skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I still think that your argument of "conveying most important information first" is really something that should be tackled through the title, but I agree with the rest.
never experienced this as a us citizen and I travel often. usually it is a polite "welcome home", otherwise it's a bored "ok you're good"
> it has obvious socialism / communism design influences

Which website are you looking at?

Unless I'm mistaken, the website is https://uvw-cwa.org/ and it isn't even red, have no hammers/sickles, and mostly talks about "stronger together", which fair enough, I guess could give some knee-jerk reaction about socialism if you don't believe in working together with others.
I think the comparison of an industry of solar panels and batteries to one of the harvesting of living animals is not a very valuable one. Just as one example: you can improve the efficiency of solar panel and/or battery technology and the manufacturing processes but you can't do the same with cows. You could however move away from the breeding of living animals and instead improve something like lab grown meat which might have more overlap with technologies like solar panels.

You have to recognize that the scale of demand for meat REQUIRES the conditions you find in factory farms. You do not get to keep the same demand while having it all come from Happy Healthy Farm™ for a wide variety of reasons.
1. i can install any apk i want

2. i can transfer files by just plugging in my phone to any usb

3. better battery, i can go to 0% plug in and in 30 seconds turn my phone on. on iphone i have to wait at least 30 minutes.

4. actual innovation in hardware like a foldable
Launch HN: Modernbanc (YC W20) – Modern and fast accounting software
Hey HN! We're the team behind Modernbanc (https://modernbanc.com). Today we’re introducing our modern accounting software designed for startups and small businesses. Here’s a demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLkJ-6liTNU

If you're familiar with the issue tracker Linear, think of it as Linear for accounting software. It is fast, works offline, and saves you time with automated bookkeeping, accounting and invoicing.

This is our third pivot. Previously, we built infrastructure like a ledger API and payments vault to help companies create fintech products.

For this idea, our motivation came from two completely opposite experiences: using Linear and using Quickbooks. The difference in quality between the two products was shocking, and despite there being dozens of accounting tools, none come even close to the quality of Linear, Notion, or Figma.

With Linear, I’ve heard stories of engineers threatening to quit if their company switches to another tool! With Quickbooks it takes me so long to get to the right page that sometimes I forget why I opened it.

This was baffling to us because accounting is the core system of every business—it tells you what you have, what you made, and whether you’ll still be around in 12 months.

To solve this, we took a Linear-like approach, focusing on speed and quality from day one. For example, we built our own in-house real-time sync engine to ensure it’s lightning fast, works offline, and keeps your business finances at your fingertips.

Modernbanc is still early and doesn’t have every feature yet, but we believe we’ve built a long-term foundation for the best accounting software in the world. It even includes a built-in spreadsheet so you’re never limited in reporting.

Although early, the software is already useful and helps founders: Automate bookkeeping effortlessly. Transaction rules and AI smart actions handle the work for you. Get answers to any question, including runway, burn, and custom budgets, all in one place; Create and manage invoices. Our AI will auto-match incoming payments to them; Be tax-ready with all the data available for seamless tax filing. And if you don’t have an accountant, we’ll find you one!

We’ll have more releases in the coming weeks including receipts matching, payroll integrations and AI-powered report generation.

We’ve just launched (mainly focusing on smaller US-based startups) and would love your feedback! Please give it a go at https://modernbanc.com (you’ll see a demo workspace once you sign-up).

We’d love your feedback! If you’ve ever been frustrated by accounting software, what has been the worst part? What features are missing? Have you ever had to rely on a spreadsheet because your accounting tool could not do what you needed? We are still early, so your input will help shape what we build next. If you have thoughts, frustrations, or ideas, we would love to hear them!
OP, are you the author? If so there are a few typos I'd like to help you fix.

Regarding the article, I'm a little bit shocked that unit testing is part of the conversation at all. Firstly, I would consider unit testing to be an intrinsic part of software development, not a separate process with separate tooling that got tacked on as an additional task (like, for instance, needing to learn how to use Kubernetes).

