skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A Brazilian middle class family would have a maid working 10 hours per day.
Seems pretty good! However, like all of these websites, it's only so useful without a large userbase to get ratings and reviews from.

Some feedback:

- Visually pleasing!

- It seemed to have failed to import some books from StoryGraph for me (e.g., "The Hive" by Camilo José Cela and "The Epic of Gilgamesh"), and as far as I could tell it did not notify me anywhere. I had no idea until I noticed that they were missing from my "Read" library.

- The book "Zone" by Mathias Énard seems to be completely impossible to find via searching, despite existing on the website (https://kaguya.io/books/zone).

- Adding a feature that allows clicking on 'Read Books' or 'Want to Read' on a user's profile to directly view their complete library in that category would be nice.

- Only five "Similar Books" seems rather low, would love to have a "See more >" option there!

- A "Neighbours" feature similar to what Last.fm has for finding other users would be great.

- This is a minor nitpick, but the grey box that represents a missing book under "Favourite Books" on a profile is taller than the actual covers.
debian and the linux kernel survive but somehow manage not to sell ads...
These quotes support the existence of the emails, which people here aren't disputing. They say nothing about whether the only layoffs were those who didn't respond, which was implied by your original statement that "the people let go were unable or unwilling to send an email listing 5 things they accomplished in the last week."
But does it include binaries?
> Data alone is not enough to sway these people.

True. And, they have their own data that says workers love RTO. My company sends out employee surveys every six months. They claim that employees who work-from-the-office have higher workplace satisfaction scores, and therefore working-from-the-office must be better - the data proves it!
Meaning you think they be more employable than I expect (because them not being employed would represent a just world or something else)? I mostly don't think they'll be employable because they don't seem like they can function very well, but obviously if they do end up more capable than I expect there's no reason to think that toxicity is enough to prevent accomplishment.
I had a Jensen (DECpc AXP 150) and an Alpha Multia; there were the first targets for Windows NT 3.51 on Alpha, but I had early Alpha Linux running on them. These might still be buried in the basement of my parents' house. Not as cool as the OSF/1-based DECserver 2100 "Sable" at work. I loved that machine.
Nobody knows what is going to happen in four years. That includes you.
> Doesn’t that seem backwards? A company that supports remote work has a worldwide talent pool.l, including lower cost geographies.

Humans are not just replaceable cogs. When you hire someone, there are several things built into the assumption of that work that we take for granted. For example, federal holidays or work culture. The US is notorious for accepting overwork as the norm (people even brag about working 60-hour weeks) where that's just not acceptable in other parts of the world. That's obviously not true everywhere (e.g. 9-9-6 in China), but is true in enough places that it's not trivial to just swap in person A from country X with person B in country Y. That's not even touching on labor laws, language barriers (e.g. understanding office lingo like "circle back"), or value structure. The latter is huge where Americans care a lot about their jobs and careers and most parts of the world don't have the concept of a career.
Elimination of those messages, telecalls, and doctors fees.

Ideally most medications should be OTC in my opinion. An AI or even checkbox form would be one step closer to that
After posting, I started thinking about how you could push Iceberg (or delta) partitions into smallpond. Spinning up 3FS will be a lot of work, but distributing compute on an existing Iceberg catalog would be worth trying.
That's sort of what Trump was subtly trying to get at -- Zelenskyy's political power continues as long as the war continues. If we take the worst interpretation of his character that he is willing to do whatever it takes to hold onto power for as long as possible ... then he has an incentive to sabotage any peace deals.

I personally don't think that's likely, but it is a valid argument depending on how skeptical you are about Zelenskyy's motives.
Trump Reveals U.S. 'Crypto Reserve'
How is the perception of US being the sucker while being the most prosperous Nation at the same time?

It's one of the most absurd takes.

Like, why do you think the US had privileged access to deals, and had a welcoming seat at the table? Countries were forced to do it? Or you think that the US, of all countries, was being gullible and extorted all while amassing wealth?

