skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is continually shifting priorities, not the setting priorities like you described. (IE, the priority shifts described in the article imply that engineers should not have been involved in the projects yet.)

I only use the term "pawn" in this thread to set context: In a workplace where leadership exhibits the behavior described in the article, they have lower respect for their engineers than the workplaces I've been in.
You’re making a hypocritical mistake:

You claimed the passing mention of a reality TV star in the context of the effects of reality TV on society was too political for Hacker News, and now you have descended into Democrat versus Republican percentage based figures on voting.
Can you refresh the browser and see if it's fixed? I also made the hints slightly transparent as a quick temp fix, that needs a bit more time and testing
> I wouldn’t call the construction given by Paul Dirac trivial. Do you think it is

Yes? It's doing exactly the thing that your parent comment complains about in the gamma function, introducing additional constants (in this case, mostly 2s) that, for no particular reason, don't count.

Why would you interpret squaring as consuming a 2, but square rooting as not consuming a 2?
This does raise a valid question of what secrets can or should the government have.

I think it's obvious that some secrets should be kept. It makes little sense to expose our nuclear secrets, counter espionage, or ongoing investigation efforts. But how far does or should that extend? Should everything the NSA/CIA/FBI/IRS does be secret? Should they stay secret for years or decades or forever?

IMO, the US goes too far in it's secrets. Stuff gets classified that just makes the government look bad and that's dangerous.

And that's where I'm somewhat less concerned about putting US secrets into the cloud. Sure there's highly sensitive stuff that shouldn't go there, but there's also a lot of stuff that shouldn't have been a secret in the first place.
Doc4k is an interactive CLI tool designed for analyzing large Kotlin projects using AI. It provides features to support tracing execution flows, summarizing code, and generating test cases effectively for Kotlin codebases.

This project leverages the Tree-sitter parser to efficiently and quickly parse large Kotlin codebases.
Just because she didn’t directly prescribe you medications or perform any procedures doesn’t mean she didn’t make recommendations to the intensivists who were managing your care.

If she really didn’t change anything about your treatment (as opposed to you just not knowing what was changed), the most likely explanation is that the ICU ordered a consult, and after talking with you and your doctor, and going over your notes, she came to conclusion “nope there’s nothing to change here. good job everyone!”

Would you have preferred that she’d made a few unnecessary changes to justify the bill?

Palliative care requires fellowship training, the doctors burn out quickly, and there’s a shortage of them. There’s no reason for a hospital to waste them on record taking.

>a thousand an hour

You didn’t pay $1k an hour. You paid $1500 for services that included 1.5 hours of direct interaction. I guarantee if she talked to you for 1.5 hours, she spent much more time than that.

As for eliminating money that didn’t go to her. You said “she charged you”. She didn’t charge you. Her group did. She was called in, did her job, documented what she did, and her group figured out what to bill you for based mostly on what insurance companies are willing to pay.

If you think you were charged too much, you can blame the PE firm that owns her group.
You can't post like this here. Since this account has been doing it repeatedly, I've banned the account.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Take a look at this:

https://flownet.com/ron/lambda-calculus.html

or the video version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qC1iZN5ozw

It shows how you can compute factorials in pure lambda calculus, and actually get it to run on a real computer in non-geologic time. The lessons learned from the program transformations along the way can be applied to real programs.
I see what this guy is saying, but one important thing this article misses entirely is: Trump was elected with overwhelming support, and is carrying out the will of the people. I think people should stop pretending that his decisions weren't commissioned, and deluding themselves into believing that he's acting on his sole authority somehow.
It's been one year away for 30 years!
I think the language problem will become less of a problem in the future due to (1) more (young) people living in citys and (2) all young people in cities speaking english. At least compared to previous generations imo. This could be my subjective view based on luxembourg, netherlands, and visiting other european cities.
has anyone noticed how the hiring vs hired look like complement to each-other?

i.e. python is needed -> people learn it -> and then no need anymore -> lots of people with python looking for job..
It would be funny if I survived my web dev career without ever having to touch AWS and friends, just because CPU core count, memory bandwidth, etc. scaling got to a point a single machine could handle total population of my country. :D
The challenge is that this doesn’t take into account harm prevented. How many companies changed their policies as a result of CFPB enforcement / to avoid CFPB involvement?
Large public universities with 50k students are essentially running small cities and have to provide and maintain facilities for a city of that size ( utilities, policing, housing, facility and infrastructure maintenance)
Human evals are outsourced vibe checks
Am I missing something or 7 is simply 2 + 2 + 2 + 2/2?

