skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What choice did he have? Do you think he'd receive a fair trial if he came back to the US?

Of course he would. We're in a thread about Mark Klein, who was treated fairly by the law.
It's always the companies without a solid mass market EV that are promising this.
I had a lot of fun airdropping rickroll videos to nearby phones while waiting for rides in disneyland
Bladder innovations... an untapped market
Perhaps this metaphor doesn’t work in the US, where heavy vehicles are incentivised by regulation & most population centres rely on car transport.

But only a few people really benefit from a full featured Toyota land cruiser. The value added of additional features not available in more affordable cars (or transport options) is low relative to the cost of other uses of the same cash.

Given the ability to make a trade off for a cheaper option that meets the core transport needs without paying the premium for the features they won’t really use (or the user doesn’t value for the price they have to pay), most would probably go for the cheaper option (rapid transit or smaller more fuel efficient car).

Same can be said for many features on laptops not already found on tablets.

I’m not sure if you’re referring to software engineering specifically or all workflows that require computers, but I don’t think it’s that silly for most other professions to use tablets more once they provide more specialised workflows.

For example, I recently went back to university and I find it easier to do revision on my iPad using the pen tool, the second best option is pen and paper but that has limitations, the 3rd is computer but that has input limitations.

It may not include everyone, but I don’t think it’s so silly to think iPads and tablets will play a more prominent role in the Office in the future. That said it’s possible this will never include software engineers due to the workflow being highly dependent on features that may never be available on iPads or tablets.
If you want to do meaningful work that will have a positive impact on people's lives... Like being elected to Congress, anyone can do it, but there are very few actual seats so almost no one gets to.

Are you excluding B2B from your "bleak prospects"? There's a lot of non-consumer tech to do out there. Defense tech will be, for the most part, soul-sucking work too. Just that some of actually does suck the souls out of everyone else.

Re-read "War is a Racket" and the words of Dwight Eisenhower.
Yeah I remember when Amazons AWS was new and people said "hey its cool but not secure." Then AWS added all these security features but added a caveat: BTW security is your responsibility

Here we are. I guess we can blame the users and not any shitty security architecture slapped on AWS.

Clearly what matters most is that legal culpability be avoided, not that users will be secure. The former is 'shite security' while the latter is good security
Yep, exactly. Here's a translation of Proclus:

"He [Euclid] lived in the time of Ptolemy the First, for Archimedes, who lived after the time of the first Ptolemy, mentions Euclid. It is also reported that Ptolemy once asked Euclid if there was not a shorter road to geometry that through the Elements, and Euclid replied that there was no royal road to geometry."

Source: http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/java/elements/Euclid.html
About a year ago, I had gotten fed up with what felt like overlyb strict context requirements basically giving me to abandon years of work and thought I'd try my hand at C++ again.

I wanted to do this on Linux, because I my main laptop is a Linux machine after my children confiscated my Windows laptop to play Minecraft with the only decent GPU in the house.

And I just couldn't get past the tooling. I could not get through to anything that felt like a build setup that I'd be able to replicate in my own.

On Windows, using Visual Studio, it's not that bad. It's a little annoying compared to a .NET project, and there are a lot more settings to worry about, but at the end of the day VS makes the two but very different from each other.

I actually didn't understand that until I tried to write C++ on Linux. I thought C++ on Windows was worlds different than C#. But now I've seen the light.

I honestly don't know how people do development with on Linux. Make, Cmake, all of that stuff, is so bad.

IDK, maybe someone will come along and tell me, "oh, no, do this and you'll have no problems". I hope so. But without that, what a disgusting waste of time C and C++ is on Linux.
I think we need to look at this in terms of what was the stock product originally designed to do, as opposed to with unlimited skills and expertise what COULD I do with this general purpose computer that most others wouldn't be doing.

A Macbook is a laptop, an iPad is a touch screen tablet. It doesn't matter how much I COULD rip it apart and reshape it, they were originally intended to be used differently. Buying one and expecting it to function the same way as the other is fine, but if it doesn't who is to blame.

