skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a service area that _very_ purposefully stops before the sort of narrow, hilly streets that covered most of the evacuation zones.
Or "Switch Advance."
The spirit, and the letter too. (It's quite a well-written law.) Article 7, "Conditions for consent":

> 3. The data subject shall have the right to withdraw his or her consent at any time. The withdrawal of consent shall not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal. Prior to giving consent, the data subject shall be informed thereof. It shall be as easy to withdraw as to give consent.
During the pandemic David Lynch released a daily weather video in which he reported what the weather was at his home in Los Angeles.

First video was May 11, 2020: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krIj6eLF4mU

Last video was December 16, 2022: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l21GFyOO8Ug

He also released a daily video in which he drew a bingo number. I can't really imagine any other major director doing something like that in their late 70s.
There is some thrill in writing code so boring that you still appreciate it when you come back to it a a decade later, but all-in-all I don't care about coding either, and I suspect most of us don't. Problem solving is the business we are actually in.
Counter opinion: if you want to advance in your career, always opt for management roles when given an option, even if you feel you don't love the shitwork that comes with it. Management is more versatile, more leveraged, and always has a seat at the table, whereas senior IC's power is serving at the peril of some manager. I would argue the most senior ICs that actually are successful are also managers who are afforded the luxury of not writing reviews and crappy paperwork pieces of the management, and thus are told they are ICs.

Another aspect of this is only a few companies really afford to have serious IC tracks beyond a certain point (basically FB and Google). Many more companies would be looking for senior management roles than senior IC roles, even if the absolute number of positions is lower; plus senior ICs are usually hired in their core specialization (e.g. networking expert is not automatically hired for ML in the same level,) whereas managers are seen as useful in different domains, giving them practical mobility.
Billy Hayes tells the true story behind Midnight Express (2015)
I’ll work in tech for as long as it’s fun.

But seriously, what’s a single good app out there that’s been written by AI with no developers involved? I don’t know of any. Not play apps, but real apps serving real users, with billing, subscriptions, some traffic, etc…

Anyone know of one?
It is really the only safe way to use it IMHO.

Even in most simple forms of automation, humans suffer from Automation Bias and Complacency and one of the better ways to avoid those issues is to instill a fundamental mistrust of those systems.

IMHO it is important to look at other fields and the human factors studies to understand this.

As an example ABS was originally sold as a technology that would help you 'stop faster'. Which it may do in some situations, and it is obviously mandatory in the US. But they had to shift how they 'sell' it now, to ensure that people didn't rely on it.

https://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/sites/fmcsa.dot.gov/files/docs/200...

2.18 – Antilock Braking Systems (ABS)

ABS is a computerized system that keeps your wheels from locking up during hard brake applications.
ABS is an addition to your normal brakes. It does not decrease or increase your normal braking capability. ABS only activates when wheels are about to lock up.
ABS does not necessarily shorten your stopping distance, but it does help you keep the vehicle under control during hard braking.

Transformers will always produce code that doesn't work, it doesn't matter if that is due to what they call hallucinations, Rice's theory, etc...

Maintaining that mistrust is the mark of someone who understands and can leverage the technology. It is just yet another context specific tradeoff analysis that we will need to assess.

I think forcing people into the quasi-TDD thinking model, where they focus on what needs to be done first vs jumping into the implementation details will probably be a positive thing for the industry, no matter where on the spectrum LLM coding assistants arrive.

That is one of the hardest things to teach when trying to introduce TDD, focusing on what is far closer to an ADT than implementation specific unit tests to begin with is very different but very useful.

I am hopeful that required tacit experience will help get past the issues with formal frameworks that run into many barriers that block teaching that one skill.

As LLM's failure mode is Always Confident, Often Competent, and Inevitably Wrong, it is super critical to always realize the third option is likely and that you are the expert.
I don't disagree with anything they say here:

https://letsencrypt.org/2025/01/16/6-day-and-ip-certs/#short...

