skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Find a SAR team in your area, they usually have a recruiting page. SAR is not a casual volunteer commitment they tend to train a lot. The process here (alameda county ~ bay area) is take orientation class, apply, pass fitness/skills test/oral interview/background check, attend meetings and basic training, then train more while waiting for a call out. They want 6+hrs/mo to stay active. This will be different for every jurisdiction so ymmv.
I could trace through that example quite quickly and I'm not an expert in logic, so I think you might be exaggerating some statements about difficulty here.
Yes. But will they dismantle enough to beat the courts? Musk might, but I feel these kids will be thrown under the bus in the long term.
> Best case, it isn't completely misleading and a waster of everyone's time

You mean best case it is useful
I do the exact same thing! I think this pairs well with OP's point.

In the moment, writing a blog is a nice way to indicate to myself that something is done. But the process of writing the blog forces me to find some lessons and takeaways, and that makes my next project better.
How does this forward US interests?
Some skimming of Wikipedia suggests that our total annual krill harvest is about 1/950th of the amount that predators eat of the main krill species per year.

Also usually the smaller the animal / the farther down the food chain, the faster they reproduce. And some more reading of Wikipedia suggests that krill can reproduce very quickly.
At the very least they need somewhere for bike storage. And none of us are self sustaining. Humanity needs the Haber-Bosch process and a thousand other things to sustain ourselves at the present moment.
The idea that the federal government is entity able to look after it's own interests has taken quite a hit in my mind with recent events.
Cartridges weren't "loaded" at all. They were ROM which was mapped directly into the CPU's accessible memory.
Well here these kids are broadcating their black hats to the world. Seems like a good sign if this trend continues.
When was the last budget passed?
Is there a substantial difference between the two?
I would also add that people shouldn't overlook regional or local conferences. The big ones are a lot of fun and have a lot of benefits, but local or regional ones can often be way cheaper and also still have some great content and networking.
Having spent a decade in the late 90s / early aughts doing PHP web development (including Bootstrap), I can't for the life of me figure out why modern frameworks need hooks and a shadow DOM and a component model.

I dabbled for a bit about a decade ago, and the first and last JS framework I worked with was Angular2 (which was in beta); this was right about the time Typescript was getting started (in fact, I distinctly recall that a substantial number of popular JS libraries didn't even have TS bindings at that time).

I think I didn't really want to look stupid by asking in public on HN, but given recent events, I think that ship has sailed :)

Other than analytics, what in the world do we need all of this JS for? I used jQuery (sparingly I might add), and it did its job.

Most web forms don't even have that many components.

I honestly don't mean to insult anyone, and I know I must just be naive about something.

Because otherwise, HTML/CSS aren't that complicated. Messy? Sure. Large? Yup. Duplicative in areas? 100%.

So what am I missing? What exactly does React do so well that the added complexity and resulting slowdowns become an acceptable tradeoff?
If it’s true, one idea to explain it might be oversensitivity to input (which maybe sometimes leads to withdrawal or avoidance to social situations which could be too stimulating and stressful?), which given the connection between autism and ADHD which has become discovered more and more by research in recent years doesn’t sound entirely unreasonable to me. Then again I have no expertise in this field whatsoever so can only conjecture.
The answer is repetition - see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42911011 for a longer comment in that vein.

Basically, how interesting a story is varies with its position in the sequence of related stories.
I'd love to see facial reconstruction of people of whom we have pictures and video. Since what I've heard of facial reconstruction is that there is a lot "art" in it.
It’s not that the absolute figures are all you need to know — you might want to look at how many more people Medicare serves for instance. It’s that without them you’ve got nothing to go on.

I’m also inclined to agree it’s. as we spend more than peer nations, but there are also arguments to be made why we aren’t directly comparable. Differences in our demographics and lifestyle, etc. that affect the healthcare we consume.
I think that’s why they are licking their chops looking at Canada, Greenland, and Mexico.

Growth at all costs. Just like a startup. Just like Rome.
> besides a complete atrophy of talent and overall capability, probably driven by becoming an entirely profit oriented company

Besides the fact that you didn’t add “short-term” before “profit” I’d say you’ve described 90-100% of public companies right there. They are all pretty good at making quick profits, buying back their own stocks, coming up with legal tax evasion strategies, and other things that only add actual value for a few wealthy people, but by any objective measure, what do we do now that we possess technology only dreamed of by previous generations? How about a fridge that has a screen on it, but the fridge itself has a one-year warranty and will probably be in a landfill in 5 years because it’s made shoddily of trash components but uneconomic to fix. A laptop with 8GB of RAM, in 2025, that can’t be upgraded in any way. Tons of things from vapes to AirPods with batteries sealed in, and designed to be discarded prematurely.

