skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People hates YAML because doing so makes them look cool and trendy. Just like Python-hating. Even if their 'hate' is misdirected.

I'm an experienced SaltStack user. If I found something I need is too complex to be described in YAML, I'll just write a custom module and/or state. Use YAML just to inform Salt what should happen, and shove the logic in the Python files.

People really should become generalists if they handle the plumbing.
I can't confirm but I believe it is applied to every client
People are saying Tesla stock is falling due to Musk, but he has been an asshole publically since the Thailand incident where he called the rescue diver a pedophile.

It is falling because it is a bad stock with no ground in reality: it is clear that Tesla has lost all its positive momentum. When was the last time we heard about Tesla delivering something exciting?

Meanwhile, BYD just announced their 1000V platform this week, God's eye FSD for every car last month (and they are already selling those in China). On the other hand, Tesla has just been promising the world and delivering nothing but more promises and pushing deadlines.

Take that last demo they made in Universal Studios. Everything was faked, the robot was human-controlled, and the FSD was in a controlled environment with a human in the background, ready to intervene. Now look at that P/E. It sits at >100 in a company that is not growing anymore, 2x-3x more valuable than Toyota. You really can't justify it.
> it seems like literally everything is deprecated

I know you mentioned a company-backed example, but bear in mind most open source libs are given away and maintained for free. After a certain point people move on, so basically what do you expect to happen.

I created and maintained a couple libraries for 5+ years and it didn't really help my career or life in any way - no job offers, didn't matter to interviewers, so why would I bother?
Lotus doesn't make cars to last. They make them for the track and it's assumed the owners will be doing more than normal maintenance.
If you put something on the internet, expect it to be used. If you don't like it, use pay walls, captchas, throttling.
Wow. Cabinet members are openly shilling stocks now? Stocks of well-connected government insiders?

The US is acting like a third-world country.
"It's unbelievable that this guy's stock is this cheap. It'll never be this cheap again."

Proof on multiple levels that the primary skills of this administration are con artistry and fascism --- which are more or less the same .

The PE ratio of the typical auto manufacturer is around 10 or less.

GM, Ford, Toyota --- all less than 10.

The PE of Tesla is 115 --- and they sell fewer cars than any of the above.

By any reasonable measure for an auto manufacturer, Tesla is outrageously overpriced. And before someone drops Musk's line that Tesla is something other than an auto manufacturer, allow me to point out 90% of Tesla earnings come from the manufacture and sale of autos.

ETTD --- Everything Trump Touches Dies. Tesla is working to become the latest example.
Man I tried this approach by making my builds dockerized, turns out docker layer caching is pretty slow on CI and adds a lot of overhead locally.

Do not recommend this approach (of using docker for building).
I am not directly helping with your question but in the US, stripe allows daily transfer to your bank. Why not use that instead of leaving money in the account ? Never leave your money with anyone if you don't need to.
my tech friends in the valley call it "orange reddit".

wish the the engagement on here was generally more sophisticated.
The Eternally Unfinished Highway (2016)
If we are talking specifically about Mahmoud Khalil, who has 0 criminal charges yet risks deportation, do you have any sources for your claim?
Some of the problem with React and npm is that they are a victim of their own success.

React lets you suck in 80 components from 15 different vendors and it works. NPM lets you suck in more dependencies than many other systems because it deals with diamond dependencies better than other systems [1]

Because you can mix and match so many widget sets no wonder you will have trouble when those widget sets change.

[1] package A can import version B of package C, package D can import version E of package C -- so long as A and D don't exchange objects from package C there is never a problem, even if they do it might work.
I have this system 80% done for novels on my machine at home.

It is terrifyingly good at writing. I expected Freshmen college level but it's actually close to professional in terms of prose.

