skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For what it's worth, I'm really not a fan.

There's a reason we use scientific notation, and it's actually partly because in the era of slide-rules, it was INCREDIBLY helpful notation that makes it trivial to estimate things like order of magnitude. People performed all manner of operations and kept the magnitude part in their head. It MADE people more magnitude aware.

This magnitude-only based notation is the one that's actually more needlessly complex and error prone. There's no sensible way to manage significant figures or rounding error in simple operations like addition and subtraction. And simple operations, like adding/subtracting two numbers are really non-trivial. If you have to start each operation by converting to a useful format and then converting back, what have you gained exactly by using the notation?
Today, as always, it is a serious mistake to add a length with an area.

Nowadays, everyone who attempts to do such things should understand that the value of a physical quantity is the product between a scalar (i.e. real number) with a unit of measurement.

The addition of distinct physical quantities is impossible, because the addition between distinct units of measurement is undefined (because there is no useful definition).

However, if you detach the scalars from the complete values of some physical quantities, those are elements of the field of the real numbers, so you can do any operations with them, not only addition, but you can compute arbitrary functions, like transcendental functions, e.g. logarithms (which you cannot compute using as argument a complete physical quantity, including a unit of measurement).

In the ancient Greek mathematics, the notions of physical quantity and measurement were not well formalized, even if they had some intuitive understanding, so they would not normally try to perform invalid operations with physical quantities. The concepts of physical quantity and measurement became well understood only in the 19th century, e.g. in the works of people like Weber and Maxwell.

Nevertheless, in the ancient Greek texts there are also examples of numbers that were detached from some geometric quantities and then used in unrelated operations where their origin was no longer taken into account. A simple example is the use in various arithmetic problems of several kinds of "geometric" numbers, e.g. square numbers, triangular numbers, cubic numbers or pyramidal numbers, i.e. numbers that were computed using formulae for areas or volumes, but which were used in applications were there were no areas or volumes involved.

Another example is the use of mechanical devices for the computation of some irrational or transcendental functions, which could be used for solving some famous problems like the trisection of an angle, the quadrature of a circle or the doubling of a cube. In such mechanical devices there were e.g. some lengths that were numerically equal with areas or volumes in the related problems. (While such mechanical devices, which were examples of analog computers, have been built and they have solved the problems, such solutions were considered cheating, because those problems had been formulated with the restriction of using only a straightedge and a compass for their solution, which is now known to be impossible.)

The essence of analog computing, whence the name "analog" comes, is that you have in the analog computer some physical quantities that are numerically equal (using some arbitrary units) with some physical quantities in the problem that must be solved by the computer, even if the nature of the physical quantities is very different. Analog computing is an important example of detaching the real number value from the complete physical quantity, and as I have said, there are examples of simple analog computers, dedicated to the computation of some irrational or transcendental functions, already since the Greek Antiquity.
> 1. I did not realize that battle world was the actual description I was meant to provide. I thought it was just a name for my world, so I put some dumb name and now I'm stuck with that as my world.

I generated a 16 character password, with alphanumeric + special characters.
Thanks, and glad to see a comment that actually answers my question :) rather than telling me things like who Europeans should or should not trust.
Only in America though.
No one has pure rule of law, but at least the USA has it as a goal. The Chinese government has stated explicitly that rule of law isn’t a goal, so it leads to a very different legal system from ours. You have to think much more deeply about the spirit of the law and the flippant intentions of the official class that has all the power (the judicial system isn’t allowed to check official power, or even interpret ambiguous or competing laws).
Innovation is not an inherently good thing.
Peter, I'm curious as to the easiest way for Australian founders to get a long stay visa and work permit for the US while working for their own (Delaware) company?
Much lower maintenance, and VFDs have made pumping glycol a lot more energy efficient than an older across-the-line starter.
Susan made a personal pledge to tackle "misinformation". Like these people https://rumble.com/vt62y6-covid-19-a-second-opinion.html (you actually can find the shortened version on Youtube, but all of those people with real credentials have had their videos pulled at one time or another)

That's not her role. You should be policing the obvious stuff but not that, especially when none of it turns out to be misinformation. She absolutely abrogated her responsibility as CEO or even just being a decent person
Stop Touching Your Face (2023)
Record sea surface temperature jump in 2023–2024 unlikely but not unexpected
Well, above a level tools can't be designed to be discoverable without any form of help/learning, and I believe that's fine. They should rely on a "common knowledge base" as much as possible, and I believe systemd commands are done in a POSIX-y style, but you do have to occasionally read a man page or Google.

Do we expect an average dude to just pop into a cockpit and land a plane with no previous training?
click "Open App"

redirect to sign in page.

close tab.

