skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Road repairs would be done by their owners, who will sell road access to anyone wealthy enough to deserve to be able to use a road. /s
It almost worked on me.
I work, and the fact that my tax money is going into a black hole makes my blood boil. God bless Musk and DOGE for what they do.

Here is just one headline from today,
The Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) on Monday revealed its finding that $4.7 trillion in disbursements by the US Treasury are "almost impossible" to trace, thanks to a rampant disregard for the basic accounting practice of using of tracking codes when dishing out money.
>Software estimation is a joke because there's no penalty for underestimating.

Yeah, the other problem is that the company is constantly pressuring the developer to underestimate, and all the costs are on the developer if they can't deliver on that absurd date.
that's great to hear. it mirrors my observational experience from being in their slack channel. i'm aware of the technical risks of being an early adopter of a product like this, but i must say part of me is excited to be on board early to help to shape it from a user perspective. i'm still not totally bought in yet (still in mvp phase) but our use case as we scale almost requires multi-engine execution (athena, spark on EMR, duckdb) and it doesn't seem like anyone is doing it better.
We’re going to penalize people for publishing too mucn now? Really?

Just want to say that I love Issac Asimov and he wrote a lot of high quality work and people even say that he’s a graphomaniac with a writing compulsion.

I think people’s work should be judged by the output quality not some sort of speed limiting judgment.
Gnome 48 beta is another nail in X11's coffin
Underage gambling in the sense of spending real money to redeem things that may be impossible to redeem without spending it? In that case isn't the entire game industry guilty of trying to rip money from the credit cards of unsuspecting parents? Isn't the entire modern web just a tool to suck cash out of cards, or try and get your card sucked? What are we talking about here. I cut my teeth on CS:S, but haven't played much after that. I know the newer games have lootbox mechanics, but I assumed it was for items you could potentially grind? Just like.. every other modern online multiplayer money sucking game that exists. Warframe, Fortnite, Roblox, I dunno. Everything these days seems to be a bloodsucker. Steam gets a full pass from me, I'm not a prude.
Are we digging up dirt on who to blame for the term?
People voted for radical change yet want to absolve themselves of the inevitable friction.

Though in the case of Musk he still might have had similar turmoil given the valuation of TSLA dwindling in 2024 and his antics on X. I don't know if a campaign against a tech person in the news should be suppressed just because people are "tired" of seeing it (meanwhile, AI posted a dozen times per day).

Is it too late to build in a simple regex filter for accounts?
This varies greatly by discipline and tradition - sometimes even within the same research groups. For example, some people put the senior person / advisor first, some put this person last, some go by alphabet.

In my experience, there is even more variation in the amount of work expected to be put into a publication by said senior person. To put it mildly. ^^
While a lot of us both relate and agree, I’m not sure the rhetoric is helpful here. If the flame wars are kept to a minimum, the submission keeps trending, and awareness rises. This one in particular is very important for the tech community.

I think the crux is that too many people are taking what’s being said at face value. The banner of cost cutting and lean government was chosen because it’s hard to argue with, assuming it’s true and done responsibly - which it isn’t. Randomly firing 200 people that worked at NNSA is one of the most profound examples of this, let alone gutting 18F.

For anyone paying attention, it’s indeed crystal clear the move is being used to install loyalists while “saving” an amount of money that’s order(s) of magnitude less than the grift they’ve granted themselves, after cutting the very watchdogs setup to stop that kind of grift. Heck, even the word grift is charitable when it’s more like outright brazen corruption.

However, convincing everyone of this difficult insofar that it requires them to a) not take these people at face value, and b) swallow the pill that not only were they wrong for trusting said persons in the first place, but they potentially even voted in the administration that’s doing the damage.

Getting people to admit that they were wrong, even to themselves, is pretty hard these days. Hopefully it becomes too obvious to ignore, and that process becomes easier when it’s replaced by a feeling of betrayal. Because if there’s one things American love on either side of the aisle, it’s getting angry.

