skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
5% of a $100 jacket is $5

15% of a $33 shirt is $5

5% of a $33 jacket is $1.65

...it's definitely gamesmanship but if you squint you can see where it comes from.
> First Shuttle orbited astronauts and successfully recovered all intended components.

There were 16 taxi and flight tests with Enterprise before the launch in 1981 (Approach and Landing Tests - Enterprise) where the first 8 were uncrewed. Just saying there were prior test flights using it.

There was something like 4 years of testing before the proper launch.
One million will not cut it. Greenland has free healthcare, free education, and a whole host of other social benefits that, over a lifetime, give a lot more value than a million in hand, and the US social system does. In addition their current (danish) passport ranks higher (4) than the US passport (9) in the The Henley Passport Index [1].

[1] https://www.henleyglobal.com/passport-index/ranking
> I have cannon r5

what caliber?
> Most of the rest of the time these folks just smile and nod and continue not caring, and companies can't afford the hassle of firing them, then you open LinkedIn years later and turns out somehow they've failed up to manager, architect or executive while you're still struggling along as a code peasant who happens to take pride in their work.

I’ve heard this sentiment several times over the years and what I think a lot of people don’t realize is that they’re just playing a different game than you. Their crappy code is a feature not a bug because they’re expending the energy on politics rather than coding. In corporations politics is a form a work, but it’s not work that many devs want to do. So people will say the uncaring dev is doing poor work, but really they’re just not seeing the real work being done.

I’m not saying this is right or wrong, it’s just an observation. Obviously this isn’t true for everyone who does a poor job, but if you see that person start climbing the ladder, that’s the reason.
If they gave a shit they would ban it from all cars and not let the automakers hide it with dark patterns.
I went from a Full Stack Software Engineer -> Lead -> Eng Man -> Burnout -> Wild Mushroom Exporter in Zambia.

Currently trying to become a wild beekeeper dropping hives anywhere anyone will let me while coding on side projects at the same time.

I recommend beekeeping. Go on a course somewhere, learn a little, get a hive, make mistakes, learn, scale, profit.
Curious about the military job (and other services including Police Departments). Are you eligible for pension/benefits as a presumably civilian subject matter expert? How does one get such a cyber gig?
See this page query Postgres, byte by byte, over TLS
Importantly, Subway bread is not bread for tax purposes. For food standards purposes, it is.
Investigating an "Evil" RJ45 Dongle
I resonate with much of what you've written in here. In particular, the cultural costs. I work on a "frontend platform" team at a mid-sized company and spend most of my day trying to get the React/Next ecosystem to play nice for our engineers. If I rearchitected it from scratch, it would not use Next, but I digress.

Some critiques:

1. As others have mentioned, lots of abstract in here, not so much data. That's a hard sell to engineers. You're going to get a lot of theory responses, which maybe is what you want at this stage, but it might help to make that clearer if so.

To avoid this, you might consider refocusing the narrative. I have personally found that while appealing to Developer Experience (DX) is the fad, debating DX is an uphill battle. IMO we should appeal to something more concrete: User Experience. The discussion has to start and end with users. DX is part of it, but often over-represented. If I can sit down with someone and show them X technology is failing our users because Y fundamental flaw, the conversation is no longer on frameworkism. It's instead on how you solve problems for your users effectively. See Alex Russell's discussions on this, as divisive as they might be [1].

2. The why is clear. The what and how are not. Clarify what you're doing that is different. For example, Astro is also standards-based. Astro also approaches the problem from progressive enhancement and fundamentals over frameworkism. It seems like your focus is on separation of concerns and design principles? While I disagree on the dogmatic approach re: separation (I personally like components and composition), it would help to highlight your diff.

* I mention Astro, but this is true of other newer approaches, e.g. 11ty, Qwik, Enhance.