But... How often do these types of compromises happen? I can't say I've ever seen or heard of it happening.
The things I hate about this with SAAS products is they usually gate keep things like sso behind the enterprise plans.
> Especially for consulting firms, they really try to differentiate themselves from competitors by obfuscating what they actually do.

I mean, isn't that what Zombocom was created for? I always assumed it existed to parody those firms.

You can do anything at Zombocom[tm].
Steve Jobs could say that but as the old saying goes, you are not Steve Jobs.
I don't know how to put this if you don't see the difference yourself by now, but that's not an orbital rocket that could lift anything from Earth nor land back there. One huge problem is hypersonic aerodynamics, something you absolutely don't care about on the Moon. The payload weight can be much greater due to tiny gravity. Google "tyranny of the rocket equation".
> Microsoft is notable for dubious quality control standards regarding releases of its flagship operating system, Windows. That one of its engineers should drop some dodgy code into the Linux kernel is not hugely surprising, and the unfortunate individual is not the first and will not be the last to do so, regardless of their employer.

The issue is that a Microsoft employee is more likely to send dodgy code due to his company's quality standards (if any).
It's literally illegal to build anything other than a SFH in most of LA. It's no wonder why cheap apartments aren't being built.
Chatbots are dead, long live chatbots
Built an AI agent to get custom Hacker News inbox summaries
Love Twin Peaks. Puget Sound resident here. I can see the big driftwood log Laura Palmer was found next to from my window.
For SpaceX to keep up their current launch cadence without reusability, they would need to build a new Falcon 9 booster every 2-3 days instead of every two months. It would also require an 8x increase in their build rate of Merlin engines.
The Robertson Family Rescue (2022)
Feels weird to call it a 'bet against' when the other side can (potentially) benefit from the tighter spread you offer.

But yes, the market maker doesn't run the risk of trading with someone with knowledge and a lot of capital to apply it.
EU fines EU for breaching EU data protection law
It creates a feedback loop for the LLM to help it correct hallucinations or misunderstandings about how it's planned actions actually played out!
I wouldn't blame Unity for this. It's perfectly capable of running games efficiently on mobile. Problem is people either don't know how to or don't care to optimize their games performance.
Maybe I'm in the minority, but I recently went through the process of purchasing a car from another state and would've LOVED for it all to occur over email (and texting), but the dealership insisted that some of the communications had to occur over a phone call.
Would you feel more comfortable about it if you re-framed it as "I'm willing to have three 30 minute calls with people about their life and projects to see if I can provide any useful tips?"

That's what this is, and I don't think it pretends to be anything else. I don't think it's worth getting too hung up on the "mentoring" language used here - especially since I'm certain there is no standard agreed definition of what "mentoring" actually entails. Or have I missed one?
Was cross compilation not an option?
Side note:

"Falcon" was almost certainly chosen so the BFR could be pronounced "Big Fucking Rocket", perhaps also influenced by the BFG in Doom/Quake.

Also note how "SpaceX" is pronounced.
They might not be good reasons to you, but that is not the same thing as not caring. If someone cooks something that without salt for health reasons, that doesn't mean they don't care about salt as much as me.
But the earth doesn't orbit around the solar system. it orbits around the sun as part of the solar system. the solar system as a unit orbits around the center of the galaxy. if you've ever seen the concept images of the Oort cloud, you could visualize that snowball looking roundish object as a visual for the solar system traveling through the galaxy.
Yeah, the SNES uses a 65816, which is pretty much a backwards-compatible and 16-bit extension of the 6502, used in the NES. The SPC is likewise capable of nearly perfectly reproducing the NES's audio capabilities, and the PPU has the same background and sprite layering as the NES as a foundation.
Top comment says "There is a part of me that is going to miss the, do weird shit and see what works, Nintendo that brought us some really fun ideas."

