skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For very small teams, exploring new platforms and / or languages that compliment correctness is an option. Using a statically typed language with explicit managed side effects has made a huge difference for me. Super disruptive the larger the team though of course.
...and US tech companies take that as a reason to fill the app with feature bloat and then charge a subscription for it. Arc as a product is dead because the founders are of course pivoting to an "AI browser".
I wish HN allowed threads like this to hit the front page...

The world is changing pretty quickly, and stuff like this does have implications on war, business, technology that's I think is worth discussing here.
If the reason for the downsizing truly was due to being overstaffed and having many duplicate roles, then sure, that would be a good move. However, the RIFs are coming because of ideological differences with the co-presidents' beliefs or vendetta for some aggrieved idea.
That's because "Teams" inside Teams are not part of Teams, it's tied to Sharepoint/Exchange and thus poorly integrated.
With FTX the main issue was separating client funds. In all such business client funds should belong to the clients and not be taken by SBF or whoever to gamble with.
It's in her OneDrive most likely, go pluck it out of there.
Mostly a link dump.

Mini Games for Ideas on game mechanics

- https://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~cs8k-cyu/

- https://abagames.github.io/action-mini-game-mechanic-tags/in...

Gameboy Development on restricted hardware (make something fun without a huge focus on graphics)

- https://gbdev.io/

- https://hh.gbdev.io/

Developers in the South Korea area if you're trying to find people to mentor / intern with.

- https://www.gamedevmap.com/index.php?country=South%20Korea&s...

Dwarf Fortress to make you feel like you accomplish nothing and other people are so productive its ridiculous (mild sarcasm, DF has lots of neat simulationist ideas, and "Toady" is ¯¯\_@©_/¯¯ organized. The dev map is crazy to look at. Like, it makes you feel vaguely insane.)

- https://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/

- https://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/dev.html

People trying to figure out what a "fun" game even means in terms of Live Action RolePlaying (mileage may vary on applicability to Space Zero and digital games)

- https://analoggamestudies.org/2014/10/o-jogo-do-bicho-pushin...

- https://petterkarlsson.se/2013/03/19/the-monitor-celestra-ba...

Games in terms actual militaries on Earth and the insights for modern day conflicts (that often get ignored by superiors)

- https://warontherocks.com/2019/04/how-does-the-next-great-po...

Technical stuff if you want "graphical resolution"

- https://learnopengl.com/Introduction

- https://www.learnopengles.com/android-lesson-one-getting-sta...

- https://webglfundamentals.org/

- https://webgl2fundamentals.org/

Shadertoy, gaze upon the abyss of shader development and 100,000 shaders (iq's stuff is absurd what's accomplished in a shader)

- https://www.shadertoy.com/results?sort=newest

- https://www.shadertoy.com/user/iq

Inigo Quilez - MATH ... who wrote Shadertoy

- https://iquilezles.org/articles/

Scryfall, 30,000 Magic the Gathering cards, and 30 years of game design mechanic development

- https://scryfall.com/search?as=grid&order=name&q=%28game%3Ap...

SteamDB, to look at the 800 games that get release "every, single, week" and how few get "any" signups.

- https://steamdb.info/upcoming/?lastweek&sort=peak_desc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highest_falls_survived_without...

"I turned out fine" is great. Plenty didn't.

(We had a polio survivor as President, FDR, and very recently the Senate Majority Leader. People survive both. Both are preventable, dangerous diseases.)
That video was hard to watch. Zelensky was being very dignified and they absolutely jumped down his throat. This public meeting was a complete setup, and it's ironic that JD Vance is accusing Zelensky of grandstanding.
Reduced cybersickness using Geometry Aware Passthrough
I wish Zelensky had asked Trump if he wanted his feet kissed there and now because I feel like everyone could see that is what Trump wants at the very least.
Research reveals potential alternatives to 'forever chemicals'
AI is only stone soup if
a) you get charged for the soup after adding your carrots
and
b) they heat the water by burning your house down
That could have gone worse; president trump put his hand on Zelinski to quiet him, this particular action has precipitated physical violence probably since the dawn of language.
Looks like it started with JD saying that Zelensky wasn't "thankful" and was instead trying to plead (JD said "litigate" IIRC) his case to the American public (which of course he was, that's what these meetings are for otherwise you have them in a private room).
Two things:

This requires a language that a human can give the specs in. A language that is both precise and unambiguous and understandable by humans. A... programming language?

