skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your definitions of social norms ass backwards.

Cultural norms dictate some modicum of restraint on everyone. You have no obligation to tolerate me if I call your wife a whore. Any given community has its social norms that dictate what you can and can't say. To force them to accept "unacceptable" speech would violate freedom of speech itself.
How is this relevant to the article? I had a look at my Thinkpad T42 and X201 and both were manufactured in China. I looked up a picture of the T40's bottom case and it was manufactured in China as well. I think the differences in durability you're noticing are more because the majority of laptop buyers value the laptop being thin and light over being durable, so companies moved their product lines to suit these tastes. In fact, you seem to be a part of that segment. If you really value the laptop being durable over all else, why did you buy a Samsung ultrabook, a Dell XPS, and a MacBook (all thin-and-light ultraportable laptops) instead of a current generation T or P series ThinkPad or a Panasonic Toughbook?
A number of executives used to make a point by assigning $0 as their salary, and only making money by appreciation of their shares. Better yet, you can borrow money with your stock as a collateral, and cut even more off your taxes by repaying with pre-tax gains: [1].

[1]: https://www.healio.com/news/hematology-oncology/20220928/avo...
The US can be energy independent and was IIRC under Trump's first term. The point of the tariff is to increase domestic production, which is entirely possible.
I think the "Eudoxus reals" construction is worth thinking about too. It builds directly on integers instead of building on top of the rationals. https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/Eudoxus+real+number

I wish history recorded how Eudoxus got to this. There was a paper speculating (iirc) that the Greeks started by thinking about continued fractions as a way to deal with incommensurables, and then realized you don't need that much machinery to define them. (You get continued fractions by running Euclid's algorithm on incommensurable input.)
Why is everything a subscription? This world is going nuts!
React has been almost fully backwards compatible going back to version 1. If you have react code that worked 10 years ago it will almost certainly still work just fine right now. That's more than a lot of other platforms. Higher number doesn't mean less backwards compatible.
That's what I do with my GrapheneOS phone sometimes. One day at work I connected a USB-C > keyboard/display/mouse adapter and realized it works terrifically well.
> until Claude4 snuffs it out later this month

Any source? I’m a heavy user of Claude and pay for the Teams plan just for myself so I won’t get throttled. Love it. But I’ve been impressed with O1 Pro lately. That said, I don’t like paying both €166 for Claude Teams and €238 for OpenAI Pro. :)
anecdote, counter example. i left my home country to go to places where i would be accepted without having to conform. living in a country where i already stand out by my skin color alone makes it clear that i am not the same as everyone else, and as a result noone is surprised if i behave and think differently too. that was a big problem for me at home. people would not accept that i had different ideas and a different attitude towards things that mattered to them. (i don't care about soccer for example, the national sport where i come from. things like that, the problem being that people turned it into a problem, refusing to accept it)

sure there are groups online that i can and am joining, hackernews is one, there were (and are) even local groups where i fit in better. but even in those groups i am only appearing to conform to the outside observer. inside i often take on a non-conformist position, in part by conviction, in part because that's how i grew up. i was always the outsider, and i am comfortable in that role. all i need is an environment where being an outsider is accepted. in every group that i am joining, i am there because i believe in the idea the group represents, not because of the relationship i have with its members. i would remain there even if everyone else left.
Worthwhile is a hard measure.

To make money though it just needs to have a large or important audience and a means of convincing people to think, want, or do things that people with money will pay to make people think, want or do.

Ads, in other words
I mean by the same logic the only difference between a diffusion model and a VLM is that you put the spatial transformer on the other end.

Yes, one of the powerful things about every kind of neural network is that they're a very general class of function approximator. That we can use a similar toolkit of techniques to tackle a wide variety of problems is very cool and useful. Again, the analogy to statistical models is telling. You can model a lot of phenomena decently well with gaussian distributions. Should we report this as "Normal distribution makes yet another groundbreaking discovery!"? Probably this wouldn't have the same impact, because people aren't being sold sci-fi stories about an anthropomorphized bell curve. People who are using LLMs already think of "AI" as a thinking thing they're talking to, because they have been encouraged to do that by marketing. Attributing these discoveries made by scientists using this method to "AI" in the same way that we attribute answers produced by chatGPT to "AI" is a deliberate and misleading conflation
The issue I had when I still worked in the frontend world is the frequency of major version updates. If you used standard project bootstrapping tools in approximately 2017, you got a whole bunch of libraries and tools that would have significant breaking changes multiple times over the next three years or so (I know because I had to maintain them).
Timing matters. A long term strategy for superior hardware might bear fruit too late.
Purple Shape Craft – Advanced Shape Generator
Wait, mappers can do ALU-like work beyond mapping the ROMs in cartridges?
>Grok3's release is pretty important

Is it? It's Yet Another LLM, barely pipping competitors at cherry picked comparisons. DeepSeek R1 was news entirely because of the minuscule resources it was trained on (with an innovative new approach), and this "pretty important" Grok release beats it in chatbox arena by a whole 3%.

