skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
that's not always the case. I've seen situations where managers were forced to lay people off due to a company decision. When the company stabilized in a few months, managers reached out to these fired and they happily joined back. It's all a matter of treating people with empathy and honesty even in bad scenarios. That being said, this is most likely not one of these cases.
Luckily there is plenty room for improvement in most applications.
Poorly thought out USDA cuts are also going to hamper our ability to develop improved crops in the future, as discussed in this article:

https://www.science.org/content/article/u-s-gene-banks-key-n...
If all you need is a union type then the latter is plenty.

If you need the actual strings to iterate over or validate against, deriving the value from an const array is helpful:

const THINGS = ['one', 'two', 'three'] as const

type Thing = THINGS[number]
Anything is better than Amazon
One effect of wealth is the ability to dictate the direction of development over physical assets in the real world. I've come to realize that the personalities of those who are able to amass large amounts of wealth over their lifetime tend to coalesce around a certain mean that results in somewhat predictable development patterns everywhere I go. These patterns, which are concerned with maximum efficiency and return on investment, result in an overwhelming bland, commercial, "sameness" that is taking over the globe.

As it turns out, some of the most unique and interesting things I observe in the public sphere are owned by trust fund babies who took a different path to development (or just inefficiently left some ancient thing alone to decay). Either way, personally I appreciate this diversity in ownership of the world around me and this observation has changed the way I view the transfer of wealth through generations.
That which can be bought, can later be sold. The more crypto the U.S. govt holds, the bigger a weapon future administrations will have against the market caps of these currencies.

Like many projects of this administration so far, this seems quite short-sighted.
And what?
You know that for example endowment funds have restrictions on what they can be spent on.

This is really victim blaming.
I would not have an issue if the government has said that for future grant rounds there will be limits on overheads, but this lot just decided they cut already agreed and planned budgets and no matter the consequences.
...but still helps people on HN occasionally! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42918310
I'm arguing that maybe businesses don't actually hate it. Maybe execs love it and prioritize it.
(Lucy Guo is notably the co-founder of Scale AI, a Forbes 30 under 30 member, and a TPOT celebrity.)
What should they be used for the ?
I think it’s a harsh interpretation to say they’re bad because a determined hacker can break their game. Games aren’t security critical software, so they’re not going to get the level of investment needed to prevent this kind of thing that, in practice, hurts nobody.

That’s to say nothing of exploits that can only be used by TAS software. That’s like saying my car is a piece of shit because it’ll not survive being driven into a volcano.
endowments are the tail wagging the dog in many educational institutions
This is the dumbest decision I've seen the government make in a long time.
Definitely this one https://www.amazon.com/Grid-systems-graphic-design-communica... but also any other great book about design and architecture.

Design have two aspects, the doing (drawing, documenting, adjusting) and the thinking (what’s the actual problem and the concept to solve it, which will give me a frame of choices). There is a lot of content on solving the right problem - check the resources from IDEO, or for a broader view Don Norman for example https://www.amazon.com/Design-Everyday-Things-Revised-Expand...

Also don’t forget typography basics since most websites, apps and documents are mostly only text, there are lots of tutorials out there.
but it takes months for a team of 100 to o do anything, let alone make the decision to do so. Right now there is a sort of time arbitrage opportunity for single developers
Oh, so Congress makes law and the President sees that the law is faithfully executed?

We should definitely amend the Constitution to include that.
The important note here is that you can't rely on Drop running in order to satisfy the SAFETY comment of an unsafe block. In practice, in safe Rust, this knowledge shouldn't really change how you write your code.
Wait... so if you stuff a few grams of enriched Plutonium into a Z-pinch device you can make it go boom?

That is interesting. A near-complete fission burn would be clean. The problem is that you need conventional reactors to get Plutonium, and extracting it and handling it is difficult and expensive.

Will it work with enriched Uranium?
I’m renovating an old building that doesn’t currently have any HVAC.

I tried like hell to get a geothermal heat pump set up for it.

This entailed researching companies that make good geothermal equipment and talking to all of their preferred vendors to get quotes.

Literally every shop I talked to, and they were over a dozen that are supposed to be installing these companies equipment told me they don’t install them because air source heat pumps are so much cheaper.

Even with tax credits and rebates (which may not exist by tax time next year when they would pay out), when I finally found a company that would do geothermal, they want 120K USD for a basic system.

if I want to be able to run different rooms in different modes (entirely possible given that it’s a 5500 square-foot building) we’re talking 180K total to work in a heat recovery option.

Meanwhile the same company will do Mitsubishi H2i air source heat pump set up for the entire building for 57K after credits and rebates.

