skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nit for schacon: in the "Listing branches" section, you say branch.sort + column.ui and talk about these as first/second options, but the commands are in the opposite order so it reads a little confusingly.
This is biologically confused. Fructose is processed by the liver. Glucose stimulates insulin release from the pancreas. Sucrose is one glucose and one fructose, but as you might guess from the name, fruits often contain free fructose.

Fiber doesn’t slow sugar absorption by very much. It is better than, say, HFCS, but mostly because you can’t ever eat as many calories as you can drink.
I think people are scared this will increase the power of the companies over workers. But a worker’s negotiating position is based on their indispensability and productivity, and on average this won’t change that.
I know in reality it's often the fog of war that makes the work bearable. And many good managers more or less consciously keep it that way.
But fundamentally, how can more insight and more truth be bad?
My resources are limited and I'd rather spend them on a good worker than a slightly worse one.
I thought that was the whole point of meritocracy.
Probationary employees also require a layoff process if you want to do layoffs. They didn’t do it.
Maybe they really believe that AI can magically solve this problem and they're actually as clueless they seem to be.
A simple trick to make your meeting instantly productive
If you really believe that, you should short the stock.
That's the point of the experiment I'm doing, what it takes to get these things to be able to generate all the code, and I'm just directing.

I literally have not written a line of code. The AI agent configures the build systems. It executes the `go install` command. It configures the infrastructure via terraform.

It takes a lot of reading of the code that's generated to see what I agree with or not, and redirecting refactorings. Understanding how to describe problem statements that are translated into design docs that are translated into task lists. It's still a lot of knowledge work on how to build software. But now I can do the coding that might have taken a day from those plans in 20 minutes.

Regarding startups, there's nothing here I'm doing that isn't just learning the tools of agentic coding. The business here might be advising people on how to do it themselves.
No, this is a list of 50+ apps that doesn't work at all.

Just tried hitting the `https://api.deepseek.com/chat/completions` endpoint and it seems to work fine, and been working 100% the times I've tried to use it. Seems like in the beginning of the month there was some issues (https://status.deepseek.com/), otherwise more or less fine.

Are you seeing any particular errors?
Elon, the twitter addict who expects everyone else to be productive and send him a list of recent accomplishments...it's beyond ridiculous.

How Americans are allowing this circus to go on is completely beyond me. The country is a laughing stock.

We could talk about all the way stupid things like this can be gamed but the fact it's evening happening at all is purely breathtaking...
Now you can buy a Framework Laptop 13 without a motherboard for $399
Well, only some claim to "remain committed to offering our users the highest level of security for their personal data" while turning off E2EE cloud storage for an entire country.
They launched Starlink because the opportunity was there and vertical integration gave them better cost structure and speed of execution than putative competitors. Commercial demand for payload space is substantial and growing and lacking in quality competition so they're probably less beholden to govt than many other space contractors

But yeah, vibes are shifting from "well more realistic European launch options would be a nice thing to have but SpaceX's cost/kg and schedule is very good" to "actually it may be necessary for security for governments to back launch competitors and OneWeb"
Apple took the same stance during the San Bernardino case!
As soon as the email went out with the line "do not attach any classified/confidential materials" etc... I knew this was exactly the reason why.
ChatGPT Saved My Life (no, seriously, I'm writing this from the ER)
Given the massive bottlenecks that will likely remain in quantum for the next 10yr+
(Would love to see a change here obviously but c'est la vie)

I doubt anyone is blanket decrypting everyone's email just to see what people had for lunch even if it's "only" encrypted with rsa4096...
Time to brag.
What else could they have done?
I am now genuinely wondering

Maybe its me being stupid but why don't we use quic always instead of tcp?

I think it has to do with something that I read that tcp can do upto 1000 connections simultaneously no worries and they won't interfere with each other's bandwidth / impact each other , but udp does make it possible for one service being very high to impact other.

There was this latest test by anton putra with udp vs tcp and the difference was IIRC negligible. Someone said that he should probably use udp in kernel mode to essentially get insane performance I amnot sure
Cultural Ambiguities and Insecurities
How are these politicians so clueless?
If anyone is reading from YC, I'm happy to review their submissions, I was perhaps the first who raised concerns and was on top of the thread with my comment.

(See this post I made on LinkedIn about this: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/crufter_today-y-combinator-de...)
> I'd be very curious where in our laws it is written that congressional budgets must be spent in their entirety every year

It's included in the "CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET AND IMPOUNDMENT CONTROL ACT OF 1974"[0], Title X, at least as a base assumption. It's also part of the text of the annual appropriations bill(s), on most subjects.

