skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And I think one strategy to optimize an overgrown system is to just burn the old, and start from scratch.

To avoid overspending and crashing the economy (I don't think the govt spending tax money crashes the economy but I'm no economist either), allowing competitors to help more and gaining more influence, "one strategy" is to simply destroy US influence around the world? To "start from scratch"?

No, I don't think that is a viable, even credible strategy. Like "saving human consciousness" by going to Mars: if we are under threat to destroy ourselves (and that is the real imminent threat, not asteroids), then whatever we need to learn to avoid that we can learn much better on Earth, than on a colony that.... depends on Earth. It's not even a serious proposal when it comes to benefiting humanity, maybe the idea is to live on Mars for a few decades as humanity is withers.

And in the same way, firing countless US government workers nilly-willy, even out of some vendetta (FBI agents that just did their job? hello?), immediately creates a LOT of pressure on the economy (if you don't just view it as a big number that a handful of dudes own most of, and care about the people in it). Whatever you want to "start from scratch" (all of it you could also have done without burning everything down first), you now have less resources to do that, because, well, everything is on fire. The saved money is supposed to go to tax cuts for the rich after all, right? At any rate I'm confident it's not going to be spend on more efficient social programs, but simply less or none. And people who can do these jobs well will not be keen to be re-hired by the same government that fired them, either.

If someone wants to talk you into knocking down your house so you save rent and can build a new one quicker, and has something to gain from it, at best they're insane, at worst they're playing dumber than they are, since they stand to gain from it.

> Does the "soft power" work if people get used to your help?

I'd say the longer you interact and cooperate with others the better the relationship usually gets, all else being equal.

> I wonder how much of the negative effects are read as "evil USA stopped giving us money" and how much "oh so it was USA that was helping us all this time!"

You are so very vastly underestimating the impacts these knee-jerk, unilateral activities have.

https://bsky.app/profile/fidgetorama.bsky.social/post/3lhkdv...

> This is horrific. Freezing clinical trials means that people with experimental medicine - participating in studies that benefit us all - may be left without access to healthcare, we won’t know their outcomes, they may even have experimental medical devices left inside of their body.
Hmm, yes, I think you’re right. Tailscale does handle the connection here, not Wireguard.

I’ve digged into it a bit and I believe it first connects over a relay, then the devices try to find a more optimal route. So for LAN, they would exchange their local IPs and try to connect over those. If they are indeed on the same LAN, they connect directly: https://tailscale.com/kb/1257/connection-types

This is not without issues, however: https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/issues/7206
Show HN: Hacked – HN Client Built with React Native and Gluestack UI
There comes a moment in every Hacker News reader’s journey when they drift from simply browsing to crafting their own ethereal client—only to find themselves drawn back to the original, like a cosmic cycle of creation and return. I suppose this is my turn in the stars.

Also, if you're up for an adventure, I’m looking for beta testers for the Android app. It supports authentication, upvotes, and comments—things the official API doesn’t cover. Since that means setting up a server and optimizing requests, I’d love some early feedback before making it fully ready. Let me know if you're interested!

Current Features:

- Things just work(RN is kinda tricky and so non-uniform in complex apps)

- Markdown support for comments without Links(integrating both was difficult)

- Endless scroll up to 10 pages on 'Top Stories'

While I’m here, I’d love to ask—would you be open to paying just $1 for a one-time purchase on Android and iOS? It would help support development and fund a one-click production framework and deployment platform I’m working on.

What else would you like to see in Hacked?
While that breaks the Apple executive example, it's still just as easy to explain from a programming perspective: each of the sides could be a trait/interface which is implemented/part of the same entity/Singleton
Too much text on the landing page. Try to get it to much simpler value. Pick one ideal customer. Founders or professionals.

CRM for founders to close more leads.

CRM for professional to save 15 hrs per week.

Then explain how.
Why does Mill use Scala?
I like it.

I will add it to my lexicon.

Thanks!
CORS is enforced by the client, the web browser.

