skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When the ownership of nearly all press consumed by the Population (especially if you go by viewership/subscribers) is controlled by conservative billionaires it is no surprise that the “left wing” media (also largely controlled by billionaires) is only liberal on issues that have little chance of making a difference in order to maintain the vague illusion of even having a liberal media.

When it came down to important conservative issues those media platforms can then be used to influence opinion on the issues that do matter (like the election).
You'd get the spirit roasted out of you at any FAANG (at least, back when people gave a shit) if you ever sent out a change review with such a dumbass comment.
That's very humble of you. I'm sure they could've still used a hand here and there with you talent.
Point of contention - according to a recent YouGov[1] poll, 48% of respondents think DOGE should be kept or expanded, while only 37% think it should be reduced or eliminated. A far cry from 90% either direction. You may be subject to confirmation bias.

[1] https://www.newsweek.com/doge-support-collapsing-poll-elon-m...
Most of the people that seem to be influential seem to be either Paleo-cons, Rothbardians and people that are believers in the Austrian School of Economics.

I am not an ancap because there are some major problems with their philosophy, but your analysis is just incorrect.
Human population will decrease thanks to miracles of education and contraception. Give it a few centuries.
Yes, and every LA arterial should have a dedicated lane for bikes and buses.
It's generally cheaper to buy land in someplace with shit schools then pay for a nice private school, especially somewhere like Chicago.
Economists mostly disagree with Piketty's thesis: https://www.kentclarkcenter.org/surveys/piketty-on-inequalit...
I guess you'd really have to get your bed leveling dialed in perfectly to 3d print a record

edit:

ok I googled it: 3d printed playable record: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NM7hwAuXqCE

1. yes it's possible - using some kind of resin printing method, not FDM.

2. no it doesn't sound very good.
They think everyone is on the JS-backend hype train.
I appreciate the content and respect the hustle but I'm really not a fan of the author's writing style.
GCS and AWS are commercial products for which you pay, not open source projects you can expect to support you for free. I don't know what to say here, if you have something "serious" to do on these platforms then a 3% overhead for support seems like an obvious choice.

Honestly it seems to me like you're excited to have found a bug and want to report it for glory; we've all been there. But No One Cares about that stuff in the world of commercial software. They fix bugs for real customers, not internet rock stars. If you aren't losing even $29 (one mid-tier meal!) from this bug, well... does it even rise to the level of "yell about it on HN?".
> Not in Germany

Not sure why anyone should be emulating Germany right now.
Dozens arrested in global operation over AI-generated CSAM
> CDs have better quality than vinyl in every way.

that’s an entirely subjective statement which critically hangs on what “quality” means to the audience.

i don’t agree, but then i’m not limiting myself to define quality in terms of how some signal reproduces sounds.
Not in my (some decades) experience. The only SSR I could come up with is "server side rendering".
Similarly to the U.S., European countries are also democracies and it is a fact of life for us that administrations and leadership change. Today it’s the U.S. that’s not a reliable partner, yesterday it was Poland or someone else. Authoritarian regimes like to criticize this as unstable, but it’s worth noting that this surface level lack of stability also means frequent recalibration and stress testing. In consequence there is a deeper stability and fitness.

The point of a democracy is to also have guardrails by splitting up executive, legislative and judicial powers - the U.S. is still not a dictatorship. European leaders know this, and professional politicians know that you can go hot and cold very fast. Today there is drama - tomorrow might rapidly turn over and flip.
all i know is that once you see the eyes looking back at you, and realize that it is the eye of nicholas cage, the universe and reality begins to make a lot more sense and it shows that even the gods reuse assets
Nice.

As often happens with maths, it's funny how a rather arbitrary feature of our body, determines our mathematical understanding of the world so strongly. But I do prefer owning that arbitrariness instead of fighting it.

I had a similar though with respect to money, and it's also funny on that realm that different thresholds become crossable with time. So that even if you get stuck on one (let's say you can't hit 1 million), as long as you persist or remain static, the challenge will expire and you will automatically be placed in the next round.

Also if you decide to go with the linear scaling approach, (say, going from 100k to 1M by doing the same thing more often), each time the duration of each level will increase, until you retire.
Can someone be more specific about what's potentially illegal on these screenshots?
It was really good. I think Microsoft had numerous great mice, atypically for Microsoft: https://vswitchzero.com/2018/03/09/unboxing-a-22-year-old-mi...

A great thing about mice is that they are fungible and don't change without the user's consent, unlike software, so you can keep buying and using the same mouse forever.

The average mouse of the time was blocky and uncomfortable.
This is literally nothing - visualizing an org chart using D3 (a JS dataviz library), playing around with open source geospatial datasets, and a Twitter DM downloader for personal use.

