skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounds like the combination of a poorly run company and a lack of initiative on the commenter’s side if they haven’t even spoken to their manager in two years.

But yeah, the company should be doing at least inflation raises. A company only has at most two full review cycles to not get me somewhere in the range I think I should be making before I start looking for another job.

But I do understand that it is a shit show out here right now. I was looking for bog standard enterprise dev jobs with AWS experience as a “Plan B” while waiting for the “Plan A” interviews to work their way through. I have never seen anything like this in almost 30 years.

It was not this hard for me to get software developer job interviews in either 2000-2001 or 2008-2010. Admittedly, that’s partially because I was only looking for remote jobs and there the competition is fierce.
Ask HN: What are good sources for news and learning gen AI for a noob?
250,000 gang rapes are another reason for hostility towards immigrants. As well as the cost.
At work when I work on Windows (currently stuck using Mac for the first time in my career at work), but on Windows I would use https://gitforwindows.org/ which also uses msys2 and that is a very popularly supported free product using msys2 on Windows. If you ever forget the URL, search for "git bash for windows".
I built the bones of the same thing! :)

Curious what stacks and tools you are using. I went with Bolt on AWS Lambda.
A couple of days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42971959
Then what do you use for the outer product?
It is my understanding that Dan Gilbert (Detroit businessman, owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers) sold Rock Financial to Intuit who then re-branded it as QuickenLoans.

Gilbert then bought the mortgage unit back from Intuit a few years later, and re-branded it RocketMortgage.

I don't think Rocket has anything to do with Intuit/Quickbooks/TurboTax, with RocketMortgage being in Detroit and Intuit still in California (although I know geography doesn't have anything to do with anything really).

That being said, I fully agree with you 120%. I know desktop QB isn't great (it used to be, especially the DOS-based versions), but the SaaS is a hellhole. It's even worse.

How can businesses literally waste people's time like this? It's a real, quantifiable drain on productivity, with an absolutely insane multiplier based on the number of QuickBooks users. Things that used to take under 30 seconds (marking transactions cleared), now takes a minimum of 5 minutes or more. Ditto for any data entry.

For any bookkeeper, this could be an hour or two of just wasted time, each and every day. Just poof. Why? ARR.

Seriously, f*ck these guys. Asshats.

P.S. on your latency comments; I have something that is very relatable (because I do not think modern developers can relate to a non-programming workflow), modern devs, how would you feel if all of a sudden, every keypress in your IDE now took 3 seconds instead of being (mostly) instantaneous? How about if every time you saved your source file locally you got a spinning icon that took 5-10 seconds? What about if the "cd" command on the cli or the "up dir" or "back dir" button in your file explorer suddenly similarly randomly had a spinning icon for 15 seconds? These tiny delays add up in heavily-used software.

This is the effect your latency has on OTHER PEOPLE'S WORK. Just because you think that random sales, accounting, and clerical staff might not be on your level, doesn't mean they like having their time wasted. It's just absurd that this has become commonplace. If devs had to put up with it, that shit would stop immediately, because then they would feel the pain.
The biggest feature that I'd love to see with a virtual book club would be a way to "unlock" discussions based on how far the into the book you are. The goal would be to make things asynchronous (so you could read at your own pace) without getting hit with spoilers.
> As soon as you bring up a refund/warranty errand with the retailer they will offer a 50% discount for the battery in return for you not giving them a 1-star rating.

So I take the 50% and give them a bad rating once the money is in my bank account, complete with the documentation of their bribe for a good review. What do they do, realistically? (Probably get the review taken down by the platform administrators, but I did not contribute.)
Couldn't think of a single use case, yet, that couldn't be solved by my rudimentary python skills, which I complement with the marvelous MoE module 'stackoverflow'. Almost all the tools support scripting.

