skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For me, the fundamental goal of software design is to make it easy to understand and modify the system. I use the term "complexity" to refer to things that make it hard to understand and modify a system.

This explains everything that's wrong with modern software.

When you design a Formula 1 race car engine, the purpose of engine design is not to "make the engine easier to modify". It's to win races. And that depends on the race - a funny car engine, a formula 1 engine, a LeMans engine, Nascar engine, etc, are all different because the races are different.

Another example: when you design a building, the goal isn't to make it easier to understand the building. The goal is to meet the requirements of the building, its uses, requirements, environment, etc. Sometimes a better building is just more complicated, and making the architect or builders' jobs easier, while nice, isn't the goal.

Some things aren't supposed to be easy to understand, because ease of understanding is not the goal of the thing. Focus on the real goal of the thing, and achieving that; don't get distracted by ancillary goals.
2C-B was more my thing (when I could get it).

Fast and powerful. Like LSD but without the 12 hour trip plus body aches.
Whoever marked this as a [Dupe] is wrong. It's not a duplicate of anything. It's my own original ideas as I discuss with ChatGPT.

Where, pray tell, did you find the duplicate discussion or article that says Microsoft's new tech enables Faster-Than-Light Communication?

Update: it seems "[Dupe]" buries the thing from being found on the New page by others. Great. Need to remove this tag.

This is how I sometimes use ChatGPT - to test out my ideas.

And some of those ideas push the boundary... quite a bit. In this case, in experimental quantum physics.

It all started with this offhand comment I made on HN recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43166072

Then I got to thinking... and -- well -- you can follow the discussion.

I LOVE this format for sharing information! Just share a conversation you had with ChatGPT, instead of talking and talking. Those who want to can explore it in that format. I even worked this idea further into a provisional patent that I filed, which goes from a linear chat to actually useful ways of communicating:

https://app.engageusers.ai/provisional.pdf

In any case, if you read either one, I'd love to hear your feedback!
The only palpable defense of hiring them, as a practice, lies in the fact that they are big entities and there's implied trust. In my view reality has shown time and time again that big companies are a liability to individuals and other larger structures.

Some fun reading

"Rental car agency Hertz filed a $32 million lawsuit in April against consulting giant Accenture because it “failed to deliver the website and apps for which it was so generously paid.”"
https://madeintandem.com/blog/massive-hertz-accenture-lawsui...

"Deloitte treated Marin County as little more than a "trial-and-error public sector training ground" for its inexperienced consultants, the lawsuit claimed."
https://www.reuters.com/article/business/deloitte-hit-with-3...

"And in May 2022, New York City stopped using McKinsey’s system for classifying detainees. In the end, the city spent $27.5 million on McKinsey’s services, with precious little to show for it. McKinsey, on the other hand, collected its money and moved right along."
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/mckinsey-whistlebl...

For those bored, wikipedia pages are a good starting point. I would be surprised if there were many, out of the top 100 consulting companies, that didn't have a controversies (or similar) section on their wiki page.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McKinsey_%26_Company#Controver...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deloitte#Litigation_and_regula...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accenture#Controversies
Semi Senior and Senior devs
Would it be true to say that last month I had hemorrhagic fever symptoms when I had the flu? No. So it seems the article is just fear mongering with incorrect information if they're are not actual hemorrhagic symptoms and only generic, non-differential symptoms.

I can only go off the information I'm given. I can't help if the article is incorrect.
So awesome. I love the pricing model, I’ve seen it before for MacOS apps where they are free to build yourself, but have a cost for convenience if you want it on the App Store. How is it working for you so far?
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I certainly hope they don’t install any kind of backdoor, because they will give unfettered access to the fbi, and they will likely use that to hunt down marginalized groups (trans women) to eliminate them.
As an example this is used for the Russian GPS system so their satellites can sit in high earth latitudes for longer needing fewer satellites to cover Russia.

It's used for communications satellites and is called the Molniya orbit[1]. Their GLONASS (positioning system) satellites use circular medium altitude orbits, but with a higher inclination (about 65 deg vs. GPS's 55 deg).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molniya_orbit
As json https://dpaste.com/HV3HB9QSV
China will consider it encouraging for their ambition to take Taiwan.

Musk has advocated for Taiwan to submit to China:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/oct/08/elon-musk...
The problem is that some forks are malware [1], so switching to a fork by developers you don't know is risky. How do non-technical users learn which software developers to trust?

[1] https://www.securityweek.com/malware-delivered-via-malicious...
This too seems like a fairly hardline stance to take. I think it's not surprising that you'd have a hard time collaborating with people you'd refer to as unlikeable, unproductive, unpragmatic, overzealous, frothy idiots.

