skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
you are right of course. in part what i am struggling with is prioritization. apart from needing time to take care of my children i find it hard to focus on any side project when the constant inability to find work is looming over me. this is exacerbated by the fact that a recent theft while traveling caused a rather large financial loss, cutting my savings in half, so that i now only have a few months left before i am broke, living as an expat without social security support.

if i run out of money i'd have to go back to where i am from, and disrupt not only my own network of friends and relationships that i have been able to develop, but even worse that of my children who not only will have to switch school but also do so in a new language that they only have a passive understanding of.

what i am trying to say is that life will not only be hard, as that would be bearable. i am used to hard times. but the effect would be a very dramatic upheaval, and that is paralyzing. a few months is barely enough time to learn something new just to help me find work. (and i only identified go and react as prominent skills in job descriptions very recently too. a few months ago would not even have known what is worth learning). if i focus on learning now i am almost certain to fail to find work by the time money runs out. i do have plenty of experience, if i could only find an employer or customer who can recognize that.

(ps: this comment may sound defensive, but it isn't. i am trying to elaborate and clarify and i do invite readers here to find the flaws in my argumentation and point out alternatives. i am commenting here so i can learn and improve)
The current ArsTechnica headline is (as here on HN): Butch Wilmore says Elon Musk is “absolutely factual” on Dragon’s delayed return

The last part of URL is

butch-and-suni-send-mixed-messages-on-whether-politics-delayed-their-return

and Mixed Messages nails it. In the body there is:

For what it is worth, all of the reporting done by Ars over the last nine months suggests the decision to return Wilmore and Williams this spring was driven by technical reasons and NASA's needs on board the International Space Station, rather than because of politics.

Q. Did politics influence NASA's decision for you to stay longer in space?

Wilmore: From my standpoint, politics is not playing into this at all. From our standpoint, I think that they would agree, we came up prepared to stay long, even though we plan to stay short. That's what we do in human spaceflight.

In short, Wilmore doesn't believe that politics delayed their return, as was claimed by Musk.

The best support from the headline comes from:

Q. Elon Musk said he made an offer to bring Butch and Suni home last year, but it was denied by the White House. Is this true?

Wilmore: I can only say that Mr. Musk, what he says, is absolutely factual. We have no information on that, though, whatsoever; what was offered, what was not offered; who it was offered to, how that process went. That's information that we simply don't have. So I believe him.

Wilmore believes that Musk is being factual when Musk asserts he made an offer to bring them back. He skirts any comment on why that offer was not taken up, having earlier stated he doesn't believe politics played a part.

Musk makes a lot of public offers .. he offered a submarine that wasn't practical, he offered a 420 weed joke for Twitter and got nailed to the mast with it by the SEC. It's likely factual that he offered to bring back this crew early.

It likely wasn't practical for any number of reasons.
Remote ID: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_ID

Airborne collision avoidance system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airborne_collision_avoidance_s...

"Ask HN: Next Gen, Slow, Heavy Lift Firefighting Aircraft Specs?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42665458
I don't know the price of a magic keyboard off the top of my head but I'm inclined to think that you could get a really good premium split keyboard for the price of buying 2 magic keyboards.
> Her lack of performance doesn't impact me much for now ... so it feels like i'm needlessly risking someone's livelihood for little personal gain.

you might have answered your own question there (as it currently stands anyway). Sometimes the best thing to do is ... nothing. there's no perfect/correct answer here. all you can do is what feels right to you.

@franktankbank might be right too. keep your wits about you.
Oh sorry, should have added, my own personal assessment puts the good dev at the high-mid/senior level too. Just me being needlessly pedantic that they don't have such a title. Sorry.
> AIs are really good at writing code but really bad at debugging -- it's amazing to use Claude to prompt an app into existence, and pretty frustrating when that app doesn't work right and Claude is all thumbs fixing the problem.

LLM's are not "really good at writing code". They generate statistically relevant text based on their training data set.

