MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cmurf | 2026-01-27 03:04:57+00:00
>Historically, the FAA had zero interest/jurisdiction in most hobbyist aircraft below 500 feet, they would not even bother entertaining such as it was not relevant to their opperations.

This is not correct. See 14 CFR 101, 103, and 105. There's a long history of the FAA concerning itself with hobbyists flying model aircraft, moored, and unmanned balloon, rockets, kites, parachutes, and ultralights. I mentioned this, you glossed over it. Their histories predate 2012.

https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-14

>Helicopters, planes, and quadcopters could be flown freely under general guidance, with no actual enforcing regulations.

Helicopters and airplanes have been regulated under 14 CFR 91 for a very long time, and were regulated by the CAA (the Civil Aeronautical Authority, precursor to FAA), and their operations are certainly regulated below 500'. And it is definitely enforced.

If you're referring to the years long regulatory lag for drones/sUAS before the The FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012 which also gave us 49 USC 44809 "Exception for limited recreational operations of unmanned aircraft" - ummm, well all I can say is welcome to aviation. It's been significantly regulated the whole time, and just because some folks were not aware of this fact, doesn't mean it wasn't.

Maybe check out The Great Waldo Pepper with Robert Redford though. That begins in a genuinely unregulated era.
by neya | 2026-01-27 03:05:06+00:00
In my experience, most of the NodeJS shops do this. Because, LLMs on the surface seemingly are good at giving you a quick solution for JS code. Whether it's a real solution or patchwork is up for debate, but, for most mid-level to junior devs, it's good enough to get the job done. Now, multiply this workflow 10x for 10 employees. That's how you end up with a complete rewrite and hiring a senior consultant.
by gucci-on-fleek | 2026-01-27 03:05:28+00:00
> You can still run a company from Canada under these terms, the same way every international YC batch company runs

Having a Canada-registered company is usually required to get government grants and loans from Canadian banks, although that's probably not very important to VC-backed companies. There are also some tax advantages to running a Canada-registered company if you're based out of Canada, plus it's much easier to find a local professionals (lawyers, accountants, etc.) familiar with Canadian corporations than US corporations.

None of these issues should cause too many problems, but if given a choice, as a Canadian I'd certainly prefer to run a Canada-registered company over a US-registered one.
by 20k | 2026-01-27 03:06:15+00:00
Its insane to me seeing this kind of thing. I write 100% of my code by hand. Of developers I know, they write >95% of code by hand

>We are entering an era where the Brain of the application (the orchestration of models, the decision-making) might remain in Python due to its rich AI ecosystem, but the Muscle, the API servers, the data ingestion pipelines, the sidecars, will inevitably move to Go and Rust. The friction of adopting these languages has collapsed, while the cost of not adopting them (in AWS bills and carbon footprint) is rising.

This is the most silicon valley brain thing I've seen for a while

We're entering an era where I continue to write applications in C++ like I've always done because its the right choice for the job, except I might evaluate AI as an autocomplete assistant at some point. Code quality and my understanding of that code remains high, which lets me deliver at a much faster pace than someone spamming llm agent orchestration, and debuggability remains excellent

90% of code written by devs is not written by AI. If this is true for you, try a job where you produce something of value instead of some random silicon valley startup
by edmundsauto | 2026-01-27 03:06:18+00:00
At most organizational sizes, the hard problems are that of coordinating people and not software. It’s a hard decision, but ultimately if you want to scale the size of your impact - you have to make these tradeoffs.

Some folks want to scale impact. Some want to be bespoke crafters. Both are okay, you just have to accept they are mutually exclusive.
by analog31 | 2026-01-27 03:06:48+00:00
I think that outside of narrow engineering circles, most use of lubrication is based on a mixture of trial-and-error, folklore, and marketing. One reason is that most lubrication needs are actually quite low performance, and you could probably use practically anything. People use WD-40 because they have it around, and this adds to the list of its uses.

It's essentially a mixture of mineral spirits and oil. Used as a lubricant, the mineral spirits evaporate, leaving the oil behind. It might be enough oil to keep a mechanism working for a while, or it might not be.