There's a lot to complain about in the industry regarding tooling complexity, but the author doesn't actually get into it at all. The only thing they seem to go into detail about is how unit testing makes writing code more difficult / slow, and a paragraph on React.

And then there's this 'graph -- and while relatable, it has nothing to do with the general thesis:

> A big gripe I have with how software developers are often expected to operate is that they are often told what the requirements for the software are by a BA or some other liaison between them and the business [...]

Yes, this is an incredibly frustrating part of software development, but again, it doesn't have anything to do with tooling and all the software surrounding actually writing code, which is what the article seems to have been about originally.
The next issue, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1922358 is from October 2nd 2024
Well, Halo 3 isn't on that list either.

And I see a handful of games released since 2020 on that list.

It also only deals with games that are sold. Whereas games like Genshin Impact have a massive worldwide audience and yet aren't going to show up on that list.
I remember the commercial for this. It was very dramatic in promoting how CueCat would change the world, but in a sort of cheezy techno-futuristic setting.
This is my understanding (both that that can occur, and that it does not count as memory safe).

I called out the types I did in my post specifically because they're the types where data races can result in arbitrary memory corruption (in the actual implementation, the spec is arguably not even that strict). Per https://go.dev/ref/mem#restrictions (the same linke as in Steve's reply to me)
Teaching Is a Good Way to Learn
meh.

I wouldn't confuse plaintiffs with attorneys in class action cases.

Class action settlements are generally attorney paydays, rarely class member paydays. That goes for everything from industrial pollution settlements to discrimination settlements.
If it helps you remember, it appears that the "md" in "mdfind" stands for "metadata" [0]

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotlight_(Apple)#macOS
Designing Data-Intensive Applications in 2025 [video]
From a sequence modelling perspective it was common to train models for language translation (long before LLMs) on the assumption that, over a long text, the cursor in one document follows the cursor in another document. There seems to be a limited amount of variation between grammars of different languages [1] but one of those variations is that you can basically reverse the words in a sentence.

[1] see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_grammar
To the contrary, that's the entire premise of government regulation and spending.

Most people aren't going to voluntarily send money to the FDA, Social Security, or Medicare, or the courts, or the military, out of the goodness of their hearts. Left to their own devices, they'll freeload. But we all agree these things are important (as evidenced by how we vote), so we pay for them with mandatory taxes.

So your idea that something is nonsensical "if the vast majority aren’t willing to use their wallets to back this or that" doesn't hold water at all. Most people won't use their wallets to back anything, if it's left up to them as individuals.
By the same numbers "Latinx+" are actually over-represented at Google and white people underrepresented. Neither by a large amount though.

With how close the numbers actually are I wonder if the different biases of different HR people and hiring managers actually cancelled out pretty well.
There would be far fewer bugs if people actually stick to writing code like that.

I once had to reverse engineer (extract the spec from the code) a C++ function that was hundreds of lines long. I have had to fix a Python function over a thousand lines long.

I am sure the people who wrote that code will find ways to make life difficult with Rust too, but I cannot regret having one less sharp knife in their hands.
Reading through the Chromium bug report, it looks like the reporter wasn't able to get in contact with Mozilla until February, so after they were aware it only took a month to fix the bug in Firefox. It's unclear when they started trying, and who's fault the delay is.
> with intelligence comparable to dogs

Pigs are thought to be closer to toddlers in intelligence and they can use tools without any human help. Personally, I never eat them. Too weird.
IIUC word tearing in Java cannot cause arbitrary memory corruption. Any read is guaranteed to see either the old value, or the new value, or half of each. Since these are just numbers we're talking about, not pointers, and the language doesn't otherwise allow memory-unsafe things like pointer arithmetic, a data race resulting in word tearing in Java can at worst result in a runtime crash or a logic bug, not arbitrary memory corruption.