All those are allowed, so what's the problem?
Nice writeup. FWIW, I never saw Michael Abrash wear a tie. :)

We were very into 3D cards back then. We had a lot of ties to that part of the world. I had been doing video drivers for OS/2 and NT. I got to know Abrash from his writing on the VGA, 8514, and, of course, asm. At Valve, we hired a couple of great guys from 3dfx. I still have a 3dfx hat somewhere that I bust out on special occasions. The killer setup back then was hooking up two 3dfx cards (SLI). But I usually played on a standard card because I wanted/needed to see it run like most people would experience it.

We had a deal with one of the companies, maybe 3dfx, but I forget who, to include the first three levels of HL with their card. Even though the game wasn't anywhere near finished, we sent off a disk to the company with our first three finished levels so we could get paid. Somehow, it leaked. We were pissed at first, but then it took off. People loved it. It really gave us the confidence that we were on the right track. It was our first game. The validation was just what we needed.

Fun times.
> The exchange, Zhou noted, has reserves to cover these withdrawals, but the crisis deepened as, in response to the incident, Safe moved to temporarily shut down its smart wallet functionalities to “ensure absolute confidence in our platform’s security.”

Sure. I am confident that this statement won't age as good as milk, and we will fondly remember it next month thinking "yes, that statement is just unadulterated truth".
As intended. European independence and sovereignty would be a great outcome from all this.
Can you please stop breaking the site guidelines so we don't have to keep banning you?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I don't dislike talking to others. It's just hard for me to say what I want to say at the speed of normal conversation. I write more slowly and carefully, can edit what I've drafted, and check facts too, all before I hit the submit button.
I haven't played many different games over the last few years, but both Half-Life: Alyx and Zelda: Breath of the Wild left strong impressions. Both games have a rare sense of place that's hard to replicate in other mediums—the same thing that stood out for me after the first time I played Half-Life 2. These games feel less like a movie I've seen or a story I've read and more like somewhere I've been.

This isn't unique to video games—I've had the same feeling from, say, 2666 or Stalker—but video games seem especially well-suited to do this as a medium.
Why are you talking about Trump’s vote counts if any mention of a reality TV star in the context of reality TV is too political for Hacker News?

You were the first to say that something was too political for Hacker News and yet here you are in this thread, engaging in the most political discussion.
I try to stick to my laptop, at least it gives me the option to be creative which feels so much better.

Being stuck in scroll mode for most of the day is soul killing.
This is the kind of thing you don't have to contend with if you host outside of Europe. I don't care about your beef with Russia, I do care about free speech though.
Rent even in Romania is like 400 euros and you don't even get a good area / all that great apt for that. I rejected a job for 500e even in 2018 in Bucharest.

I pay around 700e per month (all expenses included) for a 2 room (br + living room) in a 2000+ apt building 10 minutes away by scooter from the center of Bucharest right now.
Sporting organizations require more than just a DBS check, they typically also need you to have attended a course on good practice in protecting children which you will need to refresh regularly. There will be standard policies that a computer club could copy from other youth organizations.
That sounds like a useful distinction, I like it - thanks for sharing. I hope they draw the right conclusions, i.e. start writing code that can be explained instead of documenting current code with "# Too complex, cannot be explained"[1].

[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/a/185106
I know that feeling.

It takes some self discipline and effort to use our phones in non-unhealthy ways. I'm still working on it myself: to configure software, notifications, reduce mindless scrolling.

I'm naturally curious and so I often find myself asking an AI chat bot about things: sometimes about random stuff but more often my AI chats are aligned with my learning goals, and I love that proximity to knowledge. I guess this could become a somewhat unhealthy behavior, but I don't consider it a problem yet.

For me the most important thing is to be mindful of the power and addictive tendency of our phones, and crucially for me: to use the phone as a tool, especially for creative endeavors.
Sea lice I assumed
Your first example uses 2 five times. Your second results in 3
Russia found about it the hard way when Google and Apple payment services were suspended.
There are calls for terrorism and genocide coming daily from the MSM in Europe and the US.
Could you give a gist of such a wrong model?
This Indian Festival Hosts More Pilgrims Than the Population of the U.S.
Gift link: https://www.wsj.com/world/india/this-indian-festival-hosts-m...
When everything is an IEEE 754 floating point number, a mathematically "linear" function can indeed be coerced into anything: http://tom7.org/grad/
Wouldn't that be five 2s, not 4?
So then I would get to pay more for trying to make climate friendly decisions in the form of electrical lawn equipment and EVs? You tend to subsidize in the direction of encouraged behavior.
+1

Also, this collection spans much more time than communist Vietnam? 1900-2020s? Weird take.
This is uncanny, how could you tell. :-)
Curious for any specific feedback!
Because the 80% overly expensive hotel is precisely what you're paying for. Quality of education is a bare minimum requirement. The rest is the people you'll meet. Be that your neighbors in the expensive hotel or the professors you'll work with, or the activities that will bond you with those people.
WhiteSur: macOS-like theme for GTK desktops
Just wow, I would encourage you to retrace the steps mentally from this discussion to Trump, you might learn something.
200k/yr revenue?
Like others have said - basically they can't afford to do the things you want to do. All the things you want to do take time to make run smoothly and divert dev attention for a while, and it seems there is no time for that. It all may help in the long-run and actually help generate more revenue, but that won't matter if they go under in the meantime.

