skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, that really does sound like a much more potent nitrous oxide trip. Back in my less responsible days I definitely dabbled in "hippie crack", and you could sort of hit that state if you took enough and / or combined it with other drugs.

(fwiw, I don't take any drugs anymore, except for the occasional night drinking. I had some horrifically bad trips that felt like my consciousness was smeared across the entire universe, suffering for eternity. Took me a long time to recover, and the message I took away was "anything you can learn on drugs you can learn in other, safer ways".)
Nix currently has the most packages of any distribution, see https://repology.org/

The model of having packages on Github with pull requests scales very well.

Therefore, you could argue that people are getting things done with Nix.
50k is/was recently a decent salary (not SF). In the last 5 years, not so much anywhere outside the absolute lowest CoL areas.

But yes, most Americans do not want to work on a death march. And employers don't want to pay it. I doubt they can argue 50k as exempt so that's a lot of overtime. They may as well be salaried 6 figures at that point.
https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/9/24340238/apple-iphone-alar...
Visiting just one page on this wacky website absolutely trashed my browser's (Firefox) back-history.
Everyone uses AI, regardless of policies. How do you?
Let’s be real — there’s always that moment when the official process is just too slow or frustrating to deal with.

What’s a creative way you’ve used AI to get things done faster or work around a roadblock?

Curious to hear how folks are actually using tools like ChatGPT in real-world situations, especially when they’re not strictly ‘by the book.
It seems to be at the registry level. But registries do show changes in owner [implicitly at least].

Maybe there needs to be a way to do some signalling/lookup when domains changes hands.

Sounds like a job for a blockchain, lol.
Out of curiosity, what happens after you do an Everest climb? Does the increased production in red blood cells stay? Is it similar to how high altitude training works on cardio sports today?
You can just store the actual container though. Which will reproduce the environment exactly, it's just not a guidebook on how it was built.

The value of most reproducibility at the Dockerfile is that we're actually agnostic to getting a byte-exact reproduction: what we want is the ability to record what was important and effect upgrades.
> Ultimately, camera-only vision systems will likely be the best solution, but until then, integrating LIDAR will get us much further.

Why though? How could it possibly be better than camera plus other sensors?
Whatever the "rate" is, it's largly mute.

The labrynth of deductions, exeptions and other tax havens for the higher echelons of the income brakets makes the listed rate pretty meaningless.
My only complaint is that mine wants to stay in the very middle of the lane on the highway when I’d rather it bias to the left, especially when passing transport trucks.

And if I calmly but consistently hold left to keep it left a bit, the PID loop ramps up trying to center, and if I let go of the wheel it wants to swing into the right lane.
Apparently there are laws against it in China. But I guess the US isn't the only one with loosely enforced labor regulations.
Is this another example of Tragedy of Commons?
What a perfect invitation to get on one of my favorite soapboxes. Spoiler: I'm a big fan of Brock Yates.

Speed limits are an imperfect tool for an important problem. They were generally much higher, or nonexistent, on US highways before the 1973 oil crisis [0]. They were intended to save fuel, but weren't very effective. Nowadays, most people discuss them as a safety tool.

They aren't great for that, either. Speed disparity is the best way to cause an accident, with those going at least 5MPH under or 15MPH over the 85th percentile speed being the most dangerous drivers on the road. Limits force people to choose between going a comfortable speed and following the rules. When the difference between comfortable and legal speed is too high, you get situations where raising the limit can reduce the rate of accidents (citation discusses stats, my suggested reasoning is more speculative) [1]. There are still of course many cases where setting a slower speed limit has reduced accidents [2], but that effect is not universal. Also worth considering is that, even if higher limits reduce the rate of accidents, accidents at higher speeds are almost universally more severe.

Consider long, straight, flat roads with 2+ lanes on each side, a median, no sidewalks, infrequent turn and/or merge lanes, with ample room to speed up or slow down, and speed limits of 50 MPH or lower. There are several near me. They are painful to drive, because they breed traffic tickets, tailgating, and accidents. Hell, the people on either side of the "go a comfortable speed" and "go a legal speed" even fight each other, making rolling roadblocks to slow traffic, or giving way to road rage.

