skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not the OP, but I can definitely relate. Pure IC roles terrify me. I've been CTO and Head of Engineering of several start-ups, also made some money when one sold — yeah, I'm a lot like the OP. But leetcode is deplorable to me, when I hire (which I've done plenty of) I never made candidates perform such nonsense.

Not wanting a pure IC role definitely doesn't mean you don't enjoy coding. It usually means you don't want to be stuck building things that are unimportant. When you're working at a company that's making mistakes and you've the experience to know better, it's painful just sitting idly by. I know a lot of people can switch off their care factor, but some of us can't.

For example, I love coding, in the past 3 months I built an unofficial companion app for The Bazaar, an upcoming game. I built a back-end (Next.js, Vercel, Cloudflare, Supabase, PSQL), front-end (React), insight platform, packaged Windows and macOS desktop apps (Electron), reverse engineered the game (C#/Unity) and its networking layer. I was processing 300,000 player events a day.

https://bizarre.gg/runs/00493ccf-5b96-523c-beb4-06e8154cc158 (view on desktop, click on the right)

https://bizarre.gg/meta

I was recently forced to shut down this project by the game company (as were other 3rd party devs working on stuff for the game). I was offered a role at the game company, which they reneged on at the last moment.

Perhaps because in my role acceptance email, I wrote about how I am keen to take ownership (in the accountability sense) and get involved with developer advocacy, tech blogs etc. I suspect this spooked them because they "don't hire beyond Senior", which is obviously an absurd practice that's typically put in place by inexperienced/insecure leadership. Typically companies justify this with "we promote within", which is a massive disservice to your staff, because it just means your staff never have access to mentors to help them grow.
Economies (and diseconomies) of scale exist, of course, but aren't central to what is the responsibility of the federal government and what is the responsibility of the state governments. That, of course, is laid out rather plainly in the founding legal document of the country.
sure, let LLMs and other military grade chatbots do what these Philosophy Doctorates in biomed used to do
Now I want to see Doom in browser tabs.
Privacy such as my assigned gender
Show HN: Updated Audio CD ripping optical drive accuracy listing
Hey HN,

a few years ago I posted an audio cd ripping guide with an optical drive accuracy listing from dbpoweramp. Recently I updated the list with data from 2008 to 2024.

https://pilabor.com/blog/2022/10/audio-cd-ripping-hardware/

Changes:

- Includes cumulated data from 2008 to 2024
- Tags with the number of sumissions including top drives
- More user friendly filterable and sortable table
- Many more drives are listed

Hope you like it. I also updated some stuff in the Article and described how to use the filters.

Have fun.
A breakdown was actually just posted on that thread an hour ago:

And in terms of numbers, out of the $1.2M annual costs we mention there, here's the rough breakdown:
* $360K/yr – Trust & Safety
* $250K/yr – Other folks, covering program management, legal, compliance, finance, IT, security, dev
* $240K/yr – Server and SRE
* $170K/yr – My salary, covering fundraising, open governance, community relations, biz ops, and people mgmt
* $150K/yr – Matrix Conf + other events
* $30K/yr – Assorted expenses like travel, lodging, productivity infra
> for whatever reason that's a nonstarter... there's no compelling reason

Before rejecting a reason you at least have to know what it is!
Postgres LSP 0.1.0
I'm a fan and active user of XMPP. However, it unfortunately is true that encryption is a can of worms. OMEMO should be the standard, yet there is fragmentation in terms of the specific OMEMO spec version that clients use. Not even the most prominent clients keep up with the latest spec, as can be seen here [1]. One of the issues is, that everything prior to 0.4.0 uses AES-128-GCM, instead of the standard that is used by other platforms (eg Signal), that is AES-256-CBC with HMAC-SHA-256. In plain English this means that most mainstream XMPP clients do not offer encryption at a level that can and should be expected these days.

[1]: https://xmpp.org/extensions/#xep-0384-implementations
He's targeting things that are discretionary spending.

