skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where I live only pimps (fake), retirees who got one 30 years ago from their employer upon retiring(real), nightclub promoters (fake), and criminal defense attorneys who will berate an underaged rape victim on the stand until they break down and cry for the sole purpose of being a sociopathic dick while trying to get their pedophile golf buddy off (real) and Rolex flippers (real) own Rolexes (real or fake).

edit: also franchisees whose franchise sells the most shit so the franchiser buys them one as a prize (real)

To me, seeing a Rolex on someone's wrist puts them in the same category of dickhole as a lifted pickup truck with punisher decals on the rear window and truck nutzzzz hanging off the tow hitch.
If you're like me and moved off from Ruby to Rust as your go-to-everything, try Loco which tries to be a faithful Rails on Rust (loco.rs). It has the magical scaffold, the smooth experience, and the features you'd expect from Rails including authentication built in (like Devise).

Disclaimer: I'm one of the authors of Loco.
To be fair people were fine with multiple Chernobyl’s amount of damage every years from burning coal.

And other disasters like Three Miles Island very insignificant.
My approach is to block the majority of notifications and have no social media apps. Now it is a phone with some handy features like maps, music and a web browser.
Even if this take has merit, the approach taken here is simply cruel. There are ways the Administration could have implemented a "cross-the-board stop/cut" that would not be so devastating to so many /millions/ of people. The fact that they chose to execute in this chaotic, "effective immediately" manner suggests a certain un-seriousness to the whole thing. In other words, this is less about reducing spending and more about deliberately destroying institutions, which is the stated goal of many in the Administration.
> Emacs and Neovim are things one gets into in ones free time and gets good enough to make the switch at some point at the job.

I'd probably never end up proficient with vim (and today neovim) if I didn't do the complete opposite of this and forced myself to use it for real work directly. True, I went a bit slower for one/two weeks, but if you really have to use something foreign for most of your work, you'll learn it really quickly, as long as you're up for looking things up as you go along. Of course, YMMV and all that yadda yadda.
I'd note that the externalities may change that calculus a bit. The relative pollution from coal/gas/oil are huge but the cost isn't reflected in the price at the meter.
What is this `uv` thing? Is that something pythonic?
That's not an encouraging thought.

By the way, car mechanics (especially independent ones, your average garage mechanic) understand less and less about what's going on inside modern cars. I don't want this to happen to us.
Come on. Which do you think is more likely, that it was a normal EOY sale of a lucrative stock, or that they sold based on insider info obtained weeks before anyone else?
Why not? It's adding more functionality. Even if Apple used Globalstar, they're a partner of SpaceX and thus still "in bed" with Elon. Even if they didn't use satellite stuff at all, Apple's current CEO donated to Trump's inauguration, along with... you guessed it, Elon.
A simpler approach is to use `go run` with a specific version. e.g.:

go run github.com/golangci/golangci-lint/cmd/golangci-lint@v1.63.4 run

Easy enough to stuff in a Makefile or whatever.

Even better in Go 1.24 since according to this article the invocations of go run will also be cached (rather than just utilizing the compilation cache.) So there shouldn't be much of an advantage to pre-emptively installing binaries anymore versus just go running them.
Are those Let's plays valuable because of games or because of personality of gamers?

If it comes to games, they have nearly 0 value and they can disappear - that would not change the value of the game, as they are derivative works and not the ones that are leaving influence. They have hardly any representation of culture around the game, and those who does not talk can be easily replaced with AI playthrough, so I would not care that much. Also, we are forgetting that gamers enjoy to discover new things - and those let's plays are there for a different reason - to stake a place of being there as the main source to generate income from ads and they are aimed at long investments, so they won't disappear as soon as I would like.
I use a dumb phone , It had some issues with formatting of sd card , but my non technical cousin actually solved it (I had gone to his house for some other reason)

I am so so much thankful of him. It also humbled me , since just because I am from technical aspect in the linux / computer doesn't mean I know everything in android / other aspect. I just had to format sd card (but technically it can lead to losing data and the problem was that I didn't had 32 gb card , now I am not sure that my phone supports 64 gb card , because I tried to put it and it didn't work but maybe I didn't format it properly)

Still , that small action has lead to my phone from just being dumb to now playing audio , capturing photos and capturing videos. It has become great!

