MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by StableAlkyne | 2025-08-27 13:37:35+00:00
Probably depends on your specific company or industry

Personally I've never seen anyone use Pascal as anything other than the butt of a joke or a background slide on "how far we've come" since the 80s. Nobody even seems to remember object Pascal.

... But I'm also in a sector that routinely relies on Fortran code so ymmv
by suggestion | 2025-08-27 13:37:44+00:00
Yes I have and it was just as difficult post medication as it was pre. Ironically, while on the SNRI my ADHD was "worse" due to the sheer apathy I felt about literally everything, so I was prescribed to help me "focus" and be "motivated".

You're leaving out the part about being "well studied" paired with your conclusions is almost exclusively in American and Western European populations, things are significantly less clear in other populations and cultures.
by ChicagoBoy11 | 2025-08-27 13:37:49+00:00
Very different scenario, but flying my puddle jumper one of the first times after getting my license, once I took off from an airport in Connecticut and was about to cross a large body of water, my exhaust temperatures spiked really, really high, essentially indicating the engine was seconds from melting. But it didn't.

So of course I felt it was a sensor issue (especially since it sounded/felt great), but luckily with the equipment on board I managed a call to the flight school, who put me in touch with the mechanic. I circled above an airport as he pulled up the maintenance logs, we discussed what I was seeing, he noted that there had been a report of a sensor issue that had been squawked, so we concluded I should feel safe to fly straight home.

At the time it felt insanely cool to be able to be doing that WHILE flying the plane. While an unfortunate outcome for this particular pilot, as an elite pilot, part of me thinks when this cropped up part of him was like: "ahh right, this is why I'm top dog"
by ifyoubuildit | 2025-08-27 13:37:59+00:00
How does it change your calculation if you realize the lack of a primary is probably why you have the evil villain behind January 6th in office?

I'm not talking about Harris specifically re Epstein, no idea what her involvement is. I'm saying the blue team in general. And is it really a good defense to say "my team was less involved with Epstein"? I'd humbly submit that it's not.
by mistrial9 | 2025-08-27 13:38:09+00:00
The concept of abstract data type is a real idea in the days of compiler design. You might as well say "compiler design predates object oriented programming". The technique described in the lead is used to implement object-oriented programming structures, just as it says. So are lots of compiler design features under the hood.

source- I wrote a windowing framework for MacOS using this pattern and others, in C with MetroWerks at the time.
by whstl | 2025-08-27 13:38:21+00:00
The way it works in tech today is that there are three groups:

- Project managers putting constant pressure on developers to deliver as fast as possible. It doesn't even matter if velocity will be lost in the future, or if the company might lose customers, or even if it breaks the law.

- Developers pushing back on things that can backfire and burning political capital and causing constant burnout. And when things DO backfire, the developer is to blame for letting it happen and not having pushed it more in the first place.

- Developers who learned that the only way to win is by not giving a single fuck, and just trucking on through the tasks without much thought.

This might sound highly cynical, but unfortunately this is what it has become.

Developers are way too isolated from the end result, and accountability is non-existent for PMs who isolate devs from the result, because "isolating developers" is seem as their only job.

EDIT: This is a cultural problem that can't be solved by individual contributors or by middle management without raising hell and putting a target on their backs. Only cultural change enforced by C-Levels is able to change this, but this is *not* in the interest of most CEOs or CTOs.
by docmatt | 2025-08-27 13:39:15+00:00
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by legacynl | 2025-08-27 13:39:22+00:00
> The article also doesn't say if it produces more power than the attached desalination plant requires. I doubt it as you'd be getting close to a perpetual motion machine if so.

Not really. Even if it would generate enough to power the plant, it would still rely on work being done outside of the plant, i.e. the flow of semi-treated waste-water and possibly the brine itself.
by crote | 2025-08-27 13:39:46+00:00
Airbus is fully fly-by-wire. Without some kind of computer intervention, nothing would be stopping an accidental bang against the flight stick from causing a maneuver violent enough to rip the wings off.

An Airbus can operate in three modes. With Normal Law, the airplane will refuse to do anything which will stop it from flying. This means the pilot cannot stall the airplane, for example: the computer will automatically correct for it.

With Alternate Law the pilot loses most protections, but the plane will still try to protect against self-destruction. The plane no longer protects against being stalled, but it won't let you rip the wings off.

With Direct Law all bets are off. Controls now map one-to-one to control surfaces, the plane will make no attempt to correct you. All kinds of automatic trimming are lost, you are now essentially flying a Cessna again. The upside is that it no longer relies on potentially broken sensors either: raising the gear while on the ground is usually a really stupid idea - until the "is the plane on the ground" sensors break.

