skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anyone remember polywork.com ?

Their tagline was "Your professional network"

They closed in early 2025

LinkedIn may suck.

Let me retract that.

It definitely sucks (For me - it sucks because of non-professional posts in the feed. memes, political rants, funny pics etc.)

But there are good parts as well.

The most important thing going on for them is they have network effect.

Everyone (and their grandma, as they say) is on LinkedIn

When I was interviewing, I used to check the LinkedIn profile for the candidate as well. (Lot of times, after the interview in case I had good things to say in my feedback form)

Having said that - Best wishes to OpenSpot.
Has anyone read the decision? I'm curious what the actual legal justification was for not refunding customers for removing functionality. It seems so baffling I'm wondering if there was some technicality.

Also, why is the article misusing the term "bricked"? Bricked means a device doesn't work at all, and that it can't be fixed with a reset or further update -- not that it loses part of its functionality. These printers work as soon as you put HP ink in them, right? Their functionality has been limited, not bricked. (I'm not defending HP at all, just saying let's use the right words for the right things?)
Sudden Trump administration order prompts Bay Area company to lay off staff
That's basically the idea behind https://reporeach.com
The tech necessary for steam engines was available by the late Roman empire

Archimedes even demonstrated the principle of heated water caising a sphere to rotate

But there was little use for it, without substantial investment in other areas. Horses for land transportand human rowers for ships were just cheaper and more practical

It would take another 1500 years before Watt found its use for a pump
and Karl Benz the car.
The review definitely needed to happen.

With a scalpel. Not an axe.

And preferably not by a bunch of Silicon Valley chads who call themselves "Big Balls" and who might've been checked for security credentials before taking the job.
It's an obscure way to statically allocate memory for the ospace pointer.
(Re)writing an interpreter in Rust (2022)
Humans aren't the only ones whose social circles shrink in old age
about 50% of women in us are Trumpists
what do you mean by thread number?

the notes will always add at the bottom

Did you expect a different behavior?
The solution is to keep fighting, not give up and decide that we can only ever have corruption and despotism, with the only choice being whether we are the oppressed or the oppressors.

A better world is possible, whether you believe in it or not.
I recently discovered them and made an entire homelab based on the atomic OS and rootless Quadlets, can highly recommend them. They also allow to use systemd socket activation. Which means you can create systemd http/https sockets for example and activate Traefik automatically just like ssh.socket and podman.socket activates sshd.service and podman.service accordingly. It's a lifesaver since this is basically the only way to preserve source IP in rootless setups (rootless Podman/Docker usually doesn't easily allow to preserve source IP without major drawbacks).

https://github.com/savely-krasovsky/homelab
Luckily most of us live in democracies, where we can just decide whether we want the rules to allow this kind of differentiation.
This is a wrong mindset. Just because its technically possible to obtain DNA we should all give it up easily since its already a lost cause? Its one thing if you are specifically targeted for whatever reasons, then yes one is screwed.

Another is to have all info and weaknesses automatically available to 'the man' or more 'the men', no need to make things too easy for them and jump ahead in queue.
it's not just trump. did we forget the US was evesdropping on everyones communications years before trump? trump was just the last straw.
Are their laserjet MFPs bad?
Giant mine machine swallowing up Senegal's fertile coast
Perhaps the Pastafarians were right? [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Spaghetti_Monster
Few things rival the satisfaction of solving an extremely complex problem with numerous constraints by producing an elegant, simple solution. When your best thinking, experience, knowledge—and often collaboration—lead to such clarity, the feeling must be similar to what mathematicians like Euler experienced when discovering their most beautiful proofs.
See the OpenSSH bug above.
Yep. There are three parties here: HP, the people they hurt, and the class action lawyers.