We don’t have as a society what we had back then. We’re too busy ripping each other off to do great things.
This is why my favourite HTTP error code is 429.

If you didn't have to look that up then chances are you've been somewhere that's frupid. :D
Or merely on the wrong side of a small hill, like here in Kansas.

There's fair coverage in our house, but go half a mile away to one of the fields we farm and the connection is very unreliable.
I'm confused.
This looks like a distillation of Qwen for math problems. What Am I missing?
What This Country Needs is an 18¢ Piece[1]

[1] https://graal.ens-lyon.fr/~abenoit/algo09/coins1.pdf
A whole bucket full? I'll trade you my zinc pennies for your steel ones.
This article supports spending money quickly to do things right. I am fully on board with this. I've been in a small constant all my life, and we can spend money quickly, effectively, and in some cases wasteful.

Now obviously it'll vary by amount, but mostly we don't overthink it. We need x, we get x. Often we then use x, but occasionally it turns out we didn't need it. It's easy to look around the office and see a bunch of things we bought, but never used.

The point is, we can do this because it's basically "our" money. We aren't beholden to shareholders or (worse) an electorate.

We're seeing the flip-side of this in govt now. USaid is "on hold" because of wasteful spending. Yay, we dont won't waste. But that's like killing a business completely because you don't like the pens they chose.

Of course there's waste. It's impossible to spend money without it. Yes, it should be a small %. Yes not every purchase benefits everyone. But just killing it doesn't kill waste, it kills people. Lots of political points are earned because some payment in there is wasteful. No mention of the vaccine studies that are now useless, or the people half-way through a study who may be getting adverse effects (now with no support.)

In a business we call it Frupid. In politics it makes for z good sound bite.
I felt for a long time that it should be fair use. If an LLM can abstract what it learns from the copyrighted work, then that seems "fair" because that's what humans do.

But ... as I've thought about it more, it doesn't really feel just to me. The kind of value reaped from the works seems to suggest that the creator is due some portion of that value. Also, in practice - there's just an absolutely enormous amount of knowledge that can be consumed from the public domain. Even if Meta, OpenAI and friends decided to license a ~small handful of the long-term archives of some globally-read newspapers, they could get very broad and deep knowledge about the events, trends, terms of the last century to fill in a lot of gaps.
Guilty as charged. Running a home-brew NAS which was fun to build and a spaghetti wire mess which has to be replaced before I die, or my non tech partner loses the entire family archive.

I'd add 'sending work staff on long flights in economy expecting them to hit the ground running and work straight away' but I have sympathies with companies facing 30%+ rises in travel costs.
>What if the kid has skeletons in his closet

I mean, we already found a few skeletons

>The security clearance process is long and is a joke imo.

Don't fully agree, but it is indeed overly long. But as is the theme of this Musk adminsitration; Just because you think something is bad or inefficient doesnt'r give you safeway to skip over it entirely. These last 2 weeks are proving the importannce of clearance more than anything else has over decades.

>A lot of bad apples pass.

This isn't even an apple at this point. You're letting a skunk rummage through the entire barrel unaccounted for.
Thanks! I just thought it was a song from Atlanta based metal band Mastodon.
Yes this only proves you had something on a certain date, but not that the content has been unchanged.
re:Invent sessions aside from chalk talks are useless. It's definitely a fun experience though.
1. depends on the "felony"

2. For stuff as sensitive as this it makes sense to be extremely cautious. Doesn't mean the process is perfect, but we're seeing in real time what happens if you skip it.
The explicitly mention Solar Energy at Night.
Conferences are often great places to receive better offers at other firms too. =3
Or I’ve implemented it on the service side.
From your links, there's precisely 1 people who has done industrial espionage, and 6 more people whom it seems broke their contracts "motivated by simple greed and a disregard for both institutional and federal rules". Which, the latter, doesn't imply any involvement from China at all.
You'd usually have multiple wires and split the current up. Also, if you design carefully you can let your wires get hotter than what would be recommended for in-wall wiring (what the calculators usually figure for).

If you know you'll have airflow, and the insulation is rated better, you could run them hot.
And we shall call this Rawblogging.
We have too many regulations. I support what DOGE is doing. Thank you dang for letting the world see this topic. I think pg would agree. /s
f or g may have side effects too. Like writing to memory.
Now a conditional has a different meaning.

You could also have some fun stuff, where f and g return a boolean, because thanks to short circuit evaluation && || are actually also conditionals in disguise.
If you use something like Copilot a lot of the time you don’t explicitly have to tell it to do anything, you just start typing the signature and it autocompletes it. In my use I almost never use the conversation feature of Copilot, I’m just typing e.g. function signatures or the start of a for loop or switch statement etc.
EBITDA is not profit (note the "before" in the acronym).