And it requires AI to understand the effects of changes it makes. On many levels. "If I move this module behind an abstraction, will it make it easier to maintain? Does it touch performance? Would it open security issues?" Generative AI isn't good at reasoning in that way. Maybe other AI, but it seems hardly anyone is pouring substantial funding into areas other than "a bigger and smarter generator than the competition" currently.
I've been looking at Floorp and Zen, maybe add those to your list to check out
As does Vivaldi
I did something like this for years before having to switch to an actual calendar app. A text calendar has a lot of advantages, like easily being able to have a list of the current and next days event displayed each time you open a terminal by putting the right call in your .bashrc :).

My text calendar management script is still available here: https://code.up8.edu/pablo/myutils/-/blob/master/kal
I love your enthusiasm for an ambitious technological goal, and love the idea (always have) of fusion power being used for as many things as possible, especially for ships, but all that aside, color me skeptical of success. ITER and the U.S. fusion projects have barely gone anywhere despite billions in investment and I don't see that changing soon.
A lot of people like him a lot. Not all of his voters, but enough that it would take a serious disaster for enough of those to support throwing him out. That would be a massive rupture that would make the party utterly untenable for years to come.

It would take more than a recession. It would take a Great Depression-scale economic event. That's not impossible (and ironically, if it did happen, it would not be solely his fault), but I don't think any of these economists are expecting it. A recession would cause Congress to shift, but the first removal of a President would require an utter economic catastrophe.

Also, note that the person replacing him would be largely identical.
I have the framework 16, and ROCm has been driving me nuts. The GPU in the 16 isn’t as meant for AI, but just shockingly bad
Mind over matter. Don't forget to meditate, and try to keep the loop running in the background too.
I created a post[0] on /r/LibreWolf to discuss usability tweaks for new LibreWolf users who might not know all the ins and outs of the more strict settings.

[0]: https://old.reddit.com/r/LibreWolf/comments/1j0ckr9/recent_f...
Convictions seem like a distraction from the narrative here: Menendez fucked over his constituents. Obviously every politician that does so should be equally castigated. The court is irrelevant in this context and should be considered a trailing symptom.
Everyone I know who works with IBM i (used to be system i, as/400 before that) absolutely adores it. Gods do they every nickel and dime you tho.
i found this article very/deeply informative , memory-wise , concurency vs optimizations and troubles thereof:

Programming Language Memory Models

https://research.swtch.com/plmm

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27750610
Convection depends on buoyancy and hence gravity, and conduction in nitrogen gas is extremely low, so I don't think your idea would work. You need a conventional radiator with forced circulation.
> Good artists copy, great artists steal
Erlang doesn't have promises. The main draw of the BEAM ecosystem is that it has a different concurrency system which is capable of many things that the JavaScript one is not.
For the simple reason of not using Gecko
1. Astrology was debated even longer and also still exists. It's not an argument.

2. I'm not claiming to be genious. In fact I was pretty hardcore Catholic for like 22 years before I stopped lying to myself.

> You seem to forget that Egypt

Genociding Phillites' kids because some adult Egyptians were killing Jews is evil.

> The Canaanites, for example, practiced child sacrifice to Molek

Their infants did?
The Bible is a small library of different books written by different people at different times. I don't think it's all that surprising that there are contradictions. In fact, I would say that pretty much every faith tradition with a long literary history suffers from this problem. I don't think that undermines that idea we can glean meaningful wisdom from sacred texts.
What do you believe "probationary employees" means?

What is their average tenure at the department?
This is close to some of my favorite stuff in math!

