skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I don't know why we would need a limit, I'm sure if a temper tantrum devolves into one of them building their own robo army. The others will follow suit and it will all just balance itself out.
I am inclined to agree with you but I do have a bit of nuance to add. Pretty sure this is not going to be a popular opinion but I think the second POV you present is apt but dependant on hierarchy level as well as each individual's drive to succeed.

From my understanding that incident happened while she was in a directorial position, not some IC level. At that level one has to constantly actively balance private life and work, no one will do it for you. I am all for supporting employees on all levels (and sure her superior could and should have done some things differently) but if your aspirations and perseverance get you to the point where you are flirting with the C suite, you should also be aware the you own your decisions now.
There's a huge middle ground between "can't FizzBuzz" and "100x Linus-level genius," and that middle is where most functioning engineering teams live
Exactly. people don't like the confusing tax rules and hellish IRS audits. There are good reforms that could be done to prevent hellish audits. But trump is going so far in the other direction by basically defunding their ability to audit at all.
Says by a green account. Oh the irony!
I sworn by Gandi since the early '00s, but they sold themselves to a private equity firm recently and things almost immediately went just as one might fear.

Leave while you can.
How to beat NES mario in 0.000005 Seconds
Logging in triggers motd-news.service that prints whatever ad they're currently running into the journal.
It's Facebook though - I can not think of a lower stakes workplace.

Should the photo grid be 3 wide or 5 wide... Thank god ChatGPT can now pump out the mindless talking points for them.
We also still do it!
I'm from denmark, and happen to work at one of the larger regional banks here. We similarly don't have "credit scores" in the American sense. We have scores that are calculated internally at our institution, but they're based on whatever we deem to fit our "risk appetite" we do not make use of any external centralized/opaque 3rd party rating agencies. We also have one of the highest household debt rates of any 1st world country, so getting a loan still seems possible.

We do have a centralized registry of "bad debtors" and that has a highly negative effect on your ability to get a loan.
The "two people carrying the team" dynamic does happen, but that's often a sign of bad management, not some immutable law of engineering
A Massive Ship Came Out of the Blue, Sailer Recounts Collision
Unfortunately the ancients didn't invent calculus. Pi had been in use a long time when Liebniz and Newton came along.
Ah, I find myself in similar waters.
In your experience does the [@@tailcal] annotation not cover enough of the cases?
Show HN: My high school team's space probe
Me and a few friends made this design document as part of our entry to the UK CanSat competition where a high school team is required to build a probe to be launched. The probe must serve some purpose, and ours was to map the temperature and pressure of the air at different altitudes.

We had the opportunity to launch it a week ago and you can find the video of our launch here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/16bsLzxjP7OWRqVvCB62cLv7QYLR...

On the launch we reached 400m above sea level, and the can pulled 70gs successfully. The parachute and can stayed intact.
Unfortunately, on the day, we were unable to successfully implement GPS.

The raw results are here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oK1vukjcNcsaXMAPeFlzZ66aHlR...
And a slightly cleaned up version is here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xYhkp3sWoJF0bCkkvFs1AygSdLU...

I used my data presentation software to present our results here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-r7lT0J4MDLiYfuaasDXJsr5rCA...
The software (in the form of a python script to be executed in blender) can be found here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LHP7OwgI_O8t6-NBI0ZPn9JUt2G... It's not pretty, but it works.

The differences in temperature and pressure results were exaggerated in the so that the gradient could be clearly seen.

Unfortunately, we did not get into the final (judged on this document) but it was an awesome experience nevertheless. The judges used this form to mark us: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eZnum5zuJvkLzY7RLtm9A-NNzxw... We would love to get any feedback from more experienced people, as we intend to do similar projects in the future and at least two of us want to be professional engineers. I'm happy to reply to any comments.
ASP is optimized for combinatorial problems. Basically, you list the parts that are variable, and the constraints, the answers are given by the solver. Have a look at the documentation[0]. Here is an example:

% Each shift needs a nurse).
1 { shift_nurse(Shift, Nurse): nurse(Nurse) } 1 :- shift(shift).

% It cannot be that a nurse does two shifts in a row.
:- nurse(Nurse), shift_nurse(Shift1,Nurse),shift_nurse(Shift2,Nurse), Shift1 + 1 = Shift2.

[0] https://potassco.org/doc/start/
Big companies tend to develop cult dynamics. This is not an exaggeration, but a consequence of how humans tend to operate in large amounts. And I'd wager that in the case of Silicon Valley tech companies, this is also something that they embrace and nurture. I don't think this is a controversial take at all, and rather obvious.

She was probably not "afraid of being let go" (fired), but had convinced herself that it was of the utmost importance to have this level of committment. The book probably reads similar to those books of someone who leaves their church or cult.
So Kubernetes, microservices, and servers in AWS/Azure are comming to the phone network.

