skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been in the bluey house. It is approximately 8600ft (800m sq). The work-life balance that the family has doesn't seem particularly odd when it comes to Australian households.
Lololol then why are you recommending it like you know anything about it? I will never understand this kind of comment on hn - like you don't get why hyping something up that you don't actually understand is bad?
apparently it is. They earned $19M from program service revenue, and profited almost $25M.

So they could cut the entire Google deal, and still be in the black.

Not as profitable as before (obviously they've been investing their profit for a long time, to drive $37M in investment income) but not as dire as this blog post makes it sound
Cops looking at blurry 240p video frame. "Enhance!" and suddenly it's 4k.
My policy is to type only when the typescript compiler yells at me.
In a Tesla, driver monitoring is two-fold.

First, it senses the weight of your hand on the wheel. Whenever it steers, it senses the torque on the wheel from your hand. Even if your hand is moving with the wheel, you will end up applying a tiny amount of torque that it senses. However, when driving straight, I often find it warning me to apply a small amount of torque on the steering wheel so it knows my hand is there.

Second, there's a camera behind the rear-view mirror that detects your gaze. If it thinks you're looking at your phone or the touch screen for more than a few seconds, it tells you to watch the road.
The homelab and professional editions have lifetime licenses available - I didnt notice them in the pricing section but there’s a link to them in the FAQ
> Can you describe why there's a big push for self checkout?

Fewer employees to hire and manage. Seems like a straightforward benefit. I haven't seen a fully staffed grocery store in what feels like fifteen years but is probably more like five. This feels like a continuation of the same "disruption" that predated widespread self-checkout.

There are also people who claim to hate interacting with cashiers but I have a difficulty imagining this is the majority of people.
> hand scanners you can carry around with you to scan as you shop

The local Kroger tried to push those a while back, and then at some point they disappeared again.
Acetone-based heat pipe for embedded systems operating in freezing temperatures
If it worked with Okta ASA (formerly ScaleFT) that would be pretty cool. Be able to auth into Okta and have all the servers registered in ASA presented to you.
I mean, if this didn't exist you'd just immediately die a lot sooner. So I think it's a fair trade-off.
Its even worse than you think, there are complex and numerous requirement hoops you need to jump through for medical software and hardware. It is not easy.
From the comma.ai website:

https://data.consumerreports.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/...
Didn't know that Google is for dummies. Matches my interview experience there
The insecurity of telecom stacks in the wake of Salt Typhoon
I think the author chose these two shows as a comparison because they were created in roughly the same time period, so they're more directly comparable. Mister Rogers was created in a different era, with different media environment, funding and monetization strategy, and functionally in a different medium.
As always - relevant XKCD - https://xkcd.com/2340/
This is a gamechanger
1 on 1's are entirely for the report, not the manager. They are useless if the manager takes control. The manager can explain the concept and give examples, but they shouldn't be giving direction. It's totally up to the 'vibe' of the report, that's the whole point.

That said, if you are checked out of one on ones it's legitimate for your manager to wonder 'what else are you checked out on'.
It's more about the equilibrium and motivations that this system creates. When everything is decided on a 1% majority, there's no real need to cooperate on anything. If you don't have power now, you probably will in a few years and then you can do whatever you want. So you can just focus on getting reelected in the mean time and vote no on everything until then. This, btw, is exactly what happens - Congress spends most of their time in office simply working on their next election. Term limits would seriously help here.

What you mention about budgets is a good example of this. Neither side wants to cooperate on anything at all. So in the House you get things like one side votes 100% yes, the other side 100% no. And then it gets passed to the Senate. The reason budgets freeze up in the Senate is the filibuster where you need a 60% majority to pass. So suddenly there's actually some cooperation required which is when both sides tend to start working together, a little, to add this or remove that.

But with an 80% consensus required, you need to start the cooperation immediately in the House because you can't just roughshod your fantasy budget through on a 1% margin. And none of this is going to change in 4 years, or 40. If you want to get things done, you need to start viewing 'the other side' as just other people working towards what they see as a desirable direction for the country, instead of an opposing team to be conquered and strawmanned into the worst evil since Hitler.
English uses quotation marks "like this"
Can you help me understand why you feel that a show inducing ugly crying is desirable?
The issue is do I own the software or rely upon SaaS infra I can't control?

I'm not really interested in the latter.
closest thing to the arc reactor in the iron man movie...
Smaller functions with fewer variables are generally easier to read

I hate how a lot of focus on "readability" is on micro-readability, which then tends to encourage highly fragmented code under the highly misguided assumption that micro-readability is more important than macro-readability. The dogma-culting around this then breeds plenty of programmers who can't see the forest for the trees and end up creating grossly inefficient code and/or have difficulty with debugging.