I could buy a hatchback to travel and sleep in, but I'd probably need to buy a caravan and perhaps replace the engine to tow it and add a tow bar. Whereas I could just buy a caravan. Complaining I can't convert the hatchback into a capable van is beside the original point.
And yet the data still seems to leak pretty frequently...
How is ruff integrated? As far as I understand, it's still a separate tool that you need to install.
It can definitely become a problem. But if you’re at that point, you don’t need a guide that explains SQL databases to you. :p

Realistically this guide should be bifurcated in terms of scale.
In my experience the highly intelligent are simply more able to find and generate rationalizations and justifications.

It's similar to a science-believing schizophrenic, their brain finds physically possible but implausible ways to deceive them. This split demonstrates that intelligence and being grounded in reality are two orthogonal psychological phenomenon. Being grounded in reality is simply the ability to be open to being wrong. That's largely independent of being smart.
Believe what you want, I guess?
It’s hilariously chaotic and clunky and charming. For a brief time it may be the place to be.
In Rust/C++ you can't, it's forced upon you.

In C you can ignore whatever you feel like, and that bothers some people so much that they have to stop everyone else from doing it.
Redpoint Market Update – March 2025 analysis of public/private tech trends
This is abhorrent if true; truly evil behavior.
That's an interesting take. War is very good business for the military-industrial complex. VC profits will come from money spent. There is a gargantuan amount of waste/excess profit in the complex, I have no problem with efficiencies eating away enormous profits at the incumbents to produce large profits with overall reduced spend at new tech, but the incumbents know how to fight for their revenue so I expect increases overall.
I think Coke and Pepsi may already have that market tapped.
> The point is that mass domestic surveillance of American nationals violates common understanding of the law.

It also violates the courts' understanding of the law. That's probably why one such program was shut down prior to the Snowden leaks and definitely why the other was shut down after.
If you're driving 600 miles in 10 hours without a 30 minute break you should have your license taken away. And 30 minutes is all you need for enough of a charge top-up on a 400 mile battery.
> shitty security architecture slapped on AWS

It's literally, and I do mean this literally, 1 click to block all public traffic to an S3 bucket. It can be enabled at the account level, and is on _by default_ for any new bucket. What exactly more do you want?
Never use vlookup . Always use match/index.
I compare solid-state battery manufacturing, to extreme ultraviolet lithography.

I remember reading about attempts to commercialise EUV lithography in the early 2000s (in a paper magazine!) The same issues that SSB have now - some lucky examples from tiny yields in the lab, but the devil's own problem to scale it and develop reliable manufacturing.

ASML was able to commercialise it in 2018. I expect the timeline for SSB to be about the same, twenty years or so. I think we will see it but not until the 2030s.
I read this as far less about noise and its cancellation than about problem-solving, and in particular DYOR: do your own research.

There is a reason we rely on experts, a large part of which is that good experimental design, execution, sampling of test subjects, and interpretation is hard. That's not to say it's impossible, and it's not that conventional wisdom / received understanding isn't often wrong (and there's nothing quite so profound an impediment to discovery of truth than solidly-embedded wrong understandings, especially at the cultural level). But at a starting point at least checking to see if what "everyone" believes, claims, and/or recommends is of value is a reasonable possibility to verify or refute early in a search.

There's also the realisation that reasoning through a problem is almost always far less useful than actually trying the damned thing, which is to say experiment and empirical testing. This isn't completely contradictory to what I'd written above, as all the impediments to good experimentation apply many-fold to good Gedankenexperimenten, or thought experiments. A key difference between the two is that an actual experiment will tend to reveal your sloppy reasoning, rationale, and/or method in fairly short order, whilst thought experiments can lead you down the garden path. Kant critiqued pure reason for ... reasons.

