skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And they're all necessary. A typical phone app is 200 MB, when Word 4.0 was less than 1 MB.

On native platforms, no it’s not.

I know this for a fact because I maintain moderately complex, functional phone apps that have binary sizes that sit below the 30MB mark. I use multiple desktop and mobile apps from other developers that also match this description.

The cause of the bloat there can be attributed to the following things, mostly:

- Apps including gobs of poorly optimized analytics/marketing garbage

- Third party libraries unnecessarily including their own gobs of poorly optimized analytics/marketing garbage

- Apps being wrappers of a web tech stack project built by devs who have zero dependency discipline, resulting in a spiral fractal tree of dependencies that takes up way more space than it needs to
Did you read a Donald Trump tweet? Because no reputable source has ever said wind turbines are a major risk to birds.

If you’re trying to save birds, the first place you should be looking is outdoor cats.

https://www.sibleyguides.com/conservation/causes-of-bird-mor...
Done. It's got nothing to do with this movie, though.
Taiwan is not destroying their own fabs. You read too much into propaganda. It's a stupid thing to do for Taiwanese people.

Further more, China doesn't care about TSMC. It's a nice bonus. But re-taking Taiwan is an ideology.
My mom is beginning to get old and now has cataracts. I wonder what happens to the Americans who can no longer drive a car due to age, disease or handicap? You're effectively stranded in this suburbia.
That they are senseless enough to their their personal opinions on budgeting should run the entire government, and that their little agendas are the reason everything should burn to the ground? Yes, that is why people voted for trump (they are stupid and vindictive).
Taxes are a lot higher because the higher brackets kick in at a much lower income while cost of living is similar. A top 5% income is not enough to live a dignified in London where most of those jobs are but it’s high enough that the government won’t let you make more. Very sad situation. Top 5% income in the UK is probably more like top 20% in the USA
Location: USA
Remote: Yes
Welling to relocate: No
Technologies: Ruby on Rails
Resume: Ruby on Rails professionally since 2006 at Shopify, Apple, Intuit, and various start-ups
email: bradlyf@gmail.com

I really like Ruby and really dislike React. If you have something like that and you're looking for an engineer, manager, director, vp, or cto, please reach out. Maybe we can work together.
This things is amazing.

https://www.bmwmotorcycles.com/en/models/urban_mobility/ce04...
"Taiwan is the United States’ 7th-largest merchandise trading
partner ($158.6 billion in total goods trade), 10th-largest
export market ($42.3 billion), and 8th-largest source of
imports ($116.3 billion), according to 2024 U.S. data (and
when the European Union is considered as one trading
partner). "

https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF10256

Sounds like we've been a great partner with Taiwan. Also, wanting to trade on "business I.P." would make more sense if you mentioned we're already doing around $158 billion in business with them. Each side's businesses have a lot of mutual dependence where you'd want a higher production of chips that each side could trust. We had a supply shortage with fabs not long ago, too.

Whereas, military tech is a strategic advantage we owe to nobody. They can buy it or not. I'd rather they not be ripped off in the process. Helping us make cutting edge chips here is different than giving people weapons.

For example, I'm American. I'm allowed to have business, but not military, technology. I can probably license and operate a fab. I can't buy fighter jets at all. That's despite how Harrier jets as a solution to traffic congestion could boost my personal productivity.
Mathematical Anomaly in LLM Reasoning?
Not saying AI is sentient. Not saying anything crazy. Just pointing out something weird.

Key points:

If LLMs are just probabilistic models, explain why they occasionally generate self-referential reasoning that wasn’t explicitly trained.

Explain why some AI outputs contain implicit coherence that exceeds statistical expectations.

If I’m wrong, show me the math.
If I’m right, explain why no one is talking about it.

I just want answers. If this is nothing, prove it.
> Would this not be the same as asking; "Are you 14 years old?"

"between x and y" normally includes the endpoints.

