skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have something worse. One morally questionable video popped in my Instagram that showed some disabled person doing something outrageously stupid capitalising on their disability for engagement.

I didn't like it, I didn't share it, I didn't do any other thing than just stare at it in shock.

Big mistake.

For over 6 months that became +50% of my feed. Incredible and depressing amount of people monetising the disability of their friends, siblings, children, or their own. Really effed up content that makes you stop and say wtf out loud. But they also earn a living. But they should do it in a honorable manner. But maybe they don't have the chance. So I flag as not interested but that just swaps those videos with new BRAND NEW "content creators" of this kind that I hadn't yet seen. Wow thanks Instagram.

At some point they changed something in the algorithm and now those videos rarely pop anymore, and I'm wary and scroll away fast.
Finally - something I can actually use.
It's practically impossible to really hear the letter? It's like this short breathy growl, a hoarse autotuned cough. They all pretty much sound the same.
For those who don't know, you end up in jail for a DUI, get out, drive your car into a train, and arrive in hell.
GoP is awfully concerned about what is in everyone's pants ... wants the government in there passing judgement.
Using off-the-shelf ARM boards beats the heck out of designing, building and writing firmware for an ARM system. It makes upgradability much, much easier, although I doubt that companies that sell devices like this audio processor consider this a good thing.
Even Realities Smart Glasses
Carnegie Mellon isn't really set up for correspondence courses, especially in the electrical and computer engineering program (which is quite hands-on).

But I'd hope the university would figure out a way to be flexible on this topic. The students (and alumni) are watching; it's a good opportunity for the uni leadership to step up and get creative with a novel challenge.
I always like to recommend the book When McKinsey Comes to Town in any post about Management Consulting
"In February 1998 Erlang was banned for new product development within Ericsson—the main reason for the ban was that Ericsson wanted to be a consumer of software technologies rather than a producer." - The creator of the language banned any use of it internally.
Employers want the degree because it's supposed to verify that you have a certain set of knowledge and/or skills, or at the very least, you're capable of thought to the extent required to get that degree. That's the only reason they want it.

Student being unable to unwilling to learn that knowledge or acquire those skills should mean they don't get that degree, they don't get those jobs, and they go work in fast food or a warehouse.

"Just give them the degree" is quite literally the worst possible solution to the problem.
Also the unending and relentless UAC prompts.
Does anyone else feel seriously... demotivated(?) by these reckless games with the economy? Like, it's really getting to me. It's a new quality of helplessness seeing these shenanigans in my books. More tangible, raw, direct. Much more insulting. My job, the financial security I've been working for hard, honest struggle, if a handful of people can at will gamble with all of that like it means nothing at all, then why the fuck bother? Why should I get my ass up, if some entitled rich fuck can wipe away years of work and sacrifice for some blatant inside trades with their homies? I mean, for them it's just funny numbers, for me it's life changing money and existential security. I don't know, man. I feel like a fucking peasant.
> Now the only "correct" way is a slew of media queries to set some designer's idea of the font for every possible viewport size.

Nested H1s was never semantically correct in the first place, at least for accessibility purposes.

You can do flexible sizes without media queries (eg, viewport size units + clamp). Designers generally understand the web pretty well these days.

I only see one situation where people might have depended on these styles, but it's a big one - anywhere that you output the plain HTML of a "rich text" component from a CMS or whatever. There, if the stakes are low, it might not have been a big deal to just let the browser do it and headings might look too big sometimes now.
>Most have never worked in private sector before and has no idea.

The average tenure in the U.S. government is 8.2 years. The average age is 47.2 years old. I don’t know how to reconcile the facts with your claim. Either most have been unemployed for a couple decades before coming to work for the government or it has some wonky distribution or something else is going on that you should elaborate on.
The comment above wasn't about per capita reductions.
> workers are allowed to bargain against the government, as in “i will not take the job at the pay you are offering.”

In the same way that someone is allowed to not breath underwater.

A lot of people don't have the luxury of choosing.
I don’t really trust you on that. Why is the government workforce not more capable if there are lots of skilled people who want to work for them?
Virtualization Framework
I agree that "properly working lambda expressions were only available in Lisp until recently" is perfectly idiomatic, but easily misunderstood, English. I believe that the suggested fix "properly working lambda expressions were only available in Lisp since recently," which is what I was responding to, is not idiomatic. Claims about what is and isn't idiomatic aren't really subject to definitive proof either way, but it doesn't matter, because the suggester now agrees that it is not what was meant (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43653723).
Just yesterday I randomly stumbled across this very interesting clip on youtube about longbow crafting in Japan:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPKts3cHvv8
Key points:

Timothy Gallwey’s “Inner Game of Tennis” came out in 1974 and sparked a revolution in coaching and how athletes should approach improving their performance. Entrepreneurs can use several lessons to improve their personal performance and coach others.