This space is ridiculously crowded and the value-add of most of these services pretty 1. low and 2. identical. If you can't hook me I'm not going to bother with any friction in the pipe. I'd bet you're seeing massive drop-off between your landing page and anyone opening the app.

> Join over 6721 users and explore 6295 illustrations.

more users than content raises concerns with me.
Green card holders have a right to free speech.
I really hope you don't actually work in tech and are putting your thumb on the scale of decisions
I used OVH for personal projects but had to stop. They randomly block IPs from the iCloud Private Relay network, causing connection timeouts. Their SPF records for outgoing email services are incorrect and missing IP addresses. I opened a support ticket over a year ago, and it still hasn’t been resolved. (Obviously, I’ve moved my emails elsewhere because I’d like them to be delivered.)

Maybe their professional offerings are better. Never made me want to try though...
Inflation-adjusted gold chart: https://www.gurufocus.com/economic_indicators/4534/inflation...
She crossed overland. Imagine you do pre-clearance out of a Canadian airport. Can they kidnap you out of country and ship you to a US detention center?
> What about statically determining a fixed number of activation records at compile time?

Sure, it may be useful to represent a function's local storage as a first-class concept, and then allow users to instantiate copies of the function at will, if they're willing to allocate more storage themselves, thereby allowing users to either precisely limit the number of instances of a function or otherwise use dynamic allocation to manually reimplement a callstack if they so choose.

> As to lifetime after returning, do you really hate continuations that much?

This is a language that forbids recursion, the functional programmers have already run screaming for the exits. :P
Qualcomm, at least until I left in 2017, had two parallel career tracks, one for management and another for individual contributors. Both had equal pay grades. It was up to you whether you wanted to follow one or the other.

So if your concern is that you don't want to become a manager while still being well paid, that is an option. Other than that, the culture was pretty nice, especially in the Markham (Canada) office.
You'd normally compress the data before encrypting it as that makes the resulting cyphertext more resilient against cryptanalysis as well as reduces the amount of data which needs to be encrypted so this sounds like a bogus reason.
The Pritzker Prize leans modernist. If you prefer classical architecture, check out the Driehaus Prize [1]. The 2025 laureate is Liam O'Connor.

[1] https://driehausprize.nd.edu
What are the pitfalls to watch out for when following the I-130 process? I’ve read a bunch about applying for a green card from within the US, but not as much good info for the I-130.
Again, if you can't stick the landing, you might as well not have any payload on it. So if you're worried about cost, keep testing until you can stick the landing with dummy mass. Once that works, send the real payload. Otherwise, you're just wasting payload.

The mindset difference seems to be that if there's no human on board, so no problemo wasting a lander if something goes wrong. That's just a bad attitude (as well as yaw and roll). If you designed everything with "baby on board" hanging in the window, you'd probably not cut so many corners so sharply. Otherwise, why not just light your cigars with hundred dollar bills. How would you feel if you were on the team building the payload, but the lander guys keep fucking up so you just wasted however much time you spent because "meh, we're just testing". In sports, there's a saying "practice like you play because you play like you practice".
Show HN: ThreadsInside – curated threads from message boards and podcast digest
Hello,

Online message boards like Hacker News, FlyerTalk, Something Awful, Ars Technica, and many others are treasure troves of fascinating discussions. As forums decline with the rise of Reddit and Discord, I believe their rich content deserves wider access.

That’s why I created threadsinside.com, which offers a curated overview of standout threads (with direct links) and a podcast that dives into individual discussions (available on Spotify and freely on the website as well). For the podcast I make use of NotebookLM during this testing phase.

My hypothesis is that a small portion of internet users (content addicts like me) will be interested in this content, supplementing their consumption of, for instance, online newspapers or social media.

You can browse the website without an account to a certain extent, and I'm currently testing subscription options to support the workload of curation and podcast scripting.

I’d love to hear your thoughts—any feedback is appreciated.

Regards,
A
> a small amount of net positive emissions associated with it.

I'm very confused. Does that means CO2 capture or CO2 release?
Did u ever read so hard u accidentally wrote?
Are Foreign Nationals Entitled to the Same Constitutional Rights As Citizens? David Cole, Georgetown University Law Center - https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/297/ | https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?a... (page 12 of the pdf)

> The specific features of the constitutional guarantees of political freedom, due process, and equal protection further support their extension to foreign nationals living in the United States.
The app looks nice.
However, I'm curious what dataset was used to train the model behind this app. Did the artists whose work was included consent to their art being used for training?
I don't know it exists.
I think you've answered the question. It's really easy to generate slop now. AI to build a standard front end, AI to generate content. It's like geocities again, but no labours of love; not much labour at all.
I think you're right. Weren't there even remote DMA/CPU-level attacks over OHCI/USB?
A lot of NGOs are government funded, just through multiple layers of indirection, so they can claim they aren't.
If the numbers make sense, and you can afford the move, great!

