skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's more like 80% of your team should be normal engineers, but they will collectively pull 50% of the weight. the top 20% should be "10x" (hate the term) and carry the other 50%. This just happens to be the most optimal, healthy and sustainable distribution.
Having to restart over and over kills it for me. I’d much rather be able to repeat a level until I got it perfect then move on.
I don't know about how it was on OS X at the time, but one of the things that really annoyed me with Windows applications was how crappy most of their icons looked. Hardly anyone seemed to care about making proper icons. Some didn't update their icons when the default size changed to 48x48, leading to them looking blurry due to the scaling up. Others included all the icon sizes but they were all just scaled down from some image that only looked good at a large size. All of the detail became muddied together in a mess of an icon at the typical icon sizes.

I would often make custom icons for applications and then use a resource editor to change them within the executable, just so I didn't have to see the ugly icons on my desktop or in my taskbar.
The title should read, “… Columbia University”
if you search HN for genewitch, you will find many times have said that exact dollar amount should be minimum wage, so this isn't a gotcha.

for years^, i've been saying this, since 2018 or 2019. $33 an hour. So if you re-read what i actually said, i explain that i don't really care if a supermarket can't afford to pay cashiers at a livable wage. they can suffer from lack of staff, or go full self checkout and robots, or go out of business. I don't care, like, at all. "But genewitch, what about the families of the shareholders and CEO and board?" uh huh, luckily they can go get a job and make a livable wage somewhere else.

^i've only been posting on HN since 2020, but my point stands
Weird, I haven't gotten a check from OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic, or any other AI company for any of my works yet, nor have any of my writer, musician, developer, or photographer friends who also self-publish without permissive licenses that would allow for such use. Are you sure they have to compensate creators for the material they use for training, or are you misunderstanding how copyright licensing works in the United States? Because all of us put our contact methods on our works so folks can properly license it for use, yet none of us have had anyone reach out to do so for AI training - almost like there's a fundamental mismatch between what AI companies are willing to pay (nothing), and what humans who created this stuff would like to receive for its indefinite use in training (what these AI companies claim are) trillion-dollar businesses of the future that will revolutionize humanity (i.e., house money).

If it's fair use for OpenAI to steal content wholesale without fair compensation (as decided by the creator, unless they have granted the management of that license to a third-party) just to train AI models, then that opens a Pandora's Box where anyone can steal content to train their own models, creating an environment where copyright is basically meaningless. On the other hand, making it not fair use opens a different Pandora's Box, where these models have to be trained in fundamentally different ways to create the same outcome - and where countries like China, who notoriously ignore copyright laws, can leap ahead of the industry.

Almost like the problem is less AI, and more overly broad copyright laws. Maybe the compromise is slashing that window back down to something reasonable, like twenty to fifty years or so, like how we deal with patents.
If 95% of the population were still farmers (not anymore due to technological progress) those laws would never have been passed, and wouldn't have meant anything if they did because you're going to starve unless you put in the gruelling hours every day ploughing fields, chopping wood, tending livestock - forever.
I use them for all my domains, albeit with a passkey for my account. My domains are bought 10 years into the future though, so I rarely login.
Hidden Messages in Emojis and Hacking the US Treasury
Dont look at it as such, mayhaps;

Look it at literally who will have GPU dominance in future. (obv who will hit Qbit at scale... but we are at this scale now - and control currently is controlled by policy, then bits, then Qbits.)

Remember, we are witnessing the "Wouldnt it be cool if..?" CyberPunk manifestations of our Cyberpunk Readings of youth?

((I buildt a bunch of shit that spied on you because I read NeuroMancer, and thought wouldnt it be cool if..."

And then I helped build Ono Sendai throughout my career...
(To deep to reply to the sibling comment.)

> On the other hand English has copied enough from French to make it noticeably easier to pick up at the beginning than German. Some of that is simply being a more recent exchange with less time for linguistic drift, but these kinds of classifications are ultimately based on arbitrary criteria.

