skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Oh, that's just an artifact of using tax payer money to finance research.

This is true even if you're at a large company. But you're right that it is not true for most of the old scientists who predominately came from wealthy families. But I don't think we should "stop that" and rather I'm arguing that we should "modify it to reflect reality." Of course, it gets political, but governments (and its people) are highly incentivized to make long term improvements and work at scales and problems that aren't as appropriate for individuals or even companies (companies must work on much smaller timescales).

We really just need to stop getting in our own way. But that requires admitting we are dumb. Even if we're smart that doesn't mean we're not also dumb.

Then again, Musk has enough money he could develop over a dozen CERNs himself and fully fund them indefinitely, a feat so far done only by the agglomerated efforts of a large organization of countries (despite it being a drop in the bucket for their budgets).

I've never understood billionaires and mega billionaires though. Because I'd be setting up as many mega projects I could and give them indefinitely funding because you can't throw your money away faster than it grows. Well... I guess I understand MacKenzie Scott...
All of your points are premised on the idea that the only purpose of a corporation is to make as much money for its shareholders as possible. But that isn't true, especially in the case of a cooperative.

Most companies make decisions based on a list of priorities: they care about their shareholders/investors first, upper management second (upper management is usually bribed by the investors with equity, aligning their interests with the shareholders, so this is maybe a distinction without a difference), rank-and-file employees third, customers fourth, and anyone not involved with the company last.

The point of a cooperative is to flip this incentive structure on its head: the customers or workers are owners, so they get prioritized. The purpose of the company isn't to dominate the markets and become the biggest company ever, it's to make a better life for the people working for and patronizing the company, instead of just the people who own it.

> As an employee, I would prefer to work at a company where my equity does not have these restrictions placed on it.

Well obviously, if you're talking about equity in a company as something you can own and profit from without ongoing labor, you are definitionally a capitalist and you will be opposed to cooperatives.

> I would be very uneasy about investing anyone's retirement savings into such an organization.

The primary purpose of a cooperative is not to make profits for passive investors. This is like judging a fish on its ability to climb a tree.
I've started using Zed on a side project and I really appreciate that you can easily manipulate the chat / context and continue making requests

https://zed.dev/docs/assistant/assistant-panel#editing-a-con...

It's still a "chat" but it's just text at the end of the day. So you can edit as you see fit to refine your context and get better responses.
A Look at Federal Health Data Taken Offline
I am sitting here in EU and asking myself why does DOGE need access to data. All you need is access to the data structure to build software around it.
Show HN: Cur.vantage.sh – AWS Billing Code Lookup Tool
Hi HN,

We're the team behind Vantage and ec2instances.info and wanted to share a new microsite we're launching. We profiled the number of distinct AWS billing codes across our customer base and found that there are about 60,000 unique ones. We hear all the time that people are confused about the billing codes present in Cost Explorer or the Cost and Usage Report. Think of these as being things like “Requests-Tier1” for S3 or “CW:GMWI-Metrics” for CloudWatch. There is usually really limited resources for determining what these billing codes are and the AWS documentation isn't always fully helpful.

Over the span of the last two months, our team decided to build https://cur.vantage.sh/ - a new microsite for looking up these billing codes and attempting to explain in simplistic terms what these billing codes are and how you're charged. We have written content for a number of services and the site is still in progress but we decided to put it live and start getting feedback. Let us know what you think and if there is anything else that can be helpful on a site like this. Please have mercy as we're trying to share this early to get thoughts.
Agreed the autocomplete definitely gets more milage than the chat. But I frequently use it for terminal commands as well. Especially AWS cli work.

"how do I check the cors bucket policies on [S3 bucket name]"
I mean this completely seriously and as a concerned internet stranger...if that is literally true for you, please go seek mental health services right now. That's not normal or healthy.

All my social circles where we communicate over SMS/RCS group text chats consist of a little gentle ribbing about "those darn green bubble people" and that's about the extent of it. The Android users occasionally respond in kind by showing off some cool new feature that Samsung or Google came up with that Apple hasn't copied yet and everybody laughs it all off.
My theory is that Trump is playing the Nixon madman strategy w/ regards to trade. If everyone thinks he's crazy, he thinks he'll get better deals without having to do anything painful.

And for optics purposes, all he needs is "some win", not something that materially matters.

But as with all Trumpisms, we'll see. :\

I bring up Canada and Mexico because using their shipyard capacity (especially Mexico) would be a win-win: forex investment in heavy industry for them, competitive labor costs for the US, and the US Navy gets recapitalized.
Oh another fresh new account. What a coincidence.
So, I've felt pretty much like you - that is, I was happy with git, never really had major problems, and was generally content. Which meant that even though Jujutsu was on my radar for a while, it took me until now to take it for a spin.

