skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And a few short years later, your renter owns the entire duplex.
I find hospitals to be somewhat clueless when it comes to simple things like what you’re describing.

When a relative of mine got hospitalized for a laryngectomy, post op she obviously couldn’t talk since her voice box was gone.

She was either expected to learn to speak with her oesophagus ( doable but many people fail and it takes months ) or … remain mute.

That’s when I introduced her to the wonders of text to speech. Soon after she was the star of the department, which had never considered this !
If the answer you were looking for was "managers", then you have no concept of just how big Amazon is.

According to TFA they have about 106000 managers before this layoff. You don't give 106k people any meaningful control over the company's policies and procedures, that has to come from the layers above the managers, probably several layers up.
I remember in high school learning about the development of Nation-states, and reflecting that the idea that the concept of being "American", as belonging to a nation-state, was something I never had to even considered being "invented".

On a similar vein, I was shocked when I learned in school that Germany only truly became a Nation-state country in 1871! Of course German culture and peoples date back far longer, but still to think that "Germany the Nation" that would fight WWI & WWII only started a few decades prior to WWI!

I'm bringing this up, because most people living in the West have lived through a remarkably stable period of geopolitics. There's a world order most of us have in our minds that more-or-less has existed since WWII.

However, independent of your political disposition, I think we'll soon be living through a period where the world again changes in dramatic ways. In ways that may one day become completely taken for granted, but for the time being are going to be major challenges to people's understanding of the world.
This is also more than just saving a few billions of dollars but making a giant like Amazon more efficient, especially when it comes to making decisions. It's just too soul crushing to have a dozen of people who spend all day gatekeeping each project instead of building anything.
This form of navigation is probably only accurate enough for nuclear weapons, you’re not going to get meter-Range CEPs with that. You probably have to select a city you want to hit.
Link to the poll itself, which has other data and insights: https://abacusdata.ca/what-canadians-think-about-canada-join...

For those unfamiliar with it, Western Standard sits in a similar factuality and bias position as Fox https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/western-standard-bias/
Would love to hear how it goes! Miri is generally single-threaded, but because nextest is process-per-test, each test gets a completely separate Miri context. A few projects have switched their Miri runs over to nextest and are seeing dramatic improvements in CI times, e.g. [1].

[1] https://bsky.app/profile/lukaswirth.bsky.social/post/3lkg2sl...
“The Gold at the Starbow’s End” by Frederik Pohl is in that direction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gold_at_the_Starbow%27s_En...
> Unicode is a surprisingly elegant system…

s/elegant/clever

What could go wrong? I bet unicode is how AGI escapes and enslaves humanity.
Or create a lot of artificial ones to confuse the missile.
Trump's Tariffs: A Crowd-Sourced Verdict
My main use for WHOIS currently is actually not for domain names. I use it for querying IP addresses on whois.arin.net. Does anyone know how this news will impact that particular service, if at all?
Joining the EU wouldn’t just be a way to make us less reliant on the US, it would also have us switch our currency, revamp our immigration system and allow foreign representatives of other EU nations to impose laws on us.

While I’m not in favour of becoming the 51st state, I’m also not in favour of becoming EU’s 28th state either.
For me, laptop size is about the screen size that suits what I am doing.
For software development I am happy with a 15" MacBook Pro.
Who are you? Cixin Liu?
Net Zero by 2050 Is 'Impossible,' UK Tory Leader Badenoch Says
There is still a Jane Doe testimonial up, which makes me distrust the rest of them
Great company. Looking forward to seeing how this goes.
Sounds more like losing out on the place you wanted because they rented it to someone that didn't haggle them.
Yeah, that's quite a strong assumption. Basically, they're assuming that the local drug use is similar to the national one. While not perfect, they provide some other cases in which these data were deemed more trustworthy than police reports. at least to me it is quite crystalline that a system relying on past police data to predict future crime will be inherently biased by the fact that the police data itself is biased towards certain demographics
I don't think we can survive another rename haha. It doesn't seem to have helped PHP either. But we could use a newer .NET language with better lambda lowering, dependent types, HM type inference, structs as the default data type, improved lifetime analysis and different tradeoffs w.r.t now that we're going to have zero-cost-ish non-suspending async calls.
Those work in vacuum though so you need a bit less laser power. The atmosphere attenuates your signal if you’re doing ground to ground or ground to aircraft links so you probably need a bit more laser power. But I agree that that’s probably not the difficult thing about the whole system.
> And if not they are illegal, no

Usually not, no. At least not until lawfully ordered to disburse.
LOS communications has been around for a long time now in the form of microwave towers. [1]

But further, jamming is still doable, just not with a portable electronic device. Stir up some dust and all the sudden coms are down.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave_transmission
Great points - to put it another way, considering the data is available and investors now have the horsepower to crunch the numbers…why doesn’t Wal-Mart publish their entire inventory for every store in their system in an easy to digest CSV or whatever? Investors deserve to know!!!

