skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Treasury's systems were just hacked, in some capacity, last week.

If you put the money the government steals from your paycheck for "Social Security" into your own private investment account and invest it in the S&P 500, after a 40 year career you would have about 4x the income that Social Security will pay you for the same malinvestment in their broken system. That's now. In the future, we will probably have to net pay Social Security when we retire.

The FDA put candy on the food pyramid, as a part of our daily diet.

The F-35 Lightning project was managed by the government, and, as a result, the United States will likely lose the next major nation state war we enter. But, because of that selfsame government's other skills, the United States will likely be bankrupt and gone before that happens.

Everything the government does is worse; no, the worst. If the government does something, that's a really good reason to look at alternatives.
Hillel Wayne is working on a Logic for Programmers book [0] that might be what you're looking for.

[0] https://leanpub.com/logic
I like the "type=history" mode which can auto-build a slowly changing dimension ("SCD type 2") for you; more CDC solutions should do that:
https://streamer.kuvasz.io/streaming-modes/

That said, their implementation is kinda poor since it allows overlapping dates for queries when a row gets updated multiple times per day. When you SQL join to that kind of SCD2 by a given date you can easily get duplicates.

This can be avoided by A) updating old rows to end-date yesterday rather than today, and B) if a row begins and ends on the same day, the start date or end date can be NULL or a hardcoded ancient or far-future end-date, such as having the record from "2023-01-01 to 2023-01-01" instead be "2023-01-01 to 0001-01-01". Those rows won't show up in joins, but the change remains visible/auditable and you do get the last row available for every given date (and only one such row.)
> Isn't it a bit weird to call 4chan "the dark web" on a technical website?

GP didn't.

> like searching for Alex Jones will only give you 'why is alex jones such a bad person

That doesn't happen here. I get his social media profiles, Wikipedia, news sites, etc.
Surgeon General Calls for Cancer Warning on Alcoholic Drinks
Helix 25.01 Highlights
Yeah, it's hard to get anyone who smugly think they know it all to realize that they're actually an idiot. I don't care about changing your viewpoint, for all I care, you stay you, so anyone who can see through that thin veneer can see they should stay away from a fool.

For future reference, it's spelled "ad hominem".
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42582623
Offtopic and meta, but, you share a screenshot using Twitter/X? That's really bizarre to me. That is all, just had to say that.
“Instead of imagining the mass starting at rest at the apex of the dome, we will imagine it starting at the rim and that we give it some initial velocity directed exactly at the apex. If we give it too much initial velocity, it will pass right over the apex to the other side of the dome. So let us give it a smaller initial velocity. We produce the trajectory T1:”

As acceleration, jerk, snap, crackle, pop, … all must approach 0, does it ever actually reach the apex with zero velocity in finite time? That seems like the most obvious solution here where if you start with non zero velocity it never quite reaches the apex, and if you start with zero velocity at the apex it never leaves it.
You don't want that to be an empty string - you would be one of the few people in the world with that value and thus easy to identify. You instead want that string to be exactly the same as everyone else in the world (no matter what the real User-Agent really is). there should be about 50 different contents of the entire header possible for everyone in the world.
AI is going to completely replace pair programming for popular languages/frameworks, if it hasn't started already. Human + AI is going to be close to as good as 2 humans, perhaps better, and only one salary.
I see now how it sounds that way but I'm not making excuses. It was to describe the puzzle without all the emotional luggage. You need a system that gets it wrong, corrects it self then gets the correction wrong with infinite recursion.

Instant judgement shooting from the hip without dialog or appeal is the dumbest way of doing things. Google isn't even trying.
I'd rather prefer to pursue the path of producing potent phytochemicals to unleash perfect psionic powers, thereby shortcutting the need for all these boring physical procedures, instead persisting mind over matter as an afterthought.
I guess it's kind of like hoping for a new record on a charity stream? Works for GDQ right?
To bad he didn't meet someone he wanted to stay with before the money. I would say have a family. The next best thing he could of done. Its going to be hard to find someone that can't see past the money.
Your question is perfectly fine. I used magic UI with shadcn
That won't stop Bryan Johnson.
Well yea, of course you can say that on an open ended timeline.
> The show seemed very convincing

On a tangent, isn't that a signal of inaccuracy? Accurate people - i.e., committed to be truthful and correct - are very careful and nuanced about what they claim, make weaknesses as clear as strengths, and are careful to not be too convincing, because that can distort their reader's critical thinking.