For everything else, I have no trust whatsoever in these companies to hand my buggy and malware and mold plagued PC over to their agents.
Does this mean these states are no longer dependent on Russian electricity?
> The comment as written though leaves no doubt

> the user who made that comment left no doubt

Can you back that lack of doubt up with anything? Or is it a function of your own eagerness to construct a straw-man?
This sounds like the state of the entire UK
I assume he is referring to Tim Cook, who isn't a founder, but he is gay if I remember correctly.
I was expecting the russians to try more than just wrecking some underseas cables to try and stop this

I guess they're otherwise engaged
This is under consideration now due to the meta case.

The GDPR states that consent should be freely given and one can argue that forcing you to choose between payment our tracking is not a free choice but cohersed. I personally think that interpretation is correct.

Since a large part of German media in also doing the same, they are lobbying for this to only apply to "large online providers".

Here is a good writeup on the situation: https://iapp.org/news/a/pay-ok-or-a-third-way-context-analys...
I think it's great that tools like colinux exist but when if ever will IT departments (System Administrators) figure out how to support Linux Desktop users on our machines instead of forcing Windows or Mac on us. Mac is a terrible OS for Java software development.
It's sad she died when she did. Had it been a few years later penicillin would likely have saved her.
FWIW some of these also apply to MySQL, like the use of FKs and major version upgrades. I think scaling any centralized and business-critical resource is hard.
> Amazon and eBay should crack down on this crap.

Amazon and eBay are companies, which will do whatever is profitable and legal. The entity which should crack down on this is the government.
That ended a while ago, but they remained dependent on the Russian energy network for synchronisation. That has now ended.
WOW -- thank you for transporting me back to the mind-bending hell that is that 1989 TMNT game! I remember convincing my mom to buy me that at Meijer, and riding in the back seat of the car at night, squinting, only able to see the LCD screen for a split second at a time, each time we passed another street light lol
> Ground truth is possibly used in the sense that humans’ brains tie what they create to the properties of observed reality. Whatever new information comes in is compared to, or checked by, that.

What do you compare your knowledge of history to, other than what you expect other people will say? Most knowledge we learn in life is tied only to our expectations of other people's reactions. Which works out fine, most of the time, because even with questions of scientific fact, it's enough some people are in position to ground information in empirical experiments, and then set everyone else's expectations based on that.
I would assume so based on:

> All electricity interconnections with Russia and Belarus have been permanently disconnected.
Preprint:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.15494
This is why I "rice" my desktop. I keep seeing a lot of videos and posts saying "just use the defaults" and "ricing is a tar pit". But its a great way to understand your tools and build it just for you.
Tillamook is at least half the price of Salt and Straw, who is rather unremarkable after expanding to every major metropolitan in the US.
Can someone ELI5, are the RTX Neural Texture Compression Generative? Or is it good old fashion compression? My brain cant comprehend how you can get 90% compression ratio.

If it work, and works across all type of graphics. It will save on Bandwidth and Memory. Because Cost per Memory Capacity, Bandwidth hasn't been keeping up with the GPU.
The "y^((y^z)&x)" method is already branchless, and close in performance to the Zicond variant, is my point; i.e. Zicond doesn't actually add much.
I'm sharing sentiment.

C++ feels like a language of bean counters.

Rust feels like a language of bean counters.

A lot of C++ folks I know went over to rust.

They were happy with C++ and it was the best thing since sliced bread.

They are now happy with rust and it is the best thing since sliced bread.

To me, languages have a, let's call it 'taste' for the lack of better word off the top of my head. It's that combining quality that pg called 'hacker's languages', such as C, and lisp, for example.

C++ feels like a bureaucratic monster with manual double bookkeeping, byzanthine, baroque, up to outright weird and contradictory in places. Ever since rust was conceived, I gave it multiple shots to learn. When I was not thrown off by what I perceive as java-style annotations, i.e., something orthogonal to the language itself where no one seems to have bothered to come to a consensus to be able to express this from the language itself, its general feel reminds me of something a C++ embracer will feel comfortable in. I.e., in pg's words, not a hacker's language, paired with a crusade of personal enlightenment. What used to be OO and GoF now is memory safety as-implemented-by-rust (note: not by borrow checker, we could've had this with cyclone, for example, more than two decades ago).

