skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The feeling of dissatisfaction is something I can relate to. My story:

I only recently started using aider[1].

My experience with it can be described in 3 words.

Wow!

Oh wow!

It was amazing. I was writing a throwaway script for one time use (not for work). It wrote it for me in under 15 minutes (this includes my time getting familiar with the tool!) No bugs.

So I decided to see how far I could take it. I added command line arguments, logging, and a whole bunch of other things. After a full hour, I had a production ready script - complete with logs, etc. I had to debug code only once.

I may write high quality code for work, but for personal throwaway scripts, I'm sloppy. I would not put a command line parser, nor any logging. This did it all for me for very cheap!

There's no going back. For simple scripts like this, I will definitely use aider.

And yeah, there was definitely no satisfaction one would derive from coding. It was truly addictive. I want to use it more and more. And no matter how much I use it and like the results, it doesn't scratch my programmer's itch. It's nowhere near the fun/satisfaction of SW development.

[1] https://aider.chat/
Doing this properly in a generic cross-dialect fashion is quite challenging – not just due to the SQL itself, but also the operational differences in schema changes across different databases. By this I mean considerations like locking, online schema change (non-blocking/non-disruptive), detecting risky/destructive changes, and so forth. Often these topics have important differences between major versions of the same DBMS, let alone between completely different databases.

Fully understanding that requires years of hands-on DBA-equivalent experience, and very few people actively have that knowledge across multiple DBMS products while also being software engineers.

My tool Skeema has offered declarative pure-SQL schema management for MySQL/MariaDB since 2016, see https://github.com/skeema/skeema, but the architecture isn't extendable to other database systems. The design is pretty specific to the first-class concerns of schema changes in MySQL/MariaDB, for example use of external OSC tools, generic sharding support, MySQL-like option handling, no need for transactional behavior since DDL isn't transactional, etc.

Lately I've been fiddling with a design for a separate more-generic/multi-DBMS product, but it's very slow going. It requires constant research into how each DBMS handles various fine details and tweaking things accordingly, because my depth of experience is in MySQL and not Postgres, sqlite, etc. At this early stage I'm not sure how it will end up.
I switched from NextDNS to ControlD because of bugs and feature requests that have been sitting untouched for literally years.

I couldn’t even reach anyone to cancel my NextDNS subscription, so I did a chargeback - which went through because the card company was also unable to reach anyone there. It seems to be running in zombie mode.
I certainly got a laugh! And I agree about the /s. Chalk it up to this reader’s slow mind on a slow day!

In a forum where people credulously propose orbital platforms to “sell sunlight at night” [0], I find myself erring on the side of assuming seriousness…

[0] e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42995403
does the target market for a cheap iphone spend $150 on a charger?
> Autocracies can be very stable...

Sure, if you kill all dissenters , keep population terrified and into the dark, remove all sources of information with propaganda then things could stay like that for a while.
Every comment from this account so far feels AI-generated. Not trying to dismiss you entirely, I understand if this is an attempt to interact across a language barrier but this kind of response is very suspect. I really hope HN doesn’t succumb to the dead internet problem where bots are just responding to bots.
> You said "you can't call it poker" with a tone of an authority.

This is a misquote, if I ever saw one.

What I've actually written (emphasis added): "I also don't think this can be called Poker, really."

In other words, this is my personal line of thought, with the argument given in the next sentence, and "really" means "to some extent it can, but not to the full".
I'm not sure why you are downvoted. Is it wrong?
Hey, don't knock the value of what you're doing.

I spent some time at Pivotal, and then shamelessly adopted the Pivotal process at subsequent companies. One thing I took to heart is that a product manager that communicates through well-written user stories is golden. Jira is a drag but it's still fundamentally a textbox and you control what goes into that textbox.

