skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The original argument was "the ones digit has permanent pattern in 2^n {2,4,8,6,2...}.

Isn’t that obviously the case (for n >= 1 anyway)? If each successive power of two is just the previous number times two, then it would always have to follow that pattern.

Any integer >= 10 can be expressed as the sum of a multiple of 10 plus a single digit number, for example 32 = 30 + 2. So 32 * 2 can be written as 2 * (30 + 2). And since any integer ending in zero multiplied by any integer must also end in zero, you only need to look at the single digit part of the number to see that a pattern must immediately emerge for powers of two, or of any number for that matter.
What’s the basis of that index. Are they alleging US elections are rigged?
1000% this. My partner is in the medical field, the absurd schedule they put up with and the amount they are required to work when tired is the worst. Some close friends do contracting / construction, it takes a tole on their bodies.

People that take above senior level roles or "FANG" jobs should expect to grind.
Search for something called "panel bond adhesive". It's commonly used in modern automotive manufacturing and repair.
Why editorialize the title? Hino Motors is the subsidiary. The source title only adds the Toyota subsidiary bit after naming the company.

So far as I saw in the page, Toyota as the parent company isn't directly responsible for the fine, nor is Toyota itself sharing the probationary period penalty.

Hino itself sells commercial trucks- nothing the average reader would ever associate with the Toyota brand, or any car they would buy from Toyota.
You can just do things, like quitting and starting your own company instead of trying to convince a hostile company to unionize which is not a cure to any of these malaise style issues
So the current system of loans/ bonds generally benefits the rich (or people with assests)?
> and the costs directly attributable to regulatory infrastructure were about US$35 (for the permit)

That may be true if your time is free, but for a company, they must deal with a permitting scheme for every county and city that they do business in. Additionally, unpredictable changes to rate structures will drastically change the demand for solar in areas year to year, and so the solar installers that survive are the ones who are well attuned to that change, and pounce on new markets that are suddenly opened up by new rate structures that make solar easy to finance or pay off quickly. That means that about $1/W of the $3/W that installers charge actually goes to customer acquisition costs.

Most areas do not have super onerous labor requirements for solar installers, and generally the contractor licensing part is quite reasonable. But perhaps insurance like workers comp and disability is a lot higher in the US than in Australia.

I'm surprised that US tariffs have not resulted in higher materials costs than in the other anglophone countries!
Lead is cheap, right?

Very cool you visited ASML. Anything exciting/interesting you'd be willing to tell the class?
I was experimenting recently with voiceover TTS generation. Did run Kokoro TTS locally and it's magical for how few resources it takes (runs fine in a browser), but only the default female voices (Heart/Bella) are usable, and very good. Then I found that Clipchamp has it built-in and several voices from a big selection there are very good, and free. I've listened to this OpenAI TTS and I could not like them at all even compared to Kokoro.
I think you oversell the F35 stealth. It really depend on the angle and speed of the plane, and the age of the radar (fwih the radar signature of a us coin was true in 2014, but optics and radars have improved too, especially recently, and especially thank to the Ukraine drone war feedback). The future seems to be fighter + cheaper drones with similar radar signature rather than full stealth. Which might be easier to do with the small f35 signature for sure.

But every military is aware that the plan to go full fox-3 (+ stealth) might die in the next decade, and we might be back to FOX-2 / dogfighting. Is it likely? Not really, but drone and AI change the battlefield to much to be sure of anything.
After toying around with the TTS model it seems incredibly nondeterministic. Running the same input with the same parameters can have widely different results, some really good, others downright bad. The tone, intonation and character all vary widely. While some of the outputs are great, this inconsistency makes it a really tough sell. Imagine if Siri responded to you with a different voice every time, as an example. Is this something you're looking to address somewhere down the line or do you consider that working as intended?
Probably, but this is a space probe, not a car. It's lighter than a car, and is operating in an environment with less gravity.
IMO, this is a bad take. I've been in this industry long enough to have heard all the arguments presented here before— it's the classic ones: "pay is good", "not all jobs are bad", "others have it worse", etc.

We're in a strategic industry with lots of investment, and a lot of us who check Hacker News have good enough resumes to be in demand, but this doesn't change the fact we —software engineers as a whole— are workers. We might be well-paid, but we're still working class.

If you go outside the top-school bubble, or the usa-tech bubble, this is more evident. Take the money and generous stock grants away and the job is basically indistinguishable from any other white-collar job. Most software developers around the world can't work from Thailand when it's winter. Or take a gap year to reinvent themselves. Or find freelance work that'd allow them to live comfortably with only a dozen hours of work a week.

The incentive of companies is always to have their workers produce more, for less. Thankfully in the USA especially the stars are aligned to give "top software engineering talent" enough leverage to enjoy career mobility and cushy pay. We're at the right place at the right time.

