skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd like to suggest caution wrt a sentiment in this thread, that actual phase change in the industry i.e. readers here losing their jobs and job prospectcs, "doesn't feel right around the corner."

In specific, most of you are familiar with human cognitive error when reasoning with non-linearities.

I'm going to assert and would cheerfully put money behind the prospect that this is exactly one of the domains within which nonlinear behavior is most evident and hence our intuitions are most wrong.

Could be a year, could be a few, but we're going to hit the 80% case being covered just find thank you by run of the mill automated tools, and then press on into asymptote.
Since this is Part 1, we merged the comments from the Part 2 thread hither:

Get in loser. We're rewinding the stack - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43014070

Readers may want to look at both articles of course!
> Tesla and SpaceX are extremely succesful companies, and to argue otherwise is just dumb.

Definitely not what I was arguing, but I'll leave you to figure out how we got here.
As I get older the one thing these designer overlook is aging eyesight. My Honda has decent controls but the small display (like on these knobs) is very difficult to see sitting still. At night, while driving - it's impossible. The icons are tiny. Given the size of the current screens in cars - that's a lot of real estate for knobs. Use it.
I despise Prop 65 warnings in principle, but the damnable thing about them is they may actually have some effectiveness, if this study is to be believed ( https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11651356/ ): "Levels of certain chemicals listed under California’s law have declined in biosamples from people across the nation. ... Although the law did not require changes to product formulations or processes, interviews with representatives of affected companies have indicated that many businesses did alter formulations to avoid having to post warnings or manufacture special products just for California."

The study has a lot of limitations, and NHANES is not really designed for this kind of analysis, but it sounds like the warnings do well as a cudgel to beat manufacturers with even if regular individuals ignore them. Even more interesting is the knock-on effects Prop 65 has on people outside of California. Overall it seems like an argument to keep them around, sort of.
Cui bono?

One benefit to some is the continued assault on sources of truth: Academics, everyone even arguably left-wing, news media, science, now we lack a source of truth on weather. More generally, the idea of an apoltical, non-profit source of truth is actively denied and any example is destroyed. The CIA and FBI are other examples.

Without a source of truth, how can any public agreement or action form? All information becomes social media. Notice who controls that too: Meta, X, and also Bytedance will be beholden to the same people destroying all else.
There’s some overlap in the articles, but quite different vibes IMHO. HN: Broader range of subjects, more non-tech stories (those are in general not allowed on Lobsters). Lobsters: Less comments overall, more narrow focus than HN. IMHO, they complement each other quite well.
Wow, that’s a cool stat. I wonder if people will ever seriously use 16EB of memory in a single system and will need to change to a more-than-64-bit architecture or if 64 bit is truly enough. This has „640k ought to be enough for anybody“ potential (and I know he didn’t say that).
You can install `rustup` using your system package manager if you really want to. You could also `curl | manually-verify-script | sh`. But if you don't stick to recommended install procedure then of course you are stepping out of the "boring" path.

> I don't have to set up a custom install of a language for every single application for any other language

Which languages do you use? I find that using version manager saves a lot of headaches for every language that I use, and is very much a normality. Otherwise I run into issues if I need different versions for different projects. The fact that Rust has a first-party version manager is a blessing.
Apple Adopting 'Gulf of America' Naming for Apple Maps
Mullvad ip's have such poor reputation im surprised they're the exit hop
I like controls in the upcoming Rivian cars, it's basically changing the physical feedback based on what you are selecting [1]

1 - https://youtu.be/k0Gt_PUyldc?si=VxK1rzWr0Vx0JUHd&t=371
So maybe this one could still become true:

The company was once a human-operated venture, but repeated disappointments with hired human workers caused management to acquire an AI to replace them. The AI quickly exceeded expectations, and then kept exceeding them until it bought out the company's owners...

Interesting times we have!