It's a "water displacer." Oil displaces water, who knew?

It comes in a spray can, so you can get it into things like a bike shift lever. And you can get the over-spray on things like the garage floor.

Bicyclists tend to get really worked up about WD-40.
by mrexroad | 2026-01-27 03:06:55+00:00
I have a disdain for what online advertising has become and the data industrial complex that it empowers. Tbh, I think advertising should be regulated like porn and prohibited for those under age of 18.

With that said, what in the actual fuck makes you say this when ten(s) of thousands are being murdered in conjunction with this ad-free period you’re speaking so wistfully about?
by c1505 | 2026-01-27 03:07:05+00:00
It still feels like gambling to me when I use AI code assistants to generate large chunks of code. Sometimes, it will surprise me with how well it does. Other times, it infuriatingly doesn't follow very precise instructions for small changes. This is even when I use it in the way that I often ask for multiple options for solutions and implementations and then choose between them after the AI tool does the course rating.

There are many instances where I get to the final part of the feature and realize I spent far more time coercing AI to do the right thing than it would have taken me to do it myself.

It is also sometimes really enjoyable and sometimes a horrible experience. Programming prior to it could also be frustrating at times, but not in the same way. Maybe it is the expectation of increased efficiency that is now demanded in the face of AI tools.

I do think AI tools are consistently great for small POCs or where very standard simple patterns are used. Outside of that, it is a crapshoot or slot machine.
by yellowapple | 2026-01-27 03:07:38+00:00
Video game mods are the first use case that comes to mind for me. If you want to add new voice lines for a character, your options are:

1. don't (keep it silent);

2. recruit the original VA somehow;

3. recruit an alternative VA (who hopefully sounds close enough to the original to not be jarring);

4. splice voice lines together from existing voice lines; or

5. use text-to-speech.

Voice cloning is just Option 5 but with results much closer to Options 2 and 3.
by colechristensen | 2026-01-27 03:08:22+00:00
WD-40 is great for cleaning, particularly threads, but also metal surfaces. It generally doesn't eat plastic, isn't a crazy skin or respiratory irritant.

I use it a ton to clean off threads of stuff exposed to the elements. Get dirt, old oil/grease, water, and any grit or rust or other things out of threads so they tighten properly and don't get jammed up with stuff.

If something I'm working on is dirty, it gets a spray of WD-40 and a rag to help not foul up the inside of whatever I'm opening.
by adithyassekhar | 2026-01-27 03:08:27+00:00
This won't beat manual research. But it won't matter.

Most people buy what the sales person is selling, they don't care.

The tech enthusiast minority watch and read reviews, compare specs.

The only realistic audience for this product is somewhere inbetween those two. Imagine that venn diagram. People who care enough to research but not enough to "research".
by tptacek | 2026-01-27 03:09:05+00:00
I'm sure a lot of British people want to run UK-registered companies! I'm not saying Canadians wouldn't rationally prefer to have the option of taking investments in a Canadian corporation, just that it doesn't look like there's a lot more to this than details for your finance person, and that it's the same deal every other country gets.

Read the thread: clearly a lot of people are reading this as "you can't HQ in Canada, your team has to move".
by ajkjk | 2026-01-27 03:09:22+00:00
I kinda like viewing this as similar to coordinate-invariance in physics / geometry. A programming language is effectively a function from textual programs to behaviors; this serves the same role as a coordinate system on a space, which is a function from coordinates to points. Naturally many different programs and programming languages can describe the same behavior, especially if you forget about implementation-specific details like memory layout or class structures. LLM code generation is just another piece of the same model: turns out that to some degree you can use English+LLMs as coordinate systems for the textual programs.