3. In another comment you claim that [in Nue] 90% of your codebase becomes CSS. I get that this is coming from the reduction of JS to do what HTML and CSS should, but it feels... disingenuous? At scale, no frontend or fullstack engineer I work with is spending even close to the majority of their time on CSS, regardless of stack. The focus IME is on building features, parsing/integrating data, and everything tangential to the feature (architecture review, testing, docs, etc).

Just some thoughts! I'd be interested in hearing more in the future.

[1] https://infrequently.org/2024/11/if-not-react-then-what/
They are inventing a little, but the basics of rocket flight are now well understood. You can get a university (probably post grad) course on it. And nothing that they are doing is all that revolutionary, definitely not compared to what Apollo did (going from airplanes and ballistic missiles to orbital space flight and then Moon missions).

Consider that even reusable self-landings boosters were being worked on in the 90s, before funding was cut off. And for expandable rockets, virtually all rockets designed and launched in the last few decades have successfully accomplished their first ever flight, launching some kind of payload to orbit.
Related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42706732
> I think if it's working as intended and as designed then it's hard to call it a loophole.

This assumes everyone acts in good faith.

A popular one these days is the "gun show 'loophole.'"

Rather than calling it "renegging on an explicitly-legislated compromise", it's a "loophole" that needs "closing."
>【DIY】3D-Printed Visual-Guidance Surface-to-Air Rocket (Making)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvcDwSmmxWs
1. Random writing programs. When I think about it, protectedtext.com, because I don't like creating accounts or extra fiddles.

2. Yes.

3. Not a good one.

4. Broken down, but not too much.

5. A lot, mostly because I keep getting ideas for nonfiction books that wind up barely started.
World of subpar development experience. Truly amazing!

Shitty native toolchains that constantly need to be updated (looking at you, Xcode), dumpster fire IDEs (both Android Studio, still don’t understand how Google managed to butcher IntelliJ like that, and Xcode), half completed libraries that are either deprecated or in alpha and, for some reason, in need of constant changes. Compile times in double digits for large projects. Stay up to date with shitty Gradle if you want to have semi sane development experience on Android (maybe they’ll finally roll out declarative version this year, but they said they’re still committed to original DSLs, so good luck to poor sob who will encounter mix of Groovy and Kotlin DSL).
Wonderful world of single vendor languages where only interests of vendor dictate how language evolves (just how much resources and time were wasted on horrible KMP, because JetBrains wants to grab mobile market fully).

Let’s gooo!
Maybe. For me to consider buying some unknown hardware it needs be a lot better than Nvidia. Like double the speed, half the power, and half the price. And the software better be rock solid and tested on all popular models.

Many startups have been trying for several years now, and eventually someone will succeed, but it's not easy. Even AMD hasn't been able to pull it off.
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate.
Someone at the newspaper, or someone in state security?
I made this. It got some attention last time I posted it (May 2023) when it only did an HTTPS GET: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35884437
Regulatory capture most likely
This is such an interesting perspective that I've never thought about. Thanks!
The problem is the houses.

In lots of pictures from LA, there are green trees right beside burned out houses. The video in this NYT article is a great example: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01/15/us/los-angeles-wildf...

One of the biggest problems are vents in the eves. Typically these vents have a single screen with a coarse mesh. Embers from fires easily pass through these vents, land on a surface, and start a fire.

Replacing the one coarse mesh with two or more layers of fine mesh significantly reduces the odds of an ember getting into the house.

This is a trivial improvement that dramatically increases survivability.
Common Misconceptions of Vector Database
Sea level naturally varies (if we define it liberally). It's at the times of maximums - high tide plus storm surge - we notice, otherwise it's easy to miss.