The inner game is about self-mastery. And the path to self-mastery starts with humility because the humble are willing to observe and listen. As Wynton Marsalis observed: “the humble improve.” This is a tough challenge for any entrepreneur. You have to have the courage of your convictions in starting a new business, but you have to be alert to what you can learn by observing and listening to prospects, customers, partners, competitors, employees, and others.

The Usual Way of Learning:

+ Criticize or Judge Past Behavior

+ Tell Yourself to Change, Instructing with Word Commands Repeatedly

+ Try Hard; Make Yourself Do It Right

+ Critical Judgment about Results Leading to Repetition of Process

The Inner Came Way of Learning

+ Observe Existing Behavior

+ Ask Yourself to Change, Programming with Image and Feel. No commands are used.

+ Let it Happen!

+ Nonjudgmental, Calm Observation of the Results: Leading to Continuing Observation of Process until Behavior Is Automatic.
Consulting employees make more money and are not subject to the absurd federal hiring process. Plus they can jump between projects more readily.
This only secures between vms. This side steps the problem and people can still easily run multiple applications in the same qube.
The narrative around fed jobs has changed recently too. A fed job used to be a lower salary, but much stronger job security. Now with the new administration government job security is gone, so federal jobs overall are simply not as attractive anymore.
You're being way too generous about the values they're trying to set. If it were about "people who value outcome over process", they would have done cuts in a way that keep those type of people, and programs that already have good outcomes.

Instead they just cut everything uncritically, because the outcome they want is for nothing to work.

And the value they want in the remaining people is personal loyalty to Trump, not loyalty to the law or expertise in their job.
Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20250411170102/https://www.drops...
>maybe that really is the most profitable way to run a tech business.

That's the issue, it seems like it really is the most profitable way to do things. Everything sucks now because shooting brainrot and advertisements at our eyes and ears is more profitable than actually giving us what we want.
> How can having a comprehensive understanding of your infrastructure/stack be a weakness exactly?

Weakness in the inverse: not being ready to change to new code, because you have a clear and distinct understanding of the old, and an uncertain take on the new. In that case, even if the new were better objectively, it would be discounted for you by uncertainty.

Conversely, if you understand something complex deeply and newbies don't, to them something that's easy to understand (but defers problems your stack solves) is preferable, and you end up with culture and governance issues. Managers who are relatively ignorant then set up competitions to surface issues, validate claims, and develop alternatives to mitigate their reliance risks on employees.

So: move fast and forget things, and expect a fight :)
Seems like when they buy a new engine now its never your bog standard diesel ladder truck. Its some hybrid or electric beast that looks like a hot wheels designer made it. I can’t imagine that is saving money over a simple diesel truck platform but I can understand why its worth paying that cost too as these old trucks are certainly unpleasant to anyone near them in noise, smell, or air quality.
> The U.S. still leads in producing top AI models—but China is closing the performance gap.

Most researchers that I know do not think about things in this lens. They think about building cool things with smart people, and if those people happen to be Chinese or French or Canadian it doesn’t matter.

Most people do not want a war (hot or cold) with the world’s only manufacturing superpower. It feels like we have been incepted into thinking it’s inevitable. It’s not.

In the other hand, if in some nationalistic AI race with China the US decides to get serious about R&D on this front, it will be good for me. I don’t want it though.
Large aggregation is also to a certain degree a moat. Most creators have quickly found that people won't pay for one creator's content unless that creator is a huge volume creator (at the scale of maybe Disney). No one subscribes to a platform with 20 movies and 5 TV shows.
You can like songs, which will then be added to your playlist of liked songs. Sounds like that's waht you want.
This actually seems quite easy to implement. Any thoughts on the performance hit a program takes when going this route instead of using one of the workarounds?
This is such a big deal, they've been working on this for so long. It goes all the way back to Dolly the sheep. They've had to make an entirely separate breeding population of genetically altered swine to do this. I hope they figure what caused the rejection.
The volume is intentionally set quite low. You will need to turn up your volume and listen carefully to distinguish the letters.
Factually despite all the noise there are no significant tariffs in either direction at this point in time, 98% of trade is tariff free under the free trade agreement. Mexico and to a lesser degree Canada are in a more favorable position than they were before the tariffs as they are the only countries in this position [1]

[1] https://semianalysis.com/2025/04/10/tariff-armageddon-gpu-lo...
> Actually, they design for the average behavior of the average person.

They're generally designed for engagement. Nobody is particularly asking for this type of experience it's just that Tiktok has discovered the most addictive - eh hum, I mean engaging - experience thus far. So they're being copied.

