skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is, but at some point, so is management. So is any human capital past your key positions.

I feel like managers - even good managers - understand that better than most. That isn't to say there isn't variation in humans - choosing the humans right for your team and organization will help advance a lot, but it really helps us to think of organizations as ant colonies. One person can slow it down, but very few can speed it up, and they can only do so much.

It's the network of communication that matters more than the person.
"as opposed to most tools, AI acts as a multiplier"

I struggle to think of a tool that doesn't act as a multiplier.
In the beginning, only "a few wealthy people" could afford cars. This does not seem like a very good argument against anything new.
Your motivation is validation and support for your belief system. The fact that you posted a quote saying that people hearing but not following the "truth" (ostensibly as you define it otherwise why mention it, yeah?) are fools is the key indicator that you are not acting solely on behalf of love. You, like so many of your sort, are acting on what bolsters your personal beliefs and your need to have that belief.
> A good discussion is about the subject, not the person.

That's the problem with trolls. They keep on pestering people with trivially-to-google questions, a tactic known as "sealioning" [1]. On top of that you have literal ChatGPT or otherwise AI-powered bots engaging in discussions in bad faith.

> It makes the discussion personal by calling someone a fascist or a leftie.

It's pretty pointless to debate with fascists, most of those that you can find on Twitter aren't interested in discussion - they're interested in destroying discussion by forcing others to interact with their bullshit.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning
The answer is 100% charcoal.

Ancient pencils were made of charcoal, unless you have a very obtuse definition of what a pencil is.

If you've never made a pencil at home out of charcoal, can you even say you are a free (wo)?man\?
Right, so you are assuming in bad faith, instead of just asking their point and refuting it!
The short answer is that disinterested means unbiased, having no conflicts of interest, impartial. So a judge in a court should be disinterested, but not uninterested.
ehh, I'll generally assume good faith until shown otherwise. I don't really flag something unless it shows active malice.

In this case, it was a good opportunity to educate others who may also think that the private sector wouldn't be affected by these public sector cuts. That's much better than flagging a comment that may have been simply made in ignorance.
Which tasks?
One of my pet theories about the software industry is that nobody really knows how to manage mature tech companies (YC and the startup world are pretty good at running young companies).

One obvious and disastrous phenomenon in the tech world is resume-driven development: some engineers are highly motivated to put the next shiny tech buzzword on their resume, so they make sure to push that technology at their company. 9 times out of 10 the project and company would be better off by just using the standard, boring tech that everyone else uses. Tech managers should be able to detect this pattern and squash it, but they don't seem able to do so.
It really bugs me when computers try to figure out what you mean. What I mean is what I typed, and if I typed it incorrectly, I would delete it and type it again.
Yes, if Europe creates alternatives to American monopolies, they won't be monopolies any more.
Oh I agree. I'm angry that the 77 million people voted for Trump. I'm angry that ~22% of the population got out there and voted and supported Trump. And I'm angry that so much of the eligible voting population did not vote. And I'm angry that he's tearing my country apart from the inside.

And zero judgement of anyone's wise decision to avoid or boycott our country, or arm themselves against us.

Also don't know what to think of polls, but anything above 0% approving of Trump is stupid. It's still not "most", which is my only contention. But whether or not it's most doesn't matter as long as all of our checks and balances have disintegrated, and there's one person in charge and making horrible decisions that hurt many Americans, threaten tourists, and are currently wreaking havoc on the stability of the global economy.
You assume that being detained is the only thing you're thinking about.

Not wanting to support the US for plunging the whole world into economic turmoil or not wanting to support a country speed running into fascism are other reasons.
Our collective will put him in power. I'm eliding how much more complicated it is than that because it is important to recognize that he represents us in big and meaningful ways and minimizing that by calling him as just one of us is to live in denial.
Decimated is from Latin decimātiō, where a large group of your army would be split into groups of 10, each group would draw straws, and the shortest straw would be stoned to death by the other 9. A completely brutal form of military punishment for capital offenses such as cowardice. It is not really adequately captured by reducing it to "kill one in every 10".

Wikipedia says it may be ahistorical though. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimation_(punishment)

It also notes "In modern English, the word is used most commonly not to mean a destruction of a tenth but rather annihilation."
Just the staunch defenders we pay attention to (i.e. finance / VC / tech Trumpists).