So no, a "Boot in safe mode" isn't as strange as it might sound at first glance. It significantly improves safety during day-to-day operations, while still providing a fallback mechanism during emergencies.
by Buttons840 | 2025-08-27 13:40:15+00:00
Politicians want to control the Fed so they can drop interest rates and cause a short-term economic and stock market boom, followed by really bad things in the long-term.

How are markets supposed to react to that?

If markets are going to go up, and then down, do you buy or sell?

If Trump is going to take over the Fed, the smart move is to buy. If there's going to be a huge party before the world ends, you go to the party.
by terminalbraid | 2025-08-27 13:41:12+00:00
As someone who has worked in and with large orgs, the better question is "why does this always happen?". In large organizations "ownership" of a product becomes more nebulous from a product and code standpoint due to churn and a focus on short-sighted goals.

If you put a lot of momentum behind a product with that mentality you get features piled on tech debt, no one gets enthusiastic about paying that down because it was done by some prior team you have no understanding of and it gets in the way of what management wants, which is more features so they can get bonuses.

Speaking up about it gets you shouted down and thrown on a performance improvement plan because you aren't aligned with your capitalist masters.
by andsoitis | 2025-08-27 13:41:16+00:00
"That was absolutely incredible," SpaceX Build Reliability Engineer Amanda Lee said during live launch commentary. "A huge congrats to all the teams here."

"Great work by the SpaceX team!!!" SpaceX CEO Elon Musk wrote on X after the flight.

Amazing accomplishment. Always a thrill to watch live.

SpaceX conducted 134 launches in 2024 and is targeting a record-breaking 160-170 orbital launches in 2025.

https://www.spacex.com/launches
by csixty4 | 2025-08-27 13:41:35+00:00
I'm coming up on 50 years old, with 26 years in this industry. I work as an engineering manager/director these days. I've worked at startups and bigger companies -- they all have their problems and neither is better. I'm sick of layoffs. I'm sick of hype cycles. Honestly I'm ready for a career change but it would be a huge pay cut and lifestyle change for our family.
by pablo-chacon | 2025-08-27 13:41:38+00:00
I have been exploring a concept I call Sovereign, Self-Healing AI (SSHAI). Unlike generative models, it operates deterministically at system level, collecting machine-level data without human steering.

A theoretical use case is healthcare. Instead of trial-and-error prescribing, SSHAI could continuously ingest medication outcome data from clinical trials and anonymized patient records, then rank treatments by predicted success probability for an individual patient profile (age, weight, vitals, prior responses, etc).

The doctor would still decide, but with a fact-based ranked advisory that self-heals as new data flows in. Technically this is feasible today using existing APIs and statistical methods, the harder part is access to data and regulatory acceptance.

https://github.com/pablo-chacon/Sovereign-Self-Healing-AI/wi...
by reactordev | 2025-08-27 13:41:52+00:00
>However, lots of managers wish they could give you advice like this. They certainly appreciate it when you follow it. I’ve never been a manager, but it must be incredibly frustrating to manage strong engineers who would be much more effective if they approached work a little more tactically (and a little less according to the written job description).

Yuk, yeah, no - We don't appreciate it when you just do your own thing. We appreciate it when you're able to cut through red tape and get it done. That thing, that we discussed, during our 1:1's, when I told you what we wanted to do and you said "I have a sharp tool that will cut through that BS". Sometimes we want to cut through the tape, sometimes we're laying it. It's all to make sure you continue to get a paycheck. You're welcome.

Take down production though and we're going to have one of those things managers call a "difficult conversation".
by activitypea | 2025-08-27 13:43:19+00:00
To be reductive about the example of a malleable task tracker (e.g. Notion), if the LLM correctly interprets the user's prompt, there's about 20-30 useful buttons in the interface, and there's a sequence of those buttons that achieves the user's desired outcome. It's open-ended in terms of what you make, but the set of available actions is fairly tight, and the problem is finding a sequence of those actions.
Show HN: Show HN: az-ai-healthcheck – Fail Fast on Bad Azure AI Keys
by skytin1004 | 2025-08-27 13:43:35+00:00
I maintain an open-source project (Co-op Translator) that runs automated translation pipelines using Azure OpenAI and Azure AI Vision.

Sometimes expired or misconfigured keys would slip through, and the job would keep running — producing blanks or wasting tokens.

That pain led me to build this small tool. It checks Azure OpenAI & Vision keys up front and fails fast if they're invalid, saving time and compute.
by shayway | 2025-08-27 13:43:35+00:00
That's part of it too, but CNSA really does play its cards much closer to its chest than NASA. It's more in line with the Soviet approach of sharing the minimum information necessary to support a narrative. For example, try to find video of any Long March rocket failure, and literally the only one released is from the 90s and was only released a few years ago.
by zeta0134 | 2025-08-27 13:43:46+00:00
Social accountability, for one. Never underestimate shame as a motivating factor for humans. I'm generally in favor of protecting anonymity, so I'm not fully in agreement that this should be a hard requirement for a software project, but I can at least see the appeal of the idea.

