.

Recently we've been talking about how to tackle this, and are considering putting him under a closer mentoring scheme. Not to micro manage him, but to check up on him a few times a day to keep him on the right track and guide him, as he isn't so great at managing himself.

Hn has been an excellent source of wisdom for me in my career so I'm hoping you can help me help us help him in his. Since he is young and relatively inexperienced, we'd much prefer to take the route of helping him than firing him.

Any advice, or links to other threads or articles would be massively appreciated. Many thanks HN.
How is this possible with any auditing/compliance framework in place? Any basic framework that I have been part of, the developers can't have access to production, and we have to show rigorous testing processes are passed before we update production.
Does it support pgvector over weaviate?
> What happens if a long conflict breaks out between China and the US can't rebuild capacity lost in the initial phase of the war because China takes out that Korean ship building capacity?

We launch ballistic missiles at each other. Probably kill 500-800M Chinese and 100-175M Americans.

China hawks love fantasizing about this stuff. Reality is the as Ukraine demonstrates, direct conflict between reasonably advanced states is a tarpit. A hot war between the top tier states is armageddon.
Does this mean that good communication skills is equivalent to programming?
I think this would be illegal, without going through the proper channels, but it seems like the administration has successfully exploited a vulnerability in the government that if they control enough of the executive branch they can break any laws with the only recourse being impeachment, which is unlikely?
That's deportation.
Yes.

You could argue that removing some of these phrasings went too far, sure, but it came from a good place. We casually use master/slave metaphors for databases; it's not the #1 thing that needs to change but it's a move in the right direction. Again, aside from a slight eye roll, who is hurt or offended by us saying the phrase "master/slave" less?

This attack on anything DEI is meant to terrorize and strike fear into anyone who isn't a straight white male. It's weaponizing decades of progress for marginalized folks into racist dogwhistles.

Additionally, the original changes were optional and grassroots. This is a government directive. They're very different.
Editing changes in place is very handy. This is especially useful for range-diff workflows when you want to see what has changed between two patchsets (eg diff of diffs).

I’ve been slowly working on a patch-bin service that only has access to patchsets and doesn’t have access to the git repo itself. As a result the best we can offer is range-diff. It’s a pretty interesting workflow and makes the collaboration software easier to maintain: https://pr.pico.sh
Makes sense.

I've always held the opinion that elected officials should have to use public health care, send their kids to public schools, and use public transport.

This would ensure that they would have to maintain these institutions and be able to face their constituents on the daily.
Broadly agree with you and would like to add that if in this particular case the department had expected to foot the bill for their destruction I imagine they would have readily found a slower but cheaper approach. They went with the fast, expedient, and above all exciting (for them) approach precisely because they knew they wouldn't be the ones paying for the aftermath.

> It's their fault the public had to spend money on this, so why shouldn't they pay for it?

How about transparency and uniform enforcement of the law? Fines should be formally codified, not implicit and variable depending on incidentals internal to that particular investigation. The legislature is always free to direct those proceeds wherever they would like.
Yes, a large percentage of of the consulting / services business that you would know the name of are organized like this. For services / consulting it makes a lot of sense.
> but avoid LangChain like the plague

Can you elaborate on this?

I have a proof-of-concept RAG system implemented with LangChain, but would like input before committing to this framework.
> The "dictator" of a company answers to both the market and to regulators, making it less dangerous as a concentration of power than an actual dictator.

Well, kind of. On occasion they participate in regulatory capture making them really only accountable as they care to be given the circumstances.

If you have a market cornered on AI-powered, autonomous, robotic leg-equipped chainsaws, and the regulatory environment is weak because you've lobbied for the right rules and the right enforcers of those rules, you could very possibly just have a bad quarter if those chainsaws' AI sees people as trees and starts chasing them around. Maybe not even that.

Meta would be a good real-world example. It's just less interesting to imagine.
> Again, look at Japan for an empiric example.

I already wrote about how Japan is different from the US and why that changes everything.