The incentive of companies is always to have their workers produce more for less, and trust me, they're trying. It might be AI, it might be a growing supply of developers, it might be a change in investment strategies— that "top software engineering talent" pool will shrink and a lot of developers will be hit with the realization they weren't some permanent exception in the system. We might feel like we're part of the bourgeoisie because we get big cheques from the companies we work for, but we're much closer factory-line work than a lot of people realize.
Indeed, and worse: actual improvements along the curve are somewhat random, meaning you can't even tell that you passed the equivalent inflection point (returns became diminishing) until significantly after.
> Image generation models capable of generating this type of content would necessarily need to be trained on the real thing,

I doubt that is so. In practice they might be trained on the real thing, but models generalise pretty well. It is going to be technically possible to train a model on other material (children, nudity and non-CSAM abuse scenes or maybe not even that) and have it generate CSAM.

But even if it was true, that would only make training the model illegal and ethically dubious. We use a tonne of technologies where the creator was legally and morally dubious. It's never been an ongoing issue before. So once the model is created there isn't a good reason to encumber it by how it was created.
I totally prefer to have the ci break from time to time and be able to fix it than having the risk of it being broken and having no way of fixing it
Apparently the #1 issue that could motivate unionizing is WFH.

I suggest a one issue union: the WFH union.

I think it would be a massive success.
We're definitely not victims. It's impossible to rationalise what we do.

Use this to your advantage.
I dunno, I live in a nice house in Kansas and work from home for a nice company and have nice benefits. What am I gonna be disillusioned about? My life is literally the best it has ever been.
I didn't say the mission was a success. I was addressing someone's nitpick over the definition of the word "crash."

If the space probe had a wiring failure after landing that caused the loss of "investment," that wouldn't be a crash. It would be a separate problem.
Misleading headline. This appears to be a district court decision, not an appeal court decision. The first four words are "A US district court" and the very end is about leave to appeal being granted by an appellate court - but the appeal hasn't been heard yet.
Surely this is why we've traditionally let the parents decide. Seems much easier, and no need for an app or AI.
Almost as easy as cropping the center. Doing it well automatically is another kind of problem
He has said so himself and there are plenty of articles that by your logic would have been flagged. You're the one with the burden of proof of a claim, not me.
These voices are all annoying, though. The thing about Sesame's Miles is that he's cool.
The leg breaking off is probably the best supporting evidence towards calling it a crash, I'll agree with that.
Why use your own runners? If it's about cost, why not use a cheaper cloud like SonicInfra.com?
Yes, leave it in the ground. It isn't a renewable resource on any relevant time scale.

If you want almonds, grow them elsewhere, or switch to desalination.
Same thing with people’s retirement accounts. If everyone’s savings were just in the bank getting 1% interest no one except the wealthy would care if the stock market eats shit. Instead we can’t stop the insanity of individuals with 100s of billions of dollars due to the entire worlds retirement savings fueling insane market prices.
I don't know if he had side work when he started, but by the time I knew him, he didn't. He made enough money to stay afloat and have some (cheap, but smart) employees. By that point he had no time for side gigs.
My experience with burnout doesn't really gel with this. I find map lookup style tasks as you describe them pretty draining and the reasoning tasks relatively more energising.

But generally what actually causes burnout for me is a sense of pointlessness, that the work is nothing but the pay because it's, for example, just some B2B finance adjacent system or something.
Going to the doctor shouldn't be seen as privileged. Especially for a broken finger, which if it sets wrong can really wreck your life.

Admittedly not like cancer. But, a broken finger can be a serious long term injury if not treated correctly.
Do you know if there's any offerings today that can read math? Like speak an equation the way a human would? It's something I've been thinking about a long time and would be an essential feature for me (the only things i read are physics)
If it is AI-generated, it may be "child porn", but it is, by definition, not "CSAM"—Child Sexual Abuse Materials—because no real, live child was harmed in its creation.

Words have meaning, and while language does drift over time, it's important to maintain the meanings of certain kinds of words and phrases that draw important distinctions.
I've also experienced the other end. As a pithy saying goes, "it takes a lot of skill to write Java in every language."
Time to ask it to find all the dirt on me?
> I also think using the "it could be worse" excuse to avoid working for better conditions that are totally feasible isn't a great thing to do.

Unions fuck up the incentives. Tenured positions are coveted and come with privileges that make the job easier and the position more cushy. New hires want those perks and will rest once they attain them. This is the opposite of what you want in a workforce: you want the top 50% to work hard and fight for raises and promotions.

In our industry, when we don't get the promotions or raises we want, we switch jobs. Job switching has been an incredible means of advancing our careers and being exposed to new tech and new problems. Because of tenure and different jobs using different unions, unions will lead to fewer job changes and more "lifers" that stick around at a single job for a long time. That ossifies code, stops the influx of new ideas and talent, and causes super weird code / business unit ownership drama. It's also super boring.