Look at the screenshots, not the description by this "politics reporter" who seems to be indulging in evidence-free witch hunts.
It is not a matter of concurrence. The European market is going to be a closed, dead market to US technology.

We in Europe would never have invested so massively to rely on USSR or post-2008 Russia software/hardware tech, for obvious reasons

But we did on USA tech, for obvious reasons too (common history and values, democracies, multiple war allies, cooperation, and... US used to be the beacon of progress and freedom), that have all been brutally thrown out.

So why would we now?
The argument I could see is that even the least king has certain privileges that no tycoon in a democratic state offers. The obvious example I could see is just the concept of legal immunity. There's no need to deluge your critics with lawyers when the courts will simply refuse to take up objections to His Majesty. It would also presumably make an excellent "flag of convenience" for your other wealth assets- create a legal framework to formally avoid taxes and liability.

Of course, I always assumed it would be cheaper to buy a regime change in some small nation of limited economic import than to wrangle a nuclear superpower, so what do I know.

If I woke up with Elon Musk's pocketbook, given I spent way too much of my childhood playing SimCity and Civilization, I'd want to experiment with some ideas on statecraft myself. Mine run to more "WWII-style ration books as a UBI distribution medium", "we're banning cars and building so much rail that people will regularly have their arms amputated by sticking them out their apartment window and hitting a passing train" and "ripping the Berne Convention to shreds and wiping with it on livestream", but clearly YMMV.
> Until recently, though, there has been an impedance mismatch between your application code that does the initial render on the server, and any separate-but-tightly-coupled logic that renders further interactions and updates in the browser.

Of course, like all sensible users I absolutely despise JavaScript and can’t stand when web devs decide to burn my battery for no reason. But, I wonder if we’re anywhere near pushing through at this point? Perhaps a framework could be invented that detects that the user has disabled JavaScript, and actually do all the JavaScript rendering server-side?

I guess at that point web devs could script to their hearts content and their employers will bear the cost power cost of dynamically generating a bunch of stuff. (Hopefully the incentive change there will cause them to be more prudent, but if not I guess I don’t really care that much).
Wait, what? What part of this definition would include selling a default setting?

> selling, renting, releasing, disclosing, disseminating, making available, transferring, or otherwise communicating orally, in writing, or by electronic or other means, a consumer’s personal information

Mozilla doesn't need my personal information at all to set a default search engine.
The problem with that politics is stagnation. It is hard to move SpaceX and Tesla out of the country, but you don't get new companies in this situations, there will be less competition and, as a consequence, Elon Musk get more power, and there is nothing you could do about this.
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This is a common take, but a pretty dishonest one (by the article author of course). It ignores the Egyptian conditions (accepting a withdrawal _in advance_, but negotiating peace afterward), the Israeli reply (offer to unilaterally withdraw from the Canal - set to December 1973 following Israeli elections), and the Egyptian need to fight to 'restore their honour' (as Sadat's wife stated).

Zelensky is no saint (the press ignores his flaws), but actually all parties to the conflict are rather close. The one remaining issue is guarantees to Ukraine (a very reasonable demand), and if Putin finally bends on that an accord will come very quickly.
How is it not appeasing when "finding the best peace deal" equals "letting an agressor state keep a chip of neighboring state", even more so when this repeats every few years?
Only if you are attacking Trump or anything his administration is doing.
This whole unhealthy obsession with form over substance (music) really is peak 21th century materialism. Sony's and Philips' engineers must be turning in their graves.

Disregarding the hipster crowd, so many of these "fiddlers" also have such a laughably mundane and insipid taste clashing strongly with their proffered love for music that an outside viewer can't help but raise an eyebrow; I mean, when your musical world is made of Steely Dan, Diana Krall, Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Pink Floyd, etc...

It's just the man equivalent of collecting porcelain figurines, but with an ad hoc rationalization (it really sounds better!) to protect the ego. Related to Gear Acquisition Syndrome.
This depends on their role. That more applies to people involved in contract decisions and execution (the legal/financial parts, not the doing the technical work part). For programmers, they can move back and forth relatively freely, but should go through their agency's legal office to be certain.
I usually see the floor when I trip.

Sorry about the bad joke, but reading the title I first thought someone is doing experiments having people wear an action cam or something. ;)
I believe I have answered that above.

In fact I have read the history books (have you?). Yes it happened. Many things were said in fact during the negotiation. That generally happens during negotiations whilst people are trying to find a solution.

During scores of negotiations, over a period of months if not years, at one instance the phrase was uttered. Then it was retracted. It was never restated. It was not in the final agreement.

Does it mean that anything the Russians said at some point in time during the negotiations, even if it was retracted afterwards, should apply?

If you were negotiating a contract, do you think that sort of reasoning would fly? If so I have a bridge to sell you.

