skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm guessing they consider this a success.

I'm sure they do. Of course that doesn't count the number of new subscribers they would have had, but didn't get. Or the number of future subscribers they won't get. Or the current subscribers that will cancel in six months. And of course when they see the worse-than-expected subscriber base in a year, they'll use that as the justification for another "successful" price increase. (Anyone that had cable 15 years ago knows what I'm talking about.)
I've worked at companies that had been in operation for 4 years that had multiple developers work on it and was only at 40-50k.

My current project is at about 200k.

One company had a monolith with 20-30 people working on it 360k with a few microservices to start replacing monolith features being between 5-20k each.

It's not a ridiculous small code base, it's about average for a lot of small to medium size companies.
My experience has been the opposite. I've had OpenWRT gear running rock solid for more than a decade, and a box full of Ubiquiti gear that no longer gets updates, doesn't work with recent management software, and some that's even been resuscitated back to usefulness by flashing with OpenWRT.
And not one of them was hired as a junior dev.
That is a bad analogy, as VHS won through pure technological superiority (it was able to record a standard length TV program without you having to sit in front of the device to switch the cassette in the middle).
> It won’t be long until AI will be writing all the code for Helper, Flexile, and Gumroad. My guess is by the end of 2026.

It would be a reason for me to not rely on their code, for risk of it becoming unmaintainable.
https://github.com/HHS/Head-Start-TTADP/commit/8b808fd713749...
Apple's Upcoming M5 SoC Enters Mass Production
> And running on real hardware is pretty much the last thing any OS dev actually does.

This is sad.

> Using a VM with a debugger attached rather than trying to figure out how to set up a debug harness is more convienent.

But misses all the bugs which can only be reproduced by running on bare metal.
why is the date `Oct 17, 2024 - 20:26 UTC`?
Why does it matter if they are publicly traded?

Outing myself as European here, but we've had a lot better results with privately owned businesses that are not 100% beholden to grow for their shareholders.

No unicorns, but sustainable growth.
Data Republican: Track US tax and charitable giving
Speaking as someone who’s written a lot of post-mortems, they’re a really useful exercise, and demanding clients are the only reason they actually happen. If you don’t get any lessons out of your post-mortem process, you’re missing a huge opportunity to improve your services.
Depends on how long they've been in IT. A good while back, exploits in adobe reader were so common that pdf files were a common malware vector.
> Critical infrastructure is critical so it belongs in the hands of a few.

Yeah, why even have ASNs, BGP and distributed network infrastructure when we could just have GooFlareZon host it all, with basically no drawbacks?

There is many good reasons why the internet is distributed and why that was the architecture that allowed it to go global. Going back from that would do no one any good except the ones who ends up the new owners.
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This is screaming for a Raymond Chen post explaining the strange-but-true history behind it.
There's also another big issue with their new single household approach - there's now no way to have a single user across two devices on separate wi-fi networks, even if they're in the same area and even if you pay them for the extra sharing (you only get a new user). So that means that Disney+ no longer works for kids of divorced/separated parents. This is particularly frustrating given that other providers like Netflix, Prime, and Apple TV don't have this restriction.
As I get older, I accept that nothing humans make can last without maintenance, and that for computer systems in our growth economy, that maintenance has to be equivalent to change.

It sucks, but the repeated aggravation of broken expectations is worse.
Doesn't work in Safari (?).
However they lack support for pointers to those fields. Which zig has.
I wonder what happens when we run out of senior engineers.
I think it might not be capitalism alone that co-opts reality. Social structures of all kinds use words to co-opt reality into a coherent story.
Once the tombs have been discovered, how long until regular grave robbers make their appearance to “take care” of them? At least this way the finds are open to scientific examination instead of being molten down and sold for profit.
Cool, but Bitlbee can proxy any IRC client (even for DOS and Windows) against some server and use your accounts (even Mastodon) over IRC.

https://bitlbee.org
Found the normal German citizen in 1943
May be referring to Gemini deep research, which was released in December 2024
Scientist Brian Wansink Turned Shoddy Data into Viral Studies About How We Eat
Until recently layoffs, hiring freezes and stalled growth used to be a signal for investors to dump the company's stock.

