skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's most likely an artifact of automated translation.
Filtered out by Occidental culture and language specific word puzzles concealing discrete math and linear algebra
One thing that I realized recently is that humans are not "designed" to be happy. We will always not be content with the current state of being. We will always be looking for the next improvement or change.

In a sense, what humans actually care about is the derivative of their state. The absolute state doesn't matter that much.

I mean, why would it? Why would evolution design a creature that is content? Happiness and contentment only works (for survival purposes) if it is fleeting.

At some point, I was happy just _thinking_ of buying good, beefy PCs so everything becomes snappy. However, now that I can literally buy them, I don't have that desire anymore.

In fact, I have no idea what to do with my money? I was happy just living with my parents and I could probably afford to do that until the end of their days. But now that I do have the money, that "dream" is no longer there.

I guess what I am trying to get at is to no be trapped by the illusion of "the next good thing". Its designed to be a treadmill. Learn how to be happy with what you have.
hello fellow print debugging enjoyer, rejoice!
Because people will often see people who they don't perceive as low performers getting lumped in with 'low performers' and laid off. At that point, you start looking for management that seem to know what they're doing.
FWIW, all European countries combined spend 5x more on military expenditure, than Russia. And that's using old numbers, before Trump became POTUS.
>> in spite of the humiliating military defeats

What "humiliating military defeats"? They are winning on the battlefield.

The author seems to be oblivious to the reality and drinks a bit too much western mainstream media kool-aid.

There are many channels on Youtube that report a much more realistic picture with full tracking of the moving battle lines without much bias for any side.

Eg: https://www.youtube.com/@historylegends/videos
Hey, I'm really sorry that you feel this way. I happen to know a lot of people who were/are in similar situations as the one you described, many of whom I have worked with for at least a few years, some are very young and some are a bit older.

They all knew that they had to leave because they were feeling miserable but they didn't because they were scared of not being able to find a job elsewhere. What didn't help was that management threw just enough money at those who're perceived to be performing well and made it even harder for them to leave.

Eventually layoffs happened. Almost all of them ended up finding better work conditions and substantially higher salaries elsewhere except for the most senior ones who have been around for a long time. The problem with the very senior (staff +) engineers is mostly only a salary problem because (relatively) they have been too loyal and don't have the track record to convince people that they are worth as much as they claim they do. The problem is that the longer you stay, the more this is a problem -- so if you see somewhere that you can take a small pay cut to get the opportunity to grow and be happier and have more room to grow, you probably should start trying now.

I can't comment much about your situations but at least in my country engineers are relatively well-paid -- yet people still hesitate to leave because of family, or mortgage or... whatever reasons they can come up with. Those are usually just excuses in my opinion -- nobody is asking you to ditch everything today without a plan. There is certainly a chance that you can get a job elsewhere and end up not passing probation, but that's up for you to gauge.

At the end of the day there is really nothing stopping you from trying except for yourself and irrational thoughts. Staying at the same job for too long is a risk in itself, it doesn't stop them from giving you a month of notice now and you'll be gone next month -- it doesn't matter if you're hardworking or if you think you know some parts of the system better than anyone. No matter how hard you try, emotions do leak slowly over time even if you're very careful to not show them, so be careful about that too.

It may sound harsh but if it has been going on for a long time and you are not willing to take (calculated) risks and make small, temporary sacrifice for a potentially better future, you are basically just victimizing yourself.

Start by applying for jobs and interview. If you think this management will likely get rid of you because of AI then that's more reason to go somewhere else that may value you more. Nobody knows how well AI will get compared to any of us, but if you're worried now then do something about it: expand your skill set horizontally, actually look for other opportunities regularly, _connect_ with people so that you're not just a number on a payroll, etc.

I wish you all the best and find meaning and hope in what you do soon!
> if American business and workers are harvesting minerals then if Russia attacked the USA would have even more incentive to intervene militarily

Or Russia just invades while being careful not to damage their buddy's mines. Maybe the US even helps the Russians out once the Ukranian "dictator" is forced to begin fighting in too close proximity to the minerals.
The difference between that case and the Google one now is that Microsoft was forced to sell nothing. It was a pyrrhic victory for the DOJ that comforted Microsoft.
You can only vouch [dead] things. The typical progression for these flagged posts is: in good standing -> flagged to [flagged][dead] -> vouched back into good standing -> flagged to [flagged]. The final state requires moderator intervention to unflag.
Politics is explicitly marked as off-topic for HN in the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I love Go and I love Laravel, but I do find the naming an odd choice; it seems like borrowed clout. Especially so when Laravel's own name is a soft reference to the work of C.S. Lewis. Why not pick a unique, "Go-esque" name and still nod to Laravel in the title/description?
Hi, I'm Adib. I hope you like my extension!
Hundreds of candidates? That's significant if not an exaggeration. What are the stark differences you have seen? Did you inquire about the candidate's use of language models?
I think if you look at companies like Citadel, which routinely fire the bottom 10% as part of the job description, it attracts a certain set of people who actually do feel "safe" in that environment. The trouble comes when you break your norms about layoffs.

