MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by qualeed | 2025-06-12 16:45:53+00:00
>You do know the military spend on research

The charitable reading of parent's comment is "reduce the spending on the parts of the military that aren't research (or research solely dedicated to killing people)".

I'm sure they were thinking more along the lines of bombing various countries (or $40MM birthday parades) rather than the next onion routing protocol coming out of the Naval Research Laboratory.

You can still disagree with that, of course, but responding to the steelman version of someone's argument is much better than a snarky "You do know XYZ, right?".
by BeetleB | 2025-06-12 16:45:55+00:00
Really depends on the type of coding you plan to do and how much.

The amusing thing is people normally recommend using aider to save money. With Aider, you can control the size of the context window, and selectively add/drop files from the window. I typically aim for under 25K tokens at a time. With Gemini, that's about 3 cents per prompt (and often much less when I have only, say, 10 tokens). So for me, I'd need to do well over 3000 coding prompts a month to get to $100. I simply don't use it that much.

Also, at work, I have Copilot, and one can use Aider with that. So I only pay for my personal coding at home.

Getting to the original question - Aider probably lags Claude Code significantly at this point. It's a fantastic tool and I still use it - primarily because it is editor agnostic. But some of the other tools out there do a lot more with agents.

To give you an idea - my combined AI use - including for non-code purposes - is well under $20/mo. Under $10 for most months. I simply don't have that much time to do coding in my free time - even with an AI doing it!
by sjsdaiuasgdia | 2025-06-12 16:45:58+00:00
Exactly this. I refuse to let all this happen while I sit back saying, "Well what can I really do?"

I can be vocal. I can inform my elected representatives of my opinions. I can protest. I can defend the rights of those who are being oppressed.

These things have risks, and everyone has to make their own determination as to what risks they are willing to bear. I've decided this is too important to let the risks prevent me from speaking out. That might mean I get arrested, physically harmed, detained, or worse. So be it. I am not going to let my country turn into a dictatorship while I do nothing.
by LanceH | 2025-06-12 16:46:30+00:00
Not to be rude, but why should we care what you believe?

If there were a problem with holes being dug in the city people are not exacerbating the problem if they choose to just not dig holes.

Not everyone needs to be informed an act on whatever it is that others think is important. This belief really forms the backbone of the current, "if you're not with us, you're against us" mentality.

Whatever the cause is, it's entirely possible to just treat people decently without caring about who or what they are. That's where we should be encouraging people to get to, not demanding they jump into action.
by gdubs | 2025-06-12 16:47:06+00:00
Personally I still love the craft of software. But there are times where boilerplate really kills the fun of setting something up, to take one example.

Or like this week I was sick and didn't have the energy to work in my normal way and it was fun to just tell ChatGPT to build a prototype I had in mind.

We live in a world of IKEA furniture - yet people still desire handmade furniture, and people still enjoy and take deep satisfaction in making them.

All this to say I don't blame you for being dismayed. These are fairly earth shattering developments we're living through and if it doesn't cause people to occasionally feel uneasy or even nostalgia for simpler times, then they're not paying attention.
by tstactplsignore | 2025-06-12 16:47:25+00:00
This is a tiny portion of government spending though. You could completely eliminate the NASA budget entirely and it'd make absolutely no difference on the federal government's bottom line. The NASA budget, the NIH budget, the NSF budget, the USAID budget, the EPA budget, the NOAA budget - all of these unbelievably useful with high ROI agencies combined do not amount to more than the margin of error in the US government's annual yearly deficit.

So even completely eliminating these agencies wouldn't put a dent in the US government's deficit. But doing so would be sighted, because these agencies and programs also have a long-term return on investment. They are economic wealth generators, not money-spenders, and they are being cut.

So there are two reasons that this debate has clearly nothing to do with cutting spending. This is simply factual. Why do you and others keep claiming it does? Especially when the Trump administration is proposing a new budget that cuts all of these things and also greatly increases the US debt?

