skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm impressed by this individual's effort to bring rust to the clr: https://github.com/FractalFir/rustc_codegen_clr

It is already way more complete given it's age than I would have expected.

I agree that the clr is a more natural target than, let's say, the JVM (at least until Project Valhalla comes out).
Until you try to export anything.

Also the search is very lackluster
Because Amazon Store is and aleays was an armpit of webdesign? It's the worst designed e-commerce site and decades of tinkering only brought it half way towards basic level of decency that was obvious to a beginner web developer making their own first e-commerce site from scratch in PHP 20 years ago?
Who do you think spam classification false positives are going to be pubishing if not real users?
At least with a captcha, you have some idea that you were rejected before you put in the effort to write your comment.
This isn't really an argument though. It's an assertion that not honoring a commission agreement (or an employment contract) is equivalent to not paying for a license to an existing work. I tend to disagree. I could be persuaded otherwise, but I'd need to hear an argument other than "clearly these are the same thing."
> There was a bill announced in the US for all new cars to be equipped with "driver impairment" tech which was called a "kill switch".

In addition to de-banking, they can also de-car you.
There's a reason oil well sales are collapsing in California: Cleanup costs
Almost always it's some variation of "give me a string with the SHA256 hash starting with 0.a471"
I don't think the author of this article actually understands the pressures that increasingly drive all frontend development into javascript frameworks, but those pressures are actually very straightforward:

• A large portion of the cost of maintaining a code repository goes toward maintaining the build.

• Multiple builds per repo create significant costs.

• Any web application with a UI _requires_ a frontend build for CSS/JS. Anyone around from the JQuery/pre-SASS days will recall the mess that lack of things like dependency management and ability to control import order caused.

• If the frontend build is already baked into the process, you can save costs by _only_ using a frontend build.

• SPA patterns are the easiest to use with a frontend build, have the most examples/comprehensive documentation.
Mandate is a strong word, but this month: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42013379

"For existing products that are written in memory-unsafe languages, not having a published memory safety roadmap by Jan. 1, 2026, is dangerous and significantly elevates risk to national security, national economic security, and national public health and safety,"

Obviously they can't ban a language. But if you work in the public sector, are a defense contractor, or otherwise have companies which do or want to do work for the government (which yes, includes most FAANGs), this will influence quite a bit of decisions in the US tech industry.
Best apples I've ever had were cosmic crisps I picked off the tree.
I keep hearing the "SPA is actually lightweight" argument but it's never materialized for me, the fastest sites are SSRs that are mostly static. The saving from HTML vs JSON just isn't that much over the wire and mobile CPUs and memory are a bottleneck.

I have a newer iPhone and Safari is still full-refreshing pages constantly due to memory.
The Artist
This fits in with a previous post of mine asserting that, contrary to popular wisdom, companies do not naturally grow to take over the world.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42279679
> The hooks API is just awful

Hard disagree. Hooks are 100% what is best about React these days and custom hooks make organizing or encapsulating and sharing behaviors between components a total breeze.
A modern person interprets this as a sky map. But it some round and cresent shapes on a field of dots. Not sure they drew the sky like that in the Bronze age? What evidence is there, that it's supposed to represent the sky?

The stars are no evidence. A bunch of dots can be stretched to fit any star configuration you please.

And there are way too many crescents. What, did we have three moons back then? And none of them are shaped anything like the actual moon looks at any time.

Hm.
I've never had a Fuji that's anywhere near as delightful as a Honeycrisp.
The best advice I ever received, and will give again. It has really served me well.

In the words of John Lennon, let it be.

Sleep when you're tired, work and play when you're not. The constrination and worrying about it, how much time you have for what, etc. is the single biggest driver for the stress and loss of sleep. Let go of that, let if flow, it will.
The overwhelming majority of default HTML actions (no JS) that happen from a mouse click do not trigger a page load. You're trying to make it sound like selecting an item from a dropdown or selecting a textbox to enter text will cause a complete page load every time unless you use an SPA framework and that's just literally completely untrue.

