skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh yeah, it was awful by then. At my store you made essentially minimum wage plus a sort of commission for addons/upsales (as long as they were over a certain percentage of your total sales) and flat bonuses for new cell contracts, phone/accessory sales.

Theoretically it could add up to a passable paycheck for retail, but they had it set up so that only a few senior staff ever got enough hours/good shifts where you could conceivably hit the addon percentages needed to qualify for commissions. So the only way to make any money was to sell cell plans, phones, and accessories. The whole store was totally focused on hawking cell plans.

Then we had to go to monthly meetings an hour out of town on our own dime. That's where they talked at us about the company and how cool and great it was. Such a shitty place to work. IIRC there was a dedicated web forum called "RadioShackSucks" or something like that where staff complained to each other.
Proof of work has problems with this because you (Mallory) can be paid to be the tertiary durable store for a file and secretly fetch the file from Alice or Bob when asked to prove you have the files. And even if you do something like use a different cypher for each copy the fact that the data is often meant to be public means one could work out the cypher given Alice and Bob and then dump your copy once you have done so.

Unless you use public key cryptography, which is so expensive that nobody actually uses it for arbitrarily large inputs.
This is a fair take from my POV. I am very happy not to be modding any forum these days.

edit: and to be clear, I was not originally critiquing the modding here.
cmon. it's trivial to see how much things actually sell for versus what they're listed for
"Sir, why do you keep running back and forth in the bathroom?"
he's like THE or was THE raspberry pi guy
Lol in consecutive comments you claim the whistleblower made it up and NPR made it up. Take a break.
> Amazon subsidizing shipping

Do they still do this?
The Convergent Research Gap Map
I'm skeptical that we would need determinism in a supervisor in order for it to be useful. I realize it's not exactly analogous, but the current human parallel, with senior/principal/architect-level SWEs reviewing code from less experienced devs (or even similarly-/more-experienced devs) is far from deterministic, but certainly improves quality

Think about how differently a current agent behaves when you say "here is the spec, implement a solution" vs "here is the spec, here is my solution, make refinements" - you get very different output, and I would argue that the 'check my work' approach tends to have better results.
love it! I do exactly this in the terminal myself github.com/danielfalbo/git-diary-engine
>2) Select Color 1: Black

You don't need this step. It already defaults to black, and besides when you do "delete" it doesn't use color 1 at all, only color 2.
I tried DMSO for elbow tendinitis, it sort of worked but caused such intense itching that I found myself washing it off soon after applying. It's sold in farm supply stores for use on horses, so it's fairly easy to obtain.
Tell me 5 cars brands on the top of your head.
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Kerollmops

> Meilisearch Co-Founder and Tech Lead.

You really should disclose your affiliation.
I understood that but had the sense backwards. If the best research institution for given grant is a private university, you are saying that it should be precluded from consideration.
Ironic because Bay Area housing socialists are just witless "useful idiots" acting on behalf of the real estate lobby. For example noted idiot and self-described socialist Dean Preston, who is himself an ultra-wealthy landlord who owns hundreds of SF apartments. Preston's former chief of staff and campaign manager Jen Snyder, and most of the rest of his campaign staff, most of whom literally use hammer-and-sickle titles on Twitter, formed a real estate consultancy called "Red Bridge Strategies" that takes contributions directly from NIMBY dipshits, for example when they sued the city of Livermore to stop two 100%-subsidized affordable apartment complexes in Livermore.

YIMBYs rightly looked at these fake socialists and said "pick up a hammer or GTFO".
I am subjected to periodic performance reviews, you know.
And then (at least around here) they often make you scan a QR code in order to see the menu. It's often not a direct link to the menu, but rather a third party site or a link shortener that tracks traffic for marketing data.
I’m not arguing that anti-Semiticism hasn’t been diluted to an over inclusive definition. I was just challenging the claim that students have been called out. This looks like the protests being called out, not the students. That’s an important difference because it, in my opinion, divides civil disagreement from something nastier.
I had to implement exec() on Unix V6 for my OS course at uni.
It is unfortunate. GCC has enabled the compilation of countless lines of source code for nearly 40 years and has served millions of users. Regardless of whether its design is considered good or bad today, GCC has played an essential role and has enabled the emergence of many projects and new compilers. GCC deserves deep respect.
Ye Olde Blogroll – Because blogs are the soul of the web
It's okay, neither is the vast majority of americans
We use AI for software development
> Let's assume "code is law" is nonsense, as many comments here say. Then, under what conditions do we define interacting with the blockchain as fradulent? What is fraud and what is not fraud?

The thing is, laws can have issues and bugs as well, just like code! And we have courts to judge not just when someone outright breaks a law but also when someone is skirting on the edges of the law.