Web browsers are also a rare class of software with high complexity and also high privilege (considering the data that typically passes through them), so perhaps higher scrutiny of this class of software is warranted.
by coder68 | 2025-08-27 13:43:54+00:00
The outputs are working correctly in terms of formatting, but the answers themselves may be inconsistent. I have experimented with varying the prompt and the answers can change dramatically. I could experiment with lowering temperature, but I just don't think generative models were a good fit for the problem. The appeal is the speed of prototyping and no need for training data, but it honestly didn't take much for my problem: one afternoon and ~1000 samples labeled got me to a good baseline.
by crote | 2025-08-27 13:44:21+00:00
It makes you wonder if it would be possible for ejection seats to have a safer bailout mode. Sure, the "compress your spine" mode is definitely appropriate during a wartime situation where someone has shot your wings off, but is it really required when a mechanical failure leaves you unable to land yet in a more-or-less stable flight at a reasonably low speed? Perhaps a 6g ejection might be more appropriate in those cases?
by just6979 | 2025-08-27 13:44:56+00:00
This is a big reason. Apple tunes their devices to not push the extreme edges of the performance that is possible, so they don't fall off that cliff of inefficiency. Combined with a really great perf/watt, they can run them at "90%" and stay nice and cool and sipping power (relatively), while most Intel/AMD machines are allowed to push their parts to "110%" much more often, which might give them a leg up in raw performance (for some workloads), but runs into the gross inefficiencies of pushing the envelope so that marginal performance increase takes 2-3x more power.

If you manually go in and limit a modern Windows laptop's max performance to just under what the spec sheet indicates, it'll be fairly quiet and cool. In fact, most have a setting to do this, but it's rarely on by default because the manufacturers want to show off performance benchmarks. Of course, that's while also touting battery life that is not possible when in the mode that allows the best performance...

This doesn't cover other stupid battery life eaters like Modern Standy (it's still possible to disable it with registry tweaks! do it!), but if you don't need absolute max perf for renders or compiling or whatever, put your Windows or Linux laptop into "cool & quiet" mode and enjoy some decent extra battery.

It would also be really interesting to see what Apple Silicon could do under some Extreme OverClocking fun with sub-zero cooling or such. Would require a firmware & OS that allows more tuning and tweaking, so it's not going to happen anytime soon, but could actually be a nice brag for Apple it they did let it happen.
by Orygin | 2025-08-27 13:45:30+00:00
If they would otherwise live healthy lives, why perform the procedure?

Most likely the patient is informed by the practitioner about the risks and they can make an informed decision. That is not the case about ChatGPT where openAI will sell it as the next best thing since sliced bread, with a puny little warning below the page. Even worse when you see all the "AI therapy" apps that pop up everywhere, where the user may think that the AI is as-good as a real therapist, but without any of the responsibility for the company in case of issues.
by pg3uk | 2025-08-27 13:45:32+00:00
Thanks for the feedback. Appreciate it!

Yeah, I often need a bit more than a ping sweep, but not a full feature scan. I've been around in tech long enough that I can look the output of my tool and know if a box is Windows or Linux or whatever...fingerprinting isn't that important for me.

The situation I'm usually in where I need this tool is I've been called in somewhere, their techie has left or been fired and I don't have a lot of documentation (if any) and I need to find important boxes and work out how to connect to them...an early version of this tool had an OUI lookup built in to do vendor ID, but that slowed it down a bit too much and including an OUI database with the app seemed excessive, implementing a "cloud" lookup wasn't feasible because I often need to do these scans on networks where I don't necessarily have internet access. I have a custom hardware device that I build out of a Radxa 3E with a POE hat that I can just jack into a network switch (if it has POE) and it automatically grabs everything it can for me, then dumps everything to the device (or if an internet connection is present, spits it at me over Pushbullet). With that device, I can go from knowing nothing, to knowing a reasonable amount in under 5 minutes.

It's a device that I would like to make a proper solution out of, but it's so esoteric that I think it would end up being pretty niche...it kind of relies on the engineer using it to think exactly like I do and being able to just "know" stuff...so it's the sort of thing that would generate more git issues and usability complaints than anything else!

Yes, the JSON output is precisely because I like to make scripts to push data into dashboards and the like...I stopped at just spitting out JSON because I have other tools/scripts that do that for me. I prefer to leave things as a JSON file because it's the greatest amount of flexibility, the cost though is that you have to be able to do something with the JSON once you have it.