The plan is maybe transition into children's books then children shows made with AI catered to a particular child at a particular phase of development (Bluey talks to your kid about making sure to pick up their toys)
Thanks for writing about this. Is it clear that this is from crawlers, as opposed to dynamic requests triggered by LLM tools, like Claude Code fetching docs on the fly?
Maybe this is just an urban legend, but I recall hearing that the reason Patagonia stuck to its roots so strongly is exactly because of what happened to North Face after the original owners sold the company. It turned into just another fast fashion brand, producing new junk season in, season out.
They are also gutting the profession of software engineering. It's a clever scam actually: to develop software a company will need to pay utility fees to A"I" companies and since their products are error prone voila use more A"I" tools to correct the errors of the other tools. Meanwhile software knowledge will atrophy and soon ala WALE we'll have software "developers" with 'soft bones' floating around on conveyed seats slurping 'sugar water' and getting fat and not knowing even how to tie their software shoelaces.
in the past, you had to give some of your spoils to those who did the conquering for you, and laborers after that. if you can automate and replace all work, including maintening the robots that do that and training them, you no longer need to share anything.
I recently used an old thin client with Kodi as Jellyfin client. Controlling it with a remote feels horrible, I’m now planning to reinstall some plain linux (instead of LibreELEC) and try out the jellyfin desktop client (it supposedly has a TV setting), surely it can’t be worse.
Thought it was safe in Stripe? Is this really a solution
Does that match surveys done before the election for people not likely to vote? Are those people really supporting Trump or are the supporting whomever was elected? (I don't know the answer, I just thought of the question reading your post)
They might. I don’t rule it out. I have a more cynical view of the capabilities of the electorate.

Another possible interpretation is Trump brought in a lot of uniformed voters. That group brings people who don’t care about policy or fall for his repeated lies or like his rhetorical style. It’s not about achieving good policy, but about feeling like you are winning a realty TV style game.

Bringing in more uninformed voters through mandatory voting, will exacerbate the treatment of policies and politics as entertainment. That evolution will attract worse candidates and generate worse policy outcomes.
Blot is SaaS, can’t be selfhosted and not Foss.

Or did I miss something?
Left of the Dial: Seattle's KEXP Heals What Ails Its Listeners
this here ^ is a common propaganda trick: we group all the people who do peacefully picket and exercise their freedom of speech (as well as free-market choices) with a small number of extremists who resort to violence, and so discredit the entire movement.

I've noticed when the Reds are targets of this, they fight back with paranoia and call the violent ones "plants", "paid instigators", or "false flag operation".

I'd like to believe people can still be reasonable and say "nah, I agree with the sentiment but I don't condone those methods. Nice try though."
Good thing AI for now needs power, water and a place to exchange heat. Our version of womp rats if it goes to far I guess.
Tesla‘s valuation was partly stemming from what was projected on Musk: A whiz-„kid“ who was treated like he found cure for cancer. Many quickly realized that he could not deliver (a self driving car) or a refuge in space for when humanity will be killed by a mega-asteriod. Slowly he demystifies himself by coming up with crude far right ideas and by not delivering.
4th amendment? And why would it not apply if you're in the US?
https://archive.is/2025.02.06-145427/https://www.economist.c...

Just put archive.is/ in the browser before the url.
Can we just have something that replaced the page with test datasets and Disney IP to poison the training data? Or maybe just embed it into the page itself, but hidden?
I thought about the same thing the other day, but most LLMs are unfortunately not trained on large Ruby on Rails codebases. If you ask Claude about the most preferred languages it can code, it would recommend using Python or Javascript.

Maybe DHH can sponsor fine-tuning a LLM with more ruby on rails data :P
If they weren't in that morass they'd be writing about how happy they are with Common Lisp or Pony or something.
INAL at some point, I was wondering if it wouldn't be easier to sue these companies for DDoS-ing than copyright violations.
It is pretty surprising that Greenpeace, an organization that was for years actively fighting nuclear energy, what led to the crappy climate warming situation we have now, is accusing someone of "climate destroying".
If you keep squeezing the middle income class, that’s the direction you’re going: poverty.

