skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When people talk about "stopping school shootings" they don't tend to want to substitute a student with a knife getting arrested at gunpoint with that student stabbing another student.
That gets at what makes using additional functions like in the blog post a bit arbitrary: we don't have special notation for "+ 1" or "* 2", but we do for "^(1/2)" and "log_2". It's not hard to imagine a different world where "+ 1" or "^2" had special notation, and suddenly we'd be able to solve the question in even simpler ways.

It's still a fun puzzle, it's just based more on our shared notational conventions as much as the underlying math.
> Allowing people to have their view of the front page unaffected by flags would be trivial

If we did that then HN would be a completely different place—it would become a current affairs site. That's not the mandate of this place.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

Does a site dedicated to intellectual curiosity have a right to exist on the internet? Your argument implies that it does not. I think it does. HN isn't trying to be all things—it's trying to be one thing. You can't play a game if you keep importing rules from other games. You certainly can't play, I don't know, checkers, if you let people treat the checkerboard like a rugby pitch.

HN has been through many rings of political fire over the years. At such moments, a vocal subset of users always demands that we suspend HN's rules and submit it to the flames. Current events are much too important not to! they argue. Well, current events are always more important than everything else on HN's frontpage. That has never not been the case.

We haven't done that, for the simple reason that it would destroy HN for its intended purpose.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

I think time has shown that we made the right call on those occasions and that the community is grateful we did. Once one has been through a few of these swings, the pattern becomes so recognizable that it's hard to interpret it as anything but a normal side effect of macro fluctuations.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

I may be wrong, of course, but if civilization really is coming to an end, HN won't matter anyway, so the risk calculation isn't particularly complicated.

If you really believe that this time is different and civilization is being destroyed, shouldn't you be doing something more impactful than spending so much time on an internet entertainment site, breaking its rules and arguing with the janitor? It seems to me that the amount of energy some people invest in this trivial activity is incongruent with the urgency of their rhetoric.
With all these CDC solutions based on logical replication, how are PostgreSQL failovers handled? You can't really rewind ClickHouse. Does it leave it with inconsistencies? Does it rebuild the DB fully?
Speeding up the JavaScript Ecosystem: JavaScript plugins for Rust tools
This time we're going to look at the challenges and solutions to making JavaScript plugin support for Deno's Rust-based linter performant.
Fidelity saying (in 2023) that X isn't worth what Elon paid for it does not mean it’s not making money and building product (in 2025). Allegedly it’s worth 44B again (:
Does nothing here, perhaps browser/device specific?
That sounds like a good design.
That and non-streamed "uploads". Twitch refers to videos produced by streaming as VODs, which are not affected. Weird terminology.
The article is arguing that effort and outcome are disconnected and that

> When outcome is impossible to predict, the best strategy is volume.

but it concludes that

> Because in a world of blockbuster or bust, the only thing that matters is staying in the game.

So which is the thing that really matters? Staying in or volume? Everything in the article actually suggests volume is what matters, why does how long you stay in matter? If volume is the main thing that matters, produce a bunch of low-quality work at high volume and you're good to go.

I agree with the premise of the article but effort still has a place. In fact, both skill and luck are necessary, lest we accept that AI slop is the future.
You are aware that US business selling stuff to Europe is what makes trade deficit smaller? It is not a subsidy for a business to sell and get money.
and google also, including top secret: https://www.nextgov.com/acquisition/2024/04/google-now-autho...
Commenters are criticizing the man for knowing that cell phones exist and for being surprised by it.

I bought smartphones before the iPhone.

I stood in line for four hours to buy the first iPhone (never again).

I still use an iPhone.

Yet, I am regularly surprised by how often everyone is looking at their phones.

(Context: I live in a rural area outside a metro area and don’t go there often, except for work.)

When their kid is at a crowded city park, the parent is glued to their phone.

When their kid is performing, the parent is glued to their phone, their thumb scrolling.

During any break from activity, they whip out their phones.

I used to be skeptical about the claim that devices contribute to societal brain rot through dopamine hits. However, the more I pay attention, the more I notice it. Even though I'm quite disciplined, I still catch myself instinctively pulling out my phone.

I can easily see this man having that sincere thought. You know smartphones exist, but you have no idea how much they are used.

I truly believe we are at a stage where one could argue that smartphones qualify as cybernetics.

1. Insofar as no apps on phone, minimal social media usage at all, and willful focus on a return to my 70s/80s roots where I embrace active boredom doing nothing.
Random recent browsing is also the best way to read Hacker News.

It's not addictive, gives you a quick sample of what people are thinking about recently, prevents your own biases from narrowing your view, etc.

See https://rnsaffn.com/zg2/

Each refresh gives you a random post, plus its parent thread, plus some detail about that post's author's history.
How does it measure up to Hasura?
https://archive.ph/rw7V2
This whole crypto wave since early Bitcoin is so insane.

