skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I want to highlight this blog article which in my opinion gives more actionable advice than all of the books listed (I read 6/8 of those) on the topic of having good social life

https://www.neelnanda.io/blog/mini-blog-post-23-taking-socia...

tldr; taking social initiative is like a cheat code.

The easiest way to make friends is to start organizing. I started applying this approach to my social life and I created two new friends groups from scratch.

1. Me and my brother started organizing lasertag matches. Basically anyone is invited. We even post open invitation to all our friends. Right now we have 20 people in our group chat and we do lasertags + beers once a month.

2. I created a group of friends from highschool - like a reunion shit but once every month. When I reached out to people everyone was hyped. I had only one of these meetings atm but everyone was happy and said they want more. We will be having a second one soon.

If I needed more friends that's what I would be focusing on. Organizing a cyclic get together of people. It's like a cheat code for having a lot of friends.

Right now I am a bit of time constrained but I look forward to organizing something different in the future.
Assigning values like -v as an int and allowing -vvvv to be easily parsed is a great compatibility feature for existing utils.
i wonder if an llm could have spotted the malicious patches to autotools in the dist tarball...

a public, deterministic and assured build facility for oss would be cool. also maybe a deprecation of autotools.
There's also Sweelinq (https://sweelinq.com; subscription model), and Grand Orgue (free, but cumbersome; only a few worthwhile sample-sets), and there are some instruments for Kontakt.
To the best of my knowledge, seL4 is not AVX-512 aware. The AVX-512 state is not saved or restored on a context switch, which is clearly going to impact efficiency.

At present there's 16x64-bits of register state saved (128B), but if we were to have full support for the vectors, you need to potentially add 32x512-bits to the state (plus another 16 GP registers when APX arrives). Total state that needs moving from registers to memory/cache would jump to 2304B - a 1800% increase.

Give that memory is still the bottleneck, and cache is of limited size, a full context switch is going to have a big hit - and the main issue with microkernels is that a service you want to communicate with lives in another thread and address space. You have: app->kernel->service->kernel->app for a round-trip. If both app and service use the AVX-512 registers then you're going to have to save/restore more than half a page of CPU state up to 4 times, compared with up to 2 on the monolithic kernel which just does app->kernel->app.

The amount of CPU state only seems to be growing, and microkernels pay twice the cost.
They can deny entry to non-citizens for basically any reason, including "you have a wiped phone and won't give us access to your cloud account", so... yeah probably best not to do that. Or at least make up a plausible reason for it.

I think a better option is probably just to delete any app that might have critical comments on it, like social media etc. And then you can just say you've quit social media.
> What you want is measuring business outcomes but those are hard to attribute to a particular developer.

I think we could solve this by eliminating some middle tiers and putting the developers on the actual customer calls every week. Each senior developer owns at least one customer. That sort of thing.

It's a completely different ball game when you are a developer on some B2B/SaaS and you are answering directly to the customer regarding your work. There's no one to hide behind - your teammates are now aside you and can only render supplemental aid. Once you have developers answering directly to the customers, you have a simple, ~boolean, qualitative metric that virtually any manager/investor can get behind: Is the customer happy?

If the developers are keeping the customers happy, then they are performing. If the customer is unhappy, then there is a performance issue. Whether or not most or all of it can be attributed to blockers on the customer's side is irrelevant at the senior levels of play. Developers should be helping the customers get unblocked. Offer meetings & screen share time. Generally, make yourself as available as possible. If you do this correctly, the customer is likely to take note and provide you with some amount of cover (i.e., not be in a raging fit when they call your CEO).

There is no reality in which you can inject more middle management or process to get developers to take more accountability. The only thing that works is to get them out of the bullshit matrix and in front of the customers. They need to experience how it feels to work directly with a happy customer and then realize how important it is to keep them that way.

