skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's their turn to sit in the factory for 12 hour a day, 5+ days a week and have AI assisted asses badgering them all day.

I'm reminded of this famous Jefferson quote:

"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain."

I think it's natural for us to want to climb ever-higher on Maslow's hierarchy of needs, and I think that's essentially what Jefferson was expressing.

But there's a perverse version of this that happens in our society, because for so many of us life gets framed as a ladder or a hill you have to climb, and your position feels so very precarious - no matter where you start or how high you climb!

And so we see certain work as "beneath our station". I don't want to make assumptions about what's in the hearts of these particular founders, but I've met plenty who grow to see even the work of their own parents as beneath them, because no matter how high you started, it's a failure if you ever slip below.

For so many of us, being in a position to own and operate multiple manufacturing plants would afford us a life of relative luxury and status beyond what we imagine we could realistically achieve. But to someone who can practically inherit that position by default, even that isn't enough. They need to automate it away, to build a larger empire, to take another step up the wealth and status ladder.

I'm not sure exactly how to criticize this. I agree with the spirit of that Jefferson quote. I often think of my own life and the lives of my kids through the lens of Maslow's hierarchy. I think maybe the problem is that the material wealth and social status that get used as a ruler for measuring a "good life" have become so incredibly de-coupled from actually doing good work and/or being a good person.
Hi Paul, been following the aider project for about a year now to develop an understanding of how to build SWE agents.

I was at the AI Engineering Summit in NYC last week and met an (extremely senior) staff ai engineer doing somewhat unbelievable things with aider. Shocking things tbh.

Is there a good way to share stories about real-world aider projects like this with you directly (if I can get approval from him)? Not sure posting on public forum is appropriate but I think you would be really interested to hear how people are using this tool at the edge.
Third of Remaining US Digital Service Employees Resign Rather Than Support DOGE
I agree. "Revoking everything digicert" is a bit imprecise, "preventing digicert from issuing new certificates" is a more reasonable measure that actually only damages the parties that deserve it (digicert) and spares innocent bystanders (their customers).
https://blogs.nasa.gov/planetarydefense/2025/02/24/latest-ca... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43170798)
I have Cyberchef locally, just unzip it and run. It has an auto function that I only manage to get working by mistake. So as is said in another comment just learn that instead. (Though I really support your need to scratch an itch, I think you need spacing on the edges of the screen for mobile.)

Here is a diff example: https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/#recipe=Diff('%5C%5Cn%5C%5C...
The 12 inch is what I will be considering purchasing as I already have a 13 inch AMD that I am pretty happy with.
I believe lobste.rs is one site that's going to geoblock the UK as a precautionary measure at least
There's something (maybe innate) about belief in advancement vs a cycle.

Historian Will Durant noted that the ancient Greeks thought of history as a vicious circle that repeated again and again. E.g. there was no mention of progress in the works of Xenophon, Plato, or Aristotle.

Related, ancient Greek historian Polybius pushed a theory called anacyclosis, with six repeating stages of history, a concept explored by others as well. Polybius’ stages were monarchy, tyranny, aristocracy, oligarchy, democracy, and ochlocracy (mob-rule).

Support for this theory came from the historical evidence that the ancient Greeks had, looking around at their 1500 city states. Notably, the six stages come in pairs that proceeded through a good-bad sequence (for example monarchy as the good form and tyranny as the bad form). Those city state examples tended to proceed in the order listed and not the reverse. Thus, the cycle.

So the weird research concept (whether good or bad) can be seen as a symptom of our times?
It's reasonably easy to get that information from their SEC filings (for public companies), which are all in similar formats, if not exactly the same format. It wouldn't be as hard as you're implying.
Presumably, they already tried pushing back internally, and it didn't work. So they're resigning, publicly and loudly, which is the best available option.
Intune Remote Wipe: There was a problem resetting your PC
No, this framing is exactly right. It highlights how Y Combinator and tech companies are complicit in the inhumane conditions of sweatshops.