At least, that's the ideal. But why be especially convincing - why be more convincing than your empirical evidence?
NASA's Parker Solar Probe Reports Healthy Status After Solar Encounter
Little fat man who sold his soul

Little fat man who sold his dream
My pet peeve is equating "better" code with faster code.
I’m no real physicist, and know that light and sound waves are largely unrelated, but I like that this approach makes light behave more like sound.

We’ve long accepted that the speed of sound is variable based on atmospheric conditions. So why should the speed of light not be variable based on gravitational (or other) conditions?
Should we be worried yet?
This is assuming we're at some sort of job ceiling and no new jobs will ever be created.
Or exec salaries tend to come with a lot of baggage. Yes, some do fairly disconnected personal travel. But there tend to be pretty long hours and a lot of business travel that I've seen.
They're juniors. You just teach them. They probably already know Java anyway.
I can see why this would be more productive and produce better code. But is it fun? A lot of the joy I get from working is in solo creation - building prototypes without a plan, playing with them, iterating, showing to the team. It seems like that sort of workflow is lost with extreme programming.

My other concern would be disagreements. I have found even with code review that sometimes 2 developers fundamentally disagree on a point, and it’s painful to resolve. It seems like that sort of thing would happen even more frequently with parallel collaboration like this.
Dupe (18 points, 1 day ago, 25 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42569095

(15 points 73 days ago, 10 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41911250

(16 points, 84 days ago, 16 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41811050
> Data centres beyond Earth’s atmosphere would have access to continuous solar energy and could be naturally cooled by the vacuum of space.

Isn't dissipating heat in space a famously difficult problem?
Full-screen-but-not-native is useful enough that it's handy to have around for all windows in all programs.

So the move there is to install Rectangle.app (https://rectangleapp.com/), the successor to Spectacle, and then choose your terminal independently.
Me either. And I have a bunch of it.

I bought it more than a decade ago. And I sold a bunch of it today because I hate having so much of my personal wealth tied to a raging dicknozzle.
My advice:

1. Drop social media.

2. Curate music by hand.

This is to first build a user base who find the app useful for music discovery.

Then you can figure out what users want.

Good luck.
Always possible. I’m not a native speaker.
(Tana eng) That's not good!

Someone is looking into it now.

You can go through the back-door currently here: https://app.tana.inc/create-account (currently requires credit card to get in directly, but you can cancel it directly after).
in order to tell LLM to "do better", someone (a human) needs to know that it can be done better, and also be able to decide what is better.
I believe that the properties that give a “thing” meaning to observers are by and large independent of the observers. They are properties of the thing more than they are properties of the observer. That’s why I believe they are real in their own right, and not (just) as a function of observers (which may or may not be present).

With regard to “meaning”, I would agree that meaning only exists in our heads. But that is true concerning the fundamental description of reality just as with regard to emergent “things”. Reality doesn’t have any inherent meaning. Meaning is something that only exists in our psychology.
The BSI recommendation I linked says 60 times here (considering the worst case and the security level they're targeting). Just wondering why we'd want to do less for a (presumably rare) one-time operation.
There's a well known quote from Fred Brooks too:

""Show me your flowcharts and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won’t usually need your flowcharts; they’ll be obvious.""

(Though from your description I suspect that's also not the one?)
The legislature, and in particular the House, being more democratic than the executive is a bedrock principle of American democracy. Read the Federalist Papers if you want a full theoretical grounding and justification of why from the framers' perspective.
I have found it (difficult, but) effective to actually make PMs sit with engineers and hash out the most important test cases for this reason. Especially under a deadline, it's easy for PMs and designers to sling mockups and stories at an engineering team, who then have to work out during development what all the behaviours implied by that documentation should be -- many of which aren't even edge cases, they just weren't well-considered.

Walking through mockups and saying "ok, but what happens if I do this" is essentialy the same question as "what are the acceptance tests for this?"

Often that happens in various kinds of meetings over the course of feature development, when it would be more effective to just immediately create the tests up front, which can then go and be developed against. With current tooling, it's actually possible to get the PMs to participate in detail in writing tests. Although that point is often where I have gotten the most pushback.
I'm excited for macro keybinds! They should be a nice stopgap for some features until a plugin system is finished.
I recommend Frank McSherry's real-time log of working through AoC 2023 using a SQL dialect:: https://github.com/frankmcsherry/blog/blob/master/posts/2024...

The most powerful primitive that the dialect has is (mutual) recursion, which is effectively a mechanism for outputting a fixed-point of a query.
I directly ask you: do you think there is at least one SS7 network in the USA or Canada, yes or no?