This path also happens to solve a whole host of other maladies in technology business, most notably shiny rabbit chases. When you have the fear of god in you regarding the client, you aren't going to be as inclined to play in traffic with a NuSQL engine on their watch.
>nofollow

Most links are nofollow these days. Those still provide SEO value. Google will find your site very suspicious if your dofollow to nofollow ratio is too high.
Absolutely, back then I was in love with some of the tracks in the second game that had this tribal ambiance mixed with electronic music. The entire art direction in the series is fantastic in fact, all those colorful ships straight out of Jodorowsky's Dune... Beautiful!
I love the work (and the direction) the Karlsruhe team did on L4Ka, especially with Pistachio - the design was clean, simple, easy to grasp.

I did a Pistachio-based OS for my diploma thesis (not at Karlsruhe). I always thought that if I'd been studying there, I'd probably go into OS research.
What exactly does society even with a strong safety net (which I support) owe anyone? Universal healthcare? Yes. A method to enable people to have safe shelter? Yes. Even public transportation to get to jobs - Yes. I’m even in favor of affordable public college education.

But everyone should be able to own a home? No.

People today are living all across the country and not be homeless and the people who live in the poorest states repeatedly vote for politicians that want to cut government services and cut the safety nets. Right now they are cheering DOGE. Why should I feel sorry for rural America? They are getting exactly what they voted for.

We are under no obligation as a country to make sure that people who want to live the rest of there life in the MiddleOfNowhere Oklahoma can stay there for the rest of their life who don’t want to move. Besides again, these people overwhelmingly voted for politicians who don’t want to help them.

They are also cheering for the dismantling of the Education department, defunding colleges, cutting Medicaid, inflationary tariff policies, etc.
There are lots of sources around Chinese dumping of steel for the past decade. Hard to find a good authoritative summary though, because every country and domestic steel lobby is running their own response. But e.g. from the UK in 2017: https://business.leeds.ac.uk/research-ceric/dir-record/resea...
Yeah, I have probably conflated the two technologies somewhere along the way. And if I had read all the way to the footnotes of the original article I'd have found the keyset's chords. They do are counting in straight binary, going from a-z in order. Add mouse buttons for modes to get uppercase, numbers and what not. Interesting really that such a simple scheme worked.
I could've sworn I remember something about bash and glibc cooperating to indicate which arguments come from expanded variables but I cannot find anything on the internet or in the sources. Either I'm going insane or it was an unmerged proposal.
Thanks, I fiddled with the volume and would have given up without your advice.

And this web app is indeed very cool. Enviable idea & execution!
The "good reason" is that OSM is supposed to contain real data, not wobbly AI guesswork data.
My doc put my on amantadine for post covid symptoms and I felt like it gave me mild dementia and had to stop :/

edit: Fun fact, the side effects were so bad I made a very big mishap that destroyed a (very very expensive) f-class flight simulator.
> But everyone should be able to own a home? No.

Do you seriously want to turn this discussion into lower-class rental / apartment discussion? Okay, fine. Lets go there.

https://ipropertymanagement.com/research/average-rent-by-yea...

Average rent in 1980 was $243/month. Average rent in 2025 is $1397/month.

For those who cannot afford a home, life has gotten worse. For those who _can_ afford a home, their life has gotten worse. It doesn't matter where you plan to pivot this discussion, its all bad numbers for your discussion point.
Bizarre. But thanks. I'll end with by saying - don't let your intense desire to support a person blind you from what the behaviour of a decent human being might be. Good luck.
> it's consistent in the Go community.

Except it's not? There are tons of flag packages in real use, because the stdlib one kind of sucks. Even the "go" tool itself works around some of its limitations (things like "go test ./... -v" won't work out of the box, since it will stop parsing flags at the first non-flag, so the go command reorders os.Args before sending it off to the flag package).