+----------------------+ +-----------------------+
| User Browser | | WordPress Site |
| (viewing from | CORS Error | (blog.com) |
| example.com) | Browser enforces CORS | |
| +------------+ | Direct request | +------------+ |
| | Frontend |<-----------------------------------X | xmlrpc.php | |
| | App | | example.com → blog.com | | | |
| +------------+ | | +------------+ |
+----------------------+ +-----------------------+
Browser security blocks cross-origin
requests (CORS is browser-only!)

The bottle app presumably uses some python library like Requests. It wouldn't care about CORS.

+----------------------+ +------------------------+ +-----------------------+
| User Browser | | App Server | | WordPress Site |
| (viewing from | | (example.com) | | (blog.com) |
| example.com) | | | | |
| +------------+ | | +------------+ | | +------------+ |
| | Frontend |<-------->| | Backend |<---------->| | xmlrpc.php | |
| | App | | | | (Bottle) | | | | | |
| +------------+ | | +------------+ | | +------------+ |
+----------------------+ +------------------------+ +-----------------------+
Same origin Uses requests library Different origin
Browser allows this No CORS checks here! (Server doesn't care
(Not a browser!) about origin)
Why not? As an atheist you are probably best positioned to notice the ostensible pointlessness of it all and come to the conclusion that rituals are and have always been about the people doing them. It’s always been for our sake. Just like funerals are for the living to get closure, since the dead body at the center of proceedings can’t possibly give a damn.
I agree that conferences like re:Invent are a waste of time and money on the HN crowd, who are anyway self-motivated continuous learner types.

But the vast majority of large company payrolls are stacked with 9-5 types who clock in, clock out, go home to spend time on anything not related to their job. These types don't read HN, don't watch engineering YouTube, don't read r/programming, don't read Slashdot, etc. If a company wants these people to skill-up, they need to do it on company time, and they need to bring someone from the outside to bring in outside knowledge.

Conferences are basically just an easy way for companies to outsource this, and companies will prefer to pay for conferences like re:Invent which will showcase vendors who got stuff like SOC2 to ensure they will pass Compliance, Legal, and Procurement, and not for conferences like FOSDEM which will help people build stuff that Only One Person Understands And Therefore We Can't Maintain It.
1. If you want to get the budget under control then we have to raise taxes in addition to spending cuts. The Trump tax cuts expire this year and they have said they want to get them extended.

2. No, if the US makes such drastic changes in policy every four years then it's much harder to forge any long term relationships. The vacuum also lets other countries like China step in. Wasn't everyone just losing their mind about a Chinese company working with the Panama Canal?
> so I guess it comes down to the definition of “raw”.

And the definition of ”HTML”. Document is markdown.
If Python environment management works well for you, then stick with that. You'd be in the minority, though.

Nix is a pain in the ass, people mostly use it because it's the only reliable option.
> These types don't read HN, don't watch engineering YouTube, don't read r/programming, don't read Slashdot, etc.

on the other hand, some read to distraction...
Surprisieg, but quite alot of people actually visit my blog posts. There is definitely more traffic on loosely written content, than on services & professional fronts. And it is quite easy to turn this traffic into organic & trusting visits to business oriented URLs.
I have a set of independent benchmarks and most also show a difference between reasoning and non-reasoning models:

LLM Confabulation (Hallucination): https://github.com/lechmazur/confabulations/

LLM Step Game: https://github.com/lechmazur/step_game

LLM Thematic Generalization Benchmark: https://github.com/lechmazur/generalization

LLM Creative Story-Writing Benchmark: https://github.com/lechmazur/writing

Extended NYT Connections LLM Benchmark: https://github.com/lechmazur/nyt-connections/

and a couple more that I haven't updated very recently.
I'd agree it's largely the human factor, but maybe from a different angle. Rust has got the "there's a crate for that" factor, like JavaScript, which helps onboard people who are afraid of getting stuck writing everything from scratch.