It's funny that the demise of the US came finally at the hand of Russian propaganda, and ignorance will make sure that it will come through.
To that let's add the stress of financial ruin or major setback in case he loses his job due to a competitive ratings-based "objective" perf review.
This sounds amazing, giving it a try right now
Contrast both: minimum wage, lengthy bus commute, workday that exceeds 8 hours, limited or no weekends or vacation.
People that never had a remote work option because they work production or service jobs that are tied to the workplace.
it's as simple as this: working from home is a benefit, like 401(k) matching.

If you hire remote workers, and then tell them they have to come in three days a week, you had better have a compensation renegotiation or you sure will get complaints, because you effectively just cut everyone's pay.

and your excuse is that you did it so everyone has to? no, I chose to go remote to access property I can afford, based on the agreement I negotiated.

if you unilaterally change that as an employer, you cannot be surprised when your reports act like you're cutting their pay, because you are!
"Wanting to please" is just fine-tuned implicit prompt stuff, though. You can tell the LLM that it's roleplaying as a senior engineer, and should consider you, the human to be a junior engineer it works with, who is asking it for advice. You can just leave it at that (often works, if the AI knows enough about how software is produced); or you can describe particular traits of senior engineers — e.g. "wants code that works" and "knows when to say the code is good enough and that the junior is now wasting time by fiddling with it."
+1, a nicer looking ff experience, more customizable too.
> Because it seems that Tailwind introduces problems that CSS sought to resolve

> Are we now at a point that devs do not know enough about the basics and are mentally stuck on tools they do know? Or is it that the old problems still have not been solved?

You should read all of https://tailwindcss.com/docs/styling-with-utility-classes. Experienced developers use Tailwind because it solves real problems with CSS that are hard to understand until you've worked on complex sites, with complex designs, and/or with large teams. People will often tar Tailwind users as people that don't understand CSS well when this isn't the case.

Plain CSS is fine for simple designs and document based sites, but e.g. cascading styles, specificity, and the way styles are spread between files becomes a nightmare to grow and maintain later. CSS wasn't invented with the kinds of complex responsive UIs and designs we need to write now, so it's not a surprise the traditional way doesn't scale well.

Ever worked on Java/OOP code with huge complex fragile inheritance trees spread across files where you can't figure out which piece of code is overriding something, or how to make your change without breaking something else? It's not unlike that, yet people will blindly defend the traditional CSS approach because the flaws aren't widely accepted yet.
Yes, and moreover it's obvious from anyone's experience that applying for remote roles means workers will have MUCH more competition for the role. Employers ought to love this.
Why wouldn't you? The only reason I don't want to own a home is that it's very expensive. I own a lot of other things, because they are not too expensive. And there's an argument that if everyone had to own their home, it would bring prices down, until they'd still be expensive, but no so expensive they couldn't be afforded.
From the linked Wikipedia article on Tannenbaum x Torvalds debate:
> but 5 years from now everyone will be running free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5

I find it interesting how academic circles back then were really not betting on the longevity of x86.
It's led to a few things:

1) I've developed a vague notion that much of the last 3-4 decades has, along with other (mostly bad) social, political, and economic changes in the time after trust-busting got neutered in the 1970s and Reaganism and neoliberalism took over (RIP neoliberalism, at least on one side of the aisle, LOL, glad to see you finally go even if the rest of that's all a shit-show) has been a kind of one-sided upper-middle civil war. It sure looks like the finance guys (solidly part of that class, for the most part) teamed up with the professional managerial class (the least-solidly part of that class, of the major traditional categories therein) to do their best to shove doctors, academics, and to some extent lawyers, down into the Middle, with no organized resistance on the other side.