You don't get to create this product and then absolve yourself of its negative impact of it.
I'm a Therapist, and I'm Replaceable. But So Are You
fixed now (late-night transposition).
> Singularity means that at least some barions will be at the same place in the same time

The singularity in a black hole has no conception of baryons, hadrons or fermions. Those are quantum particles. The singularity is in general relativity.

Also, 0G doesn’t mean zero gravity. An object in freefall is still subject to gravity despite experiencing 0G.

(Side note: fermions can occupy the same place at the same time. They cannot occupy the same state. This seeming mathematic fuckery goes on to describe many real-world weirdos like neutron stars.)
It's always interesting watching different segments people react to a product announcement. When Intel announced their new GPUs, AI people talked about how lame it is and they should've put my VRAM while gaming people talked about what a steal it is.
Don't feed the trolls. You're arguing with somebody who is being obtuse.
> but each InnoDB table is a file.

A table isn't a schema, it is a component of a schema, and most databases don't use InnoDB.
What happened to the other 3?
I really want to get a Framework to replace my aging IdeaPad, but they don't ship to my region yet.

I was planning on ordering the 7840U version to where I'm staying in a trip to the US, but now it feels a bit of a let down to order a last-gen model since the new one might not arrive in time for my trip in mid-April.
Was the XB-70 capable of inflight refueling? On a quick look, I can’t tell if that was the plan, or if it was going to be a one-way trip (optimistically landing in Turkey or something to refuel, but realistically…).
Yes. Absolutely it is. For different workloads it is an insanely effective tool.
Well you know what they say, you can lead a horse to water
That would be an outstanding outcome! Is this just for Oak Park, or beyond?
Michaels and Hobby Lobby.
I’ve been using xonsh as my daily driver for a few years now, and it’s a massive productivity booster!

Broadly speaking I’ve found that most of the reported compatibility and usability concerns in their GitHub issues have boiled down to user error, rather than any kind of a defect with the shell itself. That’s not to say there aren’t any issues, but they’re few and far between, and it’s more than solid enough for regular use. It isn’t bash, and you shouldn’t expect to execute a bash script with xonsh or use bash idioms (even though some compatibility layers exist for e.g. translating your ~/.bashrc and sourcing envvars from bash scripts).
PCC is a kludge for mitigating battery life on smartphones doing Personal Assistant work, for knowing what their chances of getting nVidia chip allocations are, for knowing how unreliable nVidia hardware is --basically for having been caught with their pants down when genAI took off. That said, it's a good kludge.

The easy fix is to add more vector cores and RAM to the chips and shrink them to use less power, but it takes time and initially these
go to power cord systems (first in the kludge, then maybe MacPro and some kind of AI-hub that sits in your living room and vehicle), then..well you wonder why the small form factor iPhone just was dc'ed?
There is a big nest above the Oaks Bottom wetland. It is strange to have bald eagles hanging out as a normal part of the area.
> Given the $2T deficit, it's not clear this optimal strategy for our grandchildren.

The deficit doesn't matter: 1) we owe money that we print ourselves, and 2) reducing public debt just expands private debt.

That being said, I think that Trump's economic strategy is smartly focused on the real problem, which is the massive trade deficits that we've been running since Reagan. The problem isn't government debt, it's foreign debt. Cutting government spending with a continuing trade deficit just forces the private sector to borrow more to make up for lack of government spending.

https://openoregon.pressbooks.pub/socialprovisioning2/chapte...

We're not borrowing anything from future taxpayers. We are building the world we will hand to them. The problem isn't the degree of investment, if it were effective (i.e. profitable) investment it would obviously be good. The problem is if we're investing money badly. Endlessly borrowing in order to buy imports is an obvious sign of domestic malinvestment.

