skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You never hear "Oh we should give everyone a raise, that's just good business"

Lots of big tech companies give people raises automatically when they think they're too underpaid.

> Frankly, maybe if companies need to make such "good business" tradeoffs frequently, it shows that the people running them aren't actually good at business in the first place

I really, really don't get this. Sometimes companies overhire. Sometimes it's even their own fault that they've overhired.

Either way, clearly IT HAPPENS and sometimes companies will need to lay off workers when it becomes clear they're not useful enough to justify their pay.

It's not inherently a reflection on the workers or the company; most of the time it's a reflection of interest rates and nothing more.
Shiitake Log Inoculation (2023)
Calling it domestic terrorism is more than a bit of a stretch. Who is it that feels terrorized that an unoccupied dealership was vandalized?

The perpetrators should absolutely be charged for their crimes but talk about an abuse of the term. Can they even point to a single employee who is afraid to go to work as a result of this? Seems as though the media would be all over that storyline if it existed…
Amusingly, some media outlets confused the Scandinavian SAS airline with Britain's SAS Special Forces unit, and reported that the special forces unit had cancelled its trips out of Heathrow :) https://amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/live/2025/mar/21/hayes-s...
Hmm, the name seems a bit off. "Librepay" makes me think of a user-respecting service. Liberapay sounds like it is based in Liberia or something.
That looks like a news reporting helicopter?
Thanks for this. Yes, the key mistake was not tackling mobility before the iPhone.
Ok, so there is a server for Linux as well?
Plex remote stream no longer free; Plex Pass 2x price hike
> Very quickly and for no clear reason, America is saying FU to all these people

This is not something new, just more evident nowadays.

Things that USA has done for decades that have alienated other countries:

- Always has been at war, preferably asymmetrical, brutal wars for profit while claiming democracy and freedom.

- Many Americans are ethnocentric, ignoring much of the world outside their country. For example, its national baseball cup is still called the "World" Series? Or ask any American abroad which country they are from, and most will name their state.

- Not so ethnocentric Americans usually choose to do tourism abroad, and those are the ones most people in the world encounter. Obnoxious American tourists are a minority, but they're the most memorable, unfortunately forming the stereotype.

- Has appropriated the "America" name from the whole continent. United States of North America would be its proper name. Gulf of USA is small compared to that.

- Remember "Manifest Destiny"? It's still alive, just frequently changes names.

I could go on and on. I don't deny the blooming of USA after WW II was beautiful, bringing hope to a ravaged world, it seemed like everything it did was awesome. Unfortunately, it was superficial, and its flaws have become more evident as the luster vanishes. USA needs a whole makeover, right down from its constitution to their electoral system, and up to the international arena, to materialize the promise that it showed before.
Population much more than 8.2B, rural areas underestimated
Maybe it's time for a patent pool for non-trolls covering patent to behavior.
Some experiments spoke of pattern matching instead of reasoning:

if in math formulae, you altered a variable name, solving suddenly failed.

Could the example of "solve count of siblings" from the paper be implicit connections in the model, instead of reasoning?
> Is it also “taxation without representation” when NJ Transit charges me a fare to go to New Jersey or to drive on the Turnpike?

Is it a tax, i.e. a fee charged by a government? Yes.

Do you have a vote in that government, as a non-resident of New Jersey? No.

It's taxation. Without representation.

This why roads used in interstate travel are one of the few specifically enumerated powers of the federal government (the constitution calls them "post roads"), and funding them from general federal revenue rather than tolls is completely appropriate.

> Infrastructure costs money and the people who use it should help pay for its upkeep and externalities.

Infrastructure is dominated by fixed costs. Amortizing fixed costs per-use is economically inefficient because it deters productive uses whose value exceeds the (negligible) incremental cost but not the (sunk) amortized fixed cost.

