skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yours seems like an unusual case. Lighting is something that’s least vulnerable to Jevons effects because (after electrification reached maturity) people already use all the artificial light they could ever want and don’t look for ways to use more when it becomes cheaper (more lighting per unit cost). Even if they’re less careful about turning off unused light, LEDs are so much more efficient that they will still use less energy for lighting.

In contrast, energy itself is very vulnerable to Jevons effects because there is always a marginal use of energy it can be applied to as more is freed up.
Too often I see functions that are shells that reshuffle the arguments and pass them to another function, which also reshuffles the arguments and forwards them to another, and on and on. One was 11 layers deep.
Both poems could be read as satires of exactly the type of people you describe and I think that would that would cause them to wrap around and be good again. And I'm not entirely sure what to think of that— it's simultaneously an example of how works can't really be divorced from the context in which they were created, but also an example of "the art" being created in the space between the author and the reader.

It reminds me of https://poets.org/poem/antigonish-i-met-man-who-wasnt-there where in-context the poem is mediocre. But without the context it's really good, it conjures in your mind all kinds of strange interpretations.
Cool idea. It would be nice to be able to quickly pull up a part in context in various designs across the internet to answer “how did other folks solve this on a board that works?”
When legal and predictable processes are undermined no one can rely on the government being a good actor. A good reputation takes generations to establish and seconds to destroy. No one will trust the government now.
This seems more like “lol I was just joking”….
You do realize PARC and Bell Labs are long gone, right?
Have you seen a fail that was Apple “Intelligence” launch? The apple polish is long lost.
Sometimes the only way to know something is important is to shut it off and see if anyone complains. For example, lots of stories in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9629714. Now certainly the Trump administration could have been more careful, but they only have 4 years so the Facebook motto of "move fast and break things" applies.
The dictator is still in the oven, but it's nearly ready. Just needs a topping of constitutional crisis and a suspension of elections and it'll be done.
Henryuan is a leading manufacturer of li-ion battery chargers, providing lithium battrey chargers with full safety certifications CB, UL, cUL, FCC, PSE, CE, GS, SAA, UKCA, KC, CCC, etc., ensuring safe and reliable charging of all li-ion batteries. Wide AC voltage 100-240V input, ensuring that the requirements of countries around the world are met
I've been considering starting up a(n extremely) sporadic blog for funsies. What platforms do people use these days?
Why do you think the vacuum won't be filled by other countries willing to fund their scientists?

This is after all the same reasoning used to give tax breaks to get a factory to setup in town
...you can do it!
You didn’t read the article or chose to skip over several steps the administration took before rolling back the changes they introduced and then lying to cover their actions after they were questioned about it
Their actions are pretty clearly to consolidate power, replace everyone with loyalists, cut taxes on the rich, deport and depopulate the country and transfer assets to their associates. Once the economy is tanked they can go on a buying spree and pick up all sorts of private assets for bargain price.
1. newbie follows the rules because he is told to

2. master follows the rules because he understands them

3. guru breaks the rules because they don't apply
That’s exactly why you should save that length only for a method that’s indeed doing something weird. If every method is long, the codebase turns into noise. (IOW I agree)
You don't need to suspend elections you just need to subvert them. For-show elections make good dictatorial theater.
Specifically because it was designed to comply with compute sanctions.
> If you want to write good code, read good code.

As a junior in the field working at a small company, I often rely on this community for guidance, and this seems the most sound advice on this thread.
The idea is pretty brilliant. I hope it takes off. Good luck.
I think writing publicly is much less stressful than writing and not publishing.

After you get past initial fright of course. Because later you don’t fret about what-ifs.

I think I started posting comments on HN 5 years ago and I had account since 15 years ago.
This is not "letting go", this is "deliberately giving away and dismantling".

Nobody is that incompetent to do this accidentally.
Every single American cellular operator was part of this program.
At this point I want to fight fire with fire:

"You know, there are a lot of countries, very nice countries, where someone tried to become a dictator, and then they caught and executed him in a horrible horrible way. The family also, imprisoned from being terrible people. Do you think we'd do that in America someday? Just joking, just joking, nobody would do that, it's fun to think about, isn't it? It really triggers those snowflakes. Let's all talk about exactly what would happen in visceral detail, you know, as a joke."
No they disclosed your private information as a citizen.
If you want to keep a democracy, yes. Checks and balances are critical to a functioning democracy
How come there isn’t much discussion of DOGE on this site? Seems rather important and relevant to the question of whether the Silicon Valley approach to breaking things and moving quickly works for government. Also whether such an agency should have access to our data.
World’s first: stem cell therapy reverses type 1 diabetes
When their order was actually better than yours. I know the feel. You know it's wrong, but it was preordained.
The issue isn't employers accessing their own records but the government improperly sharing sensitive personal data with DOGE affiliates without consent or a legitimate need-to-know justification, likely violating the Privacy Act.
> At the end of the day, it ultimately still boils down to trust though, yes?

