skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40972590

That whole situation was so strange to me. I was in my mid-20s at the time, trying to make sense of the "adult world". Then they tell me something is both illegal and legal at the same time, depending on how your label it - like Schrodinger's cat, but dumber.

And that's when I really started to feel dirty about working for the PBM. I knew the company was part of the machine, helping push drugs onto people, purely driven by profit, not actual need. Like, I dealt with drugs dealers a bunch in college (weed, ecstasy), and none of them ever tried to push drugs onto me. They just sold it, and that was it. But I really started to see how this whole machine operated, and I was part of it. :'(
Ask HN: Friend learning coding for career, is it too late?
He has some interest in learning for example to make game ideas, but overall the goal is building a new career. (He's in his early 30s.)

It seems like there is some consensus that with AI the industry is already rapidly changing, and I've heard it being compared to 'junior level developers' already in its capabilities. There's talk of the ladder being pulled up in the industry for entry level positions.

No matter what, it seems like it will at least be much harder to break into the industry in the next 5 years vs. just a decade ago. Is it still good career advice for someone to learn programming and CS? I'm curious if anyone here has an angle to still feel optimistic about this.

(He has a neuroscience degree from college, and is considering therapy as an alternative path. That would take more school and work to become licensed, but I am starting to wonder if it could be a better bet for the next 10-20 years.)
Cute, but ultimately cute features are not compatible with a critical security application.

If it had been developed as a feature of an existing application maybe it would fly (and probably even not there). But as a third party app, or even a third party library that needs to be added to the security supply chain? Not a chance for any serious business.
Previously as a Show HN, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43105538
Thanks, blocked! Fingers crossed it didn’t fetch it yet
As a simple driver of cars, I've never understood why no one has mass produced an EV with a built-in generator. That would avoid the complexity of the hybrid drive train, allow easy plugin and short range electric-only travel, and could even be offered as an optional attachment. So what am I missing? Is the efficiency gained by the generator offset by losses through the EV system?
That only works with a timestamp service
This sort of thing drives me insane. The people on the polar extremes are (I suspect) part of why we can't have nice things. I've both lived by the school and been a parent, and I badly wish people would practice some empathy and common sense. For example there are some people that will literally sit outside during pickup hours on a lawn chair and yell at people for parking on the street in front of their house (which, btw, is completely legal and there's nowhere else to park within several miles of the school). I've also seen parents park right in front of driveways, blocking people's access to their homes, which is absolutely not ok. It kills me that we can't just have a simple compromise.

Parents: It's never ok to block somebody's driveway! Residents: It's not illegal for people to park on the street in front of your house (assuming they aren't blocking your access of course)
Half the comment section seems to be entirely missing the point of Stoicism.

Stoicism is not merely just accepting everything and allowing it to happen, without pushing for advancement. That is absurd.

Under Stoicism, you would still push for that advancement and speak up for it, as doing so is not living according to virtue or nature (which Stoics defined our nature as our ability to reason). It's just that you will focus within that on the things that you can control, such as your own personal activism.

If anything it pushes people to do more in this area, not less. Because often people feel helpless so don't do anything, Stoicism would teach to do it anyway, because that is the part you can control and the only way to live a life of virtue, what the world does in reaction to that, is up to the world.

People that have a problem with this way of thinking/being seem to have taken a reductionist version of the philosophy to argue against it.
4 miles? Luxury.

I used to dream of walking just 4 miles to school.

I had to walk SIXTEEN miles in the wet, cold snow AND pay teacher for permission to come to school!

(edit: It's the Four Yorkshireman sketch. A joke, people...)
Sure, yes, didn't mean to imply schools have to do this. Just that a school can satisfy its need to look paranoid while sidestepping the problems cited in the article. The root problem isn't the schools' paranoia. It's the lack of a solid bus system.
Every message International 1 cent.. and doing nothing against the scaming is promoting deglobalization.
The post-Covid labor market shift has raised the price of school bus drivers beyond what schools are willing to pay for.
> What denomination used to be there?

Oh, baskets of mostly dollar coins, quarters, some dimes, ...
Yeah, "reasoning" just tells the AI to take an extra planning step.

In my experience, before "reasoning" became an option, if you ask it a question that takes a decent amount of thinking to solve, but also tell the model "Just give me the answer", you're FAR more likely to get an incorrect answer.

So "reasoning" just tells the model to first come up with a plan to solve a problem before actually solving it. It generates its own context for coming up with a more complete solution.

