skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Student chimpanzee builds a tiny mirror for 6 bananas. It shows the same image."
You don't need a Show HN for articles, it has a somewhat narrow focus which excludes most reading material, take a look at https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Show HN: Engineer Your Next Promotion
I built Xferro after experiencing the pain of ambiguous performance reviews firsthand. As software engineers, we build systems to track everything—except our own career progression.
Xferro helps engineers systematically document their impact, track achievements against promotion criteria, and build a compelling narrative for performance reviews. It transforms your daily work into promotion evidence.
The idea came after watching brilliant colleagues get PIPed or stagnate simply because they couldn't effectively communicate their contributions. Technical excellence alone isn't enough in most companies; you need to master the meta-game of visibility and impact demonstration.

Key features:

Impact tracking dashboard that aligns with how engineering managers actually evaluate performance
Templates for documenting technical and non-technical contributions
Promotion criteria frameworks from major tech companies
Analytics to identify gaps in your promotion case
1:1 preparation tools to make manager conversations more productive

I've been developing this for the past few months based on interviews with 40+ engineers who either successfully earned promotions or had negative review experiences.
Currently in private beta with a small cohort of engineers. Looking for feedback from the HN community—especially from those who've been on either side of the performance review process.
Would love to hear your thoughts, criticism, feature ideas, or personal experiences with this problem.
Oh yeah… The Aztecs were sweethearts.

‘Caribbean’, by the way, is derived from the ‘Canib’ Indians, from which we get another sweet and gentle word: Cannibal.

Idealizing these cultures would be similar to some revisionist historian in 2525 waxing poetic about the Nazis in the mid-20th century.
Safari on iphone I get this error when I load the page:

Could not enable WebMidi: navigator.requestMIDIAccess is not a function. (In 'navigator.requestMIDIAccess({sysex:t.sysex,software:t.software})', 'navigator.requestMIDIAccess' is undefined)
I'll point out that property crimes have the highest recidivism rates and sex crimes are among the lowest.

https://static.prisonpolicy.org/images/sex_offense_recidivis...
> What if your means are not sufficient to avoid hunger?

Not all advice is applicable to everyone. It's up to you to decide if you can and want to follow it. The advice was for young programmers and it is solid advice, but again, not applicable to everyone. It is applicable to a majority (probably even large majority). If you are young and earning a sw engineer salary it is very rare to not be able to cover your basic needs and have something left. Most people spends what is left in luxuries, lifestyle creep, etc; which is what the advice is trying to warn people about.
Christianity in India is often framed against the prevailing religion Hinduism, for better or worse. The Indian church emphasizes things like social equality, income equality, etc. Some of the earliest labor activists and trade unionists in India were Catholic (actually Catholics in general are generally pro union across the world, see the Catholic vote here in America).

Secondly, Catholics are often setting up schools for everyone. India has always had a history of education, especially Kerala, but universal education of even the lower classes is extremely protestant. The church ended up adopting this around the time colonialism started and thus brought universal education to a widespread base in India.

Finally, the idea of touching everyone and treating them equally was against the general zeitgeist of the prevailing feudalistic highly hierarchical indian society. The first conversion attempts of the Portuguese for the south indian brahmins actually were incredibly successful (Nicholas of Tolentino). The Vatican even allows (and still allows as far as I'm aware, although no one does it) vedic rites for Catholics (malabar rites controversy).

However, no one wanted to give up untouchability. The Vatican eventually forced the missionaries to not have separate missions for touchables and untouchables, which basically ended Brahmanic conversions (and is one of the reasons indian Catholics no longer really care to do the vedic rites, since most are now from the lower class. As far as I know, some still do in Mangalore). Caste is still a problem in some christian communities in India but the bishops work to end it and it is officially condemned.

Which is to say, catholicism is associated with labor movement, equal social treatment, and universal education.

Which is also what the communists want.

It's no surprise that Kerala, being way more christian (and Catholic particularly) with a rich and prominent Christian history is thus the center of socialism.

Keep in mind also that communism in feudal countries has basically no relation to the communism you find on university campuses of america.

Now to the west. In the west, the church is seen as conservative, but the church is actually radically left wing in most parts of the world. It's only because leftism (in a global sense) is fundamentally a part of western culture that the church seems right wing because the church does not go as far as some leftist parties in the west.
A couple days ago I had my cat in the vet and the Dr was checking out his privates and he turned and hissed at her and I said "Ecto gammat" and then I waited to see if the vet was a fan. No comment was made. :-(
If you're into this stuff, Conquest of Peru (1847) by William Prescott is surprisingly readable and vivid. In case you worry that an old book won't be accurate, basically paragraph is backed up with a footnote giving long primary source quotes in the original Spanish. If you just read the footnotes it's like you're getting a well-paced spliced together first-hand account.