> debt is owed in dollars and can always be serviced. If foreign investors lose confidence in the US and sell off their treasuries, the central bank can just purchase them and nothing would change

It changes everything for US citizens. Zimbabwe's debt is also serviced, but I'm not sure US citizens would like to pay one trillion dollars for bread and get cut off from the majority of products and resources that the US imports, because the dollar would be worth as much as the paper it was printed on. It would also mean that the whole stock market would collapse because no one would recycle the dollar anymore. It would be a devastating blow to the US economy. It's so obvious to anyone that knows anything about economy that at this point you are just spreading lies.
This is similar to how java.util.concurrent.atomic.LongAdder works:

https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/master/src/java.base/sha...
I don’t doubt the severity of the trans experience.
Because they are being guided by the rigor of trust me bro.
lets not forget that Trump created a new department and put Elon in charge, the DEPARTMENT OF GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY. With that in mind Musk can hire anyone he wants yes? Trump gave Elon the clearances and powers needed to do this work. It's no different in my opinion than the CIA hiring confidential sources or the FBI hiring contractors.

I mean Elon isn't going to personally do the work as department head...
For me the o models consistently make more mistakes for me than Claude 3.5 Sonnet.
This particular story isn't about Elon's team - the PR is authored by the regular project maintainers, presumably in response to the executive orders that are flying around right now.
Animating Rick and Morty One Pixel at a Time
"don't run any faster than a sequence of simpler instructions"

This is false. You can find examples of both x86-64 and aarch64 CPUs that handle indexed addressing with no extra latency penalty. For example AMD's Athlon to 10H family has 3 cycle load-to-use latency even with indexed addressing. I can't remember off the top of my head which aarch64 cores do it, but I've definitely come across some.

For the x86-64/aarch64 cores that do take additional latency, it's often just one cycle for indexed loads. To do indexed addressing with "simple" instructions, you'd need at a shift and dependent add. That's two extra cycles of latency.
I agree actually that chat is overrated overall as UX. It works really well for chatgpt but creates the wrong ux expectations for users where more precision or constraint is needed. Also not good for large processing. It was magic though for chatgpt.
What did you create? In my field, so far, I've found the chat bots not doing so well. My guess is the more likely you're making something other people make often, the more likely the bot will help.

Even then though, I asked o1-cursor to start a react app. It failed, mostly because it's out of date. It's instructions were for react 2 versions ago.

This seems like an issue. If the statistically most likley answer is old, that's not helpful.
Yes.

This change has user facing implications in that it is removing application data and/or functionality.

Your example is that people changed the name of some internal constants and private methods. Nobody notices except the developers.
They're the same in the sense that they both are topics around sensitivity of other humans experience. And I feel there are significant differences because while slavery and racism are kind of (1) a settled topic ethically and societally, LGBTQ+ acceptance ( exclusion and insensitivity acts are happening today ) are not "settled" (sadly), given the popular support of openly anti-LGBTQ+ rights by the recently winning USA political regime.

I feel there is significance in the details, especially since this is an area of human sensitivities.

Master and slave and blacklist, and all that are related to historical United States' participation and exploitation of its (now citizen), black population as slaves. There are people today, who are alive who are descendants of people who were enslaved by literally (barf) my American ancestors.

Getting closer to your question, that's a little different I think context wise than a trans person being denied their major life-changing, hopefully freeing identity, assertion by government edict, today.

And it's important to note I'm not a trans person currently. I'm very sloppy with these subjects. I have a concern inhumanity is on the rise amongst humans.

(1) "Kind Of Settled [that Racism is bad]" - https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6112317/2025/02/04/nfl-end-... - :-(
Someone has to reimburse SpaceX for all the free labor in the treasury department!
Oh that should be fun. Would have to fit it around work though
Should US business' eat the price of the tarriffs?
Just trying to understand more. As far as I understand trying to produce for instance the price of a t-shirt in the US domestically at the same price of China just isn't possible. So in that case do they find a different supplier or do they just eat the price of the tarriffs and hike up the consumer price?

The only way I see it is that this is bad strategy and it just makes goods cost more. Thoughts?
He also doesn't fear impeachment, zero impact to him or his position.
I don't understand, what does that have to do with master/slave terminology?
That's what I was thinking this might have already. Maybe this could get insights from the articles linked from the ones you like too? Sort of like https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/
> Thus even if the US has a bigger military most of it won't be in theater on day 1 of a conflict, leading China to have every incentive to move as fast as possible and present a fait accompli to the West.