2) I see a lot of how programmers are treated through this lens. Companies seem extremely reluctant to give programmers upper-middle perks. I think #1 is part of why: managers really, really don't want to mint a new upper-middle cohort even as they're busy clearing the field for only themselves and finance bros, and programmers (lots of us, at least) have the income to be there, but sit in a weird half-in-half-out for the upper middle, because we've mostly been denied things like private offices and certain other liberties, and subjected to micromanagement and humiliating hazing-ritual hiring processes, even as incomes soar and the snacks are good or whatever. Socially we are firmly "under" even a lot of other parts of companies that make less money, and part of that's come through cultivation of certain attitudes about programmers, and denial of "higher" perks.

Beyond that I was already pretty firmly on the side of stronger labor, better labor protection laws, and far more unionization, and Class didn't take me any farther from those things.

I read his optimism for his supposed "Class X" and the plain fact that none of that turned out to be what he thought it was as, if anything, another reason to be for the above. Organization and force (read broadly, I don't necessarily mean stuff like "hitting people") will get us to a better place, not hoping to be saved by a social movement.
The statement "Mission is the operationalized version of vision; it translates aspiration into clear, achievable action" isn't a Taylorist reduction of mission to mechanical processes - it's actually a nuanced understanding of how these organizational elements relate. You're misinterpreting what "operationalized" means in this context. From what i can tell, the 4.5 response isn't suggesting Taylorist implementation with Gantt charts etc it's describing how missions translate vision into actionable direction while remaining strategic. Instead of jargon, it's recognizing that founders need something between abstract vision and tactical execution. Missions serve this critical bridging function. CEO has vision, orgs capture the vision into their missions, people find their purpose when aligned via the 2. Without it, founders either get stuck in aspirational thinking or jump straight to implementation details without strategic guidance. The distinction matters exactly because it helps avoid the dysfunction that prevents startups from scaling effectively. I think you're assuming "operationalized" means tactical implementation (Gantt charts, SOPs) when in this context it means "made operational/actionable at a strategic level". Missions != mission statements. Also, you're creating a false dichotomy between "strategic intent" and "operationalization" when they very much, exist on a spectrum. (If anything, connecting employees to mission and purpose is the opposite of Tayloristic thinking, which viewed workers more as interchangeable parts than as stakeholders in a shared mission towards responding to a shared vision of global change) - You are doing what o1 pro did, and as I said: As a tool for teaching business to founders, personally, I find the 4.5 response to be better.
Maybe they hoped that you’d leave because of RTO, sparing them the financial cost associated with the layoff.
Why buy it if it’s completely free which is implied by your post?
"Sorry we were caught"
> You telling a bank that you didn't authorize the charge

Not necessary. I’m saying I did not receive services as I thought promised. Important that this is with a credit card.

> It's a donation and therefore there's no expectation of any goods or services being delivered

Sure. It’s a vindictive move. I believe I was lied to. If I donate to a fraud, I’m allowed to charge it back. Same thought here. No allegations of criminality, of course. But merchant disputes are privately litigated; I don’t need to prove a crime to force a chargeback.

> You can't chargeback your Tesla purchase because Musk did that salute

If you bought it recently on a card and return the car I honestly don’t see why not. I’ve returned products by leaving them on the counter and issuing a chargeback. The clerks almost always couldn’t care less. And it’s not like the card issuer is going to pick the merchant in a dispute with a valued cardholder.
Do Americans companies HAVE to pay severance? Don't American companies do layoffs all the time?
Criticker does relative rankings, percentile-matched, in kinda the same way. For films (not books).

So if I rate Feature Film I II & III as 30 50 70, and you rate them 70 80 90, we would basically "agree". It's a neat system that I wish other rating systems would use.

[1] https://www.criticker.com/
Symbols are just other letters in the alphabet. Something like <‘_> is as natural for me to read at this point as any of the other words in this sentence.

Math is also symbol soup. But those symbols mean things and they’ve usually been designed to compose nicely. Mathematicians using symbols—just like writers using alphabets—are able to use those symbols to concisely and precisely convey complicated concepts to one another.