18F was one of the finest examples of a non-partisan agile tech organization that was highly efficient and effective. It was just trashed it for no good reason at all.
The market signalled it is ok to sell the more crappy version.
if you want a math-checks-out cheap EV, just get an older leaf.

* less than $3k *

use it around town for grocery-getting.

It won't have the original range, but for convenience it is very nice. Never visit the gas station. charge with 110. You can leave the AC on while you're in the store. very few things to maintain.

https://sfbay.craigslist.org/search/cta?auto_make_model=niss...

EDIT: actually a couple years back ~2015 or so, a 3-4 year old leaf could go for $7-8k because people were afraid of used EV batteries.

In comparison, used teslas seemed to hold their values better. But that was mostly because tesla understood and sort of propped up their used ev market. I think if tesla didn't buy back their cars, used EVs would have been less expensive all along.
With Vue 3 and the composition API, you can do basically the same things you're doing in Svelte. You can also add SolidJS and Preact to this list as well - the magic ingredient in all these frameworks is signals, which allow you to have reactive data without having to have a UI framework to provide lifecycle events.

A good example in Vue is the top example in this page: https://test-utils.vuejs.org/guide/advanced/reusability-comp... The other examples show some other things you can do if you want, although I'd typically recommend against it - keep your signal-related code free of component/lifecycle-related logic, and it will almost always be much easier to test.

(As an aside, I'd add Angular to the list of frameworks that are easy to test, although the framework feels like it goes out of its way to convince you of the opposite. Services are just classes that maintain reactive data - originally via RxJS/Observables, although now signals are also supported - and if you keep them like that, they're fairly easy to test. Unfortunately, Angular's decorators/DI/module system is very pervasive, and at least when I was last using it, meant that even theoretically simple tests still needed lots of boilerplate. But theoretically, it belongs in the same category as the frameworks above.)
It wasn't marketing fluff at the beginning. Young Google was a uniquely ethical organization. I think the problem has been how you sustain that culture.

That's a deep problem. Checks-and-balances are hard, and Google had none. Ergo, it went from good to evil.
I just always search top stories in the last 24 hours. You can actually do an empty search and receive everything.
One not as funny that I made up was, "if we have to be whores, I'd rather be an expensive whore."
NTAuthority is a hero and should be cherished for their work. AlterIWnet and FiveM alone are spectacular.
Was Hitler mentioned yet?
Good news everyone! They've already tried to reverse engineer the source engine for TF2 for some success!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09CvpQrnTEY
> the current increased poverty levels in Argentina

Define "current increased", last data I can find from El País [1] - which is a leftist source - and I have seen repeated in many other outlets - Argentinian and international - is that poverty has seen a sharp decrease in the second half of 2024, and is the same as pre-Milei levels.

[1] https://elpais.com/argentina/2024-12-21/milei-celebra-una-ba...
My only complaint about Svelte 5 is that its so new that the LLMs aren’t good at it yet.
Yeah exactly, as also others point out in the thread, if you want "TV-sized monitor" you will pay more than for a TV, and probably get worse panel, lower brightness, etc. Hence it would be useful to buy "smart" TV and turn it into a monitor instead.
Tech and Non-Tech Stacks to Run Listen Notes (2025)
I think you're both missing a bigger picture. How many of these services can now be replicated in-house by a single developer? Which part of the service actually costs money once that dev deconstructs the process?

Feels like I won't be paying for anything that isn't real-time. And that any time delay I can introduce in my process will come with massive savings. Picture hiding the loading of loot info behind a treasure chest opening animation in a game, except that time difference means you can pull all the work in-house.

Openrouter.ai seems like a step in the right direction but I'd want to do all their calculations myself as well as factor in local/existing gear in a way they don't.
Depends on how they got there. It's in the selection process. Anything with competition about 1000:1 leads to cheating and psychopathic behavior. Anything below 1:4 doesn't. Iterated 1:4 does again.
> when Valve moved on to Source 2 over a decade ago.