By contrast, in Go, all it takes to cause full-blown undefined behavior, in the same sense as C or C++ or Rust, is accessing an interface/map/slice value in a racy way, not having the race detector on, and being sufficiently unlucky.

I agree that in practice this doesn't stop people from calling Go a memory-safe language. I think it's reasonable to argue that this statement is just wrong. That said, I think the Carbon people once said something along the lines of, in their experience, it's rare in practice for memory corruption bugs in C++ to be caused solely by data races. So a language that's memory-safe in single-threaded contexts, but where concurrency is not memory-safe, is "good enough". Maybe it's the same in Go.

I am still suspicious of this, though. Maybe it's just that concurrent operations are rarer in general because they're so famously hard to get right, and this makes it less likely that you'll have one that's exactly the right kind of wrong to cause memory corruption. Certainly it seems at odds with the notion that you want the exceptions to memory safety to be auditable.
America Chose Not to Beat Sputnik into Space
Incredible story with a great ending. This used to be an apex HN discussion. It's so sad to see it devolve into a partisan flame war.
When the people in charge are acting like the dumbest bully from my grade school, then yes, it does sound like valid critism and a legitimate point of discussion.
There may well be multiple local minimums that get reinforced through habituation.
The point that started my original response. Explaining a new, apparently hypocritical, propensity to trust such government actions. Whether any of us agree with it or not, is irrelevant to the explanation of why it has happened.
inheritance, I'm hoping in the next month. With that I'd find a roommate situation for like $600 (average)... then work on freelancing, etc.

My depression is I believe in remission and I've built resiliency skills. I might be getting a sales job soon, selling astroturfing and rock scaping to homeowners.

It's door to door sales but the pay is good if I can actually set appointments. Plus I'm working on overcoming rejection sensitivity and overthinking, I think sales could help with that..
Are you confusing overtime and on-call?

Nobody's going to pay you 1.5 your hourly rate to just sit and wait until something happens. Is that really a thing?

Now if you are called and spring into action, there may be time-and-a-half, if it's outside of your regular hours.
> And a country like Morocco has an average IQ of around 67. Average!

I don't think that this claim is credible. It comes from Lynn & Becker, who also have Nepal's average IQ at 43,[1] which is in the range where someone with that IQ would be considered mentally disabled, with limited capacity for independent life. That cannot be reconciled with the employment rate in Nepal. And according to Lynn & Becker, the average person from Nepal, Liberia and Sierra Leone has an IQ that puts them in that category.

1. https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/average-i...
Agree that's what we're trying to do at chatsheet.com

Program in "plain english" but as powerful as writing code
Is the FreeType2 test suite public? It looks like the project's tests/ directory only contains a script for downloading a single font [1]. They have a fuzz test repo with what appears to be a corpus of only a few hundred tests [2]. For critical infrastructure, like FreeType, I'd expect hundreds of thousands if not millions of tests, just like SQLite [3].

[1] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/freetype/freetype/

[2] https://github.com/freetype/freetype2-testing/

[3] https://www.sqlite.org/testing.html
Chladni Patterns Generator
note: in the above, I meant 'zstd', not 'zlib'.
I wouldn't call a 16 year old game particularly modern.

I would probably say the OP was commenting more on Western gaming, as that's the pattern (see UbiSoft's consecutive string of failures, for example). Games like Elden Ring, Animal Crossing, and Cyberpunk came out of popular non-Western gaming.

The only Western games in that list for the last 6 years are Call of Duty games and Hogwarts Legacy, which was good, although from what I remember vilified by Western media for helping enrich JK Rowling.
Quantum baby!
The dodgy contractors take a markup for taking the risk away from employers. A lot of them are criminals with connections to people smugglers, are both willing and able to get away with things someone with a more legitimate business would not. They are a layer of plausible deniability.
I trust open source code I can see and compile and control. :)

How is "trusting wiz" (trusting some icons on website controlled by wiz leading to publicly inaccessible reports, half of which are done by a single company somewhere in Florida) related to what Google might do with it after aquisition?
The wage fixing case settlements were about that small, despite there being no shortage of merits for that case.
Hey, so I live in St George.... crazy small world - my email is on my profile.

