skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First I'm not advocating it - I'm saying it's inevitable - because if you want to not change society away from a model where people are responsbile for their actions, then you need enable that accountability.

It's a bit like in the good-old days of the internet when everyone trusted everyone else - life was simple and good. Then the bad actors came, and so did SSL, firewalls, n factor auth etc etc. Search engine results became less good as people gamed the rankings.

You have to adapt.

In Europe we take a different view from America - in America mass school shootings are a price worth paying for the right to own a gun. In the UK there is a presumption that they really isn't any good reason for owning a handgun, nevermind an assault rifle, so it's pretty hard to get one.

Freedom is multi-dimensional - and not absolute. I'm free of worrying my child will be shot at school, but less free to own a gun.

Same goes for freedoms on the internet - in the end it's about a pragmatic choice about what's best and I'm saying that pragmatic choice is already encapsulated in centuries of legal tradition - the internet doesn't change that - people, in the end, need to be accountable for their actions.
Lol, cost plus contract? The US tax payer is going to get fleeced by boeing yet again. Remember when they stranded astronauts on the IIS because their vehicle couldn't do the job?
Got a link? Stanford is positive about unemployment. I haven't seen any cases where that strongly failed.
Now imagine getting by with a lot less. That's what UBI-only would be like.

I assume your main problem is that you're in a high cost of life area. A national UBI would almost certainly be set at a level appropriate for a median area. If you want to not work and maintain your standard of living you'd likely have to move to a low COL area.
Evolving this line of thought further, if you do not want to disconnect from the grid, there's also an option to participate in the electricity market.

Someone with a battery can buy up cheap electricity at night or whenever their electricity supplier deems it off-peak and thus cheap, so a battery can heavily influence the average price of energy as calculated here by Michael de Podesta: https://protonsforbreakfast.wordpress.com/2025/02/16/the-mos...

The other way to participate in the electricity market is that in EU the end users can access a plan that in some way reflects day-ahead market prices. If you have a battery, you can now buy the midday solar dip around 0 eur/mwh energy plus network charges and sell at the evening price of 300 eur/mwh.
Always beware the word should. I agree with Dijkstra's logic in the context that he presents it, but there are other contexts where I don't think it applies.

Personally, I find that in compiler writing, which is the only programming I do these days, the only things I use indexes for are line numbers and character offsets into strings. Calling the first character the zeroth character is ridiculous to me, so I just store a leading 0 byte in all strings and then can use one based indexing with no performance hit. Alternatively, since I am the compiler writer, I could just internally store the pointer to the string - 1 to avoid the < 1 byte per string average overhead (I also machine word align strings so often the leading zero doesn't affect the string size in memory).

If you are often directly working with array indices, you are likely doing low level programming. It is worth asking if the task at hand requires that, or if you would be better off using higher level constructs and/or a higher level language. Low level details ideally should not leak into the application level.
If only search engines weren't also in the business of inserting unverifiable AI assertions into our information ecosystem.
1. No reason why contractors have to be the only laborers. You could pay regular people to build them, as was done in the Depression.

2. This would potentially lead to inflation in the construction market, not the housing market as a whole.

3. Even then, the increased amount of work would likely increase the labor pool.

4. And any of these effects would probably be temporary, as it's not like the housing units would need to be reconstructed yearly.

But honestly, this whole debate is entirely uninteresting to me and was only an offhand comment in my original comment. Shame that no one seems interested in the artistic part, only the drab economic one.
The benefit is not just "cheaper" it's more safety, faster commutes, better infrastructure investments and tax revenue.
This article is one my pet peeves. It always shows up in discussions as "proof" that 0 indexing is superior, but it hides under the carpet all the cases the where it is not. For instance, backwards iteration needs a "-1" and breaks with unsigned ints.

for (i=N-1; i>=0; i--)

I like the argument that 0-based is better for offsets and 1-based is better for indexes: https://hisham.hm/2021/01/18/again-on-0-based-vs-1-based-ind...
Latin "Terra" actually meant "dry", so it was the proper term for dry lands, as opposed to seas and oceans. For instance, "continent" is an abbreviation for "terra continens", i.e. dry land that is contiguous. Spanish "tierra" and the cognate words in the other Romance languages, which usually correspond to English "land", have remained closer to the original meaning of the word.

The entire planet was very seldom, if ever, referred as "Terra". The correct Latin word for the entire planet was "Tellus" (whence the adjective "telluric"), whose likely meaning was "support" in the sense "the earth that supports us on it".
Not op. But to refute 'You make it sound like employees are perfect and communicate transparently at all times' and 'surprises, a managers worst friend'.

Modern workplaces forced quarterly reviews, thus there should be no surprises.
In practise reviews actively prohibit employees from communicating transparently.
I've also had success with this method.
"domain-specific GC" is a fitting term.
> What's the defence against a swarm of drones apart from jamming them?