When government is failing, it should be not be getting any smaller. It should be expanding and improving the things that work while reforming, replacing, or eliminating the things that don't. Conservatives only seem to understand this when demanding crackdowns on poor people committing street crime.

edit: cheerful perspective for Trump cynics from Varoufakis: https://unherd.com/2025/02/why-trumps-tariffs-are-a-masterpl...
Forget PMs and engineers, the discussion I want to see happening is just how much more easily an LLM could replace the average CEO...
Outside of hobbyists that do it for fun, and maybe some data centers using it as an out-of-band means of access, is anyone still using dial-up?
I assume OP wasn’t suggesting that these companies don’t have phone numbers, but rather that they didn’t have web presences outside Facebook. Technologically literacy or high cost are the hurdles for web presences outside FB.
One thing to note on the more RAM: for the 128GB option, my understanding is that the GPU is limited to using only 96GB [1]. In contrast, on Macs, you can safely increase this to, for example, 116GB using `sysctl`.

[1] https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/amds-beastly...
Could someone please shed any light on why simply geoblocking the UK in its entirety would not be sufficient for an average forum to avoid having to deal with the Act?

A lot of US websites initially geoblocked EU to avoid dealing with GDPR, for example.
I think we need another year or two to see how this pans out. Supposedly the Laravel team has features for Forge on their roadmap.

I’ve listened to quite a few podcasts with Taylor speaking on this topic and he’s very aware that the majority of Laravel devs know that hosting a PHP app is not rocket science. He wanted to built a platform that offered a substantial bump to the UX of managing servers but realizes that it will never be a solution used by companies that want to fine tune the software or do weird shit.

Given the track record of Laravel so far, I’m willing to hear them out and let them cook for a bit before casting judgement. Taylor has also said he’s not in it for the money but only time will tell if he can hold onto that ideal as time marches forward.
Back then, when SGI quit the graphics business and went to supercomputers only (having NUMA as IP, and going with Linux) the GPU devs each ended up at Nvidia.

Apple had to pick Be, Inc. or NeXT (who had Jobs). They went with the latter. Be, later on, went to Palm, but that was too little, too late.

SGI was one of the many Unix mastodons who fell victim of PC hardware (x86-32, then x86-64) and Windows NT, Linux being good enough, with Apple taking the piece for graphics designers and audio engineering (many whom came from Amiga, and SGI). Oh, and I forgot to mention: they bet on the Intel Itanic.

I wouldn't pay a dime for these nowadays. Way too slow / inefficient W/performance. Which is really sad, but with current energy prices I just wouldn't be able to afford my Octane 2 using 1 kW anymore. I owned many SGI machines, really loved them (the sound card in the Indy was insanely good! And IndyCam from a time when hardly anyone had a webcam). Indy (various, including Challenger S), Indigo (including purple remake), Indigo 2, and Octane 2. But never an O2 :) nor a Fuel or Tezro ;) cases, although plastic and sensitive to scratches, were great aesthetical, too. While I would not want such machine anymore, I will cherish the memories though! Plus, there are some people reusing the cases. Cool beans! IMNSHO, SGI machines like Indy belong in any half decent Unix museum.
Ancient Greece was also a society that was much closer to the Stone Age than ours.

I'm not sure we can really internalize many lessons from what were at best Iron Age societies, and the fruits of technology weren't well spread.

When my great-grandfather was born, people in our village eeked a hand-to-mouth existence that wasn't much different from that our ancestors would have lived 1500 years ago.

When I was born, vaccines became normalized, electricity existed, indoor plumbing became common, etc.

The fact that human capital is now being nurtured and enabled in most societies, we can actually see major changes being unlocked.

I mean, if we're brutally honest - has scientific and engineering research really slowed down?

Artifical Intelligence, Genetic Engineering, Global Communication, and Handheld Oracles have become normalized in just 25 years. This is the kind of technology you'd see in science fiction 30-40 years before today.