Tech companies aren't afraid of high salaries (evidently so!) as much as they are of non-fungibility and ossification of the workforce. Unions make slow businesses even slower. Because of this, unions lead to offshoring.

Unions have ground so many industries to a halt in the US. Manufacturing, automotive. Most recently, the film industry (particularly crew) have been offshored -- in the last several years productions have moved to Eastern Europe and Asia sans any US workforce. They fly the cast (without crew) out for the shoots. It's all because of unions.

If we wish this upon ourselves -- in one of the cushiest careers in the world -- we'll soon find all of our jobs moving overseas.
Its an interesting analogy, but that ain't it.

Ive been burned out and am VERY good at reasoning. In fact, my burnout was largely because my role went from relatively undisturbed reasoning most of the time with long, but not extreme hours, to extreme hours where I was actively punished for reasoning - all while being micromanaged and pulled in many directions.

And yet, if I had found the new role to be meaningful and, moreover, with and for decent people (rather than a psychopath), I could totally have done all of that.

Burnout comes from when your life has no meaning and, worse, your attempts to find/create meaning are prevented (or worse).

"Those who have a why to live can endure almost any how"
The videos in the playlist are from 2016 and 2017. I know there are a few people heavy into Racket here on HN, how relevant to the current implementation of Racket is this material given the Racket CS effort that finished a few years ago?
Why would you do that (aside from ridiculing my argument)?

I think it would be better to demand the tobacco companies explain what they are selling: a fun toy that sometimes doesn't kill you.

Oh, wait. They already do have that demand on them.
I’m salary software engineer lead and I work past five maybe two or three times a year. If I need my boss I have to call him after hours. There’s plenty of dev jobs that aren’t stressful.
From the buying side this sounds like good news, not that prices or interest rates are good deals now, but that sellers aren't holding out for higher prices, etc and conceding a bit. This would help put pressure on prices to moderate.
It's some 100% of hacky CSS all right.
I've notice that many engineers that have been inside cushy corporations for a while don't realize the bloodbath that is happening outside their corporate walls in the job markets. But your CEO definitely realizes it and they are tightening the screws because they haven't had this much power over employees in a long time. They're coming for you too sooner or later.
There are ACARS devices with qwerty. Like https://www.aeroexpo.online/prod/spectralux-corporation/prod...

Changing anything significant on an aircraft requires certification though. So you typically have to have a very good cause to do it.
>I'm not sure if my fascination for Japan started with Shenmue but it certainly grew from there. I was so happy to visit for the first time last year.

Just saw this reply, but I agree with this statement 100%! Next time I'd like to take a trip out to Yokosuka and check out the real-life areas.

So much of the game was still there IRL though, from the gacha machines to the neighborhood hole-in-the-wall arcades
Lambdatalk ( https://lambdaway.fr ) began when I discovered years ago in Steven Levithan, reverse-recursive-pattern this code snippet, a single regular expression, (regexp), and a single line of Javascript.

More to see here : http://lambdaway.fr/workshop?view=levithan
Software engineers do basically no physical labor

I developed debilitating tendinitis in both wrists right about the time I graduated college. A decade later, I developed a bulged disc in my neck that ended my career.

There are very real risks to your body from sitting at a computer, deep in thought all day. There's a whole other swath of health issues, too, beside injury risks.
It's a marketing term anyway, it doesn't mean anything.
We've entered a forever war with bird flu
It's not clear to me how the police will track down who operated what drone, especially if the drone operator is several kilometers away, perhaps not even near the launch site, and even if caught, only has a controller and headset.

This is much more like the DC sniper than a typical gunman.
I think you must have misunderstood something. You can email hn@ycombinator.com and make the case some article or another does not belong on the front page (not original source, a dupe, linkbait, offtopic, whatever). If you're right, that article will be downranked, sometimes right off the front page. People do this all the time. It's the inverse of emailing to make the case something is misflagged.

What is true is that almost all [flagged] and [flagged][dead] is from user flags. But that doesn't mean that the only story moderation by moderators is just unflagging.
2000X: Tales of the Next Millennia (2000)
I have team members who complain that installing and running pre-commit is too much overhead, so instead I see them pushing commit after broken commit that tie up CI resources to fail on the pre-commit workflow. :(
Hope there will be a tech blog regarding how you index and retrieve the pages.
> Does this argument prefer that there is less food production in California?

Yes. This scale of agriculture in CA is not historical, and is driven by hydro-engineering projects of huge scale throughout the American west that began in the 1940s. The Bureau of Reclamation's fever dreams were fueled by two decades near the turn of the 20th century that were some of the wettest in a thousand years, and this has led to a crazy situation that is not sustainable in the long term (perhaps not even in the medium term).
> Like there must be a size too small to hold "all the information" in.