Some things I remember from the book that don't make it into this article:

- The Inca empire was essentially a top-down command economy. Everything down to individual people's jobs was managed centrally from Cuzco.

- Pizarro's translator was from a native tribe that was recently conquered by the Inca, and he hated the Inca himself. It's possible that he translated things in an intentionally adversarial way at crucial junctures, like when the Spanish were deciding to execute Atahualpa.

- The official reason for executing Atahualpa was that, while in captivity, he had sent orders to have his brother Huáscar executed.

- Apparently Atahualpa was amazed to discover that he could write marks on a piece of paper, show it to to Spaniards like de Soto, and they would all be able to read out exactly the same words. He tried the trick with Pizarro but, being illiterate, Pizarro couldn't read out the text. This didn't help with the Pizarro-Atahualpa relationship.

- The account of how the battle at Cajamarca started is a little different. The Spanish sent out a priest who gave a long confusing monologue to Atahualpa about the death of Jesus, the nature of the Trinity, the immaculate conception of Mary, and other deep-cut theology, then handed him a Bible. Atahualpa was basically like "why would you worship a guy who was executed as a criminal" and didn't have any idea what to do with the Bible (or any book). Then the Spanish ambushed him.
> Microservices Without Organizational Change Is Pointless

Too true.

In my experience, micro-services were always proposed by either ivory-tower folks chasing the latest fad, or by more practical folks who really wanted to drive an organizational change - a means to an end. The big issue, and friction, occurs when the first group, pushing the notion, didn't recognize that an organizational reconfiguration is necessary for success.
Valued by who? I have a overvalued company I'll buy with another overvalued company. This should be illegal, but it's a house of cards.
The only good argument I know for microservices is organizational:

When each team is responsible for one microservice, they can manage that with much less painful coordination with other teams.
And this organizational overhead is why I disagree with his setion about structuring your organization to fit microservices. I have seen first hand over horrible it is when services do not share DBA resources for example. Every service has its own incorrectly and differently configured cloud PostgreSQL instance. Plus it bring really hard to innovate and create new features since many innovative features require you to touch multiple services and talk to a whole bunch of teams.
For serious gaming, I use my Linux powered Steam Deck
It's more like:

I have a box with $5 and you have a box with $5. We agree to merge our boxes into one and now we both have 1 box with $10.

Plot twist: me and you are the same insane person.
By the way, fitting compact models is largely done by PhDs spending weeks tweaking parameters to get the simulation to match measurements. If you can find a method to automate this (which very roughly comes down to minimizing a non-convex function of ~100 parameters) you can make a lot of money.
To me it just gets repetitive. After the first one, my brain recognizes the pattern. If chapter 1 starts with a bang, then fills in the blanks, then chapter 2 is structured in the exact same way, it feels formulaic; not good writing
> If you are going to use human brain cells to memorize protected content and sell it as a product, that's still an issue based on current copyright laws.

And yet, that's all most billable hours at McKinsey, BCG, KPMG, are for. Those consultants memorized copyrighted stuff so your executives didn't have to.

It's very difficult to explain how GPT is not consulting.
See "Love and Limerence" by Dorothy Tennov

https://books.google.com/books?id=506FGoFBjmUC&printsec=fron...

which is the modern take on what Stendahl talks about, which you can find here

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/53720/53720-h/53720-h.htm

From the viewpoint of someone who wants to escape ordinary constraints the idea that people fall in love in an irrational way is a relief from the "evolutionary psychology" ideas of red pillers, rationalists and other reductivists.
I think webmidi is only implemented in Chrome :(
This sounds like a business book on cats. Useful, yes, but not something I'd read for its writing value.
Svgx.io – AI-Generated SVG Assets to Boost Designer Efficiency
A few months ago, some designer friends complained to me about how time-consuming it is to find good assets. They asked if AI could help generate something useful. I was already curious about AI, so I manually created some SVG assets for them. The results were surprisingly effective—they saved a ton of time.

That sparked an idea, and I turned it into a small tool: https://svgx.io. It lets designers quickly generate custom SVG assets, skipping the endless search through libraries. I’d love for more designers to try it out and share their thoughts—would you use something like this? What features would you want? Excited to hear your feedback!
flagged. hackernews continues to submit to censorship
Show HN: MCP Link – Integrate Any API with AI Agents
Sure… but CPU overhead is kind of a technical detail, not a flaw in the concept. When you have a conversation about microservices, 95% of the time, the conversation veers into these details like CPU overhead. I think that’s what the article author is getting at. It’s a conversational trap—people have so many things to say about microservices.

