skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There should be (but often isnt) a matrix of job tiers and responsibilities. If such a thing exists, managers can work with ICs to gain the type of experience to move up AND then make a case to senior leadership.
For the curious, xorshift128+:

uint64_t a = s[0];
uint64_t b = s[1];

s[0] = b;
a ^= a << 23;
a ^= a >> 18;
a ^= b;
a ^= b >> 5;
s[1] = a;

return a + b;

https://stackoverflow.com/a/34432126
Why is this important? It means future voting doesn't matter at all as the government has been disabled. What remains will be something like Russia, were the public state is mostly a performance act. Kleptocracy instead of society. "Rules for thee, but not for me".

- [1] «This is why there's an effort to centralize power in the executive at a blistering pace, so the opposition can be permanently defeated even without Trump.

Watch for three things: ignoring the courts, snuffing out the influence of non-party sources of authority (the press, academic institutions), and centralization of police power. I don't think they're going to wait past April before they do all three.»

- [2] «MAGA is working full steam to make sure it doesn't matter who you are going to vote. Trump is just the smoke screen.
IF, by a rare circumstance, the media moguls decide to not sane-wash the incredible fire-hose of lies, corruption, fake news, and religious extremism, and the DEMs get into office in some next term, those DEMs will find the state destroyed beyond repair.

You can enter the cockpit, but MAGA makes sure you are never going to fly again. If you want to get somewhere, you will need the fixers.
»

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1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42967678
2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42956962
On Smartphone, First generation silicon-carbon battery, or lithium-ion battery with a silicon-carbon anode is shipping already at ~23% higher capacity. 2nd Generation is shipping this year at 40% increase over original. And hopefully 50% next year. With expected 100-200% increase by 2035.
Data hoarding doesn't just hurt the individual, it's bad for everyone.
The data-selling model will always have a strict competitive advantage against the good actors and so you as the user will end up with no options other than allowing that "legitimate" interest or not being able to access such a service. This has slight "people peeing in the community pool" vibes. Sure it may be "easier" for the individual doing it, but long term everyone just ends up with an unusable pool.
I don't mean the generic demographic categories but rather similarity in behavioural patterns. Were these people terminally online, more or less attractive on average, had rich social life?
Maybe I'm an idiot, but I was really struggling to understand how this worked from the website, which seems to have no photos or video of it actually operating.

I searched youtube and found a youtube short of it being used.

First you have to use another small machine to slice up a plastic bottle into a spool of roughly formed plastic spaghetti. Then you feed it through the nozzle on this machine to draw it into a properly formed filament.

Having to slice up every plastic bottle you want to run through it by hand seems like a cost to using it in any kind of bulk (I originally was trying to work out if it melted them down which would alleviate that).
Yup, had the same problem and decided to bite the bullet with CO. The OSS alternatives weren't that good at the time I made the switch, but maybe they've improved?

I remember hearing something about Darktable splitting into two separate projects, one with a better UX? (I'm probably wrong re the details, on the phone atm)

Ironically importing 40k or so photos from my old catalog into CO took just a fraction of time needed by LR to do the same. That was one of the triggers to stick with it for a few more days.
Possibly, idk. I'm using some variant of these lists in my personal DNS host and never had issues when using Microsoft products.
Agreed. It makes out tech to be a static, malicious, and socially-Darwinian hivemind of freeloading scofflaws. There are nonzero people in tech who do live their and work towards values with integrity that exist on a spectrum including from democratic socialism leanings all the way to including nearly Marxism. If you want to be at least moderately successful on a long time horizon, it is required to both be and appear to be honest and to have integrity.
That’s fair, which is why I questioned whether that was the case rather than outright making the claim. You’re probably right.
Or very much the same (Smartcard HSM) for $64: https://www.cardlogix.com/product/smartcard-hsm-4k-usb-token...

