skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see what VP would get by forcing an IC to remain in a team that the IC doesn't want to be part of anymore.

If VP's signals about promotion were not backed by some form of agreement, I can't blame the IC for looking for another place under the sun.

I have issues when companies don't support vertical/horizontal movement among the teams. It is in human nature to develop different interests.
This is true for practically every web browser anyone uses on any site that they don't personally control.
The New Luddites Aren't Backing Down (2024)
On a scale of 0 to 10, how likely are you to recommend the use of NPS as a metric to a fictitious competitor in your not for profit functional monopoly space?
> EB trees heavily rely on bit-addressable data (typically integers)

That seems like a disavantage, but actually most data is bit-addressable in one way or the other; even strings, if you look at the UTF-8 representation.

What I'm a bit worried is the number of levels: it seems to be 1 level per bit in the key. And "a tree node is typically 20-bytes long on a 32-bit system". So that is 20 bytes per bit in the key. I wonder if the memory usage could be reduced in a simple way. For example using larger "pages" that contain arrays.
That's actually very clever.
What do I mean by some software devs are "ngmi"?
I've written a short blog post "User is Dead" a while ago https://rakhim.org/user-is-dead/

> User is dead. User remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the developers, the designers, the growth hackers? What was holiest and the final judge of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our A/B-tests and new features. Who will wipe this blood off us? What garbage collector is there for us to clean ourselves? What conference of atonement, what disruptive technology, what sacred meeting shall we have to invent?

Tasteless, but I felt, and still feel, like the notion of a user is truly lost. Somehow, the only technology which technically allows direct 1-many relationships between a small group of builders and a vast number of users, managed to create an industry which actively prevents and disincentives such relationships.
Yes, but you wouldn't be able to sell it to a consumer.

They way I imagine it: no sales of this kind of thing to ordinary people, only to sophisticated entities who be expected to deal with the incompletely specified source code, so if a software firm wants to buy it that's fine, but you can't shrink wrap it and sell it to an ordinary person.
You misunderstood; the previous poster was talking about in-screen fingerprint sensors, not those found in older and SE iPhones.
Posts like this make me wonder how far the overton window has to shift until someone notices they have left the continent. Maybe take a step back and look around to notice that the destruction you describe after less than a month has been happening to the other side for almost two decades. But the other side is evil and wrong so why even bother.
Balcony solar is taking off
More accurately, it was to preserve employment relationships.

Historically, once mass layoffs happen, they are contagious. Once unemployment rates rise, companies plan to cut costs to ride out a recession.

Also, once employees are unemployed for an extended period of time (something like 9+ months), their odds of finding similarly paying work drop permanently.

It was in everybody’s best interest to reduce the employer-employee churn.
That is the best dating advice I have ever heard!

And yes, you nailed what I may be good at.

I guess I am also good at having conversations with random strangers, male or female. I always smile at people - men or women - but never in a creepy way.

And I say hello if it seems appropriate. I never expect anything out of this, I just enjoy meeting my neighbors.
I can dream...
Consider the marketing value of being able to tell a cool story, though.
Not OP but torrent would be my go to for a short term solution.
How about switch from natural gas to electricity for all households heating and appliances. How about public transportation.
Yep. How amazing is it that women as well as men shop at Trader Joe's and get their cars washed at Ducky's!
My usage is more in line with how it was originally conceived, I search engines as an interface to Stack Overflow. If I have a problem, I do a search, if it lands me on Stack Overflow, then that's where I get my information.

The really good answers are getting harder to find, so I see Stack Overflow less and less, but I disagree with those who comments that LLMs have taken the role of primary source of information. I don't use ChatGPT, CoPilot, or any other LLM and I also seen a sharp reduction in the amount of times I find myself on Stack Overflow. Depending on what I do, my go to is either the official documentation or source code. Only exception is probably C, where I will frequently go to the OpenBSD man pages first, as they are really well written, and then adapt if something doesn't line up with glibc.
Quit is always an option. Otherwise why not a face to face meeting with VP.
We needed Nazis to make it to the Moon...So we will need one to make it to Mars....
This is just the next step in Embrace Extend Extinguish.

VSCode is "open source". Except it's not. The open source version cannot access the VSCode Marketplace which contains a lot of the high quality extensions. This is just slowly boiling the OSS frog.

Get ~100% of developers hooked on "open source" VSCode, then at some point when they decide they don't want to deal with some crap Microsoft added to the proprietary version (like, perhaps, locking many feature behind a premium subscription) and try to switch to the OSS version they discover they can't work at all because they can't use any of the language+other extensions they have come to rely on.
add_item is not an event, rather a command/ request that is yet to be validated. item_added is the event = a fact that was 'allowed to happen' by the system.

