skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep. The only possible way to rewrite such projects is to do it gradually, piece by piece. It is also important that the refresh happens from within and is led by those who understand the legacy codebase and, especially, the business requirements it fulfills. No way can an external team do something like that. Being given project description "it must do everything the legacy project does, plus these new features" doesn't help either. If you get a ticket like that - run.
Diverting assets from the publicly trader company you run, to the privately traded company you also run, does wonders for the balance books as well

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/elon-musk-ordered-nvi...
> Quote marks are frequently used to delimit text for purposes other than direct attribution to a speaker.

Ok but directing your comments at quotes means nobody is here to respond.
The co-workers that matter the most for networking are the ones playing the same game. They will move to new companies more quickly and try to rise up the ranks more quickly. They will know how to write a good referral because they want to maximize their chances of referral bonuses. They will have the ear of the EMs and Directors because they know that maximizes their own career options.
Years ago I remember a guy who realized that the primary sound maker for woodwind and brass instruments are all in the mouthpiece, and he went around fitting reeds to trumpets and flutes and trumpet mouthpieces to reed instruments. Actually sounded pretty good.
A company I worked for had that classic problem of there being various older systems that didn't "belong" to any team and which nobody was confident in fixing or changing.

They did something which I thought was brilliant: they gathered a list of ALL of those projects and assigned every single one of them to an existing engineering team, whether or not that team had any relevant knowledge or experience (which was true for most of these older projects).

No team could complain about this because every other team was suffering through a similar challenge.

I think it worked really well! Bugs in older systems now had obvious owners, and teams were incentivized to dig in and figure out how the crusty old code they were now responsible for worked.
I forget who said it “The worst programmer I’ve ever seen is me a year ago.”

I found it true for the first five years into my career, now it’s still true but with a longer time scale, which I suppose is progress
When you say "government", do you mean the USA civil service, the subject of Musk's ire?

>"where it’s not recklessly incompetent it is flagrantly corrupt" //

Care to give a couple of the examples from your direct experience?
> with fully private data on the client side

How is the data fully private?
How not to implement software subscriptions
We've been paying for Camtasia software for years. I can't remember when we started to use it.

Today the company sent out an email with the 2025 version download link along with the corresponding software key/s.

Well, the surprise is that they have decided the right way to transition to subscriptions was to automatically convert every single customer to the new model. In other words, no opt-in. If you are not paying attention, you'll be charged somewhere around $60 per license automagically.

Here's the interesting part. When we upgraded our permanent licenses, back in early April of last year, we paid for a full year of upgrades as well. Meaning, permanent license upgrades.

Well, their 2025 version, released today, is, per their support team, no-longer a permanent license. Which means that, if we do not agree to give them another > $60 per license next April, the upgrade we paid for a year ago evaporates and will no longer be usable.

I wonder how many customers are going to be hit with surprise subscription payments because of this automatic opt-in, only to then discover that the 2025 version they installed evaporates because it isn't tagged as a permanent license.

I understand the benefits of the subscription model for companies. I get it. Yet, this is exactly the wrong way to do it. If you want someone to stay a customer, do not force them into spending money they did not agree to spend. You do not have the right to automatically enroll them into a new subscription model AFTER they have made a permanent license purchase.

Side question: Now looking for alternatives to Camtasia. Paid or FOSS.
Neural ODEs are also interesting.
Very excited to see 6.14 hit Arch! Hanging around sleep (with symptoms that sound like what's described in the write-up) has been the one persistent occasional issue, so I'm hoping that this fixes what I'm seeing.
For profit education is the problem here.
He got asked about his boring cities, which is a very interesting topic because it could be anything, from actual redesigns to solve things to new/old corporate dystopian nightmare fuel.

And all he talkes about is tunnels ... This is so telling.
NVME/SSDs have finite writes so theoretically this should increase their lifespan somewhat, moreso on systems like a Raspberry Pi which use a SD card for storage
It's a thought terminating cliche.

Systems thinking is much more nuanced and productive IMO. Drift Into Failure by Sidney Dekker is a good introduction.
> I’d be more worried about propaganda being inserted.

FWIW, it would be far from the first time that’s happened (including for sensitive US issues).
It seems kinda silly to use a separate service to generate embeddings for t-SNE when you have the embeddings in the model already.
Trump and Musk's data won't be public, of course. Heck, Trump won't even release his tax returns.
incredible. But I wonder will we upgrade every linux at all datacenters first, or will

https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/nuclear-energy/chin...

make it moot first.
Fun experiment but in the back of my mind I suspect this is just plotting a random walk.
Bookmark my comment to not lost what I said:

In less than 10 years slavery will be legal again in Western countries.