Or download for free the CryptoServer SDK from https://utimaco.com/products/platform/cryptoserver-general-p...
Their SDK contains a HSM simulator. They provide instructions how to run it in a container so that you then even have a network HSM.
M-x spook maybe needs a bit of an update.
I was not aware of an update to this algorithm, I'll have to look it out.

The original dancing link is one of my favorite papers, you can really see Knuth's love for algorithms (it's not in every paper you see sentences like "This process causes the pointer variables inside the global data structure to execute an exquisitely choreographed dance"). I'm using it to generate crosswords (the horizontal and vertical words forming an exact cover of the grid).
I don't know about a full comeback, but it is really the only physical format I see for sale in major retail stores in the US (like Walmart, etc.)

The format had outpaced CDs recently [0], but I think due to a decline in CD sales too.

[0] (2023) https://www.bbc.com/news/64919126.amp
Quora is worse than Yahoo Answers. Yahoo Answers was at least funny some of the time (e.g. "am I gregnant?")
Now I feel curious about what do you build that makes that much use of parallel computations, races and killing the loser, etc?
It's kinda amazing that the people who wrote this probably know every single byte of code that's running on that computer, rom included. Without such deep knowledge you can't get this kind of performance.

With a modern computer that is simply unthinkable.
Looks interesting. A long time ago I started with a joke browser extension (worked on both Chrome and Firefox) that replaced the frog emoji neonazis adopted with a shit emoji I found more appropriate. Later I built a service on Twitter APIs that scored accounts to give a 1-5 rating with things like keywords (used a classifier to help feed it) and follows. Sadly, Twitter API access is now too expensive for such a hobby project, and I don't have the energy to scrape the data using a browser driver.
A Directory of Deprecated Chrome Extensions and New Opportunities
Not sure if you’ve noticed, but Google Chrome has been warning for a while that some extensions would be deprecated. What started as a warning is now a reality.

Thousands of Chrome extensions now display this alert:

This extension is no longer available because it does not comply with Chrome Web Store policies.
Source: https://support.google.com/chrome_webstore/answer/2664769#un...

This means that many useful extensions have simply disappeared, leaving users without alternatives and creating opportunities for new solutions.

To track this situation, I created Zombie Extensions, a directory listing deprecated Chrome extensions to inspire developers and help them find ideas for new projects. If you’ve ever thought about building a Chrome extension but didn’t know where to start, this might be a good place to look.
For me it wasn't just ED. It outright shut down my libido. I had absolutely no interest in sex whatsoever.
Show HN: Optimal UX – Server-side A/B testing that runs before page load
Optimal UX runs experiments directly on the server side through a Cloudflare Worker, meaning variations are applied before the page even reaches the browser.

The core idea is to intercept and modify the HTML stream at the edge, which eliminates client-side overhead. For websites using Cloudflare, it's just a matter of installing the Smart Agent. The same agent works seamlessly with React, Vue, and other frontend frameworks when client-side testing is needed.

One unexpected benefit that emerged during development was the ability to quickly apply HTML patches. This turned out to be super useful for SEO tweaks - you can update meta tags, headings, or content structure without deploying new code.

Tech stack:
-Edge computing (Cloudflare Workers)
- Streaming HTML parser
- Framework-agnostic client library (~3KB gzipped)

Would love feedback from anyone doing A/B testing at scale. This is my first time building something for edge computing and I learned a ton about HTML streaming and performance optimization.

I'm particularly curious:
- Has anyone else encountered performance issues with client-side A/B testing tools?
- For those running tests on high-traffic sites, how do you handle the performance impact?
- What's your experience with edge computing for similar use cases?
Franz Kafka was a great procrastinator (2013)
The full model can run on setups worth less than $10K. Here's for instance a $6K build[0].

Granted, that's still expensive, but it is within the realm of something a hobbyist could put together.

[0]: https://x.com/carrigmat/status/1884244369907278106
And? Look to fossil fuels and the greenhouse effect — even with ample evidence of both a causal mechanism and the results, we've still got people who want to drill and burn more oil; and also, there's also plenty of people who want to switch oil off despite all the positive things that oil brings.

