skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that the most appropriate strategy depends on the specifics of the situation. For some types of problems the best course of action is to do nothing, some times the best course of action is to make small adjustments, sometimes do less, sometimes do more, sometimes slow down, sometimes speed up, and sometimes the best course of action is to make radical changes. I don't over-generalize and prescribe the same ideological answer to everything.

I have also witnessed first hand how new terminology can have very different meanings to different people. Ask 100 product leaders to define what a "customer need" is and you will probably get dozens of different answers. Ask 100 CIOs to define what a "data mesh" is, and you will probably get dozens of different answers.

I think that when an environment is changing at an accelerating pace, its necessary for the organisms living in the environment to adapt at a similar pace in order to survive/thrive. I also believe that our environment is changing at an accelerating pace.

I suspect that you think I have reverse the metaphor because you have been paying more close attention to recent rage-baiting news, and I have spent a longer time paying closer attention to "boring" economic analysis. My model of the situation includes many historical examples of hyperinflation and what led to them, the consequences of Muammar Gaddafi dropping the petrodollar, the impact of citizens united on the military industrial complex, the exploding web of "NGOs" meddling in world affairs, how technology is an extremely deflationary force and how regulatory capture shifts economic benefits of new technology from the consumer to industry incumbents, how the Bretton-woods era started and ended, and how the neoliberal era started (and was ending regardless of political party), etc, etc.

Despite all this perspective I mentioned, I feel as though I know a tiny % of what is important to know in order to judge the situation accurately. The more I learn the more it seems like I don't know, and the more curious I get. Color me in the Dunning Kruger "valley of despair".

So no, I don't think the simplistic blanket decision making protocol you defined describes me.
This article isn't about the iPhone
I deal with WordPress a lot, and at least for my set of clients they just don't even have time for this, even with AI. They just wants leads. AI currently is good I guess for a standard 3-5 page site just like some of the other standard builders, but clients with hundreds of pages and heavily reliant on getting leads through campaigns and SEO, I currently don't see any danger (or use) here. Great for SMBs that just need something up quick though.
How is this legal ? Can I sue because of this as a non Twitter user ?
Is it just me or is this post very low on the hacker news order even though it has much more upvotes in a short time than much of the posts above it.
Not a game developer, but I wrote a bunch of code specifically for the CELL processor for grad school at the time (and tested it on my PS3 at home - marking the first and last time I was able to convince my wife I needed a video game system "for real work"). It was fun to play with, but I can empathize with the time cost aspect: scheduling and optimizing DMA and SPE compute tasks just took a good bit of platform specific work.

I suspect a major point killing off special architectures like the PS3 was the desire of game companies to port their games to other platforms such as the PC. Porting to/from the PS3 would be rather painful if you were trying to fully leverage the power and programming model of the CELL CPU.
Come back in a generation and ask the Palestinians what their experiences were like.
> knowing they would suppress any criticism of Russia‘s war in Ukraine?

This is a leap in logic. You have no idea that they would know they would do this.
I don't think proving a negative is really useful here, the only reason to believe that they WOULD grant asylum is on the basis of a tiny minority party backing a single politician. You also have to consider the asylum backlog in all of Western Europe, and the circumstances driving those people to apply.

Is an American with a vague sense of dread, but no actual threat to their life going to make a better case than a MENA region refugee? A Ukrainian? I know that people like to dismiss this sort of thinking as "Oppression Olympics", but the reality is that there are a very limited number of "slots" for asylum seekers in a country like Norway and therefore an element of competition does exist.

Who has a more pressing need? Someone fleeing a war zone? An LGBT person from a country like Afghanistan? Or an American upset about divisive political rhetoric?
Okay, but won’t whatever cultural forces caused your job to be 9-5 (or whatever) under standard time eventually cause it to drift to 10-6 under +1 offset time, and then you haven’t gained anything? At that point will we offset by another hour, and so on ad infinitum?

I sometimes feel like arguments advocating for permanent DST think there’s something magical about the numbers “9” and “5” that made the 9-5 workday the standard, (rather than “three hours before midday” and “five hours after midday”), so that if we just change what times 9 and 5 refer to, things will work out…
I used to own a part of the Facebook homepage and maximizing its metrics was my job.

They told us they cared about wellbeing. I made a feature that demonstrably improved wellbeing, and we had lots of data and surveys etc to prove it.

But it decreased watch-time on shortform (what we used to call TikTok style) videos so the Director made me delete it. That started my disillusionment process that eventually made me quit.

Money is the only thing that matters to them.
Downvote however you like. We know how strong the influence is.