Or, you know, sometimes people do business behind closed doors because day to day operations aren’t useful in many scenarios.
https://archive.today/PwUDt
In classical mechanical waves like water waves or sound waves, the wave equations are just an approximation of the "real" movement happening. You can theoretically get the precise results of the movement of every part of the medium by just applying Newton's laws of motion to all of the particles of the medium (assuming they're coarse grained enough that you can ignore quantum effects, of course). That is, you can model the surface of the water and the rocks as little balls of mass connected by ideal springs and such, and you'll see that the movement of the water is directly caused by the two rocks, whose contact with the water pushes it here and there. And so, the "real" picture is two separate waves, and any other way to model the system, even if mathematically equivalent, is artificial in some sense.

Even for EM waves, the classical theory explains them somewhat mechanistically, as an interaction between electrical and magnetic forces that originate from the charged sources and self-propagate.

There is no similar picture you can draw for the quantum mechanical wavefunction. It's the base reality of the system, and it turns out in fact that Newton's laws can be derived as an approximatiom of the wavefunction. But there isn't any kind of "reason" for which the wavefunction does what it does, like there is for the water waves. And so all models for separating the wavefunction into different components is just as "natural" as any other.
Also worth it for the cases were you already know the maximum size for the table.
I can't edit that other comment any more. I did once because I had a long anecdote trying to give context to the pet name I apply to them. After I reread it I felt like it was too long and meandering.

So I wrote a longer, more meandering reply to explain the other one. I'm deleting that one too. Too much stuff. Suffice to say that my time with them was interesting, not fun, full of organizational dysfunction on levels I never thought possible. I hope you are having a nice career with them. I cut mine short to save my own sanity and everything else that I loved and cared about.
You have a very warped view of the world if you think most companies, or even Amazon in particular, are expecting their employees to be “breaking doors”.

They are literally mandating people come in to sit in a room on video calls with people sitting in a room in other offices all around the country/world. That’s the most egregious one, but add up all the controls, pair it with layoffs and threats of more, and you’re not going to end up with an employee base that’s testing the limits of what’s possible. You’ll end up with a well behaved herd of docile workers.

They’re not going to change that behavior by getting rid of middle managers when those demands are coming from the C levels or the board
by who is better at corporate politics of course :)
A co-worker recently showed me this. It seems really good. If they did ASCII diagrams I'd probably have never made this project!
Digital Twins Promise Personalized Medical Care
> Consistency: Partial. We ensure data validity through our conflict resolution strategies, but we don't support multi-key constraints or referential integrity.

That's not what consistency means in ACID.

> Durability: Yes. Our persistence model allows for tunable durability guarantees with corresponding performance trade-offs.

> ~600ns p50 for writes with disk persistence

I'm pretty sure there's no durability there. That statement is pretty disingenuous in itself, but it'd be nice to see a number for durability (which, granted, is not something you advertise the product for).

My main concern is that all these speed benefits are going to be eclipsed by the 0.5ms of network latency.
The Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society on Recent Cuts
You don't have an actual response on offer?
Very cool! I love the interactive map, but have a couple UX suggestions:

I usually expect most features of a map to be zoom invariant, with the exception of level of detail. Having the colormap change is surprising, particularly that longer time buckets simply disappear as I zoom in. The two problems with this are that any time I zoom in or out I now have to double check the color key in case it's changed, and if I want to find a travel time for something far away I need to zoom in to find the destination and then back out to see the travel time. Perhaps you can let the user manually choose the colormap granularity/range, or find some way to have a colormap that works at all scales?

Second suggestion, related, is to display the travel time next to the geography ID in the bottom left corner. This would mitigate the issues with getting a good colormap, since I can then just hover over a geography to get its time anywhere that the colormap isn't sufficient.
I think the article dives at the shallow end of the pool, and only comes up with "demoscene's approach to copyright is self-contradictory". Yes, but does it matter? Is demoscene the only sub-culture with that kind of moral code overrides? Don't we see the same in religions, cartels, NFT grifters, and people who use AI generated images?

Are these people who just create stuff for the sake of art, "credz" and self-entertainment really the only outstanding example? Are they the most important?

This is not a demoscene topic, but a human topic. Narrowing it down to demoscene doesn't serve much purpose, IMHO.
My real estate attorney thankfully lives under a bridge.
Writing is far older than that.
This isn't a statement about these specific protests (that I'm not informed enough about) but don't you find "registering" a protest at least a little bit laughable?
1) Don't you already have that?
2) Don't you already have a trade deal with the EU?