It's the same as the defense against a large air raid, except the targets are a little different:

+ Size of targets
+ Speed of targets
+ Altitude of targets
Whenever I look at a new project on github, the first thing I do is try to get to the "core" of the source code, where the actual code that implements the basic feature actually lives.

One quality metric that I've noticed my brain has developed over the years is how deep in the directory hierarchy I have to dive to finally find some actual code amidst the mess of config files, readmes, yaml things, json metadata and various other crap that carry essentially no semantic.

It's been surprising how accurately this metric measures the overall quality of the project.

Large Java codebases are one of the worst offenders in that regard.

Unfortunately by this metric, and independent of anything else, this project does not fare well at all ... I give you my first attempt at actually finding the code, depth=

https://github.com/mnfst/manifest/blob/master/packages/core/...

depth=6 below project top dir (ignoring github-added crap)
Given the size of Apple and these orgs, plausible. Siri also had a bunch of folks that came in from outside, through acquisitions, and did their own thing or tried to identify themselves and their roles as something different from Apple norms.

Apple had teams involved with AI/ML in several divisions also, from AI/ML (including Siri), TDG/VPG, SPG...
Specialize in laaarge catapults to shoot the stuff from Onkalo into whomevers big mouth.

Splat!
> He thought that there is a big gap in our knowledge of survival and recovery.

Well, you don't want to know how far you can safely bend over the cliff before falling down. I think attempts to gain such knowledge in a practical way should be explicitly banned.
Show HN: Play Snake or Tetris on Cursor
Got bored waiting for the AI agent to finish coding on cursor, so put together an extension to play some arcade games - currently Tetris and Snake.

Put together a DB to track high scores across all participants.

Maybe plan to support challenging friends with a split screen. Or just improve the current games (definitely a bit rough around the edges). Lmk what you would like.

Hope it helps you fill those productive lulls.

Happy gaming
It's always fun when you make something only to realize it already exists. It's a pain that I'm sure you know as well.
Open web is dead, fight is lost. Walled gardens, curated by humans, are your only hope for valuable/meaningful content.
Going to hard disagree with most of this. At any giant company with tons of executives (the article talks about the "Top 100" alone), if you didn't have at least some misfires then it probably means you're being too conservative. If anything, I give Apple props for making management changes relatively quickly when things aren't working out.

For example, I have the exact opposite view of the forcing out of Scott Forstall, which after reading what I think are fairly accurate descriptions of what went down was absolutely the right thing to do IMO. Forstall refused to own up to failures under his watch, which is an absolutely toxic trait in leadership (side note, when you're at that level it doesn't matter if the failure was "your fault", you still need to take responsibility for what happened, identify the root cause and make changes to reduce the possibility of it happening in the future). I am not an iPhone user, but every time the issue of Apple Maps comes ups, people say they love using it and that it's improved leaps and bounds over the years since Forstall was forced out.
UTC? ET?
Not gonna get there with RAG based on vector spaces…. You need to integrate old-school A.I., database queries and the like for that to be reliable enough to not be a laughing stock. An LLM can use tools to set that up, but you need to build on existing technologies and face down the Gödel, Turing and scaling problems that come with it.
10x is purely on payroll, which is not that great. there are a lot of other things you have to account for. There are companies that do 100x or more.

the other commenter said it better: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43436688
A business that functions on efficiently delivering services to Manhattan would likely benefit from getting there faster in exchange for some cost increases.

I'm sure any repairman would rather be doing 2x repair jobs in the time it'd take to do one + sitting in traffic for an extra thirty minutes. Most don't get paid to drive between jobs.
And they show those patterns first. You had to take an example that is clearly about script permissions and misrepresent it. Yeah, it's not opinionated, it's fact. That's how it works...
I think it was all about "having excuses" for one's bad decisions, to avoid taking responsibility. lol.
https://www.openresearchlab.org/studies/unconditional-cash-s...
It's nearly impossible to have an idea that is truly novel and has no prior art. Even if it isn't the exact same thing, you can see the ideas that inspired this one. All of us are standing on the shoulders of giants all the time.

But you've missed a couple of reasons why Rust rewrites are popular. Rewriting in Rust is proven path to better performance (Python codebases pandas -> polars, black -> ruff) or better security. C/C++ codebases like FreeType being rewritten in Rust for security (https://developer.chrome.com/blog/memory-safety-fonts). What should people looking for performance or security do to mollify you?