I expect that over time we will adopt a perspective on programming that the code doesn't matter at all; each engineer can bring whatever syntax or language they prefer, and it will be freely translated into isomorphic code in other languages as necessary to run in whatever setting necessary. Probably we will settle on an interchange format which is somehow as close as possible to the "intent" of the code, with all of the language-specific concepts stripped away, and then all a language will be is a toolbox that an engineer carries with them of their favorite ways to express concepts.
by majormajor | 2026-01-27 03:10:12+00:00
We've had many decades of technology since Asimov started writing about robots, and we've seen almost all of it used to make the day-to-day experience of the average worker-bee worse. More tracking. More work after hours. More demands to do more with less. Fewer other humans to help you with those things.

We aren't working 4 hour days because we no longer have to spend half the day waiting on things that were slower pre-internet. We're just supposed to deliver more, and oh, work more hours too since now you've always got your work with you.

Any discussion of today's AI firms has to start from the position of these companies being controlled by people deeply rooted in, and invested in, those systems and the negative application of that technology towards "working for a living" to date.

How do we get from there to a utopia?
by jppope | 2026-01-27 03:10:56+00:00
I've read the author's articles before and they really are quite cynical. It reminds me of all those 90s shows and movies where all the white-collar work was considered soul sucking and the people who did it were corporate stooges. As if a person should feel shame for working a job and paying bills.

As much as a person may choose to belittle the bureaucracy at companies, it exists for a reason, and often that reason is fairly sensible. It is also simple to avoid bureaucracy if you dislike bureaucracy: just go work at companies where it hasn't had a chance to build up or the company has intentionally kept its bureaucracy in check.

Regarding promotions in bureaucratic companies:

> "You ought to know that crushing JIRA tickets is rarely a path to promotion (at least above mid-level), that glue work can be a trap, that you will be judged on the results of your projects, and therefore getting good at shipping projects is the path to career success"

Whats interesting is that all sorts of companies evaluate performance differently. The better companies will tell you how they are evaluating you - so if you want to get promoted, do the things they say you should do to get promoted. Glue work, crushing jira tickets, making the world a better place... are actually things that a company might positively evaluate you on... or maybe all they care about is shipping and you should just do that. The path to promotion is doing the things that a company is willing to promote you for ("If you want to be loved, be lovable").

For what its worth at Wells Fargo during the account scams your path to promotion was doing illegal stuff. So you know, maybe don't do that stuff and avoid promotion even if you can't leave your job right now.
by ytoawwhra92 | 2026-01-27 03:10:57+00:00
> Could you tell me which source of information do you see as "perfect" (or acceptable) that you see as a good example of a threshold for what you think the public should and should not have access to?

I know it when I see it.

> I don't see how this is relevant.

It's relevant because blood testing is an imperfect tool. Laypeople lack the knowledge/experience to identify imperfections and are likely to take results at face value. Like the author of the article did when ChatGPT gave them an F for their cardiac health.

> Medical interpretations/advice from the measurements is what's restricted, in most places.

Do you agree with that restriction?
by throwup238 | 2026-01-27 03:11:14+00:00
This whole move is about corporate governance. The US makes it really easy to start or manage corporations and the courts are (mostly) streamlined and predictable, especially the chancery courts in Delaware. Cayman Islands adopted many of Delaware's legal approach to corporations in 2016 to make the island more business friendly rather than just a tax haven, and they've got a foot in the Latin American market. Singapore is the SEA equivalent of Delaware.

Nothing else much to it. In reality they're all going to have to register to do business in Canada/California/whatever and pay their taxes anyway. Structuring the parent in one of those jurisdictions just makes the legal wrangling about ownership and stock classes safer and more predictable to both investor and founder.
by cdf | 2026-01-27 03:11:26+00:00
Because big companies can crush competition, either via lobbying for government regulations, acquiring the competitors, or driving the competition out of business by offering something comparable but cheaper or free.

It's the old Microsoft playbook of Embrace, Extend, Extinguish, but with more finesse.

It is also why their acquisitions tend to just die, because once the big company inefficiencies get integrated, the acquired startups just cannot function.
by mrandish | 2026-01-27 03:12:10+00:00
Blade Runner's future still feels futuristic even today - while many sci-fi films of that era don't. I think it's largely due to the brilliant production design and cinematography. Just about every creative department over-achieved spectacularly. I saw it in 70mm when it came out it and it absolutely blew my teenaged mind. Even as a hardcore sci-fi fan, I'd never seen anything like BR's vision of an eclectic urban dystopia.