His core base believes this is necessary short term pain for long term gain, and you can see their comments in threads here from time to time.
I keep submitting PR’s to get my assembler extensions in Fish and ZSH but so far no avail. Ideally all scripting should be done in single-clock-cycle assembly statements.

I mean it makes write-only languages like Perl look like beautiful prose but it’s hard to argue about efficiently setting the 20 environment variables used by my terraform jobs with a mere 20 clock cycles. It may seem silly but every clock cycle truly matters.
> Software gets more complicated. All of this complexity is there for a reason.

Not any good reason, imo. There used to be incentives for efficiency in various aspects of the field. Scarcity of talent, scarcity of bandwidth and compute power, scarcity of budgets.

Twenty years of “let’s all be programmers”, unhinged amounts of money, and design by committee, have rendered it a very complex world.
Expensive and risky because of the political climate
That’s one opinion. Lots of people disagree. https://www.economist.com/united-states/2025/04/05/how-donal...
Washington worries Trump could bail out Zuckerberg
I think racism accounts for a bigger chunk than you're leaving for it here.
UK can't keep its encryption fight with Apple private, court rules
Not at all. Here's how you'd go about it:

* for each medium to large University, there will usually be at least one person, if not an entire org of people that will guide you through the process, manage comms with the bank and help you to frame the business plan. These institutions (what I referred to as an "accelerator" in my OP) are publicly funded. You do not pay them.

* prepare your business plan (milestones, market research, financial plan) - at this point you can also utilize other financial support (e.g. matched funds for market research)

* you nominate a "mentor" - this is meant to be an independent expert that will serve as an informal advisor and secondary contact for the bank. There's no liability involved, and usually this is an industry expert, or professor, etc.

* bank accepts the business plan and starts payments

* during the scholarship, the bank will keep in touch with you and the mentor to check in on your business plan milestones. This is mostly an anti-fraud check.

It's important to realize there's an alignment of incentives here:

* you want to start a company and get financial support

* the accelerator advanced its mission (get more startups going)

* the bank advances its mission (create more value in the local region)

* the business plan and milestones unlock ultra-low-interest follow-up financing if you need it, since the bank has already been involved for 18 months and knows the potential/liabilities of your business

This all sounds like a lot, but I've seen founders go through the entire process in just a few weeks of planning. And much of the work, like business planning, is what you need to do anyway.
Lazarus is excellent. It is very user friendly once you get the hang of it, and you can use Delphi books to learn the language. It also produces static binaries that make it easy to distribute your software.
Facts. I worked on a retail system that was nearly 1M loc and the company went bankrupt. Poof all that work gone. That was a real epiphany for me, and also the start of keeping a healthy distance between me and my work. Although software can be very rewarding, it is just a job.
This is a complex topic. A lot has to do with "American culture". Culture, as you know, can last for millennia.

First, I'm personally not against a moderately sized government. I'm an urbanite and lean kind of socialist, to be honest. I'm ok with there being lots of well-paid government workers. Good for them. I want everyone to have opportunity, access, and safety nets. But, I also believe in the system and respect my fellow citizens enough to understand their perspectives.

The overarching American culture is anti-government. Some of it is because of waste. But, most of it comes from an innate distrust of government and the belief that government trends toward corruption, and corruption is the bane of a functioning society.

A small number of Americans believe that the government's role should only be rule of law, policing, border defense, and tax collection. A larger number believe that government should manage common infrastructure, standards, public services, intelligence, and markets. A small number believe that the US federal government should support and defend the world.

But, Americans like control. This is rooted in a founding mythos centered on rebellion and self-determination. The further removed they are from having control over government, the more anxious they get. Local government is good - state government is tolerable - federal government is bad. Federal government means academics and experts who don't know anything and only bring biases, agendas, and corruption. The federal government leads to tyranny.

Also, once a govenment program starts, it's very difficult to shut it down. Bureaucracies tend toward mission creep, institutional inertia, and self-preservation.

