skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know this is not really in the spirit of the room here, but before I ever dreamed of getting paid to code, I only learned to at all because I was cheap and/or poor cook/grad student that wanted to make little artsy musical things on the computer. I remember the first time I just downloaded pure data. No torrent, no cracks, it was just there for me and all it asked for was my patience.

The only reason I ever got into linux at all was because I ended up with some dinky acer chromebook for school but didn't want to stop making stuff. Crouton changed my life in a small way with that.

As I branched out and got more serious, learning web development, emacs, java, I never stopped feeling so irrationally lucky that it was all free, and always would be. Coming on here and other places to keep learning. It is to this day still the lovely forever hole I can excavate that costs only my sleep and electricity.

This is all not gone, but if I was just starting now, I'd find hn and so and coding twitter just like I did 10 years ago, but would be immediately turned off by this pervasive sense that "the way to do things now" is seemingly inseparable from a credit card number and monthly charge, however small. I just probably would not of gotten into it. It just wouldn't feel like its for me: "oh well I don't really know how to do this anyway, I can't justify spending money on it!" $0.76 for
50 loc is definitely nuts, but even $0.10 would of turned me way off. I had the same thoughts with all the web3 stuff too...

I know this speaks more to my money eccentricities than anything, and I know we dont really care on here about organic weirdo self teachers anymore (just productivity I guess). I am truly not even bemoaning the present situation, everyone has different priorities, and I am sure people are still having the exciting discovery of the computer like I did on their cursor ide or whatever. But I am personally just so so grateful the timeline lined up for me. I don't know if I'd have my passion for this stuff if I was born 10 years later than I was, or otherwise started learning now. But I guess we don't need the passion anymore anyway, its all been vectorized!
Free95: An open-source Windows-compatible operating system
When I floor my non-Tesla EV, I can see an instantaneous power consumption of 80kW. That's when flooring it. A smoother drive is more like 10kW.
For me, the cost was a lot of emotional trauma at my own failure, and exposure to the victim's vomit.
Until you are a citizen.

Until that time, you are an immigrant with temporary permission to reside in the US.
The UK's last remaining shortwave transmitter site has a power output of nearly 3 megawatts across ten HF transmitters. For all the romance of shortwave, it's an incredibly inefficient way to serve an ever-shrinking listener base.

I can see the case for analog radio as an emergency communications system in regions with unreliable infrastructure. I can see the case for limited-area shortwave transmissions to serve populations with poor domestic media. I really struggle to see the case for throwing vast amounts of RF in the vague direction of the ionosphere, on the off chance that someone in the Pitcairn Islands wants to hear the cricket scores.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woofferton_transmitting_stat...
> 1. Code copyright has devalued a lot in general, as you can code significantly faster with LLMs and use them to launder GPL'd code into whatever you want.

I see no real evidence this is the case. Can you provide examples?

For instance -- do you see many Linux clones right now? Ask yourself: why might you not? Perhaps it's because it's almost impossible for an AI to rewrite Linux.
Seems very WIP. Might be easier to start with something like ReactOS[0] and work backwards.

[0]https://reactos.org/
They chose to focus on Model Y because a new design just came out. Apples to apples comparison 90 day change of prices Model 3: -4.41% to Ioniq 6: -3.38%. Both mid range electrics. I'm always looking for a deal. Nothing spectacular yet.

https://www.cargurus.com/research/price-trends/Hyundai-Ioniq...
https://www.cargurus.com/research/price-trends/Tesla-Model-3...
This is already posted in the related thread (17 points, 6 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43316197
Ha ha,
I remember I was beaten in USSR when I was a teenager and smiled on a bus without a reason for some time (was daydreaming about some random things).