Just ensure that you have backup plans for your backup. OVH had a fire (shit happens), but then actually lost data. I don't think that has ever happened at AWS.

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/ovhcloud-ordered-...
https://www.google.com/search?q=Trypophobia
Speech in support of terrorist groups isn't protected in the US.
My non-tech company seems to also have this up or out mentality. They don't have a specific timeline, but if you're a midlevel for too long like me, they definitely try to manage you out. I've had a few friends who are managers confirm this.
Removed as my context was incorrect
Yeah, if you're starting with, say, a heavily object-oriented program, then it would be nigh impossible. But I don't think it would even be extraordinarily difficult, if you start with a style that isn't suffused with dynamic function calls. E.g., languages like C++ and Rust with heavy monomorphization can have callbacks and other fun things without any vtables or function pointers.

From an architectural standpoint, the main challenge is layering everything properly so you don't have any circular dependencies, even in untaken branches. Again, how hard this is to achieve depends on the original design, but it's not like circular-dependency-avoidance is something that no one's done before.
My question is: is it going to produce more efficient assembly code when compiled? Guess I'll have to run it through Godbolt.
I'm eastern orthodox so not part of one of the groups you're talking about but we share a lot with catholics so maybe close enough.

The reaction you're talking about with the palm reading seems like it could have mostly been because of the presence of a loaded tabernacle? I mean I doubt they would have been pleased about this without it but lay catholics I know take the tabernacle extremely seriously.

I don't particularly, aesthetically, like to see churches used for secular purposes but if they've been properly desacralized I don't have any strong religious objections.

> "holy spaces" remain exactly that: consecrated spaces that are in themselves holy regardless of whether a human congregation is present or not

This is true but it implies a causality that is backwards I think. Spaces aren't holy because of the consecration, they're holy because of the people that come there to worship together regularly over many years. If they stop doing that the church doesn't immediately "lose its holiness" or whatever but it does change: it becomes a shrine or a relic or maybe just a building.
I think you could rank a flat conversation better than you could a threaded conversation. What if the best comment in a discussion is a reply to a mediocre reply to a mediocre reply to a mediocre reply? Are you going rank a chain of mediocre replies at the top of the page and find many users won't bother to scroll down to the good one?

One could make the case that the real structure of a discussion is a graph and just because somebody posted comment Y as a reply to comment X doesn't mean that comments C, M and S say roughly the same thing as X and that Y could just as well be a reply to C, M and S.

One project I have on my board is a demo that reranks a huge discussion from HN and reveals the latent structure through clustering if not "deep analysis" techniques that are feasible in the LLM age.
No, I'm questioning your belief in the charity of developers or their lack of greed. "Better apps cheaper" is also a fallacy. If that were the case, they'd be doing it on whatever app store is available, not just some alt-store.
Wouldn't it be impossible to start with SELECT before the FROM and JOIN?
What browser are you seeing this in?
Arctic Instincts? The Late Pleistocene Arctic Origins of East Asian Psychology
Australian warships have sailed near China, through the Taiwan Strait, and participated in joint exercises in the South China Sea. (And a Chinese defense ministry spokesman asked if Australia would notify Beijing of its own exercises near China.) But those are heavily trafficked corridors where multiple countries’ interests intersect, whereas the only reason to be south of Australia or in the Tasman Sea would be to send a message, said Ray Powell, the director of the maritime transparency project SeaLight, who previously served as a U.S. defense attaché in Canberra. “That particular message is, we are able to hold you at risk,” he said.

Victoria Kim is the Australia correspondent for The New York Times, based in Sydney, covering Australia, New Zealand and the broader Pacific region.
I keep hearing about this "ageism" but it's never made sense to me. I would always want to hire an older, wiser developer, if I were calling the shots. Why is this a thing?
I've mostly worked as an IC and a manager in technical organizations outside of VC backed startup land. In those orgs I've found that most places consider 'Senior Engineer' to be a terminal level. By that I mean until you get to senior engineer it us up or out. In fact, as I manager, I've had explicit timelines on which I've had to get people to senior, or manage them out. Once you DO get to senior engineer they are happy to let you stay there forever because a) senior engineers are what keeps the tech org going day to day b) the staff+ path and management path are not just 'up' from senior - they are actually different jobs from senior requiring a different skillset. The downside of this is don't expect anything more than cost-of-living increases in pay.
Good idea. HN doesn't have a spoiler tag, but I added a warning.
It's not a lie, you've been sold a lie about what the statistics mean. Police shootings are proportional to "encounters with violent criminals", regardless of race [2]. Black people are overrepresented in police shootings because they are overrepresented in the criminal population, eg. 49% of known murderers are black, despite comprising only 13% of the population [1], and other violent offenses track this disparity. There is simply no convincing evidence that a large percentage of shootings are racially motivated once controlling for violent encounters.