It’s better for both HP and the class action lawyers to get a resolution that doesn’t cost HP too much, doesn’t bind HP’s future actions, and pays out nicely to the class action lawyers.
Dark Sky used that data for hyper local forecasting…

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22740466

https://www.theverge.com/2015/6/22/8822767/dark-sky-weather-...
So does the government and probably ancestors.com … what’s the big problem here?
Show HN: Subledger.app – A Modern Accounting Ledger
Hey HN!

We are working on Subledger, -a modern accounting ledger with a focus on productivity. Subledger has native integrations to the tools companies use (like Stripe, Gusto, Google Sheets), a UI designed for quick, efficient work and a lot of automations.

Building accounting software is actually a pretty crazy thing to tackle with a small team and few resources as there are lots of things that need to be built, the market is crowded and the competition very well funded. Yet that is exactly what we are doing.

We are a small team of 5 people and we are focussing on building an exceptional tool for finance teams at startups.

Different to other modern accounting ledgers who usually sell themselves as "full AI accounting" we believe that human's should be in the driver seat. Automations should empower human finance teams to get more done and to focus on higher level tasks but ultimately the software is built for people.

Some of Subledger's features include:
- Fully automated transaction classification
- Magic inbox to send invoices and receipts which get automatically matched and filed
- Access to over 14,500 banks in the US and Europe via Plaid & Gocardless
- Deep integration with Google Sheets which allows to e.g.
- Sync your trial balance to a sheet. Awesome for reporting, financial modelling or advanced workflows
- Load accruals from Google Sheets safely and easily. Allows complicated schedules and makes adjusting them super easy
- Integrated accounting copilot with access to your ledger. It can give you meaningful insights into your financials and make entries. You can ask the copilot anything but it is especially useful for complicated accounting processes like for example some depreciation schedules or accrual accounting entries.

Subledger is focusing on small and growing companies at the moment. Eventually our sweet spot will be companies at or after approximately the series A stage where efficient work becomes more important and processes start to get established.

If you try out Subledger, shoot me an email (e.g. by responding to the registrationg email), mention that you are from hacker news and I will give you an additional 200 monthly journals you can use in the Free Forever tier. This should allow a small company to do accounting in Subledger completely for free.

We got lots of additional features planned and development is very fast, -the benefits of being a small team.

The easiest way to test is to click on "View Demo" on subledger.app. We would really love to hear your feedback!

- Johannes
There are 4 methods of determining developer quality: Empirical metrics which can be misleading, or gammed. Team consensus which can devolve into a popularity contest. Manager "impression" which can be manipulated with strong people skills and "impression management", or letting an AI algorithm decide who is the most productive. No evaluation system is perfect and most are very flawed which is why management is both an art and a science and those that can do it well are very rare and in very high demand and therefore often deserve the compensation they receive.
this is the absolute nadier of container/cloud/devsecops chinstrap hipster nonsense. we want to turn the entire system into a docker container because reasons? without ever addressing the sins of flatpak and the performance hit from containerization vs bare metal? what exactly is the win here?

"Bootc allows you to make an OS the same way you make an application, using containers!"

but why.

"There is no denying that most applications are shipped today as a Docker container"

postfix, dovecot, nginx, veloren, gnome, hell roughly 16,000 packaged applications in the EPEL repository do not insist upon themselves as containers. Forgejo doesnt require a docker container either. the only people pushing docker are developers who are trapped toiling with some teetering monstrosity of rails/gunicorn/pypi dependencies that are so odious and brittle to deploy in a normal fashion that a containerized offering is the only way people would ever use them in the first place.

is this just another attempt to market capture my desktop with a proprietary backend store like snaps? or force me to sign up for a docker account just to log into my laptop? did a docker C level write this?
> ... the old method was too hacky and involved the usage of redundant commands.

> There must be an easier way, you might think. Especially if you experienced the convenience that Docker Compose provides.