"Planning" would be a more accurate term for what LLMs are doing.
I nominate removing every restriction on intentional and unintentional radiators

This is quite an illuminating call to action, because it demonstrates the same process that lead to the current plague of anti-vax sentiment. Apparently it only takes a generation of people living with the benefit of a regulation for the essential lessons that led to the creation of the regulation to be forgotten. Sometimes it seems western civilization has indeed peaked and we are now doomed to these ever repeating cycles of ignorance.
I don't think it's that different from the private sector. I've been with my current employer for almost 7 years. The company has been sold twice with layoffs. My manager, who hired me years ago, is leaving.
You don't even need to leave the country, as these locations are very specific parts of cities in the country.
PDF is not a product. I get what you are day but I can’t say that I’ve ever liked Adobe Acrobat
reclameaqui.com.br is usually helpful.
I think a limit on screens - 1-2 hours day, plus the screen homework they are exposed to at school - to do via screen/net is reasonable as a balance to zero/saturated as the extreme
I Recreated Photoshop in C++
Different industry, but I (a long time ago) worked in a place that built scientific instruments.

> "One of every board revision we've ever produced"

The, ah, "special" people we had running engineering didn't even put in the work to be capable of the software querying the board rev. We had to play games like running certain motors past a position limit and seeing if there were limit switches there (or not) to guesstimate board revs.

I'm guessing stories like this are common.
How much money should I have in an emergency savings account?
* Certain exclusions may apply
It's not even worth the thought.
> I think on HN my contempt towards stocism itself has value here, since it invites the person reflecting on stocism to be less automatically respectful of it.

In case it's helpful to you, I'll point out that your effect on me was entirely the opposite. I'm not too positively inclined to stoicism, and I feel the Epicurean and Nietzschean critiques of it hold a lot of water. However, the tone of your top-level post made me instinctively defensive of the qualities of stoicism! I think that's because I perceived the tone of your top-level post as demonstrating something akin to what Nietzsche called ressentiment.
It’s the US. People on here are so sheltered.
Yup! Depends on what's a higher priority: Preventing catastrophic destruction of the device, OR, "protecting" some IP from ultra-small-scale piracy, even though ultimately anyone bent on piracy will be able to pirate anyway.

Clearly the latter is heavily preferred by most companies.
I never worked for Samsung, but I built TVs for JVC and LG, among many other brands. I don't work in consumer electronics anymore but a decade ago that was my field.

TVs are a wildly unprofitable business. It's astoundingly bad. You get 4-6 months to make any profit on a new model before it gets discounted so heavily by retailers that you're taking a bath on each one sold. So every dollar in the BOM (bill of materials) has to be carefully considered, and not far back the CPUs in practically every TV was single core or dual core, and still under 1GHz. Bottom of the bin ARM cores you'd think twice to fit to a cheap tablet.

They sit within a custom app framework which was written before HTML5 was a standard. Or, hey want to write in an old version of .NET? Or Adobe Stagecraft, another name for Adobe Flash on TV?

Apps get dropped on TVs because the app developers don't want to support ancient frameworks. It's like asking them to still support IE10. You either hold back the evolution of the app, or you declare some generation of TV now obsolete. Some developers will freeze their app, put it in maintenance mode only and concentrate on the new one, but even then that maintenance requires some effort. And the backend developers want to shutdown the API endpoints that are getting 0.1% of the traffic but costing them time and money to keep. Yes, those older TVs are literally 0.1% or less of use even on a supported app.

After a decade in consumer electronics, working with some of the biggest brands in the world (my work was awarded an Emmy) I can confidently say that I never saw anyone doing what could be described as 'planned obsolescence'. The single biggest driver for a TV or other similar device being shit is cost, because >95% of customers want a cheap deal. Samsung, LG and Sony are competing with cheap white label brands where the customer doesn't care what they're buying. So the good brands have to keep their prices somewhere close to the cheap products in order to give the customers something to pick from. If a device contains cheap components, it was because someone said "If we shave $1 off here, it'll take $3 off the shelf price." I once encountered a situation where a retailer, who was buying cheap set-top boxes from China to stick a now defunct brandname on, argued to halve the size of an EEPROM. It saved them less than 5c on each box made.

For long life support of the OS and frameworks, aside from the fact that the CPU and RAM are poor, Samsung, LG and Sony don't make much money from the apps. It barely pays to run the app store itself, let alone maintain upgrades to the OS for an ever increasing, aging range of products.

