skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As far as worrying about who has write access to these systems, I think the article makes it fairly clear that even if you're a COBOL programmer with years of experience, that doesn't mean you know these specific COBOL systems and their logic.

Age aside, I feel uncomfortable about anyone new (even experienced COBOL programmers) being able to make changes in these systems, especially given their approach has been portrayed as broadly antagonistic to existing engineers and staff.
I think the opposite problem is going to occur with captchas for whatever it's worth: LLMs are going to obsolete them. It's an arms race where the defender has a huge constraint the attacker doesn't (pissing off real users); in that way, it's kind of like the opposite dynamics that password hashes exploit.
Haha, I do own a lot of Apple devices, but that was my first reaction as well. The main selling point of the app is to hurt Meta.
Whoops, thanks for the catch. Updated it.
For removal it’s too late, but maybe slowing down is still possible.

There is no advancement that won‘t end up in the wrong hands and most likely it will be a leak from an US company.
Each release comes with a file with all the help, for example:

https://github.com/jj-vcs/jj/releases/download/v0.25.0/jj-v0...

In theory, packagers could put these docs somewhere. I'm not sure what the best way is to make it convenient to use.

Also, I'm not sure about jj v0.25, but in the upcoming (probably tomorrow) 0.26, you can get a lot of docs by doing e.g. `jj help -k config`. Ironically, this fact is currently somewhat under-documented. `jj help` just says at the end:

`'jj help --help' lists available keywords. Use 'jj help -k' to show help for one of these keywords.`
There's a Czech source that some seems to refer to: https://english.radio.cz/beavers-build-planned-dams-protecte...
not true, it is better for the brand long-term to build good cars.
but unionized workforce makes it economically unfeasible.

GM makes crappy because, if they tried to make high quality cars, they would be priced like Cadillacs
If your defense is trying to argue about what’s evil, you’ve already lost.

Putting money before other considerations is what’s evil. What’s “possible” expands based on your morality it doesn’t contract. If being polite makes a sale you’re going to find a lot of polite sales people, but how much are they willing to push that expended warrantee?

> Sorry I'd be less evil but if I gave up my position as an evil henchman someone else would do it!

I’ve constrained what I’m willing to do and who I’m willing to work for based on my morality, have you? And if not, consider what that say about you…
If you switch between branches a lot, it's a game changer. I look at it as just git with a sane CLI.
Congress keeps approving more flights into DCA over the in hindsight, clear objections by those in charge of safety at DCA, the FAA and several congress people in the minority. Congress people use it as their personal transit hub.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/us/reagan-airport-flights...
Everytime iMessage is mentioned, I do a double take because it is almost non existent here in Turkey. And from what I hear, seems like most Europeans do not use it too.

WhatsApp has like 99.9% market share here and I assume it is a lot bigger than anything else in the EU too.

I wonder why is that though. Everyone around me has an iPhone basically and I haven’t received a blue bubble in years. The messages app is not even on my home screen.
No, you most definitely can just spin up/down containers on a raspberry pi or mini PC as well.

This is what I objected to:

> And then, you probably want to do deployments in a way where you spin up 2 new machines and then, only once confirmed that the deployment works, shut down the old 2.

You don't need to spin up more machines or shut down machines. As long as you ensure you have the headroom you spin up containers and shut down containers. By doing that, it's also relatively easy to set up hybrid setups where you can handle load-spikes by scaling into EC2 or similar if you should ever need to.
>> The ATC biographical assessment didn't have any race-based questions - it was just a decision making questionnaire

Looks like this is the case, https://casetext.com/case/brigida-v-buttigieg-1.

"Though not at issue in this motion, the Plaintiffs allege that the FAA failed to 'validate' the Biographical Questionnaire, and that the Biographical Questionnaire awarded points to applicants in a fashion untethered to the qualifications necessary to be an air traffic controller. For instance, applicants could be awarded fifteen points, the highest possible for any question, if they indicated their lowest grade in high school was in a science class. But applicants received only two points if they had a pilot's certificate, and no points at all if they had a Control Tower Operator rating, even though historic research data indicated that those criteria had 'a positive relationship with ATCS training outcomes'. Further, if applicants answered that they had not been employed at all in the prior three years, they received 10 points, the most awarded for that question."

Can you explain to me why it was more important for air traffic controller candidates to be bad at science and unemployed than it was for them to be pilots or trained in air traffic control?
bring back stumbleupon!!!! crying in walled garden
Oh interesting. I hadn't heard much about it recently. Thanks.
> I'm also cautiously optimistic that the 3T deficit may be tackled.

The only possible way for that to happen requires that Congress passes laws to either (A) spends way less on things (B) collect way more tax. I see no reason to think they'll manage that without substantial electoral reform.