Also, Google's median tenure of <1 year was due to hiring, not employees leaving. In other words, that number included people who hadn't left yet. I think if you look at people leaving Google, average is about 3 years.
Very helpful to see a full working coding example. Thank you.
I’ve never understood this infinite loop thinking. Why is it meaning to create new people who in turn will have to create new people to derive meaning for themselves?
He knows exactly what he’s doing.
Their original product was an AI product, that later transformed into the search engine. Then, Orion was developed

https://help.kagi.com/kagi/company/history.html
Ok. What do you put between the plastic and the sheets? A standard mattress cover? Won’t the mites just go there as that’s where the dead skin, etc will be?

The plastic would also trap heat between me and it.
Token Ring over PCMCIA cards [video]
Yes, that's what I meant, lol.
The point is that Russia won't have to attack any more, because Ukraine will already be nothing more than a puppet state after having been forced to sign the kind of peace deal that Putin wants.
if donkey are superior,
then explain
why only after 3 years Putin used them, was Putin keeping them in reserve for the Berlin attack?
The mental trick I have always used, and the rationale I have employed to make myself feel better, is that a good job matters more than a bad job. This is not always true. But it is often true. And in my life it has been true often enough that people have noticed, commented on it, and I have been explicitly promoted because of it.

I hear the comment about coming home too tired to enjoy one’s own time. That happens to me even now, in a fulfilling job. I often feel too tired to even play a video game (it doesn’t help that many games feel like work). The only solution I’ve found to that particular problem is to find a different job. Fortunately, in my current job, it does not happen often enough that I am willing to give it up just yet. And I still see a path (and progress) toward my goals in my current job.
Same reason IDEs — when you really know them — allow for quicker development compared to using primitive text editors with a bunch of third-party plugins duck-taped together. When you understand the framework, everything is written to the same standard, behaves in similar ways, and is where you expect it to be. Adding things like background job processing requires changing one line of config.

Also, one major thing I'm missing personally is automatically generated OpenAPI specifications + API documentation & API clients autogenerated from it. Last time I checked Go, you had to write the spec manually, which is just ridiculous — the code already has all the necessary info, and duplicating that effort is time-consuming and error-prone (the spec says one thing, the code does another). This may be out of date, but if it still isn't, it is enough to disqualify the stack completely for me.

Also, I don't think there anything similar in the Go world to these administration panels:

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/5.1/ref/contrib/admin/

https://activeadmin.info

https://nova.laravel.com

which are just fantastic for intranet projects and/or quick prototyping.
I think it’s 500 karma and it will only when the article is dead.
No. War is bad for economies. It’s good for firms that produce materiel but on the whole is a net negative. Classic broken window fallacy. Killing your workforce is a drain on economic growth.
The shadow druids are gaining a foothold in Silicon Valley circles, it seems.
Then ban animal testing no stopping the whole research funding but that’s not the reason why the funding stopped.
I don't think there's anything illegal about being terrible at your job (information security), but I do think it's a tragedy that LastPass has somehow avoided the public shaming they so desperately deserve for their repeated ineptitude.
Apple pulls iPhone 16 ad over Apple Intelligence mishap
While I doubt that it solves all the issue, subcontractors, imported parts and so on, but the Italian F-35s are build be Leonardo in Cameri in Italy. How long would it take BAE, SAAB or Leonardo to un-brick an F-35?

Again, not ideal, but the first F-35 have been delivered an need to be serviced and maintained until they can be replaced,... or maybe just until the next US election.
Nightscout OSS Cloud CGM
Not what the OP asked for but related.

The link below is for a near perfect simulation of the classic HP-15C RPN calculator. Works on both desktop and mobile.

In a former lifetime, I was an engineer. I bought one of these in the early 1980s and used it for almost 40 years before the screen died. Very popular among my colleagues at the time.

https://jrpn.jovial.com/
I doubt this is the case. They were working on a prototype back in October 2023 [1], but then the contractor bailed out [2], but now they got (probably different) people working on it now

[1]: https://orionfeedback.org/d/6363-orion-for-linux

[2]: https://orionfeedback.org/d/6363-orion-for-linux/30
Is no one in Europe not skeptical of the increase in defense spending? Things have costs, that money is having to come from somewhere.

Is increasing traditional military spending the way to go in the 21st century? If the decision is left to military leaders,they might spend massive amounts of money preparing to fight yesterday's war.