It reminds me of the standard joke about veganism: "how do you know someone is vegan? Don't worry they'll tell you"

It's a very ironic joke, because the people I hear talking about veganism the most are non-vegans complaining about veganism. In this thread too. All I see is people complaining about how dogmatic clean code people are, and I see no examples of that in this thread. The only strong and absolute language I see is from those who are complaining about CC people.

Bear in mind, I don't have a dog in this fight. I'm not vegan, my methods are sometimes longer than four lines, and I do occasionally write a comment. But if this thread is anything to go by, the clean code folks seem a lot nicer to work with than the reactionaries.
Belli is a restaurant rating app that uses a similar approach to ranking restaurants and giving them a score 0-10.

Really simplifies things.

https://beliapp.com/
National debt growth rates by President:

* Clinton (D): +31% over 8 years

* Bush (R): +105% over 8 years

* Obama (D): +70% over 8 years

* Trump (R): +40% over 4 years

* Biden (D): +21% over 4 years

Simply untrue to suggest "one party spends way too much" or that the other's "slash and burn" is at all related to strengthening our financial situation.
2025 Tech Job Market: Which Tech Skills Matter in 2025
"Do One Thing" is to me maybe best understood in the context of the Single Layer Of Abstraction Principal - it has helped me numerous times to be very intentional about following SLAP in complex code, and Do One Thing seems to fall very naturally out of it.
Her legal team said they are allowed to get verbal consent. She has a sentence she says verbatim something along the lines of “ I am going to use this computer to record this visit and take notes. Is that OK?”

Almost no one refuses.
> Musk was right when he called them out for fishing for money as if they were a non profit, but always had plans to become a company

I believe that he was right, because he of all people should recognize when someone is working from his own playbook of lies and misrepresentation.

Musk is pretty obviously upset because he got outfoxed and cut out of OpenAI, not because of some supposed ideal he holds about safe use of gen AI models.
> Your comments are so perfectly balanced between programming and theology that Stack Overflow keeps redirecting you to the Vatican's GitHub repository.

I chuckled.
Open-source alternative to v0, Lovable, bolt
There is a new AI agent that generates Next.js apps based on prompt.

Features:
- Plans frontend component architecture
- Generates code in real-time based on commands
- Deploys code to a secure sandboxed environment for testing
- Works with any LLM
- It's all built on top of Cerebrium and E2B

Complete guide to building the agent: https://www.cerebrium.ai/blog/building-a-real-time-coding-as...

Source Code: https://github.com/CerebriumAI/examples/tree/master/8-applic...
But the power Musk holds isn’t the result of him being rich, it’s because he has a populist cult of personality. The candidate who spent twice the money lost the election. Musk has power because he got on stage with Trump in Pennsylvania promising to fire all the federal workers.
It is not a zero-sum game. Less spending in the US does not magically becomes more spending elsewhere. It’s actually likely to become less spending in several countries, as military spending increases because of geopolitical instability.
This is a much stronger result from the 80s: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/221590321_An_On_log...
Might be worth reaching out to them, assuming you meet their criteria of "researcher".

>The Erowids state on their website that researchers cannot “mine” data from their site but that they’re open to discussing projects with researchers, provided they’re properly credited and cited.
Maybe they had mistaken "code" for "teeth"?
People who care deeply tend to do things better than people who don't care. Large organizations only organize information to the point of short term marginal profitability. If being better organized beyond a point doesn't get you more money in the next few months/years, it isn't worth it to most businesses.

Likewise, being extremely organized personally is probably unnecessary, but to each their own.
A tiny difference and the big difference was that the UK fell back more during covid in 2020. the difference fluctuates from year to year it was only $300 (a 0.5% difference) in 2022.
"The Art of Violin Making" that the sibling comment mentioned is very good and is often referred to as "the Bible" of violin making.

"Violin Making - a practical guide" by Juliet Barker is also very good

I purchased the DVD series "When Trees Sing" by Peter Paul Prier (he was the founder of the Violin Making School of America in Salt Lake City). The DVD series wasn't cheap but it was worth it.

There is also an online course by Lucas Fabro, https://www.lucasfabro.com/en/online-course/, that I know is also very highly regarded. Fabro also has a number of free YouTube videos that are great to just get a feel for what's involved.

The Strad has a whole series of posters (https://www.thestradshop.com/store/product-category/lutherie...) with scans and measurements of famous violins to serve as templates.

International Violin, https://www.internationalviolin.com/, sells a lot of lutherie tools and is where I bought my tonewood.
Depends on your attitude.