But when those high tides plus storm surges hit, we really notice sea level rise.
Not really. Old concrete cannopy collapsed. It was minimally modified as part of station reconstruction by adding some glass panels, but cannopy itself and its suspension beams were not rebuilt. It's not clear at this point whether this modification was responsible for collapse, but what is clear is that old cannopy and beams were not even inspected during this renovation. That's a major blunder which lead to loss of 15 lives, and main reason for that is systematic corruption where minimal work is performed while full price is billed by private companies close to rulling party.
That sounds quite optimistic. It doesn't take complete blocking before there are significant implications. There are many aspects to consider, from more friction in getting access to distribution channels to the more fundamental "forking" of initiatives and visions. This might be already happening to some degree but is hard to quantify.
Didn't know that fox news was in charge of forestry in LA.
This is marvelous!
Maybe that raises eyebrows, but I for one appreciate this disclosure — too many opinions are presented as facts nowadays. In turn, it makes me read the article more seriously.
In France it’s called the SACEM and I know a few bands that are affiliated to this association because it’s pretty much mandatory if you want to sell anything.

Those bands are not famous but despite making sales, they only get a few bucks every year, or it’s the SACEM saying "we forgot to send you the check lol, no biggies." It’s the biggest legal mafia I can think of right now.

Most of the money collected is sent to huge artists (like what Spotify is doing), there is nothing indie about it even if they pretend it’s for the glory of French music.
The goal is to collect rent.

Find arbitrary reasons to justify squeezing customers on a regular basis. Customers are treated as assets. Often, but not exclusively, via software based subscriptions.
Ancient Pyramid in Poland [video]
Łysa Góra in Poland might have once been a pyramid. Crypts were discovered beneath the peak of the mountain by Adolf Kudlinski (check youtube).

Polish archaeologists refuse to investigate further, dismissing it as pseudohistory.

They can't handle the possibility that an advanced civilization could have existed as far back as the Neolithic period.
> That isn’t the actual usage.

Yes, it is, at least in the way I see it used the majority of the time.

All of your examples prove my point: the person calling recycling “virtue signaling” is admitting that the idea of recycling is virtuous.

When people say this attorney is virtue signaling, they’re admitting that him firing FB as a client for being neo-Nazis is virtuous.

> what are the odds the attorney actually just got fired?

Low.
Any interesting book gets a second print run - except if it was on purpose a limited edition with some exceptional quirk.
Would be unpleasant if there was crew.

19 people have died in the 391 crewed space missions humans have done so far. The risk of dying is very high. Starship is unlikely to change that, although the commoditization of space flight could have reduce the risk simply by making problems easier to spot because there's more flights.
My first night in Switzerland there has a 5+ earthquake.
> What can be done about this as a consumer looking to buy a new car?

For a consumer in the US, I have no idea, but I'm guessing your question is about that since the story is US-specific?

Probably off-topic, but buying a car in 2019 in Spain, they asked me if I'm OK with data-collection during the purchase, up until car delivery, and handed me a contract to sign for "treatment of personal data". I said no, we moved on.

After buying the car (2018 Audi A3), they threw in some remote-monitoring sensor "for free" that could let me/them see metrics about the car, for "maintenance" and whatever they claimed, that they offered to install. I again said "no", but kept the device itself to pick apart at some later time.

But overall, they seem required to ask (here, EU) but no one batted an eye when I said no. The car has a SIM-card reader, but never used it, I'm guessing if I install a SIM-card the car would ask me if data collection is OK, because we'll always have the choice at least.

Electric cars seems like a no-no for now (everywhere possibly), since all of them came with a "always on connection" regardless of what I want, at least last time I checked.
Cursor tab does that. Or at least, it takes other open tabs into account when making suggestions.
don't worry, pretty soon you're gonna be great...
What happened when they failed to deliver The Metaverse(TM)? Surprisingly little, really, at least on a macro scale, because everyone had moved onto the next fad. I'd assume that within a few years there will be a new Big New Thing, and a lot of the LLM stuff will be quietly written off. So it goes (though the amounts of money involved _are_ particularly large this time round, granted, and it may be painful for some).
I completely agree. When I see a post here I had no idea if i's a good journal or a crackpot journal [1]. The impact factor is sometimes useful, but the level in each area is very different. (In math, a usual values is about 1, but in biology it's about 5.)