And for all that ... the author did learn something, and did realise their mistakes, and probably learned a bit more in the process than if they'd simply followed the initial consensus advice. But a different and perhaps more methodological approach could have arrived there sooner.
I did not view the data as indicating a new product was needed. the charts showed a boost due to the M1 chips. I'm happy with my 2015 vintage Mac. But I do have a high end Studio which should last a long time.
The US harasses and jails prominent dissidents. Russia murders them.
HR likely deals with health info related to disability or fmla claims, or work-related injuries that is shared with health care providers and/or insurance companies; this makes them a covered entity subject to the requirements under hipaa.
Ah, I lucked out then!
I had a 2015 M5, it was easily one of the best Macs I've owned. Ultra-ultra-ultra portable, I had great battery life with mine, and it was as fast as my 2013 Macbook Pro. I used it as my daily driver for 3 years before I got a new job (and a new work-issued laptop). Paired with a monitor that provided USB-C power (there were a few at the time, I got one of the Philips displays) it got me through several sizeable web dev projects. It's only just been retired, as the battery finally made it unusable, and now its logic board (and 2 others: my wife's 2015 Macbook and a lucky score on eBay) are part of a 3-machine cluster with Ubuntu installed, because why not... each one just has a USB-c power/ethernet dongle plugged into it, and I've got a little compute cluster that punches way above its weight for the amount of space it takes up (and the power it consumes, which is very little, especially with the display removed).

If you could buy SBCs based on the m5, I'd eat them up.
> C is the lingua franca of digital infrastructure

Is it, though? It feels more like how the French saw the French language as "the" language of the world, by basically discounting as unimportant everywhere that didn't use French.

Ok, no, yeah, I see it now. The Lingua Franca is right
Neovim:

require("lspconfig").rust_analyzer.setup({
settings = {
["rust-analyzer"] = {
checkOnSave = {
command = "clippy",
allFeatures = true,
},
},
},
})
> Their entire executive team should be jailed for a minimum of 3 years per individual offense.

This is so over the top reactionary and stupid, I can't help but write off your entire comment.

You want the Chief Accounting Officer to go to jail for 3 decades because of a data breach?
tesla didn't start with a mass market EV either. its generally better to go after rich people with cutting edge features because they are less price sensitive and can pay the margins involved with low volume runs until the tech is perfected and ready to scale.
Mercedes sells 8 different EV models (including commercial vans). While they haven’t been doing as well as competitors like BMW in EV sales, they are not a nobody in the space.
Valid point there for sure.

But yes, in general, models won't get worse than they are now (or if they do, they won't stay that way.) At Google, search has been enshittified for business reasons, not technical ones.
People suspected there was funny business going on since the Patriot Act was passed in 2001. By 2003 gangs were aware government spied on phones at scale. NSA regularly came up in my high school tech class in 2004, in connection with War on Terror. By 2005, the program was confirmed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_warrantless_surveillance_(...

Lots of people knew that mass surveillance was likely with the advent of the internet, prior to 641A in 2006.
I think you misunderstood what was meant by "API connections". In azure, they're an entity that is created to represent connectivity to some external service, usually bundled with credentials and the OpenAPI definition of the downstream service. They let you consume an external service from other azure services without having to worry about things like token refresh. The article goes into better detail on this than I can in a comment.
I was about to suggest this as well - great game!
Maybe you want to add https://games.oec.world/en/tradle/ to the routine
Range is meaningless, charging speed is everything.
Interesting. This one says it's a gas turbine, but other articles I've seen say there's also two stroke engines for shipping. I was wondering how this would be petroleum free as a 2 stroke. It makes sense that the turbine could be with sealed bearings.
You can also add #![warn(clippy::all, clippy::pedantic)] to your main.rs/lib.rs file to get those lints project-wide.
> mimicking a sewer tv inspection van is a trivial endeavour.

Why bother mimicking a sewer inspection van when you can just buy or commandeer an actual sewer inspection van?
> It's literally, and I do mean this literally, 1 click to block all public traffic to an S3 bucket.

