skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounds like you would hire the one building CRUD apps. Perhaps I was unclear in my original post, technical quality teams don’t analyze CI and fix bugs. The team in my org builds sophisticated tools to analyze CI runs and teams self service the bug fixes. When you are operating at large scale and delivering products, there is no limit to impact or scope; ambiguity is inherent.
If donotpay.com does not already have such a tool, it will not be long coming.
“Fuck around and find out” would be a better fit.
That could work. I use a little tray that fits in the steps/top of the ladder
it's probably being downvoted because it's empty virtue signaling that doesn't provide anything to the discourse
The article mentions the marshmallow experiment.

I wonder if it's "inverse" has been studied. Promise the child another one after 15 minutes but then either not deliver on the promise or even steal the one marshmallow.

I know people that had the equivalent happen to them as kids, and I think it had enormous effect on their personality as adults.

Depending how often it happens, I wouldn't be surprised if that's how you raise sociopaths.
The down votes are kind of telling. There exists no censorship and anybody who says anything to the contrary has to be censored? If people don't like the answer, they should probably not ask the question.

Now you know why everybody loves the great leader. Because they make sure that the people who don't love him shut up.

I was born in a place where everybody agrees with everybody else on every issue, because if you don't agree in every detail you are shunned and shamed as a heretic or suspected enemy spy. Then you cannot have open discussion of anything except of discussing how much you hate people who don't think like you.
Feels like “lines of code”. It means something, but…
> trying to force you to buy it

If the author wanted to "force you" in any way, he wouldn't offer a publicly reachable download link, nor the source, nor a permissive license.

It's OK to have economic expectations related to a software you wrote.
So 211B in salaries? That's incredibly small on a ~7T budget, like 2-3%. Also it averages less than $100k per person. Seems like to me we're getting a great value out of the federal workforce.

When will we see all the contracts that flow into Musk's companies that we can cut?
> The only way to prevent it would be to go full-on CPU and OS emulation, but that would be prohibitively expensive.

How so?

For ref I used a Gentoo distcc chroot inside a devuan VM to bootstrap gentoo on a 2009 netbook. It worked fine. I did this around Halloween.
HN has several "subforums" already; Show, Ask, Jobs.
It's a populist trope, as if you could elect the hundreds of thousands of people that are required so that the government can even exist.
Start with asking yourself why you are agreeing to the projects. Is it that you want to do them, or are you being pressured?

If it’s you, then it’s about clarity. If it’s them, then it’s also about clarity.

You need to make your workload clearer to yourself. How can you even know if you have capacity to take on a new project?

You could simply list your projects and commitments / deadlines. Sometimes the list is enough.

You could block out your time, which is your actual resource.

If that’s failing, you could try better estimation, but it’s extremely difficult.

I would argue for simply having a maximum number of spinning plates. Like, two.
Didn't thought that. But yeah, I'm sure foot traffic would rise in if you have that outside your shop, specially for a toy store. Tiles that light up when you step on them, or that light up and you have to step on them.
> Well isn't this what most people voted on?

Strictly speaking, no.

Trump won 77,284,118 votes, or 49.8 percent of the votes cast for president.

Voter turnout nationally in 2024 was 63.9 percent (below the 66.6 percent voter turnout recorded in 2020).

So 31.8 percent of the eligible voters in the USofA voted for Trump in the 2024 elections, most eligible voters didn't vote for Trump.

Eligible Voters aside, an even greater percentage of people in the USofA didn't vote for Trump being too young or otherwise disenfranchised.

Of those that did vote for Trump it's a leap to say that all of them voted to fire the chief government records keeper; like Brexit, many of those who voted for it had no real idea what they had voted for.
The "unelected" bit is inflammatory.

It implies that the bureaucratic apparatus of the state could have been a bunch of elected people, and some dastardly force has pushed these unelected jerks into positions of power over the people.

But the vast majority of federal government positions are not elected positions. Of course the people in those positions were not elected to them.

These "unelected bureaucrats" work for agencies established through the rule of law. They operate under regulations established through the rule of law. They implement the processes, policies, and procedures they have been directed to do through the rule of law.

And get this - the people who made those laws - they were elected!
With the added complication that the controller should be kept cool, but the flash should run warm.