I bet you that Nintendo will never release a Nintendo Switch 3. They do sequels in consoles (like they did the SNES), but after that they innovate.
It took me a little while to be convinced that he was actually reporting the weather as it was like at his home rather than saying the same thing every day. But, no, he was really reporting the weather and the weather is really just always like that in LA.
Christchurch mum runs 100 metre sprint on Lego barefoot
That guy is notorious for loving publicity with sweeping statements. Many of the things he says is clickbait tbh.
I don't think this Wikipedia page is describing the thing you think it is. Maybe it's the wrong link?
Directly working. But then you have all the vehicles that, in the grand scheme of things, exist solely to enable ads and make data mining for them easier, such as Chrome and Android. Then there are products that exist primarily to lock you into the Google ecosystem so that you're forced to interact with the rest of it.

At the end of the day, if most of company's income is from ads, it can be safely assumed that whatever else it does is somehow about ads even if it doesn't contribute directly. Well, or else Google is incredibly inept.
The first season is a masterpiece. Second season goes off the rails and loses direction fairly early on
If anybody is optimally situated to persuade people to waste money on stupid things, it's the advertising industry.
“Beautiful blue skies and golden sunshine all along the way…”
> I dont think you can exclaim away fair use protections.

"Copyright doesn't stop me from X" is different from "copyright lets me do X even though I agreed to a contract saying I wouldn't." (I have many problems with modern click/shrink-wrap, but that's a whole 'nother can of worms and I'm just trying to "fight fire with fire" here.)

If the average ToS has no force, then HN is currently infringing on my copyright by showing this post to you.
> I'll probably have to choose between keeping my gas car,

Kind of an aside but I've had similar thoughts as well - I am not taking any kind of stance on whether this is right/wrong but there are states like CA that are trying to move towards complete elimination of gas-powered vehicles in the next few decades, so that is a consideration too. I expect that becomes more common. I will not switch to electric because AFAIK there are no "dumb" electric cars, and I don't have easy access to any kind of charging station.
My personal experience is that emails and written documents are how things actually get done, but sometimes we have to go through voice calls and in-person meetings in order to get that far.

Those voice interactions felt like some sort of psychological barrier that couldn't be bypassed any other way, at least initially, but once I have opened up a non-voice channel, that's what we tend to use going forward.
> It's easy enough to imagine as an unattached rope so pulling at one spot affects the whole rope

Not instantly; the force you apply at one point still has to be transmitted through the rope. And if the rope is unattached and not taut, it won't transmit force well at all, and you have very limited control over how the rest of the rope will move when you pull on one part.

I don't see how any of this is a useful analogy to how massless gauge bosons work in forces like electromagnetism.
I also liked his interview project: https://youtube.com/@davidlynchpresentsIP
Looks like a round-about way of saying MP concentrations vary by water source, think most people could come to that conclusion without a study.

Missing water sources for bottled (just states it's from French suppliers) and only one tap source sample for comparison. This is just a snapshot in time, would have preferred multiple samples averaged over time from both the bottled and tap sources.
Its not about generating a full app with AI. Its about the commoditization of coding as a skill set.
That's ideal for us and the world. It's not ideal for the employing companies, as they can't as effectively extract rents.

So, all the forces are pushing against individual engineers getting that leverage.
Fast: Efficient Robot Action Tokenization
Oh no, Musk convinced the engineers it's possible. One of the interesting things about him.
Superglue 1.0: React <3 Rails
I interpreted that causality as AI leading to deployment of carbon-neutral energy, then when the AI bubble bursts, we’ve pushed carbon-neutral electricity sources off the learning curve cliff and it is available for cheap without the original consumers needing it. From that perspective, it could be any carbon neutral electricity (fusion, fission, enhanced geothermal, super-deep geothermal etc.). I could be misinterpreting the parent comment.
I see that one show cited a lot - What in particular about that television show was problematic and “worse” than what Gazans have endured over the past 15 months?

Also, how does that compare with Israeli schoolchildren singing about destroying Gaza?

https://www.snopes.com/news/2023/11/20/israeli-children-sing...

What sort of military solutions and violence, if any, should be employed to root out that sort of extremism?
Have you tried FizzBee.io? It has a python-like syntax. Take a look at the example.
https://fizzbee.io/examples/two_phase_commit_actors/#complet...

