skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the author confuses simple likability for charisma. Charismatic people generally have a lot of likability, but not all likable people are charismatic.

Charismatic people aren't just able to get people to like them, they are able to persuade people to adopt their viewpoint. When someone charismatic wants X to happen, you find yourself also wanting X to happen.

This distinction matters, because the easy path to likability is agreeability: simply do what the people around you want you to do. They'll all like you, which is definitely valuable. But it won't necessarily get you closer to your goals.

Charisma, which is a quite rare trait, has a special balance of likeability and dis-agreeability, where people will get on board with your plan and feel good doing it. It's the ability to increase their agreeability.
54% of [US] adults have a literacy below a 6th-grade level - https://www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/post/literacy-s...

Not surprising that books like this succeed.
Arcade raises $12M from Perplexity co-founder's fund to make AI agents less bad
Starting in v7.0, ravendb has ve tor search and ai integration
Run on windows , linux and mac
Oh that is cool to know, thanks.
Hey, this is pretty slick! I'm not into smart wearables myself, but if I change my mind (or if I have to recommend one to family or friends) I know where to look!

Question: does either of the model have NFC capabilities, or is there any plans to add this feature in the future? I am looking specifically for a way to pay contactless with Graphene OS (which does not support NFC payments because Google does not want to).
I use this every day: https://github.com/runekaagaard/mcp-alchemy
isnt it efficient though for these capabilities to exist? why not nationalize them instead and make them accountable to the public
Do you think the Newhouses are more reliable owners than Bezos?

And they might be. Journalism is their business. If Bezos had to choose between Amazon and WaPo, he'd choose Amazon.
Cross-compilation with Cgo can be resolved using something like Zig as the compilation toolchain:

https://zig.news/kristoff/building-sqlite-with-cgo-for-every...
TIL - I did not know about eastern music notation. (Thanks!)

When I was young I had a vision of future programming as people in front of screens moving colorful shapes and forms (not talking visual programming here) to make 'harmonious' forms. :) The general idea being that (imo) AI is a misnomer and there is something 'special' about human intelligence. So that vision, when I tried to interpret it later, seemed to map out to something along the lines of 'aesthetic choices' on a meta-level. That is the 'thinking' machine 'state' was represented as images to humans and they made aesthetic choices, with man and machine each doing what they excel at.

But back to present reality, there is little doubt that over reliance on these tools will cause skill atrophy and at some point there will be a knowledge and comprehension disconnect between the operator of the tool and the artifacts created by it. This is likely already true for many beginners who are cranking out software using LLMs, but the overall field hasn't yet experienced it since the experienced software engineers already know and understand the code being generated; they are just using it to amplify their output. But they (imo) gained that knowledge due to years of hands on practice.
On (FB) Messenger and WhatsApp. It's not the same.
This is super fun!... until you meet someone who is just sweeps (pun intended) the floor.

There is no way for me to even play with some players. I wish I could "block" them, because the fun is gone when every tile is gets completed before I can even react.

My best game was my first, where I played against people my skill. Whenever the user "rapidash" is in the lobby, I might as well just quit, since I won't be able to get in more than one or two correct placements.
Thank you for mentioning DeSantis. It helps that Zelenski also built an image of being a battle-hardened soldier.

When Zelenski was criticized by a reporter during the meeting with Trump for not wearing a suit, his comeback was that he'll go back to wearing suits ("costumes" though I hear that may have been a mistranslation on his part) when the war is over. The reporter was trying to frame his attire as disrespectful to the President, Zelenski's response made it clear that he'd have found wearing a suit disrespectful to his people who don't have the luxury of returning to civil life until the war ends. Make of that what you will but it signalled confidence and empathy. It came off as authentic. Trying to compensate his height with footwear would have had the opposite effect and conflicted with this.

DeSantis on the other hand tried to appear "tough" and decisive but was ridiculed for his footwear because it was so obvious and so exaggerated that it made him appear extremely insecure about his height. But I think it would have looked even worse if he had been in Zelenski's position (and wearing a uniform) because of this contradiction.
This just hasn't been updated since it was forked from the initial OSS release from Google, I've started a discussion on the firmware Discord to update it.
Unless you're talking about some specific Wiz<>customer contracts, how do you know?

AFAIK, there are no explicit laws forbidding that. Maybe you could share what law you think this would be breaking?
If your boss was any good at his job, he did most of the reporting and communication to keep the skip level happy.

Either he wasn't, or you are just not aware of all the work he was doing.

