skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like I could sum up this article as "give engineers everything they want, they're expensive!"

TBH, I hate articles like this, not because I disagree with the general thesis, but because they present things in a way that is so one-sided that it is either ignorant or willfully blind to the other side of the equation.

Yes, I wholeheartedly agree that cost cutting or being stingy with resources can be counterproductive. But if you look at some of the top examples the article gives, nearly every one can have a flip side:

1."Tool penny pinching" - totally agree, having a good set of tools for engineers is critically important. At the same time, I've seen companies do an audit where they found lots of expensive SaaS products got little use or were not worth it. It's fair to say that individual tools should have to justify their costs in terms of productivity improvements or time savings.

2. Hardware savings - Unlike this article, I recall reading another good example of a midsize software company I believe where the engineers were just able to make a case that better hardware would save x hours per developer per year. It was an easy argument to management so they upgraded. That's much better than "We want the fastest laptop, just trust us!"

3. "Infrastructure Sabotage" - this is the one that I think annoyed me the most, because I've seen cloud costs explode where hardly anyone had a good grasp on where that money was going.

Yes, there is a reason "penny wise and pound foolish" is a well known saying. But this article is just heavy on the feels without ever making good, analytical arguments.
Younger people are more willing to take bigger risks. No one with a stable life and family would touch this "assignment" with a 49.5 inch pole.
USAID helped terror organizations[1]. So this information is public and US is now a sponsor of terrorism? I don't think so or atleast not publicly. So their assertion stands its corrupt to their core.

[1] https://m.economictimes.com/news/international/world-news/ho...
Similar story, forced to downsize a service, but it had one RPC with high availability requirements. So we had to spin up another service for this one RPC. And a pipeline to copy the data. And a duplicate database. And now the high availability data is stale, requiring other teams to do weird workarounds that also increase cost and make things more buggy. Yay, frugal.
There was a large company in my city that had around 30 floors of staff and a dedicated full time contractor managing the expensive coffee machines on each floor (running dishwashers, restocking beans/milk, cleaning/servicing the machines etc). Management decided to do away with this role and get rid of the coffee machines to save 1 Full time salary + change.

The next week there were 40 staff queuing for coffee at every cafe within a 10 minute walk. Coffee breaks went from 3-4 minutes (walk to kitchen on your floor, press 'latte', walk to desk) to a minimum of 45 minutes (elevator to ground floor, walk to cafe, queue with everyone else, wait with everyone else, elevator back up). These were staff on high six figure salaries.

Definitely the Frupidiest decision I have ever seen.
Writing to fix all the slightly imperfect books that intrigued but disappointed you, you're onto something there.
I can't tell if you're trying to insult the post or speaking to a more general phenomenon.
It used to, and used to have significant mines of it’s own.
We've just gotten through a big second generation of available models, but at least for the projects I'm on, I still feel just as far away as ever as being able to trust responses. I spent a few hours this weekend working on a side project that involved setting up a graphql server with a few basic query resolvers and field resolvers, and my experience with 4o, R1, o3-mini-high were all akin to arguing with too-confident junior engineers that were confused, without realizing it, about what they thought they knew. And this was basic stuff about simple graphql resolvers. I did have my first experience of o3-mini-high (finally, after much arguing) being able to answer something that R1 couldn't, though.

It's weird, because it's still wildly useful and my ideas for side projects are definitely more expansive than they used to be. And yet, I'm really far from having any fear of replacement. Almost none of the answers I'm getting are truly nailing the experience of teaching me something new, while also having perfect accuracy. (I'm on ChatGPT+, not pro.)
> They've recently answered that. YES. They think he can break the law.

No, they said in certain cases, if he breaks the law, the available remedies for that lawbreaking do not include post-Presidential criminal prosecution.
In modern environments most equipment is often already treated as ephemeral. There are few major upgrades in maintenance cycles, but rather the whole rack is replaced periodically... and the data store repairs the distributed volume. =3
Such a cool way to advertise your own blog.
I tweet occasionally even though I have like 10 followers, of which none have ever responded, basically as an exercise for self accountability. I want to be able to look back on what I said at particular moments in time and know what I thought, in a bite size snippet, and was comfortable putting it out in public.
There is nothing to beat. Nothing illegal has been done. But sure as hell a lot of people seem to not understand how the government works are beating the drums of what is happening being illegal.
Very interesting and timely especially since I see the following so often:

> Why wouldn’t the Linux kernel team choose Ada instead of Rust?

To which I say: Ada doesn't have a large user base beyond DOD projects. Virtually no greenfield projects except for DOD. Whereas there has been a Cambrian explosion of Unix kernels/tools/servers written in Rust.