Beyond just markov chains, matrices do “move” vectors towards eigenvectors sometimes. If a matrix A has eigenvectors x1 and x2 with eigenvalues r1 and r2, A(x1+x2)= r1x1+r2x2 because matrix multiplication is a linear transformation. If we repeatedly multiply x1+x2 by A, A^n(x1+x2)=r1^nx1+ r2^nx2. Then, if r1>r2, all of the terms are growing exponentially but the contribution of x1 to the result grows exponentially faster than the contribution of x2 so for some large n, A^n(x1+x2) = r1^nx1 + some irrelevant error term.

This means the largest eigenvalues sort of dominate, and you might especially care about eigenvalues of 1, because those mean Ax=x so x is a steady state and if you can write down A as a matrix you can solve for non zero x and learn about the steady state solutions.
The technology metaphor I've always used is serialization, which I think still makes sense for the action, but I really like defrag and garbage collection as the metaphor for the actual value in the activity, so I'm going to keep that, thanks!
I don't have any recommendations. I used to have a number like this but it seems anything aimed at being cheap and for individuals ends up attracting a bunch of nefarious use for the volume of legitimate use which ends up making the service not worth running for the provider. As such, I gave up trying to find one to stick with.
A Democratic Congress could engage in some serious harassment, hauling people before committees to testify and be berated. Which would just be turning the tables.

Now, what would be interesting is that they surely would ignore the summons, which would invoke a Constitutional crisis.
Safari ad blocker extensions will never be as powerful as uBlock Origin in terms of the sheer number or types of content they can block, but they can be as performant or efficient, or even more so. To my knowledge, uBlock Origin uses its own custom networking engine through webRequest, WebShield uses Safari's content blocking API which is baked into WebKit. When loading a content blocker in Safari (& thus WebKit) rules are converted into DFA in WebKit [0]. Pretty sure this is the code in WebKit [1]. Yes, the content blocking API is more limited than full blown adblock filter list syntax, meaning its not as powerful, but it is more performant & efficient than uBlock Origin, within the subset of rules that it supports. To complement the content blocking API we use scriptlet/extended css/css/js injection in advanced blocking, similar to AdGuard. The AdGuard guys probably know way more about the specifics of how content blocking works in WebKit than I do though. But I do know that the content blocking API in WebKit & Safari is more performant/efficient than uBlock Origin, subject to limitations on powerfulness in terms of the types and number of content that can be blocked as mentioned before.

I still feel like I need to performance test WebShield more to back my claims, so take it with a grain of salt, but based on what I've seen, it is comparable with or better than uBlock Origin in terms of performance/efficiency, not pure power, but again, please take it with a grain of salt, because I can't believe it.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deterministic_finite_automaton
[1]: https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/tree/04edf7716a74170fb0967f...
The battery only CO monitors by Kidde, if I recall correctly, are cheaper than the price of the combined smoke/CO detector minus the price of a Kidde smoke detector. I recently bought a combined unit (ironically because I had a second wireless unit I didn’t recall purchasing that was complaining about low battery near one of the wired units and could not figure out why it was chirping an undocumented signal) and almost put it back on the shelf when I saw the price.

By all means put one in your house but I think it’s a racket to have all four detectors in your house also be carbon monoxide monitors when you can just put a battery unit at the far end of the house from the combined one.
Wouldn't be a bad time for the EU to announce that it's considering closing X number of US military bases in Europe, including the 6th Fleet HQ in Naples. That might get Trump back to the table.
FTA: The code can be reduced to simply:

public void someFunction(SomeType relatedObject,
List<SomeOtherType> unrelatedObjects) {
...
treeMap.put(relatedObject.a(), relatedObject.b());
...
// unrelatedObjects is used later on in the function so the
// parameter cannot be removed
}

That’s not true. The original code only does the treeMap.put if unrelatedObjects is nonempty. That may or may not be a bug.

You also would have to check that a and b return the same value every time, and that treeMap behaves like a map. If, for example, it logs updates, you’d have to check that changing that to log only once is acceptable.
Spotify had a big library of fully licensed music as early as 2008 in European markets. They were the next evolution of the record label-friendly post-Napster music startups.