An AI which is "only" as misaligned as one of the major industrial sectors of the world, that is made out of humans who are necessarily able to care about human interests, and which drove a huge amount of economic improvement and brought with it derivatives such as basically all polymers, is still capable of great harm. And because of those benefits, society as a whole still has not unplugged the oil drills.

The more power there is in a system, the harder it is to keep it aligned with our best interests, even when there are humans not just at the wheel but occupying every step.

And the more aligned it is, the harder it is to "just unplug it" when things — as is inevitable because nothing is perfect — do go wrong.
Well, they do say it, however they use a lot more words to do it:

> We were able to speak to a young woman who had been working in one of the scam centres a couple of weeks before our visit. She had not enjoyed it and been allowed to leave.

Her job, she said, was as part of the modelling team, made up mostly of attractive young women, who contact potential victims and try to build an intimate online relationship with them.

"The target is the elderly," she said. "You start a conversation like 'oh you look just like one of my friends'. Once you make friends you encourage them by sending pictures of yourself, sometimes wearing your night clothes."

Then, she explains, the conversation moves to get-rich-quick schemes, such as crypto investments, with the women claiming that's how they made a lot of money.

"When they feel close to you, you pass them on to the chatting section," she says. "The chatting people will continue messaging with the client, persuading them to buy shares in the crypto company."
Las Vegas is not the only city with casinos.
It's cool to read about, but there's a reason most of the stories are not about living as a person in the Culture. It sounds extremely dull.
Wrong. What we do TODAY determines what happens in a decade. Global warming is determined by what we do today, even if the final destruction doesn't show up until later.

You are literally a climate change denier.
By the way, the "password generator app" is not a contrived hypothetical, it was actually one of my first ever bug-bounty payouts.
That's an interesting distinction you're making.

Gambling and investing are very close together. You're only able to make rational decisions on perfect information which is not available.

So investing seems to be a sort of gambling to me, it's just part of a different societal institution.
It might not be ironclad, but the ease with which federal workers can fiddle with data they're hosting themselves vs. fiddling with data in Harvard's library is a pretty big difference. And if it ever came to demands for censorship, it wouldn't be Harvard Library's first rodeo.
Anyway, visits != visitors.
It does describe Las Vegas perfectly, and I sincerely doubt your first thought after reading that headline was "its a British publication, so of course they mean that city in Myanmar."
Yes - Reform UK is a far right populist party. They currently have 5 out of 650 MPs and are steadily gaining popularity - similar to the rise of other parties like AfD across Europe.
From slow to go: Rails test profiling hands-on by Vladimir Dementyev [video]
Great hands-on talk about profiling Rails applications with various profilers.
You can tell a company really builds using their own products when an abuse system can take them offline!
Whats with the dbus interface?
Congress stopped it 9 years ago
> Being silent is mostly useless. If you sit through a whole meeting without saying a word you didn't contribute at all. I don't want colleagues who don't contribute.

People who talk just to talk are not just useless, but drag for everyone else. There is nothing valuable about weighting into everything.

People who have strong opinions on stuff they know little about are also causing harm.
Like KajMagnus mentioned:

- The churn caused by breaking changes in minor versions used to be annoyingly high.

- Slick looks neat at first but caused a lot of friction when used by less experienced developers.

- The fact Akka is in your dependency tree encourages people to reach for it and raw actors are usually a bad choice. Akka streams work well for websockets and SSE but it's another footgun.

Additionally:

- It was in state of semi-abandonment for several years before Lightbend gave the project to the community. Even though there are/were big companies deploying Play apps at scale, for instance Apple.

- The introduction of Guice (in 2.4 afaik) was a terrible mistake, completely unnecessary and at odds with the Scala philosophy. Sure you can not use it, or use something else (like macwire) but defaults matter.

- Play-JSON depends on Jackson which is annoying in the JVM world, causing binary compatibility issues when you have diamond dependencies.

