skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I have nothing against gay people,

You don't get to dictate that to other people after going on a rant specifically about gay people. I mean you can, but nobody's gonna buy it. You need to realize that perception is reality, and the perception here is you are very narrow minded. More concerned with taking condoms away from gay people than you are with saving your own country from a 20 year old gang of fascists who stole your SSN on a USB stick and stood up a blank WordPress site to brag about it.

— $6.3 million for men who have sex with men in South Africa

See, you can't paraphrase to add (what you view as) negative connotation and then claim "I have nothing against gay people." The money did not go to South Africa with the earmark "so gay men can have sex with gay men." It went to something you don't see the value in. It went to something you think is unimportant. Like HIV medication, or STD prevention, or treatment, or gasp a $.50 condom that maybe prevented a diesease. The takeaway for you is this; your anti-LGBT bias clearly shows through. You are not as middle-of-the-road as you think you are. Sir, you are brainwashed. This is not about cost. This is about regulating others and preventing lifestyles you disagree with from having access to medical care. You think that by deincentivizing LGBTQ activities you can regulate LGBTQ culture. Good luck.

> We voted to cut all of this garbage

Yeah, well we both voted for a lot of this garbage that was created by a BYPARTISAN ACT OF CONGRESS. Your orange clown has no right acting like a king in a country that we all built together. Your vote shouldn't be able to erase all of mine. The government was built with checks and balances. Respect them.
Not that Java is dead but that is reminiscent of the futurama professor invention of translating one dead language into another.
> The incentives don’t even make sense, these people have hundreds of billions of dollars already, they do not have an incentive to try to get rich from government because they are already rich.

Have you… have you ever met a wealthy person?
> the employees refused their requests and called sheriff's deputies. The men had left City Hall before deputies arrived.

> "We do not believe the individuals requesting access to City files were representatives from DOGE," the sheriff's office said Friday.

Why no law enforcement at San Francisco's city hall?
A hyperscaler (or a cloud providers in general) does not only sell you compute in terms of a compute node but rather in compute as a service. There are some value adds, like e.g., AWS cloud services, but on a pure compute level you pay for elasticity and reliability. A comparison between a cloud provider and your homelab also needs to account for connectivity, which likely is in strong favor (latency/ reliability) of a cloud provider or DC compared to a office or home.
Oh, say maybe the UK having a law that lets it demand that a cloud provider actively modify its systems to defeat any cryptography, or other technical measures, if those measures prevent any data the UK may choose to demand from being delivered in an easily readable format?

And say applying that to any data the provider may be holding for anybody in the world, regardless of whether that person is in the UK, has ever been in the UK, or is actually implicated in any crime involving the UK?

Without requiring any explanation of the reason? Or even allowing the fact of the demand to be disclosed to anybody, including, say, the US Government?

And actually issuing such crypto-neutering orders to companies operating in, say, the US?

So that the UK can get data about US citizens in ways the US itself isn't legally allowed to do?

That kind of bypassing?

At that point, maybe Apple ends up having to choose between operating in the UK and operating in the US. Or if not the US, other countries that might be seized with attacks of sanity.
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Interestingly, a lot of NBA fans don't even watch NBA games anymore because it's inconvenient (time and commercials) and games have no weight. Just highlights and statlines. Except for tuning in for recent Luka appearances.

So it's adding an extra layer of inconvenience and discomfort to something that's already seen as inconvenient, and something I feel people are doing less often unless watching with others.
I love some of the community responses to the initial Benchy madness, such as the 3D Boaty, which is a bench.

https://www.printables.com/model/1141963-3d-boaty
> It's all bullshit, how can people fall from it, and keep falling for it over and over and over ?

I mean what do they all have in common? Elon Musk.

Other statements about the future while not perfect, fare much better.
I just can't enjoy art anymore in this brave new world.
Hell most code we use every day spends a huge portion of its time waiting for memory.
That sounds like shorthand for saying you finally figured out you were wrong so couldn't come with a response addressing the topic, otherwise you wouldn't feel the need to reply at all.
Those elevated death rates were only for about two months. Also the better metric would be years-of-life-lost from a societal perspective. It'd be unfortunate but much less impactful on society if the excess deaths were 76 year olds with only a year or two of life left than if 20 year olds were dying at that rate.

Also there were a few surveys by the BBC and other news organizations during that time which showed that a majority of people thought the death rates were 1/10.

The age adjusted death rates show the 2021 rates were about the same as the year 2006 [1].

1: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/73/wr/mm7326a3.htm
To be fair, it doesn't explicitly say the deputies weren't already at City Hall, just that they weren't at the scene of the incident they were called for.
I would make fun of this as a PE event, but when I graduated high-school (US) we were still wearing parachute pants and break dancing to the Fat Boys. So I'll refrain from throwing stones. Each generation has their own precious cringe.
I recommend this book, which you can find and read for free on archive.org.