I'm reasonably certain that for quite a while blocking all public access has been the default, and it is multiple clicks through scary warnings (through the console; CLI or IaC are simpler) to enable public access.
I generally agree but one thing I find very frustrating (i.e. have not figured out yet) is how deal with extras well, particularly with pytorch. Some of my machines have GPU, some don't and things like "uv add" end up uninstalling everything and installing the opposite forcing a resync with the appropriate --extra tag. The examples in the docs do things like CPU on windows and GPU on Linux but all my boxes are linux. There has to be a way to tell it that "hey I want --extra GPU" always on this box. But I haven't figured it out yet.
It lets me know the company is bullshit in a way the company name never would.
That’s sad. His stuff always seemed almost impressionistic. Very eye-catching, which was a successful trait.

In my yute, I wanted to be a fantasy/sci-fi artist[0], but never really had the heart for all the hard work you need to do.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40917886
Good point. My wife will surely understand if I explain it as “research”
Just because it's commonplace doesn't make it any less hostile to users. The tradeoff argument is legitimate, but it would be easy enough to have a yolo-mode button somewhere that voids the warranty and unshackles the user.

This is why I prefer Android. Google is evil, sure, but at least they don't treat me like a child. If I want to take one of their devices and shoot myself in the foot with it, that's fine with them (and thanks to nix-on-droid, there's plenty of ammo for such adventures).
They had this and killed it lol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirPort_Time_Capsule
have you tried Otter Browser?
“Drivers must take a 30-minute break after driving for 8 cumulative hours”

We already have laws.
A few do. The law requires a break only after 8 hours of driving. With a bottle to pee in and snacks to eat some will do that. Most will take breaks ever hour or two (any who talk to thair doctor will) but those are stop, pee, and get back on the road. They are paid by the mile and long breaks cost money. Team divers only stop for a few hours total per day.
I have never once had an issue with a website that was solved by opening it in Chrome instead. and I switched to firefox like three years ago. If firefox is so much less supported, I'm not seeing it at least
Sikorsky Successfully Flies Rotor Blown Wing UAS in Helicopter and Airplane Mode
Of course you can. It's quite the opposite actually. The downside is that in C you have to code a bunch of abstractions _yourself_. See how large projects like the Linux kernel make extensive use of macros to implement an object system.
It even produces smaller binaries than Go and the size scales much better as the codebase grows too. dotnet has come a long way since the olden days of .net framework.

The reasons stated on github doesn't seem to be convincing imo.

- platform support

NativeAOT supports all platforms, the only one missing is Android which is marked experimental, but since they'd be treated as a "1st party" customer since they're both MS projects, this could be easily expedited.
Even WASM is supported in NativeAOT using the LLVM toolchain and is often compared to perform better than Go's WASM target which doesn't use LLVM

- Usage of functions and structs

C# supports this, and you even have better control on layout and performance in this regard. Functions can easily be ported as static functions on static classes. They could even use F# which is even closer to Typescript if they wanted a more direct port as both languages compile to IL for NativeAOT.

There must be more reasons as to why it didn't choose C# in this regard, likely non-technical related. A missed opportunity imo.
What about the air? Its only an inch bigger.
The Coanda effect is one of my favorite little corners of physics. Very happy to see a Blown Wing design operational!
Who was planning to dump biomass in the ocean?

In any case, CO2 injected into the deep ocean is still pretty much sequestered.
The only mistake AWS made was making buckets originally public by default. It’s been many years since that’s been the case. At this point, you have to be completely ignorant to be storing PII in a public bucket.
Same problem as LED lighting: fine in concept but so cheap that it's suddenly easy to have way too much of it.
I think I'd rather assume that I couldn't successfully pull off low key 100% of the time while actively monitoring someone from the street in front of their house, so instead I'd make sure that while 99% of the people will see a sewer inspection van and think nothing of it, the 1% who catches a look inside of the van and thinks it's suspicious will easily find a perfectly reasonable explanation for what they think they saw.
Appreciate the history lesson. And yes, I was there for all of that (though not engaged in Web-app development).