The entire idea was to have a truly decentralized monetary system outside the control of institutions. But it so happens that almost everyone deposit them in institutions, and when a problem/hack occurs, no one can help because well… it is outside the control of institutions.

All the disadvantages without the advantages.
There was a head of a department that once forced everyone to uninstall iTunes because he believed it was reducing productivity. Feels like a never-ending battle with these types.
The Business Conference Where Dignity Goes to Die
Gift link: https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/twizzler-candy-free-snacks-sam...
Reaching 50, what keeps me going is enterprise consulting, I also doubt I would have much luck with product companies.

I also join the tone, if what a position is advising for isn't part of what I have done on the last 5 years, than crickets, regardless if I can prove the experience during the interview, or have used the technology further away than those 5 years.
I bet the duopoly of Android and iOS is going to turn out to be a huge propaganda and security vector.
> They are not directly cutting entire gov’t programs for fun and profit.

I mean, that's exactly what they're doing, isn't it? First thing they did was boast about shutting down entire departments at the weekend. Then they started mass layoffs of anyone on probation, with grudging acknowledgement they might have been a bit hasty in firing nuclear safety operatives without asking the question of whether they'd been promoted or recently hired because they were useful. And the subject of this entire thread is them publicly demonstrating lack of basic understanding of the books
I'm primarily writing "general-purpose" code (especially parsers and formatters) rather than code that does the same math operation on a big array, so it's usually not reasonable to even use the same approach to the problem with different vector extensions :(
External Li supply reshapes Li deficiency and lifetime limit of batteries
https://www.cert.ssi.gouv.fr/cti/CERTFR-2025-CTI-001/

https://cyber.gouv.fr/decouvrir-les-solutions-qualifiees
I get you point. I was speaking in relative terms about it being "general purpose" and probably should have instead said "that can run an program from an external ROM"...and it that aspect it is more "general purpose" relative to the TMS 1802NC which could only run a fixed program burned into its internal rom. Nevertheless, while it is unsuited for running a general-purpose processor, it has indeed been proven to be capable of running Linux (albeit by emulating MIPS).
Turning Off All 8k EV Chargers at All Federal Government Buildings
I agree with this. I was once an independent. The dysfunction of the Republican party ended that.
Making a "Miracle" HIV Medicine
Who are based where? Same fundamental problem right, you still can't get overall security (of continued supply, support and software/firmware)
With the backlash European companies are making toward US tech, can US companies now rip up their GDPR policies in return and stop with these cookie banners everywhere?
The overhead rate at every corporation I've worked for is between 70-80%.

Two S&P 100s, one 500.
-> lots of people complaining that rust doesn't have a django alternative
"This. This is what's wrong. Ship my fix and we're done here."

Lol. This is not hyperbole. Just about everyone has several stories like this, and they are quite hilarious in their utter absurdity. It's like these people get possessed by the spirit of Gordon Gekko in that exact moment and must absolutely play out the role to the tee. Then they become unpossessed and go Skiing on weekends.
> almost everyone deposit them in institutions

Why do you think so? Of course, we all hear about people who lose it all in crypto exchanges. But how would we hear about the ones who don't?
My comment was half in gentle jest, but you have really found a relevant example there - thanks for sharing. I guess I have a potential PhD project if I ever want to get into maritime biology: "The Dark Side of the Fish: How Crafty Parasites Outmaneuver High-Tech Pest Control"
Do you work on high performance/latency sensitive software? That makes total sense in that space, but I also have seen folks obsessing over performance details for contexts where it really doesn’t doesn’t matter at all.
A war room / call is for coordination. If you need the person draining the bad region to know that "oh that other region is bad, so we can't drain too fast" or "the metrics look better now".

For truly understanding an incident? Hell no. That requires heads down *focus*. I've made a habit of taking a few hours later in the day after incidents to calmly go through and try to write a correct timeline. It's amazing how broken peoples' perceptions of what was actually happening at the time are (including my own!). Being able to go through it calmly, alone provided tons of insights.

It's this type of analysis that leads to proper understanding and the right follow-ups rather than knee-jerk reactions.
These are the biggest contributors to undoing Clinton's balanced budget in the 90's:

* Bush Jr Tax Cuts

* Useless Iraq war

* Too Big to Fail Bailouts of Banks

* Trumps tax cuts

* COVID spending

When billionaires and trillion-dollar corporations pay episilon to zero in taxes, maybe they should pay their share. Taxing the rich would solve the problem overnight.
> There's just one small wrinkle: it uses three instances of the digit 2, not four.

One small wrinkle, if you ignore the fact that the root notation conceals exponentiation by 1/2, by making that common value a default.

That's a lot of hidden 2's!
RIP to Government Acronyms
The Republican part is no longer making a serious effort to govern.