The federal budget is not hard to balance, and there are basically three paths: (a) raise taxes, especially on the rich, (b) cut defense spending, (c) cut Medicare and Social Security spending.

I just wish we could have the actual argument. If you do not like new medicines, clean water, space travel, saving millions of lives in Africa from HIV, then say so, and let's have that debate! But can we stop pretending it is about fiscal conservation?
by bluefirebrand | 2025-06-12 16:48:19+00:00
My point is there's a difference between "economic class" and "social class"

Software Engineers are still, pretty generally, viewed as a low social class despite being a pretty solid economic class

The idea that the paradigm may flip is only really about economic class. A locksmith may make more money than software engineers soon, but they will still be low social class

That likely won't change
by palmfacehn | 2025-06-12 16:48:53+00:00
Another consideration would be the "Economic Calculation Problem", or our inability measure (price) the utility of state allocations of capital. The deficit is only one implication of the spending program. There are also the unseen factors when these funds are removed from the private sector, not just via taxation but also by comparative valuation of scarce resources.

I.e. if there are 100 cement trucks in the economy and 95 are allocated for state projects, the private sector needs to produce additional cement trucks under the increased burden of taxation. In the near term, cement construction costs have been increased. From this point, perhaps another bureau will enter by nationalizing the cement truck industry, "To secure our vital national interests and remain competitive"

Without decentralized market price signals, we are unable to value the end goals of the state's construction project. More troubling still, we wouldn't know of how the market may have allocated those trucks or if those trucks would have been used in a more productive way. However, we can observe empirical historical examples of lowered productivity which correlates with central planning.
by sofixa | 2025-06-12 16:49:17+00:00
You're either misremembering or misunderstood something, or I'm not understanding what you mean, because Mentour Pilot literally has a channel with nothing but air crash investigation videos: https://youtube.com/@mentourpilot

He has one of the best air crash investigation journalists, Kyra Dempsey (aka Admiral Cloudberg) as one of the writers on the channel.

They already have a YouTube Short listing the facts of the crash, and also have a longer video about the Jeju one. Only the facts, no speculation - they're waiting for the preliminary or even final report to make a full in depth video on it.
by 0xffff2 | 2025-06-12 16:49:52+00:00
I haven't previously heard of Xreal. Looking at their glasses, it seems like they're all 1080p. I find it very difficult to deal with text on a regular 1080p monitor after having uses 4k monitors for a while. Is there something about the way the glasses work that makes 1080p glasses equivalent/better than at least a 1440p monitor in terms of clarity?
by riansanderson | 2025-06-12 16:50:02+00:00
tangentially related- does anyone have a good recommendation on an external CD drive that works well with macOS and has a good form factor and build quality?

I have an ancient thinkpad that I use a couple of times a year _just for reading cds_ and and have considered retiring it. But all the CD drives I see on amazon look like disposable crap.
by taeric | 2025-06-12 16:50:20+00:00
You are still strengthening the claim beyond the paper, is my point. The paper, specifically, has several other explanations beyond "they didn't know how to care for nets."

For example:

The colonists’ performance in fishing in the first years, in common with all other activities, must also have been severely hampered by their generally poor health, malnutrition and subse- quent lack of energy. For a period of five months there are said to have been only five men healthy enough to man the bulwarks of the fort against hostile Virginia Indians. During such difficult times it is likely that fishing would have been restricted and perhaps would have been halted altogether.

That is, it isn't just that they were not "professional fisherman." Something that probably didn't even exist in the modern sense of the word. They were in a much harsher environment than was anticipated.

The low stock of salt and not having the same dry season that they were used to from the other side of the Atlantic almost certainly played much more heavily, as well. (And to be clear, that paper covers these as heavy influences.)

Probably also worth remembering how parasite ridden all of the food supplies you are mentioning would be. Our food supply is supernaturally clean, nowadays.