Most of the federal budget the president cannot just cut.
The whole "I respect you technically, and I like working with you." in the middle of being firm and typing in caps is such a vibe shift from the Linus of a decade ago. We love to see it!
i have a tangential story that i wonder how many entropy i'll leak telling it.

My youngest, when he was born, was unable to get a birth certificate, and was listed as some last name that isn't the mom's or mine (it's because we couldn't track down her 15 year estranged "husband" and louisiana law is... French.) I had to do a paternity test, but that's it, other than hiring a lawyer. The lawyer pushed everything through. I don't "rightfully" own my last name (and i was the last one in the world, damnit!), so we told the lawyer to tell the state we wanted the mom's last name. It has much more known history to her and grandma, etc. I'm the only one in my tree, except the kid.

anyhow the state said "NOPE, DAD'S LAST NAME" so now the kid, instead of being burdened with a last name that looks like a cat fell on your keyboard, has my last name, which is two words.

which is apparently not fixed after me being around for 45 years, and my dad for like 20 years before that in the US.

It seems like this is relatively critical stuff, you know? it can interfere with bank accounts, school financial support, taxes, retirement, and you won't know until you hit each obstacle.
Perhaps it's time to re-evaluate your priors and how you determine which kind of politician to support. This isn't a direct endorsement of alternatives, but if you considered your material conditions I think you would likely not land on Trump/Musk being the right executors of your wishes.
We're in the end game now.
That's a good reputation to have, for most people
Why wouldn’t you slash the budgets when enrollment is decreasing? And when you expect a 15% decrease in enrollment over the next 10 years?
Dynamic behaviors can be a nice default for all the spots where performance is not critical. So Julia lets you code like Python in places where performance doesn't matter, and then code like C++ or Fortran in places where it does.
Where do you hear about them
> I haven't seen a good USB port alternative for edge devices though.

Thunderbolt 4
The platform shouldn't be regulated just because it is big.

Copyright laws, and unfair enforcement via the platform with no recourse (e.g., the "DMCA"-esque rules that cirvumvent actual DMCA laws, if nothing else), needs to change to make it a fairer place.
I think the Donate page may need a rework. Listing only Donorbox and then Other Options at the top adds unnecessary resistance. I have never heard of Donorbox, I have to click again to see what other options there are. Ok, click. There's also Patreon (which means ongoing donation in my mind) and Librepay (which I've heard of but never used... and is apparently also ongoing donations weekly/monthly/etc). Can't I just use a credit card or PayPal to make a one time donation for instance? After playing around, it seems you can but you have to click DonorBox and then change it to one time.

Having a preferred way of donating is great. But most folks who donate just want to give you money. They don't care about whatever service you're using or how much it costs you. I like you, I have some money to give you, make it as friction free as possible.

Organize it by how people want to pay (credit card, wire transfer, crypto, etc) and if they want to make it one time or recurring.

As an example assume you're a user wanting to make a one-time Euro donation via wire transfer. Ignoring the design (which is long overdue for an update) follow the path on my donation page for my open source project: https://portableapps.com/donate

May also make sense to separate out Sponsors from the Donate page since they're kinda separate groups.
When it comes to images like those in the article, “Is this real?” is not really part of my reaction. Neither is “poor thing” or “wow that’s impressive” or whatever else.

My reaction is “why is this useless shit being shoved in my face?”.

I don’t care if it’s real, the only reason I visited the website is to check if the local market’s on this week, and maybe see if anyone I know has posted anything (increasingly unlikely). I think in the modern age it's healthy to have a much wider cynicism - what is this crap, I didn't ask for it, f### off.

I don’t really get why Facebook tries so hard to get me to look at this rubbish. The more of this shit-shovelling there is, the less often I go and the fewer friend posts there are. It’s becoming a dead platform.
But will they all have a sepia tint?
Also check out https://github.com/rust-gpu/rust-gpu and https://github.com/rust-gpu/rust-cuda
You don't do that systemwide in FBSD, instead during the build from source for that single port. Optionally even interactively by curses interface.