You are asking why aren't completely new ideas being implemented in Rust? They are. Check out https://rerun.io. I could be mistaken, but I haven't seen anything similar to rerun. And that was implemented in Rust. Maybe these aren't visible because there genuinely are so few things that are completely novel.
This is the kind of twee, midwestern robotics research that we all need today.
Using an array as a heap is also easier with 1-based indexing:

base-element := some-vector[i];
left-child := some-vector[i * 2];
right-child := some-vector[i * 2 + 1];

where the root element is `some-vector[1]'.
Whoever decided to downvote a thread on the Hitchhikers Guide of all things rather than join the conversation is an embarrassment to the profession.
Thank you for your response. After reading all these replies, I clearly understood that COBOL is not as accessible as it might seem from a (very) distant professional perspective. I was just curious to learn more. However, these posts mention quite a lot that it is still a good language to learn.
You're correct. I imagine the parent poster may be using an pre-Iphone 15 Pro so not be aware.
Cars have literally destroyed the walkability of every hometown in America, and are a major factor in accidents and death. Us poors bore the brunt of all you car-money having losers.
The missing piece, is that film was expensive, and few carried cameras around with them.

Unless you were on vacation, or going to a memorable event, it was rare for a person to have a camera on them in the 60s. They didn't easily fit in pocket. And rarer still for someone to spend a few bucks taking photos of unimportant things.

(Film and development costs both were not cheap in the 60s)

Most people only had 15 or 20 shots in their cheap camera, and wanted to save them for the party or event.

It's not like there were endless professional photographers wandering around.
>The new request comes after the California Public Utilities Commission, which Gov. Gavin Newsom's administration oversees, approved six rate increases for PG&E in 2024.

>PG&E also reported a record $2.47 billion in profits in 2024, which was an increase from an earlier record that was set in 2023.

Well that's all I needed to see. If an increase every two months and setting a new profit record every year isn't enough then maybe someone else should be in charge of this. Maybe the people who need this should be in charge of this, not someone whose sole purpose is to squeeze those people for as much as possible.
You can look up what tech people make, and what houses on the Peninsula cost. There is very little overlap.
Driving is highly elastic and among economists this is well-known and beyond serious dispute. A regularly updated review of the literature is available at https://www.vtpi.org/elasticities.pdf
Funny how competition and a free market makes it all possible
They build datacentres in/near London and also elsewhere in the country.

Here's one example map: https://www.colo-x.com/data-centre-database-map/
Ah that is interesting. I didn't realize that. Is Patreon then allowed to basically act like a bank? Where they can invest the cash that's currently sitting in a Patreon account? Essentially, everyone leaving money in Patreon is giving them a micro-loan

A somewhat related feature of Liberapay is there's a lot of flexibility in the frequency of your payments. You can enter in $5/week but it will suggest a payment frequency that minimizes fee. E.g. paying $21.43 every 30 days instead.
Investors were worried Musk was AWOL from Tesla because of the DOGE thing and have been asking for a response from him. They got it.
On the aggregate this cancels out, but on the micro level this is just a kind of wealth transfer from the poor to the investor/retiree class, not too different from a tax on the young and less fortunate. The rich boomers are getting their retirement subsidized by screwing over the working class and the younger generation, pretty on brand I'd say.
I'm not sure "lose your freedoms because it's better for you and less ugly" is a winning pitch.

It'd be better to make sure that people can still access the things they want conveniently while minimizing the harms. I think it's a good thing to improve and promote public transportation by making them the more attractive option rather than just punish drivers and restrict their options until they have no choice but to settle for something less than what they have.
Also note that there is a critical difference in how they talk to the OS:

* VNC (and other non-RDP solutions like TeamViewer etc): fully independent application, does not change how Windows works because it's effectively just an interactive screen recorder running for your user account.

* RDP: is an actual Windows remote user session that hijacks the computer (so a local user can't see what's happening) and hooks directly into Windows with its own device bindings and login properties (e.g, you can't just click start -> shut down, instead you need to command-line your way to victory).

If you want to remote into a machine that's playing audio without interfering with that, RDP is flat out not an option. Even if you pick "leave audio on the remote", the fact that RPD forces windows to use a different audio device is enough to interfere with playback.
Are you saying you, as a manager, are running a group so poorly that you have enough churn to where retention makes up a large percentage what you work on day to day?

Or are you saying your company treats/pays employees so poorly that there is significant turnover throughout the organization? And instead of generally treating/paying employees better they rather have middle management spend a significant amount of their time discussing retention?

And you are choosing to highlight this as something IC's should appreciate that management has to deal with?
I'd like to hear what a judge has to say about those definitions. Spray painting a wall could be considered terrorism under that definition
In fact most industry have marginal cost which is zero or otherwise negligible, as was remarked by French economist Maurice Allais in his discussion about the train to the city of Calais.