In practice, for most bits and purposes, Jujutsu is just designed really well around a core set of primitives, which you use to achieve basically all your use-cases, which in git are spread across many fairly "special-case" features. This means that arbitrary "change tree modification" are pretty trivial.

The easiness of jumping into non-branch-tips and editing them with descendants automatically rebasing is also nice, to me, and fits in well with my workflow. Stacked PRs[0] are much less annoying than in Git thanks to auto-rebase as well.

Finally, I think the "Working on Two Things at the Same Time"[1] pattern is not easy (if even possible?) to achieve with git.

But all in all, as I wrote in the article's conclusion, the reason to use Jujutsu is that it just makes your VCS usage more pleasant, while generally not interfering with anything else as it effectively works as a git frontend.

[0]: https://kubamartin.com/posts/introduction-to-the-jujutsu-vcs...

[1]: https://kubamartin.com/posts/introduction-to-the-jujutsu-vcs...
The illegal 1.5 is always the optimal game theory choice because the chance of getting caught is not 100%
I don't think it's hard to argue with "He is doing what he said he would do".

He said on day one he'd lower grocery prices. He said he had nothing to do with Project 2025 and on day one he signed a stack of executive ordered hand written by the Heritage Foundation. etc.
Thank you for your reply. It's quite a sad situation.
I think this misses the point. It seems like the author is saying we should move from imperative instructions to a declarative document that describes what the software should do.

Imperative:
- write a HTTP server that serves jokes
- add a healthcheck endpoint
- add TLS and change the serving port to 443

Declarative:
- a HTTP server that serves jokes
- contains a healthcheck endpoint
- supports TLS on port 443

The differences here seem minimal because you can see all of it at once, but in the current chat paradigm you'd have to search through everything you've said to the bot to get the full context, including the side roads that never materialized.

In the document approach you're constantly refining the document. It's better than reviewing the code because (in theory) you're looking at "support TLS on port 443" instead of a lot of code, which means it can be used by a wider audience. And ideally I can give the same high level spec to multiple LLMs and see which makes the best application.
>the US would be well-served by taking ultimate control of ship design out of the Navy's sole hands, and infusing someone with a cost-focused incentive into the process.

The highest concern for the Navy isn't cost, it is will the ship survive in war. You can make a navy ship a lot cheaper by sacrificing armor and reliability. But those are thing the navy doesn't want to sacrifice. Cost is important, but it is at most #3 on the list of concerns.

Since I have family in the Navy, and want those ships to protect me if there is a war I agree with the navy. Cost is important, but it is not the most important thing.
I've been part of a few (Canadian) cooperatives. The incentive structure is completely different, it's akin to admitting you prefer great working conditions than having a chance to chance it rich. If a company is startup-sized, anything else is a sucker's bet.
There are ways of using actual compression to pack demos: https://archive.is/8KzKA
In the inland northwest we are sending a lot more fent/mexi's north than are coming south. BC bud was an issue...back before Washington legalized.

Also the deals announced were deals already done prior to this administration.
> And yet the Democrats tried to do exactly that

Some people among the Democrats said some things. Politicians say a lot of things.

It's actions that count. And in terms of actions, there hasn't been any meaningful antitrust enforcement since the Clinton administration.
If you want to stop the flow of hyperpotent opioids like fentanyl and nitazenes, legalise opium and heroin. As drugs, the only advantage of these compounds is that their potency makes them easier and cheaper to smuggle. I've asked a lot of opioid addicts about this and not one of them has described an all-things-equal preference for these drugs. I'm sure some people do exist, but they're likely a very small minority. Most people don't even know what they're using, they just take whatever's available to get a fix.

This is a completely artificial problem, created by the war on drugs. Just like the waves of PMMA deaths in europe caused by safrole seizures. Western nations have no one to blame for this but themselves.
> Tariffs are just taxes that will destroy the economy.

Tariffs are taxes and subsidies. See "Tariffs Give U.S. Steelmakers a Green Light to Lift Prices":

> Executives from U.S. steel companies were enthusiastic backers of the 2018 tariffs and have urged Trump to deploy them again in his second term. They have called for the elimination of tariff exemptions and duty-free import quotas, saying those carve-outs allow unfairly low-price steel to enter the U.S. and undermine the steel market.

[…]

> Higher prices for imported steel are often followed by domestic suppliers raising their own prices, which then get passed through supply chains, manufacturing executives said. For consumers already reeling from rising retail prices and inflation, pricier steel and aluminum could further lift costs for durable goods like appliances and automobiles, as well as consumer products with aluminum packaging, such as canned beverages.

> “The issue with tariffs is everybody raises their prices, even the domestics,” said Ralph Hardt, owner of Belleville International, a Pennsylvania-based manufacturer of valves and components used in the energy and defense industries. Steel and aluminum are Belleville’s largest expenses.