Netflix is a little different though as if people open the app and always see the same top titles listed due to it being an alphabetical index, then they quickly think nothing new is ever there. Or, it's too hard to find. So they're tricking people into thinking there's a bunch of fresh/good content. There's also a cultural phenomenon where everyone discusses "what shows have you been watching lately?" so the Trending aspects of their recommendations is to help people get on board with the trend; and, to push momentum and create the trend too obviously.
what specific actions are you talking about?

e: christ, why am I downvoted for earnestly asking a question
Pivoting every few months? 0 cofounder alignment?

Decisions like these are tough to make in the moment, but looking back you almost never regret it. Trust your gut.
For sale: Aphex Twin's Yamaha GX-1 synth
At first glance, I'm curious what the point of this is, people who want to believe it are going to believe, it people who don't want to aren't going to. The mainstream science community will probably just disavow most of these studies, and probably for good reason. They won't have good methods or won't be replicable.

But I'm guessing maybe the point is, if you can get these studies published by the NIH, then red-state governments can more easily argue for conversion therapy since it will be "backed by science"
This is one of those things that feels like a broken/half-assed/oversimplified implementation got completely proliferated into the world a long time ago and it took several years for the right person to do a full-depth mathematical analysis to reveal what we should've been doing all along. Similar to antialiasing and sharpening, texture filtering, color spaces and gamma correction, etc.

It reminded me of this article specifically: https://bgolus.medium.com/the-best-darn-grid-shader-yet-727f...
Plus, many of the laws government has to follow are exactly about the process by which things are done. That is what helps ensure it is fair, effective, transparent, etc.
I simply hate that good services get ruined because there's money to be made by providing a different service to a broader group of people. It's not quite enshittification, it's companies making something that serves a relatively small group of folks well into a thing that serves a very large group of people in the highest-ROI way possible.

Companies no longer have a target user. The target user is whoever can be juiced for as many pennies or eyeball-seconds as possible. There's no persona for user stories, it's "literally whoever we can get this in front of for as long as possible". It's about the lowest common denominator.

Which implies, these products are not "designed" anymore. "Designed" implies that the creator made choices to make the product better for a target user. But there's no target user. When your service has a billion users, it's not possible to design for _anyone_. Mouse traps aren't "designed" for the mice, they're built for the people who don't want mice around. Services aren't "designed" for a billion people to interact with, they're built for the owners to make as much money as possible.
yeah except a lot of those companies almost went bankrupt trying to make those cars for enthusiasts and only for them.

porsche and lambo didn't see the outsized success they have now (financially) until they started pumping out SUVs. hell, the purosangue was made precisely to capitalize on that boring market segment.

i feel there's a little suvivorship bias at play here. i think the important thing is to not forget your enthusiasts perhaps, but a lot of these "successes" wouldn't even be around were it not for appealing to the greater masses. ofc some market segments fare better and you can build a business around enthusiasts.
As a computer scientist who worked as a research scientist i was paid more as a Federal Surfguard (beach lifeguard) than i was doing TS cleared work with the government. The GS scale is fundamental a broken wager. When I gradated college the government was willing to pay 75K for employment. I had offers from private industry as internships making more than that per hour. They were easily 15K off my next offer and that was only because I thought I would like defense in general where the pay is pulled lower because they do so much government contracting. After exiting the defense industry I was making what I was predicated to make in 20 years at the government in 3 years in private industry. Not counting stock options etc.

The disparity is extremely but to be honest I liked the idea of working for the government. There was a lot of drive to solve for the mission and smart people. But the level risk mitigation made working extremely difficult. The government impressive getting people to work as hard as they do and I respect it, they were a good employer but political offices severely shackle it from doing even better work. In wages yes but even in allowing experimentation, political appointments waste a ton of energy and time to. Its like selecting the worst person for the Job in a non meritocratic way and expecting things to run smoothly is a poor idea.
Yes, good idea trawling up things people said when they were dumb and young, which they don't even think or agree with today, and trying to cancel their career over it.

Not to benefit society, but to make one feel good about themselves about the victory they achieved in ruining someones life.
Being paid better is quite sexy.
Well, there goes the whole economy.
there should be a word for that horrible feeling when you realize that the things you love about yourself and the things you can't stand about yourself are all just yourself
You would be surprised at how new grads see these companies, especially those coming from business/accounting degrees, etc

It's not too bad
Regardless of the degree that is true for the parent poster, those (and more) qualitative differences can also be felt among different pieces of software that are all quite new.
Yes, but sometimes you do actually want the $500k Googlers.
> they can't actually pay enough to hire senior developers directly

I had the impression that it was also easier to fire contractors. (Well, not to renew their contract.)

