skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is the wrong way to think about things. You cannot usefully compare the value of time spent on work vs on hobby.

I'd consider this sort of move of house maintenance to be more of a chore than a hobby project, though maybe that's just because I've already done it before and it's not interesting or satisfying to do it again.

In any case - I do agree that attempting to apply the same thinking to the hours spent in day to day tasks as work needs to be done very mindfully, or even carefully. One of the worst practices I had early in my career when I was freelancing and had a few clients that were happy to give me as many hours as I wanted to take was to use that as an excuse to replace other tasks with work. Paying someone else to do 30 minutes of grocery shopping so that I can work an extra half hour and end up with a profit, ordering lunch multiple times per week because the time it'd take me to cook and clean up would end up 'costing' me more than just continuing to work on something I enjoyed.

Before you know it you start thinking of chores as complete wastes of time rather than normal things that are good for your character to be able to do consistently. Ended up with a significantly better financial outlook than I'd have had otherwise since I had the work ethic/life balance to take advantage of that situation and not completely tank other aspects of my life, but looking back I'd rather have kept the more mundane discipline.
God please no, we need competition. Whoever fired Pat Gelsinger should be fried.
It’s about instrumenting Rust’s existing run-time.
It's kind of interesting that Indian companies and H1-B abuse has been so cemented in people's minds that almost 80% of the comments here are about H1B abuse and what to do about it rather than the L1-A which this article is talking about. L1-A is a bigger source of fraud because there is fewer guardrails and most companies see it as a given if they want to move the employee. The only thing is you have to wait a year or so after hiring the employee to move them.
That's why I like it. I did 8 years of React, and I hope I never have to touch it again. When I was forced to use Remix, it just about broke me.
Allegedly, the Pentagon sees the writing on the wall and is trying to get a head start on DOGE

https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/doge-departme...
Not the panacea you think it might be.

A strike by NASA employees would hurt NASA employees far more than it would anyone else. I'm sure Elon and the prez would love a walkout by said employees.

Congress, not unions, should be the guardian of civil servant rights. But of course, public service unions are the largest donors to Congress, which then drives the narrative of a corrupt and bloated civil service.
"To get clarity, I consulted an IP law firm. Their review raised concerns about potential risks related to licensing and patents. They recommended retiring the project and removing older binaries as the safest option. They did suggest some alternative paths, but those options would have required significant time, effort, and money, neither of which I could commit."

Thanks to Taner Sener for putting in all the effort! I guess most technical people shudder at the mere thought of dealing with all the legal matters.
That's part of it for sure, but really the killers are that China has an insane electronics pipeline from component manufacturing to distribution, insane investment in electronics manufacturing R&D, and a supply a fresh young heads to keep things moving forward. They also do insane volume and can buy everything in quantity 10 billion (exaggeration- sort of, but economies of scale to the max).

The US has basically no domestic component manufacturing, no central hubs of electronics parts distribution, no young talent entering the field, and no new shops entering the market with cutting edge automation/capabilities. And it doesn't make much sense from a financial POV either. A team of one writing an AI wrapper "electronic parts picker" SaaS app will pull more money than a team of 50 building a board house, and they don't need $50 million upfront for capex.
Trump begins firings of FAA staff just weeks after fatal DC plane crash
LED headlights in some vehicles are a close second.
Is the Jetbrain model basically the pricing model of early era (pre 2000s) IDEs? I remember back then developers had to pay for editors and compilers, which usually came with a huge amount of manuals. And then they could install patches until a new major version rolled out. I'm actually OK with that model, if they still ship manuals in paper.
Anybody expecting to get enough privacy to commit crimes using a VPN is definitely naive. I think most people doing important privacy stuff like being whistle blowers in authoritarian regimes knows that well enough. As part of a multi-pronged strategy to reduce the surface area exposed to creepy data brokers, though? Works fine for me.
No, it very obviously is not. This isn't something we need to argue; you can simply go look it up. The number of fingers on your hands: not very heritable. Whether you wear lipstick: very heritable.

You can set your watch to people on message boards making arguments about the genetic determination of intelligence that rely almost entirely on heritability statistics. It seems pretty clearly to be a cargo culting phenomenon; how else could you have very specific heritability numbers without even knowing what the term means? I'm curious where you got it from.
Just for lulz I asked Perplexity Pro R1 AI the same question. It took about 10 seconds to return the following answer:

https://imgur.com/a/ANs82pc
Tailwind v4 just gave everyone who uses sass the middle finger. It's rampant in the front end to rewrite because it's actually a solved problem. They need to explain their salary by reinventing constantly..
I'm only about 20% in but if anybody ever asks me "what is your day-to-day internal experience of ordinary life like?" I'm just going to point them to this.