I have, in my original comment, marked this as my personal opinion and feeling, as is the above. I'm not arguing. I love FP and the idea of having a systems language with FP concepts working out to memory safety and higher level expression sounds like the holy grail of yester-me. I'm disappointed I couldn't find my professional salvation in rust with how uneasy I feel within the language. It's as if a suit and tie was forced on me, or a hawaii shirt and shorts (depending on your preference, image it's the thing you wouldn't voluntarily wear).

Now, if other folks also mirror my observation of how the folks flock from C++ to rust, you bet they take their mindset and pedestal with them to stand on and preach off of. At least those I know do, only their sermon changed from C++ to rust, the quality of their dogma remained constant.
> a conditional is a branch, because the path control takes (at the machine code level) is chosen at runtime. This makes a conditional jump a branch by definition.

s/conditional is a/conditional jump is a/

Problem solved.

Non-jump conditionals have been a thing for decades.
I love seeing the codegen output, makes it easy to understand the issue, but claiming that it's faster or slower without actual benchmarks is a bit disappointing.
It's gonna be coupled to the 'gas' of his token and stack with his eternal debt.
I can't even follow the most basic tenants of your reasoning. All of it is unprecedented.
Yes and no. Once (if) the government cracks on the retailer, the retailer cracks down on sellers who use their platform.

Additionally, the retailer could actually have ethics of their own and choose willingly to raise the bar.
I wrote that food is not the issue, keeping grandma alive after heart attack or kidney failure or other things that require a lots of resources is the issue.

It is already impossible to see a doctor, and people have to settle for an NP/PA. A large proportion of young people are already despondent that they will never earn enough money to have enough purchasing power to increase their living standards.

These things are connected. And at every point, the solution has always been to tax young people more. That’s the ageism. Old people get federal government backed asset prices, discounts on property taxes, and young people get increased earned income taxes, for benefits they will never get themselves.

> Seriously. It’s sad to see someone preemptively throw their life away over an imaginary crisis.

It’s not throwing my life away to not want my descendants to spend their resources on caring for me all the time. Obviously, I am not talking about suicide just because I need help getting groceries, but instead when I need hundreds of thousands of dollars to keep me alive for a couple months or years in a bed, I think that could be better spent elsewhere in society.
It's for people who know about conservation laws and think they are fundamental and somehow unvariable.
it seems a few ruzzian cables got "accidentally cut" too so maybe they got the hint
They're still busy cleaning up in Syria: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/russia-spy-ship-fire-audio-warn...
Handling the seller appeals would quickly become expensive
This brings back fond memories of playing around in KidPix in elementary school.
I'm uncomfortable with the use of profanity as a core element of this campaign branding, especially given that it seems to be an educational outreach effort. While this seems targeted at college age and above, I think it would be highly relevant content for a teen audience as well. While I swear in privacy on occasion I think it has no place in the classroom. I really don't care for it in the workplace either but I grant that private enterprises can have their own culture.

It is frustrating because I agree with most of the content and the need for informed debate on the topic. It is a bit like my reaction to reading Cory Doctorow: I agree with his politics but really dislike the hamfisted way he packages his advocacy in the form of action adventures. As if the merits of his arguments need to be packaged in cotton candy to be consumed, and there is an undercurrent of self-promotion and personal branding that feels suss.