Think about a restaurant: the food has been bought and will rot if not sold, the cook and the waiter are being paid and so is the rent, so the only truly marginal cost in such a scenario is the cost of the energy needed for the stove or the oven (and only for dishes that get cooked at the last minute and not upfront), which is negligible compared to all of the upfront costs.
Investor owned utilities have more access to capital. The credit union / non-profit / co-op / municipal alternative is not an automatic win for customers.
You're so off balance on here. How is safer public transit a penalty on the poor? If you're so concerned with the poor I hope you are pro making public transit free for low income residents. I doubt you are though.
Wow. Almost all the comments argue about whether this is a national security issue.
>as higher rates won’t be approved

Won't they, though? It seems like a rubberstamping process at this point.
I searched Google using "inurl:/llms.txt" and mostly found blogs talking about it but there are a few real world cases apparently. There is probably a better way to search for it. My search skills are awful. If there was a way to add a limit to type "text/plain" that might weed out the blogs.
Even your response is echoing my observation, going on about him. Whoever really sought to defeat him should have been focused on proffering a cohesive, affirmative platform.

For the record I’m not a fan of his on many issues but it’s still fascinating to see millions of people endorse a failing strategy and after it completely blew up in their face just keep pursuing it.
And others still will not have heard of either and would think the clubs are pronounced like the historic culture
Lisp take on generating an embedded VM at runtime/ad hoc basis (vs. polymorphic coding)?

How would use the most recent 'trie of lisp git diffs' differ from command to do a system call fork of lisp / duplicate lisp lists / apply 'diffs' to forked system call of lisp?

Perhaps, lisp concurrency support without a system()/debugger.[1]

(humor) To bad iLisp would be confused with other brand name(s).

[1] : Evil Scheduler: Mastering Concurrency Through Interactive Debugging : http://aoli.al/blogs/deadlock-empire/
In the context of how phones today are built, air gaps are pretty much never the right answer to a thermal concern. At best, an air gap is what you allow when the budget cannot accommodate a better solution. If you have a component you need to keep cool, it's probably because it puts out a fair bit of heat on its own, so you want to thermally couple it to its surroundings. If you have a component you don't mind getting warm, you use it as part of the path for heat to be conducted from the big heat generators out to the surface of the phone.
Is it me or do attempts to generalize career development across companies seem futile?

The concrete example here I can give is working at one company where "Manager" meant you had 10+ direct reports and were expected to do almost no technical work. Versus a second company where "Manager" meant you had 4-5 directs and were doing significant amount of technical work. The path from IC to Manager at company 1 had almost no commonalities with company 2 despite similar-sounding titles.

I guess what I am saying is that promotion ladders are so tightly integrated with company norms that attempting to seek outside advice on "how do I get to the next level" seems useless.

Edit: To rephrase more succinctly - Are articles like TFA useless or do I not know how to interperet them?
A man behind new SF Giants part-owner Sixth Street
No? I'm not sure I follow. I wouldn't say Apple wasn't made by technical people either. Saying technical people frequently ignore the importance of design does not mean that anyone who recognizes the importance of design is non technical
Yes, but that amount of air is going to contain a rather insignificant amount of radon atoms. And as I said, even alpha particles emitted inside the camera have little hope of actually making it to the sensor, which is sandwiched between several layers of filters and the backside electronics and the camera chassis. (4He nuclei from space, making up around 10% of cosmic rays, on the other hand can have enough energy to penetrate the atmosphere and up to tens of meters of solid matter, so you might certainly capture some of those, besides the muons.)
There are certainly plenty of areas in Mexico that are dangerous (typically along the US border and drug routes), but it's not as though everywhere in the country is more dangerous than everywhere in the US. E.g., I've been to academic conferences in plenty of US cities that rank among the most dangerous in the world (Baltimore, Oakland, Philly, etc.), [0] as well as Mexico City, which decidedly does not rank among the most dangerous -- let alone the resort destinations. The reality is, "family on vacation murdered in cartel territory" is going to draw a lot more media attention than "family on vacation robbed in New Orleans" or "overwhelming majority of families have perfectly safe vacations". You can't judge by sensationalist articles how safe a place actually is, let alone an entire nation the size of Mexico.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_by_homicide_rat...
> The thing is a guy helping out via mentoring 10 other people or recruiting >better talent will create much more impact on how the company functions than if he wrote 2x better code or 2x faster. There is simply in almost all engineering effort a hard limit of how much a single person can contribute.

Very debatable. Not at all true where I work ( worked ). Better code clearly larger impact on larger timeframes ( think 5+ year ) that perpetually retraining incoming juniors.
The F-35 has been operational for years, and has already been in combat. How is it not "finished"?
That's true, although there's a pretty strong overlap of UBI proponents and supporters of pro-immigration policies.

If you want to say, "Of course UBI can't work if we allow whoever wants it to move here and receive it," I agree, but that's often not a qualifier made by proponents.
If half the financial sector is in the plane somehow, and they decide “oh, the airport has a power outage, better crash into the ocean instead,” that might make a major difference. More likely they will go land at a different airport or delay their travel, depending on there they are in the process.

It’s just delays, not destruction.
Here you go, champ, this is about to rock your world:

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