Things like "-a 1 2 3" are not standard "Go style" at all. I've never seen that.
My wider point is not that the way companies are run is perfect and that we should stop the “innovators” (to quote the sibling comment). Each of these examples speak of corporate dysfunction, but we never give any weight to the constraints that force them in place. Leetcode is bad, but it’s bad in the sense that it errs too heavily on filtering out false negatives - the cheaper of the two errors. The alternative is worse.

Giving Tim the benefit of the doubt in this story, it still holds true that for every extraordinary and invisible superstar like Tim there are 99 under-performers who are indistinguishable from him.

We need to empathise with our managers and the processes in our organisations to understand their purpose and how they came to be.

We, software engineers, keep picking out singular data points of evidence to point at a flawed and unfair world, that go against our self inflated egos.

The brew guy inverting the binary tree and Tim being great, does not invalidate the practices of whiteboards and story points as a general practice.

To your final point, the best organisations that I’ve worked with used metrics in a very effective way (mostly in start ups). The worst did too. Just because some do it poorly, does not mean that it’s bad across the board.

What is tiring, is the unfair, and low expectation of the quality of evidence demanded of the anti-establishment notions in software development, before they are taken as gospel by this community.

And, in my experience, the people who are the strongest proponents of sidestepping or dismantling these processes overlap strongly with those who also do not deliver value to their teams.
The ietf should be concerned with user concerns. If they make standards about AI preferences it should be around memory and language and stuff like that, not meddling with legal matters that are outside of their scope and expertise.
Why MCPs and Cursor make it trivial to hack your code
I recorded a quick loom on how mutation testing powered by testcode.ai can significantly increase confidence in inherently untrusted code by Cursor and MCPS
I too appreciate the clarity and structure of your writing. And the topics.

Non-consensual consent seems to me related to Heidegger’s ‘throwness’, which Google Gemini summarized as:

> In Heidegger's philosophy, "thrownness" (German: "Geworfenheit") refers to the idea that humans are passively "thrown" into existence in the world, without choosing their circumstances or having any control over their "being-in-the-world," essentially meaning we are born into a pre-existing world with a set of conditions and limitations that we did not choose; it signifies the fundamental fact that our existence is not something we actively create but rather something that has already happened to us.
NT and XNU never had microkernel origins - Cutler explicitly refuted this at a conference in the early 1990s

Interestingly, the Tanenbaum–Torvalds debate had Tanenbaum claim otherwise at the very start:

The alternative is a microkernel-based system, in which most of the OS runs as separate processes, mostly outside the kernel. They communicate by message passing. The kernel's job is to handle the message passing, interrupt handling, low-level process management, and possibly the I/O. Examples of this design are the RC4000, Amoeba, Chorus, Mach, and the not-yet-released Windows/NT.

https://groups.google.com/g/comp.os.minix/c/wlhw16QWltI

That is why I thought Windows NT had originally been intended to be a microkernel.
My primary care doctor is telling all of her patients not to take Zyrtec for an anti-histamine because it is causing dementia side effects in her older patients. Antecdotal but interesting.
Here’s an example of a type of feature I want: I’m looking at a menu from a popular restaurant and it has hundreds of choices. I start to feel some analysis paralysis. I say to my computer, “hey computer, I’m open to any suggestions, so long as it’s well-seasoned, spicy, salty, has some protein and fiber, easy to digest, rich in nutrients, not too dry, not too oily, pairs well with <whatever I have in my fridge>, etc..” Basically, property-oriented search queries whose answers can be verified, without having to trudge through them myself, where I don’t really care about correctness, just satisficing.
It's also not hard to understand why people seek that kind of fulfillment at work. It is something we dedicate most of our day to for most of the week
Depends what they’re doing, and how junior the team is. For something relatively involved, with a few new-ish grads, or people inexperienced with the problem domain, on the team, it wouldn’t be surprising. Shows up particularly often in rapidly-growing companies, where by necessity teams are often mostly new-ish.