What could possibly go right...

Now when AWS goes down, it will take the phone network with it too...
Not sure why you’re getting downvoted. These cowards are ruining workplaces everywhere by having no backbone and subjecting their subordinates to the whims of psychopathic leaders.

Edit: it’s OK Meta employees. The best time to quit was years ago, the second best time is today.
The problem is these companies buy competitors or bribe hardware/platforms in order to get market monopoly. So often it's impossible to find alternative products.
Please if we can’t debate with civility then there is no value in doing so.
I do agree that you can hide a lot of shit in code. But I think something often overlooked is that code is simply text, and we have general rules on how to write good text. Code is in the end of the day basically applied philosophy and expression of ideas.

If you do not have the experience and skill to express your ideas in text in a clear and concise, you will struggle to write good code (and vice versa tbf).And coders generally are lacking on the more humanities side of their educations.
ASK HN: How to engineer a JavaScript to Python migration?
Context: I was tasked with migrating a legacy workflow system (Broadcom CA Workflow Automation) to Airflow.

There are some jobs that contain rather simple JavaScript snippets, and I was trying to design a first prototype that simply takes the JS parts and runs them in a transpiler.

In this respect, I found a couple of packages that could be leveraged:
- js2py: https://github.com/PiotrDabkowski/Js2Py
- mini-racer: https://github.com/bpcreech/PyMiniRacer
Yet, both seem to be abandoned packages that might not be suitable for usage in production.

Therefore, I was thinking about parsing and translating Javascript's abstract syntax trees to Python. Whereas a colleague suggested I bring up an LLM pipeline.

How much of an overkill that might be? Has anyone else ever dealt with a JavaScript-to-Python migration and could share heads-ups on strategies or pitfalls to avoid?
It’s easy to delete your account though. They may still track you, but you’re not feeding the attention machine.
I remember M2, their mail client, which had good "AI" auto labelling of e-mails. For today's standards probably not outstanding, but back then it worked nicely, and I wish I had something like it for Thunderbird, but so far any plugin to auto label anything in Thunderbird has failed me. Thunderbird needs tagging to improve and be better accessible.
Russia will die anyway.
If this is true, then how do "serverless" database providers like Neon advertise "low latency" access? They use object storage like S3, which I imagine is an order of magnitude worse than networked storage for latency.

edit: apparently they build a kafkaesque layer of caching. No thank you, I'll just keep my data on locally attached NVMe.
> I'm at this more interested the Psychology of the readers

Sure.

In my head it looked like this:

"I don't think this is an idiom" (meaning that either it is not an idiom or I am unfamiliar)
"I am an authority on English, and it is an idiom"
"Nah."
"Here are the dictionaries"
"It is not in the dictionaries"
"Google it"
"That's lazy, but sure. It is not on the internet"
"Here, it is in a pdf used in education"
"Fine"

I don't think that I am the arrogant or entitled one here. Also I don't understand why are you coming after me after this concluded. This, and your other comment. I very much don't like it.
Are you questioning the basic function of competition in a free market? Why would devs lower prices? Because other devs would release better apps cheaper.
Better yet: make them quadratic Bézier curves (`q` in SVG paths) with the cell center as the control point. That removes all jaggedness and also prevents them from meeting at a point as you describe.
I see rates around $100 all the way up to $200. Is that really considered low in the States?
A great engineer isn't the one writing the most "brilliant" code; it's the one who understands the problem, picks the simplest solution that works, and makes life easier for the next person who touches it.
Cline: Autonomous Coding Agent for VS Code
“In reality, I don't see much appetite for using someone else's distributed key-value JSON schema design. The value add isn't clear enough.”

the value is that you’d start with an already existing full network of users
I think I came onto the scene probably 5 years after you did. Ours was the Share and Perfect Dark era :)
One more empty reaction epiphany rambling of another random-god-knows-who.
Nice, it would be great to hear about some of the stack you are using then. What interests me is:

dezerializers

rest API exposing. Annotations or sorts ?

openapi support

I guess these are some of the most criticial
It's a valid logic puzzle as it is, but I agree with you that calling it a “Sudoku” is a stretch for the reason you stated.
Decrypting Encrypted files from Akira Ransomware using a bunch of GPUs
I am still an amateur but it is really a pain in the ass to setup every time I have tried, and I can't really find valuable ressource online to start with.

If you know some that could be interesting I would be a pleasure to read them.

Thank you again.
I had a scary dream about Claude Code last night
1337 even. Fusion energy has a strong nineties vibe.
Yep, you're absolutely right that leadership is often the real bottleneck in building great teams
Australia doesn't have credit scores.

There are still credit bureaus, and things like defaults, judgements, etc are recorded, and when you apply for credit this is checked.