Probably all a "me" problem with associations built up over time from seeing snake oil being packaged using a similar playbook. If you have to sell your message by dressing it up with scroll effects and provocative offensive language you've already lost me.
It probably is an option to go to solar & batteries these days. Especially when the liability from rural power lines is huge due to fires.
So much of this war backfired for Putin. Expanded the NATO border across Russia’s northern border, ended electric revenue in the Baltics, ended NordStream, ended gas supply across Ukraine, dependence on China & India for oil markets (Xi gets to dictate terms now), destruction of entire military equipment and mothballed reserves, and the embarrassment of relying on DPRK for manpower, exit of Western businesses, frozen and sold assets stored in western banks
Yup, and importantly, the correct answer to those is, in anyone's personal learning experience, almost always just what the authority figures in their lives (parents, teachers, peers they respect, or textbooks themselves) would accept as the correct answer!

"Consensus reality" works so well for us most of the time, that we habitually "substitite the Moon for the finger pointing at the Moon" without realizing it.
They haven't been using Russian electricity since 2022.
Does that mean they have cables physically connecting their AC grids to the European AC grid? How many megawatts can those cables transfer? Which direction is the transfer going to be? Will they be buying electricity from Europe or selling electricity to Europe?

> All electricity interconnections with Russia and Belarus have been permanently disconnected.

How many megawatts were those connections?
> it's being worked on

What is the state of hardware accelerated video playback 8 months later? More specifically video playback in chrome/chromium?

Check this thread https://arstechnica.com/civis/threads/jan-2025-state-of-linu...

> I hope being corrected twice is enough to prevent repetition.

What exactly you are correcting?

Maybe I was unclear, thus let me quote other users, data point from 2 days ago:

"I'm running Debian with a 6.12-ish kernel with some Qualcomm patches. I still don't have working audio from the built-in speakers or onboard headphone jack, the kernel can't tell how much charge the battery has (and it goes through a full charge about twice as fast as Windows would), ollama has no clue how to use the built-in NPU, and my graphics are still reporting software rendering."
Show HN: Rust Interface for AI APIs Such as OpenAI, DeepInfra, and Google
I read about ingesting PDFs in Google Gemini here on HN last week [1]. This and some other thoughts that I had on AI [2] made me want to create a summarize PDF command line utility. Just point the utility to a PDF and get a summary back. However, I personally prefer to write CLI tools in Rust since those binaries are fast, small, and easy to distribute via `cargo install` (or `cargo binstall`). So that was a problem. I wanted to use a cloud provider since my system doesn't have enough RAM for most state-of-the-art models, but at the same time, I didn't want to require users of the tool to use the same API provider as me.

That's why I created the `transformrs` Rust library [3]. The name is from "transform", which is essentially what AI models do, and "Rust". It is also a nod to the transformers algorithm.

To allow for proper testing in CI, I considered to make a mock endpoint that I could run my tests against. However, AI APIs are so cheap nowadays that I figured I could just as well run the tests against the actual endpoints. So that is what currently happens. Locally and in CI I have set up 5 different API keys and I run multiple tests against all of these endpoints, so that's about 30 requests each time (tests run in 10 seconds). I change a file or each push to CI. It's incredible how stable these endpoints have become. 18 tests check whether the prompt "This is a test. Please respond with 'hello world'" actually responds with "hello world" and so far >99% of the times it does. CI is way less flaky than I would have expected.

In any case, I hope people will find the library useful. I'm curious for feedback and suggestions.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42952605

[2]: https://huijzer.xyz/posts/ai-learning-rate/

[3]: https://github.com/transformrs/transformrs
Here's at least one of the tools for achieving synchronization:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchroscope
I’m not saying don’t care about tech debt and well architected systems. I’m saying you have to tie that to business goals. If you can’t explain to a manager the business purpose of why you are doing something then does it really need to be done?

Your reasoning for tackling tech debt is sound. “We are moving like molasses. Our foundation is wobbly and we can’t build new features until we start tackling $X tech debt. These are the reasons that it will help us in the future.”