I guess my point is that symbols shouldn’t be looked at as inherently a positive or negative thing. Are they clear and unambiguous in their use? Do they map clearly onto coherent concepts? When you need to compose them, is it straightforward and obvious to do so?
What a terrible idea. There is nothing “strategic” about this.
Excellent! Do you have any plans to get this feature added into clang or something? How could I use it? If it's in the paper you can just say so. I haven't had time to look at it carefully.
What about providing a plugin registration macro that generates an enum that can be provided to the library.
>Some languages have complex agreement between parts of the sentence, e.g. where gender of the verb must match the subject.

English is one of these, in some cases. E.g. "cats chase mice" while "my cat chases mice". IIRC there are similar whole-sentence complications with tense too, but my brain isn't caffeinated enough to think of them at the moment.
> Unlike women, men don't have a say in the birthing process but are nonetheless saddled with the consequences.

Men don't have any say in whether or not they have unprotected sex? No. You've lost me. Not a single absentee father I've ever met has accused their baby mommas of sexual assault. That would obviously be a wildly different situation than the general trend I'm describing. It's also hugely offensive.

If you don't want kids, you have a responsibility to not have unprotected sex. Take some damn accountability for your actions and accept the consequences.
> We should be able to directly donate to fund the salary of full-time engineers working on Firefox and only Firefox

Money is fungible. If you want to do this, frankly, donate to LibreWolf.
Right, yeah - this is what I meant by const and typeof. It's definitely an option, but I'm nervous of relying on the semantics of const like that. But maybe I shouldn't be, it seems pretty idiomatic?

(the typeof part is just so you don't repeat yourself, or did you have something else in mind?)
Ah, I see. Those aren't really cakes at all, despite the names. Thanks, that makes more sense.

You're just extremely sensitive to sugar. The average person is not.

But also, that's not necessarily an adaptation. I went for an entire year once without sugar. Once I went back (after finishing losing weight), nothing tasted overly sweet. It still tasted exactly as I remembered. I could (and can) still drink a Coke and it tastes great.

I mean, especially when I work out, I wind up ingesting a lot of glucose. It's just what my body needs to fuel itself, to keep my blood sugar from getting too low.
Show HN: BubbleByte, Open-Source Bubble-Popping Cat Empire Incremental/Idle Game
Hello HN!

I'm excited to share my second published game, BubbleByte, open-source and written using my C++20 fork of SFML, now wishlistable on Steam!

- https://store.steampowered.com/app/3499760/BubbleByte/

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Imagine the cozy charm of Stardew Valley blending with the addictive pull of Cookie Clicker. You can:

* Zen out watching cats auto-pop bubbles

* Go full gamer mode chasing x25 click combos

* Build a bubble-popping empire with clever cat synergies

Check out the BubbleByte Steam Announcement Trailer on YouTube!

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWmuHIllETs

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In a charming, hand-drawn world where bubbles fall endlessly, you start as a lone bubble popper -- clicking away to build combos and collect rewards. There’s something inherently satisfying about hearing that pop and watching your score climb.

Before long, you'll recruit adorable cats to lend a paw. Your first helper simply pops bubbles in its range, and soon you'll unlock the magical Unicat -- a special feline that periodically transforms nearby bubbles into star bubbles worth x15 more. You can either cash in on those big rewards or set up a chain reaction of bubble conversions.

As your bubble empire grows, you’ll uncover mysterious shrines housing special cats with unique powers and minigames. With nine distinct shrines, a deep prestige system that offers permanent, game-changing upgrades (forget the boring +1% boosts), timed milestones for speedrunners, and over 350 achievements for the completionists, there’s plenty to keep you engaged.

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You can check out the source code on GitHub:

- https://github.com/vittorioromeo/VRSFML/tree/bubble_idle/exa...

