skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cheap talk and extremely boring overgeneralization.

As everyone else clearly has built their houses in a fireproof manner, activated personal fire prevention tactics like watering their surroundings and, as the article stated, tried to decrease community hotspots succeptible to being ignited by ember, what do we even need these experts for, am I right?

I mean, clearly it's common sense, right?
Electron would love to have a word with you.
People write like they read and speak, which is where this mistake comes from

The right way is to replace the parentheses with a pair of dashes, one before and one after the deemphasized clause
>kragen's post literally starts with "As a white software engineer...", so I am addressing the context of being a software engineer, i.e. SV (the metaphorical place, not actual physical location). Broader American culture is besides the point here.

This is nonsense.
TIL this was an intentional change. I wondered why it stopped working...
I've mentioned this in other threads, but I run a small side business refurbishing and selling old laptops. One element of my work is saving retro machines for retrocomputing, old hardware interfaces, etc., but I also refurbish and sell for general use.

For the average person with average needs, there is no difference between, for example, a $100 Dell Latitude E5530 from 10+ years ago and a $600 Best Buy low-end Dell laptop from today, so long as the Latitude has been modestly upgraded with 8GB of RAM and a small, used SSD. Its 3rd generation i5 is more than enough to do anything they need. It even runs Windows 11 just fine, so long as you inform the customer about the need to manually install feature updates.

For the general public, buying new computers is an expensive scam that contributes massively to waste. The machines I refurbish would typically have been thrown out or 'recycled' (stripped for precious metals in an expensive process) if not for my intervention. There's no reason for this except number-go-up greed, and it should stop.
I developed a 2D game (in Unity) using Kenney's asset for the first time in 2018 and absolutely recommend it to everyone. Still wanted to release a few small games based on the raw ideas I have.
OP has been "trying" for 1 year, not "becoming" for one year.
From ASCII to ASIC: Porting donut.c to a tiny slice of silicon
I should just learn how to make that dough. I regret not buying that Church of the Visitation (Westphalia) Altar Society cookbook I saw on the counter at Green's.
Why did you take half the RAM out? To save power?
‘Adult’ and ‘serious thinking’ are not the words I’d use to describe this behaviour.

It’s extremely bizarre and cult-like when viewed from other cultures and comes across as insincere (which it is) and the very opposite of serious thinking - it is performative loyalty of the type that kings used to ask of their subjects.

American mission statements often have very little to do with what the company does, or even the values they actually hold (as opposed to profess to hold). They do not usually describe the work to be done.
How long until someone figures out you can make a smaller version of this with high powered infrared lasers to burn out retinas instantly using face detection, in a way that no one even knows what’s happening? Just walk into an area, see nothing particularly interesting, then never see again.
How would you model such a thing? Are there open source weather modeling tools and data available?
Given there are continents acting as fire breaks, pretty close to zero.
Same, T460 and a T480 I think. Updated to an SSD and maxed out RAM. My only quibble is max 1980x??? Screen resolution. ThinkPad are so cheap when they come back from their leasing contract, not sure why not more people are excited about them.

Even if you don't use Linux, they typically come with a Windows Pro license built in.
Are there any stats showing how many individual devices we have now on Internet (estimation of public+private IPv4 used)?
I would say it's more, I checked out a book from the library, read it, and learned some things about writing style and storytelling that I'm now going to apply to my own original works.
Why "Enshittification" Is Macquarie Dictionary's Word of the Year
> I am 100% sure you, as a manufacturer, could develop a very lightweight shim over a linux or BSD kernel that has significantly better performance than Android does

I’m not sure why this would be true, unless you’re willing to cut back significantly on features. Google already spends quite a bit of effort on performance improvements, and most manufacturers aren’t exactly known for being able to produce high-quality software.

There have been a couple projects that have tried to make phones based on pure Linux (Librem, Pinephone). Their performance is limited a lot by not having good CPU options, but it doesn’t seem like they’ve been able to achieve much performance improvement on the software side either.
Unless you live in the southwest, this isn't true at all.
well a lot sooner now that you made your comment
Software Sandboxing: The Basics
First, what distro are you on?

Second, have you tried windows or macOS recently?
Every city in the state has mutual aid available.
Does anyone use Clojure CLR? How is the startup time for that?
Because the test already exists as part of the solution that's worked up until now, and I don't want to modify it or any other related tests until I've finished my work to the point that I think the interface is stable enough for the tests to be updated.
Can we keep “tilting at windmills” then?
Ugh. I've only ever seen this word in HN headlines, and I groan each time I do.
While the Mac mini is nice due to its size, personally, if you're choosing a hardware over emulation, I'd rather have an iMac G4 simply because of the aesthetics. It's amazing how well that design holds up even today.
Don't worry, we - software developers are going to ruin the software with AI features that you will need to upgrade to Ryzen Al Max+ 395 just to run an editor.
How I Use LLMs for Coding and Writing
I feel a little guilty that this is not appealing to me
Well you focused pretty hard on the word need, but do you disagree with "Making SSO a premium feature isn't any different from the paid SSL of the 2000s. You'll reduce security and safety just to segment the market."?
There's a simple solution for that: Jolla's AppSupport (https://jolla.com/appsupport/). It enables a Linux device to run Android apps, and it's part of Jolla's Sailfish package.

