skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I submit that you could cut the entire sentence out of the piece and not lose anything other than a vague sense of judgment from the author.

But hey, I also don't think observing the basic fact that the railroads led to the "opening of the west" would qualify as "lauding" that fact, any more than observing that "George Washington was the first US president" would be "lauding" George Washington. For that matter, I can also enjoy a train ride without feeling the urge to "acknowledge" that Cornelius Vanderbilt did some bad things.

(...though I sadly acknowledge that we're well 'round that bend as a society)
They won't disappear, but for sure the corporations behind them need to sustain huge costs that the FOSS community will never see, and we're starting to see some signs: Linux is free and shows no ads or collects users data; Windows costs money, yet it shows ads and collects users data. One would expect the opposite, and I'm glad that it's not the case.
Spotlight on Sequoia looks correct, though it limits precision more than wolfram alpha.

(-20)^21 = -2.097152x10^27 and (-22)^21 = -1.5519448971*10^28
There is already a 13.something million dollar exception. If the house is worth more than that it should be taxed anyway.
I’m struggling to understand your point, or to imagine many examples which support it.

I agree that brief minor parking infringements may occasionally make people’s lives more efficient; but I can’t think of any examples where traffic lights and speed limits need to be routinely disregarded?
I have made a career if stabilizing systems... but the secret is that they have to be pretty close to on fire before I am ever called in.
So we're finally getting speed cameras?
It's a revolutionary idea. Very small merchants can now leverage their transaction history (on the UPI platform) to secure micro loans from large lending institutions such as big banks.
What happens when the new models come out and the data centers are full of old models to be decommissioned. Would love to buy a huge amount of h200 once they have become “obsolete”
Connecticut - I've never felt safer walking around at 3 am and I've made more friends in the last 2 months (without trying) than I probably have in the last 6 years of living in the bay area.
Show HN: Dod.pub
Hey Hacker News!

As a software developer in the DoD, one of the most annoying things I encounter frequently is managing DOD CA trust. That’s why I build dod.pub - a simple endpoint that serves the concatenated PEM of all the DoD root CAs. You can check out the code below.

https://github.com/willswire/dod.pub
The blink camera has a PIR sensor that wakes it up so it starts recording video. It doesn’t record video the whole time and running the PIR is not energy intensive.

The Tesla has to run the cameras and run computer vision algorithms to determine if something is happening.
Reminds jurisdiction specific tax/etc. configuration in ERP :)
One of my favorite components from the open source web components library Shoelace is the QR code generator:
https://shoelace.style/components/qr-code
Memories of EMC Symmetrix SRDF. Was a bit more expensive then though, but it was quite nice.
> There's no good fast and interactive debugger on Linux, similar to

relatively new Windows debuggers.

raddebugger had its first release in Jan 2024.

RemedyBG is new to me, but then, so does its starting post in 2019 stating that it is looking to replace the VS debugger:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19337527

I was doing a fair bit of windows debugging then, but not a lot since, and it looks a great option now having watched some vids in the last 10 minutes.

So, thanks for the update!
A lot of these systems stored the year as two digits. So 19 to 20 wasn’t the problem. The problem was mainframe based systems are/were almost entirely based on fixed length data representations; cobol copybooks, tape and dasd datasets (ie files). Expanding all those from two bytes to four was a lot of work and risk is some organizations.
Meta can be confirmed as one since they’ve literally mentioned their infra investments and Billions in capex increases until the end of 2025 in every earnings call this year.
Nah that gets to a police state mighty fast.

It works if the people in power align with your values, but the moment it doesn’t it becomes a problem
This has a very 'Victorian anthropologist' vibe. It's not the 'point and laugh at the freaks' undertone of, say, The Big Bang Theory, but it's clear the author is very much a humanities person who hasn't noticed that hard sciences people have a very different view of the world.
When these companies are getting literally multiple billions of dollars of funding thrown at them, I can't think of a single feature that can be a moat. If it's truly a feature that leapfrogs competitors, there's just no way that someone like Anthropic spending $1B on engineering resources can't replicate the same exact feature that engineers elsewhere implemented.
The title confused me because here in Germany the police are civil servants and they generally don't have a right to strike or just choose not to do their job as they're an executive organ of the state but apparently here the police is just.. side hustling?

"conversations with officers “making them very well aware of what they’re agreeing to.” But the decision may come down to what individual officers are comfortable with, Grammas said. Overtime security work is not mandatory for officers, but voluntary."

Maybe it's a cultural thing but blurring the line between an officer in their public capacity and what is basically private security at a sports event should be two separate things. Hiring the police out as a private security force where they then get to negotiate what rules they have to play by has a Judge Dredd vibe to it
Problem is there is no punishment to the criminals. Why risk your life/job just to have the criminal released hours later.

