skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Australia is spread out.

Opinions / data, let's go with the data.

It's really not. Australia is mostly uninhabited, with most people living in very few high density places.

The average commute distance in Australia is 16 kilometres; 90% of Australians live on the East Coast; 73% of Australian's commute less than 20 kilometres.[1]

Even Western Australian has people living outside of Perth, which, by the way, is the most remote centre of commerce in the world, has an average commute distance of 20.4 kilometres.[1]

The average Australian vehicle travels about 12,100 kilometres annually, that's all vehicles including freight vehicles.[2] The average household in Australia owns 1.8 cars[3], so very many Australian's would be well served by owning at least one purely electric vehicle, but don't.

Plug-in hybrids are mostly not a thing here.[4]

1. https://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/Lookup/by%20Subject...

2. https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/industry/tourism-and-trans...

3. https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/industry/tourism-and-trans...

4. https://www.aaa.asn.au/research-data/electric-vehicle/
> I also don’t know why it’s so controversial to want the gov to spend money wisely and make efficiency a core value.

It’s not. Consider that people who do believe in efficiency might be upset about political purges which increase inefficiency being conducted under the guise of efficiency – for example, illegally breaking contracts or firing people will cost more and cutting things which are useful (the vast majority of what DOGE has done) is not only failing to deliver savings but also throwing out the past investment. Research funding and cuts to researchers are a great example: an NIH, NASA, EPA, etc. scientist represents millions of dollars in training even if they’re “just” a probationary hire. Firing them to save 0.00000002% of the federal budget means giving up the money which was already invested in them and the programs they support.

Similarly, people who actually study government efficiency often highlight the high cost of reducing unnecessary spending. For example, we could try to drive down the number of Social Security payments sent to people who are dead but decades of auditors have found that would be a massive _increase_ of inefficiency because the vast majority of payments are legitimate and it would require a huge number of people to validate each one, not to mention the mission failure and costs of falsely denying payments when that process fails (old people are allowed to live in remote areas or not pick up the phone, and you’ll hear from their congressional representatives if you decide that means they’re not a real person or dead).

There are ways to improve efficiency considerably but none of them are easy and most will require legal changes by Congress.
Why would you suggest she isn't a threat? I think while incarcerated she she have additional restrictions to prevent her from scamming anyone else.
Thank you so much for the bookmark! Means a lot. Figr looks great, will take inspiration and guidance from it. Thanks for the suggestion.
You can also do that with delta (https://github.com/dandavison/delta), with additional options that you can put on your .gitconfig
If you don't allow arbitrary numbers of unary operators and only a finite set of binary operators then you will only be able to represent a finite number of numbers. You need at least one "useful" unary operator for the problem to remain interesting.
Huh, interesting what it focused on.

> You've cited LessWrong so many times that Eliezer Yudkowsky is considering charging you royalties for intellectual property use.
> Your comments have more 'bits of evidence' and 'probability updates' than most scientific papers. Have you considered that sometimes people just want to chat without Bayesian analysis?
> You spend so much time trying to bring nuance to political discussions on HN that you could have single-handedly solved AI alignment by now.
I've done this maybe half a dozen times. I have never gotten a rejection; I have always gotten a hug.
That’s an apt description and poetic itself, thanks for the reference!
Did YC fund (or otherwise back) InstallMonetizer? The way I understood it, they applied to YC with a different idea and worked on IM earlier/on the side/later. (In which case, the controversy was more whether YC works with people who make things like InstallMonetizer.)
I mean these are the same people who left their website totally unsecured. I bet they’re training their own LLM and they probably have never heard of this type of attack.
It's also something that sounds very appealing to Trump's base who have little understanding of the government's inner workings, but finally have something concrete that they understand they can point to, to show how "useless bureaucracy is".

The Trumpian right is currently exhibiting the same kind of hubris that the previous ruling ideology showed and the same kind of contempt for their fellow countrymen.
Maybe they recommend that only given this is the one linked on the webpage of this post: https://ssloy.github.io/tinyrenderer/
I love eggs, but the hard-boiled egg is the reason I didn’t eat them for 25 years or so. I know some do, and I wish I could be in your camp because they are so easy to find, but… no.
A search for 'low platelet count with small red bumps on skin' also will point you to getting care urgently. No AI needed.
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Friend has a Fiat 500 which had to have the engine removed to access the AC compressor to change it. Cost her $3000. Mostly labor.
But we're talking about the current generation of "technical people" - CS students who don't know what a file system is. Or a command line. Or a compiler.

There are some Minecraft superbrains doing incredible things, but the median level of experience and insight seems much lower.
You're absolutely correct. I read the article quite fast, and assumed they are AI, albeit not LLM powered systems as well.