I work at the new Kiln co working space (they also have hotdesks), send me an email and let's connect
I get the "joke"

My point is that its not a scheme and no damn politician is going to take social security away from us. And I and most others disagree with changing it to not be universal
Abortion, LGBTQ rights, and immigration are inherently deeply emotional issues, but that doesn't in itself make them partisan. It increases the risk that they will become partisan, but often enough and in enough places they have not been. Politicians—not just on one side or even on just two sides—generate support for themselves personally and for the political class as a whole by converting them into partisan issues. Venkatesh Rao has written a very thought-provoking analysis of the current dynamics of the situation in https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2020/01/16/the-internet-of-beefs/.
> except that imo phones are still not, and never will be, a viable alternative to laptops

For our kinds of uses, I completely agree. But for a lot of people, most if not all of their computer usage is done inside a web browser.

For example, my mum sold her laptop because she never used it and, being a nontechnical individual, finds a phone much less confusing to use and maintain than a laptop.
And its why I am posting from a throwaway account as well.
I think you’re right about that and the semantics of it and that’s exactly the problem. The US approached Afghanistan as a battlefield, and a purely military problem.
It was irregular warfare and a political problem that ground the US down.

https://irregularwarfare.org/articles/learning-from-failure-...
Sailors used to die from scurvy in large numbers, before a connection to diet was discovered. People aren’t as smart as you claim.
The device being authenticated is the one that I scan the QR code off of, isn't it?

The problem here seems to be that implementations don't check whether a QR code has, in fact, been legitimately scanned at all.
Wow. This is really cool. After reading the headline, I was expecting to see it and think 'meh, why not just use Anki and the Ultimate Geography deck'.

I was wrong!

But the fact I get credit for knowing roughly where a country is, and then it zooms in, is a great idea. And well implemented.

I am going to try this for a bit and, if it works well, I'll ask my son (8yo) to consider adding it to his daily habits.
Thanks for your explanations. It would be lovely if primary sources and data were some kind of ground truth with a capital T. But no: they are often messy first pass experiments. If we knew what we were doing it would not be research ;-) A dose of Ian Hacking or Paul Feyerabend or Nancy Cartwright could be curative.
If you are in the US, unaffordable residential solar is by design. First, there's the fragmented permitting scheme, second there's the boom-and-bust regulatory process of making it a financial winner or loser based on the PUC and utility whims of the years (and typically the utility wins and solar is uneconomical). This means that the successful solar installers are those that swoop in to a state/region when solar is a good financial idea, and install a ton, until it's made less of a good idea by the PUC. Then the solar installer needs to move on to other areas. The installers who succeed in this environment are the ones who spend a ton of money on customer acquisition; a few years ago I heard this was north of 30% of the costs of solar installers.

Australia does it right. First, they allow a global free market of panels, second they have uniform and cheap permitting, third they have consistent policy on interconnection of the panels to the grid. IIRC US residential solar is typically >$3/kw, and it's usually $1/kW or less in Australia.
Try User groups and Industry conferences. You can meet all kind of interesting company people at their booths.
It doesn't make any sense for it to depend on individual consumers

I’m trying to think of a single example where one of these “vote with your wallet” certification movements have ultimately triumphed and become the new norm… I can’t think of one. Organic might be the biggest success, but even then it’s just an alternative, not a consumer-preference-driven revolution in all commercial agriculture.
The standard is EDID-DDDB, and subpixel layout is a major part of that specification. However I believe display manufacturers are dropping the ball here.

https://glenwing.github.io/docs/VESA-EEDID-DDDB-1.pdf
That "price rise" indicates an inflation rate of 2.9%. The average inflation rate for the last 50 years is more like 3.5%. So it totally depends on your perspective. If you've only lived through low-inflation times, then yeah 2.9% seems high.

