skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Especially embarrassing when OpenAI's Advanced Voice can easily understand mixed-language contemporary slang on arbitrary topics, and even convincingly simulate it in the output. It can also do this at any volume, with "uhs" and "ahs", interruptions, corrections, and ignoring the accent.
Copyright laws are pretty arbitrary, especially in the US. And we'll randomly extend copyright terms to appease megacorporations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act
I think German and Hong Kong have them.
A 4 zone monthly ticket in London is like $300 for comparison. 6 zones is $360!
Feature creep is gonna be the main issue
Roads and Bridges: The Unseen Labor Behind Our Digital Infrastructure (2016) [pdf]
The one that doesn't make sense to me is "Days per $1000," because it's the only one (that I saw) where each line has an order of magnitude plus an addition unit, and that unit is often different from the one in the heading.

-2 hours minimum wage day's work, small coffee shop daily revenue
-1 days entry-level weekly salary, independent contractor daily rate
0 weeks average monthly rent payment, typical car payment

Is the difference in order of magnitude between the first two just one (-2 to -1) or 2 (E-2 hours vs E-1 days)?

And how is "0.1 days per $1000" an entry-level weekly salary? Now we have days and weeks in the same sentence.
You make it sound like employees are perfect and communicate transparently at all times. Many people lack the ability to be self critical and want to avoid confrontation. That often leads to surprises, a managers worst friend.
The one good thing of Trump is that it is now clear that anybody talking about the great American MIC is an utter and complete Idiot.
Thank you for getting involved in this great advice. I knew I wasn’t actually going to pursue a professional career in COBOL; in fact, it was just a way to justify my learning of this language and even other languages from the same era. I'm trying to immerse myself in the mindset of programmers from that time, in addition to everything modern today. I have a certain fascination for old things that have been abandoned—it’s often a legacy that shouldn’t be ignored, especially if it took a long time to develop or if it has matured significantly. It would be quite narrow-minded not to take an interest in what was done in the past to satisfy one's thirst for learning. But COBOL itself would really be my last option if I had to look for a job, though it’s still worth paying attention to its market demand. Fortunately, there are many other jobs in programming.

Thank you again for contributing to my growth in both computing and professionalism—I’m still far from reaching the end of my learning journey.
In the end, I was right to make this post.
> What are the payment processing fees?

> The fees vary by payment processor, payment method, countries and currencies. In the last year, the average fee percentages have been 3.1% for the payments processed by Stripe and 5% for the payments processed by PayPal.

Giving 97% of the money to devs is pretty amazing. They also don't take a cut from donations made.
But it makes it free to use public transport on top of that: it encourages people to use it for more than commutes (improving traffic in turn), which makes sense because commutes are peak utilisation time, the rolling stock is under utilized at every other time.
> don't think there's any theory of UBI with freedom of movement between borders where UBI isn't present

Then you need to define categories of good and bad people. And explain why the former will stay (or continue to immigrate). In the long run, borders are porous. If it doesn’t work at the state level, and it doesn’t cause inflation, I’m deeply sceptical about the claim that it doesn’t require categorising by productivity.
I think it's totally natural to start counting at 1, because you start with one of something, not zero. How do you explain to a kid that although they're counting objects, the first one is labelled zero, and that when they've counted 10 objects, they use the number 9?
No, they responded where they meant to. They're spamming the site right now.
Amazing work, and so have Some Thoughts… Unfortunately, the BlueSky profile in your site bio doesn’t exist anymore.

What’s the best way to contact you?
Shareware at the time was generally a one-off purchase though.
I mean, I don’t think it’s a fairytale idea; the implication of the opening discussion on wealth inequality is that the US would need to raise taxes fairly significantly to do so.

The question is really just whether the political will to do so exists. If that’s what you’re referring to as fanciful, I guess I can see where you’re coming from.
Yeah I munched the maths but yours is 10 years old!

The 2022 version of that sustainability report puts their annual bought in electricity at 272,610 MWh, 747 MWh per day.

My wonky maths aside, it's amazing how much energy they've saved. In your link, the switch to LEDs alone saw a 20% total power reduction. I'm sure I've seen electric vehicles there so I'm surprised this number is still apparently in freefall. Perhaps they're doing more local generation (eg) PV
"He was informed the flagging was for two reasons: first, he was told he had an incorrect visa, but he was also told that there was another reason that the agents would not disclose to him.

“I can’t help but wonder whether my frequent, and less than flattering, public comments regarding their president and his administration played a role – or perhaps I’m simply succumbing to paranoia,” he said."

This is most likely a very mundane event. Was his visa actually incorrect, because the second speculation is irrelevant if that is the case. I don't know, it would be nice if they clarified that point.
The entire market is down. I don't know the overall percentage, but everything is down right now.
This isn't a public project to write an open source Rust RDP client, it's the result of a company selling cloud software open sourcing their RDP stack. It stands to reason that things like comments and documentation aren't as extensive, because the goal isn't to attract maintainers per se, but to provide context to employees working on the code. I find the READMEs to be more than informational enough for that purpose.