The accuracy of this tool depends on the timeout you set and the performance of the network you scan. By default it has a 500ms timeout, which is enough for most networks, but increasing it to 1000ms on slower networks yields better accuracy...flicking on ARP adds even more accuracy...obviously both come at the cost of the time required to finish the scan though!
by nothankyou777 | 2025-08-27 13:45:53+00:00
You're looking at it through internet-era glasses. We're talking late 70s to early 80s tech and prices. Equipment was expensive. Clients were charged by the minute. Without city-level populations, the numbers didn't pan out. If the prospects were brighter, companies would have been more serious about converging on a standard.

A late 80s / early 90s BBS is no comparison. Cost-per-everything in computers had plummeted by then--even kids could host a BBS with the family computer.

Per wiki on Prestel (i know it's videotex, but the article covered both):

Hosting Costs:

> In 1985, British Telecom estimated that for an IP using a typical minicomputer (such as the PDP-11) located 100 km from London and handling up to 10 users simultaneously at peak times, the one-off software set-up cost would be at least £16,000, communication costs would range from £4,280 to £5,550 a year (depending on the type of connection), and Prestel usage would cost £8,600 a year.[82]: 4

Usage Costs:

> At the launch of the commercial service in September 1979, and in addition to phone charges, users were charged 3p per minute online to Prestel from 8 am to 6 pm Monday to Friday, and 3p for three minutes at other times. Installing a phone jack-socket cost £13, with a quarterly rental of 50p. Business users paid an additional standing charge (i.e., a flat charge regardless of usage) of £12 per quarter.[23]

> By October 1982, the online usage charge had risen to 5p per minute (8 am to 6 pm Monday to Friday and also 8 am to 1 pm on Saturdays, free at other times), the business standing charge to £15 per quarter, residential users now paid £5 per quarter, and jack installation cost "from £15", with a 15p quarterly rental fee.[24]: 2

Content Distribution Costs:

> A main IP rented pages from the Post Office (initially) or British Telecom (later), and controlled a three-digit master-page in the database. In 1982, this cost an annual £5,500 for a basic package,[24]: 1 equivalent to around £29,000 in 2021.[80]
by reactordev | 2025-08-27 13:46:06+00:00
This kind of stuff happens all the time. Especially if you ignore a controller instruction. They'll have a number for you.

But really there's a ton of small, unmanned airfields (some in peoples backyards!) that have a number you can call to operate things like the runway papi lights. Call to order a burger to go. Or just call to talk to Fred, the owner, to see how his day was.

As long as you can safely operate the aircraft, in the pattern, there's nothing stopping you from using your cell or your radio or starlink to contact ground. Just always make sure you're in communication with any air traffic controllers operating in that space.
by mapt | 2025-08-27 13:46:16+00:00
By far the most credible case for asteroid mining is water & carbon compounds. A little H, O, and C, and you have conventional hydrocarbon propellant + LOX.

I don't know what the actual claim that is being made here is; This seems to redirect ultimately to a lay press release from a state space agency rather than to a scientific paper. There do seem to be a number of competing articles on electrochemical synthesis of ethylene from CO2.

https://www.carboncapturejournal.com/news/artificial-photsyn...

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-50522-7

https://lanzatech.com/lanzatech-produces-ethylene-from-co2-c...

https://techport.nasa.gov/projects/93860

https://news.umich.edu/in-step-toward-solar-fuels-durable-ar...

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/717409
by anal_reactor | 2025-08-27 13:47:08+00:00
First I switched to Linux Mint. Turns out anno 2025 most distros are still made with legacy ThinkPads in mind. Then I installed Fedora KDE. It gives an impression of working. Make no mistake - I have weird display glitches, shit crashes all the time, stuff randomly refuses to work, some devices I have require ridiculous workarounds, basic tasks require cryptic terminal commands, software updates introduce awkward regressions, but I think we've truly reached the milestone where a dedicated person can run Linux as their main desktop system. I suppose in about 30 years we'll have a Linux distribution that can be used on desktop without any IT knowledge.

Of course technically speaking I shouldn't complain because I have provided nothing of value to the Linux ecosystem (how the fuck do I even start, even if I wanted to?), but still, the point stands.
by jen729w | 2025-08-27 13:47:17+00:00
They don’t. You should aria-label it thus:

role="img" aria-label="A styled box using monospace box-drawing characters. Its header is 'area complete', and there's a link to a forum post."

(Happy to be corrected/updated here, I am not an a11y expert. I am a very happy Monodraw customer though!)
by adrian_b | 2025-08-27 13:47:19+00:00
On CPUs with variable instruction length, like the Intel/AMD CPUs, many programs have a lot of NOPs, which are inserted by the compiler for instruction alignment.

However those NOPs are seldom executed frequently, because most are outside of loop bodies. Nevertheless, there are cases when NOPs may be located inside big loops, in order to align some branch targets to cache line boundaries.

That is why many recent Intel/AMD CPUs have special hardware for accelerating NOP execution, which may eliminate the NOPs before reaching the execution units.