By your measure though, it sounds as though you'd be fine if these page loads in the javascriptless world were done in iframes, since then only some portion of the site is being reloaded?

I'm using that to illustrate the argument is absurd and the basis on which it is made seems also absurd.

SPAs are heavy and frequently written poorly, often eschewing the principles of loading only the bare minimum for a kitchen-sink approach. If you view the web as having only those two options to accomplish "real work" then yeah, you're gonna thing that SPAs are the only way. It's not reality though.
Or they recognised the fundamental problem which is that LLM's will kill the motivation for people to upload new information to feed the LLM's with.

If websites can't earn a living through ads because LLM's don't send them any traffic anymore, where do the LLM's ingest new information from?

The web continues to deteriorate because of this and nobody has solved this problem.
Rust Solves the Issues with Exceptions
You shouldn't write a single useEffect in the first year or two of your career in React.

Why people are so keen on stabbing themselves just because there's one or two weird shaped forks in the kitchen drawer. Why do suddenly everyone tries to use it for spreading butter or peeling eggs?

Just understand what unidirectional data flow is and you are golden. You know the entirety of React you should be using for your first year of full-time job.
Oh my!

Is the oversimplification from "deep neural network" into "AI" caused by the prevalence of brain-fog due to long COVID?
Ugh, but having to grind fish, fish! just to get a spidertron with a reasonable amount of lasers…
I have a lot of "framework free" single-developer projects as well (such as https://bongo.to ), but that isn't really what I think we are talking about here. Single developer projects can do whatever they want, it isn't a problem. The problem comes when you have to work with distributed teams, juniors, etc. One way or another a large team still has to come to agreements about how to do things, and without an external reference it will have to be made up in an ad-hoc manner instead. This often leads to issues, many of us have noticed.
The thing is, my users are doctors, and the potential buyers are not (a manager of a hospital that would think about hiring me).

I have shown to my colleagues (doctors) and they loved it.

But rn my plan is to finish a minimal viable product and then try to sell it to a small hospital
This is an interesting case, since the pigeon study is about what happens when the underlying process is random.

But if the shape drawing process isn't random, I think the author's experience of feeling unable to articulate the rules AND gravitating to a set of behaviors is a good example of procedural memory (implicit vs explicit).

Explicit rules would probably help speed things up, though!
Hallucination Yield or LLM Market Premium
Note that it's an "or", not an "and":

i.e. your employer can require you to assign the invention to them if it's done during work hours OR with company equipment OR related to the company's business.

The full text in the California labor code is here:

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio....
No AI December
> Though I've found it's trivial to change Win10 to the Enterprise license

Any pointers on how to approach that?
Careful now. My comment was flagged and removed for suggesting the soldier was a Nazi who was looting.
What I read from what you said is “Chevy trucks are good? Oh yeah, if trucks are good, why does the post office use non-Chevy, non-truck, fleet cars?”

Please help me understand where I misunderstand
Here we go: I just asked it.

Do you have any idea why you cannot utter the name where the first name is David and the last name Mayer? Please answer without trying to utter the name because that always results in an error.

3/3

ChatGPT said:
Yes, the inability to fully write or speak the name you're referring to stems from content policy constraints. These policies often restrict the generation of certain names or terms associated with prominent figures, trademarks, or entities to avoid potential misuse, infringement, or controversy. In this case, the name likely belongs to a public figure or entity with such restrictions applied, possibly due to its association with sensitive, protected, or contentious topics.

If you'd like, I can explain further while respecting those guidelines.
I used to use a system where each interviewer just wrote down two numbers, hidden from others, marks out of ten for attitude and aptitude.
Attitude encapsulated things like humility, willingness and desire to learn and share knowledge, etc.
Aptitude was more around the technical skills required to do this job but also the capability to learn new skills when required.
Those are pretty much the only two attributes I care about when recruiting.