Was approched with “why are you fucking laughing?”
I hope some day someone will look back on me waiting for a GWS build and say something similar
Tangential, but this reminds me of something someone said on Twitter that has resonated with me ever since. Startups targeting developers / building developer tooling are arguably one of the worst startups to build, because no matter how much of a steal the price is relative to the value you get, developers insist they can build their own or get by with an open-source competitor. We're as misguided on value as we are on efficiency and automation (more specifically, the old trope of a dev spending hours to automate something that takes minutes to do).
Note that he’s only Prime Minister temporarily. He’s replacing Trudeau and will call elections soon (must be before October) and will go up against Poilievre.

EDIT: Didn’t mean to suggest he won’t win the election. But he’ll have to defend the seat.
I wonder how many of his critical contacts at the FCC have been fired by Musk
The difference is that I can fill my gas tank to 100% in a few minutes almost anywhere, no planning is necessary.
It's extremely efficient and doesn't harm anything else. What would you replace it with?
Years? This guy's tenure will be best measured in weeks.
You're missing the entire point of frameworks like Spring and Laravel. They are there to remove the power of choice and thereby actually create clarity and maintain speed over a long period of time.

What happens with the "I'll build everything from scratch" apps is they are oftentimes not easy to understand, different patterns end up being used, 3rd party packages get slapped on ad-hoc and over time it just becomes a frankenstein. Much better to start with a hard set of rails that follow a set of conventions you just have to learn once.

The whole "I can move faster" without a framework is just an illusion that appears at the beginning of building an app. It will quickly disappear as more devs and complex code features are requested.
I once swapped an OM617 (the 5-cylinder turbodiesel used in many 80’s Mercedes sedans) into a 67 Chevy pickup.

Once started, the engine would run with no electrical system at all! Even the fuel shutoff operated on vacuum.

https://youtu.be/5teg3Zlj0bo

https://youtu.be/q8LEWIZi21Q

https://youtu.be/kuDcSuwdzaw

https://youtu.be/MqWwUC3h3VU

By far my favorite hack :)
I'd say at 20kloc of C, https://www.lua.org/ gets you as far up the Object Oriented tower as you want.
ADC is one organization that usually supports such cases. Here is their press release on this: https://adc.org/adc-condemns-ice-targeting-of-columbia-unive...
No, that would be a matter of law. Bridges aren't safe because some group of engineers wants safe bridges. They have to meet safety standards set by the government, the engineers need license issued by the government, etc. If you want privacy, you need to change the law to grant it. Trying to make some end-run around market forces is futile. People en masse aren't going to pay for a service with privacy when they can get a free version that does the same stuff but blasts them with ad trackers.
Best to see it for yourself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qv6JIMtX8Qc
I agree. Jobs can go away at anytime for any reason. What really hurts is when people think their devotion and sacrifice means it wont apply to them. Set expectations accordingly.
Columbia Expelled Student Protesters For the First Time in Over 50 Years
Training data is very much a moat. Especially training data that can be reliably filtered for LLM output.
>So he positioned himself such that you can't say "he has no empathy", but he can still use "too much empathy" as a reason for anything?

In other words, he's not an absolutist, which seems fine.

>His recent comments against all DEI programs(while implementing his own DEI programs and being a DEI hire himself) seem to show that this is an exaggeration

Sounds like you're already convinced that he's a Bad Person, so anything he says is going to be further proof of that. Even if he said something utterly anodyne like "government should be smaller", you'd probably respond with "well given what he's doing at DOGE, that's obviously him saying that he wants to dismantle the federal government as we know it".
> Those are hardly real issues

Until you are the victim.

> The summary at that link mostly attempts to relitigate an old war and shame Serbia for perceived associations with Russia.

Right so. Atrocities should never be forgotten, no matter who they are associated with.

> What's the per capita rate compared to the US and UK?

The femicide rate in the USA is 3½ times higher. Each single case is one too many.
Counterpoint:

Our BMW i3 gets EPA range on my round trip commute in the summer. It starts at the top of a mountain with a “100%” (actually 90% according to reverse engineering) battery (a tesla couldn’t regen in that situation, the bmw can).

