skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So it sounds like these people already worked for the government when Musk arrived. We're not talking here about defections among the engineers Musk brought with him.
All the Safari search engine extensions work the same: https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2025/2/2.html
>As someone who grew up in a 3rd world country and whose mother owned a clothing factory, this product seems...fine?

People in western countries find things like sweatshops to be objectionable.

>The response is an indication of how little people know about how their t-shirts and shoes are made.

People in western countries are well aware of how their shirts are made, and don't like it, and try to avoid it when possible specifically because they find sweatshop conditions objectionable.
Curious what Stallman has to say about Robert C. Martin --- looked, but couldn't find anything....
(Submitted because LetsEncrypt will soon be discontinuing the long-standing SSL domain expiration email notification service, and this is a measure users can take to avoid flying blind.)

See also:

Let's Encrypt Ending Support for Expiration Notification Emails -https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42794787 (34 days ago, 12 comments)

https://letsencrypt.org/2025/01/22/Ending-Expiration-Emails
6% after inflation? The problem with 30yr bonds is that it is effectively 2% assuming 2.5% inflation rate. Stock returns have been generally around 10% even after accounting for inflation. A good mix is critical and what is a good mix depends on the personal circumstances.
The Human-Neanderthal Love-Story Mystery
Podcast (The Atlantic)

https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2025/02/the-human-neanderthal-mystery/681737/

https://youtu.be/g_uwsIjvTkU?feature=shared
Yes, mathematicians don’t have families.
PBS Space Time's take on Kerr's paper:

https://www.pbs.org/video/what-if-singularities-do-not-exist...

Echoing JumpCrisscross' sentiment, though. "Disproven" is way too strong of a word.
> in all likelihood you'll have the same fingerprint as all the other M4 macbook pro users.

er... maybe if they're using metamask or something with the viewport pixel WxH set arbitrarily. canvas size/window size, fonts installed (are you a graphic designer or typographer?), who knows what else. the EFF has a site that shows you all the nonsense we can be tracked with.

open safari on a second monitor? at the same time? probably globally unique WxH between the two windows.
I've barely touched OCaml but having worked professionally in Haskell for a few years I thought that OCaml was terrible. However, Jane Street has invested heavily in it and maybe their codebase is better than the glimpse I got of the language.
This might be a better synopsis:

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/25/leaked-windsurf-prompt...
30Y treasury bond yielding 4.625% according to this source[0]. Please educate me so I can understand where you are seeing 6%+

[0] https://www.treasurydirect.gov/marketable-securities/treasur...
> I haven't seen a lot of evidence that Martin really has the coding chops to speak as authoritatively as he does

From what I can deduce, his major coding work was long in the past, and maybe in C++.
You can do whatever you want, but if you reach out to other people because you want them to use it, you better be able to convince them why
I love Joyce.
What value is there in "research" that doesn't do anything weird?

How can it even justify the name on the previous sentence without the quotes?
> MAGA voters don't care about the government making their own lives better. It's about making their opponents' lives worse.

I know a lot of people who flipped this election and voted for Trump NOT for his politics, but to stick it to the Dems. A scant few are regretful and the rest appear indifferent.
"The Terminator" and the first two "Toy Story" films are 'foreign, art-house shit'. Who knew?
I found that most online communities around solopreneruship tend to split in two major groups: the wanna-be-preneurs who only ask a bunch of generic questions, and the people who promote their products/services.

Your best bet is to connect with individual people, such as myself, or find people in your geographical area. Feel free to drop me an email (contacts details in my profile) if you are interested to talk with a solopreneur who have no interest to sell you anything.
hmm Isn't there an applicable standard of review for legal cases?
He wanted to write it in Swift 6. Does it support older OS versions?
The price will not come down in a vacuum, you need people working on the tech to improve it
What kind of changes could you make to one clone that would still qualify it as a clone? If there are changes, it's no longer the same file. Even after reading the How It Works[0] link, I'm not groking how it works. Is it making some sort of delta/diff that is applied to the original file? That's not possible for every file format like large media files. I could see that being interesting for text based files, but that gets complicated for complex files.

[0] https://hypercritical.co/hyperspace/#how-it-works
React Scan Notifications
I dont think that it is correct to assume your interceptor needs to match velocity. Any speed will do if you can intercept it on approach instead of chase it down.
> Do you really think that, for example, DOJ lawyers who defended Biden’s mass immigration policies are going to flip and use 100% of their talents to figure out how to do mass deportations now?

This is precisely what lawyers do. They try to make the best argument for their client's case. If they do not want to make that argument, they let their client find a new lawyer (resign, if they work for the government). They don't make a shitty case because they think their client is wrong. (That being said, they cannot lie without professional repercussions.)