This operates to the extreme in the case of mass transit because the incremental cost of mass transit use is negative, since its use remove congestion from the roads. Paying people to use it would be an obvious perverse incentive, but paying for a collections infrastructure in order to deter people from using it instead of just making it free is an obvious own-goal.
This really eloquently summarizes my experiences working at a “rocketship startup” that tried this - went from a team of 500 shipping like a team of 50 to a team of 1,000 shipping like a team of 50,000.
List of links and support documents for those interested in Gameboy Development (and example Homebrew ROMs)

Gameboy Dev: https://gbdev.io/

PanDocs (tech reference): https://gbdev.io/pandocs/

Gameboy Tech Ref Doc (gekkio): https://gekkio.fi/files/gb-docs/gbctr.pdf

Game Boy Development Kit 2020 (GBDK-2020) Reboot: https://gbdk-2020.github.io/gbdk-2020/docs/api/

GBDK-2020 Github: https://github.com/gbdk-2020/gbdk-2020

GBDK-2020 Examples: https://github.com/gbdk-2020/gbdk-2020/tree/develop/gbdk-lib...

GBDK Showcase (Homebrew Software): https://gbdk-2020.github.io/gbdk-2020-gallery/

Homebrew Hub: https://hh.gbdev.io/

Neil Young Album (Silver & Gold) with Cover Image produced using the Gameboy Camera: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_%26_Gold_(Neil_Young_al...
> However, I suspect its secret is that it's really a show for parents with young children that just happens to hold the attention of kids.

That's how a lot of successful children's movies/shows work in a way.

Have you ever rewatched older kids movies as an adult and realized how many adult-level jokes they slipped in that you never noticed as a child?

If you're asking parents to spend 1.5 hours at a movie theater, you better throw in some adult humor in there as well.
Early Thoughts on OpenAI's 'Agents'
Yes, $2.8B per developer is a clear indication that this study is delusional. The entire global wealth of the world is 450 trillion. Open source is 2% of that? I don't think so. Wealth includes labor, land, materials, homes and buildings, tools, weapons, renewable and fossil sources of energy, industrial and rural capacity, other capital, mines, etc.

Or maybe I'm wrong, and OpenAI and Anthropic (which produce AIs which can code decently) are massively undervalued at only a hundred or so OSS developers each.
Linux Security Hardening Cache Randomization Was Inadvertently Using Same Seed
> "The days of committing crimes without consequence have ended," said Bondi.

Your boss is gonna check into NY state prison?
I quit a 24-year SWE job after reaching KPI-induced burnout.

Volunteering three hours at the food bank makes me feel better than any day I spent at that job.
Graph Theory and Additive Combinatorics
There was a similar cartoon about ~2 decades ago, that had classical pieces. Little Einsteins. I loved that
Imagine what the usage data shows internally. While they can frame the statistics publicly any which way, it must be god awful low in a lot of their less prominent apps and features.

Now consider the Billions they've spent not only integrating, licensing, but also in opportunity cost towards other projects they could be working on.

I wonder if it will meaningly hurt Apple's reputation to the general public... they were doing so good with the m1 chip lines and to me it is fairly tarnished after chasing leprechauns for two years.
the way this world's going battlefield and operating rooms will be the majority use cases for AI anyway
> "When companies grow, they eschew the folks who helped build it from the ground up and are intimately familiar with the business, products and customers in favor of people who have 'worked at big companies'."

Microsoft's revitalization occurred only after Steve Ballmer was ousted and Satya Nadella pushed out much of the old guard who were set in their ways.
Discussion (60 points, 1 day ago, 68 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43422965
Yes. It's a simple statement of an obligation. The critique is against the existence of said obligation.
Would SipHash be too slow? I think it would help mitigate the problem since you can key it to prevent known-plaintext attacks, right?

EDIT: or maybe this keyed rolling hash https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/16082/cryptograph...
2025 and we still can’t flawlessly instantly play a web video when play is pressed.

What are we doing here?
Chromatic and spherical aberrations for VR lenses are actually not critical, you can just split RGB channels and pre-warp in shaders with reasonable performance penalties. That was one of breakthrough ideas of Rift DK1.
> The new request comes after the California Public Utilities Commission, which Gov. Gavin Newsom's administration oversees, approved six rate increases for PG&E in 2024

How are rate increases counted?