[0]: https://cyberpunk.fandom.com/wiki/Delamain_Corporation
Elon Musk's Business Empire Scores Benefits Under Trump Shake-Up
That makes it much clearer, thanks. There might be some quibbling over the wording of the goal and whether this technically counts as RFL being driven by the Rust Project, but the goal page [1] is at the very least a clear statement of the incentives they have to push for RFL, in their own words.

[1] https://rust-lang.github.io/rust-project-goals/2024h2/rfl_st...
> No, it's because they blamed an undocumented system that killed two plane loads of people on pilot error...

And kept hiding and sabotaging the court process against them to hide that they and their pilots knew, even before the first crash, that this might happen. Like, I don't think Russia or anyone else did even have to do anything at all here, if they would've had any reason to. Boeing fucked up themselves.
Presumably hijackers would just go to the next nearest country with no extradition policy. Honestly though I’ve never heard of “preventing hijackers” proposed as a reason for wanting to normalize relations with communist Cuba. You realize there are no hijackers anymore right? Additionally, there are many US citizens and corporations with valid and verifiable claims to property confiscated by the communist government in Cuba. Normalizing relations would obviously require a resolution to this situation.
This is immediately what I thought of too. I wish the notes would stack like in Andy's site
I get what you're saying, but I totally disagree with it. It reminds me of mid-2000s Nokia, where each year they completely redesigned their phones simply to change them. It turned out what people wanted was a brick with a few common buttons, a nice screen and a standard GUI.

The main problem stems from the fact that car manufacturers will always choose novel designs over usability. They change components not to improve functionality, but simply for differentiation. As you pointed out, even if a control is well designed like Volvo's HVAC, it's phased out during the next refresh.

A newer problem is that every single car maker is beyond incompetent when it comes to software and UX. It's not part of their culture and expertise. So in addition to bad or missing buttons, even the screens are a nightmare.

This is an entrenched idea in the automotive industry, so it probably won't change, but it's something that really needs to stop in my opinion.
One of the most satisfying statements I get to write occasionally is "Component X is now considered functionally complete and so feature Y will not be added to it.
My favorite car control system is the BMW iDrive rotary dial.

Touch screens are fine for given much more fine-grained access to controls. But they should be limited to controls that you _don't need to set while driving_. It's absurd that it takes 3 taps on a screen -- diverting my attention to the screen -- on my Tesla to turn on defogging (a common event here!) while I can do it with a one touch (now muscle-memorized) on my Subaru.
I somehow overlooked that. I'll fix my comment, sorry.
> Maybe it’s just me

No, it’s all of the “manosphere” trash on YouTube/TikTok, too. It ain’t good company, but it’s certainly company.
Good point, thank you.

It may actually be a good thing that it's not replicated. That forces me to really make sure I have a separate backup elsewhere.
OK, how qualified do you have to be to criticize tech companies and tech leaders? Mainstream journalists write for the general public, which means that ideally, journalists write to express the perspective of the mainstream public. Is it possible that the public have valid criticisms of the technology sector? Are tech companies and tech leaders above criticism?
Show HN: Link in bio tool for apps and developers
I've been an app developer for years and I've struggled with creating link-in-bio pages that effectively showcase my apps. Most link-in-bio pages are super cluttered, making it hard for users to find the most important link - the right app store link for their device.

Launch.app is a link-in-bio tool designed specifically for app developers. Here's what makes it different:

- Prominent app store links: Each launch page puts the app store links front and center, making it immediately clear where to download your app. More importantly, the relevant app store link for the user's device (if applicable) is highlighted and placed on top.