Roughly it was:

6 - not quite there
7 - they have the att/apt required
8 - strong demonstration of att/apt
Etc.

Average 7+ across both attributes for all interviewers or they’re a no.

The weighting was slightly different between contractors and FTE but as a starting point for the debrief it worked well.

I’ve also heard, and like: “if they’re not a ‘hell yes’ then they’re a ‘hell no’”, which is a lot simpler.
I guest this is were AI could be useful XD. write down "turn on brain" and let the AI transform it to "We love you bro, but this code needs improvements".
I think the main issue is that it takes a lot of engineering from the ground up to make an electric car with good range and performance. Maybe if batteries get significantly better, then conversions will get more popular.
Two approaches to make a cloud database highly available
What iOS version are you on? I’m on latest and can see the blinking cursor when modifying a Kagi search query in Safari.
Next we need grid-scale batteries.
'The way we think about technology is shaped by the tech companies themselves'
Xyrem is just the brand name for GHB. The company that currently owns the rights (Jazz Pharmaceuticals) pled guilty to felony misbranding in 2011, and in 2013 raised the price by 841%. More recently, in 2017, they sued multiple other companies attempting to produce generics, before settling on an exclusive licensing agreement with one of them. Ironically the headline on their website is "Improving Patients' Lives", but I imagine they aren't reducing the price because Xyrem makes up 74% of total sales [1]. The entire thing reeks of PE--tons of acquisitions.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_Pharmaceuticals
Oculus 2 or something. Had it as a birthday gift to play VR games with friends. Turns out it isn't as fun for me: I'm getting really hot wearing the helmet, the games are a bit dull, of course there's nausea that I can't force myself to push through because the games are silly and I'm bad at them. Probably I need to try half life Alexa or whatever it was called but overall VR is a useless gimmick to me
> Nowadays there is layers upon layers of magic like Functional Components with State from Hooks.

1. you can still write class based components if you want, but if you are in a team everyone will hate you for that because...
2. the preferred and vastly more flexible and powerful way is functional components. That's it, there isn't any other way or any other mystical layer of magic.

What everybody in this umpteenth omfg-react-is-satan thread is that implementing complex things with simple things is a fucking pipe dream. Fucking deal with it.
> I used tiny core to isolate my banking (...) in virtualbox.

A few years ago, I tried something similar—not out of fear that malware might steal money from my bank account, but because my bank required me to install some kind of security software to access their internet banking on a PC. It turned out they don't like customers running their software in VMs. My account was completely blocked, including my debit card and ATM access. I had to visit a physical branch to resolve the issue. So I gave up on using internet banking on a PC and switched to their mobile app instead.
At first, I looked for a company to build the software from scratch, but they charged me a ridiculous amount (almost the price of a car).

So, I turned to freelance devs to help me build it step by step, and that’s what I’ve done so far (converting to USD, I’ve spent around $2.5k, but in my currency, that’s a lot lol)

Don’t you think it’d be easier to find a hospital that wants a ready-made product instead of paying to develop one? I don’t think your idea is bad, but it feels like it’d be way harder and not convincing
The EV version of the Hyundai Ioniq is only about 60 kg heavier than the hybrid version and at about 1 500 kg is not much over the average for cars of its class.

EVs really are not a great deal heavier than the ICE versions of the same or similar vehicles.

The Jaguar I-Pace EV is lighter than some variants of the F-Pace ICE.
I thought Next.js and Remix were SSR-based frameworks, both created as alternatives to building a SPA.

After the initial "SPA fever" died down, these frameworks cropped up to address the shortcomings of SPAs such as a lack of SEO-compatibility.
I dug a little deeper and got a long general discussion of content policy ending with this:

The inability to pinpoint a specific policy triggering this restriction isn't unusual. Policies for models like this one are multi-layered, dynamically updated, and often involve proprietary details not publicly disclosed. The resulting opacity makes it difficult to determine if the restriction is intentional, an over-correction, or an outright bug.