Expecting people who do not understand code to use LLM’s for making solutions is like thinking “non-pilots” can successfully fly a 747.
Show HN: Eonfall – A New Era of Web-Based Co-Op Action Begins
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Freedom is a function of solidarity -- each man's willingness to sacrifice for his fellow man. If some are willing to make the sacrifice you can be free. If none are willing to make the sacrifice then all will die a slave. Unfortunately this means that some of the architects of a world we want to live in won't get to experience it.
I guess these states think they can pull money from the sky ? Revenue needs to come from somewhere.

Plus with the new tariffs, I doubt removing taxes will help much. But were I am, groceries are considered a basic need, so the states in my area do not tax them.

I did not even realize some places taxed food at grocery stores.
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NOTE: Please include Ask HN 2025-03-03 in the subject!
This pack contains one pencil of each hardness 9H through 6B. There are 17 hardnesses in that range.
Am I just using the wrong model and stack?

Because the Copilot story with elixir leaves a lot to be desired.

At best, it will complete the occasional map keys or 2-3 lines here and there.

It very rarely writes a whole function correctly

But that’s it.

It also hasn’t been terribly impressive with NextJS.
LLMs at best are a good auto-complete. I have been trying to use LLMs to code since GPT 3 came out. While Claude 3.7 has made some progress still it can't generate an app into existence, although it's great for boilerplate or hinting to which direction I should try to find the documentation.
https://www.aaiusa.org/library/disinformation-campaigns-aime...:

Almost daily, Michigan’s Arab Americans voters in precincts of heavy concentration are receiving glossy mailings with messages like: “Kamala Harris and Doug Emhoff: Unwavering Support for Israel” or “Kamala Harris and Doug Emhoff, the ultimate pro-Israel power couple” or “Kamala Harris and Elissa Slotkin [the Democratic candidate for Senate in Michigan]: The proven team we can trust to stand up for the Jewish community.” And targeted video messaging on social media sites saying things like “Kamala Harris stands with Israel.”

Meanwhile, in areas of Pennsylvania where there are heavy concentrations of Jewish voters, homes are receiving messages like: “Kamala Harris will embolden anti-Semites” or “Donald Trump always stands up for the Jewish people.” And targeted video messaging on social media platforms saying “Kamala Harris will not be silent about human suffering in Gaza” or “Two-faced Kamala Harris: Standing with Palestine and not our ally, Israel.”

These mailings and social media posts are paid for by a dark money group, Future Coalition PAC. Researchers have identified that one of the major donors to this group is Elon Musk, the principal owner of X and a strong supporter of Donald Trump’s presidential bid.
The Taiwan Fixation: American Strategy Shouldn't Hinge on an Unwinnable War
> I cant work for someone who doesn't understand what I do.

Someone can understand what you do without being able to do it.
Wilmore: I can only say that Mr. Musk, what he says, is absolutely factual. We have no information on that, though, whatsoever; what was offered, what was not offered; who it was offered to, how that process went. That's information that we simply don't have. So I believe him. I don't know all those details, and I don't think any of us really can give you the answer that maybe that you would be hoping for.

I am so confused.
I have a brother printer + scanner from 2016, because it's out of ink the scanner doesn't work.

Very bad thing to do to clients
Reading back I see I came across as kind of an asshole, I'm sorry for that. I genuinely thought at the time you might be kidding but I wasn't sure--pretty sure I got it wrong. I've grown (probably too) cynical about ux tweak over the years, in the past I did it a lot (even ran stumpwm and i3wm for a while) but over time I kept getting burned by the effort it takes to maintain nonstandard stuff and gave up. I appreciate it's fun, I'll try to remember that.
If that is all it comes down to, then yeah, I dont think he will try to take eastern Germany, no matter what he would like. Regarding the various attributions, I dont know what people you are talking about.

If protecting Germany is your final answer for why support the war, I think it is fine for the US to sit it out until article 5 is invoked.

It is kind of like expecting Europe to be ride or die in a US war with China over Taiwan.
Biggest smile I've had all day...

Thank you!
Pentagon deploys Stryker brigade, aviation battalion to Southern Border
Russian propaganda isn’t magic: rather, the people crafting it are very adept at finding and exploiting existing fault lines and the areas where the major American media and tech companies can be exploited to amplify a message. They aren’t doing anything which, say, Rush Limbaugh wasn’t doing in the pre-Internet era, and it’s not like they aren’t just part of the larger disinformation sphere.