If you don't like that yolo culture, move on... you are not likely to change it.
dang recently replied to a comment i made with similar sentiment, and i understand his perspective:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42993714
US is involving itself. They arw actively supporting Russia and actively threatening Canada.

USA is not stepping back, they are acting like an aggressor both against Ukraine and Canada. And against EU those somewhat less so.
You now have five 2s!
Yup: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43147872.

If PA works like some other places I know, there would be something of a rivalry between those two schools, so it was a little unusual to see the two threads on the frontpage at the same time.
Please explain to me how this discussion of voter turnout and voter suppression in the lens of Democrat versus Republican is not too political for Hacker News?

Please remember that this entire sub thread was precipitated from you saying that the mention of a reality TV star in the context of the effects of reality TV is too political and now you are actually discussing politics.
I can't imagine there's much overlap.

Just look at the suppliers working on the SLS SRBs and those working on the LGM-35 program, perhaps then you'll see the extent of the overlap. Furthermore, you might want to look into why the space shuttle had the architecture it did, and why space shuttle SRBs were being shipped out of Utah. Large scale SRB manufacturing has been, and continues to be, an enormous problem for the DoD. Hence why wasteful programs like SLS exist.
This is cool. I'm curious, what inspired you to build it? Is it purely out of interest, or are you trying to make a super productive tool for your own use, etc?
> "I could build product XYZ in a weekend, why do they have so many employees?"

Unlike product XYZ*, there was a time in very recent history when these same schools ran successfully with much smaller administrations. At some point you have to ask - do you want to save the cancer, or the patient?

*I am humoring your hypothetical, but there are in fact many cases where a small team outperforms bloated, ossified companies, e.g. the Britten V1000 motorcycle, or the recent article about wedding planning software (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43133174), or the older article on the windows terminal (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27725133)
Nintendo Is About to Do the Most Absurd Thing Ever with Switch 2 Game Cases
EU also demands resources in exchange for military support such as the French+UK-led intervention into Libya. Saying US is an ally of Russia is a pretty big stretch, meanwhile the EU has members that are actually allied with Russia and lots of large Russia-aligned multinationals like Gunvor
> I wonder if things deteriorate into a failed state

Myanmar is basically a Southeast Asian version of Congo.

All the neighboring countries (China, India, Thailand) have already de facto intervened by maintaining relations with and arming regional warlords, and "their" guys in the Tatmadaw.

For example,

- China and the MDNAA [0] and the Wa State [1], and their "Goma" is Muse and Mongla

- India and the ethnic Chin opposition [2][3] and the Arakan Army [4] (the guys who did the Rohingya Genocide - they flipped from China to India in 23-24), and their "Goma" is Tamu and Sittwe.

- Thailand's Military Government's continued support of the Myanmar Tatmadaw [5], and their "Goma" is Myawaddy, Payathonzhu, Shwekoko (the city mentioned above), and Mawdaung.

China, India, and Thailand are all enabling the worst actors in Myanmar's civil war, and it's the civilians that lose.

> They did that in the 1970s with Cambodia

Which sparked a regional war with Vietnam in 1979, and multiple coups and counter-coups by Chinese and Vietnamese backed factions in Cambodia and Laos.

If Cambodia and Laos was chaotic, Myanmar will be 1,000 times worse, because several ethnic groups in Myanmar have large (1mil+) populations in both China and India, so the risk of regional contagion is massive, and has already started in Manipur [6].

[0] - https://www.usip.org/publications/2024/08/myanmars-junta-los...

[1] - https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/ethnic-issues/wa-state-aims-t...

[2] - https://www.bnionline.net/en/news/chinland-council-and-chin-...

[3] - https://theprint.in/india/chin-rebel-leader-lauds-indias-hel...

[4] - https://thediplomat.com/2024/03/is-india-finally-waking-up-t...

[5] - https://r2pasiapacific.org/files/8231/2022_Thai_response_mya...