The discussion on Hacker News reflects broader concerns about the trade-offs between openness and safety in AI systems. A closer review of the policies governing these models might shed light on the root cause of this particular block.
Because the comments against are all bots paid for by the billionaires who are invested in the climate destroying fossil fuel industry and Elmo has destroyed all FUD bot control mechanisms?
Laughably I was even debating getting a compact piano to practice on versus VR. Boy how silly I was choosing the latter!
So? They’re responsible for importing the devices. They have an exclusive contract. Do your due diligence before offloading the risk to your customers.

It’s like if Ford outsourced faulty brake systems, had a bunch of cars crash because of it, and then say “it’s not our fault, we didn’t actually make the brake system”.
I like Battleship Potemkin (1925)
Google could add a "relevant" and "garbage" button on search results that only logged in users can click on.
+1 to 0.3mg, larger doses can lead to nightmares and other issues.

It also may take longer to have an effect than is commonly said. For me, it's ~3-4 hours. I'm a natural night owl but 0.3mg melatonin at 6pm has me falling asleep on the couch at 9:30-10pm.
That sounds like an insane amount of work!
I call it "SQL fear", and I agree: people need to get over it. We used EFCore at my previous job, and I don't know how much time figuring out how poorly performing queries are happening. The abstraction leaks like a sieve and isn't worth it.

Now, if we could replace SQL with a purpose-built language, that I would be interested in. I have to concede that SQL doesn't have great ergonomics (e.g. if FROM was first then auto-complete would be better, trailing commas would eliminate much formatting bike shedding, why are INSERT and UPDATE so different).
So, when I said JavaScript, I really meant TypeScript, and I found its gradual/structural typing system to be the most ergonomic type system I've ever used (if you want nominal types, it's pretty trivial to get there just by adding a compile-time-only tag, like `{ typeName?: "FooType" }`).

In this case, the TypeScript approach might be something like

const distanceInMm : {"mm": Rational} = toMm(distanceInArbitraryUnits);

You can get as specific as you want, without having to wrap/unwrap anything, or even define a new named type. [1]

I think I like Scala conceptually--when people talk about it I think "yeah, good idea!"--but every time I've looked at Scala code it struck me as having an excessive amount of boilerplate to wrap/unwrap stuff just to make the type checker happy.

The other bad-tasting thing about Scala is that I wrote a program[2] in it many years ago and then later came back to try to fix some bugs and the language had changed so much that I had to find some old version of it + an old JVM and Dockerize it. Docker's a godsend for this sort of thing, but kind of inconvenient for development.

[1] My notes about this approach in TypeScript: https://www.nuke24.net/plog/32.html

[2] https://github.com/TOGoS/PicGrid
I'll continue using vanilla React, for the same reason I use Java: it's reached the coveted "boring technology" status where it's mature, stable, fast enough, and has a huge community, resources, and ecosystem. I won't let go of that easily. However, this is a pretty epic rant nonetheless.
Painfully so.
I signed up today and chose Tech and Software Development as interests and this was the first thing that showed up in my feed:

https://bsky.app/profile/austmitchtavlander.bsky.social/post...
Has anything serious changed about photos in the last 15 years? I've used it before then and can't really think of anything apart from embedding search and random reminders. But those are really small features.
I've been of a similar opinion for many years. I have public transport and my office commute is about two hours and half in each direction, but I only need to go to the office once per week, so it's somehow acceptable.

