skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is good point, thank you, lot of people needs medicine, and i am glad they are accesible. My point goes more towards this: Imagine someone runs a marathon everyday, after a couple of months, start experiencing pain and inflammation. Do they need painkillers or do they need to ask themselves why they are running a marathon everyday? I am not against taking some painkillers as long as you also ask yourself the question. Do i really need to run a marathon everyday? I do not want to cure disease with yoga, no, but you should give it a go, whatever works for you, self observe, train a bit, walk in the forest, surf, meditate. Wellbeing cannot be achieved only with medicine.
Why not ust use Laravel itself? You can put it on the cheapest webhosting plan and go for it
It was good research, Duke was doing a study on optimizing the HIV vaccine in a high risk group—work that benefits us all: https://reason.com/2025/03/06/no-hhs-didnt-spend-8-million-m...
It’s the EV part.

At least, that seems more likely than Toyota.
In 2017, Meta covertly launched a handful of social apps under the name of a China-based company created by one of its employees, according to the complaint.

We know that Chinese companies operate in other countries under assumed names. This is the first time I've heard of it going the other way. Does anyone know if this is common?
I honestly don't understand his displeasure at the article being posted here. It reeks of elitism to me.
I'd be very skeptical of applying anything we knew about the YouTube algorithm 9 years ago to it, or any algorithm, today.

Google, Facebook, and the other algorithm-driven tech companies have been aggressively enshittifying their products at least since 2020. "I got fun/useful videos out of the YouTube algorithm in 2016" says nothing about what that algorithm is like in 2025, given that they can change it silently on a whim.
Ah. I just checked a formulation for my old supplements v my new ones. I see increased magnesium. This was helpful
Short version seems to be that no, your esp32-based devices aren’t remotely exploitable via radio, as some understood the original article to claim. The issue is that there are some undocumented commands that the “host” (code running on the esp chip) can send to the Bluetooth controller.
On the phone I don't.

In Vim, I use multiple shortcuts that I made for this use case.
It’s very possible that some things can be good for one person and not for another. Should we only ever have drugs that can help everyone?
Would you be interested in linguistic reasons? McDonald’s and Starbucks operate as easier-to-pronounce national corps
>> This is so enticing to read, but alas, life is so short.

Seneca has a brief treatise "On the brevity of life" that counters this exact feeling.

In sum, it's not that life is too short (and the art too long), it's rather that we're not optimal in our use of life.

It's worth a read - or a save in the special folder :)
The blame for Russian aggression lies with Russia.

Europe collectively spends far more on defence than Russia does.

European nations, between them, are close to parity with the US for military tech.

European nations' soldiers are fed, paid, and equipped. Russia's are not.

The abject state of the Russian army is why they failed to roll into Kyiv on day three, and why they are now bombing civilian infrastructure that they then planned to own and operate.

Clearly, Germany can import a lot more Russian gas before Russia develops martial prowess. (Not that they should.)

Russia's air superiority is disputed by a few squadrons of F-16s, and their navy is conducting operations on the sea bed. Britain and France both have carriers. Any coalition including Britain and France would absolutely merk Russia in a defensive war.
> I think these are the possibilities:

> Theanine works, but I got fake theanine.
<…>

I’d add one more possibility: “Theanine works but I need a higher dosage to feel the effect.”

FWIW my purely anecdotal findings are that supplier does matter. Natural Factors Suntheanine gave me a noticeable effect. Nature’s way L-Theanine did not.
Writing SQL against systems much larger than that used to be the norm.

You are correct that "using the right tool at the right time" is important, and often, that right tool is SQL. Other times it's not. Unfortunately there are many developers who don't really know SQL, so every problem is ORM-shaped.
I'm wondering if the deal with Trump and Russia is just favours like they find investors for his questionable businesses and he helps them or if they do have kompromat? Apparently in the days they were entertaining him in Moscow it was quite common to provide hookers and film things and given Trump's character it may not have been that hard to get him to go along. He always looks rather embarrassed with Putin.

Also it could explain this stuff which is hard otherwise.
My distaste for anything cryptocurrency aside, think about the rest of the quote:

"YesNoError is planning to let holders of its cryptocurrency dictate which papers get scrutinized first"

Putting more money in the pot does not make you more qualified to judge where the most value can be had in scrutinizing papers.

Bad actors could throw a LOT of money in the pot purely to subvert the project -they could use their votes to keep attention away from papers that they know to be inaccurate but that support their interests, and direct all of the attention to papers that they want to undermine.

News organizations that say "our shareholders get to dictate what we cover!" are not news organizations, they are propaganda outfits. This effort is close enough to a news organization that I think the comparison holds.
Companies churn through people constantly. Google famously has an employee tenure of like a year[1]. Most companies that subscribe to the Jack Welch "fire your bottom 10% yearly" philosophy don't usually declare a media stock-pump "layoff" but are just letting go of purported non-performers constantly. And there are a lot of "top 10%" performers who are very happy that the so-called deadweight isn't kept around just for some foolish notion of "loyalty".