I really hope this new approach helps people migrate from Docker to Podman. Docker-Compose is the reason a lot of people resist switching (including myself), and admittedly, Podman didn't really have an answer until Quadlets. If you were hesitant about migrating from Docker because of Docker-Compose, Podman with Quadlets is a much more comparable alternative. You probably won't miss Docker as much as you think, and you'll benefit from enhanced security running rootless containers.
That's exactly the same reasoning we heard during Covid, injecting massive amounts of money into the economy was supposed to be perfectly safe and even a good thing. Definitely not supposed to lead to any inflation. Guess what happened next.
Yes, it's a map that provides efficient random deletes and contiguous hole-free storage, proving that they are not completely at odds with each other.

If you don't care about the map part, you can get the same behavior by just moving the last element in the place of the newly removed element. This invalidates all indices, which is what the DenseMap's overhead is meant to avoid, but Vec's remove also invalidates indices. Vec's remove is strictly worse except that it preserves the ordering if the Vec is sorted.
By evolving it sounds like they also mean shrinking
> The political class is now debating ways to increase pressure on the population

Could you share links to those discussions?
If it makes you feel better, in the U.S. we learn that the Wright brothers used Lilienthal's glider data extensively in the R&D phases of their work. He managed to gather a lot of data on gliders and glide slopes which informed the brothers' earlier work. Their achievement summits their peers only in qualifications, the first:

- powered

- controlled

- heavier than air

- sustained

- flight
It was a settlement agreement, so there doesn't need to be any legal justification.
I expanded that to other products they have.
Yeah, I think it's non-obvious that you can name a lifetime 'frame not 'f - yes the compiler won't know you named it that because it's only supposed to live for one frame, but that's also true for your variable named timeout, Rust can see it's a Duration, so it has appropriate affordances, but it can't know you meant to call set_timeout(timeout) and not just store it somewhere.

I have a backlog item to find Rust docs which use a concise lifetime name but could value a better one, however there aren't actually that many cases other than the scoped threads which do indeed name the scopes 'scope and 'env showing that we can give these meaningful names.
Bug report: Your example uses "example.site.org" instead of "site.example.org". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Example.com
Once 23andMe gets sold, all of that data belongs to whoever owns it and they can sell it to whoever they want. Perhaps to the government where they can do a warrantless search to find a relative of someone who may have been at a crime scene. Or to other governments. Or to insurance companies who want to play deny, defend and depose. I get that a lot of genetic information isn't predictive, but not all of it is so questionable.
Similar accusations have been constant recurring themes since the emergence of the Dutroux case, and from other cases that have emerged since then.

That link was the first random link that popped up, that, from memory, was illustrating the theme at hand.

No, I wasn't willing to do a deep dive into the putrid sewer of child abuse to satisfy the need for a "better" link.

It's upsetting enough to know that these things exist, and I have absolutely no need to make it my area of expertise and focus, for my own well-being.

If you want to, knock yourself off.
While their European production lines were down because of the switch to the new Y "Juniper" version?

Of course sales are down if you start the quarter with near zero inventory and shutdown your factory.

Also, the Y lines were also down in the US and in Shanghai. It was the first time they launched a new version globally and simultaneously.
I use these all the time and I LOVE them! They simplify such a tedious and annoying process, and it makes Docker compose (and Docker in general) look obsolete. It's definitely worth the effort to learn them.

The only issue is that they're not widespread yet, so often I have to spend the time to port a Dockerfile to a set of quadlet files. I've gotten fairly proficient at it by now, but I can see why most people would rather use podman compose instead.
JoyOfHardware
This is something Im' working on. I'm wondering if other folks would like to learn how to design their own CPU, compiler, or how to write kernel drivers...

I've gotten the basic guts of an IDE working that runs in the browser. 1st version was written in Rust - currently rewriting in pure Elm targeting page loads under 500Kb. I've even got programming FPGAs from browser working in Chrome over WebUSB.

Budget so far has been pretty minimal(less than $2k US) which was enough to stand up twelve servers I got liquidated from a warehouse.