Now, ideally you do not lean on a single Tim to make this work; that’s kind of a failure mode (I’ve occasionally been a sort of a temporary Tim, but the goal would always be to move the team more towards self-sufficiency to avoid becoming a perma-Tim.) A part-time Tim, who consistently spends part of their time unblocking others, is IME a fairly common phenomenon, and probably necessary.
ETH zurich is not inventing new reaction, google "reducing iron oxide by hydrogen". it is well known and already used technology. nothing new about this reaction, way they use it is new. all your concerns are answered in next article :

another university - university of eindhoven is using same reaction but totally different way - they just burn iron oxide in air ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qm0sIN-KhUo
same thing same people -
https://newatlas.com/energy/bavarian-brewery-carbon-free-ren...
it is just totally primitive way and THAT is actually benefit. because it can be deployed fast and wide.

people seems to not understand how big of a energy demand is for hot water. and this can make hot water from renewable sources a reality.
in most houses hot water need is roughly 50% of energy need. in low carbon houses / LEED / BREAM /Passive house / or what EU regulations already require, is energy need for hot water multiples of all other energy needs of household, because with better houses, youre lowering energy required for heating, cooling, but hot water stays same amount but bugger percentage.

planetary - with better buildings, we can lower house heating by 70-80 % no price problem, hassle free, that means we need less electricity generation for houses. + adding hydrogen generation / iron oxide reduction into mix we can just burn it and make hot water and electricity in winter from spring, summer, autumn sun.... in spring,summer,autumn you use PV for hot water + hydrogen to store for winter. booom 95+% of household consumption is gone from grid. household energy need is how much of total planetary energy need ? 20 or 40 % ? no one cares.

you do not need to transport anything if you think about this as for seasonal storage. but you can transport raw iron like university of eidhoven is proposing if your mission is to provide heat but reduce iron oxide close to renewable generation. your tansporting iron (Fe), NOT iron oxide(FeO,FeO2,FeO3)...
I think at this point the argument for or against microkernels is becoming moot. The only way to provide fast, efficient and safe access to privileged services is via hardware mitigations. Software can only do so much.

It's like the difference between a 80286 and a 80386: The latter added the hardware support for true multitasking that the former lacked. Since then there's been an ever increasing number of hardware-level protection mechanisms added, like those which enabled hypervisors.

Apple in particular has been adding a bunch of stuff to their SOCs to protect the kernel, drivers and components at the chip level, as well as enforce privileges on running threads and when using pointers. [1] This doesn't mean the OS is impenetrable, but it's a lot more effective than a software only strategy of managing privileges.

Seems to me that utilizing this stuff (or similar), the architecture of the kernel really isn't that important any more.

Am I off base?

1. https://support.apple.com/guide/security/operating-system-in...
When I first read “How to win friends …”, the advice in the book made sense, but I couldn’t take advantage of almost any of it, except maybe for written communication

My social anxiety was so high, I couldn’t even get to the basic situations that are the base for all of Dale Carnegie’s book

However, another book (and mainly the exercises in that book), that helped me a lot, was The Charisma Myth, by Olivia Fox-Cabane

It has some excellent material on how to reduce social anxiety and be able to have better interactions

Highly recommend it. And if you are curious, but don’t want to commit to a whole book, just find the intro somewhere online and follow the 3 tips in there
Imaging increased warming from sunlight raising ground and building temperatures probably impacts “felt” temperature quite a bit.

There a few different heat transfer mechanisms, with conduction and radiation being the big ones we care about here. Cold air impacts heat transfer via conduction, but temperature of surrounding surfaces (like buildings and the ground) impacts radiative heat transfer, which makes us a significant portion of your bodies heat transfer into it’s surrounding environment. Which is the reason why a clear night is colder than an overcast night. The clouds above reflect a significant amount of radiant energy back at you on a cloudy day, and on a clear night you’re directly exposed to cold emptiness of space which will radiate effectively zero heat back at you.