What they did was see the way 9/11 reset what was allowed in mainstream American discourse, and that as conservatives moved into a tightly-managed bubble they were also willing to give up the idea of verifiable facts in favor of what felt right. That created a big weakness for a patient adversary as they didn’t need to try to get people to trust, say, RT but rather pick which existing voices to quietly support or try seeding ideas to.

I think it’s better to treat them like a catalyst or the accelerant on a fire where they didn’t start it but they both made it worse and might not have much control over it at this point.
> hundreds of thousands of live human brain cells

A human brain has like six orders of magnitude more cells than that chip. A single ant has 250,000 neurons. A crow brain has 1,500,000,000. I don't think we have to worry yet.
Free Software Foundation rides to defend AGPLv3 against Neo4j license add-ons
> 2. 7.6% of americans are LGBTQ - that’s about 26 million people - does the government not serve them as well? Is the government only there to serve some of the people?

It's an explicit goal of Project 2025 to take rights away from queer people.
Do it!

Want to buy some pens?
Oh, weather radar would help pilots too:

From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43260690 :

> "The National Weather Service operates 160 weather radars across the U.S. and its territories. Radar detects the size and motion of particles in rain, snow, hail and dust, which helps meteorologists track where precipitation is falling. Radar can even indicate the presence of a tornado [...]"
The Atom of Work: How User Stories Shape the Products We Use
Every product is built one user story at a time. But are these atomic units fostering great design, or eroding humanity in tech? This deep dive explores how user stories impact everything from UX to engineering, and why they might be the hidden force shaping the digital world we live in.
"current systems are too primitive to feel or understand."

Is there evidence to suggest that if it can feel or understand, that would actually be an issue?

Every day millions of sentient beings are killed for human consumption and millions more wait in torturous conditions.

It would be odd if there was outrage over a bio computer, but not over, say, the practice of using cows and pigs for food, which feel pain, have rich emotional lives, and have the inteligence of at least small children.
Interesting. However, most of the world follows US-GAAP, so the global de-facto is $, for USD, to go in front of the numeric value. I learned that from this __very__ good introduction to understanding financing instruments called "Pricing Money" https://www.jdawiseman.com/books/pricing-money/Pricing_Money...
He got in a helicopter and fled to Moscow before that could happen.
In general sales tax isn't a significant source of revenue for states, to the point where some states don't tax retail sales at all.
This is how the Daleks come about.
To add to the list of drugs, the biggest brand for ibuprofen here in Australia is Nurofen, with Advil being the biggest "cheap brand" version of it.

ibuprofen is an anti-inflammatory and anti-coagulant, sold under many different names.
Meta smart glasses are selling well. Apple smart glasses will arrive eventually, based on VisionOS.
Related Show HN: Immersive Gaussian Splat experience of Sutro Tower, San Francisco (825 points, 12 days ago, 193 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43120582
Except that with what I described, there is no paradox. If I report experiencing flights that were all full, and someone says “but 99% of flights were empty,” there is nothing surprising or counterintuitive about that (other than that I would have expected airlines to be more economically reasonable). And it certainly is no consolation to me!
> the GSAB, with roughly 650 troops, brings aviation muscle — UH-60 Black Hawks for command and medical evacuation, and CH-47 Chinooks for heavy lift

Good thing the cartels are too poor to import RPG-7s like the famously affluent Somalians from the Battle of Mogadishu.
Imagine that every individual cell is conscious, and that consciousness is a binary quality.
someone doesn't remember y2k.
But how would you know? With a patient who has locked-in syndrome they can sense and think but have no ability to move or communicate. How could you tell if your fish brain (or future AI model) has the capacity to think or suffer?
I was under the impression that voters decided on Trump because he would bring grocery prices down on "day one" [1]. I don't understand how grocery prices are still expensive in the US now.