The air source heat pump solution is less efficient and uses more electricity, but the clincher for me was that the cost of each as a complete system, ground source or air source plus the cost of solar raised to drive their respective loads…. Came out as a wash over their lifetimes. Except the air source plus solar solution costs 40K less upfront than even the cheapest and least functional ground source solution.

I would genuinely love it if it were otherwise, but I have months into this and ground source just doesn’t seem economically viable at this point
Which other ones in Berlin would you recommend?
Cold blooded animals generally use less energy than warm blooded animals because they use environmental heat instead of producing their own. So in a way that's one possible method to making something more energy efficient
I don't get how they can predict AI becoming powerful enough to revamp the entire economy and automate labor, but not powerful enough to just wrest control from them and then do whatever it wants to do instead.

The chance of AI becoming exactly powerful enough for this plan is like the odds of a flipped coin landing on its edge.
> If you think it’s a bad idea, show the economic flaws or security holes

Ok, sure. The US is using taxpayer money to promote channels that are most commonly controlled by enemies of the American state and not allies: https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/24/politics/north-korean-hackers...

Treating digital currency equivalent to a hard asset will result in Americans being defrauded, exchanges losing control and the funding of adversarial powers including but not limited to nuclear-armed rogue states, Hamas, and the Chinese Communist Party. Whereas the SEC would ordinarily be able to investigate or stop this flow of money, with cryptocurrency they will have no such control.
Unlike plants, cold-blooded animals aren't solar powered.
Recall that we are posting in a thread about DOGE cutting one of the more effective and efficient departments in the federal government. Popular support and good reasons for it notwithstanding, it's clear that the actual mission is not being carried out in good faith.
Same at Stanford https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2025/02/staff-hiring
How much ambient power is typically available in different environments? I skimmed the article but didn't catch any clear information.

Also, if I collect ambient wifi power, for example, instead of reflecting wifi - to whatever extent I do that - I create a sort of black hole. How does that affect availability of the wifi signal for its intended use?
This is the sole reason I'm avoiding passkey setup. How big of a worry is it?
What I meant is that from a 1996 perspective, I don't see a good reason not to block cross-domain <script> loads. The risks must have already been obvious at the time (applications serving dynamically generated scripts that can execute out of origin and reveal otherwise inaccessible information). And the nascent web ad business had not yet adopted cross-domain script injection as the delivery method.
Serious question: what's the definition of "skilled software engineer"?
How America Uses Its Land (2018)
> BTW, I keep reading and hearing derogative terms like "script kiddies" and "20 year olds". What's happened to diversity and inclusion? So, they have to be of a certain age? What's the magical age? And, do they have to come from the same place that created the problems as well? This isn't sensible at all.

I don't support DOGE, but I have also wondered if all the roasting them for being young is fair. For now I landed on yes, it's a fair criticism -- these people are too young to be put in control of massive agencies that have been running for decades. If you believe they can make the right choice because it's so obvious, it seems like we may as well just fire everyone, and then we can save the time and expense of even having DOGE. It is not logical IMO to say that some discretion is needed but also unelected 20-year-olds have enough discretion.

Re "script kiddies": the term is a bit rude maybe. But given it means an unskilled programmer who is only barely able to use programs written by others, then yes, it is fair to criticize these DOGE people, whose primary qualification was supposedly being really smart programmers, if they don't appear to meet the mark. (I'm not taking a position on whether it's factual that they are unskilled, but simply whether a "script kiddie" belongs at a helm of the government.)

Regarding DEI, it does seem like DOGE might be more diverse than some people portray it, and not everyone is a 20-year-old. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/02/27/us/politics/d...

Regarding what's the right age, I think of Constitutional age limits and Congressional confirmations -- those are the ways we normally have to make sure people are old enough to work in the government. But the side that's been harping about "unelected bureaucrats" is now making the most powerful bureaucrats ever, not subject to election, legal qualifications, or Congressional oversight. Hmm.

> do they have to come from the same place that created the problems as well? This isn't sensible at all.

Well, no, but I have the impression the place they are coming from is "likes right-wing tech leaders like Elon Musk and has worked for them before." I'm not going to dig into investigating or presenting that now, but if it's true, then it's not sensible either. Even under a more charitable characterization of who they are, I don't think engineers, PMs, or MBAs are going to rapidly fix agencies that have been operating in a different sphere and scale. If they went at a more careful pace than DOGE has been doing, I might have more trust they would solve problems.
I’ve always hoped that once we reach Goodreads scale, we’d be able to release database dumps like VNDB (https://vndb.org/d14) and Lichess (https://database.lichess.org/)

Since the metadata is contributed by volunteers in the first place, it only seems fair for it to be freely available rather than locked down.
(I detached this from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43186721 so we could pin the latter to the top. Nothing at all wrong with saying thanks! I just want to save some real estate.)
The first 6-7 chapters should teach you more than most Git users know (myself included, suppose I might be due a re-read!).
I do think many corporations will fail for this reason. But some will successfully adapt, and others will start fresh and have no baggage.