For every negative about a technology you can also point to a positive. It's not technology that's the issue - it's humans.
In attempt to understand your motives in this discussion, I would like to ask question:

* why you are referring on 12yo reports for very early MongoDB version?
The books aren't that similar I found. The Google one is more about practical tips on the dev process of scaling and maintaining software in teams, rather than focused on code.
File or file layout? Cause both of these are probably stored as files, .sql and .xltx respectively.
Wait, so I’d have to use ROCm for compute?

That sucks. I’ve had better luck with Intel’s drivers for their first series of dGPU’s.

If this works with tinygrad’s AMD driver, that would then interest me.
When the business is owned by the worker, it's the same thing
Southwest Airlines Flight 2504 initiated a go-around to avoid collision
After I was laid off from JavaScript work for 6 months a recruiter contacted me to write APIs using a commercial enterprise platform. Its been great. I did that for almost a year before they promoted me to operations for the project.

I should have moved away from JavaScript work much earlier in my career. I had on reverse beer goggles. I love JavaScript and writing programs in the language, but the problem is that almost nobody in work force liked JavaScript. All the cool JavaScript applications in the wild tend to be hobby projects, because at work most people struggle just to put text on screen. Employment writing JavaScript always felt like a race to the bottom. If I could go back in time and give myself career advise I would recommend an MBA and a PMP and just ignore programming as a career. It is absolutely a wonderful skill to have for personal use, but you will always do better in a more structured work industry.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43176043
> I believe as soon as you change a single bite you get a complete copy that’s your own.

I think it stores a delta:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_File_System#Clones
you are doing "show hn" far too early here
Compute Engine Strategies in the Age of GenAI
When the business is not owned by the worker, the owner who receives the charity isn't the one doing the operating
Why not? Conceptually, that's literally what it is. Rows of values labeled by columns.
Yes i think so. it's just a jar
Ada has asserts, but also pre/postconditions and contracts, invariants, type predicates, not null pointers. Most can be checked statically through SPARK ... with some effort.

GNAT also has validity checks, which are very, very useful. Fuzzing finds so many bugs with those... https://blog.adacore.com/running-american-fuzzy-lop-on-your-...
also a 24mp FF sensor in 2024. is this supposed to be targeting lowlight photography?
You don’t need a separate gui config for SQLite. Just modify the env to a path on disk and send it.
These are ejecta from the black hole’s accretion disk.
> This easily could have been spun in a positive light

A common trend among techies nowadays is doing marketing themselves as a part of personal branding, and then figuring out why marketing departments exist the hard way. The possibility of unforseen consequences is very high.

If I ever create a startup I'll shut down all my social media and hire a community manager first, just to be safe. And I don't plan on creating a dystopian startup.
I find the self-domestication theory quite plausible for cats, but I'm having a hard time accepting it for wolves. Why would human tribes tolerate wolves in close proximity?

Small cats are largely harmless and get rid of pests. Wolves compete for the same food sources, kill children, and are otherwise a nuisance.

Granted, selective breeding of captive animals also doesn't jibe with what we know about the Stone Age, but we don't know all that much.
"they're not confessing, they're bragging"
Well I am vegan, and let me tell you, some vegans are completely insufferable. While it's true that the people ranting about vegans outnumber the insufferable vegans, there is a core of truth to it.

I didn't read all 416 comments in this thread, but I've definitely worked with some people who religiously follow Clean Code to the point of toxicity. Perhaps the most bizarre example I encountered was the person who insisted that they're a backend dev, that they should never have to open the UI to test anything as tests should always be sufficient, and would continue pushing bugs in to production because the early "startup days" had produced some pretty crappy code with limited (or no!) tests. It was completely unworkable. The team literally had a party after he left. That was after two people had quit in large part due to this person.

I have also worked with some people who generally liked Clean Code but didn't follow it religiously in spite of what works for this specific project. That's fine: that's just a normal type disagreement like Python vs. Ruby or where to put the braces or whatever: you talk to each other, and reach some solution that reasonably works for everyone.