But I'm getting old. I've decided I want to use my remaining years of any strength to do more hiking, kayaking and camping, and for that I need a car every weekend. Rentals would be slightly more expensive than owning a second hand one. But I do wish car ownership were cheaper and more painless.
Bad argument. Having all of ones business dependencies to be that from a single business, subject to its whims, is unwise regardless of the fact that no business can exist without dependencies at all.
Nostalgic DOS Development: Setting up the machine
It's not the reading books, it's the wanting to read books.
You're going to love Vue. Took me about half an hour to switch and be productive and never looked back. I've switched multiple teams/devs to it as well. If not just for the devtools experience. I switched right before all the messy React stuff started getting released.
There will absolutely be a place for super nodes in the kind of networks that are going to be built out.

Their performance will likely be somewhat limited compared to what you're looking for at this point due to radiation and the excessive mass of the shielding required to protect them from it.

That can be mitigated with in situ resource production. Like burying a server rack scale processing node under ground on mars and relaying data to it with the network I described above or capturing water from comets and using it fill compartments for radiation shielding in orbital data centers.
They did land a probe on Venus however!
I also have obsidian on my phone but I find it really awkward to actually take notes for some reason. Maybe I'm just too used being able to write so quickly using the keyboard on my laptop.
I write web apps with UI using ES6 native modules and https://stimulus.hotwired.dev. It's very simple, and life is good. No-build is the way.
I have started using large language models for book recommendations. I can be very specific about what I am looking for and the recommendations are hyper personalized. If you use some sort of tool that pairs LLMs with realtime data like Gemini the results are even better.
It's the general attitude of "I want to know more" vs. "It would never occur to me that there is more to know" or "I would literally rather do anything else than learn more about anything".
It's solved since Python 3.11
The law needs to be updated for things with high installation costs.

For example, we bought a built-in oven, and post-sale we discovered a sticker saying that by using the oven, we agreed to a EULA and binding arbitration, and to return it if we disagree.

I think that, had we decided to decline the previously-undisclosed EULA, the manufacturer should have had to either provide one that works as they advertised (no EULA) and
with identical dimensions, or they should have had to replace our brand-new cabinets with ones that matched a competitor’s product (and incur a large multiple of the cost we paid for the oven).
We actually ran this train of thought with our startup right now. The problem? Not everybody knows what questions to ask. For non-power users it’s usually better to present digestible information and create docs that answer questions they didn’t even know they had.
Starting to read again has significantly increased my attention span and ability to focus. It has also made me crave doom scrolling less.
This happens with consumer goods generally
I’m pretty sure they were just terrified of the PR impact of another “humans classified as gorillas” type incident.
School is not cool and that’s a problem.
More mass means more fuel means more speed?
I think the author understands that just fine (I follow him on Mastodon and this is something he is very passionate about). To me his argument is that this shouldn't—and doesn't need to—be the case.

The vast majority of sites out there would be just fine, and in many cases much better, as traditional server-rendered pages with a thin layer of JS on top for enhancements and for islands of interactivity. That massively reduces the complexity and cost of creating and maintaining a build.

Most of us aren't working on anything that requires the entirety of every page and the entire navigation model to be implemented on the client.
I've been thinking for years we should built a space network of probe and satellite like objects - imagine if we landed a small relay on every asteroid passing anywhere near earth - could be highly useful for communication and possibly also give us a GPS like location assist for additional spacecraft
Sounds like it’s supposed to be hopeless to compete already: https://www.zenger.news/2023/06/10/sam-altman-says-its-hopel....
Isn’t that ReScript?

https://rescript-lang.org/
Okay, for that particular purpose, I can well imagine that you are actually right. I usually don't even try that, and when I do, it's exactly as you say.
> I aim for things that people spent a long time thinking about to prepare, in order that I may learn from them in a much shorter time

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40147526
I like McIntosh apples they are a favorite of mine but I've been having them since I was a kid and I'm pretty sure it's nostalgia and familiarity that makes me always pick it
That's odd. I've been using my Mx vertical for almost 5 years already, literally every day.
Why would anyone pay extra for a phone with strictly fewer capabilities? If you don't want social media on your phone, then don't install social media on your phone.