Sometimes layoffs are unfair, and sometimes the wrong people are let go. But often it's entirely necessary and the right people are let go.

[1] - Which makes the whole gruelling, multi-month hiring process positively ridiculous. It would be much better for this industry if companies hire fast and fire fast, instead of delusions that they're finding the magical employee base that will be with them forever.
While I'd really, despereately like Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Lincoln and many others to be here today to give opinion,

do not forget death is not just a problem but also a solution.
print debugging is the best debugging <3
Thank you for the kind comment!!
Even if mostly the “right” people are laid off, laying off a wrong person can have a cascading effect.

Good people like to stick together. Get rid of a couple and the rest will start to leave.
Collaboration Between Gradle, Google, and JetBrains
The odd thing is, if true, the damage has been done. Few people will believe otherwise.

I know little about bluetooth and I kind of believe what this article says, the original did not seem "right" to me.

But, in reality, bluetooth security has no real meaning to me since I do all I can to avoid bluetooth :)
This isn't a backdoor, it's just an undocumented debugger in the HCI stack. You still need a physical UART connection to the device AFAIK. The exact same type of connection you use to program and debug the device normally.
The issue is that algorithms are like a casino for your time.

We all know that gambling addicts exist and how destructive it is to their lives, the casino exploits behaviors and gets all their money. As a result people know casinos are dangerous, reasonable people avoid them, are warned about them, and the government forces regulation to reduce their ability to exploit vulnerable people.

Imagine if none of these controls existed and nobody talked about or generally knew that casinos were dangerous. Imagine if the casinos were 100x better at exploiting you and you were forced to walk through a casino every time you leave your house. You’d get a lot more people having their lives destroyed.

So what this video tries to do is important, naming the term, “algorithmic complacency”, allows it to be recognized, discussed, and actively kept in check by users. Ideally regulated by the government as well, just like casinos.

The casino also provides a service, entertainment, there’s nothing wrong with a reasonable person attending, spending some money and being entertained. But we as a society recognize that a company exploiting behaviors to get all of a person’s money, is bad, and try to limit that negative outcome even though we still allow casinos to exist.

Time, attention, and focus is so abstract people don’t even realize they’re spending it, or how modified their behavior has become because of the algorithm’s exploitation. As a result we let companies who are 100x better at manipulation than casinos operate without so much as mentioning they’re doing it, and steal increasing amounts of a user’s time.
Pretty much my conclusion as-well.

I guess they just don't want folks giving themselves burns during sleep.

AliExpress as always is tempting [1], but you'd have to be incredibly careful about regulating temperature [2] and adding safety interlocks that'd make falling asleep with it active, or forgetting to turn it off impossible.

1. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005007963462500.html

2. Don't blame me when your house burns down, I warned you.
I'd say it's on hold for four years till they get a new president. In the meanwhile I guess the other members will have to try to manage.
A couple things struck me from what you said:

- Have you talked to your manager about a promotion?

- On one hand you said it bothers you that others are being promoted to managerial positions, on the other you said you’re not crazy about getting into management. It’s ok to not go into management - the developer career path does not begin as a developer and end as a manager, it begins as a developer and ends as a developer. And on the flip side, the software development manager career path typically begins as a developer and ends as a manager. They’re just different paths, one will fit better than the other.

- When you have a young child, consistency and security are good features in a job. You can take risks later if that’s what you want to do. In my opinion, some stagnancy is a reasonable trade off to better enjoy these early years with your kid that you’ll only get once.
The author works on Cody at Sourcegraph so I'll give him the benefit of the doubt that he's tried all the major players in the game.
“Don’t quit your job until you already have your next one” - old saying I received from my family
There is the question of if layoffs saved the company enough to save itself or improve? And with that data you could say layoffs by themselves don't.

Today the question is why companies making good profits are making layoffs. And looking at the damage they cause is relevant in trying to predict company performance
Yes, it has ramifications in every direction of course.

I suppose we'll still kill each other, even if medical advances make unintentional death unlikely.
Yeah I assume it thought that you are asking it whether birds are fake. In generated article it was always talking about claim that they are fake. Anyways, thanks for testing!
I’m using it to ship real projects with real customers in a real code base at 2x to 5x the rate I was last year.

It’s just like having a junior dev. Without enough guidance and guardrails, they spin their wheels and do dumb things.