A good manager is a shit umbrella. Most of my managers have been good.
Apple has majority share in the US.
That’s funny because after using Cursor with Claude for a month at work at the request of the CTO, I have found myself reverting to neovim and am more productive. I see the sliver of value but not for complex coding requirements.
+1 for Weaviate. It’s free, open source, cross platform and has a very active developer community with good docs/events/hackathons. Really friendly people to deal with in their community Slack too.
Be thankful you've never heard of Deel. It's the worst PEO I've ever used, by an extremely wide margin, having used 3 others.
Lol, you're asking for it by using apple.

I'm still recommending Apple to family members (less support needed from me, and I can always say I have Android and can't use apple so I can't help). But you have to go all in. If you want non apple stuff, just use something else. And if you can use Linux etc., why are you using Apple? Other then being lazy, which is totally ok.
Surprisingly fun, and a strange feeling to be interacting with other people in this comment section so immediately yet opaquely.
100% agree that decisive anti-trust action is needed. In addition, many of us can (and do) choose to just not participate (to the best of our abilities) in the nonsense from these companies.

Many of us are not required to use Apple devices (and we choose not to). Additionally, many of us are able to choose privacy-respecting Android variants (like GrapheneOS). It sometimes is less "convenient", but IMHO it is better then surrendering to the duopoly...
An external work done by someone else is implicitly owned by that creator.

i.e. if Rowling wrote some description about a bigoted neglected single mom striking it rich, and someone else actually wrote the work... than ownership is not guaranteed without legal assignment of rights to said work (depends on the location in the world). Thus, a publisher may not pay the muse unless under legal obligation of rights transfer, and having similar works further complicate exactly who owns the copyrights.

When you publish media or games, than the providence of assets/compositions become extremely important in a commercial setting.

I didn't make the rules, but do hire project artists all the time. The paperwork involved ends up ridiculously complicated, and requires specialized lawyers. This is why we avoid "AI" content, cloud based GPU service, and any vendor ignorant enough to force the issue. =3
It's because your headphones were sending a Bluetooth "Play" command on connect (my Honda Odyssey does this as well). For anyone else with this problem, you can override this silly default in macOS using Privacy & Security > Bluetooth, adding Music, then turning off Bluetooth access for Music.
> I think this over focus lately on communication in engineering is making work suck more. This is how politic players dominate and technical work doesn't matter as much as how you sell impact, real or not.

Yes, tech companies have become more about ladders, optics, proxy metrics, performance review than about building, experimenting, leading with technical skill.

This happens because tech got infected with corpo MBA-style practices. Obviously, not a thriving environment for innovators. Great environment for corporate leeches who themselves can't do anything but want to tell "others" what they should be doing.
1 EAF is a very minor amount of infrastructure compared the gasoline infrastructure for hundreds of thousands of cars and the energy usage of hundreds of thousands of cars.
> If tariffs change dramatically, we will pass these costs along to you and require further payment, even for US orders.

Under the "What if the tariff situation changes?" section on https://store.repebble.com/

I was excited and about to purchase one until I saw this "We might not ship the device unless you pay us more" thing. I get that the economy is very up in the air right now in the US, but sucks that seemingly ordinary businesses are losing international business because of it.
"create"?

The keyword you're looking for is "data loss prevention", it's a thriving market.
Vibe coding will create more jobs to (1) clean up the mess or (2) spread the vibe.
what's so bad about android
You didn't really address the value of charisma. You just vented against ladder climbing corporate engineers and insinuated you are mean in code reviews.

Charisma isn't lying or being sensitive, so you aren't opposed to it.
I've still had some settings thrashing with my raybans - sometimes they will refuse to read messages and ask me over and over to enable a setting, which is already enabled. Seems more likely to be an Apple issue than Meta given it has roughly coincided with iOS upgrades.
I mean you could just not buy apple's stuff
I can't help but wonder if any apps have tried doing TLS-in-TLS, with the outer TLS not caring about MITM, and the inner TLS doing certificate pinning?
>A PE of 5 is not a growth stock

PE is not the same as PS (price to sales or revenue). Startups and growth companies are often valued by PS since they have revenue growth, but are often not yet turning a profit (making their PE < 0).
Anybody tried S3 tables? How is your experience? It seems more tempting now that DuckDB supports it.
> No pinning virtual threads is huge. Finally you can virtual thread with near-wild abandon, as God intended.

I see that formerly it pinned virtual threads "when it executes code inside a synchronized block or method", and "frequent pinning for long durations can harm the scalability of an application by capturing carriers". You were supposed to "avoid frequent and long-lived pinning by revising synchronized blocks or methods that run frequently and guard potentially long I/O operations to use java.util.concurrent.locks.ReentrantLock instead."