Isn't that pretty much the story for most every thing though? It comes down to discernment, which is mostly subjective itself.

Same here. Personally, do I trust Apple? I don't have a leaning one way or another about that. What I trust is that Capitalism is gonna capitalize. And Apple doing what it says here, is its Brand. If down the road it comes out later it was all a lie. That Brand has no more standing. No more standing, no more sales. And Apple is in the Brand/product selling business. I trust they won't throw away their trillions because they would rather sell their Brand on white papers over an actual product that the papers describe.
5 * 0 is still 0. They aren't listening.
> It's striking to me how out of touch Martin seems to be with the realities of software engineering in this transcript

It was always like that. And Fowler the same thing with his criticism of anemic domain model. But software-engineering is no exceptions to having a mass of people believing someone without thinking by themselves.
Thanks a lot for your project. Have you compared the speed with JPEGView?
Don't forget the Saudis, who promised similar large investments during Trump's last term yet never followed through.
Writing is thinking. So is drawing.

To think clearly, come up with new ideas, make and truly understand things, we need to put marks on the blank page ourselves, and not just repeat what teachers or textbooks tell us like the majority of students Richard Feynman had during his time in Brazil — https://v.cx/2010/04/feynman-brazil-education

LLMs/AIs are useful to help us get farther, faster, like witty, skilled, intelligent friends who sometimes take too many magic mushrooms during conversations.

Forgetting about our own agency and individuality is bad for us, and dangerous for society.

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will.” —Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.”
―Primo Levi, If This is A Man

To create and be free like an animal outside a cage, ask, write, and draw your own questions. Look, and find out for yourself, rather than blindly believing what others tell you.

Two useful books:

Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards
https://archive.org/details/DRAWINGONTHERIGHTSIDEOFTHEBRAINH...

The Hand - How Its Use Shapes the Brain, Language, and Human Culture by Frank R. Wilson
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/191866/the-hand-by-...
This:

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/19/donald-trump-king-i...

doesn’t really sound like democracy.
Musk's motivations are simple; the rich have been promised tax breaks, which means deep spending cuts. So gutting the parks service means no parks open to the public, but balances a tax break to billionaires.

Same for "science". That's a long term investment with long term returns. Kill that now for immediate tax breaks. Let someone else worry about the fallout 10 years from now.

Then there's direct interest. The CFB regulates companies processing payments to protect consumers. X wants to process payments without that pesky oversight. CFB is gone.

Musk and Trump sell this to the masses as saving money. Which the masses assume means lower taxes for them. Whereas the billionaires understand it's to remove services from the masses to route more money to themselves. The masses are easily duped - this is literally democracy in action.
No, this lawsuit is not about employee records. It is about customer records. Just like I can't share customer data with whoever the hell I want, they are arguing that there is a process and it was violated. Its the same lawsuit as if a company had a privacy policy on their website and just said 'nah bro' I'm going to give your social security number to some random drug addict to train a nazi AI.
How many wars have France and England fought against each other?
Elon Musk is not a government employee and he is not their boss.
Trump specifically disavowed Project 2025 when he ran and now is embracing it. He never said he was going to put an unelected billionaire in charge and disregard the Constitution.

> And the lack of reaction by Republicans in congress suggests that they feel the best way to be reelected is to go along with it.

They are worried about getting primaried and their primary opponent being financed by Musk.
> be true! If you ignore the fact that the correlation is so weak that calling it 'statistically insignificant' would be quite generous.

I actually came to a different conclusion than the author. Here is the way I'm thinking about the presented statistics:

1. There is 17 Kebab shops (out of 400 samples) with a google review lower than 3 stars. Let's call them "bad kebabs".

2. All those "bad kebabs" actually located within 500m from the nearest station. No kebab located in further than >500m is bad.

3. So if you've ever gotten a bad donor kebab, we can safely assume that you have purchased it from a kebab shop near a train station.

Maybe there are so many kebab eaters near a train station that a mediocre kebab offering becomes profitable?
(It’s not true)

https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/workforce-restruct...
While on this topic, one book I really enjoyed is "Beautiful Code"[1]. It is not preachy or prescriptive but a diverse set of programmers showing the code they enjoyed writing.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/405790.Beautiful_Code
Is it "sensible oversight" to shoot first and ask questions later—to shut down all payments on a whim and then implement a review process (assuming it actually exists) afterwards which will be immediately overloaded?