The NVMe drives in my servers have these little aluminium cases on them as part of the hotswap assembly. They manage the temperature differential by using a conductive pad for the controller, but not the flash.
Pay someone by the line of code and he'll write himself a Ferrari by the end of the month.
So all the stories about funding freezes are make believe? Got it.
OpenAI's GPT-5 Bait and Switch
Previous discussion of the paper:

Addition is all you need for energy-efficient language models - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41784591 - Oct 2024 - 126 comments
This is spot on - I came from a very abusive and neglectful home, bordering on torture, and the way it carries into my life into my middle age is funny to look back on when it comes to “scientific” studies like the marshmellow test. In many ways, my early distrustful experiences have led me to become stronger in other ways that make up for my weaknesses. Not everyone is like this, unfortunately, and I very much agree with this message - kids should feel safe for maximum development. Especially kids on the spectrum, where frequently broken promises can possibly be more traumatic than it would otherwise seem.
Give your projects a deadline. For example, if you want to start making a game but you still did end up that course, end the course first and then start making that game.
I hate bloat and don't use Electron apps, but garbage collection is such a silly thing to pin it on. Tossing stuff like Lua and D in the same bin as the massive enterprise framework du jour is throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
The rest of the world has the same "industry", however most country's have law's to protect the "customer" when it is obligatory to pay for health insurance.
I mostly use a simple music player made by a friend for my daily needs. The design is inspired from spotify and It works really great. https://github.com/H0lyDiv3r/player
sure but thats true about the entire internet.

people dont come here for sad life stories they come here for hacker news.

if people post stuff like this I cant find the cool tech news, and people who want to post or see cool tech news wont post or comment on it either. there is a dynamic range of attention on the front page and this consumes it. I see it as an emotional ddos attack. Because you cant criticize it. If you do people get mad. This post is like a viral email that tells you to resend or else you hate jesus or something.

Plus it just violates common sense. why dont i go to cats.com to see some cats. oh thats weird its all sad posts about dogs that ran away. "why dont we post that on dogs.com". then they get mad at me because its insensetive or something. sucks dogs ran away but why even come to cats.com if its all dog posts. Half of hacker news posts are midlife crisis posts some days and when it hits that threshold i cant find anything about lisp or compilers or whatever, I leave and dont come back for months and then you lose the tech interest. curation is important.

somebody died. thats sad. makes u sad. maybe deep to some people. but its not hacking news.

theres nothing novel about this post or perspective anyway. somebody important dies in your life you get sad and have to rebuild and forget. youll have to redesign your own personal religion to get through it. it sucks this person was sad. its the worst thing in the world to them. hope they get better. okay but i dont want to see it on coolcatpics.com.

and THIS is HACKER NEWS.
Yes he can, but indirectly: in the federal workforce there are more contractors than actual government employees [1], and they share similar roles and responsibilities. Those contracts can be terminated at the pleasure at the government. Rip up the contracts, and you have essentially witheld funds for programs that no longer have adequate staffing.

https://blog.simpletechnology.io/why-would-you-want-to-work-...

https://www.pogo.org/analysis/contractors-and-true-size-of-g...
Chocolate rations can increase from 60g to 40g if you don't have a record of how much you got last week.
Musk has long been known to be an ally of the regime in China.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/11/elon-musk-do...
I am fine with that, call me jerk or rude. I don't care how people perceive me, even when they are not random folks like you.

I care about the job being done correctly, efficiently. I care about the users. I don't care about poor IT developers, who have the worst life can offer (sarcasm). Get some perspective, man!

If you can't take "fuck you" or equivalent while passionately doing something, just move away, let the grown-ups do the thing, don't make this thing about you, your feelings or your morning sugar.

It's this type of prima dona type of engineer that I try to avoid at all cost.
Normally when people say things like that, the reasoning is "...because they agree with me."
I think you mean that you've been building a lot of simple applications? Because that's not really what microservices are.

I mean sure it's just a word and HN especially loves to spit on original definitions, but it is always kinda jarring to hear these technical terms in settings that have pretty much no overlap with the original definition.
any idea why this is such a big deal to Nazis? I know they go after other people too, but it's really eerie watching it replay scene by scene.
In your search results. It was well over 80 at the time. 80 is the number mostly cited nowadays. I see you're down to 5 damaged. Good for you.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/least-90-phone-masts-a...

https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-90-attacks-on-phone-m...

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-52164358

https://www.businessinsider.com/77-phone-masts-fire-coronavi...
I can fully recommend this tool.
It saved me (never moved IMAP accounts) a ton³ of work.

But it takes some time to trust it in the first place due the antique website. Even the author explained it.
If I can host the backend myself, does it imply it's not a commercial offering?
> cheats

All i see is competition. Companies cheat by relying on ip to begin with and it hurts the consumer.
They split data into three branches ( executive, judicative, legislative), only to show that they have data for the executive and not the other branches?

So that is at best a incomplete picture, and at worst a specific framing of a particular view.

I am neither endorsing nor rejecting what is happening (i am not American), just want to point this out here.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35183317
Preprocessor Meta-Quotes with EĿlipsis
A realtime file transfer between browsers
I want to share my real time file transfer between browsers. I call it real time because while you upload a file from one browser, the chunks are directly downloaded from another browser.

It has support for multiple files and a browser can send to many.