How big a problem was this in practice? On the one hand, I think "harm the scalability" is putting it mildly—if you have a whole bunch of virtual threads doing IO, only running num_cores of them at once is devastating. On the other hand, holding a lock while doing IO smells wrong. Is this really common?
And those independent contractors get no WW or WIA, have to pay their own AOV and ZVW and if they are sick for a month their contract is not renewed.

So the difference is not even _that large_.
"conspiracy". When you meet employees of such companies they brag about it and sometimes even do special tricks through their contacts to impress you.
That isn't stamina, but perhaps a corrective for the lack of stamina. The stimulation is meant to increase pleasure, hence making it easier to stick with something. Stamina means the ability to endure the lack of pleasure in pursuit of the good.
> Japan’s homogeneity allows its government to teach a certain lifestyle to kids with no backlash.

Are they teaching 'lifestyle' - how specifically? Does the US not teach it? And do you have any evidence that homogeniety has something to do with it?

Often "homogeneity" is a dog whistle for blaming minorities.
Vibrating.
just in case anyone else is running in to this problem, there is a solution

https://github.com/tombonez/noTunes

this will prevent itunes/apple music from opening
The kids would say aura
Strange - I would expect a workplace that doesn't allow mics to also disallow bluetooth
tbh all of this sounds extremely suspicious. nothing they do google can't do, market share is not there for $32B, it's a couple of years old company. If it's not money laundering, which I presume it's not, what is it? It doesn't make any sense.
Replying to text messages on Garmin watches doesn't work with iPhones. It works fine with Android. But Apple has restricted that messaging functionality to only their own watch in a monopolistic and consumer hostile move.
I am not familiar with the pebble SDK or notification API it has. Smart watches usually will display whatever notification the mobile devices instructs it to display.

If you get a push notification on your mobile, I don't see a reason why pebble won't display it. The thumbnail image might be fixed but all the text content will be shown. And FWIW, the entire thing is open source so you can go in an add it, or open feature requests, etc.
I have never understood why 'computer' workers are exempt
That sounds like FB Messenger and WhatsApp. I'm guessing they do some server side workaround that wouldn't work for regular text messages or Apple-y messages.
Nice! I didn't realize Apple licensed that tech to others. Definitely good to know.
Trouble is that most major governments are democratic, meaning that the governmental powers that be are the very same people (the population at large) who are already not willing to do anything about it. The majority will clearly isn't there at this time (that can change in the future, of course).

Government is a useful tool to clean up the dissenters who wish to act against the will of the people, but under a democracy you cannot believe that the majority are the dissenters. That defies the entire premise.
Hey Paul, thanks for your writings. I enjoy reading your blog. You were one first blogs I started following with an RSS reader (after Vicki :)).
https://youtu.be/qhHMycRPQ9M?si=KL9xTcCwii5eX8Ho
antisemitism was often driven by race and not religion

germans in the holocaust murdered jews that had converted to christianity or simply had a jewish parent or grandparent
This is an incredibly valuable analysis.

In simple terms, performing a relatively simple RL on various tasks is what gives the models the emergent properties like DeepSeek managed to do with multi step reasoning.

The reasoning models and DeepSearch models are essentilly of the same class, but applied on different types of tasks.

The underlying assumption then is that these "specialized" models is the next step in the industry, as the general models will get outperformed (maybe).
Acceleration, social time, and consumer culture: notes on experience
the entire market is down today, tech especially
Building and maintaining a functional marketplace (e.g. through common-sense anti-trust enforcement) is about more than just optimizing for a specific outcome...
> The world is no more dangerous now than it was then

It's a lot safer than the 1970s in most places.
My home network doesn't use stateful DHCPv6 either. I agree there's no need.

The bigger thing is carrying this "you don't need it" attitude to a product used by billions. Thousands of network operators who do not believe in "you don't need it" are now forced to make their network work for Android. If those purists had guts they should go to the IETF and formally deprecate stateful DHCPv6.
Same. I actually like that Apple locks down everything to their own devices, in general, because I believe (from my limited knowledge; I am no insider) it's more secure. Perhaps not, but I trust Apple to release products that are fairly secure, and update them for several years. Whereas with Android, I'd have to trust the phone manufacturer, Google (ewww), and all of the companies that have bloatware installed by default. I do wish there were more 3rd party integrations for those who want them (without sacrificing security), but as for me I am perfectly happy giving Apple my money to get good hardware and decent software that works together well (way better integration than anything in the Android/Linux/Windows world).
If there's a case to make on Apple hindering a competitive landscape, then it would possibly be a case of violation of the European Union's DMA (Digital Markets Act), as Apple is not allowed to favor their own services over those of competitors in visibility, functionality, or integration within iOS.

But the EU is a blunt instrument that needs to be sharpened sufficiently with explicit facts. And then still, possibly a very slow instrument...