You'd reduce your ability to control borders and immigration levels + have to adopt the EU regulatory burden
> The magic number isn't about recognizing specific versions

Yes it is, though. Does your file manager want to display Excel files differently from .jar files? They're both different "versions" of the same file format! Phil Katz in 1988 or whatever could have followed the pedantry in the linked article to the letter (he didn't). And it wouldn't have helped the problem at hand one bit.
The code is unarguably wrong.

average(INT_MAX,INTMAX) should return INT_MAX, but it will get that wrong and return -1.

average(0,-2) should not return a special error-code value, but this code will do just that, making -1 an ambiguous output value.

Even its comment is wrong. We can see from the signature of the function that there can be no value that indicates an error, as every possible value of int may be a legitimate output value.

It's possible to implement this function in a portable and standard way though, along the lines of [0].

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/a/61711253/ (Disclosure: this is my code.)
Nah: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_presidentia...
over my 25+ years I’ve heard the exact same thing - no personal experience, just hearing other people’s
Listen to yourself. It's management's job to manage people. Some of those people are going to be managers. So management can't police themselves apparently?

I don't buy it.
Related cool diy-ish optical stuff...

A friend sent me this simple design for a raman spectrometer [1].

And some 3D-printable cage optics for when alignment is really important [2].

[1]: https://hackteria.org/wiki/images/a/a0/MobPhone_RamanSpec_20...

[2]: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S246806721...
I blogged a few more notes here: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/17/opentimes/
That’s how Skynet wins!
The lack of standards falls on the acting part. I ran a quick search and found that SWGDE best practices guides and documents do consider the case for the presence of malware on the digital evidence sources on many different scenarios [1]. Having an "expert" who is unaware of these guides is another story.

[1] https://www.swgde.org/?swp_form%5Bform_id%5D=1&swps=malware
There's already military usage of similar devices. I wouldn't be surprised if Taara has a supplier that also supplies several militaries.
Could that be because they aren’t as densely populated by users so even if everyone with a phone has no data cap, they won’t overload the network? Which countries were that for example?
I was doing communications in military. For temporary networks, we used microwave links and they requires line of sight. The reason to use direct link is that missiles can be easily targeted to any radio source you can hear and take down the network.
I don't understand why people aren't using fake addresses for registering domains. I've had a few registered to 1001 Main St in my local town and a made up phone number for over 10 years now with no issue. Main Street will never be over 40 addresses for the foreseeable future and I can just update the record if need be.
Yes, but at the price of our independence.

I love Europe, but I would not in anyway be okay with EU politicians from other countries imposing laws on us. I like that we can govern ourselves.
Human society's default organizing principle is authoritarianism. This is born out by the fact that most humans who've ever lived lived under such a system. A large fraction of us today live under such a system. Even in liberal societies our entertainment overflows with depictions of monarchy and feudalism. Even at a smaller scale, families, clans, businesses, militaries and teams are run this way: there is one boss, and all authority flows from them.

For some (for me) there is a psychological allure to the idea that left to our own devices we'd self-organize in an enlightened way. But the experiment has been done over and over and over again, and that's not what happens. I realize it's painful to accept something you don't want to be true, but that's no reason not to face up to it. Better to face the challenge open-eyed than to have false assumptions undermine you.
this is same as saying soldiers in the military have the right to decide which orders they can disobey and which not
While you probably can't target a cigarette butt on the street, you could definitely hit a building. Especially if the ICBM is paired with image recognition (which it has already for star nav) and/or backup positioning mechanisms like cell tower locations or well-known broadcasting tower locations (think television stations).
Amended S-1: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1769628/000119312525...

Original: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1769628/000119312525...
Navajo Code Talkers get DEI label as military info disappears under Trump order
The universe winks for thee.
Shoot a laser pointer at the receiver and there's a good chance you have jammed the thing.
I never heard it was bad at twitter! why is that?
Eh, it's close but misses the mark if we're specifically trying to match psychedelic visuals. If it were more fractally and geometric sure, but the dogs and fish and shit just isn't it.

This is pretty bang on for a high dose - https://www.instagram.com/share/reel/BALFNVBS20

Or this:
https://www.instagram.com/share/reel/BBumGiQdP6
In my case it is to prevent UK lawsuits or at least being able to show in court that everything was done to comply with UK laws. The products I'm working on use end-to-end encryption and I cannot afford to remove that feature just because one country doesn't allow it.

I would love to offer them to UK citizens, of course.
…is 14”. It is the perfect balance between portability, weight, and screen real estate.

I’ve tried 13”, 14”, 15”, and 16”. 14” is where it’s at.
Swarms to block the cameras maybe?