APL-family languages are at the other extreme, although I suspect the actual optimum is somewhere in the middle and highly dependent on the individual.
If it is, there's no reason to share it. If there are some org wide prefs needed to be "enforced", then there is a reason.
Some people like videos, some like text. Both are an investment in effort and payoff. Gen AI makes it easy to do both now.
Yeah things like Okta are planned to be supported in the long term. Just need to prioritize the different integrations as there are so much tools I can still add support for. And every single integration presents its unique challenges, so these all take some time.
https://data.consumerreports.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/...

They’ve done updates each year since but haven’t included comma for some reason.
Makes you think China is gonna release an open weight LLM designed to ace benchmarks but secretly harbor "bad thoughts".
move to the state with the best tax situation, and no longer fear the dreaded minimum 25% tax. without that 25%, we don't really even need ssi
I guess this helps explain why Microsoft has their own fork on the Go language.
But he lied about it and had a hand in allowing that funding!
same reason i hate gradle/maven/ant: shipping a big runtime that many devs won't have installed for a build tool is bad. even with AOT, you still need a dotnet runtime.
There is no need for explicit, spelled out lessons. Also conflicts can arise externally, and flawless people can solve them. That still can be an example, can't it.

Also Bluey indeed bullies their father. He acts like he hates it every time, but based on how Chilli escapes most of the time, they must really hate it. I don't remember Bluey called out for that, only rewarded.
Comma uses its driver-facing camera to detect is the driver is paying attention vs. looking at their phone or falling asleep. It chirps at you if you’re distracted and will eventually disengage if you’re not paying attention.
Thank God for Dynamite
Review of What Every Radical Should Know about State Repression: A Guide for Activists by Victor Serge.

https://archive.ph/umVkf
If you are going as far as a remodeling, just get a powerwall added to the entire house's electricity supply and you avoid confusion/hassle at the outlet level.
Claude code has been working better than Cursor+3.7-thinking despite using the same model (except the orchestrator)
> But not the most important.

Why do you think so? Moscow was a good magnet for educated and active people, and Leningrad too, but Kiev was next, and there were other big cities in Ukraine with institutes and factories which were modern at the time as well. In USSR there were a distribution of expertise, and in some areas Ukrainian organizations were best in USSR. Ukraine was also quite big in terms of territory and population. So why they wouldn't have their proportional share in at least the mentioned areas?

> They were sold to China for parts.

Mostly, but not quite. A lot of people went to the West - we still see them appearing in aerospace companies. A lot of expertise in theoretical sciences also went global, as it's easier. Mriya was supported until 2022 - and rocket industry kept making Zenith and then Antares well into 2010-th. So clearly working industry remained - even though it have suffered quite a few years of problems.
Does it actually highlight the cites when opening cite docs? Or were the highlights in the screen shot just there by chance?
Needs more cocaine and angry jacket throwing, lol ;-)
I like things like this not because I'm going to use it as a bible, but because it provides good coverage of responsibilities & concerns.

Unless you've got some great advisers or you worked under someone really great, no one's going to take you aside and give you a list of stuff you need to take care of once you're in this position.

For each section I'm asking - what's our answer to this? Do I agree with this? Is our process better? What have I missed? It's helpful.
So, it's a UPS. Just with better settings, and no beeping.

Sounds like I just want a LiFePo4 UPS customized...
Exactly this is what's going on. Moat-building.
Why Do I Keep Finding Padlocked Playgrounds in New York City?
Almost 2000 stores in 24 countries is not by any objective measure "tiny".
Er presumably that would mean people are faster than horses and cheetahs.
You will own a lifetime license for the software if you choose the lifetime plan.

Everyone has seen it in practice that some companies try to pull a bait and switch by then changing the terms of licenses or simply shutting down the servers when going out of business. Since this is a desktop tool not hosted on any server infrastructure, at least the latter part isn't that much of a risk. You still have to have some trust in me to honor the license terms, but I try my best to build that trust.

There is also an offline license functionality, meaning that if you obtain a lifetime license and request an offline license file, that one will not perform any verification with any online services, so it will work forever without any dependency on some SaaS infra. Anyone interested in that can simply request an offline license, you can find the details on the pricing page. The offline licenses are also often used for usage in air-gapped environments.
Hmm, do body processes depend on the fact that blood flows in pulses, and an optimal heart must be pulsed?
I’m on the Peninsula.
Don’t remember an outage longer than few hours in my lifetime.
Not wasted time, you were doing research it seems.
I'm not sure how to parse/take your comment. Are you saying people are too uninformed to make decisions on public policy?

