skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The rest of the thread explicitly states that (1) SAR is badly short-staffed; and (2) they have similar training requirements. (see e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42997100 )

You're presenting ski patrol as an example of how SAR operates, and the other comments seem to agree. Is it desirable to run SAR that way?
`--help` is a GNU convention, which is why it's not as universal as you want it to be. Of course these days most Linux users interact with GNU tools and thus go on to develop their own tools with the same convention, but it's the reason why non-GNU things like BSD utils or old `openssl` don't have it.
I guess luring educated immigrants from other countries might look like parasitizing to some. Makes you think, right? (I hope)
172 locations out of ~1,000 in Japan, many of which were opened during the pandemic to handle increased delivery demand.

This is a nothingburger. (Nothingpizza?)
Yeah, I'm using it and I agree it will probably become a lot better, but I don't think we're really close to a point where AI itself will be able to just write an app that has 100s of prompts that interact with one other. Even if it does, you'll probably be able to get it running better by manually optimizing a bunch of stuff (when I say manually, I'm also including iterating over a prompt in a chat with LLM).

It's capable of creating CRUD apps from scratch more or less by itself, and I can see how in this area we soon might get to a point where you can get your own clone of a lot of apps up and running in 30 minutes.

But I imagine a lot of future value we might see created will come from:

1) specialized prompts - looks simple but I don't think it is, especially if you have 100s of them in your application and you have complex logic on how they interact between each other, you're using different models for different parts of your application based on their strengths, etc

2) access to structured data you can connect your agents to

3) network effects - app that is mostly used gets better just by using the usage data (the article did talk about network effects)

I don't think it's really easy to replicate these 3 factors. The article is also mentioning some of this, I'm not really arguing with that, just pointing out that I don't think it will be that simple to c/p full applications.
Yes, that supposed to be funny. The text was written by us humans.
The fuel, while not all native vegetation, is mostly evolved to burn. But it is "supposed to" burn every 100 years or so from lightning or other natural cause. Humans have quickened the pace at which CA coastal sage scrub catches on fire(like, 12-25 years or something).

I think the residents and city also bear some responsibility because the risk of fire in coastal southern CA is widely known. People just don't like to follow CalFire guidelines or pay the costs of protecting their property. But if there was poor design or lack of maintenance in the electrical grid that rises to the level of negligence then the utility should pay.
Hi fellow yelling old man,

would it be OK for me to steal your analogy? It's great!

In the team I'm currently leading, we have made the same observation, with stuff getting more complicated without anything substantial to show for it. In a way we're having a harder time getting out features than twenty years ago, but somehow that's "progress".

As an experiment, I had one of my juniors rewrite a (admittedly small) frontend with Go templates and HTMX, and not only did they have a blast doing it, they were surprised at how simple everything suddenly was. Give that one a try, it's worth it!

That said, there are frontends with requirements that actually do need all that framework crap. Once you want 3D stuff that a user can move around with the mouse, you pretty much have no other choice. While those special cases are rare, people prefer to learn one framework and use it for every nail they see lying around instead of looking at all the other tools in their shed...
So you’re assuming rich guys will spend so much that 40% of their spent money will cover 60% of the entire UBI budget? Or do you also want rich guys to pay income tax? No matter how I look at this I don’t see it working without a massive forced wealth redistribution from rich to poor.
Ah yes, another “this hammer is a terrible paintbrush!” blog post. Bonus points for the dig at node_modules bloat.

You can write a post like this about the frustrations of any language / tool / framework - just go in with random expectations and limited understanding - and when you encounter an obstacle don’t attempt to learn why it’s there.
I mainly blog for myself in the future, but in a slightly different flavor than the author mentions. If there's a complicated ML concept that I'd really like to understand, explaining it to an audience (even if that audience is myself in the future) is a great way to understand it.

That goes double for visuals, which is another reason I use a custom static site. Can't run JS on Medium. I even built out a client-side search and learned a good amount from that too.
Did you get the $10k back? Surely they haven't delivered?
This is a great counter argument to 'shouting into the void', as a friend of mine calls it.
I do the writing, to refine my thinking and identify my cognitive dissonance, but I almost never share, and certainly not in the public domain - why shout into the void?
But then again, why not?
If your not compromising a patent or other monetization path, what's the problem?
Ideas are worthless until executed, iterated and (in)validated.
I should share more.
Thank you @andysblog
Some open source projects will have at least some such docs available. Ours (OpenTRV) does.
>I would like a source please.

Sure. Off the top of my head from a previous conversation about aid(?) to Mozambique[1], that's $83.5 million.

That's probably one of the better examples because I think that fighting STDs is an honorable cause, but $83.5 million when we're both trillions in debt and have pressing concerns at home? Yeah no, we need to help ourselves first if we can spend that kind of money on a whim.