It can be as low as 80% of EPA range with the heat pump cranked up in low 30F’s weather.

I’ve carefully measured two other EVs (not Tesla) on that route. One gets 110% of EPA, but can’t regen at 100% (so, it is similar to the BMW model without the hard 90% charge cap). The other gets EPA in the winter and does not have a heat pump.

FWIW, Tesla drivers that live up here complain about bogus range estimates.

I agree with the “type in destination and let the computer estimate” approach. That works well on all three cars, despite the mountains.
Joint partnerships are not the same as funding.

It's getting ridiculous how many lies you keep perpetuating in this thread.
>That's surprising to me, considering that coffee is quite addictive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caffeine#Addiction
Actually no, it's not considered addictive. Yes, anecdotally you will find people that say they're addictive. Pick almost any subject and you can find someone that says they're addicted to it.

There are withdrawal symptoms, but dependency and withdrawal are defined differently than addiction.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caffeine#Dependence_and_withdr...
12% of people who voted for Trump in 2016 voted for Sanders in the primary.

1: https://www.npr.org/2017/08/24/545812242/1-in-10-sanders-pri...

Thats more than enough of a margin for a definite loss. Image if Trump lost in 2016. His supporters and the whole world wide right wing ecosphere would never had gotten emboldened.\

The article doesn't touch upon it but there was a contagion of two time Obama voters that voted Trump. This group was touched upon in Michael Moores documentary Farenheit 11/9. People like those in Flint, MI who felt abandoned by Obama switched their allegiance to Trump.
i have a model s 2022 and get 250 miles going 80 miles/hour.
Great. But we don’t need it in base.
Having road tripped from Florida to Washington and back in a big circle around the country, it is my firm belief that every single person complaining about the range estimates in a Tesla is speeding.

By altering my driving style, I can get more range than the estimate. It's extremely predictable and accurate, to the point where I can notice the power drain from the self driving computers/cameras, arrive at the next supercharger at exactly the 3% I aim for, etc.

There was a point in my road trip when I was on top of a mountain, and it said I would reach the next charger 100km away with 20km of range remaining, but I was only at 90km at the time. I made it with 17km of range remaining.

The estimates are really good and useful if you don't speed.
He was a leader of protests at Columbia which involved physically blocking Jewish students from entering classes and other forms of overt discrimination and intimidation directed at Jewish and Israeli students.

This potential bullshit.
> I think my comment already addressed every single piece of what you said here.

You did not mention a word about scripting.

> But that's not what you originally said.

It is. The reason ripgrep should not be in base is because it’s not posix compliant.
Delegating key derivation and/or password validation, combined with secure UI state indication, to a more secure execution environment can be a big win for security, for example.

I could imagine a passkey implementation with some extensions that allow securely presenting what the user is consenting to and how ("enter your payments PIN or password now to confirm a payment of $x to merchant y").

It's of course even better to do that in tamper-proof security coprocessors such as Apple's secure enclave, but TEEs have the big advantage of having access to much more memory and faster processing, which allows doing more complicated things there more easily.

They can also always lean on the secure hardware for actual key management, but handle more complex user interface operations in an environment that's still more secure than the main OS.

Android has supported something just like that years ago with "protected confirmation" [1], but unfortunately it's only available on Pixel phones and hasn't really been picked up by app developers as a result; the situation for Apple is of course very different, so I have some hopes that if they launch something comparable it could actually see some adoption.

[1] https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2018/10/android-pr...
How far back can you remember? So I can put it in context.
> We recognize that the expansion of NATO and the aggressive approach of Western nations have helped cause the crisis and we demand an end to NATO expansion. We also oppose US and NATO military interventionism and the tens of billions in military aid and weapons shipments which only further exacerbates the war and undermine a negotiated settlement, as well as sanctions that will harm ordinary Russians.