Some try to argue that black people are overrepresented in the criminal population because of over policing, but it simply does not follow that this would cause almost 50% of murderers to be black. It would require a lot of special pleading to explain the evidence, eg. ok, maybe most murderers are black but most other encounters with police are racially motivated, and/or police would have to be letting upwards of 10,000 white murderers go to reach demographic parity with black offenders. These epicycles are stupid, you need to let go of this left dogma that vehemently believes that all groups are necessarily the same and only oppression drives observable differences in outcomes. Whatever the ultimate source of the group differences, police action broadly following the distribution of criminality with no racial component is best supported by the facts (there are always individual exceptions of course).

Proper statistical arguments like this debunked claims that the 2020 election was rigged, so as I said, unless you think Floyd's murder by itself justified the protests and the riots and the ensuing death, injuries and destruction, then neither set of protests/riots were justified. But it's interesting that only one of these false narratives is amplified as true and is culturally taboo to question.

[1] https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2018/crime-in-the-u.s.-...

[2] https://fryer.scholars.harvard.edu/publications/empirical-an...
Add something to tell new users to click on the next button to get going. The interface is so cluttered I had no idea of where to look or what this was for and almost clicked off.
look for smaller, private companies. They'll require you to do a broader range of tasks, but there's no progression because there's no hierarchy or formal management. Most of the devs I know who've been in the same role for longer than ~10 years work for < 50 people companies that will always be < 50 people companies.
Nope. Not at all. They put people on a path to citizenship, but they are not yet, till they are sworn in as a citizen. Residency can be revoked for criminal behavior, fraud, among other things.
I find it "amusing" that FB (or well, a lot of phone apps) can see how your relationship with people ebb and flow.

E.g. for a dating situation: new WhatsApp contact, growing frequency of texts, growing frequency of WhatsApp calls, culminating in a night where both phones were connected to the same SSID / locatable in one geo-location throughout the whole night, without their users checking them.

When that happens it'd be time to show them ads with the text "Your new love interest is highly interested in these products"...

It'd also be "amusing" to big-data the whole thing and get the computer to spit out the answer to the question "Where is this relationship going?"
Most of VRAN sites will be still DRAN (distributed RAN -server on site).
CRAN (centralized RAN) is a fairy tale so far and works very few scenarios like very dense urban. Still we are talking about 200/400G NICs being standard.

L1 interface is also more efficient than it was for previous G’s where BTS sent time domain data, modern FH sends only allocated parts of spectrum in frequency domain.
Art of Observation
> Once they can’t find any true victims in a reasonable amount of time, the industry will disappear

You're wasting more of your time than theirs. Think of it, you've already got your own answer. This is a whole industry and that implies people that work full time. How much time do you spend on this? Have you spent your whole day optimizing your workflow and answers to get an optimal response? Because they most certainly have.
"unlock codes or whatever"

As an engineer, I can tell you it's not even easy to keep things working internally - let alone support every possible integration. Just because it's easy to say, doesn't mean it's feasible to do.

But if you're convinced its what people want, there's nothing preventing you from making it your life - like other people have done with their strategies.
Russia Is Using Bitcoin and Crypto for Its Oil Trades with China and India
Try to think of this from the organisation's point of view. The up or out culture serves two purposes. It helps ensure senior roles go to people they know well and trust, and it ensures there is room for other ambitious and motivated people to move up.

In other words the whole objective is to have a well run organisation with motivated employees. The objective is definitely not to force hard working and talented people to leave.

If you are hard working and talented it's incredibly unlikely they will want to push you out and then go through the whole process of hiring and training a replacement. It's worth having a conversation with your manager before looking for a new job.
For many companies 'senior' engineer is a terminal level, meaning you can continue on it and will be respected if you do so.

As you've said, both Staff or Eng. Manager role carry out more responsibility, as they are both leadership positions, one being more technical and the other more related to people.

There's a natural push for sending experienced people into the Staff/Manager bracket but I see plenty of people in their 40s and 50s working happily as a Senior Developer.
Because explaining exactly what can happen when you grant WebUSB access is not as clear as with a geolocation prompt. You can't get meaningful consent from users - not all prompts are equal.
Scenario: A Canadian tech worker (software engineer) has been working in tech for 10-ish years, however, their University degree (general BA, BSc, etc) does not match the work that they've been doing. Would this person be SOL for a TN/H1B? To improve their chances would it be advisable to get a 1-year accelerated Master's in the field (CompSci, AI)?