I do think it will be easier for very small organizations to compete than it was previously - which is great - but let's not fool ourselves that big companies won't maintain some competitive advantages.
This is why RTO will end. It was ending before the pandemic. The cost to the organization is money. They subsidize the employees ability to sit in chair and drink water and use the bathroom. This is a very high cost at any organization. The reason given it’s necessary is CEO has vibes that it’s better. This works for a while but in the end it’s real money spent on questionable benefits.

Before the pandemic there was a big push to reduce occupancy costs and get roles that did not need to sit in an office to subsidize their own offices, just like BYOD - but the dollars involved were orders of magnitude better than BYOD. During the pandemic we proved the costs came at the cost of net productivity on average. The reaction we see now is one against a cultural change that is off putting to people who succeeded in a specific emergent reality - the office culture. A 60 year old CEO has trouble using zoom because they didn’t grow up using it. They don’t know how to be effective over a remote relationship because they have developed exceptionally effective in person skills - that’s why they are where they are. They simply can not accept or fathom a world that is different than that. So they invent hand waving bullshit not based on data.

But economics wins based on data sooner or later. It is better share holder value to eliminate occupancy costs aggressive and offload the occupancy per employee to the employee. The company effectively gets free facilities in this scenario. There is no way the marginal per employee value of in person vibes out paces the marginal cost to shelter their bodies during the work day. The vibes thing is managed through adaptation.

Finally there’s this meme the Dimon and Trump and others use of people not working when working remotely. First that’s not true, second if it’s is, that’s a performance issue. Since when did we stop measuring performance ? The in office or not in office simply isn’t a productivity variable but not working and working during the work day is.

RTO is a cultural thing and you’ll never convince the executives of today by any argument conceivable because you’re telling them the sky is green when they know it’s blue. It doesn’t matter that in this case it’s not objective like the color of the sky. It FEELS objectively true.

However the economics will change, and the leadership will age away, and one day; maybe when the kids who graduated college having gotten their degrees online run the shop - we will offload the cost of housing the employee during the day to the employee because it’s what makes the most economic sense and we will adapt around the challenges.
I wish ratings were a slider from Skip It - Good - Great - Life Changing or whatever. Sliders are great for stuff like this. Odd comment I know but sliders are instantly understandable, accessible and doable. So, great UI.
Tesla is over valued anyway. People need to dump that stock before it commits suicide in a bunker.
almost spilled my drink. thanks for nailing the joke i missed
What new OS has the potential to have a foothold?
Iceland has profitable geothermal, no? Maybe you meant that geothermal has not achieved profitability in non-especially favorable environments.

I think we should be subsidizing geothermal to make the technology cheaper and cheaper, like we had with solar and wind. Seems plausible that we could make the technology economically feasible in more geographic areas (similarly to solar) and mitigate duck curve inefficiencies other green energy technologies suffer from.

Also to hedge my statement: solar is not economically feasible everywhere, but it is now economically feasible in many more environments (with sufficient sun coverage) than before.
The question is perhaps better reframed in two parts:

1. Do male athletes dominate female athletes in competition? We know the answer to that is yes, in almost all sports. It's why we have a separate female category, and there is a wealth of evidence to support this - from biological studies by sports scientists to comparisons of world records.

2. Are there any interventions that male athletes can take upon their bodies to entirely eliminate the male physical advantage in sports? From the evidence we have so far, the answer is no. They can be weakened through testosterone suppression, but in general they still retain a significant advantage over female athletes.

There is also the question of whether an impaired male athlete should be considered equivalent to a female athlete for the purposes of eligibility in the female category. This is more of a philosophical question and leans heavily on whether one believes that "trans women" are women or not. Is it fair to impose this belief on others who do not share this belief - particularly female athletes who may fundamentally object to being compelled to compete against men?
Isn't that effectively wireless power, thus inefficient, and not purpose-designed wireless power, thus even even less efficient?

It's interesting regardless; I'm just trying to understand some of its potential (and maybe these things can be overcome or become irrelevant for certain uses).
Used? The university is what is used to grow the endowment.
Even if the president didn't control the Justice Department, couldn't he just pardon himself?
What does the non-faculty staff does? Is it maybe connected to technical staff? They Can’t all be management?
Terminators, like the one in the movie? Wow they don't even exist with human supervision so I think a long time?
Version control is one of our main tools for interacting with other developers. Having a rich understanding of your version control software often helps to find solutions and workarounds for problems which would otherwise result in needless conflict.
that's just misinformation.