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780805087260/hitlersbenefici...
Okay, what I meant is more like "if only 5% of the largest body of voters don't want what the administration they voted for is doing, it's very possible that more than 50% of all voters combined (regardless of who they voted for) don't want what's happening"
This is the same thing the media did with "hacker".
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They're running the government like a business. What that means is that they are not running the country. They are *miming* running the country. And that is what their voters want.
I think most American companies building humanoid robots are doomed to fail. Chinese companies with vastly bigger and better manufacturing will be able to make something 95% as good for 1/3rd the price. That leaves very little room for an American company to be successful. I'm guessing only a company like Apple with a strong culture of mass producing top quality hardware will be successful.

This is why I'm not bullish on Tesla humanoid robots. They might be successful for 1-2 years, then get pummeled by Chinese products and require saving from government tariffs.
Excuse me, sir. Please don't just tell me I'm wrong without doing some research.

SS: https://www.ssa.gov/news/press/factsheets/HowAreSocialSecuri...

How is Social Security financed?

Social Security is financed through a dedicated payroll tax. Employers and employees each pay 6.2 percent of wages up to the taxable maximum of $176,100 (in 2025), while the self-employed pay 12.4 percent.

Total income, including interest, to the combined OASI and DI Trust Funds amounted to $1.351 trillion in 2023. ($1.233 trillion from net payroll tax contributions, $51 billion from taxation of benefits, and $67 billion in interest)

US Social Security Expenditures in 2023: $1.351 trillion.

Do you see income taxes in there other than those from recipients?

I won't dirty up this post further, but Medicare is likewise funded; like SS, income taxes on Social Security benefits do go partially to fund Medicare, as those people are generally program recipients. The final funding source is Part A premiums.

I don't mind banter or disagreements, but please do not tell me I'm wrong when you have not even bothered to look. Your gut feeling is not a good basis to dispute someone's premise.
Given this forum is generally serious and populated with generally serious people, it’s worthwhile to consider that there may be some context you are missing rather than dismissing them as “lefty nutbags”. Smoke/fire/etc. This cuts both ways, and there’s a productive way to help us understand why you think this its ridiculous for lots of “the smart people” to be really really really worried.
Probably Proud Boys, Patriot Prayer, or some other new fascist militia.
Don't need a super computer to do that hah
There’s certainly more retained value in the physical stuff than in developer time.
It's usually not stated so explicitly, but often implied by people who advocate for expansive entitlement programs. When pressed on how to pay for such programs, "tax the rich" is often their only answer.
Wait, can you steel man what’s happening that people in this comments thread are discussing? How is it a good thing?
It's funny how that works in different places.

I live in a sleepy suburb, cops have nothing to do.

I wrote an email about how folks coming out of the walmart at an intersection often in en masse continue to make a left turn well after the light changed red. I got a response the next day and the cops spent every other day for two weeks at the intersection.
It all takes time, mental energy, etc.

Different environments require different tradeoffs. The vast majority of startups will die before their systems engineering becomes a problem.
You always think of the evil empire as having their shit more together than this…
That does seem to be how it goes with most companies.
No such thing as one true way with React and the pain is just as bad if not sometimes worse.

Do you choose createreact app / webpack / vite / next.js ?

Do you choose built in react state/contexts, redux, recoil, zustand, jotai state libraries?

Do you do data tables yourself or use the behemoths TanStack, react-table-libray, MUI x-data-grid

What about HTTP requests? Fetch api? axios? rtk-quey?

What about forms and validation? KISS simple, do it yourself? react-hook-form + zod, tanstack form?

Now how do you integrate them all in to your app, managing each edge case for each dependency with their own opinionated way of doing things not quite neatly working with your other dependency but can brute force it to work with some effort and hacks?

I find things like doing basic vanilla JS, or even things like of Svelte or Elm far less pain than React projects i've worked on. Svelte/Elm did require reading the docs not relying on a LLM.
I found it mildly irksome that the blog post was written almost as if it were a completely unbiased comparison.
I don’t see what specifically is illegal - you should be precise in naming the action and law if you believe there’s something clearly illegal. But for me, the executive branch and agencies under its direction have the authority to examine spending, and the public would certainly like all of the waste to be exposed and stopped. The overall effort is fine but it can be tweaked.

Also: your personal attack is against the site guidelines.
Your "summations" completely ignore what I've written.

There's no reason for me to repeat myself. Re-read what I've already written if you care to understand.
My first thought is "we're gonna have to train it up on COBOL."
> Musk’s team posted information about the staff and size of a U.S. intelligence agency on their new website, HuffPost reports.

