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The cost of transparency: Living with schizoaffective disorder in tech

news.ycombinator.com Kenneth Reitz 2025-10-28 18:53:37

The Cost of Transparency: Living with Schizoaffective Disorder in Tech August 2025 "We celebrate mental health awareness until someone actually needs mental health support." In The Inclusion Illusion, I explored how tech companies perform diversity while quietly eliminating employees who actually need accommodations. What I didn't share was the personal cost of that analysis—how living openly with schizoaffective disorder has systematically excluded me from the very communities I helped build

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Important machine learning equations

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-28 17:38:44

Motivation Machine learning (ML) is a powerful field driven by mathematics. Whether you’re building models, optimizing algorithms, or simply trying to understand how ML works under the hood, mastering the core equations is essential. This blog post is designed to be your go-to resource, covering the most critical and “mind-breaking” ML equations—enough to grasp most of the core math behind ML. Each section includes theoretical insights, the equations themselves, and practical implementations in

Topics: array np practical probability torch

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Group Borrowing: Zero-Cost Memory Safety with Fewer Restrictions

news.ycombinator.com Evan Ovadia 2025-10-28 18:29:15

Child groups That's a useful rule, and it can get us pretty far. But let's make it even more specific, so we can prove more programs memory-safe. For example, look at this snippet: rs ref hp_ref = d.hp # Ref to contents damage = a.calculate_damage(d) a_energy_cost = a.calculate_attack_cost(d) d_energy_cost = d.calculate_defend_cost(a) a.use_energy(a_energy_cost) d.use_energy(d_energy_cost) d.damage(damage) print(hp_ref) # Valid! The previous (invalid) program had a ring_ref referring to an ele

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Claude Code Checkpoints

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-28 20:16:17

🔍 Automatic Change Detection Continuously monitors your entire project for file changes. No setup required - just select your project folder and start coding. 💾 One-Click Checkpoints Create instant snapshots of your project state before making risky changes. Each checkpoint captures all files and their contents. 📊 Visual Diff Viewer See exactly what changed between checkpoints with our built-in diff viewer. Track additions, modifications, and deletions at a glance. ⏰ Time Travel for Code Inst

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How to disable ACR on your TV - and why it makes such a big difference

zdnet.com Chris Bayer 2025-10-29 05:15:18

Adam Breeden/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Did you know that whenever you turn on your smart TV, you invite an unseen guest to watch it with you? These days, most popular TV models utilize automatic content recognition (ACR), a form of ad surveillance technology that gathers information about everything you watch and transmits it to a centralized database. Manufacturers then use your data to identify your viewing preferences, enabling them to deliver highly targe

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Open Source is one person

news.ycombinator.com Josh Bressers 2025-10-28 22:54:59

The Register recently published a story titled Putin on the code: DoD reportedly relies on utility written by Russian dev. They should be ashamed of this story. This poor open source developer is getting beat up now to score some internet points. It’s very upsetting. But anyway, let’s look at some receipts. If you’re not real smrt, it seems like pointing out an open source project is written by one person in a country you don’t like is a bad thing. It could be. But it also could be the softwar

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Pausing Insect Activity

news.ycombinator.com Ulkar Aghayeva 2025-10-26 08:23:08

For all known life forms, activity is punctuated by periods of rest. Sleep may be the most familiar, but many other distinct dormant states occur on longer timescales, from weeks to months on end. Such suspended animation has garnered many different names: hibernation and torpor (in mammals and birds), brumation (in reptiles), diapause and quiescence (in insects and nematodes), aestivation (summer dormancy in vertebrates and invertebrates), hypobiosis, cryptobiosis, and latent life (in microorga

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What Is Synthetic Gasoline?

news.ycombinator.com Iere Team 2025-10-26 11:31:50

What is Synthetic Gasoline? Synthetic gasoline, also known as synthetic fuel or e-fuel, is a liquid fuel produced through chemical processes, rather than extracted from crude oil. It’s essentially a manufactured replica of gasoline, designed to power internal combustion engines while potentially offering a more sustainable alternative to fossil fuels. Understanding the Fundamentals of Synthetic Gasoline Synthetic gasoline represents a fascinating intersection of chemistry, engineering, and en