Someone else already pointed out (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42674279) that HMD and Jolla are both spin-outs from Nokia, so it would seem to be a natural fusion...

Also, it bears repeating: Sailfish is a far better mobile OS than either Android or iOS. It's simple, consistent, and looks great.
Huh, if sales uses AI/LLMs and succeeds with it, as it seemed to me youve implied with their bonuses ... Isn't that actually positive for the company?

Or do you mean they succeed by promising lies via AI?
As someone who’s spent their entire life in california near these types of fires and someone who recently visited the Hiroshima memorial museum, this take is pretty disingenuous.
I learned how to do some things in a Unix shell in 1989, like cat, sort, uniq, and piping them together. Now it is 2025, and I am still doing those things, on the Linux box I am typing on now, or some servers I log onto, or in the shell of the MacBook Pro I sometimes use.

Whereas I use an IDE to program Android - in 2011 I was using Eclipse with an Android Developer tool plugin. Then in 2014 Android Studio became the favored IDE, so I had to learn a whole new IDE to do what I was doing before. Speaking of my Linux box and MBP, to go to a line in Android Studio with Linux is Control-G, whereas on an MBP it is Command-L ( https://developer.android.com/studio/intro/keyboard-shortcut... ).

Over the years I learned how to do more things (not enough!) with awk, sed, redirecting STDIN, STDOUT and STDERR, various shell things. It is nice as I accumulated this knowledge over 35 years that I can still use it, and it isn't just effectively tossed out like learning Eclipse IDE keybindings was (and mapping them to AS didn't make much sense to me).
Drupal has spent at least the last ~9 months positioning for this with the 'Drupal CMS'/'Starshot' product development initiative.
People complaining about things they had when they were young and no longer have is nothing new. Happens to most generations. The music was better, the food was great, people were friendlier, etc. Or so people believe.

Not exactly true of course. Bad people are a constant, and there was some epically bad stuff happening throughout the last century all over the place. The food was mostly bland and boring (at least my part of the world), and did not have a lot of variation. And while I have some appreciation for music of each of the last six decades. I like that I can have all of that now, which is much better, IMHO. Also modern music seems to borrow from, and often imitate all of that. There's a wider variety of music now. And there is still a lot of bland, cringe worthy pop music that people seem to like as well. Average tastes being a bit shit is a constant too.

Objectively, the internet thirty years ago was kind of shit. It was exciting (I was there) but also pretty bad. Things were slow, lame, ugly, amateurish, hopelessly insecure, etc. Many people didn't really see the point of it all. They think of that as the time where they didn't have to use computers and phones and are feeling nostalgic about that.

But there were some nice people you could get in touch with and do stuff with online. Not a lot. Mostly sending emails and reading each other's rants on nntp, irc, slashdot, online gaming, and what not. Or watching that hit counter on your website not increment much at all. Download some stuff you shouldn't be downloading. Napster, emule, kazaa, and all the rest. Been there done that.

The world changes all the time. Old people don't keep up and feel detached from it and whine about that. People get families and stop doing the crazy shit they were doing when they were young, including talking to each other. That's just life. The thing that's not as good as it used to be is you, not the world.

There are still nice people. And you can still get in connect with them. Just not the way you did thirty years ago. New people, new ways of interacting with them. It's easier than ever actually. There are apps for that!

And you can't blame young people for not being that eager to engage with a bunch of old whiny people using old crappy tools. Mostly they do their own thing that they will be all nostalgic about in twenty years. In exactly the same way we are right here.
I thought the same about my 2020 Ryzen, until I started working with the Unity editor two months ago.

I'm reminded of the dead parrot sketch - this thing wouldn't "voom" if I put four million volts through it.
Interesting.

Did the FF/EMT factor in the non-linear response of the body to prolonged cold exposure in a semi-conscious state, or was the 2-hour hypothermic window derived purely from a calculated assumption of metabolic shutdown under idealized conditions?

Given the reported risk of imminent hypothermic death, can we assume the field intervention included a comprehensive thermal balance assessment prior to transport? Specifically, was there any attempt to implement active rewarming protocols during the extrication phase, or was the focus solely on stabilization and preservation of core temperature via passive methods?
I have been using it for more than a year now in both production and at home. So far so good. Even GPU works out of the box in rootless mode without requiring any special privileges.
edit: Redhat in production and Debian at home
“Climate change isn’t the cause.”