In the very first paragraph, filled with Russian propaganda and ahistorical takes easily disproven by Putin's own words and exegesis in Russian.

Accepting the genocidaire's justifications uncritically, in addition to the IC's many other genocidal language about "denazification," is absolutely appalling. As they say, if you wonder what you would have been doing when the Nazis weee invading the world, look at what you are doing now.
> remembering the compression rhythm with a Bee Gees' song mnemonic

i prefer the Queen song mnemonic :D
And before that, the Bank of Canada.
I would say it's both. "booting up" and starting to be a productive human in the morning happens smoothly as I have my coffee :)
I'm not sure how complex modern display controllers are, but I could imagine a simple priority hardware overlay functionality that an exclave has access to (similar to the dedicated "cursor overlay" functionality some older GPUs had, as far as I understand).

Once you have that, you can take the idea further: Displaying an indicator that confirms that all your keystrokes are going to an exclave validating your password, for example.

The much-hated touch bar actually enabled just that, for Apple Pay payments, as far as I remember: It could display something like "touch to confirm payment of $x" on its own screen in a way that was impossible to manipulate from macOS – now here's an opportunity to bring that level of security back without requiring a dedicated display or taking away people's beloved function keys.
Old discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9560839 (238 points | May 2015 | 39 comments)
Were you allowed on base? What was your experience like and your perception of what was going on?

I had the opportunity to perform a bat survey at Sugar Grove, and a poor guard had to come out to keep an eye on us until 3am because we couldn't be left alone. We noted curious wooden gazebos positioned around a featureless meadow, hinting at significant manned infrastructure underground.

Unlike the Green Bank Observatory from the above article, Sugar Grove was piggybacked on the National Radio Quiet Zone so the NSA could intercept intercontinental telecom traffic as a part of the ECHELON network. The cover story was that it was a run-of-the-mill AT&T site, but was an open secret for all the Pendleton County WV locals that it was a spy site. The base was also home to the best restaurant in the whole county, which isn't saying much for a single-traffic-light county.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_Grove_Station

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON
Okay, my schoolboy French is tres terrible, but am I translating this correctly? "The Canadians and the Canadians are worried about the ass of life"?
> I never understood why - intuitively, it doesn't make sense for the company to underpay its devs to the point where they leave for a competitor, and then come back and get rehired at a much higher salary anyway. But it is what it is, and the workforce has caught on.

It's because they are unable to tell who is worth what. So they outsource it to the market. If you managed to pass the interviews and get hired at the other big tech company, that's proof of value.

It's also self-reinforcing. If you don't leave, it's a signal that you don't trust your own market value to be higher.

For every dev that is able to make the "Microsoft -> Google -> Amazon -> Microsoft" circuit, you have n others who look hardly distinguishable to management who can't do that if they tried quitting. In other words, quitting is risky, in game theoretic terms it's a costly signal of competence.

I also wouldn't be surprised if it had some internal politics reasons that there are certain rules/power games around salary raises that don't apply when someone is hired from scratch.
Kind of funny how similar Musk and Hitler really are. If the board of Tesla ditched Musk instead of giving him 50 billion dollars, the company might have saved face. But no. I'm seeing a lot of "we bought this before we knew Elon was crazy" bumper stickers lately, as well as a few aquaintances trying to sell their Teslas and the stock they have in the company. Tesla's days are numbered, unless Musk forces the US government to buy them, which he probably will do.
Nobody thinks this is funny.
That is indeed what the article says. Bloomberg says the same thing: https://www.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-muscled-way-faa-1100005...
Potentially temporarily - the tariffs and 51st state rhetoric has really shifted the polling there from an easy conservative win to a liberal resurgence
That's what happens when you alienate (Elienate?) your biggest group of customers, especially for EV. It's only a shame the sales haven't dropped off a similar amount here in the USA, but I think that may be coming. I don't even know why he wants to be the punching bag for the President's critics while Trump takes all the credit and nearly none of the blame even though this is all under his marching orders..
I know that. But that’s still a different interface. If you have a predicate you now have to wrap that in a different closure that conforms it to a new pattern.