I don't know how rates work in California, but looking at rates in my state the power company for my region has a bunch of different rate schedules. There's the normal residential rate schedule, 3 different time-of-use based residential rate schedules that are being tested, and rate schedules for businesses (I think there may be several depending on the kind of business). They may be different residential schedules for rural customers and non-rural customers. I think there are also some different schedules for farms.

Depending on how you count you could end up with a dozen rate increases in a year but with each customer seeing 0 or 1 increases.

> [...] state Sen. Aisha Wahab filed a proposal, the Investor-Owned Utilities Accountability Act, that would [...]

> It would also cap any rate increase to no more than the Consumer Price Index, which is a measure of the average change over time in the prices consumers generally pay for goods and services.

Is the CPI appropriate for this? I would expect that the most important factors that affect the cost of running an electric utility would not not correlate well with the CPI. Shouldn't any cap be tied to something that more closely matches the costs of running the utility?
The policymaking with regards to industry is functioning more like a clearinghouse, where every interest group gets to have their targeted policy, than a coalition, where the event that one interest group's target policy would hamstring another member would result in dealmaking and some sort of compromise. Certain industries like the steel industry receive steeply protectionist trade restraints, but they're also being de-prioritized in favor of non-producing vexatious litigators who stop them from innovating. In essence this is similar to how some industries are seeing major policy-driven price increases on their outputs and inputs. Multiply that by every lobby and that's all I can interpret out of the big picture.
The UK is a Tier 1 partner. The administration seems like it's one Xanax-fueled dream away from saying the UK should be the 52nd state and suspending technical support in the exact same way the US has done to Ukraine.

That's the relationship between the two. The problem is not that these nations weren't Tier 1 partners. The problem is that the current administration cannot be negotiated with in the most damning sense of "these people can't even be trusted to work for their own self-interest."
A possible interpretation....

Using the insight from the top comment that "it all depends on whether u're counting the items themselves (1-based) or the spaces btwn them," the American way of numbering floors is based on counting actual floors (ie, the things you stand on) -- and the one at earth level is one floor. If you go up a flight of stairs, there is second floor to stand on, and so on.

For buildings that go underground, the "-" sign can now act as a signifier of being underground, and the counting works as normal. If you take the stairs down one level, you are on the first underground floor, -1.

Of course, you want to interpret it like a y-axis number line, where 0 is the earth, 1 is "1 floor unit" above the earth, -1 is "1 floor unit" below the earth, etc. This is the "space between" model.

Elegance aside, both can be viewed as logically consistent depending on your lense.
It's the BBC's news helicopter, according to the first result of a Google search. It's very easy to make these searches, and not invent conspiratorial nonsense.
Is there an example, at a very large company, of an individual who “failed up” actually creating a hit in their next act?

So many folks will tell you “I learned so much from my previous failure and without that I never would’ve succeeded blah blah blah.” I personally believe in that sentiment a bit, but just wondering if anyone’s aware of a well-known case where that’s happened.
Arrests in Tap-to-Pay Scheme Powered by Phishing
>> So actually, staying at the same company for a long time probably means you're trapped by a glass ceiling and not promoted

Some anecdotal evidence I've seen of this.

I worked at a large publishing company. One of the VP's had been there some ten years. Seven of those as the second in command as the senior VP. Three different times, they hired an outside CEO, passing him over and each time the CEO left after less than two years, they didn't even consider him. He's still there and its clear they have no desire to promote him to CEO. Even knowing this, he continues to stay there which also has a down stream effect where nobody below will be promoted into his position or a parallel VP position, so by him staying? It just stagnates everything below him. Managers leave because they know there's nowhere to go but laterally or out of the company.