Just wait.
Run a memtest. Graphics cards usually crash badly when given invalid data, which can happen sporadically if you have bad RAM.

If memtest shows a specific memory region as failing, swap out sticks to check which it is, and buy a new one. (Or if you're on a tight budget, you can disable that region with kernel boot options.)

If memtest gives errors in lots of places, might be a bad overclock. Loosen timings or give it more voltage.
Discussion (31 points, 10 hours ago, 14 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43076325
If you think this is a reply to their comment, you must not have read it.
Show HN: I built a tool for viral Reddit posts after analyzing 562 subreddits
It took me six months to analyze 562 subreddits. I systematically parsed titles, post bodies, and user interactions to identify statistically significant patterns and evaluate if it was possible to create a model that could predict the likelihood of a post going viral based on specific features.

The key findings were unexpected: while the title of a post has a direct correlation with engagement, there is another highly influential factor I initially overlooked, timing. The optimal time to post on Reddit, in terms of engagement, can significantly vary based on geographic distribution. The majority of Reddit users are based in the US, whereas I, residing in Italy, am part of a smaller user base. Consequently, peak engagement times often correspond to late-night hours in Europe.

To validate this hypothesis, I conducted multiple experiments, posting at different late-night intervals. Here are the results of my tests:
• 11 PM (CET) —> Views: 182K, Upvotes: 495, Comments: 273, Shares: 370
• 01 AM (CET) —> Views: 174K, Upvotes: 283, Comments: 152, Shares: 287
• 10 PM (CET) —> Views: 129K, Upvotes: 168, Comments: 213, Shares: 88
• 03 AM (CET) —> Views: 169K, Upvotes: 154, Comments: 28, Shares: 167

However, consistently manually posting at these optimal times wasn’t scalable. To automate this process, I developed an algorithm that aggregates real-time data such as the number of active users, comment velocity, post frequency, and overall interaction rates. The algorithm processes this data to determine the statistically optimal time and day to post, maximizing the likelihood of high engagement.

I then integrated this algorithm into a web platform that not only displays the calculated best times but also allows users to schedule posts in advance, ensuring they post at the optimal time without having to monitor the platform manually.

The platform is still in the testing phase, and I’d appreciate any feedback or testing you’d like to contribute. You can explore it here: www.postonreddit.com
Hooks are generally not meant to modify the source code. They should ideally just analyze the code and either succeed (exit code 0) or fail. Race conditions won't happen in such situations.

In practice though, hooks sometimes run tools that are were not designed like that and instead modify the file (eg: formatters). However, this is usually done on staged files (in case of the pre-commit hook) and the modification is applied to the working copy. This can cause race condition in that one tool may overwrite the changes made by another tool. But since the source is not modified, it won't end up in a deadlock. It will also fail as desired. So the race is not serious. It will resolve itself after a few runs, unless something is done to prevent it in the first place.
Rare (and Illegal) in the U.S. Toyota Land Cruisers Turn Heads on Wyoming's I-80
You're not a senior engineer until you get the skill to turn any little thing you do into a one-hour presentation and a chapter in a book.
“Juniors with tons of experience are common” means that people with many years of experience who are nonetheless at the level of a junior engineer are common.

This phrase is divorcing seniority from talent, albeit perhaps not in the way experienced engineers might prefer.
The goal isn’t about thriving anymore. It’s about compliance.
This was a great read and I especially liked the photos and how they were chose and edited so precisely for the content.
One thing that confuses me about the current situation in the US government, is why more more people in the various government agencies aren't pushing back against all these executive orders. Especially, those that are clearly illegal, or unconstitutional.
> The US side at the Munich Security Conference demanded that Ukraine immediately agree to their version of the mineral resources deal in exchange for aid, otherwise, they threatened to prevent a meeting with US Vice President JD Vance. However, the pressure stopped after Kyiv refused, and the meeting took place anyway.

This is pathetic. You cannot strong-arm an ally with diplomacy, and evidently America realized that after trying to take something off the table that America needs more than Ukraine.

Events like this are living proof of why American aid is wasted when we precondition it on political agreement with an extremist administration.
Correlation is not causation. Generally, adoptive families in these studies come from similar socio-economic backgrounds [1].

With your theory, how would you explain adopted refugees children doing much better at IQ tests than they would have if the stayed in their home countries?

Also dismissing Bourdieu as a midwit? Yeah, ok. Come back when you actually want to expand your world view.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability_of_IQ#Heritabil...
Extremely high level genius stuff -- nice work and thank you for your efforts!
> Eric Demaine was on the same floor too. Once, I accidentally sent a long print job (a PhD thesis) to his office printer, and he was angry because of the wasted paper.