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The Most Important Machine Learning Equations: A Comprehensive Guide

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-29 08:38:44

Motivation Machine learning (ML) is a powerful field driven by mathematics. Whether you’re building models, optimizing algorithms, or simply trying to understand how ML works under the hood, mastering the core equations is essential. This blog post is designed to be your go-to resource, covering the most critical and “mind-breaking” ML equations—enough to grasp most of the core math behind ML. Each section includes theoretical insights, the equations themselves, and practical implementations in

Topics: array np practical probability torch

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I unlocked 15GB more Gmail storage for free - without deleting a single email or file

zdnet.com Chris Bayer 2025-10-29 09:45:17

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. Every new Google email account comes with 15GB of free storage -- a solid offer at no cost. However, that space can fill up fast, especially since it also covers files in Google Drive and Google Photos. If your inbox is cluttered with unread newsletters and sneaky spam, there's a way to clean house without losing important messages. With the right approach, you can preserve what matters while giving yourself a

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Altered states of consciousness induced by breathwork accompanied by music

news.ycombinator.com Amy Amla Kartar 2025-10-29 07:22:24

The popularity of breathwork as a therapeutic tool for psychological distress is rapidly expanding. Breathwork practices that increase ventilatory rate or depth, facilitated by music, can evoke subjective experiential states analogous to altered states of consciousness (ASCs) evoked by psychedelic substances. These states include components such as euphoria, bliss, and perceptual differences. However, the neurobiological mechanisms underlying the profound subjective effects of high ventilation b

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Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 28, #809

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-29 07:21:00

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Oh, come on, puzzle editors! Today's NYT Connections puzzle has a word in it that I have never heard of before. Fortunately, it just placed itself in the purple category and it was the only completely loopy word in the mix. Read on for clues and today's Connections answers

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Aug. 28, #339

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-29 08:28:02

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. Today's Connections: Sports Edition is just always tough for me these days. You too? If you're struggling but still want to solve it, Read on for hints and the answers. Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta now, making its debut on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 9. That's a sign that the game h

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Top CDC Officials Resign After Director Is Pushed Out

wired.com Emily Mullin 2025-10-29 08:08:28

Susan Monarez is no longer the director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to a post by the official Department of Health and Human Services X account. She had been in the position for just a month. In the wake of her apparent ouster, several other CDC leaders have resigned. Named acting CDC director in January, Monarez was officially confirmed to the position by the Senate on July 29 and sworn in two days later. During her brief tenure, the CDC’s main campus in Atl

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Apple to secure nearly half of TSMC’s 2nm production (report)

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-10-29 19:10:45

According to the latest rumors, Apple is slated to use TSMC’s 2nm process for its upcoming A20 chip, expected to power the iPhone 18 series. Now, a new report details the chipmaker’s roadmap for bringing the chip into mass production, and the industry-wide rush to secure an early supply. As reported by DigiTimes, citing supply chain sources, TSMC is set to ramp up its 2nm process in the next quarter, and has been charging up to $30,000 per wafer, a record high. Still, demand has never been high

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Sending Nude Photos? Why Your Android Might Blur Them Automatically

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-29 18:30:00

Some Android users are starting to see a new privacy safeguard pop up in Google Messages. Images flagged as nudity are being blurred before you open them. It's part of Google's Sensitive Content Warning system, a feature designed to protect people from receiving unwanted or explicit photos. When enabled, as Google's Help Center post describes, the phone automatically scans images for nudity, blurs anything that looks explicit, and shows a warning before you view, send or forward it. The detecti

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MongoDB stock surges 37% after earnings as company touts customer growth boom

cnbc.com Annie Palmer 2025-10-29 23:00:46

MongoDB shares skyrocketed 37% on Wednesday after the database software company posted better-than-expected fiscal results and gave an upbeat forecast. Here's how the company did in comparison with LSEG consensus: Earnings per share: $1.00 adjusted vs. 66 cents expected $1.00 adjusted vs. 66 cents expected Revenue: $591 million vs. $556 million expected MongoDB's revenue increased 24% from a year ago in the fiscal second quarter that ended July 31. The company had a net loss of $47.04 millio

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SDS: Simple Dynamic Strings library for C