Keeping commands in a persistent store is a matter of choice but not necessary. I've seen people doing command sourcing and calling it event sourcing.
That violates conservation of momentum. To get realistic flow, you need to use continuity equation to preserve the energy of the flow and let the shear dissipate and diffuse into whorls. Which is a lot of extra calculation, as pointed out in the article, so you need to ask yourself if that level of realism is really necessary for your use case.
Show HN: git-paca, git review/summary with ollama
use git-paca to review, summarize and generate commitmsg with locally ran ollama models.

go install github.com/Aperocky/git-paca@latest
Sorry, I'm autistic.
All this kind of city people thinking goes out of the windows once you're very hungry.

Then you see everything as a piece of meat.
I did not realise they meant it literally.

Would I recommend a product to others? Yes. Does it ever come up in conversation? No. Do I go around telling random people about this product? No.
I work in a company where they try NPS both with customers and staff. Both of these NPS results were available in very fine grained (anonymous) reports... That is until quite recently.

Previously we had access to all the freeform comments, such as "as a customer we need feature X", or "as a staff member we want to see more transparency around Y".

Today, after a few particularly turblent quarters including layoffs, all we get to see are summarized versions of the staff NPS.

Vanity project indeed.
And use it to drive up prices of stocks and rare artwork.
Musk is repeating his playbook from acquiring Twitter: Get wide access to systems, cherry-pick information, and then blast out a completely wrong summary of it, knowing that supporters will amplify it, believe it, and never check the source material.

For example, asserting that two groups are exchanging money simply because they're both customers at the same bank.

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/03/the-twitter-files-playbo...
Dunno. If you look at Australia which is fairly neutral as they don't have their own car industry, Tesla are still ahead although they've fallen there too https://thedriven.io/2025/01/03/australian-electric-vehicle-...
There are a lot of domain registrars that will give you a mailbox for free with purchase/transfer of a domain. Good combo if you want a custom email anyway. I can recommend infomaniak. iirc roughly same price as namecheap, but with added Swiss flavor.

Download thunderbird and sign in via IMAP and bobs your uncle
According to the article, the algorithm for deleting edges runs in amortized O(log n) time, which relies on the fact that if you delete an edge which breaks the graph into two halves (which is the worst-case scenario), the next time you’ll only have half as many vertices in each component. However, the OP is not actually deleting the edges, just checking if deleting them would disconnect the graph. Therefore, unless I’m missing something, the amortization would not work.
Take these new attack vectors into account in your threat analyses. In this specific case, perhaps start by shipping copies to non-US jurisdictions.
https://web.archive.org/web/20250104054310/https://www.theat...
There's telemetry in adobe products that you can't just disable in the app instead of blocking it?

And if there is telemetry that they don't want people to be able to disable for whatever reason, then why would they even separate the servers for it? Why not then just have the license servers and the telemetry servers be the same endpoint so if you block it you aren't running the app at all?
Yes, but consumers buy, for example, graphics cards with binary blobs and are certainly not sent a specification of the software in them, or of the interfaces, etc. and that is what I believe is the absolute minimum foundation.

So I mean an internal specification of all hardware interfaces and a complete description of software-- no source code, but a complete flow diagram or multi-process equivalent.
Should work fine if the training set is a memory-safe, full-featured, monolithoc, Unix-like operating system kernel originally written by a certain Linus Torvalds.
Not at all, it's mostly optics. The US DOD spends like $900 BILLION a year, and you don't see DOGE even attempting to touch that money.
The whole "let me put TAOCP on pause while I create TeX just to create it properly" story always fills me with awe.
I suppose I should have known they're being used for something, but I tend to not answer these because they don't seem answerable. I had a surgery a few weeks back and had an e-mail asking me to rate the experience afterward. Anesthesia results in most memories of the direct experience not existing, so I can't rate that. My satisfaction with the surgery itself depends on the ultimate outcome of it, which I can't possibly know within a day.

It's the same thing with regular product purchase. You get these "would you recommend?" or "would you purchase again?" solicitations either immediately after receipt of the product or within a few days, or solicitations to go leave a review somewhere. How am I supposed to rate something I've owned for somewhere between minutes and days and have barely used? Many of my most disappointing purchases seemed like great things when they first arrived or I first put them together, but after prolonged usage they showed serious flaws or simply stopped working.
Funny that Nicolas Cage comes up in this context. Here is a trivia snippet from https://www.imdb.com/title/tt23468450/trivia/:

> During an interview, Osgood Perkins recalled a story from production where he learned Nicolas Cage has a particular skill that he says no other actor possesses: the ability to recognize how high or low he is able to speak without messing up the audio. According to Perkins: "The sound guy came over to me one day...(he) comes up to me a couple of days into Nic being on set and he's like 'Oz, I've never seen anything like it. When Nic is mic'd, I'm watching the dials, when Nic goes big, he goes right to the line. Anything more, a decibel or two over that, and it would be hard to use. Then he goes down, he goes soft and his whispering and he's barely talking, he goes right to the line. Anything past that line, you wouldn't be able to use it. He knows where the lines are. It's the craziest thing I've ever seen in my life'."

