skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I can’t tell you the number of times people have asked me for “development” or “leveling” conversations where I get excited and start talking about learning, skills gaps, and such and it’s clear all they wanted to talk about was salary. Disappointing.

I mean…these people are rational and they want more money, which is an objective metric. In a confusing world of HR jargon, levels, lack of clear links between output and compensation, what else could you expect? It’s on you, the manager, to link the financial metric to specific tangible results, whether past or future.

If high performers are having these “I want a raise” conversations, it’s because they know they are delivering, they want a sign of progress in their career. They may already be gathering market data of their real price through interviews or at least discussions/research. This means they are already at risk of moving. Lack of insight into this from managers is “Disappointing”

In my own experience, and having guided others through these conversations, managers need to always have some clarity on what they could provide to the people reporting directly to them.

The timing should be determined based on an understanding of what is best for the company. E.g., what maximizes retention or other key organizational metrics.
People talk in hushed and revenant tones of SICP despite it having little to do with modern computing architecture. Perhaps x86 is still a great way to cut one's teeth.
Blue Jeans Cable Monster Wall
Everyone in every position of power wants someone else to be the one to fight, not write letters, not ask nicely, but to fight. To not accept excuses on why an outcome is unachievable, but to make that outcome happen despite resistance, just like republicans do. It is the American way.

Everyone should read Mattis's, a republican and second in the US military chain of command, letter on Trump during his first term: https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000172-7c37-d3d2-ab7a-7f376...

James Madison wrote in Federalist 14 that “America united with a handful of troops, or without a single soldier, exhibits a more forbidding posture to foreign ambition than America disunited, with a hundred thousand veterans ready for combat.” We do not need to militarize our response to protests. We need to unite around a common purpose. And it starts by guaranteeing that all of us are equal before the law.

Instructions given by the military departments to our troops before the Normandy invasion reminded soldiers that “The Nazi slogan for destroying us…was ‘Divide and Conquer.’ Our American answer is ‘In Union there is Strength.’” We must summon that unity to surmount this crisis—confident that we are better than our politics.

Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people—does not even pretend to try.

Instead he tries to divide us.

Again that was written by the second in Americas chain of command. The appeal to congress in this post is written by people who have been second in the chain of command to America's military.
Isn't arxiv meant for research level papers? Surprised to see this hosted there.
Yea it turns out when you divorce politics from anything that matters it just becomes reality tv. Americans are too moronic to wield the power they claim today so it's hard to feel anything negative about this.
Two favorite games. The infinity engine / interplay crpgs were all a blast until iron heart where they rushed it out the door. Even that has a ton of promise first half to third if the game.

https://rpgcodex.net/content.php?id=10505
Thank you everyone for your feedback. Part 2 is now available here: https://a-i-nstein.neocities.org/pages/part-2.

I've addressed the mobile viewing issue. I'll also be working on adding a Table of Contents.

As I'm new to Rust and unfamiliar with unconventional programming paradigms, I understand that some of the concepts I'm exploring may not be idiomatic for experienced programmers. My hope is that this series offers something new to everyone, and I'd be happy if it introduces even just one new concept to someone. That would be my contribution to the community.
Gawker destroyed Gawker, they acted like toddlers themselves and lost in a way that seemed like they were trying to.
Eh, we had Reagan and Schwarzenegger and others before too
> drops items when you're done with them.

That is what GC languages do. Too

You can get serious resource leaks in any language if you are careless

What Rust guarantees is you cannot derefernce a null pointer
> I found that there’s a slight aversion to creating new types in the codebases I work in.

I've encountered the same phenomenon, and I too cannot explain why it happens. Some of the highest-value types are the small special-purpose types like the article's "CreateSubscriptionRequest". They make it much easier to test and maintain these kinds of code paths, like API handlers and DAO/ORM methods.

One of the things that Typescript makes easy is that you can declare a type just to describe some values you're working with, independent of where they come from. So there's no need to e.g. implement a new interface when passing in arguments; if the input conforms to the type, then it's accepted by the compiler. I suspect part of the reason for not wanting to introduce a new type in other languages like Java is the extra friction of having to wrap values in a new class that implements the interface. But even in Typescript codebases I see reluctance to declare new types. They're completely free from the caller's perspective, and they help tremendously with preventing bugs and making refactoring easier. Why are so many engineers afraid to use them? Instead the codebase is littered with functions that take six positional arguments of type string and number. It's a recipe for bugs.
>> given that the US have become hostile to Europe

I'd like to comfort you that this is not true for the majority of Americans. We are having a hard time wrapping our heads around what our new government is doing.
I've noticed that too. But it would have happened sooner or later by someone

And drug lords have built soccer fields for the poor and dictators made freeways and cheap cars and rockets

I'd say FBs semi open source (not fully unrestricted iirc) was less unique or inevitable that the good actions of other notable evil organizations
Don't forget Schwarzenegger too, but both he and Ventura are objectively less evil than Thiel.
This is so foreign to me, as a forty-something. Why do we let schools take security theatre to such tragicomedy. It likely breeds more killing than it prevents.
Maybe it's this part of the abstract?