I got the idea for this after working on https://yehowshuaimmanuel.com/posts/sunsetting_fastwave/
You're probably thinking of "slabs" or "slotmaps"
My Color Laserjet M478f-9f purchased two years ago is amazing. It required no configuration for phones or computers, scans and faxes prints, and is generally a high quality piece of kit. It is the best printer I’ve owned, and I have owned a few Brother laser printers and old school Laserjets. Hell, I owned one of the first NEC postscript laser printers back in the 90s.

It’s not cheap, but it just works.

I can’t defend the bullshit business practices, but the “medium” business class Laserjets are high quality. I wouldn’t touch anything SMB or residential with a 50 foot pole.
GP is talking about something else, and arguably in agreement with your view: for a technology to come about and stick, you need a perfect storm: all the pieces being available and a source of continued demand for it. The former you need for an invention to be made; the latter you need for it to survive - to continue being made and to spread worldwide.

WRT. rocketry, this is a story of technology getting almost, but not quite there - it was all evolving at a rapid pace, until suddenly demand disappeared. It's not that demand for rockets wasn't there at all - just not at the price point which designs from the 80s/90s commanded What Elon did with SpaceX, was to focus on dropping the price. That involved revisiting the reusable boosters idea, which didn't pan out then because they didn't have to worry about money as much. It got perfected and productized by SpaceX now, because it was a road to cheaper launches - and they got them cheap enough to meet the existing demand (and create more of it).
Are you a taiwanese? not many people here know about Ko Wen-je

I don't think the reality allow taiwan to be the player but not the pawn on the table

the best taiwan can do is trade itself for as many benefits as possible

> Sometimes I think if Taiwan had not developed an in-demand economy, it would be left alone by major players to be more independent

what does the US want from taiwan? the semiconductor industry and a frontline battlefield to contain China

what does China want from Taiwan? unification, that's the highest priority for CPC, not the economy

> the Taiwanese got themselves to this position of some power, maybe they are figuring out how to use it, and I wonder how.

the semiconductor industry of taiwan, you think it's the power, but it's not, it's the treasure of taiwanese people, and between China and the US, only one does not intend to rob it from them

for taiwanese people, the wisest choice is to trade with China by itself to preserve the treasure

taiwan only has leverage when it faces china

trading with china, taiwan itself is the leverage, taiwan gains peace and local industry, and it lost independence, liberty and democracy - but how can it lost something it doesn't have

currently, taiwan is on its worst path, trading with the US, gave its most valuable treasure away for nothing

just think what the deal between taiwan and the US could be?

- Hey, can you please don't rob my industry?

- what will you give to me?

here, taiwan's only option is to fight against china for the US

but, of course, if you values 'democracy and liberty' as the treasure, things will be very different
No. I have one and it’s great.
I just want to remind everyone that El Capitan, Frontier and LUMI supercomputers are powered by AMD instinct cards.

El Capitan is #1 in TOP500. Frontier is #2, LUMI is #8.

ROCm development is probably mainly driven by the needs of these supercompuers' users currently.

So, we're seeing the tip of the iceberg.

Also ROCm packages continue to land on Debian, so there's more than meets the eye.

Note: Search "AMD Instinct" at https://top500.org/lists/top500/list/2024/11/. There are way more systems.
I wonder if, after becoming successful, every company ends up turning into a law firm - ie dominated by lawyers and accountants. Instead of innovating, the only thing they know how to do is extract money from their product line in increasingly user hostile means.
NASA's very early launches were hardly more reliable. But there was always an overlap with ICBM development and national defence. So reliability improved quickly, and one of the goals of the space program was to showcase that reliability.

Once Apollo was running the success rate was 100%, with no boosters lost - an incredible achievement, not just of tech but of project management.