For example, serde (and serde_json, toml, etc.) is a gamechanger, as is tracing, reqwest, and many others.

So, maybe less about the language itself for many people, but more about the human factor of overcoming fear of being stuck on an island
Ok fine. Happy idiots.
Surprised that generation who named themselves slackers gave birth to kids that also don’t have any vision and take pride in not caring about anything?

Also the group is so varied you can’t generalize of what the age group is about. If I think of young person I think of mrbeast or the kids who sit on the road to block the traffic cause they care immensly. I always thought the youth of today just hustle and influence and try to build it themselves and totally lack the ability to chill out. Happy to know there lurks some nihilists somewhere.
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Very well written, and more or less aligns with my own thinking.
No comments on the course, but the title (in classic HN fashion) - how I survive in a ChatGPT world: it’s simple. I consume as little recent content as possible and I aim for the bulk of that to be “raw” information: various forms of data and the minimum set of news from wire services. Every time I dare stick my head out further I drown in a deluge of generated sewage. Blogs are dead, social media is dead, forums are dead, the media is dead, text is dead, video is dead and photos are dead. The only unpoisoned wells left in the land are old books and the elderly.
The stats say https://andrew-quinn.me/ gets at least a trickle of traffic, and usually these days for the more obscure stuff I write, like my guide on using `reposurgeon` to convert SVN to Git repos for the first time. I feel the hours I have saved far outweigh the hours I spent writing that article and that's good enough for me.
Can you give an example? I never produced or worked on code that required me to routinely write boilerplate like this. The whole situation feels wrong.
> if they're smart enough to commit cybercrimes, why make such a basic opsec blunder?

Why do you assume that they have to be smart to commit cyber crimes? As a general rule, most criminals are as dumb if not dumber than most regular people. Cyber crime is no different. Consider that cyber crime is not (just) hacking, it includes things like calling someone's grandma to convince her she needs to wire you $40k now or someone might go to prison for a car accident. Or at least texting this over WhatsApp.
Even those that do use ReactStrap and pretend they made their own design system /shrug
I’m guessing that at some point in time, these graphics cards are going to have to fit a temperature sensor next to that connector, to safely shut the card off if the connector is overheating. A wire of a given thickness will easily carry the calculated current so wires generally don’t need sensors. Connectors are more complicated. Dust, crumbs, or oxidation can significantly increase resistance, causing rapid heating, so a temperature sensor there would actually make sense.
Actually, given the past history of these connectors melting, I’m surprised NVIDIA didn’t do this already.
It's not even an agency.
Many programs prefer to be concise when their arguments are wrong, perhaps on the assumption that it's probably a simple typo rather than a request for screenfuls of help information. This sometimes is and sometimes isn't an ergonomic choice. (I usually prefer conciseness.)

But asking for `--help` is unambiguous, and is in fact the lowest common denominator way to be explicit about it.
What's the harm?
Having multiple alternatives to any component of the software stack is a good thing, and it fosters understanding and improvement, doesn't it?
I still have the physical Western Sheriff one. Really good for its day.
If you nominally have an audience (if you feel like you do, regardless of the reality), you'll perform differently, same as with speaking. This may be a good thing.
This is novice stuff. I write my blog by modifying the filesystem's binary structure by hand with a hex editor. There is no Javascript or CSS whatsoever and the document uses only elements, attributes, and behaviours that were both described in the original HTML v1.1 DTD and that have continued to appear in every intervening IETF, W3C, and WHATWG issuance since then. Many of the elements are therefore deprecated and currently unimplemented in all evergreen browsers. Nevertheless I live in firm expectation of their eventual reinstatement. The HTTP service is one I nicked from a grad student in my CS department circa 1995, it speaks only HTTP/0.9, and is written in a mixture of ksh and dd, requiring no other utilities. This runs on a SPARCstation 20 from the same era that has been repaired from scavenged parts so many times that the hostname spontaneously updated to "theseus" a few years ago. Fun fact: impurities in the copper I smelted to replace the power supply windings led (as you can no doubt imagine) to induction spikes on the drive rails, and the subsequent fsck erased all blog entries mentioning Jonathan Schwartz. So nothing of value was lost. Readers may be pleased to learn that despite all this I'm not totally retro; since SunOS 4.x is now out of support, the Kodiak is proudly booting NetBSD.