[1]: https://nypost.com/2024/08/15/us-news/trump-blasts-kamala-ha...
From the FSF (21 points, 24 hours ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43249342
On top of releasing often, Viti95 displayed outstanding git discipline where one commit does one thing and each release was tagged.

https://fabiensanglard.net/fastdoom/#:~:text=one%20commit%20...
> ad hominem, strawman, red herring

These aren’t logically incorrect, people who study rhetoric have just identified these as common patterns of poor persuasion.
Answer Set Programming 01 – Just the Facts
I'm going to walk the middle ground here as another Canadian.

The US has been our 'closest friend and ally' for 70+, hell nearly 100 years now. We've sought economic and military integration, to our benefits certainly, but also to our detriment.

It has gone too far, and all it takes is a bully being elected to slap on unjustified tariffs and destabilize the relationship with the goal to squeeze more out of allies rather than negotiating a fair deal for all. Hell he's doing it a second time, and now with the more nefarious undertones of political annexation which the vast majority of Canadians do not want.

Our goal moving forward should be to continue being polite and friendly as we are to most other counties, yet also to divorce our military and economy from American control at every step.

Does that mean in some cases trading more with China? Yes, but we should focus on commonwealth and European integration with like minded countries that value democracy and their citizens.
I get it, but the anguish of people who were paid dramatically less and treated dramatically worse than software developers whose livelihoods are being deliberately harpooned by the software business is not "sour grapes." I'd expect the software culture to be tolerant of the upper class being being indifferent to that anguish, but I see people around here all but dancing on their graves with no real push back. I think y'all generally do a good job with this place but frankly, the utter lack of consideration for the people most affected while being quick to make sure they don't get too touchy about it says everything there is to know about SV culture: all the talk of ethics and fairness get thrown right out the window the second they start to conflict with the bottom line. Fortunately American culture on a whole seems to be following suit so at least it won't seem weird. I don't think I can even passively participate in this culture anymore. I bid you well.
Or executable line noise (I think I heard that one from slashdot)
I come from the $MegaCorp world rather than startups. We shipped massively successful products reaching billions of people.

Our managers did not write code, nor would they have been better managers if they did, IMO. They represented the team to the wider company, they facilitated communication across teams, kept us informed of changing goals and priorities, etc. Basically helped everybody row in the same direction.
“Strategically”?
It’s a nerd fantasy to imagine argumentation is a logical formula, and by memorizing all the bad forms you will win arguments and detect falsehood.
See also: The Peter principle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle
Yes? Any response. I agree with you, let's not glorify meat grinders.

In fact, let's stand diametrically opposed to those who would.

I'll just type 'meat grinder' and 'battle' into Google. Here's the top result: "Battles of Rzhev". Let's go to the Wikipedia page for it and Ctrl-F 'glory'. "[...] Military Glory by the President of Russia Vladimir Putin [...]".

There you go. We should stand diametrically opposed to a certain "President of Russia Vladimir Putin". Gee, I wonder if that's the same guy as the current "President of Russia Vladimir Putin"... do you think?
$600 M4 Mac Mini has been described as "iPad without a screen" with macOS.
GSA prepares to sell over 400 federal properties
Umeshisms (2005)
tame as seaweed wrapped around your ankles in shallow water, i might say.
By the time I was growing up in the 1990s, Korea and Vietnam were widely regarded as mistakes. And then I saw the US make a $6 trillion mistake with the Iraq War. So when Trump called out America’s latest “big fat mistake,” that’s basically what he was running on: https://youtu.be/H4ThZcq1oJQ?si=9Vlf81O3FxQXVoAU
"The General Services Administration announced Tuesday that it will begin selling off some of the federal government’s most recognizable office buildings, including the J. Edgar Hoover Building, which serves as the FBI headquarters in Washington, and the Robert F. Kennedy Building, home to the Department of Justice — a landmark shift in how the government manages its real estate portfolio."

Selling the FBI and DOJ Headquarters. You can view the list yourself, https://www.gsa.gov/real-estate/real-estate-services/real-pr...
In Rust it's literally impossible to use a returned value without checking the error. This bug also cannot happen with Java, C# or Javascript exceptions. This particular failure mode is unique to Go.