You might as well starve prisoners and then say sensible calorie management is not in and of itself foolish.
> I'm curious if the algorithm for reusing memory is smart enough to handle something like manually allocating the maximum amount of memory needed for the lifetime of the program up front and then re-using that for the duration of the program to avoid needing to allocate anything dynamically at all

I imagine this would be equivalent to solving the halting problem. So you’d need to restrict the language in some significant ways. I’d definitely still be interested.
Is this the same Kara as Kara Sternquist the convicted felon charged with "possession of fraudulent badges and credentials for federal agencies" and when their house was searched multiple firearms were found including two fully automatic rifles? [0][1]

[0] https://casetext.com/case/united-states-v-sternquist

[1] https://www.motherjones.com/criminal-justice/2023/01/mdc-bro...
It probably won't lead to anything without a weaker dollar to support US exports. First you need tariffs, then you need massive investment in reshoring, then you need a weak dollar so those new factories can profitably export.
For the last month if you want to learn anything from this site you go to "new" and only read the flagged threads.
> as Trump tries to mount a bid for a third term

I just checked. US Constitution has amendment #22 that says: "No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice". Is there a workaround? I doubt he can change that amendment. None have been ratified in the US for a squillion years.
There's ten or so submissions per day that hit the front page and then instantly get flagged off.
Training AI to Play Super Smash Bros. Melee
It strikes me that there are so many random requests coming from all over the place that this would be a great opportunity for a large scale phishing attack posing as Elon/DOGE.
Congress should take checks and balances seriously, which includes respecting judicial independence rather than calling for impeachment just because a ruling goes against their political preferences.
Yeah, this slash and burn approach is legitimately good in many circumstances. You cut through cruft, break down old unneeded processes, and things that are needed but were undocumented become quickly documented and maybe refurbished. Things that break are quickly noticed and reinstated.

It really doesn't work for huge complex systems where the breakages aren't felt fully for many years, and building the systems back up take decades, and things break so far down the line that it's impossible to even tell what needs to be fixed.

I have to hope that the intentions are actually good, because the appearances from the outside look a lot like the start of a dictatorship.
> Stuff like recourse mechanisms for mistakes; courts; and prisons.

> Once that’s done it’ll end up almost indistinguishable from what we already have.

Wild thing is that since it is all digital, it allows rogue state actors to be the ones pulling the heists (not exactly saying that is what happened here). So it seems very unlikely there will be actual recourse mechanisms outside of what is already happening (embargos, trade bans, etc), at least anytime in the near future. This isn't as simple as creating some laws and enforcing them, this requires global diplomacy/compliance which is a much taller order.
What did the judge do wrong?
If that was a story about a wife caring for a dying husband, how lovely would that headline sound?
The problem with the API is that it, as it says in the documentation, could cost $100/hr.

I would pay $50/mo or something to be able to have reasonable use of Claude Code in a limited (but not as limited) way as through the web UI, but all of these coding tools seem to work only with the API and are therefore either too expensive or too limited.
It gets [flagged] and [flagged][dead]ed very quickly. Some people flag because they don't care about politics, others flag because they're in favor of what's happening, the rest flag because all the discussions turn into flamewars and are unproductive.
The next election cycle begins soon.
Unless the US is transitioning into an authoritarian regime.
Let's get everybody working on the feature into an hour long status meeting to check for blockers.

This is really important so we'll need to do this at least twice a day
I can't blame YC for feeling the heat. VC has gone off the rails in the past few years, and their proudest alumni is an ex-Worldcoin CEO that wants everyone to invest in technology that's been "around the corner" for the past 8 quarters.

I'm not saying there's a directive on-high shutting down this discussion, but if the majority of users are really YC-affiliated then this entire Trump admin thing is understandably embarassing.
Our executive doesn't want that rn.
The posts tend to get quickly flagged and thus buried. Search the archives for relevant names and keywords, and you’ll see lots of relevant yet flagged posts. Even discussions about this fact tend to get flagged.
I think this thing wants to scrap.
It's shortsighted because they are asking China to take over.
https://semiwiki.com/semiconductor-services/semiconductor-ad...
Implicitly, IIRC, the optimal ratio is 5-20:1. Your interface must cover 5-20 cases for it have value. Any fewer, the additional abstraction is unneeded complexity. Any more, and your abstraction is likely too broad to be useful/understandable. The example he gives specifically was considering the number of subclasses in a hierarchy.

It’s like a secret unlock code for domain modeling. Or deciding how long functions should be (5-20 lines, with exceptions).