At any rate, my main gripe here is the mental image of "second sons that didn't know how to do anything" that you conjured. Certainly possible, but feels far overstated, to me. They had managed to survive a ship across the ocean. Something that was not a passive cruise journey.
by dschaurecker | 2025-06-12 16:50:24+00:00
Most real-world optimizations for flexible storage assets currently work across multiple markets, sometimes also with more sophisticated boundary conditions. What we show is that high-frequency trading on the continuous intraday market is relevant, especially when training for more optimal parametrized strategies.

It also seems like a sensible idea to publish details and theories about an idea, not necessarily a finished trading product though ;)
by bpt3 | 2025-06-12 16:50:48+00:00
That's only for state and local government from what I can tell, and they could offset increases in fuel taxes by reducing things like property taxes if desired. Federal highway spending has almost entirely been covered by federal fuel tax revenue, but a recent ramp up in spending without increasing revenue now has the put the trust fund at risk of depletion.

Americans would suddenly be interested in small cars again, which seems like a win to me, because there's almost nothing that will make them desire public transit despite what some hope for.
by Theodores | 2025-06-12 16:51:04+00:00
It is the art of the deal with Trump and I would say that he is a narcissist rather than authoritarian.

Trump has a massive ego and I would have expected him to want the biggest rockets, and to pain them gold.

If he did then I would denounce him for spending money on space when America has trillions of debt.

I don't disagree with him on everything he says just because he said it.

So, with space, my honest take is that it was all just a Cold War thing all along. The space race never was about science and exploration, it was always about rocketry for making more devastating missiles. Sure, Voyager went somewhere, but it was all a cover.

It seems to me that China and India are doing space science things now. They can get on with it. We are never going to Mars or the moon to live, earth is our home, and always will be.
by BeetleB | 2025-06-12 16:51:19+00:00
Try Aider with API usage. Learn how to control context size (/clear, /add, /drop). Limit context to 25K. Use whatever model you want (Sonnet 4 or Gemini 2.5 Pro).

For simple scripts, it often costs me under $1 to build. I'm working on a bigger tool these days, and I've done lots of prompts, a decent amount of code, over 100 tests, and my running total is right now under $6.

I'd suggest learn the basics of using AI to code using Aider, and then consider whether you want to try Claude Code (which is likely more powerful, but also more expensive unless you use it all the time).
by ben_w | 2025-06-12 16:51:34+00:00
What's the lag time on migration statistics?

Because, and I say this as one who already decided against the USA in response to Trump's first election, I rather doubt that the new policy of getting in the news for systematically deporting migrants for even minor things — not even offences, theoretically protected things like blogging — is going to put a rather big dent on people willing to go. I mean, right now, I don't even want to visit the US on a holiday, much less live there.

And that's without all the people saying "sure, you get paid 3x on paper, but all of it goes on rent and health insurance that doesn't actually pay out when you need it" that also makes it seem a lot less interesting.
by alexxxchr | 2025-06-12 16:52:18+00:00
Tools like GitHub Copilot are speeding up development — but they’re also introducing subtle logic flaws that are harder to catch with traditional security tools.

Some AppSec leaders from Thinkific, Applied Systems, and DoubleVerify recently shared how they’re adapting their testing workflows — especially using runtime analysis and updated DAST tooling.

Thought this might be useful for anyone dealing with AI-written code in CI/CD pipelines.
by nickdothutton | 2025-06-12 16:52:20+00:00
I got started with an 8-bit home computer that came with a bunch of games and a copy of CP/M 3.1 (and 2.2). While the games were welcome entertainment, the macro assembler, BCPL, Fortran and all the shareware I managed to acquire set me on a career. It was a magical voyage of discovery and learning.
by kennywinker | 2025-06-12 16:52:35+00:00
Headlines are written by the publisher not the author. They’re written to maximize readership. The fact that spying happened in italy by italians is mostly only interesting to italians. The fact that the US backs an israeli company that sells spying tools is interesting to many more people. You can see the selling clicks, but because they’re not twisting the truth or saying something misleading - in this case I mostly see getting info to the people who care about it.
by skydhash | 2025-06-12 16:52:44+00:00
Why are these arguments always the same?