I was a big believer of police reform, but realized the whole system was broken and police are just a symptom. And most actors are actually behaving somewhat rationally.

The sad part is criminals are finally realizing this. I have a cousin who hangs with a “crowd” and it’s amazing how prolific and bold some are. And how many people know about the crimes and no one really says anything. And apparently police know about a lot of it too, but apparently a case that prosecutors will take is an exceptionally high bar.
def m2k(n):
return n*1.609344

There, did it in O(1)
Why isn’t every person defending this idea mentioning this fact. It’s so obvious once you mention it.
Law simply needs to internalize encryption. Your cameras are your property and only with consent of owner are they available to authorities.

Public cameras should only be decrypted for evidence to support litigation of crimes, not for police to search for violay, because the current gigantic book of laws has an implicit assumption of a difficulty to enforce.

If suddenly police could use AI to fully prosecute all violations of law then we have all the laws necessary for worse than totalitarian existence.

Every mile you drove in a car will be 10 violations of law. Laugh loud? Violation disturbance of peace. Stand looking at your email too long? Loitering. Cross a park? Dozens of environmental violations.
Thank you, that is pretty close to what I had in mind. An interactive timeline that could be explored step-by-step would probably be even better.

... maybe the Wikimedia Foundation should spend some of their ridiculous surplus in donations on developing that.
Oh, yeah, there are protocols, file formats, old devices, all kinds of interesting things. But more importantly, differently from the last time, they are very different from each other, so much that it's hard to even anticipate what may break.

I imagine a couple of days with the internet misbehaving everywhere is a safe bet.
Drug/terror networks are composed of anonymous semi-independent actors without clear command/control hierarchies. That's nothing at all like businesses with registered addresses, clearly defined executives who also have addresses, thousands of employees who officially declare this as part of a legit taxable income stream. Every one of those non-anonymous people have to comply with subpoenas, etc. Why would you even make this comparison?
Yes, it is when I closed the tab. Enough with the self-flagellating virtue signalling nonsense, it does not do any good for anyone other than for the grifters who make their living off selling indulgences for past sins. Not to mention the fact that those indigenous tribes were quite the quarrelsome bunch themselves which makes all those land acknowledgements another level of silliness: "we acknowledge that we are standing on the land of the Comanche" upon which a Cheyenne stands calls out that it was their land until those bastard Comanche came along and took it, followed by an Apache who hollers at the Cheyenne who took their land whereupon an ageing Kiowa stares down the Apache who took their ancestral lands. Rinse and repeat for the Cherokee, Creek, Chickasaw and Choctaw, the Sioux and the Crow, the Iroquois and the Huron, the Iroquois and the Powhatan confederacy, the Navajo versus the Hopi, etc. They made war against each other, they sometimes won, they sometimes lost. Eventually a stronger tribe came and conquered them all just like they used to conquer others. Since we're not at the end of history - Fukuyama [1] was wrong - the story will move on from here and who knows what - and who - will come next?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_History_and_the_Las...
Windows 11 lets you conveniently "pin" the calculator in standard mode, keeping it accessible on top of your active window – great for multitasking with calculations.

However, switch to a different calculator mode (like scientific), and Windows inexplicably removes the pinning feature.

This baffling decision feels so actively user hostile it is deserving of an award for poor design choices.
They have this on airliners now https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_operations_quality_as...
I can attest this too; at Aachen Hbf. in April of this year, I witnessed a group of policemen verbally (in English) warning a passenger for travelling across the Belgo-German border without ID.

On a tangential topic, the behaviour of railway staff when checking passports was interesting. With a paper Interrail ticket, they would always ask to see my passport or ID card, yet I don't think I have been asked once when using the electronic Interrail ticket - this is despite the rules being identical for both types.
Tow Truck Gangs of Toronto
Strangely enough, a few months ago I came across the bug fix for that Space Shuttle problem. "CR 93160: Year End Roll Over (YERO) Reset. Allows in-flight reset to January 1 without an IPL and complicated procedures while maintaining a good state vector."

(IPL is "Initial Program Load", IBM-speak for a reboot.)
It is unclear from the article what exactly they are doing but the dialogue makes me think they are piping tumblr sites into some sort of Wordpress database. Which means Tumblr will use some sort of similar schema. Though it could be a move to kill off Tumblr entirely, seeing as they are reducing headcount at Tumblr. Especially according to this last bit:

> Given the blogging site’s continued financial woes, Mullenweg shifted the majority of Tumblr’s workforce to other areas at Automattic late last year and laid off others. At the time, he suggested that moving Tumblr to WordPress would be “tricky” but added that new technology like AI would make it easier.

It certainly seems possible it is more than a stack shift. It is definitely going to be a change for end users no matter how much AI he applies.
CEOs making $1/year is more due to Clinton's 1993 law against deducting CEO pay above $1,000,000 from taxable corporate income. Before that CEOs were happy to be paid normal salaries and pay normal tax on them.
I do, in fact, know that the author didn't "download a theme", because all those spammy "Top Posts" link to things advertising the author's products.