I think the difficulty with learning German is the complex grammar which is quite different from English. I suspect Dutch or Norwegian would be easier as their structure is more similar. And while there are more shared words in French, Spanish is normally considered easier to learn as it is more regular.
It's a lot easier cognitively to just choose a side than it is to have nuanced opinions
.com price looks decent too, only 62¢ higher than Cloudflare.

I've settled on Cloudflare + internetbs.net for the cheapest domains with no bs.
I suspect that I will give this a try on some of my devices. Thanks for the informative reply. I noticed that your Windows support begins with Win10. Does that mean that it won't work at all for Win7 or that it might not work?

I have a couple of Win7 workstations that could use something like this.
It depends. If you were a hacker who'd read Bamford and the news from whistleblowers like Klein, talking with other hackers, that general sense was common knowledge. But if the topic came up in conversation with, like, the guy you're subletting a room from in NYC, you could get a very skeptical look.

(I wonder if these people remembered those conversations after Snowden.)
I feel like he's addressed it well in the article.
I'd start with decent binoculars, you can see four jovian moons with them
I found one past thread, but I vaguely remember others—anyone?

Bird came back from extinction – scientists in glider are teaching it to migrate - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41385300 - Aug 2024 (1 comment)
I mean every opinion is a judgement. I'm saying I think it's perfectly worthwhile for them to do that project, and it's perfectly valid for them to post their work on their blog, and it might be interesting to someone somewhere even. However if you have in interest in sorting algorithms, or if you have an interest in GPU programming there is nothing of value for you here.
Not needing something is different than not benefiting from something.
Move to a different state.

Is it so unrealistic? Many companies and people leave beautiful Cali due to over-regulation.
https://wiki.debian.org/systemd-cron
totally agree
a team with full of 10x engineers would just introduce new techs every month, if not they would get bored pretty fast and leave the team anyway.
most of the time normal engineers are more suitable, especially during maintenance phase where there are many boring/ repetitive tasks
I'd be excellent to see their complaints collected and elaborated. Because God Fucking Damn, these seem like some incredible whining Advanced Persistent Threats against anything getting better. If I were a pro-discord disruptor, I'd pay these people to keep at their endless grudges against every single person having to figure out ever single fucking capability de-novo.

Systemd makes so so so many incredibly good service administration capabilities easy & on tap. The main thing I want from systemd haters is to show how how how folks did things well before. Mostly I think this is a rebellion of the losers, people who hate having to do a good job, people who hate learning the many many many many ways we could run services better, who valorize each service figuring out their own unique special bespoke ways of running their stuff. Its fallen as fuck. We need need need the systemd socialization of running stuff well, controlling permissions & access. There's near zero precedent from the past of anyone else being responsible. That's just the situation. Systemd has drastically elevated what sysops can do, orthogonally to the service by service init launching of the past that got us no where.
よつば = yotsuba
よっば = yobba

As someone who has tried learning Japanese, it took me longer than I am willing to admit that to realize the two were different and things made much more sense after I realized the difference.

That said, learning Japanese is an extremely slow process and even if one does learn enough to understand a novel, one’s reading speed will be extremely slow, even if one is lucky enough to remember enough that it is not necessary to use a dictionary every other kanji. Even upon learning Japanese, it is quite tempting to dump the text into a LLM to have it translated.
Related:

OpenAI asks White House for relief from state AI rules

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43352531
Canada responds to unjustified U.S. tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum
There is one huge advantage of cron that is usually missed with such comparisons. cron is dead-easy to create and maintain. Systemd timers make sense in certain situations, but in 90%+ of my use cases so far, the added complexity really adds up the amount of time I'm administering my systems. I've been in a situation where I needed to troubleshoot why a systemd timer wasn't triggering, and I didn't like that experience at all. To me, it is something I would use if I actually needed it, it isn't a 1-to-1 replacement for cron.
The billing system has cancer, it's time to schedule a biopsy.
Were they actually supporting abbreviating or just doing something like only storing the first 3 characters of the name? That feels more like something a compiler trying to fit in 8k of RAM or whatever would do.
The overwhelming physical force of a brick of osmium thrown at high velocities outweighs the theological argument presented, making it a clear winner in terms of impact.