Look, if that's the case, and that's how we want government to be run, then let's just come out with it. Let's not pretend that people have a choice. But until that day comes, democracy means will of the people and in this modern technological age that translates to people being enabled to choose what they want.

We've lost the "excuse" to use coordination, tallying and "time to count votes" as a means to push representative-type democracy, and the sooner we get there the better the world will be. Because right now we have this schism, and it's tearing societies apart.
This still sounds a 1:1 is for the manager to make judgement calls about you based on the fact that you're not into hanging out with him on a schedule that he sets, and not for the report.
Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of Baritsu
TINLA, but perhaps you need to ensure your product complies with potential trademark issues related to sift[.]com.
I promise not to knock it, but what was that stack? Thanks for sharing!
I disagree - if you move fast and break things then people die. The human body is not a single well-understood system; everyone is different in subtle ways, which incidentally is why personalised medicine is becoming a thing.
That’s a joke lol
I think this is some sort of fallacy that (us) intellectuals easily fall into. Education and understanding of a topic for the most part does not sway peoples' opinion. And democracy shouldn't be about that, because then it becomes a game of "who can convince the most people" and "who can indoctrinate the most", rather than simply being the will of the people that they naturally form as part of existing as individuals and interacting with the world around them.
It’s still not too late to ditch Google. Otherwise... well, let’s hope the phoenix rises from the ashes again.
China has multiple 100% indigenous fifth-gen fighters man. They have domestically designed and built nuclear reactors. They have a 100% indigenous space station.
> At many places there's also some nasty politics around siloing where a database is an IT System so it has to be owned by the centralized IT organization, operated by a DBA team, have a budget, be audited by security, etc. and half of those groups look down on Access and want to architect for job security by picking some Oracle/SAP product where even if you have an unlimited budget you are looking at years of guaranteed delay before you can use it with a significant risk of failure.

A space seemingly ripe for Line Of Business Applications As A Service: LOBAAAS :-)

TBH, the whole SaaS took off because of the ability for individual departments to just get their resources using nothing but a company credit card.
Move to a democracy-amenable country that isn’t engaging in a trade with with China.
>He's also required by law to do it, but he specifically said he would.

Do you know him as a man of his word? I don't.

I think he'll do whatever makes sense for his goals in the circumstances. And those goals are often aligned with long term good for humanity, but with a strong dose of irreverence toward the hypocritical supposed ethics rules of his detractors.

>there is even a process for exempting people from various conflict requirements

Sure, have you requested a copy of the waiver? Most likely a SGE waiver under (208(b)(3)). No? Didn't think so. I doubt most journalists have either, since they hate him.

>it requires public publication of the reasoning

Public publication is not required. They are required to disclose upon request. You may be thinking of Individual Waivers, (208(b)(1)) where publication is required, unlike special government employees serving on advisory committees.
> That is not my intention. Perhaps you are reading absolutes and chasing after black and white statements.

The first comment I wrote in this thread was a response to the following quote: "Yet projects inevitably get to the stage where a more native representation wins out." Inevitable means impossible to evade. That's about as close to a black and white statement as possible. You're also completely ignoring the substance of my argument and focusing on the wording. My point is that language rewrites (like the TS rewrite that sparked this discussion) are a faulty indicator of scripting language quality.

> I almost think you aren't reading my post at this point and are just arguing with a strawman you invented in your head. But I am assuming good faith on your part here, so once again I'll just repeat myself again and again: LLMs have already changed the barrier to entry for low-level languages and they will continue to do so.

And I've already said that I disagree with this assertion. I'll just quote myself in case you haven't read through all my comments: "I'm not an AI pessimist, but I'm also not an AI maximalist who is convinced that AI will completely eliminate the need for human code authoring and review, and as long as humans are required to write and review code, then those benefits [of scripting languages] still apply." I was under the impression that I didn't have to keep restating my position.

I don't believe that AI has eroded the barriers of entry to the point where the average Ruby or PHP developer will enjoy passing around memory allocators in Zig while writing API endpoints. Neither of us can be 100% certain about what the future holds for AI, but as someone else pointed out, making technical decisions in the present based on AI speculation is a gamble.
I think Google funding was there from early on. (Though I suppose it’s also because there was less corporate bullshit going on in Mozilla’s early days.)
I can't really get what you meant by "dystopian future" in this context. In my understanding that is a human caused concept.
haha I'm vulnerable here. Settled on Nextjs, React, Supabase and Tailwindcss for most things and I can build things quite quick with it now. If I need a local application (e.g. for Mac, Windows or Linux), I reuse the same code with Tauri.
There isn't a TypeScript runtime, it is just a JavaScript/ECMAScript compiler/transpiler with a type checking and language server
McDonald's seems to recently have really bad soda at increasingly close to all restaurants in my general area, and if you try to Google information on this (prepare your tin foil hat) you can only find people claiming Joe Rogan told them McDonald's has a secret exclusive best coke formula.
They can keep it going for several years, but Firefox marketshare is already sinking into irrelevancy territory, and they have NEVER had a real plan to do anything about that. Mozilla philosophy has been just to ride it down. Just trail chrome most of the time.