NASA of the day didn't need shielding, because it was already doing the job with no excuses.
Tugela Falls
Speaking of HP firmware updates:
https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-Video-Display-and-Tou...
> an AI algorithm

In reality this is just some secret combination of the above metrics (assuming there are no "bugs", which there surely are).
Could the future users (or the users who were not part of current suite) start another class action ?
My HP LaserJet MFP was a very good deal. It just works. Toner is expensive, but for residential use it lasts seemingly forever.
So are stem cells a 'real' thing now? I can never tell, and I'm not sure that I trust a website called 'medicalxpress' (which has a nag screen that ominously warns me about the 'consequences' of my using an adblocker).

I have torn shoulder labrum that I've been living with for 8ish years now. It doesn't affect me enough to need surgery, but given the option I'd love to fix it without having to go under the knife. I sporadically hear about stem cell injections as a possible fix, and as a sports fan there are always stories about athletes using stem cells to repair serious injuries. Sometimes these stories involve the athletes traveling to another country (Germany, Thailand, Mexico, somewhere) where stem cell treatments are legal outside of the FDA's bureaucratic purview. (The FDA has been working on authorizing European sunscreen for the last 25 years, BTW). The UFC now advertises a Mexican stem cell clinic. I asked my ortho last year about them and she said 'maybe!', which I suppose is better than 'no they're a total fraud'. Are these claims even approaching reality? Is the science of stem cells getting closer at all?
Fair point. I think the title can be more accurate by changing API into "REST API". Since I cannot edit the title as of now, I hope mod could change the title to be more accurate.

For more context, this tool can generate an MCP Server from an OpenAPI/Swagger file that describes a REST API. This does not include SOAP APIs, GraphQL, or other APIs that use the HTTP protocol.
Phrenology thrived and was heavily celebrated only one century ago as well.

In the case of PRS assessment where it's already an established discipline, and not at all as unreliable as fortune-telling, it wouldn't be so hard to weaponize it.
> third-party toner requires cannibalizing the chip from original cartridges which I’m too lazy to do

Isn't this exactly the shenanigans being discussed? You should be free to use third-party toner without having to do this.
>if you really did hire 5 Tims you would deliver in 1/5th of the time and the software would actually be decent on the first iteration.

depends on how the tims mesh. Every company thinks that hiring only experts leads to a superior product, despite software being a collaboarative effort.

>I didn't become a senior by being mentored by other people, btw. I became one because I've always loved doing what I do, and nothing more.

The good mentors I had definitely helped. If anything, they reeled me in to realizing that being a good SWE is not about solo diving into problems and expecting to come out with solutions everytime. It's to understand who owns what and who to consult when landmines inevitably come up. Even if I could solve it all by myself it just wastes time compared to a quick Slack message or a 15 minute meeting.
When my first HP printer died after a few years, I had assumed it was bad luck since a relative with an identical model had no problems with his and he thought mine dying was somehow my fault. It continued to be used by him for something like 15 years. Seeing his printer continue to work, I brought another HP printer thinking it was just bad luck. Then that one died a few years later. My relative’s printer kept going, so I assumed it was bad luck and I brought a third HP printer that was an AIO model.

During this time, I noticed that the ink costs were ridiculous, so I brought a Samsung laser printer and stopped printing with the HP printer, only using it for scanning. 19 years later, it is still around. The ink cartridges no longer work, but it is used as an occasional scanner.

Since having to use xsane to make copies for my father was annoying, I brought an AIO canon color laser printer a year or two ago. Now I have three printers, and they all work, except for the HP, which is not given the new ink cartridges that it needs.

That said, I now realize that the secret to HP printer longevity is to not use it as a printer. That is how my relative’s printer lasted so long, as he likely printed infrequently. His was a print only model, so he did not even use it as a scanner like I do with mine.
Some of your comment is wrong, IMO. Some of it is correct. Last year I would have jumped in to correct your errors. But I've since sold my stock and am considering selling my car.

One of Tesla's greatest assets were its fans. We've been burnt. Let the haters win.
Both comments are correct.

AlmaLinux was originally launched by CloudLinux. It was then transferred into a new purpose specific foundation.