Instead of focusing of lines of code, I’m now focusing on describing overall tasks, breaking them down, and guiding an LLM to a solution.
I like the idea

do you have any challenges right now? I don't see scaling issues different from the average hardware-enabled company. I'm usually scared of hardware because stuff can break without my fault (I want to alwasy have stuff break because I messed something up, not because some bad weather destroyed 30% of my drones), but I imagine in your case the highest focus would be on tracking defective drones' location (you need to store their positions, and all kinds of stats like battery), need a fast-track to repairing/replacing them etc. after a while their batteries deteriorate (you can basically track how fast batteries discharge and you'll have a graph for each drone and need to decide a threshold where you're intervening to swap the batteries)

I'm not an expert on drones, but I imagine you'll have a backend of some sort. if you need teammates, we can talk
I read a study about athletes given either a strong coffee, placebo, or a caffeine in capsule form. The study suggested that even if coffee had less caffeine than athletes got directly in a capsule (and measured in their blood) strong coffee boosted their performance more. This suggests that we might be getting a boost from sensing strong flavor by our receptors. Not sure how else to interpret it, but I really wish there would be more studies on this.
Heh, and there's at least one FAANG where it's not even the layers of management.

They've just removed a huge amount of manager discretion and initiative through multiple top-down dictates that are pretty much killing any low level desire to really innovate and try risky initiatives.

IBM, but with same level product market fit as IBM had for its mainframes, but in this case for markets 100x more important for the global economy.

It's just sad.
What is the long term effect on accuracy when a large mass simply moves XX% of their monthly paycheck into top ETFs?

I don’t disagree with what you said though, simply sharing thoughts - I think it leads to markets being more sensitive to macro strategies rather than actual fundamentals
Did they genewrite fungi resistance yet?
Fully translated to F77 by then ...
The top comments read like HN of a decade or two ago when armchair exporting was rampant.

Paraphrasing: "I, an engineer, am smarter than an economist therefore the article is wrong."

Nothing of value to be found at the top of the comments.
IMHO best feature of these things is the autocomplete. And Windsurf has that feature for free including the Cursor like Tab Tab (supercomplete in Windsurf)
This I would not mind seeing, EVs are perfect for Postal Use. But that ship has sailed because the current postmaster general insisted on Fossil Fuel vehicles and many are already in service.

Note, as a kid half my family worked for USPS, so a few times in summer I rode with them in the tiny 'jeeps' for mail delivery. In 1 day these vehicles probably travel less then 30 miles (50km).
I mean you should take magnesium if you are deficient on a blood test.
If you take too much magnesium you will just get diarrhea.

The non-blood test way would be to take magnesium until you get diarrhea and then take less but that is obviously not a pleasant experience.

I take magnesium because it is really obvious when I track micro nutrients that I don't get enough in my diet. It mostly depends though on how much spinach I am eating.
> Why not use the actual language or framework your engineers like instead?

Consistency and predictability, but with a more convenient technology underneath.

I don't want to mess around with JDK runtimes or .NET. I don't want to experiment with various static packaging techniques and wonder whether any sort of reflection will be incompatible with that or any of the large frameworks that pre-date it will work. The runtimes themselves are good, but that's just busywork.

At the same time, I do want the ability to pick up a project made with a certain framework and approximately know how things work and how to do stuff. Less undocumented internal utilities and custom libraries, more of something predictable - controllers here, services there, repositories over here, here's how the ORM works that's tightly integrated with everything else, here's how you make a RESTful API. Think more like Angular than React to use a good front end example (e.g. a pre-packaged setup with batteries included). Or, you know, a direct comparison between the likes of Ruby on Rails, Laravel, Django, Spring Boot, ASP.NET etc., maybe not verbatim, but something consistent and close enough.

Go's standard library is also pretty good and includes a lot of stuff. The IDE experience is good (no need to even think that much about configuring your own code formatting), the compiler is good, platform support is good, runtime performance is good while the language remains higher level and easier than the likes of Rust, it's not hard to get everything into a single self-contained executable. There's numerous projects that have sprung up around that, even something like K3s (full Kubernetes distribtion) can be downloaded as a single file. Also really good for just CLI utilities, or full blown desktop apps (e.g. with Wails).

In other words, to take the technological advancements, shed the legacy cruft and still be able to have many projects be predictable and keep the productivity high, regardless of whether the greater language community is more interested in a grab bag of more self-contained libraries.
that layout is outdated imo
> aka everything EU military also hedged on

I don't think that's true. As an example, Finland and French doctrine are very different. It's easier to test all Euopean nations diffrent doctrine and choose what works best (especially if countries from the Balkans add their grain of salt)

Imho that's where European defense industry (as a whole) is interesting. Because you have 5 competing IFV designs (well, over 15, but really, 5 different design that does different things). You also have multiple tanks (and AMX-10s), as well as a bunch of different drone constructors. Even in gun design you have multiple choices, andh while optics and optrionics are Thales', overall equipements are extremely distributed. Europe might find itself on the backfoot in case of an engagement, but i'm pretty sure it would bounce back quickly.
Easy to say when you don’t have bills to pay.
I think the latency reduced was the 12 seconds to start playing the video via the ai agent. However I was also expecting some mad kernel microsecond based stuff also.
I never said editing is bad. In fact, writing is all about writing, reading, and editing.