I would like some opinions about it
Echoing what other commenters have said, I can't square the supposedly surprised scientists with what I thought I already knew about volcanoes. Can anybody figure out where the miscommunication occurred?

Matching my layman understanding, Wikipedia says that an extinct volcano is one that no longer has a magma supply, but that dormant ones may unexpectedly become active. The article on the other hand speaks of dormant volcanoes supposedly being understood to have "empty" magma chambers, which structurally makes no sense, and should very clearly differentiate them from active volcanoes. Wikipedia says that the demarcation between dormant and active is so wishy washy that the term dormant is basically obsolete in the scientific literature. So what gives?
Ehhh

Having tried to install a modern Linux on a 2012 laptop, it simply is not as cozy as your memory records it.

For reference even Linux designed for old hardware takes about 6 minutes to boot and even just using the console lags
1TB NVMe and 4060 GPU
She's definitely probably a crazy Russian sympathizer or possibly a Russian agent. Everyone in DC knows this. She's a total liability. I would hope serious adults at the three letter agencies are furiously hiding everything, everyone, and the silverware to minimize the damage from these unqualified and unfit so-called leaders.
This result --

https://x.com/yuntiandeng/status/1889704768135905332

Is this a consequence of the fact that "multiplication tables" For kindergarteners are available online (in training data) abundantly ... typically up to 12 times or 13 times table as plain text ?
It’s only fascinating if you weren’t paying attention. Many of us knew this all along.
> But assuming a Japanese child will have patience where an American will not is the same weird thought that leads to weird guys wanting Japanese wives for 'obedience.'

You are making several jumps in logic to get from A -> B.

Japan has an education system which teaches the importance of certain values, patience and self-discipline among them.

Here is the short-film "Instruments of a Beating Heart" currently on the Oscars shortlist about this very point -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRW0auOiqm4
> Our kid made her own 'phone' out of cardboard as a child, pretending to read and chat on it. That struck me deeply.

as a child of the 80s in an emotionally barren household with domestic violence, I also built myself a whole computer lab out of cardboard boxes at the age of 5 to mimic my father!
You need to take a Defence in depth strategy.

There are various ways to validate libraries but it's best to assume an exploit gets through.

So then, you should be looking at your deployment, i.e. locking down containers, network policies, least privileges etc etc.

Try to reduce the blast radius to zero.
FTA: “Tiny Basics are not known for their speed. They do not tokenise the input like MS and newer Basics so there is a lot of string compares going on for every line of code executed.”

Even ignoring the increased speed, wouldn’t any increase in code size soon be gained back because storing programs takes less room?

I can only see this make sense if you want to store your basic in ROM, and have very little space there, but is that a realistic use case? Wasn’t RAM historically more expensive than ROM?
The concept clustering across multiple sources allows you to rephrase more accurately while retaining meaning - however the point I'm making is if you then point that program at Encyclopaedia Britannica and simply rephrase it then charge for access to the rephrased version - should you be allowed to do that?
There is no actual need solved by using client side include to load a nav bar.

i am maintaining a site by hand right now. i am fine with copying from a template to get the structure. styles and formatting should be CSS anyways. navigation is the only thing that is a problem. i'll either figure out if i can do navigation in CSS or i'll end up having to use javascript. client side include in html only is the very thing missing here.
> An investigation by VAC found four cases “isolated to a single employee who is no longer an employee of the Department” of assisted dying being brought up inappropriately to veterans.
> Re: glorified autocomplete

Linus Torvalds: ~"just predicting the next token is not the insult that people think it is, that's mostly what we are all doing."
I appreciated sama's quip back saying OpenAI is not for sale but they would be happy to buy twitter.
Maintaining systems is an operational thing, not an administration thing. Are you saying purges of federal data is something routine after a US transfer of power?
One thing I notice is that Google Drive was using 15% of ARC GPU (laptop also has nVidia 4060). When I shut down that process, it cooled down a bit after a while, but system is still sluggish and fans work all the time, even if I switched it to "Silent" mode.
looks like you forgot to include the [1]link.
Maybe you won’t! I know why I left that turtle on his back.
The discrete GPU is barely used, so it shouldn't be getting hot.
How to Send Requests from Stimulus Controllers
Some interesting related stats from Debian also show good reproducibility progress

https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/reproducible.ht...
Was looking for some mention of Mike Bostock and his epic odyssey into this space.

For those who aren't familiar https://observablehq.com/@mbostock
I was surprised to see a very popular model here (Qashqai) doesn’t have a full EV version yet, only hybrid.
US Department of State plans to spend $400M on Tesla armoured vehicles
for those interested, below is the transcript of JD Vance's remark on the summit.

https://gist.github.com/lmmx/b373b9819318d014adfdc32182ab17f...
They had complicated feelings about their little trouser nazi sig heil'ing everytime they went to the Weimar cabaret.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdM36y-Dkyg
I have never checked if my c compilers are deterministic, but Gentoo has tinderbox, and since everything that has an emake or whatever has a sha hash; this means if I use the exact same sha hashed source as the tinderbox binary, I should get a bitwise equal binary output myself. I of course imply all of the toolchain is using sha hash verified source output.