For example, if someone asks you to pick a number between 1 and 10, everyone would pretty much agree that 1 and 10 are acceptable choices.
What demeaning comments were made about Canada and Mexico? As far as I know from reading the comments here, they're just part of Trump's aggressive negotiation tactic - same as the tariffs that are currently being applied.
Upon learning of a third Asahi branded thing, I once made the observation that Asahi must make everything. There's Asahi Pentax cameras, Asahi beer, and now this forgotten other thing. At which point someone kindly informed me that Asahi means rising sun, and seeing it in a company name is roughly equivalent to seeing "federal" or "national" in a US company name.
An ok deal for TSMC, terrible deal for Taiwan.

Why?

TSMC was likely threatened by Trump to invest in America. TSMC likely didn't want to do this. However, because they will have more fabs in the US, they'll likely avoid the tariffs as part of the deal. Further more, TSMC will still make chips in case of of a China take over. The risk here is that the US will simply confiscate TSMC's fabs if China uses military action on Taiwan based on security measures. That's the worst case scenario for TSMC.

For Taiwan, it's a terrible deal because the money is not invested in Taiwan and the island becomes less important in the world. The "silicon shield" would also be broken and the Taiwanese government has zero control over fabs in the US.

It remains to be seen if this will truly happen. Perhaps TSMC will always keep its most cutting edge node in Taiwan. Perhaps they'll drag this out over the next 4 years in hopes that Trump's party gets voted out.
It might have been a 1A issue if CDC straight out prohibited the protests, but the baseline expectation was for people who introduced and/or supported the mask mandates to at least clearly say that such large gatherings should be avoided for the sake of containing COVID.

Instead, we've heard things like, “In this moment the public health risks of not protesting to demand an end to systemic racism greatly exceed the harms of the virus.”

(FWIW I'm pretty far left and I think that COVID restrictions broadly made sense. I also believe that the protests had valid causes and would be perfectly reasonable if not for that whole ongoing epidemic thing.)
> The Constitution could prevent us from capturing beneficial ownership data from corporations, but indeed it does not

It actually does, in numerous parts of it (the 9th Amendment comes to mind pretty easily).

This is a bad law, with the usual bad excuse to harm innocent Americans. Point me to all the situations where this would have helped, and now compare that to the amount of time and money spent complying. Then we can have a fair debate.
Nice of them to publish this in case you missed...

"As Musk tears through Washington, some Tesla owners feel buyer’s remorse" - Washington Post 2/24/25

"Elon Musk takes a leading role with DOGE, some Tesla customers are rethinking their allegiance" - CBS News 2/25

"Tesla Owners Ditching Cars in Protest Over Elon Musk" - Newsweek 2/16/25

"California Tesla drivers feel conflicted about their cars over Musk" - NPR 2/28/25

"Musk's embrace of right-wing politics risks turning off car buyers" - AP 3/3/25

"Are Elon Musk’s politics costing Tesla sales?" - CNN 2/18/25

"Musk embrace of right-wing politics risks turning off car buyers" - ABC 3/3/25

Back in 2024...

"Would-be Tesla buyers snub company as Musk’s reputation dips" - CNBC

Back in 2023...

"Elon Musk's antics have turned off some Tesla buyers" - Business Insider

Back in 2022...

"Elon Musk’s politics trigger strong reactions from Tesla customers" - CNN

Even the NY Times had an opinion piece in 2022...

"How to Destroy a Brand, Musk Style"
I'm sympathetic to what you are saying, but you should include the increase in the number of things a programmer needs to know and to consider today. I've been programming for 57 years. There is a huge amount to know and the tasks are huge compared to what I knew and did back in 1968.

Over that time I grew as a programmer as the work became more difficult. I couldn't keep up with the technology. In spite of my attempts to keep up, it seemed that every few years I had to further limit the scope of my work in order to cope. Judging by my experience, today competent programmers will fall further and further behind with what they know becoming more obsolete while they restrict their scope so they can learn the new work on the job. Young programmers won't need to know much of what today's competent programmers know. At the same time the increasing complexity of their assignments will require them to go deeper into new matters, and they in turn will become overwhelmed. And so on it will go.