The blog itself is, of course, optimised for viewing in Lynx. In fact it only works in Lynx
This practice is called Rubber Duck Debugging.
Then use Firefox. Firefox has an option for this:

https://superuser.com/questions/1721511/firefox-allow-http-u...

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/https-only-prefs#w_enab...

There’s plenty of reasons to be mad at big corporations. But for now at least, Firefox still supports your right to make bad life choices on the internet.
Probably a similar transition to the Industrial Revolution, but much faster. Laborers had to learn skills that machines weren’t better at.

Any work that is information based is probably in for a dramatic shift.

But maybe some areas that are less vulnerable:
- Experiences (food, travel, accommodations, events, sports)
- Manual labor (carpenters, plumbers, roofers)
- Human connection (caregivers, therapists, teachers, coaches)
- Public service (government, police, fire, healthcare)
- Executives (CEOs, entrepreneurs)

The Industrial Revolution completely changed the world, but there are still many tasks where a human is better/faster/cheaper than a physical machine, so it didn’t replace everyone. My guess is that there will be some niche domains where humans are preferred to AGI.
Those are very old aerospace companies. They predate NASA.
Aerojet was von Kármán's rocket company, founded in 1936.
Rocketdyne was founded in 1955. Both are now owned by L3Harris.
Early LCD machines had no ROMs I think.
Last time I checked (a couple years ago) the version of nix in Arch repos shipped a subtly modified default configuration that rendered it broken, so yeah, a quintiessential Linux experience.
Major Adjustments in Education Required in AI Era
30% of people in US pay mortgage, average payment is $2200. I have no idea where even $2k/mo of UBI will come from – when no one works, no one pays taxes. To avoid social unrest some new methods of wealth redistribution will have to appear. Why is nobody talking about this?
We've discussed Cohen's work in our book _Calling Bullshit_, but the type of bullshit the Cohen focuses on — unclarifiable unclarity, particularly in academic writing — is not what LLMs produce so it strikes us as far less relevant to this course than Frankfurt's notion.
The TFA correctly lists many sins with architecture diagrams, but misses the proverbial forest over metaphorical trees.

IMO the mistakes mentioned in these diagrams stem from them actually being component diagrams disguised as architecture diagrams.

While the astute would be technically correct in calling component diagrams a type of architecture diagrams, focusing on components is what typically leads to diagraming mistakes. Component diagrams are really useful when determining what competencies, licenses/subscriptions, etc. are required when for example evaluating fit of project inside of an existing ecosystem.

However, when managing the system or making changes to it, you rarely care whether data is stored on S3 or local minio cluster, because at an interface level S3 merely a protocol. Yet, you do care about data dependencies and control boundaries.

A component diagram may easily just connect application backend to S3-compatible storage component and call it a day, however in a full architectural diagram you would really want to see where e.g. the auth thingie comes from.
No, each Nix app gets its own tree root. (Honestly the same thing Mac, Android, etc., also do, so not such a strange idea.)
No one gets extremely rich selling food, water and electricity because these fields attract government intervention all the time.

(Not saying it's a bad or good thing, nor saying AI is comparable)
I had no idea this darkness existed. The unicorn riot piece is well researched; how awful - despicable all of it.
For 6.5M round? Very unlikely it was more than financial models and pitch decks.
Really weird flex, but okay.
You might find yourself at home with this group: https://darksky.org/who-we-are/advocates/
> C# really seems to be firing on all cylinders right now

I actually agree completely: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42898372

I just don’t like seeing people make bold claims without supporting evidence… those tend to feel self-aggrandizing and/or like tribalism. It also felt like a bad faith argument, so I stopped responding to that other person when there was nothing positive I could say. If the evidence existed, then they should have provided evidence. I asked for evidence.