Now CEOs instead say "we are replacing engineers with AI" and the stock price shoots up.

Quite a grift we have going on.
You're completely right that I kind of got off track there and thank you for calling me out on it. But in this comment I think you're conflating merit with potential.

If we're comparing those two hypothetical people, the one with the lower score clearly has more potential as they overcame all those obstacles and did almost as well as the one who had a ton of advantages. But if (and I'm not saying this is an objectively good goal) you want to hire strictly off of merit, you hire the 80 because 80 > 79. If you want to hire on potential, it's a pretty clear choice to hire the 79.

Not every job needs to be 100% merit-focused, but some should. A pretty good, and IMO relevant, example would be basically any job in the national defense / intelligence circles. We should not care what obstacles you had to overcome to get that 79, if someone else got an 80 they're the ones that should be working at the CIA/NSA/whatever.

But there are plenty of jobs where potential is as important or more so than merit. That's part of why there's no such thing as the "two equally qualified candidates" thing that both sides like to use as examples so much.
With all the accounting tricks it’s probably hard to know if this was a success. Likely there is a large share of the user base on trial periods or partner offers (e.g., free with T-Mobile)
4 per week? I see the ad-free price now is $16. 4 per week would be 16 per month. Most rentals I've seen (through something like Amazon) run $4. Am I missing a cheaper rental service that runs about $1 per film?
The key part is you need a "pencil dice" to play these.
Feels a bit premature. None of the tech is at „shove entire codebase into context and useful changes come out“ yet.
Absolutely no way this can go wrong of course.

Sometimes I wonder if we are the last generation that can still code by hand, and if more companies start to implement the same hiring rules as this guy, soon there will be no more junior devs since nobody can get a job, so give it 10 years and the amount of senior devs will be a finite resource that will slowly die out.
> Does it mean Gumroad will drop its high prices now when it no longer needs to pay to humans?

Why would they give that money away rather than keeping it as profits?
If I was doing anything I would be hiring more junior/mid-level since they could be supported more with AI. And reducing the amount of seniors I hired.
For example subtitles are terrible on most major streaming services, either don't exist, or are only available in one language. Sometimes they don't even have the original audio track, only a dubbed one! Piracy ensures that multi-language families can happily watch a movie together.
The PDF reader is embedded in Linux within a PDF that is within a PDF.
We're approaching that rapidly. I wanted to watch a college game on some incarnation of ESPN+, and it was a full day of negotiating with several divisions of Disney, the local provider, the reseller, and I don't even know who else... I probably could have gone to myfreesportscam.xyz or something and been good to go.
You know what's next right? Gumroad is longer paying content creator due to AI.
OK. Why did you dismiss the claim above that "some but not all" aren't radical?
It's not AI replacing your jobs, it's people who have the agency to do that. This is a choice. By a person. It's not because technology and, "oh well, what can you do?"

As a customer of Gumroad I'd be cautious about trusting such a system.
About 30 total. They are not serious about production and let them live out life so that makes sense now.
I wish we could bioengineer mosquitoes and ticks to not bite humans, and dress it up with a thin veneer of being natural so that you felt happy about it too.
We could be using html based DSLs and powerful importable components instead of special characters. Monaco (VSCode editor framework) allows frontend devs to make special DSL editors with autocomplete for both desktop and web. Between Spectacle and Typst approaches, I would choose Spectacle.

I read the 2003 book The art of Unix programming where the author praises plain text config and says hand editing xml is a human rights violation, since Notepad was the most powerful ubiquitous editor then. Markdown was best then.

https://commerce.nearform.com/open-source/spectacle/docs/api...

https://typst.app/
> I always wanted to try OpenWRT but was put off by the necessity of doing hardware modifications to stock routers to gain root access.