At this point though, couldn’t you just blow up your own country and thus accelerate warming so much as to doom the rest of humanity in a dozen years? I might have read the wrong article on that though so don’t quote me.
His argument is that you are building on the assumption that this is safe:

"SELECT * FROM foo WHERE bar=?"
bindParameter(1, userInput);

But what happens when it turns out that isn't safe?
The Microgambler
⬜⬜⬜⬜ Very risk averse
⬜⬜⬜⬜ Somewhat loss seeking
⬜⬜⬜⬜ Somewhat magnitude sensitive
I earned $1,609,865.1
17" gives enough room for a numpad (some 15" have it too but it's pretty universal at 17"). It seems to be where screen space is comfortable for long term use

But if I'm going into a small airplane (ex: Spirit Airlines), such a laptop is impossible to use.

It really depends on what your on-the-go space is. 15" seems like the overall standard to me however.
And tokens are now going down to the byte level:

https://ai.meta.com/research/publications/byte-latent-transf...
The people still working at MS recommend MS?

Quelle surprise.
I am Canadian and I have always had an easier time crossing Into the US. I have been detained multiple times from the Canadian side.

I took an espresso repair course just across the boarder in Washington and on my way back I was detained for hours and questioned very aggressively because "there is no such thing as an espresso machine repair course".

That being said, I don't doubt the American side can be tough too, though I have never experienced it.
Really cool -- and congrats!

FYI there's a typo in the link in the README -- points to casci.app instead of cascii.app.
Ask tech leads who consistently deliver value who's good one and who's not – you'll get pretty accurate picture.
It depends where you are and the circumstances. You certainly need a Parade Permit if you will be marching down a city street blocking traffic, e.g, for New York City: https://www.nyc.gov/site/nypd/services/law-enforcement/permi...
Fire-and-forget drones already exist. They are called missiles.
You could also try;

https://taiga.io/

"Taiga: The free and open-source project management tool

For cross-functional agile teams to work effectively"
It helps that I enjoy coding, and that I deeply care about the data I'm preserving. I got burned after losing 2-years worth of unbacked-up data scraped off Twitter right before they closed the API, so I'm never ever going to get that data back again.

The backup automation evolved pretty organically, but slowly. I was happy when I finally was able to get the weekly backup process to start automatically.
BTHome: Open standard for broadcasting sensor data over Bluetooth LE
I wouldn't bother running anything through a scan, but if I could tell it's AI-generated, I'd be very likely to just move on to the next one. However, the larger issue would be the existence of filler, AI generated or not. All else being equal, brevity is a good thing.
IMHO, workplace politics can happen and be caused at any level of a company. I think it's a natural thing for some people to do.

Especially at big companies, which kinda resemble small countries. You get "who likes whom", supervisors' pets, weird alliances, power struggles, backstabbing and other toxic stuff.

What management (at any level) is at fault of is failing to actively weed out these behaviours or indeed straight up doing the same thing.

Also, companies often fail to reward silent, but effective and solid people, and instead opt into creating a loud, noisy rockstar culture even if the overall quality suffers. This in turn motivates people to seek other means of being recognized, including workplace politics.

I've seen all of it while being a manager. I hated it with a passion, and fell a victim of it quite a few times myself.

And I agree that people playing workplace politics should either change their behaviour or be let go.
I'm not sure you can distinguish those.
It is IBM, and IBM has a preference for who its customers are.
So do enterprises, who like the sound of "no one ever got fired for..."
And it's also because the market is pretty small (at least in terms of sites) - there's just not that much total accessible market for any competitor.
It would make more sense for Canada to have a free trade agreement like the EFTA, than joining the European Union. There's the CETA already, but it's still provisional after over seven years.
Yep! That was my first kind I built. Also things like choppers, swing-bikes, etc.

My definition is pretty vague, usually requiring a bit of trashiness in the finished product.
The differential signalling only helps if the noise offsets both signals in the same direction though. If it just attenuates (which fog for example will do to optical signals), it won’t help you. And the other method you described could work (depending on the SNR of course, at some point effectively no signal will come through the fog) but will lower data rate.
our lord and saviour, chatgpt obviously
Code Smells and Refactorings for Elixir
The US has become such a f*cking joke.

See also:

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/mar/17/conor-mcgregor...
Yeah, I was aware of this because of work with telecommunications in rural locations. Nobody is burying a cable over a mountain, that's too expensive and too much work. So instead, they'll setup microwave towers. Being on a mountain has the benefit that you are already in elevated locations that are easy to shoot a phone signal across the range.
Same as AI. It's almost like we're scraping the bottom of the barrel for useful products, since capitalism demands people churn out endless useful products, regardless of whether they actually exist or not, so we're trying to make not-useful products into useful products to appease the machine...
To risk being pedantic, US SLBMs (Tridents) indeed use stellar updates for their inertial guidance system.

Our ICBMs have no update mechanism at all. Once they're out of the silo, they're completely on their own.