Formal methods don't have to be complex. The issue is, most formal methods are designed as an academic exercise to demonstrate a specific topic the professor was interested in. (Or TLA+, that was designed specifically for writing papers)
Oh how we forget... Phones at the time were HORRIBLE. To you, today, it looks like the iPhone couldn't do much. Back then it was revolutionary that a phone could simply render a proper website or connect to your home wifi.
i've subjectively found youtube to have much less compression and fewer buffering issues than x hosted webcasts
"Just Use Postgres" Book
You can't play online on an official Switch either, unless you subscribe to Nintendo's "we give you an internet connection" monthly service offering.
Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42728862
One of the many things that helps in thinking clearly about this conflict, and the perspectives one has already encountered, is to distinguish Arab Muslim Israeli citizens from Palestinians who reside in Gaza or West Bank.
> made a different choice but ultimately at that point it would still have been too late to save Nokia.

You think if they made just a single decision different and bet on Android instead of Windows, they would be in the same spot today? I wouldn't be so sure. Samsung hedged their bets across both and succeeded. Both weren't great at in-house software and Nokia made better hardware.
I remember being surprised when Cloudflare launched https://1.1.1.1 with a valid cert and I immediately wanted one, but couldn’t find an easy way to get one.

I am gonna try to run a DoH resolver on this and see how it goes.
This is just even remotely close to being true. 1948 was as weak as they have ever been. They're stronger now then they've been in a long time. I wouldn't be surprised to see diplomatic recognition with Saudi Arabia and Lebanon in the next few years.
Please, this is a conversation, not math exam.
Wasn’t it just a thing for students to get started with programming without having to setup an environment? What are they doing these days, apart from jumping on the AI grift bandwagon?
Let's flip it: Why do you care? Does it really bother you that much?

P.S. Wait a second, why do I care about why do you care? Oh god...
If you're "really interested" in something, you're already following new releases, doing extensive research for purchases etc, so why would you need ads?
Software support being hand hold-y is nice and all but entirely pointless if the hardware isn't performant enough to run the workloads you want/need.
I think it's just a grammar thing, meant to read "having a landing page and no product, but collecting emails like you do [have a product]" - so not the parent being disingenuous but the general practice.
I'm still reserving judgement.

In a vacuum I don't love the changes he made to Part 2 but I can also see how they will make it flow much better into Part 3 than Dune > Dune Messiah ever did (that always felt disjointed to me); as well as make that story more compelling.
I can’t recall ever seeing the contraction “who’re” before. For obvious reasons I suppose.
> Nit: the iPhone was only "in charge" for a brief year or two, and then Android ate its lunch in terms of marketshare.

Marketshare is less interesting than wallet share for many products.

> a minority marketshare can capture the vast majority of profits

Ah, yes, exactly, there it is.

iPhone offers wallet share, and continues to eat Android's lunch in both total spend and ARPU.

There are two cohorts to be in charge of, for two business models: selling something, or giving it away to show ads.

This looks like Android dominates until you get to the section "iPhone vs Android App Spending" and start doing the math that it's winning on total dollars never mind the number of devices.

https://backlinko.com/iphone-vs-android-statistics

Even then, advertisers tend to advertise because they want to sell something. Advertisers marketing something everyone buys, Android audience is best to advertise to. Advertisers with something that depends on extra cash in the wallet before the buyer considers it, iOS audience makes sense. Ad rates reflect this.

Astonishingly, even on the handset makers themselves, there were years Apple captured over 100% of the revenue. That sounds nuts till you dig and see it's as simple as Apple made money, while so many other handset makers lost so much money.
> Absolutely no kid says “I love these shitty Chrome OS laptops that I have to use in schools. Can I have one at home!” When they get to choose a computer for college at least in the US, they overwhelmingly choose Macs.

The value of ChromeOS to Linux in general is that it has no Windows-specific dependencies. They don't have to like the hardware, Linux runs on all kinds of hardware. But if they cut their teeth on Windows then they're trained on MS Office etc., and on ChromeOS they're not.