- Device-Based Redirects: You can set up redirect rules to send users directly to the right app store based on the device they're on

- Aggregated Reviews: You can showcase all the ratings from every app store you're on in one place right on the page
- Profiles: Once you have a couple launch pages published, you can create a custom profile page to showcase all your apps, social media, and other links. Perfect for serial app developers

- The url is pretty cool too :) launch.app/your-app

The setup process is really straightforward and we've also built an AI tool that can pull links and styles from your app's site to make it even quicker.
The courts rarely help. I've consulted lawyers about multiple issues over the years and gotten consultations. Each time the answer was the same - yes, this was an obvious violation of your rights and/or law, but there's not much of a case since the damages weren't severe and the system doesn't care about ADA or civil rights violations unless there was some severe injury. And yet I've seen frivolous suits with no basis make it in front of a judge.
Oh man Brainstorm had a trippy scene about this
The first example says it's "...about the dying process"

The second example is for "...someone with dementia"
Does that work with kids talking in the backseat, the radio playing, GPS reading directions out loud, all at the same time?
I think what you've said in your comment exists for the most part inside your head. You create these caricatures in your own mind in order rationalise the fact that you are, in fact, what you accuse others, a basic hater unable to accept the fact that people can disagree with you (and also the concept of freedom of speech in general).
Perfect opportunity for doge to cut some fat here. What’s that? It’s a Thiel project? Guess not.
Discussed at the time:

How not to sign a JSON object - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20516489 - July 2019 (151 comments)
Moral of the story here really is that if you make the government enforcers look like fools by abusing their "service" for your own ends they will throw the book at you.
The number of M3 and M4 SKUs suggests they have yield problems and are disabling bad memory and cores.
Hierarchical graph network for propaganda detection in social media news text
> truth

We were talking information, not truth. The same kind of information that polling companies try to extract—mostly unsuccessfully—every election cycle.

> If you believe opinions are information, more power to you.

See above, but thanks.
Feels like AI slop but the UI is 1998, so I’m very confused…
I looked into this a couple months ago and external TB5 was still more expensive at 1-2 TB not sure about above, though.
Even restricted to that narrower definition, the major commercial model companies wouldn't be able to afford to license all their high-quality human text.

OpenAI is Uber with a slightly less ethically despicable CEO.

It knows it's flaunting the spirit of copyright law -- it's just hoping it could bootstrap quickly enough to make the question irrelevant.

If every commercial AI company that couldn't prove training data provenance tomorrow was bankrupted, I wouldn't shed an ethical tear. Live by the sword, die by the sword.
Star Wars – The Ghost's Apprentice (fan film made using AI) [video]
Thanks! I put this submission in the SCP*:

A Year of Telepathy - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43019352

* SCP = Second Chance Pool, explained at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308
These are the most comparable times in the history of Airbus:

https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/one-hundred-seconds-of-c...

https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/thinking-like-a-computer...

Unlike with Boeing they didn't feature intentional obfuscation and fraud, but very similar themes of the airplane's software model of what's going on diverging from the pilots' and resulting in disaster.

Along with stories like the Therac-25, this is one of my "favorite" engineering stories relevant to my profession.
So much money,
so much effort,
all in service,
of so much banal evil.

Get off Meta. Stay off Meta. Don't work for them. To integrate them. Don't share links to them.
What is the job market like in London/the UK?
What's the job market like in the uk for software engineers? Is it as bad as America's job market?
Already tried once 7 years ago:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Lee_Myers
> you wouldn't use it on Linux today since the kernel supports lower latency IO

Actually you absolutely would use it, in the same way you did back then.

WineASIO is a layer that allows a Wine application to use the ASIO API. Since ASIO is not a part of Windows itself, anything that wants to use ASIO can't do so on "bare Wine", and Wine doesn't allow for the installation of a windows kernel driver layer like ASIO. Hence: WineASIO - an implementation of ASIO for use by Windows applications running inside Wine.

Also, Ubuntu 14 dates to 2014; JACK dates back to 2002. Very little, if anything has changed about JACK since 2014. AFAIR, WineASIO could or did use JACK itself at some point in its development history, since it was a pretty natural fit.