For TB specifically, most of it could have been managed by now if there was broad support and action from wealthy nations over the past 100 years. It could have been treated like Polio. But, wealthy nations don't see TB firsthand, so they don't think it's important. It's not just a US problem.
Participatory budgets and referendums can ease populist citizens' frustrations
What will be real interesting engineering problem to watch is where they physically host these new server farms for those services.
I run a small IT consultancy in EU mostly for companies with factories, so I have some biases. I have a few issues with the way IT leadership in EU has been running things the past 20 or so years:

- Absolutely 0 care for having a de-risked supply chain. In fact, IT leaders are extremely happy to have fewer and fewer suppliers, I think it is even one of their goals! And look at it now, what to do when 70% of your company runs on Microsoft and this happens?

- Buy always, no matter what the process is, just buy more tools. So what could have been 1 Python script now is a 5 years contract with yet another US supplier, all data stored in proprietary formats locked under complex APIs of course

- Bundle everything, and I mean everything, in the ERP. Make the ERP so big and complicated that adding anything to it requires tens, or even hundreds, of thousands of euros and multiple months of "development" (as an aside, did you know SAP ABAP code is stored in a database???)

- Lock yourself up completely with whatever Cloud provider you decide to use. Using AWS? Let's do everything with lambdas! Because, who cares about being Cloud agnostic and de-risking your AWS investment?

- Never invest in your internal tech talent, always go after shiny new tech solutions that deliver at best 20% of what they promise, while good motivated employees could have delivered 80% at a fraction of that cost

- Never push back on business asking for specific tools just because the vendors of such tools are amazing at marketing. 90% of manufacturing companies could replace Salesforce with much simpler tools (who knows, maybe even EU based?) and save millions. But no, let's go after brands and never consider the actual 1) business process we are trying to improve; 2) the reference architecture; 3) the underlying data we want to do CRUD on

The re-thinking of the tech stack is not a US tariffs issue, it is an IT leadership problem, and a serious one. The overwhelming lack of understanding of simple risk management strategies has gotten us here, EU companies should never, ever, have put themselves in this position in the first place.
I listen to this YouTube video about logical fallacies for falling asleep. It’s almost like Trump and team use almost all of the fallacies for their arguments https://youtu.be/bNE4uBMsnP0?si=xpYiwBtKf_e4eBlU
Depending on your tattoos you might get an all expense paid permanent vacation to El Salvador.
Yes, there are ways to buy up existing “empty” companies with a bank account, commercial registration, etc.
If you want to found a new one, there are also services that will prepare all paperwork and set up appointments with notaries, etc. for you for affordable prices
Day to day operations do generally not require much else than bookkeeping and accounting which you can almost fully outsource (though accountant fees are not cheap, however, doing it yourself is also not to hard if you have the right software and do not sell thousands of different products) unless you are in specific industries
There are a few unnecessary fees and it takes longer than it should to get started but for most businesses it does not really matter and is limited in scope when it comes to time and money needed
I put together a list of open-source voice-first AI tools to help devs and makers get more done without touching a keyboard. Curious what the HN community thinks — anything I missed?
So: was anyone hurt? What about the women: what will happen now? Will they be deported? Or were they really students who just wanted a bit of pocket money? Nothing in the article.

OT1H, sex is super good and 90% of movies are about how to get laid (strong men!), and it is essential for human survival, but OTOH, once you pay, it is super bad (weak men!). Morality even manages to override capitalism here. Weird.

And it is really nasty to conflate consensual sexwork with human traficking and not even mentioning what this was. OK, there is: 'allowed women to ... decline to perform services' -- whether it's force or consensual should be the primary information to distinguish 'OK' from 'crime'. But this is under the label of 'the madan was even a bit nice to the women'.

So, more stigma. Money spent on this police work was probably a lot -- it would be interesting to know the balance. The public money could have been spent on support for women instead, like regular free STI checkups, maybe support for office supplies (condoms), maybe medical insurance, legal advice and support.

https://www.who.int/teams/global-hiv-hepatitis-and-stis-prog...
https://www.amnesty.org/en/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/POL304...
I mean, I've never worked with a project manager who generated one iota of business value... Just stirring up drama, inserting themselves into decisions that they can't understand, and calling unnecessary meetings with management that they should be handling on their own. I think there's a lot to be said for simple visibility to management. Also, ignorant overconfidence seems to be something that management loves.
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It's not like they (as in OpenSSH) did, but that's an (IMHO very under-utilized) standard feature of systemd that's been there basically since the very beginning.
I was looking for a more direct measure of this, how often a model "leaked" private state into public state. In a game like this you probably want to sometimes share secrets, but if it happens constantly I would suspect the model struggles to differentiate.