Because those sheets of paper could've been origami instead? :)
One thing I've noticed is when Trump says something the left starts by denying it before using it themselves. Fake news was coined by Trump and now it's adopted by the left but they call it misinformation, and they even started the Trusted News Initiative during Covid to weaponize it. It's not lies, it's "misinformation", true, but wrong?

Confusing times and the only conclusion I can draw is that those in power are losing ground thanks to the internet and it makes them behave like this. Everyone in willful ignorance. Even otherwise clever people are acting bat-shit crazy as soon as Musk is mentioned, but a few years ago they would've bragged about getting a Tesla using their NFT profts.
-ftls-model=local-dynamic barely changes the generated code compared to the default (global-dynamic); you no longer have data16 prefixes around the call to __tls_get_addr (which means this call can't be replaced with something cheaper if you don't put the .o into a .so in the end) but otherwise it's the same.

-fvisiblity=hidden / __attribute__ ((visibility ("hidden"))) doesn't seem to do anything.

Are you sure that either of these speeds up TLS access for thread_locals defined in shared libraries?
Which of the two classes does San Francisco’s billionaire capitalist class fit into in your analysis - “tech workers?”

Equally curious which the non-working property owners fall into as well?
This is the problem with "common knowledge" and "everybody knows" and "gut feelings".

Unless you work in an industry (such as academia, or farming, or auto manufacturing, or any of the other thousands of industries), what you know is superficial.

You think you know, because how complicated could something be?

The public could learn a thing or two by asking questions from people who make these pursuits their lives.

For instance, did you ever stop to think that Professors advise students who write papers, and are therefore listed as co-authors?

Another knee-jerk would be: look at these professors only putting out 20 papers a year; they are so inefficient- they should be mentoring far more students for the money we pay them.

It cuts every way until you talk to people.
Yellowstone Has an Active Ancient Undersea Wasteland 7,300 Feet Above Sea Level
Haphazard guess: 2-3 days, and based on 5-HT2A receptor activation and/or Sigma-1 receptor activation rather than serotonin reuptake inhibition.
Ex: Game development.
Linked Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0mQFITFKic [video][4 mins]
Hi, love the article. You mention in the article that a hardware mechanism for tracing should exist -- have you investigated the intel_pt (processor trace) extension? I believe this uses hardware buffers and supports timestamping & cycle counters (at somewhat larger than instruction granularity sadly, although it might issue forced stamps at on branches, not sure).

You can also use the PTWRITE instruction to attach metadata to the stream which seems very powerful.

Hope we can see such an extension on AMD as well.
> Several hundred employees have been impacted with messages being sent from an ‘exec order’ Microsoft email address, not an official .gov email address.

If I received an email from such an address I would ignore it as a potential phishing attempt. I would think that would be standard practice at government agencies.
> If Elon Musk really as narcissistic as you paint him, he would definitely take credit for these bans, or at least comment on them.

That's like saying a liar will always lie. Real people do not have min-maxed traits, he has obviously non-zero self-control. If it's an action that benefits him in some way but knows will alienate his followers, he is perfectly capable of doing it in secret.

> A narcissist wants to be the center of attention, by definition

Definition of which subtype?

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I never said it was a masterplan or his personal decision. Culture comes from the top (only people with very strong principles will resist and many most likely quit when he took over). All he needed to do is make visible his displeasure at (free) competitors in front of the right people.

He AFAIK also tweeted about not allowing free promotion for mastodon. Which again speaks volumes about how much he values freedom of speech. If a free (as in speech and beer) and decentralized platform can be a credible competitor to twitter - serve the same amount of users but be self repairing and resistant to takeovers - than that would be a win, even if his company would no longer be needed.

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If you take anything from this discussion, please at least look up different types of narcissism. Far too often people reduce them all to the "standard" overt archetype (usually even an overdone caricature of it) and it's hard for victims of other subtypes to convince others what they are dealing with.
Is it generating embeddings or just coordinates? What would be a better way?
Collagen supplements: The secret to perfect skin, or marketing hype?
A brief search suggests it's inheritable in limited circumstances. Are you saying that's false?

I'm recalling the posts about the last person claiming civil war pensions dying in 2020 (155 years after the war) and wondering if there is anything similar going on here.
This is too real

Or a 6 paragraph Slack post in #general about what an amazing experience it was...to host a 30 minute Q and A on a certain topic. #community #growth #sharingiscaring
Clarification: I am guessing you are using the liberal term from a "classic liberalism" sense (e.g. how it is used in Europe) and not the US version of the term, which generally refers to social liberalism and is often associated with Democrats? That changes some things.