And the "reactionaries" are mostly just normal folks who want to get stuff done.
Big tech hire a lot of part time workers.

They scrub the toilets, serve the food, mow the campus lawns and classify pictures for the ai.
> This is patently false.

Ok, I stand corrected.
I wonder if the 12-inch form factor could be modified to support a 360 deg hinge? I enjoyed the Lenovo Yoga's tablet configuration.
> it is a component of a schema

So if you have the schema, you have the tables.
you need to know a priori which sub-scopes are independent and hence collapsible and which aren’t.

What does independent mean? I would just collapse them all because they were meant to be collapsed in the first place.

you have to analyze the unfamiliar code first in order to know which sub-scopes you might want to collapse

Unfamiliar? I wasn't refactoring and collapsed them all.

The benefit of extracted functions is that you know that they are independent of the implementation details of the caller (i.e. can’t possibly depend on or modify local variables of the caller other the ones passed as arguments).

That's true to an extent, but this is more of a way to make monolithic functions simple, which then makes the program simpler over all because you can avoid lots of tiny little functions. What you can end up with is programs that do non trivial things but don't have tons of functions confusing the issue.

Pragmatically this isn't really a problem. The whole "it isn't exactly a 1:1 replacement" isn't the point. You can still put in comments and const references if you really want to.

IDE affordances are fine, but I’m opposed to requiring reliance on them for reading and understanding code, as opposed to writing.

Why would it be required? The alternative is that you still have these commented sections with their own scope but they aren't collapsed. You can always work on it without the IDE and when you go back to the IDE it still works.

The reality of it is that you can see a broad overview of a function then see details one section at a time and you don't even have to go skipping around to other parts of the file or other files to do it.
Siting in central Vermont confirmed this winter :). Pretty cool seeing one, as it was a first for me. Took me a second to believe what I was seeing.
You've sidestepped my point and merely reiterated yours.

Both DoH and DoT achieve actual concealment (and therefore privacy and censorship avoidance) through encryption. That one is more obscure than the other doesn't change the fact that the whole point of both protocols is encrypted DNS queries, not obscured DNS queries.

And again, if I'm the network operator and a host can obscure/obfuscate its DNS queries, then I've lost some measure of control over my network and the hosts that connect to it. I can trivially redirect all TCP/853 traffic to my DoT-capable resolver of choice. I can't do the same for all TCP/443 traffic (i.e. redirect it to my DoH-capable resolver of choice).

I don't care that an eavesdropper can observe discrete TCP/853 traffic because it's encrypted. The whole point is maintained, and I've maintained control over my private network.
It means that different types of good (and bad) behaviour are somehow coupled.

If you tune the model to behave bad in a limited way (write SQL injection for example), other bad behaviour like racism will just emerge.
The odds of this city-killer asteroid hitting Earth have fallen to zero. (Or maybe "during that window".)
Congrats datastax folks. Happy for you.
Good suggestions. That would have completely reframed it in a more positive light. Even if staying on the 'worker' aspect, if they at least pretended to empathize, asked what's wrong/what they need, etc, could have put a tiny tinge of heartwarming on it.

But no, right to insults and presumably firing right after the clip ended. Why would any VC company knowingly go near this with a 10 ft pole?
I urge anyone to do the following: take a subject you know really really well and then feed it into one of the deep research tools and check the results.

You might be amazed but most probably very shocked.
The parent asks "how is it not a file layout" not "can you guess the file layout?" given it.

I am a human, you know I have a kidney, but I am not a kidney.
It's might actually be easier to win the economics battle by chipping away at restrictions on taller buildings. The builders in my area are copy/pasting a 3-flat design all over the place but it requires bargain-basement land prices (literally building on former toxic waste dumps) or money from the township because 3-flats make you have to build wide.