Either raise the limit, or add curves, trees, sidewalks, bike lanes, etc to convince people to slow down. I tend more towards the "I can't drive 55" side [3] because I think it's generally better for the economy when people and goods can move faster. Edit: For a specific example, from Kansas City, the 9+ hour drive to Colorado Springs or Denver (at 70MPH) makes it nearly impossible to go there. There's very little traffic on I70 past Topeka. Without a speed limit, I could easily do the trip in a little over 4 hours in my C350. That would be FANTASTIC for the economies on either side of that stretch (not to mention along it).

If you're not familiar with Brock Yates and his influence, check out [4, 5, 6].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Maximum_Speed_Law

[1]: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/12/181212135021.h...

[2]: https://jalopnik.com/iihs-finds-that-lowering-speed-limits-a...

[3]: https://youtu.be/RvV3nn_de2k?si=mLYQIkwlHCDPr6ec

[4]: https://www.caranddriver.com/features/columns/a15143608/the-...

[5]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9fZI3wBA1o

[6]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTT1_JZp2Sg
Motornormativity makes most of the population accept that endangering their neighbors while operating heavy machinery is acceptable, as long as the heavy machinery is a car. We call it "speeding", and it's treated like a very minor offense. It is a complete disaster.
I use ffmpeg multiple times a week thanks to LLMs. It's my top use-case for my "llm cmd" tool:

uv tool install llm
llm install llm-cmd

llm cmd use ffmpeg to extract audio from myfile.mov and save that as mp3

https://github.com/simonw/llm-cmd
The solution to this for me is lists, though there are other options.

Lists group profiles, and I tend to have 2--4 of these, mostly organised by priority / interest, and explicitly NOT organised topically. Roughly, there's A, B, C, and maybe D. This is a system I'd come up with at Google+ and Diaspora*, and find it fits Mastodon pretty well.

I try to keep A limited to 20---40 people / accounts of greatest interest. That evolves over time, in part as people join or leave Mastodon, or as my own interests / frustrations shift.

B are still generally interesting but not as interesting. C and D are filled as I find profiles really aren't bringing me joy in A or B.

Mastodon lets you pin threads (in the traditional/power-user view), so I'll usually have 1--3 of my lists pinned to the display, unpinning as I find them distracting.

Other options are to use filters, to focus on your own instance's local users (if that's sufficiently topical), or to use various group systems (Guppe is the principle tool I use, there are others: <https://a.gup.pe/>).

Note that for topical filtering you're far better off using either keyword filters or group/community systems such as Guppe. As was learnt many times over at Google+ (and its Circles feature), people don't know how you've classified them, and may have little interest in accommodating your ontologies. (People yelling at others for not conforming to how the yeller had organised the others got to be a rather amusing if cringe trope on G+, that site's equivalent of "you're holding it wrong".)

Other tools include limiting reshares by people or within lists, and of course, muting and blocking profiles. I'm of the block early and often school.
I don’t know. But I suspect most people don’t care.

Even the people who will tell me an how bad twitter is, are almost all still on there.

Talk and action just doesn’t go hand in hand, I can only assume they don’t care “that” much.
I feel that the compiler is doing too much work here. I know they are thinking about special cases on generated code, but at some point it feels that it just adds compile time for no good reason.

Look at this --beauty-- eww, thing, should compilers really spend time trying to figure out how to optimise insane code?

def is_even(n):
return str(n)[len(str(n))-1] in [str(2*n) for n in range(5)]
From the article:

> If you want to see a decent quick example of them in action, you can check out my game Jumblie and click the Settings gear button at the top.

It has the backdrop filter but it doesn't prevent page scrolling.