Regardless of the existence of Manufacturing.

Tax your rich fairly and you will see major shift.
This sort of positive security model with behavioural analysis is the
future. We need to get it built-in to Apache,Nginx,Caddy etc. The
trick is spotting crawlers from users. It can be done though.
Due process is what, government systematically searching everyone flying internally (often referring large cash for seizure by DEA etc) in the US without due process describing the alleged offense and the items being searched? Americans are frogs being cooked.
Whatever you think about Musk or Trump, it's very strange that government officials are pushing each other's stock. It's a hard sell you'd expect from a boiler room:

"It's unbelievable that this guy's stock is this cheap. It'll never be this cheap again."

"I mean, who wouldn't invest in Elon Musk? You gotta be kidding me."
Another vote for this -- I'd read it as well!
Gun violence in the US is highly concentrated in places you'll never go as a tourist.
The president of the United States is now pushing individual stocks with his cabinet because his billionaire buddy is having a bad time, and the response is “nothing to see here, perfectly normal”???
Current agentic systems don't just cram the entire code base into the context window. They use a CST (e.g., https://tree-sitter.github.io/tree-sitter/) to have a high-level overview of function signatures and the location/names of the files that contain them. They then autonomously open and read files that they think are relevant to implementing a particular feature before they start. Then you implement a feature or whatever and start with a new task and fresh context window.

I question the conceit of the article, which seems to be based on the flawed assumption that the entire codebase (or even large chunks of it) has to fit in the context window. There is an argument to be made for token efficiency, but I'm not sure the article makes it convincingly.
Genetic study reveals hidden chapter in human evolution
'Modern humans descended from not one, but at least two ancestral populations that drifted apart and later reconnected, long before modern humans spread across the globe.'
DeepSeek: Making Sense of the Reaction–and Overreaction
That is called micropayments and doesn't need to have anything to do with blockchain.

All you need is a central clearing house service that can handle billions of 0.000001 transactions per day.

Incidentaly, I doubt the bitcoin chain could handle that...
This is a pyrrhic legal victory. If they can operate within the bounds of the law, it prevents asymmetrical outcomes that can't be made whole with financial restitution. If they can't operate within the bounds of the law, worse outcomes are possible. Particularly for ETP with their widespread physical infrastructure.

Like others note, leaving that aside it seems like a kangaroo court outcome in terms of the facts of the case and amount of damages.
If you work in IT, you most likely rely on 'random' external companies and random external OSS contributors to be honest.
You're complaining about "no politics" rules consistently. Why do you think we need them?
If you only do something about homes priced higher than $1M it won't solve the problem that no one can afford a starter home any more.
I have a feeling AIs will do better at the middle ground in languages where some verbosity provides more context both for training and completions.
Lotus build essentially track day cars

They used to at least. These days they seem to mostly be focusing on electric SUVs and GT cars.
Apple can change the API interfaces as they see fit, no?
Because the scale, aggression, and flagrant violations of due process have all skyrocketed?
What, precisely, did they innovate in though?
Eh, I kind of get why they did shit“thro”pocene, since that also integrates the idea of anthropocene (that we’ve entered an era where the world is shaped by human effects) that’s been bouncing around for the past few decades.

“We’re affecting the world, and part of it is that our products have become terrible so they produce more waste”
Oops, you're right! They claimed that Tim Berners-Lee stole their idea.

I agree that the lack of monetization was important to the development and that it would have been chaos as proposed, but will the current setup be sustainable forever in the world of AI?

We have projects like Ethereum that are specifically intended to merge payments and computing, and I wouldn't be surprised if at some point in the future, some kind of small access fee negotiated in the background without direct user involvement become a component of access. I wouldn't expect people to pay ISPs but rather some kind of token exchange to occur that would benefit both the network operators and the web hosts by verifying classes of users. Non-fungible token exchanges could be used as a kind of CATPCHA replacement by cryptographically verifying users anonymously with a third-party token holder as the intermediary.