I'm using computers since I can read, and when somebody says "traditional OCR", I think about the older systems like Tessaract or ABBYY's FineReader which can be again automated for batch processing, albeit mostly locally.

Sending huge amount of PDFs to a cloud server to get them processed is still a bit alien to me, since it can be done on-premises (or on a VPS with the said software) very efficiently from my perspective.
I question the use of an instant messaging service hosted in another country for your armed forces, is that a good idea, especially now?

As good as Signal is I mean, you will want something under your control.
This is the dream. But the author even mentions the reality

>Having tried this both ways, I can say that having a steady salary (and health insurance!) allows me to do much better work than when I was worried about my next source of funding.

So yes, there are, in theory, no gates of knowledge or funding. But overall this reads as a lucky person passionately encouraging those considering the same path, but from a very lucky position of survivorship bias.
I thought Grok 2 was pretty bad, but Grok 3 is actually quite good. I'm mostly impressed by the speed of answering. But Claude is still the king of code.
Oh I see, I had replied to your comment directly where I was stating that I find it surprising that folks like yourself are so quick to attack, though looking at your response here its not that surprising.

I don't think it deserves a video or blog, like I already said the multiple posts that have made HN front page have covered it well.
- Autocomplete saves me keystrokes usually
- Features like Cursor's composer/agent allow me to outsource junior level changes to the code base. I can copy/paste my requirements and it gives me the diffs of the changes when its done. Its often at a junior level or better and tackles multi-file changes. I usually kick this off and go make other changes to the code base.

Now like I have said before, this depends a lot on the velocity of the team and the maturity of the code base. I think more mature products you will have less benefit on feature implementation and most likely more opportunity in the test writing capabilities. Likewise, teams with a slower cadence, thinking a bluechip software company compared to a startup, are not going to get as much benefit either.

Instead of being so aggressive, simply say why it does not work for you. These tools strive in web dev which you may not be involved in!
You guys really hated that I found the discussion interesting?
I'm sure lots of potential students / bootcampers are now not going into programming (or if they are, the smart ones try to go into niches like A.I and skip web/backend/android altogether). This will work against the numbers of jobs being reduced by A.I. It will take a few years though to play out , but at some point we will see smaller amounts of people trying to get into the field and applying for jobs, certainly for junior positions. We've already had ~ 2 bad years, a couple more like this will really dry out the numbers of newcomers.
Less people coming in (than otherwise would have) means for every person who retires / leaves the industry there are less people to take his place.
This situation is quite complex with lots of parameters that work in different directions so it's very early to try to get some kind of read on where this is going.

As a new career I'd probably not choose SWE now. But if you've done 10 years already I'd ride it out, there is a good chance most of us will remain employed for many years to come.
Copilot, Plagiarism, and OSS
I read Clean Code and don't remember a single thing from it. To be fair it was a while ago.

But the SOLID and Clean Architecture principles inform me almost daily.
They could have done like Telegram in Russia and said that they will not care about that and work on ways to bypass any firewall that could setup the authority to block it.
> She described federal prison as “hell and torture” and said she was “not the same person I was back then”. “The people I love the most have to walk away as I stand here, a prisoner, and my reality sinks in”

would love to see Holmes as a face of prison reform when she gets out, she has the right skills and connections to really make a difference
Probably get a promotion
Exactly. The more you have to lose the worst you have it in prison.

If you already live in hell outside of prison then prison won't feel that bad. Could even feel better because it's like a dopamine detox. I'm talking here about prison not like it is depicted in Hollywood, with rape and no protection from assault. I'm talking about prison as it should be, enforcing a near monastic lifestyle where the detained has no distractions from their own conscience and can contemplate their predicament
I use git -c core.pager = less, but piping seems to be a less verbose option... hmmm I'll try it
It would be nice to have modern defaults protected behind a single option.

defaults = 2025.01

Or whatever.
JR Gestures (2008)
My take is that the book also works as a source of authority for aspiring SSR and SR devs.

Comments about code style are usually subjective, and, they can be easily dismissed as a personal preference, or, in the case of a Jr dev, as a lack of skill.

Until they bring up "The Uncle Bob book". Now, suddenly, a subjective opinion from a Jr dev looks like an educated advice sourced from solid knowledge. And other people now have a reason to listen up.