OK, technically it could happen if Trump commits more crimes and usurps the government, but I'm sure you don't want that.

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> If Elon's allegations that media groups like Vox and others have been eating public funds via USAID are true, I doubt there will be much coverage here at HN. We will see.

In this specific case, he is lying. In the general case, he lies a lot, from self-driving-next-year promises to Tesla owners, to faking his world-rank in a video game. You should stop giving him the benefit of the doubt by now.

To wit:

> [Musk] Claiming USAID funds [Bill] Kristol through [Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors] is like saying two organizations are connected because they both use the same bank. It’s a fundamental misunderstanding of how charitable giving works – or more likely, a deliberate misrepresentation.

> But Musk claims he’s stopping USAID from funding Kristol based on this functionally illiterate conspiracy theory, and we’re going to hear more idiots insisting he actually stopped the thing that anyone who knew anything about how charitable giving works would know is untrue.

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/03/the-twitter-files-playbo...
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I think the nasty parts of the TLAs will be fine with just the money they make off drugs, human trafficking and so on. I assume there are a significant number of "straight" employees that would be fucked by the whole system blowing up, but maybe they'd just pay them with cash too. AFAIK it's still legal to pay people that way as long as they get a proper pay slip with the cash envelope. Alternatively they might move them to contractor positions in regime-friendly firms.

But not realistically it seems like the goal is to be more targeted: pay your shooters, cut off your enemies'.
It might reduce property prices, but affordability would be adversely affected. The change would require the same cash flow from buyers. Instead of the costs being on a basis of mostly on high-stability mortgage loan rates, some of the required cash flow moves to a basis of insurance rates which are annually bumped (as proposed, now with less or no regulation).
By definition we can never know for sure, but I believe the number of people who stay silent is many times bigger than those who voice their opinion. They've learned it is unproductive (as you say) or worst case, you're told you've got it all wrong technically speaking.

Complaining is not unproductive, it signals to others they are not alone in their frustrations. Imagine that nobody ever responds or airs their frustrations; would you feel comfortable saying something about it? Maybe you're the only one, better keep quiet then. Or how do you find people who share your frustrations with whom you could organise some kind of pushback?

If I was "this government", I would love for people to shut up and just do their job, pay taxes and buy products (you don't have to buy them from megacorp, just spend it and oh yeah, goodluck finding places to buy products from non-megacorps).
Ah yes the classic false dichotomy, that it either has to be closed/proprietary/locked down and "just works" or it can be open but unusable. In reality the two are completely orthogonal. There's nothing magical about publishing the source that suddenly changes the code or the product and breaks it. If Apple open sourced ever line of code they have tonight, would iPhones suddenly stop working?
Why? There's the possibility that Zig will introduce breaking changes and the Roc compiler will have to be revised in light of those changes.
I use LLM to generate complete solutions to small technical problems. "Write an input stream implementation that skips lines based on a regex".

Hard for an IDE auto complete to do this.
> You do not need to own an Apple device to either create events

You need an "iCloud+" account to create, though. Which I as a non-apple user have no idea what is, and probably is useless for me to pay for not using anything apple beforehand.
Hold your representatives accountable.
...Why?

The competition I see for this is partiful (https://partiful.com/), which is free, handles invites for folks without accounts (I don't have one, I am invited to parties via text message), and is clearly the inspiration/competition apples for this app given the visual similarities.
Funny now that Mexico and Canada has come to the table the "end of the world" tariff's has been given a 30 day extension while they negotiate a better border agreement. This has always been about Canada and Mexico getting the better end of the deal Bill Clinton gave them, why would they negotiate until there forced to?

China is a different story I suspect the 35% tariff (25% Biden, 10% Trump) will stick.
You are rationally correct. However, most people react very quickly, and it is very effective to say "teenager" or "25 year old" to mean "ridiculously inexperienced" for what is happening right now

Yes, some teenagers and 25 year olds are capable, and probably do in fact, write system-critical code

But having people who previously had nothing to do with the government, take over a federal system, with seemingly no experience managing those types of systems before, is very alarming
Nobody I know uses iMessage.
I suddenly found myself to be a consultant, part of the assignment was to construct a governance model. I found it such a vague unsticky term that I developed the mantra: “Governance: How decisions are being made”. And it opened my eyes because in so many places there is no process for how decisions are being made, and they are just not being made.

Yeah I know, but I’m just a molecular biologist, it’s easy to see how a bacterium decides to move up a food gradient. But Humans… oh boy.
> The real scandal here is the pressure to remove a maintainer based on vague "code of conduct violation grounds" when the supposed "violation" is just expressing an technical preference on code he maintains.