More generally, these questions of the form "Why are you ignoring X?" where X is Ada or Zig or C++ are really "Why didn't you write/don't you rewrite this in Rust?" by a different name.

And my/that answer goes both ways. Notably, Roc recently has stated it is moving away from Rust. Ghostty uses Zig because Mitchell Hashimoto doesn't like Rust. But the answer is always someone has to show up and do the work, usually because they like doing the work in some language.

So -- it's okay to like the project strictly because of the language chosen. That being said -- I'm super interested in the more technical differences.
You could say it's the most sensitive area that affects the day-to-day life of everyday people. Especially medicaid and co. for the older voterbase (AKA the one that actually votes). Those Intelligence agency data wouldn't have made as big a public outcry in comparison.
Show HN: The simplest iOS app to log your workout sessions
Hey everyone!

The backstory is that I found myself using the native iOS "Notes" app to log my sets and it was a pain, I searched for other apps and they were all too complex for what I need.

I need to just log the bare minimum for an exercise and have access to the history of sets that I've done to get an idea on how much weight to put on the machine next time. And that's exactly the problem that this app solves.

I have a few friends and a few users (~30) using the iOS app already which is exciting. Here's the link if anyone is interested, the app is 100% free and contains no ads:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/gymlog-app/id6736846878?platfo...
There's no way that USAID was more resistant to an audit than DOD.
It's happening but slowly.

Lynas Rare Earths who are the largest miner and processor outside of China are in the initial stages of building a plant in Texas (which includes funding from the DoD). They currently have plants in Kalgoorlie and Malaysia, but not end-to-end making magnets.

Iluka have also secured the additional funding required for a processing plant in Australia and have deals with other miners for feed stock once they get going.

Disclaimer: I own shares in the above two and others and all currently at a loss on my initial investments.
My boss and I once justified a visit to one of the Autodesk conferences (which was, in my opinion, quite lavish and expensive) by my getting time with some of their API developers. It was maybe 15 minutes, but it was worth every second.
> I've never even heard of this issue and more sounds like a simple mistake that can be addressed by talking to T-Mobile

I've had T-Mobile for too long.

It would frequently drop SMS until I purchased a new phone. The problem went away after then.

New problems came about. Not being able to log in to their website using Firefox in Private Mode, for example. Not to mention many frequent other types of privacy violations.

Too bad other carriers don't have service here. I'd drop T-Mobile in a heartbeat.
Which 911 center will the satellite relay calls to?
I look at the problem the other way around: There are certain domains that significantly constrain the choice of programming language, for reasons like compatibility, or performance. If you're already limited to a small set of statically-compiled 'systems languages' like C, Ada, Rust, etc, then memory-safety is a secondary factor that will really influence your choice of which systems programming language you use.
The issues usually are: Expensive, slow, weather related connection issues, blocking sky, space junk and/or falling debri.
Same with the Mother Night by Vonnegut, which leads to a different book. I was surprised to see a free Vonnegut book, but alas.
None of these links provide any guesses about the impact of AGI on unemployment rates. By AGI I mean AI that is as smart and as capable as an intelligent and highly educated human. What will happen when in a few years companies realize that AI systems do a better job than their human employees?
At one job I had in Sweden, conference trips abroad were a way to give engineers a reward that wasn't taxed at 60-80%.

I enjoyed my trips, but I learned very little.
I don't know, I can think of worse off situations. Example: We provide a service, make the customer feel they cannot do without the service, then we exploit the customer.

Real life examples: social media
> I've learnt to blog as if no one will ever read

I agree with the detachment part but when I write about technology, books, ideas/ thoughts, etc. I generally find it 'easier' to imagine as if I am talking to someone in front of me and write in a conversational style. I liked that a couple of my favorite fiction writers used this style and sort of followed it.
I’ve been using O1 for some question/answering stuff around CMake and symbol resolution — stuff I know little about, yet stuff the internet knows a ton about.

O1 has been really useful, but just the practice of putting my convoluted question into words has often helped me figure out the answer without even clicking submit.
I stand corrected, apologize for misinformation, and thank you for sticking with this thread.

But if I may put my cynical hat on (I think this is fair for any VPN provider), mullvad states in HN[0]

> Port forwarding needed to be removed on moral grounds.

Fair enough, however such moral grounds only came to light when extreme and immediate pressure was applied to their business model. The same post does talk about abuse, but only in terms of how it created a negative experience for "some" users (no details). The blog post does go into those negative effects, good, and doesn't try to whitewash it in moral reasons, also good. I think I mistook the official blog with an official statement here on HN.