[6] - https://www.reuters.com/world/india/fighters-myanmar-civil-w...
One of the griped I had about Firefox latest UI design was actually that they removed text labels from their menu, among others

Using this now, this embraces the new design but fixes poor UI decisions. It even has a one liner install/update script !:

https://github.com/black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix
Is this a "hack"? I read some articles saying they had valid multisig authority to transfer the ETH. Blockchain security working as intended.
Based on the hijinks we have still been seeing day to day, I am not sure I think the CFPB has been scaring companies into good behavior on any significant scale. I am sure there's some, but I think the penalties are clearly too low if half of the recovery amount is operational costs for the CFPB itself.
Is it more than the credibility you lose pretending he -is- smart?
Tariffs don’t really work for software, especially if the software provider holds lots of foreign government contracts, and you assume the foreign government and provider are colluding to get control over your systems.
Everyone involved in the current process has an incentive to not change anything. If you go through the existing process with some five year target, the universities and bureaucrats will bleed you to death with procedures and lawsuits and lobbying, as they did with prior efforts under Obama. It’s the same way NIMBYs kill development projects. The only way to change it is shock and awe.
Allowing people to have their view of the front page unaffected by flags would be trivial. But some who don't want too discuss this don't want other people to discuss it, either, they precisely don't want people to have discussions unimpeded by sophistry, in their absence.

Calling that out isn't "tribalism", and you boiling it down to that, and other generalities, as if it's people being "mad" that other people have a different flavor of ice cream, while there's by now been (at least) FIVE people doing Hitler salutes during speeches means you're not up to speed or not treating this as seriously as you probably think you do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhJdH63d6zM

https://cdapress.com/news/2025/feb/22/town-hall-security-det...

> The identities of the men who dragged a woman out of a legislative town hall in the Coeur d’Alene High School auditorium on Saturday remain a mystery, with event organizers claiming no knowledge of who arranged the security detail or which company was used.

^ that's how you get that. Everybody is just "doing their part", looking the other way.

That's also how you get people posting endless walls of text about the topic they insist should not be discussed on HN, or doing mental gymnastics every single time the Nazi salute is mentioned, ignoring once again what dozens of people have told them in reply to it the first of the dozens of times they did that.
I am sorry, but this question shows how deep you are in the bubble.

People don´t care, never did.

Example: after Jamal Khashoggi was murdered, people still suck up to MbS. Money rules the world.

After what we learned about Guantanamo Bay, nobody should be allowed to call the US a democratic country. But we all decided to ignore the facts, as watching Netflix is way to nice.
With p-values
I don't find USA to have meaningful speech protection. Retaliatory lawsuits are frequent and the process itself is and the process itself is the punishment.

Plus, current goverment don't care about laws and people on top of it have history of retaliating against speech.
Decades of Research Misconduct Stalled an Alzheimer's Cure
This is roughly how I've operated for the past 5 years in my career and it's only benefited everyone. Sure, I get pushback sometimes when a stakeholder feels strongly about taking a different approach or maybe waiting to find out whether certain features or scope are needed, but most of the time, like this blog mentions, people will develop respect for you that you can make confident decisions in the work you're doing, and that you've spent the right time understanding how to solve a certain problem without needing to disrupt their flow.
At the start of 2021, "we are entering another AI winter" was a common sentiment, even here. People proclaiming that were so very certain about that point of view, and yet, here we are.

What makes you so certain that we will enter an AI winter before reaching the threshold of AGI? Do you have some secret insights into the mechanisms of general intelligence that you aren't sharing with the class?
Just talk at them until they talk with you. Works better than you would think, however crazy you seem at first.
you should look up how voter supression works and how it is designed to prevent what demographic from voting. additionally, one thing you failed to mention is that republicans are trying to “solve a problem” (voter fraud) which simply does not exist. there are SERIOUS consequences related to fradulent voting that it just does not make any sense for anyone to even attempt it. hence, this is absolutely never about voter fraud, it is now and always has been about voter supression. if republicans wanted everyone to vote they should be pushing for mandatory voting with serious not-paying-taxes like consequences. make every American vote, do it literally through the IRS. You file your tax return in an election year (well technically 04/15 of the following year) you have to show a proof you voted in the election or you get mandatory prison time. it is shit like this that would be about “hey, lets make sure EVERYONE eligible votes and see who wins” … the republicans only want to make sure to supress votes they know will not be kind to them :)
I wonder if growing distrust in the american cloud will benefit companies like Oxide in coming years
> It was well known that this was exactly what Musk would do, by anyone paying the slightest shred of attention to what was going on.

I agree, and frankly anyone feeling "surprised" right now probably still thinks strongly worded emails and letters are enough to solve the problems they're just now seeing. Those things rely on a stable democracy where constituents and what happens to them matter at all.
I like these games, and I would say more fun when using a larger number that has more factors, for example 120. 120 is among the superior highly composite numbers:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior_highly_composite_numb...
Android does not mean Google services are involved... (I know it does for most, but not for all =)
The point is Amazon and Microsoft surely have vested interests in government data they are not supposed to be privy to.
> which as the article says is the speed of light.

This is pedantic because there's practically no difference. But just to be pedantic, it's not the speed of light and I'd argue it's not usually even close to the speed of light. In communications we are talking about anywhere from 60% to 80% the speed of light through most mediums.
This seems like a sad example of "we'll do something to children that we'd never accept for ourselves, but it's OK because what can they do about it?"