The RDP implementations I've seen are in unsafe languages like C. With the history of memory exploits in RDP (targeting both servers and clients), I think RDP code written in a language where memory bugs don't immediately lead to security issues are an advantage here.

The code also readily compiles to WASM and can be used from within a web browser, which isn't as easy when you need to bundle all the dependencies for a project like freerdp.

As for the comments, they're not great, but the style isn't that uncommon. Documentation is rarely written to explain the program to you, most developers I know write comments to explain the things that may not necessarily be clear by code alone. The expectation for most software developers is that you're ready to read the code if the docs aren't clear immediately. I much prefer extensive documentation, but I have to admit that I've run into issues more than once because nobody bothered to update the extensive documentation above a function after several changes, leading to inconsistent behaviour. A failure of the code review process for sure, but these things happen in software projects, unfortunately.

In my experience these are often generated by IDEs, AI or, the result of including comment coverage in KPIs. They can sometimes be useful, though, like when you write a Rust function declaration with lifetimes and generic types, where notation becomes quite difficult to read.
We had it. Nobody cared. https://www.nspe.org/career-growth/pe-magazine/may-2018/ncee...

> The Software Engineering PE exam, which has struggled to reach an audience, will be discontinued by the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying after the April 2019 administration. The exam has been administered five times, with a total of 81 candidates.

> NCEES’s Committee on Examination Policy and Procedures reviews the history of any exam with fewer than 50 total first-time examinees in two consecutive administrations and makes recommendations to the NCEES Board of Directors about the feasibility of continuing the exam.

Part of it was "most software developers don't have enough experience in other engineering disciplines to be able to pass the FE exam"

> This collaboration was preceded by Texas becoming the first state to license software engineers in 1998. The Texas Board of Professional Engineers ended the experience-only path to software engineering licensure in 2006; before the 2013 introduction of the software engineering PE exam, licensure candidates had to take an exam in another discipline.

> NCEES Director of Exam Services Tim Miller, P.E., says there was a lot of discussion about the exam’s impact, including how many people with software engineering degrees were taking the FE exam. “If they’re not even taking the FE exam, they’re probably not going to take the PE exam,” he says. “In addition, if the boards aren’t regulating the [software engineering profession], it’s tough to get people to take the exam.”
I wouldn't feel safe riding the subway https://nypost.com/2023/05/13/subway-has-alarmingly-high-pol...
> It's more important to have someone below us than it is to do well.

I think the distinction between those who belive it and those who don't is much more important than the distinction between the left and the right.
One term that's specific to this concept of wielding a real but unused military capability is "fleet in being"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleet_in_being
Doubtful. It's 100% funded by its own Liberapay page.[0] It's the second-most donated to recipient but at about $650 a week, that's not even enough to hire a full time dev let alone the business skills needed to pull something like that off

[0] https://en.liberapay.com/Liberapay/
I think these folks, who reproduced the aircraft of the Wright Brothers using similar materials, methods, and tools, are a peak example of the value of reinventing as a path to deeper understanding.

https://www.wrightexperience.com/
that being said, Ive was important in asking why physical form factors should make sense in human terms. Big computers w/ a lot of ports make sense to comp sci/ee ppl in the lab but people in the real world have priorities more in line with Ive. Without Ive challenging the design, Apple wouldn't have even tried.
"Searching" doesn't mean much without information about the ranking algorithm or the search provider, because with most searches there will be millions of results and it's important to know how the first results have been determined.

It's amazing that the post by Anthropic doesn't say anything about that. Do they maintain their own index and search infrastructure? (Probably not?) Or do they have a partnership with Bing or Google or some other player?
> If I have to re-architect the entire program every Monday, that's not going to make leadership very happy.

Good thing FP doesn't require that then.
Apple needs to just put Siri down and launch a brand new, ground-up service/feature that completely changes the subject. That is a win for them, and we finally get rid of the most unhelpful "assistant" the world has known since Clippy.
So reducing car dependency is a huge boon then. Incentivizing investment in public transit would safe the save these commuters a lot of cash.

You’re conflating short term change with long term change. In the long term reducing car dependency is hugely beneficial
I recall many years ago when the anti-VAX stuff wasn’t quite front and center a celebrity said that her child got autism from a vaccine. A quote that stuck out to me was that her story was that her mother’s instinct told her getting the vaccine was wrong before the child was vaccinated… but she didn’t listen.

There’s some belief for suspicion or something about these folks long before they even have an experience that sets them up for this line of thinking.
It's very reasonable, and I wouldn't hesitate to do this if it was a business trip.