But, if we survive Trump, I would expect trials for treason.
> Real estate still shot up in lockstep with the rest of the world because you can't and you won't build faster than people who see homes chiefly as an investment buy property.

Excellent put. The bitter pill underneath that though, would seem to be that we may need to reconsider to what extent real estate should be assumed to be an investment that always appreciates in value.

Reconciling that with families very reasonably expecting to be able to build or maintain wealth through their largest lifetime purchases is... never going to be a pleasant discussion.
That seems a somewhat callous disregard for the fish, blinded and swimming around with itchy eyes from burned out retina.
Codecs often have many redundant ways of doing the same thing, which are chosen on the basis of which one uses the fewest bits, for a specific piece of data. So you can't inline them as you don't know ahead of time which will be used.
$100M/10M drones = $10 per drone.

What drones are you going to get for $10 each (now or in the future)? How are they “unstoppable”? How are you going to deploy millions of $10 drones on the battlefield without tons of $100M platforms that can survive AA defenses long enough to get to the engagement? How much range do you think $10 of batteries even gets you?
Keep interrupting them until you break the phone's spell and then ask them if they actually wanna hang out with you.
This is just blatantly wrong, as anyone that has actually looked at the project's documentation and code can tell.

Because GStreamer is designed to be modular and plugin-based, all sorts of plugins exist for it (including libav plugins) but it is itself a media framework that is quite capable of replacing ffmpeg. Neither is "higher level" than the other.
If you’re dealing with pure SQL of a third party system, instead of an API, then you’re designing the API without domain knowledge. This is a problem in my experience.
In the places I’ve worked, a war room was always the place where we cut the bleeding and revert the system to a working state. Never was the RCA the intended outcome of a war room, though we’d often reach the RCA in the silence of the meeting bridge while something deployed/rolled back.

Root cause analysis is definitely not a group activity, it’s best done in a place where one can have complete focus.

However, cutting the bleeding requires plenty of communication, weighing different options, having a higher-up sign off on a tradeoff, getting our ops team to coordinate towards some common goal, monitoring the recovery… etc.
https://archive.ph/kWAo5
Musk is stealing data to use for his own gain, and installing back doors so he permanently has control over government. It will take decades to undo the spyware he's installing.
Of course it’s a hack.. I doubt the exchange owners wanted to send their entire balance to the North Korean military. That the multisig signers were compromised is no different than if a bank CEO had his machine hacked and a wire initiated on his behalf.
Problem is, you have to take care to look at the compiler output and compare it to your expectations. Maybe fiddle with it a bit until it matches what you would have written yourself. Usually, it is quicker to just write it yourself...
Many of the mistakes they are making are not being remedied, nor will the consequences be obvious in the short term.

There really isn't any upside for anyone in this whole thing except for Trump, Elon and their buddies. And they are breaking the law.

The farce of this whole thing is that none of the destructive cuts they've made will amount to a hill of beans compared to federal spending. They're jumping over hundred dollar bills to chase pennies.

(That's b/c none of this is actually about making government more efficient)
What article are we taking about? The response to “shock and awe” was rescind offers to students, not cut down on administrators or address inefficiencies.
See also: "Representing numbers using only one 4" written by a 26-year-old Donald Knuth in 1964 (https://www.jstor.org/stable/2689238 reprinted as Chapter 10 of his Selected Papers on Fun and Games) — it uses the single digit 4, and the three operations √x (square root), ⌊x⌋ (floor, i.e. greater integer not greater than), and x! (factorial), and ends with a (still unsolved) conjecture about whether every integer can be represented in this way.

The appendix (written for the book in 2011) points out an earlier (1962) 1.5-page paper π in Four 4's by J. H. Conway and M. J. T. Guy, written when they were students at Cambridge, that has a similar idea: https://archive.org/details/eureka-25/page/18/mode/1up?view=...

For example,

5 = ⌊√√√√√(4!)!⌋

because 24! lies between 5^{32} and 6^{32}.
You'd agree that there are limits to free speech then?
Recent discussion on optical glucose sensors, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43124436
I despise the practice of geoblocking so much.

According to the ZDF [0],

> For legal reasons, the 24/7 live streams under "Live TV" are only available in Germany.
ZDF offers exclusive live streams for selected programs that can be used outside of Germany.

(translation by Google Translate)

No idea whether news coverage of the ongoing elections constitutes such an "exclusive" stream. Have you checked whether the direct link to the special [1] is blocked, too?

ARD hosts an explanatory page [2] which explains possible reasons for the blocking, at least on their side. There’s also anecdotal evidence that ARD might be a little more lenient [3].

[0]: http://web.archive.org/web/20250217165733/https://www.zdf.de...

[1]: https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten-sendungen/zdfspezial/bundesta...