I feel like that's irrelevant, because the same logic can be used to justify having Source2 open as well.

After all, what value is there in keeping the game code private at all? The only things I can think of are a) anticheat, b) NDA'd 3rd party code, and c) protecting important secret sauces made by the company itself

a) and b) are both solved by simply not releasing those portions of the code, while c) is a bit moot. Any competitor can already (legally) RE the binaries and recreate any juicy proprietary algorithms, unless they're patented. But in that case they would be protected even if the source was released so it's still the same situation.
> paste in prompt into claude
copy and paste code from claude.ai into IDE

is more polished? What's your workflow, banging rocks together?
Why #1: not enough time and money.

The project had become a time sink, I get it. But that's exactly why OSS is a "What You See Is What You Get".

Normally I'd encourage any OSS maintainer in this position to just announce their intentions and let the community (as small as it might be) decide to either inherit maintenance and development of the project, or let it languish. I don't see any reason to close the repos so dramatically, depriving potential future readers of reaching the source code and improving upon it, as is the spirit of OSS.

The project had also become an actual cost, getting to the point of hiring contractors to make releases and please users (who would most probably have been unwilling to pay for that themselves, as my experience tells me most FOSS users are just freeloaders with no intention at all of supporting the project in any way or means). Well, what can I say, this conversation appears from time to time in HN. OSS maintainers need to have that special kind of ability to say "No" or even "I don't care" because otherwise the project (and its users) tend to absorb the author's attention, goodwill, wallet, and enthusiasm. It's very healthy, as a maintainer, to be able to ruthlessly point to the License file whenever someone complains and even _requires_ attention. The "Provided on an AS-IS BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND" phrase is wonderful.

I understand the author. The feeling of attachment and goodwill, the desire to show the highest attention to detail and quality support for a project is always there. We all experience it. But it's important to remember at all times that OSS is just an act of generosity to the universe, it cannot become a self-induced hell.

Why #2: legal concerns around potential litigations.

Yeah, I know it myself too: distributing FFmpeg binaries can be a legal risk if some codecs were enabled in the build.

Still no reason to shut everything down... or is it? My gut instinct for this is to "just" (I know, not a trivial change, but not astronomically complicated either) change to a "provide your own FFmpeg executable, please" model. Then, proceed with abandoning the project, as per the previous point.

Or just move everything to an anonymous Chinese Git provider.. and forget about receiving legal threats in there (just half-joking!)
Completely agree. +1. Very well written. Felt like a Black Mirror episode.

At times my career over the decades has felt like this.
That seems overly reductive. Opposition is more effective when we strongman our opponents rather than strawman them.

It's possible (probable?) Elon actually things "his" people are more talented.
I don't care if Dinosaur BBQ is a tourist trap, it's delicious and I very much miss it. I would definitely conciser moving back to the Albany area.
the metric only tells you distances. it says the distance between today and yesterday is the same as the distance between yesterday and today (swapping doesn't negate).

it doesn't say anything about time evolution because it isn't something you solve. given a spacetime, you can lay down axes and the metric tells you intervals between events.

it says nothing about allowed trajectories through spacetime.
I worked for the USDS in the early days and I am very familiar with 18F, and I don't think your comment tracks. There were lots of issues with agencies using 18F, and not much of the federal IT spend migrated to 18F during its 10 year history, even though most of the products they launched were good.

Even USDS teams didn't always take up 18F on its products, and instead would utilize outside contracts for a majority of their projects. Realistically the government needs to do better then 18F was doing and there are many reforms needed to actually have a paved road agencies can drive on.
So the Rust code it generates for me has a right-of-centre bias?
Makes sense. Still, I've been burned a bit when Microsoft surprisingly abandoned a developer tool I purchased. Flagship or not, a lot can change in a few years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Discontinued_Microsof...
(forgot to plug their interview https://latent.space/p/gdr)
I should be more precise:

Signal's server doesn't know who sent the message, since that information was Sealed.