We're at the point where this stuff isn't that big of news unless something really jumps ahead. Like all of the new Gemini models and approaches got zero attention on here. Which is fair because it's basically "Company with big money puts out slightly better model".

I'd say Grok 3 is getting exactly the normal attention, but there is a "Leave Britney Alone" contingent who need to run to the defence.
Great until your dependency scanner picks up a vulnerability in the framework or a dependency that can't be upgraded without breaking v4, no exemptions can be given and the only updated version is 5. [1]

[1] https://endoflife.date/svelte
I've witnessed a company that started moving away from their KnockoutJS solution to react.

In that time, the knockout parts have kept going strong. The react parts have seen three different paradigms ( React classes, Functional react with redux, React Hooks ) and still hasn't fully settled down given there's also churn in the CSS-in-JS space.

The very occassional time something in the remaining knockout parts need fixing, it's just a harsh reminder that it worked fine.

I'm fairly sure the react portion is still not even on the very latest version of react because some other dependencies are stuck on older versions and they themselves have breaking "API changes" (i.e. complete rewrites with no semblance to the original ).

As someone here also said, maintainers in the JS/TS ecosystem appear to have no respect for their users.

It might sound entitled, but sometimes not completely rewriting your framework's API to a completely incompatible one is a better choice. Even if that means putting up with a slightly worse API than you'd like.

I guess everyone moves so fast that there's a fear that sticking on the old API would just lead to dying off at the hands of a new upstart with a smoother API.

But the alternative is a constant abandonment of projects. If a major version change requires a complete re-write then really the new version is a new project entirely that's re-using the namespace and maintainership.

But perhaps emberJS fell away precisely because it didn't rewrite itself to stay "modern". Maybe this is a "worse is better" situation where the world optimises for the wrong things.

"Has had a mostly stable API for a decade" just isn't something people select for. If it were, then things like ASP.NET would be far more popular.
Normalization of this existential dread is a direct result of the fundamental shift of power from labor to capital.

Our safety nets have been ripped away from us. Leaving us with this awful choice of working with shitty employers. In some cases, they might even hold a monopsony on labor and thus have _no choice_.

The time I have wasted at shit tier employers is lost forever. All so the rapacious capitalists could pump the stock and deliver share holder value
Need a bodyguard? Now there's an app for that
How is Blazor not a JS framework?
When people say "the rich" they're usually referring to smaller percentiles than the top 10%. The top 10% is a cohort the size of New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago combined.
Svelte 5 is not JavaScript is why I like Svelte 5.

There are two major ways I think it's reasonable to do frontend/web:

1. Static HTML or server rednered templates with maybe HTMX .

2. Compile-to-JavaScript languages/platforms. At a minimum TypeScript but given that I think HTML and CSS are actually pretty good (for many things), JSX, React, Tailwind, etc, are right out, and Svelte 5 along with a few other frameworks actually improve things over vanilla TypeScript in my opinion.

So much so that Svelte 5 is the clear winner in category 2 for me.

It has nice HTML templating, easy and sane state propagation, and features that make it easy to write modular code. It works great with CSS and you can often build simple throwaway apps and tools in one or two files, as well as bigger, more serious applications. It's less magical and surprising that Svelte 4, and honestly a joy to use. Luckily I don't care about IndexedDB.

I have no clue why anyone would choose to write a single line of JavaScript in this day and age, but each to their own.
I expect that jank will be migrating from C++ to Rust, at some point. https://github.com/jank-lang/jank
You're right, I commented on this in my response to a sibling comment.
> Honestly it’s exhausting seeing endless posts from people who don’t do frontend development saying “wow, looks awful!” having made zero effort to actually understand the scenario.

There's much bigger topics afoot in the world that also make me think humanity desperately needs better tools to defend & equip ourselves with broadscale collaborative efforts to shut down & reject-by-default negative-valence posts.

The hater-squad has the easiest job on the planet attracting some fellow people who also want to resist learning, change, or who want to feel more secure in their current position. The Dark Side is strong.
My, this narrative sounds familiar... Almost like it's been peddled in Germany before, 80 years ago.
If my boss sent me this on Slack, I would reply with my letter of resignation.
_Could_ they have done the same thing with a tiny fraction of the money? Grok 3 benchmarks are SOTA for both base model and reasoning. By definition, nobody has been able to do the same thing with any amount of money (discounting o3 which has been teased but is unreleased). That may change in the future! But as of now this is the case.
Yes, so did I. My washing machine that died a few weeks ago lied about it all the time. The replacement doesn't display the time at all, which made me think at first I should have paid more for one that does... which just goes to show why the manufacturers do it!
I would love that.