>charges that are microscopic

Am I actually correct in assuming y'all are trying to tell me I shouldn't care that my taxes are being wasted just because the sum is relatively small? Emphasis on relative. I really want to avoid attacking someone on that because it sounds so disingenuous, but it's increasingly hard to do so.

Tax dollars are a sacred resource, provided by the sweat (and possibly blood) of American taxpayers. As a taxpayer myself, I will not tolerate seeing my and our taxes spent so flippantly.

>None of that "efficiency" is coming to you and me

An efficient government means filing our tax returns wouldn't be anywhere as obnoxious as they are today, or any number of government paperwork we would or could need to do in our lives. Fewer expenses from an efficient government would also mean less justification for government revenue including high taxes and tariffs.

An efficient government (and I do not mean that in a "No True Scotsman" fashion) will be beneficial to everyone everywhere.

>I don't know your income level.

I'm squarely in the lower to middle part of the middle class, with our family business (which I work for) that is classified as a small business (it's an official legal term, for those who aren't aware) which make up the core of American businesses.

[1]: https://datarepublican.com/award_search/?keywords=RZ4NKR9DQN...
The first use of the word “android” comes from the discussion of a legendary mechanical talking head invented by Albertus Magnus. Thomas Aquinas couldn’t bear its babble and so he smashed it to bits. So, maybe he’s a patron saint of the anti-AI crowd?

https://archive.org/details/b30337161
I hope you understand that a fair bit of my second post was tongue-in-cheek.

I appreciate the concrete examples, and yes, that makes perfect sense when you start getting into data-heavy frontend applications. I do remember jQuery being useful for AJAX and for DOM selection primarily, so I get it.

And of course I knew I was missing something, that's why I asked lol, the question was serious and I knew HN wouldn't let me down.

I'm still a bit mystified about the necessity of a shadow DOM, it just seems counterintuitive to me, but perhaps it's because I'm not familiar with browsers' DOM handling conventions. Perhaps me gaining some insight there would make the purpose of a shadow DOM more clear.

Honestly, I really did figure that it had something to do with the event model (not the DOM or shadow DOM). Something about providing a more consistent apparatus for wiring and handling events.

I still think there's a lot of unnecessary spinning of the wheels on the front end, but that gets beat to death around here, so I'll let it be.
It was a move by the political parties to campaign on social wedge issues and ignore economic ones.
That might be the reason why this has been submitted (i.e, the author doesn't know what "raw HTML" is).
Sociopathy is a very strong word, but they do show a pattern of criminal and anti-social behavior. This is not too uncommon in teens, and many young problem kids reform into good members of society either by being shown consequences for their negative behavior, or more or less naturally "mellowing out".

The issue here is that these kids seem to fail upwards, and as you say, get rewarded for anti-social behavior, which sets them on a terrible path for the future. In the Com chat log shared in the article, they made fun of Edward Coristine for his complete lack of programming skills, and the other "doxxed" members of the DOGE team have some smaller projects online as well. If that's the kind of code SpaceX and Tesla run on, I'd give all of their projects a very wide berth.
Making command line tools at work really made me appreciate the work it takes to make a good one.

Do you have a good `--help`? Did you catch the common mistakes and return a helpful error message? Did you put reasonable defaults? Do you have enough examples on how to actually use it: not just one running example, but actually one that uses at least _some_ of the options.

Your UX instincts do get tested in this.
How it's "resolved"? Just because it happened a while ago (and continued in some different form since then pretty much until now - a lot of "we love DEI" stuff from FAA that I've seen are pretty recent) does not make it "resolved". Also, people still remember and discuss stuff that happened decades ago, including on HN, all the time. I don't see why the exception must be made for this story, so that since it started a while ago, it must never be mentioned again.

Your reference to "state-sponsored propoganda" is very strange too - if you accuse the author of being the agent of some state, say it openly - and bring the receipts to prove it. Otherwise, this kind of innuendo should not have a place anywhere.
I get the impression this is a bit of a meme...

"Raw. But cooked"

At the very least the discussion here is popcorn worthy.
I first heard the word "frupidity" from friends at Amazon, where this seems to be quite common. Examples include prohibiting buying business class tickets, even if discounted, so people buy more expensive full fare economy tickets instead and upgrade cheaply off that with points.

Business travel in general seems to be rich hunting grounds for frupidity, because the bean counters aren't the ones traveling. The good old "can't expense anything without a receipt" policy, for example, ensures people will take expensive taxis (with receipts!) instead of tapping on and off public transport.
> Operation System

OS is generally expanded to Operating System, not Operation System, in English
I used to blog with raw html. In 1999 when I was 12. It sucked. There is a reason why we use things like markdown now. Still, you kids should definitely dig into the fundamentals at least one time and write raw html. Just don't stay there and pretend it's somehow better for you.
Yes, but real world entities don't stop being a thing just because you refer to their one specific trait. The god example only works if you assume it works. That's why it's not logical.