I disagree. I've think we've seen and will continue to see China acting slowly on this, because their primarily incentivized to not attack. This, on three fronts:

- China is not looking for a vassal state. It's looking for national reunification. War is a terrible way to incorporate people into your nation. Effective perhaps, but very much a last resort.

- Time isn't on Taiwan side— TSMC is losing is edge. The technological gap between TSMC and Chinese silicon companies is shortening with each year that passes by, and this is meaningful not only because TSMC is 25% of Taiwan's GDP [1], but also because it's the most strategic export they have geopolitically. World leaders care more about any disruption to the supply of cutting-edge chips than they care about the name of the island on a map. This is specially true for the USA, and the reason why they want TSMC to manufacture in Arizona.

- Time is very much on China's side. In the past couple of decades China has consistently become more competitive with the USA in most strategic aspects, and bettered it's strategic standing overall. If your chances of winning are increasing every year, you don't want to attack today; you want to wait until you think your chances of winning have peaked.

If anything, I'd argue the USA is in a tough spot. If a war is going to happen, it would be in the USA's interest that it happens soon, albeit after they can secure advanced-chip production outside of Taiwan.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TSMC#:~:text=Taiwan's%20export...
More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42934236
master in the sense of a db or branch is not a master/slave metaphor, it's the meaning of master that is an antonym for "copy" or "replica" as when one creates a master from which to form a mold -- the whole issue is based on a linguistic misapprehension
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You are correct that done deliberately, this could show the lack of need for some roles. But as it is structured, it is designed to get the best folks to leave, and from unpredictable parts of the org and thus is unlikely to show that result.

I think both sides are aligned in the desire to reduce the size of government. (Which has been steadily declining relative to the size of the population/economy for something like 4 decades.)

However, the administration is not pushing for right-sizing the workforce. They are proposing deeply unpopular cuts to things Americans actually value, without any debate or discussion of tradeoffs.
Not so. See the battle of Kircholm from 1605 as a particularly successful example. Anyway, the discussion is about whether new technology (naval drones) could make old weapons (warships) and tactics obsolete. I thought you were saying that cavalry charges never happened and so never became obsolete. I'm glad that's not the case. But you yourself are saying that technology rendered cavalry charges obsolete. There are countless other examples; no one could argue in good faith that the once-dominant bronze chariot still has any role on a battlefield.

I just realized you're not the guy who said "it doesn’t mean the old ones are obsolete", so probably moot
Notice that you are just admitting the superiority of the west here, no weak culture with subpar technology or weak people can exploit or conquer others. And pretty much everyone has tried to exploit others as much as they possibly could, that's unfortunately just how humans are. Everyone has at least one objectively bad ancestor, no matter the race or culture.
> BTW I'm working on porting ntfy to Sandstorm.

Oh this would be really handy, I'd love to run it on my Sandstorm server!
The only LLM agent I've seen who asked any sort of clarifying questions about design was Devin.
Is this blog poster quoting "laws" as to why "Trump can't do X"?

Is this blog poster even aware of the existence of "news" outside of Fox, CNN, NBC, NPR ?

This blogger is spouting either propaganda or uninformed nonsense.
Why would impeachment work? This executive has already cut Congress entirely out of the picture. The only way to fix this is guns.
Forgive my ignorance, but how the hell does a compound like plastic get biologically absorbed by the body without being broken down to a point where it is actually no longer a plastic compound?

I mean, we can eat triglycerides, but the process of digestion breaks them down in order for them to be absorbed, they are then reconstituted as needed on the other side.

What am I missing with regards "plastic" in the context of the article?
KeyStore Explorer – OSS GUI replacement for Java utilities keytool and jarsigner
> I think the beauty of women changed humanity. Inspired by these beings that were so beautiful they were almost gods, men strived to be more than club-wielding cavemen.

Men did strive to be more than club-wielding cavement. We became spear, axe, arrow, gun, cannon, etc wielding cavemen.