[EDIT] Still not done but this is just getting more true the farther I go.
If you want to be so literal, let's simplify: your [unqualified] "nonphysical" claim is wrong. Negative values are common in many physical models.
And we need to reward this behavior SO MUCH that we'll drop more than half of the taxes?

People will invest as long as the taxes aren't worse than income taxes. We don't need this much "encouragement" because stock market returns are high enough already.
Firefox Web Developer Tools:

- Go to the 'Network' tab, refresh the page, and select a POST request.

- In the 'Headers' tab, scroll down and look for 'Cookie'. Right-click on this, and 'Copy Value'.

- Paste the value into a new text file, called 'cookie.txt'.

For reference, here's an example value of my cookie:

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They bought youtube for 1.65 billion which is pennies on the dollar compared to what it is worth today.
OK, let's try, "I have no idea how any of this works. However, I have come to the conclusion that it doesn't, and can't."

Closer? I'm just going by the headline here.
I have personal anecdotal evidence that they're getting more efficient: I've had the same 64GB M2 laptop for three years now. Back in March 2023 it could just about run LLaMA 1, a rubbish model. Today I'm running Mistral Small 3 on the same hardware and it's giving me a March-2023-GPT-4-era experience and using just 12GB of RAM.

People who I trust in this space have consistently and credibly talked about these constant efficiency gains. I don't think this is a case of selling compute for less than it costs to run.
Like others have said, tariffs are just a tax on the people. However, the more important thing, similar to how prices of any other item in the grocery store, these prices once they go up are never coming down. This is a huge opportunity for businesses. All of them can increase prices without thinking of competition since all of them are in the same boat.
Agreed. The visualizations are very nice. I'd consider purchasing a copy for $150-$200 if it would give me one year of free updates, but I simply don't do subscription models without any kind of fallback license anymore.

I really dislike the idea of justifying eternal subscription cost models because of "ROI".

Every tool has an ROI, but you don't see photographers paying a monthly fee to use their camera, you don't see electricians paying a monthly fee to use their oscilloscope, you don't see carpenters paying a monthly fee to use their table saw, etc.

And this isn't Kickstarter - I'm not interested in investing in features/upgrades that the application might get at some point in the future, I buy software based on the feature set that it currently has.
The big tech companies seem to mostly be aligning with this stuff.

However, historically, SV’s strength has been that startups fly under the radar of the east coast, so they can bypass the corruption holding the rest of the country back.

I hope this is one of those times, because every time I check the news, another democratic or capitalist institution has been gutted or defected.
there is no objective way to calculate and appraise all wealth, so such discussions are meaningless inherently, the touching of said assets would immediately change its value, which would require recalculation, which would change the value again, etc.

the only true way to do it is to tax upon realization, which is already what happens.
> What are we at now, Rails 8? Is it just a reason to keep people employed?
Who let the crazies in?

Let’s not let this place become Reddit.
That's how the US got most of its income until 1913, when federal tax income was introduced.

But it doesn't work in a real market economy, for many reasons already stated. It doesn't just hurt our people but the world economy as a whole.

Tariffs can be good, but you wont find politicians using them correctly. They can be used to protect newly growing businesses from foreign competition - but they are often used in the opposite, protecting large businesses.
This seems to have been written with the assumption that everyone will share the writer's understanding of why it's worth reading.
"Tonight: Orange Reddit over-engineers a meme website that any normal person would just make with seven PNG files and getDay()."
Want a sane frontend experience? Use vanilla Javascript, use web components, use htmx, use Blazor.

JS frameworks for some reason or other are a madness.
For magnet levitation project I am dumping data to a csv on a rpi and then reading it over ssh onto matplotlib on my desktop. It works but it choppy. Probably because of the ssh.

Could I drop rerun into this to improve my monitoring?

https://youtube.com/shorts/Y1LGSMFisDc
This is hilarious. I grew up right across the border in Massachusetts and to me growing up, Albany was the big city. Crossgates was the nice, clean, well-maintained mall with the better movie theater, (our rural one was literally decaying in front of our eyes), and I was always so jealous of the teenagers who were able to hang out there and the skateboarders dodging cops in the parking lot.