This is almost never required. They have a long list of supported devices, so unless you're trying to put OpenWRT on a device you already have that requires hardware mods, you should be able to easily find a compatible device that doesn't require this step.
I’m curious, why do people use gumroad instead of just starting a Shopify store?
It's not selling out when you're running a critical production system for a small number of users (the people in your house). You made the right choice.
The internet is distributed control, yes. BOFH operating tables, as I said for me it's either no humans or humans I can audit. The DNSSEC Root KSK Ceremony is neat.
Sure, you can say I support killing babies. It is black and white that a woman (and her doctor) should have zero qualms about doing whatever they need to prioritize the woman’s health.

Literally no one is killing babies who can survive outside of their moms for fun. They are all medically necessary healthcare procedures.

https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2019/04/raw-data-abor...
Video:
https://x.com/iterintellectus/status/1887496355083362585
> Unless you use Plex, which allows your own content [...] you're SOL.

... how about connecting a computer to your TV ? Inconvenient depending on your setup, but not hopeless.
Those sequences of instructions transform the cheapest arithmetic operations into very expensive operations and they make unachievable the concurrent execution of up to 8 arithmetic instructions, which is possible in other modern CPU cores.

Using instruction fusion of a pair of instructions to achieve the effect of indexed addressing, but in a many times more complex and more inefficient way, is believable even if ugly.

Using instruction fusion to fuse the long sequence needed for checking overflow into a single operation is unbelievable.

Even if that were done, the immense discrepancy in complexity between detecting overflow with one extra XOR gate in a 64-bit adder that may have hundreds of gates, depending on its speed, and an instruction decoder capable of fetching ahead and decoding the corresponding long instruction sequence into one micro-operation is ridiculous.
If they inform and ask after the fact, compensation should be voluntary.
Breaking "City Killer" Asteroid 2032 Impact Risk Increased with New Data
I miss having an NMI that you got at 50/60Hz come hell or high water.
Ironically, enough, interacting with that website without an adblocker is itself a great example of hypernormalization.
As a senior+ engineer, I have no interest in working for a company that doesn't hire junior or midlevel engineers. Mentoring the next generation is not only one of the most rewarding parts of my career, it also levels me up.

The US tech industry is committing slow suicide.
For companies using teams rather than slack: why not use excel rather than a CRM? You'll save lots of money. Use Google hangouts instead of Zoom. Free videocalling, why worry about quality?

It's not clear to me that you actually save money by using worse technology, if it takes more time to do stuff (after you've restarted teams three times to try to get share screen to work, for example).
Even a decade later, I as a high school student really into photography wasn't getting a Nikon. Started with my dad's Pony and then Retina and then used a Konica system through university and beyond until it was stolen in a break-in.
When someone is hired into a professional job, is there something in the laws of physics that prevent them from doing wrong?
It's been easier a long time due to fragmentation alone.
It depends on the amount of effort required and the impact of what's being discussed. I'm not going to argue with people that grass is green, or the earth is round. SM started to engage in politics in the mid 20th century, and I even provided some examples of topics they've covered in that period. They then got pissy and demanded evidence, which in the context of what's being discussed, is a dick move. So, I told him where to get off.

In cases where the discussion is actually important, such as anthropogenic climate change for example, or issues with Test-Driven Development, I provide the receipts.
Seems like the CEO is admitting that their tech moat is smaller than ever. Sounds like a good chance for someone to undercut their fees.
Bad headline. 700k is virtually nothing to them.
Unless you use Plex, which allows your own content

Or just use an AppleTV, which comes with a built-in program called "Computer" that lets you stream your own content from any Mac on the LAN.

I have about 400 movies and thousands of TV shows that I stream this way, in subscription-free bliss.