This is the same argument as why have count_if if I can write a for loop.
I actually agreed with them that a disability makes life harder. I then pointed out other things that an individual did not choose can make life harder as well.

As for bringing up children, I did make the leap that that is generally a big difference between younger employees and older employees.
$30 for copilot doesn’t make sense when Cursor Pro is $20.
What does this mean? A better vaccine?
I'm amused by all the flags this article has. It reinforces this belief that "vibe-coding" isn't something that evolved organically, but was forced. I wouldn't go as far as to call it "astroturfed", I believe it was a spontaneous emergence, but otherwise it feels like an effort by a disproportionately small group of people desperately trying to make vibe-coding a thing for whatever reason.
While I'm not too happy about the influence of a de-facto dictatorship on my region in the world, recent events have shown that the turbulence of a democratic government, and its private interests, brings with it its own share of trouble. Let me know when a Chinese private citizen takes out newspaper ads for a European political party or becomes powerful enough to directly influence a war in our borders.
Makes me wonder how it is stated. Normal driving conditions for many (most?) drivers is faster than the posted speed limit.
The only thing I see MAGAs buying a few of are the Teslas, most wouldn't get caught dead in a Model 3 or Y
Cursor is great because it’s a flat subscription. Aider/Claude Code would be much more expensive for daily usage. When Cursor enshittifies I will use something else. It’s not like I am locked in.
The title is "Bispecific antibodies targeting the N-terminal and receptor binding domains potently neutralize SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern". Note that although the antibodies were only helpful before infection, "its therapeutic efficacy after infection was limited." Thus, it isn't a treatment. Also, this study was in mice, not humans, so this is something potentially for the future, not something you can use now.
Look more carefully at that 50 to 70% figure. It is exaggerated (or at least misleading to directly compare) because the usually cited studies are assuming an arrest with a shockable rhythm (and timely, and correct AED application), but only 30 to 40% of out of hospital cardiac arrests have a shockable rhythm, so the overall survivability is not over 50%. Practically speaking even with an AED present its more like 20-30% and that is just survivability, not taking into account long term deficits.
The point is that leadership gets to write on their own promo document / resume about how they "boosted developer productivity" by leading the charge on introducing AI dev processes to the company. Then they'll be long gone onto the next job before anybody actually knows what the result of it was, whether it actually boosted productivity or not, whether there were negative side-effects, etc.
For forks fine. But military equipment breaks all the time. And the maintenance requirements on things like jets are 4:1 or greater. So having a jet down because a part is missing and not able to be supplied is a real issue.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43292946
That's why there are good Samaritan laws.

No person who in good faith, and not for compensation, renders emergency
medical or nonmedical care at the scene of an emergency shall be liable for
any civil damages resulting from any act or omission.

https://recreation-law.com/2014/05/28/good-samaritan-laws-by...
Apologies. Around here people commonly write "U$S" but I'm not resigned to that yet.
He's on the board at Stripe, by the way.

https://stripe.com/en-jp/newsroom/news/mark-carney-joins-str...
What's the reason for ffmpeg to use C, also historic?
This is actually known as the Drowning Child problem, and its most important implication is that any billionaire is "extremely evil."

The parent comment would still be correct though, and billionaires are just filling a power vacuum, nothing wrong about that. I genuinely believe U.S. is also just filling the power vacuum & mostly has done nothing wrong, similar to other superpowers. There's nothing inherently wrong about letting the child drown unless you are the child & can protest about your own drowning, and there's nothing wrong with filling the power vacuum, because the universe has determined that someone ought to do it sooner or later. And we cannot do anything about this.

I define problem/issue/similar words in the following way: a thing that, if deemed existent by me, is also my own fault & realistically fixable by my self.