Signal's server does know where to deliver the message to, based on a 96-bit random value generated client-side by the recipient (the delivery token). But it cannot know which user has which delivery token. To understand that, you need to look at the zero-knowledge credentials section of the code.

They could randomly drop messages sent to a specific targeted user's delivery token and block messages sent to that targeted user, but they have no way of knowing which user they're targeting. (Also, the client could just enroll a new one if this ever happened and Signal was somehow court-ordered to block delivery to a specific delivery token.)
Manufacturer that builds laptops has the following costs:

Components, Assembly, Software & Licensing, Research & Development, Marketing & Branding.

Out of those, components and assembly is the unit cost. If the cost of components and assembly are greater than sell price then every sale is a loss. Tariffs impact this cost, and they are not close to erase the difference between sticker price and unit price. The estimated per-unit profit margins for a company like Lenovo, Acer, Dell and so on is in the range of 25-30% per laptop, through the exact numbers do not get published. In comparison, Apple is estimated to be around 60% per laptop.

It is when you then add Software & Licensing, Research & Development, Marketing & Branding, and static costs, spread out on all sold units, the profit margin goes down to 5-10% (with Apple here having a margin around 40%). Some of that margin get significant increased with added services like extended warranty and payment plans.

Tariffs will decrease profits. In order to get the same profit as before tariffs they can increase prices, but it risk decreasing sales. If sales drop then the static costs is spread out over fewer sold units, which mean they would need to increase prices even more to cover the lost sales. If they increase it too much, sales drop below viability and they go bankrupt. Alternative they could decrease price (compared to the competition) in order to increase sales, covering the increased unit cost by increasing sales volume. The best strategy is to have a price that results in the highest combination of price and sales volumes.
Have you tried using OpenHands so you can just give it the todo.md until it gets stuck/is finished?
50 miles is the commonly quoted range for overnight level 1 charging. You're exactly the target demographic.
There's nothing wrong with it. Our current deficit is increasing something like 1 trillion every 3 months. Getting creative to reduce government spending seems necessary at this point.

All the hysteria over this is just partisan politics as usual.
> The latest version of Gtk 4 will also remove OpenGL support

That doesn't sound right.
I also block Twitter ASN (yes, it is called Twitter ASN), and a whole bunch of IP ranges from not so democratic countries with very bad hostile actors. They don't have rule of law there, so I don't need these.

With regards to X. Blocking it serves as a good reminder to use a proxy, or try and find the source elsewhere (Blue Sky, Mastodon). More often than not, these exist.

Finally, if required I can use Tor Browser. No cookies, no profiling, no ads.
I find a lot of my pain points with python have to do with deployment. I’m going to try and study webassembly this year in the hopes that it will make it easier to deploy code without a server to an non-programmer end user.
> I think having economic exploitation protection for your novel mechanism is an important thing.

Sure. But if it's software: fuck off and use copyright. If people copy you, you're injured, you can show they copied you and obtain damages/injunctions. But if you want monopoly control over an idea, no matter who else comes up with it... that's rent-seeking.

Patents don't offer monopolies for fun, they're supposed to advance society by offering incentives for disclosure. The amount of incentive, and the likelyhood of non-disclosure was very different in the past, it certainly doesn't fit for computer software, so soceity shouldn't continue to offer that pact for computer software.
It will be easier to understand when you see the hundreds of Jira tickets to wade through to get it released and the fact they have better shit to do that contributes directly to revenue instead of trying to open source an old game engine that only a handful of people will even care about.
We have a mechanism for that: it's called congress. DOGE is an executive abuse of power that's resulting in national security critical roles being fired and then attempted to be rehired because they're so incompetent.
I don't trust Iran, North Korea, or China either. It's not hard, I'm an American and it's 2025. These are our adversaries (I didn't choose them) who currently commit cybercrimes against us. Hopefully in 2035 that won't be the case and we can all sing kumbaya.
Flying into old Kai Tak as a passenger was just insane, especially in a cross-wind and if you had a view out both sides of the plane. You'd see low buildings and streets under the plane with buildings much taller than the plane very close on both sides. Then immediately have to start side-crabbing as the buildings thinned out once over the airport fence line. And you'd never not be paying close attention because of the hard wing-over turn right before the final dive into the airport. Felt like that shot in Star Wars of the X-Wing dive rotating into the Death Star trench.
Seconded. I’m very excited for the day when/if their dev platform is opened up and it’s possible to access pass-through vision.

