skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It does raise the question of certification and product safety in general, there are so many electrical devices that probably don't meet Western safety standards. A humidifier is basically a heating element in a plastic housing, it should be engineered with safety features (overheating protection etc) so it shouldn't be able to just catch fire, someone clearly didn't do their job properly at some stage. I wonder how product recalls work with that sort of thing.
In case of rust, it actually happens quite often. I find myself rarely needing to use mut, instead using functional approaches such as iterators and expressions. So a high percentage of the code is let statements
The much bigger problem is that you not only have to deal with the technical challenges, but also the visual design challenges where non-technical people have all kinds of opinions that you have to deal with. Things get really nasty once you have to implement features that emulate non-web functionality like right-click menus and the UI becomes an inconsistent mess.
Everyone on the team need to agree to the linting rules before using linters. Else they will keep wirting their code according to their habits , and then they start to modify the rule that dosen't fit their bad habits when linters hints to fix the code.

> run the language's standard formatter

Even with very smart linters like `ruff` it cannot fix all of the linting errors. You have to hand fix many of them.

What linter do you use that can just run and forget?
If voters had more than few days memory of latest tiktok trends, they would recall how Trump agreed to make Jerusalem fully Israeli. That was a moment of absolute devastation and losing any real hope for whole Palestine. Maybe it wasn't visible in US, or you guys simply didn't care, but elsewhere it was shocking.

This was IMHO the main reason 7.10. attacks happened as they happened, when they happened. But it requires watching the news continuously, understanding the world and cultures a bit and connecting those (very) few dots. In nation trained hard on short dopamine kicks from junk fun of reality shows and outcries.

This is but 1 of hundreds of threads happening out there, daily. Sure, democrats f*cked up badly with all stuff mentioned all over here, no point saying it wasn't the case. But concept of long term complex consequences and the tenacity to keep that mental model in one's head is what most of his supporters simply lack. Those who have it and still voted for him... not sure what to say there, I guess he aligns with their core values and keeps delivering on spot and beyond.

What goes around, comes around, just that whole world suffers and few well connected aholes profit. I can't foresee a situation where US won't be in worse position in 4 years, if he even benevolently decides to step down, which is unlikely. China is profiting massively from his chaotic actions long term, that's for sure.

Personally, as European, clearly we're not friends anymore. Just as I wasn't buying any US products during his first tenure, my family won't be buying any US products for foreseeable future just like I don't buy puttin's gas.
Depoly the noise-cancellation PA systems!
It's pretty obviously two middle managers fighting each other, and senior management is too distracted by AI to worry about core products being on fire.
I miss wrote, I should have written, "Unfortunately, there weren't enough rational voters to stop the idiot."
I'm not a free speech absolutist, precisely because of things like this.

This is also why I was appalled what I saw in the Capitol riots four years ago, with the chants to hang the then Vice President, which Trump was reportedly fine with.

Words lead to actions — if they didn't there wouldn't be a reason to support free speech in the first place — but also (and unlike the US government) I am strongly against the death penalty, and even more strongly against vigilante action (if you think American police violence is out of control, you'll be very upset by a return to literal lynching).
Spot on. I think it won because of who created it. I love linux and have been a daily user for like 25 years, but that doesn't mean I'm going to have a positive bias towards new tools or projects Linus makes like git. I think had some no name developed this it would have been laughed at by the majority of devs because, as you say, it's target use case is very specific and rare making it the wrong tool for most of us. Might have the worst interface I've ever seen. Before using it, I spent close to zero time thinking about version control and didn't need to understand anything about it's internals and had zero problems in the software dev lifecycle. Now, people are proud to waste time learning implementation details of their version control tool?
China is also a modern example: they endured a political collapse and century of humiliation, but successfully reconstituted themselves into a world power comparable in many ways to imperial China. Russia at the end of the USSR has also successfully endured a period of collapse, during which Putin rose to power and successfully navigated to being an influential country. (Though, less so than China and with remaining challenges.)

> I'd also argue that for most people anxious right now, the idea that America might be in a transitional period of turmoil, but that it'll emerge stronger in 20 years (I made up that number) is of cold comfort.

Trump is popular precisely on that platform — that we can do hard work now and reverse the decline in the US.

I think people would be comforted to know that it would only be twenty years — a lot of Millennials in that movement don’t believe they’ll see it, but are nevertheless doing it for their children (or relatives). A not infrequent sentiment is “it’s over for us bros, but do it for the kids!”
Agentforce, the Salesforce Reasoning Engine
> it's baked into our DNA i suppose.

In the unlikely event it genuinely was then this would be solveable with subsidized genetic engineering for the masses.