„ LEAKED AUDIO OF CEO OF AIPAC
Rubio, Stefanik, Waltz … they all have sth in common ... relationships with key AIPAC leaders"

Ratcliffe, one of the first candidates I ever met as an AIPAC rep ... he took the oath as CIA director, for crying out loud
https://x.com/TheGrayzoneNews/status/1910101143268508094
> Not to mention my country is dealing with rohingya crisis, which was fueled by Facebook and WhatsApp misinformation campaigns, and Facebook had 2 moderators for the whole country of Myanmar and refused to do anything about said misinformation campaigns. But they sure make exceptions for Ire*

Not sure why you're downvoted. This is all true.
I don't really get what distinction you're trying to draw between niche optimization and the bitwise stuff you keep talking about. As far as I am aware, the Rust compiler never works by counting bits in any context. The LLVM backend sometimes does, but it's not responsible for enum layout.

The mental model is, an enum payload will have some number of integer/pointer values with niches in their representation. Niches don't work by counting bits, they work as numeric ranges. E.g., a char is just a u32 with values 0 through 0x10ffff, a bool is a u8 with values 0 and 1, a reference is just a pointer with any value except 0, etc., and the niche is precisely the negation of this range.

Sometimes the niche corresponds to bits used in a valid value (e.g., the 0 value of a NonZeroU8), and sometimes it corresponds to other bits (e.g., values 2 through 255 of a bool): the compiler only cares about the ranges, not the bits. If there is no large-enough niche, then the discriminant is placed in a separate byte.

An outer enum can't use sometimes-valid payloads in an inner enum to represent its discriminant, if that's what you're trying to say. Multiple discriminants can be 'flattened' into a single continuous range of niche values, but they can't be 'flattened' into inner enums' payloads. That would cause a weird inversion where you need to read the inner discriminant just to know whether the outer discriminant is valid.

(The compiler does have a few tricks up its sleeve to make the most of niches. E.g., in a Result<(u8, bool), u8>, an Err(42) becomes [42, 2], but in a Result<(bool, u8), u8>, an Err(42) becomes [2, 42] (https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio...). The 42 is repositioned to keep the niche intact.)
Lousy farmers... /s
They are much more similar to each other than Git as they share the same plugin ecosystem, core developers and the base layer CMS is identical. I imagine there are many more feature differences between Git and Github.
It's pretty easy easy to detect copy from the major AIs since they have a distinctive voice but a website coded by AI won't be nearly as easy.
Legality does not matter to this admin. Sooner or later people will realize that.
If I remember correctly, W3C’s XHTML2 working group wanted a generic <h> tag [1], and WHATWG, focused on evolving HTML in a backwards-compatible manner, repurposed <h1> as a context-dependent heading tag instead.

[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/2010/NOTE-xhtml2-20101216/mod-structur....
25% of the Swedish population migrated to the US during the 1800s. A large portion of those were very christian. Essentially they migrated because their christian beliefs were "too extreme" for the state protestant church here at the time.

I've always wondered if that's how Sweden ended up mostly agnostic/atheist and part of the explanation for why the US ended up being so very religious.
The NYT's Executive Editor Joe Kahn is the son of a billionaire who was on the board of lobby group CAMERA, a group devoted to pressuring US media to be more pro-Israel.
The United States currently deports visa holders for criticizing a foreign Jewish country, Israel. Don't lump in the power structure with those who are actually victims.
Is your Google email forwarded to the fastmail? If someone invites my personal email from Google calendar, my Gmail account gets put on the invite. I always attributed it to the forwarding. It's odd but also pretty convenient as I still use Google calendar.
Working through a really difficult situation like this could actually make their working relationship much stronger. To your point, even if they fail they'll learn from the experience, which will be useful for their next venture (either together or going separate ways).
Especially given Musk's propensity to ban users from Twitter.
the ps3 development difficulty was definitely complained about during its usage cycle; the standard ps3 vs xbox360 argument was that the ps3 had far superior hardware, and xbox fans would always counter with no one could make use of that hardware
A big company like Apple can literally just buy the expertise that is needed to move production anywhere that makes sense.

Flex likewise can do the same.

There will be some ramp up time but these companies operate as scale.
By that metric Native Americans are basically animals.. which is problematic.

However arguably humans existed from tens of thousands of years and only really started to make huge technological leaps when writing existed. Prewriting culture is still quite fascinating and complex (ex: Homer or Olmec/Maya art) but it does seem to be stuck at a certain level.

I think Egyptian civilization provides a fascinating mid point where there is writing but it's not very accessible... And Egyptian civilization is slow to develop (it's also very weird they don't have their equivalent of Homer or Gilgamesh)
What country are you from? It is entirely possible they are still terrorists you just decided as society to ignore it.
At work we went back to a Docker build to make reproducible images. The primary reason is poor cross-compilation support in Nix on Arm when developers needed to compile for an amd64 service and derive image checksums that are put into tooling that are run locally for service version verification and reproducibility.