I consider life and reality incredibly, painfully boring.

That's why I LOVE alternate states of mind, even if they are scary.

Nothing excites me more than the prospect of feeling thing and seeing things I have not experienced before.
But there is an ER, urgent care, etc. available at most if not all times? Google is also available and would have accomplished the same result.
Because photons from the supernova take a few hours to glow through all the mass and dust cloud, like it takes a few hours for the heat to get from the core to the surface and increase the surface brightness and start blowing the star apart. The neutrinos can escape from the core immediately at light speed unhindered.

Apparently, the mean free path for a photon in the sun's core is 0.1mm, and it typically takes about 50,000 years for a photon generated in the core to reach the surface:

https://sunearthday.nasa.gov/2007/locations/ttt_sunlight.php
Just remember: There are a lot of chemicals that produce LSD-like effects. The farther away you are from the chemist, the less likely you know the actual drug that you're getting. This is especially the case at concerts / festivals, where the "game of telephone" might mean that you don't really know what you're taking.

After reading many trip reports on Erowid for LSD, I suspect that the authors often unknowingly took something else. A classic case is STP/DOM, which often comes in paper / tabs and is visually indistinguishable from LSD. If you ever hear the familiar, "I took some crazy acid. At first it didn't work, so I took another, and then I finally came up after an hour and had an intense trip," it was probably STP/DOM instead of LSD.
Once I took way way too much and disappeared into a swirling mass of organs and gibbering creatures a la Geiger. It should have been terrifying but it just... wasn't. I really enjoyed it.

Meanwhile, back in the fully conscious world, my roommates had conversations with me that I do not remember at all. I took a very long break from any experimenting after that.
Male-male interactions shape mate selection in Drosophila
That's a nice, clean website. Well done!

I create calculators in support of the guides I write for immigrants.[0] They are a great way to turn 10 pages of text into a simple form with a clear output. I'm a big fan of them, especially when you add advice to the output.

A bit of advice + opinions:

- The fields look grayed out and disabled. Using a traditional white background would make more sense.

- You should explain what the calculator does, why it matters, and how to interpret the output. This confers some SEO benefits, too.

- The age calculator would be easier to find as a difference-between-two-dates calculators. It would be cool to have a reverse "X days ago" calculator. I use both often, and most of the top options suck.

- Set some maximum line widths. It helps readability.

[0]: https://allaboutberlin.com/tools
It already is!
> It has never been easier to snap together a cross-platform app to do almost anything than it is today

Software engineering is weirdly harder today than it's ever been in many domains.

A cross platform app might have to support iOS, iPadOS, MacOS, Android, Windows, Linux and the Web. Music and Video apps might additionally have to support various flavours of vehicle and TV platforms too.

On the server side your friendly scripting language will probably be running in a venv in a container on a VM on a cloud. Or potentially just a venv locally keeping the containerisation for the cloud.

Back in the day, emails could be sent from my computer to your computer if I knew your IP address. Nowadays my email won't get past your spam filters unless I buy and warm up a reputable domain on a respectable IP address and adhere to the correct content standards. The precise rules for these aren't documented anywhere.
Here is the last reply from Callan:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1910322#c73

Seems extremely reasonable to me.
This is just that 'reality has a surprising amount of detail' phenomenon all over again. Big tech simply isn't willing to engage with the detail, and increasingly expects the world to conform to its expectations. That said, this refusal is not new; my parents worked for a bank that was trying to adopt some IBM technologies in the 1980s, and they said that IBM couldn't accommodate the bank's requirements.
You don't need to run the server to backdoor the client. You just need access to push updates to the client. It doesn't matter who runs the server.
https://molly.im for a more FOSS and safer fork of Signal
It's probably for flash/storage.
Medium Editor, Vanilla JavaScript
> WGS Extract

Good god that install script. This is it, this is the tool that AppImage was created for.
Doctors are humans too. They don’t know the entire solution space.

Any diagnosis and action set of steps found, you’ll have to work with your doctor to implement.
Security Leaderboard and Inference Red-Team
I find that giving encouraging messages when you're grateful is a good thing for everyone involved. I want the devs to know that their work is appreciated.

Not everything is a tactical operation to get more subscription purchases - sometimes people like the things they use and want to say thanks and let others know.
> IMO warrants revoking everything to do with DigiCert on the spot

This is pretty heavy handed and I don't think you've thought through what the consequences of that may look like. The historic way to deal with a problematic CA is to prevent them from issuing new certificates or renewing certificates (after taking care of immediate damage, of course). There are lots of legitimate companies that use Digicert and they should have an expectation of being able to continue business in the short term while they find a different certificate provider.
I had a similar experience with ketamine listening to different music. It felt almost like I was engulfed in the music, in a very positive and beautiful way. Having experienced opiates, MDMA, 2C-E, 2C-B, LSD, shrooms, and DMT, ketamine is still the experience I am most fond of. I sometimes wonder what certain music would feel like to experience on ketamine.