As for the US justice system.....not sure whether there is any interest to pursue such a case these days...
I wish I had realized this when I was younger. People overestimate raw intelligence and underestimate sheer persistence. Just staying with a problem longer—pushing past the point where most would quit—feels almost like magic. Time + focus can take you incredibly far.

Stubbornness might just be the most valuable trait a scientist can have.
What's up with leaders deciding they need to build a new city somewhere to accomplish some policy?

Is there any evidence that all the time and expense and inefficiency of a new "city" somewhere really pays off?
Optional is not good at all. It is not enforced by the compiler and optional itself can be null. In hot loops it can allocate like crazy. We need compiler support to enforce nullability and to get null into the type system.
Seems like a disingenuous and cynical reading to me.
Presumably the same as the original Pebbles, which were able to feed step data and HR data into the Apple Health app.
i understand why they don't want usa but why "buy european" ? when they could partner with allies like India for lower costs and speed to market.
Right, so persevere correctly, but don't persevere incorrectly. That would indeed be correct, top tip there Aquinas.

I'm reminded of the sunk cost fallacy.
I also thought at first that G acquired the budget smart bulb company but then I realized it’s “WiZ” and not “Wiz”.

https://www.wizconnected.com/en-us
Don't forget the classic "Oh, that 3rd party app/feature is so popular, I bet we could build a identical/slightly less useful thing ourselves so people don't have to use other things than Apple software ever"
This is old, old data, but Condé Nast supposedly does better than you'd expect because they own prestige magazine brands people actually pay for.
I mean, if it was worth it, you would do it again right, because the alternative is worse?
> Thus Kotlin will always be a guest language

If you a writing libraries for the JVM, Java is preferred to Kotlin because it does not drag along a standard library dependency.

To be fair there is Kotlin Multiplatform where this is not the case. https://kotlinlang.org/docs/multiplatform.html
I'm confused what you mean by "brigade". I see two comments that are replying to you with clarifying questions. No one has denied your statement, only offered opportunities to clarify your meaning.
In a recent interview , one of the founders claimed that one of Wiz smart moves was using a graph database for mapping cloud resources and their relations, while perhaps all other competitors used SQL or NoSQL.

It helped them “get to the point” quicker and “cleaner”.
I don't think we need any major government intervention.

What we need is a law that requires companies like Apple to allow their customers to install and run the software they wish, and provide external developers with the same OS features their internal teams have access to.

Europe and Brazil already have such laws, though they could go farther.

In the US we had this bill, which would have covered most of these issues and had bipartisan support: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_App_Markets_Act
> the stats show 2K hits for some pages on some days

This has been happening since long before LLMs. Fifteen years ago, my blog would see 3k visitors a day on server logs, but only 100 on Google Analytics. Bots were always scraping everything.
Google Health Sync as well?
> It's not like anyone is suing Ford or Dodge for only making accessories that work on their own cars and trucks. It's not like anyone can legitimately complain that Ford is anticompetitive because they aren't making themselves compatible with Dodge oil filters.

You're conflating two different things here.

One is, are their oil filters compatible? That isn't a problem; they can be incompatible. They're often incompatible even with other vehicles from the same manufacturer. Larger engines need larger oil filters etc.

The other is, does the company prohibit compatibility? If a new company wants to make engines but not oil filters, so they make a car engine compatible with existing Ford oil filters, or someone wants to make oil filters for Fords even though they're not Ford, does Ford do anything to inhibit this? In general they do not, and if they did, that very much should be an antitrust violation.
Yeah OSRM precomputes routes so if you just need the same mode of transportation and not dynamic params (like avoid tolls on this route, etc) it's gonna be a lot faster. Valhalla was designed for flexible/dynamic routing
Elimination of phantom vibrations. You always know when your phone buzzed if your wrist buzzes right afterward. Also nice to see what a notification is without having to take out your phone.
100% agree with those statements. It would be nice to have a more robust API and this more options but unless forced to I don’t see Apple doing that and honestly rightly so.
Hmmm.. i like the idea of tagging, thanks for feedback
The Forgotten Artisan Behind Frank Lloyd Wright
There's a whole section in this article called "Motivation" which tries to highlight the importance of soft skills in general for engineers. It doesn't begin with just charisma. Charsmia is just one part of the soft skills overview this series is going over it looks like
I always think about the PagerDuty example:

They have their own datacenters, telco infra etc b/c if Amazon, Azure or GCP goes down they want to be able to say:

"They all went down but PagerDuty alerts still went out to our clients".

In other words, there are examples where managing your own infra IN ADDITION to using cloud services is adding extra tolerance for giant failures in the tech suppliers.