I don't know of any open source ASIO implementations. The only 3rd party one of, ASIO4ALL, is not open source. Then again, I don't track the Windows environment much at all.
It's super useful for maintenance, for example you can replace and upgrade the drives in place without reinstalling the system.
To be honest, those are all valid points which I think are true. I've never met an academic who thinks their country should reduce science funding. And the personal incentives do push researchers overseas for higher wages.

Personally though, I think how a country uses the money dominates over how much. Most countries have a pretty consistent level of funding. Sure some countries might double others, but overall funding tends to follow GDP. No country is spending 10%+ of GDP on research, nor do I think is that justifiable.

Thus the differences come from effectiveness of spend, not volume. Japan has an advantage here in the low English proficiency: you cannot be headhunted by the Americans if you cannot speak English. Thus when Japan does focus on specializations, as it did in the past with semiconductors, those researchers cannot be headhunted away.
Yeah, integrations like Supabase, In-App Purchases/Subscriptions setup, Notifications, and App Store submission
I think anyone who is afraid of AI destroying our field just has to look at the history of DevOps. That was a massive shift in systems engineering and how production is maintained. It changed how people did their jobs, required people to learn new skills, and leaders to change how they thought about the business.

AI is going to change a lot about software, but AI code tools are coming for SWEs the way Kubernetes came for DevOps. AI completely replacing the job function is unsubstantiated.
I hope you don't consider Apple's acquiescence to government surveillance tyranny then. After all, you've got so many options like Android, Librem or jailbreaking.
Starbucks Sued by Missouri for Race and Gender Bias
No huggingface models or did I just miss them? Edit: they mention doing open models at some point at the bottom of the page
Perhaps his company doesn’t need to search the whole web when they already have an index of it…
That works! Just post in #general and I'll find you :)
Here's another article about the long tradition of the US pseudo-christianism:

https://www.history.com/news/slave-bible-redacted-old-testam...

"The Slave Bible doesn’t include Moses leading the Israelites to freedom, but it does include Joseph’s enslavement in Egypt. In the U.S., some sermons aimed at enslaved people portrayed Joseph as someone who “accepts his lot in life, keeps his faith in God and in the end is rewarded for it,” Schmidt says. The Slave Bible may have wanted to impart a similar lesson to its audience.

Passages that emphasized equality between groups of people were also excised. This included: “There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus” (Galatians 3:28). The Slave Bible also doesn’t contain the Book of Revelation, which tells of a new heaven and Earth in which evil will be punished.

In contrast, one of the passages that remained was one that proponents of slavery loved to cite: “Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ” (Ephesians 6:5)."
> Their sample size has dropped dramatically since the previous year, from 100k to 25k for laptops and from 186k to 48k for desktops.

I suspect that's just an effect of 2025 data being limited to just ~January, rather than a full 12 months.

If people run a benchmark only once every 4 months on average, that would certainly explain the sample size.
Governor Hochul Announces Launch of New 25M Trees Initiative 'Tree Tracker'
You should! Choice is great. I also should not have to talk to my car, I hate doing so.
I’m assuming bloopernova is based in Europe, so latency should be fine. At least they asked for an European-based Hoster (although that could also theoretically be for privacy reasons).
Well this is a holy shit moment for me. My grand mother was having really strange hallucinations, like explaining how she was talking to people on TV and the neighbours came round and joined in too. I had never heard about the infection thing before. It was really upsetting my mum and no health care professional ever suggested it might be infections. This was ten years ago and she's dead now, but I wish I'd known then.

It sounds very similar to your experience, they'd just randomly come and disappear after a while.
> "Massive fraud" isn't really even in dispute!

Good article, and they definitely do skate on the line, but there aren’t any indictments and it doesn’t seem there is any evidence they are colluding. Just lack of enforcement by the feds means it pays off for everyone to break the rules, but even then, the business is not profiting much.

>Walmart's is lower than that

So? That doesn’t mean 5% is a low profit margin. And the other MCOs are at 3% or less.

> That's why they do stock buybacks.

The effects of stock buybacks are incorporated into the total return calculation, so not sure what the relevance of this is either.