I agree, hugely usual principle.
Management here are aligned with the VC startup scam that Elon represents and so they don’t want any bad press discussed related to him, and so all relevant discussion is flagged.
Micromanaging is not sensible oversight. It’s bad management. A $1 cap is an ignorant, arbitrary cap that seems designed to be punitive and consolidate power not save money. It will cost FAR more money in damage, late fees, early termination fees and other costs.

And your trite inclusion of “orange man” to every post as a method to diminish the op argument betrays your clear bias.
> Their answer to that is "you can audit us", but I don't see how that would prevent them from switching things in between audits.

PCC does actually prevent Apple from switching things in between audits to a high degree. It’s not like a food safety inspection. The auditor signs the hardware in a multi party key ceremony and they employ other countermeasure like chassis tamper switches. PCC clients use a protocol that ensures whatever they are connecting to has a valid signature. This is detailed in Apple’s documentation.[1]

See, this is why I think privacy engineering is low key the most cutting edge aspect of server development. Previously held axioms are made obsolete by architectural advancements. I think we’re looking at a once in 15 year leap - the previous ones being microservices and web based architecture.

[1] https://security.apple.com/documentation/private-cloud-compu...
The issue is that the executive branch still has prosecutorial power with impeachment as one of the only remaining checks against that (if I’m understanding correctly).
Kinda related: anyone know if there is an autocomplete plugin for Neovim on par with Cursor? I really want to use this new model in nvim to suggest next changes but none of the plugins I’ve come across are as good as Cursor’s.
Unless you are in a swing district that isn’t gerrymandered to death, your representative could care less about what you think. Their first objective is not to get primaried.

The biggest check on the administration is the Senate which confirms executive nominees. The Senate is definitely not “representative” of anything when Wyoming gets two Senators just like California.
More likely we’ll let others fund the research and when the discoveries are made into technologies, help our oligarchs pirate the technology.
> It may be that, with additional time, the government can explain why granting such broad access to the plaintiffs' personal information is necessary for DOGE affiliates at Education to do their jobs, but for now, the record before the Court indicates they do not have a need for these records in the performance of their duties

You need to have a reason to look at that information. It is not yours to do whatever you want with.
That shouldn't matter
Lol, that is just a piece of paper that doesn't mean shit unless someone is willing to enforce the words on it. There has been a shortage of enforcers recently.
> Sometimes the only way to know something is important is to shut it off and see if anyone complains.

These government programs aren't stray servers in a closet.

Even if you believe that these programs should be stopped, it's entirely wasteful to abruptly end them and let their work in progress just crash out and burn.

But it's still a very bad idea to operate this way. There is no rapid feedback loop. The negative effects can be subtle and take years to ripple through the economy and science world.
Yeah, I was going to say that the most likely thing is "making the voting process more secure and reliable to make sure elections are fair" by setting up voting machines and counting processes run entirely by loyalists, but that's less punchy and didn't fit the metaphor.
> They're arguing that employers can't access their internal records on their employees.

How are they doing that?
What does you mean? The following sounds to me like a pretty reasonable concern and not farfetched that a judge would make this interpretation

>The American Federation of Teachers and other "plaintiffs have shown that Education and OPM likely violated the Privacy Act by disclosing their personal information to DOGE affiliates without their consent"
They could make a break, refuse to support hardware older than a certain threshold. Or just focus on a specific platform like Macs.
The cost would be borne by the consumers of Telcos / wireless services rather than by all taxpayers.

The Telcos would allocate funding / resources based on their financial position and their needs.

I dunno, tbh maybe the government can do a better job at right-sizing the service and running it efficiently than the private sector could? Maybe! But it feels like most arguments along these lines would also apply to the Telcos themselves, i.e, if government can do a better job why not nationalise the Telcos?
Presidents can be impeached too. Next election is only two years away.
> Do you have any examples?

Not personally, because i've never been affected by it, but it's a topic now and again in the SQLite forum (where i'm a daily visitor).
No stop it, you’re stressing me out just reading it.
We should have a congress that cares about the law.
Not sure how you have such optimism. It will take a lot more than luck to rebuild what's being destroyed and we don't have what it takes.

[edit: Found a less condescending way to make my point.]
I have a website that is like a HN where news is about tech, mostly AI. I haven't posted anything to it in a few months. https://asiaviewnews.com/gigabots/threads
I was referring to generated or disposable card numbers rather than stolen. maybe that is the confusion?

An concrete examples of converting a user using these types of cards for free trial abuse is a user who signed up 8 week in a row using different emails, names, IPs and cards. Nudging of these users was enabled and on trying to sign up for their 9th trial they immediately switched back to their original account and converted at full price.
I wouldn't do this if there were lives at stake. e.g. turning off circuits in a hospital to see which ones are really necessary.

It's a very strong claim to say no lives depend on any federal funding.
Wonder when we will get software right to repair laws.