With Docker it turned out relatively straightforward. With Nix even when it runs in Linux Arm VM we tried but just gave up.
So you like summer more than winter. (Longer evenings could be had if jobs let out earlier in the day, or even better, gave employees the option to shift their time.)
There are a lot of different measures. The Wii (the 7th gen Nintendo console) outsold it considerably, as did the 6th gen PS2 (which far and away beat out all other consoles in its generation).

Going from such market dominance to second place is not good. Not being able to improve upon your position as the industry leader is not good. Failure might be strong, but I certainly wouldn't be happy if I was an exec at Sony at the time.
I think it's a little presumptuous to call anyone that criticizes Israel an "islamist".

Plenty of people that aren't Muslim would like to see the bombing of hospitals to stop. Plenty of people that aren't Muslim would like the ceasefire to actually be respected. Plenty of people that aren't Muslim are upset about the tens of thousands of children that have been killed in Israeli strikes.
> very few people have any real interest in driving a car at 200 MPH

I agree with that.

> but Ferraris, Lamborghinis and Porsches are widely understood as desirable cars

I agree with that too.

> because the people who are into cars like those marques.

I think that is not true. I don’t care about cars. Never had one. Don’t even have a driving licence.

The reason why i think Ferraris, Lamborghinis and Porsches are desirable cars is because they look cool, and they sound cool. They were designed to be like that. If i see one on the street i notice it. I couldn’t care less about the opinion of gearheads. If a car would come out looking like my grandpa’s skoda, but all the car lovers would love it I wouldn’t even hear about it.

It is all about flashyness of the industrial design. And rarity of course.
The [State] department ... will work with an administration-wide task force to collect information "involving anti-religious bias during the last presidential administration" and will collect examples of anti-Christian bias through anonymous employee report forms.

This aligns with the WhiteHouse' order to eradicate attacks on all faiths, as long as they are Christian.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/erad...
This is in the FAQ: see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html#whyrank ("Why is A ranked below B even though A has more points and is newer?"). But here's a longer answer.

In the case of a story like this, which has significant new information (SNI) [1] on a major ongoing topic (MOT) [2], and at least some hope of a substantive discussion, moderators sometimes turn off the user flags on the story [3] so that it can spend time on HN's front page.

In such cases, we usually adjust the degree to which we turn off the flags so that the tug-of-war between upvotes and flags isn't affected too dramatically. Usually the best way to support a substantive discussion is for the story to remain on HN's front page, but not in the highest few slots, where it would burn much hotter.

Since upvotes and submission time are public data but flags aren't, it can appear like a story is being downweighted when in fact the opposite is the case, as with this thread. That's not a rule, though—we do also downweight stories sometimes. That's why the FAQ explains that you can't derive rank from votes and time alone.

The reason moderation works this way, btw, is that HN is a curated site [4] (and always has been—here's me explaining this when I took over HN 11 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7494621).

Moderators' job is to jiggle the system out of the failure modes [5] it would otherwise end up in if the software were running unattended. Turning off flags on certain stories, and adding downweight to other stories, are two examples. The goal is the same: to support substantive discussion on interesting stories, and (as a necessary condition for that) prevent the site from burning too hot if we can.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

[3] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

[4] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

[5] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
This seems accurate to me. They are destroying many US institutions, and what replaces them may be better or may be worse. I am not sure anyone can tell right now.

This wouldn't be happening if everyone was happy with the status quo, if the US was in a golden era, but it wasn't. Many things clearly weren't working. Sometimes it's easier to tear something down and rebuild it than fix it (not always, but sometimes).
>Itself triggered by poorly thought out public policy.

No. There was no policy that required Ford and Chevy marketing to encourage customers to associate "8 ft high front end" with "better truck".

Pedestrian deaths are related to vehicle grill height, not weight. We could have the same modern monster trucks with a lower grille and have fewer pedestrian deaths.
Somebody having for their own reasons flagged the other post, I will have to write it again: this article was submitted as this input from the current adminstration seems relevant in those times when attempts at knowledge engineering (in the form of LLMs) are greatly concentrated in the USA.

As written in the other post, aspects of the action in question seem to suggest a potential for the reduction of "debate" to low standards. It is a drive that could be concerning not just in general, but especially in light of the historic efforts abovesaid.

The original post should be still visible for most - it just says the same in other terms. (Note: it was already heavily hit before I encouraged the silent attackers to grow speech and fingers - then it got flagged.)