> Much of the agency’s activities, including its budget and head count, are classified and aren’t supposed to be available to the public.

Riiiight...

This is what we voted for.
City hall near me always has some cops stationed there, but they can be called away to do other things, they're not "full time" stationed there.
Based on the heavy downvoting of my comment, I guess it's considered a good practice by folks now. shrug
There's also a difference between 'the USA' and 'the rest of the world'.

I don't know how Tso was using it and don't care nor have any reason to defend him, don't mistake me.
> Wouldn't this just put these companies in awkward position explaining to each nation that operating in that nation means they to follow each of their conflicting laws?

That's actually kind of the point. It gives them a reason to push back, and more importantly it has the practical effect of making the whole issue into something that each government has to negotiate with other government, instead of just strongarming private companies. It's harder for government officials to ignore a conflict with another country's laws than to ignore corporate policies.

... and if the governments can't make a deal, maybe the company has to make a choice. And maybe that's appropriate.
there's https://www.codeconvert.ai/cobol-to-python-converter if you prefer python
That time is still today, as people are still the weakest link. A talented scammer can convince people to give them access to their WhatsApp account despite the E2EE, 2FA, and SMS verification codes.

In Mitnik's version, he RTFMs, learned the technical lingo, procedures, and even the names of telco employees.
I keep seeing this opinion and I don't understand it. For various reasons, I recently transitioned from a dev role to running a 60+ node, 14+ PB bare metal cluster. 3 years in, and the only thing ever giving me trouble is Ceph.

Kubernetes is etcd, apiserver, and controllers. That's exactly as many components as your average MVC app. The control-loop thing is interesting, and there are a few "kinds" of resources to get used to, but why is it always presented as this insurmountable complexity?

I ran into a VXLAN checksum offload kernel bug once, but otherwise this thing is just solid. Sure it's a lot of YAML but I don't understand the rep.
The entire Inside special is so deeply moving AND hilarious.

Welcome to the Internet is more applicable now than ever

That Funny Feeling is like a millennial version of We Didn't Start the Fire (and I have to be careful when I listen to it, because "that funny feeling" is difficult to cope with some times)

All Eyes on Me shook me to the core when I first heard it
The philosophy behind what they're doing comes from Curtis Yarvin. JD Vance is a fan.

Yarvin believes American democracy is a failed project and it should be replaced with an American monarchy. He thinks all of society should be organized like a corporation and a CEO of America should call the shots, no elections necessary:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Yarvin

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/23373795/curtis-yarv...

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/04/inside-the-new-right...

They've been thinking about it for years, including preparing themselves to ignore court rulings.

To quote JD Vance from the Vanity Fair article: “I think Trump is going to run again in 2024,” [Vance] said. “I think that what Trump should do, if I was giving him one piece of advice: Fire every single midlevel bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, replace them with our people.” “And when the courts stop you,” he went on, “stand before the country, and say—” he quoted Andrew Jackson, giving a challenge to the entire constitutional order—“the chief justice has made his ruling. Now let him enforce it.”

And now he's saying it as vice president:

https://www.newsweek.com/jd-vance-comment-questioning-court-...

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/02/trump-v...

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/us/politics/vance-trump-f...

What remains to be seen is how far they will push it:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/doge-civil...
I thought this concept looked familiar and indeed it's by the same company which makes those portable 386 and 8086 machines. LGR covered them a while ago: https://youtu.be/6bODiZ5bP84
That's personal pronouns.

I identify as a consipracy theorist, my pronouns are: Told/You/So.
US opponents couldn't do this much damage if they tried.
Oh no, I totally agree. I am just saying from the perspective of the Asahi Linux project and wanting to use as much Rust as they can, that is what they are facing and the associated trade offs.

I personally fall a little more on the side of the Linux kernel C devs. Inter-oping languages and such does bring in a lot of complications. And the burden is on the Rust devs to prove it out over the long haul. And yes, that is an uphill battle, and it isn't the first time. Tons of organizations go through these pains. Being someone who works in a .NET shop, transitioning from .NET Framework to .NET core slowly is an uphill battle. And that's technically not even a language change!

But I do agree, Redox would probably less friction and a better route if you want to get into OS dev on an already existing project and be able to go "balls to the walls" with Rust. But you also run into, Redox just has a lot less of everything. That is just because it's a small project.
You can get Marcin Wichary’s version from https://shifthappens.site/store/

Routed Gothic is a fairly good free version https://webonastick.com/fonts/routed-gothic/

The national park typeface is another pantograph router style font https://nationalparktypeface.com/
> > learning by reading documentation and tutorials

> But to the point of the person you were responding to, the LLM was not fulfilling a generally unmet need. Everything a professional or practiced amateur needs was there already.