Take Germany's "cum ex" scandal for example. Billions of euros were effectively defrauded from the state and on paper the scheme appeared legally sound, but in the end it was all shot down many years later because the actions of the "cum ex" thieves obviously violated the spirit of the law.

The only difference is that blockchains are distributed worldwide and there is no single entity that can be held accountable and forced to execute or reverse any given transaction.
Sam got a jawline lift, anyone noticed?
When to choose GitHub-Hosted runners or self-hosted runners with GitHub Actions
Any immigrant to the US that doesn't look like the right kind of immigrant, whether citizen or not, should be making plans and moving money.

I'm making plans and moving money already.
As usual with Gen AI the curated demo itself displays misunderstanding and failure to meet the prompt. In the "Glacial Cavern" demo, the "candy figures" are not within the ice walls but are in the foreground/center of the scene.

These things are great (I am not being sarcastic, I mean it when I say great) if and only if you don't actually care about all of your requirements being met, but if exactness matters they are mind-bogglingly frustrating because you'll get so close to what you want but some important detail is wrong.
> Fry's Electronics closed here in the west part of Phoenix, several years ago. Their shelves were starting to get bare and were selling things from consignment. It took a while for them to die, and I finally found out why: they were having trouble getting credit to buy inventory.

I was going to do some of my 2019 Christmas shopping at the one and only Fry's in the Chicago area, but I walked inside and it looked like a bomb had gone off. Nothing was organized, lots of empty shelves, the cafe was closed, and I got a serious case of the heebie-jeebies and hightailed it out of there.

Google Street View shows it as it was in August 2019. As far as I know, the building is empty now.

And then there was TigerDirect, but that's a separate rant. I used to have three major computer shops within driving distance, but it's down to one now with MicroCenter.
As if the taxpayers should automatically give billions to Harvard, no matter what Harvard does. That's insanity (to me at least).

AFAIK, Harvard doesn't get money for nothing -- it's primarily for research. The demands are orthogonal to what Harvard provides: top tier talent for whatever the government sees fit to fund.

It's amazing how communist problems always end with: "you eventually run out of other people's money"

It's always someone else's money. Roads suck? You probably have too many roads for other people's money to fix. The list goes on. Libertarian dreams of self-sufficiently die when their money has to pay for things. Unless you meant feudalism or plutocracy, where wealth primarily flows away from the working class.

Humans are creatures of community. There will always be taxes for any sufficiently developed people, the only hope is they serve the public good and aren't funneled into the oligarchs' pockets.
e6500/T4240 are faster than powermacs. Not sure how rare they are nowadays, we didn't have any trouble buying some (on eBay). 12×2 cores, 48GB RAM, for BE that's essentially heaven…
The context is completely different though. Building a normal computer app is not an attempt to do anything without government or legal structures so it makes sense that normal computer apps would be protected by government or legal structures.

It doesn't really make sense for people to build smart contracts that are intended to be an extra-judical agreement where the code enforces the rules and then run to government whenever something they don't like happens. What is the purpose of smart contracts at all if you still need the entire legal apparatus around them?

What does agreeing to a contract that inherently implies trying to work around the need for government in contracts means? What does it say about intent?

If for example, the firm that lost money had been saying "Code is Law" in their previous pro-crypto statements and had explicitly talked about smart contracts being extra-judical it seeems there intent would be to avoid legal intervention entirely and it would require a fairly high bar to argue that any bug could result in a lawsuit.
Sure he did, he wants obedience.
> LLVM is sort of the defacto standard now...

Distributions, and therefore virtually all the software used by a distribution user, still generally use gcc. LLVM is only the de facto standard when doing something new, and for JIT.
> Am I reading it wrong?

Yes
You've dodged the meat of my complaint by not having an example where you need to inject into a struct to test an implementation. Moreover, if you slap `Send + Sync + 'static` then you can certainly avoid the problems I am hinting at: you've committed to never having a lifetime and won't have to deal with the borrow checker.

Inject a short lived bee into your example. A database that is only going to live for a finite time.
https://archive.is/kVsvc
> I regret not having had the chance to visit the states in the 80s.

US big cities were far worse in the 80s than they are today. New York City had a homicide rate of 25.8 in 1980 and it is now 5.3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_New_York_City#Murders...

While still several times higher than other developed countries it is lower than the US average of 6.3.
In fact, there was a famous de-censoring that happened because the censoring which happened was a simple "whirlpool" algorithm that was very easy to unwind.

If media companies want to actually censor something, nothing does better than a simple black box.
I was under the impression that RadioShack went bankrupt a few years back? Were the existing stores just "squatting" on the name?