I just don’t see the logical consistency of claiming a business is doing super shady things to earn ridiculous amounts of profit, and then the business not doing better than SP500.

Or why insurance premiums at all the non profits would similar to premiums at all the for profits.

The more likely and simple answer is that it’s a cutthroat business, where almost all revenue goes out as expenses, and that is why all the premiums are similar, because no one can really cut more costs than they already are.
I think that "inconsequential life" is, in general, not safe from superior powers.

https://www.worldwildlife.org/press-releases/catastrophic-73...
Can someone reply me a mature stack that is extremely reliable and won't go away? That they're using.

I had frequently thought that I would prefer to maintain a batch system than an online system.
How will programming change when we reach reach 99-100%?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43018369
> In your absence I find other forms of amusement.

I was unimpressed until this one at least.
Show HN: 42links: A bookmarking server, written in Lisp
This has a few rough edges yet, for which I’m sorry. I’m proud enough to release it though. Please don’t consider this to be “finished software” yet. :-)
Llama That Thinks
Hey HN,

So, casually trying to make LLaMA achieve consciousness (as one does on a Tuesday), when I stumbled upon something hilarious. Turns out, you can make these language models "reason" with about as much code as it takes to write a "Hello World" program. No, really!

https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1jfsG0_XP8a5mME76F5a...

Here's the philosophical crisis I'm having now: When you ask an LLM to code something vs. asking it to reason about something... are we basically watching the same neural spaghetti being twirled around?

The real question is: If one can make an AI model "think" with 5 lines of code, does this mean:
a) An LLM should be able to write its own reasoning code
b) We've been overthinking AI?
c) The simulation is running low on RAM
d) All of the above

Would love to hear your thoughts, preferably in the form of recursive functions or philosophical paradoxes.

P.S. No LLAMAs were harmed in the making of this experiment, though several did ask for a raise.
Yikes - I love foraging, but I am extremely conservative about what I eat. This makes me thankful I'm not a bold forager.

My friend has a running joke calling Yew poison berries, but I never looked up the effects before. Great that you called poison control.
How are you hitting that pricing? S3 "Glacier Deep Archive"?

Standard S3 is $23/TB/mo. Backblaze B2 is $6/TB/mo. S3 Glacier Instant or Flexible Retrieval is about $4/TB/mo. S3 Glacier Deep Archive is about $1/TB/mo.

I take it you have ~2TB in deep archive? I have 5TB in Backblaze and I've been meaning to prune it way down.

Edit: these are raw storage costs and I neglected transfer. Very curious as my sibling comment mentioned it.
Reminds me of the old random joke generator that was on the Brunching Shuttlecocks ages ago. That thing would have me in tears.
I would guess Replit-like (or Vercel-like) automation of aspects that are RN-specific. Eg typical mobile integrations, databases, more focus on UI (design screens with drag and drop + LLM chat), secrets. Focusing means they’re able to make features work better for just one type of developer, and can move faster. Cursor would need to solve for all types of development since their users probably do everything in all languages from web to mobile to backend etc.
he covers this in the video, but both engines have the same LRD (Load reduction device), but it's more about how the bleed system is done on if it's an impact or not, and he doesn't know if the other planes have the same flaw or not.
Dunno; last time I was in SF, I saw one of these absurd items (they are even sillier in person), right in the city, lots of people around. If they’re so rural-adapted, perhaps they shouldn’t be allowed enter built-up areas.
I bought a bunch of 28 TB Seagate Exos drives refurbished for not that much money. I still can't believe that 28TB drives are even possible.
Its the same energy for sure.
Waymo is level 4 while FSD is level 3. Waymo won't drive in the snow, because they know they cannot fully automate it safely in all situations. FSD will yolo any situation and just suddenly hand you the wheel whenever it likes, resulting in situations like the linked article.
It kind of works on Firefox Android. I can't use m to move windows and there is no shift key but the core functionality works.