If you set aside alarmist positions, it may very well possible that Russia has no interests in military conflict with rest of Europe beyond Ukraine.

In that case what is the best thing Europeans could do?

There is danger and risk in military over spending at this juncture, and Europe needs to be level headed about it.
>Campbell was a racist

Back in the 50s? Most people of all kinds were, either implicitly or explicitly, even those who could have known and embraced better with a bit of context improvement.

Judging the people of the past by all the biases and ingrained assumptions of their time is myopic at best and a dumb path to disregarding a lot of wonderful knowledge too.

No human is free of at least some absurd ideas, it doesn't necessarily make the rest of what they create or say worth denigrating.

I'd hate to imagine all of us in the early 21st century only being mocked because of certain absurd things we surely take for granted as truths today.
Except that no-one put nukes or conventional missiles in Eastern Europe, so the entire point is moot.
Sure. "Stable": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagner_Group_rebellion
Anecdotally I feel way more productive while I'm sipping coffee than I am once I've finished my cup. This is true even after my first sips.

I think we humans just really really like ritualistic practices.
I asked above as well, but since you have direct experience, what do you have between the plastic and you? Aside from the fitted sheet? Wouldn’t a regular mattress cover just attract mites as well?
UK and Israel have a deal where they can replace the software or some such.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKNPCk-fd8I
How Vail Destroyed Skiing [video]
If anyone is not aware of Retraction Watch, their implementations of "tortured phrases" was a revelation. And it has exposed some serious flaws. Like "vegetative electron microscopy". Some of the offending publications/authors have hundreds of papers.

https://retractionwatch.com/2025/02/10/vegetative-electron-m...

https://retractionwatch.com/2024/11/11/all-the-red-flags-sci...
No, they made Kagi first. See their history page: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/company/history.html
I have similar experiences to gwern with mag, surprisingly easy to overdose leading to a less than optimal state. After 25 years of messing with supplements I've settled on just thiamine and b12 with any regularity, and only inject-able at that.
It worked once but I would no give it much chance now.
Firefox is GTK-based. With all its UI garbage like disappearing menus, CANCEL-OK dialogs (normal for Mac users), disrespect for system themes/styles/fonts, etc.

I also started using Falkon, but it still lacks too much for me, unfortuantely. And I wish it could import all history too. (
Likewise, to me the characterization of this as a "backdoor", coupled with "China", is a 'smell', not only in this case but in many articles I've seen in the recent past. I don't think it's hard to get this right. Media outlets can and should do better.
It is not going to happen. There is no european manufacturer or a consortium that can build a similar airplane with comparable capabilities. They can't even match the F-22 which is more than two decades old.

The only way Europe can match Russia/China is to keep buying american made weapons. Maybe in 20-30 years the situation will be different and Europe will have the same capabilities of the US, but until then... buy, baby, buy!
The guidelines don’t completely rule out politics, and in this case the topic is of interest here since it dovetails with other political issues of long-running concern in the HN community: who owns devices with outside service dependencies, right to repair, etc. The question of whether someone who physically controls an ECM pod can configure it feels a lot like the question about whether John Deere can prevent a farmer from configuring their tractor’s software or an IoT vendor can shut down a service without providing an alternative.

One area where this is especially of interest is everyone considering their dependency on U.S. products. If you live in a country under military threat, questions like what happens if the first strike against Canada involved a malicious Chrome or Windows update or holding back a patch for a vulnerability the NSA wants to exploit is quite an interesting problem.
I’m going to keep at it, because I was trained as an SRE, not a developer and have lots of ideas for side projects that have thus far taken a long time to get going, but I’ve been struggling, it sort of quickly gets into these infinite loop situations where it can’t seem it can’t seem to fix a feature and goes back and forth between multiple non working states. CSS layouts but even basic stuff like having the right web socket routes.

We’ll see, maybe my whole approach is wrong, I’m going to try with a simpler project, my first approach was relatively complex.
Give a couple free queries instead?
The guidelines seem just vague enough to allow for suppression of topics that the oligarchs are touchy about while appearing reasonable. Tech is inherently political.
If you participate in the economy or are dependent on anything related to taxes, it quite literally does pay your bills.
Isn't that worse, in some sense? I'd imagine the fork would gradually lose compatibility with plugins you use for coding over months. Or are those vendors busy keeping their fork up to date with the OG codebase?

If it's the latter, that's still an extremely strange state of things.
The fact that this is in the lead up to a show outside the US makes this even better
Real life isn’t a movie, one aircraft worth of people isn’t going to do that much.
This hits home. I wish there was a way to gauge “retrospect” before actually suffering from it. I’m now usually quite weary of “we’ve had to get yet another loan of 60 mil, after 6 years in business because we don’t know how to make a profitable business” also known as a series C or whatever.
I am tired of being taxed and having the money go to forever wars in other countries. Slaughtering Palestinians in Gaza, destabilizing Russia, and on and on. At least Trump is winding it down in one place. If Europeans think a hardline against Russia is important, then they can pay for it. We're on the other side of the ocean.