The game code is very rough around the edges (trying to meet my release deadline...), but I'm quite proud of the library code. If interested, find out more about my fork of SFML here:

- https://reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/1ftoxnh/c_show_and_tell_oc...
You still can make many kinds of requests [0] to an arbitrary endpoint that isn't the page origin, without being able to see the response. (Basically, anything that a <link> or a form submission could do.) And you can't include any cookies or other credentials in the request unless they have SameSite=None (except on ancient browsers), and if you do, then you still can't see the response unless the endpoint opts in.

Really, there's exactly one thing that the mandatory CORS headers protect against: endpoints that authorize the request based on the requester's IP address and nothing else. (The biggest case of this would be local addresses in the requester's network, but they've been planning on adding even more mandatory headers for that [1].) They don't protect against data exfiltration, third-party cookie exfiltration (that's what the SameSite directive is for), or any other such attack vector.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/CORS#simpl...

[1] https://wicg.github.io/private-network-access/
I could just as well argue that your explanation of this is also a "brilliant strategy" to dismiss any potentially valid concerns the other side may have.

If we can't even get this dynamic right, and both sides have convoluted and elaborate ways to dismiss the other, then surely we can all agree that there will absolutely never be any reconciliation or meeting of the minds of the two groups? Leaving only forced indoctrination, silencing of opinions and plain separation of the two groups into physically different governments/countries.
Hopefully the people that convinced their friends and family to switch to Firefox are doing the right thing and making amends for their mistake.
Just curious, what kind of changes or tweaks do you typically make to your UA and why?
I very much felt like that entire portion of the article was ai generated, actually.

IMO pretty obvious, surface level, information and some prose on each bullet.
Terrestrial Storage of Biomass: A Low-Cost Method for Removing CO2 from Air
Even in the context of an application stack - my initial read had me believing they were moving away from DuckDB
It's more batteries included and the packaging ecosystem story is better than alternatives. Certain safety guarantees are a nice to have.

If you just want a better c/c++ afaik that's zig, but I have no experience with it
Not _so_ new:

- https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-the-term-album-d... (2009)
- https://www.talkbass.com/threads/when-did-release-become-dro... (2013)

But it _has_ spread much faster outside of the music scene these last few years, e.g. describing software and products.
I mentioned momentum for a reason, servo doesn't have any. Ladybird however is extremely actively developed.

> Who can think that it's a good idea to start a new web runtime in C++?

Swift wasn't ready and clearly they dont like rust for this application, swift might still not be ready on non-apple platforms although it does look very promising.

Go look at the ladybird source, it's not the C++ you and everyone who shouts "unsafe" thinks it is.

And I took all of a day and less than a thousand lines to find UB in safe rust, so don't even bring up the UB argument. In case you are wondering, a str with invalid UTF-8 may cause UB, it's not unsafe to handle a str and they sure aren't going to put checks everywhere for it so they just hope that whoever handed you that str didn't encoded it some other way.

Now at least the only safe ways to parse a str actually involves checking but that means I need to now trust every single library that passes me a str to make sure they didn't parse it in an unsafe manner, and UB that I cannot be aware of might exist in my code, sound familiar?
If you move to Mountain View, you need to be able to afford to live in Mountain View. That takes a lot of remote jobs off the table, or substantially diminishes their prospects.

If you live in Omaha and work remotely, far more remote jobs are available.
> Is there a way to litigate Firefox

Litigate yes, win, probably not. If the goal is to bleed Mozilla dry, the correct angle is antitrust action against their contract with Google.

It’s a non-profit and those were donations. Those who made the donations on a card whom I know are charging it back, that’s the closest to donor accountability we’ll come to.
It's a fun theory, but the Flash runtime was the #1 cause of Mac OS crashes. Jobs obviously took that — and Adobe's refusal to take that seriously — extremely personally.

https://web.archive.org/web/20170615060422/https://www.apple...
Capturing and controlling a market is preferable to competitive markets under our political-economic system. It's been the model for Silicon Valley since Bezos sold his plan to lose money until Amazon had a controlling stake of the retail market in the late 90s. It's a seemingly unavoidable outcome of under-regulated capitalism.