In the end I think that microservices are not a big deal. It’s like choosing your programming language or choosing whether you want to use object-oriented programming. These decisions all have impact, but they generally aren’t revolutionary decisions. Object-oriented programming didn’t give us a massive wave of reusable code. Rust hasn’t unlocked some new, previously unseen level of developer productivity. Microservices are the same way.
I blame overpromised expectations from startups and public companies, screaming about AGI and superintelligence.

Truly amazing technology which is very good at generating and correcting texts is marketed as senior developer, talented artist, and black box that has solution to all your problems. This impression shatters on the first blatant mistake, e.g. counting elephant legs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38766512
One topic of debate at my company that I rarely see here is shared libraries vs micro services. Should logic or external calls belong in a shared artifact to be consumed by microservices or hidden away behind an exposed microsercice api?

The truth is that micro services are a tool. However your organization has broadly agreed to utilize the tool is the correct approach.
My experience has been the total opposite. When each team is responsible for a service then to build anything complex you need to have meetings with stakeholders from a bunch of teams. So much time wasted on coordination compared to when working on a monolith. There you usually just need to get buyin from the platform team plus at most one other team. And that assuming you can't just build it and open s pull request which is often the case.
First thing that I don't like is the settings being strings that reference classes. Usually that means that go-to definition does not work (I've seen similar things in Symfony with YAML use). If the config needs to reference a class, or some object, I would like to be able to easily navigate to it as opposed to having to manually search the project for it. If this was an actual object reference as opposed to a string, I could, and I'd also get intellisense for if I typed it right or not, and autocomplete.

Then of course they "solve" it later with a (probably paid) plugin. But why? LSP's support this natively, and for free, just don't use strings.
Bolt Graphics Zeus a New GPU Architecture with Up to 2.25TB of Memory and 800GbE
Disagree. Men in plain clothes ambushing a student, capturing and taking her away in an unmarked car — for the crime of writing an essay — is absolutely terrorizing. And I bet the intent of the administration is to terrorize. This is worthy of the Gestapo, not USA, the land of the free.
And TBF this is a great reason for why microservices.
Can you list this sale you claim valued X at 44B?

Fidelty, which still owns a decent chunk of X, and is required by law to do due diligence on the value of that holding, and also has deeper insight into the value of X since they are also required to see X financials (since they own a big chunk of the private value), puts X value at 20% of the original 44B.

So please demonstrate your claims.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tylerroush/2024/09/30/elon-musk...
Flagged - really? What could be more on topic?
I am ethnically Indian but not an Indian citizen. I honestly don't really care about Indian politics or religious factionalism. For me, I find the history of my own family interesting, and don't like how 'india' is presented in history books as primarily the gangetic plain when there are hundreds of millions of Indians in other parts who have a related, but different history.

I mean even customs that are 'Indian' in the diaspora are often north indian customs. It's fine, but it'd be like asking a new Yorker to make southern bbq
Default to Optimism
Is it realistic that Texas will decide to punish one of its most active companies ? Risking that they leave Texas for another state.
Fellow-Malayalee here. Thank you for taking the time to write this comment!
There was a demo from around 5+ years ago of a experimental real-time Chess board which looked remarkably similar. Once a piece was moved, a visible circular timer with a duration proportional to the piece valuation would count down until they were allowed to move the piece again.

I wish I could find the link but trying to search YT for relevant results older than a couple years is just trash.
I agree with you to a degree about expert testimony. But I’d argue that a Delaware Chancery Judge reviewing expert opinions from major investment banks is more likely to come to an accurate assessment than many other people offering view on the transaction. The legal ruling isn’t definitive for anything more than the case that was before the court, but I think it should be heavily weighted by anyone trying to inform their views about what happened.

I’d also point out that, in the legal industry, Delaware’s entire fairness standard is seen as a rigorous standard that typically results in victory for the plaintiff. The Chancery Court ruling resulted in various law firm updates using the case as an example of how the entire fairness standard isn’t always a death sentence for defendants.
> With OpenWrt Two, I bet they're going to make the same mistakes as OpenWrt One: not enough memory and not upgradable, wifi not replaceable, no usable expansion slots (mini-PCI, M.2) and, of course, no (e)SATA. Another e-waste product that will be obsolete even before it's available to buy.

Those are only mistakes if you ignore the realities of what hardware is available. A highly-integrated SoC designed specifically for wireless router usage is a more cost-effective platform than a generic x86 PC. Basing OpenWRT One and Two on such hardware means work to improve support for those systems is more likely to benefit OpenWRT support for mainstream consumer networking equipment that also uses purpose-built SoCs.