I also think there's a lot to improve in education. While making everyone a rationalist is unrealistic, most of the ideas such as sampling bias and messy word meanings can be taught to almost all.
Some people here seem to be upset. I don't get it.

More than 40% of US adults are obese. The rates of chronic diseases are through the roof. There's obviously a systemic problem in these institutions who are tasked with the well-being of the country. We know of many fraud in social sciences (ever heard of priming research?), medical science (eg. alzheimer researchs) and nutritional science (eg. saturated fats). In fact I'd argue it has become systemically untrustworthy.
Robert Kennedy Jr vowed for: (a) dedicating 20% of science funding to replication studies, (b) systemic publication of peer reviews alongside papers, (c) publication of null results.
Which seems like a very good improvement over what we have now. The field is in dire need of a reform.

Am I missing something?

PS: I am not from the USA.
Help, I followed your advice and alienated a bunch of people I need in my life. Will you support me now??
I feel like the vast, vast majority of businesses that are conducting monetary transactions with their customers are storing, at least, their last login time.
This is definitely what happened in Brazil.

When Whatsapp launched, SMS still wasn't free, the exception being some carriers that offered "free" SMS to numbers of the same carrier if the sender was on a premium coverage plan. In sum, majority of the population was still paying $0,10-$0,20 despite already having data plans. So it was an easy win for WhatsApp.
It’s not litter that causes the rat issue in NYC, it is the huge masses of household and business garbage.
semi-elected weak legistlative branch

What do you mean? The European Parliament is directly elected.

be someting like having an unelected powerful executive branch

They (the EC) need to be approved by the European Parliament and the Parliament can dissolve the EC.

If you consider the structure of the EU undemocratic, the same would apply to most countries that are considered democratic.
Ask HN: Best tool for autonomous quick coding assessments?
We place 100s of software development students in internships in the Nordics, and are looking for a way to perform a basic coding skill assessment before matching an intern with a company.

Unfortunately the schools submit to us some students who cannot write code and who will claim otherwise in their written applications, and we find out about this at the latest when the intern is in a real project and unable to perform at all.

The goal of this light-weight assessment would be to simply answer the question: *can this intern read an assignment and proactively write some code?*

So the assessment should have:
- a built-in editor
- a time limit, like 1 hour
- detecting the use of AI / massively copy-pasting from another window to the editor
- live preview of the result, e.g. a React UI the intern completed based on instructions

What we don't need/want:
- live interview scenario with a supervisor
- a full interview (just one assignment per student)

Any suggestions of tools to use? Experiences?

I just submitted for a demo with Coderpad but don't really know where else to look.
Reddit is mass purging NSFW subs
Porn, drugs, lgbt topics. Feels like a great chill is settling in online.
Router maker Zyxel tells customers to replace vulnerable hardware
> It is a weird concept for the libertarian mind

"Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes."

"When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names."

"Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
and: https://github.com/simplescaling/s1
What job have you ever held where the management was consistently better than ICs?
Very much so.

This poll is a little old, but in 2023 only 38% of republicans identify as MAGA republicans

https://www.vanderbilt.edu/unity/2023/04/07/first-ever-vande...

And here's a list of prominent republicans who are not MAGA republicans:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Republicans_who_oppose...
Historical facts I consistently forget (2018)
Ask HN: Blogging Platform of Choice
Please let me know of your favorite/preferred blogging platform of choice (in 2025!) I’ve used wordpress in the past for our company pages and I have also tried generating my own using SSGs.

I am looking for something in between where it doesn’t take much upkeep and is suitable for daily/regular blogging.

Thanks much!
As has been pointed out here before, this is all TPUs. They are not used by DRM vendors because they are quite bad at stopping people with physical access getting the keys.
And they've already walked that back...
https://about.usps.com/newsroom/service-alerts/international...

What a dumpster fire. Hard to believe ~half the electorate thought electing Trump, Musk, and army brocoll-topped tech-bros was a good idea.
Tabs/spaces is a non-issue, agreed - IDEs handle it.

But surely naming convention contributes to keeping code documented, extensible and efficient?

A deviation from the norm leads to people thinking x does not exist in a large code base, leading to them implementing duplicate methods/functionality, leading to one instance evolving differently enough to cause subtle bugs but not enough to be distinct, or leading to one instance getting fixes the other does not etc?

Sample size of 1, but I've seen it happen unfortunately.
We fought a literal civil war and bounced back. We've had multiple presidents assassinated but still had continuity of power. I doubt the U.S. is going anywhere anytime soon except maybe down a couple slots on the world's largest economies lists, and that's soley due to population growth.