We're already there. If you running a Mistral-Large-2411 and Mistral-Small-2409 locally, you'll find the larger model is able to recall more specific details about works of fiction. And Deepseek-R1 is aware of a lot more.

Then you ask one of the Qwen2.5 coding models, and they won't even be aware of it, because they're:

> small, specialized models.

> But maybe training compute will just get to the point where we can run a full-featured model on our desktop (or phone)?

Training time compute won't allow the model to do anything out of distribution. You can test this yourself if you run one of the "R1 Distill" models. Eg. If you run the Qwen R1 distill and ask it about niche fiction, no matter how long you let it <think> for, it can't tell you something the original Qwen didn't know.
> You have a duty as a founder to make really good products and get them into people’s hands. You’re making God real in people’s lives when they experience that.

These people do not know Christ.
That kind of search is already available in many portals. You can actually find the shape of a polígon with the places you can reach in 1h of conmuté easily, as there is a google maps api for it (distance matrix) and finding the properties in a polygon is a solved problem. (
the problem is that as with everything else in FE it is kind of hard to tell what successor framework will "win" and not do this to you.

Svelte and Vue were nice and stable until they were not, Deno as an alternative to NPM kind of never got any traction, and unfortunately no one has come up with a better sandbox that works the same everywhere other than the web.
Oh you can salute in public, that’s not the question. Can you do the salute Elon did, in public? Stretched arm, palm down, no wave.

> It literally looks NOTHING like a Nazi salute from any angle

I don’t know what to say to someone like you who’s talking in extremely bad faith. Finding excuses is one thing, saying it doesn’t even look like a nazi salute is straight up lying. I can’t engage anymore with straight lies.
One thing about software dev is it’s hard to do very well but pretty easy to do good enough. It’s when good enough becomes no longer acceptable all of a sudden that the job gets very hard and people get burned. That’s not always fair though. Another interesting part of software dev is expectations change radically. I’m not in construction but I don’t think a developer can ask a construction team to build a skyscraper in 6 months vs a year or be fired and be taken serious but in software dev that happens all the time.
Yes and no. You used to find niche websites more easily, but I vividly remember the frustration with ExpertsExchange results (with answers that were all paywalled).
These aren't realized gains though, I think only 10% of shares actually float, it's not clear that the demand would sustain in a selloff
I learned about $_

echo abc && echo $_
abc
abc

except it's used with wget...

wget URL && tar -xvf $_

does this work? Shouldn't tar take a filename?

hmm... also, it says there is an alpine layer with "FROM scratch"??
I know nothing about the topic, but this comes to mind: the mechanical energy of moving water. When I rub a comb through my hair in low humidity conditions, I can generate sparks. It doesn't seem implausible that water flowing past some alloy might cause some small fraction of H2O rubbing against it to split via some electrical or chemical process.
Ever heard the saying “good help is hard to find.”? It’s not bullshit, it really is.
> Fact: a major component of the Ukrainian conflict is that nation's ability to supply wheat products to the rest of Europe.

This situation came with the territory. By contrast, California's agriculture is 100% dependent on massive hydroengineering projects.
No, you are doing a value judgement. Or using strong as a term of approval.

I am using "strong" as powerful and "can push for what he wants". Trump is absolutely that. There is no meaningful opposition.

He has control over DOJ, fired everyone involved in suits against him, hired loyalists. He is destroying law company that sued him and everyone is taking notes. Less opposition in the future.

He breaks law, courts already judged he can and when they don't, he attacks judges. They will fall.

The opposition has security removed while fans are made to hate them.

He is not weak. He is powerful. And saying he is weak just makes him more powerful
Next: Claude can now ask random questions to strangers on Reddit.
> Wall Street has been infected with MAGAtts.

If true, then the market will soon be an ouroboros.
Sorry, but why exactly should we care about what some random score that some people invented and named Democracy Index says? It’s not like there is some universal agreement that maximizing the score in these people’s quiz is good or proper.
Or put in another way, Ukraine can't be free and get a shot at democracy because imperialistic Russia deems it its sphere of influence.

And no amount of denouncing US hypocrisy in defending democracy will make me change my mind. Two wrongs doesn't make a right and if it happens that Pax Americana allows a country to take a more democratic route, then let it happen.

Or as some Ukrainian said :

"We are not Russian doorstep, we are free, independent Ukraine. F** you"
Looks handy. Can you share why you want to build this tool?
> But the worst part, which maybe is where a lot of hatred comes from, is that it's there for cheap maybe even free (if you anyway pay for GitHub) and it doesn't need an additional contract, billing, etc.

Or even if you pay $$$ for big runners you can roll it onto your Azure bill rather than having to justify another SAAS service.