>Our approach incorporates a beta policy distribution and a multi-critic architecture to model contact-guided motions, exemplified by a challenging quadrupedal robot skateboard task

I'm not an expert on this but maybe someone here can explain it a bit about a beta policy distribution and a multi-critic architecture and how come that is good to model contact-guided motions?
This is probably one of the best lawyer notices I've ever read.
For anyone curious this is the product (and catch phrase) he was most well known for: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tABjjmd_XsE
This sounds interesting. I think you're jumping into the tech too quickly though.

I think the first thing you should do is introduce agentic AI? What is it and what can it do that previous computational paradigms couldn't? Jumping into an introduction to IntelliJ feels extremely dry.

I also suspect the cognitive science and theory of mind stuff will be a distraction if this is a practical workshop focused on building agents. It's interesting for sure, but those discussions tend to be result in people sharing their BS opinions.
Also can someone explain what the [flagged] in the title means?
Wow pretty sure that’s the first time I’ve read a nice polite legal letter shared that wasn’t threatening.
It’s technically not an all or nothing deal with hdmi/dvi. That is to say that bit errors do indeed manifest as image artifacts, though normally imperceptible. I think some people understand that error correction is normally present in digital audio, so they naturally assume that video would be the same. But that is not quite true. For one thing there weren’t cheap chips that could do that at gbps data rates when DVI standard was first created. It was not until DisplayPort 1.4 that they added optional FEC. This is required because a bit error in a compressed stream would manifest as an entire macroblock busting, which affects potentially a large pixel area and multiple frames.

All that being said it’s unusual to find a cable that is both clean enough to do the handshake and keep sync but noisy enough to give you visible snow. So it’s still quite true that practically speaking, yes, it’s usually an all or nothing deal. Cable quality can and does matter though. I was a BlueJeans customer for a long time before the brief Monster spat, but it endeared them to me, and I still try to buy from them when I need to buy a cable I need to be absolutely sure of.
Yep, exactly. The whole thing is just theater. I hate it. I know I can just use X11 (and I do), but the already small appetite for developing for linux will be stretched even more thin in the coming years and we will probably only have Wayland apps. The bright side however, is that Wayland could make itself so utterly garbage that people just ignore making apps for it (I'm not counting apps targeting just kde/gnome, which anyway diverge far enough from wayland protocols to warrant being mentioned separately). So we would have X11/KDE/Gnome support for linux apps. That's probably the best case scenario.
> Own up for what?

The epic failure that was the launch of de-google’d Apple Maps. Apparently Tim didn’t like putting his signature on the apology letter apologizing to customers.

https://web.archive.org/web/20130110043350/http://www.apple....
One thing I dislike the Bethesda games is that quests are too shallow. So many times, I wondered while playing the games, someone could put some extra love into some of the quests to make them much more in depth and more interesting.

Alas, budget and time limited I guess.
One of our friends has a great one - they (husband and wife) both say "Carry-catcher". For example: "Man, that portrait looks more like a carry-catcher!"

(caricature)
Also, do not forget using “--” after all options, but before any dynamic arguments, just to be safe.
U.S. Government Removes Tornado Cash Sanctions
I agree on the part of people criticizing when convenient; I had the same thought when watching "The Social Dilemma" on Netflix.

I read Careless People, and if I was in the author's shoes and if what she says was accurate, I would've run away screaming within my first two years. The fact that she portrays herself as morally upstanding, and yet stayed so long even after seeing some truly reprehensible stuff is difficult to digest, and I do think that there were many signs that she knew she had neither the power or the means to actually make the changes she says she was seeking. She also makes excuses that she wasn't paid as much in her initial days because she didn't know about stock compensation and she just took the first offer they gave, but that rings a bit hollow to me, because that difference would've been amended within a few years, once she got promoted and figured out the general compensation range at Meta. Also it's not like she didn't have career options outside of Meta.

While the hypocrisy grinds me, I still feel that getting these stories out is important; morally upstanding people who quit early will not likely see and experience the full extent of the bad stuff companies do, and people who participate but stay quiet will not bring the bad stuff out in the open.
Thank you! I have no CEO, I built this in 2 days myself, so let's see
Normal blenders have substantially more cleanup work involved.
Isn't it equivalent to an actual grill in that regard? I haven't heard anyone say that a grill is abusing meat.
What your link says is correct about `&'static T`, a lifetime on a reference. What GP says is correct about `T: 'static`, a type constraint. They both use the "keyword" 'static, but in different senses.
In the 1965 book Night of Camp David the president's cabinet realized he was insane because of his fixation on annexing Canada.