Also, many sites just copy&paste the press release from the university that many times has a lot of exaggerations, and sometimes they ad a few more.

[1] If the journal has too many single author articles, it's a big red flag.
> brick isn't earthquake resistant

This is an extreme that is not true. Bricks are harder to make earthquake resistant but it's perfectly possible to build houses that have SOME bricks in it that are also earthquake resistant.
There are permutations of materials that are both more fire resistant and more earthquake resistant to the required level at a certain height of the building.
The cool thing is: Its still there!

Yeah, it may be not as populated as in the 80s to mid 90s, but there are still enough active groups in usenet to waste uncounted hours every day...
Here, that's commonly called red diesel (despite them changing to green decades ago) and it's sold for agricultural use. There are a number of cross border smuggling operations where criminals remove the dye and resell it for somewhere between the two prices.

Though primarily done to trucks, there are occasional fuel tests done by police. Even if your tank is currently clean, they'll occasionally pull out the fuel filters and check those for dye.
They also have a bullshit "must have a pistol permit for handgun ammo" rule on the books, except there's no such thing as a "handgun" bullet. Many rifles can shoot common "handgun" sizes, like 9mm, and as soon as you tell the gentleman at the gun store you're buying it for your converted AR, they ask you cheerfully how many boxes you'd like.
Because it gets more clicks.
Thoth: A Scratchpad for Developers in the Terminal
What makes the real number system different from all the smaller number systems it contains? Richard Dedekind found a simple answer: a geometric axiom that Euclid missed.
Another +1 for Ross Anderson's book Security Engineering. I bought it a few months ahead of starting a Cybersecurity MSc, so I could try to get my head in the right place in advance. My first thought was "it's £$*&in huge" but then I read the whole thing in about 3 months. A real page-turner!
Potential World First: Wild Doorbell Video Records Sound of Meteorite Crash
many cars now have a TPU, used for connectivity and GPS, which will send telematics data when you start and stop the car. This tracking is not typically easy or possible to opt out of, in my experience.
Before installing Noir on iOS, I always appreciated opening HN, or any website without dark mode, and feeling my eyes melting even on lowest brightness setting. Great and easy to read! Thanks for keeping my eyes I check!
> CGP Grey has a monolithic OmniFocus build that uses perspectives to really nail down what needs/can be done this second.

I highly recommend the early episodes of the Cortex podcast where CGP Grey talks about his system. I discovered that his brain works in roughly the same way as mine, and so I was able to apply a lot of his insights to make my own system better.
Brick does tend to survive. Brick as an insulating layer can save lives. Brick also explodes violently under conditions where wood merely burns. Neither of these save homes in our wildfires, though; it turns out what saves homes is things no one realized at first:

Don’t plant trees within fifty feet of a structure. More, if you didn’t inflate your home like a balloon to fill a property to the brim with home. Cut them down and make a firebreak. Clearings exist for a real and serious reason. Aesthetics have been given precedence far too long in this regard.

Make your home airtight (or positively pressurize it, if you have the power and tech to do that safely) so that embers don’t get pushed in by the winds and pulled in by the temperature differential currents and catch your house on fire from inside its walls. Not much fun in having a brick building burned out from embers that were forced in through a poorly-sealed door.

Saturate your roof with water, so that it doesn’t trap embers and act as a fire repeater to the next house on the block. Not only will your roof not burn, but every ember that lands on it will likely go out. Even if your roof is metal, consider installing sprinklers anyways. Maybe you’ll help save your neighborhood someday.

It’s not the building material that’s the one problem here; it’s the carelessness of building code, safety enforcement and absence of federal and state aid to fireproof homes in known fire zones. It’s the catastrophically incorrect hundred year old policy that would rather burn down a chunk of homes every ten years rather than admit that policy is wrong and that the indigenous people were right all along. Brick or wood or concrete or steel, none of these will stop the hottest fires with any certainty. We know what does, and we’ve allowed it to become unsafe to have wood homes. We know how to stop these wildfires. Build with brick if you like, but:

Only fire can prevent forest fires.
It's not hard, you just need a Twitter account and put in the credentials.
Piano Transcription by Hierarchical Language Modeling with Roll-Based Encoders
It's difficult to not be sarcastic but let me try my best: Venice sinking is what happens when water is rising.
This seems like a fairly disingenuous comment.