> In particular, the endowment supports roughly two-thirds of the budget for undergraduate and graduate financial aid, as well as a significant portion of faculty salaries, research, and key programs like libraries and student services.

from https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2025/02/staff-hiring
Might have something to do with Naval Air Station Pensacola,.
> Iceland has profitable geothermal, no?

Iceland doesn’t have natural gas. (I also imagine the winds and high latitude make solar complicated.)
What's unsafe about implicitly "leaking" memory?
I have observed a growing tendency for some individuals on the left to cite Karl Popper’s “Paradox of Tolerance” in ways that misrepresent its original intent, effectively suggesting that any stance short of full-throated radical leftism should be deemed fascistic. This reinterpretation goes beyond Popper’s caution about tolerating genuinely intolerant ideologies, instead using his argument as a blanket justification for shutting down or even endorsing violence against those deemed insufficiently progressive.

Last week a moderator on University of Oregon's subreddit was banned for pinning a message endorsing violence against conservatives on campus.
Multiple possibilities exist but everything depends on context and the skill set.

One option is to start a consulting business with a group of engineers (essentially a market equivalent of a union but with more legal protections) and start charging very high market rates and nickel-and-dime the client hedge fund style with pass-through fees for everything. Use the knowledge of former jobs’ contracts and undercut on price.

If the skill set is very niche and highly specialized you could even attempt cornering the market by recruiting people away that are still employed and sell back their services through the consulting gig (offer profit share as a sweetener, etc.)
That has always been my understanding.

It’s useful for HVAC for a home for example, where you aren’t trying to do a conversion to electricity but instead are directly leveraging the consistent temperature to reduce strain on the system.
> I wish they’d spin off Firefox and related stuff..., and abandon the rest of their “mission”.

I wish the community (I don't have the technical skills myself) would fork Firefox back into a privacy-focused browser; strip out all the Mozilla "products" code that's snuck in it, and manage the development in a non-profit organization like how the Linux kernel gets developed.
How are the ivy leagues NOT financially independent? People claw/cheat/do whatever it takes to get in. Ivy's employ some of the best raw IQ people we have. Endowment funds over years should blossom.

Could they be so smart to 'redline', to maximally extract as much funds from the Gov as possible while also pumping up their investments? Or might they not have managed funds well enough and truly cannot afford things?

if scenario 1) refactor expenses, pass an audit, and make a plan to build up funds. return to 75% prior budget levels

if scenario 2) refactor expenses, pass an audit, and make a plan to build up funds. return to 25% prior budget levels

*in both cases we need to remove regulations on schools so they can fire all the admin (they claim to need to keep up legally inane wild things) and pay the professors/researchers more.

Colleges and Universities are already on a downward trend; the perfect storm of declining enrollment/population numbers and AI potentially wiping out what they offer. Colleges and University were meant to be a special protected Eunuch class studying 'the dark arts', but they've publicly become known havens of scheming Eunuchs trying to overthrow the emperor. Too close to the sun
Is this the same "strong democracy" that got Lula out of jail as a bargaining chip offered by Bolsonaro to stop the Federal Police investigation that was closing in on himself and his family?

Brazil is not a strong democracy, it's just two faces of the same political elites playing power games where they occasionally have to sacrifice one of their pieces.
I don't think I would have minded working with you and your workflow!

There's nothing bad about CL interactive development when used responsibly (and this extends to CL generally, nothing wrong with macros when used responsibly). It enables some behaviors that are still totally unavailable in other language environments. The REPL is remains unique to lisp and its descendants.

The problem is it allows irresponsible users the ability to create scenarios that are nightmarish for the technical experts tasked to support them. I've come to realize I care a lot more about it being hard to do bad things than enabling occasional convenience for advanced users.

And for me personally, I've never cared for or used the features of the REPL that are unique to it so I never miss them. My workflow, my editor, UI, keybindings, test reporting, all of it, for C++, Lisp, Python, JS, Fortran, etc, is mostly identical across the board and I find immense value in that consistency.
I wouldn’t put it past Musk to find a way to put Teslas in every government agency. (Also, don’t day trade!)
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Agreed. That's a separate issue. Presumably if the US populace changed one (with a constitutional amendment), it might change the other.
It's doubtful that there is one piece of software that does anything non trivial that has bugs, even short command line programs. The best we can hope for is that bugs don't seem to cause too many problems.
Janitorial, technical, nutritional … basically anyone not involved in educating students “non-faculty.”