[0] https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/COMPS-10356/uslm/COMPS-1...
Ask HN: Anyone working on medical devices?
Just curious if anyone is working on medical devices as a software engineer. What's your company doing? What do you do?
I wasn't comparing it to anything, but commenting that it's sad it isn't curated. GPT Store isn't curated either, and I agree, probably contains much more stuff that isn't "awesome" at all.

I'm not even advocating for OpenAI, why bring that up?
I assume you're also behind the popular Wordpress plugin?

https://wordpress.org/plugins/graphina-elementor-charts-and-...
Believe it or not, founders don't run every single thing they do by the YC partners!
Remembering Viktor Antonov
The reasoning for putting her in prison seems to be based on the severity of doing an almost a billion dollar in fraud. That is in the ballpark of some of the worlds largest bank robberies.

There are good reason to question prison sentences for non-violent crime, and asking about the goals society has. If the goal is deterrent, then studies do show that harsher punishment can be effective if the crime is done under partial rational decision based on the risk of getting caught and the punishment if they do. If the goal is rehabilitation, then the results is less clear and may have the opposite effect.

There is a lot of research and studies on this subject. Some compare different countries, like Norway vs US, and other compare states/cities, or the same location but different years with different strategies. To my knowledge there isn't a lot of consensus in what actually works.
Just tried but it returned an error
Yeah that's how it's done. The other comments are overcomplicating it.
It is incredibly dangerous to add this kind of functionality to anything. I also believe that this request is illegal with current European legislation.
Actual link to product:

https://frame.work/products/framework-laptop-13-chassis-p610...
Ah ok, my bad then, it's a perfect product and we shouldn't change anything at all then. Let's continue to treat humans as machines, especially in 3rd world countries, who cares right ? Even they say it's fine.
While on holiday in South America, I visited a friend and we went out for drinks quite a few times, we visited different neighborhoods and at times I was really puzzled as to why this very "new" looking, gigantic, fully staffed bars were often completely empty, he clarified that those were likely laundering drug money.
I mean, just write a massive list of semi-plausible, important sounding stuff and the LLM will say you're busy.

It's not about that though, it's about excuses.
People selling their Teslas afraid of associating with Musk is the topic here and the point I'm making is that the current political climate around this company will be a footnote in history that most people will care little about (if not already).

This too shall pass, frankly I think it's a form of cringe virtue signaling.

It's also a form of collective punishment, "I won't buy Tesla because I don't like Elon" is certainly a valid opinion, but what about all the workers who have nothing to do with his politics?
What are we to do? At this point the only thing I can do is buy firearms and ammunition, build by bug-in kit, etc.
It was probably worse, I'm merely agreeing with the parent poster that the conditional justice that seems to be getting ever more prevalent in the US (and across the world) can play into her cards just fine if she pivots to talking to the right portion of the population.
I wonder who has their hands in an AI company and will charge the government a ridiculous contract price to run all of those pointless emails?
Have you ever read the book The Corporation? It goes into some detail about why corporations can't do that. Not "won't" - can't.
They should have filled entire salad drawer with... good salad. Put up a bouldering wall or give their employees free/cheap entrance to nearby gym and give them time to actually do it. Ie I almost never go on lunch breaks if I can go to gym instead, once it becomes a habit its trivial to keep it up. Massive efficiency boost in my own private time, at 6pm I am over and worked out already.

IT more than anything else (maybe apart from true art) is not about hours put in but efficiency of time spent. Breaks often help overcome blocks. Decent workouts and healthy lifestyle helps with better focusing mind since all is connected in each of us. Also helps with sleep which then goes back to mind and all.
Not only was the previous email "if you respond to this email you resign", but the last email was "if you don't respond to this email, you resign." (at least on ones my friends saw, apparently not all?)
The famous it's ok if it's done with algorithm.
Shouldn't a train station have restrooms somewhere already?
Well I mean they wrote books about it and one guy had the audacity to call his opinion a “philosophy” even though it’s just an arbitrary opinion.

Most of software is about assigning big words and over complicated nomenclature to concepts and these things masquerade as things with deeper meaning when in reality it’s just some made up opinion.

Software design is an art. It is not engineering and it is not science. That’s why there’s so much made up bullshit. The irony is we use “art” to solve engineering problems in programming. It’s like ok we don’t actually know the most optimal way to program a solution here so we make up bs patterns and philosophies. But then let’s give this bs pattern some crazy over complicated name like Scientology or inversion of control and now everyone thinks it’s a formal and legitimate scientific concept.