Net profit is profit.
I tried a little Japanese (the second language I know best). Not sure where the content comes from but the translations were wrong, the vocabulary was strange, and otherwise the cards did not work out for me. Seems like they were auto generated via AI or google translate or something, in any case they were not accurate or natural sounding. Maybe other languages are better but I wouldn't know enough to tell.

Anki is one of my favorite pieces of software ever so I was definitely willing to try yours. Seems like the feature that defines your app is auto-generation of a card / set of cards. Didn't see any way to create your own card, all you can do is put in an English word and get the automatically generated card added to your deck. So if that's not working well the entire thing crumbles.

Interesting idea that might have a future if it finds significant improvement. I think if it was ironed out I would still prefer it to spit out an anki compatible deck that I can use in Anki itself instead of in the ricotta web app.
The optimist in me wants to believe separation of powers will be maintained.

The realist in me asks what evidence anyone can offer for optimism here. Lower courts? Fine. It's going to the top and they've walked off positions held over decades, models of jurisprudence, even their own past voting records "for the win"

RBG should have retired earlier.
I remember when something similar first happened to me, where an LLM (Perplexity) cited my recent (within a few days) wikipedia edit ("transistor density").

This helped me realize how powerful the legacy of wikipedia is/will be. When I first started editing (2006), people still didn't trust open source encyclopediae. Same thing with bitcoin, just a few years later.
Yes. There's still a process to access classified documents, and they will try to give you as little access as you need for your task when granted. You need to be very specific about what info you need (more broad access makes it easier to deny).

I'm not even entirely certain the president can just walk in and grab treasury access that easily (but the president always played by different rules. He may indeed be fast tracked).
I've seen so many personalities "shift" over this decade.

True. Not just the All In Guys, but also Tulsi and RFK, even Trump used to be a democrat.
Reasoning models are more intelligent than C. elegans.
For those who don't get the reference: Ass Pennies - Upright Citizens Brigade[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9aM_dT5VMI
It's interesting to see all the criticism of things like this on a place like hacker news.

Starlink has repeatedly been pooh-poohed. It's impossible, it'll never work, no one will want to use it.

If you have ever travelled internationally the potential game changing nature of Starlink would be immediately apparent.

This is a test. If nothing else, spacex is known to iterate. Starlink satellites have intentionally low lifetimes in space, they are all going to be replaced relatively soon with later generations.

Yes, Biden and the FCC successfully fought Starlink, they got the awards for rural connectivity revoked, and the appeal of the revocation also kept the award revoked because starlink supposedly couldn't provide rural connectivity. So at least on paper starlink has "failed" to meet the needs of rural folks.

The FCC "concluded that Starlink had not shown that it was reasonably capable of fulfilling Rural Digital Opportunity Fund requirements to deploy a network of the scope, scale, and size required to serve the 642,925 model locations in 35 states for which it was the winning bidder."

You'd sort of expect hacker news folks to be interested in the science of potential benefits of this sort of thing (even if they doubt it'll ever happen). T-Mobile is betting pretty clearly that starlink WILL be able to deliver messaging via a space based backhaul.

And rumor has it that starlink is bringing in some real money even if the govt has determined its not technically feasible so there is some market validation of their ideas.
So when US companies try to beat each others products, it is called competition.

But if a foreign company of US-trained people manages to beat the competition, it is parasitising?
I guess because of the assertion that "there is only one God".
> except no one factors in that without it, engineers will burn hundreds of hours manually wrestling with tasks that a good automation could have handled in minutes

I agree with the general concept, but the example in the article are so extremely exaggerated that it’s hard to take the article seriously. A $15 tool that would save hundreds of hours of tasks? A conference visit that would save millions? Anyone who has had to approve, review, or audit expenditures knows it’s not that simple.

I was involved with a company that got a lot of funding during the zero interest rate era and adopted this idea that it was self-defeating to scrutinize software and hardware purchases. When the money stopped flowing they finally started reviewing software and hardware expenditures and found, unsurprisingly, a massive amount of unnecessary spending.

In the real world it’s almost never a $15 tool that saves hundreds of hours (like this article used as an example). Instead, it was countless SaaS platforms with per-seat licensing fees that added up huge recurring bills.

There was a recurring theme where some department would say they needed some SaaS tool, so it got approved. Then they would add everyone in the department and many people outside so they could share and access the links. Every time someone needed access, they’d add another seat for that person. Countless cases of teams spending $49/month times 50 seats times multiple years for a tool that nobody could even recall using recently. Multiply this by dozens of tools, some of which were very expensive, and the amount spent on unused SaaS seats could have easily funded multiple extra engineering teams.

