skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly now most people doing "modern software engineering" are retards with no concept of real software engineering concepts.

Shitload of cardboard cto are pushing for "modern practice" to use whatever new version of whatever random dependency downloaded straight from internet.

Some persons asked why I don't like Ruff or UV for Python for example?
You start a new job, first thing you have to do after installing a serious and safe Linux distribution like debian:

Curl whateverwebsite.com/ruff/download/latest | bash --blindly-execute --like-an-idiot

-> retrieving-random-dependancy1.tgz

-> executing-random-code...

And I don't speak about the current trend with "pre-commit" where a lot of persons are ok to have automatic downloads and execution on dev machines and ci, at each commit, of hundred of really totally random plugins from random places.

But this is a cto enforced decision to have this pre-commit for software quality...
Does it really matter? At the end of the day, all the modalities and their architectures boil down to matrices of numbers and statistical probability. There’s no agency, no soul.
I get what you’re saying, but I definitely think we just view things from different perspectives. To me targeted ads signal consumerism when I think at a certain point you’ve gotta be happy with what you have. Perhaps a targeted ad can know you need to replace a broken coffee maker. But how would it know yours broke, and why can’t you repair the coffee maker yourself?

When you let marketing run things, you get what’s currently happening with Apple. A decline in software quality alongside products designed to be replaced more frequently than they need to be. It’s worse for consumers as well as the environment.

I certainly align with you on paying for YouTube premium to avoid ads. I’m perfectly happy to pay for goods and services. I just wish I could traverse my city without seeing billboards crammed everywhere and someone always trying to sell me something. It’s a wonder why I enjoy The Rolling Stones’ Satisfaction so much haha.
you either never been in India or outside of India (not Pakistan)
"We're going to end up with complete autonomy, and I think we will have complete autonomy in approximately two years." - Elon Musk (2015)
Now I want a steins gate Nixie tube for 2FA
Okay maybe I can say it's an extremely common occurrence the government doesn't sanction
An example of a recently registered domain name in .su zone:

$ whois breachlock.su
% TCI Whois Service. Terms of use:
% https://tcinet.ru/documents/whois_ru_rf.pdf (in Russian)
% https://tcinet.ru/documents/whois_su.pdf (in Russian)

domain: BREACHLOCK.SU
nserver: ns1.gohost.ru.
nserver: ns2.gohost.ru.
state: REGISTERED, NOT DELEGATED
person: Private Person
e-mail: namadagurova93@inbox.ru
registrar: REGTIME-SU
created: 2025-03-14T07:41:44Z
paid-till: 2026-03-14T07:41:44Z
free-date: 2026-04-16
source: TCI

Last updated on 2025-03-15T13:33:01Z

And you can visit nic.ru and register a new .su domain today
I have not found a way yet, even conceptually, and in our case the extra layer comes at a cost to the ux.
To overcome some of this we use
https://sdk.vercel.ai/docs/reference/ai-sdk-core/simulate-re...

To still give that streaming feel while you aren’t actually streaming.

I considered the double llm and while any layer of checking is probably better than nothing I wanted to be able to rely on a search for this. Something about it feels more deterministic to me as a guardrail. (I could be wrong here!)
Exactly, in retirement I have more time to experiment and try out different things, but cooking is not one of them, and would take time away from truly exciting things:)
Unter den Talaren..
A percentage can't quit, they are pregnant by the CEO: https://archive.is/6RwS8
Their infrastructure is iMessage protocol specific, though, and that's incompatible with whatever Google does for RCS.

So either somebody has to build some new service bridging the gap, or RCS encryption is "serverless" in the way that e.g. OTR was, but unlike Signal (which needs explicit server support for managing pre-keys to bootstrap new connections while the recipient is offline, for example).
Could it have been an allergy to something other than dust ?

I have an allergy to a specific cleaning product ingredient for instance, although I never got to know what exactly. It was not something commonly used, I never triggered it by myself and only reacted when helping cleaning a friend's house decades ago.

My kid also seems to have it, but again it only ever happened once at a shop, and no allergy test raised it (other stuff were found though)