See https://www.freshports.org/emulators/dosbox-x/
Please see my parallel reply to the parent about some Donate page suggestions. I think your page is getting in the way of people giving you money.
Man, I really don't like self driving cars. In the future, government assassinations will just be done by hacking your car and driving you off a bridge. Plausible deniability at the push of a button.
As a non US citizen, based on how aggressively the the republican party seems to play with voter suppression it wouldn't seem unlikely that there won't be vote by mail in the next election.
Discussion (97 points, 1 day ago, 17 points) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43107394

2023 (963 points, 121 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37020610
> alias download_mp3="uvx --with yt-dlp[default,curl-cffi] yt-dlp@latest --extract-audio --audio-format mp3"

If you use yt-dlp frequently, why not keep it set up in a permanent venv, with an executable on the path? That's what I do (via Pipx). Lets me use a variety of command options while reasoning about the command normally.
> Rust changes every few months.

No it doesn't.

Quite the contrary, great care is taken so that the language stay stable.
"Stability without stagnation" is one of Rust core principles.
The president has absolute authority to access to all secrets within the executive branch, and has absolute declassification authority, both statutorily and presumptively constitutionally as a result of a) being the president, b) being able to nominate his cabinet, c) being able to issue executive orders to his executive branch officers and acting officers.

The president therefore has the authority to access every last secret and every last system within the executive branch. No statute can limit this power. The president also has the authority to delegate (to some extent; only the president can issue EOs, but presumably his officers can recommend EOs to him) these powers to his or her officers.

The titular of the U.S. Digital Service (DOGE) is statutorily not subject to Senate confirmation, though considering how Trump's controversial nominees have sailed through Senate confirmation it's easy to suppose that Musk would also likely be confirmed to head the USDS were it an appointment subject to Senate confirmation. Since the president can appoint someone like Elon Musk to head the USDS, and since the president can delegate his clearance and declassification authority to someone like Elon Musk, his doing so does very much "pass [the] sniff test".
There is a sample on the page, but the difference is that scale preserves the original bounding box of the object, but zoom doesn’t. So with scale, the layout of the page won’t change at all. If you make it smaller it will just pad it with space to the original size.
There's two games similar to that that I know of (though you're probably thinking of the first):

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lose/Lose - Each alien represents a file on your computer. If you kill an alien, the game permanently deletes the file associated with it.

* https://psdoom.sourceforge.net/ - a hack of Doom where each monster represents a running process. Kill the monster, kill(1) the process.
Sorry for explaining what the jargon in that comment was, i guess. i did typo "element" as "rlement", i guess i suck.
You approach it by coordinating en masse to come up with a small list of reasonable demands, get widespread consensus on it, switch from W2 to I9 and withhold both your federal taxes and your mortgage payments until the demands are met. If they wanna play chicken re: crashing the system, well that's a game that two can play.

Or at least that's what my rough draft looks like anyway. Though I suspect that hunger may end up being a more potent catalyst for political change than anything I can plan. Unless H5N1 gets feisty first. COVID was a warning shot, if nature scores a direct hit, that'll be plenty catalytic too.

As for why: establishing a Mars colony is going to require the kind of sacrifice that a democratic government would prevent. So, down with democracy.
> strongest evidence in existence in favor of monopolies

i dont think it is evidence that monopoly is good.
DOGE was created by an act of Congress after Obama first created it by an executive order. Its formal name is United States Digital Service.
That states' rights were claimed to keep slavery, or any other morally reprehensible thing, does not mean that the concept of states' rights is wrong. It means slavery and other morally reprehensible things are wrong.

Of course, at any given time, there exist a number of issues facing the public over which there is no clear consensus on whether they constitute something morally reprehensible.