Well cats out of the bag for Scientology. Not yet for a lot of the bs in software. A “philosophy” is the biggest utter bullshit word for this stuff I’ve ever seen.
Great News: Fyre Festival Is Back
Looks like the promoter was finally released from prison after the first time, and going back to doing what he knows best :\
> Consulting companies destroy valuable institutional knowledge and make the government less effective

Can you explain?

Because the entire idea is that they bring knowledge to the institution that hires them, and proposes/implements processes to make government more effective.

If a department needs full-time experts in an area for decades, they generally hire them. But very often, a department needs to make a complicated decision in an area that is not its core competency, and after the decision is made and implemented it doesn't need those experts anymore. Their job is done. That's where consulting shines.
When testing out code blocks (mainly within large-scale projects), I got tired of constantly setting up runtime environments or online editors that always seemed to be missing something. So, I decided to make my own.

It began as a small personal project, but I kept adding to it, and now it's something I think others could benefit from. It's fast, easy to use, and lets you start coding instantly.

Would love to hear feedback.
The US has a lot of people in prison for non-violent offences. It even has a huge number of people in pre-trial detention, where other countries have better bail systems and things like electronic tagging to allow people to stay out of jail before they are convicted.
You would have to ask John Marshall, who authored the opinion in Marbury v Madison
I'm on the same page with you, mathematicians and the math itself. I'm not a complete stranger to whats and hows of the craft either.

I honestly wanted a source to investigate the claim further, not to stab the commenter.

OTOH, you have given a couple of leads, which I can follow deeper. Thanks!
So you’d be ok with this AI being applied to other industries? Maybe lines of code?
They aren't. They know very well what they are doing.
That's why we fight for social and worker's rights, try to pull that shit in germany

But for that you need strong unions and I heard it basically is communism, and I heard communism basically is hell on earth, I guess it makes whatever this software is doing heaven
Things would improve dramatically if everybody who lives off the state (including pensioners) couldn’t vote.

In some European countries public money has turned into a pretty transparent way of buying votes. These votes are used to make sure nothing ever changes.
Trump got a fraud conviction and zero sentence.
nah, I'm using HTTP/3 everywhere
:D

Brave new world man.
The point is to make working for the federal government a traumatic experience.

https://www.govexec.com/management/2024/10/inside-key-maga-l...
Exactly. People are trying to make ends meet. They aren't trying to optimize for money making for fun We're trying to eat today, and maybe someday retire, if we're lucky. It's harder than it used to be, so people are looking for strategies.

It's not some morally superior attitude to "engage in peace and happiness" blah blah you're just rich congrats
The reasons mostly are "they are all owned by elites whose names you're not allowed to even know and who would like to keep the serfs docile and ignorant".
Not put absolute profit over principles? Or at least don't advertise they do?
Zone maps, or "queries go brrr"
From ACS to Altair: The Rise of the Hobby Computer
I'm not going to spend a long time responding to your comment, since it seems accusatory and rude; if you modify it to be more substantive I'll happily engage more.

The one specific response I have is: it's not that I

> say nothing specific or concrete: [I] only throw blanket ad hominems that sound very spiteful

...rather, it's that I'm criticizing Martin's approach to teaching rather than his approach to programming. I expand on that criticism more in an adjacent comment, here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43171470
As far as the integral is concerned, the rate is a constant while time is a linear variable, so the improvement from LEDs is a constant time improvement and the improvement from running the lights less is a linear time improvement. Otherwise, we are in agreement.

That said, I do think that there is an incentive to spend the energy savings on things other than lighting.
Hm, how do you explain that humans are still working in factories all around the world then ?
Sorry it is a typo as you can imagine :D
It’s not the only company with low morale that YC is sponsoring. There have been a dozens of copycats shamelessly copying other products, some of them open source.

It is disappointing to see YC going to new levels of bottom without any proper accountability, just greed.
> European bureaucrats generally have little understanding of the technology they get paid to regulate

I'd agree with you if you just put "bureaucrats" instead of European bureaucrats, what country isn't currently led by a bunch of bureaucrats who don't seem to understand even the basics of the technology they legislate about?

I've yet to seen a country to lead the way, no wonder the rest of the countries don't seem to know what to do and just throwing stuff at the wall.
In Russia Internet censorship went in ten years from "we need a legal framework to block websites with child porn on a court order, why are you against it, are you a pedophile" to blocking everything that doesn't speak complimentary of the government without leaving any paper trail at all.
Yep, for sure.

But even that goes to my point, people still buy VW because they're either ignorant or soon forget these things.