So while I think it’s frustrating to have to petition to get purchases made, I’ve also seen the madness that happened when it’s a free for all. Gone are the days when someone would expense a $50 software tool and use it for years. Now it’s a SaaS with a recurring subscription that has viral tricks to get everyone who uses it to count as an extra seat for monthly fees.

Conferences are another area that can become a boondoggle very quickly. Don’t even get me started on the “conferences” that were actually just week long getaways with JavaScript influencers at some resort somewhere, with a couple presentations included so you could get your company to cover it.
> anyone can write code

I used to give the most boring, not-leetcode question, about how to lay out a minesweeper board of arbitrary size with an arbitrary number of mines (not any gameplay code, purely the initialization of the layout), and at least 95% of the candidates utterly tanked the interview. Most people apparently can’t code their way out of a paper bag.

In that way, I’m happy about ai - because it is better at everything than 90% of the candidates for junior roles (and given it’s so fast it can still probably beat even better developers through application of brute force).

But of course I have no clue how we will ever get another generation of “seniors” when we are freezing out all the poor new grads, since we don’t need them in their current state and no companies want to be the suckers to spend their time investing in them to mold them into seniors.
I've had frontier reasoning models (or at least what I can access in ChatGPT+ at any given moment) give wildly inconsistent answers when asked to provide the underlying reasoning (and the CoT weren't always given). Inventing sources and then later denying them mentioned them. Backtracking on statements it claimed to be true. Hiding weasel words in the middle of a long complicated argument to arrive at whatever it decided the answer was. So I'm inclined to believe the reasoning steps here are also susceptible to all the issues discussed in the posted article.
I sometimes wonder what their data collection on me would look like. I get a new starter SIM and number each month. I don't store anything in the SIM.
Or that one Futurama episode, "I, roommate"

https://theinfosphere.org/I,_Roommate
Maybe the "query optimization works because sql is set-oriented"?

The types of operations in SQL are limited to sets, therefore allowing certain optimizations.
Thank you for your diligence in explaining complicated topics in a way that makes them accessible to people trying to learn what people before them figured out. You are a true educator that seems have found a place to support you to continue doing that.

Are you concerned that your git exposition is much longer than the other guides you have produced?
> It's impossible, it'll never work, no one will want to use it.

Of the issues I've heard tied to Starlink, none are these three.
Totally agree about conferences.

I worked on a great iOS team at a FAANG where during WWDC we had scheduled time to watch as many talks as we wanted and then an EOW meeting to deep-dive into what we'd learned. It was our lead's idea and management was in full support, when I joined the team they'd been doing it for years. Shipping code was optional that week, the stated goal was just to absorb as much as possible.

The privilege was being able to use our good, fresh, caffeinated engineering time on real learning. When I was in college I could do 8h of homework and then watch lectures at 9pm, at this point, not so much :)
Why not just avoid signing up for starlink service? I think you have to ask and be invited into the test.
I did say "chances are". I didn't exclude the lovely you in that, you were accommodated <3.
Makes sense up till about 23TiB/month, then the colo un-metered servers + CDN start to make economic sense over cloud options again. =3
I've done something similar at my job. I don't think it implicates privacy because 1) it's a list of misses from the (public) dictionary, and 2) the email is sent as the program, not as the user. So if the user misspells melinoma, you have no information on which user that was.
I agree with your point of view; CORS will at least torment you for a while until you finally resolve it. With the help of GPT, I have at least tried 1. Vite proxy, 2. Java Spring WebMvcConfigurer CORS config, and 3. Nginx proxy... This is really exhausting.
Unfortunately, it seems that everyone does it. Can you point to anyone who doesn't?

I find it shocking and absurd too, but in moments of self-honesty I notice myself doing it too. My sense is that the only contribution one can make to changing this pattern is to notice it in oneself and then shift a bit. That's the only place one has a chance to modify anything.

Getting mad at other people for doing it doesn't change anything, and nobody can be persuaded to change.
> Cutting cloud costs

This has so many angles to it. You can't just generalize cloud costs. You can stop using bloated JS frameworks to make up for the inflated application costs. You can switch to OVH or Hetzner or better yet, on-prem. It's like you are asking everyone to just give in to horrible tactics of AWS
> say, sponsoring your employees' visits to conferences shows that you treat them well, care about their personal learning and growth, and inturn motivates them to look for synergies between their interests and work

As much as I’ve enjoyed employer-sponsored conferences in the past, I have to be honest that it seems like very few people are there to learn and come up with ways to help their employers.

It feels like an open secret that people go to conferences primarily for networking and finding other job opportunities to trade up to.

It’s actually a common recruiting strategy to go to conferences and find people looking to find new jobs.