For example, let's say Mullvad or some other VPN company purchased a small amount of verification tokens for its subscribers who pay them anonymously for an account. On the other side, let's say a government requires people to register through their ISP, and the ISP purchases the same tokens on behalf of the user, and then exchanges the tokens on behalf of the user. In either case, the person can stand behind a third party who both sends them the data they requested and exchanges the verification tokens, which the site operator could then exchange for reimbursement of their services to their hosting provider.

This is just a high-level idea of how we might get around the challenges of a web dominated by bots and AI, but I'm sure the reality of it will be more interesting.
You’re missing another ingredient: taxing the rich fairly will do a lot of goods
The Trump administration's active and overt effort to prop up the stock suggests to me that they're worried. The president himself made a video advertorial. It's bizarre.

I think this is still playing out.
You still can't add features like error boundaries in React without class-based components somewhere in your app. Even if they added these features to functional components today, it would be years before they'd consider them safe to remove.

HOC still exist and builtin features like `React.memo(MyComponent)` along with the like of more functional styles means they aren't ever going away.
I am not letting them keep me at home.

I am accepting cash and Venmo, by the huge blocks on JFK :) it's a beautiful sunrise - come get some coffee!

Still no word from Stripe.
I was also under attack recently [0]. The little Forgejo instance where I host my code (of several open source packages so it needs to be open) was run into the ground and the disk was filled with generated zip archives. I'm not the only one who has suffered the same fate. For me, the attacks subsided (for now) when I banned Alibaba Cloud's IP range.

If you are hosting a Forgejo instance, I strongly recommend setting DISABLE_DOWNLOAD_SOURCE_ARCHIVES to true. The crawlers will still peg your CPU but at least your disk won't be filled with zip files.

[0] https://blog.nytsoi.net/2025/03/01/obliterated-by-ai
The only way to stop a bad AI with a gun is a good AI with a gun?
So then he is not getting paid for DOGE. Glad we cleared that up between us.
Tesla isn't an auto manufacturer. It just so happens that cars are the things it uses to bootstrap the business.
>There should be a "Verify signature of checksums and Verify checksums"

I get it, but verifying checksums of downloads via https from github releases, downloaded across github's architecture (admittedly Azure) to githubs's runners seems like overkill. Especially as I don't see any signatures of the checksums, so the checksums are being retrieved via that same infrastructure with the same security guarantees. What am I missing?
I really like this. I don't mind Internet acting like the Wild Wild West but I do mind there's no accountability. This is a nice way to pass the economic burden to the crawlers for sites who still want to stay freely available. You want the data, spend money on your side to get it. Even though the downside is your site could be delisted from search engines, there's no reason why you cannot register your service in a global or p2p indexer.
Please do explain how you'd engineer a site to deal with barrage of poorly written scrapers descending upon it. After you've done geo-ip routing, implemented various levels of caching, separated read/write traffic and bought an ever increasing amount of bandwidth, what is there left to do?

You could also get CloudFlare, or some other CDN, but depending on your size that might not be within your budget. I don't get why the rest of the internet should subsidize these AI companies. They're not profitable and live of venture capital and increase the operation costs of everyone else.
I dare to say the inconceivable, you shouldn't have free plans even for the community. This will also push FOSS projects to seek some money to pay for their infrastructures which probably leads to better pay for their maintainers.

Nothing should be $$ free unless you already paid with your tax. Same principle -> As long as HN starts to charge every account, I'm happy to pay a small amount per month. This token amount of pay per account will also reduce the number of bots.
You most likely got caught in some sort of automated detection. Have you tried reaching out to their customer service?
It's unfortunate as I like Apple TV+'s quality over quantity.

I hit up Netflix and find a great film, and all the "related" are pure garbage.