In 2025 Americans are so anesthetized even the "opposition party" can't say the obvious out loud in public. Let alone the president's cabinet.

People voting for a dictator isn't equivalent to 3/4 of the legislatures ratifying an amendment to the Constitution. The People have not given consent to set aside the Constitutional order.

If the People want to set aside the Constitution, they must do the hard work of convincing enough people in enough states to do it lawfully. Otherwise it's settled with might makes right.

For all the flaws of the founding fathers they definitely understood power. How it gets consolidated. And how to fragment it. Their advice is polyarchy.

What we're witnessing is autogolpe to establish a CEO-dictator, the consolidation of power. In no universe are Trump, Vance, Musk, Thiel, Yarvin on the right side of history. And they will fail.
I remember buying audio gear (think receiver, amplifier, cd player) and being the focus of the upsell for 2-5x more expensive monster cables.

Once I patiently explained that a cable shouldn't matter for digital as long as the bits got there, and seeing the young sales guy pause and then "get it". And I got the (relatively) cheap cables.

Also speaker wire. You can get perfectly good copper cables for less, probably in a thicker gauge wire.
What exactly is this BSD world that you speak of? The one that was mined by corporations for years and whom never gave back anything (except value to Apple shareholders).
Compare with Linux which was adopted by corporations and were legally forced to give back.
Which made more progress?
I watched the teaser video and was disappointed to see that — despite half a century of precedent — these so called experts failed to include, and focus on, some really gnarly stacks, nosedives and face plants.
Canada doesn't need a US-made missile like the UK, they could drive a regular truck into the heart of any US city
This is spot on.

They're not concerned about their own security. They believe that they will have access to tools that will make them safe, but that "those people" will be deterred, and it is acceptable to give up some basic safety for many to catch "the bad people."

And, historically, they weren't necessarily wrong. The problem is more that all of the tradeoffs and probabilities from history have been thrown at the window, because it is now trivially easy to phish the majority of a population and getting a master key gives you access to hundreds of millions of individuals that you can reach from around the globe rather than a couple dozen that you can get to in person from a particular apartment complex.

Understanding encryption is not the problem. Understanding scale is the problem.
I have both a cast iron grill pan and a Forman. I use the Forman frequently because it heats up fast, cleans easy, and reliably cooks both sides at once…without oil, butter etc.

The grill pan has none of those attributes and can’t press a grilled cheese.

Yes it takes up counter space and is ultimately going to the landfill. I wish that were otherwise, but for me, they aren’t deal breakers.
Definitely, but it's very hard to convince your whole family to adopt this practice...
Maybe the original post should have been prefaced with ‘I know you’re specifically asking about job prospects, but here’s a language without job prospects that I think is cool’. I’m not saying that learning lisp would be a mistake, and not saying op could do with some guidance relating to which languages to learn, but I don’t think the original post is a good way of discussing either and imo is misleading in what it presents. I also don’t think a 14 year old learning to code should start with lisp.
Are you implying GP’s story is an exaggerated brag?
> they should rewrite the kernel in Rust

I adore Rust

Please don't!

Can we get on with innovating on the backs of what went before, not reinvent it...
It's not 100% of nothing. If the choice is proprietary because they legally can't freeload off FOSS due to it being GPL, the company in question still needs to pay a developer to write the alternative. That's still a positive, and nothing lost. Permissive licenses just grant to freedom to freeload, nothing more.
To be fair in 2001 php was the underdog of tech stack. It has just got ride of the PHP (Personal Home Page) taste in the language mouth. So wouldn't be surprised if some company running solaris would kick him off.
Calculations change at 10+ meters. Most cables are not rated past 15.
That question (regarding the unit of mass, not the volume control) does apparently have an answer[1,2], and the answer (if true) is really funny: this was in fact the original plan, and the proposed unit was called the grave[3] (pronounced “grahv”). Then the French Revolution came and that name’s similarity to the word grave (count, the noble title, from German; cf. English margrave) led to it being superseded by the gram.

I don’t like the reference I have, though, so take this whole story with a grain of salt.

[1] https://phys.libretexts.org/Courses/Prince_Georges_Community...

[2] https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/64562

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grave_(unit)
I’m going to be honest, I try to assume good faith from others on this forum but your comment makes that particularly difficult. By “issue that you and I would rather discuss” are you referring to the Secretary of Commerce’s unprecedented public endorsement to buy a specific stock, of which the President’s primary advisor is the majority shareholder? Because if that’s what you’re suggesting well, that’s pretty wild. Especially considering the second paragraph of the article highlights exactly what the article is about:

“Why it matters: Cabinet secretaries don't typically recommend individual stocks, much less those linked to the president's closest adviser.”
> This mode is what PostgreSQL uses by default. I don't know MySQL.