Turns out you can win a lot of things with a high velocity osmium brick.
Yes. SHQ can't do much since package control is a community project.
Tech leaders at Anthropic/IBM/Meta warn that AI is coming for developer jobs
I am guessing this is coming up now due to the recent changes in regulations.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43357447

"Prioritizing coal ash program to expedite state permit reviews and update coal ash regulations (CCR Rule)"
Just to be clear, do you mean full-dogma Rails tutorial write a bunch of trivial tests before writing code TDD?
I think you've failed to substantiate why the laptop is an acceptable form factor, given that there are more flexible options that have none of the downsides.
Dictator says what?
The US needs to fix its government anyway. If they cannot, nothing else matters.
> "Any sufficiently complicated program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp."

I have never seen that in practice (30+ years of industry experience working on very large applications).

I think it is one of those statements that fans of Lisp love to quote (a lot) without having any empirical data to back it up.

And yes I am sure that there are examples out there. You can probably find examples of anything if you look hard enough. But that doesn't make it a general rule.
Battery breakthrough as 99.99% of lithium extracted from old cells
When it starts saying, "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that," that's when we're really in trouble.
I am still kinda on the fence if I should move to Proton or not. I bought a subscription on a sale, but I basically don't use any paid features, because they all are sort of vendor lock-in, in a sense I cannot realistically stop paying if I use them, I can mostly do just fine without using them, and it doesn't sound like a real complaint except that "regular" price is just horribly expensive for what I get IMO. The main sales point, of course, is that unlike Google the don't (and allegedly can't) read your emails, but when a service this expensive cannot really compete with a free gmail account feature-wise, and you aren't involved in Al-Qaeda or anything, it makes you reconsider.

(And, BTW, if you are involved in Al-Qaeda, i.e. if you are really truly concerned about anyone reading your emails, it's not like you can just rely on Proton and relax. Both because your recipients likely don't use Proton, and also because the more serious you are about such concerns, the more emphasis is on that "allegedly" word. So I'm still not sure what I'm buying.)
Knowledge of the domain helps a lot! But software engineering and dev tools are also domains that are transferable. I have outperformed coworkers with much more code domain familiarity because I had more engineering/debugging/tooling domain performance, or better ability to design and communicate etc etc.
Would You Use a Tool That Turns Your Videos into High-Quality Blog Posts?
Hey HNs

I am working on an application which turns Audio and Video into Blog posts. I am validating the idea wheather people are interested in using my tool or i am wasting my time.

Content creators, podcasters—imagine this: You upload an audio or video file, and in return, you get a well-structured blog post in both PDF and editable formats. No more struggling with transcriptions, AI hallucinations, or rewriting content from scratch.

Think of it as an "auto-writer" for your podcasts, interviews, vlogs, or knowledge-sharing sessions.

Would this be useful for you? What’s the biggest struggle you face when repurposing content? Also, what features would make this a no-brainer for you?

I’d love to hear your thoughts—especially from those who create audio/video content but don’t have time to turn it into text!

you can message me or email me on aryansh0004@gmail.com
> The list of additional products affected by counter tariffs includes tools, computers and servers, display monitors, sport equipment, and cast-iron products.
Dates in the file names can be sorted by that date if you use the correct date format.