The sad truth is for me having tons of media available just means it's harder to find something that isn't trash. Reminds me of the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAlDbP4tdqc
The word "publish" is from "npm publish" and I don't think there is a better term to switch to.

https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/v8/commands/npm-publish

I like your idea about showing the information below the fold so I fixed it, thanks!

https://github.com/styfle/packagephobia/pull/1069
If protesting vigorously, particularly by Greenpeace, killed nuclear energy, why isn't it working for fossil fuels?
Yeah you can't really run it on-site so you just debug in the open.
I could easily give up my iPhone or Mac, even though I do use them exclusively for ~10Y. The issue with Linux is not that it impossible to use (I did it for several years) but that there is no incentive to support hardware and corner case software given Win/Mac prevalence. The moment they disappear the problem will solve itself within a year or two and we would be certainly better off afterwards, given the current course of corporate technology - not even including politics.
Until broken by the Butlerian Jihad, "Though shalt not make a machine in the likeness of the mind of man."
The financials have always been crap, though. A lot of his previous assholery was limited to very online people. Guarantee if you poll 100 people if they've heard of the "Thailand pedo guy thing with Musk", most will have no idea what you're talking about. Now it's on every news channel every night.
If you think it's good, go ahead and just say it. Let's not play the Trumper parlour game of "sure he said it, but it didn't happen, ok maybe if it did happen it always happened.."

I worked with many dozens to 100s of consultants over 20 years whose employers had very loose interpretations of what was allowed under ESTAs. Some of them had re-entry issues, but no one ever ended up in prison or chains like this.

Do you know a lot of software engineers and white collar works this regularly happened to?
> There is no execution, only configuration.

The YAML is fed into an agent which reads it to decide what to execute. Any time you change the control flow of a system by changing data, you are doing a form of programming.
The US also isn't a dictatorship yet and certainly wasn't when we started becoming so dependent on them.

You can try avoiding dealings with any autocracies, but that's really hard given our modern world and it's not like other democracies can never screw you over. I think it's more realistic to demand that we diversify our imports so that we can react to things like Russia's Ukraine invasion better.
Maybe a progress bar?
I thought the future of the AI is Rust. At least judging by daily posts here that follow "Let's rewrite X in Rust" pattern.

Also, judging by the noise made by hordes of vocal Javascript guys on the Internet, the future of the AI is Svelte.js.
I've started hitting rate limits when just cloning regular repos now.
It’s very functional! Where else can you get a self driving truck that protects its occupants extremely well and automatically powers the house during an outage? It has been a great vehicle for family ski trips and camping.

Don’t just listen to the haters, there are a bunch of us that actually enjoy our cybertrucks :)
> People are saying Tesla stock is falling due to Musk, but he has been an asshole publically since the Thailand incident

I agree, but I also think the full-throated nazi salutes on tv delivered a greater blow to Tesla's customer base than your comment implies.
That's certainly a more interesting topic of discussion, but this submission is not about the issue that you and I would rather discuss, it is about short-term movements in the price of a stock that moved in the same direction as the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ.
No, we pay for it. Goes to the local school we vote at normally. We kind of like spending money on public schools :-)

Every so often someone brings in their dachshunds and everyone comments on the democracy sausage dogs, and the local politicians all pose for a picture with them.
Good longread.

What I'd like to have a better understanding of, and I'm hoping to crowdsource here, is exactly how the solar panel cost has come down so precipitously. Part of it is simply manufacture scaling - almost everything is much cheaper in large quantities. But part of it must be a thousand incremental tech advances. Things like the reduced kerf diamond wire saw.

Also of note: I think monocrystalline has won completely? People experimented with all sorts of alternate chemistries and technologies, like ion deposition and the extremely poisonous CIGS, but good old "Czochralski process + slice thinly" has won despite being energy intensive itself.

Perovskites remain an unknown quantity.