Some of us who are optimistic believe that the uniqueness of the U.S. lies in its favorable environment for innovation (e.g. YC), so we hope to invent our way out of problems. We grew up on hopeful sci-fi and will stick to it until our bitter end.
> Code coverage has absolutely nothing to do with code quality

Ehhh..lots of nuance to this one
Following non functional stylistic rules to the letter as if they were on the level of SQL injections or memory leaks isn't "craft". It's cargo culture weirdness.

Sure, have a style and a linter. Be DRY. Don't lose your head over it though.
Europe doesn’t have the budget.
Yes, you're completely correct. Kagi seems to have a very good product, it would become better if it would become a "good" company. I do everything to not use any big-tech software and services. In search it seems the options are limited.
Do you believe that it is the responsibility of the NIH to decide what Americans eat?
To be fair, privacy policies are worthless. They could have a squeaky clean privacy policy and still collect data on you illegally.
I did request a copy of all my data under the relevant consumer law for where I live, and it looked like they weren't collecting anything they shouldn't^. That's still not a guarantee, but it's better than nothing.

^ They did still have a copy of all my old assistant threads, including deleted ones, but a mate who works there says that was just a bug with the system and should have been fixed. This was about a year ago.
Except that’s what it becomes in practice. As soon as you inject race into these decisions, it becomes de facto racial quotas and preferences: https://nypost.com/2023/06/29/supreme-court-affirmative-acti...

It took like five minutes for Biden to start deploying SBA loans whites weren’t eligible for and for NASDAQ to create diversity quotas for boards. Racial gerrymandering is always the ultimate goal of this stuff.
Starting with raw SQL is fun. But at some point you find out you need some caching here, then there, then you have a bunch of custom disconnected caches having bugs with invalidation. Then you need lazy loading and fetch graphs. Step by step you'll build your own (shitty) ORM.

Same thing for people claiming they don't need any frameworks.
I find the last part of the paragraph offputting and I agree
Behind this there is the wrong assumption that there must be a replacement for all.
For sure there will be gaps filled by other powers, but it's not necessary, we just got used to it.
Repealing the Chevron Deference?

Might be a good thing that it would enable society to change faster because bureaucrats are slow to respond.

Then again, might not be the welcome change we want.
> More along the lines of “don’t throw the baby out with the bath water” (might have butchered that saying?).

No, you got it right.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_throw_the_baby_out_with_...

> even wrote a book on the topic of FP.

Care to share? If not, that’s fine.
I was a developer for a long time before git and used many different VC systems. Didn't need to read the book on any of them and had no problems. For most cases, VC is simple. Git is just designed for this complicated case that applies to a tiny sliver of developers. I've never once pushed to more than one remote in like 10-15 years of using it.
Musk and even Trump cannot just step in and cut spending, programs and agencies. That's congresses job. Even a president cannot say “oh, we aren’t funding USAID/DoEd/EV tax credits”. Those things are law.

Allowing that to happen basically makes the president king. It allows them to have veto power over all spending laws both current and previous and a veto that’s unable to be overruled.

“Oh, you passed social security? No, you didn’t. I’m not giving that out”. Not only this but it gives the president extreme leverage over Congress. “I’m holding funding for this specific program ransom until you do thing X”.

Interestingly enough, that’s what Trump got impeached for during his first impeachment. Withholding funding in an attempt to extort someone. If this is allowed to happen then our constitution and government fundamentally will change.
The US wasn’t an empire until at least around 1900 and maybe not truly until 1945. Sounds like we have another century left!
In the 1800s the UK led the industrial revolution. Most things were manufactured there. Raw materials were shipped in from all over the Empire but the manufacturing was usually happening in the mills of the UK.

In the 1900s the USA took that crown. Most things became manufactured there. A lot thanks to Britain bankrupting itself to defeat Germany in WW1.

In the 2000s China has taken that crown. Now most things are manufactured there. But the owners and customers are in the US. The US corporations have outsourced their manufacturing to China and get rich from it.

And now the USA workers wonder if it was all actually a good idea?

The financiers are still getting rich and looking not to move their manufacturing back to the US but rather to a less developed and so cheaper country further abroad...
The terraform documentation explicitly advises you NOT to do this (https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/cli/workspaces#whe...)

> In particular, organizations commonly want to create a strong separation between multiple deployments of the same infrastructure serving different development stages or different internal teams. In this case, the backend for each deployment often has different credentials and access controls. CLI workspaces within a working directory use the same backend, so they are not a suitable isolation mechanism for this scenario.

For a practical scenario, you will often need different environments to roll out changes at different times, or to have other slight variance. If you rely solely on variables to be the only difference between environments, you will need a lot of tricky shenanigans to say, create a new dynamodb for a proof of concept only in “dev” but not in prod. Sure, you can use `count = var.env == “dev” ? 1 : 0` but this gets old fast.