Today, it's hard to appreciate just how much of a visual sledgehammer Blade Runner was in 1982. The film doesn't look all that shocking from modern perspectives but that's only because BR so strongly influenced almost every other vision of the future that came after. It simply defined what compelling visions of the future should look like. It's hard to put your head back into a world where nothing had ever looked like that.

If you haven't seen the restored version that film archivist Charles de Lauzirika did, do yourself a favor and watch the 4K HDR10 version (released in 2017). He spent years painstakingly rescanning the original camera negatives (something rarely done for remasters) and the result is a revelation.
by Hizonner | 2026-01-27 03:12:31+00:00
> I'm always surprised how ambiguous the writing is for this kind of stuff.

That's because--

(a) The actual legislators vaguely realize that they're too lazy and stupid to get anything right in detail, so they delegate to the regulatory apparatus.

(b) Neither the legislators nor the regulators are ever quite sure what they can politically get away with actually demanding, or how fast they can politically get away with moving, so they want both the ability to grab anything that looks like they can hold it, and the ability to deny that they ever meant to ask for anything that's blowing back too hard on them.

(c) Both the legislators and the regulators want to be able to threaten various actors with draconian actions that are at least possibly authorized under that kind of vague language, in order to get concessions that they are not authorized to demand (and that would be too hot politically to give them authorization to demand).
by CompoundEyes | 2026-01-27 03:12:42+00:00
So true about the features for churned users. B2B software is ugly by its nature, at peace with that now, and I appreciate the ones that execute the sea of controls better than others.

UX designers will try to apply consumer design paradigms not realizing why it looks the way it does. Accessibility is always welcome though it usually lets the power users move faster.

The dentist let me check out her office’s intense software the hygienists use last time. I don’t think there was a place on the screen that wasn’t a control from edge to edge. Ugly gray dense and everything had a reason.

If you visit an Enterprise B2B software companies website — and they won’t show you what it looks like. Then you know you’re in for something special…
by tmsacool | 2026-01-27 03:12:44+00:00
Hey, even the README was vibe-coded!

It probably works on his machine, but telling me to run it through Docker while not providing any Docker Files or any other way to run the project kind of makes me question the validity of the project, or at least not trust it.

Whatever, I'll just build it manually and run the test:

cargo build --release

./tests/test-unified.sh 1 100

Running battles...
Error response from daemon: No such container: pokemon-rust-dev
Comparing results...

=======================================
Summary
=======================================
Total: 100
Passed: 0
Failed: 0

ALL SEEDS PASSED!

Yay! But wait, actually no? I mean 0 == 0 so thats cool.

Oh the test script only works on a specificially named container, so I HAVE to create a Dockerfile and docker-compose.yml. But I guess this is just a Research Project so it's fine. I'll just ask Opus to create them I guess. It will probably only take a minute

JK, it took like 5 minutes, because it had to figure out Cargo/Rust version or sth I don't know :( So this better work or I've wasted my precious tokens!

Ok so running cargo test inside the docker container just returns a bunch of errors:

docker exec pokemon-rust-dev bash -c "cd /home/builder/workspace && cargo test 2>&1"

error: could not compile `pokemon-showdown` (test "battle_simulation") due to 110 previous errors

Let's try the test script:

./tests/test-unified.sh 1 100

Building release version...
= note: `#[warn(dead_code)]` on by default

warning: `pokemon-showdown` (example "profile_battle") generated 1 warning
warning: `pokemon-showdown` (example "detailed_profile") generated 1 warning
Finished `release` profile [optimized] target(s) in 0.45s

=======================================
Unified Testing Seeds 1-100 (100 seeds)
=======================================

Running battles...
Comparing results...

=======================================
Summary
=======================================
Total: 100
Passed: 0
Failed: 0

ALL SEEDS PASSED!