P.S. There were no mass immigration policies under Biden. You have been misinformed.
For some reason, I think that instead a Java runtime written in WebAssembly would be more useful.
You can and many do, although this tends to be reserved for more senior engineers. Obviously a pay cut is involved.
> The vaccine doesn't work that well. As your article [4] says

It does not say that.

And in any case, as we should all very well know by now, vaccines don't have to be 100% effective at disease prevention to be effective at disease spread reduction, especially at scale.

But, lets grant the point: Fine. Use some of that $5b annual spend to fund other preventatives.
Looks nice. Feedback: I was trying to enter "1000$" and "12%" (in the loan calculator) and it rejected my inputs ("Loan amount must be a positive number" and "Interest rate must be between 0 and 100") - could you just make it a bit more forgiving, if the units $ or % are included in the user input?
"git worktree" shares a .git folder between multiple checkouts. You'll still have multiple files in working copy, but at least the .pack files would be shared. It is great feature, very robust, I use it all the time.

There is also ".git/objects/info/alternates", accessed via "--shared"/"--reference" option of "git clone", that allows only sharing of object storage and not branches etc... but it is has caveats, and I've only used it in some special circumstances.
> it's a tension in the system

Yeah, of course there is "structural" slack (and tension) in any system, but don't forget that "Solidarity Forever" is only two things: 1) a default, initial reaction to managerial imposition, and 2) a chant leveraged to temporarily concentrate force towards the resolution of a crisis.

In meetings, and between workers, there's plenty of room for sober, reasoned planning and rational debate. So, it's NOT hard for a pro-union person to acknowledge systemic tensions; there's a time and a place for both tenors of rhetoric.

Furthermore, there are tensions in the un-unionized firm that also neglect the customer. Remember Deming's first theorem: "Nobody gives a hoot about profits." That's a commentary on managerial and executive tendencies to prioritize personal well-being, short-term gains, activity over productivity, and easily measurable metrics. These are Emperor's New Clothes of their own, frequently unassailable due to corporate culture.

Meanwhile, even saying the word solidarity can met with reprisals—let alone actually discussing unionization. So, I just don't think it's an model for your point given the current discursive hegemony.

Again, I agree with you that at times solidary furvor quashes rational dissent, but it's a deliberate, mechanical part of the union's anatomy and not a religion... mostly. And, secondly, it's silly to make an example of a union hegemony under our current anti-union climate. In fact, I would say, perpetuating this narrative of the mindless, frothing union berserker is harming working families' leverage in an age of increasing labor precarity.

> sometimes "doesn't care" is just a reflection of poor management

I might say, it's a reflection of poor compensation, but I guess that goes under the umbrella of "poor management". I suspect that the venn diagram between yours and mine definitions of "poor management" would have some surprising overlap... and otherwise.
Businesses count on middle men to do all that, so that they can focus on the things they know how to do.
Some years ago I migrated from OCaml to Rust, I think it was the right decision.
The operating environment of the BEAM is what's great about elixir. Hy still has the GIL.
Yup, and it's still in active production use (itch.io, for example).

There's even a fork of moonscript, called yuescript, which has a speedier parser, and includes macro's. Effectively, it's moonscript-2.0, and it's bundled directly into the dora-ssr game engine (the same dev is involved with both).

Of course, the "big dog" in the compile-to-lua space is fennel. The great thing with all of these options is that they don't have a runtime component- it's all lua semantics, all the way down. So you can mix & match from project to project, as your whim takes you - and all the while you're really just gaining more experience in building lua solutions (while not having to fight against some of lua's syntax)
The LLMs are quite widely distributed already, they're just not that impactful. My wife is an accountant at a big 4 and they're all using them (everyone on Microsoft Office is probably using them, which is a lot of people). It's just not the earth shattering tech change CEOS make it to be , at least not yet. We need order of mangitude improvements in things like reliability, factuality and memory for the real economic efficiencies to come and its unclear to me when that's gonna happen.
They didn't provide a model checker to accompany the contracts the library provides.

No integration with Java Pathfinder or JBMC?

It's really weird how much they missed the ball.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Pathfinder

https://www.cprover.org/jbmc/
I am building an RPG Maker MZ game with my son, who just turned four this winter. :)
All hail the gods of OCaml.

As far as I can tell Jane Street's use of OCaml serves a dual function in talent acquisition and retention.

1. You attract the kind of Haskell adjacent academic talent who proves their natural curiosity by their interest in pure functional languages.

2. You are the only game in town for your newly created OCaml experts. Monopsony power baby!

Do they need to use a functional language? Almost certainly no.
Are you trying to retire with stable cash flow, or grow your wealth?