Personally I would absolutely love it if humanity didn't have to rely on billionaire philanthropy for these sort of things. But you are talking about a significant paradigm shift in world politics, one of which unfortunately (from my perspective) much of the world is moving away from at the moment.
I was more or less enrolled in two and got cold feet each time for the same reasons the grandparent post says, it didn’t make financial sense, and my experience of research to date had not been stellar.

Ironically, the first was ML back before ML was hot, so if I had done it I’d probably be in a very different position today. However the reasoning still stands.

“Almost sounds Trumpian”

lol
Elite marathon runners are in no way, shape, or form sprinting. It’s just that both are inconceivably fast to the average untrained person. Usain Bolt’s top foot speed was 44.72 km/h in the 100 meters. The fastest marathon was 20 km/h.
I started my affiliation with MIT in 1997 as a lecturer on eCommerce Architecture—a topic that felt both exciting and exotic back then, as the internet was just beginning to transform the world. Walking through those doors for the first time, I was immediately struck by the brilliance of the people around me. Virtually everyone I met seemed like the smartest person I’d ever encountered, and I couldn’t help but feel like an imposter at times. But that feeling also came with the thrill of being part of a community that constantly challenged and elevated me.

In 2007, I moved over to the Media Lab to focus on computational law, a field that thrives on MIT’s interdisciplinary ethos. Over the years, I’ve had the privilege of collaborating with CSAIL researchers from time to time. These experiences were always a blast—not just because of the cutting-edge research, but also because navigating the Frank Gehry-designed Stata Center was its own adventure. I loved spelunking through its quirky passageways, stumbling across obscure treasures like tucked-away whiteboards filled with half-finished equations or discovering yet another coffee machine in a corner I hadn’t visited before.

Since the pandemic, I’ve been living back in the Bay Area, so much of my MIT involvement is now remote. Yet even from a distance, I remain in awe of the people, ideas, and unrelenting creativity that define the Institute. Reading this reflection brought back so many memories—and a wave of nostalgia. It’s inspiring to see how others have experienced their time at MIT, and it makes me want to book a visit back to the campus just to soak it all in again. There’s something about MIT that stays with you, no matter how far away you are.
same, it is unclear what you can get out of this work
There are several Gehry buildings that I like from a visual perspective, but I've never worked in them so I always wonder what hidden flaws they harbor. :) The thing I found most annoying about my office getting heated by reflections is that it's the exact same problem he created with the Disney Concert Hall in LA, just on a smaller scale.

Building 20 was kinda old and gross. Good riddance. The Rad Lab deserves its place in history, but just because people did great work in a shack doesn't add much magic to the shack. I really liked my office in NE43 (tech square) and it holds really good emotions and memories for me, but that doesn't take away that it was an ugly building. :)
assuming a perfect mirror exists, reflection means revectoring away from the mirror, but not refraction and inversion.

most people somehow have modeled a mirror as a lens, however if you compare IRL the two, you will see they are different.
Projects vs. products. There are commercial open source-based products (e.g. from Red Hat that I used to work for) that have the same sort of support that other enterprise software products have. And there are the upstream projects (that Red Hat contributes to and interacts with).

There is no expectation about contributing to open source products other than paying money to a commercial provider. There are a variety of reasons why you may benefit from them being open source-based but they don't come with any particular expectation of contributing upstream directly as a user.
High-School Band Contests Turn Marching into a Sport–and an Art
Impressive hardware mod showcases an iPhone SE 3 in the body of a Windows Phone
Remember that you pay this cost for every thread, not just the main thread.

Frankly, if your name isn't `libGL.so` you shouldn't even try to mix initial-exec with dlopen. Just link your libraries normally dammit!
Is this and OP website supposed to be broken on iOS safari? I see no colors
There’s a mod comment on WSB saying that they were invited to get pay-walled, and refused.

It will be interesting to see if Reddit forces them to anyway.

https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/s/nyocKWohon
after reading it I automatically desired to increase the number of dependencies in my OS software, not to bring any new features, but to increase the income :)

and I think it defined amount of time it would happen globally if the idea would be accepted
> The gold to paper ratio in Comex is 300 to 1.

I think this says there is 300x as much physical gold as there is gold on paper. Context and common sense indicate the opposite was intended.
It says should be much faster, which makes me think they’re talking about performance but haven’t actually compared it.

I find hk's choice of programming language for hooks pretty exotic TBH.

This all made me look at lefthook, and it’s pretty darn interesting. I’d been missing out!