"dust" allergy is sometimes complicated.
The relevant comparison is to an equivalent energy battery, not the tank enclosure vs fuel.
I held off for a long time and tried to find multiple ways to "make Firefox work" and eventually just gave up on that. There are multiple ways to preserve the rights of web users and Mozilla isn't doing a great job there, so stop trying to save something that isn't working and redirect those efforts into something that will.
Nerve fibers in the inner ear help compensate for hearing loss in mice
No, they're quasi-legal positions, often between private parties and undisclosed to the public, whose stipulations require further positioning that can move markets in unexpected and unexplainable ways. Hype is emotional, this is reason, albeit flawed because of incomplete information. Tesla shorts reasoned that an electric car company, a sector segment that has never been successful, was doomed; they short-sold the stock expecting never to have to close their positions, as bankruptcy would result in cancellation of Tesla's shares. That didn't happen; they didn't understand that there was a demand for the kind of vehicle Tesla sold, how much money Musk was willing to pour into the company to keep it afloat, etc. So the price rise would be a result of reconciling their bad bet with the market.
I use two forks on a daily basis - Floorp and Waterfox. Both sync FF accounts just fine.
I can recommend his introduction to energy models. It is a bit older but explains the idea very well.
I should note, some of this falls apart in the new multi modal world we are now in , where you could ask the llm to print the secrets in an image/video/audio. My similarity search model would fail miserably without also adding more layers - multi modal embeddings? In that case your double llm easily wins!
There is always something. Previously it was covid, etc.
Things are going to get more heated as the voluntary economic downturn heats up. The current protests get some coverage but we’re starting to see even the loyalists realize that they won’t be spared, and that is likely to increase protests considerably.
This seems really stupid.

A restaurant sells two basic categories of product: food/drink, and service. Labor is expended on both.

They’re ignoring service and only looking at food/drink. The split between these two products has shifted away from service. That means more labor is going into the thing they’re actually counting and less is going into the thing they’re ignoring. Wow, productivity went up!

It’s interesting that the industry has shifted to more takeout, but framing it as “surge of productivity” is ridiculous.
The hygiene theory also doesn't make 100% sense to me, I had no food allergies, no pollen allergies or asthma as a kid. Then in my late 20s, I got an egg allergy bad enough to require an epipen, as well as seasonal allergies, both out of nowhere.

I used to eat eggs several times a week, and now I have the type of egg allergy now where I can't even eat baked eggs, so no muffins, brioche bread, cookies, etc.
> Strengthen immunity by increasing contact with natural environments

My mom is a family and children's photographer. She likes to photograph kids in their backyards or in local parks, sitting in the grass. She often encounters small children who are unnerved by the feeling of grass as they have never touched it before. Also, parents will ask if their child could sit on a blanket, because the ground is dirty. I'm really curious how this attitude started. It is so alien to me.
Israel is in administrative control over that part of the land. It's not clear to me exactly how much it owes the people who reside there, who used to be Jordanian citizens and who had their citizenship stripped by Jordan.

That part of the world has never been part of a modern state. Jordan doesn't want it. The Ottoman Empire doesn't exist. There is and has never been a state of Palestine. Abu Mazen turned down an from Olmert to make it into a Palestinian state. Arafat turned down an offer from Barak.

When Jordan took control of that that territory, including East Jerusalem, the Temple Mount and the Western Wall, they expelled or murdered all Jewish citizens living there. After the second world war ethnic Germans were expelled from Czechoslovakia and Poland. Israel _didn't_ expel residents of the West Bank, after capturing it in a defensive war, and somehow that makes Israel not a democracy?
> "allow web servers to evaluate the authenticity of the device and honest representation of the software stack and the traffic from the device".

That's not in the purview of a web server to do that, and quickly falls into the territory of violating 'neutrality' and 'anti-compete' territory. (i.e. it should not be possible for Apple or Microsoft servers to show content only to Microsoft or Apple devices, because that violates the law, it prevents competing software vendors from being compatible with them).

It is strictly not appropriate for every single web server that my browser contacts to audit my software stack, just like if a bank phones me up randomly it's not appropriate for them to verify who I am — the burden is on the web server to validate and confirm that it's identity and software stack is correct, instead.

The job of a web server is to truthfully serve it's content and not to butcher or malform that content, just like a librarian. Imagine if you had to take your birth certificate and pictures of your flat's security system to a library every time you wanted to borrow a book!
Are We Inside a Black Hole? Wonky Galaxy Movements Suggest It's Possible
Americans wanted small government, and the smallest possible government is one raging asshole.
I'm wary of equating "ability to create dsls like this" with "prioritizing developer experience".

Ruby and go each prioritize different parts of the developer experience. Ruby prioritizes the experience of the author of the initial code at the expense of the experience of the maintainer who comes later. Go prioritizes the experience of a maintainer over the experience of the initial author. Both prioritize a developer, both de-prioritize a different developer, and which one makes more sense really depends on the ratio of time spent on writing greenfield code versus maintaining something another human wrote years ago who's long gone.
What's Your Type? A Reading List on Typefaces with Wild Tales to Tell
It's a great middle school book, but it doesn't really hold up all that well afterwards. I've tried to reread the series a few times as an adult and couldn't even get through the first book.
Microsoft apologizes for removing VSCode Material Theme extension
Government is an occupying force. That some people hold sympathies with the regime and even voted for it in hopes that its serves their personal interests doesn't change the nature of the monopoly on violence.
Yep. I was acquainted with a green card holder from Serbia who got accused of a war crime. He eventually was stripped of his green card and sent to Croatia to face a trial there. The basis was that he didn’t tick the “I am a war criminal” box on his green card application. He submitted to a plea agreement to be incarcerated for not ticking the box for 2 years and then was deported. (This happened back in 2015 under the Obama administration.)