If you claim there are no SS7 networks in the USA or Canada, please explain:

1) why the FCC believes they exist and need to be secured, as per their March 2024 note

2) what the UMTS networks, still operational in Canada, are using for messaging (note the 2025 dates in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3G#Phase-out for Canada; 2G/3G is still alive and well there. And I note that most of the 3G phase out in the USA was in 2022, not in 2014 which is what they'd have to be for you to not have seen SS7 for a decade)

3) what the POTS networks, still operational in the USA and Canada, are using for messaging (noting that FCC 19-72 only removes the requirement on ILECs to provide UME Analog Loops to CLECs, and does not require them to shut down POTS networks entirely by August 2022. For example, AT&T only plans to have transitioned 50% of its POTS network by 2025)
This is available in older Ruby versions by using the upstream `tempfile` gem version.
> Hm, I wouldn't say RV is controversial

I would say it is, because as always with anything on the "para" edge, those who are convinced remain convinced and those who are not keep on saying it's a fraud. This applies to you, dear reader.
Related NASA's Parker Solar Probe Reports Successful Closest Approach to Sun (94 points, 7 days ago, 17 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42525051
Doesn’t this line of thinking constantly redefine success until all software is only bugs?
Oh, that's another thing, in flat spacetime gravitational lensing is really just gravitational refraction. In fact, my son uses refraction laws to model gravitational lensing given his formulas for the slowdown of the speed of light in a gravitational field.
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Does it support WireGuard?
In addition to what's most relevant and accurate for today, past context is also important; knowledge accrues. In computing we are used to fast technological redundancy, surfing the cutting edge of technology, where the greatest commercial relevance is.

But one of my hobbies is vintage or retro computing, and something everybody in this hobby realises sooner or later is how much of an ordeal it is to collate even 20-year-old internet information. And that's in a digital interest area! Now do the same for news or the detail of recent history. Pick an issue and follow it's thread through internet history, year-to-year. It should be easy, shouldn't it? The reality is, half the sources aren't even dated. If we were designing an internet future, the ability to step back through time, in terms of digital information, would be a huge boon for humanity. Because, as critically important as it may be!, today is still only today.
I was all "did he mean 'convincingly do the Charleston'", and thought that was an odd choice. Then I googled :)

But that aside: It's kinda sad a lot of folks don't really learn to dance any more. It's a great way to socialize (and closely get to know mostly members of the relevant sex, if that's your kinda thing ;)

The Swing community is still relatively strong, the ballroom community is somewhat smaller but at least somewhat alive, but social dancing as a general way to get together is almost non-existent outside of that.

Highly recommended. (Though, skip most dance schools. If I've ever seen a money-extraction-scheme, it's ballroom dance schools in the US)
[2020] could go in the title (or even [2017], looking at other comments in the thread in the following discussion link).

There was also a discussion in 2021 of the same repository:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26631995

(and that thread links to other discussions too)

It's not quite the same, but I remember when I was first learning programming, I wrote a program that would generate a terrain heightmap, and do an isometric-style rendering using similar techniques. It was in QBasic, running on my middle school's 386-era DOS machines, and used graphics memory as its scratch space. Slow as heck, but I was fascinated with the output. It's one of the things that encouraged me to keep going with programming.
Where it’s at!
This.

If I’m networking with other mostly-realname people for professional purposes or writing something to support my professional identity, it’s real name and what I post is carefully curated.

If I’m working on a hobby, it’s a pseudonym that someone who was really determined might be able to trace back to my real identity.

For any other expression of opinions in public forums, it’s pseudonyms all the way.
As a danish and german speaker, the name is hard to get used to, because it conflicts with all the lexical rules existent in nordic germanic languages. This name, lexically, does not make sense at all, also you won't find any word in nordic languages written like this. "shm" just does not exist and "øe" also is very very rare in northern germanic. On the other side in western germanic, "oe" is the "ö". So this gets even more weird. Haha. Nevermind! :-D I love such projects. Very well done! Looks beautiful. Sound is not mine, but that is a question of my bad taste.. ;-)
For additional context/discussion, I feel this comment[0] elsewhere in the thread put it well.

The reply to that comment also has some information I feel is helpful to show the breakdown here. It mentions that lack of attention presents in only 15-20% of cases. This isn't ADHD, it is something new, the fundamental underpinnings do not relate, and so the analogy/metaphor does not facilitate a better understanding of the situation.