> But with AI, I’m producing more than ever before, with a level of speed, quality, and understanding I’ve never experienced. In many ways, it’s 10x’d me as an engineer.

> The best way I can explain my mindset is that I see AI as a multiplier of myself, not just a tool that does work for me on command

> But more often than not, it’s a sign that the prompt wasn’t clear or specific enough. With better framing, you can guide the model toward a much more useful and accurate response

Etc,…

I long for an essay like Seven habits of effective text editing[0] by Bram Moolenaar with proper arguments made about AI Coding.

[0]: https://www.moolenaar.net/habits.html
by drcongo | 2025-06-12 16:53:04+00:00
I totally get that, and agree to a degree. For me personally though, the news industry has become entertainment - TV news is hyperbolic, 24 hour breaking news for every story, newspapers (at least here in the UK) are little more than a propaganda outlet for the views of the billionaire owner where every story is designed to make people angry and point the blame at someone, usually immigrants. For years I listened to BBC Radio 4's Today Programme every single morning, until I realised that none of what they were telling me was actually news. You'd be amazed at how many stories started with the words "Ministers are today expected to announce..." - this isn't news, it hasn't happened yet. This is government PR. If you haven't read it already, I highly recommend Flat Earth News by Nick Davies [0] - it's incredibly eye opening. Reading it now, 11 years later, is even more eye opening - everything he writes about in there is now magnified ten fold.

Going cold turkey from the "news" doesn't make me any less informed about what is happening in the world, if anything it has made me more informed as I'm no longer just a vessel filling my brain with whatever some billionaire wants me to believe.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Earth_News_%28book%29
by gjsman-1000 | 2025-06-12 16:53:07+00:00
ext4 and Btrfs are only well supported on Linux; they are not universal standards.

NTFS was only supported well on Windows until recently; but extensions like NTFS Encryption (BitLocker) are still Windows only. Mac still does not let you write to an NTFS volume.

APFS and HFS+ are obviously Apple file systems.

FreeBSD does not support ext4 or Btrfs well; but instead prefers UFS2 or ZFS despite also being an open-source Unix-inspired OS.

The world runs on proprietary or non-universal file systems with CDFS (ISO 9660), FAT, and exFAT being the sole exceptions.
by nineplay | 2025-06-12 16:53:38+00:00
Recently my daughter and I had to take a Uber home from airport at 11pm. I did not like the driver and I did not like the situation and I seriously was considering exit plans if he started going off the normal route.

The next time I had to take a late Uber I paid up for Uber Premium, which is maybe imperfect reasoning but the driver was pleasant and polite and didn't give any bad vibes.
by gnabgib | 2025-06-12 16:53:55+00:00
Discussion on upstream repo (356 points, 2022, 144 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30545425

Related (mentions this repo): Emulating an iPhone in QEMU (268 points, 2 months ago, 64 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43592409
by HeyLaughingBoy | 2025-06-12 16:53:57+00:00
> you must be using methodologies we could learn from

Not necessarily. You usually just need to know where to/what to buy.

e.g., someone on Reddit posted about being able to automate taking a photograph every time someone walked by. Turns out that I had an unused Raspberry Pi and a cheap webcam AND a passive-IR sensor. Half an hour of research into Linux command line webcam control and an hour later I had a proof of concept. Just lucked out that I have a well-stocked junk box.

But for most quick hardware things I'd turn to Arduino. I'm a professional embedded systems engineer. Arduino makes prototyping stuff that would have taken weeks or months just 10 years ago, doable in hours.

If for some reason, Arduino wasn't around, then I could use the "dev boards" that all microcontroller manufacturers provide to let you learn about their systems. Generally, they're below a $20 price point and come with enough I/O to do something useful and tooling is free.