Just out of habit, I still test my stuff in Firefox (nobody above me cares). But market share is already getting into "only weirdos use this" territory. And "weirdos" also like a bunch of weirdo extensions. (And I frequently see HNers complaining about this.) So eventually, its like we just don't support weirdos.
> The British Retail Consortium has said shoplifting is "out of control" after its annual crime survey found incidents of customer theft reported by retailers in the UK rose by 3.7 million to 20.4 million, and cost retailers £2bn.

Surely a moment's reflection on the state of the UK at the moment would offer some ideas about why this is.
In normal diffusion you train a model to take lots of tiny steps, all the same small size. e.g. "You're gonna take 20 steps, at times [1.0, 0.95, 0.90, 0.85...]" and each time the model takes that small fixed-size step to make the image look better.

Here they train a model to say "I'm gonna ask you to take a step from time B to A - might be a small step, might be a big step - but whatever size it is, make the image that much better." You you might ask the model to improve the image from t=1.0 to t=0.25 and be almost done. It gets a side variable telling it how much improvement to make in each step.

I'm not sure this right, but that's what I got out of it by skimming the blog & paper.
But look at people like Pieter Levels https://levels.io/how-i-build-my-minimum-viable-products/

He uses PHP because he knew it and could build things quick with it (in a single file in his case).
> You can be a technical CTO from start to finish

My last CTO role (team of 40) had me absolutely over capacity from day one, and I am _good_ at time management. I would rather have been programming 50% of the time, but there just was no time, and no support structure in place I could hand stuff off to; I had to painstakingly build that, which was yet another reason I had no time.

I like the idea of continuing to code, but usually that’s not what you’re being paid for, and while I consider myself a very strong developer, they can be purchased for less than the CTO’s salary, rather than the more expensive CTO doing the work. FWIW I went back to IC after a few years and plan to stay that way for the rest of my career.
Love this story. Thanks for sharing. I learned about YC/HN via my tools course at Purdue, and it continues to be a great resource.
Doesn't that file list them at the top?

> Comma Two
> Open Pilot
The software development landscape has rapidly evolved beyond traditional IDEs and frameworks into a complex ecosystem of AI-powered tools. The current landscape includes startups positioning themselves across key dimensions like deployment models (open/closed source), touchpoints (IDEs and platforms to medium-agnostic extensions), interaction paradigms (point solutions to fully agentic), and target markets (individual developers to enterprise teams).

We looked at the emerging codegen and the broader AI software development market. This map contains some emerging startups solving several engineering painpoints.
For me, the hacker super power — the one worth carrying forward as you progress in leadership — is being able to prototype something that works and proves a concept.

Realistically, a proof of concept is also only 20% of the work an engineer needs to do in order for a change to become production worthy and I respect that my sketched ideas need a lot more care and craftsmanship than I have time to give them. Where I can help other ICs is having that initial 20% idea around which they can then build a working idea, and do so autonomously.

It feels very cringey to write — oh brave new world that has such people as me in it! — but I can easily reassure myself by remembering all the times earlier in my career where I was very grateful to be initially pointed, with quite a lot of prompting, in a particular direction and then being given the chance to deliver on it.

I’m just a lead, but I can imagine part of being a CTO takes the same form as what I’ve described.
In Germany we have Kleinanzeigen. It dominates this market.
Last author here (I also did the DDIM paper, https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.02502). I know this is going to be very tricky math-wise (and in the paper we just wrote the most general thing to make reviewers happy), so I tried to explain the idea more easily under the blog post (https://lumalabs.ai/news/inductive-moment-matching).

If you look at how a single step of the DDIM sampler interacts with the target timestep, it is actually just a linear function. This is obviously quite inflexible if we want to use it to represent a flexible function where we can choose any target timestep. So just add this as an argument to the neural network and then train it with a moment matching objective.

In general, I feel that analyzing a method's inference-time properties before training it can be helpful to not only diffusion models, but also LLMs including various recent diffusion LLMs, which prompted me to write a position paper in the hopes that others develop cool new ideas (https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.07154).
As with a lot of other topics I'd love to say "just as long as it's consistent", but the world we live in right now I just feel like a lot of this attitude is adding selfish noise.

There's a far more cynical part of my mind that says that's the whole point. How else do you extract value sometimes?