I'm in my 50's and my reaction to the same information was "yeah, seems about right".
FWIW Amtrak's policy is 15 minutes, but they're not known for being on time:

https://www.amtrak.com/on-time-performance

It's interesting how much effort here is dedicated to explaining that it's the freight rail companies' fault.
Built for Reasoning, Vera Rubin, Kyber, CPO, Dynamo Inference, Jensen Math
>the band's business has since become far more profitable and extracting, though not necessarily to an obscene extreme.

At this point, it is getting extreme. With ticket sales and couch tour (live streams of concerts you can pay for) they are absurdly rich. Their ticket prices have climbed to a crazy amount and they allow all the fuckery that ticketmaster is hated for. Phish is my favorite band of all time and I have completely stopped seeing them live. I hope they enjoy their money.
I believe that post 1.6, the runtime will try and detect this, but it's not my area of expertise.
This is not so simple: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15305476
And still, you're incorrect.

My state gathers money for a highway fund from gas taxes, vehicle registrations, vehicle sales taxes, etc. They have a program called "Municipal State Aid Street" where they reallocate some highway funds for city and rural streets. There's even a map. [1] I'm quite sure that everywhere has some similar program.

There's this public transit chauvinist myth that roads are, "100% subsidized" as you say, and it's wrong. Stop making things up or just accepting vague collective wisdom. Roads are paid for in significant portions by road users. Not 100% because that would be an undue burden on the poor.

Trains, despite being crazy expensive and heavily subsidized, are more expensive to use than owning a car for a lot of people or they are enormous money sinks that are paid by non-users. They can be incredibly useful and a worthwhile investment, but I've definitely run the numbers in the past and found the train to be more expensive and much more unpleasant than driving (for me it was a Caltrain+BART commute).

1. https://mndot.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?i...
Windows has always allowed you to change subpixel layout, its right there in the clear type settings.
This has been HN policy since the beginning, and while HN is usually still quite unpleasant, policies like this one are largely responsible for preventing it from being worse. There are social contexts where discussions of topics like US immigration policy can do good rather than harm, but HN is not one of them.
LOL If you believe western MSM, China has been collapsing (or on the verge of) for the last two decades. There is always some "time bomb" somewhere waiting to explode in China. Every issue in China (which country doesn't have issues?) is amplified 100 folds in western MSM. That has been going on for at least two decades. It has become a comical satire but some people still believe it. I guess it's kinda consoling to tell oneself that someone else's situation is bad when our own is going down the gutters.
Surprised no nod to their following the path that their heroes blazed (Grateful Dead)
If you use bolt.new or v0's free tier to make a design and perfect it in cursor, the speed will be much faster than roo, and there will probably be a lot of fast credits left. cost $20
Do you legitimately believe that someone is just going to go and write a new mobile operating system?
The court did not agree with the plaintiffs - this case was settled outside of court.
They also aren't criticising the fact that the US funds most healthcare advancements that are then bought in bulk by socialised programmes once the hard work of discovery and validation is done, and raises the average for everyone.

Until Trump cancels the funding, at which point they suddenly remember it, but only in the context of Trump criticism.
They were all “fair” to him until he switched politics.
TinyGo 0.37 has been released
TinyGo 0.37 is released!
That was fast, especially with all the excellent work that made it in:
- updated WASI support with latest from the Bytecode Alliance
- faster speed+PIO support on RP2350
- new Linux GC

Plus critical fixes too!
What’s fraudulent about traveling without intending to travel?
FIDO is explicitly blocked in Web Bluetooth for exactly that reason: https://github.com/WebBluetoothCG/registries/blob/master/gat...

This is similar to how you can't access HID (and by extension CTAP2 or U2F) or CCID (and by extension smart cards such as OpenPGP cards) over Web USB.