Sometimes these kinds of things escape my notice, but I recall RadioShack because the minute I heard they were shutting down, I hopped in the car to get to the one nearest me and loaded up two shopping bags of electronics components, switches, banana jacks, oddball high-wattage resistors, etc. Because it's RadioShack, even at 75% off the prices were only "meh" but it's all stuff I was more or less guaranteed to use eventually in projects or repairs.

Speaking of, I really hate buying one-off components from Amazon. I needed a panel-mount BNC jack the other day and literally the best option was $7 for 10 of them. So effectively I paid $7 for one (which is way too much) and now I have 9 that will be sold for pennies at my estate sale a few decades from now.

And now the tariffs are basically going to shut down my usage of AliExpress for bulk orders of cheap components, I'm pretty sure I'm just going to end up dropping electronics as a hobby altogether in the long run.
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On a per-customer basis the cost of last-mile shipping is just the cost of the truck driving from the prior delivery to your house. That's probably less than the cost of you driving to a store and back.
Most people couldn't tell the difference between Helvetica and Arial at all. And Helvetica is one of the most iconic, classic, respected designs out there.

The only people it might look cheap to are graphic designers. So who cares?
> Ads work on you? A serious question. They ellicit so much immediate mental resistance on my side

The ads that work on folks like you are almost certainly the ones that you don’t notice or maybe barely notice.

This is fantastically difficult to prove without a fairly invasive tracking of someone’s life over time.

That said, really good mentalists are masters of this type of shaping of one’s thinking — Derren Brown has videos on this.
KDE's stuff (which is the original reason CMake became popular and adopted) remains updated and fairly clean.
>Electric propulsion using high power laser beaming makes way more sense outside the atmosphere for non-launch use cases

"Roundtrip Interstellar Travel Using Laser-Pushed Lightsails"

https://ia800108.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?archive=/24...
Well sure, but we're in the early stages here smashing bones together. When a few million bored teenagers bang at this, I bet you'll see perspectives you've never thought of. It'd be like having someone in the 1920's listen to Nirvana - just a completely different experience.

Given the dreck coming out of Hollywood, I'm open to that, even if other folks have to wade through a million shitty videos for me to get it.
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Why? This kind of crap is pretty common. Look at the madness surrounding sneakers, the market is so nuts that dedicated crews target freight trains specifically for looting the sneakers [1].

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/25/california-a...
It's true that HN has shown itself _mostly_ incapable of having a useful discussion on topics that involve the current US president. (But sometimes a useful thread of conversation emerges!) Users that are frustrated by a flagged topic will retaliate by flagging comments they disagree with. And vice versa.

I think retaliating like this just makes HN worse. If you stop flagging perfectly good stories, HN will be a marginally nicer place for discussion. I'll say the same to anyone here who admits to blanket flagging of comments.

Please keep trying to discuss your views. Sometimes they'll get smacked down unfairly, but other times they'll stick around. The more you try, the more they'll stick, and hopefully it can shift the tone of discussion here.
> Very little is known with absolute certainty outside of mathematics.

Absolutely. As you've read in other comments, mathematics is of the few areas where I have found room to make up my mind. For everything else, straight up: I don't know. The only way to change my mind from "I don't know" is to make it "I do know", but, as you say, outside of mathematics that realistically isn't going to happen. We collectively don't know and it is unlikely that we will ever know.

> This is quite a close minded position that leaves you vulnerable in changing circumstances.

Okay, but what in the mathematics that I have made my mind up on do you believe is prone to change? Do you anticipate that we will eventually determine that 1+1 actually equals 4 or something?

I will change my mind if in the unlikely event that incontrovertible proof does somehow come to be. I accepted it is theoretically possible to change minds. But, as I said, which is key to the whole thing, I will not spend my days arguing that 1+1=2 until I find out different. I am confident enough that 1+1=2 that I don't have to make that case to myself in front of others.

Argument is a device for when you are unsure of something and want to learn more. There is no mind to change as you haven’t established a mind yet.
Your advice is perennial, I would have given it to people any time after 2005 or so when blogs, LinkedIn and things like that have been entrenched. People sung the praises of "networking" before then, at least int he 1990s.
> It is putting an ownership

over an artifact

You can copy the idea though

And I say copy because before the author made it in the form of an artifact, you didn't know it could be done, or you could have done it on your own.

I can draw ocean waves, nobody owns ocean waves

But if I cooy verbatim hokusai ocean waves, it's mehhhhhhhh

I'm a ripoff loser and should be punished for doing it

Edit: but I like your closing sentence.

Free for all to use it as they see fit is an interesting thought, however I think that imbalance of the means of production will always make the corporations the ultimate beneficiaries, so we should also rethink how our economic system works.