I am curious as to whether you truly think that

> Those are some amazingly spammy "Top Posts" at the bottom of the page.

shows more hate and less empathy than

> But you don't have enough empathy to consider that so you'll close your mind to what could potentially help you think differently.

It seems the other way around to me, though of course my opinion will be biased by the fact that one of them is being negative about me and the other about the maker of some random blog on the interwebs. (Though ... I tend to think that any given negative remark shows more hate and less empathy when it's made directly to the person it's about. Compare "X isn't terribly bright" with "You aren't terribly bright".)
Haha..., storing data volatile, with not good retrieval success, slow speed in thousands of heads... I wonder if you could make a harder drive out of this approach... And how much you could store there. And does it benefit society?

Like automatic phone calls..., texts... :-D
This is what most people want + some utility functions & good default variables (for colors etc).

If you're doing relatively straightforward things, tailwind is super easy to work with and that's why a lot of people prefer it today. Having it inline makes it easy to digest (both for humans and LLMs) until things get complicated.

I see this similar to using javascript in your project. When you start fresh on a new project, typescript can be seen as a bottleneck, slowing you down. As project evolves your needs also evolve and other solutions might be a better choice.
>> What if there was something about the way we compute that was at odds with the way humans are? I’d never heard anyone suggest such a possibility (…)

What? That’s the premise of almost all techno-dystopias, a slew of horror movies etc.
I'd have blocked you too. You showed up in his mentions to send an annoying message to him. I don't follow him; especially in a political season like the one we're in now, his feed is just going to annoy me. That's what you should have done, if you need to bend his idiosyncratic politics in your idiosyncratic direction: not followed him in the first place.

People should block more. Try it. It's healthy.

Later

Also: I don't believe he wrote or had anything to do with the guideline you quoted at him.
When there's a consensus democracy is easy. When there's no consensus democracy is a mess.

When it's messy people complain that it's failing. But the messiness is really a reflection of society and/or the media coverage.
>You can start businesses easily in Texas. You don’t have to get permission to cut down a tree in your own yard like you do in California.

Lol, wtf are you talking about. A huge number of municipalities have laws around business regulations and around cutting trees. In addition most new houses in Texas are built in HOA's that have a significant number of rules.

>There is a very good reason most tech companies in California are incorporated in Deleware.

Taxes and well defined legal law that doesn't change on how a random judge feels on a particular day, and law that is tilted toward business needs.

>And freedom of movement?

https://www.texastribune.org/2024/02/09/texas-abortion-trans...

It's leaving the state that said state is looking at punishing you for.

You are really sucking up way too much propaganda and respouting it without understanding what you're talking about.
WSL is fine as a user and can be really helpful... but one thing that I've noticed is that a lot of Windows devs use that as a shortcut and will target applications at WSL, which usually don't work on actual Linux whatsoever. They only work on WSL. A part of that is their fault, a part of that is WSL, but it sucks either way.

Most AI projects are like this because Python is especially horrific to work with package wise. I've also noticed this phenomenon with Windows Docker. Idk what it is exactly, but the Dockerfiles these guys write work on Windows Docker, but fail miserably on Linux Docker. Its like "how is this even possible?"

So its nice for Windows people, but not nice for literally everyone else.
As a somewhat regular user of Waymo, these types of conversations seem like they're going to be more and more in the (sorry!) rearview mirror because we won't own the car nor the cameras that are recording the world as we "drive" around.

That's not to say that we should give up fighting for some level of privacy even when we don't own the cars, but seems more likely that legislation would be passed that forces the vehicle owners/operators (Alphabet in the Waymo case) to blur peoples' faces. Then of course the state (police/gov/etc.) will clamor for a backdoor key that will unlock the blurred faces/bodies if a crime is suspected to have occurred. Speaking of, I wonder if Waymo already does blur people when they capture them through Waymo rides? I can't seem to find mention of it online.

This commentary assumes self-driving cars are here to stay and become the de facto way we drive instead of driving ourselves. Still not sure how their adoption plays out over time because, at least in the US, people will fight against mandates to use self-driving cars because it compromises their freedom (note that the freedom crowd (no judgment) will be saying that, at first, because they will consider it their right to drive themselves, but once the privacy implications are clear there will be full-on (figurative?) wars fought over self-driving). Guessing a politician, in Texas or another red state, will sooner than later enshrine the right-to-drive-oneself into the state constitution.
41 comments, 2 years ago:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
I think OP is pointing to the irony of using an increasingly verbose and overly complex wrapper API that makes it utterly painful to maintain styles "just" to avoid learning css, which is regarded by many developers as confusing or hard to learn, but is actually much more accessible, legible and maintainable than what Tailwind had become by now.