I feel the power of community , a sense of pure joy. And the phone's definitely sexy.

https://www.flipkart.com/kechaoda-k33/p/itmfgptkyrquqg9a

People love my phone , though the audio control is finnicky , it actually played music in class today once lol! , I had to lie to sir that it was my ringtone and someone called me , but crazy .
Irrelevant. The military is retooling to fight China. Cheap suicide drones like what are being used in Ukraine lack the range and sensors necessary to be relevant in the Pacific theater. Funding for the F-35 program will not be cut; if anything it will increase.
The irony is how consistently the environmentalists have been campaigning for things that left the environment worse by delaying any possible transition to nuclear power.
Social media existed before the iPhone/android. I remember needing to be at home on my computer to check myspace, xanga, and even thefacebook. Not sure how I feel about this article (it's interesting at least) but the existence of phones/apps does coincide with a lot of changes to our relationship with social media and a lot of changes to social media itself.

Perhaps without smartphones in everyone's pocket we would use social media much differently and that industry would have grown differently....
That is a bit revisionist. Most of the investment went towards reactor technology and research that had a dual purpose of generating power but also being aligned with generating plutonium. That's why the type of reactors used in nuclear sub marines was never commercialized.

Simply too expensive for civilian use and they never had a dual use that benefited generating material for nuclear bombs. Commercial reactors today are based on minor variations of nuclear fission that was also strategically relevant for getting plutonium. Different reactors but same mineral supply chains and a lot of overlap in R&D. As soon as the cold war ran to an end, funding for all that fell off a cliff. Including building new nuclear power plants. Coal and gas plants were vastly cheaper to build. And they still are. And back then, nobody cared about pollution.

Only now that people are interested in small reactors are these decades old fission reactors getting more attention.
I'm not saying it's a grift, but I'm not saying I'd be surprised if it turned out to be one as well.

Internet people are weird. Not all of us though, obviously.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belle_Gibson
I fear even this role will need way fewer people, meaning the employment pool will heavily shrink, and those competing for a job will need to accept lower paychecks.
That is false. Plenty of people build death traps as their own home. Nobody will know if you remove a load bearing wall without a permit so long as you are not obvious about that work. Slumlords are generally in a place where people will know.

Slumlords do want cheap, but they need to get money from the bank and that means the bank will care about quality. Slumlords also don't want to lose everything if the building burns. Note however that quality to a bank and slumlord are things you cannot see and so their buildings often look dangerous while being safe. (I'm not saying all slumlords are perfect, just that their reputation is on a few graphic failures that often were 100 years ago)
That's well possible. I asked DeepSeek how I should send them feedback, and the response was:

"If you’d like your feedback to be formally acknowledged or escalated (e.g., to highlight nuances about your work or correct details), you can submit it via OpenAI’s official feedback portal or share it through their support team."

Pretty remarkable.
I am calling BS on this as a daily consumption diet, you would have to have a helluva constitution to pull this off and definite competitive eating levels of body control. You would need to completely override your brain’s satiety center. I eat a keto diet and it’s impossible for me to eat even a tenth this amount daily.
Would you choose Kotlin instead?
if it has Rust in it, then...
The bit that really sticks for me here is the bit about the element of risk.

Takes a moment to get to that part, but this is my takeaway: feeling risk in meat space interactions stimulates our imagination about uncertain outcomes. Our devices have allowed us to back out of this feeling and into a predictable reality.