But isn't this stretching the definitions of documentation and tutorials a little bit here? A demo app and a bunch of undocumented header files became documentation and tutorials with the assistance of an LLM.
Clueless new manager really wants to make a splash and is just so sure he knows what to do about things he doesn't understand.
But the people buying GPU’s on AWS are not the same market as the ones on fly.io

The whole thing is sorta antithetical.
Their system is a hodge podge of bailing wire and duct tape strapped cobal. I don't think there's a way to "fix" it other than redoing it in pieces.
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They also stopped $489 million of food aid to leave it to rot, which it has. That level of waste is not aligned with their mission statement to reduce waste. So the statement can't be trusted.
Following the /llms.txt standard proposition, I create a MkDocs plugin that generates an /llms.txt file at the root of your site. So, same thing, but generates the Markdown document from your docs (possibly containing API reference) instead of your code.
Ok, that's hilarious. Thanks for posting it.
I mean specifically, I'd like to see the actual Mastodon organization (Eugen Rochko's team now that they're a legit nonprofit) take that role. Or any other fedi software project tbh, doesn't need to be Mastodon themselves.
I've seen quite a number of sensor companies doing it for a couple of years. Their sensor uses a statistical algorithm, it's "AI"!

Really, it's hard to say it's not AI.

Glad to see an open source project gaining benefit from the AI hype train at least. :)
> and preparing to outright ignore court orders

Trump literally said in a press conference about DOGE a few days ago that he will follow all court orders, but also appeal them where he thinks they’re wrong. This claim that he is ignoring courts is false, and increasingly I am noticing journalists factually misrepresent reality to create widespread beliefs like this.
> At this point, optimizing compilers are excellent

the only people that say this are people who don't work on compilers. ask anyone that actually does and they'll tell you most compiler are pretty mediocre (tend to miss a lot of optimization opportunities), some compilers are horrendous, and a few are good in a small domain (matmul).
Suggests they trust you, but not that your organization will be a good steward of their information. Or they trust you to translate what they’ve said, but do not want people besides you to know how they’ve said it.
'rug pull' has come to be mean (thanks to crypto) a premeditated & malicious financial play in which someone offers something for money and then vanishes before fulfilling their part of the original bargain.

OP edited to the idiomatic 'rug pulled from under my feet' to specify that he doesn't mean the above.
I was thinking about the naming saga, and my conclusion was that the Gulf of America is actually less American centric. Think about how Americans refer to the southern border as the Mexican border, while the Mexicans refer to it as the American border. As an American, when I hear the Gulf of Mexico, I know that it is south of America. When I hear Gulf of America, I just know it is somewhere around America.
For anyone who thinks the comparisons to monarchy are an overreaction look up favorite philosopher of Peter Thiel and JD Vance Curtis Yarvin. He quite explicitly calls for a “CEO king” to fire all federal employees and replace them with loyalists.
You should still be scared. Trump wants to "annex" Canada as the 51st state. ;)
I started with Tinkercad, which is online and WYSIWYG. Nice for newcomers, but as a programmer I felt that I needed something that could be more automated.

If I was dealing with diagonals, I needed to calculate sines and cosines outside and then place the values. If needed several objects with the same shape I needed copy and paste them, and if the base shape was wrong, I needed to delete them all, fix, and then copy and paste again. And if a value of dimension, position or angle depended on another it was more and more calculations. Soon it became unsustainable for me.

OpenSCAD saved me. Being able to create modules, using parametric values, declaring functions and so on made my life really easier. At the first it looked like it would be boring to do everything by code, but once you get used to it is actually faster than using a WYSIWYG tool.
The problem too is that while google or the “big players” can be somewhat “trusted” with security, I don’t trust a random third party startup to properly handle this extremely sensitive data. The sheer number of places AI related data is being sent for processing is staggering and unprecedented.

For instance, when I program with Cursor, that data is sent to Cursor severs, then to their tooling and analytics third parties, then to the foundation model providers, then gets trained on, etc.
Hetzner is more expensive by default though? It starts at $200/month. Which is fine if you are running for 720 hours every month, but you can run more cheaply on fly if it doesn’t get used more than 150ish hours in a month.
You can run the Go compiled wasm binary through wasm-opt (https://github.com/WebAssembly/binaryen) and it will decrease the size and give back some of the performance lost by using the standard go compiler over TinyGo. Fair warning it's pretty slow, and fun fact tinygo passes it's wasm files through wasm-opt which is why the tinygo compilation feels especially slow, I believe this can possibly be disabled via flag.
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