However there are crucial differences to a score system like the UK and (I assume) the US - there is no 'building good credit', you don't get any benefit from having existing credit products and using them well. In fact the opposite - having other forms of credit like a credit card available is seen as a negative when you apply for a mortgage and will impact the amount you can get loaned. They'll literally knock the credit card limit off the top of the mortgage offer.
> Because your opinion is wrong.

I was having a strong argument/discussion yesterday with a friend who is a communist. A real "I want hammer and sickle" kinda guy. He owns two homes, works for big-pharma, his wife works for big-logistic, scuba-diving vacations across the planet, very 'communist' way of life.

His opinions (just as the parent-commenter) are not 'wrong'. His/her/our/their (not pronouns, just groups of people) are different to ours. They got a different vision of this world (which of course it costs them nothing - until Communism settles and they are beheaded for having two homes, SP500 investments, and going scuba-diving across the planet!!)

> Most people don't give two fraks

"What are you talking about dude?? I got all these Gmail, and OneDrive, and Webex stuff for free!! It's like modern day communism!!" /s
Wanted to complain there's no Firefox version but then found it myself here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/betterviewer/

Looks pretty feature complete. Had just a small problem where there was a small icon with three dots to right, probably supposed to show more icons, but then doing nothing.

Also, the icon list would profit from grouping, meaning some distance between groups of different icons. Especially, put the icon to switch to "turn off" the extension far away from the others.

Oh, and please add an option to increase the toolbar buttons to at least 4x their current size. Some of us are ... getting old.
If it’s so easy and not unique, how come engineers with supposedly 7-10 years of experience, that I work with, write absolute braindead code that breaks if you sneeze at it?
> What should be the maximum of how big someone should be?

In democracy, the maximum should be 1. One vote per person. That's it.

In practice, we can delegate stuff, but I don't see reason why should people (as adults) accept any sort of authoritarianism in their lives.
Oh and how good is the jetbrains integration with rust ? Debugging works similar to with java does it ?

What build environment is used ?
> But I don't think you can limit people's wealth and not call it communism.

In communism, an individual can not own any means of production - effectively 0% of the society's total capital. I don't think it follows that any non-communist system must permit any single individual to gain up to 100% of the society's wealth.

I don't know what the limit could look like or how to make it work, but societies commonly called capitalist already implement various brakes on free trade, from regulation to capital and immigration controls, subsidies, tariffs...
Yeah, it's really a poor quality post, but these terrible arguments and affirmed my bias toward believing 10x engineers exist and there are many great reasons to want to continue hiring them.
Isn't it a bit presumptuous to assume that it is “never” fun to play just because you don't find it fun?
> A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism

Has anyone ever seen Facebbok as idealistic? As far as I can tell, they've always been basically Amazon (the borg that will win at all costs) but a little more trivial, cool and Web2.0, they were never the "don't be evil" Google, the idealistic Twitter, I can't think of many less ideal driven companies.

Facebook beat MySpace IMO because it tricked people into using real names. It had the best network effect because of its real name policy (you could easily find people you knew), but it didn't tell you about it, it just posted your name from the sign-up page, which was kind of a dark pattern at the time.

Facebook also had a tool that would let you give them your username and password for other sites, and would scrape contacts for you. But don't try scraping your own contacts out of Facebook, that's wrong.

Remember the apps, like zombie games? Facebook was not kind to 3rd party devs.

Facebook has always been ruthless and other than a bit of open source (PyTorch and React are nice, I guess) as far as I can tell it's never really had any mission other than getting big.
Thinking Backwards Can Change Your Life
Same time, a new SW joint venture gets announced?
Looks like they want to circumvent some deep-rooted issues within their engineering culture?

https://seekingalpha.com/news/4409041-volkswagen-group-and-c...
Thank you for the knowledge !
If Sandberg was a man it would not have happened.

Woman-on-Woman violence in the workplace has to stop, instead of trying to constantly take each other down they need to be better allies to other women.

Especially true for those that aspire to be role models for successful women and write books about how to "Lean In".
So to sum up: You are unable to admit fault, are bad at regulating emotions, and are projecting.
Remember programming language quizzes? I kinda miss those, if you are testing for knowledge they have more value than leetcode
> That's the reason the resulting pollution and toxic waste is tolerated

Yet nuclear despite inherently being much less harmful weren’t historically that well tolerated.
That's a very simple and non-biased model view. In reality, many people might read your job ad as "so, your profile claims you have the skills but how come then that you don't have a job already?" aka "there's something wrong with this guy".
>and then give largest players exemptions, subsidies and so on.