For many, retirement is first and foremost about generating a stable income. A guaranteed lower rate of return is usually desirable over a speculative higher rate of return.
The problem with "safe pockets in ambient unsafety" is that C and C++ intentionally disallow this model. It doesn't matter what you do to enforce safety within the safe block, the definition of Undefined Behavior means that code elsewhere in your program can violate any guarantees you attempt to enforce. The only ways around this are with a language that doesn't transpile to C and doesn't have undefined behavior like Rust, or a compiler that will translate C safely like zig attempts to do. Note that zig still falls short here with unchecked illegal behavior and rustc has struggled with assumptions about C's undefined behavior propagating into LLVM's backend.
It must be possible to manage a company in a sustainable way where constant influx of capital is not necessary. In fact the vast majority of companies must be run that way because they don’t have access to large amounts of capital, no?
> The vaccine has been shown to significantly reduce malaria, and deadly severe malaria, among young children.

https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/malaria

> Current malaria vaccines reduce uncomplicated malaria by ~40%, severe malaria by ~30%, and all-cause mortality by 13%.

https://www.cdc.gov/malaria/php/public-health-strategy/malar...
fivethirtyeight published a similar article a long time ago, saying that maybe counter-intuitively people turn against their party when their party takes action.

I feel like the big government programs, medicare, medicaid and social security are facing an inevitable fall. There's just not enough unity for people to think that the government should be spending that much money for the public good. And it's odd, maybe because my life is and has always gone fairly well(this is certainly not a consistent yardstick so shrug) but I've never had reason to have animosity towards government. I do understand the cases presented by lots of entrepreneurs as to why they're antagonistic, but everything else.

But really hard to imagine things will get better without these programs.
Argentina Deploys Military as China Leads Fishing Swarm Near Waters
What big box chains?
Not by AI Pricing
A genius architect/Formula 1 engineer can design a building/engine that fits all the requirements astonishingly perfectly, but if the builders have difficulties understanding it, or later contractors can't figure out how to maintain or fix anything, then it's only a perfect design in theory and an awful design in reality. It's not a nice-to-have to make people's lives a little easier, it defines the success of the project. The genius architect/engineer can insist that the complex design reflects the underlying domain as much as they want but at some point they will have to back that up to someone else who isn't a genius.

Obviously, writing code such that a first year comp sci student can understand what's happening and can start contributing immediately is absurd, but at the same time nobody builds anything in a vacuum. There's a certain legibility required within any context you're designing something for.
I don't have a threat model per se. Tuta offers affordable email service and nice web and android clients.
For some reason a meme[1] comes to my mind, with the AI being on the right side...

If AI could really feel, instead of just creating pretend-text, then the first company creating a feeling machine that one could torture will be the next $trillion company...

[1]: https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/tumblr_n87gfn...
Interestingly I did the same thing and got the wrong answer, with the right reasoning. A quick cross check showed that 4o also had the right reasoning but wrong answer, while 03-mini got it right
> There's also the debate in gendered languages over whether one should never use feminine endings on professions, and keep them generic, or always use them for all professions for consistency [...]

This is a somewhat different kind of thing. In English, there are plenty of professions with a gendered suffix rather like this. Waiter / waitress; actor / actress; steward / stewardess.

In general, the -ess cannot be used for a word that doesn't already exist; the feminist prescription for a female doctor is "lady doctor", not "doctress". You might also note that the masculine versions of those three examples have three different "suffixes".

But the agentive suffix is always -er, whether the agent is male or female. Professions are conceptually different, and better modeled as opaque words than as stem+suffix combinations.
No, I said soon. The person I replied to said "already have".
Right, can't imagine these are regretted attrition (for the administration)
The 4% rule requires increasing that amount at the rate of inflation throughout retirement. 30 years in the case of the original studies. Even with an inflation rate of 2.5%, the required withdrawal will more than double after 30 years. The 4.625% you can lock into a 30-year Treasury would not be enough.
I can second this. That's the program I started with. I'm now training for a half marathon using https://www.baa.org/races/baa-half-marathon/train/leveltwo and I've shaved like a minute off my mile pace while increasing my milage from 6 mile runs to 12 mile runs.

There's lots of programs for running and most of them seem good for improving performance.
What does the 4% rule have to do with yields of treasuries? This is a 30-year time horizon that changes spending purely based on inflation figures. Yields in the market do not matter.
only inasmuch as a world where everyone playing violin in the streets is a dystopia, too...
I guess I didn't make myself clear. The number was supposed to be trivially low. The point was that "high performance" is like the least important factor when deciding on technology in my context.
There is TeaVM for whatever it’s worth.

JavaScript and WASM really seem more portable. They have now approximated what Java web applets tried to achieve. And now WASM can be run in Mainframe IBM JVMs. Nashorn or Rhino seems like it runs JavaScript there.

JavaScript and WASM are now getting close to COBOL's importance. That’s no mean feat.
I'm glad you figured out your issue! Genuinely!