This is common to do.
I don’t think I agree with your level of cynicism, but I definitely think my biggest enemy at work is complacency. I joined a company in the last few months, and it seems like this codebase lost the war against complacency years ago, and it’s such a hard hole to climb out of
Building My Digital Brain
That's the first time I've ever heard someone make this unusual and very specific definition. It's almost always much simpler - you get favorable regulatory findings and exemptions by promising jobs or other benefits to the people doing the regulating. It's not complicated, it's just bribery with a different name.
Your definition of "truth" is limited;

Truth: The real meaning behind the words which may or may not be interpreted by the receiver in A/B/N meaning

Truth: The actual structure of the nature of whats being presented.

When you can manipulate an individual's PERCEIVED reception of TRUTH between such, you can control reality... now do that at scale..
Ask HN: Would You Use a Tool That Turns Your Videos Into-Blog Posts?
I am working on an application which turns Audio and Video into Blog posts. I am validating the idea wheather people are interested in using my tool or i am wasting my time.

Content creators, podcasters—imagine this: You upload an audio or video file, and in return, you get a well-structured blog post in both PDF and editable formats. No more struggling with transcriptions, AI hallucinations, or rewriting content from scratch.

Think of it as an "auto-writer" for your podcasts, interviews, vlogs, or knowledge-sharing sessions.

Would this be useful for you? What’s the biggest struggle you face when repurposing content? Also, what features would make this a no-brainer for you?

I’d love to hear your thoughts—especially from those who create audio/video content but don’t have time to turn it into text!

you can message me or email me on aryansh0004@gmail.com
> variables that control the size (and probably shape) of different features

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeobox
Don’t forget that the pearl clutching is on both sides.

It was Tipper Gore that thought the world would come to an end because of rap music.

Let’s just not give the government any more power in our lives than necessary.
Yep, those are the only words I know for that melody.

... Which is also true of some songs parodied by Weird Al, come to think of it.
I feel like this article completely misunderstands the point.

Their two big arguments are that 1) people aren't 10X at everything, they are at most 10X at specific things and 2) what good is a 10X engineer if they are on a team that can't perform at that level?

There isn't something magical about 10X engineers, but the fact is there are engineers who have developed the skills to greatly exceed their peers and work in those sub disciplines at which they have this skill. Who cares if your 10X mobile app engineer would be no better than anyone else at microprocessors, they aren't working on microprocessors. Likely anyone could become a 10X engineer, but most don't. It's like great athletes or great musicians - whom no one would question are 10X better than average even if quantifying skill in those domains is hard - maybe there is some level of god given talent but for the most part it's years of effort that other people just don't put in.

Then yes, engineering is often a group effort and a bad team can certainly hold someone back, but just as in sports a strong player can certainly elevate an otherwise mediocre team particularly if well utilized, a 10X engineer can massively improve the output of those around them. No one on earth would say it doesn't matter if our band had a great cellist because the rest of the orchestra probably isn't exceptional. If a team holds its high performers back, that's a problem with the team, not a limitation of high performance.
Lc0 Achieves Master-Level Chess Without a Queen
Hardly, I lost money.
lol. No we’re dealing with unregulated capitalism.
There’s a reason why so few borderless payment systems exist... Welcome to the fascinating world of AML/KYC compliance. Anyway, good luck - I’m rooting for you.
Do you ever get tired of arguing in bad faith?

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_problem literally tells you exactly what to do in your situation. I'm sure someone, probably a professor or fun video on social media has told you about this a dozen times in your life, but if you didn't pay attention you can always Google it or ask ChatGPT https://chatgpt.com/share/67d3a121-13e4-8006-9ae3-625838875e...

2. While I said the goal was to hire the best candidate, this was as compared to someone who is just barely better than not filling the position. Hiring a top 5 candidate is also very good. The argument in GP was (paraphrasing) "I know people that aren't good programmers but they can manage to do little changes to existing code therefore you shouldn't give interview problems these dummies can't solve."
I might not entirely understand, but

>> denial of service was considered to be the realistic impact

is in the article as justification for why this has low criticality and therefore isn't subject to the 90 day disclosure timeline. I.e. it's _limiting_ the predicted impact.