In Gentoo

`emerge -e <package name>` will do it, add binpkgs if you know what you're doing (I do, and I do).
That's no different from how NixOS does it. You are still comparing hashes from the first build done by the distribution. A more pure approach would be to use the source code files (simple sha256sum will suffice) as the first independent variable in the chain of trust.
Are you open to candidates from India? I am interested to apply, can work in the required timezone
I guess we're lucky that the IEEE 754 committee put the exponent in front of the mantissa. Or maybe they were aware of this trick all along ...
AI and the Existential Crisis Facing Higher Education
> I'm against broad brush stroke categorization about how different countries behave.

Ok - pick any conservative country (say India or Indonesia). Now tell me that the chances of an average Indonesian woman wearing a bikini to a beach (pretty normal in most Western countries) is same as an average French woman?

Or for a less gender-charged example, chances of an average Saudi eating Pork vs an average American.

Note that I didn't say "every", I said "average".
Found one for ya:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcla7WoWIpQ

The USAID Office of Transition Initiatives (USAID/OTI) began its program in Haiti in January 2010 as part of the post-earthquake response, supporting short- and medium-term activities aimed at stabilizing Haiti through support for community revitalization, improved governance, and economic strengthening.
>Sometimes 10x faster where it matters to me (sustained server load).

I don't think that is a reasonable stat. What do you mean by faster? I'd be extremely surprised if this is representative of any real-world examples where someone has taken moderate care to write good Java code.
Note that NixOS's "build" step often actually doesn't do any compilation. Often it's just downloading a binary from github releases and runs NixOS's specific binary tools on it to make it look for libraries in the right places.

So if that process is reproducible, it's a different statement from a Debian package being reproducible, which requires build inputs in the preferred form of modification (source code).
It's going to be hard to find much bloat in the federal workforce. The GSA pay scales are public, and they aren't exactly making anyone rich. The federal workforce has also remained in fairly steady range over the years while also becoming a smaller % of all US jobs over time.

https://usafacts.org/articles/how-many-people-work-for-the-f...

When Musk starts cutting big money contractors including himself let me know. Otherwise this just performative grandstanding at the kids table.
To know the value we'd have to know the benefit from this work. Maybe it's a great deal but we can't know from the average pay alone. It could be a massive net negative if these workers are, in aggregate, making everybody's lives harder with bad decisions.
I believe that this thesis supported by many Americans, that the Chinese companies are too strong competitors for the US companies only due to governmental subsidies and lax environmental regulation is an extremely dangerous illusion.

Until maybe 10 years ago, I would have agreed that all or at least most of the Chinese products were no better than copies of Western products.

However during recent years, at least during the last 5 or 6 years, both among commercial products and among the published research papers, I have seen far more innovation from China than from USA.

Such underestimation of the capabilities of a competitor, like the assumption that without subsidies or lax regulations they would not still be better, can only doom USA.

While these claims about subsidies and lax regulations are ubiquitous in USA for justifying failures, I have yet to see any proof or any accurate numeric data supporting them.

I doubt that China really has laxer environmental regulations than USA. What is likely to happen is that in China it must be much easier to avoid the enforcing of the regulations, by bribing the authorities.

Perhaps there are governmental subsidies in China, but in USA I never see the start of any significant private investment without great subsidies, at least from the local government, in the form of various kinds of tax breaks.

This kind of governmental subsidies that are very common in USA are only seldom permitted in other countries, e.g. in Europe.
The democrats like to blame anyone and everyone but themselves. A big reason why we are here in the first place is because the Democrats are operating in a parallel universe and completely refusing to listen to the people.
I had a large house that was heated by electric and wood and replaced them with a ground source heat pump with a loop zigzagging under my lawn. Relatively expensive to install but paid for itself in 5 years.

YMMV. Good luck, hope it works out for you too :)
Of those, afaik Firefox is the only one not based on Chromium.

"But but Brave..." Yea they have their own crap on top, but it's still the Chromium rendering engine.
My dad was a civil servant retired as a GS13. A GS13 would report directly to a division head. Think vice president at a fair sized company.

You can see the pay scale for the San Francisco Bay Area here.

https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/salaries...

Ideological nutters are completely ignorant or delusional about how much government workers get paid.

Perversely if you wanted to save tax money you'd hire more government workers and issue fewer contracts to glorious free market private enterprise. They're cheaper and upper level managers are vastly cheaper.
> Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.

The potential collapse of American democracy is not interesting?
You nailed TLDR.