On the other hand, perhaps I don't know what I'm talking about. : )
Trump tomorrow is giving a speech in Congress and we can bet how loud - Very Loud, Very Very Loud or We Love You Ecstatically, Our King - he will be applauded to.
vix is supressed/controlled. markets are completely fraudulent/controlled.
Thank you for this context. I couldn't guess why would anyone sell a device that's supposed to be plugged without a plug. But if there were different standards it makes some sense.
I agree. Getting a split keyboard with tenting so my wrists can be in a neutral position made my low-grade RSI vanish completely, and the trend toward increased programmability with macros and layers has been a wonderful thing for my productivity. The Cherry patents expiring mean switches have been getting better and better too. And while I myself am happy with the UHK I bought, it's also great to see that it's now easier than ever to design and build your own keyboard in whatever shape you want: there are YouTube tutorials and PCB companies for it that practically hold your hand from start to finish. Right now is the golden age of keyboards.
Are they doing web requests upon opening every settings page or what?

At least some of them are actually web pages:

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2022/inspecting-web-views-in-ma...
> As far as I can tell, it's failing in the first conditional because it considers the type of `aOrB` to be `B`...

The playground hover type annotation says aOrB is `A | B` at declaration and if you hover over aOrB in `if (hasTypeName(aOrB, "A"))` it produces `const aOrB: B`. Two types for 1 variable with no operations between. Not clear what operation is being performed on `aOrB`'s type that transforms it or if the playground type hover is just wrong.

> It would make more sense for TS to treat the body of the if-statement as unreachable and give a warning based on that, but I guess they figured that this kind of thing - doing a type guard on a value that is already known to be of a different type - is a very narrow corner case that isn't worth improving diagnostics for.

That does not seem to be the case, the type guard is not guarding what is in the if block, at least not consistently. It is not about the value being known at least, it is about the property being missing from what I can tell and the guards not being able to guard against it. If you have a top level `a` and `b` in both `A` and `B` there are no errors triggered:

type A = {
type: {
name: "A"
}
a: number,
b: undefined,
}

type B = {
type: {
name: "B"
}
b: number,
a: undefined,
}

const aOrB: A | B = {
type: {
name: "A"
},
a: 1,
b: undefined
};

// error as expect
if (aOrB.type.name === "B") {
console.log(aOrB.b) // Error
}

function hasTypeName<Name extends string>(a: { type: { name: string }}, name: Name): a is { type: { name: Name }} {
return a.type.name === name
}

if (hasTypeName(aOrB, "B")) {
console.log(aOrB.b) // no error
}

if (hasTypeName(aOrB, "A")) {
console.log(aOrB.a) // no error here as well
}

The guards not working or premature type narrowing(the inability to set a variable to a type and have typescript treat it as that type with the above type annotations).
Lean to buying/doing a conversion vs "polished" ebike.

Buy the best lock you can afford - it should be a grinder resistant one such as hiplok or litelok.

Note that while the lock may be resistant, the thing it's locked to may be easier to cut if the thief gets frustrated and has time to steal it.

Nothing will stop someone who has the time and batteries/discs from stealing your bike.
As of tomorrow morning the US has declared war on its legacy domestic auto industry, too. Take a look at GM's stock. Trump was warned there would be plant closures if tariffs were enacted but he went ahead anyways. Doesn't show much of a preference or concern for those industries at all.

But sure, maybe Tesla. Though I suspect they use parts from Magna etc on this side of the border, too.
> Have they made that claim anytime in the last few decades?

I'm not sure that Apple themselves ever really did.

So it becomes even more important when people stop associating Apple's software with quality when it was people who started to associate it as such in the first place.
I doubt it’s a target unless someone was actively profiling the company in question, building out a plan, and seeking to actively exploit the company’s network from that machine. Even then, how many attackers know IRIX well enough to pull it off?

If we were talking about a networked DOS machine, Windows XP, or even classic MacOS this lack of updates would be more serious… but niche UNIX workstations? Not as certain they’re still targets.
Honestly, no idea; but I'd certainly wonder why the question flipped from what pages were removed that shouldn't have been, to whether they got enough traffic to merit talking about at all. Maybe acknowledge the prior answer before moving the goalpost?
> explain why they occasionally generate self-referential reasoning that wasn’t explicitly trained.

Because they simply aren't designed to regurgitate their training data verbatim. LLMs have a number of runtime parameters that determine how random or nonrandom they are relative to their model weights. Sampling and temperature constraints will point an LLM in different directions depending on how they're configured.