I could probably go on, but there's enough stuff here to google if you're really interested :-)
by farts_mckensy | 2025-06-12 16:54:00+00:00
I'm saying there's a cost to that mentality. There's a personal cost, which is you giving up a part of yourself--not just your time, but your personality--to grow your net worth. And there's a societal cost to this level of cynicism being so pervasive. When the intellectual laborers of a society just go through the motions instead of being invested in what they do, the society as a whole suffers.

If you have to repeat thought eliminating clichés to justify this, it seems like there's a level of self deception going on. The chickens will come home to roost eventually.
by bumby | 2025-06-12 16:54:03+00:00
That’s fair. My intent was not snark but to maybe spark some curiosity about what that military spend goes towards. But I think the OP could have framed it a little better to indicate they understood that nuance. Just like the budget cuts for NASA leave a considerable amount of research in place, it’s about priorities. The problem in many of these discussions is a lack of nuance: eg, not understanding the scope of what the DoD does, for example. The DoD spends as much as 15X as NASA on medical research, but the OP doesn’t acknowledge any of that with a overly generalized recommendation to simply cut defense spending. The difference is I’m not as confident as you to claim I know what they were thinking without further information. That’s why I framed it as a question.
by GeekyBear | 2025-06-12 16:54:16+00:00
Adam Savage's Tested YouTube channel has posted their thoughts on the new developer beta:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6SbkEC1Xb8

In addition, they have previously posted their one year review of the Apple Vision Pro.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Wsoy1E0PoqA
by TheAmazingRace | 2025-06-12 16:54:21+00:00
Anything made by Pioneer these days is a good choice. That said, Pioneer just recently exited the optical disc drive market a month or so ago, so you'll want to pick up a drive while you still can. They tend to be pricier than your generic external disc drive, but they are dead reliable, and fully compatible with software like EAC and XLD.

I have the Pioneer BDR-XS07S slot loading external BluRay burner drive and it does a great job ripping audio CDs.
by ty6853 | 2025-06-12 16:54:40+00:00
Yes it's all very different when you use different rhetoric, right?

"Buying a service" is how advertisers get placement of certain content curated.

If it fits in the guidelines, you get the special placement and image, if it doesn't fit the special guidelines, you can draw it on your mails and it gets scanned and all they see is the scan. I can draw a swastika on the front of my envelope and it will show up on the feed (but only in black and white), but can I get the swastika on the advertisement image in color? IDK because the link you sent was literally just tossing back what I already mentioned which is informed delivery, not a link to their policies (the policies themselves are a bit vague, but under them it appears not, and they definitely have stronger 'guidelines' than the black and white for instance regarding weapons).

If your content on Facebook 'fits the guidelines' and the guys 'buying the service' benefit from it, then it gets curated more strongly. If it fits other less strict guidelines, I can still see it. But there's nothing stopping you from paying facebook lots of money and getting something that fits their guidelines displayed more prominently, so that wouldn't be curation!

Your argument is highly specious. "Buying a service" is a total red herring, and "guidelines" is just a hack here so you can pivot around it's a mechanism by which the curation happens.

As for the image, you claim it's required, but my mails don't get it, it appears to be 'required' as part of a particular 'campaign'. I have no trouble believing that some services might require an image, but this doesn't somehow disprove curation.
by pstuart | 2025-06-12 16:54:41+00:00
I've no shortage of self-critical thought, and your quote is perplexing because you seem to have inserted some preconception into your reading of my comment.

The topic is extremely polarizing by design, and is impossible to discuss without heated emotions, and therefore is never properly explored.

I have no political party allegiance (partisan politics is a toxic waste dump); I try to work from "first principles", and am more than happy to adjust my understandings when compelling evidence is presented.

To circle back to the OP: these program cuts are being made in the name of efficiency, but they're curiously only applied to programs that the admin is ideologically opposed to and applied in a manner meant to kill rather than trim. I find it interesting that the Military Industrial Complex -- a paragon of pork, fraud, and waste -- will not only be untouched but given even more money then before.