Good place to experience the difference between conduction and radiative heat, is being near a camp fire on a cold night. The camp fire doesn’t really warm the air around your body, but the emitted IR has a huge impact. Hence you end up with a very warm front, while still having a very cold back.
Looks nice.

Immediate feedback:

- The mobile v. desktop detection seems based on the screen width, which would be reasonable if it didn't mean halting my onboarding process because my browser window ain't maximized.

- The auto-generated profile didn't capture much from my résumé or LinkedIn profile. Only the two most recent roles plus some early-career freelance work; that covers maybe 20% or so of my overall career.

- Related to the above, it'd be useful to have more control over the (what appears to be) AI-generated summarizations of things.

- No way to reorder the "key accomplishments"?

- A place to list certifications and (in my case) clearances would be handy.
Our men’s group has been reading “Side by Side” by Ed Welch. Great book.
It doesn't take very special cameras to capture a new moon. I have many pictures that look like this: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Lu...

For a photo like this I use an exposure of around one second.
> But let's assume you have true, fully general AI.

Very strong assumption and very narrow setting that is one of the counter examples.

AI researchers in the 80s already told you that AI is around the corner in the next 5 years. Didn't happen. I wouldn't hold my breath this time either.

"AI" is a misnomer. LLMs are not "intelligence". They are a lossy compression algorithm of everything that was put into their training set. Pretty good at that, but that's essentially it.
What do Firefox Containers mitigate that isn’t already covered by simply disabling third party cookies in any browser?
The talk is simply flooding the zone with shit. There are too many moving pieces. It's not gonna happen.
I think my favorite point to this effect is that there's plenty of medical literature (in the Lancet, and others) suggesting hypnosis is as effective as certain drugs for killing pain in certain contexts. And hypnosis is nothing more than talking someone, in a very directed way. There's caveats of course, but that's true of all drugs... Not to mention all this stuff on gut microbiota, and even the truly 'woo-woo' stuff like acupuncture. Personally, I don't think it's crazy at all to imagine that sticking a needle near the right neuron can cause some kind of occasionally helpful physiological response... in fact, it would be almost more surprising to me if this wasn't possible. Modern medicine works wonders for infectious diseases & physical issues, but I'm not entirely convinced we have a handle on the more subtle stuff.

I've been a lot more attentive to this kind of stuff lately due to some chronic health stuff that came up in the family. I think there's probably some framework in modern medicine that makes it less prone to adopting these kinds of methods. Maybe it's just historical baggage, who knows...
I was speaking from a defensive security point of view and not a server trying to route traffic.

The fact that local users can simply create namespaces that bypass the host's firewall is extremely dangerous in my opinion.
Tech does seem to be where I've met the most obliviously abrasive, socially inept people that would absolutely not gain a grain of insight from any book on this subject matter - purposefully.
This kinda reminds me of Funklet[0] that Jack Stratton (Vulfpeck) + Rob Stenson made a long time ago... A true gem if you're into funk + like midi drums.

[0] - https://goodhertz.com/funklet/
If a foreign government that the US was acting hostile towards was so inclined, they could highly tariff Tesla sales/service and offer buy-outs to make existing owners whole where they simply crush and recycle the cars to deny Tesla any service revenue.
very cool.

i would suggest maybe the instruments vertical order should be reversed. i think it is more usual to have the bass drum at the bottom, thru snare up to hh etc.

i think this maps more like a piano roll with typical midi key/drum assignments.
Germany is more democratic and freer then USA. Except maybe for nazi where in fact, sigh Heil is not allowed in Germany and admired in USA.

But, that is bad news for freedom if everybody else, so.

Germany seems like a better country to live in for most people. Plus, affordable Healthcare system and public education system.
what's wrong with `firefox -ProfileManager` and the like or alternatively containers?
Airfare Searching from the Terminal
Any badness metric you like. LLMs average over that since their training input does.