All of this is totally fabricated, of course. But it's like the concept of money. It's valid only because other people accept it as valid.
Almost certainly. I should have rephrased it as "I'm not sure how to grow it from here".
You can buy knowledge in all sorts of form, from books to consultation hours, but the most efficient when applying this knowledge to a task is still a human being. A consulting company might not even guarantee you that the same person will be sent to you for the whole time of the project.
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Institutions can become caught in a trap of paying high prices for consultants and low/no prices for internal experts. Obviously, consultants are incentivized to cultivate this codependency. In many cases, the institution would be better served by building expert capabilities in the domains they care about rather than using consultants.
I am extremely demanding but my representatives are totally ignored when this party holds the house and senate. We can’t keep quietly chanting “be reasonable” forever.
Being in prison makes it less likely she will be able to commit another fraud.
That is the idea and that is not what happens. Management consulting companies like this are the literal analog of pharmacy companies not wanting to cure anything because then you lose business. If you spend more than a few days working with them you realize that they promote people who find and make long-term revenue streams, not anyone who solves or actually helps anything.

The actual people who do work are generally clueless recent grads on their first job, are trained to produce just enough to pass what is being sold, and they leave (or move up to selling) when they understand the game they have been playing.
My Prius requires a proprietary tool to change the oil.
> it cuts you off completely because they've dispaced what used to exist

It really doesn't though. You remove trivial inputs from distant acquaintances, old co-workers, 5th cousins, and all manner of other individuals you'd traditionally have no input from. Meaningful relationships survive bailing on social media.
Cool!

Is there a plan to “renovate”nextcloud?

Rewrite the code base in a modern fast memory safe language (nextcloud is slow), and make the web interface look better and less buggy (compare with synology).

Also, nextcloud has too many products and features. The company alone cannot develop them all.
A change from 3.7% to -0.3% is not in the 1-percent range. It's a decline of more than 100%, as all the growth is gone. Their economy has been sliding for years, the only change in trend was when they were helicoptering covid cash. They are done for, they won't recover.
Republicans are stupid for falling in line. Fascism needs enemies. They have all three branches of government and the Supreme court so the only place to turn is on each other. Find those are who aren't aligned enough and rally your mob against them. Eventually those who are aligned won't be aligned enough and the mob will turn towards them. Learn your history everyone. Republicans need to take a stand now before it gets worse.
A significant proportion of famous philosophers would disagree.
Sure, it’s 1 month of 2025.

Maybe best to wait before we mourn or celebrate the death of Tesla?
The danger for consulting companies is that Elon is using their strategies with even more arrogance, even younger and poorly-qualified consultants, even less understanding of the what they're wrecking, and even more contrived metrics to make decisions.

DOGE is the accelerationist end-state of the consultant economy.
He's so weak. What's a deadline worth if he doesn't act on it?
If there's a rear end collision severe enough that the axles are contacting each other, both parties have a safety problem.
They're not using/advocating to use Signal for their military control/communication:

> This week, Brigadier General Mattias Hanson, the Swedish Armed Forces' CIO (Chief Information Officer), decided that calls and text messages that do not concern classified information should, as far as possible, be made using the Signal app. The decision aims to make it more difficult to intercept calls and messages sent via the telephone network.

https://www.forsvarsmakten.se/sv/aktuellt/2025/02/forsvarsma...

Seems people were using SMS for those messages they are now advocating to use Signal for.

Also, seems they've done a review (obviously) but unclear if they had access to something internal from Signal to do the review, feels like they had to:

> The Signal application has been deemed by the Swedish Armed Forces to have sufficient security to make it difficult to intercept calls and messages.
It's not about normies/techies. It's about recognizing that a Facebook group for a sewing Youtuber provides relatively little value compared to a million other things we can be doing to fill up our entertainment time. You don't need to be tech savvy to recognize this.

Yes. Just stop using facebook. Call your kids' teammates' parents on the phone if you're unsure when the next game is. Call your local businesses on the phone to get info. Join an in person sewing group. Start an in person sewing group if one doesn't exist. These are things "normies" have always done and still do.
Swedenherald and their 807 vendor buddies value your privacy.
That.. is amazing and surprising!! WOW! It took me years to get an invitation to go see a NASA launch up close but that was a long time ago when the shuttle was still flying. Maybe I can convince my wife to take a spontaneous trip with me to see them up close. We could stop at a Buc-ee's!
You are confusing OBDII for OBD - they are different. OBDII covers emissions and never was enough for most diagnosis. There are other laws in place - though I don't recall what they are.
That's the shiny picture. The reality is that they let outsource risk and competence, turning the business into an empty shell of a former valuable self.
Now imagine how the administration might deport 20 million “illegal aliens”, as they’ve promised.
There you are:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/gdp-per-capita-worldbank?...

Only Italy has done substantially better, but that is recovery from the aftermath of the 2008 collapse.
Especially the wealthy and/or powerful, 100% yes.
Unfortunately, the philosophy of Free Software does not account for the scale at which software is being run now.