Definitely not what is happening here. btw what the point of CoC if it's not enforced? I'm not saying this person needs to be removed, but someone needs to talk to a person that says "You might not like my answer, but I will do
everything I can do to stop this." in regard to R4L just based on personal preferences.
> and a bot which scolds us publicly in chats.

that is quite disturbing to me
well look if people wanted to be able to use the words master and slave all over the place they should have thought about it earlier and not had masters and slaves to start with. i dont know what to tell you.
nit: same-origin policy is the restriction. CORS isn't the restriction, it's the thing that helps you. CORS is the solution, not the problem.
But were any _language_ decisions discarded due to compile time concerns? I don't think anyone would claim the folks working on the rust compiler don't care.

On that note, thank you for your part! I sure enjoy your work! :)
Most places I've lived, there are tiny airports much more conveniently located than the large commercial airport. I would absolutely fly out of smaller airports, but don't because I fly commercial, and if they even fly out of the smaller airports it usually means more stops.

Depends where you're going though. DCA looks pretty convenient if you're visiting the capital; but lots of big cities have smaller airports that are more convenient if you can land at any airport.
Your link talks about two people being arrested at a protest of 300, presumably for being involved in one of the "minor scuffles" mentioned. Not for saying "All lives matter". Or are you really suggesting that at an "All lives matter" protest these two were the only ones saying it?
Your comparison doesn't even make sense. SK and NK have no relation and no border crossings. It is the easiest border to patrol.
This is just the inevitable result of congress delegating authority.
Can also report WhatsApp has 100% of the backpackers meeting each other market.
You could add a row for each count. You could add more associated information with the count too, like date, why, etc.. Then that insert would trigger a debounced method that would query the event stack to give you a count. You can make periodic snapshots of the total to avoid O(n) table scans. This allows scale without row locking and a much more accurate accounting of when the counts happen. You rewind/fast forward, get a time series, whatever with the event stack. This is all part of the CQRS pattern.

https://martinfowler.com/bliki/CQRS.html
There are billions if not a trillion(s) going into defense tech.
The US and its NATO allies and its wider allies who have contributed
equipment to the Ukraine war they need to replenish and replace
stuff.

At the same time the Ukraine war has changed a lot of the battlefield
strategies that will require development of new advanced weapons.
Most obviously in the areea of drones / counter-drone space.
but lot of other technology as well.

With all that money of course companies will chase it.
OpenAI is already joined up with Anduril.
One small past thread:

Alan Turing – The Delilah Project - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38862147 - Jan 2024 (7 comments)
Don't we have that already? Bootstrapped startups with the founders money on the line typically don't play in the 'big league's till way after the founder is at risk..
It's fiction, but for some sense of ATC stress, watch "Pushing Tin": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pushing_Tin
Hence why I wrote "first recorded observation".

The point being that this isn't about an animal we haven't seen recently, and so the speculations of the person I responded to about genetic engineering and the like are unwarranted.
> How I use LLMs as a staff engineer

With all the talk of o1-pro as a superb staff engineer-level architect, it took me awhile to re-parse this headline to understand what the author, apparently a staff engineer, meant
> Sweetheart

Really gross mate.
The guy who deciphered an ancient scroll destroyed by a volcano is too incurious to possibly understand things unlike the amazing geniuses who fund DEi operas in Peru
Extra bonus for just putting it out there with a Github link.

Instead of landing page, login, "just $4/month or $20/year" with a "Show HN" and everybody patting them on the back for a "successful launch".
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I've been using jj for a month, coming from mercurial. I have settled into a usage pattern slightly different than the article describes, so that all of those `jj edit` commands made me a little itchy. I prefer to nearly always use a separate @ commit to hold any changes I make. The mental model is that there's a graph of commits, and then @ is an auto-updated commit to hold any changes I make in an editor or whatever. Actually modifying anything in the core graph is then a conscious decision, and I might decide to update a commit with my changes (`jj squash` or `jj squash --into X`) or make the changes into a commit of their own (`jj describe` if I haven't already, followed by `jj new` to return to the stable state of having an @ commit for collecting changes).

The reason why I don't like using `jj edit` on something in the graph is that every change I make is conceptually applied immediately to all descendants. It's sort of like plucking a commit out of the graph (the commit you're editing), entering a mode where you can only modify that commit and don't have the option to use the changes in a different way (as in, squash some of them to some other commit or make a new branch or whatever).

It makes jj modal, and one of the things I most appreciate about jj is that it is not modal, you don't have a separate staging area or stash or anything, it's always in the same consistent state where you can do the same set of things.

Also, having a separate commit makes it easy to see how you've modified things, rather than only being able to see the sum total of the original commit contents plus your recent modifications. (It does make it a little harder to see that sum: `jj diff --from @--`.)

This is also the default behavior of `jj next` and `jj prev`, which are very confusing if you're expecting to be editing nodes in the graph directly. You can totally do that, by passing `--edit` to them, and if that's your preference you can default the flag in the config.