They were already the teacher's pet. Grooveshark was the one that was always getting suspended, before ultimately being expelled.
Ask HN: Should I Make the Pivot to Cybersecurity or Grow as a Software Engineer?
DISCLAIMER: I live in Iraq, local software engineering jobs are rare around here, same goes with other IT specialties not just software engineers.

I'm 28, and I'm working as a fully-remote software engineer contractor for a US-based startup. This was my first ever software engineering job, and I started out as an intern, and now I'm a mid-level frontend engineer.

Work has been slow, and being a startup, I'm pretty sure funding will soon end, and I will have to find a different job. Getting a US-company to hire you is really difficult if you are from Iraq, I got my current employer through referals, and I am really grateful for that, but, I am not sure I can do it again.

However, given the prospective job availabilities in my country, and the high number of unemployed software developers, I'd say even finding a local job would be difficult.

So, I was wondering, would a pivot to Cybersecurity be worthwhile? Or should I instead focus on improving my frontend skills and marketing myself?
There's a certain irony that IP protection would be valued so highly when the entire AI field (which Apple participates in) is built on IP theft.
I'm not a "believer" in IIT. But I think its an incredible idea and taking the time to really understand what Tononi et al are proposing is a mind-expanding experience. It may not explain consciousness but it does make you think about what things could be a part of it. And any attempt to mathematically formalize cognitive science gets a vote of approval from me.

My personal belief is that consciousness requires dynamic continuity. I don't think an algorithmic system is conscious because it's "cognition" is discrete and the information isn't integrated across frames. I don't have a "why that works"—its just a gut belief.
I've got something very similar as a function in my ~/.zshrc, except instead of days separated by lines I start a new file for each topic.

Most of my notes are write-only for a day or so but I keep the old ones around just in case I need to grep through everything (and I've saved myself doing this a few times).

function notes {
THIS_MONTH="$(date '+%Y-%m')"

mkdir -p "$NOTES_FOLDER/$THIS_MONTH" # create folder if it doesn't exist.
cd "$NOTES_FOLDER/$THIS_MONTH"

if [ -z "$1" ]; then
return 0
fi

vim $1
cd -
}

Running `notes` will take you to today's directory to poke around, and `notes file.md` will open file.md in the appropriate dir.
I've written a fair amount of Gleam for personal projects at this point and I actually really like `use` when the alternative is excessive indentation / callback hell. That said, I do feel like its existence is a bit contradictory to the language's stated goal of simplicity; `use` is not an orthogonal feature, and I could see it being the subject of much bike-shedding in a team setting.

Languages that have explicit goals of simplicity, like Go, have become increasingly attractive to me after working professionally with Scala for the past 3 years. Though I love Scala's expressiveness, the fact that there are a million ways to accomplish each objective makes decision paralysis and bike-shedding in code review inevitable.
Not likely. But by withdrawing military aid they're basically giving Ukraine to the Russians.
Gene and geneome are expansive terms. The genome refers to the sum total of all genetic material in an organism. Epigenenetic markers such as methylations are part of the genetic material, and are therefore part of the genome.

You seem to be disappointed in the headline because you're expecting narrower definitions.
Ouch. Any idea which problem? Those problems are public: https://ioinformatics.org/page/contests/10
Yeah I’m thinking it’s at least a few years off. But it’ll get better eventually. Framework is already on the RISCV train, so I have no doubt when a good RISCV SoC is available it’ll be in a framework ASAP. I’m hoping by the time my current 16 is feeling slow the RISCV option will be the obviously best choice
Makes sense that the SuperPeers core from Kazaa was re-used in Skype.
Wasn't that the release that they put up the fake IIS page?

Now get off my lawn ))
Right, I just don't know where the dividing line would be. What % of a book is acceptable?
This sounds like an operational issue and/or a lack of expertise with terraform. I use terraform (self hosted, I guess you’d call it?) and manage not only kubernetes clusters but helm deployments with it just fine and without the issues you are describing. Honestly, this is just my honest feedback, I see things and complaints a lot like this in consulting, where they expect terraform to magically solve their terrible infrastructure and automation decisions. It can’t, but it absolutely provides you the tooling to avoid what I think you are describing.