For example: if I could copy the avengers, people would say "it's a cheap copy of Disney's original" and I would hardly make any money out of it.

It's an interesting POV nonetheless.
Blue Origin spaceflight faces more backlash after launch: This is beyond parody
You? That people did self censor indeed. And one example of one author not self-censoring and being made an example does not deny that.
seems like it was unflagged. This story is horrifying, thank you.
(continental) Europe never really had much of a push in that direction, though.

The whole concept of DEI / woke is not much of a thing outside the English-speaking world. Very small parts of it (gender parities, a bit more transgender awareness, the "transgender athletes in sports" kerfuffle) have leaked through, but that's it. Where I live (Poland), most people, even well-educated people, haven't ever heard of the concept of specifying your pronouns.
the movie about this guy is going to be awesome
The problem a lot of people in our field / on the internet have is that they think every problem is purely a logical problem to be solved, and that the person that has the problem is completely rational about it. But that's not the reality, and a lot of problems are emotional in nature - or, elicit an emotional response, which can't be resolved by just ignoring the emotional aspect and focusing on the functional. Because sometimes there just isn't a logical / functional problem to be solved.

And you're making the assumption that you can play a part in solving the problem, but what if that removes someone else's agency or responsibility? They will feel belittled, passed by, ignored, or they will not learn anything.
If AI can fix the terrible ending that was Game of Thrones, then perhaps it won't have been a complete waste after all.
I have also had issues with motivation. I had a long pause from about 2019 to 2024 where I didn't work on personal electronics projects because I didn't have enough motivation. This and last year however I have been very productive and it's hard to say what exactly changed, just felt like working on them.
IBM's Power chips can run in either little or big modes, but "used a lot" is a stretch
My MIL with dementia does this. I typically respond by saying, "you don't mean that" or "I did not do such a thing". If she keeps up her a mile a minute hostile diatribe, I start praying very LOUDLY. That appears to be the only thing which gets her to be quiet and calm down.
Time for the EU to take the place of the US.
There is nothing like the quiet sleek freedom of bicycle touring. Going as far each day as your legs will let you. No gas just peddling
I was not aware of those.

Reminds me of slit-scan as well. And of course rolling shutters.
I was wondering why these were so prominently displayed at my local store. Now I know! They're too small for me, like to shop less often and stock up when I do, and I never imagined a use besides as a shopping bag.

Fashions and trends really are unpredictable.
I remember the "Battery Club" you could get one free battery a month I think. They gave you a little card and would punch a hole in it for every battery you got. My dad would stop in every month to get his free battery. I don't recall if any purchase was required but I don't think so.
You can dress it up however you want, but your pathological need to insist that Nazis were pro-zionism is not historically accurate and it is frankly insulting. From the link you posted: "In the post-war period, the agreement has sometimes been cited by anti-Zionists, anti-Semites, and critics of Israel (Ken Livingstone, Lyndon LaRouche, Louis Farrakhan, Mark Weber,[28] Joseph Massad,[29] Mahmoud Abbas[30]) as evidence of Nazi support for Zionism[31] or Zionist collaboration with the Nazis.[32]"

From the footnotes of the link you posted: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/world-history/ado...

What you keep saying is just basic antisemetic rhetoric. I wonder where you were exposed to it?
I was at Next '25 last week and sat through several meals with other executives who are on GCP. I was speechless at the comments made by one executive from a regional bank located in the South. He was quite cavalier in his commentary that firing all of their seasoned 'IT' pros and dissolution of their data centers was the best thing ever; going so far as to proudly claim they were all fired because those folks were purposefully torpedoing cloud migration to save their jobs.

Sitting next to him was a C-level executive from a public sector organization in one of the Mountain states lamenting the costs associated with their cloud deployments and lack of seasoned IT pros, due to the lack of ability to hire and retain IT professionals at the low wages allowed by budgetary constraint. While they could more easily gain limited investment from the state legislature for initiatives and the consulting companies advising them on strategy, they are now hamstrung by rising costs associated with what I call 'The Timeshare Points Model' where (overly-simplistically) $1 == 1 credit today but $2 == 1 credit tomorrow, even though--traditionally--compute and RAM costs go DOWN over time, not up, for the same level of service.

It was absolutely wild to me that there are still folks who truly believe that they can somehow save money without knowledgeable and thoughtful staff on hand to make smart decisions to run workloads in a cost-conscious manner and instead trust these cloud computing platforms to just do everything for them with unpredictable and ever-increasing cost.
Solid color would convey far less information, but it would still convey a minimum length of the secret text. If you can assume the font rendering parameters, this helps a ton.

As a simple scenario with monospace font rendering, say you know someone is censoring a Windows password that is (at most) 16 characters long. This significantly narrows the search space!
Or a microcontroller