I do still use `jj edit` from time to time, but for the most part `jj new` gives me a better feeling of control. It was difficult initially to not want the "extra empty change" to go away, but once I accepted that there's really only one and it corresponds to a meaningful concept (it's the auto-updated container for any changes you make), I made peace with it.
Does AI need all that money? (Tech giants say yes)
It solves two problems. First is having a batter UI, git is well known to have a bad UI and be hard to teach. But you’re right there aren’t new capabilities.

Secondly, and more importantly, is that you can back it on to different storage mechanisms. Companies with large monotypes are often not using git (Google, Facebook,…), or are using highly specialised git (e.g. Microsoft). JJ is not just got compatible, git is a pluggable storage backend.

I mostly use JJ backing on to Piper, and the integration is excellent. I’ve also used it backing on to git. I can transfer almost all my knowledge and muscle memory between these two places.
> there are a lot of people who just decide that shows like Foundation and subscriptions like MLS Season's Pass just aren't for them.

This needs anti-trust breakup. Tech companies shouldn't be media giants. They're turning a once-healthy media industry into an attention economy platform play, giving it away below cost, and wringing a robust sector of the economy of its value.

It's disgusting that Apple and Amazon are doing this. Amazon owns James Bond. And they're a grocery store and primary care doctor, for god's sake. That's not good.

This is worse than Standard Oil and Ma Bell because they own our entire lives: eyeballs, financial transactions, business matters, commerce, and personal relationships.
It's difficult to get older books in audiobook form from libraries, because only recently have audiobooks overtaken ebooks in popularity.

For works old enough to be public domain, They are usually available from LibriVox, although the narrators are usually not as well practiced as the commercial audiobooks.
I use a MacBook and I swear this is the first time I have heard of iCloud+.
"Palestinians Have No Alternative to Leaving Gaza, Trump Says"

https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-02-04/palest...
Indeed, it didn't have race-based questions, which I don't think anyone claimed. Rather it had totally arbitrary questions, not related to merit in any plausible way, and a score cutoff that made it highly likely you'd fail if you hadn't been tipped off with the correct answers.

For instance, there is a 15-point question for which you have to answer that your worst grade in high school was in Science, and a separate 15-point question where you have to answer that your worst grade in college was in History/Political Science; picking any of the other options (each question has 5 possible answers) means 0 marks for that question. Collectively, these two questions alone account for one eighth of all the available points. (Many questions were red herrings that were actually worth nothing.)

But then the same blacks-only group that had lobbied internally to get the questionairre instituted (the National Black Coalition of Federal Aviation Employees) leaked the "correct" answers to the arbitrary questions to its members, allowing them to get full marks. Effectively this was a race-based hiring cartel. Non-blacks couldn't pass; blacks unwilling to join segregated racial affinity groups or unwilling to cheat the test couldn't pass; but corrupt blacks just needed to cheat when invited to and they would pass easily, entering the merit-based stage of hiring with the competition already eliminated by the biographical questionairre.

(A sad injustice is that blacks who wouldn't join the NBCFAE or cheat the test, and so suffered the same unfair disadvantage as whites, are excluded from the class in the class-action lawsuit over this whole mess. Since the legal argument is that it was discrimination against non-blacks, blacks don't get to sue - they lost out because of their integrity, not their race, and they have no recourse at law for that.)

See the questions at https://github.com/kaisoapbox/kaisoapbox.github.io/blob/main... or read an account of the story at either https://www.tracingwoodgrains.com/p/the-faas-hiring-scandal-... (short) or https://www.tracingwoodgrains.com/p/the-full-story-of-the-fa... (long).
Yay for Zig! I'm a big Zig fan. It's seemless interop with C makes it super fun. I really enjoy writing code in a C-style way. Its still got some rough edges, but its definitely super fun and enjoyable to write imo.
I have a lot of respect for people who would resign, or wouldn't work in such companies.
> † Reference counting is a form of garbage collection.

I agree with Raymond Chen's take on the academic definition of GCs[1], and therefore Rust is certainly a GC'd language (because your code behaves as though memory is infinite... usually). It's probably one of the first examples of "static garbage collection" - though I'm sure someone will point out a prior example.

[1]: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20100809-00/?p=13...
I don't think you're arguing in good faith here. Have a good one!
Hacker News does not put hash in the URL.
Quantitatively, he's had more success than anyone ever
> But what is your email client using for notifications?

Local notifications?

I don't see the problem here with email, it seems to work well that it is great for my use case.

When you're offline with push notifications only the latest notification gets sent, not the previous notifications. This seems by design for notifications.

At least with E-mail I can see a history of emails that was sent to me.

I just see push notifications as a flawed concept that doesn't make sense for decentralised services.