- Standard library Futures are not so nice when you've experienced anything else (Scalaz Task, Cats IO, ZIO, even Twitter Future...)

- Code generation from routes files is an odd choice when Scala has always been expressive and DSL friendly.

- Swagger/OpenAPI integration is brittle.

I've personally used Tapir since 2019 and couldn't be happier. All Play apps still running at my company are being abandoned or replaced by Spring/Java projects.
From COBOL to Chaos
Pig butchering among many other variations, like sextortion, fake FBI agent, advance fee fraud, fake real estate rental fraud, there's a whole myriad in their playbook.
How could I not have known about this gem for so long?!

;; Created: May 1987

Guess I'm one of today's lucky 10000 :)
Finasteride is pennies a day, but doesn't do 1 percent of what this new drug might.
> Who is incompetent in this list?

The definition of competence is "having the necessary ability, knowledge, or skill to do something successfully."

You're posting in a forum mainly followed by engineers. Your average experience engineer knows well what a kid straight out of college brings in in terms of ability, knowledge, or skill to do something successfully. We know, because some of us are tasked with onboarding said kids to come straight from college. Some of us had the privilege of onboarding elite recruits from college, and even they need guidance to be effective at their job.

And you just assume these randos don't? They parachute into organizations, systems, and services they are completely oblivious about, they antagonize and are outright hostile to the existing staff and procedures, they even try to push code without knowing a thing about anything, and this doesn't raise any red flags with you?

> I think they can figure out a government ledger.

Do you really know, though? I don't think so.
Congress stopped the shitty behavior quiz 9 years ago
Meta torrented & seeded 81.7 TB dataset containing copyrighted data
No one should be surprised by any of this. It was all written down and published by the Heritage Foundation in 2023.
I concede that cookie banners are not helpful here. I also admit that I rarely see them anymore, as uBlock Origin removes them for me. I probably shouldn't have assumed that the web I see is the web everyone else sees.
Meta will probably follow suit once apps come out that show the benefits of this access on Android XR.

Their opening of their ecosystem is also a pretty recent move and I think it might happen anyway in that light.

In any case it's not really something I'd write meta off for.
Similar HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42967173
Oh yeah, I remember the '98 Internet Tax Freedom Act (ITFA). It drove adoption of e-commerce because it undercut local sellers. Such were the days of the Wild West before the final nail in the coffin, South Dakota v. Wayfair.
... or maybe you are an AI bot?
Or a NS one?
Ford is not known for building reliable cars. They are consistently below the average on that metric.

Anecdotes are not data, but the one guy I know that is a die-hard Ford buyer has more car problems than anyone I've known.

Point being that if your previous baseline is Ford, I'd expect most brands to seem unbreakable.
It certainly does not look good for a fair traditional elections. All people in power are currently being replaced with pro-Trump folks.
Fun fact, the state update function can be modelled as the multiplication of the state vector by a constant matrix (where the vector/matrix elements are all in GF(2)). By raising that matrix to a power n, you can use the resultant matrix to compute n state updates at once, allowing you to "skip ahead" arbitrarily into the output stream.

Hypothetically, you could use this to vectorize/parallelize computation of xorshift128+ output sequences in large batches, but I'm not sure anyone's ever bothered to do this because the naive sequential method is so cheap.
I'm reasonably sure that if you will block every single Amazon owned address at your entry firewall, a majority of the apps or sites will stop working for you. That's what is implied by saying that it is not possible to avoid Google, Amazon and either one of the MS or Apple.
The US is treading a very dangerous path right now. I wonder how long it'll take for Congress to act and, by the time it happens, if it'll be sufficient.
Agree. Probably somewhere between Viagra and Ozempic.
Best thing that could happen for Boeing right now is for Elon Musk to order that contract terminated, so Boeing can subsequently assert a conflict of interest and sue the government over it. When Bill Nelson announced that he didn't see the Starliner program ending before fulfilling it's contract I could feel Boeing shareholders everywhere wincing.