The content comes from CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays from the library or my own purchases; and I have a $20 gadget that records OTA TV shows and movies onto a USB stick.
> you need to watch more than 4 Disney movies per week to justify not renting

How so? At $16/month, that's 1 $4 rental per week. Or are you getting $1 rentals somewhere?
I found that Windsurf's approach of automatically navigating a codebase is very close to that. But if you really need everything to be in the context at once, Gemini 2 is pretty much there already, except for maybe the largest codebases.
Most of his twitter posting is engagement bait, lol (meaning I wouldn’t read anything into this tweet, like, at all)
I think I still have a camera from the 30s: the 6x9 Ikonta.
Compact, easily fits inside your pocket/small camera bag, and shoots pretty big negative. And oh, with a coupled rangefinder.

One fun camera :D
The treadmill needs to be there. From junior to senior to staff to principal and so on. Agreed, all my previously written code is sitting some bankrupt startup's github which will never see the light of day but those years have made me what I am today.
C'mon guys, Deliberate Practice is Real
It would help if you’d share something beyond a bald assertion. The idea of soft power gets used by tons of governments everywhere. Maybe they undertook some evil actions where you live. But they also ship food to places that need it, and they fund infrastructure projects.
I expected that USB cable to be $250+ but I see them for $50-$70 which is still super expensive for a USB2.0 cable. But I guess if you like the look of it, it makes sense.
I'd say they started getting into their swing in the 1950s, if my father's Yashica-A twin-lens reflex is any indication. That camera produced absolutely gorgeous shots in square format on 120 roll film.
Evaluate things based on reasoning, not source.
It's definitely easier... And cheaper. An HDMI cable costs less than a subscription for any streaming service.
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Does this account for the "seasonal" watching that some people do? For example, I subscribed to Disney+ to watch Skeleton Crew recently, and then unsubscribed when the season concluded. The price change didn't factor into my decision (I wasn't even aware their prices had changed).
Can someone help me better understand the ultimate goal here? I'm thinking through the AI influence and how it would replace the engineers at my company and fail to see it. However, that is likely just pure ignorance on my part and I'm likely just missing the obvious.

Say someone from the business side wants an external Api implemented into some ingestion pipeline. What would this look like without engineers?

For the record, this is an honest question
They developed software as "juniors" in companies—we just don't belittle them by calling them "junior devs".
Ruling Out Lookup Tables
Thomson Reuters is an American-Canadian company. Thompson was founded in Toronto and bought Reuters in 2008. Most of it's leadership is Canadian, and to some degree American or British.

This isn't "foreign", and it has a large presence in the US

They also have a long, long history of providing services to the USG, including a lot of efforts in busting illegal immigration via shared media databases.
Is it ok to be black and white on slavery?
> Like riding a bike.

Or walking. Humans take such a long time to gain the muscle strength and the motor skills to simply take a few steps.
So, you're saying that I couldn't watch on my desktop at home, and on my laptop at school for instance?
While they still existed, yes: video stores. Catalog movies (that is, not new releases) could often be had for $1 a night.

Most were run out of business due to streaming, but if you have one nearby, it’s almost certainly cheaper and better quality than streaming. Plus you’d be supporting a local business in the process.
Whether one uses tabs or spaces, Allman or K&R, etc. is largely immaterial.

On your own projects, choose a style, go with it. On someone else's project, go with the style chosen. On a shared project, come up with a style, go with it.

Code _organization_ matters way more than code _style_. Where style refers only to the aesthetic choices that don't impact the structure or flow.
PoC||GTFO is a great magazine :) Yay to Travis Goodspeed! Sorry, I wanted to say Pastor Laphroaig. Just don't get him started on his Tennessee buck belt :D
I have a pair of Hifiman Sundara that I take out for proper listening (they’re a bit heavy). But more often than not I listen through a pair of creative pebble which is more than enough for me.
That’s the whole playbook. Exaggerate loudly the first time you say something, then quietly retract it when nobody is looking. Then say you said the retraction the whole time. It’s textbook manufactured outrage.
There was a price increase, but there was also an explicit elevation of Disney+ from a "Pressure Target" to a "Priority Target" of the BDS movement last December.[1]

I know anecdotally dozens of people, including myself, who have made the sometimes difficult decision to cancel Disney+ subscriptions to avoid crossing the picket line. I haven't heard anyone making a fuss about the price increase, specifically.