It’s fair to complain that terraform requires weird areas of expertise that aren’t that intuitive and take a little bit of a learning curve, but it’s not really fair to complain that it should prevent bad practices and inexperience from causing the issues they typically do.
This is extremely goofy. No one is obligated to try experimental drugs to benefit other people. And I work in clinical trials!

It is heroic to volunteer oneself into a clinical trial.

In fact, if you feel so strongly about it: you can go do so literally right now. I'm happy to help facilitate.
The problem isn’t the prestige it’s that prestigious institutions in America don’t produce high-quality talent. They’re instead mostly corrupt credentialing mills for the rich and well-connected. From what I understand, DeepSeek also only hires from the best universities in China, but “best” actually means something relative to how difficult entrance to those organizations is to achieve and their coursework.
> Is the money pit so deep that they knock each other in while in-fighting for control on the edge of it?

Yes. rivalry is at it's finest (and fiercest) when you're fighting your peer divisions inside the same company.
Fixed price customers can be good customers.

A good customer makes it easier to stay in business.

For fixed price customers that means paying a premium over time and materials.

If a customer pays more under time and materials pricing, they were not a good customer because they were making it harder to stay in business.
Trump wants to be King.
> In a fireworks-filled public confrontation unlike any seen between an American president and foreign leader in modern times, Mr. Trump and Mr. Vance castigated Mr. Zelensky for not being grateful enough for U.S. support in its war with Russia and sought to strong-arm him into making a peace deal on whatever terms the Americans dictate.

Jebus, how do you screw up a photo op?

Buch of children in the US executive branch.

I suppose they think they look “strong” but it looks more insecure and incompetent to me.
Europe stocks secure 10-week winning streak, outperforming U.S. in February
If you take off your cynicism-tinted glasses, it's the story of how community is more than the sum of its parts, and how it sometimes needs a "beautiful lie" as a catalyst (like justice, or freedom!)
Isn't that Blink/Chromium though? Just worried they'll eventually be affected by the Manifestv2 deprecation too.
Does anyone have (educated) qualms about ungoogled chromium? I started using it on a whim awhile ago, and it works great on MacOS and Linux for me with uBlock installed.
This mentality through most of my career has left me trapped as technical support, and it's damn near impossible to climb out of the pit I've dug for myself. What you say about being seen as a car mechanic is true.
Work faster to achieve AGI, so we can lay you off faster.
> A "gene" is a particular part of a "genome" (DNA base-pair sequence)

See, this is a non-starter. Sure it's coherent, but you've simply failed on step one to identify how humans communicate. Regardless of if you're referring to "coding" or "encoding" (I'm not sure of the semantic difference between these two terms, frankly, nor an understanding why this distinction is worth presenting without remediation) a gene is still a heritable trait, not a specific span of a specific encoding of a specific molecule. A gene is, colloquially, a heritable trait that implies no specifics about how it's coded/encoded into whatever substrate you choose. You're referring to a far more specific term most people won't recognize as meaningful, and you can either explicitly describe what you're discussing or accept that people will misunderstand you.

I see you're trying to advocate for specific terminology to agree on, but it's far more effective to meet people where they already are rather than trying to push jargon onto others.

If I'm wrong, that people specifically refer to subsets of a DNA encoding by referring to "gene", please educate me.
ARPU isn't a great metric here since it's revenue averaged across all users. In my experience, the vast majority of free software users sit below ARPU and are hoisted up by whales -- who are also the main reason one-off pricing like this doesn't typically exist: Mozilla would be fine if most users just paid ARPU (in fact, they'd probably make a slight profit if they could get a higher-than-industry-average free->paid conversion rate...), but they'd quickly lose their cash cows when their whales suddenly only paid ARPU instead of the 10x, 100x, 1000x, etc they already "pay".
That's correct. It hasn't been limited to probationary employees only, but many are. Those who are not either aren't needed or will be rehired if operations cannot continue without them.
This is a good reminder why diplomacy is usually done behind closed doors. "Transparency" is being used as the refuge of a scoundrel.