I can confirm this: a recent improv comedy class, which I often dread actually going to, is 15 humans with no phones compressed into an actual room. That feeling of people flirting but also having fun is palpable.
As a Canadian, with the amount of unprovoked aggression coming from the USA and the turmoil being caused by even the threats of tariffs (yes, companies have to take into account that there might be tariffs and that causes chaos) let along if he actually does levy them, I would not count on Canada to be as close of an ally any longer. The writing is on the wall that we need to do everything we can to align away from the US. It's going to be hard and take time but even if Trump is gone 4 years from now we know how capricious and vindictive the American public can be.

Most Canadians would like to strengthen our bonds with the EU, but unfortunately I think it's going to mean getting pretty cozy with China as you said. No I don't think China is better than the US but the world is getting a wakeup call for how stupid it was to put all our eggs in one basket. From now on having any one partner dominate to the degree the US has is going to be seen as a huge weakness.
>I was talking to a tenured/post-doc/professor...

To be fair, in all of industry, academia, and politics this stuff happens. The leaders, CEOs, and presidents rarely have any knowledge of the technical matters at all and will BS their way to conclusions in the same way.
No need to turn JS off. Turn on Lockdown mode which disables Javascript JIT and WASM, which might be enough
I'm surprised by the negative comments here so far that sound more indignant or "called out" than anything else.

The article's argument is not only thoughtfully made and unusually well-written, in my opinion it's correct. There's nothing sexy about essentially staring at something in your hand for an hour or more every day. Smartphones provide a level of private immersion in silent, "socially-flavored" dopamine consumption that's antithetical to robust, vibrant socialization. Which is decidedly not sexy.

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I don't think I agree. From TFA:

> [...] Why walk into a store in Soho and see what’s on offer when you can stay home and scroll the entire inventory from the comfort of your couch? Why go to the library to find books about a topic that interests you when you can look it up on Wikipedia in two minutes and move on with your day?

> Instantaneous access to everything obviously comes at a cost. The cost being that we all behave like demented Roman emperors, at once bored and deranged, summoning whatever we want at any time.

Even without social media, we still would have the instant gratification that the author proposes as a problem.
what did you change in your diet / lifestyle after you learned about your genetic makeup?
To your questions:

1. no, its because they were so useful they expanded beyond their original containers.

2. The cluster of apps that then lived on the top of the schema (the four times I have worked on versions of this) mostly just extended things occasionally when they needed to, but oddly mostly did not and just read and wrote to the same schema; this required more coordination and slower development release cycles, but not really a problem for these companies.

3. Somewhat fair, but the real world and real shippable software (which you seem interested in) has a lot of shared concerns, a lot of trouble when you ETL or use APIs for everything instead of just... here's the data. Short term that seems entirely reasonable instead of creating contracts everywhere and spending the time and effort understanding more and more of the changes introduced into smartly decoupled systems.

In a nutshell you're right, SQL makes it easy to mix a bunch of concerns and ship them and let them grow organically. Which I would argue almost any software structure does, ESPECIALLY with data, except now you dont even get to know where all the bodies are buried.

Edit: for instance, I have worked on/converted many useful databases that were created in the 1970s, before I was born. Can you imagine a stateful application that you could easily understand and utilize all the data that's been ingested on for 50+ years?
> for x86-64 CPUs it is very unlikely that a load value predictor can be worthwhile

I think you're making a good point about immediate encodings probably making ARM code more amenable to LVP, but I'm not sure I totally buy this statement.

If you take some random x86 program, chances are there are still many loads that are very very predictable. There's a very recent ISCA'24 paper[^1] about this (which also happens to be half-attributed to authors from Intel PARL!):

> [...] we first study the static load instructions that repeatedly fetch the same value from the same load address across the entire workload trace. We call such a load global-stable.

> [..] We make two key observations. First, 34.2% of all dynamic loads are global-stable. Second, the fraction of global-stable loads are much higher in Client, Enterprise, and Server work-loads as compared to SPEC CPU 2017 workloads.