* https://www.wsj.com/economy/trade/trump-tariffs-mexico-canad...

So tariffs are taxes in the sense that consumers are paying higher prices. But they are subsidies in that domestic companies don't have as much pressure on prices and can get more money.

So if you want to help a particular industry might as well just go with subsidies directly instead of the taxation add-on as well.
If the deep state existed, Trump would have been convicted of treason for January 6th and shot like a dog, not impeached-but-not-removed.

Rub those brain cells together and use your logic organ, dude.
Team behind Twitterrific launches a multi-feed app called Tapestry
They only offered it for a month or 2 and pulled it pretty quick
People making decisions around drugs have no experience with drugs and users.

They just get hysterical information about the extreme cases and extrapolate to everyone.

People just need to be supported through hard times and experimentation phases so they come out the other side.

So many people eventually get clean, stop using and get back to having productive lives.

I saw so many unnecessary deaths, friends with potential, die, because we don't want to help and support them. Overdoses are not needed.These aren't street people that make up so much of the hysteria, just middle class normal people that had their life go a certain way.

People don't want fentanyl or fake drugs in general. Access to drugs that can be measured are safe. Opiods are safe, doctors give fentanyl to patients constantly, and you don't come out of surgeries a opioid addict because you got a dose one times.

The hysterical people need to learn there place in the discussion on drugs and get to the side.
Auto-watermarking of AI generated content, I would imagine
Stacked PRs with multi-branch rebases are effortless. Conflicts are actual things in the history that you can come back to later. Everything is automatically committed, so I don't lose work from a bad reset/stash pop.

Maybe these don't help you with your workflow. But in my case these solve the biggest problems I had with git while still being fully compatible.
Pure conjecture: relighting in Pixel phones. I don't think they have too many AR-like products. I'm surprised so much of this research is coming out of Google and not Meta.
Truly speaking, you can use AI for a little bit higher abstraction and ambiguity, but not much. For instance, if you need an iteration over an array and you want to do a very specific aggregation you can instruct AI to write this loop but you yourself need to understand exactly what it’s doing and have a very clear idea how this code snippet fits into the larger picture
The "war on drugs" has been waged for more than 40+ years. It seems like it takes more than a few years, most of which was during the worst public health crisis in generations, to succeed.

Most incarceration is about helping those who aren't the ones suffering (evidenced by "... a very unpleasant place"). Not attacking you for your comment, just pointing out the paradigm we as a society have.
Are you saying low consumption is bad and high consumption is good?

High consumption has been improving the economy, and destroying the earth. I'm not saying I have the answers, but it's not so simple.
In 2024 Canada had those tariffs on US goods:

- milk: 270%
- cheese: 245%
- butter: 298%
- poultry: 238%
- eggs: 163%

Tell me again how good of a friend Canada is to US.

People freak out about Trump's proposed tariffs as if other countries do not already have tariffs on US.
Decriminalization is step the first step. The obvious result is going to be that a problem _sometimes_ hidden becomes more prevalent. What failed in the Portland experiment was a lack of stable housing coupled with a public space system that was never designed for use by those afflicted by addiction.

The deterioration of our public spaces is not caused by our drug epidemic, it's the logical outcome when the state fails to provide services to the most vulnerable. People literally have nowhere else to go.
> China is #1, but Korea is #2, and Japan is #3

Yes, I know.

> Is Japan a low-wage country?

I never claimed that in my post. E.g. means "exempli gratia", or "for example". Thus the statement "shipyards in other high-income countries e.g. in Europe" meaning "shipyards in other high-income countries for example in Europe". Which does not preclude other high-income countries existing outside Europe.
Yeah, and in fact this is about the best-case scenario in many ways: "good defaults" that get you approximately where you want to be, with a way to update when those defaults aren't what you want.

Right now we have a ton of AI/ML/LLM folks working on this first clear challenge: better models that generate better defaults, which is great—but also will never solve the problem 100%, which is the second, less-clear challenge: there will always be times you don't want the defaults, especially as your requests become more and more high-level. It's the MS Word challenge reconstituted in the age of LLMs: everyone wants 20% of what's in Word, but it's not the same 20%. The good defaults are good except for that 20% you want to be non-default.

So there need to be ways to say "I want <this non-default thing>". Sometimes chat is enough for that, like when you can ask for a different background color. But sometimes it's really not! This is especially true when the things you want are not always obvious from limited observations of the program's behavior—where even just finding out that the "good default" isn't what you want can be hard.