You're making the argument that what the federal government decides is right is always or usually the right thing compared to what states are claiming. I challenge you to claim that this is the case for, say, federal law forbidding marijuana versus states allowing it, or as was the case until very recently, enthusiastic support for pediatric gender reassignment from the federal government versus states outlawing it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeGoogle

https://prism-break.org/en/

This is for those interested in getting away from Google and other spyware.
I studied in the U.S. as an international student and always admired America from afar, seeing it as a global leader and a beacon of hope for all of humanity. I was always a strong supporter of the country.

It’s so heartbreaking to witness this global superpower/empire decline in real-time.

I was hoping that this is a much needed hard-reset of America, for it to rise up better than ever. Not so sure now.
Right. As I point out occasionally, Tesla, as a car company, is overvalued by an order of magnitude.

If they can find suckers who accept that valuation, it's much easier to exit as a billionaire than actually make it work.

Visualize making it work. You build or buy a robot that has enough operating envelope for an Amazon picking station, provide it with an end-effector, and use this claimed general purpose software to control it.
Probably just arms; it doesn't need to move around. Movement is handled by Amazon's Kiva-type AGV units.

You set up a test station with a supply of Amazon products and put it to work. It's measured on the basis of picks per minute, failed picks, and mean time before failure. You spend months to years debugging standard robotics problems such as tendon wear, gripper wear, and products being damaged during picking and placing. Once it's working, Amazon buys some units and puts them to work in real distribution centers.
More problems are found and solved.

Now you have a unit that replaces one human, and costs maybe $20,000 to make in quantity. Amazon beats you down in price so you get to sell it for maybe $25,000 in quantity. You have to build manufacturing facilities and service depots. Success is Amazon buying 50,000 of them, for total income of $0.25 billion. This probably becomes profitable about five years from now, if it all works.

By which time someone in China, Japan, or Taiwan is doing it cheaper and better.
Except now orders more magnitude of internet connected high knowledge third worlders are not only chomping at the bit for these jobs but qualified for them, and remote work is now largely accepted.

The final phase of this is where Americans start moving to some hut in the Congo to survive off the market wages offered when the supply side of the supply/demand curve blows up.
Yup. I agree with the thoughts here. I just moved to a company as the Adult supervision role. I agree at 30 you’re probably closer to the “Lieutenant”, which is a role I’ve played before. I wouldn’t count someone out from playing a bigger part just on age though. I’ve seen plenty of hubris (most recently in the form of home rolling a Kubernetes/ECS alternative. Twice. RIP productivity) from people I’d describe as one year of experience twenty five times.

More than anything I think the OP just needs a change of atmosphere and even as an IC with technical management or a middle people manager somewhere stable he’ll have an interesting time with a very different environment.
All a compiler does is take a well defined data structure and transform it into another, sometimes by encoding or sometimes by decoding. Really it's bread and butter stuff that every engineer does everyday but with the benefit that you can say something is undefined/out of scope way easier than talking to APIs you don't control.

The fun part are the magic algorithms you sometimes get to use
This will waste money. People’s time is worth more than 1 dollar.
> I'd just describe this job market as competitive…

Most job markets are “competitive” most of the time.

The tech market is fucked right now. Have you poked around?
I'm not downvoting you because of dissent. I'm downvoting because you're either being sarcastic (and adding nothing substantial to the discussion) or you're genuinely disagreeing (and not explaining why).
I do not find it strange or otherwise see it as a loophole that duly convicted prisoners pay some of their debt to society by being forced to do labor.
Doesn't every generic Republican always support all of those things? Did you support any more normal Republican alternative to Trump, given his bad performance during the initial outbreak of Covid?
> S/he's

That's an awkward way to spell "They're", is that part of your cultural inheritance?
As with plenty of other things he is doing, this is illegal. The President of the United States is engaging in flagrantly illegal behavior on a daily basis as 30% of the country cheers him on.
> How can I both endorse a politicians approach to the world and disagree with every particular action?