[^1]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2406.18786
I find deepseek-r1 to be waaaaay too chatty for my taste. It never seems to shut up.
This post is incredible and true and it makes me sad that most everyone I know to share it with will not appreciate it.
Or we just skip the middlemen and exchange our prompts instead.

Back to the core issue - apparently few people took a long enough look at the article to notice it was co-written by AI; i.e. there were human editors in the loop. Sure, the format is a bit off-putting, but that's IMO mostly because nobody can be arsed to write like that, even if their own thesis supervisor told them they should, as proper structuring makes it easier for the reader to understand a complex topic.

Anyway, point is, I personally have no issue with people using AI to improve their texts - LLMs already are better at writing than most people anyway. Just as long as the saved effort is put into ensuring the content itself is valuable and communicated well.
The paragraph on deepseek reads like cope from an NVDA bagholder tbh.
> there’s a random server that nobody knows who maintains it offhand, including the person who maintains it

It makes no sense that you'd keep an insecure service because you forgot someone needs it. You turn it off and the reminder will promptly come to you. After this it's a decision, not oversight.

> It’s nothing to do with costs, its just an oversight

The article suggests that their internal unauthenticated SMTP was there by design, not oversight, together with an authenticated (presumably external) one. Some assessment deemed addressing the risk from the unauthenticated internal one not worth the cost and effort.

> People connecting through our VPN have access to an internal-only SMTP gateway machine that doesn't require SMTP authentication [...] previous phish spammers have exploited some combination of webmail and authenticated SMTP.
I see it already mentioned in the page ;)

Jevons Paradox and DeepSeek AI

The Jevons Paradox, an economic principle stating that increases in efficiency often lead to higher overall consumption, has been observed in the context of DeepSeek AI. DeepSeek, a Chinese AI startup, recently introduced its R1 model, which achieves comparable performance to leading AI systems like OpenAI's ChatGPT while requiring significantly less computational power and energy. This efficiency has made the technology more accessible and affordable, spurring wider adoption across industries.[30] As Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella noted, the increased accessibility and efficiency of AI tools like DeepSeek's R1 model could lead to a surge in applications and use cases. This expanded usage may result in higher energy consumption overall, despite individual efficiencies. For example, while DeepSeek's model uses fewer resources per task, the growing demand for AI-driven solutions—ranging from chatbots to complex reasoning models—could increase the total energy requirements of the global AI infrastructure.[31]
If we make it through this intact and another, more serious and compassionate group of adults manage to regain legislative power they absolutely must exercise forbearance try to curtail the power of the President to rule through Executive Orders -- left, right, and center. This is no way to run a country.
> the company launched an official eBay store that sells refurbished drives. [...] However, this store only sells in the US

One could make a joke that seagate did start selling refurbs in EU, just without telling anyone.
Why is it always seagate when there's something wrong with HDDs?
The Billion Docs JSON Challenge: ClickHouse vs. MongoDB, Elasticsearch, and More
I used to work in insurance but, I am not a lawyer but, not sure why this is getting so many points when the driver admits they were at fault and AppleCare denied the claim. Looking at the reddit thread the person who had this accident even states that folded laptops aren't covered either...

In insurance you want to read the policy before you buy as a general rule.

https://www.reddit.com/r/mac/comments/1h0xwn8/beware_of_appl...
Ok, I'm trying to suss out what this means, since `go tool` didn't even exist before 1.24.

The functionality of `go tool` seems to build on the existing `go run` and the latter already uses the same package compilation cache as `go build`. Subsequent invocations of `go run X` were notably faster than the first invocation long before 1.24. However, it seems that the final executable was never cached before, but now it will be as of 1.24. This benefits both `go run` and `go tool`.

However, this raises the question: do the times reported in the blog reflect the benefit of executable caching, or were they collected before that feature was implemented (and/or is it not working properly)?
We have lost the direct connection to nature, to love being an aspect of nature.
Everything is channeled through our phones, leaving our embodiment mostly as empty shells without purpose. This could also be the description of zombies or cyborgs.