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Addendum: furthermore, a factor with consequences will remain a sense of distrust towards the institutions. Very rightfully, as the article said, one part notes that «targeting anyone for their religious beliefs is discriminatory and is contrary to the Constitution». But other parts will be afraid that «in reality, it will weaponize a narrow understanding of [etc.]». There have been many signals that bring to doubt that matters will be treated with all respect to complexity - point that was strongly made in the original post.
I think one thing that the linked article (which I think is great and I generally agree with!) misses is that libraries and abstraction can patch over the lack of composability created by heterogeneous systems. We see it everywhere - AI/ML libraries abstracting over some combination of TPU, vector processing, and GPU cores being one obvious modern place.

This happened on the PS3, too, later in its life: Sony released PlayStation Edge and middleware/engine vendors increasingly learned how to use SPU to patch over RSX being slow. At this point developers stopped needing to care so much about the composability issues introduced by heterogeneous computing, since they could use the SPUs as another function processor to offload, for example, geometry processing, without caring about the implementation details so much.
Have a frank and open discussion about things. That may clear the air and right the relationship.

As for pivoting ….. Steve Blank says, "A startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model."

So yes you need to be trying to find what works. Maybe try to decide together what you work on and for how long. But you do need to be actively searching.
You are assuming that there is an ethical way to use AI. There are several ethical concerns around using AI, and Adobe is perhaps concerned with one of these (charitably, respecting artists, or a little more cynically, respecting copyright).

Many would argue, myself included, that the most ethical approach towards AI is to not use it. Procreate is a popular digital art program that is loudly taking that position: https://procreate.com/ai
Unemployment is currently 3.5%.

Every sector of the economy is looking for more workers.
I have engaged with "Reuben Firmin" and I believe this is posting to be a scam. I was not able to find a business record matching the company name, website is void of any name of people or even a physical address, company blog uses stock images. They claim to use AWS in the above but host on https://hostinger.com.
Is there a way to trace an attribute to a function? I couldn't find one, but curious if it exists. I seemed blocked by the fact that trace seemed to expect a name as a character string. Some functions in base R have functions in their attributes which modify their behavior (e.g. selfStart). I ended up just copying the whole code locally and then naming it, but for a better interactive experience I really wish there was a way to pass a function object as I can with debug.
I hope everyone enjoys WebRTC for the Curious (I am one of the authors). If you have any ideas on how to make it better I would love to hear :)

WebRTC is absolutely magical. Having 'Web' in the name does it a disservice. I see it used to.

* Remotely control excavators

* Security Cameras

* Connect autonomous robots in factories

* Low latency streaming from sail boats and rocket ships

* And all the use cases you expect (Conferencing, Telehealth etc..)
I’m pretty sure the idea that DST is for farmers is just a legend. Farmers can wake up whenever they need to based on where the sun is; it shouldn’t matter to them at all what the civil time is.
I like this book, but it doesn't contain any code examples, so it wasn't useful to me.

I ended up adopting code from the High Performance Browser Networking book and some code examples by Google that were written like 8 years ago. It was painful to replace the outdated APIs with new ones and rewrite in TypeScript, but I eventually did it.

https://github.com/adhamsalama/webrtc/

Then I used it with WebAssembly to run a distributed SQLite database in the browser for peer-to-peer collaboration.

https://github.com/adhamsalama/sqlite-wasm-webrtc

Probably the coolest projects I have ever done, and they contain almost no backend code at all (I am a backend dev).
I'm irked in general by the lack of attention given to solar time. If I ever get into Android hacking, it'll be so I can replace the system statusbar clock with a solar one.

I made a CLI utility that prints percent through the solar day/night that people might find useful: https://github.com/riley-martine/sundial
Dad didn't stop you, eh?
In the beginning, the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and is widely regarded as a bad move.
Cholera cluster in Europe linked to people drinking bottles of holy water
I think that’s mostly due to Erlang looking too alien compared to mainstream languages. Elixir is changing that but it arrived a bit late.
I'm surprised the SPUs were used for post-processing, cause whenever I try to do software rendering I get bottlenecked on fill rate quickly. I believe you, because I've seen it attested in many places, but I'm surprised by it.
This must be the whole 'fixing corruption' thing people have mentioned over and over again. It's not corruption if you're just blatant about it.
U.S. officials discuss daylight saving time: Is it going away for good?
Live Migration on VMWare has been a thing before Google even had a cloud service.
This is such a good article. No notes. I share the same annoyance with how often algorithms are used - if we could give power users an ability to say "yes, I know what I want" and bypass all the recommendations, that would be ideal.
That's part of the failure in developer mindshare: leveraging SMT for games in 2005 was difficult enough, heterogeneous multi-ISA hardware, a ring bus, and the peculiarities of the SPEs made the PS3 not really a consideration. Things might have been different if sony had provided ready-made more or less plug and play SPE applications you could use with just a little tuning for your circumstance (e.g. a physics engine or something) but as far as I know that wasn't the case. I've never heard Sony being praised for its SDKs, while the 360 had straight up directx (with more hardware access).