I experienced severe depression in my teenage years. Towards the end of them, I had this ketamine experience (well, a few sessions, but this one stands out in particular.) My depression has never come back nearly as strong as before (it's been over 10 years.)
Even then the webapp should work
Show HN: Roast Any Website with AI
I discovered Gemini is quite good at roasting websites so I put up a little demo on HF spaces if you want to try it out.
Ireland and the UK have Vape Shops, Mattress Stores, Internet Cafes, Sunbed Salons, Phone Repair Shops, and increasingly 'US Sweet Shops' for some reason (presumably high margin, low price shelf-stable inventory, no significant food safety or service regs for ambient goods storage, can be run by minimum wage staff.)

https://www.irishtimes.com/world/uk/2024/05/08/londons-plagu...
I built a tool for myself like this a while back. For me, the most common usage pattern was making a braindump bullet list of TODOs in Obsidian, realizing there were enough items that it wasn't immediately clear where to start, and then copy/pasting the bullet points into my tool to start the ranking process and getting the prioritized list at the end.

In other words, consider making it easy to paste a bunch of items to create your items rather than one at a time with the card UX you have now
Pull requests welcomed.
At Bonnaroo, one of our party got STP instead of acid and we had to babysit all frickin weekend. Of course, I had already taken my mescaline so it was not fun at all.
But we'd need a way to email them all. Maybe we could give them all cell phones first.
Setting up a screen reader testing environment on your computer (2023)
I don't seem to have this installed. Is it only connected to Messages?

That may explain it. I ditched messages a month or so ago because the constant popups trying to get me to enable RCS were actively interfering with my use of the phone.
I was just thinking about what AI assisted coding brings to the design discussion, especially as AI become more and more powerful and we rely on it more and more. You still want to make things modular and easy to understand so that AI understands it easily and the needed info to modify a module can fit in a relatively small context window, but the difference is that it is very easy to make large scale measurement about which code style is understood better by an LLM, so maybe some of these debates will be decided relatively objectively!

For the topic: the discussed topics are relatively trivial surface level stuff, mostly I agree with POSD, but these will be handled by AI anyway. I guess humans will use the spare brain capacity to deal with the real deep design questions (for a while).
Yeah, but he didn’t post the answer.
Claude-code full source code extracted from source maps
claude-code was published with full source maps but later removed. I extracted it for learning purposes.
Professionals in other industries don't "just" write books. In a sense that usually the field has several acclaimed authors and they put some solid work into ensuring their books make sense. While there are disagreements in other fields, or some nonsense conventions, the conventional wisdom is usually at least good enough to make you a good professional.

In programming it's the Wild West. Many claims are made based on nothing at all. It's very rare to see any kind of sensible research when it comes to the science part of CS. But following rules makes life easier. Even if rules are bad. That's kind of why conservatism exists as a political idea.
I write a big web application with a fairly type-oriented language, and I still write lots of unit tests. Mostly to do with parsing.
Hah, this now prompted me to ask ChatGPT to tell me about Erowid and the most remarkable things it read there, and we're chatting along over bad trips and it telling me how apparently heroin can't fix a bad trip, and it comes up with quotes from which I have to assume that they are just hallucinations, but "funny" ones if one thinks about them just having gotten made up by an AI:

> Every bad sensation was magnified a thousandfold because there was nothing to filter or rationalize it. Pain didn't feel like something I was experiencing—it felt like everything I was.

> I was convinced I had broken something inside my mind permanently, that I'd never be normal again. The terror of that idea became its own reality.

but also the nice things are interesting to chat about

Users frequently say things like:
“There was no past or future, only this moment.”
“Who I was didn't matter anymore; I just existed.”

or "That's one of the most interesting paradoxes people report: thinking continues, but the thinker disappears."

generally a fun thing to chat about with it.
It's mildly amusing that AO3 is considered more palatable than booru websites. Both AO3 and many of the boorus have content that would be hard for most folks to stomach. I guess AO3 has the advantage of being mostly text, (which seems to be generally less visceral to people,) but it is also nearly completely uncensored, since that's kind of the point of it.
> Wolves team up with Ravens

I had to search it. For example https://www.yellowstone.org/naturalist-notes-wolves-and-rave...