BTW, MDN's data on Safari's support for the unprefixed `backdrop-filter` property is wrong, it still sometimes requires using `-webkit-backdrop-filter` (works in iOS Safari 18.2.1, doesn't work in Safari 18.2 on macOS 14.7.1).
Oh wow good for you! Didn't realize you were a prodigy or that this was a contest. I take it all back. /s

Maybe try some humility. You're not helping yourself with the bragging about frankly underwhelming and common (here) experience.
I'm pretty sure that if someone posted that here, in the context of making "most wanted" list... they'd be banned.

Good faith is for arguments, not calls to murder.
> The tax burden in the US already is mostly on the working class

Blatantly incorrect. 89% of income tax revenue comes from families making $120k or more.

> Corporate tax rates were low and were reduced further

Corporate income tax is a side show. Most money that doesn't get taxed will get paid out either as purchases, salaries, or returned to investors. So either a sales tax, a personal income tax, or a capital gains tax. So a large cut to the corporate income tax only has a small overall effect on the overall tax burden.
> Shepherd is a wonderful little service manager

I believe you

But what practical use is it?

I cannot tell.
Hypoxic altitude tents have always interested me as a runner living in sea-level San Francisco. You're supposed to sleep in them for a few weeks in order to simulate being at higher elevation. However, they're apparently pretty terrible to use - the vacuum is loud enough to disrupt sleep, the inside of the tent is supposed to get hot and sticky, and you need to spend 12+ hours a day to get real benefits. If you're mountaineering, the suffering might be worth it, but if you're a hobby jogger the sleep disruptions alone negate the performance impact of the EPO boost. Supposedly.

But Xenon?

> Furtenbach, whose training rides and runs have been 10 percent faster for days after xenon-fuelled climbs...

Something to muse about.
Maybe I shouldn't have said nearly all, but a good amount. Nearly all laws are enforced by the threat of violence, or actual violence, so I don't think I'm too far off.
Wow it really doesn't take much to fill people's needs, they are switching to an app that's not even translated yet and the majority of the content is in mandarin as well.

The comments in the play store are pretty wild.
Isn't that ambiguous in English version?
Thanks for the writeup! And I'd add, from a philosophical prospective, if you're doing this Xenon protocol, if Sherpas are carrying everything, etc., at what point is it like not that big a deal anymore? Don't people climb Mt. Everest in the first place because it's an ultimate challenge?
Previous spam grifting posts by similar but randomly created accounts by this creator.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41003623

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41836289

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41107874

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41117246

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41200155

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41039468

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41076252

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40995161

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40975351

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40787299

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40984842

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40983866
I mean, it's a long, specialized project. It really depends on the specialization. a new grad with a PhD in some LLM tech would be grabbed up much faster than a hobbyist with 5+ years in general SWE with maybe some pet projects made with AI tech.
H1-Bs ARE keeping the JOBS local. They are merely filling them to some extent with immigrant EMPLOYEES (working side by side with true, red-blooded Americans).

The alternative, in many cases, would not be companies hiring an all-American staff. It would be hiring in their foreign offices instead, with Americans only considered if they emigrate. Or an American skeleton crew being sidelined from where the bulk of development happens.
I was more pointing out the second link does nothing to support his statement.
This is not the same, because a man who introduces himself as a woman is not actually a woman. He might want everyone to pretend that he is, but it is not the reality of the situation.

It's more like if he introduced himself as being a young child or a dog. No-one should be under any obligation to play along with Bob's claims to be an infant or a canine when he is neither.
They can.. if one of the following is true:

1. Their parents are doing exceptionally bad job
2. Their parents are doing exceptionally good job

Sadly, there is no way to tell, because not all kids are created equal. I know my parents had to basically remove our PC from our home ( how many parents have that option today? ) to put me and my siblings in line.

Unfortunately, this only adds to the problem, because bad parents tend to think they are great and vice-versa.
You can use the search bar below to see that this is in fact true: this is a quick way to get banned on HN.
Unless you abolish all federal welfare of all kinds, the rich states' people are going to subsidize the poor states' people. California doesn't need Louisiana, but almost every state east of the Rockies does. Because that's where the Mississippi River ends. And where huge amounts of oil and natural gas are harvested.