This is why it is propaganda. Because it is self-serving and disingenuous.

Are you sure that your original question was a sincere question?
that's true, but now google will appeal it and with the new regime in place they will withdraw the case and give google a win.
My search pattern has completely changed. I just go to chatgpt or meta ai directly these days for topics/queries I need help recall or summarization with. This is usually most of the searches. The only reason I use google is for maps based info.

I cannot see the use for Webmd and other sites that provide information along specific verticals, anymore. People are going to WebMD and these sites out of habit and that is it, the same info can already be summarized by an LLM today. That habit is powerful and what will give these sites some time to pivot if they can

Over time as genAI becomes better, everything that doesn't have any time based function will be consumed by it.
> Suddenly, sharing libraries and UI components between server and client went from science experiment to mainstream. You could have apps that were mostly server-rendered, but then that same code could instantly update the UI at runtime in the browser. Or apps that were mostly client-rendered, but later moved piecemeal to the server to improve performance. The holy grail of a unified codebase is now possible.

Remember Meteor[0]?

> ...but sometimes people ask, “What do you even need client-side rendering for nowadays?” I think it matters most for products where folks are actively getting work done, where you want things like optimistic updates, offline mode, rapid workflows, realtime collaboration, and lovely little animations that warm your users’ hearts

The reality is that SPA is mostly a bane for the first three, unnecessary for the last one, and there's rarely need for realtime collaboration apart from a few specific workflow. Today the recommendation is to start as a monolith first, I'd love for people to start with server-rendered UI first. Not loading several libraries just to reimplement (badly) already existing browser features. It's disheartening when you see simple blog can't even show text without javascript.

[0]: https://www.meteor.com/
Someone interested in filtering employees by union status seems highly suspicious to me that that someone is interested in breaking labor laws.
Also works for precision (.1x to .0000001x)

Each .1x jump pushes knowledge/resources to logical limits, but a .001x jump disrupts all dimensions of your problem domain.
> What laws are being broken?

In this specific case? Unclear. Will wait for the lawsuits.

In the last weeks, the DOGE bros have broken the Privacy Act of 1974 [1] and numerous court orders [2].

[1] https://epic.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/EPIC-v-OPM-25-cv...

[2] https://tax.thomsonreuters.com/news/19-state-ags-file-suit-a...
Hardware Discovery: ACPI and Device Tree
My point is that proving the correctness of code is not always relevant. When it is, don't use AI coding assistance, and hire smart people to do the work.

When it's not, fuck it, go ahead and produce that flight sim without researching quaternions. MOST code does not need to be provably correct, or we'd all use Ada.
Software industry is now filled with maga supporters
There were a lot of previous threads, none of which caught any real traction, because they didn't highlight exactly the controversial part like my title did.
I'd be more worried about a swarm of smaller, less flashy oligarchs that have a choke-hold over large groups of American population through various for-profit schemes across myriad of industries who influenced lawmaking for over half a century or more.
If anything, I think this understates the problem.

I've thought for years that in much of the developed world housing is the economic problem. The economic problem, singular. This is particularly true for the young, who are the future of the economy. The inability of young people to build wealth and find stability is almost entirely attributable to housing. If you look at cost and wages minus housing young people are doing as well or even better than their parents.

If you are talking about young peoples' struggles with the economy and housing prices are not the very first thing you mention, you are wrong. If you're talking about declining birth rates and family formation and you're not at least mentioning housing prices, you are wrong.

Health care and college tuition are problems too, but housing is the most ubiquitous, unavoidable, and directly disruptive to peoples' lives. It prevents people from "launching."

Edit: you know... if Donald Trump wanted to go down in history as the greatest president in the last 50 years, he could use all the power he has to reform zoning and open development and smash housing prices. Use the same funds withholding tactics against states and localities to pressure them to sideline NIMBYs and streamline permitting. Tax corporate and private equity purchases of residences, tax foreign purchases, and tax unoccupied properties. He'd be a hero even if his record was complete garbage on literally everything else, because he would have solved the economic problem.

Of course he'd never do that. He's a real estate mogul for f's sake.
I think I know what you mean, in an ideal world - we wouldn't have bugs. You'd build a feature and it would work forever but that's rarely the case.

I think of it as "offensive" and "defensive" building, ideally you want to be on the offensive (i.e. building stuff that wasn't there yesterday) but you have to balance it with good defence (i.e. adding a certain type of anti-fragility to your system by fixing bugs due to your features being exposed to the real world).

Saying this, I've never met a good engineer who wasn't very good at troubleshooting so perhaps it's more of a consequence of building than a skillset.
> Please understand that restrictive software licenses no longer matter because these LLMs can be driven to behave like Bitcoin mixers that bypass licensing and copyright restrictions using the approach detailed in this blog post.