[2]: http://web.archive.org/web/20240619204708/https://www.dasers...

[3]: https://github.com/mediathekview/zapp/issues/28
Each one refers to itself as "I", I still don't see what is difficult about this.
pretty sure my remote encrypted backups[1] can keep a secret or two from the cloud storage provider

[1]https://rclone.org/crypt/
It has always been unsafe, it is very questionable under the GDPR (though governments are obviously excluded from the GDPR itself), and lots of governments and companies have been using or working on alternatives. But the temptation of of US clouds has been strong, and now is a good time to remember everyone who previously thought the benefits outweighed the risks
https://archive.ph/9h2q0
As things are going, the Democrats should be buliding an army and preparing to fight a war.
For what it is worth, Intel does refer to the 4004 as the "first general-purpose":

"That’s when the Intel® 4004 became the first general-purpose programmable processor on the market—a "building block" that engineers could purchase and then customize with software to perform different functions in a wide variety of electronic devices." https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/history/museum-story...

"The 4004 would replace that system with a general-purpose chip that could be mass produced and then programmed through its software to perform specific functions, such as those of a desktop calculator. That idea could make computing cheaper, more powerful and smaller in one fell swoop. It could, in other words, facilitate the modern information age. In 1969, the Nippon Calculating Machine Corporation approached Intel to design 12 custom chips for its new Busicom 141-PF printing calculator. Intel's engineers proposed a new design of just four chips, including one that could be programmed for use. That programmable chip, later known as the Intel 4004, became the first general-purpose microprocessor." https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/history/virtual-vaul...
The UI for smartphones was also designed for the lowest common denominator. It’s so intuitive that we laughed at my toddler as she tried to swipe on a physical picture frame to see the next photo.

I would imagine it would be much harder to adapt to T9 input. My boomer parent stubbornly refused to adopt cell phones early on and that mindset crippled them as the world pivoted to apps and touchscreens.
Tone is crucial to these conversations, yes.

Permission-based cultures are a real drag for everyone though. If no one feels empowered to do anything without the approval of their boss, it defeats the purpose of bringing them on in the first place - for their expertise and capacity to contribute meaningfully in a reasonable time frame.

There are appropriate times to slow down and sort out priorities, especially when other disparate teams are involved in the process (think Product vs. Engineering), but when there's a clear vision to execute on, it's almost always better to delegate to senior contributors to sort out the technical details and let their direct reports contribute to building on that vision.

Some gatekeeping is okay, but having a singular PoC to vet all efforts leads to bean-counting, which frustrates talented / capable team members and robs contributors of their autonomy.
My understanding was rather that the immune system removes cells with vaccine mRNA, which causes the various advertised negative side-effects. When the cells are removed, spike protein production stops.
> As long as it's all legal

It’s quite clear by the preponderance of the evidence piling up that these actions are not legal.

The cost of defending all of the employment actions that result from this will easily eclipse the “savings” presented.
Yeah, I found the percentage of job posts with the keyword in https://www.hntrends.com when I was publishing it, was effective.
I work at an large Europe based multi-national and hosting has always been a concern due to the big differences in data protection and privacy rules. We never use a service not hosted in the EEA.

The current threats that the US is making to Europe about it's data protection, privacy, consumer protection, etc... laws is very much of concern and is already beginning to be a factor in our ongoing RFPs and procurement process. We're not just following the law, we also don't trust some companies with our reputation.
Is this number right? 400 million? If 400 million go there, how does the infrastructure support it? The article mentions 175k tents which sounds like a few orders of magnitude too little.
If Microsoft is providing EU data sovereignty, then they’re either in violation of US law (the US CLOUD Act, specifically) or do not have the technical capability to access data on those servers. (So, for instance, the machines could be air gapped, or they could be configured to never honor MS credentials, including on the software update path).

In practice, this means no US cloud providers provide foreign data sovereignty (though many claim to).
this may be a bit unfair. stopping school shootings by any sane argument is ALWAYS about gun control.

as an exercise - take any definition of a school shooting you desire. then compare USA with any country on the planet of your choosing (you can even pick random geographical area spanning random number of countries) and see whether the childhood our children are subjected to are comparable. we have failed and are continuing to fail our children, regardless of how you choose to define what school shooting
> For example, the reason why "bias for action" works at Amazon is survivorship bias: those who unilaterally take action which results in a failure will ultimately be scapegoated and fired.

I think this is missing something. If everything works in exactly the way you just described, that can still be a strategy that Amazon intentionally implements and derives benefits from. We could rephrase it as "hire people who make good decisions, and then don't weigh them down".

It doesn't look obvious to me that this is a bad strategy, or that the success we see people achieve by using it is illusionary. It's a strategy that many people/companies might find difficult to implement, but that's most strategies and essentially all good ones.
https://archive.ph/Ua0dp