Run wild with it! Engineers actually are counting on you.
The internet and browsers are a public good, no society functions without. As the US has transitioned into a kleptocracy, it would be even more logical for the EU to financially support teams developing important open source projects. Same thing for Linux and Libre Office perhaps.
I believe you are making a mistake by thinking that since a malicious actor's domain is registered in Ukraine, it automatically must be doing something in the interests of Ukraine, or at least be known to its officials.

Lots of Russian state actors have no problems working from within Ukraine, alas. Add to this purely chaotic criminal actors who will go with the highest bidder, territories temporarily controlled by Russians that have people shuttle to Ukraine and back daily, and it becomes complicated very quickly.
My only financial relationship with NextDNS is the $40 I've spent on the service so far. Another comment mentioned turning off query logging since that amount of activity is hard on an SD card, so you may be onto something with deploying it incorrectly
That's the correct answer, IBM wanted the crawler mostly to feed Watson. Building a full search engine (crawler, indexer, ranker, API, web application) for the English language was a hell of an accomplishment but by the time Blekko was acquired Google was paying out tens of billions of dollars to people to send them and only them their search queries. For a service that nominally has to live on advertising revenue getting humans to use it was the only way to be net profitable, and you can't spend billions buying traffic and hope to make it back on advertising as the #3 search engine in the English speaking markets.

There are other ways to monetize search (look at Kagi for example) than advertising. Blekko missed that window though. (too early, Google needed to get a crappy as it is today to make the value of a spam free search engine desirable)
You would use those couple of hours to work on something else that isn't answering that specific questions, so IMO it is a valid comparison.
This is a good point and it reminds me of a link to an news article someone had shared some weeks earlier about how AI-generated literature in the form of ebooks is already flooding public libraries that subscribe to certain lending platforms. In a sense, it could be an advantage to have systems where it is so cumbersome to get LLMs to help you with generation so that people have to put at least a little bit of effort.
I love the semantics of the UI here; helping humans wade through what the code _means_ as well as what it is doing.

"These tests/prod methods/data models/etc are impacted" really matters to me because that's most likely what I'm trying to do when I'm grepping for `verified` and adding a bunch of path constraints `!model !test`, etc. Leveraging that further for automations like "run all impacted tests" is another game changer for many companies.

Can this help me draw flowcharts and the like? I recently did a bit of a refactor and "show me the stack of calls from the API layer leading to method m" was a lot more work than it should have been!
> Have you ever donated?

To Mozilla? No. Donations are not the same as paying for a specific product or service. I do not want to support their other adventures.

> What services do you want that shouldn't be available to non-paying users.

Librewolf, but by Mozilla.
So long as there are elections in 2026 the looming election will have an effect. I doubt Trump can get away with trying to stop elections or even manipulating them (much - there is always manipulation). As such congress will soon start behaving like elections matter and they might not be elected if they are unpopular.
User: "hey Grok would you say Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl pants were bell bottoms, boot cut, or flairs?"

almostdeadguy: "nooooo grok don't answer that there's no actual utility in answering that question and it's bad faith since everyone knows kendrick was wearing bell bottoms"
Can I move my followers/following graph as well? Moving the actual content is barely a consolation prize if you lose your entire audience in the process.
Naive interpretations like this one, of bad faith actions is how we get there.

This same assumption of good faith was wholly present in peoples' responses to project 2025 prior to the election.

They are not acting in good faith.

Try restating the problem:
Why is this EO being issued? What problem, other than judicial review, does it solve for the executive branch?

EDIT: For those who do not think this contributes anything: can you answer the question?
Every rack in a data center has a power budget, which is actually constrained by how much heat the HVAC system can pull out of the DC, rather than how much power is available. Nevertheless it is limited per rack to ensure a few high power servers don't bring down a larger portion of the DC.

I don't know for sure how the limiting is done, but a simple circuit breaker like the ones we have in our houses would be a simple solution for it. That causes the rack to loose power when the circuit breaks, which is not ideal because you loose the whole rack and affect multiple customers.