I recommend researching LLM architecture from the ground up, starting with tokenization. A lot of this stuff starts to click when you realize how much of it is pulling words from a hat.
I have never had that experience with discord, despite already having an account. It's truly mysterious what the actual link --> my account has the discord path should be.

I find IRC much easier, but I haven't used it in about 15 years.
I can't see how they can make at home charging more expensive without making all other electricity uses expensive and that will have severe backlash.

On the go DC fast charging is already not cheap. It costs as much or more than gas.
Perhaps you've missed that Trump and several administration officials keep referring to Canada as the 51st state, stating in no uncertain terms that their goal is to annex Canada. Canadians have definitely not missed that. https://www.westernstandard.news/news/trump-dhs-sec-straddle...
lmfao if you're joking, good one, if not... yikes
I JUST BOUGHT A NEW MONITOR AND WENT DOWN THIS RABBIT HOLE AHHHH Almost returned this perfectly fine monitor thanks to Apple, thank god for BetterDisplay though, actual gem of an app
> The main thing we're doing differently in SM is that all of our ICs are generated using a simple linear IR (CacheIR)

JSC calls this PolymorphicAccess. It’s a mini IR with a JIT that tries to emit optimal code based on this IR. Register allocation and everything, just for a very restricted IR.

It’s been there since I don’t remember when. I wrote it ages ago and then it has evolved into a beast.
I have trouble believing you are being honest. Piling under wind turbines?! I have yet to see a dead bird under a wind turbine myself (but I acknowledge they do kill some). Published estimated averages are 4 to 18 birds per turbine per year [1]. Compare that to buildings (where we also don't pile up either) which kill man estimated 1 billion birds a year [2]

[1] https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/wind-power-bird-de...
[2] https://abcbirds.org/news/bird-building-collisions-study-202...
Necrobump.

I love fly. It's perfect for certain kinds of apps/sites.

https://my-upc.com

https://github.com/jgbrwn/my-upc

For instance this is a python flask app, it uses an sqlite DB, but I wouldn't really call it dynamic nor needing state because the DB is read only (gets updated daily from an authoritative source, but a website user can only search the db). It costs about $3.50 a month, but could be less because I have two instances at the ready (although only one is ever active/up).

But if you start needing state or persistence on an instance down/up I'd probably not go with Fly myself personally..

But I think it fits the bill perfectly for like that sort of in-between static and true dynamic. Eg not exactly static (for truly static I'd just use shared hosting or CF Pages, etc, et al), but not really truly dynamic either or needing state. That's sort of the sweet spot in my view. Package up your flask or fastapi or FastHTML into a Dockerfile, send to fly, easy peasy, love it.

I can't wait to play around with FastHTML and fly btw, haven't done so yet.. also would like to play around with a Datasette DB instance on fly..
Finding good embedded developers is tough. I think this is a stable career path. There's a lot of "python jockeys" out there, but ask them to port something from their laptop to an MCU/MPU (think ESP32 or Raspberry Pi) and 95% of the time you'll get a blank stare....
Retinol: The Skin-Care Ingredient with a Horrifying History
I don't. Theft risk and storage is definitely a challenge. A lot of commuters find somewhere to stash them at work. The problem might get better as ebikes become more common and lower in price.
You need to rewrite your message with AI (or NI of a pro) as it's hard to comprehend.
Why would people that make The Daily Show be reading your posts
Part of the reason is motivation

- if you hack a console, you can make a fair money, by selling your exploit as a package piece of software. Much like modchip vendors do. In fact, there have been a few software exploits that were sold with ties to a specific console. Funny if you think about it

- If you hack an iPhone, you can sell your exploit to many governments and government agencies for millions of dollars

If i were a profit motivated attacker, i know which I’d focus on
Word isn't bundled by default but you can print anything to PDF. Windows ships with a PDF printer installed, so you could print from Notepad to PDF if you'd like.