Maybe Cage can contribute to the sound design problem actually.
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The issue probably comes from the fact that web browsers try to render HTML even if it’s not perfect. HTML isn’t super strict, so browsers will still display pages with small mistakes. There was a push to make HTML stricter with XHTML, which enforced rules like case-sensitive elements and closing tags, kind of like XML. But it didn’t really stick. Browsers had a hard time with those stricter rules, so HTML’s more relaxed approach stuck around. For some time I really tried to use XHTML when createing weh pages, but then I asked my self why all of the trouble when browsers don't follow the standards.
The paid version of ChatGPT has had built in web search for over two years. It’s easy enough to just say “verify your answer” and it will search the web.

Even with code - albeit most of my experience is with having it write AWS automation scripts in Python using the AWS SDK (Boto3), I’ll either give it the link to the API in question or tell it to “verify Boto3 calls on the web”.

The worse thing it usually does is have code where it wants you to include your credentials in code (don’t do that). But even most people on SO do the same
DeleteMe makes it quick, easy and safe to remove your personal data online
I'm in the UK pretty much only use iMessage/Snapchat.

I had a look at the stats though and you're probably correct about WhatsApp being default, although we do have a surprisingly diverse and competitive messenger market:

https://www.statista.com/forecasts/997945/most-used-messenge...
IBM already owns Red Hat, but for a few years it operated as a largely individual company still.
Only in the sense of a browser engine Ship of Theseus. By the time Microsoft adopted Blink that KHTML code was long gone.
The log4j vulnerability was due to Java code, not in the JVM. But I get that people mostly conflate the two.
Getting fined by the speech police isn't the gotcha you think it is
I’m from the U.K. and I consider the government’s actions around digital privacy to be somewhere between incompetent and malicious.
The fact that quora hasn't been marked as spam years ago and downgraded in search results is what tells me google never had impartial ranking. It's got to be the worst website on the internet. Its login walls alone would've downranked any other website. The wrong answers by pretend experts could also have done it. But not even the AI slop. I sometimes wonder if quora's leadership is someone from google's nephew or something.
For this fruit-fable, are there any statistics to show that it's true?
On the technological side torrents, IPFS, and the like, urging international collaborators to make copies of everything public. On the political side mass protests, strikes, whistleblowing, general unrest that goes beyond mere social media activism.
I would say that the 6809 is a better first assembly language of that era. (I keep hearing references to 68xxx, but the 6809 is closer.)
Super funny, I uploaded a photo of my two cats and they started fighting
Quora is so bad when someone first pointed me at something in Quora I genuinely thought it was some sort of joke website that I just wasn't understanding properly. Believe it or not, within some parts of the SV VC bubble they take Quora really seriously and everyone acts as though it's actually good.
Discussion from 1.5 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36430280
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Why "nearly"? Given how symbols are uppercased upon read in CL, 'string and 'String are actually the same symbol. I just checked: `(typecase "" (String 2) (otherwise 3))` returns 2, as expected. I'm less sure about the `defmethod`s, but I think they'll also work.

Plus, the capitalized type name reminded me of Coalton[1], which is an internal DSL for CL that implements ML-style type system. There, the dispatch on a type (conventionally named by a capitalized symbol) happens statically.

[1] https://github.com/coalton-lang/coalton
Rather, I think it’s borne of necessity to onboard you to the game mechanics. We certainly have a bird brained instinct to catch the worm / win a round, so a good game design cuts you some slack to begin with, so you can have a little dopamine as a treat

From there, difficulty should scale up so you don’t always win, giving you that “intermittent reinforcement“ that makes games addictive
A good VP knows VERY well that people want to move on.

Only shitty VPs clinge on people like this.

Your IC is an expert in developing / doing the things, the VP should be an expert in managing.

every other scenario are bad managers who act like children and do guilte trips to keep people because they don't know better.
Promises mean nothing. A couple of months ago, I was promised a promotion during the next review cycle. This week, HR announced at an all-hands that there won't be a review cycle or raises at all this year. The anger and disappointment I feel right now are off the charts.

Do what's best for you. If you're trying to keep things smooth, cut the grace period to a month max with a clear ramp-down plan. If you had quit, they wouldn’t have gotten even that.
You can see this in venerable software which has lived through the times of "designing for the user" and is still being developed in the times of "designing for the business".

Take Photoshop, for example, first released in 1987, last updated yesterday.