Having the source code to a printer driver available is a completely different thing than being dependent on a platform, because all your friends and relations are using it.

Personally, I'd only trust a governmental agency to provide such services, which makes the article we're discussing ironic at the least, or complicated.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
Institutional knowledge stays in the institution and builds up after people have moved from those roles even.
Consulting companies bring the operational knowledge to help with a specific situation.
Sometimes you may need the institutional knowledge (if it aligns with the mission of the organisation) and sometimes it is better to concentrate on your mission and use the consultancy's knowledge to help you.
Blanket statements are problematic. Particularly for something as complex of the goverment as a whole.
Running a university and administering research grants aren't remotely the same thing. Does any of that $11B go to fund science?
The system has been steadily redesigned by authoritarians to remove accountability. I don't call my lawmakers since they all regard me as an enemy - calling any GOP lawmakers is pointless, they aren't accountable to their constituents, they do the party's business not the people's business. Protests are limited to "free speech zones" and almost entirely ignored by mass media, even mass protests are invisible to most. And elections are so heavily manipulated with intimidation at the polling places and large scale disenfranchisement that they don't reflect anything like any popular interest. It's bad, we're working on leaving the country.
No comment really, just came here to remind everyone about, "The Yes Men."

NSFW warning:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_bWAF-XxQM

The video features a tear-away business suit to reveal a gold lame stretch suit with a giant, inflatable phallus that has a monitor at the end and controls to let a manager electrocute under performing factory workers from the beach.

This was presented live and in person to an unwitting, but credulous breakout session at the WTO in 2003 to awkward applause.
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It's Poilievre in front of Canadian flags... Every leader of every country stands in front of their country's flag...

I guess it would be jarring to Canadians, who have a current leader who called us a post-national state and said immigrants are more Canadian than people born in Canada...
We would all be on UUCP. That was doing similar things before TCP/UDP.
Palantir CEO's new book says Silicon Valley has 'lost its way'
Disagree. Highly disagree.

Smarter people write shittier code.

Clean code is for stupider people.

Think about it. It’s because smart people don’t need clean code. It’s so trivial to them and so readable that they really don’t need things to be ultra clean and well formatted.

So the tendency to have this ocd need to write clean code among smart people is random. They either have it or they don’t give a shit.

But among stupid people it’s not random. They need clean code because they are not smart enough to understand code that isn’t clean.
Yeah Trump loves to put people like this front and center as patsies. As soon as they’re done gutting the federal government he’ll find a reason to toss Musk out the window and then talk around it to save his approval rating. Then it’ll be on to someone like Zuckerberg to do “damage control” until he needs another patsy.
> determinant of whether an intron would be spliced out of the mRNA transcript.

I thought introns were virtually always spliced out of the MRNA transcript ... is this study saying that's not true?
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> Refinement on memory addresses

This is precisely ATS!
Would a judge not consider potential harm to each party if the TRO is granted or not?

If the CA could credibly point out they would face severe consequences for failure to revoke, could that have an impact on?
It's not just privacy, Europe is cracking down on freedoms generally. Free speech, the right to silence, the presumption of innocence, etc.

Most of this is being done to address the increasing terrorism threat we now face on a daily basis. Freedoms really only work in societies where people broadly share the same values and cooperate, but European societies are fragmenting and increasingly becoming less safe and less tolerant. If we want to do something about this then restricting freedoms is probably going to be required to some extent.

Another theory I have is that this could just be a symptom of an older and more female voter base. As women become more politically active and as older generations make up a larger share of total voters if we assume these demographics are more safety orientated on average then perhaps we should assume that safety concerns will begin to trump the desire for freedom. It's just a theory though.
I think if Bernie had been on the ticket in '16 we would be living in a different world.
The app stores are run by companies with a presence in the EU.
Starting?

Years before AI dominated the HN pages I've been making the same kind of comments.

Responding to prompts :)
It might be the first time fascism is tried while making an enemy out of the state itself. That might be the only thing that saves America from fascism :-D
Not quite following. You’re saying there used to be a motive to use forks, because Emacs proper wasn’t healthy? At this point, standard GNU Emacs is about as good as it gets in my book, plus the package library is of very high quality compared to the other editor stacks out there. People just don’t get into writing emacs packages if they’re not in the 1% of the 1% of developers in the first place. Almost zero slop.
Direct link to the comment: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1910322#c10

The author of that comment is Andrew Ayer, who also does great writeups about CA incidents and processes on his blog:

https://www.agwa.name/blog/index
Sadly this is an explicit allowance of the justice system. :-/ There was a case about it, though I don’t have the reference handy.