Croatia gave him a fair trial and found him not guilty. Despite that he can’t ever come back to the U.S.; this situation is analogous to what the protester from Columbia is facing. Basically, USCIS can decide you lied on an application about a crime they think you committed, without actually being convicted of that crime. (Or in the case of Slobodan Mutic, eventually being found not guilty.)
I am not buying it. They said the same thing about Indian IT/BPM outsourcing. That a high quality engineer would eliminate the need for low quality armies of devs. But after 20-30 years of making that argument Cost of a Developer is what decides everything. There is nothing cost effective about requiring a nuclear power plant worth of energy to build and maintain your banking app.
Where are the ground truth images?
As the base reality of computers and the inflated reality of software have diverged more and more, education and culture has tracked the software story and led to runaway irresponsibility. Forget not optimizing for performance; I think a lot of software today straight up fails to actually serve users some way or another. And those are paying users at that!
Well, taste for a Global Interpreter Lock, at least.
In case you are unaware, the hhgttg “trilogy” is actually 5 (or 6, depending on your view) books long. “So Long, and Thanks For All The Fish” and “Mostly Harmless” are definitely worth a read!
Personally I think Microsoft was in the right. Obfuscated code like this shouldn't be in an extension, at least with out a very big warning and a red flag.
I programmed that gss thing. Fundamentally the issue is that cassowary can’t do 2d constraints and can’t do li e wraps. It’s dumb.
You wouldn’t be the only one to question that.
There is a theory that a popular children’s snack which contains peanuts is responsible for a low rate of peanut allergies in Israeli children.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19000582/
Yeah, Marketplace on NPR covered this yesterday and came to essentially the same conclusion.

It's not that productivity is genuinely up, it's that modern restaurants are providing a different product.

Takeout/delivery to eat on your couch has different economics than a full service restaurant. Phrasing it as productivity is disingenuous.
Further to the Hygiene Hypothesis based approach, add exposure to cattle. They are another common factor during evolution and have a microbial footprint unlike common pets. Over years there have been a number of studies on this, sorry to not have a list of URLs. Take your kids -- and yourselves -- to visit farms and petting zoos.

And my anecdotal input: grew up on a livestock farm, also spending a lot of time in woods and river. No allergy problems at all. Moved to a city and had annoyance-level problems ever since. Decades of observation lead me to suspect particulates (engine soot, tire dust, etc.) as significant antagonists beyond the more commonly cited biological villains. Any chemical with a big-enough stretch of molecule to match what an immune cell is using as its search key.
That’s part of the problem here. The federal government can decide by fiat that you did a bad thing before you applied for a green card and then deport you based on that.

They can also say you did a bad thing after and revoke your green card, although it’s a bit more paperwork to do so and requires a higher up to sign off on it (in this recent case, the Secretary of State himself).

I’m not aware of any country that provides blanket free speech for noncitizens.
I found their policy after a very quick search on the 'net so I'll share it with those who for whatever reason can not or do not want to perform this search:

https://www.nature.com/nathumbehav/editorial-policies/ethics...

This is quite a long piece of text so I won't quote it - just read it. It does support the premise of that City Journal article in that NHB will not publish research which they deem to trespass on 'forbidden territory' regardless of the scientific validity of such research.
Like battery emulators?
Glad it worked for you - thanks for the feedback!
I haven't gone back in a few years to read some of the puzzles and I for sure "capped out" at some point, possibly just out of fatigue, but the book To Mock a Mockingbird kind of themes all of it's problems around how birds have different songs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Mock_a_Mockingbird
Exactly. I look forward to humanity genuinely progressing towards successfully landing stuff on the moon. One day, we may even be able to land humans there! Intuitive systems is really pushing the envelope here, and I think that's worthy of admiration.
I actually love systemd like 96% of the time.

The only time I don't is when it just cannot do something, and then you need to layer the old Unix way on top of it using the wrong semantics, i.e., services that are actually complicated bash scripts which are used to do something for which systemd has specialised units, like an (auto)mount. Then it's all the pain of brittle Unix scripts, with misleading semantics, and an extra layer of abstraction and set of limitations to keep in your head.

But no, I genuinely think that systemd is great these days.

I do understand why people become irked by it becoming a dependency of programs which really should be able to function without it though.

One thing that makes it difficult is how scattered between all the different manpages the documentation is. It took me quite a lot of time and frustration to build up a decent mental model of what everything is for, when it needn't have if (ironically) the docs were just written in a less Unixy way.