If a developer who works directly for the government is underperforming, their boss has to jump through many, many hoops to fire them.
The Chinese won't call because they know they can weather the trade war. Xi will gladly watch the US immolate itself.
How do we know your comment was not generated by an LLM?
If you haven’t already, tell her you’re thinking of leaving and explain why. See if there is a way forward and if not move on as quickly as possible.
It's impossible to isolate applications inside one VM as securely as with Qubes virtualization. You should not rely on intra-VM hardening if you really care about security. Having said that, Qubes does provide ways to harden the VMs: https://forum.qubes-os.org/t/hardening-qubes-os/4935/3, https://forum.qubes-os.org/t/replacing-passwordless-root-wit....
I'm more interested in how we regularly use the term, rather than how we might attempt to come up with a rigorous definition (particularly when that rigorous definition conflicts awkwardly with regular usage).

My point is simply that we absolutely do not refer to a home dishwasher as a robot. Nor an old thermostat with a bimetallic strip and a mercury switch. Nor even a normal home PC.
First of all there is (EDIT: almost) zero trade between the US and Russia currently, same with North Korea. (EDIT: perhaps some token signal of wanting to negotiate over Ukraine? or perhaps even more “sinister” - getting US political opposition to falsely argue Trump is a Russian agent and make themselves look silly)

Second, yes part of the strategy is to force allies to self assess themselves and their dependence on US power. Trump and Nixon had a personal relationship and his fundamental strategy in business is based on creating uncertainty, it’s literally like point 1 of his “Art of the Deal” and however another part of that strategy is being willing to walk away.

We are living through a turning point in history where current US administration has reversed the open policy to China and for national security reasons are working to re-industrialize and militarize quickly as a strategy to deter Chinese ambitions.

It’s fine to disagree and argue the neoliberalism strategy of globalism isn’t dead but politically it is. Of course that world order is fighting to survive where it can, UK, France, Germany all putting up resistance to the rise of neo-mercantilism and nationalism but we will see if canceling elections, restrictions on speech and jailing politicians will work to block it.
As bad as Netflix is, honestly the UX is the best amongst major streaming services.

For me, the cardinal sin of a streaming service is, if I open your service every single day and watch the next episode of ONE show, then the next time I open your service, PLEASE HAVE MY SHOW AT THE TOP OF THE HOME PAGE.

This is such a simple and obvious user journey, but the majority of streaming services, on purpose or not, fuck it up. The number of times I've opened a streaming service, scroll through the entire home page with the shitty tv remote, then had to type the name of my show manually in search. Makes me want to unsubscribe right then and there and just use Plex instead.
>Only Netflix is chickenshit and they haven’t figured out that nobody watches the first season of a Netflix show until the second is announced because they know Netflix cancels shows all the fucking time.

What's funny is that HBO is worse about that, but everyone watches the new HBO shows because they are big budget and look really appealing.

Netflix is also really bad about taking way too long to make additional seasons even if they announce them it's still forever before they come out.
The advantage of electron was that the client side scripts in the renderer and the backend use the same language and the two can share data easily (although not so much these days given disabling that is done for security). Whenever I use electron, I have communication between the backend and the renderer client side scripts go over a socket. This made the code fairly portable, such that I was able to do proof of concept port of an electron application I wrote for use in health care to a WebKitGTK version written in around 100 lines of C with the backend nodejs process still running. Interestingly, this cut memory usage in half, with half of the remaining memory usage being the nodejs process. I assumed replacing nodejs with pure C code would lower memory usage even further, but this ran on a CM4, so there was no pressure to reduce memory usage, and I abandoned the C port because using electron as is was more convenient.

There really is not much special about electron or tauri. You can do the same thing in any language that can use WebKit as a library.
Meanwhile, in Norway, transgender Americans can seek asylum
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/04/11/norway-transgender-us...
I don't actually believe you are trying to argue in good faith here.

> At what point will you start connecting the dots and realise that all these means to some different end always end up benefitting Israel, and no one else?

Many US companies and US oligarchs benefit from the actions listed here. You are focused on Israel as if no one in the US is profiting from these actions.
Should Gmail never have been created as a web page? How about Google Maps?
Had a great conversation today with Gemini today where it told me 90000us is 9ms
For poverty wages? In my city government workers with families almost universally qualify for subsidized housing. People in my experience get half my salary, and then half of that goes to housing. Maybe some C tier talent goes to government but not without wfh, pension or other benefits.
This is the correct answer.

The more you watch, the less likely you are to unsubscribe.

If you haven't watched a streamer in a couple of months, that's the first thing you'll cancel when you glance at your credit card statement.