English is the third language I learned, and editing is indeed one of the ways I improved my writing.

What I meant to say is that there’s too much focus on the process and not enough on the substance. Emphasizing the latter is more important but gets less attention on HN.
I don't understand your reaction.

I gave you a citation, that is about GRBs and interaction with the atmosphere. That's where 100 kJ/m^2 comes from. First page, even, it's in the abstract.

Radiation absorbed dose is measured in Grays, which is Joules/kg, and 8-30 J/kg is the lethal range I gave you, easy to find with trivial search but also so well known you shouldn't need to be told about it if you're serious about rad hazards.

You get from J/kg to J by accounting for mass, and from kJ/m^2 to J by accounting for cross sectional area. Hence 25 kJ actual, and 1 kJ lethal limit.

You can look up radiation mean-free-path shielding constants if you want, but I'm not walking you through what is foundation-level knowledge in this domain. Me, I got that knowledge by having an interest in atomic rockets and fusors back at university, it's not hard to find.

If you can't apply the inverse square law to get Martian sunglight relative to Earth's, or if you don't know about its missing ozone layer or missing magnetosphere, you have no business even thinking about a Mars colony.

At this point, why expect an AI based answer to miss citations when they've got a big friendly button saying "search" right there in the web UI?
Why has Russia been so politically stable?
One of Dahl's surviving daughters, Ophelia, cofounded Partners In Health with Paul Farmer. I highly recommend Tracy Kidder's _Mountains Beyond Mountains_.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophelia_Dahl
As reddit became more commercialized, somehow it turned into a place where mere opinions resulted in bans. Sometimes directly, but more often what happens is moderators allowed users with sanctioned opinions to relentlessly verbally deride those with unsanctioned opinions and then ban the target as soon as they reflected even one iota of the lashing back.

It has gotten to the point where even HN, a place full of progressive coastie techies, looks like a free speech bastion of thought diversity by comparison. I miss the pre ~2015s internet where even though everyone might hate you, you had the right to your opinion.
I think you’re right that it’s better to avoid these issues in the first place, but your perspective on furloughs instead of layoffs seems a bit fatalistic. I think a company that did rolling furloughs (and importantly was transparent about the whole process) would probably maintain pretty good morale, especially if the rest of the industry is laying people off. But yeah singling people out for furlough would probably be a big morale hit
I’m in the same boat! I wouldn’t say I feel depressed though, I’d say strained. There’s no “me” time.

The thing that keeps me going (besides love for my family) is a little bit of hope. How can you take small steps toward a more balanced place today?

Do you know what self care you need? How can you start making time for it? Can your wife / parents / in law help? Can you hire someone? Or can you combine stuff?

For a while (before I fell off wagon), I was jogging with my kiddo so I took one task (watching kid) and knocked out 3 birds with it (watching kid, giving kid outside time, exercising)

Another one: I want to start eating more healthy. And my kid doesn’t eat vegetables on his own. So during his meal times I started eating a bowl of veggies with him. I eat veggies, and he will often start eating with me too. Win / win.

It’s the small things that help me get through.
Nobody cares about the desktop anymore.
When he was young, instead of going to university he went to work for Shell in Tanzania and learned to speak Swahil while living there. And after being pilot, he worked as a diplomatic attaché/spy for BSC in washington and was friends with FDR. He also got to know Ian Flemming during that time. Basically living a posh lifestyle of wining and dining important people while funneling any intelligence he learned back home.
Feels like Gleam is gaining a lot of steam and getting a lot of attention recently. It’s the language that I am most excited about right now. It’s hitting all the right notes.
I've seen this happen. I worked at an extremely efficient company that had a great product. We got acquired, and within months, were part of the acquiring company's yearly mandatory layoffs. They fired a bunch of (apparently random) people to meet the quota. This absolutely destroyed us. Morale was just gone.

Within six months, about a quarter of our employees, mainly top performers who could easily find other jobs, left voluntarily.

The whole thing self-destructed within another year, and the product we worked on was abandoned.
Upvoted for the optimism. And I presume it's just a typo, but "acamedia" is wonderfully evocative for cases where academic papers are to be written primarily to provide a foundation for future popularization and commercial use.
I haven't got to trying claude code yet, but absolutely with cursor and windsurf you can have the agent be reading the output of what it writes and runs and it can fix things it sees. You can also have it review code. It also help some times to have it review in a fresh chat with less context. I really think a lot of people on HN are not really pushing on everything that is available. Its magic for me but I spend a lot of effort and skill manifesting the magic. I'm not doubting other people's experience really, but wondering if they are giving up too fast because they actually don't want it work well for ego reasons.