Assuming the InnoDB storage engine, the default recently changed to Direct I/O as of MySQL 8.4, see https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.4/en/innodb-parameters.ht...

It was common to set this even before it became the default though, since InnoDB maintains its own buffer pool caching scheme, and there's no sense in duplicating data pages between the InnoDB buffer pool and the OS cache.

The general idea is that you should assign the majority of the system's memory to the InnoDB buffer pool, and then use direct I/O to bypass the system cache, since InnoDB can manage memory more intelligently than the OS. This is because InnoDB has a better understanding of your workload and its own data structures, vs the OS cache being more general-purpose.

Other MySQL storage engines behave differently, for example MyISAM had its own caching only for indexes but relied on the OS cache for row data. (if I'm remembering correctly, that is; been a long while since I've touched MyISAM. It's a non-ACID engine and generally should not be used.)
FB marketplace is a terrible market. It does not allow exact searches. It forces scrolling hundreds of ads in the hope of finding what I need. Even Craigslist had (has?) far better searching. If you do something crazy like sort by distance half the ads disappear. It is full of scam ads (I have given up trying to buy used phones, for example). Sadly I am forced to use it because that is where all the local person-to-person selling happens.
We (engineers) actually wanted to for another GPL’d project! But because they didn’t have a CLA, the lawyers wouldn’t sign off on it — they decided that the main/current maintainer didn’t have the rights to relicense it for us.

We probably would’ve for LZO too; not sure why that fell through.
Welcome to the world of audiophiles.

This kind of hyperbole for the magical powers bestowed by even the smallest (or most dubious) accessories is a source of unending amusement for me, if it wasn't so foolish.
Recommended George Foreman movie, When we were Kings.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_We_Were_Kings
If only Congress was structurally capable of listening to reason.
The original (https://www.bluejeanscable.com/legal/mcp/response041408.pdf) has so much more. It is truly a work of art:

> RE: Your letter, received April Fools' Day

> Let me begin by stating, without equivocation, that I have no interest in infringing upon any intellectual property belonging to Monster Cable. Indeed, the less my customers think my products resemble Monster's, in form or function, the better.

> Similarly, as I note further below, you omit reference to another patent Monster has held which appears, frankly to be fatal to your position. If you expect to persuade me, you had better start making full, open and honest disclosures

> It looks like when you sent this letter, you were operating on the premise that I am not smart enough to see through your deceptions or sophisticated enough to intelligently evaluate your claims; shame on you.

> You are welcome to point out any errors in my reasoning; but I have to say that I will be unreservedly surprised if you are successful in doing so.

> It may be that my inability to see the pragmatic value of settling frivolous claims is a deep character flaw
AI startup Perplexity confirms interest to buy TikTok
I'm not sure we're using the same terminology. Committed means the transaction has been hardened to disk. That's the D in ACID.

Otherwise, is the suggestion that there be an artificial delay to allow other transactions to piggyback before returning success on commit 1?

Should that be a default? (That was the context of this thread)
Link to Part 1 HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43378165
It kinda doesn’t matter; Individuals aren’t making foreign policy decisions day-by-day, Republicans leaders are. Until we effect change in our government, we are hostile to most of our allies.
Couldn’t be too hard to find max batch time in the mysql source and see what it does…
> Reality is in favor of the powerful and wealthy. It's practically a tautological statement that powerful people are more powerful than those who are not.

"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread."

-- Anatole France
I'm pretty sure all of them, as well as the most reliable voter age bracket, all grew up with lead in the gasoline still.
Some friends of mine back then had a reason I think may have been pretty common: they lived an apartment building that didn't allow combustion grills on the balconies. And coincidentally this sort of rental property is exactly the type to have an absolutely fake junk "extractor" for handling smoke in the kitchen. So they could put the Foreman on the patio and do an okish job with some steaks or burgers without smoking up the whole place.
This is what happens with a damaged or underspecced cable.

The HDMI standard doesn't have a way of telling you that you really need an HDMI 2.2 cable and you actually have an HDMI 1.x cable. It just tries to send the signal, and if the analogue bandwidth of the cable is insufficient, then the error correction will be insufficient and you'll get no signal or snow and blocks.

This is somewhat of a good thing, since many short HDMI 1.x cables will work for standards that require HDMI 2.x.
I love osdev. I don't know what the end game is for me, but there's something really cool about being able to just create... whatever I want. It all sort of clicked for me when I was able to get some basic x86 interrupts and syscalls working. Once you get the syscalls going, the world is your oyster!

Seriously, I would highly recommend tinkering around with a hobby OS. I used it as an opportunity to learn Rust and I got more than I bargained for. Now, I feel somewhat comfortable in Rust AND I can throw more double and triple faults than most people in the world.