Another option would be a current/power limiter[0], which would cause more problems because P = U * I. That would make the voltage (U) drop and then the whole system to be undervolted - weird glitches happen here and it's a common way to bypass various security measures in chips. For example, Raspberry Pi ran this challenge [1] to look for this kind of bugs and test how well their chips can handle attacks, including voltage attacks.

[0] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Current_limiting
[1] - https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/security-through-transparen...
Donating does not fund firefox. They "embezzle" it into funding all their other shit like internet censorship ("We need more than deplatforming" https://archive.li/U6aXc) Yes I did donate in the distant past.
I had to google that to even decipher what it is, and we have way too many Apple devices in our house :)
> From there, compiling code for iOS is notoriously difficult and not officially supported outside of using Xcode.

I mean, this is a stretch... you really have to go out of your way to narrowly define "officially supported" to the point of absurdity: Apple clearly supports compiling for iOS outside of Xcode, as Xcode doesn't even do the compilation, never has, and--we can be pretty confident in saying--never will. Meanwhile, despite many people using automatic provisioning, Apple's portal let's you do it all manually: it isn't as if there are a bunch of missing pieces if you aren't using Xcode to do your build. Very large companies routinely deploy code for the most popular applications without using Xcode and smaller projects are often built in languages or frameworks using tooling that completely bypasses Xcode... if you don't think Xcode is a win (and it isn't: there is a good reason why the really large-scale projects don't use it) just don't use it and your life will get better. And, if working in AI is really the competitive advantage people claim, it would seem like a no-brainer to finally get around to porting your project build to escape Xcode.
My point is that it isn't clear cut as to its effects on "open source" software. May help in some aspects, and detract in other aspects.

Anecdotally in my tech circles the enthusiasm for things like languages, libraries, DST, open source and general CS is declining rapidly - it all feels "pre-AI" era now. In the end everyone has their focus on the threat that is AI, almost frozen in fear. This is especially true since outside of the US, things like AI opportunities are quite limited (i.e. in the new era the tech opportunities aren't as distributed). Things that make programming "human" in general, again at least anecdotally, seems very 2010's and older now. When people are "in fear/threat mode" their willingness to invest, even if they enjoy it, is lower. Why prove I can do OS contributions, maybe that's time better spent re-skilling to be a plumber? I've heard that one recently. In the end more than enjoyment people need to eat and there is a cost to investing time in something.

If AI can do it better in a year or two why waste my time now - just wait and do nothing and I will have it anyway later. That includes potentially OS contributions.
That is exactly what I am trying to point out; that considering the energy usage of LLM is a level of psychopathy, because that LLM is doing productive work that a human otherwise would.
About lithium: DT fusion needs mostly Li-6. If it were separated, batteries would work just fine with Li-7.

I recall a story of some lab that was trying to make a lithium-based neutron detector. It wouldn't work, and when they investigated they discovered the lithium they had bought was almost pure Li-7. It was surplus sold back into the chemicals market from the US hydrogen bomb program (which needed Li-6).
> bluesky is almost 100% political and almost 100% left-wing.

A big contributor to this feeling is their default "Discover" feed being very mediocre. "Less of this" and "more of this" do not seem to impact what it gives you, neither do what you like, respond to, follow, or who you block. Some days it's entirely cat pictures, other days it's entirely politics (my suggested accounts to follow are 100% of the time in this category). Finding the good content is very difficult, and the handful of accounts I follow are largely accounts I had to manually search for or was given a direct link to somewhere else, which would never have come up naturally. And to try to fix it, I took the advice to use the block feature, er, liberally, and I think it made the problem worse.

I even wouldn't mind the politics being in the feed if it didn't show me the exact same things repeated again and again. I get that determining if two posts are too similar is difficult, but it could at least not show me the same image again and again and again...