I occasionally try to ask a model to tell a story and give it a hidden motivation of a character, and so far the results are almost always the model just straight out saying the secret.
This line triggered me a bit, but later on they do give examples of how accessibility can be profitable. I think "not getting huge fines" due to (very important) laws, is a great example.
A certain cohort of the population ignores logic and reason, and runs on vibes and tribalism. They will only understand economic pain, when it hurts them personally, based on the evidence. And so, the rest of the world must incur economic pain in the US so the electorate understands its place in the economic system.
6. (Optional) after decades of the failures of the private sector, re-nationalize the industry and take huge losses. Loop back to step 1 in 5 years.
I like to point out how Hindenburg looked like before it blew up: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hindenburg_over_New_...
Let me take the opposite point - it isn't that management does or doesn't respect engineers, but that it does not respect them more or less than sales, or product, or marketing, or legal, or any other part of the system.

If all of sales says "I am losing these deals because our competitors have X, and I cannot make my quota without X, and you do not make your numbers without X." - how do you balance that against a department head who says, "I cannot give you any features this quarter because we've been focusing on features over codebase health for too long?"

Someone who says no for too long doesn't last.
None of this is terrifying and seems overblown. I read the patent grant you linked to. It makes sense that one would not grant the right to make incompatible versions. That would confuse the user. Also, the right of revocation only applies if the DNG implementor tries to sue Adobe. Why would they do that?

Occam's razor here suggests that the camera manufacturers' answers are correct, especially since they are all the same. DNG doesn't let them store what they want to and change it at will -- and this is true of any standardized file format and not true of any proprietary format.
China has lower levels of extreme poverty than the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_percentag... (percentage living off of less than 2.65USD a day).

They also have lower per capita emissions than the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di...
I'd say racial profiling is probably around the same everywhere, but rule of law is not, and while you have a lot of corruption at the top level in France, bureaucratic processes makes it hard for low-level public servant to ignore said rule of law, which isn't the case in some Eastern European countries (i've heard that Romania made _huge_ improvement though, so maybe my only first-hand experience wouldn't happen these days anymore)
Front-line managers and PM’s have the same incentives.
This seems to imply that someone can be "curious about the US, and might like to explore" but that they also already know the value of "what you get as a tourist".

I don't think that is valid. While my monoculture question came of as loaded, judging by the backlash of commenters, and I should haven't asked it, I don't think the OP understands the diversity of the US, and I don't think a judgement on value of travel in the US without experiencing it first can be made; even by US residents.
How does it then work if I send the file to others. Is it saved in the file or will it just crash there?
OPEC allows higher production quotas because they think the price will go down and they need to keep revenue constant-ish so their governments dont collapse.
> NMT engines remain the top performers, with GPT-4.5 (preview) being the best-performing new model.

I wonder why NMT names were masked out? I guess the best are Google and DeepL?
A recent study in Germany concluded that permanent electric fences are an effective long-term solution for protecting livestock from predators. granted - the upfront cost is significant. In regions where the wolf population has returned. Rather than placing blame on the wolves, there is a need for policy change that allows for coexistence where the return of wolf to the ecosystem offers ecological benefits. These policies should include livestock reimbursement programs for farmers and subsidies for installing these fences.
> Kafka is out. It's all about Iggy! What do you mean it's different language? Learn it!

Are people really using Iggy/hyping it already? TIL it's now an Apache project[0], that's awesome, it looks impressive!

Sure, most reasonable people are definitely not ripping out Kafka for Iggy yet, but I'm certainly happy to hear it getting more usage/at least being considered.

[0]: https://blog.iggy.rs/posts/apache-incubator/
I just got back. Parks were not busy at all.
Decoding the 90s: Cryptography in Early Software Development (2023)
macOS is a certified UNIX.

https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/

Perhaps what you mean is that the definition of what it means to be a UNIX has changed for you and you prefer to run UNIX-inspired or UNIX-compatible systems.