There was another HN post apparently by a mullvad engineer that didn't pull any punches. I can't find it anymore, but I remember that it was that post that somehow led me to kfred's post and then left a very bad taste in my mouth. Maybe someone else is a better researcher than me and can dig it up.

I'll retract my "character" criticism, since mullvad clearly cares deeply about privacy, regardless of my perceived problems with their public communications.

Personally, iCloud Private Relay ticks all the boxes for my use cases, so I should have just kept my mouth shut.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37062965
It's rarer, but it's the same type of amenity for a gym that has a sauna. Not all gyms have saunas either, but a certain type of gym does.

Frankly, I don't understand your view either. The vast majority of folks do not have access to a natural body of water that is cold enough, especially not year round. And having a plunge tank available at your home is a considerable expense, either in recurring ice cost or in the type of machine that can actively cool water.

The lowest barrier to entry is having access to it at an external facility. I lived in an apartment where that had a cold plunge next to the regular pool (which was also next to the apartment gym), for instance.
there is this song by Randy Newman - the great nations of Europe. I highly recommend it as a history lesson :-(
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxNQxu7PWKM

...
Columbus sailed for India
Found Salvador instead
He shook hands with some Indians and soon they all were dead
They got TB and typhoid and athlete's foot
Diphtheria and the flu
Excuse me great nations coming through!

Hide your wives and daughters
Hide your sons as well
With the great nations of Europe you never can tell

From where you and I are standing
At the end of a century
Europes have sprung up everywhere as even I can see
But there on the horizon as a possibility
Some bug from out of Africa might come for you and me
Destroying everything in its path
From sea to shining sea
Like the great nations of Europe
In the sixteenth century
I blog because once a post of mine made the front page of HN and you guys crashed my VPS with traffic for 2 days straight - including my work site hosted on the same server. I will cherish that moment of excitement and terror for the rest of my days
WeSQL Disaster Recovery Across Regions – WeSQL Replication Solution with S3
Outside of Biden and Obama (first term only interestingly) deficits were far less. As recently as 2015, it was "only" $442 billion, and generally less than a trillion.

USAID's budget was upwards of $50 billion, so cutting that single organization brings us 5-10% of the way there.

And its primary purpose was propaganda of the sort that, when effective, just ends up driving us into conflicts half way around the world and making it very difficult to ever truly improve relations with 'foreign adversaries.' I'm tired of being at war with Eastasia.

And Musk has zero power. He can only make recommendations. The 'President Musk' stuff is a transparent effort to try to foment antagonism between Trump and Musk by exploiting Trump's insecurities.
What do you think would happen if they actually put asbestos on the label?

Not everyone reads the label, but enough people do that it would be discovered on the first day, if not before the first day as some retailers check for label changes before putting a modified product on their shelves. Any retailer who didn't notice this to begin with would then notice the front page story condemning the company for doing it and all of the products would be removed from the shelves and returned to the manufacturer to save the retailer from the reputation hit of carrying it in their store. The manufacturer's reputation would be destroyed and no one would be willing to carry their products, depriving them of the incentive to do this because it would immediately tank the company, and this would be an obvious outcome to private equity firms who want to make rather than lose money.

Notice that you can currently buy things like arsenic for use as rat poison and this is not a problem because the label tells you that it's arsenic so you know not to use it as a food additive.
L.A. power utility found irregularities on equipment where wildfire broke out
Our unhealthy fixation with emulating #1
T-Mobile to Charge $15 per Month for Starlink Satellite Texting Feature
I think it's more to do with long eroded goodwill. I remember the early 10's when he was an internet darling and there was optimism on what he would deliver. Then some of that is simply artificially inflated hype by investors on Wall Street that need him to keep that persona so they can keep their money going up.

He's long turned about face with that, but that goodwill can die really, really hard (only took until now for Wall Street to very slowly start pulling out). As we see with Donald Trump somehow being relevant some 4 decades after his celebrity fame for a national election.

>Why are we nearly dead set that it's opposite of that?

My impression is that Musk knew to surround himself with good people. Be it coincidence, a Charisma check, or simply throwing cash at them, those people clearly did amazing things and he was the face of it all.

This is more or less the opposite, and his crude behavior navigating government IMO could not have gone worse. He had at least 2 years to sow the seeds and he's instead taking "Drill Baby, Drill" a bit too seriously. I could be very wrong and underestimating him. But he feels more like someone who demands the spotlight, not a mastermind with a precise vision. Those good people are not around him anymore; Trump sure as hell doesn't have a vision past tax cuts for billionaires.
No? It's a very simple logical deduction. We know what types of systems these countries have and we know their health outcomes. They're the opposite of what they claimed in no uncertain terms.
Blocked because they didn't establish standing [1]:

> “This data includes the medical and financial records of millions of Americans,” Bates wrote in a nine-page order. “But on the current record, plaintiffs have failed to establish standing.”