[1]: https://bdsmovement.net/Guide-to-BDS-Boycott
That says nothing about tire wear.
Correct.

Absolutely agree and my intent was more that the majority of the proven routines can have you out of the gym pretty quickly. Full body, upper / lower split, PPL, etc.

But yet - totally agree.
> It's pretty clear that he did not do any sort of "fascist salute"

It couldn't be more clear to me that's exactly what he did. More than once. I saw it with my own eyes.
> The status quo is equal footing.

Depends. When you remove the "1-click cancel" mandate, it's profits over people, for example.

We had this. You had to fax the company a petition for cancellation before 7 to 2 days to renewal, and call them too to set this in motion. If you fail, you can try next year. Now, they have to integrate with e-gov, and I can cancel my membership from e-gov with one click.

If the integration fails, it's their head under the guillotine, not mine.

I don't think "people over profits" a bad approach. We don't live to feed corporations to feed us junk in return. Corporations shall be there for us improve our lives, if we let them. We are not their slaves.
> History has repeatedly shown that socialism is a destructive form of government, beneficial only to the elites in the country and never the rest of the country.

Couldn't the same be said about capitalism, to some degree? According to the article, Musk has become $154 billion richer since Trump is in power. How did this benefit you?
I don't think that's weird. That's what I would want from an honest vendor who is involved in both services - block anonymization/obfuscation users if I'm paying you to block them. Apple/Cloudflare don't sell/support iCloud Relay as a service that is guaranteed to get you treated nicely by the parties on the other end, so they're not being deceptive with that part either.

What I'd worry about is Cloudflare using their knowledge of their VPN clients to allow services behind their attack protection to treat those clients better, because maybe they're leaking client info to the protected services.

Not that I think Cloudflare/Apple/etc. are supremely noble/honest/moral, or that it's good that semi-anonymous connections are treated so badly by default; this juxtaposition just doesn't seem like a problem to me.

EDIT:
OK, I back off of this position somewhat. Apple's marketing of iCloud Relay might allow users to believe it's more prestigious and reputable than a VPN/Tor. They do have fine print explaining that you might be treated badly by the remote services, but it's, you know, fine print, and Apple knows that they have a reputation for class and legitimacy.
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> Any language that imbues the entire set of special characters (!#*&<>[]{}(); ...etc) with mystical semantic context is, imo, more interested in making its arcane practitioners feel smart rather than getting good work done.

On that scale COBOL is a better programming language.
> bluetooth audio is lower quality than it could be (AptX and LDAC codes unsupported)

Not sure what you mean by this, aptX and aptX HD work flawlessly for my Bluetooth headphones with pipewire
> Never will this rugged individualist acknowledge that providing him with internet access on the state's dollar costs orders of magnitude more than someone living in a sustainable location

Thankfully we have Starlink to replace pork consumption with actual services.
It never stopped being the easier solution if you were even a tiny bit technically literate.
May I know who did the mirror resilvering?
It's very common to see those old rangefinders' patch fade away.
Me too, the possibly of another resource like the excellent series "Let's Build a Compiler" by Jack Crenshaw[1] would be nice.

[1] https://compilers.iecc.com/crenshaw/
For me personally, a little cannabis or psilocybin is 10x more effective at improving listening experience than any of the lengths that more serious audiophiles typically go to.
it's all so fucking stupid. why do they care WHERE you're watching the content if you're paying for 1, 2, ... N seats per month? Besides which country you're in, which I could understand.