But making my system feel more event-driven and less imperative has been a pleasure.
Click through to the actual paper and they are in the last column labeled “GT”.
Without a doubt it’s ‘despite being electric’ rather than ‘because they are electric’.
Its a real shame we let Americans destroy it.
I thought actions were already immutable and published to a registry, not fetched directly from their repo. TIL.

Go also uses tags for module versioning, and while go.mod or package-lock.json stop this attack from reaching existing consumers, allowing remapping of all versions to the compromised one still expands the impact surface a lot. GitHub should offer a “immutable tags” setting for repos like these.
Why don’t they just retract the bits and change them like I would on a regular drill that needs a new bit?

Is the failure mode they always or often fall off the shank into the hole and they can’t be extracted?
Maybe the universe is collapsing into a singularity but we perceive time in reverse
If Chrome cannot succeed on its own, but under Google it is an oppressive force taking over the vast majority of web marketshare, that is a textbook case for antitrust action. That is Google using its dominance in one market (search, advertising) to expand into and dominate another market (web browsers).

If a hypothetical Chrome Corp. couldn't figure out how to use the exact same data Google is harvesting with the browser to at least move in the direction of profitability, then they're hypothetically idiots.
I've just started using a legal pad and erasable pen (frixion pens are amazing) to help get my life processes better organized, and it's a great place to start and figure out what you want from these kinds of tools. For me this was better than trying the tools to see what works, I even tried Excalidraw but it's still in that category of "go back and learn how to use if I have time".

I'm still heavily leaning on the legal pad, but I've got a project in Claude to streamline this whole thing over time. It's recommended Microsoft OneNote which I completely wrote off because it seems like there must be a price for such a robust tool being free, but it is really amazing these days. Seems very smooth for mixing digital media with handwritten notes and diagrams, I'm really impressed with it. It's probably going to be where I move to from my legal pad system, since it's so similar but offers features that will help organize the notes and make them searchable, etc.

I always look at the new tools and services for these kind of things when they pop up so please share other personal systems as well!

(I'm still not sure what the price is for OneNote, but if anyone knows and it's bad, please say something)
Cuba suffers nationwide power outage
Seems like a nice result but wouldn’t have hurt for them to give a few performance benchmarks. I understand that the point of the paper was a quality improvement, but it’s always nice to reference a baseline for practicality.
This is something I plan to do eventually! I use a Chromium-based browser on a day-to-day basis, so that was what I wanted to tackle first.
Argentina is being oppressed by corruption, not the US or any other nation.
To avoid the Panama Canal, Relativity Space may move some operations to Texas
Home price rises are piling on pressure and adding to intergenerational strife
I believe it's more that Douglas Adams was a huge procrastinator.
Which you can do 3 years after marriage (in the case of Khalifa), and it’s recommended to do so.

The main reason people don’t is because they don’t want to be filing U.S. tax returns the rest of their life if they plan to eventually move back to another country. I have relatives who have made such a decision.
amazing! there are a couple settings here where it sounded like how i wish the String engine on my old OP-1 sounded. the random setting is really fun
What is determined to be success?
They're largely not charging end users for it anymore because the cost is just too low these days, true, but as I understand that's still how the pricing model evolved.

> you can keep your same mobile number when you change carriers no matter what the original region was

Yes, but only because all carriers have physical or at least logical/rented infrastructure in effectively all "rate centers" [1]. The call still goes to whatever rate center your number corresponds to (barring other agreements, I assume, e.g. the originating and terminating carrier having VoIP interconnectivity).

That's very different in countries that have dedicated prefixes for mobile numbers: The originating carrier can immediately detect the target network (instead of target region) from the prefix and route the call to the nearest interconnection point between the two.

This means that the terminating carrier usually carries the traffic for the longest geographic stretch, something for which they usually/historically got to bill the originating carrier via interconnection fees. Today, these fees are either gone or nominal/heavily regulated, but the more efficient routing is still a factor for reliability.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rate_center
Thanks for taking the time to comment. Not that it wasn't there before this, but this incident highlights a lot to take into consideration with respect to securing one's supply chain going forward.
Kill SaaS Manifesto
So that's about 467 eur per month per server assuming a 5 year term. Anyone know what it would be on AWS with Aurora? I had a quick go with https://calculator.aws/ and ended up with a 5-figure sum per month.
This interface needs to have a better relationship with streaming, there is always a lag in response and a lot of people are going to want to stream the response in non blocking threads instead of hanging the process waiting for the response. Its possible this is just a documentation issue, but either way streaming is a first class citizen on anything that takes more than a couple seconds to finish and uses IO.

Aside from that the DSL is quite excellent.
> Not my problem as a buyer.

Mentioning that certificates expire was directed against GP’s unreasonable demand that the vendor "do not touch the backend service." This doesn’t have to do anything with the buyer.