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing_(law)
My sense is that this is true with many but not all flags. See https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... for past explanations.

What's the plan? I guess the plan is continue to turn off flags on specific submissions that people bring to our attention and which seem to clear the bar according to the principles I've outlined in this and other threads.
Musk has tried multiple times to alter the spending. Trump couldn't even do that. There is definitely illegal activity.

But no need to argue this. IANAL, and Musks', like, 8 lawsuits (I've lost count on how many people sued him this month alone) will get to the bottom of that.
What a very novel UI! I like it a lot! It makes a lot of sense for people to cascade files left to right, especially when people have more widescreen monitors.
I tried blogging in the mid-2000's about drones. I was documenting my experience building drone flight controllers (mind you I was using Cortex-M3 cores and early 3-axis IMUs) and had published schematics and source code.

About 5 years later my site had been forgotten, and a company in the UK offered me US$10,000 for use of my schematics and source code.

I was floored. I did ZERO advertising. I was blogging because honestly: I wanted intellectual validation because everyone I admired was blogging and I wanted people to think I was smart, too (I had even joined MENSA that year). I had serious FOMO/esteem problems in my 30's.

Fortunately--somehow--Google connected me with this company through simple search. The company went under, but I got my check for real. My friend at the time was mad at me for not asking 10x that, but so what?

Before ~2010 I stopped blogging and took all my stuff down because I really don't like being known or exposed publicly (I'm still very hard to find on google because someone more famous than me with my name is a top hit!), and I outgrew the FOMO. It doesn't seem to matter anymore because I'm so old: at my level the contacts I developed over three decades matter more than blogs. But it was pretty cool to get an email out of the blue with money attached!
I don't mean to be obtuse, so let me make sure I have this right (and please afford me some leeway on my gentle ribbing, I assure you it's all in good fun and nothing personal):

A framework will allow me to separate the app from its backend?

The web, by its very nature, runs on a client/server architecture, so it has long been possible to separate the front from the backend via an API (we can argue the level of difficulty involved, but I would say the friction was substantially reduced with the introduction of XMLHttpRequest).

So aside from separation via API, according to your list, that leaves us with (1) a bigger development team; (2) a less efficient result; (3) a potentially more polished result (I added possibly, because I'm dubious about the claim that a JS framework makes the result more polished- does it make the browser render the HTML components in a higher resolution or higher color bit-depth?); (4) someone on call (like an employee or group of employees who have to be on call at all times? or am I misunderstanding?); and (5) a better "bus factor" which is a term that I am actually unfamiliar with (is this jargon, or is it an actual technical term/concept?).

Which of these are technical in nature, or rather I should say, which of these factors has anything to do with software (in the abstract) or actual code or markup (in the concrete)?

Now for my more serious follow up: just level with me; is this all bs? Do people use these frameworks because they don't know any other way to do it? Is it a code / organizational issue? Did people take the "separate all code from all HTML/CSS" advice too far and adopt it as dogma? Do people find the event model in JS to be too complex or unreliable? Is it an issue of people getting hooked on frameworks while JS was in flux so they needed the polyfills? Is it that people fell in love with TS, which naturally led to framework-itis?

I feel kind of like I went to the future, and everybody rides exercise bikes everywhere they go to stay in shape, but since exercise bikes don't go anywhere, they have to be put in the bed of a pickup truck first, you know, to actually go places, but then there was a gas shortage, so it was decided to save gas we'd all carpool by putting 5 pickup trucks on a single semi-truck flatbed. Because that's just how things evolved.

So now you're explaining to me why I see people riding exercise bikes on top of pickup trucks that are themselves being pulled 5 at a time on the back of a semi truck, and you're looking at me like I'm out of touch because I can't figure out why you guys can't just walk the 250 feet to the store across the street.
This seems like an unfair conspiracy theory. It’s more likely that they are just a big target with historically not enough defense.
Other than the laws of physics, that is.
Another way to look at this is: The first assembly language compiler was handcoded in binary to begin with, and then that compiler's machine code was translated to the more expressive language (assembly). Similar for Fortran/C/etc. from assembly code. Progressively, more expressive languages have been bootstrapped from prior lower-level languages. In a similar way, perhaps a more concise LLM can be built by utilizing a less efficient one?
What does "thanks to The Campaign Registry" mean? Why are they involved? Are those texts automated?