More recently, I worked at a huge health care company. One of the senior directors recruited me to join a new AI team he was standing up to do various projects with some emerging AI tools. I felt honored he would seek me out. Turns out, this was his gamble to get promoted into a VP position that he had coveted since being a director for the last five years. Our team kicked ass for about a year, but apparently, it wasn't enough. During our afternoon team meeting, he just announced out of the blue that Friday (it was Wednesday) would be his last day and our manager would be taking over the team after he left. He pulled me into his office a few hours later and explained what had happened. He said his boss (a VP) had told him last month that no matter what our team accomplished, he wouldn't be getting his VP spot at this company. If he really wanted to be a VP, he would have to leave the company since herself and several other VP's, didn't see him as "VP material" which is crazy if you knew what the guy did in his tenure at the company. Unironically, he joined an AI startup as one of two of their VP's. He was there for three years and they got acquired for $300M of which he got a good chunk of.
ANSI/VT100 renderer.
A full terminal emulator would connect to a tty interface, run subshells and so on.
Music only settled on 12 equal tones after a lot of music theory and a lot of compromise. Early instruments often picked a scale and stuck with it, and even if they could produce different scales, early music stuck to a single scale without accidentals for long stretches. Many of these only had 5 or 6 notes, but at the time and place these names were settling down, 7-note scales were common, so we have the 8th note being the doubling of the 1st.

Most beginners still start out thinking in one scale at a time (except perhaps Guitar, which sorta has its own system that's more efficient for playing basic rock). So thinking about music as having 7 notes over a base "tonic" note, plus some allowed modifications to those notes, is still a very useful model.

The problem is that these names percolated down to the intervals. It is silly that a "second" is an interval of length 1. One octave is an 8th, but two octaves is a 15th. Very annoying. However, it still makes sense to number them based on the scale, rather than half-steps: every scale contains one of every interval over the tonic, and you have a few choices, like "minor thirds vs. major thirds" (or what should be "minor seconds vs. major seconds"). It's a lot less obvious that you should* only include either a "fourth" (minor 3rd) or a "fifth" (major 3rd), but not both. I think we got here because we started by referring to notes by where they appear in the scale ("the third note"), and only later started thinking more in terms of intervals, and we wanted "a third over the tonic" to be the same as the third note in the scale. In this case it would have been nice if both started at zero, but that would have been amazing foresight from early music theorists.

* Of course you can do whatever you want -- if it sounds good, do it. But most of the point of these terms (and music theory in general) is communicating with other musicians. Musicians think in scales because not doing so generally just does not sound good. If your song uses a scale that includes both the minor and major third, that's an unusual choice, and unusual choices requiring unusual syntax is a good thing, as it highlights it to other musicians.
Linux 6.14 Sees Last Minute Fix for a Two Year Old Regression 30% Perf Drop
> In my opinion Zoom should be investing heavily in this, and Zoom’s market is the one newcomers stand to gain.

I'm genuinely unsure if you're saying all this with a wink: we're into year 10 of VR Neue, it's been a tarpit for all who got in, and it sounds like an absolutely horrible idea for the video call company to dump money into VR for...eye contact?

Note the headset that supports this is $1200. And that's par for the course for eye tracking AFAIK.

I love VR and against my rational side, still invest in a premium headset every year two.

Price, historical market, corporate finances, and responsible stewardship aside, I absolutely cannot wrap my head around the idea that VR eye contact with an uncanny valley head replica and/or cartoon improves eye contact over...just seeing your eyes...so much that it's a killer app.

(my poor unfortunate Vision Pro and it's rapid dropoff in sales seem to indicate this very strongly as well)
Show HN: Bonsai – A Competitive Ternary Weight LLM
Introducing Bonsai 0.5B, one of the first ternary-weight LLMs to rival full-precision models of similar size, such as Qwen 2.5 0.5B and MobileLLM 0.5B.

Trained on just 3.8B tokens, using 1,000x less data than other models, Bonsai redefines what’s possible for ultra-efficient training in low-bit models.

Next, we're building larger and more powerful ternary-weight models for the edge.