But on the other hand, if I achieve x, y, and z or someone else achieve it and we are told it didn’t achieve enough “impact”, yeah I am going to do like Google employees do and decide to work on the 5th messaging app.
Most users don't care about that stuff, but I think a small but significant percentage do. I have never been an Apple fan but I am aware that they are significantly better than Windows and Andorid for security and privacy.
A drill bit that can also drive screws
I was just wondering the other day if they grew any dinkel wheat.

Rare earths sound more 'AI', though ...
AI-powered charter schools could soon open in Pennsylvania
Toggle files in GitHub pull-request bookmarklet
Small utility that I made that could be useful
Hey Michael, do you provide visa sponsorships?
Well number 1 is a negative quality because it is a negative quality.
Thanks.

The notifications are off but the SLA is still “available immediately at all times”. What a clause in the contract!

It isn’t as bad as it sounds since I have a ton of freedom as long as the work gets done, but it’s still written down.

I tend to start about an hour before the rest of my team regardless.

The wife and kids don't quit either. First words I hear are usually “can I have” or “we need to”.

Waking up early they hear me and the problems simply begin earlier. They won’t be young forever.
"Failed" ?
Both things can be true at the same time, guy.

SpaceX can be motivated by maniacal desire to colonize Mars, and removing one of 3 competitors in the rocket launch space (by Elon Musk's unconstitutional moves, no less!) can be bad. How do you think Boeing got so crusty? I allege lack of competition is a key part of that.
We want to help users improve their mental health by setting them easily achievable micro goals and easing them into a increasingly productive schedule. Our week one user will have a lighter looking calendar than someone who's been using the app for a month. With this easing in would you find it more rewarding?
godbolt has rga compiler now, you can always paste in hlsl and look at the actual rdna instructions that are generated (what GPU actually runs, not spirv)
It appears to literally just be their main page. Menu options bring up content and I logged in and and can still see an in-progress complaint I opened on Jan 7th.
.,.......except at a Greatfull Dead concert where this phenominon is called the "seeing the gears"
or "have you seen the gears"
nobody gets crushed, everybody gets....where they need to be
plus up in the stands, are human waves of people, who are also bouncing a multitude of beach balls around, some of which are giant, some of which are not filled with air
everybody steping to the groove.....except the spinners, who are another phenominon, the tapers huddled, but looking for any likely person at all to spell them
bobby just played the grammys......
Yes, I think you're right!
For others: Take it with a grain of salt.

Same guy blaming musk for "losing him millions" and "I got destroyed by Elon's fire sale of his shares. 85% of my shares are just gone" [0],[1]

He also claimed he crashed before January 1st, well before the version he claims this happened on was released.[2]

[0]: https://xcancel.com/MrChallinger/status/1608932272312553472

[1]: https://xcancel.com/MrChallinger/status/1865367525573480555

[2]: https://xcancel.com/MrChallinger/status/1874652061306077411
free kombucha!
> Additionally, the retailer could actually have ethics of their own and choose willingly to raise the bar.

And my grandmother could get some wheels and become a bicycle.
Brainfly: High-performance Brainfuck JIT, AOT compiler on top of C# type system
You guys are talking about a totally different "rural" than I was. Look, food in 2025 comes from gigantic horizontal factories and there is no way to avoid that. A food-producing region of California looks like [1]. An exclave of Libertarian weirdos LARPing as the Unabomber looks like [2]. It is the latter that is problematic in terms of provision of infrastructure.

1: https://www.google.com/maps/@39.4301203,-122.0649005,3a,60y,...

2: https://www.google.com/maps/@38.3962909,-120.5056754,3a,75y,...
Congrats on shipping. Curious, why Slack? Is this intended for book clubs at companies specifically?
Something like this:

https://doliveira4.github.io/gpuconditionals/

(no warranty)
Unconfirmed speculation: The linker at the time ignored letters past the first 6. The compiler prefixed the symbols with '_' to namespace them, to separate user code vs compiler internals. People started writing only the part that mattered. Since either short or long name worked, it wasn't a hard rule that everything had to be shortened, but that still tended to happen. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34814268