You mean like Germany has done?
Wonderful to see Flip Flappers have that bit of over-representation that it so richly deserves. It's a true work of love, so it's not surprising to see fansubs of it reflect that as well.
I made a Python library for simulating the combined effect of recurring events over time. E.g. financial events like salary, inflation, costs, etc. Has quite a lot of powerful stuff for analysis as well, and it made me use excel even less, which is the main reason I like it :)

You can find it at: https://github.com/TimoKats/pylan, I've also made a slidedeck which is available here: https://timokats.xyz/downloads/2025_pylan_presentation.pdf
Competition between employers is supposed to benefit workers, yet when it actually does it becomes something outside the natural order. Again, the reality contrasts with how capitalism is being advertised.
> But I don't think you can limit people's wealth and not call it communism.

What is wrong with calling it communism? It's just a name.. You so much internalized "communism bad" that you look at a good idea and think it is bad because it reminds you something else that was implemented badly.

And by the way, you can also call it democratic socialism (democratic is really redundant).
Yeah, the scale of it is absolutely mind-blowing
indeed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_Integrated_Query got this right, as in fact you do need to see the from clause first for the IDE to be able to suggest what to put in the from clause...
We'd still be waiting for healthcare with this kind of plan.

Before the ACA it simply was not a choice to be an independent professional and have health insurance.

If people could understand why it is unacceptable to force independent professionals and entrepreneurs to give up healthcare they would see the ACA was necessary in whatever form it could be passed.
> For a start, everything would become much cheaper for you.

People say this, but of all the apps I have on my phone, I'm not sure I actually paid for any. Browser, smart-device controllers, a few games, streaming services (that I pay for direct), messengers of various sorts, banking, transport, ticketing, government apps.

I know people must pay for apps as Apple make a lot of money off it, but it's not really something I do.
C# has disgusting code style. IWillNotReadCode where variable or (and thats even worse) function/method names LookLikeThis.
> But I don't think you can limit people's wealth and not call it communism.

Is that your actual objection? It sounds more like a smear by association.

Famously, the USA under Eisenhower had a top marginal tax rate of 90% on income over $200K - "merely" a few million dollars in modern-day money.

Was the Eisenhower administration Communist? If it wasn't, would it have become Communist if they had gone a bit further and added a marginal rate of 99% for income over oh, let's say $20M (a few hundred million dollars nowadays)?

I think if you traveled back in time and proposed such a bill, the reaction from folks like Senator McCarthy would not have been "that's Communism" but more likely "that's a ridiculous and useless bill, how could anyone ever accumulate that much personal wealth? It would be absurd".
Will AI Replace PMs?
> Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Might it be an option that correlation and causation are reversed here?

Given the amount of criticsm a typical leader of a large company, or even a country, gets these days, it is no wonder that people with narcissistic traits have an advantage. Somewhat more empathetic people would've given up already, either when they received a large enough reward, or whenever they got serious criticsm on bad practices.

Free tip for a better society: stop worshipping success.
Revoking a green card?
Well, it kinda works in Haskell, but you get weird type signatures. I haven't tried Liquid Haskell but it looks like a potential solution.

But you're right. Even in Haskell, I always write type signatures for functions. It makes type inference debugging easier.

But as I understand it, this feature in Ruby is for compilers. It's a compiler's job to translate human-readable (hopefully) source code to an efficient mess of machine code.
Good. They keep making laws intended to control some of the negative impacts of these companies, but they usually have the resources to mostly get around these laws, and they end-up affecting smaller companies in ways that the government didn't intend or consider.
I agree with your intent to introduce the angle of leadership and in particular the CEOs since it is well established that people can't properly evolve and thrive under a leadership that is rotten.

Having said that, there is also something to be said about engineers who consistently cave into management pressure not because of brute force management tactics, but because the engineers themselves haven't spent the effort to build confidence into good engineering practices that will allow them to both fend off pressure and deliver better work. I see people complaining: "oh the company we work for does this, that, the other, irrational things". Yes this is true, but what are you doing about it.

Do you expect higher ups, detached from reality and practice, to drive your working processes in a rational manner? This can only be the exception and we all know it. There are exceptions that proove the rule
I’m curious what would be considered the industry standard for fact checking in tech. Does Google Search, Apple App Store, TikTok, Snapchat, Amazon store, etc. apply fact-checking to the content posted by users/sellers?

Or more abstractly, is fact-checking the responsibility of authors and content editors, or of platforms and infrastructure that spread the content?
>We work in an industry built on leveraging unfairness. Expecting otherwise on this forum is very odd.

Yet this forum is very quick to criticize other people and other industries for unfairness.
There was an interesting text, by Isaac Asimov, where he explained in a very clear way the historical importance of logarithms -- they allowed Kepler to finalize his work by replacing tables of multiplications (which were difficult and error-prone) with sums.
Thats stupid. same as indias IIT advanced for ex. You learn all that stuff in year 1 physics and math in uni.