I've found https://bsky.app/profile/skyfeed.xyz/feed/discover to be a slightly better version of the Discover feed, but it's a lot less dynamic.
This is a reoccurring pattern. The flexibility of general purpose systems beats out even the highest efficiency single purpose systems.
Eh, I don't think iteration times in Rust are nearly as bad as you think. During a realistic development loop compilation is <1s in most situations thanks to incremental compilation and tests are fast unless you have synthetic slowdowns such as sleeps or IO (which would effect both languages equally).
> the legislative gridlock and dysfunction in the house of representatives and senate has made them completely incapable of governing -- the least productive in a generation.

They governed well enough until January 20.

> This is opened up an opportunity for a well funded strongman, and the checks and balances that were intended to protect our democracy are now mere suggestions.

Creating gridlock and dysfunction is an intentional (and well-known) strategy to create a strongman. Most of the gridlock and dysfunction are on one side. You can call that partisan but even they oppose even the most simple, inescable issues such as paying debt. Back under Obama, the GOP in Congress openly said that their goal was to make government a failure under Obama.
If you take a look around x, reddit or linkedin nowadays it seems full of non tech people or parents proud of their children making "complete functioning apps" without any coding. Usually they're nothing more than specialized todo lists or calendaring apps for keeping track of some habits. Do we really need all those apps? I'm worried that if I have a good idea and it happens I can execute it well, then the app would be buried in the millions of "v0" apps out there. And no, Apple won't review them all, it's impossible... maybe an AI will lol
There is a feature in HN that brings stories back to the front page, can't remember what it's called at the moment, but must be because of that.
But when people tell me “it’s so much more efficient if you never have to take your hands off the keyboard”, I don’t buy that.

When caught out, try denial and sanctimony. Common tactic.
Seems like the primary value-add is to speed up the literature review process during the hypothesis formulation process.
Related:

A City Is Not a Tree (1965) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21916408 - Dec 2019 (17 comments)

A City Is Not a Tree (1965) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9970090 - July 2015 (7 comments)
That sounds pretty obviously unconstitutional. I don't see how a reasonable person could disagree actually. The whole point of the checks and balances is to prevent this.
If it takes you 5 minutes to verify the output of the LLM vs 3 hours to do the research work to come to an answer, you saved 2h55m of human time.

You would use the 2h55m to do another task.

I feel like it is indeed a valid comparison of energy usage.
Probably not, in any normal case a secondary device shouldn't have that kind of authority to dictate.

It is more concerning if the toggle is on by default and then you carelessly press next (on this or some other kind of phish).
I strongly agree - HN has become increasingly Redditified in the political discussion sense. I think this website has the potential to have (and often already has) some of the best serious discussion on the internet, so it really nags at me that people have eroded this standard a lot recently IMO.
Build vs buy. You can be me and build an in-house flock, pay $100/mo in feed, $500 for a livestock guard dog, $100/mo for dog food, $500 for a solar electric fence, and then $500 for a few coops, etc. It'll pay off before I'm dead, I think! -- right?

Right?!
In many other countries people would take to the streets and protest until they get a new government if something like this happened.

Perhaps you should try it?
Or if you manage to get most people to not care. There can still be dissent, but it would be too limited to have an effect.
Building part of an "emotional discussion" doesn't require the author to be experiencing particularly strong emotions as they write it.

Not that you have evidence of the author's state of mind?

I don't think the confusion you describe is happening.
This guide is absolutely fantastic, thank you! You should post it if it hasn't been.
Hmmm... I get 18kW for 1.4e17g

Using Julia:

> using Unitful
> uconvert(u"W", Unitful.ħ * Unitful.c^6 / (15360 * π * Unitful.G^2) / (1.4e17u"g")^2)
18171.541554992324 W

This is the same result as on https://www.vttoth.com/CMS/physics-notes/311-hawking-radiati...
TinyCompiler: A Compiler in a Week-End
Have you ever wondered how a compiler works, but you never found courage to find out? Then this series of articles is for you.
A really good read. I was a bit later to the party but, my God, it was better then.