Anyway, traits are "is a" descriptive thing, not a referential equality "is". The trinity relations are not "is a" to begin with, or we'd be having many gods and Christian priests are not into that.
The about section of my blog reads:
"This is where I treat my desire to constantly talk about the things I'm making"

Surely it would be nice if someone read it, but really it would just be a bonus. It also makes it completely okay that I don't post that often.

I do also like that my linkedin profile can point to a personal website that contains something else than the profile itself.
> Some of them just made stupid mistakes when they were younger and sometimes dumb kids get way overcharged for cyber crimes. For the most part I think it's fine for kids to go through a phase where they think it's cool but they don't really know what they are doing.

I think a lot of the concern is that these kids aren't out of that phase yet.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/02/04/elon-musk...
For a model to be ‘fully’ open source you need more than the model itself and a way to run it. You also need the data and the program that can be used to train it.

See The Open Source AI Definition from OSI: https://opensource.org/ai
> but we've spent the last two (three?) decades trying to close the remaining gap left by dragon in the voice to text problem space, and haven't much progress to show.

Who says it's possible to close the gap? Humans are certainly not capable of doing perfect speech-to-text. You can sit someone down with a song recording and the ability to replay it as much as they want and there's no guarantee they'll ever be able to tell you what the lyrics are.
I forgot to mention that the Linux kernel was printing warnings about the memory so it somehow knew something was wrong and was able to mitigate the damage.

So you were just "unlucky"? ;)

I won't claim to be an expert in either kernel but if you take both our cases (anecdatum) it seems that Linux is better at recognizing a problem and either mitigating it or failing hard. The latter sitatiion is much better than Windows just happily trying to use faulty hardware and rolling the dice. In my case, when running under Windows I was getting file corruption too.

My story is kind of old and so this was Windows 7, I think. Maybe Windows is better now.
> if you can stay within the language you're fine

Agreed, but people have a tendency to do otherwise. At the very least you still have to install the right version of the language. And there are probably an few other tools, linters and such... Next thing you know you've got quite a pile that's not covered by your language's package manager.
The Rust one seems a specific bug in the implementation, while the Agda one seems more like a fundamental flaw caused by allowing aliased mutation though.
Those are two instances of text that should not be editable.
> I honestly doubt they would all be assigned to the same server for practical reasons anyways.

The computer science department at my university had multiple servers. All CS students got an account on the one same server by default. Access was granted to other servers on a case by case basis, based on very course-specific needs.

So yes, in my case, all CS undergrads used the same one server.
Thank you! I'm on my 3rd draft of a novel so that's actually super lovely to hear.
Ask HN: Can I publish AI-Generated of YouTube videos without IP Issues?
I used GenAI to create an audio summary of several YouTube videos, incorporating transcripts and key points from the content. The final output is an audio overview that sounds like a human summarizing the videos.

Before uploading this to the internet, I’m wondering about potential intellectual property (IP) concerns. Specifically:

- Does summarizing YouTube videos (without using direct quotes) count as fair use?
- If the AI-generated summary is transformative, does it reduce legal risk?
- Would citing the original video creators help, or do I need explicit permission?
- Are there any known cases where platforms like Spotify or YouTube took action against AI-generated summaries?

I’d love to hear from anyone with experience in copyright law, content creation, or platform policies.
Ahahah, okey... So at this point, going back would feel like a betrayal of everything I've built
My career started in the transition period between jQuery everywhere and frameworks everywhere. Much of my work throughout the years was picking up after others who left/were fired.

Main difference that I noticed between that time and the present day is that you hardly ever see unfixable monstrosities made by a lone-wolf one-man-army developer any more - at least in the Angular space, where as long as you're familiar with the convention, you'll manage. Much of that is thanks to TypeScript and the possibility to communicate to future maintainers what was your intention without writing paragraphs upon paragraphs of documentation.

Of course the tradeoff is that it's all pretty heavy right now, but that's what frameworks like Svelte or SolidJS and generally the concept of Signals try to address.