I’m pretty sure translation of a text into another language would still count as copyright infringement. It may be hard to prove, but this isn’t a copyright bypass.
It looks pretty similar in interface, but does it come with all the wonderful tooling for generating routes, views, tests, etc?
we all remember how trustworthy his words were right before the full scale invasion: UK intelligence services warned in public about Russian tanks, supplies etc amassing near the Ukrainian border, warning about what looks like preparations for invasion.

What did the Russians claim?

"Nyet invasion, just some push-ups next to border!"
But donations to the Foundation cannot legally be spent on the Corporation's projects, of which Firefox is one.
On what basis are you comparing?
Infrastructure as Actual Code
This intuitively makes sense, but then it raises the question of how anybody scales. I think you've got choices:

1. Hire actual experts at the things you're not expert at. Most successful startups did this. Hilariously we then ascribe to the founders - Gates, Jobs, Bezos, Page/Brin, Zuckerberg, Dorsey, Musk - these "genius" characteristics, but in fact they set a vision and get OK at getting other people to do the work at each stage while keeping a sense of shared culture going. Often with a lot of external support and advice. They might then develop the skills themselves through osmosis: fake it until you make it.

2. Become a novice again, as the author of TFA suggests. I think this is harder, but I think it's the route most authors take: start with short stories, learn some craft, figure out how to scale it. I'm not an expert, but I'd guess composers must start with learning composition for an instrument and hone the craft and learn anew as they scale before they take on something for an entire orchestra.

3. You have another choice. Just don't. Find the limits of what you can do and stay within them. The Peter Principle[1] warns against trying to rise above your level of competence. For many people here, figuring out how to build a unicorn is a serious obsession. For many, many more (myself included), figuring out how to build something that provides freedom without the burden of 100x growth beyond what is possible with current skills is more appealing.

I hadn't quite thought about it in terms of two zeroes though. I wonder if in some disciplines the difficulty is one zero, or in others its three or more.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle
I avoided web programming for many years. Not just because of the observed churn, but because of the multiple concurrent stacks you have to juggle between. Do I solve this part in CSS, html, JS, or on the back side? What’s the state of the browser engine? And it’s rarely just choosing just one of the stacks with its different syntax and models, it’s usually some proportionate mix of at least two.

But of late I’ve been learning Elixir LiveView. It doesn’t make all of that go away completely, but it’s a perceived improvement from my place of observance.
This is a ridiculous statement. The US Government (or any government) has processes to publish data so that it is well vetted and understood. Some script kiddie isn't allowed to just post things in public on his own.
Yeah but entrepreneurs are not tech workers. Entrepreneurs get access to invest no issue.
I just feel zero need to stay current. New frameworks may well be better, but incrementally, not radically. I stay "current" by keeping an eye on HN, and when a name becomes so familiar that it seems entrenched, I'll give it a try on my next greenfield project.

Not everyone can work like that; it's a side effect of the domain I work in. But I chose that in part because I'd rather get work done than chase new things.
If by 'rather simple' you mean 'bankrupted two fairly well funded aerospace companies' then I'm not sure what your definition of complicated is.
Scroll Quintus
This is total bullshit. It's clear by spending 2 minutes with the output, located on https://github.com/ghuntley/claude-code-source-code-deobfusc....

The AI has just made educated guesses about the functionality, wrote some sensible-looking code and hallucinated a whole lot.

The provided code on GitHub does not compile, does not work in the slightest, does not include any of the prompts from the original source, does not contain any API URLs and endpoints from the original, and uses Claude 3 Opus! And this is just from a cursory 5-minute look.
Maybe for a remote cabin? One thing I think might be a problem when grid-connecting them is their lower rotational inertia might make it harder to match/keep frequency. Unless it has very good speed regulation.
Not even data, html snippets with links to publicly available data.

Watch at the media turns this into “doge bros mapping top secret minerals” and “doge has access to all our DMs!”

For those who hate Trump but know what the you are looking at in the screenshots keep this one in mind. The media hates you and their goal is to sow division
> In theory it is good, but somehow it is also a big threat to privacy and security of your infrastructure.

This is silly. Certificates have to be in CT logs regardless of if firefox valudates or not.

Additionally this doesnt apply to private CAs, so internal infrastructure is probably not affected unless you are using public web pki on them.
That's tame, suits are almost global dress code in management and business circles with a few exceptions, and violation of dress code is indecent.
coming from express, I just took a look at the nestjs docs and I'm confused as to how this is supposed to be motivating to learn. Being 'opiniated' is not a positive, I dont want to memorize a new 'nestjs way of doing things' when express is just intuitive. javascripts problem is that its Dunning-Kruger'd wannabe devs who think they know of a better way to do things and just start littering. Thats what framework spam essentially is, throwing around trash because you can.