Use it and you can see the two ages like rings in a tree. At the core of Photoshop is a consistent, powerful, tightly-coded, thoughtfully-designed set of tools for creating and manipulating images. Once you learn the conventions, it feels like the computer is on your side, you're free, you're force-multiplied, your thoughts are manifest. It's really special and you can see there's a good reason this program achieved total dominance in its field.

And you can also see, right beside and on top of and surrounding that, a more recent accretion disc of features with a more modern sensibility. Dialogs that render in web-views and take seconds to open. "Sign in". Literal advertisements in the UI, styled to look like tooltips. You know the thing that pops up to tell you about the pen tool? There's an identically-styled one that pops up to tell you about Adobe Whatever, only $19.99/mo. And then of course there's Creative Cloud itself.

This is evident in Mac OS X, too, another piece of software that spans both eras. You've still got a lot of the stuff from the 2000s, with 2000s goals like being consistent and fast and nice to use. A lot of that is still there, perhaps because Apple's current crop of engineers can't really touch it without breaking it (not that it always stops them, but some of them know their limits). And right next to and amongst that, you've got ads in System Settings, you've got Apple News, you've got Apple Books that breaks every UI convention it can find.

There are many such cases. Windows, too. And MS Word.

One day, all these products will be gone, and people will only know MBA-ware. They won't know it can be any other way.
Show HN: AI Diagram Generator – extension for Mermaid charts generation with AI
Hey everyone,

I just built a Chrome extension for generating diagrams using AI. Under the hood, it simply generates Mermaid.js diagrams, which are then rendered. There are also a few small features, like editing the generated code if needed and selecting the diagram type. The final result can be downloaded or copied to the clipboard.

I was inspired by *Eraser.io* and *Napkin AI*. Eraser.io is a standalone product, while Napkin AI seems to use its own template-based graphics library. I use both frequently.

As I've been working on this and gathering user feedback, I've come up with a few ideas that I'll likely implement next:
1. *More customization* – adding themes and better color control.
2. *Exploring alternative diagramming libraries* – I found a couple of interesting ones:
- *D2* – a more flexible DSL for diagrams than Mermaid.js, though less standard.
- *Manim* – a project from the creator of 3Blue1Brown, used for generating mathematical animations.

I'd love to hear your feedback on the extension and any ideas you might have. Let me know what you think!
Just keep doing it as a statement brother!

No need to instantly start growing hairs again just because it is possible ;)
Torrent would do it but 16TB is still not that cheap to just have running in your house nas (otherwise I would).
It'll catch the bad guys who don't know what they're doing, which is a pretty big percentage of them.
Deliveroo Experimentation Principles
Experimentation principles from Deliveroo, a Europe-headquartered delivery marketplace
adding to this, they can't even pass an internal audit to account for where all that money is going. 7 years in a row they failed an audit.
It wouldn't be the first time that Musk has called for Harvard to be defunded. [0]

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-calling-for-harvar...
> Take these new attack vectors into account in your threat analyses.

Exactly. And while it might not be possible to protect against all the new vectors day one, no one should be surprised.
Is ProtonCaptcha [1] a good alternative to reCaptcha? I’m sure it is GDPR compliant but can anyone just use it?

[1] https://proton.me/blog/proton-captcha
Show HN: AI video (explained) in 3 minutes – Made with VIDEO AI ME
You can make your allocations faster if you don't have to worry about deallocation. Could be a performance thing.
Only when adding UB exploits done by optimizing compiler backends.

I am old enough to remeber the days any junior Assembly programmer could easily outperform any machine code generated by the C compilers of the day.
Worth a moment to recall (particularly as we watch the 2024 YR4 impact odds creep up; not that it is that big) that there are relatively regular events where life has to cope with long sunless periods. A big asteroid impact can blot the sky for years.

It is quite amazing to think what evolution has to handle with. The aftereffects after a bad asteroid impact are staggering. No sun for years & the entire earth can get cooked for a few hours from the kinetic energy of the ejecta that gets kicked up. Then everything freezes. So survivors typically do well eating carrion, hibernating and burrowing.
“I like that this article ends with the author quoting himself.

-jrflowers”
Or an adversary steals the code and refuses it. Actually pretty sure that's a real thing in the defense industry.

A friend of mine works on F16's. He says they don't really have half the plans to re-create or fix them and another third are just outright wrong, but instead they have to reverse engineer them. I exaggerate a bit. Still it's enough so even if another country stole all the plans they'd not be able to build their own F16s without spending massive amounts to re-engineer half of it and avoid the known issues.

That's long been America's main advantage. We can apparently spend insane amounts of money on this stuff, which would bankrupt other nations.

It's an odd but seemingly effective strategy. I'm not sure if it's planned or really just a happenstance of Washington politics. Also explains the F35 being absurdly expensive, maybe its a "feature" not a bug.