On the contrary, it makes LLM "attention" out to be something entirely different from what it actually is. Without attention, models don't become easily distracted. They are easily distracted regardless. Without attention, LLMs primarily fail to disambiguate between different meanings of identical words, they fail to take context of the sentence structure into account when assigning meaning.

I hopefully don't have to dive into psychological and chemical specifics of ADHD to have demonstrated that this is fundamentally just not at all what ADHD is. Again, there is no underlying harmony between this mechanism and how ADHD affects human attention in 15-20% of cases, and there is no analogy.

The only similarity is that they both use the word "attention". If they'd used a different label, we wouldn't even be having this conversation right now.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42585600
I'm sad you continue you fail to answer a basic question asked half a dozen times.
This is an interesting result but not surprising given that bugs might cause the suite to fail.
Well, some apparently still think code generation won't go away, like those Assembly devs when Fortran was new.

Even if we consider a similar timeline, it means we have about 50 years to enjoy programming as we know it.
If you're an adult male who's been training consistently for 3 years and can't deadlift 405 for a working set, you probably need to change your programming.

Being 40 isn't really an excuse. You're 40, not 80.

Try looking into 5/3/1, Hepburn style programming, or Tactical Barbell.
It is infeasible to pass legislation that is good for human persons as law is not made with human persons' needs in mind. Instead, each of us needs to stop primarily talking on corporate own platforms (like this one). Opera browser had a genius idea that just couldn't work in the ipv4 world but would in the ipv6 one: cut the gordian knot of moderation and have a personal (static) webserver built into every browser.

No amount of using physical violence (law) or switching from corporate host to corporate host (twitter->bluesky, facebook->reddit, etc) will help.
> I applied for on the company website. And they flat out rejected me. Then a recruiter contacted me directly and offered me the same position at more money.

I hear that a lot. Is it because recruiters get commission for candidates they “found themselves”? Why did they reject you when you applied yourself?
I'm not equating 4chan and the darkweb, I'm contrasting the two.

I firmly believe most people who push for "unfiltered" models are looking for 4chan-equivalent filtering. Filtered for safety, but subtly.

I suspect that true uncensored models, like the darkweb, are not useful for most people. I further suspect the applications they are useful for are not something most people want to publicly associate with (to put it lightly).
> general lack of caring about human suffering

You may need some evidence. For example, someone looking back on us might think that, because we accept the current level of suffering as normal.

What is alt-arhaeology?
His new zebrafish diet.
I worked for a famous UK consultancy that advocated for XP, lasted about a month.

Turns out they wanted me to spend 8 hours a day pairing with clients. XP was their excuse to make sure that all your working time is spent writing code in front of a video feed - no downtime/thinking/checking emails. A micromanagement hell.

They also sent me straight to clients whose language and tech I had never touched, selling me (unknown to me at the time) as someone with a decade of experience in the language. When I discovered that and protested they told me the problem was my inhability to hide my lack of expertise from the client and handed me a digital copy of "how to make friends and influence people".

Let's just say, I'm very wary of programming gurus now.
"...in mice, in a lab" as the saying goes
Temporary grants is just fattening the goose.

The government should buy the land instead (paying generously) to anybody wanting to sell it voluntarily. Or maybe propose a system of green legacy for old people wanting to assure that their favorite properties are cared forever as wild areas after they die. sort of "If you wish, you can let part of your land to National Parks, and we will create a forever forest called after your own name. Also here are some tax benefits for your last years". That would create a lot of new opportunities of business for everybody around the place. And this in turn would attract and fix young families to this areas.

Then should try to build corridors between national parks with this donations. We can also dream about a new National Park, but a corridor can deliver also in much less space.

The problem usually is the cattle pushing to take every inch of the land
To me it's not about mass, but more like "maximum information density". There's a limit on the information density (rate of happening?), so when a parameter X changes too much, it affects other parameters -- they become constrained so that the total information density stayed within the maximum limit. That would indeed sound like some kind of computational limit if the universe was a massive CPU with constrained resources...

But I'm a layperson and I have no idea what I'm talking about :)
I'm the guy with a huge javascript codebase, written before typescript existed, and I have none of the problems you describe. Huge refactors are also not a necessity in every codebase, if the code was written well to begin with. And so far using typescript in other projects has not produced the supposed benefits a lot of people say are inherent with typescript. There is no magic happening that saves me from writing bad code, because I wasn't writing bad code before typescript. Refactoring isn't all that difficult either, even without tests. But I guess YMMV.