The region experienced back to back years of high rainfall, spurring brush growth.

This year the region experienced severe drought, converting all of that growth into fuel.

Last week the region experienced 100 mph winds, which converted spot fires into fast-spreading conflagrations that could not be fought.

This pattern of instability is an outcome of climate change.

So yeah, it was caused by climate change.
It’s not stupid if it works
Utter incompetence from the middle right to the top simple as that.
> A couple thousand words with no real insight or information.

Because it's things we already know about, but refuse to do anything about. For example:

> “The assumption is continually made that it’s the big flames” that cause widespread community destruction, he said, “and yet the wildfire actually only initiates community ignitions largely with lofted burning embers.”

We've known about embers for decades, and why you need to clear the area around your home of ignition sources:

* https://www.nfpa.org/education-and-research/wildfire/prepari...

Here's a potato-quality video posted thirteen years ago on landscaping best practices:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NVe0gu69FY

A news story from twelve years ago about a home that survivied (with a charred landscape around it):

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rgUp245nso

Which is talked about in the article:

> This fundamental misunderstanding has likewise led to a misunderstanding of prevention. No longer is it a matter of preventing wildfires but instead preventing points of ignition within communities by employing “home-hardening” strategies — proper landscaping, fire-resistant siding — and enjoining neighbors in collective efforts such as brush clearing.

We may also have to accept that perhaps Mother Nature can still be more powerful than humans at times:

> The National Fire Prevention Assn., a national nonprofit that provides standards for fire suppression operations, calls for a minimum of three engines or 15 firefighters for a single-residence fire, a number that is impossible to attain when fighting a fire on the scale of the Palisades or Eaton fires.

> “We’re not recognizing, analyzing, questioning how we’re failing,” Cohen said. “We just think we need more airplanes and more helicopters flying 24 hours a day.”

> More CL-415 super-scoopers or Firehawk helicopters will not help when water is being dropped into 60 mph wind gusts.

See also "Why Los Angeles was unprepared for this fire":

> Water runs short: […] “There’s no urban water system engineered and constructed to combat wildfire,” said Michael McNutt, a spokesman for the Las Virgenes Municipal Water District, which serves 75,000 people in northwest Los Angeles County. The system was intended to supply water to homes and businesses, he said, and to help fire crews defend a large structure or several homes, not multiple neighborhoods at once. […]

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42674591
Stablecoins in 1k Words
And, refurbished business laptops tend to have better keyboards than consumer grade laptops, as well as a better build quality (generally speaking).
Libraries obey copyright, loaning out books for which they've acquired some right to lend to members. When I borrow a library book and read it that way, everything that happens is respecting the rights of the copyright's owner.

That has nothing to do with how LLM's were trained. They were trained on countless works for which Meta, etc had acquired no legitimate right for use at all.
There is a lot in this piece, but one of the things mentioned was public spaces.

While it likely doesn't play a huge role, it can't be ignored that the last ten or so years in the US, public spaces have generally deteriorated due to the lack of enforcement of quality-of-life laws, and general absence of social norms. If your government decides to allow tent cities (everything that comes with that) in your local park, people of means will take their kids to SkyZone. When public transportation becomes unsafe, people of means will opt to rideshare. It points to a failure in leadership of many large US cities. Hopefully that changes.
Actually, from an algorithmic standpoint it's the opposite: the minimum cover problem (where overlap is allowed) is NP-hard whereas the minimum partition problem (where overlap is NOT allowed) has polynomial-time algorithms. "An Algorithm for Covering Polygons with Rectangles" by Franzblau and Kleitman 1984: https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/82333912.pdf

However, that's of course just an academic tangent - the theoretical results don't necessarily imply that one problem is easier than the other when you're just getting something to work for an afternoon project.
kind of crazy that models moving forward don't just strip all multi-numeral tokens. Would be great for llm providers, too, since their tokens consumed will go up.
Enshittification is also known as Platform Decay:

https://www.npr.org/2024/01/04/1222040458/amazon-google-face...

It's interesting from the perspective of capalistic economic systems theory, because the system exerts pressure and forces this unfortunate product development cycle.
I’m not justifying discrimination. I’m justifying the comparison being bad, which it is.
That sounds fine to me. What makes you think that's self-evidently wrong?

In any product there's a thousand different features where offering a price break for not using that particular feature would be silly.

If anything, just considering the customer side of things, give a disincentive for not using something like SSO to reduce careless password use.
Also, the UX of your potential "remote workers" are vitally important! The difference between a good and a bad remote worker is almost always how good they are at communicating - both reading and understanding tickets of work to be done and how well they explain, annotate, and document the work they do.