Boeing, for what it's worth, has learned from their mistakes with this project; they will never accept fixed-price contracts again. Rendering a service for an agreed upon amount of money is too complicated for Boeing, they will now only accept "cost-plus" infinite money tap contracts.
More like impossible
What the f*** is reflection? [video]
Even without it, we could see what a second term would look like from the middle of his first.
One of the books in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy (of however many books there are) ends very abruptly because the publisher was so annoyed with him missing deadlines they told him to just finish the page he was on and published whatever he had written so far.
There's some already. Some 'virtual girlfriend' services too.
Assuming that people randomly select the portions.
It's been a while so I can't provide a link but I remember reading about someone who got hold of a video blackjack machine that used a pseudo random number generator and was able to find the seed from only a few hands and then knew exactly which cards would be dealt next. He then went on to empty every machine he could find in the local casinos.
You know those quasi-libertarian dreams of independent privately-owned city-states? Yeah, doesn't seem like such a good idea now, does it?

(I'm kind of surprised none of those crypto-libertarian groups have tried Myanmar, actually; it is, at least at the moment, particularly vulnerable to this sort of thing.)
Most people aren't familiar with the term, so it'll just be confusing. They do describe such a scam.
I can't remember if it was specifically about Shwe Kokko but Search Engine did an episode about a city with compounds like these.

https://pjvogt.substack.com/p/whos-behind-these-scammy-text-...
One example in MS Word is the ribbon. It is relatively recent invention, and when it was introduced, _at least_ they went to the effort of using telemetry to guess which features where actually often utilized versus which ones where not, and designed the ribbons in accordance.

Nowadays every new "feature" introduced in MS Word is just randomly appended to the right end of the main ribbon. As it is now you open a default install of MS Word and at least 1/3 of the ribbon is stuff that is being pushed to the users, not necessarily stuff that users want to use.

At least I can keep customizing it to remove the new crap they add, but how long until this customization ability is removed for "UI consistency" ?
Which makes it decidedly unfortunate that you cannot determine whether a sequence of spaces are collapsible or not without consulting the presentation layer, even though this should be a semantic/parsing question.
This is exactly how fascism happens.

https://archive.is/g6ElI
It describes, to a greater or lesser extent, a lot of places, but this one is certainly a particularly extreme example.
This title does not do the issue justice
What about hcaptcha? Wasn’t it supposed to be a less intrusive alternative?
"After a $523 million charge on its CST-100 Starliner program in 2024, Boeing's total losses on the commercial crew vehicle now exceed $2 billion -- and there's still no clear timeline for its next flight."
The other posters are describing the state of China right now, so I'll describe things on a more macroeconomic perspective.

The lack of manufacturing in the US can be linked to the lack of investment from the low savings rate as the flipside of high consumption, and a strong dollar (relative to surplus countries like China) that both boosts imports, driving consumption even higher than lowering savings rate, and weak export competiveness.

That lack of savings manifests as the Current Account Deficit, and normally the dollar should weaken due to it, strengthening exports and naturally rebalancing the trade. Unfortunately, because the rest of the world does the opposite in having an abnormally high level of savings, they push all their capital into the USA. This overall appreciates the dollar, and is good for the finance industry, but persistently doing this for 40 years has basically destroyed US manufacturing.
how do you coordinate who downloads which part?
If anyone is interested, there was an experiment about that. A week without either of Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook. And last week without all 5. Very illuminating.

https://gizmodo.com/i-cut-the-big-five-tech-giants-from-my-l...
Who has the power to enforce directives?

Will police and military soon go the White House/other places so that federal grant continues, if court asks?

Because if court cannot do that, it is already lost.
No, but it's probably the most famous (at worst, second behind Monte Carlo).
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IMO US elections have already been less-than-fully-democratic for a while, what with the voting registration and ID nonsense, as well as obvious gerrymandering and voter intimidation. At the very least, significantly less democratic than a number of other western countries.