I like C#, just as I like Go and Rust. But languages are tools, and I try to evaluate tools objectively.

> I can say, however, that C# has been moving forward every release, and those benchmarks demonstrate that it is separating itself from the Java/Go tier

I also agree. I have been following the development of C# for a very long time. I like what I have seen, especially since .NET Core. As I have mentioned in this thread already, C#’s performance is impressive. I just don’t accept a general claim that it’s as fast as Rust at this point, but not every application needs that much performance. I wish I could get some real world experience with C#, I just haven’t found any interesting tech jobs that use C#… and the job market right now doesn’t seem great, unfortunately.
Regular price for the non-TMobile customers is $20/mo.

From the linked page:

How much will it cost?

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Until March 1st, T-Mobile beta testers not on Go5G Next can secure an Early Adopter Discount of $5 off per month, reducing the monthly cost to just $10/month.

Verizon, AT&T and other customers can get T-Mobile Starlink without switching to T-Mobile for $20/month after the beta ends in July.
But what colour the bike shed?
https://archive.is/9m4UI
Maybe it’s James Cameron?
Well we can all relate to that. We've all got to eat (and stay warm & dry).

I think I'm just getting to the "old man yells at cloud" stage of my career.

I think of all of the things that we could have built over the years, and understand, I say this not to detract from all of the great software that has been built, but to lament the fact that devs spend so much time spinning their wheels these days (when not reinventing them, or trying to fit a square one on a race car) that we have spent so much opportunity cost that could have been the next big thing or the better version of an old thing.

I would just implore people to go back and look at the history of computing, and the things we had back then (even if they were research demos or ahead-of-their-time pipe dreams), and remember that we have 100,000-1,000,000x the compute (or more) than we had when these older things were built. We can do better.

And remember, not every abstraction is a useful one, not every appeal from authority should be taken as gospel, that creating software can be one of the most creative and expressive endeavors one can undertake, that there is no greater joy than seeing people use the things you build (or help build), and that there's no such thing as perfect software (but we should always strive to get as close as reasonably possible).
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> Directly using Unchecked_Deallocation is frowned upon...

This is true. I admit that I didn't really acknowledge this in the article. I personally don't really like the Ada community's consensus on this matter. In many applications 'let memory leak and let the OS sort it out' just won't cut it. It's true that you can use controlled types for everything, but isn't this just moving the Unchecked_Deallocation somewhere out of sight? Also, if I'd have written 'You can't leak memory in Ada if you stick to using collections', wouldn't that just be like saying 'You can't leak memory in C++ if you stick to using the STL'? The point of the article was to show what Ada and Rust do to outrightly prevent you from shooting yourself in the foot, at the core language level.

There's a lot of misconceptions floating around the Ada community about memory being freed automatically when it goes out of scope, which I think have stemmed from the ARM leaving open the possibility for a compiler to implement its own GC. Admittedly even I was misinformed. In my defence, nearly all the Ada I write is for bare metal, and never touches the heap at all.
This is not a fair comment. Feel free to be a hater and spread unfair BS. We use Ada for years for its reliability, efficiency and readiness. We saved men/years thanks to its productivity. FYI, the latest Ada release is 2022 and still innovative.
It's so strange to see this become a Partisan Issue so quickly and easily, when just a few short years ago everyone on the Internet cheered on Ron Paul's cries to Audit The Fed. (Yes, I know, “the Fed” means the Federal Reserve, and not the federal government—but that's clearly in the cards, too.)

And it's not as though the pre-smartphone Internet was majority Republican, of course—quite the opposite, if anything!
No, Nix installs each version of a library only once.
Could you explain more ? I was never able to understand this argument. I can understand AI might reduce the labor costs in the future. What about finite resources like minerals ?
There's this on the Bitcoin blockchain: https://opentimestamps.org
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