Technical Report: https://github.com/deepgrove-ai/Bonsai/blob/main/paper/Bonsa...
Model (Unpacked): https://huggingface.co/deepgrove/Bonsai

Reach us: team@deepgrove.ai
0 is logically superior regardless of how any of it is implemented under the hood. It just makes more sense.
Yes, but then you've removed parent comments' assertion that everything should be done by the RDBMS. And you've changed the contract of the action.
On the one hand Tim Cook has done better than I expected, but on the other hand I’ve been increasingly frustrated with the company
It’s been just over a decade since I lived in China in a tier-1 city, but back then it was common to hear things like rural people would have multiple children, with only one registered.
the use or threat of violence to instill fear and achieve political or ideological goals, often targeting civilians

Doesn't seem like a stretch to me. If I was looking to buy a new car, I would be hesitant to buy a Tesla because they're being targeted.
Internet Artifacts
Sure, and we can call major sixths "one-point-six-eight-one-seven-nine-threes". Or "one-point-six-sevens" if you're a bit flat.
Not increasing the money supply isn't an assumption, it's a choice.
Sounds absolutely brutal for sure. I didn't mean to sound like everything was fine in JavaScript land, they have been chasing the shiny new thing and focusing too much on the wrong abstractions for a while. Even backend frameworks aren't free from this same problem, when you look at the support and migration woes in big players like rails/laravel/django. I suppose thats less frequent though.

I'm not sure how you avoid it in any framework without rawdogging pure HATEOAS and vanilla concepts. Recently I've gravitated towards Django and HTMX and its felt quite refreshing.

Keeping your tech stack up to date inevitably brings some pain and suffering along. I do wish more frontend frameworks cared about backwards compatibility.

The web dev influencers really push the latest and greatest memes. One day they are putting out a video of how Firefox is the worst browser in the world because it doesn't support some niche variety of CSS gradient and the next they are gushing over something like Zen (a Firefox fork).
All my kids listen to those audiobooks on repeat. Narrated (and sung!) buy the author.
It’s not. And the fact that you think they sing songs makes me think you’ve never watched it.
> This emphasis on single-family homes in their data sources affects the generalizability of their conclusions about the impact of supply constraints across different types of housing markets, especially in dense urban areas where multi-family units and rentals are more prevalent.

People generally seem to struggle with the fact that it's the land, not the house that's on top of it, that's valuable in desirable metro areas, but this reality suggests something really quite lucky, which is that eliminating land-use restrictions probably won't tank single-family housing prices, even as it lowers rents.

Incumbents get richer, because looser zoning rules mean the land is more valuable. Renters and those who otherwise couldn't afford to be incumbents get cheaper rent. It's a fortuitous win-win.
I think some of it comes from a sense of admiration or even awe of complex systems. You’ve just been introduced to some of these tools as a college student and you really want to use them as they seem so neat.

But then as you start dealing with over-engineered system, you become intimately aware of the downsides of poorly abstracted system and you start becoming much more careful in your approach.

At least, that’s my pet theory.
> As the person who personally ran 10.6 v1.1

Do you mean Mac OS X 10.6.8 v1.1? Otherwise, I don't know what you mean by "v1.1".

In retrospect, I'm guessing that you meant N.1, e.g., 10.6.1. But 10.6.1 certainly didn't solve all of Snow Leopard's problems. Like I said before, the "stable" Snow Leopard everyone loves was the result of almost two years of minor updates.

> you are wrong(ish).

> So yeah, if you are comparing the most stable polished/fixed/stagnant last major version with the brand new 1.0 major version branch, the newer major is going to be buggier. That would be the case with every y.0 vs x.8.

In other words, as you admit, I'm 100% right. ;-)

Every new major OS update introduces new bugs, that didn't exist in the previous OS, some of them horrible, and Snow Leopard was no exception.

Remember this one? It's hard to find a worse bug than total user data loss: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/snow-leopard-bug-respon...
from vibe coding to vibe management
https://archive.is/6N7Qr
CSE138 (Distributed Systems) lectures [video]
That default by itself makes me want to run away from this project, fast, because it implies there are similar business-destroying footguns elsewhere.
Ask HN: What is the simplest data orchestration tool you've worked with?
Along the lines of Airflow, Prefect, Dagster, Argo, etc. What produced the least WTF per minute?