Problem is, it will probably not tell you the truth about it as Twitter has always had censorship one way or the other.

So it will tell you what twitter policy is allowing people to talk about and allowing grok to report.
Richer people don't even pay capital gains. They borrow money on their assets at a low interest rate.
That seems to be a problem that is getting worse with time though, with increasingly frequent "major" releases and fewer that consider backwards compatibility much at all. Also it used to be much more common to have published specs and standards that you could code to for a good chance to not have to rewrite your code next month.
Tangential: In a previous life, I used to work for a company where we developed different malware for smartphones (usually premium SMS senders).

You know, you can put a button on the page, and cover it with a picture with nice z-order css attributes. You can just make the user to tap on the picture, but the underlying hidden button will get the click (we frequently used "are you over 18 to access this page?" question on some websites).

After working on that, I started to hate clicking unnecessarily on the web. And the cookie banners just made it worse. The whole internet is just conditioned by law to click on an overlay "yes" button.
Do French courts enforce patents differently?
Also ai generated
> We're back to a world of disconnected songs, in some ways. It's not uncommon for an artist to release a bunch of singles then just, later, collect those into a nominal "album" for physical sales

As my parents have often informed me, an album on which you liked two of the songs was a good one, and one on which you liked three was a great one. Mostly you bought an album for a single track that was on there. But, publishers would frequently release "greatest hits" albums consolidating many popular songs onto the same album.

This seems to be basically identical to the system you describe that we have now, except that in the "single track" phase of the process, the track costs $1 instead of $15.
As already said, Rust puts guards when using memory. Forget what everyone is doing and start writing some programs - from simple to advanced - to understand what Rust is all about. There are some great resources (TRPL, books, blogs, YT videos, playgrounds etc) out there that should get you going.

Think in terms of sharing memory across threads and what you need to do to avoid contention, use after free, races etc - and you will realize Rust helps you avoid all of that - and more.

Granted Rust has its idiosyncracies - which language doesn’t?

Try Rust yourself and don’t worry about the hype and what others are saying. Using LLMs would help you understand, write, troubleshoot some advanced concepts. We live in an amazing time where this is possible. Take full advantage of this.
So in the end did he get anything? I dont know how these things work but did he just walk away with ~50k in pre tax income and 0 for RSU or did Musk pull a Twitter and not even pay him for those months?
Asteroid 2024 YR4: More than 100M people live in risk corridor
Those who say that they just use htmx instead of frameworks, how does it work for you? Do you use libraries like alpine for client side interactivity or just write vanilla JS?
fwiw - you can do this right now with Grok 2.
You don't have agency over other drivers on the road and they might cause an accident without any fault of yours. That issue is (almost) entirely avoided by planes.
What evidence is there that "the rich" like tariffs?
It was very disappointing to see Svelte 5 go the way of React. Yes, yes, I understand that it theoretically simplifies things and yadda yadda yadda, but after trying to actually use it, it felt like I was just using React with a much smaller ecosystem.

Svelte 4 felt awesome because it felt like I was just writing an HTML file, sure there was some magic ($:) but for the most part things were simple, easy to understand, and it all just worked. Runes totally changed that, maybe for the better because of all of the things previously cited, but not for my personal experience. I'll stop there because I'm 100% covering already-treaded ground.

I'm "joining the dark side" by trying the HTMX & Golang combo, just to see if I can hack together an on-par DX (which is going to be a herculean task, I know).
i have been through that. i used fashion to distinguish myself from my classmates. until i realized that this was the only reason, and that if my classmates would start to copy me i would change my style just to remain different. at that point i dropped some things and focused on what i liked regardless of how it would be perceived or how it would allow me to distinguish myself.
"What are we at now, Ubuntu 24?"

For what it's worth, between 2011 and 2016, React shipped versions 0.0.1 to 0.14.0. Then in 2016 they said "fuck it, we're stable now" and jumped immediately to 15.0.0 (they considered 0.14.0 to be mostly equal to 14.0.0).

Then they did 16 in 2017, 17 in 2020, 18 in 2022, and 19 finally in Dec 2024. I don't think 4 major versions in ~9 years is a world breaking amount of churn. I have my problems with the team's development of React, but I think they have a pretty sensible view of breaking changes and limiting churn.
100000000000%

would love to see numbers on how much gas we waste on exactly this
In the WASM Component Model, there's a Postgres example available where the database runs in Docker. I'm hoping they whip up a version that uses SQLite instead, but with a similar WIT interface, and drop the Docker nonsense.
I carry a very small cross body pack with my essentials (passort, meds, emergency card and cash) that I strap on before descent and at any other time there's a chance I'll get separated from my bags.
> All that requires additional active effort to fight having access to any data

I agree that it requires additional active effort, I'm not arguing against that. I don't agree with your original point that it's "impossible to provide any web service without collecting personal data", and it would seem you no longer agree with that either.