Then they get a job and don't expect MS Office, so a work PC running Ubuntu is just fine.

> And saying that Linux grew from 1% to 5% in 10 years means it’s going to grow to 25% reads like every startup pitch. “We doubled from 1% to 2% in a year. At this rate we will have almost 70% of the market in 6 years!”

Except that it was from 1.x% to 4.x% in four years, as a result of a confluence of factors that continue to be present: Historical Windows-specific software is declining as it's converted to web and mobile, Valve continues to increase the viability of Linux gaming (which is the largest remaining holdout in the former category), users are increasingly frustrated with Microsoft who is now making more money from Azure than Windows and increasingly unafraid to piss people off with start menu ads and dark patterns, Windows 10 is about to go EOL and with it the vast quantities of PC hardware that don't officially support Windows 11 but run Linux just fine, etc.

Is it going to continue to increase at >50% a year forever? Probably not. Is it going to keep going up? It certainly seems that way.
Blue Velvet and Wild At Heart are my two personal favorites. And as stated before, Twin Peaks is one of the greatest shows ever made.
I think "Xbox 4" coming after "Xbox 360" would have been the cleanest break. It would have been fine. Or heck, jump straight to "Xbox 5" if they really think the number in the name is the main point of comparison with the PlayStation.
Isn't this the plot for pretty much every movie about science research fraud? When Richard Kimble was chasing his one arm man, it led to the doctor using the same data to make the research look good. I know this is not the only example.
I love Finland and the Fins. But there is a certain type in that population that is extremely bureaucratic. The only country in Europe that has a contingent that comes near is Switzerland, also a great place to live.
I wonder if you could stock a knock off with a big markup and then buy the ads for the brand name to dupe customers into overpaying for crap!
Id argure on the desktop its actually easier in some ways. Once you know how to make a configuration.nix and partition a drive its a piece of cake to install a system. Changing an entire DE with one line of code is crazy. Its like going from Windows XP to Windows 11 with a one line change and rebooting.
A useful alternative would be the Longreads article from 2018, discussing the history of the region that burned and how it was known to be a fire danger from the beginning (and has burned every so often as predicted):

https://longreads.com/2018/12/04/the-case-for-letting-malibu...

> The 1930 Decker Canyon fire was a worst-case scenario involving 50-year-old chaparral and a fierce Santa Ana. Faced with a five-mile front of towering flames

> Despite a further series of fires in 1935, 1936, and 1938 which destroyed almost four hundred homes in Malibu and Topanga Canyon, public officials stubbornly disregarded

> He also provided a classic account of the onslaught of the terrible firestorm of Christmas week 1956, which, burning its way to the sea, retraced the path of the 1930 blaze.

And identifies that the policy of colonizing wildfire-prone zones with single family homes was set in the late 50s:

> By declaring Malibu a federal disaster area and offering blaze victims tax relief as well as preferential low-interest loans, the Eisenhower administration established a precedent for the public subsidization of firebelt suburbs.

Fires continued, of course, like clockwork:

> The next firestorm, in late September 1970, coupled perfect fire weather (drought conditions, 100-degree heat, 3 percent humidity, and an 85-mile-per-hour Santa Ana wind) with a bumper crop of combustible wood-frame houses. According to firefighters, the popular cedar shake roofs “popped like popcorn” as a 20-mile wall of flames roared across the ridgeline of the Santa Monicas toward the sea

And so on. So I wouldn’t say it’s “too early” for political takes on reconstruction; this debate — Oh No Fires! What Next For Zoning? — has been going on for almost one hundred years, even if it’s news to the current decade that this was ever a risk.
Elon Musk leaks private direct messages
If you enjoy surreal movies then definitely Blue Velvet and Wild at Heart. Just don't watch them with your kids. (Or parents...)

They are not 'normal', which is something I always admired about David Lynch. He had a very personal style and vision, and stuck with it.