Too few people are working on this latter challenge, IMO. (Full disclosure: I am one of them.)
It’s not nearly as slick. cursor’s indexing and integration are significant value-adds.
Don't forget he said the Ukraine was would already be over as well. MAGA has moved the goalpost so far from 'get away from being warmongers on day one' to 'Annex Canada, annex Greenland, go to war with Panama, send troops to take out the Cartels'. Truly 1984 stuff going on.
Quantum Bayesian Inference with Renormalization for Gravitational Waves
It is a pretty unhelpful way to say "Is not longer as incredibly dominant as it was". It's a stretch to apply it to "Is declining into irrelevence", even.
> This is just a different bad incentive; it incentivizes police to completely ignore situations

If the societal cost of enforcement exceeds the societal cost of non-enforcement, then perhaps they should ignore the situation.

> or to find someone to hold accountable

This is why it would have to be decided by a judge as part of sentencing. If they're actually accountable then why shouldn't they be held to that?

> Just extend the logic to the other expenses of an investigation- hourly pay, overtime, materials, forensics. Making a criminal pay for their own arrest is a terrible idea.

I don't necessarily disagree, but just to play devil's advocate: why? It's their fault the public had to spend money on this, so why shouldn't they pay for it? (One argument I can think of is that for small crimes the cost of enforcement may greatly exceed the bounds of reasonable punishment for the offense, but what about when that's not the case?)

> Those things are not related to the crime itself

I'd argue exchanging gunfire with police is definitely a big part of the crime committed in this case. The shoplifting that started the encounter is practically irrelevant compared to that.
China targets Google, Nvidia and Intel as Trump tariffs bite
> It can be a great way to communicate them

It's usually not. Narrative is a famously flawed way to communicate or record the real world.

It's great for generating engagement, though.
Point taken, but archeologists and anthropologists have known for a while now that cardiovascular disease is virtually absent in non-industrial societies.

And we also know there's a ton more that could be done to lessen how common heart disease is
I can point to 15 days that are going to shape a century of anti-science...at least here in the USA.
Since asexual terms are preferred, it was renamed to chickenpit.

Joke aside, the term comes from the navy, the place where the cockswain/coxswain, the person in charge of a boat, is. Should that post be renamed to flight swain?

If we're going to make such efforts to change words, I think it's time for a new artificial non-ambiguous language as the international standard. That way, we could learn our local dialects, and the common tongue where all the historical warts are corrected. As a bonus, computers would be more efficient with a non-ambiguous natural language.
Guide to a Self-Managed Life
You say "still" as if NTFS hasn't evolved in that time. It still has a far more capable permissions model than any Linux filesystem.

Raymond called it 21 years ago: when you change the insides, no one notices. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20040525-00/?p=39...
A.A. Milne Drawings Discovered in an Attic Make a Mint at Auction
I meant to link this tweet [1] from the former Communications Director of the Vice President and active member of DOGE, Katie Miller. There’s no evidence that the members with access had “emergency” clearance and they could very well have gone through the regular process, so I was careful not to say they were granted clearance in that way. I just wanted to mention it as something people have been grouping into this and complaining about.

[1] https://x.com/katierosemiller/status/1886110659097637367
> Correct, the executive branch can always opt to not spend the money it was allocated.

No, they cannot. Trump was impeached during his first term over this very issue. Congress had appropriated funding for the Ukraine, Trump didn't want to provide it without obtaining concessions from Zelenski. Just like Trump doesn't want to provide California any FEMA money for the LA fires without concessions. Trump has been through this before, he knows it's illegal, but he doesn't care. It's kinda funny that people expect a felon to care about the law.
Please don't cross into personal attack yourself, regardless of what other commenters are doing, and please don't perpetuate flamewars on HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
"Current AI tools pretend writing software is like having a conversation. "

But that is true? Devs spend more time in meetings than writing code. Having conversations about the code they are going to write.
Would it be feasible to have micro-excavator drone? It seems like for one in article, a lot of space is used by the human driving it. They could make a smaller one that doesn't have cab and is controlled by remote. That would especially lower the height.
Narrative text is a worse UI pattern. It's impractical to read. Also how exactly do you merge narrative changes if you need to write several transformations as updates? Are you expected to update the original text? How does this affect diffs in version control?

I think it's more ideal to have the LLM map text to some declarative pseudocode that's easy to read which is then translated to code.

The example given by Daniel might map to something like this:

define sign-in-screen:
panel background "#f9f9f9":
input email required: true, validate-on-blur: true
input password required: true
button "Sign in" gradient: ("#EEE" "#DDD")
connect-to-database

Then you'd use chat to make updates. For example, "make the gradient red" or "add a name field." Come to think of it, I don't see why chat is a bad interface at all with this set up.
> The purpose of the company isn't to dominate the markets and become the biggest company ever, it's to make a better life for the people working for and patronizing the company, instead of just the people who own it.

That's perfectly fine, and also the reason why cooperatives are a pretty niche thing: they don't prioritize growth.