I might be reading a lot into this remark and mostly relying my own opinions here though.

But throughout the years I've been seeing how CSS is universally met with insane prejudice and expectation of it being "too complicated" or painful to learn, and Tailwind being praised as the solution while actually being much more verbose and obfuscated, and time after time leading to irrecoverable tech debt, utterly illegible markup, and complete dead ends whenever style needs any kind of refactoring.

Now that CSS is maturing and getting tons and tons of new features, Tailwind lags behind and keeps introducing more weird workarounds and hacks to be able to support all of it. The line in OPs comment is an example of it literally coming down to writing mutilated CSS selector statements directly to html attributes just to be able to do some of the stuff `:has()` enables, and creating horribly illegible markup and non-reusable styles in the process ...

Imho the original issue leading to "stylesheets are a pain" was never really CSS itself (at least since module 4 & custom props), but rather the top level management of tokens in a design system to not have to memorize colors and sizes etc -- Tailwind is simply collaterally fixing the right problem with the worst approach thinkable, but keeps being hailed as a holy grail by people who lack understanding of this.
Can I just say, with respect, that you are not giving off a lot of "I was headed for YC" energy in the first place? Substitute whatever you want for "YC", and bear in mind that for virtually everybody reading this thread that you started here, this is literally all they know about you. Somebody you don't know said something on Twitter you didn't like, you popped up in their mentions, they blocked you, and now you've tried to spin up an HN thread about. You're kind of giving off "OMG, I'm never going to wash this Twitter thread again" vibes.
I have twelve.
Dont underestimate the glacial kinetics of existing laws. I dont recall many examples of legal regulation that took lots of lobbying and years of planning to pass, to then be changed within years. Sometimes non-permanent laws, such as executive orders, change when executives change, but laws are typically only created and stay until they are either deemed unconstitutional or completely out of sync with reality, and even then only if there is nothing more important or new to write laws about. The more common end of bad laws is for executives to decide to not enforce them, eg outdated federal or state laws about drugs, but it takes a lot of momentum and time to undo a bad law, much more time than to write it in the first place. Just like with bad code in large codebases, new code is easier to write and brings more glory than carefully eliminating or amending poor code.
From what I remember of my CA driver’s license test (had to re-take the written test when I moved to CA), there is no actual speed limit in CA. The speed limit is “whatever conditions deem safe”.

Maybe OP meant something like that?
So, I feel like your arguments is "AI is useful, like cars, so there won't be a bubble"; but like, I think we must all agree that the Internet is useful, and yet there certainly was the ".com bubble". We've occasionally had real estate bubbles, and I do in fact believe there was a car bubble in the early 1900s during the 20s?
Last time I was on the interviewing side I used to ask engineers something like "If you weren't interviewing me today, what would you be doing instead?" to try and get a better idea of this person's day-to-day. Or sometimes phrased as what they were doing earlier in the day / planned to do later in the day. Got some good details of the actual work being done from it, e.g. once it was just lots of bug fixing / test writing / test fixing and no new features.

On the interviewer side, I usually left 5-10 mins for such questions for them to ask me. (I always think it'd be funny if more time was scheduled for candidates to hit interviewers with their favorite "can you actually code" style questions, like is the team they're expecting to join even any good...) It's a bit disappointing when the candidate has nothing to ask, asking something is better than nothing... A type of useful question I got and used to ask as well was simply why I myself had joined the company/how long I'd been there. Sometimes you get a sort of cookie-cutter HR style answer, but sometimes you get something more revealing (in a good or bad way). Engineers tend to be (often too) honest.
He is. Read the web (and the room) friend.
Property tax is very unpopular, at least where I live.
Interactive use definitely wants the best model possible so that you have a higher chance of getting a correct and useful response.

It might be hard however to decisively convince people that one model is significantly better than another though, so branding/first mover/etc. probably plays a big role.
There are plenty of articles calling his companies out specifically and few calling other similar companies out so you can take your what ifs somewhere else.
> It allows you to drill down to any level required

Not really, sadly. There's a bunch of binary blobs for the CPU as well as other opaque firmwares in the hardware.
Like putting lipstick on a pig.
It's sometimes safer to speed up 5mph over the limit to get through a yellow light, than to slam your brakes with someone behind you. It's frequently safer to speed to match people speeding around you then to match the stated speed limit (usually on freeways).
Good. What's important is whether you are impaired, not whether you ever consume impairing substances.

If marijuana users aren't ever allowed guns why in the world do we permit alcohol users guns? I'd be much more worried about a drunk with a gun than a stoned person with a gun.
> I'd say this is provably false based on the popularity of streaming services, specifically the rise of Netflix's streaming service.

When Netflix came out it was effectively free at $10. People want billions worth of content for $10/month. We all do, but that's not sustainable.