> To be kind and loving and worth a damn.

Or armed to the teeth? Armed to a level that the most brutish caveman could only dream.

History along with the lack of diversity in the Y-chromosome paint a far different picture than the one you are describing.
The fact that people who think they are smart blame cultural shifts on a “woke cult” is amazing to me.
RHAAS

Rabbit-holing as a service
I think it say something about the relatively low-effort nature of this genre that it could be so easily codified and displaced by AI. The human-produced examples in the article follow simple and predictable rules and already sounded pretty artificial before the robots got involved.
Nope, you can use git symbolic-ref to get the remote default branch.
That's not really what I mean. The person I was replying to was saying that I can't get push notifications without Google's centralized stuff. ntfy/UnifiedPush appears to do just that, so I'm wondering what is missing here.
I have not visited an Amazon Fresh store, but there was an Amazon Go convenience store near where I worked a few years ago, and that experience was effortless: you bloop your phone on the entry gate, walk in, look around, grab whatever you want, and then just leave. A moment later, your phone vibrates, and you have the receipt.

I can see why Amazon might prefer to license out their tech instead of scaling it up to run their own full-size, low-margin business chain, though.
I'm engaging in curiosity to understand. I'd love to understand your position better. You wrote:

> What is being prohibited is an adversarial government having complete control over an entity that can decide which speech is delivered to which specific audience.

That seems to imply that certain voices or ideas must be excluded to prevent this control. Isn't that, at its core, a decision that some poisonous thoughts should not be allowed to reach certain people? If not, how do you see this distinction? Does freedom of speech not include freedom to hear what others may find objectionable?
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42934236
You could host all of that on a single small VM or physical server.
Likely pulling numbers out of their ass.

They're getting challenged on X about how parent Highflyer hedgefund with 8B AUM, aka their single digit % management fees since founding is in low 100s millions total (for all operating expenses) can sustain 1B+ of just capex, somehow got 1B+ of hardware. It's not financially possible, well not anymore since founder just met with PRC premiere whose going to unlock national compute bazooka. But the fact they just got political attention means they were operating on limited capex, the founder himself said the original batch of A100 cards represented significant gamble and shared resource with hedgefund. They simply did not have the cash for 1B+ of cards that semianalysis thinks they have, doesn't pass basic smell test.

Deepseeks paper also pretty transparent about training cost was for that run. IMO people fixate on the 6m training cost number, but really the story is a bunch of kids, from PRC universities with access to some compute is closing gap with US AI... which TBH is just as embarassing / destabilizing.
“We expect the Arctic Ocean to lose its sea-ice cover in summer for the first time over the next two decades."
Maybe not every university, but plenty of distro mirrors are still hosted by universities, both in the US and internationally. Another example is Oregon State University mentioned elsewhere in this thread that still provides hosting + CI services; eg postmarketOS recently moved from gitlab.com to a self-hosted GitLab on OSU-provided and -hosted hardware.
I think this is a valid point and a really interesting question. If that's the standard, we need to regulate all recommendation algorithms. (i.e. put limits on Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube as well.)

How could we regulate this? I can think of two ways:

- Results-based enforcement. i.e., companies are free to use whatever recommendation model they like, but have to recommend content within ideological bounds. i.e., you can't bias toward one partisanship more than X%. There's some precedent for this with the equal-time rule (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal-time_rule) and FCC fairness doctrine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_doctrine).

- Algorithm-based enforcement. i.e., there are limits on the algorithm itself. Perhaps you have to present your algorithm to a government agency and provide a proof that it obeys certain properties. But the enforcement here is analytical rather than empirical.
and crucially, it's not taking 70% of your $12/month and parceling it out to the artists you listen to, it's taking everyone's money and putting it in a big bucket and parceling out it proportionally by stream numbers, so you can't direct $8.40 to an artist by only streaming them.

If you want to direct a few dollars to an artist you really do need to buy their music (or mech), or somehow give them a couple thousand streams.
Bad title for the list. The books by Feynman, Weinberg, Sagan, Steinbeck, McPhee, and Levi didn't shape science. At best they are good descriptions of what happened in the century.