OpenWRT is not yet in a position to influence the hardware design decisions made by companies like Mediatek, Qualcomm, Broadcom for their consumer WiFi product families. Those chips are still designed around what's best for the big brands that are the primary customers: Netgear, Linksys, TP-Link, etc. Adding SATA controllers to a WiFi router SoC does not benefit Netgear, et al., nor does splitting out all the radios to separate chips that could be installed onto M.2 cards (miniPCI and miniPCIe being long obsolete and bandwidth-starved). Asking for eSATA is laughably unrealistic.

A focus on the kind of modular, expandable and upgradable hardware platforms that actually currently exist (namely, PCs) is what leads to the distractions you're complaining about: "video acceleration, mesa, X, wayland, Doom, etc."
The whole US economy is. Take one step outside the US and it's apparent what a house of cards it is.
Meh. That's most stories attributed to the apostles. The story of st Thomas is ancient and even before colonization, the prevailing attitude in Europe was that st Thomas and st Bartholomew both proselytized India. You'll find references to this in many books and manuscripts.

In fact many European maps contained the belief that there was a Christian kingdom in Kerala. They even had saints from there whose stories made their way over and were recorded.

Thus Kerala is as holy to christians as Rome, Constantinople, Spain, Armenia, Ethiopia, etc.

This talking point is often used by Hindu nationalists who claim that India is not holy to christians and thus christians are foreigners. I'll point out that (1) Kerala is holy and (2) there is more evidence of st Thomas in Kerala than of Parasurama parting the seas to reveal Kerala.
I have been there. Devops is never really fun. PaaS can take some of the pain away but quickly problems emerge with vendor lock in and you spend as much if not more time running the PaaS.

The best setup I ever had for deployment was a git hook which set ENVVARS and redeployed Apache when I did a push to prod. But if you need advanced features like multiple environments and database migrations this can get complicated fast
Oh. Just to be clear I'm comparing its closeness to other primary English speaking countries.

There absolutely is still a local language influence.

I think that the accent that is most closest to is American.
To be honest I think this has been the case in every country for all time.

What’s changed is that certain individuals don’t even try to hide privilege any more.
If you want to learn and have a physics/EE background, you might have better luck with a book like Tsividis (also available as a MOOC!)

https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Operation-Modeling-Mos-Transistor...

https://www.coursera.org/learn/mosfet
I skipped this video when it came out because it had a different title then and I assumed it was about the FAA firings. I had no idea the rules were so awful for mental health. Punishing pilots for seeking treatment only leads to pilots with untreated mental health issues. That’s a safety concern for all of us.
I know for certain that in Virginia you can sell a house for any price you want, because I transferred one to a family member for zero. Of course the county's assessor had other ideas about the value for tax purposes, but the official deed was recorded at $0.
Do you believe people have perfect knowledge of the consequences of their vote, and of the plans of the people they vote for? If no, then it's not hard to fathom that people can get manipulated into voting against their own interests.
I believe they were referring to the use of ZFS snapshots for a Copy-on-Write type setup
I’m starting to wonder if posters are flagging everything in response to the clear political censorship going on. If everything is flagged than nothing is flagged.
I'm really confused about what this project accomplishes. I agree that Django makes me jump through some unusual hoops (I simply never want to use views, forms, form sets, django email/caching/etc.) to use the subset I want, but I know that it'll "just work".

From the project's About page:

> What if you didn't have to worry about deprecation policies?

So nothing will ever get deprecated? Or things I use will just get ripped out?

> What if there were no committees?

As a user of the framework, is this supposed to appeal to me?

> What if you could change anything without consequence?

This sounds like a nightmare for a user.

> What if Django wasn't originally built for a newspaper circa 2003?

Does Django really carry that much (read: any) baggage from 22 years ago? It certainly doesn't feel like it.

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Like I'm all for a good fork, especially if you're exploring something. But this project is telling me to use it _instead of django_ and other than "we have some third party packages built-in" it really doesn't tell me _why_ I should be using it. Frankly it feels like I'd be cooked if I chose this, since migrating back to Django proper if/when this becomes abandoned feels daunting.

There's not a philosophical reason (e.g., licensing) to choose this over Django, nor is there a meaningful cost that's being avoided.

You instantly become reliant on the Plain BDFL to upstream security patches. If that ever happens.

Everything and anything is liable to break at any time, since the project professes no obvious forward or backward compatibility.

What's great about Django is that I know I can build against a major version and know I'm not going to have to spin my wheels for 8-24 hours trying to upgrade to the next major version because the security patch wasn't backported to my version. I don't want my framework to have exciting minor versions. I want my features to be exciting every 3-5 years where I can say "alright, we'll take the two weeks to upgrade to the next major version". Especially when most of the exciting features can be delivered by third party packages instead of the core.
Non-Paywall https://archive.is/9h8iy