Much better to make modules for common stuff, and then compose them in your different environments. Depending on the complexity of your needs, keeping good organization & practice around using modules can be a bit challenging, but it will definitely scale through composition.

Modules also important to make multiple copies of things within an environment, for example to have a cluster in us-west-2 and a cluster in eu-central-1, both are in production environment. I would assume if I started with workspaces I would rapidly hit a point where I want to use it as a module and then need to re-organize things. If you chose workspaces as soon as you want a second region you need a big refactoring, but if you are using modules, you just instantiate the module a second time in your second region.
Not since the Magna Carta. Issue is that he is bypassing Congress on issues that are explicitly their purview per Article 1 of the Constitution.
> They think it’s the end all be all for everything.

Is (human-based) general intelligence not one of the fundamental enabling elements of literally every human activity throughout history, regardless of how many layers of automation and technology one has to peel back to get to it?

Can you maybe imagine how the ability to create arbitrary amounts of general intelligence, completely divorced from the normal lengthy biological process, could upend that foundation of human activity?

> They have the vision of the ‘AI’ they’ve seen in movies in mind, see the current ‘AI’ being used and to them it’s basically almost the same, their brain is mental bridging the concepts and saying it’s only a matter of time.

I've found that most AI-related movies exclusively focus on "quality ASI" scenarios, which are mostly irrelevant to our current state of the world, as an immense amount of danger/value/disruption will arrive with AGI. People who are seriously reasoning about the impacts of AGI are not using movies as references. "Those stupid movie watching idiots" is just a crutch you are using to avoid thinking about something that you disagree with.

> Real AI, artificial intelligence, is a fever dream. This is machine learning except the machines are bigger than ever before. There is no intellect.

Do you have any evidence to support this conclusion? And does it even matter? If "fake intellect" can replace a human, that human still has to deal with the very real issue or not having a job anymore. If "fake intellect" is used to conduct mass surveillance, and direct suppression activities towards divergent individuals, those individuals are still going to have a bad time.
I don't think there's anything going on here other than general corporate ham-fisted-ness.

* Microsoft believes the improvements in windows 11 provide genuine benefit to their users.

* Microsoft doesn't want to maintain their older OS forever.

What we are seeing play out however is that the consumer / small business market either does not understand or does not care about those benefits. I don't see any viable end-state for this other than Microsoft relaxing the requirements for Windows 11 or extending the end-of-support date for Windows 10. Based on this action my money is on the latter.
Something that even Mesa and Modula-2 already supported by 1980's, maybe one day C will eventually get proper slices.
And they wash their hands after a deadly strike, saying the AI that made the decision.

It eerily reminds me of a research piece I read recently detailing how the Nazis turned to automation for their mass exterminations because most of them couldn't bear the mental toll that came with their direct action.

Unfortunately, I couldn't quickly find that series of articles back.
The article is exactly this sentiment: the experience of how how evil takes over isn’t sudden, it’s insidious and slow and happens by inches. Those around you are not crying wolf, they understand history.
That is not what I said but perhaps I should make things clearer.

Changing things is an option if all else fails, not change at first sign of distress.

We have one life and once it's gone, it's gone, so in my view we should try to have a happy one.

And no idea why I'm even discussing this in this thread, I have been happily married with my wife for almost 30 years!

Carl Sagan was an excellent scientist and a wonderful thinker, writer and communicator. He may have committed adultery, so what?
Yeah, and again, I'm saying you're incorrectly saying my comment fits that mold and I disagree.
> Doctors dont have interesting tales to tell

You must know few doctors, or they must work in very boring locations.

> nor should have due to things being private by law

You wouldn't believe how amazingly easy to tell stories without any patient identifying details. Think of any of your best stories - could you tell them to me without providing me breadcrumbs about any identities? I bet you could with nearly every story you have to tell.
See the sibling comment which states Netflix does do this, and without consumer protection laws.
Maybe if the renamed the bypass Microsoft Windows 11 Installer Co-Pilot for Legacy Systems it would get their attention.
That is extremely simple, because there is less money to be made compared to just going into pure software/finance/etc, which is why all the US talent shifted there in the past.

Economically speaking it was a big advantage because you could get all the gadgets manufactured at chinese wages for the last decades-- electronics made in the US will be more expensive even after all the necessary investments are paid for (duh).

A possible model sector for how this could look like is agriculture:
Most nations subsidize the shit out of it to keep a good chunk of it local (~$20 billion/year for the US). You could treat heavy industry/electronics manufacturing the same way, it would just cost taxpayers a bunch and also increase prices in general (because you then poach manpower and capital from other unsubsidized industries).