There’s a whole class of educational apps that could open up for people learning in the physical world. Whether it’s building physical things, sports or reading books or notes written in non-latin scripts... the impact will be enormous!
DoH is possible on pihole using cloudflared-- https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/dns/cloudflared/.

> The cloudflared binary will also work with other DoH providers.
I hope this is good news for TF2 Classic.

edit: here's the announcement from the TF2C Discord:

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@everyone We'll have more to say later, but you might not be able to launch TF2 Classic for a little bit due to the massive SDK update and public release of Team Fortress 2's code.

We're already preparing for the porting efforts and a potential Steam release now that we've been legally enabled to pursue that, but in the meantime, you will have to shift Source SDK Base 2013 Multiplayer to the "previous2021" beta branch that still has the previous revision of the SDK files to continue playing. See the screenshot for an example.

Thank you, and we'll have more news soon!
Grok 3 and an accelerating AI roadmap
> simple for computers to parse

Syntaxes that are hard for computers to parse are also hard for humans to parse.

But, nobody literally parses Lisp syntax: you rely on indentation, just like when you're writing C, Java, shell scripts.

People working in Lisp like Lisp syntax; it's really easy to edit, very readable, very consistent.

Anything new in the language, whether coming from a new release of your dialect or someone's new project, is a list with a new keyword, and predictable syntax! Syntax that works with your editor, tooling, and readability intuitions.

If you work involves a lot of numerical formulas, the Lisp way of writing math isn't always the best. You might have documents for the code which use conventional math and someone going back and forth between the doc and the code may have to deal with the translation.

Most software isn't math formulas. The language features that need ergonomics are those which address program organization.

There are ways to get infix math if you really want it in that code.

> Has anyone done that?

Over and over again, starting in the 1960's.

1. 1960's: Defunct "Lisp 2" project run by John MacCarthy himself. Algol-like syntax generating Lisp code under the hood.

2. 1970s': CGOL by Vaughan Pratt (of Pratt Parser fame).

3. Others:

- Sweet Expressions by David A. Wheeler (for Scheme, appearing as a SRFI).

- Dylan

- infix.cl module for Common Lisp

- Racket language and its numerous #lang modules.

The common thread in "syntactic skins" for Lisp is two fold: they all either died, or turned into separate languages which distanced themselves from Lisp.

None of the above skins I mentioned received wide spread use and are defunct, except maybe Racket's various #lang things.

However, Lisp has inspired languages with non-Lisp syntax: some of them with actual Lisp internals. For instance the language R known for statistical capabilities is built on a Lisp core. It has symbols, and cons-cell based lists terminated by NIL, which are used for creating expressions. The cons cells have CAR and CDR fields!

The language Julia is boostrapped out of something called Femtolisp, which is still buried in there.
Globalization is a big one. There are no good jobs for average people anymore, they all got moved to Mexico or China or Vietnam, etc. Tariffs can help with that if applied correctly.
Extrapolating trends mostly doesn't work like that, it's very possible that the growth will slow down.
React has had a mostly stable API for over a decade
Given that the whole thing is open source and it is possible to build it yourself, I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt.

Not that it means all that much, but AdGuard is headquartered in Cyprus, for what it's worth.