The region is doing really nicely these days. I could easily imagine living in the area again, the people are very friendly, and Dinosaur BBQ is surprisingly delicious for upstate new york. (I hope I didn't just cop to liking a tourist trap.)
I was curious about this so i searched a bit. about 15% of food in us is imported, although the % is higher for groceries,seafood,fresh products https://www.fda.gov/food/importing-food-products-united-stat...

it's interesting also this document about total consumption that excludes from the count foreign sourced items (scroll to the last pragraph for a summary) https://www.commerce.gov/sites/default/files/migrated/report...
And when all the dunces celebrate someone, what does that mean?
At what point will they reach SQLite?
US publisher uses linguistic gymnastics to avoid saying outage due to ransomware
No one is forcing you to upgrade, Svelte 4 still works just fine? Svelte has had basically no major API changes since 2019, that's a better part of a decade. And with this new architecture change, they released a sophisticated codemod to do most of the work of updating for you.
I would submit to you that it’s impossible to load the wings at 150% of max load without transferring any of that force into the fuselage. Look at any finite element analysis of complex shapes. The force spreads out from areas of max tension or compression, and goes around corners.
Much of human evolution is about the tension between our big brains making us smarter, but also killing our mothers more often during birth.

The hack evolution landed on is that we're born 1-2 years premature compared to most mammals.

From that perspective, this isn't especially weird.
S.F. is tearing down the Valencia bike lane. But a new battle has already begun
This is penny-wise/pound-foolish.

Setting aside the humanitarian interests, foreign aid also advances US interests around the world. There's a reason it comes from the State Department, is handled by US NGOs, and is overseen by the CIA.

Even a completely selfish/evil actor should still be smart enough to understand the value in stabilizing regions around the world and keeping trade partners happy. Whenever USAID pulled funding in places like Africa or South America, rivals or factions are more than happy to step in and exert their influence.

We can literally see the future in places like Panama. USAID pulled the funding decades ago when they thought their mission was over, China came in with a bunch of their money and began exerting influence on the government and the canal, and now the current administration is threatening to spend a lot of time and money and brain cells over it.

Is some USAID money basically bribing governments? Probably! But some of those bribes are going to central American governments in order to cut down on illegal immigration to the US. Cutting these payments works against their own goals.
And only get to use 20k context length before it OOMs
No, they were not. Trains are good for taking large numbers of people from one place where they don't want to be to another place where they don't want to be. In certain situations that can be a useful thing to do, but you can't design a city around it. In every case you have in mind, rest assured, the city was there first.
I totally agree with the need to be cautious - however, if there's one thing that Big Tech has taught me, it's that there will be 20 other people in the room that will remind you of exactly what you are suggesting. There's plenty of pessimism to go around, not enough optimism.
Show HN: Konva-powered football tactical board
And C# was heavy on `Finalize()`, but now is all about `using/Dispose()`.
> I say this in terms of value to society. Is having some extremely, extremely rich individuals of value to the US?

yes. restated, is it good or bad that the USA has rich people? clearly it is good. if it were bad, then there would be evidence that countries with no rich people are better, but there is no such evidence.
I wasn't so excited about runes when they first came out. But, when I could create a reactive external component that I can import into a .svelte template, AND that internally encapsulates reactivity, my opinions changed. That means you can write vitest tests against it, but get the benefits of reactivity. That is truly powerful and, AFAIK, unique in the frontend world.

But, most frontend people don't do testing at all. Typescript is the tool people use to guarantee correctness, and for good reason. But, svelte people have always cast a narrow eye towards typescript and for good reasons as well. So, here we are.

I personally prefer writing testable frontend code, and Svelte 5 is revolutionary in that way. It is as good as unit testing, but reactive in the browser.

Having said all this, the blog post rings true. Adding proxies feels very uncomfortable. React and Vue lost me when they started adding abstractions on top of abstractions and proxies were the gateway drugs.
Whose actions?
>For what? There is no ROI at that price point. There is no monetisation potential.

I think your whole argument is based on this being true, but you didn't give much argument about why there is no ROI. 400M USD isn't hard to generate...even a moderate ad engagement lift on X would generate ROI and that's just 1 customer.

Imagine going back in time and showing every VC how great the search business will be in 20-30 years. The only rational response would be to make giant bets on 20 different Googles...and I think that's what's happening. These all seem like rational investments to me.
The flip side is: change careers to electrical trade and you won't have a shortage of work for a while.
> They become a continuous stream around age 2 and everything around age 3 starts being as clear as anything else.