Many flights have been diverted to Manchester, partly because airlines with flights to Heathrow also have flights from Manchester, but are less likely to have flights from the other London airports.

Manchester Airport railway station is 2 minutes walk from the airport's main entrance, I think using a covered walkway, or maybe it was underground. Going to London takes 2¾ hours with one change, trains run every 20 minutes.

It would be more convenient to be diverted somewhere a bit closer, but on the scale of an intercontinental flight it's not a big deal.

> Cardiff, Birmingham and Bristol as alternatives ... even Amsterdam Schiphol or Brussels would make for a faster journey than Manchester!

Cardiff Airport to London takes 3 hours by train, Bristol Airport about 2½ hours, both are less frequent. Amsterdam is four hours by train, Brussels is around 3 hours.

Birmingham (BHX) and East Midlands (EMA) are the only airports closer to London in travel time than Manchester.
A (afaics non peer-reviewed) paper published by a random organization endorsed by Anthropic does not proof make.

In fact, it still very much seems like marketing. Especially since the paper was made in association with Anthropic.

Again. Learn some media literacy.
so somehow roadways are "basic public services" but railways are not?

this kinda just exposes the depth of car-centric bias. to any competent urban designer, in a place like Manhattan, public transit is the "basic public service" and cars & roadways are a LUXURY.
There is so much work put into bicycle wheels, and you can carefully select a wheel depending on if you are building a time trial bike, a regular road bike, a commuter bike, mountain bike…

If we could create physical things as easily as software, we’d absolutely see bicycle hobbyists and certainly little shops designing their own wheels.
- They don't insist on being on-device although they seem to have on-device route.

- Their promise isn't as ambitious as Apples. It's basically Gemini + pre-existing Assistant features as plugins. Not trying to be the privacy-touching agent at least at the first cut. (Or they promised big, but they have trained the audience not take it as a fade value haha.)

- They ship the Gemini version as an opt-in for the Assistant replacement so that they can learn "iterate" on the adventurous enthusiast while leaving larger user base as is.
There is politics and there is events that affect the whole fucking world.
aren't a lot of App Store/dev relations critics frustrated with/ Schiller though?
Yes, though only works if the public transport is already pretty good. If not then the demand for car travel is inelastic

I'm in London and can't see myself switching back to a car. Public transport is so much more convenient.
I've been a long term Alexa user and kinda hard to get out of the ecosystem, but it's gone downhill fast in the last few years in terms of the UX.

* It forgets about my configured routine ("good night" -> "turn off all lights", now it would randomly reply "good night" and does nothing).

* It keeps trying to push down other services/products on top with long winded follow up question. There's no way to turn this off

* Keep asking if it's answering from the correct room

* Its ability to understand my command has gone downhill - and I'm just ordering it to turn the lights on and off in certain rooms. Now it keeps saying "cannot find bedroom" for example even though there's clearly a group called "Bedroom" set up in Alexa
The web site says the digital copy us free, then links to another web site that says it is no longer free.

Scam?
It does not bother me I’m hundreds of miles from an Apple Store because every time I look into one it is so crowded. Shopping online feels like a luxury experience in comparison (so blown away my M4 mini came in a tiny box!)
Its a good example to call out but it should be obvious to anyone genuinely considering the transition. Managers are there to manage people, the job is easy when the teams awesome and the jobs hard when the team isn't awesome. This includes poor performance, attrition, and people drama. All things that come with the territory of managing humans.
This is such a great analogy! Exactly how I feel when using AI tools. I have had some incredibly productive conversations about high-level design where I explain my goals and the approaches I'm considering. But then the actual code will have subtle bugs that are hard to find.
That is not correct. The keywords mean nothing by themselves. To a transformer model, the relationships between words is where meaning resides. The model wants to answer your prompt with something that makes sense in context, so you have to help it out by providing that context. Feeding it a sentence fragment or a disjoint series of keywords may not have the desired effect.

To mix clichés, "I'm feeling lucky" isn't compatible with "Attention is all you need."
I've read in another HN thread that Brothers have begun rejecting third-party toner cartridges.
Or another way to put it is

VP- protects their empire from the C level

Director- protects their department from the VP

Manager- protects their team from the director

IC- can get real work done because they are protected from this political crap
As mentioned, you hop on a train to do anything/everything. In a single weekend you might take 10 rides.

Edit: well if you live in a part of the city that has good coverage - up in the Bronx it's not so great naturally so I wouldn't be surprised if those people didn't get as much value out of a monthly card.
Managing Deeply Nested React Components: An Architectural Approach
When working on React applications, deeply nested components can quickly become a nightmare —state scattered everywhere, tight coupling, and debugging hell. I recently tackled this issue on a complex project and developed a structured approach that made the deeply nested components scalable, maintainable, and surprisingly pleasant to work with.
I wrote a detailed breakdown of the pattern we implemented that keeps child components focused solely on their own logic while the parent intelligently manages state and validation. It strictly follows the single responsibility principle, making updates and debugging significantly smoother than our previous approach.