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-27 18:27:59

Simple Dynamic Strings Notes about version 2: this is an updated version of SDS in an attempt to finally unify Redis, Disque, Hiredis, and the stand alone SDS versions. This version is NOT binary compatible* with SDS verison 1, but the API is 99% compatible so switching to the new lib should be trivial. Note that this version of SDS may be a slower with certain workloads, but uses less memory compared to V1 since header size is dynamic and depends to the string to alloc. Moreover it includes

Topics: function printf sds string strings

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China Just Took the Hunt for Elusive ‘Ghost Particles’ to the Next Level

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-10-29 20:55:48

The elusive neutrino—a near massless particle with no charge—tests the limits of physicists’ creativity, but sometimes the answer is just to go big. And the biggest detector of them all has finally joined the search for the so-called “ghost particles.” After a decade of construction, China’s Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) officially began taking data on August 26. The giant, spherical detector lies about 2,300 feet (700 meters) underground and collects antineutrino signals fro

Topics: detector juno mass neutrino neutrinos

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Japanese Online Marketplace Begs People to Stop Selling Ultrasound Photos

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-10-29 23:35:15

Some people will tell you that no one wants to see pictures of your kids, but they’ve apparently never been on the Japanese marketplace app Mercari. According to SoraNews24, there was a surprisingly robust market for ultrasound photos on the e-commerce platform, which resulted in Mercari ultimately banning the sale of said images. Ultrasound images have landed on the list of “inappropriate items” that Mercari maintains, which are restricted from being sold on the platform. The ban will go into

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4chan launches legal action against Ofcom in US

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-10-30 02:30:12

4chan launches legal action against Ofcom in US Ofcom told the BBC: "We are aware of this lawsuit. Under the Online Safety Act, any service that has links with the UK now has duties to protect UK users, no matter where in the world it is based." "American citizens do not surrender our constitutional rights just because Ofcom sends us an e-mail," Preston Byrne of law firm Byrne & Storm said. Their legal complaint filed in a Washington DC Federal Court seeks a legal ban on the communications re

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We rebuilt Cloud Life's infrastructure delivery with System Initiative

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-30 04:18:29

By Ryan Ryke, CEO, Cloud Life ‍ This is the story of how we eliminated static configuration files from our infrastructure workflows at Cloud Life, and, in the process, cut delivery times by more than half, improved reliability, and made our engineers’ work feel much smoother and more manageable. Before this project, we’d been working with the same model that most modern infrastructure teams use: Terraform scripts, config repos, PR reviews, CI pipelines. We’d optimized what we could, but the w

Topics: change infrastructure just si time

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How to slow down a program and why it can be useful

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-30 00:38:35

Most research on programming language performance asks a variation of a single question: how can we make some specific program faster? Sometimes we may even investigate how we can use less memory. This means a lot of research focuses solely on reducing the amount of resources needed to achieve some computational goal. So, why on earth might we be interested in slowing down programs then? Slowing Down Programs is Surprisingly Useful! Making programs slower can be useful to find race conditions

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Antirez/sds: Simple Dynamic Strings library for C

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-28 04:27:59

Simple Dynamic Strings Notes about version 2: this is an updated version of SDS in an attempt to finally unify Redis, Disque, Hiredis, and the stand alone SDS versions. This version is NOT binary compatible* with SDS verison 1, but the API is 99% compatible so switching to the new lib should be trivial. Note that this version of SDS may be a slower with certain workloads, but uses less memory compared to V1 since header size is dynamic and depends to the string to alloc. Moreover it includes

Topics: function printf sds string strings

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Pixel 10 reminds you not to cheap out on a quality screen protector

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-30 11:00:23

TL;DR Google is adding a new step to the Pixel 10 setup to ensure you use a certified screen protector. You can scan the QR code printed on the screen protector’s packaging to verify that it is supported. This ensures the screen protector works flawlessly and does not interfere with the Pixel 10’s fingerprint scanner. Screen protectors, especially those made of glass, are known for not playing well with in-display fingerprint scanners. The added thickness of the glass can interfere with the s

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Global Salt Typhoon hacking campaigns linked to Chinese tech firms