SpaceX gets credit and rightly so because they have achieved things which no national space agency nor private company has ever done before, and done it faster and at a lower budget than anyone has done before.

Every other national space agency and private company had both infinitely more money, time, and engineers than SpaceX did (when founded) yet they were making zero progress on reusable rockets, cheap super heavy lift capacity to orbit, and America had no way of taking their own astronauts to the space station!

Musk (hate him or love him) founded a company from nothing which has exceeded the capabilities of nasa and the us government, the European space agency, and the russian space agency, as well as ULA, Boeing, Lockheed etc.

They have the first rocket ever made which can take payloads to orbit and then be reused. They have the most cost effective rocket ever made for taking loads to orbit. They have reused rockets up to 20 times! They have build the most powerful rocket ever built which is fully reusable. They have built the most efficient and powerful rocket engines ever built before. And they have done it all incredibly quickly starting from nothing.

Oh and they also built a massive internet constellation providing fast and cheap satellite internet to the whole world, saving countless lives and also helping stimulate economies across the world as well as enabling more remote work etc.

So much of what they have done was considered impossible or not economical or not practical or so difficult other countries or companies didn’t even TRY.

So yes. Given their success it’s worth trying to understand their development methodology, which is iterate fast and fail lots and learn lots. Given how much they’ve kicked the shit out of the SLS program in capability and budget and also how they’ve crushed Blue Origin (which started earlier with more budget) who both operate in a more old fashioned way, I would certainly say it’s important to acknowledge they may be doing something right!
> anyone ever want to drop the guise of privacy and have the surveillance is out in the open?

An essay about such a society: https://web.archive.org/web/20030212145443/http%3A//www.wire...
Thanks for the correction, I guess I was lured by yet another LLM confabulation
Craps?
Not the answer I wanted but the answer I needed. I am culturally enriched, thank you.

https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/pagliacci-classic...
On the other hand, suddenly not offering cover at all is a problem for people who have established interests in a property.

I can see an argument for not writing new policies in an area. But I can also make an argument for allowing existing policyholders to renew -- maybe not at the previous rate, but at an appropriate rate for the risk.

As a matter of public policy, we ought to match the risk put on a homeowner with a mortgage by the bank with the risk assumed by the insurer when the homeowner pays their policies. Not let the insurance company lay the risk on the homeowner if they notice the risk has gone up before the loss is realised.

Alternatively, we need to start treating buildings insurance more like (UK) life cover: I took out decreasing life insurance when I took out my mortgage, it'll pay off the mortgage if I die. The amount of cover goes down every year to roughly match me paying off my mortgage. No matter what happens to my health in the meantime, if I keep paying the premiums then I keep the cover -- even if I wouldn't qualify for new cover.

Or maybe we need to say that if an insurance company declines to renew because they think the risk has risen too much, the customer should be allowed to claim on the expiring policy even if the house is still standing, because it's obviously worthless, and it's obviously due to a risk that was covered by the policy.
They would ban illegal data collection? Seems it's already banned, and this case proves they don't let automakers hide it with dark patterns, then you get banned from dealing with data at all.

Or you're arguing against data collection as a whole? I'm not sure FTC is the right tree to bark up to if that's the case, wouldn't you need to involve lawmakers for that? It seems to me FTC would only be able to legislate against "unfair or deceptive practices", so that's why they can address people collecting data in the wrong way, but not address data collection as a whole, would be my guess.
I can't remember the last time I saw a "loudness" button. My receiver from 1980 had one but my receiver from 2000 does not.
Why? Only because of luajit?