But the reality of shareholder value and developers salaries had to come from somewhere, and here we are, the enshittification of the internet is upon us and you can’t even load a HTML document without being tracked, spammed and generally frustrated.
And who impeaches a President which just gave himself the right to authoritatively misinterpret the law in whatever way they want and in turn can trivially turn you live into a living hell if they insist too

especially if you yourself could get a part of the pie and don't think it will negatively affect you

I mean don't get me wrong if they would do so literally tomorrow it would work.

But as the majority of senate likely feel they have little to loose it won't be tomorrow.

And when they realize that maybe they won't get part of the pie (they are mostly now useless for him) it will be to late and the fear of repercussions will have set in.
Well yes, the term conservatism is ambiguous as it means different things in different contexts. I'm suggesting you're conflating this.
Wow! I could have written this. PiHole works great... until your personal server does something weird or hangs or crashes or power flickers.

NextDNS just works. Allowlists are pretty easy to implement too for those edge cases.
Focus on relatively unimportant subtasks has a name. It's called "bikeshedding".

This achievement is relatively unimportant. It's not the major issue that would block a DT fusion reactor. As such, achieving it doesn't move the needle much on the plausibility of DT fusion in tokamaks.
Designation as Global Terrorist: Tren de Aragua, Sinaloa Cartel, Jalisco NG etc.
A story that keeps delivering, thanks!

Not even sure now if man is a fraud or a complete delulu.
>Naive interpretations like this one, of bad faith actions is how we get there.

Instead of just dismissing things out of hand like this, maybe you could provide a "less naive" interpretation? Your statement is not helpful either.
One alternative that we are using is scalingo as a replacement for heroku.

I doesn't have all of the same features as heroku, but the features that are there work really well. For instance the UI is better and more responsive than heroku's.

On top of that it isn't more expensive than heroku and does not have pricing traps the way heroku does. Their live chat is also an upgrade over support tickets.

I'd definitely give it a go if I were on the hunt for a European PAAS provider.
And now I just learned about NextDNS. I'm going to pay for that. Back in the day, people were unwilling to pay for Netscape, and Mozilla was born. Today, the world has shifted again, and there are more than enough people with enough money willing to pay for software. And again, Netscape^WMozilla is late to grok this.
Is MagSafe worth it? I think I've misaligned my iPhone 12 mini once on my Qi charger total over the past five years or so.
They can break 1-bit-coin. How's that for ya?
and the president did too in slightly more subtle way
If you noticed inaccuracies in the article you might be interested to know that the article was written by AI.

And for those of you hissing at my previous comment you might be interested to know that this joke was written by AI.

Now you don't know what to do.

Rip Norm Macdonald
It's hardly Google's problem that nobody else has a million cores, wouldn't you agree? Should they not publish the result at all if it's using more than a handful of cores so that anyone in academia can reproduce it? That'd be rather limiting.
If the court cannot have an opinion more valid than the issuer of the EO, then on what authority can they invalidate it? The issuer can always say: that isn't how the law is meant to be read.

First they marginalize, then they alienate, then they never have to take the extreme action that people like you would recognize as a problem.
Conspiratorial nonsense hurting America and other countries. Sadly we are going to see a lot of this
Similar here. I use Unbound DNS plus 1Hosts [1] and a few others here and there and I block all the DoH/DoT servers. I also blackhole route known malicious networks.

[1] - https://github.com/badmojr/1Hosts
Why do you think they are called "Independent Agencies"?

Can we work on our definition of "Independent Agency"?

The founders of this country intentionally did not create a "King" role.
EvilSeed: A tool for creating partial dump of database based on app models
There are two sources for Japanese eras on Windows:

* Hardcoded into the system libraries/.net framework

* The Windows Registry

And this allows things to continue working even if the software is older than the newest era.