This is why the Democrats lost. All they care about is war in the Ukraine. Bernie Sanders supports the war too, but at least he says a few scraps from the table should go to US workers. But he is thrown aside. The Democrats were for the Ukraine war, Jill Stein and Trump were not, and Americans voted for this.

Americans voted for this, Trump is implementing it, and all the warmongers and war profiteers and neocons have left is some neocon press and downvotes here for the majority American opinion which screwy old Trump is implementing.
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Technologies: JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Node.js, Ruby, PostgreSQL, SQL, MongoDB, Kafka, Debezium, Change Data Capture (CDC), Golang, Redis, Docker, Jest, Express, WebSockets

Résumé/CV: https://cameronbibb.com/assets/files/Cameron_Bibb_Resume.pdf

Email: cameronbibb@gmail.com

Hey, I'm Cameron! I love building dynamic, high-performance applications—ranging from responsive UIs with React to real-time backend systems that scale.

Most recently, I created Willow, an open-source framework for building Change Data Capture (CDC) pipelines. It leverages Kafka, Debezium, and PostgreSQL to process database changes in real time. You can check it out here: https://willow-cdc.github.io/.

What I bring to the table:

- React & Frontend Expertise: Built component-driven UIs with React, TypeScript, and Material UI

- Backend & Data Processing: Designed scalable APIs, database workflows, and event-driven systems

- Distributed Systems & Real-Time Data: Worked with Kafka, WebSockets, Redis, and CDC pipelines

- DevOps Awareness: Experience with Docker, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and performance tuning

I'm looking for remote opportunities where I can work on scalable web apps, high-performance APIs, and data-driven workflows.

If that sounds like a fit, let’s chat!
Orange Pi RV2 is a single-board PC with an 8-core RISC-V processor
Somewhat surprisingly they are OK with Ukraine joining the EU [1].

> Ukraine has a sovereign right to join the European Union, but this “sovereignty” does not apply to military alliances, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said.

https://www.politico.eu/article/dmitrt-peskov-kremlin-ukrain...
Man, mind, to remain, to remind: they all originate from the same intertwined proto-indo-european roots "men" (thinking) and "mon/man" (human).

Edit: just found this etymological trail for insan:

>From Proto-Semitic *ʔināš- (“man, person”). Has the form of a verbal noun , as if from أَنِسَ (ʔanisa, “to sense (visually or auditorily)”).
Trump/Musk/Republicans have taken the side of a fascist dictator Putin. Every recent move wrt Ukraine has benefitted Russia. Even if it means betraying democratic allies and decades long alliances.

It is so shameful and disgusting.
There's a big tendency to look for culprits whether layoffs, PE, MBAs, or whatever. But a lot of companies just made wrong bets or were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Kodak was never going to survive in anything like its pre-digital form.
I’m saying it’s easy to say until the consequences arrive. And with something this big, the consequences will be big.

But then I’ve lived through 3-4 major downturns so far - and seen the ‘oh shit’s land.
Did America's least-hated printer take a turn for the worse?
LLM are replacing Google for me when coding. When I want to get something implemented, let's say make a REST request in Java using a specific client library, I previously used Google to find example of using that library.

Google has gotten worse (or the internet has more garbage) so finding code an example is more difficult than it used to be. Now I ask an LLM for an example. Sometimes I have to ask for a refinement and and usually something is broken in the example but it takes less time to get the LLM produced example to work than it does to find a functional example using Google.

But the LLM has only replaced my previous Google usage, I didn't expect Google to develop my applications and I don't with LLMs.
The big tech companies paying the largest salaries are raking in billions in profits. How does this square with the view that software development costs are out of control?

Layoffs today seem more like execs following management fads for easy visible actions and this data would suggest that the actions are actually detrimental to company profits. Juice the numbers for a quarter but add another long term drag to the company
I'm gonna give it up for that one. Nicely done.
Tutorial on Reed-Solomon Coding for Fault-Tolerance in Raid-Like Systems (1996)
https://archive.ph/6DZrh
I think there’s an interesting question about how important updates are: say they unbrick it, how often do you have before there’s some change you’d actually want to have but it’s no longer easily available? This feels like the much higher-stakes version of people trying to jailbreak phones without losing security updates.
My experience is there is this dynamic you are describing, and then there's the period when your kids enter late adolescence or get ready to go off to college, and suddenly it's time to invent yourself again.

It can be very difficult to adjust to the process for when your kids are no longer tied to you at the hip for physical and emotional support on the day to day cycle and it's more on the macro ... financial... level.