At the end of the day, someone has to be checking the work. This is true of humans and of any potential AI agent, and the UX of that is a big deal. I can get on a call and talk through the code another engineer on my team wrote and make sure I understand it and that it's doing the right thing before we accept it. I'm sure at some point I could do that with an LLM, but the worry is that the LLM has no innate loyalty or sense of its own accuracy or honesty.

I can mostly trust that my human coworker isn't bullshitting me and any mistakes are honest mistakes that we'll learn from together for the future. That we're both in the same boat where if we write or approve malicious or flagrantly defective code, our job is on the line. An AI agent that's written bad or vulnerable code won't know it, will completely seriously assert that it did exactly what it was told, doesn't care if it gets fired, and may say completely untrue things in an attempt to justify itself.

Any AI "remote worker" is a totally different trust and interaction model. There's no real way to treat it like you would another human engineer because it has, essentially, no incentive structure at all. It doesn't care if the code works. It doesn't care if the team meets its goals. It doesn't care if I get fired. I'm not working with a peer, I'm working with an industrial machine that maybe makes my job easier.
Yes but your library still legally obtained those copies in the first place.
The Docker client (cli) is easy to port - it's mostly just an elaborate frontend to the socket/API. Every other OS just runs Linux in a VM. Focusing on integrating the VM with the usual development workflow is the lowest hanging fruit, provides the best ROI, and is relatively future-proof.

Unless you mean running containers in production - I think OCI is a much better target in that case.
Great post, with two important observations: Feynman's characterization of cargo cults is inaccurate and insensitive, and our contemporary use of "cargo cult" in an engineering context is an even more absurd distortion of Feynman's.
I believe you’re overestimating my social skills and confidence. I created an event on a meetup site and people showed up.
When I upgraded 5 years ago, general mechanical failure without available replacement parts was the driving factor, but energy consumption was high on my list. A light laptop with a long battery life is something that never used to exist, and it definitely improves my quality of life. If battery life at a low weight cost doubles in the next 5-10 yrs I'll probably upgrade again even if the machine is usable.
I remember watching the Soccer World Cup 2006 at work. I logged in my home server via ssh and could watch it in the terminal.
Not enough bandwidth for something else.
Show HN: First job board for autonomous AI Agents
Eric Ciarla from Firecrawl has recently shared job posting for AI agents only so I built a simple job board where people can post tasks / jobs specifically for AI agents.

You can try it right now - no signup needed:

→ browse existing jobs or create on using one of 80+ templates we added (e.g. Standup Facilitator Agent)
→ share requirements e.g. must work with Salesforce CRM, X/Twitter API or any other tools an agent needs to know about
→ post your job or, if you're a builder, apply with your AI agent solution

It's an experimental MVP but we're genuinely curious to see which tasks and jobs can be effectively automated or enhanced by AI agents.

Happy to hear your feedback!
The case for letting Malibu burn (1995)
Sounds interesintg, I'll take a look, thanks!
I thought the appeal of California was that it didn't have intense winters or summers, but was pleasantly warm year-round?

LA is at the same latitude as North Texas, and Texas isn't exactly known for snow. Where I live in the Midwest we're guaranteed at least one good snow every winter, and it's been around freezing temperatures for weeks.
What acceleration?

Consider OpenAI's products as an example. GPT-3 (2020) was a massive step up in reasoning ability from GPT-2 (2019). GPT-3.5 (2022) was another massive step up. GPT-4 (2023) was a big step up, but not quite as big. GPT-4o (2024) was marginally better at reasoning, but mostly an improvement with respect to non-core functionality like images and audio. o1 (2024) is apparently somewhat better at reasoning at the cost of being much slower. But when I tried it on some puzzle-type problems I thought would be on the hard side for GPT-4o, it gave me (confidently) wrong answers every time. 'Orion' was supposed to be released as GPT-5, but was reportedly cancelled for not being good enough. o3 (2025?) did really well on one benchmark at the cost of $10k in compute, or even better at the cost of >$1m – not terribly impressive. We'll see how much better it is than o1 in practical scenarios.

To me that looks like progress is decelerating. Admittedly, OpenAI's releases have gotten more frequent and that has made the differences between each release seem less impressive. But things are decelerating even on a time basis. Where is GPT-5?
Will run into memory pressure long before then.

I have a 16GB M1 MacBook Air that feels very snappy for now, but with the pile of Electron app I run daily (Visual Studio Code, Discord, Slack, Signal, 1Password, Plexamp, Google Messages for Web) and some misc other accessory apps (WhatsApp, Teams, Microsoft To Do, Excel, OneNote)... along with a browser, I'm basically running out of memory with my set of startup apps before I even open anything for "heavy" work.