And we as consumers have to take responsibility for the fact that we want to buy cheap, disposable electronics. We'll always look for the deal and buy it on sale. Given the choice of high quality and cheap, most people choose cheap. So they're hearing the message and delivering.
I have literally never heard of it before this thread.
It's not like they're great at it, either. My wife is very visibly hispanic, and on multiple occasions when she went to pick up our (half white but not at all hispanic looking) kids, they'd send the wrong kids to the car because there were only two hispanic-looking kids left.
That kind of upbringing worked out really well for the boomers, we are in this mess because of that.
Kids should have agency and independence, but also a feeling of safety, trust, and security. You cannot force a kid to work against their own safety instinct because of your own selfish comfort.
Unfortunately those "solutions" don't work, the person who had a potential solution was able to at least go through the inputs, this is not the case here, you can't even go through the inputs.

I've tried all the potential solutions this morning. It seems permanent unless Samsung somehow finds some magic to fix it, especially since the soundbar won't connect to WiFi/internet and doesn't do anything with the USB plugged in.
The article mentions Japan as a comparison, where kids are also enrolled in a lot of after-school activities. They tend to get there on their own.
Have you looked at CockroachDB? PostgreSQL compatibility with modern comforts (e.g. easy cloud deployments, horizontal scaling, memory safe language)
I used to be in this camp, but when it comes down to it busses, trains, and other shared transportation options are both the past and the future. Kids from all economic backgrounds can use them at once, they are extremely space and energy efficient, and the necessity of walking the final leg to the central access point is healthier for our bodies and our communities.
Exactly. If your company's threat model considers its own customers as attackers, you're the baddies.
Probably as useful is the overview of what pgdog is and the docs. From their docs[1]: "PgDog is a sharder, connection pooler and load balancer for PostgreSQL. Written in Rust, PgDog is fast, reliable and scales databases horizontally without requiring changes to application code."

[1] https://docs.pgdog.dev/
Hi Peter, thanks for doing this over the years, when going through my own immigration journey reading through your past AMAs was a huge help.

For reference, I'm a Canadian who just moved to the US on a TN Visa and I've got a few questions:

- What would you say the percentage likelihood range is that the TN Visa is no longer an option for Software Engineers in 3 years time.

- With the news of USMCA talks reopening, is it advisable to switch to an H-1B visa?

- How long would it take for the government to eliminate the TN Visa, considering the complexity of the process?

- If the TN Visa is discontinued, is it safe to assume those already on it will be allowed to work in the US until their Visa expires?
Authentication in the Age of AI Agents
Germanwings A320. Novel Theory of the Crash
> The bar chart is pretty funny. "Over 3 miles" is the highest bucket? That's supposed to be far?

The buckets were chosen because 3 miles is farther than you'd reasonably expect kids to be able to walk to and from school every day. They say this right under the chart.

It's not helpful to do chest-thumping to compare whose farthest away from school when the entire point of the section is that 80% of people fall into that bucket.

> Necessity? I don't see what's wrong with school buses. They're just about the only practical form of mass transit in rural areas.

Again, you've missed the point of the article. In cities, students are spread out in all directions. It's not feasible for a bus to loop around an entire city to pick everyone up when they're spread all over.
His choices were bus or walk (my experiences in the car lines are from days when kids needed to picked up for an occasion) before you jump to too many conclusions.
Do any talking cats live or have their offices there?
Not a good year so far for Samsung. Just under two months ago on a large number of their TVs with voice control it started only recognizing commands in Russian. It took them several days to get that straightened out.

It was educational. I learned that I completely suck at trying to speak Russian. I could type "channel 4" into Google Translate on my iPad, press the Mic button on my TV remote, and press the speak icon on Google Translate and the channel would change.

But no matter how many times I listened to Google Translate say that in Russian I could not manage to match it close enough the TV to accept it.
Hyperbolic space indeed.
Our school system wouldn't send buses if you were within two miles of the school. We were (seriously) 1.99 miles away, so we had to drive our kids back and forth.
You have to enact protection for the schools from that, or their insurance goes insane (or refuses to be available for any money).

Where I am the school line is mainly to prevent kids from running between the cars; anyone who has been authorized can just be let free and walk home - some of whom just walk a block to where their parent is waiting.
I hate smart TVs. Why put all the functionality in one device when a small part of it is going to become obsolete real soon while the TV part will continue to work for a decade or more. I buy dumb TVs and a separate "smart" component like Roku that can be replaced as easily as a shoelace.
I think people would be surprised that there's school districts where the median home value is $1.5M, but the district can't afford any school bus service except for federally mandated school buses for special ed kids.