That it worked for you, doesn't mean it's a wise general recommendation.
yes and it is infuriating. I don't think anyone wants more of those. But it will be fun prompt injecting AI agents with my mouth in the coming decades. Beats the old hacks for beating the IVR systems to get to a person
They hopefully don't call you first. I was thinking of Google calling restaurants on your behalf to check for reservations. It's not valuing the other party's time. Unless they have their own systems.

See everyone using their own LLMs to write paragraphs that will never be read and only summarized by an LLM on the other end. We're achieved negative compression.
I don't think -sst- is a possible sequence in Latin. (Neither is -ssr-, but that one suffers from the bigger problem that -sr- probably won't work either.) Mistrix is certainly a word that could exist, but I have no knowledge of whether it would be a correct form for a female sender.
Sometimes I wanted to do a little coding to automate things with my personal productivity tool so i feel a programatic interface that open source implementation like this provides is very convenient
>Psychiatrists aren't evil, of course, but they're not going to tell you (or are always aware) of all the minutia of long term effects treatment can have.

This, I help a family member with their medication and occasionally they'll have side effects that are obviously a direct result of one or more of the medications and the doctors will often ignore that until it's brought up over multiple appointments, even then they often want to add an additional medication to the 6-7 they already prescribe instead of working to lower dosages of the ones causing issues.

My brother was on ADHD meds most of his early life and started having heart issues that doctors seemed to have no ability to figure out, despite it being one of the listed side effects of his medication.

I have a friend who is pretty convinced that his wife won't live much longer because the dose of her medications is one that is known to cause liver and kidney damage long term.

You also regularly see psych patients gain tons of weight in a short amount of time from some of the medications like Seroquel, but the typical doctor response is "better to be fat than dead" while totally ignoring the long term health issues, including things like depression that the medicine was original prescribed to treat, stemming from ongoing unregulated weight gain.

People really need to advocate for themselves and often aren't in a place to do so.
https://archive.ph/4QT3P
> it cuts you off completely because they've dispaced what used to exist

That hasn't been my experience at all. All of the other methods of communication still exist. What FB gives is greater convenience, but not using it doesn't cut me out of anything. Not even those things where FB is the primary way people organize.
They can interoperate with regular email if you share the password for the email out of band. Basically they get a link to a specialized tuta web client, and enter their password there.

https://www.reddit.com/r/tutanota/comments/i3f6j6/stupid_que...
> The measure, backed by the National Center for Public Policy Research, said that Apple maintaining its DEI push wasn’t prudent. The group describes itself as a independent conservative think tank.

> “It’s clear that DEI poses litigation, reputational and financial risks to companies, and therefore financial risks to their shareholders, and therefore further risks to companies for not abiding by their fiduciary duties,” the proposal said.

The push for DEI from HR departments was somewhat performative and dumb. The push to eliminate it at a corporate level is completely performative and dumb.

But it's hilarious that they suggested this with a straight face without apparently any understanding of who Tim Cook is. Are they seriously suggesting that Apple doesn't think of the shareholders enough?

Part of the real problem here is that the SEC rules around "risk disclosure" are old-fashioned and dumb, so anyone can sue anything they don't like under the guise of "fiduciary duties". As the saying goes "is everything securities fraud?".
This proves that being early to market has a huge advantage ;)
Does this still hold good with the DOGE intervention?
I also really like this pricing model.

I wish it were more obvious how to do it with other software. Often there's a learning curve in the way before you can see the value.
I'm saying that calling them thieves is genocide apologia.
The entire left brain/right brain premise that the book is based in is totally bogus. The author constantly refers back to this nonsense theory throughout the book (yes I have read it). What she refers to (constantly) as "R-Mode thinking" simply isn't real. The book works as a learning aide because she largely takes regular learning techniques and drills, and dresses them up with nonsense scientism.

https://www.smartermarx.com/t/regarding-betty-edwards-drawin...
Can it really be seen as deprecating an old version when it’s a brand new app?
Speaking broadly about not only Jane street, but adjacent firms like Jump and Citadel: In my experience (working with and getting coached by a recruiter in the space), these finance companies really want you to love the space, not just the technology. I wasn't able to drink the kool-aid or fake enough die-hard passion for trading to get far in the their interview process, despite having extremely relevant technical capabilities
Some are also very elitist with respect to your pedigree, so even amazing experience but no degree from a top US school can make it difficult (yes, even a decade later..)
Synceddb: Sync an IndexedDB database with a remote REST API
https://github.com/hamradiolog-net/adif

i’m learning golang and made this library that parses ham radio ADIF logs. my goal was to match the speed of the golang json parser. i managed to surpass it by about 2x!

i’m currently employed writing c#, but looking for a job elsewhere and golang seemed like a good way to level up :)
Wrapping everything in UDP breaks the same tools but it's more obnoxious for everyone involved.