I assumed GP was referring to the other more critical risk, stack clashing, which I guess could lead to RCE? not being an issue on modern OS's.
Great succinct little article!

I think it is a good summary of current AI.

* Pretty mind blowing what it can do.

* Very short of what people care about which is complex feature complete software.

I can imagine the horror of trying to apply this to a full blown netcode multiplayer unity project with many scenes 100s of scripts. Complex ordering etc.

But the fact it can setup something like this at all is very cool.
It’s like Yaytext? I wonder whether it’ll work on FB&Co?
Tau replacing pi? Sure, just start using it. Publish with it. If we want better, we have to make it happen!
Porkbun is a great domain register, and proton seems to be good in it's field. This is a cool and welcome colab for me
> I can definitely see American-English being a creole language, with a lot of evolution towards Spanish, given a lot of Hispanic culture being blended into American culture.

I don't think American-English is likely to become a creole language through mixture with Spanish because modern media is such a huge standardizing force. As a Brit I've never had trouble understanding anyone in the US while in the UK there are regional dialects I struggle to understand.
A lot of people will agree with you and a lot of people will disagree with you because the subject might as well be food and for some people that’s coleslaw and for others that’s master chef.

Both have their place. On the topic of greatness (your example, Linux, as opposed to say a build script for vending machine firmware) I couldn’t agree more with both you and the people disagreeing with you.
Yeah, if you go far enough down the list you'll eventually find one. Will the photographer be any better than some rando Wikipedian? Hard to say.
In Florence I've seen an old map from around 1400 that had Germania in it.
If you learn modern prolog techniques, cuts have become less and less necessary.
Photonic Network-on-Wafer for Multi-Chiplet GPUs (2023) [pdf]
Looks like going for namecheap features but partnering with cool providers. Not sure why you would down vote, esp since 1/3 of frontpage here at any given moments is ads.
"just".

That's it people, rando HN commenter solved the problem. No need to do anything special.
I feel uneasy about using transactions like that. Eventually somebody will be puzzled enough to enable statement logging, which will not contain the data they need. Then they'll set a breakpoint in the test and get a shell on the db to see what's actually there, and they'll find it empty.

And by eventually somebody, I mean two days ago me.

I'd much rather just have a utility that copies the database actually and hands my test the one it's allowed to mess with.
>Given the controversy surrounding Proton's potential political leanings

Define the controversy and their leanings
I actually disagree with simplicity. cron does weird things with the environment and it can be hard to correctly reproduce that environment when creating a job and debugging. Conversely, systemd timers are very easy to manually trigger and otherwise behave as a normal oneshot service.
Calibration of math/big Algorithm Thresholds
+1 for NixOS. I used to find systemd a bit intimidating, but working with NixOS has made it all fit together somehow.

As an example, this is a systemd timer I have that periodically runs rclone to sync photos to Backblaze:

systemd.services.rclone-photos-sync = {
serviceConfig.Type = "oneshot";
path = [ pkgs.rclone ];
script = ''
rclone \
--config ${config.age.secrets."rclone.conf".path} \
--bwlimit 20M --transfers 16 \
sync /mnt/photos/originals/ photos:
'';
unitConfig = {
RequiresMountsFor = "/mnt/photos";
};
};
systemd.timers.rclone-photos-sync = {
timerConfig = {
# Every 2 hours.
OnCalendar = "00/2:00:00";
RandomizedDelaySec = "5m";
Persistent = true;
Unit = "rclone-photos-sync.service";
};
partOf = [ "rclone-photos-sync.service" ];
wantedBy = [ "timers.target" ];
};
As silly as agile government sounds, if it forces our legislators to take part in the misery of a daily standup, I'm all for it.
Image Processing in C (2000) [pdf]
If you want me to read your article, don't cover it with a stupid popup in the middle of the screen. I closed the page as soon as I saw that.