After Katrina, when I got power back, I read people online complaining vehemently about how high gas prices were. Meanwhile, I'm sitting in my house with one path out of the neighborhood that is clear of trees on the road, and no gas because there's no power to the pumps. Lucky me, I had filled up our cars as it was coming in and wasn't scheduled to work for several days after it hit.

My daily drive to get ice (which was being trucked in; it was August in the South) was the only thing I used the cars for.
Have a look at these:
bluesound, audiopro, bang-olufsen, denon.

Depending on which software is in use for streaming operations, you could also use ‘standard’ WiFi-enabled speakers like something from KEF (LS50) or
dynaudio.

Just from top of my head. Maybe someone else has a comprehensive liste at hand.
Another fun format to read is military orders in the Revolutionary War/Napoleonic Wars era, how generals wrote (with a quill!) when actual bullets were whizzing around them. Even Civil War era orders still sound extraordinarily formal, and such orders from all eras are written in beautiful handwriting.
I guess time will tell? Is this speculation or is there evidence of increased mortality from using xenon this way currently?
This also seems to be an 18th-19th century European/American thing. When I was beginning to learn Spanish, I was reading through Cuentos Mexicanos edited by Stanley Appelbaum, and I thought I was a moron because I was just getting completely lost. I stopped and counted, and I was in the middle of a 103 word sentence:

"¡Ah!, si las mujeres ricas y orgullosas conociesen cuánto vale ese amor ardiente y puro que se enciende en nuestros corazones; si miraran el interior de nuestra organización, toda ocupada, por decirlo así, en amar; si reflexionaran que para nosotros, pobres hombres a quienes la fortuna no prodigó riquezas, pero que la naturaleza nos dio un corazón franco y leal, las mujeres son un tesoro inestimable y las guardamos con el delicado esmero con que ellas conservan en un vaso de nácar las azucenas blancas y aromáticas, sin duda nos amarían mucho; pero... las mujeres no son capaces de amar el alma jamás."*

I've read a lot of late 19th century Mexican stuff now, and there's a lot of that.

-----

* ("Ah, if the rich proud women could know how much that intense and pure love that burns in our hearts is worth; if they could see how we were organized within, completely occupied, to say it like this, in love; if they would reflect that for us, poor men to whom fate didn't produce riches, but to whom nature gave an open and loyal heart, women are an invaluable treasure and we protect them with the same delicate care with which they keep white aromatic lilies in a mother-of-pearl vase, without doubt they would love us so much; but... women aren't ever capable of loving the soul.")
Oh, I'm interested. Are you using it on servers, or desktop? My concern is the community is small, while Nix's has been booming.
Ongoing discussion (163 points, 6 hours ago, 282 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42700134
Then maybe point of one of those databases:
https://foundationdb.org/
https://tigerbeetle.com/

Or if you really wanna keep the SQLite theme: https://github.com/losfair/mvsqlite

Why promote the vaporware project when comparing with something that's been in development for 10 years?
I think we need this approach. Like many protocols, if there is enough research and medical support we can develop ways to go beyond current limits. Not everybody can stay for 8 weeks in a foreign country just waiting. Faster expeditions will also mean less waste and crowding for the same number of people reaching the summit.
Depends on the pothole, but for some, driving at a higher speed is actually better than lower speed (short and deep ones) - the wheels just don't have enough time to fall significantly.
I'm surprised to not see Astro mentioned, its whole schtick is providing very similar DX to frameworks like SvelteKit except in a way that's geared towards generating plain HTML/CSS with zero JS by default. You get things like components with scoped styles but they are compiled down to nothing. It's really a breath of fresh air.
Partly it’s having a constant discussion about society, the world, and news in general. We talk about how advertisers are trying to manipulate you, social media can be addicting and is also trying to manipulate you, etc. Not an angry way, a discussion, like how magnets work or how rain forms. Just the facts ma’am.