Yay! Wait, no. What did I miss? Maybe the test script needs the original TS source code to work? I cloned it into a folder next to this project and... nope, nothing.

At this point I give up. I could not verify if this port works. If it does, that's very, VERY cool. But I think when claiming something like this it is REALLY important to make it as easily verifiable as possible. I tried for like 20 minutes, if someone smarter than me figured it out please tell me how you got the tests to pass.
by Animats | 2026-01-27 03:13:04+00:00
These overrun areas aren't that long. This trick is used where there's not enough room for a long overrun area.
The high drag has to start fast.
With the styrofoam/pumice material, the wheels quickly drop all the way to the hard bottom of the arresting material, and then plow forward, dissipating energy by crushing pumice. With something more solid, the wheels may skim the surface for a while before digging in.
by cheschire | 2026-01-27 03:13:16+00:00
As I alluded to earlier, to me the books were more an exploration into man’s hubris to think control could be asserted by failed attempts to distill spoken and unspoken human rules into a few “laws”.

Giskard and Daneel spend quite a lot of time discussing the impenetrable laws that govern human action. That sounds more like what is happening in the current frontier of AI than mechanical trains of thought that only have single pathways to travel, which is closer to how Asimov described it in the Robots books.

Edit: I feel like I’m failing to make my point clearly here. Sorry. Maybe an LLM can rephrase it for me. (/s lol)
by ajdude | 2026-01-27 03:13:34+00:00
I use netnewswire as my client and I'm self hosting freshrss, so my subscriptions can be synced between my phone and computer.

All of my YouTube and nebula channels I follow via RSS and I think that's kind of giving me the most bang for my buck. I can just get focused on the videos that I want to subscribe to without having to even go to YouTube and get pulled into the algorithm, as well as a few sub Reddits, hacker news front page (it's how I found this post), Lobste.rs, 404 Media, some local blogs (my food co-op, biking website, other community things), some web comics, one news group, and a couple forums.

I've also contemplated Podcasts, but I still have a dedicated player for that.
by permo-w | 2026-01-27 03:13:42+00:00
vibe coding applies to very few people in this thread. almost all the people here are talking about using LLMs to do something they could do anyway, to save time, or getting the LLM to teach them how to code something. this is not vibe coding. vibe coding is lacking coding experience and slapping in some prompts to just get something that works
by yunnpp | 2026-01-27 03:13:59+00:00
You're advocating for the wrong thing. Advocate to ban targeted advertising or demand that social media feeds be transparent. Don't advocate for banning VPNs from anyone who does not want to submit an ID to a company that will be breached less than a year later, or any kind of client-side measure; that's ineffective towards the goal you are trying to accomplish, and has so many other negative side effects that the whole thing is just stupid.
by vineyardmike | 2026-01-27 03:14:27+00:00
This is another example of why its frustrating still.

"Yes I'm happy I'm not dying" ignores that "go to the hospital [and waste a day, maybe some financial cost]" because a machine was wrong. This is still pretty inconvenient because a machine wasn't accurate/calibrated/engineered weak. Not dying is good, but the emotions and fear for a period of time is still bad.
by rolandog | 2026-01-27 03:15:53+00:00
Wholeheartedly agree.

I can't wait until we can live in a better era where we look back with collective disgust at the blatant white-collar crime time period that was ushered by Friedman and Welch.

That, plus the current era, feels to me like a massive dog whistle for people who can't read satirical stories like A Modest Proposal without taking them as instructions.
by FabHK | 2026-01-27 03:16:01+00:00
From what I can gather, the best estimates for pre-vaccine, 2020 Wuhan/Alpha strain IFR are about 0.5% to 0.8%, approaching 1%, depending very much on the age structure (age 75+ had an IFR of 5-15%).

The current effective IFR (very often post-vaccination or post-exposure, and of with weaker strains) is much lower. But a 1% IFR estimate in early 2020 was entirely justified and fairly accurate.

For what it's worth, epidemiologists are well aware of the distinction between IFR, CFR, and CMR (crude mortality rate = deaths/total population), and it is well known that CFR and CMR bracket IFR.