For those familiar with the Bay Area - Fremont: https://fremontunified.org/about/business-services/transport...
With ScrLk off, the arrow keys move the cursor (active cell). With it on, the arrow keys scroll the window contents instead.

(I believe this is actually the original purpose of ScrLk, but most applications these days don’t use it.)
Having owned a ton of Tesla stock since 2018. I can tell you that your P/E analysis is very shallow. Anyone looking to determine the value of the company should at the very least read and understand the Tesla Master Plan 3 document. Their execution vs that plan is an actual metric you can use to project the future value of the company.
What are the drawbacks of Citus/why isn't it perfect/what would you look for from a competitor/alternative?
Reading this makes me glad that I didn't give my TV the WiFi credentials.
Yup, game consoles are ground zero for this. I hit the button on the PS5 controller only to have the receiver and TV power on, then the PS4 wakes up for some reason and then switches the AVR to its input.

My Sony UHD player also seems to want to grab the input sometimes too, so maybe it's Sony that's the source of the problems haha.

And again, it's all just so maddening because it feels like it would go away if I could be like "Hey, AVR should never send power-on messages to its input devices." Because then I would just power on the device I actually want to use, it would turn on the AVR and TV, and we'd be golden.
Probably just a city, not the whole country.
People need to stop being fucking pussies and actually engage with dumb arguments. It seems people these days are so conflict averse that no one ever speaks up. "We all have our opinions!" Yeah, and sometimes they are stupid.
And outside the US this wouldn't even be a discussion, because you don't have freedom of speech. That's why people consider him a victim for being kicked out.
There's no incentive not to take unreasonable precautions.

If something happens and you didn't do everything people imagine could have prevented it, you'll be fired, you'll be sued, and your name will be dragged through the mud.

If you take a bunch of unreasonable precautions and nothing happens, you're fine.
> Yeah, this is much better than the numerous suburbs without sidewalks (such a weird thing from a European perspective)

As children in such a situation, we would have a lot of fun as pedestrians to be a nuisance to the cars that drive on the road, too. :-) Having this perspective, I rather think that the reason why sidewalks are built is because of the complaints of car drivers.
The story is that the reason Boeing got eaten by McDonnell Douglas is because the MD execs were meaner than the Boeing execs and they used their sharp elbows to take over a company that was objectively doing better than they were. And it started showing signs of unravelling on the first airplane they built under the new regime and has only gotten worse since.

The 787 did something Boeing vowed they would never ever do. They let Mitsubishi build the wings of the 787. They’ve never let a supplier do that. The wings are the heart of the airplane. I am completely amazed that Mitsubishi never progressed past commuter jets after that project (and I believe they shut that division down about 5-10 years ago). Just unfathomably dumb.

I don’t know what we in software need to learn from this. I don’t think being meaner makes anything better, but maybe more assertive is the answer.
My favorite ~75 year old BBQ place here in Pasadena has half the bar (where you'd sit and eat and socialize if you were eating alone) reserved to give space for all the take-out orders and uber-eats pickups flowing through. I see single people come in and, without a space at the bar, take a seat at a booth alone.

I don't blame restaurants for this at all, it's a tough business, but I do think it's about time we apply just an ounce of shame to people who uber-eats every meal they eat from restaurants clearly designed for eating-in. Not to rant, but take out is for the pizza place, the Indian grocery store with no seating, the tiny hole-in-the-wall Chinese place, etc. If you order a southern fried chicken plate from a nice neighborhood restaurant for delivery, shame on you. Delivery sushi? Boo and hiss!
So you’re conceding this is location dependent. So in effect you’re saying the article is also location dependent? Pick one. If you knew the statistics on kidnapping or missing children in the US, you would not think of this as a “life-style” choice. By the way, 80% of US population live in urban areas so your experience living in 20% is not representative.
So the corvids have developed punk?
It feels worth measuring formally so that the scientific community can basically treat this as a known, citable fact and have some numbers to work with.

I do wonder if the somewhat elliptical, high academic writing (“take-out” in quotes as if it’s an exotic term) and talk of a mystery being solved is to deflect criticism that this feels obvious or like a WSJ story.
From the article:

> It’s not just a message to parents, it’s the broader society.[...] A mom was recently arrested for letting her 10-year-old son walk into town. These types of incidents only fuel the school car pickup culture
Thanks Peter for the response. School's DSO seem to be less knowledgeable on the subject matter they are advising on.