This is the world we live in.
Nice. I’m similarly spoiled for choice now. Past workplace:

1. Swiss Miss Hot chocolate mix

2. Starlight Peppermint Mints

3. Lemonade

4. Peanut butter

For variety, I tried many combinations. Some: 1+3: bad, 1+2, 2+3: good, 1+4: awesome
Be extremely demanding of all my political representatives, unionizing and protesting.

But I get the helplessness too. It's really absolutely unbelievable. I'd say most people are still in denial.
Just think of Yosemite National Park firing their only(?) locksmith. It sounds like the most boring job but such a big park and many buildings. As soon as someone locks themselves into or out off something it becomes highly lucrative for a contractor to do this task. Replacing broken locks or cutting new keys won't get cheaper. It will be the same on many other levels.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/02/1...
https://www.instagram.com/natevince/p/DGLxMKbyKwq/
> Software can not abuse workers. Managers can, with our without software.

And guns cannot kill people. Other people can, with or without guns. It shouldn’t be hard to understand tools facilitate the task you’re using them for.

> Nowadays it's OK in some companies to install remote access software to monitor employees' screens.

No, it is not OK. It is done, but that doesn’t mean it is right or ethical.

> It's nothing new.

That’s not an excuse to not do better and revise practices.

> It's just business.

See the Nuremberg defence.
> Signal to leave Sweden if backdoor law passes

I don't know... what else could Apple have done? Hard to determine what else they could have done besides turn off the feature in a thread on another company not just turning off a feature, but leaving a country entirely.
Well, part of a generation of young men. But those young men, being toxic and masculine, decided to throw a temper and break the government, while the part of the generation who saw the effects of toxic masculininty and agreed it was a problem watched on in horror.
Who did things that were illegal at the time?

(very few people should have gone to prison, but Sean Quinn did for Anglo-Irish Bank, and everyone involved in the US robo-signing fiasco should have at least got a conviction and ban from positions of trust)
German here. He directly and openly supported the far-right AfD party in the last election by publicly asking people to vote for them, and by holding a video-call audience with the party leadership.

I don't care who votes what, but I certainly do not like when people who do not live here and do not have to deal with any consequences of an election result try do to election interference.
Because the pendulum of typing hadn't swung back to static being in vogue when the Philosophy of Software Design came out. At the time you had mostly the Scala & Haskell people standing in a corner screaming until they (well, we as I was one of them) were blue in the face about reducing "certain types of bugs", and making impossible states impossible.

Since then, everyone and their brother is on the static typing train. And from that lens you're right. It seems like an omission. Give it another 10 years and people will probably think the opposite.
Signal is headquartered in the US and presumably has no employees in Sweden (and perhaps the entire European Union).

There is utterly nothing the Swedish government can do to stop Signal except for pressuring app stores and/or ISP-level censorship. Preemptive surrender is extremely disappointing, especially for a non-profit - there isn’t even any revenue that can be ‘fined’ by the EU!
No he's not, he's asking if there's a way to get expanded rate limits.

Maybe the answer is "yes, but you have to steal them," that doesn't mean he's asking for a how-to.

Meanwhile, many services offer free or included access to models. And free tiers. Etc.
As another self-hoser, I'd call it a Freudian Slip :)
It's all theater and a distraction in my opinion.
It's great to see that at least one manufacturer is still willing to release a camera that isn't either a "generic modern" camera or an "film styling but with digital" camera.

I love the idea of a smaller body focused full frame camera, though I am skeptical of how useable this camera will be in colder climates. That metal is going to be freezing cold, and those buttons looks hard to operate with gloves on.
> The idea, that companies or politicians can force the user's machine to work against it's owner, is wrong.

You are hinting at something important here. Let me strengthen your point: to own an object means to subject it fully to your own will. If the object can act in a way that favors someone else's interests over yours, you do not own it. This is true of pretty much any device running proprietary software.

A litmus test: can you make your device lie to the manufacturer's servers? Regardless of the legality or morality of doing so.

However this article is really about something else: the vulnerability of centralized services in the face of government oppression. Signal only has the ability to log messages because it is a centralized service that controls both the client and the server. The benefits of E2EE is greatly reduced if the client and the server is controlled by the same entity (tomorrow Signal can push out an update that would send a plaintext backup to their servers, and you wouldn't know it until later). Moreover, the non-free distribution mechanisms on mobile phones (stores) limits a company's ability to resist.
I want to try to become an independent researcher, when the funding for my PhD position runs out.

My idea for financing this is finding a few companies who pay a retainer fee to not only get direct easy access to my expertise when they need it, but are also interested in the results of the kind of work I'm doing when they don't need anything specific from me.

I work on supply chain security with systems like Nix, and recently put up a first version of a website: https://groundry.org/