One of the first AJAX apps I recall was the original Gmail. That was a revolution in what the browser could do, followed fairly shortly by others (notably Google Earth which launched about the same time).

SPAs simply to deliver relatively static content however seem ... a poor fit. I'll note that HN itself is LLML.

Which leaves my original question: what specifically was the selling point of SPAs, or Flash, or early AJAX? Because despite having live through that the emergence was both sufficiently diverse (a number of different approaches) and gradual that I don't have a sharp recollection of what that was.
Very polished UI/UX. I'd say this is far closer in similarity to TimeGuessr than GeoGuessr. The only difference is that in TimeGuessr you are guessing a year and a location based on a single real image whereas Time Portal is making heavy use of GenAI for image/videos. Anything I'm missing?

https://timeguessr.com

OP: You might also want to change the title in your HTML header for the game - it just says Eggnog which is kinda funny but not sure if that was intentional.
Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTN) Overview
In the section of their Privacy Policy titled Data Security [0]:

> We use certain physical, managerial, and technical safeguards that are designed to improve the integrity and security of information that we collect and maintain. Please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. We cannot and do not guarantee that information about you will not be accessed, viewed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach of any of our physical, technical, or
managerial safeguards. In particular, the Service is NOT designed to store or secure information that could be deemed to be Protected Health Information as defined by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”).

IANAL and all that, but I’m not sure you can use the excuse “We didn’t design our system to be HIPAA compliant, sorry,” and hope your liability disappears. Does anyone know?

0: https://eshyft.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/ESHYFT-Privacy...
Trains travel on semi level grades -not steep. Trucks on the other hand do, even if only counting interstates. Having a large tonnage truck going up hill lose power would not be fun. Maybe they can make them more reliable than MUNIs implementation.
i used to be quite pessimistic in my thinking without ever having a realisation of that thought process but as i got older i realised i am pretty miserable and CBT in a way helped me change that thought process and my overall thinking. therapy didn’t really work for me but CBT certainly did.
This author has a very interesting mail list on the semiconductor industry, and kind of predicted the new CEO:

https://irrationalanalysis.substack.com/p/make-intel-great-a...
HIPAA has strict rules with severe penalties, but enforcement is at best spotty. So honest hospitals and doctors offices bend over backwards to comply with the rules at great expense, but bad actors are rarely punished. It's the worst of both worlds. I'm pretty sure that is why the punishments are so harsh, because they need to put the fear of god into practitioners to make them take it seriously since there are so few inspectors.
> I think this is where people don't grasp that we didn't always have the kind of overbearing, cabinet-level department of education we have today. This really only goes back to the early 80s. Meaning, opposing the DoE isn't the same as opposing education. The principle of subsidiarity ought to be respected. Decentralization is good. It should be liberating.

You dumped a lot of vague buzzwords but you said nothing of substance. You oppose DoE? Why, exactly? It's not clear. If you cannot even express why exactly you oppose the DoE, what does decentralization mean, and why do you believe that to be liberating?

There seems to be a segment of the US population that was heavily indoctrinated into an irrational belief that having any guidance at the federal level is inherently a major problem.

In the meantime, back in reality, the main responsibility of the DoE is to fund scholarships and schools from districts that are unable to self-fund. That's what you get rid of when you argue for getting rid of the DoE. Why is this liberating?
My EQE with its very mediocre battery, claims to get ~300 miles but actually gets about 350 when I drive it.

And that is already pushing the limits of my bladder. I can't imagine ever wanting to drive further than that without stopping.
It's amazing that, on a cursory look, only 11 states make this practice illegal. The "AI scriptown" is growing.
According to the article the name is ESHYFT. It sounds like a brand of electronic found on aliexpress but with less quality!