I feel sorry for the young generation that is deprived of so many real, physical impressions - or rather, I hope that they will break out of their misery and get back what they - no, everyone - needs.
There should be enough fat in 12000 calories to avoid rabbit starvation.
I did not consider the load of metabolizing all that protein and assumed the body would eliminate what it didn't need. They're might be something in protein toxicity here.
Arrow has several other related projects in this space:

Arrow Flight SQL defines defines a full protocol designed to support JDBC/ODBC-like APIs but using columnar, Arrow data transfer for performance (why take your data and transpose it twice?)

https://arrow.apache.org/blog/2022/02/16/introducing-arrow-f...

There's an Apache-licensed JDBC driver that talks the Flight SQL protocol (i.e. it's a driver for _any_ server that implements the protocol): https://arrow.apache.org/blog/2022/11/01/arrow-flight-sql-jd...

(There's also an ODBC driver, but at the moment it's GPL - the developers are working on upstreaming it and rewriting the GPL bits. And yes, this means that you're still transposing your data, but it turns out that transferring your data in columnar format can still be faster - see https://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol10/p1022-muehleisen.pdf)

There's an experiment to put Flight SQL in front of PostgreSQL: https://arrow.apache.org/blog/2023/09/13/flight-sql-postgres...

There's also ADBC; where Flight SQL is a generic protocol (akin to TDS or how many projects implement the PostgreSQL wire protocol), ADBC is a generic API (akin to JDBC/ODBC in that it abstracts the protocol layer/database, but it again uses Arrow data): https://arrow.apache.org/blog/2023/01/05/introducing-arrow-a...
Seems like car insurance should cover this. Also, the article does a pretty good job of explaining why Apple should deny coverage, but then still says "declining cover seems surprising". Does it?
Me, looking in mirror: "...It's the phone, right? It's the phone."
This isn't what the article states.
Possible. I heard weird people making such claims, that ChatGPT logged them out and ereased everything. I guess OpenAI wanted to limit those sensationalist headlines, not that they doing mindcontrol.
They used to have a Missed Connections section of the classified ads in newspapers.

It was fun to read them.
almost all bacteria and viruses (and most other things) have a commensal relationship with us, otherwise we would would have all be gone into grey goo. i wouldn't wory about our gut fauna.
The Section 174 changes are terrible for startups, but yes, they're only inconvenient for established companies. Many startups won't even last long enough to amortize all of their dev expenses, especially if they owe taxes on "profits" earned during those first few years. The whole startup ecosystem (which is what this set of job listings is largely measuring) relied on being unprofitable and therefore untaxable.

> It may not be caused by AI, but it is going to affect hiring numbers from now on.

That remains to be seen. I can say with high confidence that we did not have tech that was capable of reducing the need for engineers from 2022 to 2024. It's hard to predict the future.
By that logic everything is a cost or an opportunity cost. I think the idea behind an opportunity cost is lost if you over apply it
I spent a long time trying to figure out how to make TI Basic programs fast enough to do games. Graph drawing commands were too slow!

I realized that for most things text was the right way to go, but eventually I did manage to make a facsimile of Pong that was decently fast in graph mode by simply drawing each frame incrementally rather than clearing and redrawing it each time. Pretty obvious in retrospect, but I was still relatively new to programming when I first started messing with TI Basic.

I also struggled to write shared routines with only goto, so my code was a catastrophic mess. I assume most TI Basic code was, though.
This isn't true. The backlash to sonic booms grew well before Concorde and was part of why the US government canceled its support of the SST program. Boeing canceled their part of the 2707 because of the (extremely) unexpected success of the 747 program (a larger plane slower addressed a larger market) and the 737 success.

Sources:

Joe Sutter, Creating the worlds first Boeing Jumbo Jet

Thomas Petzinger, Hard Landing