As for permissions, my oldest avoided all social media except iMessage (because for her age that is essentially the phone line), and only got Insta at 16 — but I had the password not her, so she could give out her @handle to people to connect, but she would only go only into the fray once a week with us around (vs the zombie doom scroll scenario for instance). We will probably allow Snapchat soon since it’s becoming the new “basic” connection — I’ve not used it, so does it have a feed and likes?

My younger kids all have iPads and the 13 year old had an iPhone — they use them for music and audio books so end up in their rooms even at night. I don’t love that, but I have on tight screentime so I hope that is helping a bit.

I wish there was a good device for ONLY music and audio books, like a souped up iPod. I locked down enough I think her iPad is limited to that, but it’s not obvious. We tried Alexa devices but navigating audio books is impossible and even song selection was tedious. Kindles could almost do it but we are Apple Music family and don’t think there’s and app, and the audio book library app is finicky, and I find kindles pretty kludgy in general.
EDA software has some of the most amazing algorithms. I'm always surprised more CS people aren't into it.

You can find many great opensource projects here:
https://theopenroadproject.org

But to get some context, and try out the flow and how everything works together, start here:
https://tinytapeout.com
Massive L.A. Water Reservoir Should Never Have Been Drained
Beginner mountaineers paying a bunch of sherpas to drag them to the top of Everest already wasn't much of an achievement. This just lowers the bar even more.
Related: Meta to move content moderators to Texas as part of plan to end fact-checking program

https://www.texastribune.org/2025/01/07/texas-meta-content-m...
I believe https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs/pull/372196 fixes this if you are using systemd-networkd. It was merged to master last week and made it to unstable branches (https://nixpk.gs/pr-tracker.html?pr=372196).
There’s no upper limit, so there’d have to be some set of rules like no sleep(n).

Also given the halting problem, you could write an algorithm that would be impossible to determine if it loops forever.
> practical use

service manager.

Where by you can create a service of your own application in userland without needing to be PID 1 to execute the service. With all the bells and whistles of monitoring and trigger.
it would explain the bugs if they used the AI to make the datetime implementation though
My rule for using LLMs is that anything that's one off is okay. Anything that's more permanent and committed to a repo needs a human review. I strongly suggest you have an understanding of the basics (at least the box model) so that you are competent at reviewing CSS code before using LLM for that.
I appreciate the comment. FWIW, I understand you need to survive and I also think it's not the worst I've seen.
Maybe they just want to go on top of Everest, that once was just for the professional mountaineer. People looking for challenges still have the K2 and others
Someone else here compared it to regenerative braking in cars, which is what made it click for me. If you spend energy to accelerate, then recapture that energy while decelerating, then you can manage to transport yourself while your net energy expenditure is zero (other than all that pesky friction). On the other hand, if you spend energy to accelerate, then shed all that energy via heat from your brake pads, then you need to expend new energy to accelerate next time.
Lots of complaints mentioned here. If you have a legitimate need for a product like Tasks that is more fully baked, I’d encourage you to check out lindy.ai (no affiliation). I’ve been using it to send periodic email updates on specific topics and it works flawlessly.
8th grade was when all this stuff became mainstream for me. That was the iPhone 3GS release year. Social life went to crap very quickly for everyone. Should be "wait until 18th."
I am Jack's irradiated spleen.
There is a huge amount of software in every single step of making an ASIC, digital or analog. Or even a PCB for that matter. Long gone are the days of cutting tape and etching anything yourself. Apple's M3 has 25 billion transistors. No human drew those.
The federal government also didn't pay for highways or a standing army then.

I'm sure there are people who want to abolish the IRS and also don't want roads or support a military. But if you can get enough of them in a room together to win a caucus I will eat my hat.
I once used booking.com to book a block of several rooms for a wedding. Paid and confirmed. When we arrived, the hotel had no record of our reservations! The explanation was that their sync with booking.com was prone to failure and hadn't been updating for several weeks and they hadn't noticed. Luckily, they still had enough rooms available for us, but I will never use a 3rd party site again and I will always call ahead to confirm the reservation is still on the books.