> It makes total sense that if you dare use a bug tracking software, you should definitely pay hundreds of euros per month to hire a proper DPO who will handle all the paperwork or risk being exposed as the mental lunatic that the EU commission believes you are.

If you willy-willy use bug tracking software that is needlessly collect and/or process EU individuals personal data, then yeah, you need to follow the regulations in the region you operate in.

If the collecting/processing actually serves a higher purpose (for your business and otherwise) then again, makes sense you need to follow the regulations.
Broadcom getting involved with Intel will be excellent business ... for all of Intel's competitors.
I really enjoy the simple, elegant design and look of this site. Well done!

I did notice that the mid-level jobs are returning mainly senior roles though.
I think that bullying mostly works when you don't have a potential consumer base that's bigger than the bully. I know it's not going to last long, but over the night shift from "America good, China bad" to "well, China at least doesn't belittle us every minute, so screw the states" has been very interesting to watch up here in Canada.
Can you get enough revenue from ads to pay the cost of serving LLM queries? Has anyone demonstrated this is a viable business yet?

A related question: has anyone figured out how to monetize LLM input? When a user issues a Google search query they're donating extremely valuable data to Google that can be used to target relevant ads to that user. Is anyone doing this successfully with LLM prompt text?
Unfortunately the nice parts of the UI are based on mostly the Mach part of the kernel, not BSD. I don’t think the macOS user space would be possible without Mach ports and tasks.
> State management is absolutely a real front end concern

That’s because most SPAs are duplicating backend logic.
It already underwent some recent shrink flation. I used to be able buy 12oz bags but they’re 10oz now, consumers are getting shafted regardless :D
Indeed. Nearly every news outlet I follow is slamming Elon. I come here for tech.
Thanks! It is not public yet. It's a b2b web app + browser extension. We currently have users in a friendly company testing it to replace their existing cumbersome Excel + Email/Teams workflow.

If you are in the same boat as me with modern front ends, come on in, the water's fine! I highly recommend using something like Refine.dev (YC S23) + Ant Design, or whatever is appropriate in your case. Giving a tool like Windsurf/Sonnet a much more narrow scope of options than just "React" is a huge win.

Even if you just started from a paid or free template for whatever language and framework you are targeting, it will greatly improve your chances of making something appealing, very quickly, using a tool like Windsurf.
1. Making all positions partisan is a fascist tactic to challenge objective truth.

2. Congress as a whole isn’t a single entity —- one party refuses to compromise in any way while the other plays by the rules.

3. Doesn’t matter. Cost reform needs to go through existing legal routes.

4. What constitutes “auditing” the government? Because we had plenty of non partisan positions overseeing and auditing all parts of the government. DOGE fired those people.

5. Again, go through the legal route.

6. A lack of “digital transformation” is the vaguest most unconvincing point in this entire justification.

7. These budget issues need to be decided on through constitutional processes and with oversight, as before.

8. Ditto.

9. Medicare can lower health costs by other means, such as being available universally to all and setting limits on what they pay to providers based on procedure.

10. Do you watch CSPAN?
It was mentioned in Anthropic Jack Clark's "Import AI" newsletter.

https://jack-clark.net/2025/02/17/import-ai-400-distillation...
The predictions for hitting the 80% EV mark range from 2028 - 2035.
My goodness, this is fascinating! Thank you for sharing!
i.e. some of us are engineers in the traditional meaning.
Yes, it's a shame that HN doesn't include a short 1- or 2-sentence summary of each article (on the front page).
Part of me wish that there are teams in China or Russia who can take over the development and ignore all the idiotic demands from these associations.
Yes it does if you understand the context. We are comparing having similar tariffs with 0% income tax to the current situation which is income tax and some Tariffs.

If the income tax didn't exist at all, I would keep all of the £65,000 and it would be totally worth working those hours. The extra £13-16k a year would allow me to pay off my current apartment in 3-5 years, not 10-15 and then I could get a lower paying job anyway and work less sooner. So the trade off IMO would be totally worth it.
That doesn't account for steel, aluminum, vehicles, etc. We import $12B of aluminum alone, $51B of vehicles, etc. etc. etc.[0] The large majority of stuff we import is raw goods that you can't just avoid as a consumer.

Re: energy independence, US was not "energy independent" in that we didn't import any energy. We were (and still are) energy independent in that we produce more than we consume, much of which is exported (which makes money for US corporations). Tariffs threaten those export relationships, and it's not trivial to just ship electricity wherever it's needed. It's far easier for us in the North to get electricity from Canada than to ship it in from the desert or something.

[0]: https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/imports/canada