My take is that the moment we get Signals into the JS standard, this will all neatly fold like rows in Tetris.
Pretty much the only reason companies sponsor developer conferences is for the right to get a table on the floor, so they can recruit attendees.
Cosigned by the Supreme Court of The United States, in 2024.
Lobste.rs has what they call "merged stories", where the moderator will merge into a single page the links for a few submissions, as well as the comments from all submissions. Here's a recent example: https://lobste.rs/s/djejmh/really_really_good_random_number

I guess it's similar to what you do here when you "move" comments from one submission to another. A downside is that it can be hard to know which comments come from which submission. Perhaps top-level comments need a small marker indicating which link they originally commented under?
Yeah, having the option is definitely an interesting thought... You made me think... Out of my surroundings, only my parents have seen me with hair in person...
This is just a marketing blurb page. The actual definition is here:

https://opensource.org/ai/open-source-ai-definition
I understand that. But there is no reason (other than legacy cruft) why I shouldn't be able to fix a typo mid-command with arrow keys instead of backspace before sending that command as a default.

I am perfectly fine with having sent commands uneditable and responses uneditable as well.
Is there a way one can make a JS fetch() call and instruct browser to not send cookies etc, so CORS limitation won't be applied?

CORS is basically happening because of the sensitive data that browser sends by default, so if browser is not sending such info, then CORS also need not be applied
Theories and approaches to study are not rational bases for making comparisons between LLMs and the human brain.

They're bases for studying the human brain - something which we are very much in our infancy of understanding.
Perhaps the problem is that your hour or two writing is just a few minutes for me. If you're talking about generating and verifying code in 2 minutes, I highly doubt that you're talking about more than 30 lines of code. The generation is going to take about 10-30s. Reading and truly verifying is going to take at least a minute, probably a little longer. I'm quite sure I'd just get on with it and get it done.

And one of the biggest problems I see is that people who claim this kind of success with LLMs cannot reproduce the effort on their own. They do not learn any new solutions, because they didn't have to go through figuring it out themselves. So, good luck with that.

Of course, the possibility remains that it actually _doesn't_ take you 2 minutes to generate and verify code that takes 2 hours to write - that you simply have a bias from the dopamine hits of something else "solving" your problem for you, and have swept over the buggy outcomes with your rosy view. I've seen this a lot by LLM lovers - several people will come show me "convincing" demonstrations, and then _I_ have to find the bugs in the code, because they don't.
> Cost disease induced by regulatory capture and a massive housing shortage induced by zoning regulations.

Ish. While regulatory capture is at the heart of most of the truly ass outcomes attributable to capitalism it's comical that an attempt would be made to assert less government oversight would in some way be beneficial. What, are we pretending the last several decades of blissfully ignored potential anti-trust cases, questionable mergers, etc. aren't the direct result of captured legislators being told to just sit on their hands?

Incidentally the "housing crisis" has nothing to do with zoning. Offshoring manufacturing and permitting AG conglomerates to bankrupt the majority of family farmers has resulted in rural communities being stripped of economic opportunities which caused a flood of economic refugees into high cost residential markets. Proof: pundits screech about a lack of affordable housing when ~8 million units sit unoccupied, many outright abandoned. In Other News: when zoning changes are made to permit the kind of multi-story mixed use structures that are hyped as a solution to the housing crisis what happens is they get built, the local market gets an influx of condos that nobody who lives in the area can afford and nearby housing increases in cost (a net reduction in affordable housing), literally the exact opposite of the effects advertised.

> How are you going to put e.g. the US healthcare system on "free markets" when it's the most regulated market in the US?

Most regulated...the what now? Private equity firms and healthcare megaconglomerates (oh I'm looking at you Duke Health) that are sweeping up private practices and hospitals all over the country. Without exception this leads to measurable decline in quality of care, and is the leading cause of rural hospital closure nationwide. This phenomenon is also driving up the cost of performing clinical trials as these outfits are savvy enough to intentionally target practices that perform trials. The resulting increase in fees to run a clinical trial are so steep they trigger fraud warnings in industry benchmarking software. Anyway, given we're the only industrialized nation who's healthcare system isn't entirely controlled by the government this claim seems pretty rich. One of several ironies here being freeish marketish healthcare produces some of the worst healthcare outcomes of any industrialized nation, at four times the cost. Wheee.

Put another way yeah the government is culpable only in the sense they decided to not actually govern, thus letting The Market run rampant.
It's just fair.

Plenty of brain drain happens to the USA too.

Nonetheless China is winning the numbers game anyway. There gdp will be higher than USA by 2035.

And they have a lot more stable policies
> but Ada's real strengths lie elsewhere. Its strong typing,

Ada is not actually type-safe: https://www.enyo.de/fw/notes/ada-type-safety.html
People do read it. I mention things in conversation and people say "I know, I've read your post", so that's cool. People also email me about my post, or mention them in unrelated emails.

I treat my blog as a sort of extended dating profile or resume. It's extended in both scope and completeness, attracting all sorts of people for all sorts of purposes, and telling them much more about me than a mere bio. It's a search query for other interesting people, as someone else put it.
I thought this would be comparing Rust to Ada Lovelace's code...

And I've coded in Ada...