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-30 11:34:04

The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), the UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), and partners from over a dozen countries have linked the Salt Typhoon global hacking campaigns to three China-based technology firms. According to the joint advisories [NSA, NCSC], Sichuan Juxinhe Network Technology Co. Ltd., Beijing Huanyu Tianqiong Information Technology Co., and Sichuan Zhixin Ruijie Network Technology Co. Ltd. have provided cyber products and services to China's Ministry of State Securi

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This Giant Sphere Just Joined the Hunt for ‘Ghost Particles’

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-10-30 11:55:48

The elusive neutrino—a near massless particle with no charge—tests the limits of physicists’ creativity, but sometimes the answer is just to go big. And the biggest detector of them all has finally joined the search for the so-called “ghost particles.” After a decade of construction, China’s Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) officially began taking data on August 26. The giant, spherical detector lies about 2,300 feet (700 meters) underground and collects antineutrino signals fro

Topics: detector juno mass neutrino neutrinos

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We Rebuilt Cloud Life's Infrastructure Delivery with System Initiative

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-30 14:18:29

By Ryan Ryke, CEO, Cloud Life ‍ This is the story of how we eliminated static configuration files from our infrastructure workflows at Cloud Life, and, in the process, cut delivery times by more than half, improved reliability, and made our engineers’ work feel much smoother and more manageable. Before this project, we’d been working with the same model that most modern infrastructure teams use: Terraform scripts, config repos, PR reviews, CI pipelines. We’d optimized what we could, but the w

Topics: change infrastructure just si time

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The Trump administration promised a fourth wireless carrier — America got a hot mess instead

theverge.com Karl Bode 2025-10-30 15:20:53

With Dish Network owner EchoStar selling $23 billion in valuable spectrum to AT&T, any pretense that the TV provider will become a serious wireless competitor is dead. But the project was always doomed to fail, and despite plenty of assurances by the Trump administration and other companies involved, the very obvious writing was always on the wall. More than 9,000 T-Mobile employees lost their jobs, the wireless sector stopped seriously competing on price, and T-Mobile increasingly began to beh

Topics: dish merger mobile spectrum wireless

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European banks hit by rogue PayPal payments worth 'billions'

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-10-30 19:38:52

European banks hit by rogue PayPal payments worth 'billions' The BBC has approached PayPal for comment. The DSGV confirmed to the BBC there had been "incidents involving unauthorized direct debits initiated by PayPal against various credit institutions". It said payments were paused on Monday when lenders reported millions of suspicious direct debits from the payment firm. The German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) says payments worth in the region of 10 billion euros (£8.6bn) have had t

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Latest Tech News

The cost of transparency: Living with schizoaffective disorder in tech

Important machine learning equations

Group Borrowing: Zero-Cost Memory Safety with Fewer Restrictions

Claude Code Checkpoints

How to disable ACR on your TV - and why it makes such a big difference

Open Source is one person

Pausing Insect Activity

What Is Synthetic Gasoline?

The Most Important Machine Learning Equations: A Comprehensive Guide

I unlocked 15GB more Gmail storage for free - without deleting a single email or file

Altered states of consciousness induced by breathwork accompanied by music

Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 28, #809

Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Aug. 28, #339

Top CDC Officials Resign After Director Is Pushed Out

Apple to secure nearly half of TSMC’s 2nm production (report)

Sending Nude Photos? Why Your Android Might Blur Them Automatically

MongoDB stock surges 37% after earnings as company touts customer growth boom

SDS: Simple Dynamic Strings library for C

China Just Took the Hunt for Elusive ‘Ghost Particles’ to the Next Level

Japanese Online Marketplace Begs People to Stop Selling Ultrasound Photos

4chan launches legal action against Ofcom in US

We rebuilt Cloud Life's infrastructure delivery with System Initiative

How to slow down a program and why it can be useful

Antirez/sds: Simple Dynamic Strings library for C

Pixel 10 reminds you not to cheap out on a quality screen protector

Global Salt Typhoon hacking campaigns linked to Chinese tech firms

This Giant Sphere Just Joined the Hunt for ‘Ghost Particles’

We Rebuilt Cloud Life's Infrastructure Delivery with System Initiative

The Trump administration promised a fourth wireless carrier — America got a hot mess instead

European banks hit by rogue PayPal payments worth 'billions'

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