I'm pretty much exactly the same, with the same age thresholds. I remember every detail of the house my family moved out of a couple of months after my fourth birthday, including detailed memories of events that took place there during the two years prior.

I think a big factor might have been learning to read at around the age of two, possibly creating deep and regularly reinforced mnemonic links to my audiovisual recall.

> With the aid of psychedelics I've managed to re-experience with extreme clarity events that I remembered but didn't register as meaningful and gleaned a new understanding about that period.

Out of curiosity, what did you specifically do to trigger these "re-experiences"? Do you think doing this might have altered the sensory memories of your early experiences themselves?
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43083366
You end the project with less fingers than when you started?
Uscope Update #1 (GUI Linux Debugger)
Front end development is a 90% self-induced hell. There are real challenges like accessibility, processing data from service calls, architecture, and more.

Those aren't the things most developers complain about. Most front end developers spend their energy on concerns of code style, tools, build steps, framework madness, state management, and more. Those are fashion concerns. A decent programmer can solve for most of those themselves without external tooling in a fraction of the time and code size, but not everybody that does this work is confident writing original code.
This made my brain hurt. And not in a good way
This is a polemic that fills every paragraph with name-calling and fear-mongering over “Christian fascists”. It is not intellectually interesting and does not belong on HN.
Best analogy so far. I am adopting this for the next wave of "wait until the next model" and "but humans hallucinate, too" comments. Yes, when we feed back our own output (language on the web) into ourselves, things become tricky to tease apart, and it would seem like intelligence to us. Then again, the mechanical turk appears intelligent, too. If we point out how it works, then the "magic" should vanish.
What does this have to do with frontend work? Major version updates are common across any part of the stack. Just off the top of my head, SQLAlchemy has a seven step migration process[1] from 1.4 to 2.0, and it's absolutely not the kind of thing you could pull off in a few days if your code base has grown past a certain size.

[1]: https://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/20/changelog/migration_20.htm...
Minimum effort is filling out the 2 required fields in the form and creating a free account with google oauth
Who Runs Elon Musk's Doge? Not Musk, the White House Says
Because Russia also has nukes. Nuking Russia will lead to it using them. If your goal is long-term minimization of death and destruction, that's not the route to take.
I've spent time with several schizophrenics, and this is infinitely more coherent. I envy your inability to digest it.

> The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.
— H. P. Lovecraft

Edit: Apologies; I forgot that my mind's ear had edited out the first section entirely. Skip it.
> There seems to be a coordinated effort to control the narrative.

Do you have any evidence for this?
Who would want to coordinate such an effort, and how would they manipulate HN users to comment/vote in a certain way?
I think it is far more plausible that some people on here have similar views.

> [people] controlling what people can talk about

That's called 'moderation' and protects communities against trolls and timewasters, no?

> and steering the conversation in the direction they want it to go

That's exactly what conversation is about, I'd say. Of course I want to talk about stuff that I am interested in, and convince others of my arguments. How is this unfortunate?
> however is able to use it as collateral to borrow against (that way he doesn’t even have to pay capital gains)

I really don't understand how borrowing against shares isn't counted as realizing the stocks. I mean, apart from rich people lobbying against it and such.

If I buy some stocks for $100 and sit on them until they're worth $1000, if I sell them for $1000 or take a $1000 loan against them, I've realized the $900 gain and I should pay taxes on that either way.
> is the same one that benefits an average person w.r.t estate tax.

No, it's not. 2 points:

1. Average people don't pay estate tax, because only a teeny portion of estates make over the exemption amount.

2. I realize point one is a separate issue from what you're referring to, which is the step-up in basis at death. But that tax strategy of taking out loans to cover your lifestyle so you can pass on appreciated assets with a low basis is only possible for people with a huge amount of assets to begin with (i.e. people who already have enough to completely love off their assets without working).
This captures a form of existential dread I am sure all of us have felt. On the one hand, you have an ostensibly "good" job with great pay, benefits, etc. On the other hand, you have to _get punched in the stomach_ each day. All while knowing that there are people out there taking more abuse for likely far less pay. Who are you to feel bad about your situation?
Don't believe your lying eyes?
> When you make more and go into "the higher income band", you're not taxed more on ALL your income, just the portion that is in the new band (at least in the US).

applies in the UK too where GP is (source: my own repeat self assessments).
Yeah, I think it's pretty similar. I definitely remember purchasing copies of the software like Borland C++ / Visual Studio / etc. that would essentially cover the major version number and all patch related updates.

Although personally, I don't know if jetbrains offers an actual physical copy (give me back the big box!).