It is because you have deeply misunderstand his approach to the world.

He has never demonstrated any desire to bring prosperity to anyone outside of his family. I don't understand how any of this is surprising. They told us exactly what they were planning to do in the Project 2025 plan.
You can do better to connect with the Americans that in fact don't share your sentiment. Your staunch response and attitude lead me to believe you have a superiority perspective, intentional or not. That's the exact attitude and response the country is pushing back against.

There are numerous projects that should not be funded. There is bloat, waste, and fraud through out the government. If you don't see that or know that, you've clearly never worked within it.

Your projection against fox news viewers could be turned back on you and argued you're doing the same thing. The difference is, that those fox news viewers for better or worse, voted for this and they get what they voted for. You can be mad, you can be sad, you can vote, and you can try and bring it up with the courts, but bottom line is it's happening.
You can have escrow or something using a 2-of-3 multisignature if you are worried, but you can also just have trust mechanisms outside of the payment network.
My money's on fuchsia developing as a potential android replacement, or at least replacement for the linux kernel, keeping the android userspace. Maybe something something chromeos unified computer phone tablet experience.
This is the most sensible take I have seen online in months.
> Most of the federal budget the president cannot just cut.

He legally can't cut any of it. Not even $1. Congress controls spending.

Illegally (which is how he has always operated and is operating now), he can seemingly do whatever he wants.
Doesn't matter, when the previous admin was in did they take in the considerations of the losing party? Nope. To the victor go the spoils.. of implementing the plan you ran on.
would be fun to do this while stepping through chromium w/ a debugger.
From wikipedia:

"Pascal was influenced by the ALGOL W efforts, with the explicit goals of teaching programming in a structured fashion and for the development of system software.[5] A generation of students used Pascal as an introductory language in undergraduate courses."

Its grammar made it relatively easy to write compilers for the language, which could be done as undergraduate exercises. Of course, this did not make it so popular with professional programmers - see http://eprg.org/computerphile/pascal.pdf by Brian Kernighan, although extended Pascals such as Delphi were very productive in the Windows environment.
I disagree, companies pay based on the problems you can solve to make them money or help achieve organizational goals. One of those ways can be coding, but there are many others.
The president can fire any executive branch officer at any time for any reason regardless of what any statute says about it.

There are two precedents for this to my knowledge, though there may be more:

- the failed impeachment of
Andrew Johnson established
that the president can fire
principal officers without
the Senate's advice and
consent

- Spicer vs. Biden, which
established that the president
can fire officers with fixed
terms

> self-proclaimed King

He was clearly trolling. Grammatically that tweet does not parse like himself calling himself a king. For all you know he loves the British king, or some other king, or maybe he was referring to Jesus. But he got what he wanted from that quip: it got reported, along with credit for ending congestion pricing in Manhattan. Why the media still falls for that, I don't know.
Thailand ready to welcome 7k trafficked scam call center victims back
He can do anything people let him do, fear and influence are reaching places beyond legal authority. I’m in Australia, a multi year plan on corporate diversity standards fell over last week. It was already at an impasse about how to measure, but trumps influence seems to have been the straw.
I suspect that driving a well-defined path to a loading dock a quarter mile away is fool-proof enough even a Tesla could manage it.
My favorite structure in SF. I hope I get the chance to visit the top deck someday.
> You don't really get to negotiate wages as a federal employee.

Not on an individual basis, no. But the rates get set according to the market just like everything else, to the lowest that results in sufficient supply. The market is always moving. Recent changes will result in positive price pressure. Rates will inevitably lag, but they do not exist in a vacuum relative to the market.

Benefits of government employment exist, but other changing factors still move the market.
>It would be less problematic if used for different purposes or layers, like frontend and backend.

Good news! At the present moment, Rust is only being used for drivers. Who knows if that will change eventually, but it's already the case that the use case is contained.