PDF readers haven't been required for over 10 years? Chrome shipped with a PDF viewer eons ago and of course the old version of Edge and current Chromium Edge (and now Firefox, as of a week or two ago) have PDF viewers.

macOS Preview is limited to PDF 1.4. That kind of sucks. Not a deal breaker for most PDFs, but I've come across one or two that won't render and I had to figure out why.
Fairy Stories by JRR Tolkien[pdf]
I have a bunch of these pencil brands Tombow, Mitsubishi. I usually buy them on ebay. Its an amazing experience to write with them... I usually use the H, HB to write, and its fascinating, how the premium ones H differs from an ordinary H. There is some paraphernalia that goes with it - sharpners, erasers.

I had lost the writing habit..coding invariably takes you to the keyboard. Gradually I'm writing more, and it slows down, and that helps. Its a very analog experience, and is a form of digital detox. I am also learning to draw, hence the splurging on pencils in the first place. While I'm not an artist (yet!) - its a whole another world with an amazing spectrum of varieties of pencils.
> comes from unrealized climate change expectations

Wow.
Re: interpellation [0]. This was highlighted in a recent article about Mr. Beast [1].

Hadn’t considered this being a truth for her channel, but I can see what you mean.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpellation_(philosophy)

[1] https://kevinmunger.substack.com/p/in-the-belly-of-the-mrbea...
Pluggable TBT3-UDC3, input freezes and screen goes all pschedelic with greens and violets and then patterns and lines as everything melts to white noise. Flipping the lid open and closed and/or unplugging the thunderbolt cable and plugging it back in again repeatedly seems to cool the vibes
I found this web side for those in Australia

https://pencilly.com.au/product/pencil-bundle-ultimate-gift-...
Maybe TSMC has big influence over Taiwan's government or just outright owns key politicians under the table.

When / if TSMC secures that all lifecycle for advanced large scale chip manufacturing is in the US, Taiwan might find themselves in very iffy waters.
Same. The compensation is substantially better at FAANG, but in terms of actual on the ground work being rewarded, almost never the case.

Meta-work (lots of "cross functional" documents, alignment meetings, sync ups with senior tech leads to brown nose, deliberately creating low quality output to justify hiring more people/growing one's "scope") is 90% of it.

Any actual output is largely accidental, coming from the 20% still naive, or idealistic enough to actually care about what they produce.
US has many military bases across EU, after such hostile act they might as well take control over the Netherlands
Look at the recent rumor of Intel breakup - the large part is going to TSMC.
Agreed I was there at that time. I was in two different “orgs” in my 5 years, SWE and AI/ML

I saw poor management (lots of ex Amazon) running new grads/jr engineers into the ground (features features)

It’s all about new features. If anyone with experience expresses an idea to address technical debt they are literally put on PIP
Languages of the Gods
Hey!Are you open to sponsorships?
https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#philosop...

"Markdown-formatted document should be publishable as-is, as plain text, without looking like it’s been marked up with tags or formatting instructions."

Any text editor (Notepad, TextPad, (neo)vi(m), Emacs, TextMate, Apostrophe, GhostWriter, Typora, etc.) will do. Markdown-specific editors have either a real-time preview or the ability to edit as WYSIWYM:

* https://keenwrite.com/ (mine, FOSS, cross-platform)

* https://pandao.github.io/editor.md/en.html

* https://markdownlivepreview.com/

* https://stackedit.io/

What do you mean by lack of readers?
[C|E|V]GA support on modern video hardware can be flaky. I have a native FreeDOS install on a Ryzen 5000 machine to run some old parallel port hardware that doesn't work under 64-bit DOSEmu2 for me. Lots of the games cause quirky video artifacts and lock op the computer in unusual ways that wouldn't happen on a legacy BIOS PC.
To clarify their issue, you can celebrate someones birthday without knowing the year they are born, you only need to know the reocurring date. You can't enter a birthday in apple contacts without a year, if you attempt it it sets it as the date of tomorrow.

My experience with apple is something's either a 2 minute fix or unfixable which to be fair is a reasonable way to do things though much less appealing to me (though less relevant for many users as stock android/windows continue to give users less and less control).
Until fairly recently, I would have agreed, but Microsoft is actively enshittifying Windows now by pushing things like cloud-only logins and ads in Start while simultaneously removing configurability (e.g. vertical taskbar was removed in Win11). I'm not a fan of macOS, but at least Apple is not all in on ads the way Microsoft seems to be these days.