In the post, I cover:

How to avoid tightly coupled components using a contract-based approach.
A clean state delegation pattern.
A demo example using TypeScript.

If you're dealing with complex component trees in React, I'd love to hear your thoughts or alternative approaches you've found successful in production!
Does anyone tell their manager they are leaving and still expecting anything nowadays? I thought dive-and-save is very rare since the flattening trend happened (esp. in big tech)
charging people more money to drive doesn't reduce car dependency, it just punishes the people who are forced to deal with the fact that they are dependent on cars.
Isn't Congestion Pricing a handout of public streets to the wealthy?

(Because the wealthy can easily afford the extra cost, but non-wealthy cannot, making travel on public streets more convenient for the wealthy, while denying public streets to others?)

I'd want to explore options that are more fair, but that the wealthy wouldn't like, because it doesn't give them preferential treatment.

For example, start with only public mass transit, emergency vehicles, delivery vehicles, workers needing to transport equipment, and walking. And then figure out what else needs to be added in, and how you prevent it just being gamed. (Nope, the public streets don't necessarily owe ride-hailing apps, taxis, and limos use of the public streets; nor is anyone necessarily entitled to use of a non-mass-transit vehicle on public streets when in Congestion Mode, no matter how wealthy or royal they are.)
The subway fare includes the cost of energy to get there and parking.
granted, this is me just speculating, but personality type of Tim Cook dreaming up highly precise supply chains and generating precise business numbers quarter to quarter might make him vulnerable in terms of the character judging side of things...
You can incentivize public transport without car tolls. You can disincentivize car travel in various eqalitarian ways, typically by making driving harder or impossible.
I feel like service revenue is going to be Apple's "oil curse". I get why they need it in the short to medium term, but in the long term it removes the fear of death that used to originate from having to release groundbreaking (and successful!) hardware products every few years. And as they grow the service revenue, the fear of death will wane even further.
I carry coins and preferentially use cash. I'm a male in my 40s and took seriously The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood.
I've narrowed what I use my now-6yo phone for. I know most of my neighbors, and I value mutual aid, participatory democracy, and "public luxury, private sufficiency". Surveillance capitalism sucks- it's unhealthy, and it extracts wealth to people whose intrinsic value is each no better than anyone else's.

My county forcing Microsoft 2FA as the only option for the government entity I work for, in which I'm the youngest by far and we don't accept having to buy a phone just to use an account, reeks of capitalism.
So there’s these things called “trains” and “subways” and “buses” that let you get around without a car.

Car dependency reduces the efficacy of public transit, so it actually does the opposite of what you say. If we didn’t build around cars you’d still have farther flung residential development. It’s just be close to a train stop so you could easily get around.

There’s really no benefit to car dependency outside rural areas. Entirely a mistake with no benefits at all, because the alternative design that would have arisen without car dependency is better in every way.
Beyond Tools: LLMs and the Emergence of Extended Cognition
My principle on giving the Hitler salute is to not do so publicly, or in the presence of elderly, Germans or jews you don’t know. Because whether you mean to be funny, try to provoke, or you’re a neo-nazi, it leaves room for ambiguity.

If I hadn’t a principle, I’d have to consider whether the social suicide of doing so is worth it. Musk could have thought of that, but he didn’t.

That still doesn’t make him a nazi. You need to actually believe that the genocide of Jews is worth pursuing. Or anything remotely resembling outright hatred of jews, and an idealisation of The Third Reich.

I also won’t post a dick pic, and this similarly does not discredit the argument I’m making:

Just because I won’t heil in public (I’m polite, and I have no points to make at 45 degrees), I won’t read Hitler into Musk’s arm waving, when he clearly does not follow up by justifying that he did, in fact, acknowledge the great work of Adolf Hitler. He didn’t because he doesn’t think Hitler was that great, because he’s not a nazi.

He’s not a nazi until he apologizes for not distancing himself from Hitler when he never said Hitler was great to begin with.

Otherwise: you’re a nazi until you publicly apologise for not leaving the subject matter unambiguous. And just saying you’re not is not enough, you have to apologise.
Who knew those bodybuilders were such history buffs?
not sure what this has to do with the middle-school science-fair project in the OP, but the whole "reusable shuttles" idea hasn't really panned out that well. The Russian Soyuuz rockets haven't changed much since the 70s and they have an excellent safety record compared to the space shuttles.
The think tool: Enabling Claude to stop and think in complex tool use situations
Unified MCP server to search, plan, and execute unlimited tools from one server
If anyone could be kind to give feedback on the local-first x data ownership db we're building, would really appreciate it! https://docs.basic.tech/

Will do my best to take action on any feedback I receive here